LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 6/15/26

We have a lot to discuss on this episode. of the mightest touch podcast. A. memorandum of understanding was reached. by Donald Trump with Iran and it is a. member of under memorandum of. understanding that may be signed on. Friday that provides for a framework to. potentially negotiate technical details. of a future framework involving multiple. preliminary discussions at a future time. that may involve a deal sometime in the. future. But what we gather is that the.

Trump regime has agreed to give billions. and billions of dollars to Iran, potentially more than $300 billion. dollars, which JD Vance, who MAGA. Republicans are now attacking as the. architect of this deal, didn't deny when. he gave interviews early this morning. But folks, all you got to do is just. paint it blue and say it's good and say. there's no algae and say it's amazing. and just say it's a great deal and just. try to sell it to the American people, right? I mean, the reflecting pool.

analogy, the reflecting pool metaphor is. so apt to everything this Trump regime. does. They said that they were going to. fix everything in the reflecting pool by. not actually addressing the issues of. where algae comes from, but just paint. the bottom blue, American flag blue, because then we could turn it into some. sort of culture war type issue if you're. against painting it blue. And then. voila, it's going to be amazing. As we. warned about on the Midas Touch network. in early May when we heard about this.

plan, basic science, basic facts would. tell you that it was going to become. infested with algae and be far worse. than it ever was before when frankly. this was not a top issue or a major. issue or really an issue at all that. Americans were focused about. And sure. enough, painting it blue didn't work and. the algae is back. But the significant. point I think I want to bring up on this. episode is that the algae comes back. You can try to hide what you're doing to.

the economy when you tariff the world. You can try to hide the damage you're. doing to America standing in the world. But ultimately, it turns out you didn't. do $21 trillion worth of deals last. year. It turns out that tariffs have the. impact that people who know this stuff. told you was going to happen. It's going. to rise. It's going to lead to rising. inflation and it's going to weaken your. standing in the world when you head to. France right now for the G7. And the.

world has kind of moved on from you and. you can claim you control the straight. of Hormuz or that your deal is so much. better than Obama's non-uclear JCPOA. deal. But when you ultimately take a. look at it, eventually you see the algae. and the cover up goes away and the. American people see it for what it is. and also see the kind of oddity and the. grossness of it like the algae that we. see right there. You know, this Trump.

doing this UFC event again, falling. asleep there, then flying to France. where bizarrely speaking to Mcronone. about the UFC fight and holding. Mcronone's wife's hand and just looking. lost and delusional. We're going to. cover it all and more here on the Midas. Touch podcast. Great to be here with. everybody. Brett and Jordy are here. We've got a lot a lot to discuss. including how this purported I say.

purported it's not a deal a memorandum. of understanding that may be signed on. Friday that will lead to technical. negotiations in the future how this all. kind of came about what the reaction is. well some might call this a concept of a. plan uh brothers it's it's good to be. here with you guys good to be here. mighty uh everybody watching us live or. everybody listening on audio podcast. It's just always great to be breaking. down the news with you, man. When I saw.

that Donald Trump wanted to get this. deal signed and he made his deadline, it. was so clear what was about to happen. because we had seen the tea leaves. leading up to this moment, right? We had. seen the utter capitulation. We had seen. the desperation flowing from Trump and. this administration. And at the end, before this kind of memorandum of. understanding was announced, what did we. also see? Donald Trump essentially just. bribing Iran. Whatever you want, take. it. Take it all. Please, please, please, please. What can we do for you? What can. we do for you? What could you I've never.

seen the United States of America in. such a place of weakness as it is. throughout this entire Iran war. And I. would say more than a memorandum, right? This is a surrender document from Donald. Trump. And I think it's pretty clear. when you look at just what's coming out. right now, you know, and it's and it's a. little hard because they're not they. haven't released the text yet. So, we're. now going off what the Iranians are. saying and what JD Vance and US. officials are saying. And there's some. overlap with those statements. And.

there's some odd phrasing that JD Vance. uses that hints that a lot of the things. the Iranians saying are actually correct. as to what this deal is and to how much. of a disaster this is for the United. States. Um, you know, and I think it's a. good point that you made up top and too. that this is not a deal. Everybody acts. like this is the deal. He did it. He. signed it. Peace deal. It's not it's not. a deal. It's an intent intent to work on. a deal. In effect, it's a it's an. extension of the ceasefire that already.

exists with a couple interim terms that. are non-binding as they then try to. figure out what the heck they're. actually going to agree on. And when it. comes to the very basic parts of the. deal like the control over the straight. of her moves and tolls in the straight. of Hormuz, it's clear that they are. still so far apart on those issues which. should be the first issues to address. the most the big the big issues, but the. most basic of issues that you could have. in any agreement. We're going to go.

through all of it, but you know, first I. got to check in with Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest? >> Brothers, mighty pleasure to be here. tonight. Excited to get into the show. Thank you all for downloading and. subscribing to the audio version of the. show. It's really helped us. Please, if. you haven't already, please subscribe to. the audio version of the Midas Touch. podcast, wherever you get your audio. podcast. Super easy and also super free. So, definitely check that out. Memorandum of a deal. You know what. that's that that's giving off. You all. seen The Office, right? Assistant to the. regional manager. Like that that's the. same energy memorandum of a deal is.

giving off. If the text of this. memorandum of a deal that Vance has been. going out talking about really. reflected, I think a lot of the. conversation um that MAGA wants you to. believe is in this was actually. reflected in in the physical text. Why. not release it? You know, they would be. the first people to release the actual. text so folks can understand what's in. this memorandum. what it what it I I'm. just going off of your word and then. when the person asks you the question on. on on TV and you dance around it, I have.

to kind of interpret what's in the deal. That's pretty shady. I think we have a. couple of clips that we'll show about. that. I think that kind of points to the. fact that maybe this isn't all great. Maybe maybe this isn't a win. Maybe this. is more of what Brett was alluding to a. surrender, a capitulation, however you. want to put it. I'm excited to get into. the show though. Benji, where are we. starting off? You know, I think I want. to say at the outset though, doing this. deal of all of the options was probably. the only option that existed. And so,

you know, I want to be very careful when. I talk about this because I don't want. any misunderstandings. about what my overall views of this war. were to begin with. Right? This was a. catastrophic and unlawful war that Trump. went into with Netanyahu. They made a. bunch of promises about what was going. to happen. They lied about everything. They engaged in more war crimes on top.

of war crimes they've already committed. And we should never have been involved. in this at all. Iran did not pose any. imminent nuclear threat. and everything. that was being sold to the American. people by Trump and Netanyahu was an. utter lie. And including the fact when. they said we're winning this, don't. worry, they're going to be total. surrender, total capitulation. So when. I'm being very critical of the deal, it.

is in the sense that there was a deal. that existed before and former President. Obama's non-uclear deal, the JCPOA, that Donald Trump pulled the United. States out of. was, by the way, kind of. certified and blessed by the United. Nations and Congress, and it was done on. a multilateral basis, the JCPOA. And when Donald Trump pulled the United. States out of the JCPOA in 2018, I did a.

video on it earlier this morning, former. President Obama on that day in May 2018. predicted everything that was going to. happen. America losing its credibility. internationally, that if you don't stand. by your deals, especially when they go. in front of the United Nations and. Congress, people won't trust you, that. it'll ultimately just lead to a war and. a worse deal, and that not everything. needs to be accomplished via military.

