nick. >> uncle nickel baby. that's all for this edition of "dateline. " i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. good evening, i'm mehdi hassan. there were so many bizarre moments in the trump presidency that you almost forget about. remember when he explored the idea of buying greenland? or when he made up a nonexistent a terror attack in sweden? what about when he was talking about toilets? yeah toilets? >> people are watching toilets, ten times, 15 times. as opposed to once. ten, 15.

sort of gross to talk about, right? i want to talk about the fact that people need to watch their toilet 13 times. >> you have to wonder, why was donald trump trying to put something down the toilet that required that many flushes? details from axios say that staff in the white house kept finding printed paper jabbed in the toilet. and they concluded that trump is using this as a memory hole. get your jokes out now! donald trump. it's the grand old party! the daily stories. it's a messy situation that cannot be wiped away. we really hit the bottom here! but in all seriousness, he may be the first republican president who left upcoming crew -- can help that.

feel better! everyone was flushed with embarrassment over this report. quote, another fake story that i flush white house papers down the toilet is categorically untrue. and simply made up by a reporter in his fictitious buck. while trump still tried to rage against the latrine. all right enough humor. according to the presidential acts, presidents have to preserve letters, emails, memos that the president touches. trump's open flouting of that law has been a public issue for years now. back in 2018, political repeal that even in the first months of the presidency, an entire team of the white house team was engaged in which documents that trump had tried to thread -- and put them back together.

they called it an unofficial filing system. it should've been a career ending spiral but it was -- like, i don't know. taking white house documents to florida after leaving office! the white house says that staff travel down to mar-a-lago last month, to retrieve boxes. before that, they said that some other documents in his possessions were, shredded. and it's not being talked about. the archives are asking the justice department to investigate whether trump broke the law after taking these records. he took a vacation at mar-a-lago. they said that the documents that they do have, the ones that trump tried to keep hidden, but there is an issue. a source familiar with this tells us, they are missing a number of phone calls that they know trump made on january 6th.

it's not clear if they are missing, altered, or he use somebody else's phone to make the calls. that is a stopgap in the records. when person says, according to the store -- trump talked with mccarthy during the insurrection. he asked trump to call off the rioters, in realtime! trump told mccarthy, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are! what else might trump be hiding? we do not know. but here's something we do know. he does have very strong opinions. a politician who mishandles sensitive government records. >> how about the 33,000 missing emails that were acid wash, acid watch! she bleached her emails! nobody even heard about it before. and nobody does it, because it is a very expensive process.

[applause] >> honestly, she should be locked up. should be. for what she's done, they should lock her up. >> maybe, just maybe it is time to lock him up. just asking. let's bring in, jill, former assistant prosecutor in the watergate in, and a correspondent at the nation. thank you both. let's start with you. beyond the presidential records act, which comes with its own criminal penalties, they said that stealing documents is under the penal code, deserves prison and an outing of office. what is your reaction to this toilet story and how exposes trump legally here? >> of course i cannot resist thinking about the white house

plumbers unit, which was meant to plug leaks. as opposed to the plumbers that we now need to unplug the -- 's. so sorry about that. this 2071 of title 18 which is the criminal code, does allow a punishment of never being able to hold federal office again for violating it. and it is quite obvious that the actions of the president in concealing these documents assuming that it was not just an accidental removal, to mar-a-lago, is guilty of that. and he was prosecuted, he would never be able to hold office again. there is of course a political consequence being discussed, that maybe the current administration does not want to invoke that law. so it does not look like they are trying to stop him from running again.

i think the american people deserve to have him prosecuted for that. we need to know how he got those documents first. >> so on that note about prosecution, this is a big deal. is it not? and if it is a big deal, where on earth is the department of justice? >> this is the constant question we come back to. no matter what happens in the news. no matter what information we learn in the public sphere, we never have insights on whether or not the department of justice is taking things seriously. that they're moving forward with speed into the investigation into these potential crimes. i do not know whether this will be any different. whether the department of justice has been asked to move into this by the national archives. have they looked into this? are they going to prosecute this to the fullest extent of the real law? a lot of folks, and i hate to -- , but the story here that we

are fundamentally talking about like the destruction of evidence, even with that, these are fines. these are not going to jail finds. the national archives, donald trump, clearly violated the presidential records act. but as we know, the presidential records act has no teeth. that is not me saying that. that is former archivist saying that. there is no real incentive for presidents to have this act. so this idea of prosecuting him under the same acts that we used to prosecute all of the manipulation and obstruction of crossed the five documents, if you can get him on that. you have to! there is no word to say that this is too political. you have to go there. because the only thing that you can do that -- >> so sit tight, at le, jill, we'll continue that after this very short break.

