WHITFIELD: President Obama addressed the pro Israeli lobby group APAC and took some of his GOP rivals to task for raising doubts about the U.S. relationship with Israel.</s>PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: During this political season, you hear some questions regarding my administration's support for Israel. Remember it is not backed up by the facts. And, remember that the U.S./Israel relationship is simply to important to be distorted by partisan politics. America's national security is too important. Israel's security is too important.</s>WHITFIELD: Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is out of the Republican presidential field, but she has strong opinions on President Obama and how she sees America's relationship with Israel.</s>REP. MICHELE BACHMANN, (R) FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I've been very disturbed about the president's relationship with Israel. No president in modern times since Israel became a nation in May of 1948 has had more distance between the United States and Israel than President Obama. That message didn't go unheard among the hostile Arab nations surrounding Israel. And that's further emboldened Iran. Another fatal mistake that the president made early on in his presidency is that he was willing to meet with Iran with no preconditions and talk to the Iranians about the nuclear weapon program. What the president did with that is give Iran the luxury of time to continue to develop their nuclear weapon program. We all know that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon program and they're bragging about the fact that they're developing their own nuclear fuel rods, and they are developing with their centrifuges enriched uranium. This is very concerning for the world. And what we need to do is step up our involvement with Israel and give Israel the refueling tankers, the bunker busting bombs, and we need to put ships -- the aegis and the patriot missile systems into the Middle East region and let Iran know that we will not allow them to continue their nuclear weapon program.</s>WHITFIELD: Of course, we also talked about the race for the White House. I asked her who she is ready to endorse. Her answer next.
President Obama Addressed AIPAC; Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has Strong Opinions on President Obama and America's Relationship with Israel