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00:00:30.480 Today, I introduce you to a term that you probably have never heard, crink.

00:00:34.760 This actually is very important in your life, crink.

00:00:39.780 What is President Trump doing to counteract crink? 0.79

00:00:45.220 What is it?

00:00:46.320 Also, some breaking news.

00:00:47.800 We're doing a special on glennbeck.com in March.

00:00:52.120 And we're doing research with Ryan Morrow on the Islamization of America and the Western world.

00:00:59.060 And in doing that, we've stumbled onto something that is really important.

00:01:02.920 We felt we didn't want to hold it for the special and wait two months.

00:01:07.240 We thought it should go to the president right away.

00:01:09.000 So we delivered it to the president.

00:01:10.600 At the same time, we announced it on the air today.

00:01:12.800 You'll hear that announcement with Ryan Morrow, what he found.

00:01:15.680 And also, Capital Controls.

00:01:18.020 It's a new special that is based on something that my grandfather said to me.

00:01:22.700 Gosh, I wish we would have known what the rich people knew.

00:01:24.960 Maybe the Great Depression would have gone better for our family. 0.61

00:01:28.180 So what is it that the rich people know that maybe you don't?

00:01:31.020 Well, it has something to do with capital controls.

00:01:33.240 And you can find that at glennbeck.com.

00:01:35.560 Carol Roth is on talking about capital controls.

00:01:40.120 And also Mom Donnie and communism and what is headed the way for New Yorkers and also Californians. 0.51

00:01:51.220 Look out, a different kind of capital control.

00:01:54.360 All on today's podcast.

00:01:55.260 Hello, America.

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00:02:39.840 Now let's get to work.

00:02:40.780 Let me bring in Jason, our head researcher.

00:02:56.160 Jason's been doing research for me for, what, 10 years now?

00:02:58.840 Yeah.

00:02:59.020 Okay.

00:02:59.460 And he's military and former military intelligence.

00:03:03.120 He is, he's just a great researcher and put a great team together.

00:03:08.320 And we have uncovered a lot of things in our 10 years together.

00:03:12.380 One of the reasons why I changed my relationship with the Blaze, you can still see the show every day on Blaze TV, but we have added 50% more information to the show.

00:03:26.760 I have been frustrated with the load of commercials that we have to do as podcasts.

00:03:33.520 Broadcast, we have to pay for the transmitters and everything else and the local stations.

00:03:37.920 So they have to have that.

00:03:39.440 But on podcast, we don't.

00:03:41.180 And so we just ran all these extra commercials and I hated it.

00:03:44.420 And there's not enough time in the day for me to tell you everything that's going on.

00:03:49.060 So we've, in those commercial breaks, Jason now is filling in and giving you deeper information.

00:03:56.060 And if you're on, is it Facebook today?

00:03:59.040 Facebook today, the whole three-hour show is on Facebook.

00:04:02.800 All three hours.

00:04:03.640 But you can go to glennbeck.com all for the whole month.

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00:04:11.060 It's just free.

00:04:12.380 Just go to glennbeck.com, click on the little radio towers, hit watch, and, you know, click the little arrow.

00:04:18.880 And you'll be able to watch the show and see what Jason is doing.

00:04:21.860 Can I say, you want to be on glennbeck.com.

00:04:24.700 I just got finished the first hour talking to this audience.

00:04:28.260 And they are definitely keeping me on my toes.

00:04:30.180 This is the most informed audience.

00:04:33.320 They're brutal.

00:04:33.640 Oh, my gosh.

00:04:34.380 Never bluff.

00:04:35.220 They're brutal.

00:04:36.000 They know.

00:04:37.080 Amazing.

00:04:37.480 Yeah.

00:04:37.640 But anyway, so one of the reasons why I started all of this and changed my daily schedule is because I want to produce so much more information for you because it's incredible what's happening in the world.

00:04:52.400 But I also want to go deeper on things.

00:04:55.880 And so we have taken our Wednesday night special, and we're spending all of that time on weekly research for the radio show and what we do on.

00:05:04.940 And I hope you've heard the difference that just this week on the amount of time that we're spending on the radio show to get this really right and dialed in for you.

00:05:13.820 But also, we want to spend the time to find the deep stuff, not just the stuff that everybody can report on, you know, on Fox News or CNN, but the stuff that really matters and go deep.

00:05:26.900 So you understand it and you see what we believe is there, we'll be able to prove it to you.

00:05:35.200 So we have partnered and almost tripled our research staff and budget, and we've also partnered with people like Ryan Morrow, who is really amazing.

