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Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mecelis and this is your breaking news. The price of crude is now surging to. about $114. a barrel. It's up close to 5% today. This as seven more tankers were struck. in and around the straight of Hormuz by. Iran. Donald Trump and his despicable. regime continued to say the US controls. the straight of Hormuz. the market and. the facts seem to indicate otherwise.

And as I've been saying, I expect that. price of crude to be up above $120 a. barrel pretty much in no times. Donald. Trump's out there saying we're not. negotiating at all with Iran. It's just. a matter of time before we go back to. war with Iran. Maybe it's before the. midterms, maybe it's after the midterms. You're just gonna have to wait for the. next episode of the dystopian apprentice. that has now become the very unserious.

United States of America last night as. Donald Trump was leaving from that South. Carolina thing he did. I don't even want. to call it a rally or a speech, right? It's Donald Trump out there in front of. people, a cult. He's just making noises, right? He's just like, "And your prior. your prior," it's like, "What? you're. not you're not well, man. You're not. you're not well. And then he's like, did. I show you this one? It's like, yeah, you've you've showed us.

that one. We we've seen we've seen that. one at everyone. Have have I talked. about the men's asses yet? Have I Yeah, you did that. Every speech you talk. about another man's ass and how. attractive men are to you and the. homosexual disinhibition. We we we see. it. Yes. It's every every Did I Did I do. the cognitive test one? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We know you you've memorized five. animals in a row and everybody said. you're a genius and that your IQ is. unparalleled because what about uh did I.

show you the calculator one? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've seen the calculator one. You. talk about you added numbers and you. divide it and you minus it and you add. it and then there's a number and you you. knew the number. We Yes. Yes. But like. um we want we want people who are. focused on like I don't know the fact. that the price of crude is now $114 a. barrel and people can't afford anything. like that you ripped away people's. healthcare and you don't have a plan and. you just say 800% reductions and you. just say words like most favored nations.

and like that's not what's actually. happening. So yeah, we we we we see it. We see it. We we you do this every time. Okay. It's it's it's ridiculous. By the. way, I'm only going to plug it a few. more times. WTF America, go get it. Um, we really appreciate all of the reviews, but this is a WTF moment and we have to. use the right language and we have to. cover this stuff the right way because. what we're watching is not normal. We. have to fortify our minds to that this.

is not normal politics. We shouldn't be. looking at this through a gamified lens. We need generational change. We need. international pro-democracy independent. media working together. We lay out how. mightest touch network was created and. we talk about how we get out of this. hell collectively the world if you. support democracy and facts and truth. How do we do it? We lay it out very. specifically. Okay. So last night Donald. Trump's leaving South Carolina. um where he also called Dr. Annie.

Andrews who's running against Darlene. Graham or a bunch of stories that came. out today about Lindsey Graham as well. Um but in any event, the way Trump I. guess deals with that is to call Dr. Annie Andrews a mother of three uh a. slur for transgender people and he's. like Annie Annie. Annie. Come on, man. Come on. What are you doing? I mean you're you're.

you're sick. It's hateful language that. should be condemned. And. what are you doing? Be serious, man. This is this is, you know, these are. real life. These are people's lives. You. know, I I think about it at just. literally a family level that Dr. Annie. Andrews has to explain to her three. children why the president of the United. States is calling their mother a. And the children asking questions about, well, you know, just think about that. I. think about conversations that then have.

to take place in households across. America where children are, you know, my. my daughter's two years old and so. fortunate. She's very perceptive two. years old though. Um, you know, she. knows papa book, papa book, papa book. Um, but, you know, in a year or two. she's, you know, she watches that and, you know, and thank thankfully I don't. think that'll be a I think we're gonna. purge this magorge. I feel comfortable. and confident in that. But like I think. about conversations that have to happen.

across the country where people what why. why is the president of the United. States behaving that way? I think about. um I think about just people generally. I mean as a as a guy I think about one. of the things that I try to do is is be. a mentor to young men. Um it's one of. the reasons why I teach. Um, there's a. lot of reasons why I teach, but I I. think that I I try to be a mentor to. every to everybody. Um, but I think that. there's a lost generation of of young.

men who fall for this fake alpha crap. and are taught to be dicks and are. taught to be jerks and and to. treat people with disrespect and to. bully. And that's not how I grew up. So. I make it a point to use my platform and. to use what I could do to um try to be a. mentor and a role model to the extent I. can be. I don't purport to whatever. I. try I try I don't purport to be perfect. but I I try I try I do my best but I.

think about the message that gets sent. you know to young men and and I and and. then also the treatment of women. Um you. know I think about even today Donald. Trump did this post about Vive Rama. Swami's ads where Vive used the aranged. mother of Dr. Amy Actton. uh in a in an ad to attack her daughter. They were strange because Amy Actton's. stepfather raped her. Raped Amy Actton. when she was 12 years old and the.

stepfather was arrested. Amy Actton and. her brother were removed from the house. The reason Amy Actton is estranged from. her mother was her mother took the side. of the stepfather who was raping her. daughter um when they when she was 12. years old. And so Vive featured Amy. Actton's mother in this ad and spent. millions of dollars with the mom bashing. a rape victim, a sex assault victim. And. it's disgusting. It's absolut It's like. absolutely freaking disgusting behavior.

