Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 1/29/26

27:10Ben Meiselas:It's always$312. It's like$312. I'm like$312. It's a there's a milk, there's some cereal, you know, there's, you know, maybe some chicken. And I go, how did this add up to 312? And like, you literally go to the person in the cash register, you go, go over with this one more time. You know, and it's not getting better. And Trump said that he would fix it, that everything would be better. And it's not, and it's not at all. When we come back, we have a lot more to discuss. I want to remind you, make sure you hit subscribe here. You may think you're subscribed to this YouTube channel, but you may not actually be subscribed.

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32:03Ben Meiselas:Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. Great to see everybody. So as part of Donald Trump's ranting and raving like a lunatic, he's continued to attack California. And one of the things that he's claimed over and over again is that Walmart shut down 250 of its 303 California stores. Just totally false. And if you're like, but is there any? Has there been rumors? Is there any aspect of this that's true? No, it just makes up numbers. But that's what he's done his entire life. I mean, he's a fraud. He's a criminal. And he behaves like a criminal does. He's a liar. He's a criminal. He's a fraud. In a civil case, he's been found liable of sexual abuse.

32:51Ben Meiselas:So he's a sexual abuser. He's a predator. He's on audio saying that he grabs women by their vaginas without consent because you're rich and you get away with it. He's on audio saying that he inspects girls naked at beauty pageants because when you run the pageants as an adult man, you should be able to look at them naked without their consent and you get away with it. He's a bad human. So people are like, how is he doing this? He's a criminal. He's a bad guy. So he's doing these things and he's lying. And so he said, Walmart shutting down 250 stores. False. And a human who hears this is usually like, okay, so did they shut down 30?

33:35Ben Meiselas:No, no, just every aspect of this is entirely false. Then one of the other things that he was ranting and raving about California about is, which it's actually not true, but if it was true, it'd be interesting. He's like, and now Newsom has the audacity to try to build low income housing in the Pacific Palisades there. You can't do low income housing there. by the way, that's not what the plan is. And sometimes when people talk about low-income housing in California, like, well, what do you consider to be low-income housing? Like, you know, like a house that's like 1.85 million or$2 million. That's like low-income.

34:15Ben Meiselas:That's not low-income housing. We need housing that is affordable. So even if it were true, why would we not be for figuring out ways to help people find homes? That's one of the biggest issues confronting the nation right now. People aren't asking for border patrol and ICE Gestapo to terrorize their communities. They're asking for homes in their communities so people can live vibrant and productive lives. And people are asking for health care. That's what people want right now and not none of this other crap. So I want you to watch his Donald Trump speech where Donald Trump talks about how, you know, he goes, everyone's talking about low income housing.

34:57Ben Meiselas:He wants low-income housing. Why would we want low-income housing at all? I think we've got this clip. Let's play this one, Jeremy. And I don't want a big section of the area built into low-income housing. They want to put low-income housing right smack in the middle of it. And that's not the American dream, you know? You didn't do that. And low-income housing is great. I built a lot of low-income housing, but you don't put it there. This is one of the richest neighborhoods in the world, and we're going to let those people. You don't put it there. What other data points do you want me to show you that this guy doesn't give a crap about you?

35:35Ben Meiselas:You don't put it there. That's not the American dream, he says. Owning a home is not the American, isn't that the core of the American dream that people can afford homes? What's Donald Trump saying there? The rich people are the ones who should be able. The dream is you're either a billionaire or you are working in service of a billionaire for a corporation, and you put your head down and you shut up and you do what the billionaires want. I think this is interesting. This pollster, Lakshya Jain, explains, Trump's underrated political weakness right now is actually low-income people. In the latest polling, whites basically making what would be considered low-income, who backed Donald Trump by 26 points in 2024, Trump's approval with them now is break-even.

36:31Ben Meiselas:So lower-income white people now have just a break-even approval of Donald Trump. And it should be negative because he's literally mocking you to your face. You hear him mocking you to your face. The latest Pew poll just came out. They're great pollsters. Pew has Trump at 37 % approval rating right now, 61 % disapproved, 26 % support from Hispanics, 30 % support from adults 18 to 29. And those were two groups that powered his 2024 win. And only 56 % of Republicans support all or most of his policies down from 67 % last February. Only 56 % of his own party support all of his policies with a 37 % approval rating.

