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Meet the Press NOW — April 24

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3.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A new NBC News Stay Tuned poll powered by SurveyMonkey shows President Trump’s sinking approval rating over his handling of the economy. Trump urges Russian President Vladimir Putin to "stop" strikes on Ukraine after a deadly overnight bombardment of Kyiv. NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Richard Engel joins from Tehran to report on the latest negotiations between Iran and the U.S.

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0:00.0

If it's Thursday, new poll numbers show a majority of voters have soured on President Trump's handling of inflation and the cost of living amid new uncertainty over the White House's economic agenda.

0:13.2

Plus, Vladimir, stop.

0:15.4

That was President Trump's message to the Russian leader today in response to Moscow launching deadly strikes on Ukraine's

0:21.5

major cities further imperiling peace talks. And a judge orders the Trump administration to

0:27.4

facilitate the return of another migrant deported to El Salvador as a separate court ruling

0:32.8

blocks the president from withholding federal funding for sanctuary cities, adding to the legal hurdles

0:38.5

for President Trump's immigration agenda.

0:52.4

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where we're closing in on the 100-day mark of the Trump presidency, with new polling showing Americans have grown dissatisfied with the president's economic agenda, as the threat of market turmoil and economic uncertainty risks overshadowing the administration's other priorities.

1:11.1

Brand new numbers from our NBC News, stay tuned poll, show the president 20 points underwater

1:16.2

on the issue that was core to his election success, inflation and the cost of living,

1:21.9

with 60% of Americans disapproving of his handling of that issue.

1:26.0

That publicist dissatisfaction coupled with worries

1:28.5

from big business and the markets appear to be weighing on the White House as it has signaled

1:33.0

a de-escalation with China, with the president softening his tone on the sky-high 145 percent

1:38.9

tariff he placed on Chinese imports and saying the Fed chair Jerome Powell's job is safe.

1:44.5

In the Oval Office today, meeting with Norway's prime minister, President Trump,

1:48.0

made some ambiguous remarks on the process of potential trade deals and attacked his predecessor.

1:54.7

We just have a great country, a very strong country, and we have every other country.

1:59.6

I can't think of one country that doesn't want to

2:01.6

negotiate a deal. And they either negotiate a deal or we set a deal that we think is fair.

2:07.6

We are going to at some point just set prices for deals. Some will be tariffed. Some treated us

2:15.6

very unfairly. They'll be tariffed higher than others. But we've been

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