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WATCH: Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) says majority of GOP "paralyzed with fear"
@RepJasonCrow
: "I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues. ... A couple of them broke down in tears ... saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment."
WATCH: Mayor Pete Buttigieg says "America is a capitalist society" but it's got to be "democratic capitalism."
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@PeteButtigieg
: "If you want to see what happens when you have capitalism without democracy, you can see it very clearly in Russia."
WATCH:
@SenRonJohnson
is asked why he winced & brings up a "conspiracy theory."
@chucktodd
: "I have no idea why we're going here. ... Can we please answer the question I asked you instead of trying to make Donald Trump feel better here that you're not criticizing him?"
#MTP
WATCH: Barack Obama: "I want to speak directly to the young men and women of color in this country."
Obama: "I want you to know that you matter. I want you to know that your lives matter. That your dreams matter."
WATCH: The president held a campaign rally last night and attacked Hunter Biden. We cannot in good conscience show it to you
@chucktodd
: "Politics ain’t beanbag, but it isn’t supposed to be this either. We all need to play a role in not rewarding this kind of politics"
.
@chucktodd
asks: How could you say Trump is a free-market conservative as he issues tariffs?
@DavidMMcintosh
: "What we like about President Trump's vision on trade is his goal of 0-0 tariffs. ... These tariffs are his way of forcing China to come to the table."
#MTP
WATCH: Eddie Glaude Jr. says White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney can't "acknowledge" that shootings in El Paso and Dayton are domestic terrorism because of the shooters' race.
@esglaude
: "I can give less than a damn what Mick Mulvaeny thinks about what I say."
WATCH: Club for Growth president David McIntosh defends his organization's support for President Trump despite the trade war with China.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@DavidMMcintosh
: "The tariffs are attacks on the American people."
EXCLUSIVE: Former U.S. Dep Attorney Gen Sally Yates says, "I've personally prosecuted obstruction (of justice) cases on far, far less evidence than this"
@SallyQYates
: "If he were not the president of the united states, he would likely be indicted on obstruction"
Ocasio-Cortez's comparison of ICE detentions to concentration camps did border detainees "a tremendous disservice"
#MTPDaily
"She said she didn't use those words lightly," Chuck Todd said. "Well, neither did I."
WATCH: Trump announces a “hold” on money going to the WHO, calls them “China centric.”
“They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier ... they should have known. And they probably did know.”
REMEMBERING JOHN McCAIN:
@SenJohnMcCain
(R-Ariz.) had the most appearances of any guest on Meet the Press, appearing 73 times over the course of his political career. McCain died this evening at the age of 81.
EXCLUSIVE:
@AOC
calls out supporters of the filibuster: "Why defend a 60-vote filibuster?”
#MTP
Ocasio-Cortez: "Political systems all across the world pass legislations with majorities and they're fine."
WATCH: Heather McGhee says that the difference in attitude over climate change policy is a question of “urgency”
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@hmcghee
: “We can’t say ‘it’s too aspirational.’ It’s the planet.”
WATCH:
@RepAdamSchiff
: "Look at the president's tweets about me today saying I should pay a price.."
@chucktodd
: "Do you take that as a threat?"
@RepAdamSchiff
: "I think it is intended to be."
NEW: President of the American Federation of Teachers
@rweingarten
calls for vaccine mandates for teachers.
"As a matter of personal conscience we need to be working with employers on vaccine mandates."
WATCH: After losing to John Fetterman, Malcolm Kenyatta says he will work to prevent a Republican from winning Pa. Senate.
@malcolmkenyatta
: "Allowing any one of these Republicans to become Pennsylvania's Senator will be the canary in coal mine for democracy dying on our watch."
WATCH: President Joe Biden runs over to NBC News’ Al Roker on final portion of the inaugural parade.
@AlRoker
: “How does it feel, Mr. President?”
@JoeBiden
: “It feels good.”
WATCH: Fmr. Pres. Trump did not comply with National Archives requests for 18 months before the FBI searched his home for classified docs.
Rep.
@Jim_Jordan
(R-Ohio): "They raided Trump's home; they haven't raid Biden's home."
@ChuckTodd
: "Because Biden didn't defy a subpoena."
WATCH: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are releasing their 2019 tax returns today ahead of the first presidential debate
#MTPDaily
@mikememoli
: "They really want to destroy the myth that ... Trump is a successful businessman who can help the working class."
.
@RudyGiuliani
on Trump testifying with Mueller: "I am not going to be rushed into having him testify so that he gets trapped into perjury... it’s somebody’s version of the truth. Not the truth."
@chucktodd
: "Truth is truth"
GIULIANI: "No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth."
#MTP
WATCH: Are we being conditioned to not be outraged by the president's outrageousness anymore?
#MTPDaily
@chucktodd
: "Remember, this is not normal and we shouldn't be in the business of normalizing it."
.
@chucktodd
to
@senronjohnson
: "You made an allegation of widespread fraud, you've failed to offer specific evidence of that widespread fraud, but you're demanding an investigation on the grounds there's allegations of widespread fraud. Essentially, you're the arsonist here."
