December 22 - Sens. Raphael Warnock and James Lankford

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🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In a special edition of Meet the Press, Kristen Welker sits down with bipartisan duo Sen. Raphael Warncok (D-Ga.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) to explore how Americans can find common ground in a deeply divided nation. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Russell Moore and Antonia Hylton join the roundtable.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, finding common ground.
0:04.0	Something I hope we can do no matter who you voted for.
0:08.0	You see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.
0:13.0	Bring down the temperature.
0:15.0	It's time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us.
0:20.0	It's time to unite. In this deeply divided nation,
0:24.2	how do we talk to one another and bridge the divide? What I really want is all the vitriolicness,
0:31.9	the ugliness, the threats, the violence, the pittiness against each other, to please stop.
0:38.3	We're at a time of very divided government and a very partisan atmosphere in Washington.
0:43.3	I wish it were not.
0:44.3	What is the path forward?
0:46.3	The scary time in America right now, things are just not going well.
0:49.3	We are in a moral crisis right now, and it won't get better unless we act.
0:53.3	My guest this morning, Republican Senator James Langford of Oklahoma and Democratic Senator
0:59.4	Raphael Warnock of Georgia, the only two clergy members serving in the U.S. Senate.
1:04.9	Joining me for insight and analysis are presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Russell Moore, the editor-in-chief of Christianity
1:13.5	today, and NBC News correspondent Antonia Hilton. Welcome to Sunday and a special edition
1:20.5	of Meet the Press. From NBC News in Washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of Meet the Press with Kristen Welker.
1:33.3	Good Sunday morning. We begin with the question. Can Americans keep talking to each other even when they disagree? With political polarization at an all-time high, is it even possible? A record high,
1:46.5	80 percent of U.S. adults believe that Americans are greatly divided on the most important values.
1:51.9	Just 18 percent believe the country is united. Americans today dislike and distrust those from
1:57.8	opposing political parties more than they did in the past.
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