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their homes in northern gaza. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt, it's wonderful to have you with us. it's a head spinning morning, two weeks and two days after taking office. president donald trump almost casually upending decades of american diplomacy in the middle east. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip, and we will do a job with it, too. we'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. >> watching the prime minister, bibi netanyahu's face during that is a is something worth doing. the u.s. will take over the gaza strip. trump said this would be a monumental is a

monumental shift in u.s. foreign policy. a reminder there are nearly 2 million palestinians who live in gaza since the beginning of the war, much of their home has been absolutely devastated. more than 45,000 palestinians have been killed, and only since trump took office with a cease fire deal in place have palestinians been able to return to their homes in northern gaza. this proposal would seemingly have them all leave. in remarks earlier in the day, president trump repeated his desire to see palestinians resettled outside of gaza, and when he was asked about it, trump left open the possibility that he will deploy u.s. troops to secure the land. >> we'll do what is necessary. if it's necessary, we'll do that. we're going to take over that piece that we're going to develop it. i do see a long term ownership position. we have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal, and i don't want to be cute. i don't

want to be a wise guy. but the riviera of the middle east, this could be something that could be so bad. this could be so magnificent. >> no surprise, the president's words were swiftly rejected by hamas, which governs gaza. a spokesperson saying, quote, our people in the gaza strip will not allow these plans to pass. so how are the president's allies on the hill responding? here was lindsey graham, quote, an interesting proposal, he says, but, quote, it might be problematic. thom tillis ayura quote, probably a couple of kinks in that slinky john cornyn simply saying, quote, check back with me tomorrow. as for democrats, well, senator chris reaction seemed to sum it up. you see him here burying his face in his hands. moment captured by nbc. telling reporters this. >> you can report that i was speechless. i'm speechless.

that's insane. >> i'm speechless. that's insane. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, stood, as we pointed out, alongside the president, and he was smiling as president trump first laid out his ideas. then netanyahu said this. >> i've seen you do this many times. you cut to the chase. you see things others refuse to see. you say things others refuse to say. and on after the jaws drop, people scratch their heads and they say, you know, he's right. >> my panel is here. mark preston, cnn senior political analyst. elliot williams, cnn legal analyst. former federal prosecutor karen finney, cnn political commentator, former senior adviser to hillary clinton's 16 presidential campaign and kristen soltis anderson, cnn political analyst, republican strategist and pollster. welcome to all of you. i couldn't even figure out what

day it was just a couple of minutes ago, because all of this is just unfolding so incredibly quickly. mark preston, i want to just like, let's try to big picture this to the extent that we can. i mean, we tried to state exactly how enormous this potential policy shift would be. the question that i think a lot of people across the world are now asking is, is this real? is this one of these situations where donald trump is saying something to set out a negotiating position like he does with tariffs? does it amount to basically a threat that he will not follow through on? or does it amount to something that he is actually going to do? >> i think you're all misinterpreting what he said here. okay. because what he sees is investment, right? he sees timeshares. he sees casinos, he sees cotton candy stands. there's a lot of opportunity for investment at that moment when he said that, unfortunately, he meant it. okay. now there's been some talk where it says, oh, he says these things sometimes, and then we'll walk back. this is not one of those situations. this is

something that he has in his head. and if anybody has any idea i mean, you know. >> this is what gaza looks like right now. okay. sorry. jump in. so i'll agree with you. >> that there's that saying. when you're a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. when you're a reality television real estate developer, every problem is a resort to be built. but remember, there's just a couple of weeks ago, we were like, oh, my god, donald trump's going to invade panama. and what that turned into was marco rubio having a productive meeting in panama and then withdrawing from china belt and road. yeah. so there's. look, i won't i won't dispute that. i don't think the united states should have a quote, unquote, ownership position in gaza, but i do think that it's not just that donald trump actually intends to build a resort there. i just think this is how he talks about every problem. >> but this i think that it's not that in this instance, because when he made the comments about panama, it was a little more off the cuff. that was literally he was looking at

