Maria Bartiromo to Another Network?! Fox HUMILIATED After Claiming It FIRED Her| Iran Is Out of Oil | Canada Goes To War | Trump Taunts Greenland

And we're live, we're going to talk about Maria Bartoromo again, because I'll tell you, she may have just completely humiliated Fox. It's actually sort of funny to watch in real time, totally humiliated them. I guess she's going to get the last word, good for her, more power to her. Okay, Iran, very much in the news, they're down to the last 30 million barrels and they're kind of freaking out. We're going to talk about that. Canada, Canada, what are you thinking? I mean, Karne, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, we are your biggest customer. Why do you want to alienate us? I mean, it's China. That good to you. Trust me, they're not. We buy 16 times as much stuff from you as China. So I'll tell you, this is going to be the re-nation of one mark, Karne. Oh, in Greenland, oh my gosh, Greenland, there's no sense of humor up there in Greenland. Nor in Denmark, because you see the president put this out over the weekend and they didn't really appreciate it. Yeah, look at that. It's Greenland draped in a American flag. Oh, okay, temperatures are running kind of hot there in a very cold place. Welcome to The Star, everyone. I'm Trish Riegan. Make sure you subscribe. We'd begin on my former colleague and friend, wonderful, wonderful woman. Maria Bartowomo is about to humiliate Fox. Like it's never been humiliated before. This is the most humiliating possible outcome for Fox News, because you know, just days after it announces, the Maria Bartowomo is no longer with Fox News. We're hearing that Maria may already be talking to CBS News and that 60 minutes could be part of the conversation. Now, okay, okay, okay. I know. I know what you think about CBS. I know what you think about 60 minutes. We've had those conversations before, but Barry Weiss is trying to class up the joint and what better way to class the place up than to get Maria Bartowomo into the building. Now, there is no confirmed deal yet. The original report is actually coming from an entertainment reporter who's got a newsletter. Rob Shooter. He's got a newsletter. Not even nice. And he's citing some unnamed television insiders. I can just tell you like at first glance, of course, it makes all the sense in the world. If I am Barry Weiss, I hire Maria. If I could hire Maria today for my little operation, I would. I mean, she is a phenomenal asset, phenomenal to anybody who can get her. And if CBS has deep enough pockets, I.E. The Ellisons, if they have deep enough pockets and trust me, they do. They know how good she is. They've known her for years. So if this is true, Maria is going to go from being abruptly pushed out by Fox where they tried to malign her. They tried to say she was fired. They tried to, you know, insinuate that somehow she's basically trading company secrets. And then she's going to go to work for a major network in the most famous television news magazine in American history. So I would say Fox looks pretty stupid. Here's the report. Maria Bartowomo may be out at Fox, which is already working on her next act. Maria and Barry have already spoken, according to the newsletter, a television insider is telling them. Maria isn't sitting around looking around. She's not. I know that. She's moving fast and 60 minutes is absolutely in the mix. She wants to remain a major player. So it goes on to say, Maria brings something Barry understands is very valuable. This is very true. This is very true. Maria can get CEOs, billionaires, political power players and Wall Street Titans on the phone. She can. And she can get the president on the phone. You don't throw away a roll of eggs like that unless you're stupid, okay? Really stupid. Fox. Very, very stupid and a little bit childish because they're trying to really dinger on the way out. I am telling you, they are going to look epically foolish, according again to the newsletter. Maria and Barry are already talking. That would be very wise. You know, very wise. You know, she came in like I said to kind of remake the place. They brought her in. She's the editor-in-chief of CBS News and I'm just telling you, they got to do something. They got to do something. So this is like mana from heaven. I mean, to get this kind of gift put in your lap, Barry would be crazy not to hire her. The source reportedly added that Maria is moving very quickly and that 60 minutes is absolutely in the mix. I love it. Okay. Here's the mirror. This is the UK publication. They write Maria Bordeaux is dying Fox move after Fox business exit and the radar picked it up. Mornoromo eyes 60 minutes come back, asked Fox News anchor because you know, they have to kind of give her a little bit of a dig in talks with Barry Weiss about switch to CBS News. So it's really kind of a big, big deal in that what Fox, you know, and I've been through it and I know many people that have also been through it. So what they try to do is they try to basically drag that asset down. So Maria is obviously an asset to anybody who gets her. And she was obviously an asset, an asset. I should say to Fox News for what 12 and a half years. So they want to make sure that nobody else can have that asset. You know, they're like, she's ours. We don't want her. We're going to throw her off, you know, like an old toy into the back of the closet. We're not going to let her have her show anymore. We're going to pretend like she's fired. She can't be fired. She's under contract. All right. I'm just telling you. I went through the same thing. I mean, they led everyone to believe at this point. I'm just like, OK, well, yeah, I was fired. I guess that's what you want to call it. I don't know what to call this, but basically when a talent is under contract, this is what Fox does. It'll get you under contract. And then it has sort of the right to keep you off the airwaves. So they didn't want her on the airwaves any other place. They just want to be able to hoard that asset and throw it into the back of the closet, you know, like an old dress that you don't want to wear anymore. And so you put it back there and it loses its appeal. And after a few years or however long the contract is that you have to sit out, well, you know, everybody's forgotten about you. So therefore, they take out the possibility that that asset could actually be a competitor anywhere else. And that's exactly what they're trying to do to her. Hence all the bad publicity that you're reading over and over and over again. So 12 years of her life gets no explanation. They strip her name from the shows that she built mornings with Maria, becomes mornings with Fox business. I'm sorry. Nobody's going to watch mornings with Fox business because nobody even knows I'm, look, I worked there, but I'm still don't know, nobody really knows what Fox business is. So can they know Fox news and they know CNBC, they know Bloomberg too, but Fox business, not, sorry. They knew Maria. They knew Maria. They knew that they watched Maria, Maria, Bartirama. Okay. So she was that show. And you know, that was that. They didn't say anything. They just got the new logos and the new lettering and it was like this clinical approach where they erased the name, they replaced the host with God knows who and they think they're moving forward, but they're not moving forward. Because guess what? That one was, by the way, she can go do anything she wants, anything she wants. I'd love to see her again selfishly. I'd love to see her over here doing her own thing, building her own empire, but I know Maria and she's been in this business a long time. And I suspect there's a part of her that wants to go into the plug and play right where you automatically have a guaranteed audience and you have the infrastructure and you get the hair and makeup team and you get the producers and the writers and everything, right? And she supplies the rest because she's a workaholic that never stops and she will get the guests and she will do the amazing interviews and she'll be on 60 minutes. So Fox will not have ended Maria Bardo Ramos career just like they didn't end mine or many others. This is like the old days. You know, they don't quite get. We're in a new world and they're not the only conservative player in town. Look, CBS is trying to, as I said, class up the joint and so they need Maria. This is perfect. So she's going to upgrade her platform big time over Fox business and it completely reverses the dynamics. So instead of making