Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 2/26/26
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0:00Welcome to Ben on Breaking News.
0:03I'm Ben Mycelis and this is your Breaking News.
0:07Where to begin? Well, of course you had that disastrous State of the Union that
0:13Donald Trump gave in contrast to the People's State of the Union that we hosted
0:19here on the Midas Touch Network.
0:20Thank you everybody who joined the People's State of the Union.
0:24We had over 2 .1 million viewers to the People's State of the Union on
0:30digital that was beating every cable and corporate news network that was airing the State
0:37of the Union. I think to myself, imagine if Midas Touch Network had a cable
0:43channel or a channel on linear TV, what the view count would have been there.
0:49I mean, I think that if we were able to program such a show, I
0:53think there would probably be 5 to 10 million people watching that as well.
0:58But we get to, I think, really center our coverage in what the people are
1:04experiencing. I thought it was important for our People's State of the Union that, which
1:09by the way, shout out to MoveOn.
1:11Didn't they do an incredible job?
1:13Shout out to all the members of Congress who attended the People's State of the
1:18Union and over 40 Congress members and senators who showed up to our event.
1:22But perhaps even most important at all, thanks to all of the people who shared
1:29their stories about how the Trump regime has impacted them and their lives.
1:33And I think it's so important that we strike a very serious tone the way
1:37we did in the People's State of the Union, but center it also in the
1:41people. That's why we called it the People's State of the Union to show what
1:45lawmakers had to say, of course, but also you could hear the stories of people,
1:50real people, who represent millions of other Americans who are experiencing the same types of
1:57tragedy, the same types of hardship, the same types of pain and suffering that the
2:04Trump regime is inflicting. But ultimately, I also see with the success of something like
2:11the People's State of the Union, I also see a great deal of hope about
2:16what could happen in the future.
2:19I see a future if we recognize and if we listen to what people are
2:26telling us they want, what they don't want, what they need, what is the role
2:33of government people are telling us.
2:36And if we, whether that's in the news media or leaders in other areas, if
2:43we just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, and don't listen, respond, be there, we're
2:53going to miss a very important moment that could result in generational change that uplifts
3:01and helps people. You know, when you listen to what the people are saying, as
3:07I talk about a lot on this network, it becomes very clear, people are recognizing
3:13that politics viewed through a gamesmanship lens has had the impact of obscuring and dividing
3:25when what we should have been doing, and this is our focus here on the
3:30Midas Touch Network, is not begin with the politics, but begin with the facts, begin
3:37with receipts, put forward a statement of values and principles, talk about that, and then
3:46find alignment with people who fight for those things.
3:52Not say, okay, what's the best democratic messaging here?
3:57Should the best democratic messaging be this, or should the best democratic messaging be that?
4:03That's already phony, right? That's already saying, what words can we say that best get
4:12people to vote for us?
4:14And again, it treats it like we're trying to get voters.
4:20That should not be what anybody does.
4:23What we should be doing as leaders, as responsible people or citizens or what have
4:31you, is to truly listen to what people are experiencing and to try to make
4:37a better union, a happier, a healthier country, a place where people can buy homes
4:52and have health care, get an education, leave the world better for future generations.
4:59That to me, what it's all about.
5:01That's to me, what the people state of the union is all about.
5:04That's what this network is all about to me.
5:06That's what we do every day.
5:08And sure, we have to respond and react.
5:10That's what this network is all about to me.
5:11And that's what I believe, that's what I believe, that's what I believe.
5:11breaking news. That's what a news company does.
5:16We tell the news. But we have to frame, reflect, project things in terms of
5:27values and principles and directionally move us hopefully in a place where we're happier and
5:36we treat each other with respect and dignity and empathy and uplift and we don't
5:40mock and we don't bully.
5:42We build together as a country, as a world, right?
5:49So people could just be happier and we stand up to bullies and we stand
5:54up to people who try to drag us into their festering worlds of hate.
5:59We're never going to be able to stop the fact that alas, there are lots
6:04of people who hate and want to divide and want to bring the unhappiness they
6:11feel to others. But we as responsible grownups or responsible people, we have to see
6:18something and say something and call it out and not normalize it, right?
6:23When you saw Donald Trump giving that State of the Union, I had to watch
6:28it after the people's State of the Union to at least know what happened.
6:30I can't be in the dark of what happened.
6:32So I wanted to fact check it.
6:34So as you know, I did videos on that.
6:36But as I saw him up there, the venom spewing out of his mouth, or
6:41I should say the tonsil stones just exploding out of his mouth.
6:46It was gross. The speech was gross.
6:49It was hateful. It reminded me of like the sham wow infomercials of the early
6:552000s. It's a shammy. It's a wow.
6:57It's a sham wow. We're winning.
6:59You don't know how to win.
7:00You're winning so much. It's a win, win, win, win, win, win, win.
