Meet the Press NOW – March 14

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump returns to the courtroom as a Florida judge considers dismissing the charges against him for mishandling classified documents. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) offers his most scathing criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to date, calling for a “new election." NBC News Chief Political analyst Chuck Todd and Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor discuss President Biden’s campaign strategy amid criticism for his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Violence and turmoil continue to engulf Haiti as the country descends further into chaos amid a growing power vacuum in the Caribbean nation.

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0:00.0	If it's Thursday, former President Trump returns to the courtroom as a Florida judge
0:07.4	considers dismissing the charges against him for mishandling classified
0:11.4	documents in the Special Council's criminal trial.
0:15.0	Plus, Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, the nation's highest ranking elected Jewish official,
0:19.6	calls for new elections in Israel to effectively replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following
0:25.6	President Biden's rebuke of the Israeli government just days ago.
0:31.3	Plus Kamala Harris becomes the first sitting vice president to
0:33.9	publicly visit a clinic that provides abortion services as Democrats
0:38.1	double down on the issue of abortion and reproductive rights in the race
0:42.1	for the White House. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker. We begin in Florida.
0:58.0	We're just about an hour ago former President Donald Trump left a criminal courtroom. as a judge he appointed now considers
1:04.8	whether or not to dismiss the charges against him mishandling classified
1:08.7	documents. The former president's attorneys argue today the special counsel's entire classified documents case was invalid,
1:16.2	citing what they call the unconstitutional vagueness of the Presidential Records Act.
1:21.2	Lawyers for the Justice Department argued otherwise.
1:24.0	Judge A. Ling Cannon says she will rule promptly on the issue.
1:28.0	It was Mr. Trump's first time in a courtroom since becoming the presumptive Republican
1:32.2	presidential nominee.
1:33.4	And it comes amid new reporting by NBC News about how the Trump campaign is planning to use
1:38.6	his court dates for political gain.
1:41.2	An unprecedented task for a presidential candidate facing 88
1:44.8	criminal counts across four separate cases that strategy will be complex.
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