Newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im Jessica Dean In Washington and we begin this afternoon with breaking news. The white house saying President Biden just wrapped up a phone call with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu that call coming just days after the president sayyed in aid package, including 26 billion for israel. And as biden faces increased pressure to end the war, amid big protests College Campuses all across the country. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is joining us now from the white house with more details on this, priscilla, what more you getting on the readout from this call well, the president and hes really Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about multiple issues in their call earlier today, ranging from those attacks, are there strikes i should say that hit iran israel earlier this month as well as israels defense. And to that point, the president said, according to this rig out quote, reaffirmed is ironclad commitment to israels security following the successful defense against irans unprecedented missile and drone attack earlier this month. Now in addition to this, they also talked about that hostage deal that has been ongoing. Those talks, ive been ongoing for some time now with top us officials, including Secretary Of State antony blinken, who is traveling to the middle east today. They talked about, uh, trying to reach that deal and do so promptly so they can get those hostages out. But also get that ceasefire, the temporary ceasefire, so they can get humanitarian aid into gaza. Another important topic that they talked about was rafah, that potential operation that israel has considered into rafah that has been a concern for the white house because there for over 1 million palestinians that have been displaced in are in that region. And its been a concern because the white house has been hoping that israel can contain civilian casualties, and they dont see an operation there as tenable. They said in this readout quote, the leaders discussed rafah and the president reiterated his clear position clearly, the two liters touching on multiple issues over the course of this phone call, the last time they talked was earlier in april, they talk often when there are in a Pivotal Moment or an inflection point. This is right now a very relevant time with those hostage talks, ongoing and with hopes that there can be some type of breakthrough for that temporary ceasefire and for the release of hostages. Jessica and priscilla, were also getting some new polling out today on the 2024 race. Walk us through what this means for the president well, its still very much a close race, but again, donald trump showing in these polls that he continues to hold an advantage over president joe biden. Now, according to these numbers that you see there on your screen, 49 of registered voters choose donald trump and then only 43 for biden. Now, earlier in the year bidens numbers were around 45 , so hes still those numbers are Holding Steady and there are issues that are dogging the president and that his team is well aware of one of them being the handling of israels war against hamas that is unfolding in gaza. Now youve seen the protesters that have been happening across campuses. And according to our pooling here, there is major disapproval over the president s handling of the israelhamas war with 71 disapproving. And then two is the economy. And this has been an issue that the white house and the Biden Campaign have tried to convey to voters that it is heading in the right direction, but we are still seeing in these numbers that there is still quite a bit of hesitation over whether thats indeed true with registered voters here, only 34 approving of the president is handled hes laying of the economy. These are two issues, jessica, that are going to be front of mind for voters. That is, what democratic strategists anticipate at this point especially the economy. And so these numbers do not look good for President Biden. And again, this has been a challenge for the Biden Campaign as the president hits the trail, he has been touching on the economy and trying to again, show the results of what his administration has done and how its affecting voters in a positive way. But clearly what these polls show is that there is still a long road ahead for the president. Jessica, about six months until election de at this point, Priscilla Alvarez at the white house force. Thanks so much. And joining us now is seen in political, senior, political analyst and Senior Editor at the atlantic, Ron Brownstein great to see you. We just heard for sulla walking us through some of those Polling Numbers and just to reiterate for people 71 of us adults disapprove of bidens handling of israels war against hamas in gaza. And you look at that number of those, 18 to 34, 81 disapproval all right ron, at this point, what kind of political impact could those numbers have for biden as hes running for reelection yeah. And a majority of democrats in the poll say they disapprove of his handling look what on its own. We saw in the harvard iop poll that concern about the war rank relatively low among the issues that young people care about. Most. But it is reinforcing what was already happening, which is that biden has struggled with Younger Voters really since his emergency he says the democratic nominee, i mean, he did not do well with them in the 2020 primary. They did rally around him against trump and the 2020 general election, but is approval among them has been, has been low ever since. And you are seeing what you are seeing on College Campuses there are obviously excesses are antisemitic behavior as part of it, but it is also a anyone reflection of a broad discontent in the Democratic Coalition, especially among Younger Voters, with the extent to which he has basically stood arm in arm with netanyahu as he is kind of pursued this strategy on the war and you see in the cnn poll, Biden Underperforming among young voters yeah, this is not the only reason, but when you start off facing a headwind, it is just another obstacle that he has to get over to get anywhere near what democrats again, among these voters in the past, yeah. And you mentioned the protests weve obviously been covering them over the past several weeks as they have grown across the country what do you think what kind of impact do you think theyre going to have . As i just said, we are still six months away from election day and the semesters are set to end soon ish for a lot of these students, but, but yet we do see all of