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The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Takes Us Back to February 2020...
"Back in February of 2020, just about three years ago. Three years ago, boy, I remember where I was and Andrew and I were reminiscing. On a moment in time, I could write a essay, if not a short book on what could be called the last supper of Mar-a-Lago. You could actually dig up the exact date. I do remember it was late February and early March. We are on tour for my book, the maga doctrine, New York Times Best Seller, almost New York Times number one. We got so close. Amazon number one bestseller. We were traveling the country, having a great time. We were doing events all across Florida. We were doing events at Liberty University. And the news of COVID started to bubble up more and more and more. We didn't really know what to make of it. The hypochondriacs in our life were really freaking out and people were saying, oh, it's nothing is just a coal is just a flu we've been through this before. And we were concluding our book tour at Mar-a-Lago. What better place to conclude a book tour on the maga doctrine than at Mar-a-Lago? And when we get there, it was as if it was a Great Gatsby party. The energy was off the charts and there was 5 or 6 different high stakes things happening simultaneously. When we came into Mar-a-Lago, president Trump was literally meeting with jair Bolsonaro talking about big trade deals and negotiating partnerships, Mike Pence was there meeting with some people. Jared Kushner and Ivanka are meeting with some people. Tucker Carlson was there just to go meet with Donald Trump to warn him about COVID. Kimberly Guilfoyle's birthday party was happening. And then we were there. It was, it was a circus, but in a good way. And the energy was off the charts the attitude. That night in late February, 2020 was that Trump could not lose. There was nothing that could happen. The economy was roaring, morale was up. We were going to run up against this Biden guy. It was a joke. There was an aura of invincibility. The election was 8 or 9 months out. There was almost an attitude of what are they going to throw at the bulletproof Teflon Trump now? And yet there was that little whisper of what's this virus? What's this, what's this thing? And it was very interesting when Pence left the evening early and he didn't seem too happy. Pence left and remember Pence was tasked with looking into the virus and was actually in charge of the virus response and he kind of left and you could read something into it, but did he know something about it? Maybe maybe not. All while this was happening. Donald Trump and his administration did not know. That Anthony Fauci was working in the shadows to cover up the origins of this virus.
Mark Levin
Special Counsel Subpoenas Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
"Know Ivanka And Jared Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner They've been subpoenaed to testify In front of the rogue phony special counsel in Washington D.C. Jack the Ripper Smith Now Jack the Ripper Smith is subpoenaing anything that moves including things that don't move actually Because he's not interested in doing justice he's trying to seek and destroy and I've explained about this man's past in the recent past I was overturned by the Supreme Court in an 8 to zero ruling because he was way over zealous in his prosecution of bob McDonald the former Republican governor of Virginia I explained how he lost a jury trial In the John Edwards case with his girlfriend or pregnancy how they used money raised by donors to put her up in an apartment and take care of her and this guy Jack the Ripper Smith concluded that that violated the election laws and of course Edwards one of his defenses was I relied on the election law people Giving me advice the experts the lawyers And so Jack the Ripper lost that one too So they sent him off to The Hague They figured he'd be more comfortable hanging around genocidal mass murders And prosecuting them So the attorney general of the United States meritless Garland he decided that would be the perfect guide who the point is a special counsel to go after Trump And now what the guy's done He's tried to violate a privilege that goes back to at least the Roman Empire probably before the attorney client privilege Hence due process under our Bill of rights and our constitutional system
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Ivanka Trump Does Not 'Plan to Be Involved in Politics'
"I'm continuing my discussion of Trump's big announcement, but I also want in this segment to broaden the discussion to look at sort of a post mortem of what happened in the recent midterms. Now, a couple of details with regard to Trump, the first thing is I saw a very interesting statement by Ivanka Trump, basically saying I'm stepping away from politics. Now she didn't clearly say that she was doing this along with her husband, Jared Kushner. She says, quote, I'm choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating. And so I think what she's trying to say is that I'm not going to be appearing on campaign rallies with my dad. And I'm also going to stay away if Trump is reelected from the Trump administration. And to the degree that she means herself and her husband, Jared Kushner, I think this is a good thing for them, but it's also a very good thing for Trump. It's a good thing for Trump because it's always complicated where when you have a close family that are anchored in a position of great authority and power and trust in The White House. Everybody else doesn't know how to navigate with regard to them. Of course, they are trusted. But on the other hand, they're not necessarily experienced now Jared Kushner in some ways did bring some experience. He was very well connected in the Middle East. And his impact, I think in some ways was positive because he helped a broker important deals, the move of the embassy to Jerusalem, the Abraham accords where Arab countries made a pact with Israel that would have seemed unimaginable. In fact, people like John Kerry said it's ridiculous. You can't get this kind of agreement without the Palestinians and Trump sort of made it look easy. So I'm not implying that Jared Kushner didn't do anything, but I also think that what happens very often for a business guy like Kushner is he tends to look at The White House as a way of kind of making connections.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Hal Sparks: Donald Trump Will Never Be President Again
"How many trees do you get before you actually go to jail? So Bannon, they just the government has said, you know, suggested 6 months in prison. He was part. I mean, it's just been this wheel of right did they get pardoned, they get out they commit the next crime treason. They're spoke missing from that wheel now. Trump is no longer in there to actually give them a pardon and he shan't ever, ever, ever, ever. I'm here to tell you Donald Trump will never be president again. Thank you. Stop it, full stop. Everybody calm down, not gonna happen, never, not ever. The only thing I've ever agreed with Paul Ryan on is that Donald Trump and I'm sure you've seen the Roger Stone. Well, we're gaming in the phone. I was just going to get to this because, you know. Yes, let's do it. Well, please. Here we go. Jared Kushner has an IQ of 70. He's coming to Miami. We will object him from Miami very quickly. He'll be leaving very quick, very quickly. Very quickly. He has a hundred security guards. I'll have 5000 security guards. You want to fight? Let's fight. Thank you. You and your abortion is bitch daughter. Oh. Oh, oh. Oh. Oh, oh. Oh yeah. Fight, fight, fight, big bag of rats. Oh, and you left out the part where he said Trump will get oh, oh my God, hang on. Yeah, yeah, here we go. Okay. I'm done with this pressure. I'm going to go public supporting impeachment. I have no choice. He has to go. He has to go. Run again. You'll get your brains beat in. Oh, my. Speed it. Like, come on, that guy, then Roger Stone is one of your, like, in case of criminology break glass kind of associates. He's one of these people who you keep on standby if you want to go scummy than even the scummy people around you will invest in.
