Good afternoon from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

Been, wow, it's been a busy day in Washington even by Trump era standards.

With the president deciding to, what do you call it?

Ryan Fallon called it deciding to dunk on the Democratic leaders.

He basically decided to call the bluff of House Democratic leaders and say,

all right, drop the infrastructure, if you want infrastructure, health care, drop the investigations.

Then he sort of walked out.

Apparently, he was offended according to sources.

He was offended when he went into the infrastructure meeting with Pelosi and Schumer and found

up before the meeting started that Pelosi had a meeting with her entire House Democratic

Caucus where they talked about impeachment.

So we're going to delve big into that because Democrats do have to ask themselves, they've

been in the majority for five months.

What do they have to show for it?

And I think that Trump is asking the same question about himself as well.

Then we'll get into the culture wars and the Biden, the Biden boom lit, if you will,

and who that's benefiting and who that's hurting.

My guests today are NBC's Capitol Hill reportedly and Caldwell and WBUR Senior News Corp.

Kimberly Atkins.

So, Leanne and Kimberly, we sort of had to get a slightly late start here because of

this impromptu rose garden appearance that was not that impromptu, Leanne.

And I say that because the White House made signs for the first time on the rose garden

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