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expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after president joe biden threatened to withhold us weapons if israel were to count carry out an all-out offensive in that city, the increased military operation in rafah has put ceasefire for hostage talks on pause two us officials told cnn all of this follows a turning point in us israel relations this week, when president biden previously unwavering public support began to waver the highly visible pro-palestinian campus protests have been threatening to splinter biden's fragile democratic coalition in a sit-down interview with cnn's erin burnett biden threatened to halt some weapons shipments. the first significant conditioning of us military aid to israel since the start of the war. but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that to avenge hamas is seven terror attacks, quote, if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone. i have said that if necessary, we will fight with our fingernails joining me

now to discuss as thomas l. friedman, he is a three-time pulitzer prize winning columnist for the new york times, where his latest paste just out is titled biden's real mistake in pausing military aid to israel. and his many bestsellers include the national book award winner from beirut to jerusalem, which has a new audio forward, tom, always great when you're here, what will be the impact of this state department report that said israel most likely fail to protect civilians in gaza, but did not find specific instances. >> gosh michael, i don't think it's going to have much impact whatsoever. i think what matters is what's happening on the ground right now particularly in and around rafah and around the limited embargo that president biden has imposed on israel to drive home. the point that if it's going to go into rafah, it has to do so in a way that simply does not cause massive an casualties as its entrance into gaza city and khan younis have

so in your most recent posting for the times on that subject, here's part of what you wrote. you said netanyahu's policies have not will not produce a sustainable victory in gaza as a cannot secure israel against his greatest existential threat. iran and our endangering world jewry and undermining america eric has broader middle east strategic needs and goals. so what should israel be doing then about hamas still in rafah so it really, we have to start at 30,000 feet. >> michael and that is my belief that if israel that it had to go into gaza, forestry the taoiseach and moral reasons to dismantle hamas. >> the only way it could do it is if it had three things, it needed time it needed resources, and it needed legitimacy because given the fact that hamas had buried itself, and its tunnels under a civilian population, there were

always going to be heavy civilian casualties no matter what now what that meant is from the very beginning israel had to be seen as at war with hamas and not with the palestinian people. >> that was central and for that to happen, it needed to have a palestinian partner. it needed failed to say to the world, to itself, to gazans, we want to dismantle hamas, but we want to replace them with a with the palestinian authority in the west bank, which is embraced the oslo peace process. instead, what netanyahu did was say, we're going to going to war against hamas. and we're going to stay at war with the pa. so we have the palestinian authorities, so we have no palestinian partner message to the world. we're not at war just with hamas, were at war with the palestinian people. and because of that, israel has not had the legitimacy. it needed for this kind of war. >> president biden's response,

and i made reference to it in your introduction was to have a sit down with erin burnett and to threaten the pause of additional weapons in this most recent column of yours, you question that approach. it seemed like you think there needs to be a more broad policy statement? offered by the white house. what would your counsel be how should president biden be using his leverage with netanyahu i would have loved to see him actually give a full beach basically saying here's why we're doing this. >> weapons pause. but it's in a much broader context. you, israel are fighting a war with diminishing, actually with virtually no anymore legitimacy, because it's award that is perceived as being a war against the palestinian people. you can't be at war with hamas in gaza and then be pursuing and reinforcing an occupation in the west bank. that, that just doesn't work. you've got to have a palestinian partner, a

palestinian partner for you as key. first of all, to be able to say to the world, we are going to remove hamas, but we're going to replace it with a legitimate decent palestinian government it's the key to having a regional leinz that you need against iran because israel's moderate air partners are not going to sign on to protect israel if it's perceived as trying to destroy the palestinian people and not just hamas, if israel had a partner with the pa that would make it much easier for uae, jordan, egypt, saudi arabia, to partner with israel against iran it's palestinian partners stupid. it's the keystone to everything. if israel does not have that michael, it has no exit strategy for gaza. it has no way of building a regional alliance against iran. it has no plan for the morning after it will have no international legitimacy let's see the subject of future governance has been a consistent concern of thomas friedman since ten, seven.