The Suburban Women Problem
"kushner" Discussed on The Suburban Women Problem
"Continuing with our weekly countdown, the midterm elections are now only 8 weeks away. Oh my gosh. I looked it up this time. Size of a cabbage. We're size of a cabbage right now. If this was our election pregnancy, we're like Benjamin button, though, because we're getting smaller. I know exactly that's because they were doing it backwards. So we're down to the sides of a cabbage at 8 weeks. Women have been registering to vote in record numbers, but there is still so much work to be done. You can sign up for our great troublemaker turnout by going to red wine dot blue. The people that were running against are so dangerous. And so many of them don't even have real policy positions just fear and misinformation. They're essentially trolls, which I talk about on my interview with salon writer Amanda marcotte. Author of troll nation. And before that, we'll be joined by Lindsay mahaffey and Christine Kushner to school board members in North Carolina. They've been dealing with their own trolls facing name calling and threats, same playbook as always. We're so lucky to have women like Lindsey and Christine standing up for our kids. Okay, well, before we get to that, Jasmine, you're traveling right now. So you're super dedicated to join us as we're in this downhill stretch towards the midterms. How's your trip going? It's probably kind of hard to juggle your campaigning plus travel. I mean, this is amazing. Yes. So the thing about running as an incumbent is when you run as an incumbent that means that you're still a legislator so that means you still have legislative duties and the legislative work to do. So I am joining you all. It's the middle of the night where I am and also every now and then there might be some background noise because I'm traveling. Just wanted all to know that I'm dedicated to all of this and dedicated to the podcast. And I just, you know, I love talking to y'all every week. Yeah. So last weekend, I had a phone call with someone who was considering making an ad in a race. A close race. But what I keep thinking about it is the fact that there are bullies and trolls out there who are, they have had an impact, guys. They have gotten into people's head and as my husband said into their decisions cycle. I've thought about her just the weight of that on her shoulders. No election is going to be one or last by one person making an ad.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kushner" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Well, very good. In closing Jared, I want to ask you, you know, I defend you and I defend all that your team did. But you know you're the recipient of some smears on the right and people that just tend to focus on you. What's your response to that just specifically or generally or broadly as you do this work as it must be frustrating to kind of get it from the right, but also from the left, and you know, I tell people, I said, look, unless you were in The White House and you could actually see how things were done. I was in the office with Jared and Avi, and they were doing calls about how to build the border wall. But how to get it done. How to use any sort of military funding. And I can't remember the details of it. I was like, that's who was in charge of that. So do you have any response to that, Jared of any kind of the smears that sometimes come at you or towards you, especially now that the book is out? Yeah, I would just encourage people. You know, if you want to, if you want to judge me, then now I've given you my story. You can judge me and say what I say what I'm not for. But what I would say is again, when I got to Washington, I was very ill equipped to understand the positioning and how people position themselves. And so I basically just went and I tried to get things done. And so again, I was very, very lucky that president Trump gave me the opportunity that he did to work them on campaign. And then to work in The White House and all the different files and again, there were some files that I wanted to work on, like prison reform, the two were very helpful in doing, which was tremendous. Then there were some files that I was given because no one else Bannon and Kelly weren't getting it done by building the wall. And so, you know, I think that I am who I am. I don't apologize for who I am. I'm very proud of things I've done. It's been an absolutely amazing journey, but I think now for the first time, I didn't do a lot of talking. So other people were defining me and often based on not full information. So now I've put my book out and I do interviews and people can form their own opinion and see what it is. But throughout the four years, I think I served the country well. I served president Trump well. And very, very proud of the different accomplishments I was able to play a role in whether it was getting the trade deals done with master lighthizer, whether it was getting the border wall built with Mark Morgan and Chad wolf and general seminary and everybody else or whether it was working on operation warp speed to get the vaccine done in record time, but lots of slaoui and Gus perna, whether it was working on the Abraham accords with Aldi and Robert O'Brien, secretary Pompeo and then we spent tape on others. So very, very proud of the work that we did and I just hope that others learn from what was to happen to the Trump administration. I think the media tries to paint it different than it was. They try to make it seem like every day was January 6th, but the reality was, is that the results were phenomenal, a lot of great things happened. And I do think history will want to study how that occurred. And that was because there were outside of is going to Washington focused on results and doing it in a different way than had been done previously. By the book and judge for yourself everybody, breaking history of White House memoir by Jared Kushner and Jared, I loved working with you on some projects here and there. It was fun and you were always really great to turning point to me and I thank you for that. And we'll see what the future holds. Everyone check out a copy, break in history, a White House memoir by Jared Kushner. Jared, thanks so much. Thank you. And Charlie, if I could just close by saying that it was very easy to be good to you and to turning point because you guys always made things very easy for us. Captain to so many talented young people and every time we wanted to get something done, you guys were just absolutely phenomenal partners to work with. So as much as we were enabling you to do many things, you were making our job a lot easier and that was what a great partnership was about. So very grateful for all the great contributions that you and your organization have made. Thank you. Well, thank you, Jared and we'll see what the future holds. Thanks so much, Derek. Talk to you soon. Thank you. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email me your thoughts is always freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Thanks so much for listening. God bless. For more, on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kushner" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And then on impeachment and all of that, I want to ask you though, you know, what is the future for you and you think the future of the maga movement and president Trump? I mean, there's a lot of whispers of whether Trump's going to run again. This is quite an amazing portfolio of accomplishments, but as you all know, that's only one term. What do you think the future is in store for you? So let me talk about the maga movement first because I do think that, again, I was somebody from New York who's probably center left to was in an echo chamber of people with the heads of media, heads of bash in, had some technology, has a finance. And I thought I was with the worldly crew. And then I write in the book about my personal journey of traveling with Trump throughout the country going to Springfield Illinois with him to a rally of 15,000 people. And the manager says, congratulations, sir. You just broke Elton John's 36 year record beforehand Trump turns me and says, well, see, I don't even have a guitar or a badge and if I had a guitar and I learned that the issues were much different than people thought. And I think that what Trump did on policy was some of the most unbelievable pro American policy. I never thought of him as left or right. I thought of him as a pragmatist, primarily. And a lot of his policies really resonated with me in that regard. So I think what you've seen after him is he's not only inspired a lot of business people to come to Washington. We had a lot in our administration who were phenomenally capable and phenomenally competent and low ego. What he also did is now a lot of people are taking his policies and building them out. And I think that that's becoming the heart and soul of what's a new Republican Party. And so you saw that we grew more diverse and I picked up more votes in 2020 than at any time before. And I do think that it's a growing party. And if they focus on the policies and they do the right things, I think it will continue to grow. So that to me is tremendously gratifying, like I said, I'm very long, our country. I think we have tremendous potential with the right leadership and the right policy, unfortunately, that's not what's being implemented now. But it's very doable and people do it. So I think the maga movement is really just early on. I think Trump's also they've got a whole new breed of politicians who have learned how to fight back and have learned how to operate like him. And so I think you're going to see a big difference in that regard. For me, though, look, I never thought I would be in politics. I kind of write about my journey getting there. It was a thrilling journey. It's an action book. I mean, the book reads very fast. I tried to give people the intensity of what it was like to vote constantly dealing with a lot of complicated people and investigations, but also struggling to figure out how to navigate new terrain and new job and trying to get things done. And then how we got things done. So I hope that what my book does is both inspiring people from the private sector to come into politics and then also helps them learn how to avoid some of the mistakes that I made, which I think I'm pretty honest about in the book. And hopefully accomplish even more than I did much faster and with less pain than that I did it. So right now I'm loving the time with my children and love and being in the private sector and loving just being in a free state of Florida and so I think that that's really where my head's at right now, but it was absolutely incredible experience. And I felt like it was very important to put it all down and leave the book behind for others to share that experience..