B (8:40)

Historic times, everybody. It's great to be here with you brothers. It's great to be here. Midas Mighty. I'm so excited to be able to do this live with everybody. I mean, what serendipity right now for us to be hitting the 6 million mark while we're scheduled to go live on this broadcast? I mean, someone's got to do the math for me. What are the odds of it lining up exactly, basically with the start of the show. But I want to thank everybody for joining us. Whether you're watching live and you're in it with us watching, watching the ticker go up, we have just about a 60 subscribers. Till we hit 6 million subscribers or whether you're rewatching this, I hope it's just as exciting as we reach this massive milestone. And this milestone is a big deal because it means that our message is getting out there. It means that you are spreading the word. And I think Even with the 6 million subscribers, one of the things that we've noticed with our channel is what we are punching above our weight class, meaning that There are many YouTube channels that have been here, kind of legacy YouTube channels, been here for years, been here for over a decade that might have 10 million, 20 million subscribers. But they're not getting the reach that we're getting. They're not getting the views that we're getting here. And so it shows you something. We also just passed 9 billion views here on the YouTube channel as well, which is a stat that I'm also incredibly proud of.

A (9:59)

Proud of.

B (10:00)

And of course, we got this big event tomorrow that we're going to speak of. But folks, we are now just about 10 away from 6 million subscribers. So I think we got. It's moving quick now, folks. I can three two, one. Six million subs, everybody. Congratulations, Midas Mighty. Congratulations to you. And this is why we wanted to go live earlier today. We. You notice we started a few minutes early because we wanted to make sure that we hit this milestone with you watching because you are the reason, obviously, for the success of this network. You are the reason that independent media continues to grow and continues to thrive. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jordy. Congrats, buddy. How's it going?

C (10:44)

What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty. Congrats to y'.

A (10:46)

All.

C (10:47)

Congrats to the Midas Mighty. I say this every time we hit another milestone here. This is truly an egoless movement, right? This isn't about Ben, Brett, or Jordy. Yes, we are the ones on the stream right now. But is this community. It is the Midas Mighty that is the cornerstone, that is the foundation, that is the very essence of this pro democracy movement. So congrats to you guys, man, because without y', all, this is not possible. And even beyond that, without y', all, you know, this megaphone here to get these pro democracy messages and causes and just continue to spread the truth with facts, data, and receipts. None of that. None of that is possible without you guys. So thank you guys so much for being in this fight with us every step of the way, every single day. Congrats to you guys. This is so amazing. And now we have a. We have a bigger megaphone now to spread the truth, to spread these pro democracy ideals. All thanks to y'. All. So thank you for being here today. I am so excited to get into today's show on a light. On a light note here. I guess I don't have to shave my head anymore. I know that was the big bet that if we didn't reach it within the 30 days, and we're about eight days before that. I will say this, though. I do have a bunch of grays coming in on the side. I think I was a little stressed out, to be honest. But here we are.

B (12:03)

Can I just say, Jordy, I was a little worried when you made that your goal, when you made that the thing, right? The stakes that if we didn't hit 6 million, that you would shave your head. And I was. I was worried about it because for me, as the older brother, that would almost encourage me to do the opposite, to start an unfollow campaign specifically to make you shave your head.

C (12:23)

But thankfully, you told me that behind the scene.

B (12:25)

Thankfully, our followers aren't as mean as I am.

C (12:27)

And thank you guys so much, man. This is. This means the world, Benji. Where do you start off, big bro?

A (12:35)

You know, when we build a platform like this, it's not just about the number, right? The number is meaningless. It's what you do with the number. Right at the. How do you amplify pro Democracy content? Who do you amplify? What do you discuss? How do you discuss it? Right? And it's also when you think about what we're doing tomorrow by being the main distributor of the biggest boycott of the State of the Union in history. This is historical in nature, right? We're sending a statement as well that you can't normalize fascism. That I understand that even when you disagree with another party in power or a president in power, tradition says you still show up to the State of the Union. But where someone violates all traditions, norms in the Constitution, like Donald Trump, by giving it that attention, in many ways, you become complicit in recognizing the destruction of these norms, the destruction of the Constitution. It's why I think the boycott is so important. Now, look, I understand, and I'm not going to fault individuals who show up as a sign of protest, but I will fault people who behave like it's a normal thing to be a part of that State of the Union. It is not like, I understand if a lawmaker wants to show up with an Epstein survivor to make that point. Right. And stare down Donald Trump with a survivor by their side. I understand that. Or a family member of someone who was killed in a concentration camp here in the United States, I. I get that. Or a whistleblower who was retaliated. Again, I understand that. But when I see corporate news and corporate news hosts attacking what we're doing for violating traditions and norms, I think that you are aiding and abetting fascism right there. Because nothing is normal about this. Having masked ICE agents and Border Patrol Gestapo roaming the streets in military gear, torturing, terrorizing, and killing people in this country, that's not normal. We've seen federal judges from all political parties, appointed by all different types of presidents, including Donald Trump, talk about how the DOJ has violated court order after court order, and yet Donald Trump persists in violations of these court orders. He rips to shreds the Constitution when the Supreme Court rules against his tariffs against the world. That should send a message.

B (15:36)

Stop it.

A (15:38)

Cut it out. What are you doing? You want to be king? What does Donald Trump do? I'm going to do bigger Tariffs. Actually, the words that Donald Trump used. I'm. This is a direct quote. I will impose more obnoxious tariffs. An exact quote from what he posted. More obnoxious tariffs. I will be even more obnoxious. Okay, we have the video of Cash Patel chugging beer while we have. While he and Donald Trump and this regime are covering up a child sex trafficking ring while there are still 50 terabytes missing in the Epstein files, while they are demeaning and degrading survivors, while they are pretending that they are vindicated when Trump's Name appears over 38,000 times in. In the redacted files, likely exist over a million times in the unredacted files. And you have Cash Patel. Do we have the video of Cash Patel in Milan? This is so utterly disgraceful. First I want to play Cash Patel there. Then I'm going to play a clip of Donald Trump calling Cash Patel and Cash Patel on the phone with Trump with the hockey players, and you'll hear Patel then go, I fucking got. I know. I hate cursing. I fucking unders. I fucking got you, boss. I fucking got you, boss. Like, he's like, you know, like the sidekick to Shredder in a freaking Ninja Turtles movie. And again, to see our hockey team behave like that after winning the gold and to be so cold and cruel to the women's hockey team and to laugh and demean them, that's not how adults and grown ups behave. So, no, I'm not going to act like this state of the union thing is normal. So going back to what I said, what do you do with that platform? And here at the Midas Touch Network, I hope we show you. This is what we do with our. We do. We do things with our platform. We observe and then we do and we lead. And I think that's so important. So here was Cash Patel. I know you've seen this clip. I'm just going to show a small portion of it. Let's play it. The hell is that? Now here's when Donald Trump calls Patel. Like Trump endorses all of this stuff. Like Trump's with all of this behavior, right? I mean, can't. This is what he's doing with our tax dollars, your hard earned tax dollars. While Trump's Epstein class friends are barely paying any taxes, probably paying no federal income tax. They're taking our taxes to support this crap. Or you can. Not to mention the fact they have ice basket and ice and border patrol Gestapo terrorizing people. Anyway, let me show you what Donald Trump did when he called Cash Patel, let's play.

