side of things play his perspective in response to some of these critiques of his campaign. i think it would be political mall practice to be running for president fixated on national rather than south carolina, you can make up ground, we re making up ground in all of those states. look, i ve heard that before, too, we ve covered many a campaign, it s true, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina matter a lot, but at this stage so does the narrative around your campaign. that s right, and from governor desantis perspective and those of his aides and his supporters, they see the indictment of donald trump as a big part of the explanation for this trend that people in the republican party the base rallied around trump it s actually boosted trump s popularity in terms of the
where we have a, a secure, stable israel and palestine and two states. you don t have any specific, direction particularly in terms of settlements, you don t think that exacerbates the weakness on the leadership side of the palestinian side? i think there are questions, concerns, legitimate concerns about any number of issues including this one, but, you know, a couple of things to keep in mind, with judicial reform there are hundreds of thousands of israelis that are protesting peacefully every week, i mean it s something like 25% maybe as much as 30% of israelis are protesting peacefully every week. and the president of israel who s coming to speak to congress this week has convened
issues? . ., , , , issues? yeah. it was pretty surprising. issues? yeah. it was pretty surprising, though, - issues? yeah. it was pretty surprising, though, to - issues? yeah. it was pretty surprising, though, to hearj surprising, though, to hear naftali bennett s speech, for him to come out sounding so humble and so willing to compromise. it was a pretty significant speech, in my opinion. they had a bunch of things that they might find common ground on, and he specifically said any of those hot button, contentious topics, we are not going to put them on. we are going to put that aside and project a sense of calm and composure following what report said, the so called king of israel who has led for so many years and projected such a confident presence on the world stage for israel for so long, it is such an important moment for them to show that israel does not have to be led by a man named netanyahu. to be led by a man named netanyahm to be led by a man named netanyahu. and in the
israel faces critical decision at home and abroad. let s turn to sam kiley live in jerusalem. sam, good morning. good morning, dave. based on the exit polls and you were quite right when you say they re often quite bit wide of the mark when it comes to reality. but based on the exit polls there is no clear winner. this will be a major problem for rivlin, the president of israel who constitutionally over the next week will interview members of tit once the results are published. there will be 120 members of the knesset. he ll interview hundreds of them to find out who has the best chance of forming a government and then invite that person to step forward and have a go at it. it was that process that ran into sand after six weeks that led to this second round of elections this year when benjamin netanyahu was unable to knit together a coalition. he would find himself in a
this regard but some of them are worried about the effect of this partisan wedge being driven here because the history of the american relationship with israel is a strong bipartisan support. and there is a real anxiety that if that is erods that will be bad for israel and the united states. we ve been hearing and seeing this swift significant pushback and not just from 2020 candidates or democrats and nonpartisan groups as well. and not from republicans. no. well that was next on my list. but we ll get to that. but sticking for a moment with the relationship with israel and how political or not it should be, we also heard from the president of israel who tweeted the link between us is between peoples based on historical ties and deep strong friendships and shared values, not dependent on the links with other party. and netanyahu declined to comment here. surprise. which i think we need to point out. he doesn t show any sign of backing off. not the first time or the second