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weighing in on this so i'm not going to belabor the point except to say election denial lists do not belong on the payroll of a news organization. people who seek to undermine democracy should not be contracted to work at an institution that seeks to preserve it. tonight the man who was the boss of all of us, nbcuniversal newsgroup chairman confirmed that ronna mcdaniel would not be an nbc news contributor either. in a note to staff he said no organization particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned. over the last few days it has become clear the disappoint undermines that goal. the last few days we been given license to say what we felt was wrong with this call so i also think it's important to speak up when we feel like the right thing was done. companies make mistakes. sometimes very big ones, sometimes very publicly. what matters especially in the end is how they correct them.
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from what we can see right now it looks like our company listened to us, to you, and did what was right. that is our chauffeur tonight. the last word starts right now. today the 2024 presidential campaign, the republican nominee donald trump was hit with a new gag order ahead of his criminal trial in manhattan next month. it bans him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and potential jurors because according to the judge, defendant donald trump is a threat. quote, his statements were threatening, inflammatory, denigrating. the uncontested record reflecting the defendant's prior extrajudicial statements establishes a sufficient risk to the administration of justice and there exists no less restrict the means to prevent such risk,". that's what was going on with
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the presumptive nominee for president. things are a little different on the democratic side. president biden and vice president harris spent today talking healthcare in north carolina where medicaid was expanded through the affordable care act. >> donald trump and his friends are nothing but persistent. they've tried to repeal it 50 times. not a joke. 50 times they tried to repeal it. we stopped them every time. they want to get rid of the affordable healthcare act again. but i've got news for them. we're going to stop them again. [ applause ] today, 100 million americans no longer have health insurance because of pre- existing convictions with you get it through aca or not. 25 million low income adults have gained medicaid coverage because of aca including as i've said, 400,000 right here in north carolina because of roy cooper.
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>> donald trump lost to biden in north carolina by 1.3% and the biden and harris campaign is fighting to win this state this time around. north carolina became the 40 does-- 40 estate to expend-- extend medicaid after roy cooper signed legislation into law. when you consider the vetoproof republican super majorities in north carolina you may get the impression that it's a red state, but in 2020 democrat roy cooper actually won 76,000 votes than donald trump did in north carolina in that election. governor cooper by the way is term limited. north carolina republicans have nominated maybe the most extreme candidate in the country for governor, the current republican lieutenant governor mark robinson. mark robinson wants to repeal the affordable care act. quote, i just want repeal when it comes to insurance,
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healthcare, the federal government can kick rocks,". mark robinson has been endorsed by donald trump. >> this is martin luther king on steroids. i told that to mark. i said i think you are better than martin luther king. martin luther king times two. >> donald trump called mark robinson, who has a history of spreading islam a phobic, anti- semitic, anti-women, anti-lgbtq rhetoric, martin luther king on steroids. isaac really writes in the charlotte observer robinson and his republican enablers will want us to forget who he really is but we mustn't forget. in a 2014 facebook post robinson included hit letters pride in one's own race quote. he claimed he was just doing whatever-- every history book in america does because they
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all quote him,". robinson has said that acceptance of people will lead to the acceptance of pedophilia. he compared lgbtq people to maggots during a sermon, demeaned muslims and said tradespeople should be arrested or use the bathroom outdoors. he also help spread the bigoted conspiracy theory about barack obama and calls abortion murder despite that being a choice that he and his wife made prior to having two children of their own. martin luther king on steroids, indeed. on the issue of reproductive rights, north carolina has a 12 week abortion ban and it was a policy vetoed by governor cooper until the republican-led legislature overrode his veto. north carolina vice president kamala harris says this. >> across our nation, extremists attack a woman's access to healthcare and reproductive health care.
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they have proposed and passed laws that criminalize doctors and punish women. laws that threaten doctors and nurses with prison time, even for life , simply for providing reproductive care. laws that make no exception for rape or incest, the result is a healthcare crisis with real harm . >> joining us now is the governor of north carolina, roy cooper. governor kuiper-- governor cooper, good to see you. we talked the day after you made an impassioned speech to the state in front of a group of supporters but really intended for republicans in your state legislatures to say don't do this. you are going to do real harm. and the fact is, the population of north carolina is on your side as it relates to abortion rights but the republicans did it anyway. >> this is not who we are, north carolinians.
