20th, that there have been other events out there. you saw president trump is really trying hard this week to sell the tax bill. it s obviously passed, and he wants them to come up with a compromise in conference. and that s what he s beening to and working on, and he still wants to focus on that. i m going to predict tomorrow at the white house when they have a briefing sarah sanders is going to say this was all michael flynn and he s acting by himself. that s pretty much what they ve been saying about everything so far, that they didn t know anything about it and he was acting alone. we ve reserved the uncomfortable moment of the day for my friend john. we wanted to catch up with something that happened on live today. during the israel announcement it promptly set the internet on fire as the president slurred some of his words in a way that
this without doing all the hard work in between, only puts the united states as the back word. have grown to love that part of the world and care about it, the fear is an intufauda could come of this. do you share that fear? i do. you know this terrain well. and what donald trump talked about tonight is chaos in the middle east, uncertainty about israel s long-term frankly and its diminishment in the united states and its leverage in the world. and i think those reacting and feel so frustrated we ve been trying to get young middle eastern men to turn away from violence, to trust us, to look at the united states as solvent neutral partner that would eventually bring a different outcome to this region. and the reason they turn to violence is utter frustration
so much time to study of this region. editor at large at atlantic. msnbc contributor as well. was this the case of the president s base and pro-israeli forces in his world versus the rest of the world? this is case of donald trump actually uniting a consensus including foreign countries, his own cabinet and several people in the united states against himself. and this is unusual to see this kind of coalition coming together. the only people who are satisfied with this move happening right now are people who want to see him hold true to his campaign promises. this is actually an act that has been advocated by several people by bipartisan recognition of israel as capital of israel. but in exchange for something as part of a negotiated peace settlement. the idea of going through all of
today i am delivering. donald trump took a sharp turn today from decades of american foreign policy by doing just that, naming jerusalem as the capital of israel and announcing plans to move the embassy out of tel aviv. his speech drew criticism from corners of the world not usually in agreement including the vatican, kremlin, turkey, jordan, more who believe the move will lead to unrest in the region. trump even rejected warnings from some of our best friends on this planet. britain, france, germany. the german foreign minister said following trump s acs, germany can no longer simply react to u.s. foreign policy but establish its own position. here with us for more tonight former white house senior director and former state department senior advisor, and steve clemons who have devoted
person of the year is. and i really a story i don t think many people could have predicted going into this year especially considering how the election went and there were these allegations of sexual misconduct. you know, there was the access hollywood tape. it seemed the voters said, you know, that wasn t enough to sway them. you know you know, a president-elected with all that baggage underneath and really see this ground swell movement come about really in the past two months it s kind of surprising and not something i don t think a lot of journalists expected to see this year. certainly feels his is what a cultural shift feels like. and coming up, up ending policy, unsettling allies. the president as promised makes a big shift to u.s. policy on israel. when we continue. over cable for 17 years running. but some people still like cable. just like some people like wet grocery bags.