Maria look rejected, Maria looks recruited. Instead of Maria looking diminished, she looks validated. Instead of Maria, you know, looking like she's got nowhere to go, she's got a lot of places to go. I mean, I've talked with friends even behind the scenes and we're all like, okay, you know, who's going to get Maria? Everybody wants Maria. Okay. So Fox is looking pretty darn foolish. It can move on without her, I guess. I mean, it doesn't really make a lot of money on some of those Fox business shows. And so I guess it'll just continue functioning in anonymity without Maria because she was the biggest talent. I mean, Larry Caldo is a big talent too, but he's nothing like Maria. I mean, they just don't have anything. So we're seeing something tremendously valuable. The Fox lost that Fox failed to appreciate and what CBS is recognizing is an asset. Fox is retreating from. So Fox just looks once again, really stupid, really foolish. And I'll tell you, Maria has all the power. She has all the access. She's got the relationships, she's built over decades. So she can get the cabinet secretaries, the president and CEOs, billionaires, Wall Street power players. She can get them all on the phone in two seconds. And so just like that newsletter said, you're not going to throw away a Rolex like that. That doesn't belong to Fox. No, no, no. That's a Rolex that belongs to Maria. Those relationships exist because of Maria. She had 20 years at CNBC before she ever landed at Fox. OK, she became the first journalist to report live every day from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. And she arrived at Fox with her own reputation sources and identity and spent another 12 and a half years with them. I'm sure they may try and take her out, but they're not going to have much luck. They're not going to have much luck. I can tell you what's going on here, you know, sometimes. In television, we see that management, insecure management, can't handle big talent. Fox has called this a business decision. They actually said that they fired her as a business decision. This may have been their mistake that came out in Axios. They literally said, let me see if I can quote it for you. Here we go. Fox News media fired longtime host Maria Bardo Romo for business reasons as spokesperson confirmed to Axios on Thursday. Oops, see, Daisy. I'm surprised you guys actually said the word fired, right? Wasn't it supposed to be parts ways? I mean, I realize it's semantics, but in the court of law, that might actually matter. But I would just say that the circumstances certainly invite some questions because was management just tired of dealing with a superstar who possessed all her own direct relationships, including with the president of the United States. Did that make them uncomfortable that Maria could talk to the president, perhaps, and they couldn't, did that give her extraordinary access? And leverage inside the building that eventually created all kinds of resentment. I'm just asking, and then there's a salaries just making a lot of money reportedly probably more than any of her managers. And so you get this highly paid star who's been at the network for years and years. And at another network, years and years before that, well, you know, there's inevitably going to be executives examining that number and asking, well, gee, you know, what if we just replace her with someone cheaper? Her morning show on Fox, it may not generate a ton of revenues, so, you know, maybe we look elsewhere. Okay, I mean, I'm not really buying that. I just, I don't believe it was about the money because let's face it, she was just renewed in February. So if they renewed her in February, they were actually planning to commit a lot of money over the next two or three years to her. Unless they just wanted to renew her with the opportunity to fire her at some point and then try and prevent her from going on the air anywhere else. So like I said, they could take her and throw her in the back of the closet and say, she's mine. She's not going anywhere else and try and actually kick her so hard on the way out the door that she couldn't go someplace, which has me thinking, it just has me thinking, you know, this parting of ways is they're calling it officially. It may be a little bit jealousy, right? It happens a lot in this business. You get institutional jealousy and it can be a real problem because on the one hand, these producers want powerful stars until the stars become powerful enough. The management can no longer feel entirely in control. Maybe they couldn't feel in control of Maria. I mean, they love the access she had for interviews. They love the high profile for ratings. They love the star power because they can sell advertising against that. And then at the same time, it creates this tension where the star has relationships that exist independently of the network and the star has options and the star may increasingly understand that her viewers are watching for her. Not merely for the logo that says FBN, whatever that is, in the bottom of the screen. And that lays in gentlemen, can threaten, insecure, incompetent managers. In terms of Maria, was that it? I don't know, her lawyer again says she wasn't fired. They're just taking her off the shelf, right? They're removing her. But I can tell you, it proves that the institution, Fox News itself, it's not bigger than the individual. No, no, no, no, no, actually quite the opposite. The individual is what commands the respect. The money shall probably get its CBS in the viewers. So Maria's value is driven by Maria. And that's what happens with real talent. I mean, you can plug and play anybody you want and get them to read a prompter and there you go. But if you want talent, okay, I mean, the talent exists regardless of the network and that can happen, especially nowadays. I mean, just look at us right here at me and you, right? You've created the fourth most watched conservative YouTube channel. I couldn't believe this. Someone sent me this the other day and I just, I'm going to share it with you. First of all, our YouTube views, what are we at? 2.1 billion. I mean, that's crazy with 1.3 million subs. So somebody sent me this from a company called Brand Strategies and I was just blown away. So here on the Trish Regan channel, we were just two spots behind, not Fox Business, but we were two spots behind Fox News in terms of views. I mean, I'm insane, isn't that right? You think 1,000 people over there and they're producing 1,000 to clips every single day. And they have a whole operation and they get like 20 million subs, maybe more. I don't know. We got 1.3 million. Please subscribe if you're just joining us for the first time. But anyway, they've got all these subs and here we are. This little channel doing 60 to 100, I've seen numbers as high as 200 million views a month, putting us, me, in direct competition with the big Kahuna Fox. So you get it? You get it? You get it. Talent succeeds. Okay, talent. As my dad used to tell me as a little girl, cream always rises to the top. Remember that. Like in your own life. If you are determined and you're good, like you will succeed against all odds. And I actually think this new economy is creating new and better and greater opportunities for everyone. You know, personally, I do wish Maria would just go out on her own because I know how liberating it is. I know how exciting it is. I know how much fun it is. You know, granted, you get to deal with some tiki-taki stuff, right? You know, like is the audio working today? And if you don't have a tech team around, you know, you're it. So at CVS, she'll have a lot of infrastructure around her. And I think that that would be very good. And I'm telling you she's going to kill it. She is exactly what that network needs. And they can build an entire business platform and line around her. So in terms of prestige and power and access and perception, CVS would be taking someone that Fox discarded and maybe presenting her, of course, as she is a serious consequential journalist. Again, which she is. She'd be on one of the legendary news programs, 60 minutes. And she would have greater resources than she ever had at Fox Business. And an enormous national platform, as well as the ability to pursue major interviews and investigations. So I'll just tell you this. Fox has left scrambling to find hosts for three different programs that she anchored because, you know, the woman's unstoppable. So she's got three shows that she leaves and they got no one for. And this is why I'm telling you, if this all happens the way I think it's going to happen, this is going to be humiliating for Fox. I mean, they hate this. They thought they could cut her legs out from under her and try to make her irrelevant Oh, while she emerges, triumphant. So while, you know, they think they have the power. I think what this is really shown is that Maria has the power, whether she goes to CVS, whether she goes to build her own podcast empire, whatever she does. As long as she stays active, I am telling you guys, Maria Bartoromo has the power and the power was hers all along. Go get him. Maria, I am behind you a thousand percent. Every step of the way. Okay. We have a lot more to talk about today, including Iran, including Canada. But first, a quick word from one of our great sponsors. We love our sponsors because they helped to make all of this possible indeed. You know what? It's still a business after all. And I like to look good. That's why I like to take lean everybody's talking about weight loss injections because apparently the results can be quite dramatic. 