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MTP NOW June 8 — Rep. Clyburn, Gisele Fetterman, Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) talks about gun reform. Dasha Burns interviews Gisele Fetterman. Ian Bremmer talks down concerns over the Summit of the Americas. Yamiche Alcindor, NBC News Washington correspondent, Matt Gorman, Republican strategist, and Navin Nayak, president of CAP Action Fund, join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable after shooting victims testified before lawmakers.

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0:00.0

If it's Wednesday, the gun debate gets raw and emotional as lawmakers hear testimony from the parents of gun violence victims and an 11-year-old student who survived the Rob Elementary Massacre.

0:15.6

She had to cover herself in a classmate's blood and played dead to do that.

0:20.1

Plus, primary wins for the mainstream of both parties last night

0:23.2

as Democratic voters send another warning message to progressives.

0:27.1

We'll speak with a top Democrat about the party's path forward in just a moment.

0:30.9

Plus, Giselle Fetterman speaks to NBC about the stroke that nearly killed her husband.

0:36.0

The campaign's weeks of silence about his health

0:38.7

and win, the Democratic Senate nominee in Pennsylvania will get back on the campaign trip.

1:01.3

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Chuck Todd, and thanks for streaming with us today.

1:06.3

If it's Wednesday, we've got quite a bit of primary results from elections across seven states yesterday.

1:07.3

We're going to get there in a moment.

1:11.9

But for a second straight day, there was a raw and emotional and at times gut-wrenching calls for gun reforms here in Washington. In fact, we just thought it had to be moved

1:16.9

up and needed to see and hear some of these calls. The House Oversight Committee this morning heard

1:21.4

from people who've seen the carnage of gun violence up close, both in Avalde and Buffalo.

1:26.2

What you're about to hear is some of the recorded

1:28.4

testimony of 11-year-old Avalde shooting survivor Maya Sorillo about what she saw happen in her classroom

1:35.9

at Rob Elementary School. Take a listen. There's a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night and shot her in the head.

1:53.0

And then he shot some of my classmates and the whiteboard.

2:00.3

When I went to the backp, he shot my friend that was next to me,

2:07.1

and I thought he was going to come back to the room,

2:12.0

so I grabbed the blood and put it all on me.

2:16.8

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