JD Vance says Israel-Hamas truce will see "fits and starts" as Gaza fighting reignites

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00:00Hey, guys, how are you?

00:01I know it's a little dark.

00:02Appreciate you coming out there with us.

00:03I thought we had a great visit with the Marines.

00:05They were obviously excited, and I was very excited, too.

00:08But I have to take a few questions before we hit the road.

00:10Mr. Vice President, are you going to Israel?

00:12We might.

00:13We're trying to figure it out.

00:14Obviously, we're going to go and check on how things are going.

00:16And I think somebody from the administration is certainly going to be over there in the next few days.

00:20It might be me, but we're going to figure out how to travel there.

00:23I'm so confident, are you, that this truce can hold, given the events in Israel.

00:27But Pat, what are the last 24 hours?

00:30Well, look, it's going to be complicated.

00:31I mean, the best-paced scenario, meaning if this thing absolutely produces that sustainable,

00:37long-term peace of the president, and I hope that it will, there are going to be fits and

00:41starts.

00:41There are going to be, you know, Hamas is going to fire on Israel.

00:44Israel is going to have to respond, of course.

00:46There are going to be moments where you have people within Gaza where you're not quite sure

00:51what they're actually doing.

00:52So we think that it has the best chance for a sustainable peace.

00:56But even if it does that, it's going to have hills and valleys, and we're going to have

01:00to monitor the situation.

01:01When we talk about Hamas, you're talking about 40 different cells.

01:04It's disjointed.

01:06Some of those cells will probably honor the ceasefire.

01:09Many of those cells, as we saw some evidence of today, will not.

01:13Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that's going to require,

01:18as we know, some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some law

01:24and order and security keeping on the ground.

01:27So I think it would be kind of absurd for the president to say, well, Hamas is going to be

01:31disarmed three or four days from now.

01:33We don't even have the security infrastructure in place, meaning the Gulf Arab states, our allies,

01:39don't have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed,

01:43until you actually go a little bit down the path of this peace mission, of this 20-point peace plan,

01:50we're not going to be able to say with confidence that everybody is doing everything that we want

01:53them to do.

01:54All right, guys, have a good night.

01:55We'll see you tomorrow.