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| In fact, the reality is the United States of America, all over the world people want to come here. | ||
| It's a place for people to prosper under liberty and freedom and economic opportunities that are unheralded unparalleled throughout the world. | ||
| So I'm a big fan of the United States of America. | ||
| The process back then was easier, I believe, than it is now. | ||
| And part of it is that there's a lot of people. | ||
| I mean, Joe Biden let 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants cross the border. | ||
| We have a big problem in our country with open borders, and President Trump has done a great job. | ||
| We didn't need a new law to protect our border. | ||
| What we needed was a president that actually cared about the border, and we've got one. | ||
| And I've been to the border, and nobody's coming across the border that doesn't have a compelling need. | ||
| And in that case, we want people to come. | ||
| But I'm sponsoring a bill, and I've asked my staff to start working on this. | ||
| We need to promote legal immigration. | ||
| I want people to be able to come here that want to come here and do good. | ||
| But if you're a gang member, if you're a human trafficker, you stay out of this country. | ||
| We will not let you in. | ||
| And if you're in this country, we will throw you out and you're going to make sure. | ||
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We take you live now to the State Department press briefing. | |
| You're watching live coverage on C-SBAN. | ||
| Some questions. | ||
| So this week, the United States demonstrated once again that American leadership matters. | ||
| Driven by the clear vision of President Trump and Secretary Rubio, the United States is standing firm on the world stage and delivering real results for the American people. | ||
| The United States vetoed a counterproductive United Nations Security Council resolution that targeted Israel and failed to condemn Hamas. | ||
| The resolution created a false equivalency between a sovereign nation and a terrorist group and would have undermined meaningful diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire. | ||
| As President Trump has made clear, we will not support any resolution that fails to demand Hamas disarm, leave Gaza, and release all hostages, including the remains of two murdered Americans. | ||
| The United States will continue supporting the delivery of aid to the people of Gaza and will work to ensure that Hamas and other terrorist organizations cannot continue to exist. | ||
| This is the first Security Council veto of the Trump administration, and we are proud to use our veto on such an important issue. | ||
| It's time the UN returned to its founding purpose: promoting peace and security and stopping these performative actions. | ||
| Earlier today, Israeli forces recovered the remains of Judy Weinstein and God Hagai in Gaza. | ||
| Judy and God were kidnapped and brutally murdered by terrorists on October 7th. | ||
| Their fate remained a mystery for months. | ||
| Even after the worst was confirmed, their families were denied the dignity of a proper burial for more than 600 days. | ||
| We hope their families can now find some measure of peace. | ||
| At the same time, we are acutely aware of the anguish 56 families continue to endure, including those of Americans Omer Nutra and Itay Chen. | ||
| Every single hostage must be released immediately. | ||
| To further safeguard the American people, President Trump has signed a new directive restricting the entry of foreign nationals from specific countries to protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats. | ||
| This action reinforces the administration's unwavering commitment to protecting our borders and ensuring that those who wish to do us harm are denied access. | ||
| This administration will continue to use every tool at its disposal to defend our homeland, dismantle terrorist networks, and deny entry to those who threaten the American people. | ||
| We will never waver in our mission to protect the United States. | ||
| And with that, I'll take some questions. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| If I could start with Russia-Ukraine, was Secretary Rubio on the call between President Trump and Putin? | ||
| Nothing further to add besides what's already been publicly said. | ||
| Okay, and then President Trump said today that Putin told him he had no choice but to attack Ukraine following Kyiv's latest attacks. | ||
| Trump said he told Putin not to do it. | ||
| Has the U.S. communicated to Russia any red lines that it does not want to see crossed? | ||
| Look, what's been clear from the very beginning, and President Trump has made this clear, is that he wants to see de-escalation. | ||
| He wants to see direct dialogue. | ||
| He wants to see peace. | ||
| That has been his driving motivation on this from the beginning, to end the carnage and the bloodshed. | ||
| As you said, the President spoke to this. | ||
