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This has been on Breaking news. I'm Ben Mysellis, your host. Let's get into it right away. Of course, we're going to cover Donald Trump's deteriorating physical and mental condition. He's quite literally rotting before our eyes. Remember the discolored right hand that he, that he said was caused by all of the handshaking that was taking place and all of the aspirin that he was taking? Well, now while he's still in Davos, Switzerland, and he was meeting with his own access of Evil that he's calling a peace board, his left hand was deteriorating, discolored, bruised and he had to like walk out. They put makeup on his hand to cover it up. The Telegraph caught the photo of after they put some makeup on his left hand. But now the White House and their chief propagandist Caroline Levitt is saying that what happened was he banged his hand in the corner of a signing table, causing it to bruise. And that's why his hand looks like that. Oh, we figured it out, everybody. So the right hand is from the excessive handshaking and the left hand is because he knocked it into a table during his meeting with the Access of Evil. We will cover that. But I want to start on a topic that, you know, the Trump regime doesn't want us talking about. One of the main topics being their cover up of the Epstein files. So let's always mention that at the top of any breaking news report because they're covering up a child sex trafficking ring. But this regime, they are predators on children in general when it comes to attacking the American people. Don't they seem to always go after the children first? Whether it's ripping away food and nutrition assistance, taking away school lunches, ripping away educational opportunities, health care, they always seem to kind of target children. And we're seeing with the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo the attacks on children. And by now I hope you know about the story and it's a tragic story of Liam Canejo Ramos. There he is in Minnesota where ICE agents use this five year old as bait to try to lure out his father in order to kidnap both of them. So Liam Cano Ramos was walking back from preschool. His father was inside the house when an ICE or Border Patrol Gestapo, they're all masked, so it's hard to tell who's who. But they're all Gestapo. They grabbed Liam you see the photo of him? I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. I mean, they grabbed him by his shirt and they walked him over and that's how they got his dad to come out, kidnapped them both. Look at this five year old. He's wearing, he's wearing like a Pokemon hat or something. Lure the dad to come out and then kidnapped them both, disappeared them to a concentration camp somewhere in Texas, and who knows what the hell is going to happen. There are also videos that I have an ongoing series here on the Midas Touch network. I call it All Hell Breaks Loose. Just in the past 24 hours. This Greg Bevino terrorist, the one who runs the border patrol, he was out there and he himself goes out there and gases the population and throws this green and orange noxious carcinogenic gas at the people choking them because they're peacefully protesting him. And he throws the gag, I'm gonna gas you, I'm gonna gas you. And he throws the gas into their faces. And so we cover that on our All Hell Breaks Loose series. And then we learned through a whistleblower complaint that the Trump regime has been engaged. We've seen it. It just confirmed in a memo from Todd Lyons, who's the acting head of ice, that the Trump regime has basically taken the position that they don't need judicial warrants anymore. No judicial warrants, that they're only going to use administrative warrants, which is basically a form that ICE fills out for itself. They go, oh, yeah, we're bringing it to an administrative law judge. The judges are ICE at this point because the Trump regime got rid of all the administrative law justice. So they are signing their own forms, avoiding the Fourth Amendments, dictate against unreasonable searches and seizures, A constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. And now the Trump regime's position is, well, it's just immigrants. It's just immigrants. Well, you're also going after US Citizens. And even if you're going after immigrants, you should still need to follow a constitution. They'll break down into homes. Do you all remember that? Like when the Tea Party, they had their flag. Don't tread on me. Remember that? Don't tread on me with the snake. Don't tread on me. This is the ultimate shredding. I mean, you know, you see, you know, it's California Governor Gavin Newsom or others talk about these MAGA Republicans in the cuck chair. You know, it's like they're basically like, tread on me, Governor. Tread on me, Donald, tread on me. Tread on me. And then Donald Trump's disgusting speech that he gave when he was overseas in Davos. And he was like, you know, NATO, they call me Daddy, and I want to be your daddy. Daddy, what the hell is going on here? And we the people need to push back and we need to punch back against this insanity right now, against this utterance. And I didn't even mention yet I'll mention it now, that the Trump regime has been trying to go after Don Lemon. They tried to charge Don Lemon today. They charged protesters who were at the church in St. Paul. They charged them with a federal. With federal criminal charges for violations of something called the Face Act. And so the leader of the protest was charged and several others at the protest at the St. Paul church were charged. And as part of it, the eight criminal defendants, Don Lemon was listed. But apparently the magistrate judge did not agree to sign off on the criminal complaint against Don Lemon. Notably, the Department of Justice did not go to a grand jury. They did not seek indictments. They tried to do this by way of just a criminal complaint asking a magistrate to sign off on. And the magistrates are not signing off on it as it relates to Don Lemon. And now the Trump regime is doxing the magistrate judge and saying, oh, well, the magistrate judge's wife works with Keith Ellison, the Attorney general. So go after the wife. This is part of the playbook that Donald Trump always did. Remember judging Goron and others, where the Trump regime would say, go after the wife. Go after the wife. That's what these thugs at the DOJ do right now. This is Trump's playbook. The DOJ are like Donald Trump's pathetic law firms. And not only are they weaponized, you know, it looks like Nazi Germany. I don't use these words again, hyperbolically, but it's what is happening. So if any Democrats out there like, oh, well, maybe we need to fund ICE or maybe we need to fund Border Patrol, well, you ain't going to be a Democrat for long. Okay. If ultimately you think that ICE and the Border Patrol should get more funding right now, one of the things that I'm proud about at the Midas Dutch network is that as we've built out our D.C. bureau, we're asking. We're asking Democrats very tough questions on the Hill. We're