LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 8/6/26

We have so much to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. You. have Iran and Oman entering into a deal. together without the United States for. Iran's control over the straight of. Hormuz. This as despite the corporate. news and really much of the kind of news. ecosystem not reporting on what's. actually going down, Iran is still. striking tankers in the straight of. Hormuz. The Houthis have advanced in an. area of Yemen controlled by uh a Saudi.

Arabianbacked government there. Um you. had uh other strikes taking place in the. Red Sea. Iran is not backing down while. the United States runs out of all of its. weapons. We've now seen leaks at the. highest level of our military to. virtually every major news network. Now, they didn't have to leak it for us to. know what was really going down because. we've been studying the satellite. footage of the various US bases and. noting how the Iranian ballistic missile.

strikes were hitting all of its targets. at the US bases despite SENCOM lying and. saying that all of the ballistics were. intercepted. So, it was clear to us. either our pack three interceptors, our. THADs, our SM23s and sixes from the Navy. destroyers either they're not working at. all or we've run out and we speculated. we ran out. So it's clear we've run out. of our interceptors and offensive. weapons well as well like the attackums. those highars and Trump doing to the.

defense department what he did to his. casinos bankrupting it and now going and. begging for trillions of dollars more. from the taxpayers that could be going. to things I don't know like health care. education making things more affordable. we'll cover that as well Katie Fang had. a major victory in court today federal. judge Sullivan been ordering Trump's DOJ. to appear in court on August 13th and to. answer why they have repeatedly violated.

the court's order, including the court's. most recent order in Katie Fang's case. under the Epstein Transparency Act for. the DOJ to turn over certain categories. of documents. Why are you redacting the. names of co-conspirators and claiming. they are victims? Can you explain how. these people are victims? Show us. backup. Blanch is like, "Well, we're. just going to stand on the redactions.". And the court was like, "That's not what. I asked you. Why are these. co-conspirators being treated as.

victims? Damn it. Answer it on August. 13th." Then you had the court requesting. a timeline when the DOJ would produce a. redaction log or a privilege log for the. millions of documents that are being. withheld. And why aren't you producing. the FBI notes to those 302 reports. regarding the allegations against Donald. Trump from an underage girl? Why are you. not producing those? Trump denies it, so. just show us the notes. And then Blanch.

is like, "Well, because the notes are. substantially similar to the 302. reports, we're not going to produce the. notes." And the judge excoriated Blanch. and Trump's DOJ. There's no. substantially. similar exception in the Epstein. Transparency Act. I want you to answer. for that on August 13th. Big developments there, right? Um we'll. talk about that. The David Hearn case, officially dismissed, two-time Olympic.

canoist, who was framed, not just. framed, the lied, fabricated evidence. Guess he's framed in that it was Trump. who did it, right? You know, it's like. the Scooby-Doo movie. TURNS OUT IT WAS. DONALD TRUMP THE WHOLE TIME, RIGHT? UM, fabricated evidence against David Hearn. The Justice Department admitted the. Department of Interior gave him. fabricated evidence to push Trump's. narrative that the reflecting pool was. damaged by vandals when it was because. of Trump and Trump's um, uh, crew of uh, bad uh, construction people. Um, also.

numerous other cases uh, dismissed as. well. Um and then the a lot of legal. updates as well in Virginia. Uh the case. that where a preliminary injunction was. granted regarding the J6. anti-weaponization fund to block that. Well, now we've got the plaintiffs. amending the amending their complaint in. order to block Trump's tax immunity in. that Virginia case. Trump's already lost. the preliminary injunction there on the.

anti-weaponization. And now the same. plaintiffs are saying, "Look, this judge. in the Southern District of Florida. basically said this agreement was. created with fraud, that it was created. collusively and that it's voided. So. therefore, this entire thing, including. the tax immunity, should be voided. We. want that to be a part of our. preliminary injunction as well." So. there's an amended complaint. We'll see. what the judge does there. That and more.

on the Midas Touch podcast. Brett and. Jordy, it's so good to see you. You know. what? I there's been a lot thrown at. this community, this country, this. world. But I actually feel right now as. you see Donald Trump wearing what. appears to be what appears to be, I. don't know, the new weird wig. You got. Donald Trump uh out there looking. desperate and tired and humiliated and. damaged and broken as his approval. plummets as the American people and. people of the world are standing up. I.

actually feel right now stronger than. ever. I don't know about I truly do. I. feel right now there's a lot of momentum. for those who want to fight back and say. enough is enough. >> I could not agree more. It's good to be. here. Ben, good to be here. Jordy, good. to be here. Midas Mighty, what was that. thing on Donald Trump's head? Can we. start there? Like what the heck was. going on there? I I know a lot of people. have been commenting on this, but just. so completely bizarre. You know, something else that we uh saw, this was.

submitted to us from a Midas Touch. viewer. Uh this image from rural. Tennessee, which Ben I think sums up. exactly where we are at this moment. We. got this picture from rural Tennessee of. a Trump superstore. And you could see. the sign right behind the Trump. Superstore. Going out of business now. Going out of business now. And doesn't. that isn't that so indicative of first. off Donald Trump's entire life, but also. where we're at right now with the Trump. presidency, with the Trump regime, where.

it really feels like right now we're in. a moment where a lot of these things are. sort of coming to a head. The court. cases, all the scams and griffs, everything is kind of now meeting that. moment where it's all kind of collapsing. and it's all really humiliating for. Donald Trump. And there have been. reports that kind of for the first time. uh in a while, Donald Trump has really. been seething in humiliation as. everything around him is really just. failing. And the humiliation from the. reflecting pool case that he went all in.

on, the humiliation from the Iran war. with us losing all of our munitions, using them all up. Everywhere you look, what Donald Trump's doing has been a. complete and utter failure. And I think. it's finally sinking in a little bit. with him. and he is getting a little bit. of a dose of reality when his handlers. allow that dose of reality to set in. We're going to cover it all, but first. we got to go to Jordy. Jordy, what's the. latest? >> Brothers, mighty, it is wonderful to be. here tonight. And Brett, Ben, I I agree.

with you guys so much here. This this. vibe shift, if you will, really feels. apparent, at least in this idea of um. accountability or what accountability. can look like. I know just for my inner. circles out here where I live, like. people are getting energized the closer. and closer we're getting to midterms. also about what foreseeable. accountability could be. Look, don't get. me wrong, uh I'm not here to advocate. for one party or another, but I think. the likelihood that the Dems retake. Congress is uh pretty high. And so it's.

going to be pretty interesting to see as. these court cases unfolding currently. are are are failing miserably for Donald. Trump what accountability looks like in. the next steps as investigations get. launched as uh hearings get launched. because again the party that controls. they ultimately determine really how and. how this stuff plays out and in what. context it plays out and who they can. call in to these hearings. And it's. going to be very interesting to see. nonetheless if the Democrats are able to.

take back what that looks like and if we. will get some real accountability down. in these coming months. Benji Brett. excited for the show. Where are we. starting off today big bro? Look at. Donald Trump's frantic posting earlier. today. He writes, "For our great. Republican senators, friends of mine. all, please be advised that the. communist Democrat Senate candidate from. Michigan." And then he says, "El is. touting as the full name is perhaps his. single most important point, the. termination of the filibuster. I watched. it yesterday and he's gone termination.

crazy. If he succeeds, the Democrats. will gain four senators, eight. congressmen, many electoral and popular. votes, a stack Supreme Court with 23. justices, and I will be sadly, despite. the great job we are doing, the last. Republican president, Donald J. Trump. So much. >> sounds kind of like an endorsement. >> It is an endorsement, but it's also so. much whining. And again, whether you're. Democrat, Republican, independent, it's. really sad to have such a loser, such a. loser in the Oval Office. I mean, you've.

got Iran mocking him. MV Galabah posting. the following. He's the basically the. top civilian position in Iran. He's. their parliament leader. He goes, "Massive attack coming. Wait, never. mind. They want to negotiate. That's. theater diplomacy on loop. Using. bullying, broken promises, fake news as. leverage is a failed strategy. Acknowledge the facts and fulfill your. commitments. We don't need more theater.

