Meet the Press NOW — June 22
Meet the Press
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3.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Thursday, abortion in America, one year after the Supreme Court ruling that took away the right to abortion in this country, |
| 0:08.2 | we have brand new NBC poll numbers showing what voters think about that decision and what it means for the future of American politics. |
| 0:14.8 | Put it this way. It's not aging one. Plus, the White House rolls out the red carpet for India Prime Minister Modi, |
| 0:21.2 | aiming to tighten ties with India in an effort to contain China, |
| 0:24.4 | despite deep concerns about Modi's own commitment to basic democratic principles and human rights. |
| 0:31.5 | And catastrophic loss, the Coast Guard says the five people aboard a missing deep sea vessel that was touring the Titanic are now presumed dead. |
| 0:41.3 | After debris from the submersible was discovered in the search the Press Now. I am Chuck Todd reporting from Washington. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, we've got some brand new, breaking, polling news on one of the most pressing issues facing our country right now, abortion rights. |
| 1:09.6 | Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, |
| 1:14.5 | 61% of voters say they disapprove of the Dobbs decision last year, which ruled there was not a |
| 1:21.4 | constitutional right to abortion and left the legality of abortion up to individual states. |
| 1:27.0 | 36% of folks approve of this decision. |
| 1:30.6 | So who's in that 61% who disapprove of the Dobbs decision? |
| 1:34.8 | 80% of those folks are female voters from ages 18 to 49. |
| 1:40.5 | Two-thirds are suburban women. |
| 1:42.2 | 60% of independence and even a third of Republican voters. |
| 1:45.7 | So another way to look at this is for all the talk about how divided we are as a country, |
| 1:49.2 | this issue, we're actually not that divided. There is a level of consensus because it is across |
| 1:54.3 | the political divide. Anytime you get over 60% on anything in this country, that's closer |
| 1:58.4 | to being consensus than divided. Also in these brand new |
| 2:01.8 | NBC News poll numbers, 53% of voters say that abortion is too difficult to access across the country, |
| 2:08.8 | even though a plurality, 43% say that the state they live in has struck the right balance, |
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