(19 Jun 2007)
1. Wide of car carrying Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert driving up to the front door of the White House
2. Soldier saluting and opening car door
3. Official getting out of car, followed by Olmert getting out of car and walking into White House
4. Olmert and Bush seated
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"I'm looking forward to sharing with the (Israeli) Prime Minister the results of a phone call I had yesterday with President Abbas. He is the president of all the Palestinians, he has spoken out for moderation. He is a voice that is a reasonable voice amongst the extremists in your neighbourhood."
6. Cutaway of meeting
7. Cutaway of media
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister:
"I'm absolutely determined that there is an opportunity. Like you, I want to strengthen the moderates and cooperate with President Abu Mazen, who is president of all the Palestinians the only person who was widely elected in a democratic manner by all of the Palestinian people. And I am going to make every possible effort to cooperate with him and to look forward to see how things can be worked jointly in order to provide the Palestinians with a real genuine chance for a state of their own."
9. Cutaway of media
10. Cutaway of media
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"Our hope is that President Abbas and the Prime Minister Fayyad, who's a good fellow, will be strengthened to the point where they can lead the Palestinians in a different direction, with a different hope."
12. Cutaway of media
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister:
"The idea that I have is to talk with him of the kind of issues that can help upgrade the quality of life of the people and provide them better security in the West Bank and to share with him the efforts to combat terror. This is something that he is absolutely committed to doing, will have to do it, and this is not something that the Palestinians can escape, they will have to fight terror in the most effective way, something they have not done, unfortunately, up until now."
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
(Reporter Q:)
"I would tell you this: my position hasn't changed and that is that all options are on the table. I would hope that we could solve this diplomatically, and that's why the United States - first of all, we take the threat very seriously."
15. Medium of meeting
STORYLINE:
US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday in his battle with Hamas for primacy, calling him a moderate voice and the only true leader of the Palestinian people.
Bush and Olmert, before meeting privately in the Oval Office, both spoke positively to reporters of the prospect for new talks between Abbas and the Israelis.
Bush called Abbas "the president of all the Palestinians" and "a reasonable voice amongst the extremists," adding that he will make "every possible effort to cooperate with him."
Bush and Olmert met in the aftermath of turmoil that left Abbas, a Western-backed moderate, in control of one Palestinian government in the inland West Bank and his Islamist rival Hamas in control of the separate Gaza Strip on the coast.
The United States and the European Union have been moving quickly to shore up Abbas.
On Monday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced an end to an economic and political embargo on the Palestinians.
"Like you, I want to strengthen the moderates," Olmert said, adding, as well, that he would "make every possible effort to cooperate with Abbas.

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