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1:30The Trump regime's war against Iran continues with no end in sight.

1:35Middle East neighbors of Iran continue to get bombarded with Shahid drones and ballistic missiles.

1:42Donald Trump is asking Zelensky for help, since Ukraine has a history of shooting down

1:48these Shahid drones and ballistic missiles.

1:50But at the same time, the Trump regime is also mocking and attacking Zelensky and

1:55Ukraine. We also learned earlier today that Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security secretary,

2:02was fired. Apparently, her sending ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo to kill people on the

2:09streets was not enough for her to get fired.

2:12Her cover -ups, including what went down in Texas, where there were over 100 children

2:19who were killed by the disastrous floods there last year, which nobody talks about.

2:23Apparently, all of that wasn't enough right there.

2:26But when she talked about how Donald Trump was the one who authorized her to

2:30do a 200 million ad campaign featuring herself, that's what led to Donald Trump firing

2:35her. Trump appointed her to a made -up position that nobody even knows what it

2:40is. And so now they're going to play make -believe.

2:42And what are they calling it?

2:43She's the tip of the spear ambassador, which is some ridiculous name.

2:46Also, the markets here in the United States are doing absolutely horrible.

2:51The price of jet fuel has doubled.

2:53The gas prices are going up like crazy right now.

2:57Inflation is going to be surging.

3:00And the Dow, the Dow was around 47 ,000, a little over 47 ,000 today,

3:06while Donald Trump was bragging today that it was 50 ,000.

3:10And then Donald Trump staged a press conference with the Miami Football Club in the

3:16White House where Donald Trump started saying, I don't like you because you're all so

3:19good -looking. You're too good -looking for me.

3:22I don't like that. And then started using them as props to talk about how

3:26great the war is. in Iran, and that we're going after Cuba next.

3:31Talk about that and more in this episode of the Midas Touch podcast.

3:34Let's bring in Brett and Jordy.

3:36So we've got a lot to discuss, brothers.

3:39A whole lot to discuss.

3:40Great to see you, Ben.

3:41Great to see you, Jordy.

3:42Great to see you, Midas Mighty.

3:43Everybody watching us live and everybody listening on the Midas Touch podcast audio feed.

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3:51you have a second, if you're not doing that already.

3:53Man, things are escalating fast.

3:55I mean, Trump has quickly, almost immediately lost complete and total control of this war

3:59with Iran. You see now these officials, whether they're inside the Trump administration, inside the

4:04Trump regime, or if we're speaking about even members of Congress, they don't even know

4:08what to call this thing because Trump and Trump officials keep referring to it as

4:12a war. And then when they get pressed on it, they go, oh, wait, it's

4:15not a war. I said war.

4:16Oops, it's not a war.

4:17It's a conflict. And they're now in this kind of just back and forth about

4:21that as this just totally gets out of hand.

4:24This has spread throughout the entire region.

4:27You have all of these other countries now in the middle of this, and they

4:31did not ask for this.

4:32And a lot of them are now firing back at the United States going, what

4:36the hell did you get us involved with?

4:39It's also showing why it's so important for us to actually have allies when situations

4:44like this happen. And we have certainly pushed our allies away.

4:47Oh, how the tables have turned.

4:49Who has the cards now?

4:51As we see Volodymyr Zelensky being asked by the Trump regime to provide expertise and

4:57personnel to assist with those shot head drones.

5:00I mean, are you freaking kidding me after the way that Donald Trump has treated

5:04Zelensky even just this week?

5:06The comments that Trump and his officials have made about Zelensky, what an absolute disgrace.

5:11We are just seeing the whole thing collapse.

5:14And I think the war right now is kind of the big straw that is

5:18breaking the camel's back, but it's just everything right now, right?

5:21It's the economy, it's gas prices, it's war, it's discord at home.

5:27It's this insane ice and border patrol that's attacking our citizens and weaponizing law enforcement

5:33like a militarized force against our citizens.

5:36Everywhere you look, it's just a complete and utter disaster.

5:40And I don't know how you look at this regime and don't see anything else

5:44but a complete failure. We're going to dig into the latest news.

5:47Jordy, what's the latest on your end?

5:50What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty?

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6:11Leave a comment. I'm really excited to get into today's show.

6:14We have so much to get into.

6:17Benji, where are we starting off?

6:19Yeah, so Donald Trump had the Miami soccer team at the Oval Office today and

6:23he frequently does this with sports teams.

6:26He uses them as the props, especially like who he considers to be like big,

6:31strong, like men, handsome men behind him.

6:35And so, you know, this is how he believes he projects strength to have them.

6:39So he sets this up on purpose.

6:41So when all these sports teams are like, what do you want us to do?

6:44We're not being political. We just show up to the White House.

6:47That's not a political thing.

6:48Well, he's going to use you as a political prop.

6:51He's going to use you as a political prop to justify his unlawful invasion of

6:55Iran. He's going to use you as a political prop to cover up a child

6:58sex trafficking ring. He's going to use you as a political prop to rip away

7:02people's health care. He's going to use you as a political prop.

7:06to pursue his fascist agenda.

7:08So he wants the image of strong athletes standing behind him while he spews this

7:15utter propaganda, this utter nonsense.

7:18So he then uses these images.

7:21He'll put AI words in your mouth.

7:23This is all part of his fascist propaganda.

7:27So here's what happened slightly earlier today, where Donald Trump with the Miami soccer team

7:32behind him started saying, hey, Marco Rubio, you're doing a hell of a job, Rubio.

7:38Some people say you're doing so good right now.

7:41I know that's the worst Trump impression, but I'm not really sure what that impression

7:43even was. You're doing so good in Iran.

7:46Cuba's next. Time to invade Cuba.

7:53So while his unlawful war in Iran is an utter disaster with no way out,

8:00and as Donald Trump lies and says, they want to make a deal, they really

8:05do, I promise. And they're saying, no, we don't want to make a deal with

8:09you. Or Trump's like, the Kurds are going to invade.

8:11The Kurds are going to help us out.

8:12And the Kurds are like, yeah, we're not doing that.

8:14You betrayed us over and over again.

8:16We're not doing that. Here he is saying, it's time for Cuba next.

8:21Here's what Trump says. Let's play it.

8:22And anymore, I don't see it.

8:24He's doing some job and your next one is going to be, we want to

8:28do that special Cuba. He's waiting, but he says, let's get this one finished first.

8:32We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen.

8:35If you watch countries over the years, you do them all too fast.

8:39Bad things happen. We're not going to let anything bad happen to this country.

8:42It should also be noted that Marco Rubio is not the defense secretary, right?

8:48Marco Rubio, as the secretary of state, his job is to not have the wars

8:53happen. I'm not sure Donald Trump even realizes what the role of the state department

8:57is supposed to be. By the way, state department, defense department, all of them are

9:01doing just the worst job.

9:03F minus, if there are worse grades, they would get that.

9:08But the main role a state department has when there's a war like this with

9:14the defense department, working with the chairman of the joint chiefs, working with the different

9:17branches of the military, right?

9:20The state department, they're supposed to now work with the ambassadors and all of the

9:24diplomats abroad and all of our staff to ensure that Americans are safe, to have

9:29an evacuation plan, to ensure that America's interests are protected, and to engage in a

9:35process of diplomacy. Now, the main negotiators, by the way, with Iran were Jared Kushner,

9:42who's got personal business interests in the Middle East, and Whitcoff, who Donald Trump has

9:48appointed to basically be the envoy to everything.

