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And this will go a long way to helping you afford more things. Just don't buy grandma any gifts. This is what the guests on Fox are saying here. Play this clip. Budget, budget, budget. You need a plan. Also, remember, adults don't need gifts, okay? Focus on the people in your life who are age 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift. Now's not the time to spend and break the bank sending packages across the country. Dana, focus on the people in Your life ages 3 to 18. That's my 30 seconds for you. Then FOX propagandists like Jesse Water continue to try to cover up the release of the Epstein files. And they say, well, even if the House votes to release the files, no one's really going to release the actual files. There's national security issues in there and classified issues. So the files should never be released. Here's their propagandist Jesse Waters saying this. Here, play this clip. Jesse, let's go to you first. Will this House vote and getting all of this out finally put an end to the story? Never, Dana. Okay? Never. Because you can't release everything. A lot of it's they're gonna say national security, and they'll be able to hold that back. They'll be able to argue that it's classified national security implications. You can't see it. Then Jesse Watters brings on another MAGA propagandist, Tim Pool, who says, you know what? Americans are not talking about Epstein. Nobody cares about this because what Americans really care about is affordability, and things are so much more affordable. So Americans just want to talk about how great the economy is right now and not the Epstein files. Okay, let's be very clear. Americans are talking about the Epstein files, number one. And number two, things are not more affordable. They're far less affordable. And yes, Americans are talking about the complete and utter fraud of Donald Trump and maga. And your claims that things are more affordable just further perpetuate the lie and make people even more off. Here, play this clip. But I do think it's a big distraction and Democrats are getting caught up in something. Some have suggested Trump is doing this on purpose. Rope a dope. Tell him to come in. Oh, no, the Epstein thing's a hoax. They, they tackled this issue. And then Trump focuses on tariffs. He focuses on immigration. The American people at the kitchen table aren't talking about Epstein. They're talking about grocery prices. And as you already pointed out, they're down. I mean, they're still high, but they're coming down. And I think that's, that's what's going to win a midterm election. Yeah. And he's now real focused on it, especially after the last elections in these blue states. Kind of a wake up call. And that's a good thing. Then Jesse Waters says, look, here's who we really need to trust. You have Epstein's lawyer, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer, they're saying that Donald Trump didn't have anything to do with this, so we should believe them. Well, should be a number of things to point out. First off, Epstein's lawyer, I guess it was Dershowitz is also Trump's lawyer before as well. Also, Ghislaine Maxwell is a lifelong liar and child sex trafficker. So I don't think we should view what she's saying as she angles for a pardon to be accurate. But sure, Jesse, I guess that's what passes for credible on Fox. Ghislaine Maxwell, okay, here, play this clip. Epstein's lawyer says Trump was clean. Maxwell said he was clean. Not a single victim has come forward and said Donald Trump did anything. So I think we could put that to rest. If Epstein had anything, he would have blackmailed Trump in the first term. If anybody had anything. There were three elections that went through, they would have used it then. Then Fox brings on Greg Bevino, the head of Trump's Border Patrol. And right now, Border Patrol has launched an operation called Charlotte's Web. And in the Mecklenburg County, Charlotte area in North Carolina. And Greg Bevino is shown these videos of Border Patrol agents rounding up landscapers and construction workers. Here's what he says. He goes, well, look, at the end of the day, how do we know they're illegally? So we'll just go after them. It doesn't matter who they are. Here, play this clip gone viral and I want to get your reaction to it of landscapers who were being addressed by this individual that you see in the video. What do you say, what do you say to people when they look at that and say that falls outside of this purview of getting criminals out. What do you say to them? Martha, do we know the criminal records of those so called landscapers? Do we know the criminal records of any illegal alien walking the streets here in Chicago or anywhere else. What we're finding is child rapists in big box stores looking to go into people's homes or hang those Christmas lights like we see in this video here. How do you know who these people are? Do they have a criminal record? Maybe in their home country? Who are these people? Too many times we're finding that some very, very disreputable individuals are seeking work in people's homes, in their gardens, and otherwise. We don't want those people in society. And that's what we're after. And, you know, I think we've done a really good job here in Chicago and other places to remove these types of individuals. I saw a stat that showed about 15 to 20% of students in Mecklenburg county are not showing up to class because they're being terrorized by the Border Patrol and Ice Gestapo of Donald Trump. People are terrified to leave their homes. Citizens are terrified. People just living there are terrified because of chemical warfare taking place against them, the brutal tactics of Border Patrol. When you're driving in the street, Border Patrol is taking out their weapons, weapons of war, and pointing it at people. It's horrific. What's going on there? Going on to some more moments of Fox News's utter collapse. They bring on Magamite Johnson, who says, but at the end of the day, we've done our best work in Congress so far. This has been the most productive Congress, he says, in history. Here, play this clip that we're frustrated. 