Like it's not a polit I'm not even. saying it's a political it's disgusting. behavior and leave it to a sex predator. like Donald Trump because that's what he. is. He is a sex predator. He's been. found civily liable for sexual assault. I mean he's on audio bragging that he. sexually assaults women because he's. rich and you get away with it when. you're rich. And then his defense to. that is it's locker room talk and that's. how men talk in the locker room. That. men he says this is this is what we this. is what we joke about. We joke about. sexually assaulting women because if you.

have money that's that's what I meant. locker room talk and then he's. surrounded by people go locker room. talk, locker room. That's not locker. room talk. That's sick, disgusting. It's. not what happens in locker rooms. You. know, when I've interviewed Colin. Kaepernick and clients who are athletes, they don't go around in the locker room. talking about sexually assaulting girls. and women. What the hell are you talking. about? And Trump bragged about using his. beauty pageantss to inspect girls naked. without their consent in the beauty. pageantss that he I mean, these are. things these are things that he said. So. it's not shocking although it always.

still shocks the conscience when he. posts Vik Ramaswami's ad was great and. the mother's ad should disqualify Dr. Amy Actton. That's what Donald Trump. posted. Vague Ramaswami put up a very. powerful ad about a mother saying that. her daughter Amy Actton who was running. for the governor of Ohio is a liar and. much worse the press in a concerted and. well-coordinated attack is trying to get. Vive Ramaswami to take down the ad. Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke. about a daughter in that way would. normally lead to the daughter being.

procluded from serving in office. He. goes on and just whines, but it's a sick. thing. Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. I mean, but this is the Epstein. class. Trump, Vake, they're the Epstein. class. These are sick. These are sick. demons. These are demon people. These. are demonic people. These are sick. demonic people. And we have to keep on. saying that. These are sick demonic. people. That's who they are. It's not. It's not a Republican Democratic thing. You you want me to show you? Do we have. this clip? I was reflecting about the. Kansas debate um that took place. Did.

you see the Kansas debate? It was uh. what's the guy's name? Hamilton um Adam. Hamilton versus the MAGA Republican. Roger Marshall. Right. Um Hamilton's the. Democrat. MAGAR Republican extremist. Marshall who's currently a Senator. Marshall. And and I was I wanted to look. historically and Jeremy, see if we've. got this one. I wanted to look at the. 1996 Republican convention because I was. thinking about Kansas and I remember at. that time growing up I was 11 but I.

remember it was Clinton versus Bob Dole. and Bob Dole was viewed as you know a. pretty right-wing guy at the time you. know and going against Bill Clinton. right and people were saying like well. Bill Clinton was you know well. especially 1992 they left-wing radical. extreme you know Bob Dole was viewed as. like a right-wing conservative. This is. what a conservative looked like. So, I. went back and I looked at and I'm like I. remember like his convention speech. I'm.

like, what what did he say? And, you. know, just with all of the madness in. the MAGA Republican party today, like. let me remind you that this was what a. Republican looked like in 1996. He's a Kansas He was He's dead now. He's. a Kansas senator at the or was a Kansas. senator at the time. He was the leader. of the party at the time. Just watch. this here. Let's play. A family from Mexico arrives this. morning legally.

has as much right to the American dream. as a direct descendants of the founding. fathers. The Republican Party is broad and. inclusive.

It represents The Republican Party is. broad and inclusive. It represents many. streams of opinion and many points of. view. But if there is anyone who has. mistakenly attached himself to our party. in the belief that we are not open to. citizens of every race and religion, then let me remind you. tonight. This hall belongs to the party. of Lincoln. And the exits, which are. clearly marked, are for you to walk out. of as I stand this ground without. compromise.

Now, how do you go from that to. this is here? Do do this one from South. Carolina, Jeremy, where he just does the. Here, let's play it. Boom. >> Boom. And then when he was saying. Governor Haley, he then just starts to.

go like. here. Play this clip. >> And I'd say 90% of the reason I took the. governor, I took the governor, I put her over at. the United Nations. >> Yeah. Do that one again, Jeremy. I just. want to see it one more time. >> And I'd say 90% of the reason I took the. governor. I took the governor, I put her over at. the United Nations.

>> Then he talks about how Melania asks him. after a lot of these speeches if he's. okay because he says, you know, I keep. running into walls. I'm not able to walk. straight. I can't speak in sentences. So my wife says, um, she says, well, he goes, I go home. to the White House, he said. And I, he. goes, I say to Melania, he goes, I say, "Baby, baby, baby. Hey, baby. Was I the. best baby? Was I the best tonight, baby?

Nobody does it like me, baby." Right. And she goes, "What happened to you? Are. you okay?". And and and then I say, "Yeah, I'm just. pretending to be Joe Biden, so that's. why I'm running into walls and that's. why I can't walk downstairs because I am. saying I'm Joe Biden. Baby, come on, baby. Don't you know that, baby? Baby. Here, watch what he says. This is part. of a speech here. Play this clip. And. then I came back and I finished my. speech and I said, "Baby, how good was.

that tonight? Was that the best? Nobody. can do it like me, baby. You see that. crowd?". And she said, "What happened to you? Are. you okay?". I said, "What do you mean? They had you. walking around the stage hitting a wall. Are you okay, darling? So, they took my little routine and they. said that that was me doing it. I said, "That's the end of sarcasm.".

