four israelis, including a pregnant woman, were killed. mike viqueira is at the white house. so, mike, when cow cmbine that awful news regarding those murders and expectations here. how is the white house balancing this? how is the state department balancing this now? no one needs to be reminded, tamron, of all the obstacles in the way of a two-state solution and that is the stated end goal here of these direct talks. the first as you mentioned in almost two years. first of all, that incidence of terrorism on the west bank staged by hamas overnight. there is another deadline coming up on the very controversial moratorium on west bank settlements by israel coming up on september 26th. they had a moratorium for a year. everybody wondering what israel is going to do if they drop the moratorium, that is going to cause controversy and perhaps be another obstacle in the way of these talks. you re right, the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has just entered the white house grounds here. pr