(Weekly Standard) Jenna Lifhits - The Senate's top Democrat, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, said Tuesday he had advised President Trump to declare Jerusalem as Israel's "undivided" capital. Schumer in October called on Trump to move the U.S. Embassy and "show the world that the U.S. definitively acknowledges Jerusalem as Israel's capital." Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, reiterated his support for recognizing Jerusalem on Monday: "I believe that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, so to me, that's not news."
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