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>> i have nothing to hide. i have nothing to hide! i'm not keeping anything under wraps. i have absolutely nothing to hide! >> jill wine-banks and ali are still here to talk about a former presidents who has nothing to hide. he does have nothing to hide. because reporters key keeping big stories to themselves. we have the source for the

toilet story. why keep that story -- but would he do the same? he -- at the start of the pandemic, donald trump said, i thought it was really bad. and then the public said, what would you tell us? -- did you think that was about democracy? >> jill would know better than me! you have been there from actual reporters doing their job, instead of reporters are trying to sell books. so this is the gel. >> jill? >> i think, in terms of the ethics, they should disclose this immediately. but there are so many people who are withholding information. and some of this is very important information. we have gotten through the gap in documents. but again, this goes back to watergate. one of the big turning points in the public reaction to the crimes, was when we discovered

an 18 minute gap in one of the tapes. where the recording in the white house had a big gap in it. >> yes. >> and these are the things like the telephone logs that are now missing. or have been prevented from ever being created by his using cell phones that belong to himself, personally, or to other people. like a mob boss. so you would not get caught. on your own phone that can be traced you. that is really criminal. and it's important, not just to the history of the country, but to the future of historians who can review the records. but of course, it's important right now as we look to find out what the president knew. and when did he know it. what did he do with the information that he had on january 6th? as the answer action was happening? these are important pieces of evidence that could be used for premium all prosecutions, but also used to create new laws.

we clearly need amendments to the presidential records act. the -- needs to be clarified what the criminal penalties are. we shouldn't have to rely on 2071 of the criminal code for someone doing this. stealing the documents, if you went into the archives, and stole them, that's clearly been prosecuted. sandy burner from the clinton administration was prosecuted for that. >> but as that lee points out, there is a whole bunch of politics. not just the politics -- i just want to cover this before another time. the media coverage, the emails, the 2016 presidential election coverage, and now we get this. and you, i, and jill now that we will be talking about something else next week. it doesn't get much attention to a? doesn't get much attentio

to a this is why the original flashing of documents, is on a page 18. is on the -- new york times every day for a year. looking at someone like how did we screw this? up there is no preparing. and how to do this again. but this is something that i really want to pick up on. we're out of time >> briefly ali. >> in watergate, everyone was trying to figure out if nixon was a crutch. we know truck is a crook. where waiting for people to care. >> yes indeed yes, indeed. well said. jill wine-banks, and elie must. all thank you taking time out.

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you've successfully brokered the historic piece that we are signing today. >> it was held by -- trump's biggest policy victory. designing -- it was going to be the dawn of a new middle east, part of a vision of peace between israelis and palestinians. i mean, you heard him say it. as it turns out, it did establish peace, only just between israel and a few arab countries. it wasn't even at war. with including the, uae, sudan -- now, it's great to hear that israel has resolved it issues with sudan. but what does that have to do with israeli, palestinian issue. if you guessed, not much. that's kind of the problem. since the signing of that deal, in late 2020, the situation, on the ground, it -- has arguably only gotten worse. planned evictions led to mass protesting, across the holy city on the west bank. it fared up into the --

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under donald, trump took a more pro israeli law in the never before. at the heart of that was trump's outspoken ambassador to israel, and also trump's former royal, david friedman. he's got a new book out, sledgehammer, how breaking with the pass brought peace to the middle east. he joins me now. ambassador friedman, thank so much for coming on the show.

it's a fascinating, and provocative book you've written about your four years as u.s. ambassador to israel. let me start by asking you, what your critics have asked, what do you think qualified you, a new york bankruptcy lawyer, who represented donald trump over his likeness that he can see knows, with no experience of diplomacy, no expertise in international law. what's qualified you to be bastard israel? >> i've been to israel about 100 times. i had my bar mitzvah there in 1971. i studied international law, at one of the best schools that the united states. i wrote papers on it. i continued to study and meet with israeli leaders. for it's been a matter of great interest to me for my entire life, and i was able to forge very important relationships with israeli leadership. >> you write in your book, ambassador, about how people

were against her confirmation. you write at length about the fireworks surrounding you, saying, you shouldn't be given the dog. you had 48 democrats vote against you. you talk about all that, and during that confirmation hearing, you also made this pledge, under oath, i think. have a listen. >> do you support, or advocate for israeli annexation for? >> i will. not >> but, you did advocate for that. the new york times wrote that you pushed mightily for annexation, in fact, he told the times in 2019, israel has a right to annex parts of the west bank. so, were you lying to the united states senate and your confirmation hearing? >> no, not at all. number, one the fact that israel has the right and scenario, which i believe is true. it's different from exercising their right, so you have to make that distinction. second of all, the work that we do with regard to --

