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3:00Donald Trump's unlawful war against Iran is spiraling out of control.

3:06Utter chaos has engulfed the Gulf.

3:10The Middle East is on fire.

3:12Going into today, the markets were absolutely crashing internationally and here in the United States.

3:20The price of oil was going up dramatically, almost hitting $120 per bill.

3:27barrel, the Dow, Nasdaq, and S &P were crashing, like almost circuit breaker crash was

3:35expected for the day. So what did Donald Trump do to manipulate the markets?

3:40He started calling up reporters and saying the war is pretty much complete, that the

3:47war is going to go away like a miracle.

3:49It's all just going to disappear and everything is going great.

3:54So on the news that Donald Trump was going to taco, that Trump always chickens

3:59out, all of a sudden we saw the price of oil dramatically decrease.

4:05We saw the stocks rebound and what was going to be a disastrous day on

4:11the market. And I mean a disaster.

4:14All of a sudden looked like, well, things were okay.

4:17And you may have been saying, what happened?

4:19Well, it was Donald Trump and his regime manipulating the market.

4:23Then we learned more. Donald Trump had a conversation on the phone with Putin today.

4:30And Donald Trump credited Putin with coming up with a plan for the United States,

4:35how to end the war in Iran that Donald Trump started.

4:40That's very odd. Well, not for Donald Trump.

4:43While Donald Trump also talked about removing sanctions on Putin and Putin's ability to sell

4:51oil to the rest of the world.

4:52The Trump regime has already removed sanctions that now allow Russia to sell their oil

4:58to India. But Trump is considering removing sanctions on Russia to sell oil elsewhere.

5:07This war has been a massive boom for Putin as the United States needs Zelensky's

5:14help and is begging Zelensky for help to stop these Iranian Shahid drones and ballistic

5:20missiles that Zelensky has worked to stop in Ukraine.

5:25So we are propping up Putin while begging Zelensky for help, which is like a

5:30worst case scenario. But that's typical Trump.

5:33Now, as we're recording this live, as the news sets in, which shouldn't be a

5:38shocker that this war is not ending soon.

5:42We're now seeing the markets fluctuate in the opposite direction.

5:46We're seeing the price per barrel of oil now shoot up close to that $100

5:51per barrel mark. We're seeing the futures markets starting to look really bad yet again.

5:59This is Donald Trump manipulating the markets, in my opinion.

6:04It's fairly obvious what's taking place.

6:07Then, before we went live, Donald Trump held a deranged press conference where he said

6:14that Iran potentially stole United States Tomahawk missiles and then used the Tomahawks on itself

6:24to kill 150 children in the elementary school in Iran and 185 people total.

6:33And then when reporters pressed him and said, you realize that nobody is saying that

6:38other than you, like you're making this up.

6:41I mean, it was an American tomahawk that crashed into this elementary school with American,

6:48it says made in America on it.

6:50We can see that it's Tomahawks.

6:52We see the crater marks.

6:54We know what happened now.

6:56This has been confirmed by our intelligence agencies, by multiple independent reports.

7:01And Trump is now saying that Iran tomahawked itself.

7:06on the first day of the war.

7:08And reporters are like, where are you getting that from?

7:10Upon information and belief, this is what I believe happened.

7:15More lies, more traitorous and treasonous conduct, in my view.

7:21And now the Trump regime is talking about an operation to try to retrieve the

7:30enriched uranium, which we have not stopped in Iran and sending special forces and other

7:36ground troops in to do that.

7:39Then yesterday you had Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, not rule out a draft

7:46for the American people, sending your children to war.

7:52And that's about a good summation of what's went down today.

7:57We're going to get into it.

7:58We're going to show you the receipts.

8:00We're going to show you the facts right now.

8:02But folks, it is an incredibly sad thing, and I'll bring in Brett and Jordy

8:06when I say this, to see what this Trump authoritarian regime has done to our

8:14country. Internationally, here, our reputation is shattered.

8:20Frankly, it's irreparable. Irreparable harm has been caused.

8:25And when I'm watching, whether it's Hegseth or Rubio or Trump or Caroline Levitt, the

8:34way we once looked at like Baghdad Bob, you know, and these characters from these

8:42authoritarian regimes with zero credibility and their behavior, our people right now in the United

8:50States who are in charge of this, although in charge is not how they're behaving,

8:54are way worse than that.

8:56And I see this behavior and I'm just like, this is sad.

9:01This behavior is sickening and that this is the United States of America right now.

9:08It is sick and disgusting and it needs to be reported as such.

9:13Brett and Jordy, good to see you.

9:14Good to see you too, Ben.

9:16Good to see you, Jordy.

9:17Good to see everybody who's tuning in right now live on the Midas Touch YouTube

9:21channel and everybody who is listening to this on the Midas Touch audio podcast.

9:25Great to be here. A whole lot to discuss.

9:28You know, lying is bad enough during, you know, times of relative peace.

9:32Lying is bad enough when it's about inconsequential things that don't really matter.

9:37But when it comes to moments of war, when it comes to moments of life

9:41or of life or death, those lies just become so heinous.

9:46And the lies that we are seeing right now from the Trump White House, I

9:49want to be clear, none of this is surprising at all.

9:51This is what Trump does about literally everything.

9:54But the lies we are seeing right now out of Trump and this White House

9:58and all of these sycophants around Donald Trump in Congress are just so despicable that

10:04they make the Bush administration and the lies that they put out there to bring

10:09us into the Iraq war.

10:10They make them look like honest brokers.

10:13That's how bad these people are right now.

10:15They're just so egregious. The things that they are trying to defend are just indefensible,

10:20like the bombing of those children in the school in Iran and the constant lying

10:25about it despite all evidence to the contrary.

10:28All these kind of mixed messages they're giving the American people.

10:31Trump was basically earlier today saying basically that he was going to surrender.

10:35And then in the next breath, he'd say that this war is going to go

10:37as long as it takes and it could take a really long time.

10:41You don't know what to believe.

10:42Unfortunately, it's impossible to try.

10:44anything that's coming right now from the Trump regime.

10:48I mean, as always, but like I said, it's heightened right now.

10:51You know, in the last episode of the podcast, I said this was really reminding

10:55me of the way Donald Trump handled COVID with the endless lying and the kind

11:00of timelines of it's gone, it's never going to come here, 15 days going down

11:05to zero, like a miracle, it's going to go away.

11:08And as every kind of hour passed since then, I feel like it's become more

11:13and more and more kind of exactly like that.

11:16I know we got a lot discussed, so I'm going to stop rambling, but I

11:19got to toss it over to Jordy.

11:20Jordy, what's the latest on your end?

11:22What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas?

11:24Mighty big show tonight. I'm excited to get into it.

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11:37Look, I'm very excited to get into tonight's show.

11:40The situation is a political and strategic nightmare for the Trump regime.

11:45First off, it just completely undermines Trump's core brand, right?

11:49This idea of strength and this America first efficiency.

11:53I mean, Trump campaigned on ending forever wars.

11:56Instead, you know, it looks like he's gotten us in another one with literally zero

12:01clear exit strategy, aside from him just saying, yeah, I think we're wrapping up.

12:04You can't trust what the guy is saying.

12:07Instead of a pro -democracy uprising in Iran, because there was no plan or thought

12:13really put into this, the strikes unify the Iranian public against the U .S.

12:19This makes any sort of long -term victory just impossible and puts our troops at

12:24risk, puts our embassies at risk, and our citizens here in the States at risk.

12:29And also, what you can't overstate here is the economic shock of it all with

12:34the surging oil prices, the disruption to the global trade routes, the immediate inflationary pressure

12:39on the American consumer is being felt now more than ever.

12:42And the Trump economy is being dragged down by a war of his choice while

12:47the American people are suffering the consequences.

12:49And I'm not saying this to be hyperbolic, but it's obvious this is going to

12:53get really, really bad, Ben.

12:57Yeah. I don't like any propaganda.

12:59So let me be clear there.

13:01But the Trump propaganda is also just so bad.

13:06Like it is infantile in its execution and formulation that it's like, you can't even

13:13do propaganda, right? Like you're trying to do what the authoritarian regimes do, but you're

13:20also bad at that. You're bad at everything right now.

13:23You know, whether they're posting videos of like a grand theft auto or like NFL

13:30linebackers, like tackling people videos and mixing it with war footage, you know, or they

13:38were showing what like, you know, the different like cartoons.

13:42I'm like, what in the world are you doing?

13:44And then like the music artists call them out and like, stop stealing my songs.

13:48And the directors of the movies, like stop using me for like war propaganda.

