80: Staffing Challenges and Political Bias: The Gaza Peace Plan and the BBC. Mary Kissel details the challenges facing the State Department and NSC in implementing the Trump administration's urgent Gaza Peace Plan, noting staffing issues are delaying coordina
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.6 | Here's John Batchel. |
| 0:10.4 | I welcome Mary Kissel, my colleague, Executive Vice President Stevenson, Incorporated, |
| 0:15.2 | former senior advisor to the Secretary of State. |
| 0:18.1 | We go to what we know of the American Trump administration, President |
| 0:22.8 | Trump Plan, for Gaza, presented by the ambassador to the United Nations for the United States, |
| 0:29.3 | Michael Walls, 10 points led by the Board of Peace, described as a technocratic, apolitical gathering of people to direct |
| 0:42.3 | Gaza's reawakening and rebuilding at least through 2027 and then handed over to |
| 0:49.6 | Gazans who are prepared to continue the presentation of World Bank money, IMF perhaps, and security, unknown security forces to be named later. |
| 1:03.7 | Mary, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:05.3 | The president and the administration have presented the Board of Peace as a take it or leave it. |
| 1:10.0 | I put that down as a negotiating style. |
| 1:12.3 | It is the only plan on the table right now. |
| 1:15.6 | The State Department work here is obvious. |
| 1:18.4 | They're looking to partners or cooperation from the region and from far and wide from Europe. |
| 1:25.7 | At the same time, we get news from our European allies |
| 1:28.9 | that they're going in many different directions |
| 1:31.0 | about the two-state solution. |
| 1:33.7 | All of this is on the desk of the State Department, |
| 1:36.9 | the deputies, the chiefs, the desks, all of this. |
| 1:40.5 | How does it work, Mary? |
| 1:41.9 | How does state work with DOD with the White House? |
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