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2:31A lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast.

2:34We'll talk about Donald Trump's disastrous address to the nation on his catastrophic war in

2:41Iran that only continues to escalate.

2:44I believe it was the worst presidential address in American history.

2:48Today, Donald Trump started blowing up bridges in Iran and bragging about it, bragging about

2:55war crimes to which Iran responded right away.

2:58The fact that you're blowing up our bridges just reeks of desperation.

3:03In addition to blowing up bridges, Donald Trump and his regime continued to say, we're

3:08going to be bringing Iran back to the Stone Ages or we'll blow them up

3:13to oblivion or blow them up to the Stone Ages, to which Iran responded with

3:17a map of the Iranian empire during the Stone Ages.

3:21Are you sure you want us to go back to the Stone Ages right there?

3:24And so you have this kind of constant...

3:26And so you have this kind of constant...

3:27And so you have this kind of constant...

3:27operation that's taking place by Iran.

3:30Donald Trump also spent the day saying that he thinks that Bruce Springsteen concerts suck

3:37and that Davy Crockett is a high IQ.

3:40Something about Jasmine Crockett, I really can't even follow what he's talking about, but just

3:45some weird posts by Donald Trump.

3:47Pam Bondi, attorney general, was fired today.

3:51Lots of people believe Kash Patel is next.

3:54Also, the army chief of staff was fired today or forced out into retirement.

4:01The price of oil, both Brent and WTI crude surging, the national average over $4

4:09.08 gallon right now. Donald Trump and his regime have also been targeting anyone who's

4:18potentially involved in future negotiations regarding peace talks in Iran.

4:24Donald Trump has been soliciting Pakistan.

4:27Please help Pakistan get Iran involved.

4:30Pakistan reached out to a former foreign minister who's viewed as a more moderate person,

4:38if you will, within the Islamic Republic.

4:40Then the Trump regime killed that former foreign minister's wife and caused severe injuries to

4:47that former foreign minister who the Trump regime asked to try to get involved.

4:54We'll talk about that. His name is Kamal Karazi.

4:57He gave an interview at CNN actually back in mid to early March where he

5:03was kind of predicting exactly what was going to happen.

5:09You also have Donald Trump attending a Supreme Court oral argument where Trump's tried to

5:16basically overturn the 14th Amendment birthright citizenship.

5:20After the Supreme Court justices who Donald Trump appointed started asking questions to the solicitor

5:27general, basically the main attorney who does the oral arguments for the Justice Department, Donald

5:33Trump got angry and then stormed out of the courtroom.

5:38Very odd and petulant behavior.

5:41And then he started talking about, these judges are stupid.

5:45These are all the right wing judges are stupid.

5:48They don't do, they don't do what I want.

5:50And if I was a king also, why are other judges, by the way, Republican

5:54judge in Washington DC, Judge Leon, blocking my ballroom.

5:58By the way, that's probably what's making Donald Trump most upset right now is that

6:02his ballroom has been permanently blocked pending congressional authorization, which I don't think Congress is

6:09going to, uh, authorize right now.

6:11Um, we got all of that and much more to talk about, you know, it's

6:15a normal episode of the minus touch podcast.

6:17In other words, you know, uh, there you have it, Brett and Jordy.

6:22Yeah. Well, it isn't every day a normal day.

6:24Uh, guys, I mean, every day it just gets, you know, crazier and crazier, but

6:28I would say in particular over these past few days in these past few weeks,

6:31it feels like the wheels are falling off the Trump train even more than they

6:37were in the past. Like he's just, let's face it.

6:39He's totally lost control of this thing.

6:41He entered this war. Who knows why I, it still doesn't make any sense.

6:47I think he thought he was like being macho and he'd help Israel and he'd

6:50be able to be Mr.

6:52Tough guy and, you know, Mr.

6:54America blowing up things, you know, and, and now he's just stuck in this quagmire

6:58that he can't get out of.

6:59And so he's trying to look for any possible win that he can, but what

7:03I don't think he necessarily realizes or.

7:06maybe he just doesn't care, is that all the actions that Trump is taking right

7:10now are getting us more entrenched in this war, and they're making Iran more defiant

7:15and more resilient throughout the process.

7:18And he's also really been very off -putting to all the Iranians who are sympathetic

7:24to us going in there and trying to overthrow this regime.

7:28I mean, the things that Donald Trump is posting and saying, as Ben said earlier,

7:32are just straight -up war crimes, and he's not making that distinction between the Iranian

7:37people and the Iranian regime.

7:40And those threats are just propaganda gold for the Iranian regime.

7:44And that's why you see the Iranian regime using Donald Trump's statements, his videos, all

7:49of these things. It's the best thing possible that they could ever ask for, to

7:53have Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth saying the things that they are saying right now.

7:57We've got a lot to discuss.

7:59I'm going to pass it over to Jordi first.

8:01Jordi, what's the latest on your end?

8:03What's up, brothers? Might is mighty.

8:04How's it going? It's, look, a lot to get into tonight.

8:08When I was watching that just disaster address to the nation that Trump gave last

8:13night, I wrote down a couple words, brothers, might is mighty.

8:15Just a couple, like one word here and there.

8:18Low energy came to mind.

8:20Incoherent. Bizarre. Pathetic. And just plain weird.

8:25I don't know what the hell that was that we watched earlier this week when

8:28he addressed the nation, but he is just so absolutely embarrassing to this country.

8:33Every time he takes this, every time he takes the mic, every time he addresses

8:36us publicly. A lot to get into tonight.

8:38Benji, where are we starting off?

8:40Yeah. Take a look at Donald Trump's post where he says, the biggest bridge in

8:43Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again, much more to follow.

8:48It is time for Iran to make a deal before it is too late.

8:52And there is nothing left of what still could become a great country.

8:56He puts that in caps.

8:57President Donald J. Trump, and he shows a video of the United States blowing up

9:02the B1 bridge on the Karaj Northern bypass in Western Tehran.

9:08I don't think the bridge was fully operational yet, but it was just about to

9:12be. It was one of their, if not their biggest bridge.

9:16It was a source of national pride.

9:17It was for civilian use, and that was attacked.

9:22And Donald Trump said that he was attacking it because it was the biggest bridge,

9:26to which Iran's foreign minister, Aragchi, responded by saying, striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges,

9:34will not compel Iranians to surrender.

9:36It only conveys defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray.

9:40Every bridge and building will be built back stronger.

9:45What will never recover damage to America's standing.

9:49Other Iranian social media accounts reposted Donald Trump's post, and they wrote, for example, Trump

9:56directly admits to targeting civilian positions.

9:58International organizations, governments, hasn't the time come to act against this brutality?

10:06Now, the Trump regime has used this guy, Barack Ravid, who is a reporter at

10:13Axios, to spread a lot of the kind of Trump and propaganda.

10:18He basically writes whatever a Trump official tells him.

10:21And I think the Trump regime has found it more useful now to manipulate markets

10:26and try to get information out by filtering it through something like Axios versus Donald

10:32Trump's social media posts, which nobody takes seriously at all.

10:35So I think people are wising up, though, now to like this Barack Ravid guy

10:39just writes whatever Trump or a Trump official tells him.

10:42The guy's always been wrong about everything.

10:44But he writes, a U .S.

10:47official tells me, that's how he always starts, or three U .S.

10:50officials tell me, it's probably the same people over and over again, but a U

10:53.S. official tells me the bridge was attacked because it was used by the Iranian

10:58armed forces to try and secretly move missiles and missile parts from Tehran to launch

11:02sites in Western Iran and for giving logistical support for Iranian military in Tehran, to

11:08which this Murtaza Hussein account goes, okay, this is obviously a lie since it was

11:13not even operational yet. The U .S.

11:15president also said he bombed it because it was the biggest bridge in the country.

11:20And Trump was saying earlier this week, we're going to bomb your biggest bridges because

11:24they're your biggest bridges. And Donald Trump posted about it on social media.

11:28He also posted a photo of Davy Crockett randomly and said, Davy Crockett, obviously a

11:33distant relative of Jasmine Crockett and a very high Q frontiersman would be proud of

11:38the legacy that he began long ago, especially Jasmine's great success as a politician for

11:44the great state of Texas.

11:46And then Donald Trump went on to say that Bruce Springsteen sucks.

11:51MAGA should boycott him. His concerts suck.

11:55They are overpriced. Save your hard earned money.

11:58America is back! Exclamation point.

12:02Again, very weird behavior. And one of the things that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth

12:06have been repeating over and over again is we're going to bomb Iran into the

12:10Stone Age, to which Iranian social media has responded by saying, well, this map shows

12:16Iran in the Stone Age.

