big picture, peter baker. i'm giving the final word to you. sitting down with former president trump. he is the former president. he is facing four indictments. as journalists and just set the scene and backdrop why there is still news value and value from the public to hear from him? >> he is a challenge for american journalists. it cannot be for a person running for president of the united states without ever being challenged by a tough, independent interviewer and that's i think an important part of our system. obviously, the challenge for us because he's going to spout out one thing after another and what you're done here is edit it and make sure people understand what's real and not. >> i cannot thank you enough for being here, laura, peter and being here, laura, peter and carol. there's challenges, and i love overcoming challenges. ♪ when better money habits® content first started coming out, it expanded what i could do for special olympics athletes with developmental needs. thousands of bank of america employees like scott spend countle

new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker.bc news washington managing editor carol lee. welcome to sunday. it's "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

peter baker joins us, white house correspondent for the new york times. barbara mcquade is here, a veteran u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. and frankly loses here, former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence. let's start with you, hunter biden, help us understand this. he had a deal that would have resolve this without prison time. how exactly did we get here? >> it's a really curious situation, stephanie. and i'm not sure anyone knows exactly how we got here. it appears that they were ready to go forward with this plea deal, where hunter biden was going to plead two misdemeanor tax counts plus get pretrial diversion for this gun possession. and, when the judge started asking some probing questions about whether any other charges could be filed against hunter biden down the road, it appears that the parties did not have a meeting of the minds. the prosecution said yes, hunter biden said no. and so, she said wanted to take 30 days and think about? it they did, and said we don't have a deal. with that, i think the obvious next

peter baker, talk to me about the significance of the appointment to vice president kamala harris to head of this office and if there's bipartisan support for the establishment of this office. >> well, there's very bipartisan support for very little in washington these days. it's hard to know at this point whether anyone will make an issue out of it. the president has the ability to structure his office as he chooses. this is not something congress will generally weigh in on. it sends a message, he's saying that the number one person below me will be paying attention. this is not just some, you know, bureaucratic person you don't know of, but somebody who is, in fact, an elected official, elected across the country, the only other one, other than himself. it says something about trying to build her up heading into the next election politically because she has been seen by some democrats as too low profile, not advancing herself, and the ticket aggressively enough. she has won a lot of praise among democrats for her speaking out on abortion rights, and i think what the president is tr

peter baker and harry litman. blayne, start us off.e us the context surrounding the governor's comments. >> reporter: yeah. this is something that -- this comes after a couple of days of seeing some far right republicans calling for a way to remove willis from office or discipline her. this is not a mainstream call among republicans in statehouse. these are far right members of the party and some other republicans have been pushing back against that. what we saw yesterday from governor kemp was the strongest pushback against that. if you have issues with the way the d.a. is doing her job, there are proper proceedings by which to raise those complaints. he is not going to call a special session to raise the issue of looking at impeaching her saying that that with likely be proven unconstitutional. he went a step further and said that he really hasn't seen any evidence that she has violated her oath or dog done anything improper. it's interesting when you see the fact that governor kemp pushed back and said we're not going to focus on th

they don't see it as a political benefit to do so. >> peter baker of the "new york times," thank youry much. joining us now for the last couple minutes is the chairman of the council of economic advisers jared bernstein. the president gave a speech on bidenomics. i want to talk about the uaw possibly going on strike tonight. is the president doing anything about this? >> we're watching this closely. he's engaged. he's talked about the importance of both sides staying at the table. he's deeply invested in auto worker jobs being great jobs for the middle class and maintaining a profitable sector there. we're watching that. no comments on the negotiations. >> what will it do to the economy to have them go on strike? >> i think the idea there is to just stay out of the particulars and speculation at this point. watch what happens. i'll be certainly happy to come back when we see how things unfold as they continue their negotiations. >> okay. the economy, the president is telling voters that it is good, that inflation -- if you look at the details, it's not as bad as it was. the job marke

peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. and former u.s. attorney joyce vance, she spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. joyce, i will start with you. watching peter navarro get found guilty tonight, what does this do to the psyche of donald trump's codefendants in georgia, in florida? are they watching this and thinking, holy cow, this could be me next? and they're facing more serious charges than. >> right, so navarro situation is a little bit different. this is the guy who confessed to -- on national television to fomenting a coup. his notorious green bay sweep. and then declined to respond to a congressional subpoena. this was always going to be a conviction. the only surprise here was that it took the jury for hours to get to that point. i suspect that there may have been a lengthy lunch involved before they took their vote, because this really was the cleanest of all possible cases. but you know, staff, i do think it has a subtle impact on some of trump's codefendants and particularly in the mar-a-lago case. people like walt nauta, w

peter baker joins us, chief white house correspondent the new york times.ent years as the moscow bureau chief for the washington post, closely watching the rise of putin. the -- his book the divider is out on paperback today. former missouri senator and msnbc political analyst and dear friend of mine claire mccaskill joins us. and bill taylor, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. he's also the united states institute of peace vice president for russia and europe. ambassador taylor, let's start with you. this was a very big moment for president zelenskyy. what did you think of his message? >> so stephanie, it was well thought out. he started off talking with weaponization of these various aspects of this war. start with the new color as well as the energy as well as grain and food as well as kidnapping children. and then he ended up reminding the people there at the u.n. that he's got a proposal, he's got a proposal that addresses all of those things that he talked about. territorial integrity, rain, energy, this is the kind of thing that he put together and h

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joining me is editor at large at the bulwark, charlie sykes a white house correspondent peter baker. neck and neck. when third party options are included, trump pulls ahead. we saw what happened in 2016 because there was a third party candidate, the green party took votes away from hillary clinton. >> it is a real threat. you see what the attraction is because a large portion of voters don't want a biden/trump replay. under normal circumstances, i would be accepting to breaking up the duopoly except for the existential threat that donald trump and donald trump 2.0 poses to the country. this is a luxury we can't afford. it is a real danger, not just with the no labels folks, but obviously with people like cornell west who can play the same role that the green party might have played back in 2016. it's right to send up the flares. >> "the new york times," peter, your paper is reporting that robert f. kennedy jr. met with the chair of the libertarian party in july. could that also be the damage, he's got the kennedy name and there will be a certain amount of voters who will go for an rf

peter baker, glenn thrush, thank you for being here. renato mariotti, as well, thank you. but before we go to break, we have to give you an important break on the -- covering idalia my colleague tom jonas still on the ground, as details. >> idalia made landfall with a ferocity not seen in this area in more than a century. daring, high water rescues rolled out up and down the coast. and more than half 1 million lost power and many have been restored -- >> the bulk of the outages at this point are in that region, and a lot of the rural counties that bore the brunt of the storm. >> with the president today signing a major disaster declaration for florida -- >> our nation has your back. and we are not going to -- we are not going to walk away. >> idalia carved a destructive pat across the southeast. at least five reported tornadoes breaking out in the storm zone. [screaming] one, flipping >> with the -- [bleep] that car is flying. >> -- three people across the region have been killed. back in florida, this was idalia's fury and horseshoe beach. and this is what is left. and he

. >> terrific stuff this morning from chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," peter baker"way too early," u.s. national security adviser jay sullivan take a fresh stab at easing tensions between washington and beijing. what both sides committed to over the weekend. we'll tell you about that. >>> coming up on "morning joe," donald trump, as you just heard, said he didn't respect the attorneys who told him he had lost the 2020 election and that he's not afraid to go to prison. more from his exclusive sitdown from nbc and how the new revelations could play out in court. that straight ahead. >>> plus, the president of a striking united auto workers will join the conversation. how close are they to a deal? and his reaction to possible layoffs by ford and gm. "morning joe" is just a few moments away with that and more. for 24 hours. aveeno® ♪i'm hearing different ways for me to screen for colon cancer.♪ ♪it's time to use my voice,♪ ♪i've got a choice, more than one answer.♪ ♪i sat down with my doc.♪ we had a talk. ♪knew just what to say.♪ ♪i asked for cologuard and did it my way

