turkey signalled to the uae recently that it signalled to the uae recently thatitis signalled to theire with israel. we could see egypt coming on board. this will take a collective approach. it's not up to, i think, israel by itself and egypt or hamas or qatar alone, i think it will take a collective approach on the middle east with the trump administration sitting down with israel and ironing out a ceasefire. with israel and ironing out a ceasefire-— ceasefire. you mention are 5 ria ceasefire. you mention are syria and — ceasefire. you mention are syria and the _ ceasefire. you mention are syria and the fall _ ceasefire. you mention are syria and the fall of - ceasefire. you mention are i syria and the fall of president assad. how difficult is it going to be to keep syria together with the current rebel group that has taken power? well, this could go in one of three main scenarios, either we would have prolonged chaos or a fragmentation basically on a federal system, you have the turks in the north, you have israel coming in, you have basically the kurds with the united states, and

we have mentioned the uae and qatar donating to u.s. nonprofits following natural disasters. i know the uae specifically donated following hurricanes here. they make charitable contributions. when it comes to think tank funding they are very much focused on u.s. foreign policy. host: who are the most transparent think tanks? guest: i can't say this enough. i kind of fell in love with the stinson center's transparency. it was only one of two organizations that got our full five-star rating in transparency. it really does it all. they put out their annual reports and list all of their donors. they don't just list them, they list the exact dollar amount that each of those donors is giving. it is a level of transparency that we just don't see at think tanks. they are hiding behind anonymous donors. we really recommend that when think tanks are considering how to they improved transparency, look at the stinson center. host: what do they do? guest: they do a little bit of everything. they have a large focus on u.s. foreign policy. they are an action tank. they are making recommenda

we have a joint venture in the uae.y in the middle east dedicated to high-volume satellite production, a joint venture with an excellent partner in the uae. the first satellites will be built in the uae starting in 2026 mike:. do you foresee expanding more international security and defense? that some -- seems to be a theme of other silicon valley investors that have aligned themselves with trump. they see opportunity. do you as well with the pentagon and intelligence agencies? alex: absolutely and we actually already have 100 million dollars of contract value in aggregate with u.s. defense customers. a couple years ago we set up a subsidiary called loft federal with the ability to do work with classified customers. it is based in colorado. we are very focused on the u.s. government, both on the civil side and the defense side as a key customer for us. we have set up a company to serve that customer. we are really excited for the fact that they have embraced commercial space over the last couple years and we see that as

the atlantic through leaked emails we learned that the uae ambassador had access to some of the atlantic council reports before they were published. the opportunity to provide his comments to scholars. our concern is that when donors are given that kind of opportunity, it really allows them to play sensor. they come back to scholars and they have unfavorable recommendations, we worry that some of this research might be bent to the winds of these foreign funders. host: it is 9:30 on the east coast. the director of -- director of the foreign policy initiative there. phone lines for you to call in, it is split by political party. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001 independents, (202) 748-8002. he is with us until the end of our program, 10:00 a.m. this morning. the top 10 think tanks that receive funding from the u.s. government include iran corporation at $1.4 billion, the wilson center to the tune of $52 million. the atlantic council, center for new american security, the marshall fund, carnegie endowment, brookings institution, and inter-american dialogue. why is the

a major announcement from the uae or here on the cusp of the president returning to the white house.> that's right. thank you for bringing us that conversation, dan. our next guest says a.i. is the dominant theme of the future and picks and shovels away from players. we have the analyst joining us today. jimmy, first and foremost, before we discuss anything regarding equities, i want your thoughts on the moves in the bond space and the ramifications it could have for equities >> i think in the short-term, yes, the movements in the bond market result in the volatility. that is the small cap space. i think that will continue as long as the bond yields keep picking up that is really a function of the yields we are seeing if inflation worries continue to rise especially with the incoming donald trump administration that could mean more volatility coming >> which sectors from the equity perspective are the biggest risk here from seeing higher treasury yields which ones are actually a moment to sell? >> maybe not a moment to sell, but the ones at risk the most would be bio-tech stocks as w

