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U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin has been on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East as the Biden administration comes

under pressure to secure a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas and ease regional

tensions.

Journal National Security reporter Vivian Salama is traveling with blinking and she joins me now

from Ankara, Turkey.

Vivian, by the sounds of it, just an intense weekend of diplomacy, stops in the West Bank,

in Iraq, Cyprus, Jordan, take us through some of the major

highlights.

Oh my goodness, where haven't we been since Friday?

So this has been a pretty intense visit.

The U.S. sees that despite the fact that it believes Israel has the right

to defend itself and wants to support that right, there is this sense of a growing moral

imperative to try and find some sort of a solution that sees

an end to the very intense bombing campaign that we've seen in Gaza and the obviously

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