and in this respect, in the presence of tony blinken, i would like to express france's condolences tothe victims of the terror attack that took place in new orleans. the kurds in syria, for both the united states and france, have been some reliable and resolute allies in the fight against islamic terrorism. with the fall of the criminal and barbaric regime of assad, there is now hope for syria -- some fragile hope, but genuine hope; the hope that there will be -- that syria will catch up from a political and economic as well as moral point of view, and that will only happen if all of the communities find a role to play in this respect. and of course, the kurds of syria shall have their role to play. we owe it to them. they've been our companions, they've been fighting together with us against daesh, and it is a matter for the future of syria -- it is extremely important -- that the kurds can fully contribute to the future of their country. and i would like to commend the efforts undertaken by tony blinken in order to facilitate and mediate in between the kurds in syria as well as tÜrk

host: why would you think tony blinken -- caller: obama. hear me out, please and then i will let you speak. host: i'm just trying to figure out where you would get the information from on that. caller: john mccain said it himself during the election when he was running against obama. he warned america about antony blinken. tony blinken. listen to the way he talks. he is a communist, you can see it. jack smith, who has a name jack smith? even trump said it himself, i wonder what his real name is. the southern border being wide open, when biden first came in and what he did with our southern border, of course, so what, that guy was in our military that did that, that's a shame, and i'm praying for their families and i will do so for a long time, but what needs to be done is we need to slow down, get rid of our fbi at the top, get the u.s. marshals to take over this investigation because even senator kennedy from louisiana said it himself, and you can hear it between the words that he spoke when i heard him speak, and he was talking about the

i quote that word used by tony blinken. in february of 2022, the threats by vladimir putin have changed with saying that the putin's russia is -- full-scale invasion in ukraine. it became more international. by exporting the conflict in asia and involving north korea. and became hybrid by getting into all fields of the conflict and by attacking members of the european union. like antony blinken said, gain that our prior fee is to support ukraine and allow ukraine to whenever they decide to do so, -- will make sure they have no return of the war in european continent. it means on behalf of europeans we need to deter the russia pushing toward the rest. this is quickly. interference. here again, europe has been clear. in 2022, time france was at head of eu council, which set clear rules and applied social network, and applied regulations on digital services, social networks has to do with it takes to make sure that their discussions on networks do not represent a new front, they may have to pay fines up to 6% of the turnover f

and, you know, tony blinken and secretary blinken, but certainly has been involved in it from my perspective. and i started reporting this after the day after the december 2nd announcement on truth social, when donald trump made that, you know, announcement that the people in the region. and you're right, it's the israelis. netanyahu was clearly listening to witkoff and wanting to please the incoming administration. richard, thank you so much for your perspective. we really appreciate. thanks, andrew. you're welcome. and joining me now is a key player who knows this so very well from decades of negotiating the middle east, as did richard haass, ambassador dennis ross, former special assistant to president obama. he's a counselor, and william davidson distinguished fellow at the washington institute. he's been a middle east negotiator in republican and democratic administrations. dennis, we are told that qatar is going to announce this deal. it is as we was described, and it's based in large part on what president biden proposed last may and what was almost agreed to in july when the hamas ne

host: why would you think tony blinken -- caller: obama.ear me out, please and then i will let you speak. host: i'm just trying to figure out where you would get the information from on that. caller: john mccain said it himself during the election when he was running against obama. he warned america about antony blinken. tony blinken. listen to the way he talks. he is a communist, you can see it. jack smith, who has a name jack smith? even trump said it himself, i wonder what his real name is. the southern border being wide open, when biden first came in and what he did with our southern border, of course, so what, that guy was in our military that did that, that's a shame, and i'm praying for their families and i will do so for a long time, but what needs to be done is we need to slow down, get rid of our fbi at the top, get the u.s. marshals to take over this investigation because even senator kennedy from louisiana said it himself, and you can hear it between the words that he spoke when i heard him speak, and he was talking about the fb

