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We've got a lot to cover on this episode. of the Midas Touch podcast. Might as. Touch host Katie Fang with a massive. legal victory under the Epstein. Transparency Act in federal court in. Washington DC. A federal judge EMTT. Sullivan ordered the Trump regime to. comply with a preliminary injunction to. turn over critical documents in the. Epstein files along with the privilege. or redaction log. Great work, Katie. Fang. We'll talk about that on this.

episode. We'll talk about how Iran. struck a Singaporean cargo ship in the. Strait of Hormuz after warning, "You. need Iranian permission if you're going. to traverse the Strait of Hormuz. Ignore. us at your peril." Marco Rubio, Donald. Trump, and others in the Trump regime. said, "Hey, ignore them. We have secret. side deals that you don't know about. Just use the Omani route." So that's. what the Singaporean ship did. And I'll. tell you what that Singaporean ship got.

It got shot by the Iranian Navy, which. the Trump regime says doesn't exist. And. now there's a UK MTO, a UK maritime. advisory warning, saying you must follow. the Iranian path or they will shoot at. you and they will disable your ships. Wait a minute. I thought the SAPA IRGC. Navy doesn't exist. I thought it was all. talk, all bluff. Marco Rubio's in the. Middle East trying to say that to the. United Arab Emirates and to Bahrain and.

Kuwait. And guess what? The United. States has zero credibility right now. You have those Gulf Council cooperation. countries looking for reconciliation. with Iran, a new strategic defense. architecture in the Middle East that. Iran will be leading right now along. with China pushing the United States. out. We'll talk about that. Where the. hell's Donald Trump in, by the way? I. mean, I'm glad I don't see him. I'm glad. he's not posting. But for a guy who.

talks a lot of smack and trash and lies. and fraud, and by the way, Iran's MB. Galabah, their lead negotiators, like. mocking Donald Trump. Yeah, I guess you. you guys are trash talkers, but we all. know how weak you are. Donald Trump has. said the Iranian Navy is destroyed. We. control the straight of Hormuz. Yeah, right, Donald. And then he just goes and. he cowers. Then he goes and he'll say, you know, look, look how strong we are. We've never been this powerful. And he. gave that weird speech in Washington DC.

for America's 250th anniversary. Cash. Patel's girlfriend performed at the. beginning. The whole thing was really, really weird. You had Shawn Duffy, whose. daughter has Down syndrome. He said the. most horrific words while his daughter. was standing there. It was like a hard. what a a horrible thing. People started. walking out during the middle of this. thing. We'll talk about that. Inflation, as you all know, is surging. Another hot. reading of PCE at 4.1%. yearover-year, and that continues to.

rise. As I've said, we'll probably hit. 5% 6% soon. The average savings of. Americans is diminishing. Apple and. Microsoft are raising their prices. That. and more on this episode of the Midas. Touch podcast. We've got a lot to. discuss. Brett and Jordy, great to see. you. And I just want to say again at the. outset, Katie Fang, a true hero, a. legend, and we often get asked, you.

know, you guys talk a lot and you know, you do this media stuff and the shows, but when are you going to take action? I. say, look, running a media network is a. big deal, I think. You know, and it's. important to counteract and combat the. disinformation silos and state regime. media. But it's incredible to be. affiliated with hosts like Katie Fang. who are walking the walk. And same day, State Regime Media Fox was attacking us. today and saying all these new Democrats. who are winning the election, all. they'll do is show up on the Midas Touch. Network. That's all. They're not going.

to actually change policy. They'll just. be sitting next to my on the Midas Touch. Network. Brad and Jordan. >> Good to see you, Ben. Good to see you, Jordy. And I gotta give a shout out to. Katie Fang as well. A huge. congratulations. This is a huge step. forward for transparency. A huge win for. Katie Fang. Most importantly, this is a. huge win for the survivors. Um really. looking forward to what happens next. Trump is expected to appeal. We're going. to get to all the details of that, but. you know that they are doing everything.

imaginable that they can to hide these. files and to hide the details of some of. the info we've seen, especially as. related to Donald Trump and all their. attempts to muddy the waters surrounding. the release of the files. So, shout out. Katie Fang. What incredible, incredible. work. And uh we'll continue to keep you. updated on all of that. And you know, it's funny. more I hear about what's. going on uh with uh everything over in. the Middle East right now goes back to. what we've been saying here for weeks.

that Trump and all these officials have. constantly been projecting this entire. time saying that Iran is in disarray and. that the Iranian regime they they can't. they they have all these disagreements. from within and they're being pulled. apart and Iran doesn't control the. strait and actually Iran's just telling. everything about thisou and everything. about all the deals with the United. States specifically for their domestic. consumption and don't believe anything. they say. But every single day we're.

seeing that the reality of this because. it's written in paper and we're seeing. the results of this in the form of. missiles being fired in the form of. money being released to Iran that it's. actually Donald Trump and the Trump. administration, the Trump regime who are. the ones who are projecting and they are. the ones who are performing for a. domestic audience by going on state. regime media such as Fox and spreading. blatant lies about what we could all see. in black and white. We're going to get. into a lot of news today, so I'm going. to pass it over to Jordy first. Check in. with Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest?

>> Brothers, mightest mighty, it's great to. be here. Why does the Trump regime just. feel it necessary to always like force. their significant others onto us through. like Cash Patel having his girlfriend. sing at at the America 250 celebration? It reminded me a lot. It gave off. remember when Don Jr. Kimberly Gillo. were were together. Feels like a. lifetime ago. And she did like that. Irish like folk dance at one of the CPAC. events like in C. They're all such WWE. clowns. Benji and Brett. >> Do you think Laura Trump wasn't. available? Like uh what happened?

>> Yeah. No, it's it's it's just again it. is just so pathetic. Benji, where we. start off today? >> Well, I'll start there, Jordy, and I'll. connected to what's going on in the. Middle East because you had Jared. Kushner who's now raising $5 billion. more for his fund. He wants the Middle. East countries to pay him5 billion. dollars more. He was there hovering over. JD Vance in Switzerland during those. technical talks relating to theou. And. guess who was sitting right next to.

Marco Rubio when Rubio met with MBZ, the. president of the United Arab Emirates. when they were meeting in Abu Dhabi. Someone by the name of Michael Bulos, a. new villain, a new character who's been. around, but you probably haven't heard. much of him. That's Tiffany Trump's. husband who was sitting right there, right next to Rubio, right across from. NBZ. Rubio was asked, "Why was Tiffany. Trump's husband sitting next?" "He's my.

buddy. He's my friend. His brother's in. the region. So, we just going to hang. out. Just going to hang out during. conversations of the highest degree of. war and peace." We've got Tiffany's. husband, one of Trump's other. son-in-laws, sitting at this table. And. this is why the whole world views the. United States as a clown. This is why. the Gulf Council cooperation countries. are meeting with Iran and they want. reconciliation because the US security. umbrella is dunzo and the United States.

can say we control the straight of well. Iran gave a very clear warning and they. did so over the radio. They did so on. social media. They said, "You have to. coordinate your travel and your passage. with the IRGC. We'll give you the insurance. We'll give. you the route. We'll give you direction. Then you can cross and we'll let you. cross for free for the first 60 days. We're going to charge thereafter. Those.

are the rules." And then Trump and Ruby. That's not true, said Trump. That's not. true. We would never let that happen. Okay. Okay. Iran said, "Got it. Who are. you going to trust? Well, one of these. ships tried to leave. Boom. Iran shot. it. Shot out the ship, disabled it. Let. me first play you the audio right here. of Iran giving the warning to all ships. This particular ship said, "You know. what? We're just going to listen to. Trump and Rubio. It got disabled." And.

then people were like, "All right, wow.". First off, you probably didn't even hear. about this much on any other like news. network, right? Or corporate news. network. I mean, you've been watching. the Midas touch day, so you know about. this, which is good. It's important that. we inform people, but a pretty big deal, right? Because the price right now of. Brent crude sitting at like 7273, which is lower than before the war. started. I just find it notable the. degree of market manipulation also. because I remember under former. President Biden when things were far. more stable and the Hormu straight was.

open at a geopolitical level the price. of Brent crude was like in the hundreds. and the 90s and well that's because. Russia invaded Ukraine. Well, arguably. things are far worse right now in terms. of the escalatory nature of that war and. we see right now oil depots both in. Ukraine and Russia respectively just. being destroyed. Plus, you have the. straight of Hormuz closed. But based on. the speculation that the war is going to. be done and that there's going to be. peace, it's the the price of oil and the.

