A transformative deal in the Middle East, brokered by the President, Donald J. Trump. Plus, Hassan Piker gets himself in trouble for maybe shocking his dog on camera. And Katie Porter watts out of an interview. So much going on first.
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00:00:58.000The President of the United States has brokered a phase one deal between Israel and Hamas with the support of legitimately everybody in the region and all the countries all over Europe as well in favor of the full-scale release of 20 living hostages who have been kept in solitude, in tunnels, starved for two years at this point, since October 7th, 2023.
00:01:21.000And the president deserves full marks for this.
00:01:23.000So too does the Prime Minister of Israel, B.B. Netanyahu, who has steadfastly said that Israel would get back its hostages and also would win the war.
00:01:32.000There's a lot of talk about Netanyahu caving, doing partial hostage deals.
00:01:37.000There's a lot of pressure for him to do so.
00:02:03.000Hamas is claiming that they don't have the bodies of the 28 deceased hostages, the remaining hostages who are supposed to be handed over, those corpses apparently are dispersed across the Gaza Strip.
00:02:13.000Hamas wants more time to go look for those dead bodies.
00:02:16.000We know they've played games about this sort of stuff before.
00:02:19.000In return, Israel is going to release some 250 Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons, as well as 1,700 Palestinian terrorists who have been detained in Gaza for fighting Israel during the war.
00:02:33.000It's unclear who is on the list at this point.
00:02:35.000Israel will also withdraw to a preset line inside the Gaza Strip, not to what would be a sort of final settlement line, which would involve a buffer zone around the edge of the Gaza Strip with a provisional government in place and all the rest.
00:02:48.000But some percentage of the enclave will be pulled back to by the IDF.
00:02:54.000And the Rafah crossing with Egypt apparently is supposed to open to facilitate aid delivery in.
00:03:00.000Now, of course, that is dangerous for Israel because facilitated aid by Egypt into the Gaza Strip, presumably could be used by Hamas to rearm.
00:03:08.000And so what happens in phase two is going to be very important here.
00:03:12.000Just in terms of fully ending the war, in terms of this not just being a ceasefire, but achieving the release of the hostages is a massive step forward, particularly for Israel, because if Hamas no longer holds hostages, then at that point, Hamas's leverage on Israel to stop Israel from killing their terror leaders and destroying terror enclaves.
00:03:32.000Hamas is counting on pressure from the United States and the Arab world to prevent Israel from doing that in the future and allowing Hamas to reconstitute.
00:03:39.000I highly doubt that President Trump is going to be warm toward allowing Hamas to reconstitute.
00:03:44.000In fact, even the Arab world is not warm toward that anymore.
00:03:46.000Al Jazeera over the weekend, Al Jazeera, which is a Qatari-backed propagandist group, on behalf of terrorism all across the region.
00:03:54.000Al Jazeera put out an editorial calling on Hamas to disarm.
00:03:57.000So even Qatar understands at this point that Hamas cannot be a part of the Gazan future.
00:04:04.000President Trump announced this on truth social.
00:04:07.000He said, I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan.
00:04:13.000This means that all of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel withdraw their troops to an agreed-upon line as the first steps toward a strong, durable, and everlasting peace.
00:04:33.000And again, President Trump deserves full marks because it was President Trump who not only brokered this deal, but completely changed the math around on this deal.
00:04:42.000In terms of public relations, obviously, Israel has been subjected to two years of full-scale legacy media lies, TikTok lies, social media lies.
00:04:51.000There were claims that Israel was committing a genocide within literally the first week of the war, and those claims only escalated thanks to the virality of the claims and the repetition in the legacy media of those claims, which were never true the entire war.
00:05:03.000But there's no question that Israel suffered a lot in terms of public relations to the point where there were nations moving to isolate Israel, up to and including trying to preliminarily declare a Palestinian state with no government, no borders, and no responsibility for their own citizens.
00:05:31.000What changed between October 7th, 2023 and October 8th, 2025?
00:05:37.000What changed to allow for the full-scale release of the hostages and the possible end of the war?
00:05:42.000We'll get to that in in just a second.
00:05:44.000The Prime Minister of Israel put out a statement.
00:05:46.000He said, with the approval of the first phase of the plan, all our hostages will be brought home.
00:05:49.000This is a diplomatic success and a national and moral victory for the state of Israel.
00:05:53.000From the beginning, I made it clear, we will not rest until all our hostages return and all our goals are achieved.
00:05:57.000Through steadfast resolve, powerful military action, and the great efforts of our great friend and ally President Trump, we have reached this critical turning point.
00:06:04.000I thank President Trump for his leadership, his partnership, and his unwavering commitment to the safety of Israel and the freedom of our hostages.
