similarly john podesta clicking on a link he should haven t clicked on. and other things which is different. although the dnc thing was a hack. podesta was a fish. but people want to know the extent and how serious of a problem it is. to know how much we should be sanctioning russia in response and we don t have good information right now. i think we should i think congress s job is to get to the bottom of this why russia did it if they did it but i don t know if we know that podesta s e-mails, like we read them in d.c., like they re being read by voters in wisconsin and michigan and that was the reason. i think that is the central focus now of why this election came to be and i think the trump campaign is a little frustrated by that. but when you have john mccain and lindsey graham and a lot of republican senators saying we need to investigate it, we should because they re afraid next time it could be republicans. next time it will. molly, david, thank you so much. really ap
position versus the netanyahu position, i want to bring in two men on either side the negotiating table. michael herzog is with the israeli defense force and fellow of the washington institute for near east policy. he took part in past israeli peace negotiations. david marcosi is corredirector e washington peace middle east project. let me start with michael herzog. i want to ask you, do you agree that the main obstacle to peace is the palestinian refusal to recognize israel and anything else is really secondary? it is certainly a major issue. but i think the picture on israeli/palestinian conflict is multidimensional one. and there s not only one cause why we haven t managed to break through to a deal, to a
policy will distinguish between construction in the blocks and outside the blocks. i believe that that policy would send a clear message of israel s adherence to a two-state solution. i would hope that this would be our policy. if you look at the israeli the israeli political scene today, you see that the far right in israel is pressurizing the government away from a two-state solution and towards annexationist policies. and i certainly hope that the decisionmakers on our part will resist that temptation with an incoming u.s. administration and adhere to clear policy also on the ground that keeps the window open to a two-state solution. david, let me ask you, given that your description of having tried to broker a peace negotiation between abbas and netanyahu, you describe them as a ven diagram where there s no