piece in the middle right yeah it is
hear from somebody who attended
yesterday and Jared Kushner was the one
engineering this as senior adviser to
president Trump and son-in-law the Jared
welcome to welcome to this show but
yesterday was your show how would you
rate how this plan was accepted or not
accepted what was the feeling in the
room
absolutely well the feeling in the room
was thrilled I think what we saw
yesterday was Israel take a giant step
towards peace and it was an
accomplishment that only President Trump
could have delivered on president Trump
has built the trust of the Israeli
people he's gotten them to spend the
time sit down go through a detailed
proposal if you look at the original
proposal the Arab Peace Initiative that
was an eight line proposal it was a
good-faith proposal pass proposals have
been two to three pages this is an over
80 page proposal with a matte never been
done before and getting Israel to agree
to a Palestinian state and also agreeing
to a map is an amazing first step that
will make us be more closer to peace in
the near future Jared what's in this
proposal so basically it's a very
technical proposal that gives the
Palestinian people the ability to live a
better life it takes the the land which
is very complicated because this issues
been ignored for so many years and
Israel's expanded more and more which
made it harder and harder for the
Palestinians to have a place that they
could have a state it doubles the
territory that they have the ability to
have and it gives them a lot of economic
incentives if they're willing to change
their governance structures you need to
have freedom of press you need to have
respect for human rights
you need to have credible institutions
that could run a state so this gives
them a pathway to really achieve
everything that they've always spoken
about and hopefully once they go through
it they'll have the courage to do what
they've done but again the Palestinian
track record is perfect and not being
able to make a deal but this opportunity
is is available only because of
president Trump's leadership and I know
you have been working on this for the
last three years Jared and yesterday was
the first step as you put it but the
Palestinians have already walked away
that you know they're rejecting a flat
out during the last three years has
err reluctance to sign on board been
like this the whole three years or was
it at the last minute they go and now
not what we want no look they said that
before they even saw what's in it I
think it was much better than they
expected it's gotten a lot of regional
support like I said before these people
have been professional at not finishing
or making deals and what they don't like
is that we're not gonna do it the same
way that it's been done before but the
way that it's been done before has
failed so president Trump has been
taking a new approach and again what
we're seeing with them is that if they
want to get to a conclusion they have to
act like people who are ready for a
state and they're proving through their
reaction that they're not ready to have
a state yeah they're delivering lunch
for later and that is finally they're
hopeful they can unload that truck they
have it down there yeah as a condition
of statehood Jared the Palestinian
leaders must recognize Israel as a
Jewish state that's a tough one
renounced terrorism disarmed militant
groups and halt payments to families of
Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails
for the families of Palestinians killed
during military activity they say well
this is part of our social programs when
people leave someone so that's going to
be tough to do they have to tell Hamas
release your control of Gaza that's
gonna be extremely tough who is going to
convince them to release control look
you're not going to change people's
minds overnight but what this does is it
puts out a framework the most important
part that this does is if you think
about what's America's interest in this
plan America is focused on
counterterrorism and counter extremism
the president was able to defeat the
Isis Caliphate he's rolling back Iran's
aggression they're the largest state
sponsor of terrorism in the world since
he's done what he's done the amount of
money going to terrorists has
dramatically decreased but the issue of
Jerusalem and the mosque and Muslims not
being able to visit there and the
feeling that the mosque is under attack
is something that's been used by
jihadists and radical clerics to
radicalize the Muslim youth throughout
the region so what this does is it very
strongly gets Israel to affirm that
they're going to respect Jordans whole
place and the way that they are with the
mosque and the holy sites and it allows
all Muslims from throughout the world to
come and visit the mosque and pray there
so if the mosque is safe and Muslims can
come pray this should dramatically
reduce tension and hopefully lead to
fewer
radicalization unless extremism and less
threats to America Jared I'm just
curious I was thinking about this
yesterday and this morning because I
know you married Ivanka she converted to
Judaism and you grew up in this area
where there are a lot of Jews and this
is an issue that matters extry you know
it's very important to a lot of our
friends that live in this area when you
were raised in this Jewish family you
marry the daughter of the president
United States and then you are taking
part in this changing our our country
their country our entire world what does
this mean to you on a personal level
well every day I have the honor of
working in the White House for this
president and it's not just on this
issue it's on all issues today we're
gonna sign the u.s. MCA the largest
trade deal in the history of the world
which I had the honor of working on with
ambassador light Heiser a couple weeks
ago we signed the trade deal with China
every day president Trump is making this
country better he's brought a business
mans approach to Washington he's a
pragmatist he's getting things done the
people in Washington may not like it
that he's making them do work and he's
making things happen that people have