| Nothing further to add to his comments, but his motivation here has been very clear from the beginning, to get to that direct dialogue and stop this bloodshed. | ||
| Would the U.S. take any punitive actions, such as imposing sanctions at Russia's tax? | ||
| I'm not going to speculate or get ahead of the president on that, but what I can say again is that the president has been very clear. | ||
| He wants to see this conflict come to an end. | ||
| Yes? | ||
| Thank you very much, Tami. | ||
| Can you explain the apparent conflict between the State Department's position regarding Afghanistan, the safety, relative safety, and security of the Taliban government regarding the decision made on withdrawing temporary protective status for Afghans here in the U.S. as of July 12th, because it's safe enough, | ||
| presumably, for them to go back, and the fact that the State Department has now decided that Afghanistan is not safe, so it is on the list of states for which immigration is banned. | ||
| So we're talking about two dynamics here. | ||
| When it comes to the specific of TPS, temporary being the operative word here, I refer you to DHS for more details, but it was always a temporary benefit, a temporary protection that's in the name itself. | ||
| So we have that dynamic, and people that are here, people that were here on temporary protected status, have had opportunities to apply for permanent residence here in the United States. | ||
| So you have that dynamic of a temporary protected status that was temporary, versus a second dynamic of the ability to vet people entering this country. | ||
| The ability to ensure people coming into this country on a visa are properly vetted. | ||
| So without getting into specifics of individual countries, the White House has put out a fact sheet on this that I would refer you to for more specifics. | ||
| But the idea of people coming into this country, the ability to properly vet is a separate dynamic. | ||
| And we have to have confidence that we can vet people properly. | ||
| And I think the American people would expect us to have that. | ||
| So what we're looking at here is, can we vet people properly? | ||
| Are there terrorist concerns? | ||
| Do we see visa overstays in regards to some of these countries? | ||
| Those are some of the driving purposes here. | ||
| So we have those two separate dynamics when it comes to Afghanistan. | ||
| Just to follow up, there are large numbers of American veterans, those who have fought in Afghanistan, and also including State Department personnel, CIA personnel, others who have worked with the U.S. government, | ||
| who feel very strongly that many Afghanistan refugees are at risk if they go back because of their connections to the United States in the past, in the present time, and that going back, particularly for women, is of high risk as well. | ||
| And they are asking why it is not a different case, why Afghanistan is being treated this way after the Afghans worked so hard to try to help us during our war. | ||
| Well, the temporary protected status is only one dynamic when it comes to the many different ways that people from Afghanistan have come to this country. | ||
| And again, I'd refer you to DHS on the specifics of that TPS announcement. | ||
| But I think those two separate dynamics are important, again, to stress. | ||
| The temporary protected status, which is always meant as a temporary protection, versus the ability to vet people that are entering this country. | ||
| And I think we have to have that realistic approach to say, are we able to vet people that are coming into this country? | ||
| And the American people, I believe, want to see us be able to say that we can when we're looking at these visas. | ||
| And this is part of a broader action, a broader emphasis from this administration with this action and other actions regarding visas to make sure we have that proper vetting in place. | ||
| Do you think that we are violating a trust, The sacred trust with many of these people who have put their lives on the line for the United States of America. | ||
| Well, look, I think when it comes to this, again, the TPS is one dynamic of the many ways that people from Afghanistan have come to this country. | ||
| Especially immigrant visas, for example, exceptions related to that are in the proclamation itself when it comes to the proclamation we saw yesterday. | ||
| So I think, again, we're looking at two different dynamics. | ||
| A temporary protected status that, again, was always meant to be temporary. | ||
| There was the opportunity for those that were here on TPS to apply for permanent residence, while then also having the secondary part of it, which says, are we able to vet people coming into this country? | ||
| And I think those are two separate dynamics. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Can I continue with Andrea's question a bit? | ||
| When it comes to the travel restrictions, I mean, there are a number of countries that were taken quite a bit by surprise by this. | ||
