In a stunning turn of events, U.S President Donald Trump has announced that Hamas will release American hostage Edan Alexander on Monday, a man who was previously believed to be dead. This dramatic development has shocked the world and raised questions about the future of hostages in the ongoing conflict. What does this mean for US foreign policy and the broader situation in the Middle East? Watch now to hear all the details from President Trump's announcement and what might come next.
00:00The only American citizen is captured, held hostage by Hamas since October 7th, 2023.
00:08And he's coming home to his parents.
00:11And again, they thought he was dead just a short while ago.
00:14His parents are so happy.
00:15They're so happy, which is really great news.
00:18I mean, to me, it's big news.
00:20They're going to be releasing Idun in about two hours from now, or sometime today, let's say.
00:32And again, they thought he was dead just a short while ago.
00:35His parents are so happy.
00:36They're so happy.
00:38So it's, as you know, Idun's the only American citizen.
00:43He's captured and held hostage by Hamas since October 7th, 2023.
00:52And he's coming home to his parents, which is really great news.
00:57I mean, to me, it's big news.
00:59They thought he was dead.
01:02So that's that.
01:03So we'll be heading there, and we'll be seeing three primary countries.
01:10You know all about that.
01:11Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar.
01:16On Thursday's meeting with Russia and Ukraine is very important.
01:21I was very insistent that that meeting take place.
01:24I think good things can come out of that meeting.
01:27Stop the bloodshed of the horrible.
01:31It's a bloodbath.
01:34But 5,000 more.
01:36It's really much more.
01:37I'm trying to be conservative.
01:38More than 5,000 soldiers.
01:40Russian, they're not American soldiers.
01:42They're from Russia.
01:43They're from Ukraine.
01:43But they're people.
01:45They're human souls.
01:46And they're being killed at levels that we haven't seen since the Second World War.
01:51And it's every week.
01:53A lot of drone fighting.
01:54It's a whole new form of warfare.
01:56And it's violent and vicious.
01:58And so that's it.
02:02I'd like to go back to China just for a second.
02:05They're very heavy on the fentanyl.
02:07We're charging them, as you know, 20 percent for the fact that they send fentanyl into our country.
02:13And they've agreed that they're going to stop that.
02:16And, you know, they'll be rewarded by not having to pay, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs.
02:24So the fentanyl should stop.
02:26It comes from China.
02:27It's amazing.
02:29And it comes through our southern border.
02:31It comes through our northern border, too.
02:33It comes through Canada.
02:33And it comes through our southern border, much more through the southern border.
02:38But so that's a very important subject to me because everybody in this room has lost friends or people that have family members that have died of fentanyl.
02:50So there's a big incentive for China to stop.
02:53And I take them at their word.
02:55They're going to work on that, I think, very hard.
02:57And one thing, when they work on something, they get it done.
03:00So now I'm about to depart on a historic visit.
03:03Some of you are going with us to, as I said, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.
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