today resulting in at least one death. jim, first, to you, mahmoud abbas submitted that letter triggering a number of steps in the security council. some are arguing this is not the right move for him and that in fact he will be weakened by the process because in the security council even if they don't ultimately block the vote by veto, the u.s. can really drag it out and submit this to committee and drag it out forever. >> they probably will try to drag it out. the u.s. doesn't want a veto because we're afraid of the consequences in the middle east of a veto but there's something almost back assward about this. we're appealing to the palestinians to save us from a veto so we can save israel from a palestinian state. the pressure is on the wrong party. the pressure ought to be on israel to take meaningful steps

to make a negotiation process possible. that's what we're not doing. we're pressuring the weakest party in this negotiation. abbas has the option of going to the general assembly. he may exercise that in the weeks to come. he's giving the u.s. time to decide how it's going to play this out. i hope the u.s. makes the right decision. >> aaron david miller, who fumbled this ball, the united states, the obama administration on one hand, mahmoud abbas, benjamin netanyahu, all of the above? >> 20 plus months in we have no negotiations and no prospects of negotiations and perhaps a paradigm shift on the part of the palestinians and reality is everyone bears responsibility. i wouldn't lay this at the feet of barack obama. there's a reality that we're not facing up to and until we face up to it, we're not going to get anywhere and that is that it is almost impossible to imagine right now a conflict ending agreement on jerusalem border

security and refugees between this israeli government and this palestinian authority. that's the real crisis. and that's the crisis we'll confront once the u.n. general assembly dissolved and goes home and we're left with the day after. >> you can argue that somehow the obama white house and the president seeing the hope of what ended up being the arab spring and not envisioning it that way because he didn't. his cairo speech and the legacy that he saw for himself in bringing a new voice to the table that he perhaps went too far with an israeli prime minister on settlements and had the blowback that he's now experienced politically and that in an election year he's not going to be able to accomplish anything given what's happened in this house republican caucus. >> that's why mahmoud abbas had to do something. he couldn't sit back and say you

have your election. nothing is going to happen. i'll sit back and wait. his people wouldn't have allowed it. the politics on the palestinian side which need to be paid attention to as we pay attention to our politics as we pay attention to israeli politics. there's a problem that he's facing. he has hamas. he has dissent within his own ranks and had to show leadership and take this step. i think the problem here is that the u.s. did in fact fail. when we were confronted, bush and baker applied consistent pressure at some risk we defeated them and we got a prime minister who was ready to move forward when netanyahu was doing the same thing in the '90s, bill clinton used subtle but very real pressure over a period of time and ultimately the israelis got the message this isn't working. what this administration has done is by going to pressure to love to pressure to love to

excessive love is we've enabled bad behavior from netanyahu resulting in the fact that he's not moving anywhere and aaron is right. there are no conditions right now for peace precisely because there's no interest in moving forward. >> i participated in both of the episodes that jim refers to. >> as one of the key negotiators. >> there's no question that pressure is appropriate. when in fact that pressure is productive. and the problem with this notion is we are not in a moment where israelis and palestinians are on the verge of breakthrough. we have a lot of work to do. when i say we, i'm not sure that we're terribly relevant anymore. >> let me ask you while i have you here, aaron, pakistan and the fact that admiral mullen has gone to congress and said that we believe that the pakistani spy agency, the isi, was directly involved in those attacks on our embassy. 20-hour firefight in kabul and tremendous setback in afghanistan for our forces and

our diplomacy. i question the pakistan -- the new pakistan foreign minister the other day from the united nations. this is what she had to say on pushing back strongly on that. >> all terrorist which attack innocent civilians or major installations are against both of our interests. we have no qualms in saying that whatsoever. if pakistan instead of being recognized for the great sacrifices and cost it has paid for this war that we are fighting and that we are at the forefront of, then if that is not recognized and instead a blame game is started, then we will both lose out. >> the pakistanis are not conceding an inch. >> they won't. they will not give up the cards they play both in afghanistan and toward the indians and this is really going to continue to plague a relationship that is looking to me like it's broken. >> has the president become so weakened, his hand on foreign policy, given the way the republicans are just beating up

