LIVE: Ben Meiselas RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS!! 6/23/2026

Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben. MyCellis and this is your breaking news. The most breaking news moments ago, the. Senate voted to block Donald Trump from. resuming the Iran war. The Senate joined. with the House of Representatives to. pass the first war powers resolution. since the start of the conflict. It is a. concurrent resolution and under our very. flawed system of laws, while this can't.

be vetoed, Donald Trump then just says, "I'm not. going to follow the concurrent. resolution." And because it's a. concurrent resolution and the Supreme. Court. uh gave Donald Trump absolute immunity, Donald Trump's just going to say, "I'm. going to not follow the law and I'm just. going to ignore this and I don't treat. this as. having any force and effect of law.". Now, there is this memorandum of. understanding that was signed by Donald. Trump and Iran. Donald Trump, of course,

is misrepresenting and lying about what. the MOU says. You know, the thing about. having a written document, a memorandum. of understanding, and then the. subsequent joint statement that came out. of the Switzerland talks, is that we can. read it, we can see it. And so, when. Donald Trump says, "Well, here's what's. actually in the memorandum of. understanding," we can say, "Okay, well, show me in the MOU where it says that if. the parties agreed to it, it should be. in the MOU." And so far, everything that.

Iran has said is in the MOU, we can see. in the MOU for ourselves to determine if. that's a rat reality. And Iran is. turning those words, the paper, into. liquidity. Right? The Treasury. Department revoked all of the sanctions. that would otherwise block Iran from. exporting oil, petrochemicals, and other. resources that Iran has. This overturns. 40 years of American foreign policy.

Now, this general waiver as it's called. extends to mid to late August. But Iran was ready to go immediately. with all of its tankers, its VLCCs, those massive tankers, they were ready. to go. The blockade goes away. from the United States. The sanctions. waiver is approved by the Treasury. Department and bang, dozens of tankers.

loaded with Iranian oil get out right. away. Now, there are some other. countries having their tankers get out. as well from the Strait of Hormuz under. the control and auspices of Iran and. Oman. But Iran and Oman have declared after a. joint meeting that was held in the past. 12 hours that the Strait of Hormuz is. part of their territorial sovereign. right that they say we control the.

Strait of Hormuz and Iran will of course. prioritize the Iranian oil over the. other ships. I think it is a positive development. that there are ships that are leaving. the Strait of Hormuz other than the. Iranian ships. But this is under the. control of Iran and Oman now and if Iran. wants to shut it down because there is. non-compliance with other terms of the. MOU, Iran has showed that it's ready, willing, and able. to do so. Now, the Trump regime in the.

ultimate projection, they are saying, "Well, you know, Iran. has to say certain things for their. domestic audience cuz it's all. complicated there in Iran. So, Iran is. making up things for their domestic. audience and and lying, but we know the. reality is that. Iran's going to use all of the money. they're getting Oh, by the way, in. addition to the general waiver I just. mentioned, $6 billion. of Iranian funds have been unfrozen.

Another $6 billion will be unfrozen. shortly. Iran was able to extract that. from the MOU and from the technical. talks that took place in. Switzerland. And so, you have Donald. Trump out there saying, "Look, you know, Iran Iran is saying all of these things. to their domestic audience because they. need to, you know, maintain their power. and they don't really mean all these. things. Iran, of course, is going to use.

all of the funds to buy corn from the. United States and agriculture and and. medical supplies and really this is. going to benefit the American farmers, Donald Trump says, because our deal with. Iran is that Iran's going to buy. American produce. And Iran's like, "Yeah, that's not the deal. We're not. We're not doing that. Uh, if that was a. requirement, then where is it in writing? If that was. a requirement, then wouldn't the.

Treasury Department put that in their. written forms and their general waivers. and conditions? That's the way contracts work in the. world. So, no, it's not written there. And then Donald Trump says, "And Iran. has agreed. for infinity that they will never. develop nuclear weapons, they will never. enrich nuclear material, and they will. allow in the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency,

and they will start doing spot. inspections, and that'll be great." By. the way, that was the mechanism in the. JCPOA, the Obama non-nuclear. deal from Obama's term. But, that's not in the MOU. There's no. requirement that Iran lets in the IAEA. inspections. Iran has made it very clear. we're not going to do that. And you may. be saying, "Well, Ben, I hear this from. the Trump regime. I hear this from the. Iranian regime. Like how.

how do you decide who's telling the. truth?" Well, Trump lies about. everything, so that's number one. But number two, where's the head of the IAEA? Right? You would expect the IAEA. to have had a representative. at the technical talks in Switzerland if. they were going to have an involvement. there, if they were going to be. involved, they would have a presence. there. You would hear statements from. the IAEA. This is our schedule. Here's.

how we're going to do it. Here's how we. propose to make it happen, right? You. haven't heard any statement at all from. the IAEA cuz Trump's making it up. Otherwise, you would have heard from. them. It's not a You know, these things. aren't shrouded in mystery or secrecy. It's not in the MOU. The IAEA has not. confirmed any of this. Iran expressly. denies that they are uh allowing it, and. it's not in the MOU. I Why Why would. Iran allow it now? What What's the. What's the benefit for Iran? Donald.

