Episode 5312: Continued Fight For Election Accountability; UAE Asks America For Bail Out
Stephen K. Bannon, John Solomon, Eric Bolling, and Raymond Ibrahim dissect election accountability, highlighting Senate transcript delays under Senator John Thune that jeopardize indictments against former officials like John Brennan and James Comey. The conversation shifts to the UAE's request for a U.S. Treasury bailout, which hosts characterize as an attempt by non-allies to decouple the dollar from global trade using Chinese yuan. Critiquing Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE for funding jihadist organizations and issuing fatwas against non-Muslims, they argue American military personnel are exploited to protect these regimes, concluding that modern narratives dangerously misrepresent historical conflicts like the Crusades. [Automatically generated summary]
Look, I've been with the president nearly since day one on this.
As I told you earlier, I was the one that led the effort with folks like Trey Gowdy, Johnny Ratcliffe, and Devin Nunes to expose the corruption.
That tried to thwart President Trump's first presidential election run.
And we saw the FISA abuses there.
And I lived through it, and the media came at me then, too.
That just shows you that when you're over the target, you keep pummeling the target because the media's going to try and pummel you.
We are not going to take this and have not taken this laying down.
We did already indict former Director Comey, and that's going through the judicial process.
But we also, at this FBI, even though we uncovered what we uncovered back in the House Intel days, I had to come in here and find rooms that they hid from the world.
I had to come in here and find access on our computer systems.
In restricted and prohibited case files that they purposely put in places for no one to see and find.
We have found all this information.
We are working with their Department of Justice partners, and I am never going to let this go because they not only have personally attacked the presidency of the United States and President Trump, but they tried to thwart our elections and rig the entire system.
And that is not something that is going to stop, that is not something I'm going to allow on my wife.
But you just have to remember they built this disease temple over 20 and 30 years.
We've got all the evidence.
I can announce on your show that we've got all the information we need.
We're working with our prosecutors, the Department of Justice, and their Attorney General Todd Blanch.
And we are going to be making arrests.
And it's coming, and I promise you, it's coming soon.
From the Persian Gulf to the Shenandoah Valley of the Commonwealth of Virginia, we're going to be covering it all today.
I asked John Solomon if he could start with us today.
We're going to get in.
We've got bowling.
We're going to talk about.
A bailout for MBZ.
Did I tell you we had no allies?
We'll get all into that.
But I want to make sure for the war in posse, because you're the most sophisticated audience in all media, because we cover stuff, we're not going to chase the ephemeral.
If you remember a couple of weeks ago, Christy Nome was then DHS secretary in testimony in front of the Senate.
And I think it was Senator John Kennedy, who has a very theatrical style to him.
He's very incredibly well educated.
I think he went to Oxford.
But he comes off, he tries to play Senator Claghorn, right?
And so he literally eviscerated her.
So when you see something like that, that's called a sanctioned hit.
That is signed off on.
They're trying to get some information out or trying to see exactly if somebody's really doing their job.
Maria Bartiroma, that was a sanction hit yesterday on Cash.
I think somebody wants to know when Cash and the FBI are really going to start to ramp up here.
John Solomon, Cash said the moral equivalent, it's coming in two weeks, right?
When Maria braced him up.
Help me.
You're my guy.
Help me out.
Is the FBI.
Todd just took over there at DOJ.
Is cash right?
Are we going to get some arrests on the photo?
Because I saw that President Trump's now saying and getting DOJ in Detroit because he's saying, hey, Mike Rogers won the 2024 Senate race.
Where do we stand here?
Are we two weeks away from perp walking guys, sir?
Well, as I said earlier in the month, I think that the goal was to make decisions on the first few indictments before the end of the month.
John Brennan and James Comey are at the top of the list right now.
There's also some FBI agents.
Involved in the gathering of phone records that they're looking at.
That timetable is still operative, except for one thing.
And this goes back to a story I broke Saturday morning.
There's been a major delay caused by Republicans.
The John Thune Senate has yet to send the John Brennan transcripts over.
The House did it several weeks ago, but the Senate, John Thune, hasn't been able to do it.
Why?
Because he's trying to negotiate with Democrats.
And what the Justice Department probably should have done from the beginning don't send a Freddie letter.