9:51So it really wasn't even Rubio.

9:52Apparently, Rubio was even kind of caught off guard that this war was taking place.

9:57And as it relates to our state department, what was it, yesterday for the first

10:01time, they were like, evacuate now.

10:03We can't help you, but evacuate now.

10:07Find a commercial flight, is what they said.

10:09And when you call the phone number, that Rubio said to call, it said, we're

10:15sorry, at this time, the United States State Department can't help you.

10:19Good luck. Goodbye. That's like almost literally, literally word for word, what the message was

10:24when you called the actual state department.

10:26And Rubio is the one who also admitted that the reason why the United States

10:30invaded Iran first was because Israel was going to invade Iran, then Iran would attack

10:36the United States. So Rubio said the United States had to invade first because Israel

10:41told us to, and Israel was going to do it.

10:44And then. Ruby goes, that's not what I, that's not what I asked.

10:47I was asked a different question.

10:48It's like, okay, we, we heard the question.

10:50We heard the answer. And so again, do you see those football players, soccer players

10:56here in the States being used as a props right there?

11:00Here's the thing about that, Ben.

11:02Like I was watching the other day, there's an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry gets

11:06in a car and there's a valet who drives his car, takes his car and

11:11Jerry gets out of the car and he realizes he stinks and he can't get

11:15the smell off of him because the valet driver smelled so bad that he stunk

11:18up the entire car. And then Elaine gets in the car and she also, she

11:22goes on a date and she's wondering why this guy who she likes suddenly isn't

11:27into her anymore. And she realizes it's because the stink from the car from the

11:31valet has gotten on her and she cannot escape it.

11:33That's what happens with these players.

11:36When they go to the white house, Donald Trump is the valet driver and the

11:40white house is the car and them going in there, they can't get the stick

11:43of Donald Trump off of them.

11:45This isn't a normal administration.

11:47And I'd say at any other time in history, probably go to the president, no

11:51matter who it is. Is it a Republican?

11:53Is it a Democrat? But when we have somebody in the white house right now,

11:57who's covering up a child sex trafficking ring, when we have someone in the white

12:00house, who's indiscriminately bombing countries across the world, when you have someone in the white

12:05house, who is attacking American citizens, killing American citizens with a militarized, I don't even

12:10want to call them a police force, but just this rogue agency that's out there.

12:14Maybe don't get that stink on you.

12:16That's going to be my recommendation to all these people who think that it's apolitical

12:19to go to the white house.

12:21It's why it's why I also worry about just that was such a good analogy

12:25that the white house is the car, but also the United States is the car

12:28too. And in this, in this analogy here, Trump or metaphor, this is still, Trump

12:33is still the driver that, that made us stink, right?

12:36We're going to have this stench on us as a country too, for quite some

12:39time. It doesn't matter how many showers we take, how many other presidents come along,

12:44right? This stench is now on us for our lack of leadership here and the

12:48chaos that the United States has caused, Ben.

12:51What do you think? Well, I agree.

12:55I want to share with you though, what he said about Iran.

12:59So like literally as you have Iran's foreign minister and Iran's chief of their national

13:04security council saying, we don't want to negotiate with the United States.

13:09And they're saying, we can't make a deal.

13:11Even if we wanted to, we can't make a deal because every time we try

13:14to negotiate, you don't negotiate, you, you, you bomb.

13:19And so we can't do it.

13:20And, and look, I think the Iranian regime lies all the time as well.

13:25The Trump regime lies all the time as well.

13:27The Netanyahu regime lies all the time as well.

13:30So all these regimes, you know, you know, lie, but I'll tell you the foreign

13:36minister of Oman, who's the person the United States picked to be the mediator between

13:42the United States and Iran.

13:43This was not a random person.

13:45It wasn't a pro -Iran person.

13:47It was the U S pick last Friday, went on TV, said we had a

13:52deal in principle that Iran would give up.

13:54It's a rate uranium enrichment program.

13:57We had to deal with some technical aspects from the international atomic energy agency on

14:02Monday. And then once that was dealt with, we should be in a good place

14:06to have the situation fully resolved.

14:09The foreign minister of Oman, who was the mediator who said that went on U

14:14S television to say that message.

14:15We didn't hear any rebuttals from the Trump regime.

14:19They didn't say, oh my God, why would you lie?

14:21Why foreign minister of Oman?

14:23nothing. Instead, what happened was that night, there was the United States and Israeli invasion.

14:29And then we heard the justification or lack thereof from Rubio.

14:34So we have to search for, okay, well, where are the facts are here?

14:39And I think we're able to glean the facts that Israel was going to strike

14:44first. Israel saw that this negotiation was not going in a direction that Israel liked.

14:52And Israel called up Trump and said, we're going in, do what you got to

14:57do, but we're going in.

14:59And then Trump blinked and said, I guess we're going in too with you.

15:03Or Trump wanted to puff his chest and said, well, we're in too, we're definitely

15:06in. And then we invaded Iran.

15:09And we didn't think about our own citizens in the Middle East.

15:12We didn't think about our allies in the Middle East, if you want to call

15:16them that, the other Arab nations in the Middle East.

15:19Some of them, many of them joined Donald Trump's corrupt board of peace thing, right?

15:25I read something by a Emirati billionaire today by the name of Khalif Ahmad Al

15:32-Habtour, who basically said, the ink isn't even dry yet on the board of peace.

15:39And you've asked all this money be funneled your way from these Arab nations.

15:45And you start a war with Iran that has now engulfed all of the Middle

15:51East and many nations who joined your board of peace in a war that now

15:56impacts them. Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with

16:00Iran? And on what basis did you make this dangerous decision?

16:04Was it Benjamin Netanyahu who told you to do this?

16:06This is what the Arab nations are saying.

16:08And they've called in the foreign minister from China in order to now try to

16:15mediate and negotiate between Iran and the Arab nations, not between Iran and the United

16:21States, but they want China's help, the Arab nations, to work with Iran and figure

16:27out how to get Iran to stop attacking these Arab nations.

16:32Because this is existential for the Arab nations, right?

16:34The United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi and Dubai built an image of stability, a

16:41safe place for vacations, a place you can put your money, a place you could

16:45do business with, Doha, Qatar, the same thing, and most of those nations in the

16:50region. And now that's being shattered.

16:53And even if Iran is decreasing its ballistic missile strikes and Shahid drones, which I

17:00believe it is decreasing, I think that the American aerial strikes are having that impact.

17:08It's not totally obliterating it.

17:10There are still lots of strikes that are occurring.

17:12We saw strikes in Bahrain recently.

17:14We saw strikes in Azerbaijan by the airport there recently.

17:18We saw strikes in Jordan again recently.

17:21And these strikes continue to happen.

17:23But as long as you can create kind of a strategic uncertainty and instability in

17:29the region, that's enough to close the Strait of Hormuz, which is what's happening right

17:34now, right? The oil, the liquefied natural gas, the crude is not getting out.

17:40I mean, the Brent crude price per barrel around $85 a barrel going up.

17:45That could be $100 a barrel.

17:46The price of gas right now approaching what?

17:49$3 .50 or more. The largest increase kind of day over day that we've seen

17:54in recent history is as well there.

17:58As I mentioned earlier, jet fuel prices going up double.

18:01in the past day or two.

18:03This is going to lead to inflation surging.

