Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we're going to talk about

Biden, that call, and the things that have transpired since that call because we already need to do an update on it

because there have been some developments.

And we're going to talk about foreign policy. So we're going to start off with an incredibly quick

recap of the last three or four weeks. We noticed around the time of the state of

the Union that the Biden administration

was getting a little bit more, well let's just call it anxious when it comes to the

situation. The rhetoric was getting a little bit sharper and there was an indication that they were ready to

exert a little bit more pressure but at that time we didn't really see it. You saw the Biden administration get a

little bit more leverage that it could actually use without having to redesign the entire U.S. presence

in the Middle East.

Some of that came through requests for aid, and some of that came through the French throwing up that

resolution at the UN that included the recognition of a Palestinian state.

It gave the Biden that included the recognition of a Palestinian state.

It gave the Biden administration leverage,

but didn't know if they were going to use it.

We saw more calls about RFA.

Then you had the call, the video conference about RFA.

The information came out, it was productive, constructive, but not so constructive

that they didn't need a follow-up meeting.

We knew Biden's call, a call between Biden and Netanyahu was going to occur,

and there was the hope that that was at the moment that Biden was really

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