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And for Trump, it is a way to try to suggest that he has this grander project at hand to remake the Middle East in the aftermath of this war.
It seems right now the Trump administration wants to continue to give diplomacy a chance to end this conflict.
But it doesn't seem that's going to happen imminently.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is traveling back from India, told reporters that it could take a few more days to finalize the deal.
It seems the administration is willing to give the mediating partners, Qatar, Pakistan, and other Arab countries, a few more days and hopefully, in their view, wrap up the conflict.
It's very unlikely, and we know that Republicans in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and around the country are deeply concerned about how these high gas prices are going to hurt them when voters go to the ballot box in November for the midterm elections.
And so if this trade is not reopened soon, we could see gas prices eclipsing $5 a gallon.
And that is an extremely dangerous position for Republicans to be in in a competitive midterm election cycle.
And so there is a lot of pressure for the president to get this straight reopened.
Unlike other conflicts that don't affect Americans on a daily basis, this one does.
Welcome to the Department of Justice.
And we all work for the greatest president in the history of our country.
He will never stop fighting for us, and we will never stop fighting for him and for our country.
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
That's been a directive by President Trump.
Thank you, Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Raskin, and distinguished members of this committee.
How many have you indicted?
Excuse me, I'm going to answer the question.
No, I'm going to answer the question the way I want to answer the question.