Valuetainment - ＂Destroying The United States＂ - Glenn Greenwald WARNS Trump's Global Policies Are HURTING America

00:00:00.000 Who do you think is more pro-America and more an ally between those three names you said?

00:00:05.760 Probably the Emiratis.

00:00:06.820 And then?

00:00:07.780 The Saudis. 0.71

00:00:08.720 You put Israel last. 0.99

00:00:10.080 Oh, you mean in terms of like-

00:00:11.500 Ally towards U.S. 0.82

00:00:12.360 Like who between those three, Emiratis, you know, Saudis, Israel, who do you put most?

00:00:19.000 It's all transactional at the end of the day, right?

00:00:21.040 None of them have a loyalty to the U.S.

00:00:22.840 Who do you trust more, though?

00:00:23.500 Who do you trust more that at the end of the day, if their back's against the wall, they're going to side with us?

00:00:28.340 I think the minute it's in any of their interest to go to China-

00:00:34.240 You've got to put one above the other, Glenn.

00:00:35.720 You're not a fearless guy.

00:00:36.980 No, I'm not trying to evade the question.

00:00:39.340 I don't think it's Israel.

00:00:40.760 I mean, you're not a fearful guy.

00:00:41.640 I don't think it's Israel, if that's what you're trying to put me to say.

00:00:43.940 Okay, so who do you think it is, though?

00:00:45.020 Who do you think is at the top?

00:00:46.020 I think probably within the DNA of all these countries, the most pro-U.S. sentiment is with the Saudis.

00:00:53.320 That's been a deeper, longer-

00:00:55.060 Why do you think?

00:00:55.600 Like, just because the relationship between the two is so critical, and the Saudis really need the United States to stay in power.

00:01:03.180 Okay, perfect.

00:01:03.520 So who needs U.S. the least between those three?

00:01:07.000 So you're saying Israel, Emirati?

00:01:08.620 Yes.

00:01:08.860 Not Qatar. 0.78

00:01:09.720 Put Qatar there as well. 0.90

00:01:11.240 Who do you think needs the U.S. the least?

00:01:15.940 I think right now Israel needs the U.S. the most.

00:01:19.220 I agree.

00:01:19.900 That, I think, is true.

00:01:20.760 I agree.

00:01:21.260 No, that, I agree.

00:01:22.500 But who needs it the least?

00:01:25.600 I mean, it could be at this point, you know, those oil, all three oil companies have China, have other, have India, have other countries they could deal with.

00:01:36.140 Do you not think Trump knows that leverage?

00:01:38.740 If the guy, the king of leverage of presidents we've ever had is not George Bush, is not Obama, is not senior, it's not maybe senior because he had some experience on the CIA side.

00:01:49.340 It's probably not Reagan.

00:01:51.500 This guy understands leverage.

00:01:53.100 Yes, but yes, and there is leverage of the American president when it comes to Israel, for sure.

00:01:57.780 And I think Trump does know that.

00:01:59.440 But at the same time, you think that any president, including Trump, could put Israel in its place, could cut Israel off in any meaningful way, could threaten Israel without repercussions?

00:02:09.700 No, no, no.

00:02:10.000 He would be destroyed.

00:02:11.220 I don't, I don't, I don't.

00:02:12.380 It's the same way, I think, if you run for president as a hundred percent anti-Israel, I don't think that's the wise move if you run that way.

00:02:22.360 No, no, no.

00:02:22.960 Forget about the elections.

00:02:24.040 Trump doesn't care about the elections.

00:02:25.000 Presumably he's done, right, in 2020, presumably.

00:02:27.540 Do I think Israel, ask the question again, do I think Israel.

00:02:30.880 No, no.

00:02:31.480 Let's say Trump really put the genuine clamps down on Israel, like withheld military aid, withheld economic aid, didn't protect them at the UN the way we've been doing, any of the things we do with Israel because he's angry at Netanyahu, punishing Netanyahu. 0.81

00:02:46.680 The hell that would rain down on Donald Trump from all of these power centers that control media, that control politics, that control Wall Street, that control Silicon Valley would be immense, would be a shitstorm of the highest proportions.

00:03:00.520 I see it in a different way. 0.98

00:03:01.920 And the way I see it is the following.

00:03:03.760 What else can you do to this guy at this point?

00:03:06.440 What else?

