‘To Hell With Bibi?!’ Joe Scarborough Stunned by Trump’s Middle East Pivot

BRZEZINSKI: “United Arab Emirates, the final stop on his four-day tour of the Middle East. Earlier today, the president spoke about his efforts to strike a nuclear weapons deal with Iran.”
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Trump: “There’s two steps. There’s a very, very nice step and there’s a violent step. The violence like people haven’t seen before. And I don’t — I hope we’re not going to have to do this. I don’t want to do the second step. Some people do. Many people do. I don’t want to do that step. So we’ll see what happens. But we’re in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace.”
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SCARBOROUGH: “David, you know, we’re talking an awful lot. We’ve been talking an awful lot. Everybody’s been talking a lot about the jet from Qatar, which, again, we shall see if that ever comes to fruition. Move past that and talk about all the things that have happened this week with Syria, with Iran, with Netanyahu being shut out, the hostage negotiation where Donald Trump basically says, ‘To hell with Bibi, I’m going to do this on my own.’ You could go down a long list of things that have really, in a very significant way, sort of reshuffled the board. And now here we — we come to Iran, where Bibi wanted to invade. Trump said, ‘No, not going to do it,’ and now negotiating with — with Bibi’s sworn enemy.”
IGNATIUS: “So — the — the big issue for me on this trip is where Trump isn’t. And where Trump isn’t is in Israel —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Mm-hmm.”
IGNATIUS: “— physically and symbolically.”