MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/25/25

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Speaker 14 The lunatics are running the asylum, or I should say, turning the United States into an asylum.

Speaker 18 Let's just talk about what went down over the past 24 to 48 hours.

Speaker 28 We learned that the Trump Department of Defense and national security apparatus would make war plans via group text threads with emojis like fist bump emoji, fire emoji, American flag emoji, the most classified, sensitive, compartmented information that exists was all there on a text thread.

Speaker 36 And how did we learn about it?

Speaker 40 Because the Department of Defense, led by Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host, invited into the group chat the editor-in-chief of the media company, The Atlantic, who was just in the group chat.

Speaker 44 He wrote an article.

Speaker 24 The Trump administration, we should call him a regime, texted me its war plans.

Speaker 28 He talks about how he was invited into this chat. He saw the most highly classified information.

Speaker 46 He didn't know what the heck in the world was going on and if this was even real.

Speaker 26 The information was so sensitive, he couldn't even write about a lot of the stuff that he saw.

Speaker 53 And by the way, Donald Trump was asked about it today at a disastrous press conference and public cabinet meeting after Donald Trump was posting about how upset he was at this portrait being put up in Colorado of him, which he said is a really bad photo.

Speaker 28 And that was making him really angry, he said, in a long, ranting and raving post on his social media platform.

Speaker 57 But then he held this public cabinet meeting, which was also led by Elon Musk, and then a press conference.

Speaker 60 Trump was asked, hey, you know, you're doing like your war plans in Yemen with the attack on the Houthis.

Speaker 28 and leaking all this classified information on group text threads, which is one of the most serious violations of the law.

Speaker 38 Here's what Donald Trump had to say.

Speaker 62 Let's play it.

Speaker 63 Mr.

Speaker 64 President, your reaction to the story of The Atlantic that said that some of your top academy officials and aides have been discussing very sensitive material through Signal and included an Atlantic reporter for that.

Speaker 68 What is your response to that?

Speaker 69 I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic.
To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it.

Speaker 69 You're saying that they had what?

Speaker 64 They were using Signal to coordinate on sensitive materials.

Speaker 69 Having to do with what?

Speaker 69 Having to do with what? What were they talking about? With the Houthis. The Houthis? You mean the attack on the Houthis?

Speaker 63 Yes.

Speaker 69 Well, it couldn't have been very effective because the attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it.
You're telling me about it for the first time. Anybody else?

Speaker 14 The Department of Defense spokesperson has since confirmed that this was indeed an authentic chat that was taking place.

Speaker 72 Did you see Donald Trump's response?

Speaker 26 I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 12 I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 42 But what I do know is that for, what, about a decade now, the Trump regime has been attacking former Secretary of State Clinton, frankly, based predominantly on lie after lie after lie.

Speaker 35 And as she posts today, you have to be kidding me, where they would talk about, oh, she kept this stuff on a server.

Speaker 79 And a lot of that story was total BS and debunk to begin with.

Speaker 54 But don't you recall when, I don't know, the Department of Defense head right now, Pete Hegseth, in his previous job as a Fox host,

Speaker 15 was saying things like this.

Speaker 84 I think we've got a nice compilation, courtesy of Courier Newsroom, play this clip.

Speaker 86 Everyone knows what top secret means. I've had a top secret clearance.
It's big red flashing letters, top secret. You know, when you're looking at something that's top secret or dealing with it.

Speaker 87 When I'm president of the United States, neither she nor any of these other people are going to be above the law, whether it's her or any of these other folks.

Speaker 87 People are going to be held accountable if they broke the laws of this country. This president obviously is willing to protect his political cronies, but we're going to hold people accountable.

Speaker 88 No, the double standard is incredible. Imagine if it was, I don't know, Donald Trump, what the media would be doing to him right now, eviscerating him.

Speaker 88 Or imagine if it was a member of the military, which we've seen from General Cartwright and General Petraeus.

Speaker 88 They still go after these guys for a tiny, tiny fraction of what she willfully did and betrayed her country in doing so, supposedly for convenience.

Speaker 88 And it turns out, foreign services want to know what our Secretary of State thinks. And in this instance, they did whatever they could to break an unsecure server in her basement.

Speaker 88 It tells you everything you need to know.

Speaker 88 Who knows what they heard and what they have, and the kind of leverage that that gives in negotiations or conversations when you know what our hand is and you can anticipate it or get in front of it, or you know our sources and methods.

Speaker 89 I'm not surprised that a military guy like yourself is fired up because it's people like you who pay the price for this kind of

Speaker 89 extraordinary stuff.

Speaker 8 And wasn't it last week where Pete Hegseth was announcing, oh, we're going to build all of these F-47s with Donald Trump?

Speaker 91 They're just going to go right from F-35 to F-47 because they just love naming things after Donald Trump and just clownish stuff like that.

Speaker 8 Remember, Hegseth said, and now we are respected again.

Speaker 93 We're so much smarter.

Speaker 94 Under the previous administration, we looked like fools.

Speaker 70 Not anymore.

Speaker 94 President Trump has reestablished American leadership. The F-47 is part of it.
And, Mr. President, thank you for having the courage to do it and leading the way for all our warfighters.

Speaker 78 Thank you.

Speaker 46 By the way, last week when Trump announced the F-47, he also said that he would make the planes have defects when it would be sold to foreign countries so it would not be as effective.

Speaker 17 And now we're seeing a lot of European nations, Canada, Australia, and others saying, okay, well.

Speaker 54 We're not going to buy the military equipment from the United States anymore.

Speaker 79 We're going to form our own defense alliances, which is what they are

Speaker 26 doing.

Speaker 13 The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, back on March 14, 2025, posted, any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

Speaker 98 So I guess we should start expecting arrests pretty soon.

Speaker 39 Is that what we're going to?

Speaker 21 I don't think that's what's going to happen.

Speaker 97 Instead, Donald Trump appointed Alina Haba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, and she talked about going after people close to Senator Booker.

Speaker 56 By the way, we're getting responses fast and furious from politicians about this, what probably is the most egregious leak of war information in the history of the United States, potentially.

Speaker 2 Governor Tim Walls writes: Pete Hegse texting out war plans like invites to a frat party.

Speaker 11 We have Mark Warner, Senator Warner from Virginia, out with a statement.

Speaker 28 If any career intelligence officer had made this gross mistake, they'd be fired.

Speaker 47 And this administration, I think the ODNI, the director of national intelligence, and others have said, you know, we're going to seek out all the leakers.

Speaker 29 Well, we got a chance to ask them tomorrow.

Speaker 32 It's going to be a big hearing tomorrow, by the way, with Tulsi Gabbard.

Speaker 44 Who's going to bear the responsibility on this?

Speaker 53 Congressmember Eric Swalwell posts: everyone on the public war plans group text should immediately lose their security clearance and be fired.

Speaker 76 Their idiocy just put a gigantic target on America.

Speaker 14 We're not safe.

Speaker 44 And Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona posted: notice to White House staff: there is a room in the building and secure systems where you are supposed to have these discussions.

Speaker 37 Signal ain't it.

Speaker 19 Your recklessness put the lives of those pilots at risk.

Speaker 44 You got lucky.

Speaker 47 Time to reevaluate the way you are doing things.

Speaker 53 Let's bring on Brett and Jordy here at the Midas Touch podcast.

Speaker 105 And we don't know if they got lucky.

Speaker 47 What we do know is that hackers and others have consistently been able to break through on Signal.