00:03:07.320 Media?

00:03:07.840 What are you going to, you're going to bring up Karen McDougal?

00:03:09.820 What are you going to bring up?

00:03:10.480 You're going to bring up Stormy?

00:03:12.460 What are you going to bring up with him?

00:03:13.620 You're going to bring up Trump a stake?

00:03:15.760 You're going to bring up Trump bankruptcies?

00:03:17.880 You're going to bring up the mugshot?

00:03:19.320 What else are you going to do to this guy?

00:03:20.180 We've had presidents who had their heads blown off.

00:03:22.700 I know.

00:03:22.960 And where I'm going with, they've tried to do the same thing to them.

00:03:25.220 What I'm trying to say is the following.

00:03:26.340 I think there's a difference between the notion of, you know, like for example, we're going to do a funny skit for one of our channels and say, you know, we'd like to thank our sponsors today.

00:03:39.500 We believe we're the only company in the world that's gotten sponsored from Qatar as well as Israel.

00:03:44.400 Congratulations.

00:03:45.080 No, we wanted to kind of do that to say, hey, thank you, Qatar, for the $7,000 and thank you, Israel, AIPAC.

00:03:50.680 We are thankful for you, some of you guys.

00:03:52.380 But the part is, there is the noise of social media.

00:03:58.160 They're funded by Qatar.

00:03:59.340 They're funded by Israel.

00:04:00.280 They're funded by – okay.

00:04:01.440 Set all – that was one of the main reasons why I stopped taking sponsorship money.

00:04:06.580 I just wanted everybody to know, we're just going to drive our own business.

00:04:09.900 Now, would I come back and take money from some businesses that I support and I have equity in?

00:04:16.100 Yes, because I have equity in the company.

00:04:18.440 But we're like, nothing.

00:04:19.340 Rob, how long ago was it we took sponsorship money from it?

00:04:21.700 What would you say that timeline is?

00:04:22.740 At least two years, I would think.

00:04:24.160 Yeah, I think it's exactly right around the October 7th.

00:04:26.720 I don't want any more money to be given to us, right?

00:04:28.700 But there is the noise that's like, oh, Israel controls Trump.

00:04:33.480 I don't think that's the case.

00:04:34.680 I think the way I see it is he truly knows who Israel is. 0.73

00:04:39.580 He knows Israel is the only child. 0.57

00:04:41.880 And he knows, you know, Trump had five kids.

00:04:44.420 And he knows how to steer the pot.

00:04:46.440 I mean, one time Don Jr. is in his mid to late 30s.

00:04:50.100 And they ask him, they say, so, you know, you must be really proud of Don and your kids.

00:04:54.820 He says, well, we'll see.

00:04:55.520 I mean, he's still young.

00:04:56.260 He's my baby and we'll see how he's going to do.

00:04:57.920 But still young.

00:04:58.440 And hopefully he likes that.

00:05:01.260 He likes the, we'll see what they're going to do.

00:05:04.020 We'll see, you know, and then he wants, yeah, you know what?

00:05:06.000 They're great allies.

00:05:06.920 They're this.

00:05:07.320 But then we'll see.

00:05:07.980 But then I think he's playing the game of pinning people against each other to get the best results

00:05:14.060 and the best deals for himself because that's what you do in real estate.

00:05:18.040 I get it.

00:05:19.380 But at the same time, and I think if you will talk to anybody in Washington, which I know you do,

00:05:23.740 and you're, you know, a very kind of pragmatic business man type of person who looks at things

00:05:28.960 in terms of leverage and power, you cannot underestimate the power of the Israel lobby.

00:05:34.480 And the power of the Israel lobby is not, I know, I'm not saying you don't.

00:05:37.180 But it's not, their power is not, oh, we run some negative ads against you.

00:05:41.580 That's not their power.

00:05:42.660 They destroy people.

00:05:44.700 They, you know, Trump has not just himself, who he cares about a lot, but his family, his

00:05:49.280 friends, his associate, his business interests.

00:05:51.900 Because, you know, after the Jews went through the Holocaust, they see everything in an existential

00:05:58.920 way.

00:05:59.520 I agree.

00:06:00.320 And can you blame them, by the way?

00:06:01.740 No.

00:06:02.380 I mean, I grew up, you know, invested in this.

00:06:05.460 I understand.