while i was an office was in the context of a very detailed, carefully crafted peace plan that would've doubled. what is in the context of the puzzle to the israelis, frankly the palace initiative embraced, instead of ripping it. up at the security council, so i don't believe i was inconsistent at all with testimony. but anyone who knows anything about that history knows that palestinians are not going to welcome this annex. and what you said at the time, you said publicly in january 2020, israel will not have to wait it all to start the annex. even jared kushner had to lorraine un. >> no, that is not -- look, israel. your assumption that the palestinians don't want to evade their land is a mistake. this is -- territory. this is not on the palestinians. the palestinians have structure. i agree within the --

as well to maintain civilian control, and military control. the palestinians have -- but the rest of it, area see, has been there for many years. and people as great as the -- negotiated security council to go through and be there for the united states. israel has the best claim for the west bank. so if you've seen the conclusion, that it is palestinian land that doesn't belong to israel, you are going in a very wrong direction. >> look, i don't think we have time for that discussion today. as you know, that's an outlier position. the world recognizes this. the geneva -- i know you don't agree with that. you wrote about it in your book. but the point, is the palestinians we're never going to agree to annexation. and you went for annexation after you agree that you would not. and several hours later no

less. >> it's all in the book, i don't want to go into it. the very tit tap between him and i is not very particular. but look, the palestinian -- the palestinians, i don't think that we just agree on one thing. i think we need to agree that the palestinians deserve better. i certainly have worked on that in the four years that i was ambassador. and that's unfortunate that that is the condition. i -- 12,000 terrorists in gaza, it i worked with -- who is incredibly corrupt. has no human rights. is misogynistic. and is not about one sexuality. if you prepare about the palestinian authority, if your conscience is okay with that. mine is not. i don't think any americans are

prepared to support the palestinian way. -- >> you made your point. let me jump back in here. your book suggests, as you just suggested in your answer ago, that for the palestinians, it's their fault. what would you say to people who say that it is netanyahu who never wanted to -- to the palestinians. and a president who wanted to make a big deal about netanyahu -- >> my experience, and i have direct discussions, not with the boss, but with all those people. on the core issues, there was never going to be any demise. the palestinian position was that every jew had a leave in the biblical hearts and of some area. now that's never gonna happen, the jews -- jerusalem. and more americans, the jewish embassy provides that it would

go undivided. >> you say, i don't think that's the case. that netanyahu -- that the u.s. wanted more peace and netanyahu did. those are not my words. those are donald trump's words that i quoted to you. he said that netanyahu never wanted peace. so do you think he's wrong? that he does notice often? about that he's lying? >> for people that were trying to convince trump that that was the case, at various points in the presidency he did go to that way. he said when he said. but i don't believe that a boss wants peace more than netanyahu. >> it was last year. he said in 2021, i thought that abbas wanted to make a deal, and he said i don't want them to ever make peace. so one of you is ron -- one of you was wrong. which one? >> i don't think any of us are wrong. i think that we cannot be

clairvoyant into the people's minds. i think -- what i discussed daily with the palestinian officials with is that i don't think this is what they wanted. >> i understand, but i'm just saying here. it's not that equivalent. trump is saying that bbc blame. you're saying he's not a blame. i'm saying who do we believe? the president united states with the ambassador of israel? >> i think that we should believe the american people. >> but he was your boss, do you think he can probably got the middle east wrong? >> it's not my question of whether you got it wrong. it's about his experience -- >> i mean he's the boss, if that's a view and he's the president, i think his view prevails. >> okay, one word missing from your book investor, it's quality. do you think that palestinians are equal to israeli ends? because in the past years, palestinians have not have the

same rights as the jewish people who live right next to him. because it's really human rights groups talk about apartheid there. so a question for you. should palestinians in the west bank should have the same -- as the -- ? >> i think it is subject to security issues which are daunting in that area. i think the answer isn't aspirational yes. i hope we get to that point. but we cannot control the palestinian authority. so if you want to talk about civil rights, -- >> no it's about people. how can they go to the west bank without any israeli permission? do you know anywhere in the world that cannot leave without permission from the country? >> the palestinians have civilian autonomy in that area. there are no issues with travel. there are checkpoints for -- i think the checkpoints have improved significantly over the next few years.

