Meet the Press NOW — January 9

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump voluntarily appears in court in Washington, D.C. just six days ahead of the Iowa caucuses. The Pentagon reveals that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December. Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Sarah Chamberlain and Dan Merica join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and encourage the country to avoid harming civilians and their infrastructure in Gaza. After the Fire CEO Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the recovery efforts in Maui five months after major fires destroyed much of the island.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, former President Trump chooses the courtroom over the campaign trail
0:06.1	is the attention hearing in Washington, D.C. on presidential immunity while his primary
0:11.5	rivals hit the trail with just six days until Iowa.
0:15.0	Plus the Pentagon reveals a prostate cancer diagnosis is the reason behind
0:20.0	Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's mysterious stay in intensive care.
0:25.1	We're going to have the details on the Pentagon Chief's condition
0:27.8	and the growing questions surrounding the breakdown in the chain of command.
0:33.0	And salacious and serious allegations filed in court against Fulton County District Attorney
0:38.0	Fawney Willis claiming she had an improper romantic relationship with the top prosecutor in her sweeping election
0:45.1	racketeering case against former President Donald Trump. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Peter Alexander in Washington, just six days before the Iowa Republican
1:05.5	Caucus's, Ron DeSantis, Nicki Haley, Vivek Ramaswami.
1:09.6	They are all hitting the trail in the Hawkeyes state trying to turn every last
1:12.5	Iowan into a caucus goer.
1:15.0	But the race is front runner.
1:16.4	Donald Trump took a very different strategy today,
1:19.7	appearing voluntarily in a Washington DC federal courtroom.
1:24.0	Mr. Trump's lawyers are trying to get a federal appeals court to dismiss Special
1:27.5	Council Jack Smith's criminal charges tied to his efforts to overturn the
1:31.8	20 election.
1:33.6	In court today, the former president's attorney
1:35.6	argued that the Constitution gave him
1:38.4	sweeping legal protections and presidential immunity.
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