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fence. tree until you are right when you see the video and television it appears like they are protesters in a mass protest, 30,000 people. as you pointed out, this is what the idf has treated out. let me show you some pictures of some of the people they say participated in this. members of the hamas military wing. they call them the terrorist of the violent riots in the spokesperson for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says part of the plan was that hamas even then children come a 7-year-old girl up to that fence, hoping israeli troops would shoot and kill her. listen to what david keyes told me. >> in fact, the 7-year-old girl right up to the barrier because they were trying to get her killed so they could use this for some perverse success. this little girl was wearing minnie mouse was sued and she was terrified.
his country's assistance to iraq and iran. despite iran's hatred of the jewish state and warnings they are expanding in the region at the expense of israel, u.s. and arab allies. let's go to jerusalem and talk to david keyes, netanyahu's spokesman who joins us now. thank you for joining us. sadly and tragically the death toll is 500 at least and climbing in iran. considering what they've said about your country, why would your government make this offer? >> well, the prime minister made this offer because he saw the horrendous pictures of mothers and fathers searching for their children amidst the rubble. devastating images. israel has sent humanitarian assistance and medical aid around the world to haiti and mexico city, the philippines. iran is a lot closer than those places and israel's humanitarian desire to aid the people of the region, not the regime but the people is what
by keeping the deal iran can walk into the capacity to enrich enough uranium for hundreds of nuclear weapons. that's bad for iranians and bad for israel and the middle east and bad for the entire world. >> eric: critics say it gives them the green light under this deal in eight years to go for that. david keyes, thank you and thank you for speaking to us about the iranian challenge. it is the challenge that we all face. julie. >> julie: the keystone pipeline springing a massive leak in south dakota spilling an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil. state officials say there is no sign any surface bodies of water or drinking water systems have been compromised but emergency crews working to clean up the spill as quickly as possible. shutting down the pipeline while fixing the leak. officials are trying to determine how it happened. >> eric: as predicted premiums are going up. insurance companies blaming president trump. republicans say rate hikes were going to spike long before mr.
palestinians are trying to do is delegit mite israel by saying you don't have a connection. that's why vote toss say you don't really belong in jerusalem are so damaging, because that's what this conflict is about. it's a self-evident truth that jerusalem is the capital of the state of israel. it's been the epicenter of the jewish people's moral, religious and political life for literally thousands of years. there's absolutely no -- leland: so moving the embassy, in your view, verifies that as a stamp of approval from the world of what you just said. >> well, it's a tamp of approval of a basic truth, a stamp of approval of the realization that jerusalem is the capital of the jewish people and the state of israel. and that's been evident for literally thousands of years. leland: david keyes, you're going to have a busy couple of weeks coming up. appreciate it, my friend. >> thank you very much. elizabeth: coming up, leland vittert giving us an exclusive look of a night raid on israel's heavily fortified border. what israeli troops face every day.
part to be on alert. elizabeth: wow. good advice, bryan. thank you so much to. >> reporter: of course to. elizabeth: leland? leland: ahead of the president's visit to jerusalem, the palestinians have become a charm offensive of sorts saying they're ready for peace and telling mr. trump he is just the man who can do the impossible. but israelis say the media to fencive is disin-- offensive is disingenuous at best while they celebrate the bombers and gunmen that have taken so many israeli lives. to talk about it, david keyes joining us as we overlook the old city. great to have you. is this a new condition of the israeli government? is this a posturing against the palestinians? what's happening here? >> it's not a precondition for any kind of talks, but what it is is a realization that peace can't move forward if the palestinian president is actively infusing the next
refusal to recognize a jewish state. israel's prime minister has called on president abbas to meet hundreds of times for direct peace talks. he even invited him to speak in the knesset. president abbas said no to recognizing israel as a jewish state and no to direct relations and no to condemning the hate speech that is a daily occurrence on palestinian media. instead of focusing on the actual barriers to peace, this has basically done a bait and switch where people think -- >> we have a problem with our satellite there. can we get david keyes back? he's back. so, mr. keyes, i think you got the last part of your statement out. to that, talking about israel. your education minister said absolutely no to a palestinian state. your justice minister called a palestinian state hamas stan and
>> these are the final status issues which need to be worked out between the parties. i can't negotiate right now live on cnn. that's for president abbas and prime minister netanyahu to sit down and work out all these difficult issues. you can't work out difficult issue physical the other party won't even sit down with you. ramallah is a few minutes away from here. i would much rather be there right now negotiating peace with a palestinian leader than talking to you, no offense. but the palestinian leadership has said no to literally hundreds of calls. this rejectism -- i understand that. they have said a lot of things. when the building did stop, it didn't bring them to the table. when israel took out every single settlement from gaza it didn't take them to the table. that is because that is not the issue. i hope we can find common ground in the near future. >> david keyes, we're out of time. thank you very much. i appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. coming up in our next hour a reaction from the palestinian
record, to push back, but in some ways a lot of the speech was either talking to the historical record or digging out talking points from two years ago that they had on the shelf sitting there, and just said, well, for the record, we're going to put that out, too. >> hala, reading to you the statement from the spokesman for netanyahu. david keyes which we just got. "like the security council resolution that secretary kerry advanced in the u.n., his speech tonight was skewed against israel." obviously it's night in israel. "for over an hour kerry obsessively dealt with settlements and barely touched poon the root of the conflict. palestinian opposition to a jewish state and any boundaries." what's your response? >> that's the criticism of course from the netanyahu government, one we've heard time and time again. important to note several months ago, of course, the u.s., under the obama administration, the
largest ever security aid package to israel was authorized. we're talking $38 billion over ten years. so you do have this spat. it could have, perhaps, some of its roots in a very difficult personal relationship between the u.s. president and benjamin netanyahu, but strategically speaking it's difficult to argue that the united states is somehow turning its back on israel under president obama, because the aid, the strategic relationship is still very much there. so coming from the netanyahu government, it is expected we'd hear from david keyes say something like that, but really practically the relationship is still in terms of the strategic financial -- in terms of the security aid package still very much there, jake. >> and, john, one of the points secretary kerry was trying to make, in the long term, israel can't be both jewish and democratic, unless there is also a palestinian state. some of that sound. let's roll that.
netanyahu's voters and seems netanyahu is appealing to his own voters as well as he blasts the security council resolution and president obama. kate? >> great to see you. thank you. "outfront" now, the spokesman for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, david keyes is joining me. thanks so much for the time. >> thank you. >> you say you have ironclad information, how you put it, that president obama, the obama administration, was behind the resolution, but the white house denies this. david, are you saying that they are lying? >> what i'm saying is that we have ironclad information from sources in the arab world and internationally and we're going to share that information with the incoming administration through the proper channels and if the new administration chooses to share that information, that's their prerogative. >> so are they lying, then? >> well, all i can say is that we have that information. it's very clear to us. it's not in doubt. and we are going to pass it