12:17Do you insist on reviving it?

12:19And for those listening on audio, the Iranian empire being very vast and basically stretching

12:26throughout the entire Middle East and in other areas as well, reaching into Africa.

12:33Donald Trump said, why isn't Iran, this is what he told Time Magazine, why isn't

12:38Iran calling? Why won't they call?

12:40We just blew up three bridges last night.

12:43And then he goes, they say Trump is not negotiating with Iran.

12:48I mean, it's sort of an easy negotiation, isn't it?

12:52Meanwhile, Iran says that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed long term for both

12:58the U .S. and Israel and their allies.

13:00Iran and Oman have been working together to create a toll system where they are

13:05charging $2 million or around that amount for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

13:11There is no sign that the Strait of Hormuz will ever be what it was

13:15prior to the war. But Donald Trump and the regime continues to brag that Iran

13:21has been completely decimated, that they don't have any weapons.

13:25What are they going to hit us with, BB guns?

13:28They don't have leadership anymore.

13:29Meanwhile, Iran clearly has its ballistic missile Shahid drone, an FPV drone arsenal, which is

13:36only being reinforced by Russia, which is providing it with more Shahids and other military

13:43equipment, also intelligence to strike American military bases.

13:47America has evacuated 13 military bases where those American soldiers are now in hotels in

13:53the Middle East, which are now targets of Iran.

13:56Iran continues to shoot its ballistic missiles, Shahids and FPV drones into these surrounding areas.

14:03For example, Bahrain's Amazon cloud facility was targeted.

14:09Recently, Qatar's infrastructure was hit again.

14:12Kuwaiti flag ships were attacked and hit off the coast of Dubai.

14:18Dubai, UAE continues to get hit as well.

14:21Tel Aviv keeps going. on having daily barrages of ballistic missiles hit it and the

14:27Iranian weapons seem to only be getting more advanced and harder to strike down.

14:32You have French President Emmanuel Macron saying, we must be serious.

14:37And when we are serious, we do not say the opposite of what we said

14:40the day before, referring to Donald Trump.

14:43Perhaps we should not speak every day.

14:45We should simply calm things down and build lasting peace.

14:49Macron also says, six months ago, we were told everything had been destroyed and settled.

14:53Clearly, that was not the case.

14:54Without international inspectors verifying materials, research and hidden sites, it's simply not serious.

15:00He also says regarding the Strait of Hormuz, opening it by force is not the

15:04option we have chosen. We consider it unrealistic.

15:07A military operation to reopen it would take an infinite amount of time and expose

15:12forces to immense coastal and ballistic risks.

15:15From the beginning, we have said it must be reopened, but only in coordination with

15:19Iran. The world cannot live with a strait that can be opened or closed overnight.

15:24Clearly, France moving towards bilateral negotiations and discussions with Iran.

15:29We're seeing France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria closing its airspace as it had before, but

15:38making it very clear their airspace and any military bases are shut down to the

15:43United States. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia, and

15:49Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the UK gave speeches calling out Donald Trump and

15:53what he has caused and that they're not going to get involved in this unlawful

15:57and catastrophic war. Again, it only seems that this quagmire that Donald Trump has put

16:04the United States in, it's not going anywhere.

16:06It's not ending soon. This will continue to drag on and on and on.

16:10So to me, that gives you a comprehensive update.

16:13And I'll just add that the Army Chief of Staff was also fired today.

16:17That someone who was deemed very well respected was, you know, fired by Hegseth and

16:23basically forced into early retirement.

16:27Chief of Staff of the Army, Randy George, is stepping down.

16:31That always shows a great deal of kind of confidence during a war where you

16:35get rid of kind of the key official from the United States, from the United

16:39States Army. And, you know, I think people like the Army Chief of Staff and

16:45others are raising these concerns to Hegseth and Trump.

16:48And, you know, Hegseth's a lifelong loser.

16:52The guy couldn't run nonprofits for military veterans and his personal behavior was disqualifying.

16:59Trump's a loser who's bankrupted thing after thing after thing.

17:02And they're, they're repeating that now, sadly, with our country.

17:05Yeah. And Trump's issues with his businesses.

17:07I feel like we're always that rule of holes that Ben talks about a lot,

17:11which is when you're in a hole, what do you not want to do?

17:13You don't want to keep digging, but that's all Donald Trump knows how to do.

17:16And that's what we see him doing with this war.

17:18When I see Donald Trump get out there and deliver all of this messaging, like

17:23in that speech last night, I'm always left wondering like, who is this for?

17:27Is my main question that I ask.

17:31Because yesterday, as we were watching him, Trump's speech offered zero clarity on anything.

17:35There was no new information to the point where I was wondering if like they

17:40had another plan or another speech planned before they went live.

17:46And then they decided to change it up last minute, because it's just, it's just

17:50a bizarre thing to ask for that time.

17:52And oftentimes, you know, the media, the main broadcast channels will grant a president that

17:57time because it is such a, an extraordinary request.

18:01By the way, they had denied Biden at that time in the past, a lot

18:04of these networks, but they all aired Trump live.

18:08But when that happens, you expect that there's going to be some big announcement, some

18:13new piece of information. But what I was looking at, in my opinion, was that

18:19Donald Trump right now, I think he's starting to lose trust in all the people

18:23around him. I think that's why we're starting to see him shed staff.

18:26That's why we're starting to see him yell at people more, target people more in

18:29his inner circle. That's why we keep hearing all these other rumors that other people

18:33may be soon on the outs in the administration.

18:36And I think that Trump feels that he is always his best advocate.

18:41And all of the issues that are out there are actually because other people aren't

18:46doing their jobs well enough.

18:47And they're not communicating his brilliance enough.

18:50He's a genius. He's the best.

18:51And if they just said it correctly to the public, if everybody knew what a

18:55smart guy that Donald Trump is, then they would be all for it.

19:00You saw a hint of this the other day when Donald Trump was speaking.

19:04He took a shot at Caroline Levin, if you remember.

19:07It was very quick. But Trump said something like, you know, I think he was

19:10asked about his horrific poll numbers, which are just getting lower and lower and lower.

19:14I think I saw one poll in the 20s the other day.

19:17But he was asked about that.

19:18He was speaking about it.

19:19And he said, maybe my messaging isn't getting out.

19:22I guess Caroline just probably isn't doing it.

19:23She must not be doing a good job.

19:26It must be Caroline's fault.

19:27And it's like, no, dude, that's not the issue here.

19:31The issue is that people actually do see what you're doing and they hate it.

19:34And you pitched your own base and you pitched all these people on this concept

19:40of America first, which sort of sounds good to a lot of people if that's

19:44actually your plan, if you don't see through the BS.

19:47But now everybody's seeing through the BS because you're getting out there and you're saying

19:51things like, actually, you know, it's not the government's job to take care of Americans

19:56here at home. We need to be spending as much money as we can on

19:59war and military and overseas rather than doing stuff here.

20:03It's like a shot in the heart to all this America first nonsense that he

20:07had pushed in the past.

20:08But he thinks he's his best own advocate.

20:10He thinks if he could only communicate this stuff to the public, everybody would suddenly

20:14realize that he's this brilliant guy.

20:17The fact is, it's the opposite.

20:19Obviously, people saw Donald Trump.

20:21I think they saw his weakness.

20:23I think they saw how, like Geordi said, how low energy he looked, how kind

20:26of sickly he looked, how he kept fumbling over his words, how he seemed to

20:31just continue to see things to the Iranians and kind of give up and surrender

20:35throughout. Ah, you know, we may not even need the straight open.

20:39We could pass that off, you know, to other countries to handle.

20:43It's their problem. We don't need gas.

20:44We have lots of gas.

20:45We don't need to go into this war.

20:47We actually won already. But actually, we probably need to send more troops over there.

20:51So like, what is it?

20:53And I think that's why we saw while Donald Trump was speaking in real time.

20:56We saw the stock market futures start to go down.

20:59We saw oil spike because people were like, oh, this guy's an idiot.

21:03He has no idea what the hell he is doing.

21:05I wish these people would watch Midas Touch and watch Ben's coverage on the war

21:09as we went because they wouldn't be that big of a surprise when they see

21:13Donald Trump in this primetime setting and go, oh, my God, this guy is deteriorating.

21:17He has no clue what is going on.