Speaker 35 We know they're having these chats simply because they inadvertently put on the chat the reporter and editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic.

Speaker 73 But how many other group chats exist out there that we don't know about where our most sensitive information has been leaked?

Speaker 22 Final point I want to make on this long intro, Brett, before throwing it to you.

Speaker 44 Donald Trump stole classified information when he left the White House the first time, and Donald Trump's appointed federal judge, Judge Eileen Cannon, covered it up for him and basically said special counsels don't exist.

Speaker 35 But we know that these are people who are not just reckless, but intentionally malicious with our most sensitive data.

Speaker 79 Brett Jordy.

Speaker 27 Great to be here, Ben. Great to be here, Jordy.
Great to be here. All the listeners and watchers.

Speaker 27 This is easily, and I want to be clear about this, one of the biggest, if not the biggest, national security blunders that we have seen in this country in the 21st century, if not beyond.

Speaker 27 This is absolutely beyond the pale, just amateur hour stuff that we are seeing, thinking that they could get away with this sort of thing in a signal chat.

Speaker 27 Yes, signal chats are secure to a point, they're encrypted, but guess what? That doesn't matter if you're inviting in random people into the chats.

Speaker 27 There is a reason why conversations like this, and Mark Kelly was alluding to this in his post, happen in a SCIF in these sensitive facilities that are

Speaker 27 specifically designated for this kind of talk they also have online systems that are specifically designated for this kind of talk there is a reason that cell phones are not allowed inside of skiffs no matter what you have no matter what encryption you got no matter what signal app you are using because this is some of the most highly sensitive information that we have and to be openly discussing war plans as if we're planning for our podcast, Ben, like you said earlier, you're like, we have greater security protocols for planning for the podcast.

Speaker 27 And I don't even think that's an exaggeration.

Speaker 27 It's just such an embarrassment. We are seeing every single day

Speaker 27 just incompetence meets corruption at levels that we have never seen before with this administration.

Speaker 27 Just failure after failure, failing the American people, putting people's lives at risk, ripping away the programs that people need the most and openly mocking Americans, openly mocking all the people's all the Republican constituents around the country as they ditch these town halls.

Speaker 27 But, you know, I do got to say, this weekend did inspire me. As I watched these Democrats holding these rallies, going to these town halls, finally, I was like, there it is.
Democracy has a pulse.

Speaker 27 I feel it. Democracy has a pulse.
And we saw it out there. We saw the energy.
There are movements building.

Speaker 27 And like I said on the last episode of the show, right now we are seeing a divide not between left and right within the democratic party we are seeing a divide between those who want to cower and capitulate and want to stand down and those who want to fight and i love seeing the fighters out there and i know that people want fighters out there jordy great to see you man what's new on your end great to be here everybody excited to get into the show i just want to say this brett i agree first off people want fighters that energy over the weekend really did it energized me again to start you know my Monday, my Tuesday, my week.

Speaker 108 I'm excited to dive right in. People want fighters.
As I said on the last show, folks are going to start separating themselves from the PAX. They're going to be very easy to identify.

Speaker 108 Who are the cowards and who are the ones that want to stand in and fight? It's going to be very easy to see. To Heg Seth, really quickly, before we toss it back to Ben.

Speaker 108 I mean, beyond just a blunder, Brett, this is a full-blown scandal at this point. And given Hegseth's history,

Speaker 74 I don't say this lightly or a way of mocking it, but it actually has to be asked at this point.

Speaker 108 Was he drunk? We know his abuse of alcohol in the past, it's very well documented from his time at Fox. It's this is the person.

Speaker 109 This is what we feared.

Speaker 22 This isn't just like, aha, I added this person on a group to

Speaker 3 no, these are war plans.

Speaker 4 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 106 Like, this is exactly what everybody feared, or, or, or at least we knew could have happened.

Speaker 109 Just this reckless abandonment,

Speaker 65 this totally just, oh man, is that just frustrating?

Speaker 45 This is why qualifications and character character matters.

Speaker 47 When you bring in a Fox host,

Speaker 18 by the way, remember in the Dominion lawsuit, we saw all those group text messages of the Fox hosts and how they interact with each other.

Speaker 10 When you bring a Fox host who never actually led any military group before to lead the Department of Defense, you're going to have adverse, horrific, fatal outcomes.

Speaker 44 That is necessarily what's going to happen.

Speaker 37 When you bring in people like RFK, who are anti-vax conspiracy theorists, and you bring them in, you're going to have serious issues regarding the health and well-being of Americans.

Speaker 41 When you bring in people like Tulsi Gabbard, who have a history of laundering Putin talking points, and Russian propaganda, you're going to have that permeate throughout the United States government, now the Trump regime.

Speaker 42 But Brett, as you say, I am pumped that it felt like for the first time democracy has a pulse, democracy has a plan, and democracy has some leaders.

Speaker 15 And we're seeing Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman AOC, Senator Assof.

Speaker 40 We are seeing people like Congressmember RoCanna, Congressman

Speaker 112 Kassar from Texas, who I think did an incredible job going on Fox, Congressmember Swalwell.

Speaker 42 I did a great interview with Congresswoman Janelle Bynum, got over a million views here.

Speaker 30 We're seeing people step up in this moment and a lot of people going, Democrats going into red states, red districts, and speaking to their constituents and saying, we know that your MAGA Republican leaders are too cowardly to talk to you about the Trump regime getting rid of Medicaid and calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme and destroying the lives of veterans and destroying your pensions, life savings, retirements and 401ks and gutting the Department of Education.

Speaker 101 We're here to talk. We are here to tell you about what we're going to try to do to help.

Speaker 27 And I saw, I mean, to see Rokana in Bakersfield.

Speaker 24 I used to litigate in Bakersfield.

Speaker 40 I was like, whoa.

Speaker 111 And that crowd was into it.

Speaker 59 He was in Norco.

Speaker 39 He was in a bunch of other areas speaking to constituents in Republican areas.

Speaker 17 And Bretton Jordy, you know, when Donald Trump would always say during his campaigning, you know, or he just says in general, these are stupid people, right?

Speaker 113 He goes, these are stupid people.

Speaker 28 It's always projection and confession with Donald Trump because him and his regime are stupid people and stupidly dangerous people.

Speaker 34 I mean, what Heg Seth, Mike Walls, what what these people were doing, it is unforgivable.

Speaker 31 I mean, you look through these text message threads with these emojis.

Speaker 20 I mean, it looks like a group of people, what, in like, what is this, like a March madness chat?

Speaker 30 They're like doing, you know, a fist bump emoji, America, fire emoji.

Speaker 101 Good job, Pete and your team.

Speaker 57 The team at Mar-a-Lago think you did a great job.

Speaker 56 And then it goes into areas where they're talking about like they're attacking Europe and they're saying things like the VP I fully share your loathing of European freeloading it's pathetic but Mike is correct we are the only ones on the planet who can do this question is timing I feel like now is as good as a time as any given POTUS directives as I hear it the president was clear green light but we soon should make clear to Egypt and like they're going over I'm gonna we're going over very detailed stuff and there's some messages that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief, didn't even share because it literally gave sources and methods of our assets and their names and identities, which would get them killed, Brett and Jordy.

Speaker 46 And then Donald Trump holds this public cabinet meeting where he talks about how he's sending his national security advisor, who's on that chat, Mike Walls, and JD Vance's wife, the second lady, Usha Vance, to Greenland, which Greenland is viewing very negatively as a show of force as a show of aggression frankly as an attack on Greenland and then you had Usha Vance make this really weird video of herself I mean this looks like right out of like a Russian propaganda AI bot like I had to like do three or four double takes.

