Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia is game changing, the economy is improving, and the dollar is hitting new lows. Glenn Beck talks about it all on this episode of The Glenn Beck Program. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on the Fox Business Network.
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00:07:29.080But with that said, Iran can have a much brighter future, but we'll never allow America and its allies to be threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack.
00:08:11.220My administration has already taken the first steps toward restoring normal relations between the United States and Syria for the first time in more than a decade.
00:08:22.580And I'm very pleased to announce that Secretary Marco Rubio will be meeting with the new Syrian foreign minister in Turkey later this week.
00:08:36.280And very importantly, after discussing the situation in Syria with the crown prince, your crown prince.
00:08:43.000And also with President Erdogan of Turkey, who called me the other day and asked for a very similar thing, among others and friends of mine, people that I have a lot of respect for in the Middle East.
00:09:02.080I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.
00:10:33.120Well, can we talk about what it is, what he's trying to get to work?
00:10:36.360Because I think what interested me the most out of what he said was, and what he did, was meeting with Syria, meeting with the new head of Syria, releasing these sanctions, which seems to me, you correct me if I'm wrong here, because I'm connecting dots here.
00:10:54.400So maybe I'm connecting them incorrectly, but seems to me to be, I'm sure he's rooting for Syria to not be a terrorist nation, right?
00:11:04.480But I think to me, it's more of a play to say to Saudi Arabia, hey, we are, as a nation, are taking major steps to release sanctions and normalize relations with a nation we have not had a good relationship with over the years.
00:11:20.680And now going to Saudi Arabia and saying, hey, can you take that step with Israel?
00:11:25.460Which, as you said, would also be a play to isolate Iran in a way that has not been seen in a long time.
00:11:31.780Because Saudi Arabia is the player in the region, you know, that and Qatar.
00:12:38.080Saudi Arabia has wanted to play nice with Israel for quite some time.
00:12:41.940Is it domestic politics that is their reason for hesitating on that?
00:12:46.440No, it's Iran and it's domestic politics that comes into their country, mainly from Iran, et cetera, et cetera.
00:12:55.240Because I don't think they'd be worried about hardliners on that.
00:12:57.620Yeah, they are worried about hardliners.
00:12:59.200However, I think they have their hardliners at bay if you didn't have all of this really bad negative import from Iran, which is trying to destroy all of Saudi Arabia.
00:13:14.380So it's not like Saudi Arabians who are like, you know, I love Saudi Arabia, but I just hate this policy.
00:13:22.180They're fomenting, you should hate Saudi Arabia, you should hate your own country because they're traitors against the faith.
00:13:29.200And a lot of that is being paid for and being shipped in by Iran.
00:13:35.120And again, I want there to be normalized relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel, but you probably are if you were, you know, if you say if that's the thing bubbling up from foreign adversaries, some of the people who are vulnerable to that line of thought.
00:13:54.560If you normalize relationship with Israel, you're you're risking those people saying, see, our government is now normalizing relationship with Israel.
00:14:06.400Like that is going to be some reaction inside the country.
00:14:10.360And again, Saudi Arabia doesn't they don't have this sort of concerns we have for domestic politics.
00:14:15.800I don't mean to say like, oh, they might lose the election for king next time.
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00:17:29.620It is crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionalists or flying people in planes that will give you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.
00:17:47.160No, the gleaming marbles of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits like those who spend trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, Baghdad, and so many other cities.
00:18:48.600And only unless they start screwing with our stuff, then we're going to have to have a sit-down, if you will, and worst-case scenario, a war.
00:18:58.800But we're not going to get involved in your stuff.
00:19:01.540Now that doesn't mean we look the other way as they behead people.
00:19:05.080It just means, look, let them put their own house in order.
00:19:12.260What if they put it in order by beheading people?
00:19:19.280But right now, we're having to make the choice, which one's worse, the one that is beheading people and wants to burn Israel in the Islamic fires, the fires of the Islamic fury, Iran, or Saudi Arabia that's been saying, you know what?
00:19:54.320I think you're right, but I just think it's interesting.
