Ocasio-Cortez reacts to Trump's "horrific" Gaza plans, Johnson calls them "bold" move

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other lawmakers are weighing in on President Trump's comments about Gaza and the Middle East. CBS News' Nikole Killion reports from Capitol Hill.
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[@DavidMueller666]

Emperor Trump should provide all Gazans with new homes in Palm Beach, Florida.

[@Freyja123]

JOBS GALORE ISN'T IT GREAT. WE LOVE YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP. 🇺🇸

[@jeffspicolli593]

Send the Gazans to Ireland. Ireland is a big supporter of Palestinians.

[@nnsnumbersandnotesunlimite7368]

What do you expect from the meeting of a felon and a war criminal ?

[@brendaaucamp1730]

It's the other way around ,,you fool ,, Trump wants stability ,and peace 😮

[@RandyBoone-z4w]

How do you figure work criminal.???

[@ShroudoftheLogos]

She's a bartender for God's sake. lmfao.

[@tiltedtexan1980]

@@ShroudoftheLogosshe’s a senator who bartended to pay for college, what have you done in your life where your opinion matters?

[@jennifersmith4864]

@tiltedtexan1980 She's not a senator. So, tell me, what's her plan for Gaza? What are democrat plans for Gaza?

[@silverleafmaple]

Katie Couric reminded us this morning that Jared Kushner made comments in 2024 about the coast of Gaza looking attractive to him.

[@seanblankenship5404]

It's all a long-term plan

[@mcpowers26]

Based kush

[@hgomez4268]

Disgusting they don’t do something for nothing. It’s all about money in my opinion and they not only want Qaza they want oil in my opinion

[@robertjamesonmusic]

Absolutely that dork is pure evil

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

I made comments in 1980 that Katie was a good reporter. I guess that comment was wishful thinking.

[@dymone4894]

Nicely done Protest voters. You sure saved Palestine and Gaza!

[@damgrand]

They interrupted everyone of Kamala's speeches for this. Congratulations!

[@hanrenfighterjet]

maybe but trump will CAUSE the destruction to king hussein of jordan and al-sissi oF egypt in the same way Assad and kahdafy fell , IF the palestinians are forced out by his dum arse. isn't that what progressives want also?

[@TrueNorthNever51]

That makes Zero Sense! Biden had 4 years to shut the money off to Netanyahu…he did NOTHING..he is just as bad as trump for his apathy . Both are gross in my book 🫡🇨🇦‼️💙💚

[@therealhansgruber]

Inshallah

[@h.b.7104]

Had Biden and the Democrats stopped sending weapons to the Israeli war machine, we wouldn't be here.

[@TallyRocky]

Bondi being sworn in by Clarence Thomas tells you all you need to know.

[@wayneharris4444]

and her first comment was "we'll make America great again"---good grief, yet another Trump lapdog

[@andres8900]

Johnson has No Spine All He is is a Bootlicker.

[@ruthsyversen5963]

He is just now learning how to get a spine!

[@denisehenry3427]

It's not about a spine. Johnson is evil.

[@MrMojoRisin22]

What happened to Trump's America first ideology? The US has a homelessness problem, our roadway and bridges are eroding, our education system is failing, our borders, our health care, but we're going to spend billions of tax payer dollars on Gaza?

[@SteveJarek]

He hasn’t agreed to spend any money or put any Americans on the ground. Watch the press briefing from today.

[@lacosa24x]

That was the lie his dumb supporters bought into

[@ant_the_rant]

Use your brain. It's a hand-off. Israel can't just let go of the leash and walk away. They will hand the leash to their closest ally. The ally then will stabilize the area so there is no gorilla faction or warlords to overtake the people of Gaza, as they have time and time again. Trump then gets the political win for stabilizing the conflict and brokering peace.

[@walkcastro8195]

Hi never sey going to use american money

[@marylinthicum678]

Then who do you think will pay? You think Egypt will go over to clear out and rebuild and not expect to be paid? And why would Egypt or Jordan take in all the Palestinians while the rebuild is going on without payment to feed and house 2 million people?

