the president, as you know, our -- lot of our viewers know, jim, named him the united states ambassador to china. he served for more than two years under president obama. >> reporter: that's right. and -- governor huntsman, i should mention, his staff told me before this event he likes to be called governor huntsman. not ambassador huntsman. he addressed this issue of the fact he worked for president obama and he said well, i -- i served as an ambassador to the president. not necessarily to president obama and when the president calls i serve. so as to that matter that's what jon huntsman had to say about his ambassadorship. as for israel he didn't get into a lot of specifics about the issue. he threw out that caveat that he had not heard the president's speech but he did say that he thought that perhaps the president should have allowed israel to negotiate through this process before coming out with what was a pretty hard stance from the president. >> jim across that in new hampshire. in less an month cnn will host the new hampshire