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Russias ogsf crimea. she spoke clearly on that not clear how trumps views are a cohesive policy. on the middle east, president trump blasted the obama administration for not voting against a u.n. resolution condemning israels on going building of settlements in the west bank. now this surprising statement from the white house. >> while we dont believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, construction of new settlements or expansion of existing settlements beyond their current ...

May not be helpful in achieving that goal. but the trump administration has not taken an official position on settlement activity and looks forward to continuing discussions. not exactly tough criticism, but a stronger statement against the highly controversial setments than weve heard from this administration. what exactly is the policy? so far the white house says this. >> the president is committed to peace. thats his goal. at the end of the day, the goal is peace. >> reporter: so in response...

The waters around yemen. >> p.j., looking more broadly at the end of this week, just in the last 24 hours we have sanctions against iran, a harsh statement about russia at the u.n. delivered by our new u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, the warning to israel last night about settlements there. some of those things actually sound a little bit like what president obama might have said about these situations. do you -- do you see a shift there in terms of the trump administrations stance on some of thei...

Not taking military action off the table. but this is the first concrete action. jeff, great to see you, thank you so much. lets go from iran to israel. the white house shifting its posture towards israels settlement activity. white house press secretary sean spicer put this out in a statement, saying, "while we do not believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be ...

Expansion of existing settlements, may not be helpful in achieving that goal." of the trump administration has not taken an official position on settlement activity, and looks forward to continuing discussions, including with prime minister netanyahu when he visits. that visit is set scheduled for february 15, israel deputy foreign minister respondent, saying in part that the current -- in all parts of our land, and we must respect the will of the people who elected us for this purpose. of the h...

The white house has just put out a statement on israel plans to build new settlements in the west bank, expand existing settlements at the same time. it says, and im quoting from the statement right now released by the white house press secretary, sean spicer, quote, while we dont believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal. the s...

That the obama administration took at the outset in 2009, asking israel to pause settlement activity to try to get the peace process started. so well see if that sticks with the trump administration, but now its interesting to see what israels reaction will be. >> dana -- im anxious to get dana bashs reaction, because the statement also says, as the president expressed many times, he hopes to achieve peace throughout the middle east region. >> yeah, i actually -- im pretty surprised that the whi...

>> this wasnt about dumping anything -- >> you must be aware of the calendar, right? >> its about doing what we felt is the right thing to try to see a viable two-state solution move forward. we continue to believe and prime minister netanyahu believes it. we believe the settlement activity -- not just that but the terrorism, all that, none of that is constructive to getting us to the solution. so its because we believe in that solution, its because israel -- >> is this -- the pecking order is o...

More fallout after a u.n. security council vote condemning israel for settlement activity in the west bank. the u.s. state department now saying it is surprised by the criticism of uk prime minister theresa mays office regarding u.s. secretary of state john kerrys speech this week criticizing israel. >> the israeli prime minister publicly supports a two state solution. but his current coalition is the most right wing in israeli history with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements. the resu...

Israel. that accelerated settlement activity. the move in israeli politics to the right. you heard secretary kerry talk about the most extreme, the extremist, the settle lers really dominating the political scene. they saw the two state solution was slipping away and see whats happening in this country. donald trump was elected. he spoke about moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he pointed a hard line ambassador. >> who dismissed the two state solution. >> talks about annexing the wes...