if he can keep the focus on issues that sort of 51% support, that's going to be easier for them to digest. to the extent there are issues that are being at the forefront the democrats think are good for them, like abortion bans, for example, the democrats think that that helps them mitigate their losses. one of the reasons why the house majority is so small is the red wave crashed and burned and became sort of red puddle. they got the majority. but you have seen it's really hard to govern with four seat majority. the democrats kind of are clearly want to put tpoet cuss on some of these culture war issues where they feel they have the advantage. host: our guest reports for bloomberg. find his work at bloomberg.com. steven dennis, bloomberg news. thanks for your time.

when it comes to latest actiono reporting the c.i.a. director bill burns visiting israel and other countries in the region as other diplomats have gone the same over the last few weeks. he's going to talk about the war in gaza and why it matters section. mr. burns' trip is part of the biden administration's ongoing engagement with key parties in an effort to get a human humanitarian pause. he's expected to beat with prime minister netanyahu, defense chief, and other senior defense intelligence officials. he's also expected to visit qatar which played a key role in the release of hostages. that played a central role in getting humanitarian aid in gaza. when it comes to the secretary of state, tony blinken, it was on sunday, yesterday, he met and went to the west bank to meet with the palestinian authority president and stopped in baghdad

for talks with the iraqi prime minister. he also impressed israeli leaders for a humanitarian pause to aloud aid and people out of gaza. he asked them to limit civilian cash utes -- casualties. that's the latest, when it comes to what's been going on for about a month now for jewish americans in the audience, palestinian americans in the audience, call and give us your perspective. for those jewish americans, 202-478-8000. the number for the palestinian americans 2302 shall-748-8001. it was on -- with arab leaders that secretary of state met with over the weekend, held a press conference. one of people who spoke with the jordanian foreign minister, he spoke about what hopes to see in the near future of the contphreufbgt here's his comments from saturday.

>> what's been happening. are we going to be talking about a whole population reduced to refugees. simply we do not have all the variables. start thinking about that. i think we need to focus on stopping this war. begin to iimagine -- imagine -- gaza alone -- we have been through security treatment of the conflict before. a just and lasting peace that protect the rights of all. and telling the palestinians they have a future.

and again creating a condition that is different from the miserable conditions and hatred and situation in which this cycle of violence. i think we need -- right now we have to make sure that we bring in eenough food and water and medicine and fuel into gaza. with every minute of day a child or woman or elderly is dying because they don't have access to these basic services. after that again we have to look at the picture. we have to make sure we do not contribute to the same conditions that -- in which this violence erupted. i think we are committed to working together. we have to do our part.

everybody will have to do their part to make sure that we bring security and peace the palestinians and israelis. host: the jordanian foreign minister commenting on the events over the last month between israel and hamas. your perspective is welcome. particularly for jewish americans and palestinian americans. 202-748-8000. 202 shall 748-8001 for palestinian americans. jewish americans, andrea from washington, d.c. starts us off. go ahead. caller: good morning. thank you so much for having me on the show. my name is andrea. i live in washington, d.c. i want to start by saying that i am the granddaughter of holocaust survivors. it's relevant because i never in my lifetime thought that in this great country that i would feel so threatened. as we know america is unlike any other country in the world.

when there are minorities that are threatened, weapons a long history of hate, it has been remarkable how many other people stand up. unfortunately, we have so many examples of this with black americans, asian americans, and we have all stood in arms with our friends and comrades. but it seems like when it comes to anti-semitism, there is some sort of festering hatred underneath the surface that makes a lot of people scared to stand with us. assed product of history where that was, as you all know, unleashed in a way that exposed horrors and sort of the depth of what humanity is capable of, especially as i look at college campus, i have a daughter in high school, i don't know what to say except that i hope we can learn from history and understand that this is a moment that changed the course of what feels like we are headed very

quickly towards a very bad end. just this weekend in washington, d.c., 10,000 people gathered and were calling to kill my people. i hope very much that the moral compass of our friends, both jewish and non-jewish fight and stand up in a moment where it's really shocking to me. i hope i'm not naive, how much hatred is out there against the jewish people. i think that is -- host: that's andrea there in washington, d.c. for jewish americans that's 8,000 line. 202-748-8000. if you are palestinian americans, give your perspective. the "wall street journal" highlights the fact it was on friday that the secretary of state met with the prime minister netanyahu of israel and other members of the country's government in tel aviv to press them to consider that humanitarian pause to pave wait

for more aid in gaza and allow foreigners and injured palestinians to get out of the the issue aalso argued it could help headway for others to talk. the israeli ambassador to the u.n. on cnn talked about if he thought his country's leaders was making progress towards that humanitarian pause, here's a portion of that interview from sunday. >> as far as i know we are fully coordinated with the administration. we are closely monitoring the humanitarian situation in gaza. obviously, we always remind to everyone, we shouldn't believe or take any numbers coming out of gaza at face value. everything has been controlled by the terrorist of hamas. there is no humanitarian crisis in gaza. in coordination with the u.s. and the u.n. we allowed the number of trucks entering gaza now with food and medical to reach almost 100 trucks every

day. we don't seed the need for humanitarian pauses right now because it will only enable hamas to rearm and regroup and prevent us from achieving our goal to destroy hamas' capabilities. >> you said this before that there is no humanitarian crisis in gaza. that's kind of an amazing statement because there were humanitarian problems there before the war. and now obviously it has gotten bad. take their numbers aside. it has gotten to the crisis point. >> no. i'm not saying that the life in gaza is great. and obviously hamas is the only one that should be held accountable for any situation in gaza. but there is a standard due to international humanitarian law, what does it mean humanitarian

crisis. i'm saying again, there is no humanitarian crisis based on the international humanitarian international law. right now in gaza. only last night everyone could watch thousands of tkpwa zahns -- gazaans near the hospital with elech treuts, cell phones, watching a movie. how the hamas are slaughtering israeli sillans an -- civilians and soldiers. host: that interview on cnn yesterday. you are also welcomed to post on facebook. saying i wasn't raised jewish but i have jewish ancestry. as an american citizen who lives a stones throw away from the world trade certainty on 9/11. lost a dear member of the fire department in new york. mind-boggling, very disturbing to see the hatred on full display.

