Eric Bolling (3:56)

Iran, yeah.

Donald Trump (3:57)

What first one is Iran to do? I'm sorry, where are you from? Italy. Oh, nice place. Yeah. Okay, the first question. So what are you asking about Iran for? Well, if you can answer about Europe. And what do you think the Europeans should do on Ukraine? And then a message. Well, look, Europe has been doing so much for Ukraine, but it hasn't been enough. And obviously that I would say that President Putin is not afraid of Europe. He's afraid of the United States, of America, as led by me. There's no fear of Europe. You know, Europe's fallen behind. And Europe. Then JD said it very strongly. I don't know, it's. He took a lot of heat, but I didn't give him any heat. Europe is a different place. Europe is changing. Europe has got to get its act together. I love Europe. I guess I came from Europe, essentially. I had. I have. My roots are in Europe. But Europe is a different place. They have to get their act together.

Eric Bolling (4:53)

Now.

Donald Trump (4:53)

They've said they have a great NATO leader and they've gone up to 5% from 2% GDP. That's a big Step. But they have to be very careful with their immigration policy, and they have to be very. Because, you know, I will just say to be nice, that there are certain places in Europe that are very important that are no longer recognizable. I'm being very nice. I'm being very diplomatic when I say that they are not recognizable and they have to be careful on energy because they're putting windmills all over the place and losing a fortune. They're destroying their country. They're destroying the beautiful landscapes, the beautiful everything they're doing. By the way, in case you people don't know, I'm not much of a windmill person. I can proudly say, Doug, that we have not approved one windmill since I've been in office, and we're going to keep it that way. My goal is to not let any windmill be built. They're losers. They lose money. They destroy your landscape, they kill your birds. They're all made in China, and all you have to do is, you know, just about all of the windmills are made in China. The structures. All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? So far? They're not able to find any. They use coal and they use oil and gas and some nuclear. Not much. But they don't have windmills. They make them and sell them to suckers like Europe and suckers like the United States before. They are the worst form of energy, the most expensive form of energy, and in eight years, they're rotting. Go take a look at Palm Springs, California, and take a look at what that looks like. It looks like a junkyard, a junkyard of steel. So we don't approve. And I've told my people we will not approve windmills. Maybe we get forced to do something because some stupid person in the Biden administration agreed to do something years ago. We will not approve any windmills in this country.

Eric Bolling (6:52)

Two questions on Venezuela. Is it ultimately more important to you to establish stability there or democracy there?

Donald Trump (6:58)

Well, you're talking about maybe the same thing. I mean, you're talking about stability or democracy. I don't know. To me, it's almost the same thing. We want stability, but we do want democracy. Ultimately, it'll be democracy.

Mike Benz (7:09)

Peter, Policy question, President Trump.

Eric Bolling (7:12)

But I'm having a hard time seeing. Here I see the American flag lapel pin. What is the other lapel pin?

Donald Trump (7:18)

Somebody gave me this. You know what that is? That's called a happy Trump. And considering the fact that I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, I will never be Satisfied? Until we make America great again. But we're getting pretty close. I'll tell you what, this is called a Happy Trump. Somebody gave it to me, I put it on. Thank you. Thank you.

Eric Bolling (7:41)

And the policy question, how much money are you thinking of giving people in Greenland to get them on board with.

Donald Trump (7:48)

A possible US I'm not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that. But right now we are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighborhood. Okay, I would, I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way. And I'm a man. And by the way, I'm a fan of Denmark too, I have to tell you. And I'm, and you know, they've been very nice to me. I'm a big fan. But you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land. I'm sure we had lots of boats go there also. But we need that. Because if you take a look outside of Greenland right now, there are Russian destroyers, there are Chinese destroyers, and bigger, there are Russian submarines all over the place. We're not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland and that's what they're going to do if we don't. So we're going to be doing something with Greenland either the nice way or the more difficult one. Please go ahead, ma'. Am.

Eric Bolling (9:06)

Mr. President, why is it so important to you to own it when you.

Donald Trump (9:09)

Have a military presence there which you.

Eric Bolling (9:11)

Could expand to affect the security?

Donald Trump (9:13)

Because when we own it, we defend it. You don't defend leases the same way. You have to own it. And you know, with a nation. Look at what happened with Obama, with that horrible deal they made with Iran. It was a short term deal. It was like a nine year deal. Countries can't make nine year deals or even hundred year deals. Countries have to have ownership. And you defend ownership. You don't defend leases and we'll have to defend Greenland. If we don't do it, China or Russia will not going to happen. We are not going to have. And I like China, I like Russia. I love the people of China. I love the people of Russia. I get along very well with President Putin, but I'm very disappointed in him. I get along very well with President Xi I'm going to go over to China in April, but I don't want them as a neighbor in Greenland. Not going to happen. And, and by the way, and NATO's got to understand that I'm all for NATO. I saved NATO. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have a NATO right now. But we're not going to allow Russia or China to occupy Greenland. And that's what's going to happen if we don't go ahead.

Eric Bolling (10:21)

On the economic report that came out.

