Recapping a HISTORIC Day in the Middle East | Coming Down the Shutdown Pike... | 10/14/25

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On today's A.M. Update, Aaron McIntire reflects on President Trump's triumphant Middle East tour, from Israel's Knesset applause to Egypt's honors, sealing a historic peace deal with Hamas and the release of 20 hostages. Back home, the government shutdown drags into its second week, with layoffs hitting federal workers and economic ripples growing. Plus, escalating Taliban-Pakistan clashes, Fauci's ominous pandemic warning, and a sharp debate on abortion among progressive Christians.

Trump, Middle East peace, Israel, Hamas, government shutdown, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Anthony Fauci, Taliban Pakistan, abortion debate,

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 a day, hopefully that history looks to as a turning point in the history of the Middle East.
0:06.6	The odds on a longer than one month shutdown keep going up, and we hear once more from a creepy little goblin this spooky season.
0:14.8	Next on the AM update.
0:19.0	It's enough to affirm what I've said time and again.
0:23.1	Donald Trump is the greatest friend that the state of Israel has ever had in the White House.
0:29.9	President Donald Trump was enthusiastically welcome to Israel after brokering a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas,
0:36.8	leading to the release of all the remaining living hostages in the region.
0:40.7	Trump arrived in Israel to find newspapers praising the peacemaker, roaring applause and standing ovations in the Knesset,
0:46.4	and even some attendees wearing Manga-style hats celebrating the peace president.
0:51.1	The 20 remaining living hostages were returned to their families in Israel on
0:55.8	Monday. Trump went from Israel onto Egypt, where he met with several, several, probably a couple
1:01.3	dozen foreign leaders involved in some way, shape, or form with the peace negotiations,
1:07.0	including a couple who really weren't, including French president Emmanuel Macron, who Trump manhandled in the form of a handshake.
1:14.5	Anyway, here is President Trump in Egypt after receiving the order of a denial designation, a very high honor in Egypt.
1:23.1	Today, for the first time anyone can remember, we have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put the old feuds
1:28.5	and bitter hatreds behind us. And that's why so many people in this room, they didn't get along.
1:35.5	Some did. Some didn't. But they're getting along now. This has brought the people together.
1:39.2	This is the first time the Middle East crisis has brought people together as opposed to driving them apart, and to declare
1:46.1	that our future will not be ruled by the fights of the generations past, which is foolish.
1:52.2	So together, let us continue in the spirit of cooperation, a goodwill that has finally brought
1:57.7	us to this incredible historic breakthrough.
2:01.9	If we do together, we will reach the Middle East's incredible destiny, a safe and prosperous
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