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Will be the next prime minister. >> what about the story about the spending scandals around netanyahu and his wife will that be a factor? >> it's what everybody is talking about, but people are also not beating up on his wife even though she's looking kind of like sarah palin at this point. most elections are defined by security, but they have terrible housing problems there now. and other economic problems. and the security issue doesn't all work for netanyahu. even though he wants it to and he's playing that card hard. he could end up suffering from you know the recognition that these top pe...

The spending scandals around netanyahu and his wife, will that be a factor? >> it's what everybody is talking about, but people are also not beating up on his wife, even though she's looking kind of like sarah palin at this point. most elections are defined by security, but they have terrible housing problems there now. and other economic problems. and the security issue doesn't all work for netanyahu. even though he wants it to, and he's playing that card hard. he could end up suffering from, you know, the recognition that these top people, the last three heads of mosad are all against him. >...

Conflict i don't think they're ever going to be able to present a coherent and cohesive plan to attack the housing problems we all face. >> heidi, i feel there are two pieces to that inherent conflict. there is the political piece. homeownership is like the other thing. apple pie and you say mother and you say homeownership. and the policy piece of it. an enormous amount of what one could call the middle class is devoted to giving subsidies for homeownership. and kind of to get at the policy you need to get at the politics. and the politics on that are really nearly immovable. >> yeah. this is...

The five-point plan the president laid out today did, as a sort of coherent vision for where the housing market should go from here, did you think it helped? did you think it made sense? >> i mean, i think the plan makes sense. what i think you spotted the inherent tension in what he was stating in that there is this -- he mentions rentals as, you know, being kind of a decent, honorable thing that our society should encourage. however homeownership is the cornerstone of middle class life. i don't think the administration has come to grasp with how much they should encourage rentals and should ...

Where the housing market should go from here, did you think it helped? did you think it made sense? >> i mean, i think the plan makes sense. what i think you spotted the inherent tension in what he was stating in that there is this -- he mentions rentals as, you know, being kind of a decent, honorable thing that our society should encourage. however homeownership is the cornerstone of middle class life. i don't think the administration has come to grasp with how much they should encourage rentals and should direct homeownership. until they resolve that inherent conflict i don't think they're e...