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the thing about it is that every single republican voted to override my veto. every single democrat voted to sustain it. even republicans who had promised that they wouldn't do it, that shows you that we just cannot believe them. many republicans are so extreme that they are trying to moderate a little bit but we cannot believe them because every single one of them voted that way. we saw it in the supreme court today. clearly they are just going after women's reproductive freedom in every way that they could possibly think of. that's why it's important to defeat candidates like robinson hearing north carolina with a great economy from our attorney general and that is why we have to elect joe biden and kamala harris.
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they will put roe versus wade into federal law if we can get a congress that would send them a bill. if they were here today there's no better place than north carolina for them to come today to celebrate healthcare. we already have 1 million people on the affordable care act. we've just expanded medicaid and a-- in a bipartisan way and now we are signing up about 1000 people a day. these are childcare workers, people who look after our seniors, and donald trump and people like him want to take it away. i lost count of the number of times republicans tried to reveal and replace-- repeal and replace obama care over the years but in the end they are still running on that. no one in all of those efforts,
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dozens of efforts came up with something better, came up with an alternative. i think we can acknowledge everything can be done better but that's not what republicans are trying to do. this is the southern border issue. this is like reproductive rights and ivf in alabama. it's not clear what the goal is except to be disruptive. >> they talk about repeal and replace but there's no replays every single time-- there's no replacing. every time, they talk about getting rid of healthcare for people. and the southern border. here we had legislation that was the strongest border protection ever, and republicans , because it didn't fit their political narrative, because trump told them he wanted to keep the issue alive for the campaign, pulled out of this agreement. that is the way they operate. they are going for power and not paying attention to the real issues that are facing the people of north carolina and
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the people across this country. it runs the carolina and when you look at statewide candidates they nominated people like mark robinson or dan bishop for attorney general who is in congress now and part of the boebert, gates, marjorie taylor green cub all. they've nominated someone for superintendent of public schools who believe that teachers ought to have guns in the classroom, who homeschools all of her children, and to into january 6 at the capitol building. that is the kind of extreme republican lineup that is in north carolina and why i believe that we can get a massive turnout in north carolina for president biden we
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are a targeted state and we will continue to work hard to make sure that this election preserves our democracy, preserves women's reproductive freedoms, preserves the opportunity for people to get healthcare-- on a platform of repealing alabama is no exception abortion ban and fully restoring access to ivf and protecting the rights to contraception. these are things of what you speak. for those of us who don't understand how north carolina works, how is it that statewide a guy like you got more votes than donald trump did in 2020 but at the same time you got a vetoproof majority. what is the
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thing we have to understand that puts mark robinson in play given the things he stands for, standing in stark contrast to north carolinians and what they say they want particularly as it relates to things like abortion rights? >> the first thing is technologically diabolical gerrymandering is how they control a super majority of the legislature. for four years they've broken the majority in every-- and every one of my veto is held. when you have a low-profile race -- a high-profile race who won in a crowded republican primary with thirtysomething percent of the vote and it was in a presidential year, it cannot get much attention. i believe that north carolinians want to go back to the days of the culture war. i remember we got elected at the time when we were walking through the rubble of the
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bathroom bill battlefield in north carolina. it was wrong in and of itself and hurt our state economically. we were able to get that repealed and now you have someone like mark robinson who wants to go back to the culture war. when you add that to the anti- lgbtq and the anti--- jerking away healthcare from people, and then the positives that joe biden and kamala harris have done for this country connecting people to high-speed internet, lowering the cost of drugs and insulin, making one of the best investments in infrastructure that we've seen in a generation. all that is positive and we are going to be talking about that but taking it to the republicans as well. >> i just want to take you back
