chuck schumer has now signaled he will not stand in the way of inviting mr. netanyahu, saying israel has no stronger ally than the united states. stir schumer said, "i will always welcome the opportunity to welcome the prime minister to speak to congress in a bipartisan way." with this follows a controversial speech when the city majority leader criticized netanyahu as an obstacle to peace and urged new relations in israel. chris murphy is standing by for us tonight on capitol hill. senator, really good to have you back. would you welcome prime minister netanyahu speaking to both houses of congress? sen. murphy: of course. it is important to have the israeli leader here, incredibly important to have him speaking to both parties. i don't think we were happy to see him talking only to republicans this week. obviously there is disagreement right now about the policies that netanyahu is pushing. it is not in the united states' interest for so many civilians to be killed. it is not in the united states' interest to have israel giving up on palestinian states. yes,