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The Art of the Middle East Peace Deal · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There is no other way to describe it but historic,
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Speaker 1: a Middle East piece deal. President Donald Trump describing as
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Speaker 1: prayers of millions have finally been answered with the signing
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Speaker 1: of the peace agreement. Now, there is a lot that
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Speaker 1: has happened in the last twenty four hours, and this
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Speaker 1: is the part that most are celebrating. Hamas released the
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Speaker 1: final twenty living Israeli hostages that have been held since
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Speaker 1: October seventh of twenty twenty three, many of them underground
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Speaker 1: the entire time. What we also know is we have
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Speaker 1: witnessed and seen the homecoming play out on TV and
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Speaker 1: social media. Families prayer fully, crying, celebrating in tears without
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Speaker 1: words describe what it's like to see a loved one
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Speaker 1: they thought they may never see again. What happened in
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Speaker 1: exchanged is also important. Israel released one thousand, nine hundred
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Speaker 1: palace and entertainees and prisoners, including many who had life
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Speaker 1: sentences for their atrocees against the Jewish people. We also
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Speaker 1: know that the bodies of some of the deceased hostages
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Speaker 1: are also being returned. At least fore caskets have made
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Speaker 1: it back to Israel. The exchange is part of a
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Speaker 1: broader ceasefire a peace steel framework, often referred to as
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Speaker 1: Trump's twenty point Plan, that was agreed earlier this month,
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Speaker 1: and under the deal, Israel is to partially withdraw troops
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Speaker 1: from Gaza to his designated line, while retaining control over
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Speaker 1: certain security zones, at least initially now. The plan envisions
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Speaker 1: handing over administration of Gaza to a body of technocrats
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Speaker 1: rather than Hamas directly, with oversight by international guaranteers. The
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Speaker 1: deal also calls for a disarmament of Hamas, or at
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Speaker 1: least their relinquishment of overt military control, as a condition
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Speaker 1: of long term peace. A humanitarian aid push in a
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Speaker 1: Gaza is also part of the agreement, with large scale
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Speaker 1: deliveries planned during the ceasefire period. Now a board Air
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Speaker 1: Force one en route to Israel, Trump declared the war
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Speaker 1: is over, and in his address to Israel's parliament, Trump
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Speaker 1: framed the release of the hostages as a quote new
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Speaker 1: beginning for the Middle East and stress that the deal
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Speaker 1: is historic. He also reaffirms US commitment to prevent renewed war,
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Speaker 1: saying he would uphold the cease fire and not allow
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Speaker 1: hostilities to resume. Trump also joked about pardoning the Israeli
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Speaker 1: Prime minister in yet Yahoo and said he would fight
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Speaker 1: for whoever it may be to presus peace. He thinked
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Speaker 1: those involved, including Middle Eastern mediators, and push the twenty
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Speaker 1: point piece plan as the path forward the present. In
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Speaker 1: his own words, had this to say at the signing,
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Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 2: It's a tremendous day for the Middle East. And you
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Speaker 2: can see that this is probably the greatest assemblage of
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Speaker 2: countries in terms of wealth and power, maybe ever assembled.
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Speaker 2: And it's just an honored part of it. We're going
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Speaker 2: to be signing a document that's going to spell out
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Speaker 2: of lot of rules and regulations and lots of other things,
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Speaker 2: and it's very comprehensive. But we've already signed documents in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East and having to do with Israel and
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Speaker 2: Hamas and just about everything else. And it's really working
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Speaker 2: out incredibly well. The hostages, as you know, were let
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Speaker 2: go on time, on schedule. The very sad situation of bodies,
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Speaker 2: which was always a sad situation, and they're being sought
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Speaker 2: out and they're working with many different people finding some
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Speaker 2: were brought in and some were not, and they're working
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Speaker 2: out to find out where those bodies are. It's hard
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Speaker 2: to believe that you even have to say something like that.
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Speaker 2: It's so sad. It's so sad. But what's not said
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Speaker 2: is that we have finally after I guess they say
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Speaker 2: three thousand years. I've heard from three thousand years to
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Speaker 2: five hundred years. But whatever it is, it's a lot.
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Speaker 2: But this was the one. This was the granddaddy of
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Speaker 2: them all, and frankly, I thought this was probably going
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Speaker 2: to be the toughest, and maybe in many ways it was.
