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00:00Hi, everyone. I'm Brian Kilmeade, and this is One Nation. Welcome. We begin tonight with a
00:07historic Fox News alert. President Trump's peace deal in the Middle East unfolding in real time
00:12right now, right before your eyes. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continuing to hold
00:17strong as we await the imminent release of at least 20 living hostages and the release of the
00:23approximately 28 bodies of those deceased, although they're having trouble finding all of them. I
00:28know. President Trump is now on his way to the Middle East, literally in the air, where he'll
00:32address the Knesset. That's Israel's legislature, and then he'll meet with the hostage families and
00:38we hope with the released hostages. The president's speaking to the press before boarding Air Force One
00:43just a few hours ago. This is going to be a very special time, and I guess if you read your own
00:51papers and your own networks, everybody's very excited about this moment in time. This is a
00:58very special event. They had 500,000 people yesterday and today in Israel, and also the
01:04Muslim and Arab countries are all cheering. Everybody's cheering at one time. That's never
01:09happened before. I hear you. The president's also expecting to sit down with the prime minister,
01:15Benjamin Netanyahu. The two are great friends. They have had nothing but praise for each other
01:20as they look for a new way forward. This has been brokered by President Trump, and they know it.
01:24Because tomorrow, children will return to their border. This is a historic event that blends
01:33sorrow over the release of murders and joy over the return of the hostages. This is a historic
01:40event that some did not believe would happen, but our fighters believed. Many among the people
01:46believed, and I believed. So joining me now for the latest, National Security
01:52Resort correspondent Jennifer Griffin. Jennifer, you've seen so much in this region. Tell me what
01:57the latest is. Well, Brian, it's really an extraordinary day here in Israel, one filled with emotion and
02:07anticipation. A historic day. President Trump is en route to Israel with members of his cabinet
02:14on board Air Force One. He spoke to reporters earlier tonight on Air Force One.
02:20Mr. President Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, has not gone so far as to say the war
02:25is over. In your view, is the war between Israel and Hamas over?
02:28The war is over. The war is over. Okay. Do you understand that?
02:35People have been streaming to Hostage Square in Tel Aviv all day. The 20 living hostages will be
02:41handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross at three locations inside Gaza. The Red Cross will transfer
02:47the living hostages first to Israeli forces in areas within Gaza that are controlled by the IDF.
02:53Hamas is not supposed to film or humiliate the hostages on the way out. The IDF will bring the
03:00hostages to Reim Air Base just inside Israel along the Gaza border, at which point they'll reunite with
03:07immediate family members, medical professionals and psychologists before being flown to three
03:12Tel Aviv hospitals. As medical staff prepared to receive the hostages earlier today, Israel's
03:19President Isaac Herzog and his wife visited Iqbalov Hospital in Tel Aviv, leaving notes on each hospital
03:26bed, which read, so good that you are back home. Billboards across Israel pressing Trump, Rubio,
03:32Wyckoff and Jared Kushner to not stop at the hostage deal to keep going for a historic regional peace.
03:40Amazed and they're thrilled and it's an honor to be involved and we're going to have an amazing
03:47time and it's going to be something that's never, never happened before.
03:54Three hours from now, after 738 days of waiting, the families of the hostages will be able to embrace
04:02those 20 living hostages when they are brought back here to Israel.
04:06Brian, it's a, it's an incredible time to be here and, and really a historic day. Brian.
04:14Jennifer, and think about you who, you know, you covered this for the longest time and we've seen
04:19so many ups and downs and you and I together, uh, you were on the ground with Yasser Arafat's funeral.
04:24We thought that was going to go awry and now we've gotten to this point. So could you tell me through
04:29your sources what things are like in Gaza right now? We understand 90% of the buildings have been
04:33destroyed. Has Hamas backed out? Well, it's truly extraordinary, Brian. I spoke to a friend in,
04:42in Gaza today and asked him how his house was. And he had sent me a video showing him walking towards
04:49an area that was completely rubble. This is just west of Gaza city near the beach. And then he sent me
04:56a photo of what it looked like beforehand. And it was a beautiful gleaming, uh, five story building.
