WEBVTT - Middle East Visit - May 13th, Hour 1 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.200 All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.680 of you for being with us. Right down our toll 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.680 free telephone numbers eight hundred and ninety four one. Shawn, 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:10.440 who you want to be a part of the program. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:17.320 As we are broadcasting live, we are in Riad, Saudi Arabia, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.040 on with the President on Air Force one reporting. I 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.080 have an interview with the President tonight on Hannity nine Eastern, 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:26.960 part one of it. We're going to run one part tonight. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.640 How could you ever refuse? Senator Kennedy of Louisiana, who's 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.000 going to be our show also tonight. I love him, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.240 like our favorite guests. Before we get to this stuff 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.839 that we've experienced here and what has happened which has 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.560 been very historic, and we have new King riche away 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.280 in Brigee Gabriel will weigh in. I thought it was funny. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.040 I was laughing about this just before we came on 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.240 the air. Democratic National Committee. You know this guy David 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.320 Hogg who's been saying that he wants the primary all 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.640 the Democrats. Yeah, guess what, the Democratic Party, the most 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:04.120 democratic party in the entire world, the most inclusive. Yeah. Oh, 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.800 they found all of a sudden after he pledged to 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.600 raise all of this money, these millions of dollars to 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:15.560 remove incumbents. Now they have said, oh, there seemed to 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:20.000 be a problem in the voting that took place, and 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.360 we're gonna have it. Looks like they're going to kick 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.640 his ass out. I mean, as you can't make it up. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:34.120 It is. It's an amazing experience to be able to 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.600 travel with the President of the United States in so 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.160 many different ways. And I'm you know, I'm honored that 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.280 I have this opportunity to travel on this entire trip. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.480 And we start today and where we are here in 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:52.240 riod Man, what a day. It is hot, one hundred 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.840 and eight stifling degree. It's sort of like I've been 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.760 to Arizona when it's one hundred and twenty. It's like 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:06.960 it's a dry, arid desert heat with no wind at all. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.919 And it's just one of those heats where you if 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.799 you took an egg and put it on a car, 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.400 you probably if it was laying in the sun for 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:18.840 a long time. But this is this is incredibly deep 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:24.960 and profound in terms of the potential for you know, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.480 great things for our country and great things for the world, 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.560 and great things for this region of the world that 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:37.960 has been so where peace has been so elusive. Do 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.360 I think that one trip is going to solve all 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.160 these problems? I do not. Do. I think that the 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.680 President is on a mission to do great things here. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.440 I do. Some people say, well, why is any stop 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.360 in Israel? Well, the President has already met with and 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.480 speaks probably to Prime Minister Benjamin That and Yahoo, they've 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.800 they've met twice already at the White House speak regularly. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:06.960 Are good friends. The most impactful foreign policy thing that 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.640 I can't think came out of it, well, there were 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.840 two things that came out of the President's speech today. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.800 We'll play a little bit of it later in the program. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.480 Is the President called on Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.560 during a speech that was very very clear from what 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.920 really stands out is how much he loves our country. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.840 And for somebody that is a disruptor as much as 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:37.160 Donald Trump and iconoclastic, you knows he's put so much time, energy, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:43.200 resources effort into bringing peace around the world, both in 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.520 Europe and here in the Middle East again where it's 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.880 been elusive. And for the President, I kind of think 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.480 that the Saudis probably did not know that. The President 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:57.200 would call on them to recognize Israel, saying, you'll be 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:02.000 greatly honoring me by doing so. Made a and he 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.600 frequently referred to the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin a 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:11.200 solemn Al sulman as during the speech as the country's ruler, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:16.719 and he challenged them to join the Abraham Accords. He says, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.200 with these Abraham Accords that were all so proud of 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.279 all the momentum was aimed at peace, aimed very successfully. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.760 It's been an amazing thing. And it's my fervent hope, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.360 wish and even my dream that Saudi Arabia place that 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.480 I have so much respect for, especially over the last 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.320 fairly short period of time. What you've been able to 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.960 do but will soon be joining the Abraham Accords. That 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.279 was profound. And i'll play this for you later in 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.479 the program as well. The President challenged, well, he was 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.839 very clear, and this will come up in my interview 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.920 see part one tonight, part two tomorrow, because we have 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.920 so much news that we have to get to, and 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.520 the President said, is leaving the door wide open with Iran. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.960 And the interesting thing is how we're selling that if 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.680 you listen to them he's basically saying, I hope for 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.440 the sake of the Iranian people that they are leaders 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.799 the Mullahs, which have been the number one state sponsor 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:22.680 of terror, that they choose to dismantle their nuclear you know, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.920 dreams and ambition, and that would mean getting rid of 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.360 the nuclear facilities. If they want nuclear power, they don't 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.160 need to be an enriching nation. They can get the 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.360 nuclear rods for their nuclear power. Not that they need power, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.400 to be honest, because they're an oil rich nation themselves. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.880 And he's saying that again. It just he's giving them 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.360 the choice now because all the reports have been that 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.000 they are at sixty percent enrichment capability, maybe further. The 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:58.880 IAEA even recognized as such. Going from sixty percent enrichment 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.520 to enrichment, which is weapon grades enrichment is a pretty 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.640 easy thing to do, and that's something that can be done. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.160 According to people experts I've spoken to and have interviewed 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.200 over time, that could happen in four or five weeks, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.120 So the time is very very short for the mulos 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:22.640 in Iran. They have been funding Hamas Hezbalah Islamic jihad. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.200 The houtis they planned and plotted and schemed with hamas 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.000 the October seventh attacks, and it's got to stop. And 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.960 it's something that I think is more deep and more profound, 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.560 and we'll get to this throughout the program today. Is 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:47.520 what the President is saying to the region and what 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.560 seemingly is developing in the region. And I say it 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.880 cautiously because of the history of the region. Is pivot 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.320 alie with Israel, alie with the West. You don't have 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.800 to change your value system, by the way, it would 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.839 be like asking the United States to change its more 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.840 a's its values. It's nobody's asking the Saudis to do that. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:17.320 And basically, you know, purge the radicals in your country 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.240 without saying it, that's what he's saying, And don't align 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.000 with those countries now Saudi Arabian Aron hate each other 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.280 anyway Soonishia. I don't want to go into the long 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.200 history of that, you know. And there is some suspicion 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:38.360 rightly so, that they have turned a blind eye towards radicalism. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.560 And I can and everybody in this audience was because 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.720 we have a sophisticated audience would understand this. And you 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.680 don't want to turn a blind eye towards radicalism in 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.360 your countries, and you have to purge that that in 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.240 your country, and you have to take it on. And 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.080 one of if you ask me my best guess why 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:08.080 the Saudis have not joined the Abraham Accords, And the 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.120 same goes for Qatar, and the same goes for the 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.600 UAE and the Emirates, et cetera. I think it's for 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.840 one reason only. They don't have the military might and 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:23.040 nor do they have the appetite to engage in a 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.800 war with Iran. And they know what the Iranians are 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.960 capable of. And I think, I think as soon as 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.200 the Iran issue of nuclear weapons. This is one thing 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.320 that happened during the Trump years nobody ever talks about 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.440 is Trump was able to create a coalition of the US, Israel, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.439 the Saudis, the Emirates, the Jordanians, the Egyptians. They all 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:48.160 shared intelligence and combined and together they were successful. They 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:56.160 were successful at at sharing intelligence all against Iranian hegemony 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.720 in the region. And so now they're cementing this relationship. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.160 The Trump administration signed several new agreements with Saudi Arabia 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.920 today the Crown Prince and highlighting the relationship and bringing 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.080 it to the next level with new leadership and Asad 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.120 gone in Syria, both the Saudis and America now moving 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.680 in trying to get them not to align. And the 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:22.000 President will lift sanctions on Syria following the fall of 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.800 the Assad regime, give them a chance to be great. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.360 That will then be up to them. The defense agreements 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.240 are great. Trump's secured. You know, another six hundred billion 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.240 dollar commitment from the Saudis is gonna leave here with 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.400 trillions of dollars in moneies that will be pledged to 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:43.000 be invested in in in the US. And that's good 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:48.559 for our economy. And so what you have is as 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.400 the President goes to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:10:00.320 major investments expected. Also talk at geopolitical tensions and this 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.880 this is an opportunity. And don't think Iran is not 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.319 top of mind. I'm not going to spend a lot 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.520 of time on this. I've read some of my conservative 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:14.960 brethren and heard about this deal with Qatar on the 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.520 issue of this airplane. And so, unlike a lot of 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.319 people that are kind of lazy in the legacy media mob, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.840 this is a bribe. This is just like the Bidens. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.280 If the Bidens did this, they know nothing of the 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.160 history of the United States and Qatar in terms of 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.520 military preparedness, et cetera. I'll give you an example. I'll 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.440 go over this a lot on TV tonight. If the 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.480 US now has over twenty six billion dollars in active 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.040 government to government defense sales with Katar under the Foreign 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:53.000 Military Sales System, making it the second largest partner in 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.000 the world, second to Saudi Arabia, what does that mean 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:01.240 Without the United States, they're screwed. Means without the US 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.679 and our technology, our military might that we share with them, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.240 they would be a target bigger than they are now. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.599 So we are providing them their security. And what's frustrating 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:20.120 about this is nobody can ever ever spend that Nobody 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.400 seems to ever want to spend the time to find 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.560 out the nature of the relationship. If you take this 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:30.000 relationship with Qatar back, let's take it back to two 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:36.439 thousand and three. Qatar is the home of the largest 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.600 US military base in the entire Middle East. I bet 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.880 most of you don't know that since two thousand and three, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:49.480 Qatar has invested they have invested eight billion dollars in 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:56.280 our base supporting key US Central Command operations. Now, let 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.959 me ask you a question, why didn't anyone get upset 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.880 about that part of the military deal? I worried about 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.720 a four hundred million dollar plane, and yet we have 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:09.280 all this other business that's going on and without us, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:13.000 they have nothing. Why shouldn't we get it? Nobody ever said, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:20.200 well why not? You know, but it's certainly right for 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.480 them to pivot. I did have an interesting experience when 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:27.040 we landed today, and I thought this was going to 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.400 be like five people in the media that we're going 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.440 to have an opportunity to meet the Crown Prince, and 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.600 I was invited. I went there and I didn't know 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.400 until I was in the car and I just looked 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:47.520 it up. And every mover shaker, big business person in 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.880 the entire universe of the United States was a lot 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.960 of ice was there, and it's it was a who's 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:03.040 who's list, it really was. And every Saudi you know, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:09.000 cabinet member, every Saudi business person, they were all. I'm 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.640 telling you, I sat in a room. There was more 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.120 money in that room that in terms of people and 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.120 businesses and companies in private equity and et cetera, et cetera. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.640 Than I've ever been around in my life, every big 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.439 name that you would ever think of. And I ended 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.680 up talking. I'll talk more about it as time goes on. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.120 But did they have enough ice in the room for 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.520 all of the guests, because some guests really like ice. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.760 I like some ice. It brought me a coke without ice. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.240 I mean, I heard you, you're like a lot of ice. Hello. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.160 No, I was telling Blair that. So I was sitting 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.720 in this room today. I'll tell you more about it. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.280 The show goes on today, and it was pretty amazing. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.640 So at one point I went up and I was 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.440 talking to Marco Rubio with the dais and President Trump 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.600 saw me and he was sitting next to the Crown Prince, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.199 and he introduced me to the Crown Prince because mister 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.360 Crown Prince, he's got the biggest show and radio and TV. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.559 He starts laughing, and then all of a sudden, all 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.400 these other you know, this was the Crown Prince's it 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.640 was the President's cabinet, in his cabinet, and they go, oh, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.480 mister Hannity, they all knew who I was. I was shocked. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.120 I'm like, you know who I am? He goes, of course, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.400 we know who you are. Welcome to our country, they said. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.320 And then I said, well, thank you, and and you 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.800 watched the show and they said yeah, and I said 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.600 thank you. I said, don't you think I look better 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.720 with makeup? The whole everyone started cracking up. And then 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.920 President Trump, you know how much money? He doesn't make 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.240 quite as much money as you, Crown Print, however, he 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.160 met and he started comes up with this magical number 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:46.680 that is insane, and it really was very It was 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.840 the most laughter I saw in the room the whole time, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.480 and it was a fairly big room. And any questions 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.280 about my trip yet? Are you? 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.960 I have so many questions, but I know you have 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:58.119 a lot to share. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.080 So you know I do have a lot to share. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.520 All right, Listen, I'm gonna switch gears because we have 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.280 new King Rich are weigh in on our trip to 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:09.200 riod And then tomorrow we will be broadcasting from Doha 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.680 and you can say it both ways, Cutter Qatar, I 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:13.160 don't know. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.080 But I guess the question is how do you want 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:15.400 to say it? 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.240 Sean, I keep mixing it up. What do I care? 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:18.760 I say? 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.880 All right, So there is great news on the economy 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.400 in spite of all of the predictions of doom and gloom, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.960 et cetera. What did we learn? Inflation is now the 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:38.160 coolest in four years, despite all the teriff and freak 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:43.720 out and skittishness on Wall Street. In the months through April, 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.680 the Consumer Price Index CPI rose two point three percent 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.000 compared to two point four percent the previous month. According 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.160 to the Labor Department, that is the smallest gain since 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:02.239 February of twenty twenty one. Now, what happened in January 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:08.320 of twenty twenty one, That would be the Trump economy, 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.160 the end of the Trump economy. Joe Biden became president. Remember, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.120 inflation went up to nine point what five six, seven, 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.440 eight prin whatever it was. But the measure that excludes 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:24.040 food energy showed, you know, the CPI is doing phenomenal. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.080 The data shows little impact on consumer prices. And now 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.800 that the deal has been made with Great Britain and 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:34.000 China and things are getting better. It's the ninety day 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.960 trade deal. I'm pretty confident will become permanent and we'll 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.800 watch that unfold. And what they have agreed to is 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.120 a cooling off period and negotiations to get a deal 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.200 done to make it, to make that deal permanent, and 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.320 Donald Trump called it a total complete reset with these 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.800 trade talks. What was amazing is it was not this 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.520 past Friday, but the Friday prior. That's when China first 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.760 Donald Trump serious, after saying they'd never talked to Donald 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.920 Trump all of a sudden. Then now, all of a sudden, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.879 they want to talk to Donald Trump, even after President 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.480 she had a summit with Putin and Rush, you know, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.199 Russian and China. They need our markets. This is what 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.680 I've been saying the whole time, and that has been 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:23.440 the strength in Donald Trump's arguments to begin with the 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.520 UH So, they met this weekend, they met Saturday and 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:32.119 Sunday in Genevas, got vesent the Treasury secretary, you know. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.280 And look what happened to the now when it jumped 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.919 more than eleven hundred points, S and P five hundred 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.040 goes up three percent, and the mark all of a sudden, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.960 the market's back. We're all happy. Little did anyone pay 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.640 attention that thirteen out of fifteen days, even before any 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.760 deal was announced, the market had rebounded. I have never 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:00.280 used Wall Street as my barometer. However, if you want 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.280 to keep score. In Donald Trump's first term, the down 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.480 went up eighty percent, if you want to keep more score, 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.399 the Nasdaq went up well over one hundred percent. So 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.720 maybe Donald Trump, who got eight trillion dollars in commitments 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.959 for manufacturing, what is he going to manufacture things that 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.919 we need for national security? And that will now with 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.399 this deal with China, that will buy us time to 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.760 get our own rare earth minerals, so we'll never be 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.879 held hostage by any country ever again. But eight trillion manufacturing, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:41.639 that's auto manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, semiconductor chip manufacturing, all things 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.520 that we have allowed to be outsourced. That created a 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:49.159 national security vulnerability as far as I'm concerned. And so 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.520 you know, by the time the President leaves this Mid 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.520 East trip and we make the trek home again, it's 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:01.080 just it's ri odd. Today is Doha tomorrow as we 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.159 go to Qatar, as Linda prefers to call it, or 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.200 cut her, whichever you prefer, and then we'll be headed 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.200 to the UAE and Abu Dhabi can't wait to say 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.679 we are broadcasting live. We're in Abu Dhabi. We'll be 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.119 doing that. Never thought I'd be those words we come 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.320 flying out of my mouth. But we've been to we 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:28.160 broadcast from Baghdad, Vietnam, Singapore, Singapore, Poor and hell Sinki. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.840 I remember we had the big dinner in hell hell Sinki. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.320 Remember I brought the fake news CNN people. They drink. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:34.600 I thought they were going to choke on. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:36.320 I don't think you brought them there. I think it 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.280 was the only place we could all go. They were there, and. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:39.800 Then you're there. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:40.560 I bought them a drink. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.560 You didn't buy them a drink. You bought them dinnered bro. Yes, 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:45.719 it was ridiculous. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.040 It was stupid, just trying to be nice. You're not 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.520 going to criticize me for being nice, are you? Well? 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:51.960 I mean, you know, I don't know if you were 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.880 as enchanted as Obama was by Jeff ZELLENI but I'm 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.119 sure he was enchanted by you buying him dinner. I know. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.919 Caitlin Collins was like in the eating. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.679 How do you remember? I have no idea who was 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:03.800 on that trip? None? 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.199 Oh my god, I remember them all. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:06.959 I don't even think. I don't even think any one 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:08.080 of those people were there. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:08.840 Yes they were. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.760 Collens was in a one piece green suit. I will 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:13.760 never forget it because I love the color Kelly green. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.800 I'm like Oh, worry, there's something wrong with you that 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.919 you remember this. Blair is looking at me like, what 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:19.479 is wrong with it? 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.400 You're asking Blair to remember your Lucky Blair remembers my name, 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:23.880 and I've been partners with him for twenty years. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.840 I'm lucky Blair remembers to x out something I sent 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.640 to him five minutes prior. Come on, you know anyway, 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.359 So we'll see what the final number is by the 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.840 end of the week. But the President is using this 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.359 trip to secure these trillions of dollars. In other economic news, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.880 the US collected a record sixteen point three billion dollars 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:49.920 in tariff revenue in April, and that is a lot 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.240 of money. And the Treasurer said the revenue from tarras 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:57.560 on imported goods rammed up sharply. Gross custom duties collected 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.600 in April reached a monthly record of six sixteen point 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.439 three billion dollars. Now, I know that people like that number, 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.879 and the President likes that number, and I like that number. 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:09.360 But I'll tell you right now the number that most 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.280 people care the most about. And this is where democrats 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.639 and liberals and the legacy state run media mob they 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.840 want to focus on you know your four to h 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.040 one k. Anyway, the Treasury announced that they collected a 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.440 record sixteen point three billion. That's a big number. Now 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:30.680 the president is and you can't understate this. The President 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:35.600 vowed to bring fairness to America. The President vowed to 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:40.199 put America first, and he slashed prescription drug prices with 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.800 his executive order, and he promised to implement what he's 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:49.400 calling Most Favored Nation Pricing, which would cut pharmaceutical prescription 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:54.560 drug prices almost immediately by thirty to eighty percent. This 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.280 comes up in the interview with the President. I'm not 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.240 sure what part is Aerrington, because we talked a long time. 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.200 We talked for a long time on Air Force one, 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:07.119 and but at one point he goes into this explanation 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:09.160 of a friend of his. He calls it the fat shot. 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:15.320 You know, what is that with go vi Ozembic's zembic. 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:18.840 Tide or whatever it is. I think is like the 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.080 official and what's the other one medical name? 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:27.240 I don't know. Oh yeah, you know, you didn't even 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.000 say an emirate and you just do a jarrow not. 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.960 Exactly just go with it. You also go with it, 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.919 and so you're gonna come at me for pronunciation. This 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:36.560 will be fun. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.800 Okay, I just I have I hide my weakness. You 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.080 just come right out. No. 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.080 But honestly, there's like five or six of them. I 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:45.600 don't even know. 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.520 There's a there's a whole bunch of them all. Now 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:53.280 I do know three people that took the Obcity drug whatever. 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:55.520 What does Trump called the fat shot. 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:57.920 I actually thought I just said this to. 0:22:58.880 --> 0:22:59.800 You're glad to say the word. 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:03.520 I thought it was a Babylon b story. I thought 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:05.720 it was ai And then somebody was, oh, no, no, no, 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:06.640 he actually said. 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:08.800 I said that before he says it in at the 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:12.480 interview and in front of us, called them and said, 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:14.040 I thought you were going to mention my name because 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:17.440 I knew you were talking about me. It was pretty 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:20.639 fun anyway. But think about this. We make eighty percent 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.000 of drugs in this country. We're the ones that come 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:27.480 up with the our farm. Look, I know people, some 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:29.840 people don't like pharmaceutical companies, but you know what. They 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:34.040 create medicines to treat cancer. They create medicines for high 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:38.040 blood pressure. They create medicines if you're going into kidney failure. 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.560 Theyve create medicines for cholesterol. If you want to take statins. 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:44.120 What do you I don't care what you take, it's 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:45.760 what do you worked that out with your doctor. I'm 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:49.280 not a frigging doctor. However, they spend billions of dollars 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.000 to do it. And then when these countries that have 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:54.880 socialized medicine, they're like, oh, we're not going to pay 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:58.040 that much, and they pay a fraction of what we pay. 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.440