Steve Witkoff
Appearances
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
They wanted alternatives. We're in a negotiation right now to maybe stop some of these Israeli strikes and maybe finish this conflict with dialogue. And if I don't have a feeling that we can accomplish that, why would I waste my time? Or the United States time.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And worse yet, why would I come to the president, recommend to him that we could finish something with dialogue, and then we can't be that effective? That's a bad policy prescription. If I'm not in this thing, making those sort of assessments and being able to come back to the president and say, I think we can finish it with dialogue or not. And those, by the way,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Those calculations are going to be the same with the Iranians, and they're going to be the same with the Russians and the Ukrainians, and they're going to be the same with Azerbaijan and Armenia. So those principles apply to all of these conflicts that we're going to maybe talk about today. Right.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And once you decide where you want to get to, then it's all about tactically figuring out what that pathway is. With the Middle Eastern, you know, Tucker, when I first got in and I was talking to Brett McGurk, who was the envoy on behalf of Biden, he was a smart guy. Yes. He just didn't have a great boss giving him direction. So he couldn't really speak on behalf of Biden.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
You know, in the beginning, I didn't like it. Yeah, I bet. But one night I was reflecting on what someone told me after my son Andrew died. And they said to me, you're never going to have a bigger hit than that in your life, losing a child. It's a bad club to be a member of. Oh, there's nothing worse. Nothing worse. And then I began to get like President Trump, not caring what people said.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I'd wake up in the morning, read the paper. I'd read some sort of explanation about why I said something or did something. And it was preposterous, Tucker, just preposterous. So one day, what's that movie? There was some movie where they won the Academy. I can't remember the name. I just stopped caring. Yes. I just stopped caring about what the news media said about me.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
From all sides.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Oh, absolutely. I've had a couple of experiences where first I was attacked as being a pro-Qatari sympathizer. By the way, Qatar is a mediator here. They're not a party to the conflict. They're a mediator. And by the way, they've mediated all over the world. No different than the Swiss and the Norwegians. They've mediated in Russia. They've mediated in Afghanistan. God bless them.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And they've done an effective job. They're good at it. how could I not collaborate with the mediator? And B, if I'm not collaborating with the mediator, I'm bound to be ineffective. It's not even possible that I could do the job. I had to know everything that they knew. So that means collaboration. And that's how President Trump operates too. I learned the business from him.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I went into the business because of him, the real estate business. And this is his ethos. This is how he operates. And so I'm really following him in a certain respect.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I was able to speak on behalf of Trump because we talked about it. We had a great conversation about it. He said to me, this is where I want to get to, Steve. And so when I went in there, I went in with the imprimatur of the president and it became a, you know, that's the difference maker.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I didn't know that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
By the way, everybody wanted to be him. He'd come to 101 Park Avenue where I was a lawyer. He had this swashbuckling style. I used to see him come in and I used to say, God, I want to be him. I don't want to be the lawyer. I don't want to be the Scrivener. I want to be that man. Yeah, I can remember saying that. Yeah, he was like the Michael Jordan to me, you know, of the real estate business.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, I've been blessed. I mean, it used to be that I couldn't use the word blessing because of my boy, of his death. But now I can say I was blessed, but for this overwhelming tragedy. And I think my son, Tucker, allows me to be, to have this sense of, I relate to a lot of the hostage families. You know, many of these families are never going to get their children back.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Their children have either been killed or may in fact get killed if we don't successfully get to a peace program in Gaza. So I think that this sense of sensitivity or empathy that I have, I can relate to them. They all have my telephone numbers. I talk to them on a daily basis. And I think it's been a big help for them. But interestingly enough, it's been a big help for me.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And I talked to the president about this. I had hostage families in the Oval Office the other day The president was tired, and he said to me, he knew they were at my office, and he said, bring them up. Let me at least say hello to them and get connected to them, but let them know I only have a couple of minutes because it was a hectic day.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
He spent an hour and a half with them, talked to every one of them. gave them his challenge coin, every one of them, listened to their stories. People who talked about children who might not come home, many of these people were captives themselves, hostages. You know, it's a very real experience when you sit there and you listen to what it was like.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Some of these people lived in cages, were chained 24 hours a day. You know, we talked about what it was like to find a bathroom, right? Or what it was like to live in the dark or to be starving to death, you know, as some of them were, or to have watched people be murdered. And the president... As a president, he doesn't have to do that if he doesn't want to.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
He could sort of get the information just from me. But it's up close and personal for him. And that way of doing things guides people like me who work for him. Now I want to get up close and personal. That's why I went to Gaza. I was the first U.S. official to go to Gaza in 22 years. But how would you implement a peace deal if you didn't go to the place...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
