In short
The hosts criticize Fox News and other right-wing media for allegedly reacting to falling Trump polling numbers and for promoting pro–tech billionaire/AI narratives, while also attacking Democrats and specific figures. They also discuss Iowa Senate polling, cost-of-living claims, and congressional hearings involving Jack Smith.
Guests
No named guests appear as interviewees. The episode includes commentary on multiple public figures: Jesse Waters (Fox), Hassan Piker (referenced via a clip), Rachel Griffin Accurso (“Miss Rachel”), Ashley Hinson (Iowa Senate candidate), Senator McCormick (referenced), Kash Patel (referenced), and Sean Hannity/Josh Hawley/Ted Cruz/others (referenced).
Key claims
Democrats lead in generic polls; Fox turns to “weird segments” and attacks Miss Rachel; tech/AI billionaires are portrayed as privacy threats; right-wing figures misstate economic conditions; Jack Smith was “beat down” and faces gag-order limits.
Notable examples
YouGov/Quinnipiac generic polling; Fox clip mocking Hassan Piker; Fox warning about Miss Rachel’s alleged anti-Semitism; Ashley Hinson claiming elections are about reversing energy price increases; discussion of Jack Smith’s Capitol Hill grilling and gag order.
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Chapters
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0:05 to 0:25
Discussion on Trump's declining approval ratings and its impact on the GOP.
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Trump's Falling Poll Numbers
0:29 to 2:32
Discussion on Trump's declining approval ratings and its impact on the GOP.
“State regime media, which calls itself Fox News, can't handle it.”
Media Attacks on Miss Rachel
2:32 to 4:50
Critique of Fox News' attacks on children's entertainer Miss Rachel.
“And as someone who is beloved by children across the world, she doesn't want to see children slaughtered.”
Reality of Gas and Electricity Prices
4:50 to 6:02
Reality check on current gas and electricity prices amid political rhetoric.
“and now their pitch, did you see it yesterday, is we're not building data centers in your backyard.”
MAGA Responses and Jack Smith Hearing
9:00 to 14:00
Analysis of MAGA Republicans' responses and the Jack Smith hearing's implications.
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Jack Smith's Capitol Hill Grilling
14:00 to 17:08
Discussion of Jack Smith's recent testimony and reactions from Republican senators.
“Eileen Cannon, a Trump appointed stooge has imposed a gag order preventing Jack Smith from talking about volume two, which is the Mar-a-Lago case.”
Transcript
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0:30Ben Meiselas:State regime media, which calls itself Fox News, can't handle it. They're seeing Donald Trump crash and burn and hit record low approvals for any president since the invention of modern polling. They're seeing Democrats surge in generic polls against Republicans. The latest generic poll from YouGov Economist and even Quinnipiac has Democrats up anywhere between 15 and 12 points in a generic ballot. but also Democrats are running a lot of good candidates. So what are they doing, state regime media, as they're seeing that no matter what they do, their propaganda ain't working right now. The American people see what's going on.
1:10Ben Meiselas:Well, Jesse Waters is like, let me try again. They start doing weird segments about Hassan Piker and they find some video of him from January, 2025. It's like a kitten. I don't even know what's going on here. Play this clip. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. Smaller. Smaller. Yes. Sway. And then state regime media Fox, they start attacking Miss Rachel as a father of a two-year-old little girl who loves Miss Rachel. This really angers me right here that state regime media would go after such a beloved figure in my family. State regime media writes, the reality is that Rachel Griffin Accurso who plays the character Miss Rachel should not be trusted with your kid.
2:00Ben Meiselas:She's anti-Semitic is what Carol Markowitz delivering a scathing warning on Fox to parents about the wildly popular children's entertainment, entertainer. Her comments on Gaza have sometimes slid from being merely pro-Palestinian to plainly anti-Semitic. That's what state regime means. I've seen what Miss Rachel says, Miss Rachel stands up for the children who have been slaughtered in Gaza, and she speaks out against the genocide. And as someone who is beloved by children across the world, she doesn't want to see children slaughtered. But that's what state regime media is talking about, attacking Miss Rachel.
2:43Ben Meiselas:You want to talk about desperation? Attacking Miss Rachel. Back to Jesse Waters over here. And Jesse Waters is trying to basically prop up even more the oligarchy tech AI billionaires who visited Trump and he somehow compares them to AOC. And he's like, AOC violates your privacy. So why would we be angry when these tech billionaires violate your privacy? They can access your information and you attach that to AOC. I Her email list, it's the same thing. When you donate to AOC, you give your bio, you give your banking information, you give your location, and then she monetizes that list. It's the same thing all these big tech companies are doing.
