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We dont know yet, because the fact pattern, the evidentiary trail isnt completely clear yet, how much this will land in his lap, but clearly, the legal net is tightening around him quite dramatically, and hes never experienced that before. and he has no leverage over this. he has no leverage as president to try to disrupt it in the way he did the mueller probe. he will, i think, try to unleash popular opposition to it the way he did to his impeachment, both impeachments, but he doesnt have any p...

Obama administration would have said we already do that. the difference is clear. the other shift really i think is one that was very important in this particular conflict, which is that older, more moderate democrats, including senator menendez but also andy levin from michigan, others who have always been supportive of israel started to issue statements that were more critical of israel. and that is the kind of sentiment that the white house was using as leverage to say hey, look, netanyahu, t...

Very pleased we use sanctions, we use diplomatic leverage, president trump himself to make sure that i did not come online when it was supposed to come online. we delayed it and we were able to make sure that that wasnt coming to fruition. im very proud of that work. now that we have joe biden completely backing down and allowing the russians to complete the pipeline. >> jason: you wouldnt have heard that from greenpeace or these other leftist organizations that president trump was actually slow...

Violations of the chemical weapons convention and other things as well. >> dan, i know youre a cia guy not a politician, but doesnt it seem that putin has gotten more from the biden administration than it ever got from the trump administration? >> well, you know, putin is relentlessly aggressive and its up to this administration to hold him accountable and hes testing us. he tested us in ukraine and we had plans to send our ships into through the sea, and the black sea and russias protested that...

So far that hasnt happened and that obviously is a good sign but were keeping an eye. >> it certainly is, kelly, and thats a really important point to make. i want to go to my partner at the white house, peter. i know you have been talking to your sources and were tracking this throughout the week. watching the president really get criticism for his handling of this, including from some members of his own party, who said he wasnt being tough enough. the white house said, look, he was engaged in ...

Monitors who will be in both israel and gaza to oversee the cease-fire. so egypt does have leverage. egypt has long played this role as an intermediary. you have an assertive government in egypt under president sisi that wants to assume the countrys traditional leadership. he wants to be very much like mubarak. egypt went through the arab spring. it had its own period of muslim brotherhood rule, and now i think youre seeing egypt try and go back to the egypt that the world knew before as a playe...

Have somehow flipped votes. they are focusing on republican counties that use dominion machines, its a goal, it appears, to try to find some anomaly that they have found in the dominion machines even in places that voted for trump that they can then argue, oh my goodness, if this happened in a republican county in north michigan, it might have happened all over the country. >> it is an interesting strategy, haynes, do you see any other organization like cyber ninjas popping up anywhere else -- y...

-- officials, they are sending monitors that will be in both israel and gaza to oversee the cease-fire. egypt does have leverage, it has long played this role as an intermediary. you have an assertive government in israel under president sissi who wants to assume the countrys leadership. he wants to be very much like -- egypt went through the arab spring, they had a brother ship rule. now you see israel tried to go back to the egypt that the world knew before, as a player in the middle east proc...

To resolve the things, like the european s,union. they dont talk to hamas either. egypt does talk to both sides. does it help that egypt has t brokered this? can they do anything to help assure that it sticks? >> reporter: well, egypt is trying to do something and do something practical.te according to the egyptian g officials, they are sending monitors who will be in both g israel and gaza to oversee the cease-fire. so egypt does have leverage. egypt has long played this role as an intermediary...

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