00:00It's very difficult to deal with Hamas, as I said, you know, we got a tremendous amount of hostages out, but it would take place in drips and drabs, you'd get 10, you'd get 5, you'd get 2, you'd get 10, 12, we'd get 12 one time, many of them would come to the White House and they were so thankful.
00:19But I always said, when you come, when you get down to the final 10 or 20, you're not going to be able to make a deal with these people because they use them as a shield. And when they give them up, they no longer have a shield. And the people of Israel feel so strongly about the hostages. Some people would take a different view, but they feel so strongly about the hostages.
00:39So that's an ongoing process. Hamas has become very difficult to deal with in the last couple of days because they don't want to give up these last 20 because they think as long as we have them, they have them, they have protection.
00:55But I don't think it can work that way. So I'm speaking to PB Netanyahu and we are coming up with various plans. We're going to say it's a very difficult situation.
01:06If they didn't have the hostages, things would go very quickly.
