Schieffer and good morning again. The peace talks in the middle east between the israelis and the palestinians broke down last week when Mahmoud Abbas announced his group was reuniting with ham as, an organization its United States and israel branded a terrorist group. Well, today on the eve of holocaust remembrance day, abbas issued a statement decrying the killing of 6 million jews and saying the holocaust was the most heinous crime against humanity in modern history. In the middle east where many deny the holocaust even happened, it is the first time a leader of the plo has ever issued such a statement. So what does it mean . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joins us from jerusalem. Prime minister, what do you make of this statement . Well, i think the difficulty is to reconcile that statement that president abbas is making a few days after he embraces ham asthat denies its holocaust and calls for perpetrating another holocaust against the 6 million jews of the state of isr
Putin happened after their scheduled meeting at the g20 summit. Were going to tell you why the meeting is raising concerns and what the white house is saying about it. And just a brief conversation at the end of dinner, thats how the white house describes this second meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin. But Officials Say the discussion lasted an hour. And the only translator available was russias translator. And there are new developments about donald trump jr. s meeting with a russian lawyer. You hear the white house, theyre downplaying this second meeting, a substantive conversation with Vladimir Putin. The white house is saying it was simply a social gathering, its just something that happens and during the course of a dinner that all World Leaders were having, but the meeting im told by white house officials was just over an hour, but it happened after the two had their official meeting at the end of the g20 summit in germany. After the dinner, at some point, the u.
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