DR. WALID PHARES, FOX NEWS POLITICAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Enormity absolutely.
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Phares did not respond to email and phone requests for comment.
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Correia used Middle East expert and frequent Fox News contributor Walid Phares to help set up a meeting in the summer of 2018 with Okba Haftar, the son of renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, according to Phares.
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Phares allegedly attends as well, according to a later statement from Gordon.
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Insight from Walid Phares, Fox News national security and foreign policy analyst.
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Walid Phares, Foreign Policy Advisor to Presidential Candidate Donald J, Trump, 2016.
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The list included Phares, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Keith Kellogg, among others.
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"I haven't received any draft, a contract was never offered," Phares told CNN.
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Phares, however, indicated on Tuesday that the Muslim ban will narrow going forward.
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"He has been clarifying the matter over the weeks and months," Phares wrote.
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With me in Washington of course, Mike Pillsbury, Harry Kazionis and Dr. Walid Phares.
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The meeting was a general discussion about doing business in Libya, Phares told CNN.
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CORRECTION: This story incorrectly reported that Walid Phares was formerly affiliated with Hudson Institute.
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Another member of the five-strong foreign policy team, Walid Phares, told Reuters on Aug.
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Walid Phares, an adviser to Donald Trump on the Middle East, says they should remain.
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Representatives for Clovis, Phares and Sater either could not be reached or declined to comment.
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"The White House and Congress both need him there at this particular junction," Phares said.
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Qudosi said she feels like she has the ear of the Trump campaign through Phares.
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"One of the clear possibilities is he will send it back to Congress," Phares added.
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A résumé on Phares' personal website says he "taught Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington DC since 2006," although an NDU spokesman told POLITICO on Tuesday that Phares was employed there as an "expert/consultant" for one year, from April 2011 to April 2012.
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"The Obama administration unfortunately has not accepted the principle that we are fighting an ideology," Dr. Phares explained.
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Yet the week of the election, Walid Phares, a Trump foreign policy adviser, walked back that strong talk.
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Shireen Qudosi, a California-based Muslim writer, said Phares first reached out to her before the Indiana primary.
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However, several diplomats said that Phares was invited to speak because of his advisory role with the Trump team.
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"Ripping up is maybe too strong a word," Phares said of the agreement, in a conversation with the BBC.
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Former national security adviser Michael Flynn and current Trump adviser Walid Phares are ACT board advisers, according to the organization.
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Walid Phares met with Arab ambassadors Wednesday to brief them about the incoming Trump administration's policy toward the Middle East.
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According to four diplomats who participated in the meeting, Phares laid out a broad outline of the President-elect's priorities.
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"I got another idea," Mr. Page said in an email to Mr. Gordon and Walid Phares, also a campaign adviser.
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Phares, who also advised 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney on foreign policy, is an unlikely surrogate to the Muslim community.
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Others associated with the Trump campaign, including J.D. Gordon, Walid Phares and Carter Page, have also disclosed meetings with the Russians.
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" Phares quit two weeks into the gig after Rick Dearborn, another campaign official, told the advisers "they couldn't meet with ambassadors.
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Don Bramer former Intel officer along with Dr. Walid Phares, a Fox News foreign affairs analyst, great to have you all on.
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PHARES: Unfortunately when our domestic politics that deeply divided what we are going to have is in a much more dangerous situation.
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On May 22017, 210, Page sent a curious email to two of his fellow foreign policy advisers, J.D. Gordon and Walid Phares.
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Walid Phares, a counterterrorism advisor to the Trump campaign, has said that President-Elect Trump would consider designating the group as well.
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"He is going to be revising, reviewing and maybe trying to modify the Iran deal," Walid Phares told The Wall Street Journal.
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Trump foreign policy and national security advisor Dr. Walid Phares put flesh on the bones of a Trump administration counter-terrorism strategy.
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In a Friday phone interview with The Hill, Phares said Trump campaign officials had not directed him to engage with the groups.
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Phares told Reuters he began advising Trump last week, and that he has not met with him in person since last year.
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PHARES: Let me say that our concern as Americans for Human Rights in North Korea is not going away, this is the dessert.
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DR. WALID PHARES, FOX NEWS FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST: Laura the problem is that we have a president that needs to handle his mission.
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PHARES: I think that the national security threat that we&aposre going to be facing are really what&aposs happening now in Syria.
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But Trump adviser Walid Phares, an American scholar and expert on Islamist radicals and counter-terrorism, said India had no reason to worry.
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Gordon told CNN that he met Kislyak along with Carter Page and Walid Phares, who have also at points given policy advice to Trump.
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Expected speakers at the conference are former Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson, and Walid Phares, President Trump's foreign policy adviser during the presidential campaign.
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The advisers already with Trump include Phares, a professor at National Defense University and and adviser to the U.S. House of Representatives on terrorism.
