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When completed, it will span 700 miles. 85% of it in palestinian territory. on one hand, there's no doubt that the number of suicide bombings fell drastically. on the other, there's this. you cross from jerusalem into the west bank. also called judea, sumaria, also called palestine. since 1967, half a million settlers have moved here, all in contravention of international law. many in contravention of international law. though it seems to make little difference. they're here and in ever-larger numbers. this is one of our drivers from tel aviv who i asked about graffiti on this house near the s...

>> she says she hopes she can. she also hopes she can go to jerusalem as well. so she's optimistic. she's saying -- first she said you're not allowing us to. then corrected and said the israelis aren't allowing us. >> go, go. >> this is a normal tone of voice. not upset, by the way. this is how we talk. we yell. >> what's he saying? >> give me a permit. if they allow, of course i'll go. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's endless shrimp.

Recognize israel is reject violence and -- [ inaudible ] the official position of this administration on jerusalem is no different than position of numerous previous administration of both parties. they find that decision to negotiate directed by the two parties and reference another attempt by romney campaign to turn our support for israel to wedge issue. romney campaign jumped on this saying it's indicative of those things. >> the romney campaign jumped to put a statement out about this. [ inaudible ] he went for tradition. which is it's time status issue to be negotiated by the parties. the...

Found voters nationwide to be undecided. >> take time to make up their mind. especially voters indicated the preference could turn on the chosen candidate. so-called persuadable. poll taken on day before election day on 2008 found 5% of north carolina voters saying they might change their mind the final 24 hours. bret? >> thank you. get perspective now from syndicated call loumnist krauthammer ca -- columnist charles krauthammer joining us from washington. good evening. we were going to start broadly about the convention but i asked about the platform and why "god" and "jerusalem" was taken ou...

Question why was the word taken out. >> i'm telling you, that you are harping on a -- we know both parties are devoted to this country. both parties god-fearing parties. get on with the agenda about creating jobs in america. >> bret: understood. we'll talk about that in a second. talking about the platform here. two changes we noted, one that god was taken out from 2008 to 2012, two that jerusalem is not mentioned. not drawing conclusions, i'm just asking why the changes were made? >> i chaired the platform committee for two conventions and we had the most unread document in history of the pol...