oren liebermann in jerusalem. thanks so much. >>> and the record rally for the stock market rolls on. investors enjoying four straight day, of all-time highs. even more impressive, the stock probably part of your 401(k). we're going to show you the big gains -- next. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® >>> all right. u.s. defense secretary james mattis is in brussels this morning to meet with nato allies for the first time. topping the agenda, nato's strained relations with russia and fighting extremism. general mattis is also expected to discuss the resignation of michael flynn. cnn is live in brussels. a swirl of questions here in the united states, erin, that secretary mattis will not be able to avoid this. >> reporter: that's right, john. this is seen as one of the most important in recent years. officials really making great efforts to try and impress secretary mattis. in the words of one senior nato diplomat, they have sort of overprepared, kind of like, quote, a good school student.

we are joined by cnn's oren liebermann live in jerusalem. oren, the shift from the two-state to not necessarily the two-state. that is a big difference. >> reporter: it is a major break with decades of u.s. foreign policy. just as big a break with the international community which held the two-state solution as the only realistic and workable solution to the conflict. president trump essentially said two states. one state. long as they agree, i'm happy. prime minister netanyahu gave a different answer. he said he doesn't want to deal with labels. more in substance. for those answers, prime minister benjamin netanyahu's right wing government is celebrating. many said this is the end of the palestinian state. some are calling for a partial or complete annexation of the west bank. as for the line where trump said it would be good to halt construction to work on a peace deal. the government in israel i gnord that line. palestinian is seizing upon that. the palestinian president supports the two-state solution. it is upon the israeli prime minist

oren liebermann for us. thanks. >>> president trump seems to have settled on a strategy for avoiding tough questions at the press briefings. he is refusing to call on reporters from the traditional media outlets. on wednesday, with the israeli prime minister, he called on reporters from the sympathetic news outlets. cnn reporters at the events tried to ask the president questions about the campaign ties to russia and only to be ignored. >> mr. president, are you going to answer any questions about your associate's contact with russia during the campaign? >> will you comment on the report with your senior adviser over suspected russian operatives during the campaign? >> this seems to have been the trend all week. on monday, standing by side the canadian prime minister, he called on outlets favorable to the white house. >> to an extent, it happened in the past. never like this. they have been calling on the ap and abc and whatnot. at a certain point, have to face the music. >> it could help the story go away i

we have oren liebermann who joins us and fred pleitgen. oren, i wanted to start with you, i just said there, president trump will not insist, we're being told, on a two-state solution, which is an about-face from previous administrations. is this seen as a huge shift, or is this being interpreted where you are as a tactical and perhaps a temporary solution to help netanyahu at home? >> well, it's an about-face from some 50 years of u.s. foreign policy. but the assessment is that, it may be simply that president trump hasn't formulated his middle east policy. we've already seen him back off of some of his campaign pledges to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he's criticized settlements here many here believe he was pro-settlement, but has recently criticized them as being unhelpful to peace. so it seems his middle east policy hasn't been formulated yet, but it may be a political favor, a political gift to prime minister benjamin netanyahu, because he's under tremendous pressure from the right-wing to abandon a two-state solution.

we're going live to jerusalem to bring in cnn's oren liebermann. oren, that news came out of a briefing last night from white house officials. the language they used is that donald trump will no longer insist on the two-state solution, being the primary goal of mideast peace. >> and that's a very big break from decades of u.s. foreign policy which says a two-state solution, an israel state and palestinian state is the only option. that senior white house official saying the white house is open to any options that both sides agree to. the palestinians have made it clear there is no other option. they will only agree to a palestinian state next to an israeli state. what this shows, the white house policy remains unclear. it's not net been formally formulated. we've seen a change over the course of the election and the last few months. initially, president trump had promised to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. that is a promise he's backed away from. the administration saying still evaluating here. as well as settlement here. felt that pre

want to turn to oren liebermann in amona with more on this. before we get to the settlement expansion i want you to explain, oren, what is going on behind you there. as we know, an evacuation will take place from there. explain to us the details on this. >> reporter: rosemary, that evacuation looks like it's set to begin here in the next few hours. i'll take you down the hill behind me. we are at the entrance to the illegal outpost of amona. there are protesters here behind me. they're trying to block the road. so they started that fire there. as well as putting nails, rocks, and other items on the road to try to block the road from israeli security forces coming up here to evacuate the outpost of amona. but let's move down this road and you'll see where the security forces are positioned now. they have not yet come into amona. but they have blocked the road and the area. they're trying to keep others from getting in, other protesters. there are security forces as you see not only on the road but also in the hills and the fields around amona t

oren cass joins us now from new york. he is a senior fellow for the manhattan institute and was the policy director of mitt romney's presidential campaign. he has also contributed to the "national review."