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A foreign policy advisor to Trump, Walid Phares, told Reuters on Sunday that Trump would also have talks with Sisi on the same day.
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But I eventually settled on a dreamy print ($50) titled "Angeles" from Noelle Phares, who strikingly incorporates her environmental science background into her art.
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Walid Phares, a Lebanese American Christian who has advised politicians on counterterrorism, advised Mr. Trump's campaign but does not currently have a government post.
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Singers include Jay Armstrong Johnson (Candide), Gregg Edelman (Voltaire, Pangloss and other roles), Meghan Picerno (Cunegonde), Linda Lavin (Old Lady) and Keith Phares (Maximilian).
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Gordon confirmed the report to CNN, adding that another national security adviser, Walid Phares, also met with Kislyak, but he denied any talk of collusion.
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The House committee also has a slew of Trump advisers and former campaign officials on its calendar, including Felix Sater, Walid Phares and Sam Clovis.
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"I know that there will be a briefing, and it will be this week," Trump foreign policy adviser Walid Phares confirmed in an email to Reuters.
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"Most of those who reached out said they want to support Mr. Trump, but they're not clear about some of the statements he's made," Phares said.
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The signs are far from positive, as the President-elect surrounds himself with anti-Muslim figures such as Steve Bannon, Frank Gaffney, Kris Kobach and Walid Phares.
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Gordon tells CNN that, along with national security advisers Page and Phares, he stressed to the Russian envoy that he would like to improve relations with Russia.
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"No, he's not going to get rid of an agreement that has the institutional signature of the United States," Walid Phares told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Phares has said he was a political official in the group and not a military one and has not been directly linked to any acts of violence.
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Yet advisers to the president-elect are now signaling otherwise: Walid Phares, a Trump foreign policy adviser, already told the BBC that such a move was not imminent.
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"These complicated combinations of sounds and feelings suggest that Reznor and Ross are nearly as skilled at emotional manipulation as the film's characters," said Heather Phares in AllMusic.
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"Levi's score is as powerful a presence as Jackie herself, and its creativity is more appropriate than more traditional music would have been," said Heather Phares in AllMusic.
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The document request also seeks communications about Mr. Trump's campaign foreign policy team: Carter Page, J. D. Gordon, Keith Kellogg, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and Joseph E. Schmitz.
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Phares also said that Correia proposed hiring him on a consulting contract if he agreed to work as an expert for their company for a number of months.
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Jared Kushner, J.D. Gordon, Carter Page and Walid Phares, each of whom has ties to the president, have also met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak.
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The Lebanese-born Phares has also been the subject of controversy over his past membership in a Christian militia with a record of massacres during Lebanon's civil war.
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Gordon told CNN that along with national security advisers Carter Page and Walid Phares, Gordon stressed to the Russian envoy that he would like to improve relations with Russia.
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" Phares added that "a second deterrent is when China takes measures from its side, because it signals that the only real lifeline for North Korea's economy could be cut.
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"Many presidents of the United States have committed to do that, and he said as well that he will do that, but he will do it under consensus," Phares said.
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But Phares built a career catering to reactionary night terrors, and he therefore understands that invoking "Muslim Brotherhood" and "Iran" is the right-wing equivalent of saying "Beetlejuice" three times.
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The Lebanese-born Phares, who previously advised 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was also a high-ranking official in a Christian militia tied to massacres during Lebanon's civil war.
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They include counter-terrorism expert Walid Phares, energy consultant George Papadopoulos, former Defense Department inspector general Joe Schmitz, managing partner of Global Energy Capital Carter Page and former Lt. Gen.
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The team included Walid Phares, who Trump called a counter-terrorism expert; George Papadopoulos, an oil and energy consultant; and Joe Schmitz, a former inspector general at the Department of Defense.
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We&aposre going to have full analysis of Trump&aposs tough talk at the NATO Summit with Victor Davis Hansen, cannot wait, Walid Phares and more in a just a moment.
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In London, very late Raheem Kassam , former chief of staff to Brexit leader Nigel Farage and with me here in studio Walid Phares, Fox News national security and foreign affairs analyst.
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"Ripping up is maybe a too strong of word, he's gonna take that agreement, it's been done before in international context, and then review it," Phares said on BBC radio Thursday.
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In the meeting Wednesday, Phares named Syria as the top priority, starting with the campaign against ISIS but also ending the Syrian civil war and alleviating the humanitarian suffering in Syria.
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Phares was a foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney during his failed 2012 presidential campaign and has served as one of Trump's top advisers on Middle East affairs during this campaign.
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Mr Trump has cooled on his earlier vow to tear up the "disastrous" nuclear deal (Walid Phares, a Lebanese Christian who advises him on the Middle East, speaks instead of "renegotiation").
