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1:32unlawful war in iran continues to spiral out of control in terms of the conditions

1:39taking place on the ground on the battlefield essentially nothing has changed and if anything

1:46has changed things have escalated and only devolved into more utter chaos yet earlier in

1:54the morning donald trump released a message lying manipulating manipulating the markets and saying that

2:01in essence a deal in principle was reached with iran in order to create peace

2:09in the region donald trump's post was made right before the markets were set to

2:15open what we saw with the markets were that the markets were about to crash

2:20the stock markets about to crash the oil markets about to surge to levels that

2:27had never been seen before the bond market 10 20 year treasury yields started surging

2:35so donald trump in typical trumpian fashion lies makes up that a deal has essentially

2:43been entered with key decision makers in iran and our markets get manipulated and react

2:51to that and all of a sudden you see right before the markets are about

2:56to open all of the futures turn in positive directions now about 20 or 30

3:03minutes later iranian officials respond at various levels within the iranian islamic republic and they

3:12say we've had no such communications at all there hasn't been direct nor indirect communications

3:19we're not talking to whitkoff we're not talking to kushner we're not talking to anybody

3:26then Donald Trump said, well, I guess they don't have good public relations people, or

3:32I actually think the deal we're working out is that Trump, he goes, that me

3:38and the Ayatollah will control the Strait of Hormuz together.

3:45That makes zero sense. Donald Trump also said that he believes the discussions are going

3:52very powerfully in the right direction, but if they don't, we'll see what happens in

3:57five days. Maybe then there'll be annihilation of Iran, not the Islamic Republic, but of

4:05Iran. So what happens in five days?

4:07That's when the markets close again.

4:10So Donald Trump comes up with this five -day, obvious in my opinion, market manipulation

4:17scheme. The leader of the Iranian parliament coming out and saying, no such discussions have

4:23taken place at all. You have other leaders within the Iranian government saying, we're not

4:30having any communications at all.

4:32And while all of this is taking place, sources familiar with details have been telling

4:38the Jerusalem Post and others that U .S.

4:41force deployments are starting to arrive.

4:44As Amiki Stein explains, currently planned, 2 ,500 Marines, approximately 2 ,000 sailors, three amphibious

4:54ships, 3 ,000 paratroopers from the 86th Airborne Division.

5:00The staging is taking place right now for a full -fledged ground invasion, paratrooper invasion,

5:09to basically take over Karg Island.

5:13Now the top generals, admirals, and others familiar with the region have all predicted that

5:20if the United States does that, it will be a total and utter death trap.

5:25But that actually seems to be where things are moving towards.

5:29Then, before we went live, what we heard is that through Turkish intermediaries or perhaps

5:37Pakistani intermediaries, the Trump regime has tried to reach out to have J .D.

5:44Vance speak with either Pazeshkian, the president of Iran, or the head of Iran's parliament,

5:53G .B. Galiboff, or potentially others, since Iran refuses to talk to Witkoff and Kushner.

6:00So after Donald Trump manipulates the market, claims there's discussions, then afterwards, Donald Trump then

6:08tries to say, okay, well, why don't we do conversations between J .D.

6:12Vance and Iran? But at least based on the most recent reporting before this recording

6:17took place, Iran hasn't even responded to this request.

6:22Instead, Iranian embassies across the world are posting memes mocking Donald Trump and the United

6:29States. In one such meme, it features a baby steering wheel next to the main

6:35steering wheel of a car.

6:37In the Iranian embassy of South Africa writes, the Strait of Hormuz will be controlled

6:43by me and the Ayatollah, with an emoji with sunglasses and an emoji with a

6:49smiley face, again, mocking Donald Trump.

6:53We're going to cover all of that, of course, on this episode.

6:56And from the outset, we should talk about big news for the Midas Touch Network.

7:01As many of you may know by now, the Midas Touch Network was...

7:06proud to welcome today Scott McFarlane, who has joined the Midas Touch Network as our

7:13chief Washington, D .C. correspondent.

7:16In addition, the Midas Touch Network will be working with Scott McFarlane on his own

7:23media company, Scott McFarlane Reports, which will feature his YouTube in his substack.

7:30And so part of the Midas Touch Network growth strategy and the way we intend

7:37to work with lots of the top reporters who, as you know, are leaving corporate

7:42news by the droves, is to say, on the one hand, let's work with the

7:48Midas Touch Network. We have such an incredible community here of the Midas Mighty.

7:53Then let us help you build your independent media platforms where the Midas Mighty can

8:00watch you, where you own everything, everything belongs to you, and we're here to help

8:06as a partner to fuel that growth.

8:10And it was an incredible launch today.

8:13And it was also interesting to see state regime media, which calls itself Fox, was

8:19attacking us. Stephen Chung, Donald Trump's communication director, was attacking us.

8:25And then we got great compliments by the right people, attacked by the right people.

8:30So it was quite the interesting day to observe.

8:33But boy, are we lucky to have Scott McFarlane join our network.

8:39We're going to continue to grow this thing day by day.

8:41Brett and Jordy, it's so great to see you both on this historic day for

8:45the Midas Touch Network. And as we talk about this country, a day that I

8:51think will go down in history as a very pathetic moment for this country.

8:57I could not agree more.

8:59And it's great to be with you, Ben.

9:00It's great to be with you, Jordy.

9:01Great to be with you, Midas Mighty.

9:03And thank you for the incredible reception today after we made this massive, massive announcement.

9:08This is a historic day for the Midas Touch Network, a historic day for all

9:12of you. I think this really shows right now what we are building, this pro

9:17-democracy media platform that extends far beyond even just the three of us, elevating all

9:22these personalities who are the best of the best.

9:24And Scott is the best of the best.

9:26He is so incredible. He is a legend, a true legendary reporter.

9:32Previously was at CBS News.

9:34Now he is with us here at Midas Touch.

9:37He does great enterprise reporting, investigative reporting.

9:39And it's such an honor to have him.

9:41I want to make sure everybody goes and subscribes to Scott McFarlane's YouTube channel.

9:45Go there right now. Just search Scott McFarlane on the YouTube and you'll be able

9:50to subscribe. I'll also put a link in the podcast description below.

9:55And thank you again. And also, Ben, like you said, like having the, when certain

9:59people attack you, I view it as a badge of honor.

10:02So when you have the Trump White House attacking us over this, when you have

10:05Fox attacking us over this, I think that shows that we're right on target.

10:08And this continues the expansion of our DC Bureau, previously bringing on Pablo Monriquez, who's

10:14been doing great reporting inside the US Capitol.

10:16Of course, we have the Katie Fang channel and Katie is crushing it.

10:19And Katie's got a podcast coming out this week and we'll have more on that

10:23soon. But let's get to the news.

10:25You know, we woke up today on the West Coast quite early to the news

10:29of Donald Trump's taco, as it's come to be known, Trump always chickens out.

10:33And Trump was reversing his threat against the Iranian regime.

10:38He had given them 48 hours to basically open the Strait of Hormuz for us

10:43and stop the fighting stop every thing, or Iran will face annihilation.

10:48That was his big threat.

10:50Then today, as Ben said, right before the markets opened, he tackled on that.

10:54Just the lying, though, makes the United States of America look so weak.

