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morning. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪♪ it's the top of the hour. welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, january 2nd. happy new year, everybody. israel's ground offensive in gaza is entering a new phase. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we're going to go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. plus, a damning, new report on the intelligence failures by the israeli military. "new york times" investigation found there was no battle plan for a massive hamas invasion that they were w...

Had been trained on it. the paper reports israel's military was undermanned, out of position, and so poorly organized that soldiers communicated in impromptu what's app groups and relied on social mea posts for targeting information. the israe military reservists were not prepared to quickly mobilize and deploy. a major in the reserves tells "the times" their train assumed that israeli intelligence would learn of a looming invasion i advance. he says his paratrooper unit mobilized on their own without a formal call uporder. seven hours into the fighting, he turned to the reservist next him and...