we'll leave it there. phenomena police analyst laura blumenfeld in washington dc. thank you for speaking to us. thank you . a british prime minister issue soon because called surprised parliamentary elections for the 4th of july, month earlier. and many expected mister sooner and his conservatives training badly in a pony opinion. polls and most observers had expected him to delay the vote to give his party a chance to make up a ground about the prime minister said in his words, now is the moment for britain to choose a future. british prime minister rush, you see not followed his announcement of the upcoming snapped parliamentary election with an appeal to voters to put the face in him. i will find everybody i will earn your trust and i will prove to you that only a conservative government led by me will not put all harder and economic stability at risk. can restore price and confidence in our country with a clear plan and bold action will deliver a secure future for you, your family and our united king. so you knock also on the lines the need for strong leadershi

the remains defined and shows no signs of giving into international pressure, at least unless laura blumenfeld told us more about the different positions of these riley and us latest. i mean, from biden's point of view, this is like our friends don't let friends drive drunk moment. he's taking away the keys, so to speak. for an a 10 yahoo! you know, he's standing on the side of the road and saying, i still gotta get home. and we'll do it with or without you. um, as you know, oh, you know, he is really is have a band admit issues. natania spoke about that right. to that point on holocaust memorial day, he gave a speech this week where he said, there were times when did you spend alone in the world? no one came to our aid and we will not be defenseless again. so he's really driving hard natania along this period of holidays. they call it the days of all which start on holocaust memorial day. they take you up to a memorial day for soldiers right up to the israel independence day. so he's kind of working with that calendar to make a political point, which of course has military implications and fo

he's also trying to prevent the hamas leadership from escaping that was middle east analysts, laura blumenfeld. thank you so much for those insights group speaking to you. thank you. we can now have a look at some of the stories making headlights on. today. adult film actress stormy daniels has testified that she blacked out before having sex with donald trump. daniels told accords the encounter happened in a hotel room in 2006. the former use president is on trial in new york accused of falsifying business records to buy her silence. he has denied the encounter with daniels to place you on a to. so are these have detained to ukrainian security officials for allegedly, plodding to assassinate president bullard arrears landscape keeps as b u. security service. as russia was behind the plan, the ukrainian government maintained small scale has repeatedly tried to assassinate to landscape since the invasion, 2 years ago. managed to seize swedish submarine has taken part in the nato military exercise for the 1st time since the country joined the defense of lines in march. the h. m. s. scotland adjo

i asked middle east analysts laura blumenfeld, which he expects to come out of the negotiations. one of the biggest obstacles is trust. so if we can have someone sort of stand in and, you know, stand for the various parties is really do not trust the home us leadership. they were thinking that they were in a kind of deterrence relationship with them before october 7th, and then they were sucker punched on that day and they won't be full, began is their attitude and the past seems don't trust the israelis, but specifically natania who when they're asking for guarantees that these relatives will keep their side of the bargain either from the united states, or they're not quite sure they're gonna rely on the united states at this point. so they're looking to turkey entre russia. and the 2nd possibility is rather than um, as your, as your previous corresponded, noted that there's the sticking point over the end game. right now we're involved in a blame game, but if we can get past that and talk about, okay, so is it a permanent ceasefire? or is it a temporary. com is rather than maki

imagine even worse, and we can now speak to laura blumenfeld. she's the middle east alice, the new york times best selling author who joins us from washington, dc. welcome laura. joe biden has said in the past that the full scale is really military operation and gaza would cross a red line. is there any clear evidence though, that such a red line really exist as well? you saw what happened today. i mean, the white house describes the latest um, unfortunate loss of civilian lives is heartbreaking, but not red line breaking. and i think if anybody smudged that let red line this week, it would be the i c j by allowing a little bit of ambiguity in their language. they talked about an incursion into rafa. might they use the word might endanger the past? and he is there and israel with its tom wittick interpretation, their lawyers quickly got busy saying that, you know, we won't cause a great loss of life were in this case they were talking about genocide and that left just enough ambiguity. we've heard, you know, john kirby from the white house. they

laura blumenfeld gave us her assessment of what to expect from the ceasefire negotiations in cairo. well look is seymour and a ton yahoo, or hardliner is right there. the anti compromised candidates representing both of their people. but i think they found that most worst come to a messy, and i see 3 options, maybe to get to that cease fire. it's kind of been a cease fire fever and we're hoping it will break for the good one of the biggest obstacles is trust. so we can have someone sort of stand in um and you know, stand for the various parties is really do not trust the home us leadership. they were thinking that they were gonna come to terms relationship with them before october 7th, and then they were sucker punched on that day and they won't be full. the get is their attitude, and the past seems don't trust the israelis, but specifically natania, who, when they're asking for guarantees that these relatives will keep their side of the bargain either from the united states or they're not quite sure they're gonna rely on the united states at this point, so they're looking to turkey

laura blumenfeld, former us state department senior policy advisor for the middle east peace process.eport and we have heard a few times now and people we been speaking to that it appears this report is trying to come down on both sides of the issue, what is your take? listening to the previous report, there some days are missed government service and not sure today will be one of them because they're in a really tough spot and i would say the israeli american relationship is suffering from borderline diplomacy disorder and the israelis just keep going right up to the line without quite crossing it according to the americans and this is the latest example as the report stated, the israelis have, israel is clearly behaved in ways that are not according to our rules and our laws and they haven't quite violated the weapons transfer redline and we saw that earlier today when the war cabinet, the israeli cabinet approved for the card and expansion of operations by two out of three sources said it doesn't quite cross the redline down in rafa and tanks and troops are massing and finally as y