before him? well, everyone is flawed. we live in a fallen world. it is not perfectible. we seek a more perfect union. it is unquestionable this is the most unconventional. and, in many ways, perhaps the most volatile president we have ever had. these are perilous times. again, not arguing that we have cultural zoloft from history. but we can look back and see that the country was not always what we wanted it to be and we have to keep working. the book is the soul of america. i m sorry i don t have it in studio, it s already home on my bookshelf to get started next weekend. thank you so much, jon, for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. in our next hour, the trump administration prepares to open the new american embassy in jerusalem as tensions flare. we ll talk to israel s ambassador to the u.n. and the kasie dvr.
the washington examiner. let me start with this. tomorrow the opening ceremonies at the american embassy in jerusalem that president trump changed the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. the selection and maybe i m taking this personally as a clergy member, the selections of who has been announced as opening prayer giver and the invocation couldn t be moredy divisive and polarizing figures. let me go to who they are. we re told that the opening prayer is being done by reverend jeffries. and reverend jeffries is noted for some very islamic statements, some anti-muslim
the american embassy in jerusalem! the stakes are extremely high. and the move fraught with peril with iran already bitter over the u.s. pullout of the jcpoa. the rocket attacks from syria on the golan heights this week and israel s retailation for them is a sign of the hair trigger conditions right now. to that point, saudi arabia has announced that if iran proceeds with its nuclear weapons development, saudi arabia will embark on its own nuke program, potential nuclear escalation in the world s hottest spot. julie? julie: and those attacks raising questions as well, doug, about the safety of the u.s. delegation attending the embassy s opening. is the president attending? he will not be. state department spokeswoman heather noward announced who will be going. we are pleased that our deputy secretary of state john sullivan will be leading the delegation. jared and ivanka trump are
in jerusalem, sir, i said, how much? something other presidents don t ask. they said i kid you not they said, sir, $1 billion! i said, i billion? you know what a billion dollars is? you have a beautiful house that costs you about 50,000 bucks, right? hopefully it s worth a lot more than that. but that s what it costs. so i said, a billion dollars? yes, sir. we are looking for a site now. we are going to spend a lot of money onmo it. everyone s going to get rich on the embassy. so i called david i stopped assigning, by the way. i had donald and then it was like dead. and then, i don t know if they still have it, beautiful paper, very official looking, and then all of a sudden, i stopped, never got to the t, and i
and aluminum again! [cheers and applause] america is respected again. different ball game. under my administration, we kept anotherro important promise when we put a great new justice on the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. and next week, after the promises of many administrations and presidents, and that they never did it, they campaigned, they promised, they never did it next week, we will finally open the american embassy in jerusalem!