00:06:12.000And of course, I spoke with the Prime Minister just a couple of days ago.
00:06:15.000You can go view that interview over on YouTube or listen to it on any of us our RSS feeds to understand the Prime Minister's view of the war, how far Israel has come and where Israel stands in the region at this time.
00:06:27.000The President of the United States is scheduled to go to Egypt to presumably sign the agreement and then travel on to Israel, where he is now scheduled to address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Sunday.
00:06:39.000The level of excitement, not only for the deal, but for President Trump to visit, so that they can celebrate President Trump is extraordinary.
00:06:47.000I don't think there will be anything remotely like it, frankly, in Israeli history with regard to a welcome for a leader from the United States.
00:06:56.000President Trump has like a 95% approval rating in the state of Israel, and that is for a reason because President Trump inherently understands the Middle East in a way that Westerners typically do not understand the Middle East.
00:07:07.000He understands that in the Middle East, power rules.
00:07:10.000He understands that in the Middle East, there is no solution but moving through.
00:07:14.000He understands that in the Middle East, concessions are seen generally as a sign of weakness.
00:07:19.000And what he understands most of all is that the United States' role very often is to provide the carrot while Israel provides the stick.
00:07:26.000All of the lies that conflict can't be solved through military power, that is untrue.
00:07:31.000Because fundamentally, what changed between October 7, 2023 and October 8th, 2025, is that the state of Israel destroyed its enemies on a wide variety of fronts.
00:07:44.000That is the thing fundamentally that changed.
00:07:46.000And then the United States has come in at the end and offered the assurances necessary to America's Arab allies and regional allies, and Israel provided the stick to many of those same people to compel them to get Hamas to give up the ghost and release the hostages.
00:08:02.000Hamas has put out a statement as well after responsible and serious negotiations between the movement and the Palestinian resistance factions regarding President Trump's proposal in Sharm al-Shikh, which is in Egypt, with the aim of ending the war of extermination against our Palestinian people and the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip.
00:08:19.000The Islamic resistance movement Hamas announces the signing of an agreement stipulating the end of the war in Gaza, the withdrawal of the occupation from it, the entry of aid and a prisoner exchange.
00:08:30.000It does not actually formally end the war in Gaza.
00:08:33.000That is yet to happen in stage two or stage three.
00:08:35.000The quote unquote withdrawal of the occupation from Gaza, Israel will be withdrawing from certain areas in exchange for the hostages, but certainly not a total military withdrawal.
00:08:46.000Israel cannot withdraw from an area that is still occupied by terrorists.
00:08:50.000That was precisely the problem in 2005, when Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip to the tender mercies of Hamas.
00:08:56.000Hamas continues, we greatly appreciate the efforts of our brothers mediating in Qatar Egypt and Turkey.
00:09:01.000We also appreciate the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump, who seeks to bring about a final end to the war and the complete withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip.
00:09:10.000We call on President Trump, the countries guaranteeing the agreement, and various Arab Islamic and international parties to compel the occupation government to fully implement the terms of the agreement and not allow it to evade or delay the implementation of what was agreed upon.
00:09:21.000So now Hamas is going to try to claim more was in the agreement than was in the agreement in order to put pressure on Israel because they do not have the military capacity to withstand Israel, and thanks to the pressure, largely of its erstwhile allies, Qatar and Turkey.
00:09:33.000Understand the funding mechanisms for Hamas were Qatar and Turkey.
00:09:37.000When those went away, then Hamas was isolated.
00:09:41.000And at that point, all they basically have left is verbiage.
00:09:46.000We salute our great people in the Gaza Strip in Jerusalem and in the West Bank, both inside the homeland and abroad, have demonstrated unprecedented pride, heroism, and honor in confronting the fascist occupations plans directed against them and their national rights again.
00:09:57.000Hilarious to her Hamas, an actual fascist genocidal invading force talking about Israel, a democracy as a fascist occupation.
00:10:05.000The sacrifices of our people were not in vain.
00:10:08.000Um yes, they most certainly not only were they in vain, the quote unquote sacrifices of Hamas, it was the worst own goal in the history of the Middle East.
00:10:18.000What Hamas did is the worst owned goal in the history of the Middle East.
00:10:22.000In a moment we'll get into what changed here.
00:10:24.000What actually are the conditions that led to this breakthrough?
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00:12:47.000President Trump did an interview with Sean Hannity last night, in which he explained that it's been an amazing period of time that he's mobilized the entire world.
00:12:57.000It's a great honor to be involved in it.
00:12:59.000We had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from uh Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner and Marco and we had everybody, JD, the whole group was just amazing.
00:13:12.000And the military was, as you know, very instrumental in getting this done.
00:13:17.000We have a great military with great leadership.
