of is the same time and again that he wants to deal done or how that quote is going to break out in the middle east. if one isn't done before he takes office. but what about and isn't yahoo? why do you think that he in israel had been, will open and i guess more willing to negotiate at this point in time while it all depends on what's next, what's after gossip? and this is a very big question because we are seeing and you, me the least into making. so it's not just solely about gaza itself on the all about 11 on itself, all the about how mass and his beloved is about the whole region. and this is what this really schools once changing to the whole system or changing the whole order. so it seems priming to send it to be always looking forward for probably the next step and is building on from on president from coming to your office. so 1st of all, this is going to be a good fed was present to present by then it's going to be

a very good, well coming fall, president trump. and at the same time, this will put the problem in as soon as 10, you know, i'm president trump on the same page with respect to the main objective here on. and of course, we can't forget everyone that has been going through house for the last 15 months in gas, and more than 46000 people have been killed since the war began. how will it affect to the lives and how quickly will it affects the people that still remain there that have been able to survive the last 15 months? indeed, 46000 people and goes off 4000 people and 11150000 people at least for now that you know off, aside from those was still on the rubble. we're not, and the we're not recovered from the, from level of cost the lives are going to change bought. so we know the big question is i'll come in and now it's the time to i think i can some dates. how did

going to rebuild how they're going to resume the lives in the past, or at least during these 1415 months, they were running for their lives. and they were trying to get food. now it's going to be how to get that home is back. how to build their homes, how to build their businesses, how to, to review the lives, how to cope with the loss of their loved ones. it's that was phones, grief that's going to be of no it's, it's going to be the post traumatic stress for thousands, tens of thousands of, of, of children and families. so it's, i'm going to be easy. it's up to yes, that is a deal. but if that is indeed, of course, whenever, whenever, whenever it's announced in the end for the people, it's kind of the, another day of the, we're just getting word now that uh, jake sullivan, the white house national security advisor has just begun speaking. let's listen into his press conference at the white house, appreciate your easy questions. so if you happen to have that taken as courageous

noted later today, president biden will deliver an address at the state department on the united states, his position in the world as he handed off to the incoming administration. the state department, as many of you know, is where president biden delivered his 1st foreign policy address in february of 2021. and it was a very different world than we were still in the midst of a devastating health and economic crisis with our alliances. frank and fragile, and our competitors and adversaries on the march growing stronger, the president spoke at a time at that time about the urgency of meeting the challenges of this world in a period of profound transition and change. the post cold war era had ended. the united states was in a contest for what comes next, economically, technologically and with respect to our values and vision for the world or a time of change and transition like that has brought geo political turbulence,

technological disruption. the pressure is of an energy transition and more we've had a lot thrown at us. but as we pass the baton to our successor, the president will report with confidence that america is winning that contest for the future. if you look around the world today, and you ask the question, which country is the most dynamic and innovative the most attractive to partners and friends, the most capable of marshal and solutions to the big challenges we face? who's leading the world and technology? who's had the strongest economic recovery? the answer to all of these questions is clear, indisputable, and the same. it's the united states of america. so it is addressed this afternoon . you'll hear the present and lay this out. and basically it boils down to a series of simple questions. our alliance is stronger. yes. or adversaries, weaker and under greater pressure even as they aligned more close. yes. did we improve our strategic position in the long term competition with china?

and did we do so well, stabilizing the relationship so that we're not tipping over into conflict? yes. did we begin to reverse a long term trend and revitalize our defense, industrial base and diversify our supply chains for critical goods? yes. did we strengthen the engines of american economic and technological power? yes, and did we do all of that while keeping america out of war? yes. the president fundamentally delivered on his promise to invest in america, including our manufacturing base to produce the world's most advanced semiconductors. and other strategic technologies, in fact, our cutting edge technologies a i, biotech, quantum and others are the envy of the world. so when the president took office, many of you were writing, the china is economy was on track to surpass america's economy by the end of the decade or shortly thereafter. now, on current course and speed, they're unlikely to ever surpass us. americans alliances meanwhile,