where the peace deal was being implemented. I mean, it's curious, right? It is curious. Who would try to get a peace deal done? It's all in the implementation. So what the contract says, what the writing says, now we have to figure out the battlefield conditions. Nobody had been there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, I think that's complicated. I think they're well-motivated. I think there are things that they're trying to get done. You know, as an example, we would not be as effective in what we're doing there if Bibi did not get Nasrallah out of the picture in Lebanon. If he did not decapitate – because he's effectively decapitated Hezbollah –
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
If he did not do what he did with Hamas, he's decapitated Hamas. Hamas is nowhere close to the terrorist organization that they were beforehand. Both of those events inform on his relationship with Iran and Iran continuing to use proxies and so forth. They're less prone to do those sorts of things today, right?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And so that sort of Iranian crescent or that Islamist crescent that everybody thought was going to be effective, it's been largely eliminated. So he's done an exceptional job with that. But of course, the rap he gets is that he's more concerned about the fight than he is about the hostages. I think in some respects, I understand how people make that assessment.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
But I don't necessarily agree with it. I think that he does want to get hostages home if he can, but he believes that pressuring Hamas is the only way to do it. I think in some respects he's right. Look, the nuances here, the changes that happen there on a day-to-day basis. We were at the Arab Summit a week and a half ago. We made a proposal to Hamas. They considered it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
They rejected it the next day. We thought it was unacceptable that they rejected it. Three days later, the Israelis went in. Guess what? They're talking again. Stuff changes there, Tucker. Hour to hour. You really have to stay on top of it. I think Bibi feels that he's doing the right thing. I think he goes up against public opinion because public opinion there wants those hostages home.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, there's no doubt I'm always trying to put myself in the shoes of the other person because a good deal has to work for everybody. But I want to just say this. When I say I speak for the president, it's not because I presume what he's thinking. It's because I ask what he's thinking. He is the president. I'm in my job only because of him.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Public opinion in Israel? In Israel.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I, I went, I went to, I went to hostage square and I went with a detail and my guys were afraid for me to get out. There were, I don't know, four or 5,000 people there. And I, we were passing by and I, and I said, let's stop. You know, it was, there was no plan to go there. Let's stop. We didn't have a lot of security with us. I knew it was going to be fine. I knew it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I came in there, I spent almost an hour there. It was spiritual. All the families were there. Pastages who had been released were there. People were crying. Look, this has infected Israel. It's fractured Israel. It's like a seam cutting right through the soul of the country. We've got to get these people back. I talked to Bibi about it. I talked to Dharma about it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
But, you know, they also have a view strategically about Hamas, how they have to be dealt with. I'm not sure. In some respects, there are times that we agree with each other. There are times we slightly disagree. But I think they're well-motivated is my point. And our policy is that... Hamas cannot cannot continue to exist here. That's the president's policy.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And I'm a I'm a I'm a you know, I'm someone who follows the president because he's the one who got elected. And I believe in his policy.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Right.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
right do you understand it well i understand we have to have that notion i understand that we have to be outcome oriented what what would be how we're operating myopically if we if we're not outcome oriented if we don't i mean peace stability The Gulf Coast could be one of the most undervalued opportunities if we get peace and stability throughout the region.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
If we solve Iran and you can finance in that market, the Israelis are brilliant from a technological standpoint. They've got a huge... technological base there. Yes. They're in AI, robotics, blockchain. That's where the UAE is today. I know. That's where Saudi Arabia is today. That's where Qatar is today.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Can you imagine all these countries working collaboratively together and creating that type of market? It could be much bigger than Europe. Europe is dysfunctional today. Imagine if they became functional and everybody's a business guy there. It could be amazing.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And to me, I give him the respect of always asking the question, Where do you want to get to, Mr. President? And so that's critical. So now I know where he stands, and now it's about tactics. As you talk about from the other side's standpoint, it's important for me to know or to have a feeling of where the Israelis want to get to. What about the Qataris? They're the mediators at the table.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
When you say the map, you mean what? What countries?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
So I would say the goal begins with how do we deal with Iran? That's the biggie. So the first is nuclear. We cannot have that. And we can talk about it in this session. how bold it was for the president to send that letter, because many would not, and that's an important thing, but I'll leave it to the end.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
So it begins with Iranian nuclear, but most importantly, because Iranian nuclear, if they were to have a bomb, that would create North Korea in the GCC. We cannot have that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Thank you. Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
What do they want to accomplish here? What about Hamas? Where are they? Will they really demilitarize? Is that something they'll do? Will they take the Golden Bridge out of Gaza? All of these are considerations. But first, I have to find out where the boss wants to end up. And the boss is President Trump.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, I think it's important to recognize that everybody may want something. I think in the case of the Qataris, they're criticized for not being well-motivated. It's preposterous. They are well-motivated. They're good, decent people. What they want is a mediation that's effective, that gets to a peace goal. And why? Because they're a small nation and they want to be acknowledged as a peacemaker.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