D (18:36)

Would really be cool. And we'll do the White House the next day. We'll just have some fun. We have medals for you guys. And we have to. I must tell you, we're gonna have to bring the woman's team.

A (18:45)

You do know that.

D (18:51)

I do believe I probably would be impeached.

A (18:53)

Okay.

D (18:56)

But anyway, if you could work that out, I would be honored to have you.

A (19:00)

What's bringing Brett and Jordan? Look, that's not funny behavior. That's not grown up, adult behavior that you, as the President of the United States are going to do that demean the women's hockey team in that way, have the FBI director chugging beers. Like, just despicable stuff.

B (19:21)

It's really, really, really a disgrace for them to do just do this, politicize this, behave in this sort of way, the way they're behaving. And I'm just trying to picture, like, James Comey going to the Olympics and pounding beers with people while there are all this serious things happening while he's covering up these heinous, heinous, heinous crimes. Just the visuals are absolutely appalling. It's so utterly unprofessional. And the entire Trump regime, like the entire apparatus at the FBI, the comms team over there was so holier than thou throughout this entire weekend where they kept, like, yelling at the press for saying that Cash Patel was in Milan and that he was going to be attending these Olympic Games. And they'd be like, how dare you fake news. We're reporting that Cash Patel was hanging out with the Olympic team. Take it back, take it back. And they would send all of these messages, just whining like little babies. And then sure enough, the photos start coming out. And each photo, each video is worse than the next that we see and shows that that's exactly what Cash Patel is doing. But this is the behavior of the Epstein class, right? This is the same sort of behavior we see of Howard Lutnick when Lutnick says, I never went there. I never. Not me, I, I, he, that guy was disgusting. The second I saw him, I was like, I'm disgusted. I'm not going to speak to him. And then it's like, okay, well, we just found out that you went to the island, that Jeffrey Epstein was trying to hire your nanny even though he doesn't have kids. And, and that your nanny's resumes were being sent over to Jeffrey Epstein. That's kind of bizarre as more and more comes out every single day. We're Learning more and more about the business relationships you also had with Jeffrey Epstein that extended far beyond the point when he was originally found to have done a lot of the heinous acts that he has already done. And so you just look worse and worse when you deny, deny, den, deny. And then the truth comes out. And that's what we keep seeing. And just, like, if we just even look at the past, like, week of this incompetent, disgraceful administration. I think this photo here sums it up. I've labeled this on my computer cosplay montage. And this is a little. These are images of people in the Trump regime, and I think this really sums it up. And for our audio listeners, it's an image of Cash Patel chugging a beer in the locker room while he is. You know, he's got his fake. Well, it's not fake gold medal, but he's got the gold medal that the players put around his neck. I guess he could put that next to Donald Trump's FIFA Peace Prize or. Or the Nobel Prize that Machado gave him. Then you have Pete Hexseth lifting weights. This was like a big video that he put out. Look, I'm lifting weights. Look, watch me. Then you have the video of RFK Jr. And Kid Rock, and they're, like, naked in a sauna together. It was weird. Rfk, like, has his jeans on, and he's going in the hot tub and jeans or whatever it is. And then you have Kristi Noem and her various costumes and outfits and her cowboy hat and her Kevlar vest and all the various things. And this is a cosplay administration. This is an administration that is so focused on visuals and not focused on actually governing. And in a lot of respects, I think you realize a lot of these people, all they want is to be famous. And that, to me, is disturbing. That, to me, is not the reason why you are supposed to get into public service. It's called public service for a reason. You're not a celebrity. And so when you're going out there and you're just trying to get this attention nonstop by doing all these various stunts, while you're neglecting actual issues that affect the people, while you're neglecting these heinous crimes, while you're actually neglecting, or worse, encouraging Donald Trump to poison the American people's health and encouraging these actions that are allowing coal to get in the atmosphere and kill people or glyphosate to get in our food, and when you're just naked there with Kid Rock, and you're like, it's all good, everybody. I mean, you just show what your priorities are. And this regime has shown what their priorities are time and time again.

C (23:15)

The Trump regime, they're just all such total losers. Like, that's it. And then put it on a bumper sticker. They are losers. They're losers. And they have to manufacture these wins with photo ops or in cash. Patel's instance, he literally jumped into the winning team's locker room and started chugging beers and celebrating as if he was part of the team. Like, as if the dude was in the rotation on the third line that would go out there and do whatever. I mean, it's just. It's honestly just so, so pathetic the way these people just act and behave on a day to day basis. And it's just so MAGA too, right? It's just such MAGA ethos right there that they can't do anything for themselves that that benefits anyone or has any tangible accomplishments to speak of. So what do they do? They literally insert themselves in the winds. In Kash Patel's case, it is to me just the most ultimate pathetic footage that quite frankly, I've really seen in quite some time. I mean, put that one in the history books because that right there, it's beyond. It's beyond anything. But it just sums up Magus so well.

A (24:32)

Ben. Well, and it sums it up so well because their celebration as weird and odd, as offensive it was for Kash Patel to be chugging beers with them. They also had to demean the other also, right? Which is so perfectly maga, right. They had to use the opportunity as a way to attack the female team. Right. It wasn't enough just to celebrate the accomplishments of both American hockey teams winning gold, right? That should have been if you're the president and I can't wait to celebrate with you. And how about that incredible female hockey team also winning gold. I'm so proud of you both. And then the guy team goes, yeah, because we're rooting for both teams. That's the thing about leadership also, right? Because as a leader, you can also try to uplift people and set the tone. And that's what's expected of a leader. But what he did and what the team became complicit on and what Trump does to people in general is he brings them to his level, right? To his lack of character. And there are lots of people who are predisposed to it in general. There are lots of bad people like the RFK of the world and the Patels. Of the world and other others who are again, predisposed to it. And then he also brings people down, like in Congress or others who always claim to be like, no, I'm moderate and I'm this and I'm that. And then they become this way as well. And once you're there, it's hard to dig yourself out of that, right? So now when anytime people think about, okay, this Olympic team, are we going to remember the accomplishments of their great win or are we going to say, well, wasn't that the time where they attacked the women's team and Cash Patel was there with it? Right. And then it becomes about Donald and about Cash. And to me, that also Jordy sums up, you know, MAGA right there in a nutshell. So I think a good lesson though, heading into the State of the Union is Donald Trump has never been less popular, right? His poll numbers are absolutely crashing. And whether it's because of Donald Trump causing massive damage to our economy, the PCE inflation numbers from Friday show inflation is surging. The GDP numbers came in at like 1.4% quarter four after the Trump regime promised it would come in at 3 or 5% or even higher. You had those numbers coming in the COVID up of the Epstein files. Donald Trump saying that he's been vindicated for, you know, the fact that he's ripped away health care from people, that prices are going up, up, up, you know, you name it. People are not buying the propaganda anymore. And I also think the question is, is or. An important thing to recognize is, Again, with these 6 million subscribers, you know, with the growth of this network and the 9 billion views, I think we've also been pushing back against that propaganda every single day. It's why there are videos here, 90 minutes every day, substantive videos that go over facts and specifics. And it's not us ranting and raving about all these things. It's fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, receipt, receipt, receipt, evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence. And empowering people with the truth throughout the entire day. So let's just talk though briefly about Donald Trump alluding to his bad polls. This was from earlier this morning when Donald Trump was speaking at an event that was supposed to honor angel families at the White House, families that lost loved ones. What was Donald Trump doing and saying? He goes, it amazes me that there's not more support out there. Here, play this clip.

