Dave Lawler

If you're operating out of the State Department, you know, there is a way that you do these things, and Witkoff does it differently.

Kushner, to some degree, does it differently.

Witkoff flies around on his private plane.

You know, it's just the whole thing is very Trump-style diplomacy.

And yet, you know, they would say,

Has it really worked that well the way that everybody else has done diplomacy?

Give us a shot to do it our way.

So we're a year in.

They've had a lot of, I mean, I don't even know if you kind of, one thing you cannot accuse these guys, particularly Witkoff, of being is lazy or lacking the energy for this job.

They've had weekends.

where Kushner has hosted the Russians and the Ukrainians and the various parties to the Gaza negotiations at the same weekend at his golf course and just gone meeting to meeting, meeting to meeting all weekend long.

They really do seem to have a bit of a relish for doing this.

Witkow seems to enjoy it to some degree.

But whether ultimately we'll look back on the Trump administration and say these were the two right guys to be doing this, maybe it's too early for us to say.

I think the question is, does either party feel like enough progress was made or enough sort of trust was developed in that first round of talks that they think we can get there?

Or do they feel like this was proof that the other side can't be trusted and we just have to keep going along, escalating potentially militarily until we get to a point where it's clearer how the war is going to end?

But, you know, if the Iranians don't move, do we just keep doing this for weeks and weeks?

It's possible, but I don't think it's anybody's preferred outcome.

So the White House has put out some talking points ahead of the speech.

It's basically Trump will make the case that we're on track for all of our objectives.