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00:00good evening and thank you for joining us i'm trey gowdy and it's sunday night in america
00:11tuesday virginia and new jersey will pick new governors those are the marquee races but there
00:17are thousands of other races around the country for school board and county council and city
00:22commissioner all of which impact our lives so new jersey are you ready to work
00:32are you ready to make sure that every single one of your neighbors your friends your frenemies
00:38head to the polls between now and tuesday when prominent democrats are endorsing the republican
00:44nominee it tells you how badly people want change the last eight years have been a total failure
00:48and my opponents endorsed every one of his failed policies in virginia abigail spamburger
00:55leads winsome sears but it's close for republicans the question may be what happened to the glenn
01:01youngkin coalition for democrats the question may be why spamburger cannot bring herself to condemn
01:07democrat jay jones who wants to be the top prosecutor in virginia courtrooms and he should definitely be
01:13in a courtroom but on the other side he fantasized about murdering an opponent dreamed of traumatizing
01:20children and urinating on graves he should be in front of a psychiatrist not a jury with democracy
01:28there's always another election and we get to participate tuesday night is important and they
01:33foreshadow what happens with the midterms next year joining us are republican strategist katie
01:39zachariah and former biden press chief of staff yemsi egbowale thank you both for joining us and welcome
01:47yemsi some things in life should not be hard when republicans use racially repugnant words or sanitize
01:54hitler or sanitize sexual assault it is disqualifying why can't abigail spamburger admit that jay jones has
02:03no business being the top prosecutor in virginia well i definitely think abigail spamburger should
02:09have unendorsed jay jones i think it would have sent a stronger signal of accountability there
02:14but i think it's telling how he hasn't even really been able to drag her down selfishly that was a lot
02:19of the concern for a lot of democrats is jay jones this weak man who decided to enter a race knowing
02:24that he had those text messages out there beating a woman shannon taylor who ran as well for the democratic
02:29ticket and would have been a great candidate um is he somebody that was going to pull down abigail
02:33spamburger a really strong center-left pragmatic candidate and i'm glad to see he hasn't but it's
02:38been disappointing that she didn't unendorse well that is refreshing um you you are honest so thank
02:45you it's your first time on the show we're going to have you back that was very honest all right katie
02:50new york will pick between a socialist and a sexual harasser in 2021 republicans wanted cuomo
02:57out as governor for myriad reasons and i am trying to follow the logic of how he is unfit to be
03:04governor but somehow some republicans think he is acceptable as mayor well i think what we're looking
03:11at really is much more the fact that zoran mamdani is the worst of all candidates possible and it really
03:18looks like a race to the bottom though it has been outspoken secretary besant president trump and other
03:23leaders have said honestly zoran mamdani would be the best thing for the republican party
03:27at this point because all the policies are just straight out there they're not going to go bail
03:32him out as as secretary besant said he would say what gerald ford said which is drop dead when he
03:37comes for a when he comes for a bailout because he can't afford these communist policies and programs
03:43and so look zoran really is the bellwether for the united states of what happens when you have
03:48unfettered migration and no voter id in new york city and i honestly the the backing of cuomo to be
03:56i just think it's really a okay we don't want to back zoran so now we're going to back cuomo
04:02but really zoran would be a great thing for the united states for the republican party because
04:06he will not succeed his policies will not succeed and he will ultimately go to the
04:11bail ultimately go to the bailout for president trump which he has said he will absolutely not give him
04:16well a socialist versus a sexual harriser uh what a what a choice i watched an interview you did where
04:26crime came up and to me crime is attacks on poor people they can't move to a gated community they
04:32can't erect tall fences around their homes but but some democrats are often on the wrong side with respect
04:39to ground how big of an issue is that and do you think democrats nationally need to kind of revisit
04:46their position on progressive prosecutors and crime as a whole yes i think that tackling the
04:54crime issue for both parties is going to be a gateway for the suburban voters which is that gold that we
04:58know wins for elections i don't know how as democrats we became the party where joe biden wrote the
05:031994 crime bill bill clinton passed it and now we've gotten to a place where we talk about defunding the
05:08police it feels that a lot of cultural ideology has come into the conversation about law enforcement
05:14and look can we talk about gaps and issues and dysfunctions when it comes to policing local policing
