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>> i look forward to the second hour. see you back here then. "outnumbered" starts right now. sandra: fox news alert. you're looking live at the dow jones industrial average. the u.s. stock market surging to new records. you're looking at 19,954 on the dow. the big number to watch? 20,000. we've never been there before. the dow is up 21 points right now. we'll keep our eye on it because this might be the day it breaks through there. you're looking at multiple record closes for the dow since donald trump was elected president. will the trump rally continue all the way to the end of the year? we...

Does the united states government believe that the western world is occupying palestinian territory? yes or no. >> you'll have to ask the united states government that. but i want -- >> well you ask them -- >> in response to what you just said before that, the obama administration says that this abstention is in line with previous administration stances on settlement activity. this is ben rhodes -- >> not since jimmy carter. and i would -- >> absolutely not, jim. the fact of the matter is bipartisan policy, the u.s. government, for decades has been to oppose settlements. we've seen an accelera...

And the u.n. on the president-elect, the first thing i have to say is there's one president at a time. president obama is the president of the united states until january 20th. and we are taking this action of course as u.s. policy. and as i also said, this has been long-standing bipartisan u.s. policy to oppose this type of settlement activity going forward. good to see you both. hope you had a merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> want to start with that last point by ben roach. he's right. to be against this israeli settlement activity. what he leaves out, chuck, is that it's also lon...

I don't think there is any question that president obama has consistently opposed settlement. but it is hard to read this as anything other than a parting shot at netanyahu. >> i think that is basically right. although it is driven i think not so much by personal animus, as by increasing frustration that all of his messages to the prime minister about constraining settlement activity, trying to create the best environment conducive for a negotiation -- the palestinians have their problems in that regard as well. have not been heated. and i think growing frustration and a certain amount of rese...

Will listen in vain for an answer. this reveals that all along the rhetoric and posturinger ing to is they have always thought this was about the settlement. this is a way -- they held off doing this earlier because they knew it would hurt hillary clinton. now that hillary is gone, they're doing it out of spite. and out of a sense of emotional commitment to screwing israel. >> to be clear, we are one of the few who had veto power over this so it never went anywhere at all. the u.s. affirmatively chose not to do that. we have audio from the phone call with ben rhodes this afternoon explaining w...