Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 3/19/26

Summary

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Episode: Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben (3/19/26)
Host: MeidasTouch Network
Date: March 19, 2026

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Overview

This breaking news episode, hosted solo by Ben Meiselas, provides an urgent, in-depth analysis of the spiraling Iran war launched by the Trump administration in concert with Benjamin Netanyahu. Ben examines real-time military and diplomatic developments, economic fallout, propaganda, and the unraveling of international alliances, while highlighting administration chaos, profiteering, and the ongoing Epstein files cover-up. The tone is passionate, critical, and laced with both legal and political insight—true to the MeidasTouch style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Escalating War in Iran and Its Fallout

• Unlawful War’s Escalation ([03:06]): Ben opens with the dire situation: Trump and Netanyahu have dragged the US and its allies into “an unlawful, disastrous war,” provoking heavy Iranian retaliations. Iran has successfully struck major targets across the Gulf, including Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), the Ras Laffan LNG facility (Qatar), and Bahrain ([03:06–07:00]).

  • Quote: “It is really sad and pathetic as an American to see Donald Trump getting so utterly and thoroughly dominated by Iran.” (Ben, [06:45])

• Iran’s Military Effectiveness: Iran’s advanced use of drones and ballistics has exposed weaknesses in US and NATO military systems, downing US jets and evading traditional defenses.

• Human Cost: Ben details the grave toll—civilian deaths in Iran (including 165 girls), Lebanon, Gaza, and the loss of US servicemembers. He calls out the administration's disregard for these lives while pursuing escalation dominance.

2. Diplomatic Breakdown and International Isolation

• No Support from Allies:

  • After Trump’s and Netanyahu’s aggressive unilateral moves, major European allies refuse to commit to defending the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Confusion reigns after conflicting statements from Italy and the UK: “We’re not committing troops to Iran... For Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, you go and do that yourself.” ([13:00])
  • Quote: “No NATO countries want to help Donald Trump because he didn’t tell... He went in alone and then he’s claimed that he didn’t need the help.” (Ben, [27:00])

• Diplomatic Ridicule:

  • Trump’s behavior during a White House meeting with Japanese PM Takahishi is described as “deranged,” especially making tone-deaf Pearl Harbor jokes.
  • Memorable Moment: Japanese interpreter “literally froze” during translation, unsure how to process Trump’s remarks ([23:44]).

3. Economic Chaos and Profiteering

• Oil Shock: The war has caused oil prices to spike above $120/barrel and gas over $4/gallon, with warnings that $200/barrel could be next ([09:45]).

• Treasury’s Response:

  • Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Besant proposes lifting sanctions on Iranian oil as prices skyrocket—a move Ben calls “absurd” as it only enriches Iran further.
  • Quote: “So we’re going to remove sanctions from Iran right now. That’s the game plan. We map this out so brilliantly, go to war against Iran... remove the sanctions against Iran and Russia, allow China, Iran and Russia to get much stronger, completely weaken America’s alliances. That’s the game plan.” (Ben, [27:00])

• Massive War Spending:

  • Pete Hegseth advocates for another $200 billion in war spending. Ben contrasts it with US domestic needs: “They don’t have money for housing... for education... But when it comes to dropping bombs in a quagmire with Netanyahu, Donald Trump finds $200 billion.” ([15:45])

4. Administration’s Propaganda and Chaotic Messaging

• Out-of-Touch President: Trump posts about $180,000 Trump sneakers at Sneaker Con Riyadh and windmill conspiracies, even as regional infrastructure is bombed ([18:24–20:00]).

  • Memorable Quote: “Rare Trump sneakers listed for $180,000 at Sneaker Con in Riyadh... Imagine you’re Saudi Arabia, your MBS, you’ve given Donald Trump huge amounts of money... this is what you thought you were paying for.” (Ben, [18:24])

• Offensive Rhetoric & Lack of Diplomacy: Trump belittles allies publicly (including Japan), talks “Pearl Harbor surprises,” and boasts of “tippy top” war policy ([22:39], [47:39]).

• Propaganda Words:

  • Ben ridicules the administration’s overuse of terms like “lethality” and “exquisite,” calling it “the single dumbest propaganda campaign.” ([41:23])

5. Regime Change Promises Collapsing

• Netanyahu Backs Down ([33:21]): After months of insisting regime change in Iran was imminent, Netanyahu concedes on-air that the Iranian regime “may survive.”

  • Quote: “What you said was going to happen, that you would be welcomed like heroes... All we saw in Iran, or quite the contrary, were huge protests... supporting the new ayatollah... You turned their old ayatollah into a martyr.” (Ben, [33:44])

• Failed Strategy: Ben argues the US/Israel approach has only emboldened Iran, rallied hardliners, and closed diplomatic openings.

6. The Epstein Files – Cover-Up and Congressional Shenanigans

• Ongoing Cover-Up ([56:00]): Ben connects the administration’s war posturing with efforts to distract from explosive developments in the Epstein investigation.
• Key Revelations:
  • Trump’s lawyer confirmed under oath that Trump never kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, contradicting public claims ([~1:01:15]).
  • DOJ is concealing a 69-page report from DEA/DOJ on Epstein’s money laundering and drug trafficking (beyond sexual abuse).
• Congressional Maneuvers: Pam Bondi’s maneuver to avoid testifying under oath, Democratic Congressmember Garcia’s strategic response.
  • Quote: “Don’t you dare invoke the name of the victims while you’re covering up all of these reports and 3 million documents still have not been produced.” (Ben, [1:02:54])

7. Media & MeidasTouch Updates

• MeidasTouch Wins IHeart News Podcast of the Year ([31:09]): Ben takes a victory lap on beating NBC, NYT, and others—thanks listeners and MeidasMighty community.

