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Trip, you have a president that is sending a message to israel. i stand with you at your holiest site. i have your back. you have a president who met with the arab and muslim heads of state and said we have to join forces and fight terror, and basically he's trying to needle this thread here between israel and the gulf states, between israel and the sunni states that it has not have normalized ties with and say king salmon in wants peace with the palestinians. why don't we create some normalcy in the middle east between israel and the palestinians and have a wider impact on the entire region. ...

>> reporter: and they still are, but they've done so with no effort or no clear policy on where exactly the western wall is. rex tillerson said the western wall is in jerusalem. of course it's in jerusalem. the question is where is jerusalem, in israel in the west bank in is this started with the preparations for this visit as u.s. and israeli officials were meeting here trying to make sure the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, would be with trump at the western wall, and then there would be a live broadcast put out of the wall. u.s. officials snapped back saying essentially this isn't your ...

Trump as a candidate was talking about islam being a threat to america. he comes to saudi arabia and makes a much more measured speech, talking about islam not being the enemy. he's coming to israel backtracking on his promise to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he goes to visit the western wall, which is a powerful symbol to send about the jewish nature of jerusalem and israel. remember, israel as a jewish state is the key part of negotiations with palestinians that its jewishness would be affirm affirmed. here the president is not doing so with the israeli prime minister so he's ...

His words weren't too bad. we heard some very positive things, him stating that islam is one of the great faiths of the world, something that he hadn't said before, and something that his advisers would refuse to even admit. so we saw a change in tone but we really need to see a change in policy. we need to see concrete actions, like not defending in court the muslim ban, executive orders, any racial and religious profiling at the borders, speaking out against the rising tide of islamaphobia and hate incidents targeting american muslims. if we see this kind of more positive rhetoric backed up ...

President trump making history today. he just wrapped up a visit to jerusalem's western wall, the first sitting president to make that visit. it is a moment with political and religious significance, and it comes as the president faces a cloud of controversy over the russia investigation back here at home. let's bring in a democratic congressman from pennsylvania. thank you very much for being here. let me just get your take overall on the president's visit to the western wall following the language that he chose to use and notably what he chose not to say while he was in saudi arabia. are you...