have actually never been stronger in europe and in each nato is bigger, more unified in our allies, are stepping up to pay their fair share. our asian alliances are more robust and now more tightly linked. then at any point in history, russia tried to conquer. you create to wipe it off the map. but the extra ukrainian bravery in our support, russian forces are bogged down in ukraine at enormous cost, with over $700000.00 casualties in the war. and ukraine stance free. keep stance free, and ukraine will emerge from this war. a strong sovereign independent nation rooted in the west. this has been made possible by the unity of the alliance, the president by built and rallied, and a massive effort led by the united states on a scale not seen since the 2nd world war. to equip a partner with the military capability, it needed to defend itself against a brutal invasion by a much bigger name. even as we competed. firstly, with china,

the president actually opened a deep and diplomatic channels with patients, including new military to military channels that help us manage this competition and prevented from bearing into confrontation or conflict. in the middle east, we've stood in defense of our friends and we stood up to our enemies. we built and acted on one side, an unprecedented coalition to directly defend israel in the face of arabia and aggression. iran is now at the weakest point since 1979. there was a ceasefire in lebanon and the possibility of a new political future with a new president, a russian or runs lackey and syria aside is gone. and we are now at a pivotal point in the negotiations for a hostage. d o and cease fire in gaza. president spoke with prime minister netanyahu yesterday and just got off the phone with the mirror of cutter. he'll be speaking soon, also with presidency c a v. we are close to a deal and it can get done this week. i'm not making a promise or a prediction,

but it is there for the taking and we're going to work to make it happen. now there are serious and ongoing challenges in the world. the who these continue to represent a clear and present danger. isis is trying to use the fall of a side to regenerate after years of sustain pressure and the degradation of its networks. north korea remains the same. medicine has been for many years across many administrations. china, cyber attacks are continuing threat and more. but we have the capacity in the where with all and the friends and allies to meet these challenges. finally, there are also important initiatives that the next team should carry forward in our view. they have a strong bi partisan foundation in order to cement america's position of strength in the world and our current lead in key areas. the work we've started to revitalize our defense industrial base. the steps we've taken to protect america's foundational technologies from being used against us by our competitors. the major

global infrastructure initiative that provides a long term alternative to china is built in rough. suffice it to say it's been an action packed for years. but if you take stock of where america stands today, i believe deeply that the incoming administration is starting with a very strong hand. so as we pass the baton we are doing so thanks to the leadership of president bite and his team from a position of profound american confidence and capacity. and when you look around the world, there is no other country that has what we have to bring to both the competition we face and the challenges we need to marshall the world to help solve. and with that, i'd be happy to take your questions. yeah, thanks for doing this jake. with regard to the hostages and what is it that you've been able to make progress? all that makes you feel more confident in what you still need to figure out how to address well, to answer that question, let me just take

a step back. president biden laid out a framework for a ceasefire and hostage deal last june. that framework was endorsed by the un security council and remains the operative framework for a cease fire and hospice dealing gaza. it is the deal that the parties right now we're working off of to try to close. so that broad framework includes the phases, it includes prisoner exchange for hostages and includes a surge of humanitarian assistance. once the guns go quiet, which we will be able to move trucks much more rapidly. since june, we've had multiple efforts to close the deal. we've come close and haven't been able to get across the line. there had been some details, particularly around the formulas with respect to prisoner releases formulas around the exact disposition of his rarely forces and other things along those lines. those details, we have been hammering away at week after week, month after month. and now in the last period, just over the course,