Trump has revealed that the United. States and the world is on the cusp of a. global depression. That we are hitting tank bottom of our. strategic petroleum reserves. You know, there's that area in Oklahoma where we. keep a lot of this. uh reserve petroleum, which is at. basically functional tank bottom. Internationally, we're at a tank bottom. posture as well. And Donald Trump.

admitted, "If we didn't make this deal, there would be global economic. depression. Um we would run out of oil in the next. few weeks." is what Trump said. So, we. had to do this deal. Iran knows that. Iran understands that the US is. negotiating from a. not just a position of weakness, but. from a position of surrender. You know, and. I you know, there's there's a lot about. this that frustrates me and that's an. understatement. But, I would just.

appreciate, you know, even even if. things were bad. I still, call me old-fashioned, I want. to hear the truth. I I can understand. if you explain things to me. rational. uh. deals or rational moves, even if that. means we lost. We don't always win. We don't always win. This was clearly a. loss. It was a catastrophic and unlawful. war we should never have been involved.

in that the United States and Netanyahu. at Netanyahu's demand we rushed into. this, the Trump regime did. America. lost. America surrendered. That's just. the reality of it. And I'm not saying. this to We shouldn't go back to war. Uh. there needs to be a deal. Of all of the. options, the MOU is probably. uh the most viable option that there is. I understand when you break things you. have to fix it. I'm not sure where the. $300 billion is going to come from in. terms of this fund for Iran, but it is. possible that one of the ways you can.

deal with that is all the money that. Iran is making already. I mean, again, this general waiver that Iran was given. to export its oil and to receive um US. dollars. I mean, Iran may become one of. the wealthiest nations in the world. right now. And so, that may be a path, you know, I'm not sure if that's. considered how you get to the $300. billion, but you'll be able to get $300. billion. pretty soon based on all of the uh oil. and petrochemicals that Iran is now.

going to be able to. uh export. Um you know, I I I want to go through. the MOU and explain to me why this is. um, you know, the best option. And and. it's I understand the US lost. The US lost and this is the natural. consequence. That's the reality of it. And. that's not what Donald Trump does. Instead, he's he sends messages like. this, which the likely outcome is going. to be. a return to war, a return to the Strait.

of Hormuz being closed, a return, you. know, where where where we are. I I. computed it yesterday on the show I do. with my brothers. So, you view this as a good thing or a bad. thing. I. It's It sounds like a long time, but. there are. 15. 60-day cycles left of the Trump regime. Technically, there's like 15 and 1/2,

like 15 plus 42 days at this point. So, what I expect is going to happen is like. with Trump's health care plan, right? That every 60 days. there's. uh going to be an incident where Iran. says we're going to close down the. Strait of Hormuz, and then Donald. Trump's like, "We're going to invade. you. We're going to invade you. Ah, you. know, we're going to you know, hegzit talks, you know, we're going to. destroy the civilization, you know, you. you think that all the Strait of Hormuz.

gets closed, the markets tank, there's. all of this instability, then there are. some emergency talks that take place in. Switzerland or Pakistan or whatever. Iran gets another $10 billion. Like. and then $5 billion here, $10 billion. there. And I think that for the. remainder of Donald Trump's term, this is what. the outcome of Iran looks like. 60 days, 60 days, 60 days, 60 days, 60 days.

Because, you know, Donald Trump is going to, as. he says, you know, trying to posture for. the domestic audience when in reality. everything he's saying to the American. people are false. Here's what Trump. writes. "Despite their protestations and. false statements to the contrary, coupled with the drumbeat of the fake. news, which is doing everything to make. the US victory as small and significant. as possible, Iran has fully and. completely agreed to the highest level. nuclear inspections long into the. future, infinity." I mean, that's just.

stupid. Infinity? "This will ensure nuclear honesty. If. they did not agree to this, there would. be no further negotiations. Based on this and other major. concessions being made by Iran, I have. agreed to allow Hormuz Strait to remain. open with no further naval blockade. However, all ships are remaining in. place. Should it be necessary to. reinstate the blockade, which seems at. this point highly unlikely, the money. and/or sanctions with the US Treasury is. releasing goes into escrow controlled by. the USA. And it will be used for the.

purchase of food and medical supplies. exclusively from the United States, including corn, wheat, and soybeans from. our great American farmers. These are. things that are desperately needed. This. is a humanitarian crisis, and I feel it. is necessary to help now before it is. too late." And so, even the way he. frames it is how Donald Trump and his. family have dealt with charities before. as well. Like, there's a reason why they. were banned from chari- charitable. endeavors in New York after all of the. findings against them.

I mean, for him to act like, "Oh, this. is. I mean, and this is like just a real. sick demented fraudster mind, right?". He's like, he knows that the American. farmers and American workers and people. here are suffering. So, you know, he's a. con artist, right? I mean, he's. manipulating the markets. He'll buy the. dips, you know, he'll sell when it's. peak. You know, he's did 3,700 stock. trades. Trump's making a killing right. now. I mean, the guy is literally making. billions and billions and billions of. dollars. And the deal that he cut with. himself in that settlement agreement.

with the Treasury Department and the IRS. waves all tax liability and tax evasion. charges and and audits. And my view of. it is is that the way that you could. construe that language it would include. all of these stock trades and things. that he's doing as well. People don't. talk about that a lot, but I believe. that you know, look if you factor in. that he's made a few billion dollars. already, three, four billion dollars. Um. think about you know, capital gains tax. What is it like 25% capital gains? So.

