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Meet the Press NOW — February 8

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Special counsel Robert Hur delivers his report on President Biden's handling of classified information. NBC News Chief Political Analyst Chuck Todd joins to offer his analysis of its political impacts. The Supreme Court hears arguments on a Colorado case to remove former president Trump from the presidential ballot. The Senate advances a foreign aid bill that excludes border provisions. The Meet the Press NOW panel discusses the ramifications of all three major stories.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker in Washington on a major day of

0:15.8

breaking news and legal cases tied to President Biden and his likely

0:20.0

challenger former President Donald Trump. Now we will get to the development

0:23.7

surrounding former President Trump in just a moment as the Supreme Court

0:27.8

today signaled its willingness to overturn Colorado's decision to bar him from the ballot. But we begin with that

0:34.6

bombshell report for President Biden whose findings could have major

0:38.2

political ramifications for his re-election campaign. This afternoon Robert Hurr, the Special Council

0:43.7

investigating President Biden's handling of classified documents, released

0:47.5

his final report and recommended no criminal charges against the president.

0:52.3

But in it he says President Biden quote criminal charges against the president.

0:52.7

But in it he says President Biden quote,

0:55.4

willfully retained classified documents

0:57.5

after his vice presidency, adding that the president's practices

1:00.8

quote, present serious risks to national security. The report

1:05.1

also includes a scathing analysis of Mr Biden's mental capacity saying that one of

1:10.2

the reasons they declined to bring charges was because, quote, at trial,

1:14.4

Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury

1:17.2

as he did during our interview of him

1:19.6

as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.

1:25.0

Now, the report goes even further,

1:27.0

saying that in his interview with the Special Counsel,

1:29.5

the President struggled to remember key details,

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