37:25Ben Meiselas:One of the things he's focused on right now, in addition to his tariffs against the world, is attacking Canada over and over again. He called Prime Minister Carney the governor. He says he's going to impose 100 % tariffs. and as Prime Minister Carney has stood up to Donald Trump, has stood up to the bully, and especially in that Davos moment where everyone viewed Prime Minister Carney's speech as the best speech and Trump's as the worst speech, but a real contrast in where the world is moving. Prime Minister Carney about cooperation, respect of sovereignty, collaboration, cooperation, multilateralism, free trade, Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic with his fake peace board thing, alliances with Putin and Belarus and Hungary's Orban.

38:22Ben Meiselas:By the way, in the Oval Office right now, have you seen the photos? That above the photo of Trump and his grandchildren is the photo of Donald Trump and Putin. That's the main photo in the Oval Office. The grandkids go below the photo of Donald Trump and Putin. And the Putin tactic is to find fringe groups in countries that he wants to annex and pour a lot of money into them and to use them to try to sow disunity and then annex the territory or use the fringe group as pretext for annexation, invasions. And the US is following that playbook under Donald Trump in Alberta. There's the photo, everybody, of Trump and Putin in the Oval Office.

39:10Ben Meiselas:This is a real, real photo. Terrible. So the Trump administration has been holding covert meetings with fringe separatists from the oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa. It should be noted Alberta is run by a Maple MAGA, Danielle Smith. She's a Trump bootlicker. She was one of the people who rushed to Mar-a-Lago, and she's been working with Pierre Poliev, who's also Maple MAGA at the federal level. When people thought that Maple MAGA was going to take over, they were plotting basically an annexation plan with the US, which in my opinion is pretty traitorous and treasonous stuff right there.

39:57Ben Meiselas:I remember Daniel Smith was caught at Mar-a-Lago and she was basically trashing Canada right there. You may be saying, well, why would she do that? Why would they do that? Well, the corporate oil interests are very powerful in Alberta and Edmonton and the whole area. And so she's basically a proxy of the oligarchs of the right-wing oil companies all working in concert together and Trump's working with them as well. And Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela, although Delcy recently said or put out public statements like, you know, the Trump regime needs to stop, you know, continuing to, you know, go after us here.

40:38Ben Meiselas:We need to be respected. But she may be just be saying that for the local population to kind of keep control there. But they've all opened up Qatari bank accounts. Donald Trump runs a Qatari bank account where he now has, he sells the oil to right-wing oligarchs that he knows. He uses as an intermediary a group that's been investigated for fraud and bribery before. They're the ones who are involved in the actual sales between, as they play the intermediary, they're like the agents, and they donated millions of dollars to Trump's PAC. The money's then funneled to Qatar, not to the US Treasury. And Qatar holds the money.

41:23Ben Meiselas:And who knows, there's no oversight of it. It's like Trump's account in Qatar. But anyway, all of this is related with the oil interests in Alberta and all the Maple Midas out there know what I'm talking about when it comes to Daniel Smith. So you have David Eby, who's the premier of British Columbia, NDP, New Democratic Party guy, progressive, very popular premier. Here's what he had to say. Let's play the clip of David Eby. I'd like to just take and pause a moment. I read an article last night in the Financial Times about a group of people from Alberta, I won't describe them as Albertans, who went to the White House seeking the assistance of the United States to break up our country.

42:12Now, I understand the desire to hold a referendum, to talk about the issues you want to talk about in Canada. We've got free speech. That's important. But to go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that. And that word is treason. It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to seek to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power. And with respect to President who has not been particularly respectful of Canada's sovereignty. I'm going to be raising that issue at this table. I think that while we can respect the right of any Canadian to express themselves, to vote in a referendum, I think we need to draw the line at people seeking the assistance of foreign countries to break up this beautiful land of ours that our forefathers, our foremothers, our parents, our grandparents fought for.

