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Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mecelis. This is your breaking news as a. result of Donald Trump's weakness, his. lies, the fact that he engaged in this. catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. We see war all across the world right. now. Donald Trump who promised no more. neverending wars. I'm going to bring. peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. Lie, lie, lie. Just like Donald Trump saying,

electricity prices would be cut in half. right away and grocery prices would all. of a sudden go down right away and gas. prices would all be $2 a gallon. Just. lie after lie. And so here we are. We. saw more escalation of Russian strikes. on Ukraine. Ukraine responding with. strikes deep inside Russia. You have. Donald Trump calling into his personal. stenographer at Axios Barack Ravid, one. of Trump's propagandists who just.

literally posts whatever Donald Trump. says. And he says, Donald Trump is now. saying total annihilation of Iran. We're. back to that. Donald Trump also says. they really want to make a deal. I'm not. sure I want to do a deal with them. But. he's back to saying total annihilation. I have a big decision coming up. Donald. Trump tells Barack Ravid. Do I want to. go in and annihilate them or do I not? It's a big decision. Anything could. happen with me. But keep this posted. there for a moment, Salty, because I. want to show people what Barack Ravid.

did there as well. Let's say, let's just. talk about what Donald Trump actually. told Barack Ravid. Trump said, "I have a. big decision coming up. Do I want to go. in and annihilate them or do I not?" But. notice what Barack Ravid put in there. The Iranian regime. Do I want to. annihilate them? The Iranian regime. No, no, no. Trump, as he has said before, is. talking about annihilating the Iranian. civilization. It's not just his words. It's his actions. Slaughtering little. girls in Manabs, slaughtering little.

children in La Mer, slaughtering people. most recently at a wedding in Sirk, and. the recent bout of escalation that. Donald Trump's engaged in before that, slaughtering people in Keshum. And he. recently sold um what $2.8 8 billion. worth of 5,000 bombs to Netanyahu to. continue uh the genocide. So, you don't. need to fill in that Trump's saying the. Iranian regime. No, he's talking about. the people. In any event, um Donald. Trump is losing this catastrophic war. We're back to annihilate the regime.

again. Should also be noted. We're. seeing the consequences of this war here. at home as well. A newly shaped global. world order is forming. Um and we'll. talk about that. We'll also talk about. how this is impacting the cost of. living. Of course, it's making it far. more difficult for Americans to even. survive. Get to that. But we see for. example even earlier today Prime. Minister Carney speaking in front of uh. in Brussels before the European Union. Parliament talking about establishing a.

new uh global dynamic uh in this new. multi-olar world where Canada and Europe. are aligned behind their values and. principles whether that's associate. membership status or something that is. equally as meaningful. Carney made it. clear, you know, we're not really all. about nomenclature. We're about doing. things. Kind of another jab at Donald. Trump who just cares about naming. things. Carney's about doing things. And. we saw Prime Minister Carney for the.

first time in history being invited. Any. foreign leader like that being invited. to speak in front of the European Union. Parliament delivering a speech following. the European Union State of the Union. that Ursula Vanderion delivered in the. previous day. Uh he arrived to a. standing ovation. We'll cover that. We'll talk about that. Also notable here. at home. Yesterday, interest rates. increased by 25 basis points to the. 3.754%. uh range. That's the amount that banks.

the interest that banks lend each other, which trickles down to you, of course, the consumer in the forms of your. mortgages and all the different types of. money that you um try to seek when when. consumers get lent money by banks. So, that's all going to be going up. it's. going to make, you know, housing even. less affordable uh than it already is. But I think it's notable, too, right, that, you know, Donald Trump tried to. criminally prosecute Jerome Powell, the. former chairman of the Federal Reserve, who Donald Trump appointed during.

Trump's first term. All Biden did was. reextend the guy's term. But because. Trump called Powell too late Powell, because Powell would not decrease. interest rates, not only did Donald. Trump bully him and try to push him out, Donald Trump tried to get the guy. criminally prosecuted. And Powell had to. quash all of these subpoenas and efforts. by a grand jury that Donald Trump. assembled to try to go after Powell. Why? Because Powell would not decrease. the interest rates arbitrarily. Right?

So Trump brings in his guy Kevin Walsh. As I had been pointing out at the time, I said that the interesting dynamic here. is that Powell's an interest rate dove, meaning he has shown a greater. inclination to decrease the interest. rates to bring interest rates down. And. Kevin Walsh historically was someone who. did lots of interest rate hikes and. believed in kind of stricter controls on. this kind of monetary policy and that. more Fed intervention in terms of.

increasing interest rates. So that was. their reputation. Powell's reputation. was a guy more likely to lower. Worsh. was always a guy historically who raised. that was like the dovehawk dynamic. So. Trump brings in Worsh and Worsh had. actually been saying things, you know, to indicate he was going to raise. interest rates and he raised the. interest rates. Not just him, it was the. full board of the Federal Reserve. It. was a 12 to nothing vote. So I think two.

of Trump's other picks are part of that. 12 in addition to uh Worsh. I mean, you. could say one of them is Powell. Um but. you had again overwhelming bipartisan. Republican administration picks, Democratic administration picks 12 to. zero. Why? Because inflation is surging. Why? Because Donald Trump's catastrophic. war in Iran and Donald Trump's. catastrophic trade wars. Everybody could. have predicted this. When you tariff the. world and you do it in such a way that. Donald Trump did, of course it's going. to cause inflation to surge. When you go.

involved in get involved in a. catastrophic war, everybody could have. predicted what was going to happen. Iran. would control the straight of Hormuz. And now we're seeing the secondary. consequences where groups allied with. Iran like the Houthis now control the. Babel Mandab Strait. all of western. Yemen and thus the Red Sea and we see. the major damages across the East West. pipeline and Saudi Arabia as Saudi. Arabia has its proxies in Yemen and its. proxies have been pushed out by the. Houthies and now you have NBS kind of on.

