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Meet the Press NOW — January 30

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The House prepares an impeachment vote for Secretary Mayorkas as tensions mount on border talks on Capitol Hill. Retired four-star General Joseph Votel analyzes what a U.S. response to the recent drone attack in Jordan could look like. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss border politics and the U.S. strategy in the Middle East. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

If it's Tuesday, border battles in Washington, House Republicans move forward on impeaching

0:06.3

the Biden administration's top border official while renewing their vow to kill the bipartisan

0:12.4

border deal coming together in the Senate.

0:15.2

Plus, preparing to strike back.

0:18.0

President Biden says he's made his decision on how to respond to that deadly attack on US troops backed by Iran-backed militants.

0:27.0

But the details remain under wraps.

0:30.0

And Hamas says it's revealing a proposed ceasefire deal that would release more hostages

0:35.1

in exchange for a 60-day pause in the fighting in Gaza, as Israeli forces wearing disguises

0:41.5

raid a hospital and the occupied West Bank. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where Congress is locked in a border battle mired in politics as one chamber pursues a bipartisan

1:05.6

border deal and the other seeks the impeachment of the country's top

1:09.3

immigration official. All the while President Biden is asking Congress to give him more power to address the issue. I've asked for the very day I got it off.

1:23.0

Give me the border for goals.

1:25.0

Give me the people, give me the people the judges.

1:27.0

Give me the people who can stop this and make it work for action.

1:30.0

It comes after the president said over the weekend that he would quote shut down the border if Congress gave him the authority and two sources familiar with negotiations tell NBC News that the bipartisan Senate plan, which is being negotiated right now, would grant

1:45.6

that authority if certain levels of migrant crossings were reached.

1:50.2

But House Speaker Mike Johnson remains defiant,

1:52.8

saying that any deal would be dead on arrival in the House.

1:57.1

It seems the new authority to shut down the border

2:00.0

would kick in only after as many as 5,000 illegal crossings happen each day.

2:06.5

Why? Why would we do that?

2:09.6

Illegal immigration is illegal.

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