MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 1/27/26

Summary

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The MeidasTouch Podcast - 1/27/26

Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
Date: January 27, 2026

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Overview

This emotionally charged episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast centers around the shocking killing of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and celebrated community member, allegedly at the hands of Trump administration Border Patrol agents. The Meiselas brothers deliver comprehensive analysis and fierce commentary on the regime’s response, the coordinated campaign to smear Pretti, the foreign and domestic political ramifications, and a deep dive into the growing authoritarian tactics of the Trump government. Through personal stories, expert interviews (including economist Justin Wolfers), and their signature banter, the brothers rally listeners to collective outrage, urge political action, and draw attention to democracy’s perilous state.

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Key Discussion Points

1. The Alex Pretti Killing and Smear Campaign

• [02:20 – 11:00]
  • Incident Recap:
    Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse hailed for his heroism, was shot and killed by Border Patrol during a protest in Minneapolis. The event was captured on video.
  • Regime Response:
    The Trump administration, led by propagandists like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, immediately labeled Pretti a “domestic terrorist,” alleging he intended to massacre federal agents—a claim with zero evidence.
  • Pattern of Abuse:
    Ben highlights this is not an isolated tactic, citing previous cases (e.g. Renee Nicole Goode) where regime officials falsified causes of death and slandered victims.

“They lie about the cause of death and say people died by suicide, and you find out it's strangulation at the hands of ICE Gestapo.”
— Ben ([02:03])

• Personal Outrage:
  The hosts grieve for Pretti’s family and decry the regime’s moral depravity, emphasizing the tipping point nature of this murder for public consciousness.

“Every time you think there's a rock bottom, this regime tends to find the basement every single time.”
— Brett ([06:19])

2. Trump’s Deteriorating Health: Exposé Discussion

• [11:55 – 13:30; 36:29 – 44:12]
  • New York Magazine Article:
    The hosts discuss a damning exposé in New York Magazine about Donald Trump’s mental and physical health. Trump is described forgetting the word “Alzheimer’s” while referencing his father’s illness, prompting his press secretary to fill in.
  • Oval Office Bizarre Behavior:
    Reporter Ben Terris describes surreal scenes: Trump obsessing over “hand bruising,” demanding doctors verify trivial ailments, and threatening journalists with lawsuits over critical health coverage.

“[Trump] pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him. ‘Alzheimer's,’ Levitt said. ...Well, I don't have it now.”
— Ben quoting article ([38:10])

“If we wrote that here, like, if we wrote that into a Ben video, you guys would think we made it up.”
— Brett ([38:51])

3. International Fallout and America’s Reputation

• [44:12 – 48:35, 56:32 – 74:07]
  • Trump’s Antagonistic Foreign Policy:
    The panel discusses Trump’s attacks on Canada, threats of 100% tariffs, and dismissals of trade agreements (e.g., USMCA/Kuzma), which are met with calm, measured responses from world leaders (notably Canadian PM Carney).
  • Global Perceptions:
    The German Foreign Ministry now warns its citizens against travel to the US, citing violence and state-sponsored terror.
    Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is “calling on World Cup fans to stay away from the United States.” ([75:04])
  • Long-Term Damage:
    Economist Justin Wolfers unpacks the generational harm to US institutions, investment, immigration, and innovation due to Trump’s authoritarianism.

“What that's going to show up as is in a decade's time—there'll be some companies that were never founded, some entrepreneurs who couldn’t afford to go to business school...our kids will feel it in a set of lost opportunities.”
— Prof. Justin Wolfers ([58:50])

4. Internal Crisis: ICE, Border Patrol, and Congressional Maneuvering

• [30:41 – 36:29; 52:32 – 68:21]
  • Cover-ups and Congressional Blackmail:
    Ben breaks down how House Republicans, led by “MAGA Mike” Johnson, tied disaster relief in appropriations bills to increased funding for ICE and Border Patrol, coercing colleagues into voting for “state-sponsored terrorism.”
  • Coordinated Narrative:
    Clips of Trump officials demonstrate “word-for-word” smear campaigns. The regime also manipulated evidence, using AI-altered images to justify detentions and lethal force.
  • Recent Developments:
    Greg Bevino, Border Patrol chief accused of implementing brutal tactics, has been demoted as administration damage control.
  • Calls for Real Accountability:
    Hosts demand transparency (release of officers’ names), criminal prosecution, and true reform.

“They want to act like there is accountability right now without there actually being accountability... Bevino is just the patsy, a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing... As long as he runs policy in the White House, nothing will change.”
— Brett, quoting Ron Filipkowski ([68:49])

5. The Epstein Files and Barr’s Continued Role

• [60:48 – 63:04]
  • Op-Ed Misdirection:
    Former AG Bill Barr writes in the Wall Street Journal to excuse why Epstein documents haven’t been released, blaming logistics.
  • Hosts’ Skepticism:
    Ben, drawing on legal experience, dismisses the excuses, citing a deliberate cover-up: “They had a thousand lawyers... Why aren’t they doing rolling productions?”
  • Bill Barr’s Connections:
    Brett details Barr family links to Epstein and accuses Barr of serial obfuscation for Trump.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Public Silence Breaking:

  “Finally, finally, finally...we are seeing certain people like that speaking up, speaking out, calling out the horrific murders of these individuals.”
  — Brett ([07:55])

• On Regime Hypocrisy:

  “If you have a lawful permit and you conceal carry...then the Second Amendment should be impeded and you should be murdered for it...MAGA Republicans... don’t care about anything. They are shells of human beings.”
  — Ben ([15:00–19:09])

• On Economic Consequences:

  “Whatever the next generation’s Google or OpenAI is, it may not end up being invented or it may not happen on our soil... our kids will feel it.”
  — Prof. Justin Wolfers ([59:50])

• On Regime Smear Playbook:

  "Their biggest fear is being identified... That’s why they are forcefully fighting back, in this case, murdering an individual for recording them."
  — Brett ([54:28])

• On the Need for Outrage and Activism:

  “Shining a light on this stuff, you know, is a, like I said, a turning point moment this weekend. It happens because of pressure, because of us documenting this. It happens because of people like you speaking out, you calling your representatives.”
  — Co-host ([78:06])

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Timestamps to Key Segments

• [02:20 – 11:00] – The murder of Alex Pretti, regime’s smear campaign, and the response from civil society
• [16:14 – 17:01] – Treasury Sec. Scott Bessen’s dismissive comments on Pretti’s death
• [22:22 – 23:27] – Kristi Noem’s press conference and NRA hypocrisy
• [36:29 – 44:12] – NY Magazine article revelations about Trump’s health
• [44:50 – 46:03] – Canadian PM Carney’s response to Trump’s tariffs threat
• [56:32 – 60:48] – Justin Wolfers on “generational economic damage”
• [63:12 – 68:21] – The demotion of Border Patrol’s Greg Bevino and Ron Filipkowski’s commentary
• [75:04] – Sepp Blatter’s call for World Cup fans to avoid the US

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Tone, Style, and Takeaways

• Tone: Outraged, frank, combative, and darkly comedic. The hosts never shy away from strong emotional language and moral clarity, regularly referring to regime officials as "creatures," "soulless," or "trash."
• Style: Blends breaking news, legal and political analysis, and raw, heartfelt pleas for democratic resurgence. Signature brotherly banter and sarcasm lighten heavier moments.

Takeaway:
The Meidas brothers sound the alarm on a regime teetering into authoritarianism, highlight the importance of bearing witness and recording abuses, and call for both grassroots activism and government accountability. They urge their listeners to stay informed, remain defiant, and support honest journalism as the fight for democracy grows more perilous.

