 All right, I want to switch to Saudi Arabia because I think fascinating things are happening in Saudi Arabia. At least I hope so and Exactly what happens there has huge impact on us Why does there have a huge impact on us because the fact is that the Saudi royal family and Saudi billionaires millionaires whatever Saudi charities are the largest funders of terrorism. Maybe the second largest funders of terrorism after you run in the world Every time you see a radicalized individual They were radicalized by somebody who was funded or trained by the Saudis you see a long time ago More than 200 years ago The Saudi war family the Saud family cut a deal with a sect of religious fanatics called the Wahhabis The Wahhabis wanted to return to fundamentalist script-based Jihad based Islam and they said that the only way Islam would ever achieve its glory days again is If they went back to a strict interpretation of Sharia law and Basically, the deal was that we you Wahhabis rally the people Around us as monarchs and we will leave the spiritual world We will leave the teaching we will not challenge your dominance of the teaching of Islam so you get religion we get the state separation of state and church right and We will run the state based on your spiritual guidance You know as long as you don't interfere with our ability to accumulate money to go have orgies and monaco to dry fancy cars To hang out in the western bars and drink and do all that as long as you don't need to fear with that You can preach whatever you want to preach fund whatever you want to fund and what's happened over the last certainly over the last 40 years since 1979 is Partially in order to compete with Iran the Wahhabis have have basically Gone out there and helped fund all the radicalized Islamic movements around the world so they were behind al-Qaeda they Were at least originally very sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood and funded the Muslim Brotherhood and helped the Muslim Brotherhood when the Egyptians kicked them out They were ultimately funding and behind ISIS They are behind every mosque in the United States or in Pakistan and even madras that the school that teaches Islam in Pakistan or an Afghani standard Radicalized people to join the Taliban or or any one of the Islamist terrorist organizations all of that if it's Sunni The Muslims are either sheer to Sunni if it's Sunni, it's funded by Saudi Arabia and the war family has basically stayed out of it I think some members of the war family support us Fund it and coverage it Other members of the war family just stay out of it. They're too busy with the orgies or whatever and You know, they've been trying to be friends with the United States So they don't want to be perceived as enemies of the United States, but as the as the information leaked out on 9-11 It's clear that there was a Saudi At least linked to the war family connection to the 9-11 9-11 terrorist attack the Saudis were involved Saudi officials from the war family were involved And remember this war family Constitutes thousands of people Because of how many wives each man can have and because how many wives each king has had and how many children they have They have lots of children from lots of wives and they're just thousands of these siblings Because it's a massive war family which controls every aspect of life in Saudi Arabia except Religion That they have given over to the Wahhabis Now comes this crown prince Mohammed bin Salaman and He is 32 years old and He has been educated in the West and He has consolidated power. He is the defense minister He's basically in charge of internal security and in charge of economic policy He is the heir to the current king Salamon bill bin Abdul Aziz that means Solomon son of Abdul Aziz And he will become king Unless there's a coup unless he gets killed, but Prince Mohammed bin Salaman is expected to be king indeed It's expected that Salaman will will actually Resign his king abdicate abdicate is the formal word abdicate is king in order to allow a smooth transition So his son can take over anyway, he's 32 and He claims to be more modern. He claims to want to reform Saudi Arabia He claims to want to take away some of the religious authority from the Wahhabis He has actually put some Wahhabi preachers some of the more radical Wahhabi preachers in jail He has just recently arrested dozens of His own family members Uncharges of corruption Which is bizarre because of course they corrupt everybody's corrupt the whole basis of the Saudi economy is corruption For the royal family sucking out all the wealth created very little of it almost all from oil But so to me it's more than just it's not really corruption what it is is a power grab He's eliminating all his cousins and and his other family members who might have claim To the throne who might have different ideas about policy Not the same time. He's also telling the West We're gonna reform we're gonna allow women to drive We're gonna we're gonna loosen up our religious restrictions We're gonna reduce our support of some of those who use radicalized masks overseas. We're gonna shut down some of these Wahhabi extremists and You know, he's also in the process of taking the Saudi Arabian oil company. I mean, it's funny to call it a company because it's basically the oil family And take it public and they want to float five percent of it and they think that by the time it's it's finished It'd be valued at well over trillion dollars, which will make it the largest publicly traded company in the world more valuable than Apple and Google combined I think and the problem is that if they if they take the company public in London or in New York Then they're gonna have to abide by London in New York kind of disclosures and rules and They don't want to they don't want to disclose how the money is used They don't want disclose where the money goes. So now they're talking about all maybe maybe we'll just Do it on the Saudi stock exchange So a huge amount of going on is how do you maybe right now? It's fascinating at the same time At the same time