Trump’s Gaza take over plan heavily criticized

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President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza has drawn sharp criticism in the US, with some branding the proposal as “insane,” our correspondent Simon Marks reports.  #Trump #Gaza #Israel

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00:00A lot of criticism for President Trump's comments.

00:03How have those been playing out in Washington today?

00:07Well, a lot of surprise here in Washington, of course, Leanne,

00:10because the White House had not telegraphed that Donald Trump was

00:14going to make that announcement.

00:15In the East Room of the White House,

00:17reporters were stunned when it was first articulated

00:20by the American president.

00:22And up on Capitol Hill, Democrats, of course,

00:24absolutely roundly condemning it.

00:27Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, an influential member

00:31of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

00:33said,

00:33You can report that I was speechless.

00:36He described the president's proposal as insane.

00:39He said, I can't think of a place on Earth

00:42that would welcome American troops less

00:45and where any positive outcome is less likely.

00:48There was withering criticism of the president's proposal

00:51from Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who, of course,

00:55was Hillary Clinton's running mate,

00:57a vice presidential candidate back in 2016.

01:00He said, it's never, ever going to happen.

01:03Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American

01:06member of the House of Representatives,

01:08described the president's proposal as ethnic cleansing.

01:12And even some prominent Republicans

01:14are very sceptical about it.

01:15Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, again,

01:18a very influential figure on the Senate Foreign Relations

01:21Committee, where, of course, the Republicans are now

01:24in the majority, said that he sees complexities

01:27with the president's proposal.

01:29He describes it as problematic on many, many levels.

01:33But the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson,

01:37says he thinks it's interesting and he wants

01:38to hear more details about it.

01:40He is not the Republican leader in the House of Representatives

01:45shutting the door on the president's idea.

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