MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/5/25

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Speaker 23 Job numbers came out today.

Speaker 25 Only 1,494 new private sector jobs created.

Speaker 21 This was the worst kind of private sector jobs report since 2009.

Speaker 31 Want to talk about, as we're learning, additional information about this purported military strike on a fishing boat off the coast of Venezuela, which purported to kill 11 people.

Speaker 4 Trump posted the execution video on his official social media account.

Speaker 31 There's conflicting reports.

Speaker 30 First, Secretary of State Rubio said the boat was heading to Trinidad, then said heading to the United States.

Speaker 40 It's really unclear what the heck is happening, and we need to really discuss that in detail.

Speaker 31 I want to also talk about the show of military force happened in Tiananmen Square in China, as you had Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Xi Jinping there.

Speaker 26 And that was a day after Prime Minister Modi of India showed that he was moving away from the United States and going to start developing a broader trading relationship with China based on the way the United States has been treating India.

Speaker 43 You know, RFK on Capitol Hill

Speaker 31 saying some of the most dangerous things.

Speaker 29 Yeah, RFK Jr.'s testimony, one of the worst testimonies I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 We'll talk about that.

Speaker 35 But we should begin talking about what went down this week.

Speaker 31 The big story, of course, is that the Epstein victims held a press conference demanding the release of the files, of course, with limited redactions of just the names of the victims.

Speaker 31 But they made their position very, very clear. And then Donald Trump proceeded to call it a hoax and said that this is all a hoax.

Speaker 20 Epstein's sex trafficking ring is a hoax.

Speaker 19 The files are a hoax.

Speaker 38 The victims are a hoax. None of this is real.

Speaker 4 This is just being done by the Democrats, everybody.

Speaker 26 We'll talk about that in World Spring and Brett and Jordy. Brothers, how are you?

Speaker 11 Doing great, Ben. Doing great, Jordy.
It's great to be here. Great to be here, Midas Mighty.
Thank you to everybody listening and watching.

Speaker 11 Remember to go ahead and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Brothers, looking like this is going to be like for sure my last show.

Speaker 11 As many of you know, I'm on Baby Watch over here, Baby Watch 2025. And yeah, this is definitely going to be my last show for the next couple of shows.
And so I'm excited to get into it.

Speaker 11 Jordy, what's the

Speaker 5 phrasing?

Speaker 48 Phrasing is very important, Brett.

Speaker 5 You can't just say, this is my last show.

Speaker 5 That's pins and needles when you say that. But we're obviously very excited for you and your wife B.
This is incredible stuff here.

Speaker 5 Just stoked against today's show. Benji, where are we starting off?

Speaker 32 We all know that Brett's talking about his baby, right?

Speaker 23 Like, that's your point, Jordy, right? Brett was a little cryptic with it.

Speaker 34 We all, Brett, you made it clear the baby's going to be born any day now.

Speaker 5 I'm just saying, starting the show is being like, and just so everyone knows, you know, I'm making this my last show is a crazy way to start.

Speaker 11 It's a good point. You know, I kind of, you know, a lot of people, I just assume people are kind of following the story over the past few episodes, but I guess not necessarily.

Speaker 11 So I guess I should specify that there's a baby on the way in my household. I'm very excited.
And it's happening by the end of this weekend, no matter what.

Speaker 11 And so this is going to be.

Speaker 29 Per doctor's orders.

Speaker 11 Per doctor's orders. So this is going to be my last show until I am back.
Probably just miss a couple shows, let's be real.

Speaker 11 But yeah, let's get into it, Ben. What What do we got today?

Speaker 19 All right.

Speaker 43 Donald Trump held a Derange press conference in the Oval Office yesterday with the president of Poland at the same time that the Epstein victims were on Capitol Hill sharing their stories and demanding the release of the files while that press conference was taking place.

Speaker 35 Again, and while the new president of Poland was sitting there in the Oval Office, Donald Trump said, Look, let me tell you what's really happening here.

Speaker 4 This has been the most successful eight months in the history of the the United States, which it actually hasn't.

Speaker 31 It's probably been the worst eight months in the history of the United States, objectively, if we just look at facts, data, America's power declining, our alliances absolutely being destroyed.

Speaker 35 So Trump says all this Epstein stuff that you're seeing on Capitol Hill, these victims, the files, anything about Epstein, hoax.

Speaker 47 Just remember, like Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.

Speaker 41 It's Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, hoax, hoax, hoax, hoax.

Speaker 54 And I'm just going to say it over and over and over again, because if I say it over and over and over again, apparently the media just listens to what I say, and I can turn people's brains into MAGA mush.

Speaker 53 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 55 I think we're probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room, we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that's what I want to talk about.

Speaker 55 That's what we should be talking about, not the Epstein hoax.

Speaker 22 According to everything I read, including the two people in this room, like he can't even say a sentence that's normal, even as he's trying to engage in the fraud.

Speaker 29 According to the two people in this room.

Speaker 39 What does that even mean?

Speaker 28 Um, then he admits that he's aware that the DOJ, the Department of Justice, has been subpoenaed for the Epstein files.

Speaker 38 But Donald Trump says there's nothing to do.

Speaker 60 We've turned over everything, which of course they haven't.

Speaker 33 I'll fact-check it, but let's play it.

Speaker 55 Nobody's going to talk about, because they're going to talk about the Epstein, whatever. I understand that we were subpoenaed to give files, and I understand we've given thousands of pages of files.

Speaker 55 And I know that no matter what you do, it's going to keep going.

Speaker 55 And I think it's, I think, really, I think it's enough because I think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we're having.

Speaker 55 I think we're probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room, we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that's what I want to talk about.

Speaker 55 That's what we should be talking about, not the Epstein hoax.

Speaker 23 Just to fact-check so many things there, layoffs are up 39% in August to 85,979.

Speaker 30 Housing data show sellers now exceed buyers by over 500,000, marking the largest imbalance ever recorded in the history of the market.

Speaker 29 We have U.S. companies announcing just 1,494 new jobs in August, lowest for the month since 2009, as layoffs surge.

Speaker 11 Notoriously good job year of 2009.

Speaker 34 Notoriously great.

Speaker 2 Notoriously great.

Speaker 28 It was just a great recession.

Speaker 33 Make America great again.

Speaker 5 It was 2009's economy.

Speaker 11 Make America a great recession again. He missed a

Speaker 2 recession letter.

Speaker 2 Got it.

Speaker 32 And then, you know, I think we're done.

Speaker 51 He goes, I think we're done turning over the files.

Speaker 6 Like, do you think we're all just so stupid that you turn over a number that sounds large, 33,000, and go, look, I've turned over the files.

Speaker 31 They're talking about the release of 33,000 documents, which they say are pages, which are part of the Epstein files, except it was the part that was already produced many, many years ago.

Speaker 45 This is not actually the files in the Department of Justice's possession.

Speaker 58 And I've interviewed, everybody should go and take a look at this interview I did with Spencer Cooven.

Speaker 52 And Spencer Cooven

Speaker 23 is the lawyer for the first Epstein victims.

Speaker 38 He's since settled and resolved all of the cases for his clients.

Speaker 65 But he was the first lawyer to file against Epstein, the first lawyer to take the deposition of Epstein.

Speaker 29 He took multiple depositions of Epstein.

Speaker 44 And the way he described it is he goes, Ben, he goes, the 33,000 is like a needle in the haystack.

Speaker 58 It's the smallest amount in the massive trove of documents that are out there.

Speaker 34 He goes, there are the call logs that are out there.

Speaker 32 There are, you know, the video cameras that taped everybody going in and out.

Speaker 44 There's phone books.

Speaker 28 There's way more logs. There's the witness statement.

Speaker 30 Rather than me say it, let's just bring in the lawyer Spencer Cooven in my interview with him.

Speaker 29 Here's what he said we should be focused on.

Speaker 2 Let's play it.

Speaker 67 He didn't keep a list of these people. What he would do is he would get calls from men, powerful men that were coming into town that lived in Palm Beach, for example, and they would call the home.

Speaker 67 And they would say, hey, I'm in town. They would then talk to Miss Maxwell.
Maxwell would then send a girl out to the house. That's how the operation would work.

Speaker 67 So, if you really wanted to see exactly who was contacting Epstein and trying to get women, you look at his phone books. You look at his phone records.

Speaker 67 The phone message pads were obtained during the search warrant of the home back then. That's the first place we looked.

Speaker 19 Portions of those phone message pads were released.