7:02And I'm like, and I see the Republicans like, yeah, yeah, that was so good.
7:08And I'm thinking to myself, that's this is weird.
7:11The hell is he talking about?
7:12We're winning, winning, winning, winning so much.
7:14You don't know what to win with it.
7:15Just a con artist up there.
7:17And I don't say this as it again, going back to what I said earlier,
7:20as a democratic position, as a liberal, as a progressive, as woke, I'm just watching
7:28this and I'm saying, this is weird stuff.
7:32And it's dangerous and it's hateful and it's divisive and it's filled with lie after
7:38lie after lie. Not even acknowledging the survivors of Epstein who were there in the
7:45audience either. Why couldn't you just say, would it be so hard to say, you
7:53know what? I mean, and just think about how it would have been viewed if
7:56he said something like this.
7:58Look, I know a lot of people, I mean, already that's not his voice, right?
8:02A lot of people. But if he said, look, I know there's a lot of
8:06people out there who are frustrated with the Department of Justice and what they've done.
8:11I hear you. That's not what I'm here to talk about.
8:13I do want to acknowledge that we have these survivors here in the audience today.
8:18And I want to let you know that, you know, mistakes have been made.
8:23If things have happened, whatever, we apologize.
8:26And the way you've been treated, you deserve much better.
8:30And I'm going to make that a priority.
8:33And so you've been hurt.
8:34I mean, he can't, he can't, of course he can't say anything like that.
8:39He can't even look at them.
8:41Pam Bondi couldn't look at them.
8:42The Dow, the Dow was 50 ,000.
8:46By the way, if you're going to brag about the Dow being 50 ,000, which
8:50thereafter it was not 50 ,000, you may want to also mention that of the
8:5523 developed nation stock markets, America in the past year and a half under Trump,
9:04a year and whatever, three months, four months.
9:07Trump's America's 21 of 23 of growth in stock markets internationally.
9:16So why aren't we number one?
9:18Why are we number 21 of 23?
9:20That's not, that's not number one.
9:22So that was the state of the union.
9:25We all know that when Donald Trump's like he beat, he defeated affordability or whatever
9:30he says, that there's not an issue anymore.
9:32It's been solved. It's great.
9:34Everything's affordable. No, it isn't.
9:37No, no, no, no, it isn't.
9:39And you, by the way, you're a con artist.
9:40You promised on day one, you would make things more affordable.
9:43You promised that you would end the war in Ukraine on day one.
9:46I don't get how people fall for this con artist lies.
9:49The guy's lied his entire life.
9:51He's literally a felon. It's actually a felon, right?
9:55I mean, he's found criminally liable for 34 felony counts.
10:01Guilty, guilty, guilty. Remember when we read all 34 counts?
10:05Guilty. Count one, count two, count three.
10:07I mean, this is a guy who was found civilly liable for fraud.
10:10It's a guy who's bankrupted so many companies.
10:13Bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. So many companies going bankrupt.
10:18If there was a Guinness Book of Records for bankruptcies, this guy would be at
10:21number one. That's not a political position.
10:23It's not progressive or liberal.
10:25I'm just giving you a fact.
10:27The guy's bankrupted all of these companies.
10:29And right before his casinos went bankrupt, he would say, they've never been better.
10:34They have the greatest, they're the greatest casinos in the history.
10:37We are thriving. We are thriving, our balance.
10:39and she looks amazing and then boom it goes bankrupt that's his life that's what
10:45this guy has done his entire life I mean he is a sexual abuser and
10:53oh man why are you saying that yeah he's been found civilly liable in a
10:59federal court for sexual assault he's been found civilly and then he's on audio saying
11:08that he sexually assaults women he said it he said he's rich you get away
11:13with it when you're rich like him you are allowed to grab women's genitals and
11:19they let you do it when you're rich like him and he used the p
11:23word and other things like that grab him by the p word he's on audio
11:27saying it Virginia Giuffre as a child was sex trafficked from Mar -a -Lago his
11:33home his home was a location of sex trafficking the guy was found civilly liable
11:38for sexual assault a separate case he's on audio bragging about sexually assaulting women he
11:45says he uses his beauty pageants to inspect the girls naked because when you own
11:49beauty pageants he said it's like you're like a doctor you're like an inspector you
11:53get to look at him you get to look at him naked the girls he's
11:56on tape saying these things there's audio of like when uh Lindsay Lohan was either
12:0217 years old or she was just turning 18 she was very young he talked
12:06about how because she was she has she suffered mental illness he said that makes
12:12him want to have sex with her more because she has mental illness and he
12:16says the mentally ill ones they're the best ones in bed he says they're the
12:19best ones they're the best ones in bed i mean there's audio of this guy
12:23and then there's 38 000 references to him in the epstein files that we know
12:27of and now we know that the regime is covering up uh the 302 reports
12:35uh which are the fbi investigative reports um and at least some of the ones
12:43that we know they're covering up and not turning over involve accusations of donald trump