00:05:47.780 He is the Morrow Institute director, he's a counterterrorism expert, and he's helping us do research on our first special on the Islamization of America and the West.

00:06:00.420 Because, gang, if we do not pay attention to Islamism, and you're seeing it beginning here in New York, you're seeing it in Detroit, you're seeing it in the Somali community in Minnesota, it's happening. 0.92

00:06:14.960 It's bad in Texas, and if we don't understand that and take it seriously, it'll be lights out.

00:06:22.580 So that's our first special in March.

00:06:24.940 However, we don't hold things back if I don't care about ratings or money more than I care about the Western civilization and our country.

00:06:34.460 So Ryan found something and he's like, Glenn, I think this is really dangerous.

00:06:39.060 And I'm like, we got to expose it.

00:06:41.440 He's like, glad you said that, because I think so, too.

00:06:44.960 We needed to break this news today and not wait for the special.

00:06:48.740 And Ryan is here to tell us what he found.

00:06:51.160 And he's giving this information to the White House and to other officials in the administration today.

00:06:57.520 But you're hearing it here first.

00:06:59.840 Ryan, welcome.

00:07:01.780 Hi, Glenn.

00:07:02.360 Thanks so much for having me on.

00:07:03.540 You bet.

00:07:04.080 You're an incredible researcher.

00:07:05.600 And gosh, just this is so important.

00:07:09.320 I can't wait to see what you've got coming for the show.

00:07:13.220 But anyway, tell us what you found that needs to be released to the American people today.

00:07:18.520 Sure.

00:07:20.080 So what was known prior to today is that there was a man and woman in Gaza who were killed in June 2024 because they were holding three Israeli hostages.

00:07:30.080 The Israelis came in, had to kill the two Hamas operatives, the man and the woman.

00:07:34.020 And then it became known that the man was an official writer at the time called a correspondent for a website called Palestine Chronicle.

00:07:44.160 Palestine Chronicle is basically the same thing.

00:07:47.420 It's like the public face of a nonprofit organization based in Washington state called the People Media Project.

00:07:53.880 And so the freed Israeli hostages sued them.

00:07:58.560 And their defense was, well, he's not really a correspondent.

00:08:01.620 He's a contributor because they changed his title after this happened on their website.

00:08:05.760 And they said even though he was writing for us actually two to three times a day after October 7th, it was on a voluntary basis.

00:08:13.540 You can't prove that we actually gave him money.

00:08:16.300 And so I, in working with your team, went through the website, and what we found was really interesting.

00:08:25.540 They boast about an event that they held in Gaza, ostensibly just to give free haircuts for Palestinian children.

00:08:33.060 And this is an article written by that man who is an official writer.

00:08:36.880 And he talks about his wife, the woman who was killed in the raid, doing this event for the Palestine Chronicle.

00:08:44.780 And they refer to her essentially as a staff member.

00:08:47.580 They say this is our initiative coordinator for the event.

00:08:51.400 Our staff put on this event.

00:08:53.460 And they slip up enough that they actually say funds for this initiative was raised from personal donations by Palestine Chronicle editors.

00:09:03.540 Now, what does that mean?

00:09:04.600 That means money passed from that Washington state-based organization, the Palestine Chronicle editors, to the wife of this guy, of this main hostage holder, who she was also involved in there.

00:09:20.640 So their defense of, well, our writer, yes, was holding Israelis hostage and writing for us while holding them hostage, but he can't prove that we gave them money.

00:09:29.100 Well, we found in their own words, they gave money to his wife.

00:09:32.800 That is, as far as I can tell, illegal.

00:09:36.500 It is illegal to knowingly pass money to Hamas operatives.

00:09:39.980 And by the way, the husband, and they knew this at the time because of the Facebook interactions, was a publicly identified spokesperson for Hamas's Ministry of Labor.

00:09:48.900 So, I mean, it doesn't get more solid than that.

00:09:53.440 And we are busy right now mapping out the connections of this organization, of the head of it, Ramzi Baroud, because this leads to all sorts of other organizations, including one in Turkey, led by Sami al-Aryan, who was one of the top Muslim Brotherhood Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders, a professor in Florida, who was deported shortly after 9-11.

00:10:18.900 So this shows that this group, yes, they're connected to Hamas, but they're actually part of this broader Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas-Palestine Islamic Jihad-connected network out of Turkey.

