If it's Wednesday, the primary politics of pending indictments,

why the former president has turned his campaign for the Republican nomination into a campaign

against the Manhattan District Attorney.

Plus, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates yet again, while warning of the potential

for economic fallout as it battles a two-headed monster of rising inflation and recent bank

failures.

In the Biden administration's rare public rebuke of Israel, as it calls the Israeli Ambassador

to the State Department over settlements and their expansion in the West Bank amid growing

frustration with Prime Minister Netanyahu's far-right government.

Happy Wednesday and welcome to Meet the Press.

Now I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington.

We're going to begin today with the biggest obstacle Donald Trump is facing right now to

secure his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination.

I'm not talking about his Republican rivals, potential or announced, like Rod DeSantis,

Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, or Tim Scott, because they've all now rallied around him, at least

in the moment.

Instead, from Donald Trump's vantage point right now, the biggest obstacles facing his

path to the nomination are criminal investigations, three of them to be specific, in New York City,

in Georgia, and in the Special Counsel's office.

Those probes might just effectively wind up being his versions of Iowa, New Hampshire,

in South Carolina.

Survive them all, and the nomination is his.

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