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to the bathroom bill. there's a letter from the connecticut democrats who wrote to officials at the economic community of development to explore opportunities to track businesses from north carolina in the event that mark robinson is elected, or the nomination of him as governor of north carolina. unemployment is low, wages are going up, gdp is strong, it's not the most even economy. it is a bad time to be making those kinds of decisions about abortion and about gay rights and things like that? >> why would we make the decisions that turn people away? they can stay away. >> governor, good to see you as always and thank you for being with us. governor roy cooper of north carolina. the same supreme court that overturn roe versus wade heard
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join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. the solicitor general of the united states stood before the united states supreme court and explained the damage that would be done to american women if the court limited access to the abortion pill mifepristone. >> rolling back fda changes would unnecessarily restrict access to mifepristone with no safety justification. some women could be forced to undergo more invasive surgical abortions, others might not be able to access the drug at all, and all of this would happen at the request of plaintiffs who have no certain injury of their own. >> the same supreme court that overturn roe versus wade seemed
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poised to reject the action that was approved-- even though it is used in 60% of abortions wide. fda versus alliance for hippocratic medicine are a group of antiabortion doctors and organizations. they are challenging policy changes that the fda made in 2016 and 2021 which made the drug easier to a pain through things like telemedicine and in the mail. for those changes, only specialized doctors could provide and dispense the drug to patients and it had to be in person. antiabortion doctors bring this lawsuit, and whether they had sufficient legal standing, given that they suffered no direct harm when changes by the fda made the abortion pill more
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easily available. >> under federal law, no doctors can be forced against their consciences to perform or assist in an abortion, correct? >> the difficulty here is that at least to me, these affidavits to read more like the conscience objection is strictly to actually participating in the abortion to end the life of the embryo or fetus. and i don't read either one to say that they ever participated in that. >> other justices question whether restricting access to women everywhere based on the objections of a few was overly broad. >> why can't the court specify that this relief runs to precisely the parties before the court, as opposed to looking to the agency in general and saying, agency, you can't do this anywhere? >> do we have to also entertain your argument that no one else
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in the world can have this drug or no one else in america should have this drug, in order to protect your clients? >> this case seems like a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nationwide legislative assembly on an fda rule or any other federal government action. >> i could open a pandora's box for more challenges to other fda approved drugs. >> you open your brief with a somewhat arresting statement. to the government's knowledge of this case marks the first time, and i'm going to say, is it the first time, is it the only time? any court has restricted access to an fda approved drug by second-guessing fda's expert judgment about the conditions required to assure that drug's safe use. is it still the only time? >> that is still to our knowledge, the only time that a
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court has done that. >> there's a lot to get to. the former acting us solicitor general who has argued 50 cases in front of the supreme court, and be a legal analyst and host of the podcast courtside. thank you for being here. there are a couple of very interesting legal issues. one is standing. why is that issue-- let's start with that. what is the issue around standing? because it doesn't speak to anything underlying about mifepristone or abortion necessarily and it's about whether this case is valid. >> good to see you and before answering that i just want to disclose that i am unabashedly against this lawsuit and indeed, my law partner argued the case brilliantly today. the one great thing about the oral argument today is that all of the applicants were women, all three of them doing-- for the religious doctors. there are two issues. one is this doctrine of
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standing that you are asking about and that essentially asks, who can come into federal court and file a federal lawsuit challenging something? and the second is merits. did the fda endorse science and safety when it expanded access to mifepristone in the last few years? much of the argument today, as you highlighted, was about standing. and basically, aaron holly said there are seven doctors who have conscientious objections and might be the case that at some point, one of the doctors patient is might take mifepristone and that may cause a side effect like a headache and that may cause the person to be-- to go to the emergency room. and if that person goes to the emergency room it may be that person will need to be treated and if the treatment is necessary it may be that one of the seven doctors is the person treating it.