We need, we can't rebuild Gaza and it be based on a welfare system. We have to give people prospects, economic and financial prospects. That's exactly right. You have to treat them like human beings, adults, you know. Where they have nothing.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
What do you think happens next? Well, let me say this. We got it because they didn't want to defy him. He's a bad guy to defy. The Israelis? No, President Trump. No, but the Israelis did not want to defy Trump. But not just the Israelis. It was the Israelis. It was Hamas. It was Qatar wanting, you know, everybody had to know that we needed to pull in the same way. And we got it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And I think the president realizes that, and I realize that today. But we have to know that. If they had a different agenda, it would be important for us to know that different agenda. I think if they had a different agenda, it would be fine as long as we weren't operating blind. And operating blind is really the problem in a negotiation like this. You have to know where everybody stands.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
There's a lot of miscommunication in that deal. Lots. We cleaned up the miscommunication. That was the game plan. But it was the president's, his sort of overarching personality. And letting everybody know that success was not an option. It had to be. It was a mandate. And that's how we got to that place.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I mean, it would take me a 10-hour interview to explain to you the ins and outs of how we actually got there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, that's what he would do. So that's what I did because that's what he would do. He would roll in and say, this is unacceptable. This is what we need to have happen. And that's effectively what I did. By the way, why reinvent the wheel? Why not copy the master? He's the master. So why not copy the strategy? It's worked effectively.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Because Joe Biden is not Donald Trump. It's as simple as that. So you think about it, when his policymakers walked into the Oval Office, were they going to get that sort of direct mandate from him? And I was not there, so this is just a thesis. My bet is not. I walk into the Oval Office, Tucker, it's purposeful. That's what it feels like.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
We're there to get solutions, to agree on solutions, and then to decide on how tactically we're going to get to that place. That's what we do. We sit in the Oval Office. I could be sitting there with Susie Wiles, John Radcliffe, Mike Waltz, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. I mean, exceptional human beings. Tulsi Gabbard and...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Yeah, we have some fun together because it's a very tight knit team. I mean, he's got he's got a great team this year, you know, that he's put into place this year. And hopefully they'll all be there for the entire term. But we are there to be solution based. And it's a collaborative conversation with with the president leading the conversation. He's interested in a lot of different opinions.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
which I think is the, you know, underscores what a great leader he is. He's not stuck on a view. He's prepared to consider different things. I think that makes him a great leader. I think people have that misconception about him that, you know, he wakes up in the morning and, you know, this is the way it's going to be. No, he listens. He's intent on understanding different viewpoints.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
That's for sure. He's prepared to be flexible in his thinking. I think that's what comes from a lifetime of experience. And I think it's a great example to all of us who work for him because we go out with that way of thinking too, for the most part.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I do. I mean, I'm not at liberty at this moment to talk about- I bet you're not.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I think there have been signs. I think the Israelis going in is in some respects unfortunate and in some respects falls into the had-to-be bucket. It kind of had to be. Hamas was not responding. They were not. And their responses were unreasonable. And I, you know, look, I warned everybody at the Arab Summit.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
We presented a proposal at the Arab Summit 10 days ago or two weeks ago that was reasonable, that was a bridge to get to a peace deal, a bridge to get to demilitarization of Hamas and a discussion about an enduring truce. That's what I was presenting 10 days ago. And Hamas, their reaction was completely inappropriate. Inappropriate is probably a light word, but...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I warned everybody that this was going to result in some sort of military action. Not because I know. I did not know before the Israelis went in. I just sensed that that was going to be the only alternative based on Hamas's reaction. Now, that may not... We may be able to reverse things, or we may use this...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
We may be able to use this to get Hamas to be a whole lot more reasonable because they have a lot of sway there. And they impose that sway at the point of a gun, which is why we have to demilitarize them. We need real elections in Gaza. There has to be a whole new way of thinking. We need a real security force there to ensure to Israel that they're not going to have a problem with them long term.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
If Israel thinks they're going to have a problem in Gaza because Hamas is going to be there long term, this is never going to end. So the only way to deal with this conflict is to make sure that we satisfy everybody that we're not going to have – we're never going to have an October 7th ever again.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Huge factor. It's a huge factor. I think King Abdullah in Jordan has done an amazing job, amazing job, of figuring out how to deal with that instability. But, you know, in some respects, he's been lucky. I think Egypt is a flashpoint. All the good that happened in the Ayoub election because of Nasrallah and Sinwar being eliminated, that could all be reversed if we lose Egypt.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