00:10:32.040 Oh, and I also need to mention that the chief editor of Palestine Chronicle, at least used to be, maybe still is, a non-resident scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

00:10:43.860 Wow. So, Ryan, this is, we have not been willing to say, some of us have, you certainly have for a long time, we've tried to say the things that are true, and everybody has dogpiled and said, Islamophobia, Islamophobia.

00:11:06.420 I think because of the Trump administration, those days aren't just over where you can say something that is true and is not Islamic, I don't care about Muslims, I care about Islamists, that's who I care about, the ones who use Islam as a political power and want to have Sharia law. 0.72

00:11:28.700 Those are the dangerous ones. That's not radical, that's political Islam. 0.99

00:11:34.760 And do you feel that the administration, because I'm sensing they are, do you feel the administration is serious about these things and we're going to start seeing these not just exposed, but people being deported, institutions being shut down, and this, that we actually take this serious as, because I believe we are in a war against Islamists. 0.97

00:12:05.420 Are we starting to deal with it that way, do you think?

00:12:10.320 I certainly believe so. And from a few different angles, to your earlier point, actually, since I was a teenager, I started doing this when I was 16 professionally, that's when I was first hired.

00:12:21.220 I based it on the idea that civilians could be almost like an intelligence counterpart to the federal, state, and local agencies.

00:12:29.660 And so I've put together a civilian intelligence network ever since then, back in 2002, so I could see the impact that things like this actually have.

00:12:40.720 So it's not something we have to just say, well, is the administration going to do this or that?

00:12:44.580 Like, you can play an active part in it, and I think most people don't understand that.

00:12:49.500 Your audience does because they are obsessed with research, as I can tell every time I'm on your show, the emails I get.

00:12:56.460 But so this is very impactful. This is equipping the administration. When the will is there to take action, civilians can provide it.

00:13:06.900 It's not just a matter of saying, oh, well, we've got the right people in power now. Let's just sit back and watch.

00:13:10.640 It's like, no, you've got to act a part of it. And by the way, some of my best sources, the best informants I've had deep inside some of these groups were Muslims who came to me.

00:13:20.740 So you're absolutely right that it's not about fighting Muslims. It's because some of my best allies have been Muslims.

00:13:27.880 And to prove your point that, yes, the administration will act specifically on the stuff that you and I put together, look at what has happened since we released our investigation into George Soros' network.

00:13:40.640 financing with over $80 million into domestic terrorist groups and pro-terror groups.

00:13:46.260 Within three business days, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration had essentially launched an investigation of George Soros' network as a result of what we did together.

00:13:58.000 And that's already having effects, even if you're not hearing about it publicly, because we were actually attacked for that in one media article that I thought was comical,

00:14:07.560 because it was basically saying how bad it is that these allegations are out there, because these groups like Soros and them are complaining that they're spending so much money on lawyers to make sure they're in compliance with the law.

00:14:18.440 So that there's no pretext to go after them.

00:14:21.760 I was like, yeah, yeah, shame on us. We made you spend money to make sure you're following the law.

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00:16:04.080 Carol, I've released the documentary that we did on capital controls today.

00:16:12.160 It was released at 8 o'clock this morning.

00:16:14.500 Thank you for your help on that.

00:16:16.200 It's nice to have a stable of experts like you that really get it and can explain what's going on.

00:16:22.840 I wanted to have you on today because what's happening in New York is quite remarkable, and I think it is a form of capital controls.

00:16:34.760 When a government says you're going to have a different relationship with private property, isn't that a capital control where they're saying you can't spend your money the way you want to spend your money?

00:16:46.480 Yeah, I mean, certainly in terms of what a layman would consider a capital control, you know, economists have a very strict definition, but there are what we consider to also be de facto capital controls.

00:16:59.620 And certainly what is happening in New York is reminiscent of, you know, any time socialists and communists come to power.

00:17:09.100 And it's one of the things that's kind of this weird triangle that's going on right now is it also reminds me of what happened in Venezuela.

00:17:18.820 If you think about Venezuela and the fact that they were producing 3 million barrels a day of oil and they were a very prosperous country,

00:17:29.400 and once the socialists, the communists, whatever you want to call them, theists took over, productive capital no longer makes investments.

00:17:39.780 And so what's the logical outgrowth of that?

00:17:42.540 Well, we can see it.

00:17:43.580 Their output is down at this point to less than a third of that.

00:17:47.880 And their infrastructure is so decayed that if we even wanted to help them get back to where they used to be,

00:17:55.740 it's going to take around $100 billion in investments and quite some time, probably five years or longer, to bring it back to where it was before.

