fast food restaurant well it's what the united nations no what i'm saying is in the end of the day. a signature on a proclamation and a tweet about a territory handing it to some people who occupied it by force has consequences that means tomorrow when something is going to happen to one of america's allies i don't know china moving on taiwan what's what's america going to say international law otherwise we're going to live in the law of the jungle in the end of the day the international law is just a word that we keep using it's almost like a buzzword but i think somehow we're not really digging in digging in in the end of the day why will syria ever now make peace peace with israel. the whole point was from fifty two years ago the international community including the united states especially the united states reached resolution two forty two with that said you give up occupied territory you get peace the united states has been preaching that

for fifty two years why not because the united states and france and england and china and russia all of them have signed on it are great and prophetic because there is a consequence if you cannot recognize it countries and expiration of the territory it acquired by force during war time and then change the nature of that territory in contravention again i'm using the term national law to the fourth geneva convention so actions have consequences and i think president trump is making such a mess in a few moments in a few seconds that i think future american presidents are going to take years maybe decades to clean up but what is it about president trump that actually leads him to take action on these things you and i were talking earlier and saying that this is and kimberly said it as well this is a departure from fifty years of of policy other presidents haven't done this he does that he moves the embassy to jerusalem he recognizes there is them of the

capital he moves on the occupied golan heights as well as the deal maker in action you know one of the one of america's closest presidents to israel was ronald reagan and israel annexed the golan heights throw a vote in parliament in the knesset in one thousand eighty one the regular vicious and rejected the israeli decision and in fact suspended for two years the special subject relations with israel the so-called number on the understanding why does trump do this i think trump is not exactly versed in foreign policy he gets advice from the four people that were standing behind him to all right they called zionists and too radical eventually called zionist secretary pompei or vice president pence and. is son in law and his ambassador to israel that's who we listen still and why then he acts on it one night he is considered by a number of them including his vice president to be almost like a prophet's secular sit down play a called him but he is almost like

a god's given gifts to humanity even more recognizing. jerusalem as israel's capital the second thing is this is just an easy lazy way to enter the history books so who was the first american president to do this and that well it was president and the third and i think that's where pragmatism and apportion ism comes to play i think both prime minister and person from benefit from this for their own constituencies i think his heart core support at home for the next elections is going to be energized by these decisions and i think that says a lot about his base as much as it says about netanyahu is base and i think in the end of the day as i said i don't weakness by this thing and this unity and weakness and american support to israel for netanyahu is allowing these things to happen but the middle east is not going to be good for ever and i think in the end of the day this will have consequences as

a senior political analyst thank you right other developing news to deal with and britain's prime minister says there is still not sufficient support in parliament for a third vote on her break that deal to raise the money told parliament it is important that government follows the country's twenty six thousand decision to leave the e.u. rather than discussing the option of a second referendum the british leader said she will not lead britain out of the e.u. without a deal unless parliament agrees to it. mr speaker i continue to believe that the right path forward is for the united kingdom to leave the e.u. as soon as possible with a deal now on the twenty second of men but it is with great regret that i have had to conclude that as things stand there is still not sufficient support in the house to bring back a deal for a third meaning for faint. i continue i continue to have discussions with colleagues across the house to build support so that we can bring the full forward to this week and guarantee breck's it if we cannot the government made

a commitment that we would work across the house to find a majority on away food his name barker outside the houses of parliament in westminster where does this actually leave us now another more still to come in parliament this evening. will we heard the big intake of breath there from m.p.'s as theresa may confirm that she would not be putting her plan before parliament for a third given the fact that it's been resoundingly defeated twice the suggestion this morning is that maybe things are a little bit more positive when it came to her deal but the d p the government partners in power the all important northern irish party came out very quickly to say that no they're not willing to support it so we're really back to square warm when it comes to the prime minister's plan but there is something else going on there is a tussle for power over who defines the bricks it battlefield is of the government or is it parliament what's going to happen

a little bit later on at ten o'clock in the evening local time here in parliament is the m.p.'s are going to be voting for a series of amendments including one key amendment calling for a series of all important votes known as indicative folks on wednesday over and a range of different possible breaks at scenarios from the soft breaks it to revoking article fifteen to a public vote so on and so forth so the moment parliament led by two. bench m.p.'s from the conservative party and the labor party are trying to exert greater control over what happens next when it comes to bricks and how about we throw another battle in then even that's the battle for theresa may as leader would mean a few days ago it looked like she was on her way out his position not you think. robson in the extraordinary staying power for the british prime minister as she seen off so many attempts to house him given of course the fact that she suffered

