lawsuit. if he admits the story was true, does he have to pay back 1.5? now he has to pay it back. he is actually damaging and defaming the newspaper. i could think the newspaper could sue him for more money. there is a lawsuit pending on this particular case. they have to show camps but they are going to say wait a minute, we had this agreement obviously you entered it into fragile endly. this is fraudulent and this contract is null and void. there is a settlement issue. so that is going to come into play. is there another issue. if you say there are new facts into play after there is a settlement agreement. he is retracting from the ones earlier. gregg: issue future lawsuits. in denying that he doped,
process. the settlement issue will ab key talking point when president obama and prime minister netanyahu meet behind closed doors here at the white house today. the meeting begins at 5:30 eastern time. the white house is not going to let journalists inside. this the second straight time the israeli prime minister has not been afford the opportunity of the pictures for the meeting. this comes after vice president biden was snubbed according to many administration officials from an announcement while he was there that the israeli government was going to let more construction in east jerusalem. secretary clinton had contentious phone calls with the prime minister last week. for a while it was unclear whether the prime minister and president obama was going to meet. they are going to meet later this afternoon. this is a very big meeting in terms of the relationship between united states and israel. we will bring you all of those developments, the run-up to that this afternoon when we do
any idea this was coming? it s hard to maimagine you p your vice president in that situation if you knew it was coming. in israel, obviously barack obama, not very well liked there. i think polls show jerusalem post says that his approval rating was something like 4% in israel. which is roughly what it is in pakistan. the problem as explained to me by one senior israeli official my point is, are the israelis playing to their people that don t like obama and biden? in some degree they are playing to them. but i think they also seriously believe if they give up the settlement issue, they have given up a big part of the negotiations. the other thing you have to think about with prime minister netanyahu, he has said take care of the iran problem first and come back and we ll talk about the palestinians.