Trump you know, would owe about a. billion dollars in taxes, you know, based on the super pardon he negotiated. with himself if he's not getting audited. and if he and if the IRS waves any. claims of tax evasion, why would he. wouldn't he just construe all of the. money that he's made as being. non-taxable in general? I mean you think. I mean that's that's my opinion of. what's happening here. But just think. about it. He knows farmers are. struggling and so he goes don't worry.

help is on the way. Help is on the way. Um Iran. is now your guardian angel. And Iran's going to buy your corn and. Iran's going to buy you know, all all of. your produce and so you're going to get. rich because we're giving the money to. Iran and Iran's going to buy it. And. then he frames this deal as and this is. a humanitarian crisis for Iran. So I. have to help the Iranian people who he.

killed. by giving them. you know, this this money, but you have. to buy the American medical supplies, which that's not what the money's going. for. And there's no escrow account. I. mean it's the you know, these these. things. if there was an escrow account. it would exist. There would be an. account. You know, he relies on the fact. that a lot of Americans don't even know. what that even means. Like an escrow. account, what is that? What are you. referring to? Um, if there was an account where the money. goes into and it's frozen and then it.

has to be used for a specific purpose. That would exist. So we would say, "Ah, got it. The Treasury Department just. released $12 billion into this account. that's where there were drawdowns by. Iran and we can see the purchases. happen." It's not happening cuz the. whole thing is is is a lie. None of it. is. none of it's true. Um, and then he says. it's being used for medical supplies and. and. all all 100% completely false. um right there. So then you heard from Iran's uh.

spokesperson. um Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson. says, "Yeah, we. It's not true. We have no plans for IAEA. inspectors into Iran's nuclear. facilities. Um, we are we're under no obligation. to use these funds to buy American. corn." Like, "What the hell are you. talking about?" There were no. restrictions in this regard. And how do. we know there are no restrictions? Cuz. if there were restrictions, it would be. in an agreement. This is not a state. secret. It would be in an agreement that.

there would be restrictions. Just like. everything has been in an MOU or been in. a joint statement. So Iran did not agree. um to that. Uh there there are. statements from Iran and the Sultanate. of Oman talking about how they're. controlling the Strait of Hormuz. jointly. We can see that the Iranian. ships were prioritized in leaving the. Strait of Hormuz now that they can sell. all of this uh oil onto the open market. You know, also I mean Trump posted.

earlier today that yesterday we set a. record, 19 million barrels out of the. Strait of Hormuz. This is a record. First of all, it's not a record. Last. year the average was 20 million barrels. And this is like one of the loser. qualities that he always does. You know, he'll will like, "We got record soybean. purchases from China. 13 million metric tons of soybeans. Like, okay, under under Biden it was 26. million metric tons. Yeah, I understand. that the word million and metric and. tons. like those words sound like there's a.

lot of things, but it's half of what the. Biden soybean purchase was. And Biden. didn't have to talk about soybean. purchase, it just happened. We didn't. worry about, oh, is the Strait of Hormuz. going to be closed under Biden? We. didn't have to worry about, oh, you. know, is this this guy going to start, you know, talking about reflecting pools. and doing weird speeches where he makes. bizarre noises all day, you know what I. mean? This this Trump speech in. Pennsylvania today was one of the. strangest things, you know, I've I've.

I've ever seen, but it just compounds. every day with the chaos. And. ultimately, what he. doesn't want us all to focus on is he's. caused grievous injury in our economy, and it's getting worse. It's getting getting worse at this. point. Inflation is surging right now, and I would not be shocked. You know, the Fed's going to have to. step in. They'll probably, as Bank of. America says, have to raise interest. rates. two, three times, may- maybe more, um at this point when.

they were supposed to do interest rate. cuts. You know, and now Trump's guy is. going to be recei- going to be there. while the interest rates are raised to. try to rein in the inflation because. without doing that, I'm not. exaggerating, inflation will probably. hit by the end of Trump's term 10 to. 12%, maybe more. I'm not being hyperbolic. I. mean, just look at the month-over-month. increases in inflation. Look where the. PPI is, the producer price index. Look. where the CPI is right now, right?

That's, as I predicted, would steadily. climb by the end of this year into the. fives. uh on the CPI range, into the sevens on. the. uh PPI range and that's that that that. that's that's the reality and he doesn't. want people to know that you know he's. the one getting you know rich buying. individual stocks 3700 stock trades. I. mean that's. in and of itself should be you know. should be disqualifying and you see the.

mega Republicans right now turning on. the switch with all the culture war. stuff they see the midterms approaching. and what do they do? It's all about. dividing us. It's all about attacking. trans people and attacking gay people. It's all about. you know. antifa this. it's it's it's it's a replay of the. culture wars you know rather than. address the fact that. mega has caused lots of harm.

to states to red states too like Texas. where do they go? Tallafrigo he's a. vegan cuz they don't even know how to. say vegan he's a vegan he's a freak he's. a this he's a that and. you know we have to uplift and augment. our. you know. ability to discern these you know what's. what's happening out there because you. know you do see that when you have a. trillion dollar media network like Fox. state regime media and Newsmax and you.

know all of this right wing media that. constantly. is a firehose of of of propaganda every. day it impacts people you know. people. there there isn't trusted gatekeepers. the way there was we try our best here. on the Midas Touch Network to be that. way and to give people the accurate. information so we're combating it and. fighting it every day but you know. they'll keep going Tallafrigo this and.

you know and he's a low testosterone and. all of these things trying to get people. to vote against what their ultimate. interests are. Show you what what went down moments ago. as Donald Trump was heading to. Pennsylvania. Donald Trump was asked, "So, uh when will the IAEA inspectors be. on the ground in Iran? Don't You You say. that there are IAEA inspectors, International Atomic Energy Agency. inspectors, that are going to be there. Okay, so. what's the plan? We see the Iranian. ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz. We.

see unfrozen funds to Iran. We see Iran. meeting with Oman and Pakistan. We see. their moves. I I I can see it. I can I. know I know I can see accounts unfrozen. I can see ships leaving. So, you're. saying IAEA inspectors, you've said. that. You don't have to lie about it. I. mean, there's no IAEA inspectors. If you have another mechanism, just tell. the freaking truth. But Donald Trump. goes, um. no rush at the appropriate time. No. rush. Here's what he says. Play this. clip.