>> Okay. Well, they put young people behind. him, you know, and you look at the young. people behind him, young boys, you want. to call him that. Um, people who purport. to be men, young ladies, young girls. behind him. So something like these. crowds are significantly smaller, but. you know they're they're laughing at. that behavior. This is all they know, right? I mean the past 10 years. have been defined sadly by madness by. WTF. It's been defined by madness.

because even during the Biden. administration, it was all Trump and. MAGA and right-wing media doing maniac. behavior on replay over and over and. over and over and over again. And then. the first Trump term, the Biden term, and now this is what a lot of people I. mean those people are 14, 15, 16 years. old, this is what they've seen. They. don't know what mature leadership looks.

like. And I'm not suggesting that, you. know, America has a history of all. perfect leaders. Far from it. But I'm. just literally talking about uh a. baseline of seriousness. and then competence. and then like let's just start there. Like let's just start with the floor. Like I'd like to. rise through this my own Maslo's. hierarchy of political needs, but I. think we need to start at a floor of.

like we're not serious. Like this isn't. this isn't this isn't serious behavior. Um you have Trump saying, "I didn't get. the Nobel Prize. I didn't get the. Pulitzer Prize. I should have gotten the. Pulitzer Prize. I should have gotten the. Pulitzer." Let's play this clip. The. only thing I know is she hates Israel. That's the only thing. She hates Israel. with a passion. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. He doesn't like.

the fact that I solve wars. Watch what. happens. Look at Look, he's already. gone. Well, your your law enforcement is. fantastic. >> Next one. Also show the other one, Jeremy. That's like them. So, but I. didn't get the Nobel Prize. I didn't get. the pullet. I should have gotten a. Pulitzer for writing, too. The people. that got it shouldn't have gotten it, you know. They got the They got a Pulit. surprise for. their accurate and wonderful writing on.

the subject of Russia, Russia, Russia. They They all had it wrong. They had it. wrong. But the Nobel Peace Prize, uh, everybody said, "Well, you'll get. it." They said, "I'll get it." last. year, the person who got it, a very. highquality woman. You know who that is. And she said that, "No, no, I don't. deserve the Nobel Prize. There's only. one person in the world that deserves. it." In fact, she said, >> I mean, what? Like, what is that? I. mean, seriously, what what the f is.

that? I mean, it tellery watching. Not normal. The American people are. struggling. It's not a talking point. It's not a messaging point. People can't. afford things right now. People are delinquent on their credit. card bills, on their student loans. People can't pay their rent right now. They don't have health care. People are. going hungry in the United States. We're. in neverending wars. Likely any minute. now, the Trump regime and Netanyahu.

regime are going to escalate. Netanyahu. is already saying, "Regime, regime. change. It has to be regime change. It's. us or them. Regime change, regime. change.". Which if you take that to its natural. conclusion, that means global economic. depression, a million American service. members killed, and we will also not. achieve regime change. But that's what. that means. So when Trump and Netanyahu. will finish him off, we'll finish the. job. If you're really going to even. attempt to do a regime change in Iran.

where the IRGC is fully embedded and you. would have to basically figure out a way. to get rid of like Iran's a big country. 2 million IRGC aligned people who are. not going to go easily and have they. have massive weapon arsenal. >> Trump could say, "Oh, we took out their. navy." You did. He's just a liar. I. mean, they have a massive amount of. ballistics, a massive amount of drones, a massive amount of submersives, a. massive amount of anti-ship stuff, a. massive amount of cruise missiles, abs,

and the they they've developed the Anash. 3. They're they're increasing their. capabilities significantly right now. They've got a massive military, massive. military. So, if you truly wanted it, which I don't think we should be. involved in this catastrophic war at. all. I think Trump and Netanyahu are. genocidal maniacs that need to be tried. at the Hague. You know where I stand on. this. If you were looking at it though. from some neocon military strategy, you. don't win the war, which we should never.

be in. But you don't win the war by. making social media posts. You can't win. the war by dropping a MOAB, a mother of. all bomb on Pickax Mountain or doing. another bombing campaign. That doesn't. win the war. In fact, it further. entrenches the Iranian regime. To the. extent you even conceive from a military. strategy standpoint of winning the war, whatever that means with regime change, you would have to commit about a million. American service members who would. likely be dead and then there wouldn't.

be a regime change. That's what it. means. Global economic depression, trillions of dollars in the Middle East. blown up and obliterated, the likes of. which we've never seen. An apocalypse. like we've never seen in world history. That's what it means. And maybe, you. know, with Netanyahu's end of days view. of the world and, you know, he's a sick. old individual, as is Donald Trump, they. don't have, they're sick. They're sick. old human beings, like quite literally. sick in the head and sick in terms of.

health. Maybe they don't see a future. for this earth. Um, but what these two. sickos are doing right now is. apocalyptic. It is hell breaking loose. So spare me when you go hell isn't hell. is breaking loose. Shut up. It is. breaking loose. Okay, it absolutely it. is loose. It is breaking loose and I'm. giving you receipts and data points of. it breaking loose. Okay, I mean look at. these sickos. Did you see that Netanyahu. was posting videos of him and Donald. Trump doing like weird dances? I don't. think we may have the photo of them, but.

it's them dancing together as they um. cavalerely talk about catastrophic. escalation and murdering children. I. mean, these are real sick. These are. real demons. These are real sick demons. There's no other way around. These are. sick, sick, sick demons. Demon humans. And you just have to look at it. This. isn't a normal, oh, Republican. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is a demon. Epstein class. These are sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick people. Is. what we see. This was Donald Trump on. the tarmac last night saying, "We're not.

negotiating with Iran." Most seem to. think we're going to do this after the. election. We may do it tomorrow. I don't. know. We'll just wake up and I'll see. We'll just wake up NLC here play. >> well against Iran. We have a little we. have a little conflict against Iran. I. think I'll send the evangel over there, but we're doing very well militarily and. financially against Iran. >> Is there any developments? Is there any. developments with those negotiations? I. mean, are they ongoing with Iran at this. Iran. >> a little bit, but uh we'll see what.

happens. >> ARE YOU OVER IT? Are you over. negotiating with the Iranians at this. point? No, I think we're uh not. negotiating with we are going to have. something one way or the other that'll. happen fairly soon. Most people seem to. think it's after the election and uh. we're going to see what happens. But I. will say this, what we've done with Iran. is amazing. >> What we've done is amazing. What are you. talking about? Is that amazing? What are. you What are you talking about? >> I know.