05:02So people are returning home. 500,000 Palestinians returned to their homes yesterday. But again,
05:09they had just what was on their backs. They were walking, uh, what's happening in Gaza. Uh,
05:14we understand there are running gun battles between some of the, uh, Palestinian clans,
05:19the dog moosh clan and Hamas. There's retribution. There's, uh, summary killings in the streets,
05:25uh, for people suspected of collaborating with Israel. So right now the security situation is not
05:31good. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is holding, but internally, uh, things could break
05:38down very quickly. There is not a strong security force in place. So that international security force
05:44that they're talking about really needs to get there to fill the vacuum. Cause we know what happens
05:49in the middle East when there are vacuums, Brian. All right. Uh, thanks so much, Jennifer. Look
05:54forward to your covers through this historic time over the next few hours. We'll see the president on
05:58the ground there. And before that, we'll see hostages coming out beginning at 1 AM Eastern. We hope
06:03meanwhile, there are 737 days, 737 days. These hostages have been underground in many cases.
06:10They're finally being released from Hamas's terror hold. Many are still wondering what motivated the
06:15terror group to sign this peace deal. What risks did Israel still face? And where does Gaza and the
06:21entire Middle East go from here? Let's bring in two of the best in the business. Few know more,
06:25former foreign policy advisor, George W. Bush, Dan Senor, and the foundation for democracies,
06:31uh, CEO, Mark Dubowitz. Let's begin with you, Mark. First off, what's your great, what put it in
06:37perspective? How we got to this point? How did President Trump use the relationships that he had
06:44to push all sides together to get to this point to get all hostages out together?
06:52So Brian, President Trump did what President Biden didn't do and what Kamala Harris wouldn't
06:56have done, which is there was no daylight between Washington and Jerusalem. No, no daylight between
07:01President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. He came into office and he provided full support to
07:06the Israelis to use military power in order to destroy and degrade Hamas. And by showing no
07:12daylight, the Israelis had the confidence, the trust to take the risks for peace, um,
07:18to actually do the ceasefire, get their hostages back, but take an enormous risk because Hamas has
07:23still got weapons. Um, and as Jennifer said, they're still exacting retribution against fellow Palestinians.
07:28Hamas is responsible for all the destruction that you're going to see on your screens,
07:32all the destruction in Gaza, all the destruction in Israel and all the lives lost.
07:37Hey, Dan, the way I understand it, the Wall Street Journal reporting today that Hamas looked
07:41at this deal and said, no, we, we're going to refuse it. Two days later, they changed their mind. Why?
07:46Turkey, Qatar, uh, Egypt said, you'll take this deal or you, you, you lose all our support.
07:53The relationship with Trump had a lot to do with that. Did you ever foresee
07:58those countries putting the pressure on Hamas like that?
08:03I think, uh, just to pivot off something Mark said, Brian, uh, once Hamas realized that the Israel
08:09and the IDF were not going to be restrained by the United States government, everyone tried to
08:15restrain Israel and its operations in Gaza. The international community did. You saw what
08:19Europe has been doing over the last few months. The UN did the, the previous administration tried to
08:24one. So I think Hamas, their calculations were simply that someone would reign in
08:29Israel. But the only party, I think from Hamas's perspective that could truly reign in Israel
08:35was the Trump administration. And when Trump, the Trump administration made it clear that not
08:39only was it not going to reign in Israel, but it was going to back Israel and its operation into
08:43Gaza city. Keep in mind, Gaza city for Hamas is like their Moscow or their Berlin. It was their
08:49stronghold. It was their last stronghold. And they just assumed that Israel would not go in
08:54to Gaza city, much like they assumed that there would be huge pressure in the spring of 2024 to
08:59restrain Israel from going into Rafa. It was a very similar dynamic. Only this time the Trump
09:04administration basically said, go in, we're not stopping them. And I think that combined with the
09:09operation in Doha made these governments in the region realize that, that Israel was not going to be
09:14reined in and this, the fire could spread throughout the region. And they needed to,
09:19to wind this thing down and put pressure on Hamas to do so. And they, and they told Hamas,
09:24Israel's not being reined in here. Israel has a green light. And so that's what's something,
09:27but come back to Mark's point, once Hamas and various others in the region realized there was
09:31no daylight between the Trump administration, the Israeli government, that's when things started to
09:35truly move. So I want you both to comment on this, Mark, I want to put up a side by side,
09:42uh, the celebrations in Tel Aviv. And by the way, in Gaza, where they were chanting Trump's name.
