president and the president s son-in-law. they feel good because he has the ear of the president. a lot of these issues are intractable, there s a reason they haven t been solved for a long time. i m told jared kushner looks at the middle east issue as a real estate issue. and real estate is part of it. but president obama says, you can t want it more than the negotiators want it. you have to persuade people to take risks, bb, the palestinians. and that isn t about reali estate. it s about understanding the kind of courage it takes to make deals that could potentially hurt you. philip, i m wondering if you believe that this set-up in the white house is ultimately kind of designed to fail. i keep saying we ve never seen a flow chart like this, and you could say that times about five.