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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. >> so there you have ben rhodes basically telling president-elect donald trump tbut out of this thing and yet is he going to take over in a couple of weeks here. >> also policy american presidents don't change a long standing four decade old policy about vetoing these kind of actions at the united nations in the waning 30 days of his tenure. this is major policy shift that happened yesterday. and we set back at the u.n. let me just tell you. the u.n., it...

Demonstrate that they are not going to take this sitting down, so to speak. they may accelerate their activities on the ground and finally it may well be -- and this is what we do not know -- is what the putative trump administration policies on settlement activity will be but the appointment of mr. friedman suggests it's going to be a lot less muscular, to say the least, than the current administration. it's very difficult -- final point, sorry to drone on. >> no, i'm hanging on your every word. >> it's very difficult five minutes to midnight four weeks from the inauguration of another presid...

The trump transition team has said that when it comes to foreign affairs the president elect says there is only one president at a time. mr. trump's actions have not always bore that completely. he took the call from taiwan. and today another virtually unprecedented move. this time involving the middle east. word that the israeli government reached out for help from the president elect and evidence that he delivered. cnn joins us now with the latest. why did the israeli government reach out to president elect trump? and what exactly did they want from him? >> there was this was a very controve...

There's more of a premium on these operatives who have been trained up in syria and iraq because it's impossible now to get across that border. so if you've been dispatched back into europe, you don't want to conduct an operation that's not going to be successful. so they are lying in wait, waiting for that opportune moment when they can do something of significant impact. now, in this case, it doesn't seem like amri made it over to the middle east but he was given that choice, make immigration or stay here and conduct an attack in germany. >> thank you, gentlemen. appreciate it. up next, pr...

Like way. >> contrary to what was said, we did not draft this resolution and put it forward. the fact of the matter is, there are resolutions pursued all the time in the security council. this was put forward by egypt yesterday and was take on the a vote, called to a vote by other members of the security council today. we didn't draft it or have a role in bringing it forward. but when we assessed the resolution, this is consistent with u.s. pollty. and we've had years and years where we tried the peace process, tried direct talks, proximity talks. we warned that the continued advance of these ...