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0:00The United States of America is at war, or I should say, the United States

0:04has been forced into an unlawful war against Iran by a fascist leader in the

0:11United States. There is no end in sight.

0:14The entire Middle East is engulfed in war right now.

0:18Donald Trump and his regime are referring to this as Operation Epic Fury.

0:24We refer to it here as Operation Epstein Fury or Jeffrey Epstein's war.

0:30The timing clearly seems to distract from the Epstein files and the fact that 1600

0:36Pennsylvania is the center of this cabal of this Epstein class.

0:42There is no end in sight of this war.

0:45There appears to be no plans of what to do next with this war.

0:49The death toll continues to rise with American soldiers killed and injured.

0:57It's unclear if we're even getting accurate data regarding the death toll and the amount

1:02of people or the amount of our soldiers who have been injured.

1:06We're trying to decipher the truth where you have a Trump regime that lies, an

1:11Iranian regime that lies, a Netanyahu regime that lies, a Russian regime that lies, and

1:19the United States has lost all credibility abroad right now.

1:24Everything that our top generals and admirals warned would happen if the United States struck

1:30Iran is not just happening, but it's far worse than I think even our top

1:35generals and admirals had warned against.

1:37All the while, Donald Trump is saying that he's surprised that Iran engaged in these

1:43attacks against the neighboring countries and specifically in those Air Force bases and areas where

1:49Americans have troops. Donald Trump is also not ruling out American boots on the ground.

1:56He said that other presidents were afraid.

1:58I'm not afraid to do that.

2:00And then he's just making weird social media posts as though we're not even at

2:03war. He's posting articles about Nixon and saying how it's a fascinating piece about Nixon

2:12and how he was the victim of a deep state plot so complex and enormous

2:17he cannot fathom, but Trump is smarter than Nixon, purging his enemies before they purge

2:22him. Donald Trump posting 2020 election conspiracies, free Tina Peters.

2:28He's posting photos of Faunie Willis, Fulton County's district attorney, posts about the Kennedy Center,

2:36which he's randomly posting about, and then just reposting stuff from the State of the

2:42Union and right -wing influencers saying, an absolute all -time close from President Trump.

2:47Everyone on the right should enjoy this while they can, regarding the State of the

2:51Union. Oh, and then he keeps on posting that he was endorsed in 2024 by

2:55Lady Gaga's dad. This is what he's doing right now while America's at war, while

3:01our embassies throughout the Middle East are under attack, while Trump has now provoked some

3:08of these sectarian violence across the Middle East that has resulted in so much death

3:14in the past and now it's all right there at the surface.

3:18We'll talk about that. We'll also talk about the deposition of Bill Clinton and Hillary

3:24Clinton finally being released by the House Oversight.

3:27Committee. It took them several days to release it when it was supposed to be

3:31released immediately. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton wanted it to be done in public.

3:36They wanted a public hearing.

3:38That was refused. And now we see, as we predicted here on the Mindest Touch

3:41Network, why the MAGA Republicans refused to release these video depositions right away.

3:47By the way, we're going to put the full video depositions for you to watch

3:50here on the Mindest Touch YouTube channel.

3:52I mean, it was really bad for Donald Trump.

3:54And the fact that these MAGA Republicans rushed to do these press conferences after the

4:00depositions and say, Bill Clinton exonerated Donald Trump.

4:03It was the perfect deposition for Donald.

4:05He's totally exonerated. It's just these Putin tactics that we see over and over again.

4:11Rush, lie, repeat, and then hope you frame the story that people don't care when

4:18the actual facts come out because you've already programmed people with the lies.

4:23We'll actually show you clips from that deposition.

4:25So you can see for yourself, I'm Ben Micellis.

4:28This is the Mindest Touch Network.

4:29And we have been nonstop, 24 -7, reporting on the war.

4:35Every detail, every update we've been there covering for everybody.

4:41Brett and Jordy, good to see you.

4:42Good to see you too, Ben.

4:43Good to see you, Jordy.

4:44Good to see you, Mindest Mighty.

4:45And I want to thank everybody who's been tuning in day after day, or should

4:49I say hour after hour, watching all of our various updates on the war.

4:53I know Ben was live within seconds of us learning of these attacks, this disastrous

4:58decision. But I want to thank everybody for being with us every step of the

5:02way in this. This has to be the most dangerous and irresponsible foreign policy decision

5:07that I've ever seen in my life.

5:09And that's saying a lot given that I grew up with Iraq and Afghanistan, which

5:15I did not think could possibly be topped.

5:17But right now we have utter buffoons in office.

5:22Pick your buffoon. I mean, whether it's Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth or Marco Rubio,

5:27this cast of characters who kind of think everything is like some B movie, some

5:32like B action Hollywood movie.

5:35The phrases they use, the way they speak, the way they lie, the way they

5:39just everything about them. But this isn't some B action movie.

5:43This is real life. And there are real consequences to their actions.

5:47And we're all seeing in real time what the consequences of those actions are.

5:51I think Trump thought that he could go into the Middle East and overthrow a

5:55country's leader and see no ramifications for it and that the world would just bend

5:59to his will. But he is learning fast that that is not true.

6:02And this has quickly escalated.

6:04This is not a contained conflict at all.

6:07This is region -wide and expanding fast.

6:10And everybody, honestly, is kind of in danger now as a result of Donald Trump's

6:15actions. He's made the world less safe.

6:17He's made the United States less safe.

6:19If the concern was protecting Israel, which it seems like that was a big part

6:23of all of this, he's made Israel less safe.

6:25He's made all the Arab nations less safe.

6:27Donald Trump has thrown the world into chaos.

6:30And frankly, we're lucky if this does not end in a end up in a

6:34World War III situation. But we're already seeing all of these powers pick their sides.

6:39And it is very ominous.

6:40But let's break down the facts as we know.

6:43Let's break down all the information that we have.

6:45First, I got to toss it over to Jordy.

6:47Jordy, what's the latest? What's up, brothers?

6:49What's up, Midas Mighty? I'm excited to get into tonight's show.

6:52I have a lot to talk about.

6:53Excited to get into it.

6:55Benji, where do you want to start off?

6:57Let's talk about what Donald Trump said to the New York Post.

7:00This was one of the first statements that Donald Trump made earlier this morning.

7:04He said regarding the war.

7:06or boots on the ground, quote, I don't have the yips with respect to boots

7:11on the ground. Like every president says, there will be no boots on the ground.

7:15I don't say it. I say, probably don't need them or if they were necessary,

7:21I don't have them. I don't have the yips.

7:25I don't have the yips.

7:27The yips. I don't have the yips.

7:29I mean, that's your statement to the, as more of our soldiers abroad are being

7:34killed and seriously wounded. That's your statement.

7:39But let me just show you more recently what Marco Rubio said.

7:43Marco Rubio held a press conference and Rubio was asked, what was so imminent that

7:52we needed to go to war right away when we did?

7:56What was so imminent that it had to happen like at that hour on Friday?

8:01Like that's when it had to go down.

8:04Wasn't there, I mean, let's be clear.

8:06The United States picked a mediator.

8:09I just want everybody to know the process.

8:11The United States picked the foreign minister of Oman to mediate the dispute between the

8:17United States and Iran. Wasn't like this guy from Oman randomly came into the picture.

8:22He was the U .S.

8:23pick. The foreign minister of Oman goes on TV early on Friday or mid -afternoon

8:30and says, hey, we have a really good update.

8:35We've made great progress. All we have to do now is iron out some of

8:39the technical stuff with the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday to implement the deal.

8:46But we've got a deal where Iran has agreed to basically all of the demands

8:51as the mediator that I wanted.

8:53And this is a really, a really big result.

8:57And then what he tried to even say is this is even far stronger than

9:02the deal that Obama got, because, you know, obviously the foreign minister knows who he's

9:06dealing with in Donald Trump.

9:08But he said, we've got a deal basically, but we have to wait until Monday.

9:11Right. I mean, you know, still the holidays, still, you know, let's, let's iron it

9:17out on Monday. And then the strikes happen then.

9:19The strikes happen like with a few hours, a few hours after that.

9:23So Marco Rubio was asked, what was so imminent?

9:27And he goes, let me explain to you what was imminent.

9:30He said, what was imminent is that Israel was not going to stop its plan

9:35to strike Iran. So if Israel was going to strike Iran, Iran was going to

9:40strike us. So we had to strike first because Israel was going to strike Iran.

9:45Folks, I'm not even like, you're like, come on, is that what he really said?

9:49That's literally like verbatim what he said.

9:52So let's play Secretary of State Rubio explaining what he believed was imminent and why

9:57we had to attack on Friday.

9:59Let's play it. There absolutely was an imminent threat.

10:01And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we

10:05believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us.