05:19yes we can but instead of having conversations about reform we changed it to defund and when you
05:24talk about defunding the police you ignore the plight of communities that oftentimes rely on that law
05:29enforcement a lot of the people having the conversations about reducing minimums about um having
05:36teenagers in and out of prison not even really keeping them inside and not having any sentencing
05:41for minors those are people that live in communities that are not directly affected by crime when you go
05:46inside of those communities oftentimes black and brown and you ask them what can we do to help you
05:51they say i want you to protect my child i live and i work and i want to come to a community and i want
05:55to come to a home that i feel is is safe and what a lot of progressives do is they throw statistics and
06:00they say well we've reduced it here we've we've reduced crime by 30 percent here things like that
06:05when people walk down the street that is how they measure crime they don't measure crime by a number
06:08that you put on a fact sheet and you tweet out online and i think we've just got to get back to
06:12having direct conversations with the community and making people feel like we understand what they're
06:16going through yeah crime and public safety are as much a perception as it is a reality so katie
06:25speaking of police uh congresswoman nancy mace had a psychotic episode this week at an airport
06:32in south carolina cursing at police officers who apparently did not escort her well enough through
06:38some special line at the airport by the way for the record i never used police to get to an airport
06:44in the eight years i was in congress and i had a ton of death threats mainly from my family but i had a
06:50a bunch of them does it matter how candidates act anymore i mean do voters care how candidates talk
06:57to police officers or treat tsa agents or act in their personal lives the the short answer is yes they
07:05do care and and i'll invoke ronald reagan's thou shall not speak ill of another republican 11th commandment
07:13however president trump has very much set the record as we are to respect we are the party of law and
07:19order we are a nation that we respects our police officers and i would urge nancy mace you know
07:25accidents happen whether it was a disagree you know a misunderstanding on which car they were she
07:30was arriving in to have a deference for our law enforcement because they are doing an incredible job
07:36they were there to protect her and i i think an apology is is well deserved for those police officers to
07:42be honest but again that's up to nancy mace our president has again set a very clear precedent on
07:49how we respect and treat the police force yeah god help a member of congress that actually has to
07:55navigate an airport on his or her own all right we got about 60 seconds so i'm going to be fair and
08:01split it 30 each what will be the takeaways on tuesday night katie we'll start with you and then
08:07we'll leave 30 seconds for yemacy well wow i'd love to see prop 50 fail but it's not looking like
08:13that out here in california for redistricting i mean zoron is still looking like he's pulling though
08:18cuomo says the more voters the better we'll see what happens in that race uh with jay jones i think
08:25that's going to be a clear smackdown miares is going to win i truly believe that and i think he deserves
08:30that win spanberger and it looks like spanberger is definitely the candidate that we're going to see
08:36although i do think cittarelli in new jersey is pulling pretty well and it's looking good there so
08:42success and failure we'll see uh to be determined all right you missy well i just have to say that
08:50i believe that centrists in the democratic party are the silent majority and i believe a success for
08:55uh spanberger and mikey shirrell will be telling of that even with zoron winning in new york city and
09:00i hope for republicans this is a sign winston merrill sears was not a great candidate she was not a strong
09:04following to what i believe was a successful governor in glenn youngkin and i hope that
09:09democrats and republicans we work on the candidates that we roll out
09:14well thank you very much for joining us both of you and for your civility to one another and for
09:19letting many know they're actually 11 commandments and not 10. i always heard there were 10 but now
09:25i know there are 11. there's actually a 12th there have to be four sec teams in the college
09:30playoffs thank you both for joining us on the sunday night we'll see you soon thank you so much
09:37yes ma'am coming out president trump returns from asia his top economic advisor kevin has it gives us
09:43the highlights when we return
09:52welcome back to sunday night in america the president is back the stock market is up and borrowing rates
09:58are down president trump concluded a successful tour of asia dealing with making deals with malaysia and
10:04thailand and cambodia and japan and south korea and yes china i thought it was an amazing meeting i think
10:13we agreed to almost almost everything in a very acceptable form i guess on the scale of from zero to
10:2110 with 10 being the best i would say the meeting was at 12. to be sure china does not have a great
10:29track record when it comes to keeping its word so where should we be looking next and what is the