on him in these republican debates and outside of the debates that this campaign has really become as much as the economy is the issue, they are also trying to undermine and exploit his witnesses. >> they have made no bones about the fact that they want to defeat barack obama and they want to defeat every policy he puts forward. behavior of rick perry in new york this week was just shameful. i think it was eye opening to many of the foreign delegations that were there who understand we have politics but don't understand that we will play our politics at the expense of our interests and i think that what rick perry did and comments that mitt romney made while this process is unfolding at the u.n. were absolutely shameful and uncalled for. >> thank you so much, both of you. >> pleasure. >> israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu is david gregory's exclusive guest this sunday on "meet the press." check your local listings. congress is trying to avert another threatened government

shutdown over government spending. but now a continuing resolution that passed the house last night has run into a brick wall. the senate democrats. nbc's luke russert joins us from the hill. there was a vote and it went down. luke, harry reid is now saying perhaps we'll go back to it on monday and have a cooling off period over the weekend. >> reporter: that was harry reid's message just a few minutes ago saying that he himself, mitch mcconnell, as well as nancy pelosi and john boehner should meet over the weekend to figure out a bipartisan solution to what is this impasse and really it has to do with this offset. the government runs out of money on september 30th. congress is slated to go home after today's business. the jewish new year starts on wednesday. a lot of these congressman have trips they have planned and fundraisers and none of them want to come here on monday but that looks to be what will happen specifically why? there's an offset in the house bill to fund the government for more disaster relief funding that would hurt a jobs program

that democrats see as very important which is a loan to car companies to develop green technology from the federal government. that's what's holding this up. republicans don't want to budge on that. they want an offset. harry reid just came down from his number. he originally wanted $7 billion for fema. that's now down he said he'll take the republican number of 3.5 billion but without any offset. now, the big fear was that fema could run out of money as early as monday night, tuesday morning. harry reid apparently spoke to fema officials today and they informed him that it would be okay if this wasn't completed on friday. they would have enough money early on next week as well as the possibility that the president could appropriate something immediately if all else failed. either way more dysfunction on capitol hill. no clear route right now as to what exactly is going to happen to fund the government and get those folks affected by the hurricane and the floods the money they need. >> and speaking of dysfunction on capitol hill, what about the hearing over solyndra, the solar

company that was the recipient of a lot of stimulus money and now a fifth amendment plea in congressional testimony. bring us up to date on that. >> reporter: correct. the executives who are in charge of that company decided to plead the fifth amendment and not to testify. obviously that caused a lot of consternation among republicans. in order for john boehner to get the votes, he took $100 million out of that fund able to provide loans to solyndra. what you see is political positioning. republicans holding solyndra as everything wrong with the president's approach to creating jobs saying here's a company that took all of the money appropriated with it and did nothing and turned out to be extremely corrupt. folks positioning themselves during the hearing. as far as what will happen to solynd

solyndra, we don't know from today. >> let us show look that moment. it's the signature moment. the moment of taking the fifth amendment is their right but is not politically advantageous. >> the capitol hill perp walk it's called. >> let's watch. >> i want to ask mr. harrison if he thinks the american people who invested over half a billion dollars deserve to know what happened to that money? >> on the advice of my council i invoke the privilege afforded to me by the fifth amendment of the constitution and i respectfully decline to answer any questions. >> and that move, luke russert, might have made him a candidate for worst week in washington. we'll have to see at the end of the show. stay with us. >> reporter: hand it to him hands down. honestly would any lawyer allow their clients to answer these type of questions whether they are still being investigated by the fbi? could be a hard thing to do. >> thank you, luke. >> reporter: take care. >> fight night in florida. the perry/romney slug fest and

