00:00The evil
00:02Church of Hamas in Gaza
00:06Enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice to go wherever they want
00:19Relax we have time
00:21Because right now all it is is for years and years all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems
00:27And if you take the people of the Palestinians
00:31We spoke about not only the hostages
00:35but about Gaza the hostages obviously is a
00:39human story of
00:41just unbearable
00:43Agony, I speak to the families. I spoke to them yesterday
00:47Spoke to another one when I was in Hungary before I came here. I speak to them every day and they're in agony
00:53The hostages are in agony and we want to get them all out
00:58Steve Witkoff
00:59President Trump's very able representative helped us get a deal that got 25 up
01:04We're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed
01:08And we're committed to getting all the hostages out, but also
01:12eliminating the evil
01:15Church of Hamas in in Gaza and
01:19Enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice
01:22To go wherever they want. I mean they should have that choice and the president put forward a vision of bold vision
01:28which we discussed as well including the
01:32countries that might
01:34be amenable and are amenable to
01:37Accepting Palestinians of their free choice if they choose to go there, and I think that's the second thing that we discussed
01:44But the hostages came right on top
01:47We also discussed the situation
01:51Mr. President
01:53Mr. President, you are
01:55Mr. President, many of the
01:57Palestinians want to get the hostages
01:59Hold it, hold it, hold it. Relax, we have time
02:01This gentleman is all day long
02:05Mr. President, many of the
02:07Thank you for the question. Go ahead.
02:09Many of the Palestinian Americans have voted for you
02:11and not for Romalia because you've promised them to end the war in Gaza
02:15Very honored by that vote too
02:17The war is still going on and there is no hostage deal
02:19There's no hostage deal.
02:20Do you have any uptake on that?
02:22Well, I'd like to see the war stop.
02:23And I think the war will stop at some point
02:26that won't be in the too distant future.
02:28Right now, we have a problem with hostages.
02:30We're trying to get the hostages out.
02:31We got quite a few of them out, but it's a long process.
02:35It shouldn't be that long.
02:36We have a big problem that we've done.
02:39I think I'll ask Pete to maybe talk about it for a second
02:42because a lot of people are asking.
02:43The Houthis, we've been very tough
02:45and very successful militarily.
02:49The IDF is fighting to get in the Gaza Strip.
02:51I myself might be called up in a month.
02:52Do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas
02:54to get to a deal?
02:55And do you think blocking humanitarian aid
02:57is also an effective pressure?
02:58Well, you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip.
03:00I think it's an incredible piece of important real estate.
03:05And I think it's something that we would be involved in,
03:09but having a peace force like the United States there
03:13controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing
03:17because right now, all it is is for years and years,
03:20all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems.
03:23And if you take the people, the Palestinians,
03:26and move them around to different countries,
03:28and you have plenty of countries that will do that,
03:31and you really have a freedom zone.
03:34You call it the freedom zone, a free zone,
03:37a zone where people aren't gonna be killed every day.
03:39That's a hell of a place.
03:42It's a, you know what I call it?
03:43A great location that nobody wants to live in
03:46because they really don't.
03:47And when they have good living, real living,
03:51where Hamas and all of the problems they have,
03:54the level of death on the Gaza Strip is just incredible.
03:59And I've said it, I don't understand
04:02why Israel ever gave it up.
04:03Israel owned it.
04:04It wasn't this man, so I can say it.
04:06He wouldn't have given it up.
04:07I know him very well.
04:09There's no way.
04:10They took oceanfront property
04:12and they gave it to people for peace.
04:14How did that work out?
04:15Not good.
04:16Is there an immigration plan, sir, Mr. President?
04:18Is there an immigration plan still on the agenda?
04:22Which immigration?
04:23Trump-Gaza.
04:24Trump-Gaza.
04:26All it is is a concept that I had that I think is good,
04:29and now people are copying it.
04:31You know, people are talking about the Trump plan.
04:34Gee, why don't we do that?
04:36Would you like to answer that question?
04:38I think what the president talked about
04:40is first of all to give people a choice.
04:43Gaza, Gazans were closed in.
04:46And any other place, including in arenas of battle,
04:49I mean, whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any other place,
04:52people could leave.
04:54Gaza was the only place where they locked them in.
04:57We didn't lock them in.
04:58They're locked in.
04:59And what is wrong with giving people a choice?
05:03Now, we've been talking, including over lunch,
05:06about some countries, I won't go into them right now,
05:10that are saying, you know, if Gazans want to leave,
05:13we want to take them in.
05:14And I think this is, this is the right thing to do.
05:18If you give, you know, it's gonna take years
05:20to rebuild Gaza.
05:21In the meantime, people can have an option.
05:23The president has a vision.
05:24Countries are responding to that vision.
05:26We're working on it.
05:27I hope we'll have good news for you.
05:29I will say people love, excuse me,
05:32people really do love that vision.
05:35It's a long-term vision, but so importantly
05:38is to have that be a safe field,
05:42because you're right smack in the middle
05:44of the Middle East, you're right along Israel.
05:46It should have never, ever been given away.
05:48Shouldn't have been given away by Israel.
05:50I don't know why they did it.
05:52I mean, I do know why, because they were promised peace,
05:54but that didn't work out too well,
05:55because it's one of the most dangerous pieces of land
05:58anywhere in the world.
06:00Gaza's one of the most dangerous places in the world.
06:03So they gave it away for good intention,
06:05and it didn't work out that way.
06:07And a lot of people like my concept,
06:11but you know, there are other concepts that I like too.
06:14And there's some concepts I don't like.
06:15You know what I don't like?
06:16The way it is now, because right now
06:18it's a dangerous death trap, Gaza.
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