13:52Like, what are you even, you know, doing right here?

13:56Right. So I'll tell you how I experienced today's news because I taught today.

14:01So there was about an hour and a half where I was out teaching my

14:06class at USC. And so before I taught my class, the markets were tanking and

14:11it looked like it was going to be a very grim day economically for this

14:17country, perhaps one of the worst out there.

14:19Then I leave the class, I go out and I'm like, huh.

14:23What's going on? The markets are going up?

14:26The price of oil is going down?

14:29That's a surprise. Did something good happen that I'm unaware of?

14:33So I start looking, and when I see on the newswire, Trump, I think the

14:38Iran war is pretty much complete.

14:40Then I learned, where did he say this?

14:43And he said it to CBS, Weijia Jiang, and he said, and this is what

14:48she reported from CBS, in a phone interview, Trump told me that the war could

14:52be over soon. I think the war is very complete, pretty much.

14:56They have no Navy, no communications.

14:59They've got no Air Force.

15:00He added that the U .S.

15:02is very far ahead of its initial four to five week estimated time frame, but

15:06he wasn't there, he told Weijia.

15:08Asked about Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, that's the son of the prior Ayatollah,

15:15who's more extreme than the prior Ayatollah, who Trump has openly criticized.

15:20Trump said, I have no message for him, none whatsoever.

15:24Trump said he had someone in mind to replace Khamenei, but he did not elaborate.

15:28As for the Strait of Hermos, Trump noted that ships are moving through for now,

15:33but he is thinking about taking it over.

15:36Trump warned Iran, they've shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try

15:41anything cute, or it's going to be the end of that country.

15:44So I said, aha, that's what happened.

15:47And if you looked at the market, whether it's the S &P, start shooting up.

15:53You look at the price of oil per barrel, it starts tanking down like 30%.

16:00So okay, gas prices are going to be more affordable now.

16:05What's going on? So then I put on my journalist cap, and I go, I

16:11get that Weijia's saying that.

16:12I get CBS is saying that.

16:15But are they just stenographers for the regime?

16:18And let me be clear, Weijia's a good reporter.

16:21But I think in this day and age, you can't be a stenographer for the

16:26Trump regime. So because she's a really good, she asks great questions.

16:30She really does. To me, she's one of the top reporters out there in the

16:34White House. So then I'm looking around, and I'm confused, because I'm like, okay, I

16:41know he said this, I see the markets reacting, but is there any evidence for

16:45this out there? And so I'm looking, like I'm really, I'm going through all my

16:49open source information, Telegram, I'm speaking to our editorial team, like, is there anything true

16:55to this? Where is this coming?

16:56No, it's just Trump said.

16:57I said, really? Trump said?

17:00And this is what's happening right now?

17:02When it actually bears no resemblance to what's happening in Trump's unlawful war?

17:08Well, actually, things are just as bad as they were before, and Iran still has

17:14the capabilities, and they haven't run out of missiles, and they've done a transition of

17:19power to someone arguably significantly more extreme than the past leader.

17:25They have their foreign ministers and national security council advisors doing American media and British

17:32media and media locally describing what's going on.

17:38I'm looking at the videos from Tehran.

17:41I'm seeing people there by the hundreds of thousands in the street protesting, not the

17:49Ayatollah, against Trump, against the Trump regime, against Israel.

17:55And rallying behind the Ayatollah.

17:58We've lost even the people.

18:01wanted the Ayatollah gone because Donald Trump's made comments like, we're going to change the

18:06map of Iran. The next Ayatollah is going to have to be selected by me

18:11and Netanyahu. And so you've lost the support of even people there who may have

18:17been inclined to support you before, but then it gets worse.

18:20He spoke to Putin. I'm like, well, this is being reported publicly.

18:25Yeah. How do we know he spoke to Putin?

18:28The Kremlin's been bragging about it.

18:31So Trump's been asked about it and he's admitted that he did it, but the

18:35Kremlin immediately did the readout of what was said.

18:39So Putin, in a phone call with Trump today, shared proposals to end the Iran

18:46war quickly. And they also spoke about Ukraine.

18:50And they also spoke about Donald Trump removing sanctions from Russia to allow Russia to

18:57start exporting its oil across the globe.

19:00America's already removed, the United States has already removed the sanctions that prohibited Russia from

19:06giving oil to India. So Russia is benefiting massively from this right now because they

19:13got to sell super high.

19:17When the price was $120 per barrel, that's when they unloaded all of their oil

19:24and made massive profits. Then Trump manipulated the market and it went down.

19:29Now the price of oil is going back up right now and they're going to

19:33unload more oil, which means they're going to be able to buy more Shahid drones

19:39from Iran. Russia is providing Iran with the coordinates of American soldiers and assets to

19:48kill Americans, which Donald Trump's like, well, if they're doing that, they're doing a bad

19:53job and we do it.

19:55So why can't they do it?

19:56That's Donald Trump's defense. We do it to them so they could do it to

20:00us. That's what you're saying about Russia right now.

20:05So you have Putin empowered more than ever.

20:09And I'm trying to learn more.

20:11I'm trying to say, so what is actually happening here?

20:14I'm learning that more MQ -9 Reaper drones have been shot down.

20:20I'm seeing that the Strait of Hermoz, yeah, there are some transponders being shut up,

20:25but by and large, pretty much shut down.

20:29I'm seeing Iran issue ultimatums to Arab nations saying effectively, if you have Israeli and

20:38United States embassies in your country, then we're going to continue attacking you.

20:43If you remove them, you're good.

20:44Use the Strait of Hermoz.

20:46And I'm thinking to myself, it's market manipulation.

20:50The war is still raging.

20:52There's no sign of this stopping.

20:54How tragic, how horrific, how despicable that we have a regime that would do this.

21:01And how do people keep falling for this?

21:03Brett and Jordy. Like you said, the propaganda is so stupid and so basic that

21:10you'd think anybody with half a brain cell would be able to see through exactly

21:14what is going on. But Trump, in the same like few sentences could dance every

21:20which way around the same exact issue.

21:23And then he allows kind of everyone to hear the soundbite that they want to

21:27hear. He did this a lot during the campaign too, when it came to issues

21:31like abortion and other kind of controversial issues out there.

21:34But you had basically in the same speech today, Trump saying the war is very

21:38complete. Then he said the war.

21:39will be a short -term excursion.

21:41Then he said the war will continue until the enemy is decisively defeated.

21:46Then he said the war has actually already been won in a lot of ways.

21:49Then he said we haven't won enough.

21:51Then he said we will go forward more determined than ever until we achieve ultimate

21:55victory. It was just this, that, this, that, just dancing every which way around the

22:00issue. Meanwhile, like you were saying, Ben, this has been a boon to Vladimir Putin

22:05and Russia. They cannot have gotten more out of this.

22:09I mean, they have to be salivating right now out of every move Donald Trump

22:13did by increasing the price of oil with Donald Trump's war, with the easing of

22:19the sanctions, which is now going to make Russia much richer for the first time

22:24in a long time. They've been begging for these sanctions to be released.

22:27And now Donald Trump is handing it to them at the same time where they,

22:32while they are helping Iran to target American troops.

22:35I mean, talk about traitorous.

22:37And meanwhile, one of the biggest things to me that is crushing me right now,

22:43just not even on any sort of political level whatsoever, but just on a human

22:47level is what a betrayal this has been to the Iranian people.

22:53If you remember everybody, what did Donald Trump say?

22:56It was kind of like about January, I believe Donald Trump told the Iranian people,

23:00now's your time. Take to the streets.

23:03The United States has your back.

23:06Go protest, overthrow the regime.

23:09We gotcha. We gotcha. What happens?

23:12They're in the streets, more take to the streets.

23:14Tens of thousands get slaughtered by the regime and Donald Trump does absolutely nothing.

23:21Now flash forward to months later, Donald Trump is bombing Iran basically indiscriminately.

23:27Donald Trump bombed a school and he is refusing to take credit for bombing the

23:31school right now. But all intelligence points to that exact fact.

23:35We even saw footage of the Tomahawk missile, a US weapon hit that school.

23:40We've seen reports from a lot of independent reporting.

23:43We've seen US officials even acknowledge privately that they believe that the US was responsible

23:48for that strike. But Donald Trump gets out there and he still tries to say

23:52that Iran were the ones who fired a missile at their own school.

23:56Preposterous, what a heinous, despicable lie, atrocity denial of the worst kind.

24:03And I've noticed in recent days that the Trump administration has been not making a

24:09distinction between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people.

24:14And they are giving the Iranian regime everything they need to be much more hardline

24:20and to have a grip of power much stronger than they ever had before.

