. ♪ ♪ >> my name is barack obama. [cheering] of the moneygal obama. and i come home to find the -- that we lost along the way. >> president barack obama at and first lady michelle obama this week attended a g-8 summit in europe. the first stop was dublin. irish prime minister kenny greeted the president and the first lady. president obama and his entourage then traveled by motorcade the 87 miles to moneygall, to visit a distant relative of five generations ago, his great, great, great- grandfather. his name was -- kearny. in moneygall, obama tried his own hand at rhythms, coupled are three words of authentic gaelic. >> remember that whatever hardships the winter may bring, springtime is always just around the corner. if they they keep arguing with you, just respond with the simple creed -- yes, we can! >> question, will were there compelling reasons for the state visit to the irish people? or was this mostly a campaign event, pat? >> look, i think it was terrific. the irish are one of few people on this earth that really like americans. he goes over t

did obama trump trump, or did trump trump obama? pat and. >> trump forced the president into the press room, to get his birth certificate, said bring it back, and obama brought it back! trump won it hands down. >> you think it was a -- foregone conclusion that president obama would have to reveal -- >> nobody ended the argument, would guess yes. on television, please reveal it and get it out of way. >> you think he brought it alive -- >> i think he deliberately kept a it alive. i don't know y but he kept it alive too long and it gun to hurt him. >> do you think he knew all along that he could produce this birth certificate on call, and he was saving it in order to direct the press to cover this and not cover say this weekend, like bernanke? >> no i think he was holding it off for some reason, i'm not sure which. people said it's an embarrassment, why should i do this? but he held it too long, three weeks ago he should have done it. >> three weeks ago or two days ago, it was a degrading thing for this president to get involved in. i'

>> obama: yeah. >> kroft: did he move out of that compound? >> obama: that we don't know yet. but we know that, for five to six years, this compound was there, and our belief is... is that he was there during that time. >> kroft: this was your decision whether to proceed or not, and how to proceed. what was the most difficult part of that decision? >> obama: the most difficult part is always the fact that you're sending guys into harm's way. and there are a lot of things that could go wrong. i mean, there're a lot of moving parts here. so, my biggest concern was, if i'm sending those guys in and murphy's law applies and something happens, can we still get our guys out? so that's point number one. these guys are going in... in, you know, the darkness of night, and they don't know what they're going to find there. they don't know if the building is rigged. they don't know if, you know, there are explosives that are triggered by a particular door opening. so huge risks that these guys are taking. and so

student records nother story that obama might be hoping disappears in this new springtime for the obama regime but we have more important things to look forward to that might affect obama's chances at reelection. the debt crisis still looms large unemployment is still high and we are involved in kinetic military action in at least four countries none of which are winnable and joining me now to look at the trends that will be affecting the president's chances at real life in is gerald solemnity of the trends research institute this is the one thing you predicted the great recession that we're still experiencing the panic of two thousand and eight the tax protests our losses in our loss in iraq so let's cut to the chase do you think's going to be president in two thousand and thirteen. oh as it stands now it looks like obama will win because the republicans really don't have anybody to run against him unless you have a wild card like a ron paul you know it goes back to what bill clinton said back in the ninety two elections it's the economy. and what are the republicans do for an encore a

i want to thank obama for what he's done. host: a tweet comes in. obama spiked the ball. it was funny if it was not so seriously warped. caller: thank you for c-span. it was gracious of him to call president bush and i am sorry bush didn't join him, yesterday. this is a great moment for america. host: why did you want bush to join him? caller: it is a great moment. if you do this, we will hunt you down and get you. however they got him, i am delighted they got him. caller: it was a great thing that happened. they did the right thing. if they show that pictures, we are just doing something the terrorists would do. hopefully they won't show those pictures. he is going to be a great president. he did something in two years and bush never did a damn thing. i want to commend him. we have to look out for the guy in iran. we should take them out completely. host: donald from michigan. t obama did was good. he got rid of a threat to the american people for 9 years. another thing, president -- obama, soverignty, as far as pakistan, it was a good thing. if somebody is a threat, it