his piece of paper like that was on a piece of paper. that is a strategy. it is not surprising considering he is a real estate magnate. he probably is thinking about the value of that real estate and the hubris to think, oh yeah, we'll just tell 2 million people they're going to have to move when this is literally the oldest conflict in the world, and it's all about where they're located. >> i appreciate mike allen's headline in axios, which just crossed here on my ipad. axios am trump stuns world, elliott. >> yes. >> and i also think that was the point. >> by the way. >> the panama point is a fair analogy, but it's a question of degree. you're talking about an action that would destabilize an already profoundly volatile region in the world. you can't tell me that putting 1.5 million people in syria, egypt, jordan or wherever else. >> is not egypt specifically. >> and jordan and egypt is not going to. >> lead to. >> you. >> know. >> a horribly radicalized populations in each of these places. and so, yes, there would there would have been profound economic and political

consequences to the panama stunt if it were to happen. and yes, it was a valuable negotiating tactic, but we are talking about destabilizing the middle east here. and i think it just it's just easy to dismiss this stuff from donald trump. >> yeah. >> but it's not dismissing it. and i do think. >> i'm not saying you are crazy. >> well, no, but but there's also the element here where something like, hey, let's get tough with panama isn't going to face as much pushback from even within his own party as the idea of putting american boots on the ground in the middle east. and what is fascinating is donald trump has brought in a bunch of new voters to the republican coalition who are 180 degrees different from the kind of bush cheney type approach of nation building. america can be a force for good, building up democracy. >> the neocons are not welcome in trump's republican party. >> and so all of a sudden, the idea that, like, hey, we're actually back in the nation building business is that's going to be a. >> tough sell for a lot of but we're not in the nation building business. we're in the wealth creation business because because he is because he wants to create a sovereign, you know, wealth fund for for the united states as well. but here's the

reason why i do think he does believe that gaza can be turned into an atlantic city from like the 1930s, right? and here's the reason why his own son in law has said this before, in his own son in law is trying to cut deals all around the world. so i do think that donald trump does believe that gaza first of all, it would solve a couple of things. it would, in his mind, solve the conflict. bibi would be happy because there wouldn't. be there wouldn't be that rub. and guess what? we would create more cities because we'd build more cities, you know, for. >> all these years. yeah. and you could definitely go stay at a hotel there and feel like there was no concern that someone angry about what had happened might. i mean, the idea. sorry, karen. go ahead. >> that's okay. so i just i keep trying to bring us back to the big picture and to my mind, the big picture is i see how this benefits trump and his billionaire friends. doesn't lower the cost of eggs, doesn't do anything about rent, gas, groceries. and i thought that's

what he campaigned on. he didn't campaign on. yeah, tariffs might bring some pain. that was his quote to the american people. he campaigned on lowering costs. he has signed so many executive orders. he's throwing out these ideas. how about one executive order on i don't know, price gouging? >> i mean, the situation has gotten so bad that there's literally a heist of $40,000 worth of eggs that we are going to talk about later on in the show, right? like that's actually happening in america as we as we speak. mark, to your point. i mean, i want to remind people to like, this is this is an old quote from him. this was back in 2018. but, i mean, this is not the only area of the world he thinks, you know, could could be a great resort. i mean, here's what he said about north korea. >> they have great beaches. you see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean, right? i said, boy, look at that. wouldn't that make a great condo behind? and i explained, i said, you know, instead of doing that, you could have the best hotels in the world right there.

>> again, i would go back and argue that i wouldn't make it a condo, because you can make more money by making it a timeshare. i'm telling you, you could rent it out 52 weeks a year. >> is that why there's so many ads that are advertising telling me how to get out of my timeshare? because the timeshare guys are making so much money on people who have time. >> someone gets rich. >> okay, well, look, in seriousness, i do want to i do want to end on, i mean, stephen collinson here, who paints a lot of our big pictures here at cnn. you can you can read his columns every day on cnn.com. kristin, he did say this to see an american president endorse what would be the forcible expulsion of palestinians from their home in an exodus that would subvert decades of u.s. policies, international law, basic humanity was breathtaking. if the leader of the world's most powerful democracy led such a forced relocation, he would mere crimes of past tyrants and create an excuse for every autocrat to launch mass ethnic cleansing programs against vulnerable minorities. well, i think we've been making the point here, and you've been making the point that this often

