under pressure? yes. did we improve our strategic competition in the long-term position in china while stabilizing the relationship so we are 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. 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 in 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. when the president took office, many of you were write that china's economy was on track to sur is pass america's economy by the end of the decade or shortly thereafter. now on currents course and speed they are unlikely to ever surpass us. america's alliances have never been stronger. in europe and asia. nato is bigger, more unified, and our allies are stepping up to pay their fair share. our asian alliances are moreau bust and tightly linked than any point in history. russia tried to conquer ukraine, to wipe it off the map. but thanks to ukrainian bravery and our support, russian forces are bogged down in ukraine at enormous cost with over 700,000 casualties in the war. and ukraine stands free, kyiv stands tpraoerbgs and ukraine will emerge from this war a strong, sovereign nation rooted in the west. this has been made possible by

the unity of the alliance president biden built and rallied and massive effort led by the united states on a scale not seen since the second word *r world war to -- second world war to a quip a partner with the military capability it needed to defend itself against a brutal invasion by a much bigger neighbor. even as we competed fiercely with china, the president opened and deepened diplomatic charges with beijing, including new military to military channels to help us manage this competition and prevent it from veering into confrontation or conflict. in the middle east, we have stood in defense our friends and we stood up to our enemies. we built and acted alongside and unprecedented coalition to directly defend israel in the face of iranian aggression. iran is now at the weakest point since 1979. there is a cease-fire in lebanon, and the possibility of a new political future with a new president. russia and iran's lackey in syria, assad, is gone. and we are now at a pivotal

point in the negotiations for a hostage deal and cease-fire in gaza. the president spoke with prime minister netanyahu yesterday and just got off the phone with the amyrrh of qatar, he'll speak soon with the president of egypt. we are close to a deal and it can get done this week. aim not make ago promise or prediction, but it is there for the taking and we'll work to make it happen. there are serious and ongoing challenges in the world. the houthis continue to represent a clear and present danger. isis is trying to use the fall of assad to regenerate after years of sustained pressure and degradation of its networks. north korea remains the same menace it has been for many years across many administrations. china's cyber attacks are a continuing threat, and more. but we ever the capacity and wherewithal and friends and alleys to meet these challenges. finally, there are also important initiatives that the next team should carry forward in our view that have a strong

bipartisan foundation in order to cement america's position of strength in the world and our current lead in key areas. the work we started to revitalize our defense industrial base. the steps we have 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's built in rogue. it's been an action packed four 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. as we pass the baton we are doing so thanks to the leadership of president biden and his team from a position of profound american confidence and capacity. 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 marshal the world to help solve. with that i would be happy to

take your questions. reporter: with record to the hostages in gaza, what is it that you have been able to make progress on that makes you feel more confidence tk*epbts? what is it you still need to figure out to get that deal finalizeed? jake: to answer that question let me take a step back. president biden laid out a framework for a cease-fire and hostage deal last june. that framework was endorsed by the u.n. security council and remains the operative framework for a cease-fire and hostage deal in gaza. it is the deal that the parties right now are working off of to try to close. so that broad framework includes the phases, prisoner exchange for hostages, a surge of humanitarian assistance. once the guns go quiet, by we'll be able to move trucks more rapidly. since june, we have had multiple efforts to close the deal. we have come close and haven't been able to get across the line. there have been some details, particularly around the formulas with respect to prisoner

release, formulas around the exact disposition of israeli 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 of the last several weeks, we have accelerated that effort to try to bring this to a close. i was in israel in december, and then i was in qatar and egypt. i met with the leaders of all three countries. basically to try to help put this on a track to get it across the line. president biden sent brett out to qatar more than a week ago. heats 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 present a united message to alt parties which says, it is in the american national security interest regardless of party, outgoing or incoming administration, to get this deal done as fast as possible. and now we think those details

are on the blink of -- 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, the hours and days ahead will tell. but i believe it is there for the taking and we'll do everything we can to push it to get it across the line. reporter: historians one day will rank the history of the biden foreign policy. and sum prizing it in two or three sentences, how would you write those two or three sentences? jake: we made our alliances stronger. our enemies washington. america's sources of strength stronger, and did all that while keeping america out of war. reporter: i didn't hear you mention afghanistan in your opening. how will that be addressed in the speech? jake: he will address afghanistan in the speech. and it was in a sense referenced because i said we kept america out of war. president biden ended america's

