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28:57It's over. That's over Ben and I's head. We don't get it. We don't have fourth Midas brother somewhere. Hi, everybody. Brett Micellis here. I was like, who is that? Who voices that? In any event, Jordi, you talked about Trump, the snake oil salesman. Look, the snake. He's the snake that America led in once and the world was horrified and they let America let him in twice. And the world was like, got it. Like we're done with you. It's kind of where we're at right now. I'll remind everybody heading into the 2024 election, the message that Donald Trump was pushing out and that corporate news would ignore the fact that he was a sexual predator, a convicted did fell in, that he was a bankruptor, that he was in office the first time and completely botched the handling of COVID, that he was one of the people who were encouraged the January 6th insurrectionists and he was out there trying to overthrow the election.

30:05I mean, like, okay, really, you're going to just ignore all of these things and treat this as like a normal candidate. But let's remember what he kept on saying over and over again. And Trump doesn't want people to see this clip before the midterm election. Here, let's play this clip. Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half within, mark it down, and you can get very angry at me if we don't do it. Within 12 months, your energy prices will be cut in half. My plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that. within 12 months of taking office. Number one, your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half.

30:47And that's my pledge all over the country. Beyond farmers, that's my pledge all over the country. If you vote for me, I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months. Well, how about gasoline? Did he make any pledges or promises regarding gasoline right before the 2024 election? let's see what this con artist snake loser predator felon what was he telling the people pretty much consistent with those qualities and attributes let's play this clip my plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that within 12 months of taking office it will be an economic revival of our country like no one has ever seen before.

31:34Energy was what caused our problem initially. Energy is going to bring us back. That means we're going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs. $2 a gallon, interesting, because right now gas and diesel are at all-time highs. And guess what? It ain't going down anytime soon. It's going to get much worse. You want to see why Donald Trump bankrupted most of his companies? Because, and go back, I talked about this in 2024 and before that as well, Trump has the worst instincts and he's a fraud.

32:20So when you make an error or you screw up, lots of people reflect and try to fix it. not Donald. He then tries to cover it up and he digs deeper. And the law of holes is stop digging. Well, Donald Trump's entire life story is digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper, bringing his entities into catastrophe and then trying to basically loot and pillage the people around him while he's crashing his entities. So he makes a problem even worse. And then he makes it into a bigger disaster and a catastrophe, and it keeps on spiraling. I mean, just look at this catastrophic war against Iran. It should never have happened in the first place.

33:01One of the main reasons that Netanyahu and Trump engaged in this war without the rest of the world, this catastrophic war we shouldn't have been involved in. I mean, one, Netanyahu is a genocidal maniac, but also Donald Trump was getting increasingly worried about the release of the Epstein file. So it It was to distract from the child sex trafficking ring that Donald Trump was covering up. And then every day they made it worse and worse and worse. I mean, horrifically slaughtering little girls in Manab, little children in a La Merde, and continuing to engage in horrific contexts. I mean, most recently killing people at a wedding in Syrac County.

33:41I mean, just horrific atrocities being committed. You had the memorandum of understanding, which could have at least potentially been an out, got us out of this. But no, Donald Trump is such an egomaniac, such a malignant narcissist, such a psycho that he can't stick to any deal. He's never done that his whole life. He's always been a destroyer of deals. He's not a builder. He's a breacher of contracts. That's what he does. And then he just sues everybody and destroys things. But when you're going against countries that have a national interest, they stand up to that. And that's what we've seen happen over and over.

34:14And so the situation's getting worse. And now we have this purported blockade that's in Iran, kind of right outside the Arabian Sea. And when Donald Trump escalates, Iran escalates even more. And then Donald Trump kind of backs down, then Trump decides to escalate, and Iran escalates more. There is no coherent strategy right now about how to extricate ourselves from this catastrophic war in Iran. And it's only going to lead to higher oil prices, higher diesel prices, more death and destruction, putting our service members more in harm way, more death and destruction in the region, and the whole world moving further and further away from the United States.

34:56And this is why we see countries selling off their treasury bond holdings, removing their gold holdings from the United States. They don't view the United States as a predictable, reliable entity to invest in anymore. And so there is a massive move away from the U.S., which leads to higher treasury yields, which then leads to higher borrowing costs in the United States, which increases our debt. And then there's all the supply shock issues as well regarding the lack of oil that's out there because the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. And Donald Trump can post all he wants that there are 18 million barrels a day that are leaving.

35:38But that's just false. That's just false. I mean, even Donald Trump's energy secretary said over the weekend it was 9 million barrels a day. But that's probably a high estimate. It's probably more like five to six. But in any event, it's like a 40 % decrease or 50 % decrease to what existed before Donald Trump launched this unlawful and catastrophic war. And also, we're just talking here about oil, but we could also be talking about a lot of other things get transported out of these Strait of Hormuz. And all of those stuff, that stuff isn't getting out also. And so you have supply shocks there.

