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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Biden visits a UAW picket line in his battle for the working class. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is planning for procedural votes on four spending bills tonight. Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) discusses the likelihood of any of them having enough votes to pass. 18 of Senator Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) fellow Senate Democrats are calling on him to resign. A Capitol rioter was sentenced to serve just over four years in federal prison. 13,000 ethnic Armenians have fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan after warnings of ethnic cleansing in the region. 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, politics and picket lines, President Biden makes it a historic trip to
0:07.7	join striking auto workers in Battleground, Michigan as his party struggles to win over
0:12.5	working class voters on the economy just a day before his likely 2024 rival speaks
0:18.0	with workers outside Detroit.
0:20.6	Plus, deal-making or blame-shifting, House Speaker McCarthy suggests a meeting with the White
0:26.1	House as he struggles to unify his caucus around a plan that keeps the government open
0:30.8	without also costing him his job as Speaker.
0:34.9	And the floodgates have opened New Jersey's senior Senator Bob Mendes facing mounting
0:39.9	calls to resign from senators within his own party, days after those stunning allegations
0:44.6	of corruption and bribery.
0:58.4	Hello and welcome to Meet the Press now on Ryan Noble's reporting in Washington.
1:02.4	As President Biden hits the picket line in Battleground, Michigan, amid an escalating
1:07.3	auto worker strike and a struggling campaign that is failing to break through with the working
1:12.2	class voters.
1:13.5	The President joined UAW members in Wayne County, Michigan for a short but notable visit this
1:18.8	afternoon and route to a fundraiser in California.
1:22.2	The UAW strike against the big three automakers has now expanded to 38 locations as the union
1:28.6	seeks pay increases and a reduced work week, speaking from a bullhorn, Biden seemed to
1:33.8	avoid support for the worker's demands.
1:57.4	So Biden's visit comes a day before his likely 2024 rival, former President Trump,
2:17.2	is set to speak to auto workers near Detroit as he tries to cleave, rank and file support
2:21.6	from its leadership.
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