10:58What I cannot understand, brothers and Midas Mighty, is how people keep falling for this

11:05BS every single time. But at this point, Donald Trump knows if he says, I

11:10had a conversation with the Iranian regime, and we got a deal, and this deal's

11:15about to happen. By now, after Donald Trump has made up all of these fake

11:20trade deals over and over again, only to be refuted either minutes later or hours

11:25later or whatever it is by the very countries that he claims to have a

11:29deal with, why are we still giving this guy the headlines that he wants?

11:34Why are markets listening to this BS?

11:37Nothing has changed. Things have only gotten worse.

11:40Donald Trump is making the United States look deranged because he's basically the representative of

11:45the country, and he is deranged.

11:47He is being mocked ruthlessly by Iran and by countries all over the world.

11:52It's just absolutely insane. We're going to dive into all of it.

11:56First, I got to toss it over to Jordy.

11:58Got to check in, make sure all is well.

12:00Jordy, what's the latest? What's up, brothers?

12:02What's up, Midas Mighty? Scott McFarlane, let's go.

12:05Let's go, man. I thought that Fox News headline was particularly funny.

12:10Just the idea of framing us, Midas Touch, this far -left media company.

12:14Far -left, man, because we believe in human decency, because we believe people should have

12:19healthcare. That's what makes you super far -left, because we think that everyone should have

12:25equal rights, that such a far -lefty principle, people should be able to afford homes.

12:29It's just so funny to me, the Murdoch framing and the right -wing framing of

12:34the Midas Touch network. But hey, Jordy, read the lower third or the subheader from

12:39the Fox News article to the folks, because I think it's funny.

12:43Scott McFarlane joins media group Midas Touch that is openly hostile to Trump.

12:48That's the Fox News lower third there, their little subtitle.

12:51For our audio listeners, Brett, pull that up one more time really quickly.

12:54The Fox News headline was, veteran CBS reporter joins far -left media company Midas Touch,

13:00as Anchor says, they share same North Star.

13:02Again, that's just such funny framing from Murdoch and Fox and right -wing entities.

13:05But hey, look, I'm stoked what we're building here at the Midas Touch network.

13:09I've never been prouder of what we're building here at the Midas Touch network.

13:11It's all thanks to you guys, the Midas Mighty, and this incredible community.

13:14Let's keep this thing going, y 'all.

13:15This is awesome. Brett, really quickly, to your point about the people falling for Donald

13:21Trump when he says something and puts it out there.

13:25And then the media, they just regurgitate the headline.

13:28They just eat the talking points and spit it out.

13:30Yeah, no, they're active participants, in my opinion.

13:33They're not falling for it.

13:35There's nothing to fall for.

13:36They're active and willing participants in Trump's Ponzi scheme market, in his market manipulation, and

13:43what he's trying to do.

13:45They're going along with him for the ride.

13:47I was watching CNBC's coverage, Fox Business.

13:49I checked out their coverage.

13:51This is what I was expecting from a Fox Business coverage.

13:53But CNBC and listeners of the show have known that I've been very critical of

13:57CNBC for quite some time.

13:59And just their coverage on all of this is just so damning.

14:02And when you actually watch them regurgitate the Trump propaganda, like bar for bar, it

14:09is embarrassing to watch. And it is deeply disturbing.

14:14And for me, Brett, Ben, and Midas Mighty, that's why I've never been prouder of

14:18what we're building here in this community, that we have the voices, that we show

14:21the receipts, that we show the video.

14:23the data, and what's actually happening, and hold truth to power every step of the

14:27way. Benji, excited for today's show.

14:29Where do you want to start off, big bro?

14:30Let me just show you what the editor -at -large of the Wall Street Journal,

14:34Gerard Baker, wrote. The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are

14:42in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy's version of events is

14:49more likely to be true than our own.

14:52We have become Baghdad Bob.

14:56And I think it is deeply unsettling that that is the case.

15:00And I don't think it makes us unpatriotic to try to distill what's really happening

15:08in the region based on the videos, the photos, the respective statements, trying to balance

15:16the fact that obviously Iran is running a propaganda campaign, right?

15:23That's what goes down in war and peace with regimes like that.

15:29Obviously, Donald Trump and Netanyahu and others are running their own propaganda campaign.

15:36But it's for us not just to regurgitate propaganda campaigns, but to evaluate, to see

15:45what's happening, to observe these massive movements of military into the region, American troops being

15:56sent there. I was recently in San Diego this weekend.

16:00San Diego saw lots of its troops leaving for the Middle East.

16:05The USS Tripoli saw its marine expeditionary units heading to the Middle East to arrive

16:14there this week out in Fort Bragg.

16:16The 82nd Airborne Division saw its elite powered paratrooper unit and others now being deployed

16:24to the Middle East. So we can observe there's actually a ramp up taking place.

16:30We can evaluate what was taking place today in Iran.

16:34Israeli strikes in Tehran and the surrounding areas, big strikes by Israel there, retaliatory strikes

16:41by Iran. We could evaluate what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz, what's happening

16:48there. It's still under the firm grip of the Islamic Republic, so much so that

16:55they are now charging toll prices to China and others that are allied with it,

17:03making sure that the currency is the yuan over there, so that that's what's being

17:09used. Iran is now selling its oil since the United States removed sanctions on Iranian

17:17oil during the war at record profits right now, right?

17:22They are making billions and billions of dollars, which then goes into its war machine

17:28to build more Shahid drones and ballistic missiles.

17:32They're also getting parts and resources and intel from Russia.

17:38Russia had sanctions removed against it as well for its oil.

17:43So Russia is making huge amounts of money right now.

17:48We see that happening. You have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant over the weekend saying, this

17:54is jujitsu. We're jujitsu -ing Iran.

17:57Why would we be jujitsu -ing them?

17:59It seems that they're making records.

18:01profits right now. And they're on social media, mocking the United States for removing these

18:10sanctions. I mean, if you just think about it, this is one of the biggest

18:14benefits to Iran imaginable, right?

18:17And if Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says, removing the sanctions hurts Iran more than keeping

18:24the sanctions on, I think you have to think about the logic of that.

18:28Well, then why would you have the sanctions in the first place if removing them

18:32actually hurts them more? I mean, that's a non sequitur and makes literally zero.

18:38It's a good point right there.

18:41And so you evaluate these things for yourself and you say, wait a minute, are

18:47the statements lining up? And how do we distill, how do we cut through this

18:55propaganda? Jordi, to the point that you make at the beginning of the show, I

18:59don't think that makes us leftist.

19:01I don't think that makes us anything, but curious truth seekers who are trying to

19:10determine what's really going on here.

19:13What is really up? So I was curious first that after Donald Trump makes the

19:21social media post lying and saying we've reached a deal with Iran in principle and

19:25he's very proud to announce it and that there'll be five days where we won't

19:30be engaged in any strikes on Iran because the negotiations are going so great.

19:35Who does Donald Trump call first?

19:38CNBC and Fox Business. Why?

19:40Because it's a market manipulation plan.

19:43So where's he going with this information?

19:45Then what is he saying on the tarmac?

19:48I want to evaluate what he's saying and say, does this make sense at all?

19:53So let's evaluate it together.

19:54Let's all pretend that we're on a jury and Trump is the witness and he's

20:03being cross -examined by the lawyer about the statements that he made today, that he's

20:09created this great deal with Iran and they're basically essentially done with the deal and

20:16things are going in the right direction.

20:18Despite the fact that Iran is saying no direct or indirect communications at all, if

20:24anything, the United States is cowering and being humiliated after Iran threatened to hit the

20:32Arab nation's civilian energy infrastructure after Trump threatened to do that first.

