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This is why we want [former special counsel] Jack Smith in front of our committee in a deposition format.

What we’ve learned is it was much broader, much more expansive, than we ever thought.

We just need five more reasonable Democrats to do what the American people want us to do, to open up the government.

The point that I made to my Republican colleagues, recognizing that there's a diversity of opinions about it, is that the tariffs give us the ability to put American workers first.

The ceasefire is holding.

We have an opportunity to do something really historic.

We have a very, very tough task ahead of us, which is to disarm Hamas, but rebuild Gaza to make life better for the people in Gaza, but also to ensure that Hamas is no longer a threat to our friends in Israel.

I mean, we’re really creating a peace plan and an infrastructure here where nothing existed even a week and a day ago.

We don’t want a vassal state and that’s not what Israel is. We don’t want a client state.

I never said it was easy, but what I am is optimistic that the ceasefire is going to hold and that we can actually build a better future in the entire Middle East.

If you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

It’s one thing to read about it, it’s one thing to talk with Jared and Steve on the phone about what’s going on on the ground.

But we’re going to keep on working at this process, and we’re going to keep on trying to bring the deceased hostages home.

But I’m not going to do what the president of the United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it, because a lot of this stuff is difficult.

It’s not the end. It is, in fact, exactly how this is going to have to happen when you have people who hate each other.

I want to say that there is this weird attitude I’ve sensed in the American media and the Western media, where there’s almost this desire to root for failure.

Can I say with 100% certainty that it's going to work? No, but you don't do difficult things by only doing what's 100% certain. You do difficult things by trying.

What we’ve seen the past week gives me great optimism the ceasefire is going to hold, and if we get from where we were a week ago to a long-term, durable peace between Israel and Gaza, there are going to be hills and valleys.