07/21/2016
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We do not pay Ransom for hostages."
"Fighting Zika costs money."
"The notion that we would somehow start now in this high-profile way and announce it to the world even as we're looking into the faces of other hostage families whose loved ones are being held hostage ..."
"One is very positive and one is not so much. What I can say is this is a serious business."