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Against or abstaining, israel and the u.s. in the against or abstaining category. tonight's vote, which is in emergency meeting of the general assembly, could have much the same result, a vast majority of countries voting to attempt to nullify president trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. now, it is a non binding vote, which means that they can't actually change president trump's position or have any sort of facts on the ground effect on what happens, but it is a stinging rebuke of u.s. foreign policy and serves to highlight how much the u.s. stands alone there as trump ...

Assistance to nations could be cut off if they vote against the u.s. position. >> well, we're watching those votes. let them vote against us. we'll save a lot. we don't care. but this isn't like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows what they're doing, and we're not going to be taken advantage of any longer. >> let's go live to jerusalem and bring in cnn's orren lieberma liebermann. and oren, we know that that kind of stance from this president is something his supporters really adored on the campaign trail, but i...

And because this is held under an emergency meeting or a special session of the united nations general assembly, it's considered even more of a rebuke. but president trump and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley have basically made it clear they don't care and they're going through with this anyway. haley made it clear in the u.n. security council vote where she said she was happy to cast that veto, and it's the other nations that should be ashamed of what they did in voting for that resolution trying to nullify trump's recognition of jerusalem. dave and christine, as whether trump means i...

To negotiate. you cannot move forward when you have a culture of hate. we will enter the room willing to negotiate everything. >> when you hear the president changing his tune on everything that is critical, things like what should be recognized adds capital, things like israeli settlements, does that give you concern about whether he can be trusted to keep his word? >> i met him in the past. he waited to come to israel. look at the pictures. he enjoys being in the middle east, being in jerusalem. but it might be difficult because we have bad experience with the palestinians. ins tried to push...

People us shouldn't be taken for granted. maybe it's still a hot issue of what the exact status is of jerusalem, it is a final status issue in any peace deal with the palestinians, the mere fact the. united states, first sitting president of the united states goes to the western wall in the city of jerusalem, state of israel, sends a strong message to the israelis. >> leland: quickly and then we'll move to the weapons with saudi arabia, but it seem as though the president's visit to saudi arabia was framed as a reset of u.s.-saudi relations. fair to say the israelis feel there's a been a reset...