Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 1/22/26

29:01So the only way to make him stop is you have to assert yourself. And you have to say, get the hell away. And Newsom gets it there. You know, Newsom gets it there. And when he stood up with Prop 50, to me, that was a big deal. You know, you could all say a lot of things about Hakeem Jeffries, this and that, but I will mention one thing. If you go and look right now at the House of Representatives and the seats that have been picked up since Donald Trump started his gerrymandering, it's been dummymandering. because right now across the country, not just with what happened in California, and give Newsom credit for Prop 50, but what's happening now in Virginia with the redistricting, what could be happening in Maryland, a New York seat right now has been determined to be unconstitutional, and that seat can flip.

29:57Based on all of Trump's dummy mandering, Democrats could actually pick up plus five seats right now because even with Donald Trump's fascism, there's an idiocracy also. And if you stand up to him, he loses. When you give in to it, that's when he's never going to step. He'll always green the green the green the Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada. And so you can't take it as a joke. You have to assert yourself strongly because no man, And even if you're just a selfish person and you're just me, me, me, me, me, me, me, I don't care. Well, if it is me, me, me, me, me, stand up because he's going to come for you.

30:39You look at Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, who I wouldn't say that he was a Trump bootlicker per se, but Jamie Dimon, I think, was very careful in his language about Donald Trump. and very, you know, not aggressive. I mean, granted, I mean, he is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. How aggressive can you be? But, you know, the reality is, is that Donald Trump just sued JPMorgan Chase. And Trump alleges that JPMorgan Chase, you'll see the lawsuit that Donald Trump filed today in Miami in state court.

31:25Ben Meiselas:Wrong forum, but Donald Trump doesn't care. He just wants the headline. Would Trump sue for like$5 billion? And he said, JPMorgan Chase deplatform me. The lawsuit claims that JPMorgan's decision came about as a result of political and social motivations to distance itself from Trump and his conservative political views. Now, here was the response from JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Chase does not close accounts for political or religious reasons. We do close accounts because they create legal or regulatory risk for the company. We regret having to do so, but often rules and regulatory expectations lead us to do so.

32:08Ben Meiselas:We have been asking both this administration and prior administrations to change the rules and regulations that put us in a position, and we support the administration's efforts to prevent the weaponization of the banking sector. Even a pretty pathetic response, by the way there. You just got sued by a fascist administration. You appreciate their efforts? The hell are you talking about? You appreciate their efforts. A fascist regime just sued you for absolute bullshit, and you are thanking them? It's just stupid. It's just stupid. The reality is, is that what, you know what their statement should say?

32:45Okay, game on. The regulatory issues are things that will now come out in discovery. And so if Donald Trump wants to make this about the regulatory risks, we're going to have no choice but at a trial to talk about Donald Trump's connections with foreign countries. Because I'm sure some of the regulatory risk is who Donald Trump does business with. And we see it. We see it before our eyes, right? Donald Trump props up Delce Rodriguez in Venezuela, the authoritarian leader there, from the Maduro regime. And you have Diodados Cabello, Maduro's enforcer. They're still running the show in Venezuela.

33:26They've clamped down on political dissent. You can be like, oh, well, didn't they release 30 political prisoners? Well, they just imprisoned 50 more. It's a revolving door. Anybody who's following Venezuela, I know maybe people jump. We forget about Venezuela. Well, all Trump did was prop up the authoritarian, screw over the pro-democracy opposition leader, make that pro-democracy opposition leader beg and give him a Nobel Peace Prize that he's not even allowed to have. He stole her Nobel Peace Prize. He said, maybe we'll give her a role. Maybe we'll give Machado a role. The authoritarian regime is in power.

34:01So Trump creates a bank account in Qatar for himself to divert the oil money proceeds to Qatar for himself, for Trump. Not the treasury, not for America, for Trump. Okay. And you know how the world adapts to that like that? Okay. Canada will send its liquefied natural gas to China. China will send its electric vehicles to Canada. The world moves on. $1 trillion strategic trade relationship between China and Canada.

34:38Ben Meiselas:A 700 million consumer trade deal between the Mercosur countries, Brazil, Argentina, and Europe. By the way, all those puzzle pieces are shifting together to create the largest free trade alliance ever that's going to cut out the US. Imagine when you link kind of the trans-Pacific relationships that Canada is forging with its transatlantic relationships with Europe's Mercursor alliance. Do you see what's forming? Donald Trump likes to talk about a golden dome like an idiot. But if you want to look at what kind of like a triangle or a diamond, if you will, with the U.S. being cut out and everybody else connected in free trade other than the United States.

