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Over the weekend, a 13-year-old boy shot and wounded an israeli father and son. with tensions escalating, israel's right-wing government responding by sending soldiers to first seal off the attackers' homes and then demolishing them, vowing to respond swiftly and precisely. secretary blinken will be touching down in israel on monday. it may be a preplanned trip, but with the rising tensions in the region, it certainly is a timely one. linsey. >> sure seems that way. thank you. we turn now to the war in ukraine, and president zelenskyy calling for western allies to provide longer range missil...

Side, u.s. secretary of state ant antony blinken is scheduled to be arriving here on monday and tuesday for meetings with both israeli and palestinian leaders. this was a preplanned trip, but obviously the events of the last few days are bringing a new sense of urgency to those talks. jessica? >> absolutely. hadas gold, thank you so much for that update. i want to bring in aaron david miller. he spent more than two decades at the state department including as a middle east negotiator. it's great to have you with us. thanks so much. let's start first with what you think it would take kind of ...

Implications for the rest of the world as well. bill neely, thank you very much. kristen welker, trying to sort out just who is behind that statement with the president ad-libbing on his own, was it planned, he had talked to john kelly, my reporting and i'm sure yours as well is he had not talked to the secretary of defense. >> that's right. and secretary of state seemed caught off guard by that as well. and, of course, you had that very different tone when he landed in guam. it was a preplanned trip, a refuel if you will, andrea. but he obviously had a very different tone than we heard from p...

Vice president making this trip here during tense times. this was a preplanned trip, of course. but it does speak to the seriousness, with which the trump administration regards the situation right here on the peninsula and their commitment to working with allies in the region to chart a course forward. this is a third visit of a high-level trump administration official. first, you have the secretary of defense to reassure allies in the region, like south korea and japan that the alliances are strong and the u.s.'s commitment remains in place. and you have the secretary of state coming out her...

This week and watched her comments, but talked to her back before we both went on and it's almost beyond belief this would be happening and the leaders of our intelligence community would not know it's happening. there are a lot of questions. they're multi layered questions. i will say i did listen to the end of your last segment and, you know, i've had very high-level conversations at the cia over the last several weeks and certainly before and i still will say it's almost beyond belief that our ambassador to the u.n. on the sunday morning program five days later, would be talking about this ...