‘Is The Prime Minister Lying?’: KJP Grilled After Netanyahu Accuses US Of Withholding Weapons

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00:00Going back to Prime Minister Netanyahu's comments earlier, he made this pretty blistering statement

00:10in English, posted it to social media for consumption by American English-language media

00:18not long after his war cabinet collapsed or he had to pull down his war cabinet.

00:26And you just said that you have no idea what he's talking about and that only this one

00:31shipment of 2,000 pound bombs has been paused by the President.

00:35Is the Prime Minister lying?

00:38Is he making things up for political effect?

00:41You would have to...

00:42I can't speak to his political strategy, effects, that's not something that I can speak to.

00:47I was asked a question, I answered it, I don't know what he's talking about, we were very

00:51clear about there being one, one shipment that we're having, continue to have construction

00:56conversations with Israel about, nothing else has been paused.

01:02You heard that directly from Secretary Blinken.

01:04I can't speak for the Prime Minister, he's clearly speaking for himself, I'm speaking

01:09on behalf of this administration, I'm speaking on behalf of this President, I just don't

01:13have anything to add.

01:14I can't speak to his political strategy, that is not something for me to analyze, to do

01:19punditry from this podium.

01:22So just to confirm, anything other than the aforementioned shipment of 2,000 pound bombs

01:29categorically untrue that it's been paused?

01:31I already answered this question in categorically untrue.

01:34There's one shipment, one shipment.

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