donald trump blusters to try to accomplish a different goal. i think it's worth marking that an american president is is doing something like that. >> there would be an enormous cost and there would there would be inevitably an enormous cost to american lives as well, if something like this were actually carried out. i mean, just think about we we lost american lives with this foolish aid pier idea over there. and that was not necessarily anything to do with an angry population fighting back against a policy that they think is unjust. and so i do think that it would be unbelievably foolish and damaging to actually pursue this. i don't think it's going to get anywhere near that point. >> all right. this is obviously a conversation that is going to continue. but coming up here on cnn this morning, fighting back democrats trying to take on elon musk, congresswoman debbie dingell joins me live to discuss what the world's wealthiest man is doing inside the federal government. plus the cia's entire workforce offered buyout

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line for deep cuts. on tuesday, the cia became the first major national security agency to offer buyouts to its entire workforce. a source tells cnn that newly appointed director john ratcliffe personally decided to involve his agency in the deferred resignation program. as the offer rolls out at the cia, fbi employees are suing over an impending purge after fbi officials turned over information about who worked on investigations related to january 6th. the information includes details of more than 5000 bureau employees, but not their names. and now a group of employees are suing the justice department, accusing the doj of violating privacy laws. a judge agreeing to keep their identities sealed over fear of retribution. >> whether it's counterterrorism, great power competition, you name it from

head to toe. those two organizations are what protect america, along with the department of defense, eroding the workforce or really getting after the morale and really empowerment of the workforce is going to have a direct impact on national security at every level. >> so, mark preston, you know, i think that there is some willingness from american voters to take a look at the federal government generally and say, hey, like, perhaps we can do more with less. perhaps we're spending too much. the bureaucracy is bloated, but i'm thinking about like, the moscow station chief of the cia getting an email saying, you can take a buyout. i mean, it seems like this is considerably different than some of those other potential options. i mean, what is the impact? >> yeah, because it's different because that moscow bureau chief has probably been in the service for 25 years and has probably spent most of his or her life overseas, probably in russia or in the vicinity. so has that capability. you know, it's interesting that you bring this

up. i remember a few years back where there was concern that the united states had lost the ability now to understand what was going on and what was the eastern bloc, which is now russia and what have you, because the focus had been on so much on terrorism that there hadn't been enough boots on the ground and a focus on what was happening in russia and what was happening in china. now you're talking about even further depleting the force that we have currently out there. we should be out there trying to get people to come into the cia, to get people to come into the fbi, especially at this time. >> yeah, it just makes us less safe. bottom line, i mean, i think that's, you know, for a lot of americans, they're probably seeing these headlines and saying, oh, well, good. he's going in there and shaking things up. but i do think we have to bring it back to but it makes you less safe. and god forbid, some of our, you know, people in the cia with the experience, the expertise, the insight, like think about if the folks at the ntsb would have taken the buyout the week before the crash that we just had in dc, who would have been doing

the investigation? i mean. >> let's think for a second. yeah. no, sorry. finish. >> just one last thing. the other point i would make to some of those individuals, from time to time, you will find them in usaid projects. that's the that's the other reason why getting rid of if you've ever watched a spy show and having been on many of those trips where i was told just they're coming with us to this site, okay, fine, there they are. so point being, it makes us less safe. it's stupid. there's one way to do this that would have been smart, that probably would have also saved us money, but kept us safe and not created so much chaos and pain. but the chaos and the pain is part of the point. >> well, and when you think about and anyone who has watched a spy show, if you understand anything about how it works, elliot, is that it is a question of building relationships. right? so if you are a cia operation, if you're in the directorate of operations, you know, not paramilitary necessarily, but you know, someone whose job it is to have cover at usaid or at the state department, you are building relationships with assets in the