>> here's what most recently you wrote on it ther, about 7 million israeli jews would be permanently controlling about 5 million palestinian arabs and to occupied territories, which would be a moral, economic, and military open for stretch that would delight iran because it would hasten israel's descent into being a global pariah. my question is it too late for a deal with the saudis that which had been in the works up until ten, seven wasn't important question michael and the saudi deal has two components. >> it has an american saudi component that revolves around a mutual security treaty, a civilian nuclear program, and weapons transfers. >> but to get that us saudi component passed by the us congress to facilitate that saudi arabia actually offered to normalize hi is relations with israel provided israel would some kind of horizon or pathway to a two-state solution for palestinians. netanyahu's government is refusing to do that. so the administration, while tying up the saudi deal, is now trying to figure out do

they do they take them are limited deal to congress and try to get it through where they promised from saudi arabia that would normalize with israel if and when an israeli government came along ready to do that, or does this just scotch the whole deal? i think that's all in discussion right now. >> final question. i want to put polling data from american youth on the screen. it raises the question of what thomas friedman thinks about a campus unrest. i don't know if you can see the screen, but take my word for it the issues that college students are most important, most concerned about coming in last ninth of nine, the conflict in the middle east, your last column said that the protests on campuses are getting something wrong. what's the takeaway you swift well, michaeli, if you're only condemning israeli violence against palestinians and you're ignoring what hamas did october 7 you're not morally serious. if you're for, for a ceasefire now and not for a return of hostages now, you're not

morally serious. it seems to me and if you're not talking about a two-state solution, but you're talking about a palestinian state from the river to the sea. >> you're not morally serious there's only one solution here and that is two states for two indigenous people between the jordan river and the mediterranean. and if you're not for that, if you're not for ending the violence and for a hostage release, if you're only condemning one side and not the other, you're not morally serious and you're not going to be at all productive and helpful because there's only one way out. >> two, states for two people let me read aloud a social media reaction and see if tom wants to respond. go ahead, catherine put it on the screen. i'll read it aloud. biden is making so many mistakes. it's disheartening tom friedman, you've written that he's the most pro-israel president that we've ever had defend that view well, joe biden was the

first president to actually pick up and go to israel after this kind of violent attack from palestinians. >> he did everything to get it as israel, the, the military equipment needed he stood up to defend israel at the united nations. but the problem for joe biden michael is he's actually a very decent, straightforward guy. he is not built to deal with a sinister, cynical character like benjamin netanyahu, who is ready to use america, ready to use biden. >> two sure. what is his top priority? the political survival of benjamin netanyahu which he has put ahead of israel's national interests because israel's national interests is to have a palestinian partner and netanyahu refuses to do that because he's cabinet, that he formed with a bunch of right-wing lunatics who refused to concede sit, or any kind of palestinian partner. and as long as that is the case, israel cannot win in gaza, it

cannot win in the, it cannot win in college campuses, it will not win tom friedman. thank you so much for coming back pleasure up. i had depending on who you ask, the netflix roast of tom brady was either way to rhonchi and offensive or totally hilarious i happen to be in the latter category and i think people need to get their senses of humor back, but i want to know what you think. go to my website. it's more conscious.com. here's today's poll question inspired by a recent interview that jerry seinfeld gave to the new yorker seinfeld blames extreme left pc crap and people worrying about offending for the lack of comedy on tv. do you agree with jerry seinfeld plus it was a dark and stormy week for donald trump and his hush money trial as adult film actress stormy daniels took the witness stand but are the prosecutors successfully proving he's guilty of the crime that he's actually charged with falsification of business records. it's the subject of one of this week's exclusive

