Kushner Betrays America - August 18, 2026

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**Cenk Uygur** (3:15)
Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian with you guys. So usual set of hilarious and tragic news. Pete Hegseth considering running for president. Is he? We're going to find out.
ISIS torturing someone as we speak, super worried about it. If you're skeptical, you'll see it's literal. Democratic operative gets caught by the audience. I love that story. Does Israel control Washington?
There are people still outraged by that question, like, how could you? Okay, we're going to ask that to a guy who's written a book about it. And by the way, spoiler alert, yes, is the answer. But how is the interesting part? But first, we're going to start with one of the ghouls and goblins of DC in this Trump administration. That's Jared Kushner, so let's get it started.

**Jared Kushner** (4:06)
We're very committed to the fact that we have a plan to rebuild Gaza, but we will not allow Gaza to be rebuilt until the demilitarization occurs. Nobody wants to put more money into a place that's gone on for so long until if it's just going to be taken over by terrorists or blown up again.
We're also not gonna restrict Israel's right to defend itself if there are any imminent threats and so we had to clarify what that means. And then we went through the mechanism as well for what we need to do in terms of how to actually take the weapons.

**Cenk Uygur** (4:34)
So that's Jared Kushner. I'm gonna tell you about his personal relationship with Netanyahu in a second. If you don't know it, it will shock you.
And he went with and talked to Netanyahu for four hours and they decided that Israel should keep bombing Gaza. That is so surprising. So I will rage in a little bit also about some of the lies that Kushner told there, but first let's find out the whole story of Ana Kasparian.

**Ana Kasparian** (4:58)
So obviously the outcome of that meeting with a long time family friend of the Kushners, Benjamin Netanyahu, has led to the outcome that you just referenced, Cenk, that the Israelis are free to continue slaughtering innocent people in Gaza. Wow, what a shocker. Now according to the Israeli paper Haaretz, the meeting ended with an agreement that Israel will continue targeted strikes in Gaza which have mostly killed civilians. And I'm gonna prove that to you in just a moment with the data. Now these deaths have occurred after the so called ceasefire that was agreed upon in October of 2025 Israel's attacks in Gaza since the so called ceasefire deal was signed in October of 2025 have killed at least 1,265 Palestinians and wounded 4,198. And that's according to the latest numbers released by Gaza's health ministry. But in June, the United Nations actually released a report where they reported specifically on confirmed deaths of Palestinians, confirmed killings of Palestinians. They were able to confirm the deceased by name. And then they did an analysis on how these individuals were killed, whether or not they're actually Hamas militants. And I wanna give you the results of their findings. Now this was published in regard to the data that they were able to confirm between October of 2025 and April of 2025 Obviously, more Palestinians have been slaughtered by the Israelis since then. But right now, we're just focusing on the months between October 2025 and through April of 2026, okay? So as you can see, 43% of those killed by the Israelis in Gaza, 43% children and women, children and women. And by the way, they were able at that time to confirm the fatalities of 629 people in Gaza, okay, 284 of them, since the ceasefire was announced, were killed in their homes, tents or shelters.
Israelis keep bombing literal tents in refugee camps, like the one in Al Mawasi and Nusrat.