they claim that the money they get over a hundred billion dollars from this sale of stock They're gonna use to divest the economy and by 2020 or at the very least latest by 2030 Oil will not be the primary source of revenue and then primary source of income for Saudi Arabia that it will have a diverse economy Really is that really is that even a possibility? Do they have the resources that they have that never mind the capital the money? Do they have the brainpower? Do they have the people? The expertise the knowledge to do that It's interesting so that he's got a whole plan He's gonna reveal I think next week and I completely reform the Saudi economy And at the same time reduce the impact the influence of Sharia law and in the religious clerics on life in Saudi Arabia And he's arresting his opponents and he's not it's just arresting them last week a helicopter carrying seven members of the wall family relatively senior princes in this bizarre hierarchy Had an accident and it crashed and everybody died Now nobody believes it was an accident and again getting rid of opponents Consolidating power Now add to that the fact that he is in particular a Hawk when it comes to his perception of the Iranian threat He believes Iran is Saudi Arabia's number one enemy. He believes Iran is the number one destabilizing force in the Middle East So he is fighting Iran in Yemen Yemen is a country that was taken over by pro Iranian forces Shia for Iranian forces not long ago and he is fighting a war in Yemen over Iran's influence in the Arabian Peninsula. He is fighting. I Think they initially supported ISIS because they were trying to fight Iranian influence in Iraq and Iranian influence in Syria now that kind of that kind of blew up in their face and now You know, they're really worried because Iran is in Yemen to their south Iran is in Iraq to the north Iran is in Syria to the north Iran dominates Lebanese politics to the northwest and An interesting thing happened this week really into Lebanon the Prime Minister of Lebanon was Visiting Saudi Arabia and during that visit. He resigned and it's not been seen since The tree just keeps building He is a he is a Saudi appointed Prime Minister if you will of Lebanon Lebanon is dominated by his ballah his ballah is a terrorist arm of Iran and again, I think the Saudis are trying to make a play. They told it Saudi Arabian citizens not to go to Lebanon not to be in Lebanon not to invest in Lebanon They are a complete ban on Lebanon So Saudi Arabia is playing a geopolitical game here trying to Protect the Middle East from Iran's influence and and I think a lot of this has to do with America's weakness and and you know the fact that America is not leading If you will the attack on Iran the protection against Iran Iran's developing Ballistic missiles, it's probably developing nuclear weapons It's It threatens not just Israel, but it threatens Saudi Arabia with those male weapons. I wouldn't be surprised if you'll see the Saudis trying to buy nuclear weapons from the Pakistanis who are Sunnis and What you're seeing is is a is a is an arms race a power struggle And it's fascinating and partially What's happening is the Saudi Arabia is getting closer to Israel now. It won't actually declare that but unofficially they are talks constantly between Israel and Saudi Arabia particularly about Iran and Syria and Iraq and Lebanon and Once a suspect one would suspect that if Israel actually attacked Iran because if you do honest a threat And you clear threat That's how do you radio would actually let it use its airspace? I'm not sure the Americans the Trump administration would let Israel use Saudi airspace But I think Saudi Arabia would So alliance is a shifting and where's the United States in all of this? No way. No way. I mean Obama Basically had an anti-American foreign policy that basically said Yep, we're gonna support our enemies We're gonna let ISIS grow up. We're not gonna fight them We're gonna leave the Iranians alone because they're not a threat We're gonna kind of deal with them and and we're gonna we're gonna, you know, just be friendly with everybody Trump Has I think no foreign policy. So it's not that he hates America. He just doesn't have anything He's done nothing in the Middle East so far other than dance with the Arabian princes in the Saudi Arabia Demand very little from them. The man almost nothing from the State Department actually was backing This guy the Solomon's opponents for a while So there is no foreign policy in the Middle East. We don't know what we're doing It's basically being run by the Russians and the Iranians Russian Iranian now Russia and Iran are now the dominant forces in the Middle East other than of course Israel The United States is out of the game. It's not a participant It's not it's not there and the Saudis feel that vacuum and are trying to fill it now I'm not saying the United States should be there I think it should because it should defend itself and I think there are people who want to kill us and And we should be defending ourselves from those people But I think we've been too involved in the intrigues of the Middle East that the Middle Eastern has handled the intrigues all we need to do And this will be my final statement on this issue. All we need to do is America is say if you mess with us We'll destroy you if you fund mosques Where people get radicalized and kill Americans will destroy you if you Fund terrorism that kills Americans anywhere in the world will destroy you So just behave people we're not going to be in your internal matters. You're not we're going to be in your intrigues Just beware. Oh, oh by the way, Iran if you if you really are developing nuclear weapons We'll destroy you We're gonna have nuclear weapons in the hands of a theocracy Dedicated to the death of America ain't happening. No, no you're not under your on Brooks watch Maybe under Trump's watch. Maybe under Obama's watch. Maybe in those bushes watch But not under my butt. Well, I'm not gonna have a watch because I'm never gonna be president. All right. All right It's about that time