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Unlocking potential project. good morning, miss fiorina. >> good morning, alisyn. please call me carly. >> id love to carly. thanks so much for being on new day. lets talk about the news of the day, that is that prime minister benjamin netanyahu appears to have won and pulled off a victory by a bigger margin than polls had suggested. are you pleased? >> well i am pleased. and not only was it a fairly decisive victory. it would appear, but 70% of israelis voted. so i think this is a pretty clear ...

Is an impediment to a two-state solution and announced no two-state solution and that is an impediment to the community and not just the united states. he won the election but may have created a longer term problem. >> and lets dig deeper into that, congressman. a lot believe that is critical to getting security for israel. clearly netanyahu is disagreeing with that. do you think that israel is better off with a two-state solution off the table? >> no. i dont. and keep in mind by the way, netany...

Obama will be calling the prime minister in the coming days. joining us now, new york democratic congressman elliott engel. congressman, are you happy netanyahu won? >> well im happy that israels a democracy and that the israeli people decided who their leader is going to be. im happy about that. i never take positions in other countries elections. but i think it shows that in contrast to every other nation in the middle east israelis go to the polls just like we do and vote for their leaders ju...

The white house was expecting the election if not to go the other way, to be a lot closer. it feels like the shell accing hes got to deal with it now, its not just iran its what happens to the whole idea of peace negotiations in the middle east with a two-state solution which affects the relationship with europe. its a big deal. >> i think president obama wants a deal with iran and he wants to be able to use it as a political victory lap. and if he gets a deal with iran theres no way bibinetanya...

Drive this relationship and unfortunately, i think, to a bad place. >> david axelrod a former adviser to president obama and the author of believer my 40 years in politics. david, it is great to have you with me. your gut reaction to what the white house is thinking right now that they know theyre going to be dealing with benjamin netanyahu, beating the odds and staying as prime minister of israel. >> lets acknowledge the obvious. netanyahu is a great politician and no question hes willing to do...

Frustration that will build up and end up expressing itself in violence in the occupied territories and that is why white house officials have concerned how concern they are at the apparent abandonment of the two-state solution. >> it is a wait and see. garnett vincent, thank you. and we turn our attention to death threats against u.s. ambassador carolyn kennedy. they are investigating phone calls to the u.s. embassy from a english speaking man threatening the life of the ambassador. jen ptaki...

Palestinians, made life a lot more difficult because of israels understandable reaction once they felt that they were being attacked. they took it out also on the people in the west bank. so the palestinian life has been really -- very much diminished by the events. as i say, by some of their own leaders. now theyre going to be looking to the international criminal court april 1st to try to get recognition after netanyahu said that there will not be a two-state solution. so theyre very very disc...

Behind in the polls. theyre not permitted to publish any polls after friday night before the tuesday election. the last few days everyone thought he was behind his strong opposition challenge. he basically pulled out all stops. there was a sundays night rally. on monday he said he no longer supported a palestinian state. the two-state solution which has been the negotiating stance and the commitment for the u.s. and israeli relationships now going back decades. he also on election day said very ...

To abandon wouldnt surprise me in the least if you end up with an effort to at some point in the next 22 months to revive this peace process based on a two-state solution. wouldnt surprise me at all. >> im curious, how his win, netanyahus win potentially could affect the nuclear discussions going on with iran right now? >> if theres a deal, a framework agreement, theres going to be a lot of opposition do it in congress. theres -- theres going to be a tendency among republicans and i suspect more...

>> i think that in the rhetoric and in the heat of campaigns, there are lots of things that are said and i think when they get shaken out, i think well find pretty much to not much has changed. there are many people who support a two-state solution. i personally do. and i think that hopefully we can have negotiations between israelis and palestinians in the not-too-distant future, seems remote now. but i think the goal would be to have israelis and palestinians living side by side in paegseace. ...