Biden publicly calls out Netanyahu. What to expect next?

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

President Biden made an unusual move this week: publicly called out Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu for attempting to alter Israel’s judiciary. Netanyahu tweeted back: Israel doesn’t respond to pressure from abroad. What consequences might this tension have?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm David Green, co-founder of Fearless Media and your host here on Left
0:05.1	Right and Center.
0:06.1	Well, history has been made.
0:08.6	We have word that a grand jury in Manhattan has indicted former President Donald Trump
0:13.0	on charges relating to hush money payments before the 2020 election.
0:17.2	He is the first president in the history of our country to face a criminal indictment.
0:22.1	We covered a lot of the big questions around this moment on last week's show.
0:26.3	If you missed it, jump back into the feed, give it a listen.
0:29.8	And we'll of course be talking about this on shows going forward.
0:33.4	But there is a lot else to talk about in the world.
0:37.1	And we have our crew here, Moelaithy, executive director at Georgetown University's Institute
0:41.7	of Politics and Public Service.
0:43.4	He was communications director for the Democratic National Committee and also advised Hillary
0:47.8	Clinton.
0:48.8	And Sarah Isger is here.
0:49.9	She is senior editor at the dispatch.
0:51.8	Sarah is a lawyer who was spokesperson at the Department of Justice under President Trump.
0:56.6	Hello Mo, hello Sarah.
0:58.3	Thank you for being back.
0:59.3	Hello.
1:00.3	Always a pleasure.
1:02.4	So tensions between two world leaders, certainly not a first, it's not all that rare.
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