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During their almost two hour meeting at the White House today, President Trump didn't share with Prime Minister Netanyahu a draft of the U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Netanyahu said at a briefing with Israeli reporters after the meeting that Iran, not the Palestinian issue, was the main subject of his conversation with the President.

Though it's largely remained outside the spotlight on this topic, Reddit said on Monday that Russian propaganda related to the last presidential election was shared by at least "thousands" of U.S. users.

"[F]rom everything we can tell, these users are mostly American, and appear to be unwittingly promoting Russian propaganda ... I believe the biggest risk we face as Americans is our own ability to discern reality from nonsense, and this is a burden we all bear. I wish there was a solution as simple as banning all propaganda, but it’s not that easy."

Why it matters: Congressional investigators are seeing more information from Reddit as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the Washington Post reports.

A Russian who was jailed in 2006 for spying for Britain has been hospitalized in Salisbury, England, after being exposed to an unknown substance Sunday, the BBC reports. Police declared it a major incident, and the former spy and his daughter, who were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping mall, are both in critical condition, per The Guardian.

Other Russians have died in England under suspicious circumstances: In 2006, former KGB officer and whistleblower Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London. In 2012, whistleblower Alexander Perepilichny died from a toxin while jogging in England.

President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in the Oval Office Monday for the first time since the U.S. officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel — and since police recommended Netanyahu be indicted on corruption charges.

Trump's claim that the relationship between the two countries "has never been better" was cheerfully reciprocated by Netanyahu, who said the president is following in the footsteps of Cyrus the Great and Lord Arthur Balfour as a friend of the Jewish people.

An aid convoy reached Eastern Ghouta in Syria Monday, where the Russian-backed Syrian army has killed hundreds of civilians and dropped "almost 20 bombs daily" in recent weeks, Reuters reports. But the Syrian government confiscated some medical supplies from aid workers before they were allowed in to help.

Why it matters: "The United Nations says 400,000 people are trapped inside the besieged enclave, and were already running out of food and medical supplies before the assault began with intense air strikes two weeks ago," per Reuters. [Go deeper: White House accuses Russia of slaughtering civilians in Syria]

A spokesperson the Iranian Armed Forces told Tasmin news agency that Iran’s missile program "will continue non-stop and foreign powers have no right to intervene on this issue," per Reuters. No Iranian official has permission to "discuss this issue with foreigners," he added.

The backdrop: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to demand stricter sanctions against short-range Iranian missiles during a meeting with President Trump today, Axios contributor Barak Ravid reports.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un hosted a welcome dinner for two top aides to South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports, quoting Moon's spokesman.

Why it matters: The dinner marks the first time South Korean officials have met Kim since he took power six years ago, and was aimed at probing whether Kim is ready to negotiate the denuclearization of the North as well as restarting dialogue between North Korea and the United States.

A $120 million grant had been allocated to the State Department since late 2016 to combat foreign efforts to sway elections, but the agency has yet to use any of the funds and none of the 23 employees tasked to combat efforts by Russia speak Russian, according to a New York Times report Sunday.

Why it matters: Senior officials including CIA Director Pompeo have said Russia will try to meddle in the midterms, and it's unclear what's being done to stop them. This reports comes the same day an Axios SurveyMonkey poll found a majority of Americans have little to no faith that the government will keep foreign powers out of the elections.

The Trump administration on Sunday lambasted Russia's involvement in a deadly ongoing military operation in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, saying the country has dropped bombs — at "least 20 daily" between February 24 and 28 — on innocent civilians.

After repeatedly delaying the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2401, which demanded a 30-day cessation of hostilities across Syria, Russia has gone on to ignore its terms and to kill innocent civilians under the false auspices of counterterrorism operations. This is the same combination of lies and indiscriminate force that Russia and the Syrian regime used to isolate and destroy Aleppo in 2016, where thousands of civilians were killed.

Axios has reviewed a Grand Jury subpoena that Robert Mueller's team sent to a witness last month. 

What Mueller is asking for: Mueller is subpoenaing all communications — meaning emails, texts, handwritten notes, etc. — that this witness sent and received regarding the following people:

Despite sanctions, North Korean coal has made its way to the international market, including in South Korea and Japan, through a deceptive process that involves falsified documents and the cooperation of officials and businesses in at least three countries, The Washington Post reports, citing records produced by investigators and U.N. experts.

At a glance: In August and September of last year, at least four ships dumped North Korean coal at a harbor in Russia before six other vessels arrived to transport both Russian and North Korean coal to foreign markets, the Post reports.

Israel demands that as part of "fixing" the nuclear deal with Iran, new sanctions and limitations be placed on all Iranian missiles with a range of more than 180 miles (or 300 kilometers) – including the precision missiles Iran is providing Hezbollah with. Israeli officials say Prime Minister Netanyahu is going to raise this issue during his meeting tomorrow with President Trump at the White House.

Between the lines: Netanyahu and his advisers are concerned with what they see as a growing gap between the harsh rhetoric by the Trump administration against Iran and the limited actions taken – both on the nuclear deal and on Iranian military entrenchment in Syria.  

Russian President Vladimir Putin, interviewed by Megyn Kelly for NBC's "Meet the Press", said the 13 Russians who have been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the Russia probe "do not represent the Russian state, the Russian authorities." He added that he'll "never, never" extradite those Russian nationals to the United States.

"What they did specifically, I have no idea. I do not know what they were guided by ... Let them just not talk to the press. Let them provide some materials, specifics and data. We'll be prepared to look at them and talk about it.”

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's interviews with George Nader — adviser to the UAE, and White House visitor in Bannon days — show the probe may include "how money from multiple countries has flowed through and influenced Washington during the Trump era," per N.Y. Times lead story.

• "The investigators ... asked about Mr. Nader’s role in White House policymaking, ... suggesting that the special counsel investigation has broadened beyond Russian election meddling to include Emirati influence on the Trump administration."
• "Yousef al-Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to the United States, declined to comment. Axios first reported Mr. Mueller’s questioning of Mr. Nader."

Above is a fisheye-lens view of the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,

Legislators are poised to approve changes that will let President Xi Jinping rule indefinitely, undoing decades of efforts to prevent a return to crushing dictatorship, AP reports.

Denis McDonough, Barack Obama's former chief of staff, told Chuck Todd in a "Meet the Press" interview that Mitch McConnell blocked a more robust response to Russian meddling in the lead up to the 2016 election:

"It took over three weeks to get that statement worked out. It was dramatically watered down," he said, adding that he knew it had been watered down at the request of McConnell.

The backdrop: The exchange was prompted by a claim from Joe Biden that McConnell was focused on "the political play" and "wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment that we would say essentially, 'Russia's doing this, stop.'"