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Inkrblly contentious and still outstanding. >> richard engel, thank you for that report. joining us is white house correspondent for roll call. great to have you with us. the president certainly likes to promote himself as the deal maker in chief. the prime minister reference the art of the deal. lets talk about this attempt at brokering a deal. the president up ending decades of consistent foreign policy of a two-state solution. the chances of him now trying to get that deal in place, how do yo...

Makes it hard for a two-state solution because palestine looked like a piece of swiss cheese. its hard. but its been to support a peaceful negotiated two-state solution including the resolution of jerusalem. the cavalier attitude of donald trump could be a setback and trigger violence. >> ashley, ive heard experts say some version of this, charitably, it seemed like the president came in unbriefed or underbriefed today. is that possible? >> thats certainly possible. donald trump sort of operatin...

Cabinet, which he got some criticism for a couple of weeks ago. we will see where this goes. those of the four names as we understand it. >> martha: john, thank you so much. here now with more, prominent trial attorney and its real advocate. good to have you here. what did you think of these exchanges? >> i think for those of us who support israel and her advocates on behalf of israel, it is like a breath of fresh air after eight years of a frosty relationship. this was encouraging. i think both...

That strategy will be laid out to the president in the coming days. the defense official tells cnn nothing has been final. ultimately it is up to the president to make the call. they are providing a menu of options. for the first time in decades, the u.s. is ready to consider two-state solution in the middle east. we are live next with what is a policy shift. sometimes you just know when you hit a home run.

Action vis-a-vis iran or china or north korea. hes going to have to look us in the eye and say, trust me. he has zero moral authority right now, i think, with way too many americans and hes going to regret that one day. >> during his news conference with netanyahu the president backed way from the longstanding bipartisan american commitment to finding whats called a two-state solution, a state of israel along a new state of palestine. he said im looking at two states and one state. i like the on...

Thing there is. theres a lot of support for one state solution. therare hard line iselis who want that. part of them are allied with benjamin netanyahu to keep him in power, and there are a lot of arabs who would like the one state solution because it means the end of a jewish state. most reasonable people have believed in a two state solution for decades. and if its easier, none of it is easy. the two-state solution problem is that in israel there are arabs, their birthrate is higher than the j...

>> i think if there were any such prospect this interview has just taken care of that. look, i think clearly, who knows whats clear. but he doesnt seem to want to be briefed on these issues. i think he walks into these things, hes always negotiated real estate deals by just walking in and he talks about this in his books. you know, sensing the room, sensing how things are going to go. and, look, he won the presidency, but the point is you dont want into the room with the israeli prime minister a...

Now he is saying wait a minute. that two-state solution or one-state solution doesnt matter. the presidents reaction is casual to the problem in the middle east. >> reporter: casual and noncommittal. saying whatever works for you, it works for me. figure it out and im okay. the right wing government is celebrating that press conference with mr. trump and prime minister netanyahu. are some calling for an annexation for the west bank. netanyahu was asked if he supported a two-state solution. he sa...

Peace initiative. that was premised on the two-state solution. secretary john kerry was trying to bring the arab countries back in to help support the process. but this cant lead to a good place if it leads to one state if you care about a jewish democratic israel. >> and you assume that he does. >> one would hope. one would think. maybe he hasnt focused on this enough. what he does, hell recognize the only path forward is two states. >> one thing on display yesterday was the closeness of the re...

Theres got to be -- >> slow down the settlement. >> i wonder how king abdullah will be reading the papers tomorrow morning, oh, my god, no more two-state solution, i got two-thirds of my country is palestinian. they may not theres a lot more meds than there are beds in my country right now. anyway, the round table is sticking with us, up next, these thee will tell me something i dont know. this is "hardball" where the action is. their training is developed by the same company who designed, engin...