00:06:05.880 I, you know, I grew up in a very Jewish community, Jewish family.

00:06:09.500 Would you consider them the most paranoid community in the world?

00:06:12.220 Yes.

00:06:12.680 Yes.

00:06:13.060 I agree.

00:06:13.600 Yes.

00:06:15.460 Which I don't necessarily think is, you know, the Holocaust, we're 80 years out of the

00:06:20.100 Holocaust. 0.77

00:06:20.680 A lot has changed since then.

00:06:21.900 But, you know, victimhood mentality is something that stays with you.

00:06:25.040 It is a victimhood mentality.

00:06:26.880 And people get a lot of ego benefits from victimhood.

00:06:30.040 It's the currency in our culture.

00:06:31.760 You're so funny.

00:06:32.840 It's true.

00:06:33.820 It's true.

00:06:35.220 But yes, they, so that is very much part of the Israel and the Jewish mindset, whether

00:06:42.200 for, you know, psychological reasons, valid reasons, pragmatic reasons, tactical ones,

00:06:47.760 whatever. 0.98

00:06:48.580 But for that reason, they don't fuck around. 0.99

00:06:51.080 Like this is, they're not a joke. 0.99

00:06:53.000 And anyone who understands anything about them understands that they are not to be trifled

00:06:57.280 with.

00:06:58.200 Yeah.

00:06:58.600 And you know, it's so funny.

00:06:59.680 You know what?

00:07:00.140 I just Googled Andy Grove, who is, I don't know if you know Andy Grove is Andy Grove is

00:07:05.320 just pull up his Wikipedia.

00:07:06.600 I want to read him who he is.

00:07:08.720 He is known as Hungarian-American businessman engineer who served as a CEO of Intel Corporation.

00:07:14.940 He escaped the Hungarian people republic during the 1956 revolution at the age of 20.

00:07:19.760 He is known as the greatest CEO in that era.

00:07:23.580 Everybody wanted to duplicate this guy.

00:07:25.480 He died almost 10 years ago.

00:07:28.060 Time magazine in 1997 called him the man of the year.

00:07:31.440 He wrote a book called Only the Paranoids Survive.

00:07:34.920 And I just asked Chad G.P.T.

00:07:36.120 Was he Jewish?

00:07:36.900 He is a Jewish family from Hungary.

00:07:39.160 He wrote a book.

00:07:39.640 Oh, I could have told you that without Chad G.P.T.

00:07:43.800 Can you go to Only the Paranoids Survive?

00:07:46.260 Only the Paranoids Survive book.

00:07:48.360 That's Andy Grove.

00:07:49.220 The title, Only the Paranoids Survive.

00:07:51.160 So I see that because for me, I relate to that from the Middle Eastern kid, Christian

00:07:58.140 guy growing up in Iran.

00:07:59.540 Dude, we were very paranoid.

00:08:01.500 We're like, hey, you have no idea.

00:08:02.660 I was 40 years ago, not even 40 years ago, 89, whatever 89 is, right?

00:08:07.300 36 years ago.

00:08:08.420 So I relate to that.

00:08:09.260 I relate to the paranoid side.

00:08:11.820 But I also relate to America's making a mistake, having an only child in the Middle East. 0.88

00:08:17.580 And I think Trump's trying to get three or four kids to pin them all against each other.

00:08:20.720 And that's how he's going to keep them honest.

00:08:22.120 And I love that strategy.

00:08:23.860 I absolutely love that strategy.

00:08:26.580 Until he had that, he can't fully go like this on Israel. 0.58

00:08:30.820 The moment he had that, he's like, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:08:33.660 And I think it's still Israel is the favorite child.

00:08:36.760 It's still that's the case.

00:08:37.700 But the favorite child is kind of like, whoa, what's going on?

00:08:41.660 I think people are maybe realizing, you know, I'm starting to get a lot of pop out lately.

00:08:46.460 I hope you're right.

00:08:47.680 I hope you're right.

00:08:48.600 I hope you're right.

00:08:49.800 I want to believe that, too.

00:08:51.180 I understand what you're saying.

00:08:52.140 I'll believe it when I believe it when the U.S. actually takes concrete steps, not leaks to Axios or the Politico, you know, that there's tension between Trump and Netanyahu.

00:09:04.140 There was a lot of that around the negotiations over Iran.