longest war after 20 years. it had been passed from president to president. sending 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. he believes that history will judge his decision to end that war as being the right decision for the united states. that america's bert off today that we are not entering now our 25th year of 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 refocus that effort and energy and attention on the challenges of the future. when you end a war after 20 years with all of the decisions that have piled up over that time, there are going to be challenges and difficulties. there were challenges and difficulties in the period of the drawdown. by *r but people predicted once we left afghanistan it would harm our alliances. our alliances are at historic highs. they predicted that we would have a safe haven in afghanistan

for plotting terrorist attacks against the american homeland. terrorism remains a very real concern, but president biden pointed out before he pulled out that it's a more diffuse and ma it's at that sized threat, including the homegrown violent extremism we saw on display in new orleans in january. in fact, over the course of these four years we have seen president biden -- that was the first terrorist attack that has happened on american skwroeul. it was not connected to afghanistan as far as we know. it was connected to inspiration from isis. and so president biden believes that the decision he took as left america in a profoundly stronger position. he'll explain in his speech today why he thinks that's the case. reporter: can you talk at all about this unified u.s. approach betweenure your administration anti-incoming, and 40-plus years ago when president reagan took over, there was this perception there had a been an intention to

deny president carter the announcement of the u.s. hostages. these are different times, different circumstances. were there lessons from that or a different approach to try to avoid that kind of a repeat? what is the unity? jake: don't think that that was primarily the thing on president biden's mind when he directed us to start working intensively with the incoming administration. what was on his mind we are in this period of change and transition. we can't have anything miss between the cup and the lip in the handoff between our administration and the incoming administration. he told us, he told me, sit down with your successor as soon as i 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. in fact, we have seen in the context of the middle east that we have coordinated on common messaging around the cease-fire in lebanon. and we are coordinated very closely coordinated, including

with steve and brett around trying to bring this hostage deal to a close. it's because there is a spirit being brought to this work which says, these are not partisan issues. these are american national security issues. and it's the kind of spirit that president biden has brought to this job from the very beginning. that set the politics aside, do what's right for the country, and have our team work with the incoming team in that regard. i have to say our coordination thus far, the engagement we have had it's been professional. it's been deep and substantive. and, yes, we disagree on a lot of things. i'm sure that in the months ahead i'll have my share of criticisms just as mike has had his share of criticisms of me. this is not about us seeing everything exactly the same way or coming at things from the same perspective. but it is about a shared view that 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 critical period. reporter: are there any assurances, consideration of what's being discussed in this hostage, are there assurances that the americans who are alive will be released as part of this phase? jake: obviously we have been focused on ensuring all americans come home. that's part of the objective president biden set forth. it's part of the phases of this hostage deal that all of the americans come home. now, they are working through and hammering out are 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. of paramount priority for president biden. as for the incoming teams ensuring that we ultimately get all the americans reunited with the families and remains of those americans who have tragically passed away are also brought home so they can get the

proper burial they deserve. reporter: the first phase? jake: the details how this will play out are being hammered out in the endgame. i can't report to you exactly how it will play with each of the americans. reporter: thanks for being here. quickly on the gaza situation. how many of the 98 hostage still out are believed to be alive? jake: i have to refer to the israelis who have been taking the lead in terms of characterizing their best assessment which is combined with ours 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 the israeli hostage, they would be in the best position to answer your question. reporter: wanted to ask you another question that has to do with the timing and sequencing of some of the things the administration has been announcing. we have seen oil prices jump as a result of the tightened sanctions. was there any -- we have other things happening now. new restrictions on a.i. and

chips. that are all coming in the final days of this administration. can you say a word to your thinking about the timing. also whether you expect from where you sit right now that oil price also stay high and that american consumers will -- jake: remember, when the ukraine war kicked off, started in those early months in 2022, oil prices spiked way above $100. the price environment for us to put sanctions on russia's oil sector at that time would have meant a really significant hit to the american pocketbook and american consumer. the price environment today is profoundly different. you said spiked. actually oil prices today are significantly lower than they have been over an average in the past few years. actually we have just a fundamentally different price environment. and that is the reason for why