at the time you'd been going to the middle east at the time this was a year ago saying i'm going to uaecenters and building data centers there look at where we are now working to build data centers here working to build them in texas which is already underway which is where sam altman is talking about were talking arizona and other states across the country that is a remarkable moment there is a lot of excitement and there's plenty of money out there. there's plenty of money to invest in the data centers and plenty of investors doctors build data centers but build tiktok and tablet all comes together at the end of the day, the details. >> you brought it up 6.86 trillion in money markets right now that has to go somewhere at some point. >> that's right i like the idea president trump knows what investments are needed and he also know specifically where we need to ramp up in order to stay competitive and beat communist china nai and the race to the moon and mars he wants to go to mars and says he's going to do that before his term is up. he's talking about the areas of the u.s. economy th

one is the uae and i am clear that the united states shouldn't provide military assistance to the uae when the uae is providing military assistance to a group like the rsf committing genocide in sudan. i am expecting a briefing from the biden administration by the end of this week as to whether or not their commitments to president biden to stop doing that have been fulfilled. i want to pick up on a couple of issues we discussed yesterday. senator sullivan and i are the cochairs of the bipartisan foreign service caucus. we passed a number of pieces of legislation through the united states congress, recently the foreign service families act. as you know and we discussed, you know the importance of supporting the men and women in the state department, including the foreign service. i appreciate your willingness to work with us on the caucus to continue to make sure that they have with they need to do their jobs effectively. we also discussed the ongoing war in ukraine and the importance of supporting the ukrainian people against putin's aggression and i want to save for the record that

from the uae a large part is also exported to switzerland and then from switzerland we know that a huge's imported in the u.s., the importer will say it goes from switzerland, refine in switzerland. the origin will be switzerland. but this gold, which is sometimes presented as recycled gold, can be gold which was two weeks before in a mine by a group or the criminals. >> reporter: in south africa, workers at illegal gold mines are zone as -- one who takes a chance. the chance at wealth now costing lives. this month's incident marking the deadliest encounter at a south african mine in recent history. >> when you buy jewelry, i think you have to know where the gold comes from. if it's not possible, you have to ask. if the company where you are buying this can't give you the answer, it's a red flag. >> and earlier south african police confirmed that at least 87 miners died and over 200 had been rescued. south african authorities criticized for their response to the trapped miners. a minister said the government two not send help but smoke the trapped miners out and cut off food and water s

the latest swap brokered with the help of uae.elenskyy confirm the swap saying those who were returned were members of the military and civilians. they have serious injuries and illnesses and will receive all the necessary medical care. thousands of captives have returned since russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine in 2022. prisoners of war who alleged war crimes by russia. russia denies the crimes and accuses ukraine of doing the same. the prisoners of war include people who spent more than two years in russian captivity and shared their experience with me. a warning -- this interview contains graphic images. i want to start with you because you spoke at a u.n. council meeting about being a prisoner of war in a russian prison. can you share about what you told the un security council? >> my purpose in the security council in the united nations was to share my own experience of being in russian captivity. my performance, my speech was dedicated to the fact that russia violated the geneva convention. about the facts that are pris

the uae saw the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa, come to life in dubai.two, one... while over in sydney, robbie williams helped bring in the new year celebrations there. from one of the first to celebrate 2025, new zealand... ..to the last nations across north and south america, where new york city saw in their new year. greg mckenzie, bbc news. some breaking news... new orleans police say there may be "multiple casualties" including deaths amid reports a car plowed into people on bourbon street. it happened during new years celebrations. that particular area of the city is popular with tourists. we do not have a lot of details but our us partner cbs reporter for the locals station in new orleans is reporting that the truck crashed into a crowd and then a driver got out and started firing a weapon and police returned fire. that report is saying that multiple people were on the ground of injuries. that is coming from our us partner cbs�*s local station in a new orleans, but the new orleans police is telling them that initial reports that a car may have plo

