and nbc news washington managing editor carol lee. welcome to sunday."meet the press." ♪♪ ♪♪ >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >> good sunday morning. we begin this new chapter of "meet the press" after yet another extraordinary week in american politics. house republicans announced an impeachment inquiry into president biden. the president's son hunter was indicted on gun charges, and house conservatives doubled down on their threat to shut down the government. meanwhile, people close to president biden are increasingly worried his son's legal troubles could strain the president's focus on what's expected to be a razor-close election. it was against that backdrop that i sat down with the former president at his golf club in bedminster, new jersey. his first network interview since leaving office. we have extended the same invitation to president biden. mr. trump has been criminally indicted four times and faces 91 felony counts, but continues to hold

carol robertson, demi's nickname, our cynthia west lee and addy colons. no one knows their names.names. we should know their names. we should know the struggle that took their lives and how these struggle is not. there is distracting. it is very timely that they appeared in birmingham at a time when the question of voting rights in the voting process is right again before the supreme court. >> let's do that. it wasn't just that that where the bombing took place. alabama to this day continues to struggle with some very basic things including the bites of the blowout voters in that state. the majority of people who are voters in that state. alabama as you mentioned is once again asking the supreme court to help it maintain a controversial republican drawn congressional map. earlier this, week alabama filed an emergency application to the supreme court to pause a ruling by the lower courts and fight a court order that the supreme court already upheld months ago. i will take you back for a second. the supreme court ruled that the congressional map divided the voting rights act because