now. president biden was not going to impose sanctions on russia's oil sector if it meant an undue burden on american working families. he does not believe the action he took places such an undue burden on them. he believes as you project out over the course of 2025 on supply and demand that the oil market is very well supplied. that oil prices will stabilize in a place that does not impose on due -- undue burdens on american consumers. on the one hand we can hit putin's pocketbook without taking too big a whack out of the american people's pocketbook. that was not an opportunity available to us one year ago. it is now an opportunity available to us. that is eighty president took this decision. the other point 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 putin see he's going to continue to pay a

significant price economically. so this is also in service of an effective diplomatic outcome that will produce a just and sustainable peace -- reporter: did you coordinate that with the incoming team? jake: i'm not going to say we coordinated it but we informed them what we intended to do because we are trying to maintain transparency through the transition and share with with them the action that is we are taking -- actions that we are taking so they are not surprised. that goes for the arblgts i. difficult fusion rule. not coordinated, don't want to suggest that, but we were 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 are trying to strike the right balance between ensuring that the front year -- fronteer of a.i. -- frontier of a.i. stays in front while the rest of the world can benefit from a.i. and get the hardware they need to power a.i.

applications going forward. that balance required a huge amount of work and back and forth and many principles, meetings, conversations with the president. it ultimately came together towards the end. we have been telegraphing for some time this rule was coming. the key for us was making sure we had it in place. we also set up 120-day comment period so that we are not putting the next administration in the position where they needly have to start moving out. they can take comments and they can make judgments at that point about what the best way forward is. we think this is in a bipartisan spirit the way to best preserve and protect america's lead when it comes to artificial intelligence. reporter: two questions. first can tkpweu back something josh asked at the outset. why you all believe that this cease-fire deal would myrrh roae additional specificity about what has changed?

i feel we have heard you all express a level of optimism many times over the last several months. jake: i have to go back and track the record about my level of optimism in recent months. in fairness to your question there has been a l

questions of multilateralism with the eshrepbgs driving issues of the election. american people are complex being. human beings. we are all come flex beings. we can think one thing about inflation and another about alliances.

there will be time for to us sort that out. president trump will make his own decisions how he wants to pursue his foreign policy. the question for us is are we putting him in the best possible position where the united states is actually standing with confidence and capacity in the world? i think if you look at the health 6 our alliances -- of our alliances, you look at the fact we are not bogged down in war, you look at the state of our competitors and adversary, then you look at these fundamental underlying sources of strength, whether it's in manufacturing or it's in technology, or the reversal of this slide in our defense industrial base, these are the friends we give to the incoming team, what they do with that is fundamentally up to them. and the american people will judge whether they like that or don't like that. we are just going to do the best we can. i think when history judges the baton as pass it off, i think it will judge that we are leaving

things to trump in terms of america's core strengths better than we found them. reporter: jake, as you wrap up your time as national security advisor, what do you say the greatest geopolitical threat facing the united states right now? jake: i think one way of answering that question is to point to the potential for china's aggression in the coming years to point to russia's continuing challenge, but i'm going to answer the question in a different way which is i genuinely believe the most consequential thing happening in the world reid right now is the scale pace and breathtaking speed with which a.i. is going to transform the global landscape. and it's either going to work for us or it's going to work against us. and in order for it to work for us, we have to stay ahead and we have to shape the rules of the road. the biden administration put forward the first international set of standards on artificial

intelligence codified by the u.n. general assembly, there is more work to be done on that front. the biden administration has made the investments to ensure we have the lead in a.i. if it's china and not the united states determining foot taour of a.i. on the planet, that is the -- stakes of that are profound. i hope that the new administration -- this shouldn't be a partisan issue at aufplt see that is challenge and opportunity and seizes it so it's america throlg making work for us rather than adversaries work against us. reporter: when president biden spoke at the state department four years ago he said american leadership must meet this thorpetarianism including the growing admissions of chinese rush and russia to damage and disrupt our democracy four years later president biden will be leaving office and handing the reins to a man he has repeatedly characterized as an

