Thursday Morning Politics: Speaker Election; Israel-Gaza War

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jonathan Lemire, host of “Way Too Early" on MSNBC, Politico White House bureau chief, and the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022), talks about the latest national political news, including the chaotic House speaker election, and the U.S. role so far in the war in Israel and Gaza.

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0:00.0	We begin today on the intersection of terror and war in the Middle East and national politics
0:20.0	in the United States.
0:22.0	President Biden, Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is now in Israel to meet with Israeli
0:27.0	and Palestinian leaders as well as King Abdullah of Jordan.
0:31.0	Here's Blinken just a short time ago this morning, U.S. time.
0:35.0	Baby slaughtered.
0:38.0	Body's desecrated.
0:40.0	Young people burned alive.
0:42.0	Women raped.
0:45.0	Parents executed in front of their children.
0:48.0	Children in front of their parents.
0:52.0	How do we even to understand this?
0:56.0	To digest this?
0:59.0	Secretary of State Blinken in Israel today.
1:03.0	President Biden met yesterday in Washington with American Jewish leaders.
1:07.0	Among the speakers on the White House side was Doug M. Hoff.
1:11.0	You know that name?
1:12.0	His title, I guess, is Second Gentlemen, which means he's the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
1:18.0	And M. Hoff happens to be Jewish.
1:22.0	Like all Jews, I feel a deep, visceral connection to Israel and his people.
1:28.0	We witnessed a mass murder of innocent civilians.
1:32.0	It was a terrorist assault.
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