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00:00Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingram. This is Ingram 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.
04:41We 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
06:21that 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
06:31who was going to be over the 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
06:45for 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.
06:54And then we have to go into some emergency shutdown procedures,
06:58putting our country at risk, incredibly inefficient, just ridiculous,
07:03for a continuation bill that's been passed by bipartisan majorities
07:07in the House and the Senate.
07:08Are there types of spending that Doge had seen at Energy
07:13that could be permanently eliminated if this continues,
07:17that is not essential spending?
07:20Absolutely.
07:20We 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,
07:33railed against the Trump administration for furloughing federal 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 to 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 until 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 in the Senate came back and had to change the rules to confirm people 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 issues,
09:27they were all on the sidelines waiting to come in.
09:31That's just I hear those sound bites 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.
09:39Well, Hakeem Jeffries has blocked, not Hakeem, Chuck Schumer has blocked it to protect his own left 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 stunts.
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.
10:21That's what they're doing instead of negotiating to reopen the government,
10:27a cringe-inducing 24-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.
10:54So, Mr. President, allow me to reintroduce myself.
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.
11:23Hello, 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 the 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?
12:04That's more like it.
12:10Why do you need a microphone?
12:12Once the shutdown officially started at midnight, Democrats knew they had to bring out the big guns.
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. Eastern Time, and this Republican shutdown has essentially started.
12:36And we are here to talk about what this shutdown means.
12:41I don't know who any of those people are now for some excitement, though.
12:46A mystery fruit appeared.
12:48Yes, this pineapple, this is the mystery pineapple.
12:54You can pull or you can choose, but we've got everything.
12:58Gummy pineapple.
12:59That's a wasabi white rabbit.
13:03The wee hours of the morning then came, and Democrats trotted out even more people that you've never heard of
13:08to convince Americans that they know what they're doing.
13:11And here we are at 6.37 a.m. and 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.
13:34Oh, you are on mute.
13:36That's what I keep doing, too.
13:37I cannot hear you.
13:43Nope.
13:45Okay, this happens to us, okay, 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, you have the solutions,
13:56but you kind of produce that.
13:58It's a little tough.
14:00We're joined now by two men who watched the entire live stream.
14:03Just kidding.
14:03Michael 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 that 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.
15:17We 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.
15:34Charlie, it reminds me a little bit of Tim Walls, his wife there.
15:38You know, turn the page.
15:39I wanted to turn the page.
15:41What's your reaction?
15:42Are we being too critical here?
15:45These are regular production snafus, perhaps, or over-modulated mics.
15:51Yeah.
15:52And 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, you know, the whole point, the whole problem for them
16:08is for Democrats, they believe that the 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 the whole purpose of what the purpose of your party is, which is that the government is the answer to all your problems.
16:25And so from the very beginning, they're starting out in a kind of looking rather absurd to begin with.
16:33And then, and of course, you have also playing out at the exact same time, you have all of these concerns that Chuck Schumer has about his left flank and about being concerned about AOC trying to primary him and knock him off from the left, which is a very real problem for him.
16:53And I talked to, you know, staffers on in the Senate, and they all confirm that the whole reason that that Chuck Schumer is having to do all of this is because he's worried about his 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.
17:16And 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 press his agenda even more forcefully than he has in the first nine months.
17:31A part of me is sort of empathetic to the Democrats, you know, sort of taking the approach, not 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, open 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 House, when President Trump, God bless him, did not reach 50 percent in either or any of his three elections.
18:04If that says you have a mandate, open the government up.
18:07Keep it open.
18:08Well, do you think that's going to work?
18:09They have offered to open the government.
18:11Yeah, they will offer.
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 open.
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, they're I mean, when when they take on the Democrats, you know, it's we have a lot of weekends to play.
18:40I'm not going to lie.
18:41Thank you, panel.
18:42Great to see both of you.
18:44Antifa and Tifa.
18:46I 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 in America.
18:58So if you're a thug or a fugitive in Memphis, beware.
19:03The National Guard is on the scene.