force and that there is a place for. diplomacy. And so when you look at the. terms that we believe exist in this. deal, they give more money to Iran than. former President Obama did. I mean, we. could be talking somewhere between $30. billion to 500 billion dollars in a. investment fund that Iran will have. access to. And it's being dressed up as. an investment fund. So it doesn't seem. like American taxpayer dollars are going.

to go directly to Iran or it's being. dressed up as Qatar is going to be. giving tens of billions of dollars to. Iran and the United Arab Emirates is. going to be giving tens of billion. dollars to Iran and money is going to be. unfrozen and given to Iran or all of the. sanctions from every entity against Iran. will now go away. United Nations. sanctions, IAEA.

board resolutions against Iran, um US sanctions, all related sanctions that the US is a. part of go away. And so what you could. be talking about when you add up the. costs of this war already, the money. that will be directed and funneled to. Iran either directly or indirectly, the. remaining costs of exiting, and then you. want to talk, I mean, if you want to.

look at second and third level. consequential costs about how this has. impacted our market, you could be. talking in the terms of trillions of. dollars. You know how Donald Trump likes. to pretend that we brought in trillions. of dollars, which we did not. This war. likely costs the United States trillions. of dollars, both in terms of money. outlays, future promises, opportunity. costs, and the hits to our economy. Not. to mention the future military budget of.

$1.5 trillion, which has a lot of hidden costs in there. to replenish stockpiles that were. expended for the United States to to. lose this war again. So, you look. through some of the terms that have been. published. And I'll just get to the. point. It looks a lot like the framework. that Iran put forward when there was the. initial ceasefire negotiations when. Vance and Witoff, you know, all went to. Pakistan originally and the US rejected.

it. It's basically those terms which you. rewind and were the terms that Iran was. saying, you know, late March and early. April when they talked about their. framework and Donald Trump reposted. foreign minister Aragi's framework. It's. basically um those terms. We will. apparently at some point get to see what. this document looks like. But in Iran, they're claiming it as a major victory. right now. Yes, there are some. hardliners in Iran who are uh pushing.

back and saying, "Why did we enter it?". But but overall, Iran's IRGC leadership. at this point, as more information comes. out, they seem to be happier about it. And as more information comes out here. in the United States, people seem to. have more questions. So the IRGC says. the Iran and this is Tasnim. They have. different a you know media agencies. This one is closely aligned with the. IRGC. They say what this deal shows is.

that the Iranian nation was able to. impose their will on coward enemies as. Thrron confirmed finalization of the. memorandum of understanding with the US. to end the war. I I guess why this is. different than past understandings and. why I think there's more of a belief. that this is actually going to have it's. not necessarily a deal, but it'll at. least have some repercussions. that Iran is now acknowledging the. existence of this. You have lots of.

Middle East nations acknowledging the. existence of this and you kind of have. in a different way the international. community saying that this is a real. thing. From our understanding, this was. signed by MB Galabah, Iran's parliament. leader and lead negotiator JD Vance and. Trump. So that there is a signed. document of written terms somewhere. And. I will just reiterate at the outset that. it's not normal for this not to be. produced immediately.

It's not normal to talk about frameworks. andus. that lead to potential future talks. where technical negotiations take place. where maybe pre-negotiations happen for. deals in the future. This is just I want. you to know that this is not normal, but. this is kind of Trump's behavior his. whole life. And it's part and parcel of. a plan to not live by your word if you.

don't have written words and you kind of. feast on the ambiguity. But Iran's been. able to outplay him and checkmate him in. those uh avenues as well. So, Donald. Trump, he has this UFC event, which is. very weird. I mean, you you you've heard. all of the offensive stuff that's come. out of it. You have these UFC fighters. who are out there saying on stage at the. White House, Michelle Obama's a man. And. it's like, that's not funny. I mean,

it's like, what are you like a weird. third grade bully? Like, it's it's not. even it's not humorous. It's not witty. It's not edgy. It's just it's rude. It's. pathetic. And this is the White House. that you're desecrating. Donald Trump. was also sleeping through most of it. He. then gets aboard uh Air Force One. And. then he, for those on audio, we're just. showing photos of Donald Trump sleeping. at the UFC event like Dana White had to. like nudge him. And then he goes to. France. And then Fox, state regime.

media, when he gets to France, because. there's a G7 meeting, Fox is like. applauding the idea that he's able to. walk. And you know, he looked horrible. in France. He looked like he wasn't even. there in the room, like he was. physically there. But Fox was acting. like uh oh my, this is incredible that. he's even able to walk and be awake. Like that's our standard right now for. the president of the United States. Let. me show you how Fox was describing his.

arrival in France as though it's some. major accomplishment that the guy's. alive and that his eyes are open and. that he was able to like I guess walk a. little bit. Not good, but here, let's. play what Fox had to say. >> They're talking about something. My main. observation so far is that this is the. first time I've seen a world leader. photo where the other leader, not Donald. Trump, gave a thumbs up if the president. just kept his hands at his sides. The. fact that he can even walk, Peter, given.

all he's been through in the last 24. hours, I think really is quite. remarkable. He's got to be beyond. exhaustive. >> Fact that he can even walk after all. he's been through in the past 24 hours. is really unbelievable. He he he he did some bizarre UFC event. and then because of his weakness and his. lies, he dragged us into a catastrophic. war and then has someou that was. announced that.

>> it's very hard to sign a docuign. You. have to first open up the website, type, click the button, it automatically does. your signature, and then you have to. click sign. And so that's a real. question for you though, Brett, and I'll. toss it to you and Jordy, you can maybe. answer after. Do you think he's even I. mean, I'm being dead serious and and I. think he hasn't. What I'm about to say, I don't think he's even read the. document. I don't even think he's looked. at the document. And I don't think he. ever will look at the document. I I. don't think he's much of a reader. Uh I.

doubt that he actually read the full. document, which is I think only like a. couple pages at this point. Um but he. was probably told by people what's in. it. You know, that that's how I. interpret it. I mean, we've heard, you. know, throughout the years, even when he. was at Saturday Night Live, he he. couldn't like read the sketches and he. needed people to explain it to him and. and to read it to him. And so, this has. been a thing with him in forever. Um, even before his old age. So, I I I kind. of completely agree with you, but I. think when we try to analyze, you know, this deal, and Ben, I could not agree.

with you more that to me any deal is. better than no deal at all. And you. know, I I don't think I I think we could. walk uh and chew gum at the same time, so to speak, and that we should be very. critical of the deal. I mean, it's and. say it's when it's a disaster for the. United States and and be very critical. of this war, which from day one has been. horrific for the United States. And it's. very clear that Iran has won this thing. It's a it's a total humiliation for the. US. That upsets me, but it's just a. fact. But I am happy to acknowledge that.

a deal is better than no deal. again, given the circumstances. Yeah. I, you. know, as I've said on this show before, as I've said on social media, yes, you're going to have to make some. concessions in order to end a sort of. war like this where that you started and. that backfired this badly. It's just. just just going to be a fact of things. But I'm I'm happy our soldiers should. not be in harm's way. Uh I I don't want. to see any hostilities in the Middle. East. I want to see peace in the Middle. East, even though there are a lot of. people who do not want to see peace in. the Middle East. And I think when you. reflect and you look around at the.

