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1:46Welcome to Ben on Breaking News.
1:49I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is Breaking News, the big news today that everybody's talking
1:53about. The People's State of the Union, just hours away on the Washington National Mall.
2:00That's where the Midas Touch Network and MoveOn will be holding our State of the
2:06Union, the People's State of the Union.
2:08Of course, we're boycotting the State of the Union here on the Midas Touch Network,
2:12which was a relatively easy decision.
2:15Why would we want to platform a authoritarian festival?
2:20Why would we want to platform someone who's going to just continue to lie and
2:26someone who's already broken down all the traditions and norms and is ripped to shred
2:32our Constitution? So when people are like, but it's tradition, well, if you follow the
2:37tradition of democracy, even if I disagree with you politically, then I'll say that people
2:42should be showing up. But ultimately, if you rip to shreds the Constitution, if you
2:48don't support the traditions and norms of our country, and you engage in the types
2:54of behavior that Donald Trump and his despicable regime has, you know, this is a
2:59natural consequence, and it's not even a hard decision to make, frankly.
3:04I mean, why would I live stream the State of the Union where we just
3:12know he's going to lie the entire time?
3:14Everything is great. We've never been richer.
3:16Things are amazing. Things couldn't be better.
3:19Inflation is down. No one even talks about affordability anymore because I won.
3:25I defeated affordability issue. So it's not even an issue anymore.
3:30We've never been stronger. I've settled eight wars, nine wars, if you come to think
3:35about it. I've settled nine wars.
3:36I created the Board of Peace.
3:38The Board of Peace is what we called it.
3:40And we've totally secured the border and the heroic aspects of ICE and Border Patrol
3:48were so amazing. And, you know, and everybody's very grateful.
3:52And this is finally after all of the destruction from a guy named Sleepy Joe.
4:02Sleepy Joe. It's really bad, really bad times.
4:05I saved our nation. I rebuilt the military.
4:08I did everything. Everything was me, me, me.
4:11And it's amazing. And the Dow is over 50 ,000, even though it isn't.
4:16Everything couldn't be better. There it is.
4:18I did the speech for you, okay?
4:19We, you know, maybe he does the noises.
4:24You know, maybe he throws in that.
4:26Maybe he does a little, you know, what's his new line that he talks about
4:31lately? That there's a man who's trying to violently kiss him.
4:35There's a man. He tried to violently kiss me.
4:37And I told him I'm a good little boy.
4:39I told him I'm a good boy.
4:41I'm a good boy. Everybody, you know what?
4:45The Supreme Court's going to be there.
4:46You know, the Supreme Court, you made a very bad decision.
4:49Tariffs. It's a word. It's a word.
4:52I, I, I use that word.
4:54Tariffs. And I'm a good reader.
4:56I'm a good reader. I read paragraphs really well.
4:59And I know from the paragraphs that I read that I can do tariffs.
5:04Come to think about it.
5:05Just think, why is it that I can destroy countries, but I can't impose a
5:10tariff. Does that make it?
5:11But. Look, with what the power of the Supreme Court gave me, I'll make my
5:15tariffs even stronger. There'll be stronger tariffs.
5:19Everybody will get rebates, $2 ,000.
5:22Everybody, $5 ,000 rebates. You're all going to be rich, winning, winning.
5:27Have you ever heard of winning this much?
5:30You're going to say, ah, please stop all of the winning.
5:33And I have a guest with me right here.
5:35And here's the guest. And the guest is someone who was transitioned.
5:42And now they transitioned back.
5:47And at the end of the day, look who we have here.
5:52Let's be clear. Under my administration, we say no to men in women's bathrooms and
6:02sports. And don't play the sports.
6:06And penises and vaginas, everybody.
6:08And I'm very strong on that.
6:11I've told you I'm very strong.
6:12Okay, that's it. Okay? That's what the State of the Union is ultimately going to
6:19be. Somalians. Somalians this. Somalians that.
6:24Okay? I did it for you.
6:25I did the whole bit.
6:27That's what's going to happen.
6:28So the MAGA Republicans are really pissed at the Midas Touch Network for working with
6:33MoveOn. We're the distributor. We're carrying the people State of the Union.
6:39We'll have about 40 members of Congress, senators, members of the House of Representatives will
6:46be there. What I expect when our people State of the Union starts, I think
6:51you're going to see a very compelling scene with all of these lawmakers on the
6:56stage, shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with each other.
7:00I think that's going to be a photo that will be etched in the history
7:06books. It's my gut of what we're going to see at the beginning.
7:11And then we'll go into our program where we have incredible speakers, everybody from, you
7:17know, Senator Gallego to Senator Murphy.
7:20You know, we have Senator Smith.
7:22We have Congress Member Frost.
7:25You know, I can go down the list.
7:29Legere Fernandez. So many incredible speakers that if I listed everybody.
7:35Do we have the people State of the Union graphic there, Jeremy, that we can
7:40show? Here's one of the graphics.
7:42You can see some of the people, you know, who are going to be showing
7:45up. You can see some of the names right there.
7:47Gallego, Markey, Merkley, Murphy, Schiff, Smith, Chris Van Hollen, Anzari, Ballant, Kassar, Garcia, Legere Fernandez,
7:58Frost, Jim Himes, Jacobs, Jayapal, Larson, Kamlager Dove, Summer Lee, Pinegree.
8:08We've got Presley, Randall. We also have Congress Member Cohen from Texas.
8:15Texas, Texas is ninth. We forgot to put him on the graphic.
8:18Randall, Scanlon, Ramirez, Coleman, and more.
8:23It's hosted by Katie Fang and Joy Reid.
8:28So there you have it, folks.
8:30Going to be an incredible, going to be an incredible night.
8:33If you're wondering, well, where do I watch it?
8:35Here. You watch it here on the live feed.
8:38I'm sure you've all seen by now.
8:39It says People's State of the Union.
8:42There's already just kind of 5 ,000 people or so just hanging out there in
8:46that waiting room. And so, you know, you could watch our videos throughout the day.
8:52Go hang in the waiting room and you could message people throughout the day and
8:55chat about what you expect is going to happen.