the last several weeks, we have accelerated that effort to try to bring this to a close. i was, it is real in december, and then i was in cutter and egypt, and i met with the leaders of all 3 countries. basically to try to help put this on a track to get it across the line. president biden sent back the girl out to cut her more than a week ago. he has been camped out in doha day in day out 24 hours a day, working to tighten up these details and try to get this done. we have also coordinated very closely with the incoming administration to presented united message to all the parties which says it is in the american national security interests regardless of party, regardless of outgoing or incoming administration to get this deal done as fast as possible. and now we think those details are on the brink of being fully hammered out, and the parties are right on the cusp of being able to close this deal. whether or not we go from where we are now to actually closing it as the hours and days ahead

will tell. but i believe it is there for the taking, and we're going to do everything we can to push it to getting across the fixture of historians, when they will rank the history of the buy board policy and rising into 3 sentences . how would you write those 2 reasons? i would say that we made our lives a stronger. we made our enemies weaker. made america sources of strength, stronger, and we did all of that well, keeping america out of work and i. yeah. so you mentioned in your how's that going to be addressed in the speech? how he will address if you understand in the speech and, and it was in a sense referenced because i said we kept america out of war. in fact, present bite and ended america. as long as we're after 20 years, it'd been passed from president to president descending american men and women to fight and die in a foreign land. year after year after year, president biden was not going to hand that off and he believes that history will judge his decision to end that war as being the right decision for the united

states and america's better off today that we are not entering. now. our 25th year of the war of americans fighting and dying of billions and billions of dollars spent in afghanistan. and what we have been able to do instead is re focus that effort and energy and attention on the challenges of the future. now, when you enter war after 20 years, with all of the decisions that have piled up over that time, they're going to be challenges and difficulties. and there were challenges and difficulties in the period of to drive down by people predicted. once we left afghanistan, it would harm our alliances. our alliances are it historic house. they predicted that we would have a uh, a safe haven. it may have in afghanistan for plodding terrorist attacks against the american home. with terrorism remains a very real concern, but president biden pointed out before he pulled out that it's a more different diffuse and metastasized threat, including the kind of homegrown file linux frame is them that we saw on display in

new orleans in january. in fact, over the course of these 4 years, we have seen president biden, that was the 1st terrorist attack that has happened on american soil that was not connected to a can stand as far as we know. it was connected to inspiration from isis. and so president biden believes that the decisions he talk has left american and profoundly stronger position. and he will explain in his speech today why he thinks that's the case. yeah. talk about this unified us approach between your administration and the incoming. and a 40 plus years ago printer reagan took over this perception has been an intention to deny president carter. the announcement of the hostages is different times different circumstances where there are lessons from that for a different approach to try to avoid that kind of a repeat. so i,

i don't think that that was primarily the thing on present in biden's mind when he directed us to start working intensively of the incoming administration. what was on his mind is we're in this period of change and transition and we can't have anything mess between the cup and the left in the hand off between car administration and the incoming administration. so he told us he told me, sit down with your successor as soon as you possibly can, and start working through and mapping out what they need to know and how we can work together in this period of transition to put ourselves in the best position possible and in fact, we've seen in the context of the middle east that we have coordinated on common messaging around the ceasefire and lebanon. and we are coordinated, very closely coordinated, including with steve with cost and brad mccork, around trying to bring this hostage deal to a close. and it's because there is a spirit being brought to this work which says, these are not parties and issues. these are american national security issues, and it's the kind of spirit, the present, abiding, has brought this job from the very beginning that set the politics aside. do what's

right for the country and have our teamwork with the incoming team in that regard. and i have to say, or coordination thus far, the engagement we've had, it's been professional, it's been deep and substantive. and yes, we disagree on a lot of things and i'm sure that in the months it had all kind of my sure criticisms. just as mike waltz has had his share of criticisms of me, and this is not about us seeing everything exactly the same way or, or coming to things from the same perspective. but it is about a shared view. at a time of transition is a time of risk and that it is critical that we close ranks as americans to say no one can take advantage of us, but we will try to take advantage of every opportunity available to us in this vertical period. yeah. are there any assurance or are there assurances of the americans who are alive?