Donald Trump (10:23)

Today, Mr. President, one, can you respond to that? And two, it was an amazing report. The amazing and the most amazing thing is government jobs are way down and yet the employment came. Unemployment or the employment numbers are very good. We've gotten rid of tremendous numbers of federal job government jobs. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And yet the employment numbers are very good. They're really getting better. But now we have all those people to work in the private sector for a lot more money. I think that's one of the very big things. The other thing is at 5.4%. And remember, this is after we had a shutdown. And that shutdown had an impact because the concept of the shutdown, even though it's before people knew we were going to be shutting down, a lot of bad things happened. And by the way, on January 30th, you may have another shutdown. We'll see what happens. But I think the numbers, Caitlin, were really amazing. Look, to think about 5.4%, nobody thought that they thought it was going to be 2%. And you know what it is? It's tariffs. And it's also November 5th. We had a great election, a great, great election. Our country was dead one and a half years ago and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. And I hope you guys were impressed. 5.4%. And we haven't even really transitioned yet. There's no reason it can't be much, much higher than that. Yeah.

Eric Bolling (11:51)

First off, can you respond to the manufacturing.

Donald Trump (11:53)

Let's give CNN a chance. You know, they've been fighting so hard to get back into the mainstream.

Eric Bolling (11:58)

Mr. President, you posted some numbers actually on Truth Social last night.

Donald Trump (12:01)

People saying you posted the job data.

Eric Bolling (12:03)

Early when you're not supposed to, obviously.

Donald Trump (12:05)

Share it till the next morning.

Eric Bolling (12:06)

Did you do that on.

Donald Trump (12:07)

No, no. I don't know if they posted them. I said post them whenever you get a chance. I don't know. They gave me some numbers. I, I put, when people give me things, I post them. But the numbers the numbers are amazing. Yeah, please.

Eric Bolling (12:20)

Does the administration plan to distribute the money from the Venezuela oil sales? Is it obviously you say it's going to go into these controlled accounts. Would it go back to Venezuela in a direct payment? Is it going through these goods? How do you plan to do that?

Donald Trump (12:32)

Well, we want to make sure that Venezuela can survive. You know, Venezuela needs money and we're going to make sure that they get money and we're going to get money and the oil companies are going to make something for the work they do and they're going to get back their money. We're devising a formula, but it won't be so much of a formula. It's going to be what they need. We're going to take care of what they need. There'll be plenty left over. We're going to have a lot of money left over. And the money left over is going to the United States of America and the oil companies are going to be very happy. Yeah, please. Thank you. Mr. My second question is, would the.

Eric Bolling (13:05)

Administration offer a backstop to these oil companies for like financial guarantees, some sort of backstop if the country did destabilize again?

Donald Trump (13:13)

That's a very interesting question, using the word backstop. I haven't heard that word in a long time. That was at the Wharton School of Finance. I listened. That's a good term. We ought to use it more often. I hope I don't have to give a backstop. I'm just, look, these are very smart people. The smartest people are not only in oil and business. These are the biggest companies in the world sitting around this table. They know the risks. I mean, there are risks. We're going to help them out. We're going to make it real easy. They're going to be there for a long time. We're going to be there together for a long, long time. And they're going to be taking the oil and they're going to be bringing oil prices down. They're going to make a lot of money. They're going to get their money back. They're going to be safe. The people of Venezuela are going to be big beneficiaries and the United States of America is going to be a big beneficiary for what we've done. And you know, one other thing, I might say it's also very big for national security because again, just like Greenland, we can't have China or Russia occupy Greenland. We can't have China or Russia occupy Venezuela. And if we didn't do what we did China or Russia would have been in Venezuela. I think I can, with Mr. Chevron. So let me ask you, they would have been there if we didn't do this. Do you agree with that?

Eric Bolling (14:28)

They certainly have a lot of economic interests in country.

Donald Trump (14:31)

There's absolutely no argument about that. They were trying to be there. I mean, you know, we had a Russia, I guess, sort of semi, I call it a semi Russian ship yesterday that we took over and Russia decided not to defend that ship against us. It's a big movement. The ship was loaded up with oil and we took the oil and it came out of that port. But Russia would be there or China would be there. And we want them to be there for a different reason. We want them. Do you people agree in particular, China, they need a lot of oil. Russia doesn't need so much, but Russia was there anyway. But I assume you agree that China would like to be doing a lot of business there by buying oil. And I want to just tell President Xi and President Putin, but more so in this case President Xi, because they do need a lot of oil. And we are open for business in the United States and we are open for business in Venezuela. Right? Go ahead. Sure. I could take questions from these people all day long. You know, they're sitting here and generally they're very rich, very powerful, but nobody gives a damn about them. It's a sad thing. You have all that money, all that power, and look at all these crazy questions. We could do this all day long and they wouldn't be satisfied. We'll take a few more, though. You have. Let me ask you more importantly. Do you have any questions from the biggest. Hold it. Do you have any questions for the biggest people on Earth, the biggest business people, the biggest companies anywhere on Earth? Do you have any questions for these people?

Eric Bolling (16:16)

No.

Donald Trump (16:17)

No. Do you have a question for them? Yes, but have you? Go ahead, ask them.

Eric Bolling (16:20)

Companies in the room that they are committed to rebuilding the whale infrastructure structure in Venezuela.

Donald Trump (16:26)

And for the executives in the room, what do you need from the administration in order to invest? That's a good question. Do you want to go and answer that question?