Brent crude is lower than it was at the. beginning. When there's no resolution to. any of this, make that make sense. Sure, it is pure unadulterated market. manipulation because when you really. break it down, it just people the market. expects that in the future this is what. it's going to look based on what we're. hitting tank bottom right now in. Oklahoma where we basically keep our. strategic reserves here. We functional. tank bottom. We basically hit functional. tank bottom uh internationally based on.

what everybody warned us about right. now. gas prices or the uh crude Brent. crude should be in the $200$250. per ballot range. I could guarantee you. if it was a Democratic president or. somebody who wanted to hold oligarchs. accountable in terms of their taxes and. have a tax code that doesn't let them. write off private jets and yachts and. things like that. I just have a feeling, call me conspiratorial, that the price.

of Brent crude may all of a sudden have. been 150, 200 if it was under someone. who was not an agent of the oligarchs. But I digress. Let me show you right. here though. Let me play for you the. warning by Iran from a navy that Trump. says doesn't exist. Here, play this. clip. [clears throat]. >> Attention all wing. gan. This is SEAN Navy warning. Transiting in. the straight of foremost is only.

possible with SEAN Navy permission and. on designated route. If any vessels. attempt to transit in the straight. without our permission or AIS off or. outside of the designated route, it's. responsible for any consequences of any. danger. This is Sepan Navy out. >> Pretty clear. Trump says that Navy. doesn't exist. >> They're at the bottom of the sea. They're at the bottom of the Hormoo. Strait. Apparently, they got good.

reception down at the bottom of the sea. >> Yeah, they're also pineapple under the. sea. Spongebob, I don't know how this. works here. It just shows you that. everything the guy says is a completed. utter lie. That warning was incredibly. clear. That's the uh IRGC's like that's. their navy. It's like the official Navy. So all those things that you hear Donald. Trump say every single day about their. navy not existing, the United States. having full control over the street, I. mean, that's just an objective data. point showing that that's all BS. >> And if you wanted I mean, if and if you.

say that, if you're going to huff and. puff and blow your house down and that. takes place, what are you doing, big. guy? What are you doing? And when you. constantly lie and when your bluff gets. called not once but quite literally in. this war thousands of times people and. and you go, "Oh, they're a paper tiger. there." No, Trump's the paper tiger. And. by the way, I don't think we should go. back to war. We should never have been. involved in this catastrophic war in the. first place. I'm just simply pointing. out that the guy has zero credibility.

He's described how close we are to. global economic depression and tank. bottom. Iran knows that they have the. United States cornered, humiliated. Um, Donald Trump and the United States have. never been weaker internationally. A. coalition now forming amongst the Arab. nations to reclaim kind of control over. their own security umbrella and never. and that's why Rubio ran to UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait to beg, let's be very.

clear, to beg and manipulate and to act. like theou doesn't exist. that we all. read the memorandum of understanding. We. all read the joint statement that came. out of the talks in Bergenstock in. Switzerland that Rubio was too busy to. show up for or he didn't want to be. associated with theou even though he's. the top diplomat of the United States. He's a secretary of state as much as I. despise him. You don't get to pick and. choose. I don't want to be at that. negotiation. I want to be at the UFC. fight. I want to do the UFCOU with Dana.

White. I don't want to do theou. That's. too hard. I don't want to do that. you're the you're the secretary of. state. Literally your job to be there. with foreign minister Arachi and Galabah. negoti not the job of the of the VP. Um. but you know the VP could be there but. that was your job. And so now Rubio goes. to the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, other GCC. countries. Notice notably he did not go. and meet directly with MBS of Saudi. Arabia. They're done. We don't want to. meet with you right now. Okay? Stay the.

hell away from us right now. Saudi. Arabia is looking to figure out how can. we work more with Iran and let's just. show you the bad faith that Rubio. engages in. Rubio is like, "So, let's. suppose we did this crazy thing and we. let Iran do tolls." What would you even. do if someone doesn't pay the toll? What. are you going to do? You're going to. shoot the boat? You're going to shoot. the cargo ship? That wouldn't work. Yeah, that's what they're going to do. They did it today. That's what they did. That's what they said they were going to. do. Rubio, here. Play this first clip of. Rubio. to go through the straits and.

think about it this way. If you have for. it's not even workable. Let's suppose. that we went crazy for and lost our. minds completely and decided to agree to. have a tolling or a fee mechanism. How. would that work? It's not doable because. what's the consequence for not paying. it? Let's say a ship says, "Well, I'm. not going to pay the fee." It's not like. a toll on a road. You don't get a ticket. in the mail. They get shot at. You shoot. at one ship, you sink one ship, no other. ship is going to move. So, that sort of. system is not only unwise, it can't. happen. It's not even workable. So, you.

might as well abandon the fantasy now. >> That's what happened today. Literally. what happened today. The Singaporean. cargo ship was shot at. It was disabled. And now the other ships that want to. cross are going through the IRGC lane. That's it. Okay, Rubio. What about that. $300 billion investment fund or. reconstruction fund that you and Trump. and everybody in this lying American. regime said that the Arab nations were. going to pay 300 billion. You said US. taxpayers weren't going to pay for it.

It's in theou. So the US is a guarantor. of the $300 billion for a reconstruction. fund for Iran. You said it's not coming. from taxpayer dollars. It's coming from. Arab nations. So surely you're with the. Arab nations, right? That that must have. come up. Rubio, right here, let's play. this clip. >> Mr. Mr. Secretary, in in the meeting. with the GCC allies, did any of them. make any commitments to pay into this. $300 billion reconstruction? >> No, it was not discussed. I mean that. the reconstruction cut that's way down. the road and that's something you know. that'll be dealt with at the appropriate.

time in this process. Um I but that was. not discussed by. >> you didn't discuss one of the key terms. that the Arab nations you've all said is. on the hook for didn't that that didn't. come up at all. Got it. Are you going to. pass that on to the taxpayers the way. you lied about the ballroom was going to. be funded by other people and now. taxpayers have to pay for it. Is this. yet another fraud? What's really going. on here, Rubio? That's a that's a pretty. big thing to not discuss with those. countries. If you're going to offer up. theoretically you're saying you're. offering up their money to the tune of.

$300 billion, then you're like, "Yeah, we didn't really talk about it." So, you. know, we'll we'll see what happens. Yeah, we're on the hook for all the. money, but like we didn't ask anybody. It shows you like one of the biggest. flaws of this entire agreement. And. [laughter] one of the one one of the. biggest flaws quite frankly of. everything that uh came from that. Switzerland uh meeting is that a lot of. the major parties who need to agree to. this stuff uh didn't agree to this. stuff. You know it was an agreement. between uh the United States and Iran. It was of course mediated by Oman and.