they are expecting president obama to tell us off. what was striking was how little president obama mentioned libya given the fact that millions of u.s. dollars are being spent here and many americans are still involved in the military action. in some ways, libya has become difficult for president obama. on the one hand, it has highlighted what many are saying is this double standards. while it is taking military action here, this is not doing the same kind of tough response in relation to other parts of the middle east where governments are also using force to put down protests such as syria and bahrain. president obama's answer in that speech was the u.s. cannot prevent injustice everywhere. involvement here militarily does not mean that it will do the same thing every place. >> here in jerusalem, it is fair to say that the initial israeli government response to president obama's beach has not been positive. the israeli prime minister who is due to meet mr. obama in washington said he appreciated the president's commitment to peace.

bush to to barack obama. yeah i'm afraid there is i don't agree with you said on that the the difference is that what the president called the nine hundred sixty seven lines which of course are really the one hundred forty nine armistice lines just a quick bit of history which were established when the arab armies from jordan egypt syria and even lebannon invaded israel following its birth so those are the armistice lines where the armies happened to stop their invasion that's not an international law line in fact the international law that applies is un resolution two forty two which calls for secure borders for israel and envisions that the disputed territory what we now call the israelis call today and some area and many of you if you really know what it is the west bank say something is just one second let me just finish this first point that those that the disputed territory is. under the palestinian authority taishan all going to go to the arab side in fact it's disputed territory the un resolution two

has done george bush did not bomb yemen obama has bombed yemen george bush did not bomb libya obama has been happier you know this is an extension of the the children bush policy in my view and that was located musician poet playwright and political activist. well as president obama address the middle east this sunday will actually mark three weeks since the death of osama bin laden remains face of evil in america for the last decade but now the terrorist death also brought an end to the fear of islam in this country are going to start here starting to delve into the struggles of the muslim community after and one that's. getting drunker which is dead but dispelling caster still causing chills if you're islam and muslims come to talk to some not iraq is alive and kicking there is this this stigma there's this bias conscious and unconscious about muslims and you know alina phobia is at its height in the united states muslims i definitely targeted just because of who they are one of the lead targets of discrimination this sixty one year old in march i mean up to lead to death was rece

here is romney's offense and obama's defense. >> i like president obama. but he doesn't have a clue how jobs are created. >> an economy that was shedding jobs every month now has seen over two million jobs created in the last 14. chris: former utah governor john huntsenman, his strongest argument is he could get bipartisan cooperation. here is his main theme and obama's defense. >> we have been divided for too long. the yelling, screaming and finger pointing in this country ought to come to an end. >> when it comes to just about everything we have done to strengthen our middle class and rebuild the economy, almost every republican in congress says no. chris: the third with a serious chance is tim pawlenty. he is running as at conservative p populist who could blunt charges the g.o.p. is a rich man's party. >> i saw up close the face of loss, the face of hardship, the face of losing a job. so i know americans are feeling that way today. >> the big thing for republicans, just making sure that millionaires and billionaires keep their tax cuts. chris: here is

president barak obama continues pushing on israel to start talking and reach at three agreements with. all the details coming out shortly. the. government protesting years gathered strength in the opposition promising to see president mikheil saakashvili by wednesday. plus the e.u. . has nothing it's pushing itself. we're watching our. top story russia is offering a helping hand libyans and palestinians to negotiate peace agreements reaching representatives of the libyan opposition and palestinian leaders to hold talks with the russian foreign minister. but more on this let's start with the libyan. hoping to achieve. last week it was a delegation from tripoli and now it's a delegation from rebel strongholds and. not want to be. an internal issue for libya but it does want to help both sides to find ways to start moving to a closer towards some sort of a ceasefire and last week tripoli said that they are ready to go by all the un resolutions and they are ready to consider a ceasefire but only if the rebels put their weapons down and nato stops the shelling but one of the biggest stumbl