00:18:05.740 So when you think about what's happening in New York and you hear things like rent controls,

00:18:10.880 and we're going to put these controls in place, these landlords can't charge as much money to make things more affordable.

00:18:18.420 Well, the same thing is going to happen.

00:18:20.420 There is no financial incentive to make the investments in that property, which means everything decays,

00:18:27.820 which means you have a bunch of slums that maybe are theoretically affordable, but nobody actually wants to live in them.

00:18:35.560 So no matter what they try to dictate, when they're pushing these controls down our throats,

00:18:42.960 it doesn't have the same outcomes as the free market would, and it has these terrible impacts and effects,

00:18:52.360 which is why we all lean into capitalism and free market principles and what's made us so prosperous.

00:18:58.100 So, Carol, can a mayor and city council do what they're talking about doing?

00:19:07.220 I mean, you look at Seattle, boy, they've screwed that place up.

00:19:12.520 California screwed that place up, but he is talking about full-fledged collectivism, communism, really,

00:19:21.500 where the state is saying you can't live there because of who you are or whatever,

00:19:26.640 and we're going to give that property to somebody else.

00:19:29.320 I mean, can he do that?

00:19:32.320 Well, you know, there's the common sense side of me, and there's the reality of what is happening in the world.

00:19:39.560 And the common sense would say, no, of course not.

00:19:42.020 There's laws.

00:19:42.740 There's a constitution that stuff like that can't happen.

00:19:45.780 But we've seen the constitution flouted.

00:19:49.480 We've seen the general principles that the country was founded on, our rights and protections flouted so many times that they can certainly try.

00:19:58.700 And I'm sure there are probably workarounds and things that they have in statues where they're going to say,

00:20:04.700 well, you know, this wasn't up to code or this wasn't, you know, following this rule.

00:20:10.420 So we're not actually really seizing it.

00:20:12.640 We're just saying you're not following the rules.

00:20:14.420 And going back to what I said, you know, if you are somebody who owns a property that, you know,

00:20:20.240 it has rent control on it and you can't make the investment because you're not getting the market rent on it,

00:20:26.600 and all of a sudden they think, well, you're out of the code, you know, you have all these fines.

00:20:30.460 Are you going to make that investment?

00:20:34.460 Probably not because you're not going to get a return on it.

00:20:36.760 You could use your capital more productively somewhere else.

00:20:39.460 So then they say, well, you're in violation of these fines,

00:20:42.280 so we're now going to come in as the government and we're going to take this over.

00:20:46.320 We've certainly seen things that look like that all over the place.

00:20:49.980 You know, can it be challenged?

00:20:51.220 Maybe.

00:20:52.000 But can it happen?

00:20:53.440 I mean, it certainly looks like it's a possibility.

00:20:56.600 So if these things happen, New York is just going to go into a cesspool,

00:21:03.440 and you're going to see big money.

00:21:06.620 I mean, the money that's not out now, it's going to flee because it just doesn't want to be sucked into all of that.

00:21:14.440 I can't imagine.

00:21:15.280 Yesterday we played a clip of Mom Donnie talking about this,

00:21:18.400 and he was talking about how, you know, if you're a landowner or you own apartments or you're renting things out to people,

00:21:29.720 that, you know, there's all kinds of new rules coming your way.

00:21:31.980 And I thought, I would never own a piece of property in New York.

00:21:36.100 I would get out of there as soon as I can because it's not going to be stacked even fairly.

00:21:41.380 Not just in my favor.

00:21:43.280 It's not even going to be stacked fairly for a capitalist.

00:21:46.180 And at some point, if you drive enough people out, the city and the state will have to try to protect itself.

00:21:55.880 And that's, again, where capital controls come in.

00:21:57.840 And they'll say, you can't take your money out or you have to pay taxes for the next five years if you're moving out.

00:22:04.620 Won't they try to trap money there?

00:22:08.320 Well, you're seeing this happen real time in California.

00:22:12.280 There are so many things to talk about in that little piece.

00:22:14.580 But let me just start with the last one.

00:22:16.780 They're trying this in California.

00:22:18.600 They're trying to put in place a wealth tax, which we've talked about many times.

00:22:24.920 Certainly something like, you know, seven or nine countries in Europe have abandoned since it was such a bad idea.

00:22:31.180 California, because capital is mobile, but they're trying to make it retroactive, that if, you know, you are a citizen as of, I think, was the end of 2025, beginning of 2026 of California, that you can't try to get around this rule.

00:22:45.480 We're going to come after you anyway to try to take your wealth. 0.99

00:22:49.960 So these are not theoretical things that could happen.

