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Think will be an indication, of the success of these talks which is the end of september, that is the end of the moratorium on settlement building and will be up to the israelis to decide if they want to extend the moratorium or not and the palestinians, said if it s not extended they ll walk out. chris: kevin a lot of presidents tried, james carter, a great success with camp david, bill clinton tried and failed. is it something the president wants to get involved and en meshed in or something at least politically that he needs to keep look, the challenges are great, and they are great for every president, despite whatever the party affiliation is, i think the big challenge here for the president is that you have traditional constituencies here, where he s looking to gain political credit within the u.s. and they have been skeptical on the president and believe he was too hard lined on the israelis, when it comes to settlements and, you know, politically it is fraught with a grea ....
Might be one debate that helps the democrats in the fall but they ll have to come up with a compromise which could be temporary extension a minute left in this segment and you love to give i don t think it is ever taken but love to give the democrats advice. i mean, at this point, if kevin is right and all of these positions are hardened, the democrats are headed for what looks like a drubbing in november. if you were in the white house, right now, and you were advising barack obama, what would you say? how do you reshuffle the cards? what do you do, you will not be able to change the facts of the economy. how do you change the public s perception of you versus the republicans and democrats versus republicans, going into november? on the economy? don t raise taxes, accept the deal with the republicans to extend turcurrent tax rates and would be popular and the markets would rally and it would help democrats. chris: juan you get the last word. is that good politics. i don t ....
In washington on thursday for the first time in two years and president obama is going to host at least the initial session. they have a timeline of just one year to get things done. what realistically can we expect. they shouldn t expect to get anything done in a year and the timeline is artificial and the president should let netanyahu and abbas negotiate and netanyahu said he wants to meet every two weeks and that is good and don t impose unrealistic expectation and it will blow up and will be worse than if there were no talks at all and if you don t have unrealistic expectations, the talks are good. chris: juan. the question is settlements and, if they go back into the settlements and, the last time the talks were cut off is because israel launched the offensive in gaza and now there is a break and the question is, can netanyahu hold together his forces in israel, in terms of israeli politics, to say, you know what? we are best served by some sort ....
oh, did you notice that i didn t during the speech? chris: there were a couple of times when you were getting for me, okay. yes. i was getting verklempt but i didn t cry. you know how hard i worked on that? i m. i am a hard living, hard drinking guy and i don t know what happened. but, when i stopped drinking and i turned my life around and i began to care about stuff, i got all mushy inside. believe me, chris, there is nothing, nothing that drives me more, drives me crazy more than crying all the time. my wife, i was writing a speech, and i m laying down on the floor, and i m writing the speech, and my wife comes down and lace down next to me, and i just looked at her and i started to cry and she s. most of the time she doesn t say anything, like, you want orange juice? and i said she said, what s wrong and i said, no, no, no. it is what is right. it is what is right. ....
President will give a tax break to everybody who makes less than 250 and it seems equitable and in terms of shuffling the deck, he has to be proactive and has to take control of the message as opposed to allowing people to say the bad economic numbers and the evidence the president doesn t hear about has been the message and that is his fault, he has not controlled the message on the economy. chris: we have to take a break. when we custom back, a milestone in iraq as the u.s. ends the combat role there. our panel discusses what we re leaving behind. right after the break. pp ....