Returning now to the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, the agreement announced yesterday largely

mirrors a proposal made by President Biden last May. In recent days, President-elect Trump's

Middle East envoy joined the Biden team in Qatar in a bid to push the deal to completion. For more

insight, we turn now to White House Deputy, Principal Deputy National Security Advisor,

John Feiner.

Thanks for being with us.

And John, we understand there'd have been a last-minute hold-up in implementing this agreement.

Israel blamed Hamas for reneging on part of the deal, which that terrorist organization denies.

Is the U.S. confident that both sides will be able to put this deal in place come Sunday?

So, look, I wouldn't call it a hold up at all. I think things are continuing to move forward

with the implementation of the deal that the President and the mediators announced yesterday.

This was always going to be complicated to implement. There are a lot of moving

pieces. There's a lot of complexity to the arrangement. There is zero trust literally between the

two sides. But our understanding is that now all of the relevant documents for the deal have

been fully approved. The Israeli government will begin its formal approval process tomorrow.

We expect that to proceed over the course of 24, 48 hours,

and then the deal to begin being implemented as soon as Sunday or soon thereafter, but everything

remains on track at this point. Secretary of State Tony Blinken today, he praised President-elect

Donald Trump's incoming special envoy to the Middle East, Steve

Whitkoff, for his work with the outgoing Biden team on this deal.

To what degree was the overall Trump factor key to clinching this agreement, namely

the social media post from Donald Trump last month where he warned of hell to pay in the Middle

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