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Meet the Press NOW — May 15

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to face off against each other with debates in June and September. NBC News Justice and Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian discusses the opening statements in Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) bribery trial. Eugene Daniels, Meghan Hays and Bradd Todd join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. Capitol Hill Correspondent Ryan Nobles explains what Congress heard from federal officials investigating the March cargo ship collision into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

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0:00.0

If it's Monday, dead talks and border fallout.

0:04.4

The president prepares to meet with top congressional leaders ahead of a crucial June deadline

0:08.6

to avoid a government default.

0:10.6

As the administration breathes, a small sigh of relief at the southern border, days after

0:15.0

the end of pandemic era restrictions.

0:17.7

Plus breaking news, John Durham, the special counsel who's been investigating the origins

0:22.2

of the Trump Russia probe for more than two years now, has just released the findings

0:26.5

of his long-addicipated report.

0:28.7

We'll have the biggest takeaways and the latest reaction in fallout ahead.

0:33.4

And two congressional staffers have been hospitalized after being attacked this morning by an assailant

0:38.4

armed with a baseball bat at the district office of Virginia Democratic Congressman Jerry

0:42.9

Connolly.

0:43.9

Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

0:56.0

I'm Garrett Hake and for Kristen Welker.

0:58.4

Moments ago, special counsel John Durham released his long-addicipated Durham report,

1:03.2

officially closing the books on a two-plus-year investigation into the FBI and Robert Mueller's

1:08.5

probe into Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

1:12.7

Within the 300-plus-page report, Durham faults the FBI for even opening the probe in the

1:17.4

first place.

1:18.8

Our team is going through that report as we speak and will have more in just a minute.

1:22.7

But we begin today with one eye on Washington and the other on the southern border, as the

1:27.3

White House contends with two of its most pressing and enduring political issues, the

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