If it's Friday, President Biden's Homeland Security Chief heads for the border as communities

brace for a potentially massive migrant post-COVID surge. And the U.S. struggles under the weight

of hyper-partisan political system that makes any kind of problem-solving virtually impossible.

Plus, President Biden tries to tout a stronger than expected jobs report

and historically low unemployment,

as investors and voters grapple with stubbornly high inflation

and an alarming string of recent bank failures.

And the leader of Russia's mercenary group lashes out at Putin's military,

vowing to withdraw from a key battle,

saying Moscow has doomed their fighters to, quote, senseless death.

Yeah. Welcome to Meet the Press. Now I'm Chuck Todd reporting in Washington,

and whether you call it pragmatism, the ability to compromise or the art of finding common ground,

getting things done in a lasting way in Washington has always relied on the middle,

the center, however you want to describe them, or the pragmatist.

But right now, in this political climate, moderate, feels like a dirty word to most politicians and a lot of their voters.

And it's leading to some dire consequences.

Just look at the situation at the southern border where Title 42, the pandemic

era policy that blocked hundreds of migrants from crossing the southern border is set to expire

next week. Homeland Security Secretary, Alhandra Marikis, is at the border today, visiting with

border agents as they prepare for the incoming surge that's already pushed border communities

to the brink. And as he told me on meet the press last Sunday, congressional action is needed to fix a broken system that is essentially being held together with executive

branch duct tape and paper mache. In a different era, this is when a bipartisan working group of

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