Do you want citizenship for d. R. E. A. M. Ers . Were going to morph into it. Its going to happen. What does that mean . Morph into it, whats that mean . Over a period of 10 to 12 years, somebody does a great job. If you do a great job, i think its a nice thing to have the incentive of after a period of years being able to become a citizen. We begin a packed hour of breaking news with President Trump in davos, proving once again his way is different and disruptive, meeting with israels Prime Minister a short time ago. Mr. Trump threatened to cut off aid to the palestinians because he said theyre not treating him and his administration with respect. The threat came after the president bragged about his decision to move the United States embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem, the biggest reason the palestinians are angry with the Trump White House. When they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great Vice President to see them, and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and support, tremendous numbers, numbers that nobody understands, that money is on the table. Cnns jeff zeleny is live in dave yos. Remarkable, its news anyway, but the point that the president choose a summit meeting where its usually kumbaya, lets get along, not disrupt things. Reporter it may be no surprise, but President Trump not mincing words and taking a stand different from other u. S. President s who tried to broker middle east peace not necessarily by insaergt themselves, but by trying to bring bother sides together. But the president said directly and clearly that he would withhold aid from palestinians if they do not come to the negotiating table. Now, this certainly breaks with precedent that the u. S. Has had for decades trying to negotiate peace. The Trump Administration argued that has not worked, so hes trying to take a different approach here, but the whole point the palestinians are angry at the Trump White House, john, as you mentioned, is the decision to move the embassy. So, this appears to be at somewhat of an impasse here. The president has not talked about middle east peace much for a while. He mentioned it here because he was meeting a very friendly meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu as he begins his day here at the World Economic forum in davos, but it certainly raises the question, john, how middle east peace will ever become unfrozen, unstuck here. The president said he has a proposal, did not say what that was, but certainly, outrage across the palestinian leadership, and the arab world about all of this. Middle east peace looks more elusive than ever. Jeff zeleny in davos, thank you for the reporting. The president also met with british Prime Minister theresa may and delivers a speech tomorrow. The America First president is somewhat of an odd fit at a gathering that extolls global trade and cooperation, but he says his message in davos is simple. Peace and prosperity, peace and prosperity. With us is Maggie Haberman with the new york times, Jonathan Martin also of the new york times, and Robert Italia with bloomberg. Again, just the idea that the president , number one, wants to say this publicly right now, number two, at davos, where people are saying here comes America First, here comes the disrupter, here comes the guy who doesnt go by the normal rules. Big deal. It is a big deal, and its also a way for donald trump to do what he likes doing best, which is keep the focus on him. And i honestly think that is basically the formula. As a policy decision, doing this publicly where he is now is curious, suggesting that it is about a lack of respect is another reminder of his tendency to conflate himself with the institution he serves, but it is not a surprise. It is also not a surprise that he wanted to go to davos. So you could make the argument that this is mr. America first and this is going to be an odd thing. A, hes been treated with adoration and attention. People taking selfies with him, the room was crowded, people were referencing him in their speeches. This is a crowd of elites who represent people who did not accept him as a developer and reality tv star in new york and now they have to, and that, i think, is a huge draw for him. Thats one of the reasons hes there. Sometimes when the president says things, especially on the Foreign Affairs front, his aides have to clean it up and say thats not exactly what were doing, thats the president s tweet or view, but our policy is this. But listen to nikki haley at the united nations, putting the administration on notice that from the Trump White House perspective, theyve had enough. In his speech, president abbas declared the landmark oslo peace accords dead. He rejected any american role in peace talks. He insulted the american president. But we will not chase after a palestinian leadership that lacks what is needed to achieve peace. To get historic results, we need courageous leaders. It has always been, as jeff zeleny noted, u. S. Policy to at least on paper be the honest broker. Of course, past president s have seen israel as a rocksolid u. S. Ally, the u. S. Would always lean towards israel, but u. S. President s pick up the phone and say stop building settlements to the israeli leaders or youre being counterproductive, and