Meet the Press NOW — March 20

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

House Republicans press on with their impeachment inquiry into President Biden despite mounting legal and political setbacks. NBC News Chief Political Analyst Chuck Todd dissects the Ohio’s GOP Senate primary results and how the Trump-backed candidate’s win may reflect the strength of the former president’s influence on the Republican party. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) talks about her IVF bill and says she may try to force a vote on the bill, if Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t bring it to the floor. NBC News Correspondent Garrett Haake highlights the largely unknown Trump adviser Susie Wiles, a longtime Florida political operative, and how she will play a key role in the former president's 2024 campaign.

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0:00.0	If it's Monday, former President Trump and the nation, bracing for a potential historic
0:05.7	indictment, Republicans in Congress rally around Mr. Trump as another witness testifies
0:10.8	before a New York grand jury.
0:13.1	Plus, Russia's Vladimir Putin and China Xi Jinping hold a wartime meeting in Moscow,
0:18.7	flaunting the alliance of America's two biggest adversaries as Beijing weighs deepening its
0:23.8	involvement in the war in Ukraine.
0:26.8	In global bags, the U.S. economy and the Fed all under pressure as UBS agrees to buy
0:31.8	Swiss banking giant credit suites in the latest move by banks and regulators to avert a full-blown
0:37.7	financial crisis.
0:42.1	Welcome to Meet the Press.
0:52.1	Now I'm Kristen Welker at the start of what could be a historic week in American politics.
0:57.5	As the country braces for former President Trump's potential indictment, which would mark the
1:01.9	first time in American history, a former U.S. President has ever faced criminal charges.
1:06.9	Mr. Trump set off a firestorm over the weekend when he claimed without evidence that he
1:11.2	was going to be arrested tomorrow in the Manhattan D.A.'s investigation into hush money payments.
1:16.8	He made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
1:19.7	That of course happened before the 2016 election.
1:22.2	The former president also called on his supporters to protest
1:25.6	a Trump spokesperson clarified he hasn't been notified of an arrest.
1:29.6	Still, indications are that an indictment could be imminent as the grand jury meets right now,
1:34.4	hearing from a witness at the request of Mr. Trump's legal team suggesting Trump's lawyers
1:39.3	are expecting charges. That witness is Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to Michael Cohen,
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