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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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