D (28:29)

It just amazes me that there's not more support out there. It's just we actually have a silent support. I think it's Silent. I think it's a. Well, that's how I won. I got probably 85 million votes. They say 78 million, 79 million. Take. They cheated in this election, too. It was just too big to rig. Too big to rig.

A (28:50)

Here's what Donald Trump says also about the polling and the. And the fact that he says all of the polls are fake. Here, play this clip.

D (28:59)

Polls are tough. You know, when you get a fake poll. I get them today. I saw one today that I'm at 40%. 40%. I'm not at 40%. I'm at much higher. I mean, I'd love to run against anybody. The real polls say you kill everybody. It wouldn't even be close. But you go through the fake polls, you go through the fake stories. And I said, you know, it was good because this is really a much more powerful term than I would have had if I had run. Because it was just one of those things. There would be nothing to compare it to.

A (29:32)

And then when you think about the deranged things that he's saying throughout this, he talks about Mamdani shoveling snow, and then he's having a conversation with women in the audience who has bad eyes. And he says he fixed her eyes. Well, here, play this clip.

D (29:46)

Why would we do this? And they walk in. Nobody even asked for, like, do you have an identification? Do you have an id? It's so crazy. You know, the mayor of New York, and he's a very nice person. I. I met him, but his ideology is not too good. But we're having a massive snowstorm right now. And I've heard that he's asked people to come out and help shovel the snow. Okay, so you get a shovel and you start shoveling. Right? What the hell? You're not going to help too much, but you can help and. Hello, darling. How are you? Noah, right behind you. Look, my friend, right. Are you okay? Yes, you. Are you okay? Are you okay? Good, good. Are your eyes okay? I gave her money to get her eyes fixed. A lot of money to get her eyes fixed. That doctor ripped me off, but that's okay. And when do you.

C (30:53)

It was postponed because they said,

D (30:58)

well, you get them done. It's a pretty. It's an operation, but it's a. It's. It's 100%, you know, it's great. Good. Are you going to have 2020 vision? You know, she's. She's almost blind. Cataracts. She's almost blind. And with one operation, that will take a very short period of time. Hope you have a good doctor. He's an expensive. He's an expensive. Top of the line, right?

B (31:23)

Riveting stuff.

C (31:24)

Riveting.

A (31:24)

Riveting stuff. Well, we just hit 6 million subscribers. Thanks to all of you. We're grateful for all of you for helping US hit 6 million.

B (31:36)

Ben, I gotta say, you know what we gotta do now? We gotta put the 6 million into action. And so I'm expecting all 6 million of you to show up tomorrow for the.

A (31:43)

Do you think we can get 6 million watching live?

D (31:46)

Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

A (31:48)

I.

B (31:48)

Listen, I just want everybody possible to show up for this thing and show your support for this people's State of the Union. Like Ben said earlier, it's a historic event. This has never happened before. There are dozens and dozens and dozens of lawmakers who are going to be not attending the State of the Union and they're going to be attending our event that we're putting on with Move On. And it's going to be at the national mall in D.C. and we're going to be streaming it live right here on this network, right here on this YouTube channel. And the link is up right now. If you wanted to go to it, it's on our YouTube channel, YouTube.com Midas Touch. You go there, you'll see the link to the stream for the People's State of the Union. You could set your reminders right now. Please tell a friend, share it with people. Let's really make a statement here, folks, because I think we have a real opportunity right now to show where the energy of this country actually is.

A (32:42)

All right, we will take our first quick break of the show. 16,000 subscribers here. Oh, by the way, while you're all here, check out store.midas touch.com. get that Midas Touch.

C (32:52)

Send all over the place. Brett, don't worry about it.

B (32:54)

I know 6 million subscribers, not 16,000 subscribers.

A (32:57)

Sorry, 16,000 subscribers here watching live. I see 16,000 people watching live is what I meant to say. And also go to store.midas touch. Check out the Midas Touch gear and also check out our substack as well. We'll be right back after our first quick break.

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B (37:07)

to get a little worried.

C (37:07)

I think the grays speak for themselves on the side of them. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. Man, this is. You guys are just, just the best. Thank you, Benji. Where to next, Big Brother?

A (37:18)

Look, as we were hitting 6 million subscribers today. And then also we're coordinating the People's State of the Union, which is the biggest boycott in the history of the United States for the State of the Union. We have so many senators and members of Congress who are attending. New senators and new members of Congress announced today that they'll be attending, like Congressmember Garcia and Senator Gallego and others announcing today. I also have my midterm this week that I give out to the law class that I teach. And so I'm also doing my midterm review today. And I'm holding office hours while all of these calls are going down. And so there was just so many things happening all at once. And so big shout out to all my students as well, at USC undergrad, at the law program, though, who are studying right now for those midterms. You're all going to do great. So I told them I would give them a shout out as well. All right, let's take a look at some of the polling numbers right now for Donald Trump. The worst in history. The worst in history. And the way Harry Entin delivers this right here. I mean, by the way, just look at the CNN poll. As you can see, Donald Trump's support with Independence plummeting. His support with independence right now is at 26%. And by the way, that's the same approval he has with Latino voters, with voters under the age of 40 and with most demographic groups is right at the 26% mark. Lots of people like, well, Donald Trump's bottom is like 36 or 35. No, no, no, no, no. This is heading into the 20s right now. And as Donald Trump now imposes this new tariff regime on the entire world, which caused the markets to tumble today, things are going to get worse for Donald Trump and unfortunately worse for the country. But I think people are seeing what's going on. By the way, go back and watch videos of Donald Trump and we showed some of these earlier in the day as well. In some of the videos I did before his casinos went bankrupt, he would say we've never been better. It's the same shtick. The casinos have never been healthier, they've never been greater. The biggest casinos that there are, we are in such a magnificent position. And then bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. This is what this guy does. It's why we focus on his background and his past, right? I mean he is a sexual predator, right? Here's someone who has been found civilly liable for sexual assault. He's someone who has bankrupted entity after entity after entity. And he's a fraud, he tricks people. He's a con man, he's a Ponzi schemer. This is what he's done his entire life. He's got a shtick. I don't know why it works. It doesn't make any sense to me why people buy it when he keeps on jordy, to your point, being a frickin loser and bankrupting everything, everything, everything over and over and over again. And defrauding people over and over and over again, by the way, to me, you know, people could go bankrupt. That doesn't make you. Whatever. But like when you defraud people and you're a con man and you repeat the shtick over and then you take from people over and over and over again, well then I don't know what attribute is kind of worse than that, than leeching off of people like that and stealing from people and then having these entities go bankrupt while you enrich yourself at the expense of people. And he's doing it now with the United States. I mean, look, this is a felon. Why is he doing this? Cuz he's a felon. That's why this, he should be in prison. If you look internationally, President Yoon of South Korea, their insurrection is former president in prison for the rest of their life. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil in prison for 27 years. That's where Trump should be. That's where he belongs. And that's why we're here. But people are seeing it now. Finally, let's take a look at what Harry Enton had to say on CNN about just how weak Donald Trump is. Let's play this clip.