And then try to get a negotiated deal with Democrats.
They're never going to make a deal if they think their peeps are about to get indicted.
Drop a grand jury subpoena, force the issue, go to court and enforce it if the Senate doesn't comply.
I think there was a too cordial a situation for the time clock.
And now, John Thune's Senate, because he can't get Democrats yet to sign off on giving the documents in a cordial way, it may have run a good part of the clock out.
So I'm a little worried based on what I know right now that that timetable is a little bit in jeopardy because you need those transcripts, those official transcripts.
If you're going to make a decision, the grand jury is going to say one way or the other whether John Brennan should be indicted.
Now, more firepower came also in that same story that I broke about Thune on Saturday morning.
Joe DeGeneva, the former U.S. attorney, the former independent counsel, the guy that put Marion Barry away and many of his corrupt administration officials, the former D.C. mayor back in the Reagan 80s, and the man who also captured and convicted Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy.
He's been sent to Florida to sort of become the new chief prosecutor down in Fort Pierce.
That's a lot of firepower.
Now, keep in mind, he's just starting on Monday.
So he's going to today, he gets sworn in.
He's going to have to get read in a few days.
But I don't think that slows things down.
I think the process is already underway in Florida to try to achieve the first couple of indictments at the end of April.
But the John Thune thing, the Senate dragging its feet again, that is a real dynamic that has slowed the investigation down.
Yeah, I don't think the leftist media turned that into something it wasn't.
I think the prosecutor went back to Miami so that they can keep cases going there.
Remember, they got some of these drug cartel members coming in that have been extradited from Mexico.
They got all the Venezuelans that they're trying to indict.
So going back to Miami for that accomplished prosecutor makes all the sense of the world.
Once the decision was made that the Geneva was coming and that prosecutor was always going to go back, I think the deep state and the news media tried to make it look like, oh, this is a foot dragging prosecutor.
I don't get the sense of the.
The prosecutor was simply waiting for the documents to come from the Senate, which I think was a much more important dynamic in the slowness, not the prosecutor's work.
That prosecutor is very accomplished.
He's going to go back and do some great work in Miami.
But I think at the same time, the Senate, the flow of evidence from the Senate, has slowed things down.
It shouldn't take this long for a Republican administration to get what it needs from a Republican Congress, but it keeps happening.
You've got articles up this morning about that because the left media is starting to pick up on that and saying, hey, this is, you know, it's happened longer than seven years ago.
This is all ridiculous.
They're going back into ancient history.
This is more of the wing nut Trump, you know, inner circle that just wants vengeance.
You've got new reporting on that that goes through Ukraine and everything.
The second that Bob Mueller said Donald Trump didn't engage in Russia collusion.
Uh, the many of the same actors began concocting a story on Ukraine.
Now, in fairness, I wrote the first stories in March of 2019 at the Hill that said Joe Biden bragged about firing the prosecutor, was investigating his son's company Burisma, and that's what started it.
The New York Times and ABC News confirmed my reporting.
Then the deep state got really panicked, and so, just like they did on Russia, where they had to solve a Hillary Clinton problem, Hillary Clinton had a Russia problem, they and they hugged a Russian shingle on Donald Trump's campaign house.
Uh, Joe Biden suddenly had a corruption quid pro quo problem in Ukraine, so they were turned around and hung a fake quid pro quo Ukraine problem around Donald Trump's text.
And by the way, later this week, you're going to see a story to see just how deeply involved the Russia collusion people were in prompting you the Ukraine impeachment.
So that's that wash, rinse, repeat cycle that we talked about.
It happens four times Hillary Clinton's got a problem, Donald Trump ends up with Russia collusion, Joe Biden's got a Ukraine problem, Donald Trump ends up with Ukraine impeachment, Joe Biden's got a classified documents problem.
Donald Trump ends up with a Mar-a-Lago raid.
Joe Biden's got a cognitive problem, doesn't look viable for 2024.
They decide to go back years later and try to make a case on January 6th against President Trump, saying that the electors were somehow inappropriate to do, even though they had been done twice in history.
So now we know that Ukraine impeachment wasn't just based on a faulty whistleblower, a whistleblower who had only hearsay knowledge, had misled the investigation, and had serious biases.
That's the news we broke last week.
Compliments of Tulsi Gabbard.