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kushner" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Obviously, president Trump and my team obviously working with secretary Pompeo, Robert O'Brien, David Friedman, ambassador occulta, ambassador Fisher. And everyone and you somehow taiba and just everyone coming together and at the right being in the right place, the right time. Trusting each other vascular derma working through a lot of complicated issues and then finding a way to make it happen and we kept it quiet. We kept it secret and it really shocked everybody and has just changed the world. And I'll just say one final thing. I'm sorry to give you such a long answer on this, but what it's done is the Abraham accords is opened up a channel now between Israel, the Arab countries, which allows Muslims to finally go and visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque and counter the narrative that's been used for 75 years that Israel is against them. And so what it's doing is it's lessening the tension against Israel and further isolating Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah and the groups that are basically looking for destruction. And the modern Middle East is about all these countries now saying our primary goal is to create security for our people and then give them economic opportunities that they can live better lives. So it's a real changing point in the Middle East, which is a changing point in the world. We think about the last decades, how much blood and treasure has been spent in the Middle East. And unfortunately, I think that that's in the past. But now the future is incredibly bright. And this is a major major turning point. And president Trump and his diplomacy in the Middle East changed the world. And so that was really one of the primary reasons I wrote the book was to document all this for history and give readers an inside account as to how it happened because I joke it happened on plan C but only because we went through the alphabet three times with different approaches that failed that we've had learned from in order for that to occur. Is there any fear you have Jared that this administration might reverse some of these gains? I mean, there's a pending nuclear deal with Iran potentially, do you have any fears that all the progress that you guys made could be upended? So initially I was very nervous, right? They were very young deals. We had 6 piece deals in the last 6 months. And then we had a lot more ready to go. I actually laid them out for the coming administration, how I would approach it. I think they were very close to getting a deal with Israel and Saudi. Instead they chose to go back to the old policy of running to Iran and getting on their knees and begging for a deal, which has been really counterproductive. And they wouldn't call the agreements by their name for the first year of the Abraham accords and then finally after a year they did. And then finally after a year and a half, they went to Saudi Arabia and recognized that they've been a partner of America for 8 years and a very strong ally and a country that they have to work with if they want to keep the region stable and keep oil prices globally Jack and so they're getting better in terms of what they're doing. I do hope they can embrace it any time and I think it would make a big difference. The good news is that they've endured despite that. I think they're doing quite well. I mean, every day you read about new business deals between the different countries or flights that are being opened, they see things on social media of Jews and Muslims coming together for dinner or prayers or celebrations. And so that's something that wouldn't have happened beforehand. So they're doing really well. And again, I really hope that they don't make another stupid deal with Iran, but what's happening now is you have a block of stability in the region that's come together because of the Abraham accords that I think would allow the region to work through even a bad deal, but I think it's just putting unnecessary pressure on the region that's just had two decades of bad luck and it's finally has a lot of wind at its back. I think they should focus on what works instead of going to a dozen work. Yeah, and I'm very worried about this potential ran deal..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kushner" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Will say Jared, I think, in the debates, president Trump, he didn't focus on the Abraham accords nearly enough. I just, that was my one personal piece of feedback. I remember saying that on our show and tweeting it out because there's Joe Biden rambling about how Donald Trump is going to bring us into a war or something. Wait a second, we just brokered peace against Israel with Israel and the UAE, just take some time, Jerry to talk first about the how politicians said how impossible this was. And then what was accomplished and how you got it done. I mean, from a layman's perspective of my own, it looks as if pressuring Iran and making a consensus against Iran played a role in that, but it's probably far deeper than that. Walk us through all that, please. Sure. Well, I think the big underlying lesson all this is you have to be very careful about trusting what the media says or what experts say, right? So all the experts in the media, first they were saying that if Donald Trump was elected, we'd be in World War three. And I really show in the book how he was very thoughtful and deliberate. A lot of high stakes situations that ultimately led to peace and no new wars in the first president in many years that in many decades that didn't bring new wars to the world. But the second thing was, is that the conventional thinking was said by John Kerry when he was leaving in 2016 where he said the plan to be very clear, there will be no peace between Israel and the Arab countries until we have peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. And I actually accepted that to be true because how did I know? And I spent my first year really talking to people. And I trained the book to take people through my journey of listening. I think that was a very important component. I write about leading with meeting with one of the leaders in the Middle East where he said, you know, usually the U.S. sends one of three types of people to see the first are people who come and fall asleep in meetings. The second are people who come and basically read me talking points and have no ability to interact. And then the third are people who come and try to convince me to do things that aren't in my interest or my country's interests and you're the first person to come and really ask me questions on what I think the right end state should be and probing me on different ways to try to get there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jared Kushner on Brokering Peace in the Middle East
"Will say Jared, I think, in the debates, president Trump, he didn't focus on the Abraham accords nearly enough. I just, that was my one personal piece of feedback. I remember saying that on our show and tweeting it out because there's Joe Biden rambling about how Donald Trump is going to bring us into a war or something. Wait a second, we just brokered peace against Israel with Israel and the UAE, just take some time, Jerry to talk first about the how politicians said how impossible this was. And then what was accomplished and how you got it done. I mean, from a layman's perspective of my own, it looks as if pressuring Iran and making a consensus against Iran played a role in that, but it's probably far deeper than that. Walk us through all that, please. Sure. Well, I think the big underlying lesson all this is you have to be very careful about trusting what the media says or what experts say, right? So all the experts in the media, first they were saying that if Donald Trump was elected, we'd be in World War three. And I really show in the book how he was very thoughtful and deliberate. A lot of high stakes situations that ultimately led to peace and no new wars in the first president in many years that in many decades that didn't bring new wars to the world. But the second thing was, is that the conventional thinking was said by John Kerry when he was leaving in 2016 where he said the plan to be very clear, there will be no peace between Israel and the Arab countries until we have peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. And I actually accepted that to be true because how did I know? And I spent my first year really talking to people. And I trained the book to take people through my journey of listening. I think that was a very important component. I write about leading with meeting with one of the leaders in the Middle East where he said, you know, usually the U.S. sends one of three types of people to see the first are people who come and fall asleep in meetings. The second are people who come and basically read me talking points and have no ability to interact. And then the third are people who come and try to convince me to do things that aren't in my interest or my country's interests and you're the first person to come and really ask me questions on what I think the right end state should be and probing me on different ways to try to get there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
'Breaking History: A White House Memoir' With Jared Kushner
"The book here on Trump's decision making style. Trump has a habit of seeking information and opinions from people whose views are often overlooked. As a builder, he would visit construction sites and ask the frontline workers for their input on serious design questions. Three rules of Trump, the first of many media crises taught me what I later called the three rules of Trump. Number one, controversy, elevates message. Number two, when you're right, fight and number three never apologize. Elaborate a little on that Jared. Yeah, so there's two different points there. And one of the reasons I wrote this book was because it was kind of man-made for me to see all these people become experts on Donald Trump, whereas I felt like the truth was always hiding in plain sight. And he is who he is. He's been the same person for he wouldn't like me to say his age, but for all those years. And he was the same guy who was on the TV shows, the same guy was building casinos, the same guy who was writing books. And the same guy that now the people who hate, you know, love just a decade before before he got into politics as a Republican. And so I really wanted people to see what it was like being with him in the broom, how he contemplated a lot of these decisions that ultimately achieved these results, right? Because there's two cross cards in my book, which are really represent the two crosscurrents of the four years under Trump, on the one hand, you had, I think, pretty unparalleled assaults, whether it was from the media, through special counsels, congressional investigations through impeachment. I write about all those the false Russia allegations after two years and $35 million turned out to be proven untrue and what it was like to personally accuse the treason and have people saying that things were going to go wrong and what it did to the work environment inside The White House. But at the same time, you had all these incredible policy successes, whether it was peace deals, how we worked very well with China, we worked very well with Russia and their complicated circumstances, what we did to strengthen the relationship with Israel, work in the Middle East, how we cut trade deals with Japan, South Korea, all these different instances. So he's a very, very successful president. He increased that metabolism of government. He was a businessman who wasn't a politician. So he was focused on results and sometimes the process got very messy to get there. And
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jared Kushner: 'For President Trump, It's Very Frustrating to Watch'
