Donald J. Trump

I notice even CNN and BBC, people, the news people, and even here at the war, a little bit overwhelming the emotional reaction to this by the Israeli people.

I mean, now it's like two or three days they've been in the...

They've been in hostage square in Tel Aviv, throughout the nation.

You see at Reem Air Force Base, thousands of people there to greet them.

Were you anticipating it would be this emotional for the Israeli people?

Yeah, I was because, again, because everybody either knows a hostage or knows a soldier that died in Gaza or knows somebody that was impacted or has it in their family.

I have friends that I've gone to synagogue with who, you know, a father who lost a son, a rabbi I know who thought his son was alive.

inside Gaza for 10 months, and only to find out later he had been killed on October 7th.

So because everybody has been so closely impacted by this, because so many have been called up into the army over the last two years and have had to leave their jobs, because so many families have been impacted, I think there's a collective family sigh of relief among the Jewish people today, and that's why you see this celebrating.

Matt, just hang there.

Matt Affarachi is in Jerusalem for us.

Let's go to Joel Gilbert.

Joel, you're as close as it comes to being an expert in the area.

You're a filmmaker, made many films about this.

You went to college in London, learned under some of the great scholars in the West.

both Greek and Jewish, about Islam and political Islam.

Your thoughts today, because President Trump's coming.

He's going to meet the hostages.

Obviously, this is very important for him.

President Trump has got a big heart, as I think people realize, but he's also going to address the Israeli people at the Knesset, and then he's going to actually go to Egypt for this, I guess you'd call it a peace conference, which Netanyahu was not invited to, is what we understand.