24:25You saw it even just a few days ago.

24:26Pete Hegseth during his 60 minutes interview is one of the first clips that they

24:30released. They were talking about the Russia situation that Ben was speaking about.

24:35And they were like, well, aren't you worried that Russia has now entered the war

24:39and Russia is helping Iran to target American citizens?

24:42And Hegseth putting on his fake machismo tough guy act said, quote, the only ones

24:48who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they are going to

24:52live. As I was saying, not making a distinction between the Iranian people and the

24:59Iranian regime, just saying that I'm going to threaten all Iranians.

25:03And we saw Donald Trump today at one of these speeches, one of these press

25:06conferences that he had. Donald Trump, they were, he was asked, he was like, so

25:10they were like, so are you going to still help the Iranian people?

25:14You, you promised them that you were going to help them months ago.

25:17And now you. seem to be saying that you're okay if you just kind of

25:20got out of there and you installed a more hardline leader there.

25:26They're still, those people are not free.

25:28So you're just going to leave.

25:29You don't care about helping those people anymore.

25:32And Donald Trump was like, ah, you know, I would love to help them, but

25:35they're kind of menacing those people.

25:37And if they were, you know, maybe not so menacing, I would help them.

25:40How could you possibly say that and pretend like you are a supporter of democracy?

25:46And how do the people actually think that this is an individual who gives a

25:50shit about your lives? And you see the bombing campaigns and you see even just

25:54the toxicity of, uh, the chemicals right now that are getting in the air because

25:59they're just indiscriminately bombing oil.

26:01Israel bombed these oil, uh, refineries throughout, uh, Iran.

26:05And they had like a nuclear winter type, uh, uh, you know, smoke black.

26:10They woke up. The sky was black during the day.

26:13It was like dripping. These are the people who are actually supposed to be protecting

26:17the people. They're giving the Iranian regime all the propaganda that they need right now

26:22to go against the United States.

26:24And they've actually made this new Ayatollah way stronger.

26:28And all they've done was replace an old Ayatollah who was like 86 years old,

26:34probably didn't have much time to live with a younger, more hardline Ayatollah.

26:39Oh, and they killed like all of his family.

26:41They killed a lot of his family members just in case, uh, you know, it

26:45wasn't enough already. And the whole thing right now, it's really, it's like a worst

26:49case scenario, uh, for a situation like this in the middle East.

26:53And Trump thinks that at any time that he could just get out of there

26:56and that everything would be okay as Americans now.

26:59And our allies are just being threatened around the world, quite frankly, because of Trump's

27:04actions is it's why you need adults in the room.

27:07And I just don't say that it's why you need adults in the room.

27:11It's why elections matter. And it's why I think there's going to be a clear

27:14reckoning in this country, uh, in the fight about truth and facts and whether we

27:20care about truth and facts as a society, or we're just going to allow like

27:25the algorithms to dictate what you want your idea of the truth to be what

27:30Donald Trump is doing. They are.

27:32So the Trump regime is so unprepared for what is happening right now.

27:37They are evil and they are stupid.

27:40And that is the worst combination because they're also powerful.

27:43And they're also dictating what happens to the, the people of this country by, by

27:49their actions of what they're doing with more wars.

27:52It's a scary thing when you see how much power the Trump regime is willing

27:57to wield and with no sort of like, okay, so what's the rationale, right?

28:03Sell it to me. Like, like what, what is the point of, of all of

28:06this? Because to me, there, there is none, there is no clear point.

28:11There is no clear end game.

28:13And that is the saddest and scariest part of this whole thing.

28:16So when Donald Trump goes out there and says, oh, the war is over now,

28:21and you see MAGA media, legacy media, just regurgitate what he's saying, Ben, to your

28:26point in this like, sort of like pseudo -martial manipulation strategy.

28:30It's damn near terrifying because someone at some point is going to have to hold

28:35his feet to the fire and demand the truth and demand the facts.

28:38So shout out to independent media demanding those things, right?

28:41We're not going to be gaslit by corporate media into thinking that what's happening in

28:45this, in any of this is normal.

28:48None of this is normal.

28:49We should all be outraged.

28:50I know we, the collective we hear certainly are, but like, when are more people

28:55going to be fed up with this?

28:56And I think ultimately we're starting to see a true vibe shift with how just

29:02the run -of -the -mill general, you know, society and Americans feel about Donald Trump

29:06and this regime. Let's talk about this.

29:09Virtually every former president has some quote about how difficult the decisions are over war

29:18and peace and how painstaking it is for them to decide to go to war.

29:25Let me give you some examples.

29:27Dwight Eisenhower said, every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies

29:35a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.

29:39Abraham Lincoln, fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray that this mighty scourge of

29:46war may speedily pass away.

29:49George Washington, my first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from

29:56the earth. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I hate war.

30:00Harry Truman, the only thing new in the world is the history you do not

30:04know. James Madison, of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most

30:11to be dreaded. Barack Obama, war in one form or another appeared with the first

30:17man. But we must begin by acknowledging the hard truth.

30:21We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes.

30:28One of the most powerful from Dwight Eisenhower, I know war as few other men

30:33now living know it. And nothing to me is more revolting.

30:39Here's what Donald Trump said about war today.

30:42Let's play that clip, Fred.

30:44But, you know, they've said this about a lot of things.

30:46No other president could do some of this shit I'm doing.

30:51No other president. The things I'm doing, nobody else was going to do.

30:57I say they say it all the time.

30:59Sir, could you do this?

31:00You're the only one can do it.

31:01I don't care what political party you're from.

31:04I hope the case that I just made and compared it to what Donald Trump's

31:09view is, just shows you this is not normal, what is happening right now.

31:16This is not normal. And we can treat it as such.

31:19And so many of the problems right now are people normalizing this behavior by this

31:26revolting individual in the Oval Office, or in this case, indoor row at his own

31:32resort grifting while the MAGA Republicans are there with him.

31:38Instead of actually dealing with Article 1 work of the Constitution.

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36:26Benji, where'd you next, big bro?

36:29You know, let's talk about this right now.

36:31I'm going to show what Trump was saying in just a little bit, but I'm

36:35just reflecting on how his family is behaving right now.

36:39While so many Americans are scared and rightfully so, as Americans are suffering right now

36:45from the psychological torture that this regime is inflicting.

36:49One of the stories that the Wall Street Journal exclusively broke this morning is that

36:55Donald Trump's kids, you know, Eric Trump and others are now in the drone business

37:00and that they are now behind a startup that will be making drones for the

37:07Pentagon right now. Trump's sons back new drone company targeting Pentagon sales.

37:13It's called Powerous. And it says it plans to acquire Ukrainian drone technology to sell

37:20it to the U .S.

37:21military. So here's my question.

37:24I'm just asking questions, right?

37:27So when we asked Zelensky for help to shoot down the Shahhead drones, you may

37:34be saying, well, isn't that inconsistent?

37:37Everything's inconsistent with this regime though, of Donald Trump then helping Putin.

37:43And if Putin is targeting our soldiers by giving Iran the coordinates and Trump is

37:51taking away the sanctions against Russia Russia to sell its oil, but then we're getting

37:58help from Ukraine. So how do you kind of put this all together?

38:03Well, again, I'm just asking questions.

38:07Are we taking the Ukrainian technology, holding over their head support so they can help

38:15the Trump family make money, right?

38:19Once we learn that technology, it then gets utilized by this startup, which now does

38:26the contracts with the Pentagon, the Trump family gets enriched instead of the Ukrainian drone

38:33companies, because we're getting their IP and tech.

38:37And then we're helping Russia get richer by removing sanctions.

38:42And we're holding this over Zelensky's head.

38:45I seem to remember a political party and a guy who was running for president

38:49who and made a big stink about an individual, a son of the president who

38:54was doing business in Ukraine.

38:56But they made up a whole lot of stories about that guy and held a

39:00whole lot of hearings about that guy.

39:02But they now want to actually enrich themselves off the Ukrainian people.

39:09And this is okay? Yeah.

39:12Take the drone technology from Ukraine while then releasing Russia from sanctions.

39:20While Russia targets American, helps Iran target American soldiers.

39:27And while Donald Trump helps China against Taiwan, while China is also providing support to

39:35Iran. Just think about that.

39:37Trump's granddaughter, Kai, yesterday posted a video.

39:41I brought my secret service to Erwan.

39:46It's an expensive grocery store in Los Angeles.

39:49And she like buys stuff.

39:52at Air One and like tries the sushi, like, oh, this sushi is gross.