| Just Chad right now said that they're going to retaliate. | ||
| Not that in Americans, I realize they're probably not that many Americans clamoring to go to Chad, but nonetheless, you look at Iran, for example, it's no secret that many Iranians are not very keen on the Islamic Republic, the diaspora, as many critics. | ||
| Is there a sense more broadly that the United States is losing the proverbial hearts and minds by blanketly saying that all these people just purely on basis of nationality have no right to come in rather than seeing them as individuals? | ||
| Well, look, this is a national security imperative. | ||
| What we are seeing is can we have trust that, first of all, that we're vetting people properly? | ||
| Is there in some of these countries, and I'm not going to go country by country again, refer you to the White House fact sheet for more information, which they've made publicly available, but do we have the ability to vet people coming in? | ||
| And this, again, has been that priority from the beginning of this administration. | ||
| Can we say with confidence that people coming to the United States have been properly vetted? | ||
| Is there a central authority in these countries that can confirm that? | ||
| Can we trust what they're telling us? | ||
| A whole host of different issues that are important to figure out here. | ||
| And I think another part of this is we're in constant communication with countries around the world to try to determine ways that we can have that be the case where we can have proper vetting procedures, where we can have confidence with who's coming into this country. | ||
| But again, it's part of that broader action from this administration on a whole host of visa issues to say we're going to properly vet people coming into the United States than people that are here if they take actions that are contrary to what their visa reported when they apply for that visa or broke our laws. | ||
| They may see that visa revoked. | ||
| It's about making sure we're enforcing our laws, have confidence in who we're letting into this country. | ||
| And I believe the American people expect that. | ||
| I think a lot of Americans watching at home would want to make sure we have that confidence. | ||
| And again, I want to stress that this is a country-by-country basis, but that each person that applies for visa is also case-by-case. | ||
| So we have that country-by-country basis. | ||
| We have those concerns. | ||
| But then there's also exceptions that are listed in the proclamation, and each visa determination is a case-by-case determination. | ||
| Just a couple things on that. | ||
| You know, of course, the previous administration, there wasn't, you know, this took place something somewhat similar in the first Trump administration and the previous administration didn't have these blanket bans. | ||
| Was there a sense that there was a problem that you said that there's a problem with screening? | ||
| Were those problems existing? | ||
| Obviously, there's an attack in Boulder, but the ASAL in that case, there's Egypt, which wouldn't be applicable in this case. | ||
| Well, as the President said in his video announcing this proclamation, there was a discussion going on within the government to try to determine the proper course of action here. | ||
| And looking at these countries, a country-by-country basis, again, looking at different concerns. | ||
| Visa overstays. | ||
| Do we have the ability to properly vet it? | ||
| Are there other security concerns? | ||
| That was a country-by-country basis. | ||
| Those determinations were made. | ||
| We saw the proclamation. | ||
| We also saw the president in his proclamation outline the idea of further analysis of these within 90 days, for example, then 180 days thereafter. | ||
| So I would refer you to the proclamation for more diesel is exactly how that would go forward. | ||
| But ultimately, what we're talking about here is a national security imperative. | ||
| And I believe Americans watching at home would want us to have confidence that when we're issuing visas, we can say they've been properly vetted. | ||
| Do we have that ability? | ||
| And this is part of that broader effort from this administration to make sure that we're properly vetting people that come into the United States. | ||
| Just one word. | ||
| The World Cup, of course, is coming up and then the Olympics after that. | ||
| The United States sets a FIFA that basically obviously people will be welcome here. | ||
| The Secretary himself said that the U.S. will be welcoming in soccer fans to come see the World Cup kids that are here. | ||
| Iran is among the countries that has qualified. | ||
| Will there be special consideration there, soccer fans coming in for a visa? | ||
| Well, in the proclamation itself, there are exceptions that were listed regarding coaches and players and the like that I would forgive to those the proclamation for well I think both people that are coming and Americans would hope that we can have confidence that when people come to the United States when they come that they are properly vetted I think this goes to the exact same consideration. | ||