the ropes and it's a big issue for NBS. that he's out of interceptors um the way. Trump's out of interceptors because NBS. and Saudi Arabia they get their weapons. from the United States so he's out there. begging the UK and France and others and. Egypt Hey, we need weapons. We're out of. weapons over here. And uh you know, now. they're saying, "Look what the Houthies. are doing. The Houthis seem to be. shooting drones over Mecca." And so we. need to activate the Sunni alliance over. here. And then the Houthies are like, "We didn't do that." And the videos.

you're showing are from 2025 in Medina, not Mecca. Tomato tomato. I mean, it's a. different place. Um and also, we're not. doing that. Just fascinating to me that. you have the MSAD Netanyahu, you have. Sentcom Commander Admiral Brad Cooper, and you have NBS. They're all meeting in. Saudi Arabia. And one of the things that. comes out of it is they said, "Look, aha, it looks like the Houthis are going. after the Sunnis, and look, they're. attacking Mecca, everybody." And the. Houthies are like, "We're not attacking. Mecca." Like, we're we're not we're not. doing that. And the video that you're.

showing um from 2025 was a strike on. Israel, and the drone was nearby, but. that's Medina. And so what are we even. talking about here? So I just I want to. queue you in on these dynamics that are. happening. I spend a lot of time focused. on the morning on global issues because. to me it's the most pressing issues that. are out there and it's ultimately. impacting what's happening here you know. in the United States. So I showed for. example how foreign minister Arachi. Iran's foreign minister met in Beijing. with the foreign minister of China Wang.

Yi. Look at them over there meeting. together cooperating. uh talking about. coordination with each other. It's. interesting, right? Because Treasury. Secretary Bessant is like, "Anybody who. cooperates with Iran, we're coming. after. We're coming after." What are you. going to come after them with like uh. gray pupan? What are you going to come. after them with? A five We're going to. come after you, Beijing, with a five. course meal. We're going to give you the. best damn state dinner, Donald Trump. We're going to do a tea party for you. I.

mean, you got Xi Jinping coming in next. week and all you see at the White House. is their preparations. You know, it. reminds me of what's Brighgamin. What's. what's that show on Netflix? We're doing. a ball with Xi Jinping at the White. House and that's going to teach you. you've been naughty Xi Jinping. What's. it called? Brighterton. Bringin. My wife. watches this show. We're going to do a. ball and that's going to show you not to. do any cooperation with Iran. We're. learning more. CNN did a good report, but we didn't need their report to tell. us this, that Russian satellites were.

utilized to help Iran uh target US bases. in the region. But, uh, I have access, you have, we all have access to a lot of. these the the satellite footage that. exists. I show you the satellite footage. on a daily basis of what's going on. there. I mean, this stuff is actually. fairly accessible out there. But anyway, CNN did the report um that that helped. Iran with uh its uh it its targeting. Um. and then you had at the United Nations. moments ago, you had China and Russia.

blocking or vetoing a United sec UN. Security Council uh resolution uh that. the US backed extending international. sanctions against Iran. And so MB. Galabah, Iran's parliament leader, posted that this is the end of the. uniolar order. we're not going back to. that and we're and then thank China and. thanked Russia for that veto that. happened moments ago. Um and you know. while while while you know this is.

complicated stuff I mean this is complex. stuff right and so while all of this is. going on you've got Donald Trump like. out there what was he doing last night. when he came back from North Carolina? He was in Qatari Air Force One, right? Isn't that just a symbol of all of the. corruption? He's on Qatari Air Force One. and then he's reading something that. says like demolish the Kennedy Center. How we're going to look through the. window and you see it. It says uh. Kennedy Center demolition right there. And that's what he's fixated on because.

a federal judge is not letting him. change the name to Trump Kennedy Center. without Congress. All the judge said is, "Look, you control all branches of. government. If Congress wants to pass a. law, a resolution honoring you to put. your name on the Kennedy Center, that's. fine. You can't just do it. Can I. engrave it? Can I want to engrave it? I. won't change the name, but I need to put. my name on it. And the judge is like, "No, you can't do that. We're not going. to let you do that." No, we're blocking. that. And then Donald Trump, okay, well, it's demolished. I'm destroying it. I'm. destroying it. Okay. What are you, like.

a little baby? I What are you doing? I'm. destroying it. Uh a legal observer who. was on premises yesterday said that she. observed a forklift brought on by the. Trump regime just smashing into the. pillars. Smash, smash, smash, smash, smash like a terrorist. Not like Trump. is a terrorist in my opinion. He engages. in terroristic acts. Absolutely 100% in. my opinion. Feel free to have your own. opinion. Mine's protected by the First. Amendment as it should be. Um and so.

that's what Trump is engaged in. While. you have a very serious global dynamic. that's taking place, right? This is it. is complicated stuff. International. diplomacy was very complicated. But the. US not only was able to deal with it, we. led the postworld war II global. architecture that actually benefited the. US. whether you like or didn't like the. postw World War II global architecture, the rules-based system that existed was.

kind of a headsy win tales you lose. If. you're the United States, it benefited. the United States. People had to park. their money into the United States. It. enriched the United States. It allowed. the United States to focus more on a. service-based economy and other things. And it allowed the United States uh to. have things that other countries were. looking that they wanted to have, right? And so Trump said that was unfair. though, that that system was unfair. Okay, so you know, a new rules-based.

order is forming and now you know there. are some people who debate this with me. Well, it's not rules-based. It was. rules-based under the US and now it's. not rules-based and now it's just the. kind of the law of the strong, law of. the jungle. Part of that may be true, but it's a rules-based. It just the. rules will be rigged in ways that the US. rigged the rules before. Now, I think an. accomplishment perhaps of the US. rules-based order and one of the ways it. was designed.

with a mutually assured destruction type. doctrine was how do we avoid world war? How do we avoid World War II? How do we. avoid wars? Because there have been. plenty and devastating and catastrophic. ones. Nor do I want to pontificate that. the US was this, oh, he's just this. great country that did all these amazing. things internationally and oh, it was. always so peaceful. Okay, spare me. Um, we should have an an honest discussion. about intervention and history and other.

