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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Party leaders are mired in legal trouble and questions about their fitness for office. A federal judge is sentencing the former chair of the Proud Boys for his role in the January 6th insurrection. The impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is underway in Austin, Texas. Voters in Utah and Rhode Island are at the ballot box for special House primary elections. 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, wake me up when September ends.
0:05.5	Congress returns to chaos with an impeachment threat, a potential government shutdown, mounting
0:10.5	leadership concerns, and the Trump trials, all looming over Washington.
0:15.6	Plus the sentencing trial for Proud Boys leader Enrique Tario is underway right now as he faces
0:20.7	what could be the longest prison sentence given to any January 6 defendants so far.
0:27.5	To detect his size political drama as local lawmakers begin their historic impeachment
0:31.5	trial to potentially remove Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican and longtime Trump
0:36.7	ally from office, over sweeping allegations of corruption and abuse of power.
0:53.8	Welcome to Meet the Press.
0:54.8	Tom Kristen-Welker in Washington, as we brace for a post-labor day stretch of political
0:59.2	chaos and uncertainty with party leaders mired in legal trouble and questions about their
1:03.8	fitness for office, beginning with the Republican frontrunner and de facto leader of the GOP
1:08.5	Donald Trump, who's preparing to face another arraignment tomorrow in racketeering charges
1:12.8	in Georgia.
1:14.2	Yet despite his legal issues, he is running away with the Republican presidential nomination.
1:19.0	Up 46 points on his closest competitor in a new Wall Street Journal poll, in a number
1:23.7	that is sure to speak a lot of Democrats, Mr. Trump is tied with President Biden in
1:27.6	a potential 2024 rematch.
1:30.0	Yesterday at a Labor Day event in Philadelphia, President Biden hinted at a potential shift
1:35.2	in political strategy as he touted his record while also taking direct aim at his likely
1:41.4	re-election rival.
1:43.8	We also passed the bipartisan infrastructure law.
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