35:23Do you see that that's what's forming in front of us? And that's what Carney means when he talks about a new world order. And then the Trump regime people today were like, yeah, this is a new world order. We're America's first. No, this is America's stupid. This is America last. And anybody who was at Davos and watching what took place there was looking at horror and shame and disgust.

35:47Ben Meiselas:We found the clip of him talking about the Somalis. Let's play the clip of what he said to a world audience about Somalian people. Here, play this clip. To the United States. And despite that, we have the lowest crime numbers that we've ever had in the history of the country. Just came out. But equally importantly, we're cracking down on more than$19 billion in fraud that was stolen by Somalian bandits. Can you believe that Somalia, they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought? But I always say these are low IQ people. How do they go into Minnesota and steal all that money? But do you also see how he, I mean, it's racist.

36:28Ben Meiselas:So stipulated, Ben. That's racist. But he also equates fraud with high IQ. They're more high IQ than I thought. They committed a fraud. So it's racist and it shows his own criminality all at once. you know, who likes criminality and fraud and hates democracy, who's joining Donald Trump's fake peace board, his access of evil, Putin. Putin. Trump went to Davos and made an alliance with Putin and Lukashenko and Pakistan and Qatar. Great job. Great job, Donald. I mean, again, we can't normalize this. I don't want to be in an alliance with Vladimir Putin. And then why wouldn't Zelensky join the peace board?

37:27Ben Meiselas:Maybe because Putin, who's engaged in war crimes and crimes against humanity and is killing Ukrainians and invaded Ukraine, is a part of it and you're calling it a peace board. Yeah, maybe Zelensky doesn't want to join aboard with Lukashenko of Belarus, who's working with Russia to try to kill everybody in Ukraine. Just maybe that's happening. And by the way, I know that a lot of attention is, there's a lot of places to divert our attention, but there were multiple innocent journalists who were killed in Gaza yesterday. It's not like there's peace there, right? Part of what Donald Trump and this axis of evil were talking about was new Gaza.

38:18And they have this like weird AI slop photos of what new Gaza looks like while the atrocities are still being committed in Gaza.

38:28Ben Meiselas:And so I don't want to do a broadcast ever and not mention the fact that Israeli troops are killing innocent people in Gaza yesterday. Oh, and Netanyahu is joining this board with Donald Trump. Let me show you Putin right now. Here's what Putin said about the peace board. Let's play it. I think we got the clip of Putin. Do we have the clip of Putin? I think that we could contribute$1 billion to the Board of Peace from the frozen assets by the assets frozen by the previous administration and the remaining funds from the funds frozen in the United States could be used to rebuild territories that suffered during hostilities once we signed a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

39:23Ben Meiselas:Let me show you what Gavin Newsom had to say, then I'll show you what AOC, Jasmine Crockett and others said. California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked about Donald Trump's speech, what he made of it. Let me show you California Governor Gavin Newsom. Let's play it. Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he was talking about Greenland? You know, and that every time a windmill turns, it costs a thousand dollars. A lot of stuff stands out. None of this is normalized. There's a normalization, a deviancy of consciousness and you know, comments and commentary, and no other president.

40:00He's held to the curve. He's graded on a curve. I mean, it's really some jaw-dropping and remarkable statements that just, you know, fly in the face of facts and evidence and common sense. But you've heard them over and over and over again. And again, for the European audience, that may have been a new speech. My God, there wasn't anything new about that speech for the American audience. the only thing that was new is he said he's willing to negotiate but wait a sec that's not new either because he's been saying we've wanted to negotiate for over a year you criticized

40:36Ben Meiselas:next i want to share with you what aoc jasmine crockett what they had to say by the way this footage is brought to you by our washington dc bureau so let me just give a shout out to all the Midas Mighty watching this. So when you join our YouTube page and you click join and you gift those memberships to people, that's one of the ways that we grow, right? I mean, Fox, CBS, and those other channels, they have right-wing oligarchs prop them up and give them billions of dollars. The Midas Touch Network beats those networks and views and engagement. And one of the ways we do it is by saying, hey, can you join this YouTube page and give memberships to some people?

41:19Ben Meiselas:And that's how we built the DC Bureau. That's how we were able to hire the people there who are getting you these clips. And now you all are driving the narrative on Capitol Hill because we then use the megaphone that you've helped us create to get out these messages on a day-to-day basis. And everybody on Capitol Hill tells me from all of the congressional offices, Senate offices, from both parties, when I speak with their staff, they basically say, when Pablo is around, we know that whatever we say to him is going to drive the news on any given day. And I said, that's the power of the Midas Mighty.

