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1:07Ben Meiselas:MAGA Mike Johnson was in panic mode this morning as he held a disastrous press conference. He continues to do these morning press conference humiliation rituals, which just make things worse for him and the MAGA Republicans. We're now 24 hours before Tuesday's critical elections. MAGA Mike Johnson and these MAGA Republicans are panicking. Let's take a look at what happened when MAGA Mike Johnson was asked about Donald Trump's statements made on 60 Minutes where Trump says he doesn't know the individual who he pardoned, who's the billionaire leader of a crypto exchange that pled guilty to money laundering involving Al-Qaeda and Hamas.

1:44Ben Meiselas:Trump goes, ready? I don't even know who ZZ is. I don't even know who the person is that I pardon. MAGA Mike Johnson once again says, I don't know. I don't know anything about that. What do you know then, Magda Mike Johnson? You're supposed to be the Speaker of the House. Here, play this clip.

2:24I don't know anything about that. I didn't see the interview. You have to ask the president about that. I'm not sure.

2:29Ben Meiselas:Then what MAGA Mike Johnson goes on to say, he goes, but the thing with the Democrats that everybody needs to know is there's such a staggering amount of gaslighting and false information. Projection much? You mean all of these press conferences that you do every single morning? Here play this clip. To go through just a couple of important facts. There is such a staggering amount of gaslighting and false information that Democrats are engaging in right now. Then mega Mike Johnson has the audacity to say, everybody, guess what? The Republicans have been the party for health care. He goes, you know, that budget bill we did, the big, beautiful budget bill that's made health care more affordable.

3:08Ben Meiselas:How great is everything right now? He goes, we fixed health care with the budget bill. You mean the disastrous budget bill, which gutted people's Medicaid, which took out$200 billion from rural hospitals. Is that what you're referring to? Here, play this clip. Republicans are the ones fighting to save health care. Why? It's not just talking points to us. We do this. We have ideas and we have already implemented ideas and measures to reduce costs, increase access and quality, and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. Now, why do we say it's not just a talking point? Why do say the republican party is the only one advancing common sense reform solutions because we've proven it we did that in the big beautiful bill the the working families tax cut we we we took a look at medicaid and we took on that challenge we took action to reduce fraud waste and abuse in medicaid we got able-bodied young men without dependents off the program we got illegal aliens off the program and we saved 185 billion dollars just to start we got millions of ineligible enrollees off the program and it preserved it it strengthened medicaid for the people who rely upon it which is the elderly disabled and young pregnant women as we always use in an example no it's not about health care that is a false claim and everybody knows it everyone in america and certainly everybody in this room understands that this is about something else and then mega mike johnson goes on to say, and it's the Democrats who have created this problem.

4:39Ben Meiselas:They came up with the Affordable Care Act. So let's blame them. What we need to do, Maga Mike Johnson right now, is extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies because by and large, the Affordable Care Act is popular because it gave 20 million Americans insurance who didn't have insurance in the first place. Does it need to be fixed? And can we make it cheaper? I think there should be more subsidies. I believe we should have universal health care. I believe it's a human right. I believe it should be made free by the government. I believe we should tax the rich. But you and Trump, you don't have any plans at all other than you want to rip away health care from 20 million Americans and rip away snap benefits from 42 million Americans.

5:16Ben Meiselas:But go on, Maga Mike. Let's hear you whine. Here, play this clip. Let me go to the third one. False claim number three, Democrats are fighting for health care. You've heard this over and over and over. Let me say something very simply about this false claim. It is the Democrats who created Obamacare. It is the Democrats who did that without any Republican votes. It's the Democrats who, by extension, have cost the American taxpayers and people who have health insurance have made their costs skyrocket. It is their policies that made that happen. And so instead of reforming it, the Democrats don't reform Obamacare.

5:55They want to subsidize it. They want to spend more taxpayer dollars. That, by the way, goes mostly to insurance companies, which makes the cost rise further. That's the Democrats' plan.