Eric Bolling (16:36)

Yeah.

Donald Trump (16:36)

Exxon Small.

Eric Bolling (16:39)

Refer you back to the statements I made before.

Donald Trump (16:41)

There are a number of legal and commercial frameworks that would have to be established to even understand what kind of returns that we'd get on the investments. So I think all the investments in.

Eric Bolling (16:51)

The opportunity, opportunity sets.

Donald Trump (16:52)

I think everyone sitting around this table would have the opportunity and the know how and the capability to make the investments. The questions will ultimately be how durable are the protections from a financial standpoint? What do the returns look like? What are the, the commercial arrangements, the legal frameworks? All those things have to be put in place in order to make a decision to understand what your return would be over the next several decades that.

Eric Bolling (17:15)

These billion dollars investments would be made on.

Donald Trump (17:19)

You know, could I do this? Because we have, again, the biggest people on the planet Earth around this table, biggest companies in the world. I'd like to just ask them to introduce himself. We'll start from this end and go around it here. And if you have anything to quickly say, we could do that. But you want to just start right over here, These two guys, we'll leave them out because they're with us, please. Thank you. President Trump. John Addison at Vetol. We're here to ensure that you are going to be able to move all of this oil all around the world at the best price possible so that the influence that you have over the Venezuelans will ensure that you get what you want. Thank you. Thank you. Good point. Thank you, Mr. President. Brian Sheffield of Formentera. My grandfather, Hugh Sheffield, was president of Arco Venezuela. Right. Thank you for what you did. Do you like what we're doing? There's a lot of Shell there, a lot of upside. He would be very happy looking down. He'd be very proud of you right now, right? Yes, sir. Good. Thank you, Mr. President. Luis Rodriguez. I'm probably the only Venezuelan American sitting on this around this table. I, I want to personally thank you for the courage of your actions over the last couple of weeks.

Eric Bolling (18:39)

I, I think I speak, and I.

Donald Trump (18:42)

I, I speak of Venezuela in general.

Eric Bolling (18:45)

In saying there's optimism, you've brought optimism.

Donald Trump (18:49)

To the table, and if the conditions.

Eric Bolling (18:52)

Are met, the opportunity is absolutely immense.

Donald Trump (18:56)

I agree with that. That's true. Thank you. Well said, too. It's immense. This is a tremendous opportunity. Thank you.

Eric Bolling (19:04)

Richard Holton from Trafigura.

Donald Trump (19:06)

We're working with your administration, Mr. President, to bring that Venezuelan oil to the United States. Our first vessel should load in the next week. Good job. Thank you. I think the reason that most of us are here and thinking about the future is because we trust you initially to set this program up that will work and guarantee that this can be done. And there's a huge investment that needs to be done. We've all agreed on that, and certainly we need time to see that through. So thank you for what you've done. Thank you very much.

Eric Bolling (19:43)

Thank you, Mr. President.

Donald Trump (19:46)

I'm Lane Riggs, CEO of Alero Energy.

Eric Bolling (19:47)

And we're one of those companies that refineries in the US are uniquely configured to run Venezuela oil. And we're more than happy as this opportunity expands for us to further invest in our refineries to produce more of it.

Donald Trump (20:00)

And you're very much set up for the heavy oil, right? Yes, sir. That's great. That's great. We're really. We're ready for it. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for having us here and thank you for opening the door to a better Venezuela. We are in a Spanish company, but we are fully committed to invest here in the States. We have invested over the last 15 years $21 billion in the American oil and gas industry, in Pennsylvania, in the Gulf of America, in Texas, and in Alaska. With the discovery of Pica. That is going to have the first toll this quarter and is going to change. It's going to reverse the declining history of that great state of Alaska. We are in Venice, Venezuela, Mr. President, with our partners of ENI. We produce the gas that guarantees the stability of a half of the grid power in Venezuela. So we are committed with this stability. And on top of that, we are on the ground. We have people, we have facilities, we have technical capabilities. And I take your point, Mr. President. We are ready to invest more in Venezuela. Today we are producing 45,000 barrels a day gross of oil. And we are ready to multiply by three, this figure in coming two, three years, investing hard in the country, following your recommendation, if you allow us, of course, and in the framework, commercial and legal framework, that could allow this growth. So thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Great job you've done. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank YOU for having me. Matt Sheehy, I'm with Tallgrass Energy. We are an infrastructure business. So whether it's oil, gas, CO2, we move that around. So most of my customers are sitting around the table and happy to lend our expertise to what's going on in Venezuela to support the people. And obviously, infrastructure is going to be critical to see it repaired. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. An honor to be here. Marianne Mannon, Marathon Petroleum. We are one of the largest US Refiners. On behalf of the men and women of Marathon Petroleum and of our industry.

Eric Bolling (22:10)

Thank you and the administration for what.

Donald Trump (22:12)

You'Re doing for us Energy independence. We have the ability and the capability of our assets to process Venezuelan crude. And the people of Marathon Petroleum stand ready to do so. Do we need more refineries in our country? In the U.S. probably not.

Eric Bolling (22:27)

We have sufficient capacity.

Donald Trump (22:29)

That's Amazing. A lot of it was approved during my first term. We were getting you approvals that nobody could have done gotten in Louisiana and other places. And they got built before that. It was a disaster. We didn't have the refineries. Now we do because of the first term. Please.