Speaker 73 Take a look at Usha Vance, second lady, talking about going into an air.

Speaker 14 Well, first, let me show you what Trump said, and then I'll show Usha.

Speaker 107 Do Trump first and then Usha.

Speaker 91 First, here's what Trump said. One for you, Mr.

Speaker 115 President.

Speaker 115 Greenland is confused about the Second Lady and the National Security Advisor visiting this week. They're concerned that this is further provocation,

Speaker 115 whatever it is you ultimately want for Greenland. Could you further explain why they're going? What is the ultimate end goal when it comes to Greenland?

Speaker 69 Yeah, well, not provocation. This is friendliness, not provocation.

Speaker 69 We're dealing with a lot of people from Greenland that would like to see something happen with respect to their being properly protected and properly taken care of.

Speaker 69 They're calling us, we're not calling them. And we were invited over there and I thought it would be a great, I have great respect for

Speaker 69 the wife of our first,

Speaker 69 of our great vice president. I think she's doing a, she's a brilliant woman.
She's a very nice woman. And she loves the concept of Greenland.
And so she's going there.

Speaker 69 And I think Marco's going there and some others are going there. But we've been invited.

Speaker 10 Greenland does not want them there.

Speaker 2 The prime minister of Greenland who was defeated in this election while a new government is being formed, he goes, we don't want them there.

Speaker 54 The individuals who are expected to lead the new government, including the person expected to be the new prime minister, said, we don't want the U.S.

Speaker 90 there.

Speaker 100 The Greenlanders have made it very clear they do not want to be controlled by the United States.

Speaker 10 In Denmark, Razumis Razumis Jarlov, a conservative member of parliament who also leads the defense committee in their parliament there, who also said, by the way, like we should not buy any more F-35s because Trump is saying that he's going to put a kill switch or potentially put defects on it, even if it's not true.

Speaker 76 And they're just saying that hyperbolically, how could we trust him?

Speaker 37 He goes, Denmark will not sell Greenland.

Speaker 21 Denmark will not accept and will block any attempts of bribing the Greenlanders.

Speaker 15 Denmark will not change its stance regardless of threats.

Speaker 29 Greenland has been under the Danish crown since 1380.

Speaker 97 It is a fully integrated part of Denmark, and the Greenlanders are citizens of Denmark.

Speaker 54 Only 6% of people in Greenland would prefer being American rather than Danish.

Speaker 97 The only political party that said they trust Donald Trump got 1% and no seats in the Greenlandic parliament in the election a few weeks ago.

Speaker 100 Not a single member of the Greenlandic parliament wants to become American.

Speaker 52 All of them find it intimidating and threatening that the U.S.

Speaker 40 does not respect that no means no.

Speaker 13 No means no, Donald.

Speaker 38 That's why these people are.

Speaker 30 Trump has always been a predator.

Speaker 24 He's a sexual predator.

Speaker 28 He is a predator in life.

Speaker 56 He's an adjudged sexual predator in a civil case. He is a disgusting and vile person.

Speaker 23 And you see his behavior there.

Speaker 29 And then you have Usha making this Russian-style kind of propaganda, weird video.

Speaker 20 Hello.

Speaker 116 I'm so excited to share that I'll be visiting Kalali Nuna, Greenland next weekend.

Speaker 116 I'm particularly thrilled to visit during our national dog sled race, which our country is proud to support as a sponsor.

Speaker 116 I've been reading all about it with my children and I'm amazed by the incredible skill and teamwork that it takes to participate in this race.

Speaker 116 I'm also coming to celebrate the long history of mutual respect and cooperation between our nations and to express hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years.

Speaker 116 I look forward to meeting many of you soon and to learning from you about your beautiful land, culture, and traditions.

Speaker 108 See you soon.

Speaker 95 You ever go into like a hotel room

Speaker 17 and the video on the hotel room is kind of that corny style with like a narrator like that.

Speaker 99 And it's like, welcome to the hotel.

Speaker 12 We hope you do enjoy your stay.

Speaker 14 at the hotel. I'm not going to disparage any hotels.

Speaker 76 At our hotel, we have some great accommodations.

Speaker 28 You will enjoy the city.

Speaker 23 Enjoy your stay, everybody.

Speaker 28 Like, what the hell did we just watch?

Speaker 72 I think it was worse than that.

Speaker 27 It was, it felt like an AI video. And that's why we watched the clip a few times before we even went live on the show.
And Ben was like, this is real, right? I'm like, yeah, she posted it. It's real.

Speaker 27 Like, this is real, right? No, this is actually real. And I think what they did also, in addition to, you know, the delivery and everything being weird, I think they ran it through an AI filter.

Speaker 27 I'm not saying it's AI, but to try to, like, they didn't record her with a microphone and they were trying to improve it in post. So it gave it this other like robotic feel.

Speaker 27 But you know, you always wonder, like, when somebody's kind of

Speaker 27 not in the public spotlight, like Anusha Vance, like, how does she feel about all of this? Like, all of the chaos? Do you give them the benefit of the doubt?

Speaker 27 And then you see stuff like this, and you go, No, you can't.

Speaker 27 You can't at all. They're complicit in the entire thing.

Speaker 27 And this is just the latest in a long line of attacks.

Speaker 27 We shouldn't be in a place right now where we even have to speak about the United States threatening the sovereignty of a bunch of countries. Like, it's not even just one would be enough, right?

Speaker 27 One would be batshit crazy, but you have Donald Trump threatening Panama, you have Donald Trump threatening Canada, Donald Trump threatening Greenland and Europe.

Speaker 27 I mean, the whole thing is absolutely batshit crazy, and I refuse to normalize this lunacy that we are seeing as the administration also rolls out these other side characters like Usha Vance to try to make it sound normal.

Speaker 27 Oh, we're just visiting. We're just going to see the dog sled race.
You know who's also going? The National Security Advisor of the United States is going to Greenland as well.

Speaker 27 One of the other reasons why Greenland is viewing this as a threat. You have Donald Trump openly speaking about annexing all of these countries, going to war with these countries,

Speaker 27 economic war, actual war. They should, frankly, feel threatened.

Speaker 27 And honestly, if I were Europe,

Speaker 27 actually, I don't even have to make this hypothetical. Europe is already right now in the process of forming coalitions to go against the United States.

Speaker 27 Whether that's we're not going to buy American weapons, whether that's we're starting to think of it in a few years from now of a NATO without the United States, of a defense alliance where the United States is not even involved in this, Donald Trump has been and his administration, they have been the most dangerous administration in American history, bar dumb.

Speaker 27 They are just so incredibly reckless. And in just a matter of weeks, just a few months, they have completely destroyed the United States's standing in the world.

Speaker 108 Brett, that Usha Vance video, that is giving Senator Katie Britt vibes.

Speaker 45 Remember the RNC rebuttal?

Speaker 108 I mean, that is that.

Speaker 109 What did we just watch?

Speaker 108 But, Brett, time and time again,

Speaker 108 you're proven to be 100% correct. We're not living in a democracy.
We're living in a cacistocracy, Brett.

Speaker 18 Your favorite word, right?

Speaker 62 A government-run majority and least qualified people.

Speaker 108 That's what we continue to see play in and like play out every single day. I don't say it lightly.
Like this, all of our lives are in danger because these people are at the helm right now.

