Meet the Press NOW — May 20
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Tuesday, President Trump hits Capitol Hill, telling Republican holdouts to get in line now behind a sweeping mega bill that contains his top priorities. |
| 0:12.3 | As House Republicans plan to hold a committee meeting tomorrow at one in the morning to try and get the bill over the finish line this week. |
| 0:19.9 | Plus, the Justice Department charges a Democratic Congresswoman from New Jersey |
| 0:23.7 | accusing her of assaulting two federal agents outside an ICE detention center, |
| 0:28.7 | and Democrats condemn the charges as baseless and political intimidation. |
| 0:33.5 | And Elon Musk says he's going to spend, quote, |
| 0:36.9 | a lot less money on politics going forward, |
| 0:39.8 | marking a major reversal for the world's richest man and prominent Trump supporter, |
| 0:44.7 | who was the single biggest donor in the 2024 election. |
| 1:01.3 | Thank you. Welcome to meet the press now. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm Aaron Gilchrist in Washington, where House Republican leadership today played their Trump card in the form of President Trump himself, hoping to get the conference to stop fighting and get a deal done on the president's sweeping tax and spending bill. And as of right now, the results of that play |
| 1:17.5 | are inconclusive. President Trump was met with enthusiastic applause when he entered the House |
| 1:22.9 | Republicans meeting earlier today, as you can see in this video shared by a member of Congress. |
| 1:27.9 | But he came with a stern message for the holdout factions of battleground moderates and |
| 1:33.5 | Freedom Caucus hardliners. Get this bill passed now. Here's what the president had to say on |
| 1:39.6 | the way out of the meeting. It was really a meeting of unity. We have tremendous unity. |
| 1:46.4 | There's a lot of love in the room. |
| 1:48.0 | I think we're going to have a big victory. |
| 1:49.8 | What's your office for Congress? |
| 1:51.7 | I think anybody that didn't support it as a Republican, |
| 1:58.1 | I would consider it to be a fool. |
| 2:00.3 | It's a great bill. It's a great bill for America, |
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