"Just hearing you talk here, Jared, it just brings me back to feels like you're talking about 20 years ago. I mean, just that kind of tone of how you're talking and bringing back jobs to our country. It's so depressing to watch what's happening. I was going to ask you this question later, Jared, but I just would love it as it's kind of come to me now. I mean, you did all these success that your team Cassidy and president Trump and everyone, all this success, and just to kind of see what's happening now. I mean, what's your take on that? I mean, not talking about onshoring jobs and representing voters. It must be maddening to witness this over the last 18 months. You know, I think for president Trump, it's very, very frustrating to watch. You know, he did all this great work. He had the economy roaring and he had the world peaceful and he feels like it's such a shame. You know, the thing that I learned from being in Washington was I learned the nuance of a lot of these issues, right? There are a lot more complicated than people think. But after doing it for four years, fixing them was actually a lot easier than I would have thought four years earlier. So you look at all the deregulation we did to unleash American energy independence, right now we're going to Iran and Venezuela and begging them to pump more oil when, you know, if you have the Keystone pipeline, work, you'd have plenty of oil here in North America and stopped at the regulations. So I think that a lot of it's just common sense. I think the potential of our country is unbelievable. Maybe even greater than I thought global power is something that's more of a relative commodity than something that's absolute and America has the best private sector in the world. We have the best ingenuity. We have the best system for contracts and for rule of law, most of the time. And so our country is poised to really explode in a very positive way economically.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kushner" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Hey everybody, welcome to this exclusive and special episode of the Charlie Kirk show. We wanted to do this exclusively so we could have a long form conversation with someone who I got to know rather well over the last couple years and we worked on some things when he was in The White House and I saw firsthand how hard he worked on the America first agenda. And that is Jared Kushner, author of a new book breaking history, a White House memoir and Jared joins us right now. Jared, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Thank you, Charlie. It's great to be with you and thank you for all the great work you did over the last years when we were fighting together on so many different things. So really great to be with you. Of course, we were in the trenches on a couple things, and I saw firsthand just a little bit of the pace and the pressure that kind of you had to deal with in The White House. So let's just kind of start there. You came from the private sector, you then came into The White House. Talk about just kind of the first couple of days, weeks and months in The White House, as someone who is used to kind of private sector behaviors and practices. Cutting into government, it's a completely different thing. Tell us about that. Yeah, so I write about this in the book and what I tried to do is bring people who everyone talks about Trump. They talk about the administration. They obsess about Washington and saying what they should do or shouldn't do, but what I tried to show people what it was like as somebody who was from the private sector and not from Washington going into that universe and just realizing what a bizarre world it was. And at first it was very disorienting in the sense that you come in every meeting. You have people telling you new regulations. You have to follow, you know, what are your protocols to do phone calls and it becomes a very procedure driven place. And so it becomes very easy to get bogged down by procedure and not get anything done. But we found our way through it. Again, president Trump, you know, he jokes that the first night he ever slept in Washington because he wasn't a mayor of governor senator. He slept in The White House. And so he had a team of people with him who were also outsiders to Washington, and we all came in and tried to figure out how to implement his agenda, which was contrary to a lot of the Republican orthodoxy that had been in place for some time. So it was really an exciting experience, but a lot of challenges were faced, but ultimately figured out a lot of incredible things with the help of people like yourself and many others who grew and learned with us. So let's start with kind of one of the things you worked on. And the portfolio of what you worked on is rather extraordinary, whether it be the Abraham accords, the trade talks of Mexico, China, the Israel, Palestine, peace plan, Nord stream two, Russia, and Germany, prison reform, the first Saudi Arabian trip, the move of the embassy to Jerusalem and many other things as well as the lockdowns in COVID and Fauci and all sorts of different things around that. Let's start though with we kind of mentioned kind of Republican orthodoxy. One of the things that Republican politicians said for years is you can't touch any of our trade deals with Canada or with Mexico specifically nafta. You were tasked with being the emissary of president Trump to renegotiate those trade deals, especially with Mexico and those deals almost fell apart actually. Tell us about what the mandate was from the voters to redo our trade deals. And especially with Mexico and what your administration with the administration was able to accomplish. Right. So again, it's very clear that politicians tell you a lot of things, but you have to look for the facts for yourself. So nafta was a deal that prospero famously said, you can hear that sucking sound. That's going to be all the manufacturing jobs leaving our country. And for whatever reason, that was the prevailing mindset at the time of the really driven by big business. And it worked, right? During the campaign president Trump was talking about how all the big car factories in North America were being built in Mexico and they were all being taken out of our country. And so that deal was one that died a million times. I think that's probably where maybe my inexperience came in handy because Obama and Bush both said they're going to renegotiate it and neither of them did because renegotiating the trade deal is an absolute brutal endeavor. And I think people through some of the some of the technicalities of it and some of the back and forths. But it really took president Trump threatening to get out of it and he was very, very close and several insist actually doing it. So it wasn't actually an empty thread that was able to help us achieve the breakthrough. And what it did is it brought about a 500,000 jobs back to America and stopped the flow of manufacturing jobs to other countries..
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jared Kushner: From the Private Sector to the White House
"Do this exclusively so we could have a long form conversation with someone who I got to know rather well over the last couple years and we worked on some things when he was in The White House and I saw firsthand how hard he worked on the America first agenda. And that is Jared Kushner, author of a new book breaking history, a White House memoir and Jared joins us right now. Jared, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Thank you, Charlie. It's great to be with you and thank you for all the great work you did over the last years when we were fighting together on so many different things. So really great to be with you. Of course, we were in the trenches on a couple things, and I saw firsthand just a little bit of the pace and the pressure that kind of you had to deal with in The White House. So let's just kind of start there. You came from the private sector, you then came into The White House. Talk about just kind of the first couple of days, weeks and months in The White House, as someone who is used to kind of private sector behaviors and practices. Cutting into government, it's a completely different thing. Tell us about that. Yeah, so I write about this in the book and what I tried to do is bring people who everyone talks about Trump. They talk about the administration. They obsess about Washington and saying what they should do or shouldn't do, but what I tried to show people what it was like as somebody who was from the private sector and not from Washington going into that universe and just realizing what a bizarre world it was. And at first it was very disorienting in the sense that you come in every meeting. You have people telling you new regulations. You have to follow, you know, what are your protocols to do phone calls and it becomes a very procedure driven place. And so it becomes very easy to get bogged down by procedure and not get anything done. But we found our way through it. Again, president Trump, you know, he jokes that the first night he ever slept in Washington because he wasn't a mayor of governor senator. He slept in The White House. And so he had a team of people with him who were also outsiders to Washington, and we all came in and tried to figure out how to implement his agenda, which was contrary to a lot of the Republican orthodoxy that had been in place for some time. So
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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jared Kushner on America's Weak New Approach to Iran
"Are you shocked by how quickly things have deteriorated in the region and how these people are obsessed with revivifying the Iran deal to empower the mullahs in Tehran. So I've been surprised and maybe I shouldn't be surprised right again, I've dealt with enough government negotiators that the way that they ran to Iran basically on their knees begging them to do a deal has just been really pathetic and quite frankly it's led to a much worse outcome than we would have achieved otherwise. So when we left office Iran was really on their last leg, we'd taken their oil down from about 2.6 million barrels a day to about a 100,000 barrels a day. They were at a foreign reserves. Their economy was cratering. And the advice we gave was just, you know, just ignore them, tell them, you know, doing a deal is not that popular. You know, just we've got to focus on climate change in China and COVID and on call us if you want to make a good deal instead they did the opposite. They ran there with weakness and the Iranians are phenomenal negotiators. They figured out Trump used to say that the Iranians have never won a war, but they've never lost a negotiation. And unfortunately, the way that they've been negotiating them has just been from a position of weakness. But I will say that the strength of the Abraham accords has been so impressive to me, maybe even beyond what I expected because it was such a young agreement that that nexus of strength that it's created is almost a counter to even the somewhat negligent or awful policy that the U.S. has brought to that region. And
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jared Kushner: We Were in the Middle East to Listen
"Were a point person along with Jason greenblatt for the Abrahamic chords for trying to bring peace and stability to the region. And as somebody who's been working in national security for what 25, 30 years by then, I came to you and I said, hey, if you need, I know I've got a different portfolio, but I'm happy to try and help you and give you a couple of pointers. And you said, sure, okay, go and talk to Jason. And I went and spoke to Jason. And Jason said the following. I think was he a lawyer by training what Jason's back? Yeah. He's a lawyer. And I sat down with him, and I said, hey, look, I'm here if you need me. And he said the following said, thanks, Seb. But we are newbies, we need to go there and see for ourselves the ground truth and make our own judgment. And I thought, um, pretty impressive. I didn't want to say you will find out very rapidly. There's one party in these negotiations that isn't acting in good faith and it's not the Israelis. But you did the due diligence. You brought it to a fruition that is stunning because 23 years of Republican and Democrat presidents breaking that promise to Israel. I want people to get the book. You got to get the book breaking history. But talk to us about your experience in bringing those incredible deals to the table Jared. Thank you. And again, we appreciated the help at the time, but we were at a place at that point where we were doing a lot more listening than implementing our first year and again, I write about this a lot in the book was president Trump asked me to work on this file and I didn't know if he was hazing me at the time. Maybe he just felt like it couldn't get any worse, right? If you remember in 2016, ISIS had a caliphate the size of Ohio. They were the heading journalists. They were murdering Christians. You had Islamic extremism, rampant on the Internet. You had the pulse nightclub shooting, the San Bernardino shooting from people who were radicalized on the Internet, Syria, had a Civil War. Where there was 500,000 people dead. It was a nightmare, ran was flushed with cash on a glide path to a nuclear weapon. And all of our allies felt very betrayed. So president Trump really sent me in Jason out there and Avi to really just start listening and to try to understand and actually I write about a lot of my early interactions with the leaders in these countries where my number one question for them was America has a lot of power. If you were us, what would you do?