10:08And we were not going to sit, sit there and absorb a blow before we

10:11responded because the department of war assessed that if we did that, if we waited

10:15for them to hit us first after they were attacked and by someone else, Israel

10:19attacked them, they hit us first and we waited for them to hit us, we

10:23would suffer more casualties and more deaths.

10:25We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.

10:29Have we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how

10:33we knew that this was going to happen and we didn't act preemptively to prevent

10:36more casualties and more loss of life?

10:38I mean, you heard him say that.

10:40Outrageous. Outrageous. I mean, this would be, this would.

10:44be some sort of parody that you would expect in some dark comedic, but this

10:50is real life and now our soldiers are killed because of this.

10:56We are closer, Brett. I don't want to be hyperbolic and say World War III,

11:02but let me just say this.

11:04Every nation in the world is in some way kind of in a war right

11:09now. Does that make it a World War III?

11:11But the world is at war, whether you look at Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Afghanistan,

11:19and Pakistan, which, by the way, is also caused by Donald Trump propping up Pakistan

11:25and attacking India and Pakistan saying that Afghanistan is now a colony of India.

11:31It's directly attributable to Donald Trump as well, whether it's the U .S.

11:36attack on Iran, which Iran has now retaliated by attacking U .S.

11:40bases and interests and other countries' interests across the Middle East.

11:46It's fascinating in the sense that, like, you have the U .K., Prime Minister Keir

11:51Starmer, you know, the U .K.

11:53was attacked in Cyprus, their base, but they're trying to avoid engaging or being involved

12:00in this war. So they're like, yeah, we're not at war.

12:03You know, we're here defensively, but we're not going to be in this.

12:06There was a French base in the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi was struck

12:12by Iran, and the French, there was rumors that they were going to send the

12:16Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to help the U .S., and President Macron of France

12:23made it very clear, you know, no, we're not doing that.

12:27In the past 24 to 48 hours, Russia has released a statement showing its support

12:33of Iran and has been having a call with their foreign minister, and they did

12:37a joint statement together condemning the United States.

12:40And similarly, in China, China's foreign minister spoke to the foreign minister of Iran, and

12:46both of them issued a joint statement strongly condemning the United States.

12:50And it should be noted that over this weekend, we also learned that the United

12:55States has cut off and stopped military aid and supplies that were owed to Taiwan,

13:02because Donald Trump desperately wants to keep his state visit with Xi Jinping on schedule

13:08in April. And Xi Jinping said, you know, that 12 to $13 billion military supply

13:14and aid package that Congress passed, that is a law in the United States that's

13:19supposed to be given to protect Taiwan.

13:20You do that, I'm not inviting you here to the state visit.

13:24And Donald Trump is so thirsty for the state visit with China that he's now

13:28cut off giving weapons to Taiwan.

13:31And while all of this is going on too, America munition stockpile is being exhausted

13:39at a rapid clip. We are losing, we did not have the munitions to really

13:46go into this war in its current posture.

13:49We have it for a little bit longer.

13:51But you know who definitely doesn't have it?

13:54These Middle East countries that relied on us to give it to them.

13:57So now we're hearing, for example, from Qatar and UAE and others, that they're running

14:03out of their interceptors. They're running out of the UAE's projected to exhaust its interceptor

14:11missile stock within one week at the current rate.

14:13Qatar within four days. Both are urgently seeking additional military support from the United States.

14:21And Iran continues to strike with it, Shahid drones, because it's effectively been at war

14:27against Ukraine, allied with Russia, building up massive, massive stockpiles.

14:35As Donald Trump was cozying up to Russia, Russia and Iran were building these Shahid

14:40drones to be used against Ukraine.

14:42And as Donald Trump was attacking Zelensky in Ukraine, Ukraine had figured out how to

14:48effectively, not perfectly, because we know that there's been a lot of Shahid drones and

14:55ballistic missiles that have been hitting targets in Ukraine.

14:58But Ukraine had to develop a military defensive structure to stop the Shahid drones and

15:04ballistic missiles, which Trump was trying to bleed Ukraine dry of.

15:08And the irony now is the United States and all of these Arab countries need

15:13Ukraine for its expertise and now how to deal with the Shahid drones and ballistic

15:19missiles when the United States and the United States was hurting Ukraine and trying to

15:25cut it off from its defensive measures.

15:28So all of this is going on.

15:29Brett, I'm going to toss it to you and Jordan in one second.

15:31I just want to show you.

15:31So it wasn't like a fluke that Rubio misspoke there, right?

15:35Here's Rubio again, where he brings it up on his own.

15:38He goes, I've been asked, why now?

15:41So he brings it up again.

15:42Like he wants everybody to know that we went to war because Israel was going

15:48to attack Iran first and then Iran would attack us second.

15:52And that's what they view as why it was imminent that we had to attack

15:57because Iran was going to get attacked first.

16:00What are they even talking about?

16:01Here, play this clip. The second question that I've been asked is, why now?

16:05Well, there's two reasons why now.

16:06The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone,

16:11the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against

16:15the United States. The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.

16:19It was automatic. And in fact, it bared to be true because in fact, within

16:23an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the

16:30south and in the north, for that matter, had already been activated to launch.

16:33In fact, those had already been pre -positioned.

16:36The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for

16:39that attack to come first, before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.

16:45And so the president made the very wise decision.

16:48We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

16:50We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.

16:53And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those

16:57attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.

17:02And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that indeed.

17:05No, or you can hear where's a crazy one.

17:08You could tell Israel, hey, stop blackmailing us.

17:12Okay. We have, we've made progress in a negotiation and why don't you hold off

17:19until we figure this out?

17:21Cause there may be another solution or how about this?

17:26If you thought that you couldn't do that.

17:28And we were about to go to war, maybe just, maybe you address the American

17:35people, or maybe you go through what is required in the constitution.

17:39You know, you go to Congress, you get authorization, you make the case about why

17:45this war is, is necessary.

17:48And then after the war, they said, we are doing this for regime change.

17:54It's exactly what it's regime change.

17:56And then when it was clear that after they killed the Ayatollah, that that, as

18:03everybody predicted, as we've been saying, they're just going to find another Ayatollah.

18:07I mean, the Ayatollah was the spiritual leader of 300 million Shiites in the region,

18:14right? There are hundreds of thousands of people in senior positions who would want to

18:21have the Ayatollah role. So if you kill the Ayatollah and you make him a

18:27martyr in the community of the 300 million Shiites in the region, they're just going

18:32to now find someone more extreme.

18:35And I think more significantly as well, the nation of Iran was actually moving and

18:44progressing with a younger population towards slowly, but towards democracy or towards at least reforms

18:54and towards changes. The Ayatollah was 85 years old, 86 years old.

19:00So the Ayatollah wasn't going to be around for a long time anyway.

19:03We saw earlier in the year with the protests that were taking place that there

19:08was a hunger and a thirst to change the regime.

19:12Trump told those protesters, and this is not getting reported a lot, go out there,

19:16we've got your back, when our military was not even positioned to help.

19:22And then thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps 30 ,000 protesters got massacred.

19:26So now they don't believe Trump and America's got their back.

19:32And now Trump and Lindsey Graham and all of these individuals, these warmongers are like,

19:37we're not going to do anything.

19:38The people better rise up.

19:40Do it yourself. Well, they tried to do it in January and you told them

19:44to do it. And then you got them all killed.

19:46You got 30 ,000 of them killed.

19:48And now actually some of the progress that's been made in Iran to try to,

19:53you know, turn it perhaps in a direction, reform it, modernize it, make it, and

19:59democratic may not be the right word, but to modernize it and to instill more

20:03freedoms, that's now been set back because now you have Donald Trump and Netanyahu beaming

20:10their images and their speeches into Iranian television after they hacked into it as though

20:19they're going to be greeted as welcoming heroes.

20:22You think that you're welcoming heroes?

20:24You think you think that the people of Iran want a Netanyahu and Trump proxy

20:28to lead Iran? So you've turned off your natural allies, you betrayed them last month,

20:35and you've now further entrenched and empowered the most extremist elements of the Islamic regime.

20:45That's what, just so everybody know, that's what's actually happening.

20:48It's truly a worst case scenario situation that we are in right now and we're

20:52being led by idiots. And I want to be clear that this administration, the Trump

20:56administration, just is, they're lying about everything.

20:59They're lying about the justifications.

21:00They're lying about, that argument by Rubio right there was one of the most circuitous,

21:06absurdist, uh, most gaslighting explanations that you could even like come up with.

21:11If he wrote that to Ben's point, if he wrote that in a TV show,

21:15people would be like, that makes no sense.

21:16That's a little beyond the pale here for him to say it's preemptive because if

21:20they were attacked, they would have attacked back.

21:23Yeah, obviously then you could justify any military action.

21:26You could justify any war under that theory right there.

21:30And these are the same people who brought us into Iraq.

21:32These are the same people who brought us into Afghanistan.