20:38So let's just evaluate it.

20:40On the tarmac, Donald Trump, before heading to Tennessee, where he had this weird, weird

20:46appearance in Tennessee, where he talked about his relationship with Tennessee and he almost implied

20:51comparisons to sexual relationships. I'll get there.

20:55I'll get there. Even if you don't want me to get there later in the

20:57episode. But here's the question.

20:59Iran's foreign ministry says you're not telling the truth when it comes to productive conversations

21:05to end the war. Well, they're going to have to get themselves better public relations

21:17people. We have had very, very strong talks.

21:22We'll see where they lead.

21:23We have points, major points of agreement.

21:26I would say almost all points of agreement.

21:29Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed.

21:31The communication, as you know, has been blown to pieces.

21:34They're unable to talk to each other.

21:36But we've had very strong talks.

21:38Mr. Whitcoff and Mr. Kushner had them.

21:42They went, I would say, perfectly.

21:45I would say that if they carry through with that, it'll end that problem.

21:52Whitcoff and Kushner had conversations.

21:55You think Iran would have conversations with Whitcoff and Kushner?

21:58Then why are you floating J .D.

22:01Vance? You're saying the conversations went perfectly.

22:04If they went perfectly, then why wouldn't that be acknowledged by them if it actually

22:09went perfectly? Ben, it was like we always said during these trade deals, right?

22:13Normally, when these conversations are had, when people are making trade deals, when they come

22:17to agreements, particularly in principle or a final agreement is made, what happens?

22:22Typically, there's a planned statement between both parties that's negotiated by both parties so that

22:27the public is getting the information and people know that one side is not bullshitting.

22:32That's not what we've seen through those trade deals because those were all BS.

22:36Right now, it's not what we're seeing here.

22:37In fact, the contrary, we're seeing Iran mock Donald Trump every time he says these

22:42things. I think the thing that isn't talked about enough throughout all of this is

22:46the poison pill that's involved in any of these negotiations and the problem that Donald

22:50Trump's going to have as he actually goes to make a deal.

22:53That's the last time he had Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner speaking to the Iranians

22:57in the middle of those talks.

22:59As things looked like they were going well and as it looked like they were

23:02reaching a deal, Donald Trump went to war with Iran and invaded Iran and bombed

23:06Iran. So this whole entire process almost feels, again, kind of like this Trojan horse

23:13where he kind of delays time, protects the markets, and then boom, launches an attack.

23:19And we're kind of seeing the kind of troops right now, we're seeing the groundwork

23:25be laid for that exact thing at this moment.

23:28I want to show you this because this is a report that says the amphibious

23:32assault ship USS Tripoli, the amphibious landing dock USS New Orleans, and roughly 2 ,200

23:37Marines from the 31st MEU will arrive in the Middle East on Friday.

23:42Now, why do I think that's interesting?

23:44Because Friday is the day where Donald Trump said that this offer expires and that's

23:50when the markets close. And so all of our troops are getting to the Middle

23:54East on Friday when Donald Trump says, you know, this deal is up.

23:58And so to me, if I'm the Iranians looking at this or anybody who's studying

24:03geopolitics on like a basic level, I'm like, you're trying to delay time because you're

24:07getting your troops here so that you can invade my country.

24:09Like, it seems kind of pretty obvious what's happening.

24:12And then Donald Trump, of course, also gets the benefit of these massive market swings

24:16where people in the know are always either shorting the market or betting on the

24:20market before Donald Trump makes the announcement because people and insiders know what's coming.

24:25And it just, there's so many schemes going on right now by Trump, but he's

24:29like the least trustworthy person on the planet.

24:32And with an issue this serious, it just leads to such danger.

24:35That's why it's just so pathetic when you have all these institutions that are literally

24:39carrying water for the regime, for the Trump regime, just regurgitating the points.

24:43That's why it's so frustrating.

24:44That's why I harp on it.

24:45Again, I don't attack media just for the sake of attacking media.

24:48I always say this. We need a strong fourth estate in this country.

24:50We need it. We absolute, it is vital for the survival of this country.

24:55But we need people that are going to roll up their sleeves and actually ask

24:58the questions and really report on what's going on and not just hide behind a

25:02statement that Donald Trump makes on True Social and then air it on the evening

25:04coverage. Right. Being a true patriot, in my opinion, means wanting to ensure that our

25:13troops are safe and are protected and that there are clearly defensive.

25:18find objectives and missions, and that when our troops are being put in harm's way,

25:25they and we understand what the hell is going on.

25:30I'll show you these clips in a moment, but just think about if the outcome

25:34of all of this is what Donald Trump lied about and said the outcome would

25:39be that Donald Trump and the Ayatollah form a joint venture agreement.

25:47Trump and the Ayatollah, shoulder to shoulder.

25:51Just like an LLC, an S -Corp.

25:53They form a joint venture and they control the Strait of Hormuz together.

26:00So we're sending our troops to die for a Trump -Ayatollah entity.

26:07And what about all of the pro -democracy protesters in Iran back in January who

26:14Donald Trump said, we're coming to save you.

26:16We're coming to protect you.

26:18When you're sending the signal that the best case scenario is a joint venture between

26:23yourself and the Ayatollah, what are you signaling to people who may want democracy in

26:31the region? Because they know they do anything.

26:33They're going to get slaughtered and killed and you're going to throw them under the

26:36bus. Also, what are you signaling to the Arab nations?

26:42And the Arab nations in the region that were involved in all of these pay

26:46for play schemes with Donald Trump that personally enriched Donald Trump and his family and

26:52Israel are basically saying, you can't just leave right now.

26:58Unless you remove Iranian control from the Strait of Hormuz, we won't support anything that

27:06you do. So when Arab nations are out there and you may hear them saying,

27:11we support more US involvement against Iran, the alternative for them at this stage now

27:19is existential because they've thrown their entire security umbrella with Donald Trump, both in terms

27:28of their pay for play and their alliance structure vis -a -vis Iran and the

27:34United States. So the only outcome, and this is why emolument clause violations, personal attachments,

27:42personal enrichment is prohibited by our constitution constitution and by other laws, because from the

27:50Arab nations perspective, we bought you.

27:54You can't leave. We bought you.

27:56And if we can buy you, we can sell you.

27:59And if you don't think either directly or indirectly those messages are being sent, well,

28:06I've got something to sell you.

28:09Look at what the head of Iran's parliament's been posting today.

28:13Iranian people demand complete and remorseful punishment of the aggressors.

28:18All Iranian officials stand firmly behind their supreme leader and people until this goal is

28:25achieved. No negotiations have been held with the US and fake news is used to

28:30manipulate financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel

28:36are trapped. This is the guy who the United States is leaking that they're having

28:42negotiations with. And then before we went live, he posted the following, Iran is fighting

28:48for humanity. The world is either with Gaza and against this colonial terror regime, or

28:54it stands with the Epstein class.

28:56and child torturers. There is no middle ground.

29:01Hashtag Gaza genocide. And this individual keeps making posts like this throughout the day.

29:09Then other officials in Iran are saying there's no direct or indirect communications that have

29:14been taking place. So it doesn't sound like someone is about to close a deal

29:17with Trump. Let's go back to the trial dynamic that I was talking about before.

29:25Trump being cross -examined. Okay, Donald, you mentioned that there are lots of points of

29:32agreement that you have with Iran.