00:09:07.240 And I think that ended up being a ruse.

00:09:08.600 You don't think there's tension between the two?

00:09:11.040 Yeah, I'm sure there was tension between Obama and Netanyahu.

00:09:13.960 And one of the last things Obama did on the way out is sign a $40 billion aid deal to guarantee Israel $3.8 billion automatically every year from the U.S. Treasury on top of whatever.

00:09:22.980 I don't think Obama's Trump, though.

00:09:25.100 I don't think Obama's Trump.

00:09:26.860 I think the difference is, you know, I think Trump is a boss of bosses.

00:09:33.160 I think Obama's a great speaker and a great community organizer and a great politician.

00:09:38.240 I don't—Obama, nobody looks at Obama and says he's a boss.

00:09:40.860 Nobody.

00:09:41.720 There's a difference mentality here.

00:09:43.620 And, again, by the way, I could fully be wrong because of who comes after Trump.

00:09:48.520 But also, just not to defend Obama, since this is the last person I want to defend, but one of the things he did on his way out—and, you know, he's on his way out, but okay.

00:09:56.860 He did sign that $40 billion deal, which is still in a plaque, this memorandum understanding with Israel, you know, $3.8 billion every year, automatically on top of the $20, $25, $30 billion we give them every time they want to start a war, plus the money we give to Egypt and Jordan, which is mostly for Israel, all the other expenses.

00:10:12.520 Obama did that.

00:10:13.020 But then also on the way out, there was a Security Council resolution to condemn Israel for its occupation of the West Bank, which the U.N. wanted to declare illegal.

00:10:20.020 The U.S. has always vetoed any anti-Israel resolution.

00:10:22.660 Obama refused to use his veto power, didn't vote for it, but abstained.

00:10:26.020 And that's what allowed the resolution in the Security Council to pass.

00:10:30.460 So that was a pretty—

00:10:31.580 I have an opinion on that, though.

00:10:32.980 My opinion on that is Obama never liked Israel.

00:10:37.560 His middle name is Hussein.

00:10:38.700 Obama's never been an Israel fan.

00:10:40.940 Trump has been in business with Jews his entire life in New York.

00:10:44.980 Trump understands Jews better than Obama understands Jews. 0.99

00:10:47.400 Obama hates Jews. 0.99

00:10:48.620 Not hates Jews. 0.97

00:10:49.760 Obama's not a—let me use a different phrase.

00:10:51.740 Israel is not in the top 20 of his favorite countries in the world.

00:10:57.560 Obama.

00:10:58.320 I don't think Obama wakes up in the morning saying, oh, my God, I love the people in Israel.

00:11:03.600 I love what that country stands for.

00:11:04.220 No, but the money flowed.

00:11:05.540 The money flowed under Obama.

00:11:06.660 The weapons flowed up under Obama.

00:11:08.180 Don't get—don't get—you said something very powerful.

00:11:11.180 You said something very powerful at the beginning of it that we don't know all the conversations.

00:11:14.480 You said something about the fact that, you know, when you were on the inside trying to help Snowden get pardoned,

00:11:23.100 and then you talked about the camp that came out and said, you know, the McConnells and, you know, all these other guys saying,

00:11:29.500 hey, if you do, we're going to make sure we continue this.

00:11:33.420 So who knows why he did that because what threats he had?

00:11:36.760 Who knows?

00:11:37.400 But that's my point.

00:11:39.180 I think Trump—if Trump were to take meaningful steps against Israel, I think the amount of threats and punishments and attacks that would be unleashed would be almost impossible to overstate.

00:11:55.100 And I understand what you're saying.

00:11:56.000 Look, they've thrown everything at Trump.

00:11:57.600 Not from the Israel lobby.

00:12:00.180 Yeah, but I don't think—I don't think you do—I don't think he's trying to—

00:12:04.400 I don't think what you think is success is the same thing as what Trump thinks is success.

00:12:09.460 What is success?

00:12:10.580 In my opinion, it's making sure Israel's no longer the only child in the Middle East. 0.91

00:12:16.980 But toward what end?

00:12:18.440 Well, towards having a couple other alternatives that get along with us.

00:12:21.880 So that we can reduce age, so that we don't have to give them all the weapons, so we don't have to defend them all the time.