[@toddevans5731]

House speaker is a weasel

[@gk29194]

This is the stupidest plan that I've ever heard of for the area. I think Trump has lost his mind.

[@damgrand]

I think it's more of a concept than a plan.

[@AmericatheBeautiful-p4z]

@@damgrand It be more like guidelines, arrrh. US-UK-IL are GLOBAL PIRATES.

[@leifedin2521]

He lost it long time ago..........!! A clown

[@mphmph1198]

Netanyahu's little lap dog comes through again.

[@Freyja123]

So would you rather things continue like they have for the past 100 years? you would rather continue killing innocent children, etc? The world needs change, PRESIDENT TRUMP wants peace and UNINTY. This would be a great way to unite the Middle East. No more WARS. TRUMP IS A GENIUS. 🇺🇸

[@jonnitrea]

Omg Mike Johnson’s mental gymnastics is sickening

[@---Tre---]

It only took Trump two weeks to go from MAGA to Make Israel Great Again. Is this really what you wanted MAGA?

[@jimmiller1686]

I wonder how all those Arab-American folks in Dearborn Mich are thinking now, after voting for this guy.

[@mcpowers26]

Yes.

[@camrontoney577]

Yes

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

We have always supported Israel.

[@ant_the_rant]

These leftists are either really trying to push false narratives for other leftists to be fooled by, or they are all just complete morons. We are an ally to Israel and a World Superpower. Gaza is being handed over to us so that we can stabilize the area, and Israel can pull out. Our only interest in Gaza is to broker peace as a mediary. It's one of those check marks "the big guy" couldn't accomplish.

[@jimmiller1686]

I wonder how all those Arab-American folks in Dearborn Mich are thinking now, after voting for this guy.

[@SOLO-bi7ud]

Happy

[@Greg16350]

They don't think. They act according to religious indoctrination.

[@CrystalKay356]

@@SOLO-bi7ud I doubt it!

[@mohaumar8662]

They were so Naive

[@chasthanhburns123]

@@CrystalKay356 If they love their nation then why are they here?

[@CrystalKay356]

Lord have mercy 😢 Johnson is such a puppet!

[@mphmph1198]

Netanyahu's little lap dog comes through again.

[@Muzzleblast-1911]

Yup, a sock puppet.

[@3227phoenix]

A toad

[@chriskelly6559]

Muppet Puppet.

[@oksooner405]

Guess all you "No Voting" Pro Palestinians supporters are looking kinda dumb now👀. When you could have had someone who would give you an ear

[@hanrenfighterjet]

first of all israel can decide to remove palestinians without any american input before 2025 started. But since trump has decided it will be AMERICA that removes the palestinians. America gets the blames for ethnic cleansing instead of Israel

[@pakpala1]

Genocide Joe or Adolf Trump???

[@blackout07blue]

You can’t complain about the voters when your dipsht self nominated Kamala Harris and her 35% approval rating.

[@AletheaMartin-gp1th]

Went from bringing groceries down to Gaza oh my God

[@rororidley5829]

Both start with a G I guess. He’s such a simple minded man

[@marshallmintz7564]

I have seen sycophants before.....but never to the level of MAGA Mike ......AKA Trumps little johnson!

[@KrSC3]

Johnson said that he stands with the president. Don't sugarcoat this! Report.

[@jose-marie]

While I and many other young servicemen were shipped off to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight a very misled war, Israel didn't even partake. We lost brothers, sons, fathers to a useless war that we didn't even win. Israel and it's IDF were not part of the allied forces that fought with us and lost their own men too. Perhaps rightly so. We shouldn't have been there in the first place. But now Israel, using us as it's proxy, wants us to fight their war in Gaza. Another American occupation that's going to cost more lives once again. While Israel chills once again.

[@mcpowers26]

Literally no one has said a single things about American boots on the ground. You sound like the girl who's jealous of the prom queen.

