after president obama making a sharp split with israel over the issue of borders for a possible future palestinian state. joining us now is ambassador ned walker, the former ambassador to israel, to the arab republic of egypt and also to the united arab emirates, so he knows the region well. it's always good to talk to you, sir, thanks for being with us. wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall at this working lunch between these two guys? what do you think is going on there? >> well, i think there's going to be a little bit of heated exchange partly about the public's version of what has been said and the misinterpretations of what has been said about the president's speech. rick: what are the misinterpretations? >> >> well, a lot of people are saying that he's called for israel to go back to '67 borders. he did not do that. what he did was he said that the '67 borders should form a basis for the negotiations, and that would simply mean to me that that's where your starting point, it's not where you end up. in fact, we've had, basically,