00:19:57.480I'm trying to test myself against, I'm trying to press myself a little bit on this because they don't have a great human rights record.
00:20:04.560I do feel like probably the role for the United States to take is to be, to have, to put pressure on them when we can and realize that we can't control everything that's happening in every other country.
00:20:21.580I think the role, I think what he's doing, I think the role of America is, we came in here, we've been there for a hundred years.
00:20:33.720So why don't we look to the countries that are stabilizing things and that want to work with Israel and see if we can encourage them to all work together and do the right thing so we can go home because we're on the other side of the planet.
00:20:52.560And we shouldn't be controlling everything over on the other side of the planet.
00:20:59.920So do as much as we can to give that region peace, collapse the really, really bad guys, if we can, with the help of all the people in the region, not us doing it, but them doing it and us going along and saying, yep, yep, I think that's right.
00:21:16.300We'll back you on that, collapse it, and then get the hell out of there.
00:21:20.180I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm playing devil's advocate here, but doesn't that sound quite a bit like our policy on China from the Nixon era to Trump?
00:22:10.020Yeah, I think I'm with you, and I think with Donald Trump's approach here, you know, I'm—it's something I want to make sure I'm examining over and over again.
00:22:19.900But I think the right move with this region is to take what we can find in common, which happens to be in this realm, you know, really shiny gold things and lots of big business, right?
00:22:32.380Like, advancing those relationships with the thought of advancing other things that we also think are beneficial, like normalizing relations with Israel, like isolating Iran further, you know, like hopefully creating an area in Syria that isn't a breeding ground for terrorists and chemical weapon use.
00:23:26.980It's been going the wrong direction, though, for a long time.
00:23:29.400If there is serious unrest in Europe, Iran will be a big part of what is happening on the streets.
00:23:39.120If we have friends and say to them, look, we don't understand your culture, you don't understand ours, we don't understand yours, you go ahead and take care of your place.
00:23:49.940But when that happens, we could go to them and say, could you help us?
00:23:56.040Because we do understand this, because this is our land, and we need your help to get this under control.
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00:39:24.140This thing in Saudi Arabia, the president is in Qatar today.
00:39:29.320I'm less excited about that relationship.
00:39:31.660But yesterday, I mean, he went on about the crown prince saying, you know, he's the greatest representative of the Saudi Arabian people ever.
00:39:42.400And he pointed out that now their non-oil sector revenues are now outpacing their oil sector revenues.
00:39:52.420And that's because of the crown prince.
00:39:53.660And he said in his speech yesterday, some in the Gulf have turned deserts into farms, while Iran has turned farms into deserts.
00:40:03.660He said, the biggest and most destructive of these forces in the regime in Iran, it caused unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond.
00:40:16.120And he said that they have a great future together, and they signed a NMLU memo of understanding on defense cooperation, some agreement between the Saudi space agency.
00:40:32.480And other agreements with mineral resources, the Department of Justice, and cooperation on infectious diseases, which is probably very, very good.
00:40:44.740Were you saying that you didn't know that they had a space agency?
00:49:26.500And it's crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.
00:49:44.700No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Cabal, Baghdad, so many other cities.
00:50:05.600Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way.
00:50:24.560It's really incredible what you've done.
00:50:26.440And in the end, the so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.
00:50:41.380They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves.
00:50:45.220Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.
00:51:00.960Rand Paul, what did you think of that?
00:51:04.420You know, there have been so many times when I've heard President Trump speak or seen his actions on foreign policy that I've been, oh my goodness, this is the best president we have had in my lifetime.
00:51:15.760I thought he sounded almost like a Washington at that point.
00:51:20.200Just like, do it yourself, we're not here to tell you what to do.
00:51:23.560I haven't heard that ever from any president.
00:51:26.140And this is why the Bushwing hates Donald Trump so much, the establishment, because these are the people who wanted to spend freedom at the point of a gun everywhere, and they thought we were going to shape the world for democracy, which is sort of a leftover Woodrow Wilson idea.
00:51:41.580But no, this is the part of Donald Trump I completely embrace, encourage, and will defend, and defend on a daily basis.
