Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on Donald Trump urging Hamas to disarm

Donald Trump's warning Hamas will have their weapons taken off them - even if it falls to him to make it happen. 

Talks are underway in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on the second phase of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. 

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says Trump hasn't given Hamas a hard deadline as of yet, and it's unclear how this will go.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchins and US correspondent is with us.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello Dan, Hello Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
So when does what's what's what's Trump's deedline for when
Hamas needs to disarm?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, I don't think he's actually given them a hard
deadline at this point. Right now. I think he's focused
more on getting all the hostages, the remains of the
hostages back and you know, as you were mentioning there
in the in the in the world wires, we've got
I think four of them out of a total of
twenty eight that have been returned, and the id process
is going forward now. And all of the bodies arrived

(00:30):
at the facility with their hands and legs cuffed, so
the remains were held in refrigerators and they come with
numbers rather than names. So I think this could take
a little bit of time trying to sort out what
exactly happened. I mean, you had some that were blindfolded,
and there are signs of gunshop ones in some cases
others have been run over by tank so it's apparently
not a very pretty site.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
What what do we think he plans to do to
them if they don't dissom.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, I mean that's what's interesting. Because he previously said
that we were not going to put you know, boots
on the ground there. So whether or not that means
more cuts for humanitarian aid, whether that means he goes
back in person and tries to hammer out a deal,
or he has somebody from the White House tried to
do that, it's really a head scratcher right now. I

(01:17):
think he's hoping that the pen is mightier than the
sword in this case. But we know it's easy. You're
not easy because it took so long to come to
where we are today. But I think the harder part
is going to be to see if we can actually
keep this peace process going.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, very much.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I see Charlie Kirk got the Presidential Middle of Freedom.
He did.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
This was something the president had promised after Kirk was
fatally shot speaking to that crowd in Utah. And this
would have been his thirty second birthday, So this all
happened about a month ago. But he was awarded today
and his widow, Erica, accepted the award and she was
very emotional and she was whispering a lot of the time,

(01:57):
a lot of tears, as you might imagine. She talked
about her husband's life political beliefs and legacy. And after
that was done and the cameras were turned off, the
president went over to his parents and spent a few
minutes talking with them. So he's had a you know,
no matter what you think of President Trump, he's one
way or the other. He's had a very busy week,

(02:18):
you know, and here we are only Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, and not to mention the fact that he also
blew up a boat of people coming from Venezuela. What
do people feel about this?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think, well, I you know, it depends on who
you ask. Of course, if you ask the left, if
you ask Democrats, they're going to say this is a
violation of humanitarian rights. And if you ask Trumpers, they're
going to say, well, you know, these are people that
are are smuggling drugs, these are traffickers, these are unlawful
combatants who have to be met with military force. I mean,

(02:49):
that's what he said. And this is the fifth strike
that he's done in the in the Caribbean and in
our defense secretary he said that this has to happen.
I mean, he was sharing no bones about it. They
were sharing this video on x and it shows this
boat apparently stationary on the water. You get a few
seconds into the video and then it's stuck, struck from
by some projectile, some bomb from overhead, and it just

(03:11):
explodes like that and then it's floating of flames for
a few seconds. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's quite a thing, isn't it. Thank you, Dan, appreciate it.
Dan Mitchison, US correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessye, Allen Drive,
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