MTP NOW Dec. 2 — Trump’s campaign issues; November jobs report; Georgia Senate runoff election

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Matt Gorman, Doug Thornell and Anna Palmer join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss former President Trump’s campaign troubles. November jobs report reveals that the economy added 263,000 jobs last month. NBC News Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard sits down with the newly re-elected Gov. Brian Kemp. China eased some of its Covid restrictions in an apparent response to nationwide protests against them. The White House is pushing for South Carolina as the “first in the nation” primary for 2024.

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0:00.0	If it's Friday, failure to launch, 17 days after his presidential announcement, Donald Trump's political future is actually in doubt after another bad week for him legally and politically, amid growing backlash from all sides over the controversial company he continues to keep.
0:18.6	Plus, President Biden's hands say better than expected jobs report showing strong wage growth
0:22.5	despite persistent fears of an economic slowdown as the Fed tries to tame inflation without
0:27.8	triggering a recession.
0:30.3	And China's loosening grip on COVID, several major cities moved to lift harsh pandemic
0:35.1	restrictions after a wave of rare widespread protests that apparently
0:39.1	are working. What it means for the nation's zero COVID policy and the future of cheese
0:43.4	communist party.
0:57.9	Happy Friday and welcome to meet the press.
0:58.6	Now I'm Chuck Todd.
1:03.4	It has been, believe it or not, just 17 days since Donald Trump announced officially his 2024 presidential candidacy.
1:05.8	And in those 17 days, a lot has happened involving the former president.
1:09.9	None of it has been good for him or his
1:11.7	campaign. His most buzzworthy event of the last two and a half weeks was a dinner with outspoken anti-Semi
1:17.9	Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, and known white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Trump says he did not
1:25.3	know Mr. Fuentes' reputation before the dinner, but he
1:28.7	did know Kanye's. And since the dinner, Kanye has made even more hateful and ignorant comments,
1:34.9	including praising Hitler, which led to his suspension from Elon Musk and Twitter late yesterday.
1:41.3	While Trump has not yet condemned Kanye's anti-Semitism, one of his top allies,
1:46.0	Kevin McCarthy, told NBC yesterday that all Americans should be doing this.
1:51.1	They're disgusting.
1:52.9	Unbelievable.
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