10:34federal reserve up to jerome powell says he's driving in the fog but i think most cars have fog lights
10:42joining us is the director of national economic council kevin asset welcome mr director analyze the
10:50u.s china takeaway yes sir thank you analyze the takeaways from the u.s china agreement verbal or
10:58otherwise as we currently know them right well the u.s china agreement is just a terrific deal
11:06uh negotiated by president trump what it does is it makes sure that the parts of uh the imports from
11:12china that go into our economy and could potentially be bottlenecks are no longer being threatened to be
11:18shut down and the chinese are also buying a heck of a lot of soybeans and other things from our farmers
11:24which they had neglected to do over the last few months and meanwhile our tariffs on china remain in
11:30place much higher than they were in january so i would say that we've put more pressure on china we
11:35worked out a collegial deal with two friends uh president xi and president trump but in the end we
11:41came out ahead because we've got the tariff revenue from china and china's taken everything back to
11:45about where we were in january all right let me switch to the u.s economy the market is reaching
11:52all-time highs is this a sugar high or can it be sustained i mean it seems like almost every week
12:00all i see is green i don't see that much red anymore well you know markets go up and down so people
12:07shouldn't be counting on it always going up but the fact is that president trump is promising to deliver a
12:13golden age for the american economy and if that happens it's going to be great for america's
12:17workers and great for america's corporations in part that's because what president trump has always
12:22recognized is true that if we create a climate that is strong for business that it's also going to
12:27create a lot of jobs that be strong for workers the you know the thing that i'm most happy about is
12:31we're seeing really high wage growth especially for people at the bottom and we're seeing consumers be
12:36really really optimistic so right now year-over-year consumption is about six or seven percent higher than it
12:41was last year which means that people have more money in their pockets and they're spending it
12:46all right let me pivot to the shutdown it is definitely impacting the line for our fellow americans
12:52do you think it will eventually or is it now impacting the broader economy
12:59yeah it definitely is it it's really important that the democrats stop messing around with people's food
13:06and with the salaries for the 750 000 workers that depend on the government to you know pay the bills
13:12for their kids and their families we got to get the government open and the fact is that right now our
13:18estimate of the harm for the current quarter is probably about half a percent lower gdp which is is a
13:24real loss for for america i don't really understand what the democrats are doing and i'm not sure they
13:30understand what they're doing now this is the second longest shutdown in american history and they're putting
13:36everything from you know food stamps to everything else on the table for what for what reason it feels
13:42like they've lost their minds to me yeah i was there for the now second longest shutdown um all right
13:50let me ask you about the fed jerome powell cuts rates and then he says that he might be the grinch at
13:58christmas he says he can't drive in the fog but i mean cars have fog lights what is he talking about
14:03you know the the thing that i was disappointed in i was glad that they they cut rates and the thing
14:10that i was disappointed in in the um jay's statement is that since the last meeting where
14:16everybody said they were going to cut three times and that's what futures markets expected
14:20we've had a government shutdown which makes as we just said gdp growth go down puts less pressure on
14:25inflation and we got the one inflation report since the last fed meeting that showed that it was much
14:31tamer than expected in fact at bloomberg 43 economists forecasted what inflation would be
14:36and it came in below every single one of those 43 forecasts and so with inflation for you know down
14:42and surprising and with economic growth perhaps slowing a bit because of the shutdown it doesn't make
14:47sense that all of a sudden they would say hey we're not going to cut rates in december and so i still
14:51worry that the fed has become a partisan body and you know we'll see
14:55all right kevin uh we had some success with one country that starts with c let me ask you about
15:03one a little bit closer to home canada do you see a trade deal on the horizon with our neighbors to
15:10the north and and and what will it take to get to that point yeah it's been it's been a tough negotiation
15:18but we're still hopeful that it'll move forward you know i have to tip my cap to the fans of the
15:23toronto blue jays i mean what a great world series we just saw from two great teams i know they're
15:27pretty disappointed today but you know in the end we've got to move canada and mexican trade deals
15:34forward and it's been much harder in canada than mexico i think in part because there's a left-wing
15:39government in canada that's reminds quite a bit of the democrats here in the u.s and so they're almost
