The main event is to leverage aid and to make sure the U.S. is not alone.

Gaza First, not Gaza Last. If the pull out is successful, and people see it's quieter, it could embolden moderates on both sides.

I did as little as I could to facilitate the transfer when they came down here. If NDSU is not Division I, we're not sitting here having this conversation.

But our main responsibility is to make sure we go out and win the football game. If not, people aren't going to go home happy.

The whole leverage thing, it's a difficult thing to gauge. I try not to even look at it like we have leverage because I want Tyson to be back here. That's truly been the thing that I've been thinking about.

The public is jaded. They think that on the eve of the elections (Netanyahu) is doing things just to capture headlines.