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Kevin cork has the story from the white house. >> a day later the white house is not backing down. the administration continues to reject the notion that benjamin netanyahu is in fact interested in a state solution for israelis and palestinians despite a campaign statement to the contrary. >> the point is that even the divergent comments of the prime minister call into question his commitment to this policy principle. >> reporter: during the heat of the israeli campaign that netanyahu said there would never be a palestinian state while he was in office. recalling remarks he made in 2009 saying...

>> reporter: ari, this weekend president obama will trade the sunshine and warm temperatures of hawaii for the cold and snow of washington. and when he arrives, he'll get right back into it, talking about his agenda for 2014 on tuesday at the white house. he'll give a speech calling on congress to renew long-term unemployment insurance benefits. that expired at the end of last year. he'll also be preparing for his state of the union address, one big theme we expect to hear about is income equality. he'll ask congress to raise the minimum wage from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour. a...

Now politicians on both sides of the aisle are conceding there may be tension with our allies but they are basically defending these practices. and that's including republican mike rogers. he chairs the house intelligence committee and here's what he told cnn's candy crowley this morning. >> we need to be respectful. but we also need to be -- and we need to be accurate. it needs to be overseen and make sure that we're not collecting information we don't need but we should collect information that is helpful to the united states interest. >> and of course, hillary clinton tried to explain the i...

What's important is that the president, our president gave a magnificent speech calling -- we know it's going to be very tough as we heard today, but i think we need to applaud president obama for really ensuring the rest of the world that he's going to take that step and it's going to be slow, but i've offered the legislation for many years now calling for a special envoy as it relates to iran and also, you know, getting rid of this no-contact policy that we have. and so we have not done that yet -- >> explain the no-contact policy. >> well, there in law we are not to really have bilateral co...

Rouhani's tone, given how much it seemed as if both countries were opening a kind of back-and-forth approach to each other toward some kind of sitdown negotiations? >> chris, i was not really surprised at his tone, but what's important is that the president, our president gave a magnificent speech calling -- we know it's going to be very tough as we heard today, but i think we need to applaud president obama for really ensuring the rest of the world that he's going to take that step and it's going to be slow, but i've offered the legislation for many years now calling for a special envoy as it...