Midas Touch Network Co-Host (5:41)

have jobs with dignity.

Midas Touch Network Host (5:42)

We support unions here at the Midas Touch Network. We want to make sure that people can afford rent and can afford homes and can live lives with dignity. We want to uplift marginalized communities. We support equality. We don't bully. We support each other. And that's, you know what, that's beyond the politics. That's the main thing, I think, that we focus on here, on the Midas Touch network, Humanity and humanity abroad as well, humanity internationally as well. And that's why we've also expanded Midas Touch to cover Midas Touch International. We have Midas Canada, shout out to all the Midas maple out there. And as you know, we're going to be expanding across the globe. We're going to be in Europe, we're going to be in Asia, we're going to be in central, South America, Mexico. We're going to be in Africa, Australia, the Midas mates.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (6:32)

What up? I see you.

Midas Touch Network Host (6:33)

But today's a very big day. As always, we're going to be covering it. I mean, just do you remember, I mean, we've been showing some of the B roll here at the beginning, the massive no Kings protests back in October in New York, in Boston, in Washington,

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (6:47)

D.C. i mean, you saw that time

Midas Touch Network Host (6:49)

lapse of the big protest in Chicago. It's going to be bigger. I expect the turnout today to be in the range of 15 to 20 million protesters peacefully protesting across the country right now. And I think we're going to be recruiting some new protesters as well, even some people who may have supported Trump before they realize that Donald Trump is a total con artist, a total fraud. Covering up for the Epstein class, covering up child sex trafficking, pedo rings.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (7:24)

Donald Trump covering up his own sick, dark past.

Midas Touch Network Host (7:28)

Donald Trump himself being a disgusting sexual predator.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (7:32)

Donald Trump himself being a disgusting felon, surrounding himself with disgusting human beings like Howard Lutnick and others who partied on Epstein island and then said, it's okay,

Midas Touch Network Host (7:44)

I just brought my kids. What a big deal.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (7:46)

The COVID up squad like Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche who move Ghislaine Maxwell to Club Fed facilities for helping Trump try to cover up his dark past. Absolutely despicable. Then rushing into war with Netanyahu against Iran, blowing up elementary schools. They are killing 165 little girls and attacking desalination and electrical grids and committing war crimes over and in Beirut and in Lebanon and in Gaza. We're calling it all out here on the Midas Touch Network. And we're just standing with basic humanity. And while the Trump regime is involved in all of these wars, while they say, oh, we're the peace people, the American people are suffering, inflation is surging Right now, as I noted, people can't afford homes here. ICE and border patrol, Gestapo, torturing, terrorizing, killing our people, our brothers, our sisters, our fellow human beings on the street. We need to stand up for humanity. We need to stand against kings. We see the impact and the consequence of authoritarian rule right now. And it's grim times for America. If you just look at it statistically about how bad things are in our country, it's as bad as bad as bad can be. But I'll tell you, through all of this, there's hope and there's hope because of days like today with the peaceful no Kings protest where we get to share our joy and we get to say, you know what, despite all this hate, despite this hell, despite all of the horrors that they're putting us all

Midas Touch Network Host (9:25)

through, we're going to persevere.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (9:27)

And there is a future without these creepy fascist pedoprotectors. We will get through this together. And it's been such an honor to see the Midas Touch grow. Thanks to all of you over the past year, past 15 months, we've been around for a long time now, six years the Midas Touch Network has been around, fighting shoulder to shoulder with you. But of course, we've experienced even more rapid growth. And right now, basically being one of the largest news entities, if not the largest out there, but supporting and always fighting for pro democracy values. That's what we do here. Fighting for empathy and love and equality and bringing people together. That's, that's the key thing. I want to show you some data points. Right now, MAGA is dying, right? This MAGA movement is done. I'll just show you an example. This very bizarre and low energy CPAC Conservative Political Action Committee event that just wrapped up in Texas. This CPAC attendee describing how, you know, lots of people just even there hate Trump right now, I think tells the

Midas Touch Network Host (10:34)

story here, play this clip. I think they would get destroyed in the midterms. I just, I get the vibe. A lot of people I knew who just voted for Trump because they thought it was cold in like high school or just now just being like, I can't stand the guy.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (10:47)

Then you saw the fascist tactics of people like Brendan Carr, the FCC commissioner, by the way, who attacked the Midas Touch network this past week for our hiring of Scott McFarlane, veteran reporter. He left CBS. Such an honor to have Scott here at the Midas Touch Network. His YouTube channel is doing incredible. But Brendan Carr and Stephen Chung, Trump's communications director, Caroline Levitt, they were all mocking the Midas Touch Network this week and attacking us. But we saw record growth this week, seven weeks in a row. Number one on the podcast charts, number one on the YouTube charts, yet again, beating Rogan and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. All of that thanks to you. Beating CBS and Fox and all of that thanks to you. I think there was person who said the revolution won't be televised. It'll be on the Midas Touch Network.

