CNN’s Jake Tapper appeared shocked Monday after President Biden made a major announcement on a doable cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas struggle, all whereas he was consuming ice cream.
When asked by a reporter when the president believed that the cease-fire will begin, Biden mentioned in New York that he hoped that may occur “by the end of the weekend.”
“My national security advisor tells me we’re close,” he mentioned.
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CNN’s Jake Tapper appeared shocked after President Biden made a major announcement on a doable cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas struggle, all whereas he was consuming ice cream. (CNN screenshot / AP Newsroom)
“MJ, that’s a big announcement for the president to be given in an ice cream shop,” Tapper mentioned to CNN reporter MJ Lee. “What role is the U.S. playing here?”
“Yeah, sometimes, Jake, as you know, big news comes from the president when he’s talking freely with reporters in that kind of setting,” Lee mentioned.
“But the president appearing to say that he’s hopeful and optimistic that the pause, a cease-fire, that a lot of the negotiators had been working towards, could begin by the end of the weekend, he said perhaps by Monday,” the reporter added. “That will be an extremely important improvement, in fact, as a result of it will be the primary cessation within the combating within the Israel-Hamas war since that first seven-day truce we noticed on the finish of November.”
The president was making a cease at an ice cream parlor close to NBC’s community headquarters in New York Metropolis, the place he had simply wrapped up an interview with Seth Meyers on the “Late Night” present. Meyers was current with Biden when he made his remarks to reporters a couple of cease-fire.
Negotiators face an unofficial deadline of the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan round March 10, a interval that always sees heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
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Biden joked that “my good friend” can be making a border cease as properly, a refined nod to GOP rival Donald Trump. (Getty Photographs)
Biden additionally spoke about his deliberate journey to the southern border this Thursday the place he’ll meet with border brokers and focus on the necessity for bipartisan laws.
He joked that “my good friend” can be making a border cease as properly, a refined nod to GOP rival, former President Trump, who can even be touring to the border.
Biden’s border insurance policies are beneath particular scrutiny after Augusta College pupil Laken Riley was allegedly killed by an unlawful immigrant final week. Riley was discovered useless on the College of Georgia’s campus.
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Biden’s marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.
Fox Information’ Bradford Betz and the Related Press contributed to this report.
