denise leavitt we want to begin with you. we know that mahmoud abbas went straight to the u.n.alstein be recognized as a state, and are the palestinians likely to be disappointed here? >> well, i think not yet, brooke. president abbas and clearly a victory for him with the palestinian people, and we saw the pictures all week of the celebrating in the streets of the palestinian people when he held up that piece of paper and said, i submitted my bid for palestinian statehood and does that mean it is going to happen? no. there is certainly a lot of negotiations going on and the united nations general assembly and the security council will be talking about this over the next several days and weeks, but he can clearly claim a victory. what is going on right now is that the mideast quartet, the u.s., eu, russia and the united nations issued a framework, if you will for the eterms of negotiations of the israeli and the palestinians to get the palestinian president to backoff and start to negotiate with the israelis and the palestinians. >> what does this mean? >> well, it calls for cl