avoid that tension when we heard national security advisor susan rice say just about a week ago that the partisanship surrounding this could be destructive to the fabric of the relationship. that was really surprising because that was pretty much the strongest statement acknowledging the tension that we have heard so far. i think it was interesting today that even though the line from both prime minister netanyahu and the u.s.'s ambassador to the u.n. samantha power, was that the alliance is stronger than ever there are these very very strong and unyielding shared values that the u.s. has done a ton to help israel that israel appreciates that greatly, the tension later on still managed to come out today. what we heard from the press secretary, first of all, if israel doesn't like the prospect of these nuclear negotiations then israel has provided no other viable option. also he acknowledged that the white house is upset that israel has and could continue to leak out these purported details