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tweeted real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court oh, wait. never mind. trump's legal team tried to get judge juan merchan to modify his gag order. so that trump could respond, but the motion was denied. the jury finally saw chart of those 34 business records that prosecutors allege were falsified. 11 invoices, 12 vouchers, 11 checks, which is why the indictment has 34 counts the prosecution, despite saying that they would need six weeks to present their case. now say they could wrap up next week, which will be the fourth week of testimony. so what's left? >> former trump attorney michael cohen joining me now is cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, elie honig elie. >> okay. i'm convinced they convinced me. he wore the silk pajamas tamas and he was not wearing something else that perhaps he should have been wearing. but having sex with an adult film star that's not illegal nor is paying her for her silence. so where are we on the important matter of trump's intent?

>> so michael, the key thing to keep in mind here, as you say, wearing silk pajamas, not a crime, having sex with a porn star, not a crime paying a hush money, not a crime. and knowing about paying hush money, not a crime. the charge crime here is falsification of business records. and to that end, i think prosecutors have made slow but steady progress, but they're not quite all the way hey, there yet. and the person who's going to need to get them all the way there as michael cohen. and here's what i mean. i think it's quite clear based on the evidence we've seen so far, a that stormy daniels was paid $130,000 hush money. no question. be that donald trump was aware of that seed that donald trump knew he was reimbursing michael cohen over the subsequent months. but what you have to show is that donald trump what was in on a plan to falsify business records. let's set this up. let structure the internal accounting on this to hide it, to make it look like legal fees as opposed to a hush money payment. that's where the prosecution hasn't quite driven at home. that's where the name michael cohen to deliver for them this week so perhaps you are now about to school me as a

criminal litigator. my expertise is in the civil realm. that's a salacious information came in relative to stormy daniels. i don't understand it. and two times, judge merchan would not grant a mistrial, but in his second explanation, i'm going to put up on the screen what was said that it's sidebar judge merchan two. >> here it is to blanche in your opening statement, you deny that there was ever a sexual encounter between stormy daniels and the defendant? >> your denial puts the jury in a position of having to choose who they believe donald trump, who denies there was an encounter or stormy daniels who claims that there was elie an opening statement is not evidence. is is it appropriate for judge merchan to say, well, in your opening, here's what you said. therefore, you open the door so you're right. i think the statement by judge were sean is actually legally incorrect. the prosecution carries the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. always and forever. and for the judge to say this is kinda come down to a contest of

credibility before the before the three, who's telling the truth? stormy daniels or donald trump. that's just not correct. if donald trump doesn't take the stand and i don't think he will take the stand. it's not for the jury to say, well, who do i believe more? it's for the jury to say, has the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt? let me put that in another way to you. a lot of people who said, well, michael cohen, maybe he's a liar, but donald trump's a or two. so what if the jury concludes they're both big fat liars? which might be the case. guess what? the verdict is, not guilty. so i actually think the judge mistakes the burden of proof in that excerpt. you just showed us okay. >> and you anticipated my next question because when judge more shawn talks about whose account do we believe stormy daniels or donald trump? i think he's saying it's a case about sex it's not a case about sex right? so this is a difficult line for prosecutors to walk here. i do think they needed to call stormy daniels, not as a technical matter, but as a human matter, as explaining the case to the jury, i think it would have been really conspicuous if they

had not called stormy daniels now, when they got too deep, i think into the salacious details of the sex and the judge did sustain several objections from trump's team about the details. i guess the upside is the more details that stormy daniels gives tends to make her more credible if she just said, well, i had sex with them in a hotel room in 2006 and that's it. that's not all that credible. but if she says, oh, i remember for the magazine he was holding, i remember the pajamas. you tend to believe it more the downside for prosecutors though, is you get away from the ball, you get away from the ballgame here, which is falsification of business records. and the more time you spend in silk pajamas and that hotel room, the more the jury may be wondering, wait a second. the charge here is accounting essentially why are we spending so much time in detail in this hotel room? it's a tough call for prosecutors. i think they were right to call stormy daniel's, but i think they went too far into the nuances of it how much of this now rests on the shoulder, the successful prosecution, the rests on the shoulder of michael cohen i would say virtually all of it.