8:57But it starts 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific.
9:00And so looking forward to that.
9:04All right. Maga Mike Johnson attacking the Midas Touch Network.
9:07He says that we are disgraceful.
9:11We are horrible. We are extremists.
9:14We are the ones breaking tradition, he says.
9:18Here's what Maga Mike has to say moments ago.
9:20Let's play it. It's shameful that they would boycott an address.
9:23We don't do that. Republicans don't do that.
9:25It doesn't matter if there's a president from the opposing party.
9:28We don't skip out. Our constituents want and need us to be here.
9:33Every member of this house represents over 750 ,000 people.
9:37They're disenfranchised if you're not sitting in the seat to be a part of the
9:41role and the responsibility of Congress.
9:43I think it's shameful. Republicans have a far simpler and far superior message for Americans
9:48watching at home. We're putting more money back in your pockets.
9:51We're restoring peace through strength.
9:53We're defending our border and deporting criminal illegal aliens.
9:57We're standing up for American industry and manufacturing.
10:00And we're making American workers, not foreign countries, the clear winners in this American economy.
10:05Those are not talking points.
10:07That is what we have delivered.
10:09It's called Republican results. And we are proud to run on that message in this
10:13fateful midterm election year. Run on it.
10:17Run on it. Donald Trump says he's going to speak for three hours tonight.
10:23He says it's going to last three hours, the State of the Union.
10:27I saw somebody say this must be a threat, inflicting more psychological torture on Americans.
10:32Three hours? Okay. It's ridiculous.
10:38The good news is you're not.
10:39going to be watching that.
10:40You're going to be watching the People's State of the Union here on the Midas
10:44Touch Network. We'll then bring you the rebuttal by Governor Spanberger of Virginia.
10:50That's the official Democratic rebuttal.
10:52Then separately, although we'll keep it on the same feed, we'll bring you the official
10:57rebuttal from the Working Families Party, Summer Lee.
11:00So you'll see all of the rebuttals throughout the day.
11:04We have our Washington, D .C.
11:06Bureau working really hard right now, interviewing members of Congress.
11:11So I hope in a little bit to get you a video that will show
11:14you what's going down throughout Congress.
11:18But what's Donald Trump's big focus today?
11:21What's one of the things that he's really been pushing?
11:24Well, Donald Trump has launched a new website to sell a new version of Trump
11:31Watches. And they're running Trump Watches ads on state regime media, which is Fox and
11:37others. I'm only going to play a small clip of it.
11:39But anyway, here, play this clip.
11:41Hello, everyone. It's President Donald J.
11:43Trump, and it's Trump time.
11:45Check out this red beauty.
11:46It's one of my new watches.
11:48Wear it proudly on your wrist, and everyone will know exactly what it's for, who
11:53it's for. Okay, we don't need to play any more of that.
11:56But that's one of the things that he's doing.
11:58What else did we learn this morning as well?
12:02Well, we learned that, remember those meme coins that Donald Trump was selling during his
12:08inauguration? Well, we got some data now from the meme coins.
12:12You can see right here that the Trump meme coins, the official Trump and Melania
12:20tokens have collapsed 92 % and 99 % from their all -time highs, respectively.
12:26And the damage to retail investors has been staggering.
12:30While insiders, meaning Trump and people Trump knows, while insiders cashed out over $600 million
12:36through fees and token sales, retail holders of these tokens absorbed the losses at a
12:43ratio of 20 to 1.
12:44For every dollar insiders earned, ordinarily investors lost $20 in total.
12:50Retail losses exceeded $4 .3 billion across nearly 2 million crypto wallets currently underwater.
12:58The concentration of gains is equally striking.
13:02Just 45 whale wallets, insiders, extracted a combined $1 .2 billion, and the sell -off
13:11may not be overs. Think about that.
13:15So you're telling me and lecturing me about traditions and norms, terms when you have
13:24the grifter and thief doing that.
13:27I mean, but that's just Tuesday for grifter and thief.
13:33That's just Tuesday before 6 a .m.
13:37for grifter and thief. You think about all the other things he's doing.
13:40Again, we have massed ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo torturing, terrorizing, killing people in this
13:49country. We have concentration camps in this country now, warehouses that have been purchased for
13:56the purpose of torturing migrants and even citizens.
14:00We've got judge after judge appointed by all different presidents, including Trump appointees, saying that
14:09this DOJ has violated court order after court order.
14:14This DOJ person's held in contempt.
14:16That DOJ person's held in contempt.
14:18They don't care. And of course, we know they're covering up a child sex trafficking
14:23ring. There was more reporting today as well about accusations against Donald Trump being covered
14:32up by the Department of Justice.
14:33There was great reporting by NPR talking about how the Justice Department withheld and removed
14:42some of the documents that involve accusations against Donald Trump and real serious accusations that
14:49we are aware of. So, for example, the Justice Department, this is what it says,
14:55the Justice Department withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a
15:00minor, an NPR investigation as found.
15:03It removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Epstein also mentioned Trump.
15:09Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release.
15:13These include what appear to be 50 pages of FBI interviews.
15:17So, let's be clear. What we know about for sure, based on what's been produced,
15:21that there are 50 pages of FBI interviews involving someone who was a minor who
15:27accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, that's being hidden.
15:31What else is being hidden?
15:32Are photos of Donald Trump and Epstein being hidden?
15:35The type that Michael Wolf described where there were girls of indeterminate age around Donald
15:40Trump where he had stains on his pants?
15:42Are those being hidden and concealed?
15:46We know that there may be as much as 50 terabytes of documents that are
15:50still being concealed by Trump's DOJ.
15:5250 terabytes, 5 -0. That's hundreds of millions of documents in the Epstein files that
15:58are still being concealed. And what's been produced already doesn't vindicate Donald Trump.
16:04Quite the contrary. The stuff that has been released.
16:07least is sickening. And in other countries, there's been some accountability.
16:12I mean, you look at the UK, you have Peter Mandelson, the ambassador from UK
16:17to the United States. He was arrested in the past 24 to 48 hours.