the worst defeat of any government as face when it comes to trying to pass a deal in government of course in january she's still in power there have been some suggestion on sunday when m.p.'s including key ministers bricks it says she cheeked key cities and senior ministers were called to have official residence check is some suggestion that she may be forced to give some sort of timetable for her departure but then first thing on monday morning many key brick cities including some key figures sube mayor of premium on to replace came out and said no where backing the prime minister why well essentially even if she has her place the arithmetic in parliament doesn't really change it's still a minority government it still depends on the support of the democratic unionist party the government whoever's prime minister still faces a palm and on the whole is remain leaning so all of the challenges that to reason

may currently faces would still be faced by her replacement there is however still those hard line breaks tears on the sidelines that all wanting a cosmetic change wanting at least somebody else at the helm to lead the next stage of negotiations with the e.u. but went nowhere near that as yet don't even seem to be anywhere near until we are in london thank you. now donald trump says he wouldn't be bothered at all if the report by special counsel robert muller was released in full that report concluded that neither trump nor any of his officials knowingly colluded with russia during the twenty sixteen election campaign but the report didn't draw a conclusion on whether president trump attempted to obstruct the course of justice democrats are calling for the report to be released in full and the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee says he wants the attorney general to appear before the panel to discuss the special counsel's report what's next i hope

will be that he'll come to the committee. releases much as possible of the mole report one of the things that can't be released grand jury information is prohibited by law from being released because it would compromise the grand jury process he in his letter to me answered firestone another said that he's asking the special counsel team to help him with the information that may be covered by the grand jury statute class classified information and don't know how much if any there would be something you'd have to think about. and following this one from washington d.c. is that significant patty that a republican that lindsey graham wants to take this further and wants the attorney general to appear before the panel really does this all sit with the democrats now . it really i think is going to be led by the democrats lindsey graham himself a lawyer didn't highlight the fact that that's in fact not true there is a law that says grand jury testimony cannot be made public but there is an exemption if a judge says it can be the likely that would mean house democrats going before the

judge that oversaw the moeller grand jury and saying we want you to make it public the judge can do that trump administration can try to block it you can try to claim executive privilege but there is a path to finding out what was said in the grand jury. now the question is how much is bar going to release now during his confirmation hearing he said that he would be transparent but he has been slammed by democrats who say bob muller couldn't come to a conclusion on obstruction of justice over twenty two months but you decided within two days that there could be obstruction and he said in the past that the president united states can't actually ever commit obstruction of justice so we're going to see the dems move quickly i think to try and get bar to testify if you won't they're probably going to ask robert mueller to do so and they're going to wait and see if he tries to slow roll release of whatever information is in the mall or report but i can tell you right now it's pretty surprising or maybe it's

expected democrats are nowhere to be seen in washington they're not going before the cameras but the republicans are doing basically what you could based probably described as a pretty loud victory lap this is what i wanted to ask you about the fact that we sort of caught it nor that it is a win for general trump and it is something which i'm sure he will remind us all of over and over again leading up to november twenty twenty. he will but i think it's also important to remember that during the twenty eighteen elections when the democrats took back control of the house lost a few seats that were as expected in the senate none of the voters in the polls were really say so the robert muller investigation that's what's really driving me to the polls you saw them talk about things like health care the economy. college tuition the deficits and debt he's going to try to make this a campaign issue at least that's what they're going to say right now but let's remember this is a four page letter from the attorney general this isn't the tens of thousands of documents that robert mueller and his team have some of that information could be

damaging to the president so i think there are probably a few republican strategists who are telling republicans maybe don't do so much of a victory lap because you never know what's going to come out next but right now this is a win for the president he says no collusion and he is really trying to put the focus on trying to investigate the people who investigated him in the first place in washington thank you. they preliminary findings of a u.n. investigation in northern afghanistan has found that a u.s. airstrike on saturday killed thirteen civilians most of them children the airstrike in couldn't those follow the taliban right but it killed six afghan and american soldiers reports. what's left of one man's life on the back of a farm truck in kunduz. under the blankets a tiny casualties of the afghan war the u.n. cease ten children and three adults were killed in a u.s. airstrike on saturday morning. show it was around one am on friday when the plane

bombed there is thirteen people were killed the victims are from my aunt's family my cousins their daughters and grandchildren they are all my family. in afghanistan so many people are dying in airstrikes in rural areas farm trucks are often used to bring bodies into town seem to is this was two weeks ago and gas me province. and unlocking province following an airstrike three weeks ago u.s. forces say they didn't to say civilian casualties yet these people blame the u.s. chanting death to america. but not that many cock up parts of the government are saying they didn't do this it's not their job they say it's the us government is backing the us then the us is doing this to us but americans are being killed her the latest is strikes and condos were ordered hours after two u.s. soldiers were killed nearby along with four afghan commandos there on

