Meet the Press NOW — June 1

Kristen Welker interviews former Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.). Leigh Ann Caldwell, Val Demings, Garrett Haake and Stephen Hayes join the roundtable.

The midterm elections heat up as a Trump White House official hits Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico with personal attacks. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the latest negotiations with Iran, the recent escalation in the war with Ukraine and the future of the Democratic Party. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi appears on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview about her handling of the Epstein files.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) discusses the fallout from the 2024 DNC autopsy and her decision to run in a majority-minority district. The United States and Iran accuse one another of violating the ceasefire deal as they exchange military strikes. Former first lady Jill Biden reveals that she thought her husband was "having a stroke” during the 2024 presidential debate.

Jack Schlossberg (D-N.Y.), grandson of President John F. Kennedy and congressional candidate, tells Meet the Press NOW why his campaign is not "like other campaigns." NBC News Chief Data Analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down the Texas GOP Senate runoff where Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. During a Cabinet meeting, President Trump says he doesn't "care about the midterms" in negotiating an end to the war with Iran.

Voters head to the polls in Texas for the state’s primary runoff elections in another test of President Trump’s endorsement power. Dan Osborn joins Meet the Press NOW to explain why he’s running for Nebraska’s Senate seat as an independent. Dr. Craig Spencer, who contracted Ebola while treating patients in West Africa in 2014, discusses the response to the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.