B (41:24)

Numbers. But talk about what is driving this drop. For the, for the.

E (41:28)

What is driving this drop. I said record was the name of the game when it came to this segment.

C (41:34)

Right, Talk.

E (41:34)

Talking about the lowest Trump has ever been going into the State of the Union, the lowest that any president has been this century going into a State of the Union at this point in their presidency. It is also the weakest that Donald Trump has ever been with independence.

A (41:48)

Look at this drop.

E (41:49)

We've been talking about it the past few months. At this point, a year ago, Donald Trump was at -13 points. Look at this, -47 points among independents, the lowest, lowest Donald Trump has ever been in either of his two terms as president. With independence. That is driving these numbers. When you're 47 points underwater with independence, that's the name of the game. You can't be above water overall. And that is why Donald Trump is near record lows overall and the lowest he's ever been going into a State

A (42:18)

of the Union address. Quite a message on the eve of this big moment.

B (42:22)

Thank you, Harry.

D (42:22)

Thank you, John.

B (42:23)

Those numbers with independence just eye popping there.

C (42:27)

See, look, CNN gets a lot of it, but they got it so right with Mr. Harry Endon. That guy.

A (42:34)

Dude, A plus.

C (42:36)

Good. Great work, Harry. Per usual, my goat.

A (42:39)

So funny.

B (42:39)

How much you, how much you love the guy.

A (42:41)

I love the whole.

C (42:42)

It's a whole like present.

A (42:43)

You like this Dick, the routine.

C (42:45)

He's just, he's just unapologetically him.

B (42:48)

Just because we're all from New York and you appreciate the accent.

A (42:50)

Exactly. So look, after Donald Trump was handed that massive loss by the United States Supreme Court on Friday, a 6 to 3 decision striking down his tariffs against the world, he held that press conference. I'm not gonna show that many clips here because I'm sure you've seen them all. First off, that new lighting in the White House is also just awful. Like, they do everything awful. And I'm not gonna just like spend that much time talking about the lighting. But this looks like horrible. It just, I don't even know how to describe what this looks like. But anyway, so he then announces right after he gets that major L from the Supreme Court, that he's now gonna be enacting all these other tariffs that are gonna be bigger than the tariffs that were just struck down. So here he is when he says, effective immediately, all national security tariffs under section 232 and existing 301 remain in place. And now I'm ordering an additional 10% tariffs under section 122 here. Let's play this clip.

D (43:47)

Today, I will sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under section 122 over and above our normal tariffs already being charged. And we're also initiating several Section 301 and other investigations to protect our country from unfair trading practices of other countries and companies.

A (44:11)

And then less than 24 hours later, about 12 hours later, he then posts that he's now raising that number from 10% to 15%. And 15% is the cap under Section 122, the Trade act of 1974. But let's just pull up for a second. The Trade act of 1974, Section 122. As Peter Berezin explains, Section 122 of the 1974 Trade act, on which Trump is now basing these 15% tariffs, it just does not apply in the current macro environment. A balance of payment deficits is required. That's not the same as a trade deficit. You cannot have a balance of payments if you have a flexible exchange rate, as the US Currently does. Also, didn't Donald Trump say that he has brought in $17 trillion or $21 trillion? So if you've brought in $21 trillion, by the way, we know that's false, but that's what he's saying. How are you claiming that there is a balance of payments crisis if you're saying everybody's just giving you this money? Right? So Donald Trump's own statements rebut his invocation of Section 1 22. And Donald Trump's own DOJ lawyers argued in front of the Court of International Trade, the Circuit Court, and the Supreme Court when they were asked, why are you relying on IIPA? This emergency provision versus section 122, Trump's own lawyer said, doesn't apply. They said, we're trying to deal with emergencies relating to trade deficits. And section 122 deals with balance of payment deficits. So Trump's own lawyers said that they cannot invoke Section 122. And what does Donald Trump do? He invokes Section 122. Trump's lesson about the Supreme Court striking down the tariffs against the world is that it took them 14 months to do it. So all he has to do in his mind is let me find some hook that's unlawful. I'm going to do it, I'll get sued, then I'll appeal, I'll ask for stays, I'll lie to the courts about the reasons that I want these days. I'll say it's okay if ultimately we get ruled against by the Supreme Court, we'll do tariff refunds, which now they're saying they're not going to do. So they lied to all the courts by saying they want to stay cuz they said they would issue refunds if they lose. So you have nothing to worry about by issuing the stay. That was one of the big lies that they told him. And so Trump's views, okay, I'll just do it anyway. Then it'll go to the Supreme Court in 2027. I'll lose. But then I got it for another however long. Now, this specific Statute, also section 122, says that the tariffs can only remain in place for 150 days. But what's Trump going to do when 150 days are up, up? He's going to go, I invoke it again rather than go to Congress. So it doesn't apply. It's limited to 150 days. But Trump's very lesson from this is to double down on his crimes. And now he's stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from the American people and refuses to return it. But again, this is in keeping with Donald Trump's life. You've unlawfully taxed American companies which passed it on to consumers to the tune of $200 billion. You have return it, give us our money back. What are you doing? And now they're saying they're not going to do that. Do we have the clip, Brett, of Treasury Secretary Scott Besant when he was on CNN over the weekend and Dana Bash, to her credit, asked the question, look, the big question that Americans want to know now that you lost is will you be doing refunds? Will you be returning the money? Watch what Besson says.

B (48:10)

Let's play question Will you refund the

A (48:13)

roughly $134 billion in revenue taken by these emergency tariffs?

F (48:20)

Well, Dana, that's not the big question. Let's just level set here. What the Supreme Court did was a very narrow reading of the President's authority under the IA tariffs. We have other tariff authorities which have been functioning. Section 232 tariffs, section 301 tariffs. And, Dana, when you say it's the big question, that's bad framing, because the Supreme Court didn't even address that. The Supreme Court remanded it down to a lower court. And, you know, we will follow what they say, but that could be weeks or months when we hear them. So the Supreme Court did not address refunds.