29:35You've reached these points of agreement, even though everyone in Iran says there hasn't even

29:38been any discussions at all.

29:40You've said there are discussions and points of agreement.

29:43Can you tell us any points of agreement?

29:45Let's play this clip of what Donald says.

29:47You said there's many points of agreement with Iran right now.

29:50Many. What? Can you give us a few of those?

29:52Many, like 15 points. 15 points.

29:55Then Iran has said yes to that.

29:56Well, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.

29:58That's number one. That's number one, two, and three.

30:00They will never have a nuclear weapon.

30:02They've said yes to that?

30:03They've agreed to that. What does that even mean they've agreed to that?

30:07With what mechanisms have they agreed to that?

30:10With what oversight? 15 points.

30:14He's not even a good liar.

30:16Like, it is a very bad liar.

30:18Like, that's like how a, no offense to like lying kindergartners, but like lying kindergartners

30:28would do a better job than that.

30:30And it just is very striking that just even what we're watching there is even

30:37discussed through a lens of normalcy in the United States.

30:42Like, what the hell was that?

30:45And we're going to show you more of this when we come back from our

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31:36Let's take our first quick break of the show.

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36:13to her podcast, anywhere podcasts are found, and let's make it a huge first live

36:18show for her. Ben. Before the break, we painted a picture for you to try

36:26to build a framework of assessing credibility.

36:29So I said, let's situate ourself in a courtroom with representations that are being made

36:35by the Trump regime about negotiations with Iran that Iran is denying strongly and mocking

36:45the Trump regime and saying, none of this is taking place.

36:49And I said, imagine that you're on the jury and that Trump is a witness.

36:53And we know that Trump likes to invoke the Fifth Amendment a lot when he's

36:57a witness, but assume for the sake of argument, assume our guendo here, that Donald

37:02Trump actually is testifying. A question that then gets asked to him is, so if

37:08you claim that Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner are speaking with people in Iran, who

37:14are they speaking with? Let's see what Donald Trump says.

37:17Let's play it. What's Steve Whitcoff speaking with, Mr.

37:19President? A top person. Don't forget, we've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two,

37:27and largely phase three. But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the

37:32most respected and the leader.

37:35You know, it's a little tough.

37:36They've wiped out. We've wiped out everybody.

37:39Is that the Supreme Leader?

37:41No, not the Supreme Leader.

37:42We don't know. Well, nobody's ever.

37:44Nobody heard of the second Supreme Leader, the sun.

37:47Are these direct ones? Nobody.

37:48We have not heard from the sun.

37:51Every once in a while, you'll see a statement made, but we haven't.

37:53We don't know if he's living.

37:55So we know that the leadership of Iran is not just out there speaking, but

38:02they're speaking quite frequently. They're appearing on Iranian media.

38:07They're giving interviews with American, British, Australian media, and they are out there describing what's

38:18happening. We actually know the leadership structure.

38:23I think it is true that the whereabouts of Mojtaba, the new Ayatollah, the son

38:29of the old Ayatollah who's viewed as more extreme, is unclear.

38:32Is he in Russia? Where is he?

38:34What's his health status? That's fair.

38:37I think that's what the intelligence suggests.

38:39But all the other intelligence suggests that the Iranian leadership right now in the Islamic

38:45Republic who have replaced people who have been killed are far more extreme and less

38:52willing to negotiate. And, you know, Iran had someone who used to be their National

38:59Security Council advisor, a guy by the name of Ali Larajani, for example, who was

39:04viewed as obviously an extreme individual who was involved in very serious crimes against humanity,

39:13massacres of protesters and others, a bad guy, but with institutional knowledge that people in

39:21the intelligence community viewed that he was at least a rational actor potentially to negotiate

39:26with. He got killed. And the people who have been replacing individuals like that are

39:31far more extreme than even those extreme people.

39:37And so when Trump says there is no leadership, it doesn't exist, they're all obliterated,

39:43that's just that isn't consistent with what's happening.

39:47We're hearing from like the oil ministry giving.

39:52very specific statements about the amount of crude being exported, right?

39:57We're hearing at very nuanced regional levels from leadership as well.

40:04Okay. So the next question is, Donald, who will be in control of the Strait

40:10of Hormuz? Are you discussing that plan?

40:13And this is where Trump says, me, it's going to be me, me and the

40:18Ayatollah, who in the clip before, he just said, no one knows if the Ayatollah

40:24is alive. Okay. But it's going to be him and the Ayatollah in a JV,

40:29a joint venture agreement. Let's play that clip.

40:31Thank you. What about the Strait of Hormuz?

40:33Who's going to be in control of that?

40:34That will be opened very soon, if this works.

40:36How soon? And who's in control of it?

40:39Will Iran still be able to control the flow of oil?

40:41Be jointly controlled. By who?

40:45Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the Ayatollah, whoever the Ayatollah is, whoever the next

40:51Ayatollah. Look, and there'll also be a form of a very serious form of a

40:57regime change. Now, in all fairness, everybody's been killed from the regime.

41:03They're really starting off. There's automatically a regime change.

41:07But we're dealing with some people that I find to be very reasonable, very solid.

41:13The people within know who they are.

41:16They're very respected. And maybe one of them will be exactly what we're looking for.

41:21Look at Venezuela, how well that's working out.

41:24We are doing so well in Venezuela with oil.

41:27And by the way, what's not talked about a lot is actually what's happening in

41:32Cuba. Because Russia gave a shipment of oil and supplies recently to Cuba that Trump

41:40apparently allowed in. Cuba's foreign minister has been giving interviews over the weekend with American

41:48media and otherwise saying that our military in Cuba is getting prepared to fight if

41:56there is an invasion by the United States.

41:58Cuba has shown no signs of allowing another leader, another proxy of the Castro regime

42:08from the current leader to step into Cuba and lead.

42:14They're indicating that they're ready to fight.

42:16I am curious. I'm curious.

42:19And again, I'm just asking questions here.

42:21I'll let you know when I am giving an opinion, when I'm asking, or when

42:25it's factual. I'm curious. As Russia is bringing ships into Cuba, are they bringing weapons?

42:32Are they bringing Shahi drones made by Iran?

42:36Are they bringing in the underwater vessel drones that Iran has as well?

42:43So what is happening there, I think, is something to pay attention to.

42:48Also pay attention to what's happening in Hungary, where there is a CPAC Hungary right

42:55now, which is the Conservative Political Action Committee, the main kind of one of the

43:01main MAGA groups that throws these events, not just in the United States, but to

43:07prop up authoritarian regimes, because it is the professed goal of the Trump regime to

43:14destroy the European Union and to prop up the far right -wing pro -Putin authoritarian

43:21parties within Europe. So Trump has backed Orban.

43:26Netanyahu has backed Orban. And this was like a big - Orban fest.

43:31And meanwhile, again, pay very close attention to Hungary, because Orban is now claiming that

43:38Ukraine is trying to invade Hungary.

43:40And as the elections approach in Hungary coming up, pay very close attention to whether

43:47or not Orban and Putin will try to provoke a regional war between Hungary and

43:55Ukraine and Zelensky in order to try to interfere with the elections there.

44:01We already learned from reporting that Russia was working with Orban to try to fake

44:08an assassination attempt at Orban in Hungary.

44:12Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. And that was uncovered in order to try to build sympathy

44:17for Orban, who's trailing the pro -democracy, pro -EU coalition.

