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🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Biden says he will try to push for gun reform legislation in the lame duck following multiple mass shootings. NBC News Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube sits down one-on-one with the former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. The Georgia Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Republican party to block early voting. Adrienne Elrod and Carlos Curbello join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the challenges Rep. Kevin McCarthy could face as Speaker of the House. NBC News Business and Data reporter Brian Cheung discusses the impact of inflation on Black Friday shopping and Dr. Kavita Patel breaks down the "tripledemic" threat.

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0:00.0	If it's Friday, communities across America are reeling from recent mass shootings.
0:06.1	As President Biden vows a renewed push on legislation to ban assault weapons, but he'll have to get it done before Republicans take over the House in January.
0:15.9	Plus, Ukraine's people wage a winter war for their own survival as Russian strikes cripple the country's energy grid.
0:23.1	NBC News sits down one-on-one with Ukraine's former president about what the war-torn nation needs to survive.
0:30.3	And soaring inflation collides with one of the most important days of the year for U.S. retailers,
0:35.3	as the Federal Reserve warns the U.S. might be headed
0:38.7	toward a recession next year.
0:53.2	Welcome to meet the press now.
0:54.9	I'm Kristen Welker on this day after Thanksgiving.
0:58.1	We begin with an issue that tragically keeps pushing its way to the front of the headlines, gun violence in America.
1:04.9	According to the gun violence archive, there have been 610 mass shootings this year in the United States.
1:12.5	That number was also higher than 600 in both 2020 and 2021 as well. After mass shootings this week at a nightclub in Colorado
1:18.9	Springs and a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, President Biden is again calling for federal
1:23.5	action on gun reform. Speaking to reporters outside a fire station on Antuckett on Thanksgiving,
1:29.1	he spoke about two potential reforms to help curb the violence.
1:33.7	Red flag laws, period, just based on knowledge, not on a parent saying or a loved one saying,
1:41.8	you should arrest this person now for his own sake.
1:45.0	It's ridiculous.
1:46.0	We got one of the first red flag laws in the state of Delaware and my son Beau was one forcian.
1:51.0	And it made a lot of difference.
1:53.0	It saved flies.
1:54.0	That's number one.
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