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jared Kushner on What It Was Like Working on Trump's Trade Policy
"We didn't work directly. However, I was placed on the trade policy council as an observer, and I watched you co chair it with Gary Cohen. And what was it? Every Tuesday morning, is that right? I remembering right? And I saw, I watched you there. I didn't throw my money in my voice into often, except when it was about China. But what I saw was a young, very intelligent man trying to make his father in law's administration and the America first vision a success. From the outside, you'd hear all these stories about, oh my gosh, there are subversives and camps and it's Steve versus Jared. Will you tell us the truth about what it was like inside The White House and how the misconceptions lasted this very day? So first of all, it was one of the most wild experiences you could ever have, especially in those early days. I think that when president Trump ran for office in 2016, there was an article in The New York Times, which I've now come to understand what that actually is worth, but it basically talked about how his trade policies were upending a hundred years of orthodoxy in terms of trade thinking. And when we got into power, it was one thing to say what president Trump said on the campaign, which is we need to stop our manufacturing jobs from going overseas. I want to see car plans starting to be built here in America, not in Mexico. I don't want to be hostage to China for all the different things that we are. And what he had as a people with a different set of experience. So we had on one end, Peter Navarro and on one end, Gary Cohn, and then we had in the middle. We had Wilbur Ross. We had bob lighthizer. We had myself and Steve Bannon. We were more trying to get the agreements, get people to come together to figure out what is a cohesive trade policy for an America first agenda looks like. And ultimately, bob lighthizer ended up emerging as the tip of the spear took him a while to get confirmed, I think Congress was very nervous that he actually was going to be able to do the things that Trump wanted to do. But once he took leadership of that, he really became a mentor of mine and somebody who really taught me a lot about not only why Trump's trade policy and instincts were correct, but also how do you implement them?
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Gorka Shares the One Time He Saw President Trump Angry
"Your host Sebastian walker from a strategist and deputy assistant to the 45th president of the United States and God willing. If we do our work the 47th as well, as I travel the country and give speeches on any topic to any community, sooner or later, I get the same question wherever I am, and the question is, what's he really like? And I tell people, what you see is what you get. He's not a Washington politician behind closed doors in the oval. He's exactly the same if there's just two of you as if he is in front of 60,000 people in a stadium. However, I will say, in my time in The White House, there was only one time I ever saw my erstwhile boss really, really angry. He is a man of good humor, but one day it was tested and it was the day of this press conference and the related calumny against him and his family, play cuts. Let me be very clear. I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on Russian funds for my businesses. And I have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. Donald Trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign and that is why he won. Yes, it is indeed why he won. Why was president Trump very angry? Because his son in law had to make that statement in front, I was in the oval as that was being made. And it was all part and parcel of the smear tactics of not just the four years of his presidency, but continuing to this very day.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Only Thing We Can Do Is Create Public Pressure
"I was talking to a guy at an event this weekend He's a pretty active guy in politics And he was just devastated by this whole thing And he said what do we do I said the only thing we can do create public pressure rallies speeches social media posts calling our congressmen And for those of you saying that he kind of scoffed at first and I said why do you scoff I don't understand I said when the left does the same thing you know you applaud them for their activism efforts to change You know I'm not kidding Think about it Don't laugh I'm dead serious Think about it You know you had this George Floyd incident which everybody saw which was thankfully unique to that one guy and this was used to paint just about every police officer across the country as some kind of hunter of black men in the streets It was used to create all kinds of dangerous political changes like defunding the police and all kinds of cutesy again euphemisms We're going to reform the police and the criminal justice system It's the only thing that president Trump and I didn't agree with and I let them know I didn't think criminal justice reform is a good idea I didn't You know while I'm Jared Kushner on later in the week we can talk about that I didn't think it was a good idea And that's fair where a Republican Party we're a Big Ten party full of ideas We don't censor people People feel differently about other issues That's okay That's okay But this is a no go zone here This is the kind of thing you can't possibly see and see what's going on right now with the loss of power here And not want to speak out And you can't say it doesn't matter when the left does it and it does matter and then we applaud them for it I mean really I'm serious Consider what I'm telling you The left gets all this stuff done because they know how to get into the streets They know how to protest Now they venture into violence a lot especially with BLM and antifa which is a red line obviously that should we all get there Nobody needs lectures for me You won't get it you're all adults
The New Yorker: Fiction
"kushner" Discussed on The New Yorker: Fiction
"Kushner reading come into the drawing room Doris by Edna O'Brien. The story appeared in The New Yorker in October of 1962, and was included under the title Irish revel, in O'Brien's collection, the love object and other stories in 1968. In 2014, a New Jersey couple with powerful political connections was found dead in their bedroom. I'm Nancy Solomon. For two years, I've been trying to find out what happened to John and Joyce Sheridan. Was there anything on her mind that was bothering her? I know where you're going. But no. Definitely not. True crime and political corruption. Dead end, a New Jersey political murder mystery from WNYC studios. Listen, on Apple podcasts..