09:46And then we look at the video in a lot of these Western cities and you posted this
09:50in London and in New York, they have anti-Israel hate, uh, hate signs and chants out there.
09:57Meanwhile, the people in Gaza are chanting Trump's name and in Tel Aviv, it makes you wonder, Mark,
10:03what the goals of these protesters were to begin with to eliminate Israel.
10:07Well, Brian, I think it's clear. I mean, for two years, you know, hundreds of thousands of
10:14millions of people have been marching in Western capitals, wearing, you know, green Hamas banners
10:19and waving these flags and calling for a ceasefire. Well, it turns out that when a ceasefire actually
10:24occurs, right, Israelis are at hostage square, hundreds of thousands of them chanting for peace.
10:31Gazans are breathing a sigh of relief because perhaps this is the end of Hamas and certainly the end of
10:35war. And yet there are hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of London and in European
10:40capitals who are actually chanting in favor of Hamas and want this war to continue. So it turns out
10:46they didn't want a ceasefire. They wanted a ceasefire where Hamas would actually win and winning would
10:51mean destroying Israel. So it, it, I think it really does call into question their intentions and their
10:56motivations, uh, and, and not only the people on the streets, but actors and politicians and social
11:02media influences who for two years have been castigating Israel, uh, and in the past eight
11:06months have been condemning president Trump. Well, it turns out president Trump and prime minister
11:10Netanyahu were committed to peace. They were committed to Hamas and to further destruction.
11:17Dan, you see it every day in New York. We walk through the same streets to see the anti-Israel
11:21sentiment in these organized protests. I want to throw up in my mouth, wonder how we got here.
11:26And I think that dichotomy shows as a reality on the ground. And these protesters don't even
11:31know what they're doing because they'd at least respond to the peace that's upon us.
11:38For the last few months, but really the last two years, but it got most aggressive in the last few
11:43months. We have been told by all these protesters and all these folks in Hollywood and some of the
11:48other people, Mark mentioned that you're citing that this was a genocide. Now, obviously we strongly
11:53dispute that it was absolutely not a genocide, but we've been being told it was a genocide.
11:58Well, guess what? The genocide, if it was one just stopped, right? The ceasefire stops the genocide.
12:05One would think that the first moral obligation of every one of these people we're talking about right
12:09now would be to celebrate the ceasefire, the quote unquote, stopping the genocide and helping to enforce
12:16it, helping to make sure it happens. And instead, what they're revealing is that charges of genocide,
12:22much like charges of famine and charges of mass starvation and everything we've heard over the
12:27last couple of years were never about the thing that they were talking about. They were always about
12:31using these issues as a political weapon to wage against Israel. And so even when the objective is
12:37met that they said they wanted to achieve all this time, they can't stop because it was never about
12:43that actual objective. It was about a political argument to indict Israel.
12:50Mark, I want to bring it to you the circumstances you got it. Go ahead. Go ahead.
