KENNEDY SANDERS. >> WE DO HAVE BREAKING NEWS TO BRING YOU. PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS RELEASED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TARGETING JEWISH SETTLERS IN THE WEST BANK WHO HAVE BEEN ATTACKING PALESTINIANS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY. >> THE ADMINISTRATION IS IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON
INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ENGAGED IN VIOLENCE. THE PRESENT HAS FACED CRITICISM FOR BEING TOO DEFERENTIAL TO BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IN HIS WAR WITH HAMAS. CRITICS SAY THE ONGOING MILITARY CAMPAIGN IS A DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSE TO THE OCTOBER 7th ATTACKS. SENIOR WHITE HOUSE AND
POLITICAL CORPSMEN AT OKIE JOINS US NOW. ED, WHAT MORE CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS ORDER AND IS IS ACTUALLY A SHIFT FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION? >> Reporter: IF ANYTHING A SHIFT BACK TO WHAT HAD BEEN 40 OR ALMOST 50 YEARS OF GENERAL
U.S. POLICY WHEN IT COMES TO THESE KINDS OF SETTLEMENTS. THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER OUT THIS HOUR. IN ESSENCE, IT CLARIFIES U.S. POLICY. IT ALLOWS THE UNITED STATES TO TARGET ANYONE IN THE WEST BANK, JEWISH SETTLERS, PALESTINIANS OR OTHER NON-AMERICANS YOU MAY
END UP CAUSING VIOLENCE OR THE DISPLACEMENT OF PEOPLE THERE IN THE WEST BANK. LIKE I SAID, REAFFIRMS 40 YEARS OF U.S. POLICY THAT IS IN LINE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT CONSIDERS THESE SETTLEMENTS TO BE ILLEGAL GIVEN HOW THE WEST BANK WAS ESTABLISHED AND FOR
WHOM, BACK IN THE DAY. IT PUTS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AT ODDS WITH BENJAMIN NETANYAHU’S CONCERT COALITION GOVERNMENT BUT THERE IS A HANDFUL OF CABINET MINISTERS WHO ARE WEST BANK SETTLERS. HIS GOVERNMENT HAS SEEN THEM TO THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL AND HAS NO
ISSUE WITH THEM BEING THERE AND QUITE SUPPORTIVE OF THEM. THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF THOSE IN SUPPORT OF THE TWO STATE SOLUTION IS YOU CANNOT HAVE ALMOST 700,000 SETTLERS LIVING IN THE WEST BANK THAT WAY IF YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A TWO
STATE SOLUTION THAT INVOLVES THE WEST BANK, GAZA AND ISRAEL. IN ESSENCE, A WAY TO DEMONSTRATE SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND THE CURRENT ISRAELI GOVERNMENT, AT A TIME OF INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC POLITICAL CALLS, FOR SOME SEPARATION IF NOT MORE CRITICISM
OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND ITS CONTINUED WAR AGAINST HAMAS, WHICH HAS RESULTED IN THE DEATHS OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS. >> WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT IS HEADING TO THE WHITE HOUSE AS IT IS DESCRIBING A POLITICAL EVENT OVER IN DETROIT WITH THE
UNITED ORDER WORKERS — AUTOWORKERS. I UNDERSTAND IT IS MEANT TO BE A BIT MORE INFORMAL. >> Reporter: THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN EVENT. A VISIT TO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN AND ITS 15 ELECTORAL VOTES WHERE POLLS SHOW THE
CURRENT PRESIDENT TRAILING THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN THE SINGLE DIGITS. THAT IS NOT THE WAY IT WENT IN 2020. IT IS HOW IT WENT IN 2016 WHEN DONALD TRUMP PREVAILED IN THE STATE. BOTH OF THEM UNDERSTAND ORGANIZED LABOR IS KEY TO
VICTORY IN THE WOLVERINE STATES. THEY HAVE BOTH BEEN DOING ORGANIZED LABOR UNION WORKERS. THE PRESIDENT HAS RECEIVED THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE UNITED AUTOWORKERS FOR STANDING WITH THEM ON THE PICKET LINE LAST YEAR AS I TOOK ON THE BIG THREE AUTOMAKERS.
JUST YESTERDAY IN WASHINGTON, DONALD TRUMP MET WITH LEADERS OF THE TEAMSTERS UNION, WHICH DID NOT ANNOUNCE AN ENDORSEMENT. THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BUT GAVE HIM A MEETING AS TRUMP CONTINUES TO REACH OUT TO UNION WORKERS IN MICHIGAN AND ACROSS
THE COUNTRY ARGUE HE IS BETTER FOR THEM. THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN WOULD TURN AROUND AND SAY NOT SO FAST FOR BIDEN. THIS IS A GUY WHO YOU — WHO USED TO CALL THEM WORKERS I DON’T NEED TO BE PROTECTED BY
UNIONS BUT HE PREFERS TO WORK WITH NONUNION CONSTRUCTION FIRMS WHEN HE WAS BUILDING HIS REAL ESTATE EMPIRE IN FLORIDA. ALL OF THOSE RHETORICAL THINGS THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN WILL BACK AT DROP EVEN