Speaker 108 They have the wheel, right?

Speaker 58 Now, how far off the road are they going to go?

Speaker 4 Well, how far will we let them?

Speaker 108 And going back to how we introded it, that's why I'm so excited to see the fight of the Dems, Brett, coming forward over the past weekend.

Speaker 108 Because once again, the fighters are showing themselves right now.

Speaker 108 quite frankly now more than ever that's exactly what we need not just as a party as democrats but as a country we need people who are going to push back against this just lunacy that we're seeing play out.

Speaker 35 You know, cacistocracy, big word,

Speaker 28 big word, but I just want to call it a regime of stupidity, vileness, and recklessness and dangerousness.

Speaker 113 These are just bad, bad people who are also incredibly dumb.

Speaker 97 When we got back from our next, from our first quick break of the show, I want to talk about these snap elections that were called in Canada.

Speaker 44 Prime Minister Mark Carney has

Speaker 20 got the okay to dissolve parliament.

Speaker 53 April 28th will be the snap elections.

Speaker 76 And we're already learning that the far-right-wing party led by Pierre Poliev in Canada, Canada's Conservative Party, was involved in very malicious election interference efforts with Donald Trump.

Speaker 101 Trump to try to have Donald Trump say the types of things to try to undermine the Liberal Party, to help the Conservative Party, using the premier from Alberta, Daniel Smith, as a conduit.

Speaker 97 This is some wild, explosive stuff going on in Canada.

Speaker 15 I also want to talk about the ruling earlier today by Judge Bosberg in Washington, D.C., who rejected Donald Trump's attempt to try to remove the injunction blocking the Trump regime from further kidnapping people and sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador without giving some sort of process to determine if under the Alien Enemies Act, individuals are actually Venezuelan gang members or if they are not.

Speaker 91 What a concept.

Speaker 52 There should be some process before human beings are kidnapped and put in concentration camps from a United States government.

Speaker 8 I mean, the Overton window has been so turned on its head that I have to even say that that is a thing that had to be ruled on by a federal judge.

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Speaker 60 We will be shortly announcing when our next meeting will be on Zoom.

Speaker 29 If you ever wanted to meet me, Brett and Jordy, in a Zoom meeting, check us out on patreon.com slash Midas Touch.

Speaker 73 Also, Midasplus.com is a great spot to check out the latest breaking news from our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, and other contributors.

Speaker 97 We'll be right back after our first quick break.

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Benji, where to next?

Speaker 56 Well, you know, Donald Trump's commerce secretary was doing one of those like podcast

Speaker 74 tech bro things.

Speaker 59 And on that, Howard Luttnick, he was talking about how if you complain about getting a social security check late or not receiving it one month, he says you're probably one of these criminal or fraudsters we're looking at because only criminal and fraudsters are the ones who complain when they don't get their social security check.

Speaker 97 Howard Luttnick is a billionaire and he says that his 94-year-old mother-in-law She would never actually complain at all if she'd missed a month of getting her social security check.

Speaker 76 So everybody should be like his mother-in-law.

Speaker 80 We know that Elon Musk previously referred to social security as a Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 80 And also the Trump regime has already shut down or is in the process of shutting down 47 social security offices, making it difficult for people to have to show up, usually elderly people, older people at social security offices to access.

Speaker 106 what they are entitled to have or to even get to speak to people.

Speaker 76 This is the cruelty of the Trump regime and the banality of evil with which corporate news treats all of this, not here on the Midas Touch Network.

Speaker 21 While all of that is going on, we talked about it earlier in the episode: Donald Trump just making the most grifty and vile posts.

Speaker 43 I talked about at the beginning of the show, how Trump was saying he doesn't like this photo of himself

Speaker 5 in

Speaker 40 Colorado.

Speaker 12 He says that it's the official portrait of him and that he looks really bad and that the lady who painted it must be too old and that's why she does a bad job painting him.

Speaker 27 Genuinely one of the craziest posts I've ever seen. When I saw it last night, I couldn't even believe that this let me just read it just so people

Speaker 65 before you read it were you guys familiar with this like Trump made this a story.

Speaker 108 Like nobody was even talking. I want to.

Speaker 27 When I was talking about this photo, I mean, how many people are, how many people actually go into the Colorado state capitol on a daily and by the way like look it looks like him like it looks more like him than the weirdo rambo you know photoshop six pack things like is he that the the and the weirdo elvis comparison

Speaker 108 he just doesn't like looking into a mirror i bet it well i look i guess if you're donald trump you don't like looking to a mirror because that reflection would be scary both you know mentally and and actually what you look like but that is unbelievable

Speaker 27 i mean whether it's a good picture or not a good picture is really beside the point jordi i'm not sure what you're doing with your thumb there what are you doing with your thumb i don't know you're making me uncomfortable no this is donald came to the podcast today

Speaker 108 in real life and also in that photo in here too that's this jordy is putting his thumb in the camera he's making me uncomfortable i don't know what's going on

Speaker 70 okay all right um this is what donald trump

Speaker 8 this is what donald trump

Speaker 118 does we're trying to stay the number one podcast jordy in the country just get a reminder that's um

Speaker 21 Donald Trump posted the following.

Speaker 54 Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado and the state capitol put up by the governor along with all the other presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I perhaps have never seen before.

Speaker 54 I have no clue what that means. The artist also did President Obama, and he also looks wonderful, but the one in me is truly the worst.

Speaker 91 She must have lost her talent as she got older.

Speaker 32 In any event, I would have much preferred not having a picture than having this one. But many people from Colorado have called and written to complain.
In fact, they are actually angry about it.

Speaker 54 I'm speaking on their behalf to the radical left governor, Jared Polis, who is extremely weak on crime, in particular with respect to Trende Aragua, which practically took over Aurora.

Speaker 91 Then he posts the photo, the Trende Aragua did not practically take over Aurora.

Speaker 54 That was another lie by Donald Trump.

Speaker 26 They talked about this one building where it turned out it was not actually taken over by the Trende Aragua. And

Speaker 21 the mayor of Aurora had to confirm it.

Speaker 19 Then Donald Trump just kept on posting photos of himself.

Speaker 91 And then earlier in the day, he posted, I love Trump.

Speaker 92 Dollar sign Trump, so cool.

Speaker 90 The greatest of them all.

Speaker 91 Truth Social is on fire.

Speaker 54 By the way, dollar sign Trump is his meme coin, which he tried to kind of do the pump and dump thing.

Speaker 19 And by the way, it's been crashing. It's at like $10 or $11, $11.65, which like totally crashed from it.

Speaker 54 Was that like, wasn't at like $100 once and was worth like billions of dollars after it was announced during the inauguration?

Speaker 47 And then so many people lost so many billions and billions of dollars.

Speaker 2 But Trump made all the money on the transaction fees because you get a transaction fee when people buy, regardless of whether it's.

Speaker 27 The thing you have to consider, though, is that everything Donald Trump does is via the lens of the grift, and that includes American policy.

Speaker 27 And so when he made the comment on social media about his meme coin, what happened? The price spiked up yesterday a little bit, right?

Speaker 27 And you got to assume that any time that he's playing with things where you have price spikes and prices falling, that there is somebody on the other end who is making money off it, somebody close to Donald Trump.

Speaker 27 This is me speculating here. And we see that yesterday with the meme coin, how it spiked after he said it.