00:12:25.740 No, so we can steer a little bit of competition and a little bit of a, you know—like, for example, you say the money—

00:12:32.000 Okay, let me go back to the business side as well.

00:12:34.720 Say you're writing $50 million of insurance every year, okay?

00:12:38.360 And you have this one carrier that has okay products, not the best products, but they have a very good reputation in the marketplace.

00:12:46.440 And you don't want the marketplace to say, Patrick Beddavid lost contract with AIG.

00:12:51.440 Why did he lose contract?

00:12:52.620 Let me investigate it, right?

00:12:54.020 So guess what?

00:12:54.780 You give that company $2 million of business.

00:12:56.580 What's $2 million of business?

00:12:58.360 Nothing.

00:12:59.380 But you give it to them for them to be happy with the quality.

00:13:01.660 That's called strategy.

00:13:03.960 That's called—

00:13:04.600 But what do we need Israel for?

00:13:07.360 The Saudis, the Emiratis, the Qataris, the Bahrainis, the Jordanians, they would happily sell their oil to us.

00:13:13.820 I know.

00:13:13.980 It's not just that, buddy.

00:13:15.320 What else?

00:13:15.860 What else?

00:13:16.280 Why do we need Israel? 0.98

00:13:17.200 I don't—I think you need them for the intel.

00:13:20.300 To me, it's purely the intel.

00:13:21.720 Intel about whom?

00:13:22.980 Are you kidding me?

00:13:23.840 Who is their neighbor?

00:13:24.500 Who are they right next to?

00:13:25.420 Where are they in the middle of?

00:13:26.300 I think there's a benefit to having a good relationship with Israel.

00:13:30.120 I think there's a benefit of having a good relationship with Qatar.

00:13:33.360 I think there's a benefit when having a good relation with Saudi.

00:13:35.900 I think there's a benefit when having a good relation with those guys.

00:13:38.400 I think the relationship with Israel on the net is more harmful to the United States than it is beneficial. 1.00

00:13:44.440 We have—you know, the one thing I know, you know, I spent three years of my life reading through it,

00:13:49.220 is the capacity of the U.S. intelligence agency, the NSA, how much eyes and ears we have on every part of the world.

00:13:55.160 We don't need Israel to spy on us.

00:13:56.620 How do we have it in the Middle East?

00:13:57.880 How do we have it in the Middle East?

00:13:59.120 We have the gigantic—again, we prop up the Egyptian and the Jordanians. 1.00

00:14:04.580 They do whatever we tell us.

00:14:06.200 We have the gigantic military base in the middle of Qatar.

00:14:09.740 You think they're as effective as Mossad?

00:14:11.500 I don't think that the Mossad—the Mossad isn't there to pass us good information.

00:14:16.260 The Mossad is there to give us information it wants us to have to provoke actions that are favorable to Israel.

00:14:21.660 By the way, I don't disagree that they're going to give us the best information because they're going to be Israel first. 0.98

00:14:25.340 I fully believe that Israel is Israel first. 0.99

00:14:28.040 But Israel sits there and says, we kind of need America to be able to stay here and do our things.

00:14:31.980 And I think that leverage can be used.

00:14:33.980 It can be, but there's also a hugely powerful Israel lobby that I think has control and a stranglehold over American politics.

00:14:40.080 And I hope you're right that Trump is trying to get out of it.

00:14:42.580 You know what the problem is?

00:14:43.200 I hope you're right. I really do.

00:14:44.520 You know what the problem is?

00:14:45.620 Here's what the problem is.

00:14:46.420 And by the way, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you can have this conversation.

00:14:52.280 And I don't even know if we're disagreeing, by the way.

00:14:54.900 I don't even know if the disagreement is that I'm taking a position, you're taking a position.

00:15:01.340 Where I'm going long-term is the idea of, no, they're the enemy.

00:15:07.580 They're this, they're that, and I can't change my position because of this.

00:15:11.480 And then, no, they're because of this.

00:15:14.840 Without Israel, we can't do this. 1.00

00:15:16.200 We have to do this.

00:15:17.240 No.

00:15:17.900 How about let's kind of go here a little bit.

00:15:19.740 By the way, in my opinion, you know what's the hardest place to be?

00:15:23.500 You know what's the toughest place to be?

00:15:24.960 Not here or here.

00:15:26.740 You're here.

00:15:27.300 You have friends.

