Meet the Press NOW — January 2

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Israeli government outlines a proposal for a post-war Gaza as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to the region. Retired Admiral James Stavridis outlines the areas where the Israel-Hamas war has the potential to expand to a wider conflict. Japan’s death toll ticks up following Monday’s earthquake. Republican presidential candidates campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire as primary election season draws closer. Doug Heye, Tia Mitchell and Symone Sanders-Townsend join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the record surge in migrants seeking to enter the United States.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, Israeli officials prepare for a series of high stakes meetings on the future of Gaza,
0:07.5	as fighting intensifies on multiple fronts, with strikes killing at least three Hamas officials in Lebanon.
0:13.6	Plus, the death toll from the earthquakes in Japan rises to more than 50 people.
0:18.0	An investigation is now underway into a fatal aircraft collision that saw a passenger jet erupt into flames
0:25.0	after crashing into a Coast Guard plane on a relief mission.
0:29.0	And America's broken border pushes U.S. cities to the brink, as mayors face an unprecedented wave of
0:34.9	migrant arrivals and limited resources to respond to the crisis after another
0:39.6	record month of migrant encounters on the southern border. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Garrett Haake reporting in Washington, where President Biden is set to return tonight and waiting for him at home in the new year, the reality of a contentious 2024 election year ahead,
1:05.5	an impeachment inquiry,
1:06.8	an emergency funding battle over the border
1:08.8	and US national security priorities
1:11.2	all amid an escalating war in the Middle East.
1:14.2	Which is where we begin, as Israeli officials lay out a new strategy for Gaza, and a senior Hamas
1:19.5	official has been killed by strikes in Lebanon.
1:22.5	According to Hamas officials, the explosion killed at least three officials,
1:26.5	and the Lebanese Prime Minister is accusing Israel of trying to bring Lebanon into the war.
1:31.4	The IDF hasn't commented with a senior advisor to
1:34.3	Prime Minister Netanyahu telling NBC earlier today that Israel is not claiming
1:39.0	responsibility.
1:40.9	Obviously in Lebanon there are many Kizbala targets but whoever did this strike
1:46.6	was very surgical and went for a Hamas target because Israel is at war
2:00.0	whoever did this has a has a gripe with Hamas. It's once again whoever did this it's not an attack on the Lebanese state it's not an attack
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