addressing the powerful pro israel lobby in washington president obama is make sure to be really firm that no pressure would be put on israel to advance the process and he's proposed solution was just a friends advice least cannot be imposed on the parties to the conflict. no vote at the united nations will ever create an independent palestinian state and the united states will stand up against efforts to single israel out at the united nations or in any international forum israel's legitimacy is not a matter for debate analysts say the contradiction of words and deeds has been a constant source of global frustration about the us foreign policy in the middle east one example the obama administration has called these really settlement expansion illegitimate when it came to actually voting at the un security council to condemn the settlement expansion is illegal the u.s. veto the resolution the failure of the united states to deal effectively with your israel palestine issue. the double standards that we have actually apply the president made a very strong case but we should not tolerat

senator obama likes to talk loudly. in fact, he said he wants to announce that he is going to attack pakistan. remarkable. senator obama by saying that he would attack pakistan, look at the context of his words. i'll get osama bin laden, my friends. i'll get him. i know how to get him. i'll get him no matter what and i know how to do it but i'm not going to telegraph my punches. >> thank god america picked the guy who actually got bin laden. the republicans have never given president obama any credit for keeping this country safe. mccain's running mate has been of course spreading garbage like this for the last couple of years. >> as the u.s.s. cole was attacked, our embassies were attacked it was treated by an international crime spree not like an act of war. we're seeing that mindset again settle into washington. that scares me for my children, for your children. treating this like a mere law enforcement matter places our country at great risk because that's not how radical islamic extremists are looking at this. they

president obama may be in for a tense meeting at the white house today. mr. obama sits down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, just one day after siding with the palestinians' demands for drawing new state borders. netanyahu left for washington after saying mr. obama's peace proposal would leave israel indefensible. joel brown has more from washington. good morning, joel. >> betty, good morning to you. before he even boarded the plane to washington, israel's prime minister made it clear to his parliament he wasn't happy with president obama's major policy speech on thursday. today the two men get a chance to hash out their differences face-to-face. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on his way to the white house to make his case against president obama's new plan for a palestinian state. >> we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 line. >> reporter: in a major policy speech thursday, the president called on israel to surrender land it won in the 1967 war to the palestinians. the statement sent shockwave

and how did barack obama? chris: every african-american i know has come up to me in the last couple of weeks and said something about this guy trump. >> i got stopped at a train station the other way. chris: there were suspicions about some people. >> this was the 2008 campaign we were afraid was going to happen. all this innuendo, the racial coding, the questioning. what's this college application all about? it's about did he take the place of a more deserving white kid? that's the subtle undertone. this is the ugly campaign. trump is going to get out of this in june once his celebrity apprentice is over and he'll leave all this rubble around for everyone else to pick up. in the meantime there's a lot of anger directed back now in obama's favor because of this humiliation that the office of the presidency has been put through. >> trump put hirms in the same conversation with barack obama in a split screen. there aren't enough real estate deals in the world to give him that moment. so a lot of this was purely

well having said all this obama was nonetheless very very careful to say that the u.s. is slowly an advisor here that it is not going to force any decisions on israel because it is up to these really some palestinians to decide and so on and so forth so you basically cleared washington of any responsibility to act experts say washington's policy of nonintervention in the middle east peace process looks even more inconsistent considering america's willingness to intervene in other places in the region making demands to be leaders pushing them to feel those demands and occasionally bombing those who don't but when it comes to israelis and palestinians there have been words before many words but never any action to really put the two state solution that president obama was talking about the fact that israel is the protectorate of the united states and that the israeli lobby is a very powerful here a base that even harder to expect a balanced approach from washington one example of words but not actions are the settlements the united states earlier this year vetoed a united

obama? great depression? >> the democrats have certainly laid it on us. >> it was there, wasn't it? >> so was all the intelligence you can't cherry pick what you're going to pick and what you're not from the previous administration. >> there's one simple fact that exists today that everybody knows, which is this president authorized a mission, it was a dangerous mission and it was a risky mission, and he did exactly what he was going to do, which is what he said he was going to do in the campaign, he was attacked for that, too, he said if we have actionable intelligence that suggests we can get osama bin laden, i'll go into pakistan if that's what it takes to get him had this president was attacked for that during the campaign, he was called naive and he put the cia on, his first day in office, leon panetta tracked him, found him and went in and got him. this president deserves credit, this president gets credit from the american people. >> if the mission had been abolished, something horrib

