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could we be next? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." today we're coming to you live from cnn's jerusalem, israel. he left there live earlier today. he's now in poland with the president-elect. we're going to have a live report in the next hour from pole land. we begin this hour with my one-on-one interview with the republican presidential candidate. governor romney, thanks so much for joining us, in jerusalem. what a beautiful city. i'm sure you've been moved by what you've seen so far. >> it's a holy city, a city of a great and courageous people. my wife and i first...

Supreme court justice alito which is probably the reason why he's on the supreme court steps right there as he was awaiting this decision today. what does this mean for your state and for the law that you have in place now? >> well, with regard to states generally that are trying to tackle the immigration issue, it means that they'll have to be careful not to run afoul of what the supreme court has now said is significant preemption precedent. it'll be more difficult for states to set their own penalties on conduct that's against the law federally. this is an unfortunate decision, it's one tha...

Safe. >> they say there's a small number of al-qaida mostly located in pakistan and they come across the border or whatever. these afghan forces have to defend themselves against the taliban. what role do we have in getting them ready for that? >> so we have committed ourselves to continue to provide support and training to the afghan national security forces until 2014 and i think what you'll see coming out of chicago is a longer term financial -- >> nato conference. >> with the nato conference but what i think we have to do, brian, is make sure that we're only investing in effective forces. ...

Israel has is being diminished with them working with terrorist group. >> because this organization has been labeled a terrorist organization by the u.s., does that help in putting any pressure or give the u.s. any negotiating power with the reports that we have seen that israel may act by the spring in launching an attack on iran. >> the u.s. cannot act with this group. there's a problem with the assassinati assassination. at the end of the day, these covert operations may help convince the israelis, all of them, all of the covert operations to delay the attacks or not attack at all. >> all r...

Jon: thanks nor coming in and sharing your thoughts th us. >> thank you, jon. had dinner with you, you're one of the good guys, thanks for doing that. jon: for a look at one of the legal ramifications let's talk with the chairman of the medal of honor foundation. john, the ninth circuit ruled that the government essentially cannot act as the truth police and punish lies that cause no direct harm. but you just heard leo say u know, for thos, you know, there is a lot of harm to them when a guy like alvarez makes completely made up claims stkpweu don't think medal of honor winners suffer at all. ...