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Sides to make difficult concessions to resolve those two other issues. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu flatly rejected president obama's idea, saying that it would leave israel's borders, quote, indefensible. he's going to be able to tell that to the president's face today when the two meet later this morning. ed henry at the white house with a preview of that. it seems this is a tough negotiating position for the president given that benjamin netanyahu has so publicly panned this idea. >> absolutely. you heard president obama there in the bbc interview saying look, i'm just tryin...

>> ambassador ginsberg, let me start with the comments from prime minister netanyahu after hearing about this. he said that those 1967 borders are, quote, indefensible for israel. based on his strong comments and actually calling for the president to take back what he said, is this idea dead on arrival? >> it's dead on arrival, there's no negotiation between the palestinians and israelis and that's the problem. the president set this out in a speech and yet at the same time, all of us know that there's been a total breakdown in these negotiations. senator mitchell resigned in frustration. ther...

Guarantee israel's security and recognize its identity as a jewish state. those 1967 borders were in place before the six-day war in which israel captured the golan heights, the sinai peninsula, the west bank and gaza strip from its neighbors. since then, nearly half a million israeli-jews have settled in those areas and giving that land back to create a palestinian state is an idea israel rejects. mr. obama's statement puts pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on eve of a high-profile visit to the united states. immediately after the speech, netanyahu called the idea indefens...

>> reporter: in return obama called on them to retain its security and recognize it as a jewish state. the 1967 borders were in place before the six-day war in which israel captured the golan heights, west bank and gaza strip from its neighbors. since then nearly half of them settled. it's an idea that israel rejects. mr. obama's statement puts pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. immediately after the speech he called the idea indefensible, but mr. obama had plenty to anger the palestinians too. criticizing the palestinian unity agreement between fatah, and extremist group h...

That idea indefensible. this isn't the first time the two have had a frosty session, if you will. they met in march of last year right after tension erupted over israel's refusel to suspend settlement activities. let me bring in cnn senior white house correspondent ed henry now. ed, we saw the public face they put on. any idea of what happened behind closed doors? >> reporter: well, we're digging on that. what's interesting, from what we know, this meeting went far longer than it was supposed to. it went over 95 minutes. and that blew out the president's schedule a bit. and that gives you a se...