the united states of america stands with the state of israel because it is in our fundamental national security interests to stand with israel. it makes us both stronger. it makes us both more prosperous, and it make the world a better place. reporter: president obama has an uphill battle on this charm offensive going forward. martha, a recent poll done here in israel only 10% of israelis had a favorable or likeness toward president obama. martha: hmmm. that is a pretty rough number for him there, leland. what is he doing to sort of try to win over the people in israel during this trip? reporter: hearts and minds. first of all he went on a tour of iron dome battery. that is what the israelis come up with defend the country from missiles from hamas and hezbollah in the northern part of the country. iron dome battery is financed by the united states. u.s. put $300 million in this. it is one of things
kusai, and regime offered nothing to its people except further re. may not be all we look certainly. with obama, we could have status of forces agreement and presence in part of the world where we need friends besides just israel. martha: as you just mentioned you ve got the war and then you have the aftermath of the war and how successfully that was handled and how much what was gained in the war was able to be locked in and built on based on what happened afterwards. that is such a big part of this conversation as well. colonel, thank you so much. always good to have you with us. bill: so now the story of the school bus driver fighting a five-day suspension taking a call while she was on the job. roseanna lucas is the her name. she believes the bosses made a bad call because the person on the line was her son. her son was serving on afghanistan was apparently not able to call home for
[laughter] the future of the republican party is on the line, so we are told. a former white house secret staff under president bush is here to talk about ideas for the next generation. martha: we are looking forward to that. and remember this in russia last month? how could you forget it, right? the head of nasa has some advice for americans. probably not what you would expect to hear from scientists. we will be right back girl vo: i m pretty conservative.
they want to make the case to the american people, but public servants are supposed to make things easier for the people and not harder. of the sequester continues over time, it will get worse and worse. it will probably get worse over time and it is actually for the administrations to be responsible for. the fact of the matter is that is an actual fact, about the teachers and the police officers and etc. that was the secret service decision. martha: no, really. we need to look and say, i am in charge here. we will cut this and this will
martha: and unwanted gas in kansas city. an angry protester charges the stage. watch what happens next. those early efforts resulted in $5 billion in investments. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [inaudible] well, that was unfortunate. martha: that was unfortunate.