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Stay with us. let me bring in the rest of the david. david rhode to you. one of the people who is not getting a lot of attention but who this president is banking on to try to reach an agreement and try to make what he calls the ultimate deal is his long time business associate, lawyer, friend, jason greenblatt. not only has he. you the it on his son-in-law jared kushner but jason greenblatt seems to think he can get this done. >> i applaud the president for trying to do this but jason greenblat...

Listen, okay, who he asked, the united states senate who he asked to do the investigating, heres my books, open up all the books, lets get over with this. we just had a health care bill go down. that was supposed to be my number one priority. we want to do tax reform, legislative reform. theres legislating that has to happen. and as far as all those folks out there who are supportive of him, don, right? and thats fine. at some point, though, you have to wonder when are they going to be wary when...

Listen, okay, who he asked, the united states senate who he asked to do the investigating, heres my books, open up all the books, lets get over with this. we just had a health care bill go down. that was supposed to be my number one priority. we want to do tax reform, legislative reform. theres legislating that has to happen. and as far as all those folks out there who are supportive of him, don, right? and thats fine. at some point, though, you have to wonder when are they going to be wary when...

Now, that would sort of reduce fighting, again, between the syrian government and the main opposition in syria. that wont stop the fighting among isis. there has been talk about a joint possibly russian u.s. operation, donald trump has talked about attacking isis in syria. just focusing on that slowly. so, this could lead, though, to isiss territory being shrunken and isis dispersing and carrying out attacks in countries like turkey and send their fighters out into iraq and into europe and into ...

Hurting the turkish economy, thats whats a real danger for president erdogan. there was a reason there was this club that was so popular sort of with the elite and westerners was chosen by this attacker. >> so, david, investigators are clearly looking at all angles of surveillance video. were looking at images right now that have just come in. i dont know all the details of what is. you see a gunman come in and also see other people who r you know, crouched down. a dog. you see the gunshots ther...

Scene. well keep you updated on that. as we continue to try to get more information. were also trying to evaluate the bit of information we have. david rhode is with us now on how we can assess, how we can assess thus far what we know. we saw there was this grainy surveillance video of whats believed to be the suspect. we dont have any names nor motivation. but this comes on the heels of a string of attacks throughout turkey from ankara to istanbul. what does this represent? >> well, its a deep ...

This but to have a comment that this intelligence is either politicized or incompetent i wrote a long story about the cia this summer and there was confidence in the summer that the russians were behind it. there was frustration that the obama white house was moving too slowly so he should get the briefing, i was told by a u.s. official he could have had the briefing already. hes only had limited briefings, he requested a briefing on nk but not russia so lets see what happens next week but its a...

Deal and the palestinians, will you see protests there? if youre fueling the xreemsz on either side, that does make a peace less likely. its a very unusual situation. and well see what john kerry says tomorrow. >> well have to just do that indeed. david rohde, thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. the family of pop star george michael says they are touched by the ongoing emotional tributes. what his partners saying about finding the singer dead on christmas day. p...

Chinese people who we can share an orderly world with? the jury is out on both of those. >> reporter: secretary of state kerry will deliver a major speech wednesday at the state department, laying out a vision for how he believes the conflict between israelis and palestinians can be resolved. and then it will be up to the trump administration to decide whether to take that advice or go its own route. elite elyse, labott, cnn, washington. joining us is david rhode, a security analyst and nation...

Custody. theres new reports from the "new york times" might know more about this, in the "times" he was also known to american officials, he had looked up online how to create sploexplos and other things. >> eric, some of the reporting we saw in the "new york times" about looking up explosives, talking about the no-fly list. what more do we know about that? >> this is all part of the increased cooperation between american law enforcement and intelligence officials and the european counterparts s...