MTP NOW July 11 — Biden under pressure; Patrick Gaspard; 2024 presidential race outlook

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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President Biden faces pressure from within his own party as he prepares for a trip to the Middle East, marking one year since pulling out of Afghanistan. Patrick Gaspard pushes back on polling showing most Democrats do not want Biden to run for re-election in 2024. Sahil Kapur and Vaughn Hillyard preview the upcoming January 6th hearings. Nicholas Wu, Sara Fagen and Xochitl Hinajosa discuss America’s leadership vacuum. Ali Arouzi reports on new strikes and civilian deaths in Ukraine. Dr. Kavita Patel explains what Americans need to know about the latest coronavirus variant.

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0:00.0	If it's Monday, summer blues, New Poland shows two-thirds of Democrats don't want President
0:07.8	Biden to run again, what the latest brutal survey means for the White House, ahead of
0:12.5	a controversial trip to the Middle East in just a moment.
0:16.2	Also, a former extremist group leader prepares to testify tomorrow, and another Trump ally
0:21.7	agrees to go public, but with a catch, everything we know about the next January 6th hearing,
0:27.2	ahead.
0:28.7	And later, COVID wave and worries.
0:31.6	We have new details about the Omicron sub variant that's gaining steam, as infectious disease
0:36.6	experts warn the country isn't doing enough to limit transmission.
0:44.1	Welcome to Meet the Press Now.
0:54.6	I'm Kristen Welker.
0:56.1	President Biden leaves tomorrow for a high stakes trip to the Middle East, foreign travel
1:00.1	that's fraught with political perils, including a meeting with Saudi crown prince Muhammad
1:04.8	Bin Salman, the alleged mastermind of Jamal Qashoggi's murder.
1:08.7	But the President will also leave the country with his own political standing, including
1:13.2	among Democrats in a state of serious peril.
1:16.7	According to New Polling from the New York Times in Sienna College, 64 percent of Democratic
1:21.7	voters now say they would prefer Mr. Biden isn't their nominee in 2024, and that number jumps
1:27.9	to a staggering 94 percent among Democrats under the age of 30.
1:32.8	Overall, the President's job approval right now stands at just 33 percent according
1:38.1	to this poll.
1:39.2	The President made no mention of the New Polling earlier today when he marked the passage
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