Iran, which has essentially now become a. global power, not essentially, has. become a global power. It's basically. wagging its finger at a weak and. pathetic United States under Donald. Trump and saying, "We don't need this. drama. We don't need this theater. We. know you're out of weapons. We know. So. just sh. be quiet. Be quiet.". That's how the United States gets talked.

to now. It's worse than being laughed. at. Shh. Get out of here. The adults are. in the room. Shh. Think about that. That's what the United States has. become. It's worse than when Donald. Trump says the world is laughing at us. No, we're getting shushed. Just get out. of here. We we we got to do this deal. with Omahan because we have to actually. deal with real issues. It's really you if if you don't feel. humiliated as an American right now,

you're not patriotic. You're not a real. patriot because any actual patriotic. American would look at this and go, "Oh. my god. Oh my god. This is pathetic. I. can't tolerate this level of pathetic be. not as a Democrat, not as a Republican, not as an independent. I just I don't. what what what what is this?" I'm doing. a great negotiation with them and and. I'm gonna it's going to be worse than. World War II every.

dealing with Oman. Okay. Okay. That's. where we are as a country. Oh, [laughter] the the the Democrats. The Democrats. The communists. The Democrats. Shut up. Shut up. And I think that's. honestly how many people feel about it's. like this enough. We don't need we don't. we don't want this. Just be quiet. Be. quiet there. We we you know what? Why. don't you try on a new wig or whatever.

you're doing and and and go away, you. know? Get get away. This is a real photo. of him. We have another photo that's not. a real photo, but this is a real photo. of him right there. That's one. that's a mega devil dog. I think this is. actually comes from a proTrump account. I don't even know if this account is. broker, but whoever did this whole I. think it's approach this is what crack. anyway go. that's what it really looks like. It's. not actually it's not actually that far. off. Um and so you've got Donald Trump.

right now um in the Oval Office before. we went live. This is how he behaves. He's he's one of the things he posted. last night is we're not running out of. munitions. Everything's great. We can. get munitions from other places. He. goes, "The US has massive amounts of. munitions, especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being. manufactured and shipped to the US as. needed. Defense companies are building. the largest number of plants and. factories in our country's history. The. leakers of these treasonous statements.

are being hunted down. Long-term jail. sentences will be sought. I'm hunting. them down. They're getting hunted, everybody. Everyone's going to be. hunted, hunted, hunted, hunted. It's. fake news, but also we need to get the. leakers who leak this information, but. it's also fake information and. completely fiction, but we also have to. get the people who leak this very. sensitive information that no one's. supposed to know to the public. >> They're getting magic for you. >> Yeah, perfect. >> Then he's in the Oval Office right over. here, and he's asked, "You posted. overnight that the US has a massive. amount of munitions and you denied any.

shortages. So why are you demanding $21. billion to restock? Why is that. necessary?" Here, let's play this clip. President, on munitions, you uh posted. overnight that the US has a massive. amount and you deny that there were any. shortages. There is a supplemental. request for $21 billion to to restock. So, um why is that request still there. if there's. >> Well, because we need more all the time. I need more. Look, we gave tremendous. amount to Ukraine. The Biden people did.

And they were given free of charge. No, no charge. no charge, billions, hundreds. of billions of dollars. And fortunately, I built up so much during my term. I. rebuilt the military and also loaded it. up with a lot of stuff. We have certain. types of munitions that are very. powerful that we have unlimited, virtual. unlimited supply. We have others where. it's a little bit tighter, >> virtually unlimited, you know, the.

unlimited supply. But then it's Biden's. fault and it's Ukraine's fault. It's. everybody's fault. But his own fault, Brad. It's every You might be muted. It's everybody's fault. >> It's all Yeah, it's it's all gone. But. also, it's unlimited. But also, we ran. out of weapons and Biden did it, but. also I built it back up. But we actually. have unlimited weapons. But actually, you put on, you get unlimited ammo, unlimited everything. Of course, we all. know about the the unlimited weapons of. of course. All you have to do is go. left, left, left, right, right, right,

left, left, up, up, down, up, down, left, right, right, right, >> and then you get unlimited. We all, we. all know that that's how you get. unlimited weapons. >> Um, >> Gamer and Ben comes out. Look at that. >> Uh, question. Russia seems to have. increased their attacks on civilian. targets. Is that a concern to you? That. must be concerning that Russia has been. escalating its attack on civilians. Here, play this clip. Russia seems to. have increased their attacks on. that must be of concern to you, Mr. President. No, >> it's Look, we're not involved from the.

standpoint it's uh we're separated by an. ocean, but I hate to see 25,000 young. people a month get killed. And that's. what's happening between Russia and. Ukraine. They're losing on average. 25,000 mostly soldiers a month. And you. know, we're working on it and I think. we're making progress. But it's a. violent, very violent war. There's a lot. of hatred in that war. A lot of hatred. between the two leaders. I settled eight. wars. I thought this would be maybe one.

of the easier ones and it turned out to. be the most difficult, but progress is. being made. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Well, you promised. you promised on day one after the. election before you were even sworn into. office. You said on day one. that you would bring peace. You had such. a great relationship. And also the. question was a very basic one. It must. be concerning you. And let's be clear. what's happening. Trump promised. Zalinski.

at first patriot interceptors that he. was going to sell to Europe and that. Europe would then provide it to. Zalinski. Then Trump didn't provide the. interceptors to Europe and NATO after. promising that. So then at the NATO. summit, Trump promised in public, it's. not ambiguous. Sinsky was sitting there. Trump was sitting there and Trump said, "I'm going to give you the interceptor. licenses so you can make them on your. own. And then Zalinski met with Trump. two weeks ago at the White House. He met.

with Lockheed that makes these. interceptors to get the license. And. then Trump rugpulled him and said, "I'm. not going to give you the license. I'm. just not going to do it. Sorry, I can't. do it." So, you have to wonder what was. Donald Trump and Putin? What were they. talking about on July 4th when Trump and. Putin spoke for 90 minutes? Were they. talking about potentially? Well, hey, Donald, why don't you find out what. their vulnerabilities are? Why don't you. just drag him along a little bit? Buy us.

about 30 to 45 days so we can increase. our ballistic missile arsenal and then. they won't have any way to stop it and. then that's how we'll get a deal, Donald, because they won't be able to. stop the ballistics and we can just hit. any targets at will. At this point, I I. I don't want to be hyperbolic. I don't. want to create unnecessary fear, but. it's actually a pretty dire situation. for Ukraine right now if you follow. what's happening solely because of the.

ballistics. And that's that's not me in. any way criticizing the leadership or. the ability of their army to fight. I I. I got very nervous when Laura Loomer got. involved. Actually, that was one of the. red flags for me about what was going on. when Loomer was involved and all these. MAGA people seemed and I was telling the. I go that doesn't feel right with me. And that also kind of coincided with. Trump tapping Zalinsky along and making. Zalinsky feel like he was going to get. these interceptor licenses. But the real.

big problem is not what's going on in. the front of the war where Ukraine is. holding its ground and making progress. The issue is is that Ukraine has a 0%. interception rate of the Russian. ballistics. That means every Russian. ballistic hits its target. That means. nearly a million square feet of. warehouses have been destroyed by Russia. in a very 500,000 of that has been. destroyed like since July. Any night. that Iran wants to rain down on certain.

areas, it just does salvos of 20 30. ballistics and everybody every one of. them hits their target. Zalinsky has a. 90% interception rate with drones. close. to that with cruise missiles, little. less ballistics at 0%. Because you. literally need the interceptors in order. to um in order to stop the ballistics. So that's what's going on. So the next. question is Zinsky says his country. desperately needs long range missiles.