43:10You know, there is a line. And especially at this time when all Canadians have to pull together, I think we can speak as one voice about conduct like that.

43:19Ben Meiselas:By now, I'm sure you all know that we've launched Midas Canada under the complete editorial control and direction of Charlie Angus. By the way, that's very important to me and the growth of Midas Touch, that when we build out Midas extensions in other countries, it is to completely put a wall and avoid any kind of American-centric editorial controls. If you were ever wondering, I want you to know that that's always what I emphasize because I want to be able to learn. And as an American, I shouldn't be imposing what my perspectives are on Canada, on Canadians. I'm a supporter of Canadians. And so when I was able to do this partnership with Charlie Angus, he's someone who I've deeply respected.

44:14Ben Meiselas:And so he runs with it on his own. And I think that's important that you know that. And as we think about building out in Australia, as we think about building out in Europe, and I'm in talks in all these places, Africa, South America, Mexico, Asia, it's all about finding the right person because I give them full editorial control of running with it. But here's what Charlie Angus told me about what's going on with this separatist movement and Trump's support of the separatist movement to try to peel off portions of Canada the way Putin tries to do with Donbass. Let's play it. Well, it's pretty clear.

44:53And we've been saying this, Ben, that Donald Trump is furious that he was made to look like an absolute buffoon in Davos and that the revenge was coming fast and quick. And like, what do you do the next day? You start raising the issue of breaking Canada apart. This is the Don Bass playbook. Exactly. This has been in the works for some time. The Alberta separatists, these are not credible people. One of them is an ex-Marine. I mean, can you say AstroTurf? But what they've been doing, they've been meeting in Washington. You know, Pete Hoekstra, the ambassador to Canada, accused us of foreign interference by showing a commercial of Ronald Reagan.

45:39Well, the Alberta separatists claim that there's a$500 million slush fund on the table for them to help break up Canada. This is the play that they're going to be using against us. We have an extremist premier, Daniel Smith, who's been undermining Canada again and again. I just come back from Alberta in huge rallies in Calgary and Edmonton. People do not want this. But what they understand is it doesn't matter what the majority thinks right now. What matters is the ability of Donald Trump to create this impression so that he has an excuse, a provocation to act. That's the Vladimir Putin playbook.

46:19These are really, really dangerous times, Ben. We have to start calling this out. We have to shine a light on this. And unfortunately, our national media are being led by the nose on this. This is not a credible rallying of independence. This is about subservience to the MAGA agenda, and Canadians need to really recognize the threat that's coming at us right now.

46:43Ben Meiselas:Charlie Angus there mentions Pete Hoekstra, the United States ambassador to Canada, who once again threatened Canada this week, saying that if Canada did not buy or does not buy America's F-35s, So, you know, Canada's currently reviewing its acquisition of American military planes and other equipment. Hoekstra says that then the U.S. is going to get rid of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command, NORAD, and that the U.S. will start doing F-35 operations itself over Canada without permission. that the US will start doing fighter jet patrols and circle around Canada to intimidate the population if Canada does not buy the F-35s.

47:33Ben Meiselas:Canada is looking to buy the Gripen's over in Sweden, made by Saab, which at a technical level, you know, may not exactly be at the level of the F-35s. But in many ways, lots of countries are viewing Sweden's Saab gripings as better because once you get an F-35, and Denmark has warned about this because they bought the F-35s before Trump threatened their sovereignty, you're stuck with American maintenance. You have to rely on the Defense Department and American companies to fix everything. And if those F-35s break down, which they do a lot, you have to always go beg America for help. So it's actually harmful, the F-35s, especially as Trump and the US threatens the sovereignty of these countries.

48:26Ben Meiselas:So Canada is looking to buy these Swedish gripings, Sweden gripings. So we'll keep you posted there. But Denmark's warning, don't do the F-35s. And we're seeing a lot of countries not do purchases of American military products were precisely this reason. And just take a look at this other thing that just developed in Denmark, right in Copenhagen City. So the people of Denmark put 44 Danish flags bearing the names of each of the 44 fallen Danish warriors who fought on the front lines with the U.S. and Afghanistan. And by the way, if you know Danes, they love their flags. It's a big deal. And they love flags for everything.