Eric Bolling (22:44)

Darren Woods, ExxonMobil.

Donald Trump (22:48)

We'll go over here. Thank you, Mr. President. Jeff Hildebrand, founder and chairman of Hill Corp. Energy, one of the private. One of the largest private energy companies in America. Who's bigger, you or Harold? We're close. Huh? We're close. Harold. Harold. Absolutely, Mr. Ham. But thank you for your great, tremendous leadership in protecting the interest in Western hemisphere. The message that you have sent to China and our enemies to stay out of our backyard is absolutely fantastic. So thank you. Thank you very much. And finally Hill Corp is fully committed and ready to go to rebuilding the infant structure in Venezuela. You'll go there? You'll be going? Yes. Good. That's good. You'll be very happy. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President. Jeff Miller CEO, Halliburton Company we are the largest American oilfield services company. We're the second largest in the world. Been in business over 100 years. Started operations in Venezuela in 1938. Long time in Venezuela. I personally lived there for four years and raised my kids there. So quite familiar with Venezuela and just couldn't express gratitude more so for the opportunity to return to Venezuela under the stability that I know that this team and your team are able to deliver. When did you leave? When did you leave Venezuela as a company? We left under the sanctions in 2019. So we had intended to stay and then when the sanctions went into place, we were required to leave. But very much interested in returning 600 Venezuelans with Albertan today. All around the world. Look forward to putting them back to work. Great job. Great job. You'll be back. Please. Mr. President, I'm Alex Cranberg. My company, Aspect Energy is one of the leading American international wildcatters. We found significant fields and central. Are you a wildcatter? I'm a wildcatter. That's pretty cool. I would have been a wildcatter too of those. And you've been successfully wildcatting? We've. We've found significant fields in Central and South America, in the Middle east and in Europe. We're leading oil producer in Hungary. But probably the most pertinent example is our. Is what a wildcatter does is take on risk and try to reduce it and other people come in and put more capital in later. So we're kind of kickstarters in the oil industry. So we went into Kurdistan very early on, back when people told us it wasn't safe and we shouldn't do it. We found a big field there and ultimately has got to be developed along with one of my colleagues here, to be one of the big leading fields in Kurdistan. We think that Venezuela has a tremendous amount of opportunity. If you look at the reinvestment required, the investment required, people are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. But if you put that in perspective, that's a million barrels a day for 15 years is $220 billion net cash flow. So what we really need to do is to be able to kick start production and then reinvest and have the confidence to reinvest what you're doing by putting the United States in control of the cash flow coming out of the country, gives country companies like ours the confidence to say we can kick start this production and then reinvest and reinvest. In Hungary we've invested a billion dollars in changing the trajectory of Hungarian oil production. We are only able to do that not because we could write a billion dollar check, we're a smaller company, but because we reinvest all the cash flow back into new production.

Eric Bolling (26:23)

Mark Nelson with Chevron.

Donald Trump (26:25)

Again, Thank you, Mr. President. I'm Claudi Scalzi in Ico, Italy. We started working in Venezuela in 1980. We have a lot of oil, but now just the gas is flowing because it's not under sanction. And as my colleague from Repsol said, we cover more than about 50% of the electricity in the country. So that is essential to avoid any kind of problem, social problem. We own about 4 billion barrels of reserves, so a huge amount in the Orinocobal in the central Venezuela. We have now in the country 500 people, most Venezuelan. And we are ready to invest. Clearly we are ready to invest. We thank you. For what? For the big efforts and the efficiency of your action. And we are here, and we are here to work together with the U.S. we are also big investor in the U.S. we thank you again. And we are there. And we are also ready to join with American companies in our assets to develop and go faster with good investors and good know how from the U.S. company. Yeah. Thank you. You've done a great job. Thank you very much. Mr. President. Ross Perot. Good to see you again. I'm chairman of Hillwood and HKN Energy. Been in the energy business 45 years and we have been working with your team quite a bit. We have been in Kurdistan now for 19 years along with Alex and built a very good business. But now with your team, we're looking in Syria, we're now in Libya. And so we are very excited to look at Venezuela with you and your group and look forward to continuing to build this great industry. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for having us here today from Shell, of course. We have a huge presence here in the US in the Gulf as well as in Pennsylvania with the petrochemical facility which I think we had the opportunity to host you at. As well as being one of the largest LNG offtakers of American lng. We have been in Venezuela for a very long time. We actually drilled in 1914 the first well that discovered oil in Venezuela and on the back of which the entire energy industry was established in Venezuela. When we left in the 1970s because of nationalization, we had a million barrels per day of production. But we have kept boots on the ground in Venezuela all this time and we now have a few billion dollars worth of opportunities to invest in subject to OFAC approval. So we are ready to go and looking forward to the investments in support of the Venezuelan people. That's great. Thank you very much.

Eric Bolling (29:21)

Thank you, Mr. President. Ben Marshall, the America's CEO for Vitol alongside Shafagura.

Donald Trump (29:26)

We're very thankful for to have worked.

Eric Bolling (29:28)

With the government in Venezuelans to be able to bring the crude oil to market at a market price as quickly as we can to help stabilize the country. Thank you.