Today, I put out four more sets of documents that show that testimony in the impeachment trial was clearly wrong.
It was clearly false.
One of those testimonies was that Hunter Biden, the State Department officials testified, had no impact on the U.S. efforts and policy in Ukraine, specifically relating to fighting corruption.
I put out today a once classified email between George Kent, the guy who won the bow tie at the impeachment trial, and Maria Vanovich, the ambassador to Ukraine.
That shows that they agreed that Hunter Biden had undercut Ukrainian anti corruption efforts.
That is a powerful email.
It directly challenges the narrative that Democrats put forward and the testimony that they put forward.
There are three other great examples that I put out about that today.
Joe Biden said for the longest time, I only fired the prosecutor because that's what the career people wanted.
Today, I put out the recommendation of the career people.
They praised that prosecutor, Victor Shokin, sent them a letter saying, That a boy, good job, and then recommended.
That Ukraine get the $1 billion and Joe Biden and Joe Biden alone changed that recommendation.
That document's out there.
And there's some other examples of that.
Five examples of stories that were told to support impeachment and to support the impeachment trial.
And they are now contradicted by official government documents that I spent seven years suing to get, but we got them now.
I'll start with just the status of these talks, especially in light of what you just mentioned, Kate.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson coming out and essentially saying that there are no plans for a second round of talks, and also arguing that they do not, he said, We do not believe in deadlines or ultimatums to secure Iran's national interests.
Looks, as for what we are seeing on the ground in Islamabad, the streets are kind of shut down.
There is a security posture in place, just as it was last night after the White House had announced that the Vice President, JD Vance, Steve Witkopf and Jared Kushner were going to be headed to the region for this second round of talks.
But I think the timing of this, especially in light of what we are hearing from the Iranians on the official side, at least, you know, the timing of this, it's kind of anyone's guess right now when we should actually see these talks move forward and take place.
Now, I do want to get into a little bit of the back and forth here because what I found so interesting is everything that we saw happen over the weekend was a major departure from the kind of the optimistic posturing We saw from the Trump administration on Friday.
They were really trying to push this idea that they believed a deal could be finalized in the next few days.
Now, from the conversations I've had throughout the weekend, Kate, the position of the White House remains that they still want diplomacy.
They are hoping for a diplomatic solution here.
They do not want to resume, have this resumption of military operations and attacks, and really see the ceasefire fall apart and lead to more war.
But of course, there is a lot of distrust right now on the Iranian side as well, and there is a lot of anger.
After the U.S. targeted one of their tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
We actually heard the Iranians arguing that it was the landing, the U.S. of landing terrorists, not Marines who, you know, took, seized this ship, but terrorists.
So that's kind of the posture we're hearing on the Iranian side.
I think it was a fantasy and a hope that actually was never tested with evidence of history everywhere else.
People don't usually rebel in the middle of a war when bombs are falling on their head.
There was no love loss for the Islamic Republic when the war started, given the massacres that happened in Iran in January and the unhappiness of the people.
But first of all, Iranians are not organized around a political movement that can keep their rage going, can channel it into politics.
Secondly, the war basically created a crisis for Iranians on a daily basis.
And then as the war went on, it became very clear to the majority of the Iranians that war is not liberating.
The Islamic Republic is not going to go anytime soon.
And the United States and Israel are not there to look after their safety.
They're actually bombing their neighborhoods.
They're bombing their hospitals, their universities, their historical sites.
This is increasingly a war against Iran.
When President Trump says, I'm going to destroy every single bridge you have, what you saw was that the Iranians' political reaction was not to go into the streets and demand the departure of the Islamic Republic.
And so the head of the country is somewhere else right now.
Potentially when there is peace, when the guns fall silent, you can go back to politics.
And we shouldn't forget that the January protests came six months after the June war.
So I think this idea that Iranians would basically serve as America and Israel's boots on the ground and finish the job for them was an idea that was concocted as a hope, but it was not really a solid policy at any time.
Chinese officials claim their country does not want to replace the United States.
Its business leaders insisted that America remains the more innovative economy.
Even though America has soured on China, those leaders continue to admire Silicon Valley, America's great universities, and the scale and sophistication of the U.S. market.
China's strategy is to use this crisis to build its economic strength and global influence.