catastrophic wars, not just this one in. Iran, but there's a series of them. And. we could spend 20 podcasts going through. that history. But there is a new. rulesbased order. The rules though are. just not going to favor the US. The US. is going to be weaker and far weaker and. and left out left out of the club. And. you know, Donald Trump can feel like, "Oh, look, uh, she she loves me and. Putin loves me." And I mean, you know,

their their actions are making it very. clear where their allies are with each. other, with Iran, with North Korea, with. bricks. Trump keeps attacking NATO. And. so, Prime Minister Carney gets the hint. and Prime Minister Carney is like, "Got. it. Understood." Right? EU. And EU is. like, "Got it, Prime Minister Carney.". Carney's a very very very sophisticated. operator. I mean, this is no dummy. I. mean, this guy's actually genius and one. of the smartest minds out there. Canada. picked right. They picked the smartest.

guy. The US picked the most malicious. and dumbest guy, right? The US picked. the bankruptor and Canada picked the. most uh impressive central banker in. history who also is charismatic to boot, right? I mean, this guy ran Bank of. England and Bank of Canada during. volatile times, knows how to coalition. build, and he's showing how he can do. that on an international stage where you. have Donald Trump tearing apart the. prior rules-based order. That's what.

we're seeing. We need to call it what it. is. We need to frame it. We need to have. honest discussions. And of course, we. have an election coming up. That's a big. deal. We'll talk in this episode, too, about how Donald Trump's approval is. plummeting. We'll talk about election. we have to I mean it's coming up but my. broader point that I talk about. frequently on this channel is that if we. just focus on the gamification of. politics and election like it's sport. which team do you support which team. don't you support we fail to understand.

that we should be focused on America and. our role also as citizens of the world. and what that means to try to create a. more prosperous country more prosperous. world to try to build bridges not blow. him up or threaten to annihilate for the. sake of stealing oil and stealing. resources as Donald Trump boasts and. brag about. And so we need to have I. think a broader sense of what we're. doing here. What's the role of. governance? Right? Why do we have uh a.

politique to begin with? What's the. point of all of this? Right? It should. not be so that we become non-consensual. extras in a dystopian reality show where. we wake up and are psychologically. tortured by a regime every day. That's. not what politics should be. Period. Full stop. And I think the American. people are recognizing it. But we got to. get out of this hell by diagnosing what. the generational traumas inflicted have. been and how we got here in the first. place. So let's just take a look though.

what's going on across the world right. now. And I'll show you. We'll zoom in. right now uh in Odessa. I want to share. with you over the here. So, horrific. strikes on a residential complex in. Odessa overnight. You'll see what it. looks like as people in Odessa in. Ukraine were sleeping. Here's the scene. Let's take a look at what it looked. like. Let's play it. That's every night. That's every night. in Odessa. That's every night in Kev.

I'll show you Kev. This is the Russian. missiles that kept raining down on Kev. one after another. Show you this one. Let's play it. Now I'll take you to Rosav in Russia.

where Sinsky striking refineries there, striking infrastructure there, striking. airfields there. Let me show you what it. looked like overnight in Rostv in. Russia. Let's play it. >> Yeah, boy. >> Now I'll show you what the air defenses. look like over Rusttov as well. This is. Rusttov number two. Let's play the other. Rusttov clip.

Also a busy night in the Yaraval area. where oil refineries were attacked. That's in Russia as well. Zinsky. continuing to strike refineries there. Here is one in Yarval last night. Let's. play it.

Now, I remember growing up when there. were wars, it would be what news focused on. They. would show you the footage, right? Do. you remember that? I mean, and now in. this, you know, increasingly. propagandized media environment, you. don't see that. I want to give a shout. out to all the opensource intelligence.

community that makes this available. online and it's accessible to me to the. Midas touch network. Yes, we have boots. on the ground and we hope that we. contribute to the corpus of information. that's out there, right? I mean, we did. a documentary with Ken Harba, uh, drone. hunters where he was actually on the. front lines of the war. A Midas touch.

correspondent was on the front lines of. the war shooting down Russian Shahi. drones with Ukrainian soldiers. Have you. seen the drone hunters? Um, it you you. should you should watch it. Um, so we're. there. We can't be everywhere and we. can't be there all the time. It's also. incredibly dangerous to have our people. there all the time or frequently. Um, but a lot of this stuff's out there. We. We need to see it. This is what's going. on in the world right now. And this is.

what Trump promised on day one that he. was going to solve, that he would end. the war on day one. and now he wants to. blame Ukraine for the surge in diesel. when it's mostly caused by his. catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. But in any event, Trump was the guy who. said that he would resolve. the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. So here. he is in September saying it's because. of the war I didn't resolve in 24 hours. that I promised that diesel's people.

aren't buying this anymore. Trump. supporters aren't buying this anymore. MAG is done with this. Independents are. beyond done with it. Democrats have. never been with it. But that's really. where we are, you know. And then it just. seems every day you get a suspicious. event like this. And I'm not here to try. to throw a conspiracy theory. So I try. to be very careful with my reporting, but it just seems there's a lot of F-15s. and F-16s and Apache helicopters and. Blackhawks that are like crashing all.

over the place. Right. This morning, a. US F-16 fighter jet went down in Blair. Township, Northern Michigan, near County. Road 633 and Blair Town Hall Road right. there. The initial reports were that the. pilot remained conscious, but yet. another here in F-16. By the way, F-15. was shot down over Yemen. The Houthis. posed in front of one of those. We've. talked about a number of Blackhawks and. Apaches that have been going down to.

here and abroad. And go back to. uh May of 2025. Remember when the US was. striking the Houthies in May of 2025? Remember the signal gate, the signal. chat? That was all about the US strike. on the Houthis in Yemen back in 2025. Remember that? Remember all the aircraft. that was falling falling off the ships. Remember that? was like, "Another. helicopter fell off the ship. A plane. fell off the ship." And now I think we. can reflect on it and go, "Oh, got it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What happened? What. really happened there? This regime lies. about everything, so why wouldn't they. lie about that?" I guess for some time. we thought, "Well, it's Sentcom. It's. this." So, they're not going to lie. about that. No, they're going to lie. about that. They're going to lie about. the casualty accounts. They're going to. lie about the damage to the bases. They're going to lie about actually. every damn thing. All right. WTF America. is our book. Make sure you pre-order it. right now. It comes out in October. But. the pre-order momentum is really, really.

