Jared Kushner

Mark was much more hardline than me.

I had to actually bite my tongue.

I was impressed at how much he did, whereas...

You know, Feinstein and her husband were like super into, you know, they knew the Iranians well, they thought they were peace loving, and it was an incredibly robust and respectful debate.

And so I don't think we maybe concluded anything that night, but it was interesting for people to get together, having a dinner at my house where I had

Dick Durbin, the number two ranking Democrat in the Senate, Lindsey Graham and Stephen Miller, who's known to be a very hard line on immigration, discussing what an immigration reform could look like.

I mean, they left that dinner saying, wow, we hadn't spoken to people on the other side and we actually agree on like 85% of things, like maybe something is possible.

And so I believe that we should always be trying to push to make the world a better place.

And you only do that by listening to people and connecting with people and by respecting people.

And finally, I'll just say on this is that, you know, I meet people all the time who have so much confidence in their perspectives.

And I'm very jealous that these people are able to be so confident about every single thing, because for me...

I have some degree of confidence in the things that I've studied and what I've learned, but I'm always trying to find people who disagree to kind of sharpen my perspectives and to help me grow and to help me learn further.

And so I think that's kind of the beauty of the world is that the knowledge base continues to grow, the facts continue to change, and what's possible tomorrow continues to become different.

And so as humans, we have to continue to thrive, to learn, and to grow, and to connect.

And if we do that, everything's possible.

Thank you.

And Lex, if I could say just one final thing, which is that my thoughts and prayers are really with all of the people in Israel and the innocent civilians as well from the Palestinian side.

And my prayers are with the IDF soldiers that they should be safe and they should be really watched by God to accomplish whatever mission will enable to make the world a safer place.

If I look back on the different negotiations I had when I was in government, either with leaders of countries, with representatives of leaders, or even with members of Congress to pass legislation, the most important thing I would draw back to would be trust.

I think getting to know each other, understanding what was motivating the other party to get to the outcome, and making them feel like you weren't going to use whatever information they gave you to benefit yourself at the expense of them is probably what I would call table stakes to have a shot at accomplishing anything that was hard in negotiation.