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00:00Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingraham. This is the Ingraham Angle from Washington.
00:03Tonight, as always, thanks for spending some time with us.
00:06Democrats losing the strategy, losing on messaging, and they're even losing the meme war.
00:12Hakeem Jeffries is infuriated that sombreros and mariachi music are all the rage on Insta and X.
00:19Oh, I think it's funny. The president's joking, and we're having a good time.
00:23And I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make this solemn promise to you
00:27that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.
00:31Then Jeffries responded, not happening, bro, and included his own lame meme of a babyface Vance.
00:38Of course, this is just amplifying the funnier, original sombrero meme. Bad strategy.
00:44But the unintentionally funny Tim Walls finds none of this amusing.
00:48This is really dangerous, and it's really hard, and I cannot express to you
00:52the concern and the absolute bafflement and fear of our European allies.
00:57Asking me, is this stuff really going on?
01:00Raise your hand if you think any European allies are talking to Tim Walls.
01:04No one's raising their hand.
01:06And by the way, so says a man who acted more like a Price is Right contestant
01:10than a vice presidential candidate.
01:13Now, the numbers are so humorless and out of touch that even Speaker Johnson felt sorry for them
01:18and offered a little advice.
01:20My friend Hakeem, who I was asked about, man, just ignore it.
01:23I mean, Gavin Newsom was trolling me last night.
01:26He painted me like a minion.
01:28He painted me yellow with big glasses and overalls.
01:31And I thought it was hilarious.
01:32You don't respond to it.
01:34Oh, Speaker Johnson's so good.
01:37Like, a better message to Democrats, though, might be,
01:39don't kick the ball into your own goal.
01:42On day two of the shutdown, they're running in the wrong direction and scoring against their own team.
01:46Because they couldn't stop the big, beautiful bill they're now holding America and the government hostage.
01:54And the ransom has gone up to more than $1.5 trillion.
01:58And why?
01:59Because that's what the squad is demanding.
02:01Go big or go home, Hakeem.
02:04They want to expand Medicaid funding to include large swaths of migrants who've abused our system.
02:10But given that the Republicans said, we're not budging on these numbers,
02:15what the heck is Schumer's endgame here other than licking AOC's Manolo's?
02:20Well, no clue.
02:21I don't know.
02:22I don't understand the strategy.
02:23But Republicans have an endgame keeping their signature legislative achievement intact.
02:29Cut excess government spending, ensure illegals get no benefits,
02:33and in the process, maybe even save some local hospitals, which are getting hammered.
02:38But there's more.
02:40Because the longer the Democrats dig in their heels,
02:42the more likely doge-style cuts will remain permanent.
02:47Yeah, that means that Democrats will become inadvertent doge allies.
02:53Massive and permanent cuts of non-essential employees could be coming.
02:58Look, it's likely going to be in the thousands,
03:00and that's something that the Office of Management and Budget
03:03and the entire team at the White House here, again,
03:05is unfortunately having to work on today.
03:08These discussions and these conversations, these meetings,
03:10would not be happening if the Democrats had voted to keep the government open.
03:14Slavishly devoted to the hard left, Democrats just can't help themselves.
03:18Their pals at the Washington Post have been sounding the alarm, though.
03:22But the party said they just walked into the trap, the shutdown trap.
03:25President Trump and his budget director, S. Vought, now have extraordinary authority,
03:30say the Post, which agencies to close, what spending to prioritize,
03:35and even which government workers to lay off.
03:38Expect him to follow through in a way that maximizes pain for Democrats.
03:43That's the Washington Post.
03:46And you can't say that Trump himself didn't try to warn him.
03:48We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible,
03:53that are bad for them and irreversible by them,
03:56like cutting vast numbers of people out,
03:58cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.
04:02Well, Democrats have just backed themselves into a corner here,
04:05so all they can do now is just try to pass the buck.
04:08This administration has targeted federal employees.
04:12They have played games with the livelihood and the lives of federal employees.
04:16I think it's absolutely disgusting.
04:18I think it is deeply offensive that the president is threatening to fire federal workers
04:22if we can't reach an agreement without offering any meaningful solutions here.