Donald Trump (29:35)

Thank you. Ryan Lance Conoco Phillips I'll defer to my colleagues. Thank you, Mr. President. Olivier, CEO of SLB formerly known as.

Eric Bolling (29:45)

Schlumerger, the largest global oil field services.

Donald Trump (29:48)

We have been in Venezuela since 1930 and we still operate. We operate today on the ground with in support of Chevron. We have ability to scale. We have 1100 Venezuelan in the company, 2000 additional that are coding us to go back to country and to go back to work. We're able to mobilize in less in.

Eric Bolling (30:08)

The last 18 months, two weeks and.

Donald Trump (30:11)

Deliver 50 wells with success.

Eric Bolling (30:13)

So we're here, we have knowledge of.

Donald Trump (30:15)

The subsurface like nobody else has. We have boots on the ground, capacity.

Eric Bolling (30:19)

On the ground, $700 million of equipment.

Donald Trump (30:22)

Value on the ground in Venezuela ready to mobilize for all of our partners customers. So are ready to scale fast. And we really want to thank the.

Eric Bolling (30:32)

Administration, Secretary Wright, Secretary Bergen for the.

Donald Trump (30:35)

Effort they are supporting and giving us to be successful. On behalf of the Venezuelan oil and gas industry, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Well, check this out. They saved the very best for last. And I don't have that sexy accent like this guy next to me here.

Eric Bolling (30:53)

Mr. President, my name's Bill Armstrong of.

Donald Trump (30:55)

Armstrong Oil and Gas. I'm a private independent guy.

Eric Bolling (30:58)

And in real estate, you were a wildcatter. So wear that, wear that motto proudly. But like you, I was a my own guy.

Donald Trump (31:10)

And I don't have shareholders, I don't.

Eric Bolling (31:12)

Have private equity partners, but I've been drilling all over the place.

Donald Trump (31:16)

But I had the largest discovery in.

Eric Bolling (31:17)

Alaska, biggest discovery in 50 years in our country. I now control 8 million acres adjacent to Venezuela. So I'm already heavily invested in the area. We share a 150 mile border with Venezuela in the countries of Aruba and Curacao. And we are ready to go to Venezuela.

Donald Trump (31:36)

It is in real estate terms, it.

Eric Bolling (31:38)

Is prime real estate. And it's kind of like West Palm about 50 years ago. Yeah, very right.

Donald Trump (31:46)

Yep, I agree with you. Thank you. Congratulations. So I think what we're going to do is speak without the press to these gentlemen, see what kind of a deal we can make. We're going to get them involved. I'm going to ask Doug and Chris and some of the people that we have, from the business standpoint, representing our country, to start talking about the confines of a deal we have. I have an idea what I want, what I think we should have. We have to get them to invest and then we have to get their money back as quickly as we can. And then we can divvy it all up between Venezuela, the United States and them. I think it's simple. I think the formula is simple. We start with a brand new plate and it's going to be a tremendous success. I think it's going to be probably like few other things could ever be. You know, there's so much. There's so much. Venezuela has been really taken advantage of by a lot of people because they drill very little. I mean, as much as you hear they have, they drill very, very little. Very small percentage. But now that'll change and it'll change very rapidly because these are the biggest people and it'll change very, very rapidly. So if you don't mind, I'll ask the press to leave and we will see what kind of a deal we're going to make with these geniuses. And I think you're going to come out very good. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.

Eric Bolling (33:13)

Well, that was President Trump with the oil industry executives Working a deal and the press was there. The questions range from Venezuela to Minneapolis, Minnesota. I will tell you those, that group of. I think they're all gentlemen there. Half a trillion dollars in revenue. That group per year. Half a trillion, two and a half trillion dollars in value of those companies. Oil industry right now, not Venezuela. Oil production in 1997 was three and a half million barrels, number one in the world. Now they're down to one million. They've lost two thirds, 72% of their oil production since Hugo Chavez and Maduro. Very quickly, Venezuela, number one oil reserves in the world. Saudi Arabia, number two. US Number nine. Russia, number eight. I'm going to put all these up on social media just after the show. So let's do this. Our first guest, the executive director of the foundation for Freedom Online. Always happy to have Mike Benz with us. He's always got the great stuff. Mike, we can talk about this, but I really, really want to dig into what everyone is talking about. This Minneapolis, this ICE conflict with, with the protesters that tried to kill the ICE agent. So we saw. Do me a favor guys, can you roll the brand new video that we found just today? I, I believe ICE released this. A body cam of. Of the. The ICE agent who shot. Just watch how the violent interaction happens with the car. Two, two thousand pound six. That's fine, dude, I'm not mad at. Boy, show your face.

Donald Trump (34:57)

I'm not mad at.

Eric Bolling (34:58)

That's okay. We don't change our plates every morning.

Donald Trump (35:00)

Just so you know. It'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later.

Eric Bolling (35:04)

That's fine.

Donald Trump (35:05)

U. S citizen, you want to come at us?

Eric Bolling (35:09)

You want to come at us? I said go get yourself some lunch, big boy.

Donald Trump (35:13)

Go ahead. Out of the car. Get out of car. Get out of the car.

