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The Israeli Prime Minister "is ready to use America, ready to use Biden to secure sure what is his top priority - the political survival of Benjamin Netanyahu," says the New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman, "Israel's national interest is to have a Palestinian partner, and Netanyahu refuses to do that."

"There's only one solution" to the Israel-Hamas conflict, says Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times. "Two states for two indigenous people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. And if you're not for that, if you're not for ending the violence and for hostage release, if you're only condemning one side and not the other, you're not morally serious."

"If Donald trump doesn't take the stand and i don't think he will," says CNN's Elie Honig, "It's not for the jury to say, well, who do I believe more? It's for the jury to say has the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt." And if the jury concludes both Michael Cohen and Donald Trump are "big fat liars.

Authors Brody and Luke Mullins join The Lead.

The so-called party of law and order doesn't seem to care much about either as long as it's in the service of Dear Leader. Here's former Bush spokes-liar turned Fox "news" contributor Ari Fleischer on this Friday's Outnumbered, weighing in on the Trump trial in Manhattan, and urging Trump to go after Judge Merchan's daughter and violate the gag order: The original terms of the gag order prohibited Trump from discussing witnesses, jurors or prospective jurors, prosecutors, or court staff.

Donald Trump had perhaps his most positively awful week yet--and that's saying something. He was ripped by a former Capitol Hill cop, he was attacked by yet another Republican, the recent Lt. Governor of Georgia, Geoff Duncan, who endorsed Biden in a scathing op-ed about the election and future of our country. And then there was the utterly humiliating testimony from Stormy Daniels about him