Speaker 27 I think you could apply this not only to the griffs that we are seeing, but I think you got to consider it with the way that he's handling all these tariffs. The tariffs are on.

Speaker 27 No, the tariffs are off. Scare the markets.
The markets drop. Oh, pull them back a little bit.
The markets go back up. More tariffs.
They go back down. People get to buy stuff cheap.

Speaker 27 Then they go back up. They're playing a game right now in order to just further enrich billionaires and people who are in the know.
And they are screwing over the American.

Speaker 27 American people in the process and are screwing over the entire world and are threatening all of our allies and are turning all of our allies against us with all of these threats.

Speaker 27 And I think you got to look ultimately as what is one of the goals of this thing. And I think one of the most obvious goals is that some people are getting really rich off all this shit.

Speaker 91 Yeah, well, one of the things that some people are speculating is that the crash of the economy is intentional because if you look at all of the steps, you know, again, you're either just the stupidest people or you're doing it intentionally and maliciously or perhaps both.

Speaker 27 But well, Ben, let me remind everybody though, right? What's one of the biggest problems in the country right now? Wealth inequality, right? I think wealth inequality, if you take that, you could

Speaker 27 go back to when we didn't have as much wealth inequality to the just drastic amounts of wealth inequality we have today. I think this is one of the most, if not the most, defining issues of our time.

Speaker 27 And I think almost everything in our country, all the issues with our country, all the division in our country, could also be traced back to wealth inequality in many ways.

Speaker 27 I think when you look at certain moments in our history, especially in our recent history, what happened after the 2008, 2009 stock market crash?

Speaker 27 Well, rich people got a whole lot richer and regular people got a whole lot poorer. That was a trend that continues to this day.
You could follow that to any recession, right?

Speaker 27 What happened in the 2000, the 2020 recession, rather,

Speaker 27 when COVID happened and Donald Trump ignored it and handled it in the most malicious way possible. People lost their jobs.
jobs, their life savings. It was an absolute shit show.
Well, what happened?

Speaker 27 Well, the rich people got a whole lot more wealth, and the regular people in this country got a whole lot poorer. You see that divide.
I just smacked my microphone.

Speaker 27 You see that divide continuing to increase anytime there is a recession. Somehow, the rich get richer and the regular people in this country get poorer.

Speaker 27 So to me, it doesn't defy logic to assume, oh, Donald Trump maybe wants a recession.

Speaker 27 Maybe he's trying to push our country into this chaos to continue that trend because this is a government that is right now literally being run by oligarchs. And, you know, we saw

Speaker 27 our Gen Z correspondent, Adam Mockler, did a fantastic job. He was speaking about Elon Musk and he was speaking about the oligarchy and all these other things.

Speaker 27 He went on Newsmax, okay, into enemy territory where facts don't matter. And he brought the truth, and it was absolutely epic.

Speaker 27 But during that moment, when he brings up Elon Musk, I think they're to protect Donald Trump, they always try to do these non-sequiturs that don't make any sense.

Speaker 27 They'll be like, well, will George Clooney? Will George Clooney? And I'm like, what's George Clooney have on Elon Musk? Elon Musk is the richest man in the entire world.

Speaker 27 George Soros, George Soros, and Mockler rightly pointed out, is George Soros in meetings?

Speaker 27 And George Soros actually has a fraction, a fraction of the wealth that Elon Musk has and doesn't nearly wield it like this.

Speaker 27 And this obviously all stems back to Citizens United, which I'm happy is also getting a lot more attention right now.

Speaker 27 By the way, I saw John Ossoff speaking about Citizens United. You see Bernie Sanders, who's consistently talked about Citizens United.

Speaker 27 That's the court decision that allowed unlimited money in our politics. And I think it's really one of the things that has so corrupted our country and enabled a Trump-Musk

Speaker 27 kind of thing to rise in the first place.

Speaker 17 Look, if you talk about basic economics, one way to think about it is imagine a fire devastates an area, burns down the entire community, right?

Speaker 91 People are suffering. What happens?

Speaker 84 The developers often kind of swoop in and try to buy the property for pennies on the dollar.

Speaker 53 Now, think about that type of fire writ large in an economy.

Speaker 80 The people suffer.

Speaker 23 The billionaires force the Fed to reduce the interest rate.

Speaker 11 They're able to borrow more.

Speaker 118 They have access to this capital while people are suffering and struggling, and they further entrench themselves and increase this economic disparity that exists.

Speaker 79 Of course, I'm oversimplifying it, but that's basically the theory of what many people think is happening here.

Speaker 46 I want to talk about this as well.

Speaker 22 Just look at the front page of the Miami Herald from this past weekend.

Speaker 37 Disheartening.

Speaker 91 Donald Trump is removing legal status for more than half a million Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans.

Speaker 42 The program will shut down in late April.

Speaker 95 About half a million or more people here with lawful status.

Speaker 32 The Trump regime saying they're going to remove their lawful status.

Speaker 57 These are a lot of people who are the Venezuelans and Cubans for Trump.

Speaker 97 Their family members are now potentially subject to being treated as Trende Aragua, because Donald Trump wants to arbitrarily call anybody who he wants to call Trende Aragua gang members and either put them in ICE detention centers, send them to El Salvador concentration camps, or send them back to the country where they are political exiles from, like the Maduro regime in Venezuela, where they're likely to be subject to torture or death or something like that.

Speaker 101 We're learning a lot about the group of people who Donald Trump kidnapped and sent to El Salvador.

Speaker 43 And some of the stories we're hearing are horrifying.

Speaker 35 It should be noted that none of these people were given due process.

Speaker 97 The Trump regime claimed that these 200 or so people who were sent to El Salvador concentration camps were Trende Aragua gang members.

Speaker 33 And Trump says, we are in a war with Venezuela.

Speaker 111 And these individuals are basically enemy combatants who have invaded the United States.

Speaker 97 Thus, they need to go immediately into concentration camps in El Salvador without due process at all.

Speaker 76 By the way, even after 9-11, people who were accused of being terrorists had some sort of military commission or tribunal process to determine, were they terrorists?

Speaker 2 Are they not terrorists?

Speaker 44 What's the process?

Speaker 27 Here's the thing.

Speaker 27 Let me just make this abundantly clear. First off, this isn't even a...
This isn't a liberal value, a conservative value. It is in the Republican, Democrat.
This is just an American value.

Speaker 27 People have due process. No matter what you think, people have due process.
Why? Well, because then

Speaker 27 an executive could just declare anybody to be anything, and then you have to just accept that. Like, are you okay with that? Because in that case, let me tell you something.

Speaker 27 Nobody is safe in this country. Not you listening, not you, Republican, who's trying to defend this sort of behavior, not you, MAGA.
None of you are safe ever.

Speaker 27 ever because we don't have a you don't have a country you don't have any rights anymore you know why because all donald trump has to do is say you're an illegal immigrant.

Speaker 27 All Donald Trump has to do is say you're a gang member and you are giving him full authority to then take you and ship you to a concentration camp at El Salvador.

Speaker 27 Like, just think about that, because you are saying that you don't need a proof. You could say, oh, I'll show you my ID.
I'll show you my license.

Speaker 3 I'll show you my passport.

Speaker 27 That's part of due process. And you are saying that you don't care about that whatsoever.
This is not even a close call. This is not even a debate.

Speaker 43 There's no gray area here.

Speaker 27 People deserve due process. And Ben, as we learn the people who were sent to Venezuela, I mean, sent to El Salvador,

Speaker 27 it's horrifying and it shows exactly why these protections and these fundamental rights are so important.

