washington correspondent yamiche alcindor and wall street journal columnist peggy noonan. i want to start with sort of this issue of violence. i mean, the former president,mñ peggy, you know, he is doing it again. however you want to look at it. he's doing it again and it's really kind of ugly. let me play some of the stuff that he said, particularly this first bite. >> all right. we've heard him in the social media posts and all of that. forget the legal debate here, why isn't there more outrage about this? >> i wonder lately if people have become a little desensitized in this area with donald trump because they're so used to it. there's also, i think, there has been a sense this week that you look at what he's doing, posing with the baseball bat saying there may be violence, all of this stuff. you look and you think is this strategy or a public nervous breakdown? you actually are not sure. >> i'm not sure. >> -- of which. look, i think speaking in terms of tacky politics, he's trying to nail down and excite his base, looks like he succeeded and waco looked last night like

r "wall street journal" columnistf peggy noonan and democratic pollster cornell belcher. sunday. it's "meet the press". >> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press with chuck todd." >>> good sundayrdjj this week left no doubt donald trump is still in charge of the republican party. just a few hours after trump's vjj be arrested in the manhattan hush money case last tuesday, the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy announced that house republicans were launching é@■ investigations into manhattan r district attorney bragg, and three chairmen claiming an, fá quote, unprecedented abuse of fá prosecutorial authority demanded bragg testify and turn over documents and let me remind you, it's on a case where we dongt;xd know what the charges are or any will be brought.t(çócmy■ we're not even sure what documents they want. the rest of the party, even w3Ñi trump's 2024 opponents race. >> in your heart of hearts you know, too, that this is political. >> this is a political stunt. i think it's disgusting. xd >> it kind of ree