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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump receives a letter informing him he is a target of the Special Counsel’s criminal investigation into interference with the 2020 election and the January 6th riots. His supporters, including Gov. DeSantis comes to his defense. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announces that she has filed charges against 16 people who signed paperwork falsely claiming that Trump had won the 2020 election as part of a scheme to overturn the results. According to officials, an American soldier who is being held in North Korea walked across the border “willfully.” Olivia Beavers, Eugene Robinson and Rick Tyler joins the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, we're following breaking news as former President Trump and 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner reveals he is a target of the special counsel's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
0:15.5	Plus, an American soldier is being detained in North Korea after U.S. officials say he willfully bolted across the
0:21.7	demilitarized zone and into the communist country without authorization. And Ron DeSantis meets the
0:29.7	press with a news conference in South Carolina as the presidential candidate tries to retool
0:35.0	his campaign and potentially seize on Trump's legal troubles.
0:50.7	Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where we're following breaking
0:55.1	news as the former president is once again bracing for another indictment and potential arrest.
1:00.4	This morning, Donald Trump publicly stated, and NBC News, federal law enforcement sources confirmed.
1:05.6	He is formally a target of the special counsel's criminal investigation into January 6th
1:10.6	in efforts to interfere with the 2020 election. The special counsel's criminal investigation into January 6th in efforts to interfere with the 2020
1:12.3	election. The special counsel's office informed Trump as part of a target letter on Sunday.
1:17.7	The former president says he's been given four days to report to the grand jury, which almost
1:22.2	always means an arrest and indictment. A spokesperson for the special counsel's office declined
1:26.9	to comment.
1:33.1	To be clear, we don't know when Mr. Trump could face charges or what exactly those charges might be. The former president accused the special counsel of trying to interfere with his current
1:38.1	presidential candidacy. And in a familiar move, Republicans on Capitol Hill today echoed those
1:43.6	attacks.
1:44.7	Here's House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
1:47.2	Well, I guess under a Biden administration of Biden, America, you'd expect this.
1:51.7	If you notice recently, President Trump went up in the polls and was actually surpassing President
1:57.0	Biden for re-election.
1:58.0	So what do they do now?
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