Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd. I just stepped off the meat-to-press set. I had exclusive interviews

with Joe Takapina. He's the attorney for former President Donald Trump in two of his personal

cases, Stormy Daniels and E. Jean Carroll. Preparar was also on the show. He's the

former use attorney for the Southern District of New York. And I also had the governor of Utah,

Spencer Cox, who just signed arguably some groundbreaking social media laws that are

going to get tested in the courts, but they could end up foreshadowing what the country

attempts to do with social media and minors. But we did a deep dive into Mr. Trump's legal

troubles and how despite them, he seems to be in command of the Republican Party ahead of 2024.

In fact, this weekend, we're reporting on the unease surrounding the former president's

top rival for the nomination. Florida Governor Ronda Santos, a bunch of allies and donors,

have watched the governor over the last two weeks not handle this semi-campaign very well.

And suddenly there's some nervousness that maybe he doesn't have what it takes to defeat Trump

sitting here now with NBC News, Washington, correspondent Yumi Shalsendor, who notably covered

the Trump White House has also been keeping an eye on 2024. So where to begin? The easiest thing

to say is simply Yumi, she did it again. I mean, Trump hijacked the media cycle. Hijacked the media

narrative, the political narrative, the Republican Party narrative, whatever you want to call it.

And we all knew that's what he was doing. We reported it that way and it worked anyway.

This is not a case where you could say, well, the media wasn't honest about what he was doing.

No, the media was pretty honest about what it was doing and it hasn't mattered.

I mean, this is former president Trump's superpower. He has a lot of weaknesses as we, as you noted,

in the show that made him not win in 2020 and made him lose the Republican Party lose the

majorities in the midterms in 2018. But when it comes to someone who can hijack a media cycle,

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