3:28It's called Welcome to the Modern World. I don't know a political party can survive if they're just going to sell fear. We beat the Nazis. We survived COVID. I'm not afraid of a bot. I'm not going to get scared out of giving a few companies an unsuable monopoly because some nerd is afraid of their code. Jensen, the chip guy, just said he built the cage to keep these bots in line.
3:56Ben Meiselas:I'm not worried about it. More from Jesse Waters is he's like, all you got to do if you don't want these tech billionaires to like find out information about you, just go into your browser privacy settings. That'll do the trick? Here, play this clip. You can go on anything and you don't have to say what's in the fine print. You can decline. Browser privacy settings, Dana. No one knows what I'm looking at. Thank goodness. Oh, you think that'll do the trick, Jesse Waters? You just click browser privacy on and then those tech billionaires and their AI bots won't be able to, and their flock cameras and that they won't be able to invade your privacy.
4:40Ben Meiselas:I mean, just the way state regime media and these right-wing podcasters and propagandists so blatantly shill for the tech billionaires and the AI billionaires, and now their pitch, did you see it yesterday, is we're not building data centers in your backyard. We're building SI centers. We're calling it SI so it makes it fine because they're no longer data centers. We're just changing the name and we're not calling it AI. So don't worry. We're going to call it super. It's super intelligence centers. You think we're all stupid? Do you think we're not even living this awful shared tragedy that the Trump regime has inflicted on us all?
5:23Ben Meiselas:I mean, it's sickening right here. Then they bring on Ashley Hinson, the candidate running for the Iowa Senate seat. She's a MAGA Republican extremist in Congress. and she's like, this election is truly about, do we wanna go back to policies where electricity and gas prices go back up? Excuse me, they're up now. They're up now. They've like doubled the electricity prices are up significantly from after Biden left. Like what world are these people living in? They think this is all just, you can message this and manipulate us. No, we know what you did. We know that gas prices are up. We know electricity prices are up.
6:04Ben Meiselas:We know groceries are up. Listen to what Ashley Hinton says. Play this clip. Right now, so this election is really about a decision. Do you want to go back to those policies where they were shutting down refineries and making electricity and gas, everything more expensive? Or do you want us to try to continue to move the country forward? And you had other state regime propagandists like this guy Hurt, who's like, yeah, it may be bad, but it was worse under Biden. Okay, it wasn't. And at the end of Biden's term, right now, it's way worse than that. Like, it's objective data. I know y 'all hate data, but we can look at this.
6:41Ben Meiselas:We know. People know. Here, play this clip. Yes, gas prices are high now, but on average, it was much worse under Joe Biden. By the way, did you see that poll from, what was the organization, Harvard Harris, that asked voters, do you feel that the economy was better under Biden or Trump across all voters, Biden was up by like six or seven. Across independents, Biden was up by like 30. Going that most Americans believe Biden handled the economy far better than Donald Trump because he did. And Biden had to inherit the mess that Donald Trump left him with after COVID when Trump ran our country into the ground.
7:21Ben Meiselas:I don't know why people forget about what happened. Trump was the worst president imaginable in his first term. And now he's a hundred times worse than that. And Biden had to go in and fix it. And at every stage, he would get blamed by the arsonists who claimed they were the ones who can put out the fire when they were the ones creating the issues and created it. Senator McCormick says the following play this clip. Listen, here's what's happened. We inherited President Trump and the Republican majority, a terrible economy under Joe Biden. And we've made huge strides in making things more affordable for working families, as you said, they have more money in their pockets,$3 ,500 to$5 ,000 on average because of the Working Families Tax Cut Act.
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9:15Ben Meiselas:You see, that's all they've got. They just blame Biden, these whiny losers. All they do is blame Biden. Back to Ashley Hinson, who says she believes that all the polling that's showing Josh Turek beating her in the Senate race, it's all lies, that they're fake polls. Play this Clinton. A lot of us will be spelling it out. We know the CBO has estimated Medicare for all would cost$3 trillion annually. Real quick, final word from you. Can you close the gap Looking at those polls. Yeah. Yeah. I don't buy that for a minute. You know, if there's one thing I do as a candidate, I run every race like I'm 10 points down.
9:50And I think we're all familiar with last election cycle, the famous seltzer poll in Iowa. I think Iowans are a little wary of polls for sure and certainly pollsters. And I think they're going to show up in droves because they know what's at stake. Iowans are common sense, hardworking people. And I'm proud to be running to be their next U.S. senator. So I think we'll win on November 3rd. and we will be watching very closely. Appreciate your time today.
10:12Ben Meiselas:Kash Patel, who literally is aiding and abetting the Trump regime Gestapo SS police state, says we're not in a police state. Here, play this clip. Absolutely. Sean, we are a constitutional republic. We are not a socialist anarchy. We are not a police state. We are an American public that is defended by law and order. So we, the FBI, and our law enforcement partners around the country are energized more than ever by President Trump's and this administration's of backing the blue and resourcing law enforcement. And our community should be proud of the work that law enforcement under the Trump administration has delivered.