What happened in Syria was a huge data point for the region. I mean, it... Getting him out, Assad, was a big deal. And no one ever expected it. But Egypt has a very restive... I want to say the stats in Egypt are huge unemployment among, you know, under 25, like 45% unemployment. A country can't exist like that. They're largely broke. They need a lot of help.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
If we have a bad event in Egypt, it could take us back. And Saudi Arabia also. Large, you know, I mean, he's an amazing leader, MBS. But people are worried about his young population and how they're looking at this whole thing. Which is why we've got to solve Gaza. Because if we solve Gaza, which is the condition precedent to Saudi normalizing, then Saudi can normalize. And if they normalize...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, you know, here's an example, Gaza. And what the president set forth is what he wanted to do with Gaza. I came back from my first trip. This is before he was inaugurated, where we had permission from the Biden administration to collaborate with him.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
We're building on the framework of the Abraham Peace Accords, which, of course, is the president's creation. He wants the Abraham Peace Accords to be augmented, and we're in the process of doing it. We think we're going to be announcing several new countries who are joining.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Is there a lot of concern about that? Well, I think there was, but I think the president had a great conversation with Erdogan a couple of days ago. Really transformational, I would describe it. I mean, I think it's been underreported, to tell you the truth. And I think it's underreported because of the hoodies, because of...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
What happened with Israel and because of what's going on with Russia, Ukraine, it's not really, you know, a headline. But I think Tom Barrack, who's the ambassador there, has done and will do an exceptional job. I think the president has a relationship with Erdogan and that's going to be important. And I think that there's some good coming.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
There's some just a lot of good positive news coming out of Turkey right now as a result of that conversation. So I think you'll see that in the reporting in the coming days.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And the president said, when do you think Gaza can be reconstructed? 15 years was my answer. Maybe 20. And he said, why? I said, I gave him the battlefield conditions. I was in Gaza, actually, that it's been decimated. It's been destroyed. There are tunnels underneath. So think Swiss cheese underneath. And then they got hit with bunker buster bombs. So there's no rock there anymore.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I think we've made more progress. Again, by the way, look, Tucker, I'm not just saying it. Every solution comes as a result of President Trump. And I don't get paid to say that. I say it because it is the absolute truth. Putin's got a huge respect for the president. And, you know, you saw what happened in the Oval Office with Zelensky and the president, right?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I mean, disrespecting him is not a healthy way to have... To have a good relationship.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And they're dependent on us. Oh, I know. And we've been so good to them.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And I think that's... But look, that's been corrected and that's a really good thing. It got corrected and hopefully we'll chalk it up to a misunderstanding and we'll get to a peace solution here. But I believe... that we have made more progress in Russia in this Russian-Ukraine conflict in the last eight weeks than anyone thought we would ever make.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I hear people describe this last conversation that the president had with President Putin as... you know, unsuccessful. It's preposterous, by the way. We talked throughout a two-hour conversation about an ultimate ceasefire. And there are conditions that the Russians will need for an ultimate ceasefire because an ultimate ceasefire is complicated.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
A, there's Kursk, where Ukrainian troops are surrounded. Fact. And the Russians.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Kursk is within Russia. The Russians have taken it back.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And they've got people trapped there. And the president doesn't want to see everybody getting killed. That's a significant battlefield condition that has to be dealt with. But on top of that. Is that acknowledged? Like, I don't know if the New York Times is writing that story right now. I think it gets lost a little bit.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
First of all, I think a lot of these newspaper stories, they're agenda-driven. People start out saying, I support the Ukrainians, so I'm going to write the article in a certain way. Look, I want to see Ukraine come out of this okay. I want to see Russia come out of it okay. Again, outcome-oriented in this circumstance means that we need a deal that the Ukrainian people can live with.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
We have to sell it. There's going to be various Senate approvals that we may need here. And that's the political system we're in, that we're going to want everybody to be in some respect satisfied. So we're going to want the Russians to be satisfied in some respect. We're going to want the Ukrainians to be satisfied in some respect. We're talking to the Europeans.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
When I say satisfied, feeling that we came out of this thing, okay, with a deal that everybody can live with. I think that we have moved Russia in ways that no one thought was possible. So in the last conversation, they agreed to an energy infrastructure ceasefire, which means Russia is not going to target Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and Ukraine will not target Russia's energy infrastructure.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
They've never talked about that before. Here we are talking about that. They've never talked about reinstituting the Black Sea moratorium on maritime hits. Ukraine firing on Russian ships, Russia firing on Ukrainian ships. Now we're down to, and that's going to be implemented over the next week or so. There's some details that need to be discussed, but that became a part of that conversation.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
That's big stuff, really big stuff.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
what do what's the ultimate goal the ultimate goal is a 30-day ceasefire during which time we discuss a permanent ceasefire we're not far away from that but a 30-day ceasefire is something where we have to figure out what all the battlefield conditions are which is why i began with kursk but kursk is just the beginning of it because there's this 2 000 kilometer that's 1200 miles this 2 000 kilometer border between ukraine and russia