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Speaker 3: But we had a lot of good talent.
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Speaker 2: Steve Whitcoff, Jared and Marco and Pete and General Caine
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Speaker 2: was so great. John Ratcliffe was incredible. We had an
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Speaker 2: amazing array.
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Speaker 1: Of talent, an amazing array of talent. It was able
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Speaker 1: to bring all of this to reality. There was even
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Speaker 1: a shocking moment that happened in this country as the media, yes,
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Speaker 1: even some Democrats surprisingly giving Donald Trump credit for the
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Speaker 1: Gaza deal. One of those was Hillary Clinton, and here
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Speaker 1: is what she said.
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Speaker 4: It's a really significant first step. And I really commend
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Speaker 4: President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders
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Speaker 4: in the region for making the commitment to the twenty
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Speaker 4: point Plan and seeing a path forward for what's often
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Speaker 4: called the day after. Most importantly, the conflict hopefully will
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Speaker 4: end with the ceasefire, the hostages will be returned, and
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Speaker 4: then the very hard work of rebuilding Gaza, of finding
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Speaker 4: the kind of secure maturity that Israel and the Palestinians
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Speaker 4: after Hamas deserved to have. Moving forward with the other
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Speaker 4: points in the plan to try to create an opportunity
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Speaker 4: for Palestinians to have a better life and for Israel
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Speaker 4: to have greater peace and security. I am very hopeful
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Speaker 4: that we'll be able to see progress. Today's a good start,
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Speaker 4: but we have to keep going from here.
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Speaker 1: You can hear Hillary Clinton giving this type of gratitude
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Speaker 1: for the leadership of President Donald Trump doing something that
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden's team never got close to doing. And that's
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Speaker 1: not all the CBS Evening News opening their newscasts saying
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Speaker 1: this about President Trump.
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Speaker 5: There is more hope for peace in the Middle East
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Speaker 5: tonight than there has been in a very long time.
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Speaker 5: Hamas today released the last of the surviving Israeli has
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Speaker 5: held hostage since October seventh, twenty twenty three, and Israel
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Speaker 5: in turn freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
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Speaker 6: This is the first phase of the Trump Peace Plan.
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Speaker 6: But remember it is a twenty point plan and there's
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Speaker 6: still a long way to go. The President was in
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Speaker 6: Israel today meeting with families of the now free hostages
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Speaker 6: and addressing the Kanesset.
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Speaker 5: The President said, the long nightmare for Israelis and Palestinians
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Speaker 5: is over now. He said, it is time to turn
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Speaker 5: the battlefield victories against terrorists into the ultimate prize, peace
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Speaker 5: and prosperity for the entire Middle East.
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Speaker 6: Mister Trump then traveled to Egypt to sign the peace
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Speaker 6: deal and hold a summit on the future of Gaza
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Speaker 6: and the region.
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Speaker 7: It's been a day of dramatic split screen moments, and
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Speaker 7: none more so than the sight of President Trump addressing
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Speaker 7: the Israeli Parliament at the final moment as the final
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Speaker 7: hostages crossed out of Gaza and AID trucks rolled freely
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Speaker 7: into Gaza. The result was after two years now a
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Speaker 7: brutal war, the unmistakable hope, the feeling in the air
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Speaker 7: that something big had finally changed.
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Speaker 1: You listened to that news report, that is honest reporting,
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Speaker 1: And that wasn't the only praise the President received, as
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Speaker 1: even those in the media that can't stand him could
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Speaker 1: not overlook the significance of his leadership bringing peace to
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Speaker 1: the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: This was very much a peacemaker's speech.
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Speaker 8: Do you give him credit for this?
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Speaker 5: That's certainly, I mean, this is an incredible accomplishment, an
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Speaker 5: incredible moment. It's a terrific day for the hostage families,
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Speaker 5: It's a terrific day for President Trump, for our national interests.
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Speaker 8: He should get a lot of credit. I mean, this
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Speaker 8: was his deal.
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Speaker 3: He worked this out.
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Speaker 7: Listen, he got the deal across the finish line.
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Speaker 9: There's no question things seem.
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Speaker 5: Sort of possible now in a way that they didn't
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Speaker 5: necessarily before.
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Speaker 3: A better future ahead. That's what today represented. It was
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Speaker 3: so so powerful and unbelievably emotional.
