in dubai to make the videotapes public and to release all that information, or was that a strictly uaeink it was strictly a uae decision, but, frankly, wolf, in the past, the united states would have played a role to downplay and encouraged great britain and the united arab emirates to make sure it was handled by quiet diplomacy, what i am hearing from my sources, a retir retired masad sources, they are upset that they didn't play a role behind the scenes. >> israel is full of stories about the president of the united states humiliating the prime minister of israel when he was over at the white house this week. he made him wait. he said, i'm going to go have dinner. i'll come back later. i mean, it was a pretty -- a pretty -- if you believe the stories in the israeli press, a pretty ugly mood. >> i will tell you, if you talk to sources here in washington, they describe it in similarly ugly terms, as a meltdown. i will tell you, wolf, you know, initially, american officials were quiet after the snub of the vice president. and then they came out and they were very publicly critical. this

uae dee dee to read what they write, learn their tastes and policies. so that you can really understand their review as opposed to a few just come across a review cold you don't know who the reaper is and you don't know what to think about what they are saying. maybe the person is a maniac. maybe the person is the author's best friend or the guy who hated him since the seventh great. >> you do know it is in the "washington post" said the arcuri did refuse. making assignments. >> let's talk about that because i see daily ron scribbling note. and when you do have money to spend whether it's three and $50, $50, whatever. trying to get the right book to the right reviewer is a big challenge, and this matters to the consumer because the end product hopefully is going to be helpful to you. i'm not sure if that is what you're scribbling about. >> i think that is one of the great loss is what katharine and it mentioned. the newspaper ceased to have their own book critics if you could plot your reaction to a book according to that person that you do like we did

but then, you know, further to the east, obviously, with the large uae population from both india andakistan, there's obviously a view there that there's lots of growth still to come. >> yeah, absolutely. i have similar impressions to you. john, i was talking to some of the senior leadership there in abu dhabi, and they were telling me they're going to be a whole lot more active this year in deals than last. i had this conversation just the other day, and i would assume our viewers would want to know. they say they're going to be much more active in buying things in the united states. obviously, abu dhabi is 10% of the world's oil. do you think that a lot of people were too quick to write that part of the world off? >> well, i think there was probably a misunderstanding as to that part of the world and the tremendous wealth that's there. i think, you know, everybody understood that dubai was, you know -- i don't want to put this in a denigrating form, but could have been the las vegas of the middle east, so to speak. but abu dhabi, if you think about it, is a very, very conservative p

on the money-laundering, obviously iran and the uae, and i know that you're dealing with terrorist financingerns, concerns about financing we should take away from this report? specifically in those countries. then on venezuela, last week the ambassador from this level was forceful in defending his country's efforts to combat the drug problem. he maintained that he gave specifics that were impressive. he said your charges in this report are political. >> the report on money laundering deals with not a specific use of laundered money. it is based, it emanates from the legislation that requires us to look at money-laundering as generated by illicit narcotics trafficking. ineffective regime deals with all criminal and terrorist activities that might be financed for those causes. is there and the money-making or the use of moneys for nefarious purposes. >> you do not delve into the use of the money? >> no, we deal with frameworks in place to combat it. on the issue associated with venezuela, i don't contradict -- the statistics in this report are based on the self-report of countries involved. t

chile has asked the uae for water purification systems, medical facilities and generators. the state department said a u.s. disaster response team is scheduled to arrive today to help chile with are leave efforts. the u.s. already has sent satellite phones and water treatment units and more aid is scheduled to arrive next week. >>> meanwhile, we have new video of a tsunami that developed right after that massive earthquake a week ago. look at this. you see the water flooding the streets of this town. the 8.8 earthquake caused a tsunami that swept more than 400 miles of chile's coast. chile's government identified 279 victims, but hundreds more are still unidentified. >>> there may be a new lead in the case of a family from the san diego area that went missing last month. authorities think the mcstays were spotted on this surveillance tape casually crossing the mexican border. it appears, if you look close, to show a man, woman and two children that fit the mcstays' description. but detectives say they're having a hard time saying exactly who is in this video because it's so