these images over and over and over again. Yeah, i mean, you know, often when youre the incumbent, you are running not only against your opponent, youre running against the events that youre running against. What is actually happening. And as priscilla was saying, the persistence of inflation, the fact that it hasnt gone down as it continued to decline the way that the fed was hoping. You can see that plucked it in these Polling Numbers, both nationally and key states and the discontent about the economy and similarly, when you have this level of kind of tunnel on College Campuses, theres a risk for biden of kind of getting hit on both ends of the Swinging Door where the the visibility of this discontent, i think well inflame the concerns among those in the Democratic Coalition that are alienated and disappointed in his policy and how far he has gone down the row with netanyahu. And then conversly, just the sheer, disorder presents a risk to him republicans its believed that one of the problems he biden faces, and really this is kind of the political manifestation of the age issue is that many voters think he just is being overmatched by events, which is something they can really prove devastating to a president. Go back to jimmy carter. And this again becomes one more example. Of that. So it is a dangerous trend for biden. He needs this war to calm down so we can begin to try to regain some brown among Younger Voters. But of course netanyahus incentives exactly the opposite. I mean, he wants october 7 to be as far in the Rearview Mirror as possible . Before he has to face. So they are as on many fronts, i think operating on very different wavelengths and in digging into some more of these numbers in our new poll, it showed that 61 of registered voters think that bidens time in office has been a failure with only 39 saying success and then you look at trumps numbers. Theyre 55 saying his time in office was a success with 44 saying it was a failure. What do you think is driving these numbers . Yeah well interesting. First of all, i mean, the cnn, but every poll is different. The cnn poll, its out today, is the worst for biden of the recent polls. And there are four other national highquality National Polls this week that had the race between even an a plus two for trumps. So this is kind of at the low end of what we are seeing biden but directionally there are some important consistencies between this pole and the others. Im one of them is what you site, which is that the Retrospective Assessments of trumps presidency have been consistently improving them in his job approval in multiple polls. Now, looking back is higher than and then ever was when he was president. I think the key to that is largely the comparison with biden on inflation above all. But also in some other issues like immigration and in many ways, voters are putting on trump as a way, as a kind of antidote to what they dont like about buying. The other thing thats really important in the cnn poll is you see, you continue to see this pattern that i wrote about a few weeks ago as in all of the other National Polls, as in the three key swing state polls, like a method aid michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, biden is largely somewhat surprisingly, holding his 2020 support among white voters, particularly College Educated white voters. Not even really declining much among the blue white voters who are the core of trumps coalition. The reason he is down from where he was in 2020 dramatically in the cnn poll is because he is underperforming what he got last time on what democrats traditionally get among nonwhite voters. Black voters and hispanic voters the cnn poll hasnt, is only plus 12 among those voters when he was more like plus 45 in the exit polls in 2020. So that really raises the question, can trump really sustain those inroads all the way to november, given the way he talks about race, race, racially related issues, han biden, sustain what he has now among white voters given the discontent about the economy, its kind of an upside down racial dynamic. And 24, thats behind all of these numbers it is, its very interesting. All right, Ron Brownstein, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thanks, for having me still ahead. Tensions running high at ucla dueling protests, facing off on campus. There, a proisrael group demonstrating against Palestinian Protesters will take you there. Why riyadh saves new album . Is breaking records who gets to say what country is comey country beyond, say a nashvilles Renaissance Streaming . Exclusively on meds with car gurus, you can buy or sell your car in person or online if only you could do things your way all the time, wouldnt that be nice got it. 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Todays so there was a counterprotest, a group of people who pay now to support the jewish students here on campus. That event ended about an hour ago. So you see a lot less of that group, but theyre still hear a lot of them saying that the students here feel harassed that they feel unsafe on campus. And so you still have a group of supporters here. The problem was when the two sides would collide. And so the university does does not have Police Officers here. Instead, they have Security Guards and what they did was set up a line of bicycles to separate both sides of this protests because things were getting violent. They were getting physical. So this is what they decided to do. Separate both sides so that they would not be able to essentially put but she each other and yell at each other. They continued to shout at thing and say that theyre here to support their movement, but they are divided at the moment, which pass prevented a lot of that violence, of course, on that other side, you have the propalestinian supporters who are here in support of the students that are in the encampment cant meant is actually a few feet away on the other side and may have been blocked from these protests. So what youre seeing is a lot of people who are not part of being but were here to support this movement to say they want to see this university divest from companies that are linked to Israeli Companies and say they want to hey transparency when it comes to the investment that ucla and the uc system makes in terms of the money and where that goes, they want to see that transparency so again, tensions are high. This division here has held tone things down a bit in terms of the violence that we were seeing earlier in the day hey but passions are still very high and youre still seeing who say they want to continu