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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

If I had to enact it, I'd do that. If people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that. I mean, I want to make sure that people aren't killed. We have to make sure that our…

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Doug Burgum
@dougburgum· Republican · ND· Oct 6, 2025

And again, making that investment so we can make sure that we're securing these critical mineral supplies.

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Doug Burgum
@dougburgum· Republican · ND· Oct 6, 2025

They're one of the companies that has mining claims in this area that is remote wilderness right now.

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Doug Burgum
@dougburgum· Republican · ND· Oct 6, 2025

The Department War, the United States government, is making an investment

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

You know what? We send in whatever is necessary. People don’t care. They don’t want crime in their cities.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

But, we have to take care of this little gnat that’s on our shoulder called the Democrats.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

We will get our service members every last penny. Don’t worry about it.

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Karoline Leavitt
@karolineleavitt· Republican · NH· Oct 6, 2025

The president wants to see a ceasefire. He wants to see the hostages released, and the technical teams are discussing that as we speak to ensure that the environment is perfect to release those hostages.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

I really think we’re going to have a deal. We have a really good chance of making a deal, and it will be a lasting deal.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

As your commander in chief, I will always stand for you. I promise you that.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

There's a huge problem in Chicago. It's called crime. And we want to put out the crime and they want to inflame the crime.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

There's a huge problem in Portland. I'll tell you what the problem is: Crime.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

If people were being killed, and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 6, 2025

I’d do it if it was necessary. So far, it hasn't been necessary. But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd do that.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

It's going to take some time to get to that point.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

The expectation is, is that this happens quickly.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

If you truly want peace and stability and a better future for the Palestinian people, then there has to be a Gaza that is not governed or controlled in any way, shape or form by Hamas or anything that looks like Hamas.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

There can be peace in Gaza. There can be Palestinian governance in Gaza, whether you call it statehood or something else, as long as it is not terrorists that are in charge of that territory.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

You can't release hostages while there's still bombardments going on.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

We need to get these hostages out, and we just need technocrats that are not terrorists to be able to begin the basic reconstruction of Gaza.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

The only way you're ever going to have anything that looks like statehood is in a negotiated deal with the Israelis.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

If we can get off that road and onto a different road, there are a lot of possibilities long term and in the future, but right now…

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

Once you agree on the logistics of how this is going to happen – I think the Israelis and everyone acknowledge you can't release hostages in the middle of strikes, so the strikes will have to stop.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 5, 2025

The ideal outcome here is, you don't have to carry out any counterterror missions because there are no terrorists in Gaza because Gaza is governed by Palestinian technocrats.

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