Page 800 - Wolf News Today

To stay away from the old city and the west bank. theyre taking precautions because of the potential for things to turn violent, wolf. >> as soon as you get that reaction from the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas, let us know. ill be speaking later today in "the situation room" with the palestinian representative here in washington, as well. our thanks very much for that ian lee. republican senator james lankford of oklahoma joins us right now from capitol hill, a member of the inte...

You know the president was very close to sheldon adelson who donated $25 million to his political action committee supporting his candidacy. and this is a president who right now wants to keep his promises because he is concerned bedroom where he sit with the people who inspired him. despite disagreement, my colleagues can talk about that, the disagreement he is saying the other guys failed. im doing it. its perfectly clear. >> christiane is is joining us from london. your reaction? >> well, wol...

And move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. " president, president trump was very proud to say unlike earlier presidents hes actually delivering on that campaign commitment. >> you know, there was no fuzziness about this, wolf. this was clearly stated. the president said i am delivering. and made the point that other people have, other presidents may have had their reasons but they did not -- they did not do what he is about to do. this was about the presidents promise during the campaign w...

Ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley. ambassador, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me, wolf. >> so why make this announcement today? >> well, this has been 22 years in the making. if you go back and see that congress actually passed the jerusalem embassy act back in 1995, both parties, both sides of the aisle, have come together. this is something that unites our country. and the fact that jerusalem is the capital of israel, no one doubts that. there are parliaments there,...

This is nothing that anybody didnt already know. >> but it is significant, ambassador, that youre not willing to say, the old city of jerusalem or east jerusalem is part of israel. you say, thats still open to negotiation. is that what im hearing? >> wolf, why would the united states say that? when were pushing a peace process, thats really for the palestinians and the israelis to decide. if we decided that, we would be picking a side. there has been a lot of time and effort thats been put in by...

Thats not going to stop. to me, wolf, the issue is this. and you and i have covered this for so long. the chances of a two-state solution are shrinking all the time. the palestinians already understand that about 5% of the west bank is already going to go to israel. thats where the vast majority of settlements are. whats at issue is, israel keeps going beyond that 5%, and settling in more and more densely populated palestinian areas. once that gets far enough, the possibility of a two-state solu...

♪ ♪ when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. liberty did what? yeah, with liberty mutual all i needed to do to get an estimate was snap a photo of the damage and voila! voila! i wish my insurance company had that... wait! hold it... hold it boys... theres supposed to be three of you... wheres your brother? wheres your brother? hey, wheres charlie? charlie?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you. liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. and the...

Just look, just over here. lets see if we can give wolf a shot there of, yes, the getty center is just on the top of that hill. and you see its surrounded by smoke, but it is not in danger right now of fire. but you are seeing huge plumes of smoke across this area here in belaire. this is just one of four wildfires that are raging. there is no containment of this fire. it has at least tripled or quadrupled in size, since it began. wolf? >> awful situation, indeed. sara, were going to get back to...

A recognition of reality that jerusalem has long been the seat of power in israel. we earlier received israeli reaction from flick robertson in jerusalem. a statement from the prime minister netanyahu. ian legal is joining us from ramallah on the west bank. i assume the palestinians are pretty angry about all of this. >> you know, wolf, thats something weve heard in the leadup to this. right now were waiting for palestinian president mahmoud abbas to give his statement and what were seeing right...

Not be able to override a veto, if he vetoed it, it wouldnt be overridden. do you not know, ambassador, whether or not those sanctions have actually been implemented? >> you know, when i talked to -- the last i heard from secretary tillerson, he said that they have finished what they needed to and they were going to be implemented. obviously, thats a question for secretary tillerson. i can tell you, the president knows those have gone into effect, he and we know why those sanctions went into eff...