Meet the Press NOW – June 1

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) is barnstorming early states, facing new questions about his campaign's strength and strategy. Adm. John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the National Security Council, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s renewed push for his country to join NATO, and America’s response to the ongoing conflict. 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 Thursday, primary politics and probes, Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump hit the campaign trail in Iowa and New Hampshire,
0:09.1	as they both face a growing field of rivals and new questions about both their candidacies.
0:15.8	Plus the tale of the tape, NBC News has confirmed that special counsel Jack Smith now has audio of the former
0:22.5	president apparently admitting to keeping classified material after he left office in what could be
0:29.5	the key piece of evidence in this criminal probe. And Senate leaders are hoping to move at warp speed
0:35.9	after the House passed the deal to raise the debt limit that was brokered by President Biden and Speaker McCarthy.
0:42.1	There's still just days to go until a potential default.
1:11.4	Thank you. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting in Washington, where we are following a very busy day on the 2024 campaign trail. Frontrunner Donald Trump is in Iowa and facing new legal peril. And Ron DeSantis is in New Hampshire facing new questions about his campaign's strength and strategy. DeSantis is barnstorming early states, pitching primary
1:16.3	voters as the candidate to go up against what he calls the woke mind virus.
1:22.5	We will go into office recognizing that this woke mind virus represents a war on the truth. And so we must
1:31.3	wage a war on woke. We will fight the woke in the schools. We will fight the woke in the corporations.
1:37.3	We will fight the woke in the hot halls of Congress. We will never, ever surrender to the woke
1:42.5	mob. We've made the state of Florida, the place where woke goes to die as president.
1:47.5	We're going to leave woke in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
1:52.7	His trip to New Hampshire follows a two-day swing in Iowa, which is shaping up to be mission critical to the DeSantis campaign.
1:59.6	It may be extremely hard to see how DeSantis wins
2:02.1	the Republican nomination without winning the state of Iowa. And it's nearly impossible to see
2:07.3	how he wins it without winning Iowa. DeSantis has his work cutout for him in winning Iowa.
2:12.9	In addition to peeling away votes from Trump, he's going to have to contend with a still
2:16.0	growing Republican field. Three more candidates are throwing their hats into the ring next week, including former
2:21.0	vice president, Mike Pence. And Pence is a favor of true blue principal evangelical voters, a key
2:28.6	coalition for DeSantis in Iowa. And Iowa is where President Trump is today, making a two-day swing
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