i'm very pleased to have saeb erakat back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: thank you for coming. before we talk about specics, give me a sense of history and this momt in the history of the palestinian people. >> i was born to do one thi: to bring back palestine to the geographic map. in your country you hear about boy that's interrupted, a girl that's interrupted. in our case, a whole people, a whole nation was interrupted. we were crossed from the map, we were turned into refugees, we were turned into terrorists, we were turned into no one wants us and now we're coming here, it's time to bring palestine back and we're notoing it... (inaudible) israel's right to exist. all we want to do is to have palestine admitted to live side by side the '67 lines with the statof israel. what's wrong with that? and then we see all this reaction, the politics, the threats of vetoes, all this campaign against us. look, inow, i know as palestians we are... this country there's things about voting influence and so on. we don't stand a

joining us is ambassador rasheed erakat the chief representative of the p.l.o.es. welcome. >> thank you. >> 3:00 the security council diplomats will start meeting. what do you hope comes out of that session tomorrow? >> what we hope and what we expect is for the united nations to expeditiously move with the palestinian request for membership at the united nations. it will ask a committee to review the request and turned over to the council or a vet. we expect that to happen within the next -- next few days. >> eric: you are not going to magically poof have a country. u.s. plans to veto that action. secretary of state clinton is calling on both sides to return to the negotiating take. >> unfortunately, we were hoping for the united states to take a different position on this issue. because to be honest with you, we are very much perplexed by the position at a time when they are supporting movements in different countries for freedom and independence. they are opposed to the palestinian move at the united nations. we have said repeatedly we are willing to return t