D (48:58)

Sure.

B (48:58)

They didn't address refunds. That is clearly going to be up to.

A (49:02)

To you, which is.

F (49:03)

No, no, no, no. Dana. It is not up to me. It is up to you. It is not not up to the administration. It is up to the lower court. Let's just be clear on that.

A (49:11)

Let's bring in Brett and Jordi. It is up to them. And she asked a good question initially, but then she bought that framing.

C (49:18)

Okay.

A (49:18)

It's up to. No, no, no, no. It's up to you. If you're going to unlawfully withhold the refunds and then force the courts to order you. Anybody who read the opinion, it's very clear if the authority was unlawful in the first place, you owe the refunds the. To funds. You stole the money. It's like, if you're found guilty of stealing the money and you still have the money, do they really need to say, you need to give it back? Of course you need to give it back. You talking about Brett and Jordi?

B (49:49)

Yeah. This is why you don't impose illegal tariffs to begin with. This is why you shouldn't even go down this path. But, you know, I think what we're seeing is, in the words of Donald Trump, you don't have the cards. Donald, you don't have the cards. Scott Besson, you're losing all the cards. You tried this illegal maneuver because you are weak leaders, because you are bad at your jobs. If you're simply good at your job, the thing that you would do is you'd be like, you know, I could just do this the right way because I'm so influential and everybody listens to me. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna go to Congress, we're gonna codify these tariffs, and I will show all of them. They wanna try to stop me. Guess what? I'm going to get these passed through Congress. But Donald Trump is a paper tiger, and Donald Trump is a lot weaker than he's letting on. And I think one of the things that this situation has showed everybody is how weak Donald Trump truly is. And this is something that I've heard Gavin. Governor Gavin Newsom say quite a bit since the ruling that it has showed his weakness on a global scale. And it is so true right now, because now you have all these other countries out there that don't have trade agreements that have been ratified with the United States, but have been going back and forth with the US and now they kind of have no incentive at all to come to the table with Donald Trump, especially with the terms that Trump is demanding. Trump totally tried to, you know, Trump totally overplayed his hand, and now his bluff has backfired because he doesn't actually have the legal authority to do what he's been threatening to do with all of these countries. So if I were these countries, I'd just be like, okay, you want to do this stupid tariffs for 150 days. We're just going to chill back. Okay? We're just. We're just going to wait this thing out. And we know that this is all gonna blow away because you don't have the authority. You don't have the cards, Donald. Sorry. And it seems like Scott Besant, in this administration's posture right now is basically, we stole all of this money. And, yes, it's money from American businesses, even though they try to say it's from all these other countries. We stole all of this money, and we're not gonna give it back. But if you want it back, you're gonna have to sue us for it. And we're gonna drag out these lawsuits for years and years and years. Years. And we're going to make it as painful as possible for you to get your money back. And we're already starting to see these lawsuits. I think. I think Costco filed a lawsuit already. They already had a lawsuit going. We learned FedEx earlier, FedEx, fired, filed a lawsuit against the administration seeking a full refund of their tariffs after the Supreme Court ruling. And we're going to see a whole lot more of this. And this is going to be something that the Trump regime is going to have to deal with. This is going to. To be something that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who pretends this is not his responsibility at all, this is going to be something that's going to start occupying a whole lot of his time. And if the crazy thing is, to me, the Supreme Court did Donald Trump and all of these Republicans the biggest favor imaginable. If he were even a little bit smart, he would try to chalk it up as, like, I tried. I tried my best with the terrorists, but I guess they won't let me. So, no tariffs. Let the markets go up. Let everybody actually celebrate the Fact that there's free trade back here, but he can't control himself because he is a wrecking ball. He is a destructive force. And all he knows is how to destroy, not to build. And his goal is just to burn this country and the world down with him. And that's what we're seeing right now. We're seeing an unhinged maniac out there who just simply cannot control himself, who will always err on the side of wrecking everything that comes in his way. It's a complete and total disgrace. I could guarantee you, all these Republican senators and Congress people, I guarantee you they were celebrating the Supreme Court's decision. I bet they were so happy about it. And you could tell that they want nothing to do with this, because even just today, Speaker Mike Johnson was asked, you know, so why don't you guys put a bill on the. The floor? You know, put a bill on the floor, codify these tariffs. Speaker Johnson was like, yeah, you know, I don't think there's an appetite for. I don't think there's an appetite in the caucus right now. Well, why not? These are so popular. If you stand by them, then stand by them and put the bill on the floor. But the fact is they're weak. They know the American people don't like this. They know their approvals are crashing, and they just don't give a shit at this point. And shame on the Supreme Court, by the way, for giving Donald Trump this immunity in that prior ruling, which is kind of allowing Donald Trump to do whatever the hell he wants, even in the face of these rulings. It's a complete disgrace. But it's all showing right now how weak Trump is and how weak this entire party is.

A (54:14)

It's all.

B (54:14)

The House of Cards is collapsing right now before our eyes.

C (54:18)

They're just also dishonest, too. And they just lie with impunity. Like, they love.

B (54:22)

If.

C (54:23)

If their mouth is moving, they are lying. That's just ultimately what it comes down to. There's no subconscious substance behind anything that they say because ultimately, they don't work for the American people as they pretend to, right? They go out there, they wave their American flag. I love this country, man. It's all farce. They genuinely don't love the country. They don't. They care about one person who they refer to often as Daddy. It's weird. It's Donald Trump. I wish I was kidding. That's what these Republicans do. So they go out there, they lie, they do his bidding, and even when he makes mistakes that are costly to the American people. They try and spin it into a positive. They try and cover for the guy instead of trying to figure out what's best for the American person. For me, that's just inexcusable. And as we look back in five, 10 years and sort of have a postmortem on all of this, I hope we get to that point where we can honestly and pro democracy ideals and values truly win out. I think we'll look back and just be like, man, how cowardly was that whole entire party? Literally an entire party of cowards? It's absolutely pathetic. It truly is. And it blows my mind that we're here, honestly, as a country and there are still so many people within this country that support and kind of cheer these folks on. But that just goes to show you how strong the propaganda is out there. And so, you know, as we reflect back into this episode, I'm so happy that we reached this milestone of 6 million subscribers again to amplify our megaphone here, here to bring truth with facts, data, receipts and clips and show it to the masses and bring it to the world. When I say we, I'm not referring to me, Brett and Ben here. I'm saying we. This community of 6 million and growing rapidly, you guys have the ability to go and talk to your circles, your family, your co workers and whatnot and show them the facts, data and receipts. And so thank you guys for showing up again, man. I'm so stoked. Six million. Let's go, Ben. You know.

