for state hood. this hour, the president is expected to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. he held a separate meeting just a little while ago with benjamin netanyahu. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. she s covering this from new york. the president also delivered a major address before the u.n. general assembly. that s rig, wolf. the palestinians continue pressing their case here at the united nations and it was the most dramatic issue the president addressed in his speech today with repeated the theme, peace is hard. the president trumpeted progress at the end of this year, america s military operation in iraq will be over. osama bin laden is gone. and warned of challenges ahead. where we stand with the syrian people or their oppressors. what so many were listening for was this. we seek a future where palestinians live in a sovereign sate of their own. how would we explain his opposition to the palestinian push
you re looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this year s general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nation s security council. it could have serious implications for the u.s. relationships with iz real and the arab world. much more on this part of the story coming up. let s get to the president s plan it slash trillions of dollars through the national debt. a plan he says will do the right thing. either we ask the wealthiest americanes it pay their fair share of taxes or asking seniors to pay more thor medicare. we can t afford do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations
communities, natural growth in areas within the west bank, and more importantly it is starting to dictate terms, calling on israel and the peace process to return back to 67 borders with land swaps which a lot of people in israel and elsewhere, rightly so, believe is going to put israel at megyn: i m up against a hard break, so i ve got to run that s a misconstrual of his perspectives. megyn: thank you both for being here. before we get to break, we ve got some dramatic video this week of these good samaritans lifting a burning car off of a trapped motorcycle riders. that rider is now speaking from the hospital bed right now. we ll have that for you shortly. call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.
in may. we are joined by tony blair representative of the quartet negotiating middle east peace. the key talks tonight at the state department. first of all, there are some suggestions in israel that your group, the quartet is going to endorse president obama s position of the 1967 borders with some adjustments, some land swaps. is that a likely outcome? that is a great concern in israel. at least the prime minister of the mx there feels that this will be counter to their interest and the peace process? i think everyone is trying to find a way forward in advance of september. that s important is we get direct new yorks revived. that should be done on the basis of the speech that president obama made. most people are going to accept the principals set out there. there s going to be a by sis for the parties to resolve those issues and get their back around the table and get there as soon as possible.
of peace in the middle east after the latest round of speeches by prime minister netanyahu and president obama. i ll be joined by tom friedman of the new york times who is just back from the middle east. now, here s my take for this week. we ve just gone through an arcane debate about whether barack obama said anything new when he called for an israeli/palestinian settlement based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps. in fact, that has been the working assumption of all negotiating parties, america, israel and the palestinian authority, for over 20 years. it is what the camp david talks of 2000 were based on, it s what elmert s talks were based on. the real shift in u.s. policy was president obama publicly condemning the palestinian strategy to seek recognition as a state from the u.n. general assembly in september. instead of thanking obama for this, prime minister netanyahu chose to stage, in the words of