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ποΈ 7 December 2017
β±οΈ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com. |
0:12.4 | And I'm James Evan Palado of Mediamonarchy.com. 10,000 people policing offensive videos can't be wrong. |
0:18.2 | We've got that story, plus putting interconnected brains on trial. |
0:22.9 | But first, Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital, this taken via the hill, and it's |
0:29.4 | fresh today, December 6th, 2017 as I come to you. President Trump announced in a speech that |
0:34.7 | the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, something he repeatedly promised during the 2016 campaign that pleased many of his pro-Israel and evangelical Christian backers. |
0:45.9 | Trump, however, is reportedly felt stymied by some of his advisors who have urged him not to move the embassy in order to avoid sparking tensions in the Middle East at a time when he's dealing with the fight with ISIS, the war in Afghanistan, North Korea's nuclear ambitions. |
1:00.5 | Officials said another consideration in signing this waiver. |
1:03.8 | So he made this big announcement, but essentially signed a waiver that said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not going to rush into it. |
1:08.3 | It's still going to take probably a couple of years. |
1:10.4 | So the part of signing this waiver was avoiding a major cut in State Department funding mandated under a 1995 law if the embassy does not move to Jerusalem. |
1:20.8 | Every president has waived the law since its passage. |
1:23.7 | They said immediately designating the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem as an embassy was out of the question for security and logistical reasons. |
1:31.7 | Security and logistical reasons being quite the understatement, James. |
1:35.4 | There's a lot of a lot to this story and I think a lot of tentacles, if we will, that kind of spread out and I think I've got an interesting related to this story. |
1:44.0 | But I'll throw it interesting related to this story. |
1:48.3 | But I'll throw it back to you as one of probably the bigger geopolitical moves being made. |
1:49.7 | Yes, absolutely. |
1:56.7 | And the startling thing is that it is, I mean, it is like throwing Greece on a Greece fire or something. |
1:57.2 | I mean, this is just, even if you were a Jewish supremacist, Israel first, Israel |
2:03.0 | can do no wrong kind of person, this is an incredible, insane move to be making at this particular |
2:09.5 | moment that will have absolutely no other consequence than to inflame a region that's already very much inflamed. |
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