12:49sexually assaulted and a minor those have not been produced and there's really good reporting
12:55by roger sullenberger he used to be with the daily beast he's got he's an
12:58independent journalist now he's done some great reporting npr others have done good reporting on
13:03this as well you have the manifest the document which shows um that these 302
13:09reports from the accuser of trump exist and they just haven't been produced they're covering
13:16it up and with all of this as background donald trump and maga say you
13:22know who we really want to take the deposition of today hillary clinton hillary clinton
13:27that's that's who that makes sense how about how about how about howard lutnick and
13:32then uh why why why howard lutnick the guy the guy who did business deals
13:37with epstein who was on epstein island who brought children there who lied about it
13:41who exchanged nannies i don't know if that was code word nannies because epstein didn't
13:48have children so i'm not sure the nanny for the children but you know they're
13:53talking about that epstein gave him fifty thousand dollars for like some award ceremony that
13:58lutnick had in 2017 why not why not bring in lutnick and have him go
14:02under uh oath and and have a deposition taken just on that no hillary clinton
14:08i mean melania's name is in the epstein files i've done lots of videos on
14:12that remember melania threatened to sue everybody whom who made any accusations about her and
14:17epstein i'm going to sue you for a billion dollars a billion dollars remember she
14:22threatened to sue michael wolf and hunter biden and she said i need an apology
14:28and one billion dollars okay and now we see the files and gilane 2002 was
14:37referring to melania as sweet pea sweet pea and then melania was saying to gilane
14:46you know like dear gilane it was uh g g dear g uh the new
14:52york magazine article with you and jeffrey epstein was so good you look so great
14:57in the photos i can't wait to see you again soon that was the new
15:01york magazine article where donald trump said that epstein's a great guy who likes women
15:07on the younger side what donald trump said likes on the younger side but a
15:11fantastic guy likes women on the younger side that was that article had red flag
15:15after red flag in it about epstein that's the one that melania said great article
15:20about jeffrey epstein okay well then michael wolf sues melania i did a whole video
15:26on this this morning melania ducks service she hides from getting you know how like
15:32when someone files a lawsuit you have to get served like you've been served so
15:36she hides from service the process and then she pops up in a federal court
15:41to argue that wolf's case should be dismissed because she was never served with the
15:47lawsuit but her lawyer when her lawyer was threatening wolf said direct all communication to
15:54me so then wolf directed the service of the complaint to the lawyer is that
15:58i can't take this i can't take this at all but you said direct all
16:02communications to you and then melania says well this this case can't be in New
16:08York. It needs to go to Florida because she wants to try to get the
16:11case in front of Judge Eileen Cannon, in my opinion.
16:14She's like, get this case to Florida.
16:16I live in Mar -a -Lago.
16:19Okay. So then Michael Wolff submits a very detailed declaration showing why he believes, even
16:28though she claims to live in Florida, that she actually lives in New York.
16:32And he gives a lot of specifics, including social media posts where Melania says in
16:362024, New York is my home.
16:39She posted that on social media.
16:41New York is my home.
16:42It was during the campaign, right before that Madison Square Garden rally that they did.
16:47And then in Madison Square Garden, she said, New York, New York is my home.
16:50So Wolff submits all of that.
16:52Melania doesn't even submit a declaration testifying or an affidavit as an affiance saying under
17:01penalty of perjury that she lives in Florida.
17:04She couldn't even be bothered to do a declaration to say she lived.
17:08Why wouldn't you do a declaration?
17:09Just sign a five paragraph declaration and say, I live in Florida.
17:14Here's how I spend my time.
17:15And by the way, if she did that, it's possible the case would get transferred
17:19to Florida, even if we didn't like it.
17:20But she doesn't even submit an affidavit.
17:23She refuses to do that.
17:24She just wants the judge to move it to Florida just based on a memo
17:27of law. It'd be interesting to see what the judge does, because I think the
17:32judge would be prepared to move it to Florida if Melania just submitted an affidavit,
17:36but she isn't. So that's kind of shady right there.
17:39And also, why didn't Melania sue Michael Wolff?
17:42Wolff sued her. And her response is to avoid certain, why don't you countersue him?
17:47Sue him for a billion dollars if you think that he's defamed you, right?
17:51No, because she doesn't want discovery.
17:53She doesn't want to sit for a deposition.
17:56She doesn't want to do any of that.
17:57But by the way, do you know who was fine sitting for a deposition?
18:02Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton. But what Hillary Clinton said was, let's do it in public.
18:10Let's do a hearing where all of you Republicans, Jim Jordan, you're a tough guy.
18:16James Comer, you're a tough guy.
18:18All the MAGAs out there who go on state regime media, question me in front
18:24of the world. I'm here.
18:27You want to do it five hours?
