Meet the Press NOW – September 19

President Trump faces backlash after suggesting the government should nationalize elections. Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) joins Meet the Press NOW to react to the president’s comments and lays out the path forward on potential DHS reforms. President Trump speaks to reports in the Oval Office after signing the funding legislation to end the partial government shutdown.

Congress looks to end the partial government shutdown as Democrats demand reforms to ICE and Border Patrol in the aftermath of the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “TODAY” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, is missing and the case is being investigated as a crime. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the fallout after the Department of Justice released more than three million pages of Epstein files.

Filmmaker Ken Burns joins Kristen Welker in a “Meet the Moment” conversation to dissect America's origin story and argues democracy was an “unintended consequence” of the American Revolution.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) react to the Justice Department releasing more than 3 million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein. Ken Burns joins for a “Meet the Moment” conversation around his documentary series on the American Revolution. Lanhee Chen, Adrienne Elrod and Jonathan Martin join the roundtable.

The Department of Justice releases more than three million pages of additional Epstein files, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The Department of Justice also announced federal authorities arrested Don Lemon, charging him with federal civil rights crimes in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church. President Trump announces Kevin Warsh as his pick to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve.