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one-termer. the vibe was bad enough this week. the top obama campaign strategist sent a memo to reporters noting that the president's support from the democratic base is strong. the same cannot be said of independents. 54% disapprove of how he's doing his job. things can change between now and november 2012. the more immediate question is whether president obama has the political capital to sell his jobs plan to the public and push it through congress. joining us now, the number two democrat in the senate, senator dick durbin. thank you so much for being here. and let's just start ...

Trust between the united states and the israelis, trust between the united states and the palestinians, and secondly, there's an issue of who is going to lead this process. senator mitchell has resigned, and i think one of the questions for the administration is going to be whether secretary of state hillary clinton is really going to step forward now and take this as part of her brief. in the end of the day, it is peace making in the middle east is presidential business, and it's going to have to be president obama. but he's going to need an agent in this process. one of the questions really ...

did president obama's message today strike the right tone? today, the president tries to calm the waters. reaction from israel's ambassador to the u.s. michael orr orrin, and then from the chief palestinian representative to the u.s., mayan ar acat. analysis. i'm candy crowley. and this is state of the union. in his speech, president obama addressed the controversy from his thursday's speech. >> that was my reference to the 1967 alliance with mutually agreed swaps that received the lion's share of the attention, including just now. since my position has been misrepresented several ti...

>> 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...

seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. >> that's right. in fact, we're waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that's the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. >> strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wan...