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
There's no place to put footings if you're going to build buildings. And yet the whole world thought that this was a five-year reconstruction plan. And why? Because the Biden May 27th protocol, which is the operating agreement pursuant to which the negotiation between Hamas and the U.S. government and Israel happen, talks about a five-year plan. But that's a false set of facts.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
where the Russian and Ukrainian troops are involved in, I don't know, 50, 60, 70, maybe 80 firefights throughout this border with all kinds of different conditions. Putin asked me in the meeting, what should I do in a particular area where we have people surrounded and they don't want to give up? Do I kill them? How do I get them to give up? I'm happy not to kill everybody.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I'm happy to get people to wave the white flag if I can get them to wave the white flag. And that one situation, Steve, this is Putin talking to me, is just one example of 70, 80, 90 different situations out there along this border. Each one having different battlefield conditions. Each one needing a separate conversation. That's what has to happen for a ceasefire. And yet we're talking about it.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
That's a big, big deal. Our technical teams are going to be meeting in Jeddah. beginning Monday. That's a big deal. There's all kinds of good positive talk coming out of Russia about their willingness to consider all of these different things. And Zelensky had a wonderful conversation with the president after the President Putin's conversation the next day.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And I think that indicates that they've got some degree of flexibility in the way that they've been thinking about finishing up this conflict. So I am not to sound like a forever optimist, but I am very, very optimistic that we're going to be able to bring the two sides together. We have narrowed the issues so considerably. So I'm optimistic.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
deliver that? Well, first of all, I think the largest issue in that conflict are these so-called four regions, Donbas, Crimea, you know, the names. Lugansk, yeah. They're Russian speaking. There have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule. I think that's the key issue in the conflict. So that's the first thing.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Level setting the facts, you have to acknowledge that it's a 15 to 20 year plan. When we first started talking 15 to 20 years, everyone said that we didn't know what we were talking about until the journal wrote an article and said 15 to 20 years. Yes. So the president's plan about CASA was all about...
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
When that gets settled... And we're having very, very positive conversation.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Correct. That's correct. But this has always been the issue. Right. And it's sort of no one wants to talk about it. That's the elephant in the room. The elephant in the room is there are constitutional issues within Ukraine as to what they can concede to with regard to giving up territory. The Russians are de facto in control of these territories.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
The question is will they be – will the world acknowledge that those are Russian territories? Will it end up – can Zelensky survive politically if he acknowledges this? This is the central issue in the conflict, absolutely that. On NATO, I think that Zelensky and he's got a right-hand guy, Yermak, I think that they've largely conceded that they are not going to be a member of NATO.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
There's been all kinds of talk about whether they could still have, quote-unquote, what is called Article 5 protection, which gives every NATO country protection. has this Article 5 protection, whether Ukraine could have that in some respect from the United States or European nations without being a member of NATO. And I think that's open for discussion.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
But I think it's accepted that Ukraine and Russia, if there's going to be a peace deal, Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO. I think that's largely accepted.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
But he did meet with you for a long time. What did you think of him? I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me. Of course, by the way, I've said that. And you can imagine, by the way, I say that I get pilloried. Oh, my gosh. You're actually saying that.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
First of all, I thought it was gracious of him to accept me. Yeah. To see me. Why would I interpret it any other way? But that was gracious. Now, I'm an emissary of the president.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And the president had a great relationship with Vladimir Putin in his first term. So I think Vladimir Putin knew that it was going to be hard for the president at this time to come over to Russia. I think they're going to meet in the coming months. But I think it was enormously gracious for him to accept me. And I need to acknowledge that.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I know. But by the way, that's the same way that I said that Sheikh Mohammed is a good guy. Well, he is a good guy. Yeah. I mean, if you don't – in our country, if you don't act like a lemming and just walk off the cliff like everybody else, then you get attacked. By the way, how would we settle a conflict with a guy – with someone who is the head of a major nuclear power? Yeah.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
How do we put people back in a battle zone where there are munitions all over the field or where there are these latent conditions so that a kid could fall into a hole and go 40, 50, 60 feet down and you'd never know that he was there? Who would do such a thing? If we had buildings in those conditions in New York, there would be yellow tape all around and no one would be allowed in. Yes.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Unless we establish trust and – and good feelings with one another. I don't know how you would do such a thing. And President Putin said to me in the first meeting I had, he said, Steve, do you know that I didn't talk to Joe Biden for three and a half years? It's craziness. How would you resolve that? Tucker, can you imagine me and you having a conflict? I don't know what it was.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
You live in this house, I live in that house. Okay, I think you've encroached on my land and we never have a conversation about it. I mean, how do you resolve things?
