President Trump made a bold and surprising proposal this week that the U.S. take over Gaza during an official state visit from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The statement drew immediate criticism from Democrats and sparked heated debate on Capitol Hill.

For insight on the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu and what increased U.S.

involvement in the Middle East would look like, we speak to former U.S. ambassador to Israel,

David Friedman. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Sunday, February

9th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss Trump's novel and controversial proposals about Gaza as former

U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. Ambassador, first of all, thank you so much

for coming on. Sure. My pleasure. Now, Benjamin Netanyahu is the first world leader to visit

the White House in Trump's second term, which is significant in and of itself. And there was a lot of news that came out of Tuesday's

meeting. From your perspective, what was the biggest issue that came out of this press conference?

Well, look, the first thing is, you know, because I know them well and I've been in the room

many times when they've spoken, I have a pretty good feel for the body language.

And so as I'm watching, and I wasn't part of this particular gathering, but as I'm watching,

I'm seeing between both of them, you can tell there's like fundamental agreement.

This is not just for public consumption. It's real. There's fundamental agreement. I think on a few things. Number one,

I think both Netanyahu and Trump agree that Hamas has to go. There's just nothing left to talk about regarding the future of that region with Hamas remaining in power. I think there's also fundamental recognition that Iran can't get a nuclear weapon.

And then I think there's a desire to move forward with normalization with Saudi Arabia or Indonesia or others.

But understanding that you've got to sort of quiet this area down and have a strategy to de-radicalize the Palestinian population. So, you know,

that's a lot to say from body language, but, you know, again, I've been in the room a lot. And that's

sort of what I took from watching it. And of course, obviously hearing the comments of both leaders.

Yeah. So let's talk specifically about the control of Gaza, how to handle the aftermath of the war in Gaza and what to do

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