LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 11/9/26

Welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. A. lot to discuss, brothers and mighty. Congress is finally back in session. We. saw some of the new members in the. Senate and the House who will be sworn. in for the 120th congressional session. that will be taking place in January. But they were there today for. orientation. You had Maggami panicking. in the halls and saying, "Why' the. voters do this? Why' the voters do. this?" You also have the Trump regime.

panicking as even during this lame duck. session, you're having Congress pursue. impeachment against Trump cabinet. officials. Republican Congress member. Thomas Massie introduced articles of. impeachment against Pete Hegsith. We'll. talk about what went down and we'll show. you some clips from Massiey's press. conference after he introduced the. articles of impeachment on the House. floor. was actually quite entertaining. and really actually standing up to. Donald Trump and becoming Trump and.

Hexith's worst nightmare in his final. days in Congress. Meanwhile, Iran. continues to strike tankers in the. straight of Hormuz. Nearly a dozen. tankers have been hit over the past. several days and Iran struck US military. equipment in an island that belongs to. Oman near that southern route area in. the straight of Hormuz. We'll talk about. what went down there. This Trump and. Nvidia scandal involving Nvidia CEO. Jensen Wong continues to grow. It.

involves an affair that Jensen Wong was. having with an alleged Chinese spy and. how America's top GPU, those graphic. processing unit semiconductors. may have been routed, seems they were to. China when the H200 chip was one of the. most advanced chips. It no longer is, but at a time it was. We now have the. Black Whale and others. It seems that. that chip was being sent to Alice Wong,

the Chinese spies companies, which were. basically these storefronts with nothing. in them in Malaysia and Singapore. And. then the chips were working their way to. China. There's been a massive. shareholder class action against Nvidia. Again, this is the largest company by. valuation in the United States. And. Donald Trump's like, I don't think it's. a big deal. I I'm not going to tell you. when I knew about it. may have come. across my desk. When did he know it? When did Lutnik know it? When did Rubio. know it? What's the cover up? Is this.

why? They then made those H200 chips. legal to be sent to China. And of. course, China barely bought any of them. in January 2026 thereafter. When it was. made to be legal, why wouldn't they buy. it if this was an advanced ship? Maybe. they had it already and maybe this was. all done to cover up what had taken. place before. We'll go over that. And uh. a lot more news to cover of course here. on the Midas Touch podcast. Todd Blanch. threatening that he's going to go after.

Democrats for doing oversight. And Trump. posting this weekend, you got to go. after them for oversight. It's illegal. It's a crime. Go after them. Oh, and. Lauren Boowbert officially lost her seat. in Colorado's fourth congressional. district. I guess she said Beetlejuice, Beetleju, Beetlejuice. And then she lost. that race and she moved to that district. or ran in that district because it was. supposed to be even more Trumpy and MAGA. and she lost in that district. So, a lot. to discuss folks. I got a smile on my. face right now. I got a smile on my.

face, too. And apparently they're. counting the votes in Mississippi like. one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three. Mississippi because we still don't have. the final results there. But Scott Colom. continues to have a lead of over 2,000. votes and and we expect him to win. You. know, it's pretty wild. You know, nobody. expected, I think, this best case. scenario to actually happen here, which. is Democrats securing around 56 seats in. the Senate, over 250 seats in the United. States House. And it looks like we're. heading there. We're already there in.

the House. We're at 54 officially in the. US Senate. And I got to say, just seeing. that new energy, that new blood in the. US capital today, lots of freshman. members, I don't remember a freshman. class this large. And it's funny when. you say a freshman class, it does kind. of remind you when you see the photos. and the orientation a little, it gives. the first day of school vibes, you know, in my opinion, right? And there are a. lot of folks who like legitimately don't. even know anything about Congress, which. I think is actually charming and a good.

thing. I I saw one representative be. like, "Yeah, I didn't even know how much. the job paid until I won. I didn't. expect to win and I looked it up." I. like that we have normal people going to. Congress and seeing these images of the. uh new Democratic senators walking in, seeing the images of James Taler Rico in. there and Roy Cooper in there, seeing. the House members, seeing our very own. Fred Wellman of the Midas Touch Network. over there, taking his uh seat in the. orientation to uh you know, learn the. ropes a little bit. This is a a huge sea.

change and you know Republicans don't. know how to handle it at the moment. And. so you do see this panic. You see the. panic from officials. You see the panic. from Trump. He doesn't know how to. handle it right now. Mike Johnson, he's. like literally running away from the. press saying the voters made the wrong. decision. It was their fault. Why would. they do this to us? It's like it's. really pathetic. But hopefully we can. get some accountability. Uh hopefully, you know, this just shifts the entire. dynamic and I'm looking forward to.

seeing what goes down. First, you know, we got to check in with Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest? >> Brothers, mightest mighty. I'm so. excited for today's show. You know, when. you see those photos for the audio. listeners, Brett was showing the. incoming class, the freshman class, if. you will, of them walking through halls. of Congress, so excited. They're like. genuinely excited to be there. And why. that makes me so happy too is because I. am hopeful that these people that these. elected officials that they're actually.

going to want to work. What was it. something like 18 or or 24 days? I don't. want to give them the benefit of the. doubt here that that the Republican. Congress actually decided to show up to. work this past year. What Donald Trump. and MAGA Mike Johnson are terrified. about is accountability. is actual. people, elected officials working on. behalf of the American people. And. that's what's terrifying them right now. is that you have people in there that. want to work, that want to that want. accountability, that want to actually.

help. And that goes directly opposite of. the MAGA Trump agenda. Benji, so excited. for today's show. Big bro, where are we. starting? >> It's it's going to burst through the. imaginary boogeyman bubble that the MAGA. Republicans created. uh Kim Jong-un in. North Korea and what they would say. about South Korea. It's the worst place. They're going to eat your children. They're terrible. It's all these. horrible things, right? And then you see. that people actually show up and they. roll up their sleeves and it's like they. just want to work and actually deliver.

services to you. And it actually turns. out the MAGA Republicans were the ones. who were like stealing from you and. causing you all of the pain and. suffering that you're feeling. And so. there's actually a real opportunity here. to deliver some real generational change. that we talk about in WTF America and. that we talk about all the time on the. show. You know, my wife said, she's not. a very political person, but she just. said, you know, Ben, it's so awesome. seeing all of these new members show up. I said, really, you're watching? She. goes, yeah, they just look like such.

good people. Like they look nice. And. Brett, to your point, and Jared, to your. point, they're excited to be there. And. it's like the good guys and gals are. actually in the building. and she's like. it's just really enjoyable to watch that. and it was great to get kind of her. temperature check on that because the. fact that that's the kind of perception. I think even outside of you know people. who have been following the race with. the minutia we have I think that's what. the country is seeing and this Trump. spell this manipulation this bending of.

reality you know is fading away and. fading away and you see him going to his. desperate tricks I mean this weekend he. admitted it in the press conference that. he gave today was to basically say Dana. White is the press secretary. Haha, I'm. going to post that Dana White who runs. the UFC, he's going to be the press. secretary and he's going to have all of. his fighters beat up the press. And as I. always say, I mean, we can walk and chew. gum at the same time. Like, I don't want. to ignore that he said that, but I want.

to contextualize it. And this is the. distraction. This is the play. This is. how he wants to create some story in. order to distract from the fact that his. regime is in full collapse, that Hegsith. is getting impeached, that. investigations are coming. So that's why. I point it out. I don't make the whole. story, Dana White. But you point it out. and say here's what their tactics are, and it looks so weak and feeble and. desperate, and the American people see. it for what it is. So why don't we go.

through what went down? First, I'll show. you Magga Mike Johnson running away from. members of the press who were asking. him, "Hey man, you think you need to. reccalibrate during this lame duck. session and maybe be responsive to the. American people and what do you make. about the impeachment of Pete Hegsmith, the articles of which were introduced by. Thomas Massie on the House floor?" Watch. what Magna Mike Johnson says. Let's play. it. >> Mr. Speaker, should the president course.

correct after Tuesday? course correction. >> Change change course. You know, he named. Steven Miller. He's sticking by Pete. Hexet. Should he change his approach in. any way? >> I'm not going to tell the president how. to do his job. We have an incredible. record of the first two years of his. term, and I expect more success in the. days ahead. I'm sorry that uh the voters. made the wrong choice. I really do. believe that this next two years is. going to be a bit of a circus. It's. going to be chaos. And I hate to say. that, but I I think that's where the. Democrats are going to lead the House.

