conference to begin momentarily here. p.j., i'm going to go to you first, as we await remarks from secretary of clinton there, what do you think we might hear? obviously we don't know yet what's happening on the ground but we know the meetings secretary clinton has been in? >> i would strongly suspect and hope that we hear that the ingredients of a cease-fire are being put in place. that's vitally important if we're able to kind of freeze events in place without a need for an israeli ground incursion. that's good news all around. i doesn't solve the longer issues, but as we have always said everyone push the shovel down which is progress. >> having been in some of these rooms and meetings before, when prime minister netanyahu said he's not interested in anything short term because from his