michael medved, the author of "the odds against obama."hat i want to get at, this has become a very, very heated argument. i feel like folks are talking past each other. to so i want to get at the issues behind the debate. michael, you say it was wrong of romney to be critical of the statement today. this was a statement by a mid-level embassy official trying to disrupt the ongoing siege. so from your perspective, what is the actually foreign policy argument being made here? >> well, the actual foreign policy argument is that we don't preemptively attempt to avoid some kind of attack on the embassy that we know is coming by condemning a film that nobody has seen, that has nothing to do with the united states, and nothing to do with our government. to even condemn it seems to suggest to the rest of the world that somehow the united states government is responsible for free speech in this country. and it was a mistake for that to be issued by the embassy. and by the way, the obama administration says so too. because they made it clear that t

>> i'm one of the original supporters on the internet freedom and the title medved neutrality and regulations as promulgated i don't think are necessary. i think that you have an aggressive open markets which reasonable guidelines which they had adopted before the adopted a dennett neutrality principles. i think that is more than sufficient and i go back ten or 15 years ago in the commerce committee where he became a german in the securities and exchange commission and put an amendment in and you can't tax the internet. more information to more accessible, more transparent it's better for democracy and i haven't studied the platform and what they've done but if it is as you say it is that is a good thing. >> you mentioned taxing the internet. that is an issue that seems to be popping back up to you for c auction on may be potentially taxing? >> i think there is an issue as there are more internet sales and if you have a sales tax and estate, the brick and mortar store collect a sales tax on the transaction in a store the consumer should advise the same over the internet it's not a sure thing

finally, the jewish vote, i trust medved, trust them both, and they told me in the entire adult life they never saw the jewish-american vote so leans towards voting for republican in such strong numbers. there's one word "israel" written all over it. president obama is hose still to israel. left benjamin netanyahu in the basement, say call me if something changes, did not treat him like the best ally in the middle east and probably in the world and a democratic country at that with elected leaders in the tradition is strong and ought to be supported. mitt romney is a friend of israel, and that matters to any friend of israel, jewish or not jewish in the united states. >> thank you. >> there's agreement in the room that we need to reform large entitlement programs as you mentioned, but i think there's agreement that any effort of reform is fought tooth and nail by established senate departments so if you look ahead to january 2012, it's a choice between leaving the major entitlement programs unreformed or abandoning the filibuster in order to get the necessary reforms through. what do