00:22:54.260 These are proposals that are being put on the table, that are being led by people like Ro Khanna in California, who is a representative from Silicon Valley.

00:23:05.220 His constituents are the tech bros, are the billionaires, are the people who put him in place.

00:23:12.760 And then he is turning around and saying, well, guess what?

00:23:16.640 You know, at the core, I'm still a communist, whether you put me in place or not.

00:23:20.920 So we're seeing that in California.

00:23:22.800 I can tell you, being from Chicago, we've seen the impact of this real-time, not certainly directly capital control, but the bad policies that have driven out billionaires like Ken Griffin.

00:23:35.780 And the hole that that has left, not only in terms of his tax revenue, his philanthropy, but all the jobs that went with him, is this money that is no longer here as part of the tax base.

00:23:47.560 And so the middle and working class now are having to pick up that difference, and people are shocked at how much they're having to carry, because the people with money can take it somewhere else, and they're left holding the back.

00:24:01.660 I actually saw somebody say, how come he's not spending money in Chicago anymore?

00:24:06.460 Because you drove him out.

00:24:08.540 Literally.

00:24:08.860 You drove him out.

00:24:09.800 He'll take care of some other community.

00:24:11.660 You didn't want him there.

00:24:12.900 But you certainly want his money.

00:24:15.460 It's amazing.

00:24:16.820 Yes.

00:24:17.040 And the fact that there is this level of economic illiteracy, and that if you went up in front of a bunch of people or even members of the state representatives,

00:24:29.160 and you say, okay, which would you rather have, 90% of a pie or 50% of a pie?

00:24:36.480 And they would actually give you that answer without knowing how big the pie is, because they don't fundamentally understand that we're looking at trying to have less of a burden for everyone and grow the pie and make it a wonderful place to live.

00:24:51.300 And these policies, New York is one that's staggering to me, Glenn.

00:24:55.800 And if you think about it, this is Wall Street.

00:24:58.760 This is the financial capital of the United States.

00:25:02.540 This is where the Fed monetary policy comes from.

00:25:05.680 This is where all the banks are.

00:25:07.880 This is the center of money in the United States.

00:25:13.280 Now, all of a sudden, has a bunch of these communists who are proposing communist policy.

00:25:19.920 It's not that easy to just pick up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and relocate that.

00:25:27.160 Good.

00:25:27.280 Let's abolish it.

00:25:28.460 I'm sorry.

00:25:31.000 All right.

00:25:31.800 Amen to that.

00:25:32.900 Amen to that.

00:25:33.760 But this is going to get really ugly.

00:25:35.820 Really ugly.

00:25:36.560 Really ugly.

00:25:37.140 And you'll see it move to Texas and Florida.

00:25:39.200 Mark my words.

00:25:40.260 Let me just play this.

00:25:41.400 This is from Donnie just a few days ago.

00:25:43.540 Listen to this.

00:25:44.180 And I am also proud to announce that I will be signing an executive order directing HPD

00:25:52.660 to work alongside the Department of Buildings, the newly invigorated mayor's office to protect

00:25:58.280 tenants, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, and our newly created office of

00:26:03.760 mass engagement to hold rental ripoff hearings across all five boroughs within the first hundred

00:26:22.260 days of this administration.

00:26:26.240 New Yorkers will be invited to participate and to share the realities that animate their

00:26:31.340 daily lives.

00:26:32.040 I want these hearings to expose the ugly underbelly of our city.

00:26:38.660 It wouldn't be bad if you were actually going after crime and things like that.

00:26:46.840 But when you have a communist agenda, that's nothing but a show trial of capitalism.

00:26:52.900 It's just taking capitalism down.

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00:27:04.240 I don't even know where to start.

00:27:05.560 I have so much.

00:27:07.140 I can't wait to explain to you today.

00:27:10.040 You know, I've been on this hunt, I feel, since over the weekend with Venezuela.

00:27:17.140 And it's all starting just to fall into place.

00:27:22.120 You know, one of the only skills I think God gave me was the completely useless, you know,

00:27:29.340 when the world breaks down storytelling ability.

00:27:32.480 That's going to get me eaten by week one.

00:27:34.900 They're like, he's out of stories and he looks delicious.

00:27:37.500 The other thing that I do have an ability to do is connect the dots.

00:27:44.480 And I've been on this dot connecting kick here in the last few days.

00:27:50.240 And more dots seem to be appearing.

00:27:52.080 And it's becoming very clear that America and empire in decline is not a thing.

