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Meet the Press NOW — August 8

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump agrees to debate Vice President Kamala Harris and says his campaign strategy hasn't changed with her as the nominee. Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the Harris-Walz campaign and their platform. Authorities are questioning three suspects involved in foiled attack on Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. National Security Analyst Clint Watts discusses Ukraine’s surprise attack.

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0:00.0

Okay, welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Obles in Washington where you've been listening to Vice President Harris talking to union workers in Detroit.

0:08.0

She gave a tailored version of her stump speech as she stressed the importance of organized labor.

0:12.8

She's there with her running mate Tim Walls.

0:15.4

It comes as former President Trump tries to regain some of the spotlight

0:19.5

in the 2024 presidential race.

0:21.6

Trump holding a press conference this afternoon at

0:23.8

Maralago that went on for more than an hour and during that time Mr. Trump hit on

0:28.0

many of his favorite talking points including bragging and misrepresenting the size of the crowds at his events and

0:34.8

also spreading misinformation about the 2020 election results.

0:39.2

Former President Trump also announcing that he's agreed to three network debates with Vice President

0:44.4

Harris after weeks of waffling about where and when he'd commit to debate his new

0:49.2

opponent. He called Vice President Harris incompetent and appeared aggravated at times by her rise to the top of the ticket and the renewed level of enthusiasm by Democrats.

1:00.0

I haven't recalibrated strategy at all. It's the same policies, open borders,

1:05.9

weak on crime. She's I think she's worse than Biden because he got forced into the

1:11.2

position. She was there long before. She destroyed San Francisco.

1:14.6

And they say, oh, the enthusiasm's back. No, no, the enthusiasm is with me and the Republican

1:20.4

Party because they want to stop crime, they want to stop people from

1:24.0

pouring into our country, from places unknown and from countries unknown, from

1:28.8

countries that nobody ever heard of. That's where the enthusiasm... She's not doing any news

1:34.2

conference. You know why she's not doing? Because she can't do a news

1:36.7

conference. She doesn't know how to do a news conference. She's not

1:39.0

smart enough to do a news conference. Mr. Trump also saying that he felt sorry for his former... his We were given Joe Biden and now we're given somebody else and I think frankly I'd rather be running against to somebody else.

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