security guys lifted up one of the suitcases and it was empty. so the threat didn t really work that well. for abbas, i think his problem is he s shown a willingness to sit back and hope that the israelis and the united states will disagree and that the united states will put pressure on israel. so he s been quoted as saying that he s happy doing nothing and watching the united states and israel fight it out. and so i think that s the challenge, is to make sure we keep the negotiating tactics to a minimum and that president abbas understands that without his movement and his decisions, this is not going to be possible. larry: ari, you re a pr expert, what are you going to be listening for? i ll be listening for the things you can t hear. i ll be listening for what takes place behind the scenes as trust gets built. if prime minister netanyahu really starts to think he is a
and so i think that s the challenge, is to make sure we keep the negotiating tactics to a minimum and that president abbas understands that without his movement and his decisions, this is not going to be possible. larry: ari, you re a pr expert, what are you going to be listening for? i ll be listening for the things you can t hear. i ll be listening for what takes place behind the scenes as trust gets built. if prime minister netanyahu really starts to think he is a partner with prime minister with president abbas. that s the type of dynamic that needs to start in private between two leaders. the leaders, interestingly, are the ones going to be doing a lot of this negotiating. which is significant. and you have to have that trust start to grow and start to build because that s how you tackle the difficult issues. i expect we on the outside will have a hard time seeing that. it becomes a dynamic between the two people. at the end of the day israel will have to say to itself if we
the spill has been stopped for now. bp containment cap is holding and pressure tests on the ruptured well are progressing but we aren t out of the woods yet obviously. a live report from new orleans in just a moment. also up for bad press? a thumbs down from consumer reports and rumors of a costly recall, there is a new report saying steve jobs was actually warned that iphone 4 s wrap-around antenna design could cause problems. apple is expected to break its silence at a press conference later today. what will they say? what should they say? a pr expert will give us his take. one tea party leader raising more than a few eyebrows after penning a racist rant after the naacp, of all weeks, charged the grassroots movement of tolerating racism in its ranks. see what the tea party leader wrote coming up. we re continuing to follow a developing story this morning. a 3.6 magnitude earthquake hit
from such steps. what you re seeing are two things that are very common in crisis situations, one, you lack a devil s advocate. we always tell our clients and sometimes we play that role, you want somebody who is going to take the most negative possible view of everything you do and you want that person in on the decision-making to politely and respectfully say sir, is that really a good idea, you know, what are they going to say if you re on a yacht when the oil spill is not cleaned up and the oil well is not controlled. most corporations don t have that. you can be safer doing it when i do it because i m an independent consultant and every once in a while the ceo will say you re fired, i don t want to take your advice. usually they re fired not too long after that. margolese is a pr expert and said bp was right to let tony hayward take the lead in the beginning but now the company needs credible spokespeople to
ready to turn it on. it s a mistake. i mean he would have had to have said the same thing if he had a room full of reporters. the thing he has to say is here s what happened and i m not going to discuss it further but doing this, by segregating the group, he s further alienating people who don t like him as a result of this. if you were advising him would you advise his wife to come with him? no. she will not be near the place. this is on him. and you said it, your reaction is the same reaction as most people. where they will say, you know, we don t like the way this guy s doing it. but he s got to say something and he s got to try to make a clean breach of it because he s going to be hounded. frazer, a pr expert. thank you. judge napolitano, thank you. groundbreaking finding in the fight against breast cancer.