10:46Ben Meiselas:More from Jesse Waters over here. Jesse Waters says, you know, what I really loved about the AI tech billionaire meeting was how Trump arranged all of the seats. And it was like medieval times with the hierarchy of who is wealthier and more powerful than who. Like, that's what you like. I mean, I mean, I'm just wondering, Like, who's the audience for this? Who's the audience who looks at it and goes, yeah, Jesse, you know, I like medieval times in the United States in 2026. I was very fascinated by living in existence within a Game of Thrones dystopian world where the American people are getting killed and having their lives ruined by these tech billionaires.
11:27Ben Meiselas:But I want to know who was sitting where? Was Elon Musk closer than Zuckerberg? Here, play this clip. I'm not worried about it. I love how Trump invited these guys there and created a seating chart. It's like one of those medieval royal seating charts where you could tell where anybody ranked and who was in favor and out of favor. And people are going to look back and they're going to study this. I'm not, but people that know history will study this and they will see who was in favor. did the ai czar kamala harris ever invite the leaders of technology into the white house to learn anything no she didn't i remember biden invited all the ev automakers in and didn't invite elon musk the biggest american ev auto didn't invite him because they were perturbed because he donated to republicans well donald trump invited the anthropic ceo who he doesn't get along with you know what though he just put him in the worst seat in the house that's how you handle this thing.
12:26So I'm not worried about this. People need to show a little courage, a little optimism that we can handle this new technology because we've been able to handle pretty much anything anybody's ever thrown at this country. I'm curious what you're thinking about.
12:42Ben Meiselas:Right. I mean, what are we talking about here? Like these people have ripped away our health care. They've made everything more expensive. Cost of living has reached a point where it is beyond tragic what they've done. And this is what they do. Who's sitting where? Who's in what's chair? Because here's what they want to do. They want this all to just be some reality show, right? And we don't want to be non-consensual extras in this dystopian reality show. We don't. Sean Hannity then talks about the Jack Smith hearing. And by the way, the MAGA Republicans were horrible at the Jack Smith hearing.
13:19Ben Meiselas:I've said it. I've done lots of reports on Senator Schmidt confusing intentionally the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and like accusing Jack Smith of going to a Hawks game and meeting with Fonny Willis when he was at a Hawkeyes game in Maryland for Iowa for Caitlin Clark. It's like, and then Jackson, and then Sean Hannity is like, it was a beat down. Jack Smith got destroyed. No, he didn't. He didn't objectively, he didn't get destroyed. And also the MAGA Republicans have imposed a gag order on Jack Smith to not allow him to talk about the Mar-a-Lago criminal case. He was only able to talk about the January 6th insurrection criminal case against Trump, but not the Mar-a-Lago case because federal judge Eileen Cannon, a Trump appointed stooge has imposed a gag order preventing Jack Smith from talking about volume two, which is the Mar-a-Lago case.
14:12Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clue. Oh, and Jack Smith, well, the disgraced federal prosecutor now infamous for his failed witch hunt against Donald Trump. He got grilled today on Capitol Hill. It was a beatdown. Take a look. But you're unbiased. You have no personal feelings. you make me want to throw up in my mouth and then some as it turns out smith what and then uh josh hawley is on there with hannity and hawley's a mega republican senator from missouri uh the same state as senator schmidt and you know hawley hallley's like i hope i hope jack Jack Smith goes to jail, man. Let's get this guy in jail. What do you mean, in jail for what?
15:01Ben Meiselas:What do you mean, put him in jail? We didn't commit a crime. He's a nonpartisan prosecutor, career prosecutor, who prosecuted people in the international criminal system and dictators were being prosecuted by him. What are you talking about? This is what they say, play this clip. Because he was power hungry and he didn't want the American people to have the choice to vote for Donald Trump. He wanted to throw the election. And this is such an abuse of power. I hope it never happens again. I hope he goes to jail. You did a great job today. Ted Cruz did a great job. Senator Kennedy did a great job.
15:36Darlene Graham did a great job. Everybody on that committee, well done. And I hope, I hope justice is finally served and people are held accountable. Senator Josh Hawley, appreciate you. Thank you.
15:48Ben Meiselas:All right. Right. They're just, honestly, they're like lunatics, these people. And they're inflicting real pain on the American people. That's what pisses me off. much that I know how much y 'all are hurting out there. But we're going to keep building this media network here at the Midas Touch Network to flood the zone with the truth while state regime floods the zone with disinformation. We'll flood it with truth. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks everybody. Hey, if you want the full story, how democracy got here and how we take it back, pre-order our new book, WTF America today.
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