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Israel. the moving of the embassy would be seen in the arab world as a very unfriendly act. >> why? to explain to somebody why would -- look, it is israel's capital, are they right in saying this has been our functioning capital, every other country in the world, the functioning capital is where the embassies are? >> even before the bit you mentioned in the leadup to this, in 1947 united nations when it gave legitimacy to the idea of a jewish state and arab state said jerusalem had to be a separate entity. other countries said until there is a final status resolution of the question of jerusal...

Settlements are not an impediment to peace is their view but potentially not helpful, but then it said there's no official position by the administration yet. it's hard to draw conclusions based on a statement that has these internal contradictions. >> and juan, on the subject of iran, boeing's deal with tehran is not involved so companies are warned not to be engaged with those who are sanctioned and can't have a financial relationship, but the quds force, the revolutionary guard, is not really going to be constrained, is it, and iran's government will have the benefit of these mega deals tha...

A strong statement for the need of maintenance of sanctions related to crimea until russia gives that area back. now, you've not heard yet, not specifically from secretary tillerson on this question. i think his views of russia are in many ways the least well-known and the most questions raised about his relationship with the russians in advance of him becoming secretary of state. until there's clarification who speaks for the administration on the question of russia. i wouldn't want to draw conclusions. israel, not only is this potentially chiding statement that returns the trump administrati...

People you know, very experienced veteran correspondents saying that on russia, nikki haley at the u.n. went off russia on ukraine just yesterday. on the settlements they put out a statement for the first time chiding israel, not saying so as strongly of course as the previous administrations, but saying that it's not helpful to the peace process for israel to keep building settlements. what's going on here? >> well i think it's honestly too early to tell. i mentioned before, and when you asked me about iran this context of vagueness and confusion what the policy actually it. i think it applie...

Conversation. we have tremendous respect for the people of australia and the prime minister, it was a follow-up on the call but we'll continue to work through this. we'll honor the commitments we've made in some way meaning that we are going to vet these people in accordance with the agreement that happened and we'll continue to have further updates as we do. john roberts? >> last night on settlements of israel, has there been a shift in u.s. policy? you said you didn't think they were helpful to achieving peace and also didn't think they were an impediment to peace which would represent a dep...