Brooks and Capehart on key moments in the 2024 race in the final weeks before Election Day
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This week saw the death of Hamas's leader which could mark a turning point in the |
| 0:04.9 | war in Gaza and there were key moments in the presidential race with less than |
| 0:08.6 | three weeks to go before election day. For all of that and more we turn to the analysis of Brooks and K-part. |
| 0:14.7 | That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K-part, associate editor for the |
| 0:19.1 | Washington Post. |
| 0:20.1 | Great to see you both. |
| 0:21.5 | Let's start overseas, because David David as you know that the killing of |
| 0:24.9 | Gaiya sinewar in Gaza, President Biden, Vice President Harris have said offers an |
| 0:30.5 | opportunity for potential for peace in the region even former President Trump said that today |
| 0:35.2 | but Prime Minister Netanyahu has basically said he knows the war is not yet over. |
| 0:39.6 | You study this and follow this closely. What do you see happening now? |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, I'm no big fan of Bee on Yahoo, |
| 0:44.6 | but I have to admit over the last month |
| 0:46.6 | he's gone against world opinion |
| 0:48.1 | and American opinion on a whole range of issues |
| 0:51.2 | and he's been absolutely right. |
| 0:53.0 | They've seriously weakened Hezbollah. |
| 0:55.6 | They've now seriously taken out the leadership, |
| 0:57.4 | now almost the complete leadership of Hamas. |
| 0:59.9 | So these are two Iranian-backed terror |
| 1:01.4 | miscellaneous, and sometimes in war you have to defeat your enemies. |
| 1:04.8 | So he's made them weaker, obviously there's still going to be Hamas, there's still going to be a very powerful Hezbollah. |
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