protrude peace for years after two years in office many do not see it it runs between barack obama and george w. bush at least in terms of foreign policy. the new bill for each has ended and the united states is now involved in military action in libya it would appear that the current one movements are the first gun a war that you know for cross artsy. i usually like to reward the first thing that had to get up early is for this program but we have two people from watching angeles today but i'm going to go to angela anyway i read antiwar dot com every single day many times a day and you do a wonderful service but you know antiwar dot com that was something the really brought people together when bush was going to war i mean legal war that he was pushing and mainstream followed along and now i think you're a wonderful success but where is the anti-war movement today we have a lot more war if you read antiwar dot com the united states is complex contemplating military action even more places right now beyond libya so angela what happened. well. one of these answers to one of our guests h

and the president of the united states is barack obama. and rudy giuliani who publicly cares about nothing in this world more than vengeance for what happened in this city on september 11th should be saying, thank god obabarack obama is ou president. of course, he won't say that. rudy giuliani could not find the grace to say that about a political opponent. giuliani is too partisan to say that and much, much too simple minded. rudy giuliani will surely remain a purveyor of a and a believer in the american political cliche democrats are soft on defense. democrats have done everything they could possibly do to rewrite that cliche, but it has persisted. in 2004 when the republican message machine had to turn john kerry a genuine war hero into an unreliable coward they were able to do that with just enough voters to squeak out a win because republicans had been laying the foundation of that lie with decades, decades of lying about democrats being weak on the defense of this country. john kerry a brave decorated warrior who took lives and sauve

your government is broke still don't worry obama won't have to sell anything or even raise taxes at least not directly to keep government spending at current levels he's just going to steal your retirement tonight i'll explain just what the president thinks is more important than not stealing and we'll be joined by political science ph d. and professor occidental college carolyn helen and steven spalding who's organizing a rally in indiana indiana to protest the state's supreme court decision and we've got a special presentation from luke. about the chicken whisperer i know talking about economic exploitation by the government can get tedious at times but at some point in trying to rework fruit the american news the obama campaign is going to run into something like we'd love to help and thanks to the high unemployment we've got plenty of time but now that we understand a little bit about economics we're supporting ron paul and that's the importance of a good education the kind you'll never get from the government but only from watching adam vs the man. in case you haven't noticed our gov

since president obama is on one side, you want to guess which side sarah palin is on? believe it or not, she disagrees with the president. i didn't see that coming. she tweeted, quote, show photo as warning to others seeking america's destruction. no p usee-footing around, no drama. it's part of the mission. very ironic tweet given that she's politicking by saying that. others i take more seriously like lindsey graham, a senator from south carolina, of course, and he tweeted out -- the whole purpose of sending our soldiers into the compound, rather than an aerial bombardment, was to obtain indisputable truth of bin laden's death. that was actually a statement, not a tweet. the problem with the pictures from abu ghraib, for example, wasn't the pictures themselves that caused a lot 6 trouble, but it was because of what we did in the pictures. in this case we killed a guy who killed nearly 3,000 americans. if it offends you to see him with a bullet in his head, you should have tried to talk him out of 9/11 a little earlier. joining mess is congressman adam schiff. she ser

president obama invited president george w. bush to attend the ceremony, but president bush declined the invitation. his spokesperson said, he appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight. white house press secretary jay carney said the invitation was extended in the spirit of post 9/11 unity. >> this was a moment of unity for americans. and a moment to recall the unity that existed in this country in the wake of the attacks on 9/11 and he wanted to -- he invited president bush because he had hoped that if president bush were able to come, that he would join the president in visiting the world trade center site. we completely understand that he's not able to come. >> joining me now is howard fineman mbz analyst and fineman msnbc analyst and editorial director of "the huffington post." >> hi lawrence. >> you know george w. bush as well as any journalist could possibly know him. what do you make of him declining the invitation to come to ground zero? >> first of all on a per

