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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken responds to the protests in China and Iran. “We support what Iranians are asking for, demanding in the streets, which is … not to have this terrible repression that we’re seeing,” he told Andrea Mitchell. USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, Republican strategist Doug Heye and Navin Nayak, president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the midterms fallout and look ahead to 2024. Cherokee Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. talks about the campaign to seat a member of the Cherokee nation in Congress and efforts to preserve the Cherokee language.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday global unrest tests the White House. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sits down with NBC News amid powerful anti-government protests and crackdowns by authoritarian regimes in China and Iran.
0:18.0	Plus House Democrats make history electing a new, younger generation of leaders in Congress.
0:23.5	While at the White House, President Biden's plans have shifted to win, not if he'll announce
0:28.8	his reelection. And Georgia is on my mind. Voters are voting right now. But we're going to look
0:35.8	at why next week's center runoff is so important for Democrats
0:38.9	as the party looks to 2024.
0:54.0	Happy Wednesday and welcome to meet the press. Now I'm Chuck Todd, and we're going to begin with protests against authoritarian regimes in China and Iran.
1:01.7	And the mounting pressure on the White House to be a defender of democratic values in both nations.
1:07.7	In China, the Communist Party is facing the largest and most widespread protests since
1:11.7	1989. Those protests sparked by the country's strict zero-COVID policy have been intensified.
1:19.5	In the city of Wanzhou, protesters clashed with riot police overnight. Video shows some of the
1:24.6	officers taking handcuffed protesters to an unknown location.
1:29.0	Police have also been seen searching phones for pictures or messages or apps that might lead them to demonstrators.
1:35.9	In a statement late yesterday, China's Communist Party vowed to crack down on the infiltration and sabotage
1:41.4	activities of hostile forces, meaning they're trying to blame this on outsiders.
1:47.0	Meanwhile, the authoritarian regime in Iran is facing one of its biggest challenges since 1979.
1:52.8	Anti-government protests there have been going on for months in Iran following the death of a 22-year-old
1:57.9	woman in police custody. A yesterday's World Cup game in Qatar,
2:01.4	demonstrators held up pictures of the woman, Masa Amini.
2:04.5	The tournament is drawing renewed international attention
2:06.9	to the ongoing human rights protests in Iran,
2:09.6	and some members of Iran's national soccer team
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