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Meet the Press NOW — August 13

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump’s allies are urge him to stay away from personal attacks against Vice President Harris and instead focus his campaign message. Former U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross discusses what impact Iran could have on cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas. Deepa Shivaram, Brad Woodhouse and Marc Lotter join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable.

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If it's Tuesday, former President Trump's allies are urging him to get on message and on the trail,

0:08.0

calling on him to stop attacking Vice President Harris's race and start going after a record.

0:14.4

Plus Israel putting its military on high alert

0:17.5

as the country readies for retaliation from Iran and its proxies.

0:22.0

And as top U.S. and Arab officials prepared to hold a critical round of ceasefire talks over

0:26.9

the war in Gaza.

0:28.5

And abortion access now officially on the ballot in two more states,

0:33.6

including in battleground Arizona,

0:35.9

where border politics and the fight over reproductive rights

0:39.0

are set to converge in a state that could decide

0:42.3

who wins the White House and which party controls

0:44.9

Congress. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Gaye Gutierrez in Washington. As former

0:59.9

President Donald Trump takes his campaign to a familiar place with familiar

1:04.3

attack lines even as his own allies warn he needs to refocus his message against

1:09.2

Vice President Kamala Harris. Last night the the former president joined Elon Musk,

1:13.8

the billionaire owner of X, who has endorsed him,

1:16.8

for a lengthy informal and freewheeling conversation

1:20.2

on Trump's once favorite platform. After about 40 minutes of technical difficulties,

1:25.0

the conversation went on for more than two hours.

1:28.0

At times, more than a million people were tuned in.

1:31.0

As the Trump campaign aims to reach an audience that frequently

1:34.5

forgos traditional media, those listening heard talking points similar to

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