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Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mecelis. This is our breaking news. War. is escalating throughout the world right. now. I want to zoom in on where we're. seeing the war escalate and it's. basically everywhere right now. We'll. start by talking about the strait of. Hormuz where a another tanker was struck. by the IRGC earlier today. Another. tanker was struck yesterday in the. straight of Hormuz by the IRGC. The day.

before that, two tankers were struck by. the IRGC. The day before that, four. tankers were struck by the IRGC. And if. you're keeping track at home the way I. am, although that's my job to do that. for us, about 30 tankers have been. struck by Iran in and around the. straight of Hormuz since the beginning. of October. So 15 days, 30 tankers, an. average of two tankers a day. You may be. saying, "So where are all these tankers.

coming from at this point? Aren't they. just going to like run out of tankers?". The answer is they are. We are. The glo. the world is running out of tankers. right now. There were some tankers that. were willing to take the risk and try to. do these shipto shipto-ship transfers. for $1.5 million a day. Um but right now. as the IRGC has escalated and disabled. many many ships. Um we're really just.

kind of out of ships right now. So um. should also be noted the IRGC has been. conducting military exercises the past 5. days far from what Donald Trump said. that they don't have any missiles and. their militaries completely obliterated. That is not what we are seeing at all. right now. Um they've been demonstrating. new ballistic capabilities, new cruise. missile capabilities. They've been. demonstrating new drone technologies.

Um, they've been showing some of their. fighter jets. Now, Israel's Channel 16. says Iran currently has at least 400. operational missile launchers, nearly. matching the 420 it had before the. catastrophic war began. Over the past. few months, Iran has restored a. significant portion of its missile. launching capabilities, including. recovering launchers buried underground. during the operation and rebuilding its.

ballistic missile and drone production. infrastructure. There was a call today. between Netanyahu and Rubio. Netanyahu's. been making Yeah, it's been like it's. like the shortest readout. Secretary. Rubio spoke today with Israeli Prime. Minister Netanyahu. Netanyahu earlier uh. described kind of a new pretext for. escalating the catastrophic war in Iran. you know, he's saying we think that. there's going to be a attack by Iran. that's imminent and so we may need to.

strike Iran as I've been saying before. the Israeli Israel channel 12 which is. kind of the kind of Fox News regime. media in Israel for Netanyahu is a lot. of networks are but particularly um some. of the ones I'm showing you. Israel. believes Iran may be preparing a. preemptive attack after Western. intelligence detected quote extreme. military movements in Iran. I mean. extreme military move. We saw their. ballistic missile testing that they've. been doing um as they're preparing for.

an imminent Trump regime and Netanyahu. regime invasion. The IRGC is on high. alert. Uh the Trump regime has leaked. out that they're now considering using. MOABs, the mother of all bombs, in a new. uh escalatory measure against Iran. And. I've been saying that I think both Trump. and Netanyahu are looking for a national. security incident before their. respective elections to try and derail.

the elections. Netanyahu is trailing in. the polls in Israel. Donald Trump and. the MAGA Republicans are getting worse. and worse each day in the polls, new. historic lows. And I said they both, I. think, for the same reasons, want a. national security incident before the. midterms. Pay attention. I believe that. actually escalation will take place even. more before the midterms for that reason. right there. Now we'll also talk about.

and we'll talk about it right now what's. happening um in the war in Yemen between. Ansur Allah and the Saudibbacked PLC. that's the Saudibbacked kind of proxy. group in Yemensala. or the Houthis have their capital in. Sana the Saudibbacked group which still. has certain UAE remnants of it in in. Aiden is the capital for the PLC See now.

earlier today the Houthis or Ansurala. struck the presidential palace in Aiden. killing two that's the presidential. palace for the Saudi back government. over there we have images of what that. looked like at first you had the Saudi. back PLC saying not a big deal it didn't. really hit don't worry about it um but. it did hit um Ansarala and the Houthis. have demonstrated that their uh. capabilities and technological ical.

capabilities um far greater than people. ever expected. But those people who. underestimated. them did so at their own peril. And. again, let me just be very clear by me. giving you the facts. There are some. people who be like, "Well, you're just. giving me the the Houthi propaganda or. you're giving me the IRGC." I'm just. telling you what I believe to be the. objective facts. I believe that actually. Iran and the IRGC have more ballistic. missiles than before the war. I believe.

they have more cruise missiles and. better drone technology and more drones. than when the war started. So my. estimates are actually more than what. that Israel channel 16 says. But I. actually don't disagree with that. assessment. And one of the ways you can. even think about this is if Iran was. truly running out of ballistics, would. they have done a five-day exercise where. they used a lot of these ballistics over. and over? You could say, well, maybe.

it's a bluff. No, it's not. I mean, we've seen them their ability to strike. tanker after tanker in the straight of. Hormuz uh each day. Also, Ansaro, the. Houthis continued to strike inside Saudi. Arabia as well. the Saudi Aramco. headquarters in the Dalron region was. hit in a Houthy attack and that's. actually where the CEO of Saudi Aramco, that's the main Saudi Arabian oil. company, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Naser's.

