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Anderson Cooper 360

Biden Gives Farewell Speech To The Nation

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

President Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation, after announcing Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that includes a ceasefire and a phased release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports from Tel Aviv. CNN Political and Foreign Policy Analyst Barak Ravid, along with and a panel of political experts, join Jake Tapper and Anderson to discuss the deal and Biden's speech. Plus, Anderson returns to an Altadena neighborhood ravaged by the California wildfires one week ago. He shows what it looked like then, also before the flames, and now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And good evening from the Los Angeles Fire Zone.

0:04.0

And good evening from Washington, D.C.

0:06.0

We're just about eight minutes from now, President Biden is set to speak from the Oval Office.

0:10.0

This will be his farewell address to the nation after four years in office, which began

0:14.0

on the single deadliest day of the COVID pandemic and just 14 days after the worst attack on American democracy since the Civil War.

0:23.1

And Jake, of course, four years later, we are just five days away now from the inauguration of Donald J. Trump.

0:27.9

We begin, though, as we wait for the president with a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

0:32.7

For that, I want to go to see him at Jeremy Diamond in Tel Aviv.

0:35.6

Jeremy, how soon will hostages start being released in Gaza?

0:38.3

And what are the details of the deal?

0:42.5

Well, Anderson, we could be seeing the first hostages being released from the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

0:47.9

That is the day that the implementation of this agreement is set to kick in.

0:51.6

And of course, that will also be the day that we will finally see after 15

0:55.9

months of war in Gaza, the first enduring weeks-long ceasefire going into effect. This will be a

1:03.9

six-week ceasefire, during which time we will see over the course of those six weeks, 33 hostages

1:09.3

being released, most of whom we expect

1:11.6

will be alive, but we also do expect that there will be the bodies of deceased hostages

1:16.6

included in that number as well. What we will also see are hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

1:22.1

being released from Israeli prisons, the entry of much-needed humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as many as 600 trucks of aid per day,

1:31.3

to remedy the dire humanitarian situation there.

1:34.3

Here in Israel, there will need to be some steps taking place tomorrow before this agreement is actually signed on the dotted line.

1:42.3

The Israeli Prime minister taking that

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