A (56:18)

Yeah, look, though the market was horrible today. Setting aside that the kind of systemic issues that was. I mean, the market today was what the Dow was down like 800 points. It's at 48,000. All of the various indices were indexes were doing really bad. But like, we're in a jobs recession right now. We're in a manufacturing recession right now. Inflation's rising again. The GDP number came in at like 1.4%. And if you look at it, the economy's just slowing down, down and what Trump's done to it. Remember when former President Biden left, it was called a Goldilocks economy. It was just right. It said it was the envy of the world. He spent a lot of time trying to deal with the damage caused by Trump won and all of the debt that Trump won left. And then finally it was at a place where it's like, okay, we're going to get out of this. If Trump did nothing at all, he could have taken credit for it. That's the Wild thing, he could have spiked the football, he could have played golf, and he could have acted like a genius if he literally just did nothing, like nothing at all, and just let Biden's economy roll. And then he could have said, look what I'm doing, everybody. I fixed it.

C (57:26)

I did everything.

A (57:26)

Like, he could have actually. But he took it and then he broke it. And now, like the Ponzi schemer that he is, when he held that press conference on Friday, he's now saying, well, look, the economy, you'll start seeing the results a year from now. Just. Just give me one more year and you'll see it. So it went from when he was running. I will make it better on day one. Then when day one happened, just give it a few fourth quarters our quarter, right? And, you know, otherwise it's Biden's fault, but if there's good results, it's mine. If it's a bad result, it's Biden, okay? And now what they're saying is, I need one more year. Here, here, play this clip.

D (58:07)

That's because of tariffs, and we're going to keep it going the same way. And you're going to start to see the results in a year from now when all those factories start that are under construction right now. You see all the construction numbers.

A (58:18)

Look, when I was a litigator, I faced off against some of the biggest Ponzi schemers out there. There was a case I worked on called the MedCap cases out here. Billion dollar Ponzi scheme, you know, out here, where I worked with the SEC as counsel for their receiver in a case called Tom Seaman versus MedCap or Sec versus MedCap. Let me just tell you, like, what Ponzi schemers say. Give me, give me. Just give me a little more time. I got this, I got this, I got this. While they rob Peter to pay Paul, like, just, I need a little more time. Just give me more time, give me more time.

D (58:53)

I got it, I got it, I

A (58:54)

got it, got it. And then they blame everybody. I need a little more time. I need a little more. It's the same stuff at a macro level. And also the rest of the world is seeing it. I mean, whether it's Canada, the European Union, you know, whether you go to Brazil, whether it's Australia, you know, uk, you name it. People, Asia, they're seeing what's going on. They're seeing how pathetic it is. And they've been forming trade alliances that cut the US out because Trump's psychotic, he's demented. They see it like we can't deal with it. We literally can't deal with that. That's. That, that is not normal. And by the way, that's why we can't normalize the state of the union. That's why we're doing the people's state of the. We can't normalize this behavior. We can't normalize someone who's covering up a pedo ring. Can't. Can't do it. Can't do it. We'll take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers.

B (59:52)

It's already starting, folks. It's already starting.

A (59:55)

7 million subscribers.

C (59:56)

Do we need a new end card? Does the end card say 6 million when we, when we run that one?

A (60:00)

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B (60:17)

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B (64:04)

Maybe we could bring it back. But that's why when we got the new designs, you got to swoop them up while you can, you know?

C (64:08)

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A (64:41)

Brett's the closest we've got.

C (64:42)

Brett's the closest thing we got to a math brother. Sorry. Anyway, 150 reviews away. Five star review. Leave a comment I was very good

B (64:51)

with math, for the record, until I decided that I didn't need math for my math credit.

C (64:57)

There you go. Yeah, we gave you math credit. 5 star review. Leave a comment Positive comment. Say hi. I love reading them. We're 150 away, so please do that. Benji. I think that made sense.

A (65:09)

Where to next with all of this chaos going on here in the United States? Also, Trump directs that chaos abroad. He's posting messages like this about Greenland yet again. He said, working with the fantastic governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry. We are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick and not being taken care of them there. It's on the way. President DJT to which the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, then responds, I want to thank all of the doctors, nurses and medical providers who have reached out, interested in donating medical services for this mission. Once we get everything in place, we would love to welcome all those interested in helping. That is what America first charity looks like. Thank you, Mr. President. So Landry is the governor of Louisiana, which ranks about the worst in just about every category on standard of living and education and mortality rate and health care and jobs and quality of life, you name it. Like Louisiana is the worst under. Under Landry, the Trump regime and Republicans have ripped away people's health care in the United States, and they've treated health care as though it's not a human right, which it should be a human right. Here in Greenland, they have universal health care. They don't want this. And in Greenland, they view these statements, I think rightfully so. As a kind of a Trojan horse, if you will, for an invasion of Greenland. This is the type of language that Putin uses about places that he invades, like Ukraine. Oh, we need to build hospitals there. This is a humanitarian mission. That's why we need to take over Donbass and Doness and all these areas, because we need to bring them health. It is the sicko mind of predators and authoritarians to say we're helping you. You're sick, you need help. Right. That's what Trump was saying about Minnesota. You need us. You're not safe. We're trying to help you people like get these mass ice and border patrol Gestapo out. No, no, no. We're trying to help you. We're trying to keep you safe. What are you talking about? We're trying to stop the pedos. We're trying to stop while they cover up the pedo sex trafficking. This is what these sickos, the Epstein class, does. And also it doesn't help or I think it shows their intentions that there was a nuclear submarine that had to surface over the past few days off the coast of Greenland because one of America's soldiers on the submarine almost died. And in Greenland, they had to save the life of this soldier in the submarine. So it turns out a American nuke submarine was right outside nuke in Greenland, their capital. Right as the king of Denmark was there visiting. So this was a revelation too. Wait a minute, you're talking about sending these ships and your nuclear submarine had to surface. We just saved the live. And now you're saying you want to send ships to help us? We don't need help. And the premier of Greenland, Johns, Frederick Nielsen, then posted the following on Facebook book. It will be a no thank you from here. Trump's idea of sending an American hospital ship to Greenland has been noted. However, we have public health care systems where treatment is free for citizens. This is a deliberate choice and a fundamental part of our society. This is not the case in the United States. We're seeing a doctor comes at a cost. We are always open to dialogue and cooperation, including with the United States. But please speak with us instead of making more or less random statements on social media. A thumbs up emoji. That's my favorite. Dialogue and cooperation require respect for the fact that decisions about our country are made here at home. And then there's a photo of John's Friedrich Nielsen, the premier of Greenland, along with the Minister of health, Brett and Jordan. Deranged. Deranged stuff right there.

