Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2016

John hutty has the strong reaction from netanyahu, peter doocy has more. And we begin with rich edison with a message the secretary of state is trying to sends. Reporter the state department billed this as an opportunity for the Obama Administration to outline its plan for palestinians and israelis to find peace and secretary of state john kerry delivered that and in a strong condemnation of israeli policy. Some seem to believe that the u. S. Friendship means the u. S. Must accept any policy, regardless of our own interests, our own position, our own words, our own principles. Even after urging again and again that the policy must change. Friends need to tell each other the hard truths. And friendships require mutual respect. Reporter israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his government and allies criticized the Obama Administration this past week after the United States allowed the United Nations Security Council resolution pass that condemned israel over its settlement bulling. The Prime Minister continued his rebuke of u. S. Policy greeting kerrys speech with what he called great disappointment. Secretary kerry paid lip service to the unremitting campaign of terrorism that has been waged by the palestinians against the jewish state, israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders. Reporter kerry claimed no administration has done more for israels security than barack obama. He points out more than half of u. S. Global Foreign Military financing goes to israel and Obama Administration has strongly defended israel and opposed boycotts, divestment campaigns and sanctions targeting against the long time u. S. Ally. Kerry spent much of his speech denouncing israel on the expansion of its settlements, chastising the Netanyahu Administration calling his coalition the most rightwing in israel whistle an agenda driven by its extreme elements and the settlement policy is jeopardizing any possibility for a two state solution where israel lives in peace next to an independent palestinian state. It is not in u. S. Interest to help anyone on either side create a unitary state and we may not be able to stop them, but we cannot be expected to defend them. If the choice is one state, israel can either be jewish, or democratic, it cannot be both. And it wont ever really be at peace. Reporter kerry criticized the palestinians and their government for failing to condemn specific terrorist attacks in naming Public Schools and streets after terrorists. They maintained obama coordinated last weeks resolution. Kerry denied that and said it warned israel of its abstention. Weve known for some time the palestinians were intent on moving forward with a settlement resolution and i advised the Prime Minister repeatedly that further settlement activity only invited u. N. Action. Reporter as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded his response to secretary kerry, palestinian president abbas released a statement of his own saying that hes also ready to resume peace negotiations if israel stops building settlements. Doug. Thank you, rich. Prime minister netanyahus reaction to todays speech by secretary kerry comes as tempers have flared since the vote on friday including accusations that the United States had been planning the Security Council resolution all along. John huddy reports from jerusalem. Reporter there was no love lost between israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and u. S. Secretary of state john kerry. Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders. Reporter secretary kerrys speech and the israeli reaction is the clie maximmax of severalf fears battle and fiery rhetoric. Israel maintains that the u. S. Despite kerrys comments to the opposite worked with the palestinians. Senior israeli official told me its quote just the tip of the iceberg as far as u. S. Palestinian col lunch sion. The Prime Minister said theres evidence that will be presented to the new administration. Its unclear what that evidence is. Egyptian media reported media meetings between kerry, susan rice and palestinian negotiator earlier this month. But state Department Officials contend there was never a meeting and that the u. S. Was not the driving force behind the resolution. The egyptians and palestinians have long made clear to all of us, to all of the International Community their intention to bring a resolution to a vote before the end of the year. And we communicated that to the israelis and they knew it anyway. The United States did not draft or originate this resolution. Nor did we put it forward. Reporter tonight palestinian negotiator read a statement on behalf of palestinian president abbas. The minute Israeli Government agrees to crease all settlement activities, the palestinian leadership stands ready to resume negotiations. Reporter the palestinians want the negotiations to be based on fridays u. N. Resolution. That alone can be a nonstarter for israeli officials. That said a palestinian delegation plans to attend a middle east peace conference next month in paris aimed at restarting talks between the israelis and palestinians, a conference though that some israeli officials are calling a scheme to hurt israels credibility. Thank you, john. President elect donald trump made a brief appearance outside of maralago moments ago to offer his take on secretary kerrys speech. Peter doocy is with the trump camp in florida and has the latest for us on that. Reporter