STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday (October 6) he thought there would be a Gaza deal soon.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said tremendous progress on the issue had been made.

The Trump administration is working hard to advance as quickly as possible a proposed plan to end the conflict in Gaza, with technical discussions underway, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Monday.

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1. U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SITTING IN THE OVAL OFFICE

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOURNALIST ASKING:

"It was reported by Axios over the weekend that you would call with Prime Minister Netanyahu. You told him to stop being so negative and to take the win when it came to Hamas's response to that. Is that true?"

3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IN EXCHANGE WITH JOURNALIST:

"No, it's not true. He's been very positive. He's been very positive on the deal. Everybody is, I think every nation is. We have just about every nation working on this deal and trying to get it done, something that you could say 3000 years, if you look at it in certain ways or you could say centuries. But this is a deal that incredibly everyone just came together. They all came together. No, Israel has been great, they've all been good Kaitlan."

JOURNALIST ASKING (OFF CAMERA): "And in the negotiations. Do you have any red lines in terms of Hamas disarming and whatnot?"

TRUMP: "No, I have red lines. If certain things aren't met, we're not going to do it. But I think we're doing very well. And I think Hamas has been agreeing to things that are very important."

4. JOURNALIST LISTENING TO TRUMP

5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"I think we're going to have it soon. I think we're going to have a deal. I look, it's a hard thing for me to say that when for years and years they've been trying to have a deal with Gaza. But I mean, literally for centuries. Okay. If you really think about it. But we're going to have a Gaza deal. I'm pretty sure, yeah."

6. JOURNALIST LISTENING TO TRUMP

7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"I think we've made tremendous progress. And yeah, the people of Israel, the people of Israel, want it to happen, but the people related to hostages, I mean, you see in Israel, tens of thousands of people, they really want the hostages back and they really want things to end. And I think Hamas now has been all I can say is they've been fine. They've been fine. I hope it's going to continue that way. I think it will. I really think we're going to have a deal. We have a really good chance of making a deal and it'll be a lasting deal."

8. TRUMP TALKING TO JOURNALIST WITH OFFICIALS STANDING BEHIND HIM

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"I think virtually we even had a signal, a very strong signal, as you know, from Iran, they'd like to see this done."

TRUMP TALKING TO JOURNALIST WITH OFFICIALS STANDING BEHIND HIM