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| Dick ships on the high seas. | ||
| We can push back on fentanyl and drug trafficking. | ||
| Many of my colleagues have done so as former U.S. attorneys or prosecutors or attorneys general, but we have to do it in a way that is in keeping with the core values of our Constitution. | ||
| My colleagues have pressed you on a number of recent actions, particularly in the Eastern District of Virginia. | ||
| My colleague Senator Klobuchar did. | ||
| And I just wanted to add my voice to those who have expressed real alarm at how in your confirmation. | ||
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We'll leave this here and take you live now to President Trump arriving in Israel after its government and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire plan. | |
| President Trump's arrival here at Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel comes as the Associated Press is reporting that seven of the released hostages have now been handed over to Israeli officials. | ||
| This is live coverage on C-SPAN. | ||
| Hello. | ||
| Oh, hello. | ||
| Master Leiden has been amazing up there. | ||
| I'm going to get to the end of the day. | ||
| I don't know what you're saying, but I don't know what you're saying. | ||
| I don't | ||
| know what you're saying. | ||
| Huh? | ||
| We've got to keep the carpet clear to the car, sir. | ||
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Everybody can slide that way a little bit and slide this way. | |
| Open up the carpet. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| walk through here, okay? | ||
| So we're gonna have to clear a lane. | ||
| We're gonna have to clear a lane if you can scoop back so the president can walk around. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| He's gonna walk around this way. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| You're not working with us. | ||
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You're not working with us. | |
| Take them back. | ||
| Take them back. | ||
| Just not from the front of us. | ||
| We're here. | ||
| The minister has joined him, yeah? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Yeah, I'm told that's him. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Got my back to it. | ||
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Okay. | |
| We gotta have some more space. | ||
| Don't see all these guys at one time. | ||
| The number one will be to the UNRWAVE. | ||
| As the motorcade departs, we'll have more as this event unfolds this morning. | ||
| In about an hour, we'll hear a speech from President Trump today when he'll talk to Israel's parliament about the first phase of its ceasefire plan with Hamas, and that includes the release of hostages that's already begun. | ||
| President's address scheduled for 4 a.m. Eastern Time, and you can watch it live here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Americans. | ||
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Senator, let me ask you a question. | |
| You just gave a list of many mergers. | ||
| I have a question. | ||
| Can you talk to me about the issue with these mergers? | ||
| I do have a question. | ||
| In the merger that took place, which merger you've listed many involving American Express GBT, I understand that Brian Ballard, longtime backer and head of the law firm where you work, was instrumental in lobbying the Justice Department to drop that lawsuit. | ||
| It was dismissed, so it's not subject to a court review. | ||
| What conversation did you have with Mr. Ballard? | ||
| Senator Blumenthal, I cannot believe that you would accuse me of impropriety when you lied about your military service. | ||
| I am not accusing you. | ||
| You lied. | ||
| You admitted you lied. | ||
| You elected a U.S. Senator. | ||
| You lied. | ||
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How dare you? | |
| I'm a career prosecutor. | ||
| Don't you ever challenge my integrity. | ||
| I have abided by every ethics standard. | ||
| Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial as Attorney General. | ||
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And anything to my former firm Ballard Partner. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Senator Lee has asked for the chair just to. | ||
| Yeah, just wanted to note for the record: the paramount merger that he referenced was not within the Department of Justice's ambit. | ||
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That was at the FCC, not the Department of Justice. | |
| We'll step away from this hearing for just a moment to hear from President Trump earlier. | ||
| He gave remarks on Air Force One while en route to Israel. | ||
| 10 days, so I think the shutdown has gotten to be almost customary, but we're taking care of it. | ||
| We've got the military paid in full, and we're doing a lot of things. | ||
| We're ending some programs that we don't want. | ||
| They happen to be Democrat-sponsored programs, but we're ending some programs that we never wanted. | ||
| And we're probably not going to allow them to come back. | ||
| I think they made a mistake. | ||
| I think they made a big mistake. | ||
| This is really a Schumer shutdown because he's become sort of irrelevant and he wants to make himself relevant again. | ||
| And in terms of the politics of this historic peace deal that we're on the way to go sign right now, you would think it's good for everybody, but at a rally this weekend, they were cheering for you and they were booing Metanyamu. | ||
| What's up with that? | ||
| I don't know, but we're going to make everybody happy. | ||
| The one thing I can tell you is everybody is happy, whether it's Jewish or Muslim or the Arab countries. | ||
| Every country is dancing in the streets. | ||
| And it's a point in time, I don't think you'd ever see it again. | ||
| They've never seen it for 3,000 years. | ||
| If you like one group, you don't like the other group. | ||
| And if you like the other group, you don't like the first group. | ||
| And this is the first time they've ever seen where everybody is unified. | ||
| Because as you know, we're going to Egypt after Israel. | ||
| And we're going to meet all of the leaders of the very powerful and big countries and very rich countries and others. | ||
| And they're all into this deal. | ||
| Everybody's into it. | ||
| It's never happened before. | ||
| So I would say this is a lot tougher, but we'll see how it all works. | ||
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Mr. President, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, has not gone so far as to say the war is over. | |
| In your view, is the war is over. | ||
| The war is over. | ||
| War is over. | ||
| The war is over. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Do you understand that? | ||
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Is this ceasefire going to hold? | |
