Meet the Press NOW — August 30

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump faces scrutiny from the right after calling Florida's six-week abortion ban "too short" and proposing government-backed funding of IVF. Mayor Van Johnson (D-Savannah, Ga.) discusses Vice President Harris’ bus tour in the battleground Georgia and her first formal interview since becoming the Democratic nominee. A vaccination campaign is set to begin in the Gaza Strip after the first case of polio was detected in 25 years. 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 Friday, former President Trump
0:04.5	on veils a surprise plan to pay for in vitro fertility
0:07.8	treatments, bucking some of his core supporters
0:10.8	just 67 days from the election.
0:13.6	Plus in her first major interview as a presidential candidate,
0:16.3	Vice President Harris pressed to clarify her positions on key issues.
0:20.6	She insists her values haven't changed even if her policies have and the world health
0:25.8	organization says Israel and Hamas have agreed to a temporary pause in fighting to vaccinate
0:31.1	more than 600,000 children in Gaza against polio with the
0:35.0	complicated mission set to begin this weekend. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker in Washington for weeks the Trump
0:53.3	campaign criticized Vice President Harris for avoiding reporters and
0:56.7	avoiding tough questions from the press but in the wake of Harris's first
1:00.8	major interview as a presidential candidate is former President Trump
1:04.7	who's facing intensifying scrutiny for an interview he did with NBC's Dasha Burns for
1:09.6	comments he made on the hot button issue of abortion and fertility treatments.
1:14.0	First, while speaking to NBC and then again at events in Michigan and Wisconsin,
1:18.2	Mr. Trump announced a proposal to have the government or insurance companies cover the cost of IVF treatments.
1:25.0	Under the Trump administration we are going to be paying for that treatment so we
1:30.9	are paying for that treatment or we're going all for all Americans that get it all Americans that need it
1:37.2	So we're going to be paying for that treatment or we're going to be mandating that the insurance company pay so either either the government will pay for it or the insurance companies will...
1:45.0	Under a mandate, yes.
1:47.0	We are government. Government is going to pay for it or we're going to get or mandate your insurance company to pay for it which is going to be great.
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