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Recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. benjamin netanyahu reflecting on the president's decision today, called it historic. >> over the millennia, you can actually cite a few significant milestones. yesterday's statement by president trump i think is such a milestone. >> in a few hours, many palestinians are going to attend friday prayers in observance of the muslim sabbath. many palestinians are off work today and there is concern here in israel that there could be an escalation in the number of anti-israeli and anti-u.s. protests on the streets. shannon, israeli authorities have deployed...

Recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. benjamin netanyahu reflecting on the president's decision today, called it historic. >> over the millennia, you can actually cite a few significant milestones. yesterday's statement by president trump i think is such a milestone. >> in a few hours, many palestinians are going to attend friday prayers in observance of the muslim sabbath. many palestinians are off work today and there is concern here in israel that there could be an escalation in the number of anti-israeli and anti-u.s. protests on the streets. shannon, israeli authorities have deployed...

Behind this decision by president trump? >> reporter: you know, i think that also falls a little bit along party lines and certainly your political lienings. there is no doubt overall israelis consider jerusalem to be their capital. so, across the political divide, people would look at this and say this was a good decision that the decision to recognize jerusalem is coming now from the united states. there are those who are more looking at what this ultimately does to the peace process and whether or not that undermines the stated objective of having a two-state solution. i think there are som...

To start thinking about future generations. i urge all countries and the security council and in the middle east to temper their statements and their actions in the days ahead. peace remains achievable. we must all do our parts to achieve it. thank you. >> thanks to the representative of the united states. >> harris: you saw the u.n. ambassador, nikki haley talking. i don't know if you caught that just then, but this was important because what she was doing was outside the lines of talking about what the president did yesterday with regards to israel, which was where she started, recognizing j...

This never took place. if he did have this conversation. how did he maintain his security clearance about having a financial interest. he would ultimately have to deal with disclosure. there is a violation of law. >> if he sent a text, bob mueller will find it. >> i have to go. whether it was in the movie or not, he will find it. it's paid off for a lot of investigations. >> richard, i believe you as well. >> we come back, the president setting off a firestorm by recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. there are warnings of outrage. ♪shostakovich playing ♪