after days of criticizing the Obama Administration for turning their backs on our ally israel, the president elect says he spoke to president obama on the phone and they had a nice conversation but he didnt have anything nice to say about secretary kerrys 70minute long speech about middle east peace. The u. N. Has such tremendous potential, not living up to its potential. Theres such tremendous potential but its not living up. When you see the United Nations solve a problem . They dont. They cause problems. So if it lives up to the potential its a great thing. If it doesnt its a waste of time and money. Reporter you have to wait another three weeks for him to take was to but the president elect isnt waiting to do some diplomatic triage tweeting we cant wait for israel to be treated with such disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the u. S. But not any more. The beginning of the end was the horrible iran deal and now this. U. N. Stay strong, israel, january 20th is fast approaching. That two part tweet caught israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus attention. He tweeted back, president elect trump thank you for your warm friendship and clear cut support for israel. A nonsocial media signal americas relationship with ally israel may change sooner rather than later. The Transition Team just needs a special representative for International Negotiations and its a long time Trump Organization lawyer turned Trump Campaign adviser on u. S. And israeli relations jason greenblack. Mr. Trump talked about the open agriculture job and meeting with a handful of executives from some of americas top hospitals like johns hopkins, the mayo clinic and the Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic was represented by a leading contender to become the vasek. Whoever gets picked for va or agriculture jobs may face some big fights. The reason democrats will put up a fight and rough up these nominees in the Committee Hearings as much as they can is because its what the partys base is demanding. Reporter mr. Trump also announced this evening that sprint is going to bring 5,000 jobs back to the United States in a Company Called one web will hire 3,000 americans. He says this is only possible because theres a spirit of hope in this country right now and right after he made that economic announcement something extraordinary happened the press pool was loading back up into vance to leave maralago and president elect came back out because he said he wanted to talk about what hes been doing in regards to the Veterans Affairs administration, and an official said the Transition Team is considering a private option that would allow veterans to seek treatment at private facilities. Doug. Peter doocy outside of maralago tonight. Thank you for that. Well bring in our panel a little bit early because of the importance of todays news. Daniel halper is with us. Amy walter. And charles krauthammer. Were in a real danger zone at a point in which u. S. Relations have disintegrated which ive never seen in my adult life. But what remains unresolved is whether this is a temporary situation until the new Administration Takes place. The damage from the resolution is long lasting. Its a matter of international law. The israelis cannot escape it. The damage from the speech today i think is meaningless. Nobody is going to remember it after a month. This is kerry trying to express himself emotionally mostly but it will have no import because that administration and the view behind it will be swept away. There was one important element in the 70 minutes of that word salad and it was important because i think theres a ray of hope. The danger for the israelis, the danger for the Peace Process was that there was another shoe to drop. Possibly obama would go back to the Security Council, take the kerry sixpoint plan and impose it on the israelis through Security Council resolution. Thats been a threat. And the second threat was that obama would unilaterally recognize a palestinian state demanding nothing in return from the palestinians meaning the state of war continues, the terrorism continues, et cetera. Where there was a passage buried in those 70 minutes of kerry, which seem to rule those two threats out. Where kerry says theres some want us to dictate the terms of the resolution of the Security Council. He said these are not choices we will make. And he said others want us to simply recognize the palestinian state absent an agreement and again he says these are not choice we will make. If kerry sticks with that, then the damage is done, and we will start all over again on january 20th. I hope he sticks to it. You dont know what will happen in paris. But unless he betrays his own words it looks like the damage is done and it will be somewhat limited. Amy, even when kerry and netanyahu were talking about the same thing, about who specifically wont recognize israel, they are talking over each other. Listen to these sound bites together here. The persistent palestinian refusal to recognize a jewish state remains the core of the conflict. And its removal is the key to peace. Palestinian rejection of israel and support for terror are what the nations of the world should focus on if they truly want to advance peace. I can only express my regret and say that its a shame that secretary kerry does not see this simple truth. Most troubling of all, hamas continues to pursue an extremist agenda. They refuse to accept the israels very right to exist. They have