various reactions um throughout that. region and throughout the United States, it also kind of provides some insight. because you see Israel is like. apoplelectic about this deal. They think. it's like the worst deal ever. They. think that Trump completely sold them. out. I think that's one data point. I. think you have Iran other than maybe and. and and this has been actually moving in. the direction of people in Iran liking. the deal more and more the more they. learn about it. But I think you see the. Iranians celebrating this deal as a huge.

win, as a huge victory over the United. States. Then when you look at the in the. United States, you see uh the kind of. wararmonger folks like the Mark Levven. and and people like that are livid at. this deal. They think that it was a. complete capitulation uh to Iran and a. complete surrender to Iran because. ultimately they want to see more. fighting. They would love to see Donald. Trump drop a nuclear bomb on Iran. quite. frankly, people like Mark Leavvin and. and and the like Lindsey Graham, you. know, people like that. And so I I think.

you kind of look at all these things and. you get get a little bit of a sense of. of where this deal actually is even. without being able to read the text. But. I think even that's another data point. as Jordy was hinting at earlier. The. fact that they didn't rush it out and. actually release the text before signing. this, I think that's uh shows something. the fact that the person they seem to. try to be hanging this all on right now, JD Vance, somebody who we've heard. Donald Trump has not been the biggest. fan of lately, the fact that they're. trying to be like, "Yeah, JD's deal. JD, explain the deal. Go on CNBC, go on.

Hoover, go on these." I I I think that. says a lot also. You know, they're kind. of throwing JD under the bus with this. whole thing. You know, once the reaction. once people actually see what's in this. thing, they're going to go, "Oh, it's. it's Vance's idea. It was terrible." And. so I think when you take it all. together, you kind you kind of see the. the picture uh that's taking shape here. and we're going to learn more I guess. over the next few days. Um but you know. I think when you take it though from. what we know right now this see it seems. like Iran's surely getting a lot out of. it. And the United States spent hundreds.

of millions of dollars at least on this. war. Hundreds of billions of dollars on. this war already and now is going to be. spending billions and billions of. dollars more to help Iran rebuild what. we destroyed. Whether that's funneling. that through other Middle Eastern. countries like Qatar and the like, whatever they want to call it. I mean, that's that's what's happening. Let's. let's face it here. or whether it's one. of these payments of unfreezing the. Iranian funds which is looking like it's. going to be to many more billions than.

you know Obama ever did back in the day. when they were complaining about Obama. doing it and I remember them constantly. saying back then they would say oh yes. Obama on froze their own funds but money. is fungeible and therefore he's actually. giving them money I mean if you want to. run back those same arguments with. Donald Trump here you could run back. those same arguments it seems like. Donald Trump is giving the Iranians far. more money this regime. And you also see. the shifting rhetoric of Trump. throughout this process. I mean, there. was a quote that like I don't mean to.

say blew my mind because nothing. honestly shocks me so much anymore with. this guy, but in the Wall Street Journal. last night, one of the quotes that came. out from Trump was like, "Yeah, we don't. really care about the nuclear material. You know, we'll it's really it's. harmless. It's harmless. We'll go we'll. go in, you know, in a few months, maybe. we'll we'll talk about it. We'll we'll. figure out what to do." It's h that was. the whole justification for going into. this war. So he said that and in the. same article he also said, "Yeah, you. know, I don't really care much about. regime change. Not really not really a.

big deal. Not really something on my. mind when it comes to this deal. We'll. work with the new people. You know, I. just want to have a relationship with. the new folks. It's the same regime, but. more hardline folks who you're dealing. with right now." So, you know, and I I. had somebody respond to me on social. media media the other day when I was. speaking about this deal, and they went. on a whole thing. Oh, so you don't care. about the Iranian people, so you're okay. that the regime killed x amount of. Iranian protesters back? I said, "No, I'm not okay. That's why I think going. in there promising them that you were.

going to do this regime change war and. then trying to become buddy buddy with. the regime is not how you help the. people. You you're screwing the people. and you've killed the people with these. strikes. You bombed a girl school. You. you've done everything possible to. alienate those people who you pretended. to help. And now at the end of it, you. go, "Yeah, never really cared much about. that anyway." And that nuclear thing, me, I don't know. Maybe we'll figure. something out. Hopefully, we could open. the straight, though. The straight's. been open. The straight was open before. all this. And and now it's still in.

limbo. We still don't know who is going. to control the straight. Iran is saying. that they and Oman are going to be. controlling the straight. They're saying. that there's going to be this period, the 60-dayou period, the memorandum of. understanding period where there, you. know, maybe won't be tolls, but after. that, they're going to figure out a way. to implement tolls and Iran will make. far more money than they've ever made by. even unfreezing their own funds. Like. Donald Trump has set Iran, the Iranian. regime up, the oppressive Iranian regime.

that he acted like he wanted to. overthrow in the beginning, he set them. up to be richer than ever. He set them. up to be a major player. He set them up. to show that they could assert economic. dominance, not only over the United. States, but over the entire world by. simply shutting down the strait. At the. end of the day, Iran showed that they. had the cards and Donald Trump showed. that he was a paper tiger. >> Well said, Pete. Really well said, Ben. To go back and answer your question, too, no, I I don't think he's read the. text. I think it's well documented that.

he he doesn't like read long things. If. if there's a lot of words on paper, he. won't read it. What he does get are like. those bullet points. I think more so and. more concerning over this second Trump. regime that we're seeing now is that he. he's kind of dictating by vibes, right? He's letting a lot of the social media. chattering class like get into his ear. if it's a good deal or if it's a bad. deal or kind of it feels like that's how. he's dictating policy this time of this. time around. Not that he ever did any.

sort of critical thinking, but this now. more than ever as his cognitive ability. and as his own cognitive decline. continues to take shape. It feels like. he's just kind of leaning on more of the. people around him. Hey, how are people. how are people thinking of this? Am I. great? Are people loving this? And then. when he doesn't get the answer uh he he. wants, he like blows the whole thing up. and start starts from scratch again. So, I I still don't feel like we're we're. close again. this memorandum of. understanding this the assistant to the. regional manager if you will where is it.

if it is so great and you know does all. this great stuff and it's such a victory. for us why can't we read it what are. they trying to hide it it reminds me of. of of the pilots where are the pilots. right we had this great heroic rescue. mission where we we recovered our pilots. and we took them home and they're safe. and sound where are they time and time. again from MAGA that any time that they. spike the football like really spike the. football on a win or the perception of a. win. They they pimp out everyone and.

everything that they can, right? They'll. have them show up to the big speeches. They'll they'll they'll plaster them on. social media. They'll have, you know, press conferences about it. They're just. sending out JD Vance and being like, "Answer for this, dude." Like like go. ahead answer for this and try and. convince everyone this is so great. Meanwhile, like all we're asking for is. where's the text? You could say it's. this great thing or what not. Where is. it? We want to actually physically read. it. I don't understand what you're. hiding, but I do get what you're hiding. because it's probably not as great as.