21:19But that's, to me, that's the function that this served by the broadcast networks airing

21:25this. And that's why I'm actually happy that they did air this live, because while

21:29the Midas Touch audience here and so many people who are online and everything, who

21:33are seeing these clips of Trump, they know how bad Donald Trump looks and sounds

21:38right now. They know how.

21:39crazy he is. They know the crazy posts that he's made, all that stuff.

21:43There's a lot of people in the country who aren't, bless them.

21:47I'm jealous of them, to be honest, who don't see this stuff every single day.

21:52And instead, they are getting a sanitized, sane -washed version from the corporate media where

21:58they may kind of summarize what he said with a positive spin or play one

22:02line from him. It's a much different perspective when you're seeing him unfiltered, looking delusional,

22:09crazy, all the above. And that is what the American people saw last night.

22:14And frankly, when you put the messaging of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, and we've

22:19talked about this, but I think it's important to continue to track just the huge

22:22disparity in the messaging right now between what's coming from the United States government and

22:27what's coming from the Iranian regime.

22:30You see that Iran is being far more sophisticated than the United States when it

22:35comes to messaging. When you have Trump and Pete Hegseth saying things like, we are

22:40going to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.

22:43I'm sure there's some good people there, but we're going to bomb all that land

22:47back to the Stone Age.

22:48You're not exactly endearing yourself to the Iranian people when you say that.

22:53And one of the interesting things that happened yesterday was that the Iranian president did

22:58a pre -bottal of Trump's speech.

23:00And I wonder if this changed any of the contents of Trump's speech before he

23:03actually went live. But the Iranian president went out there, he released the statement, and

23:09all their messaging has been directed at the American people and issues the American people

23:14actually care about. Like, why are you fighting these overseas wars and not focused on

23:19America first? The United States is fighting Israel's wars.

23:23Trump decided to bomb us in the middle of negotiations when we were reaching a

23:28deal on negotiations. Like, they went all in on all of these things, which are,

23:34for the most part, everything they said is kind of undeniably true.

23:38They talked about Donald Trump bombing these civilian centers, bombing the schools.

23:42And the opposite end of that is Donald Trump feeding right into that messaging that

23:49Iran wants to tell its people, where all the Iranian regime has to do is

23:55show Donald Trump's words, show his statements.

23:58And they'd be able to present this image of this just barbaric, bloodthirsty maniac who

24:05just wants to kill everybody.

24:07That's what I just don't understand.

24:09I don't know. I mean, I was going to say, I don't know where this

24:12is coming from. It's coming from Trump, but it's like, it's the worst possible strategy

24:16that you could possibly have if you wanted to win the war, win over the

24:22people, achieve any objectives. And by the way, if you noticed, every time Marco Rubio

24:26posts the objectives on his page, they change and they get less and less and

24:30less. They become, you know, weaker and weaker.

24:34And it's continued on, right?

24:36If you notice, they constantly are shifting it.

24:38And they always frame it as like, as we've been clear from the beginning.

24:43And it's like a new list of objectives, uh, anytime, uh, every time.

24:48Like Trump is just being mismatched here.

24:50And anybody who thinks otherwise just honestly, isn't getting the accurate information, uh, you know,

24:56right now. And it's led to a, just an incredibly dangerous situation.

25:01Obviously there's economic upheaval and all you have to do is look to countries that

25:05have actual leaders in place, whether you love them or, or don't like them, but

25:09just normal people in, you know, in charge, if you look at the UK, if

25:13you look at South Korea, uh, if you look at Australia, all of these world

25:17leaders, right. now are warning about what's going on and what's to come.

25:22And they're telling their people like we may run out of gas soon, so you

25:26better start conserving on gas.

25:27We may run out of oil like the prices are about to skyrocket.

25:31So we need to start taking measures to mitigate that and to make sure that

25:36we are prepared as a country.

25:38While Donald Trump's strategy is the COVID strategy of like a miracle, it's all going

25:42to go away. The Hormuz trade is going to open by itself.

25:45You'll see. We'll open by Easter.

25:48Everything's great. Everything's amazing. The United States is the best country in the world.

25:51We've heard that before from him.

25:53It's like a broken record.

25:54We're hearing it again. Don't fall for the BS.

25:56Trump is being totally outmatched, Brett.

25:59That's perfectly said. I don't know what his strategy is.

26:03I don't think he has a clear strategy.

26:04I don't think the American people know.

26:06Here's the thing. When I gave those one -liners earlier about Trump's address, low energy,

26:11weird, incoherent, I'm not saying that to be funny.

26:15Or to get clips. He's embarrassing our entire country.

26:21He's a stain on this country.

26:22And it just blows my mind that anybody could look at what we all witnessed

26:26with our own eyes last night and say, that's a totally normal guy up there

26:31doing totally normal things. That's the leader that we need.

26:34That's it. That's our guy.

26:36And quite frankly, people aren't.

26:37I can't imagine that that speech played well with the apolitical folks out there being

26:43interrupted, just trying to watch their shows.

26:45There's probably a huge portion of the country that didn't even realize Trump was going

26:48to address the nation last night.

26:50And all of a sudden, that's what they get hit with.

26:52That's what they get forced upon them.

26:54Donald Trump just at his strangest behavior.

26:58And he is spiraling. I mean, that is my biggest takeaway from last night.

27:02He is completely spiraling because he's gotten us into a mess right now that just

27:07simply won't go away, right?

27:09This is COVID 2 .0.

27:11He is spiraling and his mishandling of this entire war in Iran is deadly costly.

27:18Like literally, troops are dying.

27:19Oil prices are skyrocketing. It's hitting people here at home in ways that Trump probably

27:25didn't even realize we're possible.

27:28And so for me, it just comes down to we need real leadership in these

27:31times. And what Donald Trump is now showing the country at large is that he's

27:36not just ill -equipped to handle this.

27:38He's not equipped at all.

27:40He is not the guy to handle the situation that he's gotten us into.

27:43He lit the fire. Now he's trying to put the fire out and get pats

27:46on the back. This fire is not going out.

27:48This fire is only going to keep getting bigger and bigger.

27:51And it's not just going to go away like a miracle.

27:53It's just not going to go away because that's not how these situations resolve themselves.

27:57You need competency. You need leadership.

28:00You need real things to get this stuff across the finish line.

28:03And Donald Trump just isn't the person to do that.

28:05So now he's looking around at his cabinet because it can never be his fault.

28:08And so he's trying to find people to just take blame for anything, anything that

28:13could possibly make Donald Trump look like he's the bad guy in the situation or

28:18any situations and just try and get the heat off himself by putting his other

28:22cabinet members in the news.

28:23It's pathetic and it's a dangerous game to play because again, American troops are going

28:28to continue to die until we figure out what the hell is going on in

28:32Iran. Look, Iran's foreign minister, Aragji, is right when he says, blowing up the bridges

28:41shows desperation and weakness. I mean, can you think about that plan behind the scenes?

28:47All right. So none of our allies are going to be helping us in the

28:50Strait of Hormuz. They're not really our allies anymore.

28:52They're not letting us on their bases because they know it's an unlawful war.

28:58What are we going to do here?

28:59Let's blow up the bridges.

29:02That'll get them to surrender.

29:03If we just start blowing up civilian infrastructure, that'll do it.

29:07And it's like, it's going to do the exact opposite of like, who the hell

29:11is in this room who's out there saying this?

29:14And what you learn is it's Donald.

29:17He's the guy in the room.

29:18No matter what experts you have, what people he surrounds us, ultimately Donald, the wannabe

29:24king, who's making these calls and they are in the image of all of his

29:31loser behavior his entire life.

29:35He's ill -equipped to handle issues of any level of complexity, yet alone a war

29:43involving multi -layers of world powers.

29:48Trump doesn't know how to use hard, soft, and medium power of the United States

29:53to achieve objectives. And it's just loser behavior after loser behavior.

29:59We've got this guy, Saeed Jalil, who was a former secretary of the Supreme National

30:05Security Council of Iran, a former top military advisor, rather, in Iran.

30:11Here's what he posts kind of mocking Donald Trump in the United States.

30:15He goes, the Strait of Hormuz must be opened.

30:18We will escort the ships.

30:21NATO should help open the Strait of Hormuz.

30:24The Strait of Hormuz will be open within 48 hours.

30:27I am extending the deadline by another five days.

30:32Why isn't NATO helping to open the Strait of Hormuz?

30:36The countries that want oil should go and open the Strait of Hormuz themselves.

30:41They should cherish it. That's what he said in the speech.

30:43They should cherish the Strait of Hormuz.

30:45We're out. And Saeed Jalili writes, this is the account of the United States' gradual

30:52retreat and the collapse of its president's illusions.

