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Meet the Press NOW — May 26

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Authorities respond after a car drove into a crowd of people during a parade in Liverpool, England. President Trump marks Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery as he lashes out at President Vladimir Putin for Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine. NBC News Correspondent Shaq Brewster examines how police departments across the country have changed 5 years since the murder of George Floyd.

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0:00.0

If it's Monday, a major shift in tone from President Trump, lashing out at Russian President Putin saying he's gone, quote, absolutely crazy after Moscow launched massive deadly strikes across Ukraine this weekend.

0:15.8

Plus, another tariff turnaround. President Trump announces he will delay his 50% tariff on the European Union

0:21.9

and says his tariffs are about encouraging American-made tanks and technology, not textiles,

0:28.8

despite the current policy. And on this Memorial Day, the nation honors America's fallen

0:34.2

and commemorates those who serve with ceremonies and memorials across the country.

0:50.8

Hello and welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Nobles. We're going to begin today with breaking news in Liverpool, England, where a car drove into a crowd of people lining the streets for a soccer celebration.

1:03.2

Police are describing it as a major incident. Thousands of people were gathered to celebrate the Liverpool football team's English Premier League victory.

1:11.7

You can see there is a heavy emergency presence and debris littering the road.

1:17.3

Now, we do have video of the moment of the incident.

1:20.2

This from a witness who appears to be in a building overlooking the scene.

1:23.8

We do want to warn you, though, the video, which we've blurred to obscure bodies, is graphic and extremely disturbing.

1:31.5

It isn't clear yet how many people were injured or killed, but police say the car stopped at the scene and that a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area has been arrested.

1:43.8

Joining me now is NBC News international correspondent Molly Hunter in London.

1:48.3

Molly, this is horrific, obviously, so much that we don't know yet.

1:53.4

What do we know, though, at this point about this incident?

1:57.9

Ryan, so much we don't know in that video that you just showed is incredibly disturbing.

2:02.2

And you can bet that police will be watching that, of course, trying to get any clues as to what exactly happened, what that driver might have been thinking.

2:10.0

What we do know from police is at around 6 p.m. that incident that you just showed our audience happened.

2:15.1

So about three hours ago here, local time.

2:19.5

Emergency services were called immediately. And you can see from the video that you just showed our audience happened. So about three hours ago here, local time, emergency services were called immediately.

2:21.6

And you can see from the video that you currently see.

2:24.3

It's about 9 o'clock right now here in the UK.

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