Joe Biden Says Israel Didn't Strike a Gaza Hospital

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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President Biden lands in Israel, meets with Benjamin Netanyahu, and says that the U.S. believes an explosion at a Gaza hospital was an errant missile from a Palestinian terrorist group. Plus, Jim Jordan fails to win a second vote for Speaker of the House, leaving Republicans looking for alternatives, including an expanded role for Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:33.6	President Biden delivers a speech in Israel and blames a misfire to rocket for an explosion
0:40.0	at a hospital in Gaza, as Congressman Jim Jordan fails a second time to be elected speaker
0:46.3	of the house.
0:48.0	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:51.5	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGurne and editorial board member Kate
0:57.4	Batchelder O'Dell.
0:59.0	Biden on Wednesday was in Israel meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netyahu and some
1:05.1	of the victims of the Hamas terrorism.
1:08.6	He said that the terrorist attacks on Israel amounted to 15 9 11's and gave a speech in
1:15.2	Tel Aviv.
1:16.2	This is a piece of what he said.
1:18.0	Long said, if Israel didn't exist, we'd have to invent it.
1:22.3	While it may not feel that way today, Israel must again be a safe place for the Jewish
1:28.1	people.
1:29.1	And I promise you, we'll do everything in our power to make sure there will be.
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