WATCH: President Trump and Glenn Beck Solve Huge Problem LIVE On The Air!

This was a really incredible moment!

Yesterday, Glenn Beck interviewed President Trump for 20 minutes and the entire interview was great.

I’ll post a link to the video below so you can watch it, and I recommend watching the whole thing.

But there was one moment that really stood out to me.

Glenn pulled an audible, admitting he hadn’t really prepared to bring this up, but he asked President Trump about the problems facing our cattle ranchers.

The response by President Trump was something we rarely get to see publicly, but I believe happens dozens if not hundreds of times a day behind the scenes.

Instead of just offering platitudes in response to Glenn’s question, President Trump immediately launched into problem solving mode, asking Glenn the real root of the problem.

Very quickly, they both centered on regulation and the stranglehold the four main beef processing plants have over the entire industry.

President Trump then asked Glenn if they removed the crippling regulations and allowed cattle ranchers to process the cattle right on their own properties if this would help and Glenn said that would be a game-changer.

You could even hear President Trump speaking to the people around him DURING the interview, essentially telling them to get to work on this immediately.

It was really incredible, watch here:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Glenn Beck: Mr. President, welcome. Last night, we found out that it does sound a little exhausting as you go over that list.

Donald Trump: I’m getting exhausted.

Glenn Beck: I said, I know. I don’t know how you do it.

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Last night we found out that Dolly Parton passed away, and you did something… I actually wrote this in my diary last night before I heard what you did. I said, I feel like she’s kind of, you know, like I feel about her the way I felt about Queen Elizabeth. She was just such class, and I felt like we should lower our flags.

And for the first time in history, you said we should lower our flags, and you declared that our flag should be at half-staff. That’s never been done before. Why’d you do it for her?

Donald Trump: Is that was never done for an entertainer before? Is that what you mean?

Glenn Beck: Yeah, never.

Donald Trump: We’ve done this, you know, lowering. But as I understand it—I’ve heard that from a couple of people—I’m a little surprised, but she was unique. I mean, she was amazing.

And to lose her, it’s like you lose a member of the family. You know, we all knew her so well. I knew her a little bit. She wasn’t a very political person. She really liked me, I will tell you.

But she also wanted to stay very, you know… she was of the opinion, you know, the 50% who needs to lose. I don’t think it’s 50%. I think it’s probably 20% of the fans, okay? Not 50%.

But she was a great person, and she was just a nice person, you know. I liked her a lot, and I thought it was a natural thing to lower the flags.

Glenn Beck: Can we put something to rest here because the speculation is crazy? The CIA director, ours, is in Russia. Rumors are saying Putin is going to test NATO resolve, all the way to speculation that he’s going to strike England, all the way to this maybe being the US telling them about the Iranian sanctions, saying we’re serious about them.

Can you tell me why our CIA director flew in the middle of the night to meet with the Russians?

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Donald Trump: Well, none of the above. He’s there on, you know, very sort of semi-inane… I hate to disappoint people. We would like to see the war with Ukraine end. That’s a war that would have never started, Glenn, if I were president. That’s one of the negatives of not having it done that way. I think this way has actually turned out to be bigger in many ways.

But you wouldn’t have had the war with Ukraine, and you wouldn’t have had 25 million people coming into our country like they did—just come in like we were a bunch of fools. It was so sad. But they, you know, 20… and I think the number is higher than 25, frankly.

They came in from prisons, and they were drug dealers, and they were murderers, and everything else, and they poured into our country. You wouldn’t have had that. But you would not have had the war in Ukraine.

John Ratcliffe is a fantastic guy. He’s the head of the CIA, and he is not in there for any of the things that you said. Now something may come out of it. We’re working very hard to get that war ended. And frankly, they both want to see it ended at this point.

Glenn Beck: The Atlantic, of all places, is reporting—and this is starting to become commonplace—that the Ayatollah is dead. Is the Ayatollah dead? And is there a way to win this war?

