Meet the Press NOW — July 26

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Hunter Biden’s plea deal falls apart in a Delaware court after the judge raised questions about the terms of the agreement. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared to freeze mid-press conference, but said he was okay after being escorted away Republican leaders. Marianna Sotomayor, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Pete Seat join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable as a new poll shows 69% of GOP voters say Trump is the strongest candidate to beat Biden. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill held a hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UAPs or UFOs, amid growing public interest about potential extraterrestrial life beyond Planet Earth. 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 Wednesday breaking news tied to Hunter Biden as a plea deal with federal prosecutors falls
0:07.9	apart in dramatic fashion at a courthouse in Delaware, with the Justice Department warning
0:14.0	that the president's son could face more criminal charges. Plus, as a third criminal indictment
0:20.0	looms for former President Donald Trump,
0:22.5	House Republicans are gearing up for a potential impeachment inquiry of their own into the current
0:27.1	president. There's also a potential government shutdown for the fall. And a former military
0:34.4	intelligence officer and UFO whistleblower testifies before Congress, under oath,
0:41.5	that the government has been concealing a decades-long program
0:44.4	and has actually retrieved alien spacecraft
0:48.8	and evidence of non-human pilots.
0:52.3	Under oath.
1:07.5	Music of non-human pilots under oath. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington,
1:09.0	where the White House is facing a renewed political and legal headache.
1:12.7	And it's all tied to the president's son, Hunter Biden. Today, in a dramatic series of events inside a Delaware courtroom, a federal plea deal between Hunter Biden and the Justice Department fell apart.
1:24.7	It came after prosecutors said that Hunter Biden could face additional
1:28.7	criminal charges beyond the two tax misdemeanors that were originally in the plea deal.
1:33.7	When Hunter Biden's lawyers heard that, they objected, at which point the government threatened
1:38.7	to pull the agreement entirely. And then what followed was a tangled mess of negotiations
1:43.9	and legal back and forth that ended with no plea deal,
1:48.4	Hunter Biden pleading not guilty to the charges for now, and widespread confusion about what exactly happens next,
1:54.8	legally for Hunter Biden and, of course, politically for the president.
1:58.7	The judge has now asked both sides to amend the deal to clarify her role
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