6:05Ben Meiselas:And all these MAGA Republicans do every morning is just get up there and whine. It's so utterly pathetic. You want to stop the government shutdown that you're creating? Well, it's open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act plans, and Americans are getting their letters right now. They're seeing that their health care costs are going to jump$20 ,000 to$30 ,000 a year, MAGA Mike. So why don't we correct that? Why don't we give people these Affordable Care Act subsidies that they've had before. And then why don't we actually come up with a plan and figure out ways to make it cheaper, but you don't have a plan.

6:35Ben Meiselas:But then Mag and Mike goes, Oh, let me explain to you what's really happening. Donald Trump is the courageous one who wants to save everybody's SNAP benefits and their food stamps. Trump's trying to save it. No, quite the contrary, Mag and Mike, democratic attorney generals and democratic groups had to go into court to force the SNAP payments to be made from the contingent or emergency fund, which is supposed to be used for this purpose that MAGA Republicans and Trump did not want to use to starve people to death. And in fact, the remaining money in SNAP in general should be paid out regardless of the contingent and emergency funding.

7:11Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump and you and others want to use SNAP as a way to starve people to death. And you think that's politically advantageous to you. Here's what MAGA Mike says. Let's play this clip. The president is desperate for SNAP benefits to flow to the American citizens who desperately rely upon it. He has bent over backwards, as you know, to get the troops paid, to keep WIC funding going. He's found creative solutions. The SNAP situation, as Secretary Rollins and I explained at the press conference on Friday, has legal impediments to that. It was understood, and we got legal advice, and it made sense to me that the contingency fund and SNAP could not be used unless the underlying funds were flowing.

7:49as Secretary Rollins relate to you. This is pretty commonsensical. The contingency fund is an extra, in layman's terms, it's an extra fund that is there, for example, if you have an unexpected natural occurrence, like a hurricane or something.

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9:18Ben Meiselas:But MAGA Mike says, but the issue is if we kill the filibuster, then what happens when Democrats want to make Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico a state? And what happens when the Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, 15 to 17 judges? This is what MAGA Mike says. Here play this clip. What would the Democrats do if they had no filibuster impediment, no speed bump at all? They've already told us they would pack the Supreme Court. You go from nine to 13 or 15 or 17 or however many liberals they can pack on the court. You would have D.C. and Puerto Rico be made into states, which would give four additional Democrat senators there in the count and make us a permanent minority.

9:55I guess that would be their calculation. You'd see massive restriction of the Second Amendment, Second Amendment rights. You'd see them federalize elections so they could take over and manipulate things in the red states. I mean, there's a lot of abuses that could come.

10:09Ben Meiselas:Now, just moving away from MAGA Mike for a moment, can we just take a look at what some real Americans are saying who are the ones being starved by Donald Trump? The pawns, the American people, as Donald Trump's doing his great Gatsby themed parties. A little party never killed nobody was the theme as they have their like dancers, whatever the hell was going on there. Let's show you what real Americans are going through. Here's one SNAP recipient who went on CNN play this clip. What are you doing right now? Well, I'm pretty stressed out and I have to decide whether to put gas in my car or buy something to eat today.

10:45What is that like for you when you wake up in the morning and realize that those are the choices you're making? I mean, I just feel like no matter how hard I'm trying to come up in the world. it just doesn't matter. Like I just keep getting held down. I just need a little leg up and, you know, I'm five years in recovery and I've gone to school. I've done all these things and I'm trying to work and I'm trying to open a business and I just need a little more help and I can't get it. And so if I'm going through this, I can only imagine those families that can't work, the families that have all these children that are going hungry right now.

11:24Yeah. And you were telling me in the break before this that you had just gotten back on SNAP benefits about a month ago. Tell us how much your normal monthly SNAP benefit is and how much do you have to go until the next payment comes through, hopefully soon? um it's like 292 a month and uh that's gone already um last month I didn't get the full amount because it wasn't for the whole month but um I mean that goes really really quickly you know um and with my situation it's hard to like just plan out meals real well um Um, so I do the best I can, but it definitely runs out before, um, before I get more, you know?

