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Donald Trump: “We've gotten a lot of hostages back.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump has a Pull-Aside with the President of France

Published | Video Starts at 07:43

We don't want to have one and then we'll give another two in about three months from now. We've been doing that for long time and in all fairness, We've gotten a lot of hostages back. But you have 20 hostages, and you have probably 38 bodies, dead bodies. And the people that I see, and I speak to Israeli families, I was speaking to American families before, but we got them back. (07:43–07:46)

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Asserts that many hostages have been successfully retrieved in the past.

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