12:55Well, I just want to say, I mean, I think Dan's exactly right. And, you know, as proof of that, I mean,
12:59as Israel waits to get back its hostages, it's also mourning the 915 Israeli soldiers who were killed in
13:07action, the 6,300 who've been maimed. If Israel was committing genocide, what would Israel have
13:13done? It would have flown heavy jets over Gaza and would have bombed Gaza to smithereens. It wouldn't
13:19have sent its boys and girls into these terror tunnels, into these booby-trapped buildings and
13:26try to minimize civilian casualties while Hamas was using civilians as human shields. So it just underscores,
13:32again, just the idiocy of these arguments and the immorality of these arguments that have been made
13:37to indict Israel, as Dan has alluded to. And we know we are expecting a matter of hours from three
13:44separate locations, hostages to come streaming out and the bodies of those who lost their lives
13:49in captivity to come out. And there's not supposed to be any humiliation, any parading. The Red Cross is
13:54supposed to grab them and bring them forward. And there's going to be an exchange for Palestinian
14:00prisoners, 200 plus, who have blood on their hands on death row. They're going to get out. Some are
14:05going to leave the country. And Dan, finally, how important was it to not only show that President
14:10Trump backed the IDF's ability to take down Gaza, but how important was it to show that they'll take
14:17action against Iran? And if you do not sincerely engage in talks and you try to delay, we will take
14:24action. And that's what this region understands. And you understand that.
14:30Yeah. I, you know, I, Amit Segel, who's a, who's a prominent Israeli journalist that,
14:34that Mark knows as well. It was recently on my podcast. And he said, if you just look at events
14:39between the events that have occurred and the coordination between the U S and Israel over the
14:44last, you know, nine, 10 months, basically everything from the operation in Iran to what we've
14:48seen over the last couple of weeks to, and we can just go on and on with event after event,
14:52event after event. He said, if you just watch all these events without the commentary,
14:55it's like watching a football match. He said, without the commentary, you just watch how the
14:59game is played. You would see the U S and Israel standing shoulder to shoulder on every one of these
15:04events. Are there moments of tension? Of course, are there, you know, minute to minute, do you have
15:08moments of disagreement, but the direction of travel was all in one direction. And it was, um, it was a
15:15model really of how two allies should operate who are trying to pursue the same goal. And in this
15:21regard, I think the, the U S and Israel working together, the prime minister and the president
15:25said a very strong message, not only to both of their respective enemies, but really to the entire
15:30world about what it looks like when, when the U S is stitched up with, in this case, it's most
15:35important ally in the middle East to, um, to advance these objectives and to, and to defeat barbarians.
15:42Mark, we only have, we only have 45 seconds left. What do you expect the president to
15:46say, uh, add to the Knesset, uh, tomorrow, which could be today, depending on your time zone?
15:53Yeah, I mean, the president is in personally invest in return, the hostages at such a deep
15:57emotional level, but I think he's going to have a message of hope, a message of peace,
16:02a message of opportunity that this may actually be the big, the building blocks for normalization,
16:07for peace deals with the Saudis and Israel, the Indonesians, maybe the Malaysians,
16:12the Lebanese, the Syrians. I mean, president Trump, by the end of his three years could usher in
16:17a new era of peace. And I think for that he will deserve and should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
16:24Absolutely. And by, and by the way, we got to see that international, uh, that international
16:28force come together quickly or the IDF is not leaving. Dan and Mark, two better people I could
16:32not be talking to on this historic night. Thanks so much. Meanwhile, more on this show, a lot more,
16:37including the former police chief of New York city, Los Angeles and Boston,
16:41maybe the most respect in the country, Bill Bratton on the tension we're seeing in Portland
16:45and Chicago, the state of law and order in America. Keep it right here. You're watching
16:49one nation. Our coverage will continue. There's no denying that law and order is on the way back
16:54in this country. Look, for example, the success of the national guard and ice in major cities like
16:59Washington, DC crimes down across the board. Think about it from August 7th to the 25th compared to
17:04last year, violent crime is down 49%. Robbery and burglary also see significant declines.
17:10ICE is on track to deport 600,000 immigrants this year here illegally. Many came over the last four
17:15years and there's 2 million illegal migrants who said, the heck with it, I'm going to self deport.
