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Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff's Extended 60 Minutes Interview

60 Minutes

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42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

After the Israel-Hamas deal was signed earlier this month, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s envoys and the leading brokers of the agreement, sat down with Lesley Stahl to discuss their unconventional deal-driven approach. Editor's note: This is an extended audio version of the interview that was broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, October 19, 2025. This extended version was condensed for clarity. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

60 minutes overtime.

0:03.0

All set Leslie, thank you.

0:07.0

Okay. So I understand that you were up at 4.30 in the morning, this morning, working, what on phase 2?

0:16.0

What were you working on?

0:18.0

So Steve is a very early riser, and my kids get up early to go to school.

0:22.6

So the time before they get up is usually a great time for us to catch up before the day and

0:27.6

go over what's been happening overseas.

0:29.6

So this morning we were talking about a lot of the issues of getting the aid into Gaza and

0:34.6

de-conflicting some of the misunderstandings.

0:37.6

Deconflicting, meaning?

0:39.5

Meaning that you have a lot of people with good intentions right now.

0:44.1

An example is the UN is trying very hard to get food into the people of Gaza.

0:48.7

The Turks were offering to send a recovery and rescue team in to help search for some

0:53.6

of the dead hostages

0:56.0

that we're looking to recover. And there's just a lot of miscommunication that stalls and holds up some of these efforts.

1:03.0

So getting all sides' perspectives and finding a mechanism to get quick adjudications and the right adjudications

1:10.0

is something that's very necessary to

1:12.7

put in place. I heard the president asked you what the chances were for success. Yes. And you said

1:20.5

100%. And he said, why do you feel so confident? Yeah. And I said, well, we can't afford to fail.

1:26.7

We just kept on thinking to ourselves, this finish line, this finish line is about

1:31.3

saving lives.

1:32.3

I need to know if you did some bare knuckle stuff, you know, I think of the real estate negotiation

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