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that is a ridiculous chain of causation that doesn't work in any aspect of the law and i don't think it worked in the supreme court today. justice on left and right wing just expressed massive skepticism about this, so i think that's were the case will be decided. >> to the second part, the issues of judges and science. there was an exchange on this and it's relevant so i want to play for our viewers this exchange because the video begins with justice jackson. >> do you have concerns about judges pursing medical and scientific studies? >> yes your honor, i think we have significant concerns about that. you have a district court that among other things, relied on one study that was an analysis of anonymous blog posts. you have another set of studies that he relied on that were not in the administrative record
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and would never be because they post date the fda decisions here. i have since been retracted for lack of scientific rigor and for misleading presentations of data. those source of errors can affect judicial analyses precisely because judges are not experts in statistics. they are not experts in the methodology used for scientific studies, for clinical trials. >> this is not just relevant, hugely relevant to this particular case. it's relevant to a lot of cases making it to the supreme court. they do not fall into the expertise but should be adjudicated in the courts are determined by congress. that in itself could lead to a major mess in the way that government runs. there should not be agencies
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and experts and courts and congress should make these decisions on science and technical matters. >> that is almost all exactly right. it cannot be the case. an individual doctor afraid that one of your patients will have a side effect, go and challenge the thing and then go to a judge and say, stop this from being sold nationwide or prescribed nationwide. it's rather extreme rulings by judges that forced the case to go to the supreme court. this is not the way that federal judges ordinarily behave and the most important worry about a case like this is that if it did go forward, if it's
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mifepristone today could be who knows what drug tomorrow. it's not a way to run a government and not a way to run society. >> we did not cherry pick those quotes. there did seem to be broad skepticism across the political spectrum from a number of the justices about the merits of the case by which it was brought to the supreme court and standing. >> we've seen more than 500 cases and it's difficult to tell what justices are going to do. sometimes it's easy but it felt like one of those pretty easy ones. obviously anything can happen but i felt like today there was a wide consensus on both sides of the court as well as the middle of the court that this challenge had to fail, that it didn't have merit, and that the people trying to raise it didn't have a claim to walk
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into federal court in the first place. i expect a rather swift decision , either 8 - 1 or 9 - 0 against these challengers. and the good upshot is that mifepristone will be safe and available to used by women the way the fda has prescribed it to be used in the challenge is going nowhere. >> there's been no limit to the number of products that trump is willing to slap his name on. every time and all capitalize and gold in order to make a buck. steak, vodka, ties, lambs, a fake university, and vitamins and supplements that were supposedly tailored to your individual needs after you sent in this trump branded urine test to a lab to analyze. seriously. but his latest wrist will surprise of those of you who
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just one day after comparing his civil fraud a libel self to jesus, donald trump in honor of holy week of course, is hocking trump endorsed bible. a low rent and shameless move for the not so low price of $59.99. citing a person familiar with the details with the business arrangement, donald trump would receive some form of royalties. he first announced this product on the so-called truth social that made it stock market debut under the name trump media and tech knowledge he group after merging with a shell company whose largest shareholder is the firm owned by the republican billionaire and mega donor jeff yass. let's go through that one more time. a gop billionaire trading firm, has a shell company that merges with trump's social media site potentially delivering a
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massive financial windfall for trump who is in the middle of a massive cash crunch might be the next president of the united states. he now owns 60% of the new trump media company or roughly $78 million a share, a stick that is on paper at this hour worth $4.6 billion. on paper being the operative words. stock prices generally are not invented out of thin air. they are supposed to bear some relationship to what a company has earned in the past or what it will potentially earn, except this one doesn't. not even close. the valuation of trump media simply does not come anywhere close to matching its actual business performance. and sec filing shows the trump social media site earned about $3.4 million in revenue and lost $49 million in the first nine months of 2023. like all of them there is sure to be an epilogue.
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weeknights on msnbc, she is also in her spare time and nbc news senior business analyst. >> can i say something? we are used to quoting famous hip-hop artist but you just quoted cnc music factory with things that make you go hmm and you said jankey, so what a treat >> i saw you send a note trying to explain the valuation of this company. put that aside for one second because that is interesting in and of itself. trump has more money out of this thing then logically it would be worth but there is something else to it and we were talking about this pennsylvania billionaire jeff yass who is also a very big shareholder in bytedance which is the parent company of tik tok which donald trump for a
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hot second was against. >> and then jeff yass made his way to mar-a-lago, saw donald trump and trump said you know what? i think i like to talk. so jeff yass backing this is not complicated. here's one of the richest guys in the country, the richest man in pennsylvania, and the biggest backer of the shell company that has merged with donald trump company so right there boom. one could say he's trying to create a favorite but he is not a traditional investor. the hedge fund that he founded is what is known as an options trading firm. a derivatives house. so when lots of us look at this company and say it makes no sense, this is why you don't see traditional lenders or insurance companies say we are going to lend donald trump money against the stock because when you look at the company all it does is lose money and has a tiny amount of advertising revenue. it has absolutely no features.