17:20But despite these successes, the anti law enforcement rhetoric from the left continues.
17:26And it starts from the top, like guys like Governor Pritzker.
17:31Trump and the thuggery that his agents have brought has actively made us less safe.
17:37The state of Illinois is going to use every lever at our disposal to resist this power grab and get
17:44gnomes, thugs the hell out of Chicago. I'm not afraid.
17:48Not afraid. In rogue cities like Portland, the rhetoric is even trickling down to the
17:53departments themselves, where cops are siding with the bad guys. Journalists like Nick Sorter
17:58unfortunately saw that with his own eyes. This was as big of a surprise to me as it was to
18:04everybody else. All of a sudden, you know, I'm being jumped by Antifa thugs. I get back up,
18:10I stumble away and go back toward cops where I think, you know, at least, all right, well,
18:14maybe that'll be a safer place for me to go. Never suspected that I was going to be the target
18:19of the arrest that they were coming into me. It's insane. And in Chicago,
18:23ICE and Border Patrol agents on a lawful enforcement mission were followed. They were boxed in by 10
18:28vehicles, nearly run over and shot at. And when those agents under siege called for backup from
18:34the Chicago PD, they were told they're on their own. Listen. And again, per the chief of patrol,
18:41uh, we have all the units that for 999, chief patrol said all units clear out from there.
18:50We're not sending anybody over to that location. That's pretty black and white. We're not coming
18:54for help, right? But Chicago's police chief had a different version of what happened in a presser
18:58the next day. Do not box in any law enforcement officer. You're breaking the law when you do that.
19:09I would never tell our officers to stand down because if our officers were in trouble and we
19:13needed help from other officers, I would expect those officers to step in and help us. When
19:18someone is in trouble, we're going to step in. But chief, I hate to tell you they were in trouble
19:23and no one stepped in and someone told them not to. Maybe it wasn't you. And in Portland,
19:27the president of the police union said he's open to federal support to help the agency combat the
19:31city's bursting crime. Joining us now is Bill Bratton, who led the police departments of
19:36some of the biggest cities in this country, New York, Los Angeles, Boston. And he's probably one
19:40of the most respected people in law enforcement in America today. Commissioner, great to see you.
19:46Your thoughts about how the lack of coordination is playing out is specifically in Portland and Chicago.
19:54Well, hitting the nail on the head, it is the issue of lack of coordination,
20:00lack of collaboration. And it's unfortunate that we have a situation right now where finding
20:07federal law enforcement entities in conflict with local law enforcement entities.
20:12And that is one of the dilemmas that is being created at the moment with the efforts that are
20:19underway. I'm hoping that there's some resolution of this going forward. But quite frankly, right now,
20:26it's a mess. You guys are brought up to help each other, whether you're ATF, whether it's state
20:31police, local police. But now in in cities like Portland and Chicago, and I imagine others,
20:37they're told don't help ICE. Don't don't respond. Let the protesters take over. Let them deal with it,
20:43which prompted Trump, President Trump, to call in the National Guard. How would you deal with it?
20:49Well, I'm not sure how extensive that issue of failure to respond in this case,
20:55to federal requests for assistance when they are in the middle of a significant disturbance.
21:00You've got the Chicago example. We have 18,000 police departments in this country. So
21:05how widespread that issue is conjecture at the moment. But you're correct. In law enforcement,
21:12when a brother or sister officer calls, you go. You'll sort it out later in terms of what prompted
21:19the incident that you're responding to. But you go. What are you to do if you're in the White House
21:24and you're watching Portland have 100 days of protests in front of a federal building?
