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U.s. policy. and as i also said, this has been long standing bipartisan u.s. policy to oppose this type of settlement activity going forward. >> so there you have ben rhodes basically telling president-elect donald trump tbut out of this thing and yet is he going to take over in a couple of weeks here. >> also policy american presidents dont change a long standing four decade old policy about vetoing these kind of actions at the united nations in the waning 30 days of his tenure. this is major p...

Demonstrate that they are not going to take this sitting down, so to speak. they may accelerate their activities on the ground and finally it may well be -- and this is what we do not know -- is what the putative trump administration policies on settlement activity will be but the appointment of mr. friedman suggests its going to be a lot less muscular, to say the least, than the current administration. its very difficult -- final point, sorry to drone on. >> no, im hanging on your every word. >...

The trump transition team has said that when it comes to foreign affairs the president elect says there is only one president at a time. mr. trumps actions have not always bore that completely. he took the call from taiwan. and today another virtually unprecedented move. this time involving the middle east. word that the israeli government reached out for help from the president elect and evidence that he delivered. cnn joins us now with the latest. why did the israeli government reach out to pr...

Theres more of a premium on these operatives who have been trained up in syria and iraq because its impossible now to get across that border. so if youve been dispatched back into europe, you dont want to conduct an operation thats not going to be successful. so they are lying in wait, waiting for that opportune moment when they can do something of significant impact. now, in this case, it doesnt seem like amri made it over to the middle east but he was given that choice, make immigration or sta...

Like way. >> contrary to what was said, we did not draft this resolution and put it forward. the fact of the matter is, there are resolutions pursued all the time in the security council. this was put forward by egypt yesterday and was take on the a vote, called to a vote by other members of the security council today. we didnt draft it or have a role in bringing it forward. but when we assessed the resolution, this is consistent with u.s. pollty. and weve had years and years where we tried the ...

Okay. we need to talk about more fallout from mr. trumps tweets. this one about israel. lets bring back our panel to discuss. josh rogan, jackie kucinich and nicholas burns. egypt wanted a u.n. resolution to end a settlement activity in israel. egypt wanted it to be sort of deemed, you know, illegal and the u.n. was going to move forward. and then israel, as we understand it, reached out to mr. trump and mr. trump weighed in. let me read to you the statement he tweeted. this was via facebook. so...

Will if we have to. and well do what we have to to maintain our safety as a country. and i welcome you as a friend. if you want to be a friend. if not, were going to have a problem. and it sounds a little bit like someone we heard from 1980. mr. reagan. and i think taking a tough stance to let him know were not to be trifld with is a refreshing change from the last eight years where russia basically the things with impunity and werent called on the carpet for anything. and at the beginning of th...

Israelis i would argue thats right. it was a parting shot in defense of what the obama administration and secretary kerry believe to be the waning hopes of a two-state solution. my concern however is that this is going to produce the opposite impact of what the administration intensed. i cant even imagine that president-elect trump has even waited to tweet and disavow and to distance himself personally and after four weeks from today, brooke -- >> 27 days. >> four weeks from today, right preside...

The ak sdaks ccusations are out that secretary kerry pushed this? >> we heard from the administration they would support constructive steps to promote peace in the middle east. there is nothing constructive about this resolution. when you look at what the palestinians will do now, they will not come back to the negotiation table. they will continue to come back to the u.n. asking for more resolutions regarding the peace process. i think the people in the white house are aware that it is not cons...

Will listen in vain for an answer. this reveals that all along the rhetoric and posturinger ing to is they have always thought this was about the settlement. this is a way -- they held off doing this earlier because they knew it would hurt hillary clinton. now that hillary is gone, theyre doing it out of spite. and out of a sense of emotional commitment to screwing israel. >> to be clear, we are one of the few who had veto power over this so it never went anywhere at all. the u.s. affirmatively ...