nobody was buying oil because i said don't buy it. if you buy it, you are not doing any business with the united states. and hamas was not being funded. hezbollah was not being funded. nobody was being funded. there would infer have been october 7th. two weeks ago trying to destroy world shipping leans that's not going to happen. this weekend i ordered airstrikes senior isis leaders hiding in the caves of somalia and took them out. here in america began the process of deporting foreign terrorists and hamas sympathizers have our soil just as we have people who are extremely evil and we are sending them out of our country. they came from jails. they came from mental institutions and insane asylums and dumped into our country. they are gang members. we are getting them out at

numbers that nobody can actually believe. and every single country is taking those people back. they said they would never take them back and they are all taking them back. and they are taking them back very gladly. i recently signed an executive order combating the vile wave of anti-semitism that we have seen in the aftermath of the october 7th attacks. together, america and israel will renew the optimism that shines so brightly just four years ago it was really a bright, beautiful light. we will restore calm and stability to the region and expand prosperity, opportunity and hone to our nations and for all people the middle east, including the arab and muslim nations. very important. we want the arab and muslim nations to have peace and have tranquility and have great lives. i would like to now invite prime minister netanyahu to say a few

words we will take some questions afterwards. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. i'm honored that you invited me to be the first foreign leader to visit the white house in your second term. this is a testament to your friendship and support for the jewish state and the jewish people. i have said this before, i will say it again. you are the greatest friend israel has ever had in the white house. [applause] that's why the people of israel have such enormous respect for you. in your first term, you recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. you moved the american embassy there. you recognized israel's sovereignty over the golan heights. you withdrew from the disastrous iran nuclear deal. i remember we spoke about it. you said this is the worst deal

i have ever seen. i'm elected i'm walking out of it. that's exactly what you did. and i think it speaks loudly for just common sense. just looking at things and seeing them as they are. and, of course, you also brokered the groundbreaking abraham accords in which israel made peace with four arab states. did this in four months. nothing happened for a quarter of a century but in four months, we were able working together under your leadership to have four historic peace accords. and now, now in the first days of your second term, you picked up right where you left off. your leadership helped bring our hostages home. among them american citizens. you freed up munitions that have been withheld from israel. they have been withheld from israel in the midst of a seven front war for our existence. and you just freed it.

you ended unjust sanctions against law abiding israeli citizens. you boldly confronted the scourge of still. anti-semitism. you stopped funding as you just said international organizations like unrwa that support and fund terrorists. and today, you renewed the maximum pressure campaign against iran. ladies and gentlemen, all this in just two weeks. can we imagine where we will be in four years? i can. i know you can, mr. president. for our part, we in israel have been pretty busy, too. since the horrendous october 7th attack, we have been fighting our common enemies and changing the face of the middle east. on that infamous day, hamas monsters savagely murdered 1200

innocent people, including more than 40 americans. they beheaded men. they raped women. they burned babies alive they took 251 people hostage to the dungeons of gaza. and after this worst attack on jews since the holocaust, iran and its henchmen in the middle east were absolutely ecstatic and praised the massacre sinwar said that israel was finished. nasrallah boasted that israel was here's what he said as feeble as a spider's web. well, mr. president, haniyeh is gone, sinwar is gone. nasrallah is gone. we have devastated hamas. we disseminated hezbollah. redestroyed remaining armaments and crippled iran's air

defenses. and, in doing this, we have defeated some of america's worst enemies. we took out terrorists who were wanted for decades for shedding rivers of american blood. including the blood of 241 marines murdered in beirut: we accomplished all of this with the inadammable spirit of our people and boundless courage of our soldiers. the bible says that the people of israel shall rise like lions and boy did we rise today judah heard throughout the middle east. as we discussed, mr. president, to secure our future and bring peace to our region in gaza

israel has three goals, destroy hamas' military and governing capabilities, secure the release of all of our hostages and ensure that gaza never again poses a threat to israel i believe, mr. president, your willingness to puncture conventional thinking, thinking failed time and time and time again. your willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas who help us achieve all these goals. i have seen you do this many times. you cut to the chase. you see things others refuse to see. you say things others refuse to say. and on after the jaws drop, people scratch their heads, and they say, you know, he's right. and this is the kind of thinking that enabled us to bring the abraham accords. this is the kind of thinking that will reshape the middle

east and bring peace. we also -- we also see eye to eye on iran. that's the same iran that tried to kill us both. they tried to kill you, mr. president they tried through their proxies to kill me. committed to rolling back iran's aggression in the region and ensuring that iran never develops a nuclear weapon. mr. president mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, israel will end the war by winning the war. israel's victory will be america's victory we will not only win the war working together we will win the peace. with your leadership, mr. president and our partnership, i believe that we will forge a brilliant future or our region and bring our great alliance to even greater.