21:29What do you do if you see the west side and south side of Chicago with 50 plus shootings on average
21:35every single month and no one acting? And if you care about your people, the president wants to take
21:40action. Do you know a better action he could be taking besides the National Guard, federal troops,
21:45ATF, border patrol and ICE? Well, unfortunately, what's going on at the moment does not appear to
21:53be working in the sense of increasing disorganization and levels of cooperation and coordination
22:00between historically what has been very good cooperation between local police, federal agencies,
22:06ATF, FBI, ICE for that matter? No, in terms of I would hope that the powers that be would
22:14take a fresh look at what is in fact happening. Because very often in terms of what's being portrayed
22:20on the media and by the media and social media, the facts on the ground are not supported by what
22:27I'm seeing, what I'm watching. Portland example. Portland is seriously problematic in a couple of
22:35locations in the city of 150 square miles. The irony of what's going on at the moment is that
22:42crime in America overall has been going down for several years. We had the problem certainly of
22:50crime in the 20s going back up. But throughout the country, it has been going down. It is being
22:56assisted by some of the federal efforts at the moment. But the feds can't take overall credit for
23:01what's happening. It does still require the most impactful entity are still your local police
23:08forces. Hey, I want to talk about the NYPD. And you have a front runner for the mayoral race by
23:13about 20 points who is basically called the NYPD racist. And he wants to, in the past,
23:19to say some vile things about him. He's going to take the power of discipline away from the police
23:24commissioner and set up his own council to do it. And many are bracing for a mass exodus. You've
23:30seen different politicians take control of the of Gracie Manchin. What do you fear most if he is to win?
23:38What I would fear most and what law enforcement that I'm certainly very intimate with, as you
23:43might expect here in this city, fear most is that he would follow through on the many statements that
23:49he has made against the NYPD and changes he would bring about. One, he has no interest in increasing the
23:57size of the force. My perspective is the force is 3,000 offices short at the moment. He's talking
24:04about taking monies away from the department, which is already short budgeted, to create other entities
24:11that he would like to begin to put in place. He's talking about closing Rikers, which I think is a major
24:19mistake in opening four neighborhood jails with a capacity of 3,500 when the current population at
24:26Rikers is 8,000. So what is he going to do? Let 5,000 people out onto the streets because he doesn't
24:32have capacity. He's talking about doing away with a unit that I created, the strategic response group,
24:38which is highly trained to deal with demonstrations and disturbances. And if he does away with that group,
24:45then he's sending officers who don't have the proper training, don't have the proper supervision
24:49into dealing with major incidents. And New York City always has major incidents day to day,
24:55week to week. Now, in terms of the concern is if he follows through on his promises. And the most
25:02recent one about the idea of supporting taking the disciplinary powers of the police commissioner away.
25:08I've been a police commissioner there twice in New York City. And commissioner, someone's going to take it
25:12who is maybe ill-equipped to do it just because they want the job, but not somebody as competent
25:19and successful as you. Commissioner Bratton, thanks so much. Appreciate it. It looks like we're heading
25:23this direction in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, straight ahead, democratic chaos has been on full
25:27display in major governors' races across the country. And we are forever stuck in party politics.
25:32Is that the way it's always going to be? You, you, it will weigh in. And be sure to catch me on
25:37Tour History of Libyan Left, streamed on Fox Nation, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, November 1st,
25:41Fort Myers, February 14th. Trump targets massive investments in first Middle East trip.
25:52President Trump's Persian Gulf tour is his first major foreign visit of his second term
25:58and comes amid regional war and nuclear talks. President Donald Trump is embarking this week on
26:05a high-stakes tour of the Persian Gulf region, targeting business deals and strategic partnerships
26:11with three oil-rich nations, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The trip marks Trump's
26:19first major foreign visit of his new term and comes as nuclear negotiations with Iran drag on and as
26:26war continues between Israel and Palestinian terror organisations, Hamas, in the Gaza Strip. While business in
26:33the official focus, the backdrop is anything but calm. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
26:41described the mission as part of Trump's broader vision that extremism is defeated through commerce
26:47and cultural exchanges. Under former President Joe Biden, US relations with the Gulf states cooled,
26:54particularly after Biden vowed to make Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a pariah over the 2018
27:01killing of journalist Jamal. But Trump has reversed course embracing a more transactional approach that
27:08has worn ties with regional leaders. The overall goal here is that the United States is reminding our
27:16Middle East allies that we're here to stay, said Greg Roman, Executive Director of the Middle East Forum.