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any social media company that has gone public has some sort of innovation. this company does not. but the way that yass invests, he's going to back this company which will certainly help donald trump, hoping that he will win but even if he doesn't, i am sure this guys has this position hedged in six different ways that it's not nearly as big of a loss as one would think. >> what do you call it? if you are donald trump and the sec is looking at everything you do, it's likely not illegal at this point. he is just the ceo of a company that is an investor in a shell firm that merged with this. it feels like influence peddling. >> absolutely and one could say that buying shares of this stock is this unregulated way to be a huge donor to donald trump but guess what? you might not like it, it might feel yucky and it might feel
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like a grift but at the end of the day he may be the luckiest guys threading the needle and it may work out for him. now. donald trump can't sell his shares in the company right now. at one point they were worth $6 billion on paper and at the end of the day they were 4 1/2 billion, still huge numbers. he's not in a position to sell. he has a six-month lockup unless he gets a waiver, which he might. but when he goes to sell it-- >> he's the biggest shareholder so all of a sudden when you try to unload that many shares it suppresses the market. >> lots of people buying shares are also donald trump super fans and we've got the name stock traders. you had all these daytraders in the market saying we are going to run a stock up and take it to the moon. you've got those elements all coming together and now donald trump, 2024 has become a meme stock. >> you talk to people all the time about this. are any sort of sensible, fundamental investors like our viewers should be, the people
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who say stock should be worth about this, are any of these kind of parties involved? >> not really but you definitely have options traders who are saying i'm going to bet on the fact that he may win and see where things are going to be six months from now, but you do have a group of those feverish daytraders. we are living in a time where ipos are hot. it coin is doing well. and since 2019, basically when commissions to trade stocks went to almost 0 with robin hood and when the barrier of entry lowered so much so that lots of everyday people could get involved, lots of those people are now investing in this. is it going to work out for them? unclear, but we see this every day. buyer beware. just like bibles. we can laugh about it and say this is absurd, this is hypocritical, but guess what? these are free markets. if people want to buy the trump bible, have added >> i'm not sure about sending a urine sample to get checked.
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>> that's your own personal-- some people might like to send that to him for their own reasons. >> thank you. always great. thank you my friend. my old friend. >> did you call me old? >> my friend of great longevity. >> you are older than i am. >> whatever. okay. serious show here. we are going to talk about the diplomatic rift between washington and tel aviv on full display at the pentagon and what it could mean for the future of us and israeli relations and the ongoing war in gaza next. in gaza next. come on. i already got a pneumonia vaccine, but i'm asking about the added protection of prevnar 20®. if you're 19 or older with certain chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, copd, or heart disease, or are 65 or older, you are at increased risk
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it's gonna give you your life back. today the united states defense secretary lloyd often met with his israeli counterpart defense minister in washington where austin urged him to avoid a ground offensive in rafah. but not in attendance at that meeting today was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's top advisor. netanyahu abruptly pulled his advisor yesterday after the united states for the first time did not block a united nations security council resolution demanding a cease-fire in gaza. instead, netanyahu's advisor appeared on fox news this morning where he said israel is absolutely planning to go into rafah were more than 1.5 million people have taken refuge.