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now. I want to talk about Prime Minister. Carney speaking before the the European. Union Parliament. First time that's ever. happened in the European Union. Parliament history. Comes the day after. the state of the European Union by their. president of the European Union. Commission, Ursula Vanderline. It should. be noted that the EU's been making a lot. of moves as well. They've been working. on doing the mother of all deals as they. called it with India, right? As Trump's.

kind of shunned India um and embraced. Pakistan over India and kind of picked. that side. um and and did it in a way. that was also like giving the middle. finger to India. I mean there's a way to. thread the needle difficult of course. given the relationship there between. India and Pakistan but um the way Trump. went about it pretty stupid putting it. lightly um but Pakistan did invest in a. lot of Trump crypto world liberty. financial. uh I believe Don Jr. and Eric's drone.

company announced in the past 24 to 48. hours that they got a big memorandum of. understanding by Field Marshall Munir of. Pakistan. So, you know, that was very. important to the Trump family, very very. important to them. Um, but look, Trump's. made it very clear in public documents. that his desire is to destroy the. European Union. That was America's. foreign policy plan going into this. year. literally said to like destroy the.

European Union. It's kind of like. support groups that want to destroy the. European Union. And so that's what. they're going about trying to do. So you. have, you know, these this tension of, you know, this this pretending that the. US, you know, some people want to. pretend NATO especially wants to pretend. that Article 4, Article 5 will be. honored by the United States, which I. think we all know sadly. Article four. and article five under Trump is a.

fiction. Like, do we actually think that. article four and article five article. four is consultation five is joint. defense. Trump's never gonna honor it. I. mean, there was another ship. Speaking. of, you know, as we talked about the. headline of this episode, you know, Trump creating World War III, there was. a Turkey flagship um off the waters by. Romania that were struck likely by a. Russian Shahed. Um, and there have been. multiple ships that have been hit off. the coast of Romania, a NATO member.

Like, you know that, right? Like, so, um, and there have been numerous acts. that in normal times would trigger. trigger at least article 4, perhaps. article five of NATO. But this is what. Putin's been kind of poking and testing. And he's got his answer. He's got his. answer, right? Donald Trump just so so. happy to see she uh so happy to talk. about Putin. And what's interesting as. well, just to give you this dynamic, the.

House and Senate passed the sanctions. bill that would sanction uh countries. and companies that do business with. Russia. It's a second, it's Lindsey. Graham secondary sanctions bill. Uh but. it's kind of at the discretion of Trump. to faithfully execute the law. China's. already come up with a statement as has. uh Russia saying nobody should abide by. this sanctions uh decree. Um and the.

issue will be how will it ultimately be. implemented? And my I suspect while in. theory the sanctions, you know, passed. in the House and the Senate, will Trump. actually implement them? I I have my. doubts given Trump's relations with. Putin given what we just saw with the. top US diplomat or someone who shouldn't. be a diplomat but who has that title in. Bellarus speaking with Luca Shenko over.

there with what Woff and Kushner are. doing. So like let's let's be real here. about what's really happening. I digress. though. Go back to Prime Minister. Carney. Zigzagged a little bit there. Prime Minister Carney speaking at the. European Union Parliament talking about. how Canada, we are not fair weather. allies. We do not pursue zero deals. And. obviously this is a reference to what. Trump does. zero sum deals and also fair.

weather allies would actually be a. compliment to like if Trump was called. fair weather ally that's really generous. here play this clip. >> we are not fair weather allies we do not. pursue zero sum deals. our commitment to the rule of law and. our unyielding defense of human dignity. individual freedom and democracy share.

the same deep roots, the same unwavering. dedication. We hold common values for which we have. always fought and in whose defense we. must always remain vigilant. We believe that a strong economy is not. an end in itself but a means to a just. society. We are committed.

We are committed stewards of our natural. heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows. when it's shared. These values, this is a sharing of choice, not. coincidence. I mean, let's contrast that. Salty, I. you you pick any clip. I don't even care.

which one it is. Just Why don't we just. do random clip of Donald Trump from last. night? What? Let's Let's do it this way. I I really don't even want to know, Salty. Don't even tell me the clip of. Trump we're going to play. I don't want. to even know what it is. See, I. seriously have Tell them the end. Don't. Don't Don't show me because they're all. going to be this. I'm the greatest. That's so unfair. We shouldn't do this. We shouldn't do that. W I mean, so you. had Prime Minister Carney here. Now, just pick any of the clips of Trump from.

last any at random. >> And I've delivered on every single. promise I made and far more than the. promise I made. Promise. >> I I I me me. Okay. Now, let's show any. clip of Prime Minister Carney from his. speech in Parliament. Let's play him. An. alliance that builds resilience for what. it allows us to do for our citizens and. our citizens to do for themselves. An. alliance strong enough so that no one. can dictate our choices. An alliance.

open enough that others can join. An. alliance principled enough that our. strength reinforces international law. rather than seeks to replace it. All right. Now, pick any Trump clip from. last night at random. >> Pick anything. Uh, >> I have to say you have a little higher. You have a higher G. It's a very. inexpensive price to pay for what we've. done. Remember that it's a little more.

It's even if it was, frankly, even it. was a lot more. But that's going to come. tumbling down. That's going to be like a. rocket ship in reverse. One more clip of Carney and then we'll. we'll we'll end this game here. Play. this clip. >> It's these motivations, these. fundamental motivations combined with. our latent hard power mean that we can. help to create the next just, stable and. prosperous world order.

A Canada EU alliance would create a. beacon for other democracies. An. alliance not defined by what we oppose. but about what we are for. Freedom, solidarity, prosperity, sustainability. And now pick any of the Trump ones.