44:24Focus there. Also focus our attention on not just the Persian Gulf, but focus on

44:32what's happening in the Red Sea.

44:34Focus on the strait there, because that is the other way that oil is being

44:40diverted from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, which we know the Houthis have

44:46demonstrated from Yemen, an ability to shut down the strait there at command.

44:53And they've just been waiting on the orders from Iran in order to be able

44:58to do that. Final point I'll make before throwing it back to Brett and Jordy,

45:03because I really think it's important that we understand internationally all these puzzle pieces that

45:09are coming together so we understand the world dynamic of this war, of this conflagration.

45:16I'll mention this as well before showing his other clip.

45:19We're about 10 days, I think nine days from liquefied natural gas running out in

45:29the Persian Gulf, Middle East region.

45:32And they're one of the biggest suppliers of liquefied natural gas.

45:36So when that runs out for export, the only really other place where you have

45:42LNG is the United States.

45:45So what is the U .S.

45:46doing? They're holding it over the head of Europe right now.

45:50And what we're learning right now is the following.

45:55Trump is threatening to revoke EU's favorable access to U .S.

46:00LNG shipments if they do not implement their trade deal with the U .S.

46:05U .S.-EU trade deal reached in 2025 had these 15 % tariffs on most EU

46:12exports. And the EU is set to vote on that pact on Thursday, which includes

46:17an agreement for the EU to buy $750 billion worth of U .S.

46:22energy by 2028. Energy purchases include LNG oil and civil nuclear technologies.

46:30The threat comes at a time when EU LNG prices have surged amid the strait

46:36of Hermuza's closure. So going back to these mafia tactics right here as well.

46:43Brett and Jordy, let me throw it to you.

46:45There's a lot more I can talk about, but I think we got to put

46:47these puzzle pieces together. We have a president in this country who's running everything, like

46:52you said, Ben, like it's the mafia, like he's some sort of mob boss and

46:55that he could kind of coerce people into doing things for him.

46:58And along the way, he sends all these mixed messages.

47:00We don't need you. We need you.

47:02We won. We didn't win.

47:03We need you. Help, please, please help.

47:05If you don't help, we're going to threaten you with this.

47:07And it's un - Helpful.

47:09First off, unhelpful way to talk to your allies.

47:11If you tell them you don't need them, then get mad.

47:13But then when you start threatening them and when you're looking at this global landscape,

47:17because I think then you're right, it's important we put all of this in the

47:20global context of what is going on.

47:24To see somebody like a Netanyahu go out there and support somebody like a Viktor

47:30Orban and do it in such a public way.

47:33It's also such an FU to Ukraine.

47:35And you see how all of these various wars and conflicts now are starting to

47:40merge together, which is also just obviously incredibly dangerous, a hugely dangerous situation.

47:47But when you have Orban, the guy who's actively helping Russia, meanwhile, you have Ukraine,

47:52who's actually been a very strong ally of Israel and has helped Israel a lot.

47:57It's such an FU to Zelensky.

47:59And it's showing that there's this crew right now around the world.

48:03That's this authoritarian crew, this global authoritarian movement, and they're all in cahoots.

48:08And they're all trying to take down the small L liberal world order that has

48:13existed since World War II, these alliances, NATO and the like.

48:18And that's why Donald Trump, when he goes and he speaks about the Ayatollah in

48:23Iran, when he speaks about Venezuela, you notice he does not give a damn about

48:28the people. And this is the thing that we've warned about from the very beginning

48:32of this war, when everybody was like, but the Iranian people, they're so happy.

48:36They're so happy. Well, I think it's our duty to tell the truth and to

48:42tell you what is actually going on here and what Donald Trump's intentions are based

48:46on the evidence that we have.

48:48Because we've seen this play out in Venezuela, and we've warned about it in Venezuela,

48:52that Donald Trump simply wants somebody in power who will do his bidding, who will

48:58help him grift off the resources of the land, who will basically be a puppet

49:03of Donald Trump so that he could funnel money to a secret Qatari bank account

49:08that has zero guardrails whatsoever.

49:12And we saw that play out in Venezuela where everybody celebrated that Maduro was gone.

49:16And we said, it's great that Maduro was gone, but he left the regime in

49:20power. So people are just as repressed.

49:23Things are just as bad there.

49:25They just changed the leader at the top because this leader is willing to play

49:29ball with Donald Trump and is willing to give Donald Trump money from oil.

49:34And so Donald Trump is now openly admitting in this situation that he's happy to

49:38work side by side with the Ayatollah in some sort of joint venture in order

49:43to extract the resources from Iran so that he gets paid off it.

49:47I mean, how insane is that concept just in general?

49:51And when you just look at it, the grift is so, so, so incredibly obvious.

49:58And Trump also, he says like these dumb things, right?

50:00He gives away the game when he makes comments like, well, we already did a

50:03regime change. We already did a regime change in Iran.

50:06Mission accomplished. He's trying to kind of latch on to any little quote unquote win

50:13that he can, that he could eventually use as justification for getting out because he

50:18knows that the objectives of this war right now are not going to be met.

50:22So when he says regime change, let's just be clear about what actually has happened

50:26in Iran right now. Donald Trump took out the leadership.

50:29He took out Khamenei. He took out the main Ayatollah and he replaced him with

50:34a younger, more hardline Khamenei.

50:37Khamenei to Khamenei. Younger, more hardline.

50:40And now the people who are in charge are even more hardline than the people

50:43who were in charge before.

50:45And a lot of the people who were previously simply, to the United States of

50:49America coming in, in order to help them achieve freedom, now feel utterly betrayed.

50:56Not only that, but Donald Trump's comments and Pete Hegseth's comments, where they target Iran

51:01in general, and not just the Islamic Republic, not just the regime, they are putting

51:05a target on the backs of all the Iranian people, all the innocent Iranian people.

51:10And they've quite literally done that when they bombed schools and killed thousands of other

51:15people by leveling buildings and shooting at streets and all the other things that they

51:20are doing. So if you, if your goal is to actually foment revolution in a

51:24country and have democracy take over, whatever the hell we're doing right now is the

51:30complete opposite of what you would want.

51:32If your goal is to entrench an authoritarian at the helm that does your bidding

51:39and allows you to grift off resources, that seems to be more in line with

51:44what Donald Trump is trying to do right now, more than anything.

51:48Brilliantly said, B. And can I just state it plainly here too?

51:51Like Trump answering those questions is so painfully embarrassing to me as someone who loves

51:57this country. Like he's, he's not making any sense.

52:00He's barely speaking in coherent sentences.

52:03And then beyond that, when you actually try to analyze what he's actually saying, it's

52:07just gibberish. And he's constantly contradicting himself.

52:10Like you walk away way less informed than when the reporters actually asked that question.

52:16And that is frustrating to me because we just have to get back to a

52:20place in this country where truth matters, where words actually have meaning and where that

52:25is valued and champion. And we just can't, I'm not saying we, but like the

52:29collective like country, like we just can't let him get away with all of this

52:33nonsense because people's lives are on the line.

52:35Our American troops' lives are on the line.

52:38Civilians' lives are on the line.

52:39And he just doesn't give a damn.

52:41He does not care. None of this makes sense because he doesn't even understand the

52:46plan. There is no plan other than him and him and his continued grift, Ben.

52:51It's insane to me and wildly frustrating, especially all of us here as the brothers.

52:54Like we have young children.