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the more rick perry debates, the more uneasy some republicans feel about the republican presidential front runner, texas governor struggled last night to punch back at his chief rival. >> i think americans just don't know sometimes which mitt romney they are dealing with. is it the mitt romney that was on the side of against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment. was it before he was before the social program from the standpoint of he was far

standing out for roe versus wade before he was against roe versus wade and he was for race to the top. he's for obama care and now he's against it. >> if you stay tuned, we'll diagram that sentence for you. chuck todd is nbc news correspondent and host of "the daily rundown" and with us also, chris, msnbc contributor and manager of postpolitics.com. he was just hanging himself in his own syntax. >> this wasn't a prompted question. this was clearly at least a somebody wrote down this hit for him and maybe he didn't rehearse it. we're not hearing about any mock debates and it may be that that needs to change because to their credit early on ray sullivan, communications director for the campaign said he's not a good debator. are they playing games?

he's increased the number of debates he's done in his career by 50% in the last 16 days. we're seeing it. he's not good and quick on his feet but more importantly he's not gotten better. >> there isn't a general audience reaction as king makers and money people hang back and say wait a second, if he want do this in a florida regional debate party debate, how will he go with barack obama? >> we've all talked about this. i think the bar for him is pretty low. i think people just want to see him kind of walk and chew gum or talk and chew gum because they feel like he's positioned both tonally and issueswise to be the guy that can ignite enough of the establishment in the party and be that nominee but that 15 seconds felt like 15 minutes. if you're a donor watching that and you push forward and think okay, it's september 2012 and rick perry is on stage with

barack obama, that has to worry you. to chuck's point, it was a planned attack. he clearly was going at the mitt romney flip-flopper. this wasn't something that just came out out of the blue. to botch it when it's on a tee and all you have to do is swing and watch it. >> he was clearly trying to look for it in his memorization. >> here's where we'll go with this. >> and there are three items. >> he's speaking at cpac down there. he has another shot. that's another friendly audience. let's talk about the audience here. yet again last night as we've seen in many debates because of the formatting, the audience engages. this is not one of your general election debates where the audience is told you will not applaud or cheer or boo. >> the way our friend makes it happen. >> no talking. >> 11 debates he's moderated. look at what happened when one of the videoed questions came

from a gay soldier deployed overseas and this audience really reacted negatively against him on don't ask, don't tell. >> my question is under your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress made for gays and lesbian in the military. >> sex is not an issue. it should not be an issue. leave it alone. keep it to yourself whether you are heterosexual or homosexual. >> santorum is wrong on the facts because the question isn't sex. don't ask, don't tell, doesn't have to do with sex. it has to do with acknowledging who you are. that's the distinction and not whether you're having sex. having sex on duty is a violation in any case of the military. >> this is a case that was clearly somebody a few people cat calling but what we're seeing is remember we're still

red america, blue america culturally in a divided way and we've seen it now three state debates. death penalty moment at the politico debate. let them die shout-out by someone in an audience with ron paul at the debate before this one. and then you had this. to me it's not a surprise. these are on the values issues of what defines democrat and what defines republicans on the cultural level and i think that's why you've seen some folks on the left really taking about this and folks on the right going what are you talking about? >> one very quick thing. it shows you that there's no real natural. the best debator is mitt romney. there's no natural debator. no one found a way to say we honor his service even if we disagree. bill clinton would have. john edwards probably would have. mike huckabee would have found some way to say we honor everyone's service. we may disagree. no one is a natural out there. >> we'll leave it there.

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educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, i don't think you have a heart. >> david is a national political reporter for politico. this issue has bubbled up. a texas governor running for president and we've seen with george w. bush that texas has a particular attitude because it's right on their doorstep and they seem to be much more welcoming to people from mexico coming over. this really has shown mitt romney moving farther and farther to the right. >> right. rick perry is not backing away from this comment. he's doubling down on it. mitt romney is trying to make this rick perry's romney care moment. an issue that perry is at odds with his own base but perry moving forward with it. his rivals attacking him on it

