Meet the Press NOW — December 13

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who served as lead counsel during the first impeachment trial of former President Trump, discusses the House Republicans’ plan to launch an impeachment inquiry on President Biden. Chuck Todd, Susan Page, Mo Elleithee and former Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) detail how it would affect our political system. Rabbi David Wolpe discusses antisemitism on school campuses.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday, Hunter Biden speaks out. The president's son defends his father outside the capital while defying a congressional subpoena to testify behind closed doors as House Republicans move forward with
0:14.8	votes to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden and hold Hunter in
0:19.0	contempt. Plus one of America's most politically potent issues will soon be at the center of another
0:25.2	Supreme Court showdown.
0:27.0	The High Court agrees to take up a high stakes abortion pill case that could decide the
0:31.8	fate of one of the nation's most widely used
0:34.0	abortion medications just months before the presidential election.
0:37.8	And in a rare rebuke President Biden warns Israeli Prime Minister Benjibn Netanyahu that he and his
0:44.6	government's military tactics must change as the humanitarian catastrophe in
0:49.9	Gaza grows more dire and calls for a ceasefire grow louder. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Garrett Hake in Washington, where the House is set to vote later
1:10.0	this evening to formally begin an impeachment inquiry into President
1:13.5	Biden. The vote comes as the central figure of that inquiry, Hunter Biden,
1:17.8	continues to defy a House Republican subpoena calling for him to sit for a
1:21.9	closed-door deposition. The President's son gave and
1:23.0	calling for him to sit for a closed door deposition.
1:24.0	The president's son gave rare public comments
1:26.0	on the hill, denying any wrongdoing by his father
1:30.0	and reiterating his offer to testify only at a public hearing. I'm here today to make
1:36.1	sure that the House Committee's illegitimate investigations of my family
1:40.1	do not proceed on distortions, manipulated evidence, and lies.
1:47.0	And I'm here today to acknowledge that I have made mistakes in my life and wasted opportunities and
1:56.6	privileges I was afforded.
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