Starvation in Gaza, Epstein Files, Big Housing Bill

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Mike and Ken kick off this supporters’ midweek episode with a discussion of the dire situation in Gaza, including consideration of what the US can do to help and Netanyahu’s endgame in his fight against Hamas (and to stay out of prison). Next, they look at a novel approach Democrats on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee are taking to force the release of materials on Jeffrey Epstein. Following that, it’s a major housing bill that recently cleared the Senate Banking Committee in a 24-0 vote. Both Mike and Ken think it’s a good start to dealing with the housing shortage, but there’s still plenty more to be done. Ken points out that the housing affordability problem could be seen as more of a ‘wages are too low for the working class’ problem. They close with Ken answering listener questions about what he’s changed his mind on, a decent Republican policy, his major beef with the Biden administration, and one concept he wishes more conservatives understood. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Mike’s Substack: What Fresh Hell is This? Check out the excellent Sustainable Planet podcast. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal, Oolagulligan.
0:05.2	I'm the government, hug the government, hug the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:18.7	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael
0:21.4	Baranowski. I'm joined today by my counterpart on the left professor of law at Chase Law School,
0:27.2	Ken Kacken. Hey, it's great to be back, Michael. Yes, it is. And, you know, I thought he would
0:32.0	start on a real, well, nother, because I was on the upbeat story of starvation. But
0:37.1	unfortunately, it's a thing.
0:39.3	And, you know, it's been, God, it's been a long time since things were good in Gaza.
0:45.1	But of late, there, I would say squarely in, I'd call it catastrophic territory.
0:50.8	And it's a starvation is a widespread problem there. According to the UN's world food
0:55.7	program, almost a third of the 2.1 million people in Gaza don't eat for multiple days in a row.
1:03.4	And part of this is because Israel has a big part of this, Israel has imposed really tough
1:07.8	controls on food distribution. Their view is that this is necessary to prevent
1:12.6	Hamas from stealing food aid. And even when food is able to enter the country, getting it to people
1:19.1	can be challenging because of various travel restrictions and military activities. And President
1:24.7	Trump actually recently broke with, at least a little bit, with Israeli Prime Minister
1:29.7	Benjamin Netanyahu, because Netanyahu said there is no starvation in Gaza. And Trump said,
1:35.7	well, and looking at the images on TV, both children look very hungry and that's real
1:41.6	starvation stuff. I see it and you can't fake that. We have to get the kids
1:46.0	fed. Now, Trump followed this by announcing a plan and criticizing current Gaza food aid
1:51.5	distribution. He told reporters, we're going to set up food centers where people can walk in and no
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