a joint operation against the taliban u.s. forces say they were acting in self defense and take every mission to prevent civilian casualties in contrast they say to the taliban who intentionally hide behind women and children the u.s. is investigating the condo's strike the u.n. wants the findings published in compensation paid to victims. airstrikes are an increasing problem in afghanistan u.s. forces relax their rules of engagement last year removing certain proximity requirements for air strikes the result according to the u.n. was the deaths of three hundred ninety three civilians more than double the year prior more than twenty fourteen twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen combined two thirds of the did women and children but i don't believe that there were not al-qaeda they were not terrorists they were from this soil from this nation for god's sake we ask the government why are we killed. far from qantas province the us

and taliban continue to negotiation into the seventeen year war with the prospect of peace is fuelling the battle both sides fighting for live rich in the talks in the middle lie these children still in the pajamas they went to sleep in balance. and a cease fire has started in a city in yemen following intense fighting their online video shows the results of days of street battles in ties some civilians are been reported killed in the fight for control of the city in the southwest is between the yemeni army backed by saudi arabia and fighters supported by saudi arabia's coalition partner of the united arab emirates now funerals been held in iraq for yet another victim of last week's ferry disaster as well as the dozens of passengers who drowned three volunteers also died in the tigris river while trying to recover bodies natasha getting reports now from mosul. mohammed jessamy awad was like many other iraq e.-s.

displaced from his home by years of conflict and struggling to find work but these people gathered to offer condolences will remember the heroic actions of a twenty four year old in extraordinary circumstances mohamad volunteered to help retrieve bodies from the tigris river within hours of an overloaded amusement park ferry capsizing he borrowed money to take a taxi to the accident site to be. saying i'm going father and mother with a smile it was as if he knew he was not coming back he couldn't help seeing all those people drown and not doing anything about it so he acted spontaneously since he was a little kid he was always brave and helpful to others. without any diving gear mohamed pulled eight bodies from the cold murky river while battling against

a strong and unforgiving current mosul emergency responders were overwhelmed by the scope of the ferry accident they lacked equipment and manpower officials were so desperate for assistance they put out a call via the media for volunteers two of those volunteers including mohammed drowned while trying to recover more bodies from the water side heard about his death on the news and says he was overcome with emotion. it inspired me to go to the river and retrieve this hero to return him to his family his tribe and to the people of mosul everyone is so proud of him he achieved so much that will be remembered for years to come. dozens of people are still missing each day since the accident families gather outside the mork hoping the next body brought in will be their loved one most of the victims were women and children as young as two years

and now. they are stripped from the simplest of their rights to have closure i'm afraid the longer these missing remain at the bottom of the river the bodies will decompose beyond recognition therefore we will have to go to the next stage which is d.n.a. testing and it will take months. in a city riven by sectarian violence muhammad's family hope his death will become a symbol of unity natasha al-jazeera mosul iraq. the latest on all our developing stories here on al-jazeera and gaza first of all at least one building has been destroyed in the gaza strip after the israeli military began bombing it in response to sunday's rocket attack near tel aviv the military says it is hitting hamas targets and it has mobilized ground forces near the gaza border israel will not tolerate this i will not

tolerate and as we speak as i told you mr president just now israel is responding forcefully to this wanton aggression i have a simple message to israel's enemies we will do whatever we must do to defend our people and defend our state the launch of the air strikes came as the united states officially recognized israel's claim to sovereignty over the occupied golan heights donald trump signed a presidential proclamation at the white house after meeting israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu the united nations says this is a unilateral announcement and it is standing by the current situation. meanwhile donald trump says he wouldn't be bothered at all if the report by special counsel robert muller was released in full the report concluded that neither donald trump nor any of his officials knowingly colluded with russia during the twenty sixteen election campaign however the report didn't draw

a conclusion on whether president trump attempted to obstruct the course of justice britain's prime minister says there is still not sufficient support in parliament for a third vote on her break that deal to resume a told parliament it is important that government follows the country's twenty sixteen decision to leave the european union rather than discussing the option of a second referendum the british leader said that she will not leave britain out of the e.u. without a deal unless parliament agrees to it. a cease fire has started in the yemeni city of ties following intense fighting online video shows the results of days of street battles there some civilians are reported to have been killed the fight for control of the city in the southwest is between the yemeni army backed by saudi arabia and fighters supported by saudi arabia's coalition partners the united arab emirates plenty more on those stories that al-jazeera dot com we'll have the latest from girls at washington and london right after inside story.

