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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A growing number of Republican lawmakers are condemning former President Trump’s dinner with Ye and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Reid Wilson, Maria Teresa Kumar and Sarah Chamberlain join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss building criticism of the former president. COO of Georgia’s Secretary of State’s Office Gabe Sterling discusses record early voting turnout. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, discusses the latest on Ukraine, China and Iran. NBC News White House Correspondent Monica Alba reports on the administration’s strategy to avert a rail strike. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) lays out what she hopes to accomplish during the lame duck session. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, a rare moment for Republicans with a growing number now criticizing former President Trump for his dinner with a white supremacist,
0:09.9	what the public rebuke means for the former president and the future of his party.
0:14.6	Plus, President Biden meets with top leaders in Congress urging them to act fast to prevent a national rail strike,
0:20.6	warning of potentially
0:21.6	devastating economic consequences.
0:24.7	And making history, the Senate is poised to pass protections for same-sex and interracial
0:29.5	marriage at any moment as Congress is poised to codify marriage equality into federal
0:34.9	law for the first time.
0:48.7	No. equality into federal law for the first time. Welcome to meet the press now.
0:50.5	I'm Kristen Welker on a very busy day in Washington.
0:53.5	President Biden met with the top
0:55.1	four leaders in Congress this morning to discuss the lame duck agenda as the White House urges
1:00.3	legislative action to avoid a crippling railroad strike. Pelosi, Schumer, McCarthy, and McConnell
1:05.5	all expressed optimism that a bill to avert the strike will pass. We will have more on that
1:10.7	later in the hour, but we do want to begin with the strike will pass. We will have more on that later in the hour,
1:11.9	but we do want to begin with the intensifying and very rare public rebuke of former President Trump
1:16.6	by members of his own party, which is once again raising significant questions about the future of the GOP
1:22.7	and the former president's place in it. Over the last 24 hours, we have seen a growing number of
1:27.8	Republicans publicly criticized Mr. Trump's recent dinner with two controversial figures.
1:33.4	Yay, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has made a string of anti-Semitic remarks recently
1:38.5	and a known white supremacist, Nick Fuentes. Mr. Trump says he didn't know Mr. Fuentes'
1:43.6	reputation before the dinner
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