Good morning welcome to the Bulwork podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is October 11th, 2023 and the horrors out of Israel continue yesterday.

IDF forces uncovered the bodies of 40 babies, many of whom had been beheaded.

The horrors continued to stack up the hundreds of young people who were raped and murdered

at a peace concert.

The cabutzes were, dozens of people were just gunned down and

massacred. The continuing abduction of Israeli citizens.

Yesterday though, the President of the United States, Joe Biden issued a very, very forceful condemnation.

If there was any concern that he was going to soft pedal any of this, I think it was just

abuse.

This was one of the strongest statements of support from any US president

let's list.

Bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas, a group whose stated purpose for

being is to kill Jews.

This is an act of sheer evil.

An act of sheer evil, we're joined by Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes a weekly column on Life in Washington,

and has been writing about international affairs for some time, a former editor-in-chief of foreign policy where she covered the wars in Iraq and

Afghanistan and also the co-author most recently of the divider a history of Donald Trump in the White House

with her husband of the New York Times, Peter Baker.

Welcome back to the podcast, Susan.

Thank you so much for having me, Charlie.

I want to talk about your big piece in the New Yorker about Jake Sullivan

in the incredibly detailed reporting and

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