39:57And what I pay for it, $25 for the, I'm going to have to file

40:01for bankruptcy. It's like actually what she says.

40:04So that's what she's posting.

40:06You had Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump's daughter, right?

40:09Kai's a granddaughter, Tiffany Trump, the day the war begins, she's posting, you can't like

40:14make this stuff up. She's posting photos of herself in Egypt.

40:19I think she previously took this vacation, but she happened to post it that day.

40:23I believe February 27th, I believe was the first day right around there doing the

40:28thing where like, she puts her finger on the top of the pyramid, like doing

40:30influencer poses right there. You have Melania Trump making posts about her movie and saying,

40:39you know, uh, the Melania movie is out right now.

40:43Go and check big news.

40:44What does she say? She says big news, Melania, France, record breaking film only on

40:51prime worldwide. You have her making those posts.

40:54You have Eric Trump also making posts of himself with like a race car team

41:00that he's involved in. You have, uh, Ivanka Trump and there it is, you know,

41:06with the race car team, like they're out there partying right now.

41:10Like I, I saw people saying like, are they trying to like do French revolution?

41:15Like, are they really, like, are they putting that out into the world?

41:18Right? Like, what are you doing?

41:20Dude, they are living, the Trump kids are living their best lives.

41:24They are, they are partying.

41:26They are spiking, they are spiking the football in the faces of the American people

41:31right now. You know, I think they just realized that like the more extreme they

41:34go, like the more their cultish followers will support them.

41:39And like in the past, it would be like, you could do like, make a

41:42minor transgression and it would be front page news.

41:45And there'd have to be at minimum of an apology or people would be resigning

41:49from their jobs or whatever it is.

41:52Right. But these people, these Trump family grifters, they just know that if they just

41:58throw it in your face, I'm my secret service trip to air one.

42:03I mean, SNL couldn't write that as like more of a fucking parody.

42:09Sorry to use my language.

42:10And you throw that in people's faces, but somehow they get these MAGA people to

42:16go, Oh, that's amazing. This is the best guy.

42:20What a great dress you were wearing, a great dress stealing from you.

42:26It's obvious, right? The way we're talking to air one is like a super expensive

42:29high end, like grocery store in California, just in case people don't know it, because

42:34it's, it's, it's that insane.

42:36And it's that tone deaf literally as literally as they're bombing children.

42:41She's going there and my secret service trip, Eric Trump posting with race car drivers,

42:48Don Jr. I'm doing whatever the Don Jr.

42:50does, man. It's so pathetic.

42:52They are so pathetic and they do it at such a rapid clip that, that

42:57it, it almost, it's almost hard for people to keep up with.

43:00I'll tell you what Don Jr.

43:02I'll tell you what Don Jr.

43:03actually posted on his, um, Instagram account.

43:08He posted a photo of some of that black smoke that Brett was talking about

43:13from the United States and Israel kind of bombing indiscriminately in Iran.

43:18And it says black smoke signals that the college of the mullahs has not reached

43:23a decision on the new Ayatollah today.

43:26And like that's, and then Don Jr.

43:29goes not going to lie.

43:30This is legit funny, he says.

43:33This is legit funny. Well, they picked an Ayatollah.

43:37It's Khomeini's son, Monjaba, who is now, if this is legit funny to you, but

43:44there are hundreds of thousands of people in Revolutionary Square in Tehran supporting the Ayatollah,

43:51and anybody who may have been sympathetic to the United States or just to the

43:57idea of overthrowing the Ayatollah are not to be seen right now in Iran.

44:05And our intelligence community shows there's frankly very little chance of that rising ever again.

44:14There was maybe a small window in January when Trump betrayed them.

44:18But even then, people thought it probably doesn't have the capability of actually overthrowing.

44:23By the way, I think that was the subtext behind Trump's remarks today when he

44:26basically abandoned the Iranian people, when he was basically like, oh, those people, they're very

44:33nasty. At one point, he called them nasty people, said the Iranian people are very

44:37nasty people. And in another one, he said, I would love to help them, but

44:41they're very menacing, very menacing people.

44:44And I think part of the context or the subtext behind that is the fact

44:49that he has learned from the intelligence in the United States that he has actually

44:56made these people more sympathetic to the regime by the United States' actions, and that

45:02Trump has no chance of actually implementing the regime change that he wanted to implement

45:09when he embarked on this war without having any sort of strategy whatsoever.

45:13He's really only made the problem much worse.

45:17And he's made our country much less safe.

45:20And he's made the region much less safe.

45:23And he's completely disrupted markets.

45:25And it's like every possible thing imaginable that kind of could go wrong with a

45:29situation like this is going wrong right now.

45:32And I think he realizes that.

45:33Well, Brett, because it can never be his fault.

45:36It can't be dear leader's fault.

45:37Donald Trump, he's the smartest and most brightest and the bestest guy that ever exists.

45:41So it's the Iranian people's fault now, Brett.

45:44He always moves the goalposts here so he doesn't have to actually see the consequences

45:49of his ill planning, of his misjudgment, of his just utter lunacy.

45:55That's what it is. Let me go and bring some of the receipts because I

45:58know one of the things you value at the Midas Touch Network is that this

46:02isn't a shouting show, right, where we do the split screen, blah, blah, blah, blah,

46:06blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

46:08You're trying to say I was getting a little shouty?

46:10No, quite the contrary. Actually, I was saying that you were pitch perfect, Jordy.

46:16But I was just saying that, you know, what I don't want the show to

46:20be about, though, is just like, well, I'm not suggesting you did this at all.

46:24I just I want to show people what he said rather than me saying what

46:27he said, not because I like showing you Trump clips.

46:30But I think it's important if I were to present my case to a jury,

46:33right, when I used to be a litigator, I'd have to support what I'm saying

46:37with evidence. That's why the catchphrase is let me play you the clip.

46:40And maybe you don't like when I say that.

46:42It's like, all right, just play the clip.

46:43You don't need to say play the clip.

46:44But the whole point is, is that here it is.

46:46Here's their words. Here's what they're saying.

46:49That's it. That shouldn't be Democrat, Republican, independent.

46:51It just is what they're saying.

46:53So here the reporter says to Donald Trump or asks on Iran, you called it

46:58an excursion and you said it would be over soon.

47:01Are you thinking this week?

47:03What do you mean by soon?

47:05And remember earlier today, Trump said we're basically complete.

47:09basically done. So a reporter seeks clarification.

47:12What did you mean when you told that to CBS?

47:14Let's play it. Yeah, please.

47:16Thank you, Mr. President. On Iran, you called it an excursion.

47:19You said it would be over soon.

47:21Are you thinking this week it will be over?

47:23No, I think so. OK.

47:25And with respect. Very soon.

47:27Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership.

47:31In fact, there are two levels of leadership and even actually, as it turns out,

47:35more than that. But two levels of leadership are gone.

47:38Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about.

47:42So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective.

47:47Yeah. Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean that people haven't heard of

47:51it. Their foreign minister is the same foreign minister.

47:55Their national security advisors, their same national security advisor.

47:58Their head of their parliament is the head of their parliament.

48:01Their new Ayatollah is just the son of the old Ayatollah, who's more extreme than

48:06his dad was. Did you kill a lot of people who were in leadership positions?

48:10Yes. Is the leadership structure and the continuity of it in place?

48:16Still is. Does Iran still have the capabilities to shoot at the Arab neighbors that

48:23were American interests are? They do.

48:25So let's, again, just stick with the facts here.

48:27That's all. That's all I want to do on this show.

48:30By the way, you've seen in recent days too, like these talking points.

48:32And it's like, I have, you know, Iraq war PTSD from hearing all of these

48:37talking points over and over and over again.

48:40I can't believe that they use the same comments to try to dupe people and

48:44that people believe this stuff.

48:45But you see these people one by one going on TV, these Republicans and people

48:50within the Trump administration, and they go, well, of course, we're going to win.

48:53Of course, this is going to be a success.

48:55We have far more firepower than they do.

48:57They don't stand the chance.

48:59I heard that in Iraq.

49:01I've heard that with Afghanistan.

49:03That's what they said during Vietnam.

49:05They've said this during every single war that the United States has went into.

49:09That has been a complete and utter disaster.

49:11And yet they use the same freaking lines every time they send American troops out

49:17there to die. And I'm sick of it.

49:19Here's the thing though. Just wait until he does the banner thing.

49:23I say that not being funny at all.

49:25He's going to do the mission accomplished banner thing.

49:27He does it every day though at this point, right?

49:30It's fair, fair. But just wait till the photo op itself.

49:33Just wait because it's coming.