China is doubling down on the frontier technologies that it believes will define the next era of growth.
Green energy, robotics, artificial intelligence applied to real industries, advanced manufacturing, and services.
Its dominance in some of these sectors is already staggering.
It produces 80% of the world's solar panels, about 60% of the wind turbines, and 75% of the batteries.
It supplies 70% of all electric vehicles on the planet.
China has used the last three economic shocks to further its dominance.
During the pandemic, Chinese firms surged to supply much of the world with medical equipment.
As the artificial intelligence boom swelled, China became central to its physical build out the metals, electrical equipment, batteries, cooling systems, and industrial components needed for data centers.
Now, the Iran war has produced a global scramble for new energy.
Here again, China is the indispensable power, it dominates the green technologies.
solar, wind, batteries, electric vehicles that countries will need to reduce dependence on imported oil and gas.
Beijing turns these industrial strengths into influence.
It offers financing, infrastructure, and supply chains.
It locks countries into Chinese made systems.
It shows governments that America brings volatility while China brings equipment, credit, and continuity.
Part of the reason I think we are in the position we are today, where there's a lot more skepticism of whether or not a deal could actually be reached, is I remind you of where we were Friday.
The conversations I had heading into the weekend was that we had seen, The Pakistanis, they were in Tehran.
They were having their third day of talks.
Things were going, at least on the White House side, they believed very well.
But then we saw President Donald Trump begin truthing a lot of, you know, I was told that he was getting regular updates throughout the day on Friday from the Pakistanis.
And the president then went out and started sharing a lot of that on True Social, something that we saw publicly the Iranians really take issue with and argue that they didn't understand what the U.S. was doing, that they didn't agree to a lot of those things.
And then we saw the breakdown in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend today.
Things not really as in as much of a great place as I think they were previously before the weekend.
And so there's a lot I think that still needs to be worked out.
We have to see really what is going to happen with these talks, but it remains that the Vice President, Wyckoff, and Kushner are going to be in the region and they're hoping that they can hash some of that out in the second round of talks game.
Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward is a former Navy SEAL and Deputy Director of U.S. Central Command.
He led elite special operations in the Middle East and says an operation in Iran could take many weeks and require a large footprint involving all the branches of the military.
You have to occupy territory, you have to confront, you have to force your way in.
So all those risks are inherent in that operation, but we can do it.
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It's been said troops would have to secure a full perimeter.
Around any facility they'd enter, they might have to bring in their own bulldozers to clear rubble, maybe even build their own landing strip in order to pull this off as a successful operation.
From touchdown to takeoff, Project Sapphire took six weeks to remove more than 1,300 pounds of bomb grade uranium from Kazakhstan.
Would the same mission be possible today in Iran?
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In Iran, we couldn't send a team in to do this unilaterally without great risk.
You would need.
To set up in the middle of the country a secure perimeter.
It would probably take thousands of U.S. troops to secure the facility while our experts excavated the HEU that's located inside deep tunnels at a place called Isfahan.
Okay, the Chinese have a race yesterday in the Financial Times.
They have robots running against humans.
Guess who wins?
The robots.
That's what the Chinese think about.
Humans and labor, of course, here, Iran war will squeeze U.S. voters long after conflict ends, economists say, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Subheadline, the important subheadline is that Tehran, no Tehran delegation.
Eric Bowling, quickly, because we're going to go to break.
But should we be a supplicant even to get a meeting?
I mean, we've so shattered their command that there's five or six nodes, and none of them, Can deliver a deal.
Should we be, should we even be hinting at saying a delegation until we know, until they step up and we find out who exactly represents Iran right now, sir?
I don't think the Persians think they're on their knees.
I think they feel they're in pretty good shape.
And they're in no hurry to say, hey, we're on the next flight to Islamabad.
We're dying to meet.
Anyway, we're going to get into all of it.
Eric Bolling's with us.
Raymond Ibrahim is also going to join us from Hungary.
There's a conference this week.
Also, we're going to talk and get his thoughts on everything going on in the Middle East.
The sideshow to a sideshow, all of it.
Short commercial break back in a moment.
Let me hit rewind for a second so people can look through the fog of war here.
