new housing units in jerusalem when vice president biden was in jerusalem? >> well, many friends can have differences from time to time, and the alliance is when you can cross the differences and communicate. we have seen the relationships grow stronger over the course of the last year. in the security field, certainly. but also now in diplomatic field as the prime minister and the president discuss concrete ways of moving forward from proximity talks of the israelis and the palestinians to direct talks. >> i guess would you say that in the past few months, someone blinked and it was the obama administration or the netanyahu government? >> neither. we communicated intently with each other in and at faction of construction, and intense thinking. we came to understand each