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Presidents, trump has jumped into both feet into one of the most difficult foreign policy issues for any president, the israeli-palestinian conflict. the president-elect has been working the phones, calling world leaders to scuttle an anti-israel resolution at the u.n. >> reporter: just hours before the u.n. security council was set to vote on a resolution, calling for israel to stop building settlements, calling them a violation of international law, the ballot was abruptly called off. cnn learned that president obama was prepared to let that resolution pass, either by abstaining or voting in...

Republicans, put his thumb in the president's eye in a very personal way. is this one last kidney shot before barack obama leaves the scene? >> yeah, i'm not sure how productive this is, jim. you know, the very first ask from the obama administration to the netanyahu administration back in 2009 was to stop building settlements. this is sort of like a book end to that. they weren't able to get anywhere on that issue. partly because they don't have a good personal relationship. i will say, though, i think it's worth saying that president obama has been blamed for, you know, souring relations wit...

Response to the security council resolution and nbc joins us now from honolulu. what are you hearing from there? >> reporter: even though president obama has been out here on vacation, he had several meetings with his national security team and that was how he came to this decision. you know, the position for the u.s., they always had the same position on the settlement activity. all president obama had to do was vote no to veto the resolution, but he abstained. this means the resolution means that israel will have to stop building settlements on the occupy palestinian territory. keep in mind ...

Tensions within that family, but when someone from outside the family criticizes, well, then the united states is always there to defend israel. and so it was in 2011, when president obama's ambassador to the u.n. vetoed a resolution condemning the construction and expansion of israeli settlements in an occupied palestinian territory. egypt recently introduced another version of that resolution which was scheduled to come to the vote at the united nations today at 3:00 p.m. and this time, the united states had not taken a public position on that resolution. this was clearly a message tole isra...

Israeli official telling me they had no choice but to weigh in with the president-elect, asking him to intervene and to help israel out. this was an egyptian proposal to go through at the united nations. president-elect trump reached out to president al cici asking him to delay the vote. tonight, a dispute over peace, politics, and the role of the u.s. presidency may be coming to a head at the united nations. just hours before the security council was set to vote for a resolution calling for israel to stop building settlements, the ballot was cut off, averting a potential clash between the cur...