00:15:27.880 If you're here, you have friends and allies.

00:15:31.700 You ain't got friends when you're here.

00:15:33.580 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:34.800 And when you're trying to be here, they're like, well, let me tell you he's on that side.

00:15:37.520 No, no, well, let me tell you he's on this side.

00:15:38.840 I was a kid growing up.

00:15:39.720 You know what they used to tell me?

00:15:40.660 My mother's side would say, he's a Bed David. 1.00

00:15:43.160 He's an Assyrian.

00:15:44.380 And my father's side would say, he's a Borossian.

00:15:47.020 He's an Armenian. 0.99

00:15:47.620 I'm like, screw both of you. 1.00

00:15:48.760 The only ones I care about is my mom, my dad, my sister. 0.99

00:15:50.800 I don't play this politics stuff.

00:15:52.060 I'm here.

00:15:52.680 And it took a couple decades for people to realize, well, he was kind of fair.

00:15:57.960 You know, he was kind of fair with being.

00:15:59.320 So I think.

00:15:59.960 Well, to be clear, like if you talk about it morally and ethically, I do think what Israel has done in Gaza is one of the worst crimes, certainly of this century. 0.79

00:16:07.120 So I don't want to pretend that I'm nuanced about that.

00:16:10.500 However, I think when we're talking about U.S. policy toward other countries, toward the region, you have to be analytical about it.

00:16:16.920 It's not driven by, you know, self-righteous moralism.

00:16:20.220 This is better for content, by the way, if you think about it.

00:16:24.020 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:24.480 This is very effective for content.

00:16:26.360 This is not.

00:16:27.480 No, exactly.

00:16:28.220 Exactly.

00:16:28.600 If you and I were just screaming at each other about Israel and its morality in Gaza, it would, you know, you would, oh, look, they got into the screening match. 0.88

00:16:35.940 But I think this is much more substantive, much more important, much more.

00:16:39.460 I trust that he's doing business.

00:16:41.020 I trust he's looking at this as a business deal.

00:16:43.080 And the only thing is, when I sold my, and I hope he does this, you know, when you leave and you're trying to put certain rules and guidelines in place to make sure some of this stuff doesn't repeat itself, we're going to see if he's going to be able to pull that off.

00:17:00.020 Because that's the real trick.

00:17:01.580 And that's why I say I hope you're right. 0.55

00:17:02.640 But at the end of the day, I also think among all the other things Trump's weighing, and I think your analysis of his view of the Middle East is exactly right, he's also weighing, and he'd be stupid not to, the things that the pro-Israel lobby could do to him and to things he cares about if he were really to take action against Israel.

00:17:22.380 That has to be in his mind. 0.96

00:17:24.120 He'd be crazy not to be.

00:17:25.340 You can say, oh, he's been through everything.

00:17:28.180 Trump is a—Trump is self-interested.

00:17:30.560 He's human, and he has, you know, kids and their businesses and his grandkids and things he cares about, and anyone who cares about things is vulnerable.

00:17:42.480 Yeah.

00:17:43.580 And by the way, I think anybody who cares about anything is also better for society.

00:17:50.580 For sure.

00:17:51.200 I think anybody who has nothing to lose is horrible for society.

00:17:56.700 Yeah.

00:17:56.880 When you have kids, like I tell my kids, man, be friends with other kids who have things to lose.

00:18:01.920 You want to befriend kids who have nothing—and let me tell you, when I was 16 years old, I probably wasn't the best kid to be friends with. 0.92

00:18:06.640 Right, right.

00:18:07.460 Because I was in a very bad place.

00:18:09.540 Yeah.

00:18:09.840 I had nothing to lose.

00:18:11.320 So I understood a lot of parents of my friends that would say, don't befriend Patrick, because I had nothing to lose.

00:18:15.760 Right.

00:18:15.860 I was in a reckless place.

00:18:17.240 I joined the army.

00:18:18.360 That saved me.

00:18:19.220 Then I got out.

00:18:20.420 I had dreams.

00:18:21.340 I had a vision.

00:18:22.040 Then I had something to lose.

00:18:23.020 Then I stayed locked in.

00:18:24.180 I stopped hanging out with the friends that were going to destroy my life.

00:18:26.680 Some of them went to jail.

00:18:27.420 Some of them died.

00:18:28.120 Some of them went away, like literally deported, and somehow I made it.

