Brett Meiselas (4:13)

Play golf a lot together. It's not a very pleasant experience for me because I always consider myself a reasonably long hitter. And then I play with him and I go home and they say, my wife said, are you as long as Bryson? I said, yeah, sir. That close.

Ben Meiselas (4:29)

And while Donald Trump was golfing, he sent his stooges like Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, his head of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, his Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, who I call Nutlik and others, just to further humiliate the United States and demonstrate what an incompetent, despicable regime this is. Here is Treasury Secretary Scott Besant lying and saying that the deficit is already lower right now than it was last year. This is false. It is actually significantly higher. But these individuals, I had other names for them, continue to lie. Here, play this clip.

Brett Meiselas (5:14)

One of the reasons I'm sitting here talking to you today and not at home watching your show is that I was concerned about the level of debt. So the deficit this year is going to be lower than the deficit last year, and in two years it will be lower again. We are going to bring the deficit down slowly. We didn't get here in one year. We didn't get here in one year. And this has been a long process. So the goal is to bring it down over the next four years, leave the country in great shape in 2028.

Ben Meiselas (5:43)

Now going to Donald Trump's head of his National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett. George Stephanopoulos asks Hassett, when are you going to announce deals? To which Hassett responds, I expected we were going to announce the deals last week. Well, well, you didn't. You're kind of telling on yourself there. Here, play this clip we showed at.

Brett Meiselas (6:06)

The top of this piece. You talking about how you believe we're on the brink of, of getting many of these trade negotiations secure. Where are we exactly? When will we see an actual agreement? Will we see any this week? I expected that we were going to probably see one perhaps as early as last week. And I think that one of the things that's happened is that the trade team has been focused 100% like a laser beam on the China matter to make sure that there are no supply disruptions because these license coming a little slower than we would like. And so we've been focused like a laser beam on that last week. The presidents we expect will discuss the matter this week. Once that thing's resolved, then we're going to take deals into the Oval that James Agreeer and Howard Letnick have negotiated.

Ben Meiselas (6:46)

I always wonder also, when I'm covering all of the incompetence in the Trump regime, what are the right wing media sources actually talking about? Because they're not giving their audience the truth. Here's what they were talking about in the right wing media over the past 24 hours. MAGA accuses Democratic Senator Cory Booker of doing the Nazi salute. You see here I'm using my Ground News blind spot feature and you're seeing 88% of this coverage is right wing media. No left wing media is covering that at all. Um, on this story, U.S. small businesses are struggling and going bankrupt under Trump's tariff whiplash. I'm so angry at what's happened is what a lot of small businesses are saying. Zero percent of right wing media is actually presenting the real news of what's happening to businesses in America, to their audience. But what they are focused on is a gay Chinese couple fulfilling their wedding dream in a more inclusive Thailand so they can mock DEI and they could attack the LGBTQ community. I use Ground News so I could bring you research like that. I want to know what the right wing is talking about and what they're not talking about. Because I'm trying to address our media coverage in a systemic way that that tries to get as much people accurate information as possible. So if you're interested in the research tools that I use, go to ground news MTN or scan the QR code. We're giving our viewers 40% off of ground News top tier vantage plan which will get you unlimited access to everything I've shown you and More Ground News is subscriber funded so they don't rely on ad that could also introduce bias subscribing supports our channel and their independent team working to keep the media transparent. One more time, it's ground.news, slash MTN or scan the QR code. We're giving our viewers 40% off. So let me show you what MAGA Mike Johnson was saying during his disastrous appearances this morning. Kristen Welker from Meet the Press said, well, you now claim the CBO is a leftist radical organization and no one should trust what the CBO says when they say there's going to be an additional 4 to 5 trillion dollars added to the deficit. But MAGA Mike Johnson, in 2021 you cited the CBO. So do you only believe the CBO when a Democrat is president?

Brett Meiselas (9:18)

Play this clip in 2017. Actually, the CBO was pretty right when you adjusted for inflation. But let me read you something that you said back in 2021 about the CBO. This was in relation to a Democratic bill. You said the CBO has confirmed this bill add $400 billion to the deficit, contrary to the White House's claim that the bill is paid for. So do you only believe the CBO when a Democrat Is President, Mr. Speaker? No. This is very easy to explain. The CBO sometimes gets projections correct, but they're always off every single time. When they project economic growth, they always underestimate the growth that will be brought about by tax cuts and reduction in regulations.

Ben Meiselas (10:04)

Look, then MAGA Mike Johnson lies and claims that this disastrous murder bill, I call it a murder bill because it's going to kill Americans. You should call it a murder bill if it's going to add to the debt. He goes, oh, no, it's not going to add to the debt. It's going to be the biggest addition to the debt ever. But play this clip.

