Bill Kristol and Ro Khanna: Two Governments Acting with Impunity
7/13/20261 hr 3 min
The Trump administration is going full speed ahead on its authoritarian project to intimidate the media and the business world—and to gun people down in the streets. And in Israel, Netanyahu is allowing settler militias to run amok in the West Bank, killing Palestinians and destroying their villages and property. Rep. Khanna joins Tim to describe his own personal encounter with the private armed groups near Hebron. Plus, the mixed legacy of Lindsey Graham, Trump is trying to pretend he didn't sign a deal giving Iran management of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Dems have a real chance to weaken Todd Blanche and the whole administration.
Bill Kristol and Rep. Ro Khanna join Tim Miller.
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First 90 secondsTim Miller· Host0:00
All right. Hey, everybody. A lot happening this week. I'm at a hotel in Des Moines, so we got a big guest for you on tomorrow's show. Today, uh, we have a double header. In segment two, I added in Congressman Ro Khanna, who did a trip to the West Bank last week with my former FYI pod colleague, Cam Cassie. Colleague, co-host, buddy, friend, mini me. What they went through is pretty remarkable. Um, we kinda dig right into it in the conversation. So just for a little bit of context, Ro and Cameron went, uh, when Congress was on recess, to visit various parts of the West Bank. It was kind of one of these fact-finding, understanding missions to see what's happening there. There is increasing concern about settler violence in the West Bank. Uh, there's been a particular uptick on this since the Iran war, where there's a sense that settlers, Israeli settlers, kind of act with impunity in the West Bank. And, uh, you know, even, uh-- boy, like I ask Ro a question from one of his critics that he blanches at. But even that critic in the question, a very pro-Zionist person I follow on, on social media, um, is like, "Man, I, I'm even not really thrilled about everything that's happening in the West Bank." Um, and then he goes on to obviously his critics- criticism of Ro. So, like, that is kind of the context of their trip, and then we get into, you know, a lot of details on, on what they saw, and, um, hopefully, uh, that's, that's valuable