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Now we have the blockade and because of the blockade. oil is not getting out, so there's probably only about 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil left, the China hasn't bought. So that will run out soon and there will be no problem with China buying because they have no product. So the blockade is, the blockade's working. It's working like nothing we've ever seen and the combination, you know, everyone says, oh, sanctions don't work. I can tell you blockade and sanctions are one of the most powerful, one, two punches in the history of economic isolation. - No, and he ought to know, right? This is a smart guy. This is a guy that basically took down the bank of England, okay? So trust me, he knows. So let me just back up for a second and explain a little bit about what he means because, you know, obviously Iran still has more than 30 million barrels of oil underground. The problem is for them and this is what the best I know it's referring to is that these are the final barrels of oil that Iran has managed to get out of Iran. So right before we put the American naval blockade in, right? Back in mid-July, they got all of this oil out. I think all in it was somewhere around 90 million barrels that they got out and so that was all again. Like I said, before the blockade zone went in and so they've been keeping it as a reserve, right? To store and to sell to Asia, primarily China. So they're sitting on 90 million barrels. They have now gotten down to 30. So they sold 60 of them. They only got 30 left. Think about that. So they're pumping and pumping and pumping and pumping back in Iran, right? And the car guidelines getting filled up. They got all this stockpile there and they can't get any of this stuff out. They can't sell it. They still have that 30 million sitting, you know, I'm gonna just say offshore, right? Hanging out outside the blockade. And that's what they're selling to China. But that's it, okay? The U.S. Navy is absolutely preventing any new Iranian shipments from getting out. And here's some more good news, okay? Like I said, this isn't because China has nearly exhausted that offshore inventory. There is a ship tracking firm that watches this and they say there's only 29 to 30 million barrels that remain. You heard Besson talk about that. And once those tankers, once those tankers are empty, Iran has nothing left. Nothing left. They're producing oil, but all they're doing is storing it. And so I'm gonna tell you one thing, those storage tanks in Iran, they're gonna be overflowing sooner rather than later. Okay, and no Iranian crew has crossed the reinstated American blockade since mid July. So Iran's old oil is running out, right? They got 30 million barrels, that's it. And it's new oil cannot access or make it to market. So boom, this is what we call economic planning. This is an economic vice that is tightening right now around the regime. All Iran's got is oil. Remember that oil exports are the only thing they have. This is the primary source of foreign currency. Oil money is what helps Tehran pay for its imports, its military, its weapons, its finances, its terrorist proxies, right? Now that they oil, they can't finance any of that. They get nothing. Iran's a mess, you get the currency, the reality's plunging, inflation's surging. I mean, you get prices up 288 to 400%. We've been talking about this, the foreign revenues dry enough because we've kind of made it clear. It's us or them and who do you want to do business with? Us or them? I think the answer is pretty obvious. So as this economic pressure intensifies Tehran is lobbying and increasing their chaotic threats at international shipping, they get a new one out today. The newest out of Iran has now the, it intends to create a new restricted zone, extending outside the straight of Hormuz, not merely inside the straight, outside the straight. Yeah, the Iranian security chief is saying this proposed zone is going to mean that they're basically going to move a little outside the straight of Hormuz and prevent any ships from even being near the straight of Hormuz. I'm going to tell you these people are high. They're just totally high. So here's our blockade, okay? You see a little bit in orange. They're the US blockade and the red line is all, those are all the ports that they've got in Iran. And so you want to get all that oil, which they can't now out because that US blockade in orange is blocking the way. And so now, these crazy dudes, they somehow think that they are going to expand, they're going to expand their own, whatever they want to call it. I guess their own little blockade, right, right, through the Persian Gulf. And they're saying now, this is the latest and greatest, okay? Any ship entering this zone, I guess we could call it sort of, do you see the green zone on there? Because that's actually the Oman route that we've been actually getting some traffic through there. Iran now says any ship entering that zone, like in the very beginning of the zone, could be placed on what they call their sanctions list. Good luck, guys, you got sanctions now too. Oh, more power to you, you know, it's kind of quaint. It's kind of cute, right, just for kicks. Again, take a look at this map here. So you get the straight-ahormous, you get all the shipping quarters that you're looking at. Hopefully you can see this. I'm actually going to make it bigger on my screen. So I can see it as well. You get the Persian Gulf, you get the narrow straight-ahormous. And over there to the east, you've got the Gulf of Oman ships travel through Hormuz in both directions there. So tankers carrying oil out of the Persian Gulf travel east through the strait and into the Gulf of Oman. Ships entering the Persian Gulf come from the Gulf of Oman. They travel west through the strait. And then they continue onto ports in Saudi Arabia, as well as ports in the UAE, the United Arab Emirates. You know, we just did a deal with them for a credit swap facility. There are buddies now, Qatar, Kuwait, and elsewhere. So there's orange corridor that you're looking up at the top of there. That orange corridor along the northern side is the route designated by Iran. And the green corridor closer to Oman, that's one that we've been using. And we've coordinated to have some vessels go through in order to basically avoid the Iranians. But now Iran is starting to push its claimed authority beyond the strait. They want to take over the Middle East, the whole Middle East. We've said this before. They've got big aspirations for such a little teeny country with no money. And right now, no oil. Iran says its new restricted zone would begin around the American blockade line out there. Again, if you look at the American blockade, let's go back and see that. You see where that blockade. They want to begin on the other side. And they want to extend toward Hormuz and continue into the Persian Gulf. The regime is not released a precise map of the proposed zone yet. But this is what they're talking about. I'm telling you, the application is clear. Iran wants to identify and threaten vessels approaching Hormuz before they ever even get into the strait. If those ships intend to use a route that Tehran has not approved, so Iran is basically saying, use our corridor, submit to our rules. Or we may actually say your non-compliant long before you even reach the strait of Hormuz to begin with. Do you