what did you make of the fact that pictures sent out were of this private meeting with william and kate and no one on one with charles and camilla, the future king. it s very telling. we know prince charles is the next in line to the thrown. by william and kate are being nurtured and being taught and pushed into the role very carefully. they are not going to be at the state banquet tonight because they are not fully fledged senior members of the royal family net. but the queen is determined they should meet heads of state because they will need that njt future. martha: how do they seem to be doing? how s it going? this is the first official duty they have had since coming back from honeymoon. it s all over the newspapers in england. all the evening newspapers are covering it. they are very relaxed. very informal.
by a president or use the 67 and swaps is viewed as a crisis. i think it s a overreaction. the fact is this relationship has remained resilient for 63 years and it remains sound. i watched this under six secretary of states. i watched barrack. i watched a them find a way to cooperate and pull off the madrid peace conference. can obama and this fell find a way to do that? it will require a lot of effort on both sides. the administration still has not decide whether it wants to punish the israelies or pander to them. the prime minister has not yet found an effective strategy to generate some reciprocity to the president s needs. so in the middle there let many hope they find. september will be a real problem for everybody. martha: i have a few seconds
left. could it be that call made at the end by netanyahu to mahmoud abbas, could that be where the president and abbas and netanyahu could get together to put pressure on mahmoud abbas to altoalienate abbas? all politics are local. this deal between abbas and fatah was driven by domestic policies. that isn t going to change. this unity thing will be with us for some time. martha: all right. the first family is across the pond right now. they are visiting the royal family. why that has some critics talking. we are going to talk about that just moments away. also a potential blockbuster in the case against the former head of the imf. explosive new evidence on that
that there is a potentially deadly tornado on the ground. martha: we listened and played on fox for our viewers as well you and your husband as you were driving toward the joplin one. this is when the skies were overcast as we are waiting for what may be developing out here. i was listening to it today and you were yelling and it sounded to me as if you were saying, why are you turning that way? let s get out of here? i ll tell you exactly what happened on thatment that was so interesting because here here are in the very thick of it. i m filming this monster and i m looking through the i cup and optically when you look through the lens you can see different thins. any way, jeff had said at one point i don t see the tornado. and i thought to myself, i thought to myself, oh, my god, he can t see it, i can see it through the l erbs nens.
this administration has rolled out epa rules and restrictions on drilling and restrictions on exploration. the president may talk a good game for re-election but he believes in high gas prices. martha: you know, there is that quote that floated around for some time, susan, basically saying maybe if we had the kind of prices they have in europe people would stop driving these big gas-guzzling suv s in this country. that does lead many to take a look at their policies and say maybe they are okay with this. maybe they truly think that the way to encourage people to become more conservative in their energy use is to punish them at the pump. no. i mean, you re right, martha, you re instinct is completely right. look, i do think that this administration is interested in pushing conservation? of course. the major tool has actually be trying to force car manufacturers to get their numbers down on miles per gallon. nobody likes high energy prices. but i don t think anybody who is