36:12So this situation is only going to get worse and worse. So what does Donald Trump do? He tries to do more distractions. And so it's attacking Canada. Let's do the escalate the trade war against Canada. And then Donald Trump sends out his treasury secretary, Scott Besant, and his whole regime who say the most heinous things about the ally to the United States, our closest ally, you know, is Canada. And you have these Trump regime sycophants, cabinet members out there saying horrific, like the most horrific things. And here's the thing, Americans, by and large, overwhelmingly support Canada retaliating against the United States.

36:55Most Americans stand with Carney retaliating against us, even though it hurts us, over Donald Trump escalating this trade war that nobody wants against Canada in the first place. Then that doesn't work. So then Trump's like, okay, okay, okay. The Lake Ontario gimmick, that one didn't work, changing that to Lake of America. All right, I'm going to go domestic. I'm going to rename New Mexico to New America. That'll shock people. And people are like, no, we know it. We know you're an idiot. You're a lunatic. We're not, we don't care. Stop this. What we care about is that you've ripped away our healthcare.

37:29You've made everything more expensive. You got us involved in these catastrophic and unlawful wars. You're covering up a child sex trafficking ring with the Epstein files. That's what we care about. And all this other behavior just shows that you think we're stupid and we're just going to bite the bait and fall for this stuff. Yeah, maybe corporate news does that. Maybe we don't fall for this crap. The people get what's going on right now. And by the way, that's not some glowing endorsement of the Democratic Party either. It's that we want fighters out there who will conduct robust oversight, who will hold these literal criminals and traitors and treasonous people accountable.

38:05And so when Democrats win in the midterms, which they're expected to. I think they'll take both the House and the Senate. They better engage in the most robust oversight. But with people like Congress member Raskin and Congress member Garcia and their teams, I think they're ready to meet the challenge. But they got to meet that challenge. They know they've got to meet that challenge. Just watch what Treasury Secretary Besson said this past weekend about Canada. This is the despicable language from this Trump regime. Here, play this clip. You know, Laura, I had a German shepherd and there was a dachshund that used to antagonize her at the playground.

38:41And it kind of reminds me of that. It kind of reminds me of that. And this little yippee dog, they used to just like bark away. And for a long time, 110 pound German shepherd was ignoring the dachshund. And then one day she'd had enough. And unfortunately, Prime Minister Carney did walk away. They were given the opportunity for a great trade deal, and they didn't want it. And it looks like it's for political reasons. But the U.S., it is not much of a hit. Sicko. I mean, real predator language right there. What about Energy Secretary Chris Wright? Are we moving any closer to a nuclear deal with Iran?

39:27I mean, what's the latest there, Energy Secretary Wright? Listen to what he has to say. Let's play this clip. Well, let's talk about gas prices right now. The average is four dollars and 10 cents a gallon. A year ago, the Labor Day average was three dollars and 16 cents a gallon. Diesel prices are also soaring. Just a few weeks ago, you mentioned President Trump. He dismissed the increase in gas prices as just a tiny bit. Let's play this for you. For you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline. Just remember, you're doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a country. Really, it's the number one state sponsor of terror in the world.

40:09We don't want to have them have a nuclear weapon. So remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, you're at four dollars. It's OK. I mean, it's I'm not I'm not I'll never apologize. I did the right thing. OK, it's been more than six months of paying higher prices. And there is also no sign of a nuclear agreement. You talk about that, President Trump talks about that. But where's the sign that they're going to have a nuclear agreement? There may not be a nuclear agreement. It may be simply destroying their capabilities to do it. An agreement may await a next administration in Iran. We simply don't know that.

40:47But I think what the president was communicating there is how critically important this is. If Iran has nuclear weapons, the Middle East, the world is a wildly different. Brett and Jordy, I mean, these are clearly a group of lunatics right here. I mean, each one of them are just, they're lunatics, they're liars, they're the biggest fraud. Every word, sound, utterance, noise that they make is a lie. And the way they treat us all, like we're the dumbest people. Like that's how they think about it. They think that we're all just the dumbest people, Brett. Brett and Jordy, I mean, these are clearly a group of lunatics right here.

41:55Yep. Thank you.

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44:38absolutely absolutely look they just keep moving the goalposts and inevitably like what's the next iteration of the stupidness right so in theory let's just play this out Democrats you know regain the house let's just say say if they do what are they going to say the economy was gonna be so good but those dang Democrats they'll call them worst names than that those dang dang Democrats they took they took power now we can't get anything done and it's all their fault how could they do this I mean like that's exactly what's gonna happen maybe with not that like emphasis but that's exactly what's gonna happen because Besson again he can't move his face so he's gonna always talk the way he's talking also can I just say this Brett one common theme in in addition to them all being con artists they're all so creepy with dogs like Besson's analogy not only did he compare Canada to a little yipping dog, but he ends the story, if I heard it correctly, with his dog murdering that dachshund.

45:37I mean, listen to it back. I'm not even being funny. The story is a really dark, weird story, but what do you expect? These people are weirdos. These people are freaks. And I don't feel bad saying that. And neither should you, because I think and I know the more and more Americans that have come to this realization that these freaks are only in it for themselves. Then we are sooner going to free ourselves from said freaks. And I am looking forward to that day. But for right now, when you see Besson up there, when you see Trump, when you see all of them, all the folks who carry water for this regime, you're like, oh, yeah, no wonder why it's a sinking ship because they got to run on right now.

