Steve Witkoff: “We were waiting to get their bodies back, but he was alive.”

“We presented the arguments for Edan Alexander being released, and he was the last American that was being held captive who was alive. There were two other Americans who had, who had died. We were waiting to get their bodies back, but he was alive. We wanted to get him out alive. And I said to. I remember talking to Hamas, me and Jared and saying, you should do this.” (08:59–09:02)

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