Donald J. Trump

You and I covered this live on the day that it happened, October 7th.

It was a Saturday.

Your thoughts this morning as we await the president's arrival on Air Force One?

Well, Steve, this is nothing short of historic.

The scenes we're seeing are absolutely biblical, and there are posters now going up in Jerusalem that I'm seeing just go viral on social media saying that Cyrus the Great has returned, and they are referring to President Trump as Cyrus the Great.

I see the

the crowds cheering there, the Persian leader who came in but also was able to provide peace to this area after they viewed him as a liberator, of liberating them from the Babylonians, and seeing this new covenant, seeing this new deal that is being put in place.

I mean, it's nothing short of biblical.

It's nothing short of biblical, and I don't know how anyone who's a believer can be watching these scenes, can be seeing this all happening, and not

not going back and brushing up on our Old Testament.

To say that it's Nobel Prize worthy almost doesn't even do it justice to the magnanimity of what we're seeing before our eyes here.

Yes.

Joe, I want to go back to you and get Matt in here.

What I say is this overwhelming emotional response.

If you follow this region, we have kind of seen this before, maybe not this intensity over the 20 hostages.

But there have been other times where Israel, working with the Arab nations, working with the Muslim, all parties, including the United States, which has tried to be an intermediary for decades and decades and decades, think you have the framework for peace or think you have a peace deal.

There's been big emotional reactions in Israel in the past, and it just never pans out, does it?

Look, there still exists a vast misunderstanding of two cultures, Islamic culture, Islamic values versus Western culture and Western values.

Israelis and supporters of the United States believe in these peace agreements and peace deals.

I'll give you this piece of land and peace is going to break out.