16:22Before that, Andrew Mountbatten, former Prince Andrew, he was arrested as well.
16:29Just think about it. In the UK, where they have actual royalty, there's no absolute
16:34immunity there. But in the United States, our right -wing fascist Supreme Court created a
16:38doctrine called absolute immunity. They invented it out of thin air.
16:42It's disgusting. Disgusting. So no, when our government is covering up for the pedos and
16:49the pedo cabal is inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
16:56Sorry, don't lecture me. Don't lecture me on traditions.
17:02Norms or anything like that.
17:05We caught up with Massey today, Thomas Massey, the Republican, perhaps one of the only
17:11courageous Republicans out there who's been working with Ro Khanna to release the Epstein files
17:17and to hold the Trump regime accountable for covering up a child sex trafficking ring.
17:22Here's what Massey said moments ago.
17:24Let's play it. So, Mr.
17:25Massey, you've been back now to the Department of Justice to see the unredacted files.
17:31What can you update us on?
17:35Oh, well, I've got to go back again because we were not able to search
17:40the files that they had put on the website and then pulled back down.
17:45And those were, that subset of files contains what I think may be names of
17:52co -conspirators. Okay. Any reason why they would have taken them down?
17:56Well, they did take some files down in the first batch they did in December
18:03and redacted them some more and put them back up.
18:07But I'm not sure if they plan to put these back up.
18:11Ostensibly, the reason they took the first ones down was because there were survivors' information.
18:21Well, we will, by the way, that footage right there comes from our Washington, D
18:26.C. Bureau. Thanks to all of you, we've built out a D .C.
18:30Bureau. And so that's Pablo Monriquez, who's doing that interview right there.
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19:04Yeah. Yesterday, we had 6 million subscribers and 9 billion views in the same day.
19:10It's a great accomplishment and it's thanks to you.
19:12But the numbers don't matter to me.
19:14I mean, you know, billion, 9 billion bazillion.
19:17For me, it's what you do with the platform, right?
19:20You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk, I think is important.
19:26And I hope that what we're doing tonight with the people's state of the union
19:31is using the platform that we've all built together with your help, exactly how this
19:39platform needs to be used.
19:41And it's in stark contrast to corporate news, right?
19:44While we are boycotting the state of the union and we are sharing actual policy
19:55speeches, and we're going to hear from not just the lawmakers, but they're going to
19:59be bringing guests. You're going to hear stories about how people have actually been impacted
20:03from this Trump regime. So while we're doing that and talking about what's impacting Americans,
20:10people here in this country, Donald Trump's going to be there spewing lies.
20:15And corporate news, they were there in the White House today begging for access.
20:21And if you want to know why I call it regime media, it's because they
20:27get their marching orders from the regime.
20:29Let me share with you what Jonathan Carl said moments ago.
20:32Here play this clip. Hey, I just left the White House room just leaving now.
20:37The president did a launch with network news anchors and offered a bit of a
20:43preview of his speech. One notable thing, we did talk about Iran.
20:47He said that Iran wants some deal more than I do, but they just can't
20:51say the magic words, which he said was that they won't build a bomb.
20:56The president said he's going to talk a lot about the economy and he's going
21:00to call for new tax cuts tonight.
21:02And he's going to say that the next three years in America will be the
21:06best years economically that we've ever had.
21:09And he's going to say, or he told us it's already begun.
21:13So that's here at the White House, just leaving lunch with the president and network
21:18anchors. Oh, just leaving with the network anchors.
21:22What are you, a stenographer?
21:24What are you just going to tell me what he said?
21:26Look, if you want to report that, don't you think that you should say, well,
21:33it's all false? don't you think that you should say, well, he was speaking with
21:38us today and he told us that he's going to spend three hours lying to
21:44the American people. That's why when people ask me, would you want access to the
21:49White House? Why would I want?
21:50Why? What would be the purpose of me doing that?
21:58Okay, I show up and I'm like, hey, everybody, you want to know what the
22:03president told me? The president told me that we were great and he's going to
22:08focus on more tax cuts and he's going to give you all rebates, everybody, and
22:12he's telling me that we've never been stronger.
22:15Also, he's going to talk about how he's been vindicated in the Epstein files and
22:18you know what else he's going to talk about?
22:21That Iran says they're very close to making a deal and even though he said
22:25that they were previously obliterated, he did an obliteration that was not a full obliteration,
22:30but it's really an obliteration, he says, and we've never been more powerful.
22:34He's going to talk about how he stopped eight wars, everybody, and how everybody now
22:38has health care for free.
22:40You all have most favored nations, health care, and everybody's doing amazing.
22:45And you know what he also told me?
22:47He also told me everybody can afford homes, that it's so easy to pay your
22:52rent right now. Everybody's getting paid with dignity.
22:55It's amazing. We're in a golden age.
22:57So that's going to be the speech.
22:59So that's Ben Micellis from the Midas Touch Network.
23:02I will be reporting. What are we doing there?
23:06What are we doing? What's the point of posting that video?
23:09What's the point of that?
23:10And all the networks are there doing that.
23:12What's the point of that?
23:13Seriously. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
23:18Even if you are a good reporter, when you do that, that's embarrassing.
23:21You want to know how the American people actually feel?
23:25Look at what the polling data says.
23:26I could show you anyone, but look at what the polling data says.
23:29Let's play it, Jeremy. I would borrow the phrasing of Tony Blair, of course, the
23:34former prime minister of Great Britain, saying weak, weak, weak.
23:38It was weak over there in the United Kingdom.
23:41It is weak here in the United States when it comes to President Trump.
23:43OK, Trump's net approval rating.
23:45Look at all the pre -SOTUS polls, the State of the Union.
23:49Look at this. OK, we're at this point.
23:51Look at that. Negative 27 points.
23:53My goodness gracious, the snow is up to the knees here in New York City,
23:56and Trump seems to be well underneath it at this point.
23:59Compare that to where he was in 2020, 2019 and 2018 in term one going
24:03into those state unions. Minus 10, way lower now.
24:06Minus 15, way lower now.
24:09Minus 15, way lower now.
24:11The bottom line is this.