00:28:03.780 And I want to take several layers of this, but I want to start with an acronym that you've

00:28:09.100 probably never heard before.

00:28:11.240 CRINK.

00:28:12.900 C-R-I-N-K. 1.00

00:28:15.380 CRINK.

00:28:16.980 What does it stand for?

00:28:18.600 It is what we would call the axis power.

00:28:25.140 And I have been talking about, we're watching an axis power being created.

00:28:29.120 I've been saying that forever.

00:28:30.260 Look at, the sides are being defined.

00:28:33.260 The axis power.

00:28:35.360 And it's China, C, Russia, R, Iran, I, and North Korea.

00:28:43.200 CRINK.

00:28:45.140 That's the axis power.

00:28:46.800 And I've been saying, where's Churchill?

00:28:50.820 Where's anybody who, you know, where's the allied power?

00:28:54.300 Because NATO, that's not a power.

00:28:58.720 That's not going to come in helpful at all.

00:29:02.060 It felt like the entire West was in decline.

00:29:05.860 And it's because we've been talking about decline.

00:29:08.980 We're in decline.

00:29:10.080 Or are we?

00:29:13.500 We elected Donald Trump because we were tired of this.

00:29:18.060 And we're tired of these endless wars and everything else.

00:29:21.400 And Donald Trump had a vision.

00:29:23.280 And he tried to tell me this, you know, for the year leading up to the election.

00:29:27.300 Glenn, I got it.

00:29:27.980 I got it.

00:29:28.500 You won't believe how fast we're going to.

00:29:30.200 We're going to change everything.

00:29:31.360 And we're going to have a new American century.

00:29:34.080 But it's going to happen.

00:29:36.760 It's going to happen quickly.

00:29:37.680 And I didn't understand it.

00:29:39.760 I think I'm just beginning to understand it.

00:29:45.640 We're not.

00:29:46.640 He's not building an American empire.

00:29:49.020 He is building something that I think is much closer to what we were hoping for or thought was going to be built in the 1990s when we talked about a unipolar moment, you know, that America was going to lead.

00:30:06.880 But everybody was going to get together because we're all free now.

00:30:11.140 And, you know, we had these hopes of lollipops and sugar plums and everything was going to be great because we won.

00:30:17.780 And the science is settled.

00:30:20.080 And we didn't realize that communism just changed uniforms.

00:30:24.100 And we were entering this really very dangerous world because we would get fat and sassy and lazy.

00:30:31.280 Donald Trump is changing and building a new allied power.

00:30:37.500 And I told you a couple of days ago, and I think, you know, we need to really think this through.

00:30:44.600 I think he's given up on Europe.

00:30:46.880 And I think he should give up on Europe, honestly.

00:30:49.220 I mean, they can come to the table at any time.

00:30:50.840 They can change their destiny, and I'd love for them to join.

00:30:54.720 But until they decide they want to survive, they're over.

00:31:00.480 So let me just take you through the things that are happening.

00:31:03.220 And I want to get to Iran and I want to get to Greenland.

00:31:06.100 But let me explain first the power that he is building, what he's building here.

00:31:13.940 Let's start where he started in the Middle East.

00:31:16.940 We have gone from endless wars to a loosely, you know, U.S. anchored block.

00:31:24.760 We're no longer walking in and saying, we're going to do it.

00:31:28.900 We're going to nation build.

00:31:30.020 Instead, he's saying, you know what, this doesn't work, and we'd love to help broker a deal between all of you guys.

00:31:37.740 And, you know, look what you can build.

00:31:40.600 And let me help you with the framework so you can all get along.

00:31:45.060 For 20 years, it feels like America longer than that.

00:31:49.540 The story of the Middle East was Americans go in, Americans retreat, and Iranians advance, right? 0.99

00:31:58.040 Then in the first term, he came with the Abraham Accords. 0.75

00:32:00.920 Israel normalized with the UAE and Bahrain and Morocco, and now it seems like everybody is normalizing relations.

00:32:11.900 And he has taken the entire Middle East, which was available to all of the presidents in the past, but they didn't do it for some reason or didn't get it.

00:32:21.300 And they all don't want Iran. 0.95

00:32:24.780 They know Iran is dangerous. 1.00

00:32:26.880 He just took them all and went, yeah, you guys should all get together because you can actually be a global power and influence, but not with Iran.

00:32:40.000 And so he normalized the relations between them.

00:32:45.120 And it wasn't just a series of photo ops for him.

