a yeah, huge day, the local real estate to your interview just now with gosh on baskin tom, and it's great to be with you. we listen to all your, your reporting really keenly when we traveled to washington dc. we were convinced that monday, january, the 25th, the 20th, sorry, was going to be by far the most important day of the week. right. donald trump taking over from joe biden as president of the united states, but was developed today. what we saw happening across the israel and gaza was, i think, a matched what we're going to see tomorrow, at least in geopolitical importance. and we've been following that very closely. welcome, everyone, by the way, to our little corner of the federal capital behind us is what was a 2nd ago, a stunning view of the capital building. it's snowing very heavily now, and the sun will soon be setting on the last full day of jo biden's presidency. he spoke earlier, moments after the is really the 3 is really hostages. were released the day from the gaza strip. this is what he had to say. today she's far,

and garza and release of hostages does result of a principles and effective policy. and we prep presided over for months and we get it. we got here without a wider boy in a least many predicted. now falls an extra ministration to help them, but we met this too. i was pleased to have our team speak as one voice in the final days. a diplomatic as a james base has been taking in all of the days developments. and of course, he's going to be walking is through the inauguration ceremony tomorrow. what we want to look at this hour, james is less than 24 hours to go before donald trump becomes president. is how the west is going to play a role in shaping the future, middle east and what's happening in his real gaza. first of all, we have to acknowledge that the deal deceased by do it is very fragile. we don't know where it goes from here. yes. so these are very drawn out process we have had, the 3 is really kept his hand today, but we still are waiting for the westbank off of prison for those 90 palestinians

to be released. and then the next phase isn't for another 7 days. this goes on, the 1st phase of the whole deal is $42.00 days long. lots could go wrong. and of course we have a problem this and this and yahoo saying that. maybe we will continue off to phase one. if we have problems, we won't go to phase 2, that won't be a phase 2. i'm we still a to destroy from us. now i think that's why some of the pictures we've seen today are important in the context of the way they were viewed in israel. we saw pictures of a mass fight to us, we sold them with the gums in the centre of gauze. now right, wingers and israel will pick up on that and say, look, this shows how mass is not, is not defeated. and, and often in the phase one, we need to go back to a full on 5 minutes of gas. so okay, we don't know if the deal holds, however, that is not to diminish the importance of what happened today may be that we look

back on today and say, this was indeed january 19th, was indeed the beginning of the war. the, the end of the war in gaza, and we just heard joe biden on his last folder in office. he wanted to take credit for this. he wants to take credit, and he said it was done all by watch. and i am not on the achieve this, but i'm transforming the middle east. i have to say a. it was done on his watch, arguably because donald trump said it had to be done on his watch. it couldn't have gone beyond january the 20, the donald trump said it had to be done before i take off his old. that'll be hell to pay. donald trump in many ways, said the deadline. donald trump with steve went, cough who is his business? my friend, whoever is the owner, real estate level, real estate mogul, like donald trump, he went to see that's on yahoo. and it seems he put pressure on the threat within a little before i thought was all but the stress of maybe donald trump big, unpredictable right? yeah, it'd be none of that there will be held to pay. that's the quote that that's,

that's the quote. and that has achieved something the volume did achieve since may and remember bite and has said this deal is basically the deal that he proposed in may. and that became a un security council resolution. and that in the us, egypt and costs have been working so hard to get both sides to accept. and it was the is right, the size that was not accepting this deal until the intervention of donald trump on the issue of who gets credit for this job. i mean, we referenced this earlier, joe biden was asked in a recent press conference. as he was walking out, he was done taking questions and a report, a shout and questions saying, who gets credit? you are trump. he turned around, he wasn't gonna turn around, but in the police it looked that way. he turned around and just gave her a kind of an evil lie and said, is that a joke? so he, this is important to him. important to him is part of his legacy. he knows the condemnation he is getting. he knows people shot at him genocide, joe, and remember this is a president whose whole career before he before he was vice president when he was