18:06And Iran has selected a new Ayatollah, Manjaba, the son of the old Ayatollah, the

18:12old Ayatollah who was becoming increasingly unpopular, but who was still a spiritual leader to

18:17300 million Shiites. And they were kind of turning against him naturally.

18:21And if you probably just let him die naturally, it's possible that the younger population

18:29would have rejected the new Ayatollah or new extremist government.

18:33But when they tried to have an uprising last month, Trump said, go out and

18:38do it. And then he said, I'm going to protect you if Iran does anything

18:43to you. Trump did nothing.

18:45Iran massacred 30 ,000 to maybe even more, 40 ,000 protesters.

18:49Now Donald Trump says he wants to use the Venezuela model of Delcy Rodriguez in

18:55Iran, meaning find somebody from the Islamic Republic who will give him money, right?

18:59Delcy just did $150 million gold deal with Donald Trump the other day, right?

19:05In Ecuador, you have a MAGA stooge there as well, who's allowing Trump to launch

19:12a ground invasion of Ecuador.

19:14I don't know if you know this, we're in war in Ecuador right now.

19:16I know with all the news that hasn't been reported, but Trump and the MAGA

19:19stooge in Ecuador are doing quote unquote narco trafficking missions with our troops on the

19:26ground there. And of course, you know, Donald Trump created a Qatari bank account with

19:31Delcy Rodriguez so that Trump makes the oil money for himself.

19:35Remember that story about the DOJ potentially indicting Delcy Rodriguez and then the DOJ denied

19:40it, which seems like what actually took place is we held an, or Trump held

19:45an indictment over Delcy Rodriguez head to get $150 million gold bricks is what he

19:52wanted. And then praised her and said, she's great.

19:55She's an amazing person after he got the $150 million gold brick.

19:58So that's Trump's plan in, uh, in, in Iran.

20:03And there's a lot of suppression of democracy voices and free speech voices and freedom

20:09voices in Venezuela right now.

20:11Uh, the Chavistas are in control, the same brutality by Maduro still taking place right

20:17now inside Venezuela. So even if you are a democracy protester in Iran, when Trump

20:22is signaling, he's not going to support you.

20:24And he's going to support someone from the Islamic Republic.

20:26You know, that even if you protest, Trump is going to make you die again.

20:31He's going to, he's going to allow another massacre to happen.

20:33And then meanwhile, you know, Trump betrayed the Kurds last year in Syria.

20:38He allowed Al Jelani, the leader of Syria, who was the former Al Qaeda leader,

20:43uh, to basically conquer or take over the, uh, autonomous regions that the, uh, Kurds

20:49controlled in Syria should be noted.

20:51We talked about Kurds. There's lots of different Kurdish groups.

20:54It's not like the Kurds are like one specific group, different factions over different, uh,

21:00areas of land in the middle East.

21:02But one thing they want is this kind of democracy leaning autonomous state, but Trump

21:08allowed Jelani to destroy that in Syria and Trump's first administration.

21:12He allowed Turkey to basically go after the Kurds.

21:15Trump has consistently personally betrayed the Kurds.

21:18And by the way, he betrayed him again in the past 48 hours, Trump and

21:20Netanyahu leaked that the Kurds were engaged in a ground invasion against Iran because it

21:25was Trump and Netanyahu's plan to announce that then have Iran attack the Kurds and

21:32then have the Kurds go, Oh man, we're under attack by Iran.

21:35Now we are sovereignty is being threatened.

21:38Now we're drawn into the war.

21:39So that. was the plan by trump and the cia which you know looks like

21:43it was concocted from some you know b -list movie or here's what we're gonna

21:47do we're gonna say the kurds are invading who are we gonna leak it to

21:51leak it to state regime media and barack ravito over at axios netanyahu who you

21:56gonna do it let's let's do it news 12.

21:59or everything that they do seems like it's from like a b action movie though

22:03or or even worse you know what i was thinking when i was watching pete

22:06hegseth deliver like he's been doing these press conferences and each of these press conferences

22:10is more deranged than the next and by the way when i watch this whole

22:13thing unfold i can't help but in my head make a comparison to the situation

22:18that we're seeing with this war to the way trump handled covet just the way

22:22it's such a disaster and the increasing timeline it's going to be done in two

22:27weeks and four weeks and eight weeks in september these press conferences every day that

22:31are more deranged than the next like i know it's a completely different situation but

22:36in so many ways in my mind i don't know about you it feels that

22:40way but the other thing i was thinking ben aside from a b movie is

22:43do you remember those video games we used to play command and conquer red alert

22:47there are these video games and they were like war video games where you would

22:51attack they would be like world war ii kind of things and they had these

22:54interstitials in the in the middle of them where they'd have like generals and people

22:58giving you your mission and the acting would be not so good and it would

23:02be kind of corny and they'd be here's your mission and they'd speak like in

23:06that you know machismo weird way i can't help but think of that when i

23:11see pete hegseth it's just so embarrassing it's so cringy and he's just so in

23:17over his head with all this and let's face it like at this point the

23:20guy's like a total mass murderer he's responsible for so much blood we're seeing now

23:26new reporting uh confirming that the united states was responsible for bombing that girl school

23:32in iran which a lot of people tried to deny a lot of people tried

23:36to spread this other fake story that it was iran that actually blew up their

23:41own school that was a tactic also that we saw throughout gaza a lot you

23:45know when an atrocity would be committed they would say oh they did that to

23:48themselves and that would be the propaganda that would be spread well we're seeing that

23:52again with this war and now it's been confirmed that it was a u .s

23:55missile that killed those children in iran and we're going to see a lot more

24:00of that we have um you know we already see u .s troops dead at

24:05least six u .s troops dead we're seeing over a thousand iranian civilians dead in

24:11these strikes we're seeing now a more hardline leader about to ascend to power in

24:16iran and what all these analysts are saying is that if donald trump and this

24:21regime the trump regime hoped to overthrow the iranian regime and weaken them and hope

24:27that they would get an uprising of the people against their government by killing khamini

24:33all they've done is the complete opposite they've actually fired up a lot of the

24:38people to view the late ayatollah now as a martyr and instead of rejecting the

24:44regime they are going to the regime's side so this right now appears to be

24:50a complete and utter backfire by the trump regime and it's something we have seen

24:55historically in the region donald trump thinks that he could do what he did in

24:59venezuela here and venezuela is a mess mind you but donald trump thinks the middle

25:03east is the same it's not the same ben was speaking about the kurds before

25:08how he was hoping to get the kurds involved and basically stoke the civil war

25:12i want to show you this statement right here uh because this came after yesterday

25:16after we heard these reports which were Thank you.

25:18false about the Kurds invading Iran from Iraq.

25:22Well, the Iraqi first later, who is Kurdish, released this statement today, and she said

25:27the following. And this, to me, was an absolutely scathing statement to see.

25:32It doesn't seem like it wants to load.

25:34But she basically said, leave us out of this.

25:37We are not mercenaries. We are not guns for hire.

25:41And did this just incredibly scathing message, basically saying, leave us the hell alone.

25:47And we're seeing that. Ben mentioned the Emirati businessman before, but we're seeing all these

25:51voices in the region speak out because they don't want anything to do with the

25:56United States' war. I'm going to toss it to Jordan.

25:59The one thing I wanted to bring up, though, right, is that what she says,

26:03she's the first lady, and she's a Kurd first lady in Iraq.