41:59Ben Meiselas:But make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube page. Subscribe to the Midas Touch on audio as well, because that helps with the audio algorithm. And MidasPlus.com is our sub stack. Subscribe there, but click join. Gift memberships to people if you can. Okay. Here's what AOC had to say about Donald Trump's cognitive decline. Let's play that clip next. Real quick, how big of a factor is Donald Trump's cognitive decline given what we're seeing at Davos? I think that the president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. I think it is really damning when we think about the degree to which mass media outlets reported on Joe Biden and yet and you know that resulted in a in in the Democratic Party changing its nominee etc.

42:52Yet we are seeing behavior from Donald Trump that is increasingly erratic and alarming and everyone's pretending that this is normal. I don't really understand why that is. It is very bizarre but then importantly I think that for our European partners and for our global partners I think what they also see is the result of not just one man right but also the entire government apparatus and a party that is willing to watch someone decompensate in front of the world and do nothing about it I don't know what's going on but I find that the standard it would be helpful if we could apply an even standard here and far more, you know, a fraction of the reporting that was dedicated, you know, a year or two ago to see that applied right now.

44:05Ben Meiselas:Thank you. Show you Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman Crockett. Let's play that clip. Congresswoman, given what we've seen at Davos and throughout his presidency, what do you make of Donald Trump's cognitive decline? People are saying it's only going to get worse. Like, what does Congress need to do about it? Yeah, I honestly don't think that he was equipped to actually swear into office in the first place. But I did have serious concerns. And this is not about partisanship. This is not about how he and I spar. This is literally based upon what some actual doctors were telling me were signs. And so we have tried to investigate this as a member of the Oversight Committee.

44:39I launched an investigation requiring and asking that we get answers about not only his mental fitness, but also his physical fitness. And they've yet to respond.

44:51Ben Meiselas:Here's Congresswoman Ramirez, who spoke with our Pablo Manriquez. Let's play her clip. Congresswoman, real quick, how big of a factor is Donald Trump's cognitive decline, given what we're seeing in Davos right now? We have a physically unstable, mentally ill man running the White House in this country. It is extremely serious. And you certainly see the consequences of it every single day. The American people are hurting. Everything is more expensive. that people are dying in the streets, he is becoming richer, and he doesn't even know what he's talking about. It's dangerous. And he should resign.

45:25And beyond, obviously, the DHS appropriations and things like that, you have a new bill, the Melt Ice Bill. Can you tell me about it? Yeah. So, look, I know people have different feelings about words, but the point of this bill is to say, constituents are everyday asking us, what the hell are we going to do about ice? What are we going to do at CBP? What Melt Ice does, in essence, it ends detention and then consequently it cripples enforcement so it means no more funding for detention no more funding in essence for enforcement and the money that is being spent right now to kill people to abduct people to put 14-year-old boys with autism into detention would actually go back to the community seven most impacted by the ice operations so it's a bill with I'm actually really proud of co-leading with Congresswoman Yvette Clark from the New York delegation and that I hope more and more of my colleagues will jump on because it's actually a bill.

46:21There's tangible action to make sure that ICE is accountable and that not one more dollar goes to a plan of abduction, of kidnapping and tear-gassing children.

46:32Ben Meiselas:Next, you have Democratic Congressmember McGovern. Let's play his clip. Congressman, real quick, is Donald Trump's mental health a concern for you after some of the things that he's been saying in Europe? Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today at Davos. I mean, I think it's time to take the keys away from grandpa. I mean, he doesn't seem like he's all there. I mean, and I guess some of my Republican friends are saying we should be comforted that he said he probably not going to use force in Greenland. I don't trust the word he says. I wouldn't trust him to tell me the correct time. Don't forget, before the Christmas break, they said they weren't going to do anything in Venezuela.

47:10Susie Wiles, in an interview, said they didn't come to Congress for us. And when we're on break, what do they do? They go into Venezuela. So I mean, this is the president who writes letters complaining that he's not going to be peaceful anymore because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. This is unhinged, and this is just nuts. For the rest of the term, what's your message to your Republican colleagues about his cognitive decline? Yeah, I mean, like I said, it's time to take the car keys away from grandpa. They need to wake up. This can't be normal. And I'm so sick and tired of Republicans coming up to me privately and saying, oh, yeah, this is unhinged.

