Democratic senator hits admin for Israel messaging, says he's 'not clear' on WH position

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., revealed on Sunday that he still isn't fully clear on the White House's position concerning aid and Israeli accountability amid the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

CBS' Margaret Brennan asked Van Hollen if he was clear on Biden's position of conditioning aid to Israel, and noted the Democratic senator has been calling on the White House to "act on the president's own standards" regarding national security.

"I'm not clear," he responded.

"I was glad to see the president, at least as was reported out, finally say to President Netanyahu that if you don’t follow these — my requests — that there will be consequences, but the president and the White House have yet to lay out what consequences they have and what they want to impose. And we have had a situation where for months, the president has made requests to the Netanyahu government, they have ignored those requests, and we have sent more 2,000-pound bombs. We cannot revert back to that. We have to make sure that when the president requests something, that we have a means to enforce it," Van Hollen said.

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Brennan asked Van Hollen about the $14 billion aid package for Israel held up in the House of Representatives, and questioned whether it was being reconsidered.

Van Hollen explained that the president's national security memorandum No. 20 stated specifically that "if a recipient of U.S. military assistance, including the Netanyahu government, is restricting the delivery of humanitarian aid, that we should not be sending more weapons."

"So it’s very important that the Biden administration enforce its own policy," he continued. "That was