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Appearing on MSNBC on Wednesday morning a retired CIA official with 26 years in the agency behind him, took a hammer to Donald Trump's proposal to assume control of Gaza while forcing out the current inhabitants.

On Tuesday the president set off a firestorm by speaking off-the-cuff and stating, "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too," before continuing, "We'll own it" to the delight of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

Reporting from Tel Aviv, an obviously distressed Yasmin Vossoughian of MSNBC stated the feeling on the ground from where she was standing was that Donald Trump's comments about the U.S. taking control of Gaza could lead to a new war.

At a Tuesday press conference Tuesday the president blurted out, "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too," before later adding, "We'll own it."

Speaking with the co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Vossoughian began by stating, "I think it is important to be frank about the situation here in the Middle East. It feels as if Donald Trump has literally dropped a nuclear bomb."

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"Donald Trump campaigned on getting the United States out of foreign wars," she added. "It feels as if, after yesterday evening standing aside Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu that Donald Trump may very well have gotten the United States into another war."

"This is the type of rhetoric that will unite, that can feasibly unite, the Middle East," she added. "We have heard from MBS [Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud] of Saudi Arabia denouncing what Donald Trump has said. We have heard, obviously, from Islamic militants, from the Palestinian Authority to Islamic Jihad to Hamas, who have all understandably denounced what Donald Trump has said."

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President Donald Trump shocked world leaders and U.S. lawmakers by announcing plans to "take over" war-torn Gaza and turn the region into the "Riviera of the Middle East" after moving Palestinians elsewhere.

During a joint news conference Tuesday with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the longtime real estate developer proposed turning the coastal enclave into a resort following 15 months of Israeli bombardment that has killed at least 47,000 people, and the proposal was swiftly condemned by other nations and dismissed as "insane" by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and "problematic" by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings found himself the lone defender of Donald Trump’s ideas for how to handle the decadeslong Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a panel discussion Tuesday night, which he boiled down to the president’s “musings.”

“I think we're being a little dramatic and we're on our jump to conclusions mat here a little bit,” Jennings said. “He muses, occasionally…and it's provocative.”

A journalist, historian, and author called an eye-popping new report "shocking" that the CIA offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday in hopes of ushering in "renewed energy" under new Director John Ratcliffe.

The agency appears to be the first intelligence agency to tell workers they can take Elon Musk's signature buyouts, in which employees can take eight months of pay and benefits if they quit, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night.

President Donald Trump told a female reporter from Afghanistan during his news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that he couldn't answer her question due to her accent.

Afghanistan rapidly fell to Taliban radicals in 2021 after two decades of U.S. occupation to try to rebuild the country's government as a functional democracy following the 9/11 attacks. Since taking over, the Taliban have reasserted many of their old theocratic policies, with women being denied a growing number of rights, including a full education, as well as being physically and visually segregated.

President Donald Trump turned heads Tuesday afternoon when he suggested the United States could take over the Gaza Strip and turn it from a "demolition site" into the "Riviera of the Middle East."

Speaking to reporters alongside Israel's far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump reiterated that Palestinians could be moved to Egypt or Jordan.

A New Jersey Democrat stirred up social media on Tuesday afternoon during a fiery speech outside the Treasury Department, in which she said her party would "fight back" and demanded to "shut down the Senate," declaring, "We are at war!"

Rep. LaMonica McIver, who represents the district encompassing Newark, Orange and Jersey City, delivered an impassioned message Tuesday to her colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle.

Two longtime CNN hosts appeared stunned Tuesday by President Donald Trump’s Oval Office remarks just moments earlier where he sat beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and delivered a casual assessment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“You can’t live in Gaza right now,” Trump said. “You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza, this has been happening for years, it’s all death.” He added: “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. Why would they want to return? It’s been hell.”

FBI agents had gone to court to stop their information from being leaked to the public and endangering the lives and families of agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

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Critics unloaded on voters and President Donald Trump after he announced support for displacing Gaza residents and relocating them somewhere else in the Middle East "like Egypt" or Jordan.

According to Trump, Palestinians "would be happy" to leave Gaza because it has been decimated by rubble.

President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that Palestinians had "no alternative" other than leaving Gaza, which he dubbed a "big pile of rubble."

In an Oval Office rant, Trump spoke about the aftermath of Israel's war in Gaza — and suggested the occupants would willingly leave.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday ordering the United States to have Iran "obliterated" if the country assassinated him.

Trump said he was "torn" about whether or not to sign the order but decided to move forward because Iran was "too close" to having a nuclear weapon, he said in remarks Tuesday from the White House.