no collusion with russia and insufficient evidence of obstructing justice donald trump says the investigation completely exonerates him but does it really and will the four report be released this is inside still. hello welcome to the program has him seek him it's been the biggest question for donald trump during his u.s. presidency so far did he conspire with the russians to help get elected no he

didn't is the result of the two year investigation by special counsel robert mueller but investigators cond give a definitive answer on whether the president obstructed justice or not trump was quick to tweet no collusion no obstruction complete and total exoneration keep america great but leading democrats say the summary of the report by attorney general william barr raises as many questions as it on says that demanding full access to what else the report says that's a go i reports from washington. it's the investigation u.s. president donald trump has long condemned as a witch hunt until it was released and now the president is cheering the findings there was no collusion with the russians there was no up structure. and none whatsoever. and it was a complete and total exoneration that's not completely true the attorney general

says there is no evidence the trump campaign coordinated with russian officials but on obstruction of justice the special counsel robert mueller didn't decide if he should be charged the attorney general made that call and in his letter to congress he made clear this report doesn't find the president didn't possibly commit a crime right in the special counsel states that while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him and that is democrats demanding answers jerry nadler heads the committee in congress that will be investigating pretty general clark. who are different from his role you're going to be a member in the suggesting that the obstruction investigation is on fungible and that a president and that it was almost impossible for any president to commit a rupturing of justice if he's the head of the executive branch made a decision about that evidence and under forty eight hours this included raise more questions than the answer given the fact that muller uncovered evidence that in his

own words does not exonerate the president he's promising to call officials to testify and vowing to get the tens of thousands of pages of evidence that have been collected the trump campaign was quick to try and use this to bolster his chances of reelection really see in this video evidence is pretty clear that there was collusion with the president's proclaiming victory but as congress pushes to make all the evidence public and with several other investigations ongoing he may want his supporters to believe it's over it isn't political al-jazeera washington. were during his twenty two month investigation will have brought charges against thirty four people including former trump aides who pleaded guilty mainly to lying to the f.b.i. fraud and of struct injustice the list includes michael flynn trump's former national security adviser former can deputy campaign manager rick gates george papadopoulos

foreign policy adviser a former lawyer michael cohen and poor man a for trump's format campaign chairman awaiting trial in november is roger stone trump's old friend and adviser has pleaded not guilty to lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering that's connected to the wiki leaks e-mails from hillary clinton's campaign and twenty five russians working for either intelligence or internet agencies also charged in addition to a russian aid to poor man a fourth. well let's bring in our panel now to talk more about this in washington d.c. we have j.d. gordon he was the national security director on donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign he was also interviewed about alleged collusion as part of the miller investigation in new york we have jeannie zeno she is a political scientist and prefer fett professor at iona college and joining us from

washington as well via skype we have david good friend a lawyer who previously served as the deputy staff secretary to president bill clinton good to have you all with us. so j.d. gordon let me let me start with you the special counsel robert mueller did not find the did not find president donald trump was guilty of obstruction of justice but he didn't find him innocent either so isn't all of this celebrating from from people on the trump side a little premature at this point. well i don't really think there's anything to celebrate i mean here you have a stealth coup attempt to remove a president who was elected by the american people you have dozens of people who have had their lives shattered including me i was the director of national security for the campaign i was interviewed for three congressional committees and the special counsel multiple times i had to spend a five figure legal bills to defend myself so i did nothing wrong i wasn't accused

of doing anything wrong but yet i was maligned on c.n.n. and m s n b c and international media for the past two years this has been a crime wave of defamation against the president and people who are close to him and people who are not even close to him frankly some of the advisors on the campaign for instance carter page and others were maligned and did nothing wrong so this is a tragedy for the united states is going green what was saying on the radio this morning one of the world's most prestigious progressive journalist he said the whole trump russia issue was a scam and a fraud based on conspiracy theories that were idiotic in moronic while said the great glenn greenwald i couldn't agree with him more could i ask you though j.d. go on about the did the questioning as part of the investigation that you took part in with the miller came out i'm not going to get into the contents of all of it but what was your overall old impression of it impartiality the lack of

impartiality was it was it handled fairly from your point of view. well i was interviewed by six different prosecutors and agents and analysts since twenty seventeen over multiple times and i would say that five out of six were collegial and professional one was not however what i told them is they've attempted to turn the entire campaign into a crime scene and that's what they did with every e-mail or every communication you could possibly imagine they brought in five hundred witnesses. case over three hundred orders for communications they had some of the subpoenas to people who had to get lawyers to defend themselves because once the f.b.i. is investigating a campaign of which you are a part you don't know where it's going to lead so several people were really shaken down i think it was a shakedown of so many people people are going to jail or are in jail have been in jail for nothing to do with collusion with russia which was the stated purpose for