Midas Touch Network Host (11:38)

It's a Vanity Fair article.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (11:40)

Anyway, let's, let's show you what Brendan

Midas Touch Network Host (11:42)

Carr had to say. Play this clip.

News Commentator (11:44)

And President Trump is winning. Look at the results so far. PBS defunded. NPR defunded. Joy Reid gone from msnbc. Sleepy eye Chuck Todd, gone. Jim Acosta, gone. John Dickerson, gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership. And soon enough CNN is gonna have new ownership as well.

Climate Reporter (12:05)

So this, this story is absolutely insane. Trump is taking a billion dollars in taxpayer money and handing it to a French energy giant to cancel offshore wind farms and instead boost oil and gas production here in the United States. Give me a minute to update you on this because it's flying under the radar and we need to keep climate issues front and center. Here's what's happening. The Trump administration is paying nearly $1 billion to Total Energies to walk away from two major offshore wind projects, one off New York and one off North Carolina. These projects would have powered over 1 million homes with clean energy. Now they're gone. And what do we get in return? The company takes that same money and invests it into fossil fuels. More oil drilling in the Gulf, more natural gas exports out of Texas, more gas powered plants. So let's be clear about what's happening. Taxpayer dollars are being used to kill clean energy projects and double down on fossil fuels, the very thing driving climate change. Even state leaders right now are calling this outrageous, saying that we're literally paying a company not to build renewable energy. And this of course, comes at a time when global instability is already driving up oil prices, when experts say investing in renewables actually makes us more secure, not less. So, yeah, this is a really, really big deal. I want to hear from you. Drop a comment right now. What do you think about using taxpayer money this way? Should we be investing in clean energy instead of shutting it down? Let's get this conversation going. It's so important that you stay loud. I look forward to reading your comments. Ben, back to you now.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (13:34)

A reminder to what I thought was one of the most powerful speeches of the last. No kings back in October was my friend Senator Bernie Sanders. Remember what he said.

Midas Touch Network Host (13:45)

Let's play this clip.

Senator Bernie Sanders (13:47)

No, President Trump, we don't want you or any other king to rule us. Thank you very much. But we will maintain our democratic form of society. We will not move toward authoritarianism in America. We the people will rule. This moment is not just about one man's greed, one man's corruption, or one man's contempt for the Constitution. This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on earth who in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system in order to enrich themselves at the expense of, of working families throughout this country. I am talking about Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and the other multi billionaires, the very same billionaires who funded his campaign, who have bestowed gifts upon him and who have seen huge increases in their wealth and power since Trump took office. We rejected the divine right of Kings in the 1770s. We will not accept the divine right of oligarchs today.

Midas Touch Network Host (15:39)

Now, you also had J.D. vance giving interviews in the past 24 hours with right wing propagandist Benny Johnson. J.D. vance saying he believes that UFOs exist, but the UFOs are demons and they're not aliens. So that's the message from the Trump White House. Aliens are actually demons. That's what they want us to know. And they think that's important to share with us. While Americans can't afford groceries and while Trump started an unlawful war in Iran, while they're covering up the Epstein files, and while Americans can't afford homes and anything, demons, Aliens. I mean, these, these people are just a bunch of dorks and they're weirdos. Here, play this clip or we saw aliens. We saw aliens.gov.

Interviewer (16:24)

i don't think they're, I don't think they're aliens.

Midas Touch Network Host (16:25)

I think they're demons anyway, but that's a longer discussion. And by the way, Joe Rogan, whose podcast we're beating on every platform right now, he even said the following about maga. He's like, maga, they're all dorks. They're all dorks. He said. Here, play this clip.

Midas Touch Network Co-Host (16:39)

The phrase make America great again.

Congressman McGovern (16:41)

I don't.

Joe Rogan (16:42)

Then that phrase sucks. Here's the thing, like, first of all, America is great. Make America greater. I'm down. But make America great again. And then it becomes a movement of a bunch of fucking dorks. Because a lot of them are dorks. A lot of them, these really weird, fucking uninteresting, unintelligent people that have got something they cling to and there's a lot of people that are just real, genuine patriots and they're all lumped into this one group. And you gotta accept the dorks too. Fuck that.

Midas Touch Network Host (17:11)

And here was J.D. vance responding to, to being called a dork by Joe Rogan. Here, play this clip. Joe says Mag is full of dorks. What do you think? You consider yourself a dork, Magus? Dorks. I would, I, I think we have many, many fewer dorks than the far left. But everybody's got some force. I just want to share you some of our on the share with you just briefly. Some of our on the ground reporting right here on Capitol Hill. When we asked Congressmember McGovern through Pablo Manriquez who worked runs the Midas touch Washington D.C. bureau, what do you make of what's going on with Trump and the GOP trying to not fund the TSA and then playing all of these games and saying, oh now we can fund the TSA, but what do you make of it? McGOVERN Here, play this clip.

Interviewer (18:01)

Does the secretary of DHS have the discretion to use this major ice money fund to pay TSA and FEMA and some of these other agencies?