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Speaker 1: You listen to those members of the media, those commentators
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Speaker 1: giving credit on networks that never give Donald credit, and
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Speaker 1: it puts into perspective just how significant this moment actually is.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's historic peace deal. On NBC, they covered it
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Speaker 1: this way.
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Speaker 8: From the moment he landed in Israel, the words thank
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Speaker 8: you visible from Air Force one and billboard to your
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Speaker 8: expressing gratitude, President Trump basted in the praise of a
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Speaker 8: country that credits him more than its own prime minister
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Speaker 8: for today's long awaited reunions, the President's name echoing through
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Speaker 8: Israel's parliament as he touted his landmark diplomatic success.
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Speaker 2: This is the end of the age of terror and death.
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Speaker 2: This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
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Speaker 8: Net Yahoo praising his American ally, Donald.
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Speaker 10: Trump is the greatest friend that the State of Visuel
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Speaker 10: has ever had.
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Speaker 8: In the White House, going off script, the President called
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Speaker 8: on his Israeli counterpart to pardon Netan Yahoo, who was
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Speaker 8: indicted for allegedly accepting expensive gifts, which he denies.
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Speaker 3: The Guardsan Champagne, who the hell cares about it.
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Speaker 8: The President then heading to Egypt for a peace signing
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Speaker 8: ceremony with Arab nations and other world leaders who backed
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Speaker 8: the deal.
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Speaker 9: Peace has been achieved after undouarding efforts, efforts led by
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Speaker 9: President Trump.
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Speaker 1: His landmark diplomatic success. How NBC News described it as
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Speaker 1: for what the rest of the world is thinking. Net
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Speaker 1: and Yahoo praising the deal, defending Israel's conduct over the war,
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Speaker 1: and express relief and joy over the hostages return. At
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Speaker 1: the summit held in Egypt, over twenty world leaders, including
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Speaker 1: the Egyptian present, joined with Trump to endorse the ceasefire
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Speaker 1: as well as the postwar plan, and as part of that,
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Speaker 1: several countries committed to being guaranteurs of the agreement, the US, Egypt, Qatar,
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Speaker 1: and Turk overseeing security and reconstruction in Gaza. The French
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Speaker 1: president called for progress towards a two state solution and
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Speaker 1: announced plans for a humanitarian aid conference for Gaza. Overall,
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Speaker 1: many nations welcomed the deal they thought was impossible as
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Speaker 1: a vital step towards peace, and many of them said
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Speaker 1: it's time now to get the real work done for
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Speaker 1: Gaza disarmament, security and reconstruction. If you just step back
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Speaker 1: and you look at what President Trump was able to do,
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Speaker 1: there is no doubt. As NBC News put it, Trump's
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Speaker 1: signed the documents hours after Trump gave a powerful speech
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Speaker 1: in Tel Aviv. The President of the United States of
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Speaker 1: America joining the leaders of Katar, Egypt, and Turkey in
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Speaker 1: that official signing, and I want you to hear what
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Speaker 1: the President had to say in his own words, thank you.
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Speaker 11: It's really working incredibly well.
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Speaker 10: The hostages, as you know, let go on time, on schedule.
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Speaker 10: The first said situation of bodies, which was always a
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Speaker 10: sad situation, and they're being sought out and they're working
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Speaker 10: of many different people finding somewhere brought in and some
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Speaker 10: we're not and working out to find out where those
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Speaker 10: bodies are. It's hard to believe they'd even have to
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Speaker 10: say something like that. It's so said, it's so said,
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Speaker 10: but what's not said is that we finally after I
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Speaker 10: guess they say three thousand years. I heard from three
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Speaker 10: thousand years to five hundred years. But whatever it is,
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Speaker 10: it's about. But this was the one.
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Speaker 11: This was the granddaddy of them all, and frankly I thought.
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Speaker 10: This was probably going to be the toughest, and maybe
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Speaker 10: in many ways it was.
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Speaker 11: But we had a lot of big talent. Steve Wood, Gov.
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Speaker 10: Jared Marco Pete and General Kane's so good. John Ratcliffe
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Speaker 10: was incredible. We had an amazing array of talent, and
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Speaker 10: we were helped by, in particular the countries represented at
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Speaker 10: this table. I will say to maybe you were fantastic
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Speaker 10: in your countries, unbelievable.
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Speaker 11: And I don't believe they give you a fair shape.