30:57Those are all direct quotes from what Donald Trump is saying.

31:01And I saw Dana Perino, one of these Fox propagandists, and she used to be

31:07press secretary for George W.

31:09Bush before Donald Trump gave the speech.

31:11She was like, you know, the big problem is because Iran is so involved in

31:16their censoring of the media that the people of Iran aren't going to get to

31:20see Donald Trump's speech. They're not going to get to see it.

31:23Dana, you're very wrong, okay?

31:25Iran is happy to show them that speech.

31:28And the clips of the speech where Donald Trump says, we're going to blow you

31:31into the Stone Age, and we're going to do this to you and that to

31:34you. We're going to blow up your electrical grid.

31:36And that's exactly what Iran wants the people to see.

31:40And that's what they show the people.

31:42They're using Donald Trump's own videos and own quotes to show the people and rally

31:46the people of Iran. We have a lot to talk about when we come back.

31:49We should also talk about Donald Trump's attack on NATO, Donald Trump's lifting the sanctions

31:54against Russia, Russian vessels, lifting sanctions against Iran.

31:58We'll talk about that. We'll talk about how Donald Trump is so giddy about a

32:03meeting with Xi Jinping that's been moved to May while China's foreign ministry is out

32:10there mocking Donald Trump and calling Trump out for his unlawful war.

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32:43Really quick. We got to get an updated screenshot of that one, Brett.

32:46I do. I know. I got to get an updated screenshot.

32:48I can't use the same ones.

32:48I want to also say like a really cool announcement as well right now, which

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38:37We sent you a quick tangent here.

38:38Ben, I hate April Fool's Day.

38:39I hate April Fool's Day.

38:41It's the dumbest quote -unquote holiday that exists.

38:44I had a brand reach out to me that they were hamster laxatives.

38:47And I'm like, I didn't know people had that many hamsters.

38:49And I know hamsters need laxatives.

38:51And they're like, can you vet your audience and you vet your shows to see

38:54if anyone, you know, would read for hamster lax?

38:56I'm like, are they a good product?

38:58I'm like doing all of this research online.

39:0020 minutes later, they're like, April Fool's Jordy.

39:03And I just, I blocked their email.

39:05So honestly, April Fool's needs to be temporarily suspended till we could figure out what

39:10the hell is going on.

39:11Okay. That's a true story.

39:13I spent way too much of my day on April Fool's Day researching about hamster

39:17laxatives. And if I a lot of people have hamsters that need these, it was.

39:21Well, the world is a joke right now, a dangerous one.

39:24Also, part of the issue is I really take people seriously.

39:27Like when they tell me, like, I just, I just assume you're telling me the

39:32truth. Like, I don't assume you're lying to me or like playing a joke on

39:34me. Like when I, we're not like, we're not close like that.

39:37Oh, weird. It was weird one.

39:38Weird one. Benji. Thank you for the hamster laxative story.

39:43I guess we'll do another hamster laxative story.

39:46What's going on in the White House is a hamster laxative story.

39:50I'm ready to. explode. I don't know.

39:53I don't know where I'm going with this.

39:55Donald Trump gave what I think is the worst presidential address in United States history,

40:00whether he was or was not on hamster laxatives.

40:05He certainly was slurring his words, very low energy, but saying things like, in Iran,

40:12we have all the cards.

40:15All the cards are mine.

40:16We have all of the, you don't have the Strait of Hormuz.

40:19Thus, you don't have the cards.

40:21You don't have all the ballistic missile Shahid drones and FPV drones.

40:25Thus, you don't have the cards.

40:27The cards you did have, sanctions against Russian oil and against Russian vessels.

40:33Well, you gave up those cards and you unsanctioned the Russian oil and the Russian

40:38vessels. While you were at it, you claimed you were doing, quote, jujitsu on the

40:43Iranians by removing sanctions against their oil, handing them $14 billion to help build more

40:51weapons with the Russians and get some of the Russian satellite footage in order to

40:56target American military bases and other American interests in the region.

41:01So, no, I'm not sure.

41:03I'm not sure which cards you, you blew up a bridge.

41:06You blew up lots of bridges, civilian infrastructure.

41:09Yes. You've blown up an elementary school and you killed 165 little girls.

41:16And then earlier in the war, you blew up a gym and killed dozens of

41:20children as well. And thousands of civilians have been killed.

41:24By the way, even in the bridge incident, there was like 10 people who died.

41:27I should mention that as well, because there are real casualties that are taking place

41:31from what this Trump regime is doing with their war crimes.

41:34You did also blow up Iranian military facilities, you know, and I think military targets

41:41are, I suppose, targets that are the valid targets, although you don't understand the way

41:47the Iranian Revolutionary Guard actually functions in Shiite proxies across the region.

41:52The fact that your destruction of their conventional navy and other of their like kind

42:00of older and outdated weapons, it's not what they're using now.

42:04I mean, they're using the ballistic missiles, the Shahi drones, the FPV drones.

42:08He didn't destroy all of that, maybe at most one third.

42:11So what are these cards you're referring to, Donald?

42:14But according to Donald, we have all of them.

42:16We have all the cards, he says.

42:18Here, play this clip. We have all the cards.

42:20They have none. It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective.

42:24I think I gave the right perspective.

42:27Now, you could not like what I just said, but the perspective that I'm giving

42:31is the actual objective reality on the ground.

42:34Then Donald Trump says, if there is no deal, then we're going to hit all

42:39of their electric generating plants very hard.

42:41This is a war crime, just like blowing up their bridges.

42:44You could play this clip.

42:46Yet if during this period of time, no deal is made, we have our eyes

42:49on key targets. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and

42:54every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously.

42:59We have not hit their oil.

43:01Very hard and simultaneously. I'm not sure why it would have to be done.

43:05It all happens at the same time.

43:07But weren't you posting on social media to manipulate the markets that they offered a

43:16ceasefire? Didn't you say that they were the ones begging you for a deal?

43:21So you can't make a deal with someone begging you for a deal?

43:25Well, you've been begging them.

43:27The objective facts is this, that which Koff and Kushner and J .D.

43:33Vance have been begging Iran to make a deal and to leave the Strait of

43:37Hormuz. And in return, they said the Islamic Republic can stay in power and that

43:43would basically be the deal.

43:47The U .S. has tried to work with Pakistan because Donald Trump betrayed India for

43:55Pakistan because Pakistan invested in Trump's crypto world liberty financial stuff.

44:01By the way, the same way a lot of Middle East countries did, believing they

44:04were going to get security protection from Donald Trump, Pakistan was working with the old

44:09foreign minister of Iran who was viewed as one of the only people who maybe

44:13could try to maybe reach out to the current foreign minister, Aragchi, and then Trump

44:20and Netanyahu killed the foreign minister's wife and severely injured that foreign minister who they

44:27were having conversations with. This plays into exactly the kind of image that the Iranian

44:38regime is telling their people about the United States.

44:42I'd like to say that it's a caricature.

44:44I'd like to say that it's insane that you would possibly portray the United States

44:50in this way. But the fact is, it's true.

44:53And Donald Trump continues to affirm that image of the United States.

44:58I think there's an information war that occurs during all of these wars that has

45:03been heightened now with social media and social media tactics.

45:07And I think Trump has been trying to kind of portray Iran as like this,

45:13almost like everybody's there, like living in caves and they're like not civilized and they're

45:19like savages and they don't know, you know, what's going on in the world.

45:23And they, you know, hate us and hate everybody.

45:25Like he's trying to put this image out there, but all the things that the

45:29Iranian people keep saying and the Iranian regime keeps saying is like, actually the Iranian

45:35people are some of the most educated people.

45:37We're responsible for some of the biggest innovations.

45:41We are trying to make a deal and they're saying, look at these bloodthirsty maniacs

45:46in the United States who just want to kill and commit war crimes.

45:50And all they have to do to show evidence of that, of the barbarism of

45:54what's happening in the United States is showing clips of our leaders, is showing what

45:58Donald Trump is saying and showing what Pete Hegseth is saying.

46:02And so I, you know, I said this, I feel like a few weeks ago,

46:05even before the Iran war broke out, as we were seeing Trump, you know, do

46:10all these attacks on Venezuela and threatened Greenland and everything else that he's been doing.

46:15And what I said is, I think Trump's kind of vision, his actual kind of

46:20doctrine that exists is he thinks the United States is so strong and so powerful

46:26that the United States could use brute force to push its way onto anybody in

46:32any country and make them submit to our will.

46:35So we're just going to use our force in Greenland.