the strip and have an international force, particularly with a large inter-arab component from the uae, egypt, other countries come in and actually take care of the the general reconstruction of gaza. there's a lot to be constructed, but i.t. security control would remain very much in the hands of israeli security forces and the idf, and they're not going to outsource that to anybody else. nobody knows at this point, anderson, what's going to be the assumption would be on the part of the government is that phase two and phase three are a very, you know, two bridges very, very, very far. yeah. >> ambassador oren, i appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. two of the many people hanging on every new development are adi and angel alexander. they're the parents of edan alexander, an israeli-american soldier with the idf who was born in tel aviv, raised in new jersey. he's 21 years old. his parents join us now. i appreciate you coming back on the program. how? first of all, how are you both doing? how do you believe? i mean, do you believe a deal will will actually get made, that this wi

in the uae, fireworks are set off from the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa in dubai. in new york, the times square ball makes its way to the top of its pole, ready for the big apple's curtain to rise on 2025. nickjohnson, bbc news. last few hours, tens of thousands in london brought in the new year, as a massive fireworks display erupted around the historic elizabeth tower in westminster, also known as big ben. that's despite bad weather causing other new year's events across the country to be cancelled. here's a bird's—eye view of the scene showing the colourful spectacle that welcomed in 2025. just before that, paris rang in the new year in spectacularfashion. millions of people from all around the world flock to see the city of lights every year in france during this festive time. people lined the streets and toasted to a new year in the magnetic city. the united states is now less than an hour away from 2025. and fireworks are expected in new york city, where the ball will drop in times square when the clock strikes i2. times square when the clock strikes 12. this

to the uae when uae is in turn providing military assistance to a group like the rss that's crating genocide in sudan i'm expecting a briefing from the b biden administrationy the end of this week as to whether or not their commitments to president biden to stop doing that have been fulfilled. i want to pick up on a couple of issues we discussed yesterday one is senator sullivan and i are thena cochairs of the bipartisan caucus. number of pieces of legislation and of the supporting the men minimum of the state department including foreign service your willingness to work withto us to continue to make sure they have what they need to do their jobs effectively. we also discussed the ongoing war in ukraine the importance of supporting ukrainian people against putin's aggression and i want tosi say for the record i support and endorse everything that senator shaheen said on that so i do not have to go into detail. what happens in ukraine that's we've heard repeatedly leaders in japan, south korea and other partners of ours ind the indo-pacific region. so i hope we will continue to focus

that is on par with countries like romania, hungary, and the uae and three times the death rate of japanovenia. ohio is in the bottom 25% of all states. hamilton county is even worse. until it started working on saving newborn lives more than a decade ago. today they have improved and they are aiming to cut the rate even lower. we went there to find out how they have done it. >> she says bringing her son into the world two years ago was nearly a catastrophe. >> at about 20 weeks i was on bed rest. reporter: he seemed about to be born four months early. >> i had several hospital stays and emergency visits in the middle of the night trying to keep the baby safe and alive and growing. he made it. and he wanted to stay longer. we were so worried that he would not do that. reporter: they survived in a historically perilous place for newborns. >> we have the second highest infant mortality rate for a county of our size in the nation. >> the way society is measured is by how we treat our babies. if we have babies dying at an alarming rate, we have a problem. >> that means that baby is not in ut

the uae saw the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa, come to life in dubai.o, one... while over in sydney, robbie williams helped bring in the new year celebrations there. from one of the first to celebrate 2025, new zealand... ..to the last nations across north and south america, where new york city saw in their new year a short time ago. greg mckenzie, bbc news. these are some live pictures coming in from rome from st peter's basilica where you can see the congregation have gathered in vatican city. pope francis is holding a mass there. it's all part of world day of peace. so he will be delivering his message for world day of peace. we have had a little bit of a preview from the vatican, he will talk about listening to the plea of an endangered humanity. he will also talk about a cultural change saying all of us are debtors and he will talk about a journey of hope. we will hear from the pope as part of this world day of peace and he will end with the goal of peace of course. there we can see him listening to the congregation and the st peter's basilica pack

in the uae, fireworks are set off from the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa in dubai.nd in new york, the times square ball makes its way to the top of its pole, ready for the big apple's curtain to rise on 2025. nickjohnson, bbc news. we'll continue to follow those new year's celebrations as they happen around the world. presidentjoe biden says the us will offer federal assistance to the island of puerto rico after nearly all of the us territory was plunged into darkness early on new year's eve. the cause of the blackout is still under investigation. but prelim findings point to a fault in an underground line, according to luma energy, the island's main power distributor. the company said that fully restoring service could take between 2a and 48 hours. could take between 24 and 48 hours. earlierthis could take between 24 and 48 hours. earlier this year, they witnessed two blackouts. customers were left without power, and 700,000 people lost electricity after hurricane ernesto. puerto ricans are demanding more to be done to address the island's power issue. the incoming