21:35They're getting the band back together, folks.

21:37I mean, and if you look at the people who are pushing this and Ben

21:39just named, Eff protocols or anything they stop doing.

21:39Yeah. And if the people who are pushing, the Right.

21:41Rubio, Lindsey Graham, who like gets horny for war when he's on TV.

21:45It's a very bizarre thing to watch Lindsey Graham speak about war.

21:48And then you will see somebody like a Scott Jennings, who is the Trump's box

21:52on CNN, who CNN pays.

21:55And he goes on there and he lies to the American people.

21:57And he says, we had to do this because they had missiles pointed at the

22:01United States and they were about to start bombing U .S.

22:04military bases. So we had to act.

22:06Well, that was a lie.

22:08But you expect that from the guy who is the same person who pushed the

22:12weapons of mass destruction lie back in the day.

22:15And now the same people are pushing the same crap.

22:18And now they have these kind of MAGA propagandists online who are far too willing

22:22to go along with it, even though they just spent the past few years going

22:26America first, America first, no new wars.

22:29Kamala wants to send your kids into war.

22:31Kamala is going to get your kids killed in war.

22:34You're doing exactly that. These people are masters of projection.

22:38And it just shows how big of frauds they are.

22:42And I really think that Trump thought that he could just go in there, kill

22:45the Ayatollah. Everything would be great.

22:48Greeted as liberators. Doesn't that sound familiar?

22:51He could exit, leave them to deal with the mess.

22:54He'll deal with the next kind of, you know, next in command in Iran and

22:58go on with his life as if nothing happened.

23:00But now there is a full scale regional war unfolding that is extending, as Ben

23:06said, virtually to the entire world at the moment.

23:09And you could tell that Trump has no idea what the hell he's doing here

23:12by just listening to Donald Trump speak.

23:14He speaks to all he's like talking to all the networks right now.

23:17He tells each of them a different thing.

23:18He says, one, this is going to take two weeks.

23:20One, this is going to take four weeks.

23:21It's probably going to take at least six weeks.

23:23I'll take as long as I want.

23:24Then he said to, I think it was the New York Times or CNN.

23:28He said that he said this to CNN.

23:30He said that the biggest surprise so far of this war is that Iran began

23:35to attack Arab countries after Trump, after the United States and Israel attacked Iran.

23:41Iran. This was like Iran's whole thing that they said they would do if the

23:44United States or Israel attacked them because these other Arab countries are host United States

23:50bases where a lot of this is coming from.

23:52And so the fact that Trump is surprised by that action shows how unprepared that

23:58he was for what's to come here.

24:00This is just I just can't stress how irresponsible this is and the lies that

24:06we are seeing from this regime.

24:08And I'm talking about the Trump regime here.

24:10I mean, could you imagine here at home if we were under attack and you

24:14turn on your TV and you have Vladimir Putin or the Ayatollah going, now's your

24:18time to take take to the streets.

24:21I don't think everyone's going to be like super psyched to see Putin on TV

24:24saying I'm your new leader.

24:26And Trump thinks that he and Netanyahu are going to be the people who are

24:30going to mobilize the Iranian people.

24:31I know instantly we saw a lot of videos, you know, a lot of imagery

24:35and a lot of it was also pushed out of Iranians celebrating and obviously they're

24:39going to be excited that the Ayatollah is gone.

24:42But now we're seeing the other side of things in Iran, which are millions and

24:47millions of pro -regime protesters taking to the streets, chanting death to America.

24:54And this is happening in countries throughout the region, right?

24:56We're seeing groups in Iraq attacking Americans and American consulates in Pakistan.

25:00We're seeing this spread right now, completely out of control.

25:04And Trump has been completely caught flat footed and he's really risked the United States

25:09as national security here. He's put our troops at live at risk, lives at risk.

25:14He's put us at risk and he's put everyone in the region, frankly, at risk.

25:17Absolutely. absolutely and to me bro that that's it right there the the scariest part

25:21of this entire war so far in my opinion is there is no plan there's

25:27no plan the entire war right now with iran it lacks any clear exit strategy

25:32or transition plan at all and unlike any regime changes in the past when the

25:37u .s interfered and i'm not saying in all cases it was it was previously

25:41right or done correctly but at least there was a clear successor this time around

25:45it's just simply the destruction of infrastructure and mass killings without a roadmap for what

25:51comes next remember there there are 90 million people living in iran and our plan

25:56is like all right y 'all figure it out amongst yourselves now then you have

26:01the financial burden of all this and to put it lightly like these missiles aren't

26:05cheap war isn't cheap i think in the first 48 hours of of operation epic

26:10fury i mean it's all just so embarrassing but analysts that estimate that there there

26:15have been about 600 million dollars spent in those first 48 hours in the first

26:21day alone between the use of the stealth bombers the hundreds of cruise missiles and

26:25then the intelligence operations and then beyond the financial costs which is a biggie the

26:31cost of war that's being completely ignored by trump and maga and actually almost in

26:36fact glorified in like a really sadistic way is the cost of human life according

26:41to the latest reports from the u .s central command there are multiple service members

26:45that have already been killed who knows if we're getting even the accurate data but

26:49we already know there's a handful that have already been killed and what's trump stance

26:53president bone spurs himself it's a direct quote here sadly there will likely be more

26:59that's the way it is there will likely be more before it ends as he

27:03posts away from his hotel in florida how weird is that he's a mar -a

27:08-lago filming videos and posting away and he's telling you that more casualties and deaths

27:12for u .s soldiers are expected just just expect that so much for the peacetime

27:17president right that what a farce that was i'm i know we never fell for

27:21here we the collective we at the midas touch network but that was all such

27:23bullshit so look between the economic fallout the casualties we're seeing and are going to

27:29keep seeing and the clear lack of any actual plan the american people have to

27:34be furious this has been a complete disaster for the trump regime then you know

27:39he treats all of this like a reality tv show and he picks people not

27:45for their intelligence or their planning he picks them either the most vile person but

27:51who he views to be central casting but he used that term when he was

27:57speaking with fox today as well he's speaking with brett bear and after this horrible

28:02press conference by pete hegsett secretary of defense and uh the chairman of the joint

28:07chiefs uh dan kane donald trump said uh right out of central casting those two

28:13they look they look right out of central casting and it's a small thing that

28:18he said but it you could extrapolate that and that really is his world view

28:23and also his his world view on you know on on this war and the

28:29way he kind of views everything it is it is inconsistent it is incongruent it's

28:36contradictory but he played this out as some hollywood movie where he was going to

28:41be welcomed as some conquering hero and he was going to show putin and xi

28:47jinping how strong he was and that he was going to do it and look

28:51what he did in venezuela and he was going to do iran and then he

28:55was going to do in cuba and then you was going to go around, that

28:58he was going to declare that he's the strongest.

29:01And it's like, dude, you don't even understand this region at all.

29:06And you could say, well, what are all these people doing at the State Department?

29:11Why do we have tens of thousands of people working at the state?

29:14What were they doing every day?

29:15And all these people at the CIA and all these people who have been fired,

29:20what are they doing? This.

29:23This is what they've been doing.

29:25They've been preparing every day to make sure that whosoever the Commander -in -Chief and

29:32whoever the Commander -in -Chief surrounds themselves with has the best intelligence and the best

29:38information. And occasionally when you wing it, just like I'm sure in your life, when

29:43you wing something, you can occasionally get lucky winging it, but eventually it comes back

29:50to you. And the karma of not planning and thinking things through, the karma of

29:55attacking your allies and then expecting that they're going to help you, right?

30:00All of that comes back to hurt you.

30:03And that's why everything that Trump has done from the day this horrific term started

30:11to now has created the circumstances that make this the worst thing ever.

30:18I mean, you could even talk about the tariffs against the world.

30:21Everything's interconnected now, right? Whether it's the tariffs against the world that turned away our

30:26allies, right? And how Pakistan and India and how Pakistan tried to cozy up to

30:32Donald Trump and Trump attacked India, severed our relationship there.

30:37India strengthens its ties with Russia.

30:39Pakistan feels emboldened and they invest in Donald Trump's crypto.

30:45Doge, right? How Doge ripped to shreds our State Department and Trump fired the CIA

30:51people. How Trump's demolition of the FBI, including in the past two weeks when Kash

30:56Patel has fired a lot of FBI agents.

30:58The main counterintelligence group at the FBI that investigates and that deals with foreign threats,

31:06all their leadership was fired two weeks ago.

31:09The CI -12 group from the Washington field office, the counterintelligence group, they were all

31:14fired last week by Kash Patel.

31:18And all these moves, Trump sucking up to Putin, Trump isolating Ukraine, Trump turning, it

31:27has created a situation now that once he did this Iran invasion, all those other

31:33things are now completely, have completely caught up to him.

31:39Iran has shut down the Strait of Hermes.

