Pressure on Netanyahu

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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The White House is lambasting members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet. Specifically, two right-wing extremists whom critics say are calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza leaving some in the Biden administration to wonder if Netanyahu will have to choose between Biden and extremists in Netanyahu's government. Plus, in his first CNN interview since becoming House speaker, Mike Johnson joins from the Mexico border to discuss the border crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A horrific terrorist attack kills more than 100 Iranians. Who is behind it?
0:08.0	The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	Four years to the day since the killing by the US of Iran's commander
0:15.8	Hassan Solomani, twin bombings today near his grave site. The blasts
0:21.2	just one day after an airstrike in Lebanon killed a senior leader of
0:25.0	Hamas. New fears today that the Israel-Gazah conflict could erupt into a wider war.
0:31.0	Plus naming names beyond John Doe that is, the document drop that could
0:36.5	happen any moment and expose nearly 200 names with ties to dead pedophile
0:42.0	Jeffrey Epstein and in his first CNN interview as
0:47.6	House Speaker Mike Johnson will be here live from the Texas Mexico border
0:52.1	with a big Republican delegation in his
0:54.9	face-off with President Biden on the border crisis.
1:00.3	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper from Iran to Lebanon to the Red Sea and Gaza
1:08.4	death, chaos and fear of an all-out multi-country conflict in the Middle East.
1:14.5	In Iran, a suitcase bomb followed by a second blast
1:17.8	that atop Iranian general's grave killed more than 100 people,
1:22.0	according to Iranian state media.
1:24.1	That general, Hassan Sulemani,
1:25.9	was killed in a US air strike ordered
1:27.8	by former President Trump four years ago today,
1:31.6	Sulemani, whom the Pentagon says was actively planning attacks on U.S.
1:36.0	service members and diplomats at the time and had been responsible for the deaths of
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