frustrated base voters, who feel the white house has done too little, too late on the issue. majority leader chuck schumer s political gambit puts senate republicans on the record to their unified opposition to major voting rights bills. and two moderate holdouts on the spot over their support for the filibuster. joining me now, ahead of the action on the senate floor, as you know, the chaplain is now reciting the prayer. nbc s senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake. nbc chief white house correspondent, and weekend today cohost, peter alexander, and ashley parker. garrett, expect to hear from both chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell momentarily, really. how is this debate going to play out today and through the week? well, we know how it s going to end, andrea, for democrats, the choice is, when do they want it to end and what do they want the message to be. the floor opens right now. we won t see any votes on this bill or these combined bills today. that will pro
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
before 4:00 eastern, and we ll see you there. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the las word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. your breaking news tonight about donald trump s lawyering being engaged with the district attorney s office in georgia is important stuff, to put it mildly. i mean, that means they re in there making their arguments about why he should not be criminally charged. yeah. there is nothing that we can read. there is nothing that we can extrapolate directly. we can t say this definitely means the investigation is at this point, or that this is going to happen in the investigation or this is not. but to the extent that the president s lawyers i mean have a lot to deal with right now given nine pending civil suits against him for january 6, plus all the legal stuff that s happening with his business, all of this stuff, for them to be taking in-person meetings with this prose
district attorney s office in georgia, is important stuff to put it mildly. that means they are in there, making their arguments about why he should not be criminally charged. yes, there s nothing that we can read, there s nothing that we can extrapolate directly. we can t say, this definitely means the investigation is at this, pointer that this is going to happen in the investigation, or this is not. but to the extent that the president s lawyers, have a lot to deal with right now given nine pending civil suits against him for january six. plus all the legal stuff that s happening with this business, all this stuff, for them to be taking in-person meetings, with this prosecutor s office, in december which is when we know at least one of these meetings happened. that is news, and it means that this might be a more concrete worry to them than we had previously understood. we will have neil conte all join us in a moment, i m going to hand him, that i m going to hand him yo
Politician, i m going to do it i feel like for the power, now what i told you. when i initially ran two terms ago. he has to begin his campaign with okay, i m breaking my word, that s the first thing i m doing is breaking my word. and then go on from there. in a state that is highly competitive for democrats. highly competitive. but let s make sure we understand one thing, motivation is what controls, you know this lawrence as well as i, do motivation controls midterms. how motivated are we going to be. if our side of the equation votes like our democracy depends on, which i believe it does, we should be able to win wisconsin. on the other hand, if those most motivated are those pushing the big, lie in shining donald trump s shoes, that mitch mcconnell will run the senate. so how do you translate that motivation, into individual