The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News Collapses on Air as Trump Blows Everything
Episode Date: November 18, 2025MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News losing control of its programming as Donald Trump blows up his term as his failures have caused his approval to plummet to the worst levels ever. Fo...r free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 82-MEDICARE (826-334-2273) to speak with our trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/mtn Disclaimer: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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State regime media, which calls itself Fox News was collapsing live on air throughout the day.
This is right before the vote to release the Epstein files.
This is as Donald Trump's approval is absolutely crashing.
This is as Americans are pissed that Donald Trump's promise to make things affordable was a complete and utter fraud.
Let me show you what was going down.
So Fox is having guests show up who are saying that if you want to make things more affordable
and you want to have an easier Christmas,
just don't buy your grandma and your parents
any gifts this Christmas,
and this will go a long way to helping you afford more things.
Just don't buy grandma any gifts.
This is what the guests on Fox are saying.
Here, play this clip.
Budget, budget, budget, you need a plan.
Also remember, adults don't need gifts, okay?
Focus on the people in your life who are age three to 18.
Grandma doesn't need slippers.
If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift.
Now is not the time to spend and break the best.
the bank sending packages across the country, Dana.
Focus on the people in your life, ages three to 18.
That's my 30 seconds for you.
Then Fox propagandists like Jesse Water
continue to try to cover up the release of the Epstein files.
And they say, well, even if the House votes
to release the files, no one's really gonna release the actual files.
There's national security issues in there
and classified issues.
So the files should never be released.
Here's their propagandist, Jesse Water saying this.
Here, play this clip.
Jesse, let's go to you first.
Will this House vote and getting all of this out finally put an end to the story?
Never, Dana.
Okay.
Never, because you can't release everything.
A lot of it's, they're going to say national security, and they'll be able to hold that back.
They'll be able to argue that it's classified national security implications.
You can't see it.
Then Jesse Waters brings on another maga propagandist Tim Poole, who says, you know what,
Americans are not talking about Epstein.
Nobody cares about this.
Because what Americans really care about is affordability and things are so much more affordable.
So Americans just want to talk about how great the economy is right now and not the Epstein
files.
Okay, let's be very clear.
Americans are talking about the Epstein files, number one.
And number two, things are not more affordable.
They're far less affordable.
And yes, Americans are talking about the complete and utter fraud of Donald Trump and MAGA.
And your claims that things are not.
are more affordable just to further perpetuate the lie and make people even more pissed off
here play this clip but i do think it's a big distraction and democrats are getting caught up in something
some have suggested trump is doing this on purpose rope a dope tell him to come in oh no the epstein
things hoax they they tackle this issue and then trump focuses on tariffs he focuses on immigration
the american people at the kitchen table aren't talking about epstein they're talking about
grocery prices and as you already pointed out they're down i mean they're still high but they're
coming down and i think that's that's what's going to win a midterm election yeah and he's now real
focused on it especially after the last elections in these blue states kind of a wake up call
and that's a good thing then jesse water says look here's who we really need to trust you have
epstein's lawyer gilane maxwell and gilane maxwell's lawyer they're saying that donald trump
didn't have anything to do with this so we should believe them well should be it
and a number of things to point out.
First of up, Epstein's lawyer, I guess,
who's Dershowitz is also Trump's lawyer before as well.
Also, Gielaine Maxwell is a lifelong liar
and child sex trafficker.
So I don't think we should view what she's saying
as she angles for a pardon to be accurate.
But sure, Jesse, I guess that's what passes
for credible on Fox.
Geelaine Maxwell, okay, here play this clip.
Epstein's lawyer says Trump was clean.
Maxwell said he was clean.
Not a single victim has.
come forward and said Donald Trump did anything. So I think we could put that to rest.
If Epstein had anything, he would have blackmailed Trump in the first term. If anybody had anything,
there were three elections that went through. They would have used it then. Then Fox brings on
Greg Bovino, the head of Trump's Border Patrol. And right now, Border Patrol has launched
an operation called Charlotte's Web in the Mecklenburg County Charlotte area in North Carolina.
and Greg Bovino is shown these videos of Border Patrol agents rounding up landscapers and construction workers.
Here's what he says.
He goes, well, look, at the end of the day, how do we know they're illegally?
So we'll just go after them.
It doesn't matter who they are here.
Play this clip.
Gone viral, and I want to get your reaction to it of landscapers who were being addressed by this individual that you see in the video.
What do you say to people when they look at that and say that falls outside of this?
purview of getting criminals out. What do you say to them?
Martha, do we know the criminal records of those so-called landscapers?
Do we know the criminal records of any illegal alien walk in the streets here in Chicago or
anywhere else? What we're finding is child rapists in big box stores looking to go into people's
homes or hang those Christmas lights like we see in this video here. How do you know who these
people are? Do they have a criminal record maybe in their home country?
Who are these people?
Too many times we're finding that some very, very disreputable individuals are seeking work in people's homes, in their gardens.
