relations in a new trump era. netanyahu said this morning his main focus in those talks will be discussing israel s security. cnn s deployable affairs analyst aaron david miller joins me now from washington. good to see you, aaron. good to see you, fred. on the campaign trail donald trump touted himself as israel s biggest defender. here is a reminder. there s nobody more pro-israel than i am. we have to protect israel when i become president, the days of treating israel like a second class citizen will end on day one. look, we have to protect israel. israel to me is very, very important. we have to protect israel. reporter: so you ve seen a lot of transitions between u.s. presidents and israel. how is this one different? i think in two respects. first of all i don t think there are any transformations in this relationship, with the exception of clinton s relationship with rabin which was remarkable and historic opportunities for
jared kushner knows netanyahu from back in his high school days. do you show thee this as making impact in any way? i wish my father-in-law, i joked the other day, has as much confidence in me as donald trump seems to have in jared curb mer. he s assigned him truly mission impossible. i think the point to pay attention to the first time in a long time the pursuit of israeli-palestinian peace is not just squarely centered in the white house, it has presumably been deposited into the hands of not only a family member of the president but someone who is deemed to be one of his closest advisers. whether any of this is real or serious, what kind of priority the trump administration accorded this issue, i don t know but it s going to get some high level attention in large part just because jared kushner seems to be in charge of it, at least for now. aaron david miller, thank you so much. thank you, fred. always good to see you. we ll be right back.
very brittle egos and both are suspicious, willful and purposeful and i think as a team that would constitute a remarkable sort of duo, but if they ever get into a situation where they re at odds with one another, i think there will be a certain amount of dysfunction, and the reality, fred, is campaigning isn t governing. we re already seeing a trump administration on any number of issues, settlements in particular not, moving toward the center. israel and the u.s. sit very different places, different threat assessments, different assessments of risk that i give it about a year, maybe even less, and i suspect the two of them will be annoying wunt another. do you think that changed the dynamic between the two that donald trump has changed his pacing on the whole issue of the u.s. embassy moving or even on
could file a brand new order as soon as tomorrow or tuesday, he didn t commit to either of those days, it just doesn t look like it s quite as imminent as that, that a new order could be coming. it looks as though they re working on it, but this white house has been full of surprises, so we have to wait and see what actually happens. fred? all right, athena jones, thanks so much, in palm beach, appreciate that. let s bring back ron brownstein. ron, the trump administration considering all options on this travel ban, at the same time you re hearing from athena where the white house feels these actions are really not review able in is this white house running the risk of jeopardizing its credibility in this way? first of all the s end of the american constitutional system of checks and balances is that there s nothing beyond question, everything can be questioned within the political system, and ultimately it is for the courts to decide where the lines are in both statutory and
other world powers just brokered with iran gop presidential hopeful and former arkansas governor mike huk beexpressed he really doesn t like it. using strong language in fact. let me read you a quote now from a radio interview huckabee gave i m quoting, this president s foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. i m joined now on the phone by cnn global affairs correspondent. what s the reaction from those words? well, fred the reaction i think people are going to be very considered about speaking first about this. let s unpack what mike huckabee said. in saying this is marching them to the voekjoke