00:13:20.000Uh the whole world came together, to be honest.
00:13:22.000Uh so many countries that you wouldn't have even thought of they they came together.
00:13:26.000The world has come together around this deal.
00:13:29.000And that's something I would say that without that, uh it wouldn't happen.
00:13:34.000Uh so many countries that you wouldn't have thought of have wired their uh best wishes and and their commitment to do whatever is necessary.
00:13:42.000The the countries surrounding have all signed.
00:13:45.000I mean, they're all signed up and uh it's it's been it's been really an amazing period of time, and so great for Israel, so great for Muslims for the Arab countries, uh, and so great for this country, for the United States of America, and that we could be involved in you know, making a deal like this happen because it was you know, many years they talked about peace in the Middle East.
00:14:08.000This is more than Gaza, this is peace in the Middle East, and it's uh an incredible thing.
00:14:14.000Well, again, President Trump sees this as the opening to a broader peace in the Middle East.
00:14:20.000Because once this war is over, then there is seriously the possibility of a bunch of Abraham Accords happening, including Saudi Arabia, including places like Indonesia, places that are not necessarily even in the region.
00:14:31.000There's no question the President of the United States deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:14:36.000If anyone but President Trump receives the Nobel Peace Prize this year, then it just demonstrates I mean it's already been demonstrated over and over what a complete bleep show the Nobel Committee is.
00:14:46.000But if they don't give them the peace prize, then it just demonstrates full scale how ridiculous they're Barack Obama received one for being alive and breathing and being elected president of the United States.
00:14:54.000Yes or Arafat received a Nobel Peace Prize, the arch terror master.
00:14:58.000Donald Trump, if you can't give him the Nobel Peace Prize, honest to God, I disband the committee at this point.
00:15:04.000President Trump announced that the hostages will be released soon.
00:15:10.000My understanding is that the live hostages will be released before then.
00:15:13.000The only question is about the corpses of the hostages who were murdered by Hamas.
00:15:17.000The big thing is uh hostages are going to be released.
00:15:21.000It's probably uh our time would be probably Monday.
00:15:25.000And you know, it's it's they're terribly a terrible situation.
00:15:30.000They're they're deep, they're deep in in the earth, and they're being gotten and a lot of things are happening right now.
00:15:37.000As we speak, so much is happening to get the hostages freed, and uh we think they'll all be coming back on Monday.
00:15:46.000So it looks like that's uh the thing, and that that'll include uh the bodies of the dead.
00:15:52.000Okay, so again, that is obviously huge news.
00:15:55.000Everybody here in Israel right now, and again, I came to Israel for the Jewish holidays.
00:15:59.000Everybody here in Israel is at the very least relieved, and I would say the overwhelming feeling is ecstatic to get the hostages home.
00:16:07.000This has been the main issue that has been driving internal dissent and debate inside of Israel.
00:16:12.000There's unity against Hamas, and there has been since October seventh.
00:16:15.000But there has been a lot of roiling inside of Israel about the status of the hostages, what can be done to free them.
00:16:21.000President Trump said it's not just gonna end with the hostage release, Gaza will end up a safer place.
00:16:25.000And this is where what happens in stage two, stage three, that's where that matters.
00:16:29.000Hamas cannot remain in charge, obviously, of the Gaza Strip.
00:16:32.000Hamas does have to be disarmed, some sort of provisional authority.
00:16:36.000We would hope under Tony Blair or someone like that would have to take place.
00:16:40.000The place needs to be made safe, and then investment dollars that go in will be used to actually build things as opposed to terror tunnels and rockets, which is what Hamas spent all the money on for the last twenty years or so.
00:16:49.000Here's President Trump talking about the future of Gaza.
00:16:51.000Well, Gaza is gonna be a uh peaceful, much safer place.
00:16:55.000Obviously, it's been blown to pieces, and this is just not by Israel.
00:16:59.000This is over years and years and years.
00:17:03.000A lot of people say this is a deal for three thousand years.
00:17:06.000So whether you say five hundred, because some people say five hundred based on events, but other people say this is something historic for three thousand years is nothing ever going to be bigger than this.
00:17:17.000And so Gaza, we believe is gonna be a much safer place, and it's gonna be a place that reconstructs, and other countries in the area will help it reconstruct, because they have tremendous amounts of wealth, and they want to see that happen, and we'll be involved in helping them make it successful and helping it stay peaceful, but I think it's going to be peaceful.
00:17:38.000I think uh again the Iran situation was very important doing what we had to do, which was again twenty-two years uh it was planned to be done, and nobody, no other president wanted to do it or whatever for whatever reason, but they didn't do it.
00:17:56.000But you know, I'm very uh I'm very confident there'll be peace in the Middle East.
