role in gaza. hamas will not be entirely eradicated. there will still be hundreds, if not thousands, of gunmen wandering around. there will have to be some sort of international force. i think we can rule out the un after the sort of anaemic, feckless role that they have played in lebanon, allowing hezbollah to rearm intervention of un security council resolution 1701. i don t think israel would deign to accept the un. let s get a bit of analysis and length if he were we are and what happens next. we can bring in the panel for the first time. leigh ann caldwell, washington post live anchor. tim montgomerie, founder of the political website conservative home. looking to you both. things are coming on the programme. let s start with the us playing a key role clearly. the language from the us seems to be shifting slightly. what is your take? it seems to be shifting slightly. what is your take? is your take? it has shifted slightly- is your take? it has shifted slightly. the
isolationist/nonisolationist/n n isolationist/noninterventionist trump and the i can t be embarrassed, i can t lose face, i have to be assertive on the other side. many presidents has competing impulses on foreign policy. trump has these. the question is who feels comfortable right now that there s a clear strategy guiding our american the american approach to what is an increasingly threatening scenario in the middle east? there s some kind of a here s our strategy, here s what we re trying to accomplish, here s plan a, here s plan b. who feels comfortable we are proceeding in that way as opposed to an ad hoc, chaotic way where nobody really knows who s m charge, nobody really knows who is running this policy and whether there s a clear idea whether the president knows
campaign, whether knowingly or unknowingly, helped liggeegitim and spread russian information. i doubt i would be here if it weren t for association meelddio be honest with you. the trump team used every digital tool to their advantage. that approach was borne out of sheer necessity. from day one candidate trump faced an uphill battle. he lacked the foot soldiers and local offices that his opponents had spent months, even years, cultivating. we were all wondering, why isn t he buying ads? why isn t he running a traditional campaign? because he s got no money. trump s campaign turned to a new and powerful way to turn out the vote, big data. jared kushner oversaw that part of the operation. he treated trump like an
vice president about his conversations with the russian ambassador. questions have been raised about whether the president knew flynn also lied to the fbi, which is a federal crime. so another critical question is whether trump knew it when he said this according to comey i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn t obey that but that s the way i took it. it is so wildly inappropriate and so contrary to how the president is supposed to work and it may well be evidence of a crime. did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn? no. no. next question. it may have been comey s appearance on capitol hill just
james comey. still ahead, chasing an oligarch. is it true that mr. manafort owed you millions of dollars when he was the head of the trump campaign? to chase down the real story. did he offer those private briefings to you as a way to try and repay that debt? on all the president s men. get lost, please. will you sign my russian flag? please, sign my russian flag. i realize that ah, that $100k is not exactly a fortune. well, a 103 how long did it take you two to save that? a long time. then it s a fortune. i told you we had a fortune. get closer to your investment goals with a conversation. laying here so traffic can safely navigate around this broken-down rv. really? a road flare? it s my new year s resolution. now i m all about safety and stuff. you re not even going to try to catch something on fire? no.no i m not.