Way Too Early 1/17/25
Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
MS NOW, Ali Vitali
4.5 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Look, the idea that we're going to be in a situation where we could continue to have the chaos in the Middle East without the running a risk of starting a regional war, it's really not possible. |
| 0:18.0 | And the idea that Israel is going to be able to sustain itself from the long |
| 0:22.5 | term without accommodating the Palestinian question and their safety, their meaning the safety |
| 0:30.0 | of American Jews, not possible. It's not going to happen. That was President Biden last night, |
| 0:36.4 | addressing the past week of negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas. |
| 0:42.3 | The question is, will the Israeli cabinet now approve the agreement? |
| 0:45.9 | And also ahead, we'll have a recap of yesterday's confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:49.7 | The question is, how did nominees' answers compared to Donald Trump's own positions? |
| 0:54.5 | Plus, the Supreme Court could release its ruling today on the looming ban of TikTok. |
| 0:58.6 | The question is, will the app go dark for 170 million American users on Sunday? |
| 1:03.4 | It's way too early for this. |
| 1:15.7 | Good morning and welcome to way too early. |
| 1:19.5 | The show that wonders how the world will cope with a day off from social media. |
| 1:21.6 | It doesn't sound like the worst, at least for a day. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm Allie Vitale on this Friday, January 17th, and we'll start with the news. |
| 1:28.3 | We begin this morning with the latest out of the Middle East. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that |
| 1:32.8 | negotiating teams have agreed to the ceasefire and hostage release deal. A security cabinet meeting |
| 1:37.7 | is set for this morning to vote on that deal, with the full cabinet meeting set to vote |
| 1:41.9 | later and then time allotted for Israel's Supreme Court to hear any appeals. |
| 1:46.4 | Netanyahu's office says that despite the delays, the ceasefire is still expected to go into effect Sunday, with three hostages released at that time. |
| 1:54.3 | Israel delayed the security cabinet vote yesterday, blaming Hamas for creating a last-minute crisis without providing details on what that crisis was. |
| 2:02.8 | In the meantime, the bombing continued. NBC's Richard Engel has been covering the war since the beginning |
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