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And today Adam, we really wanted to talk about Kamala Harris and her position on Gaza.

Now that Joe Biden has stepped aside after months of, let's say, poor campaign showings, a terrible debate,

and nearly 10 months of fully supporting funding

and justifying a genocide in Gaza, he is now out of the race.

Kamala is the heir apparent.

And so Kamala, maybe she doesn't have the Joe Biden genocide stink on her

quite the same way, but I think it's really important that we dig

into where she actually does stand on Palestine on Gaza on the ongoing Israeli genocide there.

And you have actually written a new piece for the real news network

that came out on Wednesday, July 31st,

with the headline, Israel's reckless escalations demand we honestly scrutinize

Kamla Harris's Gaza position and Adam I thought it would be good if you kind of laid out

your take. Yeah I also wrote a piece the previous week for in these times that covered somewhat similar ground, but specifically on the announcement prior to Netnahu's speech before Congress on July 23rd, seven unions representing six million workers, including the UAW and SEIU, issued a demand that

Biden stopped selling arms to Israel, stopped providing military to Israel.

And so this is part of a broader shift in demand and rhetoric

that came about because the White House, as we've talked about on this show, since the Michigan

primary, rather in anticipation and immediately after the Michigan primary when the

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