Dave Lawler

Now, he has stuck quite close to the president in everything he's done over the course of

you know, his almost, I guess, a little over a year now in the vice presidency.

So you're not going to see him publicly break with Trump and say the president wants to bomb you, but I actually think we should make peace.

You know, he'll he'll keep up the party line.

But it's an interesting dynamic that he was one of the more skeptical voices about doing this whole thing in the first place.

And now he's the one in charge of making peace.

Yeah.

So Witkoff is a longtime friend of Trump's.

They have some shared history in terms of the fact that they...

have built a lot of golf courses and luxury properties.

They go back a long ways.

They're both in the developer game.

And Witkoff, in Trump's view, is a dealmaker.

He certainly didn't come in with any particular expertise on Gaza, on Ukraine, on Iran, and yet Trump gave him all three.

You know, it's a mixed track record up to now.

They did get a ceasefire in Gaza, although there's been issues on the back end, as you would expect, I suppose.

He's certainly taking criticism for how he handled Ukraine.

That is an area where there's not been a lot of progress and where he has been accused by some of the more skeptical voices of the president's approach of being too willing to believe what Vladimir Putin was putting on the table, too sympathetic to the Russian perspective.

A Putin fanboy.

Of course, he would deny that.