04:27So as the Democrats huff and puff trying to avoid responsibility,
04:31the Veep lays down the facts.
04:33When the Democrats shut down the government,
04:35we have to actually do a little triage to make sure the most critical
04:39and most essential services are provided.
04:42We are going to have to lay some people off if the shutdown continues.
04:45We don't like that.
04:46We don't necessarily want to do it.
04:48But we're going to do what we have to to keep the American people's essential services
04:51continuing to run.
04:53Now, that makes perfect sense.
04:55Until the Democrats end this tantrum,
04:58the government credit card will remain maxed out.
05:01It's a concept, by the way, that certain TV anchors can't seem to fathom.
05:05We're talking about permanently firing people.
05:07Well, I'm not sure that hasn't happened before.
05:09But if the authority is there and he sees a program that is wasting taxpayer dollars,
05:14you and I can both agree the government doesn't do everything in the most efficient manner.
05:17I mean, constitutionally, that's your job.
05:20Article 1, that is your job.
05:21It is until Chuck Schumer decides to hand the keys to the president,
05:24which is literally what he's doing.
05:25If he makes the decision to shut the federal government down,
05:27he's shutting down the legislative branch.
05:29And he is giving the authority to the executive.
05:31That's how the system works.
05:32Nothing like the speaker schooling CNN.
05:36No wonder faith in the media is at an all-time low.
05:40Here to weigh in Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
05:42Mr. Secretary, this is wild.
05:45The Democrats, given their intransigence on this,
05:49that they want to rewrite and reinsert trillion-plus in spending
05:54from the big, beautiful bill that was obviously cut.
05:59But what is this ultimate strategy?
06:01I mean, I'm trying to figure it out.
06:02Where do they think they're going to end up here?
06:05I don't know.
06:06You know, but I think the gear they've been in
06:09since the start of the Trump administration has been a meltdown.
06:12They don't have sort of an independent idea or an alternative strategy.
06:16I think the one word they have is obstruction.
06:18In my own department, there's over 20 people that need to be confirmed by the Senate.
06:23The key deputies in the department only had two of them when September arrived.
06:27They just decided to throw a tantrum and not confirm the guy who was going to be over
06:32the stewardship of our nuclear weapons stockpile.
06:35That's just crazy.
06:37What else could be cut at Energy given this shutdown?
06:40I can stick on that same thing.
06:42We have about eight more days of funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration,
06:47the overseer of our nuclear weapons stockpile,
06:50the engines that power our nuclear submarines and our aircraft carriers.
06:53Eight more days of funding, and then we have to go into some emergency shutdown procedures,
06:58putting our country at risk, incredibly inefficient, just ridiculous for a continuation bill that's
07:05been passed by bipartisan majorities in the House and the Senate.
07:08Are there types of spending that Doge had seen at Energy that could be permanently eliminated
07:16if this continues that is not essential spending?
07:19Absolutely.
07:21We did work to make our department more efficient.
07:23I'm a career businessman.
07:25And is there more work we could do to make it more efficient?
07:28Absolutely.
07:29And again, push that way, of course we'll do it.
07:31Senator Chris Van Hollen, Mr. Secretary, railed against the Trump administration for furloughing
07:36federal employees.
07:37Watch.
07:38Now, what they're saying is, well, we're in a shutdown, we're going to fire more people.
07:44A shutdown gives President Trump no more authority to fire people than when we're not in a shutdown.
07:51In fact, when you're in a shutdown, there are more restrictions on the president's ability
07:58to fire people.
07:59Your response to him, Mr. Secretary?
08:02Yeah, I think he just doesn't get how the executive branch works.
08:05And the more just practical aspect, you can only spend money you have.
08:09Politicians, most politicians don't get that, right?
08:11They're spending other people's money.
08:13So your point is, they're furloughing the federal employees.
08:16Absolutely.
08:17Of course.
08:18Where would we get this money?
08:20I mean, if we had mythical money growing on trees, I guess we could pay people from here
08:25until eternity.
