>> look, what is ehud barak supposed to say?hat the president has not met the test of what he requires -- those comments are a little bit -- should be treated as purely political comments. look, the worrying thing is that -- about the obama administration's attitude toward iran is that it has gone through a succession of measures. the attempt at diplomatic engagement, attempt at covert activity, racheting up slowly sanction, and the effect from the point of view of iran's nuclear programs has been relatively -- relatively negligible. >> peter beinart, you think that the obama administration could do more? >> well, in terms of sarnnction the obama administration has been more effective than the bush administration than putting in tough sanction autos -- even iranians acknowledged that the sanctions are hurting the iranian economy a great deal. we don't know -- i want to be clear. i'm not saying that the sanctions will ultimately lead the iranians to make the kind of deal that we would need to get. we simply don't know. the toughe

panetta met with ehud barak. the israeli defense minister. panetta insisted that u.s. and european sanctions are having an impact on iran and all non-military measures should be exhausted before turning to a military option. panetta told benjamin netanyahu that u.s. officials are committed to resolving iran's nuclear issue. >> we will not allow them to develop a nuclear weapon. and we will exert all options in the effort to ensure that that does not happen. >> netanyahu said that sanctions have hurt iran's economy but he said they have had no impact on the nuclear program. he suggested that israeli patience was wearing thin. >>> president bashar al-assad has told his troops that their battle against opposition forces will determine the fate of syria. his written message gave no clues to his whereabouts. assad has not spoken in public since the bomb in damascus last month killed three of his security aides. assad issued the statement in a military magazine on wednesday. the founding day of the syrian army. he said the rebels are terrorists plotting the country's fall. [

>> i was thinking about to what we heard from ehud barak who said in a tv interview just a few weekshing of an administration that had done more for israel's security. and while he didn't say what he was speaking about directly -- he wasn't specific, two big things you could think of would be the administration's great ramp up of american forces in the persian gulf including anti-missile forces. and then of course as i've reported before in both the times and in "confront and conceal," the president's fairly direct role in a covert program called olympic games. not what just ended in london, but the covert effort to undercut iran's centrifuges with a computer virus, which by most accounts slowed the iranians down. both of those and increased sanctions are more than the bush administration did although olympic games began in the bush administration days to give president bush his credit. i think it's going to be a hard case to make that the president has simply talked to the iranians and not done anything to stop them. >> but there seems to be a difference of opinion as far as the tim

ehud barak talked about it in an exclusive one-on-one interview with wolf blitzer in jerusalem. >> whatcan you share with us that you believe that iran and hezbollah were directly responsible for the murder of those israeli tourists in bulgaria? >> we have a confident without any doubt about the responsibility of hezbollah to the actual execution of this operation, operation, planning, and execution. and we know that hezbollah is acting under iranian inspiration, and we know from previous cases, just read the indian press today, it became clear that behind the attack on our diplomats in new delhi, there were iranians, active players on the ground. the same applies to the terror event in thailand and to the other one in georgia. all occurred within several weeks. >> but you have direct, hard evidence about bull ggaria? >> we have direct, hard evidence. i'm confident we shared it with your intelligence and brits and a few others. and i have no doubt -- of course, for obvious reasons, we cannot share the exact evidence. >> so what are you going to do about that? are you going to retaliate?

he's with ehud barak., law enforcementer this morning, he warned that iran -- now, later this morning, he -- he warranted that iran must be stopped and sanctions and -- if sanctions and diplomacy don't work. >>> insurance companies will have to offer free birth control and other preventives to women. supporters say the benefits will help more than 47 million women. >>> health insurance company also also -- will have to mail out rebates today because of president obama's affordable care act. the 80/20 plan requires insurance companies that spent less than 80% of revenues and more than 20% on administrative costs to spend a rebate out for the difference. in california, more than 2 million people are going to receive an average of this amount of money. >>> a top state butter equality official is saying that lucas film company shares the blame for the rejection of plans for a new movie production facility in marin county. according to the independent journal, the water says that lucas film consultants knew tha

and this being confirmed by ehud barak. >> reporter: we are seeing a go-no-go decision.n in favor of an attack on iran which general consensus says if it happens it will take place sometime before the next presidential election. since iran has been enriching uranium there has been a split between the united states intelligence and israel intelligence with the israelis saying iran is much closer to getting a bomb. right now the israelis are saying publicly that the u.s. feels that iran is much closer to getting a bomb, meaning suddenly the israelis are right, the americans have been behind the times. it points to an attack happening sooner than later. the israeli force is capable of hitting iran but the relationship dough for its operational attacks is closing. and it would be up to the americans and the interest national community to take action against iran. that's something israel says they don't want to wait for. we are reading everything from the tea leaves to the verbal expressions to what people are winking and nodding at in terms of finding out what the political

here is a chart and it carries a message from ehud barak, the israeli defense minister. he says very clearly, "this administration under president obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that i can remember in the past." the distinguished general in the israeli army, israeli defense minister, he made certain that it's quite understood that the relationship with israel and america is solid and well-balanced. this is coming, as i say, from a distinguished decorated military leader. he helped plan the historic raid on the israelis who were taken in agrounded airplane. he understands israel's securi security, and the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has called the obama administratio administration's security policy for israel "unprecedented." but if you listen to republicans over here in the u.s., they say we've all but abandoned israel's security. they're encouraging hostile neighbors with their misrepresentation. shame on them. governor romney, in particular, has demonstrated frightening ignorance about israel and its security needs. a prime e