thank you. >> thank you very much, bibi, thank you. j.d. vance, everybody. please, vice president, stand up. doing a good job working on all things but this in particular. we will take some questions, please. yes, ma'am, go ahead, please. go ahead. yeah. go ahead. >> mr. president, can a normalization deal with saudi arabia be achieved without the acknowledgment of the palestinian state. that's that goes for you too, mr. prime minister. mr. president, given what you have said about gaza, should the u.s. send troops to help secure the security vacuum? >> so, saudi arabia is going to be very helpful and they have been very helpful. they want peace in the middle east. it's very simple would know their leader and leaders very well they are wonderful people and they want peace in the middle east. as far as gaza is concerned, we will do what is necessary. if it's necessary, we will do

that we will take over that piece and develop and it create thousands and thousands of jobs. something the entire middle east can be very proud of. everybody feels that continuing will the same process that's gone on forever over and over again and then it starts and then the killing starts. and all of the other problems start. and you end up in the same place and we don't want to see that happen. so, by the united states with its stability and strength, owning it especially the strength that we are developing and developed over the last fairly short period of time, i would say really since the election, i think we will be a great keeper of something that is very, very strong, very powerful, and very, very good for the area. not just for israel, for the entire middle east, very important. and we will, again, have thousands of jobs. and they will be jobs for everyone, not for a specific group of people but for everybody. okay?

please. >> i think peace between israel and saudi arabia is not only feasible, i think it's going to happen. i think if we had another half a year in your first term, it would have already happened. >> true, many, many more. i agree. many more nations. >> i think you can't prejudge and preguess how we'll achieve it, but i'm committed to achieving it. i know the president is committed to achieving it. i think the saudi leadership is interested to achieve it. so, we'll give it a good shot and i think we will succeed. >> yeah, please. go ahead. >> [inaudible] >> well, i can't tell you whether or not the cease-fire will hold. we have done, i think a very

masterful job. we weren't helped very much by the biden administration. i can tell you that. but, we have gotten quite a few hostages out. we're going to get more out. but we are dealing with very complex people. and we are going to see whether or not it holds. we certainly want to have more come out. they have come out damaged in many ways, damaged, very damaged people. but they are going to get better and they are going to be strong and they are going to have a good life. and we hope to get as many as possible out. whether or not it holds, i don't know. we hope it holds. we hope it holds. >> i think that the appropriate time, which i think will enable us to really investigate what happens, what were the causes of the failures by an independent commission that will be accepted by the majority of the people. we don't want accepted by one half of the people and not the other. i think we should have it.

and we should find out exactly what happened. i'm insisting on it and, believe me, it will surprise a lot of people when it happens. [shouting questions] >> kelly? kelly, go ahead. >> mr. president, you are talking about -- thank you, mr. president and mr. prime minister. you are talking tonight about the united states taking over a sovereign territory. what authority would allow you to do that? are you talking about a permanent occupation there, redevelopment? and, mr. prime minister, do you see this idea as a way to expand the boundaries of israel and to have a longer piece even though the israeli people know how important that land is to you and your citizens, just as the space is inherited by the palestinians as well? >> i do see a long term ownership position. and i see it bringing great

stability to that part of the middle east and maybe the entire middle east: everybody has spoken to. this was not a decision made lightly. everybody i have spoken to loves the idea of the united states owning that piece of land developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really imag magnificent area noy could know. although see is death and destruction and rawble and demolished buildings falling all over. it's a terrible sight. i have studied it -- i have studied this very closely over a lot of months. and i have teen it from different angle. it's a very dangerous place to be. it's only going to get worse talking about from the highest level of leadership gotten tremendous praise. and if the united states can help to bring stability and peace in the middle east, we will do that bibi?

