Jordana Miller, ABC News correspondent Interview

Jordana Miller joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the latest regarding ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas as Netanyahu visits Trump in D.C.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know when we cover the war in Israel that
Jordana Mellory, ABC correspondent does well better than anybody. I
love to go to the Times of Israel site to
check on the very latest, and I do it almost daily,
and I just noticed at the top it says Israel
at war day six hundred and forty And for some reason,

(00:24):
that stunned me that it's been that long. But when
you do the math, of course they're correct, but it
just six hundred and forty days they've been at war. That's,
to me is stunning. But let's get the latest, because
we have a chance at least for a ceasefire and
hopefully an end to the war because of a peace
proposal put out, a ceasefire proposal put out by Donald

(00:47):
Trump that Hamas has agreed to. But they want something
else after that, and so the talks have been going
on with them in indirect talks in Doha. Let's get
the latest from Jordan. Dana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, so
what is the latest. Do we have a chance of
a seasfire?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think we do, And you know it's always folly
to make predictions, but you know, it looks like all
the ducks are kind of lining up, and we're certainly
the closest to a ceasefire that we've been in six
months since the last one in January. The Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Attaneo has now arrived in DC. He'll be

(01:32):
meeting with President Trump today as well as with his
envoy Steve Whitcoff and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
and they will be discussing, as you said, this latest
revised Godza Seafire proposal, which by the way, is just
a partial deal. Again, the idea is sixty days of quiet.

(01:56):
In this case, ten living hostages will come out. That's
half of the to that are believed to be alive,
a number of bodies about sixteen. Also about half of
the bodies including we expect two American bodies to come out,
to young Americans to come home for a proper burial,

(02:16):
aid to come back into the Gaza Strip, a redeployment
of the Israeli army out of population centers, and then
of course serious negotiations during those sixty days to end
the war. This is very similar to the agreement that
was on the table in March that was you know,
that the sides had already agreed to that Israel broke.

(02:40):
Now looking back, that was likely connected to the Iran war, right,
Israel's war on Iran that none of us knew about
in March, but it was coming up. That's probably one
of the reasons. Now the Prime Minister did not keep
that ceasefire going. Now he is in a position and
we under stand from sources around him that he's ready

(03:02):
to make a deal, as he said even himself before
he departed Israel, on his terms. And there's still some
outstanding disputes. There's going to be a fight about where
the Israeli armies allowed to stay. There's going to be
a fight about the aid issue, the new gods of
humanitarian foundation distribution sites, which as you know, have turned

(03:27):
into on the outskirts of these sites. Really daily dozens
of people are being killed by various parties, you know,
including Israel, including Hamas, including even some of the US
contractors have been firing on hungry gossens. There's going to
be dispute about whether that system stays in place or not,

(03:48):
and then a dispute about, you know, how much of
a guarantee can President Trump give Hamas and the mediators
that Israel will not restart the war in sixty days after.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Jordana, I think you summed everything up. Thank you so much.
We'll check in again, hopefully when we have a ceasefire.
Thanks a lot, Jordanna. That's pretty amazing. They're very close.
I know Donald Trump has said there was a good
chance of the deal this week that would see quite
a few hostages released. I know that he would love

(04:21):
to make the announcement with net Nyaohu at the White House.
So I'm sure there's a whole lot of pressure going on,
as there is pressure for other countries to join the
Abraham Accord. All of those things may be announced today
or tomorrow when Benjamin Netnao, who visit, visits the White House.

(04:42):
So it's going to be a big, eventful week.