Rocket ship in reverse. And don't. forget, they never want to talk the fake. news about Venezuela. We took out. Venezuela in 48 minutes. And. and now we have all our big oil. companies going there and we're working. along with the government of Venezuela. very well. The relationship is. extraordinary. We're taking out millions. and millions of barrels of oil. And I. can't get the press to talk about it.

because they don't want to talk about it. because they've never seen anything like. it before. When they say to the victor. belong to spoils, that's one of the. greatest cases anyone's ever seen in. history. We paid back the cost of our. war many times over. And you watch. what's going to happen in Iran. It's. going to be a really good conclusion. It's going to and it's going to happen. It's going to I say it's going to be a. little bit after the election, but maybe. not. Maybe it's before the election. and just um I know play play another one. of Trump anyone. >> and if we stop trading with every.

country that we have a deficit with. which is most of them and which would be. very easy to do make at least $1.5. trillion a year we do that because it's. almost like a reflex. >> you get the point you get the point I. mean who would you want to deal with. right I mean just think about that. behavior right there. And I don't even. view this as a political thing at all. I.

view this as as first we should. establish the floor of leadership as. grown-up behavior, decency, integrity, and intention of let's just. say grown-up behavior as the floor. Then. from there, I hope that we can rise and. ultimately have people who are amongst. the most qualified.

become public servants. and give back. You know, I saw this the. other day. Uh, Professor Jeffrey Saxs. was on a podcast, notable professor. um he was describing the difference. between US Trump cabinet and the rest of. the world. And notice it's very similar. to how I describe things. And so rather. than me just aping what he says, let me. just show you let me just show you what.

he says specifically. Let's play it. >> I think we should understand we have a. cabinet of 35. people. Not one of them is trained in uh. technical skills. Not one. There's one. bachelor's degree, one bachelor's degree. in electrical engineering. no other training at all on technical. issues and not one single research.

PhD degree in the cabinet as opposed to. China where it's half the cabinet. basically is science and technology and. research PhDs. In other words, we're led. by drifters and fools. Sorry, straight. out. and they're incompetent and they're. arrogant and they don't even know how to. ask a question.

>> It's to me sometimes it's as basic as. that. It's as basic as that. I mean, look, when you've lost MAGA grifter. propagandist Benny Johnson. When you've. lost Benny Johnson, this is what he said. earlier today. Let's play it. Everybody. want like you just can't I mean just it. just the biggest political swing and. miss in my lifetime has been not keeping. the $2 gas that we had in December and.

January. And absolutely that's exactly. where we that's where we were. That's. where the market where the market was. headed was to most people paying less. than $2 a gallon for gas. It was uh the. nationwide average was $2 exactly on I. just checked it this morning on December. 31st, 2025. That was the nationwide. average for a gallon of gasoline. >> Y. >> and so it's. >> what happened? I wonder what happened, you know. But then he'll be like, I.

think maybe Trump's getting bad advice. No, this is Trump his whole life. This. is Trump his whole life. His whole life. has been bankruptcy after bankruptcy, losing after losing, being a sexual. predator, being a predator, right? I. mean, this is a guy who is a felon, right? He was found in the business. record. He's a felon. This is a person who's a fraud. I heard people say, "Ben, don't call him. a con artist because it has the word.

artist in it. He may like the word. artist, maybe. I don't know. You know, he's a he's a con. He's a fraud. The. whole thing is that, right? And I guess as we look towards the. midterms, the world sees it now. The country sees. it now. But for me, and I'm sure for. you, you're like, "But how didn't you. see it before? He was always the snake. How did you let.

the snake in the first time? How did you. let the snake back in?" And that's what. the world is really saying right now, which is us, we gave you a pass the. first time you let the snake in. You let. him in again and here's what he's So, we're building a new order. We're. building a new multi-polar structure to. build resiliency. That's a word that we. always hear at these big international. resiliency.

meaning resiliency against us. Resiliency against the great betrayal of. the country that built the postwar I. architecture that enriched that country. putting into office a grifter who. claimed the rig system which was helping. the architect the US of the structure. was unfair to them. It's ridiculous. Let's take our last quick break of the.

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apply. Read found fees schedule. Welcome back to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben Marcelis. This is your breaking. news. It's our breaking news. Mitch. McConnell, you all saw his I don't know. weekend at Bernie situation going on. there. I just I'm trying to think like. if you're watching our system. and you're in another country and you're. like, "Oh my god, you Trump, what are. you guys doing?" And then you're like,

after Lindsey Graham dies, it's like his. sister who's like, "I don't know where. Taiwan is. We don't care about that. Taiwan. What is that? A typhoon? You're. talking about typhoons? Typhoon fall?" I think people are like. you the sister becomes the senator like. what explain to me your system and then. you have people who are like kind of I. want to say it I want to be I'm going to. want to be grim people who don't look.

fully there. like you Mitch McConnell and then. because he doesn't know how to vote. because he can't speak and he doesn't. know where he is then they tell him what. to vote for and he and he's just I don't. want to do the impress just don't do the. impression Don't. No. This is not where. you do impressions. Do not do a Mitch. Do not do it. Do not do it. Okay. I'm. not going to do it. No one. People tell. me, "Don't do the impressions. Be a. serious newscaster." I'm not going to do. a Mitch. Don't do it. Okay. Let me show.

you. Let me show you that. Don't do it. Let me show you the clip of Mitch. McConnell. Let's play it. >> The The question report. >> The question is on reporting the. Agriculture Act of 2026 as amended. as an original bill. The clerk will call. the role. >> Senator Clolobachar, >> no. >> Senator Bennett, >> no. >> Senator Smith, >> no. >> Senator Durban, >> Senator Booker, >> no. >> Senator Luhan,

>> no. >> Senator Waro, >> come back. >> Senator Welch, >> Senator Federman, >> no. Senator Schiff, >> no by proxy. >> Senator Slutkin, >> no by proxy. >> Senator McConnell, >> no. >> Hi, >> Senator McConnell.

