Trump Reveals 'We're Getting Very Close To A Deal' To Bring Back Hostages Held By Hamas

During a meeting with African leaders, President Trump spoke about efforts to get a hostage deal with Hamas.

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00:00Which is pretty amazing.

00:01And this is a long meeting, so...

00:03And say hello to John. Say hello to John.

00:04I will. I'm sure he's watching this right now.

00:07A lot of news has broken since we've been in here.

00:09Axio says a secret White House meeting between Steve Witkoff, Ron Dermer, and a Qatari envoy on Tuesday

00:15led to significant progress in the negotiations over the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal.

00:20What can you tell us about this secret meeting?

00:21It's very possible. I will tell you we're getting very close to a deal.

00:24I don't know if it's secret or not secret, but it doesn't matter to me.

00:28The secret's fine if it gets us to where we want to be.

00:31We want to have a ceasefire. We want to have peace.

00:33We want to get the hostages back.

00:35And I think we're close to doing it.

00:37Okay? Thank you all very much.

00:38Thank you very much.