meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
MEDIA BUZZmeter

A Moment of Triumph for Trump in Israel, But the Hard Part Lies Ahead

MEDIA BUZZmeter

FOX News Podcasts

News, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Howie Kurtz on the successful peace deal negotiated by President Trump between Israel and Hamas, the ongoing government shutdown, and the passing of actress Diane Keaton.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Sanjeeves just received a decent bonus.

0:02.3

Nice work, Sanjeeve. He knows he could invest all of the money, but he's seen a new watch he likes. He's not worried. With his HSBC Premier bank account and access to their financial advice service, he can get a personalised plan for the future and know how much you can spend a day. Everything's Premier when your bank account is. Search HSBC Premier. HS.SBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:23.1

For financial advice, you need minimum £100,000. Other criteria and fees apply. Financial and other

0:27.6

eligibility criteria apply for HSBC Premier. It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:36.7

The hostages are free.

0:39.5

Even though we expected that to happen,

0:42.4

the sight of it actually happening is dramatic.

0:47.3

And President Trump's appearance before the Israeli parliament

0:50.8

was fascinating on so many levels. It was a victory speech, sure. But it's the first

0:59.5

time I've ever seen the president give a speech where he mostly was about thanking other people.

1:07.0

Usually he is boasting of the accomplishments. This was, is a huge accomplishment, a massive accomplishment, a seemingly impossible accomplishment

1:17.8

for which Donald Trump deserves full credit.

1:21.2

A lot of people thought it would be impossible to do, and he did it.

1:25.1

And there were long speeches before him by Bibi Netanyahu and others, Israelis,

1:32.1

today, before the Knesset in Jerusalem. And there was so much sustained applause for Trump,

1:38.9

who kept saying the United States, you know, is Israel's best friend, but also made allusions,

1:46.2

not so subtle allusions,

1:51.2

to the fact that B.B. Netanyahu was difficult to deal with because Trump had to manage not only all the other Arab nations that contributed to this, but he had to push Netanyahu

2:00.4

into taking the win. And he started out very sober.

2:03.7

And then he sort of relaxed and ad-libbed a lot and made a few jokes. And so he didn't have to,

2:10.7

although he did at one point say, you know, November 5th, the day he was elected for the second

2:15.3

term, was when the U.S. began hot again.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FOX News Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FOX News Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.