other crimes that were consequential about a rock obama, one was barack obama as a muslim, fowls of around with terrorists, that one was said to have traction, those statements, once people believe them it was hard for them to say, okay, i'm going to vote for them. at other viral e-mails, charges laid against obama, one was about him being the antichrist. it is stated in the bible that it will happen sooner or later. this man fits every description from the bible for the antichrist. born tough black muslim from kenya and a white atheist from wichita, kan., obama takes great care to conceal the fact. sworn in the senate, not on the holy bible, but instead on the crown. then, of course, other questions about his birth. these are things that are hard to stop, hard to monitor, and some people have pointed out that sometimes people say they believe things mainly because they don't believe them 100% but want to express some kind of frustration against the other side. in doing so ideas it facilitated and it has consequences of the electorate. one final thing that i want to adjust tap before i tur

. >> el presidente barack obama visitará la zona cero en nueva york este jueves. >> y hay reacciones en todo el mundo ante la muerte de bin laden, el presidente obama recibió llamadas de varios jefes de estado. >> (♪). >> este es su noticiero univisión, edición nocturna con ilia calderón y ededna smith. >> (en inglés). >> ovación de pie dieron legisladores de ambos partidos esta noche en una cena en la con las casa blanca cuando reiteró que osama bin laden estaba muerto. >> su sdpags física ha sido recibido con euforia y cautela por otros ante el temor que se inicie una campaña de atentados en venganza, por eso refuerzan las medidas de seguridad en embajadas y para sus tropas, por esa misma razón que el presidente barack obama llama a legisladores de los dos partidos a la unión. >> desde washington dc, nos informa. >> en una cena para líderes del congreso el presidente obama hizo un llamado a la unidad que inspiró al país después de los ataques terroristas, la reacción, como las tormentas y días como ayer cuando juicioó al terrorista más buscado y odiado de la na

i would characterize obama as the charismatic. of american exceptionalism. here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today in the big picture. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman we're continuing with our special coverage of the death of osama bin laden i want to turn to what this means for all of us here at home in the wake of bin laden's death interpol issued a media advisory calling for extra vigilance by law enforcement authorities to a heightened terrorist from al qaeda affiliated or al qaeda inspired terrorists as a result of bin laden's. department of homeland security on the other hand is not raising any terrorist warnings claiming there's no credible evidence to suggest an attack the taliban has promised to avenge bin laden's death claiming they will carry out attacks in pakistan and america and its new so what dangers still exists now the bin laden is dead and now the bin laden mystery will america finally begin to heal in the right way after nine eleven here offer his take on what the future of counterterrorism and muslim o

of course, president obama kept his promise. president obama made this promise at the second presidential debate in october of 2008 before the election. >> what i said is, we are going to encourage democracy in pakistan, expand our non-military aid to pakistan so they have more of a stake in working with us but insisting they go after these militants and if we have osama bin laden in our sights, and the pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then i think we have to act. and we will take them out. we will kill bin laden, crush al qaeda. that has to be the biggest national security priority. >> that's the money sound byte there. if they are unable or unwilling, we will do the job and take out the terrorist. whether osama bin laden or anybody else for that matter. have you ever heard a candidate talk like that then act on active intelligence as president obama did? another fact, fact number five, osama bin laden is dead. now, let's just get the record straight here, folks. this is all about 2012. the republic

in a way that is what president obama said. unfortunately, he lead with the '67 boarders and only then got to the land swaps and didn't say anything about the settlement swaps and i think that is what a little bit unnerves the israelis. i think if you flipped the order, say realities on the ground, 6 lines won't do it there need to be negotiated swaps, so i think it is a toneal, do you lean right, lean left. but i think the substance of the issue, everybody agrees as to how we need to approach it. >> suarez: jane harman this is an issue you have been watching very closely for years, the years that you've served in congress. do you see ground for negotiation here, room for negotiation between the two sides. >> absolutely. there's room for negotiation. the question is there a political will to negotiate. and the rhetoric is making this harder. i think that president abbas op ed in "the washington post" a week or so ago saying that palestine would go ahead with a vote in the u.n. general assemblies as an independent state, somethi

