Senior White House reporter, cnn senior White House reporter, Kevin Liptack with some details and kevin, we are waiting to get the feed of what President Biden has had to say. So forgive me if i have to interrupt up to you, but tell us what youve heard so far. Yeah. And we did hear that he took some questions about the situation in the Middle East, so we will see exactly what he had to say, but he is convening this Cabinet Meeting for the first time in almost a year, and it is striking just how different his circumstances are from a year ago, of course, hes no longer a candidate for president and his message in this meeting to his top officials is that he wants them to sprint to the finish line. Essentially that the Race Isnt over on his presidency. And certainly the Middle East is part of that. He has been trying to negotiate a Ceasefire Deal that would add, heres President Biden congress to pass a continuing resolution its critical we have ten days for congress to pass a shortterm Fu
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