Jon Ossoff

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.

And I think he achieved some pretty extraordinary things while he was in office.

Things that certainly helped Georgia on insulin prices and clean energy manufacturing, right?

but we did not have a powerful voice communicating and leading for much of the latter half of that term.

And that certainly contributed to the defeat in the election.