is very anxious to meet with me so we can talk about next steps, how we move forward from this current situation to get back to discussions that would lead to a negotiating summit.

[While] we are all anxious to see restraint ... We understand it's important to get the terror down -- if terror goes down, then the response to terror will no longer be required.

We must keep moving forward.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

If somebody tried to move the team in now, we would find ways to thwart that.

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