try to bring the palestinians in. Why this break from the Trump White House and what did they expect to get from it, a more happy Benjamin Netanyahu, or do they actually think by breaking the old framework, they can build a new one . Im not sure that it matters and ill tell you why. I think what they have been saying is the only way to restart the Peace Process is to take jerusalem off the table, a lot of other things will fall into place. It sort of suggests that theyre going to ask israel to make concessions. Theyre going to ask israel to make concessions going forward. But i think what seems to be emerging, it looks like the u. S. Putting its thumb on the scale much more than in previous administrations, making the calculus that saudi arabia, egypt, jordan, those being three of the countries, dont care as much anymore. They are not going to rally for the palestinians the way they might have before because theyre going to rally more around the antiiran issue and sort of regional gulf issues, right . And that was part of what mike pences trip was about, to kind of test the water. Of course, publicly you saw egypt and jordan raising issues about the jerusalem decision, but the real test was behind the scenes what kind of conversations were they having and were those countries walking away from intelligencesharing or that kind of thing, and the answer was no. Its personal with this president , too. And you know says hes great, the palestinians the palestinians snub pence and beebe is full charm of exhibit. Dont forget israel is to name a subway station after President Trump. They get the politics here domestically, and they are fullon flattering. Theyre obviously not going to do that, especially after moving the u. S. Embassy, or the capital to jerusalem. So, its you cant detach trumps impulses from his perception of slights or flatter. Everything is through that prism. So, u. S. Policy dating back decades, through republican and democratic administrations gets flushed with a personal love me. A novel approach to middle east peace, to say the least that would make sense that there is a strategy underlining it. The United States position has been not to prejudge the issue of jerusalem, which President Trump has now done because that has been one of the three issues that has hung up middle east peace for decades, throughout attempts by republican and democratic administrations, along with the issue of settlements and along with the issue of and its an excellent point, because how he does it, how he talks about jerusalem is fascinating, having covered this issue back to the clinton and george w. Bush administration even. Listen to the president here describing his decision, again, his criticism around the world for deciding youre officially going to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem now, which is putting your thumb on the scale, saying jerusalem is the capital of israel, always supposed to be a final status issue in the negotiations. Heres how the president describes it. There were never any deals that came close because jerusal jerusalem you couldnt ever get past jerusalem. So when people say i set it back, i didnt set it back. I helped it, because by taking it off the table, that was the toughest issue. Number one, i think thats not accurate historically in the sense that there was a deal at camp david in the Clinton Administration that divided jerusalem. Both parties signed on to it, ehud barak and arafat walked back from it at the last minute. Deciding to move the embassy, if he said everyone knows israel wont sign a deal that gives it at least part of jerusalem, therefore im doing this to be honest and candid about it, thats one way to deal with it. Instead, he says im taking it off the table, essentially its israels. Jonathan was mouthing this to you before, but i think were missing a key name in this, a major donor to the Republican Party and to this president or certain republican causes, and this is a signature issue, an issue that he has been pressing this president about since the day they took office. They kicked the can down the road for a while and now you are seeing the president talk about it openly. I also think that you cant really we all like to think theres some deep criminology going on here. Number one, this is his deep impulse control and two, his fear of losing his base and what he constantly says is the evangelicals really care about this issue, his phrase, the evangelicals. I think that is where hes coming at this from. Lets not forget that israel is one of two countries around the world where President Trumps approval hasnt risen since the end of the obama administration. Its crashed everywhere else, the other country is russia. President netanyahu has a way with the president. He talked about the art of the deal and knows how to reach him. World leaders that have been successful in getting through to President Trump and getting what they want from him are the ones that roll out the red carpet and shower him with praise. To that point, the president loves to be loved, but hes had to delay and maybe indefinitely, a state visit to the uk because theyre afraid of protests, theyre afraid people will be in the streets protesting. Yet today, with Prime Minister theresa may, he wants to say