00:00President Donald Trump's top aides staunchly defend his push to transfer Palestinians out
00:05of Gaza and have the U.S. take over the enclave, but they back away from elements of his proposal.
00:10At a White House briefing Wednesday, February 5, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt hails
00:15Trump's Gaza proposal as historic, quote, outside-of-the-box thinking.
00:20But she notes the president had not committed to putting boots on the ground in the territory.
00:24She also declines to rule out the use of U.S. troops there.
00:27At the same time, Leavitt walks back Trump's earlier assertion that Gazans need to be permanently
00:32resettled in neighboring countries.
00:34She instead says they should be temporarily relocated for the rebuilding process.
00:38U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also says the idea was for Gazans to leave the territory
00:44for an interim period of reconstruction and debris clearing.
00:48Trump earlier announced he envisioned transforming Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East and
00:52have Gazans leave Palestine.
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