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Miami high schools prom angering some students and their parents. they call it animal abuse. the school says wildlife was overseen the whole time by a licensed facility and handlers. what is your take? >> not the brightest move. look at the poor animal. it looks so stressed out. >> no upside. feel free to come at me online and make the argument in favor. didnt help the tiger and you couldnt think of a better way to have a gimmick to get prom going. dumb move. >> and with that for more on the fiv...

Excerpts and obviously giving president trump credit for the historic decision. let me read a little bit of the remarks that we have heard so far. jared kushner will say presidents before him have backed down from their pledge to move the american embassy once they were in office, this president delivered because once president trump makes a promise he keeps it. obviously that is a message that this administration has been talking about not just in terms of izral but in terms of president trumps...

Its giving them every reason to open their mouths as wide as they can. >> the saudis came out and said after the jerusalem move the palestinians will have to accept a deal. i think if it wasnt for trump they wouldnt have said that. trump went to saudi arabia first and then israel. they are saying ill support you because the palestinians arent a priority for any of the countries in the region right now that are with the united states. not the jordanians, not egyptians. saudis are much closer to i...

Former israeli ambassador to the u.s. we appreciate you taking time for us today. >> hi. erica. welcome from jerusalem. rirts a great moment for us here. we have waited 70 years for this moment for america to recognize jerusalem as our capital. jerusalem has been the capital of the jewish people for 3,000 years. its a great day for us. >> you believe this is the right decision when it comes to the peace process. george mitchell telling my colleague this under mines the presidents own efforts for...

Before the senate race when there was concern of motivating evangelicals. it has always been tied up with american politics. it is difficult to see on the ground if you were doing this as a strategy why you would make a one sided move without getting something just simple bargaining. >> just to protect the embassy is not a symbol of something to overturn because the situation in there now, we know that the u.s. forces have been making sure it is safe enough. they know it is not safe enough to mo...

Construction. the idea of what comes next, its hard to see how this move is being contemplative of the thing that follows. >> to your point, many presidents have talked about this but it is important to realize how political the issue is in america. this whole notion of moving the embassy to jerusalem started in 1995/96 when bob dole was challenging bill clinton for the presidency dole had a record on israel that was not great. some of his supporters said to him, why dont you do this symbolic th...

He has been trying to play an offensive game as he does rearranging the middle east chessboard and having saudis and israelis in agreement at least on one thing which is containing and counter acting iran. and he has been effective i think at reshuffling alles with tough talk because saudis didntquawk about the jerusalem move. there is always going to be a cost. you dont think you will move an embassy there and no one is going to die. you knew there would be a violent backlish to it. we have to ...

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