47:45He's crazy. Oh, he's off his rocker. And then publicly, when you ask a question, like, what do you think of him? Oh, he's the greatest president in the world. I mean, this is our country, for God's sake. And he's threatening our NATO alliance. You know, and the whole world is like, what the hell is going on here? So this is a moment for Republicans to, you know, grow a spine and actually put their country ahead of their own, you know, re-election. Got it. Thank you, Congressman. Appreciate it. Right. And then Donald Trump claimed that he made a deal with NATO over Greenland.

48:19Ben Meiselas:And then information leaked about it. And it was like, well, America will get to claim that the areas surrounding its military bases are part of the United States. And so America will get its territory in Greenland. Denmark never agreed to that. Greenland never agreed to that. But Mark Rutt from NATO said that he never even talked to Donald Trump about that. So Donald Trump saw the stock market crashing. Europe stood up to Donald Trump and imposed, it said it was going to impose a trade bazooka on the United States when Donald Trump claimed that he was going to tariff these European countries who were sending special forces to Greenland.

49:06Ben Meiselas:Those countries haven't removed their special forces. they've only increased the special forces from France to Germany, Denmark. You go look, there are more troops. There is a war footing and war posture in Greenland right now. They never, there's no deal. He makes up fake things. There's just no, he left and did a deal with his own demented head. And this is what he's done over and over again for the past year. He makes up fake things. And China says that they're going to, they didn't say any of this. You're making it up. I spoke to India and India. No, you didn't. You're making it up. You're making, you know, and look, on the one hand, it allows state regime media, Fox to report it on these things to, I guess, give their base.

49:55You see, Donald Trump did it, but he didn't do it. And all this is doing is hurting the threats, the chaos, all of every aspect of it is one gigantic fraud. Like Donald Trump's life is one gigantic fraud. He is a predator. He is a fraud. And he's behaving that way right now on the international stage, covering up a child sex trafficking ring. Our DOJ is blatantly covering up a child sex trafficking ring in plain view. They don't care. They don't care. I care. Do you care?

50:37They spent a hearing yesterday saying, we're going after Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton for contempt. Like, you think we're stupid? You think that, oh, I guess they're the villains. Just release the files. Just release the files. So here, though, is how state regime media then basically promotes the insanity as though it's normal. I mean, you've got this clown, Will Kane, and Will Kane's like, we've got great news to report here on Fox News. A big deal was struck between the United States and Denmark for control over Greenland. Now, we don't have a lot of details, but we can tell you all, Fox viewers, this is going to be a very big deal for you.

51:24Just watch him. Watch this madness here play this clip.

51:53today, he said, who in the hell in their right mind would want to lease or license presents on Greenland? Yeah, I don't know what he's ended up with. I know that he said unequivocally that we had to own it. And I had thought it would be a COFA, more like a free association, but that's not what that is. So does it look more like our relationship with Puerto Rico? I really, I'm looking forward to learning as much as you are about this new deal that the framework is in place. But it's really encouraging. It's really encouraging? What's encouraging? It's really encouraging. Did you hear it? It's really encouraging.

52:34Maybe it'll look like our relationship with Puerto Rico. What the hell are these people talking about? Don't you all watching this just sometimes feel like you are the last survivors in a zombie movie. And you're just like, am I the only person who's not a zombie? But the reality is, is that there's far more of us than these zombified magas by far, but we, but they want us to feel that we're all alone and they want to gaslight. This is very, very, very good news, right? Well, what's good news? He made up a fake situation. He created a fake crisis, made up a fake deal, and you are analogizing it to Puerto Rico and the United States.

53:15What are you even talking about? You live in a fictional weirdo world that is going to be doing generational damage to the United States of America. Because even if you have some normal president who takes over in a few more years after this despicable term is done, the world's going to be like, yo, if you were willing to deal with this guy and not get rid of him and let him serve a full term, sure, you may have a normal person now. And you know that person's going to have to do what Obama did and what Clinton did, fix the mess of the prior Republican administration before it. All the while, the Republicans in the House and the Senate, they start saying, oh, you're not being fiscally responsible.

54:04Oh, you're the one who's creating these issues when he's fixing the problems of the arsonist that is Donald Trump. But I think the rest of the world's gonna be like, yeah, we don't trust you anymore. So we appreciate it that like you put someone normal in right now, but like arm's length, please. We're no longer partners. That's the systemic damage and generational damage that this guy is doing. And I'm not speaking as a partisan. I'm not speaking as a Democrat or I'm trying to speak to you as a human being who's observing this with you. Like what the hell is going on here? And I'm just sick and tired of the gaslighting, right?