these investigations this was a shakedown in a political scandal like we've never seen in this country before i hope it never happens again but in order to do that we have to hold people accountable who started this investigation in these witch hunts in the first place so was was president trump right to spend two years trashing the miller investigation as a witch hunt and a hoax and fake news and tweeting about it over one hundred times as he did because his critics would say if he was innocent if he if he had nothing to hide he said he wasn't acting like it of course he was right to do it because it was an illegal attempt to remove him from office now that said it didn't just come out of the blue in twenty sixteen after the elections hope picks who was his chief spokeswoman told the media that there were no contacts during the campaign with any foreign entities well that was just false she should have said that but she was a communications director who was in her mid twenty's she basically. did did a lot of us a great disservice including the president. dave

a good friend for months we've been hearing from prominent democrats and critics of president trumping that let the miller investigation play out in malawi trust than all the rest of it and would take it from now now according to the summary of the report the president did not collude with russia so when it democrats go from here first i need to respond to some of the comments that we just heard listen i have a lot of friends from when i worked in the clinton white house who also had to hire lawyers who also had to spend money and time and effort defending themselves and not once do i recall hearing anybody from the republican party saying that that was inappropriate i think it was perfectly appropriate for. the special counsel in that case and the special counsel in this case to do a thorough dispassionate objectively careful investigation and i'm really sorry that there are some people who had to spend money on lawyers just as i am really sorry that some of my friends in the clinton white house had to spend money

on lawyers that's too bad that's part of our system it's how it works and the fact that we have over thirty let me repeat over thirty indictments with convictions at a criminal level of some of the highest ranking people in the trump organization means this was not a witch hunt there were real crimes committed real bad deeds done and there's real consequences for that now the report says they did not find collusion with russia well guess what starr didn't find anything wrong with whitewater but he found monica lewinsky again too bad these are real wrongdoings that real people did and they are suffering the consequences if there is any question as to whether or not this report is accurate let's see the report in fact. we need transparency let's see not only the entire text of the report but all supporting documents all the interviews all the e-mails everything that was collected so that the country

can see this was indeed a thorough dispassionate and real investigation i think the more light we shine on this the better when you get secrecy when you get cloak and dagger hiding and lying and all kinds of obfuscation that's when people suspicions are is you want to have a clean slate let's get it out there and frankly i don't think the courts or an impeachment proceeding are the right place to handle this i think the american voters can make a very adult decision next year after they've seen all the facts as whether or not they want to reelect this man as their president but i want to ask you though david good friend despite the fact that the that the conclusion here is is the president has and his team did not collude with russia or at least the president did not collude with russia we have the head of the judiciary committee the democratic controlled judiciary committee saying that he wants to pursue this further any and that he's not satisfied with what's come out so far what do you say to those who

who argue that the democrats are that this is just a fishing expedition here and this this needs to be put to bed. well i say that's wrong what congress does in its oversight role is oversee you have a cabinet level official the attorney general and a deputy attorney general who within less than forty eight hours of receiving the report decided that on the issue of obstruction of justice the second issue that was investigated here both collusion and obstruction on the issue of obstruction they said even though the moller report said they were not exonerating the president and not coming to conclusion they the attorney general in the deputy attorney general decided not to pursue it well let's understand the reasoning behind that decision that's perfectly kosher for a congressional committee to ask they can bring up the attorney general and the deputy attorney general under oath in front of the committee in ask how is it that

within less than forty eight hours of receiving this multi hundred page report you immediately came to the conclusion that there was no room for an obstruction of justice claim let's understand your reasoning and have it out again transparent open in the light of day everyone can see let's hear their reasoning loud and clear and perhaps at that point everybody says ok that makes sense you made a reasoned judgment i will point out however that the special counsel referred this case to multiple u.s. attorneys offices and that you have multiple attorneys general throughout the united states still investigating the president this is not the end but i think we've learned anything it is that keeping things in darkness in secrecy is a bad idea we should have it out in the open we should release the full text of the report we should release all the documents that were collected i mean these are taxpayer dollars we spent doing this investigation let's see what our money paid for and the more that's out in the open the better all right kinney's i know let's

