'We make the best military equipment': US to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia

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00:00You are planning, you said you are planning to sell the F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia.

00:05Is it part of the security agreement?

00:08And how you assess the defense partnership between Saudi Arabia and the United States?

00:13And the question for you is...

00:14Well, I just said it, but I mean, we're going to sell them F-35s.

00:18That's the only good question, I guess.

00:19Is it part of the security agreement or no?

00:21No, we're going to have a deal.

00:24They're going to purchase F-35s.

00:26They're buying them from Lockheed.

00:28And it's a great plane.

00:30We make, by the way, the best military equipment.

00:33You saw that during the Iran little skirmish.

00:35We make the best planes, the best missiles.

00:38We make the best defensive missiles.

00:41We make the best military equipment in the world.

00:44Nice.

00:45For President Royal Highness, I'd like to ask about how you see the cooperation between the United States and Saudi Arabia

00:50in the technological, advanced technological field, especially AI,

00:54and how it will support Saudi Arabia to serve its goal to achieve the vision of 2030.

00:59Well, I would try to answer that in short.

01:00But definitely, there's a lot of interest in many industries between Saudi Arabia and America.

01:03And we are signing a lot of agreement in different areas that would really add value to American economy,

01:07but also would add value to us in Saudi Arabia.

01:10And AI, it's critical for us, because one of the long-term problems that we could have is lack of workforce.

01:17As you've seen in the past few years, some of them reached 30% of the global immigration to Saudi Arabia.

01:23So we know that to assure the Saudi Arabia GDP growing with the lack of workforce that we have,

01:30we need to use a lot of computing power to replace jobs in the long term.

01:35So that's huge demand in Saudi Arabia, and we want to link it to American private sectors

01:42and help getting the supply from America.

01:44So there's a lot of opportunities in that area.

01:47And we're also involved in AI in Saudi Arabia.

01:50So we're working.

01:52And again, we're leading by a lot on AI.

01:55Actually, China would be in second place.

01:57But we're leading by a lot.

01:59And I have to say this, and our relationship with China has been very good.

02:03And as far as buying our farm products, they're pretty much on schedule, Scott.

02:09I'd like you to call them, say if they could speed it up.

02:11Okay, but they're pretty much on schedule.

02:13Mr. President, can you please?

02:17I may have a question for both the Congress.

02:19Who are you?

02:21Who are your friends?

02:22Faisal Abbas from Arab News, Saudi Arabia.

02:24Your Excellency.

02:25You should be afraid of the question.

02:28Your Royal Highness, just picking up on something you've just mentioned

02:32about how some people try to destroy the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States.

02:37countries, perhaps, you know, since the launch of the vision,

02:40we've been used to having the bigger picture and that everything fits into the bigger picture.

02:45Might you want to elaborate a little bit about where is the relationship,

02:50the bilateral relationship, the strategic partnership between Saudi Arabia

02:53and the United States heading?

02:56And what's the big picture there?

02:57Well, I don't think it's a relation that we can replace it from the Saudi side or the American side.

03:02It's a critical relationship for our political attempt, for our economical attempt,

03:09for our security, for our military, for many things.

03:13And it's been there for nine decades.

03:16And the opportunities that we have today is huge and seems that it's going to get deeper in the next few decades.

03:23And what we are having today and tomorrow with President Trump,

03:26it's really a huge new chapter on this relation that will add value to both of us.

03:32You know, when you think about it, I'm just sitting here.

03:35You're with a future king, a man who's respected by everybody,

03:39a man that doesn't have to be doing this, really.

03:41I don't have to be doing it either.

03:44And yet we're sitting here taking questions.

03:47We didn't say, oh, you can't talk about this.

03:49And there's never been transparency like this, even in his country.

03:54But there's never been.

03:55In our country, that's been acknowledged.

03:57But we didn't put restrictions.

03:59And I'm saying it's sort of wonderful to be taking questions from all over the world.

04:05Everybody's here.

04:05This is a small group representative of tremendous numbers of media that are outside.

04:11They're very jealous that these people were so celebrated.

04:15But they're representing a lot of people that are outside.

04:17I think it's terrific that we could be sitting here being this open.

04:21And, you know, I think it's really a wonderful thing.

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