>> -- to desperately get re-elected. the president also wrong. maybe he just doesn't know history. it's sad if he's that ignorant of history but every president hasn't wanted to do this because every president has known that the status quo is efficient to protect israel and that, in fact, doing what donald trump said he was going to do yesterday would only make peace in the middle east more difficult and actually only make the israeli position in that region all the more insecure. >> exactly right. this has been the basis for what peacemaking has been over the decades and the one possibility now was less between israelis and palestinians but israel and some of the arab states. my own sense is that this has got to make that slightly more difficult. we're paying a diplomatic price. no one is pressing israel to give up the golan heights now at any time or in the future. it undermines an important plank