>> Like what are we talking about there? Um, he's next to Evander Holiffield, right? The day before he was there with. Floyd Mayweather. The day before he was. there with Mike Tyson. Come on. What are. we doing, folks? Um, I hope you've got. your copy of WTF America. Can I want to. read the comments now? Tell me what you. thought about the book if you've read it. or if you listen to the audio. But, um, if you're going to get it, can you get. it today? Because those first week. numbers are always really important. So, the first week numbers end on Friday.

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intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or. prevent any disease. Welcome back to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben Meelis and this is our breaking. news. Before we went to break, I talked. about how the price of crude is now. about $114 a barrel. I talked about how. the IRGC struck seven more tankers in. the straight of Hormuz. Sentcom was. making post earlier today that they what. stopped $25 billion worth of Iranian. crude from getting out of the straight. of Hormuz, which is just a madeup.

number, 25 billion. Even in the most. optimistic projections of what Iran said. it could get out of the straight of. Hormus with no blockade for those 100. days, it would have been like 15 billion. worth. And so just making up numbers. I. mean everything's just a 22 trillion 25. billion. You could have just said 15. billion. That would be a full blockade. of Iran's most optimistic scenario of. the amount of money they would have.

made. But you just come up with 25. billion. So, it's just everything you. say is just a lie. Like, you know, Donald Trump posted this morning uh. 75,000 Iranian protesters were killed in. the past seven months. And three or four. weeks ago, Trump said 100,000. A few. weeks before that, he said 60,000. A few. weeks before that, they said 50,000. A. few weeks before that, they said 30,000. So, when you say 30,000, 50,000, 100,000, 75,000. Remember, when Donald. Trump was sued civily by New York.

Attorney General Leticia James, the. premise of the lawsuit was he made up. numbers. It's why character and past. behavior is important. It's not. something that we should have. overlooked. We didn't hear at the Midas. Touch Network, but there were lots of. people who would say, "Ah, you're being. hyperbolic. You're being hyperbolic. Oh, it's not true. It's not true." You know, um, no, we're not being hyperbolic. Telling you the truth of what's happen. what's wrong with this guy. And so, he's. doing the same thing. you know, we. brought in $22 trillion. He says, "We. didn't bring in $22 trillion. If we.

brought in $22 trillion, why' the debt. increase to over $40 trillion? Why. wouldn't it decrease to $20 trillion, which if you were able to decrease the. debt and balance the budget like former. President Clinton did?" You'd be praised. for that. You may have won the House and. the Senate, but you didn't. You did the. opposite of you're making up the number. The deficit has increased. Debt. increase, deficit increases. Um, you. have the Treasury bond market is in. absolute shambles right now. The 30-year. fixed mortgage is like 7.5%. People are.

struggling. You're just making up. numbers. Federal government spending is. up. You promised $5,000 over and over. again. Doge dividend tariff rebates. You. said that. I mean, did you see I saw. that this number that um last year the. whole year like a 100,000 jobs were. created. Did you see that? you know, it. was misreported or that the numbers that. were first given were about 1.2 million. new jobs were created in 2025, but after. revisions, the economy only added.

116,000, 90% less. Former President Biden would. be bringing in 200,000 250,000 jobs a. month and he would be getting. screamed at you, oh why why wasn't it. 350 or Trump? I would bring in 500,000. I'll make GDP growth 8.5%. You know, and then when he gets these. awful GDP numbers, what does Trump say? No, it's 8.5. Well, but the numbers like. barely 1%. So what? Oh, no, no, no. If.

and they bring out Kevin Hasset, right? This loser who's been wrong about. everything in his whole life. And you. know, and then he'll go actually if you. extrapolate and it's used words. If you. extrapolate the curvature, it's actually. it's actually 8.5. No, it's not. Stop. it, man. You're a liar. You're just a. bunch of freaking liars about. everything. And so lie about the. straight of Hormuz. Sentcom is just. this. I I get it. Look, Iran has.

propaganda. The US has propaganda. There's lots of propaganda. Okay. The US. propaganda is like the dumb dumb dumb. propag. What are you? It's like the. stupidest lies. It's like like what are. you talking about? We know we don't. control the straight of moves. Like why. why say that? Like why why go there? I. want to give a hat tip to our great. editorial team at the Midas Touch. Network. Um you had Aaron Parnes, Ken. Harba, the team at Valor Media who. partners with the Midas Touch Network. They've done such an incredible job uh.

providing we we did this exclusive. report today. Um we obtained dozens of. neverbeforeseen photos and videos. revealing devastating damage to the US. military bases from Trump's catastrophic. war in Iran. Troops and military. families are breaking their silence to. the Midas touch network, describing. being abandoned by their own government. It's so much worse than people realize. is what they're telling us. Service.

members are saying they had no idea what. they were even fighting for. Troops were. forced to dig their own foxholes since. there was no protection against Iranian. drones, destroyed aircraft, bombed out. barracks and mess. Military families. sheltering in parking garages. This is. what the new Midas touch report is. revealing about this catastrophic war. Our troops deserve competent leadership, a clear mission, and a. commander-in-chief and secretary of. defense who don't send them into war.