46:37If you don't like it too bad, we're going to take you over.

46:40Venezuela, if you don't like it too bad, we're going to invade and take you

46:44over. Canada, if you don't like it, we're going to take you over and make

46:47you the 51st state. And so I think he went into this war with that

46:51mindset as well. But he's dealing with a country right now who that has the

46:58opposite effect on. As Donald Trump tries to force his will on the Iranian people

47:03and on the Iranian regime, they're going, we don't want that.

47:07That's weird. that's creepy that's dangerous that's psychotic and so you're getting even people who

47:14as i said were sympathetic to the idea of the united states coming in bringing

47:18regime change bringing democracy to iran even many of those people now are looking out

47:24their windows they're seeing their neighborhoods being decimated their neighborhoods being bombed by the united

47:28states and it's not exactly a way that they're going to say oh these people

47:32are here to protect me and you can't look at any statement donald trump has

47:36made or any action that donald trump has taken and come to the conclusion that

47:40this is somebody who actually wants to see democracy in iran or wants to see

47:45the people of iran free and wants to see all of that because just every

47:51single piece of evidence speaks to the contrary here's the thing he doesn't know how

47:55to negotiate right he got into business like let's start back here he got into

47:59business school because his daddy got him in he doesn't know how to negotiate because

48:04his negotiating tactic used to be i have more money and more lawyers than you

48:08so do what i say that's why he is notoriously known for screwing the contractors

48:14that work for him because he pretends like he's some great businessman meanwhile he's just

48:18leveraging his his quote unquote power that was given to him like he thinks it's

48:24his birthright to just act like this and behave like this but he's also so

48:28demented that he actually now has told himself that he is this great man that

48:32he let me make this comparison and sorry to interrupt you but you just sparked

48:34a thought in my head the same way that donald trump inherited his wealth from

48:38his daddy and then use that wealth to bully people to get his way to

48:45steamroll his way through business and screw over contractors not pay anybody and build his

48:52business empire off that the same way that donald trump inherited that he inherited the

48:58power of the united states that was built up over hundreds of years of people

49:04building the system that we have today building the military that we have today the

49:09alliances that we have today exactly and just like he squandered his wealth his daddy's

49:15wealth during his business career he's now doing the same thing with the power he

49:19inherited through that history of the united states just like he uh took his father's

49:25wealth and claimed it as he's a self -made man that he's a self -made

49:31person that he's this brilliant genius he takes credit for the united states's success if

49:37you know he says this repeatedly right as we come up to the birthday of

49:40the u .s the 250 he says oh and it's all because of me that

49:43we're reaching 250 it's all because of me that i rebuilt the military i did

49:47xyz it ain't because of you you know it is because of you the fact

49:51that i don't know a quarter of the nation's debt maybe more at this point

49:54is because of you that's that's because of you the reason we're spending now like

49:59trillions of dollars on the military the reason why the global economy is shut down

50:05yeah that's your legacy your legacy is more of you know a uh a herbert

50:09hoover than somebody who's actually done anything to actually build this country up exactly right

50:16so when he's trying to negotiate with iran now and he's claiming to have all

50:19of the cards he he's basically saying i'm america and you bow down to me

50:24because of how awesome i am i mean that that's what he's trying to leverage

50:27here the problem is he's losing and now his losses unlike when he was a

50:32businessman bankrupting casinos bankrupting stake businesses bankrupting every business he's been a part of they

50:37aren't his own personal monetary losses no now his losses are he's getting american troops

50:43killed he's crippling the economy here he's spiking oil prices and he's getting america troops

50:47killed. So like lose me on this.

50:51I say one of the cards, I just want to say one of the things

50:55that really sickens me the most.

50:56And this is a, this Trump did not invent this.

50:58You know, this was done by George W.

51:00Bush. This was done by a whole lot of people who brought us into wars

51:03and it disgusts me every single time I see it.

51:05But it was something that Trump said last night during his speech, where what they

51:09do is they use the deaths of American soldiers in order to further propagandize the

51:15war and say that that's a reason why we can't leave.

51:18That's a reason why we need to stay in this war as long as it

51:21takes. You saw Trump said something, you know, about the American soldiers who have died

51:26in the Iran war. And he made some sort of comment that was like, you

51:30know, we can't let those deaths be in vain.

51:33We have to stay there.

51:34We have to finish the job.

51:36And that's a propaganda tactic that I have heard my entire life as we've been

51:41in all of these various wars across the Middle East.

51:44And it has always just led more of our troops to slaughter.

51:48And I, I just, I hate it.

51:50And it's percy, and I'll get tossed it to you in a second.

51:52You've been very patient. And it's precisely why he also leaked the photos when the

51:57troops came home, when the troops who were killed came home.

51:59It's why, it's why when the families asked them not to publish photos of that,

52:03of that coming home, that he released it to further propagandize their deaths.

52:08It's disgusting. But Trump takes it to the next level.

52:10He wears a MAGA hat and sells the hat, right?

52:13And uses, I mean, Brett, like he takes the George W.

52:16Bush disgusting thing. And then like, just brings it to a level that's like, even

52:21beyond, you know, the most horrific conduct.

52:24I mean, you're wearing a hat.

52:25Mason, please, sir, please, sir.

52:26We need more killing. Get, get the - Well, that's what he says.

52:29He goes, the family said to me, sir, you need to continue to, not even

52:33just saying for those families, we have to do it.

52:36He does the lie and says, every single family went up to me and said,

52:40sir, we need this job to be finished.

52:42And then the families come out and they release statements to the press saying, I

52:45never said that. Then he attacks the families.

52:47And then, you know, I mean, it's a cycle that happens over and over.

52:50We've seen that happen before when he, you know, attacks Gold Star families.

52:54And, you know, that's, that's a pattern that he has over and over again.

52:57Let's just show the clip quickly of Donald Trump saying, I'm going to, we're going

53:02to bomb them into the stone age.

53:04I mean, just think about it.

53:05This is a war of Donald Trump and Netanyahu's choosing and unlawful war.

53:11And now Trump's giving an address for the first time weeks into this thing and

53:16saying more a month into this thing and saying, we're going to bomb them into

53:20the stone age. I mean, you know, when I watch this, I think about, you

53:24know, all of these, you know, horrific, you know, dictators in history.

53:28And I'm like, I'm like, this guy is just a effing scumbag.

53:31It's like, this guy's a piece of trash.

53:33Here, play this clip. We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two

53:37to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they

53:42belong. That's like a script.

53:44Someone wrote that also. I mean, he probably was part of it, but like, that

53:47was a script. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages also, to

53:51which I immediately said last night, Iran's going to use that.

53:54And they're using it. And that only makes us less safe.

53:57That makes American interest in the region less safe.

54:00And it makes us look weak.

54:01That's how weak people, that's how strong people talk.

54:04That's how very weak people talk.

54:06You know, and as noted, the Amazon facility in Bahrain was targeted.

54:10And the kind of cloud computing technology was hit.

54:14It was struck, taken down.

54:16I know the Oracle being targeted there after Donald Trump was like bragging Oracle in

54:21Saudi Arabia. They're doing a plant in Saudi Arabia that was targeted as well.

54:26You know, and Iran has its arsenal and it keeps on attacking in response and

54:32in retaliation to what Donald Trump's doing.

54:34I want to take our last quick break of the show.

54:36When we come back, I want to talk about a few things.

54:38Donald Trump's saying that the budget for the military, $1 .5 trillion, while we can't

54:45fund Medicaid, Medicare, and other social programs is what he literally said that.

54:51We'll talk about Pam Bondi being fired.

54:54What's next there? We'll talk about some other stuff as well.

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59:15Benji, real quick, the thing that really upset me about the whole laxatives prank about

59:20with the hamster laxatives is I texted one of our hosts if they had a

59:23hamster because I'm pretty sure that their kid does actually have one.

59:27I like to take people at their word, Ben, like people who aren't proven liars

59:31like Donald Trump. I like to take them at their word at first that it's

59:34a sincere conversation I'm having.

59:37Shame on me. Shame on me.

59:39You got to have your April Fool's guard up.

59:42Next April Fool's, I'll remind you the day before, if anybody talks to you about

59:46mosquito laxatives or whatever, you know, you should definitely be suspicious about it.

59:57Speaking of though, the feeling that millions of mosquitoes were attacking me all last night,

1:00:02all at once, I think that's the reaction a lot of Americans got while watching

1:00:07Donald Trump's disastrous Oval Office speech.