Pakistan but. >> Pakistan and uh Qatar. >> Pakistan and Qatar. Um but we but we. didn't get any guarantees from any of. these other countries. there weren't any. other signitories and that includes this. $300 billion which is a very large. provision a $300 billion dollar. provision in thisou and then of course. there's the uh Lebanon Israel aspect of. all of this uh which also like how could. the United States and Iran make an. agreement on the beha on the behalf of. two other countries without them being a.

part of this negotiation and so one of. the things that you see the Trump. administration trying to do now is. they're trying to have it both ways and. they will acknowledge that they need to. figure out the relationship between. Lebanon and Israel, but at the same time. they'll also try to like downplay that. and they'll say like, "Yeah, but it's. not really a a big part of this deal. So. like we're just going to do what we. can." It is. And and and they know it. They say in the same breath that that's. something that needs to be resolved. Yet. they're overlooking that point and. they're trying to downplay that aspect. because they know that that's one of.

going to be one of the biggest hurdles. to actually figuring this thing out. following the 60 days. >> Can I just say this too? like the. devolvement from maybe quasi serious. centrist hot shot young Republican Marco. Rubio to MAGA stoogge Marco Rubio that. we know now like over these last 10. years it's just been astounding to. witness. I. maybe it's naive may I never saw him. just being a total clown like in the way.

that he's he so clearly is these days. Did you guys, >> you know, there were signs of it. obviously, you know, at first, you know, when he came up, he was whatever, but. then, you know, you saw him give that. speech that time at the rebuttal to the. State of the Union and he started like. needing the water and and. >> just when he was even. appointed to to the position like I. think collectively, even through a. modern like today lens, people were. like, "Okay, well, Marco Rubio, he's a. serious person. Maybe he'll do a good.

job." Like I I think that was the. general consensus of all of the picks. from Cash Patel to to to everyone that. everyone just kind of was like, "Okay, Marco, he'll do a good job at least. We. think. >> I'm not sure everybody I mean I think of. the horrible options, >> right? >> He was maybe one of the least horrible. but still incredibly horrible. I mean, you got a flavor for who he was after he. said all of the. >> I guess that's fair. I'm just kind of. judging it on on the damagos. >> That is where the Overton window has. shifted. Here's my read of Rubio,

though. I think Rubio is very risk. averse and I think he's very. opportunistic and he clearly wants to be. the Republicans's presidential nominee. And so I think he's trying to take. what's in his mind the path of least. resistance. He's trying to ruffle the. least amount of feathers. He's trying to. do what Donald Trump wants, but at the. same time trying to kind of duck away. from some of the more controversial. stuff and duck away from the actual hard. work that you're supposed to do as a. secretary of state. So, we see him when.

it comes to the important decisions. You. know, there's this big kind of joke on. the internet, this meme, because Trump. keeps assigning Marco Rubio to all these. various positions. He's the head of. this, he's the head of that, he's But, you know, it's like a jack of all. trades, a master of none. He's not doing. any of these jobs. and and he's not. doing the most important job, which. which is his job as Secretary of State. And so on the most important issue of. his entire term, honestly, of his entire. appointment there, there's probably not. going to be a bigger issue than this. Iran negotiation right now. Yet, he has.

seated the lane to JD Vance because he. knows it's a risky bet. He knows it's a. risky situation that probably is not. going to work out well. So, he wants. that to blow up for JD and he'll make. some other comments on the side and. he'll try to deal with things on the. side. So to me, he he's playing a kind. of very cynical game and he's trying to. do whatever he can to kind of coast. along as quietly as possible and at the. same time, you know, send out signals to. kind of the people with the money in.

Republican circles and and other folks. saying, "Hey, when this [ __ ] hits the. fan, guess what? You you got me. I'm I'm. gonna be clean of all of this, you know? So get ready to get ready to do a push. behind me come 2028. And so that that's. the calculus I I think that he's making. Also why you see this behind the-scenes. tension which Ben you've picked up on. and we've reported on here between him. and JD Vance because behind the scenes. they're rivals for this 2028 position. Look in the next clip I'm going to show. you. Marco Rubio while he's in the.

Middle East says theou is not a real. deal. He goes it's a framework to have. future negotiations. So he says, "Of. course, we didn't discuss the number of. years that Iran would have to de down. blend their enriched uranium, although. Rubio and Trump pretend that uh Iran's. going to give up all of their uranium. It's the only agreement is to down blend. to civilian use." And there's no time. frame on it because Iran would not agree.

to a time frame. and they're not going. to agree to a time frame because if the. if they view the Trump regime as in. breach, Israel and under Netanyahu. continuing to stay in Lebanon and uh. Trump continuing to threaten them, they'll just if you can down blend, guess what? You can uplend pretty pretty. d pretty pretty damn quickly. And so. they don't want to give any, you know, inspection mechanisms or any of that. And so Rubio's asked about it. So what's. the time limit? How do you how do you.

see this? And and Rubio acts like this. isn't even a deal. So after saying we. didn't talk about the $300 billion, Jordy, I see you wearing a Knicks hat. That's like going to a Knicks game and. going, "Hey, how was the game?" You. watch the Knicks play and you go, "Yeah, you know, I just got a hot dog." Okay, but did you What about did you want to. watch the No, I didn't think that was an. important thing. I don't know. The $300. billion is kind of like one of the main. terms. The other main term is that the. ceasefire includes Lebanon and that. Israel needs to leave. That's it. And. I'll tell you what's going on in those. ceasefire discussions right now between.

Israel and Lebanon. Lebanon thought the. discussion was going to be over moving. the Lebanese army into the security zone. in Lebanon, as Israel calls it, which is. an area in Lebanon and southern Lebanon. being occupied by Israel. You know what. Netanyahu said? We want a pilot zone. In. Lebanon was like, what do you mean the. security zone is this? We want more. Israeli forces in the pilot zone. So. Lebanon's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. We. thought we were talking about moving the. Lebanese troops into the security zone. and moving Israeli troops out. You're.

saying you want more land? Yeah, we want. the pilot. Oh, so now the security zone. plus pilot zone. So that's at a deadlock. as well. Yet if YOU LOOK AT THE MARKETS, the markets are like we're in normal. times. This is far less volatile than. under former President Biden. It is not. What are you talking about? So you see. the rampant market manipulation that's. at play right here. And the issue is the. long-term damage here becomes becomes.

irreparable or it becomes very difficult. to solve. So then what happens in two. years? A future Democratic president. comes into power and what starts to. happen? Oh, all these issues. Oh, how do. you screw this up? Oh, you have to fix. these issues. And all of a sudden, it's. just like, got it. We got our tax. breaks. We got our private jet tax. exemptions. We got all of that. And now. someone wants to tax us more. All right, jack up the prices, screw everybody. over, massive recession. Don't you see.

that? That's the pattern, isn't it? We. need to recognize that that's the. broader issue at play right here. And. it's why you see these pendulum swings. like this. We have to get out of this. trap. And that's what's happening. In. any event, let's just show you what. Rubio says that thisou is not real. Basically, let's play. >> Mr. Mr. Secretary, uh, the MOU did not. include a specific number of years. during which Iran could not develop. nuclear weapons. Should a final. agreement have a specific number and is. the US pushing for that? >> No, that's a why would an MOU would not. have that? Because MOU is not a final.

agreement. An MOU just creates the. construct and the outlines for a. negotiation and there's no doubt that as. part of that negotiation very specific. terms like years and limits will be. discussed and that includes the. mechanisms by which it's verified and. enforced. But is there a number of years. >> structure of a framework of a. negotiating. hybrid tool? What are you talking about? Theou has certain binding terms on it. And when you have Rubio out there saying. that and JD Vance out there saying. another thing again ultimately the.

message to our former allies, other Arab. nations, allied nations in Asia and. others that you can't rely on these. These are clowns. Everybody sees it. I. promise you if I see it. No offense to. me. I'm telling you, the world leaders. see it at a very clear level what I'm. saying. And they also see this. You've. got Michael Bulos, Tiffany's husband. Tiffany Trump's husband is sitting. there. I think we've got a photo of it. Rubio posts the photo. He's sitting. across from NBZ. And you see right.

there, that's Bulos. That's that. And so. Rubio was asked, "Hey man, hey man, why. is Tiffany Trump's husband at this. meeting of war and pe?" We just like, "Is this some nepotistic internship? Why. why is dude here? Why is this guy here?". Watch what Rubio says. Let's play this. clip. >> Michael was today. >> Mike was just Michael. Oh, he was there. to see. His brother lives here. He was. just there to see me catch up. Was he.

working? >> No, no, no. >> There was a working lunch, right? So, >> there was, but he wasn't. But he the. conversations around him had to do with. he was just here because his brother. lives here and I'm a good friend of. Michael. So, we had a chance to catch. up. Thank you. >> This isn't this isn't like, you know, showing up to a meeting with, I don't. know, you know, uh like an an accountant. from a solo office who brings, you know,

their f their friend's kid in college, you know, who's there for the summer. internship or whatever, you know, to to. to a lunch and what's he doing? Yeah, you know, you what what are we talking. about? It's a meeting with MBZ, the. [laughter] leader, the leader of the. leader of the United Arab Emirates about. critical issue. The guy's just there to. hang out, you know, and you're saying. it's not this isn't bring your son to. work day. This isn't what that is. >> He didn't walk into the meeting and he. was like, "Holy shit." Bulos. >> Bulos. Bulos. [laughter]. >> Bro,

no [ __ ] way. >> Your bro is here. He He's my He's my. buddy and I'm bringing my buddy to to. just lunch with NBC. Why? Who are these. people? I mean, what Jordy, to your. point earlier, you didn't even know I. was going to go there with this show. Why are you forcing these side. characters into my I don't know who. these people I don't want Bulos there. I. don't want Kushner peering over JD. Vance. Frankly, I don't want JD Vance or. Rubio even there. But why are these. people in these conversations? And it's. because at its core, this isn't a.

