Meet the Press NOW — July 2
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Tuesday, President Biden in full damage control as he battles intensifying concerns about his fitness for office, amid new calls for him to withdraw and growing Democratic panic about stopping a newly emboldened |
| 0:15.6 | Donald Trump in November. Plus the former president and his lawyers seize on the Supreme |
| 0:21.2 | Court's expansive view of presidential immunity as the judge in his criminal |
| 0:25.5 | hush money case agrees to delay his sentencing until September to hear arguments about |
| 0:31.0 | potentially throwing out his conviction. |
| 0:33.6 | And fueled by warming waters and rapid intensification, |
| 0:37.5 | Hurricane barrel churns in the Caribbean and heads towards Jamaica |
| 0:41.6 | as a powerful category four storm. |
| 0:44.4 | It is the earliest major hurricane ever |
| 0:47.2 | to form in the Atlantic. Hi there, welcome to meet the press now, I'm Ryan Nobles in Washington. |
| 1:02.8 | And the first Democratic lawmaker is now publicly calling |
| 1:06.6 | on President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. |
| 1:09.8 | As the Biden campaign faces growing pressure |
| 1:12.2 | and criticism following that disastrous debate |
| 1:14.8 | performance last week, and as a Supreme Court ruling has intensified fears about the states |
| 1:20.0 | this November. |
| 1:21.4 | This afternoon, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, who's known on Capitol Hill as an ardent |
| 1:25.4 | Biden supporter, certainly not a flamethrower, put out a statement saying the |
| 1:29.2 | president has failed to reassure voters that he can beat Trump. |
| 1:33.6 | Congressman Doggin also cited yesterday's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity |
| 1:38.6 | saying he believes that Trump victory could usher America into a quote dark authoritarian era. |
| 1:45.5 | Doggett writes in part, President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in |
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