hussein ibish and david makovsky, our thanks to you both. hussein ibish: thank you. makovsky: thank you. amna: the cease-fire deal will end the agonizing wait of dozens of families whose loved ones have been held hostage in gaza. some of them are american. as nick reported earlier, the first phase of this deal will include the release of two americans. one of them is sagui dekel-chen, kidnapped from kibbutz nir oz while trying to defend his family on october 7. i spoke to his father, jonathan, before the u.s. confirmed that sagui was on the list to be released in phase one. jonathan, thank you so much for being with us. good to see you. >> thank you for having me. amna: i just want to begin with your reaction to the announcement of today's deal. what did you think when you heard the news? >> well, my first reaction is gratitude to the two administrations, the outgoing biden and the incoming trump administrations, for really being the catalyst to make this happen. you know, it's a very rare thing, i think, in american politics today, and for something like this to hap

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i, barack hussein obama. i swear i barack hussein obama. do solemnly swear that i will execute the office of president to the united states faithfully, that i will execute the all faithful the president office of president of the united united states faithfully and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability. preserve, protect, defend the constitution of the united states, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. so help you. god. so help me god. congratulations, president, and best wishes wishes. to jesus. it is my great honor to present 44th president of these united states, barack obama obama. thank you. thank you. my fellow citizens. i stand here today. humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by ancestors. i thank president for his service to our nation. as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition transition. 44 americans have now taken the presidential oath. the words have been spoken durin

so hussein, we're going to work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly.that haven't really been used in terms of environmental. if you invest over a billion dollars in the united states, we're going to give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone's afraid they're going to come and get caught in the quagmire, which is very prevalent in the united states, unfortunately. the quagmire of environmental and other rules. i made it a point of telling people if you invest a billion dollars or more and we'll do this with people with far less too, but we guarantee it. we're going to move them quickly through the environmental process. sometimes people held up 12, 13, 14 years. i saw it with plants in louisiana where i got it approved in literally a week. they were through the review in one week after spending 14 and a half years trying to get it, and they were going nowhere. it was a terrible thing. so i've been a victim of that myself over the years, and i think i know all the games and all the tricks that are played. and much of it is just done to stop pro

i, barack hussein obama. i swear i barack hussein obama. do solemnly swear that i will execute the office of president to the united states faithfully, that i will execute the all faithful the president office of president of the united united states faithfully and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability. preserve, protect, defend the constitution of the united states, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. so help you. god. so help me god. congratulations, president, and best wishes wishes. to jesus. it is my great honor to present 44th president of these united states, barack obama obama. thank you. thank you. my fellow citizens. i stand here today. humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by ancestors. i thank president for his service to our nation. as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition transition. 44 americans have now taken the presidential oath. the words have been spoken durin

eyebrow hussein obama do solemnly swear. >>, obama for -- barack hussein obama do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of the president of the united states. >> the office of the president of the united states. >> preserve, protect and defend. the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations mr. president. [cheering and applause] [hail to the chief playing] >> ladies and gentlemen. it is my great privilege and distinct honor to introduce the 44th president of the united states of america, barack h obama. [applause] pres. obama: thank you. thank you so much. vice president biden, mr. chief justice, members of the united states congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens. each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our constitution. we affirm the promise of our democracy. we recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the

but they were foot soldiers for saddam hussein in his war of aggression against the wrong. so you righty of see them not only as terrorists who blew up bombs in the buses or who sided ordinary people on the street. but the solid and most people who were fighting as a as traitors to their own country and for saddam hussein, who was so deeply despised. and this reminds me of bolton when he a few years ago, went and spoke and said, hopefully we will be have our next meeting in 10 front. and i think just as bolton had no idea about the reality of you, ron, i think he has no understanding of the run as well. and i think it's from wants to be able to make things easier for the united states. he has to rethink his, his understanding and, and to seek new people to give him more accurate as a more accurate assessment. that'd be run professor with kellogg's fiery comments to storing up the part that we're seeing. the moscow to ron partnership. really come a live do you think washington is inadvertently playing matchmaker? here to i think they've been doing that for many years. the ro