Democrat or Republican. This is a basic. competence, professionalism. This is. deeply unprofessional, low character behavior by people who. don't take our problems and our issues. and our national security seriously. It's why they go on apps and start. messaging about war plans and they. invite reporters on without even knowing. it. It's why they bring in Bill Py to. become the head of the office of the.

director of national intelligent. They. don't care about our lives. They don't. care about us in here. In all of they. take joy in our pain in all of these. roles. You know, if you're in a. negotiation with such high stakes, you. want the best negotiator possible. And. who do we have? The president's. son-in-law. When you're doing an event. to celebrate the United States of. America's 250th anniversary, who do you. want? You want to find probably the best. singer you could find imaginable to.

represent the United States. Instead, we. have Cash Patel's girlfriend, his. country singer girlfriend, the one who. has been flying around in those FBI jets. and and or using the FBI jet to go to. her concerts and and all that stuff. I. mean, this is what tinpot dictatorships. do. This is the stuff that we would. laugh at other countries for. And quite. frankly, it makes the United States of. America look small. It makes us look. weak. It makes us look stupid when these. are the people in the in the room, when. these are the people at our events and.

not real actual experts, real actual. professionals, people who know what the. hell we are doing. It is making the. United States of America seem so. insignificant in the world. And these. Republicans, none of these people would. ever accept this from a Democratic. president ever, ever, ever. Think of all. the stuff they said about Hunter Biden, who had no role at all in the Biden. administration. Donald Trump has. basically turned the White House into an. entire family business, an entire family.

affair. It is grotesque. >> He brought the son-in-law that no one. even knows either. He brought Bulos. He. brought Bulos. If you're going to bring. one of the son-in-laws, at least bring. the one people know. >> Bulos like that's like a deep cut, you. know? >> You think they dapped each other up? Like, you think Ruby's like, "Yo, Bulos, what's up? Take a seat, man. Take a. seat. We're about to get into. >> Take a seat. I got NBZ. You know, you. you know, you know MBZ, right? >> NBC. NBZ a little bit angry with us because. our national security umbrella may have. collapsed, you know. We did some quid. proquo. He bought a little bit of Trump. crypto. We gave him a little bit of.

semiconductors, you know, but Bulos is. all good. Hey, hey, hey, hang on. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, NBZ, look, look, look. I. got Bulos. Bulos here. You know, NBZ's. like, okay, man. Okay, these freaking. people. All right. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, guys. I'm we we will. we'll consider the future military base. Abso. Absolutely. Yo, call up Arag. Call. up Galibah. What what do you think is happening? What do you I mean what of course these. people like yo these American people are.

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same day that Apple's raising the price. on a lot of its products, its Mac. products, its iPads. Um, it announced. that it's going to have massive. increases. I mean, we're talking about. 25 27% increases in prices to consumers. yearover-year, 25 to 27%. increases. Then Microsoft or their Xbox. also announced about 20 to 30% increases. on their various uh products as well. And a lot of this is stemming from the.

fact that you have all of this capex, these capital expenditures on uh these. data centers and all of the AI buildouts. in order to basically build these uh. semiconductor uh these chips. It costs a. lot of money and there's a lot of. infrastructure and that price the cost. of that is ultimately being put on the. consumer and we're seeing a lot of these. companies do kind of massive debt. offerings where they're raising all of.

this money. They're deploying all of. this capital that they're raising in all. of this debt and they're all kind of. spreading money out amongst themselves. the Mag Seven, as they're called, the. Magnificent 7. All of these, you know, kind of companies and they've been, you. know, at least until recently, doing. well in the market. But ultimately, the. where are the where's where does this. all end up in, you know, in addition to. the fact that it's causing lots of job. losses and a jobs recession because a.

lot of the buildout is removing the. workers. I mean, we saw some of the. recent data that shows that kind of. factory hiring is at kind of levels that. are like great recession, pandemic. levels. Um, right now, I mean, we went. from like a manufacturing boom under. Biden, uh, to a situation that's like. emblematic of the great recession or. during really bad economic times, which. which we're in right now. And then. ultimately it gets passed on to the. consumer. The tariffs passed on to the.

consumer. the cost of these capex. buildouts, these expenditures by all of. these companies you hear about, they're. getting passed on uh to the consumer. And ultimately, when you look at the. data, you see inflation rising. The PCE, which is the Fed's preferred inflation. uh metric up to 4.1%. A stat though that. is perhaps even more jarring to me is. that the annual savings rate of an. American family went down from 4.9% in. 2025 to uh 3% in 2026. In other words,

people are dipping into their life. savings in order to be able to afford. basic necessities. um right now. And especially when you. look at things like core PCE which. excludes food and energy that's rising. as well to 3.4%. So for people who go, "Well, guess what? Gas prices are going. down. So ultimately, would an inflation. go down?" Well, when you look at core. PCE at 3.4%. That's supposed to be at. 2%. And that core PCE is rising month.

over month as well. And that's being. caused by Donald Trump's tariffs against. the world. Guess what? It doesn't impact directly. overnight. So when the Trump regime's. like, "Oh, I guess it wasn't impacting. anybody." like when they did it. Remember Trump's what he called. liberation day. I know in Trump years it. seems like this was 30 years ago. That. was last April. Okay, we're basically a. year plus a few months out. So Trump did.

that. Then he tacoed some. He. chickenened out on some of them, but. some of them stay in place. He's got. those 15% tariffs here, there, and the. other. Yes, he gives certain exemptions. to certain types of companies and. friends, but the overall impact, guess. what? It doesn't take overnight. The. same way what Trump screwed up during. his first term got passed on to Biden. when Biden took the Had been in office. instead of Biden. Had Trump not got. blown out in the election, we probably. would have had 15% inflation because he.

wouldn't have taken the steps that Biden. did to reduce inflation. >> So true. >> So Biden had to actually take the steps. to give us a soft landing. Everybody. expected we'd be in a massive recession. He got us out of that situation. He had. this gentle soft landing where, look, I'm not saying it was great for. everybody at the end of the Biden. administration. There was a lot of work, but manufacturing was up, chips act, you. know, all these things that were leading. to the jobs coming back and then Trump. screws it up. And so now what we'll see.

happen is, you know, another year will. probably be bad, then it'll get worse, and then a Democratic, you know, Trump. will start railing at Worsh, his new Fed. chair. You know, don't don't lower the. interest rates. Don't lower, I mean, lower the interest rate. Don't raise the. interest rates. Don't raise the interest. rates. And, you know, the Fed's going to. probably have to raise interest rates a. few times where we're heading. Um, or. Trump maybe tries to attack Worsh and. and coers him not to do it. But. ultimately the problem then gets passed. on to somebody and then somebody in two.

or three years has to deal with this. mess while Trump and MAGA and these. sociopath [ __ ] I don't know how. else to describe them. It pisses me off. Then they're like, "Oh, we're hawks. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. We're hawks. We're we're. now China hawks. We're this hawk. We're. that hawk." They label themselves this. stuff. the oligarch media, the regime. media, you know, that wants to a shill. for all of the oligarchs goes, "Oh my. god, can you believe, you know, it's,

you know, whoever it is, you know, whatever, whoever the Democratic person. who comes in, you know, went, it's their. fault." You know, and and then we get. into these cycles over and over and over. again. And it's like you have to. identify what's happening. And I know. with, you know, with technology and. there's so many things going on. I get. that it could all be distracting and. especially where you have trillions of. dollars being pumped into the veins and. propaganda out there. But we have to. recognize where these where the sources.