asking them your questions. And one of the main things I know that you want to know is which Democrats are saying that ICE and Border Patrol need more funding? Because that's a wrap, I think, for them. And so we've had Pablo Manriquez. He's been on Capitol Hill and he's been asking the Democrats tough questions, too. And of course he asks the Republicans tough questions. But we ain't doing softballs to Democrats. And I want to give a hat tip to Pablo because Pablo's been holding Democrats accountable who have been missing votes. So you need people to show up right now. And we've had basically perfect attendance today since Pablo Manriquez has been out there asking who's showing up, who's not showing up. And that's going to go viral. And everybody's, you know, everybody's pretty much showing up today on the Democratic side. And Pablo was asking all the top Democratic appropriators, what are you doing when it comes to ICE funding? And then Asin at the Midas Touch Network plays those clips. And there's been a lot of accountability brought to Democrats also in a very short period of time. And now they're pretty much united saying no funding. They're drawing a line. No funding. No more funding to ICE and Border Patrol right now. And the head of the Democrat on the Appropriations, the ranking member, DeLauro, she was kind of wishy washy a few weeks back, if you remember, when Pablo asked her. And she's put out a statement now. We'll see. Still have to make sure that this is actually what is effectuated. But the House Appropriations Committee ranking member, Rosa Delora announced on the House floor she'll vote no against the Department of Homeland Security spending bill. It's clear more must be done. ICE believes it can act with impunity and it's behaving accordingly. I trust that my colleagues have taken the time to assess this position and then go back to that one more time there. Salty. In that same, that same one, Max Cohen writes in a sign of how toxic ICE is within the Democratic Caucus right now, Deloro, who negotiated this bill and was defending it this week, is now a no on the DHS appropriations. I'm, I'm proud to say that I believe Pablo and our team and all of you played a major part of it. But it's not just how toxic the da, the way that's even reported right there is kind of a both sides thing, how toxic it's become. On the Democratic. It's toxic to the American people. To the American people. We don't want Border Patrol and ICE Gestapo, like Nazis marching through our streets. These fascist, terrorizing peaceful communities, creating the crime they're terrorists, that they're behaving like terrorists. And I'm going to use my First Amendment right While it still exists, while I'm still protecting and defending it, to express my opinion, which I'm allowed to do, about what it is when they come marching through town in their military fatigues and start throwing gas at peaceful protesters and shoot Renee Nicole Good in the face. And round up independent journalists like Don Lemon and Don Lemon. When Don Lemon was in the church, the person who worked at the church touched Lemon. And Lemon said, don't touch me. I don't want to be touched by you. So what was the crime that Lemon committed? Reporting on a protest taking place in a church where apparently one of the leaders of that church was working with ICE or working in connection with ice. What. What did Lemon do and why? Because social media, right wing MAGA trolls were out there saying, at Pam Bondi, indict him. Indict him at Pam Bondi. And she, like, listens to the social media and all the DOJ people are responding to right wing social media trolls. You're the freaking doj. Grow up. Why are you listening? Get off of Twitter or X. Get off your social media and actually behave like fricking lawyers. Like real prosecutors. Grow the hell up and act like adults. You know, I did a video this morning. I hope you all have the opportunity to watch it with Dr. Gupta. And one of his criticisms of Donald. One of the things that he was saying about Donald Trump is he, the words he used was normal adult behavior. That Donald Trump's behavior does not constitute normal adult behavior. And when Dr. Gupta said that to me, if you saw the video I did with him, I was like, pause right there. I just want to let everybody know where we've come to. We've come to a place where the only accurate, objective analysis of Donald Trump is that he's not engaged in normal adult behavior. What's the point of the 25th Amendment if we can all observe somebody who's not engaged in normal adult behavior and one political party pretends that he is. And, you know, don't give me, oh, well, Biden this. Well, first off, the media relentlessly went after Biden every day because Biden was old. There's a big difference between old and slower. And stuttering, which Biden did, and Donald Trump not engaging in normal adult behavior. There's a difference. When you would watch Biden's speech as though they were coherent. They were. And he was old. Yes. And they were slower. And sometimes you felt bad and you're like, come on, man. And I'm sure that's how he felt about himself. That's A fair criticism because we saw it. But there's a difference between an old person, you know, and I like to distinguish it like a, like, like there's a difference between a Yoda and a Jabba the Hut. Right. I mean, when it comes to, you know, the no one was like, oh, Yoda, you know, he's so. He can't make decisions. He can. I think one of the problems with Biden is he needed to lean into the fact that he was the grandfather. He was fighting that he should have leaned into the fact that he was like a grandfather figure and that he was old. And I think it was hard for him to deal with that. But his deliberative thought process and decision making was coherent and intelligent and at an executive leadership level. It was what we're seeing from Donald Trump. And we saw the speeches that he gave when he was in Davos where he confused Greenland and Iceland. And Iceland. And then you have Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief propaganda. That's not. He didn't really say that. Donald Trump, he never said that. Iceland is Greenland. He never said that. Do we have the clip Salty of Donald Trump just continuing to mix up Iceland and Greenland over and over? I just want to play it. I know you probably have seen this clip before, but let's play the clip where Donald Trump keeps on calling Iceland Greenland and vice versa. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
But in doing it, I'm helping Europe, I'm helping NATO, and I've until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me Daddy, right? Last time, very smart man, said, he's our daddy. He's running it. I was like, running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being. But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice cold and poorly located that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection. It's a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades. But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%.
