with. that s why they have him speaking today and the longer term prospects for peace in the middle east. whether there s some hubris there, it will take some meetings maybe it is. but he s putting expectations where they should be. saying, you know, these are early meetings but we re trying to put the steppingstones in place one after the other. i think this at a time when there s so much controversy around the white house makes sense for him politically to be associated with something sort of benign like improving government, technology, business. and then also with the middle east peace prospects. david frum, put jared kushner s ambitions on the audacity scale for me. he s going to get somewhere and achieve middle east peace as someone who has never been inside the government. he s going to transform the government. is that starry-eyed and offensive, or sort of charmingly optimistic? he doesn t know what he doesn t know. he doesn t know people who don t know what he doesn t know
president trump firing a string of tweet, keeping up tough talk with iran. this administration considers new sanctions on the heels of iran s missile test. trump s ambassador hitting moscow hard over military incursion in ukraine. in the meantime the white house saying israel expanding settlements into the west bank may not be helpful for peace prospects. our correspondents across the globe. let s begin with jeff zeleny at the white house. reporter: good morning, carol. what we re seeing are the emerging outlines of the trump foreign policy doctrine here. of course, we know what he said when he was running for president on the campaign trail. things are often different when you have the realities of government. we are seeing a harder line on russia particularly from his ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley. this is what she said yesterday.
just hours ago i spoke with mark regga, the chief spokesperson of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and afbed him about the four palestinian boys killed on the beach by an israeli mortar strike. we don t target civilians, we don t target obviously children. we are, indeed, regret that incident. when this sort of thing happens, it s an operational failure. we are disappointed with our own performance. it shouldn t happen. we spoke in length about the four boys killed and the ground invasion of gaza and implications of the ground invasion, peace prospects. what are the israeli government s precise intentions in days, weeks and months ahead? the full interview ahead. next, we re going live to gaza for a live report. defiance never grows old.