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Hello, I'm Adam Wren.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Tuesday, July 29th.

And this is the Playbook podcast. And here's what's driving today.

The big story around the world right now is what's happening in Gaza. And here's what's driving today. The big story around the world right now is what's

happening in Gaza, and we're seeing it ripple through domestic politics in surprising ways.

On the policy side of things, President Donald Trump appears to be making his first substantive

break with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza. On Sunday night,

Netanyahu denied the extensive and well-documented reports of humanitarian disaster, saying,

quote, there is no starvation in Gaza. But yesterday, President Trump was asked whether he agreed.

He said that, quote, based on television, I would say not particularly

because those children look very hungry. They have to get food and safety right now. Dasha,

this was quite a striking moment. You think of Donald Trump often as a president or his businessman,

but he's also a grandpa and a father. Yeah, I mean, he does

tend to have a different side of him when it comes to kids. I also think he is somebody given the

fact that he is sort of known as the TV president, right? Somebody that is really impacted by

images, that a lot of information that he consumes that he's affected by comes from TV, comes from

photographs. And this is something that is really hard to deny once you take a look at some

of those images coming from Gaza. And he is somebody that's really focused much more on legacy

and what it is that he wants his second and final term to be remembered for,

than he is for getting reelected and for continuing to play politics.

Of course he does.

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