Meet the Press NOW – December 15

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Israel’s military says it mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages during fighting in Gaza. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby reacts to the latest developments from the Israel-Hamas war. Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay more than $148 million in damages for defaming two Georgia election workers. Dan Merica, Ameshia Cross and Stephen Hayes join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. David Miliband, president, and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, discusses the organization’s annual emergency watch list report.

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0:00.0	If it's Friday, an Israeli military operation gone wrong, the IDF says it fatally shot three Israeli
0:10.4	hostages being held inside Gaza after mistaking them as a threat as the
0:16.2	fog and deadly cost of the war against Hamas grows more severe.
0:22.0	Plus new warnings from the White House urging Israel to adopt a more targeted approach to its assault on Hamas,
0:29.0	amid the spiraling humanitarian crisis inside Gaza. And the view from Swingshwin. h Tell me they're reluctant to do it again in 2024 what it could mean for the president and his party in key battlegrounds across the country. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where a week of
1:05.8	wartime warnings from the Biden administration to Israel have just been
1:10.4	punctuated by tragedy as Israel continues its offensive against
1:14.7	Hamas and Gaza. This afternoon the Israeli military announced it mistakenly
1:19.7	killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza.
1:23.4	A spokesperson says the IDF opened an investigation
1:26.6	and the families have been notified.
1:29.4	According to the IDF, three hostages
1:31.4	were mistakenly identified as a threat and as a result they were
1:34.9	fired on and killed.
1:37.1	The news comes just a day after National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan signaled stalled
1:41.2	stalled progress in talks to free additional hostages.
1:46.3	I don't have any news to report today, unfortunately,
1:48.6	because there is not yet a clear path forward,
1:51.1	but I will tell you that we are determined, as I know the Israeli government
1:54.2	is determined, to stop at nothing to ensure that every last one of those hostages
1:58.6	get safely home to their family.
2:01.2	An Israeli official also denying reports that the war cabinet blocked the head of Israel's
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