Broke from the Obama Administration on not one, but two issues, the Palestinian Conflict and the nuclear proliferation. Lets get you caught up first on the mideast. The new york security councor n supposed to agree on international law. But overnight, Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that they should veto the resolution. President elect trump agreed. He told the sitting president to veto the resolution. That put a showdown at the u. N. , placing odds against both the president elect and netanyahu, a key ally. They said they were planning to abstain on the vote, going both against netanyahu and trump. That vote has now been postponed. A few minutes later, trump again broke with the policy, this time on Nuclear Weapons, tweeting this. The United States must greatly strengt strengthen and expand its Nuclear Capability at a time when the world must come to its senses regarding nukes. While president obama has been hesitant to speak out against trump during his last weeks in office. Usually during a president ial transition, the incoming president defers to the west wing on matters of Foreign Policy. It is something that president obama was mindful of during his own transition back in 2008. And i want to be very careful that we are sending the right signals to the world as a whole that i am not the president , and i wont be until january 20. But when asked about it earlier today at trump tower, trump adviser Kellyanne Conway insisted the president elect is respecting the one president at a time mentality. President elect trump has been incredibly respectful toward president obama and toward the fact that until january 20, we have a sitting president. At the same time hes asked his opinion on many different matters, and in most instances, this is not the first time hes been asked or provided his opinion. Hes done that all through the campaign, so it should really surprise very few people thats his position. He will not act on it until hes actually in the white house. Chief correspondent and host a Andrea Mitchell. Andrea, big picture here. Im trying to remember, when have we seen anything like this, two major issues here and a break of whats been, what, decades of president . The fact that donald trump did campaign on different policies. The problem here is, lets say, on the nuclear issue, its confusing. He is talking about expanding the nuclear arsenal. And we have treaties with russia. He seems to be responding to what Vladimir Putin said today about strengthening their nuclear arsenal, their Nuclear Capability, but Vladimir Putin says that about once a week. Donald trump responding on twitter seemed to be making new policy. The u. S. And russia have treaties, the stark treaty. And they are limited to 1,550 deployed weapons by february of next year, february of 2018, i should say, a little more than a year from now. So this would be opening up a whole new vista of a nuclear arms race, and thats the concern of many, many experts. On the israeli issue, there seems to be a tightly coordinated nexxus between tel aviv and trump tower or maralago in that Donald Trumps response came after netanyahu geared up and went into diplomatic mode. I believe it was israel prompting europe and the Security Council on this resolution that pulled the plug on t. They were all ready to go, and according to our diplomats, they were lining up the votes today and then suddenly everything was postponed, which could mean cancelling. Hallie, you do wonder, now were getting so close to this new administration. Are these tweets like the trump equivalent of a policy paper . Whats the end game here . I dont know if you can answer that question definitively, chris, but i do think they are tea leaves but maybe something a little bit stronger than that. This is an opportunity. The president elect is now the president elect. Hes no longer a candidate tweeting about various things. He is going to be, in 29 days, in the white house, and so as we have talked about with on this program, on other programs, the words, the things that he says via twitter have meaning. What has more meaning . His actions as president , and i think thats what a lot of folks are waiting to see and watching to see. I would say with this particular tweet, it seemed to come and im talking about the nuclear tweet, the idea that the u. S. Needs to fortify its Nuclear Capabilities came from a little bit out of nowhere, right . It seemed to have come out of the blue. This was not a topic that had been percolating in any particular sense in media over the last 24 hours or so, but what was notable is that also today russian president Vladimir Putin reportedly said the same thing, talked about fortifying russias nuclear kpashlcapabili and there obviously has been a lot of talk about future ties under President Trump in 2017. You have the nuclear talk which you laid out so clearly, and then you have this longstanding policy, which youre absolutely right. There is no surprise to anybody that donald trump feels differently than the president does, or the president has had this ongoing dispute with netanyahu. Thats not the question here. The question here is, what is u. S. Policy . I think also for a lot of people, who is going to speak for u. S. Foreign policy . Trump discussed with the New York Times that his sudden law jared cushioner could play an Important Role. We know what donald trump wants to do, which is to be the one to find the path to middle east peace. Lets just remind folks what president elect trump had to say and get your thoughts on the other side. Jared is a very smart guy. Hes a very good guy. The people that know him, hes a quality person and i think he could be very helpful. I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with israel and the palestinians. I would love that. That would be such a great achievement. Because nobodys been able to do it successfully. I think he would be very good at it. He knows the region, knows the people, knows the players. Andreandrea, isnt one of ths to strong Foreign Policy clarity . Clarity on message and who speaks for the administration . You could argue you can keep people off balance. There is the clarity and consistency approach to Foreign Policy, and theres the other lets keep them guessing. Larry kushners father created this very radical support group for settlements, the most radical of settlements to the right of netanyahu. So there is history here and it is a different policy. And it is also an abandonment of decades of policy going back to 1979 to camp david. So were talking about republican and democratic administrations. On the nuclear front, we should point out that jason miller, the spokesman, trying to clarify, apparently, this tweet on nuclear issues, says he is against proliferation, he wants to combat proliferation and he also wants to strengthen deterredete deterrence. He didnt answer questions to what he fully meant. Putin says this all the time, but for donald trump to put it out there was surprising, and it does seem to be a casual approach. Some people are suggesting that its because he met with nuclear and defense contractors yesterday, including Lockheed Martin that are trying to justify the f35 fighter jet because it could carry a Nuclear ArmedCruise Missile system. We dont know. That would be interesting to see. The Heritage Foundation which has influenced some of the Foreign Policy debate has written about expanding Nuclear