in passing is israel's right to defensible borders. we had an understanding with the bush administration that was in a letter of guarantee given to the israeli government on april 14, 2004, that said israel had a right to defensible borders. wasn't going to back to the 1967 line, armistice line. that letter is still up in the air. >> how important was this meeting, though, and more importantly, coming out together yesterday between obama and netanyahu because so much had been made about the fact that maybe there was not a good relationship going on. how important was that picture of them together? >> i think it's extremely important because we have to remember, whatever disageemerees we have with the obama administration in the past or maybe in the future, we have mutual adversaries like iran who is racing to cross the nuclear threshold. they have to understand that there's no daylight between us because if they think that there's a gap between the u.s. and israel, they're gonna start