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We cant continue to premise our public diplomacy based on something everybody knows is not going to happen. >> thats the strongest rebuke positioning it as a matter of u.s. credibility. what do you think the congressional reaction is to that? the president choosing to hold onto netanyahus older comments. not his attempt to revive the peace process. >> no matter what happens, the relationship between our two countries is not only strong. it is unshakable and unbreakable. thats number one. number ...

Head of israel. >> and plays into their hands. >> come to the united states and, by the way, bibi dont tell the president we asked you. >> use matts analogy. the analogous thing would be yes, everybody spies on everybody but the analogous thing to be is the united states to try to use intelligence gleaned while spying on germany to break up nato. >> matt matt -- >> its really -- theres a element to this. >> everybody has their own server? im just curious. i mean you have to get your bias out of ...

It got lost in the iran stuff. but it remains a budget battle over this summer. >> i want to show a piece of what the president did say to you about the situation that developed with netanyahu and the situation with israel. lets listen to this. >> we take him at his word, when he said that it wouldnt happen during his prime ministership. and so thats why weve got to evaluate what other options are available to make sure that we dont see a chaotic situation in the region. >> and of course, sam, h...

A possibility of reaching a two-state solution in the next several years. prime minister netanyahu in the election run-up stated that a mindial state would not occur while he was prime minister. and i took him at his word that thats what he meant. afterwards he pointed out he didnt say "never" but that there would be a series of conditions in which a palestinian state could potentially be created. but of course the conditions were such that they would be impossible to immediate anytime soon. >> ...

>> you know, the whole problem with modern jewish history, modern israeli history is this whole conundrum. you have all these people that are never going to be israeli. and say youre going to have a minority population running the country because of a demographic time bomb. everybody in israel, sooner or later, you have to separate, you have to divorce and create another country. what is bibi talking about about not doing that? >> he was trying to turn out his ultra nationalist base and succeede...

Towards a solution are now on same page. listen to the white house chief of staff speaking to the pro-israel group. >> such comments call into question his commitment to a two-state solution as did his suggestion the construction of settlements has a strategic purpose of dividing palestinian communities and his claim that conditions in the larger middle east must be more stable before a palestinian state can be established. we cannot simply pretend that these comments were never made. [ applause...

An election campaign. the president has his priorities screwed up. its unbelievable. >> tough words. for more insight, i want to go live to jerusalem. thats where cnns orrin lieberman is standing by for us. so tension of course were seeing growing between president obama and israeli prime minister netanyahu. now we learn that mr. obama is not buying mr. netanyahus post campaign policy shift on the issue of whether hes committed to a two-state solution. now many confused about where israel actual...

Plus the bad blood between the obama administration and benjamin netanyahu continues. bibi won re-election by disavowing the two-state solution. today president obamas chief of staff said israel must end its west bank hooerks the word occupation. thats fighting words. what does president bartlett from the west wing and frank underwood from the house of cards have in common? theyre both doing better in the polls than president obama. the man in the white house. the real president. thats in the ...

You correct it the next day. >> bibi has to govern. he has to clean up the mess from the election which happens all the time and now hes got to -- >> he acknowledged the palestinian right to a country? >> i have no idea. >> do you think he should? >> it doesnt work in his favor unless they get a two-state solution. >> should the arabs have their own country over there? >> i think the demographics dont work unless theres a two-state solution. ill put it that way. >> even if he acknowledges that i...

Too dangerous to cede territories to the palestinians for now. >> i want a sustainable peaceful two-state solution. for that circumstances have to change. >> reporter: president obama is unimpressed. in a post election phone call to in the the in the, he warned the prime minister those comments may force the u.s. to reassess its relationship with israel. >> we take him at his word when he said that it wouldnt happen during his prime ministership. so thats why weve got to evaluate what options ar...