>> That when will those inspectors actually. be on the ground at the. >> At the appropriate time. At the. appropriate time. There's no rush, but. they'll be on the ground at the. appropriate time. >> I mean, how do you not realize that. that's a That's a con artist right. there. What do What does that mean at the. appropriate time? You did a deal and you. didn't build in that mechanism while you. unfroze funds and then gave a general. waiver? You didn't. The reality is is that the US though. couldn't have got that in the. negotiation. Why? Because we lost the.

war. That that's why. It's It's a very easy. It's a very easy explanation for why the. deal looks this way is because the US. should never have gotten into this war. that Netanyahu dragged us into and we. lost and we lost big time. Our standing. in the international community has been. destroyed. The American economy is. suffering. We lost. And so, the. agreement is a document that makes. perfect sense for submission and. surrender. That's that. There's no other option though. So, I.

understand why he you know, I don't like. J.D. Vance, but I understand that the. alternative was either war with hundreds. of thousands of people dying and war. crimes being committed and a destruction. of the economy. Or what what was the what what what what. what else is is the alternative? Um. I mean, there there's no other deal that. could be made. America lost. That's it. And so, these terms reflect that. Here's. what Donald Trump said about the Iran. deal.

Um anyone who's critical needs to be. educated, he says. Anyone who's critical. needs to be educated. Let's play it. >> Well, I think anybody that's been. critical of it. uh has to be educated, even if they're. friends of mine, because we have Iran in. a position that nobody's ever had. This. should have been done for 47 years by. other presidents. And we have Iran in a. position where. their military's been totally wiped out. >> Their military has not been totally. wiped out. Their military is stronger. That's just the fact.

It's just the fact. And when he it's. when he spews such deranged things like. that, y- your job as the commander-in-chief, in addition to behaving responsibly and. not getting us into catastrophic wars. and taking care that the Constitution is. faithfully executed, y- when you said they need to be. educated, that's kind of your job. You should be. meeting with Congress or having Marco.

Rubio, the Secretary of State, who. doesn't do his job because Rubio doesn't. want to be associated with the MOU, so. he's fine having J.D. Vance be the one. who does it, which, you know, you're the Secretary of State. That's literally your job. is to be the guy. who's there. You may not like this MOU, Rubio, and you may not You may think. it's not politically advantageous or, you know, you want Rubio, you want J.D.

Vance to feel the consequences of of, you know, of of backlash or what. whatever it is. You're the secret I. don't what else are what are you doing? What what are you doing? And we have a. clip of Rubio from uh today. I'll show. you what he's doing. He is not doing the. negotiations with Iran, but where he's. meeting is with Bahrain and UAE and. Kuwait, the countries that thought they. were getting protection from the United. States of America and and did not. And.

he's asked a pretty basic question about. the Strait of Hormuz. Let me show you. what Rubio was asked. I think we've got. this clip of Rubio. >> Mr. Secretary, let me ask you about the. Hormuz if possible. Can the US and. allies, can they guarantee navigation. freedom of navigation in in the state? >> Well, that's the law. These are it's an. international waterway. No country is. allowed to charge tolls or. >> Okay, that didn't answer the question. You're the Secretary of State. What is. your message.

to American tankers and cargo ships and. affiliated tankers and cargo ships in. the Strait of Hormuz? Can you navigate. freely right now? It's a very basic. question. And his answer is, well, the. the law says you can't do it. The law. says that Iran and Oman aren't allowed. to control it. It's international. waters. Well, Iran and Oman say no. That. based on the distance of our land to the. Strait of Hormuz, that it is within the.

the way the international maritime law. works and international boundaries work, that they consider that. uh area under the joint control of Oman. and Iran, that it's territorial waters. of the respective countries. And the. question was, can our ships leave right now? Cuz there's a lot of confusion right. now. Do they take the Iran route? Do. they take the route that's closer to. Oman? Which lanes are open? What kind of.

guidance are you giving them? And that's. obviously. not an answer. And here's the thing. Again, the global economy. relies upon predictability and. reliability and stability. And the. United States is being run like a Trump. meme coin or Trump media stock or and. and the United States looks and acts so. incredibly foolish on the world stage.

And you know, Trump's obsession with the. reflecting pool, reflecting pool, reflecting pool, you know, over and over again, the. vandals, the vandals are the ones doing. the reflecting pool, and now we have to. fix it. And they they set up this like. AI detection software by the reflecting. pool to say, "We're going to catch the. vandals.". Going to catch the vandals? What are you. talking? Yeah, Antifa. They're throwing. uh they're they're throwing fertilizer.

in, and that's what's happening. I mean, this is a these MAGA influencers are. posting. these satirical. uh images. of algae production saying, "See? Antifa's Antifa's turning the reflecting. pool green, and they took a knife, and. they swam in there, and they did a. a 350-ft. gash right in the middle of it, and. that's what destroyed it, and now we. have to shut down the reflecting pool. because of Antifa.".

It's the most deranged It's It's It's. It's the sickest thing in the world that. this stuff comes from the president of. the United States. You know, and it's fascinating, right? Cuz, you know, you see all these books. coming out right now, right? For the. midterms. Uh you know, regime change, right? Maggie Haberman and. uh was it Jonathan Swan? Um you know, whatever, you know, all all all these. all these books based on we've done a.

thousand interviews and here's what. we've uncovered. And I mean, it's fine. You know, I'm I'm I I'm I'm always for. investigative research, but a lot of. this is kind of happening right in front. of our faces. You know, and we should probably just. call out this malignant narcissistic. psychotic and dangerous behavior that's. happening in plain view, that's having. real-world consequences on the American. people who are suffering psychologically. tortured, living paycheck to paycheck if. they're lucky enough to have a paycheck,

having their healthcare ripped away from. them, unable to afford a home right now, can't pay rent right now, can't afford. groceries or gas right now. >> [snorts]. >> Gas prices went up today. Did you see that? Because we're still. drawing down the United States strategic. petroleum reserve by another 9 million. barrels. Um. prices have gone up. Uh which you would say that's. counterintuitive with we see the futures. price dropping. Yeah, that's the futures.

