Is Jared Kushner a 'walking conflict of interest'?

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Jared Kushner is once again playing an extraordinary role in American foreign policy. He's President Trump's son-in-law, and during Trump's first term, he was a senior White House advisor who became one of the administration's central players in the Middle East. Today he is helping negotiate peace deals in some of the world's biggest conflicts, from Israel and Gaza, the Russian-Ukraine war, to the US war with Iran. At the same time, Kushner runs a private equity firm backed by billions of dollars from places like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. My guest, Dexter Philkins, spent months tracing how these two worlds overlap and what happens when diplomacy and private business become difficult to separate.

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