15:46never trumping at times and i think that's something that we have to get over in order to close a final deal
15:51all right we'll leave with the world series for those who didn't watch it it looked like kevin
15:57has it on the dance floor that little toe tap uh that the catcher did or else toronto would have won
16:03the world series i thought of you or fred astaire when i saw that thank you for joining us kevin on
16:09a sunday night thanks good to see you take care coming up the shutdown enters the second month will
16:17senate democrats ever put your needs ahead of their political ambitions house budget chair jody
16:22errington is next plus a familiar name is running in new hampshire john sununa wants to serve in the
16:28u.s senate again we'll find out why
16:38welcome to fox news live i'm ashley stromeyer in new york it is shaping up to be a
16:42consequential week and the government shutdown is now entering its second month and there is
16:47still no end in sight millions are feeling the strain as food stamp delays grow and federal aid
16:52dries up health care premiums are also rising the main sticking point is over obamacare subsidies that
16:58are set to expire soon republicans want to reopen the government at current spending levels first
17:04and then negotiate the issue but democrats say the subsidies must be extended before any deal
17:09so all of this is happening during the final sprint to tuesday's elections they're going to serve as
17:14an early test of voter response to the trump administration's policies we are watching key
17:19contests that includes the governor's races in virginia and new jersey the new york city mayor's race
17:25and a redistricting vote in california i'm ashley stromeyer to back to life liberty and live in
17:39a uh... snap recipient shouldn't go without food people should be getting paid in this country
17:47and we've tried to do that 13 times and you voted no 13 times
17:55this isn't a political game these are real people's lives we're talking about
18:01welcome back to sunday night in america that is the righteous indignation of john
18:06Thune. Vulnerable Americans may go hungry because Chuck Schumer is afraid of AOC and the extreme
18:12wing of her party. John Thune should not be alone in his anger. We should all be upset.
18:18I was in federal court twice this week watching cops and prosecutors and public defenders and
18:23probation officers and clerks and judges all work without pay. No one complained, but my goodness,
18:29what could be more un-American than asking people to work without compensation? And it's been over
18:34a month now. A friend of mine who's also a federal judge once made an excellent point. We asked 12
18:41strangers from different backgrounds with different beliefs to come together and make important,
18:48sometimes life and death decisions on a jury. And they must be unanimous. And they reach agreement
18:55the vast majority of the time. And yet some who volunteer for politics will not agree to keep
19:02government open and workers paid. So to what end? What victories do Democrats expect when they
19:09don't win elections? A House Democrat said she needs leverage, but people need paychecks. Chuck Schumer
19:17thinks he's winning the shutdown, but you sure aren't. Democrats reject bills they once supported.
19:23They vote against what they once championed, all to keep the fringe of their party on less medicine.
19:31Joining us as House Budget Chair, Jody Arrington. Welcome, Mr. Chairman. It is not your fault. It is
19:37not the fault of a single Republican House or Senate member, but it is hard to imagine hungry children
19:44and unpaid workers. No, and you would think Democrats would break with the political pressure from their
19:54traditional constituencies like labor unions, like anti-hunger groups. When you have the CNNs and the likes of
20:03left-leaning news organizations calling out the Democrats. But they continue to hold fast, sadly, to the notion
20:12that the people's suffering is their political gain. As Chuck Schumer said, and I'm sure you've reported, that he
20:20believes their party is winning this political game every day the government is shut down. And sadly, we all
20:28know the poor and vulnerable families who depend on services like SNAP, which we've already walked off
20:35of that cliff. And we will soon run out of money to pay our women and men in the armed services so they
20:42can feed their families. So it's not getting any better. It's getting worse. And I think the Democrats
20:49have way over miscalculated this politically. But again, they think it's an advantage to them for the
20:57midterms to placate the left and pander, continue to pander to them. I think they're going to be sadly
21:03mistaken. All right, Chairman, just so everyone watching is clear, these were the spending levels
21:11Democrats once embraced not so long ago. I mean, what they're voting against is what they once
21:17championed. Yes, that's correct. They have championed these policies and this funding level
21:25multiple times in a vote for the discretionary budget over the last year or so. But never has any
21:35party collectively opposed a clean CR in the budget process. 44 years, Chuck Schumer has been a member
21:44of Congress and he has never opposed a clean CR. So there's no rationale except that of politics.