>> i mention again, tonight our three goals. the third goal is to make sure that gaza never poses a threat to israel again. president trump is taking to a much higher level. he sees a different -- he sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism. so many attacks against us. so many -- some trials and so many tribulations. he has a different idea. and i think it's worth paying attention to this. we're talking about it. he is exploring it with his people. with his staff. i think it's something that could change history and it's worthwhile really pursuing this avenue. >> go ahead. >> can you hear me? >> yeah. >> gaza again obviously all the

hostages, american soldier [inaudible] how will you be sure that all the hostages. >> we're working very hard to get all the hostages. the word is all and we are working very hard. so far it's been moving along fairly rapidly, pretty much on schedule. it's -- i would love to have them all out at one time and we are taking them out. tomorrow more will be released and over the days more. we are going to a phase 2. we would like to get all of the hostages. and if we don't, it will just make us somewhat more violent. i will tell you that. because they would have broken their word. mr. witkoff and his entire group have been working 24 hours around the clock. promises have been made to them. we will see whether or not those

promises will be kept. we want all the hostages. that's right. >> how much time do you think it will take? [shouting questions] >> mr. president, do you support israeli sovereignty against many believe biblical homeland of the jewish people? >> we are discussing that with many of your representatives. yoyou're represented very well d people do like the idea. but we haven't taken a position on it yet. but we will be -- we will be making an announcement probably on that very specific topic over the next four weeks. [shouting questions] >> go ahead, please. please. >> thank you so much, mr. president. you just said that you think all -- all the palestinians should be relocated to other countries. does that mean that you do not support a two-state solution? >> it doesn't mean anything about a two state or one state or any other state. it means that we want to have --

we want to give people a chance at life. they have never had a chance at life because the gaza strip has been a hell hole for people living there. it's been horrible. hamas has made it so bad, so bad. so dangerous. so unfair to people. and by doing what i'm recommending that we do, it's a very strong recommendation but it is a strong recommendation, by doing that, we think we're going to bring, perhaps, great peace to long beyond this area. and i have to stress this is not for israel, this is for everybody in the middle east. arabs, muslims, this is for everybody. this would be where they can partake in terms of jobs and living and all of the other benefits. and i think it's very important. it just doesn't work the other way. you can't keep trying. they just -- has been going along for so many decades. you can't even count. you just can't keep doing. you have to learn from history. you can't keep doing the same mistake over and over again. gaza is a hell hole right now.

it was before the bombing started, frankly. we're going to give people a chance to live in a beautiful community that's safe and secure. and i think you're going to see tremendous -- a tremendous outflowing of support. i can tell you i spoke to other leaders of countries in the middle east and they love the idea. they say it would really bring stability. what we need is stability. yes, sir, please. go ahead. >> thank you. committed to sanctions despite the movement the question of the prime minister as well. the president has been very clear about hesitate desire achieve a deal with saudi arabia. how do you settle this if the war against hamas in the future? go ahead, bibi. >> i think everybody understands just as the president fought and defeated al-qaeda.

and isis. that we can't leave hamas there because hamas will continue the battle to destroy israel. they will do -- you know, in this temporary cease-fire. one of the leaders comes out. and do you know what he says? we're going to do october 7th again. except we will do it bigger so obviously, you can't talk about peace neither with hamas or in the middle east if this, you know, toxic murderous organization is left standing any more than you could make peace in europe after world war ii if the nazi regime is left standing and the nazi army was left standing. you want a different future? you have to knock out the people who want to destroy you and destroy peace. that's what we're going to do. i think that will also bring, usher in, actually, the peace with saudi arabia and with others and i think there will be others, too. >> yes, ma'am, go ahead.