get your take on they so i mean as we said this is being seen as a. as a significant victory for president trump and some would say lifted the cloud that's been hanging over his presidency but are there other questions that remain unanswered. there are i mean we need to be clear it was probably close to a best case scenario for the president this weekend except for the fact that and again we have not seen the report so we're going this on this based on what barr has said except for the fact that muller did not come to a conclusion he sort of kicked the can down the road on this issue of obstruction so we do need to see the full report because let's not forget barr famously before he even went before the senate committee in terms of his nomination and confirmation had made it very clear for what many lawyers think is very odd reasoning that the president simply could not obstruct justice so that was

a foregone conclusion for barr and within less than forty eight hours after getting the miller report in some very you know what we think would be you know very difficult circumstances he comes to that conclusion again so we do need to see the full report in order to understand what muller found that said we can't deny that this was except for the obstruction issue the best case scenario for the president he didn't see his son he didn't see his son in law or others close up in higher ups in the campaign indicted that was very good news for him but i think we need to take a step back here and remember what muller did find that everybody agrees with and that is the fact that russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election in the united states we had over twenty indictments we still have over twenty indictments on that front now he did not find that anybody in the trunk campaign conspired with the russians but he does find there were many attempts to

reach out to the campaign and indeed contact was made again they didn't conspire but there was meddling in the campaign we are a year and a half from the twenty twenty campaign and as some. he who deals with election administrators all the time i can tell you nothing in this country of substance has been done to address this issue we are still as vulnerable and insecurity today as we were in twenty sixteen and if there's anything that comes out of this investigation it should be that we need to do a better job of securing our elections before two thousand and twenty we have a federal system these are fifty separate elections in fifty states and these election administrators they need the money and the support and the know how to secure these elections because this is a huge problem in the united states and remain so all right we'll put some of that back to j.d. gordon in a moment but i just want to come back to what you said earlier genies i know that

about the full report the need for the full report to be released that is something that at the moment is largely up to attorney general william barr what is your take on how he's handled this so far can he be trusted to handle this objectively and not be influenced by politics because he he has said that he will release as much of it as he can within the law. yeah i mean i think that bill barr has handled this well so far it is a little bit again i think going to raise suspicion which is what we are trying to fight against that this was done so quickly in forty eight hours the obstruction conclusion that said he said he is going to go over the report with a fine tooth comb remove anything for instance the grand jury testimony that cannot be released and release the report we need to see that happen i do think anything not released we will see a court fight and we will see an attempt and i think ultimately the release of most of this report that is what let's not forget the president asked for the

administration asked for republicans and democrats in the house all asked for so this is something that the american public deserves to see and we also need to remember the whole reason for this investigation was to assure the american people that they can have confidence in our system our election system the outcome and there would be a thorough investigation to not release the report again excepting anything that damages national security or ongoing investigations as we know i'm in the southern district as are going on now anything except in that we need to see the full report and i do think we will and i think bill barr will try at least as far as we know his reputation to do that and we're going to have both and i hope republicans and democrats in congress push for that sooner rather than later oh it j.d. gordon what about releasing the full report and if nobody did anything wrong here what's wrong with releasing the whole thing and is if as you said earlier president

trump was legitimately elected by the american people what's wrong with letting the american people decide for themselves and see all of the evidence laid out before them while the problem with that is about five hundred people were interviewed by the special counsel and if you see the whole report you're going to see all five hundred so what will happen is the media will pick through all five hundred try to defame each. one and will try to say this person did that this person may have done that look i've been defamed for the past several years now by c.n.n. m.s.n. b.c. they kept putting my picture on the screen constantly to say i had secret contacts with the russians and when you peel the onion back they're talking about a handshake with the russian ambassador in a group of fifty ambassadors at the orange sea national convention in cleveland in july twenty sixth i was a guest speaker at a u.s. state department program for over fifty four and passengers i shook all their hands because that was my job and later on at an evening reception i ate chicken say to the russian ambassador search a kiss and a few other investors in

a small group for a few minutes but the mainstream media in the united states labeled it as j.d. gordon had two secret meetings with the russian ambassador is entirely false i don't know why anybody would want to watch c.n.n. or m s n b c again because they lied to the american people they misled people on a daily basis that's why people think the way they do all right the the media's role in all of this is a subject for another discussion but as far as the reports itself as as jeanie zaino said there there is a lot of there's a lot of evidence that this been uncovered show that shows the russians did something the russians tried to to influence this election as an american isn't that something that concerns you regardless of what party you're from regardless of which candidate you support. well absolutely the russians certainly did meddle in the election it was horrific but there are are you have been reports released about the house intelligence committee released a report that talked about it last year and they said there was no evidence of