49:35It's absolutely coming. Right. But to me, Brett, I hear you of the similarities, but

49:40like, to me, it's the difference of like degrees that are so vast that like,

49:48at least with Iraq, and I'm not necessarily saying this is a better thing, like

49:53at least they tried to present it with intelligent people who worked hard to pretend

50:00they were building a coalition.

50:02There was months and months and months of selling that to the American people.

50:07You know, like right now, this is like out of a stupid comic book.

50:11Like it's not even done at a level that bears any like intelligent thinking.

50:17And, you know, and I'm watching, I'm like, this is just, this is just stupid.

50:21This is, that's what I said earlier in the show.

50:23Like I don't like propaganda.

50:25There's to be, that's an AI image of the mission accomplished in the background.

50:28Just so we're mocking that he's declaring mission accomplished.

50:31Just so, just so you know.

50:33But he said those things essentially.

50:35But again, I don't like propaganda in general.

50:39I detest it. But this is like, this is like F level propaganda.

50:44You're like, like what, what are you talking about?

50:46Then he bragged about. with Putin.

50:48I mean, just think about it.

50:49If American president, Putin is out there right now trying to kill Americans.

50:56Putin's sworn enemy, the United States of America.

51:00Putin is working to destroy our country, all of Europe, other than, I suppose, Orban,

51:08you know, and trying to destroy Ukraine, which I consider part of Europe, of course.

51:15He hates us. He literally wants to see America dead.

51:19But Donald Trump's like, yeah, I had a good call.

51:22Good call with the guy today.

51:24He had a good call with him.

51:25And by the way, the way we found out about this was from the Kremlin

51:30originally. So when the reporter was asking Trump, it was for confirmation about what the

51:36Kremlin published. Watch for yourself.

51:39Let's play it. Do you approve of Iran's new supreme leader?

51:42And secondly, can you tell us more about your call with Russian President Vladimir Putin

51:47today? What did you discuss?

51:48Yes, I had a very good call with President Putin.

51:52We had a lot of people on the line from our side, from his side.

51:55We were talking about Ukraine, which is just a never ending fight.

52:01And when look, there's tremendous hatred between President Putin and President Zelenskyy.

52:07They can't seem to get it together.

52:10But I think it was a positive call on that subject.

52:12And we obviously talked then about the Middle East.

52:15And he wants to be helpful.

52:19I said that you could be more helpful by getting the Ukraine -Russia war over

52:24with. That would be more helpful.

52:25But we had a very good talk.

52:27And he wants to be very constructive.

52:29That was really a Helsinki kind of moment for me.

52:32Like if that were a first term Trump comment, that would be like the top

52:37headline for a while. Russia wants to help us.

52:40They actually want to help the war.

52:41It reminds me of after that Helsinki meeting when he was like, oh, well, Russia's

52:46actually, Vladimir Putin actually says that he's actually, he was actually very strong in his

52:50denials. And the Russians actually want to help us with our cybersecurity.

52:53So we're actually going to now, we're going to join forces actually.

52:56And they're going to help us with our cybersecurity because Vlad DC tells me he

52:59wants to help you guys.

53:01You know, he says he wants to help and I believe him.

53:04Yeah. I'll just show you.

53:06I mean, we know that Russia is providing data to Iran to kill our soldiers

53:15and to blow up our military interest abroad.

53:18That's an undeniable fact. It's an undisputed fact.

53:22In fact, the Trump regime doesn't even rebut it, right?

53:25The Trump regime's line to it.

53:27And Brett, do we have that like, uh, the spokesperson, you know, one of those

53:32state department spokesperson, that, that lady who says that just their line is, well, if

53:37Russia's doing it, they're doing a bad job.

53:40Yeah. Tammy, Tammy Bruce, the UN ambassador.

53:42Tammy Bruce, let's just play this.

53:43Their, their, their line is not to deny it.

53:46It's to say, well, they're not doing a good job.

53:48What do you mean they're not doing a good job?

53:49We've had like our drone reapers destroyed our CIA, CIA facilities in like Saudi Arabia.

53:58I have the full clip, which is kind of long if you want to play

54:00the whole thing. We don't need to play the full clip then it's fine.

54:02She says that, but, and that's repeated over and over again by Trump regime officials

54:09there. And it's like, what dude, and China is helping Iran right now.

54:14And Trump's like, well, I'm just trying to do my best to help China, help

54:18America. Why didn't you help America?

54:21So a reporter then asks Trump, a video appears to show a top.

54:26Tomahawk missile likely destroying the Iranian girl's school.

54:29There's video of it. You can see the Tomahawk in the video.

54:34And then from the satellite image, you can see the craters that are formed from

54:40the Tomahawk missile. And you can see the nearby areas that were also hit.

54:46And it has a pattern that was utilized that is clearly consistent with the U

54:51.S. Tomahawks. The U .S.

54:53is not selling Iran Tomahawk missiles, okay?

54:56And not a lot of countries even have these Tomahawk missiles to begin with.

55:01And I'll show you what Trump's response is to this atrocity.

55:06And look, it was very hard for me to report on this.

55:10It's sad for me to report on atrocities like this, but it's my job as

55:15a reporter. And there were lots of people who were even denying it when we

55:19were reporting on it early on.

55:20And they were saying, no, that's just Iranian propaganda.

55:25I'm like, it really happened.

55:27We know it happened. And now it's been confirmed across multiple intelligence agencies.

55:34We know that's what happened, okay?

55:35And now the Trumpers are like, we're doing an investigation.

55:38Well, here's what Trump said when a reporter asked him about it.

55:41Let's play this first. Go ahead.

55:43There's footage that shows an American missile strike and a Tomahawk missile likely destroyed that

55:51Iranian girl's school. So will the Americans, will the U .S.

55:54accept any responsibility? Well, I haven't seen it.

55:57And I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons

56:01around, is used by, you know, is sold and used by other countries.

56:05You know that. And whether it's Iran, who also has some Tomahawks, I wish they

56:11had more, but whether it's Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk, a

56:16Tomahawk is very generic. It's sold to other countries, but that's being investigated.

56:21Okay. Current operators include UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands.

56:28There's not a generic Tomahawk, like a, like a generic medication.

56:33It's not ibuprofen. And ibuprofen.

56:35You know, it's just, you know, when, when someone does a lie like that, that's

56:38such a big lie, right?

56:40If someone watches that, you're like, wait a minute, what part of that was a

56:45lie? Every aspect of it.

56:47So they don't have Tomahawks?

56:49No. But what about the generic?

56:52No. What do you mean he hasn't seen?

56:54No, he's, he's seen it.

56:55He knows. He knows that the United States did it.

56:57He knows the United States killed 150 little, little girls on the first day.

57:02The question that needs to be answered, although the answer doesn't bring back to life,

57:07these little girls who were massacred is, was it autonomous AI that did it?

57:13Because there were Iranian Revolutionary Guard facilities nearby.

57:20But this facility has been existing for a long time.

57:24Did the AI mix up the facilities?

57:28What happened there? But we did it.

57:33That's what happened. So a reporter then asks him another question, like, so are you

57:36suggesting that Iran has used a Tomahawk on itself?

57:40Is that the suggestion to kill the little girls?

57:43Like, that's what you're saying?

57:43Here, play this clip. Mr.

57:44President, you just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed

57:49its own elementary school on the first day of the war.

57:52But you're the only person in your government saying this.

57:54Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that when he was asked standing over your shoulder

57:57on your plane on Saturday.

57:59Why are you the only person saying this?

58:01Because I just don't know enough about it.

