00:02:29.240Ever since Reagan, with both Bushes, with the Clintons, with the Obamas and Biden in
00:02:35.460between the two Trump terms, we've seen a decline of American exceptionalism. On the world stage
00:02:42.260and here in the United States, of course, Reagan was kind of that peak, if you will. And Trump is
00:02:47.920aiming to return us to that. You know, you hear him talk about the golden age and so on and so
00:02:52.720forth. Well, part of the way that we get there is, is that we need our friends and allies around the
00:02:57.340world, people that see the world like we do, to join with us and to help us execute that vision.
00:03:03.220because the fact of the matter is is that you know world economies are interlinked you know
00:03:09.500energy is a big part of this obviously you see this with the war in iran right now in the strait
00:03:13.500of her moves right the gas prices here in the united states are up because of the war in iran
00:03:18.980and the strait of her moves being closed yet we don't import zero percent of the oil that moves
00:03:24.000out of the strait of her moves comes to america zero percent so why are our gas prices up because
00:03:28.140these things are interconnected uh so the the fact is is that what we need to do is we need to link
00:03:32.680together with this global economic populist movement to fight the globalist extremists
00:03:39.900that have steered us into this madness over the last several decades, because as much as we can
00:03:46.540bash, and rightfully so, the political dynasties here in the United States, like the Bushes,
00:03:52.520like the Clintons, like the Obamas, like the Bidens, it's not just them that did it. It's
00:03:59.960the globalists in the world as well, in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and certainly throughout Latin
00:04:07.600America. So one of the things that President Trump has done has been trying to energize these
00:04:12.600worldwide movements. And frankly, there's a lot of people that are super fired up about what
00:04:18.140President Trump is doing around the world. And I'm trying to bring these like-minded voices together
00:04:23.840and tell their stories and go out there and meet these folks. Because I do think that what we're
00:04:29.820seeing right now is the beginning of, you know, I joke when I call it the American empire, but not
00:04:36.100really, right? Like, I mean, that's the fact of the matter is, is that either we're going to win
00:04:40.180or China's going to win. There's no in between here. There's no, the two systems are incompatible.0.91
00:04:47.640And this is one of the things you mentioned in my interview with Matteo Salvini, the deputy
00:04:52.140prime minister of Italy. That's one of the things he said. He said in the interview that
00:04:55.620China's system is incompatible with the West. And that's true. So again, if they win,1.00
00:05:04.280there's no such thing as private companies. There's no such thing as entrepreneurs in China.
00:05:09.380There's only what the government encourages, needs, and allows to move forward. And it's
00:05:16.920complete control by the CCP in Beijing. We're decades into what I would call Cold War II.
00:05:24.460And I started reporting this stuff back in President Trump's first term. I went to Taiwan
00:05:29.220back then. I did a bunch of other major stories at different places around the world and interviews
00:05:36.720with different world leaders and whatever. But I really have accelerated here in the second term
00:05:41.140Because I think what you're seeing from President Trump with the trade policies, with the use of our power economically, but also militarily, of course, and our diplomatic power, President Trump has expanded the original peace through strength doctrine that Ronald Reagan is famous for developing.
00:06:01.200From the Reagan years, peace through strength was kind of a military and to an extent diplomatic strength of the United States.
00:06:09.260President Trump has added another leg to this stool, which is the economic strength of the
00:06:15.160United States. And so what we can do here is we can harness the strength of our friends and
00:06:20.680allies around the world. And everybody wins in that scenario, right? Like, so what you see,
00:06:26.440you see this with the president's efforts in the Middle East, you see this with the president's
00:06:30.260efforts with trade, with Europe and whatnot. And what he's trying to do, I think, is bring
00:06:35.900our friends in Europe to the forefront of this and get them to really engage and join
00:06:41.400our fight, if you will. Because the sad fact of the matter is, is that if you want Western
00:06:48.020civilization to survive, you need the United States at the forefront of this. And President
00:06:52.760Trump is maybe the only hope for Western civilization as it exists right now. And where
00:06:58.040these movements go and these people, these efforts around the world go from here is going to be
00:07:04.340super interesting in the years to come. Let me ask you, I keep saying that in President Trump's
00:07:13.520first term, Jared and I structured that first international visit. It wasn't to Canada. It
00:07:18.280wasn't to London, which had happened. But our theory of the case is that Western civilization
00:07:24.620goes Athens to Jerusalem to Rome. And of course, there we went Riyadh to Jerusalem to Rome.