[@ShuShu_SLJ]

@@mcpowers26 He literally just said he was a service member, show some respect. He is more knowledgeable of this than anyone in the comments

[@mcpowers26]

@ShuShu_SLJ A) he is a vet, not an active service member B) how do you know I'm not? C) being in a war 20 years ago in a country that has nothing to do with Israel does not mean he knows a single thing about this war and situation. What a ridiculous assumption. D) NO ONE HAS SAID ANYTHING ABOUT US BOOTS ON THE GROUND

[@jose-marie]

@mcpowers26 Get your head out of the sand and for once try and figure out how you think you're going to get the Palestinians in Gaza out, for your building project. You think they are just going to leave their land, their history, and just invite you in on their way out?

[@user-gs4oi1fm4l]

​@mcpowers26 they literally need to make up their own reality to make sense of their own ill informed preconceptions.

[@itnaklipse1669]

for the first time AOC makes sense :(

[@canadiangirrrrl]

GOD HELP US ALL

[@gracenmercy1085]

Hotels, Casinos and Resorts....SMH

[@hordyaba]

AKA jobs and livelihoods. What do you suggest? We keep doing the same thing over and over that results in war? Time for new ideas

[@user-gs4oi1fm4l]

​@@hordyabathat's exactly what they would prefer... it's sick

[@brettridings5594]

I mean if that's where it ends up I'm with you, but he did not once mention any of those things, that's just what the journalist thinks will happen

[@hordyaba]

@ Trump said those things exactly If you watch his press conference about it. And he also said Palestinians are welcome back after its rebuilt. But this would be more than a decade from now. Its going to take 5 years alone minimum just to get it cleaned up

[@Freyja123]

EXACTLY.... JOBS GALORE ISN'T IT GREAT. WE LIVE YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP. 🇺🇸

[@mohaumar8662]

And this man is a religious man…yeah bull crap

[@damgrand]

This is just another concept. I don't see it happening. He basically told the world that he wants to commit a war crime.

[@ShadowElohim]

It's nothing there to commit any crime. You do know that right, it's all rubbish

[@blackout07blue]

It’s happening. Biden admin posted a memo a year ago saying Palestinians would likely end up in Saudi Arabia.

[@Haggerty3030]

Gaza-lago, the Riviera of the Middle East😂😂😂

[@dalebolen6803]

Gaza Lardo

[@ChannelH.Dunbar-lw7qg]

Thanks AOC go Dems

[@mphmph1198]

Netanyahu's little lap dog comes through again.

[@barbbrinkerhoff1097]

A complete destruction of a whole culture

[@aaronhelvig9444]

It’s not a unique ethnicity, religion, language, or people. They’re just standard Arabs, and will fit in with any Arabic country 👍🏾

[@illuvatar5923]

​@@aaronhelvig9444ok, I declare I now own your house. I'm sure you'll fit right in relocating to any number of places with other people that look like you.

[@hordyaba]

The culture is the people. What exactly do you think is a better plan?

[@I2MMDL]

They couldn't behave.

[@SP.Addams]

@@I2MMDLthey did nothing but exist u troll

[@sulaco1156]

Trump is imitating William McKinley, 25, president of the US, with wars, land grabbing, deportations, and tariffs.

[@MoreThanYouTimesTwo]

Come on massive coronary!!!!

[@dalebolen6803]

Lol

[@moonlightpixie9976]

Maga Mike needs some pom poms lol.

[@dalebolen6803]

Balls

[@lumpytoad1357]

I hear Israel has chickens, so the cost of eggs should come down some.

[@dalebolen6803]

Lol

[@lourdesperez2861]

CBS do not settle Trumps lawsuit

[@dianne5086]

How about saying his plan is cruel and inhumane?

[@SputnikEcho]

Maybe it's time Trump sell all his international properties and buy his retirement estate at Gaza...... it's put up or shut up time for Trump!

[@brendaaucamp1730]

You people are fools , he only want stability ,is that to difficult to understand 😮

[@Muzzleblast-1911]

I'm sure those are his plans. Absolutely pathetic.