58:03I think it's something. that i was told is under investigation but tomahawks are are

58:09used by others as you know numerous other nations have tomahawks they buy them from

58:14us but i will certainly whatever the report shows i'm willing to live with that

58:19report does it even mean you're willing to live with the report we massacred 150

58:25little girls and you know that's his concession that we did it i'm willing to

58:32live with it okay you're willing to live with atrocities we know we know that

58:38about you but why should we the people in the united states live with this

58:45region this is where our taxpayer dollars are going to while your health care is

58:49being ripped away while you can't afford homes while you can't afford basic necessities in

58:57life while you are not getting paid with dignity while the trump regime launches what

59:06they're calling an anti -fraud crusade against our veterans basically accusing our veterans of defrauding

59:13the va that was their big initiative that they rolled out today going after our

59:17but while they're doing that our money is going to drop bombs and kill little

59:23girls but you think about it this is the epstein class right what is this

59:29war also about covering up the fact that this is a regime of predators who

59:36committed atrocities against little girls so it doesn't shock you that the people who are

59:44predators against little girls are predators against little girls and can live with it can

59:50live with it it's like i can live with that and people i'm i'm just

59:53i'm begging people to not reflexively engage in this atrocity denialism that exists and and

1:00:00it happens a lot in these situations i think we saw it so much uh

1:00:04in gaza when schools were bombed and hospitals were bombed the instant kind of reflex

1:00:09of a lot of people and the instant propaganda push to try to cover for

1:00:13those bad actions were to say that they did it to themselves were to say

1:00:17that these missiles were actually misfired by whoever and you could acknowledge that the iranian

1:00:24regime is a very evil regime that is very bad to its people and has

1:00:30killed tens of thousands of its people in the past few months alone who were

1:00:34protesting for their freedom and you could also say that it is absolutely reprehensible and

1:00:40unforgivable that the united states killed over 150 little girls bombing a school and then

1:00:47you know the excuses just continue to mount from there because i've been seeing these

1:00:51online i see how the propaganda works so i i just want to call it

1:00:55out quickly you see people say well why are they building these schools so close

1:00:59to military bases if they don't want to be hit let me tell you because

1:01:03i looked it up there are more than 160 public schools located on u .s

1:01:08military installations so are you saying that you would be okay if another country bombed

1:01:14a school in the united states and you write it off well they shouldn't have

1:01:18had it that close to a military installation that's not even us accounting for the

1:01:22schools that are in the perimeter of these military installations and bases so no it's

1:01:28not okay and i think we have to drop any of the sort of like

1:01:31equivocating when it comes to something that requires our moral clarity in moments like this

1:01:38we need to hold this administration's feet to the fire when it comes to this

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1:07:25Benji, where to next? So after Donald Trump manipulated the markets today, used CBS as

1:07:32his conduit to put out a message that he wanted to end the war soon,

1:07:36then did that deranged press conference that was all over the place about an hour

1:07:42ago. He posted the following on his social media platform.

1:07:46If Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz,

1:07:51they will be hit by the United States of America 20 times harder than they

1:07:56have been hit thus far.

1:07:57Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for

1:08:02Iran to ever be built back as a nation again.

1:08:06Death, fire, and fury will rain upon them.

1:08:11But I hope and pray that it does not happen.

1:08:14Just pause there for a second.

1:08:17Brett, to your point, he's also lumping once again the Iranian people into this as

1:08:23well, and saying, death, fire, and fury will rain upon them.

1:08:31Just think about that language.

1:08:33That's the language of Hitler, right?

1:08:37That's the language of like Mussolini.

1:08:40That's the language. The language that he's saying right now, there's another comment that he

1:08:44made, like the map of Iran is going to look very different after all this

1:08:48is done. He keeps threatening the country of Iran, not just the Iranian regime, which

1:08:53is the biggest gift that he could possibly give to the Iranian regime for them

1:08:59to hold. and strengthen their grip on power, um, on the Iranian people.

1:09:04I mean, the Iranian people don't want to see their country get destroyed.

1:09:08They don't want to see their borders shrink.

1:09:10They don't want to see their country go away.

1:09:12Okay. A lot of them may want new leadership, but Donald Trump right now is

1:09:16doing everything he can possible to ensure that the most hardline people are the ones

1:09:21who remain in power there.

1:09:23And Ben, I want to ask you this, and I'm sorry to ask you and

1:09:26interrupt you there, but like, if you could get in his head and I know

1:09:28it's a scary thing, why do you, why do you think he is using the,

1:09:31this type of language? Is it like this machismo, this, this strong man, this frankly

1:09:36authoritarian dictator type of language?

1:09:38Do you think he's doing this because he thinks it's going to like invigorate his

1:09:41base there? Like, oh yeah, this is our guy.

1:09:43Like why, why is he using these words?

1:09:45Because it's how weak men behave.

1:09:48It's a weak people behave like this, right?

1:09:52It's the opposite of what Sun Tzu describes in the art of war, right?

1:09:57About how you should portray when you're strong and what you should portray when you're,

1:10:03it's clear that Donald Trump's behavior indicates to anybody who's analyzing him, how weak he

1:10:12is because strong people don't need to behave like this.

1:10:17This is how desperate people sound.

1:10:20And a lot of the time when people are like, oh, you're anti -Trump, anti

1:10:24-Trump podcast. That's what I mean.

1:10:26You know, the bottom line is that if it helps more people watch this, you

1:10:30can say anti -Trump podcast, but it's not.

1:10:34It is a pro -democracy, pro -humanity, pro -leadership, pro -decency, pro -the values and

1:10:44principles that we talk about.

1:10:46The way Trump's behavior is and all of his life is that of a predator.

1:10:55Someone who threatens and takes and steals and destroys and bankrupts and defrauds.

1:11:06That's how he's always been, Jordy.

1:11:08So his behavior is consistent with that, right?

1:11:12Who covers up child sex trafficking rings?

1:11:15Who's best friends with Jeffrey Epstein?

1:11:19Who says they grab women's vaginas because you're rich and you do that when you're

1:11:26rich? That's what Donald Trump says, right?

1:11:29Who says that you buy beauty pageants to inspect girls naked?

1:11:33Because when you own beauty pageants, you get to be their doctor or their inspector

1:11:39and they have to let you do it.

1:11:41Who says these things? Who behaves these ways, right?

1:11:46Donald, who takes a social media company like Donald Trump's when you have that position

1:11:53and lose $700 million and only make $3 million in revenue such that you have

1:12:02to merge with a fusion company, which then has government contracts.

1:12:07So your social media entity is actually a fusion company who lives in a home

1:12:14that is the site of child sex trafficking.

1:12:18When all these people are like, well, what does the Epstein files show about Donald

1:12:25Trump? Okay. Child sex trafficking took place at his home.

1:12:30Shouldn't that be a pretty big red flag, right?

1:12:33Virginia Giuffre, when she was under age, was recruiting.

1:12:38rooted by Epstein for his sex trafficking ring at Mar -a -Lago, the place where

1:12:45Trump lives and the place where he is conducting this unlawful war is an area

1:12:54where Epstein partied. Who calls it Operation Epic Fury as though it's some game?

1:13:02I shared with you those quotes of former presidents because matters of war and peace

1:13:08should be the most painstaking decisions that are made for any American president.

1:13:17It should be the hardest thing you do and it should keep you up at

1:13:21night and it should bring you a sense of moral responsibility to have everything buttoned

1:13:29up. But the thing is, I'm not anti -Trump because he's this guy.

1:13:36His qualities and these characteristics are now resulting in so many people suffering and then

1:13:44he's found this cabal of deeply weak people who, who are, who like get off

1:13:52on this stuff too. I mean, do we have Lindsey Graham?

1:13:57I've said this before on, on videos and, and I, and I truly mean this

1:14:02in my opinion, whatever Lindsey Graham is hiding about his sexuality or his personality or

1:14:10who he is, I don't know.

1:14:11I want to be, I want to be, I don't know.

1:14:12I don't know his background, but whatever it is that he is unable to deal

1:14:19with or grapple with or whatever that may be.

1:14:22And again, I don't know.

1:14:25In my opinion, whatever he's dealing with, I think that he truly gets aroused and

1:14:33I'm not saying this to be funny.

1:14:35I actually think he gets off aroused by talking about war.

1:14:41I've never seen any human talk about war in, in this way.

1:14:46And again, I'm just giving you my opinions on this.

1:14:49And I want to be clear to make that distinction that this is opinion, first

1:14:53amendment observations that I'm giving you my opinion on, but take a look for yourself

1:15:00at Lindsey Graham. So you can see here, play this clip.

1:15:02President Trump is in the process of doing it.

1:15:05They're going to lose and we're going to win.

1:15:08Israel and the United States, you just wait to see what comes in the next

1:15:12two weeks. The next two weeks meaning what?

1:15:17We're going to blow the hell out of these people.

1:15:19This regime is in a death row now.

1:15:22It is going to be on its knees.

1:15:24It's going to fall. And when it falls, we're going to have peace like no

1:15:29other time. We're going to have prosperity unlike anyone could ever imagine.

1:15:33Peace brings prosperity. You can't do it by talking.

1:15:36The Democrats criticize this operation.

1:15:39They didn't do a damn thing.

1:15:40These men and women in the military should make us all proud.

1:15:43Remember when, again, you would see like a Baghdad Bob.

1:15:47Like to me, what I'm seeing there, Jordi, to your point, why?

1:15:51These are weak, weak individuals.

1:15:54So now take a look at, and this is like hard for me to like,

1:16:00even like wrap my mind around.

