Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Jared Kushner ｜ 8⧸25⧸22
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Jared Kushner joins us on the show to talk about his new book, why he hates Chris Christie, and why he thinks President Obama is a socialist. We also salute the one-year anniversary of the biggest disaster in U.S. foreign policy ever, our exit from Afghanistan. And we talk about the president's plan to cancel $10,000 in federal student loans for anybody who earns up to 125K.
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how you feeling stew you come in you're always so perky thank you yeah you take drugs is that
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what it is how else would i get through the 20 years with you now i walked right into that um
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all right welcome to the podcast it's a uh it's a really good podcast today get jared kushner on
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for the podcast fascinating yeah it's first time i've heard him really speak at length about a lot
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of this stuff and it was really good time i've heard him really speak that that's what they
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that's what saturday night live said no one's ever heard his voice yeah and uh you hear his voice
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today and gosh it sounds nothing like the caricature the media has portrayed of him yeah if you don't
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know anything about him read his book and you'll be like holy what and we didn't get to this we ran
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out of time but he talks about the family hatred of chris christie it's delicious so we had him on uh
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today we also had a really cool salute to the one-year anniversary of the biggest uh disaster
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in uh foreign policy ever our exit from afghanistan that's one year anniversary on tomorrow
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um oh and gee that crazy wacky idea of just redistributing wealth i mean this is the biggest
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so as expected biden is going to cancel ten thousand dollars for all federal student debts
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uh up to joint filers earning 250 000 that includes by the white house's own admission
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basically all but the top five percent the big addition to that is the pell grant recipients
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who have student loans that will get up to twenty thousand dollars in debt counts canceled now here's
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what i love i you know i feel sorry for the president once in a while because i mean he's a i don't know
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he thinks he's robin hood or he's a socialist i don't know but he doesn't even get the redistribution
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of wealth right his plan to cancel ten thousand dollars in student debt for anybody who earns up to
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125 000 a year is possibly the largest single transfer from poor to rich people in american history
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researchers at the university of chicago have determined that president biden's plan will
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shift an estimated 192 billion dollars in earned income to the top 20 percent of wage earners
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just 29 billion will go to the bottom 20 percent that's insanity the cost to you will be 427
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billion dollars to put that into perspective just this loan forgiveness is more than the gross national
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domestic product of hong kong and 182 other countries if you like social programs great this one is 36
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times greater than the federal government spent spent on head start in 2022 if you support defense
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spending great this is two and a half times larger than the entire budget of the u.s.
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army in 2022 by the way this doesn't uh include the non-cancellation elements of the biden
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announcement including proposals to significantly cut many borrowers monthly payments by more you know
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generous loan forgiveness in the future that's just today so people who go to college especially
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those who get degrees and that's where most of the loan is sitting in grad school okay
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they typically typically make 1.2 to 3.1 million dollars more than those who don't get a degree over a
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lifetime job security because they have a degree
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hmm so why are the little people helping out those people
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by the way grossly unconstitutional congress not the president has the spending power but that hasn't
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mattered for how long experts including former uh obama administration attorney charl rose
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has argued that biden lacks the authority um nancy pelosi has said the same thing even the department
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of energy or i'm sorry education said biden doesn't i'm quoting biden doesn't have the statutory
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authority to cancel compromise discharge or forgive on a blanket or mass basis principal balance of
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student loans and or to materially modify the repayment announce amounts of terms thereof
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now pelosi's now reversed herself on this oh you've got to be kidding she's like oh no it's a bold plan
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oh my gosh the department of education is now they're citing that as specifically as having this
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authority even though they themselves have said they don't have it unbelievable absolutely unbelievable
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okay so what happens when we pour roughly another half trillion dollars into the economy this is
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gasoline on the inflationary fire it's already burning out of control by jason firman the harvard
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economist and former advisor to obama he said the bill will increase inflation by 0.2
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or 0.3 and that is likely underestimated the knowledge that a president can unilaterally reduce
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student loan balances will cause debtors to upwardly revise their view of their own future income
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uh encouraging more spending in fact please play the cut we just played uh from um elizabeth warren
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here's what she said yesterday ultimately what the data show us is that because of student loan debt
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there are many people who don't move out of their mama's basement who can't save up money to buy a home
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uh who don't start small businesses who don't start a family you relieve the debt burden some for those
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people and we have more economic activity in other words canceling student loan debt is good for the
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people whose debt is canceled but it is also good for our economy and the rest of america how how we don't
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want more spending that's why the federal reserve is raising interest rates to to make people stop
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spending money the idea of inflation to fight inflation you've got to get the average joe to
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stop have you ever heard we got to slow this economy down it's it's overheating what does that mean that
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means they're going to penalize you through taxes and higher interest rates to get you to stop spending
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money these people are just they are criminally insane or they are just criminals what they're doing to this
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country is criminal by the way it's not debt forgiveness it's debt transfer we'll get into that later
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here we are living where food prices are the most since 1974 rents are soaring
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the median rent payment for bank of america customers they're paying 7.4 percent in july more than last
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july how about how hey how's your energy bill how is that air conditioning bill do you know that one
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in every six americans are behind in their energy bill to the point of being cut off
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one in six americans owe around 800 that they just can't pay
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energies through the roof and what are these people doing
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they're biden he's shutting down our minds while sending our money to canada
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i mean this is taxing us oh nobody's gonna well you the average person is gonna cost
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that is gonna have to pay now two thousand dollars
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just for this the average american has to pony up two grand
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uh okay where are we gonna get that where are you gonna get that it makes perfect sense though
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right everyone ponies up two grand to pay 20 of the population 10 grand
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right like that's that's just a transfer of wealth that's all it is if you are not a recipient here
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you're going to lose badly and if you are a recipient here it'll feel good for a short period of time
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and it'll screw with the economy so badly that you will wind up losing all these benefits anyway
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that's what happened with inflation they gave all these trillions of dollars away during covid
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and then all of it got wiped out by inflation within you know a couple of years
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the other how about deficit reduction we just passed this inflation reduction act which one of the main
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selling points for it was it was going to reduce the budget deficit or debt by 300 billion dollars
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over 10 years in eight days they spent all of that money plus another 70 percent
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in eight days by the way um they think that this is going to because we'll be in even more problems
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with the loan situation by 2025 they're expecting another one uh of 1.6 billion dollars
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no sorry 1.6 trillion dollars we don't comment on bills that are worth 1.6 we just gave 3 billion
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to ukraine yesterday yeah we didn't even comment on it this is crazy this is absolutely listen to me
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everything we've talked about over the years it's happening it's all happening
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everything and you have got to understand that things can go all we're waiting for is an event
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i mean think of this think of we get into a real energy situation which we could this winter
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we get into a situation where people cannot afford to heat their house
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but that that's just putting a band-aid on the problem in fact it's re-injuring another part of your
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body it it it will only make things worse and what are they doing they're getting rid of all of our
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energy and they're saying this is a good thing for us it is not a good thing these people have got to
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be stopped we have got to get out and vote it if we could possibly win the senate i don't know how
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that's going to happen but if we could possibly win the senate that's the best thing that could
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happen to us but we have to win the house have to this stuff has got to stop and the republicans
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aren't going to be able to do anything except stop it but if they don't stop it in its tracks if we
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don't this is insanity insanity you are going to have blackouts imagine having blackouts throughout
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the country that means you can't pump gas that means your bank is not going to be working
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how long do you think remember remember katrina you've got 72 hours 72 hours if people don't think
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that something's going to happen that good guys are coming you've got 72 hours of safety before the
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bad guys start to go oh there's nobody coming this is going to go on for a while
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it's not good by the way this is exactly what we said would happen in 2009 you know why we're in
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this situation because barack obama insisted on putting and taking all all loans onto the federal
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system in 2009 he said no no bank shouldn't be involved in that we're going to take that on
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ourselves and we told you at that time man stop listening to people that have lied to you or who
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have just been so dramatically wrong it was more important for them to score points
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and say oh what an idiot he is what an idiot what a conspiracy theorist i don't care what their
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motivation is but just recognize who has been telling you what's really going on do not dismiss these
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warnings please we told you in 2009 this is what's gonna happen no that's crazy look here's the here's
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one thing that you really need to know socialism and marxism has collapsed this country we are not
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the america we have been before we are not a constitutional republic it has to be restored it has to be restored
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it has to be saved even if it is in the hearts of her people it has to be saved it has to be preserved
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biden if he's a socialist man he's the worst socialist ever he's robbing the poor to pay the rich that
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doesn't make you robin hood man that makes you the sheriff of nottingham you're not you're not robin hood
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they try to make it always look up we're robin hood this is what we are but when you're the king
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and you have an army or a bunch of sheriffs that come to the doors of the common man demand taxes
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and it all goes to the rich and connected you can't claim to be the good guy you're the reason
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robin hood existed he was fighting you this is a massive slap in the face of every american
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i'm gonna go through some of the stories that uh we're just not gonna have time to hit and and
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honestly in today's show throughout i'm hitting about uh maybe 40 percent of the news that you will
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find in my daily show prep newsletter this is uh i don't think anybody has ever done it to this
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detail before i just it's raw news um and it is what i read every morning what my staff my uh all
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of my producers work on for 21 hours after a show we begin show prepping immediately for the next day
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show and uh about six months ago i just felt that the news was so important and i couldn't get it all
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into the end of the show and you might miss something i hit and you know hour one or hour
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three or whatever so we released it uh after much debate and you can get it now at glenbeck.com it is
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free just sign up for it i'm using about 40 percent of what's in that newsletter today is on the program
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today um but let me just give you some let me just give you some of the highlights because i think today
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for some reason uh after going through all of it i thought this today is different there's something
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different about the news and i haven't been able to put my finger on it it feels like the most important
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news day of my life of my career but i that's not quite right and i don't know what it is but maybe you
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can figure it out let me give you some of the uh stories atlanta police identify a man accused of
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defacing rainbow crosswalks with swastikas so of course they arrested this white nazi oh no he's not
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he has a an account online where he talks openly about killing people and how blacks are the master race
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the vandalism of course when they were it's got to be white nationalists that are doing probably white
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christian nationalists no it wasn't some of his posts make reference to a master race of black people
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other posts are religious in nature he targets jehovah witnesses for portraying biblical figures as white
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um you know he is uh he's he's not a well man but he's also black um biden has announced yesterday
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another three billion dollars in arms for ukraine my research staff is working right now there is
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something very wrong with the money that we're sending over there there's something very wrong and i i think
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old scores are being settled old political scores remember this was the playground of george soros
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of hillary clinton of barack obama of of joe and hunter biden this this was a funnel of money
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that's just been lost we've sent over there and this is you know 10 years ago just lost don't know what happened
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where did i put that 1.8 billion dollars i just can't find it did i leave it in my other suit
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um and i i don't have any evidence now but i have a feeling if you want to start looking up some things
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if you're good at being an investigative mole but i'm telling you something something's really wrong
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there uh the biden administration has now moved to formalize daca to protect 600 000 migrants
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from any kind of legal challenge by the way we're up to 4 million people that have come into the united
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states under his watch um also biden has now moved to fund canadian mines while blocking u.s mining
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that great love that it's good for canada mexican journalist was killed hours after publishing a
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story about local officials involvement in a dis in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014
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these buses filled with these students was found just shot all up we know that they were surrounded by
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police they came in for some reason they just opened fire on these buses and then the bodies were gone
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kids were gone what happened no investigation until this guy starts to question and he publishes
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something online he's killed within a couple of uh hours spotify now this is interesting spotify
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spends how much 100 million dollars on joe rogan wasn't that what it was what it was reported as i
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think it was you know a lot of reports that it was even more than that okay so let's just say it's
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100 million that's a lot of money for a company biggest investment when it comes to podcasting by
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far by far did you know that spotify now as they started looking into this never recommends the joe rogan
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podcast that's like that's like watching abc and they say tonight it's a new episode of your favorite
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show on nbc oh and we're running this stuff too well they're not advertising they are not suggesting it
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washington post a rape survivor a rape survivor
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uh says the washington post falsely ascribed to me the view that the court's decision in dobbs the
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abortion case to open the door of forced sterilizations by removing constitutional protections
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for women's bodily autonomy was false my position is in fact the opposite
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she was raped as a 13 year old girl and then sterilized against her will by the state of north
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what why is that happening i thought we stopped that in the 1920s and 30s by the way so you know
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the germans didn't come up with it we did we taught eugenics to them literally the top eugenicists
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in the in the world were in america and they made a journey over to uh germany to explain to all of the
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very sophisticated german progressive science scientists what could be done through eugenics
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judicial watch a great organization that really if you can help an organization they they are really good
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they just filed a foia lawsuit against the national archives for hiding the records tied to uh
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the raid on trump's home and yet another senseless murder a progressive george soros prosecutor in
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virginia dropped charges against a felon with a history of gun charges now i can guarantee you
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if you're caught on a gun charge or i'm caught on a gun charge they will throw away the key
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but this guy was a felon with a history of gun charges he was let out he was freed by the soros prosecutor
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well he didn't use his time well francis rose shot two innocent bystanders in the head
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while robbing an apartment complex in alexandria virginia by the way alexandria virginia
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used to be a pretty safe place it's right across the potomac river
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from washington dc it used to be a place where you didn't fear for your life
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at some point this is all the gods of the copybook headings
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that the truth will return it has to the question is how much of everything will it burn down
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in our quest to reestablish it because everything we're doing now
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the constitution never foresaw any of this any of this because this this is all insanity
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i mean literally it we have gone insane we will be remembered as the craziest and god please destroy
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destroy us before we can use our technology please destroy us
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um if if we're not careful we will become the darkest nation ever we will go from the the shining
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city on the hill to with our modern technology in the hands of the wrong people
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we'll kill millions hundreds of millions we will make mao look like a rookie
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and i fear that's already happening in some of our policies but they're right now they're not our
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policies they're going to be blamed on america but it is the world economic forum
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and their policies and it's so important for you to know that this is not an american problem
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yes we're dealing with it here but every western country in the world is dealing with it as well
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that's why you see protest and that's why you're not being shown the protests have you ever lived in a
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time where there have been massive protests in europe and you don't see them on the news
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why is that i wonder because they don't want to they don't want you to see what they're facing because
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they're ahead with the farmers they're ahead of us and what the farmers are saying now is none of this
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works you're going to starve all of europe and the world to death if you continue down this
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world because we cannot farm that way they don't want you seeing that you have to actually go
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search for it so do just look up european protests farmers and see the truth of what
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these policies that have now been given power and teeth through the inflation reduction act
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the epa has been given the power the money and the teeth to enforce this now on our farmers
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do you remember this from saturday night live and now send in my little kush ball jared kushner
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jared i've sent you all around the world to represent me but no one's ever heard you speak
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you're like a little jewish amelie you know it's amazing in the time that guy went on to shoot
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somebody on the set and kill him uh alec baldwin which i didn't see coming and also i don't think
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people saw coming the the abrahamic accords jared kushner joins us now uh and his uh his new book
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that is out breaking history a white house memoir hello jared how are you doing great thank you for
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having me and thank you for reminding me of that uh that snl skit that was quite funny i mean they
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really hammered you at one point they put you in little short pants and i don't know about you i
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think you but based on that response feel the same way when they first started mocking me on
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saturday night live i thought wow i've made it somehow or another um even if they're making
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fun of you that's that's great even better um but how everybody said jared kushner how could you
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possibly send him to the middle east we've been trying to crack this code for 80 years now and yet
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you did can you talk a little bit about what you write about in the book about how you crack that
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sure well first of all it it was definitely a challenge that when we got involved it was it
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i don't know maybe they thought i couldn't make it any worse than all the professionals who'd worked
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on it for decades before but uh but but what i did was i went there and i write about this extensively
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in my book uh how my first year was really spent just listening i i was meeting with all the different
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leaders and i was asking them questions which they actually had a hard time processing at first
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because they were so used to not having these questions asked which is america has so much
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power to influence things and we've done some things that actually have made this region much worse
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if you were in my shoes what would you be doing and and finally it got to really interesting
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conversations and i listened to everyone's point of view and i i really realized that peace is about
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the future and that you have to get people to focus on their joint interests let's put everyone on the
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same side of the table and then there were certain patterns that became very clear to me that were
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contrary to what all the conventional wisdom was and there's one example i give in the book where i
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was meeting with one of the great foreign policy uh academics who's well respected and i i laid out
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for him my approach and i said to him well do you think i have a chance of succeeding and he said
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absolutely not and i said why so negative he said jared nobody's made any money betting on success
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in the middle east in the last 25 years so i like that you're bringing new ideas but you just have
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no chance of being successful but ultimately i think by building strong relationships by thinking
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outside the box again i write a lot in this book about uh president trump and my interactions with
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him and my interactions with all the world leaders we took a fresh approach we tried to be empirical we
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tried to be pragmatic we saw things for what they were and again we were ruthlessly criticized for the
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approach we took in the middle east up until it worked so in the book you talk about david freeman
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and he's a bankruptcy lawyer in manhattan and he suggested and you guys decided to use to look at
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the israeli-palestinian conflict like a bankruptcy so um can you explain that and is it that you guys
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were not you know council foreign relations years and years at the state department that you came from
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a business background and had a totally fresh set of eyes so so you have to always look at a situation
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and put yourself in the other people's shoes and try to figure out what are the fulcrum components that
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are driving a situation and so when we look at the situation you know you couldn't equate the israelis
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and the palestinians one was a democracy one was a kleptocracy one had a super powerful military one
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was basically you know just just kind of a it was it was kind of a con job at some point and so we
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saw it for what it was and we weren't trying to be balanced we were trying to be honest and i think
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that that really uh really was was was distorting for a lot of people so we we saw that the whole
00:34:04.000
palestinian situation was uh they got billions of dollars of aid there was it was never conditions
00:34:08.800
based and we basically said like you know u.s foreign aid is not entitlement if we're going to give
00:34:13.200
you this money uh we want to see certain things happen and so we worked very hard over a couple
00:34:18.220
of years to do certain things and again i give president trump tremendous credit for what he did
00:34:22.200
because when he moved the embassy i take people into the situation room and how he had opposition
00:34:26.800
from secretary of state secretary of defense the intel community said world war three would occur
00:34:31.100
and what he basically did was he calibrated uh all the different advice he made a very measured
00:34:37.220
decision decided to go forward with it despite the advice of everyone that it was going to cause war
00:34:42.200
uh he tasked me with reaching out to all the different leaders and saying look you know don't
00:34:45.920
you can't cherry pick your relationship with america we're helping you with iran we're helping
00:34:49.340
you with military we're helping you with economy you know don't don't mess around with this and so
00:34:53.600
he made the decision everyone said the world was going to end and then what happened was the next
00:34:57.800
morning the sun rose the next evening the sun set and life moved on and it was done and the same
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thing happened with the iran deal so president trump was starting to realize that certain variables that
00:35:06.560
people thought were fixed were actually fluid and i give many examples in the book of these
00:35:11.300
interactions and how we moved around all these different uh elements in order to create the
00:35:16.120
opportunity for people to see the israeli-palestinian issue for what it really was and to see that it
00:35:21.180
really was about leadership trying to stay in power so they could maintain the flow of funds that they
00:35:25.900
had and they had no interest in making the lives of their people better i believe that the the job of
00:35:30.600
a leader is number one to keep their people safe and number two to give them an environment where they
00:35:35.240
can have opportunity to better their lives and their children's lives and have hope and and and excitement for the
00:35:40.900
future so and the palestinian leadership was was was not doing that in your book we're talking to
00:35:45.640
jared kushner in his book breaking history a white house memoir um you you talk about one of the things
00:35:53.420
that you were doing was and totally makes sense you united the middle east um because you recognize the
00:36:00.780
common foe was iran and that kind of brought people together and and when your dad or when your father-in-law
00:36:09.940
the president got out of uh the iran uh you know the stupid dangerous iran uh peace deal um that made a
00:36:20.500
difference how much of a role did that play and what does it mean that we are sitting down at the
00:36:29.060
table with iran now so the first deal in 2014 was probably one of the worst transactions ever done
00:36:37.080
it may be in the history of of diplomacy and it just made absolutely no sense iran was on a glide
00:36:42.500
path to a nuclear weapon uh they had gotten 150 billion dollars in funds that were basically now
00:36:48.460
they were using to to fund hezbollah hamas all these different people they were chanting death to
00:36:52.820
america death to israel it made absolutely no sense but what it did is it kind of scared the crap out of
00:36:57.600
all of the arab countries to say okay this is uh this could be that bad and actually when we got there
00:37:03.480
they were starting to rebuild their relationship with china and saying look are we you know when
00:37:07.860
america when did the deal with persia we were thinking we had to teach our kids chinese because
00:37:11.820
america was not dependable anymore and we said wait guys wait wait a minute calm down here these these
00:37:16.920
these relationships that we've had with you guys have been long-standing many many decades
00:37:20.620
you know we we agree that what happened here was terrible but let's figure out a rational policy and we
00:37:25.800
we what we did is we reimposed sanctions on iran we took their um their oil exports down from 2.6
00:37:31.900
million barrels a day to 100 000 uh we really dissected their economy and we we they were
00:37:37.080
out of foreign currency reserves and we stopped and what trump you say about iran is that they never
00:37:41.780
uh won a war but they've never lost a negotiation and so he figured out how to really create a better
00:37:47.000
condition than what we inherited and we really tried to give the incoming administration a much
00:37:51.580
stronger hand which was only buttressed by the fact that we had iraq much more stable than when we
00:37:56.120
got there isis caliphate was was was eliminated and now we had the abraham accord so all the way from
00:38:01.820
haifa our goal is to try to create a place of security from haifa to muskot in in amman and
00:38:07.500
then get economic connectivity between it all to basically show the iranian people that there would
00:38:12.600
be the opportunity for you to live a better life if you join into this so instead of following again
00:38:17.240
we had six peace deals in the last six months i write about how we made those occur uh instead the
00:38:22.880
administration runs and goes back to iran on their knees begging to make the old stupid deal and so
00:38:27.340
it makes no sense to me but again i think that what you'll see in this book is that
00:38:31.240
we came with an outsider's perspective we we tried to bring common sense and again we we really broke
00:38:36.980
the mold on a lot of issues and did things contrary to what people who were the conventional thinkers in
00:38:41.860
washington did and why they did those things for decades before we got there i didn't understand
00:38:46.880
why they're going back to some of these things now that you know we've seen that these policies that
00:38:51.300
that were different are working uh it makes absolutely no sense uh we are going to be short
00:38:57.380
on time so i uh there's so many questions i'd like to ask you for instance uh you know if you would
00:39:04.260
have thrown in bad stuff about president trump you would have made a fortune and the left would have
00:39:11.940
loved you and leave left you alone and you didn't do it congratulations
00:39:18.200
yeah i i've learned that the the the love of the left is something that is uh it's not worth what
00:39:25.320
people think it is i see people contorting themselves and saying certain things that
00:39:29.300
they don't believe or not saying certain things that they believe uh but the left has no loyalty
00:39:33.780
they turn on you in a second and uh i think it's much better to say the truth and and look i i do think
00:39:39.080
that being in the white house i i saw so much information asymmetry in terms of how we recovered what we
00:39:45.220
did uh but again there was two currents in this book that that i tried to capture uh happening at
00:39:50.280
the same time one was that we run to relentless attacks being accused of collusion with russia
00:39:55.120
and treason and then you know we're impeached for for trying to investigate corruption in ukraine and
00:40:00.060
attacked by the media and i tried to show what it was like living through all of that while also
00:40:05.200
getting all these things done right when president trump uh you know in office we had
00:40:09.100
inflation was low gas prices were low wages were rising the wealth gap was shrinking we had peace in
00:40:14.840
europe we had peace with you know with china we were making great deals we had them on their back
00:40:18.660
foot and that didn't all happen by accident and so i tried to take people inside the room and the
00:40:23.840
trade deals the negotiations with president putin the negotiations with with king solomon the
00:40:28.740
negotiations with with president xi and how trump used his unusual style in order to achieve these
00:40:35.420
outcomes and at the end of the day i find a lot of my friends who are on the left they hyperventilate
00:40:39.180
over different things that trump will say or how they they perceive it but i think that results
00:40:45.020
matter and i want people to understand how those results were achieved and it's been very disheartening
00:40:49.840
for me to watch how again you put the government bureaucrats back in charge and inflation is rising we have a
00:40:55.420
war in europe china's you know being provocative with taiwan north korea is firing off weapons i write
00:41:01.180
in here about how trump was able to create the relationship with king john kim jong-un and going to the
00:41:06.560
dmz how he walked into north korea nobody knows how that came about and how it almost didn't happen
00:41:12.540
uh many many times and so i wanted people to really understand how he did the things and why
00:41:17.680
him being the way he is empowered by and working with the right people around him enabled him to
00:41:23.780
accomplish so much um your your book is fascinating and it it i mean it really is a thriller all of the
00:41:32.060
things you just laid out it is it's a thriller um uh let me ask you one thing because there was there's
00:41:39.160
parts of the book that get very very personal and uh one of my favorite parts is when you talk about
00:41:45.820
your grandma and we've only got about two minutes your grandmother was 16 when the nazis invaded poland
00:41:53.420
your family went from ghettos to mansions in three generations which is remarkable can you talk a
00:42:01.360
little bit what your grandmother went through and how that affected you with the abrahamic accords
00:42:07.260
sure uh so my my grandparents were both in uh in belarus and and then the nazis came in my
00:42:14.060
grandmother i write about how in her town they took a 50 of the educated jews they shot them in the head
00:42:19.220
the nazis and then they made the young women uh like my grandmother cleaned the blood off of the stones
00:42:24.400
while they had you know other jews playing instruments to to to celebrate it it was a brutal experience
00:42:29.780
they joined uh the resistance fighters in the woods they were you know out of a town of 10 000 250
00:42:34.540
uh that escaped and then ultimately they got married in hungary they came over to america
00:42:39.280
on a boat i write about how my grandfather went to new jersey he was a carpenter he said he was afraid
00:42:44.260
of heights so he couldn't work in the buildings in brooklyn so they said go to new jersey they have
00:42:47.800
shorter buildings there and uh and it's just an amazing american story and so i try to take people
00:42:52.760
through that very quickly but i'll say that for me you know again i i what i saw working in the white
00:42:58.280
house going from you know the son of refugee the grandson of refugees is that america is an absolute
00:43:04.380
amazing country it's a place with incredible opportunity we have amazing people and what
00:43:09.640
president trump tried to do with the administration was to allow for the american dream to to be
00:43:15.000
prevalent allow for it to be deep to give everyone equal opportunity uh and i think that's what our
00:43:19.660
policies did and for me to be able to work on the abraham accords as a grandchild of holocaust
00:43:24.000
survivors and i talk about my interactions with the germans where i was actually very
00:43:27.780
disappointed with the lack of enthusiasm and the lack of of of of engagement that they had with us
00:43:34.160
given that you know the whole plight that we still have in the middle east i explain how it
00:43:37.860
really is a a remnant of the post-world war ii anti-semitism that existed because of the holocaust
00:43:43.860
and because of the nazis and so i i just think that it was an amazing honor to do it and and i say
00:43:49.240
it is an extraordinary story and i really you know i believe that god has his hand in in everything
00:43:53.940
we do i i'm very very a big believer in that and just very very grateful for all these experiences
00:43:59.280
and again i a lot of it was very difficult i write in the first year about how i had to adjust i was
00:44:04.580
surrounded by a lot of complicated people um but i go through the lessons i learned and i was trying
00:44:09.020
to give people who have never served in washington who who obviously have followed the trump administration
00:44:14.120
who follow politics a real insight into what it's like to serve in washington what it's like to
00:44:18.980
to work in the white house and what it's like to kind of navigate and all the lessons i learned so
00:44:23.700
that hopefully uh businessmen will will continue to go and serve in government so we don't have the
00:44:28.420
career political class that often is trying to keep power as opposed to make people's lives better
00:44:33.460
jared kushner uh the name of the book is breaking history uh if you don't know where have you been he
00:44:40.660
was a former senior advisor to president trump uh and this book is really a thriller to see from the
00:44:48.520
inside what was going on and how they did the things that uh they did by the way you were nominated for
00:44:54.440
a nobel peace prize please tell me you didn't lose it to like greta thurnberg or no i i lost it to a
00:45:02.420
journalist who nobody's ever heard of we did something i guess but i guess i i guess they created more
00:45:07.600
peace than we did yeah yeah it's crazy you know i it's it's you know the the the peace is the prize
00:45:14.060
and i see every day i get you know people send me pictures of israeli fruit being sold in emirati
00:45:18.740
supermarkets or of new flights or of new business deals being done and and really reuniting israelis
00:45:24.400
and and and and muslims it's just jews and muslims in in the middle east it's it's such a beautiful
00:45:29.920
thing and so the dividends from this is paying forever in terms of the positivity that that that it's
00:45:35.040
unleashed well i think it was truly a miracle i agree with you god was in the center of that and
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i can't thank you enough jared kushner author of the book breaking you so much thank you