19:05We're going to tell our own families and children where they can't can't go because of what a criminal is going to do.
19:11Or 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,
19:30a man wanted for 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 an ICE facility.
19:44Cherry Point, USA, this 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?
19:59F**k them.
20:02Now, 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 up,
20:21well, 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,
20:44graduates of your local charm school, right outside that ICE facility.
20:48It was caught on camera by her own Bill Malusian.
20:51Watch.
20:54This is America.
20:56This is America.
20:57This is America.
20:58This is America.
21:00Oh, my God.
21:02Nick, set the scene for us.
21:10What was going on?
21:13You 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, but I want to show you what it looks like
21:34out 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, they can't, I'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, they're able to do it, Laura, because they never get punished.
22:01They 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 is
22:19ridiculous.
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, you know, police
22:34or other officials 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, 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?
23:43Well, considering it's like two o'clock in the afternoon or whatever it is out here
23:49in Portland and you still have people that stand out here all day and all night, I'm going
23:52to 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.
24:15So, well, Nick, I want you to take care of yourself.
24:19I'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.
24:28Just so that you know.
24:30Look right here.
24:31Look on the phone.
24:32We'll make very simple.
24:33This is what 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 the people out here and they will not.
24:38Yeah.
24:39They will.
24:39They 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.
24:48All 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.
25:29President Trump's Persian Gulf tour is his first major foreign visit of his second term
25:35and comes amid regional war and nuclear talks.
25:39President Donald Trump is embarking this week on a high-stakes tour of the Persian Gulf region,
25:46targeting 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 with Iran drag on
26:03and as war continues between Israel and Palestinian terror organizations, Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.
26:10While business is in the official focus, the backdrop is anything but calm.
26:14White 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,
26:32particularly 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.
26:50The 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,
27:31those 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 a possible civil nuclear program
27:46and expanded defense cooperation.
27:48Such as agreements were once linked to a potential Abraham Accord-style normalization
27:54between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
27:56But Riyadh has made clear it won't recognize Israel unless 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.
28:13Israeli normalization in any Saudi U.S. project is an outdated option,
28:18said Saudi geopolitical analysts.
28:21The second Trump administration is doubling down on its strategically autonomous Middle East policy.
28:28In a possible goodwill gesture ahead of the trip,
28:31Ham has released Israeli-American hostage Eden Alexander,
28:36a move Trump called Monumental in the push to end the conflict in Gaza.
28:40And as the UAE seeks to boost its tie with the U.S. and become a global AI leader by 2030,
28:47it will need American microchips.
28:49The UAE has gone even further than the Saudis, promising $1.4 trillion in U.S.
28:55Investments over the next decade focus on AI, semiconductors, manufacturing and energy.
29:01Biden has tightened curbs on AI exports to keep such technologies out of the hands of adversaries
29:06at a time when China drew closer to Middle Eastern states, especially 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 will headline the U.S. Saudi investment form alongside Saudi Arabian ministers,
29:32White House, Kripto Xigar, David Sachs and other business leaders.
29:38On Wednesday, he will attend a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting before flying to Qatar for talks
29:43with Remy Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and a visit to the U.S. military's Al-Urad airbase.
29:50Thursday's final stop is Abu Dhabi, where Trump will meet UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahiyan.
29:56The Qataris are pulling out all the stops to impress.
30:01They've over-Trumped the use of a Royal Boeing 747A,
30:04typically reserved for the Qatari royal family to 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,
30:20including ongoing back-channel talks between Israel and Gaza.
30:23Doha also maintains close contact with Syria's new president, Ahmed al-Shahra,
30:29who ousted Bashar al-Assad and is now seeking sanctions relief and normalised ties with the West.
30:36Regional leaders will have an opportunity to address the situation directly with the president,
30:41said regional expert Jonathan Baiss.
30:43Trump is the only man that can lead the way.
30:46Iran watching closely.
30:48While a fourth round of Iran nuclear talks in Oman over the weekend failed to produce a breakthrough,
30:54Tehran is expecting...
30:55Tehran is expecting...
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