Remember, I've said in doing the dollar empire, end of the dollar empire, I don't want the end of the dollar empire, particularly quickly, because it'll cause economic and financial chaos in the good old United States of America.
Just like the Brits at the end of World War II when they gave it up at Bretton Woods.
There are It's you have immense power, you in fact can become a global power like the British when your currency is the prime reserve currency, when everything's got to be translated into your currency to do that.
Now, it also comes with obligations, and that's why I said, Hey, we should have a national debate about whether we want to continue as the prime reserve currency, and that'll be part of our political debate.
One of the reasons we do so much capital markets and talk about uh gold and talk about the bond market and all of it is to understand a working class and middle class audience.
Has to understand money.
These other shows, what they're going to do is chase every ephemeral story that when you look back over it a couple of months ago, why did we spend time on that?
We're now down to it.
And I keep, you know, I've trademarked world's greatest allies about Netanyahu and Israel.
But as I've said on this show from the very beginning, don't think we have any allies over there.
President Trump just put out a heated tweet about, you know, Israel did not talk him into this.
He's always wanted to, you know, as he has had a long track record of Iran not having a nuclear weapon.
But on our side, we don't have any allies.
The Saudis are not allies.
They've already cut long term deals to help give China, the Chinese Communist Party, below market energy for the CCP to help finance them.
Qatar is not an ally.
They're not.
They're one of the biggest sponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood in the rollout in this country of Sharia law.
The UAE, who punches way above their weight, MBZ, MBZ, who's the one guy you can kind of trust, although he did try to cut a deal with the CCP to have a submarine base in UAE about seven or eight years ago.
And he's our best ally and the one that's got a really some modicum of a military force that could actually put some lead on a target.
UAE came over, sent a delegation to see Scott Besant last week.
And what did they want?
They wanted these credits, the same type of bailout that Bernanke was caught lying about when we bailed out all the European banks back in 2008.
As you remember, when you went under or your assets were cut in by 80 or 90%, Are many Hispanic Americans and African Americans had the equity in their homes wiped out overnight, never to recover?
Because the American middle class did not get a bailout, and the working class got a screw you.
Well, we bailed out every bank, we bailed out Goldman Sachs, we bailed out GE Credit, we bailed them all out.
AIG, every fat cat, every connected person got a bailout.
And they say, well, you can't say they bail them out because we got these loans at 15%.
What you would do is Goldman Sachs, you walk in, you blow out management, you give them money, the new crew you bring in gets 20% warrants that they earn into, and the people that provide the capital, the U.S. taxpayer, gets 80% of the VIG.
You didn't get that.
And of course, if the government did get it, they wouldn't spread it around to you as a citizen.
They keep it to this fiasco that's going on here in the imperial capital.
The UAE, Dubai, you see all the influencers?
Freaking job every day, and you see these influencers in Dubai, and they're sitting around.
Everybody's got all these girls got bikinis on, and all these in the hell a lot of Americans, too, down there.
They're partying.
This is the future.
This is what we're going to do.
This is we're going to do that.
We're going to do this.
What are you doing, you stupid working American?
Paying for it and having your kids.
Are those kids in that battle group out there in Dubai partying?
Are they hanging out with the girls in bikinis in Dubai?
No, they're not.
You're not in that club.
You're just a working stiff out there to defend this scum.
And they're scum.
So the scum comes to Treasury, and we need a credit line, or we're not going to be able to sell all anymore in dollars, petrodollars, which is the predicate of the dollar empire.
We're going to have to wait for it.
We're going to have to transact in, wait for it, Chinese yuan.
So we don't have any allies, and we got to start acting like we don't have any allies.
No more big conferences over there.
No more guys hugging each other, and oh, this is great.
This is the new future of the world.
You know what a future of the world is?
The kids out there in Oman are protecting these guys from being wiped out.
Not just wiped out from the bad guys in Persia, and there are plenty of bad hombres there, but a ton of bad hombres they got in their own countries.
And you wait till you see these radical madrasas start to pop up and say, hey, the reason we're so screwed up is we're not living by the Quran.
They got these girls in bikinis on the beach in Dubai, and that's our problem.
This conflict, for whatever reason we got into it, folks, the here and now, it's a great unmasking.
And you just heard, I had to play Fareed Sakara so your nose could get rubbed in it.
