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[ male announcer ] engine light on? come to meineke now for a free code scan read and youll say...my money. my choice. my meineke. secretary of state john kerry is in china today. he arrived this morning after a stop in south korea. now, in both places, the talk is centered on of course north korea, and the threats of the missile strike. >> foreign affairs correspondent jill doherty has been traveling with the secretary of state, on the phone from beijing. jill, what did we hear from kerry thi...

From this press availability or speech well see from the two leaders. the reuters headline basically said after backslapping in israel, the president faces discontent on the second day of his trip. that pretty much sums it up. >> reporter: it does sum it up. its hard because he needs to essentially try to help president abbas. the israeli government will tell you if they are going to make peace, president abbas is the one person they trust. he is aging. he has a fractured palestinian leadership....

Press availability, mr. amazing will speak first, followed by the president of the united states, then each will take a question. we will bring you the president of the united states in just a moment, as soon as it happens. it was supposed to happen 54 seconds ago. >> brian: it should being and because the palestinians feel they were ignored. there was protects yesterday. rockets this morning. this could be a relatively less scripted press conference, especially when they start getting the quest...

Did so dramatically for susan rice at his first press availability after being re-elected, a president doing that is putting himself on the line along with that someones political fortune. so now that susan rice has withdrawn from consideration for this job, where does that leave the president? especially vis-a-vis those senate republican critics he took on so personally on her behalf. and not to jump too far down the road here, but if this means president obama is now likely to nominate this ma...

How far do you think republicans will take this? and will it be perceived as a political attack? >> thats right. people may have already forgotten, the election seems like a long way in the past for some of us, but mitt romney tried to make an issue of benghazi in the hours after the attack. he jumped on the administration before we knew that four americans had been killed and that obviously backfired on him. because the information was still coming out about what happened and how deep the trage...

Conservative ivy league school. >> they call it the conservative ivy. i talked to about 30 people. 20% were undecided which shocked me. so, obama beat mccain 66% to 33% with young people last time. now, the last poll, he is down only 9 points. romney to obama. this is a danger zone for president obama. >> bill: maybe. it depends the young vote when they turn out or dont turn out. now, when you confronted the vice president. thats as close as you could get, right? >> yes, right. >> bill: were ser...

Conservative ivy league school. >> they call it the conservative ivy. i talked to about 30 people. 20% were undecided which shocked me. so, obama beat mccain 66% to 33% with young people last time. now, the last poll, he is down only 9 points. romney to obama. this is a danger zone for president obama. >> bill: maybe. it depends the young vote when they turn out or dont turn out. now, when you confronted the vice president. thats as close as you could get, right? >> yes, right. >> bill: were the...

Conservative ivy league school. >> they call it the conservative ivy. i talked to about 30 people. 20% were undecided which shocked me. so, obama beat mccain 66% to 33% with young people last time. now, the last poll, he is down only 9 points. romney to obama. this is a danger zone for president obama. >> bill: maybe. it depends the young vote when they turn out or dont turn out. now, when you confronted the vice president. thats as close as you could get, right? >> yes, right. >> bill: were the...

The senate basically he said some things like that before, but putting it all together in a speech like that is significant because republicans say that the democrats are standing in the way on a number of issues. now, democrats will say the opposite, and they are going to hold a press availability today at 12 noon and well likely hear the opposite about house leadership. the bottom line, bill, as you know is there are big, big things that are pending that will all get jammed into that lame-duck...

>> we just got this in from the press availability he just did, he took three questions. but this is clearly his version of an apology for this statement. he said that the komths he gave at the fundraiser, quote, were not elegantly stated and off the cuff. continue with your analysis of the damage if thats the best he can do. >> well, that will only exacerbate the damage on the one hand that we were just talking about. >> surely there was an elegant way of phrasing that 47% of the population wer...