you're trying to get the country to. believe it is. And then just the last. thing going back to that box clip, it's. amazing he's even walking right now. Like they they he said that so. earnestly. What was he do? It's not like. he just ran a mile or ran a triathlon, right? Oh my god, it's amazing. He's. even walking around. What what a stud. No, he was at his own birthday party. that the UFC decided to throw on the. White House lawn, you know, and have. this fight in front of him and everyone, which he fell asleep at and then he.

jumped on a plane, likely fell asleep. the whole time on the plane and then got. up and started shaking hands and. walking. And Fox News is like, it's. amazing he's in Milwaukee right now. That is like what what strength, what. what power. But you know what I think. it's actually alluding to brothers and. mighty Moore is that Trump's own. cognitive decline in physical ability as. it's seen to the public is clearly in. his head. He knows he has to. overcompensate or at least in the people. immediately around him. So I feel like. as if the people closest to Trump are.

sort of giving talking points because. they know he watches so much TV. Hey, talk about his energy. Talk about how. good he looks. Talk about how strong he. is. Make him feel a little bit better. about himself. I mean it's the kid. gloves. They treat this man well. >> Abs. Absolutely. It's all part of the. propaganda operation, you. [clears throat] know. Oh, wow. Even the. New York Post the other day ran the most. ridiculous headline like Trump defying. aging at 80. It's like, "All right, guys. All right, enough. Enough. Enough. En enough." But you know what? Who know. who agrees with the majority about theou. the memorandum of understanding? Like, you're an interesting company. And I. think we all are an interesting company.

with this one because you know who's. demanding to actually see the text of. the document? People like Mark Leavvin, people like Ben Shapiro. I saw uh. Senator Thun before he was asked, "So, what do you think about this so-called. deal?" And he goes, "I don't know. I if. if I can't see it, it's not real. So, I. have nothing to say about this." And so, when you when you put those pieces. together, you also see the reaction. coming from even the right in this. country, from these Republican voices, from MAGA voices, from some of the most. MAGA commentators out there who are. going, "Okay, if it's everything you're.

trying to sell me, then just show me. what it is." And look, well, we we want. to see it for different reasons than. they want to see it, though, right? They. want to see it because they know they. want to rip it apart and they want to. use it to throw Vance under the bus. because they're neocon wararm mongers. and they want to basically say we need. more war and we need more genocide and. we need more destruction. Right? I I. guess naively, but but for the love of. the country and the fact that I know.

people are suffering, I truly want this. to work. Like the the complex thing. about me reporting on such a vile regime. and such vile people like Trump and JD. Vance is I know. how on the brink we are as a nation to a. massive depression. And I know that most. Americans are actually feeling that.

right now worse than they felt in a. great recession. So from my own point, I. want to be constructive and I want to. try to figure out. what we can do or how we can look at. this because I truly want to I want. whatever this is to work. I want I I'm. glad when I heard that US tankers at. least from the satellite imagery have. left the immediate vicinity of the kind.

of the Persian Gulf Strait of Hermuz. the first time they've done that. I. think that's a good thing. I don't want. to root again like, you know, I I root. against Trump and Vance because of how. horrible they are. But then the complex. part of me is I know the people are. suffering and I don't want to root. against America getting the hell out of. there if that ultimately benefits the. people. If that makes sense. And that's. that's what I I this I'm opening up to. you in the vulnerability that I'm trying. to share is how hard sometimes it is to.

kind of cover this. I know they're con. artists. I know they're scammers. I know. thisou is yet another kind of Trump. fraud thing, but I want it to work. because I want people to get relief. I. don't want people can't afford anything. right now. And I think when the history. is written, if we somehow manage to get. out of this this piece of it, I think. we'll see that what was also a driving. factor here and Iran knew this is we are.

if not uh days or hours, like we're days. away from tankbottom conditions that. could result in some of the most. catastrophic conditions ever. And and. you know that by following the facts and. the science. The same way we reported, look, I'm going to tell you what happens. if you just paint the bottom of this. thing blue. It's in a hot, humid summer. reflecting pool. It's going to show the. algae even more. And you're not going to.

focus on the filtration and what you're. doing may be damaging it and it may be. causing more harm. You can't just paint. something blue. You can't just paint. over it. The algae comes back. Let's. talk about that and more when we come. back from our first quick break. A. reminder, make sure you hit subscribe at. our YouTube channel. Help us get 7. million subscribers. But as I've been. trying to push for lately, please help. us grow the audio are because we've been. pushing the audio. We've seen massive. growth lately in those audio numbers and.

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Vance is been the person kind of thrown. out there by the Trump regime to kind of. defend this agreement. He's been labeled. by Lindsey Graham and others as the. architect of this deal. And you can just. see the language though of the Lindsey. Grahams and the Mark Leven and kind of. all of these neocon warhawk type of. people is to frame this as a JD Vance. thing to try to build a wedge there. between kind of Trump and and Vance. And.

uh interestingly, it was about 45 days. ago or so where Donald Trump, I think, literally said during one of these press. conferences, "If the deal isn't good, I'm just going to blame J Vance for it.". Like he actually said that. I'll try to. pull up that clip. >> I forgot about that. Right. >> Yeah. I I think I'm going to while I'm. showing this, I'm going to try to find. that clip and and just to to put out the. data point, but so JD Vance first here. he is on CBS and they go the Iranians. are saying they're going to have access.

to $300 billion. True or false? And by the way, you know, I give CBS a hard time on a lot of. things, rightfully so. This is the right. way to ask the question, right? Yes or. no? Is this what's happening? Let's play. this first clip. Walk through some of. this. The Iranians are saying that. they're going to have access to a $300. billion reconstruction fund. True or. false? >> Well, Ed, that that's the sort of thing. they could have access to, funded by the. Gulf Coast coalition, so long as they. honor their end of the obligation. I.

think that one of the things you're. going to see, Ed, and and people have to. be skeptical of this, is that the. hardliners in the Iranian system will. overemphasize the benefits that Iran. gets while underemphasizing all the. things that they have to concede and all. the things they have to provide in order. to get these benefits. So we. >> Okay. Well, that goes back to a very. basic point. Publish the agreement and. just just show show us what it says. And. if it says it, it says it. If it doesn't. say it, it doesn't say it. And and.

ultimately, if it says it, we we we should come to. terms with what this really means and. and understand it. You know, if and I'm. not and I'm trying to be, you know, ultra realistic right here. I mean, look, America lost this war. And when. you lose the war, you have to make. concessions. That's part of losing the. war. And when I say we lost, Trump. promised X, Y, and Z were going to. happen. Regime change, obliteration, we're going to get their ballistic. missiles, knock out their conventional.

weapons that serve as a shield for the. nuclear. None of that stuff. None of. that stuff happened. Okay? So, but the. question is, and we're adults, we're. grown-ups. We can handle this. If if you. told me, hey, there's a $300 billion. fund. Here's the mechanism for it. This. is part of the kind of Gulf countries. that are building X, Y, and Z. And. here's part of the plan that's going to, you know, hopefully develop other other.

areas in the region. And that money. could, you know, that 300 billion can. lead to three trillion dollars in uh. economic growth that that America can. also take part in. And it's part of a. comprehensive peace strategy that we. never had before. And could this. potentially lead to a two-state solution. where Palestine can exist and the. genocide can end? Like you you can you. can like I'm I can handle it, right? Like you know, I can handle it. But if.

if you don't and it seems like just a. bribe or a payment and you're being. shady about it, then I think, wow, you're being shady about it because. there is you haven't thought through. these second and third and fourth level. consequences. When Obama unfroze $1.7. billion dollars in funds as part of the. JCPOA, it was part of a broader mechanism of. multilateral inspections that ensured. and this is an important point that.

people forget about the JCPOA. It created the mechanism not just for. Iran but for North Korea. And when. Donald Trump pulled out of the JCPOA, it sent the message that this template. that was going to be used for North. Korea would never work because the US. would never keep its word. So Kim. Jong-un viewed Trump's withdrawal of the.

