Meet the Press NOW – February 13

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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President Donald Trump says that Russia should be readmitted to the G7 after a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. NBC News White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul join Meet the Press NOW to report on President Trump’s negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war ahead of the Munich Security Conference. Ana Swanson, a trade and international economics reporter for the New York Times, discusses Trump's comments on imposing "reciprocal" tariffs for U.S. trade partners. NBC News White House Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard reports on Elon Musk's meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Peter Alexander here in Washington, where we expect Indian
0:14.6	Prime Minister Narendra Modi to arrive in the White House any moment now. The prime minister
0:19.2	will be meeting with President Trump before the two hold a news conference later this evening.
0:23.8	This meeting does come just hours after the president laid out his demands for U.S. trading partners while threatening new tariffs at levels the White House argues would level the playing field.
0:34.3	We are going to get to that in a moment and how it could impact you,
0:37.6	but we do want to begin with comments that the president made just a short time ago
0:41.7	inside the Oval Office, siding with Vladimir Putin just 24 hours before White House officials
0:46.4	were scheduled to meet with Ukraine's president about potential peace talks as we approach the
0:52.0	three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
0:55.2	Among other things, President Trump told the individuals with whom he was meeting.
1:01.5	He said the following. He said reporters needed to know that he trusts Putin.
1:05.7	He largely blames his predecessor, Joe Biden, for Ukraine's invasion of Ukraine, and he wants Russia back in the G7 global
1:12.3	working group, which they were booted from after invading Crimea in 2014.
1:20.6	I believe that's the reason the war started, because Biden went out and said that they could
1:25.2	join NATO, and he shouldn't have said that.
1:27.1	As soon as he said that, I said, you know what?
1:29.3	You're gonna have a war now, and I was right about that.
1:32.1	This is a war that would have never happened if I'm a president.
1:34.5	But you don't think it's-
1:35.5	President of President?
1:36.5	I think Biden's all, not President Putin.
1:37.7	I think Biden is incompetent.
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