08:26But where else could we get the money?
08:27Well, you can't spend money that's not legally allocated by Congress for what we're doing.
08:33Yeah, our hands are tied.
08:35I'm running an agency, I think, critical for the country.
08:38We want to keep energy prices down.
08:40We want to drive innovation forward.
08:42And again, we need to maintain our nuclear stockpile.
08:44And they're going to starve the funding of that.
08:47I think it's beyond irresponsible.
08:48Right now, how many people have not been confirmed that you need confirmed to run this department?
08:57So the Democrats confirmed two of my 22.
09:01Fortunately, John Thune and the Senate came back and had to change the rules to confirm
09:06people through.
09:07I'm still missing five.
09:08But these are key people.
09:10These are key people that should have been here for six months.
09:13Controversial nominees?
09:13No, bipartisan votes and supports for them.
09:18Popular nominees lauded by Democrats as great business leaders.
09:22But yet, when we were forming energy policy, dealing with nations around the world on these
09:27issues, they were all on the sidelines waiting to come in.
09:31That's just I hear those soundbites like they're fighting for the American people.
09:36I don't think there's any evidence that they're fighting for the American people.
09:39Hakeem Jeffries has blocked, not Hakeem, Chuck Schumer has blocked it to protect his own
09:44left flank.
09:45He's worried about his job, not the other Americans' jobs.
09:49Mr. Secretary, great to see you.
09:50Thank you for coming in tonight.
09:51Thanks for having me.
09:52And one good thing coming from this Schumer shutdown, it brought back more stupid Democrat
09:56stunts.
09:57Good afternoon, everybody.
10:04House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries here.
10:07And over the next 24 hours, House Democrats here on the Capitol, across the city and beyond,
10:15will be talking directly with the American people about what's at stake.
10:21Sure.
10:22That's what they're doing instead of negotiating to reopen the government, a cringe-inducing
10:2824-hour live stream hosted by the House Democratic leader that barely anyone watched.
10:33According to Politico, at times just a few dozen viewers were watching this YouTube stream,
10:38making it almost an instant joke among Republicans and a source of embarrassment among Democrats.
10:45So why would anyone think any of this spectacle was embarrassing, though?
10:49But, y'all, I ain't scared.
10:52No!
10:53I'm from Brooklyn.
10:55So, Mr. President, allow me to reintroduce myself.
10:59Woo!
11:01I'm the House Democratic leader.
11:04But Hakeem could not do the full 24 hours himself, so he brought in some friends.
11:10They're across the country and throughout the world.
11:14Yeah.
11:14Okay, great.
11:15He just texted me.
11:19Oh, I think we're on.
11:21Hey, there we go.
11:22Good to see you.
11:23Here we go now.
11:23Hello, Maxwell.
11:24Hello, Hakeem.
11:25Hey.
11:27Thank you for joining.
11:29It's all you.
11:30Take it over.
11:31Gosh, my kid's high school does a show that's much better than that.
11:35So Democrats did get a chance to show how hip and cool they are, though, reaching out to
11:39the younger crowd.
11:40Gen Z is in the house.
11:42Maxwell, it'd be great to hear what you're hearing from young people about this.
11:46That's right.
11:47You know, the other thing that I hear is from the providers.
11:51Are you really, really ready to fight for health care over billionaires?
11:57Oh, come on.
11:58I can't hear you.
12:00Are you ready to fight for health care over billionaires?
12:07That's more like it.
12:08Why do you need a microphone?
12:12Once the shutdown officially started at midnight, Democrats knew they had to bring out the big
12:16guns.
12:17So what was it going to be?
12:18AOC, the squad, Pelosi, maybe some of their Hollywood friends, special guests, maybe.
12:23But it is 12, 12 a.m.
12:29Eastern time.
12:31And this Republican shutdown has essentially started.
12:36And we are here to talk about what this shutdown means.
12:42I don't know who any of those people are now for some excitement, though.
12:46A mystery fruit appeared.
12:48Oh, my God.
12:49Yes, this pineapple, this is the mystery pineapple.
12:54You can pull or you can choose, but we've we've got everything.
