orrin lieberman is joining us from jerusalem. orinnes that he is arriving to at the white house is the fact that the white house now says it may or may not insist on a two-state solution when it comes to the palestinian conflict. this would be, i guess, potentially breaking from years of precedent on this in terms of the position from america. how are folks reacting there? >> more than just breaking from years of foreign policy. it's decades of foreign policy. a two-state solution has been seen not just by the u.s., but also by virtually the entire international community as the only way forward an israeli state and palestinian state. netanyahu is under pressure from his coalition and even many members of his own party to back away from his public declaration of support for a two-state solution. they want him to say that's off the table. in fact, his public security minister said the entire security cabinet, ayou will of the ministers in netanyahu's government, his closest circle of politicians, he says, that as the public security mi

orin lieberman is still in jerusalem. we'll get to him shortly. you and i have covered the white house in a long time. i don't remember, if ever, a joint news conference that a president has with a visiting foreign leader that begins their conversation, and then they sit down afterwards for a substantive dialogue. almost always, i think always, the news conference is at the end of the meetings, not at the beginning before the meetings. >> everything about this president and everything about the first 27 days of his presidency is different from the scheduling. you are right. normally they talk first. now, what does it do? it allows them to say we haven't talked about that yet if you press them on the two-state solution or how hard will president trump push back on israeli settlement expansion, israeli settlement growth. it's at least the beginning of a process to start a peace process back in place. he can say i'm going to talk to the prime minister. you can deflect those questions. that arrival ceremony, as you noted, want an official state arriva