Meet the Press NOW — March 28

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Trump and Republicans are concerned about the thin House majority ahead of special elections in Florida. NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki previews the races to fill seats in Florida’s 1st and 6th Congressional District. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss public reception of Trump's agenda. Iranian Journalist Masih Alinejad speaks about the murder-for-hire plot to kill her after the suspects were convicted in court.

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0:00.0	Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Christian Welker in Washington. That was the closing bell after another volatile day for Wall Street, spurred by uncertainty over President Trump's tariff agenda and some hotter than expected inflation data. All the major indices were down. The Dow fell more than 700 points. It comes as investors
0:38.9	gear up for another potentially bumpy week ahead, with the White House set to institute
0:43.6	new tariffs on auto companies and potentially sweeping reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners.
0:49.9	The economic anxiety is coming amid new signs of political anxiety at the White House,
0:55.0	as President Trump is openly questioning whether his party has the ability to win races on its home turf.
1:01.2	In the Oval Office today, the president directly said he pulled Congresswoman Elise
1:05.3	Stefani's nomination to be UN ambassador yesterday out of fear that Republicans could lose her house seat,
1:12.3	which Stefonic won by 24 points last November in a district that went for the president by 20 points.
1:20.9	She's very popular in her district, and I didn't want to take a chance.
1:24.5	We cannot take a chance.
1:25.6	We have a slim margin.
1:27.1	We don't want to take any chances. We don't want to experiment. And she polls like I do. We don't want to take any chances. And it's as simple as that. It's basic politics. It's politics 101. She's very popular. She's going to win. And somebody else will probably win too because we did very well there.
1:44.4	I did very well there, but the word probably is no good.
1:48.7	President Trump's choice to avoid a special election in a deep red district comes as Republicans
1:53.7	are sweating the margins in special elections in two Florida districts.
1:58.4	On Tuesday, both in seats vacated by Trump nominees, who won by more than 30 points last November.
2:06.1	Political reports in one of those districts, President Trump's own pollster found that the Democrat narrowly leading.
2:12.6	And the Democrats in both of those Florida districts have far outraised their Republican opponents.
2:17.7	That perhaps fueled the decision for the president to make last-minute
2:21.3	teletown hall appearances in both Florida districts just last night.
2:26.2	I love you and you love me and that's good.
2:29.1	But we're just a few days away from an all-important special election taking place
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