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Back to episode — Episode 2748 CWSA 02/12/25

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live. What it suggests to me is that if there is somebody who's alive they might not even want to be at this point. That whatever is left is going to be horrible beyond imagination. And it makes me wonder if Trump maybe knows a little bit more than we do about the likely situation for the remaining hostages. It's possible that the reason they're delaying it and claiming that they need new food is…

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od sense for these things.

So if the reason for Hamas's delay is because they don't have anything to give us he's pressing the point now. He always has the option of backing off. You know if Hamas said oh we'll do this or that he has an option because remember he's a negotiator so he doesn't have to use his threat if he gets something that seems like it's progress.

And the construction is started near me so it's going to get noisy. So I would normally say you should wait to see if you got the hostages back because a few more weeks isn't going to kill anybody. Well I shouldn't put it in those terms. It might kill somebody but I think maybe Trump is playing this right. I think he's pressing them to prove that they even have a hostage and they don't have evidence that there's a living hostage left. I don't think there's any evidence of it. So it could be that he's pressing them to prove somebody's still alive and if they can't prove somebody's still alive in the next few days I think Gaza is just going to become a burial ground for whoever's left. And Trump's very clear about it. Very clear about it.

Now I don't know where everything's going to go but it is a strong stance and I have respect for it even if it turned out to not be an optimal outcome. Feels like the right time to push and the right way to push so I'm going to support that.

All right that's all I got for you today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to

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