>> michael and i want to say michael cohen is a unique witness, right? he has a history of lying. unlike any witness that i've ever seen, he has a personal hatred for donald trump beyond what i've ever seen from any witness taking the stand against a defendant, me two days ago, he did a video where he's wearing a goofy the t-shirt showing donald trump in an orange jumpsuit behind bars. that's going to come back to haunt him. but on the other hand, prosecutors have done a really good job. i think i coined the term this week pre corroborating michael cohen, a lot of what he's going to testify about, not all of it, but a lot of it. they've already heard, they've already seen checks. they've seen handwriting on the internal account hoping documents. they've heard from other witnesses. and so a lot of what they're going to hear from michael cohen and prosecutors will argue just this in closing, they're going to say, folks, you don't need to take michael cohen at his word because virtually everything he says is backed up. but the key point did donald trump no, hey, we're going to falsify these records. we're going to call them attorney's fees to tried to hide them. that little nuance is going to be the

difference and the game changer and the one that should determine the verdict. and i think that in isolation can only come from michael cohen can i say you've been excellent. i've been watching all of the commentators have been excellent. i happen to be my personal fave, but i just think that the insight that has been provided in difficult circumstances because we don't have cameras in the courtroom and we ought to but i think that's cnn is doing the next best thing. so keep it up and thank you. oh, wait, stick around. social media reaction in case i need to lean on you for this, what do we have catherine? yeah, waste of time. and we look like a banana republic says a conservative with some tweaks elie honig replace what? >> i disagree on both of those. i think there's a fair are i disagree that it's a waste of time and i disagree that we looked like a banana republic. i think there are fair criticisms which i have voiced of the judgment decision that alvin bragg made to bring this case. i think this case can certainly be criticized for dealing with old conduct, with

conduct that the fed's passed on with conduct that's marginal, especially we will put against donald trump's other conduct, the january 6 in the classified documents, but i don't think that makes us into a show trial. i don't think this makes us into a banana republic. what we're seeing michael is a fair trial. the judge generally speaking, i have some criticisms of him. i just voiced one, but by enlarge, he's running a fair and patient trial. the lawyers for both sides have done a good and professional job. we have a jury that appears to be a fair jury. let's let this process play out. i don't personally care what the verdict is. i will respect the verdict from this jury. i think we've had a good, fair, and efficient trial, and i think it's a good statement about our judicial institutions okay an off simply say that i almost stumbled on the teleprompter is i was reading the intro when i got to the part that said that they had this encounter in 2006, i think that's what it said. i'm like thousand and six, this is 2024 like we're having this conversation now, really elie. thank you. >> yeah, i have. >> thanks, michael up ahead and

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or visit home serve.com is the playoffs what do you see? >> my first championship in houston, sall's not winning a championship. >> let's try and stay positive or positive. >> he didn't win a ring so did the greatest roast of all time for retired quarterback and nfl legend tom brady cross a line, or were the jokes fair game? >> the three-hour netflix special pulled in more than 2 million views on sunday when it's streamed live, featuring some of the biggest names in sports and hamas hollywood taking jabs at the seven-time super bowl champion and three-time mvp tom brady. the roess took more than two years

to prepare and currently ranks as the number one show on netflix in the despite its massive success, critics argue the roast should have never streamed live due to several punchlines targeting brady's ex-wife, just bundchen coach, but let me tell you something. people let me tell you something that's what you gotta do to maintain your happiness. you understand. >> you sometimes got to coach, you know, who else hey, coach gisele, she karate man tom appear to be a good sport for most of the night things took an awkward turn when comedian jeff ross made a joke about new england patriots owner robert kraft, involving an incident at a massage parlor back in 2019 that scrawny rookie famously walked into the owner, robert kraft's office and said, i'm the best decision, your organization has ever made. would you like a massage i love