46:20They're absolutely lost in the sauce and they don't know what to do next. Well, Jordy, to your point, they all have a loser arc where they found this MAGA community of other losers. And they've convinced, you know, corporate news and all of these people to treat them normally. And their loser behavior and their wrecking ball conduct kind of serves as this shield and this WMD, Weapon and Mass Distraction, for the very moneyed class in the United States, for the oligarchs to keep ripping people off. because the idea is, you know, basically the blocking and tackling is done by the various tiers of these losers who are out there lying, you know, and trying to look over here, look over here, look over here, while these oligarchs put data centers in your backyard, while they did all of the tax cuts for themselves, while they cut your health care, while they ripped away lunch money for children and said that the kids are the ones involved in waste, fraud, and abuse, while they're the ones doing the waste, fraud, and abuse at the highest level, stealing our tax dollars, taking our money, screwing you over, and making themselves richer because 10 mansions and four private jets does not satiate their desire for more and more and more.

47:46It has to also make sure that you suffer even more. And this is, again, Brett, to your point, it's not political messaging. I'm not trying to make a political point. That's objectively what's occurred. That's what's taken place. And I think as we approach the midterms right now, for a lot of people who maybe haven't been so focused on politics who are now saying, whoa, this is right around the corner. Wait a minute. I was promised this, that, and the other. I think we're seeing right now even more of an acceleration of the rejection of these MAGA mutants because the obviousness of their fraud is on display.

48:24Now, the alarming part is your point, Jordi, though, because, and Brett, as you make this comparison to COVID, what happened in 2020, the elections were held essentially 57 days from now at the presidential level. And when Biden won, Biden became the target for all of the screw-ups that Trump had been accumulating. All of that was put on Biden's shoulder and old school kumbaya, let's bring the country together and heal when there was this venomous mutant MAGA class that wanted to destroy and rip to shreds. And Biden was a vessel for them to just throw all of the Trump baggage and destruction and say, this was you who did it when he was trying to fix it.

49:12And by the way, by the end of the Biden term, not to say rah-rah, spike the football, he fixed it, but you did have inflation going down to 3 % and on target to hit 2%. You did have this investment in American manufacturing and you saw it taking place. You did see the CHIPS Act and all these other things starting to finally turn the corner. You can literally see it all on the graphs, what Trump was doing when Biden tried to fix it. And then you see in the opposite direction, or depending on which chart you look when it comes to inflation, the direction going up under Trump, how Trump then took the healing and turned it into more damage.

49:52But the whole way they're going to be taking this is Jordy's point. What Trump and MAGA are going to now say is, oh, we had the plan. It was perfect. They're already teeing it up. You already hear what they're saying. And then the Democrats won. And then that screwed it over. The communists and the socialists destroyed everything. Meanwhile, you want to talk about communism or socialism for the billionaires? It's exactly what MAGA has been doing right now. It's their exact behavior, creating a Trump oil company within the defense department because private business didn't want to do deals with Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela.

50:30So we have a Trump private oil company do a deal with the Delcy Rodriguez regime, the Chavistas. and what's one of the main staples of it? The whole thing is fake and phony also. We're going to get all this barrels of oil and we're going to fill up the strategic reserves. No, we're not. That's not true. You're lying. That type of oil doesn't even go into our salt caverns and it doesn't. Meanwhile, our salt caverns are hitting tank bottom. They could literally implode and collapse because they're so damn low. Treasury yields continue to rise. The Strait of Ramoos continues to be closed. Iran is developing new ballistic weapons and they're developing new capabilities in the region as well with their access of resistance, they're getting stronger.

51:14So yes, you can have Hegseth go, we're going to boost morale by doing more flyovers. Oh, I'm going to polygraph examine all of the people who work at the Pentagon, who I think were leakers of the fact that we have low munitions right now, or we've run out of munitions. And meanwhile, Iran has their own national interest. They're building up their ballistic arsenal. Iran has a plan as well where they're saying in the future coming up, if ships come into the Gulf of Oman, even before where the Strait of Hormuz is, we're going to consider those ships subject to sanctions and we reserve the right to strike that.

51:50So Iran's going to go up the escalatory ladder. They've demonstrated over the past few days that they have that capability. And by the way, not only does Iran have the capability, Look at the testing ground of Iran's ballistic capabilities being used by the Houthis against the Saudi-backed forces. What you're actually seeing in real time are some of these new weapons, whether they're the Castle Breakers or the Qasem weapons, these new ballistics from Iran. The Houthis have been making major advances in Yemen right now, taking over areas that were previously controlled by the Saudi-backed forces.

52:29But what the Houthis are releasing, and this is a message to the international community and the Trump regime, but the Trump regime is too dumb and malicious to even take note, that their ballistics are striking with an incredible amount of precision. These Saudi-backed forces right now in Yemen and Iran has those capabilities. This guy, Moshi Razay, who's like one of the main advisors on the military side right now to the Ayatollah, he's out there basically saying, look, we could destroy the U.S. aircraft carriers right now. We have the ability to do that. We've done warning shots to show them that we can unleash hell.