8. Final Reflections and Warnings

• Danger of Further Escalation: Ben repeatedly questions Trump’s endgame (“Every three hours another stupid social media post is your game plan?” [39:20]), and worries that the escalating conflict, billions in unfunded war spending, and leadership instability may result in “the biggest stains in the history of the United States of America if we can get through this damn thing.”
• International Power Shift: Ben warns the war is a “gift” to China, Russia, and Iran, making the US less secure and more isolated.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “It is really sad and pathetic as an American to see Donald Trump getting so utterly and thoroughly dominated by Iran.” (Ben, [06:45])
• “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, okay?” (Donald Trump, addressing Japanese PM, [22:39])
• “Everything was going great. The economy is great... I decided, let me go on an excursion in Iran.” (Donald Trump, [48:10])
• “Rare Trump sneakers listed for $180,000 at Sneaker Con in Riyadh…” (Ben, [18:24])
• “We don’t need you, but we want you to step up.” (Trump, on Japan’s military contribution, [45:27])
• “Don’t you dare invoke the name of the victims while you’re covering up all of these reports and 3 million documents still have not been produced. How dare you invoke the name of the survivors and the victims, you disgusting pieces of trash.” (Ben, [1:02:54])

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [03:06]: Ben begins analysis of the Iran conflict, recaps unfolding events
• [13:00]: Allies refuse to support the Trump-led war
• [15:45]: Pete Hegseth and Trump’s push for $200B supplemental war spending
• [18:24]: Trump’s social media distractions—Trump sneakers during crisis
• [22:39]: Trump’s press conference with Japanese PM; the “Pearl Harbor” line
• [27:00]: Treasury’s plan to lift Iranian sanctions, economic fallout
• [33:21]: Netanyahu admits possible regime survival in Iran
• [41:23]: Ben on the administration’s “dumbest propaganda campaign”
• [47:23]: Trump’s “tippy top” doctrine and rationale for the war
• [48:10]: Trump frames the war as an “excursion” because the economy was strong
• [56:00]: Epstein files and cover-up revelations
• [1:01:15]: Trump’s lawyer disproves Mar-a-Lago expulsion myth

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Closing Remarks

Ben signs off with a strong appeal for accountability amid the chaos—exposing profiteering, propaganda, and escalating costs of war, while urging listeners to stay informed, hold leaders to account, and support independent journalism. The episode is a searing critique of Trump-era policies, blending legal, political, and impassioned rhetoric with unique MeidasTouch banter.

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For Full Context or Actionable Insights:
Listeners are encouraged to watch the related “Top Trump Officials Throw Him Under the Bus at War Hearing” video posted on the MeidasTouch channel for more details on Congressional hearings related to the war.

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MeidasTouch Network:
“Unapologetic support for democracy—through news, analysis, and the MeidasMighty community.”