but there are -- in their security. >> i understand the security arguments, i'm saying to do they have the same rights as the jewish settlers were living in the land. literally right next to them. it's a simple question. should they have the same rights? palestinians and jews living in the west bank? yes or no? >> i think that they should -- they are citizens of israel. that would be the model. they should have equal rights. look at the arabs, they are professors, doctors, lawyers. they are contributing to the largest bank -- in >> palestinians in the west bank's do not have equal rights. i'm saying, tomorrow morning should they have equal rights? or should they consider the rights? night >> i think the palestinians have to find a way to except israel. israel's not going away. the refusal to acknowledge that it's going to be there, the terrorism, the violence? it's going to get results

holistically. and we can try, aspirationally, of course we want to put that out there. webb's really has to israeli jews is to be -- i prefer that they become. >> so ambassador, you talk a great deal about antisemitism in the book. including antisemitism that you say that you base. and i think that is sadly on the rise here in america. would you agree that it is deeply antisemitic to say things like, jews control the media. choose controls congress. jewels have divided -- >> so when donald trump says that, doesn't that make him antisemitic? >> i have not heard him say that jews can't hold congress -- >> i will read you the quote. he said there are people in this country who are jewish who no longer have israel. it used to be that israel had power over congress. there are jews in the new york

times. to me, that sounds like a meeting of nazis. that sounds like a sore front message board. jews, israel control congress? >> no, but i think he is making a different points. i think he's expressing that he has disappointment. and that would be the fact that he's done so much for the state of jewish people in america. by march, it comes down to support. he's frustrated. >> that's not what he said. he says that jews in america should be in israel. that's a very antisemitic truth. he also referred to israel being one country. he said to one -- to the white house to jews, if you want to say that? >> do you think american -- >> do you think israel's

american chooses country? >> i'm sorry, the notion that god will restore the people to israel. the -- >> do you think -- >> do you think israel controls congress? donald trump says that israel used to control congress, do you think about that? >> frankly, no. i think that most of congress right now is becoming -- very >> do you think israel controls congress? is donald trump right a wrong? >> no, i don't think anyone controls congress. >> one last question, at your confirmation hearings you said that people on -- the -- where concentration camp guards. the worst insult to college. you you said this was a practical mistake. but it was pretty more than that. it was deeply offensive. and you apologize for chase tree for saying that. do you wanna take some time tonight to do so? >> i said in my book that i thought it was a terrible race mistake. and i thought it was a bad

analogy. and i thought the allen-ology was inappropriate. i'm saying that my arguments are -- i think they are a very bad organization. i think there are organization who -- the fact that anything but. >> but do you want to apologize to them tonight? >> no, there's been so much misconduct around the way with j street to me, i think it's time that they make it unilateral apology. one where they -- and pulled together. >> and we're out of time, but i'm keen to talk to you about donald trump. you know him better than most of. us he said that is true smog, he's smart, he's strategic. i get smart to some people. but -- who thinks frederick douglass is still alive? who thinks that -- so here is cancer? >> to say that -- on budget ahead of his time.

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part of what some call, the world's most exclusive club. right now, that band of brothers, all men, sadly, has only five members. jimmy carter, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and yes, donald j trump. up until now, the only time he's met with the group's been at george bush senior's funeral. what's that great joke from -- i refuse joining a club that would have me as a member. to be fair, i wouldn't want to be in any club that has donald trump as a member. i'm guessing, neither do they. now, each of the four former presidents have done would all american presidents love to do, published their great presidential memoir. for barack obama, it was a promise land. so hefty it's been split into

two books. for george w. bush, decision points. though, you don't need to hear my thoughts on his decisions. bill clinton wrote, my life. more than 1000 pages. jimmy carter, the author of 30 books. 30, amazingly prolific! donald trump's first term after leaving office, you ask, it's a picture book. in which many of his contributions have been written in sharpie. it's called, our journey together. and, oh, it was quite a journey together. the book reportedly includes about 300 official white house photos of trump. many of which have been publicly archived. he said, to be using the publication to be -- about nancy pelosi, cnn reports that trump says a photo, they don't see which photo, so we pick this image. of the speaker speaking in pointing at his seeded president trump. it's about her -- she was screaming and shaking my colleague, she's effing

crazy. hence the name, crazy nancy. this is for, deeply unpresidential, and ridiculously and offensive. if any other president do this, it would be the biggest story in the world. yet, donald trump says stuff like this about other major politicians, it's barely a blip. we simply shrug and move on. the price tag, by the way, for such insightful analysis, is inflated to say the least. $75 for an unsigned copy of the book. triple that, if you want is john hancock on it. no major publisher was willing to work with donald trump, the publisher listed on the book, winning team press, are, yes, accompli run by his son. donald trump junior. in other words, tell me you self published, without telling you self published. donny junior has been bragging to me about the bonkers early sales of the book. according to cnn, it's made nearly $20 million, so far. a sum that doesn't actually