12:58Gummy pineapple.
12:59That's that's a wasabi white rabbit.
13:04The wee hours of the morning then came and Democrats trotted out even more people that
13:08you've never heard of to convince Americans that they know what they're doing.
13:11And here we are at six thirty seven a.m.
13:17And unable to.
13:20I can't hear anything.
13:21Can you hear me?
13:22I can hear you, Troy.
13:24And we're going to get that audio fixed.
13:26You know, this is a live stream.
13:31Hold on.
13:32We can't hear you.
13:33Oh, you are on mute.
13:36That's what I keep doing, too.
13:40I cannot hear you.
13:43Nope.
13:45OK, this happens to us.
13:46OK, here on the Ingram Angles.
13:48I can't be too harsh on this, but it happened a lot in one setting.
13:52Well, it is kind of hard to convince people that you can run the country.
13:55You have the solutions, but you kind of produce that.
13:58It's a little tough.
13:59We're joined now by two men who watch the entire live stream.
14:03Just kidding.
14:04Michael LaLarosa, Democratic strategist and former press secretary for First Lady Jill
14:08Biden and Charlie Hurt, Fox News contributor and co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend.
14:12Michael, as I said, you know, we've all been caught on camera using our phone or missing
14:18a break, missing a countdown.
14:19So that happens.
14:20But what does this tell you about the organization and the overall kind of messaging of the Democrats?
14:26Yeah, well, production aside, I think that if you're if they're not if you don't have
14:33an audience on YouTube, you're not going to grow it through this kind of subject matter.
14:37It's not it's not very sexy or you're not going to get a rallying cry and energy from
14:43young people by just live streaming on YouTube.
14:46Now, they did get a lot of viewers on, I think, X at one point.
14:50It was simulcast on other platforms.
14:53The YouTube was not.
14:54It was terrible.
14:55Let's just say it was you're being very diplomatic and I understand why.
14:59I give them an A for effort for trying new platforms.
15:02We're a little behind the curve.
15:03I admit we're behind the curve from the Republicans where we used to we used to be responsible
15:07for, you know, sort of reinventing the way the Internet is used in campaigns.
15:11But we're a little behind the curve.
15:13Congressman Debbie Dingell was hysterical last night.
15:16Watch.
15:18We are in a crisis.
15:20People are going to lose their health care insurance.
15:23And for me, telling little children they're not going to die because they've got a right
15:28to be able to go to the doctor is worth taking a stand.
15:33Charlie reminds me a little bit of Tim Walls, his wife there, you know, turn the page.
15:39I wanted to turn the page.
15:41What's what's your reaction?
15:42Are we being too critical here?
15:45These are regular productions, nafus, perhaps, or over modulated mics.
15:50Yeah, and like you said, you know, you, Debbie, you have a microphone.
15:56You don't need to shout.
15:57No, the real problem here, trying to take them all very seriously, even though they have
16:02not earned getting taken seriously.
16:05You know, the whole point, the whole problem for them is for Democrats, they believe that
16:11the government is the answer to all of our problems.
16:14And if you're going to then turn around and shut the government down, it kind of defeats
16:20the whole purpose of what the purpose of your party is, which is that the government is the
16:24answer to all your problems.
16:26And so from the very beginning, they're starting out in a kind of looking rather absurd to begin
16:33with.
16:33And then and of course, you have also playing out at the exact same time, you have all of
16:40these concerns that Chuck Schumer has about his left flank and about being concerned about
16:46AOC trying to primary him and knock him off from the left, which is a very real problem
16:53for him.
16:53And I talked to, you know, staffers on in the Senate and they all confirm that the whole
17:01reason that that Chuck Schumer is having to do all of this is because he's worried about
17:06his left flank from AOC in New York.
17:09And you get to realize that this is all about politics and they're going to lose it.
17:15And Donald Trump has managed to reinvent every aspect of politics.
17:19And I would not be surprised if he doesn't figure out how to use this shutdown to to
17:25press his agenda even more forcefully than he has in the first nine months.
17:31All right.