26:09And what she's saying is, we finally, in Iraq, have some semblance of peace and

26:16autonomy in this one area in Iraq, basically, right?

26:20And in Syria, the U .S.

26:25already screwed them in Syria.

26:26The Kurds were one of the most helpful in eradicating ISIS and al -Qaeda in

26:34the region. So we just screwed over the Kurds, essentially allowed the previous leader of

26:41al -Qaeda to take over, to take over the area there and to take over

26:46the Kurds' autonomous area. Now, the one, like, little area where the Kurds are living

26:52their best life, right? Then Trump's like, you're either going with us or you're going

26:59with Iran. You're like, what are you talking, like, just let us live, man.

27:03Like, okay, that's how you want to do it.

27:05Boom, leak, and say, the Kurds are invading.

27:09And then the Kurds had to be like, we're not invading.

27:11That's not happening. That's not true.

27:13And Trump did that, and Trump's regime did that with Fox and Axios.

27:20And Netanyahu did it with his version of that in Israel.

27:23And so it's like, how do you trust anything this regime's saying?

27:27I mean, like, we learned before that there was an airplane that was struck over

27:31Iraq. And then in Basra, they were saying in Iraq, they were saying there's a

27:39mission to try to find the pilot, but there's definitely a plane that crashed.

27:44And then the Trump regime posted, it is absolutely false.

27:49Fact check. It's absolutely false that a jet was shot down.

27:55And then they, you know.

27:57No, their first one, no, it's the reverse.

27:59They at first said that it's absolutely false that a jet crashed.

28:03And then they edited the tweet to say that it's absolutely false that a jet

28:08was shot down. And I think that difference is notable because I think the implication

28:13there is that it did in some way crash.

28:16Now they're denying it was specifically shot down.

28:18They removed that specific detail, but they're leaving.

28:22They did not deny now in the edit of their tweet that it crashed.

28:26And so it's the issue with everything.

28:27Frankly, going back to my COVID analogy, it was the issue with COVID.

28:30They fucking lied about everything and millions of people died.

28:34Now they're lying about everything here.

28:35They're lying with Donald Trump today when he was around those players was like, and

28:39they want to make a deal.

28:41They want to come to me.

28:42They want to deal right away.

28:43They want to be here.

28:44They they're begging me. They're begging me.

28:46And we know from reporting that that's just not the case on the contrary, what

28:51we've heard is that the Trump administration, the day after the initial strikes, they were.

28:56the ones who via mediators try to get to Iran and say, all right, we

29:01good now? Game over, ceasefire, we good?

29:05That wasn't the case, you know?

29:08Trump was actually, they were the ones who were actually trying to get a ceasefire

29:13and get a deal, not Iran.

29:15Now they pissed off Iran.

29:17They've overthrown their leader. They've fired them up.

29:19They've made the guy a martyr.

29:21And they want nothing to do with negotiations because the last negotiations proved to be

29:26complete bullshit. The last negotiations proved to be nothing more than, in my opinion, a

29:31decoy and a delay tactic so that the United States and Israel could get all

29:36of their military in place to attack the place.

29:39It was like a Trojan horse plan that they carried out.

29:42So why the hell would you go into negotiation with the United States after that?

29:46We have a credibility issue here in the United States and with our president.

29:50And that's as nicely as I could put it.

29:53When we have these types of leaders here in this country, and you can't even

29:56call them a leader, but for the sake of this, when you have these types

29:59of leaders here in this country, our word means nothing.

30:02And our word will forever be damaged because of what's happening right now.

30:07Brett, to your point exactly, look, there is no plan.

30:09There is no exit strategy.

30:11This is pure chaos. It is.

30:14And people are dying. Soldiers are dying.

30:17Troops are dying. And it's scary to see that there is actually no plan to

30:22wrap this thing up. And that's all falling on Donald Trump and his entire regime.

30:27They are clueless, absolutely clueless.

30:29For all these people out there that like to say and like to pretend that

30:32Donald Trump is this great businessman, this great negotiator.

30:35I mean, just like shame on you.

30:37Like, what are you talking about?

30:38This guy's out of his damn mind.

30:41Out of his damn... Every step of the way, we look like clowns because of

30:45the guy in the office.

30:46That's just... That's the reality of it.

30:48As we look down, I don't know, 12 months, a year, five years, that stench

30:55going back to that, that's not going to come off of us ever.

30:59We are stuck with this permanent stench now.

31:02And I don't know... Collectively, I just don't know what we can do other than

31:06just continuing to fight in the metaphorical sense for pro -democracy ideals and have those

31:13values and ethos win the day.

31:16Have truth actually matter. That's the only thing.

31:19That is really the only way.

31:21And hold people accountable when they lie, when they spread conspiracies, when they are so

31:26disingenuous at the highest levels of government that are leading to people dying in this

31:30country. It's terrible. Ben, what do you think?

31:34It's terrifying to me. I mean, just think about this.

31:36So during an interview Thursday with ABC News, Trump marveled, this is how it's being

31:41reported by ABC, marveled at the success of the military operation so far this year

31:46against Venezuela and Iran, telling Jonathan Karl, I hope you are impressed.

31:51How do you like the performance?

31:53I mean, Venezuela is obvious.

31:55This might be even better.

31:56How do you like the performance?

31:58The performance. Then Karl said, nobody questions the success of the military operation against Iran.

32:05The concern is what happens next.

32:08To which Trump responded, forget about next.

32:11They decimated. They are decimated for a 10 -year period before they could build it

32:16back. So first up, Trump is lying, utterly deranged.

32:19Also, Jonathan Karl saying nobody questions that it was a success.

32:22This is not a success.

32:23But by the way, if we just had corporate news and not independent media like

32:29the Midas Touch Network, that's what would be prevailing out there, that this was such

32:34a success. Nobody's questioning it.

32:36No, no, no. It's actually not a success.

32:38What's a success? While we were recording this, video shows a large fire at the

32:44joint U .S.-Kuwaiti Al -Sim air base being struck by Iranian ordinances.

32:49Two hotels and a residential building in Bahrain's capital, Manama, were damaged in an Iranian

32:55drone and missile attack within the last few minutes.

32:59What's a success about all of this?

33:02Iran still is shooting ballistic missiles.

33:05And drones. Well, and attacking targets and U .S.

33:10air bases are getting hit.

33:11And this idiot in the Oval Office is like, do you love our performance?

33:16And then ABC is like, nobody's questioning this.

33:18I'm questioning it. I'm questioning it.

33:21A lot of it is eerily, you know, feeling to me.

33:24And I'm by no means whatsoever comparing the country of Iran and their leadership to

33:30Ukraine. But a lot of this, the way a lot of the media speaks about

33:33this and the way the Trump administration and the Republicans speak about what's happening reminds

33:39me of the way Russia speaks about Ukraine.

33:42The way you even hear like the same exact phrases coming from certain people in

33:47the GOP and in the Trump administration when they say things like, this isn't a

33:51war. This is a special military operation.

33:54Oh, in fact, we didn't start this war.

33:57They started this war. In fact, we've always been at war.

34:01It's also incredibly Orwellian. Isn't there the line in 1984?

34:05Like, we've always been at war with East Asia.

34:08Like, they are ripping pages right out of 1984 with their propaganda.

34:12And the propaganda is utterly horrifying to witness.

34:17But you see right now Donald Trump's polls completely decimated.

