Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Tuesday that senior White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were “an influence that has to be dealt with.”
Kelly, who was brought in to bring order to the West Wing and served for about 18 months before stepping down late last year, reportedly butted heads with the president’s daughter and son-in-law.
“Was it complicated to have the president’s family in the government at the time?” David Rubenstein of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show asked Kelly at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas.

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot warned US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy about the situation in the West Bank being “volatile and sensitive” ahead of the release of Washington’s peace plan, Channel 13 reported on Sunday.
Eisenkot reportedly met with Jason Greenblatt in the White House last week along with experts on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
“The situation in the West Bank is sensitive and volatile,” Eisenkot reportedly told Greenblatt who has worked on the Middle East peace plan for nearly two years alongside Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Georgia Republican Rep. Rob Woodall says the impeachment push from Democrats is functionally bad for America.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday slammed President Trump ahead of his state visit to the United Kingdom next month, saying Trump is not in the “same class” as presidents who made such trips in the past.
“Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the United States, but we shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet; we shouldn’t have a state banquet,” Khan said during an interview with LBC, a British talk-radio station.
“History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit,” Khan said, referring to former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

One hundred terrorists who were released as part of the Shalit deal have returned to terror activities and returned to serve the rest of the prison sentences imposed on them prior to the prisoner exchange.
The terrorists were released on condition that they would not resume terrorist activities, specifically that they refrain from committing any offense punishable by three months or more in prison or any act that harms the security of the State of Israel or the security of the region.

Jacques Houdek, composer of Croatian entry in Eurovision and part of Croatian delegation that arrived in Israel for the annual competition, sings a Yonatan Razel hit “Ki Bemakli”

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A United Nations report released this week found that one-eighth of the world’s animals and plants are at risk of extinction and that biodiversity was declining at an “unprecedented pace,” but David Bernhardt, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, said this dire portrait won’t stop the Trump administration from ending protections for endangered species in the United States.
The Trump administration has long sought to ease protections for endangered species that hinder the gas and oil industry.