On Friday, we wrote about yet another lapse by President Joe Biden to fulfill the duties of the office, and it was on one of the primary responsibilities a president has -- maintaining close and strong relationships with our allies around the globe. As my colleague Nick Arama wrote, it happened while Biden was chatting with people after his State of the Union speech:

Biden got caught on a hot mic saying something incredibly dumb about pressuring Israel. Because you want to lean on the victims of the Oct. 7 massacre, not the terrorists who committed it, right? Way to throw Israel under the bus, yet again. That's giving aid and comfort to Hamas.

President Biden: "I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting."

“I’m on a hot mic here. Good. That’s good.” pic.twitter.com/KCgpbx4awf

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) March 8, 2024

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But in a preview released before an interview airing on Saturday night on MSNBC's "The Saturday Show," President Joe Biden seemed to backtrack on his boast that he's pressuring Israel. But take a listen below, and see what you think.

Host Jonathan Capehart asked him whether there's a red line, when it comes to supporting Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.

What is your red line with Prime Minister Netanyahu? Do you have a red line? For instance, would the invasion of Rafah, which you have urged him not to do. Would that be a red line?

“The defense of Israel is still critical,” President Joe Biden tells Jonathan Capehart. “But there's red lines that if he crosses…cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead.” pic.twitter.com/0SAPJySAYS

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 9, 2024

Biden's answer was all over the place, but here's what he said:

It is a red line, but I'm never gonna leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical. So there's no red line [where] I'm going to cut off all weapons so they don't have the Iron Dome to protect them. 

They don't have -- but there's red lines that if he crosses in -- they cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead as a consequence of going after. There's other ways to deal, to get to, to deal with, the -- with, with the trauma caused by Hamas. It's like I -- well look, the first time I went over, I sat with him and I sat with the War Cabinet and I said, 'Look, don't make the mistake America made.' America made a mistake.

This is a developing story, and we'll have more on the MSNBC interview on Saturday evening. 

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece was edited post-publication to correct errors in the transcript provided by MSNBC.)