34:21You see right now his administration falling apart with Kristi Noem now.

34:25I know they moved her to some new bullshit made up position, but she was

34:29fired from the Department of Homeland Security.

34:31Let's be clear about that.

34:33But you see this administration in shambles right now.

34:35And you see a lot of the kind of diehard people who have previously supported

34:39this administration now breaking away because the lies have just become too much.

34:44They're affecting people now personally.

34:46And going back to the gas thing, just one of many examples, gas is now

34:50more expensive in the United States than it was during either Trump term.

34:54And it's more expensive right now than it was when Trump took office.

34:58All of this is going to have a ripple effect on the economy.

35:02As Ben said earlier, we are now bracing for massive inflation, not only from these

35:07tariffs that Trump keeps going.

35:09It's 10%. It's going to be 15%, even though the Supreme Court struck it down.

35:12But now these high fuel prices, the gas prices, it's the perfect storm of kind

35:18of every horrific thing that you could imagine might happen during a Trump administration.

35:23It's happening right now. And we're witnessing that COVID -esque catastrophe that happened under Trump's

35:30first administration happening right now with this war.

35:34This is his COVID -19 now in 2026.

35:38And he's handling it the same way, which is horribly and people are going to

35:42die. The economy is going to crash over it.

35:45Nobody's going to be better off.

35:46And it's just going to continue to build this distrust against the government as they

35:50keep lying to the American.

35:52These are worse liars than the Bush administration was who lied our way into Iraq.

35:56It's not. I mean, the Bush, Bush is conventional neocon liars, right?

36:02This is stratospheric. I mean, this is a group of people who once again, just

36:08sided with Russia in a United Nations vote.

36:10While we are begging Zelensky, begging Zelensky.

36:13for help with the Shia drones.

36:15The United States joined Russia, China, Niger, and several other adversary countries in opposing a

36:22resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors denouncing Russian attacks on

36:29Ukraine's energy infrastructure, including offsite power supply plants for the Ziprisian nuclear power plant as

36:35a threat to nuclear safety.

36:37Just think about how deranged that is.

36:39Begging Zelensky for help. And then we joined Russia, China, Niger, and other pro -Russia

36:46countries against Ukraine while asking Ukraine to help us.

36:51But this is what Trump is.

36:52He's a nightmare. He's a loser.

36:55He's a bankruptor, a destroyer.

36:57He was never a dealmaker.

36:59He's the opposite. Like with all of these authoritarian fronts, they say they're a dealmaker.

37:04It's the opposite. They are destructive.

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41:59are no sacred cows what happened to christy gnome benji christy gnome has been canned

42:05she got a new fake position mark wayne mullen mega republican senator from oklahoma will

42:11now be the department of homeland security secretary i saw one commentator say that's like

42:17finding out you took a in your pants and then going home and changing your

42:20shirt um that's good it's really graphic it's really graphic i want to make sure

42:27i capture the uh vividness of such a quote but um yeah i mean mark

42:32wayne mullen sycophant he's the one who goes on state regime media fox every day

42:37and just you know spews a bunch of nonsense and how great donald trump is

42:41dear leader this dear leader that i even better that that was a retired air

42:44force colonel who who made that comment mo davis person said oh wow yeah give

42:49credit give credit where credit is due right there um and so yeah donald trump

42:53uh fires her via social media post the post says the following i'm pleased to

42:59announce that mark wayne mullen is the united states secretary of homeland security the current

43:04secretary christy gnome who has served us well and has had numerous and spectacular results

43:08especially on the border will be moving to be special envoy for the shield of

43:13the americas our new security initiative in the western hemisphere we are announcing on saturday

43:20in doral florida i thank christy for her service at homeland the new special envoy

43:25for the shield of the americas i suppose that's going to be part of donald

43:30trump um conquer the Western hemisphere, you know, thing, or like what he's doing in

43:36Ecuador right now, where there's a ground invasion.

43:39And, you know, it's Trump's plan to invade, I think, everywhere.

43:42You know, they talked about invading Cuba earlier today with all of those soccer football

43:49players in the background, as you know, where we're currently in Ecuador with a MAGA

43:54puppet there. That's Donald Trump's vision, I think, is just to put our ground troops

43:58everywhere. I guess the question is, where are we not at war with right now?

44:01And then Kristi Noem responds, thank you, Trump, for appointing me as the special envoy

44:07for the Shield of Americas.

44:10What incredible leaders. I look forward to working with Rubio and Hegseth to dismantle cartels

44:16that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren.

44:20So the same pretext that they use in order to blow up those shipping boats

44:25or those fishing boats, rather, off the coast of Venezuela that have resulted likely in

44:29hundreds and hundreds of innocent people being killed or people who probably shouldn't have died.

44:35At the very least, people who shouldn't have been killed, more likely innocent people as

44:39well. And we're doing the same in the Pacific.

44:43So Donald Trump's going to be doing a lot more ground invasions in the Western

44:47Hemisphere. And so it seems that that's going to be what her role is going

44:53to be there. I'll just remind you, kind of, I thought, the two, some of

44:57the key moments that were kind of like, bye -bye, Kristi Noem.

45:01There was that great moment when Congresswoman Kamliger Dove cross -examined her during the hearings

45:08this week and asked her about her relationship with Lewandowski.

45:12And I think Lewandowski basically gets fired also, or he's pushed out.

45:16But here's what Kamliger Dove had to say here playing this clip.

45:19Trump knows that this guy is shady.

45:23Corey has a decades -long record of physical batteries, sexual harassment, illegal lobbying for a

45:27Venezuelan oil company, and bringing a loaded gun into a federal building.

45:32Despite being fired or removed from virtually every position he has ever held due to

45:38misconduct, he now wields unchecked, unconfirmed, undisclosed power over your department.

45:45This person has no experience running anything close to Department of Homeland Security or even

45:53advising someone in your position.

45:55He is unqualified, which again has left my constituents and I wondering why he is

46:02your top official. So Secretary Noem, at any time during your tenure as Director of

46:09Department of Homeland Security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?

46:16Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this

46:22committee today. And ma 'am, one thing that I would tell you is that he

46:25is a special government employee who works for the White House.

46:28There are thousands of them in the federal government.

46:31And as an advisor, it is okay for you to be offended by the question.

46:36It is okay for you to be offended by the question.

46:39But it is also a real question.

46:42So what I would say to you is that what we do at the Department

46:45of Homeland Security every single day, every single day is to protect this country.

46:50If someone is asking if you or any federal official is sleeping with their subordinate,

46:55that I have easiest, you should be wanting to answer that question as garbage, because

46:59it is not about your sense that you have brought it is about your judgment,

47:02that kind of garbage is about reclaiming my time so that I can hear my

47:07recognize, you know, That was the same thing that we saw Pam Bondi do during

47:13her hearing. And by the way, the House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Pam Bondi on

47:20a bipartisan basis. You know, there are five Republicans joined with the Democrats in order

47:25to subpoena Bondi there. But there was also the moment, too, we don't need to

47:30play the clip because we've shown it a ton, where you had Republican Senator John

47:36Kennedy from Louisiana basically ask her about the $200 million ad campaign that featured her

47:44riding around in horses and all of her kind of images of herself.

47:49And he was like, you know, that's a big Hollywood budget right there.

47:52Donald Trump approved of this.

47:53And she was like, yep, he approved of this.

47:55And that was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, or I guess in

48:01that case, the horse's back.