17:32A part of me is sort of empathetic to the Democrats, you know, sort of taking the approach.
17:38Not my monkeys, not my circus.
17:40Republicans for the last nine months have said we have a mandate.
17:44We have a mandate.
17:45Well, mandate.
17:46Open up the government.
17:48All right.
17:48What do you need us for?
17:49If you have a mandate from, let's see, in 2024, when Democrats picked up two seats in the
17:55House, when President Trump, God bless him, did not reach 50 percent in either or any of
18:03his three elections.
18:03If that says you have a mandate, open the government up.
18:07Keep it open.
18:08Well, do you think that's going to open the government?
18:11Yeah, they will.
18:12They have a mandate.
18:13So they said they have a mandate.
18:15So they should be the ones opening the government.
18:18That's why that means that's why that's why they managed to pass a bill to keep the government
18:22open.
18:22All right.
18:23Well, we got to wrap it up here.
18:24But I will say the live stream didn't work.
18:27The Washington Post is against you.
18:29They're saying back away from the trap.
18:33You've already fallen in it.
18:34Try to climb out of it.
18:35Basically there.
18:36I mean, when when they take on the Democrats, you know, it's we have a lot of weekends to
18:40play.
18:40I'm not going to lie.
18:41Um, panel, great to see both of you.
18:44Uh, Antifa, Antifa, I don't care how you want to say it.
18:47They are not taking Trump's Portland crackdown very well at all.
18:52But the home of the blues.
18:54But soon criminals are going to be the ones singing the blues in the most dangerous city
18:57in America.
18:58So if you're a thug or a fugitive in Memphis, beware.
19:03The National Guard is on the scene.
19:04We're going to tell our own families and children where they can't can't go because
19:09of what a criminal is going to do or our dead bodies are going to live that way anymore.
19:14It's not happening.
19:16I see the guns and badges in this room.
19:18You are unleashed.
19:19The handcuffs that you're carrying, they're not on you anymore.
19:22They're on the criminals.
19:23And whatever you need to get it done, we're going to get it done.
19:26Nearly 100 arrests have been made so far, including a Trendaragua member, a man wanted
19:31for raping a child and one for an assault on a federal officer.
19:36Meanwhile, in Portland, Antifa is continuing to act up, terrorizing the neighborhood around
19:42an ICE facility.
19:44Cherry Point, USA.
19:46This is what we have to say to you.
19:48You think Charlie Kirk deserves to die?
19:50I think Charlie Kirk's a piece of s**t.
19:52You know, yes or no?
19:54That's the point.
19:55Honestly, he's kind of a fascist, so I would say yes.
19:58What's your message to the right wing?
20:00F**k him.
20:01Now, these radicals try to act so tough, right?
20:05When they're out there with their sometimes masked buddies.
20:12But when a police are finally allowed to do their jobs and start rounding these people
20:20up, well, they turn into crybabies.
20:23Look at this guy, shaking like a leaf after he was taken into custody.
20:28So what happened to him?
20:29What happened to the tough guys screaming at all the federal agents, flipping them off?
20:33Here with me from Portland is independent journalist Nick Sartor.
20:36Nick, good to see you.
20:38I know you had your own run-in with some of these lovely individuals, graduates of your local
20:45charm school, right outside that ICE facility.
20:48It was caught on camera by our own Bill Malusian.
20:51Watch.
20:51Nick, set the scene for us.
21:10What was going on?
21:11You know, Laura, I had only been here for five minutes at that point, down here at the ICE
21:17facility.
21:17I was walking down the sidewalk with a camera, just filming the surroundings here.
21:21And that's all it took was for them to run at me, encircle me, you know, assault me,
21:26all of that within five minutes out here at the ICE facility.
21:30So, you know, we'll walk a little bit this way.
21:32But I want to show you what it looks like out here.
21:35It looks like a third world country.
21:37It is it doesn't look like a major American city should.
21:42There are no laws out here.
21:44I mean, you look at them.
21:45They can't.
21:45I'm sitting here talking.
21:47All I'm doing is talking to you, walking down the street on the sidewalk.
