Joe Kent

I'm hoping that you can maybe shed some.

some light on this.

I was very optimistic about Steve Witkoff in the early days.

Clearly, him and President Trump were willing to exert a lot of influence on the Israeli government to attain a ceasefire, but then it went away.

Then we ended up with the 12-day war.

You said you were optimistic about those negotiations.

However, a member of the British government has basically said he thought that Witkoff and Jared Kushner were effectively acting like Israeli assets in their negotiations.

So

Do you think that that's true?

Are they Israeli assets?

Are they working on our behalf?

Is there some communication being lost in the flow here?

What's your actual assessment as somebody who saw this a little bit more on the inside?

To my knowledge, both Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were doing their best to get a deal.

I mean, that's all I know.

I wasn't in the negotiations, so I don't want to over-inflate what my access to negotiations were.

I spent a good deal of time with Jared Kushner in the previous Trump administration, and I spent a good deal of time with Steve Witkoff in this administration.

And I think that Steve Witkoff was working diligently from the time that even before President Trump was inaugurated,

onwards to develop the relationships necessary to get us a deal.

And like I said before, I truly believe that there was a deal that was very, very, that was within our sights, within reach prior to the 12-day war.