have mended fences today, offered reassurances to the american israel public affairs committee or aipac which describes itself as america s leading pro-israel lobby group. obama stressed his fundamental support for the jewish state. no country can be expected to negotiate with a terrorist organization sworn to its destruction. we will continue to demand that hamas accept the basic responsibilities of peace, including recognizing israel s right to exist and recognizing rejecting ri violence and adhering to all existing agreements. cnn s senior u.s. state department producer elise is in washington. elise, before we get to obama s verbal messages this was a confident president. did a rather warm interaction between president obama and the aipac president, lee rosenberg, set a tone. i think, fred, president obama knew he had to do a certain amount of cleanup from that speech the other day and lee rosenberg is rosy as president obama called him, really helped kind of set t
have mended fences today, offered reassurances to the american israel public affairs committee or aipac which describes itself as america s leading pro-israel lobby group. obama stressed his fundamental support for the jewish state. no country can be expected to negotiate with a terrorist organization sworn to its destruction. we will continue to demand that hamas accept the basic responsibilities of peace, including recognizing israel s right to exist and recognizing rejecting ri violence and adhering to all existing agreements. cnn s senior u.s. state department producer elise is in washington. elise, before we get to obama s verbal messages this was a confident president. did a rather warm interaction between president obama and the aipac president, lee rosenberg, set a tone. i think, fred, president obama knew he had to do a certain amount of cleanup from that speech the other day and lee rosenberg is rosy as president obama called him, really helped kind of set t