Speaker 60 We're learning about Andres,

Speaker 21 who was a hairdresser in the United States here as an asylum seeker.

Speaker 17 He was a gay man who fled Venezuela. He was not a gang member.

Speaker 100 He was waiting on his next court appearance as an asylum seeker, fleeing the Maduro regime where he could be killed and tortured for who he is.

Speaker 97 And then he was one of the individuals who got kidnapped, got sent to El Salvador.

Speaker 54 And then a Time magazine photo journalist reported about an individual who he saw in El Salvador crying on the ground.

Speaker 2 And he was pummeled to the ground by the El Salvador Army and beat.

Speaker 111 And he was saying, I'm not a gang member. I'm a bar.
I'm a hairdresser. I'm a hairdresser.

Speaker 2 I was just seeking asylum.

Speaker 44 So we learned that story.

Speaker 59 We learned about the professional soccer player from Venezuela who was a soccer coach here, who had a Real Madrid tattoo, not a gang member.

Speaker 19 He did the sign for love in a photo that was on Instagram or on a social media.

Speaker 46 He was an individual who the Trump regime took and sent to El Salvador and put in the concentration camp system there.

Speaker 105 We're learning about women who were sent to El Salvador when the El Salvador concentration camps don't take women.

Speaker 33 It's just a concentration camp for men.

Speaker 73 And we just saw this declaration that was filed by the ACLU on behalf of one of those women going by the initials SZFR.

Speaker 97 And she talks about how while she was on the plane, within a couple of minutes of takeoff, I heard two U.S.

Speaker 105 government officials talking and they said there's an order saying that we can take off, but we already have taken off.

Speaker 22 While on the plane, government officials were asking the men to sign documents and threatening them. The men didn't want to sign the documents.

Speaker 61 I heard them discussing the documents, and they were about the men admitting that they were members of Trende Aragua.

Speaker 98 And the men were saying, We don't want to sign it, it's not true.

Speaker 76 And then it goes and talks about how they were getting beat and shackled on the plane.

Speaker 107 I mean, we're hearing these horror stories, and then the Trump regime is just like, nope, they're terrorists, they're terrorists.

Speaker 43 And by the way, Trump's national security advisor, Mike Walz, who was on that text message thread where all of the war plans have now been leaked, where they compromised our national security.

Speaker 16 He was on the Sunday shows and he was asked, hey, you know, there are women on that plane.

Speaker 113 He was like, oh, oopsies.

Speaker 70 Oh, oopsies. Look, oopsies.

Speaker 63 He said, this judge that wanted to

Speaker 67 turn a flight around full of gang members that had intelligence packets

Speaker 63 that had determined what they're doing.

Speaker 86 They went to a man's prison, and El Salvador said, no.

Speaker 63 I mean, so it's a question of if you want to. I can't speak to those individual details if you want to deport that you get the list right.
But that you can verify that these people are gang members.

Speaker 67 Look, every one of them were here illegally. So, first of all, we had every right and every and should deport every one of these individuals.

Speaker 63 If you want to make a special case for one, that's fine.

Speaker 67 But underlying that, underlying that is the Alien Act that has determined that Commander-in-Chief has the absolute authority to do this.

Speaker 19 Okay, as Judge Jeb Bozberg said today, he goes, I don't even have to get to whether or not the Alien Enemies Act was properly invoked or not, whether there was a war or not.

Speaker 99 He goes, under the Alien Enemies Act, you would still have to prove that the individuals are who you purport them to be.

Speaker 28 And federal courts get to determine are these individuals, as you say, trende or agua or not?

Speaker 46 There has to be a process for that.

Speaker 106 And by the way, did you see how, and good for that that question by the way how he changed well i can't speak to the individual details of the cases then what the hell are you doing that's the whole thing you're speaking to the individual that's why you have due process these are individuals who you're now killing so of course you need to speak to the individual details you freaking moron that's why i said tachistocracy is a great word jordy but these people are stupid and they're dangerous and they're vile and they're anti-american and frankly you know sometimes people are like oh ben but how are you going to win those people over?

Speaker 34 Screw those people.

Speaker 49 Those people are traitors.

Speaker 41 And I'm not even trying to, I don't give a shit.

Speaker 98 Excuse my language.

Speaker 49 Screw those traitors.

Speaker 35 They're anti-American. If you care about democracy, if you care about our country, if you care about the values of America, then stand up for them.

Speaker 57 Not trying to appease these freaking morons anymore.

Speaker 102 And when we talk about in our next, after the quick break, I want to just talk about Democrats who are out there fighting, fighting for values and principles that actually matter to the people, fighting for the workers, fighting for equality, fighting for our basic human rights, fighting the oligarchy, as Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC's Tor is named as they go to Denver, 35,000 people, as they go to Tucson, 25,000 people, 15,000 people at Tempe, close to 100,000 people at five stops.

Speaker 113 Then you have Senator Osoff in Georgia, who's doing an incredible job.

Speaker 11 You've got Rocana going to Red Districts.

Speaker 100 You had Congressmember Swalwell going to MAGA Republican Ana Paulina's district.

Speaker 34 You've got just Americans holding town halls with scared MAGA Republicans in abstentia.

Speaker 24 They're doing town halls and they're doing like, uh, they're doing like cardboard cutouts of their scared and weak and pathetic MAGA Republican congress members who aren't showing up.

Speaker 35 So when we get back, I want to talk about what's going on in Canada.

Speaker 31 I want to highlight what's going on with these Democrats across the country.

Speaker 35 Let's take our last quick break of the show.

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Speaker 3 Working on something special for Canada.

Speaker 70 Benjamin.

Speaker 11 Strong, elbows up.

Speaker 104 Prime Minister Carney and the Liberal Party there now soaring in the polls, but do not get complacent.

Speaker 54 A complete switch from what we saw a few months ago where the right-wing Maple MAGA Conservative Party was in the lead, although that party had been compromised by Trump and MAGA and all of the links to Mar-a-Lago and Elon Musk, and they were doing the right-wing podcast type of tour.

Speaker 76 And sure, that backfired pretty big time.

Speaker 4 So Prime Minister Carney, the banker against Donald Trump, the bankrupt.

Speaker 35 You got the banker in Prime Minister Mark Carney, who led Canada through the financial crisis in the mid-2000s, leading the Bank of Canada as their governor, Bank of Canada's governor, and then the governor of the Bank of England during Brexit, dealing with some of the most difficult crises.

Speaker 111 This guy is one of the top business guys against Donald Trump, a complete con artist.

Speaker 24 So Prime Minister Carney, over the weekend, called for the snap general elections, which will take place on April 28th.

Speaker 54 And he delivered a powerful statement when he announced that elections would be called, parliament would be dissolved, and now they are in their process where election season it comes on quick in Canada.

Speaker 57 Once those snap elections are called, that's where they're in right now.

Speaker 91 But watch this incredible statement from Prime Minister Carney.

Speaker 66 There is so much more to do to secure Canada, to invest in Canada, to build Canada, to unite Canada.

Speaker 66 That's why I'm asking for a strong, positive mandate from my fellow Canadians. I have just requested that the Governor-General dissolve Parliament and call an election

Speaker 66 for April 28th.

Speaker 66 And she has agreed.

Speaker 66 We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Trump's unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty.

Speaker 66 Our response must be to build a strong economy and a more secure Canada.