53:07The issue is, is that he says, is that when we hit the aircraft carrier, we're going to kill 200 to 300 U.S. service members. And that could change the way the U.S. now views the war because the U.S. has been so propagandized that if all of a sudden Iran strikes an aircraft carrier, that could potentially rally the U.S. people around Trump or around the war. And now more people are like, all right, let's escalate the war. So Iran's like, we can strike your aircraft carriers. And I think this is my theory, my opinion, that Trump wants them to strike our aircraft carriers. And Iran knows that. I think we're keeping these aircraft carriers there in the worst, most horrid conditions possible for our service members.

53:53and they're in an area where we know Iran can strike because Trump wants Iran to strike them. So he can then say, ah, you see, now we're going to go and further strike Iran. And Iran realizes that. So now you have this game, if you will, but it's a war where Trump strikes tankers, Iran strikes more tankers back and forth, but all the while the Strait of Hormuz is closed. And that's why the price of oil and diesel is hitting record highs right now. And then you have Whitcoff and Kushner who head to Russia and Ukraine and further demonstrate how pathetic this country has become under this Trump regime.

54:31Where's Marco Rubio? You're the secretary of state. Who are these unelected, unappointed, illegitimate, not that I'm a big Rubio fan, but that's the job of the secretary of state. And when we come back, what I want to talk about as well is this is by design by Putin. Putin picked Whitcoff. You all know that, right? Right. Putin picked Whitcock and Putin said he's happy with Kushner. Even if you listen to what Putin said, he's like, we feel very comfortable with you, too. Yeah, because it's like the Jim Carrey Dumb and Dumber movie. It is a weapon of mass destruction. Remember, I said weapon of mass destruction.

55:04They are a manifestation of a weapon of mass destruction to the United States credibility. dumb and dumber shows up there. It's out of like a bad, what would be like those movies where it's always like the two guys who show up and like, look at these zany two people doing crazy, but it's real life. And it's, and the whole world looks at these people like Whitcock, Trump's scumbag real estate friend from Manhattan, you know, and then his son-in-law. And they're out there just making fools of the, everything that was built in the United States history. These two idiots go around. It's like a bunch of idiots.

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59:31This is what Whitkoff, the unelected, unappointed, illegitimate special envoy representing the United States, posted earlier today about his visit to Moscow and Ukraine. He said, substantive progress was made, including movement on what? Wait for it. Wait for it. Movement on scheduling additional trilateral talks. Trump is working hard to stop the killing and work towards a lasting and durable peace. Rewind, rewind, rewind. No, no, no, no, no, Whitcoff. Donald Trump promised, in addition to no more never-ending wars, that he was such a good dealmaker and such a good negotiator, It would take 24 hours for him to do a deal with Putin and Zelensky because of Trump's negotiating skills.

1:00:27That was his sale. By the way, he was such a good negotiator, he said he wouldn't even have to wait until he was sworn in. Wouldn't even have to wait until inauguration. The 24 hours would be the 24 hours after the election. But nope, that didn't happen. Nope, it didn't happen after inauguration. Nope, it didn't happen now. Not going to happen. Do you know why? Because he's a freaking loser and he's a fraud and he's a liar and they're all liars and they lie about everything and they're malicious and they are losers and he can't do a deal. Dude couldn't do a deal regarding Trump water or Trump steak or Trump the game or whatever, the board game.

1:01:09You think that dude can do a deal between Putin and do a deal with Zelensky? You think that that's going to be possible? And it was just demonstrated, again, how humiliating that we've had literally dumb and dumber go around the world saying they're envoys to the US, right, and behave this way. Behave this way. It is the most absurd thing. Zelensky says, the war will likely continue into the winter. That was Zelensky's take. The war is going to continue into the winter. And all of the intelligence that comes out of these meetings is that Putin has left emboldened. Putin saw John Ratcliffe, at least Ratcliffe.

1:01:53I'm no Ratcliffe fan, Ratcliffe, but he's at least a little bit more of a serious dude than these guys. I mean, Ratcliffe to me is still not qualified to be the CIA director, but at least that guy, you know, carries himself with a little bit of at least scintilla. But don't get me wrong. I'm no Ratcliffe, fam. But when Ratcliffe took that visit to Moscow, what was it, two weeks ago, all the intelligence was Putin's like, got it. I can strike more in Ukraine. You're nervous. You are terrified right now about Russia's capabilities and about what we're building, and you're out of weapons. And so you're coming here out of a sign of weakness.

1:02:33That's how Putin saw it. And that's how Putin saw this as well. I don't know how else you can look at it. I mean, first, let me show you what Steve Witkopf said when he was in Ukraine. And then I'll show you what he said when he was in Moscow. First in Ukraine, Witkopf says, I've made, I guess, about eight visits to Moscow to meet with Putin and his team. Jared and I have made at least three. We've always been treated respectfully by Putin. You're saying this in Kiev, you've been treated respectfully. How do you think you've been treated to respect because he acted nice to you when you were in person?

