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Response to the security council resolution and nbc joins us now from honolulu. what are you hearing from there? >> reporter: even though president obama has been out here on vacation, he had several meetings with his national security team and that was how he came to this decision. you know, the position for the u.s., they always had the same position on the settlement activity. all president obama had to do was vote no to veto the resolution, but he abstained. this means the resolution means t...

Service. snow and bitter cold across syria are making the evacuation of aleppo more urgent than ever. tens of thousands of people have been granted safe passage out of the rebel-held areas of eastern aleppo. another 20 loaded buses left on wednesday and eight agencies believe the evacuation is nearly complete. though its not clear exactly how many people remain. meanwhile the urn is gearing up to investigate possible war crimes in syria. a panel will begin gathering evidence. >> israels prim...

Part of the lesson is opposition works because the republicans have opposed everything barack obama tried to do for eight years and both houses of congress and the presidency out of it. >> through executive power i dont think he cared about republican opposition. >> throughout his first term he tried to make a grand bargain. >> the new administration in coming years, interesting to see what happens as we move forward. thank you. >> united nations security council, a resolution this afternoon dem...

The authorities have not said what caused the incident. the third time an explosion has happened there since 2005. the future of israeli settlements is on the agenda for the u.n. security council on thursday. it will draft up a resolution that israel stop all settlement activity. benjamin netanyahu is urging the u.s. to vito the measure. police are searching for this man, the main suspect of an attack on a berlin christmas market. police say he has ties to radical islamic groups. some suspec...

More clear on the meeting on what to do next in syria. >> translator: all three countries here are united. >> reporter: the talks will not stop moscow from continuing its military operations in syria. but getting some of the national security jobs filled on the to do list. topping that list, maybe a domination for a director of national intelligence and for mr. trump to select hiss why advisers on homeland security and counterterrorism. perhaps all of the more urgent given recent events. john? >...

Israels security. e we heard from president obama, a strong statement in support of israel. this could not have been more different from benjamin netanyahus last trip here. remember just a couple months ago he stood before congress didnt even meet with president obama and railed against irans nuclear deal. and listen to what some of president obama said during this meeting. >> i want to be very clear that we condemned the terms of the palestinian violence against innocent israeli citizens and i ...

Northeast asia and new world, im confident that the alliance will continue to involve into a comprehensive, strategic alliance. >> well take a couple questions. michelle kosinski from cnn. >> on 2016 now that we have seen the democratic candidates in their first debate and how they did, maybe you can share their thoughts on how much you watched of that. do you feel like the window now has closed on the vice president entering the race? and if you dont feel that its closed, do you feel that he, i...

Palestinians and their own sovereign state and he must immediately move to stop settlement activity. failure will bring palestinians and israelis deeper in the conflict. >> i know you are heading to washington. we will see you in "the situation room" next week. thanks very much for joining us. the chief palestinian negotiator. tulsi gabbard is with us. do you want to react? >> i think he brings up good points in representing the comments and views and feelings really of the palestinian people. i...

Different strategy. >> but what prospect do you have for getting support in the u.s. given that the republican leadership has made it very clear where it stands and republican 2016 potential candidates were the first in the u.s. to tweet their congratulations to netanyahu last night. >> yes, i think that the united states is clearly a problem. this is one of the main issues. if we continue to go down this path in which netanyahu is given a blank check to pursue whether its an attack on the gaza ...

The entrail the israelis were absorbing tens of thousands of refugees, needed financial help seeking billions of dollars in loan guarantees from the united states and basically told the shamir government youre not getting those until you cease the settlement activity on the west bank and that caused a real rupture. what you dont see now what you did see in 1991 was actual cutoff of aid, if you will. one of the strengths that israel has had over all these years is that its had strong support amon...