Your allies France, which has hostages held in Gaza
and the UK, both said the resolution firmly calls
for the release of hostages, and to most people
reading it, there's little difference between this language and
what you abstained on in March. So why did
the US feel the need to block the resolution of
this? So it's a good question. The resolution
does call for the release of hostages. What it
doesn't do is link the release of hostages to an
immediate unconditional ceasefire. And we have made clear throughout
this process that we cannot support a resolution that calls
for an unconditional immediate ceasefire and delinks it from the
release of hostages. There are still 7 American citizens
who are being held hostage in Gaza, and we're
not going to walk away from them, um,
and so. We worked in good faith for several
weeks to try to get to yes on this resolution
, to try to get to a resolution that we
can vote for. As you know, we have
voted for a resolution in the Security Council resolution already
this year that called for a ceasefire, but it
called for a ceasefire with the release of hostages,
and that is our position. We firmly believe in
it because we want to see those hostages come home --> .