Meet the Press NOW — January 3

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Morgan Chesky joins from Eagle Pass, Texas as Speaker Mike Johnson calls attention to the surge at the Southern border. Vivek Ramaswamy offers closing arguments in an NBC News/Des Moines Register interview. Idrees Kahloon, Sara Fagen and María Teresa Kumar react to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) downplaying the importance of Iowa in the GOP primary elections. Ali Arouzi and Dan DeLuce report the latest from Iran and Israel.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday, House Republicans launch a second impeachment inquiry, this time
0:07.0	into President Biden's Homeland Security Chief, as party leaders and presidential
0:11.3	candidates seize on the record-breaking influx of migrants
0:14.8	at the southern border.
0:16.5	Plus, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami's provocative comments on white supremacy
0:22.4	as NBC news in the Des Moines Register
0:24.8	kick off a series of special interviews with the candidates making their
0:28.7	closing arguments in Iowa and whising tensions in the Middle East as
0:33.4	Biden administration officials speak out
0:36.2	saying neither the US nor Israel was behind a pair of explosions
0:40.6	that killed nearly a hundred people in Iran. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington and we begin today at the
0:59.6	U.S. Southern border as the Biden administration comes under fire again for its
1:04.4	handling of a migrant crisis and as Republicans moved to spotlight the issue
1:08.8	politically with another impeachment inquiry moments ago House Speaker Mike Johnson held a press conference while leading a delegation
1:16.4	of roughly 60 House Republicans to Eagle Past Texas.
1:20.5	He lashed out at the Biden administration and demanded the White House take stronger action.
1:26.1	Since the time that President Biden took office the administration has done next to nothing to protect the border,
1:31.4	but we've all seen with our own eyes they have opened
1:33.8	the border wide to the entire world.
1:36.3	The president can and should act now.
1:39.2	This doesn't require legislation.
1:41.3	It requires leadership. And despite the White House's claim he has all the authority
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