send this out. because obviously it's what he was, i said it's a capital hill is great with the board affairs foreign policy. it was a foreign policy experts. and yet the foreign policy, i'm particularly the what's most gone on and gaza, maybe history by the judge. and so kindly does so many who said before the deal came into effect, look after phase one. if we feel that we need to go back to war, because after all, we have not accomplished our military objectives, how mazda is still standing. if we feel only we need to resume the sliding, we will do so and we will do so with us support that would suggest that donald trump, even before he's coming to office, has given some sort of acquiescence, if not commitment, that the us will continue to support israel, it does suggest maybe there is by, in, from trump, and some of the suggestion to ness and yahoo, that under certain conditions through the us will come in, publish semester meal, who in his recent speech so that we're going to come in with even more support, but i have to say you also have to balance that with the fact that double trump

took all the time about wanting to be seen as a piece making it talks about wanting to win the nobel peace prize and a brand new president, even though he's done the to before. well, why don't worry about public opinion. we know a international public opinion is if there was another restart to the war. often the scenes we've seen the relief the people of calls are finally getting off to almost 47000 people were killed if the world was to start again. that would be international condemnation, but i don't think so, which is important. that is, there's a different media landscape here in the us, but i don't think it would be popular with us about public all either. and i think it will be difficult. i think the donald trump to support a restart ultimately more often days, sustain piece, protect potentially 42 days are sustained. it's interesting. what you observe is donald, this idea of donald trump is a peacemaker, which is something donald trump, himself, of course, sells or markets. but on the one hand he's,

it's feels like he's endlessly picking fights or, and, and threatening people countries. and on the other he does say, hey, i n wars and i don't start any. what's his track record as a peacemaker? well, i mean not. he hasn't made peace, i think, is the honest answer to the question. i think those that support donald trump and look at him, the very unusual about a politician would say it's unpredictable. it to you, those for lead is a role wondering, does he mean this thing, all this other thing, is it just that was the last step. they don't know what the meetings and the don't know what you do. and i think the difference from joe biden is, there are countries around the world. so maybe about think is what is a good thing. but this head of donald trump, james base houses, there was diplomatic editor. thank you very much. and with that, without further ado, i will hand it right back to do back to utah for them. thank you so much, sir. a little to you. uh, before the end of this new zone. okay, we're going to show you some live pictures now from of military prison in the

occupied westbank. this is where the 1st group of 90 pellets, indian prisoners are expected to be released from. they will, excuse me, they'll be transported by bus from there to ramallah in the occupied with bank. now women and children in prison is the 1st we'll make up the 5th 90 to be freed in the initial phase of the deal. and in total, nearly 2000 detainees, us it to be released over the 6 week periods of this best buy's of this, these 5 deal. okay, we're going to go to my one to shower, who is al, just there is a senior political analyst who joins us once again from the law. mullin, if we can just stop with the presidency, we're looking at a live show waiting, still waiting for them to be released. what, what do you make of this? we know that this was a point of contention between mazda and his rile, about how the prison, the exchange would work, as well as exactly who would be allowed to be released. it

will look a few. i paid attention to some of the western media out this you would think this day was the birthday or 3 is ready to girls. and you wouldn't know at all is that there's another side of the story that there are thousands upon thousands of uh, sitting in prisoners including women and children. a lot of them who were held under administered attention, meaning they didn't even have or see the court room and, and that this has been going on for 6 decades. the importance of this and why this happens originally on october 7, 23. it's because have much wanted to release those prisoners. the original objective of the october 7 attacks was so that they can get

some captives, notably, is re these they thoughts so that they could exchange them for prisoners and the recently how much the, the ship and guys are like, like you have certain water and others where themselves released in a person of exchange in 2011 after at the time it was these ready to sort of gotcha lead to was released. and this has been going on for decades. tom, for the past 57 years, almost 1000000 palestinians had been arrested by his right. 1000000 not a bad experience. and that is just in the west bank and gaza. so if you put that in comparison with, say, the united states, this is like talking about 70000000 americans been the rest of the 70000000 america. this is the percentage of 1000000, but

a city. and so what out us and by isn't over 6 that good. so the idea of the prisoner's, the idea of the present, instead of staying in society and kind of seeing a culture instead of seeing a family. because each and every family had the loved ones who was and then is there any person? mm. so this is a huge day for the, for us to get people symbolically speaking and did. and we were hearing alia from need abraham, who was basically telling us that there was no guarantee that the prism is that once they all release one, just be re arrested by the israeli military. i want to move on the we were listening to colleagues, a james by his and cyril vanya, who is in washington, dc, hit a donald trump single garage, and the pressure really is on donald trump. to make this deal stick isn't it? because as we were hearing, he wants to make sure that he is seen as the piece micah, of the world right now. what do you think he is going to do over the days and weeks that he did? is this 1st phase of this,