99.9% of House Republicans were united in that. And they will tell you, and they have said publicly, and they've had some of their best work of their careers during the shutdown because they were in their districts with their constituents, helping them navigate through the chaos of the shutdown that the Democrats created. Mega Mike, all y' all have done is rip away people's healthcare, not show up to work, cause a government shutdown. We didn't work for like hundreds of days. 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Then they call on their transportation Secretary of the regime, Sean Duffy, who is Sean from the Real World Road Rules Challenge. In the Real World that's how this guy got famous and pushed into kind of the MAGA world. And he goes, you know what you should realize about flying? It's very dangerous. It was very dangerous during the shutdown. Very dangerous. And Laura Ingraham's like, oh, they got you now you've said it's dangerous. So people are gonna say, you see, he said it's dangerous. Here, play this clip back to the way we were pre shutdown and again, this was dangerous. We were in a situation not dangerous, it was concerning for that. Well, we had it. Well, it wasn't dangerous, but we had it. I see them writing the story, said it was dangerous, let you fly. It wasn't dangerous, but, but, but it was concerning when, when you have so many delays and cancellations because you don't have air traffic controllers and towers fully staffing our skies. It's a huge problem. And yeah, we're gonna say it's dangerous because he's got one job to not make it Dangerous. Like, we all want to take flights that are not dangerous. We all want air traffic controllers who do not feel threatened by the Trump regime when the regime threatens them each and every day. What we want is someone who actually takes their job seriously and not someone like Sean Duffy from the Real World Road Rules Challenge. Anyway, moving on to Fox's further collapse, they then have Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, who's now the deputy attorney general at the DoJ. And he says that Lindsey Halligan, who is the federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia prosecuting the Comey case, she was Trump's former personal lawyer. And then he, she was the person Trump ordered, you know, go after Comey, go after Letitia James, go after Schiff, after the Republican United States Attorney. And no one else wanted to do those prosecutions. So we all know how, like, Lindsey Halligan was called out for, like, what seems to be extreme grand jury misconduct by the federal judge overseeing the case. But according to Todd Blanche, she's doing a magnificent job. She's doing great. Here, play this clip. And look, U.S. attorney Halligan is phenomenal job in the EDVA. And the argument was last week. We'll see what happens in the coming weeks. But the reality is that there's cases that we have investigated that have been brought before a grand jury that have been indicted. And listen, they have a right to come, they have a right to fruition. They have a right to see what happens in front of a jury of the peers. And so what's happening with US Attorney Halligan and multiple US Attorneys in this country is something that we're fighting writing every day. Now, the one good thing about Blanche saying that and Pam Bondi, the Attorney general, filing documents saying that they ratify and they support the behavior of Lindsey Halligan is that they're attaching themselves to what seems to be serious misconduct and serious ethical breachers to potentially hold these individuals accountable later on. Todd Blanche says that with respect to Epstein, we're going to find out if there's anybody that hasn't been held accountable, but not. We're gonna find everybody. Right. Isn't this just like when O.J. wrote the book? Like, if I did it, you know, it's like, here, play this clip. And so we're gonna continue to find out if there's anybody responsible, anybody that hasn't been held accountable. And if they're out there, we'll find them. Yeah. I think most Americans would say the fact it has been going on for more than a decade and it seems like nobody's left to prosecute or bring charges against. You can't seem to find evidence is what's concerning to people and more transparency, the better. Then Laura Ingraham brings on James Comer and James Comer says at the end of the day, we're going to get all the documents regarding the Epstein investigation that we are legally entitled to. He goes, the DOJ and Trump, they've released what they could quote, legally release. And I think it's an important to know that terminology because that's how they're going to avoid turning over the Epstein files. They're going to say we turned over everything we could legally release, but we can't release the rest of it. Here, play this clip. So why not just release the files? I mean, if there's an nothing in there, who cares? Why not for transparency's sake? And the administration, obviously players, the administration said they were going to be released and then some were released, but not all of them. The President said go ahead and release them. So just get it out there and have it done with. Well, that's what I've encouraged the