00:18:00.000I mean, the words peace in the Middle East are something people have been striving for for hundreds of years for for centuries, for many centuries, and uh we really have every country has come together.
00:18:14.000So again, what happens next in Gaza is gonna matter an awful lot, and that will require some oversight because Gazans apparently were in the streets celebrating the deal.
00:18:22.000Anytime there's a ceasefire, there's a celebration in Gaza because it means that Gaza stops getting walloped, obviously, but it also means a false claim of victory.
00:18:30.000Apparently, many Gazans were in the street chanting their usual anti-Semitic chant of Chaibar Chaibar Ya Yehud, which is a celebration of a passage in the Quran in which Muhammad wipes out a Jewish city, essentially.
00:18:43.000So, you know, again, the idea that the Palestinians have suddenly become moderate, it was not true in the first place.
00:18:49.000What happens next is what has to happen in every area that is that is rife with crime and violence and genocidal thought, which is it has to be made quiet.
00:18:59.000But the first step toward that is the release of the Israeli hostages.
00:19:03.000And again, it seems as though there is unity in the region on the idea that Hamas not only needs to be ousted, but that the Gaza Strip needs to become a quiescent place.
00:19:12.000President Trump talked about the fact that he was able to form a coalition with the Arab nations in order to achieve this.
00:19:17.000A lot of the Arab nations that have formed coalitions with you were reluctant and resistant for decades to ever be a part of the solution.
00:19:26.000That was a big part of what happened here today.
00:19:28.000Explain, can you explain that part of it?
00:19:31.000Well, I develop relationships with people, and sometimes those relationships lead to great things.
00:19:36.000And in the case of many of the Arab nations, uh the wealthiest nations in the world, if you look.
00:19:43.000Although with what we've done in the United States, I think we top everybody.
00:19:48.000So he is he is right about this, obviously.
00:19:51.000Coming up more on this amazing deal that President Trump has cut.
00:19:55.000We're finding out more details as we speak.
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00:22:26.000Because, again, we'll go through the timeline in a moment.
00:22:28.000When you look at this war, essentially what happened is that you had a seven-front war on Israel from a variety of enemies, and one by one, the threats were removed in each of those areas, and finally Hamas had no support upon which to stand.
00:22:41.000And when that happened, then you finally get a ceasefire and a possible move toward peace.
00:22:48.000Remove all of the support structures beneath the terror masters, and they collapse.
00:22:52.000Here is President Trump talking about the necessity of the United States single B2 Sortie that took out the Natan's nuclear facility in Iran.
00:23:00.000Well, Iran was about uh one month, maybe two months away from having a nuclear weapon.
00:23:07.000And if I allowed that to happen, this deal would not have been possible, or if it was, it would have a tremendous cloud over it because you'd have a country with a nuclear weapon that was not obviously very friendly.
00:23:20.000And the power of nuclear weapons is something that we shouldn't even be talking about.
00:23:25.000And so uh by doing that, we now have something where actually Iran and I and Iran and a number of people have been talking about a deal, but it's a very much different Iran.
00:23:37.000And frankly, uh we've had a we've had some very good conversations, and as you saw, they blessed the deal.
00:23:43.000They put out a few hours ago a statement that they agree with the deal and they blessed the deal.
00:23:50.000I believe if they had a nuclear weapon, there would be a whole different even if we made the deal, it would be it would have literally it would have a very dark cloud over it because of what could potentially happen.
00:24:01.000So now there is there are no dark clouds.
00:25:00.000Because Hamas could have given up all the hostages right away, and they could have surrendered right away, and then all of this could have been avoided, or they could have never done October 7th.
00:25:12.000When people say that war doesn't work or force doesn't work, well, when you have an intransigent enemy that attacks you, it turns out that actually force and war are the only way to remove their capacity to harm you and undermine them.
00:25:25.000Hamas invaded Israel October 7th, 2023.
00:25:28.000They killed 1200 people, mainly Jews, and they took 250 hostages.
00:25:33.000Hezbollah, which was a Lebanese terror group backed by Iran, essentially an Iranian proxy in the north of Israel in Lebanon, they began launching small strikes in the north, and that gradually escalated into major rocket assaults that emptied the north of Israel of hundreds of thousands of citizens, hundreds of thousands of people in Israel left their homes and moved south in Israel.
00:25:53.000So when the war began, essentially Israel was on retreat in Gaza, and they had started already on retreat in the north of Israel.
00:26:01.000Before Israel even struck back, the propaganda war began, massive protests in the streets in favor of Hamas.
00:26:06.000Within days, those protests started promoting the lie of an Israeli genocide, which of course escalated over the course of two years, two long years.
00:26:15.000Now, there were some very short ceasefires that were reached in order to exchange prisoners.
00:26:20.000So Israel responded overwhelmingly in mid to late October, and by early November, a short ceasefire was reached, including a prisoner exchange with a hundred and five hostages released at the time.
00:26:32.000Presumably in an attempt by Hamas to forestall what was to come next.
00:26:35.000But that ceasefire ended because Hamas was still in place, and Israel was not going to leave the body of terrorists who'd been running the place for 20 years in place.
00:26:43.000In January 2024, there was another small ceasefire, some 16 hostages were released.
00:26:47.000There was another small hostage release in January 2025.
00:26:51.000There was a special release of Idan Alexander, the sole American who was being held at that point in custody in hostage situations by by Hamas.
00:27:01.000In order for Hamas to try to pay some sort of tribute to President Trump massive terrorist release in exchange on Israel's side for Idan Alexander in February 2025, there were another six.
00:27:21.000We're talking about thousands of terrorists, hundreds of whom had received life sentences for terrorism and for murder and for attempted murder.
00:27:29.000And these were released by Israel in exchange in the middle of a war, knowing that a huge percentage of these people were probably going to go back to the war.
00:27:38.000So it wasn't there were these sort of temporary hostage releases.
00:28:06.000Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the so-called West Bank, Judea and Samaria backed by Iran.
00:28:12.000Syria, the Assad regime was being backed by Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon was backed by Iran.
00:28:20.000There were forces in Iraq to work by Iran.
00:28:22.000Iran itself had been attacking Israel, and the Houthis in Yemen had been attacking the they, of course, are supported by Iran.
00:28:29.000So Israel began defenestrating every single one of these pillars.
00:28:33.000So on April 1st, 2024, Israel killed two top Iranian generals in Damascus, making clear to the Iranians that they would not be allowing Iran to up the ante in places like Syria, that they wouldn't allow another front to open in Syria.
00:28:46.000In response, Iran fired a few missiles into Israel.
00:28:49.000Israel then killed Ismail Khania, who is the political leader of Hamas on July 31st, 2024, in an assassination in Iran.
00:29:00.000He went to Iran for some sort of big festival on behalf of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment, and he was killed in Iran.
00:29:09.000On September 17th, 2024, Israel opened the front against Hezbollah.
00:29:13.000So Hezbollah again had cleared the entire north of Israel.
00:29:16.000There was no one living in these areas because of the constant rocket attacks.
00:29:20.000And Israel launched the single most targeted and brilliant anti-terror campaign in the history of the world, that beeper attack on Hezbollah, where they literally had Hezbollah distributed pagers blow up on the members of Hezbollah with minimal cost to civilians.
00:29:37.000There will never be no cost to civilians when you're attacking terrorists, but minimal cost, like the single most targeted attack in human history.
00:29:44.000Days later, Israel entered Lebanon to clear the south of Hezbollah and slammed Hezbollah targets throughout the country.
00:29:50.000On September 27th, 2024, they killed the charismatic leader of Hezbollah Hassan at Nasralah.
00:29:56.000They bombed him into the ground, literally into the ground.
00:29:59.000He was in a bunker underneath a building, and they hit the building with a bunch of 10,000 pound bombs and killed Nasralah.
00:30:06.000That prompted Iran, who again had supported Nasra and Hezbollah to fire a few more missiles into Israel.
00:30:11.000Just a couple of weeks after that, Israel killed Yachya Sinwar, who was the mastermind of October 7th and the military leader of Hamas.
00:30:18.000They had also killed Mohammed Dayf, who was the military leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:30:24.000Thanks to the defenestration of Hezbollah, Bashar al-Assad fell in Syria because he did not have the support of Hezbollah.
00:30:32.000He was not in fact toppled by the Israelis.
00:30:35.000The Turks backed a terrorist group called HTS, which ran down from the north of Syria and basically just took Damascus.
00:30:43.000So Assad fell as a result of him lacking the support base of Hezbollah.
00:30:48.000And then, of course, June 12th, 2025, Israel began attacking Iran's nuclear infrastructure launching the famed 12-day war that ended with President Trump giving the order to destroy the Iranian nuclear facility at Natans.
00:30:59.000On September 9th, 2025, Israel attacked Hamas in Qatar.
00:31:34.000They killed Khania in Iran in 2024 while Joe Biden was president.
00:31:38.000They killed Hassan Azrallah while Joe Biden was president.
00:31:41.000They killed Yachya Sinwar while Joe Biden was president.
00:31:45.000But the pressure from Joe Biden gave life to Hamas in the same way that Emmanuel Macron, the moron president of France, gave life to Hamas by saying he would give them a state.
00:31:55.000Joe Biden, by slow walking aid to the Israelis by telling Israelis, don't go into Rafa.