understand how ridiculous that is? It's like they're trying to expand their power. They can't even manage their own like deal there, right? How are they going to expand their power beyond this? They're threatening these ships with fines and detention, confiscation, military, harassment, and into-- I'm just like, good luck, guys. Good luck. Good luck with that. I mean, honestly, no one said they were smart, right? Nobody said they were smart. But declaring control over this enormous stretch of water is one thing actually enforcing it is entirely another. Because you get the US Navy there, OK? And we know Iran's conventional Navy power has been decimated. It's remaining little boats. They may be able to harass, OK, don't get me wrong. They can cause trouble. They may be able to swarm or harass an isolated commercial vessel. But these tiny speedboats cannot reliably patrol and control a vast maritime zone against American warships and American protected tankers, right? So the broader Iran goes in this desire to rule the world effectively, or at least their entire ocean, the broader they make it. The harder it's going to be for them to do. I mean, I don't think they can. I really don't. They can intimidate, they can frighten, they can upset insurers and shipping companies who may say, like, who is not worth it? But can they patrol it? No. They're just trying to make life difficult. They are. And they're trying to make life difficult for Donald Trump and the administration and for the oil markets. And so I would just say this is a threat. And they're desperately searching for leverage. Iran is claiming authority over a larger expanse of water when they can't even manage the little one they got, right? So what is that about? I mean, this is why what this administration is doing is really important in all seriousness. We can laugh about it. But I'm telling you, this administration is no longer treating economic policy like some kind of foreign or separate thing. It is very much entwined with national security, right? And with military power. And it's something that I believe in. And I've always said, because these things kind of go hand in hand, I want you to listen, again, to Treasury Secretary Besan on this. Problem with past administrations that we have separated economic security from national security. So I came into office saying economic security is national security. National security is economic security. And under the president's leadership, a group of us are running as hard as we can over the next few years to take away the any leverage that our adversaries might have against us. Boom. Right? I mean, that's the doctrine. And Iran is the clearest real-world test. The U.S. Navy closes Iran's physical exit with the blockade, the Treasury Department. They come along and they close off the financial escape routes with sanctions. The military prevents around from replenishing. It's rapidly dwindling offshore oil inventory and then you get Treasury out there targeting the banks and the front companies in the intermediaries and the shipping firms and the shadow fleet tankers. I've told you all about those. Remember, I was in Ireland, not this past summer, but the summer before and there were all kinds of shadow fleets right off where the coast of where I was. I mean, it's got to stop and this is what Besson is doing, so you target all that stuff. Everything they are using to convert their oil into money is fair game. We got on top of all that secondary sanctions, forcing foreign companies to make a choice. Hey, hey, hey, you do business with us or you do business with them. You want to maintain access to the American financial system. You better get your act together and get yourself out of any kind of business dealings you may have with Iran. And so for most countries, they don't have a choice. Like you're working with us or you're working with Iran. Good luck getting paid. I mean, this is why Besson and the Treasury Department have become so critical and so important right now and so central to this administration's national security strategy. The U.S. does not need to destroy every Iranian oil field to exert tremendous pressure on the regime. Iran can possess hundreds of billions of barrels underground. But guess what? Da-da-da. It's not going to be able to move it out of its ports. It's not going to be able to ensure the tankers. It's not going to be able to process the payments and it cannot find intermediaries willing to risk the wrath of the American Treasury Department and American sanctions. So oil can no longer fund this rogue regime. The Navy closes the door and Treasury locks it. That's what you need to think about. This is what you call real economic power, being used in direct support of national security. And Iran is only one part of the administration's larger economic security strategy because you have only to look at the country that has been keeping oils, Iran's oil trade alive. And that would be America's most powerful strategic competitor. You know who I'm talking about. Good old China. Yeah, China. Besson is saying the U.S. and its allies must begin derisking. That means diversifying away from Beijing. I want you to listen. We don't want to decubble from China, but we need to de-risk. We've got to de-risk. So we're bringing semiconductors back here because there's a big choke point there that may -- Yeah. So the semiconductors are coming back. And Canada. Are you getting the message? Canada. You can't work with China if you're going to work with us. I realize you think you can have your cake and eat it too, but you know that's not how it's going down. It's important what he just said, because it does bring us directly into Canada. Canada is getting itself a good old-fashioned trade war. And Karni's going to be out of a job. I'm telling you, they're not going to like this. This is going to be really bad for the Canadian economy because while the Trump administration is attempting to reduce America's strategic dependence on China, you get Canada moving in precise, so the opposite direction. Auto is out there co-zying up to Beijing. What the heck? And they're slapping us with tariffs of to 50 percent. And like 27.6 billion dollars worth of goods. I mean, think about how backwards that is. Think about how insane that is. Think about how stupid that is. I mean, if you thought that Trudeau wasn't playing with a full deck, I got news for you. Meet Mark Karni. I don't believe in escalating the conflict. That's not constructive. But our tariffs are necessary to protect our workers, protect our companies and our communities. We can't let American goods into Canada tear-- Oh, you thought all about protection, really? I'm just going to call your bluff, buddy, because we buy like 16 times as much from Canada. Do I have a graphic on this? I've showed you this before. I've got to show it to you again. We buy 16 times as much stuff from Canada, then China does. Okay. And then when you look at the rest of the world, the entire rest of the world, hey, guess what? We buy 2.3 times as much stuff than the rest of the world, okay? So what does this say? It says that we are their biggest customer. And so for some reason, Karni thinks it's cool to just, you know what, all over his biggest customer. Here's the chart. Look at that. This is what-- this is Canada's top export markets, okay? $403.7 billion, I translated it from the loony into dollars. Wow. I mean, the only reason the UK is even on this chart here is because the UK was buying a lot of gold last year, but they're normally not even there. You get China at $24.6 billion. We're at $400 and nearly-- let's just call it $404 billion. I mean, are you guys crazy? I think they're crazy. I think they're literally absolutely-- it's not they. It's not they. And you know what? We have a lot of Canadians that watch this show. And I've said before, I love Canada. My husband grew up in Lockport, New York. And Lockport, New York is right by Lake America and is right by-- it's right by Toronto. And so he knows all kinds of Canadian trivia. He used to watch Canadian TV and when I first met him, we went to Tim Hortons and I was like, I realize I'm not in Canada, but you know, this Tim Hortons stuff is pretty good. Anyway, I grew up near Montreal because I was in New Hampshire and so we had a lot of people come down from Montreal. I love Canada. So don't get me wrong, but I'm just saying Canada, you got kind of a bad dude leading the way here because Karni doesn't know his-- asked for mezelvo as my aunt used to say