what we re going to see, i think, is a series of flare-ups in which you will have more and more forceful measures taken by netanyahu and by the israeli defense forces. they basically do not want, cannot stand the idea of iranian military on their borders or close to their borders. that s just not going to be tolerated. it was bad enough with hezbollah in south lebanon. but to have iranian forces, the revolutionary guard corps or its proxies in proximity to the israeli border, that is absolutely unsustainable from netanyahu s point of view. iran s supreme leader appeared in a photo with a copy of fire and fury, a book highly critical of president trump. what message is he sending? that trump is a lunatic, and
believe that this is wrong. i think that s the answer that a lot of senators who might have been on the fence were looking at, especially rand paul. before i let you go, let s talk about jared kushner, heading to jerusalem monday. he will be on the ground as an attendee of the delegation, and not as a leader. kevin, you first, what are the dynamics at play? i m going to leave the policy intrigue aside. it s a monumental shift in u.s. policy to have the opening of the embassy happen. it comes at a time in the same week president trump has withdrawn from the iran nuclear disarmament deal. it comes at a time when we re a few weeks away with the meeting with kim jong-un on june 12th in singapore. real quick, 15 seconds, what do you make of this? i will pick up the internal politics. it shows the state department is inserting a lot more influence than rex tillerson. world leaders know he s speaking
that if you want to have rational policy the message is essentially to europe. if you want to have rational policy you need to work with us, not against us. trump has taken a deal that was a solid deal and thrown it out the window with the apparent fantasy that he can make a bigger deal, a better deal, a surer deal, a safer deal. because, after all, he s all about the art of the deal. essentially, by holding up fire and fury, the iranians are making the point he is an irrational player, not a rational one, and as a result nobody should trust him. let s talk about the deal. is president trump using a bombastic strategy with iran in the same way he did with north korea? can he be confident that it worked on north korea? well, you know, i think if you go back in the history of american contacts with north korean leaders, back to jimmy carter in 1994 or back to the director of national intelligence, james clapper,
turns his ire on them. i can think back to the campaign, aides were routinely berated when things weren t going trump s way. i think that that s something that has carried over from his time in business, from his time on the campaign and now to his time in the white house. for people who haven t been blindly loyal to him, that s something that could make you frustrated as you go about your day today. a lot of these officials are beginning to realize that. when you have someone like kirstjen nielsen who was recruited to this white house by john kelly, she s not there because she loves the president as so many aides from the campaign would have said. she s here to do her job. when he s berating her in front of a group of people, i can only imagine how that feels. it s not the first story of someone being upset about the president s treatment of them in a disrespectful way. payments to michael cohen, your reaction to the white house argument the payments essentially show that pay for pl
was feeling people out on possible replacements. those stories bubble up from time to time. it s one you have to watch, especially as kelly does more interviews to raise eyebrows and get people talking about him in the spotlight and the way he competes with president trump, and that s never a good look in trump s orbit. so much more to talk about. stay with us, please. sweetening the deal to get north korea to denuclearize, what the secretary of state says is now on the table. up next. it was my very first car accident.