MTP NOW Sept. 12 — Ukraine retakes land from Russia; New Hampshire primary preview

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Ukrainian military makes huge advances in their war against Russia. New Hampshire prepares for the final primary day of this election cycle. Doug Heye, Stephanie Schriock and Tia Mitchell join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers ask a federal judge to continue blocking the Department of Justice from reviewing documents seized in last month’s search at Mar-a-Lago. Queen Elizabeth II lies in state in Edinburgh as preparations continue for her funeral. A group of South Carolina Republicans take a stand against a state abortion ban.

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0:00.0	If it's Monday, Ukraine recaptures huge swaths of territory in a surprise offensive, sending
0:07.7	Russian forces fleeing in what could be a major turning point in the war.
0:13.1	Plus, former President Trump's legal team tries to show doubt about whether the documents
0:17.9	seized from Mara Lago really were classified, part of their latest effort
0:21.8	to keep the FBI from going through those documents found at his Florida home.
0:26.4	And amid the national battle over abortion bans, South Carolina Republican lawmakers
0:31.1	tried and failed to enact a near total ban.
0:34.7	I'll talk to one of the Republican lawmakers who broke ranks with his party on the
0:38.7	issue ahead. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker. At any moment, President Biden is expected to deliver an update on his administration's goals to fight cancer and effort dubbed the moonshot initiative. The president will deliver remarks from the JFK library in Boston on the 60th anniversary of Kennedy's famous moonshot speech. We will have much more on the president's
1:13.0	address coming up. But we do begin today with some really stunning developments out of Ukraine
1:17.8	as the nation's troops have recaptured large areas of occupied territory from Russia, breaking Putin's
1:24.6	stranglehold in the northeast and in the south.
1:34.6	Ukraine's top general says their armed forces have taken back more than 1,100 square miles since the beginning of September.
1:43.5	And by one assessment, Ukraine has taken back more territory in five days than Russian forces have captured in all of their operations since April.
1:48.0	While in Prague, Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, acknowledged Ukraine's recent gains while pledging continued U.S. assistance.
1:52.0	We see success in Kyrsson now.
1:54.9	We see some success in Kharkiv.
1:58.2	And so that's very, very encouraging. I think they have, they have great
2:03.0	capability. You're using it the right way. We'll stay engaged and make sure that we're giving
2:08.1	them what they need to be successful. This counteroffensive by Ukraine represents a potentially
2:14.6	major blow to Putin and Russia's military, six months into this war.
2:19.6	The Kremlin is trying to control the narrative with Russian state media saying what happened
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