as hersch bold gehrig -- goldberg's parents said there's been a surplus of suffering.do fundamentally believe believe that the fail to realize thes a baitions of the palestinian people is one of the main drivers of instability in the region, one of the main drivers of suffering. so i would urge you to look at the speech that the secretary gave yesterday, where he talked about exactly what we have done. and to unlock a political path forward for the palestinian future. there are three stages that we see that are important to get -- to finally realizing a palestinian state. one is a ceasefire, we got there today. two is a day after plan that starts to rebuild gaza. and three is a normalization agreement with saudi arabia which provides israel, hopefully, don't know if they'll agree to it, but provides israel the incentives to agree to a palestinian state. we have put a lot of work into developing those plans and building support for these plans and we are ready to hand those plans off to the incoming administration. now, agreement on those will require tough choices and

charles: by the way i had jeff hersch from the stock traders almanac yesterday and he did say it would supercede both indicators the january barometer so we finished the month higher and that could bode very well for the market for the rest of the year, particularly considering we do have challenges. at the top of the list is this 10-year bond yield and i've been talking about this for a long time. first of all, i'm not a big fan of bonds haven't been for a long time. i've asked folks to move away from the 60/40 portfolio but more importantly they were zigging when they should have zagged after the first rate cut we were up 50 basis points, 70 basis points and now more than 100 basis points and everyone has theories. what's your theory driving the bond yields higher instead of lower like history suggests? >> well i think that it's the uncertainty surrounding whether we will or have got inflation at this point. yes, i think that we're in the right trajectory during 202s on inflation and i fear that the upcoming reading for later this month regarding the december cpi/ppi and pce will als

and i think about the americans like rachel goldberg and john poland, whose son, hersch goldberg-polin, was taken hostage on october 7th and then murdered in cold blood at point blank range last september. they really took the case to the world, and they spoke in the oval office on capitol hill, to the pope in rome, to world leaders, christian leaders and muslim leaders. so their advocacy, i think, really paved the way for this. but this deal could have been done eight months ago. and that's the real tragedy here, which is that political leaders weren't willing to cut the deal much earlier. now, who gets credit, stephanie? because i think a lot of people want to talk about that. it doesn't really matter. the biden team certainly conducted vigorous diplomacy, relentless diplomacy to try to get to this moment. but the trump team and president elect trump's team also played an important role in these negotiations. and i certainly think that president trump's private diplomacy with bibi netanyahu and his public threats that there will be hell to pay against hamas, certainly rattled the tun