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potter worreld. is this revolutionary? the messenger, not the message. wipe you see mitt romney and newt gingrich trying to scramble on health care, because the ground has shifted politically. and, look, nobody in 2007 and 2008 cared about a mandate in the republican party. it s because president obama pushed that and the health care bill that it s now an issue. president bush was broadly aware. president obama is on the israeli/palestinian borders. back no 2008. now with president obama pushing it, it s a different issue. politicians tend to this is predictable. here s the 2012 field or at least a portion of it. mitt romney saying, president obama has thrown isle under the bus. tim pawlenty, in monday. president obama s insistent on a return to the 67 borders is a
the peace based on illusions will crash on the rocks of the middle eastern reality. and the only only peace that will endure is one that s based on reality. on unshakable facts. a peace based on illusions. strong words indeed. i will be asking exactly what that meant and i will be asking true insider. i will have an exclusive interview with israel s ambassador to the united states mi the end of the world. if we don t act now it will be too late. some people are sure it is happening tomorrow. the guy that s predicting it said the same thing before. what if this guy is right? the story of what happened last time. and dominique strass-kahn, in america he is reviled. in france, he is a victim. he has been victim of preemptive punishment. you are an embarrassment to our party. republicans are off and running. and tripping over their own words. i don t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineer. gloria borger t
at the peace plan obama laid out in his speech yesterday. the peace based on illusions will crash on the rocks of the middle eastern reality. and the only only peace that will endure is one that s based on reality. on unshakable facts. a peace based on illusions. strong words indeed. i will be asking exactly what that meant and i will be asking true insider. i will have an exclusive interview with israel s ambassador to the united states mi the end of the world. if we don t act now it will be too late. some people are sure it is happening tomorrow. the guy that s predicting it said the same thing before. what if this guy is right? the story of what happened last time. and dominique strass-kahn, in america he is reviled. in france, he is a victim. he has been victim of premtipre preemptive punishment. you are an embarrassment to our party. republicans are off and running. and tripping over their own words. i don t think right-wing social engineering is
alisyn: you said that could be a tense meeting and i bet it s a safe bet. the united states believes that negotiations should result in two states with permanent palestinian borders, with israel, jordan and egypt, and permanent israeli borders, with palestine. we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines, with mutually agreed swaps. so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. bill: so now both of these leaders are sharply at odds over terms for middle east peace and wendell goler is live at the white house to tell us how tense this meeting will be. wendell. reporter: probably be no kumbaya kinging singing, although president obama didn t go farther than past presidents and didn t offer the palestinians any more than the israelis have offered them. he said that a peace deal should be based on 1967 borders with land swaps to allow israel to keep major