In town pool #4 - more quotes and a lid

A travel photo lid was called at 6:28 pm.

Here are the POTUS quotes. As always please check against transcript and playback.

Flagging this newsy quote at the top:

On when he will begin firing federal employees: “It’a taking place right now. It's all because of the Democrats. The Democrats are causing the loss of a lot of jobs with their - it's a shutdown. It's their shutdown, not our shutdown.”

POTUS began by talking about what a great day he had: “We rebuilt the Navy in my first term, we're doing it even beyond so thank you all for being here. That was a great celebration today, right?”

On the Hamas deadline: “We had some very good meetings. The countries of the world. A lot of the countries surrounding Israel, frankly, Muslim, Arab and many others have had great meetings with Hamas, and it looks like it's working. So we'll wait for a little while see how it all turns out - very, very quickly. I think it's going to go very quickly. The meetings seem to be very good. We'll find out. We'll let you know soon.”

Asked to clarify what he said in his speech about another drug boat attack last night: “My people will give you those details.”

Emily Goodin

White House Correspondent

McClatchy DC/Miami Herald

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