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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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FBI Director Christopher Wray warns the Hamas attack in Israel could inspire attacks on the U.S. by terrorist and violent extremist groups. NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki breaks down the races to watch on Election Day 2023. Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News senior digital politics reporter, explains how the Muslim-American voters in swing states are threatening to vote against President Biden. Steve Taravella, senior spokesperson for the U.N. World Food Program, discusses the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza. 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, conditions worsen in Gaza as Israel's ground operation intensifies.
0:07.3	As the FBI director warns that the Israel Hamas war is escalating the domestic threat
0:12.0	environment and that Hamas could inspire attacks here in the U.S.
0:16.6	Plus amid those threats, the White House and the Senate gear up for a potential standoff
0:21.0	with the House Republicans and the newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson over emergency wartime
0:26.5	aid for both Ukraine and Israel.
0:29.8	And we are just one week away from Election Day 2023, what we're watching as both parties
0:35.2	test key campaign messages ahead of 2024, with former President Trump dominating the
0:40.7	Republican primary.
0:44.8	Welcome to Meet the Press now.
0:55.0	I'm Garrett Hake in Washington, where the Biden administration's national security team
0:58.8	has descended on Capitol Hill amid mounting concerns about security here at home and
1:04.0	abroad as the Israel Hamas war intensifies.
1:07.9	The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the FBI director, the Homeland Security
1:12.1	Chief, and the nation's top counterterrorism official all testifying today, painting
1:17.4	the portrait of an increasingly complex and difficult threat environment, both in the
1:21.7	Middle East region and here at home.
1:24.2	The FBI director Christopher Ray saying the current terror landscape is something that
1:28.4	the U.S. officials haven't seen since the rise of ISIS.
1:32.9	Just the past few weeks, multiple foreign terrorist organizations have called for attacks
1:38.8	against Americans and the West.
1:42.0	Al-Qaeda issued its most specific call to attack the United States in the last five years.
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