27:22We're here to promote our joint interests rather than the abandonment policies under the previous administration.
27:30Big money, big expectations. Saudi Arabia has already pledged $600 billion in US investments,
27:38spanning weapon purchases, technology transfers, artificial intelligence and the stock market.
27:45Trump has said he believes the Saudis may ultimately commit up to $1 trillion. While Saudi leaders aim to
27:51diversify their economy away from oil, those massive investments still depend on oil revenues,
27:57which could be threatened by Trump's push to lower global energy prices. In addition to economic deals,
28:03Trump and bin Salam are expected to discuss a possible civil nuclear programme and expanded defence
28:09cooperation. Such agreements were once linked to a potential Abraham Accord-style normalisation between
28:16Saudi Arabia and Israel. But Riyadh has made clear it won't recognise Israel unless Palestinian statehood is
28:24on the table, something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin has strongly opposed. No stop in Israel is scheduled
28:33during Trump's tour. Israeli normalisation in any Saudi US project is an outdated option, said Saudi
28:41geopolitical analysts. The second Trump administration is doubling down on its strategically autonomous
28:48Middle East policy. In a possible goodwill gesture ahead of the trip, Hamas released Israeli-American
28:55hostage and hostage, Eden Alexander, a move Trump called monumental in the push to end the conflict in
29:02Gaza. And as the UAE seeks to boost its tie with the US and become a global AI leader by 2030, it'll need
29:10American microchips. The UAE has gone even further than the Saudis, promising $1.4 trillion in US. Investments
29:18over the next decade focus on AI, semiconductors, manufacturing and energy. Biden has tightened
29:25curbs on AI exports to keep such technologies out of the hands of adversaries at a time when China drew
29:31closer to Middle Eastern states, especially the UAE. On Thursday, they announced Trump would rescind the
29:38Biden-era restrictions. Itinerary, three days, three power centres. Trump's whirlwind golf visit begins
29:47Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he'll headline the US-Saudi investment form alongside Saudi
29:53Arabian ministers, White House, CryptoScar, David Sachs and other business leaders. On Wednesday,
30:01he'll attend the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting before flying to Qatar for talks with
30:05Vladimir Tamim bin Hamad al-Tani and a visit to the US military's Al-Urad Air Base. Thursday's final
30:13stop is Abu Dhabi, where Trump will meet UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahiyan.
30:19The Qataris are pulling out all the stops to impress. They've offered Trump the use of a Royal Boeing 747A
30:26typically reserved for the Qatari royal family to serve as Air Force One. Since being named a major
30:33non-NATO ally by Biden in 2022, Qatar has deepened its tights to the US, hosting American troops and
30:40mediating sensitive negotiations, including ongoing back-channel talks between Israel and Gaza.
30:46Doha also maintains close contact with Syria's new president, Ahmed al-Shahra, who ousted Bashar al-Assad and
30:54is now seeking sanctions relief and normalised ties with the West. Regional leaders will have an
31:00opportunity to address the situation directly with the president and regional expert Jonathan
31:04Baiss. Trump is the only man that can lead the way. Iran watching closely. While a fourth round of
31:12Iran nuclear talks in Oman over the weekend failed to produce a breakthrough, Tehran is expected to
31:18keep a close eye on Trump's Gulf meetings. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi made unannounced
31:26Iran's visits to both Saudi Arabia and Qatar ahead of Trump's arrival, likely in the hopes of passing
31:31messages through those governments to Washington. But all three of Trump's hosts, nations, Saudi Arabia,
31:40the UAE and Qatar remain wary of Iran's ambitions. The region needs to openly address the problem of the
31:48the IRGC, said Baiss, referring to Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC is trying to
31:55undermine every single country in the region.
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