in Canada, you need us, okay? I'm sorry. Those are the numbers. You really, really need us and this is going to be a disaster of epic proportions because you're not going to have any money coming in. I mean, gosh, Pierre Polly Averre, he's the head of the Canadian Conservative movement. He's calling Karni out pretty hard listening to this. The Canadian people deserve the facts and a plan. We need to have both of those things from the Prime Minister and so far we have had neither. We're asking for the Prime Minister to be straight up. We know it's not easy to negotiate with the U.S. President, but the best way to keep everyone united in rowing the same direction is to be upfront about the costs, the decisions, and the plan going forward. First, Canadians deserve to see the deal that the Prime Minister had apparently accepted with President Trump, that he pushed the premiers to accept, that he pushed his caucus to accept before then rejecting it. There must have been a written record of that deal, and there's no reason not to share it with Canadians. There would be no diplomatic. You know, we've all been wondering, we're like, what the heck went wrong, right? It had something to do with China and we're going to get into that, had to do with cars and chips in China, but they had a deal. And so like, I don't know, Karni, are you becoming like, you know, part Iranian or something, you have a deal and then you like, keep moving the ball because the deal was done. The deal was done. We weren't going to have this trade war and then at the 11th hour, because he got to be in his bonnet about the China stuff. It all collapsed and he's going to ultimately cost his people in his country so much more, again, looking at those numbers, $403.7 billion, that's what we import, okay? They import from us $258 billion, that's not a big deal. Like our economy is a gazillion times bigger than theirs, okay? That's a big deal for them to have that kind of financial hit and they're going to take it because they get a lousy leader. You know, this is, I'm going to point out not just a dispute over tariffs, really. It is a potentially catastrophic, strategic miscalculation. It is going to haunt Karni's political career and reputation forever, all right? Karni is trying to say he couldn't come to the U.S. He doesn't want getting taken over by the U.S., like I news for you, we're basically taking you over anyway, right? Just look at that chart, Canada, is slapping 50% tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of American goods. And what are we doing? The same thing, but this story, I'm telling you, it's about more than tariffs, it's about more than a trade war. This is about the future of the entire Western hemisphere. Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are attempting to rebuild North America as a secure and largely self-sufficient economic fortress, capable of competing with China without depending on Chinese factories, Chinese technology or Chinese control supply change. You just heard Besson. We're not going to completely decouple from China, but we sure as heck are trying to diversify away from it. If we're going to build this economic fortress, we need Canada on our side. We got consumers. They've got vast natural resources. I mean, if we want to explain. this thing and that's exactly what we're doing right now with this administration you got Mexico with lots of manufacturing capacity and lots of natural resources as well so together these three countries potentially have nearly everything necessary to compete with China we get the energy we get the food we get the minerals we get the factories we get the people we get the technology we get the capital and so if you think about the larger mega vision here and you got to think about this it's about bringing manufacturing home it's about securing these supply chains and controlling these critical minerals and protecting our borders and preventing China from gaining an economic or strategic foothold in our own backyard but just as Washington's attempting to consolidate our whole North America economic block something that by the way I wrote on I told you guys in an international relations class senior year in college it was a big paper and my professor thought I was nuts I think I got nay because I was back in the day when you could have nutty ideas they thought they were nutty ideas I thought it made sense and hey it's all coming to fruition and he he said well gee this is a little path you can and ask and a little out there but very very well supported you know me my arguments always are and I got nay anyway I have been a big believer in this for some time I have felt very strongly that we need to basically consolidate this hemisphere lock it up so that you don't have China coming in and so drove me nuts about Venezuela for goodness sakes why were the Chinese hanging around down there in the Russians for that matter and the Iranians well they're all gone bye bye adios adios and me goes okay they're all gone we got them out of Panama too we're we're inch by inch row by row we are getting this done okay so prime minister mark carney now is trying to reduce Canada's dependence on us on the United States to build commercial relationships elsewhere well where do you think those elsewhere relationships would be ladies and gentlemen China which is why these Canadian tariffs are so much bigger a deal than just a trade war over cheese and steel and appliances and farm equipment I mean don't get me wrong that stuff is important but this is a battle okay this is a battle over whether Canada remains firmly inside an American led north American economic system you think it would want to or whether attempts to hedge its bets by moving closer to Beijing succeed Canada may be pushing its luck I mean really may be pushing its like you had carney traveling over Beijing earlier this year you know you did this meeting with the Canadian prime minister or rather the first meeting I should you did this meeting with the Chinese Xi Jinping you know to to to celebrate how they could be so together together in a new strategic partnership and I I should point out like nothing like that have been done in quite some time because I think it was 2017 so almost 10 years that we ever saw anything like that so that was kind of you know a tip off number one and then under that agreement that he signed in China Canada is allowed up to 49,000 electric vehicles from China they can bring those into their market at a tariff rate of just 6.1 percent that's down from the 100 percent tariff that Canada used to have on Chinese goods like that and in return China agreed to dramatically reduce tariffs on Canadian oil and remove some of the suspended barriers that they had on Canadian agriculture products I think canola was part of it so carney presented this as some kind of win for Canadian farmers and consumers but if you're us right you're the Trump administration what are you thinking that is not a win that is not a win for Canada that is not a win for us Canada don't be so freaking naive okay those Chinese electric vehicles those are not just inexpensive cars I mean Washington looks at that and they say China subsidy you know subsidized EV industry is basically a direct threat to North American manufacturing and potentially a cyber security and national security concern because it's not the fear that just Canadians are going to buy Chinese cars the fear is that Canada could gradually become an entry point for Chinese capital Chinese technology Chinese controlled supply chains directly alongside the United States so what happens if Chinese companies establish manufacturing operations inside Canada what happens if they begin embedding themselves in the Canadian automobile industry battery production critical mineral processing ports telecommunications infrastructure that's not good right Canada's going to call that woo diversification well Washington's like no no no no no that's basically China establishing an economic beachhead right inside North America that's not going to happen and so the Trump administration is being very clear they have published national security strategies that leave very little ambiguity about the broader goal here they're warning that non-western hemisphere competitors have made dangerous economic and strategic inroads in the Americas and it's got to stop so karni you're not going to get away with this like we're not going to be okay I mean unless you get a new president a new treasury secretary and a new