JCPOA and say, "Got it. This guy is an. easy mark. Let's do the love letter. thing and drag this out and build the. nuclear weapons." So part of Obama's. thinking behind the JCPOA was North. Korea as well and it was reducing. proliferation of nuclear weapons and the. kind of law of the strong law of the. jungle as an international governing. principle and keeping kind of a. multilateral aspect. So, and and Obama.

told us, "Here's why these funds are. being unfrozen." And that was used by. Trump relentlessly to attack Obama. because it's easy to tear apart deals. It's easy to criticize, condemn, and. attack. It's hard to balance all of. these stakeholders in a complex world. and do a tough and do a and do a deal. that works. and Trump seeing that and. his plan to all of this is well let's.

just paint it blue now that's to me. that's the that's the symbolism of all. this just say it's good while degrading. the actual ability of America to be. America JD Vance uh said the following. on Iran also um he said what Trump. really wanted to do over these last six. weeks what this was all about is kind of. like building a friendship with Iran. Like that's what we really were like. what this was all about. And and we did.

that. We're now we're now cool. Here, let's play this clip. >> Economy to lift some sanctions and to. turn over a new leaf in that. relationship. What the president really. wanted to do, not just with the last 6. weeks, but really the last year and a. half of Iran policy is to get us to a. place where we could change our. relationship fundamentally with the. Iranians and ensure that they never have. a nuclear weapon. We feel that we're at. that place now. We're of course going to. continue to verify that. >> Okay. So the. most ridiculous I'm going to pass it to.

you, but I mean do you want to you want. to date them? Like I mean you know do. you want to date Mojaba Kmeni? I mean. you say the whole point of this war and. the bombing last June of their nuclear. facilities and then this whole war we. did all of this to be your friend. And. it reminds me of the Hamilton song, right? Where the king, you know, you. know, I'm going to send my whole. battalion to remind you of my love. Like.

we did this to show our love. We love. each other now. And it's like that's. it's a real demented thing to say. Sorry. Brit. I was saying the real deal was the. friends we made along the way. you know, Trump, >> I'll send a fully armed battalion just. to remind you of my love. Da da da da. I. mean, when you think about in the future. the character of the sleepy I mean, it's. like the script is written, the sleepy.

demented guy yelling about UFC, you. know, uh, like can't even walk straight, you know, saying these absurd, we're. friends now, we're cool now. And it's. like what what what I did a video on. this over the weekend also that part of. the Iranian negotiating team consulted. with the top psychologist and. psychiatrist in Iran and diagnosed. Donald Trump as being a clinically.

mentally ill person. And you know, frankly, you didn't need all of that to. see it, but they had to negotiate. clinically as though they were dealing. with a patient in a psychiatric ward and. they had to send messages with that. clinical diagnosis that that that that. they made. And so I'll show you this. one, then I'll toss it to Breton Jordy. You then have George Stephanopoulos who. said, um, so Trump said that there would. be no deal unless there was.

unconditional surrender. That's what you. all said, unconditional surrender. So. how is this that? And you'll see JD Van. says this is it. This is what. unconditional surrender is. Let's play. it. >> Thank you for joining us this morning. You know, back on March 6th, about a. week into the war, President Trump put. out a a post on Truth Social saying. there will be no deal with Iran except. unconditional surrender. So why did he. reverse course and agree to this deal. now? >> Well, George, I don't think he reverse.

course. I think fundamentally the. president's argument was we are going to. use the military to exert pressure on. Iran and we're going to get something. that is good for the American people and. now we have that. >> Oh, got it. That that that's what this. is. And and by the way, again, I don't. want to. I I don't want you to think that I. supported this unlawful and catastrophic. war and that I support unconditional. surrender and invading the sovereignty. and and and engaging in these war crimes.

that have that I'm just trying to point. out that they said unconditional. surrender was what they wanted and now. they're selling that the better. relationship ship is a form of. unconditional surrender and it just they. all think that we're just stupid. like. they all just like that's the whole. approach is that everybody is you know. you know that the same people and and I. don't mean to be offensive but it was. offensive what took place that the.

people who were cheering when a UFC. fighter said Michelle Obama is a man is. how the level of thinking of most. Americans are and that you can just tell. them you know you know this this was. what we wanted and THEY GET HELL YEAH, MICHELLE OBAMA. And it's like, okay, guys, guys, guys, guys, you know, all of. the problems that you're facing right. now and suffering from are being caused. by this. Wake up and see it. This isn't. a political just recognize what the.

hell's happening, Britain Jury. And when. you listen even way the way that Vance. framed things right there, you see kind. of the rhetoric, you know, because the. basic question that I think every. American should have at this point as. the deal terms come to light, right? And. as you don't see that unconditional. surrender from uh the Iranian regime and. in fact it looks kind of like the. opposite of that quite frankly. But you. look at what's the deal is here and what.

at least what we're seeing what this. memorandum of understanding for a future. deal is here. And then you look you go. back into the past and you try to think. okay what was the negotiated uh what. were they negotiating back in the day uh. before war even broke out uh when Oman. was mediating this thing and we were. hearing what was going back and forth. between the Iranian regime and the Trump. regime and what were they saying? And. the thing you cannot tell me with a. straight face, I'm sorry, is that what. we are getting now out of this deal is.

we would have gotten without the war in. the first place. In fact, it's worse. And so you're seeing the shifting of. rhetoric and you heard it from Vance. there and you hear it now every time he. is asked about this war and this. memorandum of understanding that they go. well yes you know we're making this. memorandum of understanding or we're. making the great deal whatever they want. to call it. The only reason we're doing. that is because we showed them that.

we're tough and that we showed them how. forceful we are and they saw the might. of the American military. Yeah. And. that's just not the case. I mean, you in. fact, you showed the opposite. You. showed that yes, we may have a very. powerful military and our soldiers and. are are certainly second to none, but. the strategies deployed here by people. like Pete Hex in the Middle East and. Donald Trump in the Middle East were a. complete and total disaster. And they've. left our uh they left our bases. destroyed in the Middle East. They've.

left our munitions deployed. And. essentially Trump ended up being kind of. forced into doing this deal because he. had to keep pulling from our reserves, including from today our reserves, our. oil reserves are lower than they've been. going back to the Reagan administration. And so they basically put the United. States and the global economy in a. really bad place to get a memorandum of. understanding of a future deal that. looks worse than they were negotiating.