24:12Donald Trump has never been weaker going into a state of the union address, a
24:16core North CNN polling than he is right now, and weaker by a considerable amount.
24:20So this is his first term to his second term.
24:23How does it compare to other presidents at this point in their second term, though?
24:26Yeah. OK. It's not just that Donald Trump is breaking records compared to himself when
24:31it comes to state unions.
24:32He's breaking records compared to other presidents at this point going into a state of
24:36the union. What are we talking about?
24:37Look at all the 21st century presidents on your screen right here about at this
24:41point, a second term going into the state of the union.
24:43Trump at minus 27 points.
24:45Obama was at minus 15 points.
24:47George W. Bush was at minus 11 points.
24:50You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that minus 27 points is
24:53considerably lower than minus 15 or minus 11.
24:56So Trump isn't just weaker than he's ever been going into a state of the
24:59union address. He is weaker than any other president this century going into a state
25:04of the union address at this point in their second term.
25:07You're talking about it all throughout the show as we're going through these numbers, but
25:10talk about what is driving this drop for them.
25:13What is driving this drop?
25:15I said record was the name of the game when it came to this segment,
25:19right? Talking about the lowest Trump has ever been going into the state of the
25:22union, the lowest that any president has been this century going into a state of
25:26the union at this point in their presidency.
25:28It is also the weakest that Donald Trump has ever been with independents.
25:33Look at this drop. We've been talking about it the past few months.
25:37At this point, a year ago, Donald Trump was at minus 13 points.
25:40Look at this. Minus 47 points among independents.
25:46The lowest Donald Trump has ever been in either of his two terms as president.
25:52He's a funny guy. Enten's a funny guy sometimes.
25:57Okay. Well, what does Jim Jordan say about Donald Trump's awful polling when Manu Raju
26:03asked him? Here, let's play this clip.
26:05You know, let me jump in because he also said he was going to reduce
26:09prices on day one while in office.
26:11And just as his own data from the, from his own government says that the
26:16rate of price increases for all food up 3%, up meat, poultry, fish, and eggs
26:20up 2%, all the way down the list, a number of items.
26:23Prices are still high. And on top of that, voters don't think he's doing a
26:28particularly good job about the economy or concerned about the state of the economy.
26:3172 % of the American public thinks the economy is fair or poor.
26:36And that's consistent with other polling.
26:37It's not easy to recover from all the ridiculous things and the rapid inflation, the
26:41record inflation that we had under Joe Biden.
26:44But we're in the process of doing that.
26:45Markets at record high. Two quarters ago, we had a 4 .4 % growth.
26:52We want to bring down prices.
26:55What world are you living in, Jim Jordan?
26:58And we're still doing the Biden blame.
27:00Donald Trump said on day day one, day one, I will bring down prices.
27:08Inflation is up, up, and it's higher than expected.
27:14We did the report, PCE 3%, GDP down 1 .4%, anemic.
27:23It's not good. We're in a jobs recession right now.
27:26What are we talking about here?
27:29AI continues to take away people's jobs.
27:34These data centers, zero regulation that Trump supports, running rampant.
27:39We're going to see more job losses there.
27:42Then Donald Trump imposes a new tariff regime against the world.
27:46After the Supreme Court strikes down, Donald Trump's IEPA tariffs, the emergency claim.
27:54There's an emergency. The trade deficit is an emergency.
28:00Canada's smuggling in all these drugs.
28:03It's the same as Mexico and such.
28:05There's a national security emergency.
28:07We need IEPA tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
28:14Then the trade deficit with the rest of the world is its own emergency.
28:18The Supreme Court said, no, you can't do that.
28:20Trump's response is, oh, I guess I won.
28:23When the Supreme Court says you lose, Donald Trump's, he's a predator.
28:27He's a sociopath. I won.
28:30You lost. Even though Donald Trump's lawyers argued when they were asked by the Supreme
28:36Court, the circuit court, the court of international trade, Trump's lawyers were asked, why don't
28:44you invoke the Trade Act of 1974, Section 122?
28:50They said, we actually don't have that authority to invoke.
28:54This is what Trump's lawyers said.
28:55We don't have that authority because what we're claiming the emergency is, is trade deficits.
29:02And what Section 122 deals with is issues about currency and currency crises and kind
29:11of monetary deficits where there could be a run on a specific currency.
29:18You know, there was the Brenton, I'm not trying to do a boring professor lecture
29:23on the Brenton Wood system when the dollar was pegged to gold.
29:27And then after World War II, there was a run on gold in the early
29:31years of Nixon. It was called the Nixon shock.
29:34So they came up with this idea of how do you stop this kind of
29:38massive kind of currency dilution in the Brenton Woods system where the dollar was fixed
29:45to gold? It's not happening now.
29:47It's not a thing that's happening.
29:49And also, when Donald Trump says all of these countries are giving to the United
29:54States trillions of dollars, how could you be having this emergency for monetary deficits when
30:04you're claiming all these countries are giving you all of this money, just giving it
30:08to you? So Trump invoked Section 122 under the Trade Act of 1974 unlawfully to
30:16now impose 15 % tariffs against the world, except he told the trade representative and
30:25our Commerce Department told the people collecting the levies that the document they were handed
30:31only says 10%. So Trump said 15%, which is, and 10 % is still high.
30:37But the actual levy right now was actually 10%.
30:41So people are like, what the hell is even going on?
30:43We don't, we don't even know what this is.
30:45So Trump's lesson from the Supreme Court ruling is, okay, I was able to institute
30:52my unlawful tariffs for what, 14 months until the Supreme Court finally said no?
31:02Okay. So why don't I just do the same damn thing again?
31:05I'll find another law that doesn't say what I claim it says.
31:10I'll invoke it. I'll get sued.
31:14I will delay the lawsuit.
31:1614 months will pass. I will lose.
31:20And then I'll find another one.
31:21By the way, this is Donald Trump's behavior before being in office.
31:29This is why he bankrupted so many companies.
31:32And I'm not saying this as a partisan or as a political person, this is
31:36the types of, or the type of behavior.