18:29I'll do five hours. You want to do 10 hours?
18:31Do it 10 hours. I'm ready to go.
18:33But let's do it in public.
18:35Now, again, I don't care what political party you're from, whether you're a Democrat, Republican,
18:40independent, whether you hate politics, whether you're from another country, whatever.
18:45Isn't that a reasonable ask by her?
18:48You have all these people defaming her.
18:50They want her deposition. She says, let's do it.
18:54Let's have cameras there. Let's do it in public.
18:57So it would be pretty shady, right, if someone objected to that and said, no,
19:01we want to do it in private.
19:04You want to do it in private?
19:05That's weird. But that's exactly what James Comer and MAGA did.
19:09They said they want it in private.
19:11They want it in secret because they know that if she testifies publicly, they'll be
19:18embarrassed. So going back to what I said before, ask yourself this question.
19:23This is what I ask myself all the time in these things, because I don't
19:26like politics that much. I care about the impact of politics on people's lives.
19:33Let me be clear. This is a political media company or news company.
19:37We cover politics, but it's actually to deconstruct politics to what we're really talking about,
19:44which is basic humanity and truths and evidence and facts.
19:48So I ask myself, you say you care about transparency.
19:54She wants to do it publicly.
19:56You go on Fox and all these things and you say things about her.
20:00So just do it in public.
20:01What's the big deal? And then when you go, no, no, no, no, no, no,
20:04no, we got to do it in secret.
20:05I go, okay, got it.
20:06I understand your agenda. Your agenda is cover up and to say, we did a
20:12Hillary Clinton depot and then send photos of her to MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson,
20:18who got the phone, Lauren Boebert.
20:20Oh, she sends the photo to Benny Johnson.
20:25That's my Lauren Boebert impression.
20:27She sends the photo to Benny.
20:29He posts a photo of her.
20:30Oh, look, Hillary Clinton's getting deposed.
20:32Then they had to stop the deposition because Lauren Boebert was taking photos of Hillary
20:37Clinton. How embarrassing. But like she was caught taking photos of Hillary Clinton.
20:42So then Hillary Clinton says again, during the depot, okay, look, if you want to
20:47take these photos of me, then let the media in.
20:52Stop it with this crap.
20:53Stop behaving like that. I'll do it.
20:56Let's invite the press in.
20:58So then no one's taking weird photos of my side view.
21:01And you're not like sneaking your phone and doing photos like that.
21:04Let's just have the media in there outside.
21:06Let them in. Again, regardless of what political party you're from, right, even if you
21:13hate Hillary Clinton, even if you hate the Democrats, even you hate me, right?
21:19Isn't that a reasonable? Wouldn't you want to see this thing live?
21:23Wouldn't it raise your suspicion that somebody does not want to hear it live?
21:28So the Republican said no, no press.
21:30We're not allowing it. Can't happen.
21:33Okay. So she can. continued her deposition, and she finished it.
21:36Just look at the contrast of behavior between the Trumps, the Lutniks, the Melanias, all
21:44of that crew, and Hillary Clinton.
21:46Say what you want about her.
21:48I happen to respect her.
21:50I interned for her when I was in undergrad.
21:53I did a rap about her in eighth grade to Coolio's song, and it was
21:59when she was a first lady.
22:01I won't do the song, but I did a rap for my sixth grade project.
22:06It was sixth grade, where I won't even explain.
22:12It was an interesting project that I did, but I did the rap song to
22:17Hillary is a good first lady.
22:20Hillary, as she walks through the White House where she lives and she eats, she
22:25takes a look at her life and realizes it's very neat, but that's perfect for
22:29a first lady like she.
22:32I don't know, something like that.
22:33That's how it went. We're trying to locate the project that I did on Hillary
22:38Clinton, but then you know how the song goes, tell me why are we so
22:45blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me.
22:51But the chorus for my song was, Hillary is a good first lady.
22:57I don't even know how I remember that.
22:59Okay, I'll stop talking about that.
23:01But in any event, that was what went down.
23:05She finished the deposition. The Democrats are demanding it be released.
23:10But now all the MAGAs that were out there, like James Comer, they were being
23:14asked, like, are you concerned that Donald Trump is covering up the FBI 302 reports
23:19that show that there was people making accusations of him that he sexually assaulted them
23:24when they were minors? Let's take a look at what James Comer has to say.
23:27Let's play this clip. Are you concerned that there has been a cover -up of
23:31sexual abuse of a minor by President Trump that are missing FBI records that appear
23:36to be? No, we're looking into the accusation by the NPR.
23:41We don't know the answer to that.
23:43We know what the administration says.
23:44We're still looking to get a definitive answer on that.
23:49All right, well, what about Howard Lutnick?
23:51What about that? What about, should we call Howard Lutnick in?
23:55Wouldn't it make more sense if you were to do these depositions that people like
24:00Howard Lutnick testify first? Here, play this clip.