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
When I came back after, before the first meeting with President Putin, when President Trump said to me, go over and have that conversation. I think we're going to have a good, healthy conversation. Before that conversation, there was no talk about a Black Sea moratorium. There was no conversation about an energy infrastructure moratorium on hits, you know, between the two countries.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
We were not talking about prisoner exchanges and all kinds of other stuff. After one meeting, and I am saying to you, not because of me, because this was President Trump sending a signal to President Putin that he wanted to resume his relationship together and that they were going to be two great leaders figuring out this conflict. That was the message. That was me coming there.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
That was my message to President Putin. I was directed by President Trump to deliver that message, that we were here to begin a real discussion, a productive discussion about how to end this conflict. And President Putin, to his credit, sent all kinds of signals back to the president that this is the path that he wanted to be on, including statements that he made. In the second visit that I had,
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
It got personal. President Putin had commissioned a beautiful portrait of President Trump from the leading Russian artist and actually gave it to me and asked me to take it home to President Trump. which I brought home and delivered to him.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
It's been reported in the paper, but it was such a gracious moment and told me a story, Tucker, about how when the president was shot, he went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed for the president, not because he could become the president of the United States, but because he had a friendship with him and he was praying for his friend.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
It was, I mean, can you imagine sitting there and listening to these kind of conversations? And I came home and delivered that message to our president and delivered the painting. And he was clearly touched by it. So this is the kind of connection that we've been able to reestablish through, by the way, a simple word called communication.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Which many people would say, you know, I shouldn't have had because Putin is a bad guy. I don't regard Putin as a bad guy. That is a complicated situation, that war. And all the ingredients that led up to it. You know, it's never just one person, right? So... We're going to I think we're going to figure it out.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And then, of course, he got criticized for that as if he was looking to create a beachside community with gleaming towers and casinos. It was preposterous. He was being realistic about how you needed to consider Gaza. So, I think it's really important that when you're making these decisions that you level set the facts. And that was my instructions from President Trump.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Because that's what we've been enduring. Oh, I know. Censorship. Yes. We've been enduring a media that, you know, they all march together. I mean, I told you the story. I give interviews about President Trump and I guess what? All the nice things I have to say about him because I believe in that that. sort of gets excised out of my interviews. Not with you, I know, because you're a fan too.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I'm a great fan of his, so you hear it. But guess what? Trump derangement syndrome still exists out there today. He said it at the State of the Union. If I came here... And he was looking at the Democrats. If I came here, I had the cure for cancer, and I had a magic pill that would cure all conflicts all over the world, nobody would cheer for me on your side. And it really is true, by the way.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Look at how all the different things he's involved in now. I mean, we are out there curing and solving conflicts all over the world. It's unbelievable. No one's ever seen this sort of progress before. Yeah. The Russians want to engage with us once again because we have a real decision maker. Iran is now responding to the letter. Hopefully we can solve that.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Gaza, Turkey, we've got real leadership and the world needed leadership and we were bereft of that leadership. We didn't have it. And the Trump administration is moving forward with strong leadership. It's a big deal.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Yes. You do. There will be. Yeah. They've agreed to it. There will be elections in Ukraine. And I agree with you. I think Zelensky is trying his best. I think he's in a very, very difficult position, but he's up against a nuclear nation. And he's also up against a nation that has four times the population that he has. And so he's got to know that he's going to get ground down.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Now is the best time for him to get a deal done. President Trump can deliver him the best possible deal he's ever going to get.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
So without getting into names, I've talked to multiple European leaders and I've said to them, the more you encourage, uh, him not to be proactive at the peace table, the more you suggest that, um, aid will continue without any conditions attached to it. No one says that we shouldn't aid Ukraine today and in the reconstruction later on. But it's got to come with certain conditions.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Go out there, level set the facts, figure out what it is, and then we'll make decisions about where we want to see Gaza going to. And I think we've got a better, that's a better program.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
If we're going to give a lot of money to Ukraine, we want to hear the business plan of how this is going to get resolved. Because it's an unsustainable business plan if they don't have a plan for how it gets resolved. We just can't forever give money because they'll get ground down. And ultimately, and this is, you know, me and we've discussed this in the administration.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Ultimately, what you can have here is risk of any kind of nuclear action, even the tactical nuclear action. Exactly. I mean, even if it's not a big bomb explosion, just a tactical nuke would take stock markets down all over the world.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