What do you make of that? Let's watch. Trump's response. Let's play it. >> Mr. President on Ukraine. President. Silinski says his country desperately. needs long range missiles or those. Patriot missile batteries. Is that. something that you're. >> Well, I mean, we want missiles, too. You. know, we when Biden gave him so much, Biden gave $300 billion worth of. ammunition. >> And again, we need missiles, too. But. you just said literally two minutes. before that that we have all we have.

unlimited ammo. If we have unlimited. ammo, then why do we need it? We don't. have it. And look, one of the reasons. that we're not giving it to Zalinski is. because we've run out. And it's. embarrassing and we can't sell it to. Europe because we don't have it for. ourselves. We don't have it for the Arab. nations. We don't have it for Asia. We. ran out. We're out. It's done. Not Not. just like the stock piles are low. Like, we're out. But the other reason I believe is that. this is how Donald Trump believes a deal.

is going to get done, which is what he's. always thought, which is let Putin. pummel Zalinsky and eventually Zalinsky. will tap out. And I worry that if you. look at some of the moves that are. happening behind the scenes in Ukraine, they got rid of their defense secretary, Fedorov, and then they replaced him with. somebody else. They got rid of their. commander-in-chief because he said, "Get. rid of Fedorov." You've got a lot you've. got a lot going there going on there. that despite I think the incredible work. on the front and pushing forward. If.

they don't get these interceptor. licenses or any way to defend against. these ballistics, this is going to be. every other day we're going to see a. massive u ballistic salvo. Um and it's. deeply concerning. Let me I'll toss it. over to Britain Jordy. >> Yeah. Well, you know, uh there's been a. lot of conversation and rightfully so. about the economic effects of the war. and uh other things stemming from the. war in in terms of those respects. You. know, oil markets, treasury yields, stock market, things like that, gas.

prices. Uh but there are all these other. kind of national defense and. geopolitical ramifications from the war. that are talked about far less. Uh and. the implications for this war and what's. happening in Ukraine is is certainly one. of them. uh what our our relationship. with China is one of them. Right now, all these countries around the world. know exactly what's going on in the. United States. And frankly, it didn't. take the leakers, as Trump wants to. describe them as, uh in order to sound. the alarm about these low munition.

stockpiles. I mean, we've been reporting. on these low munitions now for for. months, the dwindling munitions and. going, "It's getting lower, it's getting. lower, it's getting lower." The same way. we've been reporting on tank bottom with. the oil markets. And then eventually it. comes around and it gets confirmed by. these, you know, quote unquote leakers. and everyone goes, "Holy crap, how did. this happen?" And we've been following. it the whole time. We've been looking at. the numbers. We've been looking at the. data. We've been seeing what's been. happening. And if we know that here on. the Midas Touch podcast, I could assure. you Russia knows that. I could assure. you China knows that. I could assure you.

country Iran knows that. I could assure. you countries throughout the world all. know exactly what's going on. And that. puts the United States and our allies in. a very precarious situation. And if. Donald Trump's strategy right now is. we're just going to continue to do the. same thing that we've been doing, you. know, that kind of what they say is. insanity, trying the same thing with no. different results. If we're just going. to keep trying that over and over, we're. just going to bomb them into submission. Well, eventually the munitions run out. Eventually the the defense, the. interceptors, eventually that runs out.

It's not a video game. You can't pull. some crypto scheme to all of a sudden. build fake value or fake weapons for. your military. When you use them, they're done. And it's not like they. take a very fast to rebuild. It takes a. while to rebuild these weapons that. we're wasting. And that's the issue when. you have these people like a Hex, like a. Donald Trump who go out there and just. try to burn it all down and try to act. all tough and try to say, "Oh, we're. just going to bomb them and do this and. do that." That there's no thought behind. it. It's why you need actual smart. people because you need people who.

actually are viewing things based on. strategy. Not like this is a video game. Not like we have unlimited munitions. not like we could just keep bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing and show. American power or whatever the hell they. want to call it. It's really showing our. weakness and it's showing the stupidity. right now of the people in charge. So, it's no surprise there is a major crisis. in the Pentagon right now. I don't know. how this gets better and uh and and I. can vouch for Ben that he was saying. when Laura Loomer was with uh Zalinsky. in Ukraine that Ben was going, I don't. think this is a good thing. I don't.

think this is a good thing. and and you. were sounding the alarm right here that. Donald Trump's kind of fake offer to. Ukraine weeks and weeks ago at this. point was a red herring that we. shouldn't trust it that we should not. believe and that the mainstream media. and people in general should not be. putting their faith in Donald Trump. He. is not a dealmaker. He is a fraud and he. will dangle things to people and then. he'll take it away for his own uh. benefit and he'll screw you over. And so. Zalinsky, if he thought that he was. going to get a deal from Donald Trump. here from playing nice with Laura Luma.

or playing nice with these people, I. mean, he ended up getting fooled at the. end of the day, hopefully he knows. better than that. But right now, it's. it's a shame to see everyone in a. precarious situation, including us here, including the United States. >> Yeah, Ben Spidey sense went off in full. effect when that Loomer video dropped. Uh, words have to mean something. Like, words and promises, I feel like they. used to mean something. Maybe I'm sort. of romanticizing the past a little bit, but like when the president said he was. going to do something and made promises. to other world leaders, feel like they.

followed through on those promises. I. could be mistaken. I'm happy for anyone. to point it out. Anytime Donald Trump. opens his mouth, you can't take what. he's saying at face value. You know, when he said that he'd even end the war. on day one, like that was the big. campaign thing, right? When he was. running for this re-election bit over. here, he's now gone back on that a. couple months ago. I was being. sarcastic. Oh, that that was my you. couldn't sense my sarcasm when I said I. was going to end the war on day one. It's immensely frustrating as you see.