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And Donald Trump posts, you're watching right there the video of Iran striking Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And in Riyadh they say actually there wasn't a strike, it was just debris. I mean, dude, I'm watching a mushroom cloud right now in Riyadh as the Riyadh facilities were hit, as the Qatari facilities were hit. We previously talked about how the Bahrain facilities were hit and Iran threatened because Netanyahu and Trump attacked our facilities, the South Pars gas field. We're going to hit these targets. And they did. And they did hit the targets. And then in response, Donald Trump made a social media post that said it was actually all Netanyahu's fault. We weren't consulted about this at all when we know that Donald Trump and Netanyahu did that together. It's what's referred to in the military as escalation dominance. And it is really sad and pathetic as an American to see Donald Trump getting so utterly and thoroughly dominated by Iran. Iran is firing more shaheeds and ballistics right now. They are hitting more per shot than during the first days of the conflict. They shot down an F35 today. Fortunately, at least from what we're hearing now, the pilot was able to make it back safely. As Donald Trump says, Iran doesn't have the ballistic missile capabilities or anti aircraft capabilities and we're flying over Iran with impunity. There's no doubt that the United States and Israel have hit Iran very hard. They've also hit civilian targets in Iran. Talked about the 150 little girls, 165 little girls who were massacred by the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime in Iran. You have see what's going on in Lebanon right now where Israel says it's going after Hezbollah, but we're seeing so many civilians who are killed in Lebanon, in Beirut where the suburbs there have just been like blown up. I mean just utterly destroyed. I'll show you this video clip in a little bit. But now you have Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, saying, actually I don't think that we're going to be able to do regime change in Iran anymore. We see cracks but we're not going to see regime change. What you are going to see though is you now have brought in a more extreme Ayatollah. You've gotten the people of Iran to rally around a new Ayatollah. You killed the former national security adviser Ali Laranjani in his place. You're going to bring in people who are more extreme. You have Iran emboldened. Not only right now have they blocked the Strait of Hormuz, they are now charging toll passage fees, $2 million to get through to preferred countries. They are profiting off of it. And then this morning, Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is talking about lifting sanctions on Iranian oil. What you're lifting the sanctions, you're rewarding Iran right now. And, and you see the Trump regime panicking because oil prices are going through the roof right now, $120 a barrel today. Lots of people say we shouldn't be shocked now if that hits $200 per barrel. You saw the price of diesel over $5 a gallon, the price of gas, basically over $4 a gallon right now. Everything's falling apart. You have the Trump regime lifting the sanctions on oil of Iran or they're talking about lifting the sanctions of oil of Iran, Iran solidifying its control. And then you had Donald Trump doing this press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Takahishi. And Donald Trump's doing Pearl harbor jokes. He's saying, yeah, you know, we Surprised you, Japan. But why didn't you give me a call about Pearl Harbor? You should have called me and gave me a heads up on Pearl Harbor. I mean, that's what you're saying in the Oval Office as you're trying to shake down Prime Minister Takahi into helping secure the Strait of Hormuz. And we heard from the Italy Defense Minister today, who, you know, I guess Trump got the UK to write this kind of vague and ambiguous message that almost made it seem that European countries would be helping secure the Strait of Hormuz. And they put out this message. It was a little bit confusing and then immediately after, and it was inconsistent with what the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. Keir Starmer said, only in a defensive posture or will we help? You know, we're not committing troops to Iran. We're not committing troops to the Strait of Hormuz. I read this statement. It was a little bit confusing. The Italy Defense Minister and all the European countries then came out and said, no, no, no. Once this war ends, we are committed to working within the region, using diplomacy, of course, in order to be helpful in the Strait of Hormuz. But we're not helping with any type of naval mission. We're not sending our soldiers to. For Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, you go and do that yourself. United States of America. Now, you know how much this is costing? This is costing billions of dollars every single day. The cost already is probably 50 billion, maybe more. We're not getting accurate numbers. I wouldn't be shocked if we've already spent $100 billion. The United States national debt just hit $39 trillion. And what, a few months ago it was 38 trillion. A few months before that it was 37 trillion. Remember, during Donald Trump's first term, he added more debt than anyone. But 30% of the national debt came from Donald Trump. You remember that? And I predicted, before Donald Trump's term started, I said, it's going to be like 10x that. Remember the videos where I said that? And I predicted that. And it doesn't take me to be Notre Damas to be able to predict that. The guy's a crazy guy. The guy's a lunatic. The guy bankrupted all of his casinos. The guy's a lifelong loser. He's been a piece of trash his entire life. I mean, here's the whole thing. His whole thing was being a con artist his whole damn life and being a freaking loser. To me, when I would convey that it was never a political message for me to say these things at all. Just look at the guy's background. He bankrupted this casino, then that casino, then this casino, then this company, then that company, then this company. And so the Arab nations who thought they were buying some sort of pay for play scheme with Donald Trump, that they would pay by Trump Towers in their country, right? I mean, they view if we have a Trump Tower in Riyadh or if we have a Trump Tower in Doha or Abu Dhabi, then he's more likely to protect us because he has his own buildings there. And if we buy him a jet for $450 million and we can get billion dooll radar systems, that seems to be a good pay for play scheme. So let's just give Donald Trump and his crypto scams and his schemes, so let's just give him money because that's how Donald Trump is. He's trying to just pay for play. Now you're learning what Donald Trump's creditors felt like with his casinos and what his contractors felt like with his casino. He just screws you all over. You paid. And now you get deranged social media posts saying, Iran, you're being naughty, you need to stop. Netanyahu did that. I didn't do that. And you have Iran actually pursuing a strategy both in terms of their propaganda and in terms of their scorched earth military retaliatory strikes. And the United States is trapped. Now Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth today are saying that they need $200 billion more for this war. $200 billion more for this disastrous war. Do you remember when they said that $30 billion was way too much money in order to ensure at least an extension of Affordable Care act subsidies? They didn't have $30 billion for that. They don't have money for housing. They don't have money for mental health. They don't have money for better education. They don have money for actually building the infrastructure in the United States. They don't have money for all of that. But when it comes to dropping bombs in a quagmire with Netanyahu, Donald Trump finds $200 billion. $200 billion that should be spent on Americans and bettering Americans lives, Remember, by the way, now add this $200 billion as a supplemental. What do you think we've already spent? Let's just estimate $150 billion so far. $350 billion. Right. What's the ICE budget? $200 billion. Right. So right there I just found over $500 billion. Our military budget is over a trillion Dollars. And our military, as we're all seeing right now, is not adapted to the modern warfare environment. What we had 11 of our reaper drones shot out of the sky. We have these huge systems that are unable to really deal with the drones and to deal with the sea drones and the FPV drones that are in the sky, those first person vision drones. We could have watched what was happening in Ukraine and how Ukraine amassed a huge drone army of its own and drone interceptors to deal with the shaheeds from Iran and to deal with Russia. Remember, Russia brought in their conventional army. One of the ways Ukraine repelled the drones, sea drones, unmanned vessels, Right. So then Russia had to basically subcontract the war out to Iran and to North Korea and to others. And Iran helped Russia with the drones and they developed this drone program together. Did you know this? This week, NATO ran five simulations of NATO versus Ukraine in a war in a sea battle. NATO's frigates versus Ukraine. They did a simulation. And do you know what happened in the simulation? Ukraine won all five times in five different simulations in the war, Ukraine won every single time. Why? Because NATO's equipment is not able to deal with the drones. It's not able to. And we're seeing what plays out right now. So let's just go through some of the receipts as we always bring you here on the Midas Touch network. Let's bring receipt after receipt after receipt. First, I want to show you Pete Hegseth from earlier today. And Pete Hegseth was saying that this war is going to cost about $200 billion more, but that's a small price to pay when it comes to killing the bad guys. Here's what Pete Hegson said earlier.

[Pete Hegseth]

Let's play both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what happened with that as well. As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move. Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys. So we're going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is. Everything's refilled. And not just refilled, but above and beyond. I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term, didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had, so thank goodness he did that. And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent. And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretaries here is doing.

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You heard that right there. Let's take a look at what Heg said about our European allies and how ungrateful he says they are. Here, let's play this clip.

[Pete Hegseth]

The world, the Middle east, our ungrateful allies in Europe, even segments of our own press should be saying one thing to President Trump. Thank you.

[Host]

