Stephen Kamb and Joe Perla discuss the latest in the peace process between Israel and Hamas, including the deal struck in Doha, Egypt, and a possible return to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. They also discuss the impact of the strike on Qatar, and whether or not the deal can be implemented.
00:19:22.860And he's out here breaking the sound barrier and not even skipping a beat.
00:19:27.200And, by the way, I have to say, just having been there and, wait, wait, and spending the whole day as well with the first lady and observing that, I got to tell you, I think the first lady really enjoyed this.
00:19:39.040She was mentioning that she had been to the Bush before.
00:21:30.160And with president Trump, if we can get, if we can get Jack, Jack, if you can send the thing that went viral, I want to play that in the noise in the next segment.
00:21:40.660Normally when he would, when a commander in chief would go aboard a flagship, like a, like a carrier, which is the flagship of a, uh, of a strike group or a battle group, as I still call it.
00:21:52.960Um, he normally goes, they go to the bridge, he gets the leather flight jacket, he puts the binocs on, he gets a ball cap from the ship and he's up on the bridge watching things.
00:22:03.140But you are slightly removed, particularly for the noise and the raw nature of what's going on.
00:22:08.440And the president of the United States was on the flight deck, right.
00:22:13.360With the Mickey mouse ears and Jack, even on the landings, he's just kind of, he's just kind of off to the side.
00:22:19.680I'm making commentary to, cause we had a ton of, of seeing, you know, guys from the Navy, you know, that spent, you know, 30, 40 years.
00:22:26.780And I'm kind of talking about the president was out on the flight line.
00:22:30.080I mean, he was on the deck the entire time.
00:22:32.200He never went to, didn't look like he ever went to the bridge.
00:22:34.480He was out there where the action is and Hey, there's nothing more.
00:22:38.760There's no more dangerous patch of earth than a carrier flight deck during carrier flight operations.
00:22:45.960Am I, am I wrong in that Lieutenant Commander Posobiec?
00:22:51.080Uh, uh, I'll, I'll take the promotion, but, uh, field promotion there or sea promotion, I guess, but no, he's out there.
00:22:57.080And by the way, that's Admiral Caudill with him.
00:22:59.140And so that's the, uh, that's Admiral Caudill and then they've got a, they've got a PAO who's there kind of explaining the things that they're seeing.
00:23:06.400So that, yeah, that's Admiral Caudill, the CNO, that's the highest ranking officer in the Navy.
00:23:12.460And look, you know, it, it speaks to the professionalism of the United States Navy sailor that they were willing to have him out there.
00:23:21.480And, and again, by the way, could you imagine, I mean, it, it, it, you have to say that the compare and contrast, imagine Joe Biden staying up there with the rotor wash, with the F-35 landing just a couple of feet in front of him, with an F-A-18 breaking the sound barrier.
00:23:36.800I mean, he would have, I mean, he would have fallen off and everybody, everybody can look at this back and forth.
00:23:43.340I mean, he would have been, he would have been down to Davy Jones.
00:25:28.360Every single second of it was horrible.
00:25:30.120But then to go to something like this, and I have to say, from a personal perspective, having served in the United States Navy,
00:25:38.000to be back there at Naval Station Norfolk, where I've been many, many times.
00:25:42.260I was stationed at Damnec for a while in Intel.
00:25:45.360And to be there with the fleet, with my shipmates, to see the president up there saying, you members of the United States Navy have held the watch for two and a half centuries,
00:26:00.220It just it meant a lot to me personally.
00:26:02.520And I think it meant a lot to the country.
00:26:04.620I certainly hope it did to see the president acting and assuming that role, right, really speaking with the voice of the commander in chief,
00:26:12.400showing the awesome and terrible power, sea power of the United States Navy.
00:27:37.140Jesse, I can't go on about how, I mean, I could go on forever, about how important it was for the Navy, for the country, for young men and women.
00:30:07.740The reverberations and the noise is overwhelming.
00:30:11.960The president himself put that up on Truth Social.