00:51:48.860So I said earlier today that I thought that part of that speech was as significant as the Gorbachev tear down this wall speech.
00:51:58.900It's incredibly significant to say, you know, we've developed these relationships not by bossing around the world, not by intervening, but by basically, you know, trading and intervening, and use the word trade, we could have, but basically having trading good relations with these countries that have developed themselves.
00:52:16.040So while we're there, why don't we talk about, why don't we talk about, I don't know, trading nothing for a $400 million airplane?
00:52:25.860Where do you stand on this gift from Qatar?
00:52:30.360Well, there is this little sticking point.
00:52:32.560You know, the Constitution says you can't take emoluments or gifts unless they're approved by Congress.
00:52:38.640I think Jefferson was offered something, and Congress actually voted against Thomas Jefferson being allowed to keep it, but you can't do it.
00:52:48.400I mean, it's just, and it's going to set up the appearance of impropriety, whether Congress will protect him and not vote on it, possibly.
00:52:55.580But the other thing is, is we're the world's largest arms merchant.
00:52:59.460We sell arms by the billions everywhere throughout the Middle East.
00:53:03.200We populate both sides of every war on the planet, and so Qatar is a big recipient of arms from us.
00:53:11.260And so we make these decisions, and the president pretty much makes them on his own.
00:53:16.140Congress has the chance to object, and I have objected in the past to both Qatar and Saudi Arabia receiving arms,
00:53:22.080when I felt like, particularly when the journalist Khashoggi was killed by the Saudis,
00:53:27.480I thought we should have laid off arms for a while, and somebody should have had to pay some penance over that.
00:53:33.840And so I've tried to block different arms sales before, but, you know,
00:53:38.340there's a potential that the administration's objectiveness will be clouded by a $400 million plane.
00:53:44.940There are some practical concerns as well.
00:53:46.940One of them is, is where are we on the one that they've ordered?
00:53:49.660If it's already made, and they're just upgrading it, you know, putting the electronics and defensive weapons on Air Force One,
00:53:57.000and they're within six months of being completed, the Qatari plane would have to be completely outfitted.
00:54:02.640You know, it has to be probably stripped down on the inside, completely reconfigured.
00:54:07.220It has to have the special stuff that is classified.
00:54:10.760It's two to five years just to finish it.
00:54:13.620Yeah, so it may be that the other plane is actually closer to being finished than this one.
00:54:19.420It is disappointing, and Boeing's disappointing on so many fronts that they haven't had this plane
00:54:23.900since I think it was commissioned by the first President Trump, and four years later still isn't ready.
00:56:00.880Yeah, China can erect a 30-story building in a matter of two or three months.
00:56:05.400I mean, it's amazing how fast things can be done.
00:56:08.480And Boeing can't make a plane in four years, and sometimes their planes don't fly.
00:56:13.380And so that is a problem if you're a plane manufacturer and they don't fly.
00:56:16.680But it's because Boeing is such a slow, ponderous corporation that's been, you know, had monopoly on sort of government planes for so long that they're being out-competed internationally, and they're just slow.
00:56:32.700You know, and so I see them more as an extension of government bureaucracy than I do as real capitalism.
00:56:39.600But no company could get away with being this poor and this slow-moving if there was a real marketplace.
00:56:46.720Because I think that—I mean, that is the real solution.
00:56:49.280I feel like the former Soviet Union, when they would—you know, when Gorbachev or anybody else would get into a zil, you're like, ooh, that's nice.
00:56:57.400That'll break down halfway to the airport.
00:57:19.980What if we got rid of the trade barriers and we let all the international companies compete with Boeing?
00:57:25.800Boeing would have to get better or go bankrupt.
00:57:27.760So they're inefficient because they are protected.
00:57:30.620Some would say the same happened to U.S. steel over many generations.
00:57:33.940It wasn't that we didn't protect U.S. steel.
00:57:35.940We've had steel import quotas for generations.
00:57:38.960We've tried to do whatever we can to block international steel from coming here, and yet all it did is it led to a large behemoth U.S. steel that was about like Boeing wasn't able to react to the marketplace.
