Israel Weapons Pause, Speaker Johnson, Trump Doc Case, Cuellar Indictment

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jay and Justin start off discussing President Biden’s proposed pause in sending certain offensive weapons to Israel if they attack Rafah, including the impact on the conflict, potential reverberations in the international community, and the domestic political implications of conflict over Israel within the Democratic party. Next, they turn their attention to Marjorie Taylor Green’s failed attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. Why did the Democrats stick by him, what does this say about the state of the Republican party, and what institutional factors got us here in the first place? Following that, they discussed the delay in former President Trump’s documents case, after Judge Cannon postponed the start of the trial indefinitely pending hearings on a number of motions. Was this the right call? What does it mean for the upcoming election? They close with a discussion of Representative Henry Cuellar’s indictment on bribery and money laundering charges from his dealings with Azerbaijan and Mexico. Is there an Azerbaijan caucus in Congress? What does the case against Cuellar look like? What does this hold for control of the House in November? Check out Mike’s other podcast, Sustainable Planet. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.8	Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa. Welcome, Justin, and good to have you
1:02.0	here, filling in for Mike. Hi, Jay. It's good to be here. Hopefully I can be a solid substitute for
1:06.9	the week. I'm sure that will not be a problem.
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1:38.3	what have we got going on this week? Well, we have a lot going on this week, as always. But I think I
1:43.1	wanted to start with a story that popped up Wednesday and has had some kind of ongoing domestic fallout as of Friday, so just yesterday. And that's President Biden announcing a potential pause on arms shipments. So Wednesday, he announced that the U.S. on his watch would pause shipments
2:03.4	of some bombs and some artillery shells to Israel if Israel goes ahead with an attack on Rafa.
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