12:16Ben Meiselas:And here's another SNAP recipient who went on CNN. Let's play this clip. One of the 2 million people, uh, in Illinois, uh, where you live to get that supplemental nutrition assistance program, otherwise known as SNAP. Why do you need it?

12:32Yes, I need it because I work as a substitute teacher assistant, so my income is not that much great than an average teacher assistant. I only get paid according to the days that I work, and I'm only allowed to work 7.25 five hours and I don't get paid overtime and I don't get paid when the students are out of school. So therefore, my access to my my tech is only covering rent, bills and the uptake of my children. My husband also is permanently disabled and he receives monthly social security benefits. So therefore, with the combined income, it's not enough to cover the cost of food for that month.

13:29So I rely on SNAP benefits to provide food for my house so that my husband and my children would be able to eat. And with this mess that's going on within Washington and Trump and Republicans and Democrats is really impacting me and other people like me who are in the same position than I do.

13:56Ben Meiselas:And by the way, while Maga Mike was doing whatever the hell you want to call that humiliation ritual routine he does every morning, I want to give a shout out to California Governor Gavin Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. I'm just saying first, not just First Lady vibes in California, but First Lady vibes in general. I think this is a powerful speech that she gave that I just want to show you because it stands in perfect contrast to the cruelty and the lies and just the evilness that we see with the Republican press conferences. Take a look at the First Lady of California, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, her speech today about the big elections taking place tomorrow.

14:34Ben Meiselas:Let's play this clip. And I will tell you right now, I will not raise my children to think Donald Trump is an acceptable American leader.

14:49Nor that he is what the leader of our great country should behave like. I won't raise them to think his terror enables his power and that his greed equals success. He is the exact opposite of what real strength looks like. So in our house, Gavin and I will continue to teach our kids what strength really looks like. If you see someone sitting alone at a table, you invite them to your table. If you see someone being bullied, you speak up and ask an adult for help. And you always, always tell the truth. Maybe if Donald Trump's parents had taught him any of these lessons, we wouldn't be in this mess.

15:38On the contrary, Trump is enriching his immediate family and cronies. He is stripping away our rights and our democracy. When he knows he's going to lose, he cheats. When the game isn't rigged for him, he rigs it himself. Sometimes no is a full sentence. Trust me. That's right. But Donald Trump's never accepted no for an answer. He's a con artist, a predator, a malignant narcissist, in chief, and the worst president in our nation's history.

16:21Ben Meiselas:Again, I did a video earlier on this today, but it's worth noting again, you take a look at the latest CNN polls. Did Donald Trump's policies improve the economy or worsen the economy? 61 % of Americans say he's made the economy worse than under former President Biden, and those numbers under former President Biden were much better than Donald Trump's numbers as well. In terms of overall approval, disapproval, Donald Trump's disapproval rating is at 63 % on the CNN poll. That's the highest it's ever been on the CNN poll for Donald Trump in his first two terms even higher than following the January 6th insurrection.

16:58Ben Meiselas:Only 37 % of Americans approve Donald Trump's behavior in a generic ballot. If Americans were asked, who would you vote for tomorrow for control of Congress? 47 % of Americans say Democrats, 42 % say Republicans. That's what we have right now, folks. We'll keep you posted every step of the way, of course, here on the Midas Touch Network. But think about it. Donald Trump throwing great Gatsby, roaring 20s themed parties while the American people are suffering and starving as inflation is surging. And Donald Trump pretends there is no inflation. He goes, everything's great for everyone. No, Donald, you've created an absolute catastrophe here in the United States for which you will be held accountable.

17:36Ben Meiselas:Your regime of war criminals and people like MAGA Mike Johnson and the MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate. Thanks everybody for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million.

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