The Vide administration's foreign policy efforts are once again in the spotlight as US officials

push for more hostages to be released by Hamas.

On that, and what's ahead in the Republican presidential primary,

we turn to the analysis of Kpart and Johnson.

That's Jonathan Kpart, Associate Editor

Editor-In-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon,

David Brooks is away.

Thanks guys, very much, great to see you. Happy day after Thanksgiving.

Jonathan Caphart, I wonder if we could look at Biden's policy overall for Israel.

How do you rate it right now? Biden's policy overall for Israel.

How do you rate it right now?

Well, first, today is a great day that we have seen some hostages of the couple

of hundred who have been held hostage in Gaza be released and that is

primarily the efforts of the United States Qatar, Israel, but really the president of the United States pushing really hard to get to some kind of situation where hostages could be released, there could be a pause in the fighting so that humanitarian relief could get inside

Gaza for the people who desperately needed, the Palestinians who desperately need it.

It doesn't mean that this is by any means over or that there aren't more

pitfalls to come, but with that incentive in the in the in the pause meaning if 10 more hostages really are released

there there will be an extra day in the pause it is my hope that that in does

indeed happens,

and this pause lasts longer than the four initial days.

Eliana Johnson, what do you think President Biden

should be focused here on?

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