From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, April 5th.

We'll talk first today about the U.S. response to the killing of the seven World Central

Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, this is a developing

story. And if even this time, the Biden administration is saying different things than the

Netanyahu administration, but then continuing to be complicit in the actions they criticize.

Here is Pentagon spokesman John Kirby yesterday appearing to make a direct threat

regarding sending more bombs. If there's no changes to their policy and their approaches,

then there's going to have to be changes to ours. But that was just an implication that something

would change regarding military aid. He didn't say what would change. And we've heard

that kind of thing before. On March 22nd, the Washington Post had a headline, Biden administration

gauges Israeli compliance with laws of war. The article said the State Department had received

Israel's written assurances that its use of U.S. supplied weapons in the Gaza War

has not violated international or U.S. laws in its conduct of the war and protection of civilians,

including the provision of sufficient aid. That was a quote. And the article said,

a group of 17 Democratic senators was calling on the Biden administration to reject Israel's

claims amid the growing debate in Washington over whether the United States should suspend

arms transfers. That was on March 22nd. On the 29th, another Washington Post article reported

Biden approval of a new armed shipment to Israel that hadn't

been made public. Yesterday, the Washington Post had another story, headlined, U.S. approved

more bombs to Israel on day of World Central Kitchen strikes. That one says the Biden administration signed off on thousands more bombs to Israel

despite global condemnation of the IDF's killing of seven World Central Kitchen employees.

It says the U.S. government has the authority to suspend an arms package any time before delivery,

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