WATCH: Beto’Rourke says he "could care less" about the debate surrounding Biden’s age.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@BetoORourke
: "The last thing I care about is Joe Biden’s age or some inner party fight between candidates up on that stage. We gotta be talking about the big things."
WATCH: Ukrainian President
@ZelenskyyUa
tells
@kwelkernbc
Ukraine is "not ready" to give up its "freedom to this f---ing terrorist Putin."
"That's it. That's why we are fighting."
WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz talks about Donald Trump over the years.
Cruz in 2016: “This man is a pathological liar. … Morality does not exist for him.”
Cruz in 2018: “I am honored that President Trump is here endorsing and supporting my campaign.”
Today we close our show with an announcement from
@chucktodd
:
"While today is not my final show, this will be my final summer here at Meet the Press. ... I am really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade."
"It was good actually to see President Trump tweet out that [Biden] won. I think that's the start of an acknowledgment." — Gov.
@AsaHutchinson
(R-Ark.)
#MTP
WATCH:
@mattsgorman
tells the panel abortion "is not in the top four of issues."
@Yamiche
and
@clairecmc
fiercely disagree.
@Yamiche
: "Abortion comes up 90% of the time" on the campaign trail.
@clairecmc
: It "infuriates women when they hear that."
WATCH: Rudy Giuliani tells Chuck Todd that he doesn’t want President Trump to be caught in a perjury trap by speaking with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
Giuliani: “Truth isn’t truth"
When asked what he would do if somebody offered him campaign dirt on an opponent,
@petebuttigieg
says “you wouldn’t do anything with the dirt, you would call the FBI. This isn’t even complicated,” and “it's shocking to hear the President say what he said.”
#IfItsSunday
WATCH: How does Mayor Pete Buttigieg explain President Trump's support from the evangelical community?
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@PeteButtigieg
: Scripture talks "about lifting up the least among us, and taking care of strangers, which is another word for immigrants."
NEW: Among voters 18-34, 70% disapprove of Pres. Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in the
@NBCNews
national poll.
@SteveKornacki
: “He is 50 points underwater with the youngest group of voters.”
@kwelkernbc
: “It’s a critical group he needs in order to win re-election.”
TODAY: Fiona Hill recounts the Trump administration’s steps when it came to supporting Ukraine.
Hill: “President Trump, at a pretty critical period, withheld military assistance to Ukraine … basically to get Volodymyr Zelenskyy to do him a personal favor.”
WATCH:
@HughHewitt
says Adam Schiff has "lost all credibility" since his appearance on
#MTP
this morning and the middle is "tired of investigating Trump"
#IfItsSunday
"I believe he destroyed his credibility this morning on this show as a fair arbitrator of this process."
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy tells
@DashaBurns
and Brianne Pfannenstiel obsessing over “white guilt” is creating a “new wave of racism.”
.
@HillaryClinton
said Senate Republicans made a new precedent when they held up the confirmation of Merrick Garland in 2016. "They made this decision back in 2016 and they should be held accountable for it."
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
BREAKING: President Trump tells Telemundo’s
@jdbalart
he will sign an executive order on immigration that will include DACA in the coming weeks.
#mtpdaily
Trump: “One of the aspects of the bill is going to be DACA. We are going to have a road to citizenship.”
.
@chucktodd
: “It's like we're living inside a parody - ‘What would happen if Donald Trump became president? Omarosa would probably work in the West Wing! And then she'd leave to go on Big Brother to dish about Administration secrets! Ha!’ ... Oh wait. That happened.”
#MTPDaily
"It's incredibly disturbing that the pres. of the United States, 10 days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial and execute me ... [is] inciting this kind of domestic terrorism. ... It is dangerous, not just for me & my family, but for public servants everywhere." —
@GovWhitmer
FULL INTERVIEW:
@SenatorBennet
talks on his fiery Senate floor speech, the latest developments on a deal to reopen the government and whether he will run for president in 2020.
#MTPDaily
"It's incredibly disturbing that the pres. of the United States, 10 days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial and execute me ... [is] inciting this kind of domestic terrorism. ... It is dangerous, not just for me & my family, but for public servants everywhere." — Whitmer
#MTP
EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Biden's Chief of Staff
@RonaldKlain
says Biden will campaign in Georgia & will put "people, money and resources down there to help our two good candidates win."
WATCH: How does a 37 year old Mayor challenge an incumbent for president?
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@PeteButtigieg
: "I would stack up my experience against anybody. I know it's not as traditional. I haven't been marinating in Washington here for a very long time."
EXCLUSIVE:
@RepAdamSchiff
: "Look at the president's tweets about me today saying I should pay a price.."
@chucktodd
: "Do you take that as a threat?"
@RepAdamSchiff
: "I think it is intended to be."
"I don't buy this story that [President Trump] was never briefed. I believe that over a year ago ... my successor John Bolton would have walked straight into the Oval Office, as I would have, and informed the president of this intelligence."