31:42That means oil prices will be, the last thing I'm thinking about is like, you

31:46know, I mean, it's not the last thing, but like my bigger concern is the

31:49lives of our troops, our safety, security, life.

31:52But let's talk about the reality of it.

31:55We're shutting down the Strait of Hermes.

31:56Gas prices are going to be skyrocketing right now.

31:59When gas prices skyrocket and our bond markets are impacted, that means mortgage rates increase

32:05significantly as well. Inflation is going to skyrocket.

32:09This is going to have a cascading effect on everything.

32:12And truly the question, and I'm not trying to scare or be hyperbolic though, is

32:18what's going to happen with the rest of the world?

32:22You know, again, I avoid the language World War III.

32:26I avoid that language. But the world is at war right now.

32:29That is undisputed. And how do you untangle this?

32:34I mean, you have you have.

32:35the one of the big diplomats in Iran who was negotiating with Trump, this guy

32:41Ali Llanaraji. And he's saying, we don't want to negotiate with the U .S.

32:48Why would we negotiate? He's saying America's policy is now Israel first over America.

32:54And he says, Ali Llanaraji says, Trump's wishful thinking has dragged the whole region into

33:01an unnecessary war. And now he is rightly worried about more American casualties.

33:06This is indeed very sad that he is sacrificing American treasure and blood to advance

33:10Netanyahu's illegitimate expansionist ambitions. He says, Trump has betrayed America first to adopt Israel first.

33:19And then he says, no negotiations.

33:21We will not negotiate with the United States.

33:24Ben, let me say this.

33:25Why would they negotiate with the United States?

33:28Because from my vantage point right now, all those negotiations that we've seen over the

33:33past few months were a complete decoy.

33:37How could you argue that they weren't a decoy?

33:39They were in the middle of the negotiations when Trump attacked Iran, when Trump and

33:44Israel did this operation in Iran.

33:46And so, and at a point where the Omani leader said that we were about

33:52to make a deal here that Iran had offered far more than was even offered

33:57during the Obama nuclear deal.

33:58I think he said something like that to try to really sell it to Donald

34:01Trump. And those were in the final hours.

34:03So I think he knew there that Donald, what Trump was thinking.

34:07And you have, you know, Trump coming out there in Hexeth today being like, we

34:11just couldn't make a deal with them.

34:13They just left the room.

34:14They couldn't handle it. They refused.

34:16They refused. They wouldn't take a, you know, yes for an answer.

34:19We know that's bullshit because we know that they lie about everything.

34:22And we have a mediator who was in the room who was picked by the

34:27United States to be there, who was telling us the opposite of what the Trump

34:30regime has been telling us.

34:32And so in the middle of these negotiations, as we are about to actually get

34:36a deal, as Iran is making these concessions from what we know, that's when Donald

34:42Trump attacks. That's when the bombings start.

34:44So how do you enter into a negotiation period at all if Donald Trump attacks

34:49mid -negotiation? Like, could you imagine?

34:51How does that open up the door for diplomacy ever?

34:55Exactly. It's why you need credible leaders.

34:57It's why you need adults in the room at all times, especially when you're, when

35:00you're dealing with this. Ben, you talk about winging it, right?

35:03Like most people wing maybe meeting, a meeting, maybe a homework assignment.

35:08I'm going to wing it.

35:09I'm going to wing it.

35:09What we're seeing with Trump and the Trump regime, they're winging a war.

35:13There is no plan. There is no plan.

35:16And American troops are going to die.

35:19And it's going to be on Trump and this regime.

35:22By the way, this is how Donald Trump negotiated when he was a slimy, fraudulent

35:30real estate guy, right? This is, this is why he, I mean, he's a fraud.

35:33He's a felon, right? He, he would do the, he would do versions of this,

35:38obviously not in war, but like he would rip up contracts and bad faith, negotiate

35:43and undermine people. And that, that was his, his reputation was not as a deal

35:49maker. His reputation was a scumbag criminal.

35:53Like that's how he was known.

35:55Scumbag criminal con artists that his life was of a scumbag.

35:59And you know, he's, he manages to con people.

36:02It's wild, you know, but now, now it's the ultimate karma.

36:06And sadly, the American people are dragged into this thing.

36:09Anyway, we got, it was a long segment.

36:11We'll take our first break of the show.

36:12When we come back, we'll talk.

36:13a little bit more about Donald Trump's press conference, Hegsitt's press conference, then I got

36:18to show you the depositions of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton and what really went

36:22down now that we have those video depositions.

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39:13sets. Benji, before I toss it to you, I really do want to give you

39:17your flowers because, big bro, you have been absolutely crushing it with this coverage.

39:24I fell asleep here between Friday and Saturday when everything started to go on.

39:29I wake up. And so I'm on the East Coast.

39:33Brothers are on the West Coast.

39:34And all of a sudden, Ben's alive with like 30 ,000 plus people watching him

39:40reporting on the events of everything that was going down.

39:43And by the way, this is like 2 a .m.

39:46Pacific time. When so, and just been nonstop from there.

39:50So Benji, Brett, you. I know there's been a lot of editing over the weekend,

39:54and to our whole network of producers and editors, thank you guys for locking in

39:58and bringing this pro -democracy community, all of the facts and data and receipts, everything

40:03that we always aspire to do here, and using the megaphone of now the 6

40:06million subscribers that we have here on our way to 7 million, make sure you

40:09subscribe if you haven't already, the information that is so desperately needed.

40:13So, Benji, seriously, man, great, great work.

40:16Well, I appreciate it, Jordan.

40:18Again, special thanks to all our team, our staff, the great researchers.

40:22Our team does a really good job.

40:23I also want to give a shout out.

40:24There have been a lot of other accounts, a lot of these open source intelligence

40:29accounts, that regardless of whether I agree or disagree with them, you know, on certain

40:35types of things, that in war, they tend to do a very good job searching

40:41through a lot of the Telegram chats and the local chats, where a lot of

40:45this information, is coming from cell phone cameras and local videos of people in the

40:51countries that share them on Telegram and other social media platforms.

40:56And then a lot of these open source accounts bring them public, you know, bring

41:03them to the public as well.

41:04And then one of the things that we have to make clear is there's so

41:06much bad info out there and like AI and things that are trying, so we

41:11have to sort through to make sure we're giving you the accurate information so that

41:17when I say, for example, you know, Ayatollah is killed, I know there was a

41:21lot of people who were saying, you know, you know, I got a lot of

41:24comments that I was wrong.

41:25You know, you're not accurate.

41:27You know, other people are saying it's not true.

41:29I mean, that's just one example.

41:30And I was like, no, by the time I report it, I feel very confident

41:34from a myriad of sources, independent, third party.

41:39There's an exhaustive process that I hope you know that we use on these things.

41:44And we take the responsibility of the size of this platform very, very seriously in

41:51how we report this information to you, unlike, say, state regime media, which calls itself

41:59Fox. So let me share with you just so you can see it.

42:02I'm not going to play you multiple clips.

42:04I just want you to see with things that are not going according to plan,

42:09with gas prices now going to spike, and with all of the problems that are

42:18now confronted with inflation rising, what are they doing on state regime media?

42:22Here's how Jesse Waters was talking about it before.

42:24Let's play it. It's hard when you don't have any weapons and you live in

42:27a police state. So Trump will try to shape what happens on the ground from

42:31the carriers. And I'm sure the CIA is going to be passing a lot of

42:34cash around. How does this affect the American people?

42:37Well, the market opened lower and then it snapped back and closed about flat.

42:42Oil prices are up. Gas prices at the pump.

42:45They're going to jump and mortgage rates are already ticking up.

42:48So in the short term, you're going to see a little inflation.

42:50But if it's a successful operation, prices are going to go way, way down and

42:56the stock market is going to rip.

42:59Russia is not going to have a supply of drones that they're using to just

43:03decimate Ukraine. So that's going to push them towards peace.

43:05And the Chinese aren't going to be able to suck up all that cheap, sanctioned

43:09Iranian oil. And we'll have full control over the oil rich Middle East.

43:13And then we can pivot to the Pacific and stare down Beijing.

43:17But until then, you just pray for the boys.

43:20You pray for the president and hope everything goes well.

43:22I mean, truly deranged. It's such despicable propaganda.

43:26And that's what the Fox viewers are being fed, you know, and it really does.

43:30just I'm getting PTSD style flashbacks to those days when Fox was pushing the Iraq

43:36war on everybody. I mean, it's very similar tactics with sometimes some different characters, some

43:42of the same characters, but the, just the way they're framing the stupider version of

43:46that though. Like it's like so much stupider.

43:49Like they, they make the Bush crew look like Einstein, right?

43:52They make the Bush crew look like absolute geniuses.

43:55We're dealing with buffoons here.

43:56Like I said earlier in this episode, I think they all think they're like in

44:00some sort of B action movie, you know, and it's, it's embarrassing.