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The California lawmaker on Tuesday sent letters to Carter Page, Sam Clovis, Walid Phares and J.D. Gordon — all former Trump campaign officials who have come under scrutiny for connections to Moscow.
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After declining requests for comment, Phares' office told CNN after the story appeared that he is not a member of the Trump transition team and was not speaking in an official capacity.
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Phares was also a member of the Trump foreign policy team, and Trump included him — along with Papadopoulos and Page -- in his list of initial foreign policy advisers back in March 2016.
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Perhaps the most prominent of the group is Mr. Phares, who is regularly accused by Muslim civil rights groups of being Islamophobic and of fear-mongering about the spread of Sharia law.
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Jeff Sessions, consists of counter-terrorism expert Walid Phares, energy consultant George Papadopoulos, former Defense Department inspector general Joe Schmitz, managing partner of Global Energy Capital Carter Page and former Lt. Gen.
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One of them is terrorism analyst Walid Phares, a former senior fellow at the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who advised Mitt Romney's 20043 presidential campaign on Middle East issues.
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Harry Kazianis is a North Korea expert and the Director of Defense Studies at the Center for National Interest, and Dr. Walid Phares is a Fox News National Security and foreign affairs analyst.
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Like Clovis, the House committee will be interested to learn more from Phares about what was said at meetings and get-togethers attended by Papadopoulos, Page and senior members of the Trump campaign.
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In May 2016, Gordon and Phares were planning to fire Papadopoulos "after a story broke about his statements to the British press," but Clovis wanted to give him another chance, the summary says.
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The baritone Keith Phares brings a virile voice and deadpan comedic gifts to Maximilian, Cunegonde's self-absorbed brother, who primps constantly to maintain his reputation as the handsomest young man in the realm.
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"Right now the ban is just a few sentences in a foreign policy announcement and a tweet, it's not like he's written books or published articles or delivered lectures on this," Phares said.
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"'Ripping up' is maybe a too strong of word, he's going to take that agreement, it's been done before in international context, and then review it," Walid Phares said on BBC radio in November.
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Just this week, Walid Phares, a foreign policy adviser to Trump during the campaign, told Arab diplomats the President-elect hoped to negotiate what he has called the "ultimate deal" between Israelis and Palestinians.
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"This uneasy listening provides a masterful backdrop for Anderson's film and also makes for fascinating listening in its own right, while once again separating Greenwood from more predictable composers," said Heather Phares in AllMusic.
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Another Trump adviser, Walid Phares, told Middle Eastern diplomats on Wednesday that the President-elect's bid to improve relations with Russia would help boost administration priorities in the region, including ending the war in Syria.
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His first stop was at The Washington Post, for an editorial board meeting where he unveiled five members of his foreign policy team: Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and Joseph E. Schmitz.
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After the foreign policy office was established, Trump adviser Walid Phares suggested to the head of the office that the campaign try to establish contact with foreign diplomats, according to people familiar with the initiative.
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And according to the Daily Caller, Clare Lopez of the controversial Center for Security Policy think tank and frequent Fox News pundit Walid Phares are among the top names being considered for deputy national security adviser.
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Phares said that he initiated contact with several individuals and groups to ask them to organize for Trump or to sell them on Trump's positions in hopes that they'd at some point support the likely GOP nominee.
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Trump announced his role during an interview with The Washington Post that March, alongside the four other originals: counterterrorism speaker Walid Phares, former Lt. Gen Keith Kellogg, academic Carter Page and oil and energy consultant George Papadopoulos.
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WALID PHARES, FOX NEWS FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST: Absolutely by also ordering a deployment in the Baltic Dates, by increasing the sanctions on Russia, by making sure that Iran is not going to get our dollars to buy what?
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Mr. Phares, who incited controversy when he was announced as an adviser to Mitt Romney in his 2012 presidential bid, has been criticized by Muslim groups and is outspoken against what he calls the threat of Shariah law.
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Walid Phares, a Fox News national security and foreign policy expert, said the Islamic State, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram already have penetrated vast areas and warns that the Sahel could turn into the "next reservoir" for Jihadi terror.
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On the Iran nuclear deal, Phares said that Trump would review the agreement, push for stronger implementation on some areas and seek to negotiate certain changes, comments similar to the ones he made in an interview with BBC last month.
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Before establishing himself in the United States as a counterterrorism expert, Phares, a Lebanese-born Maronite Christian, was an influential ideologue deeply involved with Christian militants who fought against Muslims and Druze during Lebanon's brutal sectarian civil war in the 1980s.
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As Trump advisors Walid Phares and Newt Gingrich have suggested, there is a more intelligent response, a strategy that finds allies within the Muslim world who will help turn off the tap of the vicious ideology that fuels the terrorist fires.