without a plan. Or as Donald Trump did. this morning, he truththed he truththed. at Iran. And then Truth Social was like, Donald. Trump just did a nasty a nasty truth. social bomb breaking. Trump slams Iran. in new truth as we said on the Midas. Touch account. Yeah, not sure how Iran. is gonna recover from this. Um, let me. show you. Uh, Aaron Parnus made this. video. It's on our Instagram account. right now. Here's how he describes the.

reporting from him and Harba Valor. Media. Here, let's play. I have breaking. exclusive news right now. This is what. the United States government does not. want you to see about the war in Iran, and it is horrific. US troops have told. us what the Pentagon hasn't. destroyed. aircrafts, bombed barracks, families. left behind in Bahrain, troops literally. having to dig their own foxholes. I have. never before seen images and videos from. various US military bases in the Middle. East in exclusive reporting in.

coordination with Midas Touch and the. Valor Media Network. Service members. told us about the devastation that bases. are experiencing in the Middle East. right now. And these are some of the. images coming from the Middle East, like. America's base in Saudi Arabia. In. Jordan, sources told us that Iranian. missiles and drones hit US barracks in. July. They say that they could literally. hear troops calling for help from inside. the flames and they couldn't reach them. In the United Arab Emirates, troops tell. us that they learned about the war in. Iran at the same time you and I did on. television. They had no shelters. Some. ordered takeout to eat, others had to.

dig their own foxholes. In Bahrain, families say evacuation planes were. waiting, but the Pentagon refused to. send them because it would quote make. the situation look bad at home. And now. service members say that they were used. as pawns in this war, that their. children's innocents were stripped from. them. That's the families of service. members. And some don't even care if. they live or die anymore. The exclusive. reporting is on the might network's. website. Please read it all and look at. all of the videos and all of the images. Spread the word and follow for more. Show you this. Near miss, never before. seen footage of a missile attack on a US.

base in the United Arab Emirates shows a. missile striking just meters away from. American personnel. caught out in the. open. Show you this. Let's play it.

Horrific, horrific stuff. And I really. really want to give thanks to all of our. writers and research. They spent a very. long time speaking with service members, collecting. uh this information that's never been. reported anywhere else. And you know, I. think that um what we're trying to show. here is that independent media um we can. do the reporting um on a level that.

exceeds what actually exists out there. for in terms of even the capabilities. of reporting on things in war zones. wherever even more than what other. larger news organizations were once able. to do that have now been captured by the. oligarchs. And I I'll I'm only going to. say it a few more times, but just. because it's important. WTF America is. the book, The Way Out of This Hell and. Back to Democracy. I hope you're able to.

order a copy now or get it as a gift for. other people, either the hard cover or. the ebook. And we talk about how we. created this network. The first few. chapters are dedicated to the origin. story, how what we're trying to build as a. counter to state regime media Fox, how. they really began in 1970 with a Roger. Al's propaganda memo to Richard Nixon. and how that became right-wing radio, how that became Fox, and how that became.

a whole right-wing disinformation echo. chamber, if you will. Um, and you know, sometimes I get asked I can say, "Well, Ben, you know, you know, you're doing a. media network and you're telling us. what's happening, but what else are you. doing?" You know, or you're preaching to. the choir or whatever it is, which I. don't think we are. I mean, our viewers. span the globe, span political parties. So, I don't really think we're preaching. to the choir. Um, but when I ever I hear. that, oh, you're preaching to the choir.

or whatever, I go, do you think that Fox. is preaching to the choir? Do you think. Fox is preaching to a right-wing. audience? Inevitably, people go, "Yeah, of course they are." And is Fox doing. reporting? I mean, or purporting to do. reporting. Yeah. Okay. So, you think is. do you think Fox is a powerful entity in. terms of the ability of what they've. been able to achieve for for bad? You. think they're weak or you think that. they've been powerful in doing bad. things? Yeah, they have. Okay. Well,

don't you want to create a version for. good? So, why why why does the logic apply to. them? But why wouldn't you want one for. democracy? Uh a version for good, a. version for truth, a version of a fire. hose of information and facts to counter. the fire hose of disinformation. Right? So when I put it in those terms, I think. I think when we we lay out the thesis um.

in the book as well and I think it's a. it's a very very very important one. Um. you know, look, you've got Donald Trump. out there. These are the types of things. he's posting today. Um all foreign. accounts, foreign bot accounts. Vote. red. He says the Republicans stand the. Republic stand strong. It's like a weird. photo of himself draped in an American. flag standing like a massive bronze. statue over the White House. I mean, sick. The Republic stand strong. What. the hell? Then he posts this racist AI.

slop of a white guy in prison um. attacking black men in prison. I mean, is just pure AI racist slop that's out. there. And he reposts this account. Uh, even behind bars, bullies can't. break a strong man. Never underestimate. someone who refuses to give up. You got. Netanyahu posting weird videos of. himself, you know, at a gym with. punching bags. Like, what are what are. we doing here? What are we doing here?

