00:00people they've they've they're not going to give up for any of the remaining bodies you know a lot
00:07of business people entrepreneurs in this audience you've dealt with some of the most complex
00:11negotiations now and dynamics around the world you obviously dealt with complex negotiations in
00:17your business life before that but what did you learn about negotiation and trust and leadership
00:22since being in this job well trust and integrity is everything and and people have to respect you
00:29and believe in you world leaders today respect and trust the United States of America because of
00:36Donald Trump's leadership and that's just a fact thank you he is I don't think they're used to that
00:47I think they were used to people before he was before this election who would say certain things
00:53and not do what they say and he does what he says and it carries a lot of weight in the world
00:59you know the Abraham Accords kind of reshaped obviously parts of the Middle East political
01:05economic landscape from your perspective what's the next frontier for regional collaboration and
01:11what does that look like well look Abraham Accords are big I'm flying back to Washington tonight
01:18because we're going to announce tonight another country coming into the Abraham Accords tonight
01:22yeah
01:22so do you want to you know lift the curtain here or do you want to I have a show at six o'clock
01:29I don't I don't know if it's out yet and and the president constantly says that um you know he
01:36he thinks it's important and you know how I do my job because I do it in this way and I'm not a leaker
01:42okay all right so um well if you can tell me I don't know me before special report that'd be
01:47helpful I I think it's going to be news by like 6 30 tonight okay all right we'll get it on but
01:53bigger picture next frontier you think more things are happening dominoes are falling well look we have
02:00to we're going the the critical piece of Gaza now is implementing I was on the phone before I just got
02:08in with um the Turkish uh foreign minister with Ron Dermer so uh Jared I and a very very very strong
02:17team are very focused on implementation what what you know what what you learned in the when I learned
02:23in the real estate business is just because you bought the deal didn't mean you were going to make
02:26any money from it and so you really had to be focused on the execution what the what the exit plan
02:34was and execute correctly and that's what we're doing in Gaza and I think if we hold it together
02:39then we'll have even more credibility around the world and I'm very confident we will hold it
02:44together and we will complete the mission I also think that what we're trying to do in Gaza with the
02:49CMCC where we're bringing a lot of countries together consensually to work with one another
02:54that is the paradigm or the model for what will happen in Ukraine Russia when we settle that and we
03:02we will settle it and I think that'll probably that's probably the most important one to settle
03:06next yeah um let me just finish with Gaza you know for some people who look at it and say
03:14it's stuck in second gear and it's not moving forward I know you see things that we don't see
03:21the thought was that these Gulf nations perhaps other Arab countries were going to put forces in and
03:27then Hamas would disarm eventually you're saying it is step by step moving that way well first of
03:35all Hamas has always indicated that they would disarm they've said so they've said it to us directly in
03:40that famous meeting that Jared had with them and so I I hope that they keep their word because I think if
03:47they do they'll understand that the development plan that we have for Gaza is really terrific a lot better
03:54than everyone and anyone has ever discussed before how we're going to finance it aspirational upside for
04:00the people to be a part of it tremendous jobs program so I think as people begin to see what
04:09we're going to do there I think they're going to going to be very very bought in but that said
04:14and in you know just to explain Hamas's position we we are right in the middle of standing up a d a
04:24decommissioning process of weapons a demilitarization an amnesty program and Hamas has always said that
04:31we're going to going to need the international security force to come in here and be the layer who
04:36they give the weapons to and we haven't finished that yet that hopefully finishes in the next three weeks
04:42and we think that'll be the opportunity that'll be the inflection point where we see if everyone's
04:47going to do as they say they're going to do and demilitarize and we may even get a look by the way
04:54and you know in a microcosm sort of way we may see the model of what we're trying to do here or what
05:00we intend to do here with these 200 fighters who are trapped in Rafa and whether they're going to be
05:08able to raise their hands walk out turn over their weapons and so this will be this will be one of
05:13the tests you talk about Russia Ukraine you talked about trust and leadership it seems like people
05:21looking from the outside and maybe on the inside don't really believe they could trust Russian
05:28President Vladimir Putin you suggest that it is moving forward what would you say to this well I
05:34mean he's never I I've met with him six times and and they were I mean I don't know that there was a
05:42meeting less than four hours that they in some some meetings were as long as five hours and I think
05:49it's a tough struggle I think we we have a lot of work to do with regard to security protocols for
05:55Ukraine there's a lot of discussion that technical teams have to have have happened but at the lower
06:02level before the leaders can get to a deal but I sense that there's some break there's some progress
06:08today and but I think it's a tough conflict I think that both sides don't trust each other and that's a
06:15really difficult place to be it's the same it's the same issues we had in Israel Hamas thinks that the
06:20Israel Israel will not keep its word and Israel feels that Hamas will not keep its word and we had some
06:27very you know straightforward blunt conversations with both sides about needing to take the chance
06:33and I am hopeful that in the Russia Ukraine conflict people will make bold leadership decisions and take
06:40that chance what surprised you most about working in government compared to the private sector God I
06:49I think I think the private sector was a setup for me it really was and New York's a tough place and it's
06:57certainly a tough place to crack into but we managed to do it and it was all about hard work I don't know I
07:05don't remember I don't think I took a vacation in the first three or four years of my professional life like you
07:11you couldn't find people today who would who would tell you that so I think it's about a lot of hard work and
07:18I'm working for a man Brett as you know who has this obsessive indomitable streak nothing satisfies satisfies
07:29him after you've told him that you've made the deal and I don't mean that he's not grateful for it he wants to
07:36push on and get the next one done that's who he is he just wants to make the world a better place and
07:42it is this constant drive to do that I remember when we called the president we said we had a deal
07:48Jared and I we had a deal in Gaza and he said that's wonderful how we doing in Russia
07:53and I think that's who you want the commander-in-chief and I think that's who you want the commander-in-chief and I'm
08:06holding on a lot of fear and I thought the commander-in-chief is one of the biggest things that we
08:09could take happen and they don't know the commander-in-chief and I think that's the
08:11first time we have the commander-in-chief that we should go there and have a deal
08:13that's what we get because you have to do and we take the commander-in-chief from the
08:18what he wants to do and you're trying to do with the commander-in-chief of the commander-in-chief
08:20so let's do this to do and I think that's what I want to do for somebody to be
08:22a good buddy for you and I think that's who you want to do it
08:25right, we have to do with your boss'rifice, so let's say that we're
08:27not just how we do it. We'll need it to tell you. We just wanna do that around
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