[inaudible] do you have any plan afghanistan situation? are you able to recognize taliban because afghan journalist. suffered woman. what's your future for the afghan people. >> i have a little hard time understanding you. where are you from? >> afghanistan. >> actually, it's a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent. the only problem is i can't understand a word you are saying. but i just say this. good luck. live in peace. go ahead. please. that's okay. yeah. please. >> you said earlier today implement the on iran. indicate that you were willing to negotiate with them. what would that look like and are you in conversations with them and prime minister? >> i hated doing it. i want iran to be peaceful and

successful. i hated doing it. i did it once before. and we brought them down to a level where they weren't able to give any money. they had to survive themselves. and they had no money. they were essentially broke. and they had no money for, as i said, hezbollah. they had no money for hamas. they had no money for any form of terror. the 28 -- if you call it the 28 sites of terror. they had no money for any of it. they had to do their own and focus on their own well-being. and i hated to do it then and i hate to do it just as much now. and i say this and i say this to iran who is listening very intently. i would love to be able to make a great deal. a deal where you can get on with your lives and you'll do wonderfully. you will do wonderfully, incredible people, dis industri, beautiful group of people in iran. i know them well.

i have many friends from iran and many friends that are americans from iran and very proud of iran. i hated to do it just so you understand he hope we will be able to do something so it doesn't end up in a very catastrophic situation. i don't want to see that happen. [shouting questions] >> i really want to see peace. i hope we are able to do it. they can't have a nuclear weapon. very simple. i'm not putting restrictions. they cannot have -- one thing, they cannot have a nuclear weapon. and if i think they have a nuclear weapon despite what i just said, i think that's going to be very unfortunate for them if on the other hand they can convince us that they won't -- and i hope they can. it's actually very easy to do. i think they can have a unbelievable future. yeah. please, sir. go ahead. >> >> you just laid out your plan for afghanistan. >> yes. >> can you ukraine.

>> for ukraine? >> for ukraine, yes. >> you consider yourself a strong leader. you blamed your predecessor for letting russia to take over ukraine. will you demand from putin to get out of ukraine from sovereign territory of ukraine? >> so, we are dealing right now on the subject. i don't want to spend a lot of time because we are here for another reason, we are having very good talks, constructive talks on ukraine and talking to the russians. we are talking to the ukrainian leadership. it would have never happened. that would have never happened. it should have never happened. i get reports every week the number of soldiers, mostly soldiers now. the cities have within largely demolished. you talk about very sad site to see. gaza, many cities look as bad as gaza and worse what has hand to them. i want to see that end. i want to see it end for one

simple reason, the life of young people being absolutely owe the little bit rated on both sides. you probably have 700,000 ukrainian soldiers dead. 800,000, maybe more russian soldiers dead. it's very flat land. and the only thing going to stop a bullet is a human body. in this case usually soldiers. and the numbers are staggering. when you hear the real numbers in ukraine, what the numbers are and this doesn't include the cities that have been demolished and all of the people that were killed. so i want to see it stopped. we're having very good talks and i think we're going to get it -- i think something will be, hopefully dramatically it will rise above everything. you have to. you can't let this continue. this is an absolute slaughter that's taking place on the beautiful farm lands of ukraine and we have stop it. we can't let this continue. it's a human -- [shouting questions] it is a human tragedy. and we're going to try very hard

to stop it. yeah, please, go ahead. sir. >> thank you very much. >> mr. president, what's your view about regional change you want to do and what's your view on president trump want iran and military stance towards? >> go ahead, bibi, would. >> i think the president just said something i think is the pivot of everything we are talking about. he said iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. we fully agree with that. if this goal can be achieved by maximum pressure campaign so be it. i think the most important thing is to focus on the goal which the president just did and i fully agree with him. [shouting questions] >> i said it and he said it very

well. it's a campaign of pressure to see if we can get something done he doesn't want to do what some people think will automatically happen. very difficult people to deal with as you know. if we could solve this problem without warfare, without all of the things that you have been witnessing over the last number of years, it would be, i think it would be a tremendous thing. [shouting questions] >> go ahead, please. >> do you have any to visit. >> visit where? >> israel and gaza. >> i love israel. i will visit there and i will visit gaza and visit saudi arabia. and i will visit other places all over the middle east. the middle east is incredible place so vibrant, so -- it's just one of the really beautiful places with great people. and i think a lot of bad leadership has taken place in the middle east. it's allowed this to happen and

that includes by the american side by the way. we should have never got in there a long time ago, spent trillions of dollars and created so much death. so it includes americans. yeah i will be visiting a lot of places in the middle east. i have been invited everywhere but i will be visiting some, okay. [shouting questions] >> let's go. kaitlin, go ahead. >> thank you so much. >> katy go ahead. >> on what you were saying there. >> go ahead, please. >> just to follow up on what you were saying about the leading gaza and going to other country the. one, where exactly are you suggesting they should go? two should you say they should return after it's rebuilt and if not who do you envision living there. >> i envision a world, people living there the world's people. i think you will make that into an international, unbelievable place. i think the potential in the gaza strip is unbelievable. and i think the entire world

