robert greenway, let's start at this way.ministration is nominated to be our ambassador to israel. this seems to be in line with his personnel decisions down the way and same with blinken. can you tell us a little bit about jack lew? who the democrats want to be the united states representative in israel? >> will short for the first thing americans need to know is this individual is probably more likely to advocate for tehran then he is for jerusalem. in his capacity of the obama administration treasury secretary he was one of the principal negotiators for the ironic deal the jcpoa. he has since provided counsel. on numerous times caught telling congress one thing and doing another. in terms of supporting financial transactions associate the jcpoa, enabling tehran to advance his nuclear program and its regional terrorism paid for that reason there is legitimate opposition to his nomination into his approval. mark: the committee that held hearings the other day and you testified, every single democrat voted for his nomination,

robert greenway, thank you so much for joining us. thanks for being an architect to the abraham accords which are so important. to our viewers, for more information about how you can help humanitarian efforts in israel and gaza, go to cnn.com/impact or use your mobile device to scan the qr code on your screen. you see it at the bottom there. >>> still to come, we're learning new details about how hamas prepared and trained for the terror attack on israel. we'll have that right after a quick break. >>> right now there are still very big questions about how that attack by hamas against israel was able to happen without israeli or western intelligence picking up on the warning signs. a cnn exclusive investigation found at least six hamas training camps inside gaza, one of them very, very close to israel's border. cnn's clarissa ward has more on this investigation. >> reporter: propaganda videos put out by hamas reveal chilling details about the years of preparations that went into saturday's bloody attacks right under israel's nose. anal

robert greenway is the director of the center for national defense at the heritage foundation and he es any of this surprise you? the hyperbole? we note hezbollah in islamic are prone to hyperbole. what strong is hezbollah what can you force could they bring? >> thanks for having me on this morning, pete. since 2 2006 long-term israel ad hezbollah locked horns ron and hezbollah have taken campaign to expand their military the missiles you've mentioned over half of those are precision. they can strike a target between five and 10 meters of probability and overwhelm potentially israel's air defense systems. the threat coming from multiple directions bring them to a complicated arrangement of they are unable to defend themselves that is what hezbollah in my ron are counting on. pete: robert you are out letting 75000 precision missiles pointed at any and all targets inside israel, how could they live with that nonstop threat? >> i'm not sure they can. we'll find out shortly. israel has been ringing the alarm bell for quite some time and this is the capability that iran has provided to hez

robert greenway was a senior middle east advisor to president trump.siness, i asked him to explain the role of business and trade in the accords' success. the agreements were recognised as historic, the first peace agreements between israel and its neighbours in a generation. in terms of business, i think we've seen probably the most progress. in some ways you would expect it, and in other ways i think it's been surprising and encouraging. so, for example, in 2019 the overall value of trade between israel and the accord member countries, after concluding the agreements, was about $500 million, and in 2022 it climbed to $3.7 billion, and this year, despite ongoing events, we expect it to rise. i think there has also been a tremendous amount of movement of individuals between countries that previously really had minimal, or in some cases no travel or transit or contact between the populations. and you can see more of my interview about how business and trade has helped promote peace between israel and some its neighbours. on talking business weekly this

robert greenway was a senior middle east advisor to president trump.e in the accords' success. agreements were recognised as historic, the first peace agreement between israel and its neighbours in a generation. in terms of business we've seen probably the most progress. in some ways you expected in other ways it's been surprising and encouraging. for example 2019 overall value of trade between israel and the quad member countries after concluding agreements with about $500 million and in 2022 it climbed to $3.7 billion. this year despite ongoing events we expected to arise which is a significant volume. there is also been a tremendous amount of movement of individuals between countries that previously really had minimal and in some cases no transit or contact between populations. some 470,000 israelis travelled to abraham accords member countries last year and again we expect the number to increase year over year. did ou at increase year over year. did you at the _ increase year over year. did you at the time i increase year over year. did you at the

. >> robert greenway.ctor for middle eastern affairs and the center for national defense at the heritage foundation. thank you very much for joining us. i want to get your reaction to a lot of news happening at this hour. 260 bodies were removed from that music festival. this is just absolutely awful as we continue to learn brutal brutal details and reality of what has happened over the past 24 hours. >> thank you, sandra, for having me on. >> a stark reminder. in all probability, americans are unfortunately tragically among those wounded killed or held hostage. it reflects a strong bond between our countries. they will need our strong support to describe what is there 9/11. the intent is to escalate the conflict and that really is a unique u.s. contribution going forward. i hope that we can do that. >> just trying to imagine what the next couple of hours look like here. i should say couple of days at least. it could go on for quite some time. do you believe that there will be a ground invasion of the gaza

former special ops intel and former trump senior director on the national security council, robert greenway. all right, greenway, this president hasn't in steld any sort of fear with the mull as. this can only go one way. what happens next? >> thanks for having me on, jesse. you're absolutely right. they've attacked us within hours of launching strike against two abandoned missile and weapon storage locations in the middle of the desert on the iraq and syrian border. and then a member of the revolutionary guard corp comes to new york, speaks to the u.n., i guess there's no one we went welcome into the united states. if we don't stop this and the united states is the only one in position that can, this will spiral out of control and as you said, russia and china are waiting to pick up the pieces. >> wouldn't it be a brilliant move for joe biden to detain the iranian just to taint him a week, squeeze them, we got your guy, why don't you back off a bit while we handle things in gaza. is that against international law? >> i don't know. i think guantanamo is still available. room service probabl

robert greenway. thank you for joining us. it seemed like peace was a real possibility. he was. that simply an illusion? it sure seemed like it. now well, it's good to be with you, trey. look i'd say that it was not an illusion. and it endures. it is the promise of sound policies. if i think as we pursued in the trump administration, a policy that confronted our adversaries and made common cause with our partners and allies in the region on that foundation, i think peace was possible and peace happened. and i think it can again. and if we reverse our policies, i'm confident that we'll be able to obtain the same results. all right. i want to ask you about this. i'm not a diplomat. that is not my background. i'm not an expert on the region. but i did follow the reaction by some arab countries to the hamas attack and to say that it was muted is an understatement. i mean, they just seem to have a hard time whether to side with hamas or whether to side with beheaded children. is this because arab leaders are fearful of upheaval in their own countries or are they really struggling to

we had robert greenway, the director of the center for national defense at the heritage foundation, just breaking down how forbidable -- formidable is hezbollah. here's what he said. >> since 2006, the last time israel and hezbollah locked horns. they've undertaken a significant campaign to the expand. this is the capability that iran has provided to hezbollah. you mentioned the funding, and the funding is significant. but the equipment and the equipment in large measure comes through syria. so when you see strikes in damascus at the airport, it's the transfer of the kits to make those non-precision missiles into precision missiles. and they've been doing it for so long that the inventory is significant. ultimately, we're leading up to a point in which those missiles could be employed. it's why the presence of u.s. assets in the region could augment and make all the difference for israel. pete: so, guys, i mean, the key is the iranian backing of this organization which brings us to the next aspect of our story, a headline in the ney post that caught all of our -- in "the new york post" t