Ben Mysellis
He goes on to say, the problem is we'll be there for NATO 100%, but they won't ever be there for us. The only country in NATO that's invoked Article 5 is the United States. You know who was with us? Denmark. Denmark lost more soldiers per capita than any country fighting alongside the United States and Afghanistan. You look throughout Europe, you look throughout NATO in general, Canada, Australia, elsewhere, and you across the world, and you will see American allies that lost soldiers fighting because America invoked Article 5. So it's just so utterly disrespectful, just grotesque to see what was happening there. And then earlier today where, where Donald Trump's hand showed the discoloration that was at his Board of Peace event that he calls it the Board of Peace. Right? It's such a. So dystopian to call it a board of peace. And well, Donald Trump was standing there with other authoritarians from Pakistan and Qatar and Bahrain and Uzbekistan. And by the way, Putin is joining this board. Netanyahu is joining this board. No NATO allies are joining this board. I mean, this is what the United States has been reduced to. This is our squad at this point. Hungary, Pakistan, Qatar, Bahrain. Really? And Donald Trump. And wow, did the, did Canada and Europe and others send a major message not being there on stage with Donald Trump when he wanted to make this big announcement and just take a look at what his hand looked like. Deteriorating, rotting, corrosive. We're all seeing it. Let's just go through some of the things that Donald Trump said during this ridiculous speech of his. The first thing I'll share with you is when Donald Trump. This is a real call to action. I think here. This is, as Call to Activism says, in a historically shocking moment, Donald Trump just says, we all want a dictator, right? We want a dictator. Here. This is how he says it here. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
We had a good speech. We got great reviews. I can't believe it. We got good reviews in that speech. Usually they say he's a horrible dictator type person. I'm a dictator, but sometimes you need a dictator. But they didn't say that in this case. And no, it's common sense. It's all based on common sense. You know, it's not conservative or liberal or anything else. It's mostly, let's say, 95% common sense. And that's what we have. So I just want to thank everybody for being here. It's such an honor. And if we can ever help, you're going to let me know. And I have a pretty direct line.
Ben Mysellis
I have a pretty direct line. What are you talking about? Then he attacks Canada. He says Canada should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that mark, referring to Prime Minister Carney next time you make your statements. So Prime Minister Carney spoke before Donald Trump. And Prime Minister Carney says Canada stands with Greenland and Denmark for its sovereignty. Canada stands with NATO. Canada stands for a free trade, multilateral, cooperative system. And that's what pissed Donald Trump up. So Trump says Canada needs to be Grateful to us. Let's play this clip to just by.
Donald Trump
Its very nature, going to be defending Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also, but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful. They should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark the next time you make your statements. What we did.
Ben Mysellis
I gave Star wars references earlier. I mean, do you hear even his heavy breathing? It's like Darth Vader up there. Canada should be grateful for us. You know, while he's got the hand that, like, is rotting in front of us, while he can't put together sentences, incoherent structures, and while he's threatening Canada that way, he then starts to bring up in front of the World Economic Forum, Somali people. And he goes, you know, the Somali bandits stole $19 billion from the United States, the Somalian bandits. Then he goes, so they turned out that they had higher IQ than I thought because these Somalis are Somalian bandits. This is your message at the World Economic Forum. Let's play it. We've got it. If we don't got it, we can move on to another clip. What about the clip where he talks about California Governor Gavin Newsom, and he says, Gavin is a good guy. Gavin is a. Try that clip.
Donald Trump
We can do that all over. We're going to help the people in California. We want to have no crime. I know Gavin was here. I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president. Gavin's a good guy and we're going to. If he needed it, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'd love to see. We did help them a lot in Los Angeles, a lot with the early. Early in my term when they had some problems. But we would love to do it. I will say this. If I were a Democrat governor or whatever, I would call up Trump. I'd say, come on in. Make us look good. Because we're cutting crime down to nothing and we're taking people out, career criminals who are only going to do better.
Ben Mysellis
You know, one of the things about Trump, too, he's a really weak, pathetic individual. We all know that. But when Governor Newsom was in the room with Donald Trump, he didn't say new scum. There was. There was none of that. He says, Newsom is a good guy who I tried to help out. Then as soon as that speech was over, what did Donald Trump do? He has the State Department controlling the United States Pavilion area where Gavin Newsom was set to give a speech later in the day, Right? Because Gavin Newsom's the governor of the biggest state in the United States, which would be the fourth largest GDP in the world if it was a country. And Donald Trump has the State Department block Nome from entering the USA House, which was actually in a rented church in Davos, Switzerland, preventing Newsom from giving a speech. So Donald Trump said, newsom, I think he's a good guy. You think he's a good guy, but then you call him Newscomb. It's the same thing. Remember when Newsom met Donald Trump on the tarmac right after the fires devastated la, which, by the way, it's where I'm from. I've had dinner recently in Altadena. I've driven by the Palisades. You go to Altadena right now. It is devastation zone. And people of Altadena, people of the Palisades need the federal government right now to provide emergency assistance packages, which Trump and his regime refused to do. Remember when Newsom two months ago showed up in D.C. to try to meet with anybody at the Department of Homeland Security in fema, and they refused to meet with Newsom? They refused to. Not even just Donald Trump refusing to meet with Newsom. Any person in Trump's regime, at any level were given the order, do not meet with Newsom when he traveled to Washington, D.C. to discuss the aid that was needed to rebuild areas like Altadena and the Palisades after the devastating fires. But remember when Donald Trump arrived, he was on the tarmac and Newsom was like, okay, I'm here. You've been calling me new scum and saying, you know, that I. I'm more focused on some fish over. Over putting out fires or just stupid conspiracies, theories. I'm here. Let's talk. And did you see Donald Trump, like, cower? I remember Newsom gave Melania a kiss on the cheek, and then Newsom and Trump were in front of the press, and it's like, okay, Donald. Okay, Mr. Tough Guy. You're tough guy, right? Oh, you're so tough. Okay, we'll call him news Scum. Do your little Internet troll stick in front of him. He's too scared. You know, this. It's, it's, it's. It's not even. You know, Newsom used to say, it's weakness masquerading as strength. I don't even agree with that. It's weakness masquerading to me as weakness. It's you. It's humility. It's not even strong. I don't even know.
