El-Sayed walks back Obama criticism on Meet the Press

Kristen Welker's full broadcast also features Thom Tillis and Michael Lewis, drawing an unusually large early audience on NBC News.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 216,488 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (13,706).

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Kristen Welker's Sunday interviews span a Michigan Senate candidacy, a North Carolina senator's perspective and Michael Lewis's new book about DOGE. The full Meet the Press episode reached about 130,000 views in its first ten hours, already far beyond the audience a regular NBC News upload attracts over a full first day.

One exchange has also received its own shorter edit: Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed walking back his past criticism of former President Barack Obama. That excerpt is drawing an unusually fast audience too, giving the full broadcast a companion piece centered on a specific political reassessment.

Welker also interviews Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. Beneath the episode, healthcare is a recurring subject: viewers discuss access to doctors, the insurance available to members of Congress and the differences between employer-based coverage and other systems. Those are the questions occupying the comments, alongside responses to El-Sayed's remarks about Obama.

Lewis brings a book discussion to the lineup, while Stephen Hayes, former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Amna Nawaz join the roundtable.

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The numbers

The full episode and the separate El-Sayed excerpt both drew unusually large early audiences. NBC News's overall daily views were also more than twice their usual level.

the video's first day

usual first day here

13,706

this video

216,488

subscribers

12,200,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

10,593,029,144

views per day

11,751,812

typical day: 4,788,798

the video

views

129,700

likes

1,425

comments

335

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Fox News

15,500,000

Inside Edition

13,800,000

Vox

12,700,000

NBC News

12,200,000

MS NOW

10,000,000

Sky News

9,380,000

As of October 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.