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>> the president asked the prime minister benjamin netanyahu in passing to hold back on the controversial west bank settlement that the israelis have been putting in place. did you get a reaction out of that? >> yeah, a couple things happened, shep. the president changed decades of longstanding u.s. policy by saying two state solution doesnt have to be a two-state solution between israel and the palestinians. im if favor of the solution that both parties can agree upon. in a statement that was r...

What? whos replacing me? splenda naturals? look, shes sweet, shes got natural stevia, no bitter aftertaste and shes calorie-free. so thats it? we made you a cake. with sugar? oh, no. (laughing) moments from now president trump and first lady melania trump will be greeting benjamin netanyahu and his wife sarah at the white house before the two leaders take questions at a joint news conference. youre seeing a live picture now. people are starting to fill in. were getting closer and closer to thi...

Perhaps one of the options floated by the defense minister here and is expansion and settlement growth within the settlement blocks and freezing them outside of the settlement blocks. although, thousands of settlement homes is a large number. its the largest settlement approval weve seen from israel in years. its not enough for israels right wing government and many who want to see not only thousands of settlement homes but all of the west banks and the education minister tweeted right after the...

U.s., any sort of different diplomatic moves, military moves, could lead to a further escalation. right now, the iranians know theyre treading a fine line. theyre not unhappy about michael flynn stepping down, but they realize the trump administration is going to take a staunch line towards iran as well. isa? >> gentlemen, thank you very much. i could speak to you both for hours. oren lieberman there for us in jerusalem and fred pleitgen there in tehran. thank you to both of you. im joined now...

Its been a cornerstone for international policy for many years. >> its been the international consensus that a two-state solution is the only way for change. the white house saying, quote it will insist on a two-state solution. saying theyre open to any agreement that brings peace between the two parties here. israelis and palestinians. the plans rejectsed that saying there is no other option. that its an israeli state next to a palestinian state. whats not clear is that the white house is not y...

A comment from an official today, that there does not have to be a two-state solution. if you are a palestinian and there was a palestinian reaction to that, and what does that mean? does it mean their dream of a future state is over, that the u.s. will no longer support them in state hood? does it mean they are absorbed into israel in some permanent second-class citizen status? so a lot of questions from the palestinian side. there was a report today that the uscia director yesterday was briefi...

Necessarily repeated contacts, but that there were contacts of some kind. katy? >> peter, he made this claim that it was the medias fault at a news conference with benjamin netanyahu. do we have any clearer picture of where this white house stands with its relations to israel? it seems like he was a bit all over the map today. >> reporter: yeah, you could say he was a bit all over the map with some of his comments but i think the imagery is something that will be read across much of the arab wor...

>> theres some effort to try to understand it. they seem a little contradictory at first but the truth is i dont think that they really are. since the inauguration, the president has four times come out and made very clear that he does believe that pursuing middle east peace is important and that he believes that further expansion of west bank settlements makes that harder and hes now called directly on the prime minister to try to put limits on that. that doesnt mean hell oppose everything but ...

Josh, great to see you again. thank you, sir. >> thanks. >> shepard: ahead live to the white house where president trump again showed his disdain for the mainstream media. new word of who the president is expected to pick to take over for the former national security advisor, michael flynn. that and our decades old policy for a two-state solution in the middle east. that is over. a new thing today. well have that for you. stay with us. (alarms) wheres the car? itll be here in three...uh, four mi...

Releasing the transcripts, that may be helpful. we need to make sure that the american people understand that russia is really trying to compromise our system of government. they try to compromise our free elections. we believe they are trying to get influence in how decisions are made here in the united states by perhaps compromising officials here, so thats our concern. our concern is our national security. the public needs to understand how serious this is, and we have to have a more transpar...