54:43I mean, what J.D. Vance, this is typical abuser behavior, typical predator behavior.

54:49Ben Meiselas:He goes into Minnesota and he's like, ah, calm down, everybody. calm down you're all getting a little bit worked up i never made any statements saying that officers should get absolute immunity that's not what i said at all here let's play this clip of jd vance from earlier today saying he never said that officers should get absolute immunity let's play after the renee good shooting sir uh the administration seems to yeah well you can go the next. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I'll take the point. No, it's fine. I'll take both. After the Rene Good shooting, sir, the administration seemed to, after the Rene Good shooting, the administration seemed to suggest that ICE officers enjoyed near complete immunity.

55:29But today you told the Washington Examiner that when appropriate, the administration might take disciplinary actions against ICE agents. So is that a change of opinion? And if so, why do you want to be told? No, I didn't say, and I don't think any other official within the Trump administration said that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd. What I did say is that when federal law enforcement officers violate the law, that is typically something that federal officials would look into. We don't want these guys to have kangaroo courts. We want them to actually have real due process, real investigation, because again, sometimes they're accused of wrongdoing and it turns out when you learn the context, they didn't actually do anything wrong.

56:05But of course, we're going to investigate these things. Of course, you're not going to investigate. You literally did not investigate Jonathan Ross. You investigated the widow of Renee Nicole Good and you're trying to throw Don Lemon into prison while Jonathan Ross walks free. And yesterday or two days ago, you said absolute. We have the tape of you saying absolute immunity. Here's the tape of you saying it. Here, play this clip. The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity.

56:40He was doing his job. The idea that Tim Walsh and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous.

56:53Ben Meiselas:Like that alone should be disqualified. That alone. I mean, there's obviously so many other things that should be disqualifying about that guy. But that alone, right? In normal times, that should be it. Done, gone, fired, public pressure, front page New York Times. We all heard it. I mean, what more of a smoking gun do you need on them than what I just showed you? On the one hand, that's ridiculous. Who would say they have absolute immunity. You, yesterday, yesterday you, that's who said it, okay? And so stop giving us this crap. And as you round up five-year-olds wearing their Pokemon hats and use five-year-olds as bait to go after their parents, as you are terrorizing communities, this is what predators do.

57:51They go, what we're trying to do here is we're just trying to find the sex offenders. 1600 Pennsylvania, I don't know if you want to find. We're just trying to find the sex. That's why we're doing this operation. It's a special operation, right? That's like Putin's words, special operation to find the sex offenders.

58:16Ben Meiselas:And do you notice when Kristi Noem goes on the weekend shows. That's what she says. We're going in there and we're finding the pedos and the rapists. Y 'all are covering up the Epstein files. Don't lecture us on you finding the pedos. Okay. Cause y 'all are covering up for the biggest pedo ring that there is. So don't lecture us on that. But you know what? This is not you for first play the clip of Vance saying that that's what they're doing. They're going after the sexual predator. That's what's happening on the streets of Minneapolis. I guess the people in Minneapolis and St. Paul, y 'all are just getting carried away because JD is just trying to find the sex offenders.

58:55Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. ... types of cooperation that we need. Look, I don't need Tim Walz or Jacob Frey or anybody else to come out and say that they agree with JD Vance or Donald Trump on immigration. I just don't need that. What I do need them to do is empower their local officials to help our local or help our federal officials out in a way where this can be a little bit less chaotic and it can be a little bit more targeted like if we're trying to find a sex offender tell us where the guy lives i'm just reasonable i'm just jd i'm just a reasonable guy okay we're just here trying to find the sex offender if we don't ask you for it just tell us where the sex offender is why why aren't you helping us that's all we're here for i'm not sure what this accent is by the way that but that's all we're doing?

59:41We're just, we're just, we're just, we're the good, we just, just come on. Just come on. South Park, I don't even know where that, I don't even know where that voice came from. But someone said in the chat, this is literally good versus evil. It is. It's not even really Democrat and Republican anymore. It's just good versus evil. It's right versus wrong. And these MAGA Republicans are on the side of fascism. They're on the side of evil. That's it. That's it. That's a non-political position by me because I'm observing their behavior and their behavior is evil. It's cruel. It's unusual every day.

1:00:17And it gets weirder and more dangerous and more deranged every single day. It is good versus evil.

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