EXCERPT:
NETANYAHU: "That's not a pause. If you're talking about stopping the fighting, that's exactly what Hamas wants. Hamas wants an endless series of pauses that basically dissipate the battle against them. It's like the Germans after Normandy, they say, 'OK, let's have a cease-fire. You guys hold off. Let us replenish our supplies. Let us get out of our terror tunnels. Let us rearm ourselves and so on.' Obviously, we're not going to do that. But in order to have — "
BASH: "The U.S. says that you need a — "
NETANYAHU: "In order to have a cease-fire of any — a cease-fire in the entire area, that will require the release of our hostages."
BASH: "The U.S. says that you need an extended pause in order to get the hostages out. Do you not — "
NETANYAHU: "Yeah, well — "
BASH: " — believe that as well?"
NETANYAHU: "Well, we don't — we don't disagree with that. We need to get our hostages out."