Netanyahu FUMING After Kamala Harris Calls For Gaza Case-Fired, End to War

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00:00Good morning and happy Friday.

00:12I'm Amber Duke and joined by my co-host Jessica Burbank today.

00:16Jessica, good morning.

00:17I just wanted to get another day of rising in with you, Amber.

00:20You just can't stay away.

00:21All right.

00:22We have a lot of news to get to today, as always, and we're going to start off with

00:28Vice President Kamala Harris meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

00:33yesterday.

00:34The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee delivered remarks following the meeting, expressing

00:39her unwavering support for the existence of the state of Israel.

00:44Now Harris also underscored the need for a ceasefire in Gaza and expressed a forcefulness

00:50on ending the war.

00:51So I just had a frank and constructive meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.

00:55I told him that I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself, including

01:01from Iran and Iran-backed militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

01:07I have had an unwavering commitment to the existence of the state of Israel, to its security,

01:14and to the people of Israel.

01:16I've said it many times, but it bears repeating.

01:19Israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters.

01:26Now Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, met with Harris after he spent almost three

01:31hours with Joe Biden.

01:33They were discussing a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal.

01:38Netanyahu was reportedly disappointed with Harris's remarks after their meeting.

01:43One Israeli official said, quote, we hope that Harris's public criticism of Israel won't

01:48give Hamas the impression that there's daylight between the U.S. and Israel, and as a result

01:53make it harder to get a deal.

01:56The Israeli prime minister will meet with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago

02:01estate today.

02:03It's their first meeting since Trump left the White House, and sources told CNN the

02:08meeting was requested by Netanyahu.

02:11Joining us now to discuss is White House columnist at The Hill, Niall Stanage.

02:16Niall, good morning.

02:17Thank you for joining us.

02:19How problematic do you think this could be electorally for Kamala Harris?

02:24She has signaled public support for Israel, but also has, of course, suggested there should

02:30be a ceasefire.

02:32She also put out a pretty strong statement condemning some of the more violent protests

02:36that took place in the nation's capital earlier this week.

02:40Has she done enough to satisfy the Democratic base that is more pro-Palestinian on this

02:45issue?

02:46Well, I think the electoral element of this issue is really complicated.

02:52I mean, people, of course, have very strong views on the morality of it in various ways,

02:57but electorally it has always been more complicated for Democrats than for Republicans, because

03:01most Republican voters are pretty strongly pro-Israel.

03:05And the Democratic Party, in terms of its voter base, leans pretty heavily more pro-Palestinian,

03:12but isn't without a pro-Israel element.

03:15And so I think you see Harris trying to sort of navigate her way through that.

03:20The criticisms of the protesters around Union Station here in D.C., those were very strong

03:25criticisms.

03:26Then she, as you showed in the clip you played, both voiced support for Israel and pretty

03:34strong criticism of the way it has conducted itself in Gaza.

03:39That's an attempt to, as I say, navigate through the Democratic politics of it.

03:44Those politics are pretty thorny, I think.

03:47Harris finds herself in a really tough position with these pro-Palestine progressives that

03:52are considering whether or not to go with Harris.

03:54They're in the coconut army right now, which is equally part serious as is a joke.

04:00I'm not saying some people think it's a joke and others think it's serious.

04:03It's both at the same time for most of the people in this movement.

04:07And they want action on Gaza.

04:10And it puts Harris in a tough position because she right now is in the Biden administration,

04:14not the Harris administration.

04:15She's not in a position to deliver action.

04:18Do you think these words will be enough to bring in the youth vote?

04:23I think they might be, Jess, if they are perceived as signaling a change.

04:29But the problem is exactly the one that you outlined, honestly.

04:34Kamala Harris is the presidential candidate at the same time as she's the sitting vice

04:39president.

04:40So she has no real power yet.

04:43You can argue that that influence certainly is moving pretty rapidly toward her and away

04:49from President Biden.

04:50But it's not her who's setting the policy.

04:53So she has to, in a sense, wear a couple of different hats as, on one hand, the supportive

04:59vice president and, on the other, as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

05:03I think a lot of us assume she would move maybe one or two notches more toward a broadly

05:10pro-Palestinian position.

05:13But that's just based on sort of trying to read between the lines at this point.