21:53And yes, they've counterproposed a trillion and a half, which is the largest spending package
21:59ever save and accept COVID. And yes, their counterproposal includes funding illegals,
22:05health care and returning to welfare without work. But I think a much more political motive
22:11is buried in all that. And it's to obstruct and resist President Trump. That's what Senator
22:18Gallego said when he was asked, why now when Democrats have never taken this tag? He said,
22:24Donald Trump. This is about resisting this duly elected president and the agenda that the American
22:33people, the mandate that the American people overwhelmingly gave him along with unified
22:38Republican leadership. That's what it boils down to. All right. A prominent House Democrat said this
22:45was a leverage point for her. Just to be clear, you mentioned a clean CR. That means you're not using
22:54this process as a leverage point. You're not trying to gain some policy gain that you otherwise could
23:01not get. This is literally a clean CR, a continuation of the status quo that they all supported, but now
23:08they find themselves just not able to do so. Yeah, Trey, let's juxtapose with what's happening now
23:16with what happened when we had a new speaker in the last funding cycle. There was tremendous pressure
23:21on Speaker Johnson and the leadership of Republicans in the House to shut the government down and use it
23:28as leverage against what was happening at the border to change the dynamic of the invasion of
23:35our country. But Mike Johnson and our leadership resisted and they said, look, we're not going to hold
23:41the whole entire United States and the people's government hostage. We're going to negotiate what we can
23:48and then we're going to take our case and lay out the facts to the American people, trust their
23:54judgment. And when we did, we changed course. The American people gave us unified Republican
24:01leadership. And now we are on a whole different path as a result. But that's because we had the facts
24:09on our side. The Democrats, there is no merit to their case. They are on the wrong side of these 80-20
24:16issues down the line from the border chaos to crime to boys competing with girls. And now this funding
24:22illegals and and extending a COVID era fraud ridden program that is lining the pockets of big insurance
24:30companies and and and is paying for people making hundreds of thousands of dollars, giving them
24:37federal subsidies on the backs of hardworking middle class. That that's their negotiating point.
24:4380-20. They're on the wrong side of these political issues. They're going to be on the wrong side of
24:48election history come midterms if they don't change course and change course soon.
24:54Yeah, chairman, there's not much leverage when you can't win elections and they didn't win them last
24:59time. And this is not the formula for winning them in the future. Jody Arrington from the great state
25:04of Texas, chairman of the House Budget Committee. Thank you for joining us on a Sunday night.
25:08Thank you, chairman. God bless. Yes, sir.
25:17Since 1948, 29 former senators have tried to come back, but only seven made it. Running statewide is
25:25grueling and expensive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on a single race for a job that
25:31pays $174,000 a year. Some folks leave the U.S. Senate, resist the call to return. Others hear
25:38the siren sound of public service. Johnson Unu represented New Hampshire in the Senate from
25:442003 to 2009. He's trying to go back. Let's find out why. Welcome, Senator. Thank you for joining us.
25:52You, from my perspective, escaped prison and now you are turning yourself back into the guards.
25:58So tell us why.
25:59Well, it sounds like you're trying to talk me out of it, Trey, but look, the simple reason is it's
26:06important, right? It's important in New Hampshire. We need a strong voice and effective voice in
26:11Washington. We haven't had a Republican representing us in Washington in over a decade. It's just about
26:18time we sort of get rid of the Nancy Pelosi rubber stamp that we've had in the House and the Chuck
26:24Schumer rubber stamp in the Senate and get someone who's going to stand up for New Hampshire every
26:28single day. I've been lucky and fortunate that I've had a private sector career and success before
26:36I went to Congress. I've worked in the private sector since leaving the Senate. And sometimes you
26:42just have to step up and say, this is the right time. I can provide the right voice for our state.