so obviously we have been focused on ensuring that all of the americans ultimately come home. that is part of the objective, the president biden set forth. it is part of the phases of this hostage deal that all of the americans come out right now. what they are working through and hammering out, or the details of the precise sequencing of people coming out over the course of the weeks and months of this deal that's getting hammered out as one of the final details by a paramount priority for president biden. as for the incoming team is ensuring that we ultimately get all of the americans reunited with the families. and the remains of those americans who are tragically passed away are also brought home so that they can get the proper burial that they deserve. so like i said, the details of how exactly this is going to play out or being hammered out in the end game. and i can't report to you exactly how to play with each of the americans . so just so many of

a 98 hostages that are so i have to give it, refer you to the israelis who have been taking the lead in terms of characterizing their best assessment, which is combined with our best assessment of the answer to that question. we have a good sense we believe with respect to the americans, but in terms of that broader universe, particularly abuse, really hostages, they'd be in the best position to answer your questions right. take, i just wanted to ask you another question. i have to do the timing and the sequencing of some of the things to the administration has been announced and listing prices jump as a result of the titan. sanction with, is there any other things happening now? the research a i and, and ship that are all coming to the final days of this administration. can you say word to your thinking about the timing and then also, you know, whether you expect from where you sit right now that well the prices are gonna stay . american consumers will run to that 1st.

remember that when the ukraine more kicked off started in those early months in 2022. oil prices spiked way above a $100.00. the price environment for us to put sanctions on rush as well sector at that time would have meant a really significant hit to the american pocket book and the american consumer price environment today is profoundly different usage spiked. actually, oil prices today are significantly lower than they have been over an average in the past few years. so actually we have just a fundamentally different price environment. and that is the reason for why now, because president biden was not going to impose sanctions on russia as well sector if it meant an undue burden on american working families. he does not believe that the action he talk places such and on the burden on them. and he believes as you project, that would be the course of the 2025 on supply and demand that the oil market is

very well supply. the oil prices will stabilize in a place that does not impose on do burdens on american consumers. and now on the one hand we can hit pollutants pocket book without on the other hand, taking too big a whack out of the american people's pocket book. that was not an opportunity available to us one year ago. it is now an opportunity available to us, and that is why the president took this decision. the other point that i would make is that the new team is setting up for negotiation. and in a negotiation, you need leverage and part of that leverage has to come from the kind of economic pressure that makes permanency he's going to continue to pay significant price economically. and so this is also in service of an effective diplomatic outcome that will produce adjusting sustainable piece for ukraine with respect. i mean, did you coordinate that with the incoming team? i'm not gonna say the coordinated it, but we informed them of what we intended to do because we are trying to maintain

transparency through the transition and share with them the actions that we are taking in advance so that they aren't surprised by any of them that also goes for the diffusion rule, again, not coordinated and i'm not, i don't want to suggest that, but we were, we're transparent with them about the steps in that regard. we have been working on that issue for going on a year. now. it is a complicated question because we're trying to strike the right balance between ensuring that the frontier of a guy stays in the united states of america in our close allies. well, also ensuring that the rest of the world can benefit from a i and get the hardware that they need to power a i, applications going forward. so that balance required a huge amount of work and back and forth in many principals, meetings, conversations with the president. it ultimately came together towards the end, but we've been telegraphic for some time that this role was coming. and the key for

us was making sure that we had it in place, but we also set up a 120 day comment period. so that we're not putting the next administration in a position where they immediately have to okay, that was a jag sullivan, the white house national security advisor, the speaking at the white house housing, joe biden, to administration a foreign policy achievements in his words. he also spoke at length and in detail about how close they to a potential spot ideally said that it is very close and we could, can potentially get it done this week. we are on the costs of it being finalized. we're going to bring it now. whitehouse correspondent, kimberly how it gets now to help to pass through. what else, jake sullivan has spoken about? we've talked a lot about to you know, a cautious optimism when it comes to a deal. and it really was the sense that we got from mister sullivan. there wasn't that a yeah, but we're also getting a sense of what this deal could look like. and essentially what the national

