first lady have shown sarah and me. think we have to address the balance. i ve been coming here a lot. it s about time you and the first lady came to israel. thank you. thank you very much. we ve got time for one question each. i m going to call on steven collison, afp. thank, you mr. president. as part of the steps which need to be taken do you think it would be helpful for israel to extend the moratoriums do you make these measures will contain [ inaudible ] let me first of all say i thank the israeli government working through layers of various governmental entities
reporter: there s not a whole lot of news here. the most important thing, thing we re all waiting for, is to see what kind of link there is between these proximity talks that the administration has successfully begun. george mitchell is proceed yating. what s between those proximity talks and direct talks. we understand there s an affirmation that one will lead to to the other. snool and a lot, of course, has been made between some rift in this relationship. we talked about the meeting in march, of course, where netanyahu actually had several meetings with the president, but none of it was seen on camera. he didn t get any of those ceremonial niceties. the last visit for june 1st had to be rescheduled until now. what s your sense you re getting about whether this relationship is back on the footing it used to be on? reporter: having this working lunn frp right now with a broader group and there s lots of talk about how strong the military to military cooperation is. we th
leader. we didn t see the usual course of having meetings starting at the bottom and then moving up at the top. all of a sudden we have this announcement that a meeting is going to happen, taking some off guard, taking the north koreans off guard, taking some in the administration off guard, so you know that even within the administration, there are questions that are not public as to how well is this going to turn out for u.s. interests? how significant is this going to be? you heard the preside say it s not just going to be a photo op, but we saw expectations seemingly downgraded by the administration itself over the course of 48 hours last week. so i think this is, you know, depending on who you talk to, this is something much different and it seems to keep changing. cnn s steven collison has an interesting analysis that he posted on cnn.com. kim will join a stable of autocrafts including russia and