31:39This is why his casinos went bankrupt.
31:42This is why, you know, if there was a Guinness book of records on bankruptcies,
31:46he would be at the top.
31:48Why people think this guy is some good business person when he's gone bankrupt over
31:54and over and over, like so many bankruptcies.
31:56I don't know how it just makes no sense.
31:57Oh, he's a businessman. He wrote the book, The Art of the Deal.
32:01Like, are you really that stupid?
32:03Because he wrote a book called The Art of the Deal, you think he's a
32:06good business product? I don't know.
32:09I don't, I truly, I try to be empathetic, especially as people are leaving MAGA.
32:17I really try to do it, you know, and I do my best and, you
32:22know, leave MAGA. Cults are hard to break.
32:26And one of cult programming and deprogramming.
32:30is you go so far into a rabbit hole that you're afraid if you try
32:35to get back out of that rabbit hole, you humiliate everybody that you know.
32:39You humiliate friends. You admit it.
32:42You humiliate yourself. You admitted that you were wrong all of these years and that
32:48you caused so much pain.
32:50So that's why actually people go deeper into cults as opposed to it's so hard
32:55to get people out of cults.
32:56So I get it. But I just don't get how you fall for this shtick.
33:00The guy's whole life was loser.
33:02Again, you just look at the guys.
33:04And I'm saying this not politically, just objectively, the guy got daddy's money and he
33:10just would bankrupt things his whole life and just destroy people's lives.
33:14And so you're like, that's the guy.
33:17That's the guy. Literally the worst guy.
33:20If you had my 18, my 16 month old daughter, 17 month old daughter, Imena,
33:27if she were running this country right now, okay, in her cute princess dress, okay,
33:34she would do a significantly better job than Donald Trump would be because she wouldn't
33:40do, she would just want to play with, she would just want to play with
33:45Anna and she would want to play with, with Elsa.
33:51And that's what she would want to do.
33:53And so if she played with Elsa and Anna and all of her toys, and
34:00that's what she did every day, the country would be phenomenally better.
34:03Like, and she'd be known as one of the best presidents.
34:06Imena would be on Mount Rushmore right now.
34:08If you just let on autopilot Biden's economy, the state of the union would be
34:14strong. The state of Elsa and Anna and Tatiana would all be very strong and
34:21bell. All right, we'll take our, it was a reminder.
34:27How many people are in here right now, Jeremy?
34:29How many people are watching this live right now?
34:3122 ,000 people are watching me talk about, talking to me.
34:37Blippi, she loves Blippi. Blippi, can we play Blippi?
34:42The people's state of the union.
34:45Oh, and don't get me started on Miss Rachel.
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35:15So we'll see you all here tonight.
35:16I'm not done with this show.
35:18We've got a lot more show to go.
35:20We're going to take our first and only quick break of the show.
35:23We'll be right back. I want to talk about MAGA Republican Congress member Gonzalez.
35:28What's going on there? I want to talk more about, you know, the MAGA Republicans
35:35cover up of the Epstein files.
35:38Take our first and only quick break of the show.
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38:21Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News.
38:25I'm Ben Micellis and this is Breaking News.
38:28I want to turn to this MAGA Republican Congress member Gonzalez from Texas for a
38:34moment. District is Uvalde right by the Mexico -U .S.
38:40border right there. You remember this guy?
38:43He was the guy who was all in going after Matt Gaetz.
38:46And by the way, we should all go after Matt Gaetz.
38:49But he's saying, look, Matt Gaetz is disgusting.
38:52She is. And, you know, I served with some real scumbags.
38:57And Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.
39:02And, you know, people were like, oh, Tony Gonzalez, go get him, man.
39:06Go get him. But MAGA Republicans are MAGA Republicans, okay?
39:12And now we learn that Tony Gonzalez was sexually harassing.
39:21I want to be clear.
39:22An affair makes it sound consensual, although inappropriate.
39:28So I don't like the term affair.
39:30He was sexually harassing, coercing a young female staffer who worked for him named Regina
39:39Santos Avilias. He was asking, this is in the text message for anal, anal question
39:45mark, he would say. He would say, send me naked photos of you.
39:51What positions do you like?
39:53And she would say, boss, I don't like this.
39:56Boss, please stop. Her husband found out.
40:00They got a divorce. We're in the process of getting one.
40:05The sexual harassment and the activity in question took place in 2024.
40:14She then allegedly died by suicide from self -immolation.
40:22The story is, purportedly, that she sets herself on fire and kills herself by self
40:30-immolation, by burning herself to death.
40:32Then at the time, this MAGA Republican Congress member Gonzalez doesn't mention anything, acts normal,
40:40it's a tragedy, doesn't say that he was this predator who was going after her
40:46and continuing to coerce her and was the guy who destroyed her marriage.
40:55Just show you the clip of him.
40:57This was when, this was back from a few years, this was what, 2024 or
41:02so, when he was going, making appearances to go after Matt Gaetz.
41:07Here, let's play this clip of him.
41:09He will survive. Look, the house is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson
41:12is going to be just fine.
41:14I served 20 years in the military.
41:15It's my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I served with some real scumbags.
41:20Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.
41:25Bob Goode endorsed my opponent, a known neo -Nazi.
41:28These people used to walk around with white hoods at night.
41:31Now they're walking around with white hoods in the daytime.
41:36Meat mirror. Meat mirror. I just, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's baffling.
41:48The ease with which these people do it, right?
41:51The ease with which, you know, these MAGA, often MAGA men, but some MAGA women,
41:56but to be fair, Anna Paulina Luna, Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, they've been calling Gonzalez
42:05out saying he needs to resign.
42:06The MAGA men aren't. The MAGA men are like that, but those three MAGA ladies,
42:12Congresswoman, they've been calling him out to resign, but like, it's a real, you know,
42:16the Epstein class, man, they like, do they have like, uh, do, do they, they,
42:23they don't feel right. You know, they're there, they don't have kind of a human
42:27emotion. You know, like if I, if I, or you told like, uh, like a
42:36small lie and it was like, why, why, why'd you, why'd you do this?
