emergency session on the escalation let's go live now to the white house our white house correspondent kelly halkett is there for us. the u.s. secretary of state has spoken to his israeli counterpart with hearing. and the u.s. secretary of defense is spoken to his counterpart the secretary of state is part of asking for both sides to cease violence complete waters he said. yeah this coming down just moments ago the bible administration if we've known for days has been working behind the scenes in private as well as public statements to nudge israel to deescalate the tensions that have been playing out across television screens for days apparently that nudging wasn't quite enough and now we know the secretary of state just moments ago announcing that he is sending an envoy to the region in order to try and encourage deescalation according to and city blinken the deputy assistant secretary of state for israel and palestinian affairs will be going to meet with israeli as well as palestinian leaders the goal again deescalation the united states saying it is deeply concerned with what they are seeing par

a white house correspondent kelly halkett has the latest on the u.s. political reaction to the israel palestine conflict in particular what the white house press secretary he had to say. she is continuing to do some cleanup on the comments by the u.s. president joe biden on thursday where he stated that the response by israel is in his view not significant and for a 2nd day agent psaki found herself having to address those comments by the president saying that in no way was this a minimizing loss of life that in fact the united states is working very hard and mourns the loss of every life whether palestinian or israeli take a listen to what she had to say israel has the right to self-defense our focus remains on continuing to use every lever at our disposal to deescalate the situation on the ground i think it's also important to remind people a mosque is a terrorist organization hamas does not represent the views the families the people who are suffering all of the palestinian people who are suffering as a result of this violence on but there is no jus