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>> we cannot afford to not go into rafah to finish the job because than what they will do is october 7 again and again and again. there's no chance that israel is not going to go and finish the job in rafah. once we finish off rafah, the heavy phase of this war will be behind us and the terror army of hamas will be dismantled and then we can start talking about what happens the day after. >> once we finish rafah. the biden administration is literally telling the government do not do this. here's vice president kamala harris on sunday. >> we've been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into rafah with any type of military operation. >> a mistake , but would there be consequences if he does move forward? >> were going to take it one step at a time but we been very clear in terms of our perspective on whether or not that should happen. >> are you ruling out there
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would be consequences from the united states? >> i am ruling out nothing. >> the administration says it is ruling out nothing in terms of consequences but what is it ruling in? the day the vice president made those comments, i read this extraordinary 13 post thread from norm orenstein. you know him well as a congressional historian and an expert on american government. we rely on his analysis regularly but his thread on us and israeli relations begins like this. i am fiercely pro-israel, including its right to defend itself against terrorist. but i can also draw a distinction when leaders do bad things, including sanctioning armed vigilantes in the west bank and pushing to annex more territory for settlements in a rebuke to biden. the millions of israelis have demonstrated against netanyahu's government even during this war are not anti- israel propagandists. what they are doing will divide and alienate many of the remaining supporters of this country-- of the country,
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further isolating israel. this direct and overt insult directed at biden, with the expectation that it will be met with in action, is reckless, immoral, and dangerous. a stronger signal needs to be sent to the leaders of this government, including articulating a plan for the day after the war. norm's thread ends like this. as president biden has said, it is essential to do whatever can be done to minimize both civilian casualties and collateral damage, including providing and distribute in food and water, and to have a plan ready to govern after the war. that includes working assiduously to find a governing force among palestinians who are neither corrupt nor ineffective, and who genuinely commit to peaceful coexistence. pushing he and his government to do these things is correct and necessary. making clear that there will be consequences if he not only fails to heed this advice from his closest and most significant ally, but ask belligerently to reject it. joining us now is the ow is the
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analyzing the situation and the analysis you are providing is that this has to go a different way. this, butting heads between joe biden and benjamin netanyahu needs to have a different outcome. >> i can almost call it tough love. what israel is doing with this government and what really set me off was this decision to expand settlements, immediately after we had seen comments by the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, and president biden, calling on benjamin netanyahu and the israeli government to do just what you were quoting, to make sure that you take care of civilians with food and water, that you minimize civilian casualties, and have a plan for the day after. that plan cannot wait until after the war ends and when
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benjamin netanyahu did this, and as used, this gesture of refusing to send the other adviser to washington, it's a hi direct challenge to president biden, done clearly in part for benjamin netanyahu's domestic considerations, but it's going to hurt israel. a lot of israelis recognize this and youi don't have to suspend criticism as many have done to try and move them back to a different and better path. >> let's talk about domestic considerations. benjamin netanyahu is largely rg using this as a campaign tactic for a campaign that is not on. he has sort of said, i am the one that can stand between joe biden, whose race was remarkable. when i was there when the war started, everybody was saying
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thank you to joe biden, and he's not saying you won't stand by israel. he saying benjamin netanyahu, you need a different approach to prevent more civilian deaths. >> i think that he has made a calculation that he can do almost anything he wants and america will just stand by because we have such a strong relationship. i do not think that is going to work, anymore. frankly, i don't think it should work anymore. there have to be consequences for some of these things and let me reiterate, this is not just about gaza, it's about broader considerations. they've armed 100,000 settlers, a lot of them radicals, many vigilantes, with assault weapons probably, many of them coming illegally from the united ga states which will make matters worse for palestinians in the west bank but also potentially
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for a civil war in israel. a friend has to say, you can't go on this way and you can't go on without thinking through how you were going to have a responsible palestinian authority and it has to include a pathway to a palestinian state not next week, not next month, not next year, but that has to be on the table and those expansions of settlements are designed to take it off the table. >> let's do the domestic political situation. this affects joe biden, to some degree. that speech by chuck schumer would not have been a renegade act. at least the white house would have known he was doing and they would have had some coordination. that was something, from chuck schumer. he's the highest-ranking elected jewish person in this country and probably so and
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probably an ally of israel and again, it was not about israel. it was not about breaking with israel, it was about this is really right-wing government and the damage it can continue to do. >> i will say that actually, ironically, we may see this coming to the kind of conclusion chuck schumer was talking about, and early election over a completely different issue, to keep his right-wing coalition together, netanyahu has had to make all kinds of concessions to the ultra religious, including trying to keep them all from having to serve in the military in the middle of a war. his coalition partners, who are not part of that particular community, are not happy. that might be good news. i just want to make one comment on the domestic situation. joe biden has done this because of what he believes is in america's national interest.
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we have a bigger problem in this country with the division being caused. i recommend to everybody, a remarkable piece in the atlantic idea baker, who is a great journalist and a sophomore at stanford university, pointing out it's not just the east coast universities who are seeing these decisions. the vile acts and statements made by people, we don't need to see this in america and it's not just about residential politics, it's about the entire nation and civil discourse. >> thank you for always being a sharp intellectual analyst on this and we appreciate you joining us. we will be right back. nice to meet ya. my name is david. i've been a pharmacist for 44 years.
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