And that's a great uh a great tragedy. It really is because if we had kept the. majority, we would stay on course to. continue delivering for the people. And. um I I just don't know how that's going. to work going forward. >> Mr. Resolution, are you going to table. the Massie resolution? in in impeaching. a cabinet secretary right now, especially uh the Department of War in. the middle of hostilities abroad is. would be a terrible terrible look uh a. terrible thing for our allies and our.

our enemies uh to see that. And we don't. impeach uh cabinet secretaries for. political gain or for cheap tricks. And. I think that's what this is. And I think. everybody knows what the votes to kill. Do you have the votes to kill it? Do you. have the votes to kill it? I'll tell you what a terrible look is. A. terrible look is getting involved in a. catastrophic war with Netanyahu that we. should never be in and then losing. A. catastrophic look is Donald Trump. threatening war crimes every day and.

actually engaging in such. A terrible. look is Donald Trump having imaginary. deals with people. I'm doing a deal. I'm. doing a deal. Things are really good, but I may have to blow up the 38. bridges. That's the terrible look. accountability is getting rid of the war. criminals. Then at the beginning there, Magga Mike is like, "Course correct?". Well, then I wish we would have stayed. the course. He acted like he didn't know. what the word course corrected means. because he's a total absolute phony. And. then he goes and says, "And we had an. incredible record and the real problem.

were the voters." That was the tragedy. as though the voters were misled versus. your record was horrible and you've. destroyed the economy. And perhaps if. you acknowledged how bad you made things. and had a realistic approach to actually. fixing things versus engaging in a. perpetual Ponzi scheme fraud, we could. have actually addressed systemic. problems. But no, the fraud continues. with these fraudsters. This is just in.

their DNA. As I've said before, these. are demonic sick people and they lie. until the very end. Now I mean Magga. Mike particularly is part of that group. of sickopants. I do think though we will. see Republicans in the house. increasingly turn against this regime in. the lame duck session. So pay attention. to that. So you had Magga Mike Johnson. there. Then you had Donald Trump do a. surprise press conference in the White. House. Surprise, I'm here again. And he.

he feels that he's getting crushed in. the press. Of course he is. But it's not. in the press. It's amongst the people. who want him the hell out of there. Impeachment is like the least thing. It's important, but I believe he should. be tried in a war tribunal. He's a war. criminal. In healthy in healthy. functioning democracies, when you have. such a seismic shift in the election. like this one, the government goes away. and there's snap elections and you have. a new government. That's truly what the. American people want. our system still.

makes it. So there's two more years of. this completely denounced regime at this. point. So he does his own press. conference. He brings in Dana White. Why? Because he wants the distraction, the circus, the dystopian reality show. that the American people freaking hate. and despise. And so he starts giving. this press conference and he's like, "Impeaching. it? Why don't we impeach Vietnam? Impeach the Vietnam people. Impeach the.

Viet. What are you talking about? It's. 2020. Why would we impeach the Vietnam. people? It's 2026 right now. There's a. catastrophic war. There are obligations. right now. You want to relitigate. whether in Vietnam there should have. been an impeachment. I'll tell you. though what happened with Richard Nixon. though before that. There was Richard. Nixon was somebody who actually resigned. and Republicans did their duty when they. were pushing him out and actually did. what they were supposed to do over. there. Although you want to rejuvenate. Nixon's legacy um because you were a.

million times even worse than Nixon. But. here's what Trump says about the Vietnam. War. Let's play it. >> Say this. Pete Hexath won two wars. Oh, let's impeach him. What about impeaching. the gentleman from Biden? His person. that disappeared for two weeks and. nobody had any idea where he was. What. about impeaching the people that ran the. Vietnam War? What about impeaching that. went that ran Iraq and Afghanistan and. all of these other wars where thousands.

of lives have been you know what about. what about and I'll toss it to you Brett. but like let's just even assume that. those people should have you know like. what's your point that you're as bad as. the people who you want out that I mean. like even if you accept his premise okay. well you're there now and people want. accountability for you and it's always A. what about is what about Biden? What. about Vietnam? The hell are you talking. about? You launched a catastrophic war, slaughtered little girls. We're living.

in the present moment right now. You. continue to lie about it. We know you're. lying about the war. People want justice. now. That's it's a very simple fact. Brett Jordan, >> you know, it's interesting because the. the American people are happen to be. very forgiving people. Uh, I I would say. and I know Mike Johnson um pretends not. to know what course correct means, but. if this Trump regime actually wanted to. course correct and these Republicans. wanted to course correct, they still. could honestly like the American people. would be open to that if they said, "Oh,

look, I guess they learned their lesson. They're working with the Democrats. Trump isn't being crazy anymore. They. seem chilled out. They seem like they. actually want to try to pass policies to. help the people. like if they want to. end the war, you name it. They did that. Like they you could theoretically do. that and you'd actually probably win. back a large chunk of the people. It. would be good for every be good for the. country and it frankly would be good for. the Republican party. But these people. have one mode and it's just lie and it's. to dig their own holes deeper. And.

Trump, you know, he's not going to. change his spots. You know what I mean? He's going to continue to be Donald. Trump and he's going to be that same. guy. And so, you know, it's like I said, if you expect to go into this new. Congress and Trump is like this changed. man and he's going to all of a sudden be. like, "Let me work with the Democrats to. pass Medicare for all and all the like. that ain't happening." He you see right. now between all of these people, they. are just digging their heels in to these. failed policies, to this failed. rhetoric. And the American people.

rebuked it in the strongest terms. They. said, "I am absolutely sick of these. people. These people are unserious. They. are disgusting. They are depraved. They. are absolutely vile. Everything we hear. out of them is just the same shtick. And. people are done with the Trump show. Absolutely. Like it's so obvious. Ma. Maga Mike, Donald Trump, the the. Republican party in general has learned. absolutely nothing from the midterms. Like let's let's start with Magga Mike. We we had an incredible record and it.

was who did he do? What? It's the. voters's fault. They voted for the wrong. thing. It's Magga Mike. The voters voted. based off of your record. There is an. affordability crisis in this country. People are being kidnapped off our. streets. We are in this asinine war of. choice by Donald Trump as our troops. continue to die. And the fact that you. just can't reflect on what is so obvious. that the American people rejected the. MAGA agenda as you guys controlled all. three branches of government for two. years. Your record's amazing. What I.

really hope the reporter I I I really. hope the reporter followed up and asked, "Well, what is your record? What What. are you proud of?" Because they truly. have absolutely nothing to be proud of. I They just took an absolute. shellacking. And then you have Dana. White show up at this at this press. conference with Donald Trump. I mean, Dana, like what an absolute shill. How. embarrassing. Like you're Dana White. You have all the FU money in the world. You're just gonna shill for Trump. Like. that is humil. You will never Dana White.

be ever able to get that Trump and Maga. stench off of you. It is embarrassing. There is a war going on. Our troops are. actively dying. There is no clear plan. on how to get them home, how to stop. this. And you're making jokes about. being the next White House press. secretary. What What is wrong with you? Donald Trump is up there talking about, "Oh, well, what if we impeach the the. people behind the Vietnam War?" Up is. down, down is up. MAGA has absolutely no. idea how to handle this moment. And.

that's why to me it's also a bit of a. moment where where it's very dangerous. Like they are not taking this and. reflecting inwards of how can we now as. MAGA as Donald Trump who's the president. how can we actually work across guess. Brett to your point he's never going to. be that person. And so I just implore. all of these fresh-faced Congress. people, senators entering, please, what. the American people need most of all to. heal from all of this is accountability. on day one. As soon as y'all are in. those seats, it's accountability.