representatives from all over the world will be there and they will palestinians also. palestinians will live there many people will live there they tried the other and they have tried it for decades and decades and decades. it's not going to work. it didn't work. it will never work. and you have to learn from history. history has -- can't just let it keep repeating itself we have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. and i don't want to be cute. i don't want to be a wise guy. but the rivera of the middle east, this could be something that could be -- this could be so magnificent but, more importantly than that, is the people that have been absolutely destroyed, that live there now could live in peace in a much better situation because they are living in hell those people will now be able to live in peace. we will make sure that it's done world class. it will be wonderful for the people. palestinians, palestinians

mostly we are talking about and i have a feeling that despite them saying no you i have a feeling that the king in jordan and the general, president. but that the general in egypt will open their hearts and give us the kind of land that we need get this done. and people can live in will ha harmony and in peace. thank you all very much. thank you, thank you very much. thank you. >> laura: president trump wrapping up a joint press conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. a lot of ground covered. i'm laura ingraham. welcome to the ingraham angle from washington tonight. let'sreset the big news from tonight. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip and we will do a job with it, too. we will own it. and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out. create an economic development

that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. do a real job. do something different, just can't go back. if you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years. >> laura: joining me now is victoria coates former trump deputy national security adviser. victoria, this has been another day of nonstop news. your reaction to the president's proposal that the u.s. essentially take over the gaza strip? >> well, laura, good to be with you. it's been another momentous day in i would say the most momentous first two weeks of any president's tenure. and today we heard president trump come out and say what no american has had the courage to say before. which is that the united states is willing to step in here and play the leadership role we need to play the situation in gaza is untenable. what happened on october 7th of

2023 cannot happen again. and the only way to ensure that is to break the paradigm to create a new mold. i think that's what he was proposing today. in concert with prime minister netanyahu great to see them together again at the white house last time they came together and had some of these discussions we got the abraham accords. i think this is a great way to get the conversation going. >> laura: people have to remember that the palestinian control of the gaza strip is a recent phenomenon. people that aren't steeped in the history of the middle east as tumultuous as it is may think how can do you this? this is a homeland going back -- no, this was recently administered as under the authority of the palestinian authority. but, that stemmed ultimately from the as wald accords, victoria. we can see failing that

drocketly or indirectly and this is really ground zero for utter failure and destruction failure is the words. make them into something they are not a nation state. until they build institutions. until they build institutional memory, this simply isn't going to work. so reporters insisting that the president embrace the two state solution, this is failed for half a century. and so i think what he is saying is we will not go down this path again. by the same people who told us that we couldn't get to peace deals between israel and muslim neighbors until we got to a palestinian deal 10 years ago, they were wrong, these people are wrong, too. and it has always been my hope,

there may be some palestinians who say, hey, this is a good deal: real estate guy. he knows a great piece of land when he sees it. maybe he could building is here. and maybe we can get some of those institutions, but they don't have them now and pretending that they do will just lead us to another round ever failure. >> but you can hear the chorus of criticism it began earlier today. and it's continued all day long that this is just trump's world to remake and shape as he sees fit. let's listen. president trump parroting talking points out of israel playbook. >> ethnic cleansing of palestinians. that's precisely what the u.s. president is doing in all of this rhetoric. >> this is the president who says outrageous things because he thinks it always will result in the deal. i'm not sure that works as well in the middle east what he just

said this would be primarily when we built the place where palestinians would love to live because it would be finally safe and not a launching pad for more terror attacks. >> and interestingly, those were some of the same characters who in 2017, when the president made the announcement about the move of the u.s. ambassador from tel aviv to jerusalem were insist at this particular time that the sky was going to fall and the streets were going to run with blood and israel didn't want this to happen and would be attacked and, again, these are talking points from the far israeli right. well, that didn't out to be the case. ambassador freidman and president trump and gerald kushner and there was peace in jerusalem that day. now, cnn, which you showed, showed riots in gaza, miles and miles away. but jerusalem was at peace that day. it was a great day for jerusalem. it was a day of truce. i think that's what today was at the white house.

