Steve Witkoff: “The odds were that all of them [hostages] would be murdered.”

“Like, it felt like they came because there was a deal to do. And we had 20 families who were calling us all the time, saying to us, are our kids coming home? And The odds were that all of them [hostages] would be murdered. That was the odds. The odds were that the Israelis would go in because they were threatening it. And that, by the way, that helped. That pressure helped.” (37:38–37:42)

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