president trump was very critical of chancellor merkel on the campaign trail. how does the white house think that will affect the tone of the meeting tuesday. i know that we did a bit of a readout earlier on that, there s a lot of excitement on both sides of the ocean for this trip. i know that we are looking forward to meeting with the chancellor an her team and talked to her folks over there and they re very excited about coming over. there s a lot of trade an economic interest on both sides and obviously there s an element of national security that we share. and so i will let the trip look forward to the readout but there s a lot of excitement coming and i think the president looks forward to meeting with the chancellor and discussing areas of national shared interest. i gather from today and yesterday, correct me if i m wrong, i want to make sure i understand the answer to this
framework called basics. is that right? we need to go back to basics. what do you look for in trustworthiness, benevolent concern. that s the b. b. ability to perform, can they get the job done. s, similarity in values. is, integrity. c, communication. a and s, shared interest. are our interests aligned or are they conflicting. if you can discern these things, we should be able to choose more trustworthy leaders and embed those properties in institutions. yet it s interesting to me, being a little empathetic to politicians for a second, i can imagine these principles are easier to apply in business leadership than in political leadership, because you ve got a common mission, you re trying to, you know, earn a return and build a business. so it s easier to sort of get folks aligned. the political arts are harder, right? you ve got this incredibly diverse nation with incredibly
go. they have had a good relationship with mubarak for 28 years. some call the peace a cold peace, it s one that worked for israel. it s one in which they have a lot of shared interest. shared interest in controlling iran, iran s influence on lebanon and the gaza strip. hamas. a lot of shared security interest. israeli officials, israeli politicians are looking at it with concern about what comes next. what is going to fill the vacuum here. if mubarak is leaving, who is going to take his place? will it be the military? will islamic parties gain influence? it s something people here are extremely concerned about in watching, randi. sure, the risk is, whoever takes over, if someone else does take over, what is the risk for israel in that case.
overseas in danger. we re hoping to learn a little more. white house press secretary jay carney at the briefing at 2:00. in terms of what the administration is actually doing to try and figure out what pakistan knew and didn t know about bin laden s location, what have you been able to find out? reporter: we don t know the answer to that specifically, what did they know, what don t they know right now. a lot of questions have been raised. here at the white house, as well as from lawmakers, how is it possible that osama bin laden was hiding out for years, not far from the capital of pakistan. a mile or so from what is the pakistani equivalent of west point. it s really drawing a lot of questions out about what kind of relationship should the u.s. have with pakistan. we re hearing some really kind of nuance points of views about this. jay carney was asked yesterday, the white house press secretary was asked, should the u.s. not trust pakistan. he said it s not a question of trust, it