24:04So we'll do one more question.
24:06Go ahead. In the spirit of bipartisanship, would you then ask the Commerce Secretary Howard
24:09Lutnick to come testify? It seems like he has some information.
24:13That's very possible. And I think it's a good possibility that his name will arise
24:19in some questioning today. It'll be on my list.
24:21And I have an email I printed off for Hillary to ask about Howard Lutnick
24:24today. We're asking again, and I want to remind everyone, we've already brought in Alex
24:31Acosta and Bill Barr for depositions.
24:34That's two Republicans in the Trump administration.
24:37So this isn't just about Democrats.
24:39This is about anyone that has any knowledge of Epstein, the investigation.
24:44I think we all agree the government failed.
24:47The government failed the victims.
24:49And what our role is, we can't prosecute anyone.
24:52But what we have been doing is getting transparency with the American people.
24:57We subpoena. Again, don't invoke transparency.
25:03Just tell us the truth about what you want to do.
25:06Right? It is what it is.
25:08You know, you are a political hack.
25:10And you view your job as helping the Epstein class cover this up.
25:17And that's what you want to do.
25:17So don't use the word transparency.
25:20Don't invoke survivors. You know, don't, as the Trump regime is doing now in Minnesota,
25:27as they're stopping federal reimbursements for Medicaid there, don't act like we didn't want to
25:33do this. We're just, we're just, we're just working out the fraud, right?
25:37You know, just, just say it.
25:38You know, I'd have, I'd have more respect for it.
25:43Maybe respect's not the right word, but I would at least be like, okay, look,
25:47they're telling us, right? I mean, look, just say that you are retaliating.
25:53You like an authoritarian leader.
25:55You don't care about the survivors.
25:58You're all involved in this Epstein class stuff.
26:01And you want to harm blue states because you believe that, uh, you know, Raqqa
26:10or the city Raqqa, Syria, um, you know, when, when it was under ISIS control,
26:17you know, it was kind of a model.
26:18Like you like that. Like you, you like chaos.
26:21You, you view Kim Jong -un as great.
26:23You view, you view Putin as great.
26:25You like that. You like Orban.
26:27You like that. That's what you're into.
26:30You're part of that cabal in that group.
26:33Okay. That's what, that's what you like.
26:36And, but don't act like you're here for survivors and you're here for transparency.
26:40If you were here for transparency and Hillary Clinton says, let's do this in public,
26:46you would say Eureka transparency.
26:49That's a good idea. Let's do it in public.
26:53That's not what you did.
26:55But so, so just admit it, just admit it.
26:58Don't. And I think, you know, when I speak with a lot of young Just
27:02admit it. It feels like you're here.
27:02I think they're says, but you're out of time that it can't be like eating
27:02chicks. I think it's bullshit.
27:02Paul! people too, because I teach undergrad when I'm not doing this.
27:06You know, I think, and it's not just young people, it's people across this country.
27:10You know, it's where I started this episode saying, I think people in general hate
27:15politics. But I think it's important that we don't move away from understanding that politics
27:25impacts humanity. And what Trump wants to do, and what MAGA wants us to do,
27:31is hate politics in a way that conflates everything.
27:38So we go, everything is bad.
27:40And then we accept a dystopian world and no future.
27:45That's kind of what Trump and MAGA want.
27:48What we have to recognize is that oftentimes, but not always, that politics is used
27:55to divide and obscure and to manipulate.
28:01We can recognize that. So where we need to fight back is to make sure
28:07that politics is not what's leading, but that it's our values and principles that are
28:13leading. And we find leaders who represent these values and principles that unite and bring
28:21us together and then utilize that in order to make the world a better place
28:27versus starting with personalities and this person and that person.
28:31And this person said that about this person.
28:34I just want to know who's going to be fighting for my fellow Americans and
28:40people in this country who are psychologically tortured, living paycheck to paycheck, if they're lucky
28:45enough to get a paycheck, who can't afford their rent, who can't buy a home,
28:49who don't see a future for their children and grandchildren, who can't access healthcare anymore
28:56or never could to begin with, that was too expensive for them, that see AI
29:00and data centers popping up everywhere, replacing their jobs and making their ability to live
29:06much harder. I see people who are terrified about ICE and Border Patrol, Gestapo and
29:12SS torturing and terrorizing people in the streets.
29:15I see all of that and people want help on those things.
29:19And so we need to find people who help.
29:22And if those people are Democrats, great.
29:24And if they're not, we should identify that, right?
29:27I mean, that's where, or if we want them to fight for those issues, we
29:33need to start with those issues and then find people who fight for them versus
29:38hope that people fight for them.
29:40Do you get the difference?
29:41We need, this comes from the people and we need to make sure that more,
29:49more importantly than anything, that values and principles are supreme here.