00:07:30.880You spent much time in Athens. Why does it seem like your message and what you're talking about is people are reaching out to you from the Eastern Mediterranean, from both Athens and Rome and all the all the contiguous nations there.
00:07:43.420Why is that? Is it because it's a crossroads between Asia and Europe that the CCP is involved?
00:07:49.980But it seems to me, you know, you were just the keynote speaker and did an interview with me.
00:07:56.260We'll show in a minute the Delphi Economic Forum, which is one of the most prestigious economic forums in the world, but particularly in Greece, in that part of the eastern Mediterranean.
00:08:05.180You just had a major interview with Salvini, which I know they requested.
00:08:08.940Why does it seem like this effort that you're kind of at the forefront of of having voices talk about those nations that are that believe that America under President Trump and America first is a is the right path to follow?
00:08:28.200Why does it seem a lot of this is happening in the eastern Mediterranean, particularly the two ancient capitals of Athens and Rome that are the foundations for the American republic and American democracy?
00:08:41.720Well, yeah, first and foremost, their geopolitical location is extremely important.
00:08:46.720That's the reason why these ancient civilizations rose and ruled for thousands of years.
00:08:52.420Why? Because they were geopolitically extremely important.
00:08:55.700And frankly, nothing's really changed since ancient times in that who controls the seas and shipping and trade is who is going to control the, you know, govern the world, right?
00:09:08.940Like, and so there's a reason why you saw the Greeks rise first, really, of any of the major European civilizations.
00:09:16.520There's a reason why the Romans came and dominated for thousands of years afterwards.
00:09:21.920But then in addition to that, obviously, the current time frame here of where they are located in the world.0.74
00:09:30.700First off, they are the front lines of the immigration crisis in Europe.
00:09:34.900So the migrant boats that are coming from Africa and the Middle East, like the Libyans and so on and so forth, that are coming into Europe, they aren't landing in Germany.
00:09:44.620They aren't land. I mean, to an extent, maybe in Spain, but, you know, they're not really landing in France.
00:09:51.840They're not landing in. I mean, yeah, they have migraine crisis and all they end up there.
00:09:56.660But the point is that they're landing first in Greece and Italy. Right.
00:10:01.040Like because they're the first front wave line of defense here.
00:10:04.740So that's why. So there's that. And then in addition to that, just their geopolitical proximity to the Middle East,
00:10:11.860which is, you know, frankly, a hotbed of major, you know, military stuff that's going on around
00:10:19.680the world, but also energy, right? Like, and so, and then in addition to that, one of the things
00:10:24.440that the Greeks have done, particularly in this administration, the second Trump term,
00:10:30.480they've really leaned in on President Trump's vision of drill baby drill. So in addition to
00:10:35.820building the ports and terminals necessary to take American natural gas that we're shipping
00:10:42.740over, by the way, on Greek ships to Greece and to Europe that we're then sending up a vertical0.81
00:10:49.140corridor that we've built through Eastern Europe into Ukraine to counter the Russians on the
00:10:54.760natural gas that they were dominating the European market. And we're shipping that natural gas right0.88
00:11:00.340up the pipeline into Ukraine. That's how you really beat the Russians in the Ukraine situation.0.83
00:11:05.140it's not with blankets and even weapons it's the energy right energy is how you win the war
00:11:11.640but the fact is is that uh so being able to get the energy in there is important but in addition
00:11:16.520to that the greeks are actually doing for the first time in in decades like i think it's like
00:11:21.440close to 50 years uh that the uh they are doing a major and it begins early next year a major
00:11:28.000offshore natural gas drilling exploration, where Chevron and Axon are both going to be active on
00:11:35.420the Greek islands, two major American companies that are going to go out and explore for natural
00:11:41.860gas and obtain it. If they could get that, it's going to really help our friends in Europe get
00:11:48.820off of the bad actors around the world, whether it's the Russians, the Iranians, the Venezuelans,
00:11:55.560etc., and be able to develop their own energy, which then probably helps them implement our
00:12:02.600vision or what we're talking about. This is one of the things you see President Trump viciously
00:12:06.120criticize Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, over. Keir Starmer, a Labour Party guy and total
00:12:13.180loser, frankly, continues to refuse to even look for energy that exists likely off the coast of0.92
00:12:22.120the United Kingdom, right? Like around the Scottish Isles and so on and so forth. There's0.98
00:12:26.060very likely some major oil and natural gas there. But Keir Starmer is hamstringing because he's a
00:12:32.140liberal, you know, green energy kook, hamstringing the British from being able to get access to that.
