How Will The U.S. Handle Israel's Democratic Crisis?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The situation has created a diplomatic headache for President Biden: a key ally's democracy wobbles as the White House holds its annual "Summit for Democracy."
This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and Jerusalem correspondent Daniel Estrin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Captain Damien Gibbons of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. |
| 0:04.2 | This morning we officially started our 50th year of educating students and teachers about |
| 0:08.0 | the Bay and its watershed. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm about to step onto my boat right here in Washington, D.C. just a short metro ride |
| 0:15.0 | away from NPR headquarters itself. |
| 0:18.0 | This podcast was recorded at 9.39 am on Tuesday, March 28th. |
| 0:23.4 | As always, things may have changed by the time you hear it, but we'll still be teaching |
| 0:27.4 | students, educators, and dare I suggest my favorite NPR politics journalists, fingers crossed. |
| 0:35.1 | In the meantime, here's the show. |
| 0:40.2 | We should record a podcast on the bay with the captain. |
| 0:43.4 | I love it, maybe over some crabs. |
| 0:45.7 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Frank Ordenio, as I cover the White House. |
| 0:51.4 | And Daniel Estren, our Jerusalem correspondent, joins us. |
| 0:53.9 | Hey Daniel. |
| 0:54.9 | Hey there. |
| 0:56.0 | In the wake of mass protests across the country, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:00.6 | is pausing his plan to overhaul the country's judicial system and make its judges more subject |
| 1:06.0 | to political control. |
| 1:07.8 | Daniel, catch us up to speed and to how it got to this point. |
| 1:12.5 | You know, I don't even think Netanyahu knew that it would reach this point. |
| 1:16.9 | I mean, I've been speaking with political experts here who say Netanyahu has flipped |
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