00:18:31.900 But because I think it is good to have things to lose.

00:18:34.580 I think it is good to have—that's why God created a certain situation.

00:18:38.220 When we have kids, you look at the world in a different way.

00:18:40.140 I think that's healthy.

00:18:41.940 I actually think that's healthy versus the other side.

00:18:44.040 Totally agree.

00:18:44.800 Okay.

00:18:45.020 So let's go back to it.

00:18:45.800 Number one is Epstein.

00:18:46.980 We're on the same page.

00:18:47.840 Ukraine, U.S., Israel.

00:18:48.740 What's four and five?

00:18:49.600 That you would like to see a whistleblower come—by the way, what a long episode.

00:18:52.860 I don't even know how the hell you're going to cut this clip.

00:18:54.620 Good luck.

00:18:55.360 Because we stay on this one topic.

00:18:58.140 So what would you say four and five is?

00:18:59.720 You get into Israel, and it's very hard to get out of it. 1.00

00:19:01.720 But we're out of it now.

00:19:03.100 I would love to see a whistleblower inside the CIA to come forward and talk about the things

00:19:10.080 that agency in particular is doing.

00:19:12.640 Okay.

00:19:13.360 And then, obviously, I would love another NSA whistleblower as well because I think that

00:19:17.420 spying—Snowden was—what is it, 12 years ago now?

00:19:20.860 I want to know who they're spying on, how they're using that spying, whether there's—I know

00:19:24.500 they're spying domestically, but exactly on whom?

00:19:26.440 Okay.

00:19:26.800 After two years of working on this, we have finally pulled it off.

00:19:31.380 And let me tell you what it is.

00:19:32.700 Every time we do the VOL Conference, if you've attended, you know this.

00:19:36.020 I stand up, and I speak for probably 45 hours is what I do at the VOL Conference.

00:19:41.460 And I love it.

00:19:42.140 I love being around the guys.

00:19:43.160 I love it.

00:19:43.900 But I wear the Ferragamo shoes when I do this.

00:19:47.200 Or I wear some kind of dress shoes.

00:19:49.880 Eventually, for the last 25 years, I've always been on stage walking.

00:19:53.160 I'm like, you know what?

00:19:53.820 I'm sick and tired of it.

00:19:55.000 I want a shoe that I'm comfortable wearing.

00:19:57.740 And here's what I love.

00:19:59.000 I don't like shoes that are so heavy.

00:20:00.920 That's a dumbbell.

00:20:01.520 You can use it as a weapon.

00:20:02.800 I don't want that.

00:20:03.380 Like the Xenia, you carry it, I have so many of them, but they're so heavy.

00:20:06.440 Like you can literally curl the Xenia down, you know, the shoes, and you'll get a pump

00:20:10.020 within 30 reps.

00:20:11.100 And I wanted the combination of the Hoka, the On Cloud, the Super Foam, because there's

00:20:16.440 a big thing going on right now with the Super Foam where the bottom of the shoe, you wear

00:20:20.440 it.

00:20:20.600 You know which ones I'm talking about, the On Cloud or the Hokas, right? 1.00

00:20:22.780 They're so comfortable.

00:20:23.760 And I said, what if we take luxury and then combine it with the Super Comfort?

00:20:28.960 What would that look like?

00:20:30.560 And let's build it in Italy.

00:20:32.000 So what do we do?

00:20:32.680 We went to Italy, we designed the shoe in Florida, we made the shoe in Italy in five

00:20:37.900 of the factories.

00:20:39.460 We went back and forth, God knows how many times.

00:20:41.540 And by the way, the shoes we're about to launch and introduce to you right now, where you're

00:20:45.020 going to see the video for the first time.

00:20:46.700 I've been wearing those shoes for the last 22 days straight.

00:20:50.280 I'm wearing them right now.

00:20:51.200 I literally wear it with suits.

00:20:52.900 I wore it yesterday when we went to lunch.

00:20:54.800 I wear it every single day.

00:20:56.320 It's the most comfortable shoes I have, yet it's authentic Italian leather.

00:21:00.840 Rob, if you don't mind playing the video, go for it.

00:21:03.320 Here's the video of the latest shoe, the FLBs.

00:21:05.580 When we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort, function, and luxury, we had the choice

00:21:12.680 to make it fast, we had the choice to make it cheap.

