on the middle east peace plan, it is so unbelievably well done. >> joining us now is "new york times" white house correspondent and cnn political analyst maggie haberman. great to have you here. a lot of fascinating things about this. first of all, the whole notion of the timing of this. what do you make of it? >> my reporting is similar to what we've heard tonight, which is that she did not want to embarrass the president by doing this right after the midterms. she had made clear for a while that she wanted to go. first she had to get through the united nations general assembly, then the kavanaugh debacle took place and she didn't want to do it in the middle of that. there are? west wing aides that are frustrated that they actually ended up having a couple of good days where they got brett kavanaugh through, they had his swearing in yesterday, and now the week is going to be dominated it seems at least in part by nikki haley. at least the part that's not about kanye west. who meets with the president on thursday. i don't think there is something deeper based on my reporting. i do think you are going to see increasingly a number of people