even today down there at the conservative political action convention continuing to hammer perry on this issue. they see it as an issue that could divide the base for him. >> this is what romney had to say today. he doubled down on it. >> my friend governor perry said if you don't agree with his position on giving in-state tuition to illegals, that you don't have a heart. if you're opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn't mean that you don't have a heart. it means you have a heart and brain. >> they went after him for arguing that it doesn't make sense that you can build a fence for 3,000 miles. they argued against that. that's going to be another big issue when we talk about border control. >> michele bachmann went at the heart of that in her cpac speech this morning. perry within the last hour took the stage down in cpac and acknowledged he didn't have a good debate. we shouldn't nominate the best

debator. we need the person with the best vision. that's his counterpoint right now. >> michele bachmann who barely was speaking last night during the debate talking about not having a debate, she wasn't even in the middle of the action. thank you very much, david. these debates get more and more interesting. president obama meanwhile is flunking no child left behind without congress' approval and my exclusive interview today with cate edwards. follow the show online and on twitter@mitchellreports. erase boundaries, it can earn cash and start a movement. -it can... -[ beatboxing ] [ male announcer ] it can buy time and tell time. -shhh. -[ baby giggles ] [ male announcer ] we use our mouths in so many ways to open up to the world. so make sure your mouth is at its best. crest and oral-b. life opens up when you do. tell us your story at lifeopensupproject.com.

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topping headlines right now on "andrea mitchell reports" we're watching a roller coaster stock market today. today amid fears of a double dip recession. earlier in the week, a weaker outlook for the global economy and today moody's downgraded eight greek banks. it could be the worst

performance since september 2008. the week of the demise of lehman. legal action against news corp. the lawyer who also represents many families of 9/11 victims is asking u.s. courts to look into corrupt practices that might broaden the scope of the scandal. don't look now but that six-ton satellite is still barreling toward earth. nasa officials have no idea where it could land. their best guess is near the south pacific late tonight or early tomorrow morning. not in north america. more than 1,900 teachers in tacoma, washington, are back to work after more than a week of striking. teachers voted to pass a new deal with the school board yesterday. the deal stops salary cuts and has a compromise on seniority and staffing. and now to the general assembly where benjamin netanyahu is

speaking. >> to the other peoples of north africa and the arabian peninsula with whom we want to forge a new beginning. i extend it to the people of syria, lebanon and iran. with all of the courage of those fighting brutal repression but most especially i extend my hand to the palestinian people with whom we seek a just and lasting peace. ladies and gentlemen, in israel our hope for peace never wanes.

our scientists, doctors, innovators, apply genius to improve the world of tomorrow. our artists, our writers enrich the heritage of humanity. now, i know that this is not exactly the image of israel that is often portrayed in this hall. after all, it was here in 1975 that the age old yearning of my people to restore our national life in our ancient biblical homeland, it was then that this was branded shamefully as racism. and it was here in 1980, right

here, that the historic peace agreement between israel and egypt wasn't praised. it was denounced. it's here year after year that israel is unjustly singled out for condemnation. it's singled out for condemnation more often than all of the nations of the world combined. 21 out of 27 general assembly resolutions condemn israel the one true democracy in the middle east. this is an unfortunate part of the u.n. institution. it's the theater of the absurd. it doesn't only cast israel as

the villain, it often casts real villains in leading roles. gadhafi's libya chaired the u.n. commission on human rights. saddam's iraq headed the u.n. committee on disarmament. you might say that's the past. here's what's happening now. right now. today. hezbollah now controls the u.n. security council. that means a terrorist organization looks over the body charged with security. you couldn't make this thing up. so here in the u.n. automatic majorities can decide anything. they can decide that the sun sets in the west or rises in the west. i think the first has already been preordained.

they can also decide they have decided that the western wall in jerusalem, judaism's holiest place, is occupied palestinian territory. and yet even here in the general assembly the truth can sometimes break through. in 1984, when i was appointed israel's ambassador to the united nations, i visited the great rabbi. he said to me -- ladies and gentlemen, i don't want you to be offended. by personal experience of serving here, there are many honorable men and women and many capable and decent people serving their nations here. here's what the rabbi said to me. he said to me, you'll be served in a house of many lies.

