ron, thank you. want to bring in chuck todd now. so if the president's conversation with the palestinian leader abbas, if that fails tonight, if the behind-the-scenes arm-twisting fails tonight and there does have to become this veto of a vote on palestinian statehood, what would the political consequences be here, and what would they be abroad? >> well, i think the worry is more about the abroad. but the white house is a little bit concerned that when they added this meeting with abbas that it was somehow going to raise expectations that president obama could somehow talk, walk this back, get abbas to walk this back. ron brought up the domestic political problems that netanyahu has to deal with and why he's got to say what he's got to say internationally. abbas has the same issue actually. abbas can't back down. if he backs down, he threw it out there, if he backs down. in an odd way, at this point the u.s. is going to be hoping to explain to abbas that they're going to slow walk this. >> yeah. >> you put this here, yes,