Oh, China's a stabilizing factor.
China's this and China's that, and they're dominant in that.
They ain't squat.
We need to take the tech bros and say, I'm tired of it.
Jensen Wong, I'm tired of it.
If we don't shut down, The Chinese Communist Party down right now, right now, we're going to have hell to pay because we are heading down the road to perdition.
And it's time we got to start playing smash mouth with God's supposed to be our allies.
We're going to tell UAE, no, no, no, you're not getting a credit free.
Where's all that money?
Where's all that investment?
Hey, let's do this.
Let's monetize.
What we're going to do is take collateral of all that real estate you bought in the West End of London, all that real estate you own in Midtown Manhattan, all that real estate you own in Beverly Hills and the Hamptons and down, you know.
You're hanging out in Miami, all that stuff you own in Miami.
Hey, that's ours.
How about this?
That's ours.
Maybe we'll share the West End of London with the Brits, but that's ours.
We'll collateralize.
We're going to collateralize.
We're going to give you a credit line.
We're going to collateralize it.
And we're going to dare you to transact anything in Chinese Yuan.
We don't have any allies.
And the admirals and generals in the Pentagon, oh, they're partners.
They're great partners.
Show me.
Show me.
You know where our partners are those kids, those men and women.
18, 19 years old, almost all of them from working class or lower middle class backgrounds are on those strike forces, in those planes, in those teams that they're talking about.
Yeah, we're just going to go in and get the pixie dust and we're going to pull it out.
When Admiral Harwood goes, Yeah, they're going to be casualties.
That's your sons and daughters.
That's your sons and daughters.
At the same time, we're giving the influencer capital of the world, Dubai, a credit free loan.
I don't think, suck on this.
Here's your loan.
We're taking all your real estate.
If the American people don't rise up and say, we've had a bellyful of this, and let's start with the UAE, our best, another great ally.
They and Qatar and Saudi are in a race for Israel to take over.
I'm going to take my trademark away because I'm trademarked world's greatest ally for the Israelis.
But hey, I'm open.
I don't like any of them.
They're all double dealing the United States.
And good people in Israel got to stand up to Netanyahu and, hey, If there are any good people in Saudi Arabia or UAE or, you know, they got these embassies here that are partying all the time to spread money around, cut and spend $200 billion and spread money around all the time.
And they're going to come, oh, you know, we just need to, we can continue to do this, but we need an unlimited $2 trillion credit facility at no interest.
I will tell you, you're spot on about if somehow this group, whether it's BRICS or the Middle Easterners or the Chinese, get their way and they decouple the US dollar from the global reserve currency, we will rip higher in inflation.
The dollar will lose its support, it'll lose all the air in its sale because it's a massive amount of demand for dollars if you have to buy dollars to.
Transact any commodity globally.
So the value of the dollar will drop.
And what does that mean?
You need more of those dollars to chase out the same gallon of gas, loaf of bread.
But this is why these bad hombres in Persia, first of all, there are five or six different groups.
I've been saying just in Hormuz, there's a group of pirates down there.
Hell, read the history.
I think it's Aryan's history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great.
They're a whole different group of guys down there, and they had to fight everywhere else.
They've been there for thousands of years.
And half of them are Bedouins.
There's some Persians, but they're one group.
You got another group here.
You got another group in Tehran.
You got competing groups.
I've been saying make sure if we get a meeting, if somebody not just can sign a deal or go in front of a mic, but somebody can execute a deal and people will listen up.
I think we've shattered the command so hard that you've got conflicting groups.
But, Eric, I don't think these guys think for a second.
That they've lost.
I think they now see with this exclusive story in the Wall Street Journal that, hey, I think we really got America on the back foot now, right?
Because now they have to make this thing work in the Persian Gulf and they're going to be stuck there for a while, sir.
It's a Mexican standoff, two sides pointing the trigger at each other.
Our trigger is we're going to blow you into oblivion.
Their trigger is, well, we'll do things like keep oil prices high, maybe get the US dollars no longer be a petrodollar, be a Chinese yuan.
Currency or a basket of BRICS countries.
It's a legitimate threat, but they would need support from the other countries involved.
And I just want to say one thing for the UAE to come out and say, we need a bailout is insane.
Their oil revenue is in the $300 billion a year area.