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Transcript

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[Ben Terrace]

You can shop every style for every home. Wayfair. Every style, every home. We have a lot to discuss on today's episode of the Midas Touch podcast. We should talk about the horrific murder of Alex Pretti at the hands of Donald Trump's Border Patrol Gestapo. Then the effort by the Trump regime to defame Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the VA in Minneapolis. Someone who by all accounts was incredibly selfless, courageous, heroic. Really one of the best human beings out there killed by the worst human beings out there. And then the Trump regime engaged in a concerted campaign to defame Pretty after he was deceased, calling him a domestic terrorist, saying he was out to massacre ICE and Border Patrol agents. 100% false. And this is 100% the playbook that they use over and over again. This is what they did to Renee Nicole Goode after all of those deaths at the ICE detention centers. They lie about the cause of death and say people died by suicide and you find out it's strangulation at the hands of ICE Gestapo. I want to break down what took place, the aftermath, the response. And it does seem like finally we've reached a fever pitch in this country where we're now even Hearing from businesses who have refused to speak out. The NBA Players association spoke out and other people who have been on the sidelines. We're hearing more and more voices step forward. It's about time. And we need to hear from more people. Silence is complicity. Want to talk about Trump's health continuing to deteriorate? New York magazine had an incredible expose that I want to cover. It was one of the most embarrassing and humiliating situations described in the Oval Office. It's almost hard to comprehend what the hell is happening there. As this article by Ben Terrace describes. Donald Trump going to these doctors and I'm the healthiest person, right?

[Brett Jordy]

No, no, no.

[Ben Terrace]

No one's healthier than me, right? Yes, you're incredibly healthy. And then Donald Trump said, you know, and something happened to my dad. It was something up, up here. And then Caroline Levitt, his chief propagandist, said, Alzheimer's.

[Brett Jordy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ben Terrace]

He had, he had that thing going on up there. Anyway, we'll talk about that. Donald Trump continuing to embarrass the United States on the world stage. He attacked Canada. I thought that was going to be the big story heading into the weekend where he said 100% tariffs on Canada if they do a trade deal with China after Prime Minister Carney took a trip to Beijing and announced a $1 trillion strategic pact with Xi Jinping. And that story seemed to fade in light of all of the other chaos and terrorism committed by this despicable regime. And the regime continues to cover up the Epstein files. A child sex trafficking ring is continuing to be covered up by the doj, the same doj, I might add, that has been sending letters to Governor Walls of Minnesota saying that if you agree just to hand over all the private election information of the citizens of Minnesota, then maybe we'll leave. If you just hand over and let us run the elections for the midterms. A mafia extortion racket with state sponsored terrorism as part of the force and threats behind it. So we've got a lot to discuss. Today's a day where I teach over at USC Law, which is why you see this background right here. And I'm not sure if anybody caught it. We'll talk about it in this episode. I had the opportunity to interview this weekend Professor Justin Wolfers, another professor. And it was like meeting my long lost Australian best friend that I never knew I had. And Professor Wolfers and I were able to do this really long geeking out on the economy and global markets and lots of people seem to like it. And then I, Professor Wolfers and I were talking all weekend about, about doing more videos together and how we can get more information out. So shout out to Professor Wolfers and we'll increasingly bring him on the Midas Touch network more and more and build out our economics reporting the same way we have a D.C. bureau, the same way we're on the ground in Minneapolis. We were on the ground there when this horrific terroristic shooting murder took place.

[Brett Jordy]

Brett Jordy, that's some big ten to big ten love there.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Ben, right?

[Brett Jordy]

Wolfers is a Michigan, Michigan guy. Michigan man, as they say. You guys will have to do a bet. Usc, Michigan bet, maybe next season.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Anyway, Brett, is there like a secret professor's handshake you guys do? Is there like, the professors have like, cool things that we don't even know about? I'll let you keep that all private. You can't tell. You can't tell. I get it. It's good to be here, brothers. Good to be here. Midas. Mighty nice to be here with everybody. You know, there's their sugar coating it. It was a really dark weekend, another dark weekend in the Trump regime. And I know everybody's feeling a whole lot of pain. You know, my heart goes out to Alex Preddy's family. I just cannot imagine what they're going through. But just an individual who lived his life by a hero. And I've seen so many people, colleagues, people who work with him, people who went to school with him, speak out to his character and they all say the same thing about him, that he was just such an incredible human being who lived to help other people. And I think we even saw in those final moments as we watched, he was trying to help somebody. He was trying to help a woman who was attacked by Trump's goons. He was recording the situation. They pushed a woman down, they. They pepper sprayed her. He was trying to render her aid. That's when they took him, threw him on the ground and killed him. Point blank. Murdered him, executed him. And it's just beyond, beyond words. Every time you think there's rock bottom, this regime tends to find the basement every single time. And their reaction after the fact also just makes this so much worse. Not a regime that's looking for accountability, but a regime that rushes to smear and defame the victim, to basically try to say that this person's life was worthless, to say that they were a terrorist, to use all of these terms to make you try to not believe your own eyes and ears. It is the most depraved administration, the most depraved regime we have ever seen, and everybody responsible in this, every single individual deserves to a be out of a job, be prosecuted, and to be scorned and ostracized from society forever. This is moral deprivation like, honestly, like we have not seen before in this country. It is so freaking appalling. But this weekend, I think also, well, so tragic. It was a tipping point. You know, I. I think it was truly a. A critical juncture in. In where we are at. And I can't believe that it's taken just these horrors for certain people to wake up. But finally, finally, finally we are seeing, you know, certain people finally speak out and speak up about this issue, about these issues and about the regime, because frankly, there have been far too many people who are in positions of power, celebrities, athletes, you name it, who have been afraid to speak out against this regime because they know what will happen is there will be some sort of Twitter backlash to them saying something against the regime. They'll get a lot of mean tweets, they'll get harassed. They'll. Their lives will probably be threatened by these people because that's their mo. That's what these people do. So they say, I'm just gonna go about my life. I'll make my movies, I'll make my music, I'll play my sports. I'm not gonna say anything. I'm not gonna speak up because I. I don't want any of that smoke. But finally, finally, finally, finally, and I hope it stays, we see at least some people like that speaking up, speaking out, calling out the horrific murders of these individuals. And there are multiple individuals, and it's just so incredibly sad, tragic. And the fallout continues now from all of this. And I think most Americans, I would say 80% plus, this is breaking through to, are furious, are furious at this regime, are angered, and rightfully so. We're gonna get into this and more. Jordy, what's the latest?

[Brett Jordy]

What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? And I just wanna build onto that last point, seeing as we are finally seeing folks speak out. Look, I think I've been incredibly gracious to a fault, and I'll admit that, like, to a fault of giving people either brainwashed or willful participants in propping up MAGA in the past and off ramp. But over the weekend, I mean, I hit my personal tipping point with everything that's happened with Keith Porter, to Renee Good, to Alex Preddy. If you still. If you still can't disavow this regime, if you're still sporting that red MAGA hat and saying that's Donald being Donald, making excuse after excuse for the atrocities that are being committed right here on U.S. soil. Like, I can't help you, nor quite frankly, do I want to help you anymore. Because you don't want to be helped. You're just. You're a hateful, evil person that doesn't care for your fellow American. That's the only conclusion I can draw. And here we are. This audience cares. We care here deeply in our bones about this country and about its citizens and about what real leadership looks like. And quite frankly, what's coming out of the White House right now is an absence of. Of leadership. And that's just putting it as mildly as I can. Ben.