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" In one apparent example of campaign dysfunction, Gordon said that Walid Phares, another foreign policy adviser, "had come up with a list of ambassadors to meet with and when Kushner found out, Kushner said only he would be meeting with ambassadors.
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Mike Pillsbury, Harry Kazianis, Dr. Walid Phares, Mike, you want to address a point as a former government official, how things really go behind closed doors and how we talk about them as members of the media, we want to be very careful.
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The sources said that Mideast peace was not listed as one of the immediate issues that would be tackled, but Phares did tell the group that Trump was personally interested in trying to make inroads on a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The list included five new names: former Pentagon inspector general Joseph Schmitz; oil and energy consultant George Papadopoulos; BAU International University provost Walid Phares; former Army lieutenant general and consulting firm executive J. Keith Kellogg Jr.; and longtime energy executive Carter Page.
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Mr. Page, a managing partner at Global Energy Capital, and Mr. Phares, a professor at Daniel Morgan Academy whose specialty is defense and national security, both confirmed that they were advising Mr. Trump, but said they had yet to speak to him.
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But the bulk of the discussions, Phares said, were initiated by curious Muslim Republicans or Middle Eastern conservatives seeking additional information on Trump's views or hoping to influence his policies – particularly as they pertain to the temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
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One longtime conservative activist who is a Muslim told The Hill that he has been approached by several prominent members of the Muslim American community, all of whom asked for advice on how to respond to overtures from Phares or others within the Trump campaign.
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In an email to J.D. Gordon, who was then running the campaign's foreign policy advisory team, and Walid Phares, another foreign policy adviser on the campaign, Page suggested that then-candidate Trump could take a trip that he had scheduled to Moscow in his place.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday sent letters to former Trump campaign advisers Carter Page, Sam Clovis, J.D. Gordon, and Walid Phares asking them for a range of materials about their contacts with Russians, as well as with each other and other Trump campaign advisers.
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Phares hedged when asked about pledges by Trump and members of his transition to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to those in the room, saying that such a move was "complex" and, if undertaken, would be part of a "process" that would take a long time.
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" Just before Donald Trump was due to deliver a "major" foreign policy address on Wednesday, one that his campaign has been promoting all week as a move by the GOP frontrunner into serious policy and campaigning, one of his campaign advisors, Walid Phares, told the Associated Press not to expect "any details in this speech.
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Several of these people — including Clare Lopez and Walid Phares, both rumored to be in the running for Trump's deputy national security adviser — believe that radical Islamic terrorists have already infiltrated the US government and are actively trying to bring down the country and enslave the American people under the yoke of Sharia, Islamic religious law.
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" But Walid Phares, a senior foreign policy adviser to Trump, told the BBC on Thursday that "he's gonna take that agreement, it's been done before in international context, and then review it.... He will take the agreement, review it, send it to Congress, demand from the Iranians to restore a few issues or change a few issues, and there will be a discussion.
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The list included people like Walid Phares, a regular contributor to Fox News who has advocated for greater intervention in the Middle East, and Carter Page, an investment banker who supports closer ties with Russia, Other people have also voiced approval for the New York real estate tycoon, like John Bolton, an outspoken hawk and former ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush.
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They include Joseph Schmitz, a Pentagon inspector general under George W. Bush; Walid Phares, a Lebanese Christian academic who has in the past advised warlords in Lebanon; J. Keith Kellogg Jr., a retired army lieutenant-general and former chief operating officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad; and Carter Page, a businessman and analyst specialising in the oil and gas industry in the former Soviet block.
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They include Joseph Schmitz, a Pentagon Inspector General under George W. Bush; to Walid Phares, a Lebanese Christian academic who has in the past advised warlords in Lebanon; J. Keith Kellogg Jr., a retired army Lieutenant General and former chief operating officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad; and Carter Page, a businessman and analyst specialising in the oil and gas industry in the former Soviet block.
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The list of Trump associates Nunes indicated he's interested in includes: Michael Caputo, Sam Clovis, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Corey Lewandowski, Stephen Miller, Peter Navarro, Sam Nunberg, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Walid Phares, Joseph Schmitz, Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. On Monday, the Justice Department told Nunes, a California Republican, that he already had the answer to his question about whether the FBI had used informants "against" members or associates of the Trump campaign.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE (R-Ala.), who has set a market on immigration issues, and Trump's "inside team" — comprised of J.D. Gordon, a former Pentagon spokesman who worked on Mike Huckabee's and Herman Cain's presidential campaigns, and Middle East expert Walid Phares — are privately reaching out to foreign policy experts.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE (R-Ala.) That team includes Walid Phares, a professor at the National Defense University, Carter Page, a former investment banker and executive in the energy industry, and George Papadopoulos, a former Ben Carson adviser who directs the London Centre of International Law Practice's center on international energy law and security.
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