2024-10-04
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I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Friday, October 4.
Here's what we're covering.
Offhand comments from President Biden yesterday caused waves in the financial markets and the Middle east.
At the White House, reporters were pressing Biden for details about when and how Israel might retaliate against Iran for its recent missile strikes.
One reporter asked Biden if he would support Israel hitting Iran's oil facilities, a move that would dramatically escalate the conflict.
We're in discussion with that.
I think that would be a little anyway, Biden said.
We're in discussion on that, then hesitated and stopped himself mid sentence.
Even though it's far from certain that oil fields will be a target, there's so much concern about a wider war and so many unknowns that the tiny hint of information jolted the markets and oil prices rose more than 4%.
Biden was then asked, quote, what are the plans to allow Israel to strike back against Iran?
First of all, we don't allow Israel.
We advise Israel, and there's nothing going to happen today.
We'll talk about that later.