office was destroyed following the. latest Houthi strike on the Aramco. headquarters in Dan with part of the. ceiling caved in and windows and doors. first blown out per Reuters. But I was. telling you about this earlier this week. because I'm following the satellite. footage. I'm observing these buildings. I'm looking at where the smoke plumes. are and you can see the stuff. You know,

it's why when I was saying the US. military bases in the Middle East were. all destroyed by Iran. Again, you know, there are some people who are ultra. sensitive. You're you're rooting for. them or you No, I'm just pushing back. against the Sencom propaganda that's. saying that this stuff isn't happening. when it's happening. It is what it is. I. understand that Iran has propaganda. I'm. not stupid. I get it. I get that there's. propaganda taking place. I just want us. all to have an objective data set of.

what is actually happening here. Meanwhile, Pete Hgsith and the Pentagon. have stated they will not be turning. over any reports regarding the war. crimes that were committed in Manab, where little elementary school girls. were slaughtered by the Trump regime. At. least 168 little elementary school girls. were slaughtered. That report is going. to be concealed through the midterms. I. mean, we all know what happened. And it. was a US tomahawk that slammed into the.

elementary school and slaughtered little. girls on the first day of the war. The. United States then did a another strike. on a sports hall in La Mer with another. type of weapon that sprayed these. pellets that slaughtered little children. who were at volleyball practice in La. Mer. Um, so I mean, you know, we they're. they're deepixing the report. They. probably will try to always cover it up.

My prediction is when the Democrats take. control of the House, they will ask for. it. They will subpoena it. The Trump. regime will declare executive privilege, classified information. We can't show it. to you. And then there'll be all of. these lawsuits that we're going to be. covering here. I mean, look, earlier. today, the Trump regime declared uh they. invoked executive privilege regarding. what they're trying to do at the Kennedy. Center, where Trump's trying to engrave. his name or change the name originally.

or then destroy the Kennedy Center. In. that case, the plaintiffs requested. discovery. Give us the documents so we. can see what you're doing. You claim. that the Kennedy Center can only be. saved with Donald Trump. We. think you're lying, but turn over the. documents. Let's see the board minutes. Show us your P&Ls, the profit and loss. statements. Show us everything. And the. Trump regime, when they're finally. cornered, when the judge says enough is. enough, turn over the freaking. documents. What does Donald Trump do? The same thing he does in his lawsuit.

against BBC. He runs scared because he. is a scared, pathetic, [snorts] small, disgusting individual. So the Trump. regime invoked executive privilege in. the Kennedy Center case. We're not going. to turn over any of the financials. None. of it. So now there's going to be. litigation over executive privilege. Donald Trump sued the BBC for10 billion. dollars and he goes, "I'm not going to. sit for a deposition with the BBC. I'm. not going to turn over documents." Then. don't sue him. He's doing litigation.

versions of the straight of hormuz or I. should say the straight of is a. war version of how he litigates. He. wants the headline $10 billion. He wants. the headline. Epic fury. He wants the. headline. But then when he actually has. to fight, if somebody fights back, delay. two weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks. And. then he gets into his Trump death cycle. of fraud right there. So we talked about. Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Let's talk about.

Romania and Bulgaria. uh this morning or. yesterday evening into this morning, two. tankers were hit off the coast of. Romania in the Black Sea. And then. earlier this week, two tankers off the. coast of Bulgaria were struck. Obviously, it seems like it was Russian. drones or Russian missiles that struck. these tankers. Both Romania and Bulgaria. do not say for a fact it's Russia.

because if they did then you would need. to invoke article 4 of NATO consultation. or article five joint defense. This is. in NATO waters right here by the way. I. mean this is in the economic zones of. Romania and Bulgaria these ships. And so. if NATO was actually doing what NATO was. supposed to do, you would at least. invoke article 4, but you know, I know. Mark Route, the NATO secretary general, likes to be like, "We've never been.

stronger as a result of Donald Trump. It's the worst way to deal with Donald. Trump." Now, he may say, "Look, we. managed to delay Donald Trump from full. mask off for two years by sucking up to. Donald Trump." Oh, you're so strong. Oh, you know, Mark Route, the secretary. general. I don't know. I think that. probably created a a weaker situation. overall for NATO and it allowed Russia.

to amass. They're doing 36,000 Garin. drones. those Garin four and Garin fives. every year right now. Russia's alliance. with North Korea and China has also led. to mass production of cruise missiles, ballistics, those iskanders that are. very deadly. And so we've seen that. Uh, but in any event, you have two tankers. off the coast of Romania, two tankers. off the coast of Bulgaria, and then the. Trump regime cut off or at least. severely limited Ukrainian access to.

Starlink or the military version, I. guess, is called Star Shield. And then. the Trump regime is like, "We had. nothing to do with it. That's Elon Musk. who deals with Star Shield." I mean, and. then Elon Musk is like, "No, Star Shield. is US military. I have nothing to do. with it. But then Elon Musk was posting. like Zalinsky needs to go last night. He. was saying Zolinsky needs to go and he. was reposting. I did a video on it this. morning of people saying like Zalinski's.

an ingrate and he's a Green Louse and. you know all of these horrific things. and and you have Musk reposting those. things. In any event, you you the. missiles, the uh the drones rather that. are used by Ukraine, they link to. Starlink or they link to Star Shield, the milit but both Starlink and Star. Shield is what the Ukrainian military. advisers say. And you know how like. sometimes internet companies throttle. your internet, right, with certain.

speeds. So literally the drones that are. used by Ukraine go certain speeds. They. go very fast and they hook up or they. link into Star Shield or Starlink at. those speeds and a lot of data is being. exchanged right at these speeds. And. this allows the drone operators in. Ukraine to follow these drones, these. FP1, FP2 drones, the Flamingo missiles. and other missiles and weapons that. Ukraine has. And so it links up to Star.