the new secretary of state I mean Marco's not okay with it no one's okay with it magus foreign policy means you know we we need to take this mon road doctrine pretty seriously what is the mon road doctrine it says this is our hemisphere that's why we joke it's the doner of doctrine this is our hemisphere and China's not going to get into our hemisphere China's not going to get control of our ports our minerals our energy infrastructure supply chains I mean this is why if you think about it the Trump administration was so focused remember when they first came in on the Panama canal and it's why the administration cares about Greenland it's why the administration cares so much about the Arctic this administration wants manufacturing moved from China to the United States okay we want all the manufacturing here and if we can't have it here we want it in Mexico and Canada and in the friendly territory right here in the western hemisphere this is the western hemisphere okay take a look at that this is what we need to control because it's important to the economic survival of all of these countries so Canada is not simply just another overseas trading partner Canada shares a 5500 mile border right with the US of A and so we share power grids and waterways and defense arrangements and automobile factories and supply chains and and Canada has enormous deposits of oil and uranium and critical minerals all this stuff and as the Arctic becomes more important you know it's becoming more important every single day Canada occupies some of the most strategically valuable territory on earth so you think we're gonna like say hey China go for it no way Jose Canada is too important to economically integrated with our country in the western hemisphere so a Canada moving strategically towards China what does that do it creates vulnerability what did you just hear best and say no no no we need to de-risk when it comes to China and this is why Karni is making a fatal miscalculation Canada or Karni thinks it can use China as leverage against the United States but those numbers suggest you know Canada has no ability to replace the American market as I told you 404 billion dollars worth of goods I mean you know you're smoking something up there Karni because we do owe you I'm sorry like I don't mean to be blunt and I'm sorry to my Canadian friends because I really love Canada but you guys need a new guy in charge fast we need to work together not against each other we don't need to invite China in to become a headache and a problem for all of us can't he see that can't he see that I I'm amazed it you know maybe he can and it maybe it's just political because they get so much TDS up there in Canada not in Alberta but in a lot of Canada there's so much TDS that he just figures hey you know why not we're just gonna we're gonna go for it and this is my political ticket I'll just be like the next Rosie O'Donnell and I'll just complain about Trump all day long and that will somehow get me to where I want to be I don't think it will Karni okay I really don't I think the circus has got to end because this is you know you got to put your big boy big boy pants on and think like a big boy China is actually dangerous okay so you need to use some caution you don't want the Chinese electric vehicles you don't want them retaliating against you in the future I mean heck I'd rather be dealing with Donald Trump any day of the week than China it is politically sensitive it is militarily sensitive it is economically sensitive to be doing a big amount of trade with them so again it's us for them okay like pretty simple you're already depending on us you want to exchange that for country that I'm sorry what are they by 24.6 they don't want to buy your stuff okay because they're too obsessed with their trade deficits right like maybe we should have been for a while they're not gonna buy your stuff so good luck all right good luck buddy boy it is a battle it's a battle for the future of this hemisphere it is a battle to protect this hemisphere against China this is very You've got to understand this. It's not as simple as people think. And people say, "Oh, you know, he's crazy. Trump is crazy." Well, he's crazy. Why didn't anybody ever think about this stuff beforehand? Why was I like, I laughed at for my paper. How many of those in the year 2000? So 26 years ago, I was writing on this. We need to show up our entire hemisphere. I mean, this is not a joke, guys, okay? Like the world is changing and it's changing fast. And AI is going to have a big effect on things. We want to own AI. We want to own all the minerals we can. We want to own all the energy sources we can. We want to own all the food sources we can. And we don't want China in the hemisphere, okay? We can do a little bit of trade with them. But that's it. D-risk, diversify. That's the name of the game. Kind of get with the program, would you? Please remember to subscribe. Ooh, we got lots more to talk about today. 76 research, have you guys gone there? This is my company. 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He's just pointing out that he wants Canada, and that he wants Greenland, and that he wants Mexico, and he wants Central America. I mean, he's being a realist here. And this is not going over so well if you would with some people in Iceland or in Greenland, or in Denmark, which controls Greenland. So Donald Trump's interesting Greenland, has been portrayed by his critics as a form of expansionism. Maybe it is. Maybe it is. You know, throw in Iceland, too, right? Because it's right up there, kind of an important place in the Arctic. Look at that nice little map. So yeah, he likes it. He wants it all. He wants it all. He wants it all. The folks in Iceland did not appreciate this. Here's a story in today's financial times. Iceland summons U.S. ambassador over Trump's stars and strives math. Nobody's going to sense a humor. Maybe it's the cold weather that makes them so, so, ornary. Iceland is not happy. So he puts this new map up. And Iceland completely freaks out. And now they're summoning the U.S. ambassador to read the Riot Act to the U.S. Ambassador, Patriot Oasis, putting this one out on X, just in. Iceland's government summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Trump posted a map with the American flag draped all over Iceland, Greenland, and Canada. The foreign minister, oh gosh, I can't even try to say her name. I can't. Katrin Gunashtodiet. Oh, dear, that was, forgive me. Forgive me to all our friends in Iceland, because I really butchered that one. Anyway, this is easier. The ambassador from the U.S., his name is Billy. Billy Long, he's been joking about it. Anyways, we've been joking about it being the 52nd state. I guess 51 would be Canada and 52 would be Iceland. Or maybe 51 would be Greenland. I don't know. We're going to have 55 before it's all said and done. Iceland, this person writes on X. Iceland can just cry harder. Cry some more. Anyway, you see her. She's the foreign minister there. And this is Big Deal. Iceland has summoned the U.S. ambassador, Billy, over a social media post by Donald Trump showing a U.S. flag covering the country, along with Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and other nations, calling it an insult and a bad joke. Well, at least they knew it was a joke. Well, sort of. Maybe it's not entirely a joke. Maybe that's why they're upset. The U.S. president posted on his true social platform on Monday, the Financial Times writes a map of all the countries from Panama in the South to Canada and the North and Iceland and the East, covered by the stars and stripes. And the woman whose name I cannot pronounce, who is the prime minister, Kistren. We're going to go with that Kistren. She said on Tuesday, today that the map was ridiculous. Apparently, she went on to Icelandic TV. And she said, and I'm going to quote, it is an insult to Icelanders, Canadians, and Greenlanders. There is nothing funny or normal about poking fun at the sovereignty of states. Trump's deliberately provocative approach, they write, particularly towards Greenland, Canada, Panama, and Iceland. And she began the second term has rattled several countries. It has been accompanied by a security strategy known as the hemispheric defense focused on U.S. interest in the Western hemisphere. Yeah, I think it's a brilliant strategy again, but I charted it all out 26 years ago. It's like it's all coming true. I love it. Iceland brought forward plans for a referendum on whether to restart negotiations