before war broke out. Something that. they could have done without losing the. lives of American service members. Something that could have happened. without killing hundreds of innocent. girls at a school in Iran. Something. that could have happened without killing. hundreds and thousands of other or not. hundreds of thousands but hundreds and. thousands of other Iranian people and. people in across the region. All the. things that have come from this war. It. all could have been avoided by just. skipping through all the fighting part. and engaging in the diplomacy part,

which was the point of these. negotiations in the first place. But. they have to show, oh, look, we're. macho. Look, we're fighting. And I think. the UFC comparison that Ben made is. incredibly apt in this scenario because. that's kind of the lizard brain that is. coming from this government. It has. nothing to do with logic. It has nothing. to do with let's follow the actual. evidence. Let's follow the facts. Let's. use that and use what is in black and. white here. Let's use the actual data. points to try to form an opinion to try.

to come to something that works for the. American people, works for the Iranian. people, works for the entire world, but. instead to try to go with that, oh, we're macho. We're going to bomb them. into submission. We're going to we're. going to paint the thing blue. We're. going to cover up the none of that stuff. works. It's all patchwork stuff that. actually reveals your weakness. underneath it. I I I think the the. reflecting pool is perhaps one of the. biggest metaphors that we have seen for.

this entire Trump administration, for. this entire Trump regime. The fact that. you could go in brute force, you roll. over the thing in a motorcade, you have. your people not look to actually fix the. problem just like they didn't fix the. problems that are here uh with Iran. Instead, just try to paint over it and. then hope for the best. Even as while. you're doing that, all the experts are. telling you the same thing. All the. experts are telling you the algae is. going to come back and the algae is. going to.

and it's going to attract heat. You. could really you could apply this to. everything that every crisis that Trump. has handled like in history probably far. before he was president. But you could. also go back to COVID, all the. scientists telling him exactly what was. going to happen and him saying, "No, no, no, no, no. We're good. We're good. We're good." You can't wish this sort of. stuff away. You actually have to follow. advice. You actually need people who are. discerning. You actually need people who. can follow the facts. And they just. don't care about that. They think that.

they could get everything done with. brute force. And we have seen now that. that is just not how these things are. solved. And if they were solved that. way, we would have won this war uh. dramatically and we'd be in a very. powerful position here. we would have. won all these past wars going back. before Donald Trump and uh Iraq wouldn't. have been a disaster and uh Vietnam. wouldn't have been a disaster and all. these other conflicts that we've seen. wouldn't have been disasters. But brute.

force is not always the way to get your. way. We've just like we we have to learn. that as a country and other countries. need to learn that as well. We need. actual smart people getting in the room, following the facts, and actually. engaging in diplomacy in order to come. to agreements that work for the public. at large, not just feeding the egos and. this sort of look at me, I'm macho sort. of mindset. >> Really well said, B. I just want to. comment quickly on Stephanopoulos. Um, and just how like the media is treating.

this van sort of pray. And look, I'll. give Stephan Stephanopoulos like credit. He asked the question. It's wonderful. The other gentleman asked the question. too. True. true or false. But then when. you allow Vance to not answer the. question and just filibuster and say a. bunch of non sequittors and then and. then I don't know just just continue to. just say things that don't line up with. the question and he's not even giving. really logical answers to the questions. being asked. I get frustrated. I get. frustrated because it's like okay what. what are we what are we doing here? What.

is the purpose of this? And also. wouldn't you feel a certain amount of. shame if you tried? true or false and. then he just goes on and starts speaking. just random sentences as the host. Don't. you like aren't you upset? He didn't. answer your question. He doesn't care. about you. He doesn't think you're a. strong interviewer. He thinks he could. just bully right over you. But okay, you. >> my my my counterpoint would be that is. an answer. And and and the fact that he. doesn't answer uh the true or false that. he won't be direct actually speaks. volumes. And so I think you are actually.

getting a lot out of somebody like JD. Vance in those scenarios. Actually, personally, I actually think I think all. those interviewers actually did a really. really good job with the. >> Well, I want answers. >> I want real answers and I want to read. the answers and I think it's being I. think it's very. >> I think Vance just look like an utter. clown. Honestly, I think. >> he the clowns himself every chance he. gets. Every time he gets up there, he. just knows he has to go up there and. kind of eat it and he just he looks. ridiculous. But this is where my. thoughts are complex, but I have to. admit the vulnerability in my reporting. if he was the voice in there that truly.

was we need to do this, I also support that. You know, I don't. support him. Let me be very clear. But. if he was the lone voice that prevailed. over Hegith and Rubio and other neocon. wararmongers, I don't like Vance. I I do appreciate though the human being. that that pushed us in a direction of at. least temporarily.

do not escalating this war and and not. rising through the escalatory trap. We're still in it. We're not out of it. and it's painting blue a complex. situation. But that's where I struggle. with it because I don't feel Let me be. clear. I don't feel bad for Vance, but. if he's the voice out there that's. trying to sell something that ultimately. we need because our country ain't going. to be able to survive when oil hits tank.

bottom, right? And and if and if gas. prices hit $10 a gallon. So, if this. stops that, I also am very, you know, I'm I I have these complex feelings. based on my desire to say, I just want. to get out of this. We need to get out. of this thing. And and if he's the only. one fighting for it, good, you know, and. I'm not supporting him. So, anyway, I I. just I I want to I want to share that. When we come back, I want to talk a. little bit more um about what's going on.

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obvious that what's going to happen and. is happening already is the neocons, the. war hawks, Netanyahu's government, who's. linked inextricably with them here in. the United States are going to do. everything they can to try to disrupt. this deal. they are so heavily invested. in these perpetual never-ending wars, you know, in the Middle East that we're. going to see an unrelenting effort to.

try to undermine. this memorandum of understanding. And. we're already seeing, you know, at the. CIA level, Ratcliffe, Rubio, Hegsith. turning strongly against Vance. We've. seen the defense minister in Israel. saying Lebanon is ours. He says that. Lebanon is ours. I mean, that's what. they're saying. We're not getting out. Smutri, Bengavir, all those people in. the Netanyahu government are all saying.

that we are going to just continue to. relentlessly. uh they said the homes in Lebanon are. ours. We're going to continue to attack. in in in Lebanon. and. the security guarantees. that that won't happen in Lebanon is a. major part of this deal. And when Israel. struck in Da in Beirut over the weekend. and Iran was about to respond and. retaliate with strikes in Israel from.

all of the reporting, that's when Iran. through the mediators in Pakistan and. Qatar. basically said to Trump, "You have to. put in this draft text security. guarantees for Lebanon or Iran's going. to strike and things are going to get so. much worse. And that was the final outstanding issue. to actually put security guarantees. inside Lebanon.

in the text itself. And Iran has made it clear that we view. Israeli attacks inside Lebanon as United. States attacks inside Lebanon. we'd think that you're linked at the hip. and we don't trust at all that if Israel. attacks that that's you're going to just. distance yourself from that. We we think. that there's no deal if that takes. place. So, what I'm obviously very.

concerned and deeply worried about, you. know, happening, you know, almost to the. point where I keep checking my phone. because again, I I want there to be a. durable peace and I'm thinking, you. know, when is it that Netanyahu is going. to attack in Da or Ty or sir? When is. that going to h? Am I going to wake up. to that again? and then Iran's going to. launch missiles and then we're going to. be back into this situation that that. that that that Netanyahu wants us to be. in. And and so I just we we need to be.

