0 persuade people that he is sincere in his support for israel. wasn't clear beforehand. very significant and successful. not so successful after per swagd the palestinians he is on their side. the most important thing is to get israelis to believe him so he could pressure israel document road, asser can very here to do to begin a real peace process with the palestinians. very successful, craig. >> we will talk about the perceptions among the palestinians our next hour. our man in the middle east, martin fletcher in tel aviv for us. thanks for staying up, sir. >> thanks, craig. the president returns from the middle east later tonight, about 8:45 he is expected to land. early this morning, the senate passed a budget. with more on the news from all corners of the globe, bill schneider, and anna palmer of politico. bill, start with you. lots of questions ahead of president obama's trip to israel. how would he be able to smooth things over with prime minister netanyahu? able to win over a skeptical israeli people? make an aggressive push for renewed peace talks? how successful was the trip, bill? >> he was very success envelope communicating his support for israel, particularly with the younger israelis. his message to them was israel cannot survive for much long we are the status quo. that's an important message because a lot of israelis believe they can go on like this a long time and the president said israel cannot remain a jewish and democratic state if things don't change. and he urged young israelis to pressure their government because he said politicians do not take risks unless there is public pressure for change. that was his key message. >> one thing that struck a lot of folks, the president's different stance and tone in regards to this trip. let's listen to remarks that president obama made in cairo in 2009 compared to remark he is gave in ramallah on thursday. take a look. >> this construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve democrats, we should note here, worried about their own hopes for re-election. the chances of the senate budget being reconciled with the house budget the chances are slim to none, we know that. what did we learn from the budget debate? >> i think what you really saw was the senate actually kind of doing its work, i was in the capital yesterday, you don't often see right now. there is a lot of gridlock and this is a partisan document, obviously the talking points for what democrats want. but it also gives them something to compare to one of the biggest critiques from republicans the past four years, the past four year, senate democrats have not passed a budget. given them talking point what is their vision is for the future. >> the whole thing was really sort of a silly exercise, at times there were literally 500 amendments that were put up. again, we know that these budgets respect going to become law. so, why the exercise? what's the point? >> definitely this broke all records for a vote a rama, what we call these extensive 13-hour-long debates, more than 100 amendments that were considered. but it's -- working the will of the senate, frankly. and it also, one of the things that's key we focus on is some of the amendments that did or didn't pass because they are going to be used in some of these elections in 2014 in terms of the keystone pipeline, for example. that amendment did pass. >> bill, anna brings up a significant point, a lot of folks who have been talking about this idea that the lion's share of what we saw unfold last night over on c-span, a lot of that was designed for campaign ads a lot was just for campaign commercials what does that say about the budget process? >> it is actually moving forward because the democrats have finally said they do support raising tax, only on the wealthy americans but esensely, what's changed, they didn't pass a budget for four years, any budget threat they passed would have included a tax increase and felt vulnerable in the campaign. well, president obama got re-elected by promising a tax increase on high-income americans to reduce the deficit. so now, finally, senate democrats feel that they can go ahead and echo that position. that's change. >> an narc the president is expected to release the white house budget in april. what kind of compromises, if any, can we expect to see there? >> i think he is going to kind of come up and say the same things that he has been saying. we will look at the changes he will make to the entitlement program. the republicans saying they will not raise tax and what the democrats might do on entitlement reforms if they can find any kind of common ground that would be possible there. >> bill schneider, anna palmer, stick around. we would like to come back to you later in the hour, if that's okay with you. >> sure. >> thanks. could bill clinton be talking out of both sides of his mouth? 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