Biden Drops Jordan Trip After Leaders Cancel Meeting in ‘Disappointing Setback’ for President

EXCERPT:

LEE: “This meeting was supposed to take place in Jordan after the president had concluded his meetings in Israel. And I can tell you this is going to be a very big, sort of disappointing setback for this administration. We know, obviously, how important that meeting with President Abbas was going to be. Any chance of there being diplomatic conversations, any diplomatic efforts, would need to include him. That’s going to be a setback as far as this trip is concerned, and the fact that President Biden is no longer going to be meeting with Egypt’s president, President Sisi. That’s a country that has been so central to all of the conversations we have been talking about in terms of the U.S. trying to secure humanitarian aid getting into Gaza, establishment of a humanitarian corridor so that people who want to leave Gaza can leave. And I just have to stress, you know, President Biden is somebody who, advisers around him will always tell you, very much believes in the power of being in the room, meeting face-to-face with these leaders. So the fact he’s no longer going to be having this meeting in-person in Jordan will, again, be a disappointing setback. The White House has said, though, that this meeting is postponed, suggesting that they will try to have these conversations still take place. But, again, it is not going to be something we see happen tomorrow, Wolf."

(Via Mediaite)