Meet the Press NOW — June 27

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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President Biden and former President Trump are heading to Atlanta for the first 2024 Presidential Debate. Kristen Welker talks to representatives from the Biden and Trump campaigns about what to expect tonight. Jen Psaki, Cornell Belcher, Hogan Gidley and Danielle Pletka join the Meet the Press NOW panel ahead of the debate. The Supreme Court issued decisions in two major cases, temporarily allowing emergency abortions in Idaho and blocking Purdue Pharma’s opioid settlement.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker. The stage is set in Atlanta for the first
0:16.0	2024 presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump. It is the earliest general election debate in modern history and
0:25.8	it's arguably the most critical moment in the campaign to date. President Biden
0:30.8	landed outside Atlanta just a short time ago for the big night.
0:34.4	President Trump is on his way there right now.
0:36.8	He heading into tonight, both sides have been unloading on their opponent.
0:41.5	The Biden campaign targeting former President Trump with what it
0:44.7	says is a seven-figure multimedia campaign including this video which highlights
0:50.0	comments from Mr. Trump's own advisors describing him as unfit for office.
0:55.7	Cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump.
0:58.2	We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.
1:07.0	We work with him, we knew him, this man is unfit to be president.
1:10.8	A second term would be more dangerous than a first.
1:13.5	Geejin Ping and Vladimir Putin, Kim John Nun.
1:16.2	They're fully prepared to take advantage of him.
1:18.6	Yes, I do regard him as a threat to democracy.
1:22.0	Now they've also told reporters to expect Mr. Biden tonight
1:25.2	to call his opponent a convicted felon. Well he has before and look if it looks
1:31.3	like a duck, walks like a duck quacksacks like a duck, it's a duck.
1:34.0	He's a convicted felon and that's just who he is.
1:36.6	And by the way, he's a twice impeached convicted fellow.
1:39.7	And so it wasn't Joe Biden that did that. It was 12 American patriots who served as
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