00:32:01.000And then Israel took Rafah in three weeks with minimal loss of civilian life.
00:32:05.000All of that pressure on Israel gave the public relations lift to Hamas that it was looking for in order for them to prolong the war.
00:32:12.000Public relations matters and Hamas knew it.
00:32:15.000There's a great book by Elisharabi, who was being held as a hostage by Hamas for almost 600 days.
00:32:20.000And Elishrabi talks about Hamas members would come to him and show him videos of protesters in Israel against the government and say, look, your country is collapsing.
00:32:30.000And show him headlines from abroad and say, look, we have support from abroad.
00:32:34.000PR matter to Hamas because Hamas couldn't win on the battlefield, so they felt that they would win in the court of public opinion and put so much pressure on Israel that Israel would be forced to concede.
00:32:43.000And credit to Prime Minister Netanyahu and to obviously the IDF and the people of Israel, that didn't happen.
00:32:49.000And then Donald Trump was elected, and everything changed.
00:32:52.000It changed because Donald Trump made clear that he would not be providing any level of support, either rhetorical or material to Hamas, that in fact, Hamas was on its last legs.
00:33:03.000He promised there would be hell to pay, and there was, in fact, hell to pay.
00:33:42.000And then something happened in the last few weeks.
00:33:45.000And the thing that happened in the last few weeks, there are really two things.
00:33:48.000One, Israel struck at the Hamas leadership in Qatar.
00:33:51.000Now, on the one hand, it was a failed strike.
00:33:54.000They didn't kill the Hamas leadership in Qatar.
00:33:57.000But the message of the Qatar strike was very clear that Israel, if not held back by the United States, would in fact strike Hamas anywhere, including in Qatar.
00:34:07.000And President Trump, being actually truly good at this, like really, really good at this, then came in and offered the carrot.
00:34:14.000So Israel made clear that there was a stick.
00:34:15.000The stick was that they would strike anywhere, that if pressed to the mat, Israel would strike Hamas anywhere.
00:34:20.000They would strike terrorists anywhere.
00:34:22.000President Trump then came in and he offered security assurances to Qatar and F-35s to Turkey, and that was the carrot.
00:34:29.000But the care came along with a string.
00:34:30.000And the string was if you want those security assurances, you need to force Hamas to give up the hostages.
00:34:35.000Now, I should point out at this point that if that's true, then the single biggest blunder of this entire war was Joe Biden not saying to Qatar on October 8th, you guys, your support structure from the United States goes away unless you force the release.
00:34:50.000If in fact Qatar and Turkey had the power to make Hamas give up the ghost, the fact that they have not done so for two years tells you something.
00:34:56.000Okay, so that is one big thing that happened.
00:34:58.000That strike against Hamas in Qatar that acted as a stick toward Qatar and toward Turkey.
00:35:04.000And then the president of the United States coming in the back door and saying, no more strikes in Qatar, security assurances to Qatar, maybe F-35s to Turkey.
00:35:12.000That's the carrot, but only if we all get on the same page that Hamas cannot rule the Gaza Strip.
00:35:17.000And finally, the IDF doing, again, just unbelievable, extraordinary work, truly, sweeping through Gaza City.
00:35:25.000So again, there is this talk that Israel would never be able to take Gaza City was impossible.
00:35:29.000It would be impossible for them to take Gaza City.
00:35:32.000What prompted the end of the war was that every single layer of support that Hamas had evaporated.
00:36:05.000The only ones left standing at this point are the Houthis, and the Houthis basically have some long-range missiles that mostly get shot down by Israel's aero system.
00:36:13.000And then finally, Israel made clear that they were probably two weeks away from complete military dominance over Gaza City, which was the only area of the Gaza Strip that was not under full Israeli military control.
00:36:26.000And became clear and clear that the cordon was closing.
00:36:34.000And so obviously, President Trump deserves all the credit in the world for holding line for understanding the incentive structures in the Middle East, for understanding that yes, the only way to defeat terrorism is to destroy the terrorists and then remove all of their support structures in terms of finance, in terms of materiel, in terms of PR.
00:36:52.000Huge credit to the Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu, who stood up to Joe Biden as Joe Biden pressed him and pressed him and pressed him to lose the war in order to gain some sort of kind words from a feeble old man incapable of actually making the strong moves necessary to end the war.
00:37:11.000And full credit most of all to the IDF and the IAF and everybody in Israel who has done unbelievable work for two years, sacrificing sons and brothers and daughters and mothers, sacrificing not only lives but livelihoods for two long years in order to defeat their opposition.
00:37:32.000And of course, credit to the United States Air Force for the bombing of Natans.
00:37:37.000So, good things only happen when strong men do the right thing.
