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Them. and so i think that he will do the deal of the possible. everybody likes to talk about grandiose deals, solving once and for all the israeli, palestinian conflict. i'm not sure we're there. in fact, i know that there are wide gaps. i know that abbas told president obama in the oval office "i'll get back to you" on a generous proposal he was given and he never got back. so i think what we have to do is see what is possible. and there are great economic possibilities that can create the infrastructure for peace-making. one thing about president trump, he is a big vision guy. he is a person...

Middle east, europe, all around the world. they look to us, read the paper about us, they hope we'll be a counter force against some of the bad guys in the world. now we're saying, you're on your own? >> this is going to be the challenge. when you eliminate your soft power or the diplomacy, you end up having to rely on your milita mite. this is a national security budget that focuses on the hard power, which is war. not a budget that allows the united states to focus on peace making and peace building, people around the world admire the u.s. want to come here, that often helps us in these situ...

Tradition. behind the scenes one can see as well that the case has to be made because what is incoming in the trump administration is a position that it's not clear where they stand on middle east peace making. for example, the republican party platform did not include support for a two-state solution breaking with years of tradition in the republican party. so i think it's laying this out so that we can have a public debate about these issues going forward is what secretary kerry's going to try to propose. >> obviously prime minister netanyahu has some very critical, he said according to our ...

To respond to this pick and if some of the rhetoric is actually something that the president-elect does support and does try to implement, how about saudi arabia and the other allies react? >> it's a paradox. israel's relations with egyptians, with saudis, with the emrat t emiratis are probably closer now. injecting the jerusalem issue into this as a time when mr. trump is trying to create an p anti-iran yap coalition and perhaps even pursue a regional approach to peace making is going to screw this up big time. and i suspect it's broader than just moving the embassy. the israeli/palestinian p...

Rates to lower, it doesn't have the strength to do anything so that's the net result. the fed would like to add 25 basis points, a quarter of a percent now, maybe do it again in a few months without causing any damage to the economy. as you can see, this market is open largely flat. down a few points. this could change. you could get that 20,000 today. but the point of the fed is don't do anything that's really going to hurt anybody at the moment. >> the fed, the market, no one likes any big jerky moves. >> that's right. the fed isn't going to start. >> ali velshi, thanks so much. i'm going ...