WEBVTT 00:02.366 --> 00:05.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% VIVIAN SALAMA: Despite his best efforts, President Trump did not win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, 00:07.100 --> 00:10.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the award he has long coveted and lobbied for since his first term in the White House. If 00:10.000 --> 00:14.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% there's a silver lining for the president, the award is typically given for achievements made 00:14.633 --> 00:19.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% the previous year. So, in 2026, Trump may be a stronger candidate because of what could be 00:21.700 --> 00:26.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% a historic deal he brokered between Israel and Hamas that ends the fighting in Gaza. 00:27.966 --> 00:31.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The ceasefire is underway and the last of the Israelis still held hostage are 00:34.033 --> 00:37.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% set to be released as early as next week. But enormous challenges remain even as the 00:39.200 --> 00:42.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% bombs fell silent. Gaza is largely demolished and trust on both sides is deeply fractured, 00:44.133 --> 00:47.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% making the road to lasting peace in the region fragile. 00:47.466 --> 00:52.433 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% Joining me tonight to discuss this and more, Nancy Cordes is chief White House correspondent for CBS, 00:54.800 --> 00:58.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% David Ignatius, a foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post, Jonathan Karl is the chief 01:00.633 --> 01:04.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Washington correspondent for ABC News and the author of the soon to be released book, 01:06.766 --> 01:09.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Retribution, Donald Trump, and the Campaign That Changed America, and Mark Mazzetti is 01:11.833 --> 01:15.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% a Washington correspondent at The New York times. Thank you all so much for joining me. 01:15.100 --> 01:19.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% David, I want to start with you. You had a really gripping piece yesterday in The Washington Post 01:19.833 --> 01:24.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% where you started it off by saying, war's end is like waking up from a nightmare. It was so 01:26.866 --> 01:29.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% striking. Can you kind of take us behind the scenes into the contours of this plan, 01:29.733 --> 01:33.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% what we can expect to see in the coming weeks and months? 01:33.133 --> 01:36.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% DAVID IGNATIUS, Columnist, The Washington Post: So, as you said, the guns did fall silent today 01:36.933 --> 01:41.933 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% with the Israeli Knesset approving the deal. The ceasefire has begun. Israeli troops have 01:44.333 --> 01:48.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% begun a partial withdrawal. They'll still occupy about half of Gaza. And we've now begun a 72-hour 01:52.166 --> 01:57.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% process, a window in which the hostages are to be released, 20 living, the remains of 28 dead. And 02:02.466 --> 02:07.466 align:left position:30% line:71% size:60% many Palestinian prisoners, probably well over a thousand, will be released. And aid will, in 02:11.433 --> 02:16.433 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% theory, surge back into Gaza ending the terrible suffering, we hope, of the Palestinian people. 02:21.266 --> 02:26.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% This is phase one of the deal. What's still left is everything else. And those 02:28.300 --> 02:31.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% are all the crucial things for the future stability of Gaza, the disarmament of Hamas, 02:33.800 --> 02:37.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the transitional governance, in which technocrats will take over governance of the enclave, 02:41.833 --> 02:46.833 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% and a process that will hopefully provide security for the people of Gaza with international help. 02:49.033 --> 02:52.833 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% Just to say one personal thing, I felt today watching the scenes, I was in Gaza in November 02:56.333 --> 03:01.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% a month after the October 7th attack that began this terrible war. And I 03:03.066 --> 03:06.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% watched as the civilian population of Gaza City streamed out of Gaza City, 03:08.933 --> 03:12.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% moving south, moving, they hope, towards safety. It was just a scene of desperation. Today, 03:14.566 --> 03:18.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I saw pictures of a line as long as that one I saw in November moving back from the 03:20.866 --> 03:25.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% south toward Gaza City, and I had a sense of, I hope, the beginning of an ending of this war. 03:27.733 --> 03:32.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% VIVIAN SALAMA: The beginning of an end, and certainly so many challenges ahead, but still 03:32.300 --> 03:37.