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“We were faced at a situation where the government was just very unprepared for what was occurring, and there'd been a lot of mistakes done by the CDC with the testing”

“And then the other criticism is that they were helping fund Hamas and they have the office there. But the reality is, is that that was always done at the request of the US government and the Israelis were working hand in hand with them in order to work that th…”

“And with Trump coming in, there's a super high probability that their ability to sell oil in the future is going to go down.”

“Israel's a nuclear power.”

“You saw when Elon Musk put out an idea for how to navigate the situation in Ukraine, he got blasted by a lot of people.”

“The controversies you hear about them are around, they're funding a lot of these colleges and universities, but From what I've looked into that, it shows that they're basically funding the universities that have built campuses in their country because they car…”

“They all agreed, and so over the last year, we closed a billion and a half extra capital and extended the investment period of the fund to 2029.”

“Now he's coming in much more popular than last time, way more accepted than last time.”

“There was just a study that came out on the program we put in place, which basically brings skills training, alcohol training, and allowing inmates to earn earlier release by taking these courses. What it did was, there was the people who got out who didn't us…”

“I think the office space right now is in for a massive change in the industry. I think you're going to see a lot of the older buildings get get transitioned. A lot of them are trading now for below land price, which is pretty remarkable.”

“The building we bought was for 1.8 billion dollars, which at the time was the largest price ever paid for a single asset in the country.”

“And ISIS was roaming around and had a caliphate the size of Ohio. Where they were governing over eight million people pretty ruthlessly.”

“Kevin Hassett, who's on our team, is now going to become the national economic advisor for president Trump.”

“And so we ended up finding more Q-tips in a factory in Italy, and we sent some C-seventeens from the military to pick them up before anyone noticed they were there.”

“And what happened was is they said, can we give you a million dollars? To invest in companies that you're investing in with you. And so Josh said, I guess we have a fund now.”

“He just got nominated to be ambassador for France.”

“Again, I wasn't accepting money for any of these jobs, so it wasn't doing it for financial gain.”

“Before October seventh, I mean, over half the population lived under the poverty line.”

“I think GDP will take a big hit there in Q four, but obviously, you know, in Israel, they do have a history of coming back right away.”

“One thing with Trump, he won, you know, with his operation, we were able to overperform our polling.”

“In a year and a half, we renegotiated NAFTA, and it got over 80 votes in the Senate.”

“When we were in kind of our worst moments in COVID, the second country that sent us a plane load of supplies and ventilators when New York looked like it was, you know, on the verge of going under was Russia.”

“In the U.S., we have about one point 1300 gigawatts of energy. but what they showed me is that there's about 2000 gigawatts of energy that was waiting for permits from the FERC”

“Manhattan's vacancy rate in the Plaza District was about four percent, which meant the rents were going up double digits every year.”

“We brought in Carlisle Group and the Chira family to buy 50% of the retail for five hundred and twenty-five million dollars at the time, and then we kept a 50%.”

“Then we were able to turn that value into north of a billion of value over the next three, four years, and the Chira's did a great job along with Carlisle, and we were able to get our 50% of the profits, which also returned a lot of our cash from the original …”

“Most of the deals we've done have been with other firms where I try to say with affinity that we're competitive to no one, but collaborative with everyone and complimentary. So we work with all the other top tier firms and we co-invest where they bring differe…”

“He started a second chance program in his company where a lot of people come out of prison, get jobs at Kushner.”

“And I will say in New York that the rental rates for residential, I think are at historic highs”

“I sat with MBZ, who's now the president of UAE. At the time, he was the crown prince, but he was the de facto ruler of the country.”

“He hired a general, Michael Haydet, from the White House, who was one of our most solid, quiet, get stuff done guys, and he hired Michael.”