Conflict abroad rattles campaign politics here at home. The former president

is tried in criminal court and the court of public opinion and the Republican

Speaker owes his gavel to Democrats. For all of that, we turn to the analysis of K-part and Lewis.

That's Washington Post Associate Editor Jonathan Kapart

and Matt Lewis, columnist for The Daily Beast.

David Brooks is away.

Great to have you back.

Matt, good to have you here.

Good to be here.

So let's start with President Biden and a lot of the big news around Israel this week.

We saw the report, Nick Schifren was reporting on earlier that

basically found that Israel may be in violation of international humanitarian law

but the US will continue to supply Israel with weapons. That follows

President Biden earlier this week Jonathan

saying not only were they pausing some weapons deliveries but that he would

consider pausing more if Israel launches a full-scale invasion in Turraffa where

a million Gazans are now sheltering.

How do you look at this and square all these things, some of which seem to be in contradiction

with each other?

Right, well with all of these things we cannot look at them in in isolation these are not isolated

incidents they are all part of what I view as an enormous diplomatic effort on the

part of the president to get Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire namely

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