a one state vision of their own. All of the land is palestine. Kerry says hamas refuses israels right to exist. The long term effects i agree with charles about whether or not they will be significant and whether or not they will be significant. The reality is for this administration the relationship with netanyahu has been tissue and that this seemed to be as much about a rebuke of netanyahu personally than it was about a rebuke of overall the israeli policy and that, i think, is what well be remembering when we look back on this. The Trump Administration clearly is coming in with a very different perspective and i think thats what also to remember is that for many folks especially in official washington the expect jays was that Hillary Clinton was going to win the presidency and so the fact that she is not the president , that theres a Trump Administration coming within very different perspectives, very different views on everything from septembers to two state solution at least in term of the people hes put ago round him, their views on this adds fuel to what, what is clearly a long simmering fire between netanyahu and the Obama Administration. Im struck again as mr. Kerry was delivering this, by my count one hour and 12 minute long speech. The president again long way away in hawaii, distantly removed from the dirtiness of all this. As you pointed out this has been a long standing issue between barack obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. To concussion on john kerrys speech. Its important to listen to his words. When he says the palestinians want a one state issue as well. But when you look at people who have interest, hamas, fatah, its not about having one state solution its about annihilating the jewish people and destroying israel as a whole. If they cant recognize israel has the right to exist, where your supposed to go from there . Thats the frustration and talking over each other comes from. Also john kerry struck me today that, you know, the United States can disagree as a friend with you, and issue tough love. But this to Benjamin Netanyahu isnt about a disagreement. This is about a betrayal. He feels as though this should not have been brought to the skourngs it should have been dealt wa disagreement long standing dealt with behind closed doors, in negotiations between the United States and israel. Its not about not being able to take tough love its about a betrayal from the United States and a reversal of long standing policy to defend israel in front of the u. N. Daniel, observations . I think its worth pointing out some misperception and ideas one john kerry ace speech. The whole antisettlement craze hinges on the notion that jews wouldnt be allowed to live in a palestinian state understand the final solution, right . That there would be some sort of Palestinian Settlement apartment buildings were talking about and saying jews cant build here because the palestinians wont allow that. That sort of mindset is sort of washed over and baked in and its perhaps damaging. But as far as john kerrys speech goes its pure fantasy. This has nothing to do with reality. The u. N. Action is very real and has consequences. Kerry and president obama though he is vacationing and hitting the links this very much with his blessing as his own administration has told us. What thats about, i think, is changing the way the democrats and the way half of, you know, half of the government will be perhaps views israel and interacts with israel in the future. This is not something that, you know, they are not going to cheat peace in the next three weeks but they will change the way democrats look and interact with israel and in a real, very real way and perhaps alter that perception. Charles i want to say one thing. Theres one thing that hasnt been raised. That is if the administration if i want to give it the benefit of the doubt about outlying settlements and obstacle to peace and all that, fine. But why when the resolution came to a vote, did they not insist on removing the gratuitous language that says including East Jerusalem. Because if you had it on the territories could you say okay well argue about the outlying settlements. What everybody understands, what turns the resolution from unwise to scandalous it essentially declares the jewish corner of jerusalem, the western wall, the temple mount, the central areas of the jewish identity in the world for 2,000 years are alien territory that the jews have no claim to. Now even this administration doesnt believe in that. If thats the case why didnt they simply insist on removing that phrase, including East Jerusalem and that would have at least eliminated the most egregious and scandalous elements of the resolution. Theres no explanation of that and this stands, this resolution is now a part of international law, says that the jewish quarter of jerusalem is an area that jews should not be allowed to live. Again, president elect trumps pick to be ambassador to israel is David Friedman who wants to relocate the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. That would be west jerusalem. Lot less scandalous than i want sounds. Coming up next the not so easy transition between obama and Trump Administration which weve been talking about. First heres whats some fox facilities are covering. Fox carolina where a man on trial for killing nine people told a judge hell not call any witnesses when the penalty phase of his trial begins next week. 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