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Jonathan Schanzer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
669 total appearances

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

And I don't know how to do the math here, but I think the Israelis believe that with the deal that they're making, they're going to get back upwards of 140, 150 people alive. And I don't think anyone in this country thought from the original 254

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

And I don't know how to do the math here, but I think the Israelis believe that with the deal that they're making, they're going to get back upwards of 140, 150 people alive. And I don't think anyone in this country thought from the original 254

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

they would get back these numbers so i think they're pretty happy with the total number of people they're getting back it did take a really long time though and you have to wonder what kind of suffering some of these people have endured over the year and three months that they've been held in captivity well the ones that have made it back alive how are they doing i i imagine you don't just like take a shower and get back into things

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

they would get back these numbers so i think they're pretty happy with the total number of people they're getting back it did take a really long time though and you have to wonder what kind of suffering some of these people have endured over the year and three months that they've been held in captivity well the ones that have made it back alive how are they doing i i imagine you don't just like take a shower and get back into things

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

they would get back these numbers so i think they're pretty happy with the total number of people they're getting back it did take a really long time though and you have to wonder what kind of suffering some of these people have endured over the year and three months that they've been held in captivity well the ones that have made it back alive how are they doing i i imagine you don't just like take a shower and get back into things

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

No, look, you know, some are doing better than others. I think all of them are having trauma. All of them are having survivor guilt for getting out while others, you know, stayed in, for having lived when others died. And, you know, by the way, all these people and their parents and their brothers and their sisters and their cousins, they've all become public figures in this country.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

No, look, you know, some are doing better than others. I think all of them are having trauma. All of them are having survivor guilt for getting out while others, you know, stayed in, for having lived when others died. And, you know, by the way, all these people and their parents and their brothers and their sisters and their cousins, they've all become public figures in this country.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

No, look, you know, some are doing better than others. I think all of them are having trauma. All of them are having survivor guilt for getting out while others, you know, stayed in, for having lived when others died. And, you know, by the way, all these people and their parents and their brothers and their sisters and their cousins, they've all become public figures in this country.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

They've become political figures. almost overnight, where people want to hear their thoughts, it's become a very public thing. I mean, I cannot overstate the way in which the hostages have become front and center and have stayed there for the entire war, right? We've been watching all the ups and downs of this war. There's been a front in Lebanon. There's a front in Yemen.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

They've become political figures. almost overnight, where people want to hear their thoughts, it's become a very public thing. I mean, I cannot overstate the way in which the hostages have become front and center and have stayed there for the entire war, right? We've been watching all the ups and downs of this war. There's been a front in Lebanon. There's a front in Yemen.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

They've become political figures. almost overnight, where people want to hear their thoughts, it's become a very public thing. I mean, I cannot overstate the way in which the hostages have become front and center and have stayed there for the entire war, right? We've been watching all the ups and downs of this war. There's been a front in Lebanon. There's a front in Yemen.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

If Syria collapses, as an analyst of the Middle East like me, I'm watching all of these things and it's jaw-dropping, the sheer amount of activity, military activity, geopolitical activity. Here, the focus has been on these people.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

If Syria collapses, as an analyst of the Middle East like me, I'm watching all of these things and it's jaw-dropping, the sheer amount of activity, military activity, geopolitical activity. Here, the focus has been on these people.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

If Syria collapses, as an analyst of the Middle East like me, I'm watching all of these things and it's jaw-dropping, the sheer amount of activity, military activity, geopolitical activity. Here, the focus has been on these people.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

And so, there will be a huge focus on whoever gets let out, they will have interviews non-stop, they will be celebrated, but then there'll be what happens quietly behind closed doors, that kind of PTSD and the psychological trauma that they're going to have to contend with. This is not easy stuff. You know, I heard from somebody here recently

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

And so, there will be a huge focus on whoever gets let out, they will have interviews non-stop, they will be celebrated, but then there'll be what happens quietly behind closed doors, that kind of PTSD and the psychological trauma that they're going to have to contend with. This is not easy stuff. You know, I heard from somebody here recently

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

And so, there will be a huge focus on whoever gets let out, they will have interviews non-stop, they will be celebrated, but then there'll be what happens quietly behind closed doors, that kind of PTSD and the psychological trauma that they're going to have to contend with. This is not easy stuff. You know, I heard from somebody here recently

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

that for the people who fought on 10-7, the people who were captured on 10-7, the waiting list just to get psychological therapy has been astronomical here. It's just there's not enough social workers in this country to handle the workload, the trauma,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

that for the people who fought on 10-7, the people who were captured on 10-7, the waiting list just to get psychological therapy has been astronomical here. It's just there's not enough social workers in this country to handle the workload, the trauma,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 18th, 2025: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Reached & Why Greenland Matters

that for the people who fought on 10-7, the people who were captured on 10-7, the waiting list just to get psychological therapy has been astronomical here. It's just there's not enough social workers in this country to handle the workload, the trauma,