1:03:08Are you that dumb? You are. You are that dumb. While he blew, Whitcoff, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy. He blew up the airport in Kiev where you were supposed to land, you stupid idiot. You're dumb, dumb, huh? Like you're that dumb? He blew up your airport. Oh, that's him being while you were there, Russia was striking throughout Ukraine, killing a lot of innocent people that very day while you were there. Is that how he was nice to you? Nice to you? What do you think this even is? You think you're part of his club? He knows you're a loser, scumbag, Manhattan scummy landlord guy. That's who you are?

1:03:56You're not in that club, you idiot. I mean, these people are crazy. These are crazy people. Watch what Whitcoff says. Here, play this clip. President, I've made, I guess, about eight visits to Moscow to meet with President Putin and his team. And Jared and I together have made at least three, right? We've always been treated respectfully by President Putin and his team. Relationships are critical in terms of solving conflicts like this. And if you don't have relationships with both sides, then, and you have poor communication, then you probably have very, very little chance of getting to a peaceful resolution.

1:04:42We came to see President Putin first. We needed to hear where he stood. We had good concrete conversation with him, which we advised President Zelensky and his team about. Both sides have to come to a resolution here. And my job with and Jared's job together is to bring the parties together, to narrow the issues between them, to create good communication channels. And hopefully we began that process constructively in the last 48 hours. and we're confident that there'll be a good resolution. Oh, my job was to create these circumstances in the past 48 hours. No, no, no, no, Whitcoff. We ain't stupid.

1:05:26You are. Okay. You promised two years ago after the election that Donald Trump would do it in a day. Not that we were going to start a framework process of this and that. And your job, what do you think your job? it you know it's interesting when you listen to it the european union they're like we can't be mediators we're not neutral so what do you want us to do what do you think your job is you know your job is to run around the world like you know like what was that movie it was like a 007 parody and i forget the guy's name but oj simpson was in one of the movies and it was like uh you know as he said our our chat will know it it's just these are like just goofy losers you know who are running around.

1:06:11Did you see what you like? It's like naked gun meets dumb and dumber. I don't even know the plot of this movie would be so fantastic. So far fetched. This would be some crazy stuff. I mean, I watched that movie the last night with Keanu Reeves as the angel who changed the people's, you know, bodies. I believe that plot more than this plot that we're freaking living right now. This is Wyckoff. This is representing the United States. Even though Why? Where's Rubio? Where's Zora? He shows up and he talks about, when I retire, when I retire, this day will be something that Yuri and Kirill, Dmitriyav, we're going to talk about this.

1:06:53Dude, Putin's looking at you like, what? He's looking at you like you're the weakest thing ever. What are you doing? Here, play this clip. So, first of all, President Putin, thank you so much for having us. First, Mr. President, I thank you for taking us today.

1:07:36Manhattan real estate guy who would like negotiate scammy air rights deals, how they would look in a negotiation with Vladimir Putin. Okay. How they would look. You've got your answer. But what about the son-in-law? Huh? What about the son-in-law? I mean, you did have, I'll give credit to some of the reporters who were asking good questions right there. Like Richard Engel, I think asked this question to Jared Kushner. Like you've done horrible negotiations. That's what Engel said. Engel's like, so you guys are awful and you haven't done a single deal and there's still a genocide in Gaza. Southern Lebanon is still being bombed daily and that's only increased by the Netanyahu regime.

1:08:30You didn't do a deal in Iran. So you have the worst record. So why now? It's a great question. And Kushner's like, Richard? Richard, is Richard Engels the reporter? Richard, great question. I think it is great to meet you. Great to meet you, Richard. Well, I should say, I'm not really here in my own capacity. He kind of throws Trump under the bus. I'm just here saying what Donald wants me to say. That's how he. And by the way, the way he says that also also tells you that Jared's focused on Jared. He's focused on his own private equity fund. That's what this is all about for him. And for Trump, it's about Trump thinking about business deals with Putin.

1:09:12And I'll prove that to you in a second as well. But watch this exchange between Richard Engel and Kushner here. You have been involved in numerous negotiations around the world. Why should people have any confidence in your capacity to succeed here? You were involved in the Gaza negotiations, but Gaza remains a wasteland. There's been real no progress there. Iran, you were involved in those negotiations. The war is still going on. You've been involved in several rounds of negotiations in this conflict. It's only getting more intense. So you're relaunching negotiations now. Now, what's the likelihood they will succeed when other negotiations you've been involved in have not?

1:09:55So, Richard, first of all, it's nice to actually see you in person. I've seen you on television for years, but I guess we're usually more domestic, so I don't see you in the flesh. So, first of all, you know, I think these are some of the hardest problem sets in the world. You know, and I think that you have to try and you have to bring to it. But obviously, Steve and I bring different approaches to these things, but we work very well together as partners. But we're not bringing our approaches. We're really representing President Trump, and we're doing it the way that he wants to see these things done.

