Good morning, everybody. T it is monday, may 14th. Im yasmin vossoughian. In just a couple of hours the new u. S. Embassy in israel will officially open in jerusalem. Wh where do things stand right now . Well, todays events follow President Trumps historic yet highly controversial decision last year to recognize jerusalem as israels capital and move the u. S. Embassy there from tel aviv. Obviously israel gained control over East Jerusalem in the sixday war back in 1967 although that claim has not been internationally recognized by the United Nations and even sbo until the u. S. decision the handful of nations that followed has been few. Its opening in a preamerican consulate building and not a new facility. At least not yet. The delegation which includes ivanka trump, Jared Kushner. John sullivan and others, all arrived in a tense jerusalem yesterday. They were greeted by Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. 100,000 protests, they are expected to take part in multiple protests today as weve been seeing through the weekend and hamas has called on tens of thousands of people to join in and has indicated they may try to breach israels border near gaza as Israeli Defense forces have doubled the amount of troops stationed along that border in anticipation of todays events. Its following several violent clashes which broke out over the weekend including in gaza at the temple mount in jerusalem. Talk to me about what you ooefz been seeing there. I know that you arrived late saturday afternoon. What have you been seeing on the ground there so far . Well, there are three important days and as we were talking about this yesterday, yesterday marked jerusalem day, a controversial day in its own right. Its the day that israel celebrates as a National Holiday when it celebrates what it says is the reuniany occasion of the city of jerusalem east and west but its measured by a lot of marches through the muslim quarter of the old city. Gestures that the palestinians say are provocative and offensive and its part of three days of concern for the Israeli Government because as you mentioned and we are going to get a live report from gaza, there are expected to be hundreds of thousands of protesters marching along the border and tomorrow after the Embassy Opens palestinians commemorate what is known as the catastrophe day. That is the day that the state of israel was founded and hundreds of thousands of palestinians went as refugees into neighboring countries and began the Palestinian Refugee crisis. So from a perspective of whats on the ground, a very tense atmosphere, but as you mentioned, yesterday the Israeli Government was all celebrations. It was a festive atmosphere as they welcomed the high rajing delegation and that too has not been without controversy. One of the pastors that is going to be speaking at the opening ceremony, a controversial figure. He has been known to make some comments that are considered to be anti muslim and other statements. Mitt romney criticized the pastor for his views on mormonism and even the event itself has been shrouded in controversy. I know that i was on air with you last night and you had some incredible interviews talking with the spokes people from the palestinian side and the israeli side. Talk to me about the official response youre hearing from both sides ahead of this opening of the u. S. Embassy. The Israeli Government has been clear about this. This is a historic moment. The streets will be lined with american flags. Weve seen many of the buses playing off of the trump make America Great slogan. You see buses with the slogan make israel great. So theres definitely a festive atmosphere. A lot of praise toward the American Administration. A completely different tone as you can imagine coming out of the palestinian side. In fact, the mission in d. C. Said that the decision by the u. S. To move its embassy there was the end of the u. S. s role in trying to broker a twostate solution. They called the decision pushing israel closer to the line of a full fledged apartide state. Putting the u. S. In a very different position to say the least when it comes to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Well be following this story all morning. But turning to north korea saying its going to hold a ceremony for dismantling its Nuclear Test Site later this month on the 23rd through the 25th of may. In a statement run on state media a north Korea ForeignMinistry Says all the tunnels in the testing ground will be destroyed by explosion, and that above ground observation, security and Research Facilities will also be removed. In addition, north korea says it will invite journalists from the United States, south korea, china, russia and Great Britain to witness these events. In a tweet President Trump sent his thanks to the dprk adding it is a quote, very smart and a very gracious gesture. Kim jong un previously announced he would shut down the test site although prior reporting indicates that it at least partially collapsed and is most likely unusable going forward. Rudy giuliani kept up his rapid pace of comments say. Quote as far as we know hes not. He also added that the president s current legal team has never really determined a precise day when cohen stepped away. The president referred to cohen as one of my personal attorneys after the raid on cohens offices on april the 9th and tweeted Attorney Client privilege is dead on april the 10th. The white house has side stepped questions on cohens status as well. And the wall street journal reports that cohen bragged about his relationship with the president. A source said cohen told lawyers at the firm he could call the boss any time. Cohens business deals giuliani said the president said to him quote, i had no idea. He certainly never lobbied me. So new reporting from the wall street journal showing an aggressive approach from cohen to profit off of his relationship with donald trump. In addition to at t and other companies cohen reportedly offered Consulting Services to ford and to uber which both rejected his overtures. Bob muellers team has reached out to ford requesting information on cohens outreach and has interviewed the head of foreign affairs. The journal reports that uber cited new york taxi business as a copen tshl conflict of interest and that he then modified his pitch to no avail reminding the company that he has quote or he was quote, the president s lawyer. Cohens overall pitch was blunt, telling prospective clients that they should fire whomever was advising them and saying quote, i have the best relationship with the president on the outside and you need to hire me. Meanwhile, at t says the executive who oversaw cohens contract with the Telecom Giant has in fact retired although the wall street journal reports that he was forced out according to people familiar with the matter. Friday the companys ceo sent a memo to staff saying that hiring cohen as a political consultant was a quote, big mistake. And the fallout is continuing after White House Communications aid kelly sadler mocked senator john mccains diagnosis during an internal meeting last thursday. Axios reporting that after the leak of the callous remark a visibly upset and furious sarah huckabay sanders scolded the White House Communications team on friday calling the leaks, quote, disgusting. At one point