g hostages back is that, you're saying that, quote, "When you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost." That's sort of the Trump message. If you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost.

Now that is exactly the right... it's not Witkoff, it's not, uh, it's not Witkoff or Grenell. All right, never mind. Stop guessing. The Witkoff, Grenell. That will still be wrong no matter how many times you write it down. All right, I shouldn't have even brought it up.

But the right framing is that hostages are not really a negotiating tool, at least with the United States, because we're going to take everything you have. If you take our hostages, we'll take everything you have. And what happened when Trump put the extra threat on? Well, now Hamas is getting a little flexible, says they're going to release some more hostages by Saturday, maybe, which was Trump's deadline.

Now that's not all the hostages. Trump has said if you don't release them all, there's going to be hell to pay. So if there's some they're holding back, in theory they're still hell to pay. Now what would be hell to pay? Probably just unleashing Israel and saying all right, we're out, we're out. Whatever Israel wants to do is fine. We'll even give