[Ben Terrace]

Yeah, I mean, immediately after the murder of Alex Pretti, the Trump regime in a coordinated campaign said that Pretti was a domestic terrorist. That because he had a legal permit to conceal carry a handgun, that he was there to massacre the Border Patrol and ICE Gestapo who were there. That he had an intention to massacre his is what they said. And when you watch the video about what actually happened, again, there's video of this. There's no dispute about what happened. The only investigation that's frankly needed is who were the border Patrol terrorists who shot and murdered Alex Pretti and who else have these people been shooting, murdering, terrorizing? That's what the investigation should be about. Who are these masked terrorists? And it's not doxing them to put their name out there. We shouldn't have secret police in this country. Their name should be out there because they deserve to be prosecuted. That's the way our system is supposed to work. And we saw Alex Pretty in the final moments of his life going to lend a hand to help a female protester who was being brutalized by Border Patrol Gestapo. They were pepper spraying her. Alex Pretty is someone who was described by his colleagues in the VAICU and in various other programs that he was a part of as someone who would always stand up for the underdog. If people would harass or say negative things about female doctors or others in the profession, he would always stand up. That's how he was known for. And so he instinctively went to lend a hand to this female being brutalized. He had a camera in his hand. He didn't have a gun in his hand. He then was pepper sprayed by the Border Patrol Gestapo. They brutalized him. Six to eight people threw him to the ground. They basically pistol whipped him. And then there's a photo that looks just like the photo of the Nazi execution. That has been one of the horrifying images of the, of, of Hitler's reign of the Border Patrol Gestapo. Like, execution style, murdering Pretti. And then they shot him over and over and over again. And when his body was lying limp, they shot him over and over and over again. You saw in the video also that one of the Border Patrol Gestapo took the handgun that was concealed carry. That was being concealed, carried by Pretti. Pretti never took it out. He was allowed to have it, frankly, in Minnesota, it didn't even have to be concealed. It could have been open carried, but he had it concealed carried. He never took it out, ever. It was removed by one of the Border Patrol Gestapo before they executed him. And so you had all of these statements coming out from Trump, from Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller said directly, this is a domestic terrorist who was there to massacre people. You had Christine Ohm say he was there to kill and massacre. You had Greg Bevino, a terrorist who leads the Border Patrol terrorists say he was there to massacre people. And then you had others in the regime and it was Noam Bevino, others, Trump saying, this is Stephen Miller's direct quote, a domestic terrorist tried to assassinate federal law enforcement. And this is your response. You and the state's entire Democrat leadership team have been flaming the flames of insurrection for the singular purpose of stopping the deportation of illegals who invaded the country. Again, Miller, using the language of Nazis right there, pretty, was not a domestic terrorist. He was not there to massacre people. But then you had all the Trump regime officials say if you show up to a protest and you have a legal permit to conceal carry, then you can be killed and the government can tread on you and kill you and shoot you. So over the course of the weekend, although we knew this before, the Trump regime and their MAGA Republican sycophants admit they don't care about the First Amendment. We knew that before. They don't care about the Second Amendment. I've never heard any politician from any party hate the Second Amendment as much as Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. They've said things I've never heard Democratic politicians who they've always attacked say. And so I guess for the MAGA Republicans, okay, the Second Amendment protects the school shooters who bring the semiautomatics to elementary schools. That should be protected. But when you have a lawful permit and you conceal carry and it's actually there for the purpose the Second Amendment was tended intended for, then the Second Amendment should be impeded and you should be murdered for it. And again, if you're like, well, Ben, don't be all hyperbolic. Let me just remind you, this is what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen said over the weekend. Let's play his clip first. Let's play this one.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen]

I am sorry that this gentleman is dead, but he did bring a 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. I think that there are a lot of paid agitators who are ginning things up, and the governor has not done a good job of tamping this down. Yeah, I mean, as you know, he was an ICU nurse, worked for the Veterans Administration, and there's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever. The fact that he brought a disarmed Before a gun. Have you ever gone to a protest? I mean, we do have a Second Amendment in this country that. John, Johnathan. Have you ever gone to a protest? I mean, have you gone to a protest? I mean, I've.

[Brett Jordy]

I.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen]

No, actually, as a reporter covering it. Okay, I've been to a protest. Guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard. Okay.

[Ben Terrace]

I brought a billboard. And for those on audio, we're showing photos right now of Kyle Rittenhouse with the semi automatic with an ar. And we have over here these MAGA Republican protesters who showed up in the Michigan State house with their AR15s, standing outside of where the governor's office was with AR15s. Okay?

[Co-host/Commentator]

And I want to just be clear on the heels of Bessant's comments, and you're seeing these images, if you're watching here on YouTube, that nobody even knew that Alex Pretty had a gun. They didn't know this before they attacked him. So this is all after the fact. Them trying to find justification for their actions. And it's disgusting and it's appalling. And the fact that all of these people who know better just fall in line, whether you're Kristi Noem or Scott Besant or Todd Blanche or whoever it is, following the script, it's so freaking appalling. And it goes against everything this country stands for. It is evil. There should be nothing political about this. You should be able to look at this. If you're a Democrat, if you're a Republican, if you're an Independent, if you don't even care about politics and say, this is wrong. This is un American. And if you are a Republican or if you are a Consider yourself a MAGA person, then just think about this. Sit. Think if you'd be okay if. Because these protesters that you see in these images that I'm pulling back up, like the protesters in the Michigan State Capitol here with their weapons. Do you think that would have made it okay if some sort of officer or federal agent or whatever you want to call them came in and then gunned these people down and used that as their justification? Because you've exerted a whole lot of energy over these years claiming that you actually support the Second Amendment and the second. There's a situation where the Second Amendment actually comes into play. You abandon all your principles because none of these people believe anything. They are vessels for whatever Donald Trump wants to put through to them. They don't stand for anything. They are shells of human beings. It's disgraceful.

[Brett Jordy]

That's why I don't even call them humans. That's why I refer to them as creatures. It's because what they are, they're soulless creatures who are just parroting Trump regime talking points. When, look, the Renee Goode situation, the Renee Goode murder, the murder of Preddy, those are on video clear as day, Right? Especially in the case of Preddy. When you play that video, there's. He's not holding the gun. He wasn't bringing the gun there to shoot up law enforcement, as Kristi Noem likes to suggest now, and defame Preddy in his death. It's unbelievable what they do to these people when they're gone, how they lie on them, how they defame them, how they treat them. It's so utterly disgusting and just un American. It's un American. And so when you see Besson up there and you see gnome talking, I just look at that. I'm like, you actually hate this country. You hate this country. You love the position of power that you're in. I don't know, you're. Maybe you're monetizing off of in some way, shape or form. Probably are, but. But you actually don't like this country. You could wrap yourself in the American flag all you want and say the Pledge of Allegiance, do whatever, but when you can't look at that video and objectively say, that was murder and execution, what we just witnessed, then I can't have a conversation with you.

[Ben Terrace]

I mean, look, Trump's post right after was to ratchet things up. And now, in typical Trump fashion, he's like, wait a minute, the country hates me for this. Maybe I should just say, well, I got a call from Governor Walz, and Governor Walz now called me and we had a very respectful phone conversation together. And I just told him we're just trying to go after the bad guys. So maybe if you just help me go after the bad guys, we, we can, we, we can figure this out together. And then after that, he has Caroline Levitt do a press conference, though, as chief propagandist, where she then goes and says the most hateful things after he posts that. And this is all part of the same trend and pattern that Donald Trump does with everything. You know, he threatens to invade Greenland, there's backlash, people stand up against him and there's, I did a deal. Oh, we're good now. Everything is, everything's fine. This is what I wanted from the outset. And every aspect of this is utterly pathetic. I mean, this is what Trump said right after the murder of Pretty. He posts within, like minutes. This is the gunman's gun loaded with two additional full magazines and ready to go. What is that all about? Where are the local police? Why weren't they allowed to protect ICE officers? Then he goes on and he attacks Governor Walls and Mayor Frey. He goes on to say the mayor and governor are inciting insurrection with their pompous, dangerous and arrogant rhetoric, accuses them of being an insurrection. That's his post right after the murder. And then you had Kristi Noem, she was asked after the murder. So, you know, did pretty brandish a gun. Watch what her response was when she was asked, play this clip.

[Host/Advertiser]

Thank you so much for doing this and would welcome also any guidance from Chief Scott. Did the 37 year old who had a license to carry, did he brandish a gun? And at what point did law enforcement retrieve the gun and also the magazines from him? Can you offer clarity on this?

[Kristi Noem]

Individual showed up to impede a law enforcement operation and assaulted our officers. They responded according to their training and took action to defend the officer's life and those of the public around him. And I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons and are using them to assault law enforcement officers.

[Ben Terrace]

Do we have the old clip of Kristi Noem from By the way, I could show you hundreds of clips like this of her, but I'll just show the one at the 2023 NRA speech where she accused former President Biden of engaging in tyranny with the Second Amendment because Biden was proposing common sense gun controls as it relates to semiautomatic weapons near schools after actual massacres, after school shootings. This is what her statement to the NRA was after a school shooting. Let's play this.

