Meet the Press NOW — April 16

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Biden hits the campaign trail while former President Trump is in the courtroom for his hush money trial. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joins to discuss the president's trip and Middle East policy. Speaker Johnson faces tough odds and a threat to his job over foreign aid. Ameshia Cross, Doug Heye and Jeff Mason join the Meet the Press NOW panel. Bob Kitchen, Vice President for Emergencies at the International Rescue Committee, discusses the state of humanitarian aid in Gaza. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, it's the Trail versus the Trial.
0:05.0	President Biden hitting the road pitching voters in battleground Pennsylvania on his economic
0:10.4	agenda while the former president, president Trump sits in a criminal courtroom
0:14.6	as the first jurors in that hush money trial have just been selected
0:19.2	and sworn in.
0:20.8	Plus Speaker Johnson in jeopardyopardy, a second House Republican, is now threatening to oust
0:26.4	Johnson from leadership of an escalating fight to get foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel
0:31.6	through an unruly Republican conference.
0:35.0	And the January 6th attack front and center at the Supreme Court,
0:38.5	as it hears a case that could impact
0:40.3	former President Trump and hundreds of defendants who allegedly
0:44.1	participated in the attack. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Peter Alexander here in Washington on a day in which the state of play for the 2024 election really is on
1:04.6	full display. President Biden is on the campaign trail. Former President Trump is
1:09.3	in the courtroom as they are both locked in this highly competitive race for the White House.
1:14.5	There have been some new developments in just the past few moments in that Manhattan courtroom
1:19.2	where it is day two of jury selection in Mr. Trump's hush-money trial.
1:23.3	And just the last few moments, six jurors
1:26.2	have been selected.
1:27.1	They have been sworn in at all, as we've told you,
1:29.7	12 jurors and six alternates
1:31.7	are going to be needed to be chosen so that this
1:33.7	trial can get going. All day long lawyers have been questioning prospective jurors
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