Comments made on 1/22/24.

And where do things stand as it relates To that we're almost approaching February the hostages were initially Taken uh October the 7th of last year Are there efforts underway there's Various reporting for instance about uh Efforts in Cairo Egypt can you confirm Those efforts what I can confirm for you Is that there are ongoing serious sober Discussions with our partners and uh and Our counterparts to try to get another Hostage deal in place I wish I could Stand here and tell you that you know I I can announce it today or we're going To do it tomorrow I can't do that but I Can assure you that this is not Something we' we've forgotten about it's Not something we haven't worked on every Single day and as I said earlier you Know Brett's in the region and I have no Doubt that this will be a key uh part of His agenda while he's over there