[@reecom9884]

Who is going to pay for all of this, the US taxpayer!

[@brendaaucamp1730]

No ,,it seems to me,you don't listen 😮

[@reecom9884]

@@brendaaucamp1730 Like Trump said that Mexico would pay for the “Wall”!

[@bennyblanco4719]

So wouldn’t that then make Palestinians Americans?

[@phyllissnyder2563]

He’s not even saying that- he wants other countries to take them in.

[@frcluc]

Remember the Potsdam Conference when the allied forces gave East Prussia to the USSR and expelled the Germans from their hometowns after WW2? Same thing.

[@AmericatheBeautiful-p4z]

You had to cross-read globally to find news that in June, 2023, four months before the 7OCT Intifada, ln'dia PM Modi and ls'real PM Netanyahu inked a contract deal to replace all Gazan Workers with In'dian visa workers. Sound familiar? By September, when Blinken summarily cut off all food aid, Netanyahu had replaced 2,450 Gazans with ln'dians and starved out their families. *Today all Gazan Workers have been replaced by In'dians!* N Gaza is an ls'reali settlement. [Hindustan Times] DoGE has also inked a deal. ln'dia offshoring US jobs is already a $200 Billion racket. But ln'dia is part of BRICS, allied with Ch'ina and Ru'ssia. *ln'dia is our FOREIGN ADVERSARY,* taking over our high tech, our healthcare systems and our admin services! It's like the cat in the curry. _You can't have your cat and eat it too!_

[@SilviaVargas-b4e]

Your absolutely right AOC‼️

[@brendasnow8255]

Pam Bondi won’t admit that Trump lost in 2020. She’s unfit.

[@zzzone9053]

I thought these people wanted to help palastine?

[@riosmark2]

Watch out our country is weak as hell now FAFO

[@garydavidson2367]

Music to putins ear Take that land 😢 China is eyeing Taiwan 🤔

[@chasthanhburns123]

You think Putin want the USA in that area? You are delusional.

[@JefferyJones-j4c]

Media needs to step up...this is important times

[@chuckchin5450]

let him and musk do it as civlians...not with the people of the usa..

[@goochmcduck4285]

He has no plans on us paying for Gaza to be rebuilt. Someone in the Middle East can

[@ChristineRisden]

Johnson's fartbeat in gaza-largo

[@putinscat1208]

So Johnson would approve of demolishing parts of Baltimore too backed on that logic.

[@renenichols7468]

Veteran family here - we watched the Biden administration leave our troops to die at Abbey Gate literally running for that plane! You can’t EVER tell us ANYTHING pertaining to any type of war !MAGA❤

[@andrewfrazer8874]

I thinking this how Vietnam started 🤔

[@SuncionOV]

So he wanted people in LA to go back to their homes immediately and start rebuilding but Gaza people need to go??

[@FreeYourMind-e9h]

Who is going to pay for this the American taxpayers?

[@Freyja123]

No silly. It's a brilliant idea. It could be the Las Vegas of the Middle East. Jobs galore for everyone. Smart move. 🇺🇸 I'm sure Gaza wants the same as President Trump PEACE RIGHT.?

[@Freyja123]

The people working in all the new jobs this will create, they will pay taxes correct?????

[@moonowl8875]

It is an excellent idea to relocate the people in the Gaza Strip and stop repeating the same mistakes. If America maintains control over this area it will not become another terrorist stronghold.

[@FreeYourMind-e9h]

You are suggesting that people be removed from their homeland. How would you feel if someone came to your state and said you need to get out especially if your family had been there for many many generations?

[@Dawningx]

That’s why Trump left UN- Human Rights committee… This is an atrocious act. Israel went tooo far and have caused the catastrophe in Gaza. It is a humanitarian tragedy. It was a horrible act in October but this does permits to do this to the people in Gaza.

