To monitor the efforts by the Afghan Government and Afghan Security forces to retake kunduz and that will factor into a longer term assessment of the conditions on the ground which will influence longer term policy decisions the president will have to make. Reporter has the president received those recommendations from commanders in any kind of a formal way as of this time . I dont have any update in terms of the kind of communication of the commander in chief and the commanders on the ground. But the president receives regular briefings and updates from his military commanders through the chain of command and that certainly will continue. Reporter at the United Nations today, palestinian president abbas said hes no longer bound by agreements with israel, theyre going to start pursuing legal means to pursue Palestinian Statehood and are basically abandoning the direct negotiations approach that has been your position for a very long time now. What is the u. S. Response to the palestini