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the framework, initially floated by president trump's special envoy steve witkoff, would pause fightingring the muslim holy month of ramadan and thejewish passover holiday in april. but it's unclear whether hamas has agreed to the terms, which would see half of the remaining israeli hostages — both dead and living released. israel's announcement came minutes after a deadline to renew phase one of the ceasefire expired. rallies in tel aviv continued late into the night saturday, calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu's government to do more to free all remaining hostages, and strike a long—lasting ceasefire deal. for more analysis, i spoke to aaron david miller, senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace and a former senior advisor for arab—israeli negotiations at the us state department. i want to ask first of all anout the announcement. israel has approved about a 42—day extension of phase one, an exchange for the release of half of the remaining hostages being held by hamas. what you make of this announcement here? does this mean that we have an extension? f

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steve witkoff's house.ted administration supporting israel, supporting our hostages to come home, also telling hamas you will not govern gaza. you are responsible for american blood on your hands. the biden administration really never made them pay for the american blood and hostages and we are giving them the weapons they need to finish the fight, forbid that is what it comes to, but we are hoping for peace. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. we are expecting to see and hear from president trump himself with a major investment announcement. we are going to take you there live. he could certainly take questions. plus this. >> are you ready to fight to save our city? i know that i am. let's do it. let's do it together, and let's do it now. >> john: like the phoenix rising from the ashes, andrew cuomo seeking a political comeback after resigning in disgrace. but will his critics have a field day? on his chances and their race for mayor of new york city. on hallow this year? you bet brother. stay prayed up. yea

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as our secretary of state in the lead with the negotiations is -- >> is he in the lead or is it steve witkoffi believe zelenskyy needs to trust him. he needs to not have this precondition of american security guarantees, which are not coming. ukraine has been before every president since clinton. clinton in the issue of the b budapest -- bush, every american president declined to give american security guarantees as a precondition to any negotiations. >> which is why zelenskyy is saying, give them to me now because nothing stopped them before. >> peace negotiations need to occur. then the construct of what security guarantees need to be and what needs to be put in place. >> i want to ask you, cbs has confirmed that defense secretary heg sseth has ordered to halt cyber negotiations with russia. >> i'm unaware of that. i don't believe -- there are too many -- i'm certain there are too many considerations to be accurate so blanket. >> they have ordered cyber command to halt cyber operations. it's the link a-- >> considering what i know what russia is doing, i'm certain that's not an accurate sta

in the lead with these negotiations, is very -- >> is he in the lead with negotiations or is it steve witkoffs, i'm very confident of his strength, he has commenced the negotiations. i believe that zelenskyy needs to trust him and he needs to not have this precondition of american security guarantees which are not coming. remember, ukraine has been before every president since clinton. clinton, you know, in the issue of the budapest, when they were giving up nuclear weapons. obama, you know, bush, everybody has had ukraine before -- mempb president has declined to give american security guarantees as a precondition to any negotiations. >> which is why zelenskyy is saying, give them to me now, because nothing stopped them before. >> the peace negotiations, these are -- and then we need to look at what are the constructs of what security guarantees need to be and what that needs to be put in place. >> i want to ask you your position on armed services. cbs has confirmed that defense secretary hegseth has ordered cyber command to temporarily halt cyber operations and planning against russia. "the

latest on the war in gaza is that israel announced it has accepted proposal by middle east envoy steve witkoffhat would see halfful the 58 hostages still in gaza released on first day and give the two sides until april to come to final agreement. hamas has not agreed to that deal and israel says it is stopping aid. what happens next? >> hamas will have to decide if they want to continue to go forward. if they continue to delay moving forward with hostages swaps, i think you will see israel go back into gaza and declare war against on hamas. hamas feels if they give away more hostages, they have lost their leverage and this is a bit of a dilemma here. how does israel move forward and how does hamas decide what their best interests are if they don't have a real break on the ability of israelis to come in and go back to war with hamas. >> carley: a whole lot going on around the world. thank you, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> carley: to a fox news alert. six people who survived being held aptive by hamas and released under current agreement are coming to the united states, for meetings with u

