From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, March 29th.

Here we are on yet another day when the Manhattan grand jury considering a Donald Trump

indictment would normally be in session,

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, though some reports say they are off today.

No point speculating what they will or won't do.

Here is something we know.

Trump himself publicized the false idea that he would be indicted last Tuesday and immediately

began fundraising off that prospect

with racist and violent language and imagery aimed at DA Alvin Bragg. But now a story on the

national politics site, Puck News, says Trump is being disappointed by the amount of money that

appeal is bringing in. We'll talk to Tara Palmieri and David Hamby from Puck News in just a

minute. At the same time, however, they report that a statement, Peter, I'm sorry, Peter Hamby,

I said David. At the same time, they report that establishment Democrats are not so enthusiastic

about a hush money indictment, seeing this as an old case that's been gathering

dust for six years that the federal Justice Department passed on and offers no new messaging.

So we'll start there with some Wednesday morning politics and also touch on a few other things

like Washington all scrambled up on TikTok after last week's

kind of embarrassing hearing, embarrassing for both sides, I think, with the CEO of TikTok so true.

And whether the Nashville school shooting might break the gridlock on gun laws in any way,

here's President Biden yesterday trying to figure out how not to just keep repeating

the same language as after every other headline mass shooting that leads to the same dead end,

but as you'll hear, he is clearly frustrated. I have gone the full extent of my executive

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