Iran

There was nothing new in Netanyahu's presentation [about Iran's nuclear program].

“[Netanyahu] knows how to influence the president: He watches television. This was broadcast live, he had the props, it seemed very Fox News like in the sense of its production values. This was not so much to tell president [Trump] something he didn’t know; it’s to give the president a sense that he recognizes it’s important because he’s seen it on TV.”

It was clear over the course of [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's] address that it really wasn’t intended to make any new charges. The point was to underscore the lack of veracity on the part of the Iranian leadership, and that was done very effectively.