peace process but didn t give any specifics. there is quite a bit of shuttle diplomacy with jared kushner and jason greene blat. do you have anything to tell us about a positive movement from this. we think that the meetings that took place over the last week with senior adviser jared kushner and special representative jason green blat met with officials in saudi arabia, jordan, egypt and israel and qatar and discussed the situation in gas saw and the next stage of the peace effort and we ll continue the conversations and committed to the peace effort and we re going to keep looking forward but the conversations were productive. the commissioner of customs and border protection said they are no longer referring people who cross the border without authorization for criminal charges if they are traveling with children, which is essentially returned to the obama administration practice and administration before that. does the president support that approach and if so, does he
the middle east with jared kushner. do you have anything concrete to tell us about any positive movement? we think the meeting with jared kushner and jason gre greenblatt, they met with a number of officials last week. they discussed the situation in gaza and the next stages of the peace effort. we re committed to the peace effort and the conversations with productive. julie? there s no longer going to be referring to people crossing the border without authorization for criminal charges which is what was the obama administration practice and the administration before that. does the president support that approach and if so, does he regret trying to push forward on a zero tolerance approach? no.
with jared kushner and jason greenblatt. do you have anything concrete to tell us about any sort of positive movement whatsoever from all of this? again, we think that the meetings that took place over the last week with senior advisor jared kushner and special representative jason greenblatt. they met with a number of officials and principals in saudi arabia, jordan, egypt, israel and qatar last week. they discussed the situation in gaza as well as the next stages of the peace effort. we re going to continue those conversations and we re committed to the peace effort and we re going to keep working forward with those conversations are productive. julie? they said at the border protection they are no longer going to be referring people without authorization if they are traveling with children which is essentially return to the obama administration practice and administrations before that. does the president support that approach, and if so, does he regret trying to push forward on
president trump s son-in-law and white house senior adviser jared kushner is traveling to the le east week. according to senior u.s. official, kushnerill visit israel and saudi arabia to discuss next stages o the peace effort and crisis in gaza. it doesn t include a meeting with palestinian officials who are refusing to meet following trump s decision to move the u.s. embas to jerusalem. this comes as bloomberg reports that kushner expanded personal ties to the israeli financial firms. according to bloomberg, the most recent financial disclosure shows a line of credit. jumped to as much as 25 million in the year from under 5 million in late 2017. that financial disclosure shows jared kushner and his wife ivanka trump have at least $82 million in outside income serving as senior white house advisers last year.
base and lit tires on fire and tried to create a smokescreen and they threw stones at the israeli security forces there who fired back tear gas and rubber bullets and some injuries there. it also happened in the city of hebron. all of this giving you an idea of how tense this situation remains on the ground. summoned the turkish representative here. also to for what they call is an responsible comment from the turkish president which you referred to and turkey withdrawing its ambassador from israel. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. we want to talk more about this with steven cook, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. the u.s. is reiterating the backing of all the violence and any hope right now that the u.s. will be able to lead any sort of real peace effort? there really isn t a peace