00:57:51.160But let me talk to you about government aircraft, military aircraft.
00:58:18.780The other thing I guess you could do is you could reduce what they're paid.
00:58:23.680So, for example, if the government said we were giving them a billion, we give them $500 billion, whatever it is, and that should be in every contract, too.
00:58:31.960And, you know, I think Elon Musk was a big promoter of this.
00:58:34.740When he started building rockets to take satellites into space, he said the problem you guys have is it's cost plus.
00:58:41.180So everybody just keeps inflating their cost because they always get the same profit or bigger profit if they have cost overruns.
00:58:47.700Make it competitive bidding and put penalties into your contracts.
00:58:51.440So Boeing should have penalties in the contract.
00:58:53.820If you want another airline or another company to make planes in the U.S., I'm perfectly happy to vote for no corporate taxes on somebody who will make planes in competition with Boeing.
00:59:08.060It would take a lot for the incentive because it takes a lot of money to get started in that field.
00:59:13.400But, look, Elon Musk started from scratch maybe 10 years ago building rockets.
00:59:17.860So you think somebody couldn't, like Elon Musk, start building planes?
00:59:20.840In fact, I guarantee you, if Elon weren't so tied up with other things, if you said, Elon, why don't you start a plane company to compete with Boeing, I'll bet you have it started in a year.
00:59:30.480Let me quickly, do you have time because I want to talk to you about the big, beautiful bill and also Fauci.
00:59:37.620Do you have a second to hold on for one minute?
01:01:18.700The second part of the bill is there's supposed to be spending cuts.
01:01:22.340So far, I think they're pretty wimpy and not going to amount to much.
01:01:26.480That is bothersome, but I'd still vote for it.
01:01:29.680Even if I got some spending cuts and made the tax cuts permanent, the reason I can't vote for it is they're going to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion.
01:01:37.700And the reason I can't vote for that is that it belies.
01:01:42.000It really contradicts everything about what we've been hearing.
01:01:46.320We hear about Elon Musk and Doge and all these cuts, and we're all, you know, jumping up and down from our seats, clapping for Donald Trump.
01:01:54.160And then the deficit is going to be $2.2 trillion in the end of September.
01:01:57.860And then they're planning on another $2.8 trillion the next year.
01:02:02.180They're planning on adding $5 trillion in two years, which means there's going to be no reform.
01:02:07.460And conservatives are going to wake up at some point in this administration and go, wow, where did all those cuts go?
01:03:05.860You're all promising me we're going to have cuts in spending, and we're going to balance the budget, and we're going to do all these great things.
01:03:11.740I tell you what, proof's in the pudding.
01:03:13.360I'll give you three months worth of borrowing power, then you come back and ask me again for three more months.
01:03:19.620I would have a debt ceiling vote every three months, and it would be the lever, and we would only give you an increase in the debt ceiling if you actually were cutting spending.
01:03:42.940We should announce to the markets that we have plenty of money, and if we have to cut spending elsewhere, we will, but we won't default on our interest payment.
01:04:50.900The White House has had this rescission package for about three or four weeks now.
01:04:54.980It's only $9 billion, so it's not enough to amount to anything, but it's still worth cutting.
01:04:59.660They're afraid to send it to the Capitol because the feedback they're getting from Senate and House leadership is we don't have the votes to cut $9 billion.
01:05:08.060And if that's true, these people need to – the reason we have the vote is so everybody knows who these people are.
01:05:14.820Who are the people that can't cut out two million for sex changes in Guatemala?
01:05:20.860They need to be ridden out of town on a rail.
01:05:23.480Can you give us some indication on how long we have – I mean, people have been saying it's going to get bad, it's going to get bad.
01:05:29.320We are really, truly at the end if we don't cut our spending.
01:05:35.480How much time do we have to cut our spending before we just – we're just overwhelmed by interest payments?
01:05:42.100I think it depends on what the interest rate is.
01:05:44.820So for many, many years, we've gotten away with this.
