MTP NOW Sept. 22 – Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal, Protests erupt in Iran; Hurricane Fiona damage

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal joins Chuck Todd in a Meet the Press exclusive to discuss the state of war with Russia. Former President Trump faces a landslide of legal exposure. Brendan Buck, Doug Thornell and Lisa Desjardins join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the GOP’s desire to focus on the economy on the campaign trail. Protests in Iran continue in response to the death of a woman in morality police custody. Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi breaks down the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona on the island. 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 Thursday, Chuck's exclusive interview with Ukraine's prime minister as the U.S. and Russia face off in a United Nations meeting,
0:10.1	and President Zelensky delivers an emotional plea for more aid and more accountability.
0:16.0	Plus, an appeals court grants prosecutors access to key evidence in the criminal investigation into classified
0:21.7	documents seized at Mar-a-Lago as former President Trump comes under increasing pressure in federal,
0:27.8	state, and congressional investigations. And massive, deadly and historic anti-government protests
0:34.5	are growing in Iran after a young woman dies in the custody of the so-called
0:39.1	morality police. We've got a report from Tehran ahead.
1:00.4	Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in New York, where it has been another day of major developments at the United Nations with more heated and defiant rhetoric from Russia
1:05.5	and new nuclear saber rattling. As Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and other Western
1:10.6	diplomats demanded
1:11.8	accountability for Russia's actions. Today, here in New York, Chuck sat down for an exclusive
1:17.0	interview with Ukraine's prime minister to discuss the very latest developments in the war.
1:21.8	We will show you some of that interview at just a moment. But first, amid new threats from
1:26.2	Russia to use nuclear weapons to defend
1:28.4	its territory, Secretary of State Blinken called on every U.N. Security Council member to stand up to
1:34.3	Putin and send a, quote, clear message that Russia must stop the threats.
1:41.8	Rather than change course, however, President Putin has doubled down, choosing not to end the war, but to expand it, not to pull troops back, but to call 300,000 additional troops up.
1:57.0	Not to ease tensions, but to escalate them through the threat of nuclear weapons.
2:03.1	Not to work toward a diplomatic solution.
2:05.2	The very international order that we have gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes.
2:12.1	We cannot, we will not, allow President Putin to get away with it.
2:19.0	Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was not at the Security Council meeting during that speech.
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