Donald Trump go further and further into. the conflicts abroad and also understand. the ramifications that it's going to. have here on the economy that Donald. Trump doesn't care about our nation's. debt. And so in his mind, Brett, I I. think he does think that he'll just keep. borrowing money and just like that, those munitions, they'll be made because. he because he took the money because. because we got the money that there is. no strategic foresight here as far as. Oh, no. There's actually like plans and. steps that have to go into just getting.

more munitions for this war that they. just don't appear overnight. But what. Donald Trump has been good at, and I. don't say that in a a a good way, has. been taking people's money with no. outcome for the masses to to sort of. follow. And that is a similar pattern. that I think we're going to be falling. into here where sooner or later he's. just going to ask for more money for the. war. More money. We've already seen it. It's going to. >> they're they're already asking, right? They're already trillion five. I mean,

the guy couldn't even build a helipad at. the White House. They they spent all. these millions of dollars building a. helipad, then they had to take it, tear. it all down, redo it, just another. renovation project uh that they continue. to screw up. I mean, the the folks that. we have right now in the White House are. are a total disaster. And I know I'm not. giving any new news to you by by saying. that. Uh but, you know, I almost wish we. could see like the alternate reality. where there was a a Kla Harris. presidency or or a second Joe Biden term. or something because everyone likes to. pretend that, you know, both sides are.

the same here. And I'm not going to. pretend that everything was all amazing, you know, under Biden, but I could tell. you it certainly was not the hell that. they're trying to describe it as. And it. was significantly better. And if you. just literally followed the policies. that were laid out, you'd have a. stronger NATO. You'd have Ukraine being. protected. You wouldn't have this war in. Iran. You'd have a stock market. continuing to rise without all this. volatility. You would have the yields at. normal levels not spiking to crazy. amounts. You would have stability in the. world. You'd have the United States as a.

leader on the world stage, Canada liking. us. You'd have our institutions. remaining built. You'd have a working. department of justice actually focused. on criminals and not bailing out. criminals and give them billions of your. dollars there. You'd have more. transparency on Epstein. I I I mean, it's literally you could go with every. single issue would be significantly. better. And it's not even a question. And anybody who denies that to me, you're just not being intellectually. honest. And that's why you need leaders. who are going to lead, that are actually.

going to make this country better for. for everyone and not just themselves. I. think Donald Trump, it's it's abundantly. clear to me actually that he's grappling. with his own mortality. That's the. golden arch. That's the reflecting pole. That's the memorials. It's it's renaming. the buildings. That Donald Trump is in. here for some sort of perceived legacy. play where he wants his name and his. aura to live on post post Trump. presidency, post Trump whatever. existence. and where we are right now. That's how he's leading. There's no. again foresight here as far as how and.

how we actually get out of this in a way. that sustains the economy, that's better. for the American people, that's better. for the troops, that's better for just. everyone involved. Donald Trump is only. looking at this as how can this benefit. me and how can I get out of this in a. way that benefits me the most? And it's. why I worry about the nuclear option. here, right? Like Donald Trump has. already said they're going to see things. like like they haven't seen since World. War II. We obviously know what he's. referring to there. And I don't rule.

that out and I'm not saying that for. clicks and I'm not saying it, you know, to like be jokey here. I genuinely think. he does not care about the ramifications. should he proceed with that matter. Let's take our first quick break of the. show. A reminder, our new book comes. out, our first book comes out October, October 20th. uh pre-order it now. Our. publisher has, you know, emphasized to. us the pre-orders are one of the most. important things. It helps us promote. the book better. It helps us decide.

where we're going to go on the book tour. and uh it's a real differencemaker. They. say there's a lot of great momentum. around the pre-order. So, pre-order it. right now. You can scan the QR code. You. could do a link in the description below. or you could do the oldfashioned way. Google. You can Google WTF America by. >> just break some news, Ben, without a. little book tour. >> Like a little news breaking moment right. there. Usually I cough it up. >> I think I think I think we've said it. >> All right, let's take our first quick. break of the show. We'll be right back.

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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's an exit survey, let. them know we sent you. Someone DM' me. that whole spiel the other day. Say, I I. know what you say. It's It's in my head. Can you mix it up a little bit? So, I'm. going to come up with a new one when we. come back from break. And I don't know. >> Don't fix what I'm broke. You know, >> I like it and I know it really well, but. I don't know if I'm annoying people by. saying the same thing. So, I'm going to. mix it up. Benji, what do you think? And. where do you want to go next? >> Where do I want to go next, Jordan?

[laughter]. I think I think all your ideas are. great. Let's talk about Trump in the. Oval who's asked, "Do you believe Max. Miller should withdraw from his race?". Um, obviously you've seen the very. serious allegations of abuse against Max. Miller, that he abused his wife or. allegations. His daughter, that he's. abused two other girlfriends. Uh, his. former father-in-law, Senator Moreno of. Ohio, said that Max Miller is someone.

who's sick and needs to resign. You've. heard other Republican senators talk to. the Midas Touch Network, actually, and. say that Max Miller needs to resign and. be out. Even Max Miller's behavior and. the interviews on Jake Tapper, on. Newsmax and others have been really kind. of sick and demented. He's like released. he's released these like photo this the. these images and these photos which then. his um uh ex-wife uh has said lawyer. basically said, you know, you released. like nude photos of our little girl.

which is like sexual child sex abuse. content. And then it's like then his. lawyer said we inadvertently released. the material. we didn't mean to like. release the photo that shows that. Um. and then you know you see these text. messages that his ex-wife released and. his ex-wife someone who's really big in. the conser was it big in the. conservative movement too as the. daughter of of Senator Moreno and they. were like you know holding the little. baby girl's bunny hostage and then Max. Miller would release more of like their.

private tech like putting all their. stuff out there and and the whole thing. is is really you know it's it's very. disturbing. This isn't a Democrat or a. Republican or an independent thing. This. is this is just an an abhorrent thing. And one of the things that Max Miller. cites why he stays in is he models his. behavior off of Trump. He goes, "I'm. just like Trump. We both had allegations. from women. We both are strong. This is. how we respond to allegations." Max. Miller has said in the interviews, he.

said, "Donald, Maxi, it's going to be. tough for you, Maxi, but I'm with you, Maxi." that that's how he said and and. we've heard Trump say, I you know, I'm. not going to get involved in this. We've. heard Maga Mike Johnson basically. support Max Miller. And by the way, that's that to me, you know, while this. situation isn't necessarily a Democrat, Republican or independent thing, this. response to it certainly feels like a. Republican thing to me when you have. Magamike Johnson, the speaker of the. house, being like, "Yeah, I don't know.

You know, that's just between him and. his family. I'm not going to I'm not. going to do anything. He's got my I got. his back. you know, if he needs it, you. know, whatever whatever whatever he. wants to do. I can't I can't control all. my people here. I mean, you know, they're going to have their own lives. Like really, really? And these are the. same people who, you know, were so. forceful with Graham Platner. And, you. know, anytime there's also like any sort. of little kind of scandal on the. Democratic side and typically the. Democratic party takes care of that. stuff. Republicans are going allin right. now on on Max Miller. And it's truly. like it's disturbing stuff. everything.

that Max Miller releases, the text that. Ben was speaking about, he just keeps. stepping in it further. Also, as as Ben. explained with the CSAM material, but. also uh you know, just every text that. he's trying to put out there to kind of. quote unquote clear his name ends up. actually showing that a lot of these. allegations are actually for real. Like. you you see what people are accusing him. of in the text messages. And I think in. my opinion, he has this sort of abuser. mindset that he kind of permeates. throughout all of this stuff that when.

you see it, uh, like he he doesn't even. almost like realize what he's saying, but the language that he uses is is is. kind of textbook and it's incredibly. disturbing. But here was here was Donald. Trump today in the oval being asked. about it. >> Mr. President, the deadline for. Representative Max Miller to um withdraw. from his race is coming up next week. Do. you believe he should withdraw this? Well, I'm not going to get involved in. that. It's a very sad situation. and uh I know Max very well, but it's uh.

very very sad that a situation like that. takes place. Yeah. >> Do you think the DOJ should. >> And going back to something I talk about. a lot, leadership. You're in a position. of leadership. It's not a Democrat or. Republican thing. You are a leader and. he doesn't behave like that. He never. takes accountability for anything and. whenever there's something difficult and. it doesn't immediately go his way, he. backs out and he runs away from it. I.

mean, you take a look at BBC and what's. going on over there, right? And Trump's. scared of BBC. Clearly, they but he got. bailed out by a judge that he appointed. when he was 36 years old, this judge. [snorts] And so, you all you all know. the story there. Trump sues BBC for some. documentary that never aired in the. United States. And Trump said this. documentary by the BBC which like nobody. saw didn't air in the US. Panorama.