Speaker 39 Guess whose name was all over them?

Speaker 68 Donald Trump, because he was best friends with Epstein.

Speaker 32 So it's not a shocker, despite Ghylaine's Mary Poppins impression.

Speaker 69 I do not know how i met him perhaps my daddy introduced me to him i don't

Speaker 69 say a dirty word can i say the the

Speaker 69 dirty word here

Speaker 69 ow oh did i just say

Speaker 69 i'm such a baddie oh please forgive me person but no epstein liked the women because of their musical tastes He liked the song selection. He wanted to know if they were into vanilla ice or MC Hammer.

Speaker 38 That's what they were doing.

Speaker 29 I mean, she literally basically said that during her thing.

Speaker 71 And then all the MAGAs are like, she exonerated him.

Speaker 44 Yo, she's a convicted sex trafficker, you nutbags.

Speaker 25 What are you talking about?

Speaker 58 D-Lane Maxwell didn't exonerate any.

Speaker 73 She's trying to exonerate herself and a convicted sex trafficker.

Speaker 11 And the judge in the trial would constantly note how vicious of a liar she was, how she's like the biggest con person on the planet. I think

Speaker 11 all of this really just shows it's a microcosm for the kind of MAGA media, the right-wing media, and the kind of grip they have on these followers as we watch this kind of develop.

Speaker 11 Because we watched in real time, these Trump supporters

Speaker 11 effectively get brainwashed by Donald Trump and the right-wing media into not caring about an issue that they have spent the last few years, years and years and years, demanding the Epstein files and trying to pin this on Democrats and whatnot.

Speaker 11 And now you look at over the week, you look at when they were doing the the press conference with the victims, every network was playing at least portions of this press conference, except one, Fox.

Speaker 11 None of the right-wing networks were playing this at all. It was as if it did not exist.
So this is one of the ways the right-wing media works.

Speaker 11 Not only does it try to spread certain propaganda, it also hides certain things from its viewers. Out of sight, out of mind, this isn't happening.

Speaker 11 And this whole Epstein saga, I think it lays bare the entire right-wing media playbook.

Speaker 11 You got right-wing media, you got these GOP politicians, the MAGA propagandists, all colluding to hide the most heinous acts imaginable, diverting their followers' attention to protect powerful people.

Speaker 11 And if you could look at it across this Epstein issue, you could also look at it across every single issue. It's basically the same playbook that they employ everywhere.

Speaker 11 And it doesn't matter how heinous, it doesn't matter how obvious. This is obviously one of the most kind of in-your-face situations there is.

Speaker 11 They could say, don't look over there, look over here. And their followers are just willingly going along with it.
The whole thing is absolutely crazy.

Speaker 11 And the more you see Donald Trump try to deflect from this also, just the guiltier he looks. Like I've...

Speaker 11 gradually thought he's been guilty look seemed guiltier and guiltier and guiltier every single step of the way and this is all culminating of course with now donald trump actually threatening republican members of congress saying if you vote for this discharge petition, which is the petition that would get a bill on the floor in order to say, if you vote for this, we will immediately have to release the Epstein files.

Speaker 11 The Department of Justice will have to release the Epstein files. Just the very notion of that discharge petition, which would just allow for the vote.
on the Epstein files.

Speaker 11 Donald Trump and his administration are making threats at Republican congresspeople saying, basically, if you do this, then, you know, watch your back.

Speaker 11 We will consider it a hostile act within this administration how is it a hostile act to release the epstein files unless you're scared of what is in the epstein you said you wanted released

Speaker 5 yeah and brett and brett and ben brett to your point before for a lot of the MAGA constituents there, this was the issue that quote unquote got them off the couch to go and vote was this issue.

Speaker 5 So to see right-wing media and their total reframe of this and trying to conceal all of this from their audiences is disgusting but we shouldn't be surprised about that what's beyond vile though is calling this the epstein hoax that donald trump does time and time again like it it truly makes my blood boil because it's dismissing like the lived trauma of all of the survivors and it then just undermines the credibility of people who bravely came forward about the damn abuse like it's it's disgusting Calling it the Epstein hoax erases their pain.

Speaker 75 And we'll pull up the press conference shortly.

Speaker 5 And it treats their suffering like it's some sort of political talking point.

Speaker 77 It's super gross.

Speaker 5 And then it adds another level of harm because

Speaker 5 it makes it seem like they're lying.

Speaker 78 Like these people who have really lived through hell.

Speaker 5 Donald Trump, the president, the commander-in-chief, is making it seem like these people are lying.

Speaker 77 These women now who were girls that were raped by Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophile cabal, it's making them seem like they're liars.

Speaker 5 I don't care if it's not.

Speaker 66 It's not a red issue.

Speaker 52 It's not a blue issue.

Speaker 5 It's a humanity issue. It's absolutely disgusting and absolutely disqualifying for Donald Trump when he calls this the Epstein hoax.

Speaker 11 I'm saying if you're falling for this, though, like, sorry, I'm just going to say, if you fall for this crap, like if all of a sudden now you are repeating this, because I see, you know, and a lot of these people are probably just bots and whatnot, right?

Speaker 11 But I see all these Trump people who write, you're still talking about the Epstein hoax. Like, you're just a fucking idiot, okay? Like, you don't believe in anything.
You're a bad human being.

Speaker 11 Like just like look yourself in the mirror and try to like, you know, acknowledge what you've become because it's just a disgrace.

Speaker 38 And now they're saying it's the Democrat hoax, that all that these are actually all Democratic operatives.

Speaker 29 Watch Donald Trump say that here.

Speaker 20 Play this clip.

Speaker 79 There have been survivors of Jeffrey Epstein speaking at a press conference on Capitol Hill. They're calling for these case files, these documents to be released.
And Thomas Massey, who

Speaker 79 is sponsoring a discharge position to get the House to vote on release of those documents, says he hasn't really heard implicated in these files, but many of your friends and donors may be, and he says that's why the Justice Department is redacting them and slow walking the release.

Speaker 79 Is the Justice Department protecting any friends or donors, sir?

Speaker 55 So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends. You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy.
situation. We gave him everything over and over again, more and more and more, and nobody's ever satisfied.

Speaker 55 From what I understand, I could check, but from what I understand,

Speaker 55 thousands of pages of documents have been given.

Speaker 55 But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president.

Speaker 55 Even if you look at D.C. right now.

Speaker 29 And then he pivots to talking about D.C.

Speaker 23 where restaurants are suffering and people in D.C.

Speaker 35 are living in fear of masked ICE agents and don't want the military roaming D.C.

Speaker 4 There was also a lawsuit filed by D.C.

Speaker 76 based on the same kind of legal precedent we saw in the Northern District of California, that having the military serve as a police is a violation of a late 19th century law called the Posse Comitatus Act.

Speaker 30 That had to be invoked because Trump's using the military as a police force.

Speaker 31 Later in the show, I'll talk about my interview with Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.

Speaker 38 It was a powerful interview where he gave Donald Trump a final warning to stay the hell out of Chicago, to stay the hell out of Illinois.

Speaker 31 But let me show you a few other things regarding the press conference that took place.

Speaker 38 So Donald Trump did have the president of Poland at the White House, but there have been lots of times where Trump's had world leaders at the White House.

Speaker 30 And the idea that he was doing the flyover just for the president of Poland does not pass the common sense smell test.

Speaker 2 to me.

Speaker 23 I think he was doing the flyover to intimidate the Epstein victims.

Speaker 62 And then basically, while they were giving their press conference and then trying to, in the pathetic Trump way that he always lies and makes excuses for things.

Speaker 75 No, no, I did it for because the president of Poland was here.

Speaker 36 No, you were trying to intimidate the victims.

Speaker 47 So as you had Anusca de Georgia

Speaker 6 speaking, that's who the speaker is here.

Speaker 45 I'll tell you a little bit more about Anusca in a bit.

Speaker 35 They do the military plane flyover while the Epstein survivors are speaking here.

Speaker 33 Play this close.

Speaker 82 Department of Justice telling me that this was going to happen when it had already happened.

Speaker 82 This woman

Speaker 82 abused children.

Speaker 40 You saw that right there for our audio listeners, the flyover of fighter jets over where the Epstein victims were speaking.

Speaker 46 That's a Nusca de Georgia in the Sunday Mirror, UK rag that was owned by Gheelane Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, in 1997.

Speaker 41 There was an article in 1997 about how Gheelane would bring young women to Donald and that she would be a supplier of young women is how it was called.