@AmbassadorRice
#MTP
WATCH: Rudy Giuliani tells
@chucktodd
that he doesn’t want President Trump to be caught in a perjury trap by speaking with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
Giuliani: “Truth isn’t truth"
WATCH:
@drmoore
says dismissing Trump's sexual abuse verdict has "devastating implications."
"Think about the teenage girl in a church somewhere who's being abused by her youth pastor. ... She hears not only that, but when the victim is ridiculed ... the response is laughter."
WATCH:
@AndrewYang
uses Alaska as example for his entitlement program.
#MTP
"There's one state that has had a divided for almost 40 years: That's Alaska; It's the Petroleum dividend. ... What I'm saying to the American people is, technology is the oil of the 21st Century."
WATCH:
@RepAOC
(D-N.Y.) responds to Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) and Arkansas’ abortion ban.
“This decision and this policy will kill people no matter what their spin and what their talking points are.”
WATCH:
@PeteButtigieg
responds to a voter who says she won’t support Buttigieg because he’s married to a man.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
Buttigieg: “I didn’t set out to be the gay president.”
WATCH: Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) responds to state party attempts to censure him.
@BenSasse
: "You are welcome to censure me again but let's be clear about why this is happening: It's because I still believe, as you used to, that politics isn't about the weird worship of one dude."
.
@ChuckTodd
says Kennedy's accusations about Ukraine sound like "an active propaganda campaign by Russia to get people like you to say these things."
"You apparently were briefed about this [in the Senate]. ... You didn't attend that briefing?"
@SenJohnKennedy
: "No."
#MTP
EXCLUSIVE: Sally Yates responds to Rudy Giuliani's argument that material stolen by a foreign power was fair game in an election.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@SallyQYates
: "That's a shocking statement. And it also just reflects how they have moved the goalpost, when the truth comes out."
WATCH: Democrats must realize that the implications of the Roe decision are "not just a crisis of Roe" but "a crisis of our democracy,”
@AOC
says.
#MTP
“The Supreme Court has dramatically overreached its authority. … This is a crisis of legitimacy.”
.
@repadamschiff
responds to Trump's tweet on “mismanagement” of CA wildfires: “For the president at a time when people are facing utter disaster to be making a statement like this, making a threat like this, this just goes to show how little he understands the job he has.”
#MTP
EXCLUSIVE:
@OMAROSA
releases secret audio recording of meeting when Chief of Staff John Kelly fired her.
#MTP
Omarosa: “Is the president aware of what’s going on?”
EXCLUSIVE: "We have a president who is doing our arch adversary's bidding. ... And he is surrounded by sycophants and weaklings." —
@AmbassadorRice
on the White House's claim that President Trump didn't know about Russian bounties on American heads.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@KerriKupecDOJ
@chucktodd
You’re correct. Earlier today, we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed, and we regret the error.
"If the Republicans sweep these 3 red-state gubernatorial races ... I think you're going to have nothing but impeachment to thank,"
@chucktodd
says on
#MTPDaily
.
WATCH: Washington Post political reporter David Farenthold says Doral is not an ideal place to host the G7 summit.
#mtpdaily
@Fahrenthold
: "If your list was a campground at the top of Mount McKinley, and a Chuck E. Cheese's, and Doral, then Doral was the best place."
"To the length and degree that [Bolton] indicts Donald Trump, he also indicts himself, for cowardice and for greed. Because there were people who did come forward ... who risked their careers. ... It was only the greed that made him come forward in this book." —
@RepAdamSchiff
Part of Trump's isolation in the G-7 summit,
@petebuttigieg
says, is "you have world leaders coming together ... talking about what they're going to do on climate and you've got a U.S. president who doesn't believe it's a problem."
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
WATCH: Trump tweets, "[Biden] won because the election was rigged.”
@chucktodd
: “Do you accept that as step one” of a concession?"
President-elect Biden’s Chief of Staff
@RonaldKlain
: “I accept it as a further confirmation of the reality that Joe Biden won the election.”
Larry Edgeworth, a beloved NBC News colleague and "the guy you wanted by your side no matter where you were," has died after testing positive for coronavirus.
BREAKING: Interior Dept. IG report says police cleared protesters from D.C.'s Lafayette Park over fencing installation, not for Trump photo op,
@KenDilanianNBC
reports. "A narrative we thought we knew is not the reality."
#MTPDaily
WATCH: Andrew Gillum calls on Rep. DeSantis to stand against racist attacks in Florida Governor's race.
#MTP
@andrewgillum
: "I have not called [Rep. DeSantis] a racist" but "his rhetoric, in my opinion, has to be toned down"
WATCH: Can anything be done to prevent China from cracking down on Hong Kong protests?
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@PeteButtigieg
: "China needs to know that if they're going to perpetrate a repeat of Tiananmen, that they will be isolated from the democratic world"
Kentucky governor vetoes sweeping GOP transgender measure.
Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, said the bill "rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children."
WATCH: Alaska
@Rep_Peltola
(D) says she's concerned that rail worker negotiations concluded without improvements to sick leave and is currently a no vote on the agreement.
"I just don't think it's right or fair to expect workers go to work sick as a dog."