01:05:47.320During the George W. Bush regime, we went from $5 trillion in debt to $10 trillion, but our interest payment went from $4 trillion to $2 trillion.
01:05:56.220And then everybody was gleeful, even the Dick Cheney conservatives, like, oh, those don't matter.
01:06:01.340Well, if you keep cutting your interest rate in half and doubling your debt, you can get away with it.
01:06:05.600But now we're stuck at the opposite end.
01:06:07.340We're at $36 trillion in debt, and the interest rate is going up.
01:06:10.960Now, it stabilized a little bit, but if interest rates went where they were in 1990, when I bought my first house, it was 11%.
01:06:18.000The government would probably pay a little less than that, maybe $9, maybe $8.
01:06:26.300At the interest rates now, we're struggling, and interest payments is the largest item in the budget, and it's crowding out other spending.
01:09:54.620Yeah, and so they put the book out, and they're talking about, for instance, the latest is that, you know, George Clooney didn't have, was so shocked.
01:10:05.420And members of the audience were so shocked that Joe Biden was just not even there.
01:10:11.860And remember, it was the administration who then said, those were deep fakes.
01:11:26.360The bottom line is the White House was lying not only to the press, not only to the public, but they were lying to members of their own cabinet.
01:11:32.720They were lying to White House staffers.
01:11:35.280They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to donors about how bad things had gotten.
01:11:41.340And, in fact, Alex and I started writing this book after the election of 2024, and we spoke with more than 200 people, most of whom, almost all of whom were Democrats, and almost all of whom wouldn't be honest with us or wouldn't be candid with us until after the election.
01:11:59.000And then after the election, we found out all of these things that, when you looked at what was going on with President Biden at the time, it probably doesn't surprise you the extent to which he was deteriorating.
01:12:10.440But now we have anecdotes and facts about what was really going on behind the scenes with details that Democrats wouldn't share with us until after Election Day.
01:12:18.760That was kind of his excuse, basically, as to why it wasn't talked about before, right?
01:12:22.960Because they wouldn't talk until the election was over.
01:12:52.940Yeah, whatever, if there are crimes committed here, and I think there may have been, we should definitely have an investigation that looks at all the messages.
01:12:59.280Yeah, this isn't about a book, and it's certainly not about Jake Tapper.
01:13:02.140No, I will say, with the Tapper, excuse me, the Tapper, I have Rand Paul.
01:13:06.980I was going to say, did you get something?
01:13:08.140Us and me and Rand both can't talk today.
01:13:12.000The excuse here is a bit frustrating, to be frank, from Jake Tapper, because I think what he's saying is actually true, right?
01:13:21.300They really weren't talking about this to the media.
01:13:26.340They had a relatively buttoned up operation when it comes to protecting Joe Biden, including, according to the book, protecting Joe Biden, shielding him, is the term they used, from his own staffers.
01:13:39.940I can't even describe how insane that is.
01:13:45.340But, like, sure, they weren't telling you.
01:14:56.380And by the way, at least according to this book, and I'm sure Clooney was a source of the book, so you can take this for what it's worth.
01:15:02.220But according to the book, I mean, Clooney deserves some credit here in that when he saw Biden in this state, he decided he wanted to do something and was told by Barack Obama not to.
01:15:43.200Like, for example, I played a clip yesterday of on my show, Studios America, available on Blaze TV, by the way, of Joe Scarborough in March of 2024, saying he's the sharpest he's ever been.
01:15:57.100This version of Joe Biden is the best version that has ever existed of Joe Biden.
01:16:01.520This is just, I mean, you know, weeks before, I guess, months before this election, but not many months before the debate.
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01:25:37.740Tonight on the Wednesday night special, you know, it's been nice for a few years.
01:25:47.760We've kind of become the experts in the room on so many different topics.
01:25:51.100You know, when I was at Fox, you know, we were talking about quantitative easing, Blaze TV on the radio,
01:25:59.060and we talked about the progressive movement when I was at CNN, you know, and you've been with us the whole time.
01:26:05.220And after the 2008 financial crisis, you and I were talking and learning about concepts like quantitative easing long before anybody else did,