Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100430:10:40:00
Push back. the situation is not ripe, to use my favorite word, the palestinian leadership is weak and divided. if palestine were a state it would be somewhere between a fragile and a failed state. we need to build it up. and you have an israeli government that is not prepared to make significant compromises in these circumstances. so, the president ought to spend his capital on other issues, on rebuilding the relationship with israel and on building up the capacities of the palestinians, that if they ever became a state, they could govern it. >> norah o'donnell, health care debated, illegal im...