release pollard. clinton came close at the wide river summit in october of 1998. but neither on security grounds nor was the quo ever worth the quid. so the question you have to ask yourself, why would barack obama and john kerry consider doing something that four presidents wouldn't do? >> i guess it's partly to keep the peace process with the palestinians going right now. because the israelis are being asked to release dozens, if not hundreds of palestinian prisoners. some who have been convicted for terrorism, murder, other crimes. the israelis are ready to do that. and so what's the big deal if they release pollard, who served almost 30 years? >> the big deal is this, it seems to me, that releasing pollard isn't going to answer the mail with respect to what ails the peace process. what ails the peace process is not the absence of prisoner releases, and it's certainly not jonathan pollard. it's fundamental mistrust between netanyahu and abbas. we're going to find ourselves three, four, five months from now faced with the same