i reserve how i feel about obama on how he deals with pakistan. >> barack obama had the courage and the guts and the coolness. >> the best night of his presidency. >> sean: this week our special bin laden edition. all of that, plus one of the nfl's most controversial coaches stops by. rex ryan coach of the new york jets here. we are on the road to 2012. hannity starts right here, right now. despite the president's best efforts the photographs of a deceased bin laden may still see the light of day. associated press has filed a request under the fry dom of information act for the release of the photos. the administration has 20 days to spoken. the ap is asking the obama administration release the photograph of bin laden's dead body and images taking -- taken during the burial onboard the uss vinson. we are learning new details on how the intelligence community plotted the raid. "the new york times" reports a cia team had been monitoring the come bound from a rented -- compound from a rented house nearby before the raid. bin laden's wife told interrogators she was living in the compound wi

obama is in fact dead it was a u.s. led strategic i'm sorry some a good luck it's just a strategic operation oh oh. yes president obama has been killed thomas had a little slip of the tongue on live t.v. but it is something that happens to all of us at one point or another but then the confusion between osama and obama also caused problems for the local fox station in sacramento california their graphic read reports obama bin ladin and i was local media so you would hope you would expect that the major t.v. networks would you a better job but guess. fox news made this mistake numerous times. you can take a close straight if that were the case the fact that it would be. better but again would be that would make a difference we still are going to get a little bit about obama's that i don't care where there's. a lot of news there. oh god her although should never be allowed to anchor during breaking news coverage i thought it was something that we all knew at this point but when it comes to the story being posted online yo

if it ever got out that obama had passed on a chance at capturing or killing bin laden, obama's political career is over. >> now you would think that a president's political career would be over if he passed on a chance to capture or kill osama bin laden. but that's not what happened to george w. bush. he passed on a chance to get osama bin laden in tora bora less than 90 days after 9/11. yes, he was criticized for some by that. but not by rush limbaugh. senator john kerry criticized bush for letting bin laden escape tora bora. john kerry actually had real experience making kill decisions in combat in vietnam, the war that rush limbaugh and george w. bush exercised their cowardly prerogatives of avoiding service in. john kerry did not exactly end bush's political career. glenn beck has now grown impatient. glenn beck thinks president obama should have taken one bow for killing osama bin laden then left the stage. here is beck from his radio show today. >> president obama is going to visit ground zero. george bush is not going to go with him. george bush turned down obama's invitation to g

the implication is that obama is not up to snuff. you know, skepticism about black intelligence and suspicious about black humanity have gone hand in hand throughout the history of this country in seeding the perception that black people don't quite measure up. thomas jefferson was skeptical about the rational capacity of black people. i'm not equating thomas jefferson and donald trump. we don't have to fear that donald trump is the face of the republican party. maybe another part of the anatomy might be more correct. >> schieffer: (laughing) >> this bigotry, he's part of a bigot october arrest. this bigot-karat out there promoting conspiracy theories, half-hearted truths, factual errors, barack obama is a magna cum laude graduate of the harvard law school. here he is the editor of the law review. unimpeachable intellect kbral credentials and now we have a retroactive bigotry that tries to question his very bona fide status. i think this is shameful and it's sad. unfortunately donald trump has commandeered the bully pulpit if he is i

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture president obama decides not to release the photos of osama bin laden's corpse in hopes of not endangering the lives of the remaining troops fighting overseas so what new criticism of the face and light of his tough decision was detail surrounded in lodz capture or disclosed which are rather contradictory with mission reports list new information hurt the white house is credibility and the line may be gone but what about his platoon of men who follow the united states need to put out an a.p.b. on the new leader about i think. bad news for those who want to see bin ladin with a whole one as white house that it's not releasing the photos it was press secretary jay carney at today's white house briefing reading a transcript of an upcoming sixty minutes interview with president obama over why he decided not to release the photos. we discussed this internally keep in mind that we are absolutely certain that this was him we've done d.n.a. sampling and testing and so there is no doubt that we killed osama bin laden it is important for us to