And meanwhile, you have uh Donald. Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, now the AG, who's turned the DOJ into a. criminal racketeering enterprise. Todd. Blanch, you know, he's out there still. covering up the Epstein files for Donald. Trump. Remember, this whole catastrophic. war in Iran began because Trump's. covering up the Epstein files, right? Since the Epstein Transparency Act. passed when it had overwhelming veto. approved support, Congress only came.

back into session like 14 days in the. past six months. Right. under MAGA Mike, Congress only worked 14 days in like six. months and the catastrophic war and MAGA. Mike sending everybody home really was. around the Epstein files. Um, it's. pretty click. We all know that. Um, but. you know, you have New York Post. They're part of Regime Media. They have. their own podcast. Todd Blanch goes on.

the New York Post podcast and he says. the following on the Epstein Files. It's. never about protecting Trump. He says. here, play this clip. Over the last four. years, then then you're you're blinded. So there was never this was never ever. ever about protecting President Trump. ever. Um and so what the what the. documents did reveal that during the. civil lawsuits when when he was named. improperly, the lawyers would call him. He didn't fight. Right. He said, "Come. over, talk to me. I got nothing to.

hide." And that's in the doc. >> Yeah. That's literally not what's in The. opposite is in the documents. Literally. the opposite. Sick people, right? Demonic. That's what I go back to. I go, "These are demons. These are sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick humans. Sick humans.". More over here from Blanch saying, "Yeah, I guess we may have made a few. mistakes, but it's all like very minor. with the Epstein files." Very, very. minor. Here, play this clip. And by the. way, we we made mistakes and and I've. owned up to those mistakes. Meaning a. reviewer that's reviewing documents.

maybe didn't redact the name and they. should have, which there's no excuse for. that, but mistakes were made. But what. happened when we were were called out. for those mistakes? We owned up to them. and we fixed them. And so I don't know. what happens next with with with respect. to the public's perception of of the. work that we did, but I can tell you. that President Trump from day one said, "Release as many of the files. I want. everything released." When the Epstein. Transparency Act was passed by Congress, the president signed it like within a.

day, two days. And then we put our our. our lawyers to work to to comply with. the statute, which we did. And I don't. know that I can tell you that that. >> well they they I mean the Democrats. obviously are trying to tie some dirt to. President Trump because he knew Epstein. back in the day. >> Yes. And and by the way, amazingly um. you didn't hear a peep about Epstein. during four Biden years. And make no. mistake, if President Trump was did. something wrong or was in the Epstein. files, if you think that Garland and.

Chris Ray and um Biden wouldn't have. have exposed that. >> Yeah, we did hear a peep. We heard about. it from people like you and Trump saying. that it is going to be released, saying. that they want to release it. They're. going to release it. They're going to. release it. They're going to release it. By the way, should Biden have released. it? Probably. Probably. I mean, he was. focused on dealing with the catastrophic. economy that Trump left him the first. time. You know, I think people have a.

lot of rightful criticisms about Merrick. Garland, about, you know, the way it was. handled. Should have released it, release it. You know, um I'll tell you. the documents that have been released. are very, very bad already for Trump. That's why they're still hiding them. right now. That's they're not complying. with the statute. There's still millions. of documents that are being withheld. But Biden viewed, and we could say this. was wrongful or the right move. Biden's. view of it was, look, I'm focused on. things like the Chips Act and the Pacted.

Act and um, you know, I I want to help. red states even more than blue states. That was a philosophy of thinking to. which was not rewarded. In fact, it was. hurt. Um, you know, he had an old school. approach of, you know, the days where he. and Bob Dole would go to the bar and. they, you know, figure it out, you know, and, you know, I, you know, you're not. going to do this with this with this. bunch of demons, these MAGA demons.

You're not going to do it with them no. more. And so, and then, you know, when. the host is like, "Oh, well, the. Democrats want to tie dirt." Ain't a. partisan issue. I think the people. people just want the documents released. Like it's pretty basic. The people want. the documents released. I mean, the. survivors, a lot of them voted for Trump. You know, they thought that he was going to. release the files and he didn't. And. they feel betrayed. They know what's. happening right now. And so, where does. this go? There's another Epstein. transparency act that will pass with.

veto proof once Congress comes back into. session. And then, you know, I think we're going. to see a lot of investigations into. Trump and this whole regime. WTF America is the book. If you are, if. you are able to order it, if you've been. holding off, order it now, hard cover or. ebook, or you can get it as a gift for. people that you know, if you've already. got copies. The all the like the lists.

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thank our editorial team here. The. credit goes to them and the credit goes. to all of you the mightest mighty for. building up this independent media. network that does the reporting that I. don't see corporate news doing. I mean, it was extensively, exquisitly. researched about what was happening in. these various bases. And th this footage. has never been released before. And I. think it sheds new light on everything. that's happening. And there's a lot. more, but this has um, you know, I think.

that we will see a lot more people start. to pay attention to the reporting that. we just released here on the Midas Touch. Network. you know, my my my philosophy. on all of this reporting, and this is. the thing about the book. I don't um I. don't silo information, right? The. reality is is that there's nothing in. the book. Um it ties everything. together. It gives you the story, but I. didn't sit on secret information. If I. have the information, I'm going to I.

need to vet it and I'm going to give it. to you right away. Regardless of the. book or regardless of whatever, I want. you to have it right away. And I'll let. you decide if it's a powerful story or. not a powerful story. Um but I think. that um you know it's incumbent upon us. as truth tellers, as a news network, that we get the information out once we. authenticate it as quick as we can. And. you know, this story actually took a. number of weeks because we had to. authenticate it. we had to speak with.

service members who were at these bases. um who opened up to us and trusted us. with their stories and um I'm so. grateful obviously to them to our. courageous service members. We know we. have a lot of military families who. watch this show and um we're thinking. about you and my own view is that it's. the ultimate act of patriotism to. accurately describe what's happening in. this catastrophic war. It's not. patriotism to wrap myself in the flag. and then lie to you and say we're.