I mean, really win this war, and have them unconditionally surrender without the people rising up who don’t have any guns? So, is he dead, and where are we on the war?

Donald Trump: I don’t think he’s dead. He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body—the arm, the leg, the whole thing. He was very seriously wounded, but I don’t think he’s dead.

And if he is, they’re putting on a pretty good show because they talk about, you know, going back to talk to him all the time to get a final blessing on things. But, you know, you make a deal with them, it’s not the most honorable group. I will tell you that.

And, you know, we have the strait open. We took out 22 boats last night. We have people coming in the blockade. Our Navy has been unbelievable. Our military has been unbelievable.

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The combination… and our financial strength that we built up so much like you wouldn’t believe in a year and a half, our financial strength is unbelievable. And those things are going toward a very big victory. We had the victory in Venezuela, and we’re going to have a big victory here very soon.

Glenn Beck: Can we… I mean, because these people are not… it’s not like you’re negotiating with Western-minded people. These people want chaos and death and everything else.

Has there been any talk anywhere of anybody—I’m not saying us—supplying the people with the ability to fire back? Because you’ve got to get the 80% of the people to stand up. Do you foresee them being able to stand up in the future and finish this regime?

Right… they say they’re so surprised that the people aren’t fighting back.

Donald Trump: But Glenn, if you were in that position—and you’re a brave guy, I’ve watched your whole career, I’ve been a fan of yours for a long time, you’re a brave guy—but I don’t think you’d be standing out there when they have a machine gun nest.

They have snipers at the tops of buildings, and people go out to protest and they get hit. They don’t have to hit many, but when you see five or six or ten people go down and you have 100,000 or 200,000 people, they leave. No, I don’t care who you are, they leave.

Glenn Beck: Yeah.

Donald Trump: And it’s very hard to protest when you have people that are willing to shoot you and kill you. And that’s why they’re not protesting. And there is a chance because they have become very much weakened.

You know, their navy is, as you know, totally gone. Their air force is totally gone. Many of their soldiers aren’t being paid. They have, I think, 300% inflation, and their money is almost valueless now. I mean, they’re not doing very well.

And, you know, I could have told you the same thing, not as strongly, but two months ago, three months ago, and I’d have to read The New York Times saying how well they’re doing. They’re not actually saying that anymore, which is hard to believe. I’m surprised they don’t continue to say it.

But you know, there was so much fake news put out. Right from the beginning, from the B-2 bombers a little more than a year ago where we knocked out the nuclear, to the president, we have really dominated. Really, truly dominated.

Glenn Beck: You know, people don’t even realize that they’re getting half the story online. If you only read one version of events, even from people you generally agree with, you’re still missing part of the picture. You’re not finding the truth, the whole truth; you’re finding their version of it.

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We have so many enemies, I feel like, inside our own gates. We have the DSA, and we have Islam—the Red-Green Alliance, something I put up on the chalkboard when I was at Fox. I said this is going to happen, and everybody said that they’ll never work together, and that’s exactly what’s happening.

Would you push for or sign a No Sharia Law Act for America? And when it comes to the Marxists, what advice do you have for the GOP to begin to relate to the people who feel like there is an affordability crisis in America, especially for the youth, and the Marxists are playing on that and exploiting all of that?

Donald Trump: Yeah.

Glenn Beck: What advice do you have?

Donald Trump: Yeah, I would say two things. Number one, on Sharia law, I would absolutely say that’s not this country. There will be no Sharia law. And you do have pockets of it, as you know. I would say no. You go to London, you go to Paris, it’s almost like a second way of life. It’s ridiculous.

And I would absolutely be on your side on that, on a lot of other people’s side, too. Because, you know, you and I have people that I think are more based on common sense than we are on ideology. Good politics is all about common sense anyway.

But I would absolutely prohibit the Sharia law thing. It is happening in this country a little bit, and where we see it, we take it out. You have to take it out. We have one system. We have a great system. Sometimes it’s very frustrating, but it’s the best there is that I can see.