Shield. And so without even telling. Zalinski, what happened was Star Shield. set a cap and at first the cap was like. 45 miles per hour or 55 miles per hour. Then it changed to like 100 miles per. hour. In any event, the Ukrainian drones. go much faster than 100 miles per hour. And so if you as the drone operator. don't have full visibility the whole. way, you're not able to really direct. the drone where it needs to go. And so.

it really impinged or harmed the. missions that uh Ukraine was doing with. these um utilizing these drones. And. also the drone interceptors that Ukraine. has also relies on Star Shield and Star. Link. And so that was capped as well, which really limited the ability of. Ukraine to use drone interceptors. That's in addition to the I think it's. called like cyber like SIBR or. something. And that's the kind of.

satellite intelligence sharing, the. early alerts that Ukraine would get from. the United States. So when a ballistic. would be launched from Russia, even. though Ukraine did not have the uh. interceptors like the Patriots or the. THADs that were promised by Trump, you'd. still know a ballistic was coming before. or before it like hit like seconds. before. You would know at least the. journey of the ballistic so you could. warn people right away. it's coming this. direction. It's coming this direction.

The alert system was also shut down as. well um by the Trump regime. And then. they blame the weather. And I think the. status of both the star shield and the. early warning, it's kind of on again, off again. Sometimes you hear it's back. on and they turn it off. But that very. unpredictability. in the fog of war creates massive. massive problems uh for Zalinski. The. Trump regime also apparently was trying.

to unfreeze some of the Russian money. that Europe has. It's like 217 billion. euros, close to hundred billion dollars. of funds that are frozen. Trump was. demanding that the European countries. return the money to Russia. They refuse. to do that. And then Trump's been. continuing to threaten Zalinski not to. strike any diesel refineries in Russia. Zalinsky held off for three days. Russia.

continued to strike the thermal power. plants and the central heating plants in. Kev and Carke. Zalinski is now striking. those refineries in Russia. War is. escalating there. Then we have uh the. Trump regime sending additional troops. to South America, Panama, Colombia, and. some of these other areas in South. America where the Trump regime has its. puppet dictators. Also, I'm pretty. confident we have lots of forces in.

Mexico right now, CIA back forces over. there, a number of mercenary groups, Eric Prince related in Africa and in. South America right now as well. Oh. yeah, and North Korea uh did more. ballistic missile tests, submarine. ballistic missile tests to show its. nuclear capabilities. North Korea test. fired two types of submarine launched. cruise missiles from a submerged. submarine in the Sea of Japan, marking. the first weapons test from its largest.

submarine. The test used the Hero Kimcun. Oak, a modified Romeo class diesel sub. with 10 vertical launch tubes. South. Korea's military said it tracked both. launches from start to finish. South. Korea's President Lee put out a note. today as well to the people of South. Korea to not commit suicide. Their stock. market, the KOSPI, the Kaspai or Kaspi,

um, has been tanking. It's down like 40%. since this summer. Um that has a lot of. those tech stocks, a lot of those AI. stocks and there's been this massive. crash over there. Um as the Trump regime. is crashing the world economy and one of. the you know first indicias of this. broader contagion which I think exists. is right there in the Caspie or Cosby uh. South Korean kind of tech uh market over. there. Uh, we got the PPI numbers this.

morning. Producer price index, that's. the wholesaler inflation. The. expectations were that it would come in. at 5.3%. It came in at 6.3%, 1. percentage higher than expectations. That's way hotter than anybody expected. CPI, the consumer price index, which. measures consumer inflation, usually. trails, the wholesaler inflation, right? Because they pass it on to consumers. The rising cost of diesel, the rising.

cost of gas is a major reason for the. rise in the PPI, but CPI right now is. 3.7%. My expectation is by the new year, and. I've been predicting this now. You've. been watching this, right? I've been. pretty consistent with my predictions. I. believe that PPI was going to be above. 7% by the end of this year. I still hold. that prediction and I believe the CPI. will be around four four and a half% by.

the end of the year and I think that. will continue to rise and rise and rise. as Donald Trump doubles down on war. crimes and stupidity. Now this. escalation trap that I've just. described, you know, is also the. escalation trap that someone. particularly stupid like Donald Trump. falls deeper deeper and deeper into. It's a show in slow motion. We all. know how this would end if the Trump. regime escalates. Like literally the.

lesson that you've gathered from the. catastrophic war already is that by. doing more air strikes on Iran, they're. going to surrender. Of course not. any. future escalation, Iran is going to, it's obvious, they're going to cut the. fiber optic cables and other internet. connectivity under the straight of. Hormuz and other cables. They're going. to strike all the data centers in the. region. They're going to strike all of. the LNG facilities. They're going to. strike all of the uh broader uh gas.

facilities and diesel facilities in the. region. And um and I think lots of the. tourist areas as well. And I've. described a bunch of regional wars. happening all at once here. And then I. believe, you know, I you can call this a. world war. You can say there are many. regional wars taking place right now. But all of the fear-mongering that the. Trump regime was doing when Biden was in. office, like it's actually happening.