the signing, the abraham accords, i had conversations with the foreign ministers and ambassadors of uae and bahrain and they both said almost word for the same thing. they said, we now that america stands unequivocally with israel. we want to be friends with america. therefore we will be friends with israel. and i think that clear ity produced the peace that flowered you look at the biden administration they came in and immediately returned to the ambiguous and in fact more than ambiguity i this white house is the most anti-israel white house we have ever seen in the united states systematically within a whole government effort to undermine the state of israel. so i think we returned to peace. i believe the next year we will see and we will see i think even in the next months, the war in gaza coming to an end and coming to an end with hamas being utterly and completely defeated. i think there is a very real possibility that. we see reminiscent of 1981 when iran released the american hostages the day ronald reagan was sworn in. i think we could see the same thing happen when donald trump

and they haven't been able to bully for lack of a better term, uae and bahrain from entering into peaceents with israel. the intelligence i saw reflects that we should as a country be doing the things that will facilitate and foster continuing to move things in that direction. that's where iran is right now. there trying to develop the relationship with china and russia because the u.s. position has been so strong in the maximum pressure campaign has hurt them so much and i think this really reflects where this is we have to make sure not just the united states but our allies are working with us to counter that and we shouldn't let china or russia rehabilitate aspects of the iranian regime that right now are struggling. is a good thing when iran doesn't have the ability to engage in the kind of mayhem that they been allowed to engage in for the past 20 years. >> building on that is interesting how it's now multidimensional world where in. the alliances that are made. could you say a word about turkey turkey is playing a very interesting role. >> we talk a lot in the intelligence communi

we have mentioned the uae and qatar donating to u.s. nonprofits following natural disasters.w the uae specifically donated following hurricanes here. they make charitable contributions. when it comes to think tank funding they are very much focused on u.s. foreign policy. host: who are the most transparent think tanks? guest: i can't say this enough. i kind of fell in love with the stinson center's transparency. it was only one of two organizations that got our full five-star rating in transparency. it really does it all. they put out their annual reports and list all of their donors. they don't just list them, they list the exact dollar amount that each of those donors is giving. it is a level of transparency that we just don't see at think tanks. they are hiding behind anonymous donors. we really recommend that when think tanks are considering how to they improved transparency, look at the stinson center. host: what do they do? guest: they do a little bit of everything. they have a large focus on u.s. foreign policy. they are an action tank. they are making recommendations

the uae is already a part of it. egypt was very, very helpful to us in these endeavors. i think we can -- we have the opportunity to get everybody bought into a better future for the region. more opportunity, more hope. i think we have -- this is an inflection point. >> dana: steve witkoff, thank you for joining us today. we appreciate it and hope to see you again. new this morning the justice department ordering investigations into jurisdictions that defy president trump's immigration crackdown. how that could play out. >> president trump meeting with republicans on the path forward. james langford was in the meeting yesterday what to expect in the days and weeks to come. >> dana: federal d.e.i. offices facing a 5:00 p.m. deadline to shut their doors and president trump is not stopping there. >> president trump: i will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. we'll forge a society that is color blind and merit-based. bent finger appointment in 30 minutes. you got this. one — remember, i d

qatar was suspended by the gulf cooperation council over its ties to terrorism in 2017 saudi arabia, uaeain, several ties back then with qatar. qatar host large number of u.s. troops while we reestablish our lease there with qatar i will never know. they are trying to play at both sides. they play politicians and america. they bought billionaires in america. they bought several special interest in america. they bought sporting events but look at us, aren't we great? no you are not great for their funding anti-semitic organizations in our country and our colleges and universities. yes, qatar is a terrorist supporting regime that is moderating in this deal. that, someone will have to explain to me. i will be right back. do your dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye drop that forms a protective layer for the number one cause of dry eye: too much tear evaporation. for relief that's ♪ miebo ohh yeah ♪ remove contact lenses before using miebo. wait at least 30 minutes before putting them back in. eye red

