by. the middle east not agreeing with the president's decision. you're not agreeing with the president's decision. politicians here in the united states not agreeing with the decision as well. how are people there reconciling all this? >> reporter: yeah, yasmin, that is the question a lot of palestinians are certainly asking this morning. they are asking of their political leadership. let's talk really quickly about what is happening here. this was the third day of what palestinians were calling days of protests and the friday prayers which everyone was watching very closely have just let out. you can see a lot of the worshippers starting to make their way out of the old city here. some chants in the background. it all comes on the backdrop of some heightened security across jerusalem and we're for the nat to have with us the spokesperson for the israeli police, superintendent mickey rosenfeld. i want to bring him in to get a better understanding of the overall situation. i want to start off asking, mickey, in the past we've seen israeli officials restrict those who can go into the city, even restricting those who can make their way to jerusalem from the west bank. we didn't see any of that today.