The Great America Show - October 14, 2023


Mid-Day Update： October 14th, 2023


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

159.82881

Word count

361

Sentence count

23


Summary

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The Israel-Hamas conflict is heating up in the Middle East, and President Joe Biden is under fire for his handling of the situation. Who is going to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives? And why is the U.S. standing behind Israel and Hamas?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 This is the Great America Midday Update for October 14th.
00:00:04.140 Israeli troops and tanks have reportedly begun ground assaults in northern Gaza,
00:00:09.220 the Israel Defense Force bombing Hamas targets throughout the night.
00:00:13.360 Hezbollah in southern Lebanon has been warned not to intervene in any way.
00:00:18.220 The United States has its most powerful aircraft carrier and guided missile strike force now
00:00:23.120 positioned in the eastern Mediterranean to fully support Israel should there be any
00:00:28.320 intervention by Hezbollah or any other radical Islamist groups in the region.
00:00:33.260 The two most recent U.S. polls show overwhelming support for Israel in what is now a war with Hamas,
00:00:39.780 supporting the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the elimination of Hamas by two-to-one and three-to-one
00:00:45.980 margins. The Biden White House criticized for releasing frozen Iranian assets in the first place
00:00:52.000 as much as $16 billion worth and now maintaining the money remains in a cutter bank.
00:00:58.320 The truth is far from certain. The White House under severe criticism as well for drawing down the
00:01:04.460 U.S. strategic petroleum reserves as war has broken out in the Middle East. Those reserves are at
00:01:10.800 historic lows. A 17-day supply. Reuters and Gateway Pundit reporting Biden sold those hundreds of millions
00:01:18.480 of barrels of oil to China, to India and Europe for no clear national security reason at all.
00:01:25.540 Our reserves are now only half what they've been over the past decade.
00:01:30.640 And Congress returns Tuesday to take what is likely their concluding vote on a new Speaker.
00:01:36.540 Former Speaker McCarthy and other prominent Republican congressmen have thrown their support to House
00:01:42.080 Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who looks like the new Speaker of the House. It will be a close
00:01:48.740 vote by any measure. And our guest today on The Great America Show is the President of the Article 3
00:01:54.640 Project Attorney Mike Davis, as we take up Mike's views on the Israel-Hamas war, the Biden missteps that
00:02:01.920 played a part in the Hamas attacks on Israel, who now appears to be the next Speaker of the House,
00:02:08.720 Jim Jordan. Please join us. And please join us each and every day. I'm Lou Dobbs with the Great America Update.