Meet the Press NOW — July 17
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Monday, the DeSantis campaign is burning through cash, laying off staff and struggling |
| 0:06.8 | in the polls as the Florida Governor and presidential candidate tries to hit the reset button. |
| 0:13.1 | Plus scorched earth and flash floods, the record heat wave baking the Southwest is set to |
| 0:18.6 | expand as Pennsylvania authorities search for two missing children's swept away amid |
| 0:24.1 | a torrential rainstorm. |
| 0:26.8 | The Democrats divisions over Israel, as the party's top progressive apologizes after calling |
| 0:32.6 | Israel a racist state just days before their president is set to address Congress. |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome to Meet the Press. |
| 0:50.8 | Now I'm Kristen Welker reporting in Washington. |
| 0:53.3 | We're tracking new troubles for the DeSantis campaign of all the potential roadblocks facing |
| 0:58.2 | the GOP candidate. |
| 0:59.6 | Money wasn't supposed to be one of them, but a staff shake up and a new NBC News analysis of |
| 1:04.3 | its fundraising operations are both raising serious questions about the campaign's solvency. |
| 1:09.5 | DeSantis has touted the $20 million he raised last quarter, but more than that two-thirds of |
| 1:15.6 | the cash came from donors who gave the legal maximum, which means they're tapped out. |
| 1:20.2 | They can't donate again, and the campaign is struggling with the other big source of cash, |
| 1:25.0 | small-dollar donors. Only 14% came from donations of $200 or less. |
| 1:30.8 | Meanwhile, the campaign has been burning through cash spending millions of dollars. |
| 1:35.2 | Without much to show for it in the polls, as the field's frontman, our Donald Trump, |
| 1:39.7 | keeps attacking DeSantis on the trail. |
| 1:43.4 | DeSantis is an establishment handler who is wasting such precious time and resources to divide |
| 1:49.6 | the party, they're dividing the party. Although he's dropping so quickly, he's probably not going to |
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