September 10 — Chuck Todd’s final show with Sen. Bill Cassidy and Gov. Gavin Newsom

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🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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After nine years and more than 430 broadcasts, Chuck Todd has his final show as Meet the Press moderator and passes the baton to Kristen Welker. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) joins for an exclusive interview amid concerns about Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) health. Plus, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) exclusively joins and puts any speculation about a 2024 presidential bid to rest.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, future of the party.
0:04.5	If I win, and somebody wants to run against me,
0:08.3	I call my attorney general, I say, listen, indict him.
0:11.9	The Republican Party is at a crossroads.
0:14.4	Will we be the party of conservators?
0:18.5	Or will we follow the siren song of populism
0:22.7	unmoored to conservative principles?
0:25.5	Will the GOP back Donald Trump's return to power
0:28.2	or find a new path forward?
0:29.9	I'll talk to Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana,
0:33.0	one of the seven Republicans who voted to convict Donald Trump.
0:36.7	Plus, backing Biden, my wide-ranging interview
0:39.5	with California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.
0:42.6	Why do you think only 24 percent of Americans
0:45.4	want to see Biden run against him?
0:46.9	To me, the polls mean nothing until we get out there
0:49.0	and we make our case.
0:50.1	His thoughts on this party, the 2024 election
0:53.0	and his own presidential ambitions.
0:55.0	I think we need to move past this notion
0:57.4	and he's not going to run.
0:58.9	President Biden is going to run.
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