Eric Bolling (35:25)

Yeah, Mike, so, so this all I. All the lefties who say, you know, mom D called it murder. They hadn't seen that video yet. That car ran right into that. That ICE Officer, your thoughts on what. What the new video shows us?

Mike Benz (35:38)

Well, that is what you call a smoking gun. That is incontrovertible evidence. Of course, the, the purpose of this attempt by the NGO plex, the. The DNC and the. The broader attempt to mobilize some sort of civic resistance against the Trump administration is to try to create a kind of George Floyd 2.0. We see the same techniques being set up. A, I think they're calling it Maz, a kind of mini Chaz, these independent autonomous zones set up in the city. Of course, at the same time Minneapolis is now ground zero for the Trump administration's attempt to clean out the, I don't even want to call it waste, fraud and abuse. The outright theft of the the US treasury by a combination of Tim Waltz's corrupt administration in Minnesota and a refugee population exploiting effectively the charity of us housing them here during a time of civil war in their own country with what appears to be NGO/state sponsored mass fraud. So Minneapolis, Minnesota once again becoming ground zero. The question is, has the administration learned enough from the last bout with these techniques to take it on appropriately this time?

Eric Bolling (37:00)

Were they good? That's the woman who was shot. She ran, rammed. And if you haven't seen, there's another video, I don't want to roll it because we have to absolutely clarify, it's not a deep fake, but there's another video from up top, a little bit more grainy, but you see the car literally hitting the agent and pushing him back, dragging him a bit, and then he shoots. So Renee Good, she's part of what they're calling an ICE watch group where they're actually trained how to protest ice. I mean, they're really, what do they say, fafo? They're really, really faing, aren't they?

Mike Benz (37:33)

Well, absolutely. ISIS federal law enforcement. This, this is, these are federal officers. This is the, the sort of thing that they said was an insurrection when January sixers simply walked through the door, let alone this organized attempt. I mean, in the case of January 6, anyone who tried to obstruct the work of federal law enforcement was hit with 10 years in prison for, for obstruction. What you have is organized obstruction of the work of federal law enforcement.

Eric Bolling (38:11)

Mike, I have so many questions. I know we're limited time because we, we made way for the President. I know you have a, a commitment. Very quickly, let me throw a couple at you. John Solomon reported Yesterday there were $700 million that went through the Minneapolis airport in two years. That's 99 times more than JFK in New York, which is a major international airport. Somalians doing it. Where the hell were the FBI during these two years of them stealing and.

Mike Benz (38:41)

Exporting $700 million, probably deliberately looking the other way. This is one of the nasty rationales used by deep Washington to justify our refugee programs is that when we take in network refugee groups from foreign countries and bring them to the United States and give them free food, free housing, free health care, free education and jobs that make 100 times more than they did, or scams that make a thousand times or 10,000 times more than they did back in their home countries. They send it home in the form of remittances. Almost a third of their paychecks Estimates from the early 2000 showed we're going back home to remittances. And that then funds what is often the US Military or CIA or USAID supported side of a civil war which has been playing out in Somalia since 1991. It was in 1992 that the first wave of mass immigration from Somalia came here. And so I suspect that if the FBI wanted to take this on there would be interagency resistance and you would have State Department, CIA or US Military pressure on the FBI and the higher ups on the top floor would of the bureau would tell the lower level rank and file investigators back off of this very quickly.

Eric Bolling (40:01)

I know you got to go. Trump said and Vance said yesterday they're going to go after the people who fund these violent protests. I'm thinking Soros. I'm not accusing, I'm thinking they're going to find Soros. Iran, China, Russia. You're in deep in, in all these areas. What do you think?

Mike Benz (40:17)

Well you have indivisible who's playing an active role in this which According to their 2023, 990s it's $7 million from Soros just in that year. And I have to presume the 2024 election year was even more and, and likely even more last year in 2025 as they're now in a resistance period and needed more than ever. And they, they were the ones behind the no Kings protest. They were the ones behind the anti in large part behind the anti ice violent riots in in la. I think what you need to do is is effectively these groups who are promoting the violent side of protests. We obviously have a sacred First Amendment right of association. But when these things turn violent, when that violence is sanctioned as it was by parts of the US Government under the Biden administration who even the US Institute of Peace put out manuals about how to blockade roads and demonstrate a willingness to get yourself arrested by and even declared that blowing up pipelines or burning down federal buildings is is fair game because it's technically nonviolent as long as you don't kill a police officer. But you can take over the town, block the road, set their police cars on fire. I think these, these whole networks, their training guides, the manuals need to be you go with the organizers, you issue subpoenas for their records, meeting notes, power PowerPoint slides and, and these things are organized and coordinated. None of this happens by accident. There's a vast NGO plex. I think you go at the top leaders, you get the internal documents and if they show violence was premeditated, then you have your arrest.

Eric Bolling (42:02)

There you go. Mike Benz, appreciate your time. I know you're slammed. Thank you again. We'll see you again real real soon.

Mike Benz (42:07)

Thanks Eric.

Eric Bolling (42:08)

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Donald Trump (45:31)

Not only when we make pre pre K truly universal, but expand this care.

Eric Bolling (45:36)

To include all two and three year.

Donald Trump (45:39)

Olds across the city. As the governor said, we will deliver.

