as i mentioned earlier in the show, philipp gordon a special assistant to president obama and white house coordinator, that israel recognizes an undeniable reality, doing so is not only wrong but a recipe for resentment and recurring stability. rick, start with you. is the administration taking the right position here? or is it a misstep by the administration, not clearly supporting its allies? >> i would say at the very minimum it calls into question their ability to recognize when timing is important. because when rockets are being fired into jerusalem, and into other cities across israel right now, at a record pace, when hamas is attacking israeli civilians, with absolutely no discretion, to have a state department official makes a statement like this that indishe indishous and that increasingly demanding and increasingly demanding about this, if you wanted to make a statement like this that was a fish statement part of national policy where the american government as is constituted today wants to be that's one thing. but going it right now when there there are missiles raining down on