Washington, Feb. 6 -- Top officials in the Donald Trump administration on Wednesday tried to walk back the president's remarks the previous day that the United States will "take over" the Gaza Strip and gain "long-term ownership position" in the enclave.
"The only thing President Trump has done, very generously, in my view, is offer the United States' willingness to step in, clear the debris, clean the place up from all the destruction that's on the ground, clean it up of all these unexploded munitions," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is on a visit in Guatemala, said at a news conference in Guatemala City alongside Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo.
Rubio said that "in the meantime, the people living there, the people who ...