winning. We have all of our military. bases. We control the straight of. Iran's getting their ass kicked. They are going to collapse any day now. Just you wait. That's not a, you know, it may make an American feel good. I. don't know. I mean, I don't think we. should have been in this war in the. first place, but you know, I don't know. Okay. Does that that's not true. Our. military bases are destroyed. Mostly all. of them are absolutely.

destroyed. And that's not hyperbolic. They're done. Iran launched ballistics. and drones and they were not protected. These bases and they've been they've. been destroyed. Iran controls the. straight of Hormuz. They do. And even if. you're like, well, I read an article. that says more oil is getting out now. than before the war. Okay, just use. common sense. You think more oil? You. think the war was beneficial to the. straight of horos.

we need better oil situation from the. let's go to war? You think it's a better. situation? Like just logically that. makes sense to you? Come on. Like let's. be real here. Um but let's just assume. for the sake of argument as we would say. in the law assume arguendo it's the same. which it isn't. Assume it's the same. amount. Okay. Well, now it costs $1.5. million a day to utilize a very large. crude carrier for the shipto- ship. transfers. And then every day of the.

voyage, it's $1.5 million a day for. transport of crude. So that adds 35 to. $40 million to the process where it used. to cost $30,000 a day. And so what that. means is that $33 to $40 are being added. per barrel based upon the risk premium. with Iran striking tanker after tanker. So even if you assume the same amount of. oil, the fact that the US Navy has now.

said, you know what, we're not going to. behave as a navy, we're going to behave. as a smuggling ring. We're basically. going to be like Narcos when it comes to. oil and we're going to help oil go. through a southern route in the straight. of Hormuz by Oman. That risk that's created and the fact. that you need aircraft carriers and. coordinations with the patches and and. all of this and that Iran still strikes.

the tankers. That's adding $1.5 million. a day. I I just and I just think about. our proud Navy. You know, I I I know so. many people in the Navy. I love our. Navy. Um don't get it twisted. But we're. not using our Navy as a Navy. We're. using our Navy as smugglers. And that's kind of embarrassing. Trump. is making posts bragging about being a. pirate. This is our Navy. This is the.

proud United States Navy. This was. supposed to be a fighting force. And Trump's a gangster. Trump's a loser. gangster. So, of course, he brags that. the use of our navy is a smuggling ring. to bring oil out of a route by Oman. hugging the coast of Oman through. shipto- ship transfers. Whereas before. the catastrophic war started, all the. oil was getting out of the straight of. Hormuz. Fine. This is the both. This is.

what SenCom is bragging about. Well, I. still look at the price of crude and I. still see right now it at $114 a barrel. and up 4.26% today. Yeah, by the time. this post was made, it's already $114. Where do you think it's going to be. tomorrow? Where do you think it's going. to be tomorrow? And look at the trend. right there as well. Look at the trend. right here. You know, and all of these. dips are trump market manipulation. But. you know what? the market then realizes.

and it goes up. The market then realizes. it goes up. You want to solve the war in. Iran. Let me show you how you solve it. You take the US aircraft carriers and. you leave the region. That's what you do. at this point. You lost the war. You. pack up. You leave. That's what you do. And then if Iran doesn't open the. straight of Hormuz, then you rally an. international coalition. He said, "See, we removed our carriers. Okay, we're not. even in the region anymore. Okay. Iran needs to open up the straight. The.

US is committing not to be in the. straight of Hormuz. No blockade. Unfreeze the freaking 12 billion dollars. that Iran wants. Just unfreeze it. In. the swing of things, the amount of money. compared to what this harm is being. caused is nothing. So just unfreeze the. $12 billion that's in a Qatari account. with respect to the broader $300 billion. that Iran wants because of the damage. that's been caused. To me, you know what.

you say there should be compensation. paid. You figure out what that looks. like. Is that 50 billion? Is it a. hundred billion? You do that in concert. with Gulf States and a broader. coalition. you go like we're not going. to do 300 billion but we will invest $50. billion over the course of three years. in concert with Gulf partners. We want. to empower Gulf autonomy over here. You. already have the Mecca pact. There's. already alliances that are being formed.

to kind of replace the broken US. security umbrella and that's how you. resolve the issue. It's it's and then. and then look you you want to know what. I also think. Let me be very clear of my. personal view that Israel needs to leave. southern Lebanon, all these. security zones, which is just Israel. capturing territory that doesn't belong. to it, stealing land of other countries. Um, you know, Israel needs to get the. hell out of there in my opinion. Um I I.

think I think though the way to start. the conversation to open up the straight. of her moves and then we get there. You. know the most practical way if you think. about the various dynamics that are. taking place here from a real politique. perspective is you get the carriers out, you unfreeze the funds, you commit a. real number to Iran's redevelopment. Um, you empower the local Arab nations.