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I'm Ben Marcelus and this is breaking. news. You know that uh first 20 minutes. mostly all breaking news. I mean. obviously it builds upon a lot of the. developments that we've been talking. about in the Middle East and Russia's. war in Ukraine on inflation surging. Um. these are the issues that uh we are. confronting as a nation, as the world as. we head into the midterms. Um and all of. this is connected and we need to step.

back, bring out receipts and just share. very methodically what's happening like. like what I just described for you is. not really a it's not a debate. It's not. a debate. I think that those are. everything I've just described. in my view is well researched. It's fact. fact fact. And you can form your opinions about it, but we have to remove this alternate. reality where it's like, "Oh, we're.

defeating Iran. Oh, everything's caused. by Biden. Oh, can you believe it?" I. mean, I saw Trump's uh press conference. in front of firefighters today and he's. like, "I hereby declare that we give the. death penalty to anybody who keeps on. shooting the firefighters who climb up. the ladder to put out the fire." Look, what a heinous act that would be if. there was people out there who when the. firefighters were putting out the fire,

the people were shooting them. I think. it's the most heinous crime imaginable. Now look, I don't uh believe personally. in the death penalty under any. circumstance. That's just my own. personal view. That's a view that you. can disagree with. But he creates this, you know, this this dystopian world. where all of these firefighters are. getting shot and killed by these mass. murderers while they're putting out. fires. Or what do he say in Montana?

It's like if the Democrats win, you're. all going to get [clears throat] eaten. by animals in Montana. That's what. Right. Right. And I mean, there are. people there. It's smaller crowds now, but it's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to get eaten by the animals. And it's like, I don't want to downplay. the severity. I'm sure that's a serious. incident that does happen uh not just in. Montana, but in places. But this idea. that if Democrats win all these animals.

are going to eat up people is crazy. And. you know or uh what's what's you know. the the Democrats they they take your. kid John and he comes back Janet and. they and they take his penis and they. they chop off they chop off the penis. and then he comes home and he's got a. vagina. It's like what are you that's. what they say. That's I mean he says cut. it off. They don't say penis and vagina, but that's what they're implying because. that's all they talk about, you know? It's all they're obsessed, the Trump.

regime people. They bring your kid and. they they chop off the penis and then. you come back with a vagina. It's like, what are you talking about? What what. world? What are you saying that? That's. not a thing that happens. Mutilization. I couldn't even believe. I'm not even. exaggerating. You are you're not You are. You are lying. Not an exaggeration. You. are making up a false world that doesn't. exist because the real world that you. have caused to be completely out of.

control and dangerous and hellish. It's. linked to you. It's bad out there. what. I described in the first segment are all. things that are actually happening and a. lot of that very traceable to decisions. made by Trump and his regime and also. how weak and pathetic that they are. So, you know, Donald Trump was, you know, in. in Montana, he gave an interview. afterwards and he was like, you know,

the reason why prices are high, but. they're actually not high. They're. actually low. But if they were high, it's Biden's fault. People forget it's. all Biden's fault. Biden Biden did it. Here, play this clip. >> We inherited the worst inflation through. Biden in the history of our country. And. we have that down now very down low. But. it's going to really it's going to come. even lower as soon as we finish the war. >> Okay. Except you didn't. Except you. didn't. Except that's just false. The. inflation now is worse than it was.

than when Biden left office. significantly so at this point both from. a CPI perspective and a PPI perspective. when Biden left it was around 3% and if. you looked at the charts and actually. follow where it was heading it was. heading to 2%. All of the Federal. Reserve Board agreed that inflation was. now under control and it was heading. actually in the right direction. Maybe you or I didn't feel it's we still. felt very expensive, but it was trending.

where it needed to go after policies. were put in place that were tough and. difficult and interest rates were raised. to very high amounts and things were. done. Yet, we didn't dip into a. recession under Biden and he managed to. get inflation to start to decrease. and. what he had to deal with was the. catastrophic way Donald Trump dealt with. or I should say didn't deal with CO and. Trump's made the situation way way.

worse. But we're two years in. It just. can't be Biden Biden. Biden Bid Trump's. promise was on day one, I'm going to do. this. I'm going to do that. I'm going to. do this. I'm going to do that. I mean, the ability of the guy to lie with every. sound, word, syllable, everything out of. his mouth is not just a lie, a gigantic. lie. It's where he's most comfortable. Him traveling around the country. speaking in front of crowds. Granted, there's smaller crowds like the small. airport crowd in Arizona where he spoke, but just he he just loves it. It re it.

gets him off just lying to people's. faces about everything just for the hell. of it. Everything is a lie. And you know. what does he say now? He says inflation. is 1.7%. and it's been that way for several. months. He says it's like not true. We. brought it's completely false. Not not. not even close to tethered to reality at. all. We brought in $22 trillion. No, we. didn't. If we brought in $22 trillion, why' the debt increase to above $40.

