1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: Richard Arld stateside, very good morning to you. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 2: Good morning Israeli. 3 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: As much to be happy about. 4 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 2: Yes, freedom and deadly devastation fuse together in this well 5 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 2: ongoing calamity. And now the latest centrist Israeli politician, Betty Gantz, 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 2: has just quit the Nettanno WHO war cabinet. He was 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: demanding some plan on ending the war, That's what he's 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 2: been saying in recent days. His departure will not instantly 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: collapse the Nettano Who coalition, but most of the remaining 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 2: members are going to be hardliners. So how does all 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: of this hold together? US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: today says the United States supported Israel in the rescue 13 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: of those four hostages, but what was that US assistance? 14 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 2: And did the US know the operation would include massive 15 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 2: air strikes as it did and turn into the largest 16 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 2: rescue bids since October the seventh and the Hamas attack 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 2: on Israelis. Four hostages are released, but the cost enormous. 18 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 2: The Gaza Health Ministry says two hundred and seventy four 19 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: Palestinians have been killed. These are said to include more 20 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 2: than sixty children and fifty seven women, while one hundred 21 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 2: and fifty three children and one hundred and sixty women 22 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 2: are said to be among the nearly seven hundred wounded 23 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 2: as well. Hamas says that three hostages were killed in 24 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 2: that Israeli operation, including they say an American, and Jake Sullivan. 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 3: Says Innison Palestinians are going through sheer hell in this conflict, 26 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 3: and a lot of that is because Hamas has put 27 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 3: them in an impossible situation. Hamas hides among the civilian population, 28 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 3: holds hostages among the civilian population. 29 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, it is catastrophic on all fronts, But what was 30 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 2: the American role? Jake Sullivan refuses to spell it out. 31 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into the specific operational or 32 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: intelligence related matters associated with that, because we need to 33 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 3: protect those I can only just say that we have 34 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: generally provided support to the IDF so that we can 35 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 3: try to get all of the hostages home, including the 36 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: American hostages who are still being held. 37 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: Well. That leaves some of the big questions unanswered, doesn't it? 38 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: How much did the Pentagon sign on to this specific operation, 39 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: much as Israel's Netno, who's simply ignoring President Biden's call 40 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 2: for ceasefire. Netno who is planning to visit Washington, d C. 41 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 2: On July the twenty fourth, at the request of Republicans 42 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: in the US Congress who are seeking domestic political capital 43 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: from all of this. While Biden has yet to respond 44 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 2: to whether he will meet with Netanya Who on that visit, 45 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 2: the israel leader has used similar tactics before. Back in 46 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, Republicans invited the Israeli PM to the Congress 47 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: in defiance and then President Obama that was on US 48 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: around policy at the time. Netnio who always seems to 49 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: be walking that political typerope, and right now he is 50 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 2: under more pressure than ever. But so, as Biden, former 51 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 2: US Ambassador Mark Ginsburg says. 52 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 4: You clearly have American weapons that are being used by Israelis. 53 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 4: The fact that there are the significant munitions that are 54 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 4: being used is clearly a question. Raises serious questions about 55 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 4: whether or not the Israeli these Ida and particularly the 56 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 4: Nataelle government is paying any attention to the admonitions of 57 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 4: the United States Pentagon or the President of the United States. 58 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 2: Meantime, there are thought to be some one hundred and 59 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: twenty hostages still in Gaza, and perhaps thirty or forty 60 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: plus of those hostages have died no longer alive. Tony 61 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 2: Blink in the US Secrety of State is heading back 62 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 2: to Israel right now, following the D Day ceremonies calling 63 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 2: for a ceasefire in the Gaza war, but so far 64 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 2: no sign of that happening. 65 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: And then we come to the families of Sandy Hook 66 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: and Alec Jones and his liquidation. 67 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Jones has agreed to liquidate the website 68 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: called infra Wars, where for years he's been spewing really 69 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 2: the most disgusting lies. This nutjob has been at the 70 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: forefront of many crackpot conspiracy claims, but probably the worst 71 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 2: was his accusation, repeated at nauseam, that the Sandy Hook 72 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: Elementary School massacre was a lie. Jones said, the massacre 73 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: of twenty six people, twenty of them elementary school kids 74 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: ages what six or seven was a plot to winder 75 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 2: sale of guns, said Jones. 76 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 4: Sandy Hook. It's got inside job written all over it. 77 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 4: Sandy Hook is ancient, completely fake with actors. 78 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. That's more than enough of his byes. 79 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 2: The thing is some people took it seriously. He threatened 80 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: violence against the parents and other family members who already 81 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: because suffered the worst imaginable tragedy. So a dozen years on, Jones, 82 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: whose lies have brought him sixteen to twenty million dollars 83 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 2: in New Zealand, was fined by a court two point 84 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 2: four billion. Now is moving to shut down his operations 85 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: in partial acknowledgment of that. But before wrapping up his psychobabble, 86 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 2: he just did this online. 87 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 4: I believe him out. 88 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 3: I believe in my grandparents. 89 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 4: I believe my parents. I believe it you. 90 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 2: I just want to stop these people. Yeah, oceans of tears, 91 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: seemingly blubbering over the loss of money that he made 92 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: by torturing the Sandy Hawk families just unreal. 93 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: Alright, might have see Wednesday Richard Donold stateside Bennon got 94 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: ordered over the weekend to federal judge ordered him to 95 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: steve this is report to jail by one July, four 96 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: months sent and so he's been battling this in courts. 97 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: A peel scored up up and down the place twenty 98 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: two conviction a for contempt of Congress. They found to 99 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: have illegally refused to testify before the committee investigating jan six. 100 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: He didn't show up and he's going to spend a 101 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: period of time in jail starting July one. For more 102 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talks 103 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: at B from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast 104 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.