Jack Lew

... on that assumption.

And, and we had t- Jack Lew with us, folks, the former Treasury Secretary, a month ago or so, who made clear after the election of 2028, there's no other issue than in the amendment of Social Security, uh, as well.

But I think the 10 countries, it's all a different story.

We see as we've got five of them here.

I just kind of operate on that assumption.

And we had Jack Lew with us, folks, the former Treasury Secretary a month ago or so, who made clear after the election of 2028, there's no other issue than the amendment of Social Security as well.

But I think the 10 countries, it's all a different story.

Susan, we've got five of them here.

Hey, now.

Uh, or as Jack Lew would call it, big money.

Yeah, big money.

Yeah.

I came in with Hank Paulson.

I then continued through Tim Geithner and the subsequent two, Jack Lew and...

Steve Mnuchin.

So I've seen my different types of treasury secretaries.

Um, and, uh, also, uh, you know, his, uh, connections with, uh, pro-Israel lobby groups like AIPAC, um, But it wasn't just Biden.

I think you do a good job of conveying, right? You mentioned, right, people like Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State I mentioned before, Jack Lew, the ambassador to Israel, who, I mean, stunningly, I mean, he did that interview with the New Yorker, I think last year, where he was like, well, you know, when these Palestinian children are dying, you have to understand a lot of them are children of Hamas leaders, which I think you note in the book as being, you know, extraordinary thing for a diplomat, say.

There was also John Kirby, sort of a U.S. government spokesperson who is incredibly flippant about Palestinian lives.

There was, of course, Brett McGurk, a you know, who I think has gained some notoriety by now for you know, really only seeing things from Israel's perspective and then Jake Sullivan as well.

And then finally, it's really about, and I hope this comes out to people in the book, staggering level of careerism and callousness among senior us officials right so the sense of i don't want to rock the boat or anger someone or be seen in my next job as anti-israel in some way that means i can't advance up the hierarchy and if you look at the men that you named jeremy i mean Look at where they are now.

Jake Sullivan is the Henry Kissinger professor at Harvard University.

Jack Lew is running an institute at Columbia University.

Tony Blinken is on the board of the Center for American Progress, which is a think tank in Washington that's a feeder for Democratic administrations.

We'll talk to SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten about that.

and former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.

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And so...

If you think about, say, someone like Jack Lew, who served as the ambassador to Israel in this period, but had outsized power, took under himself control of almost all interactions with the Israelis about war crimes allegations, for instance, they weren't listening to outside critics.

A lot of them had served in government before, a lot in the Obama administration.

Brett McGurk had served in the George W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and then Biden administrations, and tried to get a job in the second Trump administration unsuccessfully.

Who is tolerable? Some people are blinkin' partisans.

Some people are finer partisans.

Jake Sullivan, Jack Lew, David Satterfield, sort of a lower-level official, are also positioning themselves, but I haven't heard as much kind of support for them.

But I don't think it's a resolved question at all.