Here's uh Vice President uh Vance in the

press uh briefing room two days ago. The

essence of which I suggest to you is

Israel needs to wake up. Cut number

nine. Chris,

>> what I will say, and this does bother

me, is that you've seen people within

BB's cabinet who have come out and

attacked the deal and in some ways very

personally attacked the president of the

United States. And I guess my message to

them would be twofold. Number one,

Donald J. Trump is the only head of

state in the entire world who is

sympathetic to the nation of Israel at

this moment in time and he happens to be

the head of state of the world's

superpower. The other thing that I would

say is that over the last 3 months

twothirds of the defensive weapons that

have protected your homeland have been

built by American hands and paid for by

American tax dollars. The problem for

Israel is not Donald J. Trump and

anybody in Israel who thinks their

biggest problem is the president of the

United States needs to wake up and smell

the reality of the situation that

country is in.

>> He's made a couple of good points,

professor, don't you?

>> I agree 100%.

He's exactly right. And he'll of course

be portrayed as an enemy of Israel now.

and they'll go to great lengths to smear

him and they'll go to great lengths to

smear Trump when in fact what Vance is

saying makes perfect sense uh and is not

anti-Israel.

He's basically telling Israel the facts

of life and Israel ought to wake up uh

and smell the coffee. It's time to

recognize the mess that both Israel and

the United States have created and to

recognize that the only way to get out

of it is to cut the deal with Iran that

Trump is in the process of trying to

cut.

>> Wow.

Where do you think this goes? Will the

lobby do its best to undermine him?

>> I think they will. And I think Israel

will as well, even though it's not in

the lobby's interest and it's not in

Israel's interest. And I think the end

result is as Israel and the lobby push

hard against Trump, Trump will push back

uh even harder than he and Vance are

pushing back now. Again, I just don't

think we have any choice here. And the

key judge is that if you listen to the

lobby and you listen to the Ben Shapiro

and you listen to Israeli people uh who

are opposed to this agreement talk, they

never come up with a viable alternative

solution. Okay, you don't like the deal.

What's the alternative? Go back to

bombing. I don't believe that anybody in

their right mind thinks that going back

to bombing is going to make this

situation better. In fact, it's going to

accelerate how fast we move toward the

precipice. It would be catastrophic to

start the bombing campaign again. We

just have no alternative here. Nobody's

putting out a viable strategy that uh

could deal with this problem and produce

a victory uh for the United States and

Israel. We just have to face up to the

fact that we started a war where we were

guaranteed to lose and we have lost. And

now what we have to do is just minimize

the damage.