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Meet the Press NOW — July 15

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

President Trump travels to battleground Pennsylvania to tout new investments in artificial intelligence while also trying to drum up support for his sweeping domestic agenda. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the Dignity Act, a new bipartisan legislation she co-sponsored with Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) that would allow some undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status. NBC News Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard is on the ground in Tucson, Arizona ahead of a special election primary to fill the seat of late Congressman Raúl Grijalva.

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If it's Tuesday, President Trump hits Battleground Pennsylvania, counting new investments in artificial intelligence,

0:09.3

as the White House and Congressional Republicans look to drum up support for Trump's sweeping domestic agenda.

0:16.3

Plus, the fight for the future of the Democratic Party, playing out in Arizona and New York City,

0:22.4

where voters are set to choose between younger candidates calling for generational change

0:27.3

and those with more experience and name ID.

0:30.8

And inside the renewed bipartisan push to pass an immigration reform bill,

0:36.8

that includes a path to temporary legal status

0:39.3

for some undocumented immigrants. The House Republican leading the charge will join me in studio.

0:59.3

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, and we begin in Pennsylvania, where President Trump

1:04.2

is speaking at a summit on AI and energy, as he seeks to tout a key provision in the sweeping

1:10.4

legislation congressional Republicans

1:12.3

delivered for him in a state that helped deliver him the White House. Here's a live look at that

1:18.4

summit in Pittsburgh where the president just formally announced a $90 billion investment in AI,

1:25.2

along with the energy needed to power it.

1:28.8

Today's commitments are ensuring that the future is going to be designed, built, and made right here in Pennsylvania and right here in Pittsburgh.

1:36.9

And I have to say right here in the United States of America.

1:40.9

The summit is one of the president's first opportunities to sell his so-called one big

1:45.9

beautiful bill, which was not viewed favorably, according to major polls, when it was signed

1:51.0

into law on July 4th. A fact, Democrats are hoping to capitalize on in next year's midterms,

1:57.0

as they focus on the bill's cuts to Medicaid and its benefits for wealthy households.

2:02.9

And now Republicans are looking for new ways to sell the legislation to voters.

2:07.6

With strategists telling NBC News, they're advising lawmakers to rebrand the bill as the Trump

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