and as you say what president trump is offering the palestinians is what he has always offered them. peace through prosperity. he wants them to have a better future. it's theirs to take. >> laura: all right. victoria, thanks so much. joining me now dan hoffman former cia station chief. moscow, iraq, pakistan, also a fox news contributor. dan, i also hear the criticism, perhaps, from some on the right, who would say wait a second, whoa, whoa, wait a second. you all criticized george w. bush for nation building. what is this? what will this be? how is this not de facto nation building and to that you would say? i guess dan can't hear us. we will grab him in a moment. go to charlie hurt. co-host of "fox & friends weekend." charlie, i think you may have heard what i just said.

how would this not also be considered at least perilously close to nation building? >> charlie: great question especially when you consider donald trump's personal record on the issue of nation building going back decades as you have pointed out many times he has been against that turned out to be right about iraq and he reminded people just a few minutes ago about how he was right about going into the foolishness of iraq. whether or not this happens though or not, it's another reminder of you have got donald trump is a shock to the system he is always a shock to the system. is he a visionary and he looks at a problem and intractable problem that's been going on our entire lives and he says let's do something different so whether or not this actually wind up becoming a situation

where there is nation building. by the way if this is a nation building jaunt, i can guarantee you he intends to get something out of it, which would be a radical departure. >> laura: better get paid first. >> earlier exploits. >> charlie: exactly. as he said he is going to -- wants to turn it into the river wrath the middle east if it's the rivera of the middle east, he will own it and as he said he will own it he wants americans to get something out of it. again, i just keep going back to the initial part of this, which is it is donald trump looking at an intractable problem and come up with a completely new unthought of solution that tends to sort of break free people's old calcified thinking. as bibi himself said a minute ago. you know, the -- you know, donald trump proposes a solution and after they pick their jaws up off the floor.

they scratch their heads and say wait a minute, maybe this makes a lot of sense. and i just think that this is kind of interesting what what we saw tonight is historic thing. and i don't know when americans are building monuments to donald trump as the most consequential president of the past 100 years. i don't think our grandchildren will fully appreciate just how consequential the guy is. and just what a radical departure he is for both democrats and republicans of the past 100 years who have been presidents who are cautious and careful. and this guy wants to be consequential and solve problems. >> laura: i think it's so foreign to us to hear this that, wait a second. >> we actually may solve a problem we actually may make money on it.

get repaid for the tens of billions of dollars for the last few years we have dumped into the middle east ands trillions we have spent over the years. when we go iraq, we break it. and then we don't get the oil leases or any of the rebuild and wheen while we leave our equipment there, tens of billions of dollars in afghanistan for what? what did we get in either of those places except a massive refugee crisis in europe, the creation of isis and a stronger iran? so, that didn't work everyone watching. details are going to matter. if democrats get control in the midterms you can expect and i will get into this later if we have time. subpoenas are going to start flying. self-dealing contracts. they will try nail trump to the wall if they lose the house of representatives. they better do this right. early stages. we will see i like the fact that it's not money down a rat hole

and a launching pad for terror which is what we have had and we have dealt with for so many years and i think americans are sick of it. we don't want to be bogged down in the middle east. and if this is a way to get out of that, then that's a good thing. >> charlie: of course, laura, this comes at a end of a tuesday, a tuesday on which he has troops to the border ending the human catastrophe that the previous administration left him. it's on a day that he has shut down the usaid and on the day he has instructed his education secretary to shut down the department that he has just made her the secretary of. all in one day on the second tuesday of his administration. >> laura: this is dodge ball for the bureaucracy. which one are we going to take now? charlie, great to see you. >> they don't know where to go. >> laura: thanks man for coming on with us. joining us now senior white house correspondent peter doocy. starting the show with an angle

about doge and what they're up against and what they're doing. we then went to this story. now it's going to be the riviera on the gaza strip. this is where we are at the end of a day. >> peter: one of the very surprising things about this announcement was doge, so much of the talk talk shrinking the size of the federal government and shrinking federal spending to take over gaza would probably be really expensive. we did not get to the dollars and cents of it during this press conference tonight. something else that we don't know. who came up with this plan and when did they come up with it because earlier in the day, president trump was still talking about gaza, basically as a wasteland, as a destruction site. his team was out there on the shows and background call saying 10 to 15 years before anything can be done there the president never mentioned that the united states was going to take over gaza and so this could be, again, first draft history what we are working on here. this could be something that he and netanyahu came up with just

