larry gerston joins us and so does chuck todd, nbc news political director and moderator of "meet the press." hey, chuck, how are you doing? >> happy sunday, chris and larry. >> happy. the mueller report, has anything changed? >> well, i think you have democrats still with the same dilemma and i think you have in the house of representatives you see they're almost now evenly divided between those democrats that argue not starting an impeachment inquiry will become a long-term problem. that will be something they will regret in the long run. those arguing you're not going to remove him from office other than the 2020 election so focus your energy there. you'll hear a spirited beakian forth on the show today and two different versions of this argument from two californians, adam schiff on one side and tom steyer believe it or not on the other. i do think we're going to end up in half measure here, which is where the house democrats feel legally they have to formally open the inquiry in order to get some of this material but i don't know if we ever see an article of impeachment voted on.

political director and moderator of "meet the press," and also our nbc bay area political analyst larry gerstonoins me now as well. hi, chuck. thanks for joining us this morning. so we want to get to -- >> good morning, ali and larry. >> good morning. >> good morning. so we want to get to the i.c.e. raid in a moment. chuck, we also want to talk about the race for president. we got a brand new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll with numbers on the primary. what does this is a about where things stand right now in the race? >> well, two things. number one, this field is winnowing. 17 candidates got 1% or less. only five candidates registered i think at 7% or higher, two others at 2%. that's it. we know what our top tier is. it is biden, it is warren, it is sanders, it is sanders aharris buttigieg. the other, there are two distinct primaries inside this electorate. there's about half the party calls itself liberal and they want, they prefer warren by double digits and about half the party calls themselves moderate or consrervative and prefer biden. warren and sanders will duke it out for the left

our political analyst, larry gerston joins us.you saw all five and a half hours of that testimony today. >> yes. >> your assessment, really not the block buster they were anticipating. >> no, the democrats viewed this as a bulky report nobody read. let's pretend this is a book and we'll use mueller. he'll be like a movie. this was a very unforgettable movie.. it was not good, not good for the democrats. not good for mueller. people wondered whether he really had it together or not. and the democrats really had themselves a difficult time. >> so they really were expecting mueller would expand a lot on these findings that he had, but a lot of the questions he just said yes, no. he really didn't flesh it out the way they thought he would. >> yes, no. it's in the report. and i can't talk about it. that was about 95%. the first segment, the segment, excuse me, the segment dealing with, you know, whether they should impeach the president, objections to his behavior, if you will. well, in a second story, this part about the russians, in