Accountability. Accountability because. that's what the people voted for. They. detested the MAGA agenda. They detested. the Trump agenda. And it's time to show. the American people what true. accountability looks like. Well, it's. very clear why Donald Trump bankrupted. so many companies. And if there was a. Guinness Book of Records for. bankruptcies before he went into. politics, he'd probably be around the. top or at the top in my opinion. Normally, what a leader would do is. actually course correct. You see. something going bad, you go, "Got it.

Made a mistake. I admit it. Let me. course correct." You see it going very. bad, course correct. Made a mistake. Change leadership up. Make changes. Address the problem, right? or try to. figure it out. Not Donald Trump. He. turns an error into a disaster, a. disaster into a catastrophe, a. catastrophe into like a five alarm fire. catastrophe, then just a bankruptcy and. obliteration. It almost seems and it. probably is the goal to create the utter.

anarchy and the catastrophe because. that's when he goes and blames. That's. when he tries to find his Fouchy or his. Biden or his Zalinski and points the. fingers here, there, and the other. But. what he hasn't accounted for though now. as well is with independent media, with. people taking back the power from these. corporate oligarchs, we're able to get. out the information and point out, okay, here are the tricks. Here's what they're. doing. Here's how they're trying to. conceal and deceive. And that's a big.

deal that people get it. People see. what's happening. And I think one of the. interesting things that we see with. Trump also is that he likes to tell. different audiences different things and. and he tries to present a different. image to different people. We saw this. during the campaign. He'd go to. Dearbornne, Michigan. He'd say one. thing. He'd go to Jewish communities. He'd say another thing. Donald Trump. divides and conquers and he tries to. just he he lies. He lies to every. different community, every different. audience. And so one of the things, you. know, I think that we have to do. collectively here is to call out those. lies. And one of the things, for. example, was when Trump was on 60.

Minutes yesterday and and what was Trump. trying to pretend to be in that 60. Minutes interview, he was trying to act. like he was moderating. He was trying to. act like I he learned some of the. results from the election. Oh yeah, actually maybe we went a little bit too. far uh with the immigration, with the. mass deportations. Maybe uh we should. have a path so that people who have been. here for a while uh are able to uh get. some form of of citizenship. And I was. like, "Oh, that that's interesting. Okay, that's interesting. Wait for it. Three, two, one. No, no amnesty. No, I.

would never say that. I would never say. that because he says that knowing that. it's going out to a CBS audience and. then he'll say something completely. different when he's talking to a. right-wing reporter or when he gets. pressed on it by his own people. Trump. even admitted during this CBS during the. 60 Minutes piece, Trump admitted that. he's basically at the whims of the far. right of his party, of the most radical. wing of his party. and he admitted he. said, "Yeah, they, you know," he was. kind of like, "They made me do it.".

Right? They made me do it. Uh, you know, they wanted that stuff. A day later, not. even a day later, Trump is feeling the. pressure from those same people and he. reverses course completely. And that's. one of the issues with Trump, right? What's good for him and this ever. dwindling MAGA base is bad for him and. the rest of the country. But he is so. beholden to that 30% 25% 22% of MAGA. people and coming down that he cannot.

actually work for the majority of people. because he's too busy at trying to. appease these nuts. >> Yeah. And he's has zero leadership. ability at all. He just knows how to. threaten, intimidate, and coers. We'll. talk about when we come back from the. break part of that 60 Minutes interview. that he gave. He said, "And I got. information from the DOJ about this AI. leader." And so I told the AI leader, "Kiss your wife goodbye or do you want. to be nice to me?" And then he started. saying, "Sir, yes, sir, I'll be nice to.

you, sir." And then the problems just. went away. And he told that story to. brag on 60 Minutes. But that's how he's. been you using the mafia protection. racket that is the DOJ to get dirt on. people and then basically shake them. down. And we've seen that over and over. again. But he doesn't know how to. actually lead and then you know from one. day to the next, from one hour to the. next, from one minute to the next, he'll. say this, then he'll say that, then. he'll say yes, then he'll say no, then. he'll say deal, then he'll say no deal,

then he'll say this and that. Nobody. knows what the hell he's even talking. about at all. And so the ultimate. projection and confession when the Trump. regime says we don't know in Iran who. we're even talking to. We have no clue. who the leaders are. That's been the. biggest issue. It's projection and. confession. The mediators from Qatar, from Pakistan, from Oman and elsewhere. in the region. And even the Iranian. officials don't know who are they. speaking to. Is it Trump? Is it JD.

Vance? Is it Marco Rubio? Is it Hegsip? Is it Admiral Cooper? Is it somebody. else? I mean, this was the message. posted by Moshin Razai, the top adviser. to Ayatollah Mojaba Kmen. He posted this. earlier today. The war in Iran has. already wrecked the US government. But. Washington flails like a desperate. gambler. Fold your hand. Stop. manufacturing fake news about imaginary. talks. Stop denying the West Asian New.

Order. and he puts that in caps. Time to. surrender to the seven conditions Iran. has repeatedly set out. And if you've. been watching the takes I've been doing. usually in the morning, but I do them. throughout the day as well. I've been. talking about this new West Asian order. that China is leading regional powers. taking back their their power with China. and Russia serving as guarantee. guaranurs in the region and pushing out. the United States. We'll talk more about. that when we get back. But there have.

been major movements in that way with. Moshin Razi meeting with Putin, talking. about gas pipelines to Russia, railway. to Russia, Wangi, China's foreign. minister, big economic cooperation. there. And of course that also ties in. to what's happening with Nvidia because. if you look at some of the parts that. are in these Iranian weapons and Russian. weapons, a lot of US semiconductor chips. find their way in those weapons and they. seem to be routed through these. Singaporean and Malaysian cutouts and.

then passed on to China and then Russia. And you know, I'm not suggesting that. this is the only way it took place, but. there's been a lot of this actually. happening that the Trump regime has. turned a blind eye to. So when we think. about, wow, how did Russia go from these. Shahid drones to the Garen 4 and Garen 5. jet powered, you know, drones so. quickly? And it's like, well, open them. up. Look at the parts. Those are US. semiconductors in there. How are they.

getting there so quickly? Oh, wait a. minute. We don't have national security. safeguards anymore that we did under. Biden. How do you think they're getting. these weapons right now? These advanced. capabilities with US stuff inside it. All right, let's take our first break of. the show. A reminder WTF America is our. book, The Way Out of This Hell and Back. to Democracy. Two weeks in a row in the. New York Times bestseller list. Let's. try to keep it on there for the third. week in a row. So great seeing people at. the book signing I did. It was great. meeting all of you in person. Don't.

