MTP NOW Oct. 14 – Senate battleground roundup; Trump’s response to Jan. 6 committee subpoena
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🗓️ 14 October 2022
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Friday, we are shaking up the Senate map. |
| 0:05.9 | With 25 days ago, both parties are hitting roadblocks in some key races, |
| 0:10.1 | and now are hoping that moving money could move voters had momentum in their favor. |
| 0:15.6 | Plus, former President Trump issues a rambling response to the January 6th committee's vote to subpoena, |
| 0:20.6 | him a lengthy letter filled with lies, conspiracy theories. and Trump issues a rambling response to the January 6th committee's vote to subpoena him, |
| 0:28.2 | a lengthy letter filled with lies, conspiracy theories, all sorts of stuff, but no actual response to the question at hand to subpoena. And Russia's red lines. NBC News's exclusive interview |
| 0:35.8 | with one of Putin's closest allies, the president of Belarus, |
| 0:39.6 | who's warning the West not to push Putin too far. |
| 0:57.3 | Happy Friday, everybody. |
| 0:58.9 | Welcome to Meet the Press Now. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm Chuck Todd. |
| 1:01.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:05.0 | More than a million Americans have already voted in the November midterm. |
| 1:08.3 | So a million down, 120 million more votes to go, right? |
| 1:11.4 | And right now, both parties are trying to figure out which of those voters to target as they try to keep the battleground map from shrinking and keep as many paths as |
| 1:16.4 | possible to winning a Senate majority. For Republicans, flipping the Georgia Senate seat is looking |
| 1:21.3 | increasingly more difficult. After accusations that Republican candidate Hershal Walker paid for an |
| 1:25.7 | abortion for an ex-girlfriend, despite campaigning on severely limiting the procedure. |
| 1:30.8 | Walker has denied those allegations. |
| 1:33.2 | So Republicans are now looking more closely at Arizona again as a possible path to the majority. |
| 1:38.1 | The Washington Post reports that Republican mega donor and Blake Masters' sort of mentor, Peter Thiel, does plan on spending more money, |
| 1:46.3 | at least $5 million in Arizona to help Masters after he had said he wasn't going to do that. |
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