It's Monday, November 6th, is a diplomatic push from the United States enough to de-escalate the threat of a wider war in the Middle East.

We start here.

The U.S. Secretary of State makes a series of surprise visits in the Middle East to try to ease tensions.

Palestinian voices have to be at the center of that.

As calls for a ceasefire grow louder, our team goes inside Gaza for the first time since the war began.

Former President Trump is set to take the stand in his own civil fraud trial.

He could be forced to pay as much as $250 million as a penalty?

Why his business empire could be at stake.

And the presidential election is officially one year away.

Voters don't like this idea of deja vu.

A series of new polls spelled bad news for President Biden.

From ABC News, this is Start Here, I'm Elizabeth Shulzi.

Hey there, Brad's off today.

I'll be taking you through the news, starting with the latest out of Israel.

Cease fire now.

We simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on October 7th.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinking right now is on a whirlwind trip to the Middle East. And already, there have been some big surprises.

On Sunday, Lincoln held a previously unannounced

face-to-face meeting with the leader of the Palestinian Authority

Mahmoud Abbas.

This was a big deal because it was the first time

Blinkin visited the West Bank,

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