READ: Biden's full White House Correspondents' Dinner remarks
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President Joe Biden spoke Saturday at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, marking his first appearance at the widely attended Washington event since taking office and the first time a US president has attended the dinner in six years.
Read his remarks as released by the White House, lightly edited for style:
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Steve, for that introduction. And a special thanks to the 42% of you who actually applauded.
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.