As far as the affordability… so, affordability is interesting because the Democrats caused affordability. I took over and everything was high. We had the highest inflation in history. They say 48 years, so either one, but we had the highest inflation in the history of our country.

Prices were at the highest. You look at the oil and gas, you look at groceries, you look at eggs… remember when I took it over, eggs were five times higher than they were four years before. And we’ve gotten them down very, very substantially.

And prior to the war, prior to what we’re doing with Iran—which I think will be ending fairly soon—you could really say, because the strait is open… We take a lot of ships through the strait now. We’re taking them in. The mines are gone. You probably saw that we put it out yesterday, all the mines. We got rid of the mines.

But the strait, it’s functioning. It’s a functioning strait. Yes, every once in a while there’ll be a drone or a rocket or something shot, but it is a very functioning strait. A lot of oil is pouring out—10 million barrels yesterday.

But as far as affordability, when I was just prior to saying we have to go down, we have to do this… I met with my people. We just had a record stock market, and I said, “You know, we’re going to have to do a detour. We cannot let—it’s very simple to me—we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.” That’s what it’s all about. That’s 99.9%.

We cannot let them, because they are crazy and they will use it. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. And we stopped it. I stopped it twice. I stopped it then, and I stopped it with the JCPOA—that’s the Obama deal where he gave everything. One of the worst deals, one of the most dangerous deals ever signed. He gave them a road, a path to a nuclear weapon. That was a path. That wasn’t a stoppage; that was a path to a nuclear weapon. And I terminated that.

As you know, it was a big deal when I did it. And they tried to say like it was a disaster. They would have had a nuclear weapon five years ago if I didn’t. I did. I terminated it in my first term. And so I saved it. Then they would have had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it, and Israel would have been totally knocked out.

There would be—I will say this—if Donald Trump wasn’t president, there would be no Israel right now. That’s a guarantee. There would not be an Israel, because they would have had nuclear weapons and they would have used them immediately.

But as far as pricing, the prices are coming down. You know, they came up with that word, “affordability.” So, I inherit the worst inflation in history, and I have my first news conference the day after I win. And the press is screaming at me about prices, especially going, “What about eggs? What about this? What…?”

I said, “I’m only here for one day. Give me a chance.” I didn’t even know. They’re talking about eggs! They’re screaming at me about eggs. I said, “I just won yesterday.” I mean, the whole thing was just absolutely crazy. Actually, it was the first day in, it was on January 21st.

I’m having a news conference, I’m there for one day, and they’re screaming at me about prices. I inherited a mess in so many ways. The border, which I solved very quickly. I inherited so many different problems.

And this was a bad administration. This was an incompetent administration. But I inherited high prices, and then from the first day they started using the word “affordability.”

They looked at me: “affordability.” It was a new word. Nobody ever heard the word! It was a new word that they devised because they’re quite good at that. They’re not good at running a country, but they’re good at, I guess, politics. They have some awfully bad policy for people—like men and women, sports, etc.

But I inherited affordability. I inherited high prices, to put it a different way. And we’ve really gotten them down. Now, we have a little bit of an oil issue… don’t forget, when I did this, people thought the oil would go to $10 a gallon. You know that.

But we had to do it. We had to stop them from having a nuclear weapon, and we did. And the prices are coming down very rapidly. Now beef is starting to come down. The meats, the beef is starting to come down. But prices have come down very substantially.

Glenn Beck: I have to tell you, Mr. President—I didn’t plan on talking about this and we can get into it at a later date—but please, please, when it comes to beef, please look at the cartel that is the meat processing cartel.

I run a ranch, so I know what it’s like. And I’m telling you, it is the processing plants. There’s four of them, and I think two of them are not even American. It’s bad. And I believe they’re colluding with each other, and the farmers haven’t done it because they’re smart as hell.

Donald Trump: I’m surprised, because that’s been going on a long time, Glenn. Long before I got here.