42:40Well, you know, I was, uh, I, I, I, did you eat, did you eat
42:44the candy that was out there?
42:46Did you eat that candy that was out there?
42:49No, you ate the candy, didn't you?
42:54Yeah. Okay. Well, you know, like a normal human reaction is to be like, right.
42:59And to be like, whatever.
43:00I mean, you'll have someone like Howard Lutnick and how weird voice of his say,
43:07I let you know, when I saw Epstein in 2005, I was disgusted with him.
43:19He brought me into the room.
43:21I saw a massage table.
43:24I said, I'm massage table in the living room?
43:29What are you doing? And he says, the good kinds of massages.
43:35So I went to my wife and I said, that man is disgusting.
43:42And since that time, I never met him for personal, for business ever, because I
43:50knew what he was up to.
43:53Disgusting, disgusting. So the interviewer said, what do you think he was doing?
43:59Blackmail. Blackmail. He would have people go to the island where horrible things would happen.
44:06And then he would blackmail them.
44:08It's disqualifying. Okay. Okay. Well, the files come out.
44:16He's all over him. You brought your children to the pedo island.
44:22I just brought my children and my wife.
44:26So what? Well, first you said you knew, first off, the fact that you brought
44:32them there. Bad. Bringing children to the island where children are sex trafficked.
44:38Bad. But then you also said you knew that that's what was happening.
44:42Then you brought your friends' children there also.
44:45And you're talking about nannies with each other, even though Epstein doesn't have children.
44:51Exchanging nannies. Is that code?
44:53He gave you $50 ,000 for some award that you got in 2017.
44:58You did business deals together?
45:01So? So what that we've had years -long business ties?
45:07So what? He's disgusting. Okay.
45:12Like, you're a crazy person.
45:13Like, you're literally crazy people.
45:15Like, again, this isn't through a lens of, oh, the democratic position.
45:22These are like literally horrific humans.
45:29I don't even understand. I don't even understand the conduct here.
45:33And by the way, I mean, we talked about this at the outset of the
45:37show. I'll do another video about it in the morning.
45:40But now we know that these accusations by minors against Donald Trump were just like
45:45deleted, destroyed, or withheld by the Trump regime.
45:48And it wasn't even, like, I give a hat tip to NPR for finding it.
45:53But, you know, they did real work to find it.
45:56But it's, you know, at the bottom right hand, they have like Epstein Transparency Act,
46:01like ETA -0000, right, the Bates numbers.
46:05Well, 50 of those Bates numbers, 50 of those pages are missing.
46:11And those are the ones where a minor accuses Donald Trump, apparently.
46:16Here's how Congressmember Garcia described it earlier today.
46:18Let's play. Hey, everyone. It's Congressman Robert Garcia.
46:22As you know, we have been in a very serious investigation with the Epstein files.
46:26It appears that there are files that are missing from what the DOJ has produced
46:30that include very serious allegations about the president of the United States from a survivor.
46:36I know this because I myself just looked for these documents yesterday.
46:41And I'm going to show you something.
46:42This is a manifest document.
46:45And it lists a series of interviews and documents that should be in the files.
46:51These highlighted documents are actually missing.
46:55Under our oversight subpoena, all of these documents and under the new law by Kana
47:01and Massey, all of these documents have to be available to us unless there is
47:06some type of active investigation happening with these documents.
47:10What we have here is a survivor who has made serious allegations about the president.
47:16And now these documents are missing.
47:20Oversight Democrats are opening a parallel investigation into why these documents are missing, where they
47:26are. Obviously, we know who the survivor is, but of course, they're also protecting that
47:31survivor's identity. And the DOJ needs to answer, why are they covering this up?
47:37And this White House cover -up needs to end.
47:43I mean, right in plain view, they're doing this.
47:46Right in plain view. I saw some people in the chat saying, this is where
47:52the military needs to step in and arrest these people.
47:57The issue is that that's why Donald Trump put in someone like Pete Hegsitt, someone
48:02who has numerous accusations against him.
48:06Right? I mean, Pete Hegsitt's own mom wrote to, what, Hegsitt's ex -wife and said,
48:13yeah, my son's horrible and he's doing all these horrible things.
48:16And then Hegsitt's mommy had to go around to the senators.
48:23And she spoke to the senators, the Republican senators, to ensure they would vote for
48:28her son. Like, how did the United States of America get to a place where
48:34mommy had to go around for her son after writing emails that came out during
48:42the discovery process or the process of the appointment hearings?
48:48And mommy had to go around for her son.
48:51I mean, how, and again, you know, that, that's.
48:53why, you know, when we talk about DEI, I mean, we talk about didn't earn
48:58it. Didn't earn it. Mommy had to show up for you.
49:02Really? Like, that's where we're at.
49:04I mean, that's how I view these things.
49:06I never got into this.
49:08Actually, as a political person, my views, when I started to reflect on politics, started
49:14to, I said, okay, well, my views align with the label progressive.
49:19And I've always been throughout my life, someone who's, you know, voted for progressive candidates.
49:27Although when I was a lawyer, I never thought, I never really even thought that
49:32much about politics. When I was a litigator, you know, we represent different clients.
49:38They would be good, bad, Republican, Democrat, you just represent people, show up in court.
49:43You know, sometimes you have more of a control over your case selection and the
49:49cases you pick, but sometimes as an associate, you just get cases.
49:53But, you know, I didn't view it through political lens.
49:57I don't view any of this through political lenses.
50:00I just look at the conduct and I'm like, this is abhorrent.
50:03And so, again, I don't view this as a Republican, Democrat issue, but Jennifer Griffin
50:10over at Fox, she's a good reporter there.
50:15She's actually a very good reporter, one of the very few good reporters.
50:19She does national, she's on the national security beat.
50:22And she talked about a meeting that took place today.
50:25If you're wondering how I meander to talk about this, the comment was the military
50:30needs to arrest Trump, which I agree with, but the person leading it is Hegseth,
50:35and that's why I'm getting here.
50:37At a high -stakes Pentagon meeting today, Secretary Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodi an
50:46ultimatum, allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic's AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic
50:56autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled a supply chain threat.