price. And hopefully the prices of gas. will come down, but in the past 24. hours, if you looked at Florida, Michigan, Ohio, actually the prices have. gone up. And had we not done this deal, there. would have been. global economic depression. It's what. I've been warning about. And you know, Treasury Secretary Bessette and. everybody in the Trump regime like, "No, that's not happening. You know, look, you know, and and and all the right-wing. people, Midas is lying, they're not.

telling the truth, none of this is real, none of this is happening, it's all. false, it's all fabricated." No, it's. it's it's it's absolutely true and it's. deeply problematic and we were on the. cusp of of of disaster. Um. let's take our last let's take our first. and only quick break of the show. When. we come back, I want to talk more about. what Trump was saying in uh. Pennsylvania, what was going on in that. speech. We'll talk about um.

how Fox State Regime Media is dealing. with all of this. You know, Trump's. approval rating hit a new low, 30%. It'll be in the 20s very soon. I think. the American people are just absolutely. sick of this stuff. Sick, sick, sick. All right, let's take our first quick. break of the show. We'll be right back. after this quick break. >> Let me tell you, if there's a surefire. way to wake up feeling fresh after. drinks with friends, it's with. pre-alcohol. Look, I'm not 21 anymore. If I have a night out, I still want to. be productive the next morning, and.

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about it and they go, "We've got much. more important things to talk about than. the reflecting pool and the algae." And. by the way, I agree with that. But my. question to these MAGA Republicans in. Congress is what the hell are you doing. then? Because. you've been on vacations or you've been. shutting down the House of. Representatives essentially the whole. year. I'll go back and look at the. calendar. What what they work a total of. 20 days this year? Or 25 days of of. actually working this year? You've. completely given up your Article 1.

function. Our Congress functionally. looks like the Russian Duma at this. point. And with no real. impact at all. And this is what MAGA has. done. The checks and balances that our. founders envisioned are not working. And. you have this, you know, psychotic mad. king, um, authoritarian wannabe, you. know, who's out there. And he's been the. one saying reflecting pool this, reflecting pool that. And so, what we. can be talking I know y'all don't want. to talk about that. What we should be.

talking about is why the hell is the. psychotic commander-in-chief talking. about this all the damn time and now. lying about antifa vandals destroying. it. Um when in fact he should be focused. on making things more affordable for the. American people and actually addressing. what American people are. uh feeling right now and how the. American people are suffering. I I spoke. to You may have seen the interview I did. with Governor Wes Moore.

Maryland earlier in the day and he said, you know. the idea of government isn't supposed to. be a tool to inflict pain and torture. and to harm people. The purpose of. government is trying to make people's. lives better, to protect people, but to. make their lives better and easier and. to try to build in efficiencies and to. and to help. I mean what what. I'm not I. I don't why would I want to be paying. taxes to a regime that uses it to send. ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo to. terrorize and torture people? I mean.

I'm sending, you know, all this tax. money to a regime that's out there using. it to buy bombs to attack elementary. schools and kill little girls in I mean. absolutely not. I mean this is not what. our government's supposed to be doing, you know, and now they want $1.5 trillion. more for their defense budget and they. urgently need $80 billion. Think about this. The Defense Department. needs $80 billion.

immediately or they're not going to be. able to pay their contractors and. they're not going to be able to pay. their bills. So, they've rushed to the. uh MAGA Republicans in the House and in. the Senate saying we need we need you to. pass this $80 billion supplemental. in order to cover the cost of the Iran. war. Huh, so it's 80 billion dollars to. cover the cost of the Iran war, but when. you all testified. during one of the few days that Congress.

was open, you said the entire war cost. it 20 billion dollars, and then someone. revised it up to 29 billion dollars, but. now you need 80 billion dollars to cover. the costs. So, it's just more lies, a. fountain hose of lies over and over and. over again. And, you know, while while. that's happening, you have Trump saying. things like you know, I sent people over. to the reflecting pool. It looks. beautiful right now. It looks beautiful. We're going to fix it. We're going to. put the water back in here. Listen to. what he said when he was on the tarmac.

Let's play it. >> Including the thing that, you know, where the vandals hit the the uh. reflecting pool, but we'll get that back. very quickly. In fact, I will say this. morning I sent people over. They said it. looks absolutely beautiful. But, we're. going to have to let a little water out. and fix it, and then we'll put the water. back in. Just so you understand, so. our country is doing really well, and. we're going to keep it that way. And. >> Just so you understand, our country is. doing real well, real so so well.

Everybody's thriving right now. Just. repeat the lie over and over again, and. rely on regime media to carry the. message. I mean, this is uh a version of. authoritarian regimes that the United. States used to look down upon. I mean, this is what is going on in the United. States right now. You you can see what. it looks like right now. The reflecting. pool doesn't look beautiful. It has. algae infested all over it. They're. putting fencing up everywhere. Um.

they're. the the to to to block it so that. people, you know, won't be able to even. see it anymore. Um you know, they're. they're they're they're putting fencing. around the reflecting pool in the United. States of America. And I'm sure you've. seen the photos of what the ellipse. looks like right now, which is. completely trashed. The White House looks like a junkyard. You know, the reflecting pool is sludge. There's a UFC ring still, you know, by. the White House. I mean, it just it just.

