part of the palestinians' engaging in direct talks. >> settlements are an issue that has to be engaged in the final status peace negotiation, that has been agreed on along with other issues. i made the exceptional, really extraordinary move of making the freeze of new construction for ten months and did that months ago in order to help the palestinians get into the talks. and they haven't gotten into the talks now and now we are asked to make and extension and this is the wrong approach. i think we should eliminate all of the pre-conditions and the excuses and all of those demands for entering into rect talks and just get into them. >> chris: during your meeting with president obama, you praised the recent round of sanctions not just the u.n. but also the additional sanctions that president obama signed, with the -- the u.s. congress passed on iran. but, recently, the cia director, leon panetta said this: will it deter them, speaking of the iranians, from their