Will the support in the party continue to grow. The fake charges put forth by Thet Biden Sham indictment, i would assume hes mentally ill. Will his top rivals rally around him or start to attack and can our democracy survive this challenge . My guests this morning, john lura and jamie raskin, a member of the january 6th attorney and the former lead january 6th impeachment manager. Joining me for insight and be analysis are hallie jackson, peter baker, republican strategist al cardenes and Kimberly Atkins stohr. Welcome to sunday. Its Meet The Press. Announcer from nbc news washington, the longest running show in television history, this is Meet The Press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Voters next fall may be faced with an unprecedented choice, whether to put former President Donald Trump back into the white house or to essentially sign off on his sentencing if he is convicted and send him to a prison or a Secret Service protected home. The latest indictment accuses trump to defr
governor, as your senator, as your secretary of state, as your attorney general, then democracy as we know it may not survive in arizona. that s not an exaggeration, that is a fact. that was former president obama hitting the campaign trail hard for democrats talking on election deniers in battleground states. that guy is pretty good. he s good at what he does. he s got a future in politics if he decides to go that way. president biden makes the fate of our democracy a key issue just days before voters decide who will control congress and the future path of our country. also ahead, new polling in several crucial races, including pennsylvania where voters are weighing in on the only debate between senate candidate john fetterman and dr. oz. plus, there are new details in the plot by trump s attorneys to overturn the 2020 election. his lawyers had a specific justice in mind, and we ll tell you who that is. and one of former president donald trump s top advisers has
trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia s efforts. it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump s first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him. trump told russian diplomats that by firing comey, the previous day, quote, i faced a great pressure, because of russia. that is taken off. around the same time, he all but admitted to lester holt that he had fired comey because of the, quote, made-up russia investigation. with comey gone, andy mccabe became the acting fbi writer director. in one of his first actions, the very next day, was to open up a counter intelligence investigation into the president, in his ties to russia out of fears that he too would be fired. and
we have an entirely different show planned for tonight, but the business the former fbi director, james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe. both of whom president trump saw as enemies. both of them faced rare, supposedly random, but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia. in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties, as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshell in the early days of the trump presidency. i ve been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi, as part of our counter intelligence mission, is investigating the russian government s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between
act, sweden and finland s asession to nato, gun control and reconciliation were all passed over the last two months, many with big bipartisan majorities. if it gets to his desks, the president will have pushed through a $3.7 trillion agenda. how is this all going to play in the mid terms? that is the big question. there are a lot of variables, including record inflation and abortion and that stubborn political precedent that the party in the white house almost always loses in the mid terms. joining me is senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, jake sherman, co-founder of punch bowl news, susan page, washington bureau chief and peter baker, author of the divider. jake, i want to start with you because you re on capitol hill. there was a vote-a-rama over the weekend. it s in the house now. what are the big headlines? the big headlines is that they got it through after 18 months of tortured negotiations over this package and the will he or won t he of joe manchin a