qatar was suspended by the gulf cooperation council over its ties to terrorism in 2017 saudi arabia, uae, by rain, several ties back then with qatar. qatar host large number of u.s. troops while we reestablish our lease there with qatar i will never know. they are trying to play at both sides. they play politicians and america. they bought billionaires in america. they bought several special interest in america. they bought sporting events but look at us, aren't we great? no you are not great for their funding anti-semitic organizations in our country and our colleges and universities. yes, qatar is a terrorist supporting regime that is moderating in this deal. that, someone will have to explain to me. i will be righ it's mine. you, ok? yeah, are you ok? we're fine. my serve. maybe we should stop. this pinewood pickleball champ stops for no one. we got our melons checked. she had a concussion. admitting i was wrong is worse than losing at pickleball. saving your brain is a definite win. don't mess with your melon. if you hit it, get it checked. mark: welcome back america but we heard sen

one is the uae and i am clear that the united states shouldn't provide military assistance to the uae when the uae is providing military assistance to a group like the rsf committing genocide in sudan. i am expecting a briefing from the biden administration by the end of this week as to whether or not their commitments to president biden to stop doing that have been fulfilled. i want to pick up on a couple of issues we discussed yesterday. senator sullivan and i are the cochairs of the bipartisan foreign service caucus. we passed a number of pieces of legislation through the united states congress, recently the foreign service families act. as you know and we discussed, you know the importance of supporting the men and women in the state department, including the foreign service. i appreciate your willingness to work with us on the caucus to continue to make sure that they have with they need to do their jobs effectively. we also discussed the ongoing war in ukraine and the importance of supporting the ukrainian people against putin's aggression and i want to save for the record that

crown prince of uae. making peace with israel. that was not popular with his public.nd most i think telling was the good friday agreement between the catholics and potest analysis in northern ireland. mediated by former u.s. senator and majority leadrnal mitchell and from you had a situation where, again, courage was used. leaders of the catholic and poststandpoint communities who had -- propertiest instant communities who had spent 20 years in what was called the troubles. they said enough is enough. even though our public may want to keep the battle, we have to find a way to reach peace. that kind of political courage is tremendously important. peter: in the "the art of diplomacy" book you talk about regime change, human rights, economic sanctions. you're a lawyer. is there a role for the legal community in all of this. stuart: i think being a lawyer is extremely important in diplomacy. you need to be able to analyze both sides and you need to be able to write and speak. i'm glad you mentioned the economic sanctions because i mention this the book that the united st

if you look at the uae and qatar and saudi arabia and bahrain, obviously israel, they understand theremism in their midst. and the communication internationally with our intelligence apparatus, c.i. a especially, that's what happens, so you have a guy go over to egypt and 10 days he is in the military, you notice where they are going and what he is doing. call back to the c.i. a who has got this region. i got a guy over here you should keep your eye on. that's the way we used to do it. took our eye off the ball. douglas murray writes we did it when we left afghanistan. he writes this on his opinion column in the "new york post." we let islamic terrorism rise again. he said let's all give a big shout-out to the globalizing intifada crowd. you got your way, congratulations. hope it feels good. when will americans rise against people who support terrorism. why are we so craven while people of the city actually call for terrorism. they do it while the citizens in new orleans have just suffered it. what is he referring to is 24 hours after new orleans attack, on new year's day. we have in

we leave it on its own if we just walk away from it the saudi's are not gonna walk away from it the uaes not walk away from it the other gulf kingdoms will feel threatened by ron they will continue to warrant we will have less opportunity to influence or shape it but they're not cannot allow themselves to be in circle. our hope is to defeat whoever is restricting access to a get food and hopefully bring the conflict to an end but i tdo believe our assistance to any ally is not unlimited. if they deviate from what we believe are humane practices and calling guidance on it that's cause for conflict. examination. i remain supportive of our support because i want to but i'm not oblivious to the price being paid in some of the engagements and some of the battles and what it means in the broader picture as well. >> hi i'm daniel i'm from south carolina. as a proponent of religious freedom how do you plan on responding to what many people would see as a baseless cut in the number of refugees many of our claiming religious from 75,000 to 35,000. >> one of the questions i asked is what the numbe

