Meet the Press NOW — June 3

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Elon Musk slams the massive Republican bill for President Trump’s agenda, calling it a “disgusting abomination.” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announces the family of the suspect of the fiery terror attack in Boulder has been taken into custody. NBC News Correspondent Steve Kornacki outlines the primary elections coming up in June at the big board. New Jersey gubernatorial candidate and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop joins Meet The Press NOW to discuss his Democratic primary contest.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, the White House and Republican leadership respond to Elon Musk's new and brutal criticism of President Trump's sweeping big, beautiful bill, calling it, quote, a disgusting abomination, as some Republican senators threatened to hold up its passage.
0:18.7	Plus, disturbing new footage of the fiery terror attack in Boulder,
0:22.5	Colorado that injured 12 people, as DHS Secretary Kristy Noem announces that ICE agents are taking
0:28.8	the suspect's family into custody. And back-to-back deadly incidents at a controversial U.S.-backed
0:36.0	aid distribution site in Gaza, with dozens reportedly
0:40.3	killed as violence and chaos threaten emergency relief efforts amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. Welcome to Meet the Press Now.
0:59.7	I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where President Trump is facing some stunning new criticism of his mega bill from one of his closest confidants and largest campaign donors.
1:09.0	This afternoon, Elon Musk, just days after his big
1:12.8	oval office farewell, blasted the president's one big, beautiful bill, which recently passed
1:18.3	the House but is facing some Republican opposition in the Senate. Musk not holding back,
1:23.6	posting, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled
1:29.5	congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it. You know you
1:35.7	did wrong. You know it. It went on to say it will massively increase the already gigantic budget
1:42.1	deficit to $2.5 trillion and burden American citizens with
1:46.8	crushingly unsustainable debt. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt reacting in real time to
1:53.2	Musk's criticism from the briefing room, downplaying the influence of the world's richest man.
1:59.6	Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill.
2:03.1	It doesn't change the president's opinion.
2:04.6	This is one big, beautiful bill, and he's sticking to it.
2:08.4	Top congressional Republicans, though, were more forceful in their pushback.
2:12.6	Here's the reaction we just got from House Speaker Mike Johnson,
2:15.4	who worked for weeks to get the bill passed in the House,
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