Transcript for President Trump visits Israel on first foreign trip

Hey guys I'm on an of odds in New York you know president trumpets on his first overseas trip. Since taking off eighteen in Israel today. Already alive now to our colleague traveling with the president Devin Dwyer joins us live from Israel right now at that an ideal and that there. Hey I'm not good good afternoon to you. At goodnight to you I know it's late in the evening there thanks for joining us to chat through some of the things you've been following in the headlines here I got asked you. About this historic visit the western wall. President trump is the first sitting US president to go there how to tackle over on the ground and what kind of signal does that send about US policy. You know was it did president's visit to the western ball was seen as an incredible gesture. To the Jewish people the first time as you say that Americans sitting American president has visited that secret site one of the most sacred in all of Judaism. I have to say I was just down there are few hours ago people were still talking about the president's visit to the wall. Are you saw him go up to the wall put his hand on the wall he brought a little piece of paper as is tradition. I his prayer he quoted in the wall. We don't know yet from the White House what you vote on that piece of paper but it was really studied seat on the heels of his visit to Saudi Arabia we can talk more about that in the second. But that gesture right off the top of his trip here I seen as is something of outreach to the Jewish people. Part of the mission of this whole trip really on the White House has been saint from the beginning that this is. Deliberately an attempt by the president I president from to reach out to both the Muslim people Jewish people Christian people to promote peace. In. Dead and I ask you about that because this trip and just to Israel alone but also to. Across all of the president stopped it sort of latent. With potential missteps he anyone we've decade of experience in this area could still be prone to making a mistake. Has the president made any missteps so far that have been read on the ground as controversial or problematic in anyway. There was a lot of chatter ahead of this trip about how much preparation president trump was doing you'll remember that just a few weeks ago his staff said. They were clearing the schedule of events of the president to receive briefings and study briefing books about places like Israel very sensitive regions in the world. All of that got blown away distracted by the Russian crisis the call me firing as one example one piece of that. But since we've been here really there hasn't been a lot of focus on. The president's political missteps. We have seen the chatter on Twitter and social media people talking about. His references to the western wall being part of Jerusalem are not part of Jerusalem. Tel Aviv according to secretary of state being the home the heart of the Jewish faith obviously that's right here in Jerusalem so. There's some talk about that but you don't get the sense here in the ground that this is really a distraction from his mission here. Which is a cornea the White House reaffirming the US alliance with the Jewish people you do get the sense it just the president's presence here. Is accomplishing that all of though. In the we register arbiter couples shot but I keepers at dinner. They want to see action they don't want to hear words and so obviously they're gonna let it would have been that time play out before they pass judgment on president from. Yet haven't talked about folks on the ground there are things how with the president trips. President's trip being view it and you know the biggest promise he's made since he went over there with that he's going to be the guy to do with several others before and it failed to do which is. To negotiate an actual lasting peace deal. What's the word on the ground. That's right a lasting peace deal that the president calls the ultimate deal peace in the Middle East he thinks he's the guy to do it in today's secretary of state. I said now is the moment that this can be done we'll see what happens. But look the White House is making no bones about this this is a preliminary trip this is about laying the ground work this is not about brokering. A peace deal but the conversations we have been having to ABC team has been having here. I've been very positive. I the past eight years have been quite frosty ones under the Obama administration. The Israeli government quite contentious relationship with the Obama administration will remember that we've talked a lot about that so they see this as something ever reset with president from. At least on the surface Jared Kushner at the president's close advisor his son in law of course is US has a close relationship. We Bibi Netanyahu so we'll see where that takes us so it sort of a cautious optimism here. But certainly these are first steps towards some sort of restarting the peace talks a blow all say I'm not. For all the talk about both sides of this long standing conflict. Neither of them are talking about coming together just because person from his in the region. It's early days yet Devin Dwyer on the ground for us there in Israel traveling with president trump thanks dad and and thanks to you for watching us remember you can always go to abcnews.com. For more on the president's trip and of course. A host of whole other story its for now I'm on an Abbas and I'll see you back you're thin.

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