country that you are then using to get information to protect americans at home from things like another nine over 11. right. and somebody taking that buyout does material damage in that, that suddenly it's not just the expertise and the things in their head, it's the little relational relationships that they have to gather information. >> absolutely. and having not just watched spy shows but worked very closely with the fbi, which is a counterterror organization, people are getting wrapped up in this idea of woke stuff at donald trump's house. no, the fbi is the only law enforcement entity that is both a counterterror and a law enforcement body. right. and these are folks that are spending their careers across presidential administrations, building these relationships overseas to keep americans safe. when you begin trying to root out this perceived political bias, you're not just making americans safe. you're actually you're actually jeopardizing the free speech rights of those people that work there. they are. you are punishing them for this perceived bias that doesn't exist. it's an

overwhelmingly right leaning work force. and i know this having worked there. so this idea, these all these things all sound great on bumper stickers and talking points, but they're just not real. and they're going to make americans less safe. >> and i do wonder too, with something like the cia, you know, there are plenty of other departments in the government where if you ask people, do we have too many people working there? people might say, yes, that can be right sized or whatever corporate lay offs we want to use. but i think for something like the cia, you then if you're going to let go a lot of people, you need to have a clear plan for how you're going to recruit new people in to build those relationships. you've seen pete hegseth at the department of defense making a big deal over the last 48 hours about, look, here's our new ad campaign to recruit people to the army. we're going to get people in, haven't necessarily heard anything like that about, say, the fbi or the cia. and i think that's where you start going. well, wait a minute. is the plan just to eliminate these people, or is it to replace them with a new crop? like, what does that even look like? >> yeah, really, really quick. no. just to get the background checks for people to get them up to speed, to be able to do the job. number one, find people who have the who you can get the

requisite clearances to be able to handle this type of sensitive work and get them hired and get them screened can be months. and so the idea that you're just going to start firing people and bringing some set of folks on is incredibly difficult, and people don't really have that in their heads. yeah. >> okay. another fiery conversation straight ahead here on cnn this morning. let's talk about the weather okay. we'll take a break. heavy rain, flooding and mudslides. california is being inundated with water and it is leading to dangerous conditions. plus, a puzzling proposal. i will ask congresswoman debbie dingell about president trump's plan to take over gaza puzzling an understatement. >> nothing is what it seems in the lockerbie story. >> lockerbie the bombing of pan am flight 103, february 16th on cnn.

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move in. and that really pushes into northern and central california as we head into early thursday. and then again, even another round once we go into friday on the other half of the country, the main concern here is going to be winter weather. you're looking at the potential for some snow, but really ice is going to be the biggest concern. you even got some ice storm warnings in effect. in addition to all of the winter weather advisories on the south side where it's warm, it's just going to be rain. but you are looking at a lot of that ice to stretch from chicago, cleveland, over to washington, d.c., into portions of pennsylvania and new york as well. and then farther north, the really concern is just going to be snow for areas of minnesota, wisconsin and much of michigan as this system really starts to slide over as we go through the day thursday. but most of it should be wrapped up by the time the morning commute begins on friday. here's a look at a lot of those ice totals. again, you can see this light pink color. you're looking at about a 10th of an inch, maybe up to even a quarter of an inch in some spots. so please be careful, especially tomorrow out on those roads, because it could be very, very slick. >> all right. good morning, allison chinchar. thank you very

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resolve conflicts. >> the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, credited trump yesterday for pushing forward the long awaited ceasefire deal. trump, however, now proposing a plan for gaza that went unmentioned during his michigan rallies. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip and we will do a job with it, too. we'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. level it out. create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. this was not a decision made lightly. everybody i've spoken to loves the idea of the united states owning that piece of land. >> joining me now is democratic congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. congresswoman good morning. many of these people are your constituents. this is a

group of people that you spent so much time talking to in the election. and now donald trump is proposing that the u.s. take over the gaza strip. is this something that's real that he is proposing? and what has the reaction been from your communities? i'm going to divide that into two parts. i think, donald. look, president trump is trying to create chaos everywhere. put it all up in the air. some of it's going to settle. some of it's going to be real. some of it's not going to be real. uh, obviously, uh, the prime minister of israel was very happy, and he pleased the conservative members of his party in israel. but the communities are not happy. there are 2 million people that live in. >> gaza. >> you've heard republican senators react pretty strongly about it. i've had some pretty good lines. uh, and the

