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Beg to Differ. The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Chararen, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark,

and I am joined by our regulars.

Bill Goston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal,

Damon Linker who writes the

Substack newsletter notes from the middle ground, and Linda Chavez of the

Niskanin Center. Our special guest this week is Idris Kalun,

Washington Bureau Chief for the Economist.

Welcome, one and all.

Well, there was a lot of news in the immediate 24 hours

before we came on the air there was a meeting between

gee and Biden which is very important and we're going to get to in a future

podcast I assure you and we have the return of the pandas as a consequence of this meeting.

But let us turn now to the international news which has domestic implications of course.

So there was an enormous rally in DC this week in support of Israel against anti-Semitism

and demanding the release of the hostages.

But there have been any number of pro-Palestinian demonstrations

both in the US and around the world,

including one Wednesday night at the headquarters of the Democratic

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