| Are you confident the ceasefire will hold? | ||
| Are you confident that the ceasefire is going to hold? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| I think it's going to hold. | ||
| I think people are. | ||
| A lot of reasons why it's going to hold. | ||
| But I think people are tired of it. | ||
| It's been centuries, okay? | ||
| Not just recent, it's been centuries. | ||
| I think people are tired of it. | ||
| Yeah, the ceasefire is going to hold, and we're going to make sure it holds. | ||
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What also looks like a year from now? | |
| Wait, the International Stabilization Force that's part of the strong force. | ||
| I don't think it's going to have a big impact because I think barely we're going to have to use it. | ||
| I think people are going to behave. | ||
| Everybody knows their place. | ||
| It's going to be great for everybody. | ||
| It's going to be great for the surrounding countries. | ||
| Arab, Muslim, all of them. | ||
| It's going to be great for Israel. | ||
| Everybody is happy. | ||
| And I think it's going to stay that way, Peter. | ||
| And if the ceasefire does hold, how long until we get to the part of the 20-point peace plan where developers can go in and make Gaza the Riviera of the Middle East? | ||
| Well, I don't know about the Riviera for a while because you take a look at what you have. | ||
| You have to get people taken care of first. | ||
| But it's going to start really essentially immediately. | ||
| I mean, they're going to have to start by removing a lot of the structures that you see that are down to the ground. | ||
| I mean, it's a very, it's blasted. | ||
| This is like a demolition site. | ||
| Almost the entire site is. | ||
| So you have to get rid of what you have there. | ||
| You have structures that are very dangerous. | ||
| They're falling down. | ||
| If they haven't fallen, they're going to fall down of their own volition. | ||
| So that process, Peter, is going to start pretty much immediately. | ||
| It's like a year from now, in your view. | ||
| Well, a year, that's very quick. | ||
| But over the years, it'll look very good. | ||
| It'll be. | ||
| It's got the first chance it's had in centuries of being peaceful. | ||
| It's always been a very, very strange area. | ||
| It's always been loaded up with problems, religious problems, problems like no other place probably in the world. | ||
| And I think it's going to now, it's going to normalize. | ||
| All you can say, if it normalizes, that would be fantastic. | ||
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The government structure, sir, that you have set up in that peace plan. | |
| How soon will that new governing body be in place? | ||
| Very quickly. | ||
| And everybody wants to be a part of it. | ||
| You're talking about the Board of Peace? | ||
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That's right. | |
| Everybody wants to be a part of it. | ||
| I've had calls from all of the leaders, the leaders of countries, they all want to be a part. | ||
| I mean, the leaders themselves, they're not going to send somebody. | ||
| They want to be a part of it. | ||
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Do you know who's going to be a part of it? | |
| I do, I do. | ||
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Can you share? | |
| No, not yet. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Tony Blair. | ||
| Have you spoken to Tony Blair about it since the intervention of Europe? | ||
| Have you spoken to Tony Blair about it? | ||
| I have. | ||
| You know, first I want to find out that Tony would be popular with all, because I just don't know that. | ||
| And I like Tony. | ||
| I've always liked Tony, but I want to find out that he's an acceptable choice to everybody. | ||
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What about what guarantees have you been able to give to both the Israelis and the Arab countries? | |
| We have a lot of guarantees. | ||
| And we have a lot of verbal guarantees, too. | ||
| And I don't think they're going to want to disappoint me. | ||
| I have a lot of verbal guarantees, guarantees that aren't down in writing, but they were given to me, and I believe they're going to be held very strongly. | ||
| That's why I think it's going to be a success. | ||
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Good to see you, Mr. President. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Good to see him. | ||
| I'm sure you've seen reports of Hamas rearming, instituting themselves as a Palestinian police force, shooting rivals. | ||
| What is your message? | ||
| Where they are standing because they do want to stop the problems. | ||
| And they've been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time. | ||
| You have to understand, they've lost probably 60,000 people. | ||
| That's a lot of retribution. | ||
| They've lost 60,000 people. | ||
| And the ones that are living right now were, in many cases, very young when this all started. | ||
| And we are having them watch that there's not going to be big crime or some of the problems that you have when you have areas like this that have been literally demolished. | ||
| You know, you have two million people, and probably it'll be less than that, but you have close to two million people going back to buildings that have been demolished. | ||
| And a lot of bad things can happen. | ||
| So we want it to be safe. | ||
| I think it's going to be fine. | ||
| Mr. President, who knows for sure, Katie? | ||
| But I think it's going to be fine. | ||
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Mr. President, hi. | |
| What is the latest that you've heard about hostages when they will be released? | ||
| Do you expect to meet with any of them? | ||
| Hostages might be even a little early, but I don't want to say that. | ||
| So they have the hostages. | ||
| I understand all 20. | ||
| And we may get them out a little bit early. | ||
| Getting them was amazing, actually, because we were involved and they were in places that you don't want to know about. | ||
| Deep, deep people. | ||
| Some of the top Biden administration folks who were there, like Anthony Blinken, seemed to want some credit for the peace deal. | ||
| Blinken says it's good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan that the Biden administration developed. | ||
| What do you think about that? | ||
| Everybody knows it's a joke. | ||
| Look, they did such a bad job. | ||
| This should have never happened. | ||
| This wouldn't have even happened. | ||
| That was weak leadership, terrible. | ||
| And the same thing with Russia, Russia-Ukraine. | ||
| If just a decent president, not a great president like me, not a great president. | ||
| If a decent president was in, you wouldn't have had the Russia-Ukraine. | ||
| And this is, I would say, even more so. |