trillion? Why is the deficit increasing? Just it just the worst lies. And the. lies and the Ponzi schemes compound the. pain and suffering that you all feel. because the problems get worse. And all. he's doing is telling the sick patient, "You're looking great. You're looking. even better. Oh my god, you're the. healthiest patient I ever saw. Oh my, I've never seen somebody as healthy as. you, but are you sure? I can't even. breathe." You are. No, not breathing.

shows how healthy you are. No, you have. to tell the sick patient that they're. sick and you have to do surgery and that. could hurt and that could put somebody. out for a period of time, but you have. to take measures to help the patient. Trump does the exact opposite. And look, people want to be told things are great. I get it. No one wants to be told it's. bad. Nobody wants to hear the 20inut. introduction that I gave. I'm sure you. would all like if I said, "Hey. everybody,

oh my god, how great is everything. I've. got the best news for everybody right. now. Are you ready? I'm going to give. you all free money. I'm just going to. give you all free money. I, you know, it's not even about the I'm just going. to give you money. You're going to get. so freaking rich." And, you know, at at. some point, people want to hear that. I. want to hear that. That's great. But. it's not true. It's not what the reality. is. And as I've been saying, and I talk. about this in WTF America, by the way,

is that, you know, at a baseline, we. need to be a serious nation. We need to. be a competent nation. Then we need to. be a sophisticated nation. Then we need. to have public servants who represent. people and deliver to people and don't. steal, who are serious, who are. competent, who are sophisticated, who. are transparent. We're not even serious. We don't even meet the floor at this. point. So, no wonder all these countries.

are selling the Treasury bonds that they. used to hold in the United States. because we're unpredictable. We're crazy. people. We're dangerous. No one wants to. be affiliated with the stinky dangerous. bully kid in school. You want to stay. away from the stinky kid. Stay away from. the dangerous kid. Yeah. when the. dangerous kid and the stinky kid comes. up to you though and bullies you. sometimes you know the smaller kid. clocks him in the face right and says I.

warned you stay the hell away stinky. smelly bully kid but the US is the. stinky smelly bully we and we all know. that type in you know elementary school. or whatever and that's what the United. States has become very very sad and. unserious I mean what Donald Trump. yesterday the war is going to end very. quickly we're going to have Iran. defeated. The prices are going to go. down. Golden age. Let's play that other. clip. Jeremy, >> yesterday called for federal diesel. taxes to be suspended. Is that something. you support?

>> It is something I may support, but we're. going to have it fixed very quickly. We're going to have Iran defeated very. quickly. And as soon as that happens, oil and diesel will be falling like a. rock. It's going to be coming down very. fast. But it's something I may do. anyway. >> I just I don't I really He's He's like a. real piece of Excuse my language. Like objectively, I mean, we're gonna. get and he's a loser. It's just loser. behavior. Oh, we're going to have him done really. We're going to really soon. It's going.

to be over. We're going to defeat them. really soon. It's October. It's October. And here's the thing. This. is a catastrophic war we should never. have been involved in. You know where I. stand. Trump, Hegsith, all of them, Brad. Cooper, I believe they're war criminals. I believe their conduct and behavior is. that of war criminals that should be. tried at the HEG. Anybody who's involved. in slaughtering little children, innocent little children, they deserve. to be tried in the H. They should be.

It's my view. You could disagree, you. could agree, whatever. To me, you. slaughter children, you cover it up, you're a war criminal. I don't think. that's a controversial view, but if you. think it's controversial, feel free to. push back or say something or say. something in the in the comments. But. but here's the thing. Let's say you. supported this war. Let's say you were. for it. Let's say you're a neocon wararm. monger and you love war. This is it. This this was your plan to run out of.

weapons. This was your plan to have all. of the military bases in the Middle East. just get destroyed? Like this? This was. your plan to have an aircraft carrier. that's a thousand kilometers away from. the straight of Hormuz and we can't get. too close because we know Iran will. destroy the aircraft carrier that that. your plan was to have a. commanderin-chief lie about deals and. then say I'm going to obliterate the. country then make deals with himself.

Like that's like I'm just if you're like. even the neocon war hawk and you love. war, this is this is it. This is the war. plan that you were dreaming of right. here. This is this this this is this is. it. I mean objectively the US has not. just lost the war lost it badly badly. badly. And you know Donald Trump well. it's not quite as it's not as bad as. Vietnam. It's not as bad as this. Not as. bad as this. We 20. You know, he always.

lies about the death numbers. 18 people, 21 people died. Vietnam, it was tens of. thousands. Okay, first off, you're. continuing to go into the same. escalation trap that LBJ and others fell. into. By the way, LBJ, who was a pretty. good domestic president with some of the. major civil rights acts, but was. horrible internationally. But you're falling into those same. tracks. Gulf of Tonki. I mean, you're. doing the same stuff and worse.