got like no. >> people saw people saw it in the U. It's. a it's a big show in the UK. It's. >> not in the United States. >> Not in the United States. [laughter]. >> I mean saying you're saying the UK how. many did it get any views in the United. States? It wasn't even in the US. >> No, it wasn't broadcast in the United. States. Panorama's a you know I lived in. London. Panorama is a. >> Let me just tell my BBC story. Okay. You. know, you know everything about. Panorama. Okay. In the United States, but I'll be very geographically. specific. Okay. As I'm trying to. >> deal with the facts here, Ben, I'll deal. with the I'll deal with the BBC Trump. facts. Okay. Then Trump sues them. They.

respond by saying, "Let's get. discovery." Okay. You know, you you said. 10 billion dollars in damages. All. right. Show me where your damage $10. billion. Okay. I mean, you you filed a. lawsuit. What does Trump do? No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to show you. Then they get an order from a magistrate. judge who handles discovery. And then. Donald and then the judge says, "Turn it. over." And then rather than turn it. over, Trump files an emergency. He says, "There's an emergency." What's the.

emergency? We're going to file a new. complaint. Well, the deadline to file a. complaint was March. So, you missed the. deadline, but it's an emergency now. I. can't turn these documents over. You. sued. No one forced you to sue BBC. for $10 billion and claim that your. corporations were damaged. So now you're. going to have turn over your corporation. document. 10 billion. He didn't say. $1,000. So he's like, "No, no, I want to. amend my complaint and say it was just. reputation harm. Your reputation was.

harmed and you're saying 10 billion. dollars of damage and that I want to. amend the I want to change. I want a. doover." Well, the magistrate judge. ruled against Donald Trump, but he Trump. showed that he was scared of BBC there. And then he goes to the Trump appointed. judge, who's the judge in Southern. District of Florida, who Trump appointed. in 2019, and the guy goes, "You raise. good arguments there. I Okay, I'll give. you a participation trophy. We'll. probably allow you to amend your. complaint, so you can now just say it.

was your reputation that was harmed, Donald. And by the way, Trump ain't. winning. The judge ain't winning. The. United States is losing. Nobody's. winning from this behavior. To see a. cowardly human being sue for10 billion. dollars because he's so soft that his. reputation is harmed. He's so soft that. that's why he goes after BBC. And then. BBC scares him. And then he's like, "Oh. no, I don't know what to do. I don't. know what to do." And the issues get.

bigger than this because think about it. If you're you don't think Iran studies. this behavior that our allies and. enemies and everyone's they they have a. pathological profile on the malignant. narcissist that ultimately shows when. you really come down to it he's a weak. loser. That's what they all have. decided. They all this guy's a loser. He's a reject. He's a pathetic weasel. He's just he's just a whiner. He's just. a complainer. He's a failure. He's a. failure of a human. So you push back,

push back, push back. and then he gives. up. That's what everyone sees. He pushed. back. Don't get me wrong, he's now. co-opted, hijacked the United States of. America. So, he's got it's not like he can't. inflict damage. He's inflicted real. damage in Iran. I'm not trying to paint. some rosy picture that like, you know, it's nothing. No, he's caused harm here. He's kicking off people uh from food. stamps who need it. A 100,000 people. recently kicked off in Arizona. 450,000.

people total. That's what they're. bringing to state after state, saying. the little children who are on food. stamps are committing fraud. Now, this. guy's a wrecking ball. He can cause a. lot of damage with with his behavior. And he has caused a lot of damage. He's. made all these affordability issues. Even worse, he's screwed up everything. here. But ultimately, what it comes down. to is the guy's a loser. And he runs. from BBC. He runs away from Iran. He.

runs away from a difficult thing that. you may have to do, which is if you. called out Max Miller, who by the way is. now trailing significantly in the polls. in that House district in Ohio. Good. >> That that that'll be that gets him out. of the race by the way, not all this. screwed up. >> But you know what? You may have to. figure out a plan. Maybe replace them. I. don't know. Come up with something else, you know. But that's to me some of these. things come down to le all of these. things often come down to be an adult,

be a grown-up, be a leader, behave with. dignity like at that level just just. just that just that I mean you know he's. asked in the oval office has a deal been. reached to reopen the straight of hormuz. has a deal been reached the very nature. of this question Trump's not involved. even in the con the Trump regime has. been sidelined they're not involved. involved in this at all right now. They're not. What? How do we know that? Are they in Qatar? Are they in Pakistan?

Are they? No, they're not involved in. any of this. Nothing. It is purely Iran. and Oman. That is it right now. And. Trump wants to take credit for that deal. that will give Iran control over the. trade. Say, "Look, I did a deal. I did. one. I took it. Look what I did, everybody." Look at what Trump says when. he's asked. Has a deal been reached? Let's play. Has it deal been reached to. reopen the street of Hormes? >> Well, I don't want to say it has been. It's sort of open right now. You know, we have a thing called the blockade. headed up by the US Navy and we control.

it. And uh now we control it, but they. can always shoot something. They always. have something or drop a mine. And if. you. >> we don't control it. It's a stupid thing. to say. >> Remember how this week began, by the. way? The week began with all the. headlines across all the papers saying. Scott Bessant says a deal on the street. of Hermuz is coming tomorrow. Like how I. don't know why like people just forget. this stuff. Like they just move on. He. said that that was I believe Monday and.

so the markets open and they go crazy. Like all the stock the US stock market. goes nuts off of this fake comment that. Scott Besset made. And it's not like. it's the first time they've done this. They keep doing this all the time. They. say, "Oh, yeah, deals around the corner. A deal's going tomorrow. There's going. to be a deal tomorrow." And this stuff, they still react to their comment. Like, like, how do you take anything these. people say seriously? And as Ben said, the entire premise of the question is. incorrect because the United States. isn't even involved right now in these.

negotiations. It's between Iran and. Oman. And the Iranian news sources right. now are also saying that they're trying. to figure out uh you know their way of. opening the strait which is going to. formalize uh Iranian and Omani control. of the straits have some sort of polling. system perhaps some sort of other. authorities that they did not have prior. to this war. Making sure that they have. complete and full control over it um and. that the United States does not and that. everybody has to go through them. I mean.

that's wor that's like horrific. That's. that's the worst case scenario. Yet. Trump just gets these questions like. he's gonna have a deal tomorrow and. everybody reacts like it's like the. greatest thing ever. I feel like I'm. like I I feel like I'm going nuts. sometimes when I watch this stuff. C. >> could we also just comment quickly on. the fact that like does do y'all find it. strange that every time he answers a. question during one of these formats. that he's constantly just covering his. hand. Like he he can't answer questions. without covering that hand. He is deeply. insecure about what's happening. And I. just think it needs to be a bigger. issue. Like I think people need to be.

like what are you doing? It's it's it's objectively an odd way. for someone to answer a hundred. questions like while they're sitting. down is to just Yes, exactly. Is to is. to cup one of their hands behind another. for the duration of the Q&A process. >> I couldn't agree more with you, Jordy. Let's take a look more at what he's. doing. Well, before going what he's. doing in the Oval Office, I'll show you. one more on on this is what he says on. afford the big issue everybody's. confronting. The cost of living is. impossible in the United States. People. can't afford homes. He ran on.

affordability. Now he claims it's a. madeup word. He promised electricity. prices would be cut in half. Gas would. be under $2. Everybody would be having. homes. Things would be amazing. And then. he's asked, "What's your message on. affordability?" Pretty basic question. right here. Let's play this clip. >> And Mr. President, Republicans are. arguing a lot right now about. affordability. What is your message on. affordability going into the midterms? >> Well, that's a good question, but it's. sort of simple to answer. I inherited. the highest prices ever. I inherited the.

worst inflation in the history of our. country and we have uh done an amazing. job and. okay and again it's like you haven't. done an amazing job. Stop whining about. what you inherited. Inflation was going. down. Inflation was heading towards 2%. We we we know the reality of it and it's. just like you're you're in it two years. now. you can I share some other midterm. messaging uh with the uh with with the. with everybody here with you Ben and.

