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stuff the crippled trial of the fall, but us press adults on presenter gets final phase on choose day. the defense t best fits cases calling from to testify. trump is charged with 30 full accounts of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to an adult film actress kristen silly report from new york. the defense rest of its case and the 1st ever criminal trial of a former us president after calling 2 witnesses. and donald trump wasn't one of them. instead, they honed in on robert costello a lawyer who disputed claims that donald trump knew all about efforts to silence an adult film star and paid his former fixer michael cohen to do so. terms of payments to colon are at the heart of the charges. the faces 34 accounts of falsifying business records, that cohen admitted on the stand that he's lied under oath before the prosecution had no choice, but to put michael cohen on the stand. and that's what they did. of course,
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he present certain difficulties. the jury saw documents e mails invoices, phone records, and even checked, signed by donald trump and heard from stormy daniels who was paid to keep quiet in the run up to the 2016 presidential election about an affair. she claims she had with him. they also heard from media mogul, david packard, trump's co conspirator, and the hush money scheme. but the prosecution's case largely comes down to cohen and what he says is former boss new. so that's the great big cat present. any evidence that directly shows that he knew this is only information in trust. hey, the only way to present that evidence is by presenting stormy daniels, michael cohen. david peck, are people that have spoken to trump and can tell a jury that was the intent behind the payment. trump, who denies all of it, reserved his commentary. so the cameras,
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the expert the jury will return to the court room next week to hear closing arguments and begin their deliver ration solved. 12 jurors must agree on donald trump's guilt or innocence to avoid a mis trial. kristen salumi alpha 0 new york city for me. so robin full of them and you can follow the stories on the website to talk just haven't talked comments updated through the day of movies and just into half last time the next on i'll just say what is the bottom line to stay with us? the the
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of violence. in recent years. we brave bullets involved because we give voice to those demanding freedom the rule of law, and we always include the views from all sides. hi, i'm steve clements and i had a question. if israel doesn't want a permanent ceasefire in gaza, then what does it really want? let's get to the bottom line, the israel's leaders and see if they won't accept the permanency speier and there were on gaza. it may have intensified their attack on rasa. that town is the last refuge for more than a 1000000 palestinians who being pushed there as this real expense. it's warren gaza, with no end in sight. us president joe biden said that israel's plans to attack raw for a quote just wrong, and he paused the shipment of weapons to israel. but how real are the tensions between israel and its biggest sponsor, the united states and canada is real. continue with war and gods with impunity. well into the future. today we're talking with daniel,
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we be president of the us middle east project and former adviser to be is really government. daniel, thank you so much for talking with us today. me just go right to the news president biden has put a pause on the shipment of arms and weapons and 2000 bond pound bonds is real. do you see this is a serious inflection point in the relationship, or is this just a minor speed bump? states it all depends on whether he's willing to sustain and expand this. well we haven't been told last fall is that such an all limits are being revisited and will be sent to the time b. steve, i to show you at all i and many people watching will question, well, how are they doing still sending 2000 pounds bowls and a heck of a lot of other ordinance to his route. loved. think to what we quite
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clearly see. easy to have a staging stitch. ready ship where he's read, there's no big targeting with precision. we see north poles all the latin through re i program being use you see the highest court in the world. the international court of justice issue provisional measures, all the south african initiative regarding violations of the genocide, which k provisional ledges to prevent irreparable damage to the palestinian civilian population. yes maam, soft of that decision to us will still sending the shipment the price of the bite and very positively acknowledged to things in not seeing an interview for us, but then they would have been both crimes can be used 2000 pounds balls. and secondly, the knobs and ball going to wait for it. okay. put that aside for a 2nd. the real question going full. will these ministration tell
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us that as each row begins to go in? so wrapped up right now is rarely say it's a limited operation. washington is a guest image operation. the nothing young busy, no hurry. and this feels like precisely the beginnings of something divided administration has said, don't do as back continues, as we still don't see the entry of the kind of humanitarian assistance that is. and that's not sonya the stairs down the prices and says, we have the weapons. we're continuing shame on you for challenging us this way. and as we hear the echo chamber inside the us go off to the press. will the president be deemed to muddy the waters and say of cold sees rose boil goals of somebody? we still back, we don't really see rough uh as being, having cross