48:04The thing that gets them fired is always so crazy because they do so much

48:08horrific shit on a daily basis.

48:10But they like that stuff.

48:12But it's once you cross Trump, once you put words in his mouth, or once

48:16you accuse him of agreeing with something that ended up being incredibly unpopular, that's when

48:22you get yourself into trouble.

48:23And so when she said that, that was kind of the thing that stuck out

48:28to me when I was watching these congressional hearings where I was like, oh boy,

48:32you know, she's in trouble.

48:33And so for all the people who watch these hearings and say like, you know,

48:37what's the point? It's all theater.

48:39There's never any, nothing ever comes of these things.

48:43I agree with you in a lot of respects.

48:45Like it is a lot of theater.

48:47It is a lot of, you know, people getting up on their soapbox and ranting.

48:51And a lot of it is very unnecessary, but there are good moments.

48:55We're getting people on the record.

48:57You're catching them in lies and contradictions that, by the way, can be prosecuted later

49:01on as well. And in this case, we're seeing finally, finally, finally, Kristi Noem get

49:07out of this position. Now, Mark Wayne Mullen isn't exactly a welcome person to be

49:13in this position. Mark Wayne Mullen is not exactly a bright human being, I will

49:17say, being as respectful as I can.

49:21Remember, he's, he's just incredibly unhinged.

49:23Remember when he like threatened the, the president of the Teamsters when there was a

49:28hearing a few years ago, like in 2023, he said, all right, tough guy, you

49:32want to fight? You want to fight?

49:33Like, like these are not the people who you want in charge of anything.

49:37Just this week, I went over this in my, in my report that I did

49:40on the Midas YouTube channel earlier.

49:42But just this week, Mark Wayne Mullen was like, that's what happens when you're at

49:45war. This is what happens when you're at war.

49:47And then the reporters were like, so you're admitting we're at war?

49:50And he was like, oh no, no.

49:52Did I say war? I mean, combat operations.

49:54I mean, come, it's just, the whole thing is so clownish.

49:59And the administration, the Trump administration strategy always right now is to just act like

50:04everything's great. Everything's amazing. Trump said today, oil has stabilized and the economy is great.

50:10Inflation is down. None of these things are true.

50:13Oil's going through the roof right now.

50:15Gas prices are going through the roof right now.

50:17And when you just lie to people in such a brazen way, especially about the

50:22things that they know impacts them.

50:24It's one thing when you're lying about a faraway place, right?

50:26You could get away lying to your red state voters, lying about what's going on

50:30in California. It's chaos. It's riots.

50:33It's insane. When you're lying about things that are impacting your voters' lives, like in

50:38this situation, when you're telling them everything's great, what are you talking about?

50:41This is the golden age and they're out there unable to get jobs or getting

50:45laid off or spending. tons of money on everything.

50:49It's a real slap in the face.

50:51And I think that's why we're seeing so many people right now be like, nah,

50:55this is not what I voted for, you know?

50:58Exactly. It's what we always say.

51:00If the Trump regime, if their mouths are moving, they are, they're lying.

51:06That's it. Once you start gaslighting your supporters, especially around issues of the economy, something

51:11that they feel on a daily basis, you know, but, but Bondi say, but the

51:17Dow's over 50 ,000, not anymore.

51:19No, Pam, inflation not going away.

51:23In fact, going to keep ticking up, Pam.

51:26And so for me at all, it always comes down to this sort of central

51:29theme is that you need real adults in the room handling these serious issues.

51:34And so Mark Wayne Mullen comes in, right?

51:37Replacing, replacing Christy Gnome over here.

51:41It's worse to worse, right?

51:43He, he just replaced one sycophant with another sycophant.

51:46And ultimately it comes down to just saving face for Donald Trump, right?

51:50The decision it's so Trumpian in the sense of what he actually, why he made

51:55this decision, right? If you think about it, the arguments over the marketing budget or

51:59the ad budget that like had these Christy Gnome fluff pieces or around ice and

52:04that got tremendous amount of backlash.

52:06And so Donald Trump didn't want to be feeling like he was left to hold

52:08the bag as this great marketer and businessman that he is.

52:12He didn't green light that.

52:13There's no way. Not his genius.

52:16Bye, Christy. Hi, Mark Wayne Mullen.

52:19I mean, these, he's not choosing these leaders, quote unquote leaders, because they're good at

52:25these positions that they'll actually do the job that they should be doing.

52:29No, they're going to be doing the job that Donald Trump wants them to do.

52:35And for me, ultimately it comes down to this.

52:37Are we going to sit back and just kind of, you know, allow this to

52:40happen and go unaccounted for?

52:42It's like when they go and gaslight their, their followers and their supporters, that everything

52:46is so great, that the economy is so great that the United States right now,

52:49we've never been better, right?

52:51I mean, it's all such BS, but what they do know is they have control

52:54over the media right now.

52:56They have absolute control over the media.

52:57So they know that Donald Trump, all he has to do is say those things.

53:01And then the MAGA media out there, it will, it will prop that up.

53:05It will put that on headlines.

53:06It will do everything it can to give cover to Donald Trump.

53:10What they weren't expecting in 2026 is independent media rising and channels like the Midas

53:16Touch Network and supporters like this community and other great independent pro -democracy outlets out

53:20there that are reporting the news with facts, data, and receipts and bringing to folks

53:24every single day. Trump is living in this sort of 2016 era that he could

53:28just lie and gaslight and put out all of this misinformation knowing that he's got

53:33this hold over the media, but it's, it's a different landscape.

53:37So my, my message here to everyone is just like, we all have to collectively

53:40hold his feet to the fire and continue to put the facts, data, truth, receipts,

53:45video clips, whatever we need to do to put it out there, because what's happening

53:48right now is not normal.

53:49And don't be gas lit by Donald Trump or, or corporate media into thinking that

53:53any of it is because it's absolutely not the parallels between COVID and this spread

53:59you pointed out. It's like, right out of the same script, right?

54:03Like a miracle. It's all going to go away from a scale of one to

54:0810. What would you rate it?

54:09I think Donald Trump said with COVID and 11, right.

54:12Or how would you rate yourself a plus?

54:15Um, and I mean, when it comes to the Iran war, Donald Trump on his

54:19own said, I've been asked to rank it on a scale from one to 10,

54:23I rank it a 15.

54:26We have the clip where Donald Trump says, I rank it a 15.

54:29I think we got it.

54:30Yeah, let me pull it up.

54:31Give me one sec. Yeah, pull that clip of him saying, I rank it a

54:3515. And, you know, but that's how he approaches everything.

54:40Do we have that or do we?

54:43I'm looking for it. I'm looking for it.

54:44No worries. We'll pull it up when we come back from our last quick break.

54:47I got it. I got it.

54:48Let's play. And we're doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly,

54:54I would say. Somebody said, on a scale of 10, where would you rate it?

54:58I said about a 15.

55:00And we're going to continue to do what we have the greatest military in the

55:04world by far. I mean, a 15, I mean, it's just the stupidest things that

55:08come out of the guy's mouth.

55:09Then you've got the people who surround him and sit next to him.

55:13And you saw the energy secretary there, you know, just, you know, it's enough of

55:17this nonsense, enough of this fraud.

55:19It's just American soldiers are dying.

55:23The Middle East is on fire.

55:25And then let me ask you this.