And otherwise, we don't want those people in society.
And that's what we're after.
And, you know, I think we've done a really good job here in Chicago and other places to remove these types of individuals.
I saw a stat that showed about 15 to 20 percent of students in Mecklenburg County are not showing.
showing up to class because they're being terrorized
by the Border Patrol and ICE Gestapo of Donald Trump.
People are terrified to leave their homes.
Citizens are terrified.
People just living there are terrified because of chemical warfare
taking place against them, the brutal tactics of Border Patrol.
When you're driving in the street, Border Patrol,
is taking out their weapons, weapons of war,
and pointing it at people.
It's horrific what's going on there.
going on to some more moments of Fox News' utter collapse.
They bring on Maga Mike Johnson, who says,
but at the end of the day, we've done our best work in Congress so far.
This has been the most productive Congress, he says, in history.
Here, play this clip.
That we're frustrated.
99.9% of House Republicans were united in that,
and they will tell you, and they have said publicly and privately,
they've had some of their best work of their careers during the shutdown
because they were in their districts with their constituents,
helping them navigate through the chaos,
of the shutdown that the Democrats created.
Mega Mike, all you all have done is rip away people's health care,
not show up to work, cause a government shutdown.
We didn't work for like hundreds of days.
Rip away people's health care, try to starve people to death,
give tax cuts to the billionaires while ripping away people's Medicaid
and shutting down rural hospitals.
Great work there, Maga Mike.
You saw that clip right there.
Then Tim Poole comes back on and Tim Poole says,
you know, look, tariffs have been so helpful to all the men.
Americans. He goes, like me, I run a skateboard company. It's been so great. You're playing this clip.
I hear Trump talking about tariffs. I understand this. I am a business owner. I own a skateboard
company. We make all of our products in America. And I know what it means for an industry to outsource
those jobs. And I agree with these tariffs because it's been a godsend for the manufacturing
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I know the Midas Mighty have been very happy with the results.
Then they call on their Transportation Secretary of the regime,
Sean Duffy, who is Sean from the Real World Road Rules Challenge and the real world.
That's how this guy got famous and pushed into kind of the Maga World.
And he goes, you know, what you should realize about flying?
It's very dangerous.
It was very dangerous during the shot of.
Very dangerous.
And Laura Ingraham's like, oh, they got you.
you now. You've said it's dangerous. So people are going to say, you see, he said it's
dangerous. Here, play this clip. Back to the way we were pre-shutdown. And again, this was,
this was dangerous. We were in a situation, not dangerous. It was concerning.
Uh-oh, they're going to get you for that. Well, we had it. Well, it wasn't dangerous, but we didn't
have no air traffic. I said it was dangerous. Let you fly. It wasn't dangerous, but it, but it was
concerning when you have so many delays and cancellations because you don't have air traffic
controllers in towers fully staffing our skies. It's a huge problem. And yeah, we're going to
say it's dangerous because he's got one job to not make it dangerous.
Like, we all want to take flights that are not dangerous.
We all want air traffic controllers who do not feel threatened by the Trump regime
when the regime threatens them each and every day.
What we want is someone who actually takes their job seriously and not someone like Sean Duffy
from the Real World Road Rules Challenge.
Anyway, moving on to Fox's further collapse, they then have Todd Blanche,
Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney who's now the deputy attorney general at the DOJ.
And he says that Lindsey Halligan, who is the federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia
prosecuting the Comey case, he was Trump's former personal lawyer.
And then she was the person Trump ordered, you know, go after Comey, go after Letitia James, go after shift after the Republican United States attorney.
And no one else wanted to do those prosecutions.
So we all know how like Lindsay Halligan was called.
out for like what seems to be extreme grand jury misconduct by the federal judge overseeing
the case. But according to Todd Blanche, she's doing a magnificent job. She's doing great. Here
play this clip. And look, U.S. Attorney Halligan is doing a phenomenal job in the EDVA.
And the argument was last week. We'll see what happens in the coming weeks. But the reality
is that there's cases that that we have investigated that have been brought before a grand jury
that have been indicted and listen they they have a right to come they have a right to fruition
they have a right to see what happens in front of a jury of the peers and so what's happening
with with u.s attorney halligan and multiple u.s attorneys in this country is something that we're
fighting every day now the one good thing about blanche saying that and pam bondi the
Attorney General filing documents saying that they ratify and they support the behavior of Lindsay
Halligan is that they're attaching themselves to what seems to be serious misconduct and serious
ethical breaches to potentially hold these individuals accountable later on.
Todd Blanche says that with respect to Epstein, we're going to find out if there's anybody
that hasn't been held accountable.
But not Trump.
We're going to find everybody, right?
Isn't this just like when O.J. wrote the book, like, if I did it, you know, it's like,
here, play this clip. And so we're, we're going to continue to find out if there's anybody
responsible, anybody that hasn't been held accountable. And if they're out there, we'll find
them. Yeah, I think most Americans would say the fact it has been going on for more than a decade.
