jenna: peter, thank you. jon: take you to the white house now where president obama is about to hold a working lunch with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. of the two leaders saturday down for a high stakes meeting this morning. topic number one, iran. the prime minister s goal is to warn the president not to be fooled by the charm offensive of the iran s new president. he calls him a wolf in sheep s clothing who is still pursuing a nuclear bomb. wendall joins us from the white house. netanyahu had an interesting character sgligs of the more moderate face that iran s leader is presenting, right? he called it essentially a smiley campaign and made clear he s not buying it. netanyahu is more than a little nervous, though, at the warming of u.s. iranian relations. the president did speak with the iranian leader on the telephone.
down their own embassy in yemen followed six days of increased u.s. drone strikes due to the threat that prompted the closure of 19 u.s. embassy and consulates in the middle east and africa. wendall joins us. the latest drone strike occurred when four suspected members of al-qaeda were killed in the car they were riding in. shortly after that attack the state department announced the u.s. embassy was evacuated and appears more than nonessential personnel was floun out of the country, our ability to assist u.s. citizens in an emergency may be further constrained by the fluid security situations. president obama met with yemen s president last thursday, a day before the state department announced it was closing 21
transportation we are waving a on the way flag to other countries as they forge ahead in a global economy. that kind of attitude is saying there is nothing we can do to help middle-class families. reporter: president said the u.s. is spending less fixing our infrastructure than china or germany and share of the economy top years ago. shep: wendall, what is the latest reaction from republicans to this it s kind of a pivot on the part of president? roy blount wonders if he will stick with it. he has refocused on the economy in the past only to lose his focus. joan was dismissive about the speeches and the administration s achievements. under his leadership we have fallen into a new normal, slow growth. high employment and stagnant wages. i think it s unacceptable.
the economy and ways to get more americans a fighting chance. republican leaders are blasting these speeches. wendall is live at the white house. hard to argue that the middle-class need to be doing better. the argument is how it gets to better? well and kind of hard to figure out present sigh isly how they get there from the president s speech which was an hour and ten minutes longer, longer than the state 6 union address. he outlined what the country needs to build a rising middle-class. they say they have deserted go long before his first speech back in 2005 and listed elements that americans enjoyed in times gone by and he feels they will need to enjoy middle-class life in the future. job security with good wages and durable industries, a good education, a home to call your own. affordable health care when you get sick, a secure
and that is the way the sanford police department put it out. reporter: mr. obama made clear he expects there will continue to be protests of the verdict but he said they should remain peaceful. if i see any violence, then i will remind folks that that dishonors what happened to trayvon martin area his family. reporter: late today, zimmerman s lawyers relieved a statement calling the shooting a clear case of self-defense and calling zimmerman a man with a diverse ethnic and racial background who is not a racist and who was sensitive to the complex racial history of the country. the attorney said, quote, whop the president was not suggesting that this case fits a partner of racial disparity because we strong contend that it does not. bill? wendall, thank you. a judge from michigan now says not so fast. while the motor city runs on empty, today a judge ordered detroit to drop its bankruptcy case altogether. but there is confusion as to