If it's Thursday, top Republicans and presidential frontrunners set their sights on a new wave of culture wars, targeting the classroom, Congress, corporations, even your cooktop, as the party sets a course for 2024 and beyond.

Plus what now for police reform as the nation mourns the loss of Tyrene Nichols?

President Biden holds talks with black lawmakers who are pushing the administration to take action now. And combating

America's housing crisis for an estimated 600,000 homeless people in America. I'm going to talk to the

White House official who's been tasked with dramatically reversing those numbers within just two years.

Happy Thursday and welcome to meet the press now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington.

Right now, we appear to be at the very start of what appears to be a new political arms race among prominent conservatives and prospective Republican presidential candidates as they try to unite the conservative party around some peculiar and at times unsettling debates about everything

from gas stoves to transgender rights. I'm talking, of course, about the conservative culture

wars, which are being turbocharged thanks to the presidential campaign. Take a look at the

Republican fields to 2024 frontrunners right now, Donald Trump and Ronda Santos. Just this week,

former President

Trump said that a new Trump administration would punish doctors who provide gender-affirming

care to minors, and we'd also have the, seek to have the government only recognize gender assigned

at birth, essentially banning trans individuals. He's also proposed an education plan that would cut federal funding for any school that teaches

critical race theory, however that's defined, or gender ideology.

And he wants to eliminate teacher tenure.

As for Governor DeSantis, he's focusing much of his culture wars on the classroom.

Last month, he blocked the college board's AP African-American

Studies course in Florida, claiming it was inaccurate and that it lacked educational value.

That course curriculum has been overhauled. We'll see if he signs off on it.

Last year, he signed the, quote, Stop Woke Act, which restricts certain race-based conversations

in schools and businesses.

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