B (69:12)

Deranged. Embarrassing, Dangerous. As you said, this is such a Putin esque tactic. And I just want to emphasize just again, just how provocative of a move it is, is that the United States had a nuclear submarine that close to Denmark where when a member of the United States military got sick, that Denmark cared for them on Greenland and that Donald Trump took that and then he made it this kind of opposite land where the United States actually has to help Greenland even as Greenland was helping the United States. Not to mention the fact that the hospital ships at the US has, both of them are currently incapacitated, both of them are currently like in for repairs, so they can't even go there at all. And the Wall Street Journal also followed up and asked the Pentagon, asked people, so where's the. Was there an actual order made for these hospital ships to go to Greenland? Nope, Nothing. Just Donald Trump made it up. And Jeff Landry in Louisiana, they just start continuing to perpetuate these lies, all while they have these nuclear submarines apparently right off the coast of Greenland. Like, if you're an ally of the United States or formerly an ally, how could you possibly look at the US Right now as the good guys? How could you possibly think that anything that the United States is doing is in good faith? Especially as Donald Trump uses Vladimir Putin's talking points for annexing territory, for taking over places like Ukraine or Crimea in Ukraine, using the same exact language as Putin as justification to do all the things that Donald Trump is doing? It's very obvious. It's good to see that the leaders in Denmark and Greenland are speaking out against this, that are speaking out unequivocally because it's very clear what Donald Trump is doing. But this is the problem when you have an actual psychopath in the Oval Office and enablers who enable the psychopath to be psychopathic and to be crazy on everybody. I mean, this is the end result, this is the, the only natural result

A (71:06)

of all of this.

B (71:06)

And it's why everybody needs to actually stand up against this maniac.

C (71:11)

Absolutely. And it's why I always say this is why we need adults in the room, we need serious people in government. My biggest fear for the future of this country is basically how our allies will see us post the Trump presidency. Right. My biggest fear is trying to figure out where we stand as a country, but as we stand as a, as an image sort of to the world of what our values are, of who our leaders are, of what people expect that they can get from a relationship with this country on a consistent basis. I really worry for not just us here, but future Generations. Right. We all have kids as the brothers here. And even if it's not our kids specifically, I just worry about the future generations of children that are growing up in America. Because if we don't have strong allies and we truly isolate ourselves from the world, I think we've all learned throughout studying history what that could do and what that does do. To me, it's a terrifying prospect when countries can no longer depend on us, the US to actually live up to our end of the bargain. And that's what's been so disheartening for me with the Trump presidency, with the Trump regime right now, is I truly can't see a vision where the image of the United States gets fully repaired on a global stage. And it's terrifying.

A (72:41)

You want me to give you the answer? Remember that Adam Sandler movie where he is like, the fast forward button click? What was it called? Click. Click. Yeah.

C (72:50)

First movie I cried at.

A (72:50)

Are you ready for the Click Journey, the saddest movie?

C (72:55)

11 or 12. Started hysterically crying in the theater.

A (72:57)

Okay, well, I'll give you the click ending right now. Okay. It already happened, Jordy, in Trump. That stuff's already happened. While I feel like I've aged in dog years under this Trump regime, as most people have in this short period of time. It's done, Jordy. Like, it's over. America. There is no America. Leader of the world. Okay, okay. There will be future presidents who will try to get back into a multilateral world order. They will not be trusted. America will not be a leader ever again, period. It's done. It's done. Okay? There, there is no, like, I, I, I. We can hope that a future president restores some dignity, but that maybe takes us back from negative 100 to negative 20. The rest of the world's moved on, and their view is, okay, we've got to deal with this person for the next four years, and that's good. But this country, America, United States, is susceptible to this again. This exists in that country. Country. So until there's some sort of massive constitutional reform, Court reform, right? Like our constant. Our Constitution needs to be rethought. Like, and I'm like, I'm not going to be able to solve that problem in the next nine minutes on this show. But the Constitution was based on good faith norms, traditions, right? And, and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. It's a contract concept, you know, that I teach in law school. But our contract, I mean, our Constitution is a contract, and it's not all that long. It's one of the incredible things. When I teach constitutional law at law schools, it's not that big. The First Amendment, not that long, the Second Amendment, just a sentence or two, right. The, you know, the Fourth Amendment of unreasonable searches and seizures. You go through the various amendments, the 10th amendment on state's rights. You go through these constitutional provisions. And they're based, though, on the good faith that people go along with these things. And the moment the Supreme Court makes a rule in, like, absolute immunity, when even royalty in the UK doesn't get absolute immunity. Right. And our Constitution was a reaction against kings, an objection to it. Until we abolish absolute immunity, until we here find ways to abolish this concept of this unitary executive who can do whatever they want without checks and balance, no country is going to think that America can ever be a long term partner. So they've moved on. Click. That's it.

B (76:00)

It's done.

A (76:01)

Done. And this is what Trump's done his entire life. And I don't mean to paint a picture that's so bleak to end it, but I'm just being real. And look, the United States can play a role in a broader multilateral system, and future presidents can try to get back into some of these organizations, sure. But until there is systemic reform here in our country and wholesale abolition of certain types of doctrines here that have really harmed us, no one's going to view us as a reliable partner. This is what Trump's done with his casinos and his entities, and he did it with the United States. I think a future president can restore some dignity, but not ever get back America's stand ever again. Jordy. You know, and I, I hate to.

C (76:48)

I think I'm just gonna say I

B (76:50)

think

C (76:52)

it was a really some good analysis. I also don't think you've ever actually seen the movie Click. I just don't know how that tied into the movie at all. But. But I really appreciated the movie.

A (77:02)

It fans like the announcement. Just so you know, it made no sense. I click.

C (77:06)

Said the word click a couple times.

A (77:08)

Okay, first off, I've seen Click. It involves the guy, he's an architect. I've seen it. He works at the place. And then he wants to, like, rise and take the elevator to the penthouse, basically. And he wants to get there, so he gets the remote control, he fast forwards it, and then he fast forwards so quickly he misses his children.

B (77:27)

All right, spoiler alert.

C (77:28)

Yes. Jesus.

B (77:29)

Come on, man, you're ruining the movie for everybody now.

A (77:33)

So my point about click was I'm fast Forwarding.

C (77:37)

Right, but that's what I'm saying. There's, I'm not going to get into it, so.

A (77:42)

All right, pretend I didn't do that. Just rewind, find, pause, delete, control, alt, delete. All right, but in all seriousness, let me show you what Steve Witkoff, Nice transition there. What Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy to everything, who has no diplomatic experience. He's been going on state, regime, media, and here's what he says. This is his message to Iran, right? As Donald Trump's threatening to attack and invade Iran. The message from the envoy, Witkoff, is, why won't you capitulate? We have so many ships. Why don't you capitulate already? Here, play, play this clip. I know that we have red lines here from the US how about over with Iran?

D (78:22)

The president asked me that this morning and he's, I don't want to use the word frustrated. It's almost because he understands he's got plenty of alternatives. But it's curious, he's curious as to why they haven't, I don't want to use the word capitul, but why they haven't capitulated. Why under this sort of pressure, with the amount of sea power, naval power that we have over there, why they haven't come to us and said, we profess that we don't want to be, we don't want a weapon. So here's what we're prepared to do. And yet it's hard to, to sort of get them to that place.

A (78:57)

Great. I mean, it's the stupidest negotiation I've ever.