robert kraft i sit again. okay. but vice p stand up and comedy formats at netflix, defendant the special saying, ts that's what makes it must television. even travis and brothers, who of course are nfl players found the roast entertaining that was unbelievable. >> first off everybody involved hats off i thought i'd been in tears the whole like last day. just watching the eclipse and everything that had me rolling because of how at everybody's neck people were going. >> i mean, it was pure entertainment and i'm really happy they did it. but i do not want i just do not get the ros. >> i don't understand why people do because it's cow

maybe i take myself too seriously joining me now is sally jenkins, columnist for the washington post, her latest piece is called the tom brady roast was a super bowl of cruelty. sally, welcome back. i get that. the jokes viewed in a vacuum, they do seem cruel for me. it worked because the humor was an equal opportunity offender like it got everybody by the end of the night. why was that not enough for you well because the person who is really roasted was not tom brady. >> it was his ex-wife primarily. that's number one actually people didn't really lay too much of a glove on tom brady. he came out pretty unscathed. number one. number two, it just wasn't that funny. i mean, kevin hart's not that funny. none of the ball players were especially funny. peyton manning was funny manning phil bell check was pretty funny. >> paton was funny. the rest of them not so funny. >> okay. admittedly, you are

talking to someone who's sense of humor in movies is a debate as to whether caddyshack animal house, or slap shot are the best movie of all time. so i common to all of that hi me to timeless classics. all three, those are funny. funny is one side. this would have been a great, this would have been a great line for tom brady. funny is wanda sykes saying, stop calling men dogs men aren't dogs. dogs are loyal, right? you don't find women's panties in a dog house that's funny, one to sex is 20. chris realized kevin kevin hart, not funny. it was look, just screaming profanity until a microphone is not funny. there has to be some width and some point to it the point of the comedy too often was gisele bundchen or bridget moynihan that was just stupid and cruel. the pointless peyton manning basically saying to tom brady, talking smack about tom brady and our house is called thanksgiving. that was funny by

the way. >> i thought it's interesting that you say this. i thought drew bledsoe was great, perfect self-deprecating, and i loved it. i want to roll some ghraieb. let me roll gronk for sally jenkins, then you can respond to him, play it what time? i really am psyched tonight that we got you and bill here tonight. everyone thinks you guys hate each other. what i saw firsthand, you two are exactly alike. you're both hardasses that hate fine. you both live and breathe. football neither view are married anymore your bolt even does boris from and both of you take full credit for the dynasty i thought that gronk was as much a target as was jesus. what did you make of him? >> i did actually gronkowski was still one of the few football players on the stage who actually had a sense that stuff wasn't that funny. he

actually looked quite uncomfortable about some of the jokes directed at chisel, which i found interesting because he was targeted all night as like this dumb you know, kind of a guy which also wasn't that funny so i thought gronkowski was one of the few guys who actually showed a little taste and discernment about comedy. >> what you, what do you make of seinfeld's comment? i'll put it on the screen and i'll read it aloud, not said with specificity to brady, but i see it as relevant. it used to be that you'd go home at the end of the day. most people would go, oh cheers. design. oh mashes on. oh, mary tyler moore, izzat all in the family is on. you just expected there'll be some funny stuff. we can watch on tv and then he said, well, guess what? where is it? this is the result of the extreme left and pc crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. can you buy into that? >> i can. i actually don't disagree with that at all. i mean, i'm a free speech absolutist. i'm not i'm not saying, oh, you know, take the roast off the air. i mean, look, i miss that kind of

