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 Brennan" that aired on Jan.

The negotiations that led to the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement took months and months. At the center of the talks representing the United States was Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa.

Rarely have representatives of current and new presidents of different parties worked together at such a high-stakes moment. But the president and the president-elect didn’t quite share credit.

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire was brokered through intense negotiations involving Biden and Trump`s envoys, nearly collapsing in the final hours. Learn about the key players and events.

By the time Qatar’s prime minister ... Then-President Joe Biden sent Brett McGurk, a veteran Middle East hand in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Donald Trump dispatched Steve ...

(Gil Cohen-Magen/AP File) Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy for the global coalition against ... (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani speaks at a joint press conference ...

In the final four days of talks, Biden's pointman Brett McGurk was joined in the region ... while moderators from Qatar and Egypt shuttled between them with their proposals. McGurk and Witkoff were talking "multiple times a day, and Mr Witkoff actually ...

Qatar and the United States ... deal but the efforts were fruitless until Trump’s inauguration neared. Mr Brett McGurk, the pointman for outgoing US President Joe Biden, was joined in the ...

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip. A latest round of peace talks to end the 15-month-old war has resumed in Qatar,

U.S. President Joe Biden and Qatar’s prime minister announced the deal late Wednesday ... Trump’s incoming Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, had joined White House Middle East adviser Brett McGurk as the talks came to fruition in Doha.

FILE - Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy for the global coalition ... Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani FILE - Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al ...

Will the peace in Gaza hold? What’s next for that region? And how will Trump use his unique position to press for broader peace?