spoken about for many years before but
couldn't deliver on but it's an honor to
serve this country America is by far the
greatest country in the world and I have
to tell you that the president myself
the whole team we see so much potential
for this country and we will continue to
work hard to continue to make it better
and stronger and yesterday was just a
great example of one of the most
impossible deals in the history of the
world the israeli-palestinian conflict
most politicians are too scared to try
President Trump is going to try to solve
every hard problem that he believes can
make our country better and make the
world safer well you were involved with
criminal justice and us MCA and now the
Middle East peace you ever get a day off
Jared yeah I'll have plenty of days off
when I stop my government service it's
an honor I've done this now for three
years I worked for a year on the
campaign so it's been four years but to
be honest the gratification that it is
of serving the country meeting so many
people who are so passionate about the
president you saw the president's rally
last night the intensity and support for
what he's doing is unbelievable people
feel like he's giving them their country
back he's making the changes they've
want to see forever and so I'll have
plenty of time to relax and enjoy life
when this is over yeah hopefully they'll
pick up this opportunity Saudi Arabia
Egypt
and could provide the pressure to bring
the Palestinians to the table and give
your plan a real shot hey so so if the
president is re-elected will you
continue your government service you're
gonna say I've done enough so again you
know we've been volunteers here we left
our our businesses and our lives to do
this but again there's so many more
things to do and I think that this
administration continues to get better
and better the president he's cycled out
a lot of the bad people he has so many
amazing people serving in government now
it's an honor to serve with all of them
and I just think that we're getting a
lot of things done and in the next term
I think there's even more things that
the president will be able to get done
the bad people who are the best people
you cycle out we've got I think let's
focus on the people who are here who are
doing who are doing great jobs but again
the president is he's never did
government before and he's done an
unbelievable job he's delivered more in
the first three years than any president
in history and you see the results the
economy has never been stronger he's
created 7 million jobs taking millions
of people out of food out of poverty
taking people off of food stamps giving
people the opportunity to live the
American dream and really the best is
yet to come
going forward with this with this Middle
East peace plan obviously you have
opposition from the Palestinians what's
the next step to try to get them on
board so you can we can't want peace
more than the Palestinians want to have
peace but they've been playing the
victim hood card for 25 years and so for
the first time they have an offer on the
table thanks to president Trump's
leadership to have a state to have a 50
billion dollar economic plan that would
be funded by the global community people
are willing to do it but in order to do
that they need to be free of terror they
can nobody's going to come and invest
and create jobs if they feel like
there's gonna be terror attacks and if
there's no governance structure where
there's a fair judiciary and freedom so
it's really now the balls in their court
if they want to approach it we'll deal
with it if not we've got plenty of other
things to deal with here we're very busy
and and we'll work on the other things
but if they want to come and make peace
then we're ready if not no other
president could get this done other than
President Trump you got them the best
offer they've ever had and again it's
going to be up to them if they want
peace they know where to call us yeah we
have to run so to you but just real
quick how disappointed are you and John
Bolton's book I have not seen the book I
don't know what's in it but what I can
say right now is that
whole impeachment you know charade
that's been going on for a couple months
it's just a big distraction the
country's doing great we're focused on
doing the work for the American people
I find that everyone leaves writes books
about what a hero they were how they
knew better but the reality is is that
the president's the one who's been
running this White House running this
government and getting things done and
all the people who are doing the real
work they're not writing books because
they're too busy working right now so
they're here working everyday and and
really doing a great job to bring all
these historic reforms to this country
Jared our people at the White House
freaked out that they might have to go
to a witness phase in the Senate I think
it would be unfortunate because it's
just going to take more time again the
American people don't want Congress
focusing on this on this this hoax that
they've been putting on but the reality
is is that if they end up going to a
witness phase the you know the
president's done nothing wrong that will
further be proven but will you what you
will find is what was the whistleblower
doing what were the Biden's up to
there's a lot of dirty things that have
been happening for a long time and a
witness phase will give the American
people the opportunity to learn about
that but even with that being said it's
just that it's a waste of time you know
we should be working on more criminal
justice reform Opportunity Zones tax
reform all the great things that the
president's been able to accomplish that
nobody was ever alert ever able to
accomplish for it we want to immigration
reform we want to do infrastructure
that's what we should be spending our
time on not on this silliness
description drugs as well which is I
hear both sides almost agree on use
can't even bring it up because they have
to sit there and eat candy and drink
milk Jared thanks so much appreciate it
thank you it's an honor to be with you
guys all right hopefully it's not going
to be so infrequent like thank you