it looks. grotesque. I can never have fathom that this is. what Washington D.C. looks like. They. want to say, "This looks so beautiful. This looks amazing." I mean, it looks. like a demolition site. It looks like a. grotesque demolition site. Donald Trump. posted, "Six people have been arrested. and seven people have been cited for the. damage they did to our country's now. beautiful reflecting pool. The 350-ft.

gash made by a very sharp knife or. razors is actually numerous slashes over. a very long 350-ft length. It was. purposefully and criminally done." I. mean, what a deranged lie to make up. I mean, again, it's not an exaggeration to say that. we're dealing with a literal psychopath. who make. Have you seen though, you know, this. this this like MAGA army of people too. though last night and they were going on.

the various. um shows and they were trying to. basically, you know, they were pushing. this that this that these are vandals. And this is why like I say God bless. Adam Mockler for going on these like. like the CNN fight show and then and. debating these people. And and Mockler. does an incredible job. There's no. There's no one out there as good as. Mockler in debating, you know, in. debating these people. I just I don't think I could ever do it. I don't think I could like literally.

even have conversations with these. people. I I truly don't. You see this. guy. rants. You know, and he's like a typical MAGA. guy. I don't even understand how this is. like a real human being. And he's like. and he parrots those Trump talking. points. He goes on the CNN show and the. way the show's framed, like you're. supposed to debate this guy. So, he says his crazy then you're. supposed to say the truth, and then you. yell at each other, and then we go to. commercial break. And my view is.

like who are these human beings? What. what are you talking about? You Well, just just watch it. I mean, like we're. like quite literally dealing with the. most sociopathic human beings. Here, play this clip. >> Unless we're supposed to. >> would you would think somebody cut a. 300-ft gash across the whole country. >> Anna, [laughter]. I think it's likely that someone might. have committed vandalism given we just. covered the story of 8640.

>> Yeah, I mean, seriously. And and while. that conversation is happening, what's going on in, say, North Korea? North Korea's Kim Jong-un says, "The. country will exercise its position as a. nuclear state." North Korean leader Kim. Jong-un said exercising the country's. position as a nuclear state is the only. way to cope with an unpredictable and. complicated global security situation. "Unimaginable, astonishing incidents and. events are occurring because of the. gangster-like greed of hegemonic forces.

making confrontations around the world. more violent," Kim said, blaming the US. for worsening bloodshed in Europe and. the Middle East. Like, do you all. remember when former President Obama was. in office and Kim Jong-un would do those. missile tests but he didn't have a. nuclear weapon? When Obama rolled out. the JCPOA. as a non-nuclear template to not just. get Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, but the plan was then to bring that to.

North Korea. And there was no nuclear. weapons while Kim Jong-un. um while Obama was in office and then. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un sent love. letters to each other. I mean, think. about in terms of the message that that. sent. You know, Kim Jong Un saw that. Donald Trump. tore to pieces the JCPOA. Kim Jong Un knew what an easy mark. Donald Trump is. All you got to do is. say you love him. Right? And Trump has an infatuation with.

authoritarians. So, Kim Jong Un would. send them like letters, like love. letters and Trump would brag like he. sent me love letters and meanwhile Kim. Jong Un worked behind the scenes to. build nuclear weapons. No one even talks about on the news. right now Kim Jong Un taunting Donald. Trump. Trump is graded on a scale. that [laughter] that that he's not even. graded on a scale at all. I mean, you. have other presidents having to adhere. to the highest standards. And.

such that Obama wearing a suit color. that was we know the tan suit was a. major story. Oh my god, how would think. about that? How how could you how could. you do that? Oh, Obama's playing. basketball. You know, that would be a a. major story on state regime media Fox. Like right now it won't even be a story. other than on the Midas Touch Network on. any corporate TV network that Kim Jong. Un is just taunting Donald Trump about,

you know, the nuclear capabilities of. North Korea. By the way, I don't know if. you saw this either, but Vladimir Putin. said. we would actually welcome. an Islamabad. style deal and maybe that's how we could. deal with the Russian invasion of. Ukraine. Let let's let's do one of. those. Apparently, when the US does one. of these deals you just, you know, we're. Russia's mocking the weakness of the. deal and basically saying.

yeah, we want what Iran got. Let's get. us get us that deal. We'll take we'll. take the Iran deal also. You remove the. sanctions against us, you know, we'll. you know, and and and ultimately you'll. put the United States and NATO in weaker. positions. We want to do that. That's what's going on there. And then. you have. Sean Hannity and Fox. What were they. doing all last night? And again, this is. the behavior of sociopaths right here. After all they talked about was.

reflecting pool this, reflecting pool. that. Their whole thing now is why are the. Democrats so obsessed with the. reflecting pool? Why are you guys. talking You guys are so weird. You're. You keep talking about this. That we we. have much more important things to We. don't want to focus on that. No, it's. that y'all have been talking about this. every day, 10 times a day, and everybody. pointed out that it was just going to. result in exactly what's happening right. now, and you have a maniac president.

saying that it's vandals. And then. you're like, "Oh, the Democrats. shouldn't even be bringing Guys, stop. it. Stop bringing it Here's what Hannity. says, that Democrats are obsessed with. the pool. Here it's played. >> on. All right, Christina Coleman, thank you. for that report. Now, amid the. challenges and triumphs across the. country, Democrats. >> on. >> All right, Christina Coleman, thank you. for that report. Now, amid the. challenges and triumphs across the. country, Democrats they are obsessed. with the pool that actually reflects a.

lot more than the Washington Monument. Tonight, it serves as a reflection into. the lack of a soul of a party, the. Democratic Party. >> You know, and this is what I want. everyone to pay attention to. Because. this trillion-dollar propaganda arm is. just an extension of the right-wing. oligarchy of the Trump regime. The. There is no values. There's no.

principles. There's no facts. There's no. caring about anything other than raw. power and taking your money and stealing. from you and ripping away your future. and your children's future so they can. get more bloated with more billions of. dollars because they can never satiate. their thirst for sucking up all of the. resources that are out there. It's never.

enough. $10 billion, they need $50. billion. They need $100 billion. Not only that, but then Elon Musk needs. to take his SpaceX and infect your. mutual funds and infect the Nasdaq 100. and infect. all of, you know, the this the the. little bit of stability that we try to. create planning ahead in the future. You try to throw SpaceX into our funds.