And in terms of the consequence. to the kind of global world order and. America's standing in the world, the. catastrophic war in Iran has already. done more damage from a global. positioning as the United States as a. one superpower to not just a declining. nation but an unserious and dangerous.

nation. Now, the US still has weapons. and a military. I mean, they steal our. tax dollars and spend a trillion dollars. a year on, you know, these weapons of. war instead of health care and things. that people want. They could still spend. 100,200, $300 billion on on war stuff, which we still wouldn't want probably, but you could do it, but you know, but. they spend a trillion dollars and they. run out of weapons. Um, but the way they've even conducted this. is demonstrating how deeply unserious.

they are. They don't know what they're. doing. Hegs doesn't know what they're. doing. He's purged the military of our. four stars and our three stars and a lot. of our two stars. They failed to promote. people if they were black or women or. Latino. Um, and so a lot of people. weren't promoted. A lot of people were. purged. And you've got Hegsith up there. talking about testosterone injections. And he's an idiot, you know. I mean, he's actually like a lunatic, a lunatic.

zealot, you know, who quotes the book of. Isaiah as his guidance for these. catastrophic wars, you know? And of. course, if you have Hexith and Trump. leading this thing, I mean, you have. idiots. I mean, just you could have the. best baseball team out there, the best. major league baseball team. If your. pitcher is a middle school pitcher and. you're in the major leagues, you're. gonna lose the game. You could have the. best team and the best stadium, you're. gonna lose if your pitcher doesn't know. how to pitch. Okay, still. And if you.

and you know, look, and if you don't. have the self-awareness to pull the. pitcher and put in the right pitcher and. you keep pitching the same thing over. and over again, you're going to you're. going to lose. That's a that's a version. of what we're um that's a version of. what we're doing over here. Then you've. got I think Trump's trying to audition a. new spokesperson because Katie Zakaria. We'll we'll talk about that in a moment. as well. The hell's going on there? She's like a fake China lawyer in China. The law firm saying that she's not.

actually an associate because they don't. actually you can't practice law in China. and be an actual associate at a firm. They're like maybe I think the firm she. was at was like maybe she did like some. cultural things but like she wouldn't. have been like an actual lawyer at the. Chinese firm. She didn't pass the bar. exam. She clearly represented over and. over again that she was a practicing. lawyer which would mean that you were a. licensed lawyer. There were people who. were like but she graduated law school. so she can say that no she can't stop. it. Like people like are in my comments.

I'm a law professor. Okay. I this is. these are areas that I know very well. Okay. If you didn't pass the bar exam, you don't tell people you practice law. You can say that you went to law school. You can, I suppose, say that you're a. lawyer, but if you wanted to make sure. you didn't, you're not supposed to. deceive people into thinking you. practice. So when she says that she's a. general counsel, that clearly implies or.

directly states she practices law. She's. giving advice as the counsel for a. company. General counsel, that's what it. is. When she says that she's an. associate at a Chinese law firm, it. implies or directly means that she's. saying she's a lawyer. All of the. interviews when I practice, when I. practice, she spoke as though she was. somebody who practiced and and she. wasn't. I'll just show you a brief. compilation here. Let's play this clip. >> I'm a lawyer. I went to Pepperdine, Pepperdine Law. I practice corporate.

law. I was a corporate lawyer. Um, I. practice corporate law and practice law. as a corporate lawyer. >> Practice corporate law, especially as a. as a lawyer and a former corporate. lawyer. I mean, I am a lawyer and I'm a. rigorous researcher. >> Fraud. You're a fraud is what you are. You didn't practice law. You didn't. practice corporate law. That's it. The. inquiry is a simple one. I'm giving you. my opinion. You can disagree. This is my. opinion. Well researched as a law.

professor who knows this topic very. well, who teaches about legal ethics, who teaches law students at a at a USC. I I think I know this area pretty well. My opinion is that what she did is not. just unethical, but in my opinion, it is. criminal. I'm just sharing with you my. opinion. Because when you falsely. represent, you are practicing law, which.

is what she said. You are involved in. the unauthorized practice of law, which. in California is a crime. And it's. simple. I don't know how you watch those. clips and come away with a different. opinion, but you can feel free to. disagree with my opinion. But then I'll. show you what she said today as she was. doing an interview on one of these. right-wing podcasts. I'll show you as. Trump's obviously auditioning new. spokespeople. Also though, what were you. doing in China? Why were you at a China.

law firm? Why? Why? Why are you at a Why. why are you at a China law firm when. you're not actually a lawyer and your. husband was apparently doing deals or. his company was with North Korea. according to some reporting? What are we doing here, people? What are. we doing here? All right, let's take our. last break of the show. Oh, WTF America. Pre-order it now. So, it gets there next. week. It'll arrive at your home on. Tuesday. So, pre-order it right now.

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a new spokesperson right now who came. out today and she was like, "You want. those $5,000 checks? Maybe it'll happen. If you vote Republican, maybe you'll get. $5,000 even though we lied about it with. Doge dividend checks and tariff rebate. checks. That's all we got at this point. is the Maggas. We'll give you money and. we're not going to do it. We're just. going to lie about it again." and then. blame the deep state or blame Zalinski. or blame Fouchi or blame Biden or blame.

Elon Omar. or blame Dr. Abdul Elsed and and and. Trump will tell the MAGA base and that. he has a different names to scare you. That's who did it. We were going to do. it. But all these all these people. stopped it. That's what happened. Even. though Republicans controlled every. branch of government, controlled the. Senate, the House, the executive branch, the courts. That's what occurred over. the P. They had basically free reign and.