he is a founder and chairman of properties, hussein. there respected gentlemen.nce today that -- ♪ >> fact that he was very inspired by the election. they would not do that without the election. a lot of people wouldn't. you saw last week where we have somebody who is going to go from $100 billion to $200 billion. we have a lot of people, and we will be bringing some of them out. some of them l let's go boys. the way that i approach work, post fatherhood, has really been trying to understand the generation that we're building devices for. here in the comcast family, we're building an integrated in-home wifi solution for millions of families, like my own. connectivity is a big part of my boys' lives. it brings people together in meaningful ways. ♪ ♪ open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to u.s. for the last four years we have been waiting for this moment and planning to invest $20 billion, and even more than that if the opportunity allows us. at the moment we are planning $20 billion in

and hussein i would love you to come up and say a few words.y much. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. president. it's been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected, in november -- we've been waiting for years to increase our investment in u.s. to very large amount of money. we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world. we have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units, and another 45,000 in the pipeline and data center in ten countries around world in asia, europe and middle east and we're very, very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to u.s. for the last four years waiting for this moment. and we planning to invest $20 billion in even more than that if the opportunity the market allow us, but the moment we planning $20 billion and data center. a.i. and cloud business for the scalers. >> thank you. great honor, thank you very much. >> so nice. that man knows what he's doing. he knows -- so hussein we're going to work with you and make sure everything

and hussein, i'd love for you to come up and say a few words.nk you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. it's been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected in november. we've been waiting four years to increase our investments in the u.s., to very large amount of money. we are a company operating in more than 0 countries around the world. we have delivered more than 45,000 units and another 45,000 in the pipeline. in data center we are in 10 countries around the world, in asia, europe, and the middle east. and we're very, very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to the u.s. for the last four years we are waiting for this moment. we are planning to invest $20 billion and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allows us. at the moment we're planning $20 billion in data center for the a.i. and cloud business. thank you, mr. president. mr. trump: that man knows what he's doing. he knows. so hussein, we're going to work with you, make sure everything goes smoot

hussein that are doing the same thing as he is. i'll bet they don't do it as well because i know how he does it. but they're doing a lot of things. the problem is they can't get their permits because i say build the plant with the building. so with the structure, build the plant. because if you go into grid to grids are old. so they said that's a great idea. in other words, build your electric facility alongside of your plant and you could have extra output if you want, because once you build it, you can make it larger pretty inexpensively. you could have extra output, which you'll sell to the public, but build it with the plant. and people are loving that idea. so we're going to have a lot of fun making america great again. and it's going to happen, i think, very, very quickly. it's already happened. so i would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news, there's never been anything like what's happened in the last since we won the election. a couple of months since we won the election, the whole perception of th

people like hussein that are doing the same thing as he is. i bet they don't do it as well because i know how he does it. they are doing a lot of things. i promise they cannot get their permits. build the plant with the buildings. with the structure build the plant. they said that is a great idea. build your electric facility alongside of your plant. you can have extra output if you want. once you can build it, you can make it larger. you can have extra output that you will sell to the public. build it with the plant and people are living that idea. -- loving that idea. we will have a lot of fun making america great again. it has already happened. this has been openly reported by the news. there has never been anything like what is happened since we won the election. a couple of months. since we won the election the whole perception of the whole world is different. people from other countries have called me and said thank you. thank you. the perception of the whole world is different. we will have to settle some big problems that are going on

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samir ali hussein said he'd moved six times since the war began. translation: we want to go home.illing, we will. we spend the night here. it was cold. it rained and soaked our clothes and the ground. israel delayed the withdrawal of its troops here yesterday, and the reopening of this road north, after hamas postponed the release of a civilian woman hostage, arbel yahud. both sides have accused the other of violating the truce. in gaza's battered northern neighbourhoods, those who survived the war are now waiting for their relatives to return. "i can't describe my feelings", said um sharif. "i'm going to see my children. "i've been waiting for this moment since day one "of the war." israel doesn't allow journalists access to report independently from gaza, but the un estimates that 60% of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed. donald trump has described it as a demolition site and talked of clearing gaza out, relocating its residents to egypt and jordan. the idea has delighted israel's far right politicians, who want israelis to resettle there, and outraged gazans themselv

joining me live is hussein ibish, senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute.ere really a breakthrough coming? if you look we have been at this point of an eminent deal a few times before. , ~ ., before. -- it feels like. now we are basically _ before. -- it feels like. now we are basically there. - before. -- it feels like. now we are basically there. it - before. -- it feels like. now| we are basically there. it has been coming for many weeks now. we are at the last tipping point to deal with probably, counterintuitively, the downfall of the regime in syria and the victory of the hts group which is backed by turkey. what that does is it signals the ascendancy of turkey in the region. and combined with the collapse of iran and its network in the region, what that means is the power balance in hamas shifted away from the gunman on the ground that launched the october the 7th attack in a quest for permanent war with israel, insurgency that they have not that they would expect it hoped that would have lasted for a decade or even longer. in favour of the old polit

