would you sign a federal abortion ban into law. what i would do is negotiate so that people are happy. after a town hall peddling election lies, promising to pardon january 6 rioters and refusing to pick sides in the war on ukraine, his 2024 rivals remain largely silent. can you say if you want ukraine or russia to win this war? i want everybody to stop dying. as the field of challengers grows, can any of his rivals take him on without alienating his supporters. i ll talk to former republican congressman will hurd of texas who s considering his own bid for president in 2024. plus, moral compass. after a jury found trump liable for sexual abuse, his opponents mostly silent. i don t think it s where the american people are focused. does character matter anymore for republican primary voters? i ll ask russell moore, the editor in chief of christianity today. and border crisis. i want to be very clear. our borders are not open. as the biden administratio
welcome back. the panel is here. rachel bade, coauthor of politico playbook. peter bake eric correspondent for the new york times. al cardin. and kimberly atkins stohr, senior opinion writer for the boston globe. i feel like the presidential race in the republican side are obviously where there was a lot of noise thanks to the town hall and we ve got ruin ron desantis, and he had iowa to himself yesterday thanks to a weather issue with donald trump. let me play another excerpt. governing is not about entertaining. governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling. it s ultimately about winning and about producing results. al, i m going to start with you. what he said is a message that appeals to a lot of donors, but
i want to be very clear. our borders are not open. as the biden administration braces for a surge at the southern border, it s democrats that are divided. i oppose the biden administration plan to end title 42. will the president listen to his base or those close to the political center? i ll talk to democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. joining me for insight and analysis are new york times white house correspondent peter baker, politico playbook coauthor rachael bade, and republican strat jinch al cardin, and kimberly atkins stohr, senior opinion writer. 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 chuck todd. good sunday morning and a happy mother s day to all of the moms out there. what we saw this week is a republican party that is paralyzed by donald trump. elected republicans and trump s 2024 rivals are eager to move on, but not sure how to take on
desantis in a really delicate position here. he can t attack him head-on, but he still has to make the argument that he s a better candidate. the desantis campaign is trying to do this delicate two-step dance where his outside super pac is playing the bad guy and going after trump, but then he s saying, look, i m only going to talk policy here. will that work? peter, i don t know, to me it looks like they re announcing about on the timeline that they always wanted to have, but this looks like a team that is reacting, constantly reacting and now the campaign looks like are they moving the announcement up and now it s doing this and it s not a way to start. they ve lost control of the narrative. they had a pretty strong narrative going in and they don t have it now. let s step back for a minute. we ve seen this before. there s always a swoon for the new candidate and then we get tired of them and sometimes they come back and sometimes they don t. we don t know is this a bill clinton