[Kristi Noem]

And a White House that is so hell bent on grabbing power in control of your life. They will do anything and stop at absolutely nothing to take it away. They will even take away your last tool of defense. The second Amendment is about deterrence. It's about ensuring the government respects the rights and the liberty of citizens. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state. The right of a people to to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

[Ben Terrace]

She quotes the second Amendment round of applause when it's actually addressed through how it's supposed to be utilized by Alex Pretty they don't care. And the point is they don't care about anything. They really don't. Jordi, you say creatures whatever you want to say. These people don't care about anything other than propping up their own Kim Jong Un. These are incompetent people who couldn't make it other than by propping up someone who will hoist a right wing oligarchy to suck up the wealth of this nation, to butcher this nation, to turn this nation into a dystopian hellscape where the worst of the worst thrive and people who just want to live their lives struggle to survive. That's what this is about. About. I want to take our first quick break of the show. When we come back, we have a lot to discuss. That New York Magazine blockbuster report on Donald Trump's deteriorating health and some of the most bizarre descriptions of human behavior I've ever heard. Like in any setting. Talk about that. Talk about the continued cover up of the Epstein files. We're never going to forget about that. Trump's attack on Canada and more. Or take our first quick break. A reminder, click join right now if you can and gift memberships to others. Midas Touch Network is continuing to expand. We've got a reporter in Nuke in Greenland right now. We've got reporters on the ground through our partnership with Status Coup in Minneapolis. We've got a D.C. bureau that's holding politicians accountable. You know there was 100% attendance of Democrats this past week, which is unheard of because they know our cameras are there. And Democrats who voted to fund ICE have been apologizing for it because they were asked simple questions. It wasn't trick questions. Do you support funding ICE or do you not support funding? Just asking the questions. And our reporters are there asking the questions that you want answered and that's thanks to our expansion that you've made possible. So click join Right now, become a member and subscribe to our substack as [e-mail] now let's take our first quick break. We'll be right back.

[Brett Jordy]

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[Brett Jordy]

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[Co-host/Commentator]

I think it's. No, I don't see anything. I think you're just losing your mind.

[Brett Jordy]

Okay, now I see it.

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[Brett Jordy]

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[Ben Terrace]

Let's talk about what's happening on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives. Maga Mike Johnson, Republican speaker of the House order the House into yet another recess. Vacation time, more vacation, right? The same way they seem like they don't, they don't work anymore under MAGA Mike. The same way there was recess for all of those. It's like lunch, like recess everybody. No more working while they get like the gold plan health care while ripping away health care from Americans and not extending the Affordable Care act and just destroying Americans lives. But they went on recess when they were covering up the Epstein files and they're still covering up the Epstein files. But over the summer, right. They didn't work for like what, two months or something like that. They just decided not to show up basically. And he did the same thing again. So the MAGA Republicans, with the assistance of Senate seven Democrats who we've called out, they push through a $1.2 trillion overall. It's called the Minibus, a big appropriations plan that has defense spending and FEMA money and then they sneak spending for additional spending for ICE and Border patrol. And what they try to do with the minibus is kind of be like well we all need disaster relief because there's going to be snowstorms. So if you don't want to fund ICE and border Patrol, we're going to call you out because then that means you're not going to fund FEMA during the winter storm and then we're going to use that against you. So, so they tried to tie these things together in order to pressure people to vote to give more money for state sponsored terrorism by saying well if you don't support the state sponsored terrorism then I guess we're not gonna be able to fund emergency relief for the storms. That's how screwed up I guess we're not gonna fund the troops and our troops are gonna go starving. So you gotta fund the ICE and Border Patrol. No, do not fund ICE and Border Patrol. As Brett said at the beginning, it needs to be defunded, abolished and frequently prosecuted is what needs to be happening. We can talk about funding, funding terrorists. What are we talking about here? So the House pushed forward that then that that moves to the Senate.

[Brett Jordy]

Right.

[Ben Terrace]

Remember how a bill becomes a law? So now it's in the Senate and if the Senate makes any alterations to the House appropriations bill, it has to go back to the House. But the problem is MAGA Mike is on vacation and he sent the House home. So they can't make any adjustments if the Senate excises or removes the ICE and Border Patrol portion from the minibus as it's called. The appropriations package. Now, the Democrats have put out a statement in the Senate and I hope they stick with this and they don't fold. But they've made it clear that there are certain non negotiables that they're saying they need to see happen in order for there to be any additional funding. And there needs to be accountability from Kristi Noem and Vivino. Troops need to get out of Minnesota. There needs to be an independent investigation and the state officials have to come back in. And no more funding for ICE and Border Patrol. Right now, given everything, it shouldn't have taken this to get there, but here we are. So now you have statements like this from Susan Collins. She's concerned, everybody. She's concerned, y'. All. So Republican Susan Collins says the following. Collins says a shutdown would be harmful, unnecessary and disastrous. Collins says she shares the concern about Alex Preddy's killing over the weekend. But she notes that the DHS funding bill also includes money for fema, tsa, et cetera. Yeah, we know that's part of the extortion racket here. By combining these things and making them a package deal. No, what you should do is just. It's very easy. Remove the portion that includes funding for ICE and Border Patrol. Right. All you have to do. I'll make it very easy. Brett Jordan, Midas Mighty. Here's how you would do it. You put a line through it, okay. And you say, nope, we're not doing that. Then it goes to the House. But wait a minute. The House isn't there. But if they were working and we wanted to keep the government open, they would show up. Although MAGA Mike doesn't want to. MAGA Mike would do his job. He would pass the identical language and then the government would be funded like this is not. Don't let corporate news and others try to overcomplicate this situation. MAGA Mike sent the House into recess to contrive a controversy while he's gone radio silent about the murder of Pretty. That's what happened. And now the Senate Republicans want to try to call the Democrats bluff that you're going to screw over our troops if you don't fund terrorism with ICE and Border Patrol. Gestapo. No, just Democrats. Stand on principles, stand on values. Say no. That's what happening, though, in the House and the Senate. So I wanted to break it down in a way that you understand the extortion racket that these MAGAs are pulling. And even when the media acts like this is a complicated thing, it isn't. You strike one line from what the House did or a few lines that deal with ICE and Border Patrol. Then the House votes on it, they pass it, and the government's funded, with no additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol. So, anyway, I wanted to mention that at the outset. Brett Jordy, what'd you think about that article from New York Magazine here? They followed the Wall Street Journal's tactic here, where they give a headline that Donald Trump will like, but then in the reporting itself, it's scathing. So they call it the Superhuman President. Right. They're probably fishing for Donald Trump to repost it. The Superhuman President. Right. Donald Trump will be like, I mean.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Just look at, just look at the photo they used, you know, quite intentional. They used an incredibly unflattering photo of Trump struggling to walk up the steps. I think the irony is there for anyone to, you know, to see it. But no, this was an interesting look into the mind, I would say, of Donald Trump and this writer here, his name is Ben Terrace. Ben Terrace. So he wrote this piece and he spoke with Trump and he spoke with some of Trump's doctors. And it was just some of the most deranged, you know, stuff you've, you've ever seen. But certain things, I think when Donald Trump says things out loud, especially unprompted, I think the alarm bell should go off in your head and you should be like, that's interesting. That's interesting. And one thing is something that we've been reporting here incessantly on the Midas Touch podcast on the Midas Touch network. And if you've been following this reporting, Ben has been doing deep dives into Donald Trump's family history and has been speaking about the way in which Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and how Donald Trump himself seems to be going down a very similar trajectory. And Donald Trump started speaking about this himself during this interview is the one of the things that came out in this interview. And so I'll read this piece quickly and then I'll toss it back to the guys. But here, here's an example from this piece right here. This is what Donald Trump said to this writer, Ben Terrace. My father had one problem, Trump said. He started getting. What do they call it? He pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him. Alzheimer's. Levitt said, like an Alzheimer's thing? Trump said, well, I don't have it now. I know. I just going to say it's probably not a great sign and doesn't speak to Your mental faculties, when you can't remember the name of the diagnosis that you yourself are being accused of having and that your father had, when it has to do with memory loss and, you know, mental decline, cognitive decline and all the like. But that was really just the beginning, you know, of the story as well. But I found that line in particular, guys, you know, very, very revealing. And especially the way that Trump kind of volunteered, you know, felt the need to say that himself to this person who is prying about his health.

