Hello there, I'm Kristen Welker.

I just stepped off the set of Meet the Press, where I interviewed Transportation Secretary

Pete Buttigieg, House Assistant Majority Leader Jim Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina,

and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who's of course a GOP candidate.

We led the broadcast with the dysfunction on full display in Washington, with Congress

careening toward a potential shutdown, shocking new corruption charges against Democratic

Senator Bob Menendez.

All this is President Biden prepares to head to Michigan on Tuesday to speak with striking

auto workers announcing his trip after former President Trump announced his to the same

place, but getting there a day before Mr. Trump.

And as a brand new NBC News poll shows a record high disapproval of President Biden's job

performance, Team Biden probably has good reason to be rethinking its strategy.

To get the latest reporting on all of this, I'm sitting here with one of my dearest friends,

NBC News Chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander, who's also co-anchor of Weekend

Today, and of course my longtime partner in crime on the White House beat.

Peter, we're usually together on Saturdays.

Well, two, I mean, two weeks into the show, how does it feel?

It feels great.

If today felt great.

Today was great.

We had, first of all, the panel was so dynamic in part.

Thanks.

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