MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: With so much at stake, it comes as no surprise the White House is continuing to closely monitor developments in the Middle East. CNN's Major Garrett is traveling with the President. He joins us from Indianapolis with more from the -- with reaction from there. Major, good morning to you.</s>MAJOR GARRETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Miles. Well, the President of the United States is here in Indianapolis, Indiana, to attend a couple of Democratic Party fund raisers. He canceled these fund raisers two weeks ago when the Middle East crisis first exploded. But after weeks of telephone diplomacy, even an emergency summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the situation is really no better. So the president is picking up the pace as far as a fund raiser for his own party. Of course, the White House continues to monitor the situation very closely. The president spoke late last evening with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the eve of that Arab summit in Cairo. In that conversation, Mr. Arafat promised he was doing everything he could do to restrain the violence in the Middle East. But clearly the White House is not pleased with that General Assembly resolution passed last night. There's been no official White House reaction this morning but after the resolution passed, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, said the following. "It was a mistake to bring this kind of resolution to the floor in the middle of a world crisis." The two key words there, world crisis. Clearly, the administration sees the situation in the Middle East continuing to deteriorate. They were hoping for some words of moderation from Arab leaders at this summit in Cairo. That doesn't seem to be happening. And now talk from the Israelis that they may suspend the peace process even adds more bad news to the situation -- Miles.</s>O'BRIEN: CNN's Major Garrett with the president in Indianapolis.
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