The New Yorker: Fiction
"kushner" Discussed on The New Yorker: Fiction
"Ah, the old honey bunch O'Toole said, pushing the door in, the girls exclaimed and asked him to go out at once as they were preparing for bed. Come into the drawing room, Doris, he said to Mary, and curled his forefinger at her. He was drunk, and couldn't focus her properly, but he knew she was standing there somewhere. Go to bed, you're drunk, dorso burn said, and he stood up very upright for an instance, and asked her to speak for herself. Go to bed Michael, you're tired, Mary said to him. She tried to sound calm because he looked so wild. Come into the drawing room I tell you, he said as he caught her wrist and dragged her toward the door. She let out a cry and ethnic duggan said she'd brain him if he didn't leave the girl alone. Give me that flower pot Doris, ethno duggan called, and then Mary began to cry for fear there might be a scene. She hated scenes. Once she had heard her father in a neighbor having a row about boundary rights, and she'd never forgotten it. They had both been a bit drunk after a fair. Are you cracked or are you mad O'Toole said when he perceived that she was crying? I'll give you two seconds ethno Warren, as she held the flower pot high, ready to throw it at O'Toole's Greyhound face. You're a nice bunch of hard faced old crows, he said, wouldn't give a man a squeeze. He went out cursing each one of them. They shut the door very quickly, and dragged the sideboard in front of the door so that he could not break in when they were asleep. They got into bed in their underwear, Mary and ethne one end with crystal's feet between their faces. You have lovely hair, ethno whispered to marry. It was the nicest thing she could think of to say. They each said their prayers and shook hands under the covers and settled down to sleep. Hey, Doris O burns said a few seconds later, I never went to the lab. He can't go now ethnic said, the sideboards in front of the door. I'll die if I don't go, Doris obern said. Ah, me too, after all that orange we drank crystal said. Mary was shocked at home you never spoke of such a thing. They heard feet on the landing, and then the sound of choking and coughing, and later O'Toole cursing and swearing and hitting the wall with his fist. Mary curled down under the clothes, thankful for the company of the girls. I was at a party, now I know what parties are like, Mary said to herself, as she tried to force herself asleep. She heard a sound as of water running, but it did not seem to be raining outside. Later she dozed, but at daybreak she heard the hall door bang, and she sat up in bed abruptly. She had to be home early to milk, so she got up, took her shoes, and her lace dress, and let herself out by dragging the sideboard forward and opening the door slightly. There were newspapers spread on the landing floor, and in the lavatory and a heavy smell pervaded. Downstairs Porter had flowed out of the bar and into the hole. Some one probably O'Toole had turned on the taps of the 5 Porter barrels, and the stone floored bar and sunken passage outside were a Lake of black Porter. Misses Rogers would kill somebody, Mary put on her high heeled shoes, and picked her steps carefully across the room to the door..
The New Yorker: Fiction
"kushner" Discussed on The New Yorker: Fiction
"This month we're going to hear come into the drawing room Doris by Edna O'Brien, which was published in The New Yorker in October of 1962. Although she was 17, this was her first party, the invitation had come only that morning from misses Rogers of the commercial hotel. The postman brought word that misses Rogers wanted her down that evening without fail. The story was chosen by Rachel Kushner, who's the author of three novels, and most recently the essay collection, the hard crowd, which was published last year. Hi, Rachel. Hi Debra. Welcome. Thank you. You were very keen to read a story by a no, Brian on the podcast, why is that? Well, I started looking back at our history with the magazine and Edna O'Brien has published 39 stories in The New Yorker if the index I found online that is not officially sanctioned by The New Yorker is correct. And that is just it's a lot of stories and there's a lot of range there and I had first come to them through her collected works, the love object, which was published in 2013. And I thought, oh, I'll introduce myself. Not having read all of miss O'Brien's stories previously, I'll introduce myself to them with a collection. And then I started reading from The New Yorker archive, and I realized that she had made some really interesting changes between publishing them in The New Yorker and republishing them and her collection. And something about that made the whole undertaking of a study of her work really appealing, just the seriousness of the project and thinking about how writers make decisions over time and how their relationship to their own work and even sentence by sentence might change. For instance, this story, it's the first story that opens the collection, and it's her first story that was in The New Yorker. Was called in the collection, not coming to the drawing room, Doris, but Irish revel. As you said, this was the first story that Ed no Brian published in the magazine. She was, I think, 31 at the time, and it was not long. It was two years after her first novel had come out. Do you think it has all the hallmarks of the writer she became? Yes, very much so. I would say, I mean, one of the things I really like about Edna Bryant's sensibility is her ability to recapture innocence without sentimentalizing what happens to people once the scales fall from their eyes. She goes through those paces somehow treating her character with utmost precision and sympathy for what it means to have a dream. And then to have that dream be shattered. And I think that those are the hallmarks of a writer who's really in control of her craft. I noticed.
Before the Break
"kushner" Discussed on Before the Break
"Michael Kushner, the headshot photographer, the after the medium. Thank you so much for taking time and hanging out with us. You're so welcome. Yeah, this is really important. It's been trying to integrate people in the industry who you may not ever get to have these sort of chats with. And it's like, if you're stuck, you know, we have a casting director on and it's like, oh, that's what I needed to know. And so with like headshots, it's important to hear from the horse's mask. So this is a really, really fantastic conversation. I think our audience is going to get a lot out of. So thank you, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you. You're so welcome. Thanks, Michael. Take care. Eat out. That was great. It's great. He spans both worlds behind and in front of the camera. And I think, you know, that we say all the time getting behind the camera in any way is a way to get you more familiar with your surroundings and of course in turn that helps your acting. But I bet he's a better headshot photographer because he's an actor and he's totally undoubtedly a better actor because he's a headshot photographer. It just goes to show that like expanding your mind to the world of the business rather than just your acting, your precious little acting, enhances your performance, it obviously leads to more opportunities to more success, gets you out of your own little world. And he's a great example of that. Yeah, knowledge is power. So the more you know about your industry, even though it may not be your specific craft, maybe it goes outside of acting. It's just the more you know and the better you become, period. Right. Okay, everybody. Well, thank you so much for listening. You can find out.
Before the Break
"kushner" Discussed on Before the Break
"Bring that into your headshot session, understand the spiritual, the stories that you want to tell. This isn't religious. And energy. It's an energy, but the thing is, you have to be willing to look for it. It's the eyes. It's opening up to see those possibilities, you know? I actually think we're all mediums. We all have medium tendencies. I have medium tendencies. I what I have my experiences. But I think what happens is that we write them off. And when we write them off, we write off a lot of other things that happens with us in our humanity and that's a sensitivity that's an emotion that's whatever it is, but anyway, I digress. That's for another episode. Michael, thank you so much. Some parting words for people who maybe into the industry or might be stuck in the worlds of headshots and photography and all that good stuff. And often young, and that is a old yiddish saying that means go shit in the ocean. Well said Michael Wilson. Thank you. Michael Kushner. Oh, I'm on Instagram at the Michael Kushner.
Before the Break
"kushner" Discussed on Before the Break
"Right. But it's your uniqueness that is going to get you these opportunities by giving them something original and true, but right, through the lens, through the lens. We are, we are a, we are sorry, we are a product. We are walking in and we have to be aware and present and malleable through the lens of why we're in that room. We are in that room to book a job. We are in that room to tell a story. And there is a commercial lens over what we're doing. This isn't a first date, this isn't like a meet cute. This we're not at a bar, we're in an audition room that a producer paid for, which is a business moving Michael, right? It's a business meeting. No. Of course. Essentially. Of course it is. So you have to show who you are through the lens of it's just like performance, right? Experiencing everything through the given circumstances. Responding honestly through the given circumstances. In a scene, I'm not, I'm not alphabet. But I am responding honestly and organically in the given circumstances as if I am alphabet. So while I am, Charles, do I he? I am auditioning for Charles douay and sons of the prophet by Stephen karem. I'm going to walk in present and focus knowing that right now in this moment, I am Michael Kushner, but I'm also going to continue the energy of the role that they need to see..