52:56I want this country to be better off for them than when we got here

52:59and for better for their children, not just for our kids, but for all the

53:01kids, for everyone. That's what we should aspire to do.

53:05And when we look at that, we're like, that's our leader.

53:07Like that's the guy in charge.

53:08I use leader like incredibly loosely there, but he is the president.

53:12That's the guy in charge.

53:13The guy that doesn't care about the citizens, the guy that doesn't care about the

53:17troops or the civilians. That's, that's who it is.

53:20And we just let them get away with this like nonsense, this gibberish, this garbage.

53:24And it's just so frustrating.

53:26Let me give us three quick points.

53:29And then I want to show you what Trump has been saying in Tennessee and

53:37also what's happening right now, since we're in a partial government shutdown.

53:42I know lots of people aren't talking about that, but, uh, despite the Democrats continuously

53:48trying to fund, uh, the TSA, uh, the MAGA Republicans are saying, we don't want

53:56to do that unless you basically give ice unlimited money because they already received hundreds

54:03and billions of dollars. Um, and as a result, you have major issues in the

54:09airports today and over the past week because Donald Trump and MAGA is manufacturing a

54:15crisis, just get TSA funded.

54:17The Democrats want to fund TSA and a plan was reached Democrats and Republicans, by

54:25the way, a, a, a, plan that I don't agree with, because I believe we

54:28should abolish ICE and abolish Border Patrol.

54:31I don't think they do what they were supposed to do.

54:34I wanted to see abolished.

54:35In any event, Democrats were basically like, all right, take off their masks, no being

54:42around polling stations. They have to identify themselves and they have to use due process

54:49and have search warrants before they enter a premises.

54:53That's the Democrats' demands. Then Donald Trump's like, you know what?

54:57Genital mutilation. What the hell are you talking about?

55:01Genital mutilization. It's like, okay, you want to address those?

55:06No. We need to do the SAVE Act and voter ID and then randomly no

55:15transgender athletes in sports. We're going to attach.

55:18That's what you need to do.

55:20Otherwise, we won't make a deal with you at all.

55:22By the way, Republicans and Democrats did something sneaky that I didn't like that would

55:29have had a deal. The deal basically is you fund TSA and then a few

55:35months from now in a reconciliation bill, the Republicans sneak in funding where they don't

55:40need the Democrat votes for ICE and then ICE gets paid.

55:45Sneaky. I wouldn't have liked it, but the Democrats and Republicans worked that out, which

55:50got Republicans their funding for ICE, which we don't want, but it got the TSA

55:57agents paid right now, which they should be paid right now.

56:01Sneaky. That's why people don't like politics.

56:04But Trump then tells the Republicans, nope.

56:08Until Democrats agree to the SAVE Act, which is a voter suppression act disguised as

56:15voter integrity and randomly includes something about transgender athletes in sports, then we're not doing

56:22a deal. Then Trump creates the pain.

56:26Then on the Department of Homeland Security website, it's like, this is the Democrat shutdown.

56:31The Democrats are screwing you at the airport.

56:34I just think Americans like enough of this crap.

56:36What are we doing there?

56:38I know I said that I was going to discuss that when we got back

56:41from the break, but I discussed it now.

56:43So that's your update there.

56:44We're still on a partial government shutdown.

56:46Those other points I'll discuss when we come back from our last quick break of

56:50the show. A reminder, Brett, as you said before, during the last break, I saw

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1:02:20Brothers, it's come to my attention that we say the word because differently than most

1:02:24people. And I've gotten a lot of comments because of the way I say this

1:02:29word. And quite frankly, it's never been brought to my attention prior to doing the

1:02:32podcast. I bet. Well, because most people didn't used to hear me speak as much

1:02:36as we do now. But apparently all three of us do it, Ben.

1:02:40So this concerns you if you want to look out.

1:02:42It's been a long way, though.

1:02:43If you heard some of the footage of Jordy in high school, you wouldn't understand

1:02:47a lot of words. He said a thick, thick New York accent.

1:02:49Thick New York accent. We don't have that on hand, do we, though, Brett?

1:02:52We don't. We don't. But, you know, we do our best here.

1:02:55It adds character, you know?

1:02:57Ben, what do you think?

1:02:59Because. Let me give you some additional data points.

1:03:04We should be talking about the fact that Americans can't afford rent right now.

1:03:10They can't afford homes right now.

1:03:12They can't afford groceries right now.

1:03:14They can't afford gas right now.

1:03:17There's more people percentage -wise searching, how do I deal with a mortgage default than

1:03:26during the housing crisis and the Great Recession of 2007, 2008, 2009 right now.

1:03:36People are really struggling out there.

1:03:40Also, in Hawaii, they're facing the worst flooding in 20 years, 5 ,500 -plus evacuations,

1:03:49a 120 -year -old dam at risk, homes and roads destroyed in Nebraska.

1:03:55Historic wildfires have burned over 800 ,000 acres, killed one, are still threatening ranches.

1:04:03You haven't heard Trump say a word about either.

1:04:07Also, the horrific plane crash that took place at LaGuardia Airport where that big jet

1:04:15hit the fire truck. And it does seem, you see right here, two killed and

1:04:20over a dozen injured in a collision between Jazz Airline Flight 646, a Canada Air

1:04:26regional jet, and a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

1:04:32I'm not going to play the footage, but it's a horrific footage of the crash.

1:04:36It looked obviously preventable. It will be called likely air traffic control error.

1:04:44But it's what happens when you've worked these people to a level that we've always

1:04:51known is unsustainable. And air traffic control was working on both the emergency vehicles and

1:04:57the landing. And we've seen a number of close calls very recently as well.

1:05:02And so our heart goes out to the victims and their families there.

1:05:06And also, let's not forget that the Trump regime continues to cover up a child

1:05:11sex trafficking ring with the Epstein files.

1:05:14You had the accountant Khan and the lawyer Indyke.

1:05:21testify last week before the House Oversight Committee.

1:05:25Last week, you also saw Pam Bondi in an impromptu basis on 24 hours notice

1:05:34call saying that she wanted to show up and voluntarily offer information to the House

1:05:40Oversight Committee as a status update, which Democrats very quickly smoked out was an effort

1:05:46for her to avoid showing up at her subpoenaed appearance before the House Oversight Committee.

1:05:53And she was going to use this carefully choreographed appearance with MAGA Republicans and the

1:05:59Trump regime to say, I showed up already.

1:06:00Why would I need to show up and be subpoenaed?

1:06:03I've already given you the information.

1:06:05And Democrats walked out the moment they saw what she was trying to do.

1:06:09And it was a very smart move by Democratic Congress member Garcia to say, we

1:06:13can't be complicit in the coverup.

1:06:16The setup by Comer and Bondi and Blanche and Trump was have the Democrats sit

1:06:22there and then say, we gave you the information.

1:06:25You sat there and you didn't object to it.

1:06:28So I guess we don't need to show up in response to a subpoena.

1:06:32So Garcia, the Democratic leader of the House Oversight, the ranking member, he's like, we

1:06:38got to get out because it's a setup.

1:06:40And the setup was what I just said it was going to be.

1:06:43So these are the types of games that the Trump regime is playing.

1:06:48Now, I want to talk about a few other things that are happening right now.

1:06:51The insider trading and what's going on with smart money.

1:06:55I put that in quotes, which we should just refer to as insider money, right

1:07:01-wing oligarch money, insider, whatever you want to call it.

