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Day after blocking Democrats from fast-tracking diplomat-turned-banker's nomination, Republicans forgo their objections, allowing Nides to be confirmed via voice vote
In show of strength, former Jerusalem mayor organizes gathering of 4,000 party activists, urges Netanyahu not to hold snap leadership vote as Likud heads to opposition
President, ruben rivlin gave current prime minister benjamin netanyahu the first chance to try to form a government. netanyahu's likud party finished israel's mid-september elections, essentially in a dead heat with the rival blue and white party. that party is headed by benny gantz, the former head of the israeli military. it's unclear that either netanyahu or gantz can gather enough support from other parties to form a government. so let's bring in "the new york times'" former jerusalem bureau chief, now foreign affairs columnist, tom friedman. tom, everyone was writing political obituaries ...
And that detail, richard engel in jerusalem for us tonight. and here to talk about it, jeanine zakaria, former jerusalem bureau chief for "the washington post," who is teaching journalism at stanford university and was recently the author of a piece i'm holding in my hand from the san francisco chronicle, don't move u.s. embassy to jerusalem. i'm going to ask you a question. i fear the answer. is this what a new ant fa da looks like. >> it very well may be, brian. we've seen these pictures before, and along the gaza border in particular, we had very serious wars between israel and hamas in 200...
President trump." so this is not just symbolic. this is historic and lives are at stake. brian? >> thank you for that reporting and that detail, richard engel in jerusalem for us tonight. and here to talk about it, jeanine zakaria, former jerusalem bureau chief for "the washington post," who is teaching journalism at stanford university and was recently the author of a piece i'm holding in my hand from the san francisco chronicle, don't move u.s. embassy to jerusalem. i'm going to ask you a question. i fear the answer. is this what a new ant fa da looks like. >> it very well may be, brian. we'...