steve clemens, as the host of elders, there was the bottom line is and i just sort large of the washington. nathan joins us now from washington, dc. good to see steve. i mean, these common ways to be this week. yeah. these comments this week about the future reconstruction of gaza has now in say we put a big question, ball k for whether phase 3 of us these 5 will ever see the light of day or whether conflict is looming. again, regardless of what trump says he wants for garza, however, it should we be as well. i think we would have been very worried about getting to the next phase of the ceasefire agreement with out this kind of comment. but it just got significantly more complex. and it's very hard in washington to find a republican or a democrat. that wasn't completely shocked and surprised by the president's commitment to this new plan. even though this idea is been percolating around, people who were friends of a 5 minute is really prime minister netanyahu for some time. but, but just talking about inserting the united states. so directly into this conflict seemed exactly the opposite k

so strongly, steve clemens, who's the host of options. there was the bottom line on that i did sort lodge, the washington choices going from washington dc. hi, steve, kentucky with this gad obviously said we agree with you. yeah, sorry i, i apologize. i always speak over you when you want to say hello. uh, i do apologize. uh, lots of moving parts right now to what's going on. let's just start with the comments that we had this week about the future reconstruction of gauze, i mean that support. so to the big question, bulk of whether the phase 3 of the sci fi, which is all about reconstruction, is advocate to see the light of day over the cold flicked, really is looming again, regardless of what trump once a gauze. uh, when, when does, how, what would we should be and how, what would we should be of this meeting between the guitar, a foreign minister and steve would call. and i don't think any error of leader that wants to remain an era leader is going to acquiesce to the notion of displacing to 1000000 palestinians. and to the notion of cr

i'll just either washington early or we spoke to steve clemens. the host of alpha 0 is the bottom line and an editor at large of the washington note. she says netanyahu's political position has changed substantially since trump's previous presidency. a prime minister, netanyahu of israel has gone from being a politically beleaguered and legally beleaguered leader of is real. to be coming the winston churchill in the eyes of many americans of you know, blowing up pagers and walkie talkies in decimating. you know, thousands of people and as has blog assassinating leaders of hamas inside iran, as well as in concept creating conditions that lead to, you know, the collapsible sharla side in syria and changing. essentially, the political map around is real in a way in which the president biden and his team kept issuing caution. so right now netanyahu isn't it is an extremely strong position, even with a president, trump, and you have to understand beneath all of this, you know, momentary, you know, uh colorado, re between netanyahu and truck is a told t

of more on this, we joined now by steve clemens, who is editor at large of the hill, america's political and media platform and host of engineers weekly show at the bottom line. he joins us from washington, d. c. well, very busy few hours, the onshore and washington. was there any warning at all the trump was about to drop this bombshell because the lead up to it said the meeting between the and yahoo and trump. everyone presumed that they were going to be talking about the 2nd phase of the 65 deal to well, i think the only way one might have seen it coming is by listening to some of the people who had previously been around president trump. in fact, i interviewed john bolton, his former national security adviser some time ago, who made exactly this kind of suggestion said it is, was the humanitarian thing to do for guidance that john bolton and donald trump pretty much the test each other right now. there was an active feud between them, but he was the president's national security advisor in bolton was talking about this. but for trump to come out this boldly as the president of the un