can't imagine how it would have felt days after the homeland a was attract. attacked. as always you can post on the various cites. that's our facebook page at facebook.com/c-span. the lead editorial in the "washington post" today takes a look how to think about a cease-fire in gaza. editors writing a case can be made for sea fire to facilitate possible hostage release along with humanitarian aid for gaza civilians that. would have to be on the basis of a verifiable pledge by hamas to free all of its 240 captives. stop indiscriminate rocket fire at israeli civilians. two blatant unjustifiable violations of international law. most analysts would reject the terms which speaks volumes. nevertheless, arab and other governments with influence on hamas should continue pressure to accept them. hamas' culpability, however, does not absolve israel of responsibility to do everything

it can to prevent civilian casualties and to do everything it can to release gaza's humanitarian crisis, this means doing more than it is doing at the present. particularly with regard to aid for the civilian population. that's the editors from "the washington post" this morning. the american institute recently took a look and did polling not only on the events there in israel, between israel and hamas, but also the united states' role in it. this is one of the subpoints saying arab americans disapprove 6 president biden's handling of the conflict. asking the question how would you rate your attitude towards president biden's response. current violence in palestinian and israel only 7% of those registering very positive response. 17% somewhat positive. 20% somewhat negative. and 47% of those respondents very negative. i also talked about the opposition to sending -- united

states sending weapons to israel. the question regarding the current violence in palestinian and israel should the united states send weapons and military supplies? 68% of those responding say it should not. 21% say it should. 11% saying not sure. in alabama hear from erin on our line for jewish americans, hello. you're next. caller: hi, there. history has written by the victors of propagandas. the bible it talks about what is a jew? a jew is god's chosen people. and the bible says that god's chosen people are those that keep the demandments and have the faith of jesus. it doesn't saying anything abouy is -- history is written by the propagandist. if you can define a true jew, you can solve this riddle. the jews -- the israeli national a jew? just because they are inside israel, does that make them a

jew? or is god's chosen people the jew. let's get to the bottom of it and define a true jew. host: how did you boil it down to that? caller: the bible. host: why should it serve as a basis at this point? caller: because the bible is all about god's chosen people and how they should live their lives. judaism is based on freedom of god's commandments. it also has these traditions and stuff and got away from the commandments and started doing tradition. history got this all dismantled. and history got rewritten by the victors. world war i with hit ter -- hitler, could any american describe why hitler was successful in germany? host: that's aaron in al a*fplt it was on this -- alabama. it was on this program tend of last week we haerd from the jewish council of public affairs. their c.e.o. on the program

talking about at least to her, concerns about anti-semitism anti-rise of it in the united states as a result of the events overseas. here's a portion of what she had to say last friday. >> part of that is the result of how anti-semitism and broader extremism has been increasingly normalized in our society over the last few years. so after october 7, it was -- you saw such a horrific increase year over year because we were already starting from a place of crisis. but particularly over the last four weeks what we have seen is now jews, jewish institutions, jewish property being targeted because of the actions of the israeli government. people who are blaming jews around the country and around the world because they hypothetically disagree with the actions of the israeli government. but in targeting jews, of course, are engaging in direct

explicit anti-semitism. some of it is happening on college campuses as has been widely reported. including the student who was arrested this week for making vial death and rape threats against his jewish classmates. you have seen the viral video in which students were either surrounded, barricade food a library in that case, other students attacked physically in certain places. and more broadly we are seeing everything from anti-semitic graffiti to other hate crimes and attacks against jews and jewish institutions that again go well beyond simply criticizing israel into direct attacks on jewish people and property and organizations in an attempt to hold them accountable for the actions of the israeli government. which is nothing less than explicit anti-semitism. host: as far as what's going on in israel when it comes to that war between israel and hamas.

jewish americans and palestinian americans. if you want to give your thoughts on it. 202-748-8000 for jewish americans. 202-748-8001 for palestinian americans. if you want to call on the lines that best represent you. post your thoughts and various social media site. text us at 202-748-8003. maryland on our line for jewish americans, hello. caller: how you doing. good morning. my grandfather survived the holocaust. we have been discussing the issue he's disgusted by what's going on in gaza. as am i. a lot of people think -- it

started 75 years ago. i think the first caller was being disingenuous. i'm jewish, but a human being first. what the palestinians are going through right now -- host: ok. hyattsville, maryland. we have been asking those of you in the audience, particularly if you are jewish or palestinian american to start off the program. give your perspective there. mike joins us from seattle. go ahead. caller: thank you very much. i reside in seattle. however, i'm from middletown, new jersey. i'm a 40-year-old jewish male. when i graduated from high school in 2001, 9/11 happened. and both my parents were wall

street traders and second generation new york jews. when 9/11 happened, growing up in middletown, new jersey, i grew up with a lot of irish and italian catholics. there are a lot of conservatives. conservative republicans there. all these people are great people. when anything happened in the community, everybody always supported each other. to see what's going on reminds me of 9/11. in my neighborhood in middletown i lost four much my neighbors to 9/11. and there was a book called middletown, america. i decided after high school to join the israeli defense force like some jewish people. why? to combat terrorism. >> before we get started i wanted to mention a couple of wanted to mention a couple of we're often carry live on