51:07Now, pause there. The Pentagon doesn't dispute this, okay?
51:14I don't care whether you're a Democrat or a Republican.
51:17The demand is that Anthropic, this AI company, give the government its AI model for
51:25the purpose of mass domestic surveillance.
51:29What does that mean? That means that when you're walking, when you're out and about,
51:35when you're doing things, we already know that there are cameras everywhere, right, that are
51:40probably filming you. But the government will be spying on you at every moment of
51:48the day. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.
51:51You watching this, if you're in the United States, if you travel to the United
51:55States, you will be under 24 -hour surveillance the moment you walk out of your
52:02house using camera technology, using the AI technology, the various cameras that are out there,
52:10you will always be monitored.
52:12Okay, first off, why isn't that a front -page story?
52:16Could you imagine if that was a plan from Obama, or if that was a
52:21plan from Biden, or if that was a plan from any president, the outrage that
52:28should be? I mean, heck, when we learned about certain types of wiretapping and surveillance
52:34programs, post -Snowden and things, it was a big deal, right?
52:39But here, the government's just saying, we're going to do it.
52:41We're doing it. We're spying on all of you.
52:44And Anthropic, I guess, to their credit, is saying, look, we've developed this CLAWD.
52:50It's called CLAWD, this powerful AI tool.
52:53You can use our technology.
52:56You were able to use it successfully in Venezuela, and there's a lot of successful
53:00military operations. But we don't want our technology to be used for basically autonomous operations
53:10without human oversight, that just the AI decides when to kill people, right?
53:16They surveil on you, and then the AI determines, do they kill you or not,
53:20or abroad? Again, I'm not being hyperbolic.
53:25The government wants the AI monitoring you 24 -7 and then being able to kill
53:32you or to be able to kill people abroad and that technology to be implemented
53:37into drones and other things, and that the AI decides when someone dies or when
53:44someone... And all Anthropic has said is, look, we'll give you the technology.
53:49We do defense work, but we're not going to do mass domestic surveillance because we
53:55think that's a crime to do that.
53:57And we don't want our technology to be used that the AI determines when it
54:02kills somebody. I mean, imagine your chat GPT to saying, okay, I'm going to kill
54:07you now, right? That's what the government wants, the chat GPT to make the decision.
54:14So according to a source familiar, that meeting was cordial, not addressing down, not a
54:19screaming match, all business. Hegseth praised Anthropic's product, but then said if by Friday Anthropic
54:26does not agree to the Pentagon's use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would
54:31terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply and
54:38or designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk.
54:44Jennifer Griffin says, edit, both are mutually exclusive.
54:47You can't be a supply chain risk.
54:50But also invoke the Defense Production Act to say the country needs this product so
54:56much for national security that it will override any restriction put in place by the
55:01company that limits government access to the product.
55:05Both cannot be true. At issue is Anthropic's two stipulations, that its advanced AI model
55:11currently used in the Pentagon's classified system is not used for autonomous kinetic operations.
55:17Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety
55:25reasons because they don't know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger
55:32soldiers using the models. Soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically
55:38start killing large groups without humans in the kill chain.
55:43Second, Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance.
55:49Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted.
55:51According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use
55:57of its models for legitimate military operations.
56:00It also told Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use
56:06of its models in the Maduro raid.
56:11You know, Senator Sanders, Bernie Sanders, told me once, not once, he says it every
56:16time he's on with me, and he says it every speech he gives.
56:18The most important issues out there are often the issues that are being least discussed.
56:25When I host shows like this, when I'm out there speaking with people, when I'm
56:34out there asking you about, you know, the fears that you have.
56:39Here's what I hear frequently, that you, the American people, feel psychologically torture living paycheck
56:48to paycheck if you're lucky enough to have a paycheck.
56:53That you're unable to afford homes.
56:56You can't afford rent. Maybe if you're lucky enough to have a home and your
57:01kid or grandkids are living with you, they can't even envision a future that's better
57:07than your future, and they can't afford to be able to leave the home with
57:12you if you're lucky enough to have a home.
57:14People are terrified about AI replacing American jobs, especially AI that's not regulated.
57:22People are terrified, and rightfully so, of data centers going up in their communities, both
57:31in terms of the environmental hazards, the energy consumption, it's causing your energy bills to
57:39spike as well, and the use of the data centers as well.
57:44People want health care to be a universal right.
57:48The Obama subsidies, while imperfect, were helpful, and the Affordable Care Act, while imperfect, allowed
57:55people to access health care who couldn't before, and health care is being ripped away
58:00from the American people by the Trump regime.
58:03People aren't falling for Trump's claim that he didn't rip away Medicaid because the trigger
58:11for when Medicaid gets lost by you is after the midterms are over so that
58:18the Trump regime can blame Democrats.
58:19You know that now. People aren't tricked.
58:22They know that that's what's happening right here.
58:25People want to be able to work a job and be paid with dignity for
58:30the job that they work.
58:32And, you know, I can go.
58:35People want to be able to have a good education, have a good education for
58:39their children and grandchildren. People also don't want to have a president who makes everything
58:49about themselves, you know, and who's grifting and who's stealing from the American people.
58:56And people don't want this predatory Epstein class that's destroying their lives.
59:05I could, you know, I can elaborate more, but, I mean, I think also people
59:13do not want masked ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo torturing, terrorizing, and killing them in
59:21the streets of America. I can go on.
59:24But that's what the American people want.
59:29And, you know, rather than focusing on the gamification of politics, this one, down, you
59:38know, Democrat, Republican, we should be focusing on the people.
59:44We should be focusing on just being real and authentic about how we feel.
59:48I'll just give you a...
59:48I'll give you an example just quickly as well.
59:51You know, there's a lot of people, you know, a lot of political pundits, you
59:57know, who are like, look, I think that it's really bad messaging to criticize the
1:00:04men's hockey team for, you know, being there with Kash Patel and celebrating.
1:00:10They won the gold, you know, everybody likes the team winning, and they won a
1:00:17gold medal, and don't criticize the team because that's bad for politics.