55:28Do you even think, Brett and Jordy, we'll talk about this when we come back,

55:31you know they're just going to stop doing the inflation reports altogether, right?

55:34Like when it gets really bad, they're just going to say, they're going to start

55:37doing the we're in a war, so we can't do X, Y, and Z, right?

55:42They're already doing, they're already, they're, they're, they're already opposing war powers resolutions and things

55:50like that. And we're blocking it in the Senate, demanding $50 billion of supplemental funding

55:57that the taxpayers are going to have to pay for more munitions because we're out

56:01of FAD and Patriot missiles.

56:03And that's going to go to defense contractors while Americans lose their health care.

56:08That's, that's, that's just the reality of where we're at.

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59:54Benji, where to next? Just look at what's happening at the Mufak salty air base

1:00:00in Jordan. Satellite imagery from Airbus defense and space appears to show one of these

1:00:08transportable radars having been damaged and possibly destroyed by an Iranian drone or missile strike.

1:00:16According to an investigation by CNN at the satellite imagery and others from the bases

1:00:21in the region, buildings housing similar radar systems were also hit by Iran at two

1:00:26locations in the United Arab Emirates.

1:00:28And this is something that like the Trump regime is just like hiding.

1:00:31The estimated cost of a single one of these radar things is $500 million to

1:00:36a billion with the United States only operating a total of 13, the 13th being

1:00:41delivered to the U .S.

1:00:42missile agency Raytheon in 2025.

1:00:46We know similarly at the Al -Udad base.

1:00:48There was ballistic radar detection systems there.

1:00:52We've heard so much of this, not because the Trump regime has mentioned it.

1:00:57Like they're covering up everything.

1:00:59Like CENTCOM is just like a Trump propaganda social media channel.

1:01:05Now you're not getting accurate information about, you know, anything that's going on, which is

1:01:10just terrible. I usually would think that, okay, CENTCOM is going to publish the actual

1:01:13data. I don't know if we really only lost six service members.

1:01:16That's what they're telling us.

1:01:17But who really knows how many people are seriously wounded?

1:01:20Do we really know the true amount?

1:01:22I don't think we really know the real amount.

1:01:24How much damage has already been done here in the United States and in Israel?

1:01:29You know, how much damage has really been done?

1:01:31What's really going on? A lot of, you know, we have to find this stuff

1:01:34from like open source intelligence, like telegram, you know, chats, because the Trump regime like

1:01:40literally lies about absolutely everything.

1:01:43It's hard to even know what the hell is going on.

1:01:46So I want to share this moment though with you because I don't think it's

1:01:49getting enough attention. And I think it's very alarming and it needs to get more

1:01:54attention. So you have this Republican Congress member, Mike Turner, who tries to pretend that

1:01:58he's like a moderate dude.

1:01:59He's not a moderate dude.

1:02:01And Turner is out there.

1:02:05This hearing that took place today with this guy, Elbridge Colby.

1:02:09Elbridge Colby, neocon, far right -wing guy.

1:02:13He's the number two at the defense department, like a lifelong Washington guy.

1:02:18He's always been in those kind of neocon right -wing circles.

1:02:22His whole thing was also like the decoupling of China.

1:02:26And he had all these kind of very strong views about like America was going

1:02:34to go after China and all these things that now that he's actually the number

1:02:37two at the defense department.

1:02:38The guy just doesn't do any of that stuff, but regardless.

1:02:42So he was being questioned by Congress member Turner about why during this entire hearing,

1:02:49Elbridge Colby, again, he's the number two at the defense department, why he continued to

1:02:56say things like, we interpret what the Trump administration to mean, or we believe, or

1:03:02it is our understanding that the Trump regime or the Trump administration has said this.

1:03:07So Mike Turner's like the kind of the Republican government, like, why do you keep

1:03:11saying that? Like, why aren't you the Trump administration?

1:03:15Why are you acting like you're interpreting his words?

1:03:17Watch this because I want to talk about why I think it's additionally important.

1:03:20And I, and I want to just say, I want to agree with the chairman.

1:03:23What's been so difficult and which is really kind of gross sitting here, listening to

1:03:28you is the chairman has said, he feels like you're dishonest, right?

1:03:32And you have been so disingenuous.

1:03:34Every time you answer a question, you feel this need to just, just continue on

1:03:41in this, in, in these, these clarifications that are really very unnecessary.

1:03:47And that this, this clarifications that you give make us all concerned about your commitment

1:03:53to the truth. And I want to give you some of those clarifications that make

1:03:56me uncertain and really very concerned about the policymaking within the department.

1:04:03You talk about the Trump administration.

1:04:06When people ask you questions about the president's decision -making, when we're asking about president

1:04:11Trump, you redefined it as the Trump administration.

1:04:14You say our decisions are aligned with the president as if you're reinterpreting the president's

1:04:20decision -making. I want to know about the president's decision -making, not you being your

1:04:25interpretation about being aligned. So tell me you're not trying to make decisions where you're

1:04:31just divining an alignment with the president and interpretation that president Trump is the one

1:04:37making decisions because up here we're losing confidence as to whether or not Mr.

1:04:41Colby's going into a room and trying to decide whether or not he's aligned with

1:04:45the president or whether or not president Trump's making decisions.

1:04:48Let me be very clear.

1:04:50Elbridge Colby's not a good guy.

1:04:51He's actually a very bad guy with very dangerous thoughts.

1:04:56But I don't know how Mike Turner says that without realizing what his words are,

1:05:03right? Elbridge Colby's saying that because he doesn't know what the hell Trump's plan is.

1:05:08Nobody knows what Trump's plan is.

1:05:11So what he's doing is he actually is reinterpreting what Trump says when Trump spews

1:05:19word vomit or word salad.

1:05:21And Elbridge Colby is trying to say, the Trump administration, and they're saying, well, what

1:05:27is Trump saying? Well, the Trump administration's view on this is because, and this is

1:05:32the scary aspect of it, but you heard it right there.

1:05:35Trump has no clue what he's doing.

1:05:38Nobody knows what the guy is saying.

1:05:40So they're all looking at his social media posts.

1:05:43They're looking at his deranged, unhinged statements, and they're trying to divine and figure out,

1:05:51okay, well, I guess he means this.

1:05:52I guess he means that.

1:05:54This is what he's trying to do.

1:05:55I mean, look at him today where he was out there looking at the Miami

1:05:59soccer team and telling them that they're good looking.

1:06:02I don't like good men.

1:06:04I don't like good men.

1:06:05I mean, this is what he's doing while we're in a war right now.

1:06:07Here, play this clip. These are good looking people.

1:06:14Marco, I don't like good looking men.

1:06:18You don't feel so good about yourself standing up here.

1:06:22Good looking people. Okay. Then he says on Iran, they are calling to say, how

1:06:29do we make a deal?

1:06:30And I said, you're a bit too late.

1:06:32You're too late, Iran. Here, play this clip.

1:06:35I said, what's left? But they're tough and they want to fight.

1:06:41And they're calling. They're saying, how do we make a deal?

1:06:44I said, you're being a little bit late and we want to fight now more

1:06:48than they do. We want to fight more than they do.

1:06:51What are you even talking about?

1:06:52We do? That's news. We want to fight in Iran more than the Iranians want

1:06:57to fight in Iran. And they're too late.

1:07:01And they're calling, who are they calling up?

1:07:02They're calling you up? That's news.

