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CBS' Exclusive soundbites from Katie Couric's interview with President-elect Barack Obama covered three other issues. On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama pledged to begin regional diplomacy with Syria and Iran in search of a two-state solution. On his nominee for Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, who skipped paying self-employment taxes for four years, Obama called it "an innocent mistake, a common mistake." When Couric inquired whether or not the tax cuts Obama proposes, which constitute 40% of his fiscal stimulus, would translate into economic activity, he conceded that even he was skeptical: "Are some people going to just pay down their credit cards or save some of that money? Absolutely." NBC News, meanwhile, surveyed the degree of popular support for the President-elect in its opinion poll with The Wall Street Journal. Political Director Chuck Todd delivered the top line, noting a tough patch that included the withdrawal of Bill Richardson's Cabinet nomination and the corruption charges against Rod Blagojevich in Obama's hometown. Finding an "enormously high" approval rating of 66%, Todd concluded that "none of it has touched him. He is Teflon. He is in the middle of the honeymoon."
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