They actually pay the 11 million, the tiny little population of 11 million people.
Households get stipends.
They're handing out cash to households to live on a day to day basis.
They don't need cash, they want cash.
And I'm just going to say this one more time.
You and I have been talking about how we have no allies in the Middle East, and you talk about, well, why are these other countries supporting Trump to go after this?
Because they want the higher oil prices.
A trillion dollars in oil revenue in Saudi Arabia will become a trillion and a half dollars with a hundred dollar price of oil.
They don't need a bailout.
Who's next?
Qatar?
Qatar, who housed the Hezbollah leadership while Hezbollah is taking out the Israeli citizens.
It's insane.
You're right.
There's no allies.
And frankly, I don't even think we have an ally in Europe as well.
Not 20%, can't take a carried interest, but you're going to get a taste.
This is what we got to start doing.
We have, let me repeat this we have the gutless cowards in NATO that you have underwritten.
They got full health care, they got free college, they take six weeks off in the summer.
You got none of that, okay?
And they got, you know, they retired 50.
You got none of that.
You work your fingers to the bone.
You know what you got?
Bony fingers.
You got nothing.
You got nothing.
So, right now, let's start with what I'd like to do.
Maybe we'll do it tomorrow.
I want to get all the influencer pictures in Dubai.
You suckers out in the middle of this country, in the heartland, working your ass off every day, paying your taxes, raising your kids right, having them patriotic in their.
And they're going and serving their country in defense of their country.
And you've got these people in Dubai, and that's the new hotspot of the world.
And look at this, and this is going to be the new financial capital of the world.
And they got this and they got that.
Right now, they ain't got nothing.
And they're running to you.
Those kids out there in those battle groups, and the airmen and the Marines are the ones protecting them because they got nothing.
They can't protect anything.
Not even the equipment, they don't have enough people that got enough guts to do any fighting.
They got a couple of three, but it doesn't go very deep.
And now they're coming for an interest free credit facility, credit swap.
But yeah, just give us some free money so we stay on your system.
I'd say, fine, let me think about that.
Hey, seize their assets, get all the real estate in Midtown Manhattan, get all the real estate in Beverly Hills, get all the, take all of Miami that they're in.
We got that.
Come back, let's have another meeting.
Call Qatar, call Qatar today and tell them you're going to do that right now.
Come in for a meeting.
We want you to, don't delay, come on down.
But we got your assets.
That's our collateral.
We'll take that as our starting collateral.
Seize what they got in the banks.
Oh, you're going to end the world's financial system.
No, I emphatically agree with what you've said, actually.
And as far as these Arab Gulf nations, I've, even before the alliances or the US alliance business partnership and all that sort of thing, I usually see things from a sort of theological, historical prism.
And I've always been against the cozy relationship that the United States has with these nations based on who they are and what they actually preach to their own people.
As just one example, Saudi Arabia, our great friend and ally, and Qatar.
Many, many years ago, and I was the first one to call this out, actually had published online in Arabic fatwas basically upholding the doctrine of which I've spoken about before, which in short calls on Muslims to always have nothing but hatred for non Muslims.
Okay, so think about that.
Our friend and ally Qatar and Saudi Arabia have fatwas telling their citizens that while on the one hand their kings dance and you know wave swords with our presidents and whoever, on the other hand, they're telling their citizens to just remember when it's all said and done, you have to have hatred for these people.
In keeping with Islamic principles.
And these are also the same nations that fund millions, spend millions to fund and disseminate what we call radical Islam and jihadism, whether in the guise of actual literature and school curriculum and mosque literature in Europe and around the West in general, or whether actually funding real live Islamic jihadist terrorist organizations as part of the zakat.
So I've always known this.
This isn't hidden.
So it's always been just somewhat surreal.
When Westerners say, oh, these are our friends and allies.
And I've also been on record to say it's really hypocritical for the United States to say we're warring against Iran because they are radical Muslims, when in fact the Shia variety of Islam is pretty docile compared to the Sunni Salafi variety, which actually permeates and promulgates and lives in those countries you're talking about.
So the whole thing is really messy.
It should be a lot clearer if one understood who we're dealing with.
But, you know, Diplomacy and real politics and people exploiting the situation on both sides is the way it is.