00:12:38.280So the Greeks have really leaned in on that vision, which is great. And so you've got that.
00:12:44.720But then in addition to that, when it comes to national defense, President Trump, of course,
00:12:48.080has pushed, as well as the vice president and the secretary of state and Rubio, who we're going to
00:12:55.260see go over there, they've really pushed the Europeans to fund more of their own national
00:13:00.120defense through, go up to 5% NATO spending, 5% of GDP spending on their national defense,
00:13:07.100all the NATO countries. And they've all, except Spain, agreed to do it. Some have had varying
00:13:12.700degrees of success in doing it, but the Greeks were the first to do it and they did it before
00:13:16.220we even asked them to. Right. So they've got a very robust military. You'll see them active1.00
00:13:20.940around. So I was just there for 10 days. It was my third trip to Greece in a year. And you see the
00:13:28.840bases, you see military people in uniform. They have a robust national defense situation going
00:13:35.080on in Greece. And the hope is that the rest of our friends around Europe will do the same. So
00:13:40.720But again, this all comes down to which side is going to win here, the U.S. or China, when it's all said and done.
00:13:49.500And again, the hope here is that our European friends and allies who are much more like us and see the world, sometimes you have to drag them kicking and screaming, but eventually they come around to our way of thinking.
00:14:18.120Well, this is my second year there, so I went there last year as well.
00:14:22.040It was my first time to Greece, and when I was there last year, it was right after Liberation Day, Tariffs Day, and the whole world is freaking out attacking Trump.
00:14:29.900And I was the only one up there laying out what Trump is trying to do here with all this geopolitical stuff.
00:14:35.160And it turned out to be a major hit because the Greeks understand this stuff because of all the reasons that we just talked about and more.
00:14:41.780And so and people were looking for, you know, somebody to sanely explain it rather than your Wall Street journals and Fox News and whatnot, who were just attacking President Trump over the tariffs nonstop and whatnot.
00:14:53.960So they were trying to understand why is the president of the United States doing this stuff?
00:14:57.340And, well, we were the only ones that had a clear answer about that.
00:14:59.780In addition to that, I interviewed the prime minister last year of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and he correctly at the time, it was a really bold idea because he was the only world leader anywhere on planet Earth that defended President Trump.
00:15:14.180And he did it in the interview with me. He said, this is going to lead to a trade deal between the European Union and the United States.
00:15:21.000Everybody needs to chill out. Right. Like and it's all going to work out.
00:15:24.240I'm paraphrasing him, of course. But the point is, is that, you know, that day as we first got there
00:15:31.600to Delphi last year, the president did the 60 day pause or 90 day pause or whatever he did on the
00:15:36.980tariffs. And then the market goes ballistic. And then later, of course, we get to a trade deal.
00:15:41.100And by the way, when the US EU trade deal was signed the next morning, I was there in Scotland
00:15:45.900with President Trump and I did a huge interview with him there about it all. And so but the Greek
00:15:51.720prime minister ended up being exactly right. And so it was that big of a hit that they wanted me0.99
00:15:56.860to come back. So I did. And now we interviewed the Greek prime minister again at the Delphi
00:16:02.120Economic Forum this year. And one of the things he predicted is that President Trump is going to
00:16:07.580make a deal with the Iranians, and it's going to be a great deal for the whole world. That's going0.95
00:16:11.980to lead to, again, them not having a nuclear weapon and achieve all the other objectives
00:16:18.220that President Trump is setting out to do.
00:16:20.240Again, a bold prediction, but the president responded to our interview
00:16:25.440with the prime minister again and called him a terrific guy
00:16:28.560and thanked Greece for being a terrific ally.
00:16:31.140Before we go to the clip, I want to, because Eric Bolling was the first to say,
00:16:34.140hey, look, and this was weeks ago, the very beginning of this,
00:16:36.860Eric said, hey, look, what ought to happen here is kind of what happened in Venezuela.
00:16:40.700United States companies step in, working with the host country
00:16:44.500and put in capital and get their production up to basically international standards and volume,0.89
00:16:50.480it says the Iranians have the same problem.
