What A 'Softer' Israeli Approach To Gaza Might Look Like
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many books, including The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), brings his analysis of the global ramifications of the Israel-Hamas war, and describes what it might look like if Israel continues to soften its approach, as Biden and others in the international community are urging.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. |
| 0:15.0 | Today on the show, if it's Wednesday, our lead Eric Adams reporter Liz Kim will join us |
| 0:20.0 | with excerpts and analysis from the Mayor's Weekly Tuesday News Conference. |
| 0:24.8 | Why do we do this? |
| 0:25.6 | It's the only day each week that he allows journalists to ask questions on topics of |
| 0:31.0 | their choice. |
| 0:32.1 | One major focus today will be the mayor's new rules for when buses carrying asylum seekers from Texas may arrive in the city and the way Texas Governor Greg Abbott is flaunting those rules by having buses drop people |
| 0:46.0 | just outside the city, mostly in Sarcocis, and having them take the train into town, and Liz |
| 0:52.4 | will take your calls. |
| 0:54.4 | Also today, some recent stories about artificial intelligence. |
| 0:57.8 | Did you know that the New York Times last week |
| 1:01.1 | filed a lawsuit against the makers of chat gPT accusing them of allowing |
| 1:06.2 | its AI robots to plagiarize from the times. |
| 1:09.2 | Did you know that Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney, now says he inadvertently filed false statements in a legal |
| 1:17.9 | brief because the falsehoods were generated by AI and he didn't realize it. I didn't know lawyers use robots to |
| 1:25.8 | write official legal filings and Europe has jumped ahead of the United States with a new |
| 1:31.1 | set of rules for how AI can and cannot be used. We'll talk about |
| 1:35.5 | those and what I think will be a very interesting AI catch-up segment made by me |
| 1:40.7 | and other humans later in the show. |
| 1:43.2 | And we'll invite your calls today on your plans this month or experiences in past years |
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| 1:55.6 | with drinking overall. All that's coming up and we start here. Fred Kaplan |
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