Ben Rhodes
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12 series
first heard Feb 2025
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There's suggestions that that may have had something to do with the bombing of the girls' school in Iran.
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I mean, is one takeaway maybe that, frankly, people need to hear more about these risks on the security side?
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Because they seem like the public probably doesn't know those things that you and I spend a lot of time worrying about.
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Yeah, no, I think this is like put a pin in that and we'll come back to it on this show too because we want people to kind of understand these risks clearly because this is going to define not just our politics but our society.
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Well, another issue that is obviously
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Bin Front Center Democratic Debates is Israel-Palestine.
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We've noted the shifts in public opinion related to support for Israel relative to support for the Palestinians or related to questions like whether or not people believe Israel's committed war crimes.
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What did you find about how much things have shifted on Israel in the polls?
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Yeah.
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No, I mean, it does suggest at a minimum the baseline of like, I don't know, following U.S.
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laws on the books about providing assistance to countries suspected of human rights abuses or war crimes, like that that can be a guide for politicians at a minimum.
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I mean, I'd go farther to an embargo, but it's notable.
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Yeah, there's a common sense.
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I mean, I'm actually hardened by these results because there's like a common sense through line to them that I think should be a wake-up call.
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to people that work in national security.
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Like, so the question I want to ask about that is, I was struck by the fact that the things that, you know, national security people, elites, whatever you want to call them, tend to talk about as these, like, threats, right?
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Iran or China or, you know, Russia are actually not...
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kind of top of mind for voters in the same way that they're top of mind for people.
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And people are worried about the stuff that is impacting their lives, you know, tariffs and the war driving up gas prices.
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And, you know, we just talk about AI is a growing concern.
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