now and maybe that is the reason why we were so delayed hear. because president trump wanted to you hide a major announcement about u.s. foreign policy in his prepared statement before taking questions. but, it's something that -- over the last couple of weeks we have heard the president say that he thinks gaza is beautiful and best weather. today as you mentioned rivera in the middle east it. sounds like he has been talking about it somewhere they should build a sandals now where someone in the united states should go plant a flag. >> laura: hotel development for western interest that maybe could bring some disability to the area to a u.s. takeover of gaza. things can happen where conversations are had and people get a little carried away. maybe this has been batted

around for a little longer than we know, peter. does it not get netanyahu potentially out of political trouble at home, peter. i know you have reported on that. >> it depends on how badly the israeli people, some of whom are really steamed at netanyahu for the way things have been going the last couple months want to have a united states territory, occupied territory right next door. common sense would say they would rather have american troops than hamas guys launching stuff over the fence every day. when you look at the history of donald trump since long before he got into politics he was one of the most vocal critics kind of in the middle the way that bush was handling the iraq war and we should be in quagmires and until a half an hour ago he was describing gaza as a place that is just -- that has always had these problems. it is very surprising to hear that he thinks a united states

takeover would help. again, we don't know. if i would have been recognized, i would have asked how bad do you want it? let's gets secretary hegseth up here. how many troops is it going to take and go and do something that the israelis have been trying to do for over a year. >> laura: yeah. we are out of money the thought would be would be to make money there. but, the criticism, peter, which i know we're going to hear is does this mean you are a flip flopper on nation building? that's the criticism i'm sure they are going to get yesterdayy fready.exfangsism. >> theme of trump 47. panama can ad in a, greenland, gaza. i don't know what it's going to be next week. >> laura: all right. peter, great to see you another. dan hough amanda. he is also a fox news

contributor. >> all right. dan very quickly. addressed the idea of iran getting closer to a nirk, watch. >> they cannot have a nuclear weapon. very simple. they cannot have. one thing they cannot have a nuclear weapon. if i think think have a nuclear weapon divide what i just said i think that will be unfortunate for them. >> dan, he is said of this before but you it gaza announcement or gaza proposal. how significant? >> it's very significant for the president to hosts a his first visit prime minister netanyahu. and to focus not only on gaza and building the relationship between israel and saudi arabia but delivering this blunt stark warning to iran. nuclear threshold state with a pretty effective ballistic missile capability. that was about a clear a warning as you are going to hear. he wasn't specific about what we do about it.

but standing there at the podium, next to the prime minister of israel is pretty clear that we are aligned very, very closely with israel to prevent iran from having a nuclear weapon. >> laura: and, dan, i would be remiss in not getting your take on the news of the night which is a u.s. takeover of gaza and a takeover of the rebuild of gaza. which president trump likened in the future to a new middle east rivera. >> yeah, didn't have that one on my bingo card tonight, laura. i will tell you this, i will tell you, this it's a lofty, long-term goal. it's the post reconstruction phase. we're not there yet. hamas is not destroyed. still thousands of hamas fighters we have to deal with before we get close to this. anyone worrying about this happening tomorrow. having to staff it out and be concerned about how much u.s. blood and treasure we might spill in gaza, what the plan might look like, this is the president issuing a directive

not just to the world but specifically to now new administration about where he is sees us heading in the middle east, it's not going to happen in the very near term. there's a lot of steps we have got to take to get there. >> laura: all right, dan, thank you so much. we will take a quick break and right back with more coverage of this another historic press conference. the big news? a u.s. takeover of gaza. ♪

