00:00He's a big majority business leaders. So do you see a role for business leaders as, how can I call
00:07them, informal diplomats in today's fragmented world?
00:12Informal?
00:13Informal diplomats.
00:14I absolutely do. Absolutely. It's funny, we had a lunch today and I was sitting next to Jeff and that's
00:23all he was talking about.
00:24Jeff Bezos.
00:25Yes. How do you give back? How do you take your business ideas and expand them, not to make money
00:32for yourself, but to provide something better for society as a whole?
00:37And I think that, you know, like in my work, people ask me, why do I like doing it? And
00:47I say, because it feels worthy. It feels like we're changing lives.
00:50I remember when we met those families of the Israeli hostages and they were ecstatic because they didn't think their
00:59children were coming home.
01:00But I was also in Gaza and I went, met Gazan families whose children were released from Israeli prisons in
01:08exchange.
01:09And they were just as grateful as the Israeli parents. So I think business is beginning to become very aware
01:18that giving back and participating and those sorts of aspirational goals should be a part of what you do.
01:29That it's the right thing to do. And I think that President Trump thinks like that. That he believes in
01:36that. You know, I say all the time that he doesn't like me calling him a mush because he thinks
01:43that that soft image reduces his leverage.
01:46But he's a very good guy. So, you know, President Trump very well. And despite the fact that my team
01:51is asking me to cut the session, I'm sure that the president is on his way.
01:55I cannot ask you at least one, two last questions. What is his main quality? What is his main quality?
02:05He's a great decision maker. He makes decisions. I'll give you a few qualities. He makes decisions and he's got
02:13an uncanny ability to,
02:16process a lot of data. But in the event that he's wrong, and it's not often I've seen him wrong,
02:22he moves on. That's one quality.
02:26Two, he's totally accessible. I've talked to many people from the Biden administration, bright people, who say to me,
02:35you had an advantage the day you started working for the president. You could see him. But when I say
02:41he's accessible, it's because he wants to hear.
02:43He wants to be a part of the solution. He wants to be a part of the discussion, and he
02:50understands the math.
02:52He takes that whole cost-benefit analysis thing that he was doing his entire successful life in the real estate
03:00business,
03:01and he applies it to these very, very critical world issues. We sit down, his team, me, I'm a part
03:10of it, which I'm blessed for,
03:12and we take him through that. Those meetings can last for hours because he's interested in what that solution is
03:22about.
03:22And he's always breaking it down. It's very impressive to listen to him.
03:26So my last question, Steve. In the world of constant disruption, let's be very frank, which is the new norm
03:35now, and uncertainty.
03:36So what is the one truth that you trust while everything else keeps, I would say, shifting?
03:45What is your compass?
03:50My compass is I work for a man who leads the most important superpower, and he's a good man.
03:59He wants to do good. He wants his legacy to be that he did good.
04:04And I have always trusted in him before he was elected, but watching him operate as the president,
04:13I have tremendous faith and optimism for the world. I really do.
04:19Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Witkoff. Thank you.
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