and, of course, the democratic nominee for president and his secretary of state, tony blinken, talking about something that they have been working on for months. and he is absolutely right. talking about the fact that the contours of this even more of the details of this deal is what his administration put forward in may. what, 6 or 7 months ago? and they have been trying to get done for all of that time with lots of fits and starts, for lots of different reasons. and you could see almost the stone faced tony blinken, who has been a part of the biden orbit for decades. uh, crack a little bit of a smile when the president said that diplomacy is 700 days of failure and one day of success, because tony blinken has been living it, along with so many others. i want to bring in christiane amanpour. christiane, you were with the secretary of state today just a few hours ago inside the state department, as the final i's were dotted and the t's were crossed on this very long shot deal. >> indeed. dana, just timing is everything. and we did our interview. his last tv interview, before he hands o

that's true and our plan from what we can see and what tony blinken has proposed as an american not sobut an american leadership role i think on the ground would be better but that is tough politically. the people that president trump has selected to work on the middle east, we know them all. they are experienced, good people and working well with the current team. on this particular area, current team. on this particulararea, i current team. on this particular area, i think the world should breathe a sigh of relief. 0n greenland, panama, ukraine, we will see but in the middle east we are cooking with gas right here. haifa middle east we are cooking with gas right here-— gas right here. how will this be received _ gas right here. how will this be received in _ gas right here. how will this be received in the _ gas right here. how will this be received in the middle i gas right here. how will this i be received in the middle east, the region itself?— the region itself? first of all. as your _ the region itself? first of all. as your viewers i the region itself? first of all. as your vie

tony blinken just did an exit interview with the new york times about trying to get they really want hostage deal. they want they would love to get that done before they get out of office. but it just they haven't been able to get their like it's been elusive. >> i think tony blinken, secretary of state, is somebody who's been really focused on this. as you said, jake sherman has been i got to tell you, bibi netanyahu has never been a friend to joe biden. i and so i think he's not an ally when they're going into these negotiations to try to figure out how to get something done with hamas right now. and you've got to have as a three part to three party negotiation. and it doesn't seem like one of the parties is that interested in doing anything before joe biden leaves office. now, what you may see and we may see this because this remember, this happened with the iran hostages. you may see something happen on inauguration day, which is what iran did in 1981 when ronald reagan came into office. so it might be that this is just pushed off into the next administration, but i think it's a

is it entertainment or is it as tony blinken says i don't think it is not a good one. me level, i'm sympathetic to tony. i'm like gosh now i have to talk about invading green lan? >> that is what trump is talking about with great passion and fervor. >> that is a good point. so look, these are the two way ins which i think it is politically meaningful. there are real geo political issues here at stake. panama doesn't have a standing army. they had a military cue a couple of decades ago. panama might have to reconsider their whole governing strategy. how they secure their country. how solid is their alliance with us. these scandinavian countries have to worry about russia. so there are real geo political implication to this. it might be a joke. who knows. if you are in america, do you have to take it seriously? probably not. if i was the democrats my advice to them is twofold. geo customer on the things he does that actually hurt people. but if there are opportunity to reach people, with some of the silly stuff. they should choose it and do it. donald trump did much bette

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order with a caveat there said that cfius can change that so the next thing that happened was tony blinkenetary of state, went to japan to a farewell visit to japan and over there the prime minister of japan was very, very upset apparently and he said bad things about the president of the united states and tony blblinken said yeah, that's a sd thing so anyway, you show weakness, they take advantage. so they sued, the cfius gave them a live line until june 18th on hopes that the w cfius with members of the incoming trump cabinet will go ahead and change the face of national security and reapprove the deal. i think i -- actually, because i know president trump and i know how his mindset works, probably the new cfius will probably bring back the february 2nd deadline and then they're going to go because we need to make american steel great again. maria: tell me the backdrop of the industry right now as you await to see what nippon does and as you await to make your bid for u.s. steel again official. what can you tell us about the automotive industry right now and the backdrop with regard to d