Speaker 28 They said one of the young women they mentioned in the article, they say, is Anusca de Georgia, who was then spending time in the penthouse with Donald.

Speaker 51 And it was a very bizarrely written article.

Speaker 76 Anuska loves older men.

Speaker 31 It's like a grossly written article, very misogynistic.

Speaker 51 And again, I have no clue of what,

Speaker 83 you know, for all I, we do know that Anusca was indeed a sex trafficking victim of Epstein and Gienlane.

Speaker 23 I don't know if Geelane was using the name of a young, attractive woman in order to, you know, make Trump look cool, or if there was really a date.

Speaker 31 I don't know what took place there, but that's the name.

Speaker 83 If you're like, didn't I listen to you know, you doing

Speaker 44 videos before wearing Nuska de Georgia?

Speaker 36 That sounds familiar.

Speaker 35 That's from that article with Ghylaine and Trump and Ghylaine's dad's newspaper, the Sunday Mirror.

Speaker 5 But for Donald Trump saying it's a Democrat hoax, well, here's an Epstein victim who was on Lawrence O'Donnell, Lisa Jones.

Speaker 45 And Lisa Jones is a Trump voter.

Speaker 38 At least she was a Trump voter and supporter because she thought he was going to release the files and help the victims because that's what he promised.

Speaker 38 So listen to what she has to say about all of this.

Speaker 33 Let's play it.

Speaker 16 So I'm going to go off of my survivor sister, Haley Robertson, and

Speaker 16 I'm a Republican. I voted for him.
I voted for Trump. And

Speaker 16 for him to say what he's saying

Speaker 16 is beyond me because I put my hope in him and he's supposed to protect us. And for him to say that this is a joke and that it's sides,

Speaker 16 this is not sides. We will say it time and time again.
None of us are up there accusing him of anything.

Speaker 16 There is no one that is accusing him of any wrongdoing. So for the fact that he is saying those things and saying it's a hoax,

Speaker 16 Who are you hiding for then?

Speaker 16 Because if it's not you,

Speaker 16 then who is it?

Speaker 43 and that scares me who is it and here's democratic congressmember mcgovern on the house floor yesterday he's giving a speech he sees the aisen video ain't our digital clipper and digital editor and you'll see uh congressmember mcgovern react to trump calling it a hoax as he sees the video we put out let's play it it is shameful um and it's and it's speaking about the epstein files again i'm looking at the video of a few minutes ago donald trump speaking to reporters calling all this a hoax.

Speaker 2 All this, the Epstein files a hoax.

Speaker 70 He's not talking about what we're doing here. And by the way, let me just say to the gentleman and anybody else who wants to know, listen to what the victims were asking for outside this Capitol

Speaker 70 just a few minutes ago, the survivors, the survivors of Mr. Epstein and Ms.
Maxwell. Listen to what the survivors have been saying.
They want the Massey Connor bill passed.

Speaker 70 They want something with teeth in it that will force this administration to comply because they don't trust that they will.

Speaker 22 Democrats come out swinging, ready to fight, ready to fight on the House and Senate floor, ready to fight in the House and Senate committees.

Speaker 34 I want to highlight some of the committee

Speaker 19 developments.

Speaker 27 I want to talk about RFK showing up and what went down during his testimony.

Speaker 25 I want to talk about the economy.

Speaker 37 I want to talk about global affairs.

Speaker 48 Should be noted that the United States has now cut off all military aid to Eastern European allies, in addition to the way we've cut off aid to Ukraine.

Speaker 43 This is from the foreign, this is from the U.S.

Speaker 48 to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia.

Speaker 4 Move comes as Washington pushes NATO allies to pay more towards their defense.

Speaker 30 That's how at least it's being reported in the Financial Times, but there's far more to it than that.

Speaker 19 We'll talk more about what's going on there.

Speaker 30 Donald Trump didn't even show up to Paris today to the meeting with Zielinski, which first I thought Trump was going to be there with the coalition of the willing.

Speaker 45 Then it seems that Donald Trump...

Speaker 83 didn't even bother to call into the meeting.

Speaker 34 He waited until it was done and then called Zielinski afterwards.

Speaker 30 And you literally have Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Putin, and others in China right now laughing at the United States on tape.

Speaker 6 We'll talk about that.

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Speaker 50 Let's talk about what's going down on the House floor.

Speaker 45 Democratic Congressman Joe Nagoose.

Speaker 48 He's on the floor.

Speaker 26 He's in the rules committee. He crushes it.
He's from Colorado, Congressman from Colorado.

Speaker 25 And he's like, are y'all MAGAs just going to keep on whining about Biden?

Speaker 58 Like, we're eight months in. We're 200 days in.
Like, is everything just going to be Biden, Biden, Biden? Because, like, it's getting old.

Speaker 30 And frankly, I'm getting secondhand embarrassment from watching you all try to blame the economy now on Biden.

Speaker 2 Okay, here, play this clip.

Speaker 89 My colleague from Minnesota, I think, said the word Biden eight times, if I'm not mistaken. You couple that with references to the prior administration, that jumps up to 12 or 13.

Speaker 89 It's unclear to me when Republicans are going to stop complaining and actually do something to address the challenges that face our country.

Speaker 91 They spend more time talking about Joe Biden than they do about reducing costs.

Speaker 89 Every sentence from that side of the aisle, Biden, a verb, an adjective, and more coal. That's essentially the sum total of every sentence.

Speaker 89 And by the way, my colleagues, I suspect, are watching from their offices.

Speaker 89 I know that more of my colleagues are going to come to the floor here to engage in debate on, I don't know, how many CRAs are they putting on the floor today?

Speaker 92 Three, four, five.

Speaker 89 That's all we do around here is CRAs. So I encourage them as they're watching, just please, when you come to the floor, maybe spend some time talking about your affirmative vision for the country.

Speaker 52 And not so much time talking about the prior president.

Speaker 34 Well, that's all they've got.

Speaker 50 All they know how to do is whine and complain, right? That's and lie.

Speaker 20 So that's why you have Transportation Secretary Duffy from Real World Road Rules Challenge reality show from the 1990s.

Speaker 3 Everything is Buddhajig and Biden's fault.

Speaker 47 And then Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 10 Why was it that Prime Minister Modi met with Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin?

Speaker 59 Why did they do that military parade where they were laughing at Donald Trump?

Speaker 29 What do you think Hexet's going to say, everybody?

Speaker 53 Because of Biden.

Speaker 47 Biden did that in China.

Speaker 33 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 94 China was celebrating. They're having this parade in Tenim Square featuring a display of advanced equipment.
And they invited Putin and they invited Kim Jong-un in attendance.

Speaker 94 So what message are they trying to send? And what is the administration's response?

Speaker 95 Well, unfortunately, the weakness of the previous administration has driven Russia and China closer together.

Speaker 95 That was a terrible development of a lack of American leadership and a lack of American strength.

Speaker 2 And you saw it around the world.

Speaker 95 And it manifests in what we saw on TV last night.

Speaker 22 Quite literally the opposite.

Speaker 58 And again, that's what I mean.

Speaker 96 Like, like these people are just like, they're like loser people.

Speaker 76 They're like real, like cowardly, pathetic humans.

Speaker 78 Like the fact that you would go, oh, that all happened just now in China

Speaker 76 because of Biden. I'll tell you what happened because of Biden.
Two countries joined NATO, Finland and Sweden.

Speaker 58 NATO's expansion is a show of strength. You had Biden meeting with the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea together, side by side on a tri-lat basis, bringing them together.

Speaker 83 Biden strengthening all of our alliances in the Pacific.

Speaker 65 You had Biden making NATO stronger than ever, supporting Ukraine.

Speaker 66 That's actually what took place.

Speaker 71 And then you had the constant when Biden was in the presidency, undermining of him by this right-wing fascist international movement of people like Nigel Farage and Bukele and Orbon and Le Pen in France.

Speaker 58 They're all from the same crew of spreading the same lies from the same playbook and spreading all of this disinformation to come into power.

Speaker 64 It's the same stuff and then engage in the havoc that we're seeing right now.

Speaker 71 I mean, the fact that not, we'll show you this in a bit.

Speaker 42 Nigel Farage,

Speaker 10 not from the right-wing extremists.

Speaker 78 They called the Reform Party, but they should not be named that.

Speaker 37 It's like being called the Truth Party or Truth Social.

Speaker 51 You know, we're about reform.

Speaker 62 This is Mr.

Speaker 58 Brexit.