president obama is in fact it was a u.s. strategic i'm sorry but there's one moment analysts say should not be overlooked osama bin laden may be dead but the threat of terror is very much alive frankly doesn't make much of a difference that bin laden is dead people here were convinced the long run at least for the last few years and very convinced that the al qaeda figures or people in this region who by the way cannot number more than one hundred are incapable of carrying out any major attacks instead it's russia now kind of linked terrorists that have made the most recent remarks on scales metro blast an airport bombing two of the way to school but attacks were masterminded by domestic church and terror leader joker more of your years has been trying to third bin laden's role as the face of international terrorism. the leaders to mind is expected to remain a significant symbol of having little or no in fact in the fight against terrorism it could create waves elsewhere in two thousand was right. george bush's approval rati

i also wonder actually when obama was giving this speech today. he could say right at this is one directed towards the muslim world but do you really think that's who he was talking to or was he talking to americans to pundits to politicians here in this country just so they can gauge and they can dispute where he stands. i think yes it was. an effort to get your record on quote unquote the right side of history most definitely. for the actions speak far louder than words and pretty words are not war really means something in this situation. well let's talk about some of those really were including well it's all good and grow for him to talk about there should be a contiguous palestinian state he said as well contiguous but how is that even possible the west bank is here. it's not possible for it to be configured as peace of mind for him then to talk about how. it must be hard for the israelis there's no way they can deal with hamas when hamas recognize israel's existence as a jewish state lieberman the deputy prime minister of israel on the forei

obama deserves some credit for obama's -- for bin laden's death. but 8-10 republicans say president bush deserves some of the credit. i think they probably believe that reagan deserves most of the credit for everything. this is bizarreo, isn't it? >> it is bizarre-o, but i think even though the numbers are at best equivocal for the president among democrats, they are stronger among republicans. and i think overall this is a calling card for him in terms of the long burden that the democrats have had, and the democratic presidents have had, on the notion that they are either weak or inept on military affairs. >> how did they earn that rap? >> well, one thing that happened in the jimmy carter days, he tried to rescue the american hostages, and it in many ways it sealed his fate and reinforced the idea that the democrats going back to vietnam, to the george mcgovern campaign where he was against the war and so on, that the democrats were both wary of, inept about, and opposed to the use, the expert use, of tough military actions. this is a case where

>>> plus, president obama says the u.s. had has an indes spencible role in creating change for the middle east. we will get more on the controversial ways he is pushing the israelis and the palestinians to make peace. >>> a new lead on a famous cold case, the deadly tainting of tylenol capsules back in 1982. the fbi wants dna samples from one of the nation's most notorious killers. i'm wolf blitzer, your senate situation room. >>> breaking news this hour, a new york supreme court judge's decision to grant bail to dominique strauss-kahn. the former head of the international monetary fund has to pay $1 million in cash and post as 5 million bond to get out of rikers island jail where he has been held since his arrest over the weekend. defense lawyers disputed prosecutors' claims that strauss-kahn is a flight risk. >> a great relief for the family to be able to have him [ inaudible ] >> the complainant in this case has offered a compelling and unwavering story about what occurred in the defendant's room.she made immediate outcr

regime replacement president obama says he wants an immediate transition of power in syria he was giving a keynote speech outlining america's policies in the middle east. outrage in the belly reuss over the cases of opposition leaders jailed for allegedly inside to rest on election day their supporters say it was a start up like a country seemingly permanent residents of the middle east of the rest of the fall of regimes law loyal to the united states have left washington scrabbling to revise its foreign policy well up next cross-talk discusses where america's future focus might lie. lowing walking across town computor a little a loveless marriage or a dangerous embrace take your pick but pakistani american relations probably can't get any worse barring a complete breach where is this troubled relationship going and can both sides find a common language regarding the fate of afghanistan. you can. start. to cross talk pakistani u.s. relations i'm joined by our men my g.d.r. in washington he's a senior research associate at the american enterprise institute and islamabad we have seen a sad

