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That will take place in the next hour or so. there will be a working dinner. now, in talking to white house aides, they do think there are some things that they can accomplish on syria here that can help them with the congressional vote back home. for instance, the g-20 country, if they can get half the g-20 to even orator clee be behind the u.s., italy, germany who have been on the fence and haven't said anything, if they can get support of the statements from a total of ten, they think that this can help woo them. particularly for the folks back in washington dealing with this right now is t...

Tonight in the u.s. secretary of state john kerry hosting a working dinner for senior israeli and palestinian negotiators. senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler coming back to the negotiating table is a first step in a much traveled often bumpy road. >> reporter: the agreement launches nine months of talks on the hardest issues, borders, israeli security, palestinian refugee rights and jerusalem. >> i know negotiations are going to be tough, but i also know the consequences of not trying could be worse. >> reporter: secretary of state kerry made six trips to the middle...

President barack obama have to give it their all. >> netanyahu has to own them. and ultimately, the president of the united states, who's probably going to have to close this deal in a high-profile, high-risk camp david-like summit, is going to have to own it, too. >> so, tonight, we've got this working dinner, and tuesday, they will be having these face-to-face talks, and they're basically procedural talks that are going to lay the path for the substantive talks taking place, and those will be in the middle east. wolf? >> we'll watch it every step of the way. let's hope they succeed. god know...

Missile for the second time in two days into israel. and israel just bombed gaza. all this as secretary of state john kerry is visiting the region. this morning, he met with the i'll tallan prime minister and is scheduled to sit down with israeli president 15 minutes from now. he'll have a working dinner with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today. we're joined now by ambassador dennis ross, former special assistant to president obama and currently with the washington institute for near east policy the. he's an msnbc middle east diplomacy analyst. ambassador, thanks for being with us....

Today's deep dive and because it's monday we decided to unveil some new tricks. all part of a special presentation on president obama's first trip to the middle east. so let me get you started here. after leaving washington tomorrow night, he will arrive in tel-aviv around 6:30 a.m. middle eastern time. there he is. he'll visit an iron dome missile launcher. then he will head to jerusalem where there he will meet with president perez, prime minister netanyahu, then attend a dinner with prime minister netanyahu, working dinner at his residence that will include some of the middle east peace pro...