Meet the Press NOW — October 18

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the home stretch of the campaign season, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander and NBC News Correspondent Garrett Haake join Meet the Press NOW to report on the latest developments from the campaign trail. NBC News Correspondents Trymaine Lee and Yasmin Vossoughian talk about what they’re hearing from key voting constituencies. Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) discusses how the death of Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7th attacks on Israel, will impact a potential ceasefire agreement.

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0:00.0	If it's Friday it all comes down to this, the race could not be tighter as Vice President
0:07.8	Harris and former President Trump hit the trail in critical battleground Michigan, with both campaigns unloading on each other.
0:15.2	Plus in the wake of the death of Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar Israeli Prime Minister
0:19.8	Benjamin Netanyahu says his country's war with Hamas is not over.
0:24.6	Despite renewed pressure from President Biden,
0:26.9	that it's time for Israel to move on.
0:29.8	And a federal judge unseals more than 1800 pages of evidence in Special Council Jack
0:34.4	Smith's election interference case against the former president, despite Trump's lawyers urging
0:40.2	the court to wait until after the election. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington as Vice President
0:58.0	Harris and former President Trump ratchet up attacks on each other with polls showing a tightening race with just two and a half
1:05.6	weeks until election day. Today both candidates hitting the trail in battleground
1:09.7	Michigan, the Vice President speaking in Grand Rapids last hour, while former President Trump will return to Detroit, a city he criticized while rallying there last week.
1:19.0	Our own Peter Alexander spoke to the Vice President just moments ago at that Grand Rapids event.
1:24.6	We will talk to him and we'll hear some of that conversation in just a moment.
1:28.3	But today's trip comes as the vice president court support from across the political and demographic spectrum, reaching out
1:34.8	to disaffected Republicans, black voters, and today launching an ad campaign targeting men
1:40.3	on sports and gaming sites.
1:42.2	It also comes as she seeks to paint Mr. Trump as dangerous
1:45.5	to the country, seizing on his comments calling those who oppose him the enemy within.
1:52.3	Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails, right?
1:58.0	He who has vowed if re-elected he will be a dictator on day one.
2:03.0	Someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution of the United States
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