following up on that on the economic side, we have seen china build strong ties with saudi arabia and the uae in particular, with a focus on technology. the u.s. has come back with this deal on artificial intelligence, suggesting that the leaders of a i have a lot to offer, but still the region has an affinity for china's authoritarian model. . maybe thatis overstated when we think about the economic dimension, is there a way in which that this places russian influence? elliott: they do have very different interests and one fundamental way. china is an importer of oil and russia is an exporter. as an example, following up on what was just said, chaos versus order. suppose there is a dustup in the persian gulf. israel-iran. u.s.-iran. oil prices double, maybe triple. this is wonderful news for putin. not wonderful news for xi jinping. they have very different interests. as of now, we don't see that having very much of an impact. for years, go back 5, 10 years. chinese-israeli relations were quite good, china was investing a fair amount of money in israel. high tech stuff. and russian-israeli r

. >> what you are talking about with the announcement yesterday the ceo from uae, a company called damuisiana, ohio, illinois. and indiana as well you are looking into it. once again it comes back to greenland, it's cooler up there and you actually need to produce all of this energy to cool down the new technology. >> yeah. absolutely. i mean, it literally is the best place in the world for data centers. we have seen a lot of this happening in iceland, i think greenland has many advantages, even over what's been done there. you have cheap, readily available power. you have a natural cool temperature. you have got, in my opinion, a population of people very, very open to all sorts of development, wanting to see development, wanting to choose their own destiny. it's a land of opportunity and, you know, i really think that we just have tons of investment going to build it up in the next few years. >> steve: we have heard president trump talk about greenland, until you came along drew i didn't know that much about it. now it sounds like a great deal. drew horn, thank you for joining us fro

israel, jordan, the uae, saudi arabia, afghanistan, china, norway, greece, italy, egypt, and many more, of all those trips, there is one that i will never forget, and it is my visit to south korea and the demilitarized zone. i can show picture today the south korean soldiers lined up along the countries border facing north. the north korean soldiers were just yards away, facing them with their feet firmly in north korean soil, and between those two enemies stood our troops. americans, keeping peace. the north korean soldiers try to antagonize our warriors, they were spitting on them, they were shouting at them, taking pictures, trying to break their composure. yet our men and women stood strong. they were stoic and firm. if ever there was an example of the role america plays in the world, it was right there in front of me in the flesh. peace through strength, every day, all of us. and that strength begins right here at home. i will use that strength as a foundation on which to stand amongst other nations as the world's most powerful. in the past, as a party, we have been tested. there

nobody i think wants peace in the middle east more than right now saudi arabia and of course the uae.aria: and i would be watching the saudis with the abraham accords under president trump's watch because i'm sure that he is going to try to get more players involved in the abraham accords in these upcoming four years. we'll take a break. when we come back we're all in on artificial intelligence, it's taking center stage here in davos this year, particularly after president trump's historic $500 billion stargate project. open a.i. one of the backers of the venture and the company's chief financial officer sarah fryer is with me to talk more about it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live from the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. stay with us. ♪ i'm thinking of updating my kitchen... ...thinking of redoing our kitchen. ...we are finally updating our kitchen. for all those people who never seem to get around to it... —...a breakfast nook. —chase has financial guidance. let's see how you can start saving... —really? —really? at home or in-person. that's guidance from chase

. >> the uae has been actively investing in egypt as well. what do you need to see from the gulf in order for the investment flows to continue and should anyone watching egypt and its economy expect the gulf to continue to pour money in as it stands. >> i think the relationship with the gulf definitely is very strategic and important. but when you take a look at the investments, these are investments which make sense from a business dimension. so if you take a look at fertilizer sector, if you take a look at the pharmaceuticals and you take a look at the health sector, so you know, whether it's from the gulf or from other countries, also on renewables we have european companies and we have companies from the gulf so the idea is any investor from any country is welcome and there are opportunities and what we're trying to do is to make those clear by two ways. making sure that macro economic stability continues. remains. policies predictable and then trey and open up the different potentials for the economy on a sector level. and that's what we