29:54And I'm going to keep on talking about that here on the Midas Touch Network.
29:58So we get back from our first quick break.
30:00I want to talk more about that deposition that was just taken.
30:04I want to talk about some international news because all of this stuff is interconnected,
30:09right? I bet you didn't know yesterday.
30:11Did you know? Well, I'll ask you.
30:13Did you know that yesterday, Kim Jong -un bragged about increasing their nuclear arsenal and
30:19making it even bigger? We have a plan to strengthen our national nuclear force.
30:25We'll focus on projects to increase nuclear weapons and expand nuclear operational means and space
30:32for use. Did any of you know?
30:34Look, I'm just asking you generally in the chat.
30:36Other than us talking about the net, did you know that was a thing that
30:39he said? And could you, and the fact that that's not talked about as even
30:43headline news, when you have that, you have the fact that off the coast of
30:50Cuba, you had a boat coming from the United States where 10 people were on
30:54it. There was a shootout with the Cuban coast guards.
30:58Four people on the boat were killed.
31:00Six people were detained. That's like all the information that we have.
31:05We don't know anymore. We're about to go to a war with Iran.
31:09Iran's rejected all of Donald Trump's demands, even though Trump said everything was obliterated back
31:16in June. I mean, everything here.
31:19We're four years past Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
31:24Yesterday in the United Nations, the United States abstained from a vote that said we
31:31want peace in Ukraine. The U .S.
31:34abstained from that. U .S.
31:36and China abstained from a resolution urging a comprehensive just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
31:42I'm not really good at teasing what's to come after ad breaks.
31:46I think I just told you what was going to come after.
31:47Okay. But when we come back, I'll tell you much more about that stuff and
31:51we'll talk more about the Clinton deposition.
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36:28bought cvs and warner brothers discovery is now saying that paramount's 31 per share bid
36:35is superior to netflix's offer as the latest twist in the bidding war there uh
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37:14warner brothers i mean you pick whoever you you know i'll i'll leave that for
37:20you to to decide but i mean what we're seeing with this consolidation under in
37:25my opinion under normal situations of antitrust enforcement i'm just giving you my opinion here
37:31none of this would survive scrutiny under actual antitrust enforcement mechanisms but remember the doj
37:39doesn't really have an antitrust department anymore their leadership the number one and number two
37:46were forced out recently because big tech told donald trump they didn't like what uh
37:53was being done by the head of antitrust who when she was in announced, she
37:59was, Donald Trump did a social media post when he hired the head of the
38:03antitrust division and said, we want you to make sure big tech can't do all
38:07these, you know, antitrust consolidations.
38:09And her background was stopping or standing up to big tech.
38:13So look, she was a Trump pick.
38:16She was someone who said that she was standing up to big tech.
38:19But as we've seen before, and as we talked about before the commercial break, you
38:24know, it's like when Comer talks about transparency or the survivors, right?
38:28It's opposite world. They say those things, Maha, make America healthy again.
38:33They say these words, but ultimately what they're doing is making America less healthy by
38:39far with measles outbreaks. I mean, heck, you had the Surgeon General that Casey Means,
38:45the nominee. She couldn't even say during her testimony for confirmation that she supports measles
38:53vaccines and that she would tell parents to get measles vaccines.
38:57The Surgeon General couldn't say get a measles, couldn't in a very basic way say
39:02get a measles vaccine. So make America healthy again.
39:07They say we're going to ban glyphosate.
39:10They do the opposite. They make the glyphosate, they give it the status, they give
39:17it immunity, and then they give it the status of the most preferred pesticide, right?
39:24Right next to Coley, you've got Mr.
39:27Glyphosate. And their whole thing was running against this stuff.
39:30So they're not make America healthy again.
39:32They're make America sick again.
39:33They're not for survivors. They're against survivors.
39:36They're not against big tech.
39:38Therefore, the most helpful aid and assistance to help big tech form monopolies, which is
39:47ultimately what big tech likes sometimes.
39:51So they go to the White House because they're like, oh, wow, all we got
39:55to do is give the guy a gold nugget, give him like a brick of
39:59gold, give him a fake metal, you know, and say nice things about him.
40:03And we could avoid all of the regulatory framework that was actually intended to protect
40:09consumers. Wow, that's all we got to do.
40:13That's, you know, that's what's really going on here.
40:17And by the way, that's Putin's tactics, right?
40:20When Putin goes denazification and we need to invade Ukraine because of the Nazis and
40:27we need to denazify it.
40:29And it's like Zelensky's Jewish and denazification, we need to help, this is what Putin
40:39said, build hospitals and help the infrastructure of Ukraine.
40:42So we need to take it over.
40:44Does that sound familiar to you?
40:46That's what Trump's saying with Greenland and Canada, right?
40:49We need to take it over because it'll be much more prosperous.
40:52We have to do it.
40:54We're sending hospital ships, even though we're not, to help Greenland because they're sick.
