If it's Tuesday, President Biden issues an urgent call to defend democracy at home in

abroad as he pushes world leaders to stand up to Putin and seems to retool his re-election

pitch.

Plus, a house divided, talks to averted government shutdown, hit a new roadblock, as House Speaker

McCarthy is forced to call off a key vote amid quarreling in his conference and with his

speakership on the line.

And politics and picket lines, thousands more auto workers could soon go on strike.

As White House officials stay on the sidelines and former President Trump plans an address

to union workers in Detroit instead of attending the next Republican presidential debate.

Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Garrett Hake reporting in Washington.

As President Biden tries to frame his presidency and his re-election campaign around the battle

for democracy at home in abroad.

With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, President Biden addressed world leaders

at the United Nations General Assembly in New York trying to rally UN members to stand

up to what he called Russia's naked aggression in Ukraine as he urged nations to meet the moment

and defend democracy in what he called an inflection point in world history.

We will defend democracy, our best tool to meet the challenge that we face around the

world.

And we're working to show how democracy can deliver in ways that matter to people's

lives.

Russia's price for peace is Ukraine's capitulation, Ukraine's territory, and Ukraine's children.

Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without

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