in the same conversation in which he called james comey a nutjob and said fortunately i ve fired him so i ve got that behind me now. but it was many of us who cover national security and foreign policy immediately jumped to the conclusion or had sources who made us believe that it was in fact israel that was the original source and that s why it was so sensitive and that naming the city that isis was plotting this in was sensitive. fast forward is the next day and the new york times had a separate story in which they said that israel was the source of the intelligence according to their sources. so the twos things were not put together in one story. no one said that donald trump mentioned israel but by him responding to this news reporter who shouted out to bibi netanyahu are you comfortable with intelligence sharing and donald trump felt compelled to jump in and say i never mentioned israel, he s inadvertently confirming in the view of many people that it was israel that was the s
brian: they are rolling out the red carpet. kevin corke is at the white house with what we can expect. ambitious agenda awaits the president as he makes his way to the middle east as he takes america s message abroad to the world. leaving behind the political storms here in the us of a. he is going to begin the trip to the middle east. is he going to make his way over to europe with a particular focus on improving economic and security coongs. in that theme of international engagement, just yesterday you may have seen the president met with the president of colombia. respect for our countries very much in line with what the president will say when he meets about b. netanyahu in israel. to put it mildly a little bit complicated. here is the secretary of state s take on the trip ahead. the purpose of this trip is really one of conveying a message that america is back
welcome back to hardball. for the first time in three years, the head of the palestinian authority, abass, came to the white house today. he sat down with president trump and found a receptive partner. i would love to be a mediator or an arbitrator, or a facilitator, and we will get this done. let s see if we can find the solution. it s something that i think is frankly maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years. but this new advocacy comes in stark contrast to candidate trump who was a staunch ally of bb netanyahu. yesterday vice president pence told a group gathered to honor israel a independence day that the move was still on the table. the president of the united
all these demands may be reasonable from the israeli point of view, but they re not from the arab point of view. that is correct. and i think that this president responds well to praise. abass came in, and he praised president trump. netanyahu came in and praised president trump. and sean spicer today in the briefing said, you know, here s a president who with his amazing interpersonal skills hat got two people who are ready for peace. this is not a nuanced view of how this is going to work, and president trump has discovered on numerous things like health care but also especially as it relates to the rest of the world that, you know, north korea, it was more complicated than originally he thought. and this is another one of those where at some point, i mean this is the most complicated one around. okay. this is not like reinventing the wheel. this is like not reinventing the wheel again. decades and decades of not being
this hats to be one of the bravest states we know in that part of the world. b b netanyahu. we need to expect more jihadi attempts to attack christians. i will be in church on sunday, won t you? brian: i will say this, you do fear something else, you feel a merger between al qaeda, boca ha rahm and isis. this type of thing when they feel their backs are against the wall and annihilation is imminent can be a most dangerous time. no doubt. i have been out there way too often that there is going to be a defeat for isis in mosul, in talafar, and in raqqa. the bottom line of it isis is not going away. isis could indeed do a merger with al qaeda because, look it, no matter what the name of these organizations is, it s the franchise from hell. these guys are going to continue with the sole objective as killing as many infidel as they describe us, as they possibly can, i think it was right for secretary of