that s why the prime minister said, among other things, he said that we needed to go back to previous commitments the u.s. made, he said, quote, among other things those commitments relate to israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines, which are both indefenseble and which would leave major israeli population centers in judea and sam maria beyond those lines. you can see how that bit of timing is frustrating to the israelis, as prime minister netanyahu arrives here. i spoke to a former u.s. peace negotiator, aaron david miller, who said, this is going to basically make this meeting a disaster. i don t know whether the president took notice of the sense of timing, but he s opened up a significant issue with the israelis and fighting with the israelis, frankly, without purpose and without any sense of advancing the arab israeli peace process or achieving a breakthrough, doesn t make much sense. reporter: it s worth noting as the president said in the bbc interview he did not men
expect things to get tense at the white house today when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu meets with president obama. netanyahu says the white house plan for a middle east peace deal based on borders that existed before the six-day war would make israel indefenseble. when the president talks about returning israel to its pre-1967 borders, let me give you a sense of what he s talking about. now this might look nice and neat when you look at it like this, until you zoom in on the west bank where jewish settlements started cropping up in the 1960s you can see those doimdss. more started in the 70s and 80s. they were supposed to stop after the oslo 2 agreement in 1995 but they continued growing as you can see. the red and the orange round circles are all the extra settlements. those are unauthorized
30 minutes after the hour. good morning. let s bring you up to speed with the top stories we re covering at cnn. former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn could be walking out of rikers island at any moment. a judge granted him bail yesterday while a grand jury was indicting him on seven counts of sexual assault of a hotel maid. it figures to be a tense meeting at the white house later this morning when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pays a visit to president obama. netanyahu rejected the president s proposal outright that israel abandon land that it won in the 1967 war to restart the middle east peace process. netanyahu says those borders would leave israel, quote, indefenseble and he is demanding a retraction from the president. devastating floods in mississippi are now deadly. a 69-year-old man in vicksburg drowned yesterday. he s the first known victim of the historic floods. entire neighborhoods are submerged in water over 2,000 people forced to flee their
seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. that s right. in fact, we re waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that s the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wanted this to happen before it was denied and now he got it. it s a matter of making it all come together. we don t know exactly when he ll be getting out of rikers. we do know that the judge is going to have to finally sign off everything is in place. we know that as you ve been reporting, that a security team has been hired by the defense team and he has to pay for this himself, dominique strauss-