week, secretary of state marco rubio, national security adviser michael waltz, and special envoy steve witkoff conducted successful talks in saudi arabia with the delegation from russia. i'd like to thank the kingdom of saudi arabia and the king, mohammed, great people. really working hard to get this done. our focus is on achieving a ceasefire as soon as possible and ultimately a permanent peace. my meeting with president macron today was another important step forward in that sphere because he's been very much involved right from the beginning of trying to get it over with. we're going to get it done. i believe that emanuel agrees with me on many of the most important issues, chief among them is,s the right time, maybe the only time, you know. that's a very interesting and horrible situation that could evolve into a third world war. we're not going to let that happen. should have never started but it did. and what a mess. what a horrible, bloody mess. i'm also pleased that president macron agrees that the cost and burden of securing the peace must be borne by the nations of europe, not alone

israeli prime minister netanyahu claims the extension is the idea of mideast envoy steve witkoff withtion as new talks begin again in cairo about a modified version of that extension and maybe a crucial phase two of this agreement. as a reminder of the suffering here, the remains of the oldest hostage held by hamas, 8 an 87-year-old returned last week, was brought to his final resting place today. the funeral route was lined with people, and a yule i have, israeli -- eulogy, president herzog apologized to the family for not being able to save their loved one. passover is next month. many are praying there will be peace around for that period along with gains towards a resolution of the conflict. that's a tall order. back to you. jon: tall order, indeed. let's hope. greg palkot in tel aviv, thank you. ♪ ♪ jon: homeland security secretary kristi noem says illegal border crossings last month were the lowest ever recorded. the trump administration says it's because of the president's crackdown on border security, and it's not resting on those laurels. the pentagon ordering up to 3,000 mor

subordinates, whether it's between secretary rubio and the foreign minister, or whether it's between steve witkoff and president zelenskyy, but there is a lot of talking going on right now. i think that now an apology has to be curated. i believe that president zelenskyy thought, when he left ukraine and flew to washington, he thought he could either schmooze trump to including security guarantees or if that failed bully him or embarrass him, i guess, into including security guarantees by showing those awful pictures, you know, of dead ukrainians in the oval office. of course, neither of those worked. he should have read the room better. >> harris: pressure to reject the mineral deal. it talks about a friday tweet or post on x from democratic senator chris murphy posted right after his meeting with zelenskyy and right before president trump and it says just finished a meeting with the president zelenskyy here in washington. he confirmed the ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for ukraine. i can tell yo

steve witkoff came back from that meeting. and how'd that go? went pretty well for someone headline parroting putin and trump. witkoff says russia was provoked into invading ukraine. headline trump envoy can't name a single concession russia will make in peace deal. what does it seem like is going on here? imagine if a foreign adversary. imagine if the putin government somehow could just do a thought experiment. imagine they could somehow exert control or influence over the government of the united states. what do you think the putin government would have the us government do if he could control it? what kind of headlines would you expect to see about the operations of our government under that kind of a scenario? and what would you expect the news out of the oval office and the white house to look like on a day like today? at the start of this made for tv debacle at the white house today, where the president and vice president j.d. vance screamed at our ally vladimir zelensky and berated him with russian government talking points. when this hap

special envoy steve witkoff. under this framework, on the first day, hamas would release half of the hostages still in gaza, and over the next seven weeks or so, ending on april 20th, at the end of the jewish holiday of passover, the remaining hostages would be released. in exchange for that, they would continue to release palestinian prisoners and surge aid into gaza. but he had a warning. >> there will be no. >> free lunches. >> if hamas thinks that the ceasefire can continue, or that it can benefit from the terms of phase a without us receiving hostages. it is deeply mistaken. >> during the 42 days of the first phase of the ceasefire, dozens of israeli hostages were released. hundreds of palestinian prisoners as well, and aid got into gaza. the international committee of the red cross that facilitated the transfers said it saved countless lives in gaza and warns that any unraveling of this agreement risks plunging people back into despair. people like these residents of gaza. >> i hope the truce lasts and that