Trump did whatever the hell he wanted. The Supreme Court let him gut agencies. That that was never allowed before. We. always viewed agencies as independent. The Supreme Court's like, "Nope, you. could do whatever you want to do." The. Supreme Court allowed so many of Trump's. things to last when they should have. been stayed or blocked. All right? You. continue doing it until the case is. over. And this is where we're at. We've. seen their thing. This is it. This is. project 2025. So, if you think this is.

great, like if you believe this is. amazing, I then they're your people. Like, I'm not there's nothing that I'm. going to message you at this point. If. you think this is great and America's is. is doing amazing, go. That's that's your. crew. That's your crew. The the rest of. the people aren't doing good right now. People are struggling right now. That's. what's happening. Anyway, here's Trump's. spokesperson on $5,000 checks. Let's. play it. Yeah. So, the president is. always looking for ways to put money. back in the pockets of Americans wallets.

and um you know, we'll see if if that's. a promise he delivers on hopefully in. November. >> So, speaking of, >> we'll see. Maybe it does, maybe it. doesn't. Tune in to the next episode of. Dystopian Apprentice, where we're all. non-consensual extras in this hellish. reality show that we shouldn't be in. We. should have responsible government. Things should be normal. We should have. empathetic connections with the public.

We shouldn't have arsonists in charge of. our government destroying America from. within every damn day. You know, as I. started in the first segment, I show you. visually what it looks like in a war. where the externalities are being blowed. up, right? refineries and presidential. palaces and energy sectors. Boom. Tankers. Well, we have the American. government being blown up with these.

internal. things that the Trump regime are doing. That's what's happening right now. Going. back to Katie Zakaria, this person who. the hell is this person who's Trump's. press secretary at least for the time. being, she also wanted everybody to know. that uh the reason she failed the bar. exam and now she's coming clean is, you. know, she had a long distance she had a. long-distance relationship. We all can. relate. and she was so in love that you.

know she got she didn't really study and. prepare because she was she was long. distance and then they were going to. move to China and so she's like I'll. just take it and didn't really care. because she didn't need a law degree in. China anyway. So that's that's what she. says. All right everybody, what are you. what are you talking about here? Here, play this clip. in China. I had already pre-registered. to take the bar and I didn't want to.

withdraw from that. And we knew we would. be moving out to China. And I was. obviously incredibly I know distracted. and overwhelmed and excited for finally. being married to someone who had been. long distance from for at least a year, a year and a half when you include the. engagement. and we just said, "Let's. let's take this time and I'll take the. bar and see what happens." The results. are somewhat inconsequential because I.

knew I wouldn't need the bar in China. And um and we left. >> The results were somewhat. inconsequential. I took the exam, but I didn't care about. the exam. Like, let me be clear. I took. the California bar exam. When I took it, it was three days. I think they let him. When she took it, it was three days. We. took it around the same time. We're. around the same age, her and I. Um, when. I was in Georgetown, she was probably in. Pepperdine. Maybe she was one year below.

me, but we were right around the same. time. We may we may have even took the. bar exam right around the same year. Um, at this but it was three days. It was. six hours each day, 18 hours. It was a. very long exam. California has a. notorious low passage rate around 35 or. 40% passage rate. Lots of people fail. One of the reasons also a lot of. international students kind of take it. without studying and they have this baby. bar thing in California where they let.

people who didn't go to law school take. it. And there's a lot of unacredited law. schools. Not that I have an issue with. unacredited law schools, but it is a lot. of people take the exam and people who. who don't prepare the way they should. sometimes take it. I'm not offensing. It's just the reality. So, uh people can. fail it, but you you you don't go. running around and saying that you're a. practicing lawyer if you failed the. exam. You don't. And and I I don't I. don't even judge somebody who failed. It's not for me to dunk on somebody who. failed. I know people who failed. They.

took it again and they passed. They had. great careers. I know people who failed. multiple times, then passed and had. great careers. And I don't I don't judge. somebody for their failing the hard. exam, but I do care when this is the. press secretary of the United States of. America who has acted like they were a. practicing lawyer and acted like they. were a lawyer in China and acted like. they had a license and used the word.

practice and didn't. I have an issue. with that. And then the explanation, we. were love is we long distance and what. are you talking what what are you. talking about? The freaking wars. everywhere. I don't want to hear this. I'm I'm not doing I don't want to do. Love Island, right? Like I I don't want. to see The Apprentice or Love Island. Is. that the show? Or one of these thing, you know, Brad and I, we were so deeply. in love and I could have put my heart. into it, you know. Didn't it look like.

one of those interviews from like the. Bachelor? I I don't want to see, you. know, I don't I don't need to know this. I just You're the press secretary. You. show up, you have your freaking notes, you do it, you don't do it, you do. whatever. That's the job. Just stop. everything. All these people are just, you know, it's it's true. DEI didn't. earn it. Didn't earn it. I don't want to. see the apprentice and a shitty version. and a deathly grizzly version of our. country and and leading our country.

That's what this is. That's what all of. this is. From the Duffy, the. transportation secretary, the guy whose. real world road rules challenge would go. around with, you know, little underwear, you know, over the show and his wife who. they met on the reality show and they do. reality shows where they go around and. then the small business association lady. has like a reality show with Nicki. Minaj. I don't I don't want to see. reality shows with Nicki Minaj. I just. want the government to freaking work. I.

don't want to see recalls every day and. measles outbreaks every day. I don't. want to I want competence. And I know. sometimes competence is not sexy. I know. sometimes competence and bureaucracy and. oh, don't even get me started on rules. Rules, right? I know. But we need rules. We need a rules-based organized way. We. need to get serious. And to me, that. message should transcend politics. One.

of the things I talk about in WTF. America, let's get freaking serious. I'll show this for you now as well. You. have this guy Eric Deers, Trump donor, MAGA guy, the guy who talked about. Kimberly Gilfoil and everything, you. know, he she asked him for to pay her MX. bill $100,000 and, you know, and all of. this stuff. And so he did a video today. Let me show you the video that deer, this guy's a MAGA guy. This guy's a. Trump donor. This guy's a Trump maga.

