saeb erekat, i know you've been very involved in this. thank you for that.an chief negotiator. he's been meeting with khalid mashal and the leaders hchl e said all palestinian factions are on board going along with the u.s. and u.n. on the 72-hour cease-fire. let's take a quick break. much more right after this. een n car insurance. yeah, everybody knows that. well, did you know that playing cards with kenny rogers gets old pretty fast? ♪ you got to know when to hold'em. ♪ ♪ know when to fold 'em. ♪ know when to walk away. ♪ know when to run. ♪ you never count your money, ♪ when you're sitting at the ta...♪ what? you get it? i get the gist, yeah. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. we're changing the way we do business, with startup ny. we've created tax free zones throughout the state. and startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. no property tax. no business tax. and no sales tax. which mea

i don't think this was a sentiment unique to saeb erekat.estinian leadership had the idea that these talks were pointless and even abbas himself who pretty much went against a palestinian leadership, he had his reservations and by the end, he felt that the americans rightly or wrongly were taking israel's side on some of the key issues. definitely on the palestinian side, and i think the americans would acknowledge this that that was one of the major things that ended up dooming these talks was the perception that the americans were favoring israel. >> amir, something that struck me was an episode in the oval office that you detail in your report. president obama tells negotiators in that meeting including zippy livni, there is optimism in this room. i'm more skeptical. how did you find the president to be as you went through this involved report that you did? >> one of the big of questions that people in israel were asking real time when the negotiations took place is how much is president obama committed to this issue? is this a personal p

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and they seem to be pretty much on the same page if you listen to abu mazen's advisers including saeb erekat who i've been speaking with in the last few day, he wanted you to accept that cease-fire, as well. >> everyone wants the cease-fire. no one is talking against having a cease-fire, but we want to protect our own people for a long time, to protect them from the israeli military attacks, from the siege, from arrests, with hard conditions. we want the cease-fire which can give the the palestinian people a chance to live peacefully and with dignity. >> mr. hamdan, we'll check back with you tomorrow. let's see what happens if your leadership decides to go ahead and accept this temporary, temporary humanitarian cease-fire that's supposed to go in effect thursday morning 10:00 a.m. local time here in the middle east. osama hamdan is the spokesman for hamas. coming up, our live coverage continues. we're here in jerusalem. i'll speak to the spokesman of benjamin netanyahu about the temporary cease-fire and more breaking news. president obama is about to announce new u.s. sanctions against russi