1:10:25And working with President Trump in the first term, obviously, we achieved a lot of unthinkable things, whether it was achieving the Abraham Accords, which nobody thought was possible. We achieved the USMCA, the biggest trade deal in history, made a great deal with China. And the list just goes on and on. We just celebrated the World Cup in America. That was a deal that I let on President Trump's behalf to win for America. The same thing with the Olympics that will be coming up. So, you know, you have to take on hard things. Brad, I'm going to turn this over to you. But if you just listen to that word salad, whatever the hell that was, we have different approaches.

1:10:58I have an approach. Steve has an approach. But our approaches don't matter because we're not bringing our approaches. OK, why would you say that? I'm bringing Donald Trump's approach. OK, what is that approach? We've done unthinkable things. Unthinkable like what? doing a trade deal with, I could think about that thing because it existed before the USMCA. It was called NAFTA. So it is actually a thinkable thing. You called NAFTA the USMCA and you upgraded a little bit. You didn't do it, but this was negotiated between Canada and Trump and Mexico. And that unthinkable thing has completely fallen apart because literally Trump attacks Canada and has breached the USMCA or KUSMA as it's called the Canadian US Mexico agreement.

1:11:40So that's your shiny object, Kuzma, as what you did. And then you take credit for the World Cup. And we did the World Cup. These are the biggest losers. These people are losers. Who is this guy? Richard. Richard, it's great to see in the flesh, usually more in the domestic. What words are you? You're just saying words. I don't even know what you're talking about. He couldn't have picked worse examples. I mean, you're picking the thing like famously, everything is going great between the United States and Canada right now. So bang up job, Jared. And Middle East, that whole problem was solved. Peace there.

1:12:15Nothing's going wrong there. So two for two, Jared. It's almost like asking like a baseball player who's like literally batting zero. Like you've been batting zero this whole time. You whiffed on your last pitch. The pitch after that, you swung the bat and hit yourself in the balls. What makes you think this next one is going to be a grand slam? You keep saying you're going to hit a grand slam. what or what was like no like dude you're terrible you're batting you're batting zero and worse than that like everything is every actually everything that you've touched seems to actually be like a disaster a complete catastrophe and the fact that you're working on this on behalf of donald trump and his edicts is also shows why this is a disaster i mean i mean i guess you know he wants to separate himself from it a little bit and kind of be like hey if i was doing this on my own i might be able to figure it out, but I'm working with this madman over here.

1:13:07But you got to take the blame for all this too, right? I mean, everywhere you look, it's complete catastrophe. We shouldn't have Jared Kushner there. We shouldn't have Steve Woodcoff here. It's one of the reasons why I actually despise that Marco Rubio meme that people post online, where it's like, oh, that host was fired. Marco Rubio has a new job. Oh, this person got fired from their job. Marco Rubio has a new job. The Ayatollah was killed. Looks like Marco Rubio has a new job. Have you seen those memes where they dress him up in the Oval Office wearing different outfits? And the joke is that he has a billion jobs.

1:13:41Well, maybe he is assigned to a billion different things, but I don't actually see the guy doing much of anything except threatening Cuba and Venezuela and stuff all the time. Anywhere where he is actually supposed to be in the room doing the work of diplomacy, which is the job of a secretary of state. The guy is MIA. So, okay, get cutesy with your memes. He's doing this job. He's doing that job. He's not doing the job that he was hired to do. And that should be the base level. If he's not doing that, he shouldn't be assigned to all these other things. But Trump just wants his lackeys. He wants his son-in-law.

1:14:15He wants his real estate buddies involved in all this. And it's one of the reasons why nothing is getting done because we have these incompetent people. If that's what Whitcoff is saying while cameras are in the room, and let me just say, I get being respectful even to a horrific person if they're inviting you in the room with them that it's probably not the best to go, motherfucker, you'd have to, blah, blah, blah. But whatever the heck that was, I don't think you got to do that. I don't think you need to be groveling over the guy and be like, oh, these memories are going to last a lifetime. One of my deathbed, I'm going to be thinking of this day with you, Vladimir, It's going to be great.

1:14:50And by the way, I can assure you, Witkoff, that Putin's fond memories in the future are not going to be of his meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared freaking Kushner. Perfectly said, B. Perfectly said. I like that you're mad at the Rubio memes because they give him too much credit. They're like, oh, no, he's not doing anything, actually. He's not doing a single thing. And I want to take your baseball analogy just like a little bit further. It's that baseball player that's hitting zero. He goes up there to the mics and stuff. He's like, yeah, I'm 0 for 10. I'm not doing my approach, though. I'm doing, I'm doing, who's the Mets manager.

1:15:20I'm doing Andy Green's approach. He starts blaming the manager. It's like at, at some level you would think for like Jared trying to save face just a little bit, like he would grow a spine and he would at least try and do good work in these positions, but they can't help themselves. They are all egomaniacs. And Jared's just been to your point, looking out for Jared. And he's trying to figure out what comes next for him and his life and his billions of and his net worth going up and up and up again, all while the American people suffer. And I think that's just kind of the overarching theme here of the entire Trump regime and everyone in Trump's orbit and all those 0.001 percenters that hang out at Mar-a-Lago is they don't like you.