>> Hi, >> Senator Hovind. >> Hi, >> Senator. >> That's our system for you right there. Okay, but what about the speaker of the. house, Maggami Johnson, right? What about him? Recess Congress says. everybody needs to go home. Nothing. nothing all that important to do. apparently right now. Right after a war. powers resolution passed in the House, right after Thomas Massie introduced.

articles of impeachment against Pete. Hexa. Let's talk uh let's talk about what. Maggamike had to say. Here's what. Maggamike said. Let's play it. >> The House is uh done its job here. Uh. we're on a 48 hour notice to return as. necessary. So, we're very hopeful that. our colleagues in the Senate can send us. uh bills of substance over here so that. we can continue to to move that along. through the process and get bills to the. president's desk. Uh we're awaiting uh. that action. So, House Republicans are. going now back to our districts. uh.

we're going to make the case to the. American people on what we have. delivered on their behalf. The media uh. certainly doesn't do this for us. So, we've got to go tell them the truth. And. that truth is is uh has a huge impact. when it's the people are reminded of. what we've done. Irony is that the media. is their biggest friend right now. Like. the media couldn't be helping them more. But the people have been so harmed by. what this regime has done that the media. controlled now by right-wing money can't.

overpower the people power. That's the. reality of what the situation is. The. media is not doing it just No, no, no. It's that you ripped away people's. health care. You put Gestapo on the. street. You created an SS with ICE and. Border Patrol. and you put them on the. street to hunt down people and throw. them into cages and you built. concentration camps. And then you got. into trade wars against the world, including with our closest ally, Canada,

but all of our close allies. You lost. the trade war against the world. You. then started catastrophic wars around. the world, like the catastrophic war in. Iran. You slaughtered little children. You keep on giving more money to the. Netanyahu regime to slaughter little. children, slaughter little girls. You. cover up the sex trafficking of little. girls with the Epstein files. You rip away rural health care. hospitals. I mean, what do you you you. want data centers in everybody's.

backyard? You told us uh that AI. um regulation. What what what did the. guy you heard what the guy said today? The head of uh which which one which one. was it? Um Palunteer. the Palunteer guy, he's like regulation of AI, like don't. tell me to wear a condom. What if we. don't want to wear a condom? Like, what. are you talking about? You're like, AI. should be unregulated.

and AI and data centers everywhere if. you want to be rich. I mean, like look. at what y'all have done. I mean on every. issue you've taken our ranchers, you. destroyed the lives of like you went. group by group like how do we destroy. the lives of ranchers? Got it. Let's. bring in. mystery meat. Let's undercut our. ranchers by 25% but let's tell them we. love them and let's see if that will. convince them. What about our what about. our farmers? Let's make all the input.

costs so much higher. Let's get rid of. their export markets. and let's get involved in a catastrophic. war which further increases their inputs. costs. Let's let's let's do that. Let's. do that. But we'll tell them we love. them. Manufacturing, let's just lie and. say we brought in $20 trillion and there. are all these plants being built, but. let's not actually build the plants, but. let's just tell them that they're. getting richer and then let's crush. everybody with uh inflation. Let's just. pick on nurses for the sake of it and.

just tell them that they're not. professionals. What else should we do? Let's spread measles. Let's spread them. measles everywhere. That's what. Americans are really looking for. Let's. keep talking about ballrooms and. demolishing the Kennedy Center. Let's. take a forklift and just keep on ramming. the pillars of the Kennedy Center. Let's. like let's keep on doing that. Um, let's. tell people repeatedly that they're rich. and living a golden age while Donald. Trump flies around in a Qatari jet that. for some reason is an Air Force One. Let's, you know, let's keep on let's.

let's keep this this is what know people. know, man. They're like, "What do you. what do you do the hell was Let's get. you know what? We should get rid of what. weather. Let's get what what do you. mean? Let's get rid of weather services. We don't want that. Really? What's the. We know who should you know we should. fire. Who? FEMA. Really? Yeah. How how. much? How many people? Like half of. them? Half of FEMA? You want to fire. half of FEMA? Yeah. Why? Why do you want.

to fire half of FEMA? Ungrateful. Ung Excuse me. Yeah. The. hell you what what are you talking. about? Yeah, we're going to go after. colleges, too. You're going to go after. colleges. Why? Woke. Like which ones? Like all of them? We'll start with. Harvard and Yeah, we'll go after one by. one. Really? Okay. What else? Uh what. else are you gonna do there? What else? It's like everything, you know, is done. to inflict. It's like point by point to.

cause harm to the American. What about. greenhouse gas emissions? Spread it. What do you mean spread it? Spread it. Not not real. What do you. mean it's not real? Yeah. So what? Beautiful coal. Big big big. beautiful coal. What do you mean? Coal, you know, there's a lot of green new. energy. Most countries are seeing that's. the future. It creates jobs. Nah. Nah. Okay. The American people see this. It's.

crazy. Y'all y'all are like lunatics. That's why I always get asked. It's. like, "Ah, Ben, how do you do the. political messaging?" And I I I. repeatedly told you. I'm like, "Don't. ask me that." And I'm not a political. messaging guy. Okay? If you really. enjoyed this experience, then you're. psychotic in my view. Like, if you've. actually tr or you're a small group of. people who got very wealthy under Trump, which is his right-wing oligarch. billionaire buddies. But otherwise, like. if you truly like this, then like you. just like you like being there's nothing.

I can convince you. You you you enjoy. being treated like There's nothing. I can do. But I suppose the good news is. that a lot of Americans don't like this. Harry Anton unpacks. We'll do the first. one first. How Trump is breaking. records. Let's talk about Trump. Record. breaker. Harry Anton does a good job. explaining it. Let's play it. >> Want to congratulate Donald Trump, the. president of the United States, because. he is breaking records. He is literally. breaking records. Yesterday, the. Marquette University Law School poll. came out. And take a look here. Trump's. worst net approval rating on inflation.

minus 61 points. 61 points underwater. That is the worst that Donald Trump has. ever pulled on inflation. And not only. is it the worst that Donald Trump has. ever pulled on inflation, it is the. worst that any president ever has pulled. on inflation. This is literally the. worst net approval rating on inflation. for any president. It is truly. record-breaking. Congratulations, President Trump. You're breaking. records, but perhaps not in the way that. you wish to. >> Worse than Carter. >> Worse than Jimmy Carter.

