Meet the Press NOW — February 20
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Meet the Press Now. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Melanie Zanona in Washington, where the president is lashing out at the Supreme Court, |
| 0:17.9 | threatening to use his power to destroy economic rivals and vowing a global |
| 0:22.3 | tariff in response to the Supreme Court today dealing a serious blow to his signature economic |
| 0:27.1 | policy, striking down most of the tariffs that his administration has imposed. |
| 0:32.0 | The ruling raising many questions about what comes next for the White House's economic agenda |
| 0:36.7 | and also what happens |
| 0:38.0 | to the billions of dollars it is already collected from those tariffs, which are now determined to |
| 0:42.8 | be unconstitutional. Two of the president's Supreme Court picks, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, |
| 0:49.4 | joined the court's liberal justices in the historic six six three decision, ruling that the president exceeded |
| 0:55.1 | his authority and using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose those sweeping |
| 1:00.4 | tariffs on numerous countries. Chief Justice Roberts writing, quote, the framers gave Congress |
| 1:06.3 | alone the power to impose tariffs during peacetime. The president must point to clear congressional authorization to justify his extraordinary assertion |
| 1:15.2 | of that power. |
| 1:16.5 | He cannot. |
| 1:18.1 | President Trump calling the decision a disgrace while accusing the justices of caving to foreign |
| 1:23.7 | pressure in issuing this decision. |
| 1:26.9 | The Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing, and I'm ashamed of certain |
| 1:36.7 | members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for |
| 1:42.2 | our country. |
| 1:43.3 | It's my opinion that the court has |
| 1:45.0 | been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would |
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