[Brett Jordy]

Yeah, he. If we wrote that here, like, if we wrote that into a Ben video, you guys would think we made it up or you'd be a little bit too on the nose. Midas touch. A little bit too on the nose. Oh, my God. He pointed to his head. He forgot the word. Caroline Levitt has to interject, say Alzheimer's. And he just. It's beyond me. It is beyond me that more people aren't speaking up about Donald Trump's mental fitness.

[Ben Terrace]

Well, let's talk about how this piece opens by Ben Terrace. This is how he describes it. I don't wanna give you my characterization. Let me just read it. This is from Ben Terrace about showing up at the Oval Office to ask Donald Trump questions about his health. When I arrived at the Oval Office in December to talk to Donald Trump about his, the President was standing next to a couple of men clutching pieces of paper labeled talking points. These are two doctors, Trump told me before I could ask a question. And by the way, I don't know them. They're not my best friends. They're respected doctors that practice out of Walter Reed, and they happen to be taking care of me for anything. But I don't need any taking care of because I'm in perfect health. I do purposefully every year or less a physical because I think the American people should know that the President is healthy. So you don't get a guy like the last two. One who was the worst thing that ever happened to older people, because I know people in their 90s that are 100%. Gary Player is 90 years old. He shot 70 with me the other day. Trump gestured at everyone present me, the doctors and press secretary, Caroline Levitt, to follow him into the room. Let's sit for a couple of minutes, he said. I hate to waste a lot of time on this, but if you're going to write a bad story about my health, I'm going to sue the ass off of New York magazine. There will be a time when you can write that story, maybe in two years, three years, Five years. Five years. No one is going to care, I guess. Go ahead and sit down then. Donald Trump showed his hand that was discolored and said and bruised. This is only from shaking hands, he said, rubbing his left thumb over the back of his right hand, a claim he would repeat to other journalists. Trump turned to the doctors, Captain Sean Barbarella, his lead physician, and Colonel James Jones, a physician's assistant with a PhD in health science. Can you just verify that? He said. Absolutely, said Barbabella, a short man with close cropped hair and a nervous smile. I've seen the president shaking hands for over an hour. Trump held up his non shaking hand. Look, this one's perfect, he said. People say what beautiful skin you have. What beautiful skin you have. The White House said that the bruise that appeared on his left hand in Davos was caused by him hitting it against a table corner. Trump also blamed women's fingernails and rings for the cuts on his right hand, including one particularly nasty slice that came from a botched high five with Attorney General Pam Bondi. Levitt then turns to Jones and said, yes I did. He said Jones had in Fact worked from 2009 to 2018 as a senior medical leader in the White House. At the end of his presidency, Barack Obama, a fitness fanatic rumored to allow himself precisely seven almonds a night, was 55 years old. Who is healthier, Obama or President Trump? I asked. This is the reporter asking Trump's physician. Trump stared across the desk, making eye contact with Jones. Jones didn't hesitate. President Trump, he said. Trump nodded. There was no sign of a smile, as if there could not have been any other answer to that question. Also, we learned from this piece that Marco Rubio said he covers his head with a blanket it when taking naps on Air Force One so Trump won't think his Secretary of State is weak for needing sleep on overseas flights. I mean, this is some of the most deranged, deranged stuff imaginable right here, folks. And to me it raises many more questions. And you know, this is someone who wakes up in the morning and posts things like this. If Governor Carney thinks he's going to make Canada a drop off port for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their business, social fabric and general way of life. If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the usa. Thank you for your Attention to this matter. DJT and Brett, I don't know. I know we have the side by side there. Do we have the video portion of that where this is what he said the week before he posted this when he was out two weeks before when he was asked about Carney making the deal with Xi Jinping that then Trump in this deranged state said he's now doing 100% tariffs on Canada. This is after he threatened countries with 30% tariffs if they didn't allow him to invade Greenland. And then he made up a fake deal with Greenland and Denmark that he claimed would give him spots of sovereignty within Greenland that Greenland and Denmark never agreed to coming out of Davos, where he confused Greenland with Iceland. But here's what Trump said two weeks ago about the Canada deal with China. Let's play this clip.

[Brett Jordy]

How do you see the deals? Canada and China have just signed trade.

[Guest/Participant]

Deals between the two partners?

[Co-host/Commentator]

Well, it's okay. That's what he should be doing. It's a good thing for him to sign a.

[Ben Terrace]

If you can get a deal with.

[Co-host/Commentator]

China, you should do.

[Ben Terrace]

If you should get a deal with China, you should do it. And then so then Carney is asked, well, what do you make of Trump saying 100% tariffs on Canada now as Canada opened up its legislative session? And just watch Carney, who's a competent, smart, shrewd leader, who's basically the leader of the free world right now, like the right person for this moment, very high popularity in Canada and he shuts down Trump's tariff threats in one sentence. Watch this.

[Host/Advertiser]

Are you responding to Trump's threats of 100% terrorists?

[Guest/Participant]

Well, the first thing is that Canada respects our engagements, our commitments. We have commitments under Kuzma that not to pursue free trade agreements with non market economies without prior notification. We have no intention of doing that with China or any other non market economy. What we've done with China is to rectify some issues that developed in the last couple of years. In many respects, we're going to use the expression back to the future with respect to EVs with respect to agriculture, with respect to fish products and food, other food products, but with additional protections. So for example, back in 2023, we didn't have a cap on the number of EU. We didn't have a requirement for a large proportion of those EVs to be affordable, highly affordable EVs for Canadians. So it's entirely consistent with Kuzma with our obligations, which we very much respect under Kuzma. And we'll continue to work that right.

[Ben Terrace]

And by the way, Trump had already said he wants to rip apart Kuzma and doesn't care about it. That's the Canada, U.S. mexico Agreement, also known as the USMCA, depending on United States, Mexico, Canada agreement, depending on the country's framing of it. But Trump already said he doesn't. He doesn't. Why would I care about Kuzma or usmca? And so what Prime Minister Carney's saying, what Europe's saying, what other countries are saying is your words are meaningless now, Donald. Do it. Do it. We've forged alliances, right? Whether it's transatlantic alliances with Canada and Europe or trans Pacific alliances with Canada, China and other Asian nations, whether it's Europe forging alliances in South America and elsewhere, the rest of the world has made their chess moves while Donald Trump is out there playing checkers in the Oval Office saying, what's this on my head, Alzheimer? What is it? What is it called? I mean, what is happening here? We have a lot to discuss. We're going to take our last quick break of the show. Lots of big moves are happening right now as the pressure mounts on the Trump regime. Greg Bevino is out. Bavino's getting demoted. We'll talk about what's happening with Bavino, talk about the continuing cover up of the Epstein files. And you know, Trump is a creature, to use your term, Jordi, of habit, you know, of demented habit. So in his mind, the walls are closing in. So what does he do? Bill Barr worked for me with the Mueller report. Let me bring back, let me bring back Bill Barr. So he's got Bill Barr now writing op EDS for him in the Wall Street Journal saying, I think Pam Bondi is doing a great job with the Epstein files. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, you may think you're subscribed to our YouTube channel. Double check, make sure you're subscribed, but also maybe join, become a member and help grow the Midas Touch network and you can gift members for other gift memberships for other people right now. And also make sure you're subscribed on aud and YouTube. So if you watch this on YouTube, search Midas Touch podcast on the audio platform where you listen to podcasts and hit subscribe there. It helps us in the audio algorithms as well. And we just launched on the Midas Touch Network the Aaron Parnas audio podcast, which was climbing the charts and which was one of the most downloaded and listened to political podcasts. So you've got the Midas Touch podcast there and we just launched the Aaron Parnas in addition to all of the other great podcasts we have.

[Co-host/Commentator]

That's called the Parnas Perspective for all those who want to go check it out on all the various podcast apps. Go check it out. Rated five stars and Aaron's really good at, you know, these quick news hits, injecting you with exactly the information that you need to hear. It's a really, it's a really good show. Aaron is such a great reporter and just does a really good job, you know, with his sourcing and getting all of his stories and getting some really great scoops.