to join the EU this summer. In part, because of Trump's saber rattling, which has included several instances of him appearing to confuse Greenland with Iceland. Oh, it could happen to any of us. In fact, when I was writing all my little, I write all my lower thirds. That's what we call them. And I put all the elements in. And I found myself getting a little confused by the Iceland versus Greenland thing. You know, it can happen to the best of us. Anyway, so they make fun of them for that. And now the Icelanders voted against restarting EU talks. We talked about that the other day. They said they're not going to have any talks to join the EU, and that you see gives Donald Trump once again, a little bit of wiggle room. A little bit of wiggle room to say, hey, you know, you're not even going to be in the EU. So come join us over here, right? You know, why not? They can't take a joke. It must be the cold weather. You know who else can't take a joke? Denmark, oh gosh, do I know that? Personally, I know that because Denmark and me, we've kind of had our thing. They definitely don't take a joke very well and Denmark at all. And they don't appreciate this. The president keeps saying it over and over and over and over again. Listen. We need Greenland very importantly for international security. We have to have Greenland. It's not a question of, do you think we can do without it? We can't. If you look at Greenland right now, if you look at the waterways, you have Chinese and Russian ships all over the place. And we're not going to be able to do that. We're not relying on Denmark or anybody else to take care of that situation. Nope. Hello, Greenland, we're coming for you. This is something he put out back in May. I thought this was like one of the funniest posts ever. So he's like looking down, pretty little place, right? Pretty, pretty little place. I like that. You know, maybe we could be helpful for you, Greenland. Maybe we could help defend you and Denmark, of course, is furious. They're furious about this latest and greatest. They saw that one. They've seen his comments. They saw his comments at Davos. They've seen his repeated comments there in the Oval Office. He even made some comments recently in July while at Turkey, right? They had the big NATO shindig and he was in Turkey. He made more comments. But this is the one that is the latest and greatest to really take off Denmark. Denmark is furious. So furious that they've got their team out there. This is the Danish foreign minister, Lars Lokert Rasmussen. He says, and I quote, it's disturbing in him anyways completely inappropriate. Well, that's kind of what makes it funny, right? It's obviously a sign that the US President still harbors some kind of maximalist vision in his own mind. We need to rein that in. There you go again, everybody wants to rein them in. They think that he is, I don't know what they think. They've said all kinds of things. They get some point. It just kind of falls on deaf ears after a while, right? You kind of just get exhausted by all the nonsense. Thank you for the generosity. We've had a lot of super stickers and super fans. I'm going to get to some of your comments there at the end. The prime minister met a Fredriksson, again, forgive me, says, I hope no one is in any doubt about that, either in the United States or the rest of the world. So she's saying, this is supposed to be a joke, nobody wants to join the US. She said, nobody wants to join. And I hope nobody is in doubt of that. And I hope you understand that in the US and in Greenland. Well, in the meantime, we're very busy because we've been locking down some bases and we need to, right? Because this is actually, again, when I talk about this vision of the Western hemisphere, Greenland is actually part of that. Greenland is very much part of that. And so the president articulated, I thought beautifully, back at Davos, this winter, listen. I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark, tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory. And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States, where great power, much greater than people even understand. [BLANK_AUDIO] found that out two weeks ago and then as well. We saw this in World War II. When Denmark fell to Germany, they have to just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled. We did it, we felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory and hold it we did at great cost and expense. They didn't have a chance of getting on it and they tried. Denmark knows that. We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. We were fighting to save it for Denmark. Big, beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land, it's a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. So we did it for ourselves also. And then after the war, which we won, we won it big without us. Right now you'd all be speaking German and little Japanese, perhaps. After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But how ungrateful are they now? So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before, because of missiles, because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can't even talk about. Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory. The sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia, and China. It's exactly where it is right smack in the middle. Whoa. He's good. He gets it. He gets it. So Greenland has been portrayed by his critics as something that is completely sovereign to Denmark. And therefore, any talk of expanding or any expansionism by us is seen, yes, as a joke. It is seen as political theater. But I think he kind of articulated some of the reasons there pretty darn well. And he said repeatedly. We've been through a lot of the sound. You get the draft, right, that we need Greenland. And I get it, a startling statement given that it is an autonomous region that is run by Denmark. But behind that provocative language, I'm telling you, is a very serious and very strategic doctrine, very serious and very strategic. Because the US is attempting to secure the Western hemisphere before China and Russia can establish permanent economic and military positions within it. And Greenland is actually perhaps one of the most strategically important pieces of this Arctic, that great, all big piece of ice, right? That piece of ice is actually pretty darn critical. I mean, you look at this location, right? You look at that location. Greenland sits-- and this is-- I realize Iceland's next order. But Greenland is a big chunk of ice. And it sits right between North America and Europe. It's overlooking the North Atlantic approaches that connect the US with its NATO allies. And it also lies beneath the potential flight pass for missiles, OK? Traveling from Russia towards the continental US. Yeah, that's why we care. OK, that's why America already operates the Petuvic space space in Northwestern Greenland. It was formerly known as the full air space. And it supports missile warning and missile defense and space surveillance. And Greenland is not some remote island out there with some kind of theoretical importance. It's really and truly important to America's defense architecture. So the question for Washington is whether Denmark has the resources and the military capacity to secure this enormous and very important territory over the long time. And we know it doesn't, right? It doesn't. It just doesn't. OK, you know, like that's the joke. They're going to send like three guys over. And can they prevent whether the US is prepared to entrust such a strategic ground to political decisions being made by Europe? And the answer to that is no. OK, like we need some strategic control over that very important piece of ice because it is critical to the number one economy in the world, all right? Us. And this is not just about military defense. Obviously, military defense is a big part of this. But Greenland is believed to possess some really substantial deposits of rare Earth minerals, right? That matters. And other critical minerals, things that we need in weapon systems, in semiconductors, in batteries, in all kinds of advanced manufacturing, and China currently dominates the processing of the many of those materials. That's concerning. And so this is where Treasury Secretary Scott Besen's explanation comes in once again. What did he tell us? He told us that strategic decisions regarding national security, right? And economic security, they go hand in hand. This is really important because I don't