its foreign policy to that this should become the signal event shaping american policy in the middle east. and the problem in the middle east is pick your poison. we re up against right now iran. remember, we still don t want them to get a nuclear bomb. the saudis have the way the trump administration has been shaping this, is to go to the audis saudis as a counter weight. there s an opening between the saudis and the israelis. that s useful. let s just stand here and you have then the problem of this becomes a gift to iran. which if we re worried about horrible killings has their own juvenile executions. ambassador nikki haley was complaining to the u.n. today
the lack of seriousness of this administration s approach is man fe ifested by the president s son-in-law, who has no experience or knowledge, is the chief arbiter of american policy in the middle east. it s extraordinary. it s dangerous. and again, this president s capacity to create a profound tragedy for the american people, who i think as a general proposition have a real lack of imagination for the scope of the type of tragedy that a president this incompetent can cause. but his capacity to cause it is real. and the place it would happen is more likely than any other place the middle east. and so it s a dangerous hour. the president s son-in-law you re referring to is jared kushner, who we should also point out, in addition to peace in the middle east, which the president charged him with, he s
before the declaration, u.s. vice president mike pence announced a middle east peace trip. now not one of the local church leaders wants to meet him. the major threat to christians in the middle east comes from the white house. that according to former latin patriarch of jerusalem, michel sabbah. if you want christian in the middle east, he needs to start changing american policy in the middle east to start a new vision of politics built on life and human life in all countries. reporter: what is seen here as the u.s. s preferential treatment towards israel and the occupation of palestinian lands is driving christians away, say clergy. people s lives, opportunities, and movements restricted by israel. in a christmas message, prime minister netanyahu defended israel, saying it s the only
beginning. this is a new beginning for american policy in the middle east. united states and sunni allies and israelis and muslim antiterror forces standing as well. for the president called antimuslim and everything else, this is a wonderful moment. maria: we ll take a pause for a moment to let our fox stations join us. this is knock fus fox news covef president trump s overseas trip, i am maria bartiromo in new york. president s second day in saudi arabia, it may be one of the most important of the presidency so far, mr. trump to set a speech on fighting terrorism. white house has released some parts of the speech already, we re told that president will
middle east and to american policy in the middle east and what it s going to mean and i see the way we ve all changed for our conversation because of the 99% and the occupy wall street people. i think it was appropriate and it was also a little, you know, out of the usual suspects. and i guess my question is, is it right to lump the occupy wall street folks in with the people who are leading those protests in the middle east? i think that s a good point. i think that the conflation between the people who overturn dictators in the middle east and a bunch of, well, you know, fill in the blank, and fill in the blank, jim? and i declare, you decide. (laughter) i think it s shows the media put so many chips on the protests and they genuinely thought this was the beginning of the age of aquarius and from the newt gingrich or whoever, and