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Meet the Press NOW — May 7

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3.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels took the stand in former President Trump’s New York hush money trial. Israel takes control over the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing as cease-fire negotiators resume talks in Cairo. Benjy Sarlin, Ameshia Cross and Brendan Buck join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. NBC News Reporter Matt Bodner discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s historic fifth inauguration. 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 Tuesday, Donald Trump's hail-mary motion for a mistry on his criminal

0:06.8

hush money case is denied as adult film star Stormy Daniels takes the stand

0:11.5

giving jurors lurid in graphic details of her alleged affair

0:15.4

with the former president and the hush money payments that followed.

0:19.7

Plus Israeli tanks are seen in southern Gaza as the IDF takes control of a key border crossing in

0:25.0

Ratha with ceasefire talks at a make or break moment.

0:29.4

And President Biden warns of a ferocious surge of anti-Semitism

0:33.6

as he delivers remarks at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony

0:36.4

on Capitol Hill, decrying the mass murder of Jews

0:39.5

and drawing parallels with Hamas's October 7th attack.

0:43.0

Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington on another dramatic day in

0:58.4

Donald Trump's hush money trial.

1:00.3

And Stormy Daniels, the recipient of the hush money payments at the heart of the case, took the stand.

1:05.0

Right now, the defense is cross-examining Daniels, with attorneys trying to depict her as vindictive,

1:10.0

and out to get Donald Trump.

1:12.0

The adult film actress has been testifying

1:14.8

for much of the day telling jurors in graphic detail about her alleged sexual

1:18.4

encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006. She also testified about the money she received to stay silent amid the

1:25.1

Trump campaign scrambled to protect their candidates image following the release of the

1:29.5

Axis Hollywood tape. The graphic nature of Danos' testimony led Mr. Trump's attorney to seek a mistrial

1:35.6

arguing that it was out of bounds and tainted the jury with lurid details

1:40.0

irrelevant to the case. The former president's lawyers pleaded with the judge,

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