Meet the Press NOW — September 5

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Hunter Biden prepares to enter a plea in his federal tax case. Senior National Spokesman for the Harris-Walz campaign Ian Sams sets the stakes for next week's debate and answers questions on Harris' economic plans. NBC News Correspondent Jesse Kirsch reports the latest on the shooting at a high school in Georgia.

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0:00.0	If it's Thursday, high drama in federal court as Hunter Biden prepares to plead
0:06.8	guilty in his federal tax case in a surprise move with the trial about to start.
0:11.3	Plus it's official the rules are set the mics the President Trump prepare for their first matchup on the big stage just five days
0:25.5	away and new disturbing revelations in the investigation into that deadly high
0:30.0	school shooting in Georgia yesterday that killed two students and two
0:33.7	teachers as the teenage suspect is charged with four counts of felony
0:37.7	murder. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker in Washington.
0:53.0	We begin with breaking news from the courtroom in Los Angeles
0:56.0	where Hunter Biden has been sworn in and is preparing to enter a guilty plea
1:00.0	in his federal tax trial.
1:01.0	It comes after a wild day of drama at the court as federal
1:04.6	prosecutors began the day expecting to begin jury selection in this case.
1:08.9	But just moments after the judge explained how jury selection would work,
1:13.4	Hunter Biden's lawyers unexpectedly announced
1:15.8	that he wanted to change his plea.
1:17.8	The plea he initially wanted to enter
1:20.1	didn't include an admission of guilt.
1:22.6	But the Special Counsel was adamant
1:24.4	that it would not accept that kind of a plea deal.
1:27.2	After some back and forth,
1:28.4	in a late afternoon recess,
1:30.1	Hunter Biden returned to the courtroom
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