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Speaker 10: They talk about you as as though you're not a
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Speaker 10: nice person, and you happen to be a nice person.
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Speaker 11: You haven't to live a little enough friend with it.
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Speaker 11: You're surrounded by everybody.
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Speaker 10: And without view, this wouldn't have happened.
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Speaker 11: And I just want to thank you very much. Ju's guitar.
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Speaker 10: He's an amazing leader and another man who's been a
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Speaker 10: friend of mine for a long time.
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Speaker 11: I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 10: I like the tough people better than I like the soft,
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Speaker 10: easy ones.
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Speaker 11: I don't know what the hell it is. It's a
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Speaker 11: personality problem, I suspect.
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Speaker 10: But this gentleman from a place called Turkey has one
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Speaker 10: of the most powerful armies actually in the world. It's
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Speaker 10: much more powerful than he even let's know, if you
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Speaker 10: look at some of the recent conflicts, he was at
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Speaker 10: the top of him and he was winning him and
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Speaker 10: he did win him. And he doesn't want any credits.
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Speaker 10: He doesn't want anything. He just wants to be left alone.
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Speaker 10: He's a tough cookie, but he's bring my friend and
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Speaker 10: every time I've ever needed and he's been there for me.
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Speaker 10: So I just one to thank president to one because.
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Speaker 11: He is difficult. They called me, they said, would you
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Speaker 11: do me a favorite?
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Speaker 10: You speak to her to one and I do, and
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Speaker 10: he never fails us, right general, he never fails.
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Speaker 11: He's amazing. So I just want to thank you for
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Speaker 11: the friendship. It's good.
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Speaker 10: Thank you very much, and then of course we have
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Speaker 10: the host tonight, and I just wanted to thank you
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Speaker 10: very much.
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Speaker 11: It was a reason when chose Egypt because you were very.
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Speaker 10: Helpful and very very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this,
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Speaker 10: but we really thought it was appropriate.
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Speaker 11: And you are a great leader. You have learned of
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Speaker 11: the crime.
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Speaker 10: We have problems that other countries don't happen. Of course,
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Speaker 10: nothing's perfect, but the job you do is amazing, and
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Speaker 10: I want to thank you another one. We've been my
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Speaker 10: friend Fred from the beginning during the campaign against.
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Speaker 11: Crooked Hillary Plant and have you heard of her?
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Speaker 10: And we were both downstairs waiting to go up to
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Speaker 10: meet this gentleman who has a place called Egypt. The
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Speaker 10: oldest civilization they say six thousand years, China's five thousand years,
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Speaker 10: but you're at You're actually number.
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Speaker 11: One, six thousand years. Can you believe it?
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Speaker 10: But the oldest they say civilization, But so I went
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Speaker 10: up to meet them first, and we liked each other
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Speaker 10: so much that she waited for about an hour and
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Speaker 10: a half and I think your meeting lasted about two
18:25
Speaker 10: minutes with him, so I always remembered that, but that
18:28
Speaker 10: was on person media.
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Speaker 11: We had great chemistry together, and he's a fantastic man
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Speaker 11: and a.
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Speaker 10: Fantastic general by the way, but he's a great president.
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Speaker 10: And I want to thank Egypt than all of your
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Speaker 10: representatives are treating us all so well. So we're really
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Speaker 10: representative of a whole group of visions. And they're sitting
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Speaker 10: behind us, and you know.
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Speaker 11: Most of them. I can tell you this guy had
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Speaker 11: so much money.
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Speaker 1: They all have money.
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Speaker 10: There's more money in power sitting behind us. I love
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Speaker 10: that they're behind us. We've never been sitting behind anybody before.
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Speaker 10: This is a very unique position for them, but they are, Seriously,
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Speaker 10: they're among the most powerful countries in the world, of
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Speaker 10: the richest countries in the world, and there's never been
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Speaker 10: really an assemblance like what we have today. I don't
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Speaker 10: think to you, I don't I've never seen it anyway,
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Speaker 10: And I want to thank everybody for being where they have.
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Speaker 11: To just solve the war for him, as everybody, John,
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Speaker 11: Oh that do that?
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Speaker 1: Where did you go?
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Speaker 10: Bast you guys? You're still getting along right for for
19:42
Speaker 10: thirty two years and about one hour we settled, right.
