00:00That was on the way back to D.C. last night.
00:02That includes shaking off tense moments and moving ahead to phase two of the historic Middle East peace agreement.
00:08Two of the key figures now brokering that deal, revealing brand new details about how it all came together
00:14and what is needed in the future to make sure that it sticks.
00:19Hamas right now is doing exactly what you would expect a terrorist organization to do,
00:23which is to try to reconstitute and take back their positions.
00:26The successor failure of this will be if Israel and this international mechanism is able to create a viable alternative.
00:34If they are successful, Hamas will fail and Gaza will not be a threat to Israel in the future.
00:39So that was from 60 Minutes Sunday night. If you haven't seen it, check it out.
00:42Very intriguing details with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
00:47And now Trey Yinks joins us live in Tel Aviv with the follow-on today. Trey, hello.
00:53Hey, Bill, good morning.
00:54Over the weekend, Hamas violated the ceasefire agreement, killing two Israeli soldiers.
00:59The IDF said Hamas militants popped out of a tunnel before firing RPGs at an excavator operating near the city of Rafa.
01:07In another incident nearby, Israeli soldiers were wounded by Hamas sniper fire.
01:11The event prompted Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip that killed dozens of Palestinians.
01:18Yesterday, the situation was scary.
01:20We were afraid that the war would start again with the strikes and bombing.
01:26The situation is not stable.
01:27We were relieved when the war had ended and stopped, God willing.
01:31There is still fear. There is still fear.
01:34Israeli officials say they are resuming the American-led ceasefire,
01:38and Hamas leadership said they're committed to the agreement.
01:40For now, things appear to be back on track, ahead of what Israeli media says will be Vice President J.D. Vance's visit to Israel tomorrow.
01:49Our allies don't have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed.
01:54Until you actually go a little bit down the path of this peace mission, of this 20-point peace plan,
02:00we're not going to be able to say with confidence that everybody is doing everything that we want them to do.
02:05President Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
02:10arrived in Israel today to meet with their Israeli counterparts and keep the ceasefire moving forward.
02:16As part of phase one in the agreement, Hamas still must release the bodies of 16 hostages that remain inside Gaza.
02:22Regional negotiators are already starting to work on the implementation of phase two in this deal
02:27that ultimately should lead to Hamas disarming.
02:29We want to make sure that it's going to be very peaceful with Hamas.
02:35As you know, they've been quite rambunctious.
02:38They've been doing some shooting, and we think maybe the leadership isn't involved in that,
02:44you know, some rebels within.
02:45But either way, it's going to be handled properly.
02:49It's going to be handled toughly, but properly.
02:51Ceasefires are never straightforward, but the Trump administration peace plan built in fail-safes to keep stability in Gaza.
03:00Got it.
03:01Trey, thanks.
03:01Leading our coverage as we begin a new week, Trey Yinks in Tel Aviv.
03:05Let's bring in our special colleague of Special Report anchor, Brett Baer.
03:09You are here.
03:10One of the things that was so unique about this particular negotiation is that
03:14Witkoff and Kushner actually meet with Hamas leaders.
03:17And this is something that they talked about last night in terms of seeing them
03:21and connecting with them to get a conversation going.
03:25We expressed our condolences to him for the loss of his son.
03:28He mentioned it.
03:29And I told him that I had lost a son and that we were both members of a really bad club,
03:36parents who have buried children.
03:38When Steve and him spoke about their sons,
03:41it turned from a negotiation with a terrorist group to seeing two human beings kind of showing
03:47a vulnerability with each other.
03:49So here we are today.
03:51I mean, it is a little bit of a tenuous situation.
03:53Hamas trying to figure out a way to keep alive.
03:56Can they do that?
03:57Yeah.
03:58Listen, I thought the 60 Minutes piece was really fascinating.
04:00I thought they did a nice job.
04:01And both Witkoff and Kushner were open about that negotiation.
04:07And obviously, Witkoff is talking about losing his son to opioid abuse.
04:11And the other son was taken out by Israeli strikes inside Doha, Qatar.
04:16So the loss of those sons connected them.
04:19And I thought the part where they say they finally make the deal and the Israelis and the
04:23Qataris hug was kind of a really interesting moment, right?
04:28There's a lot that we don't know about the future of this and how that Arab force is going
04:34to patrol Gaza and what that security environment and envelope is going to look like.
04:40And I think the positive side is that the IDF chose to act and then get back out and recall
04:46a ceasefire saying, we're still in the game.
04:49This is still holding.