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a tipping point cause i must have still to blame for the fact. there's no deal, even though i said yes, it is real estate. now. we see that marching all will receive the president say to he's ready, the prime minister. i'm the super power here. you are undermining us. these all potential violations, but we cannot be possible, and we are not going to send you the weapons because from day one of these complex, true to weeks and the months is ro couldn't build a sustain this without that not just political diplomatic casa, but that very concrete, american military support. i'm the key point, right? that if the ministration isn't capable of sustaining this for a period of probably several weeks, then nothing yahoo will carry on and he will fail. he has the measure of the press
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estate. it nothing you know, has a problem. we could all pre decide relief because the war will have to wind down. that's the question i want to ask you about an article you wrote, i commend our audience to read it called seeing gaza clearly. and in this, in this article, you talk about the struggle of really jewish identity, both within is real but also among american jews. and the divides that you were seeing generationally. ok. and you also go to the question of a, a in party jewish core at the basis of many of these college protests we just discussed. and i'd love to know from you what you think gaza in this crisis is doing to jewishness in america to is really identity at home. how, how are things being worked? we have seen this protest movement as you get from what we are
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reading here. reading, seeing the church contingent as a, as a cult may well be the 2nd largest alongside palestinians, arab americans, that's a significant thing. and we saw the president in what we're double weiss of being a relatively standard and the pull speech on all the calls from edwards. but he said something that that had a long bells ringing for me. which was he takes now about design is a be anti semitic about these protests being anti semitic. he doesn't talk about the attacks on that to students by some of these real sports. but les paul you know, of course i can understand that the palestinians, zines is the us with the display sleep, the ethnic cleansing,
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a history of the denial that writes. i don't know how you can was not to be opposed to design as a, as a palestinian, but in the jewish space, you know, as a people we pride ourselves on constantly grappling with pegs of doing, debating on show that stuff unique to the jewish there is a strand of jewish, ultra also toxic, which sees the existence will design the state of israel as coal street to their reading of jewish text. you called have jewish silver di. absolutely. coming up the side effects that you will have a cohort of jewish people who see actual existing design. that's just what has happened in the 75 plus years. what it is meant as an upfront to better
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understanding of the cold. 5 use the cool epic. they and we derives from our building to a jewish people and a jewish history and a universe style, etc. of that never get so nobody mind they that all jews who maybe don't. how do i drew those positions? look, this is very practical way. let's say the, you know, the id ology. well those are interesting debates, but is this real doing? was written on the, to israel baking the world, a safer place for re jews and for jews on the outside. by going down this ever more stream journey to a place where it's, it's in the adult at the international criminal court in special court of justice. let's just have a pragmatic conversation is disloyalty. so the idea that you can create this before
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the end is that there's an acceptable form of contemporary jewish expression. that is a down awful place for a political debate to be and for a president today to be. and it says insults to many jews. and to jewish history. and it's the thing we have to recognize these, it's not gonna hold, it's not going to hold because was on the table today. and this is fascinating. it's not, you know, they're out. they say that the space settlement is going to fall. the idea that actually existing design is, is working. that's what some of the like for so i'm really important as well as with having that too. but i would urge because there's nothing more legitimate. i would argue nothing. mobile, jewish protesting against crimes and genocide and inhumanity. but
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i would urge people to make sure that purchase exist for pete. ready to traverse, there is a way to the jewish people until people who like this identity disability ation with disrupt has been so central. i can understand when i'm very anti semitism, the phrase, but i insisted ethridge but when people have do so much of their identity around this affiliation with it as well, it comes feel like you're doing very sensitive being is under. so as people question that we need to make sure that we're bridges for people to say, ok, this is hard for me. how do i join you in the hall? and then the heat of the moment. i know that's difficult. but that has to be that way of, of reaching it out. it has been a full 10, happy jewish friday nights, jewish all services. and i think it's going to be really important. the more people
