Black, white, brown, rich, poor and middle class. America is divided into identity and more divided than ever in the countrys modern history. How did we get so polarized . Here is my take. The leap for john boltons forthcoming book are the reserveulation in treserv revelation in the impeachment process. Compare them to chart of public support for removing trump from office. It looks like the ekg of someone after a fatal heart attack, a flat line. Nothing changes. The story of this impeachment is the story of american politics today. It affects every aspect political life. Would it be great if someone would digest all these studies, si synthesize them and make a book that made sense of it all. Klein begins to explain polarization is nothing new. America has been divided for a long time. But, back then each body contains a variety of political views which meant these defensive had to be navigated and negotiated. Liberal democrats had to attempt for their seal because political powers in the senate depended on the southern wing of the party. Since 1964 when the democrats broke with the segregationists, obviously a good thing, the party sorted ideals logically. One megaship that exacerbated is that partisanship is about identity. Identity is determined by demographic factors, above all after the president obamas presidency, race. Until White Working Class voters were evenly split between the two parties. By 2015, they lean republicans by 24 percentage point. Once identity is at the heart of identity differences, facts will not change peoples miends. A better healthcare bill will not. This crucial insight is something democrats need to internalize. The key to gaining support among undecided voters probably lies in addressing their identity concerns rather than the economic ones. Bill clinton were master of this sort of symbolic politics. Because of americas political geography, polarization affects the two parties differently. Republicans are a homogenous group. Consider that they have lost the popular vote in four of the last five president ial elections and won the white house in two of those cases. Democrats need to appeal to a broader coalition than republicans. It is just a fact in order to compete an in land state and win the Electoral College. The american political system is not a parliamentary one in which one party gains control of all branches of government. Power is shared between three branches with over lapping authorities. The founders despise the idea of authority. Polarization has utterly paralyzed american government. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. In november 2016, fresh from his surprising election as president of the united states, donald trump, told the New York Times that he wants to be the president who brought peace to the middle east. He wanted his soninlaw, Jared Kushner to be centrally involved in the effort. A few months later, trump announced that Jared Kushner would take the lead doing what many thought is impossible. Right by his side was Senior AdvisorJared Kushner. This week trump announced the details of his socalled peace to prosperity plan. This time with Benjamin Netanyahu on his side, the other side of the deal, the palestinians. The leader of the Palestinians Authority called it the slap of the century as oppose to the deal of the century as Trump Supporters are calling it. I had the opportunity to talk to the man booiehind it all Jared Kushner on friday. Jared kushner, pleasure to have you on. Pleasure to be with you fareed. So you put out this plan on one side, the israelis most of the spectrum likes it and it does allow to israel to most of the settlements, legalizing something that most administrations and democrats and republicans withheld, you are asking the palestinians to say yes in order to get this deal. I am troying to understand how you get to a yes and yes because you have two sides of this party. On one side you have given israelis a lot of this stuff and you asked a lot of them. The last two weeks you have been belligerent about them. If they want to screw this up like everything they have done before, tough for them, they cant pretend to be victims anymore. I am trying to understand what is your strategy to get your palestinians to say yes because it seems like you come out of a proisraelis peace plan and now you are bparading them. We have been working for about three years, we have studied this carefully and what President Trump was able to accomplish this past week is unify israel on a plan during the election of the most divisive issue of politics which have never been done before. Conditions were laid out and a plan that was it is a very sensitive document and people appreciated the depth, the initiative which was the first real attempt that was great attempt of the eight lines. The next attempt were two or three pages of words of high level concept. A detailed road map that can get this done and live side by side in a peaceful existence in a productive way. He released a plan and then he got a map and all the different negotiations. There is never a map this has been public. That establishes ahead to move forward. This people have been trying this prompt for years. It is probably the most complicated problem in the world. We try to take a pragmatic approach and do it differently. The first time is a real offer on the table to break the log jam and it is up to the palestinians to see if they have the opportunity to pursue it. That was a nice step. It does not answer my question. The washington street journal says it is a pro israeli plan. You asked a lot of them, why are they going to say yes and whats the strategy here . You have a lot of the arab countries coming out calling this a serious plan and a based negotiation. Israel has always been isolated, you have the u. K. And poland and a lot of good European Countries come out in favor of this and a lot of arrabic countries. This is as framework for a good nation. The palestinians, just been speaking the truth. What they did was rejected us before it came out. They called for a day of rage and said we want to stay. People are ready are not calling for a day of rage and marking in the streets. We are hoping theyll not try to renegotiate for ways they have done for years, it had not led to results. Our intentions is to lay out a framework that can make the lives of palestinians better. We laid out a 50 billion economic plan thatll create millions of jobs. It got wider claims on the details. This will make the palestinian lives better. What we are expecting is leadership to engage to try to d do that. I will say that again people on this complain a ls a lot and tr to find reasons why it fails. What President Trump is trying to do is find a pathway to move forward that can make peoples lives to be better and prove problems. Here is what strikes me as, suggest that actually there will not be a palestinian state according to this plan. The predicate condition of a palestinian state to be recognized is there must be free elections and guarantee of religious freedom and Financial Institutions that are as good perspective as in the western world and the u. S. And israel will judge whether the palestinians achieve this. There is no country that would meet these criteria, is this just a way to tell the palestinians you are never going to get into state. If no arab country in today in a position, feskeffectively it is killer amendment. It is okay if you dont want to respect human rights and not allow people to speak freely. It does not have any of it. It is not a question to debate. If you are israel and the question is how do we get israel to make compromises, how do we get here . Israel has been attacked many times over history. In defense of wars and through those wars they have been able to thrive as a country and they become a power house militarily and economically and Technology Wise and theyre doing well. You have 5 million palestinians who are trapped under the rule that you have now. The palestinian authority, the leader whos a man who does want peace. Hes in his 16 years of his term. You have a situation where the people dont have the rights to thrive. When we did our conference in bahrain, it was an amazing thing. They didnt come because their leadership was going around handing out flyers saying we have a bullet the new point that came out of that conference was that people are saying we care about the Palestinian People and we are dying to invest jobs there. Nobody said israel was the problem. The problem were twofold. Nobody wants to make Capital Expenditure in a place of terrorists, no stability to the government. The second thing was you need to have a Good Government structure whos going to go on and make Capitol Investments if you dont have Property Rights or rules of law. You have to ask yourself, israel has been a convenient scapegoat for the palestinian authority. It is a unifying feature of the arabic world. But, for the palestinians if they want their people to work better lives, we have a framework to do it. If they dont think we can uphold the standard. 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The congressional was the impeachment process has helped him by adding more to his base. Once impeachment is done with, will people come to the conclusion which was the behavior was wrong even if it is not impeachable. Could that overtime hurt the president . It is a difference between what the voters see or wants, what people in the washington, in the media are calling for. Since the impeachment started most people who are not paying attention to it. We see the number goes up by 7 points. The president s Approval Rating is nationally over 50 . It was the highest it has been since the inauguration. I think it was up 46 . Everything is relative, right . There is a lot of polls that were wrong in the last election. Our data proves more right than the public holds and it continues to be. In the last election, when romney ran, 2 of people disapproved of him voted for him. So look i think it is basically stronger, last night we were in iowa, we had a massive crowd. We had 160,000 people signed up for it. The nenergy i am feeling today was stronger than what we felt at the end of the campaign. President trump has not lost many supporters. A lot of people who say well, what hes talking about. Hes done all the things he promised. He got done criminal Justice Reform work done. He did a lot of things that he didnt promise he was going to do. The American Consumers have never been stronger. 7 million jobs and 2. 5 million americans that are in the work force and 2. 5 million lifted out of poverty and 10 million americans coming off of food stamps. The numbers are unbelievable. The more time we spend time in washington and the more the president has his vision for what he wants to do, he believes the potential for this country is unbelievable. As we finish implementing our deregulation, our agenda and hopefully well do more tax cuts as we focus on being energy and independent which is critical to our Nation Security and bringing down energy cost for people and training people for the future and economy. The potential for making this country strong is unbelieveraab. The president is enthusiastic of what he accomplished so far. You work with the white house and obviously special relationship. Why do you think so many people that work for him leaving feeling very dissatisfied that hes done a lot of wrong things or asked them doing a lot of things, i am thinking of john bolton, john mattis and scarramucci and you can go on. It feels like a lot of people have that feeling. Are they all just wrong . I think being in the white house under this administration is intense. The president is a business person, he demands results and you work hard and deliver. I have seen cream risen. What happens is he cycled out a lot of people that did not have what it took to be successful here and a lot of people coming in being excellent are not out there complaining or writing books because theyre too busy working. If you look at the results that this administration has produced on trade issues and again to do a trade deal, they worked for five years is a horrific trade deal. China, everyone has been talking about china and the president got it done. The president was the first president to get israel to agree with these historic concessions making something impossible possible. I look at everyday of what the president done for the economy. This is not happening because you have a bunch of disgruntle people running around. The president had bad people and he moves them out. The white house and the cabinet, i think the people that we have now are spectacular. I feel honored everyday to be able to work with them. 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Xfinity customers, to watch in 4k this sunday say 4k into your x1 voice remote. Jared kushner you have been involved in a lot of the trade negotiations. Lets talk about the one with moe mexico and canada. Bushs trade representative, robert zelek, why this was a bad deal that it actually you know in many ways added that we are going to reduce capital. This would be the first trade agreement in the history of the public that is designed to diminish trade. So thats two prominent republicans who have been involved in trade who thinks the effect of the deal and negotiations is to diminish trade which means diminish gdp. I will answer all the Different Things you said. First of all, 89 votes in the senate which is pretty unheard of. There is a widespread of popularity in this deal. You have farmer endorsement and manufacture endorsement that you dont usually get. I was not involved in trade globally as my previous life. I got involved in this. President trump had a radical view in trade. People like pat toomey, they had different doctrine. President trumps policy, how do you protect the American Workers and the economy . I became more of a believer that the president s instincts on trade are 100 right. If deficits dont matter why does every country i deal with dont want to have one. Our economy is growing. The trade deficit went up. Overtime you want to reduce the trade deficit. Thats what the president believes and i do believe that as well. The increase under his administration is a sign of structure.