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Tan ta. even stevie wonder. >> carol, it shouldn't be surprising one way or the other. it doesn't mean you're pro palestinian or anti-israel, frankly. many people make the point that all they are against is the settlements and it's usually about the settlement building in the west bank which is an obstacle to peace. so the idea that they are against that, done mean they are anti-israel. i love america. i do criticize our policy many times on different issues. i'm not anti-american in any way, shape, or form. so i think that's -- there's a line. we can have constructive criticism and debate and...

Preconditions is an end to settlement building. they're building a new subdivision and may build more across the street. that is something the administration in the past has publicly criticized. the president had several opportunities to bring it up in public. he said nothing about settlement. >> he did say one thing on the -- >> i was going to say, i don't think the word settlement came up during the news conference. >> no. >> it did not. in the question from chuck todd of nbc news, he asked about the process in going forward. i would have liked for somebody in the room to ask a more specific...

Stressed that workingwise, professionally they get their business done. they may not like each other but they get business done. relationships always help in difficult situations. so, i think that is one of the priorities to try to become more friendly, if not best friends. and the iran question is huge. i spoke to the israeli president, perez, this morning and he says there's a greater understanding now the israelis believe and have no hesitation that the mepresident means when end the military option will be on the table and will not iran to get a warhead. now they believe the president, the...

Within each of these two territories to make this happen. it's a political will on each side to make it happen. what makes this really tough is, it's hard to imagine that the next leader of the palestinians is going to be as empowered as abbas is to get a two-state solution. it is also harder to see a settlement building continues in places like the west bank. how that isn't changing the calculus of a two-state solution. and i think the president fears that you have a window that is closing. but the truth is, we can only be part of an active part of that process, you cannot force these two sid...

Negotiating table. netanyahu froze settlement building for ten months. it was an unprecedented move. he removed hundreds of checkpoints and road blocks in the west bank to build peace from the bottom up. the economic type of peace. we hope they'll come back. it seems schi s simple enough. the palestinians have a hard time making that simple move. >> is netanyahu, isn't he raising the bar a bit by saying the palestinians must not only accept israel as a fellow state in the united states but also access its basic jewish nature? isn't that new, isn't that putting something new in the debate and a...