[Ben Terrace]

Last break of the show. We'll be right back.

[Brett Jordy]

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[Ben Terrace]

Pass it over to Brett for a second. I got a knock on the door. Brett, can you take it over for a second?

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah, absolutely. So first I want to show everybody right now some of these comparisons because what some folks have realized online and seeing the messaging that's been put forth by Greg Bevino, the border patrol commander at large, and we have some news to announce in that regard. You know, in any second I'll get to it. But I just want to show you the way that this Trump regime handles their communications and their information and how they align their messaging and how it's intentional in the ways that they smear and defame victims. This isn't just an individual acting rogue. This is what they do. This is intentional. And so let me show you this video right now. I'm going to show you and for the audio listeners, so you know what I'm playing you, you're going to See Greg Bevino, the Border Patrol commander at large. Well, at least was. And like I said, we'll get to that in just a moment. And Christine Ohm, the dhs, the Homeland Security Secretary, their reaction to Alex Preddy and the comments that they made after his murder. And watch how they line up word for word. Check this out.

[Kristi Noem]

An individual approached U.S. border Patrol office with a 9 millimeter semi automatic hand automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But he was pronounced dead at the scene.

[Kristi Noem]

The suspect also had two magazines. He also had no id. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived individual to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to keep it just.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Absolutely appalling when you watch that and see how in sync they are and how this is all intentional. Their goal was to smear the victim. And this is what they do every single time. And one of the things I've been saying is we're so lucky there are cameras present at these events. And that's why Alex Preddy was there with his phone filming. And that's why I think one of the most patriotic things that people are doing right now are recording this gestapo that's out there doing these actions. Because without the video evidence, you are just relying on this regime narrative. And we know they lie about everything. I just want you to think about a few days ago, one of the things that we covered, one of the discoveries that we made here at the Midas Touch Network that made massive news that the Department of Homeland Security and Donald Trump in the White House released an AI altered image of a woman that they arrested at a church in Minneapolis. They altered the image and presented it as if it were real to the public. They're willing to do all of this stuff. They're quite literally willing to lie about everything. And I'm also not going to pretend like this started with Donald Trump. Although this is probably the most in your face example of all of this. I think we could look out there and talk to any black American out there who has had experience with police. They've experienced this. It's deeply ingrained. It's deeply known that individuals, police officers, law enforcement, in this case this ICE Gestapo, will use any excuse, will smear you with any lie, make up anything about you, in order to put you in jail, in order to kill you. This is their M.O. that's why these agencies, their biggest fear is being identified. Their biggest fear is being shown exactly what they are doing and getting exposed for their actions. That's why they are forcefully fighting back, in this case, murdering an individual for recording them. That's why they're wearing these masks. That's what's behind the whole thing, because that's their biggest kryptonite, you know, so to speak. And so I think so many Americans have known this now for a long time, but now we're seeing this at the highest levels of our government with this ICE Gestapo, this Border Patrol.

[Ben Terrace]

Look at the statement put out before by the German Foreign Ministry. The German Foreign Ministry is now warning travelers to the United States to be vigilant and exercise increased caution because of violent confrontations with federal agents in Minneapolis and other US Cities. This is an updated travel advisory, putting people on alert. Be very careful. The damage that's being done to America internationally right now, generationally, both in terms of the state sponsored terrorism and violence taking place in our country, our attacks on NATO, our attacks on allies or former allies, it is creating generational problems. And as I mentioned earlier, I had the opportunity to interview Professor Justin Wolfers, economist over at University of Michigan. And he and I were discussing. It's not just measuring the impact of what Trump's doing on our economy this quarter or next quarter. It's focusing on the long term damage to America's reputation and how America as a wealthy country, as a country that was the envy of the world economically, now shrinks and shrivels away as other countries assert themselves, as the BRICS block grows, as these other alliances, Canada and China, transatlantic and Trans Pacific relationships, relationships grow. Let's take a look at what Professor Wolfers had to say. Let's play it.

[Professor Justin Wolfers]

But let me go one step deeper, Ben, I want to challenge you and literally everyone in the media to think a little harder about what economic things we should be looking at. Here's what I mean. Don't think about next quarter, don't think about next year, and even look through a recession. Ask the much deeper question, what are the foundations of prosperity? Economic prosperity, shared prosperity, equitable growth. Look across countries and ask yourself, why is the United States rich and the country of my birth, Papua New guinea, poor? And we have economists who ask this question and they load all sorts of numbers into their computers and they run very complicated analyses or they do studies or case studies and historical analyses. And the answer turns out to be what we call institutions, the rules of the game, the rules of economic and political life. The fact that we respect the rule of law, that we have contestable elections, that we have contracts, that we respect. That the government plays a limited and predictable role in economic life. And on and on the list goes. And the thing is, those are the things the President is undermining. He's attempting to take away the independence of the Federal Reserve. He's tried to undermine how much federal economic statistics reflect reality. He's tried to overturn an election. He's snatching people up off the streets. He is calling CEOs and telling them what to do. This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime. It's the least conservative government of my lifetime. When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you're not the ones who should be thinking about ripping down your existing institutions. It's those who are somewhat behind. But that's what the President's doing. That's not going to show up in next quarter's gdp. What that's going to show up as is in a decade's time. There'll be some companies that were never founded. There were some entrepreneurs who couldn't afford to go to business school. There were immigrants with great ideas who ended up staying in their home countries instead. And so whatever the next Generation's Google or OpenAI is, it may not end up being invented or it may not happen on our soil. And we will never see that absence. But our kids will feel it. Our kids will feel it in a set of lost opportunities. There'll be businesses they never started. There'll be job opportunities. There'll be new technologies. There'll be ways of creating a greener, safer, more prosperous future that simply aren't possible. But we're not going to see it straight away. And that, I think, is our current media is not well set up to talk about those issues because there's no number comes out. There's no news cycle. There's no Wall Street Journal headline. But it turns out economic research tells us that's the stuff that matters.

[Ben Terrace]

Powerful stuff right there. And we're going to bring on Professor Wolfers much more on the Midas Touch Network. I've been speaking to him over the weekend about how we integrate him more into the Midas. I know the Midas mighty love Professor Wolfers. I've always been an admirer of his. So as we expand our coverage, I want to be able to bring more economic data from the top economists in our country right now. I'll bring this up and then, Brett, you'll Bevino. But very quickly, you had Bill Barr, former Attorney General, pen this op ed in the Wall Street Journal. Why Pam Bondi didn't publish All Epstein files in 30 days. The answer is simple. It was not possible. Then he goes on to say House Democrats, added by a handful of misguided Republicans, forced the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency act in November. The statute directed Pam Bondi to release the files within 30 days. Then he goes on to say it was more than 5 million pages of material in linear feed. It's more than three times the height of the Washington Monument. So how could they possibly get this done? Well, let's be very clear. Pam Bondi claimed that she was going to turn these files over back in February. She had basically a full year to turn these over. That's the issue. It wasn't that they had 30 days. The 30 days was after they said they were going to turn it over and refuse to turn it over. They had a thousand lawyers working on this. A thousand, okay. When I was doing document productions like this, when I was a lawyer and I would have five associates with me, we would, it would take us about 60 days to go through three to five terabytes, which is more documents than this. We'd have it logged and sorted. So if you have a thousand lawyers who are just doing this and why is only 1% of the files been produced? Why aren't they loading these documents on a rolling basis and putting 50,000. 50,000, 50,000. Why aren't they doing that?

[Co-host/Commentator]

Right.

[Ben Terrace]

They're just, they did one dump of 12,000 documents. What now? Almost 40, 37 days ago, and now they're not going to turn over everything. The whole thing's a cover up. But it's just interesting to me that the Trump regime goes back to Bill Barr to go to the Wall Street Journal to pen that op ed, which is total bs. And I don't want to do an episode where we don't talk about the COVID up of the Epstein files. Brett, I've got to run because I'm at a location where I have to leave.

[Co-host/Commentator]

They're kicking you out of class.