1:16:02They don't like the Republican party in the sense like they don't like the constituency that actually goes and votes for Trump. They think those people are dirt. They wouldn't invite them to their parties. They wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. They just absolutely wouldn't. But what they do like is this party, this MAGA party, this Republican party has so closely aligned themselves with the Trump grift and promoting that, that they're all reaping the benefits. And so yes, they'll go on their merry way, increase their portfolios again, all at the expense of the American people. And we witness it play out.

1:16:31And then we get clips like that. We get clips like Kushner up there with Putin and Putin just like laughing, like he's sitting back. I really, If you are just an audio listener, first off, thank you. And to all the video watchers, please download and subscribe to the audio version of the Midas Touch podcast, wherever you get podcasts. But if you are just an audio listener, please go to the YouTube channel and watch that 10 seconds that we were playing before. Putin is sitting in that chair laughing like, man, America has fallen a far, far, far way. And like, I don't blame him. I'm watching that.

1:17:08I'm like, this is really pathetic stuff that we're witnessing here, Ben. Look, I'm no fan of Keith Kellogg, who was the former top military guy. He was originally the envoy to Russia and Ukraine. Putin said, I don't want to deal with Kellogg. By the way, I mean, I think Kellogg's a traditional neocon and there's a lot of issues with Kellogg. but Kellogg is at least someone with a modicum of there, there are some people who like view him as having experience to actually, and has a position. But Putin made it clear, I'm not going to speak with Kellogg. So, and then Kellogg got demoted and then pushed out.

1:17:52And then you may recall there was that famous foreign policy meeting that Kellogg was out and he was asked a question. So Trump said 24 hours, you would resolve this war. And it's been that point when he was asked, it was like 100 and something days. And he goes, Trump never said which 24 hours it was going to be in. It's like, all right, nonsense. And like that, Keith Kellogg threw his entire career away very, very easily. Here's the thing. There are levels to this game too, even beyond the Kellogg level. Foreign minister is a big position, right? We may not like Sergei Lavrov, you know, the foreign minister of Russia.

1:18:29But what you can't dispute is that Sergei Lavrov is someone who has a great deal of experience and is someone at the highest levels who deals with international issues. Same thing, Iran's foreign minister, Aragji, you know, is someone who is a known commodity at the high level international level of foreign ministry discourse. You know, there are levels to this, right? You know, I mean, the U.S. used to have people like John Kerry, a former senator, or Hillary Clinton. I mean, you know, deeply serious people. I mean, you look at the U.K., you know, Ed Milibrand, you know, still a deeply serious, No matter what your politics are, you look at these people as these are deeply serious people with a ton of experience in these areas.

1:19:19I mean, to see Kushner and to see Whitcoff there, again, this humiliation experience is part of Putin's plan. It's part of his asymmetrical warfare against the United States is to have these idiots, dumb and dumber, there and behave that way because it brings such irreparable and historical disgrace to the U.S. And Putin knows that when the world sees them there and their behavior, it also sends a message to the world. You got to pull your money out of the U.S. bond market. Like you got to you got to take your gold out. I mean, right. We saw the Netherlands take billions of dollars worth of gold out of the U.S.

1:20:04Norway recently took billions of dollars of their sold billions of dollars of bonds. We're seeing a global sell off of U.S. bonds. That's why when the Treasury Department holds these bond auctions, you're seeing that what the Treasury Department has to do to entice foreign buyers or corporate buyers of U.S. bonds, they have to now promise higher interest rate, higher payments, guaranteed payments back in order to even sell these bonds in the first place, which, again, creates a huge obligation for the Treasury Department in terms of paying off the money. the debt now is such a big part of the US budget that it's something that leads to our debt out of control.

1:20:54And somebody's got to fix this. And they're going to dump it on the lap of someone else and then blame that person. And to Jordy's point, they're going to say, ah, we were so close. We were so close all right around the corner. Year one, we set the stage. Year two was the appetizer or the banquet. We were getting ready and then the Democrats won the midterms and they screwed it all. That's where they're going with all of this. It's pretty damn obvious that that's where they're going with all this. But I want to leave you with this before we go, which is to me, of all of the ridiculous things that Kushner has been saying and doing, take a listen to this.

1:21:29Jared Kushner's there and here's his view about Ukraine. Trump comes from the business world, which in the business world, you think about things in the context of win-win. This is what Kushner says. Here, let's play that clip. The best outcome could be and what benefits all people. You know, President Trump comes from the business world, which in the business world, you think about things in the context of win-win. You know, how do you create opportunities for both sides to do what's in their interest? War is negative sum. You know, everyone loses from war, whereas, you know, business and peace is positive sum.

1:22:01And hopefully you can find big benefits from that in a big way. So interestingly, only when it comes to Putin, does Donald Trump view business as a win win. Go read the art of the deal. He's never viewed it as a win win before in any other context, by the way. It's a win. We could do a win win for Putin, a win win for you. And by the way, international diplomacy is not a business transaction. And this has been one of the big issues. Certainly, if it is, having the biggest loser in business in Donald Trump, the guy who's bankrupted casinos and all of his other – lots of other companies, that's not the person you want to view things through a business lens.

