i know you will. time now for one last look this hour at our microsoft pulse question. there was the question. can peace in the middle east be achieved in united states abandons two-state solution between israel and the palestinians? that was the question. a bit lopsided today. 97% of you say no. you still have an hour to share your thoughts, though. the pulse is still alive. pulse.msnbc.com. that s going to do it, though, for this hour of msnbc live. my colleague, katy tur, picking things up right now. hey there, craig. thank you. breaking news from the white house. president trump says the real problem isn t his former national security adviser who lied to the administration and the american public, it s who caught him in that lie. general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he s been treated very, very unfairly by the media. the fake media in many cases. papers are being leaked, things are being leaked. it s criminal action, criminal act. people are trying to cover up for a terr
shi ite and isis, and the arab nations sharing a lot of opinions with israel, mostly about iran. there is a new reality. the arab nations are closer to israel. there is an opportunity to build on that. in my opinion. that close relationship between the arabs and israelis will not go public, if you will, unless there is progress within the israelis and the palestinians. that gets us back to the two-state solution. the two-state solution, i want to say quickly, is not the goal. the goal is peace. between israelis and palestinians, and hopefully, israelis and arabs, up until now, the general feeling has been, you can t do it. you can t achieve peace unless there is some respect for the rights of the palestinians, whatever the nature of that
our governor, obviously it came when they lobbied against a sitting president inside a political debate. maybe this is a natural extension of what has been a dysfunctional relationship. my worry is in the end it may have the opposite effect that kerry hoped. it may be pushing him down further such that he s not going to be able to be an honest broker between the israelis and the palestinians. so in the long run this may actually be counterproductive to the sort of goals and precepts of kerry s speech yesterday. senator, kasie hunt. i wanted to talk about that point you just made. to clarify, youly obama and netanyahu have a dysfunctional relationship but you think if it continues to become closer, it will also become dysfunctional or do you think he could build a
i ll get to it in a second. you said the extremists agenda of hamas. hamas doesn t have that s a nice euphemism. hamas is a terror organization that s murlded ore a thousand israelis who launched thousands of rockets against us who have a charter to murder jews. that s nont an extremist view. they feel they can avoid negotiations with israel, blame israel, internationalize the conflict and simply wait for the international community to deliver israel on a silver platter. actually israel going about living their lives, continuing to live their lives, build in the areas that are in dispute may one day convince palestinians to come to the table and negotiate with israel. if they don t do that, israel s going continue on.
negotiate because the land is not already yours. this i know is an important issue in the press and i m sure in the week uz head, ma maybe yl invite me back. the white house has said unequivocally that that did not happen. the united states did not orchestrate this, did not push this through. they said it was an egyptian measure introduced and the united states agreed to go along with it only if it were balanced and it condemned palestinians as well. is the white house then lying about this? i would like to see the balanced resolution. what about the white house assessment? is that a lie? i m not going to categorize it as spuch. i support what the prime minister said. we have iron clad information this was orchestrated by the united states administration. josh green. both senators have made clear this morning that it s imperative that any u.s. pridz be seen as a neutral broker in the peace process.