the last elections prime minister netanyahu failed to form a new coalition. in the in the meantime, the first son-in-law may be showing some of his cards. when asked by axios recently whether palestinians are capable of governing themselves, he demurred. then he said he hopes over time they can become capable of governing themselves. so, let's bring in longtime palestinian official, hanan ashroui and dan cenow. dan, what is happening? is there a debate within the administration? take us behind the scenes? >> the debate is, with each day that passes, the u.s. government loses leverage with this process. so the hope was to get this done before the most recent israeli government. they couldn't get it done because the israeli government didn't want it to happen on the eve of the israeli election. and it couldn't happen during the process of coalition discussions to form a government, because this would create problems for netanyahu on