many though think it's simply wrong to trade medicine for political influence the reason that bibi netanyahu he's doing it is to promote himself and to try and win the elections so in that sense of course the it's not done purely out of the right multi-verse he uses us for diplomatic relationships use us for anything he has to report to people in israel why he's doing it and to which countries he's doing it to you has to be transparent about it but there's nothing wrong with it we need to give to all of our citizens here in israel the vaccines before we. think about offering it to any other countries regardless of what they are doing for us the ideal thing would be that these vaccines would get directly to these countries and not through israel in the original prize to get to all the countries that need it and we shouldn't make any profit out of it i do agree we should help other countries and the 3rd as well to get vaccinated but. not to use it cynically just to gain politico gain our loyalty and our government's loyalist see should be to its citizens 1st and foremost like most of our popul

question of what the relationship between the biden administration and israeli prime minister bibi netanyahuhey have had a phone conversation to this day. they certainly hadn't as of yesterday. that relationship was so close under president trump, it is in a different phase. similarly, i don't believe there has been a phone call between biden and ham ned bin salam. it ain't going to happen as near as i can tell. . >> david ignatius, thank you so much for being on this morning. >>> and coming up, ahead of today's impeachment trial, donald trump's lawyers argue that the former president doesn't deserve blame for the conduct of a, quote, small group of criminals. we'll ask former acting solicitor general what he thinks about that straight ahead on "morning joe". about that straight ahead on "morning joe". ♪♪ i had this hundred thousand dollar student debt. two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in debt. ah, sofi literally changed my life. it was the easiest application process. sofi made it so there's no tradeoff between my dreams and paying student loans. student loans don't have to take