Speaker 64 This is Mr. anti-European Union, anti-NATO.

Speaker 29 This guy spews some of the most hateful conspiracies.

Speaker 43 He was the witness that the Republicans called to the House committees to talk about free speech.

Speaker 58 And then when he was asked by Moskowitz, who are you having lunch with?

Speaker 2 Oh, I can't.

Speaker 46 I'm too much of a gentleman to share with you who I'm having lunch with.

Speaker 38 I would not. So you're meeting Donald Trump.

Speaker 46 Oh, I would never spill the beans about where I'm going to have lunch i would not tell you where i'm going to have lunch got it you're meeting with donald is this a free speak aren't you supposed to speak oh no i wouldn't that that's discretion is the better part of valor let me explain to you so you have that going on but but brett at an international hegsith blames

Speaker 47 Hagsith blames Biden. Let me show you this one guy.

Speaker 11 Just think about the humiliation, though, right, that Trump has received at the hands of Vladimir Putin since that meeting. Donald Trump holds this meeting, invites Vladimir Putin to Alaska.

Speaker 11 They have this summit, which is a complete and total disaster. Trump is all smiles when he greets Putin.
He's clapping his hands like a seal. He's like embracing Putin as if he's like some great guy.

Speaker 11 They have this meeting. Trump's face is very different by the end of it.
They send the delegations home. They cut the meetings early.

Speaker 11 And then what happens after that? Putin bombs Ukraine with the most relentless bombing campaign that he has the entire time. He basically says F you to any sort of peace efforts.

Speaker 11 He then goes to China, meets with Xi, meets with Kim Jong-un during

Speaker 11 this parade that they threw there, which was obviously like a show of force by China, just mocking Donald Trump and also mocking Donald Trump's attempt at a similar parade with the scale and scope of their parade that they did.

Speaker 11 And then you have Putin, you have Kim Jong-un, and you have Xi walking together. buddy-buddy.
And their message to the world there is we are the new power center thanks to Donald Trump.

Speaker 11 Donald Trump has abdicated.

Speaker 11 His country is no longer the center of the world. Right now, it is now us.
We are the superpowers who are going to dictate how things go for now on. Then you have people like Modi, right?

Speaker 11 Modi in India. He's now buddy-buddy with Putin, buddy-buddy with G.

Speaker 11 There's this entire shift right now in the global order.

Speaker 11 And it's all thanks to Donald Trump saying, basically, just pulling America out completely of its leadership role and letting these countries take the mantle. It is just such an embarrassment.

Speaker 5 And it really shows you, too, hey, it's really important to have allies. Like this whole notion of isolationism, like that's not, that's not going to fly.
That's not going to end well for America.

Speaker 5 So don't attack Canada, Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 Don't attack friendly countries to the United States because sooner or later, you know, there's going to be a group of countries, and we're seeing it come through, that team up against America.

Speaker 5 And we're going to look around.

Speaker 60 We'll be like, hey, who's got our back?

Speaker 5 I know we've been jerks and everything.

Speaker 37 And I know we've been doing this tariff stuff, but like, y'all still got us, right?

Speaker 6 Like, it's us.

Speaker 5 You can't bank on that anymore because you are an embarrassment on the global stage and you're dragging this country down with you.

Speaker 43 Yeah, and it's perfectly summed up by this account, Adrian P from Eastern Europe.

Speaker 58 When the Financial Times reported, Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats the U.S.

Speaker 37 would no longer fund programs that train and equip militaries in Eastern European countries that would be on the front line of any conflict with Russia.

Speaker 43 This Adrian P account goes good.

Speaker 26 I'm confident Europe will be able to protect itself.

Speaker 71 In the meantime, I'm sure the 77 million dumb Americans who voted for this clown car administration and the 90 million idiots who stayed home in November will suffer way more than the Europeans ever will.

Speaker 48 Next time a 9-11 happens or America needs our help, they can suck it and suffer.

Speaker 41 Try living in a world without friends anymore, you dumb motherfers.

Speaker 25 I mean, that's how they feel.

Speaker 71 That's how they feel in Canada.

Speaker 48 That's how they feel in Europe.

Speaker 37 And even like a prime minister Kier Starmer can try to act like, oh, you know, let's get along with

Speaker 47 the people across the world are done with this American clown show right now.

Speaker 58 This wannabe fascism.

Speaker 76 It's a pathetic version of fascism because the fascists don't want Trump in their club. Like he's the loser fascists.

Speaker 47 And the fascists look at the loser fascists and like, yeah,

Speaker 83 what's he doing right now?

Speaker 47 Oh, the guy with the hands that are decomposing

Speaker 75 before our eyes.

Speaker 38 He's talking about invading California, his own states, and Illinois.

Speaker 47 What a pathetic loser.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 6 what's he going to say with the new president of Poland there?

Speaker 37 What's he going to talk about? Oh.

Speaker 38 He's going to talk about Gavin Newsom's hands.

Speaker 5 Oh, that makes me talking about Newsom's hands.

Speaker 37 Here, play this clip of him talking about Newsom's hands in the oval office and newsom he's this is a very incompetent guy i watched him with the hands i'm saying what's going on with the hands there's something wrong with there's something wrong with him do you watch him there's something wrong with this guy i just want you to think from a obviously trump's hands literally are rotting in front of us like trump's hands look like he dipped his hands in a freaking piranha tank and then lifted him out and says nothing to see here nothing to see here his ankles are like 29 inches and like the guy is clearly going through it.

Speaker 41 We've heard him.

Speaker 5 We've heard him do what Newsom should do a side-by-side of his hands and Trump's hands and say, y'all want to talk hands and just see what Trump does. I pay.

Speaker 38 Well, Newsom's doing this because Donald Trump posted a photo of Newsom wearing a Trump 2028 hat, to which Newsom then posted a photo of only a slightly AI-adjusted version of Donald Trump.

Speaker 25 And then do we, oh, and then Donald Trump thought it would be funny to, yeah, do we have that as a video, Brett, or do we just have it as the photo?

Speaker 39 It's fine fine either way if we've got the video let's play it if not just the photo is fine yeah i've got it i just got to find it don't worry about it donald trump then posting a photo of uh senator shiff from california with a pencil neck that was one of the donald trump's posts donald trump posting an ai image of rosie o'donnell and then the white house reposted it and said you know and made some post attacking rosie o'donnell i i mean just think about this the official white house account like the it's one thing when Donald Trump does it.

Speaker 11 It's embarrassing enough.

Speaker 11 But to have the official White House government account posting this manipulated Rosie O'Donnell photo that's threatening to revoke her citizenship is just so vile for so many reasons.

Speaker 11 And it's just, it's just stunning that there is no Republican willing to say, yeah, at least this is embarrassing. Like, we are embarrassed by this.

Speaker 11 How could you possibly possibly be proud of yourself to support this sort of shit?

Speaker 11 Just absolutely nuts. And then I do have,

Speaker 11 I keep losing, I do have, I have the Newsome up.

Speaker 11 Let me play this one.

Speaker 92 This is what you could end up looking like

Speaker 92 if you eat

Speaker 92 some of the raw frozen shrimp being sent to the United States by other countries.

Speaker 11 Newsom posted that for our audio listeners, it's the photo of Trump that's a little manipulated, making him look.

Speaker 62 Can you imagine Xi Jinping or Putin or whoever just going out every day

Speaker 64 and talking about

Speaker 57 invading the governors of their own cities and provinces and states and locales?

Speaker 29 Like,

Speaker 58 it's a crazy concept.

Speaker 34 Or like Xi Jinping or just going out there every day and whining about your predecessor over and over and over.

Speaker 47 It's the biggest loser quality.

Speaker 51 Like America is a loser country right now under Donald Trump.

Speaker 47 Like, these qualities are the quality, objectively, not even looking at it, Democrat, the guy whines about the old presidency every single day, 200 days in.

Speaker 32 He talks about invading his own country.

Speaker 85 We launched, we had four ships, massive ships, and a nuclear submarine off the coast of Venezuela.

Speaker 58 And Trump posts an execution video, which he purports to be an execution video, of a fishing boat getting blown up by the United States military. Trump claims 11 people were killed.

Speaker 58 He says they're Trende Aragua gang members headed to the United States.

Speaker 38 I'm not going to play the video.

Speaker 47 It's a death video.

Speaker 58 It's like an ISIS-style video.

Speaker 32 Could you imagine any foreign leader at all?

