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Chairman turner, let me start with you because you both met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what can you tell us about the meeting and did you express any concerns to netanyahu over his push to overhaul israel s legal system, weaken it, not to mention including extremists in his cabinet? all this has caused tremendous unrest domestically in israel. right. our trip comes just on the heels of speaker kevin mccarthy being here. our focus largely being from the intelligence committee on the relations between the united states and israel and how we can help strengthen the security situation in the area. we also stopped in jordan and egypt and in talking to all three countries all were very much encouraging the united states on a policy basis to have a stronger role thinking there are real opportunities to increase the security situation here but at the same time painting a picture that there are serious threats in the area and that the united states should be playing a rol
Jim hines of connecticut. thank you very much for doing this. we really appreciate it. chairman turner, let me start with you because you both met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. did you express any concerns to netanyahu about his push to overhaul the legal system and weaken it and not to mention extremists and all of this has caused tremendous unrest in israel. right. our trip comes on the heels of kevin mccarthy being here and the intelligence committee and how we can help strengthen the security situation in the area. we also stopped in jordan and egypt in talking to all three countries they were all very much encourage the united states on a policy basis to have a stronger role, thinking that there are real opportunities to increase the security situation here, but at the same time, painting a picture that there are serious threats in the area
Convenience, not necessarily affection. the big question is whether the chinese are still pushing the idea of providing lethal assistance. this is how kirby framed things today. we still don t believe china has taken it off the table, we haven t seen any indication that they re moving in that direction or they ve made a decision or are going to do that. we continue to believe it s not in china s best interest to do that, to help putin slaughter innocent ukrainians. reporter: jake, one of the big questions is what will come from a tangible policy basis. u.s. officials don t really have a great idea. as mathew noted, they re also urging the chinese to reach out and range a call between president xi and president zelenskyy, something that hasn t happened yet. they re saying that needs to happen in order for xi to play any type of peacemaker role, if you will. when i asked john kirby whether
Sympathy hissed like others. yeah, they re gonna do that. while others didn t show, i was like yeah they re raising money from the people who don t necessarily believe in america first. michael, the question is, which republicans will directly challenge donald trump on a policy basis, or as time s president, you know nikki haley who took the stage here yesterday she didn t mention him once. she took a veil shot at age, mental competency of older individuals running for office. even as she was walking down the halls yesterday i was tried to ask her how she was playing to win over trump loyalist, but she didn t take any questions from press. of course we lived through this eight years ago, the question is, who is going to actually jump into the rodeo and take donald trump truly had on? nikki haley may not want to mention this, but she s gonna have to at some point my friend. she s gonna have to at some point. nbc s vaughn hillyard, we look