Good morning, alex witt has the day off. A Seismic Shift of policy in the middle east. President trump announce itted a a twostate solution is not necessarily the goal for peace anymore. A striking reversal of dc kads of u. S. Foreign policy. Instead the president says he likes, quote, the one that both parts like. I could live with either one. Tr more, lets bring in andrea mut chel with mitchell with more. President trump rolled out the red carpet for Benjamin Netanyahu. The pomp and circumstance of a state visit, plus melania trumps debut at a white house arrival ceremony. A mood change and major policy shift. Backing away from four decades of u. S. Support for a palestinian state. Side by side with israel. Im locking at twostate and onestate and i like the one that both parts like. Reporter the personal an months itty between president obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. Our alliance has been remarkably strong, but under your leadership, im confident it will get even stronger. Reporter but trump surprising Benjamin Netanyahu with this unscripted request. Id like to see you hold back onset lmentes for a little bit. President obama call z them an obstacle to a deal, but donald trump sounding confident he could negotiate middle east peace. I think were going to make a a deal. Reporter all of this happening while key cabinet secretaries are out of the country. You dont have the secretary of state there. You dont have the secretary of defense there. You dont have a national securitied a vurz. It appears that steve bannon is the principle Foreign Policy in the white house. Can i reveal how long we have known you . Reporter when a reporter asked about the rise of antisystemtism since the campaign, the president didnt condemn the incidents. Instead pointing to his daughter who converted to judaism. We are going to do everything in our power to stop long simmering racism as far as jewish people, so many friends, a a daughter who happens to be here right now, a soninlaw and three beautiful grandchildren. As for that bomb shell the president dropped about holding back onset is lmentes, Benjamin Netanyahu gave no commitment whenmeeting with leaders on capitol hill. Joining us is cal perry. You hear a departure of policy. There is is some support for a onestate solution on both sides of the party. But probably very different realities of what that onestate looks like. How realistic is it going to be to get a onestate and how does it look different from both sides . With the conditions on the ground, very unrealistic. Thats why you have the headlines that we have. The New York Times called it nonsensical. The Washington Post a dangerous retreat. The l. A. Times calling it it absurd. One of the things that was amazing was the body language between the uz raly Prime Minister and the american president. A different looking meeting than the ones we used to see between Benjamin Netanyahu and barack obama. You e see it there from 2016. When you look at the actual maps, when you lock at the west bank and how things are right now on the ground, its nonsensical the idea of a onestate solution. Most of that is rooted in palestinian rights. The way they are treated, palestinians do not live within israeli society. They are treated as such. Thats a look at the settlements in the west bank. Thats the Obama Administration called the number one impediment to peace. Let me ask you quickly. When people say a onestate slougs, some are warning if you achieve a onestate solution, youre either ending israels jewish character or democratic character. If you look at what the palestinians are looking for, are e we talking about the ability to vote . If were talking about a onestate solution, if uz real annexes the west bank, will palestinians have a right of return. That was land that was theirs. Will they have a right to that . Right now the west bank is ruled by the military. Will that change . Great to have your perspective. Theres new fallout from the ouster Michael Flynn. They have us is seasoned huspen access to classtied information. Some Trump Campaign aids and Business Associates were in contact with russians during the president ial campaign. But current and former u. S. Officials say theres no indication those russians were a a part of russian intelligence or so far no evidence that it there was conclusion to meddle in the u. S. Election. Now congress is grappling over what comes next. Bipartisan heads of the Judiciary Committee are requesting a briefing ask documents related to flynns resignation. Theres real concern that Administration Transition and Campaign Officials may try to cover up ties to russia by deleting emails, texts and other records that could shine a light on those connections. But in the House Oversight committee, jason chay fits wants them to look into it. Classified information is ill locally given out by intelligence. Very unamerican. And fbi just like russia. E he said this during his meeting with the israeli Prime Minister. Michael flynn is a wonderful man. I think hes been treated very, very unfairly by the media. As i call it, the fake media, in many cases. I think its really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. I think in addition to that from intelligence, papers are being leaked. Things are being leaked. Its a criminal act. Its been going on for a long time. Before me. But now its really going on. And people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. The New York Times reports that President Trump is looking to shake up the Intelligence Community with a broad revow of the nations spy agencies. Steven fineburg is the president s choice to lead that review, but it could be a a prelude to a larger role in intelligence. Reports that fineburg was under consideration to run the service rocked the Intelligence Community in recent weeks raising the prospect of direct white house control over americas spies at a time when the ties to Vladimir Putin are under investigation by the fbi and congressional committees. This amida dispute d report frm the wall street journal that speaks to the Trump Administrations tensions with the Intelligence Community. The paper reports that intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from the president due to concerns it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials. However, the report says that current and former officials emphasized that they know of no incidents in which crucial information about security threats or potential plotting has been omitted. Late last night the director of National Intelligence responded in a statement saying, quote, any suggestion that the u. S. Intelligence committee is Holding Information and not providing the best intelligence to the president and his National Security team is not true. Nbc news has not verified the journals account. Fast food executive andy posner has withdrawn his nomination. In a statement he said, im honored to have been considered by President Trump to lead the department of labor and put americas workers and businesses back on a path to proz perty. Leading up to his confirmation hearing, he faced disapproval from democrats and liberal groups and personal issues also clouded his nomination. Ahead of his hearing, footage was provided to senators by o n Oprah Winfreys company of an ep obtained by politico where his exwife appeared in disguise describing domestic abuse. Hes always denied the allegations that calm during a heated divorce and his exwife