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Trump to get involved in one of the world`s most contentious foreign policy
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BROOK SILVA-BRAGA: Good morning, Anne-Marie. We have already seen the President-elect get involved in manufacturing policy and government contracts. But yesterday, something new: A highly unusual appeal to Mister Trump to get involved in one of the world`s most contentious foreign policy matters and it appears his intervention made a difference.
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BROOK SILVA-BRAGA: Hours before the U.N. was set to vote, President-Elect Donald Trump called for the draft resolution to be vetoed, tweeting that it was extremely unfair to all Israelis. The measure put forth by Egypt called on Israeli to immediately halt settlement activity in Palestinian territory. In a push to stop the U.N., sources tell CBS News, Israeli official side-stepped President Obama who appeared ready to allow the resolution and reached out to Mister Trump. Trump reportedly spoke to Egypt`s president, then Egypt delayed the vote.
JOHN KIRBY (State Department Spokesman): I, honestly, don`t know if or when a vote will be rescheduled. What we have continued to try to do is work towards seeing a viable two-state solution realized.
BROOK SILVA-BRAGA: Mister Trump also set off some concern about a nuclear arms race on Thursday. After Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a Russian nuclear expansion, Mister Trump tweeted, "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes."
KELLYANNE CONWAY: He is putting the world on notice that he will do what he thinks he needs to do to keep us safe and secure. He is not trying to change a policy through Twitter.
BROOK SILVA-BRAGA: Trump campaign adviser, Kellyanne Conway, was named as his White House counselor. Former RNC spokesman Sean Spicer will be his press secretary. In an interview with Fox News, Spicer defended Trump`s use of social media.
SEAN SPICER: He has a direct pipeline to the American people to talk to them in a way that no one has done before.
BROOK SILVA-BRAGA: Inauguration Day is four weeks away.
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BROOK SILVA-BRAGA: And Mister Trump used Twitter again last night to do some public negotiating, saying since Lockheed Martin`s F-35 fighter is so expensive he has asked Boeing to price out a competing plan. Anne-Marie.
ANNE-MARIE GREEN: We will see how that works out. Brook Silva-Braga here in New York, Thank you so much, Brook.
Well, coming up on CBS THIS MORNING, analysis of Russian President Vladimir Putin`s annual news conference today.
The Obama administration today formally scraps a controversial security measure prompted by 9/11. The program required immigrant men from predominantly Muslim countries to register with the federal government. Now it hasn`t been used since 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union called it a failure that yielded no arrest in nearly a decade.
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