Meet the Press NOW — December 12
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Thursday, Washington prepares to ring in a new era as President-elect Trump is named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, talking about his day-one priorities as challenges overseas threatened to overshadow his agenda at home. |
| 0:16.5 | Plus, new evidence against the suspect accused of murdering a top healthcare CEO. |
| 0:29.8 | As a top Democratic senator speaks out saying the explosion of public outrage should be a warning to the healthcare industry, the controversial comments ahead. |
| 0:39.4 | And demands for answers, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to know where the mysterious drones reportedly spotted flying across New Jersey are coming from. |
| 0:43.7 | Who's controlling them? And why, as national security concerns, mount. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington. It is full steam ahead for |
| 0:59.5 | President-elect Donald Trump and his agenda with just weeks until he's sworn into office for the |
| 1:04.5 | second time. This morning, Mr. Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, |
| 1:09.6 | flanked by members of his family and Vice President-elect Jady Vance, |
| 1:12.9 | after being named Time Magazine's Person of the Year |
| 1:16.1 | for a second time. |
| 1:17.9 | Time described Mr. Trump's political rebirth |
| 1:20.3 | as unparalleled in American history |
| 1:22.7 | and writing that he has re-made American politics. |
| 1:26.1 | In brief remarks this morning, the president-elect struck an optimistic tone for his incoming |
| 1:30.4 | administration. |
| 1:32.4 | I think we're going to have a tremendous run. |
| 1:34.4 | We have to straighten out some problems, some big problems in the world. |
| 1:38.3 | When we left, we didn't have any of these problems. |
| 1:40.7 | We didn't have Russia with Ukraine. |
| 1:42.3 | We didn't have Israel, October 7. We didn't have the with Ukraine. We didn't have Israel, October 7. We didn't have |
| 1:45.6 | the Afghanistan disaster. We didn't have inflation. We had no inflation. And we had a very strong |
| 1:51.6 | economy. And we're going to do that again. But I think we're going to even up it because now |
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