all of our viewers know as a result of what happened after the benghazi attack. and her appearance on five sunday shows. he will also announce that he s nominating samantha power, another former official of his national security council as his next u.s. ambassador to the united nations. jessica yellin is standing by. we re only seconds away. these are very important decisions by the president. reporter: wolf, they are. in both moves the president is simultaneously choosing people that could be lightning rods for controversy, but also very familiar faces and democrats say this is classic obama in going with members of the foreign policy team to keep a sense of continuity in his policy. on the controversy, as you point out, susan rice has been at the center of the storm over those benghazi talking points for her comments in the aftermath of the attacks in benghazi. the white house fiercely defending her, but because of her remarks, she lost out on becoming secretary of state. if republ
jessica yellin is standing by. jessica, this is obviously not an easy decision for the president to go ahead and make a statement like this. that s right, wolf. i know the president s going to make a very brief statement, only five minutes. and it s already running a little bit late. very briefly, he will announce something of substance. i m waiting to bring it to you. hopefully i ll have that very soon. i also want to tell you the speaker of the house, john boehner, is talking about the benghazi e-mails. the speaker has been quite outraged over the e-mails. and his spokesman says that the e-mails only confirm what the speaker s been saying all along, and that the release of these in no way alleviates the republicans concerns, to make a change for political reasons. it seems the political nature of the state department s concerns
don lemon takes it from here. hello, everyone. don lemon here. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. at any moment now u.s. president barack obama will hold a news conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu it will happen in jerusalem. the president is on his first trip to israel as commander in chief. he arrived there this morning, 6:12 eastern time, just after noon in tel aviv. i want to turn things over to wolf blitzer in washington to get us to that news conference. it should begin at any moment, wolf. it is a very important news conference, don. they ll be taking questions from reporters, but opening up with formal statements. let s go to jerusalem right now. jessica yellin is standing by. john king is standing by. john, first to you, give us a little sense of what has happened so far in the hours since the president arrived. wolf in the hours since he s
choices. almost impossible to overstate how important next hour s announcement is. we have complete coverage to break it down for all of you. our crews are covering every angle from coast to coast. let s go to the white house, though, first. there s breaking news coming out. jessica yellin is standing by. what are you learning about the president s intention today? reporter: hi, wolf. well, president obama will be in the oval office receiving his daily briefing when the supreme court ruling comes down. he ll be there with the vice president, his chief of staff, and the men who usually brief him, the heads of his national security team, and others. and i understand that the president will give remarks. i expect it in the nature of a speech and the white house is prepared for a number of different contingencies. they re prepared for the possibility it s fully upheld, obviously, fully struck down and then something in between. possibly a version of the mandate getting struck d
motes. 22 republicans voted against it and all of the democrats. just before the vote, speaker boehner blamed president obama at the talks aimed at a bipartisan deal. i stuck my neck out a mile and i put revenues on the table. in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. but a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table. tell us where you are. here is the thing. the conservatives resulted in a bill that has no pass of passing and no chance of a cigsignature from a democratic president. it holds our economy captive to washington politics once again. in other words, it does not solve the problem and has no chance of becoming a law. here is why he rejects it. it would force spending cults immediately. but to get increase in the debt ceiling, the house and the senate would have t