really stack up, in comparison to the early cells of trump's predecessors. but, when does the truth ever stopped team trump from bragging. joining me now, -- for president obama, and was also the official photographer in the reagan white house. pete, some much for coming. please explain to me how this works. to cover of your coffee table books about the obama presidency, both of them, they carry your name. yet, this coffee table book about the trump white house, for which trump served as, correct me if i'm wrong, he was president, not photographer. he lists his name on the cover -- are the photographers images, this is a week in which president was caught stealing documents, i should've gone to the archives, so you can understand my confusion. >> well, maggie, thanks for having me. he does have the right to use the photographs in a book, they're considered public domain images. you could do a book with pictures of him.

i could do a book of the trump white house photos. my captions would be funnier than his, but yeah, he has the right to publish photos of himself, if he so chooses. >> one of the things that trump took from the white house was the infamous hurricane map he had doctored with a sharpie. he reportedly gives the same treatment to many of the captions in the book. quote, ridden is telltale handwriting, a thick black scrawl of a marker, mostly upper case, beau -- and lots of exclamation points. and you are view, is this a book that chronicles the presidency, is it a collection of random photos with unpresidential insults, written in sharpie, that substitute for having a twitter account. what is this? >> i mean, i haven't seen the book. i have no plans to buy it, myself. what i've read, and what i've seen, it's basically a collection of his reality show

presidency. it's a musing that he uses it, as you described, as a hatchet job. i will say, the one picture that i is it true behind the scenes picture, is the one with pelosi standing up to him, in that cabinet room meeting. which, the only reason it became public, was because he, himself, tweeted it out, at the time, because he thought it made him look good. i think, most of us, the general public, looked at that picture and said to themselves, look at that, nancy pelosi is -- standing up to the bully. yet, he was the one who posted it on his twitter feed. >> yes, that's a very good point. in the book, ivanka trump first daughter, slash former senior adviser, spread the insults. cnn shows a photo of the book

-- of her giving her the speech, at the g20, in japan. i just wonder, are these pictures good? what is the point some of these pictures? you put together both at, this would you looking for in a book about a presidency? was the criteria for picking pictures, from the thousands that are available? >> yeah, for me, it was an exhaustive decision, the choosing of images. i wanted to show the humanity of the president. the humanity of president obama. how he interacted with other people, while at the same time, trying to show some of the scenes behind the scenes, of the big events that happened. whether it was the bin laden raid, the lead up to the passage of the affordable care act. trying to show people a sense of what it was like, what he's like, with the presidency is like. you know, what is he like, as a human being. you look at all these pictures

in your show, inside the trump book, and it's basically the reality show. you get no sense of what he's like as a human being. well, maybe you do get a sense of what is like a human being. >> you were there for several years. you watched obama in action, you also went to the reagan white house, i believe. could you ever have imagined, at the time, that donald trump, a person like donald trump, would occupy the oval office, and run the white house for four years? >> no. i thought when he announced his run for presidency, i just thought, to me, it's obvious that he was a con man. i didn't take very seriously. i kept having people around the country, including one my cousins, tell me, he was gonna get the nomination. she was right, as it turned out. >> just before i let you go, pete, you've written a few

social media posts about a person who sat next to you in the presidential motorcade, during the presidential -- former white house doctor, turned hard right republican congressman in texas, ronny jackson. who often, turning in some eyebrow raising -- has taken to assessing, or trolling president biden's health, from afar. seeing some outrageous things about the president. an official pentagon investigation revealed that jackson had harassed subordinates on the job. he drank alcohol on duty. you have one might be in mourning after picture, where you say asleep and hung over. how do you think ronny jackson went from being disrespected white house doctor, to becoming this conspiracy spewing anti vaccine, trump truly believe? or >> i don't know. it's a great mystery to me. a lot of military and support

staff -- are not appointees, and some of them are republican, some of them are democrat. you just don't know. but, that never plays into how they perform their duties. would happen to ron jackson, i have no idea. all i know, he knows better. he knows that vaccines work, that masking work. yet, he continues to promote scientific and medical disinformation to his constituents, which is dangerous. his district has one of the highest death rates per capita, of all the congressional districts in the country. it's actually the eighth highest, out of all 435 districts. i think, part of that is due to his misinformation by the governor of texas. i just wish i could explain it, but i can't. >> all right, it is crazy. i was wondering whether you could explain, it but he seems to be inexplicable.

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