President Biden appears to finally be willing to change our relationship with Saudi Arabia. You
think? Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about what's happening and many, many other
issues. You've written about this so much. You've been a commentator about it for so long. About,
what is it, what is this love affair that we have with Saudi Arabia? Besides they're buying
our weapons, you know, we have to have their oil. Let's talk about this a little bit. There's
a turnaround because Biden's been embarrassed. He's been embarrassed on the international front.
Yeah, he, he went there this summer, essentially had to grovel, please do
something about oil prices. Release more oil. Help us out here. We need it. The world needs
it. We're all counting on you. And Saudi Arabia finally came back within the last week or so
and just said, no, we're actually gonna cut production. We're gonna, we're gonna dry,
artificially drive prices up because that's in our financial interest. So go to hell, basically.
Well, okay, so our go to hell with them is, we're not gonna sell you anymore weapons.
We're not going to let your kids come over here and train how to fly F-35's and use all
our sophisticated aircraft. We're not gonna allow anymore. We're not gonna spend all the money we're
spending to defend you against all the people who hate your guts right there in your, in your
backyard. We're not gonna do any of that. And oh, by the way, if we find an alternative oil source,
we're gonna tap into that. There's all kinds of ways we can punish 'em. I love to see Biden
getting mad about it because they embarrassed him, Farron. It was the most embarrassing scene I
can, that, that this guy's, that he's experienced. Well, and, and it's about time too. I mean, look,
Biden, when he was campaigning, he said, I'm gonna make 'em a pariah.
Yeah. But he didn't. He, he bowed down to them
just like every president before him. And finally he's back to that, okay, you know what? You want
to get tough. Let's get tough. And every single thing you pointed out should have been done 20, 22
years ago. It, it shouldn't be happening now. It should have been something that was decades ago.
How about if we found, how about it should have been done when they murdered
3000 people on American soil and we knew that the Saudi family was involved in the murder of
3000 Americans on American soil. We didn't do anything. We should have done something
when it was very clear that, that, that they've lost leadership and they murdered Khashoggi. We
should have done something then. There's time after time where we've said, why have we not
taken steps? These, these people are awful. Selling the weapons that we sell to them,
to the Taliban and then the Taliban uses them to kill American soldiers.
Yeah. Forgot that. The, the money for the terrorists that
they're funneling through all these banks. The list is endless. The human rights abuses they're
doing to their own people. I mean, that should have been the massive, you know, red flag number
one. There's any one of these things that we could pick to say, we should be done with you forever.
Farron, with all the stories that you've done on the Royal family in Saudi Arabia, is there any,
is there any even scintilla of doubt in your mind that they feed that international
terrorism machine, any doubt? A hundred percent They do.
Yeah. I mean, I, I, there's no other way to slice
that. They are absolutely fueling a, a lot of it, as much as they can in the Middle East. They're,
they're, they're bombing busloads of children. Yeah.
They're doing all kinds of horrendous things in their neighboring countries. And we,
we allow it just because we want the oil and we want their money for the weapons they buy.
Okay. The punk prince, the mutt. I call him the mutt. The mutt says, well, we,
we, we have to do this because we can't let our profits fall too short, too, too far because I'm
building a $500 billion futuristic city. Have you followed that part of the story?
Yeah. He says,
that's why we have to do this because I have to have money to build my $500 million futuristic
city. Chances are lobbyists are gonna take over here on behalf of Saudi Arabia. He's gonna cave
in. It's gonna be business as usual tomorrow. And the unfortunate thing is, for some reason,
we can't quit Saudi Arabia and we need to. We need to let, if the Iranians wanna come and bomb
the hell out of them, we need to stay out of it. You know, if we could switch to renewable energy,
we could bankrupt that country in 10 years. Exactly. Isn't that the best renewable energy
argument? It is.
I mean, to me, when you look at everything, deal with the Saudis.