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Ben Mysellis
There'S so society in general. I think it's to blame for normalizing this behavior and degrading the minds of so many people to think that these are qualities of a leader. Trump is a whiny, pathetic piece of trash human being. He's a scumbag. He is evil. And people needed to assert that and say, get the hell out of, you know, his whole. You see what he does with Greenland, It's a. It's a great example of what a predator he is. This is how he is. He's an entire life. You got to smack him in the face when he's doing this stuff. You got to smack him back when he's doing this stuff the way Europe did. Stop appeasing this piece of crap, because he's going to come for you anyway. So you either stand up to him now strongly and put it on the line and maintain your dignity, or he's coming for you anyway. And you see what's happening, you know, with green, he doesn't stop. He is relentless. But when you stand up to him, he goes bankrupt. It's why so many things in his life have failed. That's why he's bankrupted casino after casino over and over again when you stand up to him. But he won't stop. It is. He's a sociopath, and it is a quality of a dictator. Malignant, narcissistic qualities. And he does the green, I want it. It's a piece of ice. I want it. I want it. I want it. I want it. Most people, when you tell them no, they stop. And maybe if they do it again, you go no, and they stop. Donald Trump doesn't stop. So the only way to make him stop is you have to assert yourself and you have to say, get the hell away. And Newsom gets it there, you know, Newsom gets it there, you know, and. And when he stood up with Prop 50 to me, that was a big deal. You know, you could all say a lot of things about Hakeem Jeffries, this and that, but I will mention one thing. If you go and look right now at the House of Representatives and the seats that have been picked up since Donald Trump started his gerrymandering, it's been dummy mandering. Because right now, across the country, not just with what happened in California and give Newsom credit for Prop 50, but what's happening now in Virginia with the redistricting, what could be happening in Maryland, a New York seat right now has been determined to be unconstitutional. And that seat can flip based on all of Trump's dummy mandering. Democrats could actually pick up plus five seats right now. Because even with Donald Trump's fascism, there's an idiocracy also. And if you stand up to him, he loses. When you give in to it, that's when he's never going to stop. He'll always green the Greenland, Greenland, Canada. And so you can't take it as a joke. You have to assert yourself strongly because no man. And even if you're just a selfish person and you're just me, me, me, me, me, me, me, I don't care. Well, if it is me, me, me, me, me, stand up because he's gonna come for you. You know, you look at Jamie D. You know who, you know, I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say that he was a Trump bootlicker per se, but Jamie Dimon, I think, you know, was very careful in his language about Donald Trump and very, you know, not aggressive. I mean, granted, I mean, he is the CEO of JP Morgan Chase. How aggressive can you be? But, you know, the reality is, is that Donald Trump just sued JP Morgan Chase and Trump alleges that JP Morgan Chase. You'll see the lawsuit that Donald Trump filed today in Miami in state court. Wrong forum. But Donald Trump doesn't care. He just wants the headline, what, Trump sue for like $5 billion. And he said JP Morgan Chase deplatform me. The lawsuit claims that JP Morgan's decision came about as a result of political and social motivations to distance itself from Trump and his conservative political views. Now here was the response from JP Morgan Chase. JP Morgan Chase does not close accounts for political or religious reasons. We do close accounts because they create legal or regulatory risk for the company. We regret having to do so. But often rules and regulatory expectations lead us to do so. We have been asking both this administration and prior administrations to change the rules and regulations that put us in a position. And we support the administration's efforts to prevent the weaponization of the banking sector. Even a pretty pathetic response, by the way there. We appreciate you just got sued by a fascist administration. You appreciate their efforts. The hell are you talking about? You appreciate their efforts. A fascist regime just sued you for absolute bullshit. And you are thanking them. They're just stupid. It's just stupid. The reality is, is that what, you know, what their statement should say? Okay, game on. The regulatory issues are things that will now come out in discovery. And so if Donald Trump wants to make this about the regulatory risks. We're going to have no choice but at a trial to talk about Donald Trump's connections with foreign countries. Because I'm sure some of the regulatory risk is who Donald Trump does business with. And we see it. We see it before our eyes. Right? Donald Trump props up Deli Rodriguez in Venezuela, the authoritarian leader there from the Maduro regime. And you have Deodatos Cabello, Maduro's enforcer. They're still running the show in Venezuela. They've clamped down on political dissent. You can be like, oh, well, they didn't they release 30 political prisoners? Well, they just imprisoned 50 more. It's a revolving door. Anybody who's following Venezuela, I know, maybe people jump, we forget about Venezuela. All Trump did was prop up the authoritarian screw over the pro democracy opposition leader, make that pro democracy opposition leader begun, and give him a Nobel Peace Prize that he's not even allowed to have. She stole her Nobel Peace Prize. He said, maybe we'll give her a role. Maybe we'll give Machado a role. The authoritarian regime is in power. So Trump creates a bank account in Qatar for himself to divert the oil money proceeds to Qatar for himself. For Trump. Not the treasury, not for America, for Trump. Okay? And you know how the world adapts to that? Like that, okay? Canada will send its liquefied natural gas to China. China will send its electric vehicles to Canada. The world moves on one trillion dollar strategic trade relationship between China and Canada. A 700 million consumer trade deal between the mercuser countries, Brazil, Argentina and Europe. By the way, all those puzzle pieces are shifting together to create the largest free trade alliance ever. That's going to cut out the U.S. imagine when you link kind of the Trans Pacific relationships that Canada is forging with its transatlantic relationships with Europe's Mercur alliance. Do you see what's forming? Donald Trump likes to talk about a golden dome like an idiot. But if you want to look at what kind of like a triangle or a diamond, if you will, with the US Being cut out and everybody else connected in free trade other than the United States, do you see that? That's what's forming in front of us. And that's what Carney means when he talks about a new world order. And then the Trump regime, people today were like, yeah, this is a new world order. We're America's first. No, this is America, stupid. But this is America last. And anybody who was at Davos and watching what took place there was looking at horror and shame and disgust. We found the clip of him talking about the Somalis. Let's, let's play the clip of what he said to a world audience about Somalian people.
