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Quickly. jake, one more point worth making. you said, this is kushners third visit here. an indication trump is still limited. to some extent, if trump tells both leaders come to the negotiating table now, they both would likely say, yes. >> thank you so much. from israel. and physical instinct, why are you sending this kid here? doesnt know anything about it, no diplomatic experience. the same token, people with a lot of diplomatic experience has been trying to do this literally for decades. ...

>> despite the talk of peace and prosperity, the trump administration still has no clear framework for any peace negotiation. joining us from jerusalem, this is jared kushners third trip to the region since tanked with brokering peace. hearing of any breakthroughs at all? >> reporter: breakthroughs now is much too strong a word. both sides, israelis and palestinians, very much tempering expectation whats might come out of this and a sense there in the statements from kushner and netanyahu from e...

That requires donald trump to reverse himself. february 15th with benjamin netanyahu at his side at the white house. the president effectively downgraded the two-state solution to one of many options. you find national security experts on both sides of the aisle who say thats the right call. the situation changed since george w. bush made that formal american policy. the palestinian government is less reliable, especially on a security front. settlements have grown up to a certain point. the reg...

The palestinian settlements. >> yes. and constant refrain on jared kushner himself is that, yeah, but what has he accomplished? i dont know if thats going to change on this particular topic, but he does have a sort of more filled out team. victoria coates, on the national security council, now working, as i understand it, full time on this effort. she bring as more traditional approach from a conservative foreign policy perspective to the effort. so well see. >> and best of luck. before we go ...

Reassurance who are involved in that process. obviously, we heard from orin, the frustrations, the administration doesnt have a framework and indicating behind the scenes, sure go along way two-state solution to one side of the negotiations that would approve of that, but not saying anything publicly. seems like a mess still. as you said, nobody else figured it out yet. >> and my view on this has always been that what the united states does is a lot less important than what the parties themselve...

Contemporaneous documentation or not? if not, its one more story. >> im just a regular old girl. youre a lawyer. jared has the best lawyers in the business around him. given how complicated this is, can they really prove intent here? with can they really prove collusion? when an alan dershowitz sits here, he says i dont care about ethics, i dont care about the right thing, i care about the law. will the law be able to prove this doesnt seem to make sense, why would you take these meetings, why w...

Public, theyre choosing to. >> to defend the president for a second here. from his perspective, this is all interfering with his ability to get a legislative process done. >> sir, he has the option to lead with discussing his legislative agenda and this morning you know what he talked about? hillary clinton. id love for him to talk about american heros week. id love for him to talk about health care and not just shame republicans. >> for jareds part it looks like jared wants to be transparent an...

Back channel with russia? i mean, he tries to y s ties to away, but this is a nation-state many consider an enemy. how do you explain that? >> he said in his statement kiselak said to him, hey, do you have at the transition offices a way to communicate securely with our generals? and kushner said no. by the way, thats not true. i worked on transitions. there are secure communications attrition offices. jared turned it around and said however we can go to the russian embassy and speak on secure c...

Reports of jared a.g. sessions meeting, sidebaring during the republican national convention many the mayflower hotel preceding or during the first foreign policy speech that jared says he, you know, orchestrated. i mean, all of that is just so inappropriate and during moments that one of our enemies should not even be in the room or relevant to the republican national convention. and lastly, you know, the trump administration seems to forget that intent matters. going into this meeting believin...

Red flag because we know that secretary clipton, theres nothing left to know about her. ran for president twice, secretary of state, u.s. senator, come on. to have the russians sit there and take a presidential campaigns time on a policy issue is ridiculous. this lawyer i would think would know better. why would you meet on a serious issue? the whole thing was set up by the russians for sure. >> say thats true. >> not comforting. >> if thats true, then either the trump campaign fell for it, whic...