when he when george mitchell his piece on voice resigned and he sent susan rice to veto a resolution on israeli settlements we know where obama's money comes from it comes from the girl is of a pack and is proved itself for the united states and. it will be hated right across the arab world and i do hope the american government realizes quite what the consequences for the united states personnel united states people all around will be for what they're doing right now regardless of whether about folds will well if the vote does happen what do you think will be. well back in the forty's the soviet union used to veto. things and the united states made a unilateral decision to say we will not veto applications to join the united nations so they will be broken that rule already some say of course. it satisfy the montevideo accords of water is that this peace process peace process we know is you know wants and we know what the united states wants out of it it wants well it's government it's congressman they want to get paid by zionist zionist organization but as i said because it once is d

when the democrats are in the minority and a republican is in the white house, look at george mitchellrything they could to try to make a republican president a failure. this is part of the politics. let's be honest about this. >> kate? >> nobody on the right wants obama to have second term because of what he's doing to the economy. >> republicans have demonstrated they're absolutely desperate for the unemployment rate to come down. they said the only thing you have to do right now is cut corporate tax rates, bring it down from the second highest corporate tax rate in the world and you will immediately and cut back some of those regulations that are keeping businesses from using their money to hire people. that's all you have to do. how dare you suggest that republicans don't want to lower the unemployment rate? they are begging obama to take the one or two small steps, cut taxes and lower regulations. >> you think it was so crazy when reagan cut the tax rate from 70 to 28%? revenue doubled and unemployment went down. >> i didn't know that. that's an amazing thing. >> sean: you know, t

parties largely because of missteps by the administration's own diplomats and resignation of george mitchellonfirmed how difficult the process this has been and let's just add this. the netanyahu government coalition is not shall we say, right for negotiations with palestinians. >> let's also talk about the role that the revolts in the arab spring territories like syria and egypt has potentially played in the breakdown of relations and how much does this complicate things for president obama on the international front? >> the president already suffers for an erosion of international report since 2009. most arabs deeply disappointed by united states' policy and the president is basically seen behind the course of history here. it's taken him a long time to oppose a crackdown in syria. there's a great deal of unhappyness in egypt and he's perceived as having not done enough to compel the israelis with two-state solution. >> let's talk more about the two-state solution that seems universally supported just depending on who you speak to about how it's done. a new poll says that the u.s. stance r

president's good intentions and not withstanding the second day of the white house he appointed george mitchell and he said i am going to work on this issue from the beginning and not during my second term and notwithstanding all of the efforts the president had to back down in the face of an immovable prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu, and the president knows between then and the next election they have to push the israelis back to the negotiations b tow the negotiations based on stopping the settlements and serious commitment to peace and let me tell you, i don't think they believe that the current israeli government really seeks the kind of peace that they want. >> and david, same question to you, though, and based on the fact that these are very tense situations taking placet ta u a u.n., and the world is listening and everyone trying to glean what is taking place in the private meetings there, and explain to us in your opinion why a u.s. veto against the palestinian statehood would damage us in the region. >> well, i'm not sure how it would be received more widely in the region,

the president, the secretary of state, any special negotiator like george mitchell used to be. and the two sides. t the israelis and the palestinians. and america's unique role, having leverage and influence in both the palestinian territories and israel made america the place -- the address for discussions on this issue. that's changed a lot in the last couple of years for a variety of reasons. but i think you're absolutely right that president obama gave a very unique, i would say, full throated endorsement of the security dilemma the israelis face during his speech at the united nations. it was remarkable. it hasn't happened very often that an american president goes through the attitudes and feelings that the israelis have over the years to that audience. >> you know, jamie, let me ask you this. who has more leverage? the united states over israel or israel over the united states? >> well, look. israel has always been a close friend of the united states. and it's certainly true that when the administration wants to get congress to do something, often now they ask the israel

the initial choice for the democrats was senator george mitchell was well represented and very partisanand very smart man and the belief on the part of democrats is he would be henry kissinger's equal. this would be the kissinger/mitchell commission and might be a partisan battle between the two of them. both of them stepped out of the scene quite early on with it a few weeks. henry kissinger shortly after a showdown with the 9/11 families. mitchell because he is it has a law firm and can't give up his paycheck and they're replaced by thomas kean, respected former governor of new jersey without a lot of experience, no experience in washington and no experience on the issues before the investigation but hugely respected by people from both parties and lee hamilton, in many ways the democratic equivalent of someone like thomas kean. respected by democrats and republicans and one of washington's realize men and national security issues. >> host: one thing you make clear in the book is lee hamilton wanted to find out what happened but they made a strategic decision at the start not to point

