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Israeli leader sharpens call on US to set limits on Iran
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Netanyahu criticizes administration for not setting 'red lines'
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- Date Sep 12, 2012
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It is quite remarkable 44.
Quickly foreign policy can come to the forefront because there's this story to that Ed Henry.
Mentioned moments ago Israel ratcheting up the pressure on the US to take a tougher stand against Iran in the showdown over its nuclear program.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticizing administration.
For refusing -- set a clear deadline and what is and is not acceptable.
Beyond which military action would follow otherwise known as a red line the -- here.
-- -- -- -- There's still time.
And I say either.
-- -- -- Wait until when.
He goes into the international community who refuse to put.
Red lines before -- Don't have a moral.
Right to place a red light before was from.
Well the White House denies any rift between the two countries and it's leaders but there are several reports that the administration.
Rejected is -- request for a meeting.
Later in the month of September in Washington.
Alan Colmes -- -- the Alan Colmes radio show went.
Gretchen Hamel executive director of public notice and former spokesman for the white House Republican Conference to both of you good morning my Gretchen where are we on this one.
Netanyahu is out there with this tough tough speech wait for what.
Wait until.
Exactly that's way everyone is wondering wait -- -- and you had the president last night a very big miscommunication between now White House and Netanyahu on whether they would be meeting are not meeting.
But when it comes down until they insist that they're not New York City at the same time and that's because the president.
As good campaigning for his reelection.
Over his job of governing and we've seen happen time and time again that he doesn't have the time to meet with the -- council.
That he doesn't have at times it for his intelligence briefings and now he doesn't have time to meet with one of -- there's some of our closest allies why they are all in New York setting.
It's just to update viewers on on the flurry of reports from yesterday it was reported that Netanyahu requested a meeting that was denied because of scheduling conflicts.
Later the White House came out said there was no requests and there was no denial.
And now we know last night Netanyahu and President Obama spoke for about an hour -- where are we just seems to me that the Republicans look at making political name in running -- -- this -- moment I'm sure.
Made a -- unfortunate statement the minutes.
We had a tragedy in -- -- politicized it Republicans trying to politicize Netanyahu vs Obama and try to see that there's lots of daylight between them.
When of course they did speak for an hour last night which put a hole in the story that somehow there was some kind of diplomatic rift.
And as there is no diplomatic -- as far as I know -- in terms of Netanyahu saying.
You know he when you in the clip you just played bill looks like he just can't wait to start a war our Defense Secretary Leon Panetta just said yesterday.
That we would have.
Enough time if indeed we had intelligence that Iran were to develop what worries arguing though is that -- I must tell Iran where must stop not limited -- what Mitt Robin set on this hang on 12 Gretchen.
They now say they're -- this for me to press on Sunday they're not certain what the capital of Israel might be a reference to Jerusalem during the DNC last week.
I find that one more example of Israel being thrown under the bus by the president it continued the president has not -- -- any further -- -- away from a nuclear Iran.
He argues that this he is president Obama's greatest failure -- Well this is sending at least consistently been talking about over the course of the past four years this isn't about making political hey this is about -- the president to record on this issue.
He has not been actually when they're in Washington DC not giving them enough time for -- meeting as president he hasn't traveled to Israel and just this time last week we're debating on where the president and the Democratic Party actually save money Disney's with their convention platform and everything about making political head Alan -- about five seconds I apologize.