1:00:09You see that transition from hamster laxative two mosquitoes into the Oval Office hearing, as

1:00:16Hegg says, was like, full throttle, full throttle ahead.

1:00:21This is the stupidest people in the world.

1:00:23These people in the White House are the worst.

1:00:26Donald Trump spent a lot of the day yesterday and the day before, like he

1:00:29has forever, attacking NATO, calling NATO a paper tiger, saying that he and Vladimir Putin

1:00:35said together, they were talking about him and Putin were having a conversation about what

1:00:40a paper tiger NATO is.

1:00:42I mean, just think about it.

1:00:43Donald Trump taking away the oil sanctions and shipping sanctions on Russia.

1:00:49We know that because it happened publicly.

1:00:51Trump saying that he was on the phone with Putin.

1:00:53They were talking about why the U .S.

1:00:55needs to withdraw from NATO and why it's a paper tiger.

1:00:59I mean, just think about like, you know, FDR or Truman or whoever, you know,

1:01:06on the phone telling the people, you know, like I was on the phone with

1:01:09Hitler and we were talking about withdrawing from the current alliance.

1:01:15And we're actually thinking about how can we help Nazi Germany and Mussolini?

1:01:25What can we do to help you during this war?

1:01:27I mean, like Donald Trump's out there saying, you know, oh, and by the way,

1:01:30the main kind of Reich leaders, they're going to be in Congress.

1:01:37They're going to be getting a tour of the Capitol building, right?

1:01:39I mean, like literally the Russian Duma members got a tour of the Capitol.

1:01:42building. All of that was happening publicly.

1:01:45And then what if FDR or Truman or whoever just started attacking the allies over

1:01:50and over and over again?

1:01:52Churchill, you're horrible. You're horrible.

1:01:56You're a terrible person. You're awful.

1:01:58I mean, throughout the day, Donald Trump was attacking NATO.

1:02:01And then in his speech, he was attacking NATO.

1:02:04I'll show you one portion of the speech right here where Donald Trump talks about

1:02:07how the countries of the world that do receive their oil through Hormuz.

1:02:13You'll take care of it yourself.

1:02:15It's for you to deal with now.

1:02:16Let's play this clip. The countries of the world that do receive oil through the

1:02:20Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage.

1:02:23They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it.

1:02:27They can do it easily.

1:02:29We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that

1:02:34they so desperately depend on.

1:02:35We'll break it. You fix it.

1:02:37See you later. Jordan, to your point, that's been his philosophy his entire life.

1:02:42I'm going to break it.

1:02:43You cherish it. You deal with it.

1:02:45You've got it. And in response, a lot of these countries are basically like, okay,

1:02:49well, you don't use our air bases.

1:02:51You don't use our airspace.

1:02:54We wish you the best.

1:02:55We're not doing anything. Remember, Donald Trump and Netanyahu did this unlawful war of choice

1:03:00on their own. They didn't consult anybody, not the Arab nation allies with Trump, the

1:03:06ones who did all the quid pro quo pay for plays with the Trump buildings

1:03:09and buying him the jets.

1:03:11Donald Trump didn't consult them.

1:03:13Donald Trump didn't consult NATO.

1:03:14He didn't consult anybody. It was him and Netanyahu.

1:03:17They did it. And this was the result.

1:03:18It's an absolute disaster. Remember, so many things happen as well.

1:03:23Remember a day in, Trump and Netanyahu started broadcasting themselves on Iranian TV.

1:03:29Because one of the things they told us is that the Iranian people were going

1:03:32to take to the streets like they did back in January when Donald Trump betrayed

1:03:36them and said, go out.

1:03:37I got your back. And then didn't get their back.

1:03:39So they're like, why would we do it again?

1:03:41You screwed us over last time.

1:03:42We're not going to do it again.

1:03:43And they, and like Trump and Netanyahu were like, did TV shows themselves, like the

1:03:47people of Iran and it's me, Donald Trump.

1:03:50And it is me, Netanyahu.

1:03:52Go out, go out on the street.

1:03:55We will be your heroes.

1:03:56And people are like, what the heck?

1:03:58What, what? Yeah. No, no, no, no.

1:04:01Thank you. We've seen what you've done in Gaza.

1:04:04We've seen what you've done in Lebanon.

1:04:06We know what you're going to, we're, we're, we're, we're not going to do that.

1:04:10No, by the way, one of the things that the Iranians keep on posting over

1:04:13and over again are photos of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together on the Iranian

1:04:19missiles. They have Donald Trump and Epstein photos or Trump Netanyahu Epstein photos.

1:04:26But like the Iranian regime posts over and over again, they're like, who would you

1:04:30trust? This guy or this guy?

1:04:32And they'll like show the Ayatollah praying and they show Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.

1:04:36And, you know, that seems to be more effective propaganda than Donald Trump saying, I'm

1:04:42going to blow you into the stone age.

1:04:44Or, you know, when Donald Trump blows up after covering up child sex trafficking involving

1:04:51little girls and the Epstein files, Donald Trump and his regime with Netanyahu blow up

1:04:57elementary school filled with little girls in Iran, you know, which is a war crime

1:05:02and it's a travesty and it's horrific.

1:05:04And they're still covering it up today, right?

1:05:07Trump and the regime still cover it up.

1:05:09The military is fessed up to it, but Trump and the regime, you know, you

1:05:13know, are still covering it up, still covering it up today.

1:05:17I'll show you also, this is Marco Rubio attacking NATO.

1:05:20I think we've got a, uh, video footage of Rubio attacking NATO.

1:05:23Let's play it. When we need them to allow us to use their military bases,

1:05:26their answer is no. Then why are we in NATO?

1:05:29You have to ask that question.

1:05:30Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars over

1:05:34the years, trillions of dollars, and all these American forces stationed in the region?

1:05:38If we can only use, in our time of need, we're not going to be

1:05:42allowed to use those bases.

1:05:43So I think there's no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going

1:05:48to have to reexamine that relationship.

1:05:50We're going to have to reexamine the value of NATO and that alliance for our

1:05:53country. Ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make.

1:05:56One of the things we're seeing now, United Airlines hiking their check bag fee by

1:06:01$10 as fuel prices continue to climb.

1:06:05Amazon's imposing a 3 .5 % fuel surcharge for many of their online merchants.

1:06:12And just like COVID, you know, it's, it's, it'll start to hit over here, you

1:06:16know, and we already know what the gas price is, but it'll start to hit

1:06:20over here. That's, that's for sure.

1:06:22I just want to remind too, just how, just to remind everybody how spineless Marco

1:06:27Rubio is. Obviously, you've seen his complete transformation from when he was running against Trump

1:06:31to now, where he's just given up every little speck of, I don't know, morality

1:06:36that he may have had, or values that he had.

1:06:39But Marco Rubio literally is the individual who sponsored the bill that was in 2024,

1:06:46that passed, that said that a president cannot unilaterally pull the United States out of

1:06:52NATO with congressional approval. That was Marco Rubio's bill that passed.

1:06:57And now he is parroting Donald Trump's talking points, saying that the United States needs

1:07:01to start rethinking its relationship with NATO.

1:07:04NATO has nothing to do with this.

1:07:06NATO has nothing to do with helping aggressors in a war.

1:07:09NATO is about if one, it's a defensive alliance, that's the most important thing about

1:07:15it. And they keep talking about article five, why aren't they reacting?

1:07:19Article five, article five, article five is if they're attacked.

1:07:22If a, if a NATO nation is attacked, other nations can invoke, they can invoke

1:07:26article five and have other nations come to help them out.

1:07:30The only time in history that article five has been invoked was after the September

1:07:3511th attacks on the United States, when our allies came to our side and helped

1:07:41us in Afghanistan. So if you want to talk about who's helping who and who's

1:07:45pulling their weight, I think you need a bit of historical context.

1:07:48Rubio is such an embarrassment.

1:07:50Ben, I'll tell you in one sec, but that's why I think as we go

1:07:52forward here and, you know, try and take back this like pro -democracy essence that

1:07:56this country, like we really need here to like celebrate and champion that we can

1:08:01never forget or lose sight of the Marco Rubios, of the folks who have totally

1:08:06and utterly debased themselves in order to appease Donald Trump.

1:08:10Folks that have almost said like, I'm the centrist Republican and I want to work

1:08:14across the aisle and do the, and then how they just put on that red

1:08:18MAGA hat and totally fell in line to appease Donald Trump and not to help

1:08:21the American people. We can never forget who those people are.

1:08:24Donald Trump rolling out a $1 .5 trillion defense budget for 2027 today.