Speaker 47 other than like ISIS or like bin Laden or like or like the the the the old not even Taliban 2.0 maybe Taliban 1.0 post execution videos he's posting execution videos on the official account bragging that he killed 11 people in a 16 foot fishing boat and we're not stupid I mean a 16 foot fishing boat doesn't have the fuel capacity to make it to the United States.

Speaker 47 I don't even count 11 people on it.

Speaker 58 I can see three people, but I don't even need to go down that rabbit hole.

Speaker 52 It's hard for me to fathom that Trende aragua goes around with just like all this like cocaine and heroin and drugs in open fishing boats with like that aren't sealed or like the drugs aren't hidden also if you say that trende aragua is involved in human trafficking and smuggling right that's one of the how do you know they don't have on that boat a child that they're trafficking or someone they're smuggling and that you've just killed innocent people in addition to gang members under what legal authority do you go go around and just start murdering people, even if they are drug dealing?

Speaker 66 There's not another way to stop that boat in the open seas.

Speaker 38 You just go and kill in territorial waters event as well.

Speaker 29 Then you have Rubio's story that the boat was headed to Trinidad.

Speaker 18 Then he changes the story.

Speaker 29 You have Hegson saying, don't worry, this was not AI.

Speaker 58 This is not an AI.

Speaker 37 I wasn't even thinking it could be an AI video, but Hegson's like, this isn't an AI video, everybody.

Speaker 53 This is super, I'm being super serial, everybody.

Speaker 59 No,

Speaker 59 we took you at your word.

Speaker 5 We took you at your word on this one, Hex. Something tells me this is exactly what y'all will do.
I mean, for our audio listeners, when you're looking at this, but this is not a big boat, right?

Speaker 96 This isn't some yacht that they took down.

Speaker 5 It's 16 feet max, right?

Speaker 2 Okay, drug dealers, bad.

Speaker 5 Gang members, bad. But that doesn't just give you a license to kill without knowing more of what's going on with that tiny, teeny, tiny fishing boat.

Speaker 5 I mean, I could just imagine the cost analysis of this.

Speaker 5 The missile probably cost at least 11 times more than any drugs that could, I don't know that number to be true, but I'm just saying the missile alone was probably more expensive than any drugs that were actually on that bus.

Speaker 100 And again, drug dealers, bad.

Speaker 5 Gang members, bet.

Speaker 52 Yes, agreed.

Speaker 5 But for America, that doesn't then just give you a license to kill people on a 16-foot fishing boat.

Speaker 11 I'm not at a place to trust this administration on everything. We saw what they done with the Brego Garcia.

Speaker 11 We saw when they put on his hands MS-13 and then Donald Trump said over and over, look, he has the tattoo on his hands. Remember that Terry Moran clip? And they were like, no, your people put that on.

Speaker 11 Your people put the letters on his knuckles. And Trump said, no, that's real.
Those are real. They're willing to say anything to justify their actions.

Speaker 11 And a lot of these same Trump voters would criticize Bush for things that weren't even like a quarter of what Donald Trump is doing now.

Speaker 11 Like the surveillance state that Donald Trump is creating right now, the actions that Donald Trump is taking, the extrajudicial actions that he is taking by simply saying, oh, yeah, that person's a terrorist.

Speaker 11 I have the right to kill them. That person's a drug dealer.
I have the right to kill them. When in American history has that ever been okay?

Speaker 11 We lived through the shame of that during the Bush administration. And then there was actually a backlash to that.

Speaker 11 All of these people who support Trump now pretend to hate all those things that Bush did. They're supporting things that Donald Trump is doing that are a billion times worse than anything Bush did.

Speaker 11 And Donald Trump is just posting it to his social media feed.

Speaker 11 Don't tell me you need 4,000 troops, multiple warships to go towards Venezuela for a little teeny tiny fishing boat that could, even if it had drugs on it, couldn't have even had that much.

Speaker 11 It definitely couldn't have made it to the United States from where it was departing. And why can't you do it the same way anyone's always done any of this stuff? Send the Coast Guard out.

Speaker 11 I don't know, send somebody to approach the boat, actually. check in on what's going on.

Speaker 11 I'm just supposed to trust the Trump administration that lies about freaking everything, that this is exactly what they were saying it was, that this is a terrorist organization, that they were coming to the United States.

Speaker 11 I'm supposed to trust the people who said that Haitian migrants were eating cats and dogs. Like these people are not on the up and up about anything.

Speaker 38 You know, I don't, and I'm not trying to be coarse because we're talking about a much more serious subject matter here, but it would be like LeBron James posting a video of himself like dunking on a little baby, like dunking on Geordi's little baby boy and go, woo!

Speaker 58 It's like, okay, you're LeBron James.

Speaker 76 I didn't doubt that the United States military has the capabilities of blowing up a freaking fishing boat.

Speaker 38 Why don't you try to focus now on doing the hard work, which is supporting NATO and supporting Ukraine and supporting Zelensky in real wars, in real fights, versus you blowing up freaking fishing boats and posting it on your social media?

Speaker 78 I mean, for real, other than ISIS, right, which would post the death videos that they would would do.

Speaker 2 Um, like, what group of people post execution videos other than terrorist organizations, other than terrorist organizations, like leaders, like by the Ayatollah of Iran's not posting photos, you know, the videos of the executions.

Speaker 66 I mean, they're happening, but you're not posting it publicly online.

Speaker 25 Like, this is not even a thing to brag.

Speaker 72 It makes you look extra weak.

Speaker 48 I think it reinforces, first off, like, are you going to have a fishing boat?

Speaker 76 Like, would you would do you want to fish in the gulf of mexico or be anywhere even near all of us get to get shot down but if you're our allies you're like yo they are literally crazy not like crazy crazy good like they are weak crazy and what the hell is going on there in general so when we come back i want to show you speaking of which It's like everything to hurt the country, they're doing.

Speaker 38 Let's get rid of wind and solar energy. Why?

Speaker 44 Donald Trump doesn't like windmills.

Speaker 37 Let's not make vaccines a requirement for children anymore,

Speaker 44 where now polo, measles, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, all of these serious diseases, bubonic plague can now spread once again.

Speaker 66 Why?

Speaker 64 Because Trump and RFK Jr.

Speaker 58 think that spreading this disinformation is a great way to grift and it's part of their quack, fake science that they, or just quackery that they engage in.

Speaker 58 It's every move they make is nonsensical non-planned no organization because trump's a crazy guy he's a he's literally like a psychopath he's a malignant narcissist psychopath who doesn't speak in full sentences and he's like treated like gola i guess that's the president of no i don't need to show this crazy psychopath any respect.

Speaker 47 The guy's a lunatic.

Speaker 58 He's not speaking in sentences. He's rotting and decomposing before our eyes.
He makes us look so weak and pathetic.

Speaker 3 He's covering up for a pedosex trafficking ring.

Speaker 44 And just call out this behavior.

Speaker 58 When we come back, we'll show you more.

Speaker 66 I want to show what Governor Pritzker said to me.

Speaker 58 I want to show what went down in some of these hearings.

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Speaker 5 Benji, right before we move on, I just had this thought while we were at break. You know, the Putin-Trump Alaska meeting,

Speaker 5 it just gets weirder and weirder when you think about that. And I almost think Putin was using that to kind of size Donald up again.

Speaker 5 You know, just be like, hey, I heard this guy has lost, you know, whatever fastball he may have had previously. Let me see.

Speaker 1 Let me just see how weak and pathetic he is.

Speaker 5 And then after seeing it in person, he's like, oh, oh, it's worse.

Speaker 2 It's way worse. Hey, she, hey, hey, hey, hey, guys, over here.

Speaker 72 Can we actually,

Speaker 2 let's link up over here.

Speaker 3 Let's link up over here.

Speaker 5 Cause, yeah, America is cooked under Donald Trump.

Speaker 20 They were already linked up, but yes, but with the other,

Speaker 29 but with the other people who were showing up, I think that obviously their discussion was, yo.

Speaker 33 I saw it. I saw it up close.

Speaker 22 Like, the dude is crazy. Like, dude is crazy.

Speaker 47 Like, could you believe like the gift that we've been handed?

Speaker 6 Oh, we were lucky.

Speaker 76 Russia's economy was down the tubes.

Speaker 6 We were getting screwed.

Speaker 43 The sanctions were working.

Speaker 66 This guy loves me.

Speaker 96 He's so we so weird.

Speaker 74 And then Modi's like, Yeah,

Speaker 2 funny.

Speaker 44 He thinks that he's going to go after India.