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the White House seems cautiously optimistic. Nancy, you were there this afternoon. Take 03:37.266 --> 03:41.266 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% us behind the scenes. How's the president feeling about all of this and as well as those around him? 03:41.266 --> 03:43.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% NANCY CORDES, Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News: Yes, I, the president is pumped. I was in 03:43.700 --> 03:48.200 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% the Oval Office with him a few hours ago. He likes to talk about the fact that people are dancing in 03:50.366 --> 03:53.400 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% the streets, not just in Israel and in Gaza, but around the Middle East. But behind the scenes, 03:55.500 --> 04:00.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I would say that senior advisers are nervous because they will say openly that there are 04:02.200 --> 04:06.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% still so many things that can go wrong. And so they are on high alert diplomatically to 04:08.266 --> 04:12.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% try to troubleshoot, you know, the details of this very fragile plan, 04:14.033 --> 04:16.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% especially in the early days where they know they've seen this movie before. Phase 04:16.866 --> 04:21.866 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% one started off well, the last time that they created a multi-stage plan, and then fell apart, 04:23.966 --> 04:27.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% and we saw seven months of some of the worst fighting of this entire war. And so the hope 04:27.600 --> 04:32.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% is that if problems do pop up, they're better prepared this time to find ways to solve them. 04:34.666 --> 04:38.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% VIVIAN SALAMA: I mean, Jon, this is objectively a very momentous moment. Just to get a permanent 04:39.833 --> 04:44.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% ceasefire that both sides agree to is huge. President Biden had tried 04:44.400 --> 04:49.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% for the year-and-a-half or so, more than that actually, that he was in office and fell short 04:51.800 --> 04:56.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% on getting that ceasefire to hold, even temporary ceasefires. President Trump comes in. He says that 04:58.133 --> 05:02.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the war would never have even started if he was president. Of course that is hard to qualify, 05:02.633 --> 05:06.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% but he got it done. He said he was going to get it done and he got it done. What do you 05:06.800 --> 05:11.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% think changed? What's different between both presidents and just the time that's passed? 05:11.200 --> 05:15.033 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% JONATHAN KARL, Chief Washington Correspondent, ABC News: Well, first, it is an incredible moment. I 05:15.033 --> 05:20.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% mean, just to see the -- as David mentioned, the lines going back into Northern Gaza, 05:22.866 --> 05:27.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% aid about to be resumed, you know, hopefully an end to the famine, an end to one of the 05:29.966 --> 05:34.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% worst humanitarian crises of our time, an end to the war. I mean, Bibi Netanyahu had announced, 05:37.833 --> 05:42.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% you know, an offensive, a major offensive into Gaza City, some of the worst fighting, 05:45.033 --> 05:48.900 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% worst Israeli attacks of the war. And now you have, as the agreement says, the war will end. 05:53.666 --> 05:58.666 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% It is -- you know, look, Trump is the person that made this come together. Trump is the one who, 06:02.700 --> 06:07.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% on one hand, gave the green light to the Israelis to do all they did. There was no talk of holding 06:09.500 --> 06:14.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% back weapons, but also pressured the Israelis. I mean, this 20-point plan 06:16.033 --> 06:18.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% includes the statement and immediate end of the war at a time when Netanyahu was 06:18.866 --> 06:23.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% absolutely not wanting to end this war or wanting to continue this war, and it also says amnesty, 06:25.800 --> 06:30.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% amnesty for members of Hamas who commit to peaceful coexistence, amnesty. So, 06:34.133 --> 06:39.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that -- Bibi Netanyahu does not sign on to something like this without immense pressure, 06:40.966 --> 06:44.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% and Donald Trump can pressure Netanyahu in a way that Biden simply could not. 06:44.533 --> 06:46.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% VIVIAN SALAMA: Now, President Trump was asked today at the White House 06:46.700 --> 06:49.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% about the ceasefire. Here's what he said. 06:49.400 --> 06:53.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% REPORTER: And how confident are you that the ceasefire will hold? 06:53.766 --> 06:54.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP, U.S. President: I think it'll hold, yes. I think it'll hold. 06:56.233 --> 06:58.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They're all tired of the fighting.