Jordy and Midas Mighty. Uh so let's. let's go. I just want to go quickly from. Donald Trump's mid a fantastic midterm. messaging uh about affordability there. and highlight a comment that I actually. haven't seen got all that much attention. today. And this is from uh Dan Krenshaw. just to show you like what uh people on. the right are are saying in general. Uh. Dan Krenshaw was responding to there. There was a right-wing influencer. Right-wing influencers have been um. coming out now and saying things like.

they got to like Trump really needs to. focus on this affordability thing. Like. things are so expensive. And there was. one influencer like yesterday who said. something like, "I just bought a burrito. and it cost me like 25 bucks." And so. this was Dan Krenshaw's response. This. is the GOP message on affordability. He. said, "Just hearing about this dumb $20. burrito debate. So, just thought I'd. make the losers on social media angry. before going to bed. Stop whining. Get a. job. Eat ramen like the rest of us did. in college on a budget with four.

roommates. The market doesn't care what. you think something should cost. Only. communists care. Are you a communist or. are you an American adult male capable. of handling his own Wow. Inspiring. Inspiring midterm messaging. from. >> That's their message on affordability. Get a job. Get a It's You're not working. hard enough. You don't have You don't. have enough jobs. You don't You're not. working hard enough. >> You need more jobs. You need more ramen. More jobs. More ramen. >> More jobs. More ramen. More roommates.

That's their That's their affordability. message. >> Anything else? Anything else is. communism. >> Here's a guy who said on day one, here's. what I was going to do. Here's the. promise. I mean, it's very clear what he. said was on day one. No war. I'm gonna I. know Zalinski. Yeah, I know. >> I don't think it was clear. It's said. sarcasm. Corporate media study is being. sarcastic. >> Easy easy. electricity prices this would be down in. half. You know, it's it's why when I. spoke to Senator Sanders, Bernie.

Sanders, you know, he and I were both. saying, you know, Donald Trump when he. says he'd make the greatest communists. like Lenin or Stalin, Trump Trump does. I mean, he made all these promises. He. didn't deliver. He's taken uh what now. at least 30 companies that we know of. the United States has significant equity. stakes in um you know whereas former. President Biden used the chips act in. order to bring the semiconductor. industry here by doing incentives where. if companies hit benchmarks on certain.

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in what are referred to disparagingly as. third world nations or banana republics, where Trump apparently is on the phone. on a nightly basis with uh Worsh, the uh. chairman of the Federal Reserve, kind of. planning and coordinating, which is not. what's supposed to happen at all. Donald. Trump's manipulating the markets. He's. literally selling an insider trading. feature on his social media platform. He's personally doing 21,000. 21,000 trades to the tune of billions.

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podcasts are when you speak about visual. things for a long time. It entices. people to be like, "Maybe I should check. out YouTube.". >> That's what Jord's like. Ben, before I. call to you for you to give me all the. legal breakdowns, I'm gonna just go and. I'm gonna talk about this QR code. graphic. >> You guys have to understand that's why. our audio listeners are specific. They. like when I talk about where the QR. codes on the screen are that they can't. that's content right there. >> Okay. Just I I I do want to mention some. things I said at the outset which is uh.

there have been major attacks in the. straight of Hormuz in the past 48 hours. and in the Red Sea. There have been. Saudi tankers hit in the Red Sea and. right kind of right outside the Red Sea. area by the Houthis. The Houthis. launched a major attack in northern. Yemen as well in an area that's still. controlled by the Saudibbacked. government. The Houthis control most of. Yemen, western Yemen, the area by the. Red Sea, a lot of the most kind of. valuable territory in Yemen, but this. northern area, there's a smaller.

stronghold controlled by the. international recogni by the government. that's recognized elsewhere, not by the. West in certain places in Saudi Arabia, which is really the Saudibacked Yemen. government and uh the Houthis launched a. major attack there. You know, the. Houthis are part of the access of. resistance of Iran that also involves. Hezbollah, the Houthis, these Iraqi. militia groups. some Somali groups and. and and others, they they realize the US. is out of weapons. And if the US is out. of weapons, that means Saudis out of. weapons, right? And that means Jordan's.

out of weapons, that means the whole. region's out of weapons. And that's why. these nations, these Arab nations that. thought that they were getting the Arab. security umbrella, the Arab dome, the. way Israel has the Iron Dome, they are. left saying, "What the hell? We did all. these quid proquo deals with you, Donald, in year one and right before. then because you promised you were going. to protect us and you didn't protect us. That's been Iran's strategy. So some.

people like, well, why wasn't Iran. attacking Israel? Because Iran actually. had a strategy, their strategy. Why. would we attack them? If we attack them, then they they have a working Iron Dome. we're gonna waste a lot of our munitions. and our ballistics on them versus really. putting the pressure on the United. States. So, while Trump had a strategy. of wasting the interceptors, Iran was like, "We're not going to waste. the ballistics.

on Israel's Iron Dome. we want to expose. the Arab dome doesn't work because then. if we can corral support there then we. can start putting pressure on Trump and. Israel but we don't even have to fire a. shot at is that's their strategy and if. we just studied Iran strikes on Tel Aviv. in 2024 which again no one really. covered by the way that was under Biden.

and there's a lot of learning we should. all do about man people weren't covering. that. We probably all thought it was. propaganda when Iran hit hard in. television. Ah, they didn't really do. that. That's AI there. Maybe it wasn't. AI back then the way it is today, but. like that didn't really happen, right? The same way now there's all these all. of the missiles were intercepted. No, Iran really hit hard in Israel in 2024. and showed their capabilities. And had. that been studied versus written off or.

covered up, people could have seen what. was going on. So Red Sea, lots of. tankers hit by the Houthis. Straight of. Hormuz tankers hit. In fact, before we. went live right by Keshum, we learned. that there were uh that the Iranians. announced that they had hit um this is. let me just read you the post about what. they said went down that they hit some. targets there as well. Uh they said uh. Iranian state media the sound of two. explosions heard in Keshum was due to.

confronting hostile enemy targets near. the entrance of the straight of Hermuz. The achievements of this operation by. our beret forces will be announced to. the public in the coming hours. Now you. may go well Ben it's Iran Iran lies. Sure they're going to do propaganda. I'm. not naive and go well Taznim Far as our. mayor says it. Therefore let's just. agree that everything they say is true. But I'll tell you as between Sencom and. Tasim, you know, it's uh the fact that. you even have to go uh who's telling me. the truth here? Well, I guess I have to.