1:08:31And he was teasing it yesterday before he gave that horrific national address where all

1:08:39of the remaining money, which is not all that much that could have otherwise gone

1:08:42to Medicaid, Medicare, daycare, social programs, will now all go into the military.

1:08:49Donald Trump says that, uh, the, uh, the, the big message going into the midterms

1:08:56is, uh, as Bloomberg writes it, Trump will frame.

1:08:59the Republican Party's midterm message around a massive military defense buildup paid for by cuts

1:09:07to domestic agencies and what they call healthcare entitlements.

1:09:12This one account goes, they've done it.

1:09:14Donald Trump has invented unpopularism.

1:09:17It was a funny way.

1:09:19By the way, Donald Trump, while we were recording this, continues to post photos of

1:09:23the golden ballroom that's now been permanently blocked by a federal judge, a Republican federal

1:09:30judge, Judge Leon, George W.

1:09:32Bush appointee back from 2002, found that the construction was ultra vires.

1:09:38It's a Latin term, just meaning outside the scope of presidential authority.

1:09:42You need congressional authorization if you're going to rip down the White House and build

1:09:46a golden ballroom. So there was a permanent injunction blocking the golden ballroom.

1:09:51Although Donald Trump saying the ballroom is needed for national security because it gives me

1:09:56anti -drone protection and it will save me from ballistic missiles.

1:10:01So I need the drone because the real purpose of the drone is the bunker

1:10:05underneath as well as the ballroom will serve as anti -drone protection and that that's

1:10:15really what this is all about.

1:10:16I mean, again, I know, right?

1:10:18Totally and utterly deranged. But here was Donald Trump yesterday saying that we don't need

1:10:23child care. We can't take care of it.

1:10:27We're too big. We're going to be involved in so many wars.

1:10:31No child care, no Medicaid, no Medicare.

1:10:33We can't do it. We can't do it.

1:10:35That's not what the federal government does.

1:10:37Listen to what he says.

1:10:38Let's play this clip. Because the United States can't take care of daycare.

1:10:43That has to be up to a state.

1:10:45We can't take care of daycare.

1:10:46We're a big country. We have 50 states.

1:10:49We have all these other people.

1:10:50We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare.

1:10:53You got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for

1:10:56it, too. They should pay.

1:10:58They have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it.

1:11:01And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up.

1:11:05But it's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these

1:11:10individual things. They can do it on a state basis.

1:11:14You can't do it on a federal.

1:11:15We have to take care of one thing, military protection.

1:11:18We have one thing that we do here, military wars.

1:11:24I mean, like this is truly a deranged maniac.

1:11:26And I wanted to make sure I played that clip because in a lot of

1:11:31the chaos and the Trump distraction machine, that right there needs to be looped over

1:11:39and over again, because he's saying it.

1:11:42We're going to be in endless wars.

1:11:45And we're, the federal government's never going to actually do things that a government's actually

1:11:50supposed to do. You know, Barack Obama ran on, yes, we can.

1:11:54Donald Trump's like, no, we can't.

1:11:56I will steal from you.

1:11:58Unpopularism. I think that's the right way to talk about it.

1:12:01It is a policy. How these online propagandists push Donald Trump on the American people?

1:12:06Because remember, you had Elon Musk buying Twitter, controlling the algorithms, pumping these people who

1:12:11just spread this information all day to the forefront.

1:12:14And I know people in my family who are completely apolitical, never even use Twitter,

1:12:19but have it on their phone, which is an account that maybe occasionally they'll scroll,

1:12:23but not really. And they will get notifications from individuals who are just Trump propagandists.

1:12:28They all like tweet the same things at the same times, and they all push

1:12:30this messaging. And so I was just looking through some of these folks' accounts the

1:12:34other day, and I found this one from this dude named Eric.

1:12:38Look. Daughtry, who's one of the, you know, biggest offenders of all of this.

1:12:41And this was his tweet from June 19th, 2025.

1:12:45And this is what he wrote.

1:12:47This was their big pitch, why you should vote for Trump.

1:12:49We would be at war with Iran directly if Kamala Harris won in November.

1:12:54This is rather, you know, after, but this is the messaging they were pushing leading

1:12:57up to the election. We'd be at war with Iran directly if Kamala Harris won

1:13:00in November. Just think about what we avoided.

1:13:04She would have already signed off on several strikes and probably would have sent troops.

1:13:09It would have been a nightmare.

1:13:11And if you think that this individual, now you go to their account, it's like,

1:13:15wow, I can't believe Trump did this.

1:13:17WTF? He lied to me.

1:13:18No, they just move on to the next propaganda.

1:13:20Trump's so strong. Look at what he's doing.

1:13:23This is amazing. America. Yeah.

1:13:25America first means bombing Iran.

1:13:27America first means going into other countries.

1:13:29They just switch. They're just, they're just, they're just propagandists.

1:13:32And I think it's important that people see the messaging and like the machine that's

1:13:36working behind this to kind of just propagandize people and brainwash people into thinking that

1:13:41someone like Donald Trump is anti -war thinking like something like Donald Trump is, is

1:13:46pro health for your health as he like does everything to destroy health.

1:13:50Everything that they ran on that Donald Trump said he would do affordability, all of

1:13:54this crap. It's the opposite of what he wants to do.

1:13:57The fact that this guy who is enriching himself to the tune of billion and

1:14:00his family to the tunes of billions and billions of dollars, releasing these fraudsters, giving

1:14:06them settlements to Jay Sixers and all of this crap, the fact that they propagandize

1:14:13the American people to believe that this person was somebody who supported the working class,

1:14:18was going to bring prices down, was going to put America first.

1:14:21It's just, it's just looney tunes to me.

1:14:23One of the biggest reckonings that this country is going to have to come to,

1:14:26I believe in our lifetimes brothers, is like, we have to be able to actually

1:14:30champion truth again and celebrate truth.

1:14:33Because when you see all those putzes online spreading like this misinformation and they're just

1:14:38total, you know, just, just astroturfed movement, whatever the F they're doing, they're, they're really

1:14:44breaking through because of the people who control the platforms and push them to the

1:14:48top of the algorithms. So when you're constantly like filling the information hole with lies

1:14:54and just BS and propaganda, like inevitably that's going to break through to apolitical people

1:14:59who just are like trying to see what's the drama on summer house this week.

1:15:03And when all this stuff starts to hit you in waves where you can't even

1:15:07hide from it, I could see how penetrating that is.

1:15:11I would just say we as a collective society, like the larger, we just need

1:15:15to get to a point where we all want to champion the truth, where we

1:15:18all want to celebrate the truth and actually deal in facts and data and honesty

1:15:23and integrity. In my mind, there's nothing cooler than that.

1:15:26I, and I, and that might sound geeky or whatever, but it's just, it's just

1:15:30how I earnestly feel having a young son, having another kid on the way, trying

1:15:34to figure out, trying to figure out how we continue.

1:15:37Was that public knowledge? No, it was, it just came out.

1:15:40I'm out. Let's just keep going on from there.

1:15:43But genuinely, as I'm trying to grow my family.

1:15:46You know, the chat's lighting up right now.

1:15:48You can just let that slip and not expect they're going to miss it.

1:15:50I, I just want to be able to live in a society here where we

1:15:54could truly champion the truth and honesty and integrity and stop dealing with this propaganda

1:15:58stuff in the waves and droves that we currently are.

1:16:02And yes, I'm having another kid.

1:16:03Let's go. Let's talk about, it's, it's, it's, I would say it's a good segue

1:16:13to birthright citizenship. I don't know.

1:16:16I believe. I was looking for a good transition.

1:16:21Donald Trump did that executive order a while back saying birthright citizenship is now hereby

1:16:27illegal via my executive order.

1:16:29Obviously, the 14th Amendment of the Constitution clearly says birthright citizenship is legal.

1:16:34There have been cases on it.

1:16:36There have been statutes codifying it.

1:16:37It's in the Constitution. It shouldn't be a very difficult situation to rule that Donald

1:16:42Trump's executive order was unlawful.

1:16:44Court after court, federal court, circuit courts all ruled that Donald Trump calling birthright citizenship

1:16:50unlawful, that Trump violated the law.

1:16:53They blocked Trump's executive order.

1:16:54The Supreme Court heard oral arguments.

1:16:57Yesterday, Donald Trump attended the oral arguments himself, and he sat there for a short

1:17:04period of time. Then once the judges or justices started asking questions to his lawyer

1:17:11and Donald Trump didn't like where the questions were going, before the lawyer for the

1:17:16ACLU was able to present the arguments, Donald Trump stormed out like a little baby.