| I think this is part of what it means to host an event of this magnitude to make sure that we can have that confidence. | ||
| And again, we're in constant communication with countries about ways that we can see the vetting process we need to see, have that collaboration, make sure that we're having those security concerns addressed. | ||
| So this is part of what it means to host an event. | ||
| And I believe people coming from all around the world, Americans going to these events, would want to see actions like this. | ||
| We take security concerns extremely seriously. | ||
| We want people to be able to go to the World Cup and do so safely. | ||
| Sorry, can I just, if there was a two-minute warning, I missed it. | ||
| Oh, no worries. | ||
| It's all right. | ||
| There was, though I heard it may have gotten lost in the ether. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is just in your first response to Sean, you talked about some of these countries lacking a central authority to vet. | ||
| You're saying that you want other countries to vet people for U.S. visas? | ||
| No, this is just a concern we have. | ||
| Can we ensure that people coming from these countries are properly vetted? | ||
| What does a central authority in a foreign country have to do with your vetting process, which is done entirely by the U.S. government? | ||
| Well, there's whole ideas of documents provided by people applying for a visa. | ||
| There's this whole idea of people providing passports or other types of documents in order to be vetted. | ||
| So you're saying that these countries don't have the, you have no way, you have no trust in the viability or the authenticity of well what I can say is that there's security concerns of our ability to properly vet people coming for a visa. | ||
| That's what I can say. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then will anybody who currently has a visa lose that, have it revoked under this proclamation? | ||
| Well, this proclamation is about entry. | ||
| So that's what this proclamation is focused on. | ||
| Well, it's about entries in terms of visas. | ||
| And as you're well aware, just having a visa doesn't mean you get into the country. | ||
| Yeah, no way. | ||
| So you're saying people here, correct, if I understood your question correctly? | ||
| No, I'm saying people either here or who happen to be in, I don't know, Australia or something, but they have a visa and they are from one of these countries. | ||
| Will their visas be revoked? | ||
| Will anyone? | ||
| Well, I'm not going to get into hypotheticals at this point in terms of that. | ||
| What I can say again is that this proclamation is about a national security imperative. | ||
| And visa determinations are a case-by-case determination. | ||
| So we see that constantly when it comes to visas. | ||
| What we're saying here on a country-by-country basis is that we have concerns about visa overstays. | ||
| We have concerns about countries accepting nationals that have overstayed their visa. | ||
| The bottom line is that you do not know if anyone who currently has a visa, who is either in the United States or outside of the United States, but holds a passport from one of these countries, will have their visa. | ||
| Well, I'm not going to speculate on the specific items. | ||
| I'm not asking you to speculate on anything specific. | ||
| I'm asking, if you don't know the answer, then it is clear that this wasn't really thought through that way. | ||
| I think it was thought through. | ||
| What we're seeing here is concerns about certain security issues. | ||
| So what happens? | ||
| So what happens? | ||
| Again, it's a case-by-case basis. | ||
| You're asking me a hypothetical situation. | ||
| It's a case-by-case basis. | ||
| What are the instructions that have been sent out to embassies on how to deal with that? | ||
| Well, I'm not going to talk about our internal communications. | ||
| This is ultimately, fundamentally, a national security concern. | ||
| These determinations are made on a case-by-case basis. | ||
| No one's arguing with that. | ||
| addressed that I think we're gonna yes I have one more about China, though. | ||
| Yeah, green jacket. | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Although there are a lot of questions and explanations, I believe there are still some doubts among citizens from the seven countries that are with restrictions on this travel ban. | ||
| So in a general matter, if you could explain what those restrictions mean for those citizens. | ||
| Sorry, one more time. | ||
| On the travel ban for the countries that are in the list with a partial restriction, the seven countries, including Cuba and Venezuela, for example, I believe many citizens there are still doubts what means this restriction. | ||
| So what does this mean? | ||
| Yeah, when it comes to those, the White House has put out a fact sheet talking about those countries, the partial restrictions. | ||
