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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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President Biden made the case for democracy and invoked the soldiers who fought in World War II during his speech in Pointe du Hoc, France. Naomi Biden, Hunter Biden's daughter, testified in her father's defense in his ongoing criminal gun trial. NBC News Senior Digital Politics Reporter Alex Seitz-Wald discusses his exclusive reporting that GOP-linked operatives are helping Independent presidential candidate Cornel West get on the ballot in North Carolina.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday, contrast of character, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey
0:06.1	Governor Chris Christie, and current North Dakota Governor Doug Burgham all launched their
0:10.0	presidential campaigns and all pitched primary voters to back them over Trump.
0:16.5	Plus the latest twists and turns in the special counsel's criminal probe into the former
0:20.1	president, including new grand jury testimony and signs that charging decisions could be
0:25.0	potentially coming any day now.
0:28.6	And smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanket the Northeast in a toxic case, triggering
0:34.9	air quality alerts for millions, ground stops at some of the busiest airports in the country
0:40.8	as forecasters try to figure out how long the smoke will stick around.
0:56.0	Welcome to Meet the Press.
0:58.0	Now I'm Chuck Todd reporting from a yes hazy Washington DC as the Republican presidential
1:03.4	primary is getting hot and yeah, a little smoky.
1:06.6	Over the last 24 hours, three new candidates have officially thrown their hats into the
1:09.6	ring, all making overt or covert contrast of character with the current fields frontrunner,
1:15.9	former President Donald Trump, including two of them who were some of the chief enablers
1:19.9	of some of Donald Trump's worst behaviors.
1:22.2	Last night former New Jersey governor Chris Christie took square aim at Mr. Trump when
1:25.3	he announced his candidacy at a town hall in New Hampshire calling Trump selfish and
1:29.4	his presidency a failure.
1:31.2	Take a listen.
1:32.2	A lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog is not a leader.
1:46.4	It's not amusing anymore, it's not entertaining anymore.
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