one of her biggest supporters is republican senator oren hatch. >> i think today he wouldn't touch me with a 10-foot poll. we have -- we are still friends, but if it came to a vote on me, i don't think he would be the supporter that he was. >> ginsburg said she wishes she had a magic wand to bring respect back to washington. she is the oldest supreme court justice at 83. they encouraged her to eat more kale and hope she will outlast a trump presidency. >> i was wondering who do you want to eat more kale in washington? >> justice kennedy. >> another moment of levity representative of her sense of humor that she said helped her in life. at stanford, lillian kim, abc 7 news. >> san francisco will become the first in the nation to offer free city college to all students regardless of income. abc 7 news was at city hall for the announcement. the mayor said a real estate transfer tax for multimillion-dollar homes will pay for it all to qualify, you have to live in the city for more than a year. >> making city college free will provide better opportunities for san francisco to enter into the

one of her biggest supporters is republican senator oren hatch. >> i think today he wouldn't touch me with a 10-foot poll. we have -- we are still friends, but if it came to a vote on me, i don't think he would be the supporter that he was. >> ginsburg said she wishes she had a magic wand to bring respect back to washington. she is the oldest supreme court justice at 83. they encouraged her to eat more kale and hope she will outlast a trump presidency. >> i was wondering who do you want to eat more kale in washington? >> justice kennedy. >> another moment of levity representative of her sense of humor that she said helped her in life. at stanford, lillian kim, abc 7 news. >> san francisco will become the first in the nation to offer free city college to all students regardless of income. abc 7 news was at city hall for the announcement. the mayor said a real estate transfer tax for multimillion-dollar homes will pay for it all to qualify, you have to live in the city for more than a year. >> making city college free will provide better opportunities for san francisco to enter into the

. >> oren liebermann is our correspondent in jerusalem. oren, we heard the president say something that the prime minister presumably was not that excited about when he said to the prime minister, as far as israeli settlements on the west bank are concerned, hold back. i'd like to see israel hold back. he then went on to say i think we're going to make a deal but he was pretty precise in telling the prime minister he's not very enthusiastic about israel going ahead and building more settlements. >> reporter: especially after we saw the few announcements after the election by donald trump, more than 5,600 settlements approved by netanyahu. that prompted president trump to say settlement expansion is unhelpful to peace. so making it clear here, hold off on this a little bit. you're right, that's not what netanyahu wanted to hear. when he was asked about that, he said we'll come to some agreement. it will be interesting to see if they come to some agreement, perhaps one of the options floated by the defense minister here and is expansion and

i don't understand. >> right. >> go ahead, martin -- i'm sorry, go ahead, oren, please. >> i was going to say i think that martin is right, that it is very difficult to distinguish between these two technologies. i think the bottom line is that this problem of losing jobs is very real, but this is the wrong solution. i don't think mr. gates would have been in favor of a tax on pcs at the time where pcs were surging and potentially low level clerical jobs were taken away by pcs, by microsoft office. so we have here really an opportunity to increase productivity, which is something we all want, and as martin said, we don't want to hand an advantage to foreign companies who won't be paying a robot tax. >> martin, the other thing, too, this will ultimately similarly result in increased prices i would imagine for the consumers. the border adjustment tax is bad, it would raise taxes, any tax would do the same thing. how high would that tax have to be that it would actually displace the robot and make somebody hire a worker instead? >> i think it would have to be quite significant because rob

later on, our spotlight on magazine series continues the look at a recent national review piece by oren cass entitled " trump, the climate slayer." ♪ >> sunday night on afterwards, republican strategist roger stone talks about the election of donald trump and his book "the making of the president 2016, how donald trump orchestrated a revolution." he is interviewed by susan ferruccio. >> what do you say to them protests that took place after the inauguration, and what does it mean for his success as a president? can't permanently hobble him i just trying to obstruct at every turn? should they have a greater voice because the popular vote went to hillary clinton? >> some of the demonstrations are paid for an orchestrated. others i think are sincere people who have inserts because they may be buying the caricature of him that is been painted by some in the mainstream media. the real answer for him is pretty simple and that is damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead and fulfill your agenda. --t he restores our economic prosperity, you have already seen the uptick in the market, the uptick in

oren cass joins us now from new york. he is a senior fellow for the manhattan institute and was the policy director of mitt romney's presidential campaign. he has also contributed to the "national review." we will talk to him today about his recent article, "trump the climate-slayer," which appears in the december issue. thanks so much for being here. guest: thank you for having me. host: you believe climate change to be real, as borne out by the science, but you say the level of alarm on the left is really overstated. why? guest: well, that is right. there is a lot of very good science on climate change. you can look at the most authoritative reviews, things like the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change puts out a very good report every few years that really synthesizes all the best finds on the issue, but if you read through that and see what it is saying, you cannot find any support for some of the really catastrophic scenarios that you hear from environmental activists. further go a step fo and loo

