A White House official told ABC News Wednesday evening that Biden did not misspeak when he said that he convinced Netanyahu to call for a “cease-fire.” The official suggested the president was talking about the temporary pause to free the two American hostages last month, arguing that the term has multiple meanings and that it could be interchangeable with “humanitarian pause."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-calls-pause-israel-gaza-conflict-hostages/story?id=104559563
Yes, the word [hostages] is in brackets in the abc article because it was a correction made by the whitehouse to abc. The whitehouse hadn't released a transcript yet when I made the original post, so I screenshotted this abc article.
The full transcript is even more absurd than you can imagine. As the woman calling for ceasefire is escorted away, the crowd chants "four more years".
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/11/01/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-reception-minneapolis-mn/