right now secretary of state antony blinken is in the west bank, set to speak at any moment. this at the end of his three-day tour of the middle east, the trip gained new urgency following an outbreak of deadly violence. he met with mahmoud abbas earlier today and met with benjamin netanyahu yesterday in an effort to get both sides to work together to end the bloodshed. also kevin mccarthy will meet tomorrow with president biden at the white house for the first time since becoming house speaker. top of his agenda the debt ceiling. republicans with that slim majority in the house are holding the threat of defaulting on the nation s debt to demand budget cuts. and this morning two more memphis police officers have been put on leave in connection to the death of tyre nichols. that in addition to the five officers who have already been fired, charged with second-degree murder. plus, the memphis fire department has also fired three employees for their response or nonresponse
israelis, this sort of parity of, you know parity of security guarantees, parity of freedoms, united states, palestinians will point out, are very strong in supporting and giving security support to the israelis, but they don t feel they get that. so i think that gives you a sense of the heavy lift, the diplomatic lift, that faces secretary blinken here. he has talked as well about the two-state solution and he has talked as well about this far right government of benjamin netanyahu and the responsibility of it building more settlements and he said that is a key thing that would destroy the possibility of a two-state solution, but, again, secretary blinken aspires to that, wants to keep that idea alive, yet here in ramallah most people would tell you they don t believe it is possible to have a two-state solution anymore and that s particularly true amongst a younger generation, it s their future and horizons that the secretary was speaking about.