Hello there I'm Chuck Todd. I just stepped off the meet the press set where I interviewed

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Republican presidential candidate

Vivek Ramaswami, and Luke Russert, whose new book looked for me there, details his story of grieving

his late father, the legendary Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert.

We of course covered President Biden's now official campaign for re-election, and in the panel

we set up this through line of Biden and Trump's campaign for re-election and in the panel we set up this

through line of Biden and Trump's sort of co-dependent political

relationship how they are both the other's perfect adversary at least for now despite

almost no voter actually looking forward to a rematch of 2020.

Then there's the age issue for Biden,

which some critics wondering with varying levels of tact

whether he would be as effective a leader at the end of his second term

as he is now.

On the Republican side, Trump is determined to push his likely

challenger Florida Governor Ron DeSantis closer to the field

rather than him as DeSantis weathers a political catastrophe,

it looks like, of his own making in his very public spat with Disney

world in Orlando sitting here now with former Democratic Senator Claire

McCaskill break down more of what we didn't get to we got to some stuff

Claire welcome back to the

Todd cast. Thank you very much Chuck. I'll tell you what I left on the

cutting room floor then I know you probably wish I hadn't but I just had a time

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