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Okay. we need to talk about more fallout from mr. trump's tweets. this one about israel. let's bring back our panel to discuss. josh rogan, jackie kucinich and nicholas burns. egypt wanted a u.n. resolution to end a settlement activity in israel. egypt wanted it to be sort of deemed, you know, illegal and the u.n. was going to move forward. and then israel, as we understand it, reached out to mr. trump and mr. trump weighed in. let me read to you the statement he tweeted. this was via facebook. so, yet another medium. he said as the united states has long maintained peace between the israelis ...

Will if we have to. and we'll do what we have to to maintain our safety as a country. and i welcome you as a friend. if you want to be a friend. if not, we're going to have a problem. and it sounds a little bit like someone we heard from 1980. mr. reagan. and i think taking a tough stance to let him know we're not to be trifld with is a refreshing change from the last eight years where russia basically the things with impunity and weren't called on the carpet for anything. and at the beginning of the obama administration, they were looking for a reset. russian relations with the united states ...

Israelis i would argue that's right. it was a parting shot in defense of what the obama administration and secretary kerry believe to be the waning hopes of a two-state solution. my concern however is that this is going to produce the opposite impact of what the administration intensed. i can't even imagine that president-elect trump has even waited to tweet and disavow and to distance himself personally and after four weeks from today, brooke -- >> 27 days. >> four weeks from today, right president trump's policies with respect to settlement activity, that's negative impact number one, he's g...

The ak sdaks ccusations are out that secretary kerry pushed this? >> we heard from the administration they would support constructive steps to promote peace in the middle east. there is nothing constructive about this resolution. when you look at what the palestinians will do now, they will not come back to the negotiation table. they will continue to come back to the u.n. asking for more resolutions regarding the peace process. i think the people in the white house are aware that it is not constructi constructive, it's not helpful. i don't know why they change the policy of the u.s. a longsta...

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...