Brett Meiselas (10:22)

Mr. Speaker, if the big beautiful bill does add to the debt, will President Trump own that? It's not going to add to the debt. But I can tell you that President Trump is laser focused on two primary things, delivering on his campaign promises and the America first agenda, which is what a record number of, you know, 77 million voters popular votes requested and demanded and gave us a mandate to do. But he's also concerned, as I am, as Ron Johnson is, as Rand Paul is, as all of us are, about the nation's debt. And he and I talk about this frequently and he is excited about changing that trajectory. That President Trump, I think, can be the most consequential president of the modern era, because he has these opportunities to do these big things. The one big beautiful bill is a big first step to provide relief for the American people, to give everybody more take home, pay more money in their pocket and to change the trajectory of the country. And again, it's the first of a number of steps and President Trump is committed to doing this. Mr. Speaker, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Tax foundation, the Penn Wharton budget model, all say this will add trillions of dollars to the deficit. Are you really telling the American people this will not add one penny to the debt and deficit? You can guarantee that? I, I am telling you this is going to reduce the deficit. I mean, you cite some of these, these figures. Do you know what their economic growth projections are? The Committee for Responsible Budgeting, they're not even, I don't think they're assuming any economic growth. I mean, that's not realistic.

Ben Meiselas (11:53)

Then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besson saying, oh, the CBO math is not right. It's a leftist organization. Watch what goes down when he says it. Play this clip.

Brett Meiselas (12:03)

No, that the speaker of the House estimates this is going to add 4 to 5 trillion dollars over the next 10 year. And there's that debt limit increase. Well, again, Margaret, that's CBO scoring. That's the speaker of the House. No, no, no, he said it last Sunday on this program. He said that's the CBO scoring. That sounds right. Let me tell you what's not included in there, what can't be scored. So we're taking in subst tariff income right now.

Ben Meiselas (12:29)

So that, and then you have Maria Bartiroma bringing on dog killer cosplayer Kristi Noem, who just got back in Poland after interfering with the elections there in Poland to try to push the right wing Putin aligned candidate. You've been seeing the videos I've been doing there. And then over here, Kristi Noem says, no, it, we, we want to raid, we want ICE to raid the restaurants, we want ICE to raid construction sites and raid the courthouses because that's what President Trump promised. She said that's mass deportations for you. Here, play this clip.

Brett Meiselas (13:09)

Because, you know, you've got globalists out there who are saying, oh, you know, they're gonna arrest people who have jobs and they're, that's gonna impact the jobs market and then we're not gonna have the people to do the jobs we need. What do you want to say to those people who are critical of the President's agenda when it comes to immigration. The president is doing exactly what he campaigned on and what the American people elected him to do, and that's enforce the law. And so we are going to do mass deportations. We are focusing on dangerous criminals. We are going out there and ensuring the people that repeatedly break our laws are being held accountable.

Ben Meiselas (13:48)

Then you have Rand Paul Maga, Republican senator for Kentucky, saying he believes that there's at least four Republican senators that will be joined in opposing this bill, this disastrous bill right now. Play this clip.

Brett Meiselas (14:02)

Well, you know, we hear from other senators who also get complaints from their people in their districts, but they're falling in line. Do you have three other Republicans who will stand with you to block this bill? I think there are four of us at this point. And I would be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified in a good direction. Look, I want to vote for it. I'm for the tax cuts. I voted for the tax cuts before. I want the tax cuts to be permanent, but at the same time, I don't want to raise the debt ceiling 5 trillion. So I've told if you take the debt ceiling off the bill, in all likelihood I can vote for what the agreement is on the rest of the bill. And it doesn't have to be perfect to my lightning liking, but I can't be. If I vote for the $5 trillion debt, who's left in Washington that cares about the debt? We will have lost, but the GOP will own the debt once they vote for this.

Ben Meiselas (14:50)

But that should also note as well that you may have seen this in some of our other coverage. JP Morgan Chase's chairman CEO Jamie Dimon believes that there are cracks in the debt market right now and we're about to see some massive disruptions there. And Jamie Dimon says lots of people are gonna panic. But he goes, I'm not panicked because I'm prepared for it. And I'm telling you it's gonna happen, but you're not gonna believe me. But I'm telling you it's gonna happen. It's like what we've been saying here at the Midas Touch Network, it's gonna happen. We're telling you it's gonna happen. And then finally, Donald Trump is posed, as I mentioned at the outset, making these deranged post Dana White put Donald Trump on a pedestal, on a pedestal during the Pat McAfee Show. ESPN's perceived liberal BIA bias was null and void as Dana White praised Donald Trump during an appearance on the pat the Pat McAfee Show. ESPN's liberal bias. What the hell are you talking about?

Brett Meiselas (15:49)

Out.

Ben Meiselas (15:50)

It's deranged. Deranged stuff. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you for watching new Midas Merch Drop. Check out the latest Pro Democracy sticker packs. T shirts, hats, sweatshirts and more, all at store Midas Touch.

Brett Meiselas (16:04)

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