Really, what has Donald Trump been posting today? Donald Trump has been posting photos of Trump sneakers, rare Trump sneakers listed for $180,000 at Sneaker Con in Riyadh. You believe that there is a sneaker con in Riyadh right now while it's under attack from Iran as a result of Saudi Arabia helping the United States. You think that that's what's happening? I mean, just think about how offensive this is. Like imagine you're Saudi Arabia, your mbs, you've given Donald Trump personally huge amounts of money. You've, you know, believe you're in all these pay for play schemes, right? You're Saudi Arabia, you're Qatar, your uae, Right? And this is what you thought you were paying for. Donald Trump embroils your country in a massive regional war. He basically destroys your country's future, right? Who the hell is going to Abu Dhabi? Who the hell is going to be going to Doha? Who the hell is going to be doing a tourist trip right now to Dubai? Right? That ain't happening. And so while all these countries have tried to modernize and to diversify from not just being oil kind of rich countries because they knew that there wasn't always a future in that they developed all these other industries and then they thought they were paying for protection by Donald Trump. And what do they get instead? Rare Trump sneakers listed for 180,000 at Sneaker Con in Riyadh. That was Donald Trump's post. Or today, Donald Trump posting about windmills. From Douglas MacKinnon, this is a photo. Yesterday on the drive from LA to Palm Springs. Hundreds and hundreds of these pieces of junk windmills. No surprise to the president, but only 10% of them working. As we drove past eagle and bird killers, which suck the taxpayers dry. My best to the president. Now, how deranged can you be when you're in a war? That now has been the biggest shock to oil supply, to liquefied natural gas, to fertilizers, to helium generationally. Right. And you are also spending your time attacking other forms of energy which would be actually useful during a war where there is an oil shock. So you attack the windmills and you don't even understand. Just because, I mean, they're so moronic. I've driven by that windmill farm quite frequently. Just because you don't see the windmills turning, do you know the way energy works? That doesn't mean that they're not working the way they're supposed to work. You're just visualizing them and saying only 10% of them look like they are spinning. And then Donald Trump reposts that during a war. While you have bases in Saudi Arabia, while you have. While you have oil fields and energy fields in Qatar and Saudi Arabia being targeted right now. That is what you are doing right now. I want to bring you to this Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Takaishi of Japan. Right? You have Prime Minister Takahishi. Look at her face. Just look at her as Donald Trump is out there saying the most deranged things imaginable during this war. So a reporter asked Donald Trump, why didn't you tell the allies about the war before attacking Iran? Why didn't you tell Japan? Why didn't you tell your allies, the Arab nations? Why didn't you tell NATO? Why did you just do this, you and Netanyahu? Because you seem like you need the help of allies soon. Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it.

[Donald Trump]

Of course, no, Japan and us are very good friends. But one question. Why didn't you tell US allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran? So we are very confused about one thing. You don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay. Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay. Right. He's asking me, you believe in surprise. I think much more so than us. And we had a surprise, and we did. And because of that surprise, we knocked out the first two days. We probably knocked out 50% of what we. And much more than we anticipated doing. So if I go and tell everybody about it, there's no longer a surprise, Right? Okay.

[Host]

What the. Beep. What the. The more I watch that, the worse it gets on every level. And by the way, Takaishi is trying to be supportive of Donald Trump there. Also, I was hearing how in on Japanese tv, we have a lot of Japanese fans on the Midas Touch Network and how when they were doing the translation, the translator literally froze and didn't know. Am I supposed to translate that? Like, what do I Even do. The translator was stunned and couldn't even repeat those words. You know, I've had people text message me and say what even is this war? What is even happening right here? How is this possibly happening where you have the most deranged human beings in Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth who are completely and utterly tearing the United States apart piece by piece. Let me just show you this one, Jeremy. I want to show what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said. This is their plan. Their plan now in a war against Iran. What do you think the Trump's plan is right? We're at war against Iran. Trump and Netanyahu launch this unlawful war. Our service members are being killed. Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz with an iron fist more than it did before. It's now demanding $2 million to pass if you are allied with Iran. They see more control than ever. America's stuck. No NATO countries want to help Donald Trump because he didn't tell. He went in alone and then he's claimed that he didn't need the help. So what do you think the stupidest, most dangerous thing that can possibly be said by Treasury Secretary Scott Besant right now? Let's play what he said.

[Pete Hegseth]

Effort. We had a break the glass plan across the administration and at Treasury. We unstable sanction Russian oil. We knew that There were about 130 million barrels on the water and we created supply that is beyond the Straits of Hormuz. So we anticipated this. We knew that there could be a temporary, and I want to emphasize temporary choke point there. And there was 130 million barrels of floating storage. In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels. So depending on how you count it, that's 10 days to two weeks of supply that the Iranians had been pushing out that would have all gone to China. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign.

[Host]

All right, I want to take our first, you know, we're going to remove sanctions from Iran right now. That's the game plan. We we map this out so brilliantly, go to war against Iran, let them rally the support of their people, remove the sanctions against Iran and Russia, allow China, Iran and Russia to get much stronger, completely weaken America's what was left of America's alliances. That's the game plan. That's what the game plan was. In any event, hit subscribe, let's get to 7 million subscribers. We're going to take our first quick break of the show. We will be right back after this quick break.

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Welcome back, everybody. How's my audio, everybody? I know there was like an audio issue before, as you may have seen. Just. We'll check now with the audio. So I was in Austin where I brought the family and we were up for a, we were up for the I Heart News Podcast of the Year award. And so we, we were so honored. The Midas Touch Network won that incredible award News Podcast of the Year. We beat Megyn Kelly. I made that part of my accept or acceptance speech. We also were in a category with like the New York Times and NPR and PBS and a lot of, you know, other than Megyn Kelly, a lot of really great shows. And it was pretty incredible to be named the, the podcast News Podcast of the year. And I want to. Good audio sounds good. Everybody saying that's, that's good. I give. You know, so after we won that, it's my spring break right now. And so, you know, fortunately I have the family at my house right now and they allowed me and my wife to, to go out while they're at the house. And so we were able to make it out here to San Diego. And so we just, we took a little trip over here. And so that's where I'm recording from, in case you're wondering, you know, where are you even right now? We were in Austin now in San Diego and you know, and we fixed the last audio issue, you know, and so it's a little bit difficult when I travel, but I wanted to get the family to go hang out at beach or something and just whatever. All right, enough. Enough me talking about myself. All right, let's jump back in. Let's jump back into the news. Let's talk about. I just want to show you what Netanyahu said earlier, because after Netanyahu saying regime change and this is what we're going to do. Let me just show you what he just said. He said that while there's. Well, he believes there are signs of cracks in the Iranian regime, he says that it's possible that the regime will indeed survive the ongoing war. I want to show this to you, then I want to talk to you about this in a moment. Let's play this clip. What do we see?

[Donald Trump]

What happens if the. Are there any signs that the Iranian regime is cracking? A lot of signs. A lot of signs. I wish I could divulge all of them, but I see that. But will I tell you, will I commit right now that it's going to collapse? I can tell you that we're working to create the conditions for it to collapse. But it may, it may survive, it may not. If it's.