, and whether or not obama loves america. i didn't hear the former speaker dial back a lot of his views that obama's still outside the mainstream. >> no, and i thought your questions on that were really fair, david. all politicians, and we know this covering them, are contradictions, all humans are contradictions. this human, this politician is especially contradictory. and one of the big contradictions you see when you spend time with speaker gingrich, if you've looked at him over the last couple years, is he is a very thoughtful, history-minded individual. he can expound very thoughtfully and carefully on the currents of history. and at the same time, i think like his old nemesis, president clinton in some ways, he really wants to be liked and has a tendency to dive into the currents of extremism very quickly, i think, and often to his detriment, when he feels there's an advantage to be gained there. >> interesting, helene cooper, on some of the issues you're covering right now, the medicare fight, the issue of health care

we believe obama. the other thing is putting up the photographs could come back to bite them as well. when shea was killed -- >> we have his photograph on the more to worry slab. >> that is one of them. >> that is not the kind of iconic image emblazoned on t- shirts. >> what is the point about that? >> the point about shelling that was to show this terrorist had been killed -- the point about showing that was that this terrorist has been killed, but he evolved into one of the top euros despite this -- the top here rose despite this intention to dismiss him. >> what about laurent gbagbo, he was alive when this photograph was taken. is there something about the photograph of a dictator or tyrant in his underwear that is incredibly effective politically? >> absolutely, it is critically important in life and death. to be seen it and a shabby, a humiliating fashion, powerless, it is very important. i would take issue with perhaps what he said. bin laden was so elusive in life, and allowing him to be elusive

barack obama out scoring heck abuckabh. back to the phones. carole on ltto carolltton, texas. caller: herman cane. you guys haven't talked toabout him and in term of taxing the rich for the democrats i was going to urge anybody listening to seasoned they're money to the department of easury. they'll take your money and an apply it to the public debt. there you go. host: matt, talk tos about herman cane? >> he is a dynamic individual and should create excitement at some level. whenever he speaks people are very impressed. he's had a very serious business career. was ceo of godfather's piz and leader of the national restaurants association. he's someone in the conservative community recognized auzion bold leader and dominant individual. he could find success in a place like iowa but he'll need like a slingshot to get to the second or first tear. tier. you need to raise money to be active in states. money raising would be a question for him. host: lot of discussion in the previous weeksnd months regarding the president and his

the obamas attended a star-studded banquet at buckingham palace. our royal correspondent has been following all the day's events. for years, the americans shied away from this kind of palace pomp and ceremony, which is why remarkably, this is only the second state visit by a u.s. president, but this evening, a relationship between two nations which have done so much together was celebrated at the palace in style. >> mr. president, i'm delighted to welcome you and mrs. obama to london. >> at a state banquet, the queen recalled how the united states had come to the aid of europe in two world wars. she said america remains britain's most important ally. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are here to celebrate the tried, tested and yet special relationship between our two countries. >> thank you for your -- >> in reply, president obama paid tribute to the united kingdom. >> it is a great honor to join you again in this great country as we reaffirm the enduring bonds between our two nations and reenforce this special relationship. >> the president recalled the

. >> obama's going to be significantly harder to defeat than people think. >> what president obama did was very, very calm, cool and extremely courageous. >> looks like president obama has a new campaign slogan, yes, i did! >> good evening from new york. as intelligence officials investigate what one official called a treasure-trove of come computers, hard drives, storage devices and documents u.s. special forces seized during their raid on the bin laden compound, white house press secretary jay carney provided the official account of what those forces encountered when they first entered the home of osama bin laden. >> on the first floor of bin laden's building two al qaeda couriers were killed along with a woman who was killed in cross fire. bin laden and his family were found on the second and third floor of the building. there was concern that bin laden would oppose the capture operation, rather, and indeed he did resist. in the room with bin laden a woman, bin laden's -- a woman, rather, bin laden's wife rushed the u.s. asalter and was shot in the leg but not killed. bin laden was