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Presidents, trump has jumped into both feet into one of the most difficult foreign policy issues for any president, the israeli-palestinian conflict. the president-elect has been working the phones, calling world leaders to scuttle an anti-israel resolution at the u.n. >> reporter: just hours before the u.n. security council was set to vote on a resolution, calling for israel to stop building settlements, calling them a violation of international law, the ballot was abruptly called off. cnn lear...

Calling for israel to stop building settlements in the occupied palestinian territory, including east jerusalem. it was delayed by the egyptians who sponsored the resolution in the first place. both israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and president-elect donald trump publicly denounced the measure. lets go to elise labott, our cnn global affairs correspondent, and cnn global affairs analyst aaron david miller. thank you both so much for being with me. elise labott, with with egypt -- and i...

Law. cnn has learned that president obama was prepared to let the resolution pass, either by abstaining or voting in favor of it. the u.s. has traditionally seen jewish settlements as an obstacle to a peace process. the move today would have been seen by in as a provocation. a parting shot at prime minister netanyahu, who took to twitter writing and appealing for a u.s. veto. but before the white house could announce its support for the resolution, this morning president elect donald trump sent ...

Yesterday i guess, the huffington post put out an interview with obama and he said yeah, we expect we will get a deal in weeks. then he said two things: we need iran to make more concessions. have you ever been involved in negotiation you not go anywhere public and say, yes we want concessions from the other side. as we know there are politics in iran and in iran there are --. >> i want to talk about israel and u are glossing over what i think is a fairly remarkable statement. you have the admin...

Here is elise labott with more about it. >> reporter: a dispute over peace, politics and the role of the u.s. presidency may be coming to a head at the united nations. just hours before the security council was set to vote for a resolution calling for israel to stop building settlements, the ballot was abruptly cut off, averting a potential clash between the current and future u.s. presidents over u.s. relations with israel. >> well have to wait and see what the results of those consultations ar...