Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 5/3/24

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Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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President Biden is dealing with a Middle East crisis partially beyond his control and he’s feeling the fallout at home. Now, Biden and Trump are trying to figure out how to turn the conflict and campus unrest to their advantage. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Eric Cortellessa of Time, Franklin Foer of The Atlantic, Asma Khalid of NPR and Nancy Youseff of The Wall Street Journal to discuss more.

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0:00.0	It's a confirmable truth that most presidents want to pivot to Asia, but the Middle East won't let them.
0:07.0	Now it's Joe Biden's turn.
0:09.0	He's wrestling with the Middle East crisis pretty much beyond his control,
0:12.0	and is experiencing the fallout here at home.
0:15.2	Tonight we'll examine how he's navigating the overlapping domestic and global challenges
0:19.7	created by the Israel-Hamas War.
0:22.1	Next. by the Israel-Hamais War next.
0:26.0	This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.
0:29.0	Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.
0:32.0	The actual war is in Gaza but you
0:34.8	wouldn't know it from news coverage this week of American campuses. In the old days
0:38.6	when someone talked about chaos in Colombia you would immediately think of
0:41.9	medayin.
0:43.0	Joe Biden and Donald Trump are each trying to address Middle East conflict and campus
0:46.8	unrest and I'll talk about this tonight with Eric Cordellesa, a staff writer at the time who just conducted two epic interviews with Donald
0:55.4	Trump.
0:56.4	Franklin Four, my colleague and a staff writer at the Atlantic, is just back from Saudi Arabia,
1:01.2	Jordan, and Israel.
1:02.8	As Mikhailid is a White House correspondent for NPR and the co-host of the NPR Politics
1:07.7	Podcast, and Nancy Youssef is a national security correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
1:13.7	Thank you all for joining me.
1:15.4	It's been a challenging week for Joe Biden, among other people, mostly university presidents
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