1:07:04So Apollo is one of the biggest private equity firms out there, right?

1:07:10And these private equity firms have different funds where they raise money for their funds

1:07:16and then their funds have certain investors in them and then their funds pay out

1:07:22based on the profits made by the funds.

1:07:25Or if they lose money, you lose money by putting your money into these funds.

1:07:29So Apollo has now capped redemptions from one of its largest private credit funds after

1:07:38today's withdrawal. The Kobayashi letter reports that the requests for redemptions exceeded 11 % of

1:07:46outstanding shares. Cracks in private credit market seem to be spreading.

1:07:52So this means a huge amount of people who have their money with Apollo, this

1:07:57private equity firm, we need to take our money out right now, 11%.

1:08:02So Apollo then capped it and said, you can't take out your money right now.

1:08:07We're going to hold on to it.

1:08:09Why? They want to avoid what we would refer to as like a run on

1:08:14a bank, right? Where everybody gets panicked and they take their money out.

1:08:19So the fund loses all of its money.

1:08:21I think that's an interesting indicator because we've seen other funds do the same thing.

1:08:27So to me, that's another kind of glaring red alert signal.

1:08:32The Kobayashi letter also reported that traders placed $580 million worth of oil trades 15

1:08:40minutes prior to Trump's post about a potential peace deal with Iran this morning that

1:08:47we talked about earlier in this episode.

1:08:49So 6 ,200 Brent and WTI, those are types of crude futures contracts were traded

1:08:56between 649 AM and 650 AM.

1:08:59a .m. Eastern time today.

1:09:011 .5 billion in notional value worth of S &P 500 futures were traded at

1:09:09the exact same time. It is not known whether one entity or several entities were

1:09:14behind these trades, but just these trades alone, and there's lots of other bundles like

1:09:20this, generated over $100 million worth of profit in less than a 20 -minute period

1:09:29of time. So this is the type of insider.

1:09:33Who knew that that announcement was?

1:09:36Clearly, people knew and were making lots of money on it.

1:09:41And then again, you have Donald Trump putting this five -day deadline.

1:09:46We then get into the weekend.

1:09:48Remember, Trump usually does his invasions when?

1:09:51Friday nights into the weekend on Sunday or Monday morning before the markets open.

1:09:58He declares some sort of deal or something happens, manipulates the market.

1:10:04And at the end of the day, who's getting screwed by all of these moves?

1:10:09Ultimately, the American people and ultimately future generations of American people.

1:10:16Because these gimmicks and schemes may work every now and then.

1:10:20But ultimately, what this is doing is severely weakening, fracturing, and destroying the grand bargain

1:10:31that existed post -World War II with the United States and most of the rest

1:10:36of the world as the United States being a stabilizing force, as a rational actor,

1:10:43as having markets that you can trust.

1:10:48And now, Trump has turned the United States into the most arbitrary, capricious, oligarchical, anti

1:10:58-capitalist, cronyism, a la Putin type of system.

1:11:04And so, Jordi, you talked about your child.

1:11:08And if you're watching this, whether you have children or not, or grandchildren or not,

1:11:13we all care about the future of this country.

1:11:16And all this stuff just shatters this country.

1:11:20And even if we didn't have this war, even if we didn't have this war,

1:11:25okay, we would be talking about inflation surging.

1:11:31We would be talking about economic crises taking place.

1:11:35And again, Brett and Jordi and Midas Mighty, I appreciate when people are like, you

1:11:40called it, you called it, you called it.

1:11:42But some of this stuff is so obvious, which is in a few days and

1:11:47then weeks, there will be economic reports.

1:11:50There will be the producer price index, the consumer price index, all of the inflation

1:11:56metrics. And it's going to be very bad reports, really bad.

1:12:00And then the markets are going to crater on those reports.

1:12:04And so, you know, you see certain people making their money now, but ultimately, this

1:12:09is destroying the United States of America, Brett and Jordi.

1:12:13Brett, before I go to you, I just wanted to add this really quickly, it's

1:12:16just, it's going to take so long, Ben, you know, you talk about our kids

1:12:20and future kids and grandparents who have kids or, you know, grandkids and whatnot.

1:12:24It's going to take so long for us to get to a place where we

1:12:27could be trusted again. Frankly, I don't know how long it will take.

1:12:31You know, I like to use the analogy of like the smelly kid in class,

1:12:34like, like we're the smelly kid in class right now.

1:12:37And it's not just going to take.

1:12:38one shower to no longer be the smelly kid in class like we're gonna need

1:12:41to take some consistent showers here to figure this out and then hopefully hopefully one

1:12:48day the kids around us i'm really going far with this analogy can can think

1:12:53that we don't smell anymore or at least not smell as bad and and we're

1:12:57going to have to do some legwork here brett that's why i interrupted you i

1:13:01really wanted to get that that's where that's where you really you wanted to go

1:13:04in that direction it's great i mean after my after my analysis that will probably

1:13:09get clipped not the very deep sophisticated enough after you know i went micro level

1:13:15i went apollo redemptions listen i dug into hungary's election you gotta put it in

1:13:21terms that people understand okay so true and jordy so true thanks for uh thank

1:13:28thanks for interrupting with that that was important uh i'm just kidding um because i

1:13:32you know i i want to remind everybody is what i was saying that the

1:13:35reports that we saw that came out like last week that were horrific reports showing

1:13:41inflation surging amongst wholesale wholesale prices that was prior to the war and so that

1:13:46was from the buildup of everything happening previously so as ben said what's going to

1:13:51happen in the future now is going to be absolutely devastating because those price reports

1:13:56for wholesale uh end up going through the system the supply chain and they end

1:14:00up in the ppi and so we are going to see the impacts of that

1:14:05soon and donald trump has run this economy from the very beginning of this presidency

1:14:11like a house of cards quite frankly it's incredible that we didn't see a full

1:14:15-on collapse already but it seems like a war may be the one thing that

1:14:21doesn't let him kind of bs his way through it the same way during his

1:14:25first term covid was the one thing that didn't let him bs his way through

1:14:30it you can say all you want that the economy is great everyone loves it

1:14:34gas prices are down things are cheap we're living in the golden age but in

1:14:39the in terms of covid when you see a million plus people dying and you

1:14:43see uh bread lines and mass unemployment you when you're feeling it people are like

1:14:48oh no i know this guy is bullshitting me and i think that's a big

1:14:51reason why donald trump did not win that second term then now he's in a

1:14:56similarly precarious situation he's using the same exact tactics where he's trying to lie his

1:15:00way through it but people are suffering and people are seeing they're going to gas

1:15:04some people are spending seven dollars a gallon gas six dollars a gallon of gas

1:15:07eight dollars five dollars whatever it is people are spending an exorbitant amount uh things

1:15:12are costing a ton of money across the board uh there are massive problems with

1:15:16our farms fertilizer like people can't get fertilizer on the farms they're talking about another

1:15:22farmer's bailout yet again just like donald trump's first term he destroyed the farmer's livelihoods

1:15:27and then he had to give them a bailout we're seeing the same things play

1:15:31out yet again now i i just want to bring up before i toss it

1:15:34back i want to bring up this tweet that i saw earlier from a guy

1:15:37named grega karlstrom and he said oil this is from earlier in the day when

1:15:41oil prices started tumbling after donald trump started lying about this deal he said oil

1:15:45prices tumbling on the news that hormuz is still closed america and israel are still

