he's some of the people that he hired, including steve woodcock, who negotiated that in the end in jerusalem to get this deal done is the, is in america and you and who has business interest in europe. road is very heavily invested in the kentucky solving well, funding the iraq, the suffering well fund. he is not just a pro israel guy. this guy looks at the interest of the united states with a much broader sense. and we know that donald trump is a transactional president, he's always good for what he can get and what the united states can get. and it's a much broader picture than just supporting israel as president biden did it, in your opinion, given everything we've talked about all the different instances, is this the deal that will end the will. and i do know its very precarious. it can break down to any moment and it's going for too long. a, a group of israeli soldiers couldn't encounter from us combatants with guns and shoot at them and that could lead to a breakdown. and the got in the a ceasefire. there's also the pressure within israel and he is really government to go back to war a

steve woodcock is in his ro, we've already seen video of him meeting with the families of those health companies . and i believe one of those cops is it was reduce your lease with members of her family. what do you think his message will be having less for us? um, now under the new administration on the don't on from what, what his message b is row with with this when it comes to the see saw. well, i mean obviously it's very difficult to know directly what his messages because these are confidential discussions and tools that are taking place. we've seen the least signals from the trump administration now that fits in powell and then not necessarily encouraging in terms of the trump administration, being motivated to provide a long time political horizon with peace and security is achieved for both israel and the palestinian people with the palestinian people living in that room, independence state and then the show tom, i think what we see is a trump administration including his special ed boy, which costs very motivates if to get the hostages out and does forget that the number of th

we know that his in mid east and boy steve woodcock, was intimately involved and was shoveling back and forth to doha just as the current administrations. i have a key involvement in these top us and we have heard the president joe biden as he spoke from the white house and just in the last hour or so saying that there was a key involvement of the trump team because of course, well it is joe biden's proposal that this agreement is, is now laid upon the fact that it was his proposal for may of 2024. that this agreement is, it is the trump team that is going to be seeing this implemented. and that is going to oversee that. and make sure that it stays intact. i'm kimberly, it's just on the hosted. as we understand the $33.00 will be released in the 1st phase. and some of these that's done to be american or that is correct and we know that there is a white house press briefing taking place right now. cruise on peer the white house press secretary is discussing that and giving further detail, flashing out what that will look like. report is very keen to know what the identities of these uh h

a steve woodcock spoke just a few minutes ago and he was talking about the, the captive instead of being held by him. us in guys a he said that they, in negotiations and making a lot of progress. and quite said, hopefully by the integration, we will have some good news that is on january the 20th. when trump takes office, he said that they had been on the verge of a deal, but wouldn't discuss why it has been held up. he said that he is heading back to doha to continue negotiations in the next day or so. don't trump then went on to say that if the war isn't ended so in the warren cause it isn't ended, soon. quotes me, how will break out in the middle east, and it wouldn't be good for him boss, or anyone worse. and that is donald trump, this speaking at my eliza, we will have more analysis analysis of this in the coming hour. we're going to move on now and anything is and return to jonathan, this be no less often the is ready bombardment of the gaza strip. the military has roomed opposite strikes across the strip in the last week, including on residential buildings. as randy attacks have t

he was speaking out to a news conference and on the side, steve woodcock is on boy to them. at least those us we just aren't back. i don't want to virginia go. she ation and then i'd back by the time i get into office all hell will break out in the middle east and it will not be good for a mouse. and it will not be good frankly, for anyone all hell will break up. i don't have to say it anymore, but that's what it is. and they should have given them back along that they should have never taken. i think that we've had some, some, some really great progress and i'm really hopeful that by the inaugural will have some good things to announce on behalf of the president. i actually believe that we're working in tandem in a really good way, but it's the president, his reputation, the things that he's, that he has said that that are driving this negotiation and, and so hopefully it will all work out and will save some lives just because i've not to washington dc and i want to ask correspondence. kimberly how good. so kimberly trump says, you know, you'll get to cease 5 done on these

we've just seen steve woodcock. his is a envoy. play a very definitive and cooperative role with abiding team and negotiating this. we have marco rubio for centered rubio coming and his secretary of state was also very close to the jewish american community and the power of the jewish american community here who will likely fall into line with exactly what james just talked about about donald trump's proclivity to sort of reward netanyahu, and he's really government. you've got a mike waltz, who's coming in this large the known for his views on china. but he's frankly very close to what we call the 8 pack crowd as well. so there are not many in the, the spectrum and, and, and universe of people around donald trump, who right now are obvious of players to help with the palestinian challenge. you know, we kind of looking at the focus on a 2 state solution that's not going to be something we hear much from in the trump administrative. there's nobody in this new administration who is me is not yet a razor relaxing polit