You can't allow it to happen. It's not a precedent you want at all. And while I think we have to get a fair deal for Ukraine... We cannot allow that country to drag us into World War III. And that's not my policy. That's President Trump's policy.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Is that a posture? Is it a pose? Well, I think – I think it's a combination of a posture and a pose and a combination of also being simplistic. I think there's this, you know, this sort of notion of we've all got to be like Winston Churchill. The Russians are going to march across Europe. I think that's preposterous, by the way. We have something called NATO that we did not have in World War II.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Do you think the Russians want to march across Europe? A hundred percent not.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
First of all, why would they want to absorb Ukraine? For what purpose? Exactly. They don't need to absorb Ukraine. That would be like occupying Gaza. Why do the Israelis really want to occupy Gaza for the rest of their lives? They don't. They want stability there. They don't want to deal with that. But the Russians also have what they want. They've gotten, they've reclaimed these five regions.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
They have Crimea and they've gotten what they want. So why do they need more? He said, Putin is a very smart guy. You know, someone said to me that someone, I was talking to someone in the administration. They said, well, you got to watch it because he's an ex-KGB guy. So I said, okay, what's the inference? Well, he's an ex-KGB guy. He could be looking to manipulate you.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Sorry. This was not an ex-CIA guy. Well, they all are. But effectively, and I said, look, here's how I see it. In the old days, the only people who went into the KGB were the smartest people in the nation. That's who went into the KGB. He's a super smart guy, okay? You don't want to give him the credit for it. That's okay. I give him the credit for it.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
But he is.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
So should we ignore it? I mean – and this is what I talk about with level setting the facts. Like are we now – like Trump was elected. We're now allowed to speak freely. We were not – we were muzzled, Tucker. No one was allowed to say what they really wanted to say.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I mean, we just came out of a world where a judge who was not even an elected judge could tell a man that he was going to spend 10 years in prison, you know, and he had 80 million votes in this country. Guess what? That's gone. Okay. So, you know, listen, we can breathe again.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
But who doesn't want to have a world where Russia and the United States are doing collaboratively good things together? Exactly. Thinking about how to integrate their energy policies in the Arctic. Exactly. Share sea lanes. Maybe send LNG gas into Europe together. Maybe collaborate on AI together if we can get past technology migration. Who doesn't want to see a world like that?
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
What about the presidents being able to talk to one another about Iran, where Russia has some degree of influence? I mean, who doesn't want to see a world like that? To me, it's so logical. I passionately want to see a world like that.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Like, why wouldn't you want that?
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, I think this is the thing. People get wedded, you know, to a prescription because that was what they endorsed before and it's hard for them to back off of it. Yes, it is.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Thank you. Thank you.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Hamas?
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And? Qatar. And Qatar. So I think Qatar is a small nation, probably has the highest GDP per capita, per person, right, of anyone in the world. Huge, huge reserves. I think they want stability. I think they want a peace treaty from the United States. Why? Because, and all the Middle East, all the GCC countries want that, by the way. This is an interesting point.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Everybody thinks the peace treaty is about physical defense. What it's really about is the United States providing a security wrapper so that they're all financeable. Today, you can't borrow money in those countries. So if you want to go do a deal in Saudi Arabia, in the UAE, JP Morgan, if they are the hypothetical bank, has to underwrite war risk.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
They have to underwrite, will the Houthis in Saudi Arabia fire in a hypersonic missile and destroy that AI data center that you just bought for $200 billion? That's a real problem. So a lot of these countries want defense treaties so that they're not just building out of their pocket, they're taking their oil money And they're actually leveraging it and creating a better economy long-term.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
So I think the Qataris want stability. And they don't get enough credit for that motivation. It's a good motivation for their people.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Yeah, it's preposterous. Look, they're a Muslim nation. In the past, they've had some views that are a little bit more radical from an Islamist standpoint than they are today. But it's moderated quite a bit.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
There's no doubt that they're an ally of the United States. There's no doubt about that.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
By the way, and they pay for every dollar of it. They don't have their hand out for a thing. There is nothing that the United States has to fund with regard to that air base. That's pretty unusual. That's amazing. So they fund everything. They don't ask for much. I think I had a conversation with General Carrillo, Eric Carrillo, who runs CENTCOM, an amazing man.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And I said to him, what do you think of the Qataris? He says, they're special people. So the people in the know know that they're good, decent people. What does Hamas want? Well, I think they want to stay there until the end of time and they want to rule Gaza.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And that's unacceptable. So we have to know that. We had to know what they wanted. What they want is unacceptable. What's acceptable to us is they need to demilitarize. Then maybe they could stay there a little bit, right? Be involved politically. But they can't be involved. We can't have a terrorist organization running.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
running uh uh gaza because that won't be acceptable to israel then we'll just have the same exact experiences every every 5 10 15 years we're going to have an october 27th yes october 7th pardon me so that's what hamas wants that's not possible what do they like to deal with I've never really, I've never been in the same room as them, which is a little bit weird, wouldn't you say?