1:15:49bombing iran iran is still bombing gulf states thousands of marines are still in route

1:15:53to the region but whitkoff may have texted irachi and he's obviously being sarcastic there

1:15:59just to show you how how these people are able to manipulate the markets with

1:16:03the dumbest of things just as oh yeah we're talking we have a deal and

1:16:06all of a sudden you see these massive swings in the market but what those

1:16:10lies cannot hide is the fact that oil actually is not getting to people right

1:16:15now prices are exploding so whether we see these short -term spikes or short -term

1:16:21drops or whatever right now we are already seeing locked in major disruptions to the

1:16:27supply chain of lng of oil and these are going to have massive ripple effects

1:16:34across the entire global economy it's already massively more expensive and you're already seeing people

1:16:40like united airlines the ceo came out the other day and the united airlines ceo

1:16:44says we are preparing right now for 175 a barrel oil that's what our preparations

1:16:50are as an airline we need to be prepared that's what we're expecting you're seeing

1:16:54a lot of other organizations companies like goldman sachs predicting a you know extremely high

1:16:59elevated oil prices and some people are predicting even higher than that so trump can

1:17:04try to wave this magic wand and lie all he wants but the prices are

1:17:07going to be the prices at the end of the day and the effects that

1:17:10people feel are going to be real they're going to be tangible and people are

1:17:14going to understand that they're suffering while trump keeps lying to them and where this

1:17:21current dynamic would favor increasing interest rates as inflation will start to surge donald trump

1:17:29will pressure his new chairman of the federal reserve when that guy gets sworn in

1:17:34and the federal reserve board in general to do dramatic decreases in interest rates to

1:17:42drop the interest rates which we know through basic economics the same way we know

1:17:47that tariffs against the world will cause an increase of inflation will actually exacerbate the

1:17:54system and make things work things worse now if the war ended tomorrow the war

1:18:00ended which we all know it's not going to happen tomorrow but if it ended

1:18:05tomorrow would there be some initial days of positive sentiment on the markets absolutely but

1:18:13then we would have to grapple with brett to your point the systemic issues that

1:18:19qatar's lng facility in the north has suffered about 20 damage and that supplies about

1:18:2820 of the lng to the entire world what's going to happen with fertilizer supply

1:18:36chains what's going to happen with helium supply chains what's going to happen now that

1:18:45iran can show that at any moment it has the ability to seize the strait

1:18:50of hormuz and control it with an iron fist will the arab nations now continue

1:18:59to invest in private equity companies in startups in entertainment companies in debt in the

1:19:07united states will our treasury bond auctions be coveted or be rejected will our dollar

1:19:14continue to weaken let's just assume that the deal that trump says joint control the

1:19:20ayatollah with the ayatollah is the deal how does that even function are we going

1:19:25to have our military ensure that the ayatollah follows the deal who's involved in this

1:19:32right you think that's going to be palatable to the arab nations knowing that at

1:19:37any time iran can just do what it did so of course not and so

1:19:41these second third fourth fifth sixth seventh consequence of things are not being discussed but

1:19:49they are obviously there that's why we're discussing it here on the midas touch network

1:19:54now and meaning that's why we're discussing it right now it's for anyone here I

1:19:55can't say it right now I don't need to go into all of the things

1:19:58that Donald Trump said in Tennessee.

1:20:00It was deranged. It was demented.

1:20:02But I'll just show you very oddly Donald Trump kind of seems to be equating

1:20:08Tennessee with like sexual relationships.

1:20:12I don't you tell me what you think he means here.

1:20:14Here, play this clip. So I happen to like the state.

1:20:16I love Tennessee. Maybe someday I'll move to Tennessee.

1:20:21I might have to move.

1:20:23No, I love it. You never know what that is.

1:20:26You know, you just have a relationship with the state.

1:20:30It's a lot safer than relationships with other things.

1:20:33I can tell you as a politician.

1:20:35I mean, just very weird things to say.

1:20:37I'm like, I don't need to show you any more of that.

1:20:38I just I show you that purely to say American people are struggling and suffering

1:20:44and don't want to be in this war.

1:20:48And we have this demented individual out there saying things like that.

1:20:52And he was posting weird photos of himself from like the late 1980s, 1990s from

1:20:58Mar -a -Lago. Look what I looked like back then.

1:21:00Or like third term or Trump's the goat.

1:21:03Just like weird, weird, weird stuff.

1:21:05I want to leave where we began, which is Scott McFarlane.

1:21:10The new Midas Touch Network.

1:21:13Washington, D .C. Chief Correspondent.

1:21:16What an honor to have Scott on our network.

1:21:20And we will be building Scott McFarlane Reports, which is his network.

1:21:25You can search that on YouTube at Scott McFarlane News when you go search YouTube.

1:21:30Scott McFarlane News. Subscribe there.

1:21:33We have a link in the description.

1:21:35Yeah, a link in the description.

1:21:37Let's take a listen to Scott McFarlane's announcement, which has since gone mega viral about

1:21:44joining the Midas Touch Network and announcing this incredible partnership.

1:21:48Let's play it. Some news to share.

1:21:50And it's good news. I have a new platform for my independent, unfiltered reporting.

1:21:55Effective immediately, I'm Chief Washington Correspondent for the Midas Touch Network.

1:22:00And beginning in about two or three weeks, I'll begin as anchor of a daily

1:22:04program called Scott McFarlane Reports.

1:22:07And the Midas Touch and I share this same north star of communicating that when

1:22:11you have news to break or something important to explain, just get to it.

1:22:16Straight to the point. As soon as you open the camera and open the microphone,

1:22:20simply, declaratively and conversationally explain what's happening.

1:22:23Explain what it means. Put aside the production theater and the useless bells and whistles.

1:22:29Just get to it. I'm not an opinionist.

1:22:32I'm not an editorialist. I'm far from a politician.

1:22:34I'm an enterprise reporter and have been for a quarter of a century.

1:22:38What I'll do is bring this enterprise reporting to all the components of the Midas

1:22:42Touch Network, all the contributors of the Midas Touch Network, and anybody who sees, watches,

1:22:47or hears the Midas Touch Network.

1:22:49And you'll still see all of my reporting on my many platforms that you may

1:22:54have been seeing over the past few months or past few years.

1:22:57This is such a critical moment.

1:22:59It's important we underscore how significant this moment is.

1:23:02This moment of unique political toxicity and unique political danger.

1:23:07And the Midas Touch and I have long shared this same philosophy.

1:23:09You don't platform lies. You don't platform conspiracy theories, and you don't allow for the

1:23:15whitewashing of history. We'll do that together.

1:23:18And you and I will do that together.

1:23:20If you're in this with me, you know I'll be here 365 days a year

1:23:24chasing news, giving you news, trying to give you context and explanation.

1:23:28We can run through walls together to get to the other side of whatever this

1:23:32is. That's how. How important a moment it is and why I hope this announcement

1:23:36is important. Powerful. And it's such an honor to have Scott on our network.

1:23:43Again, make sure everybody you subscribe to at Scott McFarland News on YouTube.

1:23:50Search that again. We'll have a link to that in the description below as well.

1:23:55Subscribe to his platforms on Substack also.

1:23:58It's an honor. It's a privilege.

1:24:01And it's part of the growth of the Midas Touch Network.

1:24:05Thank you, everybody, from the bottom of my heart.

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1:24:28Brad, anything else to say before we go?

1:24:30I think you summed it up well.

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