MTP NOW Aug. 30 — Biden addresses crime; Justice Department filing; Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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President Biden delivers remarks on crime in Wilkes-Barre. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is dead at 91. The Justice Department will file an official response to former President Trump’s request for a special master to oversee items collected from his Mar-a-Lago residence. Brad Todd, Nicholas Wu and Xochitl Hinojosa join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to break down Biden’s midterms messaging and the latest on Trump’s legal issues. U.N. inspectors are in Kyiv to assess the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb discusses Biden’s remarks and Democratic messaging on crime.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Peter Alexander. You were looking at President Biden there, finishing his remarks in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania on the issue of crime.
0:08.4	He sought to reframe the narrative on Democrats in crime, calling to fund the police, not to defund it.
0:14.8	He touted recent successes, including bipartisan gun legislation. And as you heard just seconds ago, he took aim at Republicans. My MAGA Republican
0:22.8	friends, he described them, invoking the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th and criticizing
0:28.3	those Republicans who have not denounced and condemned those attacks. He said, for God's sakes,
0:34.6	whose side are you on? He also criticized Republican attacks on the FBI following
0:38.9	its search of the president's home, the former president's home in Florida. We're going to talk a lot
0:43.3	more about President Biden's remarks in just a moment from now. But the bottom line here with
0:49.0	exactly 10 weeks until midterms and control of the Congress on the line, the White House is
0:53.1	signaling it is not holding back
0:54.5	on a new line of attacks on the GOP. President Biden speaking after his first midterm season rally
1:00.7	last week where he called elements of the hard right semi-fascism while speaking with a group
1:06.1	of donors. It comes as President Biden is ramping up his travel schedule. It's going to return
1:11.1	into Pennsylvania again later this week on Thursday. They'll deliver a primetime speech from
1:16.0	Philadelphia's Independence Hall, a White House official telling NBC News that that address will be
1:20.6	framed as a, quote, continued battle for the soul of the nation. A direct parallel, of course,
1:26.6	to his 2020 campaign kickoff in Philadelphia,
1:29.8	where then candidate Biden offered himself as a defender of democracy against President Trump.
1:35.6	Now with Mr. Trump not on the ballot himself in November, the White House is trying to tie Republicans
1:39.8	who are to Trump's ideology. The speech Thursday expected to invoke the fight for personal rights, likely an emphasis on the
1:48.0	ongoing abortion rights fight in the country, an issue that has already helped to galvanize
1:53.5	Democrats and grown that gap between Democrats and Republicans in this country.
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