00:16:52.340Since they've had sanctions for decades, they're so far behind that President Trump being the dealmaker
00:16:58.700should have some sort of workout with the American oil companies and the Iranians themselves
00:17:05.520to do this, obviously, after they agree to the nuclear weapon.
00:17:09.040You heard the exact same thing independently when you were in Greece from many sources.
00:17:14.360correct? Yes, many sources. I spoke with, you know, many Middle Eastern sources who were there.
00:17:20.240So one of the things that happens at this Delphi Economic Forum, right? So it's been going on for
00:17:24.420a little, I think this was the 11th year of this event. So they bring in leaders from around the
00:17:29.640region. And again, them being as geopolitically close as they are to the Middle East, there were
00:17:34.680Middle Eastern folks there, right, from a number of the different Gulf countries and whatnot. So
00:17:40.120So I'm talking to a number of them about this.
00:17:42.140And then I'm hearing from other people in the kind of the orbit of the U.S. officials and whatnot.
00:17:48.200And also the Greeks move most of the world's, more of the world's natural gas than any other country on their ships.
00:24:00.420Like, and I literally just this morning was on the phone with some Greek activists.
00:24:04.480I'm working on my next trip there, right?
00:24:06.600Which is going to be in a few weeks. So it's like they're ready to go. They want deep ties with the United States. They know what the future looks like and what the future holds. And frankly, one of the big stories that I did a few weeks ago from my last trip when I was there back in February was about these ports that are happening.
00:24:27.000Right. Like so one of the things that happened in President Trump's first term was Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, visited Greece and the Chinese government started funding this port called Piraeus Port in Greece.
00:24:41.780And Xi Jinping went there himself and he called it the dragon's head.0.89
00:24:46.820OK, that means that that is the Chinese effort to take over the world.
00:24:51.520They called it the dragon's head, not just in Greece, but in Europe and really worldwide in their efforts for geopolitical control of the seaway.0.54
00:25:01.300So we have this big debate that's going on right now about the Strait of Hormuz.
00:25:05.180And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to downplay the Strait of Hormuz.
00:25:08.180We need to get it open. We need to get the trade moving, the ships going through and so on and so forth.
00:25:13.920But if you think the Strait of Hormuz being shut for a few weeks is a big deal, wait until the Chinese control the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea and the, you know, things like the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal, right?
00:25:29.400So President Trump very smartly at the beginning of his second term here made serious inroads with the Panamanians to try to get Panama Canal back out of Chinese control.
00:25:41.880Because what happened is there was this Hong Kong company called C.K. Hutchison.0.60
00:25:45.840Now, Hong Kong used to be independent from China, but not anymore. It's fallen totally.
00:25:49.880The CCP totally controls Hong Kong now.
00:25:51.860So there's this company called C.K. Hutchison that was controlling the port on both ends of the Panama Canal, right?
00:26:22.540Matt just posted an interview with Salvini, one of the most powerful men, not just in Italy, but all of continental Europe, as the Secretary of State heads to have a meeting with the Pope and then Maloney on Friday, Pope on Thursday, Maloney on Friday.
00:26:41.200Of course, our own Ben Harnwell gave his assessment from Rome this morning.
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00:33:07.080Matt, you posted Salvini. Now, you did this interview around the time of the Olympics.
00:33:11.100She posted it today because, obviously, a very complicated interview.
00:43:03.740does rubio meet with salvini too while he's there right like and i think that if rubio he by the
00:43:11.720way it's his job as secretary of state to go meet world leaders okay like to be clear uh you know
00:43:16.940the the optics of this all aside uh you know the italians are a major part of what we're trying to
00:43:24.040do around the world no doubt about it or what we were all talking about earlier but the fact is is
00:43:29.280that as he heads there this week i doubt he's going to cancel it but hang on but hang on but
00:43:34.180hang on but hang on but maloney has today we've sent to because of admiral cooper's as we talked
00:43:41.040on the show this morning admiral cooper's presentation to president trump about his
00:43:44.440range of options one of it was to force the action as we advocated in the straits of hormones
00:43:49.240the persian gulf they've sent american combatants there to show that there's another path to get
00:43:54.020the ships out there's 800 to 2 000 ships uh there they're they're starting to lead them out now
00:44:00.480maybe not individually but as a collective group the the italians have been adamant they haven't
00:44:06.640sent anybody to help us in the red sea they haven't sent anybody to help us in the strait
00:44:10.940and they actually have a navy it's not a huge navy but maloney is there you see that they're
00:44:17.560talking about an eu solution that has a un uh a un charter or un mandate to do that so the italians
00:44:25.020to date as much as she's supposed to be the bridge you heard ben's shot at her no she puts herself
00:44:30.480out to be the bridge between trump and maga and america first and uh in in the eu she hasn't been
00:44:36.820she's very much a conventional eu leader in this regard has she not sir yeah she has been and so
00:44:43.920So the big question, again, like I said, the biggest thing, I sent my interview and President Trump's true social post of it with Salvini to the State Department's senior staff with Secretary Rubio.