00:21:16.160 We chose neither.

00:21:17.680 Instead, we chose Toscanero.

00:21:20.040 We chose true Italian craftsmanship, each pair touched by 50 skilled hands.

00:21:25.460 We chose patience, spending two years perfecting every detail, and we chose the finest quality

00:21:30.960 at every step, introducing the Future Looks Bright collection.

00:21:36.480 Not rushed, not disposable, not ordinary.

00:21:40.840 Rather intentional, luxurious, timeless.

00:21:48.700 Boom.

00:21:49.620 There you go.

00:21:50.380 Designed in Florida, 100% made in Italy.

00:21:53.200 50 hands touch each shoe that was made.

00:21:56.080 And here's what's unique about it.

00:21:57.360 I want to kind of show this to everybody that knows this, and I've worn pretty much every

00:22:01.000 one of these shoes.

00:22:01.780 So, if you compare this, the Italian leather, of course, it's made in Italy.

00:22:06.460 It's not assembled, made in China, assembled in Italy, 100% made in Italy, assembled in

00:22:10.940 Italy.

00:22:11.660 It's FLBs, Berlutis, which are 1840, Fergamos are 895, Zennia's are 1190, and Gucci's are

00:22:17.880 950.

00:22:19.060 Leather premium lining, all of them except for Gucci.

00:22:21.680 Laceless feature, it's the FLBs, the Berlutis, you have laces, Fergamos laceless, and then

00:22:28.280 you have also the Zennia's, and then the Gucci's have the laces.

00:22:30.640 I don't want to wake up in the morning, put laces on, I want to get out of the house.

00:22:32.940 Took me three seconds to put my shoes on today.

00:22:35.800 Craftsman, five different Italian factories all made this shoe.

00:22:39.720 Berlutis are the same as us, as well as FLB.

00:22:42.100 But the only shoe, these trainers, the only one in the world today, according to the factories

00:22:47.000 that told me this, in Italy, that has the Super Foam, the only one that has the same

00:22:51.900 Super Foam used in the Iron Clouds and the Hocus, it's the FLBs, and they're officially

00:22:57.220 out, and you can place the order.

00:22:59.060 Here's a challenge, we only have 1,000 of these pairs, and when you say 1,000 of these

00:23:04.040 pairs, they start from size, I believe, is it 8?

00:23:07.400 It goes 8, 9, 10, 10 1⁄2, 11, 11 1⁄2, 12, 13.

00:23:12.280 Those are the sizes that we have.

00:23:14.020 And the shoes that you can get today, the colors, you have access to, Rob, if you can

00:23:18.040 go back there, you can have access to those browns, which is absolutely beautiful.

00:23:21.880 And by the way, the brown on the bottom, the stitching on the side is a left stitching.

00:23:26.040 If you can change the picture, and on the bottom, it says the future looks bright.

00:23:30.100 Look at the white lines on the side, it's beautiful.

00:23:33.820 The only ones we have right now that you can get sent out today are the black and the browns.

00:23:39.100 If you do want the white to pre-order, I would highly recommend you do so.

00:23:43.560 They're going to come out the second week of December.

00:23:45.600 So the white and the navy blue comes out the second week of December.

00:23:48.580 The browns and the blacks are available.

00:23:51.300 If you believe the future looks bright as much as we do, go place the order.

00:23:55.380 There's nothing like sitting in the boardroom with your trainers, and you put your feet

00:23:59.240 over your knee, and people look at the bottom of your shoe and it says future looks bright.

00:24:02.860 That's how you get deals done.

00:24:03.960 All right, so they're out.

00:24:04.920 I'm excited to announce it, and I'm very happy for people to go sport it.

00:24:08.060 When you get them, take pictures, send it our way.

00:24:10.820 We're going to show all these shoes, all the pictures that are being taken.

00:24:13.160 I already got a bunch of them sent to me on Instagram.

00:24:15.040 Go to vtmerch.com, place your order.

00:24:17.280 It's all over the website.

00:24:18.440 Maybe buy it for your husband, buy it for your brother, buy it for your coworkers, buy it

00:24:22.360 for your best salespeople if you want to let them know the future looks bright.

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Valuetainment - October 28, 2025

＂Destroying The United States＂ - Glenn Greenwald WARNS Trump's Global Policies Are HURTING America

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