>> Worse than Reagan. >> Worse than Reagan. >> Worse than Biden. >> Worse than Biden. He is worse than all. three of those. And he is worse than any. poll he has ever had himself with this. minus 61 points. Literally the worst of. all. >> But literally, how isn't it - 99? I. mean, who goes around and goes, I think. the inflation is good right now. I'm. just curious. By the way, Trump's own. guy, Kevin Walsh, who was picked to. lower interest rates,

he said inflation is bad. That's Trump's. literal inflation guy was like, "Yeah, this is really bad. This is really It's. so bad we are unanimously raising. interest rates by 25 basis points to 375. to 4.0 uh to 4%." That's true. So, I. just want who's who's the who's the. who's that other core group of the. remaining 39 who's like, "You know what? This is the golden age. This is it." I. mean, I see some of them at these. events, you know, it's like they're.

cheering for, you know, Shamu, you know, in SeaWorld, you know, as he, you know, does the jerkoff YMCA dance and they're. like, "Look what are you doing the. jerkoff dance? Look what I'm doing.". It's crazy to me. It's crazy. It's crazy. stuff that there's, you know, still a. group of people who will be with them. through the last pump. It's really just. vile. But fortunately, most uh most. Americans are like, "Yeah, that's like. actually a psychotic human. That's like. a lunatic. That's a sexual predator.".

Like that's a real deviant right there. That's just that just What about Hexit? What do people think about Hegit? Let's. play this clip. >> Where is his Where is Hegs popularity. right now? >> You know, we start off the title slide. asking who hates Hegath and basically. everyone. if you're in the American. public. No wonder, no wonder the speaker. sent everybody home because just take a. look here. Okay, excess net approval. You know, back before the Iran war. started back in January of 2026, right? It was - 9 points. You think that's low?

Look at this. He's more than twice as. unpopular, nearly three times as. unpopular now. And his net approval. rating minus 25 points. How about among. independents? You think that minus 9 is. low? How about minus 20 before the war. started? You think that minus 20 is low? How about minus 43 points among. independents? Now, no wonder, no wonder, no wonder Speaker Johnson did not want. his Republicans representatives to. actually have to vote on this because if. they voted with the president, they'd be. voting against the American public.

because the bottom line is Pete Pete. Hath is hated by basically. >> Yeah. Just think about it. Our Congress. is not working because they're working. with Trump to cover up child sex. trafficking and to block the impeachment. of the Secretary of Defense who's a war. criminal who should be tried in the HEG. Undisputed. I mean, the guy is a war. criminal. He is up there with every.

major war criminal. Period. Full stop. The blood is on his hands. And I believe in my opinion that it is. disqualifying if you're going to run for. president in 2028. If your position is. not, I'm going to tear down every. building with Trump's name on it and I'm. going to put it on live TV on day one. my view, if that's not part of your.

position, you should not be allowed to. run for the office of the presidency in. 2028 and win in my view. The other one. is I think you have to commit to a lot. of accountability, but number one on. that list or right up there is to hand. over Hexith to the Hague for war crimes. prosecution and all of the other. generals, whether that's Brad Cooper, whoever it is who's ever determined to. have engaged in these war crimes in the.

chain of command who slaughtered the. little children, they need to be held accountable for it. They need to be there needs to be a. reckoning with the war crimes. We have. to if if if the United States wants to. begin. a process of trying to. will never be the same but to begin the. process there has to be real. accountability. uh you know it's interesting right the. way Orban was a template for Trump's.

uh fascism. to some extent Magiar's. response. at least as it relates to Orban and. Orban's regime perhaps is a little bit. of a template but the US has to do that. on a on a grander scale you know that's. uh you know it's it's term. We have to think we have to think deeper.

about these issues because this is not. normal politics. Democrats, Republicans, the this is this behavior that has. existed by Trump and those around him. are heinous are absolutely heinous. That's just my opinion. Free feel free. to disagree. They everybody should be asked that. And. by the way, the Midas Touch Network, do. we have the the stats, Salty, of of.

where the Midas Touch Network is on the. podcast charts right now? Just so people. can see. And this is thanks to you right. here. Number one, beating every major. podcast out there. And I don't say this. just to boast. Oh, look, we're number. one. We're number one. Um, this to me is. a reflection of a lot of the broader. trends we're seeing right now out there. of. Donald Trump's decline and people. looking for the truth. So, I think. that's a good sign. But I say this.

because we want to host the presidential. at least one presidential debate, at. least a primary on the Democrats, and. we're working towards that. And I think. we'll I think we will be able to do. that. But I'll tell you, one of the. first questions that are going to be. asked is that, you know, there going to be a lot of. questions like that. And. the candidates are going to have to. answer those questions. Not wishy-washy, right? Is there a genocide in Gaza? Yes.

or no. Will you tear down the buildings. on day one? Yes or no? Will you ensure. that war criminals are prosecuted? Yes. or no? Yes or no? Yes or no? Data centers in people's backyards? Yes. or no? There are just some there are. there are certain questions that just. need to be asked. that we need to know and that I'd like. to see all the candidates on stage and. I'd like to see what they respond. I. don't I don't want to see a.

well, you know, it's it's a it's. actually it's a this, it's a that it's. or be like we're in a it's like we're in. a different and by the way, we're in a time period also where a lot. of these things are not this is a. Democratic issue. This is a Republican. issue. We're we're we're we don't want. these wishy-washy. polit. I have no interest for that. So, I think.

that's what the debate will look like. And then there'll be lots of other. questions, tough questions. But I look. forward to hosting presidential debates. uh in the future at the Midas Touch. Network. So, we'll see. Let's take a. look at what MAGA Republicans are doing. cutting ads right here against. Donald Trump. You have MAGA Republican. Congresswoman Salazar from South. Florida. She promised her constituents. that Donald Trump was not going to. target immigrants unless they were the. bad ombres. She said unless they were.