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♪ >> we have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal and i don't want to be cute. i don't want to be a wise guy, but the rivera of the middle east. this could be something that could be so -- this could be so magnificent. but. >> laura: perhaps one of the most consequential news conferences in decades, trump is once again without a doubt upset the apple cart, set in motion a new era of what he hopes is reconciliation by calling out the old thinking on gaza and israel and putting everyone in the middle east on notice. joining us now the ceo of axle springer, author of dealings with dictators. who has done a lot on the israeli issue. it's great to see you. first, your reaction to trump's plan to relocate the gazans and

take over gaza for rebuilding? >> >> thanks, laura, for having me on. what exactly a takeover means i don't know. but one thing is for sure rewarded for that also not unusual in history if you start a war and you lose it that you lose territory. i think it is in any case a possibility to stabilize the situation. i'm very much in favor of the concept to free palestine, free palestine from hamas. and if that move contributes to that, maybe it stabilizes the situation. it reminds me a little bit of the decision of last administration of trump when he moved the embassy to jerusalem. the world said well now the

middle east is going to explode. the opposite happened. so let's see. >> laura: well, and with the abraham accords and everything that he tried to do to change this dynamic that has been so deadly for so long and i think there's a weariness, mathias on the part of the public middle east and it's understandable as we are alive with israel strongly can still a deep weariness about the money we spent and the blood shed that continues. >> i very much understand that i have to tell you, laura, that for us, for as a company. this is a very particular topic. i mean, this company was founded on the ashes of the holocaust. we have core values in our company. one of them is the support of the state of israel and the jewish people and the fight how this horrible attack on

october 7th let's global rise of anti-semitism that is totally inconceivable. and it is really turning upside down perpetrate victims and, perhaps, in that spirit, it is not about one specific conflict. it's about a very, very fundamental prince. fund principle. free society model. that's very much in our own interest as americans and as europeans. >> laura: and, germany's response to this with alls domestic politics watching afd and jockeying for power wrestling with populism and old christian write old guard, what do you expect the reaction among the elites in germany? >> well, i think in germany, given its history and horrible deeds during the second world war and the holocaust, is a bipartisan consensus that we

support the right of existence of israel. then, of course, you have lively debates about decisions of specific government but this general idea, i think is very profound and i think that's not going to change. >> laura: i'm looking forward to our further conversations about how the eu will work ultimately with president trump, contrary to all the predictions of doom and gloom, mathias, thank you so much for joining us. thank you for coming on. this is a fox news alert. trump's nominee for attorney general president obama administration was just confirmed by a vote of 54 to 46. joining me now chris bedford author of "beltway brief" lone democrat to vote for bondi was senator fetterman of pennsylvania. it's frankly despicable that more democrats didn't vote for her. she is imminently qualified for this job which once again shows you that this is about politics with the minority party right now.

>> it is. and i actually wrote a beltway brief newsletter about this on monday whereas you compare to biden's picks. all of his cabinet picks up through this week of february 2021, only two republicans voted against all of them as senator ted cruz and josh hawley, neither of whom ranking members at the time or committee chairs at the time. now if you look at it, there are a dozen democrats, including ranking members and powerful democrats who pretend to ask serious questions of nominees who have voted against every single one of donald trump's nominees. they don't care about him having a cabinet. right now they are talking about holding up nominations to the state department so that money can go to foreign countries. we're dealing with an extremely obstructionist party. >> we always think of all the midterms are going to be blood letting for republicans because the party in power often loses seats in the midterms. but, given how things are going. given how doge and musk and vance and the whole crew are

finding so much waste. more fraud, undoubtedly they will find abuse, couldn't this actually be a real opening for republicans with this team in place to build on this momentum that they found in 2024, chris? that's how if things keep going the way they are going, i think they are going to get more, not less popular. >> it certainly could. people in d.c. keep predicting a backlash to elon musk cuts. but people in d.c. haven't really understood that the pressure that put. has been growing. dissatisfaction amongst the american people what is going on in washington, d.c. has been growing. i don't think that backlash growing like the conventional wisdom. after tonight's presser things might move slowly. checkpoints in the middle east. calculus. right now the president is extremely popular.

>> laura: again. if you remain popular, you your agenda can be gradually more and more bold, chris. right? we have a lot of presidents are hesitant to exercise their executive authority. at home. not talking about foreign affairs. but, i think president trump gets more bold as time goes on and that's going to piss off all the right people, i think it's just going to keep this juggernaut going. that's how i see it, real quick, 10 seconds. >> he is very lucky to have executive agenda. very little he needs the congress except fund border security and deportations. he spent four years in the wilderness getting sharper. democrats will regret the rest of their lives the way they treated him. >> laura: thank you so much for joining us late in the show. that's it for us tonight. jesse is >> ♪ ♪