21:50They call us the fascists, but they want to shut down our speech all the time and attack
21:55us and scare us.
21:56And they're able to do it, Laura, because they never get punished.
22:00They watched me get pushed yesterday.
22:03They watched me them run at me on the sidewalk yesterday.
22:07Nothing was done about it.
22:08The Portland police standing right on the opposite side of the corner and did absolutely nothing.
22:12Well, the mayor and the governor, Governor Tina Kotek, said this week, you know, this
22:18is ridiculous.
22:20This is a safe city.
22:21It's a beautiful city.
22:23And the chaos, essentially, I'm paraphrasing, is being created by those who are coming into
22:28the fair city of Portland and trying to make trouble by bringing, you know, police or other
22:34officials in uniform.
22:37Yeah, I mean, there are people here from Los Angeles that we've heard, and you wonder how
22:41they get here, right?
22:42Who is paying for that?
22:43And I think the Trump administration should be digging into that very deeply.
22:47But I think we should.
22:51Look, I mean, look, they have cops here.
22:53They're told to stand down.
22:55They're told not to help innocent civilians.
22:58But at this point, they are on the side of criminals and Antifa out here.
23:03They are the ones that don't get prosecuted.
23:06You saw Katie Davis Court from the Post Millennial get hit with a pole the other day and Portland
23:11police walked away.
23:12They were told by top brass to stand down.
23:14So they're openly siding with Antifa terrorists out here.
23:18And, you know, that's why at this point it makes the argument for sending the National
23:24Guard out here is better than any other city in the United States.
23:27This place makes Chicago look like, you know, a daycare center.
23:32Nick, any sense of what these individuals who are menacing people just standing on the street
23:37and trying to talk or film, what do they do for a living?
23:40How do they support themselves?
23:41Well, considering it's like two o'clock in the afternoon or whatever it is out here in
23:49Portland, and you still have people that stand out here all day and all night, I'm
23:52going to assume that you and I pay their bills.
23:55I don't know.
23:56They won't tell us what they actually do.
23:58They might, you know, I know you have paid protesters.
24:01We've proven that in the past.
24:02Andy Ngo was exposed to a lot of that as well.
24:04And, yeah, I mean, it's 24-7, Laura.
24:10For 100 days now they've been out here.
24:12It's the same people every single time.
24:14I just showed up.
24:16Well, Nick, I want you to take care of yourself.
24:20I'm glad you're there covering this.
24:21But you have an exposed head, and some of these people are known to throw heavy objects.
24:26So please be careful.
24:28Real quick, just so that you know, look right here.
24:31Look on the phone.
24:32We'll make very simple signs you've got.
24:34This is what you've got.
24:35And they're open about it.
24:36They'll tell you.
24:36Talk to lots of people out here, and they will not.
24:38Yeah, they will not condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
24:42No, no.
24:43They're celebrating that.
24:44Nick, thank you very much.
24:45And be careful, my friend.
24:47We did.
24:47All right.
24:48As President Trump is cracking down on crime and illegal immigration and, obviously, National
24:54Guard all over the place, he's officially going to war with the cartels.
24:58The Trump administration telling Congress in a memo today that the U.S. is now in an armed
25:03conflict with the cartels, which the president has designated as terrorist organizations.
25:09Now, you've already seen him blast drug boats out of the water.
25:12So what does this mean going forward?
25:14Here to tell us more, Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt.
25:17Senator, thank you for joining us tonight.
25:19What's next in this battle?
25:24Trump targets massive investments in first Middle East trip.
25:30President Trump's Persian Gulf tour is his first major foreign visit of his second term
25:35and comes amid regional war and nuclear talks.
25:40President Donald Trump is embarking this week on a high-stakes tour of the Persian Gulf region,
25:45targeting business deals and strategic partnerships with three oil-rich nations, Saudi Arabia,
25:52the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
25:56The trip marks Trump's first major foreign visit of his new term and comes as nuclear negotiations
26:02with Iran drag on and as war continues between Israel and Palestinian terror organizations,
26:08Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.
26:09While business is in the official focus, the backdrop is anything but calm.
