support for israel. trying to create a contrast with president obama without criticizing him so strongly he comes under fire for doing that when there s only one president and criticism stops at the water s edge. i imagine that s a struggle but they want him to make a few speeches that create his own vision of foreign policy that s separate from the visit. charles, can you answer quickly? probably not. relatively charles quickly. he will not saying anything that would attack obama or criticize the united states. it s not what he says. it s the choice of countries, britain, pole land and israel, all of which have been dissed by the obama administration with britain, and the united states intervening in the falcons dispute unnecessarily. with the undercutting of the missiles defense and with
gerri: $585 right now, up 45 percent and the new?; ipad will outsell the ipad 2 even though it is discounted. apple s market capital is bigger than exxonmobil by $140 billion, and the size pole land in terms of g.d.p. suspectship the size of poland. gerri: as big as a country the same as the entire economic output of poll listened. shepard: incredible. and you can insert your polish joke. and now pictures i took with it. our entire i.t. department was fixing it up for you. shepard: the screen looks good, right? there is jonathan. very nice, like that? who is to? dave? stage manager.
celebrate. one of those attending this historic event is jim nicholson, the former u.s. ambassador. secretary nicholson good to have you here. a big moment but you re leaving soon to attend. well it s a big occasion. we are heading over there tonight and they ll be probably hundreds of thousands of people in the square, many of them from pole land where pope john paul the ii came from. he was the bishop of krakow when he what s elected pope. it s a very significant event in the church, the whole process and the fact this it s occurring. the time was waived. pope benedict the xvi waived the five-year limitation after the death of a person so that he could be considered for beatification, and of course on sunday is going to be beatified.
we re going to see the state funeral of the president in about an hour and 20 minutes. the president was killed in the plane crash along with 95 others a week ago yesterday trying to land his plane in western russia. we saw the public funeral. the people s funeral yesterday. a memorial service for all 96 victims. but today the state funeral for the late president of pole land. china s president has traveled to the earthquake zone to meet with survivors now living in tepts or recovering in makeshift hospital. the death toll has risen again. more than 1,700 people are now confirmed dead. earlier today a 68-year-old man was pulled from the rubble, four days after the quake struck.
reporter: it is a solemn mood here. the flag flying at half-staff. they ve benefielding calls of sympathy all day long since the tragic death of the country s president. the ambassador came out to make a brief statement thanking president obama and the many americans who have expressed their condolences. he talked about the legacy of polish president lech kaczynski. president kaczynski represented the generation of freedom, the freedom connected permanently with the solidarity movement in 1989 that brought about freedom and prosperity. the great legacy is the one of the freedom. it is the one of created foundations for enormous political economic success and prosperity in pole land. reporter: hours ago the embassy opened its doors to many americans.