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Speaker 11: They like each other and do it's good as right. Well,
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Speaker 11: I want to thank everybody for being here. He believes
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Speaker 11: he's a very instul um. He's gonna put a rigged
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Speaker 11: up to lit.
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Speaker 10: A big thank for me formally, but we're actually going
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Speaker 10: to be making a speech after this, So this is
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Speaker 10: just a very important signing. But we're doing the signing
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Speaker 10: that we're doing this leading and then I may stay
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Speaker 10: behind with the leaders just to talk about that some
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Speaker 10: things without the press. I want to thank the media
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Speaker 10: for very You've been so respectful on this year.
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Speaker 2: You know the deal, and I really it was so
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Speaker 2: pleasant to watch. I was on the plane for quite
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Speaker 2: a while listening to the various newscasts and they were
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Speaker 2: all fair. They were talking about how incredible this is.
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Speaker 2: This is an incredible day for the world, let alone
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Speaker 2: the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: So I just wanted to thank the media. They really
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Speaker 3: treated it with respect.
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Speaker 2: I wish you could be like that on other things,
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Speaker 2: but that's perhaps too much to ask for.
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Speaker 3: But on this tremendous.
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Speaker 2: Everybody feels the same, just tremendous respect and.
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Speaker 11: We appreciate it very much.
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Speaker 3: Can we get the documents? Plezz.
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Speaker 7: You are watching a historic moment here in Egypt at
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Speaker 7: Charmel Shaikh, Egyptian city, as President Trump, surrounded by other
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Speaker 7: world leaders, signs a ceremonial document behind a banner that
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Speaker 7: says peace in the Middle East. This is to commemorate
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Speaker 7: today's milestone moment, the release of the hostages AID into
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Speaker 7: Gaza and the first step toward this broader peace plan
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Speaker 7: that could lead in a very good direction. The President
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Speaker 7: calls it a new day in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: World leaders sitting there, including the Italian Prime Minister, the
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Speaker 1: French President, the Canadian Prime Minister, and many more, looked
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Speaker 1: on as these four leaders signed the documents that you
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Speaker 1: heard the President talking to saying, the people behind me
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Speaker 1: are the greatest leaders, most powerful leaders, the richest leaders. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's not politically correct to say that, but I'll
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Speaker 1: say it. Trump's saying that they are people that really
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Speaker 1: care for their countries. And why this happened is they
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Speaker 1: all came together and they wanted to get Gaza straightened out.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's happy about it like I've never seen before. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I've done other deals and people don't care as much.
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Speaker 1: President Trump went on to ad saying big deals. I
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Speaker 1: think they're big deals. But this is something that's taken
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Speaker 1: off like a rocket ship, and it did from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: The President emphasizing the prospect of peace deal in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East has long looked daunting, with many saying it
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Speaker 1: could not be materialized. It's the biggest, most complicated deal.
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Speaker 1: Trump then posed for photos with a lot of the
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Speaker 1: world leaders ahead of the signing ceremony and took the
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Speaker 1: stage to give the speech that you just heard. Trump
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Speaker 1: noted before the signing that the document that he'd already
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Speaker 1: been signed regarding the beginning of the agreement between Israel
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Speaker 1: and hamas part of this getting done, turning what was
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Speaker 1: a hope and a dream into a reality. The President
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Speaker 1: of the United States of America landed in Israel and
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Speaker 1: then went to address Israeli parliament. This is not something
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Speaker 1: that happens very often. There have been I think just
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Speaker 1: four US presidents that have ever been given the honor
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Speaker 1: of doing this, the President now being one of those.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what he had to say
23:10
Speaker 1: in a very important moment when the President decided to
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Speaker 1: explain exactly what is happening, why we're here, and how
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Speaker 1: important Israel is to the United States of America.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor nice place,
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Speaker 2: very nice place. Mister President, mister Prime Minister, mister speakers, see,
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Speaker 2: members of the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel. We
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Speaker 2: gather in a day of profound joy, of soaring hope,
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Speaker 2: of renewed faith, and above all, a day to give
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Speaker 2: our deepest thanks to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac
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Speaker 2: and Jacob.
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Speaker 3: After two harrowing years.
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Speaker 2: And darkness and captivity, twenty courageous hostages are returning to
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Speaker 2: the glorious embrace of their families.
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Speaker 3: And it is glorious.
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Speaker 2: Twenty eight more precious loved ones are coming home at
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Speaker 2: last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time,
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Speaker 2: and after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger.
