John Hudson
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first heard Dec 2025
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Hey, I'm John Hudson.
Yeah, it's an interesting team.
He's got the main person leading it, which is Steve Witkoff, his special envoy, longtime friend.
Maybe one of his closest personal friends throughout his political and business evolution.
He's got the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, who is a close longtime contact of Vice President Vance.
You've got a son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and you've got Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio.
So there's been a lot of cooks in the kitchen, and I don't know if anybody's had a Thanksgiving experience recently with a lot of cooks in the kitchen.
You've had confusion, you've had different things being directed to different people, and it's been a little bit chaotic.
And at the same time, they've probably pushed the ball closer to a deal than has happened before, but they're not getting any style points in the process.
Yeah, it's a great question.
I mean, he's taken an increasingly prominent role.
At the moment when things were looking probably the messiest earlier last month, essentially when Witkoff had his discussions with his Russian counterparts and some of his plan leaked, this 28-point plan, which a lot of Republicans and Democrats balked at as being too favorable towards Russia.
That's when Trump tapped Rubio and Rubio came in.
He met with the Ukrainians in Geneva and he inched the deal slightly more in favor of the Ukrainians.
Some important things were taken out of the 28-point plan.
For instance, there was a ban on Ukraine ever entering NATO.
There was different restrictions on Ukraine's military that were included in that deal.
Those were watered down and taken away after Rubio met with the Ukrainians.
And so in general, what his role has been is trying to make what Witkoff started negotiating with the Russians into a more palatable form.
And that role continued into this Thanksgiving weekend with meetings with the Ukrainians in Miami.
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