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Meet the Press NOW — April 23

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Judge Merchan holds a hearing on whether former President Trump violated a gag order by attacking witnesses and jurors. President Biden heads to Florida, where a six-week ban on abortion is set to take effect in just over a week. The U.S. is expected to impose sanctions on an ultra-orthodox unit of Israel’s military. Rhonda Colvin, Maria Teresa Kumar and Hogan Gidley join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. Voters head to the polls to cast their ballot in the Pennsylvania primaries 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, the judge and Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial considers holding the former president in contempt for repeatedly attacking witnesses and jurors while slamming Trump's lawyers telling them you're

0:14.8

losing all credibility. Plus another day another split screen. President

0:19.7

Biden hits Trump on the trail in Florida, tying him to sweeping abortion restrictions in the state and beyond.

0:26.0

As the White House tries to ward off a number of potential political headwinds,

0:31.0

one of them, rising tensions on college campuses over US support for Israel.

0:37.0

As pro-Palestinian protests at major universities lead to hundreds more arrests and new security concerns.

0:43.2

Thanks. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Gabe Gutierrez on another heated day in Donald

0:58.7

Trump's hush money trial.

1:00.3

As the former president and current presumptive Republican nominees conduct outside the courtroom

1:05.0

was front and center inside the courtroom,

1:08.0

in a contentious hearing at the start of the day,

1:10.0

Judge Juan Mershaun clash with Trump's attorneys in a hearing on whether he violated a gag order on multiple occasions by repeatedly attacking witnesses and jurors.

1:20.0

In the hearing, the judge telling Trump attorney Todd Blanch, quote,

1:23.6

you're losing all credibility with this court.

1:26.4

After Blanch argued that his client was attempting to comply with the order.

1:30.3

Christopher Conray, one of the prosecutors in the case,

1:33.4

dangled the possibility that Trump could be jailed

1:36.9

if his behavior continues, telling the judge,

1:39.4

we are not yet seeking an incarceratory penalty,

1:42.4

but the defendant seems to be angling for that.

1:45.5

Prosecutors tick through Trump's social media posts,

1:48.0

campaign press releases, interviews,

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