The following is the transcript of an interview with Brett McGurk, the White House National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, on "Face the Nation with Margaret ...

Former White House Mideast czar Brett McGurk pens his first op-ed since leaving government, defending the Biden administration’s handling of the hostage negotiations and insisting that Hamas was ...

Brett McGurk defended Biden’s support for Israel, criticized Hamas’s hostage tactics, and praised Trump for calling Hamas’s bluff to secure hostage releases and push for a Gaza without Hamas.

Brett McGurk served as deputy assistant to the president and White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa from 2021 to 2025. He is currently a senior fellow at Harvard University ...

Hamas threatening Israel with freezing the release of hostages last week was no shock to a former employee of the Biden administration, as he explained in an op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday.