The MeidasTouch Podcast - Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 3/19/26

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The war in Iran that Donald Trump launched an unlawful, disastrous war, it is escalating, and Donald Trump is trying to find a way to escape, but there is no escape. He rants and raves like a lunatic on his social media platform, all caps messages, attacking our NATO allies, begging for help from our NATO allies, praising Netanyahu, than saying that actually Netanyahu did this operation alone where he hit the South Pars gas field in Iran. We didn't do it. And that was after Iran retaliated by striking the main Qatar oil field, the liquefied natural gas field in the north there, the Ross Lafhan facility, where 20% of the world's LNG liquefied natural gas comes from.
Starting point is 00:00:58 and then Iran struck Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Then Donald Trump posts, you're watching right there the video of Iran striking Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And in Riyadh, they say, actually, there wasn't a strike. It was just debris. I mean, dude, I'm watching a mushroom cloud right now in Riyadh. As the Riyadh facilities were hit, as the Qatari facilities were hit, we previously talked about how the Bahrain facilities were hit.
Starting point is 00:01:24 And Iran threatened because Neton, Yahoo and Trump attacked our facilities, the South Pars gas field, we're going to hit these targets. And they did, and they did hit the targets. And then in response, Donald Trump made a social media post that said it was actually all Netanyahu's fault. We weren't consulted about this at all. When we know that Donald Trump and Netanyahu did that together, it's what's referred to in the military as escalation dominance.
Starting point is 00:01:54 And it is really sad and pathetic as an American. to see Donald Trump getting so utterly and thoroughly dominated by Iran. Iran is firing more Shaheeds and ballistics right now. They are hitting more per shot than during the first days of the conflict. They shot down an F-35 today, fortunately, at least from what we're hearing now, the pilot was able to make it back safely. As Donald Trump says, Iran doesn't have the ballistic missile capabilities or anti-aircraft capabilities and we're flying over Iran with impunity. There's no doubt that the United States and Israel have hit Iran very hard. They've also hit civilian targets in Iran, as we talked about the 150 little girls, 165 little girls who were
Starting point is 00:02:46 massacred by the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime in Iran. You have, see what's going on. in Lebanon right now where Israel says it's going after Hezbollah, but we're seeing so many civilians who are killed in Lebanon, in Beirut, where the suburbs there have just been like blown up. I mean, just utterly destroyed. I'll show you this video clip in a little bit, but now you have Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, saying, actually, I don't think that we're going to be able to do regime change in Iran anymore. see cracks, but we're not going to see regime change. What you are going to see, though, is you now have brought in a more extreme Ayatollah. You've gotten the people of Iran to rally around a new
Starting point is 00:03:41 Ayatollah. You killed the former national security advisor Ali Laranjani. In his place, you're going to bring in people who are more extreme. You have Iran emboldened. Not only right now, Have they blocked the Strait of Hormuz? They are now charging toll passage fees, $2 million to get through to preferred countries. They are profiting off of it. And then this morning Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, is talking about lifting sanctions on Iranian oil. What? You're lifting the sanctions?
Starting point is 00:04:26 you're rewarding Iran right now. And you see the Trump regime panicking because oil prices are going through the roof. Right now, $120 a barrel today. Lots of people say, we shouldn't be shocked now. If that hits $200 per barrel, you saw the price of diesel over $5 a gallon, the price of gas, basically over $4 a gallon right now. Everything's falling apart. You have the Trump regime lifting the sanctions on oil of Iran, or they're talking about lifting the sanctions of oil of Iran, Iran solidifying its control.
Starting point is 00:05:11 And then you had Donald Trump doing this press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Takeishi and Donald Trump's doing Pearl Harbor jokes. He's saying, yeah, you know, we surprised you, Japan, but why didn't you give me a call about Pearl Harbor? You should have called me and gave me a heads up on Pearl Harbor. I mean, that's what you're saying in the Oval Office as you're trying to shake down Prime Minister Takeishi into helping secure the straight of Hormuz. and we heard from the Italy defense minister today who, you know, I guess Trump got the UK to write this kind of vague and ambiguous message that almost made it seem that European countries would be helping security straight of her moves. And they put out this message.
Starting point is 00:06:08 It was a little bit confusing. And then immediately after, and it was inconsistent with what the UK Prime Minister, Kierre Starmor said. Kierre Starmor said, only in a defensive posture or will we help? We're not committing troops to Iran. We're not committing troops to the Strait of Hermes. So I read this statement. It was a little bit confusing. The Italy defense minister and all the European countries then came out and said, no, no, no. Once this war ends, we are committed to working within the region using diplomacy, of course, in order to be helpful in these Strait of Hermuz. But we're not helping with any type of naval mission. We're not sending our soldiers. to die for Donald Trump and Benjamin Net and Yahoo, you go and do that yourself, United States of America. Now, you know how much this is costing? This is costing billions of dollars every single day. The cost already is probably 50 billion, maybe more. We're not getting accurate numbers.
Starting point is 00:07:12 I wouldn't be shocked if we've already spent $100 billion. The United States national debt just hit $39 trillion. And what, a few months ago, it was $38 trillion? A few months before that, it was $37 trillion. Remember during Donald Trump's first term, he added more debt than anyone, 30% of the national debt came from Donald Trump. You remember that? And I predicted before Donald Trump's term started, I said,
Starting point is 00:07:43 it's going to be like 10x that. Remember the videos where I said that and I predicted that? And it doesn't take me to be Notre Dameus to be able to predict that. The guy's a crazy guy. The guy's a lunatic. The guy bankrupted all of his casinos. The guy's a lifelong loser. He's been a piece of trash his entire life.
Starting point is 00:08:05 I mean, here's the whole thing. His whole thing was being a con artist, his whole damn life, and being a freaking loser. To me, when I would convey that, it was never a political message. for me to say these things at all. Just look at the guy's background. He bankrupted this casino, then that casino, then this casino, then this company, then that company, then this company. And so the Arab nations who thought they were buying some sort of pay-for-play scheme with Donald Trump that they would pay by Trump towers in their country, right? I mean, they view if we have a Trump tower in Riyadh, or if we have a Trump tower in Doha or Abu Dhabi, then he's more likely to protect us
Starting point is 00:08:51 because he has his own buildings there. And if we buy him a jet for $450 million and we can get billion dollar radar systems, that seems to be a good pay for play scheme. So let's just give Donald Trump and his crypto scams and his schemes. So let's just give him money because that's how Donald Trump is. He's trying to just pay for play. Now you're learning what Donald Trump's creditors felt like with his casinos and what his contractors felt like with his casino. He just screws you all over. You paid and now you get deranged social media posts saying, Iran, you're being naughty. You need to stop. Netanyahu did that. I didn't do that. And you have Iran actually pursuing a strategy, both in terms of their propaganda and in terms of their scorched earth military
Starting point is 00:09:44 retaliatory strikes and the United States is trapped. Now Donald Trump and Pete Hegg said today are saying that they need $200 billion more for this war. Two hundred billion dollars more for this disastrous war. Do you remember when they said that $30 billion was way too much money in order to ensure at least an extension of affordable CARAC subsidies, they didn't have $30 billion for that. They don't have money for housing. They don't have money for mental health. They don't have money for better education. They don't have money for actually building the infrastructure in the United States. They don't have money for all of that. But when it comes to dropping bombs in a quagmire, with Netanyahu, Donald Trump finds $200 billion, $200 billion that should be spent on Americans and bettering
Starting point is 00:10:58 Americans' lives. Remember, by the way, now add this, $200 billion as a supplemental. What do you think we've already spent? Let's just estimate $150 billion so far, $350 billion. right? What's the ICE budget? $200 billion, right? So right there, I just found over $500 billion. Our military budget is over a trillion dollars. And our military, as we're all seeing right now, is not adapted to the modern warfare environment. What we had 11 of our Reaper drones shot out of the sky. We have these huge systems that are unable to really deal with the drones and to deal with the sea drones and the FPV drones that are in the sky, those first person vision drones. We could have watched what was happening in Ukraine and how Ukraine amassed a huge drone army of its own and drone interceptors to deal with the Shaheeds from Iran and to deal with Russia. Remember, Russia brought in their conventional army.
Starting point is 00:12:14 One of the ways Ukraine repelled the drones, sea drones, unmanned vessels, right? So then Russia had to basically subcontract the war out to Iran and to North Korea and to others. And Iran helped Russia with the drones and they developed this drone program together. Did you know this? This week, NATO ran five simulations. of NATO versus Ukraine in a war, in a sea battle. NATO's frigates versus Ukraine. They did a, they did a simulation.
Starting point is 00:12:56 And do you know what happened in the simulation? Ukraine won all five times in five different simulations in the war. Ukraine won every single time. Why? Because NATO's equipment is not able to deal with the drones. It's not able to, and we're seeing what plays out right now. So let's just go through some of the receipts, as we always bring you here on the Midas Touch Network. Let's bring receipt after receipt, after receipt. First, I want to show you Pete Hegsseth from earlier today.
Starting point is 00:13:36 and Pete Hegseth was saying that this war is going to cost about $200 billion more, but that's a small price to pay when it comes to killing the bad guys. Here's what Pete Hegsett said earlier. Let's play. Both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what happened with that as well. As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously. It takes money to kill bad guys. So we're going back to Congress and folks there to, to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done,
Starting point is 00:14:10 for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled and not just refilled, but above and beyond. I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term, didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had. So thank goodness he did that. An investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent.
Starting point is 00:14:30 And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal and freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretaries here is doing, doing. You heard that right there. Let's take a look at what Hegs is about our European allies and how ungrateful he says they are. Here, let's play this clip. The world, the Middle East, our ungrateful allies in Europe, even segments of our own press should be saying one thing to President Trump. Thank you. Really? What has Donald? Trump been posting today. Donald Trump has been posting photos of Trump sneakers, rare Trump
Starting point is 00:15:14 sneakers listed for $180,000 at sneaker con in Riyadh. You believe that there is a sneaker con in Riyadh right now while it's under attack from Iran as a result of Saudi Arabia helping the United States? You think that that's what's happening? I mean, just the Think about how offensive this is. Like, imagine you're Saudi Arabia, your MBS. You've given Donald Trump personally huge amounts of money. You've, you know, believe you're in all these pay-for-play schemes, right? You're Saudi Arabia, your Qatar, your UAE, right?
Starting point is 00:15:55 And this is what you thought you were paying for. Donald Trump embroils your country in a massive regional war. he basically destroys your country's future, right? Who the hell is going to Abu Dhabi? Who the hell is going to be going to Doha? Who the hell is going to be doing a tourist trip right now to Dubai, right? That ain't happening. And so while all these countries have tried to modernize and to diversify from not just being oil kind of rich countries
Starting point is 00:16:32 because they knew that there wasn't always a future in that. They developed all these other industries, and then they thought they were paying for protection by Donald Trump. And what do they get instead? Rare Trump sneakers listed for $180,000 at Sneaker Khan in Riyadh. That was Donald Trump's post. Or today, Donald Trump posting about windmills. From Douglas McKinnon.
Starting point is 00:16:58 This is a photo yesterday on the drive from L.A. to Palm Springs. hundreds and hundreds of these pieces of junk windmills. No surprise to the president, but only 10% of them working as we drove past eagle and bird killers, which suck the taxpayers dry, my best to the president. Now, how derange can you be when you're in a war that now has been the biggest shock to oil supply, to liquefied natural gas, to fertilizers, to helium, generaum, rationally, right? And you are also spending your time attacking other forms of energy, which would be actually useful during a war where there is an oil shock. So you attack the windmills. And you don't even understand just because, I mean, they're so moronic,
Starting point is 00:17:52 I've driven by that windmill farm quite frequently. Just because you don't see the windmill's turning, do you know the way energy works? Do you know? That doesn't mean that they're not working the way they're supposed to work. You're just visualizing them and saying only 10% of them look like they are spinning. And then Donald Trump repost that during a war while you have bases in Saudi Arabia, while you have oil fields and energy fields in Qatar and Saudi Arabia being targeted right now. That is what you are doing right now. I want to bring you to this Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Takaishi of Japan.
Starting point is 00:18:40 You have Prime Minister Takeishi. Look at her face. Just look at her as Donald Trump is out there saying the most deranged things imaginable during this war. So a reporter asked Donald Trump, why didn't you tell the allies about the war before attacking Iran? Why didn't you tell Japan? Why didn't you tell your allies the Arab nations? Why didn't you tell NATO? Why did you just do this?
Starting point is 00:19:09 You and Netanyahu, because you seem like you need the help of allies soon. Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it. Of course, no, Japan and U.S. are a very good friend. But one question, why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia, like, about the war before attacking Iran. So we are very confused about we Japanese citizens. Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much.
Starting point is 00:19:40 You know, when we go in, we went in very hard. And we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay? Right? You know, he said, Eskabe, do you believe in surprise? I think much more so than us.
Starting point is 00:20:03 And we had a surprise and we did. And because of that surprise, we knocked out, the first two days we probably knocked out 50% of what we, and much more than we anticipated doing. So if I go and tell everybody about it, there's no longer a surprise, right? Okay. What the beep? What the, the more I watch that, the worse it gets. on every level. And by the way,
Starting point is 00:20:35 Takaishi is trying to be supportive of Donald Trump there also. I was hearing how in Japanese TV, we have a lot of Japanese fans on the Midas Touch network and how when they were doing the translation, the translator literally froze and didn't know, am I supposed to translate that? Like, what do I even do? do you. The translator was stunned and couldn't even repeat those words. I've had people text message
Starting point is 00:21:12 me and say, what even is this war? What is even happening right here? How is this possibly happening where you have the most deranged human beings in Donald Trump and Pete Hegsef, who are completely and utterly tearing the United States apart piece by piece. Let me just show you this one. Jeremy, I want to show what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said. This is their plan. Their plan now in a war against Iran. What do you think the Trump's plan is, right?
Starting point is 00:21:55 We're at war against Iran. Trump and Netanyahu launched this. unlawful war or service members are being killed. Iran now controls the straight of Hormuz with an iron fist more than it did before. It's now demanding $2 million to pass if you are allied with Iran. They see more control than ever. America stuck. No NATO countries want to help Donald Trump because he didn't tell you went it alone and then he claimed that he didn't need the help. So what do you think the stupidest, most dangerous thing that can possibly be said by Treasury Secretary Scott Besson right now? Let's play what he said.
Starting point is 00:22:35 We had a break the glass plan across the administration and at Treasury. We unsanctioned Russian oil. We knew that there were about 130 million barrels on the water. And we created supply that is beyond the straits of her most. So we anticipated this. We knew that there could be a temporary, and I want to emphasize temporary choke point there, and there was 130 million barrels of floating storage. In the coming days, we may unsanctioned the Iranian oil that's on the water.
Starting point is 00:23:14 It's about 140 million barrels. So depending on how you count it, that's 10 days to two weeks of supply, that the Iranians had been pushing out, that would have all gone to China. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign. All right, I want to take our first, we're going to remove sanctions from Iran right now. That's the game plan. We map this out so brilliantly. go to war against Iran, let them rally the support of their people, remove the sanctions against Iran and Russia, allow China, Iran, and Russia to get much stronger, completely weakened America's what was left of America's alliances. That's the game plan.
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Starting point is 00:27:35 and get 20% off your first order of $125 or more with promo code Midas. That's M-A-C-W-E-L-D-O-N-com code Midas. Welcome back, everybody. How's my audio, everybody? I know there was like an audio issue before. As you may have seen, just we'll check now with the audio. So I was in Austin where I brought the family and we were up for a, we were up for the IHeart news podcast of the year award. And so we were so honored the Midas Touch Network won that incredible award news podcast. of the year, we beat Megan Kelly. I made that part of my acceptance, her acceptance speech. We also, we're in a category with like the New York Times and NPR and PBS and a lot of, you know, other than Megan Kelly, a lot of really great shows. And it was pretty incredible
Starting point is 00:28:35 to be named the, the podcast, news podcast of the year. And I want to, good. Audio sounds good, everybody's saying that's good. I get, you know, so after we won that, it's, it's, my spring break right now. And so, you know, fortunately I have the family at my house right now and they allowed me and my wife to go out while they're at the house. And so we were able to make it out here to San Diego. And so we just, we took a little trip over here. And so that's where I'm recording from in case you're wondering, you know, where are you even right now? We were in Austin, now in San Diego. And, you know, and we fixed the last audio issue, you know, and it's a little bit difficult when I travel. But I wanted to get the family to go hang out of a beach or something and
Starting point is 00:29:23 just whatever. All right. Enough enough of me talking about myself. All right. Let's jump back in. Let's jump back into the news. Let's talk about, I just want to show you what Netanyahu said earlier because after Netanyahu saying regime change and this is what we're going to do, let me just show you what he just said. He said that while there's, well, he believes there are signs of cracks in the Iranian regime. He says that it's possible that the regime will indeed survive the ongoing war. I want to show this to you, then I want to talk to you about this in a moment. Let's play this clip. What do we see? What happens if the, are there any signs that the Iranian regime is cracking? A lot of signs. A lot of signs. I wish I could divulge all of them, but I see that.
Starting point is 00:30:11 But will I tell you, will I commit right now that it's going to collapse? I can tell you that we're working to create the conditions for it to collapse, but it may, it may survive. It may not. It may survive. It may not. What do you? You and Donald Trump went into this thing on regime change and that this would be easy and that there was going to be all these people out in the street, apparently, who are going to be holding Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu billboards in the street and saying, oh, we're so. honored that you are here. We're so honored. We want the people in the United States who are
Starting point is 00:30:52 covering up the Epstein files and the people who have demolished Gaza and the people who have demolished Beirut. Come and talk. Welcome. That's what you said was going to happen, that you would be welcomed like heroes. And then you said, just wait for it. The people are going to rise up. And all we saw in Iran were quite the contrary were huge protests that were released out there. And you can say, ah, it was Iranian propaganda purposes, whatever you want to say. The only big protests that we've seen in Iran, whether they were propaganda or otherwise, were supporting the new Ayatollah and were against and were for remembrance of their old Ayatollah, who they now view as a martyr. Someone who has.
Starting point is 00:31:40 But cancer, who was 86 years old, who was growing unpopular, you turned into a martyr within the Shiite community right there that became a rallying call for the people. Then you blew up in elementary school and killed little girls. As in the United States, you're covering up the sexual predation of little girls. Then you go to war and you kill little girls as the first act of the war. you start attacking desalination plants and oil depots. And you think that's a way to build popular support in a country of 90 million people that's far bigger than Iraq. You think that's the way to do regime change. And now you just, just how cavalierly they go, well, no, maybe we don't do it.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Maybe we have regime change. Maybe we don't. Excuse me. Excuse me. because the last time I checked, over a dozen American service members have been killed. Many are seriously wounded. There are civilians who are dead in Beirut and Lebanon and in Iran in these elementary schools and in these other civilian areas as well.
Starting point is 00:32:50 There are still murders happening every day in Gaza right now when you all did a fake ceasefire claim. Oh, it's a fake ceasefire. It's been a thousand plus innocent people who have been killed in Gaza. since they announced there was a ceasefire. I'm like, there's no ceasefire. What are you even talking about? And by the way, did you see the British journalist who was targeted by Israel today while his reporting was criticizing Israel for targeting journalists, right?
Starting point is 00:33:23 And then Israel targets him while he's reporting on it. I think we have the video of it while he's in Beirut here. Play this clip. Further rocket attacks were reported against Naharia and admit it. Fucking out. Yeah, now don't gaslight me and say, oh, the target, what were you targeting there? It looked like you were targeting the journalist, okay? I can believe my own eyes.
Starting point is 00:34:00 Okay, I can look at what's actually happening, whether it's look at what's happening in Gaza, I can look at what's happening in Beirut, I can look at what is happening in Iran, And do I think Iran is a terrorist regime? Yes. Do I think Hamas is a terrorist group? Yes. Do I think Hezbollah is a terrorist group? Yes. Do I think that gives a Netanyahu regime and a Trump regime carte blanche authority to kill innocent people and mass? Absolutely not. Don't even have that. It's not a debate. It's not the way we exist as human beings. What the hell are you doing? What are we even talking about here. And by the way, I don't even want to play more of that Pete Hegsith bizarre press conference this morning. But if you want to look at where the deocracy is,
Starting point is 00:34:49 I mean, did you hear Pete Hegseth and gee, the whole speech when he was like, Jesus Christ has told me this. And the church and the God and church and Jesus, it's like, what? Can you just stop it? Stop using the church and Jesus and all of these things to engage in your unlawful wars and your cover up of the Epstein files. and you're ripping away of health care from people and now hundreds of billions of dollars being spent in this stupid, disastrous, dangerous, unlawful war that will forever be one of the biggest stains in the history of the United States of America. If we can get through this damn thing, while you have China just, it's a gift.
Starting point is 00:35:33 For Russia, what a gift. For Iran? they're more powerful than before. And what's the U.S. going to do? What's the game plan? Is the game plan you escalate? You put boots on the ground and the Karg Island that you put boots on the ground in the coast of Iran. Is that your game plan, Donald?
Starting point is 00:35:55 What's the game plan? Is it to write social media posts in all caps? Do something. Do something. That's your game plan every three hours and other stupid. social media post is your game plan. You have the prime minister of Japan and then you start attacking NATO. NATO doesn't want to help us with the straight. And they're the ones that need it. But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude. But now they're too late.
Starting point is 00:36:26 What do you even mean by any of these things? What nonsense is spewing from your stupid mouth? Here, play this clip. I've been saying that. that NATO doesn't want to help us defend the straight of her muse. But we think of it, we don't use the straight. We're defending the straight for everybody else. And then in the case of NATO, they don't want to help us defend the straight, and they're the ones that need it. But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude.
Starting point is 00:37:00 They're getting much nicer. But as far as I'm concerned, it's too late. you know, UK wants to send aircraft carriers now. And I said, I want the aircraft carriers before the war. I don't want them after the war is won. They want to send me aircraft carriers after the wars. There's practically nobody to shoot at them. You know, their missile count is down.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Maybe you could discuss it by about 90-something percent. The drones are way down, and the factories are being demolished. Yes, sir, are missile, missiles being shot? down over 90% since the beginning. One-way attack drones down 90% since the beginning, which is a reflection of overwhelming firepower. But you mentioned the most important part, Mr. President. They're defense industrial base.
Starting point is 00:37:46 If you can't make more of it in the future, then you have a limited supply. And so we're going after all of their defense contractors that make all of their exquisite weapons ensuring that even if they wanted to rebuild more launchers or more missiles, they couldn't in the future. And that's a level of devastation for their military that they've never seen before. So we have, and literally, just saying stupid words. Like your words are stupid. Devastation, lethality, exquisite.
Starting point is 00:38:15 Their new word, they're new, have you heard that they're all using this word? Exquisite. Exquisite. This is exquisite. That is exquisite. Exquisitely exquisite. But a stupid word to use, what's exquisite about this? right this is this is this is the single dumbest propaganda campaign as well by the you what's the
Starting point is 00:38:41 propaganda campaign just to go and see how many people will hate you and how dumb you could possibly lethality i mean we have actual data but why don't we just even not look at the data why don't we just look at images of the ross lofen liquefied natural gas facility in katar bird. Do we have the B-roll of that? Yeah, this is Iran said we're going to target the LNG facility in Qatar, right? Because the South Pars energy facility of Iran that was hit by Trump and Netanyahu is actually connected to the northern facility within Qatar right there. So that right there, that sure seems like Iran is degraded or what Donald and Pete Heggs. Am I looking at AI? Am I looking at AI right here when I see a giant freaking mushroom cloud in Riyadh, hitting energy centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as well?
Starting point is 00:39:42 Am I looking at AI when I see the FPV drones just flying around with impunity in the green zone in Baghdad? Am I looking at AI when the U.S. Embassy in Iran, Baghdad, and basically everywhere in the Middle East says evacuate right now, get the hell out right now. That's what Trump says to that. This is all AI. This is not AI. But now let's look at the data. What the data actually reflects, as the war goes on, Iran and Andreas Larson post this data,
Starting point is 00:40:18 Iran is firing more and they are hitting more per shot than during the first day of the conflict. And look, when Iran's South Park, Energy Field was hit two days ago. They specifically said, okay, here's where we're going to hit. They told the people who are working in those facilities to leave, and then they hit it right away. Why if you've demolished and obliterated and decimated Iran are you now moving the Thad and Patriot missile systems from South Korea to the Middle East? Oh, probably because Iran's been able to successfully strike your radars and your THAAD systems and your Patriot systems. Maybe that's why.
Starting point is 00:41:10 Maybe that's why. And then going through, again, this disastrous press conference between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Taka Aeishi, I mean, there was also just some other moments that are worth mentioning as well. like when Donald Trump is talking about the cost of this war. First, let me show you what he said about Japan. I expect Japan to step up because, you know, we have that kind of relationship. We just have that kind of relationship. Here's what Donald Trump says. Let's play it.
Starting point is 00:41:41 This looks like one of your people. Thank you. Is you good or bad? Is you a good reporter or a bit? Does you know? So, so. Not a. All right.
Starting point is 00:41:53 It looks like a nice guy. Mr. President, you just mentioned Japan is stepping up. What kind of this happens do you expect from Japan in the future? Look, I expect Japan to step up because, you know, we have that kind of relationship, and we step up with Japan. We have 45,000 soldiers in Japan. We spend a lot of money on Japan, and we've had that kind of relationship. So I expect, I'm not surprised that they were.
Starting point is 00:42:24 would step up. We don't need much. We don't need anything. I mean, honestly, we don't need anything from Japan or from anyone else, but I think it's appropriate that people step up. In the case of Japan, I hear they get more than 90% of their oil through the straight. So that's a big reason to step up. I mean, we've demolished. That country is close to demolish. The only thing is the straight. It's very hard. You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in the water and they're holding things up. We don't want that to happen. But honestly, Japan, China, Europe, parts of Europe. Yeah, I mean, we don't need them to do anything, but we want you to step up. And by the way, even his interaction with the reporter was so inappropriate.
Starting point is 00:43:15 He looked at a Japanese guy. And then he said, he looks like he's like one of yours, or he looks like he's one of your people. why he's a Japanese guy. Is he good? Is he a good one? And then the guy asked a question, what do you expect from Japan? Then Donald Trump says, we don't need you, but we want you to step up. He is not articulating things, frankly, at even a child level. He's not speaking in ways that are even coherent, yet alone reflecting a coherent policy. He's not speaking coherently. What about the $200 billion dollars, Donald? The $200 billion pentagon request. Let's play this. Sophisticated rockets, every single one of them were shot down with our equipment. All our equipment. It's amazing, actually, how good it is. So we want to be sure, and it's a small price to pay
Starting point is 00:44:14 to make sure that we stay tippy top. Mr. President, Mr. President. Tippy top, that's our policy. We need to make sure that we stay tippy top. Then Donald Trump says, everything was going great in our country. The economy, things were booming. He said, so because things were so good, he goes, I decided,
Starting point is 00:44:34 let me go on an excursion in Iran. That's why I did this because the Dow was doing great. Everything was amazing. So I figured excursion times. time. Just like literally listen to what he's saying here and how derange it is here play this clip. It's all done. Everything was going great. The economy is great. Oil prices were very low. Gasoline was dropping to, I mean, we had a dollar 99, $85. We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran and I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it.
Starting point is 00:45:09 And I actually thought the numbers would be worse. I thought that it would go up more than it did. But we're doing this excursion. And when it's completed, we're going to have a much safer world. And the Prime Minister agrees with me on this. She considers it to be terrible what they're in. I think every country does. Just about every country does. Iran is a serious threat to the world, to the Middle East and to the world.
Starting point is 00:45:32 And everybody agrees with me. I think virtually every country agrees with me on that. So I wanted to put out that fire. And I said, you know, but do that. oil prices will go up, the economy will go down a little bit. I thought it would be worse, much worse, actually. I thought there was a chance it could be much worse. It's not bad, and it's going to be over with pretty soon.
Starting point is 00:45:55 What do you mean it's not bad? You thought it was going to be worse? Let's just assume you actually thought it was going to be worse than $120 per barrel with a facility that supplies 20% of LNG throughout the entire world. being about 20% decimated, meaning for the next five years, the world just lost about 5% of its overall LNG. In addition to oil prices going up, we haven't even talked about fertilizers, helium, other things that come from the Middle East, where now our farmers need another bailout right now.
Starting point is 00:46:36 And they're saying we need at least $12, maybe $15 billion more in a bailout because we can't afford our fertilizer. There was already China depriving us of the soybean market when Donald Trump did his trade war against the world. The input costs for farmers were crushing. So there was already a bailout with the farmers. By the way, Donald Trump helping the cattle industry in Argentina, and Donald Trump giving monies to farmers in Argentina and screwing over our farmers here. But now our farmers are screwed. But let's just assume Donald Trump knew that it was going to be this bad. And in fact, he believed it was going to be much worse. But he wanted to go on an excursion. Just assume that that's the case. You should be arrested. There's a lot of other things that, frankly, you should be arrested for, thrown in prison for you. You deserve to be in prison already. I mean, you're a sicko and your entire regime is covering up the Epstein files right now. And I don't want to ever neglect that fact right there. So you knew you were just going to destroy everything and you don't even do an address. You don't even tell the people that your excursion would cause this level of pain.
Starting point is 00:47:45 In fact, you thought it was going to be worse. You don't think that, again, I don't care what political party you're from. You don't think that that's something that you should tell the people. No, you just don't do that. You just do an invasion. And then you do some social media post on truth social about your sneakers, about your ugly gold sneakers, selling for $180,000. That's the way you message this.
Starting point is 00:48:09 I mean, in my opinion, it's just so treasonous. trade or I just don't know how anybody looks at that unless your brain is literally rotten to a pulp. That's even an expression how you support this madness. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We'll be right back. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. And again, thanks to everybody in this community for helping the Midas Touch Network win the I Heart Award for the top news podcast of the year. It's a big honor. It's a big category. It's one of their awards of the night. It's why I've been traveling. And we'll be right back after our last quick break. If you're like me, instead of learning to skateboard, you wish you were learning to
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Starting point is 00:53:13 It's their biggest energy facility there in the Haifa region, and that was recently hit by Iran. Lots of the diplomatic sources are saying that the U.S. continues to try to reach out to Iran's foreign minister, Araghi, in order to try to have some sort of ceasefire or see if Iran will let off a little bit in these straight of Hormuz. But all of the sourcing that we and others have had so far is that Iran has been ignoring this and they don't want to speak with the United States right now.
Starting point is 00:53:51 I just truly don't know how you can even negotiate with Donald Trump, whether you're Iran or anybody. I mean, and set aside what, set aside what Iran says. Let's just agree to this for a second. Let's do this. Let's agree everything Iran says is BS. And let's agree everything that Trump says is BS. Push it aside, right?
Starting point is 00:54:17 So how do we get out the truth? If we're a network like ours, how do we try to understand which side is telling us the truth where, let's just say we believe both sides are lying, right? So the first thing I want to look at is who was the mediator in the room and who selected the mediator. A mediator is a neutral party that's supposed to try to negotiate resolutions between the two sides. So I go, okay, it was a foreign minister of Oman, a very well-respected individual, and he was selected by the United States to be the negotiator. So the U.S. pick this guy from Oman. So what is he saying? Well, he says that there was a deal on the table on that fateful night in late.
Starting point is 00:55:03 February, where there were huge strides to make a deal with Iran, that the deal was even stronger than Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, that there were technical details that needed to be worked out on that following Monday, and that everybody was prepared for another working session that Monday. So a neutral party is telling us that there was progress in the negotiation. By the way, in the economist, that foreign minister of Oman had just, he just wrote an article in the past 48 hours saying now the U.S. is trapped. Even though Oman has been hit by Iran or at least groups linked by Iran, he says the way the U.S. has fought this war, it was the only possible outcome right now because when you say you're going to decapitate a regime, the regime that you're going to decapitate is going to do everything. it can to stay alive. So the Oman foreign ministers said, I understand, although we certainly don't like it, we certainly deplore that Iran striking the Arab nations where there are American interests,
Starting point is 00:56:11 when it becomes a matter of existential survival for a regime that they're going to have to do things, they're doing everything they can to survive. And survival is the win when you have Trump and Netanyahu, at least originally, saying this was about regime change, right? Then you also have the national security advisor for the United Kingdom, who was in the room as well. And he also describes the event as or the mediation as that there was a resolution that was there, stronger than the Obama deal. We didn't need to be in a war. It would have been a big win for Donald Trump, but then Trump and Netanyahu rushed into this war. And the British national security advisor, like the Oman Foreign Minister, both essentially said, and I'm not making this a direct quote, but that
Starting point is 00:56:59 Whitkoff and Kushner were compromised by Netanyahu, and they were basically serving as agents of Israel. And again, I'm not using specific language, and I'm being a little bit, they didn't use those specific words, but essentially that was, in my opinion, what they were basically implying that they were going to do whatever Israel wanted to do, which is why the British sent somebody in the first place, the National Security Advisor to try to monitor this what was happening and to try to, you know, create at least some intellectual guardrails on what was taking place. Apparently, at the mediation, you had Whitkoff and Kushner continuing to just talk about their Florinsheim shoes. You know how Donald Trump buys these people, these Florinsheim shoes. He guesses your shoe size. And then regardless of it,
Starting point is 00:57:58 If it's your actual shoe size, he makes you wear the shoes of whatever size. So if you're a 10 and he guesses you're a 12, he buys you a 12 Florenheim shoe and you have to wear it. So he's like has Rubio and Whitkoff and Cush, his whole everybody wears these shoes. And so they were like joking with the Iranian diplomats about the Floreshime shoes. That's what people in the room were saying, you know, took place. And everybody believed that there was going to be this Monday session to dig into some of the technical details. So why am I bringing all this up again? Because how would Iran even go about negotiating with Trump or Whitkoff or Kushner right now?
Starting point is 00:58:38 Like, how would you do it? If you wanted to do it, how would you do it? Because any negotiation will just be used as a way to try to kill you. Like if we were in a mediation and every time there was a mediation, I don't want to make it deeply personal. If someone was in a mediation with someone and every time you showed up in the room, somebody tried to shoot you, you just wouldn't show up in the room anymore, right? Like, where would you even have the mediation? Like, if you're the foreign minister and you go to a location, don't you think that Netanyahu
Starting point is 00:59:10 is probably just going to blow it up? Like, if you even return the phone call, don't you think that it'll just be used as a way of bugging your location to find out where you are and then blow up the entire building where you are, regardless of if 100 or 1,000 civilians die? Like, don't you think that's what, so I don't even know how. you how you can even have discussions with the United States on anything. And this is what I was saying a year ago, plus about Donald Trump's tariffs against the world, right? I mean, Donald Trump will negotiate, well, he doesn't negotiate anything, but he took NAFTA and then he made it into the
Starting point is 00:59:45 United States, Mexico, Canada agreement in like 2018, 2019, a free trade agreement. And then he says that USMCA is the stupidest deal ever. And it's like, well, that was your update. version of NAFTA because you just wanted to say that, you know, put your name on it, basically. And there are all these videos of you saying, the USMCA, what a beautiful name during your first term. And now you say that that's not even a deal. I mean, you did free trade deals with Japan and others in Asia. Then you just rip it apart. He's not a rational actor.