van schaack: he has a huge network is able to rely upon, including a number of uae-based corporationsnot only financing his activities but procuring weapons for the rsf. these entities and wealthy individuals are participating in international markets, including the golden oil markets. to be able to sanction these individuals, makes it much more difficult to tap into those financial networks. individuals who would want to transact business with those individuals or entities themselves may be subject to sanctions. it helps to contain outside forces that might be fueling the violence in sudan. amna: i understand reaching a declaration like this takes months of work. genocide is a very specific definition under the u.n. convention. the bar here seems to be expressed intent to kill, the targeting of a specific group, mass targeting of civilians. if that was the bar and met in sudan, why has that bar not been met by your standards by israel in gaza? amb. van schaack: every atrocity determination that the secretary does is based on consideration of the facts as we know them, the law that ex

israel, saudi arabia, america, perhaps the uae, as part of normalization of relations between saudi arabia and the regional nations and israel. suffice to say that the recent cease-fire announcement between israel and hamas is a historic shift in regional politics, i believe that mr. hegseth's personal beliefs would diminish our support of the peace process or derail it entire ly because f comments he has made about police -- about islam and muslim nation. those comments were explored in some detail in his testimony. my concern is there have been numerous reports in addition to his own words that appear to convey a hostility on his part, if not outright antagonism toward islam and muslims. a former employee of concerned veterans for america alleged that he shouted racist and islam phobic chafrntss during a official tour in ohio -- chants during a official tour in ohio, well known in the region where muslim nation and islam are predominant. in his book, "american crusade," he expressed concern about muslim birth rates and said the present moment for christians is like the time of the crusad

they have to work with our allies in the gulf, saudi arabia, qatar, the uae and others to see if they'renterested in supporting the physical reconstruction of gaza. and now this is a real challenge to those countries. i just want to add what president trump said over the weekend should put those countries on alert, that if they don't come in with an alternative, then he is going to move towards pushing the palestinians out to other countries. and that, of course, would create a whole host of other disasters. >> there's a lot more to talk about in the coming days. we'll see you again. joel rubin, thank you so much. new reaction to donald trump's friday night massacre. next. >> thanks for calling. >> consumer cellular ranked. >> number one in network. >> coverage and. >> customer satisfaction. hi. >> my friend. >> linda has. >> you guys. >> it gets way. >> better coverage than i do. >> sounds like. >> linda has you beat. >> not at bowling. >> you're breaking. >> up. >> a little. >> are you really. >> ranked number one in coverage? >> yep. >> and plans start at just $20. oh. >> we could aff

. >> and one of the major issues has been what the saudis, what the galleries, what the uae is going to do, the saudis and the us and israel were very close to an agreement back before this october 7th invasion. a month before that, i was in new york at the un meetings. you were probably as well, and talking to all sides, and they were talking about coming up with a normalization agreement for israel, which they were going to put into before the senate as soon as february. this was a biden administration commitment to the saudis and to israel. i talked to the leaders themselves and to some of their closest aides, and then hamas, as a senior u.s. official later said to us this year, jumped the gun, surprising both iran and hezbollah by doing it was there was a plan, clearly a plan that israel had not seen, that israeli intelligence and the military had ignored. and that was right under their noses. and it was a real, you know, a huge setback to the military reputation of israel, which has now been, you know, largely rebuilt and enhanced. but at that point, they were really on the verg

and this is despite the fact that international actors, the uae, the u.s. have tried to push for a for a path that would include the palestinian authority on some level, no matter how problematic and complex that would be. netanyahu has completely rejected any of that. and so without any alternative, you're left with hamas de facto in power. um, and mostly just no strategic difference. since october 6th, 2023. >> yeah. let me ask you about that directly then, in terms of that so-called day after, if we get that far, the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas, has said the pa is ready to assume full responsibility in gaza. so you're saying that's a nonstarter, that that just won't happen. >> as far as the israeli government and netanyahu is concerned, that's a nonstarter. but there, you know, and there is a lot of problems with mahmoud abbas. he's also not willing to reconcile his issues with hamas and other factions because he himself has centralized power over so long. um, but, you know, there there's no way that there will be a day after that makes