00:37:42.000President Donald J. Trump is a strong man who did the right thing.
00:37:45.000He is a peacemaker because, again, he said this during that campaign to me, he said it over and over.
00:37:51.000Peace through strength, not peace through weakness, not peace through concession, not peace through resolutions at the UN, peace through strength.
00:38:07.000But if those principles are held to, if everybody holds the line, then maybe Gaza becomes a better place.
00:38:12.000Maybe Gaza actually becomes a place where people want to live, where funding can go safely, where people can build things and have good lives, where people who don't want to have those good lives are swept away.
00:38:24.000If not, then essentially Gaza will become like Janine or Nablus, those are areas of the so-called West Bank in Judea and Samaria, in which Israel has military overwatch in order to prevent terrorist attacks against itself.
00:38:38.000In the face of genocidal terror, the answer is not concession.
00:38:41.000The answer is not legitimization, the answer is not rationalization.
00:38:45.000The answer is destruction and removal of the support bases that these evil people rely upon to continue a war that not only killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7th and took 250 hostage and resulted in the death of another thousand Israelis and the wounding of thousands more Israelis over the course of this war, but subjected the people of Gaza to ruin.
00:39:11.000Hamas could have done what it did today.
00:39:13.000Hamas could have done all of it by never starting this war in the first place.
00:39:17.000And they could have done it the day after starting the war.
00:39:21.000But instead, they decided they would put the entire world and Palestinians and Israelis through misery and through hell.
00:39:28.000And the result is precisely the opposite of what they sought to achieve.
00:39:32.000A stronger Israel, a militarily powerful Israel, a far more united Israel, an Israel that looks like it's about to make peace with a bunch of its neighbors, a more powerful United States, because Hamas states the United States as well.
00:39:44.000A United States with Donald J. Trump in charge.
00:39:47.000The Hamas assault on Israel played a major, not a minor, a major role in the last election cycle because it was all of the radicals on campus deciding that they were going to go make asses of themselves.
00:39:59.000That drove many Americans to say any left that is okay with this cannot be given power.
00:40:05.000So again, historic own goal by the people of Hamas.
00:40:09.000And again, congratulations to Israel and the United States.
00:40:13.000Congratulations to the people of Gaza who wish for peace.
00:40:16.000Congratulations to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
00:40:21.000Congratulations to the world and credit again to the great peacemaker, Donald J. Trump.
00:40:26.000Congratulations to the Prime Minister of Israel.
00:40:29.000It is a very, very good day, as The president said a very historic day.
00:40:32.000I know everybody in Israel is eager to welcome the president of the United States to Israel.
00:40:37.000They're very excited about seeing the president of the United States as well as other members of the cabinet.
00:40:42.000And everyone prays for a speedy and healthy conclusion to what has been a horrifying period of violence that ends in triumph for the right side.
00:40:54.000Meanwhile, what does all of this say about the state of the West?
00:40:56.000It means in the West, there's a huge block of people who are luxury belief terrorists who have been supporting terrorism for two years and more, out of a luxurious belief that it will never affect them, and that they somehow gain the moral high ground by supporting terrorism.
00:41:11.000On the anniversary of October 7th, which was a grave day in Israel, and and again, for many people all around the world, actually.
00:41:18.000There are a bunch of protests that took place all over the world in favor of Hamas.
00:41:21.000As the president was trying to negotiate a ceasefire.
00:41:24.000Now, by the way, you've seen no Palestinians or advocates for the Palestinians abroad celebrating President Trump's ceasefire.
00:41:36.000Now, I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a genocide in world history in which the supposed victims of the genocide don't celebrate when it ends.
00:41:46.000Shouldn't there be hundreds of thousands of these people in the streets celebrating Donald Trump for ending the war for getting to a ceasefire?
00:42:24.000Demonstrators marked two years of war since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel.
00:42:29.000And in Boston, there were clashes with police.
00:42:31.000Boston police said 13 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested, several officers were injured.
00:42:36.000A march from Boston Common called students for justice in Palestine spilled into the street there, blocking traffic, the crowd waving Palestinian flags, throwing red colored powder into the air.
00:42:47.000Police said protesters turned on them, kicking a marked cruiser, setting off smoke flares and assaulting officers, two of them taken to the hospital with broken bones.
00:42:55.000Police use bikes to block the crowd, and we're seen arresting demonstrators on the ground.
00:42:59.000Here in New York, two protesters were arrested outside the Israeli consulate, elsewhere in the city, dueling protests, one accusing Israel of loving war, another calling to release the hostages, chanted back and forth.
00:43:11.000Okay, so again, notice those two contrasting messages at the very end.
00:43:15.000One says, Israel loves war, and one is release our hostages.