[Host]

It may survive, it may not. So what do you, you and Donald Trump went into this thing on regime change and that this would be easy and that there was going to be all these people out the street, apparently, who are going to be holding Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, billboards in the street and saying, oh, we're so honored that you are here. We're so honored. We want the people in the United States who are covering up the Epstein files and the people who have demolished Gaza and the people who have demolished Beirut. Come and talk. Welcome, welcome. That's what you said was going to happen, that you would be welcomed like heroes. And then you said, just wait for it. The people are going to rise up. And all we saw in Iran, or quite the contrary, were huge protests that were released out there. And you can say, ah, it was for propaganda. It was Iranian propaganda purposes, whatever you want to say. The only big protests that we've seen in Iran, whether they were propaganda or otherwise, were supporting the new ayatollah and were against and were for remembrance of their old ayatollah, who they now view as a martyr, someone who had cancer, who was 86 years old, who was growing unpopular, you turned into a martyr within the Shiite community right there. That became a rallying call for the people. Then you blew up an elementary school and, and killed little girls. As in the United States, you're covering up the sexual predation of little girls. Then you go to war and you kill little girls as the first act of the war. You start attacking desal plants and oil depots. And you think that's a way to build popular support in a country of 90 million people that's far bigger than Iraq. You think that's the way to do regime change. And now you just. How cavalierly they go, well, no, maybe we don't do it. Maybe we have regime change, maybe we don't. Excuse me. Excuse me. Because the last time I checked, over a dozen American service members have been killed. Many are seriously wounded. There are civilians who are dead in Beirut and Lebanon and in. And in Iran, in these elementary schools and in these other civilian areas as well. There are still murders happening every day in Gaza right now, when you all did a fake ceasefire claim. Oh, it's a fake ceasefire. Been a thousand plus innocent people who have been killed in Gaza since they announced there was a ceasefire. I'm like, there's no ceasefire. What are you even talking about? We. We see. And, and by the way, did you see the British journalist who was targeted by Israel today? It, while his reporting was criticizing Israel for targeting journalists. Right. And then Israel targets him while he's reporting on it. I think we have the video of it while he's in Beirut. Here, play this clip. Further rocket attacks were reported, reported against Nahariya.

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Yeah. Now don't gaslight me and say, oh, the target. What were you targeting there? It looks like you were targeting the journalist. Okay. I can believe my own eyes. Okay. I can. I can look at what's actually happening, whether it's. Look at what's happening in Gaza. I can look at what's happening in Beirut. I can look at what is happening in Iran. And do I think Iran is a terrorist regime? Yes. Do I think Hamas is a terrorist group? Yes. Do I think Hezbollah is a terrorist group? Yes. Do I think that gives a Netanyahu regime and a Trump regime carte blanche authority to kill innocent people en masse? Absolutely not. Don't even have that. It's not a debate. It's not the way we exist as human beings. What the hell are you doing? What are we even talking about here? And by the way, I don't even want to play more of that Pete Hegseth bizarre press conference this morning. But if you want to look at where the theocracy is, I mean, did you hear Pete Hegseth and Gee, the whole, the whole speech when he was like, Jesus Christ has told me this and the church and the God and church and Jesus. It's like what? Can you just stop it? Stop using the church and Jesus and all of these things to engage in your unlawful wars and your cover up of the Epstein files and you're ripping away of health care from people and now hundreds of billions of dollars being spent in this stupid, disastrous, dangerous, unlawful war that will forever be one of the biggest stains in the history of the United States of America if we can get through this damn thing. While you have China just. It's a gift for Russia, what a gift for Iran. They're more powerful than before. And what's the US going to do? What, what's the game plan? Is the game plan you escalate, you put boots on the ground and the carg island that you put boots on the ground in the coast of Iran is, is that your game plan, Donald? What's the game plan? Is it to write social media posts in all caps? Do something, do something. That's that, that's your game plan? Every three hours another stupid social media post is your game plan. You have the Prime Minister of Japan and then you start attacking NATO. NATO doesn't want to help us with the straight and they're the ones that need it. But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude. But now they're too late. What, what do you even mean by any of these things? What nonsense is spewing from your stupid mouth? Here, play this clip. I've been saying that, that NATO doesn't want to help us defend the strait of her muse.

[Donald Trump]

But we think of it, we don't use the strain. We're defending the straight for everybody else. And then in the case of NATO, they don't want to help us defend the straight and they're the ones that need it. But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude. They're getting much nicer, but it's as far as I'm concerned, it's too late. You know, know UK wants to send aircraft carriers now. And I said I want the aircraft carriers before the war. I don't want them after the war is won. They want to send me aircraft carriers after the war. There's practically nobody to shoot at them. You know their missile count is down. Pete, maybe you could discuss it by about 90 something percent. The drones are way down and the factories are being demolished. Man.

[Pete Hegseth]

Yes sir. Our missile missiles being shot are down over 90% since the beginning. One way attack. Drones down 90% since the beginning, which is A reflection of overwhelming firepower. But you mentioned the Most important part, Mr. President. Their defense industrial base. If you can't make more of it in the future, then you have a limited supply. And so we're going after all of their defense contractors that make all of their exquisite weapons and ensuring that even if they want to do rebuild more launchers or more missiles, they couldn't in the future. And that's a level of devastation for their military that they've never seen before.

