Meet the Press NOW — March 8

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kristen Welker recaps President Biden's State of the Union address. Former Gov. Pat McCrory (R-N.C.) joins to discuss the third-party presidential run from the group "No Labels." Israel's former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reacts to President Biden's comments about the war in Gaza. Jeff Mason, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Matt Gorman join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the state of the general election race. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Friday, President Biden swings into campaign mode, heading for battleground, Pennsylvania
0:06.6	and Georgia, following that fiery and combative State of the Union address.
0:12.3	Plus, all in the family, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law is installed atop the Republican
0:17.8	National Committee as the party throws its financial and political power behind a presumptive nominee who is saddled with
0:24.9	legal fees and enormous fines.
0:29.1	And President Biden bypasses Israel with his own humanitarian mission into Gaza as he pressures
0:35.2	Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more to address the humanitarian crisis facing
0:40.2	Palestinian civilians. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington where the
0:57.2	general election has begun with a bang. Fresh off last night's fiery
1:01.4	state of the Union address where he repeatedly went after the
1:04.5	presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
1:08.4	President Biden is now hitting the campaign trail.
1:10.7	He just arrived in battleground Pennsylvania ahead of a campaign event set to begin next hour
1:15.7	this will kick off a two-week travel blitz that will feature members of the
1:21.0	administration crisscrossing the country in what the campaign is calling a quote
1:25.5	month of action.
1:27.3	Tomorrow both Donald Trump and President Biden
1:29.6	will be on the ground in battleground Georgia.
1:32.4	The action on the trail comes after the president delivered a defiant state of the
1:36.4	Union as he sought to push back against critics and reassure Democrats that he's up
1:41.7	or for a grueling re-election fight amid
1:44.3	lagging poll numbers and concerns about his age. The president took the issue of
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