collusion wow what a surprise we already knew this before at least a year from the house intelligence committee so i think this is a canard it's a sham it's a fraud and getting back to what david good friend had mentioned i'm surprised he didn't say the clinton investigation was a witch hunt i think it was a witch hunt to it it's reprehensible that it happened but mine my message for david is two wrongs don't make a right but thirty five people indicted doesn't sound like a witch hunt does it well most of those people were russians will never see the inside of a courtroom as far as the six several americans who have been indicted. and of the president can talk. yeah i know i know well he had business dealings with ukrainians that he was caught because he didn't pay us taxes he didn't register as a foreign agent so i'm not saying that he should have been punished in some way i'm saying that it had nothing to do with collusion the whole the whole narrative which

was a false narrative said that the trump campaign and president trump colluded with the russians by rumor and innuendo so yeah six trump associates were indicted but those were for things that were process crimes that were they were for they were strong armed into getting tripped up for perjury traps in some cases like general flynn and george papadopoulos roger stone appears to be in that same boat his trial is later this year but the other story will go to prison for other things financial crimes and for tax evasion nothing to do with the commission which was the stated reason for the investigation they have a good friend how do you respond to that put up with started all of this by mistakingly telling aide australian spy about conversations between the campaign and the russians that's what started this the australian intelligence agency then transferred that information to the us intelligence agencies and that is what i believe george papadopoulos was caught lying about under oath and that's why he was convicted of perjury these are not unrelated strands these are all related to the

underlying issue and by the way i do agree with you that lots of people are now saying that our intelligence agencies agreed there was russian meddling in the campaign that seems to be a given fact why is it then that the only person who seemed to be disputing that was donald trump himself who publicly stated that he didn't believe it was so who publicly said that seventeen us intelligence agencies must be wrong because he donald trump was right who insisted on a private no press no advisors meeting with vladimir putin around the same time look you can say that the special counsel didn't find collusion and that certainly is true but i. i think the issue is transparency here when you have a president who is clearly trying to not be forthcoming in the facts this is what you get that's why i think the best and the best antidote to this whole situation is full disclosure get the report out get the notes and the underlying documents

out and yes you may have to say that was me with a bunch of other ambassadors but that's what we call transparency that's giving the american public the full picture so that next year when they go to the polls if you make an informed decision about whether or not to reelect donald trump all right we're going to have to leave it there are a great discussion we can certainly spend a lot longer talking about this one fortunately we are out of time j.d. gordon jeanie zaino and david good friend thanks very much for being with us and thank you for watching as always you can see this program again any time by visiting our website at al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion you go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. incised or you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle there is at a.j. inside story for me has i'm sick and the whole team here but for now. a

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so developing events in washington and in gaza to tell you about both of them linked to israel the united states is now officially recognized israel's claim to sovereignty over the occupied golan heights we're going to talk about that shortly but first with the israeli military has begun bombing the strip the military says it's hitting hamas targets and it has mobilized ground forces near the gaza border this is in response to a rocket attack a rocket which landed near tel aviv and wounded seven people israel will not tolerate this i will not tolerate and as we speak as i told you mr president just now israel is responding forcefully to this wanton aggression i have a simple message to israel's enemies we will do whatever we must do to defend our people and defend our state. with our a force that now who is near that border fence between israel and gaza you are

telling us harry about a building that was struck last hour. well guess they're now going to multi-story buildings which have been struck one of them the headquarters in the center of gaza city of the times and insurance company that is a company that has. been owned by hamas the israeli military is saying that that building was taken down because they said it was a secret headquarters of hamas general security general intelligence and military intelligence also another major building taken down in the west of gaza that's the internal security building headquarters and so already this israeli response is looking a great deal more forceful than what we saw ten days or so ago when there was another double rocket attack on television those two rockets falling in empty ground not injuring anybody not destroying anything in response one hundred targets

were struck around gaza mainly empty training sites and the like this time already the israeli strikes are encroaching much further into the populated areas of gaza you heard from benjamin netanyahu just then he is responding to this in the midst of an election campaign in which he's been under fire over his gaza strategy from his main challenger the former army chief benny gantz so that is another motivation for a more major israeli military action we have just as we came to air i got a text from our producer inside gaza saying that the spokesperson for islamic jihad one of the armed factions inside gaza said that but now the palestinian factions are putting a priority on egyptian efforts now egypt has been trying to mediate this situation for many months now trying to engineer a long term truce whenever it gets to this kind of stage of escalation they try hard to make sure it doesn't go any further so that is the first sort of sign

