Jared Kushner Tells 60 Minutes The Israelis Needed ‘Us to Stop Them’ From Hurting Themselves: ‘We Felt a Little Bit Betrayed’

Alex Griffing Oct 17th, 2025, 6:38 pm

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, two of President Donald Trump’s top Middle East negotiators, sat down with Leslie Stahl this week. released a preview of their discussion on Friday night ahead of Sunday’s show, which showed Kushner saying that he felt the Israelis “were getting a little bit out of control” and needed the U.S. to “ stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”

Witkoff recalled the morning of Israel’s attack on Qatar in September, “And we woke up the next morning to find out that there had been this attack, and of course, I was called by the president. You had no ide

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