| I would refer you to that fact sheet for more information. | ||
| It's available on their website there. | ||
| Perspective from the State Department, what this means from those who are not here and for those who are here in the country and might want to leave and then come back. | ||
| Well, again, it's a case-by-case basis, and we have concerns that we want to see addressed, and that's what this is part of addressing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Pamia. | ||
| I have two questions. | ||
| First question. | ||
| Sergei Shoyig, head of Russia State Security Council, and Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader, met in Kynyang today and agreed that the North Korean troops will remain in Russia even after the war between Russia and Ukraine ends. | ||
| What is the United States' view on this and what is your position? | ||
| Well, we've talked about many times in terms of from this podium, North Korea and Russia. | ||
| I'll repeat what we have said there before, is that third countries like North Korea that have perpetrated the Russia-Ukraine war bear responsibility? | ||
| We continue to be concerned about North Korea's direct involvement in the war, North Korea's military deployment to Russia, and any support provided by the Russian Federation to the DPRK in return must end. | ||
| One more kick. | ||
| Regarding the U.S. response to the South Korean presidential elections, the White House said that U.S. remains concerned about and opposes China's interference and influence in democratic countries around the world. | ||
| And China wants that the United States should stop its actions to show this cold in South Korea between China and South Korean relations. | ||
| Can this be seen as a U.S. concern that the elected South Korean president is more pro-China than pro-United States? | ||
| Look, what I can say is that we congratulate President Lee on his election as the President of the Republic of Korea. | ||
| And on more details, I'll take that question back to see if we can get you an answer on that. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Tammy. | ||
| Change topic. | ||
| I'm going to talk about the West Bank. | ||
| Today marks the 58th anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank in East Jerusalem. | ||
| And is the West Bank on your radar? | ||
| Because there has been a spike, a huge spike, as a matter of fact, and settler violence against the Palestinians, Israeli army violence against Palestinian villages and so on. | ||
| They're being locked at night. | ||
| They're not allowed into their farms or to tend their animals and so on or even go to school and all these things. | ||
| My question to you, is there someone or an office within the embassy in Jerusalem or anywhere or in this building that follows up on what happened in the West Bank? | ||
| And what measures are you taking? | ||
| Well, look, what I can say, as we've said here before, is that certain functions have been put underneath the embassy in Jerusalem under Ambassador Huckabee. | ||
| That's the most I can say on that here. | ||
| Okay, so where do Palestinians go if they have a grievance that they can raise with the Americans? | ||
| You know, some Palestinians have U.S. citizens and so on. | ||
| Do they go to a certain office, say, you know, there's been an attack on my land, there's been an attack on my kids, whatever. | ||
| Do they go to a place where these grievances can be aired and expressed? | ||
| Well, I don't necessarily want to give a hypothetical depending on the exact circumstances you may be raising, but again, there have been functions that have been consolidated underneath the embassy in Jerusalem under a buster Huckabee, and I have to leave it at that. | ||
| Yes? | ||
| Thanks, Tami. | ||
| Two questions for you. | ||
| Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel acknowledged a short time ago that the Israeli security establishment has been providing weaponry to a rival gang, rival to Hamas. | ||
| Number one, was that done in coordination with the American government? | ||
| And number two, is it in line with American policy in Gaza? | ||
| Well, look, I have nothing to preview on that. | ||
| I'll take back the specifics, see if we can get more of an answer on that. | ||
| What I can say is our approach and our policy remains that we stand with Israel and we stand for peace, and those are our goals that we want to see. | ||
| Second question, it's kind of a different way of asking a question that was asked the other day. | ||
| Who's currently in charge of the Lebanon portfolio here at state? | ||
| Well, I mean, we see a whole host of people that are involved in this issue. | ||
| Who oversees it? | ||
| I mean, I have no personnel announcements to really announce this time, but what I can say- Yeah. | ||
| Who oversees it? | ||
| I mean, we have a whole host of different people that are involved in this. | ||
| I mean, we see members of Ambassador Witkoff's team, we see different members of the Bureau. | ||