1:16:03So I look at the foreign minister of Iran and I'm thinking to myself, you

1:16:09know, is this person going to be out there doing death and fury will rain

1:16:14down upon you? And you know.

1:16:16what, you know, and chanting and, you know, all of the stereotypes that like our

1:16:21media tries to propagandize. Right.

1:16:23And I'm trying to like, I'm seeing Trump saying death, fury will rain down.

1:16:27And these people don't even know the tomahawks, they tomahawk themselves, red, you know, all

1:16:34of that. Okay. And then I'm watching, you know, okay, well, what are they saying

1:16:38on the other side right here?

1:16:40So play the foreign minister Aragchi and here's what he sat down and told American

1:16:46media. Let's play. Well, let me ask you, because what conditions would Iran accept to

1:16:52bring this war to an end?

1:16:57Well, actually, we are not at that point yet.

1:17:02Obviously, this time is different from the previous time.

1:17:05Last time we accepted the ceasefire.

1:17:10But, you know, this time is quite different.

1:17:13And the reason is obvious.

1:17:16You know, last time they attacked us, they made aggression against us, they killed our

1:17:21people, they destroyed our places, and then asked for a ceasefire.

1:17:25And we accepted out of good faith, because we were only exercising the, you know,

1:17:32the act of self -defense.

1:17:33And when the aggression was stopped, we stopped too.

1:17:37But, you know, it didn't brought, it didn't bring about peace.

1:17:43And now this year, they again started to attack us.

1:17:47And again, they have, you know, they are killing our people, they are killing, you

1:17:51know, girls, students, you know, they are attacking hospitals, you know, fresh water, desalinations, you

1:18:00know, refineries, you know, everywhere.

1:18:05People have been killed, places have been destroyed.

1:18:08And now they want to ask for a ceasefire again.

1:18:12Well, this doesn't work like this.

1:18:14So there should be a permanent end of the war.

1:18:18And unless we get to that, I think we need to, you know, continue fighting

1:18:25for the sake of our people.

1:18:28So then she asks him, well, what do you think about Donald Trump saying, which

1:18:34is, that's framing, what do you think about Donald Trump saying that it was actually

1:18:38Iran that bombed its own elementary school?

1:18:42And that's how she frames the question.

1:18:44Donald Trump said, react to what Donald Trump said.

1:18:48And watch what he says here.

1:18:49Here, play this clip. Let's move to the strike on the elementary school in southern

1:18:53Iran. It killed more than 170 people, including many children.

1:18:59President Trump said Iran is responsible for that strike.

1:19:03What is your response to what the president said?

1:19:09Well, it is, you know, funny.

1:19:13It is our school. These are our students, our girls, and they are attacked by

1:19:19an American fighter, a jet fighter, and they have been killed.

1:19:24Why Iran is responsible? Have we started this war?

1:19:28Have we attacked our own people?

1:19:31No, we were negotiating with the United States.

1:19:34And in the middle of negotiations, in the middle of diplomacy, they decided to attack

1:19:39us. And they have attacked so many places, including the schools and hospitals.

1:19:44And there are all evidences that this school is attacked by an American, you know,

1:19:52jet fighter. And then I'll just show you one more.

1:19:55I'm like, okay, who, who, I see the American Trump regime people speaking, right?

1:20:01So he's one of the people they have out there.

1:20:03Iran also has this guy, Kamal Karazi, the foreign policy advisor to the Supreme Leader

1:20:10to their Ayatollah. And again, I'm like, okay, so is this guy going to be

1:20:14out there, you know, talking about death and fire and fury?

1:20:18Like, is he out there going to be doing what we hear the Trump regime

1:20:22is doing? Is he going to start saying those things?

1:20:25You know, we're doing suicide bombs.

1:20:28And like, I'm, is this what they're going to say?

1:20:30Here's what this guy says.

1:20:31Let's play it. Iran has a new Supreme Leader.

1:20:34What does that mean for your military effort and the confrontation with the United States

1:20:39and Israel? That means the system is quite functioning.

1:20:43So the United States says it's drastically degraded the Iranian military, the capabilities as far

1:20:48as missiles is concerned, drones is concerned.

1:20:50How much longer can you do this?

1:20:51That is one of the false narratives that the United States government is producing.

1:21:02Iranian military is quite strong, as you see, because they have the motivation.

1:21:12They have the arms that they need, which are produced in Iran.

1:21:18As a matter of fact, we are not dependent on any other country for weapons

1:21:25and arms. So your side is ready for a long war if the United States

1:21:29and Israel choose that. Do you consider this an existential threat to the Islamic Republic?

1:21:35It is an existential threat to the Islamic Republic.

1:21:38And therefore, we have to stay with full might, as we are doing now.

1:21:45One thing I want to say before turning it over to Brett and Jordi, CNN

1:21:50is at its best when they do that type of reporting.

1:21:54And to me, if I were running CNN, I don't need to because I run

1:22:00the Midas Touch. I want to do more of that here on the Midas Touch

1:22:04Network, especially as we build out our international presence.

1:22:07That's what they should be doing.

1:22:08They don't need to be doing shows with, you know, Scott, whatever that guy's name

1:22:13is, you know, Jennings and having people yell.

1:22:16Just get the facts. That's good reporting right there.

1:22:21We can all judge for ourselves, right?

1:22:23We can look at the body language, the statements.

1:22:27We can compare it to then what's happening on the ground.

1:22:30And we can form opinions about the war when we're given a data set, just

1:22:35like members of the jury can do that at a trial.

1:22:39To me, that's what journalism should be about.

1:22:41That's why I do play the clips.

1:22:43More of that is what they need to do.

1:22:47And more of that is what, you know, I want to build here at the

1:22:50Midas Touch Network. And I'm showing it to you not to spread Iranian propaganda or

1:22:55to say, you know, here's what they're saying.

1:22:57I just showed you what Trump's saying.

1:23:00I'm showing you what they're saying.

1:23:02And you could make a decision if you believe that that Iranian regime is about

1:23:08to surrender. If they plan on giving up, if they look fearful or disorganized or

1:23:15all over the place, you can judge for yourself, Brett and Jordy.

1:23:19Yeah. And, you know, unfortunately, it's an indisputed fact that the Trump regime lied us

1:23:26into this war. And we know from third parties who were trusted third parties of

1:23:32the United States who said that.

1:23:33that Iran had come to the table and that they had conceded to the Trump

1:23:38administration far more than they have given to any other administration in history in the

1:23:44United States, even going beyond the Iran deal that Obama cut was how they put

1:23:48it. But Donald Trump refused to take yes for an answer in that case, and

1:23:54Donald Trump brought us into war in the middle of those negotiations.

1:23:57So we are dealing now, and I'm not saying far from it, I'm not saying

1:24:03our government has never lied to us before, because I would say probably just about

1:24:08every single president out there has lied to us.

1:24:10We've been lied into wars before.

1:24:11We've been lied about what's happening in wars before.

1:24:14But the level of lies that we are seeing right now and just how in

1:24:19your face they are about these lies, it's so much just demeaning to your intelligence

1:24:24that they go out there.

1:24:25And so I think it's important that we do have that split screen, that we

1:24:29are able to share the raw data.

1:24:31And I think as we reflect also on what this Trump administration has been doing

1:24:35for the past year or so, the way they've gone and just tried to completely

1:24:41gut any of President Biden's successes that he's had under the guise of America First,

1:24:49they've actually done the opposite.

1:24:51They've actually left America all alone, and they've actually made the United States of America

1:24:55far less prepared for emergency situations kind of like this.

1:25:00And I'll give you one quick example, energy, because we've been speaking about the closure

1:25:05of the Strait of Hormuz, right?

1:25:07Something like 90 plus percent of the ships right now unable to go through the

1:25:12Strait of Hormuz. We've been seeing these massive fluctuations in oil prices, which obviously benefits

1:25:18Russia and Vladimir Putin, as we discussed earlier in this episode.

1:25:21But you know what would help with that from the administration that has constantly talked

1:25:26about, we're energy independent now.

1:25:28This is what energy independence looks like.

1:25:29No, we're not. And we're seeing that we're not right now.

1:25:32But you know what would have helped with energy independence?

1:25:35All of those clean energy projects that Biden was working on, all of those clean

1:25:39energy initiatives that were already built or that were underway, that were also providing Americans

1:25:44all across the country with thousands of thousands of jobs, all of those clean energy

1:25:48products, projects that Donald Trump axed when he got into office.

1:25:52I think we would actually be doing a lot better right now if we actually

1:25:56had a stable source of clean energy right here in the United States than having

1:26:02to rely so much on foreign oil supplies.