[Host]

So we have in literally just saying stupid words. Like your words are stupid. Devastation, lethality. Exquisite. Their new word. Their new. Have you heard that they're all using this word. Exquisite. Exquisite. This is exquisite. That is exquisite. Exquisitely exquisite. But a stupid word to use. Ex. What's exquisite about this? Right. This is, this is. This is the single dumbest propaganda campaign as well, by the. You. What's the propaganda campaign? Just to go and see how many people will hate you and how dumb you could possibly. Lethality. I mean, we have actual data. Why don't we just even not look at the data? Why don't we just look at images of the Ross laughing Liquefied natural gas facility in Qatar. Bird, do we have the B roll of that? Yeah, this is. Iran said we're going to target the LNG facility in Qatar, right? Because the South Pars energy facility of Iran that was hit by Trump and Netanyahu is actually connected to the northern facility within Qatar right there. So that, right there. That, that, that, that sure seems like Iran is degraded or, or what? Donald and Pete Hegseth. Am I looking at AI? Is, Am I looking at AI right here when I see a giant freaking mushroom cloud in Riyadh hitting energy centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as well? Am I looking at AI when I see the FPV drones just flying around with impunity in the Green Zone in Baghdad? Am I looking at AI when the US Embassy in Iran, Baghdad, and basically everywhere in the Middle east says evacuate right now, get the hell out right now. That's what Trump says to. This is all AI. This, this, this is not AI but, but now let's look at the data. What the data actually reflects as the war goes on. Iran and Andreas Larson post this data. Iran is firing more and they are hitting more per shot than during the first day of the conflict. And look, when Iran's South Pars energy field was hit two days ago, they specifically said, okay, here's where we're going to hit. They told the people who were working in those facilities to leave, and then they hit it right away. Why, if you've demolished and obliterated and decimated Iran, are you now moving the THAAD and Patriot missile systems from South Korea to the Middle East? Oh, probably because Iran's been able to successfully strike your radars and your THAAD systems and your Patriot system systems. Maybe. Maybe that's why. Maybe that's why. And then going through again this disastrous press conference between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Takaishi. I mean, there was also just some other moments that are worth mentioning as well, like when Donald Trump is talking about the cost of this war, or first, let me show you what he said about Japan. I expect Japan to step up. Up, because, you know, we have that kind of relationship. We just have that kind of relationship. Here's what Donald Trump says. Let's play it.

[Donald Trump]

This looks like one of your people right here.

[Host]

Thank you.

[Donald Trump]

Is he good or bad? Is he a good reporter or bad? You know, so. So not. All right, this looks like a. Go ahead.

[Host]

Mr. President, you just mentioned Japan is stepping up. What kind of this happens do you expect from Japan in the future?

[Donald Trump]

Look, I expect Japan to step up because, you know, we have that kind of relationship, and we step up with Japan. We have 45,000 soldiers in Japan. We have. We spend a lot of money on Japan. So. And we've had that kind of relationship. So I expect. I'm not surprised that they would step up. We don't need much. We don't need anything. I mean, honestly, we don't need anything from. From Japan or from anyone else. But I think it's appropriate that people step up. In the case of Japan, I hear they get more than 90% of their oil through the strait. So that's a big reason to step up. I mean, we've. We've demolished. That country is close to demolished. The only thing is the strait. It's very hard. You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in the water and they're holding things up. We don't want that to happen. But honestly, Japan, China, Europe, parts of Europe.

[Host]

Yeah. I mean, we don't need them to do anything, but we want you to step up. And by the way, even his interaction with the reporter was so inappropriate. He looked at a Japanese guy and then he said, he looks like he's like one of yours, or he looks like he's one of your people. Why? He's a Japanese guy. Is he good? Is. Is he a good one? And then the guy asked a question. What do you expect from Japan. Then Donald Trump says, we don't need you, but we. But we want you to step up. Like, he is not articulating things, frankly, at even a child level. He's not speaking in ways that are even coherent yet alone, reflecting a coherent policy. He's not speaking coherently. What about the $200 billion, Donald? The $200 billion Pentagon request? Let's play this.

[Donald Trump]

Sophisticated rockets, Every single one of them was shot down with our equipment, all our equipment. It's amazing, actually, how good it is. So we want to be sure, and it's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top, Mr. President.

[Host]

Tippy top. That's our policy. We need to make sure that we stay tippy top. Then Donald Trump says, everything was going great in our country, the economy, things were booming. He said so because things were so good. He goes, I decided, let me go on an excursion in Iran. That's why I did this, because the Dow was doing great. Everything was amazing. So I figured excursion time, just like, literally. Listen to what he's saying here and how deranged it is here. Play the score.

[Donald Trump]

All done. Everything was going great. The economy is great. Oil prices were very low. Gasoline was dropping to. I mean, we had A$99,85. We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran and I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it. And I actually thought the numbers would be worse. I thought that it would go up more than it did. But we're doing this excursion and when it's completed, we're going to have a much safer world. And the Prime Minister agrees with me on this. She considers it to be terrible what Iran did. I think every country does. Just about every country does. Iran is a serious threat to the world, to the Middle east and to the world. And everybody agrees with me. I think virtually every country agrees with me on that. So wanted to put out that fire and I said, you know, if I do that, oil prices will go up, the economy will go down a little bit. I thought it would be worse. Much worse, actually. I thought there was a chance it could be much worse. It's not bad and it's going to be over with pretty soon.

[Host]

What do you mean it's not bad? You thought it was going to be worse? Let's just assume you actually thought it was going to be worse than $100, $120 per barrel with a facility that supplies 20% of LNG throughout the entire world. Being about 20% decimated. Meaning for the next five years, the world just lost about 5% of its overall LNG. In addition to oil prices going up, we haven't even talked about fertilizers, helium, other things that come from the Middle east, where now our farmers need another bailout right now, and they're saying we need at least 12, maybe $15 billion more in a bailout because we can't afford our fertilizer. There was already China depriving us of the soybean market. When Donald Trump did his trade war against the world, the input costs for farmers were crushing. So there was already a bailout with the farmers, by the way, Donald Trump helping the cattle industry in Argentina, and Donald Trump giving monies to farmers in Argentina and screwing over our farmers here. But now our farmers are screwed. But let's just assume Donald Trump knew that it was going to be this bad. And in fact, he believed it was going to be much worse. But he wanted to go on an excursion. Just assume that that's the case. You should be arrested. There's a lot of other things that frankly, you should be arrested for, thrown in prison for. You deserve to be in prison already. I mean, you're a sicko and your entire regime is covering up the Epstein files right now. And I don't want ever neglect that fact right there. So you knew you were just going to destroy everything. And you don't even do an address. You don't even tell the people that your excursion would cause this level of pain. In fact, you thought it was going to be worse. You don't think that. Again, I don't care what political party you're from. You don't think that that's something that you should tell the people. No, you just don't do that. You just, you just do an invasion and then you do some social media post on truth social media about your sneakers, about your ugly gold sneakers selling for $180,000. That's the way you, you message this. I mean, in my opinion, it's just so treasonous and traitorous, and I just don't know how anybody looks at that. Unless your brain is literally rotten to a pulp. That's even an expression. How you support this madness. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We'll be right back. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. And again, thanks to everybody in this community for helping the Midas Touch Network win the I Heart Award iheart Award for the top news podcast of the year. It's a big honor. It's a big category. It's one of their top awards of the night. That's why I've been traveling. And we'll be right back after our last quick break.

