patty culhane has a look at what's at stake. >> threats made by the u.s., ignored or flat out rebuked by benjamin netanyahu. but in his second term the white house has been trying a differing tack. smiles of the president, it was meant to smooth over the rough relationship but the president's recent speech at the united nations might have made that tougher. he appeared to be pressuring israel on what he says are his top two foreign policy priorities. >> a real break throughs on these two issues. iran's nuclear program and israeli palestinian piece would have a profound and positive impact on the entire middle east and africa. >> not talking about attacking but talking, putting a focus on diplomatic solution. but mr. netanyahu has made it clear what he wants. he literally drew a picture last year, he wants a red line drawn expect. >> the israelis are very fearful that obama will be almost taking off the table the possibility of a military strike. what the president wants from netanyahu is time, patience, let the palestinians try diplomatic approach. >> the blitz by iran's new president

patty culhane al jazeera washington. >> politics in the u.s. now have 24 hours to come up with a deal before government services start to shut down. democrats and republicans are wrangling over a new budget. they are still no closer to a deal. jean meserve reports from washington, d.c. >> when it comes to a possibility of a government shut down republicans and democrats are playing the blame game. >> this is a terrible destructive strategy totally unnecessary. >> the president is the one saying? i will shut down government if you don't give me everything i want on obamacare. >> house will be in order. >> on the wee hours of sunday morn, the house of representatives did pass legislation funding government. >> i say it before, i say it gej this is it. >> but the democratically controlled senate has already promised to reject it because of medical devices, wheelchair that would partial lir fund the health care law. mr. obama's existing health care law is the real bone of contention. conservative republicans have tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully

for more on that an obama's speech here is patty culhane. >> uses the same arguments to try to convince the majorities of the american people and members of congress the u.s. should strike the syrian military. so far he's been unsuccessful. arguing a response is morally needed and justified and that the u.s. is in the unique position to send a message. chemical weapons can't be used. but he did say there is a chance diplomacy can work. the president embracing the plan his own staff at first dismissed as unlikely while taking some of the credit for it. >> over the last few days we've seen some encouraging signs. in part, because of the credible threat of u.s. military action, as well as constructive talks that i had with president putin, the russian government has indicated a willingness to join with the international community in pushing assad to give up his chemical weapons. >> the syrian foreign minister said syria will sign the ban on chemical weapons and destroy its stock piles. >> we'll willing to locate the stock of chemical weapons stop production of the chemical weapons and show

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patty culhane, ldgesz washington. >> earl -- al jazeera washington. >> earlier i talked to pedro de costa. >> for then who said the fed was out of bullets, they're actually not out of bullets. here they basically delivered stimulus through inact, by not acting to change the pace of its bond buying it rallied the markets and at least laid the groundwork for mortgages to fall a little bit from their recent uptick. this is a mess of its own making of course, the fed's own talk about the tapering of bond purchases that led to the spike in interest rates. the fed always talks about monetary policy as a balance of risks. and one of the concerns even within the fed is that by keeping interest rates low for very long andby continuing these unconventional policy measures by buying treasury bonds and mortgage bonds, the fed could lay the risk later on. but some of what you have been talking about in the program is actually very relevant because bernanke and the fed was very opiniopoignant in flagging the . in a way, it's congressional inact that's forcing the fed's hand. >> now to that congressiona

patty culhane, al jazeera, washington. >>> thanks for being in. >> a pleasure. >> when president obama meets with president netanyahu tomorrow, what will be the biggest thing, iran or the mid east crisis? >> the real challenge with israel, having movement on the peace process. unfortunately netanyahu uses iran as a sort of distraction from his government living up to its obligations with regard to the palestinians, so i think that dynamic will be in place. >> is that a strategy with the prime minister? he does not trust iran for a good reason, says this charm offensive basically bogus activity. is this a good position for his point? >> might being for his domestic coalition which reliance on the far right, it is not in iran's interest, finance minister lapid said, why don't we test iran out and see if there is sort of actions to match the rhetoric? it does not make sense to at least explore that path somewhat. >> so why is he so reluctant to explore that path? >> again i think we have to explore israeli interest, there is absolutely, and netanyahu's political interest. >> do you think

patty culhane is live. >> senator lindsay graham and senator john mccain are going to be meeting with the president in this hour. they are two of his fiercest critics, they say they will not vote for authorization of force because they say it is forceful enough. president barack obama has insisted that is not his intention to tom it will government. he is going to spend the -- topple the assad regime. all the cabinet members are making phone calls. on tuesday the secretary of defense and secretary of state will testify before a senate hearing. they are trying to definitely push this but i can tell you that the lawmakers that have gotten the classified briefings have come out and are openly skeptical of the what is the point of the limited strike? they ask what are the possible unintended consequences and also there are some that are saying the evidence simply isn't there. now just like in france the obama administration says its has to do something or it will embolden other people to use chemical weapons. there are some lawmakers who are pointing out that chemical weapons have been us