Donald Trump
Here, play this clip to the United States. And despite that, we have the lowest crime numbers that we've ever had in the history of the country just came out. But equally importantly, we're cracking down on more than $19 billion in fraud that was stolen by Somalian bandits. Can you believe that? Somalia, they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought. I always say these are low IQ people. How do they go into Minnesota and steal all that money?
Ben Mysellis
But do you also see how he equipped? I mean, it's racist. So stipulated, Ben. That's racist. But he also equates fraud with high iq. They're more high, high IQ than I thought. They committed a fraud. So it's racist. And it shows his own criminality all at once. You know, who likes criminality and fraud and hates democracy. Who's joining Donald Trump's fake peace board? His access of evil? Putin. Putin. Trump went to Davos and made an alliance with Putin and Lukashenko and Pakistan and Qatar. Great job. Great job, Donald. I mean, again, we can't normalize this. I don't want to be in an alliance with Vladimir Putin. And then why, why wouldn't Zelensky join the peace board? I don't know. Maybe because Putin, who's engaged in war crimes and crimes against humanity and is killing Ukrainians and invaded Ukraine, is a part of it. And you're calling it a peace board. Yeah, maybe Zelensky doesn't want to join a board with Lukashenko of Belarus, who's working with Russia to try to kill everybody in Ukraine. Just, just, just maybe that's happening. And by the way, I know that a lot of attention is, there's, there's a lot of places to divert our attention, but there were multiple innocent journalists who were killed in Gaza yesterday. It's not like there's peace there. Right. Part of what Donald Trump and this axis of evil were talking about was new Gaza. And they have this, like, weird AI slop photos of what new Gaza looks like while the atrocities are still being committed in Gaza. And so I don't want to do a broadcast ever and not mention the fact that Israeli troops are killing innocent people in Gaza yesterday. Oh, and Netanyahu's joining this board with Donald Trump as well. Let me show you Putin, though, right now. Here's what Putin said about the peace board. Let's play it. I think we got the clip of Putin. Do we have the clip of Putin. I think that we could contribute $1 billion to the board of Peace from the frozen assets by the assets frozen by the previous administration and the remaining funds from the funds frozen in the United States could be used to rebuild territories that suffered during hostilities. Once we sign a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Let me show you what Gavin Newsom had to say. Then I'll show you what AOC Jasmine Crockett and others said. California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked about Donald Trump's speech, what he made of it. Let me show you California Governor Gavin Newsom. Let's play it.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he.
Ben Mysellis
Was talking about Greenland, you know, and that it every time a windmill turns, it costs a thousand dollars? A lot of stuff stands out. None of this is normalized. There's a normalization of deviancy and consciousness and, you know, comments and commentary. No other president, he's held to the curve. He's graded on a curve. I mean, it's really some jaw dropping and remarkable statements that just, you know, fly in the face of facts and evidence and common sense. So. But they're so. You've heard them over and over and over again again. For the European audience, that may have been a new speech. My God, there wasn't anything new about that speech. For the American audience, the only thing that was new is he said he's willing to negotiate. But wait a sec, that's not new either because he's been saying we wanted to negotiate for over a year.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
You criticize.
Ben Mysellis
Next, I want to share with you what AOC Jasmine Crockett, what they had to say. By the way, this footage is brought to you by our Washington D.C. bureau. So let me just give a shout out to all the Midas mighty watching this. So when you join our YouTube page and you click join and you gift those memberships to people, that's one of the ways that we grow, right? I mean Fox, CBS and those other channels, they have right wing oligarchs prop them up and give them billions of dollars. The Midas Touch network beats those networks and views and engagement. And one of the ways we do it is by saying, hey, can you join this YouTube page and give memberships to some people? And that's how we built the D.C. bureau. That's how we were able to hire the people there who are getting you these clips. And now you all are driving the narrative on Capitol Hill because we then use the megaphone that you've helped us create to get out these messages. On a day to day basis. And everybody on Capitol Hill tells me, from all of the congressional offices, Senate offices, from both parties, when I speak with their staff, they basically say, when Pablo is around, we know that whatever we say to him is going to drive the news on any given day. And I said, that's the power of the Midas mighty. But make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube page. Subscribe to the Midas touch on audio as well, because that helps with the audio algorithm. And Midasplus.com is our substack. Subscribe there, but click Join. Gift Gift memberships to people if you can. Okay, here's what AOC had to say about Donald Trump's cognitive decline. Let's play that clip next. Real quick, how big of a factor is Donald Trump's cognitive decline, given what we're seeing at Davos?
