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Meet the Press NOW — June 18

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

President Biden announces new executive action to protect undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation. Former President Trump holds a campaign rally in Wisconsin days after calling Milwaukee a “horrible” city. The parents of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin join Meet the Press NOW to share their message to world leaders as they push for his release. Senate Republicans block an attempt by Democrats to pass legislation banning bump stocks.

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0:00.0

If it's Tuesday, a major move at the White House on a top issue for voters

0:06.5

as President Biden announces new executive actions that could shield half a

0:11.2

million undocumented immigrants from being deported.

0:14.7

Plus, former President Trump holding a campaign rally right now in battleground Wisconsin,

0:20.1

days after he reportedly called the state's biggest city

0:23.2

and the site of the upcoming Republican National Convention,

0:26.1

quote, horrible, and renewed fears of a widening war in the Middle East

0:31.4

as the White House sends an envoy to try to

0:34.4

ramp down the tensions on Israel's northern border with no signs of progress on a

0:39.6

ceasefire deal with Hamas. Welcome to meet the press now.

0:44.0

Gave Gutierrez and Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where moments ago

0:56.2

President Biden announced new executive actions that would shield nearly

0:59.9

half a million undocumented spouses of American citizens from deportation.

1:05.2

The move comes as the debate over immigration is top of mind for voters this election season.

1:10.2

President Biden announced the actions at a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of DACA,

1:15.6

the Obama-era policy that gives undocumented young immigrants brought to the U.S. by their families

1:21.1

permanent legal status. Here's some of what the president had to say.

1:26.0

Second action I'm announcing today was about keeping families together. My dad used

1:30.8

to have an expression. You see Joey, family is about the beginning, middle, and the end.

1:36.0

About keeping couples together who are married.

1:38.8

Where one spouse is a US citizen, the other is undocumented.

1:41.9

They've been living in the United States for at

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