[@erniegee58]

Fight fight fight fight go Trump. Finally America’s got a president.🇦🇺😃

[@Tzimis1111]

Don't let netinyahou off the hook for paying to rebuild. He did destroy it. Pay to fix it. It's international law

[@xiomaraortiz4044]

Arabs in Michigan decided to vote for him🙄

[@randallwinters7387]

Gaza was promised to the U.S. during the Gerald Ford Administration. The U.S. is to build a naval/marine base there. This way, any missile headed in the direction of the new base would be met with the "WE were under attack" response from the U.S. and any country caught in between would benefit. That would be Israel. This is what they have been after for decades. This was the reason Netanyahu staged the 7oct23 scheme with the U.S. They just needed the emotional go-ahead from the U.S. citizens. Everyone was lied to about the babies losing their heads so that emotions could enable the effort. Were we lied to about hostages also? Those involved in this land seizure would certainly lie about that too.😒

[@skidmog]

Why do you not ever state the obvious, Mike Johnson is spineless and always makes like insane comments are just good suggestions... bizarre. Mainstream Media is pathetic.

[@yolopistolo194]

'No foreign wars', you've been played america 😂😂😂😂

[@andrews5488]

America is the greatest country led by the greatest leader. Bow and kiss the ring or you get punished.

[@sjbh-c3c]

Netenyahoo/trump meeting result. trump is so manipulatable and is too stupid to know when it's happening. Who's really running that country???

[@sistersnake4629]

Oh please who is gonna set up a MacDonalds first ?

[@DavidMartinez-fm3bw]

How? Did she come to Congress and was broken now?She's a millionaire , they say they are corrupt

[@chriskelly6559]

Huh?

[@brendasnow8255]

She isn’t a millionaire, and she isn’t corrupt.

[@Espoboogie]

Yet, but displace the people that resides there? What!

[@JenniferBass-gg4tx]

Oh for goodness sake! These people need to stop taking everything so literal 😂😅

[@scotthuffman3462]

LUIGI VISIT FOR TRUMP

[@Paul-zw7bj]

Ask a bartender they'll know what to do

[@brendasnow8255]

You mean, an elected official who put herself through one of the best universities in this country and earned two degree? I’d say she’s well qualified to speak.

[@maryknowlden7384]

AOC, like all dems, cannot think outside the box. Sucks to be so small minded!

[@DavidLStone-qy8xh]

She is the most boring newscaster I've even heard!

[@ShadowElohim]

Trump seems to be 4 years ahead of the dems

[@shanaazprice5949]

Is this guy Johnson for real?

[@igorbalakan7749]

AIC should worry about people of Bronx!!! For her it should be -Bronx is first!!!

[@brendasnow8255]

She is, obviously.

[@jacquiandp-dog7755]

We have a lot of inhumane conditions that people live in right here in our country, but AOC does not seem to care about that because it does not make a good headline.

[@Freyja123]

brilliant idea. 👍 it could be the Las Vegas of the Middle East. Jobs galore for everyone. Smart move. 🇺🇸

[@l.dennisfarmer4810]

Let Mr Trump and Elon Musk go ahead with whatever plan they want to onvest in as provate individuals. The USA has to srand back and accept the fact that neither Israel, nor the Palestinians desire a peace on current terms!

[@garyrouleau4676]

America is broken!!😢😢

[@Jack-y3m6q]

If AOC is against the plan, then us normal Americans should be for it.

[@user-gs4oi1fm4l]

Exactly!

[@jonnanderson6489]

WWJD

[@Spinner28]

Johnson has more of an awareness because he consults Jesus( The One who has overcome the world!) You have to know Jesus in order to understand Pres. Trump.

[@rihipaeahughes9831]

Speaker will be speaking for your boss woohoo

[@xorrior4438]

ONE QUESTION: How we gonna pay for it?

Mexico!

[@bobicus]

probably with all the funds they are saving not paying for overseas aid.

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

We are not paying for it. In case you didnt get the memo.

