This is a series with me. I'm John Bachelor. We're very pleased to welcome a whole line conference of presidents is with me. I'm John Bachelor. We're very pleased to welcome Professor of Government at Harvard University, Stephen Anselabir,

whose most recent book to mention is Cheap and Clean how Americans think about energy and global

security, global warming.

However, right now we're dealing with security, especially.

Malcolm?

So you've done a landmark study that upended a lot of the assumptions I think that people in Washington and elsewhere

including some of us held about what is the reaction of the American people to the events since

October 7th. So perhaps you could lay out what surprised you about your recent study,

especially in terms of generational differences, which a lot of people I think have wrong assumptions about.

Yeah, we've been polling around this topic since October since the events unfolded and we've consistently seen that younger voters, younger people in the

United States are actually not a lot different from older people and they're strongly pro-Israel or on the side of Israel in this regard. Pro Israel is important.

The question is, are they also dealing with the differences between Hamas, the Palestinians, the Arabs in general, the Israelis, the American Jews,

do they make that distinction, Professor?

They do in some interesting ways and they don't in some interesting ways and they don't in some other ways.

For example, from the very beginning, we've been asking whether more arms should be sent to the region.

It depends on how we ask that question and whether you storm Israel,

when you storm Hamas and so forth.

And people are very opposed to sending more arms to the region.

There is some, there are some splits that have emerged more recently about

who created the crisis in Israel mostly Israel or mostly israel or mostly Hamas, where that is where we see a difference between

older Americans and younger Americans.

But most Americans across the board think it's in every age category mostly Hamas, though it's overwhelmingly mostly Hamas among people who are over 65 and it's closer to 50-50 split among 18 to 24-year-olds.

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