Speaker 38 We're just going to, we're going to just go elsewhere.

Speaker 53 I mean, the guy's a guy's a total lunatic.

Speaker 58 He wanted me to give him a Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 90 He wanted, he wants a Nobel Peace Prize from me. And then he goes to Pakistan and they give him a Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 3 And they invest crypto the money in trump's new crypto venture world liberty financial the guys for what do you think they're they're doing exactly what i'm saying what do you think they're talking about we are the laughing stock of the world when trump is like oh the world's laughing at us they literally are laughing at us and our corporate media is so like WWE media or like the way the NFL channel covers the NFL is how corporate media like covers America.

Speaker 53 They're like, yo, everybody loves it. Let's go.

Speaker 72 Like, okay, y'all are just wild.

Speaker 44 Like, it's why I always have been reading India's media, what's going on in Japan, what's going on in Canada.

Speaker 58 I've studied it.

Speaker 44 And if I felt that like they're being propagandized the way Sky News does, which is owned by Murdoch in Australia, for example, I'm listening to what the people are actually saying.

Speaker 58 And across the world, no one respects America, right? Nobody respects zero.

Speaker 44 We are looked at as a crazier country than north korea with kim jong-un kim jong-un ain't posting the execution videos you got donald trump blowing up fishing boats and posting execution videos and then doing rosie o'donnell

Speaker 3 no no offense to rosie o'donnell because i actually think she's great no one's thinking about rosie o'donnell right now other than donald trump the fact that rosie o'donnell occupy other than like oh she was she was funny and she you know i i liked her you know i mean i think she was a talented person she's trying to live a peaceful life in ireland but who's waking up and going, Rosie?

Speaker 58 And by the way, it's because Trump perpetually also lives in like 1991 and 1992.

Speaker 5 Like his whole reference to the world are events that happened.

Speaker 11 Like he does seem stuck in that time period. By the way, I think a lot of his followers seem kind of stuck in that time period as well.
It's a weird thing.

Speaker 11 But you know, and when Trump's focusing on a Rosie, when he's posting these dumb memes,

Speaker 11 when we are seeing these purges of actual expertise from our government, when we we are seeing USAID dismantled, when we're seeing the CDC purged, when we're seeing what was happening with RFK and the HHS, oh my God, we'll play some of these clips from this hearing today, which was just the entire thing was such a train wreck.

Speaker 11 When we see what his Department of Energy is doing to our energy and our climate, you know what all these other countries are doing? You know what China is doing and Russia is doing?

Speaker 11 North Korea, all these other countries?

Speaker 100 They're going, okay, they're totally

Speaker 11 sidelining themselves from these futuristic technologies and they're sidelining themselves from being the world leader of health and energy and all this stuff. I guess we'll just do it then.

Speaker 11 I guess we'll, we'll, we'll be the best now.

Speaker 11 They don't want to do it. I'll, I'll, we'll do it.

Speaker 41 You know, if you think of like a World Cup reference, soccer here in the United States or football abroad.

Speaker 45 Imagine like you're playing a competitive game and you think it's like the two best teams playing against each other.

Speaker 29 So you're like, all right, we've been training.

Speaker 18 We're ready to go against the best teams number one versus number two in the world you start playing and then the best team number one in this case the usa starts taking the ball and then they start dribbling it back and then just start scoring and doing own goals on their own net every single time they keep scoring on themselves and in this example that i'm giving china's like looking at the united states continue to score on its own goal and they're like um i guess we okay

Speaker 5 and then and then Ben, and then the head coach, instead of yelling at his players, hey, stop doing the own goals.

Speaker 69 He's saying, Rosie, no, Rosie.

Speaker 47 I mean, like, it's the, I want to comment on the Rosie stuff just really quick about it.

Speaker 2 It's really embarrassing.

Speaker 5 I just want to say it's really been, it is really, really friggin' embarrassing.

Speaker 83 Rosie is amazing. And the way she's handled it is amazing.

Speaker 38 Needless to say, Trump's behavior is, it's bizarre, it's pathetic, and it is embarrassment to this country.

Speaker 5 Like, it's beneath the office, but so obviously not beneath beneath the man who is Donald Trump or the it that is Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 It feels like he's been attacking Rosie now for like 15 years. It's, it's really, it's really like next level deranged stuff.

Speaker 71 And I mean that.

Speaker 60 Like it is really deranged stuff.

Speaker 3 So corporate media, not to play our favorite game, but to play our favorite game.

Speaker 5 Imagine if Biden did it.

Speaker 5 Imagine if President Biden, from the official accounts of the president and the White House, tweeted out stuff attacking a citizen of the country saying, hey, I am going to revoke.

Speaker 48 We're looking into revoking their citizenship.

Speaker 5 Like imagine if he did just one tweet like that, just one.

Speaker 5 Not the hundreds that Trump has attacked Rosie in the past, but imagine if Biden just did one. Your reaction would be that this man is unfit for office.
It is beneath the office. This is despicable.

Speaker 5 This shouldn't. So why now?

Speaker 5 And I mean it. Why now? Why when Donald Trump does it, you don't hold his feet to the fire?

Speaker 63 Because he's Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 There's Donnie being Donnie. No, it's an embarrassment to this friggin' country.
Middle schoolers wouldn't get away with this type of behavior if they picked on their classmates like this.

Speaker 83 Why are we letting or why is corporate media letting President Trump get away with this type of behavior?

Speaker 11 Let me show you this. So we're going to get into the vaccine stuff and this disastrous RFK

Speaker 11 hearing today, which was just a total mess.

Speaker 11 But I think it fits into this whole notion of the destruction of our institutions, the destruction of things that actually make America great, and the ability of other countries to step in and to actually have dominance in these areas.

Speaker 11 So, one example is energy and the climate. And so, if we look at this right here, this was a real tweet that was sent by the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.

Speaker 11 We've played some videos of Chris Wright over the past few weeks on this show. And he writes the following.

Speaker 11 And I'll just preface this in the beginning that this is a lie, and I'll give you the fact check after.

Speaker 11 He says, Even if you wrapped the entire planet in a solar panel, you would only be producing 20% of global energy.

Speaker 11 One of the biggest mistakes politicians can make is equating the electricity with energy.

Speaker 11 So he was fact-checked by a community note on Twitter that said, actually, covering just 1% of land with solar panels could theoretically power the entire planet.

Speaker 11 Electricity is energy and electrification replaces fossil use in transport, heat, and industry. So just this very notion that you have the Secretary of Energy, you have this

Speaker 11 solar energy, this incredible technology that other countries are expanding, that we've been expanding here in the United States.

Speaker 11 And you have somebody who is just attacking this form of energy just because of their ideology, just to support the fossil fuel industry. I get it.
You like fossil fuels. I get it.

Speaker 11 Yes, we still do need fossil fuels. I'm not going to deny that.
But you have these renewable forms of energy, and you're just going to say F you to that. You know, who's not being an idiot?

Speaker 11 You know, who's not being stupid? China. I'll show you right now.
Look how China is dominating in solar energy. For those listening, I'm showing a chart which shows the

Speaker 11 China's wind and solar construction and how it compares to the rest of the world. There is one giant, giant, giant circle.
That is China's wind and solar construction.

Speaker 11 You can see the United States is one of the bubbles to the right.

Speaker 11 This just shows you that other countries aren't playing these weird ideology games that MAGA's playing where they just go, oh, screw that. That's woke.
No, they're going.

Speaker 11 This is actually going to help us. We're going to be in the future while

Speaker 11 the United States is going to be focused on coal and fossil fuels and doing all all this dumb stuff. You've had the Trump administration now, I think it was like near

Speaker 11 Rhode Island. There was a wind farm that they were creating that was like nearly done.
It was like 90%, maybe 95% completed. They stopped the whole project.
So that's like jobs that are going away.

Speaker 11 That's more renewable energy that are going away just because Donald Trump doesn't like wind. And Donald Trump likes to say that the prices of everything are coming down.
Just a complete lie.

Speaker 11 You look at energy prices, which is something that Donald Trump says are hitting rock bottom. I'll show you you the energy, electricity costs right here.

Speaker 11 Electricity costs are near a record high right now, a record high. And this is as right now we're seeing AI spread throughout the country.

Speaker 11 AI uses so much energy and is so bad for the climate that we really need as much energy as we could get if we're going to be able to deal with all of this.

Speaker 11 And so, for example, Meadow right now is building a data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. We'll use more electricity than every single home in the state in that data center.

