Margaret Brennan: Trump Made Jerusalem Decision ‘Primarily for Domestic Political Reasons’

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BRENNAN: "Well, this appears to have been a significant foreign policy, national security decision made primarily for domestic political reason by the president of the United States. He succeed in touching probably the most sensitive nerve in one of the most intractable conflicts in history and this is going to make for a complicated visit for Vice President Pence, who has to head to Israel and to Egypt within just a week or so. But what the president appears to be doing here is interesting, with all due respect to the U.N. ambassador who was talking to you about making this decision. It doesn’t do the thing she said. It doesn’t actually move the embassy. In fact, the president, on camera, signed a waiver keeping the embassy in Tel Aviv. And it doesn’t, for the moment, decide the fate of Jerusalem if you listen to president’s national security team who says, actually, we’re still up for negotiation on the final status. In fact, if you ask U.S. diplomats where the city of Jerusalem is located, they still won’t tell you it’s located in Israel. They’ll just tell you it’s the political capital. So it appears to be the kind of sleight of hand that allows the president to say he achieved a campaign objective, much like the Iran deal, without necessarily changing things because any new embassy is going to take four years or more to build."