has been spying on israeli prime minister benjamin netenyahu's private communications.ll street journal" says his conversations were monitored during u.s. nuclear negotiations with iran. for more on this, let's go live to rosiland jordan in washington, d.c. the u.s. had said it wasn't going to do this anymore, spying on or listening to foreign leaders, so has the white house responded to these allegations? >> reporter: there hasn't been any formal response from the white house, barbara, but the state department spokesperson did tell a u.s. network earlier on wednesday that the u.s. has a very strong and productive relationship with israel. he wouldn't address the allegations outlined in the wall street journal's story. it is worth pointing out that the whole [ inaudible ] began because of the revelations by edward snowden, the former nsa contract employee who said that the national security agency had been spying on world leaders, most notably the german chancellor, angela merkel. that created a real rift when the u.s. and germany. and the president had to come out and

was getting this information about what netenyahu and his government were trying to do while the u.s. other members of the p5-plus-1 were trying to negotiate a deal with iran on its nuclear program. it has now come out that the spying basically caught up, not just conversations that the israeli government was having with its supporters, but it also caught up conversations that the israelis were having with members of congress, and there are laws here in the united states that ban spying on u.s. persons, including members of congress. so this is a rather eyebrow-raising story, but at the heart of it is the fact that the israelis do spy on the united states and the united states does spy on israel, and this has been going on for decades. >> when you talk about edward snowden, ros, one remembers the wikileaks leaks, and the only thing that came out was basically every country in the middle east hat a problem with iran. they didn't really have a problem with much else. so if we view the conversations between israel and iran through that particular prism, perhaps the world is being a littl

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continued to spy on benjamin netenyahu. jurnal says the snooping included private conversations with members of congress over the iran nuclear deal. our investigative reporter told us earlier, the allegation shows the disconnect between jerusalem and washington. >> two things are clear, first that the united states in spite of the snowden affair did not stop its surveillance over even friendly countries. and the second is that there's a deep rift and huge mistrust between the two nations and the two leaders, something that never happened before, even when the united states discovered that israel recruited a spy back in the '80s. >>> the journal report says nato members made the list of countries not to be spied upon. but the newspaper says the obama baum allowed the administration to target their top advisors. >>> the u.s. is accusing iran of firing a missile very close to a u.s. ship. it was part of a missile test. and while the u.s. says the missiles were not directed at the ship, the pentagon is calling the exercise unne