choosing now to sit down with cnn for an exclusive interview, his first televised interview since returning to power. in recent days the u.s. secretary of state, cia director and the white house national security adviser have all converged here. a clear sign that the biden administration and closest allies realize this region is frankly on the precipes. over the next hour you re hear from prime minister benjamin netanyahu on a number of key topics including how he envisions any sort of peace with the palestinians. the backlash to his new right-wing coalition government, whether israel plans to further help ukraine in its war against russia, including militarily and his relationships with both the current and former presidents of the united states. we started our conversation on the surge of violence between israelis and palestinians, which in recent days set off fears of perhaps a new uprising that could lead to a bloody, deadly war. tonight, the u.s. state department confirm
the backlash to is no coalition government. and whether it plans to help women s war with russia. including militarily, and his relationships with both the current and former president. of the united states. we started our conversation on the surge of violence between israelis and palestinians which in recent days have set off fears of perhaps a new uprising that could lead to a bloody, deadly war. tonight, the u.s. state department confirms senior u.s. officials are remaining in the middle east after traveling hair to try to help israel and the palestinian authority lower the temperature. that s where i started our exclusive conversation with prime minister netanyahu earlier tonight. netanyahu, thanks for so much for joining us. my pleasure. wait a minute, i have to tell you something and i spent some years in philadelphia. i don t want to intervene in politics but i understand that you ve made it to the super bowl. we did. i offer you my congratulations. all right
them in a public hearing, i think that s a danger to democracy. uh-huh. i think you should adopt a different system. the difference is a closed committee where three judges, supreme court judges and two members of the i m not talking about your nominating of judges. wait a minute. this is a big thing. listen to this because they re saying this is the end of democracy. they decide whether or not are the judges. in other words, they self select. the judges self select themselves. and they say and this is a system we have in israel. and if i say to you, this is democracy. you would say that s ridiculous. it s unacceptable. people call that the end of democracy. they call what we propose we have in canada i didn t bring it up because i don t think that s really this is what people are talking about. people are talking about the overturning a supreme court decision with a simple majority in the united states. in the united states to amend the constitution it s incredib
i m you know, i think that what you see is again i think there s a lot of hypocrisy. that s the point i was making. look, i m controlling the government. and i m responsible for its policies and the policies are sensible and responsible and continue to be that. well, that s good to hear because i know there are people in your government that have very different views on the law of return and who counts as a jews and who doesn t than you do. you say the way it is now you think will stay. yeah. i think we have to be very careful about tampering with the law of return because you know where you start you don t know where you end. and i ve consistently felt that israel should remain the home for any jew that wants to make its home regardless of denomination, beliefs and so far. what about the visit to the temple in jerusalem, sacred to both jews and muslims and he refused to say whether he would change the status quo and allow jewish prayer on the temple mount who knows what that w
but at the same time, we ve given ukraine a lot of humanitarian support. we have taken in jewish and nonjewish refugees in a very tiny country, israel, disproportionately and also offered other side of aid. i m looking into other kinds of aid. but realistically israel in confronting iran is also confronting the main partner of russia. so, you have mentioned how president biden is a friend of 40 years. and obviously you haven t always seen eye to eye on a lot of issues. he says he once signed a photo bibi i don t agree with a damn thing you say but i love you. how would you describe your relationship when it comes to nobody is there, just you two on the phone. he s telling you what he needs from you. you re telling him what you need from him. exactly what happens. i mean, look, we ve been around the block so many times. we were the new kids on the block when he came in as a young