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>> It's funny. It was It was a surprisingly. difficult process, but I'm so proud of. it and I'm so happy everybody's enjoying. it. And the cool thing, too, is that. the, you know, the actual physical paper. that New York Times paper is out now and. it's in the in the paper if you open it. up uh starting in with the Sunday. edition yesterday. So, super cool. Thank. Thank you. Thank you everybody. And. that's where I was going before you. jumped me on that is would not have been. possible any of this any of the lists. which again never mattered to us but it. just reassures that the message is. getting out there like definitively no. one could ever take that away that this. message is not reaching people and it is.

all thanks to you guys genuinely from. the bottom of our hearts. Thank you all. so much for making the stream a reality. We are so dang appreciative. Benji, where to next big bro? >> Well remember corporate news wouldn't. let us on to promote the book and you. would think okay maybe they'd have us on. a few times. here and there. I really. didn't want to go, but the publisher was. like, "You got to do it. It's part of. selling a book." That's what And we're. like I'm like, "Yeah, but we've got this. huge platform here. What?" They're like, "Just trust us." And so they pitched us. to all of the top like people that.

people usually do on the book tours and. and I love our publisher. They do a. great job. Um, but then they went silent. and then I was like, "Huh?" Then. afterwards, I was telling Red, I'm like, "You know, they all basically rejected. us all of the shows." I said that's why. we we haven't heard from it. And then. afterwards once we were number two in. the New York Times bestseller. I said. was that that was the reason why be. honest with us. We got thick skin. >> Everybody re you didn't want to hurt our. feelings. Everybody was rejecting us and. go yeah it was. >> we got the mightest mighty.

>> We got the mightest mighty. But I told. that's what I was saying. I said we. don't need to go on those shows. I don't. want to go on the shows anyway. Um Brett. did you two appearances on MS now. though. Ferrari and Nicole W. >> Shout out to them. I I had to get to. that. there. >> Those were the two that led us on. So, I. want to give the Okay, Donald Trump. keeps whining that the elections were. rigged. It took him about three days to. get to that position again. That's what. we meant in the other segment, which is. he's always a lunatic, right? Like. obviously the American people are. rejecting all of this. Just stop lying. about elections. They're just annoying.

And as I've talked about in WTF America, America, this is part of the. authoritarian globalist network where. they all just attack elections because. if they could attack the foundation of. election, that's the foundation of. democracy. And then people don't believe. in elections and that allows the. authoritarian to say, well, that's why I. should stay in power forever because all. elections are rigged. That's what they. do across the world. I mean, look at. Bolsinaro right now. He's in Miami. Over. the weekend he was at Mara Lago getting.

the Trump mafia protection over there. saying it was rigged in Brazil. It was. rigged in Brazil. Then you have. President Lula in Brazil saying how. pathetic was it that you fled. You ran. away. He goes I would never run away. from this country. He ran away. So. here's what Donald Trump was posting. though this morning. Does anybody really. believe that this election was honest? Yeah, we do. We all believe it was hon. How could the polls be so wrong? Actually weren't that wrong. Uh some.

early voting dumps, he's doing the dumps. thing. Dumps were so large that it was. impossible to win. Okay. That's because. a lot of people voted early. What's. what's the argument there? So, and and. by the way, Trump did as well. Trump. voted early no matter how many people. went to vote. Yeah. Because it was an. overwhelming shellacking of you, your. regime, and your stooges across the. country. It's all about the machines. What does that even mean? It's all about. the machines which are far more. important than the voter exclamation.

point. So, he's posting a bunch of crap. like that over and over and over again. And then during his press conference, he. was asked by a member of the press. So, are you saying the midterms were rigged? Is that like is that your point now that. you're trying to say you're doing that. loser again? The loser stuff here, play. this clip. >> In fact, by two. Yeah, please. >> Do you believe the midterms were sir to. follow? Do you believe the midterms. were? Well, I think the numbers were. terrible in terms of those early votes. You look at all those early votes and.

and look at another one. I'm watching. Alaska. So, you have a guy named Dan. Solomon. >> and this is what he always. he just word vomits things and what were. what was and the reporter was looking at. him for those listening on audio like, "Dude, what the hell are you even. saying?" I I know he's given uh you know. his supporters a little bit too much. credit in the brain department here, but. when you hear him say stuff like this. with an election that is so overwhelming. and so obvious, doesn't it make you. question a little bit all the other fake.

claims that he said over the. past few years when he's spewing this. crap. I thought the dumps were supposed. to come in at 3:00 a.m. Now, now they. have early dumps. They're early dumps. I. thought the dumps were later, now it's. early dumps when people vote early. It. just it's such loser behavior. And if. anything, the polls were wrong in. underestimating Democratic support. And. remember what Trump was saying leading. up to the election. He was threatening. to sue the pollsters because the polls. look so good for the Democrats. He was. going, "The New York Times fake polls. They have the Democrats up. I'm going to.

sue him. Prosecute him. Prosecute him. Prosecute him." And now he's saying that. the polls were fake. As if they were. showing that like Republicans were going. to win. If anything, they underestimated. that Terico was going to win by 12. points in in Texas. and Roy Cooper was. going to have such a dominant victory. and Dr. Abdul Al sayed was going to win. and Annie Andrews and and all these. people. So just shut up with this loser. stuff enough. Like people are so sick of. this crap. >> It is just so whiny. It truly is. I. don't have anything truly profound to. say here other than to.

>> That's what we do for a living. But sure. >> agree with your point though there. take it easy. Take it is it was simply. too big to rig. It was It was too big to. rig. And then you see Donald Trump up. there. Just whiny, whiny, whiny, whiny. It was rigged. The morning dumps, the. evening dumps, the afternoon dumps. At a. certain point, the dumps are just the. votes, buddy. And you just got to you. just got to eat that that that that you. and the MAGA agenda just lost out.

because of the chaos that you instilled. on the American people, on the world, quite frankly, right? We we didn't want. to be a part of this chaos. We were all. unwilling participants in this trauma of. people literally being pulled off the. streets and killed. We wa we've all we. watch that. Now, I couldn't imagine. being the families of those people. Oh. my goodness. But but to be a witness to. that as as a concerned citizen as all. this stuff had played out with ICE and. now this war, it it is so incredible to. see him up there again with this. election denialism just trying to stoke.

feuds amongst the people of the society. It's really infuriating. Like you expect. more from our leaders. You expect more. from the president. I I hope you expect. a little bit more from Donald Trump when. he's up there. But the fact that he's. doubling down again again in the. election denialism, it's pathetic. >> This what you said was profound to me, Jordy. And you still have ICE and Border. Patrol Gustapo terrorizing people. I saw. recently here in LA blocking access to. emergency room hospitals and they're.

still attacking communities and. instilling terror and fear. We still. have the catastrophic war going. You. still have Donald Trump saying, "Oh, it's going to be a deal. Don't worry. Don't worry." I mean, you still have all. of that. But, by the way, to me, one of. the most obvious data points heading. into this election that I kept on. talking about that everybody was. overlooking. What was I always saying? I. said, "Look at these special election. results from January 2025 until a few. months ago. every one of them the.