| We have a whole host of experts here at the State Department that are involved in this. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you, Tami. | ||
| Two questions. | ||
| One question on Iraq and the other one on Iraq. | ||
| There are reports being published by Wall Street Journal talking about the Iraqi militia group as they involved. | ||
| I'm sorry, could you speak up just a little bit? | ||
| There were a report published by Wall Street Journal which says that the Iraqi militia groups involved it in extracting illicit funds for Iran throughout the visa and mastercard payments. | ||
| I'm wondering if you have any comments on that and how do you view these militia groups inside Iraq which they are serving in the interest of Iranian governments? | ||
| Look, we've been clear in terms of when it comes to the militia groups that militia groups within Iraq should report to the Iraqi government. | ||
| Beyond the more specifics of your question, I'll take that back and see if I can get more specifics on that. | ||
| Yeah, and the second question, do you have any updates for us about your negotiations with Iran? | ||
| We've heard about from the Iranian officials, including the Iranian Supreme Leader, Iranian foreign minister, which they said that the proposal you sent to them, it's incoherent, disjointed, and very unrealistic. | ||
| And they've made clear that Iran will never accept any proposal, any deal which requests them to abandon all nuclear consortium outside Iran. | ||
| Well, look, what I can say is that senior advisor and special envoy Witkoff sent a detailed proposal, and we encourage the Iranian regime to accept it. | ||
| It is in their best interest to accept it. | ||
| We've also been clear again and again and again that the Iranian regime can never have a nuclear weapon, that there is a good option and a bad option in regards to that. | ||
| Beyond that, it is not in our national interest to negotiate these issues publicly. | ||
| But I can say that it is in the Iranian regime's best interest to accept the proposal that was given by Special Envoy Witkoff and again reiterate what has been made clear from the beginning, that the Iranian regime can never have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| Will the next round of talks with Iran depends on their response to this proposal? | ||
| Look, we expect to meet with the Iranians again soon, but beyond that, I have nothing to preview. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Going back to Ukraine, I may follow up on the exchange with my colleague. | ||
| Given the President's early comments comparing the conflict to a schoolyard fight dispute, if you want, are you concerned that Russia might deem those comments, particularly Presidency, that they should fight for a while as a green light to fight? | ||
| The President has been clear from the beginning that he wants to see this conflict come from an end, to come to an end. | ||
| He has been clear from the beginning that his driver, his motivation here, is to end the bloodshed, to end the carnage, to end the conflict. | ||
| He has said that again and again and again. | ||
| He has also encouraged de-escalation. | ||
| He has encouraged the parties to come to the table, to have direct talks. | ||
| He has been clear that's what he wants to see. | ||
| So he's made his position on this clear. | ||
| And I think the framing of that question, honestly, has been very clear on this, that he wants to see this carnage come to an end. | ||
| He wants to see this bloodshed stop. | ||
| He also made it clear that peace talks are right now basically going nowhere. | ||
| Why no pressure on Putin right now? | ||
| Look, again, he spoke to this just a little while ago that he wants to see those direct talks happen. | ||
| So I'm not going to get ahead of the president in terms of what he may or may not decide to do. | ||
| But what the president is able to do, and it's a credit to his leadership, that we've seen the progress towards peace that we have seen, that we have seen the parties engage in some sort of effort to try to get to that ceasefire. | ||
| That's the goal. | ||
| That's what the president wants to see. | ||
| That's his driving motivation. | ||
| And as he just said a little while ago, that remains his motivation here. | ||
| I have one more question, if I may, different topic. | ||
| USAGM, VOA reporters, journalists, colleagues, they've been in town, they were working for the U.S. government, and some of them are from dangerous countries. | ||
| Now, 50 of them, 5-0, are about to lose their J-VOM visas. | ||
| Does the State Department have any plan to protect them? | ||
| Well, look, I'm not going to comment on specific cases like that. | ||
| As spokesperson Bruce has often said from the podium here, there are, though, many different ways and many different ways that people can enter this country in terms of visas and the like, but I'm not going to comment on specific cases. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Back to Russia and Iran. | ||