and then i said, remember that even in the darkest place the light of a single candle can be seen far and wide. today i hope that the light of truth will shine if only for a few minutes in a hall that for too long has been a place of darkness for my country. so as israel's prime minister, i didn't come here to win applause. i came here to speak the truth. [ applause ] the truth is that israel wants peace. the truth is that i want peace. the truth is that in the middle east at all times but especially during these turbulent days, peace must be anchored in

security. the truth is that we cannot achieve peace through u.n. resolutions but only through direct negotiations between the parties. the truth is that so far the palestinians have refused to negotiate. the truth is that israel wants peace with palestinian state but palestinians want a state without peace. and the truth is you shouldn't let that happen. ladies and gentlemen, when i first came here 27 years ago, the world was divided between east and west. since then the cold war ended. great civilizations have risen from centuries of slumber. hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty. countless more are poised to follow. the remarkable thing is that so

far this monumental historic shift has largely occurred peacefully yet a malignancy is growing between east and west that threatens the peace of all. it seeks not to liberate but to enslave, not it build but to destroy. that mag lignancy is islam. it murders jews, christians alike. on september 11th, it killed thousands -- >> that's benjamin netanyahu continuing his speech and we want to talk about no child left behind. the president announced today that he's going to cancel key provisions of the law essentially gutting the bush administration's signature education reform bill.

>> starting today we'll be giving states more flexibility to meet high standards. keep in mind the change we're making is not lowering standards, we're saying we're going to give you more flexibility to meet high standards. we're going to let states, schools and teachers come up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future. >> with me now, melanie barnes, president's domestic policy adviser. thank you for being with us today. you are relaxing the standard granting waivers and argument is they have been teaching for the test and lowering the standards in the states themselves to avoid getting the penalties of not meeting those test results. isn't there an argument that this is basically giving in to teacher pressure? how do you respond to those criticisms? >> first of all, thank you as always. it's always a pleasure to be with you, andrea. the president announced today

and with secretary duncan standing by his side, we're responding to problems that we've seen in this law, problems that parents and educators have identified for years that congress has been trying to fix for years but because we haven't been able to get a bipartisan bill over the finish line, the president asked secretary duncan several weeks ago to operate within the law and to use the flexibility that he's granted within the law to address these problems. in fact, we're not lowering standards. we are raising standards. we're saying college and career ready standards that governors have endorsed and we know 44 states and the district of columbia are working to adopt should be the standards that our children are trying to meet and in that vain and along with teacher evaluations and greater teacher effectiveness, a line toward that, and also thinking about other kinds of flexibility that we can offer within the boundaries of the secretary's authority, we're going to give

states some increased flexibility so that they can meet those high standards but also they can do that in a way that they know works best for their schools and works best for their students. this isn't backing off of accountability. we're saying accountability is primary and important but we are going to provide greater flexibility to do it in a smart way. >> melanie barnes from the white house. thank you very much. our week long series on education nation kicks off sunday with teacher town hall on sunday. monday, i'll speak with former secretary of state general colin powell and his wife alma powell with the nation's largest partnership focused improving the wellness of our nation's children. [ dog barks ] [ birds chirping ] ♪ [ mechanical breathing ] [ engine turns over ] ♪

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two men who spent a decade in prison for a murder they did not commit are set free after a panel of judges rule they are innocent. ten years ago they plead guilty to avoid a death sentence even though they never committed the crime of murder. i'll talk with the two attorneys who helped them gain their freedom. at the general assembly at the united nations at this hour, benjamin netanyahu still speaking defending israel's position against the palestinian application for statehood which is proceeding and in the next hour the europe and u.s. and u.n. negotiators in the so-called quartet will meet with the secretary-general to try to come up with a negotiating option to try to stall that palestinian application. nearly a year after elizabeth edwards' death, her legacy continues. her daughter, cate edwards, is leaving her law career to focus on her mother. elizabeth edwards foundation to mentor young children. young people.