countries surrounding the area egypt, jordan, saudi arabia are not happy about the idea either. i think, you know, i've talked to so many people for the last ten days about so many things, but i talked to many people that. >> come. >> from that area. >> but i don't represent dearborn anymore, but did live there for 30. >> years. >> but have many other members. >> that are. >> part of it. you know, there are piece of them. why is everybody coming and asking us this question? would you ask white woman that same question about what he's doing to them? so they're feeling a little picked on. some are feeling betrayed. >> they're worried. >> that the muslim ban could be coming back. i just think people are trying to make sense of what it all means now. i think it's a very difficult, challenging. >> proposal that he has. and i don't know that there's a lot of global support. >> or republican. >> support within. >> his own. >> caucus, let alone. >> people like us. so one of the things that you have, of course, always are doing in the in the

course of your job is meeting with your own constituents, and you've brought back so much fascinating information over the course of the last two election cycles about how donald trump was impacting people, his chances for winning a state like michigan. you were home recently talking to groups of people in your district. it has been difficult to get your head around the avalanche of news coming out of these first couple of weeks. what of what trump is doing is actually breaking through with voters? well, i. >> think the first thing that absolutely broke through with voters was. when he froze funds out of the office of management and budget, and last week we saw head start programs being impacted. meals on wheels sending notes across the country. your programs are frozen. daycare programs, senior care programs. programs are the heart and souls of communities that matter to total panic. i met with researchers who have

drug trials for for cancer who were fired. one person was a scientist was fired because her trial description was to be reflective of the. population, including minority populations, minority populations got her fired because that was the yesterday. as someone who works at the i don't even want to say which one. it is a veterans hospital. not sure if he's going to be fired. he came with a group of veterans. they're like, you cannot let this person be fired. i mean, people really don't know what it means and are scared about what their future is. >> uh, you also apparently you met, if you don't mind my mentioning that you met with fbi agents in your area. what are they saying to you right now? >> they're quite frankly, stunned. these are professional men and women whose job it is to keep us safe on so many fronts. and, you know, we need to support our law enforcement.

this is our security. >> and these agents, like liberals, democrats. >> i don't think they're anything i think most of these fbi agents are are apolitical. they do their job. they do what their job is supposed to do. and by the way, the fbi agents that i met with were not anybody who worked on february 6th. january 6th. i'm sorry. february. february, january 6th, which we do know. they're very upset for their colleagues who have been targeted. the lists that are being accumulated, they're seeing the politicization of the fbi. that's not what they signed up for. half of them are like, we're scared. we just should we leave. and the other half is we got to fight for this agency and for this country. >> there are a lot of people that i've been speaking to who oppose donald trump, who feel like democrats in washington are missing in action. are they? >> well, i'll tell you, i have become i've said to all my colleagues, people want to see democrats have backbones. i did

tell you the word i was using and balls. i think we got to be smart. i think donald trump is causing chaos and getting people's heads to spin in so many ways. you don't know what to focus on. and if you do everything, nothing gets accomplished. we have to talk about the ones that are making the most impact. when he froze the budget last tuesday, he i don't think he knew what he what was happening. i don't think he knew the number of programs and the number of everyday americans that were being cut. he he isn't doing anything just for the record about lowering grocery prices. i go to those who know me, know i go to the grocery store every sunday morning for many reasons. it's a mini town hall and i also grocery shop eggs at my grocery store. kroger. sorry, kroger were $7.50 on sunday. >> for a dozen eggs. >> for a dozen eggs. i didn't buy eggs on sunday. i mean, we got to do something. what is he doing directly to help lower those grocery prices and not