And it seems like nobody, nobody's left the prosecutor bring charges against there.
You can't seem to find evidence is what's concerning to people and more transparency to better.
Then Laura Ingram brings on James Comer and James Comer says, well, at the end of
the day, we're going to get all the documents regarding the Epstein investigation that we are
legally entitled to. He goes, the DOJ and Trump, they've released what they could, quote,
legally release. And I think it's important to know that terminology, because that's how they're
going to avoid turning over the Epstein files. They're going to say, we turned over everything we could
legally release, but we can't release the rest of it. Here, play this clip.
So why not just release the files? I mean, if there's nothing in there, who cares?
Why not for transparency sake and the administration obviously players the administration said they were going to be released and then some were released but not all of them the president said go ahead and release them so just get it out there and have it done with well that's what I've encouraged the white out to do and they're working with us they've released what they can legally release
there's grand jury testimony and the Trump administration asked the judge to release that grand jury testimony and the judge who was an Obama
appointee rejected the the Trump Department of Justice request to release the grand jury testimony.
So a judge has to issue that.
But look, I think the Trump administration is working with us a lot more than what the media is giving them credit for.
But I've encouraged the president to disclose everything.
I'm glad that he's gone ahead and put this issue to borrow this due charge petition behind us.
This is just a stunt by the Democrats and a few disgruntled Republicans.
getting the documents and as soon as we get them on the oversight committee, we're making
them public. And I think that's what the president wants. And hopefully we'll get all the
documents released and we can move on to the issues that the American people care about.
More from this clown, Sean Duffy talking about how we can't control the weather, play this
clip. Yes. So we had into level last week, we had 81 staffing triggers at different towers
throughout the country. Again, mass chaos. We had delays and cancellations. We rolled those
requirements back this morning. And so we are back to normal. We have the appropriate number
of air traffic controllers in our towers, our tracons, in our centers. So as we look forward to
Thanksgiving, I think we're in a really good place to get back to normal. Now, I can't control
the weather. I can't control if you have a technical problem with your airplane, but with air travel,
we're back to the way we were pre-shut down. And again, this was, this was dangerous. We were in a
situation, not dangerous. It was concerning. Uh-oh, they're going to get you for that.
Well, we had it. Well, it wasn't dangerous, but we didn't have no air traffic. I can see them
writing the story. Said it was dangerous. Let you fly. It wasn't dangerous, but it, but it was concerning
when you have so many delays and cancellations because you don't have air traffic controllers
and towers fully staffing our skies. It's a huge problem. How are we making up that?
We still have a deficit of how many? 2,000 roughly. Then Sean Duffy says, yes, he's going to go back
and retaliate against air traffic controllers who he said didn't show up to work during the government
shutdown when they weren't getting paid. He goes, I expect you to show up even when you don't
get paid. Here, play this clip right here. It doesn't stop. So are we going to see repercussions
that the president referenced of those who did not show up during the shutdown and, you know,
as he said, kind of had a bad attitude? So we're going to look at the ones who, when the shutdown
first happened, that they just started calling out sick right away. And they didn't come in
to work over the course of that 43 days. Those ones we'll look at. But we're going to pay a
reward to those who didn't take any unexcused absences. They're the ones that actually came
every single day and did the great work, $10,000 bonus, and also the tech people, they come in
and make sure the equipment works. We're going to reward them. Carrot and sticks. We're going to
give carrots. I like that. Then for reasons that are unclear, state regime media brings on Ted Cruz,
who talks about running for president in 2028, kind of a very creepy way, too, here at play this
clip. You might be making some news. Axios led its warning newsletter with this headline,
Scoop, Cruz, Eyes, 2028 run. Senator Cruz, where are you on that?
You know, reporters are going to write headlines that get clicks and get eyeballs.
I got a job that's representing 31 million Texans, and it's fighting every day for 31 million Texans.
And I'll tell you right now, the wins we are getting are historic.
The one big, beautiful bill you were talking about just a minute ago.
I was blessed to write major portions of that bill.
And then you have on Maria Bartaroma's program, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent,
he admits that there has been no trade deal with china and that they hope to complete one before
thanksgiving even though they've been saying since may there was a trade deal in june there was a
trade deal in july you get the whole summer there were trade deals september there was a trade deal
october there was trade deal but here he admits no trade deals here play this clip is china
holding back rare earth magnets from companies tied to the u.s military right now
Yeah, Maria, I think that Wall Street Journal reporting is not very accurate.
We haven't even finished the agreement, which we hope to have done by Thanksgiving,
and I am confident that post our meeting in Korea between the two leaders,
President Trump, President Xi, that China will honor their agreements.
Xi Jinping has great respect for President Trump.
The meeting was conducted very high level, and I am confident that they will
They honor their agreement, and if they don't, we have lots of levers.
Well, there you have it, folks.
As I mentioned, Fox absolutely spiraling out of control, collapsing live on TV.
You see it right there.
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