i spoke exclusively to cate edwards before dawn this morning at the susan g. komen three-day walk for the cure. >> after my mom passed away in december, there was so much grief around the country and so many people who wanted to honor her and her legacy and that was just so extremely touching and one of the things that was sort of tossed around was should we think about doing a foundation. i thought how perfect. because that would be exactly what my mom would do first of all is just to make something really positive out of something difficult and also bringing people together was something that was really, really important to her and the idea of bringing people together to help one another and to help people in need was just the perfect reflection of her and perfect way to honor her and specifically this foundation really honors her life commitment to leveling the playing field and to making sure that every young person had the

tools and the teachers and the support system and the resources that they need to succeed. >> what kind of message do you also want to communicate about the way your mom lived her life and her fight with the disease with breast cancer. >> it's funny. about a year ago last september actually it was almost a year ago i was with my mom in upstate new york and i told her that i had met some women who did this walk and were training for this walk and she said, you know, maybe i'll walk it with you next year. i told her that i wanted to walk it. we talked about doing it together. that was always her outlook. and her outlook was nothing is impossible. maybe i'm not that strong this year but maybe i will be next year. and maybe i'll feel better and she never gave up hope. even in her last week of life, she never gave up hope a cure could be out there and she could beat this thing and i think

passing that on to other women and as my fiance beautifully put it, to our team earlier, you know, making this commitment to walk is so important because other people may get a little bit more time with their elizabeth. >> is she with you in a lot of ways? >> yeah. >> today well always. >> absolutely. every single day. i think big choices that i make, little choices that i make, sort of everything i do i hear her voice the same way i did when she was alive. >> you talked about your fiance and you're getting married in a month. >> yeah. yeah. >> and that's such an important day in your life. >> yeah. >> how will you think about your mother at your wedding. >> in just about every way. i actually got a chance -- we got engaged shortly before she passed away. we got a chance to really talk about what the wedding will be like and sort of messages that

she had and she was so happy because she loves my fiance and knew that i was on this path that she was happy with and comfortable with and we talked a lot about the wedding and a lot about little details and i'll obviously be thinking about her a lot on that day. >> you've always been the bond that holds the family together in a lot of ways. how are your brother and sister doing? >> they're doing great actually. it's not been the easiest year. it's been tough. we've really stuck together. >> you were at your father's side when he went to court. that was a very important show of support to the outside outsi. what role do you play there. you are a lawyer who is involved in this tough legal struggle. what do you think? >> that's true, but i think my role for him is really to be a support for him and a support

for my family. that's what i hope to do. we have always been there for each other in tough times and good times and we have always been close as a family. >> what about your father and processing everything that happened. how do you handle that? >> we stick together. that's the thing. my mom was talked to a lot by people and your safety net and people who you can lean on are important in times like this. my family is that for me and i'm that for them. we have a great, great network of friends and people who are there to support us. that makes all the difference. >> you think you can beat this case? >> we will see. i hope so. >> more information about the elizabeth edwards foundation can be online at elizabeth edwards.org and a link through

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speech, but the bottom line is it left the president isolated from the rest of the world. he is facing a reelection with republicans going after. >> rick perry and mitt romney moving to his right clearly on israel. >> we will have to leave it there. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next. >> texas governor rick perry's job record is under attack from conservative who is say many jobs in his state went to illegal immigrants and poking holes in the claim that he made texas a jobs boom town and a shocking twist in the case of a missing utah mother, sooz an powell. they found thousands of images of women he taped without their knowledge, including susan. details are minutes away on "news nation."

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i'm tamron hall. the "news nation" is following breaking news in a move born on frustration. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is responding to the ambitious push by president abbas to gain full membership. >> the settlements have to be an issue that has to be addressed and resolved in the course of the negotiations, but the core of the conflict has always been and remains the refusal of the palestinians to recognize the jewish state in any border. i think it's time that the palestinian leadership recognizes what every serious leader is recognized. from lord george in 1917 to president truman in 1948 to president obama just two days ago right here. israel is the jewish state.