1:07:04That's interesting. Remember how Donald Trump makes up fake conversations with Xi Jinping?

1:07:08By the way, while he's doing this hearing or this press conference, he starts whining

1:07:13about the election is rigged.

1:07:14Here, play this clip, what he said about the election.

1:07:17I didn't know that I'd be the president during this because the election was rigged

1:07:21and stolen and I had to do it all again.

1:07:24And then I said, hey, wait a minute.

1:07:25I just got soccer slash football and I just got the Olympics that we got

1:07:29most important. I took credit for those two.

1:07:32Then I tried to take credit for 250 years and it didn't play well at

1:07:36all with the press. Or then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent going on TV

1:07:41and saying, yeah, you're seeing all these hotels in the Middle East blown up and

1:07:46American military bases blown up and airplanes are crashing and service members are dying.

1:07:53You're seeing oil interest destroyed, as I mentioned before.

1:07:57You have basically the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

1:08:01You have Qatar's liquefied natural gas infrastructure, you know, destroyed, Bahrainian air forces and bases

1:08:12destroyed, United Arab, UAE, Jordan air force bases and stuff being destroyed and hit.

1:08:21But, you know, the Trump regime wants you to know the region is not on

1:08:27fire. OK, not on fire.

1:08:29You understand what's happening is that someone with an iPhone is taking videos.

1:08:35Region not on fire. Someone's got an iPhone camera.

1:08:38That's actually just just so you all know.

1:08:40We're not it's not like a war here.

1:08:41Listen to what he says.

1:08:42Here, play this clip. Becky, I will tell you the region is not on fire.

1:08:46What is happening is that someone someone with an iPhone and look, it's terrible when

1:08:50a hotel gets hit the in Bahrain when there is a drone that hits the

1:08:57airport in Doha. But those are one offs.

1:09:01The Iranian attack capabilities have been substantially degraded.

1:09:07The U .S. is getting stronger and stronger every day.

1:09:10And the most fulsome part of our campaign is just starting so that there are

1:09:14the people in the market willing to look through this.

1:09:18And that's what I think everyone should do, because President Trump has a vision here.

1:09:23And I think everyone should just step back and think about what does the world

1:09:27look like if we go back and think the conflict in Syria, there's new leadership

1:09:35there. Yeah. The reason why you can't get the Kurds to help you out here

1:09:40is because of the new leadership in Syria.

1:09:43You're an idiot. You know, and the thing is that he's actually not.

1:09:45I mean, he's actually a smart guy who's doing this shtick to basically rob and

1:09:52steal from you for the Epstein class.

1:09:54He's just the arrogant. There's no real issues.

1:10:00It's fantastical. It's just someone with an iPhone camera.

1:10:04If they're one offs, one off hotel, one off military base, one off aircraft jet,

1:10:12one off. What does that even mean?

1:10:14They're one offs. Yeah. Usually think one off, one off word.

1:10:18Right. I can't just do words the way Donald Trump does one off.

1:10:22Everything to some extent is one, one, one, one, one.

1:10:25It's you know, like, what do you mean one off?

1:10:27I mean, what is what the hell are you even talking about?

1:10:30I mean, the arrogance on these people.

1:10:32And then finally, you have Donald Trump praising again at a at this press conference

1:10:40where he's got the Miami soccer team behind him talking about the war.

1:10:45Using them as props. He uses them as props to cover up child sex trafficking,

1:10:50saying, Bondi. She's going to be good for the next three years, which to me

1:10:55is basically saying you better cover up those Epstein files for the next three years.

1:11:00Don't release the ones that I want you to release.

1:11:02Here, play this clip. Not going to let anything bad happen to this country.

1:11:05Also with us are Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's a terrific person and fan.

1:11:15And she's proving how tough she is.

1:11:17And I think the next three years she's going to really prove it.

1:11:21Right. Huh? Like these people.

1:11:23Huh? Huh? I mean, it's also like so demeaning, like it's like to the attorney

1:11:27general. Pammy? Huh? But Occam's razor, right?

1:11:31Like you have all of these MAGA people who have been calling for Pam Bondi

1:11:36to be ousted, right? You would think that with all of that pressure and with

1:11:41the horrific way she's handled everything.

1:11:43I mean, the DOJ has like the worst record of prosecutions in its history.

1:11:47And that's before you get to the Epstein files and the entire cover up.

1:11:50And you'd figure with all the pressure out there, that's really kind of bipartisan now

1:11:54because the MAGA people hate her, that she would be ousted.

1:11:57So Occam's razor, sometimes the simplest answer is the right one.

1:12:02The only thing that you could really surmise is that he needs to praise her

1:12:06and he needs to keep her in that position and make sure everything's okay with

1:12:09her. Because she's seen everything in those files and she knows far too much.

1:12:14She knows where the bodies are buried.

1:12:16She knows everything that Donald Trump has done.

1:12:18She knows everything that's in the Epstein files.

1:12:20And so at this point, Donald Trump can't get rid of her because she's an

1:12:23accomplice in covering this up with him.

1:12:25And so that's my opinion.

1:12:27And but I think it's kind of obvious because you would think in any other

1:12:29circumstance, she'd be thrown the hell out of that building.

1:12:33She would have no nothing to do with this job.

1:12:35But in fact, you have Donald Trump going out of his way to.

1:12:38Reminds me of when after the files dropped and one of the big revelations was

1:12:43just how close Steve Bannon was with Epstein and how Bannon was almost being used

1:12:48with Epstein as like an intermediary between Epstein and Donald Trump.

1:12:54And what was Trump's thing?

1:12:55Did Trump criticize Steve Bannon for his proximity to Epstein and his very close relationship

1:13:01to Epstein during Donald Trump's first term in office?

1:13:04No, the contrary. Trump went out of his way to praise Steve Bannon in that

1:13:10very moment. And it is those actions by Donald Trump to me that speak far

1:13:15louder than anything else. Absolutely.

1:13:18There's like this certain like aura of smugness, not aura in the cool way, the

1:13:25way the kids use it, but like this smugness that hangs over everybody in the

1:13:31Trump regime and especially Scott Besson.

1:13:34He is like king of smugness aura in my opinion, right there next to JD

1:13:41Vance. Obviously like those two battle back and forth.

1:13:43Every time I see Besson up there, just like spewing like these nonsensical regime talking

1:13:50points all the time. He, he actually been to your point because he is smart.

1:13:55He looks uncomfortable. Now he's still doing it, but he looks uncomfortable because deep down,

1:14:02you know, he knows because he is smart that it's all bullshit.

1:14:05What he's saying, this smugness about them.

1:14:10It's so infuriating to me to how you just get up there and spew these

1:14:15lies again for an audience of one.

1:14:18And that's Donald Trump. He honestly, he reminds me of that creature too.

1:14:21Like when you see him just totally uncomfortable speaking the creature from men in black

1:14:26who like where the first men in black movie who like where the alien that

1:14:30wears the skin of, of the human.

1:14:32That's him. That's who he is in all of his mannerisms and the way he's

1:14:37speaking. It is. It's disgusting to me.

1:14:40And that's why, again, we just need real leaders.

1:14:42We need people who actually love this country who want to put their best foot

1:14:46forward for the country and not for a man, not for a maniac, not for

1:14:52one person, but for all of the people.

1:14:55And I just, I hope we could get there because seeing who Trump has aligned

1:14:58himself with this regime, all they care about is protecting Donald Trump.

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