peter baker, tank. you ambassador taylor, always good to see you.we come back, we're talking cash publicans. today they pulled a key vote on something massively important to all americans. fundinghe government. they didn't do that. but what to do is scheduled the first impeachment inquiry hearing into joe biden. juanita tolliver and reed galen have a little say about that. and literally, big news in the georgia case. the judgeill allow lawyers for some defendants to question grand jurors. our friend iscol -- glenn kirschner is here to question all the legal issues around trump's case. we're just getting underway for a very busy night here in new york city. n ne york city. all learning to save and spend their money with chase. the chef's cooking up firsts with her new debit card. hungry? -uhuh. the designer's eyeing sequins. uh no plaid. while mom is eyeing his spending. nice. and the engineer? she's taking control with her own account for college. three futures, all with chase. freedom for kids. control for parents. one bank for both. chase. make mo

my friend peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times is here. as well as doing buyers, founding partner and senior reporter at putt. and tim miller, a contributor for the bulwark and former communications director for jeb bush. and if you at home are trying to get your head around what this new dress code system is in the senate, maybe this will help. peter is dressed as chuck schumer, while dillon and tim are in more of a federal and look. and i'm going with a sleeveless cinema. >> dillon, let us start with you. fox is saying he's in good health, but he's stepping down because he's 92. now, for anybody who knows him, they say there is not a day in our a minute, rupert murdoch isn't thinking, breathing, living news and fox. i saw 60-minute speech around from years ago, where they said he does like the opera, he doesn't like the theater, he doesn't even like to go to the movies he makes. all he does is work. so what's really going on? >> yeah, well, look, i think at 92, you have to ask questions about health, obviously, and certainly, depending o

richard engel is reporting from odessa, jhukraine, and also with us, peter baker.ell us about this congressional divide right now. >> reporter: there's no doubt there are a fair number of republicans in particular that are skeptical of continuing the flow of money from the united states to ukraine. but we do have to make it clear that it is the minority of members of congress. most democrats, most republicans in the senate and even a fair number of republicans in the house believe that the aid has got to continue. but because the margins are so tight here on capitol hill, that makes it a lot more difficult to get this type of aid approved and moved through the pipeline house speaker kevin mccarthy la leads the group that is most skeptical. he is part of the meetings with president sezelenskyy today. this is what he said after talking to zelenskyy in a closed door meeting this morning. >> i thought it was a very good, i thought it was productive. i raised issues. we're very concerned about accountability i think he was very direct about where the war currently stand

julie, i'm looking into the conversation right now, a good friend from new york, tom peter baker, a whitenow that you certainly had cross past with him many of times, and written about him. he was a man, to julie's point, think about the inroads that he really helped make into the previously closed off north korean space there that have been closed off for decades. he really was among the first to open up at least communication with that country. >> the really, was exactly right. he was a unique figure, and he was a giant as you said. he was a colorful character. you knew that he was in the room, right? he had forcible, buoyant energetic personality that allowed him to succeed in politics and at diplomacy. and i think the reason why he became so successful as the sort of global hostage rescue or, negotiator diplomat is because he brought something to the table but a lot of the more state professionals did. and i think the manager pushes way into the north korean hermetically sealed circles anyway that others could not. and so you're right i think. there's loss is a big loss for the countr

joining me now new york times chief white house correspondent and msnbc political analyst, peter bakerllo, my friend. let's get into this. are you surprised that donald trump is expected to be in a new york cat both monday and tuesday? is this some kind of a strategy on his part? >> it is a little surprising. it is not going to go. well the judge that he made the key ruling in this case. the former president of the united states, as a businessman, had basically defrauded banks and, within these financial statements, he made overstating the value of his assets to try to get loans. that is pretty key to this lawsuit at this point. but tissue janes, new york state attorney general, brought a civil court lawsuit accusing him of fraud. now the question really is, what to do about it? infact, she got fortune and 50 million dollar penalty for the former president's business. that is what i think the judge is going to be focused on. seeing him in court is a little surprising. this is a lot of staying for him. his whole empire based in new york is in jeopardy in a fashion. the court could, basi

joining us now "new york times" chief white house correspondent and nbc news political analyst, peter bakerod to have you. how was the white house dealing with this? i heard this they have been in contact with the big three, and the union. what are they doing? >> yeah, they've got their envoys on the ground. they've got their people trying to help bring people together. you heard from the president, he's basically unclear whose side he's on. on the side of the workers. they deserve a share in the profits the companies have made over the years. he has given some acknowledgment to the company, made significant offers, and thinks they should do more. he obviously has been positioning himself forever as a pro union democrat. he does not have the support at the moment of the uaw in next year's election. he made clear his sympathies are on the side of the strikers. he has a consequence, significant damage to the economy, which is of course the most important issue for him. >> peter, this is in swing state territory, the blue wall that he rebuilt in 2020, do they see that at risk of being cracked

