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for you. hello everyone. thanks again for joining me in new york. i'm fredricka whitfield and we begin with more massive protests on the streets of israel. the demonstrators are demanding that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu abandoned controversial judicial overhaul and legislation. it's the 14th straight week that israelis have protested over the proposed changes. and this time it comes against the backdrop of days of violence between israel and palestinian militants in gaza and southern lebanon. cnn's fred pleitgen is intel aviv. so you still have a whole lot of people wh...

Our political system is very fractured and you saw that, for example, two years ago in the failed coup d'etat. this is really as probably as divided a country as we have seen since the 1850s. >> so as you know, i mean, there are three major credit rating companies, including s&p, and now you have fitch, who has put the u.s. on notice for a potential demotion from its aaa rating. even if the u.s. government avoids a default, do you think the u.s. deserves to lose its top tier rating with fitch or the other -- with moody's? >> well, fitch and moody's have to speak for themselves. as i said, when...

That this thing is still going on, regardless of the fact that netanyahu suspended the legislation, which means that the protesters don't believe that he's serious. that's number one second. it is still going on . while the security situation is the tier rating and the reason for that one of the reasons for that is that the main achievement of the protest is the fact that daniel had to backtrack on his decision to fire minister of defense. you have gallant? it just happened two weeks ago. we feel like it was 10 years ago. it's only happened two weeks ago, and people now are saying the proteste...