is it entertain it like denmark or like tony blinken says, it is not a good one it not going to happenuldn't waste time talking about it. >> yeah, at some level i'm sympathetic to tony after watching those last two segments with katy and jeff and talking about the damage in california and now i have to talk about invading greenland. it is hard to take it seriously at some level. >> for the record, that's what trump is talking about with great passion and fervor in the middle of this crisis, it should be noted. >> that's a good point. so, look, these are the two ways in which i think it is politically meaningful, besides the point and laugh, and sometimes it is important to point and laugh. there are real geopolitical issues here at stake. if you look at panama, panama doesn't have a standing army. there is a reason they didn't have one, they had a military coup a couple of decades ago. panama might have to reconsider their whole, you know, governing strategy. how they secure their country, what their relationship is with us, how solid their alliance is with us. same thing if you have d

keep in mind there's -- tony blinken is in japan right now eating sushi in japan.ave marco rubio. >> reporter: and gonsalves, he might be right there because senator marco rubio, of course, is trump's selection to be secretary of state. and recall that rubio opposed this deal between u.s. steel and nippon. he was among the first group of lawmakers to raise concerns, calling on secretary yellen to do her work and cfius to block in this deal. and that may not if work well as they try to revise this deal even as nippon's executives say they remain committed and laser focused on trying to close this deal and buy u.s. steel. we're going to foil. stuart, back to you. stuart: thanks, lydia. check markets real fast, please. dow's up nearly 200 points, the nasdaq's up 32. still ahead, wisconsin senator ron johnson has more on republicans' sweeping border plan for trump's first day in office. bret baier reacts to trump vowing to undo biden's offshore drilling ban. senator adam schiff will not rule out investigating trump while he's in office. tennessee senator marsha blackbu

keep in mind, tony blinken is in japan right now eating sushi in japan. rubio. that's bad news for the japanese. vice president-elect jd vance has been strong proponent of blocking this deal. so what are they going to get by bringing back to donald trump that has been absolutely clear that tariffs are coming to protect american business, america first. japan has a problem, it's their problem, not our problem. they have overcapacity, they have a shrinking population. bad for them. maria: but why would a deal with your company, cleveland-cliffs, be any better? i mean, if you're getting together with u.s. steel, don't you control the dissemination and the price of steel for u.s. automakers? is that anti-competitive? >> of course not. of course not. there are several other companies, new core is bigger than cliffs, steel dynamics is almost the same size as clevcleveland-cliffs. a lot of imported steel comes to the country. aluminum as well. we clearly have a situation that nippon steel cannot and will not buy u.s. steel. that's u.s. steel. it's an american co

want to ask you about that the president did comment on, and that are these negotiations that tony blinkenr than they've ever been to getting some sort of deal in gaza? he said, we are pressing hard to close the deal, to end the war in gaza and gain release of the hostages. now, anthony blinken also said there's a little bit of what we've seen before, which is lucy and the football. but what are you hearing? are we closer than ever before? and could joe biden, who has spent so much of his career focused on foreign policy, end on that note? >> i'm sure, chris, that that's his great hope. >> i bet he wanted deeply, profoundly to be able to announce a breakthrough in the hostage negotiations today. in this speech at the state department, as we heard. it's not there yet. you can get close closer. >> almost there. >> but the final pieces obviously haven't come together. the reports that we're hearing are that president biden, in his conversation yesterday with prime minister netanyahu, had israeli agreement on key points. but hamas, i think, remains the missing element in this final conclusive

