Meet the Press NOW — Sept. 18

After the Federal Reserve's first interest rate cut since the pandemic, former Obama Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jason Furman joins Meet the Press NOW to explain its impact. NBC News Chief Political Analyst Chuck Todd discusses the current state of political discourse, following an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. With less than 50 days until election day, NBC News Correspondents Ali Vitali and Mike Memoli report on the latest developments on the trail.

00:00 Fed announces aggressive half-point rate cut
12:55 Harris and Trump pitch economic policies on trail
21:07 Tonight: Trump holds rally on Long Island
26:07 Teamsters Union says it will not make endorsement
28:30 Panel: Trump campaigns in NY 48 days from election
39:44 More wireless devices explode across Lebanon
42:52 Judge deciding whether to grant Sean Combs bail
46:27 RNC pushes early voting after past attacks

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[nlbdispatch]

I’m a longshoreman in the LA/LB Harbors. We are receiving an unpresidential amount of container ships bringing a phenomenal amount of cargo for predicted a high volume of purchases during the holiday season!
The US is going strong and will continue to grow economically!!

[suzannemcclure]

I really love seeing how Tim Walz so publically shows his support & respect for Kamala.

[anneolsen]

Vance is a bald faced liar with nothing to lose.

[loveearth]

The scariest thought, if Israel can target communication devices as small bombs…

[ginotan]

46:46 Chuck being a child, stopped by his mother to play around the hammer, he keeps on hammering that nail!!😂😂😂

[JayClaypool]

What Donald Trump is worried about is the dogs eat the cats eat the dogs eat the cats eat the dogs eat the cast of hip Hop 😺🐈😂😆🤣

[markhamilton]

Donald I see a lot of empty seats this has got to be one of his smallest rallies

[Htxtonytony]

Did anybody even catch that Vance said inflation explosion act?

[JayClaypool]

Child care you're not going to be no child care when Trump gets in there whoever don't want Trump and your Kamala Harrison vote for Kamala Harris she will make America great again 💯✝️✝️

[jermelpurse]

I hate to tell you this and I don’t mean it in a negative way but it’s sort of negative to say but voters don’t understand economics most people don’t understand why we encountered so much inflation if I tell the Republican why we encountered so much inflation are going to say it’s Joe Biden‘s fault it’s Kamala Harris‘s fault that’s not true. If I tell the Democrat why we encounter inflation guess what they still don’t know what happened, that we encountered during after the pandemic was a result primarily of the pandemic. Simple supply side economics. It’s hard to get things shipped in a global economy, and people want them in a global economy. Whoever has the most money that wins.

People don’t know what they want or rather what they need. Most Americans want to see prices go down. Inflation has gone down and it is right where we want it to be roughly but most Americans like my mother like your mother. They want actual prices to go down. They don’t even know that is a deft sentence for any economy. What happens if at your job prices suddenly start going down in other words if the goods or services that the company you work for the stuff that they sell suddenly wasn’t selling for as much money what happens? Doesn’t make as much as they used to and what does a company do when they’re not making as much money as they used to? Start off. Company was making $100 a day and suddenly they’re making $90 a day because the product they sold to sell for $100 but now they only sell for $90 somebody’s gotta go. It’s actually the simplest concept in economics if we aren’t making the same amount of money as we used to before somebody’s gotta get laid off. Going to get laid off, the people who want prices to go down and this means prices should not go down what you want to see wages go up, but you won’t see wages suddenly because Company suddenly wants to see their cost of doing business go up in a year because guess what happens when that happens I’ll give you a hint it starts with an I if wages suddenly go up if the cost of labor, which is also known as a wage suddenly goes up companies, they don’t take it on the chin they raise prices. They literally go out to the shelves and say add $.20 onto the cost of those beans.

So you see there isn’t much that can be done to deal with this price increase. It literally happened because of a global pandemic and let’s be honest some businesses got greedy on the back end. Kroger admitted to price gouging. They admitted to it in front of Congress. Nobody has ever talked about it, but they admitted to it in the last 60 days.

[Alex-ln]

The movement homeless for Harris is helping the homeless people register to vote and vote 🌅

[DavidCrisp-rvjs]

I would not put it past Donald trump, to get his money from true social, and then leave the country where he cannot be extradited

[rinpen]

Yeah really really nice Kampala job thanks 🙏 💙💙

[tonydelgado]

Luxury Tax. Those items take a lot out of the intellectual market.

[karltitz]

I’m old I’m single and I have no children and I recognize investing in ALL OF OUR CHILDREN is the most important thing we can do to insure AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY.

[RobertoComisarenco]

How about reducing wasteful government spending! Why it is so difficult to understand and do? Then we won't need to do any of those stupid tricks, neither to increase taxes. It is NOT rocket science. If Milei is doing it in Argentina, it can certainly be done here in the US.

[devildiamond]

It's not large enough for me folks. Interest rates should be lower

[sirloin]

New York state reports 1st human case of EEE in nearly a decade

[appanahsanasy]

Remember 2016 how much deficit during DonOld 78? Over 7 Trillion debts to government!!!😊

[licelotdeno]

The thing is, as soon as she says what exactly what she's doing, he will copy her....He's already copying her child tax credit