U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said there was no basis for the idea that the United States is less popular in some Middle Eastern countries, despite protests raging in 17 countries.
"President Obama pledged to repair our relationships with the Muslim world," Jake Tapper said in an interview with Rice Sunday. "Why does the U.S. seem so impotent and why is the U.S. even less popular today in some of these Muslim and Arab countries than it was four years ago?"
"Jake, we're not impotent. We're not even less popular," Rice said.
Rice went on to attribute the violent protests to a "heinous and offensive" video.