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Happy with the one they like the best. >> president trump backing away from decades of u.s. policy in the middle east. saying he would not insist on a two-state solution to resolve the israeli/palestinian conflict. that came at the news conference before the meeting with prime minister netanyahu. in the conference, the president urged the israeli prime minister to curb settlement construction. we have cnn's oren liebermann live in jerusalem for us right now. some factions within the coalition have been pushing for an end to the two-state solution. oren. >> reporter: john, that is the domestic ...

Label. he doesn't want to talk about labels. he wants to talk about substance. that is what netanyahu's right-wing government wants to hear. shortly after that, it marks the end of the palestinian state. they are calling for more settlement construction. some calling for annexation for parts or all of the west bank. they are ignoring the settlement construction halted for a bit to work on peace. they will puts pressure on netanyahu to work on settlements. the line where settlement construction should stop for a bit is the line that palestinian leadership is referring to. that is what you need ...

Would like to see settlement construction halted for a bit. that line is what the palestinian lead seized on. israel needs to listen to trump and halt construction so settlements can continue. what is unclear is the policy is not formulated. wediplomats. in the noncommittal answer shows he hasn't formed how he wants to handle the policy. alison, he has had shifts from the campaign. he backed off the promise to move from the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he said the expansion is unhelpful to the peace process. we will see how his policies shift. >> i guess the israelis see it the relation...

Administration and the palestinians. the report today that the cia director is meeting with mahmoud abbas, the palestinian president. but there needs to be an intensive discussion on both sides of this conflict to understand both their narratives and their requirements. >> the white house has backed off a little bit on some of the more stint jent stands that president trump made during the election season. he's no longer talking about moving the embassy. he may still want to do it, but not saying it every time he talks about israeli, moving it to jerusalem. he's been critical of settlement con...

>> there's some effort to try to understand it. they seem a little contradictory at first but the truth is i don't think that they really are. since the inauguration, the president has four times come out and made very clear that he does believe that pursuing middle east peace is important and that he believes that further expansion of west bank settlements makes that harder and he's now called directly on the prime minister to try to put limits on that. that doesn't mean he'll oppose everything but means he cares about this issue and it means he's going to try to restrain settlement construct...