authoritarian, as a threat to american democracy. how can you say that by president biden's metric his administration has met those goals if he's handing the reins off to someone who he's described in those terms? jake: first of all, the american democracy includes elections. and there was an election in 2024. president-elect trump won that election. unlike in past circumstances, the outgoing administration's not challenging the democratic legitimacy of that victory. president-elect trump won the election. that's point one. point two, you mentioned china and russia. i'm obviously biased, i just think an objective read on the situation from when we come in to today about the position of the united states and the long-term competition with china, if you look at 2021 and look at 2025, we are much better

position than we were four years ago. and we are supportling our friends and alley -- supporting our friends and allies in the indo-pacific and elsewhere. when you look at what we have rallied to push back against, russia's desire to remove a major country from the map in europe, we have said we are going to stand up to russian aggression in a serious way. what comes in the period ahead with respect to america's democratic institutions, the choices of the incoming team we'll have to see. i can't judge that in advance. all i can say again is what we are giving that team and what there is to be able to work with. that's what the president will reflect on today. reporter: a.p. reported recently that the incoming team under representative waltses is asking who they voted for in the last election. is that an appropriate question

that civil servants should be asked? jake: i have not heard that directly from mike or from anyone on the incoming team so i'm not going to answer what seems to be speculation in the media. what i will tell is you this. and i mean this from the bottom of my heart. the national security council staff is made up of career professionals by and large. there's a small number of political appointees who will leave when this administration leaves. but the overwhelming majority of the n.s.c. staff are career professionals from the defense department, the intelligence community, the state department, the energy department, the department of homeland security across the board. these are patriots, they are people dedicated to the national interests of this country. and they have served without fear or favor for both democratic and republican administrations and many of them have raised their hands to say, i'm ready to stay and keep serving. from my perspective, when we inherited the team from the trump administration, i said, i want those patriots. i want those people working for us regardless of their political

afittation. the incoming administration will have to make its own decisions. reporter: going back to a.i. and a couple other questions. as you are saying that it's a huge national security issue, is there concern about how it does not -- a.i. is -- on the national security point is not accurately depicting or scanning people of color because we are understanding civil rights groups are very upintet that. how it's -- upset about that. how it's misidentifying. is that a concern with national security as well? jake: yes, it is, of course. if you think about the series of concerns that are raised by the advent of artificial intelligence, they range across economic, military and social risks. one of those is bias. and there have been a lot of studies to show that bias is a genuine challenge when it comes to artificial intelligence and the ways in which that could undermine social cohesion in the

united states and globally. has national security imp -- and terrorism. has national security implications. and is something that we have to contend with. it is part of the president's executive order on national -- on artificial intelligence alongside a number these other risks. reporter: also other question, one on hate. on a national security front, where do you see hate going in the next couple of months, next couple of years. as we're seeing a change in administrations and a change in attitude? jake: i think hate-fueled violent extremism of multiple stripes is something that when we came in to office we saw as a real challenge and as we leave office, we've built a lot of tools to try to prevent and disrupt this kind of violence. and going forward it remains an ongoing threat. and it takes many different

forms. but i think it's incumbent upon every leader to try to work on a bipartisan basis, on an american basis to address the root causes of this hate, to try to speak to how we turn our discourse in directions that reduce the oxygen that is given to it. and that's something that when i leave government, i will personally try to contribute to, to lowering the temperature and to increasing the degree to which people feel that they have a place and do not need to turn to this kind of violence to express themselves. reporter: and lastly, sub-saharan africa has a large piece of national security connected to it. during the first term of then-president donald trump, africa was not on the page. do you believe that africa needs to be on the forefront for when it comes to national security, for the incoming administration? jake: absolutely.

yes. and i will say that in my conversations with my successor, one of the things that he's asked a lot of questions about are the investments in infrastructure, physical, digital, energy infrastructure in africa. the high standard investments we've tried to stimulate and that have gotten bipartisan support from the congress. he's asked a lot of questions about how to carry that forward. so my hope is that in fact just given the sheer significance and stakes at play with respect to the african continent over the coming years, that that is a priority for the incoming administration. i'll take one more. reporter: -- [indiscernible] -- reporting that the hostage deal is imminent and actually president trump might go and get the american hostages on his plane. do you believe that the threat by him of turning the middle east into an open hell has pushed both hamas and the israeli government to deliver this? and second, what's your reaction