everythings great. Prime minister and myself have had a really great relationship, although some people dont necessarily believe that, but i can tell you, i have a tremendous respect for the Prime Minister and the job shes doing. I think the feeling is mutual from the standpoint of liking each other a lot. And so, there was a little bit of a false rumor out there. I just wanted to correct it, frankly. Fake news she sort of managed a shrug there, didnt she some. Yeah, she didnt exactly jump in there and say i agree. No, she did not. A, number one, this president often says something this false when it is true. Its often become seen as the kiss of death in the white house when he gives a fullthroated endorsement to a staff member, because they tend to right, john kelly is doing a great job he said yesterday. They tend to know what follows. I think that he is aware of the fact that perceptions are poor about the u. S. Now that it has changed dramatically. He is hearing that it is in part because of his rhetoric and in part because of a sense of uncertainty about negotiating partners, certainly something we have heard from the Republican Congress as well about this white house. He usually can only adjust it, again, when it is in the context of Something Like that, which is about him personally on a relationships basis. And i think that is why you saw him push back on that and when the persons sitting right next to him, too, right . He always wants to please the person next to him. I remember when he was sworn in, he had shadowed obama for a year and a half, and after meeting with obama, he said for days, i liked him a lot, i think he liked me, too. So he always wants to be liked in the moment. In the moment. And look, Lindsey Graham had a really graham whos been all over the place with trump, smashing his own cell phone in the campaign because trump was reading the number aloud at a rally, then they became golf partners and then had a falling out over the president s comments about certain nations. He said essentially as long as youre being nice to him, youre his best friend, and that is how he sees this. I have to sneak in a quick break. Next, the president says, absolutely to a big date, under oath, with the special counsel. You dont want to live with mom and dad forever, do you . 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The state tried to save the president a little wiggle room, the lawyers, the white house is trying to make a case its cooperation with the special counsel has been in the white house view unprecedented. There are 28 pages of white house documents, nearly 50 interviews with white house and former Campaign Officials and more. Suffice to say, many of the president s friends think all this talk of cooperation is, well, nuts he should treat mueller like a plague, trump friend Christopher Ruddy told the Washington Post. He should assert executive privilege in every opportunity he can. Lets start with the president s words, absolutely looking forward to it, even under oath. Even in Donald Trumps america, can you back away from that . No, and theyve tried to put it into thats just how he talks genre, which is always sort of this is what he said, but what he meant was. He was pretty clear. And i would say one thing that he seemed he was pretty clear except for this point. And he kept raising this issue. I asked the question about under oath. He kept raising the question of Hillary Clinton and what did she do when she spoke to investigators during the email investigation. She was not under oath, and you want to know why . Among other reasons, it was not a grand jury, and if you lie to the fbi, thats a crime, regardless. Felony. Correct. And Michael Flynn could inform him of that, among other people. So i dont think that he fully understands where this falls. But i think he cant help himself, and i do think it is true that he has been saying to people privately, because ive heard this over the last couple weeks, that he really wants to talk to mueller because he believes that he can sell someone. Like bill clinton thinks he can avert the devil. Very good comparison. So, i think it is true that thats where he would like to go, but the under oath thing is you make a key point, he doesnt need to be under oath. I assume his lawyers will fight that tooth and nail, but if you lie in a conversation with the fbi is a felony. And like you said, if he doesnt understand, after all this time, beginning of the second year in office, this prospect of an interview with bob mueller has loomed over him for months. If he still doesnt get the quicksand of that, thats why people like chris ruddy are saying just do not do this, over your dead body. It is not being under oath. It is about the interview, period. There is a big question about whether he will do written questions which some people close to him think makes much more sense. I would be surprised if mueller agrees to that entirely. Fundamentally, either way, if youre in a deposition type of setting, what youre looking at is not broad strokes, like was there collusion, no, there was no collusion. Its very detailed things, like a timeline, like that lawyers are prepared for that the investigators are prepared for. Like you said in january that you did this, but then you said in march that