[Ben Terrace]

But Brett, I'm going to turn it over to you to talk about the big news in Vivino Midas. Mighty. We love you and we're grateful for you.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Will do. Thanks. Thanks, Professor. We'll see you soon. Okay, so let's dive into this. But before I, before I dive into this, I also want to mention Bill Barr has been Donald Trump's hatchet man from the beginning. Right. And yes, while, you know, when he thought that Trump wouldn't be reelected and all that, you saw Bill Barr make statement statements against Donald Trump. That's true. Bill Barr was essential in covering up everything for Donald Trump during his first term. So it's no surprise to me that he is a guy who is rushing to the Wall Street Journal in order to launder this BS for Donald Trump. And it's also no surprise to me that it's about the Epstein files. You know, I don't know how many of you all know, but Bill Barr is actually deeply ingrained in the Epstein of it all. Bill Barr's father, Donald Barr, was headmaster of the Dalton School in New York, and he was literally the individual who hired Epstein as a teacher there in the 1970s. Weird coincidence. I. I certainly think so. I remember Epstein at this time didn't even have a college degree, but he was hired as a teacher at this prestigious Dalton School. I mean, that's. I'm just gonna say that's a little freaking weird. You know, my. My spidey said red flag. It's a good way to call. It's a bit of a red flag. Okay? My spidey senses are going on off as soon as I hear that. And then, of course, Bill Barr also oversaw the sex trafficking case of Epstein during the first term, and he was in charge when Epstein died under very suspicious circumstances in the federal prison system. It was overseen by Bill Barr at the time. And so I'm just saying there's a lot of smoke over there. And if you want to say where there's smoke, there's fire, I'll let you draw that conclusion. But I want to just note all of these facts. These are undisputed facts for people so that you can understand that. Bar, I think, also worked for one of these big law firms. I think it was Kirkland and Ellis, and I think they had represented Epstein in, like, in the past. I don't know if Bill Barr had any actual direct, you know, relationship with that or if it was just the firm at large. But it just shows you all the. All these connections there at play. So no surprise. Now let's get to the breaking news of the moment. And this has to do with Greg Bevino. Greg Bevino, the Border patrol commander at large. Irony at large. He's a very, very tiny man in morals and in stature, but here's Greg Betheno. For those watching, I'm showing a couple images of Greg Betheno, because this guy basically presents himself like a Nazi Gestapo figure. I mean, I'm just. I just have to say it straight, right? And when you look at these images of him, he's not even really trying to hide it. And I think all of you, you have probably seen these images I'm showing the folks right now who are watching. On the right, there's the image of him in this very unusual trench coat looking thing. And on the left, I'm showing him make a specific arm gesture that looks like a Nazi arm gesture. And when you watch that video too, that's what it looks like. And that's what he went down the streets of these cities. He's been dispatched to Minneapolis in order to cause terror there. And he has caused terror there. And so as we began this episode, we were speaking about the damage control that Trump is trying to do right now because not because it's the right thing to do, but because Donald Trump reportedly was watching television all weekend, as Donald Trump does, and he was seeing the ways that people were speaking about him and his regime's cold blooded murder of yet another innocent person. And he wasn't upset that his regime murdered an individual in cold blood, but he was pretty upset that the people on Fox News and all these other networks and stuff were saying some mean things about him about it and saying that it wasn't a good idea, that the administration looks terrible and that they need to do something about this. Donald Trump didn't like that. He didn't like being embarrassed on television. That's where this all stems from. So we are just learning right now. This is new reporting coming in from the Atlantic that Greg Bevino has been demoted. I'll read you this reporting here. It's from Nick Miroff. Myroff of the Atlantic says Greg Bevino gets demoted. The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats. And it says the following. And this is the big news. Gregory Bevino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol commander at large and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon. According to a DHS official and two people familiar to people with knowledge of the change, Bevino's sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering some of its most aggressive tactics, tactics after the killing Saturday of 37 year old Alex Preddy by Border Patrol agents under Pavino's command. And we've been hearing that there's, you know, through all this reporting lately that there's been a lot of tension at these agencies. You know, I think a lot of people also in the agencies are even disgusted by what happened. You know, I mean, it's just, it's Appalling. The whole thing is appalling, and it's inexcusable. But as our editor in chief Ron Philipkowski says, Ron basically says, you know, wake me up when they're not just, you know, moving, shifting seats around on the Titanic. Because that's what this feels like.

[Brett Jordy]

Exactly.

[Co-host/Commentator]

They want to act like there is accountability right now without there actually being accountability. But let me just read on the story just a little bit more because there's a little.

[Brett Jordy]

Another negative read on from there. I just want to add this. You know, it just shows you what a coward Trump continues to be in this whole situation. Firing Bevino. I think Trump would think, oh, he. He would then admit that he was wrong. Right. But this demotion to okay then, then Bevino's gonna quietly resign in this new. In the. In his old position that he used to have. There's no. There's no accountability. Ron put it perfectly in that statement. They were just shuffling seats around at this point.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah. And as Ron said also, he says Bevino is just the patsy, a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction, often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the White House, nothing will change, no matter how many Vivinos come and go. And within this. Very well said. And another nugget in the story says that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her close advisor Corey Lewandowski. I'm going to put advisor in big quotes there. For those who have know a little bit about their rumored relationship, I will say. But a lot of people think that Lewandowski is basically, you know, a big guy running a lot of this stuff for Kristi Noem. Also behind the scenes, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noeman or close advisor Corey Lewandowski, who are Bevino's biggest backers at dhs, are also at risk of losing their jobs. Two of the people told the Atlantic. So that's. We are where we are at right there. But once again, that's rearranging the chairs in the Titanic. It's not justice, it's not accountability. Stephen Miller is still in charge of everything. And Stephen Miller is one of the most horrific human beings on the planet, one of the most odious human beings who has ever existed. A truly evil person. And I try to give, you know, people the benefit of the doubt at all times, you know, especially if they have different views than me. But Stephen Miller is an evil, vile human piece of trash. I mean, he's just a piece of trash, this guy. So what we want is we want the identities of the officers out there who committed these heinous acts, who committed this murder over the weekend. We want their prosecutions, we want actual investigations into the conduct. And all of these fricking people need to go. All of them need to go, including Donald Trump. Of course all of these people need to go. They are all complicit in the murder of an American citizen. They're all complicit in murders of multiple American citizens. And people who are here legally for various reasons or undocumented people, whatever it is, don't just go around killing people. You're. You are not judge, jury and executioner. And how dare you for thinking that you could take that role. You know, I think it's interesting also, you know, we've, we monitor all sorts of things on the Internet, you know, with people, what people are saying, because that's oftentimes when they say things and reveal who they really are. I mean, we know who these people are, but they really say things. And if you monitor even like Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife's Twitter feed, it's some of the most odious stuff that, that you could ever find. And, and it just shows how much they truly hate the Constitution. Like she, she posted earlier today, there was an open AI executive that, you know, the company makes ChatGPT. They posted something just, they posted the amendments to the Constitution. You know, the First Amendment says this, the Second Amendment says that, the Third Amendment says this, the Fourth Amendment says that. That really offended Katie Miller. She was like, could you, but she literally. Could you believe what this guy just posted? Could you, could you fricking believe this? Like, why, why do you have a problem with the U.S. constitution? I think that's, I think that's very bizarre. One of these other AI founders, one of the co founders, Anthropic is the company, he said the following. My deep loyalty is to the principles of classical liberal democracy. And Katie Milleris goes, if this is what they say publicly, this is how their AI model is programmed, woke and deeply leftist ideology is what they want you to rely upon. Like, it's just a lot of this, just the fact that these people don't freaking understand anything. Or are they not understanding it on purpose? Because if you actually know what liberal democracy is, that's what we should all be striving for. I know that's what most of the Western world strives for. That's what the United States strives for. Does not mean Liberalism in the political sense does not mean leftism, does not mean what she's talking about. Classical liberalism is the political philosophy that emphasizes the rights of individuals, liberty, the right to life, liberty, speech, property. That's what classic liberalism is. So the fact that these people keep telling on themselves and revealing that they actually hate, as Jordy said, hate the American experiment, hate the United States Constitution, hate the actual values these countries stand for. And while they do it, they wrap themselves in the flag and put a cross around their neck. Disgraceful, disgraceful people. And if there's anybody out there defending the murder of Alex Preddy or the murder of any of these people, people, then don't talk to me ever again. Don't talk to me. Don't give me the bs. And that's also why I hate so much, so many of the. Not to go on a rant, why I hate so many of these debate shows and all of these kind of. Oh, well, don't you want to debate me, bro? Or no. Because these people aren't working from an honest place. You cannot look at that footage. You cannot evaluate the situation and come to any other. Any other conclusion other than what we witnessed was an execution by Trump's goons of an innocent man, of an American patriot, of somebody who actually went out there to help. So it's no wonder that in this midst of this chaos, of this destruction, this destruction of our country that we are seeing, so many people overseas say, we don't want anything to do with the United States of America anymore, right? And so we have the World Cup. The World cup is going to be split between the United States, Canada and Mexico. And a lot of countries now are like, why would we send our people to the United States of America?