in the meeting, one saying that she stood with sadler. A source said. Her point was that when one staff member is publicly targeted by other members of the staff she thinks thats inappropriate and the team should support staffers subject to leaks. Mccain said she asked sadler to publicly apologize and sadler agreed to do so but that apology has not happened yet. Gabby, happy monday to you. Good to talk to you this morning. Happy monday. Et wilets talk about the mi cohen cloud, shall we say . Its continuing to grow and grow and grow. As the weeks progress. What do you make sort of on the growing focus of his of his consulting work and how were learning more about this and the companies that hes sort of tried to lobby for more government for more work. And what impact do you think this is having on the Mueller Investigation so far . Well, i mean, its not unusual for somebody this close to a sitting u. S. President to be pitching himself in order to give advice to various fortune 100 companies and bigger corporations, but what is unusual about this situation is how Many CompaniesMichael Cohen approached in the days and months after President Trump won his election victory. I mean, he was out there basically shopping himself around to you know, dozens and dozens of companies all of whom are now at risk of being contacted by the special counsels team to figure out whether or not they added him to their payroll and if they did, you know, what conversations took place, what kind of work he was actually doing for them, whether he should have in fact, been registered as a lobbyist. These are all the questions that are surrounding this and it is a huge deal for the special counsel and one that could drag this probe out even longer. We know he was not in fact registered as a lobbyist which is interesting to say the least considering all the lobbying that he was in fact doing or trying to do anyway. Lets talk about the move of the u. S. Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. I was just talking to ayman whos been in jerusalem for the last couple of days. Causing a lot of tension over in the middle east to say the least. How do you think though, that this could impact domestic politics . Well, i think the Biggest Issue now is for Jared Kushner whos been working to try and broker middle east peace deal for several monos now. That seems like its almost in the can because of this move. Domestically this is something that obviously really helps the president s base. Hes this is something that reverses decades of American Foreign policy. It may have the possibilities of escalating tensions even further in the region especially between iran and israel, but here its certainly a move that will invigorate the president s supporters and something theyll be keeping a close eye on today. And its very much about his base decisions that hes making lately. Im going to talk to you again at the bottom of the hour. Thank you, gabby. Much more on todays embassy move. Aprils military is bracing for violence in gaza and the west bank. Well get a live report once again. Plus, john kelly seems to take a page out of President Trumps play book. What the chief of staff has to say about the White House Press corps. Those stories and of course a check on your weather when we come back. Were on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, its time to wake up to keurig. Wakey wakey rise and shine oh my gosh how are you . Well watch this. I pop that in there. Press brew. Thats it. So rich. I love it. Thats why you should be a keurig man fullbodied. 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On the one hand theres the israeli side of things and what they believe and obviously now what the americans believe just hearing from john bolton there and then there is the palestinian side and of course what is happening in gaza which is really ground zero for everything and really what hamas is advising the palestinians to do going forward, talk to me about what youve been hearing from the ground there with regards to gaza specifically. Yeah, well, you know, as you mentioned, the situation in gaza is very dire for the past six weeks. We have had sitin protests but its compounded by the humanitarian crisis. We actually want to now cross over to gaza, bring in our correspondent who is reporting there. We know the situation today has been violent. We know the protests continue. What can you tell us about what is unfolding today there in the context of what we are seeing in terms of the protests and the sitin marches . Well, were now right at the border between the gaza strip and israel. Were seeing quite a lot of almost festival like atmosphere. Women and children coming here waving flags, i dont know if you can hear some of that music in the background thats playing, but this has been a couple of, you know, a very violent situation unfolding and we saw just about half an hour ago what looked like hundreds, perhaps thousands of protesters running parallel to the razor wire border area and it looked like they were running south to what seemed to be at least a small and temporary breach in that line and thats the goal of the protesters here. This border yeah, its really this has been a decade long blockade. We know that the Israeli Military is watching that situation closely. They eve doubled the number of soldiers and forces on the border over the last 48 hours. I quickly want to ask, i think for those people that dont know, important to clarify from you, if you could sort of just bring some clarity to the situation with regards to the current support from the palestinians for hamas at this current time. How are people feeling about the hamas leadership in gaza right now . Well, you know, there oos two parts to that. Theres been obviously growing disappointment over the past several years. Palestinians have been divided between the rival political factions. Not really a lot of official polling but certainly the popularity has waned because of the way theyve governed the gaza strip. I spent a lot of time there. They make a distinction between how hamas runs the gaza strip and how hamas operates as a Resistance Movement toward israeli occupation. And theres a separation how its being governed by hamas. . The pa has international relations. People can travel freely. The Economic Conditions in the west bank, very different than the situation in gaza. So there is a political divide, but also a very different divide among palestinians between the quality of their lives. All right. Well have much more from jerusalem and from ayman in the coming hour. Thanks. Still ahaeead, the celtics sm roll the cavs routing king james and the company in game one while on the ice the capitals remain firmly in the drivers seat. Details next in sports. That was pretty good. At some point, we are going to be able to beat als. Because life is amazing. So i am hoping for a cure. I want this, to uh, to be a reality. Um, yeah. cat 2 hey, whats that . cat 1 whoa, gravy cat 2 you mean extra gravy cat 1 what . cat 2 thats friskies extra gravychunky cat 1 chunky gravy purradise cat 2 purradise . Really . vo feed their fantasy. Friskies. Were on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, its time to wake up to keurig. Wakey wakey rise and shine oh my gosh how are you . 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