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moment. >> that was president trump's special envoy to the middle east, steve witkoff, supporting his boss's shocking proposal for the gaza strip. the president suggesting the u.s. would take over the territory. >> mr. president, given what you've said. >> about gaza, did the u.s. send troops to help secure the security vacuum? >> as far as gaza is concerned, we'll do what is necessary. if it's necessary, we'll do that. we're going to take over that piece that we're going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs. >> trump's pitch turned the land into the riviera of the middle east. that would require displacing nearly 2 million palestinians. a hamas official remember, they governed gaza, calling it, quote, a recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region. trump's middle east special envoy, now doubling down on the idea. >> it's a dangerous place to live today. and the president is saying, let's make it better

for these people. let's give them more hope. and if there are different places for them to live, let them, let them. let them make that choice. and i think he's right. >> joining me now is dan senor. he's the host of the call me back podcast, former foreign policy advisor to the romney campaign. and of course, for anyone who doesn't know, clearly very involved, often speaking to many of the principals who are involved in all of these negotiations. dan, thank you so much for being on the show. >> hey. >> casey. >> good to be with you. >> dan, can you just help me understand what we saw at the white house last night? the president putting this out there and whether or not this is something that he's actually really going to try to do. >> look, um. >> i think that israel has tried both in southern lebanon, in gaza and the west bank over the last number of decades to experiment with different approaches, with getting out of these territories and letting local authorities effectively govern them. right. so in the 1990s, israel gradually withdrew from the west bank. obviously,

it still has a security presence there, but it handed over governance to most of the west bank to what has become the palestinian authority. in may of 2000. israel unilaterally withdrew from southern lebanon. hezbollah gradually, as we know, as we've seen tragically in recent years, took over. and in 2005, israel unilaterally withdrew from gaza, hoping that the palestinian authority would be able to govern there. in each of those three places, casey, israel has effectively had to go back in, right? israeli soldiers are dying in all of those areas. israel has withdrawn from. we've seen what what's happened in lebanon in recent years. we've seen what's happened in the west bank even at this moment, there israeli operations in parts of the northern west bank. and obviously we saw october 7th in gaza and what has followed. we are on a path right now in gaza to just rinse and repeat to the same old scenario, which is to say, left to everyone's own devices, left on the trajectory

that that things are now on. hamas is as israel has during this cease fire, has been pulling back. hamas is going to try and reassert control. the international community is going to help rebuild gaza with hamas there. so tell me exactly how that looks any different from what israel and the palestinian people got between 2000 and 5 when israel withdrew, and october 7th of 2023. we're on a similar trajectory. there are two options. let that happen or have israel reoccupy gaza. now, nobody wants israel to reoccupy gaza, including the majority of israelis. so i think what president trump is doing is throwing out other ideas. do i think every detail of what he laid out last night is going to be what we actually see, who knows what he is saying is, guys, we he said, i think he said to this effect, the exact words, we keep trying to do the same thing over and over and we keep failing. so let's try something different. and part of that is putting pressure on

these arab countries. egypt's government, the sisi government, operates like it's doing. israel and the u.s. a favor simply by just maintaining the terms of the israel-egypt camp david treaty. the 1979 1980 treaty, and that it's israel's problem to deal with security in gaza. jordan has really not done much. the sunni gulf states, while they've talked about the the need for gaza to be rebuilt, they have no real plan that doesn't involve hamas still being in power. so i think the president is saying, guys, we got to come up with alternatives because we're not going to just keep doing the same thing over and over. >> so is this just a tactic to scare those players, to basically say, okay, you don't do anything about it? then i'm coming in with my american boots and i'm going to do something about it because i do. sorry. answer that. yeah. >> no. go ahead. >> no, please. >> okay. no. so the answer is i don't know. i think at a minimum, if the president is putting everyone in the region on notice that we're not just

going to keep doing the same thing over and over and hope for a different outcome, those days are over. so i think part of it is just putting pressure on everyone. and i think it's already working. first of all. second of all, do i think the president i mean, i've heard people around him, you know, jared kushner over in the last number of years and he said he i'm not just, uh, you know, jared kushner has said these things publicly, particularly when he was working on the abraham accords and other projects that the it is a shame. it's tragic that this territory sitting there on the mediterranean. i've been to gaza. i've i was struck by it when i was there. i spent time in the jabalya refugee camp. and you sit there thinking, how has this place been left to rot by the local, quote, unquote, authorities, when it could have been developed into, you know, something much more hopeful for the for the palestinian people? so i think the president is actually, as he often does, is imagining a pretty ambitious vision for what gaza could be.