Weapons. So there is a lot of stuff out there. Whom hes listening to and whether or not its part of the confusion of some of the things hes said about arming south korea and arming japan with Nuclear Weapons around the campaign remains to be seen. Thank you both. Let me bring in sara fagan, a former aide to george w. Bush. Kareem john pierre. None of you are surprised that donald trump is tweeting some of the things hes tweeting. Theres nothing in the twitter world that could surprise us, and certainly, sara, twitter didnt exist when you were working for a president. But what, if any, concerns do you have as you observe whats going on, as somebody who has been on the inside of this . Well, i think, you know, donald trump is used to be able to use his twitter account as he was in the campaign where there are few ramifications to a tweet. Now as hes the president elect, soon to be president , the whole world is paying attention to everything he says. When he goes out and makes a statement about Nuclear Weapons as he just did, the world will react to that. And i think theres going to be a learning curve by the Trump Administration that a casual comment by him, which may be he means it casually. The rest of the world doesnt take it casually. Hes simply saying we need to modernize, which frankly republicans and democrats agree, and yet these are things that can cause shifts in other countrys policies, and i think theres a learning curve, and ultimately, i think donald trump will rein his twitter in. Eventually ehell be forced to. Jennifer, too, how do you report Something Like this . You report it straight and say, this is what he said, and take whatever analysis you want to give it . There are inherent challenges for reporters, for people in the Foreign Policy realm, for folks who run other countries. I mean, this lack of clarity that Andrea Mitchell was talking about does raise a lot of questions. Well, sara is exactly right. This did affect the world, and the trump team knew that. They actually let us know at about 8 00 this morning to expect some, quote, unquote, big news on the u. N. Resolution. So they knew this was going to be a big deal as soon as it hit. Interestingly enough, i think that donald trump has a likeminded friend in the twitter world with the israeli Prime Minister who was tweeting against this resolution at 3 00 in the morning his time. Trump waited until about 8 30 this morning actually, florida time in order to echo what netanyahu had said. But they both are likeminded about getting their opinions out there no matter what hour of the day. But trump was just reiterating what netanyahu was saying. And the this makes it very clearly that he supports what thet net wants to do. And kareem, it will be interesting to see once he actually is president and congress is back in session, how do the democrats respond to this . I dont mean this as a joke, either, and im not meaning it to be facetious . Do you have one up overnight monitoring the twitter feed and doing strategic work until people wake up the next morning. I get it, chris. His twitter account has become a threat to our National Security. Foreign policy is incredibly complex. You cant boil it down to 140 characters. When he. It is that consensus that kept us safe for general tragsz off generation, and i think. Tweeting about National Security and Foreign Policy many the National Security, he actually spoke about it. The whole idea of a muslim ban could be coming back. Z what do you think about revising your plans about muslims in the United States . You know my plans. You are 100 correct. Whats happening is disgrace ful. Sara, where do you see this going . Well have to wait and see. He has backtracked on this previously. Certainly that statement implied that he may go forward with that policy. One of the things that we know from donald trump, which he said directly in his very first Foreign Policy speech, was that the United States was too predictable. What weve seen from him, whether its taking the call from the south Korean Leader to these tweets today to perhaps this ban on muslims which hes talked about during the campaign, is that he is reacting to his own comments which is that the United States is too predictable, and he has been very unpredictable as it relates to Foreign Policy. Whether that puts people off, throws them off their game, makes the United States have more negotiating power in these transactions around the world, i think remains to be seen, but he is true to his word so far. Sara, jennifer, careen, stick around, well be talking in a bit. Up next, whats next for North Carolinas bathroom bill . Well be talking with the mayor, next. Philly yes if you want to make some money, you could get a paper route. 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After days of wrangling, a deal to repeal the socalled transgender bathroom law collapsed yesterday, spectacularly. Lgbt advocates say that law is discriminatory. Governor roy cooper said the failure to that deal is a broken promise. Im disappointed for the people of North Carolina for the jobs that people wont have. Im disappointed that we have yet to remove distakdain or the reputation of our great state around this country and around the world. Meanwhile, boycotts that far bill are escalating. Pay pal pulled out. Estimated cost, 24 million. Deutsche bank, 30. 5 million. Convention cancellations, 109 million. Nba, 100 million. Ncaa 20 million. Acc, 54 million. Just there, thats an estimated total of 338 million. So how does North Carolina plan to remove the stigma and stop the bleeding. Jennifer roberts is the mayor of charlotte, North Carolina. Thanks a lot for being with us. A lot of this has to do with the back and forth of what the council did in charlotte. We know what republicans are saying. They say this is no more than a power play by the new governor. What do you say about what happened last night . Well, we were extremely disappointed in charlotte to see this whole agreement break apart. We acted in good faith in charlotte. We actually tried to do the reset they asked for to take us back to february 21st. We took all of our ordinance off our books, and we didnt have a time limit. We were under the understanding that they were going to uphold their end of that promise and they were going to repeal hb2 and lift a cloud over our state. We are extremely disappointed. These numbers we showed, the financial losses, are absolutely stagg staggering. I spent a lot of time in North Carolina over the course of, you know, the primary and the general election. You look at that number, almost 340 million. And there are plenty of republicans, plenty of people in the Business Community who have been obviously pushing hard for this to go away. Whats your next step . Well, i tell you, i remind folks that the people who really suffer the most in these economic challenges are small businesses. This is really hard for charlotte. We hope that people are calling our legislators. We hope that people realize the power has been in the hands of the legislature the whole time. Charlotte has done everything we possibly could, weve done everything they asked us to do, and they still cant come through on their promise. Were urging people to call your legislators and tell them that hb2 continues to harm our entire state. We saw that the governor elect who wasnt even officially declared for a while after the election, the governor