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Authors Brody and Luke Mullins join The Lead.

The Netflix Tom Brady roast divided viewers. "The point of the comedy too often was Gisele Bundchen or Bridget Moynahan," says The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins. "That was just stupid and cruel and pointless." On the other hand, "Peyton Manning basically saying to Tom Brady, 'Talking smack about Tom Brady in our house is called 'Thanksgiving.' - That was funny."

"If Donald trump doesn't take the stand and i don't think he will," says CNN's Elie Honig, "It's not for the jury to say, well, who do I believe more? It's for the jury to say has the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt." And if the jury concludes both Michael Cohen and Donald Trump are "big fat liars.

"We're not as divided as you've been led to believe," says CNN's Michael Smerconish, in a speech to 2024 graduates. "It's time for a national coming together. We have to surrender our superficial differences and re-establish social and economic connectedness. Go forth and mingle."

"There's only one solution" to the Israel-Hamas conflict, says Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times. "Two states for two indigenous people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. And if you're not for that, if you're not for ending the violence and for hostage release, if you're only condemning one side and not the other, you're not morally serious."

The Israeli Prime Minister "is ready to use America, ready to use Biden to secure sure what is his top priority - the political survival of Benjamin Netanyahu," says the New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman, "Israel's national interest is to have a Palestinian partner, and Netanyahu refuses to do that."