Speaker 11 So, at a time when we should be trying to find as much energy and electricity as we can, as much forms, expanding solar, expanding wind, Donald Trump and his administration are spreading lies about these technologies just to help the fossil fuel industry.

Speaker 11 And they're screwing over America. They're making you pay more.
And none of it makes any sense. And other countries are taking the mantle and they go, okay, we're going to do it then.

Speaker 11 Okay, so screw you guys.

Speaker 25 Then you have U.S.

Speaker 87 oil giants, though, like ConocoPhillips and many others laying off most of their staff.

Speaker 23 Like 25%, I think ConocoPhillips announced like 25% of all of its staff is going to be laid off.

Speaker 44 And they're the latest in a series of these oil companies that are saying they're losing money. They can't really expand their drilling anymore.
So there's no drill, baby, drill.

Speaker 3 I think everybody needs to realize, though, that when holistically the economy is doing bad, that's bad for everybody.

Speaker 38 And when Trump pits us all against each other and we're not working together to diversify and have

Speaker 86 a broader overall goal, everybody ends up getting screwed.

Speaker 44 If you think, oh, he's going to help me, but he's going to screw over them.

Speaker 58 No, it's going to eventually screw you over as well.

Speaker 37 And we're seeing that with the job numbers, the fact that it's the worst private sector job report numbers since 2009, right?

Speaker 37 I think for the first time in recent job, in the market history, there are significantly like more houses that are out there.

Speaker 4 What's the stat, Brett, about how there are more houses that are out for sale right now?

Speaker 22 Housing data shows sellers now exceed buyers by over 500,000, marking the largest imbalance ever recorded in the market.

Speaker 58 There's so many other

Speaker 45 real traps like that that exist right now.

Speaker 13 Like every economic metric right now, indicator looks horrible.

Speaker 11 Like, both beneath the surface, everything looks absolutely horrible.

Speaker 11 And then you have the markets, which are doing their own thing, but you have like it's really looking like 2009 recession indicators all over the place, just waiting for the house of cards to fall.

Speaker 11 And the fact that, like, nobody is really calling this out right now is just absolutely insane.

Speaker 47 And then it's always reported, though, in the news.

Speaker 38 Everything's like sudden.

Speaker 58 It's a shock.

Speaker 42 Oh my gosh, shocking report.

Speaker 38 How did we not pick this up?

Speaker 72 It's staring you in the face.

Speaker 58 The data is right.

Speaker 47 If you want to look at accurate data,

Speaker 2 it's all right there.

Speaker 38 None of this should come as a surprise when we head into a recession, when we're in stagflation right.

Speaker 58 I mean, we're basically in stagflation right now.

Speaker 23 Nobody wants to call it and be the first to report it, but we have declining GDP.

Speaker 38 We have rising inflation, and we have rising unemployment.

Speaker 3 That's called stagflation.

Speaker 47 Like that exists.

Speaker 38 That was really bad in the 1970s.

Speaker 44 And the impact of the tariffs, it's only going to get worse and worse and worse now because it really only started to take effect over the past 30 to 60 days in a aggressive sense because Trump kept on delaying and this and that and now they're in effect and people's businesses are getting absolutely absolutely crushed.

Speaker 44 The uncertainty is crushing businesses.

Speaker 10 Businesses have tried.

Speaker 68 If you're a business person, you know what I'm talking.

Speaker 38 Businesses have tried so hard not to pass it on to the consumer and

Speaker 47 eat it as much as

Speaker 72 they can't anymore.

Speaker 47 Otherwise, they're going to go bankrupt.

Speaker 76 And guess what?

Speaker 64 There have been more bankruptcies through August than the last two and a half years combined, and the most bankruptcies on record since the Great Recession.

Speaker 68 Also,

Speaker 58 we're seeing all this data in front of us, not to mention there are 6 million Americans who are defaulting on their student loans right now.

Speaker 87 That means their credit has been trashed.

Speaker 32 That means they can't buy cars or lease cars or buy homes or rent homes.

Speaker 58 They can try to maybe get a cosigner or get a family member, but we've just removed 6 million college-educated people or even grad school-educated people from participating in the market by using the Department of Education for the sole purpose of being punitive versus actually using the Department of Education to be helpful.

Speaker 18 It's what Gavin Newsom said, that Trump uses the government to do things to people, to hurt people.

Speaker 59 And Newsom says we should use the government to do things for people.

Speaker 66 The government should help people and actually do things.

Speaker 59 I interviewed Governor Pritzker today who said, Trump's got weird derangement syndrome about me.

Speaker 58 He wants to focus on invading Chicago. Maybe he should focus on some other things rather than just like,

Speaker 38 hey, Don, focus on the world and what your actual job is.

Speaker 59 Stop being obsessed with me.

Speaker 6 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 102 We've reduced crime significantly in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. We are in the bottom half in terms of, you know, high violent crime of the states, right?

Speaker 102 We're 19th best in the country. I'd like to be first best in the country, but 19th is way better than the president is indicating.

Speaker 102 And the city of Chicago isn't even in the top 25 most dangerous violent crime cities.

Speaker 32 So he needs to do a little reading.

Speaker 102 I know he doesn't do much of that.

Speaker 102 And instead, maybe someone can inform him what the facts are. But he seems a little obsessed with me and with Chicago.
Maybe he's got Pritzker derangement syndrome.

Speaker 102 But maybe, again, he could... could just

Speaker 102 take a beat, learn a few things, and focus elsewhere, maybe on protecting the country from the axis of evil that is beginning to form between China, Russia, North Korea, and they're drawing in India.

Speaker 46 I want to share this well said.

Speaker 30 And by the way, if you want to know how broken our media is right now, when I've seen all the interviews with Governor Pritzker, everything the media wants to ask is like, do you take Ozempic now?

Speaker 72 Or my God, how are you getting so skinny?

Speaker 44 And it's like, dude, the guy's city is about to be invaded any moment right now.

Speaker 51 Like the number one topic, are you taking this one?

Speaker 66 Are you taking Zeppron?

Speaker 58 It's like, okay, just leave the man alone.

Speaker 29 Stop asking him private health questions about himself.

Speaker 58 Just focus on the fact that Trump is, I don't know, invading another United States city.

Speaker 66 Let's talk quickly about what went down during these congressional hearings in the Senate.

Speaker 29 RFK Jr.

Speaker 19 was there.

Speaker 37 Democratic senator from Virginia, Mark Warner, had some questions.

Speaker 33 Let's take a look at what went down.

Speaker 47 That seems where your emphasis is.

Speaker 99 I want to go back to just, again, some basic facts. Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID?

Speaker 2 I don't know how many died.

Speaker 99 You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from COVID?

Speaker 2 I don't think anybody knows

Speaker 2 because the

Speaker 2 There was so much data chaos coming out of CDC and there were lots of

Speaker 2 incentives.

Speaker 2 And these are models.

Speaker 99 You You don't know the answer of how many Americans died from COVID.

Speaker 103 This is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Speaker 99 Do you think the vaccine did anything to prevent additional deaths?

Speaker 2 Again,

Speaker 2 I would like to see the data and talk about the data.

Speaker 99 You have had this job for eight months, and you don't know the data about whether the vaccine failed to do that.

Speaker 2 And that's the problem: they didn't have the data. The data by the Biden administration absolutely dismal.
So when ADA is available,

Speaker 99 who is politicizing? You're saying the Biden administration politicized all the data?

Speaker 103 Go back to what I can't well just say.

Speaker 2 They fired Dr. Grant

Speaker 99 Trump Surgeon General.

Speaker 2 They fired Dr. Grant.
They fired all the people who questioned the orthodoxy. They fired Dr.
Grupper, Dr. Kowloon.

Speaker 99 Chairman, the Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn't know matter how many Americans died from COVID.

Speaker 99 Doesn't know if the vaccine helped prevent any deaths. And you are sitting as Secretary of Health and Human Services?

Speaker 103 How can you be that ignorant?

Speaker 99 Like, you know, I remember when we went to the hearing with you, I asked you about community health centers.

Speaker 93 You didn't know what role they play.

Speaker 99 I've been visiting community health.

Speaker 14 I'm glad you've got to one. I think in April.

Speaker 99 I tell you what I hear on community health centers, they are terrified.

Speaker 27 Senator Michael Bennett, Democrat from Colorado, let's play it.

Speaker 2 Are you saying that a DMRNA vaccine has never been associated with myocarditis or pericarditis?

