Body language expert on Biden's ice cream-foreign policy exchange | On Balance

[Music] can you give us a second of when you think that will start sir well I hope by the the beginning of the weekend I mean the end of the weekend at least my my my National Security advisor tells me that we're close we're close it's not done yet and My Hope Is by next Monday we'll have a ceasefire all right while eating ice cream with late night host Seth Meyers Biden casually dropped that he hoped for an Israeli Hamas ceasefire by next week call it mint chip diploma body language expert Patt

y Wood is with us all right Patty I mean everybody's hopeful right when you're eating ice cream everybody's excited and hopeful but what was the president really what was the president really telling us well you know you it's created a gotcha moment for him because e body language is joyous buoyant it makes you smile it's silly and he's stuck with an ice cream cone in his hand and he's asking ask about a ceasefire in Gaza so his body language naturally does not match that question that the serio

usness the gravitas of that so they created that moment for him but he does subdue his body language as he's asked the question what I liked what made me feel safe about his answer safe about the situation is he answered calmly and matter of factly uh with a certain level of um confidence in it uh and that voice the par language cues that matched the question in a way that showed authentic belief that it can happen that the ceasefire can happen it looked crazy because he's got an ice cream C in

his well look we look we've obviously followed the president's um issues when it comes to speaking extemporaneously and in these moments over the past couple of years and we've seen him have some hard times you and I have talked about him he was actually sort of at his best at this moment and I think what what struck me and I'll we'll play the clip uh you know without the sound again but he sort of started to answer and then he kind of stopped himself and then he restarted was that authentic or

did he have the second part of that answer pre-planned well part of that is he's had a stter since he was a small child and so sometimes people with a stutter have learned to start again to get get clearly through a statement but also I think it was that switch he wanted to make that switch of I was just asked a question about something incredibly serious I want to make sure I match that I come to that place of seriousness and his demeanor he I didn't feel like it was he was puzzled or SE the ri

ght answer I didn't see any of that that stuttering yeah you almost think it if they put him in more situations like that he he would he would do better um he was on Seth Myers's show as well um it's kind of an odd place to talk about Israel Hamas and and do that rather than say from the Rose Garden or you know talking to reporters reporting Marine One or whatever but that's where that's where he chose to do it uh here he is talking about uh Israel which obviously he has a big problem with when

it comes to Arab Americans he's trying to put a lot of pressure on Israel here he is take a listen Israel has had the overwhelming support of the vast majority of Nations if it keeps this up without this incredibly conservative government they have they're going to lose support from around the world how does he look so different there than he did in the ice cream shop well I think here he's doing this gesture that I think is Meaningful he is holding his hands in a in a slight grasp Palms down be

cause he in this moment is being asked of can he calm down this situation in Gaza can he make Israel make the right decision so he's holding that down and as he further into this statement you actually see him make a padding down motion as he talks about the situation um I kind of like that it makes me feel like he's in control of the situation he's not flailing his arms out like this um so another politician who kind of does that isn't there kind of flails their AR there's another politician th

at kind of flails their arms I wonder why they came to my mind this evening I don't I don't know I don't know but thanks for watching go to join nn.com to find news Nation on your television provider and don't forget to click the red subscribe button below to get more of news nation's fact driven unbiased coverage