to the election of lebanon's new prime minister who is anti-hezbollah but also a judge on the i.c.j. that opened a case against israel for crimes against humanity and war crimes? jake: so on the second question, president biden had a good conversation with the new lebanese president. i believe there's a huge opportunity for lebanon to turn this ceasefire and the degradation of hezbollah into a new chapter for lebanon that is brighter and built not on terrorism but on the future. the new president has made his selection of a prime minister. now it's up to the parliament in lebanon to take that forward. i'm not going to comment here today on the particular selection other than to say that we believe he can steward a new chapter for lebanon and he's making his selections of who will be a good partner for him in that regard. with respect to the question about president trump and his

comments, you know, he's talked about all hell to pay, all hell breaking loose and so forth. one thing i would observe is that if you're hamas, all hell has been breaking loose on you for 14 months. the israelis have destroyed their military formations, taken out their top leadership, removed their military capabilities in significant dimensions. so the israelis have plot been holding back when it comes to -- have not been holding back when it comes to going after hamas and i don't know what it would mean to add further military pressure to hamas beyond what has already happened but do i believe that the consequence of all of that degradation is that we are finally at the point both from israel's perspective and hamas' where a deal could come together and then deadlines matter. and trying to drive to do this toward the end of the biden administration is focusing the minds of people and we are coordinating closely with the

incoming administration to make maximum use of this particular period to get this thing done. i'll leave it there. i just will say one last word which is, i hope this is my last time at this podium. at least for a little while. i don't mean that in a negative sense. i mean, the only thing that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days which as you all know is totally possible given everything you've seen over the course of the past years. but if it is in fact my last time before you, i just want to say thank you for what you guys do every day. thank you for putting up with me. it's been an honor to be able to really try to illuminate these issues through tough probing and penetrating questioning and i can't say i've always enjoyed every moment up here, but i certainly have been privileged to be able to do it. so thank you guys very much. karine: we appreciate you coming, thank you. clapping in the back. thank you, jake. thank you for your service and it's been an honor to serve in this administration with you. i wanted to give jake as much

time as possible. we do not have a lot of time because as you know the president is going to be heading out to the state department to give his final speech on the foreign policy. so trying to figure out what's the best thing to do here. i can take a couple of questions but we are going to have to end in about -- yeah, ok. i apologize for that. josh, good to see you. reporter: good to see you. we can do a separate briefing later. karine: don't put anything out there, please. reporter: some republicans are saying that wildfire aid should be tied to increasing the debt ceiling. what does the administration make of that and what are the plans for continuity for people that are wondering about what the next week could hold for them? karine: so, look, i'm not going to get into these hypotheticals of potentials of policies and what's going to happen moving forward. we are very much focused on what's happening on the ground, helping local and state

officials and certainly we see what the brave firefighters are doing to try to contain these wildfires, protecting lives and property and it has been just amazing to watch this certainly unprecedented event. so what we're going to do on the federal level, as you've heard this president, we've read out calls he's done, briefings he's done. you've seen him in person take questions from your colleagues about the federal response here and what we want to do censure that we provide every -- is ensure we provide every resource available to firefighters, to first respond, and so we will -- our commitment right now is to continue to support the communities on the ground through different disaster assistance programs and federal government -- that the federal government could certainly provide and so that's our focus. not going to get into what it could look like down the road. what we want to do is make sure that we are dealing with this

unprecedented, horrific catastrophic moment we're see southern california having to deal with and we are very appreciative of firefighters, first responders and obviously the community that we're seeing on the ground is certainly heartwarming. hi. reporter: thank you. if i don't see you again. karine: well, you know. reporter: in the briefing. thank you -- you could have stopped taking the hard questions years ago. and you didn't. so we appreciate that. karine: over two years, my friend. let's say one last dance, right? i don't know how i'm going fill my dance card now. how will i fill that void without you? reporter: you tell me. [laughter] you tell me. karine: start some rumors in here, i guess. reporter: he's getting red too. look at him. [laughter] reporter: so. a week from now it's all over. karine: yes.

