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Meet the Press is the longest-running show in TV history. Join @kwelkernbc for in-depth political discussions and interviews on NBC News and NBC News NOW.
Washington, D.C.
Joined January 2008
"Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods," Chuck Todd tells Pres. Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway this morning. WATCH:
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Watch our interview with @KellyannePolls: Russia "did not succeed" in attempts to sway election #MTP
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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."
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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."
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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
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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."
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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"
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. @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.
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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."
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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."
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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"
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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."
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.@RepAdamSchiff on Trump/Russia connection: "There is more than circumstantial evidence now. and is very much worthy of investigation."
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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.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Former CIA Director John Brennan says Trump's refusal to acknowledge Russia's interference in US election is "dishonorable." #MTP
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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.
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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.”
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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."
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"I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton," Lewis said.
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John Kerry: When Trump says he'll negotiate better climate deal, it's “like OJ Simpson saying he’s gonna go out & find the real killer” #MTP.
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Remembering Tim Russert, who died 11 years ago today: "A leader cannot make tough decisions unless he or she is asked tough questions."
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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.".
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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."
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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."
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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."
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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton remembers Sen. John McCain on #MTP. @HillaryClinton: McCain leaves behind “a legacy of service and courage."
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.@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.
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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."
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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."
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.@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.".
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WATCH: Most GOP senators avoid commenting on peaceful protesters being dispersed by tear gas outside the White House for Trump's church visit
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WATCH: @KatyTurNBC "If the president’s advisers thought he misspoke, why would it take 27 hours for someone to tell us?" #MTPDaily
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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."
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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.”
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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."
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"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.
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'That's how dictators get started': @SenJohnMcCain defends the free press in exclusive @MeetThePress interview
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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."
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Former VP Al Gore on coal industry: "Promising to recreate the 19th century is not a visionary strategy for a successful 21st century."
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FLASHBACK: Republican Sen. Corker told Chuck Todd in October that he wouldn't vote for the tax bill if it added "one penny to the deficit"
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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"
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It's a tactic with a pattern: The president's attacks on the media repeatedly have directly followed reporting on Russia. #MTP
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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.
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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."
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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.”
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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.”
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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."
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy tells @DashaBurns and Brianne Pfannenstiel obsessing over “white guilt” is creating a “new wave of racism.”.
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.@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.
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WATCH: Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC responds to Trump's call to work with Russia, saying it's not the dumbest idea "but it's pretty close." #MTP
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Sen. @jeffflake (R-Ariz.) tells @chucktodd in an exclusive interview, "I wish we as a party had stood up" to the birther movement. #MTP
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.@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
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.".
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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."
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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."
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"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.
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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"
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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."
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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."
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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.”
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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.”
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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."
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Chuck Todd: "The White House did not offer a senior administration official but instead the deputy press secretary. We declined."
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. @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.
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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."
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Pence on #MTP: "Why doesn't [Clinton] go ahead and release the 33k emails? The American people have a right to know.".
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.@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.
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@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.
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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
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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."
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"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.
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Sen. Schumer on Gorsuch nominee: "When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules -- you should change the nominee."
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John Kerry: When Trump says he'll negotiate better climate deal, it's “like OJ Simpson saying he’s gonna go out & find the real killer” #MTP
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"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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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There is a "loss of vision and a loss of decency" in the White House, @PeteButtigieg says on #MTP.
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WATCH: Rep. Steny Hoyer says the House will not seat North Carolina Republican Mark Harris amid election fraud investigation #MTPDaily
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BREAKING on #MTP: @TulsiGabbard just announced her resignation as DNC Vice Chair and endorsement of @BernieSanders #Decision2016.
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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"
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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"
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Chuck Todd to Trump: "Make it clear that not only are you not anti-Semitic, but that you reject people who are, even if they voted for you."
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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.".
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WATCH: @rudygiuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, says that negotiations over Trump Tower Moscow likely went up to the 2016 election. #MTP
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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."
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"The shutdown was a stunt, engineered by the President of the United States" - Stacey Abrams #SOTU.
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