MTP NOW Sept. 6 — Biden attacks MAGA; Judge OKs 'special master' in Trump case; UN nuclear report

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Biden continues to call out former President Trump and MAGA Republicans on the campaign trail with nine weeks until the midterm elections. Adrienne Elrod, Danny Diaz, Marianna Sotomayor join the Meet the Press roundtable to break down midterm momentum and Democratic MAGA messaging. The Justice Department is considering whether to appeal a decision by a federal judge to approve former President Trump’s request for a special master to oversee the evidence gathered from the FBI search at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The UN’s nuclear watchdog calls for protection around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. California faces massive heat waves, causing power outages and wildfires.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, the countdown to the midterms is on. Both President Biden and former President Trump are hitting the campaign trail, campaigning in key swing states and ramping up their rhetoric with just nine weeks to go until election day.
0:16.1	Plus, how will the Department of Justice respond after a judge grants the former president's request for an independent review of the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and what it means for the criminal investigation surrounding Mr. Trump?
0:30.3	And a historic heat wave is getting even worse out west.
0:34.3	Millions of people are dealing with record-breaking temperatures, fueling deadly wildfires,
0:38.9	and pushing the power grid to the brink.
0:53.2	Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker, and we are now in the home stretch of the midterms.
0:59.2	Labor Day weekend is the unofficial kickoff to the fall campaign season. Just nine weeks separate us from Election Day and knowing who will take power in Congress and state houses all around the country.
1:10.5	Control of both the U.S. House and
1:12.3	Senate are truly up for grabs. President Biden and former President Trump were both on the campaign trail
1:17.9	this weekend, stumping for candidates in key battlegrounds. It stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
1:22.7	yesterday. President Biden again called out the former president by name, casting him and extremists within the Republican Party as threats to the U.S. democracy.
1:33.9	It's clear which way the new MAGA Republicans are. They're extreme. And democracy is really at stake. You can't be a democracy when you support violence when you don't like the outcome
1:45.9	of election. Trump and the Magi Republicans made their choice. We can choose to build a better
1:50.5	America or we can continue down this sliding path of oblivion to where we don't want to go.
1:58.0	For his part, former President Trump made his first public appearance since the FBI searched
2:02.8	his Florida home. Mr. Trump attacked the FBI and Justice Department as vicious monsters and
2:08.7	through President Biden's words right back at him. Republicans in the MAGA movement are not the ones
2:16.7	trying to undermine our democracy.
2:20.3	We are the ones trying to save our democracy.
2:24.9	The danger to democracy comes from the radical left, not from the right.
2:32.4	Well, folks, this is the environment. Candidates and voters all around the nation will have to contend with over the right. Well, folks, this is the environment.
2:34.9	Candidates and voters all around the nation
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