Meet the Press NOW — December 7, 2023

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy spar during the fourth GOP primary debate. Noah Rothman and former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to debrief the debate and discuss the 2024 election. Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan Ayman Safadi says Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza is “not self-defense” and is “violating international law.” In Texas, a woman is granted an emergency abortion despite the state having some of the strictest laws in country. In Minnesota, the state’s capital will have an all-female city council under the age of 40. Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israel’s special envoy for combating antisemitism, discusses rising antisemitism as the first night of Hannukah begins.

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0:00.0	If it's Thursday Republican frontrunner Donald Trump emerges unscathed again from a fiery
0:10.8	primary debate night as the remaining rivals direct their fury at each other instead
0:15.8	in the countdown to Caucus Day. Plus fighting in southern Gaza's main city intensifies as NBC News learns new details
0:24.7	about the horrors of October 7th and the brutal gender-based violence committed by Hamas
0:30.8	two months after the terror attack.
0:35.0	And we're following the fallout and the implications of a major abortion
0:38.8	willing in Texas, where a pregnant woman just won an unprecedented emergency challenge against a state span. Welcome to Me to Me the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker in New York.
1:01.2	We begin with the race for the White House with the first primary
1:03.9	contest fast approaching. It was an action-packed debate night with Mickey
1:08.8	Haley's rivals attacking her like a front runner. Ron DeSantis delivering his most capable performance
1:14.6	of the campaign, and Chris Christie
1:17.0	at his most forceful and Vivek Ramaswami
1:19.7	mainstreaming white nationalist conspiracy theories.
1:23.5	It's all significant, but it's also significant
1:26.3	that with 40 days to Iowa, none of that changes the race.
1:30.5	Despite skipping every debate,
1:32.2	despite mounting legal obstacles and
1:34.2	authoritarian rhetoric, former President Trump remains on a glide path to the
1:38.8	nomination and with just one exception his rivals are still pulling their punches so the question is why
1:45.8	take a look at perhaps the most telling moment of the debate last night in exchange between
1:50.0	desantis and Christie on Trump's Fitness for Office.
1:55.0	Do you think he's mentally fit to be president?
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