24:48
Speaker 2: Today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the
24:51
Speaker 2: sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
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Speaker 2: land that is finally at peace, a land and a
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Speaker 2: region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
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Speaker 3: This is not only the end of a war.
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Speaker 2: This is the end of a age of terror and
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Speaker 2: death and the beginning of the age of faith and
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Speaker 2: hope and of God. It's the start of a grand
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Speaker 2: concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations
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Speaker 2: of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I
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Speaker 2: believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn of
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Speaker 2: a new Middle East. I want to express my gratitude
25:43
Speaker 2: to a man of exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership
25:48
Speaker 2: did so much to make this momentous day possible. You
25:52
Speaker 2: know who I'm talking about. There's only one Prime Minister,
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Speaker 2: Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 3: Please stand up. And he's not easy. I want to
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Speaker 3: tell you he's not the easiest guy to deal with.
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Speaker 12: But that's what makes him great. That's what makes them great.
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Speaker 12: Thank you very much, baby, great job.
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Speaker 2: And that he also convey my tremendous appreciation for all
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Speaker 2: of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world that
26:52
Speaker 2: came together to press some as to set the hostages
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Speaker 2: free and to send them home.
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Speaker 3: We had a lot of help.
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Speaker 2: We had a lot of help from a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that you wouldn't suspect, and I want to thank
27:03
Speaker 2: them very much for that. It's an incredible triumph for
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Speaker 2: Israel in the world to have all of these nations
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Speaker 2: working together as partners in peace, and it's pretty unusual
27:15
Speaker 2: for you to see that, but it happened in this case.
27:18
Speaker 2: This was a very unusual point in time, a brilliant
27:22
Speaker 2: point in time. Generations from now, this will be remembered
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Speaker 2: as the moment that everything began to change, and change
27:31
Speaker 2: very much for the better.
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Speaker 3: Like the USA right now, it will.
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Speaker 2: Be the golden age of Israel and the golden age
27:40
Speaker 2: of the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: It's going to work together.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to thank several great American patriots for their
27:46
Speaker 2: invaluable help in getting something done that almost everyone thought
27:51
Speaker 2: was absolutely impossible.
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Speaker 3: We were wasting our time.
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Speaker 2: So many people said, you're just wasting your time, but
27:59
Speaker 2: we weren't because we had talented people working with us,
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Speaker 2: and we had people that loved your country and frankly,
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Speaker 2: people that loved the region. They loved the Middle East.
28:10
Speaker 2: I want to thank my friend Steve Whitcoff. You know,
28:38
Speaker 2: Steve was chosen by me. He never did this before,
28:42
Speaker 2: but I knew him as a few things. He was
28:46
Speaker 2: a great businessman, but I know a lot of great businessmen.
28:48
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, he had tremendous negotiating skills,
28:52
Speaker 2: but I know a lot of people that negotiate pretty well.
28:55
Speaker 3: Although it is an art, but there are people that
28:59
Speaker 3: can negotia. She ate pretty well.
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Speaker 2: But most importantly with Steve, he's just a great guy.
29:05
Speaker 2: Everybody loved him. Everybody. I mean, I know some negotiators
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Speaker 2: that are so good. But you wouldn't have had peace
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Speaker 2: in the Middle East. He would be in World War three.
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Speaker 3: Right now with some of these guys.
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Speaker 2: Everybody loves Steve and they respect him, and they somehow
29:28
Speaker 2: can relate to him. I've known him for many years
29:30
Speaker 2: and I've seen it over over and over again.
29:41
Speaker 3: Auta, they don't.
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Speaker 13: Think, come out, we're gonna hear they're a protester, one
30:02
Speaker 13: of those in parliament apparently protesting.
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Speaker 1: In that moment.
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Speaker 3: Sorry for that, mister President.
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Speaker 2: That was very efficient. So back to Steve. He's but
30:52
Speaker 2: I tell one story because he was so involved. And
30:55
Speaker 2: then we called and Jared, we called, and we need
30:57
Speaker 2: that brain on occasion. We got to get Jared in here.
31:00
Speaker 2: We got to get a certain group of people. But
31:03
Speaker 2: Steve started this all by himself. I call him Henry Kissinger,
31:07
Speaker 2: who doesn't leak. Okay, Henry is a big leaker.