WTOP
"kushner" Discussed on WTOP
"Pneumo The capitol continues to investigate the January 6th insurrection Jared Kushner met with House committee earlier this week for a voluntary interview It's the closest committee has gotten to president Trump's inner circle We spoke with CBS congressional news correspondent Scott mcfarlane about who the House committee is eyeing next Peter Navarro a trade adviser to Donald Trump and Dan scavino a social media manager to Donald Trump Both men are accused of slow walking if not stonewalling the January 6th committee and the committee says it recommends the U.S. House formally refer both scavino and Navarro to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution for contempt of Congress CVS congressional correspondent Scott mcfarlane If you ever took a commuter jet at Dallas airport you may have had to walk out onto the tarmac to hop onto the plane But if the airport gets additional funding those gates could be replaced Those airport officials are announcing plans for a new 14 gate concourse that would replace part of the existing concourse a currently those gates have ground level covered walkways to the planes It would be replaced by a 400,000 ft² building with jet bridges It would also include more restrooms restaurants and even a pet relief area According to The Washington Post the airport authority is hoping to secure $230 million in funding through the bipartisan infrastructure Bill that was approved last year The entire project would cost between 508 $100 million Project still needs approval from the airport authority board and United Airlines who would operate out of the new gates Luke Luger news.
Pod Save the World
"kushner" Discussed on Pod Save the World
"I will not give all the details away to listener. But things you wouldn't expect like the word avocado or kickstarter really central in your in your tormentors. Twisted twisted mindset in ways. that are just. I don't know it would drive me insane. You're stronger than i am. Because i would live in those dark rabbit holes. Look i think you know. The pool is very strong to go to those places but when you realize that That's not getting anywhere that you're better off trying to maintain a sense of equilibrium. One way to do that is if you can laugh at ship. Yeah yeah And so while you're in in present there's this government effort to try to negotiate your release At the same time there are ongoing negotiations over. You know what will eventually become the jcp away or the iran nuclear agreement. What's amazing in this podcast. Is you interviewed all these people about the process of negotiating release negotiating the jcp away and talk to them. During the trump administration when they were out of government when they were willing to let their hair down in speak freely and not be like the talking point robots that we all turned into when we go back in and now a bunch of them. John kerry john finer. The deputy national security adviser are back in government. Like what are what are people going to hear from those individuals that might surprise them. Look i mean. I think it we. We always think of people in government has superhuman or sub-human but definitely not you but I think when when when you hear these people you're gonna realize that they are in so many ways dealing with issues in the same ways that anybody else They're just people tasked with a job. A huge job And i think that that the the sort of impossible challenge of weighing Massive geopolitical issues against the concerns of a single family is something the government has to deal with all the time They're not necessarily always really graceful about it publicly or privately. But i think we really see into that here and for me. I've had the opportunity over the last five years to get to know a lot of of these people And also people in the trump administration specifically around the the issue of of hostage taking hostage recovery stis level of trust intimacy that i've been able to to to build up what these folks But as you say you know they can't really let their hair down right now. They have a lot of other things to deal with. I'm of the eight or nine high level officials That we we interviewed for the show Ben would probably be only one. That would be willing to talk to me right now. Right for this. And i know that because i continue to report on hostage cases And i can't get any of these folks on record at this point so you know that's no knock on them that's kind of the the the the nature Of how things work here in washington. But i would say there's a level of intimacy to this show that you almost never get when you put somebody in government alongside with somebody who who who was affected by the policies that they're tasked with implementing. Yeah i mean sometimes you get town halls with presidential candidates where they're talking directly to someone who's been impacted by war or taxes or you know healthcare policy. Whatever it's so rare to hear you. Who was taken by the iranians talking to ben rhodes or john kerry or brett mcgurk about the decisions. They literally made involving you your released from prison i mean. I don't know that i've ever heard that anywhere else. I don't think i have a. I'm sure that there are fictionalized tales. like you know on film or in in in literature but to me that's the thing that jumps out to my year Because look i was incredibly lucky. Not everybody has the kind of advocates. That that i did and that starts with a family in your employer and you know between my my big brother and the washington post They were able to get themselves into the west wing multiple times and you know As much as they became a thorn in the side of some of these people is also kind of a respect level. that was That was built up over time. And i think that that really comes through in the show. It's five years. After the fact that. I'm talking to these people and you know folks like wendy sherman and ben And john finer have very distinct memories of dealing with my brother. That's pretty cool. As far as i'm concerned all government dorks in the show. Your wife yet. Years is interviewed a lot in his hilarious. Your mom your brother. also anthony. Bourdain has a big Can you tell people how anthony bourdain became part of the story because you know for me listening trailer and hearing his voice again. Someone who. I followed and listened to and revered in some ways it was it was jarring and also so wonderful to like here. The guy's voice again so when when when we were arrested in two thousand fourteen six weeks earlier we had been asked to appear on parts unknown when he was in tehran. We spend an afternoon with them and it was. It was really lovely experience all the way around and then when we were were arrested. Invariably someone's gonna start thinking Must add something to do with you. Know with being on that show right. There's a lot of people thought it had something to do with them. It didn't have a with any anybody. But but we're dane with somebody who really from the gecko was full-throated in his advocacy for for our release. And that never stopped. It kept going in a couple of weeks after we got out. We had the opportunity to to meet up with him in new york. We had a a meal and some beers and had talked a lot in dangerous yongin. I incredible life advice and from that moment until Until he died he he was somebody who was very much in our corner. Very supportive of us in ultimately when i proposed a memoir Wrote up the proposal. We took it to publishers We you know we had sort of one of these. Many bidding wars where half a dozen different publishers wanted to publish the book he reached out to me and said hey jason you know whether you choose me or not. Just give it some consideration at like two to publish your book on com on my imprint. It's such an important story to me. And i want you to tell it how you wanna tell it by the way you know. He ended up a bumping up. See the the fee that he was willing to pay the book advance above and beyond any other publisher just to see her deal. So just like you know when when we made the decision yagi really new kind of looked me in the is like. Were you ever even considering doing this with anybody else. In the answer was no right. I mean this guy a believed in us and we believe in him. So that's how that happened and as part of Reporting out my story for the book. I spend an afternoon with His condo in in manhattan We had some beers in turn on the microphone. And and just kind of record a conversation than i think you know magically it relieved fits into the story that we're telling here yeah i mean it's weird to miss someone i've never met but i do You know you mentioned in the course of your work in the washington. Post you report on a lot of these. These hostage takings. Unfortunately hostage-taking is far too common in foreign policy and foreign affairs terrorist. Groups take hostages. Iran is taken countless hostages. We think some listeners of the show might say to me. Hey tommy You could argue that. Some gitmo detainees. Were were our hostages and they would have some point There's also troubling rise in journalists being held hostage one example is a man named any fencer. Who's in american journalist. Who's currently being held in. Myanmar has been imprisoned wrongly. Since may what do you think the best way me based on all your reporting for the us government to deal with these cases. What did the obama administration get wrong in your case that the biden folks hopefully can fix and get right so i think the first thing that administrations often get wrong is not calling it but it is when we call something arbitrary detention or a wrongful detention. I understand the the motivation for doing that. It is essentially to say that. We acknowledged hovering of this other country in the independence of their judiciary.