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
I think that the President has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. I think it is really damning when we think about the degree to which mass media outlets reported on Joe Biden and yet, and you know, that resulted.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
The Democratic Party changing its nominee, etc. Yet we are seeing behavior from Donald Trump that is increasingly erratic and alarming and everyone's pretending that the is normal. I don't really understand why that is. It is very bizarre. But then importantly, I think that for our European partners and for our global partners, I think what they also see is the result of not just one man. Right. But also the entire government apparatus. Apparatus and a party that is willing to watch someone decompensate in front of the world and do nothing about it. I don't know what's going on, but I find that the standard. It would be helpful if we could apply an even standard here and far more. More, you know, a fraction of the reporting that was dedicated, you know, a year or two ago to see that applied right now.
Ben Mysellis
Thank you. Show you, Jasmine Crockett. Congresswoman Crockett, let's play that clip. Congresswoman, given what we've seen at Davos and, and throughout his presidency, what do you make of Donald Trump's cognitive decline? People are saying it's only going to get worse. Like what? What does Congress need to do about.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
Yeah, I honestly don't think that he was equipped to actually swear into office in the first place. But I did have serious concerns. And this is not about partisanship. This is not about how he and I spar. This is literally based upon what some actual doctors were telling me were signs. And so we have tried to investigate this as a Member of the Oversight Committee. I launched an investigation requiring and asking that we get answers about not only his mental fitness, but also his, his physical fitness. And they've yet to respond.
Ben Mysellis
Here's Congresswoman Ramirez, who spoke with our Pablo Manriquez. Let's play her clip. Congresswoman, real quick, how big of a factor is Donald Trump's cognitive decline given what we're seeing in Davos right now?
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
We have a physically unstable, mentally ill man running the White House in this country. It is extremely serious.
Congressman McGovern
Sure.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
And you certainly see the consequences of it. Every single day, the American people are hurting, everything is more expensive, people are dying in the streets. He is becoming richer and he doesn't even know what he's talking about. It's dangerous and he should resign.
Ben Mysellis
And beyond, obviously the DHS appropriations and things like that. You have a new bill, the melt ice bill. Can you tell me about it? Yeah.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
So look, I know people have different feelings about words, but the point of this bill is to say constituents are every day asking us, what the hell are we going to do about ice? What are we going to do at cbp? What melt ice does, in essence, it ends detention and then consequently it cripples enforcement. So it means no more funding for detention, no more funding, in essence, for enforcement. And the money that is being spent right now to kill people, to abduct people, to put 14 year old boys with autism into the 10 would actually go back to the communities that have been most impacted by the ICE operations. So it's a bill with, I'm actually really proud of, co leading with Congresswoman Yvette Clark from the New York delegation and that I hope more and more of my colleagues will jump on. Because it's actually a bill. There's tangible action to make sure that ICE is accountable and that not one more dollar goes to a plan of abduction, of kidnapping and terror. Got some children.
Ben Mysellis
Next you have Democratic Congressmember McGovern. Let's play his clip. Congressman, real quick, is Donald Trump's mental health concern for you after some of the things that he's been saying in Europe?
Congressman McGovern
Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today at Davos. I mean, I think it's time to take the keys away from Grandpa. I mean, he doesn't seem like he's all there. I mean, and I guess some of my Republican friends are saying we should be comforted that he said he probably not going to use force in Greenland. I don't trust the word he says. I wouldn't trust him to tell me the Correct time. Don't forget, before the Christmas break, they said they weren't going to do anything in Venezuela. Suzy Wiles, in an interview, said that he'd come to Congress for us. And when we're on break, what do they do? They go into Venezuela. So, I mean, you know, this is like this president who writes, you know, letters, complained that he's not going to be peaceful anymore because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, this is unhinged, and this.
Ben Mysellis
Is just nuts for the rest of the term. What's your message to your Republican colleagues about his cognitive decline?
Congressman McGovern
Yeah, I mean, like I said, it's time to take the car keys away from Grandpa. They need to wake up. They need done this. This can't be normal.
Ben Mysellis
And I know.
Congressman McGovern
I mean, and I'm so sick and tired of Republicans coming up to me privately and saying, oh, yeah, this is unhinged is crazy. He's off his rocker. And then publicly, when you ask a question like, what do you think of him? Oh, he's the greatest president in the world. I mean, this is our country, for God's sake. And he's threatening our NATO alliance, you know, and the whole world is like, what the hell is going on here? So this is a moment for Republicans to, you know, grow a spine and actually put their country ahead of their own, you know, reelection.
Ben Mysellis
Got it. Thank you, Congressman. Right. And then Donald Trump claimed that he made a deal with NATO over Greenland. And then information leaked about it, and it was like, well, America will get to claim that the areas surrounding its military bases are part of the United States. And so America will get its territory in Greenland. Denmark never agreed to that, and Greenland never agreed to that. Mark Rut from NATO said that he never even talked to Donald Trump about that. So Donald Trump saw the stock market crashing. Europe stood up to Donald Trump and imposed. It said it was going to impose a trade bazooka on the United States. When Donald Trump claimed that he was going to tariff these European countries who were sending special forces to Greenland, those countries haven't removed their special forces. They've only increased the special forces from France to Germany, Denmark, you go, look, there are more troops. There is a war footing and war posture in Greenland right now. They never. There's no deal. He makes up fake things. There's. There's no. He left and did a deal with his own demented head. And this is what he's done over and over again for the past year. He makes up fake things. And China says that they're gonna. They didn't say any of this. You're making it up. You're. I spoke to India and India. No, you didn't. You're making it up. You're making a. You know, and, and look, on the one hand, it allows state regime media, Fox, to report it on these things to I guess, give their base. You see, Donald Trump did it, but he didn't do it. And all this is doing is hurting. The threats, the chaos, all of every aspect of it is one gigantic fraud. Like Donald Trump's life is one gigantic fraud. He is a predator, he is a fraud. And he's behaving that way right now on the international stage covering up a child sex trafficking ring. I mean, our DOJ is blatantly covering up a child sex trafficking ring in plain view. They don't care. They don't care. I care. Do you care.