05:17It isn't based on any substantive policy change because she doesn't have the power to make

05:21one.

05:22Yeah, I wanted to dig into that sort of dichotomy with where Kamala Harris sits right now in

05:26terms of her positioning as we head into November because she was the one who gave this speech

05:32shortly after the meetings between both herself and then Joe Biden with the prime minister.

05:37And she also is likely trying to demonstrate that she has some kind of foreign policy experience.

05:43That has been a weak spot in her previous presidential campaign as well as her campaigns

05:48for Senate.

05:49So how exactly does she strike that balance without stepping on the toes of Joe Biden

05:55and giving the American people the impression that Joe Biden is basically acting as a lame

06:00duck president?

06:01With great difficulty, I think.

06:03I just think that is an inherently difficult thing to do, whether one prizes Kamala Harris's

06:10political skills highly or not.

06:12That's just a difficult task that she has.

06:14And I do think its difficulty was shown in particularly stark relief yesterday because

06:20on one hand it seemed like she wanted those images of her, you know, on the world stage.

06:28But then when Netanyahu is coming to visit, that's an image of you beside Benjamin Netanyahu,

06:32which is a very problematic image from the point of view of the Democratic base.

06:37I think that we do seem to be seeing her move into more of the sort of ceremonial, ceremonial

06:44is a bit unfair actually, just more high profile moments that she is participating in.

06:50The other thing that is very notable, Amber, is just how much more intense the attention

06:56is on her now.

06:58You know, two or three weeks ago, even a vice presidential event was kind of a little bit

07:03of an afterthought.

07:04And you very rarely saw it on any cable news channel unless there was something dramatic

07:07happening.

07:08I was at the White House immediately after President Biden had stepped aside when she

07:13did this event, which was basically in celebration of college athletes.

07:17And there were, you know, reams of press there.

07:20So she'll get the attention.

07:22The question is, does that does that rebound to her benefit or to her detriment?

07:28It seems that a lot of people are holding on to hope that Kamala Harris will be different

07:32once she gets into office upon winning in November on Gaza.

07:37But there were protests across D.C.

07:39I went to a couple of them downtown.

07:42They were overwhelmingly peaceful.

07:44MPD was creating a line between a handful of counter protesters to, you know, keep the

07:50peace as they were.

07:51I saw on several occasions getting into the pro-Palestinian protesters space.

07:55There was some graffiti on a replica of the Liberty Bell that got the attention of many

08:00conservatives, of course, the flag burning, which is a form of protest in the United States

08:04that is perfectly legal, I will say, under the First Amendment.

08:08But Kamala Harris did pen a letter and put it out as as a PDF letter from her office.

08:16And this got the attention of some of the protesters.

08:18It got the attention of the youth.

08:20But I think it might matter that that was a letter and it was to satisfy maybe some

08:25of the more conservative members of the Democratic Party, some of the more pro-Israel members

08:29of the Democratic Party.

08:30But what she said in the speech, how she didn't make those same comments and echo what she

08:35said in the letter.

08:36Do you think that matters?

08:37Do you think that signals a change or are we really just grabbing at nothing here, Niall?

08:42I think as much as we can read those clues, Jessica, it seems to suggest a bit of a change.

08:51But I don't think the people who were protesting, you know, around Union Station and elsewhere

08:56across D.C. should yet take too much faith that a Harris presidency, if it arrives, is

09:02going to be a kind of free Palestine presidency.

09:05I mean, I don't think that's where she stands at all.

09:08I think she's trying to display, to a degree, greater empathy for the many, many millions

09:15of Americans and people around the world, for that matter, who find the suffering of

09:19the Palestinians just horrific and have real human empathy for it.

09:24But the letter that you noted was pretty strong, very much so, actually.

09:30Just not that anecdotal evidence is necessarily massively dispositive one way or another.

09:37But I spoke, I went down to one of the protests, was speaking to a couple of attendees, including

09:42one young woman who said that she planned to vote for the Green Party candidate even

09:47though she was, she had mixed feelings because she wanted to vote for a woman who could be

09:51the first woman president, i.e. Vice President Harris.

09:54But she felt she couldn't do that unless Harris promised much more of a block on any U.S.

09:59military aid to Israel in the future.

10:02All right, Niall, thank you so much for joining us.

10:04We're going to be back with more Rising after this.

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