areas right now. what the ambassador is saying by president trump saying this and nikki haley saying she s taking names i think it fits into their vision that the u.s. has been kicked around at the united nations and it s not going to be taken advantage of any more. i will say this is an issue where countries feel very strongly, and this is a member-driven organization. each country is entitled to its own vote. just a couple of days ago president trump laid out his national security strategy and he said in his speech and in the strategy document, each country is sovereign and is entitled to, you know, do whatever it needs to do to protect its people. it s a free country of its own free will and so is the united states. so the u.s. in that way is free
euphoric the u.n. is considering a resolution concerning president trump s recent decision to move our embassy in israel to jerusalem. upon hearing this, the trump administration has decided to cancel the move. i kid. u.n. ambassador nikki haley tweeted this: if the u.n., we are always asked to do more and give more. so when we make a decision at the will of the american people about where to locate our embassy, we don t expect those we ve helped to target us. on thursday there will be a vote criticizing our choice. the u.s. will be taking names. taking names. you got to love it. politics meets the godfather. haley shows us what american foreign policy looks like with a spine. for so long we ve been doing a relationship with the u.n. that verges on spousal abuse. matter what we do, the u.n. to
most of the area you re covering. how much does that raise the challenge of people trying to tell people where they are and can t recharge cell phones, for example. has that been a problem as the hours tick on here? absolutely. there s several boats, lots of citizens out here with shallow water boats driving around. and we are also out here as we re doing these rescues stopping and talking to people. taking names, getting names and addresses sent to our communications center. so it is an issue, but i think that, i couldn t give you a number of how many, but we re certainly being productive and the folks that we re getting out of these high-water areas. matt, appreciate you taking time to do this as you do the most important work that can be done in the situation. appreciate the time. god bless you as you continue throughout there and good luck. let us know if there s anything we can do to help from a communication standpoint. various parts of southeast texas, you can see from the p
seeing #starbucks, #adiosm cdonald s, #adioswalmart. i m here with a young person who i just briefly want to ask, do you agree with the social media boycott and do you think it will materialize into an actual boycott? no, i disagree because i think that the media is the best way to get to everybody and we can use it for something positive to show that we are all together in this. reporter: will young people actually boycott american products do you think? i don t think so. i think today in the morning in what s app i saw all the mexican people put the flag. look. reporter: so this is what is circulating on young people s phones, the mexican flag. mexicans are uniting and donald trump has managed to do that, something nobody has managed to do for years here in mexico. mariana atencio reporting in mexico city for us, great work. thank you. taking names. that is a warning from the new u.s. ambassador to the u.n.
to that accordingly. but this is a time of strength. this is a time of action. this is a time of getting things done. very strong words from the new u.n. ambassador to our nation s allies. let s bring in cnn s chief international correspondent, host of cnn international s amanpo amanpour, christiane amanpour. taking names, what s the impact of that? it s hard to know, was she talking about friends or adversaries? if she s talking about russia and president putin, go ahead, take the names, because those are not allies in the united nations security council, nor have the been over syria or other aspects of international law, such as big countries don t take over little countries, they don t annex them. if that s what she s talking about, presumably the rest of america s allies will agree. yes, this is a very sort of disruptive moment.