Democrats won in those state and house. senate re seats at the local level at. the state level right it would always be. like this person won the Iowa house. district that Trump won by like plus 30. and this person won by 12 a 42point. shift Jordy I know governor Shapiro uh. wanted to correct the way I say. Lancaster so I'll always say it right. but. >> that time don't worry you won't be. putting on his. >> Lancaster he's like reposting it all. over my mispronunciation of Lancast, you. know, because in California we have.

spelled the exact same way. It's. Lancaster. >> I don't want to hear your excuses. >> Governor Shapiro put you on blast on. social. >> and Governor Shapiro keeps like, "Yeah, he's trying to like, dude, you already. won in Lancaster." Like, he he won in. Lancaster. >> So, people know what I'm talking what. we're talking about. Ben interviewed. Governor Shapiro. Great interview. Check. it out on the Midas Touch podcast audio. feed and on on our site. And Ben said. Lancast Lancaster. The way we say it in. California, Lancaster. and Governor. Shapiro corrected him. Not only. corrected him during the live interview,

but then posted a clip of the correction. onto his social media platforms to shame. Ben publicly, which I thought was an. effective move by the guy. >> Then he saw, you see the people of. Lancaster, I got your back. Look what I. did. I dunked on him. By the way, I. really met a move here and how you know. we're all brothers. This is kind of an. abstract thing, but I was having a. conversation some here locally. I live. in Pittsburgh, as you all know. There's. an area called Monroeville. I was. pronouncing it Monroeville. This was two. days before your whole Shapiro fiasco, Ben. And so me watching that clip was.

like that whole conversation that I had. 48 hours earlier just like I was I lost. it. Like I was laugh out loud when that. was going down. >> The point was that a Democrat hadn't. won. The point was that a Democrat hadn't won. in Lancaster since 1892 and it was like. a plus40 Trump state district where a. Democrat who like I never even heard of. like I couldn't even find a single video. with the guy. I found like one Zoom. video of the guy with like one of those.

weird backgrounds when I was reporting. on his victory and uh he won in a plus. 40 Trump district. And so to me those. were some of the biggest signs. That's. what I kept on telling you. I said, 'Pay. attention to those special election. results because every time we report. shock result, it stops being a shock. It. starts being a trend. Anyway, I digress. Governor Shapiro, thank you for mocking. me that way. I appreciate it. Um, this. was the press conference that Donald. Trump was giving. He was asked, "So, did. you watch Thomas Massie lay out the.

articles of impeachment?" First, I'll. show you what Trump said where he. attacks Massie, and then I'll show you. the articles of impeachment that were. laid out. And what Massie said. afterwards I thought was very funny and. very powerful. But first, here's what. Trump said. Let's play it. >> You did you watch Senator Thomas Massie. lay out his articles of impeachment. this? >> No, I don't watch Massie. Look, Na. Massie is a loser. um he shouldn't be. taking up the time of uh Congress or the. Senate or anything that he's doing.

>> actually going to get supported on a. bipartisan basis. He hates Massie. because Massie joined forces with Ro. Kana for the Epstein transparency act. where Donald Trump told Marjgery Taylor. Green, "You can't sign on to that. You're gonna hurt me and my friends. We're trying to cover this up." And even. Marjgerie Taylor Green, as MAGA as you. got, was purged from MAGA because she. was like, "Wait a minute. You want to. cover up the child sex trafficking ring. and you're just telling me that like.

very candidly, like I'm supposed to be. on that team? You're out. You're out.". And do you remember in these very small, if you even want to call them, rallies. that Donald Trump was giving, most of. the protesters were just saying, "Release the Epstein files." And then. they'd have shirts that would say like, "Release the Epstein files." or they'd. have like Virginia Gupy's name on it or. something. They would say, "Do it for. Virginia." And that's who the crowd. would attack. Like they would attack the. people who were just saying, "Release. the Epstein files." They like, "You.

sicko, you get out of here." I was like, "Oh, all they're saying is. they would assault they would assault. >> they would assault the people saying. release attack.". >> Yeah. quite quite the, you know, split. screen between the folks uh in the. beginning of the Trump regime holding up. those fake binders that said the Epstein. files release and flash cut to uh the. Trump supporters in the arenas sucker. punching people calling for the release. of the Epstein files. And I will say, and I think Representative Massie has. made this point himself, that if Donald.

Trump actually did listen to Thomas. Massie about things like uh the war, uh. the Epstein files, he'd probably have a. much higher approval rating right now. And he probably wouldn't have had as. much of a blowout during these midterms, I would say. >> Show you this is from the House floor. earlier today. Representative Thomas. Massie reintroducing the articles of. impeachment against Defense Secretary. Pete Hex. I'll show you the press. conference he held afterwards. But. first, let's show you him introducing. the articles of impeachment. Let's play.

it. >> Of the resolution is as follows. Impeaching Peter Brian Hegsathth, Secretary of Defense for high crimes and. misdemeanors, resolved that Peter Brian. Hegsth, Secretary of Defense, also. referred to as Secretary of War by the. administration, is impeached for high. crimes and misdemeanors. and that the. following articles of impeachment be. exhibited to the United States Senate. Articles of impeachment exhibited by the.

House of Representatives of the United. States of America in the name of itself. and of the people of the United States. of America against Peter Brian Hegsth, Secretary of Defense in maintenance and. support of its impeachment against him. for high crimes and misdemeanors. Article one, waging war in contravention. of the war powers resolution of 1973, section 2C. The con Yeah. And the. articles involve the war crimes where.

Hegsith and the Trump regime slaughtered. children at the elementary school in. Manab in Iran at the beginning of the. war. the Trump regime slaughtering. little children at the La Mer sports. hall during volleyball practice where. the Trump regime tested these new. tungsten pellet weapons and sprayed. these pellets all over the children and. killed them all while they were in. volleyball practice and in other areas. also it involves hegsith firing top.

military leaders the war crimes in. Venezuela and other issues as well I did. a whole video where I showed the. introduction of the articles of. impeachment. I showed the full speech of. Massie. If you want to go and watch the. full articles being introduced, all. eight of them. But then Massie was asked. during this press conference he held. after about what do you think he is. going to do in response. And Massie. says, "Well, I hope he addresses the. eight articles, but I'm sure he'll just.

call people fat or just start attacking. people." Here, let's play this clip. >> of it. And I suspect since we saw the. secretary have scheduled his own press. conference that they're going to let him. deliver a rebuttal. And to that point, I. hope he addresses the eight articles and. doesn't get up and misquote the Bible in. Quinton Tarantino fashion and do some. pull-ups and, you know, call everybody. fat and gay like for being for this. impeachment. Like I may have just given. you half his speech. I don't know. But I.

would like to see him go through the. eight articles of impeachment and just. make the argument from a podium. You can. use notes, get the lawyers to help you. tell us why you are not guilty of each. of these eight articles of impeachment. I hope that's what he does. And so. that's my answer to your question. When. do I suspect it's going to be? I suspect. it's not going to be tonight or tomorrow. before that uh before the secretary. speaks. Let me. >> more from the He's right though. more.

from that press conference. >> That's the maturity level of the Trump. regime that we're dealing with. I mean, Hexath right now is furiously rewriting. his speech. Damn it. How did he how did. he know? >> Yeah. Then Massie was asked, so do you. think this will work? >> Jo, sorry. Just I mean, I know I'm. interrupting the F. The Colin Jo Hag. Seth on SNL is very good. >> Col I assume Colin's a listener of the. show, of course. I want. >> Yeah, shout out Colin Jo, friend of the. show. >> Congressman Massie was asked, "So, will. this work? Do you think he'll be. impeached?" Here, let's play it. Congressman.

