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Up here at the dewar s distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. it s the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar s. double aged for extra smoothness. the first results of a critical election started in just moments. challenging as he s battling corruption charges. that s not the only way netanyahu is doing his best impression of his friend, president trump. live for us in jerusalem, oren, what are we expecting for tonight s vote? sorry. can you hear me, orren? i m on domestic. we re having a little trouble with oren s microphone. we ll get to him in a moment. we ll be following that vote as we wait to see what happens. ....
Netanyahu did get one thing he was hoping to get, and that was a letter from president donald trump which said israel is one of america s closest allies and there has never been a more productive time in israeli relations than now. trump looked forward to many victories ahead and added a handwritten note, you are great. that s significant because it appeared there was a cooling-off period between trump and netanyahu when netanyahu was unable to secure a victory here. orren, great stuff. good to see you. right now the current top diplomat to ukraine is behind closed doors on capitol hill key to filling in the gaps of some pretty damning text messages now part of the impeachment inquiry into the president. so what is ambassador bill taylor telling congress? that s coming up. ....
Israel lloyd congresswoman oh mar and tlaib to visit. he goes on to make more inflammatory attacks against those sitting members of congress. now it looks like israel is listening. cnn s orren joins me and first to you. you ve been following this. there were rumors. what do you have now? now the decision is official according to a spokesman for isra israel s deputy foreign minister. they have decided to bar entry to congresswoman rashida tlaib and ihlan omar. let s not forget these are two muslim congresswomen and tlaib herself is the first congresswoman of palestinian origin. israel will bar them entry and not allow them in. it was the deputy foreign minister who first made the comments on the radio and he was the first to acknowledge the decision had been made. ....
Israel is considering barring two sitting u.s. members of congress from entering the country. israeli government officials say it s because representatives rashida tlaib and ihlan omar support the boycott against israel. orren joins me from jerusalem. can they do that? they very much can do that because of a law passed in march of 2016 that allows israel to boycott those who don t support the bds movement. and both representatives rashida tlaib and ihlan omar have expressed support for the bds movement against israel and it is based on that support that israel could bar them entry. but certainly if israel decides ....
Respect for the u.s. congress, but now this decision reversing that, they will be barred entry according to israeli officials. i just want to put a fine point. you alerted this earlier, flagged this quote from ron durmer earlier, for our viewers, just last month this is what he said, out of respect for the u.s. congress and the great alliance between israel and america, we would not deny entry to any member of congress into israel. he s considered one of the closest one of the closest advisers, i guess you would say, to netanyahu and now we see this reversal. orren, stick with me if you could for just a wekd. let me get over to sarah west wood. that s what we re hearing from the israeli side. what are you hearing from the white house, if anything, right now? reporter: kate, this morning you read part of the president s tweet, he weighed in on the decision israel had before it to admit these two members of congress. but we should just stress we ....