cognizant of those dynamics uh taking. place right now. We we've been talking. about this idea of paint it blue and I. think it is a very apt analogy for for. everything and I just I want to give you. again a very short history to to to keep. this analogy or metaphor whatever to. keep it going which is in 2012. Obama made it the Obama administr this. wasn't you know the reflecting pool.

wasn't like an issue that was in the top. probably 1,000 issues isues or 5,000. issues or 10,000 issues. It's it's. something that you consider in terms of. your interior secretar's role and the. beautifification of DC, but it's not, you know, in the swing of all of the. issues you're dealing with. But one of. the issues was that it was using the. drinking water in Washington DC and. where there are water shortages. um using the drinking water to fill a.

reflecting pool. Um is not a great way. to deal with water conservation. I mean. call yourself woke or whatever. Um it's. it's a waste of water and there are. water shortages. It it's it become a. major problem to people living in DC. So. they changed from basically the same. water source that was being used for. your kind of tap water or your water. that was you know in the showers and. whatever and it was moved to basically. get all of the water from the POMIC from.

the PTOIC basin which has algae in it. And so then they thought, okay, if we. build a filtration system that could. deal with it as much as we can because. it's dark and reflecting, you know, does. it really matter if there's that much. algae? Because we're not going to paint. it blue. And we'll just deal with the. algae and hopefully this filtration. system work. I think they called it like. a nanobubbler filtration system. And for. those who study algae, how algae spreads.

and reproduces asexually and sexually. If you go study the way algae can. spread, you know, microscopic algae can. get through any good filter and then it. could grow and grow and grow rapidly and. and very quickly through both forms of. kind of reproduction. And it especially. fers in high humidity areas, low water. areas, and.

you can see it more obviously if the. bottom is painted a certain type of. color. Um, and so it was obvious what. was going to happen. And so because. Donald Trump wants a way to attack Obama. and attack Biden and attack whatever, he. then went through this process. And you. could have if you wanted to fix the. issue. I mean, you know, it would be. very hard to fix it just, you know, in. general just based on the dynamic of it.

Maybe we should have had a tough. conversation about the idea of this. reflecting pool and, you know, is is it. a is the costbenefit analysis of it. worth it? And do we need to develop how. much money should we be spending into. it? And there may be tough conversations. around that. you know, if there's always. going to be algae and it's going to be a. problem. But Trump made all of these. grandiose promises that ended up, you. know, that ended up failing. So to me, that was one symbolism. And then we. can't forget the other symbolism that I.

thought, which is when the court ordered. he remove his name from the Kennedy. Center and he removed Trump from the. Kennedy Center. What did he do? We saw. him build that scaffolding that whole. day. We're like, why are they building. the scaffolding? Didn't they use the. cherry pickers and the, you know, just. the easy cranes to to to build it? Just. just take it down the same way. It's. easier to take it down than to put to. put it on. To put it on, you have to. measure it, make sure it's symmetrical, you know, but pulling it down is. relatively easy. So, we saw them.

building the scaffolding the whole day. And it was like, you built the. scaffolding so you can then put tarp. over the scaffolding to hide the removal. of the name Trump and then leave the. then leave the tarp up so that nobody. can see what's even there anymore. And. so I said, and we all said, "This is the. embodiment of a coverup." As they're. covering up the Epstein files, as. they're covering up Trump's fraud, as. everything's a cover up, they literally. put a gigantic cover up. They put tarp,

a cover up over the Kennedy Center. And. I was like, what? Yet another like. direct symbolism of of what is going on, painting it blue and the visualization. of this of this coverup. But, you know, ultimately, and for those on audio, we're showing what the coverup looks. like. And and the pettiness, if I can't have my name on it, nobody. can see John F. Kennedy's name on it. Like, why? like why a and it accentuates. the problem even more. Kind of same.

thing with painting it blue. Now we all. see the algae and yeah may have been. something that people may have dis but. now we're all focused on the algae. We're all focused on the you've brought. more. It's all backfired, right? The. same way everything in this regime. backfires. Yeah, you can say you had $21. trillion that you brought in, but you. didn't. And guess what? The debt. increases, the deficit expands. Treasury. bond yields went up. We were running out. of oil. We were going tank bottom. And.

then your failures. were accentuated, were amplified, right? The Epstein files, you know, you can I. mean that Epstein file, Trump was using. it for years and years and years, right? Everybody else was in the cabal, this, that, and the other. And then when his. bluff was finally called, he stretched. this out. Stretched this out. stretch. this out until finally people like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Clearly, you're covering this up in the worst way.

imaginable." And everybody then started. focusing on the cover up and paying. attention to it. And the more you dug. into it, the worse it got, the worse it. got, the more algae you saw, the more. blemishes, the more uh the more. inextricably intertwined Trump was in. this coverup. And speaking about the JD. Vance aspect of this all at the end of. last week, we hear this bombshell New. York Times reporting about these. meetings in the situation room where JD.

Vance was holding these meetings about. Donald Trump enga, you know, these. accusations or these emails and. documents that made very serious. accusations against Donald Trump and. should we release this email or that. email and what do we do with Gileain. Maxwell and do we have her sit with. Tucker or do we have Blanch be involved. in the cover up and do we move her to. this facility or that facility. And so. as we approach the midterms, we are. really seeing the rapid collapse of this.

regime to the point where, you know, what was it? uh 16 uh I don't need to. play the whole clip, but Harry Anton was. reading a Fox poll and it was like like. only like 16% of like Americans. support what Donald Trump was doing with. the UFC. You know, he's at a negative. 50% approval on the issue of inflation. I mean, people are just so over this. regime, Brett and Jordy,

you know, in such a big way. Brett and. Jordy. >> Yeah, absolutely. And you know, it's one. of those things, uh, you know, you've. talked about on the show a lot the rule. of holes, and it's kind of what Trump. does in all scenarios, right? When he's. in a hole, he keeps on digging. He keeps. on digging. He keeps on digging. It's. like, you know, when a kid knocks over a. vase and they decide that they're going. to try to then glue the pieces back. together, it only accentuates the fact. that you broke the vase. >> Sounds personal. Did you do that? >> Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. I'll. have to think psychologically where that.

came from. I don't know. It is. [clears throat] It is awfully specific. Do you remember when we were in Sharper. Image and you knocked over all of those. robots? >> I do. I do. They had a big robot in. Sharper Image. Uh that was a very. expensive robot and I decided I would. lean on it and I didn't realize that it. wasn't a table but a little platform and. it crashed and broke everywhere. Luckily. I was a adorable little kid and I think. he let us off the hook without the. worker let us off without buying it. But. you I like I I just have to say like the. the the damage that has been done and. like the um amount of failure that we.

have seen in all of these different. scenarios as Trump tries to do these. kind of patchwork fixes for things that. actually require effort and require. decisionmaking. Like if we made this up. in the most wild of mightest predictions. and we're like I'm tell and we did. predict that this would be green. I. don't think we predicted that it would. turn green in like 3 days or 2 days or. whatever it was. But if we were like, "Yeah, no, it's going to look like like. someone dyed it. It's going to look like.

you know what Chicago the Chicago River. looks like during St. Patty's Day when. they like dye the Chicago River green. It's got that isn't even as green as. this thing is going to look, right? You. would have all the Twitter people. You. would have all the various MAGA. commentators going TDS, TDS. How could. you possibly say that? You just hate. Trump. You just And it's like, no, no, but that's actually what happened here. I mean, this is actually just.

mindblowing when you look at these. images, and I know a lot of the people. listening, I'm sure you have seen the. pictures that we keep showing on the. show, but it's not only green, it's like. neon green. It's bright green. It's like. Ninja Turtles. It's like Shrek. Like it. is. This is as green as green gets right. here. And it just is such a clown show. And so of course you see the MAG of. people online. And this to me also just. shows the psychology of of the. supporters, right? Because they refuse. to acknowledge that anything is wrong.