00:30:14.720He liked it so much, he actually posted it twice on his Truth Social, right after one after another.
00:30:21.860And, Steve, what people need to understand, when you're that close to the sonic boom, to the sound, it's not just breaking the sound, but it's not just loud, all right?
00:30:54.560Goes right back to what he was saying.
00:30:55.780Every VIP that will come to a combatant like that, and particularly a flagship and an aircraft carrier, one they're going to do, not just gunfire support and types of surface stuff, surface evolutions you have, but to do flight ops, you go to the bridge.
00:31:16.080They're up on the bridge with the binocs and the top gun jacket and the ball cap.
00:31:23.340But he got an appreciation yesterday for the raw power of naval air and the weapons because he's down there seeing it like an enlisted man scene.
00:31:32.720I think this is why he's so beloved by the troops and the sailors.
00:32:18.380But when you get the jets in position, as you know, Jack, and this is being a plane guard ship, what they do is they bring always a destroyer up, kind of canter levered so you extend the runway visually for the pilot.
00:32:32.760So there's always one destroyer right in the back.
00:32:35.760And we used to rotate through doing plane guard all the time.
00:32:38.540And you're also there for man overboard.
00:33:06.840And during flight ops, he was kind of sitting there watching flight ops from the deck itself.
00:33:11.960It was extraordinary, not just for bravery, but also for wanting to be Jack in the moment.
00:33:17.360And I think kind of see it through the eyes of how the crew sees it and how the pilots see it and how not some removed thing that it's almost like a movie.
00:33:38.420Yeah, I mean, this footage is extraordinary to see a commander in chief, especially this commander in chief, that close to the action, that close to the power, the skill, the bravery, the tactical maneuverability and the tactical efficiency of these operations.
00:33:57.120It's it's it's never been seen before.
00:33:59.900We've never seen a president that's been able to just stand there and physically even withstand all of this to be able to do that for easily an hour and a half.
00:34:10.220Feeling the vertebrations of the sonic boom, being that close, watching the Navy SEALs conduct a VBSS assault of a well of another destroyer.
00:34:19.720Usually we don't do those on our own ships, but, you know, from time to time and and to spend the entire day right there on the deck plates.
00:34:27.700And it's it's it's footage that was it was an honor to participate.
00:34:32.260And I have to really thank Real America's Voice and Rob and Parker for all they did to support this, to make sure that we got this footage that nobody else has, that nobody else has this.
00:34:43.940You know, the president of the United States watching the Tomahawks launch, watching them extend all the way out to the horizon line.
00:34:52.360And they had a couple of dinghies, by the way, set up when they did the they did a sea whiz demonstration as well as the cannons, the old Mike Mikes.
00:35:00.620And and so and those dinghies, those dinghies are at the bottom of the of the Chesapeake Bay right now or at least off the off the off the seaboard.
00:35:09.840And, you know, when you when you look at everything that he's done to be able to do so at I mean, you look at his age on paper and you say, how is this even possible?
00:35:20.760And yet he does it all day. And Steve, what I would say, even separate from this, as incredible as this power was, it was the the footage that that is even equally as incredible is when he was going and meeting with the individual sailors where when they would come out to.
00:35:37.500Yes. When they would come out to the hangar bay, shook every single hand.
00:35:40.860They're all taking selfies with him. They're all meeting him.
00:35:43.760They they they crowded him. I almost want to say they mobbed him because they couldn't get enough of him shaking hands and they're handing out coins and the first lady as well.
00:35:54.160Not just. And then. And so when you saw that at the hangar bay, then we saw the reception as well.
00:35:58.980Yeah. At the at the pier. And it was no surprise. Yeah.
00:36:01.940So. Hang on, hang on. This is so important. This is what he got rejuvenated.
00:36:09.140He had two battery char hits. It wasn't just the power and the might of the Navy.
00:36:14.200I keep telling you, folks, you know, he's watched victory at sea 10 times.
00:36:18.100He's very familiar with naval warfare history. In fact, he's as close to the Navy as of interest in love as FDR or Teddy Roosevelt, who were obviously undersecretaries of the Navy and very involved in the Navy and and and and sailors and ships and all that.