Secretary Ted has called you a. disgruntled defeated congressman. Said. your plan will not work. What's your. response to that? >> Well, he's right about one thing. I'm a. defeated Congress congressman. Um I'm. not disgruntled and uh we'll see if the. plan works. I mean, he should Look, I'm. being polite here. What is an. impeachment? An impeachment is just. firing somebody. Really? You don't go to. prison. You don't go to jail. You're not. You don't pay a fine. Okay. When the. Democrats get in charge, they are going.

to be very vicious. Um, the one thing. that I wasn't able to compel with my. articles of impeachment and and which is. why we don't want to refer it to a. committee because they won't have. hearings, but the Democrats are going to. have hearings. They won't have just. eight articles of impeachment. I suspect. if Pete Hagsth doesn't leave, um, and. this is the answer to your question, will it work? I hope for his sake it. does work because the Democrats are. going to bring people in here who have. served under him and with him, give them.

protection. They'll be able to say what. he's actually done, the things that he. has has ignored, the things that he did. that caused civilian casualties, the way. he's uh, you know, ignored the laws, and. then there'll be a full robust trial. over in the Senate. And um it's not a. certain thing that he would survive the. Senate. you know, even though there's, you know, they don't have, what would. you call it? An impeachment proof. majority in the Senate, the Democrats. don't, you have Republicans who are. going to be compelled once there's more.

testimony and more hearings and more. trials. And so it it if if working is. getting him to leave a day earlier than. he already otherwise would have, I think. it's probably worked. >> Absolutely. All right, we've still got a. lot to cover on this episode. A. reminder, WTF America is our book, The. Way Out of This Hell and Back to. Democracy. Two weeks in a row on the New. York Times bestseller list. Let's keep. it three. You can also check out the.

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Benji, I like that shirt. Purple. Purple. big bro. It's a good color for you. >> Thanks, Jordy. And it's been pretty hot. >> I'd tell you if it wasn't. >> It's been pretty hot out here in Los. Angeles. It's been over 80 degrees. So, last week it was cooler. I was wearing. more of the kind of sweatshirt zip up. kind of shirts. And now it's back to. kind of summer weather out here. So, we'll see how long that lasts. You're. rubbing the warm weather in my face in. Pittsburgh. >> You and Governor Shapiro I'm sure will. have a great time in Lancaster. Go. I'm. sure you and him can have a great time.

>> You guys have to understand Ben is like. one of the most confident people that I. know. Like I look up to him because I. know he has like all this confidence and. it's awesome. The one thing he is maybe. not as confident in is sometimes when he. pronunciates names. >> and places. And so I know that. specifically that gets bent right to the. core. >> Well, I say a lot of words in the day. I. know if I see the comments sometimes. like you it frustrates me when you say. frustrate or frustrate. It's like. >> when you say madeup words like.

pronunciate. >> is bottom line is that there's a lot of. words though. You know if you say a lot. of words in a day you know it's just me. recording all day. So, I'll do I'll do. better. Lancaster. Um, but here you have. Donald Trump and Dana White. Not really. a smooth transition or as Jordy would. say, not a profound. observation. You have Dana White in the Oval Office. over here being asked, did you tell the. president no to the press secretary job? I I can't say no to him. He's the. stupid. I'll just show you a short clip.

of it, then just move on here. Play. this. >> Just to confirm, did you tell the. president no to the press secretary job? I don't tell the president no to. anything. I No, I didn't say no. I. literally everybody every media outlet. was calling me and I didn't want to be. disrespectful and say anything until he. he uh he said something first. So, >> oh my god, I wanted to say no. How funny. is this? Look, there's a time, place, and manner for humor. I'm all for you. want to be funny, there are times to be.

funny. Just so happens like during the. White House correspondence dinner when. like you're supposed to be funny, that's. when he's not funny at all and just. absolutely terrible. And there are times. where you can show humor. I'm not just. this humorless person. I get it. Like a. good sense of humor, you know? I'm I'm. into comedy. I get it. But you're in the. White House. This is very serious stuff. These are real serious times. Okay. There's a story today about the top US. company by valuations CEO potentially.

caught in scandal involving a Chinese. spy with these massive implications for. the entire US economy. The catastrophic. war in Iran continues. People are still. suffering right now. And Donald Trump. basically has admitted, you know, it was. a bad news day I was having, so that's. why I announced it. Haha. And so, you. know, you're a clown, data white. I. mean, you're allowing yourself to be. used. And you know what you're doing as.

the distraction of the day to distract. from cover up of child sex trafficking. rings with the Epstein files, catastrophic wars, the American people. suffering in this horrible Trump. economy. And you think people are. stupid. Like there's a reason also, Dana. White, why young men in particular who. are I mean it's it's all let's be clear. It's the demographics that won. We're. not not trying to give hat tip to young. men right here. I'm just making a link. right here to UFC, which is your demo.

shifted overwhelmingly in this election. to the Democrats by massive amounts. That's your demo because they see this. corny ass, you know, this this. They're like, what is this? Like, this. not funny. This isn't cool. This is. weird behavior. We don't want to bully. Like, what are we doing here? Like, y'all just a bunch of weirdos. And. frankly, that's what you've kind of. turned the UFC into lately also where. people look at like we don't want this. thing to become a political thing. Can. can we just watch like why are you being. weird like this? And it's actually. impacting all of it as well. So you have.

that and so when you but but a point. here and I'll connect it Jordy, I'll do. something profound for you over here. because you have that and then look at. the next question. The next question is. about the catastrophic war in Ukraine. that Trump promised he would resolve in. 24 hours and how Putin keeps on playing. him. So, you're going from ho, how funny. is this, to you're talking about a. massive war right now in Ukraine that. Trump promised to solve. Watch as Donald. Trump is asked by an MS now reporter. So, you know, Putin keeps on ignoring.

you. So, like, when are you going to. admit that? Here, play this clip. You've. given Vladimir Putin multiple deadlines. over the last 22 months to enter into a. ceasefire, but also to meet directly. with Dutier Silinski. He has repeatedly. ignored your demands. Yet, you have. provided. me. Has he been fighting us in the war? >> Yeah. Let me ask you this question. >> What point does appease you with? Who. you with. >> with MS now? What. >> MS now? It's a fake that's what. now gets the worst ratings in their.

history. Used to be MSDNC. It's one of the worst. Uh, you're a. fake. Go ahead. >> Yeah, that's pathetic behavior by Donald. Trump right there. Doesn't answer the. question. The question was a fair. question. Attack the reporter. Oh, MS. now, you're fake news. It's a valid. question. You keep on saying this. deadline, that deadline. You said that. Putin's going to do this. He never does. it. So, when are you going to finally. Oh, you're MS now. You're fake news. No,

Donald, you promised you would end the. war in 24 hours. This isn't a Democrat. position, a Republican position, or an. independent. You told the voters in 2024. that you had a secret formula that was. going to result in the end of that war. and you failed and you keep on lying. over and over again. Then you got the. United States involved in another. neverending war, a catastrophic war in. Iran. Yes, by the way, Putin is fighting. the United States. You don't realize it, but he is. I mean, Moshin Razi, the top. adviser to Ayatollah Mojabak was just in.

Russia. And they're talking about. military cooperation. Iran has ballistic. missiles. Iran has cruise missiles. Iran. has drones. They have improved their. technology as well, which I'll talk. about in a little bit. is also related. to them getting their hands on. semiconductor technology. Is it all. Nvidia? Is it all Texas Instruments? Is. it all all of these? We do know that. they have a lot of American. semiconductor technology in the Russian. upgraded drones and in the Iranian. drones. But it's not a secret when we.

see Iran's top people meeting with. Russia's top people and they announce. major deal packages together. Same thing. that we're observing. I report and every. day top Iranian people top middle east. country leaders meeting with Wang Yei. China's foreign minister announcing. major deals there. If you looked at the. statement that I showed earlier of. Moshin Razi the top adviser to Ayatollah. Mojabak the language he uses the. language that I've been talking about. now for a really long time a new order.

