Meet the Press NOW — October 13

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) narrowly wins the Republican nomination for House speaker after Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) dropped his bid for the leadership role. Israeli forces appear to begin entering Gaza as Israel continues to amass its military in preparation for a ground invasion. A family member of two missing Americans in Israel details their meeting with President Biden.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press Now.
0:12.9	I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where we're following breaking news in the war between
0:17.6	Israel and Hamas amid new signs that Israel is preparing for an imminent ground invasion
0:23.1	of Gaza and fears growing of another front of this war opening on the Israeli Lebanese
0:28.2	border.
0:29.5	Right now, the Israeli military says a, quote, extensive attack is underway targeting
0:33.3	the Hamas terrorist organization inside Gaza.
0:36.5	In this afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a surprise address
0:41.0	saying, quote, we have no choice but to fight and the attacks on Hamas were, quote, only
0:46.0	at the beginning.
0:48.2	I met today with the U.S. Secretary of State, and we are guaranteeing the continuation
0:55.8	of the war with more artillery, more ammunition coming to Israel.
1:00.6	We're going to eradicate Hamas, and we're going to bring victory.
1:06.2	It comes after the Israeli military ordered the entire population of northern Gaza to evacuate
1:10.8	south, warning the United Nations is calling impossible.
1:14.9	This is footage shot inside Gaza today, and it shows leaflets falling from the sky.
1:20.0	Those orders applied to more than one million people in the densely populated Gaza strip
1:24.9	including key population centers like Gaza City.
1:28.1	The UN is pleading with Israel to rescind the order, warning of devastating humanitarian
1:32.5	consequences.
1:33.5	Hamas, meanwhile, is telling Gaza's to ignore the warnings and stay put, but some residents
1:38.5	have already begun to flee, heading south by car and even by foot.
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