israel endorsing a proposal by middle east envoy steve witkoff to extend the phase one by another sixthat would see half of the hostages at the beginning of the ceasefire, and the other half released at the end, if a permanent ceasefire is reached. the terms of deal require both sides to move directly into phase two which was set to include the release of all living hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and the full withdrawal of all idf troops from gaza. hamas seized the witkoff plan to try to delay plans to end the war and calling the decision to block aid cheap blackmail. this morning, the israeli prime minister warning there could be further consequences. gio? >> gio: all right, ines, thank you so much. >>> and the president of ukraine is turning to europe for support and getting it, following that shocking oval office shouting match in washington. abc's tom soufi burridge is in london now with the latest. good morning, tom. >> reporter: good morning, gio. yeah. ukrainian president arriving here moments ago with other european leaders. even the canadian prime minister. bu

there's this kind of good cop, bad cop routine that has emerged between donald trump and his envoy, steve witkofft and more. that gets all of the attention. he's posting videos. he's saying israel is going to have the right to do whatever they want, but then the kind of lower profile witkoff quietly goes into israel, says things like, he wants to visit gaza, he wants to talk to hamas directly. the ceasefire deal must go on. apparently tonight saying that or pushing the israeli prime minister to accept a cessation of a resumption of war, even in the absence of a phase two during the month, the holy month of ramadan and passover, for the next several weeks. and witkoff is on the ground doing this. while trump is kind of just like being this tough guy bad cop routine. >> yeah, and this is really interesting because i think one of the reasons, perhaps the primary reason that we saw this period of the implementation of phase one, that we got a cease fire in the first place, that that daily death and destruction has been brought for now to a pause in gaza at least. and that we saw the israelis getting

israel wants hamas to accept a new ceasefire bridging proposal from trump's middle east envoy, steve witkoffme minister benjamin netanyahu released a video this evening thanking donald trump for his support of this new policy. the policy would extend phase one of the ceasefire through both ramadan and passover, the latter of which ends on april 20th. but hamas denounced this israeli move, calling it blackmail and a blatant coup against the cease fire deal. it pointed out that there already is a cease fire deal, one that all parties signed in january. as a reminder, using starvation as a weapon is a war crime. and the international criminal court recently issued an arrest warrant for benjamin netanyahu for that very crime. professor jeffrey sachs is still with me. professor sachs, donald trump says and posts a lot of wild things. we try to focus on what he does and not as much on what he says or he posts. but i do want to ask him, because i do want to ask you, because in january, he actually posted a video that made international headlines like this. trump shares inflammatory video with crude

. >> steve witkoff. >> who is donald trump's, uh, deployed special envoy, uh. >> briefed the qataris in the egyptians who presumably briefed hamas. so i'm not entirely sure what's in it. if you. >> looked at it. >> it seems. >> to be a way. >> essentially, to extend the first phase. uh. an agreement., ten. living israeli hostages would be released and then half. >> of those that were presumed dead six weeks later, the remaining living hostages hamas would release with the remainder of. >> the. >> bodies of those israeli males, soldiers, presumably, who are no longer alive. there's very little, um, in in the proposal reported by the press about what israeli requirements and obligations are. does it involve an asymmetrical number of palestinian prisoners? presumably that's what hamas would demand. and does it require the israeli withdrawal from gaza after a, quote, unquote, permanent cessation of hostilities negotiated? so i suspect there will be a lot of to ing and fro ing on this. there'll be more negotiating if i were to make a prediction, there may be one additional hostage release

there was an effort that was proposed by the trump administration special envoy, steve witkoff, to the to try to extend phase one of this treaty. and instead of moving on to phase two, there have been so far no real negotiations to try to move from phase one to phase two. now, what's the difference between these two phases? well, in phase two, the idea is that it would eventually lead to a more permanent treaty in the gaza strip and ultimately the withdrawal of israeli forces from gaza. it seems as though israel's the administration of prime minister benjamin netanyahu has no appetite to move in that direction, though hamas has repeatedly asked that there be negotiations toward a phase two. hamas has rejected israel's proposal to extend phase one, which we saw over the last six weeks with, you know, concurrent releases of palestinian prisoners in israeli jails and israeli hostages in the gaza strip every week. so that proposal from the israeli side was rejected by hamas. so now we're at a very critical impasse. and that was the reason why the israelis have decided to threaten gaza and

