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Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff's extended 60 Minutes interview

2025-10-19 News & Politics
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Unconventional Diplomacy: How Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff Brokers the Israel-Hamas Agreement

Discover the high-stakes, relationship-centric negotiation tactics—including leveraging executive authority and managing pivotal crises—that secured the complex Israel-Hamas deal. Learn how this team prioritized pragmatic outcomes over traditional diplomatic posturing.

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  • Front-load saving lives by focusing efforts on humanitarian aid coordination and deconlicting field operations.
  • Leverage direct relationships with high-level regional leaders, translating experience into trust, which bypassed traditional diplomatic friction.
  • Pivot the negotiation narrative forcefully after a hostile strike by aligning the Arab world against Hamas globally while securing Israeli compliance.
  • Phase Two focuses heavily on complex governance, establishing an international stabilization force, and managing Hamas disarmament simultaneously.

This analysis details the deal brokering process through the eyes of Kushner and Witkoff, emphasizing President Trump’s delegation of authority. They reveal how pragmatic realism, coupled with an ability to take calculated risks immediately following major setbacks like the Doha compound bombing, drove the negotiations forward. The resulting document provides critical insight into structuring fragile agreements where mutual trust is initially absent.

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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 video is an extended version of the interview that was broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, October 19, 2025. This extended version was condensed for clarity. #news #worldnews "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/full-episodes/ Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook: https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on X: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@pamelavickers8080 2025-10-20

Leslie is an example of why I haven't watched 60 minutes in over 30 years.

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@tablazon1 2025-10-20

LESLIE LESLIE LESLIE… I don’t have a problem you asking the hard questions I just wished you were this intense in the past four years.

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@kimovercash2887 2025-10-20

Leslie was having a tough time interviewing these Trump reps who she considers the enemy. But Jared and Steve knew exactly what she and her team were up to and didn’t flinch.

520 22 replies
@reviews7732 2025-10-21

REMEMBER GUY'S LESLEI ASKED TO BIDEN WHAT KIND OF ICE CREAM FLAVOUR HE LIKES 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@KhunRoger 2025-10-29

SO, THERE IS A MASTER PLAN! Thanks, Witkoff, for being so stupidly honest and giving the game away.

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@2pintwonder 2025-10-20

why does 60 minutes feel like youre going back in time and watching tv from the 90s

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@salimalaffani2307 2025-10-27

So the master plan has been under preparation for two years??????? Very good point

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@julianm1035 2025-10-26

35:25 Jared visibly freaks out and immediately speaks up and changes topic

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@helenpersson6595 2025-10-24

Masterplan? 2 years ago? No wonder Kushner is panicking

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@amys5690 2025-11-12

I think they realized they said to much. They looked nervous as hell when the "master plan" was mentioned.

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