a fox news alert, i am jackie in new york, time could be running out for biden administration, secretary of state antony blinken traveled to iraq today to meet with that nation s prime minister. bra stern warning to iran and terrorist groups that u.s. is prepared to protect military from attack, earlier in day secretary visited west bank to doize flight of gaza civilians. israel raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. we have to answer those questions, we re working on that. we agreed our teams would get together, they are doing that. to work through the specifics, of these pauses. so far there is no sign that israel is ready to back any plan for a momentary ceasefire, the military claims it has encircled gaza city and decided the besieged coastal trip in two, troops to enter gaza city within 48 hours. still the white house is making it clear palestinians must have a say in whatever comes next for the territory after the con click. conflict.