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Hello and welcome to DSR's Daily, our podcast, which we look at the news of the world today is Halloween.

It's scary out there, much scarier than usual, to take a look at why it's scary.

We've got our usual gang, including Chris Patmer. How are you doing, Chris?

I'm doing well. Thank you.

Happy Halloween, Riley Fessler. How are you, Riley?

I'm enjoying a spooky Halloween, spooky Halloween, and Chris.

So as airstrikes continue and the ground invasion expands, there's a growing number of muzzle Americans and democratic activists in the United States who are threatening to mobilize votes and donations against Joe Biden.

If he doesn't exert his influence to negotiate a ceasefire in Israel, there seems to be a growing frustration among this community, and given that we're blessed with a foreign policy expert right here on the panel.

I actually had two questions for you, David, on this.

The first is...

I thought we were going to Riley on this one, but go ahead.

The first is, how much influence does President Biden have over this situation?

And second, are the expectations fair and probably dependent on the answer to the first question?

You know, Chris, we've done each other a long time, and I totally get that these are purely rhetorical questions.

Because obviously, Biden can't control what BB Netanyahu or the Israeli government is going to do.

They can only try to influence it.

And we heard from BB in his press conference yesterday that this is a time for war, and he pushed aside any discussion of his own responsibility for Israel's vulnerability.

And he looked like he was doubling down, and now we have pictures of Israeli tanks massed on the border, and it's in the interest of BB and a bunch of people in that government to press forward with a war, and Biden's trying to pull back on it.

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