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Beach covering the president-elect at his ma mar-a-lago estate there. >> reporter: good afternoon. israeli leaders are looking forward to this kind of difference with president-elect trump leading up to the u.n. security vote on thursday. donald trump issued a statement condemning the u.s. for not protecting israel in that vote. and he -- then on friday, following the vote, in fact, he tweeted, "as to the u.n., things will be different after january 20th." january 20th, of course, is when he tak...

Condemn the settlements is a profound mistake. donald trump did the right thing. he had tried to block this with the egyptians a day or so before. im pleased that he did what he did, and if the president of the united states, president obama, had not sfraerd longstanding u.s. policy to do what he did, donald trump would not have had to take the position he did. im glad president-elect trump did. >> and the obama administration did surprise a lot of people by taking these actions. lets talk about...

Two big things have to happen first for them to get there. number one, they want to make sure that they get allies on board. they want to make sure they can get either russia and china endorsing it before the u.n. security council, or at least absta abstaining. that could be difficult. but they want to make sure when you talk to senior officials, there would be surgical strikes to make sure it would hit the libyan government and not hit innocent civilians. the last thing the u.s. and its allies ...

Said that the obama administration "conducted a shameful anti-israel hijacking at the u.n." so strong words coming from the prime minister. now as we know, the u.n. security council passed the resolution 14-0 yesterday. as you talked about, the u.s. absta abstaining, breaking americas long-standing policy of really shielding and protecting israel at the united nations. and many agree this was president obamas parting shot at prime minister netanyahu after a history of strained relations. now the...