You You know what's going on with. SpaceX, right? Because Elon Musk got Nasdaq to waive. the rules and regulations regarding its. entry into the Nasdaq 100, your 401K that Trump wants to talk about. and all of these things, you may be. forced to buy SpaceX. without even wanting to buy SpaceX. And you may be forced to buy these Trump. oligarch without even knowing because.

your 401K plan, whether it buys with. Vanguard or whether it pulls from these. other funds, whatever it is, they buy. based upon um. the way the funds are structured. So, they buy a little bit of this stock, a. little bit of that stock. And so, when. they put SpaceX onto the Nasdaq 100, sometimes there's forced buying and. you're like, I don't want to buy it. Like it's not enough for them to just. have. you know, be worth a trillion dollars or.

hundreds of billions. They then want to. bring us down with them. They They then want to make our lives. miserable. We. They want to force themselves upon us. like the predators. like the predators that they are. And then they go out there like a C. Hannity and then they say, "Oh, you guys. are" I mean, I'm sure you all have like. that you know a sociopath in your life. who's like that. "Why are you bringing. this up?" Wait, it's those tactics over. and over and over again relentlessly.

And meanwhile, you have the. emperor with no clothes or with an. algae-infested reflecting pool speaking. in front of truckers uh moments ago in. Pennsylvania. Again, this is the type of speech. that we should never have to hear. I. don't care what political party you're. from, any commander-in-chief, any. president of the United States. It just. has reduced our country.

to this laughingstock of the world. The. The laughingstock that Trump always. thought, "They're laughing at us. They're laughing at us." The world is. not even laughing. They're horrified. at what they see here. They're horrified. of what they see here. And here's Donald. Trump at this speech that he's giving. and he just starts doing the weird. noises and he starts going, "Uh uh Have you Have you seen this?". Here, let's play this clip.

And he just keeps on doing that over and. over again and he starts talking about. the fat drug. He goes, "Have all of you. heard about the fat drug?" Here's what. he says. Let's play it. >> We paid the highest drug price in the. world by far. As an example, for the fat drug, which. Bo and Tony don't need to take, but a. lot of people are taking. Who takes the. fat drug? So, in New York, think of it, it was costing a fortune. >> Then he talks about winning three.

elections when he didn't. I mean, just. think about the debasement of our. country. Let's play this clip. >> You ever hear the fake news they say, "That's an 80/20 issue." No, it's not. It's 99/1. You know, I've been doing politics now. for 10 years. Not that long considering. I've been I've won three elections, you. know, so I got. But, >> [cheering]. >> we did great in the second one. It was a. rigged deal. >> You know, and so he has those. truckers stand behind him or the people. who work at the trucking plant. Has them.

all dressed up. The propaganda piece gets assembled. I mean, I'll show you the first clip. where he asked people, um, who here did. not vote for Trump? And you'll see. people raise their hands. I'll show you. this. You know, but these are. propaganda set pieces using workers. whose lives he's destroying. They become. the props. This thing gets pushed out on. local media.

across the country that normalize this. as though this is like a normal speech. given by the president when there's. nothing normal about this. And then state regime media just. continues to, you know, play it over and. over again. Here Here's where he goes. Who here voted for Trump? Who didn't. vote for Trump? Let's play it. >> problem. And they'll blame me for. causing problems. Who did not vote for. Trump? Young man, he wants to be. He's a young man. He thinks he's being.

cute. As as he gets pounded on Now, he he just. said, "No, I did. I was the first He. said, "I'm the first to like. But, the Democrats voted in favor of. Iran having a. >> I think he's going to say and the. Democrats voted in favor of Iran having. a nuclear No, he No, they didn't. The Obama JCPOA. the non-nuclear deal was a real deal. with inspections that didn't have to.

uh remove a 40-year sanction regime. and put the United States as the kind of. main guarantor of the deal terms where. the US was in the strong position which. if Iran complied with this or that then. the US would release things. Now it's. the opposite. Now Iran gets everything. and if the US continues to comply then. Iran is They Iran just flipped the whole. script on the United States. I mean the.

United States clearly. indisputably. is the weaker party in this negotiation. It's not even close. It's not even close, but that's the. consequence of the dynamic where. we went into an unlawful and. catastrophic war and lost and so you. break it, you fix it. That's That's. That's the consequence of it. Donald Trump rails about Obama in the. speech. Obama gave Iran $1.7 billion.

in green cash, everybody. You You gave. him for You When all is said and done, you probably gave him a trillion. dollars. That's the reality. Here we. play this clip. >> Remember this? We had to make this. detour. We had to go to Iran. You can't. let them blow up the Middle East and. then us if that's possible. We would. have gotten them before, but they would. have blown up Israel. They would have. blown up the entire Middle East. You. can't let that You want to see a bad. economy? That's a bad economy. So, but. remember that. our oil in the middle of this conflict. was less than it was for sleepy Joe.

