since taking on the presidency, he said he's been very kuscauti. he doesn't want to give any false hope. he also says there's work in iran. they don't have a very good relationship with the u.s. so things could backfire very quickly. he doesn't want to put himself in an awkward position. he is a diplomatic sheikh so he really does think about every word he says very, very carefully. >> i want to stop you there because for somebody who's known for picking his words very carefully, to be quoted, as he said, about israel, when he made this remark, was quoted by the student news agency, said, quote, the zionist regime is a wound that needs to be removed. that sounded more like the type of rhetoric you would have heard from ahmadinejad and supposedly was not going to be rhetoric you were going to hear from rue