44:05And, and I don't know if you caught, you know, Pete Hegseth this morning, but

44:08everything that Pete Hegseth said sounded like he was trying to like say a one

44:12-liner from an action movie.

44:14And it's like, dude, just be honest with the American people.

44:16Like you're not making any sense.

44:18And you seem so -called regime change, but the regime sure did change.

44:24Yeah. Like what does that mean?

44:25He practiced that in front of the mirror, tough guy.

44:27Like when I watched that performance and I'm going to call it a performance, it

44:32really, like, I felt like I was watching Colin Jost on Saturday night live doing

44:37Pete Hegseth. It was that exaggerated.

44:40And that it was a parody of itself when you were, when you were watching

44:44him and then he had the nerve to say something like president Trump didn't start

44:49this war, but he will end it.

44:51And it's like, no, he literally, literally started this war, literally started this war.

44:56But it shows you how this propaganda works.

44:58Cause you see that a lot of these Trump people just start regurgitating it like

45:01the sheep they are. You know, all these people who are like no war, no

45:05middle East wars. We're not going to get entangled in any of this crap.

45:08That's what Kamala is going to do to us.

45:10And slamming Biden when Biden didn't actually get the United States into any wars.

45:14In fact, took us out of wars.

45:15Now, all of a sudden they're like, we've actually been at war with Iran for

45:1947 years. You didn't know that?

45:22Iran actually started this war 47 years ago.

45:25That's like a line that I see people online using.

45:27It's like, okay, don't gaslight me.

45:30Don't lie to my face.

45:31You've now just brought us into this massive war in the Middle East with zero

45:36plan of action. It should never have been done.

45:39The United States should not be doing crap like this.

45:42And you could look at run back the tape of Gaddafi, run back the tape

45:47of Saddam Hussein, go back to all of these times when the United States overthrew

45:52leaders in the Middle East and then thought that they'd be greeted as liberators and

45:57be able to stabilize the region and that everything would be a -okay.

46:01And tell me what happens next in that story, because I've seen this story far

46:05too many times. I actually feel for Colin Jost.

46:09Like, I don't know how he's going to parody the Hegseth moment this Saturday because

46:13it was a parody in itself.

46:16It's disturbing. I mean, the phony platform that Trump went on that he's getting a

46:20pass on was the No New Wars.

46:22He was going to be the quote unquote peace president.

46:25I mean, it is such, that's why I say though, it's a trillion dollar propaganda

46:29operation that is consistently beaming misinformation and lies into the American people.

46:35And it is scary to see what Fox News and what all of those other

46:38right -wing MAGA outlets get their base to believe just simply for the fact that

46:44they control the airwaves. It's terrifying.

46:47Trump is literally a parody in the most extreme sense of the creature boogeymen that

46:56MAGA created to go after Democrats.

46:58Like he's quite literally all of it.

47:01He covers up the pedo ring.

47:03The cabal is in the oval office.

47:05It's close to Epstein. He starts wars every.

47:09where he uses government to quite literally tread on people, masked agents going through states

47:18and terrorizing people. He takes away your guns if you have, you know, like he

47:23says that he's not for you having permits or licenses to carry your guns.

47:28He's against free speech in the most obvious and authoritarian sense.

47:35You literally go through everything.

47:38And he is the most extreme example of the thing that they claimed that this

47:45is what he was going to do to stop those people.

47:47But it's important to note that that's literally the way authoritarianism works.

47:52You know, the quote about the devil's greatest trick is making you believe he never

47:57existed. The authoritarian's greatest trick is to convince you that the authoritarian is the person

48:03who is out there to stop the authoritarians.

48:08And that's how they get into power.

48:10They have a sixth sense of people's fears and desires, and they know how to

48:16prey on them because they are a predator class.

48:19And that's exactly what Trump and this entire regime is.

48:23I'll just show people a short clip of Hegseth where he held this presser earlier

48:28in the day where he goes, this is not a so -called regime change war,

48:33but the regime sure did change.

48:35Actually, it did it. You killed the Ayatollah, and now the regime is still in

48:40power, and they're out there launching Shahid drones against all of the neighboring countries and

48:46U .S. Air Force bases and interests.

48:48So that's not even true.

48:50But go ahead. Let me play this clip.

48:52Iran was building powerful missiles and drones to create a conventional shield for their nuclear

48:59blackmail ambitions. Let me say that again.

49:02A conventional shield for their nuclear blackmail ambitions.

49:07Our bases, our people, our allies, all in their crosshairs.

49:12Iran had a conventional gun to our head as they tried to lie their way

49:16to a nuclear bomb. It almost worked under Obama and his terrible deal, but not

49:24under this president. Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and death to

49:30Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel.

49:37This is not a so -called regime change war, but the regime sure did change,

49:44and the world is better off for it.

49:47They put that through chat GPT.

49:49I truly don't even know.

49:51It's kind of nonsensical. I think Jost just reads it verbatim.

49:57I think that's his only way in this week on SNL.

50:00Just read that whole... Like a Sarah Palin situation here.

50:03This was a conventional shield for nuclear blackmail ambitions.

50:08Let me repeat that again.

50:10I don't need you to repeat.

50:11It's a nonsensical sentence to begin with.

50:13A conventional shield for nuclear ambitions.

50:17And let me say this.

50:19They had a conventional gun to...

50:22What's the... Why conventional? What words are you even trying to put together?

50:26And then he's like, Obama did a terrible deal.

50:29Obama, we're in 2026? You're attacking Obama in 2026?

50:34Like really? That's where we're at?

50:36Don't worry, man. They attacked Joe Biden also in the press conference too, because just

50:40to really kind of really, you know, rehash the greatest hits of the Trump regime

50:45and taking no responsibility. They chanted death to America, and now America and Israel gifted

50:54them death. You see how they keep also moving the goalposts here, right?

50:58Because before it was about nuclear weapons, and Donald Trump said, we've totally, completely obliterated

51:04the nuclear program. Then they started rehashing the nuclear argument again for this war.

51:10They were immediately called out by it, because everyone was like, didn't you just say

51:14you completely obliterated the nuclear program like months ago?

51:17And all the people who have intelligence kind of were leaking information.

51:20Even Ted Cruz went on television yesterday, and Ted Cruz said there's no evidence that

51:26Iran had a nuclear program that was a threat to the United States, none whatsoever.

51:30So even Ted Cruz publicly disagreeing with the Trump administration and saying there was no

51:35intelligence to that effect. So they move the goalposts, and then they just make it

51:39missiles, that they have missiles.

51:41And then they make the argument that Iran is not allowed to have any weapons

51:44whatsoever, and that Iran having weapons generally, just any weapons at all, is a threat

51:50to the region, is a threat to the United States, and therefore justifies this war.

51:54So you see how every day they continue to make this stuff up.

51:58All the intelligence also showed, by the way, that there was no imminent threat on

52:02U .S. bases, no imminent threat on anything.

52:04That's why Rubio did that absurd argument that we played for you earlier, that was

52:09a step removed. It wasn't that there was a threat that Iran was going to

52:12strike the United States bases.

52:14It was that Israel was going to strike Iran, and then Iran was going to

52:20retaliate. That's a much different story.

52:23And if you're the United States, as Ben said, you should be able to go

52:26to your ally, in this case Israel, and say maybe don't do that.

52:30We're in negotiations. We're actually like almost got this thing across the finish line right

52:34now. We almost got this deal.

52:35So maybe hold off and let's let us bring peace to the region.

52:38I mean, you could say things like that, but you have all these people instead

52:41pushing for war. They want this.

52:43Well, what happened, I mean, look, the negotiations progressed, I think, more than anyone actually

52:51thought it would. And it seems, you know, if you look at the situation, the

52:56moment Israel saw that the U .S.

52:59may make a deal with Iran and that this moved in the right direction in

53:04terms of an actual peace deal, that's when it seemed that things were actually paradoxically

53:09ramped up for the war.

53:11It's like, we can't have this deal.

53:12We can't have you do this deal.

53:14We're going in. We're going in right now.

53:16And as I said before, all of the things that Donald Trump has done in

53:21this disastrous term that we've been covering since last year, all of this stuff now

53:27entangles him. And, you know, Netanyahu gives him a call.

53:31And so we're going in.

53:32We're going in. We're going in.

53:34Don't care. We're attacking. What are you going to do?

53:37What are you going to do?

53:38Right. And a strong president stares down Netanyahu or whoever and says, good luck.

53:45We're out. Call their bluff back.

53:47Right. But Donald Trump has been so enamored and so outplayed at every step of

53:55this to turn America into a proxy of Israel, almost the reverse than what it

54:01was even before, that he's like, okay, okay.

54:04And Netanyahu has a psychological profile on Donald.

