Donald J. Trump

We are running about on the on the program of what they led about an hour behind.

And I think the president's remarks are going to be at least 30 minutes.

And if the president, as he often does, freelances a little bit, it'll go longer.

But we'll have to see about that.

Still massive enthusiasm there.

in tel aviv at uh at hostage square right there the knesset the president will be coming out momentarily and we will cut to that live we want to hear all of it uh joel overall for the hostages i think there were 250 taken my young production team here is pretty shocked that we get down to the end of it there's only 20 that are still alive and um

I'm sure some of those are in pretty bad shape.

I know some of the early hostages released were in bad shape.

All the female hostages and American hostages have been released a while ago.

But, you know, I think the majority of hostages didn't make it out alive.

Am I correct on that?

The number I have is 155 made it out alive.

I also think about the mistake that the United States made after 9-11.

We lost 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, and then we went and lost 7,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Similarly, Israel was trying to save 250 hostages, and they lost about 800 soldiers fighting in Gaza,

ostensibly to get these hostages back.

So there's some real tragic military calculations when it comes to trying to get these hostages back.

They did lose.

All they did was destroy most of Gaza, but lost 800 people trying to get 200 out and ended up with only 155 at the end.

Why has there not been any inquiry?