Starting point is 01:00:16 He is a fraud, like he's been his entire life. And he's covering up the Epstein files. And I don't want to lose sight of his cover up of the Epstein files because I know that there's a lot of news taking place. But there are some major developments in the Epstein files that I think are important to mention, obviously, you know, to include in this episode because, you know, Trump wants to distract from that. So one of the things that Trump has ordered Todd Blanche, his deputy AG, to do is to block a DEA, the drug enforcement agencies report that they did jointly with the DOJ, as part of this group called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force,
Starting point is 01:01:01 which has since been basically, you know, removed from the DOJ. But there's this 69-page target profile of Epstein's money laundering and drug trafficking ring that went alongside his sex trafficking ring. And there's 12 other people and two businesses that were identified as being a part of this billion dollar money laundering scheme by Epstein. So we now learn that Todd Blanche has concealed that document. That document, the DOJ is refusing to release. One of the things that is deeply concerning, among other things, regarding kind of Donald
Starting point is 01:01:42 Trump's Epstein relationship, in addition to, you know, obviously all of the cover up of Epstein sex trafficking ring by the DOJ right. now is when Donald Trump acquired this property and a foreclosure sale in West Palm Beach that Epstein was going to bid on and Trump sold it to a Russian oligarch four years later for $95 million and double the money. And Epstein was calling Donald Trump out for financial shenanigans. And I'm putting shenanigans there. You can describe it however you want to describe it. But that's what they're falling out was about. Remember during Bill Clinton's deposition, And Bill Clinton said that Donald Trump told him the fallout was over this real estate deal.
Starting point is 01:02:26 It was over this West Palm Beach property that Trump sold for two X the value to a Russian oligarch. And there were questions, you know, was that Russia moving their money here? What was happening? Why did this? And by the way, the Russian guy demolished the place a few years, a few years later. So, you know, the fact that there's a money laundering report and report about drug trafficking with many people. and that's not being produced. I mean, that's deeply alarming. And then yesterday, I did a whole report on this. You should go watch the report. Pam Bondi gave 24 hours notice that she was going to voluntarily appear before the House Oversight Committee as a way of her trying to avoid her congressional testimony. She's been subpoenaed for mid-April, where she has her deposition supposed to be taken by the House Oversight Committee. And I was like, all right, the fact that they had to subpoena her shows that she has, she wasn't voluntarily showing up. And I was like, okay, what's, what scheme are they going to pull to try
Starting point is 01:03:25 to get her out of it? Like, what's James Comer's game plan here? And their game plan was they have her show up voluntarily and she wanted to give like an update on the Epstein files. But it was some like scripted BS. And the Democrats, like, we really don't care about this. We just want to know, are you going to show up and testify under oath on April 14th? And she wouldn't commit to that. So the Democrats stormed out because they're like, we're not taking place. We're not taking part in this crap. You're going to show up pursuant to a subpoena and you're going to testify under oath. We're not going to give you cover for what you're doing here, which is obviously you're going to say,
Starting point is 01:04:02 well, I briefed the House Oversight Committee. Don't have to show up in April because I just showed up. Why would you need me to show up? So she was using this as a way to then object to the subpoena. And the Democrats smartly said, we're leaving because if they, stayed, they would be giving credence to what she was going to say about why she didn't have to show up. That was their plan, right? She would say, oh, I already briefed them. So now the subpoena is inappropriate. And why'd she only give 24 hours notice to the Democrats? Because the Democrats
Starting point is 01:04:35 would not have been okay with showing up if there was actually thorough notice. And the Democrats could ask, well, why are you showing up? Because she wanted to use the existence of this fake shamming. hearing to then make a legal battle against the subpoena. Democrats saw what was happening. I got to give credit to Congress member Garcia because he has been very aggressive and he did not fall victim to that trap. And he just said to the Democrats, get out. And the Republicans were like, well, this is what the Democrats wanted all along. They just want to storm out. She was trying to be helpful. They just want to do this for the media. And it was like, boom, you smoked out so good because that was their plan the whole time. And don't you dare invoke the name of the victims while you're
Starting point is 01:05:22 covering up all of these reports and three million documents still have not been. How dare you invoke the name of the survivors and the victims, you disgusting pieces of trash you? We know exactly what you all are about to. Don't you dare even say the word victims or survivors, you sick predator cover-upers you. Grotesque species, grotesque invasive species. And then there was this document right here, that I'll share with you. That was the redactions were removed by Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman. So hat tip to him right here. So remember that document that people were saying that involved an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell?
Starting point is 01:06:07 And they were forwarding a message that Donald Trump's lawyer had sent, but this whole document was redacted. Well, here it is. It's dated October 14, 2009. And you'll see it's from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell. And then there is a forward of a notes from a conversation with Alan Garten, Trump's attorney. So what did Alan Garten say? Alan Garten was asked, was Jeffrey Epstein ever expelled from Mar-a-Lago? Trump's attorney responds, no.
Starting point is 01:06:41 He was not a member. May have been a guest. Never asked to leave. What do you know about was Trump ever at Epstein's house? I may have been there with my wife. Then it goes on to say, any young girls there, no. May have been a children of guests, but that's it right there. And then Trump specifically asked Garten to advise us of the interview.
Starting point is 01:07:07 Brad had also previously talked to manager of Mar-a-Lago Bort Kempke. Kempke confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein was never asked to leave Mar-A-Lago. Mar-a-Lago. So remember all of Trump's thing, I kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. Remember what the Republican said? I kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. Well, now the document, one of the ones that they were covering up that Dan Goldman just exposed. And you got to give him credit for exposing the document. That's an important document, right? Donald Trump's own lawyer, you saw for yourself. What did he say? He said, Donald Trump never kicked him out. I'm just reading you what the document says. So when I didn't go, oh, Donald Trump kicked him out. No, no, he didn't.
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