observe who controls the straight of. Hormuz. I have to look at this satellite. footage to see what's going on. And then. I have to make my own judgments about. what's really happening here. And that's. a sad place to be in where SenCom and. Trump and the United State or Trump has. caused Sencom and United States to just. lose all credibility. It's like, okay, just every like everything's not just a. lie, but like a dumb lie that's easily. uh that's easily disprovable. So, we've. had a lot of that. There was a Kuwaiti. base that was struck this past week that. no one wanted to report on. In Dubai,

there appeared to be a Houthi strike, which in Dubai and UAE, they said, "Ah, it was just a random explosion." That. that's not really um you know, that's. not really what happened. And so, that's. what's actually taking place right now. there. So, if you're Saudi Arabia and. you're MBS, you're looking around and. you're saying, you're saying, "WTF? What. the hell is this? What What do you think. we gave all this money to? What do you. think we gave the money to? What what. what the hell are you even doing here?". And that's why Donald's like, "Well,

let me try to dangle. You want civilian. nuclear technology, right? Because you. gotta figure this out." So, you know, NBS is like, you know, you screwed us. badly. We're in a lot of trouble. We. need civilian nuclear. And if you don't. think that NBS knows that if you can. down blend, you can uplend. What do you think they want? What do you. What do you think the room do? You think. that the promise was really civilian. nuclear or do you think it was once you.

have the enrichment, you can just enrich. it even more and get weapons grade? Because don't you think if you're Saudi. Arabia, you're now thinking the only. thing that's going to protect us now is. a nuclear weapon because Iran's going to. get a nuclear weapon now. Trump can't. stop us there. So, we need one. We need. a nuke. What do you think is going on in. the United Arab Emirates right now? Donald, you didn't help us. So, what. what do you want? What do you want? UAE. Well, UAE, it's it's like a it's like a.

it's like Oprah. It's like the Oprah. You get nukes, you get semiconductors, you get this. What does UAE get? They. got our classified Blackwell. semiconductors. The most highly classified. And we gave. China our second most highly classified. Not the Blackwell, but the tier right. under it. So UAE got the top top of the. line. China got the one right below it. You don't think UAE is going to go to.

China and give them top of the line, too? Why do you think China didn't even. want to place many orders on the number. two? Because they know how to do it. themselves now. Of course, they know how. to do it themselves. But this is also. because our security umbrella doesn't. work. So Donald Trump in the Ponzi. schemes now giving him this and giving. them that. That's what's going on in the. region. It is it is Oprah on Christmas. You get this, you get that, you get. this. I mean, it's pro it's much worse. than that, but that's what's actually. going on at an international level. And.

we need to recognize that. That's what's. taking place. And meanwhile, Donald. Trump is out there, you know, with the $ 1.5 trillion. military budget, like 300 1.5 trillion. 300 billion. He wants to build freaking. Trump Trump class battleships because he. liked the way battleships looked in. World War I. He liked the Think about. the idiotic. He likes battleships and he. doesn't like stealth. So he said, "Build. me Trump nuclear battleships." Really?

In the age of drones and unmanned. submersives, you idiot. You want Trump. battleships? And you watch these idiotic. members of Congress said, "Okay, Donald, that's what you want. We'll give it to. you, Donald. It is pathetic. WTF, this, you know, these deeper. concepts we talk about in in the book, by the way." And I'm watching this, I'm. like, "What are you doing, Trump? It. takes two drones, one drone, one. unmanned submersive. Say goodbye to your.

20 billion dollar Trump battleship. And. meanwhile, behind the scenes, we're like. firing all of these nuclear. subcommanders. Did you see that as well? I did a whole report on it. You know, you had Ohio class nuclear subcommander. was just fired. We had the destroyer. commander of the USS Mason get fired. You had the secretary of navy get fired. You have all of our top generals getting. fired while Hexith runs out of. munitions. He's the worst. He couldn't.

run a nonprofit for veterans. You expect. him to run freaking the United States. military? The guy was forced out for. misconduct running nonprofits for. mismanagement. But let's end with hope. Let's end with. hope. David Hearn case officially. dismissed. Yes, we know Janine Piro filed the. notice to dismiss fabricated evidence. against David Hearn. Judge officially. dismissed it. That's good news.

Senator Marowski of Alaska. was asked tough questions by the. mightest touch DC bureau. Thanks to you, we built that DC bureau. Pablo Monriquez. asked her some questions, got her on the. record. This is why Independent News, this wouldn't have existed be without. your help, by the way, in building this. network and doing what they're doing in. DC. And by the way, they also inspired. the Midas people in DC. all those people. in DC now doing that shtick doing the.

Midas thing whether it's TMZ DC asking. having a unique perspective you know. whether it's all these other entities. they saw what we were doing back you. know earlier in the year and they're. like holy we can do this that's. great we want to inspire others let's I. don't let's hold politicians accountable. they work for us they work for us damn. it let me play for you the audio of when. spoke to Marowski in the halls of. Capitol. And. >> what are you hearing from your.

constituents about your vote on Blanch? >> Uh, we hear a lot. Um, >> is it mostly that they want you to vote. for or against? >> Uh, uh, most of the most of the. constituent. um, mail or calls that we're receiving. uh, are are opposed to the nomination. Um, much of which has to do with. Epstein. Oh, just based on based on my.

weekly readouts. >> Then why would you consider supporting? >> I'm now supposed to go to I haven't been. commenting on [laughter] my position on. him. in terms of of what's going to go on. with the vote. >> Senator, do you feel any closer to any. type of decision? >> Yes. What's what's moved you closer?

>> You know what? I think you are all uh uh taking. advantage of the fact that I dared to. answer a few open-ended questions there. uh about Epstein and uh and you're now. getting closer to just what are you. going to do? I'm going to have an. opportunity to to issue a statement and. rather than do it in little dribbs and. drabs here and there, uh uh you all will. see it.

>> Also, the way she frames herself as the. victim in the narrative because she was. answering the questions and she's like, "You're taking advantage. No one's taking you. You're you're a. United States senator. We're asking you. questions." But I got to say, shout. shout out to Pablo. That's a big big. scoop right there. Um and uh and so. we'll see what happens. But you know, we. we've seen the charade before, right? We've seen and you know, it's all. coordinated behind the scenes at the end. of the day. And with this Blancho, the.

math is because McConnell's out. McConnell was supposedly discharged from. uh his wherever he was, his rehab. center, whatever, whatever's going on. there. Um and he's not going back to. work for a long time. And so they're. down McConnell. Republicans could afford. to lose two votes. And Susan Collins has. already said that she is not voting for. Blanch. And so that means you would need. theoretically Mowski and one other to. block Blanch. Uh that would. traditionally, you know, people lean on. someone like Mowski who Pablo spoke.

with. And then there is Bill Cassidy. Um. and uh they always tend to find a way to. have the just the right amount of votes, just right through. >> And so Mowsky was saying most of her. constituents oppose Blanch. Perhaps she. votes no, but then there's the likely. chance that Cassidy votes yes and he. gets through. Remember, Cassidy was the. guy who was responsible for voting yes. on RFK Jr. Cassidy himself, a medical. doctor. Um, and then of course, everyone. warned him exactly what was going to. happen when he made that vote. He.

ignored it. Uh, he feigned concern and. then he then he acted all surprised. after RFK started dismantling all these. agencies and all these disease. outbreaks. Wait a second. How could this. happen? Because of you. Because of you. because you have power and you failed to. use it. There was another moment uh that. interview we actually have the full clip. of that interview on midasenews.com. It. goes on for like six minutes. That was. the end of it. Um but Mowski also says. that she received a note while she was. on a plane. She's uh from Alaska. Uh.

Mowsky's in Alaska and and a a woman. came over to her and left a note uh to. Mowski on the plane that said, "I am. from Alaska and I'm an Epstein survivor. We hope that we can talk with you." And. so Marcowsky was speaking about these. personal kind of firsthand interactions. that she's had with Epstein survivors, including from her own state. So we'll. see uh if that has any effect on her. vote. To me, if if the majority of your. constituents are calling you and writing. notes telling you not to vote for a. person, you work for your constituents.

