Hello there. I just stepped off the Meet the Press Set where I interviewed

House Democratic leader, A.C.

Ekem. Jeffries, 2024 presidential Canada Asa Hutchinson, who's a former

Republican governor of Arkansas. We laid our broadcast though with the issue of a cancer

in the court as trust in the justices craters

amid a flurry of revelations casting doubt

on the judicial independence, frankly of the

entire court,

Justice Clarence Thomas is at the forefront of these ethics violations.

But the same broken partisan politics are also at play in Congress

with a looming risk of a default on our national death could signal rock bottom for our political gridlock

Maybe leaders from both parties at least are all gonna sit down on Tuesday. So let's see what happens

Title 42 by the way also expires later this week and the border could cause all sorts of polarizing political problems on all that.

So it's been a busy week. It's been an intense week. We've got a lot of issues we could have dealt with. We had former

President Trump in his legal woes and the defamation trial, the woman that has accused

him of rape E. Jean Carroll.

So joining me now is David Gellis.

He's the executive producer of Meet the Press.

And we had a lot of decisions to make over the last few hours about what to include and what not to include.

And David, you've been, I think this might be the first time you are appearing on the actual

I'm honored to be here. Thank you for including. For those that don't know, David and I worked together years ago when he was at NBC News and then he left for CNN where he has produced everything over there.

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