Obama on Netanyahu Invite: ‘Foreign Policy Runs Through the Executive Branch’

BARACK OBAMA: "All of the folks on the call today share my position, that we should see if we can get this deal done. It was not a topic of conversation. With respect to the decision of the speaker to offer up the House chamber two weeks before Mr. Netanyahu's election to make the case, I think that question should be directed to Mr. Boehner. As I said, it is very important for us not to politicize the relationship between Israel and the United States and it is very important for all of us Americans to realize that we have a system of government in which foreign policy runs through the executive branch and the president, not through other channels, and I think it is important for us to stay focused on the problem at hand, and the specific problem that is being debated right now is not whether we trust the Iranian regime or not, we don't trust them."