. >> laura: whoa, whoa, peter baker once really respected reporter at the "new york times." does he not read the polls about minority voters abandoning the democratic party? now the fact is so-called journalist love the democratic dictatorship themselves. that's actually keeping biden right where he is. they like it for the same reason. the same reason they love mail-in ballots. ballot harvesting, proposal for online voting even. and the lockdowns they don't love the voters not even their own. >> we the voters have to destroy the republican party in order to save it. this is a chaotic, in many ways, authoritarian kind of aglom member ration that's not really an organized political party doesn't have coherent philosophy or governing program except tear it down. >> laura: gene, tear what down? a vibrant economy? immigration enforcement. our history? no, that's what the forces behind biden did and are still doing. that's the fallout from a figure head presidency and it's all according to plan, whether you like it or not. and that's the angle. joining me now mollie hemingway edi

let's bring in staff writer at the new yorker, peter baker, and the author of "the divider."out and arresting people for no reason. he actually called for my arrest back during his presidency. he's talking about terminating the constitution. this is amped up considerably, has it not, even since he's left office? >> yeah, joe, i totally agree. i think that, you know, the two key words, like you said, one of them is definitely terminate, as in terminate the constitution. the other is retribution and revenge. trump, as you saw in that clip there, he has made it clear again and again and again, this is the play book he'll be turning to. it's not only, you know, there's a lot of talk from republicans on capitol hill about weaponizing the government. that essentially is donald trump's approach to the white house, which is the idea that it would become a personal instrument of retribution. he actually said in another recent interview, why should they launch an impeachment inquiry of joe biden because they impeached me. it wouldn't be happening if it hadn't happened to me. i think th

peter baker, thank you so much for being on this morning. entitled "the divider, trump in the white house 2017 to 2021" will be released this coming tuesday. we will speak with peter and susan together about it. >> very exciting. >> next week. >> we look forward to it. >> awesome. >> peter, thank you. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," former president trump gets asked about his handling of classified documents and his response has legal experts raising their eyebrows. >> actually laughing. >> well -- >> kind of like the republican caucus whenever he would leave talking to them. >> shaking their heads. >> as mitt romney said, they'd die laughing because his arguments were so stupid. same thing. >>> confessions to charges foiled against him. >> always confessions. >>> also ahead, more of a conversation we've been having all this week on the show about the rising crime rates across the country and what can be done to address this important issue right away. >> you know, what is important to always remember is, yeah, we were talking about new yo

although in a different interview with a new york times peter baker, he allowed for the possibility maybee, he was more definitive he did not think there was. >> that is really interesting. i think that is one of the big questions that some historians who look at this raised, which was there really isn't a lot of forensic evidence to suggest there was a second gunman. he also in his book reveals this intact bullet in the limousine, and he moved it. here is what he told you. >> i started to put it back, and i hesitated for a moment, i had looked around and the back area, i saw no secret service agents there to secure the car. and we were getting ready to exit the limo, and i did not want to leave the bullet they are because i was afraid people would start to converge towards the car, a souvenir hunter might see that, or want to have the press taking pictures, or do anything like that. >> and he says he also brought it with him to the hospital. i have to say, jake, that is a very interesting, perhaps a little odd sequence of events. what did you think? >> it was interesting. he said he put

susan, staff writer for the new yorker, coauthor of your husband who i think you're familiar with, peter baker, they wrote the divider. susan, and we should also introduce susan as theo's mom. all of our favorite guest on the 11th hour. susan help, us out. what do you think of the comments today from cassidy hutchinson about the dangers donald trump poses, extraordinary to speak from her heart so bravely with rachel? >> you know, it's striking how many people in the end have fallen out with donald trump who worked for him. the testimony was always coming from inside the room. this is a particularly dramatic example of that, because she was there at key moments as trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election unfolded. but, i am struck by what a long-standing pattern this is. you can just listed a. half the people running in the republican primaries worked for or with trump and broken with him, chris christie, the number of people who have provided damning accounts of trump have worked so closely with him. so, it'll be interesting to see what reception her charges get. there is some really juic

