. ♪ >> ll dropped out at 16, so he was beaming as 21-year-old samaria received her associate's degreedesign from the fashion institute of technology. >> just nice to see somebody who is beautiful and smart and talented be rewarded for that. >> she wasn't the only one sporting a cap and gown. ll suited up to accept the president's award for creative excellence. >> samaria, i'm proud of you. >> because he's creative, you know, i definitely got that creativity. it just kind of runs through. but she had to share her proud papa with a few of the 4,000 other graduates who stooped to take selfies. ♪ don't call it a comeback >> up next for samaria, more school, and one day, she hopes to have her own clothing line. her dad's advice to achieve that dream. >> you do it or not at all. you can do anything you put your mind to, believe in yourself. focus. >> he loves to give his lessons and philosophies all day, every day. >>> still ahead, speaking of graduated. judge judy takes us back to high school. >> if you take advice from a jerk, what does that make you? >> why these high schoolers were hono

he teaches his children from first grade on they are to claim not just judea and samaria or gaza whichave ruled by hamas, negative greff, and entire israel. abbas himself, the time as meets the president in the white house, he continues to pay and support terrorist and their families, incitement. one more thing, liz. he continues with what i call a political terror. just yesterday the palestinians pushed a very outrageous resolution in unesco saying that israel has no link to our most sacred place, jerusalem, the temple mount. he continues to deny and rewrite history this is really what the israelis see, not what he talks in english, but what he says in arabic in his own people, and mostly what he does. liz: ambassador, when you bring up president trump, are we closer to or further from peace with president donald trump versus previous presidents? >> well i think liz, very commendable that the president is trying heads on to crack a very, very tough problem that eight presidents before him tried and failed. they didn't fail because of their own doings. they failed because the palestini

tamir rice's mother samaria said -- "i am relieved loehmann has been fired because he should never have been a police officer in the first place -- but he should have been fired for shooting my son in less than one second, not just for lying on his application." in north carolina, undocumented grandmother juana luz tobar ortega is seeking sanctuary in an episcopal church today to avoid her deportation. ortega has lived in the united states since 1992, when she fled violence in guatemala. she works as a sewing machine operator at a textile factory near her home in asheboro, north carolina. since 2011, she's been reporting to annual required ice check-ins without problems. but this spring after president trump took office, ice officials instead ordered her to leave the country by today, may 31. instead, she is seeking sanctuary in efforts to remain in the united states with her four children and two grandchildren. in new york benjamin , "yellow benjy" melendez, a gang leader who brokered a historic peace deal between rival gangs in the bronx and harlem, has died at the age of 65. melendez

to get an earful to the general about reasons why the palestinian demand for giving up judea and samariaster for national security. the president who said he wants to facilitate a peace deal is potentially a problem. abbas does not speak for hamas. their general principles and policies document they released last week make it clear they're still committed to the destruction of the jewish state. as long as hamas exists, the so-called two-state solution is a pipe dream. >> shannon: you mentioned earlier several issues complicating all of this relationship. with regard to russia and what's going on in syria right now, what can the u.s. and israel as allies do to better that situation? >> well, look, israelis are not in direct contact with the russians in syrians. we are. we have a joint planning session with the russians every week. we have a communications setup from essentially iraq to make sure that russian air strikes aren't hitting our people. the russians are very concerned about the israeli strike last week on the outskirts of baghdad against a hezbollah weapons column moving from sy