26:48Yeah, I am not trying to talk you out of it. I'm trying to talk myself out of it. One of my
26:56favorite colleagues was Kelly Ayotte, who, if memory serves me, also represented your state. A lot has
27:02changed in politics since you left. And I don't think there's any question. Most of it has not been
27:08for the better. So is there still a space for someone who is conservative but not angry about it?
27:18Well, I'm angry about some things. I mean, I'm angry that we had 9% inflation just a year ago that
27:26has put tremendous pressure on New Hampshire families. And one of the reasons I'm running is
27:31to do something about affordability of energy, housing, health care. I'm angry about the scenes
27:38I saw a year and a half ago at our border. Chaos, human tragedy. And we had Joe Biden and the Democrat
27:46leadership and the House and Senate say they couldn't do anything about that. And obviously,
27:52President Trump and this administration has shown that to be different. So look, I think sometimes
27:56there's a need for anger and emotion when you want to do the right thing. And certainly,
28:03in this case, when you want to do the right thing for the state of New Hampshire. Look, I've done
28:08three things my whole life. Solve tough problems, work with people and negotiate and get things done
28:16and stand up for New Hampshire. And that's what I'm going to do as a United States Senator.
28:21And that leads beautifully into my next question, which is what have you learned both about yourself
28:28and maybe about public service in the interim that would make you perhaps even a better Senator than
28:35the first time around? Well, look, first of all, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a career politician.
28:42And I think those are two big pluses in politics generally, but especially when you're representing
28:48a state like New Hampshire, which is a small business state. It's got a very diverse economic
28:53base. For years before coming to Congress, I ran the operations of a manufacturing firm here in
29:00Manchester, New Hampshire. I've worked as an engineer. That's what I was trained for,
29:03trained to deal with technology, solve tough problems. Since leaving the Senate, I've worked
29:10again, mostly in high technology manufacturing. I was chairman of the Waterville Valley ski area,
29:16a great New Hampshire institution. I taught a class here last spring right here at St. Anselm's
29:21College, where I'm speaking to you from. In fact, one of my students is running the video
29:27equipment today. And of course, I worked for high tech companies, Boston Scientific, a great
29:32manufacturer of medical devices. They're innovators. They deal with heart disease. They deal with
29:39Parkinson's, cancer treatments. I mean, it's exciting as an engineer to have been part of that state.
29:46And to answer that most important part of your question, what have you learned? How to create jobs,
29:52how to deal with health care issues, regulations, how to deal with this tariff situation that we're
29:59dealing with right now to make sure that our manufacturing base remains strong. So we need more
30:06people in Washington with real private sector experience, real work experience, and not just
30:12people who go from year to year trying to decide what office to run for.
30:16All right. Before I let you go, give us one issue. I know there are many, but give us
30:21one seminal issue that best distinguishes you from your competition.
30:28Well, a proven record of actually making a difference for the state of New Hampshire. I
30:35wrote the law that banned internet access taxes, something important for the country, but also
30:41important for an entrepreneurial small business economy like New Hampshire. I wrote legislation
30:46that protected our White Mountain National Forest, 35,000 additional acres of wilderness because
30:53people here in New Hampshire love the national forest concept. So a proven record of writing and passing
31:00legislation that's good for our state and standing up for New Hampshire is the one thing that I was
31:07about when I served before and that I'll do as a United States Senator in the future.
31:14John Sununu, best of luck to you and your bid to return to the United States Senate. And thank you
31:21for joining us on a Sunday night. Great to be with you. Yes, sir. Up next, Israel says the ceasefire is
31:29back on again. Will it hold? Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danone, after the break.
31:37The UN, Danny Danone, after the break.
31:39The UN, Danny Danone, after the break.
31:40The UN, Danny Danone, after the break.
31:43For retirement, but...
31:45No, no, no. No, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no.
31:53Don't forget. We are a lost world. We are a lost world.
31:59What is the world that you have a lost world?
