Post Game with Leigh Ann Caldwell: Biden's Israel support splits Democrats

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🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Leigh Ann Caldwell, co-author of the Washington Post's "Early 202," joins Kristen Welker to analyze President Biden's foreign policy challenges as he personally engaged himself in freeing hostages from Hamas but reckons with a war that is "completely dividing the Democratic Party."

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0:00.0	Hello there. I'm Kristen Welker. I just wrapped up this week's broadcast of
0:07.2	Meet the Press where I interviewed National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,
0:10.7	Congressman Mike Turner, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, as well as actor
0:14.9	and disability rights advocate Selma Blair.
0:17.6	We covered this week's hostage release and temporary ceasefire in Gaza coming after weeks of secret
0:24.4	negotiations and personal pressure from President Biden himself.
0:28.2	An administration official even told my NBC news colleagues that the deal was
0:31.8	quote a Biden deal not a
0:33.6	Netanyahu deal. Still back at home President Biden faces enormous challenges
0:38.8	as he loses support from key voting groups and is so far unable to convince a significant enough
0:44.1	number of Americans to buy into his vision of bidentomics. To break it all down
0:48.2	I'm sitting here with Leanne Caldwell co-author of the Washington Post's early
0:52.2	202 newsletter and anchor of Washington Post
0:55.4	live. Leanne, welcome to Post Game.
0:58.0	Thanks for having me, Kristen. Thank you for being here. We really appreciate it.
1:01.1	It's great to see you. I want to start with this
1:05.2	hostage release, this deal. Obviously I spoke with Jake Sullivan about it. He said
1:10.8	it is the expectation that at least one American will be on the list of those released
1:17.1	Politically speaking what does this not just this temporary pause and hostage deal mean for the White House but overall
1:25.9	the test that the president is facing when he deals with the war in the Middle
1:31.0	East. Yeah the president has had a lot of challenges
1:34.9	confronting him regarding foreign policy
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