Rusted Culture Podcast
"kushner" Discussed on Rusted Culture Podcast
"So folks. I think this makes it official. Evidently according to reuters. Jared kushner is going to leave politics and launch an investment firm. He plans to launch this investment firm called affinity partners which going to be headquartered in miami florida. In addition jared kushner is also looking to open an office in israel to pursue regional investment that connect israel's economy to the indian economy in. This is interesting. According to the marker which is a hebrew language newspaper sources told the marker that kushner is set his sights on the tel aviv. Stock exchange with plans to import part of his family's real estate portfolio. Kushner wants to found a new company and sell its bonds on the tel aviv. Stock exchange at a value of one hundred million dollars. Now jared kushner is also spent the last six months writing a book about his white house experiences of course with a publish date. That's going to be set for early next year. Vanity fair predicts that these things probably won't be in the book the fact that one former volunteer on his co. for nineteen task force described the administration's pandemic response as being like a family. Office meets organized. Crime melded with the lord of the flies. And they also predict that this oopsy on april twentieth the comeback prediction as it's known probably won't be in there and what they mean by that is this cnn. Reports said in mid april kushner spoke to bob woodward for his book and bragged about how he donald trump had cut doctors and scientists out of the pandemic response while also claiming that america was at the start of his of its comeback phase. Yes some one hundred. Eighty seven thousand more people and counting would go on to die. Yes jared kushner is a proud moron and so far this summer. Jared has been spending his summer as trump's next door neighbor in bedminster new jersey. Here's a picture of the house that they've been renovating in. S for kushner's investment firm. Michael cohen had this to say in tweeted. This folks will the funds come from saudi arabia. Ua ear cutter. Isn't this the same groups that were involved with tom. Barrack tom jarrett's relationship will soon be revealed. So could there really be a tie. In between tom barrack who was recently arrested last week and charged with violating foreign lobbying laws by using his access to donald trump to advance the interests of the uae. Take a look at this article and mother. Jones entitled top trump adviser arrested and charged with secretly lobbying for the uae uae. It particularly notes. This folks barrick also helped finance the debt. Jared kushner owed on a skyscraper at six sixty six fifth avenue in new york as the new york. Times reported barrick was among a group of lenders who agreed to reduce mr kushner's obligations to keep him out of bankruptcy. Now it kind of makes sense when you go back to what the hebrew daily newspaper. The marker said that christner is set asides on the tel aviv. Stock exchange with plans to import part of his family's real estate portfolio. Could it be folks that jared kushner is very concerned about the loan that he got from the group. That was related to tom barrack. And if that money should disappear or get clawed back for whatever reason he would need to replace it with something like this so it just makes. You wonder what is michael. Cohen's idea of the relationship between tom. Barrack and jared kushner. I think we'll find out fairly shortly..
Rusted Culture Podcast
"kushner" Discussed on Rusted Culture Podcast
"So this morning. Michael cohen is back in the news. Tweeting about jared kushner folks and this is the same jared kushner who as we know is the son-in-law to donald trump his net worth is about eight hundred million dollars he just recently purchased this twenty four million dollar fixer upper in miami beach. And this is the same. Jared kushner that according to michael benders new book called. Frankly jarod told. Rnc chair ronna mcdaniel. He didn't give enough about the republican party. I don't give an f about the republican party. He said and he reportedly said this in the lobby of the trump international hotel in washington. Dc while having a tense exchange with rnc chair ronna mcdaniel in after. He said that she blacked out. Good to know good to know. I'll be ranked for chair a second term. And i'll make sure you don't come anywhere near any of this. So michael cohen. Here's his tweet that he's tweeted out earlier. Today about jared kushner and it goes like this interesting. How jared kushner's name appears to be absent from all the controversy. Edite -ment arrest. Is he next to fall or cooperating witness knowing what a sneaky is. I bet the ladder now. What makes his theory. Interesting is the fact that like i mentioned. He's got a lot to lose the kushner's do and ivanko and the indictment against weisselberg that was just issued it twice listed in unnamed co-conspirator which has led to speculation like this that it may be jared kushner. And he's he's just in a position to cooperate. Here folks have listen to this. This is something that michael cohen also said back in june. Here's a video. That i want you to listen to the problem with everybody. In the trump organization is that they all lie and they will continue as i did include with congress. We all lied. In order to protect donald. The problem though is that there were documents. That show opposites that. I wasn't the only one that line in the creation that document it was ivanka. And jared the lawyers and secular and cobb. And you name it. I the law. All of them were involved in the established in the setting up of that Of that information to con- jeez okay folks. I mean if jared did have a hand in this. I in speculation. I get that if this is true. I mean obviously lying to congress would be leverage to make jared kushner cooperate today with the prosecutors. I mean that's that's a hell of a serious claim. I mean lying to congress is not something that is taken lightly and extremely problem. Problematic for jared kushner if if this is true and with all of this i just can't help but think that with all of this is coming out you know if if he is cooperating with prosecutors All of this information that's coming out. I mean can you really imagine donald trump running for office in two thousand twenty four with all of this coming out in continuing to come out. I mean it It could be if he does continue to run. And the republicans are not smart enough to push him off the dock at that stage and not get him on the the twenty twenty four presidential boat. I mean it could be a washout for them now. The first test of that obviously is going to be in twenty twenty two when we've got the midterm elections. So let's see where this ends up. I made that turns out to be a wash for republicans in very well could be. I mean that does not bode well for donald trump running in twenty twenty four till then folks. Thanks for tuning in..
The Daily Zeitgeist
"kushner" Discussed on The Daily Zeitgeist
"An ethic ye third him. I mean bank you. Rachel scott Thank you to this woman of color. This black woman who said gimme. That fucking mike. Let me say. let me say. Spit something directly vladimir putin's head right now about his l- l d e his little dick energy or however that's being perceived with his insecurities and a quick follow up. If i may sir the list of your political opponents who are dead prison or jail is long alexia volume so organization calls for free and fair elections and end to corruption. But russia has outlawed that organization calling extremists. And you have now prevented anyone who supports him to run for office. So my question mr president. What are you so afraid of joe. When she was asking the question reporters were looking around the room. Like right. oh my god. Let's ensure of right well once again. I would like to repeat what i said. I'm out cold foreign agents. And he goes on he brings up like black lives matter and stuff and it wasn't. Yeah that's the look of someone who's used to jailing people that would ask him questions like that immediately right but yeah what did he bring. Up is matter in the context of the you understand too that there are these groups. That'd be that'd be pulling shit. I mean emmy so. Yeah just rachel scott of love to see a big fan big fan now well speaking of love to see it. One of our favourite dudes is going to be finally justly rewarded with a big book. Deal that is. Of course jared kushner off gough book deal book deal baby. Oh my god what is it like what. what's who. What are the numbers. what do we know. I don't know the numbers yet. It's just it's just been announced that he's working on a book deal but that is I can't imagine ever wanting to read a word that dude says right. Right right yeah. There's been a lot of talk to. Because i know trump's been trying. He said he was getting a book deal. And he's like you know the top to get some of the top people. They've offered me a book deal and like they asked like the top five publishing houses like dude. We never offered him anything. Because he's a he's a liability to work with and like there's an what you're going to get back or if it's going to be close to the level of what you think you can put out as a marketable piece of fiction. I guess or whatever he would be writing or talking about. Yeah i mean the trump one would just automatically be completely untrustworthy. I guess kushner would be too so. It's pretty wild that they're letting him kind of get his his version of things out. Especially when you know. What wasn't he the guy who was like it's bad. Pr to do kobe testing. So it's hold off on that and just let people die E yeah so shout out to the publishing industry. Yeah we'll see again. I wonder if this is part and parcel of the good handle cases. Yeah because i don. I haven't checked in on don jr. tiktok and see what kind of money he's making but all right. Well those are some of the things that are trending on this wednesday afternoon We are back more with a whole s episode of the show until then be kind to each other and be kinder yourself get the vaccine and don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to mark. Ask a simple question. Ask everyone know what matters to them. Work the angles of question authority favor. Fax over conspiracies and trust standards over here say at msnbc. This is if you're a small business owner growing. Your business is what it's all about that is if you have the space to do it. Cute smart self. Storage has the solution with a variety of storage unit sizes helpful online resources and easy to access facilities cube. Smart self storage provides a self storage experience that puts the focus on you. Because you and your business matter most and to help you grow cube. Smart is offering up to twenty five percent off your monthly rent. Say goodbye to crowded inventory. And hello to your business. Success story with qb smart storage visit cube smart dot com for more information..