Meet the Press NOW — November 6

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump testifies in New York as part of a civil fraud trial. NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki breaks down new polling that shows Trump leading President Joe Biden in five battleground states. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps a diplomatic trip to the Middle East calling for a “humanitarian pause” as the Israel Defense Forces push into northern Gaza Strip. Tuesday’s Election Day could serve as a bellwether for voters’ stance on abortion rights ahead of the 2024 election cycle, NBC News Correspondent Gary Grumbach reports. Brendan Buck, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Symone Sanders-Townsend join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. UNICEF Spokesman Ricardo Pires joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

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0:00.0	If it's Monday, former President Trump takes the witness stand and lashes out,
0:06.5	attacking the court and the judge during his testimony as part of a civil fraud case
0:12.1	that could end up crippling his business empire.
0:15.0	Plus, a five-alarm political fire for the White House, just one year from election day.
0:21.0	As new polling has President Biden trailing former President Trump
0:24.6	across five critical battleground states that Biden won in 2020 and cannot
0:30.0	lose in 2024 and Israeli forces pushed deeper into Gaza, saying they've effectively
0:37.0	cut the besieged region in half amid new strikes and growing pressure from the US and
0:42.0	other nations for a humanitarian pause. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez reporting in Washington.
1:00.0	As new polling shows President Biden in dangerous territory, even though his likely
1:04.8	2024 rival Donald Trump took the witness stand in a historic civil fraud trial.
1:10.5	Former President Trump just wrapped up testifying in New York after spending five hours on the stand.
1:16.0	It's been a day of wild and a time seemingly uncontrolled testimony that's had him repeatedly insulting and clashing with the judge who will be deciding this case.
1:26.2	He spoke to reporters as he left the courtroom continuing his unsubstantiated and baseless
1:31.5	claims about the case. and baseless
1:34.0	and this is a case that should have never been brought
1:37.0	and it's a case that now should be dismissed.
1:39.0	Everything we did was absolutely right.
1:42.0	To think that we're being sued and spending all this time
1:44.7	and money and have people being killed all over the world that this country could
1:49.3	stop. With inflation and all of the other problems that this country has, I think it's a disgrace.
1:56.0	Moments later, we heard from Attorney General Titia James responding to the former President's comments and testimony.
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