On Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus, there was a sense of anger, disbelief, and shock at President Trump’s bombshell declaration Tuesday that the U.S. would oversee the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip. Between interviews with White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and then former Obama and Biden official Samantha Vinograd, CBS suggested U.S. involvement was not only a selfish money grab, but would lead to terror attacks in the U.S.
Co-host Gayle King began the Waltz interview with a frank scoffing: “[W]hat right do we, the U.S., have to do this? When you have two million Palestinians that say, ‘listen, this is our home, we don’t want to leave, we want to rebuild? We love — we love where we live, and we want to stay here.’ What right does the U.S. have to do this?”
Waltz clapped back at King directly, saying…
