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>> any question there, bob, on where that man stands? >> what's insulting is that his foreign policy extends from east texas to west texas i felt where did president obama's -- >> he knows nothing about it. from the security council to vote to give, without having to cast a veto, it would require 9 votes out of 15 members of the security council. i dont think they are going to get that. the united states will veto tbut they could go to the general assembly and ask for an observer status, owned only by the vatican. tell allow them access to international courts and other things. i think it's da...

Palestinians. at the same time, he is also promising to veto any u.n. vote on state hood. how did those two come together? >> reporter: that's an interesting technicality. the veto the president is promising is on the res ploog would give palestine a full membership. that would have to pass by the security council where the united states has a veto. the intermediary solution the president of france, for example, suggested. it is to go to the general assembly where there is no veto. the palestinians clearly have enough votes to get an observer status for palestine that is not full membership. a...

Opposed palestinian efforts to pursue statehood in an honorable bas basis through the united nations. we would veto any actions in the security council. tlnchs's a couple things going on right now. number one, what is abbas going to do? will he file the petition for statehood with the security council or simply looking for observer status in the general assembly? it looks like he's going the security council route. that's one. two, does he have nine votes in the security council, forcing the united states to have to use their veto? there is still a chance if the united states and even some eur...

released from a prison there, but we're also hearing they're still in the prison. our sources in iran say they don't actually know if they left evin prison yet. imany official a a ay officials make sure they are free. released a statement by press tv that their detention sentence has been commuted and they have been released on bail, a lot of speculation is once they are released, they will head to iman. . the reason there is that speculation is it played a part in securing the release of sarah shourd, the third american hiker who was released last september. om omani government offi...

Palestinians -- >> if -- if -- if they get any observer status. >> we have to remember how meaningless this whole observer state is. basically, it means moving your chair from one side of the room to the other. i could be an observer state. i want to be an observer state. call it the united states of awesomeness. >> great. >> i would be the ament bass dor, like the vatican but with shorter robes. >> here's the point with perry. i have a problem -- it's like there are so many major foreign policy issues out there that we have yet to discuss. it seems weird. we are cherry picking issues. >> he k...