palestinians, directly talking to one another, this could be a good time for progress so they felt like having the president in front of all those nations today, elevating the issue and saying "the time is now," do not come back next year and give the spaich speeches with the same talking points. >>shepard: what else stood out in the speech? >>reporter: we did not hear much about north korea. >>shepard: i wonder why? >> aides say issues are ripe they tried to bring to the forefront and he is proposal meeting with japanese and chinese officials and there is probably more discussion about north korea and they thought that was the best place to do it rather than a war of words with kim chong-il. >>shepard: when it looks like they could consider changing the regime? looks like. we don't know. >>reporter: exactly. >>shepard: nice to have you in the big city. a programming note, i am