and the impact on the war on terror with israel's ambassador michael orrin. also, this hour, budget hang-up. the gang of six stalls on a long-term plan to tackle the deficit. and daniels, huntsman, santorum who is next to step up for 2012? good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. first to the white house where the president is now said to be leaning against increasing -- releasing pictures of bin laden's body as we learn more about what happened in the commando raid. nbc's chuck todd, chief white house correspondent, joins me now. co-host of "the daily rundown." what is the latest today, leaning against, leaning for and what are they saying about the picture release? >> reporter: look, the white house is still -- one thing we do know is that some definitive decision is going to come today. the last thing they want is this dragout and have this should they or shouldn't they? we know everybody on capitol hill is weighing in on this at this point and so there is a belief that they need to have a sort of -- some cloture on this decision. we know that sec

-israel alliance, michael orrin. ..] thank you for your staunch commitment to israel's security. thank you for defending israel's right to defend itself. [applause] for thank you for standing by israel as it seeks a secure peace. now i heard tonight from all the speakers, something that you know that israel is america's indispensable ally. [applause] you understand that israel and america stand shoulder to shoulder, fighting the common enemies, protecting common interests. you know that the israeli innovators help power computers, fight disease, conserve water, clean the plan at. store support for israel flows from the heart. it's not just what israel does, it's what israel is. [applause] now let me explain that. yesterday i had a great day. they let me out. sarah and i could actually go for a walk, and i have to congratulate american security services. they're a little more generous than ours. [applause] so we walked along the potomac, and we got to visit washington's majestic monreal to become a real. i read jefferson

i spoke to ambassador michael orrin a short time ago and he said the prime minister really appreciated that speech. now we're looking for what he's going to give with an address to aipac prime minister netanyahu. that's going to be a tougher speech. he's going to be speaking to this audience, speaking to the pro-american/israeli crowd and also going to be giving a speech to congress on tuesday, so this is really more of a volleyball game where you're going to see lobs going back and forth. but we're going to secretcle speeches from the prime minister over the next couple days. >> another full week on that matter. thanks so much. >>> jerusalem with more on how president obama's speech is being received today. >>> some frightening news out of yemen. the u.s. ambassador and several other diplomats were trapped inside an embassy surrounded by what's being described as armed supporters of yemen's president, the embattled president is with me now live. mohammed, exactly what happened and how has it resolved? >> well, fredricka, it was a tense situation earlier in the day. gulf cooperation co

joining me from washington, exclusive prime time interview, michael orrin. clearly we all know now when you did get details of the speech, there was a lot of back and forth between the israeli government and the white house. what was that all about? who was involved in that back and forth? >> a number of questions to answer here. first of all, keep in mind that president obama has called for the '67 borders to be -- the 'focus point or the orientation of our peace talks with the palestinians. hasn't called for the actual return to the '67 borders. and it was not the focal point of the speech. the speech was about the situation in the middle southeast and a very small part of the speech. having said that, the overwhelming majority of israelis are against the return to the '67 borders. that's clear. and -- the reasons are very, very simple. those borders before 1967 were only nine miles wide. twice arab armies tried to cut us in half by crossing those borders, back is to the sea. tried to destroy us from those borders. they were not defensible borders. in the

joining me from washington, exclusive prime time interview, michael orrin. clearly we all know now when you did get details of the speech, there was a lot of back and forth between the israeli government and the white house. what was that all about? who was involved in that back and forth? >> a number of questions to answer here. first of all, keep in mind that president obama has called for the '67 borders to be -- the 'focus point or the orientation of our peace talks with the palestinians. hasn't called for the actual return to the '67 borders. and it was not the focal point of the speech. the speech was about the situation in the middle southeast and a very small part of the speech. having said that, the overwhelming majority of israelis are against the return to the '67 borders. that's clear. and -- the reasons are very, very simple. those borders before 1967 were only nine miles wide. twice arab armies tried to cut us in half by crossing those borders, back is to the sea. tried to destroy us from those borders. they were not defensible borders. in the

-israel alliance, michael orrin. .. israel's security. thank you for defending israel's right to defend itself. [applause] for thank you for standing by israel as it seeks a secure peace. now i heard tonight from all the speakers, something that you know that israel is america's indispensable ally. [applause] you understand that israel and america stand shoulder to shoulder, fighting the common enemies, protecting common interests. you know that the israeli innovators help power computers, fight disease, conserve water, clean the plan at. store support for israel flows from the heart. it's not just what israel does, it's what israel is. [applause] now let me explain that. yesterday i had a great day. they let me out. sarah and i could actually go for a walk, and i have to congratulate american security services. they're a little more generous than ours. [applause] so we walked along the potomac, and we got to visit washington's majestic monreal to become a real. i read jefferson's the five words we hold these truths to

-israel alliance, michael orrin. .. [applause] thank you to all our supporters, thank you.r defending israel's right to defend itself. for thank you for standing by israel as it seeks a secure peace. now i heard tonight from all the speakers, something that you know that israel is america's indispensable ally. [applause] you understand that israel and america stand shoulder to shoulder, fighting the common enemies, protecting common interests. you know that the israeli innovators help power computers, fight disease, conserve water, clean the plan at. store support for israel flows from the heart. it's not just what israel does, it's what israel is. [applause] now let me explain that. yesterday i had a great day. they let me out. sarah and i could actually go for a walk, and i have to congratulate american security services. they're a little me generous than ours. [applause] so we walked along the potomac, and we got to visit washington's majestic monreal to become a real. i read jefferson's the five words we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equa

michael orr orrin, and then from the chief palestinian representative to the u.s., mayan ar acat. analysis. i'm candy crowley. and this is state of the union. in his speech, president obama addressed the controversy from his thursday's speech. >> that was my reference to the 1967 alliance with mutually agreed swaps that received the lion's share of the attention, including just now. since my position has been misrepresented several times, let me reaffirm what 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps means. by definition, it means that the parties themselves, israelis and palestinians, will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on june 4th, 1967. that's what mutually agreed upon swaps means. it is a well-known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation. it allowed the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last 44 years. [ applause ] it allows the parties themselves to take account of those changes, including the new demographic realities on the ground and the needs of both sides. the ultimate goal is tw

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michael mcconnell was up to be considered. he'd been a law professor at the university of utah and the university of chicago. at his nomination hearing, senator orrin hatch, who strongly supported his nomination, said, "i think we should praise and encourages the prolive of scholarlyiting assuming they know the knowledge to follow the law as written and to follow precedent." what was senator hatch defending in professor mcconnell's background? it was the fact that he had called roe v. wade a landmark supreme court decision illegitimate. professor mcconnell had defended bob jones university's racist policies on the grounds that they were -- quote -- "church teachings." even though the supreme court rejected his argument in an 8-1 decision. and he claimed the violence against women act was unconstitutional. now, that was fodder for a lot of questions that should have been asked and were asked. he had made some very extreme statements as a professor. but professor mcconnell assured the senate that when he left the classroom and entered the courtroom he'd put his views assigned follow the law. the senate did not stop him with a filibuster. the senate t