Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Or distorted what happened in the election campaign. But what is Donald Trumps core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion . It didnt change a vote. So this is a problem. So if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the Obama Administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. Trump is not stupid well, i wont say stupid or not. Trump wants to deny that russia could have had an influence in 2016 and theyre saying russia could well have had an influence. I understand that some of us are being too cynical about this briefing, but again without the president on it, how do you take it credibly. If makes a big difference. If it were the president , it would be Something Else. The white house continues to want to say and they say this repeatedly, this administration has been toughe
and we could all un-experience this whole session. okay, that s uncalled for. welcome back. the panel is here. amy walter, editor in chief of the cook political report. leigh ann caldwell of the washington post. former white house press secretary jen psaki, and lahnee chen. this is a smart panel. glad to be with you today. leigh ann, let me begin with you. if there s one thing that joe biden and donald trump agree on at the end of this past week is that this thing ultimately will be decided by the voters on november 5th. how much, though, does this verdict shake up this race? well, there are some things we know and there s a lot we don t know. what we know is that this will absolutely motivate the trump base. what the biden campaign hopes is that this shores up the biden
washington post. former white house press secretary jen psaki, and lahnee chen. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press . from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is meet the press with kristen welker. good sunday morning. i m peter alexander in for kristen welker. for the first time in american history, a former president has been convicted of a crime. this past week a manhattan jury concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump falsified business records in order to influence the 2016 election, finding him guilty on all 34 counts, felony crimes. mr. trump, who chose not to testify, instead vented his anger outside the courtroom, claiming the trial was rigged against him and vowing to appeal. this was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt. it s a rigged trial. a disgrace. they wouldn t give us a venue change.
the fact that the race is as close as it is, given as lahnee pointed out how low his job approval ratings are tells you what s baked in is assumptions. how do we mark this moment in history. this was a huge week in the history regardless of your opinion of the verdict. it s an interesting time in american politics because you have the degradation of institutions, right? this is something people on the left and the right for their own reasons believe if, for example, the judicial system has been validated or corrupted. you have people who believe that going forward, you know, all of these institutions that we used to hold in such regard are no longer ones that we hold in high regard, but going forward, i do think this is a much more difficult pirouette for biden and biden team. in terms of how do you take this bundle of issues and how do you refocus voters on the fact that you might care about going into
the panel is here. susan page, from usa today, jonathan martin. lahnee chen, follow at the hoover institution and former acc stanford. and kimberly atkins stohr for the boston globe. hello, everybody. we re talking debate politics and not legal shenanigans. i think we re all overrating the fact that a front-runner decided to not go to the first debate. i keep trying to remind people, george w. bush didn t go to the first debate in 1999. yeah, but this is different because this is the metaphor for this race, right? you have donald trump doing an interview with tucker carlson right before turning himself in to get bailed out of this indictment in georgia, and then you ve got seven or eight or maybe nine people scrambling to figure out some way to get traction against him in milwaukee.