comedy too. i just think that the dumbing down of comedy is the problem here and some of it comes from the right and some comes it's from the left. i think it's equal opportunity cancel culture going on, but i agree. i think the great comedies of the 70s and 80s, i really miss them yeah, totally can i can i also say i don't mean in sally jenkins defense because you don't need a defense. >> but what i appreciated about your column, even though we see this differently is that you gave us some lines like, here's what funny is. they were revolved. it's not as if you're approved, you get the final word no. >> i mean, look, i i grew up with dan jenkins who was one of the most body as drivers, semi tough, kopan, my so i can i can i stick a claim and say, look, i know funny. >> i grew up with funny. so i think i'm a pretty fair arbiter about funny. robin williams, one of the funniest man who ever lived. richard pryor when he said when richard pryor says i i'm not addicted

to cocaine. i just liked the smell. i mean, that was funny along a lot of great comedy it self-directed. chris rock's comedy can be very, very self-directed. wanda sykes mixed front of her own family. it's not like they're off limit targets. it's just that it better have a point and it better have some real whip behind it. otherwise, it's really just finished fluidity trudy is simply stupid thank you, sally. >> appreciate it. it's a great color station. >> all right. >> still to come. hey, i was this invited from delivering a commencement speech this year so instead, i'm going to deliver it to all of you. just a moment and don't forget vote on today's poll question. it's were kaddish.com. it is exactly what i was just talking about, what sally jenkins, jerry seinfeld blames extreme left pc happened people worrying about offending for the lack of comedy on tv. do you agree or disagree? sign up for my free daily newsletter. you're gonna

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economy is beset by inflation and the cost of your education was staggering. climate change poses an existential threat. war rages in the middle east and ukraine and whether the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the potential harm is the subject of robust debate. it's a lot and still none of it is the most important challenge we face as americans instead, it's the fraying of our national fabric. we've been told so often that our differences define us, that we're starting to act like it. and we can't count on politicians to provide us the necessary leadership there are large part of the problem like media influencers, this status quo is well-suited to their self-preservation, but not ours this polarization has been building for awhile, but was made worse by that, which is often labeled connectivity instead, technology has disconnected us don't get me wrong, like you, i'm dependent upon google and uber ways and

open table but we're spending too much of our time staging our lives for digital sharing without experiencing them shoulder to shoulder in real time speaking of which i've been a guest of bill maher on several occasions. you probably know that he ends each program with a pithy, often revolve commentary well, two years ago he said something that stuck with me. he said, quote our real division isn't between red and blue it's between the people on both sides who aren't willing to mingle with americans outside their political tribe so that they have no idea what they're really like. it's so true as bill bishop noted in his book, the big sort, the internet has made it too easy to spend time among the like-minded and segregated from contrary opinions, as well as those who hold them what we lack most is common experience of the sort that our parents often enjoyed and our grandparents took for granted places where we can congregate and commune with

those of diverse interests, backgrounds, and perspectives robert putnam saw the demise of all of this coming. we wrote about social capital in a book of 2000 titled bowling alone he was referencing the glue that binds our communities and hence the nation when those bonds don't exist, we're not there to help one another. and the less fortunate suffer the most economists, raj chetty is research proved that he showed that cross class friendships have a stronger impact in school quality, family structure, job availability, or even a community's racial composition it turns out that people, you know, open up opportunities and the growing class divide in the united states. >> it closes them off. all this division enabled by technology, has been linked to an alarming ike inental health problems faced by your generation in particular surgeon general vivek murthy has called loneliness the crisis of our

time the good news is that we're not as divided as you've been led to believe data shows that we still hold core american values in common there's been no monumental shift in our issue positions in the last half-century so it's time for a national coming together. we have to surrender are superficial differences and re-establish social and economic connectedness so as you embark on your careers, please give added consideration to citizenship ask yourself, how will you serve your neighborhood and your nation? maybe it'll be volunteer work or supporting youth athletics student exchange programs become a big brother or big sister, or otherwise figure out how you can be a mentor don't discount organized religion if you're a person of faith, whatever that faith might be, and support local media the opportunities are unlimited here's one more book

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