President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the U.S. would not supply Israel with some weapons if it moved forward with a ground invasion of Rafah. The announcement came hours after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed that the government had already paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over fears of an imminent offensive in the southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering. Israel has been ramping up its attacks on Rafah over the last few days, all while negotiators frantically try to reach a ceasefire deal in Cairo. Ben Rhodes, former Deputy U.S. national security advisor to President Obama and co-host of Pod Save The World, talks about how much leverage Biden really has over Israel's military operations.
And in headlines: A Georgia court agreed to hear an appeal over whether the Fulton County District Attorney can continue to lead former President Donald Trump's state election interference case, Republican and Democratic House Lawmakers blocked Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from ousting Speaker Mike Johnson, and third-party presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a parasite ate part of his brain.
Show Notes:
Voting Rights Act Under Threat (Again)
Closed Doors At OpenAI
Israel-Hamas War Protests Intensify
Biden's San Francisco Mission
GOP Goes WWE
Strictly Scrutinizing The Ethics Code
The People's Stop Work Order
Joe Manchin Jeopardizes Democratic Control
The GOP In The 305
Abortion Rights Wins Elections
Trump Testified And It Was Chaos
In The Blinken of an Eye
The Push For A Pause
Exit to Egypt
The Tragedy of War, Made Worse
Not On My Ballot
The Global Plea For Peace
A Dark Day For Maine
The Real House Speaker of D.C.
Never Have I Emmer
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