to this point was the pressure that the trump administration put on through a trump, to envoy steve woodcock and went to the region, went to nothing yahoo and told him you need to get this deal done in addition to trump's own statements, so i think that was key into been in terms of getting to this point. but in order for it to be implemented, the pressure is going to have to be sustained and it's going to be have to sustain while trump is in office with his attention and focus on many different things. and including, you know, having people in, in office like his secretary of state work, you know, very close to these relays who supporters of these really. and these really are going to try to, i think, get out of this agreement or to sabotage it will to drag their feet if they can. i think that's nothing you know, who is the ultimate aim here. so it's going to require that type of focus and pressure. i think maybe there's quite a key role for the companies, for the junctions to continue to play. maybe even others who are close to trump, like the saudis liked them at all to use, to kind of ke

violence against palestinians, they'll combine westbank, probably a trunk, middle east, envoy, steve woodcock, was the 1st peasants address crowns the capital one, the rena, and he introduced the president, highlighting terms, middle east and foreign policy plans. his leadership provides the confidence and direction necessary to navigate these complexities. as we move forward, my commitment is to continue to the work of advancing president trump's vision for the middle east. whether tro expanding the abraham peace accords, fostering economic development, or facilitating dialogue which we long standing adversaries, my focus remains on actual actionable results. let me close by saying this. a stable and prosperous middle east is not in unattainable dream. it is, it is, it is a goal within our reach. well, go see michael. doug is a senior consulting fellow with the middle east and north africa program at chatham house and joins us from london, mr. that could, that could help you with this on the program. again, kind of speaking with these interesting comments from the president and sort of quest

we have steve woodcock who's already be deep into the negotiation of the, the gaza and hostage release. deal is fascinating that they've always said to me in the past, ever since i've covered us politics, which is for faulty. many is that there was only one administration, but on this case the 2 administrations were together overlapped and it was i think, i think i would definitely agree with james. it was the presence of president trump, the change things because this deal has been the since may present bite and said there was this deal on the table. and he said the deal is he said the recent days, the deal is probably the same deal. but he was not prepared to push to get this deal over the line, because ultimately the us president has the leverage. they supply the money they supply the weapons for israel's will. on garza, he could have done things. i suspect spite suspicion is that he was worried about the political effects of any punishments of israel ahead of november elections and then quite possibly off to the november elections. he didn't really have any leverage anymore because

but on this particular case, we have to administer ations involve steve woodcock, is the trump and void is going to be the trump and void dealing with them at least is the bret mcguckie who is buying this man is the in the hall and they both been involved in this negotiations and we know that the trump pet and boy was the one who actually went to jerusalem and spoke to prime minister netanyahu. we hear from his write the report using some pretty strong language impacts and pretty salty language with all of what he spoke to them. that's when it's seen these raise a change that position and setting to delegation back to the headed by the head of most the most. not james, this very briefing, and of course the u. n. 2 is going to be watching this very closely. john, we would be hearing alley around about statements made by antonio terrace. it was very supportive of whatever deal was going to be pulled into place. we don't yet know whether or not anything has been agreed and we don't really have clear indications of what might be in it. at the same time. of course, the u. n. is facing a of t

steve witkoff, is considering a visit to gaza. no one from the biden administration has visited gaza well in years. news of woodcock'sng messages today. earlier tonight, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, released a video message and he made it clear this ceasefire is only temporary. he said israel reserves the right to resume attacks on gaza and that, in fact, they have the support of the united states. he also mentioned a call with president elect trump and according to netanyahu, trump confirmed that the ceasefire is meant to be temporary. >> at the same time, far right israeli ministers are speaking out. >> they are pushing for the war to continue and even calling on israel for a takeover of the gaza strip. and then there's trump. earlier today, he told nbc news that the ceasefire, quote, better hold. but in the same breath, he said that he told netanyahu to keep doing what you have to do. the first phase of the cease fire calls for a pause in fighting the release of dozens of hostages and the release of palestinian prisoners. i spoke with amir tibon, a senior columnist at haaretz, about the cease fi