the source of what Biden was dealing. with was Trump screwing up COVID, Trump. screwing up PPP, Trump screwing up the. economy. that resulted in inflation. increasing when you had all these supply. chains that were screwed up. Biden had. to fix it. He fixed it. I couldn't even. imagine what a disaster it would have. been under, you know, would have been. under Trump. You have to fix the. problems anyway. But I want people to be. aware of what the hustle is, what the. scam is. >> No, it's it's it's just it's it's so.

obvious to it's just all so in your face. that I don't understand how people could. even like debate that. It's all. >> Hello, Freico. That's why cuz the stupid. [ __ ] you know, it's tal of freico six. gender. It's stuff like that that's. like, guys, don't you realize you're. being scammed? I'm sorry, bro. No. You. know, and I I think one of the. interesting things in kind of this Trump. era has been how many of these companies. and CEOs and people have really shown. their cards. Um, I guess for better or.

for worse, I I I feel like they used to. keep kind of politics a little closer to. the vest and you wouldn't see somebody. like a Jeff Bezos out there, you know, ranting against Joe Biden or something. like that. I feel like that wasn't as. common as it is now. But now you see all. of these kind of CEOs getting in the mud. in a way that that you haven't really. seen before. And I think one of the most. recent examples was the feud that was. happening here in California between. Governor Nuome and Chevron. like Chevron.

decided to pick a fight with Nuome uh. blaming Governor Nuome for high gas. prices. And just like think of that on. its face at all. In the midst of this. war where Donald Trump has increased gas. prices, Chevron goes, "Governor Nuome, it's your fault because of the. regulations in California. You're the. reason that gas prices are high." And so. Nuome then fires back and there's this. whole back and forth where Nome is like, "Here's a map. Okay, Chevron. Here's a. Chevron station across the street from. this other station. Your prices at that.

station that's literally across the. street from another station are 60 to 80. cents higher per gallon than the other. stations. So, take your talking points. and shove it basically Newsome said to. them and and they had this whole back. and forth and I think it just really. shows the card. Ben, when you were. speaking about like kind of the market. manipulation in the beginning with these. with these oil uh markets and and and. everything like it it shows you I think. how coordinated I I do believe a lot of. these companies are and they know where. their bread is buttered so to speak. They know who which party is going to be.

the one who's going to try to give them. more subsidies and screw over the uh. wind energy industry and screw over. other clean energy. and they know who. which uh which party is going to kind of. be bailing them out and and propping. them up and they act accordingly and now. they're kind of being a little more. obvious about it because they're getting. into these public spats and and they are. they are doing so like that. Um but but. I I just think that whole kind of. scenario to watch has been uh I guess a.

little bit illuminating um along the. way. And you even see Trump, you know, speaking about some of this price. gouging and stuff from uh the gas. companies. I know he did a post because. gas prices are still super high. They've. come down in some circumstances. They've. gone back up. They've come a little. down, but they're they're still very. high. And uh Trump, you know, was like. this shouldn't be the case. These, you. know, these gas companies are price. gouging. They're price gouging. They're. price gouging. And hey, he's probably. right, you know, to an extent. Like.

these companies definitely uh do price. gouge, but I I think Trump's also just. like completely BSing and he's trying to. kind of cover for the people who he's. been helping out all along by attacking. them in that way. And again, the same. way Donald Trump does for literally. everything. Nothing is ever his fault. It always has to be someone else's. fault. So the high gas prices, that's. not my fault for starting this war, for. getting the straight of Hormuz closed, for causing this global economic chaos. That is the gas company's fault or. that's Gavin Newsome's fault. It's it's.

not me. Don't don't look at me. Every he. he handles every single issue that way. The algae in the pool, the fact that it. turned bright green and that it's being. ripped up, that wasn't me. That was. vandals. There was a there was vandals. They cut a 350 foot gash. Yes, I may. have said a few weeks ago that it's. impenetrable, impossible to cut. I may. have had uh security there, security. cameras on the place. I I can't show you. a lick of evidence, but trust me, it was. the vandals who did it. And if you look. through everything that Donald Trump has.

ever done in his life, he gets into. these big projects. He takes these big. swings. He fails miserably after he cons. everybody into going along with his. idea. And then he blames someone else. Oh, that didn't succeed because of the. contractor. I'm not paying the. contractor, by the way. They screwed up. It's been the same playbook for decades. and decades and decades, ultimately. everybody on the other side of that gets. ends up getting screwed by Donald Trump. But while he moves on to the next thing. in this kind of Ponzi scheme way. >> Exactly. But in those instances too,

Brett, we have to realize he was a a. businessman, right? He he was he was. doing business. Now he's the head of the. country. He's the leader. He's the. president. The buck's supposed to stop. with him. For me, the most upsetting. part, one of the most upsetting parts of. this timeline that we're all in is the. absence of leadership and the absence of. accountability because it might sound. cheesy, but it's like how are we. supposed to show the next generation of. what leadership and being an adult and. being a person that stands by their word.

and being someone that looks out for the. greater good actually and genuinely. looks like. If the president of the. United States himself cannot do that, if. he is unwilling to behave like a. rational, normal human being, if he is. unable and unwilling to look out for the. people of America, the the people of the. world, but specifically here in this. country, he does not give a damn about. them. All he cares about is making. himself look good, no matter the cost. And quite frankly, I don't know if that. even happens half the time. He tries to.

make himself look good. I think he makes. himself look more like a clown at the. end of the day. I think that's pretty. obvious. inevit. But ultimately, if the. leader, if the president of the United. States can't just behave like a rational. human and try and put country first, then how can we expect these next. generations growing up in this country. to do the same? You know, I'm often. asked, "Hey, Ben, is there one thing. though that you can say that Donald. Trump has done good or that you would. say that was helpful?" I guess there is. one thing that he's helped expose and.

shed a light on a lot of the corruption. that was being done in secret by these. right-wing oligarchs that was being. hidden. And because he panics publicly. and starts to yell and shout and shows. you the cards, the projection helps. direct you to, oh, got it. That's how. you did that. That's how you did that. And so him being a tool of the. oligarchy, but him also being unable to. keep it, you know, quiet because he's.

just such a psychopath does allow me to. go, "Oh, got it." So Brett, your point. about Trump saying it's price gouging. It's price gouging. Right now, the. manipulation's actually in the other. direction that they've managed, as I. said at the outset, to keep the price of. Brent crude at $73 per barrel with. what's going on in the straight of. Hermuz, what's going on with Russia's. invasion of Ukraine, which is $20 less.

per barrel than under former President. Biden in 2023 when the straight of. Hormuz was open and when things were. firing on the right types of cylinders. and heading in the right ction because. the market just had a lot more. uncertainty under Biden. But what it. does tell me is that the price gouging. was taking place under Biden. Trump's in. a room with these oil executives. Okay? They literally plotted the Venezuela. takeover together. How do we know? Because Trump told us. He said, "I.

planned the invasion of Venezuela with. the oil companies." So you're accusing. the people of price gouging. literally. your co-conspirators in the invasion of. Venezuela. So, he's in the room with. them when I'm sure they're saying, "Hey, this is what we did with Biden. We need. you to do this, this, and this. Do this. for us. We'll be able to keep it here. We'll be able to keep a quiet look.". When a Democratic president comes back. in, though, and they try to screw us on. the taxes, we're going to have to bring. that Brent crude up to like $9500.

