piece deal. for that to happen in a meeting where the american press was not told about it, it was not to the president s public schedule and we had to find out about it by reading in the colombian press is pretty significant. yeah. you wonder did he get the state department briefing? did he have the prep for this? or is this a situation where you can get to mar-a-lago and get the meeting. talk about america first. these are situations where the president seems to be reacting to other country s agenda or factions. it is troubling. particularly you if it s not on his agenda and he didn t have his toppa aides with him last weekend. you wouldn t expect him to have state department briefers. not to mental the state department is not all fully staffed up at this moment. there are major gaps in the leadership and people don t know
that includes working towards a peace agreement between israel and the palestinians. the united states will encourage peace and really a great piece deal. we ll be working on it very, very diligently. very important to me, also. something we want to do. but as the parties themselves that most directly negotiate such an agreement. as with any successful negotiation, both sides will have to make compromises, you know that, right? i want the israeli people to know that these united states stands with israel in this struggle against terrorism. as you know, mr. prime minister, our two nations will always
this morning in israel, rockets fire, a cease-fire wobbles, and president obama s visit highlights the enormous challenges as they re trying top broker a piece deal. earlier this morning, president obama met with mahmoud abbas, the president of the palestinian authority, and this morning it s the palestinians who are blamed for the latest tension. it s believed a fringe militant group fired at least two rockets from gaza. they crashed into southern israel, causing no injuries, but still dealing a blow to mr. obama s push for israeli/palestinian peace talks. cnn s john king, our chief national correspondent, is in jerusalem. good morning, john. reporter: good morning, carol. look, the question now is how further does the rocket attack complicate the peace process, the lack of a peace process, really c really, the effort to get a peace process going. hamas controls gaza. it may have been a fringe militant group, but hamas controls gaza and any militant group that would do this would