Steve Witkoff: “President Trump gave me and Jared a lot, a wide berth, you…”

“You know, it's really like a sort of intractable environment over there. You could see that their negotiators just did not have flexibility or they weren't delegated the authority to make decisions on the spot. And President Trump gave me and Jared a lot, a wide berth, you know, to negotiate this veto. I would say the second meeting was, you know, a little bit more purposeful than the first meeting, but because we got them to agree to present to us some sort of agreement, because we were wide apart on the first meeting, we just.” (10:45–10:53)

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