Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. House and some speculations as to whether or not or how much the president knew that these individuals were fact making these specific statements. How much would he have been known of the exact wording that came out of these officials . Well, the Administration Says it was the president s idea. He very much wanted them to come out but it is unprecedenteunpre. We never seen anything like it. It was clearly aimed sending a message to the people that they are taking this problem seriously. Critics point to that, we are less than 100 days before the midterm, why did this briefing happened several months ago or a year ago. Kristen welker is live with us at the white house. Thank you. Lets bring in Jonathan Allen and former senior director Cyber Security at the white house and john mclaughlin, it is great to have all of you. Jonathan and allan, let me begin with you. I want to read from your piece
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get behind, i do believe europe will follow on this. but really the question i think is how does this affect the iran discussion and how do the gulf states come out. so to that point, jonathan, politically speaking does it make sense for a president who has been somewhat challenged on the foreign policy side, doesn t have a lot of successes he will argue he has successes with north korea and russia. now you have the jcpoa being torn up. does it make sense for the president to release this plan or announce this plan before the midterms or wait post-midterms? i think it makes sense before the midterms, particularly if it s one that as expected is, you know, sort of weighted towards israel because it motivates his base. all right. ga gail, jonathan, thank you very much. we ll be right back. i tried the patch. they didn t work for me. i didn t think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support,
got some negotiators in this who have not been dealing with these issues very long. you have some negotiators seen in the middle east as extremely pro-israel and in some cases potentially anti-muslim. the president himself, obviously, had the travel ban, the first couple versus struck down by the court because they were seeing as being religious. so there is a lot to be done here. it was easier to part the red sea than to get peace in the middle east. gail, the ap is writing that palestinian leaders in part for the reason that jonathan just mentioned there, they are going to be hostile towards any proposal from the trump administration given his decision to move the embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv. is there anything that is going to allow this administration to work through a serious peace plan if the palestinians have already said anything that arrives with jerusalem as the capital, israel is dead in the water? we have all talked about how the middle east peace plan is the grav
gail, you are in touch with diplomats and others overseas. what should we expect the reaction to be both in the middle east and among our european allies who at some points have taken very different positions on issues like the embassy move to jerusalem? well, i think there are two things to watch. i think four letters are overshadowing this discussion, which is iran. so as much as this is about a middle east peace process, if you talk about what the gulf states plus egypt plus israel have been relied upon recently, what they have come together on is the concern about growing iranian influence in the region. in many ways that has overshadowed what s going on with the palestinian people and the question of the palestinian people s future. and so the question i have is how will the gulf states react? do they really see, do we see a desire for them to open their wallets? somebody will have to pay for this economic development and strzok. then if you have the gulf states on board and i