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peace in the Middle East. A long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Dasha has been on the phone

to the president. The military arriving in Chicago, there we've got two big

court cases happening to do with that today. And it's day nine of the government shut down and still

nothing has changed. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, October

9th. And this is the playbook podcast, Dasha. He did it. President Trump has been

talking about this for weeks. And last night, as everyone listening to this will know, they signed a deal

between Israel and Hamas. Dasha, you were on the phone to the president last night. How is he feeling?

Yeah, I mean, this is a huge moment, huge moment for him, for his team. So I wanted to

try to get the president on the phone. I called him a little after 10 o'clock last night. He

sounded very energetic. And he said to me, quote, I feel good. It's a great deal for the world.

It's a beautiful deal. He had to run. He apologized. He is saying he had to hop. He sounded like he was

really in the middle of a lot of work, understandably. But his tone, his mood, his energy really

reflected what I had been hearing from his advisors inside and outside of the West Wing, really

folks feeling the weight and the gravity of this moment and a major accomplishment

for this team, a lot of validation for how they have approached all of this.

A lot of abulience in the White House right now, folks cautiously optimistic and some

less cautiously optimistic.

This is something that they have been working towards for a really long time, and they feel

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