| President Putin has expressed willingness to help the U.S. in talks with Iran. | ||
| Question is whether President Trump has asked Mr. Putin specifically to help with this, or is it an offer by the Russians? | ||
| And at this point, why would Russia want to help? | ||
| Well, look, I have nothing to preview beyond what the President said in his truth just a little while ago or yesterday whenever that truth came out. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Can I follow on the topic of Russia? | ||
| And I'm sorry if you addressed it in the two minutes that I also missed at the top. | ||
| Was the Secretary able to join for the Putin call or the call today with President Xi? | ||
| Well, look, nothing again to offer beyond what the President has already described on these calls. | ||
| Okay, on the Putin call, the Secretary was meeting at the White House as National Security Advisor in one of his capacities with a senior Ukrainian delegation. | ||
| Do you know if they were provided either a heads up that the call with Putin was going to happen or a readout after it did? | ||
| Well, look, I'm not going to get into those private diplomatic conversations. | ||
| Nothing to add beyond what was already stated publicly. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Without getting into the details that may have been provided, is the Secretary or this Department aware of what the Russian response might be in terms of timing or nature? | ||
| I'm not going to get into that from here. | ||
| I mean, the President has already put out his truth to this nature. | ||
| The President's been clear he wants to see de-escalation. | ||
| He's also been clear he wants to see the parties come to the table to have direct negotiations. | ||
| But assuming the response happens, is the U.S. expecting something of a heads-up beyond what Mr. Putin told Mr. Trump? | ||
| Again, I'm not going to speculate on this. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you, Clari. | ||
| U.S. administration and the State Department established a strong communication line with the transitional government in Syria. | ||
| And President Trump's envoy for Syrian affairs and the Turkish ambassador for the U.S. in Ankara is visiting Israel right now. | ||
| And during this visit, Israel just started to target some places inside Syria, which stopped before with the intervention of Mr. Trump, convincing the Israelis that after these communications started with the transitional government. | ||
| How do you see the targetings of the Israeli Air Force towards targets inside Syria at the time that the ambassador is visiting Israel? | ||
| Look, what I can say is that the United States continues to support efforts that will bring lasting stability and peace between Israel and Syria. | ||
| A stable and peaceful Syria is in everyone's security interests. | ||
| And that's what I have to say in terms of that question there. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Earlier today, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified on Capitol Hill about his department's 2026 budget request before a House Appropriations Subcommittee. | ||
| Watch the full hearing tonight at 9 o'clock Eastern on C-SPAN. | ||
| It's also available on C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, and online at c-SPAN.org. | ||
| Mr. President, no doubt about it. | ||
| This is today's historic in many ways. | ||
| The proceedings of the United States Senate are being broadcast to the nation on television for the first time. | ||
| This week, we mark the 39th anniversary of the U.S. Senate's first live television broadcast on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| Join us as senators take to the floor to reflect on this landmark moment in American democracy. | ||
| Thanks to C-SPAN2, this public service allows our constituents to see the swearing in of newly elected members, watching all-night sessions during Votoramas, and tune in to history being made. | ||
| That's why on its 39th birthday, Senator Grassy and I wanted to highlight how important it is for all television providers, including major streaming services like YouTube TV owned by Google and Hulu Plus Live TV owned by Disney, to provide the American public with C-SPAN and the opportunity to see their government work on the Senate floor. | ||
| C-SPAN does not receive one penny of taxpayer dollars. | ||
| It's funded primarily from satellite and cable providers. | ||
| We're at a different stage in our history and a lot of people are seeing their news this way, so we need to expand it and make sure we're on all of those platforms as well as the ones we already are on. | ||
| So thank you again to Senator Grassley for working with me to highlight C-SPAN's critical role and thanks to everyone who has had a hand in C-SPAN's success. | ||
| Happy birthday. | ||
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C-SPAN 2, 39 years of bringing the U.S. Senate live into homes across the country. | |
| Thanks to the support of our cable partners. |