40:59The people are sick there.
41:01No, they're not. It's the same mindset, right?
41:05In Hungary right now, as you have the Fatih's party, as you have Orban's party,
41:13by Tez, losing to the Tysa party, to the opposition party, what's Orban saying now?
41:31He's saying Ukraine is about to invade.
41:35He's saying Zelensky's about to invade Hungary.
41:39That's what Orban's saying. We have to protect ourselves.
41:41Zelensky's about to invade us.
41:44That's what they say. By the way, in Hungary, when Orban came to power in
41:49the past 15 years, one of the things that he said, because it's all the
41:53same playbook, was he's going to get rid of the pedos.
41:57There's a deep state of pedos out there, and he's going to stop it.
42:02Well, you know they did when they came into power.
42:04They turned their juvenile justice system, and I put that in quotes, in Budapest into
42:11a sex trafficking of underage of children.
42:14And so a lot of the protests that we see in Budapest are that the
42:20Orban regime was covering up a sex trafficking ring there while they were saying they're
42:25going after the pedos and said all these other people are the pedos, right?
42:29There is a playbook that is used by authoritarians to destroy democracies and to destroy
42:40liberal democracies and to topple really the advancements of liberal democracies since the late 18th
42:48century to now. If we view things through the lens of purely domestic politics, about
42:59what's going on in the world, I've said this before, and let me say it
43:03again. If you view the problems taking place as purely domestic, gamified, Democrat versus Republican
43:11versus independent, whatever politics, it's like bringing a butter knife to a fight against F
43:18-35s, where your butter knife also has a kill switch on it set up by
43:24the Epstein class. Because what's actually happening in the world, and you see it in
43:29the Epstein files, which is why one of the other reasons Donald Trump didn't want
43:33to release, is that you have this international Epstein class.
43:38You have this group of authoritarians who view themselves as masters of the universe, who
43:45use sex trafficking as a currency amongst each other to blackmail each other, to get
43:51ahead with each other. But you have these people who use the same playbook to
43:57rip to shreds a world order that existed at the time, create a new world
44:02order, and in the process of destruction, they see opportunity to profit and enrich themselves.
44:09Throughout the Epstein files, you see Epstein talking to people and other world leaders before
44:17the annexation of Crimea by Russia about you should short the ruble, you should do
44:24this, you should do that.
44:25You have him talking about Bitcoin to Putin.
44:27He's referred to as Putin's money manager, Epstein is.
44:31You have him and Bannon talking about propping up secretly Jair Bolsonaro, who was the
44:37prior MAGA insurrectionist leader of Brazil, who has since been sentenced to 27 years in
44:42prison, right? You have Brexit being discussed, making the messaging behind Brexit being discussed, and
44:56how the European Union would be destroyed and ripped apart.
45:02You have all of that, and Epstein's in the middle of all of it, and
45:06you have all that taking place in the files.
45:08And so at an international level, there's an international movement of authoritarianism, an international version.
45:17MAGA is the vessel in the United States for it.
45:21Trump is a vessel in the United States for it.
45:23But in Canada, Pierre Poliev and his mutation of the Conservative Party there was going
45:30to be that. The Liberal Party in Australia, which is not actually the Liberal Party,
45:36it's their right -wing party, Timu, MAGA, and Denton, and all those people, they were
45:42projecting in Australia a MAGA vision there.
45:46And Anthony Albanese stepped up, and he won and defeated them at the Labour Party.
45:51In Canada, Prime Minister Carney was the right guy for the right moment, right?
45:57The central banker to outmaneuver Donald Trump, Canada picked the right guy for that moment.
46:03But if you look in France, whether it's the successors to Le Pen's movement, whether
46:08you look in UK, the Reform Party with Nigel Farage, whether you look at Fidesz
46:13in Hungary with Orban, whether you look at the AFD in Germany, I can go
46:19country by country here. You get the point.
46:22This is why Rubio, this is why Vance rushed to Hungary in order to try
46:31to prop up Orban. Orban, by the way, is doing the same stuff that Trump
46:36is doing in Fulton County.
46:39Seize the signatures of the voters, go after, get the voter rolls, intimidate people at
46:45the polling locations. I mean, what we saw in that prior post, Jeremy, that you
46:51put up of the opposition party leader, was calling Orban out for, frankly, the same
46:56things that Democrats are calling.
46:59Yeah, Peter Meijer is the main opposition leader, calling out Orban for the same thing
47:04that Democrats are calling Trump out in Fulton County.
47:07Orban is doing in Hungary right now.
47:09Same stuff. Same playbook. And I want you all to know that because that's actually
47:16what's happening here. Because the history of humankind, you know, has been of authoritarians, of
47:25strong men. That's what it's been.
47:27And the idea of liberal democracy, popular sovereignty, we the people, that's a revolutionary concept.