and i mean, i just want to point you toward peter baker, of the "new york times," he retweeted a thingg sneakers because he's old, right? and people were like, oh, maybe you want to maybe talk about some of these other things. the new york opinion page, writer for the new york board.com pointed out on twitter, that from -- september 1st, 2023, to september 26th, "the new york times" opinion section published 17 articles that mentioned the words trump indictment during that same period the opinion section ran 39 articles, more than twice as many, that included the word biden age. what is happening in the media side? >> biden's age is the emails. there's a normal candidate and then there's this guy who has all the indictments and the, you know, armed insurrection. that guy is not a normal candidate. and the mainstream media, and again, i don't know what's going on, i don't know what's in hearts and mind, but they are just stuck in this false equivalency land and the road to a trump re-election is paved with false equivalencies. >> absolutely. >> paved with sneakers are the same as an ins

. >> peter baker, charlie sykes. that does it for this edition of "ana cabrera reports." tonight general saki speaks with nancy pelosi at 8:00 p.m. eastern. at 9:00, rachel maddow sits down with former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. follow us on social media,. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. >>> good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. senator bob menendez calls it the biggest fight of his political life. he had the knives out for everyone from prosecutors to democrats who say feel a political opportunity. >>> binge watchers and channel surfers rejoice. hollywood appears to be back in business. after 146 days in the picket lines, the writers unions says it struck an exceptional deal with the heads of the studios. what's in it and what does it mean for your favorite shows. >>> families of fbi agents increasingly under threat. prosecutors under 24-hour protection. all of it the result of a toxic mix of overheated rhetoric and an angry and polarized public that officials increasingly fear will explode into violence. how do we t

we also have peter baker with us. gabe, i'm going to begin with you. >> we're here outside of a plant in wayne, michigan. the president going to a gm plant nearby. i can tell you that union workers who he was speaking with this morning were very grateful to see the president coming to michigan. he's one they hoped he would come here a little sooner. and that really shows the complicated nature of this. you see the video there. sean fayne standing shoulder to shoulder with the president and the president literally with a bull horn talking about solidarity with union workers. this is a shift from just a few days ago and the white house is trying to walk this fine line, trying not to antagonize the auto companies in their negotiations with the uaw but in the last few days after that invitation to come to michigan by fayne, we've noticed a shift and the president's support is being thrown behind the uaw today and speaking alongside, he said the enemy is not far away but in this area for corporate greed. it was a message t

i'll bring in "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker, former republican party chairdcast "is it just me or have we all lost our minds" jennifer horn and former obama white house aide alaina beverly. jennifer, visiting his home state of pennsylvania. what's the message here? >> i think it's clear that the president is speaking to his base, his strongest supporter and addressing issues that are important to those voters. looking at that clip just now, we're reminded -- this is joe biden's strength. this is where he does best. he's light on his feet. he's got a sense of humor, and he's speaking to those people as if they're his friends. when i watched that clip, i was impressed. that's always been one of jid's strengths for sure. as necessary, what he needs to do, addressing issues he made progress on, the promises he's kept. it's not just labor day in pennsylvania. it's cutting ribbons on a lot of those infrastructure projects where people can see with their own eyes and in their own community the progress this president has made. that's what he needs to be doing right

although, in a different interview with the new york times, peter baker, he allowed for the possibilityver, with me, he was more definitive. >> that's interesting. it was historians who are looking at this as there is a lot of forensic evidence to suggest there was a second gunman. in this book, he reveals, he found an intact bullet, inside of the limousine, and he moved it. here is what he told you. >> i started to put it back, and i hesitated for a moment because i looked around, when i had been scanning the back area, and found secret service agents there just to carry the car. so, we were getting ready to exit the limo, and i didn't want to leave the bullet there because i was afraid that people are starting to converge towards the car, and i thought a souvenir, someone might see that, and i didn't want to have the press taking pictures on that. >> he also brought it with him to the hospital. jake, i have to say, that is an interesting, perhaps odd, sequence of events. what did you think? >> it was interesting. he said, he put it in his pocket, carried it to the hospital, and left i

