Kushner delivers masterful response to hostile question from NBC News reporter

U.S. special envoy Jared Kushner.

U.S. special envoys Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, and Steve Witkoff met with news reporters over the weekend following their visit to Moscow, where they met with Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine, where they met in Kyiv with Volodymyr Zelensky, who sat beside them as they answered questions. One particular exchange was very revealing about how the mainstream media has approached the Trump administration -- in an overtly hostile manner rather than merely adversarial -- and how the administration approaches complex problems. 

"Why should people have any confidence in your capacity to succeed here?" NBC News reporter Richard Engel demanded at one point of the press conference. "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."

Kushner then responded by listing some of the Trump administration foreign policy wins from both his first and second terms, including the signing of the Abraham Accords and the 2026 World Cup being played in the U.S., the 2028 Summer Olympics set to take place in the U.S., among other things. 

"The tone of your question was a little bit like: 'Why haven't you done every single impossible thing possible?'" Kushner told Engel. "And I think President Trump has a track record of doing impossible things. I think the last administration, they didn't go to Russia. I mean, I think they had one visit with the CIA director. But, you know there's a war," Kushner continued. "Every day there are soldiers on the front line from both sides, and they wanna go home to their families, and there are people in these cities who have bombs dropping, and their lives are very disrupted, and they wanna see that put to an end. And so, if the answer was simple, then somebody would have solved it. But I think President Trump's general framework is that if something is worthy and important and will have a big impact, it doesn't matter how much he'll get criticized by people in the press."

Zelensky said after the meeting with Kushner and Witkoff that there may be a new window for negotiation and a possible end to the more than five-year conflict in the time between fall and winter. Below, watch Kushner's full reply to Engel.