00:32:49.200 It was he took the U.S. and aligned the economic and security architecture for everybody, Israel, the Gulf, potentially Saudi Arabia, and the U.S.

00:33:02.360 But we're not the ones doing it.

00:33:05.120 We're not the ones that are fighting everybody's battles.

00:33:07.880 That's really important.

00:33:10.040 Now, layer on top of that, the Israelis and Iran went to war.

00:33:16.340 And the only thing that we did was we destroyed their nuclear capability.

00:33:23.680 The other thing we did with Iran, which we didn't have no boots on the ground, nobody's, no soldiers, no airmen, you know, at risk here. 0.64

00:33:33.840 We just stopped sending them pallets of cash.

00:33:36.920 Now, what is happening in Iran?

00:33:42.120 Iran is facing the worst economic crisis in modern history.

00:33:47.700 Inflation is now at 52% for this last year.

00:33:52.360 And the real, which is their dollar, if you will, is now 1.47 million reals to one U.S. dollar.

00:34:04.200 The average Iranian is making $200 a month.

00:34:09.360 You can go in with a U.S. dollar and buy bread for 36 cents.

00:34:16.840 That seems cheap for U.S. dollars, but if you're buying everything in reals, that's 500,000 reals, and you're making $200.

00:34:28.940 Your rent is more than $200.

00:34:31.000 They can't feed themselves.

00:34:32.180 They can't heat their house.

00:34:33.700 They can't do anything.

00:34:35.080 It's almost a free fall, and it's almost Weimar Republic status, okay?

00:34:42.140 So everyone is consumed with just surviving.

00:34:46.980 You know, when you have fear, when you have oppression, that's bad, and that'll get people into the streets.

00:34:54.300 But when they cannot survive, they can't eat, that changes everything.

00:34:59.720 And the axis of resistance, that's Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iraqi militias, the Houthis, all of that, they can't afford to keep all of that together.

00:35:14.760 But now the regime is bringing these people in.

00:35:17.940 They are Arab.

00:35:19.720 The vast majority of people that live in Iran are Persian.

00:35:24.240 Persians are very different than Arabs. 1.00

00:35:26.720 They have Arabs now coming in to be the brute force. 1.00

00:35:33.320 That's not going to go well.

00:35:36.160 Now, this doesn't immediately create peace, but it is shifting the momentum.

00:35:46.580 So I'm going to come back to Iran here in a minute, but let me just show you now.

00:35:50.400 So you have Israel plus the Sunni Arabs. 0.95

00:35:53.200 Iran is weakened, distracted.

00:36:00.220 Russia, China, what's happening there, and North Korea.

00:36:05.880 Let me show you what this means with just North Korea and all of this. 0.77

00:36:12.160 With Krink.

00:36:13.880 He's just dismantling these people.

00:36:16.020 It's amazing what's happening so fast.

00:36:18.200 Second point, energy.

00:36:23.120 What has been our biggest problem?

00:36:25.840 Why are we always in these wars?

00:36:27.760 And they always say, well, it's in the American interest.

00:36:30.400 Why?

00:36:31.520 Oil, right?

00:36:32.880 That's been the big argument.

00:36:34.720 Oil, oil, oil.

00:36:35.640 And anybody who is a conservative, you know, or just common sense and doesn't think that oil is the big worst thing that could ever happen, we've all been saying, we have enough oil.

00:36:49.200 Why are we buying our oil from the Middle East?

00:36:51.420 We have enough.

00:36:52.580 Okay?

00:36:52.820 Now, we need much more because there's a coming energy crisis the world over.

00:36:59.740 But we have had this addiction to oil, and it has been our biggest weakness because everybody can use it against us.

00:37:08.820 We can have, you know, shortages of oil.

00:37:10.840 They can cut us off.

00:37:12.020 We're constantly having to go to war for oil, although we never go to war for oil.

00:37:16.740 We all know we all went to war for oil.

00:37:18.440 Okay?

00:37:20.280 Trump came in and said, enough of this, and applied common sense.

00:37:25.780 We're not going to fight over oil anymore.

00:37:27.940 We've got our own oil.

00:37:31.020 But what did he do?

00:37:33.580 He is now making deals all over the world to make sure that we're controlled, like OPEC used to control the world's oil.

00:37:41.580 Our hemisphere is going to control the Western world's energy. 0.98

00:37:46.960 Not OPEC.

00:37:48.880 Us.

00:37:50.700 That is part of what I called the, what did I say that it was yesterday, the, oh, shoot, the arsenal of democracy.

00:38:01.840 Okay?