1:26:06And we're seeing the ramifications of that right now.

1:26:08We saw the Wall Street Journal headline yesterday probably sent a chill through Donald Trump's

1:26:15spine and everybody in that administration because they compared the energy crisis that we are

1:26:19in right now to the energy crisis of the 1970s.

1:26:24You even saw Donald Trump commenting on that today.

1:26:27You know, it was like, Jimmy Carter had a big energy crisis back then.

1:26:30Didn't work out so well.

1:26:31Yeah, that's exactly what's happening right now under you.

1:26:34So when you talk about clean energy and initiatives like that, it's not even just

1:26:39that it's a good thing for the environment.

1:26:41It's also a strategically smart thing.

1:26:43And that's why Donald Trump, when he continues to set us back, he's actually making

1:26:47the United States of America less safe.

1:26:50And I think we need to connect the dots on those things.

1:26:52There was even a comment today, for example, because in the midst of this war,

1:26:56what does Donald Trump go to?

1:26:58He goes back to the greatest hits.

1:26:59He starts ranting about wind energy and windmills.

1:27:03I'm not making this up.

1:27:04This is what he was speaking about today during his speech.

1:27:06And Donald Trump said the following, and I'll quote him here from this clip.

1:27:10Donald Trump said, try. Finding wind farms in China.

1:27:13He was basically saying, you can't find any wind farms in China.

1:27:16Here's a map of all the wind farms in China.

1:27:19For those listening, there's a dot where there are a bunch of wind farms.

1:27:24The entire map has a lot of dots.

1:27:27There are a ton of wind farms in China.

1:27:29China is the world leader in wind farms because China doesn't view this as a

1:27:33political battle where, oh, we need to help this industry versus that industry and its

1:27:39political donations. They just view it as a strategic thing for their country because they

1:27:44know how important it is strategically.

1:27:47But Donald Trump has completely destroyed any strategic advantage we may have, and he continues

1:27:52to do it up to this very minute by making comments like that.

1:27:56So I just wanted to point that out as well, how ill -prepared Donald Trump

1:28:01has made us to handle such a disruption to the markets like this.

1:28:06And of course, everything else Donald Trump has done with the tariffs and everything.

1:28:09And there's going to be so much inflation as a result of all this and

1:28:13so much instability. And it's really the effects of it aren't even going to be

1:28:18felt until, you know, you're already seeing it at the gas pumps.

1:28:21But the effects of, like, as a holistically speaking, it's going to keep coming.

1:28:27Like, this is going to keep showing up on reports and things are going to

1:28:30get more and more and more expensive.

1:28:31And the Trump administration is completely unprepared for what's next.

1:28:35Exactly. The Trump regime completely unprepared for what's next.

1:28:39I fear, too, that the legacy media and the MAGA media and all those entities

1:28:45are also ill -prepared for what comes next.

1:28:47If they're not going to be willing to hold his feet to the fire on

1:28:50the little lies, then what about the big lies?

1:28:53Are they going to hold his feet to the fire on any lies?

1:28:56Ben, you bring up such a great point.

1:28:57That CNN segment was a good segment, a solid segment.

1:29:01The CNN fight show, I genuinely believe that that's bad for the country, that show.

1:29:08Like, that level of brain rot is just horrific.

1:29:10We have just got to get to a place in society where facts and truth

1:29:14and data win the day.

1:29:16That's what I'm most proud of with what we, the collective we hear, are building

1:29:21with the Midas Touch Network.

1:29:22Because facts, look, people will inevitably let you down, but facts, data, the truth, if

1:29:27those could be your North Star, your core ethos, your values, well, that's a pretty

1:29:32good place to start and point yourself at.

1:29:35And so as we continue to grow, Ben, I'm excited to bring people more facts,

1:29:40more data, more receipts, more videos.

1:29:44Because ultimately, it's us and independent media against everybody else right now.

1:29:49And corporate media, quite frankly, is failing.

1:29:53They are not meeting the moment.

1:29:55And someone's going to have to hold their feet to the fire.

1:29:58Yeah. You know, and we've been very focused on international reporting, not just in launching

1:30:07Midas Canada. That was the start of our international expansion.

1:30:10Shout out to Charlie Angus.

1:30:12And make sure you all subscribe to the Midas Canada YouTube channel, by the way.

1:30:15But almost every day, I either do a report on Ukraine or a report on

1:30:21international news. And I've been doing it every single day since the November election and

1:30:28the horrific results in that election.

1:30:30And if you've been watching Midas Touch, you've been seeing all of these geopolitical developments

1:30:38play out and the shifting world order that's taking place as Trump is weakening the

1:30:47United States of America. So, in many ways.

1:30:50ways Trump's unlawful war against Iran really is part of the confluence of factors that

1:31:00are the perfect storm for destroying America's strength forever, basically, because we tariff the world,

1:31:10we pulled out of trade deals, we gutted the State Department, we threatened our NATO

1:31:18allies, Donald Trump has empowered China and Russia, which in turn has empowered Iran to

1:31:29build the Shahid drones for Russia, we have collectively abandoned, the United States has, you

1:31:38know, we here we are, abandoned instant international institutions, Trump's board of peace grift, trying

1:31:49to make these Middle Eastern countries pay him tribute in return for protection, but then

1:31:55actually causing the biggest crisis of for these Arab nations that are going to perpetually

1:32:02weaken them. We've seen Donald Trump's complete support of the atrocities being committed by Netanyahu.

1:32:15Going all in, we've seen all those Netanyahu visits to Mar -a -Lago and elsewhere.

1:32:23You know, we saw when Donald Trump posted the memes, remember, Trump Gaza, what they

1:32:30called it, right? And like, you would think that that would get like a lot

1:32:33of attention, but it barely got attention.

1:32:35He posted Trump Gaza, which was him and Netanyahu, like dancing with like, like girls

1:32:43in bikinis and AI partying in Palestinian land.

1:32:48You know, remember, he did that fake ceasefire in Gaza, by the way, more people

1:32:56are getting killed by Israel and the IDF innocent people in Gaza, you know, every

1:33:01day that's, there was never a ceasefire in Gaza.

1:33:03It was always a fake thing that they just said.

1:33:06Anybody who knew, knew there really wasn't a ceasefire that took place.

1:33:10Hundreds, if not thousands of people have been killed since they announced the fake ceasefire.

1:33:15And every day, journalists, women, children, that's, you know, you take all of these factors

1:33:22together. And then you have this mediation between the United States and Iran.

1:33:30U .S. picks the mediator, the foreign minister of Oman.

1:33:34A breakthrough is reached in the mediation.

1:33:39We think that peace is on the horizon.

1:33:43Wow. Did Donald Trump do this deal?

1:33:45And Iran is going to agree to things that were even stronger than the deal

1:33:49that Obama got. If Trump was able to get that, I'd be skeptical.

1:33:54But if he really did it, I would say that great, great work.

1:33:58You did it. We should all, if he did the deal, you know, we could

1:34:02separate a good deal from all the horrible deals.

1:34:05But that's what was announced that Friday.

1:34:07We all remember it. Our own handpicked mediator, the foreign minister of Oman, said so

1:34:12on public TV. No one, no one rebutted it as, oh, that's not true.

1:34:16And then that night, Netanyahu told Donald Trump, Israel is going to invade Iran.

1:34:22We're attacking Iran. So you're either with us or you're against us.

1:34:25What is it, Donald? Pick right now.

1:34:27Trump goes, oh, I guess I got to do it.

1:34:29I'm not, that's what Rubio said happened.

1:34:31I'm not, I'm not making this up.

1:34:34I'm literally. Trump basically said it again, by the way, in another interview today.

1:34:37Yeah, they're all saying that's what happened.

1:34:41And now here we are in this situation where now the way Trump is dealing

1:34:48with Russia and China, providing aid to Iran, supplies to Iran, coordinates to help kill

1:34:56American soldiers and to go after American assets is by not denying it, but just

1:35:02saying, well, if they're doing it, they're not doing a good job, I guess.

1:35:05And then calling Putin and saying that he had a great call with Putin.

1:35:10Put that all together. Those are the facts.

1:35:14We need to live in a world of facts.

1:35:16What you do with those facts, you do with those facts, but those that's, I

1:35:23gave you the undisputed facts of what have occurred.

1:35:25And that's what we'll keep on doing here every single day at the Midas Touch

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1:36:15I thought no one could see that.

1:36:16Everyone saw it? No, everyone saw it.

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1:36:20Good burp. You kept it to yourself, concealed it.

1:36:22Sometimes when you're doing that, it wasn't gross.

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