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
dead. we ll have the latest in just a minute. the biggest one-day strike to hit los angeles in a generation is under way right now. everyone from mechanics to traffic officers are walking off the job. the latest in the series of union labor actions that disrupted the city in recent months. we ll explain what it is all about and what s next coming up. we start, though, with former president donald trump and federal prosecutors locking horns over what will be one of the central themes of his upcoming federal trial. the right to free speech. right now the legal teams from both sides are under orders to agree on a hearing date to hash out the scope of a protective order which would set ground rules for what evidence trump can and can t disclose. last night, his team rejected the government s original proposal to restrict everything it hands over, arguing that would violate trump s first amendment rights. instead, trump s attorneys proposed more narrow limits for only genuinel
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There are growing concerns among democrats that president joe biden s family-oriented brand is being tested like never before. some democrats say they re worried about the possible political damage of the recent gop investigations into hunter biden s business dealings and his plea deal that fell apart last month. joining me right now is one of the authors of that article, nbc s natasha karecki and matthew dowd is back with me. walk me through how the controversies are cutting through the president s image. there is a confluence of issues happening here at the same time. we have a drumbeat of daily drumbeat coming out of the
And the issues that matter to them and what s happening with our constitutional republic and so if one campaign is talking about that, and the other campaign has ventured off into hunter biden, i would prefer the former than the latter. i got to be so quick with you on this, natasha touched on the fact, democrats say there is no comparison between trump and dealing when it comes to self-dealing. they think that will become obvious to the electorate. what do you think? i think anybody that looks at this is once the president of the united states and the other one is the son of the president of the united states, there has been no link between the son and the father on business dealings. and so, in my view, that s the you know that the bidens could win that argument. i would argue, don t get in the argument. just go straight to the issues that matter to the swing voters in the country. you re on better ground there. thank you for the conversation, appreciate it. coming up, shut