Jared Kushner

They had to caliphate the size of Ohio.

Libya was destabilized.

Yemen was destabilized.

Syria was in a civil war where 500,000 people were killed.

Iran was on a glide path to a nuclear weapon.

Yet the single biggest fear he had was North Korea.

And then it got compounded by the fact that we get into office and President Trump brings his generals around and he's learning how to interact with all the generals and says, okay, what are my options?

And they said, calm down.

We've been using all of our ammunition in the Middle East.

We don't have enough ammunition to go to war over there.

And he says,

Let's not let that be too public.

Let's try to restock and come up with a plan.

And at the time, there was a lot of banter back and forth.

And I was able to, I got a call from a friend who was an old business contact who actually had done business in North Korea.

And he said, you know, I'd love to find a way to solve this.

And I was getting calls from friends at the time saying, I'm trying to go to Hawaii for vacation.

Should I not be going?

Is it not safe?

I mean, we forget the psychology of how intense that was at the time.