[Brett Jordy]

Like, y' all see what's going on over there?

[Co-host/Commentator]

Like, it's cha. It's a war zone. It looks like a war zone. You have these psychopaths rounding people up, putting them in camps with no regard to any criminal history whatsoever. There was a legal reporter, Kyle Cheney for Politico, who did an incredible thread on Twitter where he went through so many of these cases of the people that they actually arrested in Minneapolis and Minnesota at large. And all of these cases, so many of them, no criminal backgrounds, just normal people who they whipped, who they whisked off the street. Some of them with asylum claims. Some of here, people who were just here legally. They were like citizens, green cards, whatever, took them off the streets, threw them in detention camps where they were basically tortured. These countries, you want to send your People here to play soccer, football, whatever you call it, wherever you live, is that what you really want? And so we're also seeing this latest comment right here that I just want to bring to you before we kind of wind things down. This is the former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, and he is calling on World cup fans to stay away from the United States. And I don't blame him. He said, quote, this is the exact quote. For the fans, there's only one piece of advice, stay away from the usa. I mean, I think that speaks volumes as to where we are at. When you look at the numbers of, you know, tourism in the United States, when you look at just the way people feel about the United States, sentiment towards the United States, Donald Trump said that we used to get laughed at and that we weren't respected and that now we're respected again. Quite the opposite. Quite the opposite. Donald Trump has brought shame to the United States of America, and he brings shame every day to the United States of America. And that's why we are ramping up our coverage all over the place. That's why right now we have Ken Harbaugh in Nuke Greenland. And I'm so excited for the footage that he's going to be. And by the way, go to our substack right [e-mail] Ken has written his first piece from on the ground in Greenland and he's reporting what's going on there. And he was telling me earlier, I was texting with him, he goes, these people do not like to Donald Trump.

[Brett Jordy]

Let me tell you, Ken's incredible, man. Ken goes to Ukraine, Ken goes to green. Ken is like the best of the best.

[Co-host/Commentator]

You know, one of the things I respect about various reporters and especially Ken is Ken is, you know, he's audacious and he sees danger and he sees a crisis. And he wants to go there because he wants to make sure that people see what's actually happening. While most people's gut, probably a good instinct is to get as far away as possible, Ken goes, I want to be right there. So in Ukraine, he goes there, he's on the front lines with the Ukrainian military as they're shooting down drones and he's helping them shoot down drones. And he's covering it all. And it's gotten some incredible footage. And by the way, we have a lot of footage from the front lines of Ukraine. We're working on a release for that. So stay tuned for more information there. But this footage is mind blowing. When I saw it, man, you know, if Ken showed me it in real time, I would have been like, dude, like, I'm not sure I would have allowed him to go on the trip. But, like, it's mind blowing. And now he's there in Greenland. He says that everybody hates Donald Trump. He has a incredible essay, his first essay that he released. And we're going to be working on something with Ken also called Midas Defense, to further expand the network. And Midas Defense is going to be. We're going to bring on the top experts, foreign policy experts, national security experts in the entire world, and they are going to be speaking to all of these issues on our substack and YouTube videos, on social media, all of it. We're just trying to assemble basically the super team of people who actually have knowledge. Because while there are so many networks right now, cbs, who are like, we don't need experts. We just want to know what average MAGA in the diner wants to hear about. And we're going to do that. No, I think we want to hear from the experts. Actually.

[Brett Jordy]

CBS's first order of business, business was downplaying experts. It's like maybe, yeah, for too long.

[Co-host/Commentator]

We'Ve relied on experts.

[Brett Jordy]

I do.

[Co-host/Commentator]

That's not people's issue with the news.

[Brett Jordy]

We talk about that, though, Brett. I don't know. We're wrapping up here. But like the MAGA regime talking point, just denouncing experts, people who are experts in the field, advocates going after the word advocate. It's. It's really, you know, it's beyond anything.

[Co-host/Commentator]

And it's all been. In order to set the stage for this moment. Moment, Right. It's been ordered to set the stage. They could kill somebody and somebody says that was wrong and here's why. And they go, I don't have to listen to you. I don't know. Or a measles outbreak is hitting the country as it is right now. And we're already on pace through this month Of January, over 416measles cases already throughout the country, which is on pace to blow away records of measles cases in decades and decades and decades and decades, all because of Donald Trump. And they go, well, we don't have to listen to the experts. We got rfk. What are you going to do about it? It. What are we doing here, people? What are we doing here? But stay strong. You know, I think shining a light on this stuff, you know, is it. There's a, like I said, it was a turning point moment this weekend. A turning point that doesn't happen on its own. It happens because of pressure, happens because of us documenting this. It happens because of people like you speaking out, you calling your representatives. The fact that we already saw some of these representatives who voted for this additional DHS fund to say I screwed up, it was a failure of mine and I want to make this up to my constituents because I failed. And I hear your voices. That's the power of this network. That's the power of. You want to also give a shout out again to Aaron Parnas with the Parnas Perspective podcast already crushing it. Already taking over the podcast charts by storm. You see here number four of all.

[Brett Jordy]

Apple charts right now. Parnas. Let's go, buddy.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Parnas, Perspective right now, head of Joe Rogan, head of a whole lot of shows. I mean, he's number four overall right now. Incredible, Incredible, Incredible, incredible. Let's keep that momentum going. Add that. Leave a five star review. Add the Midas Touch podcast. Leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify. Wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps more than, you know. Make sure to check us out on Substacks, Ken's latest post, and so much more. We're gonna have a lot of great guest pieces coming. I'm really excited. We're really just trying to continuously elevate the game and up the game as to what this is because we want to. We listen to your feedback and we try to implement that every, you know, every single day, a shout out to our D.C. bureau, our entire team of editors and producers, our editorial staff, status coup who's on the ground in Minneapolis recording every single day. Also, like Ken going to the front lines, going to the scenes and getting that footage that the Trump regime does not want you to see. So shout out to them and shout out to you. The Midas mighty for hanging in there. Even when times get tough, they rely on you to give up. And so the fact that you stay, that you persevere, that you remain in this fight, it does more than you could even know. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. It's been great hanging with the brothers. Been great hanging with Ben while he, until he got kicked out by squatting.

[Brett Jordy]

In a classroom, never met a room he didn't like getting kicked out of.

[Co-host/Commentator]

You know, I'll just say this before we sign up. There was a moment early in the Midas Touch podcast in early days where Ben literally was in a stairwell recording. That was our dedication to this project. And Ben got kicked out of a stairwell. And this reminded it was a throwback to Ben getting kicked out of. Do you remember Ben getting kicked out?

[Brett Jordy]

Yeah, but Ben got, like removed by security that episode. The only slight difference.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah, yeah. I see some people in the comments who remember you guys are OGs. Y' all are OGs if you remember that. All right. Well, thank you so much. I'm going to stop rambling. Sincerely. Thank you, thank you, thank you, everybody. Braving the cold, please stay warm. Jordy, take it away.

[Brett Jordy]

Shout out to the Midas mighty the.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Might as mighty Standing strong against the fascists we sing our song.

[Brett Jordy]

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