26:15White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt described the mission as part of Trump's broader vision
26:22that extremism is defeated through commerce and cultural exchanges.
26:27Under former President Joe Biden, U.S. relations with the Gulf states cooled,
26:31particularly after Biden vowed to make Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a pariah
26:38over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal.
26:41But Trump has reversed course embracing a more transactional approach
26:46that has worn ties with regional leaders.
26:48The overall goal here is that the United States is reminding our Middle East allies
26:55that we're here to stay, said Greg Rowan, Executive Director of the Middle East Forum.
27:00We're here to promote our joint interests rather than the abandonment policies
27:04under the previous administration.
27:08Big money, big expectations.
27:11Saudi Arabia has already pledged $600 billion in U.S. investments,
27:15spanning weapon purchases, technology transfers, artificial intelligence and the stock market.
27:23Trump has said he believes the Saudis may ultimately commit up to $1 trillion.
27:27While Saudi leaders aim to diversify their economy away from oil,
27:32those massive investments still depend on oil revenues,
27:35which could be threatened by Trump's push to lower global energy prices.
27:39In addition to economic deals, Trump and bin Salam are expected to discuss
27:44a possible civil nuclear program and expanded defense cooperation,
27:48such as agreements were once linked to a potential Abraham Accord-style normalization
27:54between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
27:57But Riyadh has made clear it won't recognize Israel
28:00unless Palestinian statehood is on the table,
28:03something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin has strongly opposed.
28:08No stop in Israel is scheduled during Trump's tour.
28:14Israeli normalization in any Saudi U.S. project is an outdated option,
28:18said Saudi geopolitical analysts.
28:22The second Trump administration is doubling down
28:24on its strategically autonomous Middle East policy.
28:28In a possible goodwill gesture ahead of the trip,
28:31Hamas released Israeli-American hostage Eden Alexander
28:35a move Trump called Monumental in the push to end the conflict in Gaza.
28:41And as the UAE seeks to boost its tie with the U.S.
28:44and become a global AI leader by 2030,
28:47it will need American microchips.
28:49The UAE has gone even further than the Saudis,
28:52promising $1.4 trillion in U.S.
28:55Investments over the next decade focus on AI,
28:58semiconductors, manufacturing and energy.
29:01Biden has tightened curbs on AI exports to keep such technologies
29:05out of the hands of adversaries
29:06at a time when China drew closer to Middle Eastern states,
29:10especially the UAE.
29:12On Thursday, they announced Trump would rescind the Biden error restrictions.
29:20Itinerary?
29:21Three days, three power centres.
29:23Trump's whirlwind golf visit begins Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
29:27where he'll headline the U.S.-Saudi investment form
29:30alongside Saudi-Arabian ministers,
29:32White House, CryptoXa, David Sachs and other business leaders.
29:38On Wednesday, he'll attend a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting
29:41before flying to Qatar for talks with Remy Tamim bin Hamad al-Tani
29:46and a visit to the U.S. military's Al-Urad airbase.
29:50Thursday's final stop is Abu Dhabi,
29:52where Trump will meet UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahiyan.
29:57The Qataris are pulling out all the stops to impress.
30:01They've over-Trump the use of a Royal Boeing 747A,
30:04typically reserved for the Qatari royal family,
30:07to serve as Air Force One.
30:09Since being named a major non-NATO ally by Biden in 2022,
30:14Qatar has deepened its tights to the U.S.,
30:16hosting American troops and mediating sensitive negotiations,
30:19including ongoing back-channel talks between Israel and Gaza.
30:23Doha also maintains close contact with Syria's new president,
30:27Ahmed al-Shahra, who ousted Bashar al-Assad
30:31and is now seeking sanctions relief and normalised ties with the West.
30:36Regional leaders will have an opportunity to address the situation directly
30:40with the president, said regional expert Jonathan Baiss.
30:43Trump is the only man that can lead the way.
30:45Iran watching closely.
30:49While a fourth round of Iran nuclear talks in Oman over the weekend
30:53failed to produce a breakthrough,
30:54Tehran is expected...
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