a recognition of reality that jerusalem has long been the seat of power in israel. we earlier received israeli reaction from flick robertson in jerusalem. a statement from the prime minister netanyahu. ian legal is joining us from ramallah on the west bank. i assume the palestinians are pretty angry about all of this. >> you know, wolf, that's something we've heard in the leadup to this. right now we're waiting for palestinian president mahmoud abbas to give his statement and what we're seeing right now is that he's actually having a phone conversation according to palestinian tv with the egyptian president abdul fatah el sisi and then it's presumed he's going to make a statement. palestinians have been very angry about any sort of declaration of jerusalem as israel's capital. and said that this would essentially torpedo the peace process but really everyone was wait forth words that came in