Glenn Beck: Help us! Help us! We can’t butcher with all of the federal regulations. It is really hard.

Donald Trump: You know, if there’s something you can do to help… Glenn, is that just a question of regulation, do you think?

Glenn Beck: A lot of it is. Yeah, a lot of it is. The inspections are insane.

Donald Trump: So they make the regulations so tough that… so, could you do it if you didn’t have those regulations? Could you do it on your ranch?

Glenn Beck: Yes.

Donald Trump: And is that the way to do it, or do you think you need some pretty strong regulations?

Glenn Beck: Break the back of those processing plants, though. There are people that want to build processing plants everywhere. The regulations are killing us—just killing us.

Donald Trump: So you’re saying with less regulation, you think that the ranchers and farmers would do a very good job of processing the beef?

Glenn Beck: Yes! Wow, yes!

Donald Trump: Look at that today. I’ve been hearing about this problem for 20 years. I’ve been hearing about this problem.

Glenn Beck: Free your people! Let our people go! Let your people go!

Donald Trump: You know what? This could be a very good call for ranchers and farmers.

Glenn Beck: No, for the country! That would be good.

Donald Trump: No, I’ve been hearing only bad about it. It’s four places, and it’s a monopoly.

Glenn Beck: It is. And who’s controlling those regulations? Department of Agriculture.

Donald Trump: Yes.

Glenn Beck: And FDA… or is it USDA? I can’t remember which one, but it’s USDA. It’s all the inspections. It’s all the inspections.

Mr. President, I got to get to one more question: Canada.

Donald Trump: Well, this is a very big thing you just told me, though, because you just gave me a very good idea. Okay, good. Very good. I love the call. I love this call.

Glenn Beck: Can you tell me quickly about Canada there? I mean, it seems to me they had a really good deal, but this is all about the elections and throwing our elections. What is happening? Is there a way to end this?

Donald Trump: Look, I don’t know how you feel about Canada. They are one of the worst countries in the world to deal with. And this has gone on for many years.

Glenn Beck: Wait, wait, wait. Can we say this? I love Canadians and Canada. I do not like their administration.

Donald Trump: Okay. Well, the administration… and the previous administration, too, is terrible.

Glenn Beck: Yes, yes, yes.

Donald Trump: But they have taken advantage of the United States for many decades, actually. They charge tariffs that are unbelievable, like on milk—400%. And I just said we’re taking them on.

I took them on at the beginning, but we had so many other things to do because the country was a mess. But I said we’re going to take them on, we’re going to stop it. And you saw Lake Ontario… you know, people thought I was kidding, but maybe I wasn’t, because the last one you saw was the Gulf of Mexico… Gulf of America.

Glenn Beck: I know, I know.

Donald Trump: But now we have a Gulf and we have a Lake, okay? You know, it’s very simple.

But look, I don’t want to go into great detail because it’s maybe boring to people, but to me it’s not boring. They charge tariffs. They take advantage of us as though they were a state, and they’re not a state. And they’ve taken our car industry, and they’ve taken our agriculture industry.

You know, the farmers can’t sell anything in there because the tariffs are so enormous. And yet they want to sell to us without any tax. So I had a deal that was a pretty good deal, you know, quite good. And because they’re afraid that I won’t do any… in other words, we won’t trade.

They don’t have anything that we have to have, okay? We can get by. I mean, there are a couple of things that would make it a little inconvenient, but we can get them elsewhere. And it’s time to teach Canada you can’t do this anymore. We lose $60 billion—and really more than that, $60 billion a year—with Canada.

Glenn Beck: Mr. President, I can’t believe I have to say this to you, but I have a network break. You could hold on, but I know you’re busy. I so appreciate your time, sir. I am sorry that we’re on a network.

Donald Trump: You are terrific. And thank you for the painting, that was so beautiful. The picture, that was so… You are fantastic. Thank you very much, and I’ll talk to you soon.

Glenn Beck: You bet. Thanks, Donald. You bet. Bye-bye.