And so the first thing that the Trump uh. regime does, they go like like and and. this was a joke I saw thrown around, but. it's like literally what they did. They're like, "It's Biden's algae. It's. Obama's algae. It's residual algae is. the term that they used. Okay, it's not. residual algae. What are you talking. about? It's not residual algae. And then. you saw the Trump people who their first. step was flatout denial. And I saw them. saying, "Oh, no, really? Because I saw. this picture and the picture looks. great." And I'm like, "Okay, you saw.

Trump's AI picture that he posted a few. days ago or you saw a picture ironically. of what it looked like two weeks ago. before they embarked on this project. Yeah, it looked much better back then.". And then when it becomes clear, like. they actually, some of these people. visit the reflecting pool on their own. to see what it's like and they see it's. bright green. I saw a video of this MAGA. influencer today that was like, it just. doesn't make sense. It has to be. Democrat sabotage. It's sabotaged by the. Democrats because they don't want it to.

look good. It's like, no, dude. Just be. normal. Please be normal. We don't need. UFC fights on the lawn. We don't need. your you painting the pools blue. We. don't need you going out there and. talking about the military in these. ridiculous WWE style terms. Let's. actually just get experts in there. Let's get people to know what the hell. they're doing. Let's follow science. Let's follow strategy. Let's have some. semblance of decency in this country. We. don't need all of this chaos. And just. enough with the BS. So many of the.

things that we speak about and so much. of this stuff, it's not like the. reflecting pool was not a Democrat or. Republican issue. So many of these. things are not even partisan things. It's just you have these freaking clowns. right now in power who just are they're. just morons. They're just really really. really they're moronic. They don't. follow facts. And that to me is like one. of the most damaging things imaginable. They've turned the White House into a. trailer park. They've made it look just. so so so low rent. They have just made a.

fool out of the United States on the. global stage. And I know Ben is going to. do deep dives on this about the G7 and. and what's going on over there and what. Mark Carney is saying in Canada. But you. see how it's affecting the United. States's global standing. once looked at. as a beacon of the world. Once looked at. this is a country that may be imperfect, but they are fighting and the ark is. bending towards justice and towards. democracy and a fairer and more decent. society and they are trying to act as.

protectors of the world and of Europe. and Canada. Now they're saying Europe is. the future. We need to be looking to. Europe. We need to be looking to China. we need to be looking to all these other. countries that are far more stable than. the United States because whatever the. hell is going on there, we do not want. to be a part of it and it's not good for. us and it's not good for the United. States either. And so, you know, that's. that that's basically me tying it all. together right there. But it's it's it's. just it's just a freaking mess. But, you. know, we'll continue to dig our way out.

of it. Um, rather than using the uh rule. of holes like Donald Trump does, uh, we. will actually dig our way out of it with. logic and with reason and with facts and. with science and with decency and get. all of this MAGA BS behind us. >> Exactly. Ben Brad, real quick, I I've. never heard anyone describe the color. green as Ninja Turtle green before you. two. And so I just want that's how I am. exclusively going to refer to to green. things that that look Ninja Turtle green.

from now on. I think it's a great way to. describe the color green. >> It looks like a freaking glow stick. You. know those glow sticks you get at like. bar mitzvah and weddings and it looks. like a glow stick. It's it's it's that. like I said, if I said that this is what. it was going to look like, you'd be. like, "Come on, that's AI. This. ridiculous. This is insane. >> It's not the fact that it is insane and. a glow stick and Ninja Turtle green.". But it's just I it's it's a metaphor for. the larger ethos of the Trump regime,

which is paint it blue, which is I'll do. whatever I want here. I'm gonna paint it. blue. You're not going to know any. better. COVID happens. Stop the testing. Slow down the testing. No cases. COVID. happens. Chinese spy balloons are in. here. I'm not going to tell anybody. That didn't happen under my presidency. Only Only the other guy's presidency. So. Chinese, no, didn't happen. Not here. And then tarp. Put up the tarp over the. Kennedy Center. Do that. Dude, cover it. up. That That speaks to the children. that are in charge right now. No offense.

to children. They're worse than. children. And Brett, they're maliciously. moronic is the issue is they know that. they they should know better. And they. do know better, but yet they still. decide to do the dumbest and most evil. outcome that I I guess only benefits. them. But I I don't fully understand why. they think painting the reflecting pool. blue and having it turn Ninja Turtle. green as a side effect would be good. play for them in the long haul when.

every expert was telling them, "Hey, don't do that then.". >> Yeah. And he This is the what I'll leave. everybody with though because this is. how I think we try to think about things. is how do we get out of this cycle? Because when you fix these things with. the appropriate degree of care, it can. be very painful. When former President. Biden had to address the reality that he.

was handed and he was transparent. about the problems and he ripped the. bandage off and had people fix it. The same way. if you kind of cover up the injury or. you just put a lot of bandages over it, you don't see it, but it doesn't mean. the wound isn't there. And it could be. very painful to try to fix it. When you.

see it, it may immediately conjure. certain reactions that can cause fear. and panic. But you have to fix it. And. in four-year political cycles or when it. comes to Congress, two-year political. cycles, it becomes very easy for a. concerted opposition. to offer nothing constructive other than.

to purely tear down and to be against. And what Trump has been successful at, I. don't mean this in a positive way about. him, is he's been able to really attack, bully, divide, demean, oppose, and spread lies and conspiracies. He's. been very effective at tearing down and. destroying. under the ultimate fraud in my opinion.

that he is a builder and a dealmaker. when he's actually the opposite. He is a. destroyer and a deal ripper. So how do. we and I and I mean this this is this is. the true goal and it requires us not to. think as a Democrat, Republican, independent. It truly asks us to take a. step back and to think holistically as. Americans who simply want the best for.

future generations. How do we fix this system long-term? And how do we push back and prevent the. divisive. tricks, chainery, culture wars that. truly prevent us from uniting and and. building a better future together. And. that's where what's what we think about.

every day, you know, in in our coverage. And so you may go, "Well, okay, that's. great, Ben. who identified the problem, but what's your solution? And the. solution though to me is part of. accurate news dissemination. And it is. unifying around values and principles. and enduring truths as Americans and as. citizens of the world to improve.

fundamentally. our lives. It asks us to think. critically about the motivations and. intentions of people who want to divide. us and why. It asks us to really reflect. on what's truly going on and how we can. keep a guard to all of that and unite. together around common values and. principles. And that's what we try to do. here also is to encourage that not as a.

political party but as a organizing. concept for how we live our lives and. how we can help each other and care for. each other and love each other and. support each other through this all. So. I'll stop preaching and I'll leave you. with that. You can't just paint it blue. Okay? You got to deal with the systemic. issues. You got to deal with the truth. and you got to be honest with people. if. you really want to fix these problems.

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