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d a S thank you to our pro democracy sponsors right there. The discount codes for all of them are in the description below. And we do spend a lot of time. Jordi leads the way on this working with those sponsors. They help support the growth of this network. And the discount codes, Jordi works out with them. So you know they're good discount codes. They help the show. So check them out when the show ends or whenever. Just, you know, you go to the description, you'll see the link and then you'll see the discount codes. A few things I want to mention too. So right now we've seen the Haifa energy facility in Israel burning. It was struck by a drone. It's their biggest energy facility there in the Haifa region and that was recently hit by Iran. Lots of the diplomatic sources are saying that the US continues to try to reach out to Iran's foreign minister Iraqi, in order to try to have some sort of ceasefire or see if Iran will let off a little bit in these Strait of Hormuz. But all of the sourcing that we and others have had so far is that Iran has been ignoring this and they don't want to speak with the United States right now. I just truly don't know how you can even negotiate with Donald Trump. Trump, whether you're Iran or anybody, the moment, I mean, and set aside what, set aside what Iran says. Let's just agree to this for a second. Let's do this. Let's agree everything Iran says is BS and let's agree everything that Trump says is bs. Push it aside, right? So how do we get out the truth if we're a network like ours, how do we try to understand which side is telling us the truth? Where? Let's just say we believe both sides are lying. Right. So the first thing I want to look at is who is the mediator in the room and who selected the mediator. A mediator is a neutral party that's supposed to try to negotiate resolutions between the two sides. So I go, okay, it was a foreign minister of Oman, a very well respected individual, and he was selected by the United States to be the negotiation. So the US Picked this guy from Oman. So what is he saying? Well, he says that there was a deal on the table on that fateful night in late February where there were huge strides to make a deal with Iran, that the deal was even stronger than Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, that there were technical details that needed to be worked out on that following Monday, and that everybody was prepared for another working session that Monday. So a neutral party is telling us that there were, that there was progress in the negotiation. By the way, in the Economist that foreign minister of Oman had just, he just wrote an article in the past 48 hours saying now the US is trapped, even though Oman has been hit by Iran or at least groups linked by Iran. He says the way the US has fought this war, it was the only possible outcome right now. Because when you say you're going to decapitate a regime, the regime that you're going to decapitate is going to do everything it can to stay alive. So the Oman foreign minister said, I understand, although we certainly don't like it, we certainly deplore that Iran striking the Arab nations where there are American interests, when it becomes a matter of existential survival for a regime that they're going to have to do things, they're doing everything they can to survive and survival is the win. When you have Trump and Netanyahu at least originally saying this was about regime change, right then you also have the national security advisor for the United Kingdom who was in the room as well, and he also describes the event as, or the mediation as that there was a resolution that was there stronger than the Obama deal. We didn't need to be in a war. It would have been a big win for Donald Trump. But then Trump and Netanyahu rushed into this war, and the British national Security advisor, like the Oman foreign minister, both essentially said, and I'm not making this a direct quote, but that Witkoff and Kushner were compromised by Netanyahu and they were basically serving as agents of Israel. And again, I'm not using specific language, and I'm being a little bit. They didn't use that. Those specific words, but essentially that was, in my opinion, what they were basically implying that they were going to do whatever Israel wanted to do, which is why the British sent somebody in the first place, the national security advisor, to try to monitor this, what was happening, and to try to, you know, create at least some intellectual guardrails on what was taking place. Apparently at the mediation, you had Witkoff and Kushner continuing to just talk about their floor and shine shoes. You know, how Donald Trump buys these people these Florensheim shoes. He guesses your shoe size, and then regardless of if it's your actual shoe size, he makes you wear the shoes of whatever size. So if you're a 10 and he guesses you're a 12, he buys you a 12 Florence shoe, and you have to wear it. So he's like has Rubio and Witkoff and cushion his whole. Everybody wears these shoes. And so they were, like, joking with the Iranian diplomats about the Florence shoes. That's what people in the room were saying, you know, took place. And everybody believed that there was going to be this Monday session to. To dig into some of the technical details. Why am I bringing all this up again? Because how would Iran even go about negotiating with Trump or Witkoff or Kushner right now? Like, how would you do it? If you wanted to do it, how would you do it? Because any negotiation will just be used as a way to try to kill you, Right? Like, if we were in a mediation, and every time there was a mediation, I don't want to make it deeply personal. If you were in. If someone was in a mediation with someone, and every time you showed up in the room, somebody tried to shoot you, you wouldn't. You just wouldn't show up in the room anymore, right? Like, where would you even have the mediation? Like, if you're the foreign minister and you go to a location, don't you think that Netanyahu is probably just going to blow it up. Like if you even return the phone call, don't you think that it'll just be used as a way of bugging your location to find out where you are and then blow up the entire building where you are regardless of if 100 or a thousand civilians die? Like, don't you think that that's what. So I don't even know how you can even have discussions with the United States on anything. And this is what I was saying a year ago, plus about Donald Trump's tariffs against the world, right? I mean, Donald Trump will negotiate. Well, he doesn't negotiate anything. But he took NAFTA and then he made it into the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement in like 2018, 2019, a free trade agreement. And then he says that USMCA is the stupidest deal ever. And it's like, well, that was your updated version of NAFTA because you just wanted to say that, you know, put your name on it basically. And there are all these videos of you saying the usmca, what a beautiful name during your first term. And now you say that that's not even a deal. I mean, you did free trade deals with Japan and others in Asia. Then you just rip it apart. He's not a rational actor. He is a fraud like he's been his entire life. And he's covering up the Epstein files. And I don't want to lose sight of his cover up of the Epstein files because I know that there's a lot of news taking place. But there are some major developments in the Epstein files