A highly unusual appearance from Mike Huckabee comes as President Trump has called for the long-running legal case to be canceled.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee made a surprise appearance at Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial on Wednesday. Huckabee said he dropped in on Netanyahu’s trial to “see what’s going on” but was asked to leave after proceedings were moved behind closed doors.

Envoy says he's representing what US president has said 'repeatedly' about the trial; almost as soon as he arrives, proceedings become closed due to subject matter