00:38:02.320 We are preparing for war, whether we like it or not.

00:38:05.400 We are preparing for a massive war.

00:38:08.180 Hopefully, because we're preparing for it, it will never happen.

00:38:11.240 But we are now not the vulnerable importer.

00:38:16.420 We are now the stable producer and the one who is shepherding all of the oil.

00:38:23.080 Did you hear what happened just a couple of hours ago?

00:38:26.260 So, we have been following this tanker that has been Russian flagged, okay?

00:38:33.040 Once you flag a ship, then if you flag it Russia, then the Russian Navy can get involved because that's a Russian flagged ship, even though it doesn't belong to Russia.

00:38:42.880 We have been following this ship and trying to stop this oil tanker from bringing oil that should not be going overseas from Venezuela.

00:38:53.280 And we have been trying to track it down.

00:38:56.760 Well, about a few hours ago, maybe five hours ago, we caught up with it.

00:39:00.940 Now, Russia was sending ships to protect this because it was a Russian flagged ship.

00:39:09.340 What happened?

00:39:10.580 Our Navy just pulled up to it and boarded it.

00:39:13.780 And that ship is now where it belongs.

00:39:16.400 It's impounded.

00:39:17.480 It was never supposed to be taking oil.

00:39:20.220 It was against international law.

00:39:22.420 We had an embargo on it, et cetera, et cetera.

00:39:24.920 Well, we caught up with it.

00:39:26.320 So, we are very, very serious about this.

00:39:30.220 And because of the way Venezuela just happened, American credibility on the war front, the rest of the world, our enemies are freaking out right now because even people who are in the military, I shouldn't say in the military, I'm sure they know more, but people who have been watching the military, former military, people that know about the military, even they are looking at it going,

00:39:57.520 how the hell did we just pull this off with Venezuela? 0.75

00:40:00.220 What do we, how did we beat that?

00:40:03.300 That's Russian, that's China, that's the best technology or some of the best technology that is able to be sold out of those countries.

00:40:14.580 And we shut it down like it was a baby gate.

00:40:18.800 How did we do that?

00:40:20.740 We don't know.

00:40:21.960 Do we have new technology or are they just that bad?

00:40:24.660 Right now, the rest of the world realizes, holy cow, militarily, America is not a declining power.

00:40:34.620 It is way ahead of where we are and where we thought they were.

00:40:39.980 So that they're just that alone is changing the dynamics.

00:40:45.120 You don't have to exercise that power.

00:40:48.320 If everyone knows you have that power and everybody goes, you don't want to mess with them.

00:40:53.820 Power comes strength, peace through strength.

00:40:58.340 That is now a proven part of it.

00:41:01.820 And if you look at the pieces that are on the board, I think Cuba is going to, I think in the next year, Cuba will collapse.

00:41:08.560 Because where is Cuba?

00:41:10.160 Cuba can't get any money from Russia.

00:41:12.960 They don't, they don't have it.

00:41:14.480 They don't have it.

00:41:15.320 They're busy and tied up in Ukraine.

00:41:17.080 They were supporting, they started cutting Cuba off. 0.85

00:41:22.920 Cuba needs the money because communism doesn't work.

00:41:26.640 And so they needed the money.

00:41:27.600 So where did they go?

00:41:28.460 They went to Venezuela and they were getting oil and support from Venezuela and they were providing other things for Venezuela.

00:41:35.640 Well, you just took Venezuela away.

00:41:38.900 So what's Cuba going to do?

00:41:41.340 Where's, where's Cuba?

00:41:43.880 What is China going to do without all of the energy?

00:41:46.500 You can't invade Taiwan without all of that oil.

00:41:49.480 Can't do it.

00:41:52.120 All right, let me continue and show you the world that he is creating.

00:41:56.380 And then I want to bring you up to speed on what happened in Iran, because this is something we have not had a chance to go in depth on.

00:42:02.600 And it's really important because it's not being collapsed by us.

00:42:08.240 I mean, it is, but in all the right ways, we're not sending them pallets of cash anymore.

00:42:13.400 So what does that mean?

00:42:18.880 Brings us back to Crink.

00:42:21.380 And I want to show you why this has happened in the last 18, it's 12 months.

00:42:28.860 I keep thinking that it's been longer than it is.

00:42:31.100 It's, it's, we're not even at the 12 month point yet.

00:42:34.620 And look how the world is changing.

00:42:39.040 Crazy change.

00:42:40.080 Na na na na na.

00:42:41.820 Na na na na.

00:42:42.060 Yeah.

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