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Violate international law. >> secretary carrie changed decades of this careful bipartisan approach by publicly reaffirming to suppose illegality of settlements. >> with less than a month left in the obama administration, then-secretary of state john kerry announced the u.s. consider those sediments a threat to peace. >> the permanent policy of settlement construction that risks making peace impossible. in virtually every country in the world other than israel opposes settlements. >> secretary of state mike pompeo argues the international community was already positioned against israel. this an...

Empowered the most radical factions in the region. basically you have hezbollah, al qaeda. basically this is a declaration of war on 1.5 million muslims. that's why it's scary. bobby is right. they did not think of this move in terms of geopolitics. probably they wanted to help roy moore win the election. >> in addition to that, there were already some questions of jared kushner being the lead negotiator given just recently he did not disclose his family had funded settlement construction. did the u.s. have credibility even before this happened? was there a lot of confidence in the u.s. being ...

The table or the prime minister stopping settlement construction, dealing with his very tight coalition within isreal, having the political courage and the political space to come to the table, is that there beneath the president's effort which is to be applauded? >> i don't think we're getting any indication that it is. there's a little bit of a pattern of the administration coming in and talking optimist cally, having high hopes, getting credit for their big aspiration and then they hit against the reality of the middle east. mr. abbas raised both of those in his talks. it's great people are...

Prfrp hosts palestinian leader mamoud abbas at the white house today. palestinian officials describe abbas as hopeful and eager to engage mr. trump despite the president's divisive rhetoric about muslims on the campaign trail. so what's on the agenda? let's bring in cnn's ian lee who is on the west bank. what are they hopeful and eager about, ian? >> reporter: good morning. one thing they will do is get to know each other. this is the first time the two leaders have met. expect that. one thing the palestinians say they like from president trump is the direct diplomacy. not going through the st...

In terms of israel what they consider permissible settlement construction. >> the president spoke yesterday with president netanyahu. it had to deal with regional security. i know when they met here at the white house there was discussion of settlement and the president was very clear what his desires and wishes were, i think we will have more in the coming weeks. >> a followup question to his asking about the thousands of women who have chosen to strike today and you're saying that it is a free country, channel 5 we reported quite a bit on the schools and districts closing because so many wom...