We’re going to find out in about 24 hours. We’re going to know soon.

America has increasingly, under Donald Trump, become more unreliable as a partner to our friends and has lost influence.

When we otherwise could say, you know, in X country we're concerned about human rights violations, even if it did not directly affect our national security.

We had some level of authority to speak about these things in a way that we had earned the ability of people to listen and pay attention and maybe try to do better.

We have become more unreliable under this man and we are losing influence. It's going to take a while and some serious work, way beyond the end of this man's term, to regain whatever we had.

Trump enters into this war — a war of choice.

Remember, the man said he got rid of Iran's nuclear arsenal. "Obliterated it," he said.

You know how he likes to use those kinds of words, "obliterated it," which is not an ambiguous term; that means you took it out.

Well, evidently he didn't do that.

The first foreign leader that I invited to my home as Vice President was then-Chancellor, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

I had her over for breakfast, and we sat down; it was called a bilateral meeting. We sat down, and we talked about everything. It was before Russia invaded Ukraine.

We talked about Russia and China and a number of things, and then she leaned over to me and she said, "Please tell me what's going on in your country with voting."

Because she was very concerned about the erosion that she was reading about and hearing about in the United States around obstruction of voting rights.

She was fully aware of the leaders and the activists and the heroes that we honor who fought for voting rights. She knew of the struggle. She knew of the work it requires, and she knew what was at stake.

The way that Trump is thinking of foreign policy, it seems, is when he talks about America First, it's to withdraw from these relationships and these connections.

And then he kind of acts like a mob boss: "Well, you know, you take Eastern Europe and I'll take the Western Hemisphere. And then you over there, you get Asia, and we'll just divide it up. Right?"

We are very optimistic that the talks are ongoing and we are in contact with our partners.

The Iranians are better at handling the Fake News Media, and “Public Relations,” than they are at fighting!

The Iranians don’t seem to realize they have no cards, other than a short term extortion of the World by using International Waterways.

The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!

I might. I’m thinking about it.

An Israeli official said there is no formal ceasefire in Lebanon but acknowledged a “very significant reduction” in strikes and said the political leadership has imposed new restrictions on military operations.

On the very day the ceasefire was declared, Israel barbarically massacred hundreds of Lebanese people.

This genocidal network, blinded by blood and hatred, continues to kill innocent children and women without regard for any human values or rules.

Is imposing the death penalty solely on Palestinian prisoners not tantamount to using the law as a tool of racist fascism?

Is there any fundamental difference between Hitler's monstrous policies toward the Jewish people and this decision passed by the Israeli parliament with such triumphant fanfare?

Aren’t all these actions just another manifestation of denial, destruction, oppression, and political repression directed at the Palestinian people?

They amount to implementing an even worse version of the apartheid regime that was dismantled in South Africa in 1994.