that I think are important to mention, obviously, you know, to include in this episode because we know Trump wants to distract from that. So one of the things that Trump has ordered Todd Blanche, his deputy AG to do is to block a dea, the drug Enforcement agencies report that they did jointly with the DOJ as part of this group called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, which has since been basically, you know, removed from the DOJ. But there's this 69 page target profile of Epstein's money laundering and drug trafficking ring that went alongside his sex trafficking ring. And there's 12 other people and two businesses that were identified as being a part of this billion dollar money laundering scheme by Epstein. So we now learn that Todd Blanche has concealed that document. That document the DOJ is refusing to release. One of the things that is deeply concerning, among other things regarding kind of Donald Trump's Epstein relationship, in addition to, you know, obviously all of the COVID up of Epstein sex trafficking ring by the DOJ right now is when Donald Trump acquired this property in a foreclosure sale in West Palm beach that Epstein was going to bid on. And Trump sold it to a Russian oligarch four years later for $95 million and doubled the money. And Epstein was calling Donald Trump out for financial shenanigans. And I'm putting shenanigans there. You could describe it however you want to describe it, but that's what they're falling out was about. Remember during Bill Clinton's deposition, Bill Clinton said that Donald Trump told him the fallout was over this real estate deal. It was over this West Palm beach property that Trump sold for 2x the value to a Russian oligarch. And there were questions, you know, was that Russia moving their money here? What was happening? Why did this? And by the way, the Russian guy demolished the place a few years, a few years later. So, you know, the fact that there's a money laundering report and report about drug trafficking with many people, and that's not being produced, I mean, that's deeply alarming. And then yesterday, I did a whole report on this. You should go watch the report. Pam Bondi gave 24 hours notice that she was gonna voluntarily appear before the House Oversight Committee as a way of her trying to avoid her congressional testimony. She's been subpoenaed for mid April, where she has her deposition supposed to be taken by the House Oversight Committee. And I was like, all right. The fact that they had to subpoena her shows that she wasn't voluntarily showing up. And I was like, okay, what scheme are they going to pull to try to get her out of it? What's James Comer's game plan? Here, here. And their game plan was they have her show up voluntarily. And she wanted to give, like, an update on the Epstein files, but it was some, like, scripted bs. And the Democrats, like, we really don't care about this. We just want to know, are you going to show up and testify under oath on April 14? And she wouldn't commit to that. So the Democrats stormed out because they're like, we're not taking place. We're not taking part in this crap. You're going to show up pursuant to a subpoena, and you're going to testify under oath. We're not going to give you cover for what you're doing here. Which is obviously you're going to say, well, I briefed the House Oversight Committee. Don't have to show up in April because I just showed up. Why would you need me to show up? So she was using this as a way to then object to the subpoena. And the Democrats smartly said, we're leaving. Because if they stayed, they would be giving credence to what she was going to say about why she didn't have to show up. That was their plan, right? Because she would say, oh, I already briefed him, so now the subpoena is inappropriate. And why'd she only give 24 hours notice to the Democrats? Because the Democrats would not have been okay with showing up if there was actually thorough notice. And the Democrats could ask, well, why are you showing up? Because she wanted to use the existence of this fake sham hearing to then make a legal battle against the subpoena. Democrats saw what was happening. I got to give credit to Congressmember Garcia because he has been very aggressive and he did not fall victim to that trap. And he just said to the Democrats, get out. And the Republicans were like, well, this is what the Democrats wanted all along. They just want to storm out. She was trying to be helpful. They just want to do this for the media. And it was like, boom, you smoked out so good. Because that was their plan the whole time. And don't you dare invoke the name of the victims while you're covering up all of these reports and 3 million documents still have not been produced. How dare you invoke the name of the survivors and the victims, you disgusting pieces of trash. You. We know exactly what you all are up to. Don't you dare even say the word victims or survivors, you sick predator cover uppers. You gross grotesque species. Grotesque invasive species. And then there was this document right here that I'll share with you. That was the redactions were removed by Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman. So hat tip to him right here. So remember that document that people were saying that involved an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Matthew Maxwell and they were forwarding a message that Donald Trump's lawyer had sent. But this whole document was redacted. Well, here it is. It's dated October 14, 2009. And you'll see it's from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghisain Maxwell. And then there is a forward of a notes from a conversation with Alan Garton, Trump's attorney. So what did Alan Garton say? Alan Garten was asked, was Jeffrey Epstein ever expelled from Mar A Lago? Trump's attorney responds, no, he was not a member, may have been a guest, never asked to leave. What do you know about was Trump ever at Epstein's house? I may have Been there with my wife. Then it goes on to say, any young girls there? No. May have been a children of guests, but that's it right there. And then Trump specifically asked Garten to advise us of the interview. Brad had also previously talked to manager of Mar A Lago, Bort Kempke. Kempke confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein was never asked to leave Mar A Lago. So remember all of Trump's thing, I kicked him out of Mar A Lago. Remember what the Republicans said? I kicked him out of Mar A Lago. Well, now, the document, one of the ones that they were covering up that Dan Goldman just exposed, and you got to give him credit for exposing the document. That's an important document, right? Donald Trump's own lawyer, you saw for yourself. What did he say? He said Donald Trump never kicked him out. I'm just reading you what the document says. So anyone go, Donald Trump kicked him out. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. All right, we've covered a lot. Can you all do me a quick favor here as well after this ends, like right away, the other video we posted about the congressional hearings today, I guess it was missing sound and it was getting a lot of views, even though there was, even though there was no sound to it. And so we just loaded it right now. You'll see it's called Top Trump Officials Throw him Under the Bus at War Hearing. So as soon as this ends, there's 15,000 people here. Can you do me a favor just so we can fix the glitch from before? 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