00:43:20.000The moral imbalance there is pretty amazing.
00:43:23.000They're a bunch of left-wing scavengers, college students with sociology degrees who have decided they are going to stand with terrorism and stand with evil because their civilization is to blame for all the problems on earth.
00:43:36.000This is why he had protesters on October 7th shouting globalize the intifada.
00:43:39.000And let's not make any mistake, Zaran Mamdani, the mayoral candidate in New York, put out a statement on October 7th.
00:43:47.000It's it's it's letter perfect for what he is, which is a pro-terror radical.
00:43:52.000Quote, two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.
00:43:58.000I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.
00:44:05.000One thing you'll notice in the middle of the statement there is not a word about Jews ever.
00:44:09.000In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war, a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000, with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble.
00:44:19.000Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.
00:44:22.000I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered.
00:44:25.000Our government has been complicit through it all.
00:44:53.000These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity.
00:44:56.000We must answer it by modeling the very best, a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals, an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.
00:45:02.000This dude doesn't give a damn about universal human rights.
00:45:04.000All the areas that he's standing for are filled with some of the worst violations of human rights on planet Earth.
00:45:35.000She is an idiot, so she included in this graphic a picture of Eviatar David, who is an Israeli held by Hamas, looking like a Holocaust skeleton.
00:45:48.000Like she couldn't, she couldn't even get that right.
00:45:57.000The reality is the same people who murdered 1,200 Israelis on October 7th would be happy to enter Western civilization than murder people in the West as well, which is why we are now finding out that the knife wielding Islamist terrorist who attacked a UK synagogue on Yom Kippur, according to the New York Post, called the cops mid-carnage to brag, quote, I have killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State.
00:47:23.000Hassan Piker, we've commented on him before because the New York Times has tried to make him fetch.
00:47:27.000They keep putting him in their newspapers on their on their podcasts, pretending that he is apparently some sort of deep thinker, you know, the kind of deep thinker who has to write obituaries about Charlie Kirk from a man who has openly called for violence and supported pretty much every terror group on the planet, so long as it's oriented against the West.
00:47:42.000Well, it turns out that he apparently is not super nice to his dog.
00:47:47.000So this was a big controversy over the Jewish holiday.
00:49:30.000Now, as I say, I have a dog, but I'm not an expert on dogs, and thus I have asked an actual expert, our sponsors over at Comet, which is a project of perplexity.
00:49:38.000Do house dogs normally yelp if they are yelled at, but not zapped with an electronic collar, or do they generally yelp when hit with a jolt?
00:49:45.000And here is what comment tells me quote, House dogs do not usually yelp simply from being yelled at.
00:49:50.000Their yelping response primarily occurs in situations where they experience sudden pain, significant surprise, or intense fear.
00:49:56.000Most dogs yelp when they are hit with a jolt from an electronic shock collar, as shocks can be painful or highly startling, especially if the collar intensity is high, or the dog is sensitive.
00:50:05.000Dogs may cower show submissive body language or appear frightened when yelled at, but outright yelping is uncommon and typically only occurs if the yell deeply startles or scares them.
00:50:14.000Electronic collars often cause dogs to yelp due to the physical discomfort or pain of the electrical stimulus.
00:50:20.000So I'm not kind of believing Hassan's defense here.
00:50:49.000I uh I she just literally is so incredibly spoiled from my mom.
00:50:58.000No, she doesn't want to come over here to see what's up.
00:51:01.000She just wants to roam the house because she got to roam the house when I was gone, and she needs to literally have the same structured, regimented.
00:51:43.000She's like it's it's she has a lot of neck meat.
00:51:51.000Uh so Piker has responded, and then he says, No, no, no, no, no.
00:51:55.000It's just a buzz collar, it's not it's not a shot collar, it wasn't set too high.
00:51:58.000So the dog apparently yelped for no reason.
00:51:59.000Can I just point out that even if he didn't zap the dog, him yelling at the dog for the great sin of moving while shouting about the violence of the internet makes him one of the most spoiled people in the history of all of humanity?
00:52:10.000First of all, why is the dog even in the room?
00:52:12.000Seriously, quest serious quote, I've never done a show with an animal in the room because I'm doing a show.
00:52:18.000And it's not the dog's responsibility not to disturb my show, it's a dog.
00:52:22.000It's my responsibility to put the dog in a position where the dog can live a normal life.
00:52:27.000Why is the dog supposed to like perch itself on this one foot square desk near Hassan Piker and and just sit there for hours while the schmuck utters garbage into a microphone while playing video games?
00:52:43.000Here he was explaining, he's the victim here, of course.
00:52:47.000This is the one that people are talking about.
00:56:41.000I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either.
00:56:44.000I would love to continue to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of these issues that they care about.