54:07He knew exactly when to do it, how to do it, how to, what buttons

54:12to push, push of Donald Trump and how to get Donald Trump nervous.

54:16Netanyahu can make minced meat of Donald Trump psychologically.

54:20Trump is not, you know, he's easily manipulatable.

54:23How this is all connected.

54:24We'll show you clips of Hillary.

54:26I'm sorry. Clinton in a little bit.

54:27But remember, she warned about this in the debates in 2015 and 2016, how weak

54:32he was and how he can so easily be manipulated.

54:35And she said, look, if you can manipulate him in a tweet, what do you

54:38think Putin can do? She didn't say this, but what do you think a Netanyahu

54:42could do? What do you think a Xi Jinping can do?

54:44Xi Jinping knows that Donald Trump, more than anything, just wants, it's crazy, just wants

54:50to show up in Beijing for a state visit and have all of those Chinese

54:55soldiers, thousands of them, stand at attention and march perfectly with the weapons.

55:01And that's what Donald Trump wants.

55:03He wants to look at the Chinese soldiers up and down and see them stand

55:08the way they do. And he wants them to say, like, look at him like

55:11he's a conquering part. That's all Trump wants.

55:15And Xi Jinping knows that more than any geostrategic.

55:18Donald Trump's willing to give up our classified semiconductor chips.

55:24He's willing to give up the most highly classified chips to China, not provide the

55:30military aid we did a deal with that Donald Trump broke, right?

55:35Sound like a pattern. The guy breaks his deals.

55:37Taiwan dependent on our military deals.

55:40Especially right now, you would think, you know, probably would it be nice if they

55:45had it because what's vulnerable?

55:47All of Asia is vulnerable right now as a result of what Donald Trump is

55:51now doing in the Middle East.

55:52China could take Taiwan easily if it wanted to.

55:55And now Donald Trump has assured Xi Jinping that we're not going to give Taiwan

55:59weapons. Why? Because Donald Trump wants a state visit.

56:04Me, me, me, me, me.

56:05They all know how to play him so easily.

56:08And just think about this, how embarrassing this is for the United States, regardless of

56:13what political party you are.

56:14How embarrassing. And again, this is where it connects to the stuff that we were

56:18telling you about before. Like, remember when Donald Trump would say, I stopped the war

56:23with India and Pakistan. He would cosplay that he stopped the war.

56:27And then you'd have Modi and people and you'd say, no, you didn't.

56:29You didn't do that. I have a deal with this country.

56:32But, you know, we don't have a deal.

56:34Now that we're in a hot war, a real war with Iran right now, a

56:37real war, Donald Trump says, regarding Iran, that Donald Trump said he agreed to resume

56:46negotiations. They want to talk.

56:49And I have agreed to talk, he said.

56:52The United States president, the president of the United States says they, the Iranians, have

56:57agreed to talk. I'm agreeing to resume negotiations.

57:01Okay. For Iran, for their leadership right now, from the Islamic Republic, to say, we

57:08will not negotiate with the United States.

57:10In response to Donald Trump saying that, isn't that the most obvious sign of utter

57:17weakness? That Iran doesn't want to negotiate with you.

57:21They think that they've got you on the ropes, that they're willing to publicly mock

57:27you and say, we don't want to talk to you.

57:29After you've said the United States wants to talk to you.

57:34Think about it. That's unprecedented right there.

57:38That's unprecedented. So yeah, France, their aircraft carry the Charles de Gaulle.

57:42You're like, uh -uh, we ain't bringing that in the region.

57:45Good luck. UK, they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

57:48I mean, you're kind of on your own there, Donald.

57:51Like, we'll be here for defensive purposes if we get hit again.

57:54And you know, behind the scenes, Macron and Macron's foreign minister and Starmer's foreign, you

58:01know, they were speaking with Iran's foreign minister.

58:04You know. that they were chatting and they were saying, yeah, you know, if you

58:08keep hitting us, we're going to have to strike you back.

58:09But we need you to say you're not striking our military bases and we're not

58:13going to get involved in this thing.

58:14Why would we? You know that's happening behind the scenes right now.

58:18It's why we've made such a priority at the Midas Touch Network when no one

58:23else was really doing it in our news media here to focus on international news.

58:27You know, all those videos that we've been educating you on and we've been discussing

58:31about the foreign policy stuff, it's all related right now to this.

58:36And so I hope that's given you a deeper insight into what's taking place.

58:40All right. And Ben, of course, Ben, real quick, of course, no one wants to

58:43negotiate with Trump. He played his hand.

58:46He is the worst negotiator.

58:49He literally, he doesn't have the cards anymore, Ben.

58:53He doesn't have, he played his hand.

58:54Why would anyone want to engage in any good faith talks?

58:58If he's going to be a maniac the way he's been a maniac?

59:01Tell me who you teach.

59:03Ben, you teach these all the time.

59:06Is this, is this negotiation one -on -one, what Donald Trump is doing?

59:09Or is it the most pathetic type of negotiations, quite frankly, you've ever seen?

59:14But he was always the most pathetic negotiator.

59:17It was always the most pathetic imaginable, his whole damn life.

59:24And, you know, right now, you know, we'll talk about what's going on too, when

59:29we come back with, you know, there's so much to discuss.

59:33I also want to show you, as I mentioned, this is Operation Epstein Fury and

59:38the Jeffrey Epstein War. So I do want to show you that these MAGA Republicans

59:42were covering up the deposition, the video depositions of the Clintons, and now they released

59:47it while the world's on fire, hoping we don't pay attention to it.

59:50But we're going to, we posted the full depositions on our YouTube channel, and I'll

59:55discuss some of the highlights here as well.

59:57Let's go to our last break of the show.

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1:03:49Benji, real quick, gave you your flowers during the last break, but I'm coming back

1:03:52around. I've listened to and watched all of your content from the weekend.

1:03:56And I noticed there was a couple subscribed now as we get to 6 million

1:03:59subscribers that, that, that squeezed through as you were closing some of those videos.

1:04:04I'll give you grace this week because we just hit 6 million, but I'm going

1:04:08to be, I'm going to be really on you if you don't, if you don't

1:04:10correct that to on our way to 7 million subscribers.

1:04:13I've said, you have to understand with the muscle memory, so many of my videos

1:04:18are muscle memory. Like sometimes I'm talking, I don't even know that I'm talking.

1:04:23Like that's how muscle memory it is.

1:04:24Like when I'm doing my videos, I know words are coming out of my mouth

1:04:29and I know they're on point, but the, but the reps happen so frequently.

1:04:34So by the time I've said, I mean, how many videos did I probably say

1:04:39subscribe for 6 million, you know, or help us get to 6 million?

1:04:42I would venture to guess several thousand, you know, imagine every day.

1:04:47I'm not, I'm not, just to be clear, I'm not actually pressing you on this.

1:04:50So it's, it's, it's all good.

1:04:52The might is mighty. You're, you're excused, Ben.

1:04:54You get, you get a pass just for this week though, Ben, just for this

1:04:57week. So I'm not, I'm not being deposed and I should just answer and say,

1:05:02yes, Jordy, I will look from United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi and to Qatar

1:05:13and Doha to Bahrain to Jordan to Kuwait.

1:05:21to saudi arabia um you know anywhere with the u .s embassy with u .s

1:05:26interests with uh tourist areas that are uh attended by uh u .s military or

1:05:35u .s citizens it's now under attack and as as we said before iran has

1:05:41been in a war footing for a very long time you know those drones that

1:05:48they've built and their ballistic missile arsenal has basically been fueling russia's invasion of ukraine

1:05:56right i mean i i want to let me be very very very clear the

1:06:01regime in iran is horrific i wish i hope i pray you come that the

1:06:09people in iran can live in freedom i know so many great persian people you

1:06:15know the iranian people who love democracy are are just i've had so many friends

1:06:22and and i know how the revolution has impacted their lives and displaced them and

1:06:32so i hope you know if you are persian iranian watching this i i truly

1:06:40care about everything that you're going through and i know that it must feel and

1:06:45must be uh to see the ayatollah who's caused your family so much pain for

1:06:51that ayatollah to be killed and for others in the regime to be taken out

1:06:55um what that must feel like and be like after the terror and torture that

1:07:02they've that they've put you through i i think about how recently the 30 000

1:07:06protesters in iran who wanted democracy who trump said go out there i've got your

1:07:10back we we're gonna save you go out there and protest and they listened to

1:07:15him and 30 000 iranians got massacred because they listened to him you realize that

1:07:20this has an impact his words don't matter when if he says go out now

1:07:25take it back they remember you told us that last month and you got us

1:07:29all slaughtered 30 000 dead be frankly because of trump saying go out and do

1:07:35it i've got your back however regime change whatever the hell we're doing we're not

1:07:42even doing regime change i don't know what our country i don't think anybody really

1:07:46knows what trump and rubio and hegseth are doing i don't think they know what

1:07:50they're doing this ain't it whatever's happening this is making the situation worse worse for

1:07:57people who want democracy in iran worse for the region worse for america and we

1:08:02have so many things going on in america right now that we have to address

1:08:06right you can give it a mantra america first this that and the other don't

1:08:10use trump's fraudulent mantra just talk about what's really happening here as since donald trump's

1:08:15taken office things are so much worse here people are psychologically tortured living paycheck to

1:08:21paycheck if they're lucky enough to have a paycheck people are unable to afford rent

1:08:26definitely can't afford an actual home or a mortgage are you kidding me they have

1:08:31their children or grandchildren living with them and they see no hope for the future

1:08:35health care has been ripped away not to mention ice and border patrol gestapo here

1:08:40in this trump regime terrorizing killing and torturing people here in the united states that's

1:08:47what you have happening here and so when and we're told we don't have the

1:08:53money sorry we can't do health care we don't got money sorry we can't help

1:08:59you Trump will lie and say, I'm going to give you Doge dividend checks and

1:09:03tariff rebate checks. When he stole your money with unlawful tariffs, he's not even willing

1:09:09to refund it when ordered by courts to refund it.

