Dave Davies

Do we know?

He's alleged to have said this directly to Netanyahu.

I will abandon you.

Because Trump is enormously popular in Israel.

I mean, he just he said the words.

That was remarkable.

Acknowledging Netanyahu's criminal charges for corruption.

I'm curious, speaking of that, what do you make of the notion that Netanyahu has sustained the campaign in Gaza in part so he wouldn't have to answer the corruption charges at home?

You said that Trump did things that no other president had ever done in dealing with Israel.

And, you know, Trump's negotiating style is also, well, unique, I think we can say, among presidents.

You know, he's known as this freewheeling, transactional deal guy.

And, you know, there's also the fact that he and the Trump organization, the Trump family…

have a lot of business deals in the Arab world, particularly in Qatar, which Trump accepted an airplane from.

And, you know, a lot of not just Democrats but independent government ethicists say this isn't what a president should be doing.

You don't want foreign leaders to have leverage over the president who has to guard the nation's interests, not their own.

Did these business relationships help him in this case?

You know, one other thing you said in an interview that I read about Trump and his ability to execute this maneuver.

You said he's transactional, he's situational.

And in many respects, it is the absence of core principles that allows him to pivot in a way that no other American president had.

That was the strike on Hamas negotiators in Doha, right?