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>> even before the president's arrival the consensus among israelis, palestinians, and even white house officials was that this visit will not do anything concrete to move the peace process forward, so we can't help but ask, what's the point? let's try to get some perspective from cnn's jessica yellin who is live in jerusalem. jessica, were there any surprises from the president at the press conference today? >> reporter: well, i think, jake, the president was especially forceful in his expression of support for israel's security. he used the language he needed to use to reassure the israelis....

Israeli people. talk with, with university students and young people. see the historic connection to the lands that the israeli people have. make sure that he focuses on the future. seeing the innovation and the success that israel has had in their economy. in short, this is an incredible opportunity to reaffirm our relationship with the israeli people. and also to make sure we can have our president sit down with the prime minister for some important discussions about how to move the peace process forward. and get the two parties back to the discussion table. >> how important is iran when it ...

Forward? and vice versa. i asked jay carney that question earlier today. he wouldn't answer specifically expect to say that whenever the two meet, they talk about the peace process. but as our colleagues at first read reported this morning, it is unlikely that president obama would have agreed to such a trip unless he believed that netanyahu would be putting something on the table to try to move the peace process forward. i believe one of the reasons is to move their relationship forward over the next few years. >> the backdrop to any such meeting is the continued threat from iran. and today t...

either changed their stories or recanted their testimony, raising doubts that have gone global. anti-death penalty protesters are out in force tonight in georgia and over time, the pope, nobel peace prize laureates, desmond too tou and jimmy carter have been among those who have appealed for leniency or a new trial. the original prosecutor in the case say they are executing the right man tonight. >> there are two troy davis cases. there is the legal case, the case in court, and the public relation case. we have consistently won the case, as it's been presented in court. we have consi...

their fair share. >> that brings me to what's being called the buffett rule, named for billionaire who says the super rich are undertaxed. the president is insisting people who earn is million a year or more pay as much in taxes or more as ordinary wage earners do. republicans are up in arms but the president says it is not class warfare -- it is math. gloria, does the president's math actually add up? >> well, what he did today really was lay down a political marker. this is a president who's been accused by his base of not participating enough in his own health care reform plan or ...