47:36But authoritarians right now don't like that.
47:40And they are utilizing social media, AI, and a disparity of information.
47:52Paradoxically, there's more information now than ever.
47:57More access to information now.
47:59More ability to acquire knowledge.
48:02Yet paradoxically, people are less informed than ever before because with the disruptions of new
48:09technology, it's allowed the authoritarians to brainwash people en masse.
48:15This is happening at an international level.
48:18Let me repeat that. To create a feudal dynamic of lord versus peasant internationally.
48:25That's what's actually taking place.
48:27That's actually in the Epstein files if you analyze it through the lens of what's
48:33happening here, right? And it's fascinating to me as well of some of the other
48:37major resignations that are happening as a result of the Epstein files, right?
48:42You had the head of the World Economic Forum announce resignation today as well.
48:48He's in the Epstein file speaking with Jeffrey Epstein.
48:51Remember that guy who... was side -by -side with Donald Trump at Davos.
48:56Borges Brend, remember this guy right here?
48:59There he is right there.
49:00I think he was a former foreign minister in Norway.
49:04And he says, it's a pleasure to welcome Donald Trump back to Davos.
49:08At a time of significant economic, technological, geopolitical change, the World Economic Forum provides a
49:14platform for leaders from government.
49:16Well, he's now resigned because, well, here's photos of him in Bannon.
49:21This is the crew. This is the team, right?
49:24These are individuals, I mean, who are causing a lot of the pain and suffering
49:32that lots of people are experiencing internationally, and then going and saying, we're the ones
49:38who can save you. They cause the pain.
49:41They cause the issues. Then they want to be the ones and say, let us
49:45save you from the pain that they unleashed.
49:49Including, if you don't see their hands all over issues regarding mass migration, their hands
49:58are all over it. The same way when there was a fix in the United
50:03States to deal with immigration in a common sense way, a bipartisan bill that was
50:09supported by Democrats and Oklahoma Republicans.
50:13Donald Trump, when he was running, told the MAGA Republicans, kill that bill.
50:17We can't have actual immigration reform because they need there to be pretext for the
50:24terror they want to inflict.
50:26That's true everywhere in the world what these right -wing authoritarians want.
50:30They want the chaos. They want it so that their authoritarianism could step in and
50:36solve it. By the way, just like Howard Lutnick, this guy, Borsche Brend, claimed we
50:41have no, I never spoke to Epstein.
50:44I don't know him. And then they were setting up meetings.
50:46So then after he found out, we found out that he was doing meetings.
50:49He's like, but I never knew about his criminal record.
50:52Well, then there are messages in the files of Borsche Brend doing laugh emojis with
50:58Epstein joking about his prior felony conviction for child sex prostitution, which shouldn't be called,
51:10that should be called rape, should be called child rape.
51:13But they were doing laugh emojis about it.
51:16And so he clearly knew also about Epstein's prior criminal history.
51:22These guys are just liars.
51:24They lie and they lie and they lie.
51:27So let me share with you what Democratic Congress member Garcia said, though outside of
51:34that Clinton deposition. He said, look, this committee, this House Oversight Committee, a new precedent
51:42has been set. And we're going to now, we want Donald Trump to be deposed
51:47now. You deposed Bill Clinton.
51:49We want Trump to be deposed.
51:50You did Hillary Clinton. We want Howard Lutnick to be deposed.
51:53Let's do it. Let's go.
51:54Let's brawl. Here's what Garcia said.
51:57Let's play it. Lastly, I want to also add that this committee has now set
52:03a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents.
52:08And we're demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our
52:15committee and be deposed in front of oversight, Republicans and Democrats.
52:19And that should happen immediately.
52:21He is the person that appears almost more than anyone else.
52:23in the committee and it needs to happen right now.
52:26Mr. Chairman, do you distinguish at all between a president and a former president and
52:31a sitting president? I mean, is there something in there?
52:33Because they will say, wait a minute.
52:34We know what the court ruled on his immunor.
52:38We should oppose the person that is mentioned in the Epstein files almost more than
52:44any other person next to Ghislaine Maxwell.
52:46And that's Donald Trump. We're going to have a couple comments and then we're going
52:49to... There you have it, folks.
52:54That's what I want. I just want transparency.
52:56So going back to how we started this episode, we want transparency.
53:00We want the facts. We want to know what's really happening.
53:03That's all. Shouldn't it be a Democratic issue, Republican issue, an independent issue?
53:08That's all. Just tell us what's happening.
53:10Tell us. Give us the facts.
53:13Let the people know. That's why the catchphrase here is show the clip.
53:17Play the clip. You know, sorry if it's annoying, so play the clip.
53:22I want to show you what they said.
53:25So you also know that I'm not just ranting and raving like I'm telling you.
53:31Here's what he said. Here's this.
53:32Here's this. Here's this. And then judge for yourself.
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