You don't work for Donald Trump. So you. should listen to your constituents. That's my maybe my naive opinion here. >> I just feel like we've been there with. Mowsky before. And if that's where. we're, you know, putting our putting our. eggs in that basket, I think we know how. this is gonna end. They always seem to. sort of find a way, if you will. >> Yeah. And the reality is Blanch could be. acting a G. >> for Trump's whole term if he's not if. [clears throat] he's not approved. So, you know, you know, on on that front, it was good to see.

that in the federal court in Virginia, you have the amended complaint being. filed regarding Trump's tax immunity, that these other Republican senators. were okay. I mean, you're just okay with. giving the guy tax immunity that he. can't be investigated. for tax crimes? I mean, what? Why? Why? Why? Why should anybody be given. immunity that you can't be investigated. for tax crimes? And what does that have. anything to do with anything? If he. filed a frivolous 10 billion dollar. lawsuit, so then he gets tax immunity.

That's the And his and his sons get it, too. That's the craziest thing ever. So. in the same case where a preliminary. injunction has already been granted. blocking the anti-weaponization fund. which again the Trump regime refused to. put it in writing in that case. It was. one of the big red flags that the fund. doesn't exist. Right? Instead they did. that whatever order. Now, the same. plaintiff said, "Well, we saw what a federal judge did in.

Florida, said that the settlement was. executed via collusion and fraud, an. impropriy. So, if the settlement agreement's void, you can't have an addendum to the. settlement agreement." So, they want the. preliminary injunction now to also. include blocking Donald Trump and his. family's tax immunity. And so that's now. been added to that lawsuit. And they. said, 'Well, now it's clear for the. first time that that's actually what. Trump wants, tax immunity. So, we want.

to include that in our lawsuit. So, we'll have to wait to see what the. federal judge does there. But the. federal judge has already ruled against. um Trump and the DOJ on the. anti-weaponization fund. So, let's pay. attention there. Let's take a look at. what's happening in Katie Fang's. lawsuit. Just to remind you, she sued. under the Epstein Transparency Act. It. was the first of its kind lawsuit. alleging uh that she as a reporter was.

deprived access to files critical to her. reporting um under the Epstein. Transparency Act by the DOJ's cover up. She then filed a preliminary injunction. to release a certain group of documents. There were three categories. One, the. redaction privilege log. to the notes of. the FBI in connection with specific. allegations by an underage girl. regarding Donald Trump. Trump denies. those allegations. There was an FBI 302.

report, but the notes have been hidden. and so produced the notes. And then the. other category of damages or the other. category of documents that were uh being. sought uh were what was the other. category, Brett? I'm trying to think of. category one. I'm just drawing a blank. on it right now. I I can't read that. Um. I I'll get to it in a moment when I when. I take a look at what that other. category was. Uh but then there was the. other category of damages as well. So. three categories of damages that were.

being sought there. And then she sought. the preliminary injunction. Um she was. granted the preliminary injunction. [clears throat] And then Todd Blanch did. not turn over the documents. Let me pull. up category one. Um, oh, the redactions. Uh, the red Todd Blanch redacted the. names of co-conspirators but claimed. that they were victims. And he said, "Well, the lawyers contacted me and said. they were victims, so therefore I. treated them as victims." And Katie Fang.

was like, "What makes you believe. they're victims? They seem to be clearly. co-conspirators." So, it seems what was. happening, this is really sick. It seems. that one of the ways that the. co-conspirators. tried to keep their name secret was just. by having like these wealthy men, these. powerful men, these Epstein class men. would have their lawyers call up Blanch. and say that they're the victims. So. while the victim information was leaked,

the co-conspirators had their names. redacted because their powerful lawyers. called the DOJ under Trump to say they. were the real victims. Real sick stuff. And that's why Katie Fang focused on. these categories. And so the judge. ordered Blanch turn over these three. categories. I want to review them in. camera, meaning I'll review them. confidentially. Katie Fang won't be in. the room. The public won't see it yet. I'm going to look at it, just the judge, so I can see, are these actually victims.

or are they co co-conspirators? Prove to. me they are victims. If you're claiming. them as victims, Todd Blanch turned over. nothing. Turn over the notes. Why aren't you. turning over the notes? Nah, we're. withholding them on the basis of they're. substantially similar to the 302 report, says Blanch. To which the judge says. that's not an exception. There's no such. thing as substantially similar. And the. judge had held off on issuing any order.

about the privilege or redaction log. That's all of the documents that have. been withheld. But then now that you've. lied to me and you have not given me. justification for redactions and you. have not given me information uh. regarding the other category of damages, I want to know where the privilege log. is and I want I want you to release the. privilege log and show me every one of. these documents that you've withheld.

Um, and I want to know and I want to. know that because you're still. withholding. Are you making these. objections as well that the FBI 302. notes don't count? I if you've withheld. 5 million documents, I want every one of. those documents logged. So, the judge, Judge Sullivan, has ordered the FBI has. ordered Todd Blanch and the DOJ to show. up August 13th and give answers. So, I. want to give a hat tip to Katie Fang. because this is really a big ruling. The.

judge has now drilled down into these. categories, right? Fake redactions, which is a big issue, withholding notes, privilege log, and now the judge is. saying, "Show up. Explain to me why.". And that now can open up everything. And. it was a brilliant strategy by Katie. Fang and her lawyers. It's an honor to. be working with Katie Fang. We'll of. course be covering that hearing on. August 13th. Katie Fang will be in the. courtroom. And Katie Fang's also been. working with another Midas host who has.

a show on Midas. Allison Gil, who's been. doing foyer requests also. And Allison. Gill discovered that there was a. training video to FBI agents how to flag. and cover up Trump related documents. So. she's pursuing that. So you've got. Allison, you've got Katie, you've got. Scott McFarland from the courthouse, you've got Michael Popock working with. the top legal groups on Legal AF, and. we're bringing them all together to. share knowledge and to get out all the.

knowledge to the public. That's how. we've always wanted this to operate. What we talk about though, the thesis in. WTF America, it's how you build. something like this that now all of a. sudden works together. each one of these. independent networks working as a. unified force pushing the message. forward. Brett and Jordy, that's why. everyone pre-order WTF America now. >> Pre-order WTF America QR code on the. screen and link in the description and. let us know in the comments if you. pre-ordered it. And I also want to give.

a shout out. I've been following Katie's. updates on the case, uh, which is always. great, like hearing it straight from her. on her podcast, Sidebar with Katie Fang. That's like, you know, wherever you go. to podcast. It's really good. like Kate. her analysis is just so good and she. speaks you know from p first firsthand. experience obviously on the this Epstein. case that and all the kind of trials and. tribulations of it and also all the. other various uh cases that are uh out. there you know she's given her. incredible analysis and uh you know she. does not hold back I I I truly think.

Katie Pang is just fearless and. incredible. >> Absolutely. I mean though it's like. living through history as it's happening. as Katie is is doing the fight is. fighting the good fight. She's. absolutely crushing it. Again, that's. sidebar with Katie Fang, wherever you. get your audio podcast. It is phenomenal. to listen to and she just explains it in. such a way that makes it, >> you know, for us to understand is is. incredible. Benji, Brett, this has been. an incredible episode. >> Thank you everybody for watching. We're. grateful for you. Pre-order, put in the. comments, >> confirm that you pre-ordered, uh, hit.

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