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3.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Matthew McConaughey makes an impassioned appearance at the White House press room. Symone Sanders, Stephen Hayes and Leigh Ann Caldwell join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the inaction over gun regulation legislation. Ryan J. Reilly reports on Proud Boys who have been charged with seditious conspiracy.

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0:00.0

If it's Tuesday, voters are voting, and they're not happy.

0:06.1

We've got some new numbers suggesting America is in the depths of a political depression

0:10.1

as seven more states hold their midterm primaries tonight.

0:14.2

What you need to know, why it matters in just a moment.

0:17.3

Plus, President Biden meets with the Senate's top gun reform negotiator on the Democratic side

0:21.8

as actor and Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey urges action from the White House podium

0:27.9

in an extraordinarily compelling appearance.

0:32.1

And mass-shooting survivors and victims' family members head and speak on Capitol Hill.

0:38.5

And members of the proud boys charged with seditious conspiracy what it means for this far-right

0:43.5

extremist group and for extremism in America, a year and a half after the Capitol insurrection.

0:48.8

The United States. Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

1:04.4

And thanks for streaming with us.

1:06.4

As we say around here, if it's Tuesday, voters are voting somewhere.

1:10.1

And today that somewhere is a group

1:11.2

of seven states from coast to coast, New Jersey to California, plus Mississippi, Montana,

1:16.8

New Mexico, and Iowa and South Dakota. And the one with the most races we're watching, the closest,

1:23.7

is our friends in California. What happens in California tonight could give us some clues about the

1:28.0

directions of both parties, including how voters in the nation's most progressive state are feeling

1:32.8

these days about issues like crime, homelessness, and inflation in two of its biggest cities.

1:39.0

But whether voters across the country make their voices heard tonight at the ballot box

1:42.3

or whether they're send an even more

1:44.4

powerful message by staying home, we have some flashing red sirens to start the show with today.

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