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Send her back! send her back! send her back! send her back! send her back! >> now its important to remember that this hateful rhetoric is literally a campaign ploy. it began on a campaign stop in 2015. its continued through his presidency, and he is using it again as he seeks reelection. anti-muslim rhetoric is a key part of donald trumps strategy to win in 2020. joining me now are two people with significant experience covering israel and the rest of the middle east. a journalist and foreign po...

Remember that this hateful rhetoric is literally a campaign ploy. it began on a campaign stop in 2015. its continued through his presidency, and he is using it again as he seeks reelection. anti-muslim rhetoric is a key part of donald trumps strategy to win in 2020. joining me now are two people with significant experience covering israel and the rest of the middle east. a journalist and foreign policy analyst who grew up in east jerusalem. ayman mohyeldin, who has reported on the middle east ex...

Of sense if i were a prosecutor to be all over that, but im not a prosecutor. i could just pretend to play one and suggest what prosecutors should try to do. >> but do we have any sense of how he made his money, how much remains, and frankly, where it is now? >> you know, i think this is all a big cover story. he was a con man. i think i believe personally in my opinion he was a blackmailer. i think he had information on all of these people. he provided, quote, unquote services to these people. ...

Its not historically significant. we can look at it as a photo opportunity in a campaign year. and just about everything that the president does is focused on this one particular objective, and that is to get re-elected. i dont think that were going to see any -- not even minor positive results from this engagement, so you can look at this as a campaign ploy and you can actually see that in how the president comports himself. >> sue, one last question on that front, what colonel jack was talking...

>> i think it was hugely significant. it was significant not just for the president and the two nations, but it was significant to the world that the president is willing to talk -- talk, not war with north korea is a good thing. the fact that he went to south korea first reassures our allies that hes not going to sell them out. the fact that he says weve got to keep talking, that were in no rush, but we want to get things done. this is a nation that weve been struggling with since, really, sinc...

Thats unlikely to happen i think the really important thing to look for here is what will be the approach to the moscow patriarchate so to the russian orthodox church as linked to moscow off to after yesterdays meeting will they lose church as will the ukrainian state promote efforts to get people to join the new ukrainian church there i think we could definitely see the russian government coming under some could have internal pressure to react tell me about the politics behind this move preside...

Ukrainian state promote efforts to get people to join the new ukrainian church there i think we could definitely see the russian government coming under some could have internal pressure to react tell me about the politics behind this move president poroshenko hell be facing a difficult reelection march russia called this a campaign ploy was this mainly or shango who pushed for the creation of this new church. well he definitely has invested an awful lot of diplomatic capital and political capit...

And moscow have been steadily worse ningbo ukraines new national church make things even worse now. good afternoon on your well it seems like those relations couldnt get much worse short of a full scale military conflict but this officer doesnt help weve had some furious reactions from moscow talking about schism i think the really interesting thing now will be to see how it plays out how ukraine treats the moscow patriarchy the russian church which still is the biggest single confession here in...

Along southern borders starting this week. but come of the u.s. army north, in a statement, saying that it is continually assessing the resources and there is no specific timeline on possible troops. redeployment has been determine determined. in the meantime, in the national head of border patrol council found an alarm on the security dangers and is praising the president for taking on the problem. >> when president trump says that there are bad people coming across the border, there is proof. ...

Supreme court, though. but i think he has the right to. >> even though his own speaker of the house, paul ryan, says that he cant do it with just an executive order? it has to be a constitutional amendment and be voted on by congress and the states? >> i think ryan is absolutely wrong. >> reporter: neither he nor anyone else we interviewed thought the presidents play on birthrights was a campaign ploy. >> hes making it sound like he alone can just get rid of it. doesnt that sound like a stunt to...