Congressman McGovern (18:10)

I have, I have no idea. But I mean money for TSA goes to tsa. You know, money appropriate for other agencies. Go to other agencies. Look, here's the deal. We just need to fund all the agencies that are following the law. I mean that's, it's simple. That's what we've been asking for. Tsa, Coast Guard, fema. I mean let's just, let's just fund them. This is ridiculous. And the Senate know move last night to do that. You know, we got to move to do that today. Let's, let's get this behind us, you know, and get on to other things.

Interviewer (18:39)

But even without the reforms to ice,

Congressman McGovern (18:41)

Well, I mean look, there's no new funding for ICE and there's no new funding for cbp. You know, I mean I'm somebody who believes we should abolish ice. I don't, I don't think it should exist anymore. And the reforms that I want, quite frankly, you know, not the, not what the Republicans are talking about, but the deal is, is they appropriated, you know, more money for ICE than most countries spend on their militaries a year in this big ugly bill. So I mean the idea, I mean this ICE has money. It's these other agencies that don't. And I'm not going to vote to give ICE more money. I mean they kill people. I'm Sorry, that's. I can't go there.

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Interviewer (19:23)

Should there be a special prosecutor at this point for the Epstein files?

Congressman McGovern (19:25)

I. Yes, I believe there should be.

Interviewer (19:27)

Okay, thank you, Congressman.

Midas Touch Network Host (19:28)

Here's what Congresswoman Ballon told us. Let's play it.

Interviewer (19:32)

Last night, Donald Trump basically funded TSA with an executive order, and then the Senate passed another bill funding tsa. Was the bill even necessary? Like, I don't.

Congresswoman Ballon (19:42)

Well, so look, here's what I think happened, okay? I think Republicans have realized they've given up all of their power to the President. And I think that. That on some level they realized, wait a minute, this dude was holding up a deal for weeks. TSA people were not getting paid. And so they're like, oh, now he's gonna swoop in to a problem that he created, somehow save the day. And I think they realized, wait, we got to get our.

Mackenzie (20:06)

Together.

Interviewer (20:07)

Thank you.

Congresswoman Ballon (20:07)

You're welcome.

Interviewer (20:08)

Is this time to appoint a special Prosecutor for the FC files?

Congresswoman Ballon (20:11)

100.

Interviewer (20:11)

Okay. Yeah, got it.

News Commentator (20:13)

Thank you.

Congressman McGovern (20:13)

I appreciate it. It's heavy.

Midas Touch Network Host (20:16)

Here's what Congressmember Gomez told us about ice. Let's play this clip right here.

Interviewer (20:21)

So the Senate voting last night to fund most of dhs, a lot of the reforms that Democrats have been fighting for didn't go through for ICE and cbp. What's your reaction to the situation? Where do you think we should go moving forward?

Congressmember Gomez (20:32)

I'm a no on the bill until I get a chance to really look at it. But this doesn't really put any constraints on ICE and CBP agents have been operating outside the bounds of the law. My district is very concerned about what kind of guardrails are going to be put in place. And that's because we were the first district, the first city to see these ICE raids. I had some constituents. I have a constituent who died in ISIS detention custody. I have a constituent who was eight months. Eight months pregnant and deported. And we couldn't even find her in the system until the very until. And we didn't know what happened to her until she got in touch with her husband. So for us, it's not enough. I know maybe it's some for my colleagues, but for me, it's not enough.

Interviewer (21:27)

How important is it that I. Agents take off their masks and identify

Congressman McGovern (21:30)

themselves and they're doing their job extreme.

Congressmember Gomez (21:32)

Not all take off the mask. It's also wear body cameras. You can't kick a door in unless you have a judicial Warrant. Don't deport U.S. citizens. Those are some basic things that we ask for. And I think they're worth holding out for.

Midas Touch Network Host (21:49)

And then I'll leave you with this statement from Donald Trump where he goes, perhaps we are now respected like never before. We are so hot, as hot as can be. I mean, this guy's so deranged. Here, play this clip.

Donald Trump (22:02)

Also highly respected again. Perhaps we are now respected like never ever before. I don't think we have ever been as respected now. You know, if you think about it, a year and a half ago, our country was viewed as a joke. We were a joke all over the world. They were laughing at us, how stupid we were, how weak, how pathetic. Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the hottest country in the world, folks.

Midas Touch Network Host (22:33)

When I see Donald Trump make statements like that, when I see his regime of sycophants support whatever the hell that is, it gives me fuel and it makes me say, we're in this together. We're going to stand strong together. Today is no Kings 3, the biggest no Kings yet. Over 3,100 no Kings events across the country. Also internationally. Shout out to all our international supporters. I hope to see you at the no Kings that I will be attending today. I'll be following all of your no Kings protests that you'll be attending. Watch our no Kings live coverage on our live feed today. Check that out. Here we go. We got to keep growing. These no Kings keep the pressure. Let's set records. Largest peaceful mass mobilization in the history of the United States States. It starts now. Let's go. Let's go. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack@midasplus.com. you'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, add three episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available@midasplus.com.