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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It's Wednesday, November 22nd.

Here's what's driving the day. Just hours ago, a deal was struck between Israel and Hamas,

brokered by the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt, 50 hostages will be released from Hamas,

and we know three Americans are part of the hostage group. In exchange, Israel will release

around 150 Palestinian prisoners, women, and teenagers. Joining me now to walk through all of the

new updates involving the release of

hostages in the Middle East is our national security reporter, Alex Ward. Alex, good morning.

Good morning. Pleasure to be back with you, I should say. Yeah, thanks for coming back.

It's quite the, quite the newsday for your deal. Out of the things I just said, are there other parts of this deal that I didn't go through

that folks should really know?

Yes, there will be a pause in fighting that will last about four to five days.

And another element of this is that there's an incentive structure for Hamas to release

even more hostages during the pause.

For every 10 hostages extra, Hamas release is beyond the 50, there will be an extra's day pause.

So let's say it's the five days hits, 50 of hostages release.

If all of a sudden on the fifth day, Hamas releases 10 more, so we're at 60, we have another day.

And so on and so forth. There are also some elements about military movements and where aircraft can

fly or not, but the main part of the deal is what we've discussed, which is the hostage for

prisoner exchange, the fighting pause time, and the incentive to keep releasing more

hostages to add on more pause days.

Alex, you were on a call with the administration last night, kind of walking reporters through

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