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can go. ready them next, johnny and the future is office to is ray jews again a hall, but this isn't algeria, you know, plus, once we get beyond the policy that the offering has to be g or is your place where you will actually be more secure. it was, is ready to leave a future dispensation of equality. notice going up some supremacy, but all the quality and i know, try to preach to people who are living through a renters assault right now by the palestinians themselves. know that this was strategically sub then, and they know, i think he's ready to go on going anywhere right from the river to the sea. they are going to be that, but not in this position of privileged organization under equality with the utilities best. right. daniel,
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where do you see palestinian identity at this moment? i know you have many palestinian contacts. you've been watching the protest in the united states. and you yourself have been a bridge many, many times between these different factions. what struggles and stresses does the palestinian side of this equation, which is under incredible siege right now, need to go through where, where is that? so as we see this piece movements, is that a challenge? you question people kinds of directions. this incredible proliferation. if people haven't yet seen my goals getting full, i highly recommend it's a co breakthrough. what is happening when you don't have a policy, a national good? it flies the flag, but it doesn't apply the liberation struggle to express. you don't have a new and that can say, hey, this is where we come in. this is where we can be useful. this is what we're offering as off free to chopped up because the, the main screen move. but through the v is also has been co update has been
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decimated. i don't know yet that yes, this has been, it is really strategy to be backed by america of the west to impose the does to impose the reality, to impose solutions adults policy. and through those years that leadership has lost touch with these people. so this is a mobile where not in the least propitious of circumstances, palestinians are having to grapple with how do they rebuild their own move the arrows, the strategies their own visions for the future. and they just don't have given the space to do so. but the wants of a splunk to give to the palestinians, and i would argue by extension that to the possibility of a better future for palestinians in his regular like the worst thing one could do, would be to have this idea that you can simply go back to the status quo o n t freeze the outside reality choose need is full of the palestinians,
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put some text across some jobs. if people all familiar with the west coast of a sudden columbus toll free. but the fantasies around the saudis guaranteeing a power steering and future the saudis all could afford into this problem. i don't need any way by the way, these notices, which will. ready make it harder to get to the cool of you know, what of a process of truth and reconciliation in the future of this i was involved in that i would also be separate. and the thing that was supposed to speak to was the absolute proof was any attempt to get a truth reconciliation. historic justice doesn't medium use rate, use the weight, but it needs to be confront tons and tons with the dump sweep under the carpet. the seminal experience that have students opened up oh dispossession. and that's where the hall seat and i don't know. yes there are. there are petitions going around. this is a moment of a great to molten up organizing on the palestinians side,
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but on the really difficult stuff. my question to you in this is who is going to be the agent to help change the game on the palestinian side of this equation? because as i look at it, i don't see any error of states ripping up the abrahamic cords. i don't see jordan egypt saying, hey, our peace treaty is over. i see a lot of consternation. i see a lot of key. busy is for concern, i don't see anyone changing the trajectory that they're on either in the air of world or the broader western us trans atlantic world in this tell me where i'm wrong. one thing the last 7 months to show is the abraham a. ready type, mobilize ation agreements. ha, clear, you know, the contribution to piece. i don't think that was it. that would be the actual architecture retention. but they have survived. and you, there's one way of looking at this where israel can see. ready relatively relaxed about it's equities in the region, but i do think something fundamental this happened,
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which is that the not just those who side globalization. but richard, in general, a seen a few things is seen. so there is a cost to be too closely associated with a country that can go to the 6th street. they have seen that these rating based of instability has been shot that a lot of the reasons they thought it was left, being close of full in terms of these rouse, intel and all the military capacities are far more on the question they have see the access of resistance, basically establishing you balance of 2 tablets. that is not a simple thing that does not translate into the state to your question is a willingness to say ok, that means we genuine, to get a more unified representative policy in leadership. because that's the only way we can carry this forward. i think there's full recognition of that in the out of the, the, some of the global south that is really leading to this question and recent thoughts,
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whether it's africa with south africa, originally weather in south america, which would posit asia where it would seem to need your leisure step on any port waste, but i think the surrounding countries are still not playing that front side stateful . they all facing a real concern from their own public who are watching the same social media videos as we are. and they are trying to navigate that traditional, those who are in close relations with america. that's additional relationship. lease, um clubs, sending over relations with these rel, i'm this recognition that this is a watching. and what do we do with the policy? and the default is you go back to those same policy and structures which inherently title to live up, what is needed and where that brings me to space is 2 fold. number one just