1:09:12I mean, they argued against the Federal Circuit Court ordering that the money be returned.

1:09:18The Federal Circuit Court today, I know in all the news, this one gets lost,

1:09:21rejected the Trump regime's argument that they wanted to delay giving tariff refunds for seven

1:09:27years. That's what Trump argued.

1:09:29Seven years, five years, they cited cases saying we're not going to give these refunds.

1:09:33They argued to the courts that if they lost in the Supreme Court, they would

1:09:37have to automatically give refunds.

1:09:39But then they broke that deal also.

1:09:42So you have all of this going on.

1:09:43And now we're doing some sort of fake regime change war where Trump just wants

1:09:49to find someone in the Islamic Republic who likes him.

1:09:53The regime who like, they don't like you.

1:09:55In fact, they hate you.

1:09:56And you killed their spiritual leader, as dastardly and despicable as he is.

1:10:02You killed their spiritual. You killed the person who represents 300 million Shiites.

1:10:08You killed them. What do you think they're going to do?

1:10:11What do you think the reaction is?

1:10:12And so now the reports, and I always want to be diligent and careful in

1:10:17the report. I'll do a whole other video on this later.

1:10:19The embassy in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, the United States embassy engulfed in flames.

1:10:27Looks like there was a direct hit right there as Iran attacked the embassy in

1:10:32Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Multiple explosions in the vicinity.

1:10:38And this is, folks, this is the tip of the iceberg right here.

1:10:44This is, this is, I know Trump, in Trump's own world, this episode moves, he

1:10:52moves on to the next episode and he goes to Cuba, right?

1:10:55That's what they were talking about.

1:10:57You know, this episode's over of The Apprentice.

1:10:59He does the next episode.

1:11:00This episode ain't over. You've just engulfed the United States in the Gulf and you've

1:11:09destroyed the futures even worse of Americans.

1:11:13This is as horrific as it can be.

1:11:17And if you're hearing in the background too, my baby girl crying.

1:11:23I mean, I, I mean, she, she, she doesn't understand what I'm saying.

1:11:26I don't think. Um, but she, she's probably crying because she wants food or a

1:11:29bottle. Um, and she's with her mom and her grandma, but I think about the

1:11:33future generations. I think about how much more of a dangerous world we're going to

1:11:40be in. I really think of Trump bringing us closer to world war three.

1:11:43And Brett, I know I said, I'm going to show us, you know, uh, the

1:11:46Clinton depots and I will in a second, but I just wanted to point that

1:11:50out. Um, no, it's, it's, it's true.

1:11:53It's a, it's a dangerous world and Donald Trump has made it more dangerous.

1:11:56There's no doubt about it.

1:11:58And we're in a very, I'll show you some of the depositions.

1:12:01Um, let me show you a portion of this deposition, which I think was one

1:12:06of the main reasons that MAGA Republicans wanted to cover up.

1:12:09Remember they rushed out and said, Bill Clinton exonerated Donald Trump as though.

1:12:13It's always a sign by the way.

1:12:15What'd he say? Always this when they rush out to try to change the narrative

1:12:18before something comes, that's always a sign that whatever happened was not flattering to Trump.

1:12:24Then they're trying to get ahead of it.

1:12:25Remember like what they did with Bill Barr back in the day.

1:12:27It's the same plant playbook that they run every time.

1:12:30Right. I mean, they literally posted this like, like from Comer's social media account.

1:12:34And then they gave the press conference folks, Bill Clinton.

1:12:39exonerates Donald Trump. Totally. It was a total exoneration.

1:12:42So you went from attacking Bill Clinton to now he's your character witness of Donald

1:12:47Trump. That should raise your red flag number one, right?

1:12:50Like when Donald Trump's all of a sudden like, I like that guy.

1:12:53I'm upset he's being deposed.

1:12:54I wish he wasn't going through that.

1:12:56Okay. Like what's this guy really going to say?

1:12:59What did you tell Bill Clinton?

1:13:01And it's exactly what we've been saying in the Epstein files.

1:13:06We've been talking about this for the last five years.

1:13:09What have I been saying?

1:13:11I've been saying focus on, and this is all connected by the way, it's connected

1:13:15with Iran. It's connected with Russia.

1:13:17It's connected with all this stuff.

1:13:17I said, focus on the real estate transaction where Trump outbid Epstein in 2004 for

1:13:26this mansion in Palm beach that was in a foreclosure sale after this guy named

1:13:32Abe Gossman, who was a rich guy, went bankrupt.

1:13:35He had to sell his property.

1:13:38Epstein was going to buy it for 32 or $33 million.

1:13:41He brought Trump over to the property in 2004, asked Trump for advice about what

1:13:46he should do with the pool, the foreclosure sales the next day.

1:13:50Donald Trump, rather than helping Epstein with the pool, they were best friends.

1:13:55Trump outbids Epstein and does an all cash offer for 41 .5.

1:14:02And it was a blind bid.

1:14:03So Epstein's like, how'd I lose?

1:14:05I had this thing said I was going to win.

1:14:08And then, and he goes, my best friend, my best friend outbid me on the

1:14:14property. What the hell? I brought you over.

1:14:16And Trump's like, you know, I just fell in love with the property.

1:14:20Four years later, Trump sells the property for $95 million to a Russian oligarch named

1:14:27Dmitry Rybalov. Three years after that, Rybalov destroys the property, demolishes it, never really uses

1:14:34the property. Donald Trump barely did any upgrades to the property.

1:14:38So Epstein, by the way, they were still kind of friends.

1:14:41They were, Epstein was pissed at Trump after that, but they still kind of hung

1:14:44out. Epstein was quoted in page six of the New York post, wasn't hiding it.

1:14:49After he was arrested in 2007, he said, yeah, I'm not banned from Mar -a

1:14:53-Lago. I go there all the time.

1:14:55But when the Russian oligarch bought the property, Epstein's like, oh, I see what you

1:15:01did. And Epstein thought it was either money laundering or some shenanigans is what Epstein

1:15:07was telling people, that there was some shady business with Trump doing this deal with

1:15:12the Russian, even that maybe the Russian helped Trump buy it in all cash originally

1:15:17as well. And that there was a way to move Russian money into the United

1:15:21States or clean money. That's what Epstein was telling people.

1:15:25So that's what the feud was about.

1:15:27So then Epstein believed that Trump was then giving some of the secrets of what

1:15:32Epstein was doing, because Trump knew after Epstein was arrested to the Palm Beach Police

1:15:37Department in order to hurt Epstein, because Epstein was telling people about what he thought

1:15:43was going on with Trump and the Russian guy.

1:15:45And that's what was really there falling out over that situation.

1:15:48We've been covering this here, honestly, at the Midas Touch Network.

1:15:51What, Brett? I've been saying this real estate transaction over and over and over and

1:15:55over again, because it connects Trump with the Russians.

1:15:58It actually explains what happened with Epstein and Trump.

1:16:03And Trump told that to Bill Clinton.

1:16:06Here's what Bill Clinton didn't exonerate him.

1:16:09Bill Clinton confirmed my theory.

1:16:12Play this clip of Bill Clinton.

1:16:14The Safe at Home Foundation.

1:16:16And it was designed to combat domestic violence, of which Joe Torrey had been a

1:16:27victim as a child. And so I wanted to support it.

1:16:34And so Donald Trump gave him the golf course in New York to have a

1:16:40tournament on. And I played in it a couple of times.

1:16:42And the day I was there, he would typically, Donald Trump would come out and

1:16:51play a few holes with us.

1:16:54And he somehow knew I had flown in Jeffrey Epstein's aircraft.

1:16:59And he said, you know, we had some great times together over the years, but

1:17:03we fell out all because of a real estate deal.