these 5 plays out there? this is one way of looking at it. and there's, there's another way of looking at it, which is exactly the opposite way. my guess is that, um, as it usually is, the truth will probably reveal itself somewhere in the middle in the sense that, yes it does said himself, he's a salesman. he does all sorts of same stuff exactly as a peacemaker. but he said, definitely shows himself as a means maker, right? that seems most, you know, famous statement about himself is that he is a didn't make and that he can get things done and that he wouldn't even do it in the most unconventional, unpredictable way such as for him to be meeting with the north korean leader. and doing the circus me thing with him in the border and well, you know, what was south korea and, and to be that out on the train and, and, and exchanged loved that those with the man and so on,

so forth. so there is some things that he tried to do in his 1st start to prove that he is a d and maker. he also did or reinvented the non stop the north american free trade agreement with, with mexico and canada. and he's definitely prided himself of that. now. on the other hand, he walked away from so many deals that i might have to have made like the like the fighters climate change. he walked out of your next go. he did a whole bunch of other things that were horrific. of course the we just want to come certainly couldn't make a deal with the one. yeah, i just want definitely cuz we're going to go to a minute or so left with you. in that case, you know, he is always been talking about the opposite of the deal and how he can get a deal better than anyone else. so i mean, what does he have off of slaves to try and pull something off here? and so this is the thing about him, right? he's not big on history and he's not big on vision. but he's very big on his

instincts. so he's going to be, i think, as he did before, or his instincts and seconds he wouldn't be dealing more like a maverick in the sense that as he puts it, he wouldn't be or wanting with the punches. he's going to see what it much is where what we're fortunate is on there, and he's going to capture the bill for the trinity's and try to do away with the challenges. and i think one, for example, might that are presents and unfortunate the all right, that he's making noises, but there is possibly an opportunity to with china. and that's why he's talking about the talk. that's why he talked with present cheap. that's why he's spoken about the 1st time it with being with president jake. he's also talking about making a deal with fulton and resolve the question of ukraine. so whenever he's going to see a g, a protocol frontier to emerge, he's going to jump on is unlike by then he's not about to instead of a new bold walking around the world, he does want to bring back america from the rest of the world. he doesn't want american imperialism. he wants america nationalism. okay,

now and thank you so much for all of that. that's now on the shar, i'll just hear a senior political analyst for us. and uh huh. well speaking with donald trump, we're going to get more reaction out of the united states now and hand it back to civil vanya and the team in washington dc. and we are expecting the president elect to speak very so in that way. yeah, absolutely don't. thank you very much and it's good to be back with you. as we mentioned earlier, president elect donald trump is marking his political come back with a make america great. again, victory rally despite the cold and the wet weather. you see it, their supporters of gather the capital one arena has been moved indoors. the rally will feature performances by several celebrities and special guest speakers. thousands here as mike hannah is there live? mike, what are you expecting? well, cyril is standing room only here and not very much of that to the crowds,

queuing for hours in pouring rain outside triple conditions. but they've been enjoying what's going on here. essentially, it's a celebration of the mega move on to make america great. again, movement and celebrating donald trump 2nd to me as president of the united states, we heard from popstars. we've had the concepts we heard from a full vectors like jon voight at the moment behind me. steven bit coffee speaking . he's trumps. a special envoy for the middle east throne nominated as such, but he was part of the jewel administration team that's been working to set up that view between him us and israel in jingle putting opposed to that ongoing conflict. we'll be hearing from donald trump himself, the president elect in approximately hoffman. we are told, but he will be preceded and will be introduced by his vice president, elect, j. d. them was expecting, i mean,

do you have any idea of what kind of speech donald trump is going to give this evening tomorrow? he's got his inaugural speech. that's something completely different. but tonight he is addressing his bases to addressing the people who got them elected in or sending him to the white house. is it going to sound like your normal trunk rally or is you got something different in mind? well he's got something different in mind because he's going to become the next president of the united states within the next 24 hours already in the course of events here that has been videos of donald trump playing. thank you. those or here making very clear that this is, this is loyal bass who protein back into the office. so yes, it is very much a thank you to those people who voted for him. a thank you to those people who he sees of working so hard to get him or tend to that person unsafe. the actual victory itself will be celebrated, but it will be a different term from what we make in you know,

