look, i think when even you have some of our friends in the traditional more main stream dinosaur media bringing this issue up of friday althoughity, it s a frivolity, it s a premature approach when you have all the major world leaders in new york, you send your press secretary out yesterday to say, well, i m sure he ll see them at various receptions. [ laughter ] this is ridiculous. you have to have a relationship with these people and the new york times, which is loath to criticize this president, even makes a point of saying, he has not fostered the types of personal relationships that are really required to get us through these really rocky times. he hasn t done that. steve: yesterday on the view the president did reveal, and it will be broadcast later today that he refers to himself as the eye candy. i m just the eye candy here. so he s busy there at the view rather than sitting down with netanyahu sometime this week. as netanyahu would desperately