31:12
Speaker 3: He leaked.
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Speaker 2: Steve does a leak. Steve just wants to get the
31:16
Speaker 2: job done. He wants to do what's right. But I'll
31:18
Speaker 2: give you just a quick story, because as you know,
31:21
Speaker 2: he's working on the war with Russia and Ukraine, a
31:25
Speaker 2: war that would have never happened if our work president
31:28
Speaker 2: A shame. Seven thousand young soldiers a week are being
31:32
Speaker 2: killed more than that this last week. It's a shame
31:36
Speaker 2: that had never happened. But it did happen, and we
31:40
Speaker 2: won the race, and I took over this horrible war
31:43
Speaker 2: that's been raging, and I thought it would be.
31:47
Speaker 3: Easily settled.
31:48
Speaker 2: I thought it was a hell of a lot easier
31:50
Speaker 2: than doing what we just did very successfully with Israel
31:54
Speaker 2: and a lot of other people.
31:56
Speaker 3: But this came first, and we'll get that one.
32:00
Speaker 2: But I set up a meeting for him to meet
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Speaker 2: with President Putin, thinking it would be a fifteen or
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Speaker 2: a twenty minute meeting.
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Speaker 3: Steve had no idea about Russia.
32:08
Speaker 2: I had no idea about Putin too much, didn't know
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Speaker 2: too much about politics.
32:12
Speaker 3: Wasn't that interested. He was really good at real estate.
32:15
Speaker 2: But he had that quality that I was looking for,
32:18
Speaker 2: and I didn't see it around in too many ways.
32:20
Speaker 2: And I set up the meeting with Putin and I called.
32:23
Speaker 2: I said, uh, is Steve finished yet? That was about
32:27
Speaker 2: half an hour into the meeting.
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Speaker 3: No, sir, he's not.
32:29
Speaker 2: He's still inside. This is in Moscow. I said, well,
32:33
Speaker 2: how's he doing. I don't know, sir, he's still inside.
32:35
Speaker 2: I called up an hour later, let me speak to Steve. Sir,
32:38
Speaker 2: he's still with Putin. He's with President Putin. I said, wow,
32:42
Speaker 2: it's a long meeting. One hour.
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Speaker 3: I called up.
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Speaker 14: An hour later, he is still with Putin. Three hours
32:48
Speaker 14: later he was still with Putin. Four hours later he
32:52
Speaker 14: started to get the word that he was going to
32:54
Speaker 14: be coming out soon. And in five hours he came out.
32:59
Speaker 14: I said, what what the hell were you talking about
33:01
Speaker 14: for five hours? And he says, just a lot of
33:05
Speaker 14: interesting things.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about a lot of interesting things, including what
33:11
Speaker 2: he went in there for. But you can't talk about
33:13
Speaker 2: it for five You can talk about it for a
33:16
Speaker 2: certain period of time and you know what you're getting.
33:19
Speaker 3: But that's a talent that's a talent where you can
33:22
Speaker 3: do that.
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Speaker 2: Most people I'd send in number one, they wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: accepted number two. If they were, the meeting would last
33:29
Speaker 2: five minutes. And that's what happens with Steve. Everybody loves him.
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Speaker 2: They love him on this side, they love him on
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Speaker 2: the other side, and he really is he's a great
33:37
Speaker 2: negotiator because he's a great guy.
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Speaker 3: So thank you very much, Stude, very.
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Speaker 1: Much, President of the United States of America speaking there,
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Speaker 1: and this is truly an incredible moment as the President
33:53
Speaker 1: is just talking about how we got this deal done,
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Speaker 1: what happened there, and the team that was behind behind it.
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Speaker 1: It's truly remarkable as we are looking at the real
34:05
Speaker 1: reality of peace in the Middle East. It is incredible.
34:12
Speaker 1: The hostages, those that are alive, have all returned, which
34:17
Speaker 1: is also amazing, they have all returned back to Israel.
34:22
Speaker 1: The bodies, as you heard the President mentioned earlier, of
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Speaker 1: those that have been killed by the terrorist organization, we
34:30
Speaker 1: still don't know if we will be able to find
34:32
Speaker 1: all those bodies. That it's horrific to even say that.
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Speaker 1: But a convoy carrying four coffins Obnyssease hostages into Israel.
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Speaker 1: Did happen after the sun had set in Israel?
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