Speaker 66 President Trump claims that Canada isn't a real country.

Speaker 66 He wants to break us

Speaker 66 so America can own us.

Speaker 66 We will not let that happen.

Speaker 66 We're over the shock of the betrayal,

Speaker 66 but we should never forget the lessons.

Speaker 66 We have to look out for ourselves.

Speaker 66 We have to look out for each other.

Speaker 92 Prime Minister Kearney definitely seems to be the right guy for that job.

Speaker 47 And as Prime Minister Kearney announced those snap elections, the other news to break in Canada was that the Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was involved in secret discussions with Donald Trump and J.D.

Speaker 42 Vance,

Speaker 26 also via a Conservative member of parliament who was J.D.

Speaker 10 Vance's Yale closest friend.

Speaker 19 Jamal Javati is the guy's name who works very closely with Pierre Polyev.

Speaker 92 And they were trying to work with Donald Trump, saying, Hey, Trump, can you do this?

Speaker 80 Can you maybe keep the tariffs down just a little bit so that we can try to claim a victory and you can help Pierre Polyev, the Maple MAGA conservative leader there, win?

Speaker 110 And we heard on the audio Danielle Smith say this, like saying that she's admitting to working with Polyev, the right-wing conservative leader, to engage in election interference via Donald Trump and JD Vance to try to help the Conservative Party.

Speaker 43 So on the one hand, you have that incredible speech by Prime Minister Carney, and then the news broke about this election interference plot by the Conservative leader of Alberta.

Speaker 110 I mean, what in the world is going on?

Speaker 42 So we'll keep you posted every step of the way there.

Speaker 76 While that was going on too, we previously reported how Canada purchased and has bolstered their defense systems, a massive purchase of satellite systems from Australia.

Speaker 35 By the way, the first customer of this new satellite system that went to the Nunavut Arctic region in Canada, the customer was supposed to be the United States.

Speaker 42 And so Australia and Canada cut the U.S.

Speaker 5 out and Canada purchased this surveillance system.

Speaker 52 Canada is also re-evaluating whether or not it's going to buy F-35s or not, and I think it's inclined not to, and then investing heavily in its own defenses to protect against America invasion.

Speaker 8 Could you imagine that I even have to like say that?

Speaker 2 But it's the reality.

Speaker 93 As I've said, Trump's words are not merely a trade war, which would be bad.

Speaker 35 The people of Canada, other than Daniel Smith of Alberta, mostly, have united because they view Trump's language not as just a trade war, but as a real war.

Speaker 36 We've been reporting how the boycott by Canada of all things American have impacted tourism for certain types of

Speaker 34 like luxury and leisure tourism by up to 85%.

Speaker 79 And the boycott in Canada of American products, the Buy Canada movement is surging there.

Speaker 44 buying Canada stuff, which is very helpful to the Canadian economy.

Speaker 80 And American suppliers and American distributors are getting crushed.

Speaker 59 That's in addition to even retaliatory tariffs.

Speaker 106 In Canada, they're saying elbows up, go over the boards, and they are fighting back and showing the world how you stand up to the pathetic, vile, cacistocracy Trump regime.

Speaker 24 How vile and pathetic?

Speaker 53 Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia,

Speaker 107 not really the envoy to Ukraine, to Russia.

Speaker 34 He talked about over the weekend how he trusts Putin and Putin is so honest.

Speaker 36 And Putin did a beautiful painting of Donald, and Putin's never going to go into Europe.

Speaker 38 Here's what Wyckoff had to say. Let's play it.

Speaker 68 Now, I've been asked my opinion

Speaker 68 about

Speaker 68 what President Putin's motives are on a larger scale. And I simply have said that I just don't see that he wants to take all of Europe.
This is a much different situation than it was in World War II.

Speaker 22 By the way, it's about two minutes of him glazing Putin and telling the Russian propaganda lie version of why Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine.

Speaker 77 Like hook, line, and sinker.

Speaker 84 You couldn't have asked, like, like Peskov, the Russian PR person, couldn't have done a better job if you were spreading, or worse job, spreading the Russian propaganda than Steve Witkoff did.

Speaker 52 But let's talk about the Democrats surging, swarming into red districts and red states, and just giving incredible speeches.

Speaker 107 First, let me highlight Senator Assa from Georgia.

Speaker 99 I think reminding us all again what a powerful speaker here he is.

Speaker 38 Here he is in Atlanta, but this was a powerful rally from this weekend.

Speaker 34 Let's play the clip.

Speaker 31 And see,

Speaker 6 this

Speaker 121 is why things don't work for ordinary people. It's not because of trans kids or woke college students.

Speaker 121 It's not because of our our new arch enemy, Canada.

Speaker 121 The corruption is why you pay a fortune for prescriptions.

Speaker 121 The corruption is why your insurance claim keeps getting denied.

Speaker 121 The corruption is why hedge funds get to buy up all the houses in your neighborhood and Congress doesn't do anything about it.

Speaker 121 See, this is why so many have lost faith in our system.

Speaker 121 Because the system really is rigged.

Speaker 121 But Trump's not unrigging it. He's re-rigging it for himself.

Speaker 47 I had the opportunity to interview Senator Ossoff today.

Speaker 92 I will be dropping that interview early tomorrow morning, so make sure you keep checking the YouTube channel for when the interview drops.

Speaker 84 Then you have Democratic Congressmember Roe Conna.

Speaker 23 Now he represents the Silicon Valley district in California.

Speaker 80 More billionaires in his district than any congressional district in the United States.

Speaker 92 And he had a simple message as he toured three districts in California that had Republican Congress members who are refusing to hold town halls.

Speaker 54 So here he is in Bakersfield, where you have a MAGA Republican Congressmember Valadeo who refuses to hold town halls.

Speaker 97 And RoCanna has the greatest line.

Speaker 28 He goes, I represent the district with the most billionaires, and they should be taxed more. If I'm willing to say that and they're in my district, what are all these MAGA Republicans scared about?

Speaker 122 He says, look, I represent a district in Silicon Valley. You probably heard of it, Apple, Google, NVIDIA, all those companies.
You know, here's what I don't understand.

Speaker 122 I'm for taxing the billionaires billionaires more. There's no one,

Speaker 122 in the 435 districts in America, no one has more billionaires than my district.

Speaker 122 If the guy who has all the billionaires can say, tax them more, how is this a hard vote for the other 434 members of Congress? I don't get it.

Speaker 122 We need to tax. the billionaires and the ultra-wealthy to provide guaranteed health care, Medicare for all in this country, universal education, and to have fairness in America.

Speaker 28 Powerful stuff. He was in Bakersfield.

Speaker 59 How ruby red is Bakersfield?

Speaker 91 Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris like 19 in Bakersfield.

Speaker 49 And then Adam Schiff lost Bakersfield to Garvey by over 30 points.

Speaker 78 That's how ruby red it is.

Speaker 10 And Roe Conna went into that district.

Speaker 37 and was just speaking the truth, just

Speaker 35 talking to the people because their MAGA Republican Congress member was too scared to hold town halls.

Speaker 2 How about Bernie Sanders and AOC?

Speaker 36 Close to 100,000 people showing up at these five events, their fight, the oligarchy tour.

Speaker 2 Here, Senator Sanders is saying, look,

Speaker 98 we are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.

Speaker 57 There is no excuse for 800,000 people sleeping on the streets.

Speaker 123 Absolutely important is for us never to forget we are today the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.

