we were just talking to david sanger about it. but this idea that they're going to offer buyouts across the board, and then there's this email that goes out that potentially exposes the real names of everyone that's been hired in the last two years. um, what are the implications and how far does the agency normally go to conceal the information that they just put in an unclassified system? >> but you just gave the chinese a gift. you're going to conceal that stuff. not because of first name. and last initial means a lot to a regular american citizen, but what the chinese will do and other services will do is take that and combine that with other open source information. let's be really simple. let me give you an example. somebody who identifies himself as an analyst on facebook without saying what agency they're with, and they have the same first name and last initial that's on that list. that's one bit of data you might use if you're the chinese, and they've got a million other bits of data, they're going to try to use this as a

joining us now is cnn political and national security analyst david sanger. david, thank you so much for joining us. look, this president is the person who said that the u.s. must get out of forever wars. he is now proposing sending american troops to gaza, forcing out millions of palestinians and rebuilding it to own it, to have a stake in it. is this complete fantasy? >> well. >> sarah, it's it's certainly one of the most unusual proposals we have heard, even from the mouth of donald trump. it's not that the idea of moving palestinians out of gaza is an entirely new one. during the past year and a half of war, or a year and a quarter of war, there were questions about whether or not the gates could be opened so that people who wanted to go into egypt and could, and that there would be some kind of temporary refugee camp set up. but to the palestinians living in gaza, the key question is, can you then return? or is this just a mechanism for israel to force the palestinians out of gaza and into a place where they don't have a homeland, that the state that woul

joining us now is former deputy director of national intelligence beth sanner and david sanger, whiteand national security correspondent for the new york times, beth, i mean, how do you square the president doubling down on this plan to take over gaza? quote, after the fighting with the staff and allies walking it back, including the secretary of state, at least in part yesterday. >> i think. >> it's because. >> there's basically. >> a clash of. >> goals. >> you know, it's clear that the president is kind of focused on something that makes sense to him. and i think that, you know, to most people it kind of makes sense. like, yeah, they live in a horrible place. why wouldn't they want to go? and we could make this great. and all of these things kind of make sense. if you don't understand anything about how the middle east works and the other people. >> human beings liking their homes. >> yeah. i mean, there's nothing left, anderson. i mean, it actually would make sense to most americans, but we're not palestinians who have been displaced, and they never go home when they're displaced.

. >> let's get right to david sanger, cnn political and national security analyst and white house correspondent for the new york times. also here, aaron david miller, former state department middle east negotiator and senior fellow for the carnegie endowment for international peace, along with retired colonel cedric leighton, also a cnn military analyst. i'll begin with you here, david astounding idea, to say the least, that the u.s. would take over the gaza strip. is this even remotely possible? >> well, i guess it's remotely possible. but the obstacles to it are huge legal, moral. um, and practical. um, first of all, you take a developer, you put a developer in front of a problem. they're going to see, you know, a hotel solution. you put a diplomat in front of the same problem. they're going to see a diplomatic solution. uh, you know, you put the pentagon out there, they may see, um, the different and the military solution. um, he is not wrong. as you can see from the photographs that you're running right now, that, uh, it's a total wasteland. and if you are going to rebuild gaza, i'm sure yo

. >> let's get right to david sanger, cnn political and national security analyst and white house correspondent for the new york times. also here, aaron david miller, former state department middle east negotiator and senior fellow for the carnegie endowment for international peace, along with retired colonel cedric leighton, also a cnn military analyst. i'll begin with you here, david. astounding idea, to say the least, that the u.s. would take over the gaza strip. is this even remotely possible well, i guess it's remotely possible. >> but the obstacles to it are huge legal, moral. um, and practical. um, first of all, you take a developer, you put a developer in front of a problem. they're going to see, you know, a hotel solution. you put a diplomat in front of the same problem. they're going to see a diplomatic solution. uh, you know, you put the pentagon out there, they may see, um, the different and a military solution. um, he is not wrong. as you can see from the photographs that you're running right now, that, uh, it's a total wasteland. and if you are going to rebuild gaza, i'm sure you'