1:00:23Look, I don't think you have to spend, I don't think the fault completely or
1:00:32majority lies with the men's hockey team.
1:00:34I mean, you have Kash Patel going in there.
1:00:36They're celebrating. You have the FBI director.
1:00:40You have the FBI director behaving that way.
1:00:43You know, these are, you know, whatever.
1:00:46You know, they see him there.
1:00:48They're celebrating. They get a call from the president.
1:00:52The president is saying things.
1:00:54They're at their all -time high in their minds.
1:00:57But I also think that I don't have to think about everything from being a
1:01:01political messenger, right? I did not like, I did not like setting aside that I
1:01:08have a daughter. It doesn't matter if you're like, you know, people are like, well,
1:01:11I'm a girl dad. Okay, I am, but whether I'm a girl dad or not,
1:01:15it doesn't matter. Okay, just morally, I did not like seeing the president and the
1:01:22men's hockey team mocking the female hockey team.
1:01:25I didn't like that. That is something that offends my morals and principles and values.
1:01:32So I can call that out.
1:01:34I don't have to belabor the point.
1:01:35I'm not going to devote episodes to saying the hockey team, the hockey team, the
1:01:39hockey team. I'm glad the American hockey team won the gold medal.
1:01:42I really am. But I do hope that there is some reflection as well about
1:01:47the women's hockey team and the amount of time the women's hockey team worked for
1:01:51that gold. And they had an incredible tournament.
1:01:53And leaders and people with basic decency should be out there to acknowledge that.
1:02:00You can do all of the above.
1:02:02I don't have to be this political creature to channel everything to what's the best
1:02:07political message. I want to just let you know how I feel about these issues.
1:02:12And I think the American people are so sick and tired of even everything, whether
1:02:18it's Democrats as well being filtered through.
1:02:20What's the political message here?
1:02:22What's the right lens? How do we persuade?
1:02:26How are we more persuasive?
1:02:28Did this ad move the needle by this amount of percentage points?
1:02:32Should we use this word or that word?
1:02:34Look, just be real and caring and react normally to how things are.
1:02:40Sure. And if it offends you, if you see something, you say something, be a
1:02:44grownup, be an adult, stand up against the bullying, stand up against this.
1:02:50You know, I did not like to see the incredible women's hockey team getting demeaned
1:02:55like that. I didn't. And so I can say that.
1:02:59I could also say congratulations to the men's hockey team.
1:03:02Congrats. I'm proud when the U .S.
1:03:04wins gold medals. I am objectively, you know, you know, and I'm proud of the
1:03:10Canadian hockey team. And I'm proud of the great work that Canadians have been doing
1:03:15internationally as well. And I'm proud of Midas Canada and the great work that they're
1:03:20doing. All of these things can be true at the same time.
1:03:24And I could be absolutely livid.
1:03:26I could be absolutely furious at what this authoritarian regime is doing here in the
1:03:33United States. And so we're going to call it out.
1:03:34We're not going to normalize it.
1:03:36We're not going to legitimize it.
1:03:38And we're just going to let you know how we feel about these things.
1:03:42And we're going to bring facts, facts, facts to this every step of the way.
1:03:45So how many people here will be watching the People's State of the Union in
1:03:52approximately two and a half hours or so or three hours, two and a half
1:03:57hours? How many people will be watching the State of the Union?
1:04:00Right here, 8 Eastern time.
1:04:03How many people will be watching that?
1:04:06I'm excited to have everybody here.
1:04:09Watch it right on the Midas Touch Network.
1:04:12Do me a favor, if you can.
1:04:14Tell friends, co -workers, family members.
1:04:20As soon as this episode ends, will you remind them for me?
1:04:25Will you remind? That's one of the best ways you can help.
1:04:28If you're like, Ben, how can we help you?
1:04:30We love the Midas Touch Network.
1:04:31Congrats on six million. What can we do?
1:04:34It'd be great if sitting aside.
1:04:37If you're a member, if you're a subscriber, fantastic.
1:04:40But what you really can do right now, which would be incredibly helpful right now,
1:04:46right this second, is to text message, email, tell people around you, hey, you know
1:04:56we're boycotting that State of the Union, right?
1:04:58You know we're watching it on the Midas Touch Network YouTube channel.
1:05:01Here's the link. Here's their YouTube page.
1:05:04Will you all do me that favor and do that?
1:05:06If you commit to reaching out to 10 people right now about the Midas Touch
1:05:13State of the Union event, throw a blue...
1:05:16emoji right now. If you can commit to me right now, you will tell 10
1:05:21people about the Midas Touch People State of the Union event right now.
1:05:25Let's see those blue emojis.
1:05:27Let's see those blue emojis right now.
1:05:30I know someone's saying you guys need your own TV network.
1:05:33I'm working on it. I'm doing my best.
1:05:35I hit 6 million. The next is the TV network.
1:05:39The next is the TV network, okay?
1:05:43Someone's like, you need a TV network to bring on Colbert and to bring on
1:05:47Kimmel. We're working on it.
1:05:51Once I hit 10 million subscribers, Midas Touch Network on TV, Midas Touch Network internationally,
1:06:01Midas Touch Network in Europe, in South America, in Mexico, in Africa, spreading the truth.
1:06:11All right. I'm making a...
1:06:12I'm told I'm making a lot of promises.
1:06:14I'm going to do... I set big goals.
1:06:17My producers are saying you're setting a lot of promises.
1:06:19All right. Here's my promise for you though.
1:06:21Here's my promise for you right now.
1:06:23My promise for you right now is we're going to work every day as hard
1:06:28as we can to fight for the truth and to fight for democracy.
1:06:32How about that, Jeremy? I'll bring it down a notch to here.
1:06:39All right. Thank you, everybody, so much.
1:06:41For real. Please tell people about tonight's event.
1:06:43I want to make sure the audience is huge for it.
1:06:47And I'm really excited about this.
1:06:50Really, really excited about this event.
1:06:52Thank you all. I'm appreciative of you.
1:06:55I'm grateful for you. Thanks for helping us hit 6 million subscribers.
1:06:59Thanks for helping us hit 9 billion views.
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