proposal by steve witkoff, the u.s.al envoy, hamas would release half of the current hostages still in gaza. and then at the end of the negotiation period, the other half, living and dead that remain in exchange for that, there more aid would be allowed to get into gaza. the period is supposed to cover until the end of the jewish holiday of passover. that's on april 20th. it would also cover all of the holy month of ramadan until the end of march. however, hamas is rejecting this as a war crime, calling it manipulation that israel is trying to sabotage the deal and saying they will not agree to it. they want the second phase of this to go into effect, which would be for israel to withdraw any troops that are still in parts of gaza and to discuss the end of the war. they are not happy that this extension goes on, where israel gets more of its hostages, but does not commit to an end to the war. that is the big leverage they have here. hostages on the side of hamas and the surge of aid into gaza that is desperately needed.

so hamas, you know, turned down this temporary phase one extension offered by trump's envoy, steve witkoff hamas spokesperson is calling the blocking of aid cheap blackmail and a coup their words. how do you see this? >> look, i think. >> thanks for having me, fred. look, i think the administration and netanyahu have reached a pretty strong consensus that the only way forward, whether it works or not, is, of course, another matter is to increase pressure on hamas. so they have essentially. abrogated the the notion of three phases. and given the israelis an enormous amount of leverage to press hamas in an effort to agree to the new proposal, which is basically a two phase deal which would see ten of the living hostages that remain released on the first day. should hamas accept it. and then half of the israeli males who are no longer alive are released. and then 42 days later, six weeks later, after negotiations between israel and hamas, the remainder of the hostages, uh, maybe 10 to 12 that are living and the remainder of the those who are not would be returned. there's no indication from w

under this proposal by steve witkoff, that is, president trump's envoy, the hamas organization would release about half of the living and deceased hostages still in gaza. and then at the end of that negotiation period, the remaining hostages would be released. in that proposal, this would go on for another seven weeks to cover the holy month of ramadan and the jewish holiday of passover. so this would end on april 20th. but hamas is rejecting this, calling it cheap blackmail and a war crime, and appealing to the international community to force israel to stop what it calls immoral acts against the population. the 2 million people that live in gaza. what hamas wants is to go to the second stage of negotiations. they are hoping for a comprehensive agreement that would would lead to a permanent ceasefire, a pullout and an end to the war. and the israelis are not keen to do that. so this is the immediate leverage that the israelis have, which is stopping the aid and supplies going into gaza, which is badly needed. the enclave of about 2 million people is essentially in ruins after this 1

. >> steve witkoff. >> president trump's special envoy for the middle east, and the proposal that the prime minister is proposing here is. >> to. >> extend phase one of this agreement to see half of the remaining living and dead hostages released in exchange for seven more weeks of. ceasefire that would take us. through the holy muslim month of ramadan, as well as the jewish holiday of passover. but as israel does so, it is also saying that hamas, in not immediately accepting this proposal, uh. therefore going there, therefore going to turn the pressure up on them. and the way that they are doing that is by stopping all humanitarian aid from entering the gaza strip, which, of course poses a major risk to the civilian population in gaza. that move has quickly been assailed. as a violation of international law by a number. >> of human rights. >> groups, as well as the united nations. egypt, one of the key mediators here, accusing israel of using humanitarian aid as a, quote, tool of blackmail. but the white house, for its part, seems to be supporting israel, with the national security c

agreed to a new proposal that was suggested by president trump's special envoy to the middle east, steve witkoffat proposal would extend phase one of the cease fire deal through both ramadan and passover, the latter of which ends on april 20th. now, that supplemental proposal also includes a new additional release of hostages held by hamas, both alive and deceased. now, hamas has since rejected this extension, calling it, quote, a blatant coup against the cease fire deal and insisting that talks for phase two, which have been stalled for weeks, get underway swiftly. in response this morning, israel halted the entry of all goods and humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. also yesterday, secretary of state marco rubio announced he'd be using emergency authority to expedite the delivery of nearly $4 billion worth of military assistance to israel. this marks the second time that the trump administration has circumvented congress and declared an emergency to quickly approve weapons sales to israel, which biden. the biden administration also did multiple times. still ahead on velshi, the uk prime minis

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