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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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All eyes are on Milwaukee as GOP candidates prepare to meet for the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election. Ron DeSantis surrogate Ken Cuccinelli and Nikki Haley surrogate Katon Dawson break down their candidates’ strategies. Wagner Group Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed in Russia. Former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell surrender in Georgia over 2020 election case. 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 Wednesday, it is debate night in America, the first one of the campaign season,
0:08.4	eight Republican presidential candidates, poised to face off in Battleground, Wisconsin,
0:13.5	and a chance to change the dynamic in the race against Frontrunner Donald Trump, who's
0:18.4	not showing up.
0:20.6	Plus NBC News confirms Trump's plans to surrender and land it tomorrow night, as more
0:25.3	the former president's 18 co-defendants are slowly but surely turning themselves in
0:30.4	today, including his attorney Rudy Giuliani.
0:35.2	And the breaking news we've been working on for the last couple of hours officials are
0:39.2	trying to confirm Russian state media claims that Yvgeny Progozion, the Wagner mercenary
0:46.9	chief who orchestrated an armed uprising against President Putin, has been killed in a reported
0:53.7	plane crash just outside of Moscow.
0:59.1	Hello there, welcome to Meet the Press now, I'm Chuck Todd in Washington, and what could
1:11.8	very well be the most consequential day of the Republican presidential primary so far,
1:16.5	one way or another.
1:18.6	With just a few hours until the first debate, this primary has been dominated by the former
1:22.4	president and an unwillingness by most top candidates to tackle him head on.
1:27.1	If the dynamic inside the Republican race for president is going to change, we're going
1:31.0	to start to find that out tonight.
1:33.0	And if it isn't going to change, we'll find that out tonight as well.
1:36.8	So it's consequential in either outcome and either scenario.
1:41.2	A few hours from now, we think we'll take the debate stage in Milwaukee where they will
1:45.8	have two hours to make their case to Republican primary voters and Trump voters.
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