04:51I think that's important.
04:52That comment you made about them talking about the hug.
04:57And they said, we wish a camera was there.
05:00We wish the world could have seen this.
05:02That could have been a special moment.
05:03It could have.
05:04And I think that that's what people don't get is that there's this hunger in that region
05:09for a deal.
05:10We've always been just one step away from it for one reason or another.
05:14And both sides pull off to their corners.
05:16But there is this just tired feeling that they're done with it.
05:21And there is buy-in to try to get to something.
05:24This is the something right now.
05:25And Kushner apparently from the very beginning, even in the first term, said, if you can figure
05:30out a way to get shared economic interests going, you might be able to figure out a way
05:34to get to a deal.
05:35Because the Arab countries want to move forward.
05:38Israel wants to move forward.
05:39And so they had that playing in their favor.
05:41The other thing is interesting to me, they are in a situation where Palestinians are being
05:49attacked by Hamas.
05:51So who else could protect them?
05:53There's nobody else in place right now.
05:55No, there's not.
05:57And other than the IDF going back in to try to stop some of that killing, I think there
06:02was some bloodletting from Hamas going after groups that wanted Hamas out of there from
06:07the beginning.
06:09And really, it's this Arab force.
06:11So far, the Pakistanis, the Indonesians, the Azerbaijanis have agreed.
06:17But you're going to have to have a bigger, broader force with the Qataris and the Emiratis.
06:21OK, so Karine Jean-Pierre has got a book coming out again.
06:24I think we've been talking about this thing for a month.
06:26It's still not there.
06:28This was what was dropped over the weekend.
06:30Biden seemed to be totally at peace with his decision to drop out, she writes.
06:34But I was stunned.
06:35My feelings are blur.
06:36I was angry and sad.
06:38I was enraged and heartbroken that this man, who had given more than 50 years of his life
06:42to serving the American people, and in the end, he'd been treated poorly by members of
06:46his own party.
06:47It was horrible, end quote.
06:49She says, you know what?
06:50I'm going to become an independent.
06:51I don't think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore.
06:55You wonder if Mamdani wins in New York, whether or not some of these Democrats can stand
07:00being in the Democratic Party as well.
07:01What are the contrails in Washington, D.C.?
07:04It's like her reaction, and are there some of significance, do you think?
07:09I think there's still this digestion of all that was said about how he was running circles
07:14around the staff, and all that was said from different podiums and dais that he was in
07:21great shape, and then we all saw what happened at the debate.
07:24And that disconnect, I don't know, it's still there.
07:28And I think there's going to be digesting of that for a long, long time.
07:31What about the invitation to come follow us along for a day?
07:34And see if you can keep up.
07:35Yeah.
07:35I think we heard that a couple times.
07:37And feel sorry for some Democrats.
07:39You had Kamala Harris in the news for three weeks because of her book.
07:42Now you're going to have Corinne for two weeks.
07:43And then you have Mamdani.
07:45That is what is dominating the conversation on the Democratic side.
07:48But to dominate this week, you have a new book.
07:51It's called To Rescue the American Spirit.
07:54I want to ask about something, the Nobel Prize.
07:57Yeah.
07:57Because we've been talking a little bit about the Nobel Prize.
08:00What did it take to win?
08:00So this book really focuses on Teddy Roosevelt and his focus on America being in the global
08:06leadership and the fact that he believed that America needed to be in the lead.
08:11He decides to get involved between Russia and Japan on this territorial dispute.
08:15And he brings them both to New Hampshire.
08:18He puts them on a boat.
08:19He gets them talking.
08:21He essentially seals the deal that prevents a war between Russia and Japan.
08:25That leads to the Nobel Prize.
08:27It fits currently with what President Trump is doing.
08:31And believe it or not, there's a lot of similarities in the way they talk, the way they interact
08:36with the press.
08:36They're kind of bigger than life figures.
08:39It's a lot of fun.
08:41You know, this is the sixth of the presidential books that I've done.
08:43And I love this, like, digging into nuggets of history.
08:47And I'm psyched about it.
08:49And the cover is gorgeous.
08:50If you need artwork, get it, but also get it for your brain.
08:54Really great stuff.
08:54The American spirit.
08:55Congratulations.
08:56Thanks, buddy.
08:56See you throughout the week here in New York.
08:57You got it.
08:58Thank you, Brad.
08:59Thanks.
08:59I'm Steve Ducey.
09:00I'm Brian Kilmeade.
09:01And I'm Ainsley Earhart.
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