and before it ever happened. i was totally against. i was a private citizen. never made sense to me. i was against going into the middle east. we spent $7 trillion in the middle east right now. let s get to boris sanchez. nothing yet from the president today on tensions with iran. what are other senior administration officials saying? hey there, ana. we heard from several key administrators on this, from national security adviser john bolton, visiting israel right now. he essentially repeated something we heard from the president previously about the military opgs being on the table, saying that the u.s. military is rebuilt and ready to go. he says that the iranians should not perceive this canceled strike as weakness.
extremism and terrorism, and all of the remarks by not only the president, in that historic speech, to 50-plus muslim and arab nations but from the sing of saudi arabia. a lot of people didn t catch what he said but the saudis did. the president moving on to israel, those images very powerful as john and rich have been talking about. and the first president to visit western wall, the first president to put israel on the first foreign trip, but the saudis had the first stop on that first foreign trip. there was a background briefing, a senior white house official, saying in an answer to how he phrased a certain part of the speech, whether it was islamist or islamic. the answer was he just tripped up because he was an exhausted guy. well, that then spurred headlines. i asked today, the national security advisor, before he left
so you have another story wrong, never mentioned the word israel. leland: there s a few ways to look at this. one, perhaps, the president is trying to put it behind him. on the other hand, he s kind of allowing this to be brought back up again when if he ignored the question and walked off everything would be fine. well, i think it would be an enduring issue. i m not sure the allegation is that he used the word israel in that alleged meeting in the oval office. it was that he may have compromised an israeli intelligence agent or source the ground in iraq or syria. that infiltrated isis. there s probably under needs the surface, some simmering tension over that episode. if it was true. it seems like a lot of the details have been tacitly confirmed by the administration. the overwhelming goal of this trip to israel is reaffirming what he called an unbreakable or unshakeable bond between the countries. clearly a mention or reference to the previous administration
troops. we bring in our man on the ground, john roberts, at least his voice, overlooking where the president is at the king david hotel. hi, john. hey, good morning to you, good afternoon to you from israel. territory in a you re familiar with. this really is a symbolic picture here about the power of children to bring together nations, even though those nations, or those people, have so many stark differences. the fact she there is with the prime minister s wife, sara, and women and children from both sides, if you will, of the political and religious fence here is a powerful image. one that they re trying to use to further put another building block down in terms of trying to finally, finally get over the goal line with the middle east peace deal. what we saw in saudi arabia talking about the shared
ground as a private citizen. also a world leader. president trump making this key trip. the optics of the trip are important. one of the reasons we re showing you this picture before we bring you to the meeting with prime minister netanyahu and president trump, we expect the president to speak in a short while, is all of the package. how do we literally fit together, what is the behavior like, how does that broadcast things to the world of the future. you see a young israeli boy with a yarmulka, sitting next to the arab mother, the mother of both of those children, have the same thoughts, hope their kids get better there. and you know, we talk about real estate, as president trump began his career in for so long, where they are is entirely about real estate. there s nothing like ground