Speaker 2 I am saying, I am simply.

Speaker 93 I am simply trying to say that the people that you have put on that panel, after firing the entire

Speaker 93 question.

Speaker 2 You're evading that question.

Speaker 104 I'm asking the questions.

Speaker 104 I'm asking the questions for Mr. Kennedy on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership.

Speaker 2 That's what this conversation is about, senator chairman senator they deserve the truth and that's what we're going to give them for the first time in the history of that agency show you republican senator cassidy from louisiana himself he's a doctor he's the reason why kennedy ended up getting confirmed because Kennedy made him a promise, RFK Jr.

Speaker 26 made him a promise that he would not do anything with the vaccine advisory boards and then right away manipulated the vaccine advisory boards.

Speaker 43 So, Senator Cassidy had a clever, I guess, way of doing this and saying, do you think Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed, getting out the vaccines?

Speaker 35 And then, when RFK Jr.

Speaker 26 says yes, because they're all sycophants who say that Donald Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize, go, how does that make sense?

Speaker 51 You've said the vaccine has killed millions of people.

Speaker 31 So, if it's killed millions of people, why are you going to give him the Nobel Peace Prize? There's no logic to these people because they're illogical, like vile human beings.

Speaker 33 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 98 Economy is an incredible accomplishment.

Speaker 98 Mr. Secretary, do you agree with me that the president, that the president deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?

Speaker 2 Absolutely, Senator. So

Speaker 63 let me ask you.

Speaker 98 But you just told Senator Bennett that the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.

Speaker 98 Wait, that was a statement.

Speaker 2 I did not say that.

Speaker 98 Okay, then let me ask, because you also were listening.

Speaker 2 Senator, I just want to make clear. I did not say that.

Speaker 98 Well, we'll check the record that's a question of fact

Speaker 98 you also said that you were also as lead attorney for the children's health defense you engaged in multiple lawsuits attempting to restrict access to the COVID vaccine again it surprises me that you think so highly of operation warp speed when as an attorney you attempted to restrict access okay good questioning but what you confirm the guy like

Speaker 34 why would you vote in favor of that guy i mean that that to me in this moment moment is you want to call it the Murkowski or Susan Collins or the Cassidy model.

Speaker 66 Like, like you supported the guy who you knew would kill people, and then he's killing people.

Speaker 51 And then you are like, why are you killing people when you knew that he was that guy?

Speaker 11 Like, you could have stopped it, man.

Speaker 47 Like, you could have stopped this. And there's so many people like, you could stop this.

Speaker 58 And it's not even asking them to be courageous. It's just asking them, just say no.

Speaker 71 I'm not even asking you to go the distance, like and actually fight.

Speaker 76 Like, all you have to do is vote against this.

Speaker 58 And you could have saved, but like now you're complicit in whatever the hell this is.

Speaker 2 So, did you hear how quickly he could show you 100 other clips like that?

Speaker 44 But that's what we know.

Speaker 5 I was just going to say, did you hear how quick he responded when he thought the question was going to be more positioned to Donald Trump than the Nobel Peace Prize?

Speaker 47 I mean, he jumped it.

Speaker 20 He couldn't even let the guy finish the sentence. He said, Yes.

Speaker 5 Yeah. No, no, I'm not nominate him.

Speaker 60 I mean, RFK is such, he's a jag off.

Speaker 5 And I mean it because he's really hurting people. And so I just had my son's like 20-month appointment and whatnot.
And so I'm talking to our pediatrician.

Speaker 5 I'm like, hey, you know, should we get the COVID vaccine? Like, I'm just really curious. I want to understand, you know, your thoughts.
She's like, absolutely.

Speaker 5 But like, she said it to me in a way like she was like upset. I'm like, what's going on?

Speaker 2 She's like, I don't know if we're going to have it.

Speaker 10 She's like, I just, I don't know.

Speaker 5 She's like, I think definitely, based on the science and the data that we know in the medical community, the kids should get it. My son's 20 months old.

Speaker 5 I'm terrified this upcoming flu COVID season right now and

Speaker 5 that he's not going to be protected because quite frankly, she's not going to have the materials here,

Speaker 5 the vaccines, to protect.

Speaker 38 Setting aside COVID, though, which we shouldn't set aside.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 42 Millions of people.

Speaker 25 Okay. They act like it didn't kill.

Speaker 2 It killed millions of people.

Speaker 58 And the vaccine saved tens of millions of lives.

Speaker 38 The death could have been so much more.

Speaker 2 They're not just talking about COVID.

Speaker 47 They're talking about polio.

Speaker 64 They're talking about measles and mumps and rubella and bubonic plague.

Speaker 58 Like they're talking about all of the things that we've eradicated that they want to bring back. I mean, look at the MAGA surgeon general from Florida, just to be clear.

Speaker 58 He says these vaccines, he's not just talking about COVID, Jordy.

Speaker 45 He's talking about all of them.

Speaker 6 Polio, rubella, measles, mumps.

Speaker 38 He's saying that it's slavery, that it's a version of slavery.

Speaker 97 In 1991,

Speaker 10 80 plus percent of Americans supported mandatory vaccines for children.

Speaker 72 It wasn't like a question.

Speaker 58 Then in 2019, it was 61%.

Speaker 58 Right now, it's 51% right now.

Speaker 19 That's what it is right now.

Speaker 3 Do we have that clip, Brett, of him?

Speaker 74 Let's play it if we do.

Speaker 85 Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 85 Who am I as a government or anyone else?

Speaker 2 Or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body?

Speaker 41 Well, as a man standing now who puts your hand on your heart to seem earnest, let me ask you to do this, sir.

Speaker 76 Sir, I want you to go into the home of a child who's suffering from polio or measles or any of the diseases that we've eradicated with vaccine I want you know what sir I'm gonna put my hand on my heart sir because that shows that I'm I'm a serious man sir okay what I'm gonna want you to do sir I'm gonna want you to bring your children next to their children okay

Speaker 78 and I want to see what I Sir, why don't we have your children go to a country where

Speaker 18 a ton of diseases?

Speaker 38 Ebola, we can bring them to a place where there's COVID. We can bring them to a place where there's mumps and measles.

Speaker 18 We can bring them to a place where there's deadly.

Speaker 65 We'll put your whole family, sir, and

Speaker 97 as a man standing there, as a man, man to man, what are you talking about?

Speaker 25 Why can't we just be normal here and do what's in the interest of science and health?

Speaker 2 Why are are we going there?

Speaker 59 Why are we doing that?

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 And, you know, it's almost like, it's almost like these incredible life-saving technologies and advancements in medicine are taken for granted and are like victims of their own success, you know, because people aren't thinking about, well, now they are, now that measles is spreading once again.

Speaker 11 But typically, people aren't thinking about measles. They're not worried about mumps or rubella.

Speaker 11 They're not worried about all polio because we've eradicated a lot of these things, or at least tamped them way down because of vaccines.

Speaker 11 And so now these people have the nerve to be stripping away these vaccine protections that people died like by the millions over before these things existed.

Speaker 11 And now you're seeing, like, I don't, I just don't understand how if you're a Florida voter, how are you okay with this? How are you okay sending your child to school with this sort of guidance?

Speaker 11 How are, like, are

Speaker 11 tax policy that important to you? Or are you going to get rid of these idiots who are endangering you and your kids' lives? It's just so crazy to me.

Speaker 11 And now we're seeing like this weird kind of division in America, almost like a weird, almost civil war-style division where you have something called the West Coast Alliance, Health Alliance forming.

Speaker 11 You have California, Oregon, Washington. You had Hawaii just join.

Speaker 11 And they're basically saying, all right, if the federal government isn't going to protect us and give proper guidance to our kids and our families on vaccinations, immunizations, on health, then we're going to have to do it ourselves.

Speaker 11 So, you see that happening on the West Coast. You see, there's the eight New England and Mid-Atlantic states.
They formed their own coalition to address these CDC

Speaker 11 shortfalls, let's say, led by RFKs, lies and disinformation. So, you have like Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 11 They're banding together right now to make their own recommendations for vaccines. Like, this isn't how it's supposed to work.

Speaker 11 We're supposed to have a CDC that actually follows science, not this quack RFK Jr.

Speaker 11 It's like having somebody on like the worst person you know on a Facebook group comment board now leading our nation's health and it's endangering lives and it's just stupid.

Speaker 11 I truly do not believe how anybody, I cannot fathom how anybody could support this sort of quackery.

Speaker 88 Well, we've covered a lot today.

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