SCOOP: Escalation In The Middle East
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Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Did "The Press" change the course of world events?
Just one of the many questions we ask in this week's SCOOP.
Plus ~ The important developments in the war between Israel and Hamas that matter; the latest in the evacuations at U.S. diplomatic outposts; and what do the Hamas tunnels really look like?
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| 0:00.0 | Overnight, the Pentagon announced it was actually increasing its force posture in the region. |
| 0:09.4 | How concerned are you about Iran trying to escalate this war? |
| 0:14.5 | We are concerned. In fact, we expect that there's a likelihood of escalation, escalation by Iranian proxies, |
| 0:24.1 | directed against our forces, directed against our personnel. |
| 0:28.6 | We are taking steps to make sure that we can effectively defend our people and respond |
| 0:33.9 | decisively if we need to. |
| 0:35.6 | This is not what we want, not what we're looking for. We don't want escalation. We don't want to see a second or third front develop. We don't want to see our forces or our personnel come under fire. But if that happens, we're ready for it. Hi, everybody. Welcome to this week's scoop where you get the scoop on the news week ahead. I'm Jenna, and this is Smarter News, and I'm so glad you're here with us today. That was the Secretary of State, Anthony |
| 0:57.7 | of Lincoln, speaking about 24 hours ago on Sunday about what's next in the Middle East. |
| 1:02.7 | And we chose that sound bite very intentionally to lead with because it really underscores |
| 1:08.0 | the big headline to know at this moment, which is there is no de-escalation |
| 1:13.5 | in the Middle East. There is only escalation over the last week and specifically over the last 24 hours. |
| 1:20.3 | And to have the Secretary of State speak so frankly about the expectation that Iran could attack |
| 1:26.5 | American positions is not something that we |
| 1:29.9 | see very regularly. I wanted you to hear that very clearly as we continue to dissect the |
| 1:35.8 | variety of different headlines around the war between Israel and Hamas. We are going to spend |
| 1:42.2 | the bulk of our time on this particular news stories. It matters. |
| 1:46.7 | It has global implications. And one of our purpose and our goals for scoop is that we not only want |
| 1:52.9 | to prepare you for the week ahead and give you a heads up on the people and places and things to know |
| 1:57.6 | and why they matter, we also want to talk a little bit about the role of the |
| 2:00.8 | press. This is our invite inside the newsroom where we can speak frankly and honestly about |
| 2:05.8 | different editorial decisions that are being made around the world in newsrooms and also in our own |
| 2:09.8 | newsroom that can impact the way that stories develop. And there's an example over the last week |
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