gratian speech. tomorrow that he will be addressing the nation here use addressing that base his root support, but put him essentially into the white house for a 2nd time. mike, hannah, thank you so much in the spring and jennifer victor, professor of political science at george mason university. jennifer, it is so great to meet you in person. you're going to be right here tomorrow. less than 24 hours from now to walk us through and share your expertise about all things in all your ration. and there's, there's a lot to know because there's a lot of protocol, there's a lot of history and it's all happening right there. by the way, i was suppose to happen right, right in front right before our eyes. uh and for reasons that i think everybody's gonna understand, this is now covered in snow and temperatures are dropping and we'll drop more. right? has been moved inside. what's your favorite thing for the the thing you like to follow most about in organizations? well 1st let me just say, i'm very happy to be here with you, sir. all this is uh,

you know, despite the weather, it is a delightful venue and vantage points to the capital. one of my favorite spots in d. c. you know, it's, it's such an interesting time the inauguration on the one hand, i think we're going to see a lot of the usual trappings and ceremony and you know, music and prayers and speeches and celebrities and so forth. on the other hand, there's a, there's a number of things that are really unusual about. busy transition does president will he has invited foreign leaders, which we've never seen at the inauguration. so in the past he's going to have the, his sort of billionaire cohort surrounding him. uh, sort of speaking out to different constituencies that he's going to have represented in his small audience, which is going to be even more privilege than usual because they've moved it inside to the rotunda, which holds many fewer people than this giant grandstands that they've spent. many weeks building that now is not going to go yet. so that means the whole conversation about crowds, how many people are coming and you know that there is a part of the, you know, your ration, which is a little bit of

a popularity contest, though. sure. except very seriously, we have, we know angry about crowd size and reporting over the crowd size drink is 1st of all of that's kind of out the window now. right. yeah, it is. and you know, i think there are some people trying to make a about this online, but in reality, i think the weather conditions there's, they're saying the temperature is going to really be dangerously cold tomorrow. and so it's, it's sensible for people's health to have changed plans here, right? um, but how donald trump response to that and how he still tries to use this big spectacle as a way to draw attention to himself. you know, he's a, he's sort of a media mastermind. we know that he's very, very good at this type of thing. it's a, it's a very official moment. the follows protocol, you have to take the oath of office that's in the constitution. the rest of it is really driven, as you explain tomorrow by convention and, and decades, even centuries, really of a convention that's been built over time. it's also a political moment. and this there is there such a thing as a good, an alteration and a bad inauguration for the incoming president? can your wife to appear in all your ration or can you have a massive success?

well, you know, was it, was it benjamin harrison that gave the not your real speech and gave himself pneumonia and then died of side after a month later that wasn't so great. that was probably a pretty bad and observation. so we're avoiding that by moving things in doors for sure. but i'm also thinking about trumps. and all your ration in 2017 has 1st and all your ration where his, his speech was really dark. you know, we called them, he talks about the american burn, it goes of a tour, and i remember, i know i went back to really the only ones i remember from the speech as well. but it was, it was dark and foreboding and ominous. and it really kind of set people on edge when it is this opportunity for presidents to project some kind of message or connect with many people in the country or have this sort of unique moment of unity . and that's not what we saw him do. uh, back in 2017. so it's going to be interesting to see what tone he wants to set in the speech tomorrow with this slightly more intimate audience. that isn't,

that includes these foreign dignitaries and other sort of non political types. it'll be quite different than we've seen before. and it's interesting that he gets a redo because you're talking about american carnage. there's, he's done it once. there was the coverage, the media coverage of it. it was negative of overall. yeah. so he knows that, i mean what, it seems that you learn, you know, you learn your lessons, whether it's the president or anyone really. yeah. although we can surely expect him to do something that will be memorable or to draw attention because that's what he sort of known for. and what he's good at exactly what words he uses or what tone he strikes to try to make that happen, or who he shouts out in the speech. i don't know. i mean, i'm imagining a lot of different things, but i'd rather just really wait and see how it all fall, or i will wait to see what is the exact moment the joe biden stops being president, and donald trump becomes president. so according to the constitution, it is at 12 o'clock noon when this is swearing in it's supposed to happen and there's that what you're doing is because you place your hand on the bible. that's

