WASHINGTON WEEK: After being welcomed in royal style by Gulf leaders, President Trump announced enormous deals and made dramatic foreign policy decisions on the fly. He also advanced the cause of his family’s businesses. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Peter Baker of The New York Times, Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch, David Ignatius of The Washington Post and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News to discuss this and more.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG, “THE ATLANTIC” EDITOR, “WASHINGTON WEEK” HOST: Andrea, if you are Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, what do you think after watching him be feted in the Gulf and also after hearing him signal that he wants a deal with the Iranians? ANDREA MITCHELL, NBC NEWS: Well, this has been the most remarkable shift because we all had expected because of his praise and his support for expanding the war in Gaza, his, you know, unconditional support of Netanyahu up until a couple of weeks ago. And then he shocked Netanyahu by talking about opening direct talks with Iran while Netanyahu was sitting next to him in the Oval Office on a trip that had been scheduled, according to Netanyahu’s, people to get approval, U.S. approval to support a military strike against Iran because of its new vulnerability because of what Israel had done against Hamas, Hezbollah, and the removal of Assad and all of that, plus removing many of the air defenses in a retaliatory strike. This is a moment that Iran was weakened economically, but also militarily and vulnerable. And instead of getting support for a military strike, he heard the president suggest direct talks, not the indirect talks, but direct talks with Iran and really reshaping diplomacy and proceeding with the Gulf and with Saudi Arabia, with security agreements and, you know, of course, the financial rewards without Israel, so not the normalization. GOLDBERG: Are we heading to a moment when Donald Trump sends love letters to the ayatollah? If you recall his relationship with the North Koreans, it was a big love letter phase. Is that what we’re looking at now? MITCHELL: Possibly, because Iran needs a deal. They’ve got to get out from under the sanctions. They want to get out from under the sanctions. And as complex as it is, and I covered the negotiations for the previous agreement in 2015, negotiated by, you know, a nuclear physicist, Ernest Moniz, who is the energy secretary, all these experts, this could actually get done. And it’s Steve Witkoff probably who is the negotiator.

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