32:03But don't go away
32:05Until the night is safe
32:07And the night is still alive
32:09Until the walls are still alive
32:11The walls are falling
32:15The last year
32:17The thoughts
32:19The sun will be
32:21The sun will be
32:23The minute there
32:25The wind will be
32:27The night is lost
32:29For you
32:31Nothing's going to jeopardize that's you have to stand. Hamas is a very small part of peace in the Middle East and they have to behave. They're on the rough side, but they said they would be good. And if they're good, they're going to be happy. And if they're not good, they're going to be terminated. Their lives will be terminated. And they understand that.
32:58Welcome back to Sunday Night in America. Hamas is, as you heard, on thin ice. They are accused of staging the recovery of hostage remains. Drone footage shows the terrorist group throwing a body from a window, burying it, and then later digging it up in front of Red Cross officials. For that and other reasons, Israel conducted airstrikes in Gaza, killing more than 100 people.
33:21The ceasefire is now back on, but it highlights just how fragile peace is in that region. And not everybody wants it or benefits from it. Donald Trump does want peace and he's going to enforce this agreement on all parties. Joining us is the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Denon. Welcome, Mr. Ambassador. What led Israel to conduct airstrikes in Gaza?
33:46Thank you for having me, Trey. We wanted to continue with the ceasefire, but we saw, unfortunately, that Hamas attacked Israeli soldiers in a few places.
34:00You know, at the first occasion, they had a very nice explanation. They said that those terrorists were in a tunnel and they were not aware of the ceasefire. You know, so we didn't know if to believe it or not. But when the second and third attack came, and unfortunately, a few of our soldiers died from those attacks.
34:18We couldn't just sit idly by, we retaliated, and we attacked Hamas targets. And I want to add another point. You know, according to the agreement, they were supposed to actually give us back all the hostages.
34:32Those who are alive, that we got back, and those who are the fallen hostages. And as we speak, there are still 11 hostages in captivity, fallen hostages, and we expect them to allow them to come for a proper burial in Israel.
34:48All right, let me follow up on that. Is there any evidence at all, or even a hint, a centella of evidence, that there are actually living hostages that are left in Gaza?
35:01And how many bodies, how many remains are left to be reunited with their families?
35:07So, there are no living hostages, and we are grateful for President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu for the bold decisions. And those hostages were all brought back to their families.
35:19As we speak, they are reunited with their family. But there are 11 fallen hostages while still in Gaza.
35:26We received a few hours ago the remains of three bodies, but we don't know if there are hostages or not. You know, in the last few weeks, unfortunately, we received, you know, remains of bodies that were not connected to the hostages.
35:40So, we will examine those bodies and we will see what the results are. But, you know, Trey, we know that Hamas has the knowledge of the location of the fallen hostages.
35:52But they are playing games. They are using the fallen hostages. They are using, you know, in a brutal way, the wishes of the family to bring them back home for burial.
36:02All right. I don't know, really, anyone that's not currently on a college campus or a sociology professor at a college that actually thinks Hamas wants peace.
36:15I mean, most people understand Hamas does not want peace. But you've got to make them do it.
36:22You're never going to have stability in the region unless Hamas is either disarmed or eliminated.
36:29So, how does Israel keep, I mean, they're going to keep provoking Israel because they want this peace agreement to fall apart.
36:39Absolutely. You know, this armament is a key issue. That's the second stage.
36:44And it means that they have to give away their weapons, their rockets. They have to show the location of the tunnels.
36:50And if they will not do it according to the agreement with the international force that will come in soon, we hope, then we will have to do the work ourselves.
36:59But we will not allow Hamas to stay where they were before October 7th and to rebuild the capabilities they had.
37:06Those days are over. We learned that lesson. We will pay attention to what's happening in Gaza.
37:12And we will make sure that they will not have the capabilities they had before.
37:16Well, if Hamas had any humanity at all, which they do not, but if they did, they would return those remains to the families.
37:27But then again, there wouldn't be remains if it weren't for Hamas.
37:31So, I think they're just going to have to be wiped from the earth.
37:35Ambassador Danny Danan, Israel's representative for the UN, thank you for joining us on a Sunday night.
37:41Thank you very much, Vane.
37:42Yes, sir. Up next, one of my favorite parts of the show, we get to hear from you next on Sunday Night in America.
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