00:36:37.300President Trump. The other part is what Jack just said. And Jack's got footage of going inside the hangar bay.
00:36:43.000And remember, he didn't go to the ward room.
00:36:45.560I don't think he didn't go up to the captain's. He didn't go up to the captain's sea cabin.
00:36:50.440No, he didn't go and have a cup of coffee up there. No VIP. He's down there with the troops.
00:36:54.500This is the this is the this is the energy he draws.
00:36:57.800This is what Fennell said. You can't order sailors to clap.
00:37:02.180They love this guy. They're drawn to him as an alpha male, as a leader and a guy that they know as commander in chief is setting things right.
00:37:09.600This is why, folks, CNN, MSNBC not caring a second of it.
00:37:14.860You got even Fox pathetic on Fox and and even Newsmax, these guys in and out with little snippets.
00:37:22.840And I'm really proud of of being in business with Robin Parker and the Real America's Voice guys,
00:37:28.960because that's a commitment to do it a couple hours in advance and an hour or so afterwards and do the whole thing.
00:37:35.860And we were rewarded. They gave us the we had the direct links to the footage that in the cameras that nobody else had.
00:37:42.680Now, you know, it's a little disjointed when you're doing it.
00:37:45.600But, hey, you're you're seeing an alive naval gunfire exercise and, you know, F-16s, F-18s, everything flying around.
00:37:53.640It's you see the complexity of naval warfare, submarines. Well, Steve, that was, I thought, so great about it.
00:37:58.760But it was a little just go ahead, Jack. It was just incredible.
00:38:01.440And Real America's Voice stepped up to do a such a professional job in the Navy and the people putting it on.
00:38:07.540Now, it's amazing. Jack, continue. It was incredible.
00:38:10.440No, the one the one the one moment where and again, I've never heard this before.
00:38:15.440So, by the way, I've got a picture of it. I don't think I've sent it in yet.
00:38:18.800I'm going to do that in a minute here where when the president comes aboard the ship, they fly the presidential flag.
00:38:25.740And so that was that was flying from the USS Bush and then later from the Truman on the same day.
00:38:30.980But I actually got to be so I mentioned when I was I was climbing the captain's ladder.
00:38:34.440So I'm down there in the hangar band. I had to climb the captain's ladder all the way up to the observation post, all the way up in the crow's nest.
00:38:40.880So you're going up nine levels. And as I'm there, I we hear the pipe and they pipe on and they say, President of the United States now will now address the crew.
00:38:50.140And it's Trump coming over the one MC. So the whole the whole ship, right, all five thousand sailors.
00:38:57.240And I've got a little bit of the audio. It's not great. And you just because the part that Margo posted up, that's that's the very end of it.
00:39:04.560But he had a whole address. He said, yeah, he said, good morning, everyone. It's your president.
00:39:08.880And, you know, and and I'm waiting I'm waiting for the all hands heave out and trice up uniform of the day is as follows.
00:39:16.640And, you know, and it was just incredible to hear.
00:39:21.480He is talking about how much he loved the Navy, how much love he has for the Navy, how much respect he has for the sea power, the understanding of what sea power means.
00:39:30.720And giving that he gave that as a gift to the sailors. That wasn't on TV. That wasn't televised.
00:39:35.940He just did that out of respect for the sailors. And then, of course, he comes in with the very end and adds.
00:39:41.640And by the way, just so you know, for today, just for today, you're no longer the USS Bush today.
00:41:26.000They're money sources. Yeah, go ahead.
00:41:28.820Well, no, he threw out an aside. I don't think it's in the prepared remarks.
00:41:31.860He said, we're we're ending a lot of wars. And, you know, I know you guys want to go and fight the wars, but we're going to end some with diplomacy.
00:41:38.100He goes, you know, one of these conflicts has been going on for about 3000 years, but we're going to end it.
00:41:46.020Jack, hang over a second. We're getting to that.