That's how we're going to get our profit. margin. We know that our profits will be. less. We can deal with it, but you got. to help us on these exemptions. You got. to help us on the tax rate. You got to. help us on these corporate taxes. That's. what's important to us. That'll. basically offset the, you know, any. types of losses and lower gas. Trust me, that's the conversation that's happening. behind the scenes with these people. When I was a litigator, I sued these. types of people. I took their. depositions. I looked across these.

people's faces. This I'm letting you. know that that's precisely what goes. down. and they laugh about it and they. find this stuff funny and they what do. you what do you do? Oh, what you took. advantage of that loophole? Yeah, I took. advantage of that loophole. What do you. think they're talking about when they're. golfing? They're talking about taking. from you. They're talking about screwing. you over. You want to know why Donald. Trump is not signing that housing bill. and why he's upset with it? Because he's.

friends with the private equity people. who are the ones screwing everybody. over. Trump doesn't want an. affordability housing bill. Trump. doesn't want more people having access. to housing. Trump wants the private. equity companies. Those are his buddies. Those are the people hanging out at Mara. Lago and paying $2 a year memberships. Those that's his crew. So, he's not. going to sign the thing. And sure, in 10. days, it automatically becomes law based. upon uh the fact that it's a veto. proofed if he doesn't veto it. Maybe he.

vetos it though. Who knows? And then it. has to get passed to Magamike and then. Maggamike tries to delay it. You know, who knows what the hell is happening. over there. But do you think about the. housing bill that was supposed to be. signed two days ago? That was actually a. bipartisan piece of legislation that. would re in private equity companies. from gobbling up housing. It's actually. something that Trump could have pointed. to and said, "This is affordability.". Granted, it probably wouldn't kick in. and have major meaningful impact impact.

based on the inflation, but why doesn't. he want to sign it? And he says, "Oh, I. want the Save America Act," which is his. voter suppression. That's part of it, but he's using that as well. But his. right-wing oligarch friends are the. private equity companies. Jared. Kushner's hanging over and hovering over. the memorandum of understanding because. Kushner's become a billionaire. Kushner's there for his own finances. Whitov's there for his own finances. These people weren't. nominated and appointed through any pro.

Why are these people even there to begin. with? Why is Michael Bulos there? His. family is investors and equity and doing. business. Why are these people here and. ultimately the end product, the end. result is that you're getting screwed? You watching this, you're getting. screwed by this corruption. That's why. you're being psychologically tortured. That's why you can't afford a home. That's why you can't afford a rent. That's why you can't afford groceries. That's why you can't afford anything. You can't afford gas. It's because of.

this stuff going on. And I don't care if. you're a Democrat, independent, or. whoever. If you're not channeling. channeling that rage that I'm channeling. right now that our community is, you. ain't going to win elections. So, when. people want to be like, "Oh, well, I. think the Democrats should do this or do. that or do that." Shut up. And what you. should do is fight for the American. people who understand everything that I. said because they're feeling that pain. That's what you should be doing. Not. worrying, oh, am I a centrist? Am I a.

shut up? Fight for the American people. and actually mean it. And then if you're. in power, actually wield power to fight. for them. You know, con artists. recognize the fear and the pain people. are feeling. Donald Trump is probably. the biggest con artist in human history. He sees the fear. He sees the pain. But. what he knows is that he can feast on. that and lie and con people. Now what.

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Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of both the YouTube. and the audio. Use the links. Use the. codes. If there is an exit survey, let. them know we sent you. Say something. there, Benji. >> Oh, yeah. I was just saying what's up. What's up, everybody? >> I wasn't sure if it was stalled there. for a second. That's why I was talking. earlier. I got like a little frozen. >> Okay. No, you're good. >> Let me jump right in then and we'll get. back to you in a [laughter] moment. Everybody, play that clip though, of. State Regime Media Fox attacking us. They had a host on who was like, you. know, all these new Democrats who have. won, maybe they'll get on Midas Touch.

Network, but they're not really going to. make a difference. They'll get on the. Midas Touch. Well, we'd be honored to. have them on the Midas Touch Network, and they're fighting for the people. Um, and they're going to make a difference. But it's just an it's an odd narrative, though. By the way, let's let's play. this. >> party. So, you can't dismiss the Tea. Party as though was in not influential. and then tell me these very well, >> but there were 60 of them, not 10. these. 10 all the energy. And by the way, this. is just a start. We're not even counting. the Graham Platiners of the world and. the others, the James Teros, we have a.

long way. We have a long way to go. But. look, here's the thing. >> When AOC came to office, she learned the. the squad learned the hard way. Congress. is about numbers. It's about math. And. Nancy Pelosi had to say, "Little girl, you don't have the numbers. We do." They. will be marginalized. You will see them. on MSNBC and Midas Touch and that's. about it because they won't be doing. deals. They won't be involved in. legislating. I I think the only numbers. they care about is the. >> You see him at the end? >> Yeah. You see him after? What the hell?

What? [laughter]. What? What? What? You guys like what I. said? Was I funny? Did I do a good job? I'm like, dude, what the hell even What. was that? Also, um and what do you even. talk little girl? I mean, who again? Who. are these people? >> And they always get like, you know, the. disgruntled guy who like like like. that's that guy Lar Rosa. used to be. like in Biden world and now isn't. associated with Democratic politics, but. they're like Democratic insider speaks. out. All the guy does is like [ __ ] on. Democrats all day. Like if you ever look.

at the guy's Twitter feed, it's. absolutely insufferable. I think he. works for like a right-wing think tank. in in in DC as well. But his whole thing. is like, I'm the Democrat who' just talk. [ __ ] about the Democrat all day. And and. you see these endless takes from folks. like that who just constantly want to be. doom and gloom about everything, right? something good happens for the. Democratic party, they go, "This is the. worst thing ever to happen for them. Something bad happens, this is the end. of them." And it's like enough of these. doomer kind of takes about everything.

How about, like Ben said, how about you. just listen to the people and listen to. the message that they are saying? And. there's actually, you know, a whole lot. of people out there, even on the right. and the left right now, that are. agreeing with a whole host of issues. that a lot of politicians are not. speaking about. issues surrounding data. centers, issues like the Epstein files, issues like a affordability. There are a. lot of issues and a lot of reasons why. people are going out and want to see. kind of the new guard come in and. replace the old guard and and and. there's a reason for this energy out.

there that you're seeing and not. everything has to be this is this is. terrible. By the way, AOC is like the worst. example he could have picked because. she's become one of the more effective. legislators in uh the entire Congress. and she is one of the best messengers in. the party and she's actually done so in. a way where she has worked to uplift. kind of other people in the party and. has been incredibly collaborative. And. if you look at all the coverage of when. AOC was elected, you would see the same.

kind of fear-mongering, right? that they. this is the doom. This is it. This is. over. The radical, they're going to use. her to No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Stop buying into this [ __ ] Okay? Stop buying into the right-wing. [ __ ] Stop buying into what Fox is. pushing. They're injecting that stuff in. right-wing audiences every single day. You don't have to buy it. >> I'm genuinely saying this. I know I'm. not of the three of us. I know I'm not. like the smartest brother, but I I also. have no idea what that guy was even.

trying to communicate. Like it just felt. we were on his mind. Like it just felt. the Midas touch network was on his mind. that he's like no matter what I'm going. to say might touch during the segment. because if you play that back I it's not. a logical thought. Like it really. doesn't make any sense. I think what. he's trying to say I I don't even want. to get into it, but I I again these. people are in like it's not a left or a. right thing that that's an unwell human. being right there trying to communicate.

I don't know what type of point but. clearly we're on his mind just trying. the platform that we have here and that. we you know continue to build with this. great incredible group that you know. supports and watches and all that and. the mightest mighty is like we just want. to get the facts out. It it's not it's. not about us. It's not about the. brothers is like it's such an egoless. movement and we just want to platform. facts and truth tellers and experts in a. world where I I guess that that's hated. by you saw that guy hated by that guy. hated by Fox News hated by all these.

other entities out there except except. for us here who was like no bring on the. facts bring on the experts and yeah heck. yeah we'll platform them 1000%. I mean, these sociopaths though will truly say. with a straight face that right now. Trump has delivered on everything he. promised and that this is incredible, that God put him here to do this and. this is divine actually and the golden. age that everybody's experiencing right.

now is literally the gift from God that. Donald Trump and God and Jesus came up. with a deal at Butler. that Donald Trump hasn't even released. the medical records and they came up. with this arrangement and that's why. everything is amazing right now. They. they literally say that do do we have. the clip read of Tom Emmer the MAGA. Republican uh Congress member he's like. the whip and he literally says today I. mean Congress is shut down right now. they shut it down because you have.