Congressman McGovern
What?
Ben Mysellis
They spent a hearing yesterday saying we're going after Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton for contempt. Like, you think we're stupid. You think that. Oh, I guess they're the villains. Just release the files. Just release the files. So here, though, is how state regime media then basically promotes the insanity as though it's normal. I mean, you've got this clown, Will Kane, and Will Kane's like, we've got great news to report here on Fox News. A big deal was struck between the United States and Denmark for control over Greenland. Now, we don't have a lot of details, but we can tell you all Fox viewers, this is going to be a very big deal for you. We want. Just watch him. Watch this madness here. Play this clip, work. So joining me now is former US Ambassador to Denmark and Greenland, Carla Sands. Thanks for being with us here today. I don't know if you have more information than what we've been able to gather so far on the framework of this potential deal. What is your suspicion on? President Trump described it as an infinite deal, a big win for all parties, which is an interesting framing considering earlier today he said, who in the hell in their right mind would want to lease or license presence on Greenland?
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
Yeah, I don't know what he's ended up with.
Ben Mysellis
I know that he said unequivocally that.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
We had to own it.
Ben Mysellis
And I had thought it would be.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
A cofa, more like a free association, but that's not what that is. So does it look more like our relationship with Puerto Rico? I really, I'm looking forward to learning as much as you are about this, this new deal that the framework is in place, but it's really encouraging.
Ben Mysellis
It's really encouraging. What's encouraging? It's really encouraging. Did you hear Anthony? It's really encouraging. Maybe it'll look like our relationship with Puerto Rico. What the hell are these people talking about? Don't you all watching this just sometimes feel like you are the last survivors in a zombie movie? And you're just like, am I the only person who's not a zombie? But the reality is, is that there's far more of us than these zombified magas by far. But they want us to feel that we're all alone and they want to. Gaslight. This is very, very, very good news, right? Well, what's good news? He made up a fake situation. He created a fake crisis, made up a fake deal. And you are analogizing it to Puerto Rico and the United States. What are you even talking about? You live in a fictional weirdo world that is going to be doing generational damage to the United States of America. Because even if you have some normal president who takes over in a few more years after this despicable term is done, the world's going to be like, yo, if you were willing to deal with this guy and not get rid of him after and let him serve a full term, sure, you may have a normal person now. And you know that person's gonna have to do what Obama did and what Clinton did, right? Fix the mess of the prior Republican administration before it. All the while, the Republicans in the House and the Senate, they start saying, oh, you're not being fiscally responsible. Oh, you're the one who's creating these issues when it's fixing the problems of the arsonist that is Donald Trump. But I think the rest of the world's gonna be like, yeah, we don't trust you anymore. So we appreciate it that, like, you, you, you put someone normal in right now, but, like, arm's length, please. We're no longer partners. That's the systemic damage and generational damage that this guy is doing. And I'm not speaking as a partisan, I'm not speaking as a Democrat or I'm trying to speak to you as a human being. Who's observing this with you? Like, what the hell is going on here? And I'm just sick and tired of the gaslighting, right? I mean, what J.D. vance, this is typical abuser behavior, typical predator behavior. He goes into Minnesota, he's like, calm down, everybody, calm down. You're all getting a little bit worked up. I never made any statements saying that officers should get absolute Immunity? That's not what I said at all. Here, let's play this clip of JD Vance from earlier today saying he never said that officers should get absolute immunity. Let's play it. After the Renee Good shooting, sir, the administration seemed to.
JD Vance
Yeah, you can go next.
Ben Mysellis
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
JD Vance
No, it's fine. I'll take both.
Ben Mysellis
After the Renee Good shooting, sir, the administration seems to act. After the Renee Goods shooting, the administration seemed to suggest that ICE officers enjoyed near complete immunity. But today you told the Washington examiner that when appropriate, the administration might take disciplinary actions against ICE agents. So is that a change of opinion? And if so, why the change in tone?
JD Vance
No, I didn't say, and I don't think any other official within the Trump administration said that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd. What I did say is that when federal law enforcement officers violate the law, that is typically something that federal officials would look into. We don't want these guys to have kangaroo courts. We want them to actually have real due process, real investigation, because, again, sometimes they're accused of wrongdoing, and it turns out when you learn the context, they didn't actually do anything wrong. But of course we're going to investigate these things.
Ben Mysellis
Of course you're not going to investigate. You literally did not investigate Jonathan Ross. You investigated the widow of Renee, Nicole Good. And you're trying to throw Don Lemon into prison while Jonathan Ross walks free. And yesterday or two days ago, you said absolute. We have the tape of you saying absolute immunity. Here's the tape of you saying it. Here, play this clip.
JD Vance
The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action, that's a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job. The idea that Tim Walsh and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous.
Ben Mysellis
Like, that alone should be disqualifying. That alone. I mean, there's obviously so many other things that should be disqualifying about that guy. But that alone, right? In normal times, that should be it. Done. Gone, fired. Public pressure, front page, New York Times, Wagyu. We all heard it. I mean, what more of a smoking gun do you need on them than what I just showed you? On the one hand, that's ridiculous. Who would say they have absolute immunity? You. Yesterday. Yesterday. You. That's who. That's who said it.
Donald Trump
Okay?
