believe is going to start soon is israel continues to move forward even as those talks tals about cease-fire continue. let's bring fox news chief political analyst brit humeyour thoughts where we are between the u.s., israel, hamas. >> well, bret, i think it's worth remembering that when hamas carried out those hideous atrocities on october 7th, a cease-fire was supposedly in effect. so, one can imagine that, to the israelis, any cease-fire that hamas has agreed to may not be worth much. but, israel, i think, is in a position where it must, at least, pretend go along with cease-fire talks because it's facing two not always compatible objectives. one is to defeat hamas militarily and eliminate the continuing threat of hamas' military wing, which is about all there is to hamas now, i think. and the other is to try to get the benefit of the israeli families worrying understandably, terribly about where the hostages are, which families -- which hostages may still be alive, if any at this point. we know very little about that. so, they have to at least be going through the motions of talking about any deal that might involve return of the hostages. it is notab