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bought out installed. try to see the structures on policies give promised. dig into the space that very rarely happens in international politics, but it's really needed. now we need to bring together not just the factions, but civil society and the trade unions. a women's move. it's a new movements and the business attribute that should be allowed to happen. i'm not saying well, the 2nd thing that i think it points to is maybe the result for some in the region, but some of these outside state to have them painted. these were reconciliation tools and who are perhaps a little less publish. whether it's the south africa with the liberation movement, experience, whether it's obviously or in this space to eventually i hope we need to how the palestinians find that space to reinvent their own politics. because that's going to be so crucial going forward. let me just ask you finally, daniel about the recent by the administration's efforts and also car par in egypt
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to get to a cease fire agreement with hamas. how mos accepted that is real rejected it. is there any scenario that you can see where is real and the different players in the region reset and withdraw from gaza, or is the essentially the i and i elation of gaza. the only future we're going to see it has up to the, the, the way into a stable calm, sustainable ceasefire is the best way is roles to as hostages. that there's a public, the cans about those hostages, the government and the prime minister at least have to sometimes get the impression that they can't. or i say that not to be flipped but, but i think at this stage it's really hard to imagine that that's a priority folder. but that, that there's a possible deal with those were still live on the hostage side can get out. that's the way into a ceasefire. israel withdraws from casa adams. won't be games
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to rebuild the devastation that already exists. that's, you know? yeah, also is likely to be further dilated by say that with a heavy hawk the, the destruction ready infrastructure schools, hospital stroke last is okay. and that's by the way, what other pieces like campuses use castle much. so there's this idea of the one could get a di, nothing your politic, not just ideology. so politic is concerned that when he asked the school, he faces the music. what happens on october 7th, as of the military will reside, will he resign a logic protest, the types the streets, he's not finished, but he is sub by the war continued. therefore, it will take a combination of domestic pressure and international pressure for 8 to be. well,
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politically receipt and costly for him to continue the will rather than ends. if the us once before the agent is going to have to be willing to maintain a scandal with these ready probably be the step to get to that outcome. although this is the trajectory, we have been all for several months extra trajectory. we continue on unfortunately at the moment although calls will. ready continue to salsa. east route is not going to eliminate come off. that's a scientist. see. israel continued to be in this for the region. will continue to be all the nightstands. we haven't spoken about this, steve, but there is the uh, the escalation recently with it wrong. there was a continuing situation between israel has the law that these board you have to both see movement. you have the voltage of the highest of shop to militias in rock.
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you're not going to get a call me of the region wildly stubs on and you can only bring dollars to a call if you are willing to read it to the calculation of these right. prime minister . he's also off doing publications in the west bank and east jerusalem. so it's a change that yeah, the problem base the blanket ministration on comes back to that was getting this wrong. pre ok. so the 2nd labor on this fairytale vision the, this is the, this is jake. some of this is the quietest period in the middle east that we can just clint biology rating our students situation. that's not the case. the power of the habits. i think it's been to that great cost difference. what a change in 10 are in the world. want to thank you for your candor. daniel. thank you. daniel levy, president of the us middle east project and former advisor to the is really
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government. really appreciate you joining us. thank you state. so what's the bottom line? doesn't it seem like president biden is running for election against is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, rather than against donald trump. at least that's how it's often framed in the media. biden's and netanyahu spades are on a collision course. with netanyahu currently commanding the scene extending the conflict and attacking rasa which bite has been telling him not to do for the past 3 months. but binding has been. busy words and no action. occasional expressions of concern about the death of innocent people in gaza with 0 distance between israel in the us. there had been some bumps on the road, but as long as saying notice the spires keeps netanyahu in office. us will fret and complain but continue supporting israel's course in gaza and the west bank, the crash we've all been witnessing. we'll continue. and that sadly, is the bottom line. the
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