1:22:37But also international diplomacy is also necessarily rooted in national interest. And one of the major issues is that Trump and Kushner and Whitcoff and all these scumbags who are part of the U.S. cabinet and losers don't understand and don't care about national interest. They care about their self-interest. So they're doing policies that enrich them personally and screw over the American people. It's very easy to be able to manipulate people whose sole view is to work against the national interests that they're supposed to represent. That's what Putin clearly sees. It is obvious to him. Iran sees that U.S.

1:23:21is not pursuing a policy of national interest. They're pursuing a policy of Trump interest. And that's why it's a recipe from the very outset for disaster. I'll leave you with this. Ro Khanna spoke with Jack Cacciarella over at the Sunday show on here in the Midas Touch Network. MAGA Republicans leaving Congress early. Ro Khanna saying, let's talk about why they're leaving. Let's talk about what they want to avoid. Let's play Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna. I think it sums it up nicely. Let's play it. He does not want a vote on the Epstein issue of releasing the rest of the files. And he does not want to vote on ending the war in Iran.

1:24:05You know, Jack, I was shocked by seeing a poll that GBAO did. According to them, independent voters are voting this midterm. Most of the voters, the issue that they care most about, more than health care costs, more than cost of living, are the Epstein files. And the reason they care about it is because it goes to the corruption in this government, and they are sick of that corruption. Johnson's seen the same polls. He doesn't want Epstein becoming the issue heading into the midterms, and he doesn't want votes on the Iran war becoming the issue heading into the midterms. And, of course, Thomas Massey and I have done both of those things.

1:24:43We introduced the first War Powers Resolution to prevent us from getting into Iran, and then soon after that we introduced the Epstein Transparency Act. They're trying to hide from really everything that Donald Trump has thrown onto the American people over these past few years. Trump made a lot of promises that we, as we showed you in the beginning of this episode, you know, promising under$2 gas, promising that the economy was going to be going crazy and everything he said has been proven wrong. And it's not just proven wrong by external factors, right? It's not just like, oh, this thing happened in this part of the world and it was unexpected and therefore, you know, you can't blame the president.

1:25:24Now, every, all the instability right now that we're seeing in the world is due to Donald Trump. The reason that we're fighting in Canada is not just happenstance because Donald Trump decided to pick a fight with Canada, who's the stereotype about Canadians always, at least in the United States, was that Canadians are nice. Like that, that was the joke about Canadians, that they're so nice, that they're so incredibly nice. And so for Trump to pick a fight with Canada and to try to pretend like they're our enemies, for Trump to pick these fights with Greenland, for Trump to pick a fight with all of our allies, or I guess former allies at this point.

1:25:57It just shows you the rot of what we're dealing with. And it's all coming from the top. And it trickles down to all these other people who we see who are all responsible. Everyone else we've showed you in this episode, whether it's Scott Besson, whether it's Steve Whitcoff, whether it's Jared Kushner, all of them, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, they are all to blame for this equally as much as Donald Trump. Even a Marco Rubio, right? Marco Rubio thinks he could get out of this and he'll be in presidential, you know, he'll be a presidential contender if he just kind of lays low and stays quiet.

1:26:28Uh-uh-uh. Marco Rubio is also to blame for this. J.D. Vance also to blame for this. And you have to remember all of these things that we're speaking about now as we head to the midterms and as we head to the 2028 elections, because there is going to be a movement by a lot of these people in the Trump regime who are going to say, oh yeah, okay, I was just doing the bidding of the president. That was my job. Of course, we had our disagreements. And in my opinion, I wouldn't have done X, Y, or Z. They're going to try to distance themselves. But like these Republicans who are now deciding, I'm not going to go to that midterm convention.

1:27:02I ain't going anywhere near Texas, I'm not doing that at all. You know, you can't let them escape from and invade responsibility that easily. You always have to be reminding folks about what they're supporting and about what they're propping up. Absolutely. And especially as we are 57 days away, or if you're listening to this on Tuesday, 56 days away from this election, we can expect a lot more mischief, a lot more chicanery, a lot more criminality from the Trump regime as they get a lot more desperate because that's what they've got. Rigging and cheating and lying and deceiving and pitting us against each other.

1:27:43And we have to recognize, especially on a day like today, Labor Day, right? Where they were able to, in 2024, create fights amongst labor within each other by doing culture war this and culture war that. We have to remember that we're Americans and we should want leaders who are fighting for America and America's interest. Donald Trump's the ultimate fraud. He knows that people want that. That's why his whole big scam is America first, this, make America. He is the opposite. He is do it for Trump. I think that's pretty clear to everybody right now. We need to remember what's really at stake right here.

1:28:24And we should look to our neighbors, look at our community, look at our country and recognize that it truly is we the people versus this Trump MAGA authoritarian class that hates us. They hate our troops. They hate our service members. They hate the United States. They hate all of the things that actually made America strong and proud. They hate us. And we need to unite together and fight back against them. We've got a shot right here, not just to make big change, but to make generational change. And that's what we're going to do together. Every single damn day, we're going to keep on fighting together.

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1:29:33We know this is impossible without you. Jordy, take it away. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.

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1:30:15Thank you.