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Collusion to craft the vote. >> we also strongly reject the notion that somehow the united states was the driving force behind this resolution. the egyptians and palestinians had long made clear to all of us, to all of the international community their intention to bring the resolution to a vote before the end of the year and we communicated that to the israelis and they knew it anyway. the united states did not draft or originate this resolution nor did we put it forward. >> i'm joined by cnn global affairs correspondent elise labott. elise, kerry's speech was a strong defense of the administ...

Rightful capital and there's what they call an end to the conflict which means all arab states if there was a peace deal would recognize israel and what secretary kerry argued in his speech is that even though israel has been improving relations with arab states such as those in the gulf such as saudi arabia, qatar, the united arab emirates because of threats posed by iran, he said israel will never have peace with its neighbors if it doesn't make peace with the palestinians and his larger argument is this settlement policy, pam, this expansion of israeli settlements on lands the palestinians ...

We've been hearing from the number-two democrat in the house steny hoyer saying this was not the right way to go, so the non-binding resolution is expected to pass with bipartisan support. the biggest question is will republicans go further, even depriving funding as some have suggested because of this action. >> how likely is that, jeremy? >> well, passing a resolution in the house condemning this action will be pretty easy. there is bipartisan support as juana suggested and what this will do is essentially show first that the trump administration is trying to take a new tack towards israel a...

Been done with the resolution and what do you see the relationship between israel and the trump administration being looking ahead? >> well, on the second part of the equation it's very difficult to see how that relationship is going to evolve. the president-elect has to get into office, sit in the office, get his cabinet officers in place and then determine what his policies are going to be. now, having said that every american administration, democratic and republican certainly since 1967 have stated as official u.s. position that israeli settlements are illegal under international law. rona...

You've heard secretary kerry and others say the u.s. didn't do anything to orchestrate this resolution. why didn't doesn't israel share the information rather than waiting until the next administration? >> frankly, i don't know what's so secret about not sharing that information now. if it's there it should be publicized now but what secretary kerry said and all we can do is take our officials at their sword that the united states did not introduce the resolution or draft the resolution, but when the resolution was introduced into the united nations security council it did obviously discuss th...