oren blanchard is live in washington with the latest good morning. >> high. last night of god air force one many want the job of national security advisers then we can expect a decision made for the next couple days. first a look at who's in the running. armor lieutenant general keith kellogg, the act the national security adviser after a general plan was asked to resign last week. a longtime supporter of the president serving as his foreign policy advisers during the campaign. then there's former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, appointed by president george w. bush in 2005 served over a year in the role. however, both may struggle to gain support with some libertarian leaning republicans. another candidate, army lieutenant journal h.r. mcmaster, a silver star recipient and decorated officer. he has a reputation for questioning the status quo as the status quo as he did in his book a major election of duty. the other meeting at the southern white house as a superintendent of west point military academy, lieutenant general robert kaplan. kaplan

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at what was supposed to be a sleepy presidents' day event at the one-time home of president warren oren. >> town hall now! town hall now! >> attendees have been organized by the town hall project which keep track of where and when town halls are being held. on saturday, hundreds showed up to town hall hosted by new york republican tom reed whose events normally just bring out a handful of people. >> i'd like to know why you want to get rid of the epa. >> madison, let me look you in the eye. i do not support removing and repealing the epa. >> progress. this was a scene in south carolina where representative mark sanford spoke to constituents for more than three hours, one of the few willing to face his constituents head on. we'll ask him why after this break. ...it's a supercomputer. with this grade of protection... ...it's a fortress. and with this standard of luxury... ...it's an oasis. the 2017 e-class. it's everything you need it to be... ...and more. lease the e300 for $549 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. coaching means making tough ch

i spoke with senator oren hatch. he says he thinks not only will price get confirmed but mnuchin as treasury secretary. >> and any word on time line for as they put it repealing and replacing the affordable care act? >> a lot of talk about that, but not a lot of clarity this week because president trump said in an interview over the weekend, he thinks they could wait till next year but doesn't seem like prominent republicans want to wait that long to repeal and replace obamacare. the majority with john cornyn said he thinks it could be on the table in the next 30 days or get the ball rolling. remember, though, this is the number one thing on the agenda that congressional republicans laid out just last week and the week before. they do control both houses of congress here, shep. >> shepard: peter, thanks. an iranian baby that needs life-saving heart surgery has arrived in portland, oregon. president trump's travel ban blocked the 4-month-old girl and her family from coming to the united states. the federal government

at the time, senator oren hatch of utah was trying to repeal sanctions placed on employers who hired illegal aliens. in such a move king warned it would have a devastating impact on less skilled african-american workers. mrs. king went on to say the presence of illegal aliens in the workplace would cause "the revival of the pre-1965 discrimination against a black and brown u.s. and documented workers in favor of cheap labor, the undocumented workers. "truer words were never spoken or more prescient but somehow no democrat has read that letter. cap next, betsy devos as a secretary of education but already a mob surrounded her when she tried to visit a school today. police are investigating a potential assaults tonight. why are they resorting to violence so quickly? stay tuned. something wrong? so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? you want the whole thing? yes, yes! live whole. not part. aleve. withevery late night...g... and moment away... with every click...call...punch... and paycheck... you've earned your medicare. it was a deal that was made long

and later, national review contributor or in -- oren cass speaks to us about the on climateagenda control. washington journal is next. cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, it is saturday, february 18th, 2017 and in the headlines on today's washington journal, president donald trump will hold his first campaign style rally as president this afternoon in melbourne, florida. an event described by some as a kickoff to the 2020 election, just four weeks into his presidency. a new study shows that americans are stressed out about the future of the nation, the american psychological association study found that 57% of americans say the current political climate is a significant source of stress. we are asking our viewers today

hope you saw senator oren hatch talking earlier today. he said tax reform could be difficult to get done. >> as far as changing the current system that is very difficult because democrats are not cooperating. it seems when you get a brand new president you ought to be at least seeing what can be done. they are not only not supporting him but fighting him with everything they got. >> many major averages took a small leg down on the comments but not by much. we will see what happens here. >> you can see shares of the major brokerages both cutting online commissions. we have a fee fight today. all stocks are getting hit hard on the news. you can see td ameritrade down more than 9%. we are going to get you details. panel of retail investors to respond to all of this. >> i'm sure are loving these lower fees that they pay for trading. >> target ceo speaking exclusively to our courtney reagan. we will delve into those comments coming up later. the stock down almost 13%. >> speaking right now at the company's investor. got headlines crossing. we