B (78:59)

By the way, has everybody, has everyone seen the con yet? Okay, is there, are you noticed noticing the con? Remember months ago when they did the other attacks on Iran and obliterated first? What was that?

A (79:10)

Totally obliterated.

B (79:11)

Total, total obliteration. Right. That was the phrase that Donald Trump. We totally obliterated Iran's nuclear program. We have set them back years, if not decades. They are never, ever going to be close to getting a nuclear weapon ever again. And now you have Witkov going on TV and they're running the same playbook where they go, it's, it's the same thing. And they've been doing this, by the way, for decades. I think the Daily show did an excellent montage with Netanyahu about this, where they go, iran is just a week away. Iran is just a week away from getting a nuclear weapon. So we have to act now. Just a week away. Just a week away or just weeks away. They constantly Use the same propaganda. And then they try to go, oh, you don't want us to go to war with this country. Then you're anti American, you support terrorism. They start, you know, running all. That's the playbook they run every time. But Donald Trump said, totally obliterated that those were the terms used. Now they're saying a week away. You can't have it both ways. They are either lying then or lying now or lying both times, which is probably the reality in this situation. And I'm sick of being gaslighted by these people into getting into all of these foreign entanglements, into getting in all of these war. I mean, it's just absolutely ridiculous. There's a lot of reporting now that the US Isn't even prepared for action in Iran. You have generals speaking out. Then you have Donald Trump disputing the reports that have been well sourced and in a variety of publications about this very issue. You could tell Donald Trump has been kind of very hesitant about this one. Trump wants to do something that's sort of like quick and get out. But it seems like, like if Donald Trump does actually get involved in Iran this time, it's going to be a more prolonged war. And they are predicting that American troops are going to have to be on the ground and then American troops could die in a war in Iran. And so this is the situation that Trump is once again getting us into, using the same playbook, by the way, that Republicans have used for decades and decades and decades to get us into wars, but probably not with this low a popularity as the Donald Trump is right now, right when, when Bush got us into Iraq and, and, and all of those, you know, forever wars. At least he had like an 80% approval rating at the time. He spent a lot of time kind of conditioning people for it, putting out messaging. Donald Trump just is trying to do this just on a whim, and he's already unpopular to begin with. Nobody in the United States wants this. It seems completely reckless. But like I said, Donald Trump is a destructive individual and he will do anything he can to destroy. He doesn't know how to build. This is the only thing he knows how to do.

A (81:46)

No, abs. Absolutely. I want to. I mean, a few things. Number one, Brett, about the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, what he's privately telling people is America doesn't have any allies right now to help with Iran. Right? It's just America and Israel. That's it. No one else wants to give us their bases. That's a lack of support from allies that's a big deal in a situation like this. And one of the things also that we're seeing, you know, the US Attacking the European Union now because the European Union in their defense directive, like their big kind of national security policy paper says that they want to now buy European military equipment first. Right. The U.S. has been attacking Europe. They've been threatening to invade European countries or territories of European countries. They've been saying, the United States, the Trump regime saying, stop being dependent on the U.S. stop it. Cut it out. You've been too dependent on us. All right, so Europe's like, all right, great. So we're going to buy Europe first, right? There's buy America first in America. Buy us First Europe. So we'll do the same. Got it. Will focus on European military equipment first. Right. Like the Gripen in Sweden over the F35, you know, or the French military air, air defense systems over the US Patriot systems. Right. I mean, there's, you know, okay, you know, especially as Donald Trump talks about building in kill switches into American military equipment. So then the ambassador to the European Union posts, you can't do that. We are not. Okay. It is unacceptable for you to have a European preference. Really? Because that's kind of. You've been attacking Europe and now they're done with you. And so now you're attacking the European Union for having a Europe preference over military equipment. It's that type of stuff over and over again. As I mentioned at the outset, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's dad, who's the ambassador to France. For those who don't know, Charles Kushner story. He pled guilty to multiple felony counts of tax evasion and witness tampering. Which witness did he tamper? His brother in law. His wife's brother. And how did he do it? He hired prostitutes in order to set up his brother in law to blackmail his brother in law who was cooperating with the feds to testify against him in order to destroy his brother in law's marriage with prostitutes. And he was caught doing that. He was pardoned by this Epstein class stuff. Right. He was pardoned by Trump in 2020 and he became the ambassador to France. He and the US Embassy in France have made numerous statements recently attacking French domestic policy, saying that we expect you to stop leftist extremism. And in France they're like, you don't lecture us on how we deal with things here in France. Okay, you're the ambassador. Stop. You don't dictate our policy. You understand? We're going to Handle it. We take things seriously here. Stop it. And they summon Kushner. And guess what? Kushner didn't show. As an ambassador, you have to show when you get summoned. That's part of the diplomatic dance that you do. Didn't show. It's the second time he did it. So now in France, they ban him, but all the US Ambassadors to these countries attack the countries, right? I mean, the ambassador to Canada goes in there and mocks Canadians every day. Right. And by the way, he's attacked Midas Canada as well. But you look at throughout, that's what these ambassadors are, you know, are doing. All right there. We covered so many topics there. I think that we covered a lot of topics. I want to thank everybody so much. We hit 6 million subscribers on this live. I could probably keep speaking for a half hour more, an hour more.

B (85:37)

But let's stay on live till we hit 7 million, folks. Stay live till we subscribe now. Thank you, everybody, sincerely, for having us reach and blow past this milestone. Thank you for 9 billion views. I think I'm prouder than, you know, even prouder about the 9 billion views because that just shows we're punching way above our weight class. That's more views than, you know, most channels out there. So, you know, truly incredible. And I'm so excited for our event tomorrow. Like I said, let's make a massive, massive statement at the People's State of the Union. We have dozens and dozens of lawmakers attending. We have federal employees who've been affected by the Trump regime. So many other special guests are going to be there. It's at the national mall in Washington, D.C. and we're streaming it right here at YouTube.com Midas Touch and you could go to the link right now and you could set your reminders right now. And we'll keep reminding you tomorrow. Don't worry. But set your reminders. Send it to a friend. Let everybody know on whatever social media platforms you use, whether it's Blue sky or Threads or X or Facebook or whatever, let's blow this up. Let's make this big. I love that Donald Trump is already sending panicked emails about, about this event out to his supporters. We're already getting in his head. And I think if we blow this out of the water, it will absolutely torture him and it will be for a good reason. We'll be showing people power right here at the Midas Touch Network and on the National Mall. So I look forward to it. Tomorrow's a big day, folks. Today was a historic day. Tomorrow's a historic day, and it's all because of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We really, really, really, really appreciate it.

C (87:20)

Jordy, wait one sec. I just. I still can't get over the fact that we hit 6 million on. On the stream on the live show.

B (87:26)

Yeah. How it coincided with the start of the show. It's very. It's.

C (87:29)

You know how I did it, though, Jordy, How'd you do it, Ben? Did you start the show five minutes early?

A (87:34)

Click, click, click.

C (87:35)

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