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 denomination 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, and South Carolina. Survive them all, and the nomination is his.

The party has all, but reacted that way. As a Manhattan grand jury weighs potential charges

against Mr. Trump tied to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, two sources tell NBC that the DA told the grand jury to stay home today, but to be on standby for a possible convening tomorrow.

And the special counsel's criminal investigation into Trump's mishandling of classified material in the January 6th insurrection.

Remember, he's looking at both. NBC News can confirm that a federal judge has determined that

prosecutors have presented sufficient evidence to establish that Trump committed a crime through

his attorneys and that one of his lawyers now has to testify before the grand jury.

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