perhaps that there is some willingness. in that quarter not yet at least. to respond in a major way obviously a lot depends on how things play out from now on through the course of the night and potentially further than that in terms of how how major this israeli operation is and whether the palestinian factions inside gaza feel of necessity it's a response chief among them of course a mass which controls the street and it's everything you've explained in described there harry it sounds very familiar there is this deja vu feeling about this process which we go through what does history teaches about the way these sorts of strikes usually play out and any potential responses. well it's very difficult to to predict these things obviously we've been here as you say many times and of course once the military operations start to get underway however carefully each side tries to calibrate the situation something can go wrong i mean

just think if if one of those seven injured family members among them small children in tel aviv if one of them or some of them had been killed in that strike then that could really have tipped this into a much bigger israeli response similarly if israel targets and kills people inside gaza especially senior leadership figures that would necessitate a major response from hamas and the other arm factions so a lot of this really just does depend on the individual strikes and the the size of them in terms of their. the some of the parts of this military response as to whether hamas islamic jihad and others feel that they can maintain the situation or whether they feel that they need to strike back once they do that of course that engender a whole new set of risks as to how the israelis will respond to that further

retaliatory strikes so very difficult to try to predict things at this stage i think one thing we can't predict though and which we're already seeing is that this is a different in kind military response from israel from what we saw just a few days ago ok thank you for all of that harry for sit on that israel gaza border those developments in gaza happening as israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu met the u.s. president in washington d.c. donald trump this is him signing a presidential proclamation saying the u.s. recognizes israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights israel sees the strategically important area back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and has occupied it ever since. the united states recognizes israel's absolute right to defend itself. the despicable attack this morning demonstrates the significant security challenges that israel faces every single day and today i'm taking historic action to promote israel's ability to defend itself and really to have

a very powerful very strong national security which they're entitled to have. monitoring developments from the white house for us hi kimberly this is once again donald trump taking action i mean you saw it over jerusalem and the embassy and now they occupied golan heights. there's no question that this president has always portrayed himself as a friend of israel and that plays very well to not only his pro jewish supporters but also evangelical voters inside the united states as the president prepares to. or is underway in terms of his reelection efforts for the two thousand and twenty presidential election this was very much though a photo opportunity that was carefully coordinated between the israelis and the united states we saw in the diplomatic room the two leaders sitting side by side we saw the israeli prime minister getting rid of his what we typically see him in

a blue tie instead wearing the red tie that we often see donald trump wearing these matching outfits it was very important even as these dramatic developments are happening back in for benjamin netanyahu he wanted to stay even though he had his visit to washington short in order to make room for this declaration that was being made by the u.s. president the question is why will of course the u.s. president here is dealing with the aftermath of the release of the mole a report that did not exonerate him despite claims by this white house and of course we have the corruption charges that the israeli prime minister is facing as he faces his own elections in april so this is something that we did expect we saw the president as he tweeted last week that he would be making this presidential proclamation and now this has essentially departed with fifty two years of u.s. policy that has always maintained that there is a strategic security importance for israel with regard to the occupied golan

heights but at the same time they have withheld making this declaration a recognition because centrally they felt that it was important to if there was going to be any sort of recognition of israeli borders that that included a palestinian state as well so this is going to be problematic in the long term for this president because what this u.s. president has done is recognize the annexation of syrian territory at the same time that this united states is also pushing back on russia's annexation of crimea back in two thousand and fourteen thank you kimberly how could the white house. now we're going to the united nations with our diplomatic editor james bates for some more global reaction to this because james just because the united states signs a declaration it i guess doesn't make it so no it doesn't it doesn't change the international legal. position of the united nations because

there is a u.n. charter involved and that is pretty clear that you are not allowed to take parts of the territory of other countries. using military means even if that took place more than fifty years earlier i pushed the spokes person for the secretary general all knew this issue they are making it very clear here that the secretary general's position the international legal position hasn't changed but they're also pretty careful not to directly criticize president trump have a listen but the secretary general it is clear that the status of golan has not changed the u.s. policy on the golan is reflected in the relevant resolutions of the security council and their policy so is he going to reach out to president trump and to prime minister netanyahu has said in the last few minutes we hold the high ground and we will never get it back again for us the status of the occupied golan

is in trying in security council resolution position has not changed. well what will see next here at the united nations is the u.n. security council on shoes day they were already going to discuss the israeli palestinian issue they now have two things to discuss the situation with regard to that u.s. recognition of israeli sovereignty over the go land and the ongoing military action in garza it's worth telling you that since the start of the trumpet ministration the international community and the u.n. security council pretty much left to the diplomacy on this issue to the united states is that going to continue because i can tell you behind the scenes kemal there's a growing sense of unease ok james bay is at the u.n. thank you and they were here and political analysts monish are what is.