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On the syrian front. how he couches the u.s. role in the mideast peace process now i think is what we all really don't know. as i had an aide say, you know, i'm not going to tell you everything about the speech. >> well, for one thing it was one of the issues that was somewhat debated internally and between the state department and the white house. and on syria, the president signed executive orders yesterday authorizing sanctions against president assad. now these are unilateral, so unless the european union joins in, they won't have very much weight. but still, while criticizing syria while ...

Do if he's going to have influence across the region as these things unfold is explain what are the u.s. objectives? what do we stand for? in all of this? what are our principles? so far, i think people have been frustrated nod to see that. and there was this pew poll that came out the day before that suggested that so far our role has not been popular and we haven't received a bounce in public opinion in the region. and the fact also that the osama bin laden theme that president obama may touch upon in this speech won't resonate as much with people in the region, because i think they're much ...

By advisers. there's no -- that israel doesn't see it in its interest and the palestinians don't see it in their interest. that's not what we're hearing from palestinians, palestinians in cairo, people on the street, from arab leaders. they say there is not only an incentive from the arab side to have an agreement right now or to start an intense series of negotiations, but that it is an absolute imperative for this entire region not to blow up. all of this energy that has been directed at people like president mubarak is being directed at israel, and in order -- the best way to defuse that, p...

And so now i expect you will see a speech that focuses more on the sort of pivot from osama bin laden's death to kind of the hopeful events in the region, that focuses on this economic aid package without, of course, anything that requires a congressional appropriation which is difficult right now. and talks about in more general terms some of the issues going on right now, hopefully syria, certainly something modest on israeli-palestinian peace but doesn't really get into the details. >> he's going to be meeting tomorrow with prime minister netanyahu. and then over the weekend, the president ...