unless they were actually. uh violent criminals, she promised. In. fact, she said that she spoke to Donald. Trump about pathways to citizenship for. people in our community. She told him, "Vote Trump." That's what she told her. "He's got your back, immigrants.". Listen to her ad right here. Let's play. her ad. >> Mr. President, some of your immigration. enforcement efforts have gone too far. In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that.

were detained had no criminal record. Be. careful what your advisers are telling. you about immigration policy. The same. Hispanics who help you get to the White. House in 2024 feel betrayed today. You. can be for immigration what Lincoln was. for slavery and Reagan was for. communism. I'm not talking about giving. them amnesty. I'm talking about giving. them a dignified life in this promised. land. >> I am Maria Alvirara Salazar and I. approve this message. >> You know, it's interesting. I saw some. people in the chat actually say um. you know Mark Kelly, I've interviewed.

him a few times. You know, I I think we're in real. serious times. You know, I think whoever. it's going to be, and I don't, you know, this is not my area. I I I think it's. going to require just real serious. people who are going to come with. serious proposals and they're going to. say, "Here's very specifically what's. going to happen." And there's going to. be ruthless accountability. That's who I. think. Whether it's him or they I see a. lot of names out there, a lot of names,

but a lot of people in the chat just put. that out. Um, so it's it's it's fascinating to. it's f but but also the very fact even. that you know you'll hear names whether. it's the Assafs or the Kamala or the. Buddha Judges or the Kelly's or the. Newsomes or the Shapiro or you know AOC. and you know you have a whole a whole. list I could keep going down uh. Britskers and you know keep going down.

but the very fact that this conversation. starts to feel a little bit more serious. now. starts to tell me as someone put in the. comment I'm just sick thinking about the. destruction of our country but we are. starting to get to the point where we. can think about uh rebuild and we but. it's starting to now feel god it the.

days are taken where there's going to be. a midterm. The Supreme Court made the. right ruling on the mail-in ballots, which was good. Shout out to all the. AGs, states brought those cases, right? It. was important. It was important stuff. Um, but it's starting to starting to. feel like what we've all worked for, which is really accountability more than. anything. like it's starting to feel.

let's keep on going but you know just. like. you know and and and all these things at. the end that's when these forces on the. right these magnet they're going to push. extra hard towards the end they're going. to get extra desperate so we've got to. hold the line I I I'll leave you with. this though I want to show you what. Salazar said. after Trump won the election sadly in. nove what was it November of I think it.

was November 11th of 2024 is this clip. So shortly after, but this is what she. was saying to her constituents and uh. she's Cuban. Um. her her family her family left. Her. whole thing to her to the Cuban. population to the Venezuelan population. there was and to immigrant populations. is that Donald Trump's looking after you. and he's going to bring democracy to. Venezuela. He's going to bring democracy.

to uh Cuba. is democracy that is going. to bring freedom. Let's take a look at. what uh she actually said though in real. time in 2024. Let's play it. >> Congresswoman, if I may, I know our time. here is limited. I'm asking about the. potential deportation of hundreds of. thousands of people in your community. >> The the deportation is going to be among. those criminals who are the gang. members, the gutaways, the trenda. I am. sure. >> not 200,000 undocumented in your. community. Is that what you're saying?

that I am sure that we're not that the. Trump administration is not going to be. targeting those people who have been. here for more than five years that have. American kids that don't have criminal. records that have been working in the. economy and paying taxes. I am sure that. they're going to hone in on the. criminals who arrived less than four. years ago because I wrote the dignity. act and I am the first one who. understands that you have to give some. type of dignity to those who have been. here for more than five years. people. who have roots in the country, not. people who are coming.

>> You saw I mean it's it's deeper than. just betrayal. You killed people, Congresswoman Salazar. You have blood on. your hands. You truly do. you lot. because when Trump has engaged in these. mass deportations, not of the bad ombres. as you and he were saying, which by the. way deserve due process and still we. still have processes and procedures and.

which under Trump went by the wayside. But, you know, one of the things that. we're going to have to have a reckoning. with is how many people were killed by. USID being destroyed and food being. burned that didn't get in the hands of. starving people. How many people and. little children contracted HIV and got. AIDS and died because we took away their. medicine? The Trump regime took away. their medicine. How many people who were. asylum seekers got murdered when they.

returned to their countries or other. countries where they were sent by the. Trump regime? Sometimes to just random. places. We're going to have to have a. reckoning with what that actually was. And we're going to find out that the. number is going to be staggering. It's going to be staggering. So, we'll leave you at that. Um, get. your copy of WTF America. if you can. pre-order it. Don't wait. until October 20th because as our.

publisher says, it's really important. for us to figure out where are we going. to travel to, where do we get to, we can. see all of that based on the data. So, if you can pre-order WTF America now, we'll put a link in the description. We. have the QR code that you can scan. You. can also Google WTF America. It's by. Hashett is the publisher. Grand Central. over here. Uh people were asking I did do the. audio. All three brothers did the audio. and so we take turns in the different.

chapters but the audio is us and it was. actually a very long experience doing. the audio. We went into the studio with. all the work that we're doing. Went into. the studio and you know we had the we we. did it we all each brother took sections. of the book and so I think you'll like. the audio. It's read by us. um it was. important that it be read by us despite. how busy we were running around, you. know, doing all these breaking news. hits. I wanted to make sure we did the. audio um ourselves and so it wasn't. somebody else's voice. So um you'll hear.

that. um oh I just released a video uh and the. video is on what just took place at the. United Nations where China and Russia. vetoed the US sanctions on Iran. So give. that a watch as soon as this video ends. give that a watch and then. I can't wait to see you when I do the. show with my brothers tonight at 8. Eastern 5 Pacific. So, we covered a lot. of ground. Watch the other video. It's.

loaded. I'll see you tonight at 8. Eastern, 5 Pacific. Shout out Midas. Mighty again. The book's called WTF. America. Seriously, WTF. But we'll get. through it. As the book says, we'll get. out of this hell and back to democracy, back to sanity. See you later. Want to. stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to. our Substack at midasplus.com. You'll. get daily recaps from Ron Philipski, ad. free episodes of our podcast, and more. exclusive content only available at. midasplus.com.