Biden. And this And we're putting out a. fire. Biden, Clinton, Bush, all of them. Uh Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard. of him? Have you heard of Barack Hussein Obama? None of them did anything. Obama gave them 1.7 billion in green. cash. Remember the 747? They flew over. piles of cash, 1.7 billion dollars. Gave. them hundreds of billions of dollars. and thought they could bribe them into. peace. No, the only thing they.

understand is what these guys in the. front row understand. Is the hammer. Because if you look at if you look at. what we did to their nuclear capacity. with those beautiful B-2 bombers, that was truly a hammer. In fact, we. named it a hammer. Operation hammer. >> It was operation midnight hammer, by the. way. And. uh, you do not destroy their nuclear. facilities. And I I as as I watch that. though, and I reflect upon it, you know,

I just think to myself, how dangerous it is that there are. people there who believe that. When the objective reality that the rest. of the world understands is that. everything he's saying is false. And. America has never been weaker. America. lost. Everything he's accusing Obama of. is what he just did. We've never looked. this weak as a nation. We've caused global economic catastrophe. right now.

That's the real the real you know, and. that's where I always wondered. I always. like thought to myself, I'm like, like in North Korea, right? I was always. thinking to myself, you know, do they. not see what's going on in the rest of. the world? And do they really believe. these things? And it's like, the United States has become. and not not all of us. I mean, I still. believe there's probably 60 65% of the. United States who doesn't believe this. crap. But I'll make up a point and about.

that in in. But where there's still a large portion. of the country that just loves being. lied to. That that loves that like loves. being treated like. That just isn't it, you know, that no. matter what you do, no matter how. terrible. you behave, no matter how terrible you. treat them. All you got to do is call Barack Obama. Barack Hussein or call Tila Tequila Tila. Freako and just pump it out and these. PEOPLE GO, "YEAH!". YOU KNOW, "AMERICA!" IT'S LIKE, "DUDE, YOU'RE they're screwing your lives.". Like, you don't see that? Like, you.

don't see that you're the mark, that. you're the target, that Iran's not. buying your produce, that Iran's not. buying supplies from you. You don't see. that inflation is right. You don't see. the pain that they're causing you. And. when with respect to the rest of the. United States, yeah, Trump's approval's. at all-time low, but what they depend. upon, what they rely upon, is that the. 60% or more doesn't go out to vote and. that the 60% fights fights itself. Over.

process, over not doing it perfectly. Oh, you need to do it this way or else. I'm not going to help you out. And so the 25 and 30% that all care just. about power and domination and and taken. from you, they don't care about anything. other than winning the election. And I and I think it's important that we. have values and principles and that we. rooted in that, but you have to. understand. the existential threat that exists right.

now. And what we have to make sure we do. amongst the majority of the American. people is we just have to get out there. and be loud and proud about core values. and principles to stand up to this crap. Cuz like you, every day when I watch. this and I see this behavior, they'll be. algae infested pool he'll destroy and. all that vandal antifa. You know, and. then his cult goes, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Antifa." Why do they Why did. Democrats care so much about the. reflecting pool? He'll lose the war to.

Iran, sign a surrender document, and. say, "But Barack Hussein Obama did. this." And then his base will be, you. know, not all of them. There's a lot of. people leaving them, but oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Barack Hussein yeah. Oh, this is. we won. Iran doesn't have a navy. They. don't have a military. They don't have. people. They live in caves. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's That's not what's. happening. That's not what the the. There's not what's happening at all. America lost horribly in this horrific. and catastrophic war. And now Iran has.

the United States trapped in this MOU, where if Iran wants to shut down the. Strait of Hormuz tomorrow, because uh. Trump breaches, which they know Trump's. going to breach, Iran's got its 50. tankers out. Uh. All of the whatever damage that the US. believed it was doing with the blockade, that's out the window. Iran got all of. its tankers out. They were lined up, ready to go. Iran's got $12 billion. You. want to talk about uh You want to talk.

about green cash? Iran's got 12 billion. of it right now. And every day they're. going to be making 3 to 5 billion. dollars and become one of the wealthiest. nations in the world, right? That's just. the reality. And by the way, as we. reflect upon that, be honest about that. That's the. reality. And perhaps the outcome is, if. we can restructure. um uh foreign relations in the right. way, that we can stop getting involved. in never-ending wars in the Middle East.

May- Maybe that there is a, you know, a. a path and a way out of this, and a. rethinking about the Middle East, you. know, so that the US isn't constantly. getting into these never-ending wars. But I'll tell you, there's no path to. peace, there's no path to diplomacy, there's no path to any of it, when you. have a psycho like Trump continuing to. lie about the most basic terms on the. agreement and claim things are happening. that aren't in the written text. Read. the damn thing. Read the joint.

statement. None of what Trump says is in. there. Everything that Iran says is in. there because it's in there. I see it. We can read it. And it's the same thing. with Donald Trump painting the. reflecting pool blue and telling us it. was all going to be great. By painting. it blue, you're not going to address the. algae. And then what happens when the. algae comes back? You then blame the. enemy. Just like the 2020 election. Just. like you go Russia, Russia. It's the. same damn playbook over and over and. it's what led to Donald Trump going. bankrupt his whole damn life before The.

Apprentice allowed him to defraud the. American people and play the part of a. successful businessman when he. bankrupted most of the things he touched. his whole damn life. That's the reality. of where this is going. That's the. reality of where this is headed. He took. an economy that was recovering under. former President Biden where you had. inflation heading to 2% where you had a. manufacturing boom that was underway. And he managed in under 2 years.

It's impressive how bad he's been. In. under 2 years to just wreck it. And to. destroy it. But for him, he's getting. richer and he'll just blame Obama and. Biden and tell you up is down and down. is up and the sky isn't blue and the. reflecting pool isn't green. And we need to stand up to it each and. every day. And that's what we're going. to do here at the Midas Touch Network. So, thank you all so much for watching. We. appreciate you. Thanks for watching Ben. on breaking news. Hit subscribe. Help us.

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