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Mike Rogers: “You cannot have a ceasefire until we get the hostages back…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 13:50

They were stealing people, robbing people, kidnapping people out of their homes, brutally murdering them and their children in front of their families, and they took these folks and drove them into tunnels in Gaza. You cannot have a ceasefire until we get the hostages back, pure and simple. Then you can at least have a conversation of what comes next. Hamas doesn't want that. They want to continue to fight here in Israel. (13:50–13:57)

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Asserts that a ceasefire with Hamas is not possible until hostages are returned.

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