so at a minimum, you get everyone thinking and you're putting pressure on everyone in the region to start thinking differently. more likely, he's thinking this could be something that could be a tremendous asset to the region and to the united states. but in order to do any of it, it's going to take years and years of work. and the reality is there's two and a half plus million palestinians living there. if you really want to rebuild this place and you really want to turn it around, it's going to require a ton of work and a long time. and it's it's not going to be doable. while all these, uh, while this entire population is there. i'll add one other thing, casey, which i think is important. >> yeah. >> i do think this helps prime minister netanyahu hold his government together as these negotiations proceed to the second phase of the ceasefire. one question many in netanyahu's government have been asking is, okay, we've sort of made peace with the first phase, but don't tell us, you know, we're moving to the second phase of a ceasefire

because the second phase of a ceasefire is just going to land us with israel out of gaza and hamas replacing it. and that's unacceptable. and again, the president is not just putting pressure on arab countries in the region. i also think he's creating a structure where the hard right in israel and netanyahu's own coalition government can continue to participate with the israeli leadership in the implementation of the cease fire, which could result, please god, in bringing home more of these hostages. so i, i know it feels a little bit like science fiction, but we all watched last night and i understand your reaction, but i think there's, um, this has the potential to shake things up on a number of fronts. that is, that is potentially quite positive. >> yeah. it's interesting to me that we've heard some from some arab diplomats at cnn who have suggested, well, this could upend cease fire negotiations. but what you're saying is actually the opposite, which is interesting. i mean, dan, i think that the one thing i do also keep coming back to that i'm interested to know your perspective on is this idea of

american troops in gaza. i mean, you noted, you know, israel doesn't want to occupy gaza long term. israelis are not supportive of that. but president trump ran on getting americans out of the middle east. and in fact, there's reports this morning and other news organizations that they're making a plan to pull american boots out of syria, where they've been fighting i.s.i.s. >> and there's only 2000 of them, right? >> yeah. is it realistic that there would be american troops on the ground in gaza? from a political perspective, here in the u.s. >> i have long believed that the best position for the us-israel relationship, the bilateral relationship, the best position for israel and the best relationship for the united states is let israel fight its wars, let israel protect itself, let israeli men and women in uniform do the fighting. the u.s. it's in the u.s .'s interest to get israel the tools it needs for israel to fight its wars. but american military

personnel should not be deployed in any capacity. and that relates to what happens in gaza. it relates to what happens with iran. everything i just said, that formula applies to israel's almost every front in the seven front war that israel is in. so it's that part is, let's just say, quite hazy to me, uh, in terms of deploying u.s. troops. i'm again, the president wasn't very specific last night. i it based on what i heard, it doesn't sound like something that would be very viable for all the reasons you're saying and others. i'm not sure israel would want u.s. troops. uh, on its on its border, and israel have it gets really complicated for israel having to complicate and coordinate with with u.s. forces. every time israel wants to take action. so we're a long way from here to there. i think the important point from last night is president, put the region on notice. we're not just going to keep doing the same thing over and over. so if you guys don't like my plan,

you better start getting creative. president sisi and egypt, king abdullah and jordan, the sunni gulf leaders, because we're just not we're just not going to rebuild gaza with hamas back in charge and try to hope and pray and cross our fingers that we're not going to get the same thing we got between 2000 and 5 and october 7th, 2023. >> all right, dan senor, fascinating conversation. thank you very much for joining us. come back. >> thanks, casey. >> see you soon. great. all right. we got 30s left. preston. big picture reaction there. >> illuminating conversation, you know, and maybe. look, maybe it comes down to saudi arabia. comes in, and they're the ones who put all the money in, and they're the ones who developed the land for us to go over. it's very imperialistic for the united states to go over and try to take over. >> gaza yeah, i think that president trump feels like in his first term, he did a lot of good things in the middle east. i'm going to move the american embassy to jerusalem. we've got the abraham accords. i think he feels like he's got credibility in the region to do things that are extremely outside the box, which i think is why you saw what happened yesterday. >> yeah. all right. thank you