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Like a negotiation where you don't have the other party. Like you don't even know if the guy behind the wall is the Wizard of Oz or he's not the Wizard of Oz, right?
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I think we trust the Qataris. If I didn't trust the Qataris, then that would be really problematic, not meeting with Hamas. And of course, you know, we read... So you can communicate with Hamas through the Qataris. Right. And Sheikh Mohammed, the prime minister of Qatar, is a good man. He's really... He certainly is a good man. He's a special guy. He really is. And he cares.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, first of all, I think President Trump sets the table for all of us. He really does. This whole peace through strength thing, it's not just a slogan. It actually works. And so when he dispatches you to go to the Middle East, people are almost a little bit intimidated before you get there. And this goes for me and other people who are doing similar jobs.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And I've spent a lot of time with him and broken bread with him. And he's just a good, decent human being who wants what's best for his people. But also, like... what you were alluding to before, he's able to put himself in the shoes of the Israelis, of the United States, and I think explain to the Qataris, excuse me, explain to Hamas where they're going to have to get to to make a deal.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Correct.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
Well, it's hard. You know, I'll give you an example of what makes it hard. I went to Gaza and then I had this fabulous lunch with CENTCOM people, military guys.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
I shook hands with everybody I met because who doesn't want to shake the hand of these guys who are out in the field? You know, they protect our country. I'm talking about our military guys.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And then they showed me, this is Southern Command of Israel, then showed me a film of what happened on October 7th. Yeah. And the film is horrific.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
It is about mass rapes.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
There's pictures of Hamas people cutting the head off of an Israeli soldier. I watched them saw the head off. I mean, it's really terrible stuff. And it's beyond what I've ever seen. And it can taint you. It can taint the way you're going to feel about these people. And I think sometimes as a negotiator, you have to be dispassionate. Yes. It's not easy to make decisions if you're going to.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
But I had to see that film, Tucker. Yeah. I mean, that film is a reality. I mean, we can't ignore the reality of what happened on October 7th. Now, they would tell you that they've got justification, but there's no justification for what happened that day. There just isn't.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And unfortunately, there were security lapses that day that shouldn't have happened that accentuated what happened that day, which shouldn't have happened. Do we understand that? I think we understand that there were security lapses, that there were some mistakes that were made. Yes. But we're humans. We're not robots. Oh, I agree. We're not completely overwhelmed by AI right now.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
So people will make mistakes. There were intelligence mistakes, but there's some really good people who were involved here. I met some exceptional people in Israel. I mean, really some exceptional people who... Yes. And it's a difficult situation, but... I think you have to know what Hamas wants, just to go back to your question. Yes.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
And then you've got to figure out what you can give them that allows them to walk out. Because that's what's needed here. You know, what we heard in the beginning of this conflict is Hamas is ideological. They're prepared to die.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
For a whole variety of reasons, I personally, and I talked to the president about this, there's nothing I don't talk to the president about before we're gonna make a decision. Because he is the guy. He was elected, I was not, none of the other people were, he was elected. I think that's how we have to function. With that said, I said to him, I don't think that they are as ideologically locked in.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
They're not ideologically intractable. I never believed that, by the way. I believe they strap on the suicide vests onto young kids who don't know what they're doing, right? And they tell them a story. And once you understand that, once you understand that they wanted to live, then you were able to talk to them in a more effective way. Smart, smart.
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Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
You know what? I get a lot of intelligence reports, so I'm able to read things. And it just felt to me that the rhythm and the cadence of the negotiation, that's part of it too, right? If I'm not there all the time, I'm getting secondhand information. I had to feel it for myself. I had to be able to sort of live it in real time. And that's when I sort of came to the conclusion that,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Steve Witkoff’s Critical Role in Negotiating Global Peace, and the Warmongers Trying to Stop Him
So he sets the table in a pretty powerful way. But negotiating is being outcome oriented. I talk about this a lot. It's figuring out where you want to get to. That's Trump's game plan all the time. I sit with the president and we talk often about what the end game is. Where does he want to get to?
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And I simply have said that I just don't see that he wants to take all of Europe. This is a much different situation than it was in World War II. In World War II, there was no NATO. So, you have countries that are armed there. To me, I take him at his word in this sense.
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I think there's going to be some action taken. It could be jointly with the Israelis. It's unclear right now, but I think Hamas has an opportunity to act reasonably, to do what's right, and then to walk out. They're not going to be a part of a government there.