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Meet the Press NOW — August 12

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Kamala Harris faces pressure to lay out more policy proposals as former President Donald Trump accuses her of taking some of his own. “Uncommitted” movement co-founder Layla Elabed says they have “demanded” speaking time at the Democratic National Convention. Former DHS Under Secretary for Cyber and Infrastructure Suzanne Spaulding joins Meet the Press NOW to explain Iran's alleged hacking of the Trump campaign.

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If it's Monday, new polling shows Vice President Harris's support and popularity on the rise in key swing states,

0:09.0

as former President Trump accuses Democrats of stealing one of his policy proposals and faking their crowd sides.

0:16.0

Plus, the Pentagon rushing more military firepower to the Middle East,

0:21.0

including a nuclear-powered submarine as Israel prepares for a coordinated

0:25.6

retaliatory attack from Iran and its proxies that could come at any moment.

0:31.9

And the Trump campaign says it was hacked and suggests Iran is to blame for leaking sensitive

0:37.5

internal campaign documents.

0:39.6

The incident now raising new election interference concerns as lawmakers push US intel

0:45.2

officials for more information. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington at a pivotal moment in the presidential race after a week-long

1:05.0

swing through the battleground states where they were greeted by fired-up crowds and

1:09.7

with the Democratic National Convention now just one week away, Democrats are hoping they can

1:14.7

maintain this momentum, while Republicans are hoping the honeymoon is over, and that their

1:19.8

candidate can stay focused.

1:21.8

Former President Donald Trump seemingly irked by the size of the

1:24.8

crowds greeting the newly minted Democratic ticket, facelessly claiming the crowds were fake.

1:32.1

How about yesterday?

1:33.0

They said, oh, she had a big crowd, oh, the press is talking about the crowd.

1:38.3

In New Jersey, I had 107,000 people.

1:40.7

The press never even talked about it. Right? They don't talk about it.

1:45.0

Right? They don't talk about it.

1:48.0

Because they're fake.

1:50.0

Trump repeating that false claim on social media

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