What that means is a new regional. security architecture. the US gone and. then China and Russia stepping in. The. US military bases in the region have. been destroyed. The main logistical US. hub in Bahrain has been destroyed. We're. using a hub now in Diego Garcia, thousands of miles uh away, which makes. it unsustainable to actually even do a. war in Iran at this point. And a West. Asian new order is what's being talked. about. And they're saying it out loud.

You sound like a desperate gambler. Just. stop. Like they're saying just stop stop. with the fake news about imaginary. talks. And here's the thing. I don't. want to have to acknowledge what he's. saying as true. You think as an American. I want to look at that statement and go, you know what, Moshin Razi, the top. adviser to Ayatollah Moja K, he's saying. accurate. He's saying that you're having. imaginary talks and everybody in America. except your remaining cult followers, we. know you're having imaginary talks. You.

make it up. you make up fake deals and. it's really weird. So, we read that and. I'm like, "What the hell? He's right. He's right." You know, and and then, you. know, it's like, am I I'm not trying to. promote what they're he's just saying. you're making fake deals. It's. embarrassing. Then you had the foreign. ministry spokesperson of Iran mocking. Sentcom Admiral Brad Cooper for doing. podcasts. What are you going to do? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles next? They. said you're going to do an episode of. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? That's.

what they're saying in Iran. That's what. they're saying in Iran. It's the it's. the other guy. It's the foreign ministry. spokesperson. But they're saying, you. know, you know what? After after your. first job where you slaughtered little. children in Manab and La Mer, now you're. doing a new job and becoming a. podcaster. And we all here in the United. States like, why is the Sencom commander. trying to do like a pod bro like podcast. where he talks about eating French fries. and drinking beer on the beach? Like we. don't need to see that. It's it's it's. it's crazy behavior. And then Donald.

Trump threatening an invasion of Cuba. I'll show you this here. Let's play this. clip. >> actually. But we'll see what happens. Cuba is going to be interesting. I would. imagine it will fall fairly soon. >> It's going to fall fairly soon. Iran's. going to fall fairly soon. There's going. to be a deal uh with Iran fairly soon. There's going to be a deal between. Russia and Ukraine fairly soon. It's. going to fall fairly soon. If we just. torture the people more with more of a. blockade in Cuba and Iran, that'll do. the trick. If we just extort Zalinski.

more and lie to him more, that'll do the. trick. That's just I mean, that's the. Trump regime plan with everything. Just. do evil and just hope people surrender. And when they don't, Donald Trump. doesn't know what to do. When he. actually faces resistance, he doesn't. know how to handle it because he's. always been a lifelong loser. His whole. life is one big bluff. He's a liar. I. should not apply. A fraud. A gigantic. criminal fraud his entire damn life. And. let's talk about this Jensen Wong story.

for a moment as well. He's the CEO of. Nvidia by market cap it had or has. depending on where the hell this company. is going at this point. The highest. market cap valuation of any company. I'm. talking bigger than Apple. When they. talk about the Mag 7, the Magnificent 7, Nvidia is like number one. It's like. leading all of these AI stocks and all. these tech stocks and the whole AI. architecture is also built around. Nvidia. It's like $4.5 trillion market.

cap, though by the end of today it's. probably significantly less. And it's. CEO Jensen Wong would take these trips. to Taipei and Taiwan and he'd meet with. this lady Alice Wong um whose real name. is actually Wong Lee. She used to work. for the Chinese government. >> No relation. What' you say? >> Said no relation then. >> No relation. Yeah, they're no relation. to each other. That's why I said also. name is Wangley that no relation to each. other and we right after these meetings.

that took place in late 2024. All of a. sudden, you know, she had this company. Mega Speed and Speed Matrix and they all. flowed from this Chinese company and. there was a subsidiary Mega Speed which. spun off another company Speed Matrix. One was based in Singapore, Mega Speed. speed matrix was based in Malaysia and. it was this kind of this whole opaque. network that basically funneled the key. Nvidia chips back to China and there.

were these export controls where the US. was not sending these H200 GPUs graphic. processing units these very advanced. semiconductor chips would not be allowed. to go to China but on limited bases. they'd be able to go to Singapore and. Malaysia And so China spun off these. companies to basically get that chip. And one of the ways, there's other ways. they did it, and it's not just Nvidia. I. think we're going to learn that this has. been happening across the entire. industry sadly in my view. But one of.

the ways they did this is that Alice. Wong created this company that really. was just a like a blank storefront. It. wasn't like there was no building and it. went from having nothing on its balance. sheet to billions of dollars and doing. all of these transactions with Nvidia. And so people started to get suspicious. like what the hell is mega speed? What. the hell is speed matrix? And then the. commerce department found out in 2025. The Biden administration warned the. Trump regime about it. They ignored.

those warnings. In 2025, the Commerce. Department knew that this was actually. happening and no steps were taken at all. that we're aware of and they just let it. basically happen. Apparently, Trump knew. about it in 2025. He spoke to Jensen. Wong about it and didn't do anything. There was nothing that actually, you. know, you know, happened. You know, Trump in this interview he gave with 60. Minutes. I don't know if this is Jensen. or if this is somebody else, but Trump. basically describes this conversation.

with a big AI tech person about how the. DOJ told him that he's in a lot of. trouble. And Trump told this big AI. exec, "Kiss your wife goodbye unless you. help me out." And then the guy started. saying, "Sir, thank you, sir." But Trump. wouldn't say what company it was. I. don't know if that's Jensen or not. Who. knows? But we do, it does seem to be the. case that China was getting a lot of. these chips through this path of the. Jensen, Alice Wong, Singapore, and.

Malaysian, you know, route. And so I've. seen people comment, Ben, you don't get. it though. The H200's old that's not a. big deal. Why? I know it's old. The. whole point was that now the chips have. advanced, right? Nvidia's got a. Blackwell and they even got a chip like. Vera, which is even more than the. Blackwell. But China got access at the. these things are advancing very quickly. But China got access to the H200 at a. critical time when that was one of the.

most advanced chips. Sure, there's more. advanced chips now, but they could build. that and then build off of that. And so. back in January of 2026, you may. remember the commerce department, Howard. Lutnik, Epstein Island Howard Lutnik. gave a license that allowed Jensen Wong. uh to sell the H200s to China provided. that Nvidia would give a 20% vague fee. to the United States. The 20% number is. fascinating to me also because there are. some allegations allegations at least.

Could it be that Nvidia's like 20% of. its bottom line was actually Southeast. Asia GPU transactions that funneled. these things through this route through. China that was looking away? Is that how. Trump got the 20% number? Um, but. there's this broader issue of the. Commerce Department knew the license was. given and then China didn't buy any. H200s. You would think this would be in. high demand, right? Why didn't they buy.

it? is they probably already had it. That's why. And it's not like you need a. lot of them. Once they have one, they. can then have their domestic GPU makers. copy it and then figure out how to build. from it. And once they got their hands, in my view of it, in 2025, they didn't. need it in 2026. So, it was an. irrelevant deal. So, then why would we. even do this in the first place? Was it. I'm I'm asking questions now. I don't. have the answer, but this is what my. spidey sense as a former litigator who. handled massive kind of corporate cases.

like this tells me was the was this. whole deal done with China in January. 2026 to basically give cover to the fact. that this conduct had taken place. before. So it was kind of like a post. remedial measure of well now it was. allowed anyway so why was it a big deal. if it happened then if we're giving it. to China anyway and the commerce. department has allowed it to take place. because Nvidia is the most valuable. company and so was it protecting them. and Trump invests in Nvidia and Trump's.

