steps if diplomacy? i know from my own reporting that they did not necessarily want to have to deal with the middle east this early on in the administration. do we get a sense that the secretary of state and others may continue trip onward elsewhere? reporter: he won t continue his strip. but what he did say in junior dan is that he will consult persian ghufl leaders. gulf leaders. and we know that many on the palestinian side feel only raised he thinks tensions and bottled up the anger and resentment because the trump administration broke with decades of bipartisan u.s. foreign policy in recognizing a two state solution, recognizing that the palestinians needed to be the table. the trump people didn t talk to palestinians at all. i was on trips here and vice president pence and secretary pompeo saying that we don t need to be involved.