Donald Trump sick offense like Anna. Paulina Luna are boycotting what's. called passing the rule that lets you. even set an agenda for the day. So. Maggamite can't even put any agenda on. because Donald Trump said don't let the. House even do work unless the Senate, which doesn't have the votes to pass. what Trump calls the Save America Act, which is voter suppression act. Unless. the Senate passes that, then he doesn't. want the House to be able to even.

function or to do any work. So then you. have Tom Emmer though give a speech. where he's like, "This is God. God did. this. Jesus did this." And that's why. we're all so blessed. >> Watch what he says here. >> Said you got to talk about something. called God's will, right? There's a. reason why Donald Trump is still here. God's will is that his work is not done. By the way, our president knows that. I. I mean, our president I who likes my.

wife much better than uh me. And uh he. makes he makes that clear every time. And then I'm reminded by my staff that. everybody likes your wife a lot more. than you. That's I get that. But he told her, he told her he knows. that he should not be here. He knows the. reason he is here is because God has a. job for him to finish. You know, when I. watch that sometimes, I feel like I'm on. an alien planet. Like even the people. laughing at that. Like what are you. laugh what what's what's even funny. here? >> No, Ben, it's funny because because he.

hates his wife. That's that's the that's. what people are laughing at. That that's. why, Ben, if you didn't pick up on it. >> You know, people are suffering right. now. Trump's. promise, if you want to say that, was to. reduce inflation. Inflation's going up. Things are monumentally worse. So, let's. just say, let's say you hated Biden. Just assume arguendo. You hate Biden. Okay, Biden left with what was it like. 2.7% inflation, 2.8% inflation. Say it.

was call it three. Call it three. Okay, heading down to two right now. It is 4.1%. higher. than last year under Trump, which is 3. whatever it was 3.2% higher last year or. 3.3 than Biden. So if you add the last. two years combined. right now already in Trump, you are 8%.

to 9%. higher inflation than the last year. under Biden's term. And then if you want. to aggregate all the other years of. Biden and the inflation that he had to. inherit and deal with, this is 8% on top. of that. And Trump's thing was, I'm. gonna make your electricity bills 50%. cheaper. I'm gonna bring down housing. costs. Everybody will get a house. I'm. gonna bring down the price of this and.

that. I'm going to end the war in. Ukraine. The guy started wars everywhere. and then lies and says that there were. um eight, nine wars that he solved and. and and you know, and just has been. lying about everything. He gave this. speech last night where there was maybe. a thousand people, maybe tops. We saw. it. We could see the amount of people. There was a thousand people in DC. watching this speech and most of them. were leaving in the middle of the. speech. And here's what he posted. moments ago. He's been silent all day, but here's what he posts. Last night's.

rally was packed. 45,000 people. July. 4th will be a step beyond anything. you've ever seen. The military flyovers. will be the best ever, the most planes, the newest planes, the fastest planes. I'll be there to speak about how great. our country is and making America great. again. Donald J. Trump. there's not. 45,000 people and you know the the thing. is when you lie like this also and it. goes back to what we said at the outset. you know in Iran they they clinically.

diagnosed him as a psychotic person and. so they know that they are actually. dealing with someone who's mentally ill. Uh, and I'm not saying that for him to. escape the accountability that he must, but that he is literally someone who is. actually malignant narcissist and me and. and mentally ill. And but we all know. that we don't need clinical psych. We we. we see it. I I I don't understand. with his behavior being so not normal.

Again, when you hear people like whoever. that guy was, you know, Delar Rosa, whatever, Lar Rosa, whoever did the that. line about um you know, about Midas or. whatever. >> the face, >> he was like, >> do you like spot on? >> Did you like it? Do you like I was I was. practicing that line. I was practicing. that line. >> Can I say I nervously Googled to make. sure he did not have like a tick or. something and confirmed does not have a. tick so we can continue to make fun of. him. >> You know, I'm edgy, Jordy. I.

>> You are edgy. >> Remember we did the RFK voice? That was. crazy. >> I I I I did I'm edgy. I'll just leave it. at that. You know, you don't know. You. don't know what you don't know what. you're gonna get. Sometimes I don't know. what I what you're going to get, you. know, when I'm doing um you know, when. I'm doing when I'm doing it live. Um so, we have Congress shut down right now. Um. Brett, you talked about those bipartisan. issues and one of them, of course, is we. don't want a regime covering up a child. sex trafficking like kind of bare. minimum government. Can you not be.

aiding and abetting child sex. trafficking? Like we good? We good. there? Oh, you can't clear that hurdle. Um, you know, that's why I believe what. Katie Fang did was, frankly, on behalf. of all Americans, she filed the first of. its kind lawsuit under the Epstein. Transparency Act to release the Epstein. files that have not been produced. and. she very strategically focused on a core. set of documents that have Trump's name. on it that we know they're covering up. that involve Trump and accusations from.

uh girls involving Trump. Also demanding. that the Justice Department produce its. privilege log or redaction log, which if. they were withholding millions of. documents, which they are, they can't. withhold that. The law requires that if. you withhold, you have to create a log. that identifies the basis of why you. have withheld certain things. I know. there were a lot of doubters out there. whether Katie Fang would have standing, whether her lawsuit would be viable.

Well, I'm so proud to say and I'm so. honored to have her part of this network. that she prevailed with the preliminary. injunction and a judge ordered the Trump. regime to show cause by pretty much next. week at this point why they can't. produce the log and why they can't turn. over their emails or to turn it over. immediately. And the judge found that. Katie Fang had standing as a member of.

the public protected by the Epstein. Transparency Act. That ruling is so big. because that means you have standing to. sue also. The whole country has standing. to bring these lawsuits right now under. the Epstein Transparency Act because the. law was created to protect us all. You. know, it' be interesting to see if. everybody filed a lawsuit under the. Epstein Transparency Act at this point. because as Katie says, you have the. right to the documents. I have the right. to the documents. Your neighbor has the.

right to those documents. And now what's. the Trump regime going to do? They're. going to appeal, I'm sure, to the DC. Circuit Court of Appeals. Then I'm sure. they'll try to appeal to the United. States Supreme Court. And this issue will be teed up. And I. think when you see the Trump regime. fighting so hard. for not and and Katie was so smart with. the filing, it wasn't like she even said. yet we need every document. She said I.

want these documents for now the core. group and produce the privilege log. So. the Trump regime is going to say no we. don't have to produce a priv. Nobody can. sue us. Nobody has the right. The. Epstein transparency act nobody has to. follow. Also, the judge denied the Trump's. request for a stay pending the appeal. So, the Trump regime, I'm sure, will. have to file right now in the DC Circuit. Court of Appeal and request uh a stay.

from the DC Circuit. And so, now they're. going to have to ask, and there are some. right-wing justices or judges on the DC. circuit, hey, will you be complicit with. us in the child sex trafficking racket? Will you be complicit with us? Is what. the Trump regime is going to have to. say. That's where we're at right now. That's. a this is a by, you know, housing, affordability, not going into endless wars, being. against genocide in Gaza, being against.

genocide in Lebanon, supporting peace. Okay, these should not be these are not. trick questions. These are not, oh, where do I stand on the issue? What's. this group going to say or that group. going to say? You stand for something or. you fall for everything. And if you. don't stand for things, one of the big.

issues is, and we saw this, the con. artist comes in who sees the pain and. suffering and says what the people who. are suffering want to hear. Donald. Trump, the Pied Piper con artist, he. would go to the Palestinians. in. uh Michigan in Dearbornne and he would. say, "Here's what I'm going to do for. you. We're going to help you." He would.

go to uh Jewish community made up of. people with, you know, who have certain. views about Israel and he would say, "I'm going to do the exact opposite." He. would go to farmers and he would say. this. He'd go to that group and say. that. He would go to this group. You. know, that's what he would do. >> Let me show you what he's saying to. farmers today. How about that? Because, you know, we could say all these. historical examples, but like literally, he's still doing it. And it's the same. comm that he's been doing from the. campaign. It's the same con that he's.

done his entire life. So, his new lie is. one that been touched on earlier today. and and in various reporting where he. keeps telling the farmers, "Don't worry. This is just kind of sell because we're. giving Iran all this money. Don't worry. We may be freeing up all these billions. and billions of dollars for Iran, but. guess what? That money's coming right. back to you. All the suffering that. you've had because of everything I've. done. No, no, no, no, no. You're about. to get a windfall. And it's always like. you're going to get rich is Donald. Trump's kind of whole framing. You're. about to get rich because Iran, they.

need crops and they are going to be. buying it from you farmer. And he gives. people this false hope over and over. again. And that's what makes these lies. particularly evil to me. Telling people. that I'm going to make you rich as you. screw them over. So listen to what. Donald Trump said today. This is very. recently within the past hour or so. >> Let's play this for the American farm. And after years of getting ripped off by. other countries on trade, we've reduced. the agricultural trade deficit just this.

year by 42%. opening markets to the American exports. And all over the world, we're opening up. markets for the farmers. We've and we. have another one, a new market coming. up, and that's called the lovely country. of Iran. It's a beautiful place. Would. anybody like to go there? Uh the Islamic. Republic of Iran. Uh they're having a. hard time with food and we're going to. be taking some of their money and we'll. spend it and we're going to be buying. wheat, soybeans, and corn, a lot of it.