Ben Mysellis
And so stop giving us this crap. And as you round up 5 year olds wearing their Pokemon hats and use 5 year olds as bait to go after their parents, as you are terrorizing communities. This is what predators do, though. They go. What we're trying to do here is we're just trying to find the sex offenders. 1600 Pennsylvania, if you want to find. We're just trying to find the sex. That's why we're doing this operation. It's a special operation, right? That's like Putin's words. Special operation to find the sex offenders. And do you notice when Kristi Noem goes on the weekend shows? That's what she says. We're going in there and we're finding the pedos and the rapists. Y' all are covering up the Epstein files. Don't lecture us on you finding the pedos, okay? Because y' all are covering up for the biggest pedo ring the. That there is. So don't lecture us on that. But you know what? This is not. You first, play the clip of Vance saying that that's what they're doing. They're going after the sexual product. That's what's happening on the streets of Minneapolis. I guess the people in Minneapolis and St. Paul, y' all are just getting carried away because JD is just trying to find the sex offenders. Ah, here, play this clip.
JD Vance
Big types of cooperation that we need. Look, I don't need Tim Walls or Jacob Frey or anybody else to come out and say that they agree with JD Vance or Donald Trump on immigration. I just don't need that. What I do need them to do is empower their local officials to help our local or help our federal officials out in a way where this can be a little bit less chaotic and it can be a little bit more targeted. Like if we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives.
Ben Mysellis
I'm just reasonable.
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Ben Mysellis
J.D. i'm just a reasonable guy, okay? We're just here trying to find the sex offender. If we don't ask you for it, just tell us where the sex offender is. Why. Why aren't you helping us? That's all we're here for. I'm not sure what this accent is, by the way. That. But that's all we're doing. We're just. We're just. We're just. We're the good. We just. Just come on. Just come on. South. South Park. I don't even know where that. I don't even know where that voice came from. But Someone said in the chat this is literally good versus evil. It is. It's not even really Democrat and Republican anymore. It's just good versus evil. It's right versus wrong. And these MAGA Republicans are on the side of fascism. They're on the side of evil. That's it. That's it. That's a non political position by me because I'm observing their behavior and their behavior is evil. It's cruel. It's unusual every day and it gets weirder and more dangerous and more deranged every single day. It is good versus evil. We've, we, we put the whole special counsel, Jack Smith. I'm not going to talk about Jack Smith. We showed the entire Jack Smith testimony live. You can go back and watch the full thing. I just did a highlight reel. If you want to watch the highlights that I did. That video just posted right now. Reminder. You want to see me and my brothers. We go live at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific tonight. Check out our live show then we'll cover a lot of topics through the lens of the brothers. I'm excited about it. Then I hope you like this new format that we do now every Tuesdays and Thursdays at this time slot. If you don't like this format, it probably just means you don't like me because it's pretty, just pretty much me just talking. So if you don't like this format, you know, I, you know, nothing I could really, nothing I can really do to change myself. But I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll take your criticism to heart and I'll, I'll try to improve. I'll try to, I'll try to get better. A reminder. Join our YouTube channel if you can by make sure you're subscribed. First and foremost. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. So hit subscribe, turn your notifications on. So when we drop a new video, you get the notification if you want to, if you want Midas merch. Want to. Want to rock some Midas gear? Store.midas touch.com I've seen lots of people out and about wearing that Midas gear. My younger brother Jordy's in charge of that. He does a Good job. That's store.midas touch.com make sure you subscribe to the Midas Touch on audio. Wherever you get audio podcasts, subscribe there. Midasplus.com is our substack. M E I D A S p l u s dot com. Midasplus.com is our substack. We'll upload these solo Ben breaking news things on our audio feed as well. So. So check it out there. You could join, I think I said join our YouTube page and you can gift memberships to others. That's how we built our D.C. bureau. That's how we built out a lot of the partnerships that you've been seeing. And that's all I got for you. Of course. Check back every 90 minutes or so we'll post new videos on the Midas Touch YouTube page. I just did the recap of Jack Smith so as soon as this ends, go look at the recap video. So just you could exit out of this. Click on the recap video if you want to see that. And I appreciate it. Appreciate it. Much love. I love you all. I'm grateful for all of your support each and every day. Thank you all so much. And shout out to Canada. Shout out to Europe, Central America, South America, Mexico, Africa, Australia, everywhere in the world. We're grateful for you. We're grateful for your support. We'll keep building, we'll keep growing. We'll keep fighting for you because I know that you're fighting for democracy every single day. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack@midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from our Ron Filipkowski ad, free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content Only available@midasplus.com. Well, the holidays have come and gone once again. But if you've forgotten to get that special someone in your life a gift. Well, Mint Mobile is extending their holiday offer of half off unlimited wireless. So here's the idea. You get it now, you call it an early present for next year. Do you have to lose? Give it a try@mintmobile.com Switch limited time.
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Episode: Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 1/22/26
Host: Ben Meiselas
Date: January 22, 2026
This breaking news segment, hosted solo by Ben Meiselas, offers a rapid-fire, impassioned analysis of ongoing political crises involving former President Donald Trump, United States immigration enforcement, international relations post-Davos, and Democratic resistance tactics. Ben’s tone is direct, outraged, and full of activist energy, as he highlights what he sees as threats to democracy and rule of law, particularly targeting Trump's administration, the current DOJ, and elements within the Democratic party that he feels are not resistant enough to authoritarian overreach.
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If you missed the episode, this summary captures Ben’s passion, the major stories, and how events are being interpreted by the MeidasTouch podcast team. The brothers’ unapologetic, activist style is central, coupling political outrage with the urgency of citizen action.
Subscribe to the MeidasTouch podcast or YouTube channel for ongoing updates and deeper dives into breaking stories and interviews with leading political figures.