Were nearing the end of an historic day here in geneva, scene of the first Summit Meeting between preponderance of the Evidence And Russia President Putin. Both leaders describing their hours of talks in mostly positive terms. Our senior white House Correspondent Phil Mattingly is joining us right now. Phil, president and President Putin, they covered a lot of ground today. Reporter yeah, no question about it, wolf, and if you just think through what President Biden has done over the course of the last several days, three highstakes summits with u. S. Allies, dozens of meetings and conversations with european and North American leaders, all pushing to this one moment, sitting down with president vladimir putin in the hopes of not necessarily reaching a breakthrough but at least ikemently moving the relationship above where it currently sits. I did what i came to do. Reporter Tonight President Biden emerging from the highest Stakes Moment of his young presidency satisfied. It was import
At this fully. Our Manu Raju is on capitol hill. Two committees are investigating this for some time. But what theyve been looking at is what happened on January 6th. Why was the response so slow . Why was there a lackluster Information Sharing between Law Enforcement agencies . Why did the National Guard not come in at that time . They are looking narrowly at the fail to secure this building on January 6th and the runup to it on the Law Enforcement side. Its been part of the senate Rules Committee and Homeland Security and government affairs committee. They plan to release the first authoritative report of what happened that day some time next week. Now this is a naurrrow focus. It is not going to look into donald trumps role in fueling the insurrection. Rallying supporters to come to the capitol on January 6th, come and suggest the election was stolen, trying to subvert the will voters. That is not within the mandate of this investigation. But in talking to the leaders of this, they
wave. i think you re going to see a big, big victory for republicans in the midterms. at stake, not just the biden presidency democrats argue, but democracy itself. will the voters agree? i will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. we are the united states of america. it s time to meet the midterms. this is your one-hour primer. it s a big week, one-year anniversary of the inauguration, as you know, unofficial start of this campaign year. welcome to tuesday, i m chuck todd. as we kick off nbc s news s coverage of the midterm election season with this special edition of meet the press daily that we re calling meet the midterms. these midterms are shaping up to be one of the more impactful election cycles we have had this century. the house and senate both on the line, lots of governor s races which all could play a big part in 2024 politics as well. we are living in some unusually tumultuous times in terms of the instability of the two major p
should be prosecuted by the justice department. i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? yes. that is strong stuff from the president after the white house tried to distance itself from the criminal contempt referral from steve bannon and the doj says the department of justice will make its own independent decision in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law period full stop. that is happening as democrats on the committee are speaking out tonight holdiing bannon and purveyors of the big lie accountable. we re not bluffing. we ll hold people accountable and we expect people to appear before the committee as is everyone s duty before congress and we will take the next step, which is criminal referral. we want mr. bannon s cooperation. he s clearly hiding behind this privilege he doesn t hold and that s fine. if he continues to stone wall, we ll use every means necessary including the tuesday meet
subpoena should be prosecuted by the justice department. i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? yes. that is strong stuff from the president after the white house tried to distance itself from the criminal contempt referral against steve bannon and the doj says the department of justice will make its own independent decision in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law period full stop. that is happening as democrats on the committee are speaking out tonight holding bannon and purveyors of the big lie accountable. we re not bluffing. we ll hold people accountable and we expect people to appear before the committee as is everyone s duty before congress and we will take the next step, which is criminal referral. we want mr. bannon s cooperation. he s clearly hiding behind this privilege he doesn t hold and that s fine. if he continues to stone wall, we ll use every means necessary including the t