when i'm with a freshman rookie i would get so mad george mitchell i couldn't restrain myself and said what i thought about him. that i was standing in the leader's chair and i saw it differently. the senate is a unique place. it is hard to get anything done. it is easy to block stuff. if you got true leadership and true commitment and you find ways, i would urge harry reid to stop finding things to fight over. see if you can find things to move along and if you look under the covers there have been a couple things they have done in the last week where you see cooperation between harry reid and mitch mcconnell. one was on disaster assistance. i can't remember what the other one was. i keep pushing them to do a highway bill. it is something we need in this country. it would create jobs. it is not partisan. quit pushing this envelope in areas where you know you have a fight and won't get it done and try to find those areas where it looks like the president says pass my jobs bill like it is. that won't happened and he knows it. say to the congress this is what i would like to have but let

maybe they ought to call george mitchell in here as a mediator as they did in northern ireland.t may be what needs to happen, some form of mediation with -- between our zero political parties. host: we are talking about the return of congress with daniel friedman and fred barbash. we're in the middle of a discussion about austerity, not only congress but the whole of the nation. how does one affect the other? guest: fortunately the spending level has been said, in telling $7 billion in cuts. that agreement is helpful for october 1 to get a deal on a continuing resolution for the rest of the year. how be optimistic that they can get that done without a gigantic fight that they had over the last continuing resolution because of that top level spending being set. but disaster looms and other bills. hurricane arena and other disasters, the office of management and budget had asked for separate money for hiring, $1.5 billion in disaster aid. it becoming a bit of a political football with eric cantor wanting that funding to be offset. democrats see that as an opportunity to to exploit

senate majority leader george mitchell once said -- quote -- "bipartisanship means you work together to work it out." american families and communities are relying on us to work it out and hold out hope that we won't disappoint them. mr. president, go back just a month. we were struggling, struggling hard to work out an agreement that in years past has been simple. just to raise the debt limit in this country on bills we already accumulated. it took three months, but we got it done. one of the things we did was said we no longer have fights during this next fiscal year on funding the government. we agreed on the numbers. now, what the house could not do in good conscience directly, they're doing indirectly. they're sending a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government until the middle part of november, but because they have all these extremists in the republican majority in the house, they couldn't do that. they could not do that. they couldn't send us what they already agreed upon. in fact, they put an addition to the bill, a so-called rider to the bill, saying you're on

maybe they ought to call george mitchell in here as a mediator as they did in northern ireland in the middle east. that may be very well what's necessary here. some form of mediation, you know, within our own -- between our own political party. >> host: we're talking about the return to congress. we have our guest guest of fred barbash of cq weekly and daniel friedman, talk a little bit -- and dig deeper about the spending levels of 2012 and they need to be set by october 1st. we're in the middle of discussion about austerity not only in congress but as a whole of the nation how does one affect the other? >> guest: well, fortunately the spending level is set. the debt ceiling bill is set in fy '12 level is 1.03 trillion which entails is $7 billion cut, i believe, from the current spending and the current continuing resolution so that agreement is helpful as they go forward before october 1st to try to get a deal probably on a continuing resolution for the rest of the year. i'd be somewhat optimistic that they can get that done without the kind of gigantic fight they had over the last

. >> mitchell: as well as happiness somerville also has history. in 1776 georgen raised the grand union flag on prospect hill where it could be seen by the british in boston. more recently, another president lived in this basement apartment while studying at nearby harvard. it's not recorded how happy either one of them were at the time. you ran unopposed last name. >> yeah. >> mitchell: and running >> and i'm happy about that. that is driving my happiness at this moment. >> mitchell: and news of the mayor's happiness poll has spread throughout the world with delegations from as far away as south korea and ireland coming to the city for a firsthand look. and that is the "cbs evening news." later on cbs, "60 minutes." thanks for joining us this sunday evening. i'm russ mitchell at the cbs broadcast center in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org the unemployed-- to get behi >>> president obama arrives in the bay area, how he'll be pitching millionaires and the u

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