turn to two newshour regulars, david makovsky of the washington institute for near east policy, and husseinith the arab gulf states institute in washington. thank you both for being here. president biden today made clear that he laid out the precise contours of this agreement back in may. it was almost agreed to in july. why now? >> it had an going back to january and even november of 2023. these ideas have been around for a long time. the inflection points are the election of donald trump the pressure he put on prime minister benjamin netanyahu with builds -- -- which builds on pressure from the israeli public and military to make such a deal. i think trump was very clear he did not want this war to go on during his inauguration, and on the other hand, major change of power within hamas inflicted mainly by the fall of the assad regime which signals a rise of turkey and qatar in the region at the expense of iran and hezbollah and shifts power within hamas away from the gunmen on the ground in gaza who did the october 7 attack back to the politicians that have left qatar but are now gathered

i met with then prime minister rabin, who was extremely cautious, and i then met with king hussein and i went to a conference in london and i flew to geneva, switzerland. i met with president assad from syria. i had crown prince fahad then from saudi arabia come to see me . it was not encouraging, though totality of it. -- the totality of it. and then anwar sadat came to visit me. we had our normal conference, one side of the table was filled with americans, the other side was filled with egyptians and then we had a banquet that evening with some entertainment. afterwards, i felt a strange rapport with that man that has been almost unequalled in my life. and i invited him to go upstairs with me to the second floor where the families lives. he went up with me. and my little daughter amy was asleep. and i woke her up. and i said, "amy, i want you to meet a new friend," and he met my daughter. then we sat on a sofa, and i began to explain to him my dreams of peace in the middle east. i began to recognize the attribute attributes of this man that made him great. he was calm, self-assured,

saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait.doesn't that stand against american doctrine? >> well, we already occupied it once during world war ii. we occupied greenland. and that was the the first time that they had actually modern buildings built. they have no development there. they have no road between any town that justifies sending u.s. forces. >> there. ambassador, i'm not i am not going to get in between president trump and his negotiations about how we move forward with greenland. >> this is this is his deal. he wrote the book the art of the deal. he's the best deal maker i ever saw. so. and he knows how to negotiate with foreign leaders. so let me let him decide how he's going to do this negotiation. and i'll talk to you about the merits and about the situation. >> ambassador carlos sanz will leave the conversation there. thanks for the time. >> hey, thanks to great to talk to you, boris. >> you're looking at live pictures now out of los angeles county, where firefighters are currently battling four separate wildfires.

very high off and what was going on during the war in a rack when they pulled the statue of saddam hussein, we presented on the american media as if the rocky people joined together, the pull down the statute of the the then it turned out that there were some long shots from cameras which showed that the wind was not the rocky people. it was american soldiers who were doing it and enjoying the crown with quitman. was designed to make it look like it was an act of the people defending themselves or against unable either. and then they would come at home, the local news channels in correct or so in saturday to wait area go to the middle eastern countries. so then use that as a news, of course, when you're making commercials. so it's kind of going and fishing pace. it's going to have been going on like the place, but these have been pushed in you united states media through these p r firms as absolute truth. and many people who consume corporate media and, and government statements here in the united states. believe them to be true, one of these p r campaigns is run by an agency called a one

just as they did with the explosive influence of the rod in the region after the overthrow of saddam hussein, uh, unintended consequences. yeah. uh, this time it will be different. they always tell us that, okay, this time it will be different. george were rapidly running out of time. but you know, china is always on the menu here. how is that going to play out in 2025. we've already heard about the tariffs that the trump administration is going to pursue. um, what is it the uh, a navy general said 20272028. the conflict with china? well, it's 2025. go ahead. i think that's a, again, a china will be definitely a preoccupation of the trumpet ministration. that would be the kind of an interesting because it's obviously going to be in economic conflict. i mean, i don't think it's going to be about taiwan trowbridge show. no particular interest in the whole taiwan issue, any effect on like buying him. he refused to make any commitment to coming to taiwan is assistance in the event of an invasion. so i think it's going to be, and he's going to wage a serious a economic world against china. and pa