If it's Thursday, Democratic divisions on display as the party grapples with the politics of rising crime,

with President Biden telling Democrats he's not going to veto a D.C. crime bill that's been backed mostly by Republicans.

Days after Chicago's Democratic mayor was ousted by voters, with crime as the key issue.

Plus, Secretary of State Anthony Blinkett meets his Russian counterpart face-to-face for the first

time since Russia invaded Ukraine. It wasn't a long meeting, but at least it happened,

as rising U.S.-China tensions dominate the world stage at this week's G20 summit.

And Iranian officials opened an investigation after hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls have been hospitalized,

apparently after being poisoned in a potential mass attack across the nation's cities.

Music Happy Thursday. Welcome to Meet the Press now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting in Washington.

Folks, nothing has split the current Democratic Party or drawn as clear of a contrast between the progressive wing and the moderate wing quite like the issue of crime and policing. And right now, from local city

elections all the way up to the White House, Democratic Party leaders are clearly struggling to

navigate this issue, the politics of it, and how it's divided voters. This afternoon, President Biden told Senate Democrats in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill today

that he was going to side with the Republicans and some moderates on a piece of legislation

that would block a series of progressive crime policies in the city of Washington, D.C.

Some Democrats wanted him to veto the bill.

He told them he's not going to do it. This move not only goes against the more progressive

wing of the party on the issue of policing, but it also goes against Biden's avowed support

of D.C. home rule, even though the mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, herself tried to veto these

rules that her progressive city council passed. So yeah, this issue's a bit complicated. Still,

Biden's move means this will be the first time in three decades that Congress has essentially

nullified a law passed in the District of Columbia.

But on the larger point of crime and policing, Biden's decision arguably shows how spooked Democrats are,

...