Does it affect to change reality here . Do they believe that twostate system is impossible, that is the talk in israel. Now, that it is appears to be the new framework for a discussion, that is a fundamental change. Special correspondent for the network, 25, 26 years. Good to see you, thank you for popping in it you saw this News Conference. Play identity here a few minutes ago, the president and the Prime Minister as well. What struck you most from what we heard from the two gentlemen . What struck me most, netanyahu arriving, and the press conference, if i was a Palestinian Leader looking at this i would be deeply concerned. It was a lovein between the trumps and the netanyahus, that means between israel and the
United States. There it was a mention that netanyahu made about the movement, the friendship with trump, saying, it was long overdue. A side mention of the relationship between he and president obama for a long time. That is what struck me. It is a new deck of cards on the ta
strong supporter, i don t blame the president for taking a couple of weeks to think it through, double check the facts, then he acted. did the right thing. paul mannafort, the former campaign manager is out, amid ties and concerns about ties to russia. are you at all concerned about this administration s connection to russia? no. i look at general maddis, and rex it tillerson. my view is tougher, as we should say, about valdimir putin and russia, the previous two administrations came n trying to set things with russia. i don t think it will happen. again, i tend to be more guarded on this.
good afternoon to you. is senator mccain concerned that the president is coming after him like that? reporter: he says he s not, heather. senator mccain told me a little while ago that the reason he s not concerned about this kind of fight maybe affecting the fight over seas against terrorists is that president trump has a lot of good people around him. i rely to a large degree on the national security team that i am very good friends with for many years. general maddis, general flynn, general kelly. i have known them all many years and i have worked very closely with them. i talked with general maddis again this morn. reporter: i also had a chance to speak with joni ernst about this. she is a republican and veteran and she s declining to take sides. she just hopes everybody can work together to improve the military. heather? heather: all right peter. so tell us about this. democrats taking sides in the fight. reporter: yeah. democratic senators are taking senator mccain s si
the coalition efforts there. going off my question of we re trying to get out of conflict like that does the administration plan to send additional resources in? the president will heed the advice of the general and secretary maddis. i think that s right now a september of cent issue that they are facing. two questions. i want to get to immigration. but first on the comments from judge gorsuch that have been reported out. the president still stand by his nomination given where gorsuch stands. given where given his position on the president s attitude toward the judiciary and given that the president praised neil gorsuch for his intel lect. does the president have any regrets about the comments he made about the federal judges. no, he has no regrets. he s very proud of the selection he s made.
involvement in iraq. we want to take you now live to baghdad, where you are looking at live pictures of the casing of the colors ceremony in the iraqi capital. it has been almost nine years since the u.s. invaded that country. and in that time, at least 128,000 iraqis have been killed in conflict situations. more than 4400 u.s. troops have also died. and now at this very moment,ed american military command in the country is closing a chapter in the history of both iraq and the u.s. armed forces with this somber ceremony. it is such a big contrast to the explosions that marked the beginning of the war in iraq, back in march of 2003. now, this moment does, in a very real sense, mark the end of a difficult period, not only for the u.s. military, but for the people of iraq. damon has covered the key moments of the iraq war and joins us from baghdad. you know, arwa, you ve seen it all. i was there with you for some of it. and looking on, you realize the tremendous suffering that