Jon Ossoff

has been the Likud and Netanyahu policy ongoing now for many, many years.

I mean, it is like a work in progress.

So, you know, I suppose that is a welcome statement, but I am pretty skeptical that it'll be met with any kind of policy.

One thing I do want to say about this while we're on the subject, and since we've been talking about the role of the press, is...

International media have been launching yet another push to call for access for journalists to Gaza.

And I just want to lend my voice and support to that effort.

I've seen personally through the work that I've helped lead and produce how essential it is to have independent journalism in places where there's armed conflict.

to hold warring parties to account where there are serious human rights abuses.

And the continued exclusion of journalists from Gaza is completely unacceptable.

And I want to state unequivocally my support for that call and once again call on the Israeli government to permit journalists to access that area.

Well, I think that events have proven it to be the wrong decision.

I mean, I was not in the room, um, but I think it's clear that he wasn't up for it.

And by the time the decision was made to make a change, it was very, very late in the game.

I think that like the the

The most brutally honest answer to that question is, you know, when you're facing the specter of Donald Trump potentially being reelected to the presidency and you have in the sitting president the presumptive nominee, it's understandable that you're not going to.

be inclined to do or say things that might weaken that presumptive nominee right against trump right given the threat that he posed and poses but you know i i think that look i think the other the other piece of this and one of the reasons that i think you know um

Democrats across the country, you mentioned, you know, they have this and I hear this everywhere, right?

Like this longing for public leadership, right?

And for folks to follow and for a clear voice and a clear rallying cry.

And I say this with all due respect to the former president.