has since recanted. What may have ultimately doomed his confirmation was the increasing opposition from members of the Republican Party. According to the New York Times, at least seven republicans had expressed concern over his nomination. There were so many questions surrounding his nomination that i believe the hearing tomorrow would have been extremely difficult for him. And there would have been questions that even if he had been able to be confirmed would have made it difficult for him to be an effective secretary of the department of labor. Republican senator marco rubio commend ed him for his decision to bow out tweeting, andy made the right and honorable choice by withdrawing from consideration as labor secretary. Senator john mccain is going against his party and opposing the director of office of management and budget. Mccain hammered Mick Mulvaney for supporting cuts to military spe spending, which is out of step with the president and james mattis. Voting in favor of congressman mulvaneys nomination would be asking secretary mattis to spend less time fight iing our enemies overseas and more time fighting inside the beltway budget battles with an omb director with a commitment to cutting the Resources Available to his department. The vote is set for today. Its not clear whether there will be any other republican defectors. Susan collins of maine says she will oppose scott pruitt, the nominee for epa director saying she and Oklahoma State attorney general have different visions for the agencys mission. That vote is expected tomorrow. On capitol hill yesterday senator john mccain was asked about general Michael Flynns resignation and leaks to the media. He told reporters that the white house needs to, quote, clean up their act. Were in uncharted waters. Weve never had a National Security adviser lie tell, give false information to the Vice President of the United States. I mean, we are in areas that as i said before from a National Security standpoint, we are dysfunctional. You have to go through a regular process of Decision Making and thats what they are not doing. As i said before, who is making the decisions in the white house . Is it the 31yearold . Mr. Bannon . Is it the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff . I dont know. Joining us from capitol hill is reporter for politico daniel litman. Thank you for having me. Lets drill down on this idea we hard john mccain talking about. With the fear over Michael Flynn and his resignation and abandon ment of andy as nominee, is the administration beginning to lose traction . Issues like Obamacare Repeal and tax reform, they are in real jeopardy because republicans and democrats are less likely to work with this white house if theres just constant leaks and battles over whether the administration is too close to russia. I think democrats are also at fear of overplay iing their han. One democrat cannic congressman told me yesterday that voters dont really care that much about russia. They want to hear more about jobs and how to get the economy back on track. So they cant spend the next two years just all about russia and trump. They have to kind of go back to basic economic worries that people in the country have. But in the meantime, those priorities of the president are just not going to get through capitol hill if the Current Situation at hand. Lets zero in on that relationship with russia. Differences between the white house and republicans on capitol hill. Republicans like paul ryan were saying they dont think its a wise idea to try to reset with russia. Trump has made that a priority. Has the exit of Michael Flynn jeopardized the Trump Administrations hopes for that e reset with russia . I think every administration tries for a reset with russia, but just like with the Obama Administration, that just is having so much trouble getting through. So youre already seeing russian state media much more critical of trump because they see that trump does not have a good deck of cards to play with russia because most republicans are not eager to cooperate with moscow. And all of these things just hurt those chances with the reset. Daniel lippman, thank you. Well be reading playbook later in the a. M. Defense secretary jim mattis gives an ultimatum when it comes to defense spending. Plus is he already looking to 2020 . The president is planning his first rally since the inauguration. Those stories, when we come back right back. 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Namely the donald Trump Campaign against nato saying he could pull out. That europe should fend for itself. Ask number two, he had a time line. When mattis said he wants to see progress, that was a concrete time line for folks here. Now in terms of the response, for countries that are spending their fair share above the 2 of gdp, theres some 28 countries in nato, they are saying, yes, there needs to be more defense spend iing. Then even for some of the lag erts like germany at 1. 2 , they are using this as an argument back home they need to spend more themselves. Everyone here on the center right parties is make iing the e they need to spend more. Unclear whether its going to be politically tentable and thats where mattis and trumps threat may resinate the most. Thank you so much. A warm weather part of the country in some parts. Lets bring in meteorologist Bonnie Snider for more on that. Were dealing with milder temperatures and a little bit of snow. Lakeeffect snow. Parts of new england. When you look at the winter as a whole, we have not seen a a lot of snow at all. Remember over 100 inches of snow in boston in 2015. This yore nothing like it. On average 11 snow days, but so far this winter only 8. Its even more dramatic when you head to chicago. Typically a snowy city with an average of 11. Not even half that much so far this winter. Why . Temperatures are just too mild. Look at the jet stream all the way to the north bringing springlike temperatures far north as well. These arent just 5 or 10 degrees above normal. Some numbers are 30 degrees above normal. So really warm weather up into minneapolis, st. Louis, nashville, much of the south as well feeling much more like april or may. As we look towards the weekend in the northeast, warm temperatures into the 60s in new york city. But contrast, its looking stormy across much of california and were watching the dam situation. Any rain coming in had can pose a hazard. But most of the wet weather expected this weekend will work towards Southern California and were dpoing to really watch los angeles and Orange County tomorrow for some very heavy rain. Bonnie, you said what i was trying to say that parts of the country are seeing warm weather. Thank you. Still ahead, for eight years president obama made a tradition of filling out a march madness bracket, but that seems that ritual is coming to an end. We have that story, next in sports. If your sneezes are a force to be reckoned with. You may be muddling through allergies. Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. And zyrtec® is different than claritin®. Because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. Try zyrtec®. Muddle no more®. Introducing new depend silhouette briefs. Featuring a comfortable sleek fit. As a dancer, ive learned you cant have any doubts. Because looking good on stage is one thing. But real confidence comes from feeling good out there. Get a free sample at depend. Com. 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