00:44:56.260I've not heard back from them, but I recommend it to that secretary and his team that he meet with Salvini while he's there, because I think that that would be an important meeting for Secretary Rubio to take.
00:45:07.620I do think he should go forward and go do all of the things that Ben is talking about there.
00:45:13.920message wise. I think that's very smart. Why do you think he should meet with Salvini while he's
00:45:23.560there in addition to Malone? Because I think that Salvini represents way bigger than just
00:45:29.660the Italian government. Salvini represents a movement that's rising across Europe, whether
00:45:34.900you see Gert Wilders in the Netherlands or Jordan Bardella in France. And frankly, all of our
00:45:41.720friends that we're seeing in a lot of these other smaller countries on the eastern part of the
00:45:45.520continent as well. Salvini is the leader of the economic nationalist movement in Europe. I mean,
00:45:53.720and he is a check on these globalist losers, frankly, in Brussels. And frankly, Maloney is0.97
00:45:59.680thrown down with these globalist losers in Brussels for now. So maybe there's a way to0.98
00:46:05.520re-harness a lot of this stuff. Like, President Trump has deep, great personal relations with a
00:46:09.940lot of these people. Okay. Like that's one of the things about him, even if he disagrees with them
00:46:14.180and has a very different approach, Trump has a great personal relationship with like a guy like
00:46:18.840Macron or, uh, you know, people like Ursula von der Leyen and whatnot. But the, the fact is,
00:46:24.560is that, and even Maloney, uh, but the fact is, is that I think what we need to see here
00:46:29.620is, is again, the American, uh, assertion of dominance. And, and, and this is what I mean
00:46:36.120about when I was saying, even sometimes we have to drag our European friends kicking and screaming
00:46:41.040our way. They face a choice here. If they want to go be globalist cocks, frankly, they're going to
00:46:48.220get taken over by China. And we saw a taste of what that looked like in the year of COVID. Okay.0.98
00:46:54.620It's way worse than that. They're worried about the straighter her moves or worried about
00:46:58.500masks and PPE. Wait till China controls everything. That is not good for them. That1.00
00:47:05.440So the point is that sometimes we have to force them to join us.
00:47:09.100And this is one of those cases where I think Rubio can walk in there and really throw down on behalf of the president and the American government and make it clear that this is totally unacceptable and repair the relationship.
00:47:23.140As for the Pope, by the way, I still think, I still think that the Pope has an enormous opportunity to do some things that we haven't seen from a Pope since John Paul in the 20th century.
00:47:37.440He's not doing a lot of this stuff right now.
00:47:40.000But when it comes to geopolitical stuff and combating communism and whatnot, I mean, look, Pope John Paul was critical to winning the Cold War, okay?
00:47:47.420The Cold War one, right, against the Soviet Union, critical to winning the Cold War.
00:47:51.260pope uh pope leo can can be that guy that helps us win cold war ii okay he can be uh and the
00:47:59.700and the vatican has if he wasn't formal relations with taiwan if he wasn't he's not doing yeah is
00:48:07.240when they decide to to basically make public the secret deal they have the chinese communist party
00:48:12.780then i'll start to feel that he's on our side until then i don't matt i don't disagree
00:48:17.820Matt, we've got to bounce, but you've got a lot of stuff coming up this week.
00:48:25.220I think you're having an event on Wednesday, one of these special events that you guys put on.
00:48:30.320We're doing a huge Breitbart News event with Ambassador Monica Crowley, the chief of protocol of the United States and the chief spokeswoman for the America 250 effort, all about America 250 and about her work as a chief of protocol.
00:48:42.080She's the one who introduces President Trump to all the world leaders.
00:48:44.960We're doing that Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C.0.67