April 26 — Acting AG Todd Blanche, Sen. Thom Tillis and Rep. Ro Khanna
Meet the Press
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3.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This Sunday, security breach. |
| 0:04.0 | President Trump is rushed off the stage at the White House Correspondence Dinner after shots were fired at a security checkpoint as police take a suspect into custody. |
| 0:15.0 | A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave |
| 0:23.5 | members of Secret Service. As the investigation unfolds this morning, new questions about the |
| 0:29.3 | rise in political violence in America. We're not going to let anybody take over our society. |
| 0:34.8 | We're not going to cancel things out because we can't do that. |
| 0:38.1 | I'll talk to acting attorney general Todd Blanche. Plus, standoff. President Trump struggles to |
| 0:44.9 | end the war with Iran as the conflict nears the 60-day mark. |
| 0:49.5 | I don't want to rush it. I want to take my time. We have plenty of time. And I want to get a great deal. |
| 0:54.1 | With concerns growing over the war's impact on the economy, will the White House bend to political |
| 1:00.4 | pressure? And Fed fight. The Justice Department drops its criminal probe of Federal Reserve |
| 1:07.2 | Chair Jerome Powell after Republican Senator Tom Tillis threatened to block the confirmation |
| 1:12.7 | of his successor, Kevin Warsh. Will it be enough to secure his vote? I'll talk to Senator Tillis |
| 1:19.2 | and Democratic Congressman Roe Kana of California. Joining me for insight and analysis are |
| 1:25.7 | NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Melanie Zanona, |
| 1:29.9 | Leanne Caldwell, Chief Washington correspondent for Puck, Adrian Elrod, former senior advisor to the Harris campaign, |
| 1:37.4 | and Lonnie Chen, a fellow at the Hoover Institution. Welcome to Sunday. It's Meet the Press. |
| 1:44.2 | From NBC News in Washington, the longest running show in television history. This is Meet the Press with Kristen Welkett. |
| 1:54.0 | Good Sunday morning. We are coming on the air after a terrifying night here in the nation's capital. The president, |
| 2:03.0 | first lady, vice president, many cabinet members and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle |
| 2:08.6 | had gathered with the press for the annual White House correspondence dinner, a celebration of the |
| 2:14.0 | First Amendment and freedom of the press. It was Mr. Trump's first appearance at the |
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