right. he placed his hand on the bible, which is, is just customary, doesn't have to be a bible that it has been many times. and we now know which bibles he's going to use by the way. oh, i haven't, i haven't read so much. so it's actually, i was surprised. it's the same to bibles that you use the 1st the 1st time. so they're stacked. but if it's like the 1st time they'll be stacked on top one another minute. this family bible that he was given when he was young, 8 or 9 years old. and on top of that the abraham lincoln bible, which is the same one that brock obama used to both isn't all yours. oh, interesting. yeah. so that's of history in there, which is the type of thing that we expect to see during and operations presidents often want to make connections between what they are doing and what their predecessors have done. of course, donald trump is himself his own predecessor, for an successor. which makes things interesting because it's been non consecutive . he takes the oath of office, then they s corps, joe biden, pretty and in pretty soon asked about the s corps, joe biden, and the 1st lady jo button out of the capital. right. yeah. and they'll sort of, uh, i'm sure we'll have tv shots of that, but they will be driven away and he will no longer be president in the past. you

know, there is this luncheon that takes place in the capital. many members of congress, calm and other dignitaries and so forth. and in the past, the former presidents who attend also attend that luncheon in this year, the 3 former presidents living former prizes and will be at the ceremony, have opted not to attend that luncheon. so that's another, uh perhaps it's a snob, perhaps it's just a break with tradition. while i haven't read a lot of explanation as to why that's, that's happening. but we certainly will see that the focus come full circle back to donald trump. uh, as soon as that uh is taken, but the, the winds picking up were starting to get some, some um, what is it ice and the ice and snow falling into the studio. but um, pretty, pretty soon after the swearing it. and so we said joe and joe biden leave, and then the truck gets down to politics and he started signing things. yeah, well i mean, so he's going to go back to the, well, i think he's going to the capital one or reno right for some they're doing an indoor parade, whatever that means. and then so i guess as shortly after that,

by the time you're at, you know, tea time or dinner hour or whatever, he's in the oval office and you know, the, there's a whole team of people that move biden's, things out and trumps or things in, in the few hours while they're at this and there are, there is always the remarkable aspects of i know eric and trey areas are because you're actually seeing here the see the moving bands. yeah, exactly. it's um, so, but then he'll, you know, then he's ready to go to work. uh and, you know, probably signing, executive orders, 1st thing tomorrow. we know he wants to make some big splashy moves right off the bat that he's been saying for quite some time on things like integration and so forth. so we'll have to see exactly what comes out of that tomorrow. all right, well not long to wait. now less than 24 hours to go, it is almost 5 o'clock local time here in dc. and as you said, he becomes president at 12 noon pretty much on the 10 top victor, thank you so much, little pre brief before the organization. we'll see you again tomorrow. thank you

for your time. thank you very much. and with that, i'm going to hand it back to uh tom mccray back over to you in the thank you so much, sarah, will be fascinating. died it. be great to have you with us to take just throw it all. i want to take you now though to offer military prison in the occupied west bank, we are still waiting for the 90 pellets in the in prison. is that a set to be released as part of the ceasefire agreement? it is almost midnight the already a couple of minutes away from midnight on the 1st day of the $65.00. once that released to be transported by boss to ramallah in the occupied with bank and the women and children, prisoners of the 1st to be afraid and this initial phase of the deal. and we do understand that members of the red cross have entered the prison and uh, as i said, buses are waiting to transfer then uh, most of the women or children and uh, the 1st of nearly 2000 detainees. that will be released over

a 6 week period. now this comes off to uh, only a few hours up to 3 is really captives with release, from jobs that earlier today. their own stein break over a week and, and, and emily demari were transported by helicopter. in to tell of a to a hospital that being assessed by medical stuff and they will remain there for the next 4 days to undergo more testing, including mental health chicks up to 15 months being held captive in gaza. as we can see, the remarkable scenes as they were, were united with the families to stay with us started because we are going to have much more on the latest, including from a, from of a prison where we are expecting the prisoners to be released in the next couple of

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