[@antoniotan341]

Really the speaker got huge common sense, ha ha ha!😂🤑

[@TrailratUSA]

Invite them to Maga Lardo ! I'll bet some are dreaming of a day they can use his gold toilet. 🎉

[@mcpowers26]

We have magaza now. Gold covered rubble

[@lavery0365]

Johnson, I didn't see your lips moving whilst you were talking, please explain exactly how do you do that. Please advise at your earliest convenience please. Thx ya Weasel!

[@JuanGarcia-nk9qo]

Let Us Not Oct 7

[@beonfly1111]

🌟"Be on the Side of Injustice Rather than on That of Justice" ... ? 🌟... "It's like being on the Side of the One who Commits a Crime Rather Than on the Side of the One who Suffers a Crime" ... ! ➕❤

[@Angel0fTruth]

Who took away her coloring books and crayons?! Give them back please!

[@fieldthrasher]

They'll welcome the troops just like in Iraq.

[@camselle]

who gives a crap what AOC thinks???

[@brendasnow8255]

Smart people.

[@sgsrider]

Everything he does usually works out well!

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

He has a fantastic Track Record. No Dem can even come close.

[@brendasnow8255]

Nothing he does works out well.

[@alistaviviani7322]

What have you done in the four years you had barlady 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🤮

[@McWander131]

Welcome to America, it happened to my people Native Americans and he is still trying us. Over here or over there, plans are the same, land grabs.

[@BrianSeaberg]

Which branch of government is responsible for spending, the legislative or the executive? Isn't it the legislative? Then why is the executive branch thru Musk doing this at the department of treasury? Additionally since Musk has huge government contracts isn't this a conflict of interest? When are the republican senator and representatives going to step up to their responsibilities in addition to defend the constitution as far as illegal acts? WE THE VOTERS ARE WATCHING THEM AND WILL VOTE THEM OUT IF THEY DON'T THEIR JOBS!!

[@brendasnow8255]

They’re Republicans. Congress is equal to the Executive, but they’d rather kiss his feet. They’re disgraceful.

[@rihipaeahughes9831]

❤🎉AOC, KFA, and friends🎉

[@rihipaeahughes9831]

Katie Porter🎉

[@user-gs4oi1fm4l]

As an American territory the United States would earn billions and it would mean security and prosperity for the region, including Gazans and Palestinians whose home is literally in ruins right now. A welcome change from the disaster of the last several decades and certainly last 4 years.

[@TrueHumanNature4U]

Whose kids are they going to send over to Die For This

[@harveywilkinson2432]

Oh I'm sure Corporal Vance will be the first one to volunteer.

What happened to America first. We need to rebuild South Carolina and California before the American tax payer can build a golf course for the trump family.

[@Freyja123]

Have you not been watching the news lately? Didn't you see President Trump go to Ashville, N.C., and California just days after he took office? He spoke with the victims and got them. they desperately needed help they didn't get from Biden. Construction in N.C. is already under way because Trump got the permits super quick. I am so surprised that you didn't know that L.A. already has the flow of water coming in, and it is now flowing all through California. California will AlWAYS have the water they have needed for years to put out fires, SAVING LIFES, and PROPERTY. If you blink, you miss something, Trump is working at super fast speed, and no one has seen anything like this before. He's an amazing man. 🇺🇸

[@Freyja123]

Biden is an evil man. The people of Asheville were NOT ALLOWED to even go on their OWN property to try to clear the rubble, Biden wouldn't let them. But he also didn't do anything to help clear the rubble. He did, however, put the people in debt, who lost everything, including lives, by giving them a $750 LOAN. SICK MAN. 😡 But the people here cannot thank President Trump enough for the shear speed of getting things organized abs construction started, what a caring loving Man he is. He talks from his heart. Thank you President Trump, we needed you badly. 🇺🇸

[@davida1606]

He thinks or wants to be the president of the world.

[@fredfrank3347]

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh…🤦🏻‍♂️

[@benjaminvan2468]

Ocasio_Cortez is an expert on Middle East now?

[@brendasnow8255]

She may be. She’s educated and intelligent.

[@STKReacts]

AOC is legit a clown.