Speaker 123 There is no excuse for 800,000 people to be sleeping out on the streets.

Speaker 123 There is no excuse for 20 million people, including people right here, paying 40 or 50 percent of their limited incomes for housing.

Speaker 123 This is America. We can build four million units of low-income and affordable housing.
We can lower rents.

Speaker 123 This is America. We should not be the only major nation on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right.

Speaker 123 The function of a health care system is not to make billions in profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies,

Speaker 123 it is to provide quality care to all.

Speaker 123 We can do it.

Speaker 123 We do not have to pay ten times more for prescription drugs than do the people in other countries. We can take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, cut prescription drug prices in hell.

Speaker 14 And then from that same tour, Congresswoman AOC doing an incredible job as well.

Speaker 19 She's always met the moment, moment, but here she is.

Speaker 117 But I'm here to remind you that we are not powerless in this moment.

Speaker 117 People are starting to put the pieces together.

Speaker 117 And ironically, the most divisive forces in our country are actually bringing more of us together than before. And that's important.

Speaker 117 And

Speaker 117 I want to let you all know, in every single stop that

Speaker 117 Bernie and I have had in the last couple days,

Speaker 117 we were in Nevada a couple days ago. We were in Greeley, Colorado, way out there in Colorado.
We went to Denver. Every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.

Speaker 117 3,200 people in Las Vegas.

Speaker 117 Out in Greeley, we went to a Republican congressman's district, Gabe Evans, who, you know,

Speaker 117 he just got elected. He just got elected.
Usually, your first three job, three months on the job, you're on your best behavior. This guy hasn't held a town hall once.

Speaker 70 So, we said, you know what, let's go out there, we'll hold our own town hall.

Speaker 117 We thought

Speaker 117 wildest dreams out there in Greeley. We thought maybe 2,000 people showed up, would show up.
11,000 people

Speaker 116 came out to Greeley.

Speaker 117 Then we went to Denver.

Speaker 117 And out in Denver, Colorado, again, our wildest dream, we were like, maybe we can get like, what if we got like 20,000 people out in Denver? Last night, 34,000 people

Speaker 117 in Denver showed up.

Speaker 92 Powerful, powerful stuff right there.

Speaker 82 And

Speaker 92 I don't even think it's worth showing you the clip. I'll do a whole other take on it.

Speaker 14 But what Pete Hegseth is now saying is that

Speaker 21 the Atlantic was lying.

Speaker 110 It's all fake news.

Speaker 18 It's all one big lie.

Speaker 8 All right, I'll show it to you.

Speaker 14 I just, I got to come with receipts, just so you can be like, really?

Speaker 14 I got to come with the receipts.

Speaker 38 Here, let's play it.

Speaker 85 One question.

Speaker 120 Can you share how your information about war plans against the Houthis in Yemen was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic? And were those details classified?

Speaker 63 So

Speaker 63 you're talking about a

Speaker 85 deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax.

Speaker 85 So this is the guy that peddles in garbage.

Speaker 3 This is what he does.

Speaker 85 I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign. because of the skill and courage of our troops.
I've monitored it very closely from the beginning.

Speaker 85 And you see, we've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration. Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets.
Our ships couldn't sail through.

Speaker 85 And when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen. President Trump said, no more.

Speaker 85 We will reestablish deterrence. We will open freedom of navigation.
And we will ultimately decimate the Houthis, which is exactly what we're doing as we speak from the beginning, overwhelmingly.

Speaker 27 These people, Ben, are so reprehensible. I just want to say, never take any responsibility.
Everything's just a game to them. Everything is attack, attack, attack.
Try to deflect.

Speaker 27 Pete Hegseth put our national security at risk due to his incompetence, and he continues to treat this like he is on his Fox News morning show, which is maybe the only thing that he is qualified to do.

Speaker 27 If that he's not qualified one bit to have any say in our government, any say over our troops. What a disgraceful, disgraceful response by Hegseth.
Quite frankly, he should resign.

Speaker 27 He put our people at risk. This is a disgrace.
This person is completely unfit to lead, and that response is just heinous.

Speaker 27 And by the way, all the things that he named are more true things that happened that they continued to deflect about. Yeah, the Russia, Russia, Russia stuff.

Speaker 27 Yeah, when Donald Trump called our troops suckers and losers. All of these things that have been proven to be true.

Speaker 27 And you try to then throw this journalist under the bus after the White House has already admitted that this was true, after the National Security Council has already confirmed the authenticity of these text messages, these text messages in which you were discussing America's war plans over text message instead of doing it in a skiff or another secure way.

Speaker 27 These people are such disgraces. I cannot wait for the day where they are all gone and they get what they deserve.
This is so absolutely atrocious. They should not be in power whatsoever.

Speaker 27 We need the people out there to rise up. We need democracy to continue to fight back.
We need democracy to win.

Speaker 27 We need to get these people out of office and we need to elect people to replace them who actually share American values and are able to lead with American values.

Speaker 108 Two quick things because I know two quick things, Brett, because I know I know we're rapid.

Speaker 108 Heg Seth, in that clip for the for the video watchers and and if you're on audio, go check out the video of that.

Speaker 108 He looks like an unhinged lunatic, like from the deep breath that he takes before he answers like psycho, yeah. Smugness on his face as he's delivering the answer.

Speaker 108 Okay, now the other thing: the answer, all he did

Speaker 4 that was the worst strategy ever to try and discredit a story that's one already been confirmed by your people, two, a story that has receipts.

Speaker 97 There are screenshots of the text. Did he just fabricate those screenshots?

Speaker 108 So, all he did with that argument was now further confirm that Russia, Russia, Russia, both sides,

Speaker 108 all those stories are even more true than ever. Because if that's the crux of your argument, Hexa, well, you've proven to be a fool once again.

Speaker 108 Because in this instance, there are receipts that are printed. What are you doing, buddy?

Speaker 99 You look

Speaker 20 he's he's relying on the fact that the corporate media is oh, it's a one-day story, then they'll move on, and Trump will do the another post about the portrait and how ugly he looks, and then he'll talk about annexing another country, and then we'll move on.

Speaker 91 Guess what?

Speaker 98 Remember that movie, Captain Phillips?

Speaker 13 I'm the captain now. Remember that line?

Speaker 28 It's a new media environment.

Speaker 4 Okay,

Speaker 56 there's a reason that the Midas Touch network and the Midas Touch podcast is yes, beating Rogan, yes, beating Fox News on YouTube, because people want the truth.

Speaker 14 People are pissed off.

Speaker 99 And we are using this network to highlight.

Speaker 62 All of those town halls that Democrats are showing up to, the cowardice of Republicans running away from their town halls.

Speaker 76 Remember how the corporate media would never show the Bernie and AOC rallies?

Speaker 61 Well, now that we're bigger than them, guess what we're showing?

Speaker 90 The Bernie rallies, the AOC rallies.

Speaker 79 Any Democrat who wants to go into a red district, we're going to highlight those rallies or go to your district and speak truth to power.

Speaker 44 We are going to highlight people fighting for people and not the ones running away from the people.

Speaker 28 This is a moment where courage will be rewarded.

Speaker 7 It is obvious who the cowards, who the traitors, who the real losers are, and who are the people betraying our American ideals.

Speaker 76 We will keep fighting every day here at the Midas Touch Network and the Midas Touch Podcast for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

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Speaker 23 A lot of news we we covered in a short period of time, but I think we covered most of it all. Thank you, everybody, for watching.
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