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Palestinians, get the peace process back in motion. you know, having served in previous administrations, every president recently has tried this. every president has failed. what do you make -- trump says were going to succeed this time. what do you make of where those negotiations stand now? >> well, look, its an enormous hill to climb. theres no doubt about it. but its also the case unfortunately because of developments in the region, namely the rise of iran, the iranian nuclear weapons progra...

His decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. it is a clear break with past administrations, but the status quo has never led to long-term israeli/palestinian peace. >> here is cnns nic robertson on whether president trumps gamble will pay off. >> reporter: clashes like these in the past few days, stone throwing palestinian youth goading well armed security forces, a part of what world leaders openly worried might happen, following president trumps announcement recognizing jerusalem as...

Just admitted that his picture was a fake or fraud showing almost empty arena for my speech in pensacola when in fact he knew the arena was packed also as shown on tv. fake news. he should be fired. i think the issue a lot of us take with this is the immediacy, the quickness reporter will go to twitter with one photo to say not true, not true which would have never been done in previous administrations. eboni: used to be this thing where it was more important to be right than first. i think in t...

Process back in motion. you know, having served in previous administrations, every president recently has tried this. every president has failed. what do you make -- trump says were going to succeed this time. what do you make of where those negotiations stand now? >> well, look, its an enormous hill to climb. theres no doubt about it. but its also the case unfortunately because of developments in the region, namely the rise of iran, the iranian nuclear weapons program, its support for terrorism...

We shared that information with our colleagues on the other side to alert and let them know, but from all indications are that that was rebuffed. >> do you think that it is then -- do you think its a coincidence, we looked back at the timing, the e-mail was sent to don junior, for example, and the president, on september 4th, and thats the same day that don junior tweeted about wikileaks for the first time. given, you know, the -- your opposition to what wikileaks does, does this bother you? is ...

Know i knowing what the threat is. i am not going to be played by the russians. he is out there scooping up stuff in the public domain and saying this is great and we will with it. many can use dirt on their opponent. the problem is it may not be a crime, but its bad judgment. there should have been and there were people with the experience to say as a candidate you are playing with fire here. this is not just dirt on a campaign, you are dealing with an entity with ties to russian intelligence. ...

Seen in this country. ever in the modern era. this is how a banana republic functions. this is what you see in some central asian autocratic republic where its the presidents son-in-law and his son and the cousin and the uncle. everybody feeding at the public trough enriching themselves. it is disgusting. >> and one thing, i have worked in countries where that was the case. i worked in banana republics. and when you lose that integrity, when you lose that respect for the rule of law, its really ...

Disqualifies the united states from mediating the peace process, from reaching what the president calls the ultimate deal. this is about more than proximity to the airport or costs? >> yeah. i think thats distractive nonsense. the president trump did reaffirm his interest in a two-state solution and i think its incumbent on the pll tons ready to come to the table. >> to be fair, what the president said he supports a two-state solution if the palestinians and israelis do, which is a subtle shift ...

Be ripped up and this would be an opening. a way for this deal to go forward. and this is something -- thereve been other reports about him pushing this deal when he was at the national security advisor for the short period of time that he was the 24 days that he was in office. >> right. so theres reports he pushed the deal as national security advisor. theres reports hes texting on the day of the inauguration with his business associate and must have been num reduce reports including from state...

Including from state department whistle blowers, one ive interviewed on air, as soon as this administration took power, the word went out they were going to roll back administrations, right? >> this is obviously something they thought was key. from e-mails we got over the weekend that were from inside the trump transition team. we saw what, what this meant. the trump camp thought if they could improve the relationship with russia, if they could get the sanctions removed, that russia would help u...