Kushner Asked to His Face Why Anyone Should ‘Have Any Confidence’ In His Negotiations

Excerpted from MEDIAite article Alex Griffing Sep 7th, 2026

Two roving US foreign envoys as seen by the Observer Status studio

NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel grilled President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and foreign policy envoy, Jared Kushner, during a press conference in Ukraine over the weekend, asking why anyone should have confidence in him, given his track record.

“This is for Mr. Witkoff and Jared Kushner. You have been involved in numerous negotiations around the world. Why should people have any confidence in your capacity to succeed here?” Engel began, adding:

You were involved in the Gaza negotiations, but Gaza remains a wasteland. There’s been really no progress there. Iran, you were involved in those negotiations. The war is still going on. You’ve been involved in several rounds of negotiations in this conflict. It’s only getting more intense. So you’re relaunching negotiations now. What’s the likelihood they will succeed, when other negotiations you’ve been involved in have not?

“These are some of the hardest problem sets in the world, and I think that you have to try and you have to bring to it. Obviously, Steve and I bring different approaches to these things, but we work very well together as partners. But we’re not bringing our approaches. We’re really representing President Trump, and we’re doing it the way that he wants to see these things done,” Kushner replied after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday and Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

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