Eric Bolling (45:46)

Two care by working in partnership with child care providers, especially home based providers.

Donald Trump (46:01)

Who have been doing this work without.

Eric Bolling (46:02)

Thanks or recognition for far more free stuff. Free stuff, free stuff. Who's gonna pay for it?

Donald Trump (46:09)

I don't know.

Eric Bolling (46:10)

I still can't believe this guy with a Chinese spy, Fang Fang is still in. The US Government hasn't paid any price for treason. And now Eric Swalwa wants to be governor of California. How does this happen? And despite the fact that attacks against ICE agents are on the rise, Swalwell thinks it's a good idea to strip ICE agents of their protections. Here's what we can do. Because we're not helpless and people may feel helpless. We're not helpless. And tell your leaders they're not helpless. We can strip them of their immunity and I'm working on doing that in Congress. We can make sure that when we seek to fund them, we don't fund mass and we don't fund them being unidentified. We also can make sure sure that local prosecutors and attorneys general across the country, particularly in blue states, use your law enforcement authorities. If they're going to falsely imprison people, kidnap people, assault people, commit battery and now murder, prosecute them. They only understand one language. It's either us and the most vulnerable in our communities on our heels or them on their heels. That's the only way to approach this is to be on swallow.

Donald Trump (47:11)

You.

Eric Bolling (47:12)

You don't have the House, you don't have the Senate. When there's a president in the way of all that, you're not going to get squat down, squashed. By the way, why don't you publish where you and your family live, by the way? Because the people who hate ice, they can take pictures of those, those ICE officers and find out facial recognition exactly where they live. How about you, Swalwell, put yours on the line first? Oh, and in case you were wondering, a United States Congressman still doesn't think it's illegal to enter this country illegally. You listen to Tom Homan and his.

Donald Trump (47:42)

Attitude is if you've crossed the border illegally, you're here legally.

Eric Bolling (47:46)

That makes you a criminal.

Donald Trump (47:47)

It's that simple.

Eric Bolling (47:48)

No matter what. Are you of that mindset? No, no. Whoa, no, no. Yes, yes. It's a break of the law. Illegally, Swalwell. It's in the US Code. Change the US Code. Good luck with that. Eric swallows were remarkably quiet when Joe Biden and his auto pen were handing out preemptive pardons to some of the worst perpetrators of democracy, killing and corruption, and in the history of the presidency, Anthony Fauci. Really? Need I say more? But Swalwell continues to make threats to strip away any immunity and take down members of the Trump administration for protecting and defending America. And if my Republican colleagues are going to do nothing right now, you better believe that accountability is coming. Here's what it looks like. The masks are coming off. Identification is coming out. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom Cashback, Homan and Greg Bevino, your asses are going to be in these witness chairs. Does anyone listening to this clown, Jasmine Crockett? Oh, speaking of clowns, Jasmine Crockett is at it once again, the pinnacle of her party. When she says things that are just so untrue, it almost makes you wonder if her mind actually erases the facts. I remember when Charlie Kirk got killed. Do you? Do you remember what our response was?

Donald Trump (49:20)

Our response wasn't to sit there and.

Eric Bolling (49:22)

Pretend like it was okay.

Donald Trump (49:25)

Is it okay because you have a badge?

Eric Bolling (49:28)

Because the last time I checked, allegedly.

Donald Trump (49:30)

No one is above the law.

Eric Bolling (49:33)

Can y' all not just have a.

Donald Trump (49:34)

Little bit of courage and humanity?

Eric Bolling (49:41)

A child. Oh, what do we call her? The dumbest. Oh, the least. What was it, Ben? Dumbest or least qualified? Most annoying member of Congress? I think it was dumbest. How about all of them? Here we go again. The left and radical Black Lives Matter. Activists will use any excuse to take to the streets, creating chaos and mayhem. We got the Summer of love back in 2020, those mostly peaceful, fiery, violent protests. Well, now try for the Winter of Love 2026.

Donald Trump (50:14)

Shut these streets down again.

Eric Bolling (50:18)

Make the city pay again and again.

Donald Trump (50:24)

That was worried about losing money when George Floyd died. We as a peoples can cause them to lose more money now. If we don't stand together, we gotta fold together.

Eric Bolling (50:38)