i know it feels like i'm jumping ahead, but and we heard tony blinken talk about this and it's all, i think, pretty obvious. i don't think you need to talk to sources in the region to or even at the white house to know this, that the hope is with these six weeks, that the then trump administration, with the help of other partners in the region, will make this cease fire permanent, will somehow find a way to get a government up and running with the help of, uh, arab countries that have a lot of money and a lot of, uh, of of ability to make that happen. but they didn't even want to hear about it or talk about it until and unless the israeli bombardment stopped. but that will also require a lot of negotiation from within the netanyahu government. and so i'm wondering from you how likely that is going to be and how far they are likely to go. >> so i you know, we look at those pictures from gaza, um, you know, 2 million palestinians went through hell, um, in the last 14 months, since october 7th. uh, um, because of this attack that hamas initiated and more than 45,000 palestinians were kil

mentioned, they have been collaborating with the biden team with jake sullivan and brett mcgurk and tony blinkenll of them. and and that's been amazing. but here we are. we need a deal. we need that final deal. and that is what donald trump is famous for. and i still believe that it's going to happen. and he can help us get over the finish line. and i'll just add this, casey, we've had incredible bipartisan work done by the u.s. government and by congress, and we've kept this issue of hostages bipartisan. and here we are at this incredible moment where we can bring home these hostages, and we have that moment where we have biden administration, outgoing, but in collaboration with trump's administration coming. and so whatever will get through the finish line. and it looks like that is the election of president trump and his putting in all the pressure for hamas and israel to sign this deal. >> liz naftali, very grateful for your perspective. thank you very much for spending some time with us this morning, i appreciate it. >> thank you. casey. >> and of course, you can read more about abigail's s

for an interview with you or susan, but every single day when they get on the phone and tony, tony blinkenalls from moscow or somewhere and says, here's the latest on this, blah, blah, blah. well, maybe he was really good at that, at knowing putin and what putin is up to and figuring out, oh, i know what he's up to. and he has a smart, canny way of looking at that. but is he this, this good, that good on television. no, no, not that good on television. >> you said the smartest people knew better than everybody else. >> do the guys on the inside always know better. >> mike barnicle would would say that they were too smart for their own good and would. >> i'm not saying no, because barnicle gets on the phone with him and he talks to him. he has a cat because he trusts him and he has a casual conversation. he speaks well and you say, oh god, he's okay. why can't why don't they let him out? let him out, right? because they know more. >> okay, i will tell mike that the next time i see him. this is this. we need to. historians are going to be, i think, going to be i think meacham's going to look

but first, i sat down with secretary of state tony anthony blinken this morning.nbc news can report a possible breakthrough on a ceasefire in gaza and the phased release of all the hostages, two u.s. officials and a diplomatic official familiar with the talks telling me that israel is now on board and the deal could be announced as soon as this week unless hamas backs out at the last minute, which has happened before. i asked the secretary of state about all that and a lot more, as well as the administration's close coordination on the hostage deal with president elect trump's special middle east envoy, steve witkoff, who also is in qatar. he arrived three days ago for the talks and who the biden administration says has been very helpful at key points. mr. secretary, thank you so much for making time for us today. we appreciate it. >> always good to be with you, andrew. >> we're told that there is potentially some very good news that there is a breakthrough, that we've been close before, but that this time there could be a deal, a cease fire deal with the hostages

tony. >> i thought it was you, mike. >> welcome, everybody. thank you for being here. it's a real opportunity to have secretary of state blinken with us, in his last five weeks or so. antony: who is counting. michael: he's a long time friend of the council and we're delighted to have him. michael: we are meeting where there have been tectonic shifts, we have this unprecedented competition with china and the rise of the global south and we have pandemic preparedness and all sorts of climate change issues. it's not working? hello? can you hear me? sorry. is that ok? michael: i'll speak more loudly. we're meeting at a time the world has been undergoing fundamental changes. i wanted to ask you, how do you think historians will look back at the biden administration and how it met this moment? antony: mike, wonderful to be with you and wonderful to be back with council and see so many friends and colleagues and so many faces i've known for such a long time. i think you have to start with a couple things. you have to start with what we inherited because it's very easy to forget everything that's now in the rearview mirror was front a