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In iranian affairs since before the 1979 revolution through present day. >> let's go to david quickly. david ignatius, ralph san januariy -- rafsanjani could be called pragmatic. moderates consider him a loss but when he needed to be a hard liner, he was a hard-liner, right? >> it's funny. joe, i thought of him in my several visits to iran a blockage. the aspicturaspiration. he always kept his deal with the hard-liners. he might support the rouhanis or the reformers but he never really left the camp of the way the regime is going to work. >> joining us now from london, nbc news tehran bureau c...

Was prepared to abstain, which would be an unusual step indeed siding with the rest of the world against israel. >> it was. and it was also unusual for president-elect trump to insert himself into this discussion earlier today. transition officials telling us they did give the white house a heads up before the president-elect put out this very strongly worded statement, andrea. i'm going to read you part of the statement right now. it says as the united states has long maintained peace between the israelis and the palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties and ...

Politics. trump talked about middle east as the greatest deal. if he can do one deal as president that's the one he wants to do. should we look at this as part of his negotiation, sending a hard-liner so he can sends an envoy to work both sides. or do we look at this and friedman's position on settlements. if that's his policy it makes an eventual peace deal unlikely. >> trying to make heads or tails of the trump strategy. this is someone who has tried to make the ultimate deal, mideast deal for months. he was determined it seemed to deal over there. and then, you know, he actually becomes pre...

President-elect to speak very soon. trump's controversial new pick for ambassador to israel also we want to talk about hard-liner david friedman. could up-end dedecades of agree. joining me for more on the pick, former u.s. ambassador to israel james cunningham. thank you for being with us. here is what friedman said in his first statement after trump nominated hill. he said, he looks forward to working with israel and "doing this from the u.s. embassy in israel's eternal capital, jerusalem." why is moving the embassy to jerusalem, has been talked about in the past, but not done. why is it a b...

Should president-elect trump pick rudy giuliani, someone who is a longtime supporter, a hard-liner, or mitt romney, someone who is a former antagonist. he was one of the first top republicans to come out and criticize donald trump as a candidate. but he is a more moderate republican. you have a lot of folks who think he would be the better pick. kellyanne conway, one of donald trump's top advisers, raised a lot of eyebrows on thanksgiving. she started tweeting with the importance of loyalty in a secretary of state. se seemed as if she was picking sides, pushing for rudy giuliani. chuck asked h...