. >> joel osteen with israeli president shimon peres. certainly as i went back to london all i could see was your grinning mug everywhere with copies of your book everywhere. how many have you done? >> this is my fourth major book. >> how many tens of millions of copies have you sold? >> i don't know. i sold a lot, though. >> you're not denying tens of millions, i noticed. >> i don't know about that. >> the first sold ten million. >> it did. it did. but you know, i write the books to hopefully help people and people get inspired behind them. there's a lot of things pushing people down so our ministry is about lifting people up, saying hey, don't get bitter, don't get discouraged, you know, stay in faith, stay positive. people are drawn to that because there is a lot of negativity. >> you do have this effect on me. every time i interview you, i go away and i feel happier. i feel better about myself although i feel deeply resentful you're selling more books than i did. what i wonder, when you do a book called "i declare" which is a smart p

president shimon peres has raved about the relationship between president obama and the state of israelts defense minister has done that. president obama -- >> if you were to take a look at comments over the past, let's say three months, that would not be the tone, certainly, for binyamin netanyahu. >> i think that this is the whole thing about maybe why president obama isn't meeting with any world leaders because he does want to meet with president netanyahu. he has heard real tough criticism from prime minister netanyahu about not setting so-called red lines from iran. what it would take to get the u.s. involved in military action. and he wasn't inclined to give the prime minister a hearing after hearing that. he said p i'm not going meet with anybody, i'm not going to meet with binyamin netanyahu. >> when you look at the approval numbers on how the president is handling foreign policy, 49% now say the president is doing a good job. 49% say doing a good job. 54% in august. it is roughly within the standard of deviation but still a downward trend. how worried are you about the number.

president he can remember picket listen to shimon peres, who recently said mr.dent, you have pledged a lasting friendship for israel. you stated that israel's security is sacrosanct for you, so you pledged, so you act, so you were acting as a great leader, as a genuine friend. now is the time, now is the time to continue the strong u.s.- israel relationship. now is the time to stand with israel as it works toward peace and security, toward two states, a secure israel, living side-by- side with an independent, non militarized palestinian state. now is the time to support israel as a thriving, democratic, and secure homeland for the jewish people, by reelecting barack obama as president of the united states. thank you very much. ♪ >> please welcome the mayor of minneapolis, minn.. >> hello, minnesota. [applause] >> it is cold, we have to cheer about something, right? it was a cold, december morning four and a half years ago we told -- we pulled our rental of college students into iowa. we went door to door, for a guy named barack obama. almost nobody in town had e