1:17:10And he said, I'm sorry it happened.

1:17:12That's all. Do you recall whether President Trump was the first one to affirmatively bring

1:17:18up the subject of Jeffrey Epstein?

1:17:22No, but I'd be shocked if I did.

1:17:24I just don't do that.

1:17:27So they, the Republicans see that.

1:17:30And that's what they base exoneration on.

1:17:33Like, like, it's the craziest thing.

1:17:35I'm sorry it happened. I get, and Republicans see that and say exoneration.

1:17:43I mean, that's why though, these are, I've used the term demented because I don't

1:17:49really know the right word to describe it.

1:17:51I don't want to say psychotic because it's psychosis is a serious mental health issue.

1:17:57And I don't, and I try to pick my words carefully and sometimes I'm wrong,

1:18:02but I try to capture it.

1:18:04So I say demented. But lots of you say like demons, like these are like,

1:18:08these are like demon people.

1:18:10And these, like, how do you lie?

1:18:13Like, you know, like I won't do my Howard Lutnick impression because it'll, it'll make

1:18:18this episode go way, way longer than it needs to.

1:18:20But like, how do you say with a straight face over and over and over

1:18:24again, that you've never hung out with the guy, knowing you've hung out with the

1:18:26guy all the time and you brought your kids to Petto Island?

1:18:29Like how, how do you physically do it?

1:18:31Right. And, and all the Trump regime people do this because they're, they're, they're, they're

1:18:37cosplaying this thing. They're evil people and their words are meaningless because they just think

1:18:44that it's so easy to manipulate people.

1:18:47If you just lie to them all the time about everything, because people usually hear

1:18:51words and trust the person who says it or trust the big lie because who

1:18:55lies about such big things, but this is what they do.

1:18:59I'll just show you one more thing that I think sums this all up as

1:19:01well. We posted by the way, the full Clinton depot and the full Bill Clinton

1:19:06depot, Bill and Hillary. So if you want to watch the full depots, it's on

1:19:08our, it's on our YouTube.

1:19:10Here's Hillary Clinton going off on Republicans after it was revealed that they were taking

1:19:16unauthorized images of her. Now I just want to give you this preface, Hillary Clinton

1:19:21and Bill Clinton wanted this all to be done public and live so that everybody

1:19:26can see it all at the same.

1:19:29The public can see it.

1:19:30That's what they wanted. Again, regardless of what political party who would object to that,

1:19:36right? After all of the attacks on Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, they've, the fight

1:19:41was that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton want to go public and you want to

1:19:46keep it private. Just think you being the Republicans want to keep it private.

1:19:51Just think about that. That's an undisputed fact that that's what the actual fight was.

1:19:55So then you Republicans create the rule, no cameras, no media, no nothing.

1:20:01It's private. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton don't want that.

1:20:04Then the Republican Congress members like Lauren Boebert and others start videotaping it with their

1:20:11camera and start taking photos to send it to the right wing influencers to try

1:20:17to skew the narrative already in their favor and to hurt Hillary Clinton than Bill

1:20:22Clinton. The ground rules were by Republicans, no media, no photos, no videos.

1:20:28So Hillary Clinton's like, I said, we wanted this to be public.

1:20:31You all made the rule.

1:20:33No. And now you're taking photos.

1:20:35What are you doing? I was going to say, what are you five years old,

1:20:38but five -year -olds don't behave like this.

1:20:40What are you doing? I want this public.

1:20:44Just say what you want to say, whether you like the Clintons or you don't

1:20:48like the Clintons. I work for her.

1:20:51I say what you want to say.

1:20:53They want to go public and Republicans want to keep it private.

1:20:57So who cares about transparency?

1:20:59Just that fact alone. Here's the moment where Hillary Clinton gets pissed because she finds

1:21:04out these Republican Congress members, Congress members are behaving in such a petulant and pathetic

1:21:10way. Let's play it. To the fundraiser to support my friend, Nia Lowy.

1:21:13All right. Um, excuse me, can I interrupt?

1:21:18I have another photos that are being released of the secretary as she is testifying

1:21:23from inside this room. Can you please advise me as to whether or not that's

1:21:27permissible and consistent with the rules, particularly given that we have asked for a public

1:21:32hearing? If there are photos that are being released of the secretary, she is testifying.

1:21:36Can you please explain how that can occur?

1:21:38I'm done with this. If you guys are doing that, I am done.

1:21:40You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home.

1:21:43This is just typical behavior.

1:21:45We will go off the record.

1:21:46Oh, for heaven's sake. So I would like to understand how that's permissible.

1:21:50It was before the hearing was...

1:21:51It doesn't matter. We all are abiding by the same rules.

1:21:55I will take that down.

1:21:57Yeah, well... I would like to take a break at this moment.

1:21:59I'd like to have a conversation.

1:22:00I'm done for now. Go off the record.

1:22:02Go off the record. By the way, did you hear Lauren Boebert say, I'll take

1:22:07it down. I'll take it down.

1:22:08Then she doesn't take it down.

1:22:10And then they attack Hillary Clinton for that and say, Hillary Clinton was unhinged and

1:22:19she acted like a maniac.

1:22:20And they attack her for what you just saw that and go after Hillary Clinton.

1:22:25Again, these are demons. These are demented individuals who are behaving in this way.

1:22:32And I'll leave you all with this.

1:22:35And Brett and Jordi, I'll let you chime in.

1:22:38Sorry if I've been speaking a lot this segment.

1:22:39But for me, I'm often...

1:22:43When the media tries to label me, anti -Trump or Republican hater, I'm like, you're

1:22:55really missing the point of all of this.

1:22:58You're really missing the point of all of this.

1:23:00I don't just wake up and go, I don't like Trump.

1:23:05There's a lot of bad people.

1:23:07I don't have the energy for.

1:23:09I care when there are groups of people who are engaging in a course and

1:23:15conduct of behavior that is causing pain and suffering in this country.

1:23:21And when I'm able to diagnose it and when I'm able to call it out

1:23:25and I'm able to apply my values and principles set to the situation, that is

1:23:31the lens with which all of the your rep...

1:23:33reporting here is done is based on that.

1:23:37If ultimately the Democrats are behaving like the Republicans and doing the exact same stuff,

1:23:43I'm not cheering on a specific Democrat over another specific Democrat.

1:23:50If you think that that's what you come here for, you don't know me then.

1:23:55My goal is to frame very clearly and with moral clarity a set of values

1:24:01and principles that I feel strongly about.

1:24:03And where I find alignment with the politician, great.

1:24:07Where I don't, I don't.

1:24:09But the personality, the this, the that, I just want the truth.

1:24:14I just want the honesty.

1:24:15I just want the facts.

1:24:16And this regime, this Trump regime with the Netanyahu regime against the Iranian regime, bad

1:24:25regimes. And they've now screwed up the world for all of us.

1:24:31We, the people want to live in peace with each other and love and harmony

1:24:35and just get along with each other and go about our days and be able

1:24:39to live and have health care, raise our people.

1:24:41But these, these regimes that are out there have really made, you know, it's pissed

1:24:47off is not the right word.

1:24:49I mean, I'm furious. These, all these regimes have really just made life very, very,

1:24:55very difficult, but we're not giving up.

1:24:58In fact, we're pushing forward harder than ever here on this network, on this channel,

1:25:03giving out the truth. These regimes try to lie.

1:25:06We double and triple our efforts.

1:25:08That's what we do here at the Midas Touch Network.

1:25:10That's what we do. Anyway, I'll throw that to you, Brent.

1:25:14Well said, Ben. Keep following the Midas Touch YouTube channel for coverage.

1:25:17We're going to be releasing videos every, you know, 90 minutes in some cases, even

1:25:22more often than that, because this is a fast paced story, obviously, that continues to

1:25:27develop like by the second.

1:25:29As Ben said, we have those depositions of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton on our

1:25:33YouTube channel. Check them out.

1:25:35And I think it also shows you kind of the scam that you see the

1:25:39Republicans pulling as well. Like when you watch the Hillary Clinton deposition, in addition to

1:25:43the question that we showed you there, like they ask Hillary Clinton about Anthony Weiner,

1:25:48they ask Hillary Clinton about Pizzagate.

1:25:50Like the whole thing from the Republicans just shows how unseriously they are taking this

1:25:56entire investigation and that they were just excited to be able to question Hillary Clinton

1:26:00over all this random stuff.

1:26:03And like Lauren Boebert in that clip that you showed, Ben, sounded like a little

1:26:06scared, like, you know, just so terrified in Hillary's presence.

1:26:10And frankly, she should be because Hillary Clinton towers over her in every single way.

1:26:16Lauren Boebert just looks so small as she is not even in the same league

1:26:21or universe as a Hillary Clinton and does not even belong in that room.

1:26:25What a disgrace. But keep following all the coverage.

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