00:41:47.940And by the way, folks, you remember those fast attack submarines that were out there yesterday are the exact type of class of submarine that that launched the Tomahawk missiles.
00:41:59.700That took down, I don't know, 50 percent of the of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
00:42:06.140Those were good old United States Navy, North Arabian Sea on patrol there with carrier battle groups out in the North Arabian Sea that were that lit up.
00:42:15.900So for all the great bombers and air force, it's magnificent.
00:42:19.140Love the air force for that for the magnificence of that coming out of Omaha with the with the stealth bombers and taking that.
00:42:25.660But you had to go back to the Navy to 1970s technology, which is really the Tomahawk with the fast attack submarines.
00:42:32.500Just pull it up in the North Arabian Sea surface and let it launch.
00:42:36.200Right. So and you saw a little bit of that yesterday, which was so glad the submariners were part of this.
00:42:42.400It's such an important not just the boomers, but the fast attacks is such an important part of the entire thing.
00:42:47.100OK, we got a lot more to get to. Jack Posovi is going to stick with us.
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00:45:28.460And then I think the next big thing will probably be Israeli elections sometime in the first three, four months of next year.
00:45:35.220And Bibi Netanyahu, who was really forced by Donald Trump to accept this deal, will basically try to make it his own and basically say, first I won the war, then I got this breakthrough and I got the hostage.
00:45:48.020And similarly, the details of Israeli troop withdrawal, what percentage of Israelis will withdraw, where will they withdraw from, the fine points that really are decisive in the end in getting a peace deal that lasts are still outstanding.
00:46:04.340There's a big group meeting in Cairo today to try to resolve those issues.
00:46:09.480To me, Joe, the situation was summed up well by Israeli columnist Nehum Barnea, well-known in Israel and to Americans who follow the Middle East, who said, Trump doesn't make threats to Bibi.
00:46:25.540And that's the way it's looked, I think, in recent days.
00:46:29.620Trump has been the dominant figure in these negotiations.
00:46:33.540And as we've seen, Netanyahu has really no choice but to at least nominally go along, as has Hamas.
00:46:40.520Hamas has nominally said, we're on board.
00:46:43.500But we'll see today in Cairo just how difficult some of the remaining details are.
00:46:48.880The pressure, take this, take this deal.
00:46:51.500And there's a sense, I talked to some White House folks over the weekend as well.
00:46:55.200They do think, like, Netanyahu overplayed his hand.
00:46:57.580The strike, the strike in Doha, certainly.
00:47:01.240Also, word had gotten back to the White House that Netanyahu was telling allies in the region that he was giving orders to Trump, that he was in charge, and the president would have to follow his lead.
00:47:10.820You can imagine how well that sat behind the resolute desk.
00:47:13.980So there's been a change here where Trump and his team have really felt like they've been able to put the screws a little bit to Netanyahu.
00:47:20.940They forced the apology in Doha, and now they feel like they're close to getting Netanyahu to take this deal.
00:47:26.320I'm struck by the language we heard from the weekend of Trump telling Netanyahu to take the win.
00:47:30.760That's the exact phrase that President Biden gave Netanyahu more than a year ago, October 2024, right around this time.
00:50:46.120And that's what it comes down to because, look, we're coming up.
00:50:49.580Obviously, tomorrow will be the two-year anniversary of those horrific attacks that took place on October 7th.
00:50:56.020And we were on here, Steve, the day that it happened, and we were – we couldn't play the videos because they were so horrible.
00:51:02.180But we were pulling it up on Telegram and other foreign channels that had them, and it was so disgusting.
00:51:08.220Just the things you were seeing were absolutely disgusting.
00:51:10.380And unfortunately, we've seen that kind of violence now come to the United States.
00:51:14.880But that's what we've said from the very start is you've got to put down this pack of dogs in Hamas, but then the rest of it has to be settled.
00:51:26.080But when you put them down, you've got to put it down.
00:51:28.640We said from the beginning, these people with the Greater Israel Project that want the Judea-Samaria, right, which could be done over time, but they had to push.