portfolio has a lot of exchangeraded. funds and other funds that buy Nvidia. It's a major part of these funds that. he's trading in as well. So then there's. just one more layer of it which is. national security. Why do we have export. controls to begin with? Because there's. a fear that these chips end up in the. hands of adversaries who could use it. against the United States. I mean. there's alliance. I know that Trump. wants to attack all of the US allies, Canada, NATO and elsewhere. But these. other alliances and blocks, they trade.

with each other. They share information. And so one of the things that I've been. doing a lot of reporting on lately is. these Russian drones, these Garin four. and Garin 5 upgraded drones that Ukraine. struggles to shoot down. The Iskander. ballistic missiles, the cruise missiles. Russia uses, the great technology and. engineering from Iran. When you actually. go through what's in a lot of their. upgraded weapons, it has these. high-owered chips. I'm not saying. they're all Nvidia or Nvidia's whatever,

but there's a lot of American. semiconductor chips. I did a report on. this several months back. I brought. lawyers in who filed these massive class. actions against all of these. semiconductor companies in the US for. turning a blind eye to the fact that. their semiconductor, their chips were. finding their way to Russia and finding. their way to Iran and elsewhere. and. that was actually being used to kill. American troops in the catastrophic war. in Iran and then being used to kill. Ukrainians in Russia's war against. Ukraine. And so the broader question.

though is too, it's not just Nvidia. You. know, Donald Trump with all of these AI. oligarchs and all of these big tech. people who are there, we have no. regulatory controls. Trump gave all of. these top chips, by the way. He gave. like the Blackwell chip to the UAE. Like. even the more advanced chip, Trump's. been giving these chips out and UAE has. a great relationship with China and. there's all these alliances there as. well. So when people have been warning. you got to stop giving all of these. chips to your Middle East friends who.

you have business deals with, these this. technology that the US had a monopoly on. is now no longer in the US hands and. it's all over the world. There used to. be a black market for it. Now it's a. Trump market for it. And this stuff has. spread everywhere. And if you're. wondering, well, how the hell are these. weapons advancing so quickly across the. world? It seems like everybody is able. to now match, you know, what the US. capabilities were. And it's every day. the advancement so rapid, rapid, rapid, rapid. They all have access to these.

semiconductor chips. And you know, the. question is is it through espionage? Is. it through deals with Trump? And how. much has this hurt America's national. security generationally? So, I know that. was a long- winded explanation and I. don't have all of the final pieces here, but I can tell you as a former litigator. who handled these big cases, these are. the exact areas I would at least be. looking at. >> Yeah. The a mistake I think in analyzing. what's going on here is hearing like the. salacious parts that people try to lead.

with, right? When you hear, oh, affair, I've seen headlines and, you know, all. this sort of stuff. that that's the. stuff where, you know, I think Jensen. Hang wants it to be more of a story. about that than all the other stuff that. Ben was speaking about. And so, he was. quick to admit, yeah, you know, I I I. was unfaithful to my wife. I apologize. This is between us. You know, we're. going to have to work this out. But the. fact is it's it's not uh this goes so. much deeper than that. And there's such. a concentration of strategic power.

within Nvidia with that company being. the kind of main choke point for these. advanced AI chips. And the fact that US. intelligence had flagged all of this a. long time ago, yet the Trump regime. still decided to loosen those H200. restrictions and and to uh there was. even a a moment where Jensen Hang wasn't. going to be going on the trip to China. uh with Donald Trump. remember when he. got all those AI execs uh to go there.

And uh you the rumors that are going. around right now is that was is that. that was because this intelligence had. come through that uh he was having an. affair with this Chinese asset with this. Chinese spy uh rather. But Trump found. out that Jensen Hang was not on this. guest list to go along with Trump and he. made sure that Jensen Huang came. And so. decisions like that now have to be put. under a lot greater scrutiny. I think. you see the markets reacting like this. You had every other tech stock basic.

tech tech stock basically up today. except for Nvidia because of this. I. think this is the tip of the iceberg of. of what we're going to learn and it's so. far reaching into all these aspects of. our society military. every the economy you know the fact that. there could be upwards of 20% of these. chips uh that were actually that Nvidia. is getting their income from China. through these intermediaries and stuff. I mean, this could be a major scandal. I'm also curious to see, you know, when. we see Donald Trump's stock reports, you. know, he probably knew the story was.

coming out. Did Trump sell any Nvidia. stock in advance of this report coming. out? Like, I I'm I'm We have to watch. for everything uh right now. And I think. this is the tip of the iceberg uh with. this scandal and we need to stay on top. of it. >> Yeah. Uh Lauren Boowbert lost her seat. uh Senator Tillis Bobo. >> Senator Tillis, Republican senator from. North Carolina who was pushed out by. Trump and then Democrats took over that. seat with Senator Cooper who we've had. here a few times. Tillis says he will be. voting yes on conviction of Hegsith and.

so I expect there to be a lot of. senators to actually vote to convict not. just to impeach and you know it's very. very possible that Hegsith actually gets. convicted you know which will be you. know a major major thing like he'll be. impeached the issue becomes conviction. and wouldn't that be Massiey's ultimate. revenge but rather than view it as a. story of revenge or this or that it's. the right decision it's the right thing. to happen because he has been so damn.

damaging to our country, right? This. whole regime has and I I said it before, you know, as I start to cover. international news and draw the. connections in such a deeper way over. the past, you know, several years than I. had before and you study the ways other. governments work, how coalition. governments work and how snap elections. work and all of these things that are. deeply important. You know, like in. Canada for example, if their governing.

party does not pass a budget with if. there's a coalition government, they. don't pass a budget, the government. dissolves and there's a new election. That's how they have to work together, right? You know, and so after a. repudiation like this in the election, that's why in other systems the. government goes and a new government. comes in because there's a mandate for. that. And so clearly right now we see. there's a mandate that these demonic. sick people who have engaged in these.

war crimes and cover up the epip that. they need to go. They need to leave. That's where the American people are. right now. That's the energy we've seen. from these younger Democrats who are. arriving, you know, and I hope that. message is really received loud and. clear because that is where the American. people are right now. Donald Trump ain't. gonna change. If this episode showed you. anything, you didn't need this episode. to show you that profound observation.

But he ain't he ain't change. He He's. demented. He's a sicko. This is who he. is his whole life. He's been a sex. predator. He's been a bankruptor. He's. been coddled, right? He needs to be put. in his place. That's what needs to. happen. And that's what we the people. did. So we need people in leadership who. understand that that's what we the. people want and we demand because we. want to get out of this era. We want to. get out of this hell. We want to get. back to democracy, compassion, empathy, love, normal. You know, so many people. come up to me when they see me at the.

book signings and elsewhere and they go, "Ben, I'm not a political person. I. don't even consider myself a Democrat or. a prog. I don't I just consider myself. like someone who wants just people to be. nice and people just to like love each. other and not hate and with these lies. and this crazy behavior. That's the. number one thing I hear when people. approach me is that why are they so. mean? Can we just go back to nice. people? And we'll end this episode where. we began with my wife Tommy Ben. These. people who are showing up on Capitol.

Hill, these new young Democrats, they. look nice and they look happy and they. look like they want to actually work for. the people. And it looked great to see. that. It felt great to see all these. people. And it really did. It feels. really good. But let's turn that good. feeling into good results, good outcomes. that make generational change. So, that's what we talk about in WTF. America: The Way Out of This Hell and. Back to Democracy. Get your copy, hardcover, ebook, or audio, or get all. three. Make sure you subscribe to our.

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