1:17:21It storms out of a Supreme...

1:17:22It's not all that long.

1:17:24The entire oral argument's what, like 90 minutes max?

1:17:27You decided to show up, and you show up just for a little bit, then

1:17:31walk out of the Supreme Court.

1:17:33I mean, again, just things like that are just...

1:17:35You wear a hat to the dignified transfer.

1:17:38You walk out of like just a bad human, like in every aspect, like just

1:17:42a piece of trash in every interaction, micro -interaction at a microscopic level.

1:17:51Everything is just... He's just trash.

1:17:53Every cell, every fiber, everything is just like the worst human being imaginable.

1:18:00I'll just share with you what Donald Trump heard before he jetted out.

1:18:04John Sauer, this guy is Donald Trump's lawyer, basically.

1:18:08He's the Solicitor General, but the DOJ has been turned into Donald Trump's law firm.

1:18:12So here, this guy is arguing why birthright citizenship should be unlawful, even though it's

1:18:19in the Constitution. And then Chief Justice Roberts is like, yeah, but the Constitution is

1:18:23the Constitution. Like it says it in the Constitution.

1:18:26Watch this. Let's play it.

1:18:27A mess. Their interpretation has made a mess of the provision.

1:18:29Well, it certainly wasn't a problem in the 19th century.

1:18:33No, but of course, we're in a new world now, as Justice Alito pointed out

1:18:36to, where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's

1:18:40a U .S. citizen. Well, it's a new world.

1:18:42It's the same Constitution. It is.

1:18:45And as Justice Scalia said, I think in the case that Justice Alito was referring

1:18:49to, you've got a constitutional provision that addresses certain evils and it should be extended

1:18:54to reasonably comparable evils. He said that about statutory interpretation.

1:18:57I think the same principle applies here.

1:18:59And I think we quote that.

1:19:00Yeah. I mean, that's him.

1:19:03Just leave it at that.

1:19:06Just leave it at that.

1:19:09I'm not going there. I'm not going to talk about Kristi Noem's husband being involved

1:19:14in bimbification. But, you know, I think I handled the Kristi Noem situation.

1:19:19I mean, my view about Kristi Noem's husband being involved in a bimbification community, which

1:19:28is, you know, he would cross -dress wearing triple E or I wasn't aware of

1:19:33this community, triple E, triple F breasts.

1:19:35And he loved to cross -dress with these, you know, gigantic breasts.

1:19:39And he liked being humiliated by other people who fit the bimbification and he would

1:19:45love the humiliation rituals. And he was into that.

1:19:49And what I've made very clear in my coverage is I'm not going to kink

1:19:53shame or mock what people do privately.

1:19:55As long as it's safe, as long as it's consensual, you know, people have private

1:20:00lives and the government should not tread on that.

1:20:03Remember, don't tread on me.

1:20:05And so that's not what I judge.

1:20:07What I do judge is people like Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi and others who

1:20:13intrude on people's private lives and who wreck people's private lives and mock people and

1:20:19use the government to harass and judge this group and that group.

1:20:23And then behind the scenes, they are involved in private conduct that they have, that

1:20:32they want secrecy and they want, you know, oh, don't involve me in that.

1:20:36You know, I'm not getting into that.

1:20:37I'm not going to talk about Lindsey Graham going around Disney World with his bubble

1:20:41wand, you know, and I'm not going to, you know, you know, look, you know,

1:20:45look, with Lindsey Graham, whatever kind of the private situation is, whatever it is.

1:20:52Don't then take out on us though, you know, what you're, what's going on with

1:20:58you privately, you know, by being a warmonger and a this or that, you know,

1:21:03obviously, you know, J .D.

1:21:04Vance, high school, gay, you know, he was saying that he was a gay man.

1:21:10He went to, you know, he said he was converted and that he's no longer

1:21:13gay anymore. And, you know, and then he wrote a book, he wrote in his

1:21:17book, you know, and he said that I was not, I thought I was gay.

1:21:19I'm not really gay. And then he becomes anti -gay, you know, and then like

1:21:24goes after the gay communities and LGBTQ communities.

1:21:28So it's like, oh, you know, just be happy.

1:21:30Just be happy with who you are.

1:21:31Let me say this, man.

1:21:33What do you say? I said, just let me say this, but what people do

1:21:36in their personal lives is what they do in their personal lives.

1:21:38Exactly. What these individuals, though, are doing to the American people and their sort of,

1:21:44I don't know, the self -flagellation of what they do for Donald Trump and the

1:21:50way that they humiliate themselves for Donald Trump, that is what is just disgusting to

1:21:57me. And, and, and they're never, it's never good enough, you know, as we saw

1:22:02with Pam Bondi. Pam Bondi fired today, tossed aside, I think she maybe was officially

1:22:08fired yesterday. It was announced today.

1:22:10She was told yesterday. And she wasn't fired because she covered up the Epstein files.

1:22:16She wasn't fired because she weaponized the Justice Department.

1:22:19She wasn't fired because of her horrific performance talking about the Dow being at 50

1:22:27,000. She wasn't fired for being bad at her job and being an evil human

1:22:32being doing Donald Trump's bidding.

1:22:34She was fired because she did not debase herself enough, apparently.

1:22:39She was fired because she didn't weaponize the Department of Justice enough.

1:22:43She was fired because while she tried to do everything that she possibly could to

1:22:47go after people like James Comey and Letitia James and Don Lemon, it wasn't enough

1:22:52for Donald Trump. That's why she was fired.

1:22:55And that's the end result of all of these people who tie themselves to Donald

1:23:00Trump. They humiliate themselves. They debase themselves.

1:23:04But it's always a one -way street every single time.

1:23:09And those are the people who should be walking around in shame every single day.

1:23:17I agree with you there, Brett.

1:23:18I mean, do we have the clip, though, of Donald Trump saying, Bondi's great.

1:23:22I look forward to her three more years.

1:23:25I think she's amazing. And things are going...

1:23:27I mean, he said this in the past three weeks, didn't he?

1:23:29You know, I mean, this is a recent clip we're going to show.

1:23:33Let's see. If we have that clip, let's play it.

1:23:35I'm not going to let anything bad happen to this country.

1:23:37Also with us are Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's a terrific person and fan.

1:23:47And she's proving how tough she is.

1:23:49And I think the next three years she's going to really prove it, right?

1:23:54Like these people. Just also the way he talks to her.

1:23:58Like, the way he even did that.

1:24:00You know, obviously he lied.

1:24:01But like, she's the Attorney General of the United States.

1:24:06Like, imagine like your boss.

1:24:09By the way, he shouldn't even be the boss at that point.

1:24:11This is, there's supposed to be independents, right?

1:24:14You're the AG. It's the top law enforcement officer in the nation.

1:24:19She's going to do a good job, eh?

1:24:20You're going to be a good girl.

1:24:21Aren't you going to be a good one?

1:24:23You're going to be a good one, aren't you, eh?

1:24:24I mean, just the behavior, the misogynism.

1:24:27Like, it's absolutely, you know, it's absolutely, you know, it was absolutely disgusting.

1:24:34But, you know, it's what Pam Bondi knew she signed up for.

1:24:37It's what she did. In addition to what you said, Brett, obviously she was covering

1:24:40up a child sex trafficking ring.

1:24:44Millions of documents still have not been produced.

1:24:46She didn't cover up the Epstein files good enough.

1:24:48What the Democrats and the House Oversight Committee have made very clear.

1:24:52She ain't getting out of her deposition just because she's gone and she got fired.

1:24:57She's still sitting for her April 14th deposition.

1:25:00Let me read for you what the ranking member of the Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia,

1:25:05Congress member Garcia, posted. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been leading a White House cover

1:25:11-up of the Epstein file.

1:25:13She has weaponized the Department of Justice to protect Donald Trump and put survivors in

1:25:17harm's way by exposing their identity.

1:25:19She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our committee under

1:25:24oath. She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment

1:25:29she has given Ghislaine Maxwell.

1:25:31Oversight Democrats have been leading serious investigations into Bondi and Secretary Kristi Noem.

1:25:37If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.

1:25:41And I just wonder, too, now that she's no longer an active member of the

1:25:45Justice Department, will there be states that start criminal investigations into her?

1:25:49Because while she doesn't have immunity like Donald Trump does, while she's actively leading the

1:25:54Justice Department, states would stay away from that.

1:25:57State bar associations would stay away for it.

1:26:00So I'm just curious if you'll start to see state bar investigations, state bar complaints

1:26:05being filed against her, state criminal investigations into her conduct.

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