White House to do. And they're working with us. They've released what they can legally release. There's grand jury testimony and the Trump administration asked the judge to release that grand jury testimony and the judge, who was an Obama appointee, rejected the Trump Department of Justice request to release the grand jury testimony. So a judge has to issue that. But look, I think the Trump administration is working with us a lot more than what the media has given them credit for. But I've encouraged the president to disclose everything. I'm glad that he gone ahead and put this issue to borrow this G Charge petition behind us. This is just a stunt by the Democrats and a few disgruntled Republicans. We're getting the documents and as soon as we get them on the Oversight Committee, we're making them public. And I think that's what the President wants. And hopefully we'll get all the documents released and we can move on to the issues that the American people care about. More from this clown, Sean Duffy, talking about how he can control the weather. Play this clip. Yeah, so we had into. Well, last week we had 81 staffing triggers at different towers throughout the country. Again, mass chaos. We had delays and cancellations. We rolled those requirements back this morning. And so we are back to normal. We have the appropriate number of air traffic controllers in our towers, our tracons and our centers. So as we look forward to Thanksgiving, I think we're in a really good place to get back to normal now. I can't control the weather. I can't control if you have a technical problem with your airplane, but with, with air travel. We're back to the way we were pre shutdown. And again, this was, this was dangerous. We were in a situation. Not dangerous. It was concerning. Get you for that. Well, we had it. Well, it wasn't dangerous, but we had it. We didn't have to see them writing the story, said it was dangerous, let you fly. It wasn't dangerous, but, but it, but it was concerning. When, when you have so many delays and cancellations because you don't have air traffic controllers in towers fully staffing our skies, it's a huge problem. And, and how are we, how are we making up that we still have a deficit of how many? 2,000? Roughly. Then Sean Duffy says, yes, he's going to go back and retaliate against air traffic controllers who, he said that didn't show up to work during the government shutdown when they weren't getting paid. He goes, I expect you to show up even when you don't get paid. Here, play this clip right here. It doesn't stop. So are we going to see repercussions that the president referenced of those who did not show up during the shutdown and, you know, as he said, kind of had a bad attitude. So we're gonna look at the ones who, when the shutdown first happened, that they just started calling out sick right away and they didn't come in to work over the course of that 43 days. Those ones we'll look at, but we're going to pay a reward to those who didn't take any unexcused absences. They're the ones that actually came in every single day and did the great work. $10,000 bonus. And also the tech people that come in and make sure the equipment works. We're going to reward them. Carrot and sticks. We're going to give carrots. I like that. Then for reasons that are unclear, state regime media brings on Ted Cruz, who talks about running for president in 2028 in kind of a very creepy way, too. Here, play this clip. You might be making some news. Axios led its morning newsletter with this headline Scoop Cruz eyes 2028 run Senator Cruz, where are you on that? You know, reporters are gonna write headlines that get clicks and get eyeballs. I got a job. It's representing 31 million Texans, and it's fighting every day for 31 million Texans. And I'll tell you right now, the wins we are getting are historic. The one big beautiful bill you were talking about just a minute ago, I was blessed to write major portions of that bill. And then you have on Maria Bartiroma's program, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. He admits that there has been no trade deal with China and that they hope to complete one before Thanksgiving, even though they've been saying since May there was a trade deal in June, there was a trade deal in July, you get the whole summer there were trade deals. September there was a trade deal. October there was a trade deal. But here he admits no trade deals. Here, play this quote. Is China holding back rare earth magnets from companies tied to the US Military right now? Yeah, Maria, I think that Wall Street Journal reporting is not very accurate. We haven't even finished the agreement which we hope to have done by Thanksgiving. And I am confident that post our meeting in Korea between the two leaders, President Trump, President Xi, that China will honor their agreements. Xi Jinping has great respect for President Trump. The meeting was conducted very high level and I am confident that they will honor their agreement. And if they don't, we have lots of levers. Well, there you have it, folks. As I mentioned, Fox absolutely spiraling out of control, collapsing live on tv. You see it right there? Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers and thanks for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack@midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski ad free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content Only available@midasplus.com. Mutual of Omaha's Wild kingdom introduced generations to the wonders of the natural world and the need to protect it. The words of Marlon Perkins still hold true. Should we try to preserve this wildlife catch? 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