At today’s Daily Press Briefing Associated Press reporter Matt Lee grills State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland about US silence over Israel’s deadly attacks on civilians in Gaza.

He chides her over the ‘quiet diplomacy’:

Well, you’ve been doing your private diplomacy for almost a week now, how’s it going so far?

She dodges his bullets time and again. But he gets something out of her when he pushes her to make a statement regarding Turkey’s statement that Israel was engaging in terrorism.