And that process is going to be starting. pretty soon. It's going to be pretty. big, too. I think it's going to be very. big. We have an expanded market, dairy. in Europe, and the dairy market is that. money is never going to go to the. farmers. He's lying. He's lying. He's. lying. Even MB Galab, Iran's uh. parliament speaker said today before. Donald Trump made these latest remarks, he said the following. America falsely. claims our unfrozen assets will buy.

their agriculture. Interesting. The only. crop we're harvesting is what you. planted. Decades of mistrust. It's. organic, abundant, and homegrown. But. apparently the US only exports GMO. soybeans, broken promises, and trash. talk. I mean, that's a pretty stern. statement from Galabof there. But, you. know, the fact that this is a complete. lie, it's not going to stop Trump. He's. going to say this now at every rally he. does. He's gonna say this when he's. speaking to people non-stop. He's going. to keep tweeting about or or truth.

socialing about how all this money is. going to our great farmers. Get ready. You're about to get rich. Brace for the. windfall. It's coming any any day now. Guess it's coming after their tariff. rebate checks or their doge checks or uh. one of the numerous other scams that. Donald Trump has uh put forward. throughout this uh throughout this term. Um. >> come right after he delivers the. healthare plan. >> Yeah, the healthare plan. after we get. Melania's uh. >> immigration status press conference. >> immigration status press conference. I. mean you could go back right over and.

over and just. I don't understand how anybody could. fall for this at this point because it's. the same scam run every time. But the. thing that you have to realize is. there's, as Ben has said, trillions and. trillions and trillions of dollars. pumped in to making people believe this. stuff every day and using these culture. war issues to make people vote against. their own interests. And when you watch. Fox or if you see even when you look at.

Twitter X or whatever it is now and you. see the way that things that are blatant. lies are just artificially boosted, right? you'll see a a tweet that says. Vandal caught, you know, knifing a 350. foot gash. Looks like Trump was right. and it'll have like a 100,000 likes and. it's just BS. That's why Elon Musk spent. $44 billion to get the platform so that. they could spread things like this. That's why the oligarchs want to control. the flow of information. That's why.

they're buying up all these media. companies. That's why you're seeing all. this consolidation. That's why Trump has. quite openly said that he wants to see. changes at CNN uh once this merger uh. you know goes through and everything. So. >> and Brett, let me take it one more step. further. That's why Elon Musk bought the. platform for $44 billion. Who was. funding it? These oligarchs, Middle East. nations, they bought debt. These. different banks that are now supporting. Donald Trump and helping him manipulate. the markets, they were debt holders. And.

do you know what then happened? Then X. got brought into Space X which got all. its money from government contracts. based on all of the hype from the. government contracts IPOed. All of those. debt holders who were there originally. got so extra wealthy. Elon Musk then. changes the rules for NASDAQ and for. mutual funds so that he can then stick. his SpaceX right into your mutual funds. and your 401ks right away. SpaceX goes.

public. It shoots up right away before. tanking. All of those people who were. there got super rich for putting the. money into SpaceX in the first place. Then you get stuck holding the bag. because your 401k and your mutual funds. now have to buy SpaceX on the way down. basically [clears throat]. regardless of whether you want it or. not. And while that's going on, Donald. Trump's out there as part of that same. speech, Brett, saying, "Iran wants to.

make a deal with us so badly. We're. going to do a deal. Just you wait. They're going to make the biggest best. deal with us." And when I when I hear. him say things like that, I don't know. if you at home, I don't I'm not even. going to play the clip because it I go I. literally feel like I get hit. Like I. It's a physical feeling. And I'm like, "What are you talking about? You did the. mo. What do you even mean? And this just. makes us look so dumb and so stupid. What do you mean? They really want to do. a deal with us. You did theou, you lost.

the war. You gave them everything. We're. seeing what happened and you now you're. out there and and now there's still. going to be people, you know, Brett, to. your point, in this country who were. like, I think they want to do a deal. with us. I think he's gonna I think the. I know the farmers are really. struggling, but Donald says that foreign. minister Arachi and MB Galab are going. to buy some crops from the Nebraska. No, they're not. How do you not see it? How. do you not see it, Jordy, I'll give you.

the last word. >> No, absolutely, Benji and Brett. I think. you guys, you know, synthesized this. perfectly. I just come back to this. I I. I'm so excited about foundationally what. we're continuing to build here at the. Midas touch network and people who are. truly just like the anecdote I think or. the the antidote sorry to the Fox Newses. of the world to this misinformation. chamber that just quite frankly exists. too nonchalantly in our society and I. truly feel that this country could be. great if we fight for it to be great. We.

just can't uh assume that things are. going to go back to normal and we can't. just assume that our standing in this. world is ever going to be, I think, at. least what we assumed it it once was. I. It's going to take all of us. It's going. to take the village to continue to hold. truth to power here and continue to. demand answers, continue to demand. transparency throughout all of all of. Trump's failing efforts here and just. not stop the fighting. Like it it is so. important now more than ever to to like.

literally dig in and and lock the f in. because who knows what could happen, but. at least we're going to go down. swinging. >> I want to uh uh to just talk for like a. couple seconds about the Fox propaganda. operation just because I saw just a. personal anecdote before we get out of. here. I was watching the World Cup uh. the other day uh which was on Fox like. broadcasting channel and they ran an ad. for Fox News and it was the most. over-the-top.

almost like a I don't know Team America. kind of parody of an ad for this but you. see exactly what they're doing in the. ad, right? They don't say any of the. crazy things in the ad, but the American. iconography they use and like the way. they are so hamfisted with everything, it may as well be like a sketch on. Saturday Night Live or something, right? It's like, you know, a big car drives, then an eagle flies, and there's an. explosion, and there's a flag that. wraps. Like, the whole thing, the way. the entire ad is built, shows you their.

whole strategy, which is, let's figure. out how to screw these people, but let's. do it in a way that makes them feel. good, that plays to their lizard brains, that says, "America, [ __ ] yeah." You. know, that's what they're doing. And I. almost I want to find the ad because it. was it was so outrageous. uh you know, but that's what they do. They present. themselves in a certain way and that. imagery is very important to the con. They want to present themselves where. look, we're a real news network. We have. nice graphics. Look at that nice glossy.

set we have. Look at look at uh our. sound effects. Look at our present. And. it's it's all part of it. Look, there's. a giant American flag behind me. We're. going to talk patriots. We're. love this country. We're patriots. And. and so they say that while they're just. screwing you and and it's just it's it's. a fascinating thing to watch and to the. unsuspecting viewer, you could see why. something like that could be. intoxicating because it's playing to. your kind of primal tribal kind of fears.

and, you know, love of the country and. and and whatever it is. um while they. kind of while they just infect uh you. know you with the most toxic stuff. imaginable and make you vote against. your own interests and do everything you. can possible to really screw yourself. over, screw your family over while they. make themselves millionaires and. billionaires. It's it's it's a very evil. play done by the oligarchs. Too many. people are falling for it. So let's keep. fighting through it. Let's keep building.

up these uh platforms. Let's keep. growing pro-democracy networks. Um, let's keep spreading the truth, folks, and and and fighting back. It's more. important than ever. Jordy, want to take it away? >> Shout out to the mightest mighty. >> The. [music] mighty standing strong. [music] against the fascist. We will get it right.

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