reporter: between next monday and 2028. who is the leader of the democratic party? karine: oh, my goodness. wow. that is honestly -- that is for people. smarter than i to make that assessment, that decision. obviously voters will decide. that is not for me to decide. right now in this moment, in this room, as i'm looking at the clock at it's counting down because we have to leave shortly, you have the president, president joe biden, who is obviously the president and the leader of the democratic party. i do not have -- i cannot predict the future so that is not something that i'm going to do from here. reporter: so no leader of the party? karine: that's not what i said. reporter: it's not president biden and it's not vice president -- karine: i'm regretting this right now. regretting all of this. that's not what i said. i said that -- you asked me about what 2028 is going to look like, between now and then.

post this president's tenure. that's not for me to decide. that's not for me to speak to. i could only speak about the here and now and that's why i appreciate this job and what i'm doing right now. reporter: and president biden says that he's not going to be out of sight, out of mind. but isn't that what voters basically said that they wanted? is him gone? karine: so, look, this is a president that has served more than 50 years. who has given all of himself, if you will, right? as a public servant. whether as a senator, as a local elected official, as vice president and now as president. i think anybody who has served that long and does it from their heart and soul, because they believe this country deserves so much more, they believe that the american people deserve more and has worked day in and day out certainly as president the last four years i think deserves some

respect. i think he deserves some respect. i'll leave it there. reporter: i see 24 people so far we know of have died in the fires. has the president reached out or been in touch with any of their families directly? karine: our hearts obviously go out to the families who have lost a loved one in these devastating fires. and certainly the victims and the communities out there. it is, again, horrific. and as you know, you all have been reporting this, local officials obviously confirmed additional deaths over the weekend. and so we -- the president -- i don't have any calls to read out as the president has made to families. right now the president's commitment and you're going to hear him in a couple of hours when he returns from the state department where he does wildfire briefing with his team, what we're trying to do is use every resource available so that we can help respond and

certainly save lives and i'm going to let certainly los angeles county speak to the numbers and how -- any information they may have. i don't have anything right now to share, any conversations that the president may have done as it relates to families and victims. but it is devastating and we're doing everything that we can to offer up resources on the ground, as you know. reporter: there are reports that biden administration this week was set to announce medicare price negotiations and bloomberg is now reporting that eli lilly has asked the u.s. government to pause its forward march with the drug price negotiations. i was wondering if you can provide any update to if those rollouts could be coming this week and kind of give an update to what's going on? karine: i don't have an update to share at this time. as you know, the inflation reduction act was incredibly

important in lowering costs for americans, as we think about -- if you think about obviously climate change, it was the -- and what we're seeing with the wildfires, it certainly is the most proactive piece of legislation that we were able to get passed to deal with climate change. as you ask me about this particular question, look, we were able to beat medicare, that is something that this president was able to do. now you see medicare's able to make negotiations. i think you remember about a year or so ago, eli lilly was able to bring down their cost on insulin, a lot of that was because of what this president did on capping insulin for seniors, which makes a big deal, is a life-changing effort for seniors. and so, look, not going to get ahead of any potential announcement, don't have anything to share. but lowering costs on medical

prescription drugs, making sure that we make things more affordable for americans, that is something that the president has put at center when he talks about his economic policy and certainly moving forward. i don't have anything beyond that. guys, i will see you, i'll be back. reporter: -- a lot of disinformation and misinformation about response to the california fires. with the hurricanes there was some finding that chinese and other foreign countries were amplifying messages. do you have any evidence of that? karine: i don't have any evidence to share with you on that piece but what i will say about misinformation and disinformation, it is incredibly dangerous, as we all know. as we're trying to provide resources, as we're trying to -- folks on the ground, local officials are trying to make sure that they're keeping people safe who are dealing with this wildfires, it gets in the way of that. it puts people's lives in danger and so certainly we're going to continue to call that out. and it is something that needs

to stop. as far as if any entity, countries that are behind that, i can't speak to that at this time. but certainly we need to continue to call out the misinformation, disinformation. it is dangerous. it puts people's lives at risk. and it needs to stop. thanks, everybody. reporter: thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] announcer: the house has gaveled out. today law makers are working on several transportation-related measures, including several bills related to amtrak. live coverage when members return here on c-span. announcer: witness democracy unfiltered with c-span. experience history as it unfolds with c-span's live coverage this month as republicans take control of both chambers of congress and a new chapter

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