. >> joining us now, peter baker, white house correspondent for "the new york times" and a msnbc politicallyst, and jennifer pal mary, former white house communications director under president obama and a msnbc political analyst. one of the people grieving for dianne feinstein today, peter, is the president of the united states, who served alongside her for not just years, i think, but probably for decades. and when you hear chuck schumer talk about loss, talk about the loss of the woman who really was someone who worked across the aisle, who set a standard for other women who would follow in her foot steps. >> that's right, exactly. she was inspiration to women politicians in an era that wasn't very common. she was a trailblazer. she won the seat on her own dime, and wasn't the spouse of a senator who would die, which is how a lot of women got into congress. she was a force to be reckoned with. she was considered for the vice presidency more than once. and she was seen, though, not just as a barrier breaker, although that was obviously a big part of her legacy, she was seen as somebody w

howard, welcome back, good to see my friend in an article published friday, peter baker writes there's or making him more determined to run. the only people might persuade him to change's mind would be his family, particularly his first lady jill biden. what's your sense of how the president is handling the doubters within his own party? >> i think he's doing reasonably well. look, this guy turns out to have one of the best records of any democratic president in terms of reforms. going all the way back to lyndon johnson. what is accomplished is incredible. what is accomplished for,, particular gets climate change, has been phenomenal. nobody's done anything like that. so, a lot of this is sort of ageism, i get it. it is time for a new generation, all that kind of stuff. joe biden's gonna be our nominee. i also think is gonna be the next president of united states. >> well, david ignatius might differ with you on that. pretty bombshell opinion piece was written by him in the washington post this week. which urged biden not to run for reelection. despite echoing your sentiments, praising

joining me now is garrett haake and sabrina siddiqui, barbara mcquade is back with us, and peter bakeryou pressed senator graham about why he cared so much about the election in 2020. tell us about that. >> this is instructive about why the grand jury -- the second grand jury might have chosen not to charge graham. here you have somebody acting as a politician at a time period when everyone in the republican party was asking similar questions about what was going on in some of the states. i asked him right in the meat of this, in the middle of november of 2020, why he found himself so interested in georgia. here is what he told me. did you or did you not ask him to throw out votes? >> no. that's ridiculous. i talked to him about how you verify signatures. i thought it was a nice conversation. >> why is a senator from south carolina calling the setting of state of georgia? >> it hangs in the balance. >> he made those calls and then he voted to certify the election on january 6 and has subsequently said that he does think joe biden is the proper president of the united states. his politi

attorney, university of michigan law professor and peter baker is "new york times" chief white house correspondent and an msnbc political analyst. so, what is the latest on navarro right now? >> reporter: well, chris, jury selection began today. the court is on a lunch break right now, having picked nine jurors. they may ask for 24 in the end. and peter navarro is on trial facing a year in jail on each of these counts of contempt of congress and $100,000 fine for each. and he said he's facing $750,000 in legal expenses. as you said what this is about is his refusal to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee for his testimony and for documents. you heard him mention executive privilege there. just last week the judge in the case ruled that there was no evidence that donald trump ever invoked executive privilege to prevent peter navarro, his economic adviser, from testifying and that the law required that there be that evidence and that mr. trump invoked the privilege and that there be some record of it. there wasn't any. that's why that's not really an issue at this tr

joining me now, yasmin brady, executive director of swing left, and peter baker, chief white house correspondentf you here. yasmin, you wrote an op-ed about how 6,675 votes in a handful of competitive districts decided control of the house in 2022. you point to a recent survey that found 56% of respondents in the 18 biden won districts represented by republicans, they say the impeachment inquiry would be a partisan political stunt. so you're grass roots, how do organizations like yours capitalize on that feeling? >> first of all, thank you so much for having me on, chris, and for highlighting those critical numbers. what we're seeing here is yet again, kevin mccarthy, resorting to the political stunts that he has now mastered because of how desperately he wants to hold on to the speakership, and time after time, you know this well, he's pandering to the most chaotic extremes. we have seen in election after election, poll after poll, including the one that you mentioned, that voters in swing districts that are absolutely critical to a majority, first of all, reject maga extremism, and then, as yo

