00:00Following your meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday, has your thinking changed at all as it relates to these negotiations
00:07with Iran?
00:07We have to make a deal. We have to make a deal. Otherwise, it's going to be very traumatic.
00:12Very traumatic. I don't want that to happen, but we have to make a deal.
00:17They should have made a deal the first time and they got midnight hammer instead.
00:21And this will be very
00:23traumatic for Iran if they don't make a deal. Look, if they don't make a deal, then
00:28it'll be a different story. But we had a very good meeting yesterday with Bibi Netanyahu.
00:35And he understands, but it's ultimately up to me. If the deal isn't a very fair deal and a very
00:41good deal with Iran,
00:42then it's going to be, I think, a very difficult time for them in the back.
00:50I guess over the next month, something like that. Yeah, shouldn't take, I mean, it should happen quickly.
00:55They should agree very quickly. Yeah.
00:57Mr. President, we might be heading into a partial government shutdown.
01:00When was the last time you spoke with Chuck Schumer?
01:02And do you still feel Democrats are negotiating in good faith?
01:05Well, a week ago I spoke, but, you know, we have to protect our law enforcement.
01:10Actually, the Supreme Court gave a ruling or one of the courts gave a very big ruling on masks that
01:15you
01:15have the right to use them, you know, for personal protection if you want.
01:18So I don't know how that interjects. You know, they want our law enforcement to be totally vulnerable and
01:26put them in a lot of danger. They have some things that are really very hard to,
01:30very, very hard to approve, frankly.
01:33As you know, it only, it's only, we had various of the other bills that's all done,
01:39but we're left with this one. We have to protect our law enforcement. Very important.
01:43Mr. President, why does Prime Minister Netanyahu want you to stop negotiating with Iran?
01:50He is, you're saying, stop entertaining, stop talking to them?
01:55Didn't say that. We didn't discuss that. I'll talk to them as long as I like.
01:59And we'll see if we can get a deal with them. And if we can't,
02:01we'll have to go to phase two. Phase two will be
02:05very tough for them. I'm not looking for that.
02:08Mr. President, there are currently zero Israeli hostages left in Gaza because of you.
02:12Thank you. Thank you for that.
02:14And now that the war is ending in Gaza and Israel, I wanted to ask,
02:18do you believe Bibi bears any responsibility for the security failures that we saw on October 7th?
02:22Mr. President, well, October 7th was a rough time, and I guess everybody's responsible,
02:26which you had to look, but it was a terrible attack. It was a sneak attack.
02:32It was as violent as I've, you know, unfortunately, I've seen
02:36some of the results at levels that probably even you, good reporter, but probably you haven't seen.
02:41It was a horrible thing that took place.
02:44People were surprised. It was a surprise attack. Nobody saw that coming. He didn't see it coming.
02:49Nobody else would have seen it coming if they were in his position. I don't believe.
02:53But I can tell you, he's been a very good wartime prime minister. He's been very strong.
02:58We've worked with him very well. We had tremendous success with
03:02Iran and everything else we've done. And he really has been. He's been, you know,
03:06extraordinary as far as a wartime prime minister. Not easy.
03:10And, you know, you have a president that refuses to give him a pardon.
03:14I think that man should be ashamed of himself, a pardon over this trial that's going on.
03:19The president of Israel, the primary power he's got is the power to give pardons. And he's not,
03:25you know, he said he's given it five different times, but he doesn't want to do it because I guess
03:30he loses his power. I think the people of Israel should really shame him. He's he's disgraceful
03:36for not giving it. He should give it. But Bibi has been a great wartime prime minister. And I've
03:43been the best friend to Israel, I think, that they've ever had. A lot of people say beyond precedence
03:49that they've ever had. And we will continue to be.
04:00And we'll see you in the app now.
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