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Defeated by hamas. we havent stopped their election. we have to deal with these untruths all the time, jake, but the fact of the matter is, we have been waiting for eight years at a negotiating table for the palestinians to show up. prime minister netanyahu said it again and again hes willing to negotiate directly with the palestinian leadership without preconditions to reach a solution based and two states for two peoples and every time he has stuck out his hand in peace to president abbas it h...

Have at the peace table is that territory. if the u.n. security council says that territory actually belongs to the palestinians, which it does not, thats going to make achieving peace much harder. >> but it does make a reference to a peace process in the future where these things would be negotiated. >> but you have to understand, jake, what the palestinians want to do, i want it earlier today, is to wage a diplomatic and legal war. they dont want to negotiate peace, you know why? when you nego...

Nixon comes to the white house, is this someone that will behave like a president or start doing this again. >> he suspected nixon of almost treason. >> he said treason and almost revealed it to the public before the election which probably would have elected humphrey. nixon comes to the white house just as president-elect trump is doing tomorrow with president obama and johnson was really watching him carefully during this transition is nixon going to keep trying to meddle with my peace talks a...

Is this someone that will behave like a president or start doing this again. >> he suspected nixon of almost treason. >> he said treason and almost revealed it to the public before the election which probably would have elected humphrey. nixon comes to the white house just as president-elect trump is doing tomorrow with president obama and johnson was really watching him carefully during this transition is nixon going to keep trying to meddle with my peace talks and trying to make him look good....

As it turns out nixon was so terrified that johnson would reveal this treason he was saying ill do anything. ill even fly to saigon to tell the south vietnamese to go to the peace table. >> there is discussion of whether there will be press pool coverage of them meeting tomorrow. there was an awkward statement put out saying if youve been told by the trump side that there wont be pool coverage, that is inaccurate. this is the white house. we will be covering this event. is something like that li...

Historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia? >> the problem is that when it happens this close to an election, its very hard to separate what is important from what is trivial. one example is 1968, lyndon johnson on halloween announced a bombing halt of north vietnam in an effort to start peace talks. so a lot of these democrats were angry at johnson and hubert humphrey who was running as his heir, came ...

Running ahead of richard nixon because people thought there might be peace. at this point the south vietnamese said were not coming to the peace table and millions of voters moved away from humphrey back to nixon. nixon won the election. later on we discovered that nixons people backstage had been encouraging saigon not to go to these peace talks saying, you know, help nixon by not going, well give you a better deal. johnson was furious. johnson thought this was treason. but in those five days t...

Running ahead of richard nixon because people thought there might be peace. at this point the south vietnamese said were not coming to the peace table and millions of voters moved away from humphrey back to nixon. nixon won the election. later on we discovered that nixons people backstage had been encouraging saigon not to go to these peace talks saying, you know, help nixon by not going, well give you a better deal. johnson was furious. johnson thought this was treason. but in those five days t...

>> weve got the fbi intervention which is -- turns the out to be not just one story but sort of an ongoing story. is there a way to look at historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia? >> the problem is that when it happens this close to an election, its very hard to separate what is important from what is trivial. one example is 1968, lyndon johnson on halloween announced a bombing halt of north vietnam...

That would be left over after the peace process finished. a lot of folks arent even sure if both sides are exhausted enough to drag themselves to the peace table and go through the process. and if they do, it could take years. >> lets talk about if there was an election process. first of all, can we trust it? what would the rules be? and how would we know that somehow there would in fact be a fair election process? >> well, the first answer is no. if you just took the general population -- what,...