and peter baker, an msnbc political analyst. he is the co-author of "the divider."tion from trump world and trump's primary rivals from what we just heard? >> reporter: right. much more of kristin's interview will be coming out in the days ahead and on "meet the press" on sunday. there was one part of her interview that he said he would be unlikely to pardon himself if he were to get back in the white house. the word "unlikely" is important because will herd responding saying that donald trump, the reason he is running is because he wants to be able to pardon himself. i think that's an important distinction. it was the use of the word "unlikely." but the other part of that clip you just heard is him saying he would testify under oath in the classified documents case that he did not order the delusion of the tapes. now, donald trump saying he will testify is a departure from his past proceedings. he did not testify or meet with investigators. he did not testify in front of the january 6th select committee. he did not go in front of a jury in civil suit. for donald tr

mora, last night i went back and re-read this piece peter baker wrote in the "times," why there was thisple wrote. he said what may prove more vexing to mr. biden is the possibility that the political prospects may be decoupled from such issues. in past generations americans were reactive to events in reac thing to presidents. in recent years, they are locked in their partisan corner. it's different now. the way voters reacted to numbers on the economy was different now than it -- is different now than it was before. do you agree with that assessment? are. >> i do. people are stuck their political believes that they are not look objectively at anything. whatever biden is touting about infrastructure, you are seeing republicans who are touting it, too, saying that, you know, it's good for our district, good for us, like here i am as a leader. they are not being objective in the fact that some people didn't vote tore it and people at home are looking at the biden administration talking about inflation going down. yet, prices for groceries, for gas, for housing all have gone up. 20, 30% and

he was a man who could largely be credited to, my understanding, with having opened up this, as peter bakerd, hermetically sealed community. this country that, for decades, had been really cut off in many ways from the rest of the world. he helped make inroads and shed some light into what was happening there. would you agree with that? >> i do, and there had been a brief opening in 2000 when i first went to north korea with madeleine albright, there was the possibility of diplomacy going on. that was shut down under the bush administration, when bill clinton and al gore -- they did not win or, get into the white house, that whole policy shifted. but he tried to get through to north korea. and that was an important aspect of his diplomacy. going back to 2000, six he was trying to do what he could, as we got the remains of american soldiers -- turned over as, well on that trip, they drove all the way to -- from pyongyang down to the -- drc and we saw how -- we flew into pyongyang before but never sought from the ground. never saw that long journey and saw how eroded land was, how primitive t

joining me right now peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times.nbc political analyst, currently watching this unfold in new delhi. we couldn't be further apart my friend, we're at opposite ends of the planet. i'm here in l.a., but anyway it's good to see long distance there. give me a sense peter, which countries were not on board with the condemnation of russia? in which would the u.s. be satisfied with the declaration? >> we'll start of course the fact that russia itself is a member of the g20. vladimir putin is not here, he chose to skip this summit, as he did last years. not exactly welcome, not exactly eager to be with a lot of the other leaders here. but he did send a foreign minister. russia's to have a role in agreeing to whatever declaration the 20 members of the g20 are going to sign off on. and that, in that sense, clearly the final language to some extent that reality. the final language, it's not as strong as it was last year. condemning tory of russia's invasion of ukraine. it does reinforce the u.n. resolutions, regarding the russia

let's bring in peter baker.pecially her comments about senator menendez. i think this is going to be a big conversation as the questions surrounding what exactly he was doing with gold bars and tons of cash and how democrats approach that case versus the former president. >> yeah. i think the senator makes a good point in the sense that they're not attacking the system. they're not saying the fbi needs to be defunded. they're not calling the prosecutors deranged. having said that it does, of course, undermine their ability to say that the republicans are nominating somebody who's been indicted and how is that representative of what they want to have for their party when many of them are not willing to call for senator menendez stepping down? it's going to raise questions that will be challenging to answer. to their benefit, they can make the argument saying it shows the biden justice department, as trump likes to put it, is going after democrats. it just muddies the water. the trump campaign wants the water to b