Meet the Press NOW — August 26
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Monday, former President Trump hits the trail and hits Vice President Harris |
| 0:07.4 | over the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal as the campaign's |
| 0:11.7 | clash over rules for the upcoming debate with just 71 days to go. |
| 0:16.0 | Plus, a bipartisan task force tours the site of the assassination attempt on former President |
| 0:22.0 | Trump and vows to get to the bottom of how a shooter was able to come within inches of killing a former president. |
| 0:29.0 | And as Gaza ceasefire talks continue without a breakthrough, |
| 0:32.0 | Israel and Hezbollah |
| 0:33.4 | exchange heavy fire in one of the region's most intense escalations yet but a |
| 0:38.7 | wider war appears to have been averted for now. And welcome to meet the press now. |
| 0:44.0 | And welcome to meet the press now. I'm Aaron Gilchrist in Washington as the |
| 0:56.1 | Trump campaign searches for a way to blunt the Harris campaign's momentum. The |
| 1:00.9 | former president planning to hit multiple swing states this week starting in Michigan. |
| 1:05.4 | This afternoon he spoke to National Guard members there after laying a wreath at Arlington National |
| 1:10.1 | Cemetery on the third anniversary of the attack that killed 13 American service members |
| 1:14.7 | during the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
| 1:18.2 | The former president tying Vice President Harris directly to that withdrawal, both on social media and in today's remarks. |
| 1:25.0 | Cuz by Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the humiliation in Afghanistan, set off the collapse of American credibility |
| 1:36.1 | and respect all around the world. |
| 1:38.9 | In a statement today, Vice President Harris marking the anniversary by honoring the 13 service members calling it a |
| 1:44.4 | solemn day for the nation. |
| 1:46.5 | Meanwhile both campaigns clashing over the upcoming presidential debate as well. |
| 1:50.3 | The former president suggesting on social media that he might skip the debate |
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