You commit to working on a way to get. Netanyahu the hell out of there, which. is important. I would like to see that. happen immediately. Um, Netanyahu is a. psycho, a genocidal maniac, so it's. going to be, you know, I think I think. we want to open up straight of her. moves. Then we got to figure out what. what what we do there. Um, you know, and. my, you know, my my view is, you know, I'm very deeply critical would be an. understatement of of of everything and. we should not be sending any more money. there in my opinion, but.

or or or ever um, you know, in the. future based on the the behavior of what. the hell's happening. But look, let's. open up the straight of Hormuz right. now. And I think that is I think what I. outlined is a legitimate framework for. how you do it. There's no other way to. do it. There's no other way to do it. because we we shouldn't have been. involved in the war. Netanyahu got us. involved and Trump got involved. partially to cover up the Epstein files. You know, Netanyahu is still making, you. know, these videos. We got to get rid of. the regime. Regime, we got to regime.

change. You're not doing a regime. You're not. It's not going to happen. You know, stop stop acting. You know, how psychotic can you be that the lesson. that you've drawn is that by bombing. more, you will be able to get regime. change or that by attacking the Iranian. civilians, you're going to curry favor. with the Iranian civilians. You know, they they see what you did in Gaza. They. don't want you to do a Gaza in Iran. They know that that's what's coming. So, they're not they're not going to they. don't want that. Obviously, who would no.

one wants that. Um, so anyway, that's my. if you want to know what you know, Ben, okay, you say that that's how you. resolve the situation. There's no other. way to resolve the situation other than. what I just outlined at this point. And. if you're going to go to war, which. again, let me be 100 with you. We. shouldn't. It's catastrophic. We should. never have been involved in this war in. the first place. I just always want to. repeat that because I think Trump and. Netanyahu, Exith, Rubio, Vance, they're. war criminals. They need to be tried at. the H. I want to reflect a real.

politique and military strategist. perspective though, which is if you're. actually going to do a war, then you've. got to do a war. And a war means ground. troops. A war means hundreds of. thousands or millions of American. service members dying for this if you. actually want a chance of taking over. the country, which is not going to work. anyway. And you're not going to do. regime change. But that's what a war is. A war is in doing social media posts and. saying, "Oh, it's open. It's open. Look. at the AI slop of me being a pirate.

Look at the AI slop of me pretending to. bomb Car Island. Look at me and. Netanyahu dancing." That's not how. that's not what a war is. A war is, you. know, 3,000 5,000 um people will be dead. every day. Global economic catastrophe. That's what a That's what a war is, you. know, like let's like let's you know, Trump Trump wants this to be a reality. show thing. He wants it to be like a you. know, like a game, like the next step. war. This is war. This is death. This is.

death. This that's war is bloody. It's. carnage. It's heads falling off. It's. arms falling off. It's people being. slaughtered. It's death. Death. Death. And that's what war is. It's not a game. It's why you need serious people who. understand that needs to be avoided. You. don't just go into that haphazardly or. carelessly. It's war. War and peace, right? You don't have, you know, a a a. guy out there, you know, who's who's in. rallies, you know, talking about uh.

men's asses, you know, uh got a great ass, we beat the out of them. This is. war. This is this is this is body parts. falling off. This is death. This is. people in trenches and freaking drones. flying everywhere. This is guts. That's. war. So don't act like this is some. game. And one of the things that Trump.

has done and these maggas have done is. they've uh they they've made words have. no meaning and things in reality feel. more like a simulation than actually. things that are happening and having. people so disconnected from world events. and world affairs that uh no one's even. covering the types of things that we're. covering here on the Midas Touch. Network. This is this is war and peace. This is pick your words. Pick your words. carefully. Pick your words very carefully because.

your words can lead to a six-year-old. girl dying in zapcia in her, you know, next to her mother because your words, this is war and peace. Your words can. lead to a um elementary school being. blown up and 168 little girls being. slaughtered. Pick your words carefully. because your words can lead to a group. of children at a sports hall at.

volleyball practice being killed by. these tungsten pellet bullets flying. over their heads, severing their. arteries as blood flows everywhere. Pick. your words very freaking carefully. because this is reality. Not a reality. show. Not the of Shawn Duffy. with his family celebrating Xi Jinping. showing up here. Not uh what's the. lady's name with the gigantic neck? Uh. Kelly Kelly Leler. You know, this isn't.

the small business reality show. situation. You know, this is this is. this is real life. This is some real. And we need serious freaking human. beings. We need to be serious, you know. So when JD Vance is out there saying. what Elon Musk, Star Shield, Star, it's. a private company. So, you know, if. their terms of service, if their toss is. just like you can't use it, what can we.

do? Like we're just I'm just I'm just. JD. I can't do anything. Watch what JD says. here. Play this clip. Well, I I think that fundamentally Elon. Musk runs a private corporation. And I. think it's completely understandable. that he doesn't want to get in the. middle of what is a war between two. state actors without the United States. government effectively directing him on. what to do. So, I don't think this is. about Elon. I think it's fundamentally. what is America's policy in Ukraine and. Russia going to be? As I just said. earlier, I think we're working on some.

renewed negotiations. >> Yeah. What is what what is your policy. going to be? Trump's promise was that he. had magic. He was Harry Potter. What do they say? What do they What's a. Harry Potter expression? Someone What does Harry Potter say when. he has the thing? Is there like a. invictus to me? What What does he. say? What does Harry Potter say? Trump. says that he had magic words. Someone give me what Harry Potter says.

so I can say it. Anybody want to give me what Harry. Potter says in the chat? Okay. No one wants to get wingarium. leviosa. Okay. Wing levioso. Levioso. And I'll bring peace between between. Russia and Ukraine. It'll be easy. Levioso. Wingardium. Levioso. Okay. Well, that didn't work. Okay. That. was not a real thing. You can't you. can't do levioso. Okay. So, now we're uh.

October 22nd, 2026. The war is out of. control. We have regional wars. everywhere. And Trump is saying he. deserves a Pulitzer Prize. Okay, that's. where we're at right now. That's where. we're at right now. 666 stuff. All. right, we got the Brother show coming up. at 5 Eastern, 5 Pacific, 8 Eastern, 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. Get your copy of. WTF Petronius. Petronius Wingarium Lefoso Calamazoo not.

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