security adviser saying is that the framework is one that was put in place by the white house along with b is relays. back in may of 2024. that is what the us president laid out. it was that phase didn't approach. and that's really the crux of this. but what the details are that, according to the national security advisor lee said, is that are still being hammered out in terms of those fine points. so. so that is what the mid east advisor, brett mcgriff is doing right now. what he says is that we are close to deal and the hours of days ahead will tell. and that's where the us president joe, by that and then speaking with be a is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and sunday, he said he spoke to because hari of mir uh, just of the last hour or so. and we'll be speaking to the junction president in the

coming hours is working out in addition to of course the negotiations that are going on with him us. but what we're hearing from the national security adviser is that he believes that a deal is within reach that it could be done this week. he says he's not making a promise or a prediction, but is there for the taking and, but the negotiating team is working to try and make it happen. so the bottom line is, is that we know in the past there have been sticking points when it comes to not only the ratio when it comes to the exchange of palestinian prisoners for uh, as rarely captives that are being held. another sticking point has been with regard to the is really military and it's withdrawal. so we're not exactly sure what those final details are that are being hammered out. but we know in the past, those have been some of the big stumbling blocks and a thank you so much. kimberly we will now be talking to you uh through the coming hours as more developments continued. kimberly,

how could that white house correspondent that well, to analyze all of this switching out by modeling the shower, which is there a senior political analyst who joins us from dot ha mullen. i know you with this thing. they are intently to jake sullivan. he said that the deal that that is being worked on right now is the same framework that job i didn't put forward last june. what do you make of with things right right now. and kimberly did. touchstone is a little bit the sticking points that still clearly need to be hashed out as well. he didn't give us much detail about the ceasefire ideas. i think as you said, that, as kimberly reported, there's still how many got the details. i think what was clear from what you said is a bit of a preview of what to expect from by then. and that on this evening about how america has become even more powerful and more prosperous and are bided. and then

basic and leaving item wonderful, wonderful legacy. despite the fact that there is a major warrant against russia, that there is genocide still going on after 15 months in the middle east. despite the fact that the entire region of them at least are still really in dire straits. and the fact that china and united states are still on each of those next and so and so forth. but clearly mr. sullivan was told to be encouraged by by these, like i see a lot of typing on his and by the shoulder about how great the by the mission has been in the past 40 years and why it's leaving america stronger and better than it . then he took it 40 years ago. the only problem is that he left a lot of the things on the table. he shared with us a lot of half tools and mrs. thoughts about what has gone on the past 4 years, including about the withdrawal from up against on something that by the way,

trump had done most of it in 2020. but it came down to from 152-2500. but even that by then could not muster, by the way, the middle east to spend in the bio straits guys us them so far as the day dozens of people were killed in gaza. but we are expecting to cease fire. there is little doubt that this point in time to cease fire is coming and that is 10. in part, not just for bargain and people. so to trump and here's my lease invoice. according to one paper in his read with coff has in fact i thought nothing. yeah. over the last few days he really wanted the deal and he was speaking for trump. so clearly there has been a lot of from pressure or nothing. you know, to find that as a deal before trump enters the white house, that combined with the facts of how much had made certain compromises on certain details, that video had to swallow the idea that he could no longer stay in the,

for the doctor quarter door and, and then it study and security is own, bought in addition to the fact that these writers are part of the war and that there are been hits against certain disorders. but i swear you weeks, you can really get the sense tom, that the past 8 months have just been wasted. as tens of thousands of out of seniors continued to die. really, this cease fire gums 8 months, 15 months delayed. but perhaps if there's here a task i one horse that it will be a part of that one. but these writers would not have thought of that word, permanent ceasefire. neither do the americans know. and as always, we really do appreciate your input and insight into all of these developments that we have seen over the last couple of hours as well. and the sharp edges era senior, political and list for us there was a, this is how i will be back in just a moment with much more of the day's news,

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