think anybody else was thinking about things like this. So I came into office saying economic security is national security, national security is economic security. So it's kind of key to understanding this entire MAGA strategy, right? You've got to understand that this is not just a bunch of community organizers, a la Barack Obama, looking to get more votes, OK? Granted, you know, we want more votes. But we're talking about something bigger here. We're talking about the future of this nation for generations to come. And that's a lot different, I think, than previous teams, most especially-- I mean, the Biden team is obviously a joke in so many ways. But, you know, you even think about what Barack Obama was trying to achieve, which, you know, given where we are at the wrong now, I really question. But economic security is front and center on this team's agenda. National security and economic security, those are the two things they care about. And they're so intertwined. And this is where, you know, the minerals come in, right? That's why they matter. This is why ports matter. Who's operating your ports matters? That's why you couldn't have the Chinese down in Panama operating all those ports. This is why who controls your energy and your technology and your supply chains, all of this, matters in the modern world of country. Does not need to invade your territory to gain strategic power, right? All it has to do is acquire the minds and finance the infrastructure and supply the telecommunications equipment. That's why what Spain was doing with Huawei and 5G was so bad. It was so bad because now China's get that in-road, including into NATO, because Spain is part of NATO, into the telecommunications space. You cannot allow your industries to be dependent on China and its factories. And this is how China has expanded its influence around the world. The Trump administration, they are trying to stop it, and they are certainly trying to guard our Western hemisphere. So, look, as Arctic conditions change and believe me, they will, Greenland's importance, it's only going to increase. You're going to have new shipping routes, OK? New shipping routes that are going to be really, really important. Travel between Asia, Europe, North America, Russia has invested heavily in these Arctic military bases in northern shipping infrastructure. China, despite having no Arctic coastline, has declared itself a near Arctic state and is actively pursuing a role in the region. And from Washington perspective, allowing China and Russia to establish strategic influence in Greenland would create a vulnerability directly on America's northern approach so you can't have it, you can't allow it. And this is where, again, I like to go back to the Panama Canal. This is where it all comes together, OK? When you think about Canada, and what's going on there, and you think about the Panama Canal, and what's going on there, and you think about Greenland, these are not unrelated. These are not Trump obsessions. I realize, you know, it's funny when he puts stuff out like this. Do we have it still? Yes, OK. I realize, I realize, you know, it's funny. But it's more than that, OK? It's not just some little pet project. These are critical points, all in the same strategic map. The Panama Canal controls one of the hemisphere's most important commercial gateways. Canada possesses enormous, enormous reserves of energy, and shares America's northern frontier. Greenland is anchoring the northeast or an approach to North America, providing all that access into the Arctic. So together, they form the geographic foundation of a secure Western hemisphere. This is what we need. This is effectively a modernized Monroe doctrine for an age in which foreign influence is exercised through supply chains, important minerals, and technology, not through armies. And so you've got to think to the future, American interest in Greenland, it's critical. We've always wanted Greenland, let's face it, right? People knew way back when back in 1946, the Truman administration didn't they offer Denmark something like a hundred million in gold to purchase the island and American strategists knew even back then that Greenland's importance was going to be significant back in the beginning of the Cold War. They knew they knew they knew. Trump is reviving that logic for a new era of greater American competition. And so none of this means that, you know, America can just take Greenland, I get it. I know a lot of people would like to, I get it, you can't just go and take it, okay? Greenland is self governing and Greenlanders have repeatedly insisted that their future must be determined by their own people. I mean, maybe you could make it worth their while, there's not that many people up there. I'm thinking of big payout, okay? It's real estate, baby. Well, any legitimate change in status would require their consent, of course, and would require negotiations with Denmark and the Danes can be tough. I'm telling you, they just can be. But the controversy surrounding Trump's delivery should not obscure the strategy. Who controls Greenland's defense resources and position is going to exercise enormous influence over the future security of North America? Trump's map was deliberately provocative. You know that. I know that. That makes an entertaining, right? But his message at Davos was unmistakable. And Besson explained the doctrine beneath it this weekend in that interview I showed you. America can no longer separate its economic interests from its national security. And that is why Trump believes the United States needs Greenland. And I agree. What do you think? Let me know. All of them. I really do. Please make sure if you haven't subscribed that you do that for me. I'm just looking at some of your comments. We had some generosity. Thank you, Don, for the super chat. And thank you, Thomas. I think I sent you a note earlier. Appreciate it. But curious to see what you guys think. I mean, David Lorenzo. Don't forget Cuba. I hear you. And Cuba doesn't have the minerals or the natural resources. But Cuba has the strategic location, right? And we've got to rid ourselves of some of the foreign influence in China's big down in Cuba. OK? We've got to get rid of that. We've got to shore this whole thing up. It gets right back. I wish I could find this paper, darn it. I really wish. I went to Columbia University, back when Columbia University was actually not what it is today. I won't pick on them too heavily, but not what it is today. And the international relations department was quite good back then. And I remember working on this paper. And I've even come back to try and look at my whole Columbia email and stuff. I can't find it. I really wish I could, because my whole vision, it's like literally coming to light now. It's all happening. And I get to tell you, I'm not on the security team, but I want this well-being because I feel like this is exactly what I have been saying. At a time, 26 years ago, when everybody thought I was somewhat crazy, intellectual, they said, good, a little crazy. OK. You know? Maybe I am a little crazy. You think? Good to have you here. Feast my mind. Good to see you. Danny, thank you so much. I appreciate it. You're in Denmark. They don't like me over in Denmark. I heard I was leading the nightly news there for like a week, because I made some comments about how socialism doesn't even work in Denmark, and their taxes are so high, and the gains went crazy. I mean, just absolutely crazy. Like my Wikipedia page is a mess for life. Every time one tries to change anything on Wikipedia, the gains go into action. Like they really hold a grudge and God knows what's going to happen now after I set all this, right? Anyway, good to have all of you here. I really, Billy, welcome back. I always see your comments and I really appreciate it because we're building this channel, right? One viewer at a time. And some of you guys were here, Leslie, back when, you know, well, that kind of still happens now. And my phone didn't work, you know, it can happen. It can happen any time, any day, baby, you know, it's just me and you. Anyway, thank you again for being here and all that you do. I am going to be back with you live tomorrow and we got lots more content coming your way. I'm going to be over on Newsmax actually as well tonight talking again about my good friend Maria. I love her. I just love her as a person and I wish her nothing but the very best. I know she's going straight to the top. I'll see you tomorrow. [BLANK_AUDIO]