We stand divided. How is this, this group still allowed to operate in the United States? They've been caught with fraud. They, the. The founder of Black Lives Matter, both of the founders were caught using the funds money to buy homes in California. And still yet they, they somehow get funded, right? George Soros. All right, folks, let me tell you something straight. Right here, right now, most people don't fail because they lack talent. They fail because they fold when pressure shows up. That's what the Edge is really all about. No hype, no politics, not chasing clicks. It's about men who have been real, real, real burned in arenas, the fiery arenas of sports, finance, combat business, and what it actually takes to survive when the lights get hot and the excuses are gone. That's why Brett Favre came on the show. That's why Ray Lewis is coming on the show. That's why the Wolf of Wall street came on. That's why Patrick bet David spent an entire hour with me on the Edge. And that's why this platform right there is building something different. So if you're tired of noise and you want something that actually sharpens you, makes you more prepared, not just to survive, but to thrive, hit that QR code right there with your phone, with your camera. Yellow line, press it. Never going to charge you. Or when you're on YouTube, just type in Eric Bowling the Edge. Eric Bowling the Edge on YouTube. Make sure it's both. Subscribe. We're 8, 500 strong because of you. And we're going to get bigger and stronger. It's a movement. It's a platform. Thank you for your support here, Rav Bowling show and the Edge, back in two and a half minutes. Minutes. All right, let me tell you something. I tell you what the Edge is not. It's not a podcast. It's not an interview show. It's not some influencer round table. The Edge is an arena where men come to be tested. We're sitting down with people who have actually lived under pressure, thrived under pressure. NFL legends, Wall street operators, entrepreneurs who bet their own money. And yesterday we dropped something no one else has inside Information on how NFL referees, Major League baseball umpires really work. And more importantly, what the leagues, those leagues don't want you to see. There's no spin, no league pr, just the truth. And here's the part that matters. In less than 100 days, over 8, 500 of you have already chosen to step inside this arena that's off the charts, strong and fast for 100 days. If you're tired of noise, if you're tired of fake experts, if you want some real conversations about pressure, performance and staying dangerous, take your camera, aim it right at that QR code, hit the line. You will subscribe or go to YouTube.com ericboling the edge. Just go to that search box, Eric. Bowling in the Edge. Make sure they're both there. Subscribe, you'll be in part of the biggest, fastest growing show on YouTube. And we are really, really proud that you're here with us here at Rev, here with the bowling show and especially really, I'm asking you for your subscription. Let's get this done. All right, folks, we've been leaving. You've been leaving some amazing voicemails. In fact, one of your voicemails mentioned something we talked about yesterday. So yesterday we called Tim Walsh, Elmer Fraud and we showed you the picture of Elmer Fud, Elmer Fraud, Tim Walls. Well, let's listen to this first voicemail. Ben. Copy that.

Donald Trump (53:59)

How you doing, Eric? I just seen you referring Tim Waltz to owner Fraud. But what I think he looks actually looks like the character from UP the old man in the house with the balloons. I think if you decide side by side comparison, you could be his twin brother. Bye.

Eric Bolling (54:13)

There you go. We did it. Tim Walls. What do you think? What do you guys think? Elmer Fraud or way over there that the old guy from. From UP hit me up on social media. Let us know or hit one of the chat boxes or our moderators will let us know who does. Should we go Tim, Elmer Fraud or the guy from up? We'll figure it out. Benny, Another one. We have Al from Wyoming questioning Minnesota's iq.

Donald Trump (54:40)

Eric, is Al over in Wyoming. I was just wondering, does anybody in Minnesota have an IQ higher than 60? I believe from the governor down to the mayors and senators and congressmen, I don't think anybody's got a you higher than 60. All right, have a good day.

Eric Bolling (54:57)

Thank you. And I'm agree with you. But I just had an idea when you. When you left that voicemail I sent to you because I have an idea. 2028. I know everyone's saying Vance Rubio Trump likes Vance Rubio. Pete Heth. I'm. Throw it out there. Pete Hexeth. I. Granted, he's a friend of mine. He's a colleague. I think he is just proving to be a great cabinet secretary, Secretary of war. But also, if it's not going to be Pete Hegseth in 28, maybe he should run for governor. He's from Minnesota. Pete Hegseth, Governor of Minnesota. You heard it here first. Wait till Fox and all those hosts start saying it. You heard it here, folks. Pete Hegset for governor of Minnesota. We're going to clip this, guys, and we're going to send it to Pete and see what he thinks about that. We'll get a response. He'll give us a response. Benny got another one. We do. We have another message from our friend Robert California.

Donald Trump (55:50)

Mad Dog, I'm glad this is happening.

Eric Bolling (55:52)

Robert California, I hope more people suffer.

Donald Trump (55:54)

In America because you are so lackadaisical. You're all wrapped up in your choice of life. Your family, your children.

Eric Bolling (56:05)

I hope you all suffer.

Donald Trump (56:07)

And until you suffer, maybe you'll do something about it. From the hellhole.

Eric Bolling (56:11)

Golden ghetto. Okay, well, hey, Robert, first of all, it's Mad Dog and Ben who are on the Benz. On it today. But second of all, what do you mean? You. You're from California. I get it. California is not really America. Wow, he's right. California isn't. It shouldn't be part of America. I know. Benny, do we have time for another one or. No, I'm looking through these.

Donald Trump (56:33)

I don't think we have time for another one.

Eric Bolling (56:34)

Right. Well. Well, let's do it this way. Will you guys clip that. That little. Let's pitch for Pete Hegseth to either run for governor of Minnesota or president, United States. I. I think we got an idea here. You and me, us, we're gonna. We're gonna send it to him. We'll get him to respond, and we'll. We'll play his response for you. All right? Have a great, great weekend. Ban is up next. Don't go away. Make sure you keep it right here on rap all night. Just keep it here. Just don't even change the channel. It's better. There's better stuff here than anywhere else. Have a great weekend. I will see you back here on Monday. Bowling is just about out.

Donald Trump (57:07)

War Room.

Eric Bolling (57:07)

I was supposed to be on War Room yesterday. I don't know what happened with that. Whatever. Didn't work out. But next time. Next time, we're in D.C. good to be back, though. In sunny Florida 80 and sunny today.

Donald Trump (57:17)

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