Watch Tonight's Chat: Ricardo Karam interviews Thomas Barrack, Jr



Tonight's Chat on The National

Tonight's Chat is a series of online conversations on The National. The series features a diverse range of celebrities, politicians and business leaders from around the Arab world.

Tonight’s Chat host Ricardo Karam is a renowned author and broadcaster with a decades-long career in TV. He has previously interviewed Bill Gates, Carlos Ghosn, Andre Agassi and the late Zaha Hadid, among others. Karam is also the founder of Takreem.

Intellectually curious and thought-provoking, Tonight’s Chat moves the conversation forward.

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In the first episode of Tonight's Chat, a new online interview series exclusively on The National, host Ricardo Karam is in conversation with Thomas Barrack, Jr.

Mr Barrack, a Lebanese-American, is a close confidant of US President Donald Trump. He is executive chairman of the investment firm Colony Capital and an influential figure in building US economic links in the Middle East.

Mr Barrack discusses the evolution of the United States' role in the region, Arab-American identity, Palestine and Israel, George Floyd and Mr Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, among other subjects.

On Mr Trump, Mr Barrack says: "I don't agree with many of the presentation policies of President Trump ... I think he's done as good a job as anyone would do on very complicated matters, Covid-19 included."

On his own investment strategies, Mr Barrack recommends targeting "all things digital".

And on the future of the global economy, Mr Barrack points to the defining feature of today's socioeconomic landscape as being "a difference between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'".

Tonight's Chat on The National

Tonight's Chat is a series of online conversations on The National. The series features a diverse range of celebrities, politicians and business leaders from around the Arab world.

Tonight’s Chat host Ricardo Karam is a renowned author and broadcaster with a decades-long career in TV. He has previously interviewed Bill Gates, Carlos Ghosn, Andre Agassi and the late Zaha Hadid, among others. Karam is also the founder of Takreem.

Intellectually curious and thought-provoking, Tonight’s Chat moves the conversation forward.

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