This guy is in the orbit of all these. people. So, let me show you what he had. to say. Let's play this. This might just. bring down the entire Trump. administration. An administration which I have supported. from day one, whose policies I still. support. It also may end the JD Vance Marco Rubio. ticket after you hear the phone call.

that I'm going to play tomorrow. I have. a major news announcement. today, this morning. The defamation lawsuit against Kimberly. Gilfoil has been filed in Kenton Circuit. Court. This lawsuit will allow me to. conduct discovery, take depositions, including a Kim Gilfoil and Donald Trump. Jr., issue subpoenas, and fully explore. the defamation against me. Kim Gilfoil. and her lawyers claimed my allegations. were false, and they would defend the.

allegations vigorously. They can now do so in Kentucky. While I. have spoken on countless shows and. signed statements under oath, Kim cowers. and avoids the music. I possess a solid. grasp of Greek mythology. Kim's Greek. goddess match is a potty, the goddess of. deceit. The defendant's public apology. apologize to me. Ad admit the texts are.

fake. You know, you have that we learned. earlier today that Paulo Zampoli, remember the guy who introduced Melania. and Donald at the KitKat Club back in. the late 90s? He ran a modeling agency. where he would bring in young Eastern. European girls and women into the United. States. And then he would throw the. parties at the Kit Kat Club where the. young ladies and the girls would meet. the rich Manhattan men. Melania met. Donald Trump at the KitKat Club and then.

they would expedite the Einstein visa. process that guy. Then he got like an. ambassadorship position. Well, apparently he has either been fired or. he resigned. Uh let's talk about what. the latest reporting there. He's been. dismissed. [snorts] That's that's how. they're phrasing it. You've been. dismissed. Paulo Zampoli, this is a guy. who said it was great to be on the. Epstein Files. He's on the Epstein. Files. said it was great. Everybody who. was the everybody he said like if you.

were the who's who, you needed to be on. the Epstein files, he said Paulo Zampoli. dismissed from his position. Paulo was. notified today that his status as an. envoy has been terminated and he is no. longer a government employee. Zoli is a. longtime friend of Trump and introduced. him to Melania. The firing comes on the. heels of Politico's report regarding his. monthslong feud with the deputary with. the deputy secretary of state Landau and. you know they're a mess. I mean, you. have that you have Alina Haba um going.

after the Kennedy Center guy or whatever. the guy's name is um and saying that her. billionaire Turkish new husband who has. all the contracts in Venezuela that were. going to get terminated until they got. married. Remember that? You know that. Rick Grenell took the guy's donation $6. million and didn't bring it into the. Kennedy Center. Grenell denies that.

Alina Haba's making the act. They're. fighting each other. There's lots of. reporting about Susie Wilds. uh being replaced and how the you know, will Hegsmith be fired after the. midterms? Buckle up, folks. But this is why having. a foundation rooted in values and. principles and not just focusing on. personalities is important. We can. weather the storms together if we have.

firmly rooted community values and. principles. Any story that comes our. way, we can filter it through. This is. who we are. This is what we stand for. Here is our mission. And we don't ever. have to waver. And if anybody deviates. from that in our orbit, they're no. longer in our orbit. It's very simple. That's the proposition. And that's what. we need to build. One of the areas of. hope and optimism that I talk about in. this book is that state regime media Fox.

really started being developed in the. late 1960s with a memo that Roger Als. prepared about right-wing propaganda. They've had over 60 years of. development. We've had about six really. four since we became a full-fledged. media network. So, think about what. we've accomplished in four, what we've. been able to do with independent media. in four years and where they're at after. 60 years. That gives me hope. Imagine.

where we could be in 40 years. In 60. years. And that's how I think. That's. how I lead. And I also lead by. delegating to really great people. the. Scott McFarland's, the Katie Fangs, the. Michael Popox, the Karen Freriedman's, the incredible f Aaron Parnas and the. Jack Kacharellas and the Tennessee. Brandos and the Dena Dolls and the and.

everybody and everybody. I can go on and. on and on and name and name everybody. Um, shout out Five Minute News, by the. way. Um, [snorts]. all right. I gota I gotta I gotta do. some stuff. Show's over. Appreciate you. WTF America. Put in the comments WTF. If. you've got if you've done the pre-order, let me know in the comments. I'm. grateful for you. I appreciate you. Pre-order now. Hard cover ebook. Yeah,

that's how I'm gonna. [laughter] That's how that's how I'm. gonna end shows now. Show's over. All. right. Show's over. I gotta go. somewhere. [laughter]. We got this. Going into this weekend, I. want you to know we actually we got. this. There's chaos. There is calamity. There's a lot going on. But I'm telling. you, we've got this under control. We as. this community as the mightest mighty, steady hand, focusing on the prize,

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