49:13Ben Meiselas:And they'll tell you, they're a flag waving people when it comes to lots of different topics, but especially when it comes to remembering and honoring fallen soldiers who fought in Afghanistan when Article V was invoked by the US. But then the US embassy in Copenhagen very disrespectfully removed the 44 flags that were in honor of the Danish soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan. And then the embassy lied about it and said, we had to do it because we weren't aware. And obviously, if things are put up around the embassy, we have to remove it. Like you can't just put up things around the embassy.

49:57Ben Meiselas:But then it became very clear that the flags were put up in concert between the United States and the embassy. They put it up together. And so the U.S. knew that this was going up. The U.S. embassy knew it was going up and then removed it. and then a Denmark soldier, a veteran, then just put up 500 flags. But the US tried to claim, oh, this was just a normal thing that we removed it. But everyone knows that's BS there. And just think about that. The people of Denmark just put 44 flags to remember the fallen soldiers. And the Americans got rid of it, threw away the flags, threw the flags in the garbage.

50:43Ben Meiselas:Again, there is no bottom to this. By the way, Donald Trump's buddy, al-Jelani, the former leader of al-Qaeda, who now is the leader of Syria, who basically destroyed the semi-autonomous zone where the Kurds were in northern Syria. The Kurds who were allies of the United States who fought ISIS. Ultimate betrayal by Donald Trump to the Kurdish community right there. Well, the Syrian president has arrived in Moscow this week. He met with Putin to strengthen their ties together. And you can say, ah, this is so disrespectful to Trump and the United States, but actually this is Trump's alliance, right?

51:25Ben Meiselas:Trump likes the bad guys. Trump likes the authorities. Trump, Putin, Trump sprayed perfume on Al Jelani, sniffed him and said that he was so handsome. Remember that in the Oval Office, how weird that was? And so we'll end the episode where we started, which is the United States is on the eve of yet another war. The Abraham Lincoln shipping, ship group, tanker group, aircraft carrier group, that's the word I was there, aircraft carrier group, third time's a charm, is in the Persian Gulf region. They are ready to strike. There's something being referred to as the big plan is what they're getting ready for, the big plan.

52:16Ben Meiselas:And let me try to describe to you what they say the big plan is. The big plan. Trump has received briefings on possible attack options developed in tandem by the White House and Pentagon, U.S. officials said. Among them is the so-called Big Plan, which would see the U.S. strike regime and Islamic Revolutionary Guard facilities in a large-scale bombing campaign. Less involved options include strikes on symbolic regime targets, allowing space for bombings to ramp up if Iran doesn't agree to end its nuclear work, or options such as cyber attacks on Iranian banks and tougher sanctions, the officials said.

52:59Ben Meiselas:Now, don't you all remember this press conference? Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth. They went out June 21st, 2025, and they said, mission accomplished, that Iran's nuclear facilities were obliterated. and all the media ran with it, obliterated. That was the headline on the newspapers, obliterated. We won. We did it. It's another lie. Just to remind you, this is from June of last year. Let's play that clip. The U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.

53:54Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

54:21Ben Meiselas:Except they were not completely and totally obliterated. And also, Trump said that he was going to take immediate action if Iran killed any of the protesters. and Iran killed thousands of protesters. And then Donald Trump took no action. And instead, he said that it was very respectful that the Ayatollah agreed not to hang an additional 700 protesters. Very respectful. That was the word Trump used. Very respectful. You see, Trump had moved the aircraft carrier group out in order to do the invasion of Venezuela. So America didn't have the capacity to strike then while Donald Trump told the protesters, go out there.

55:10Ben Meiselas:I just want you to think about that. Trump told the protesters, go protest the Ayatollah. We've got your back. While we quite literally didn't even have the capabilities to have the back of the protesters. Trump's armada, as he calls it, was in the Caribbean. It had to go all the way closer to Iran, which is where it's at now. And so here we are approaching February. And at any moment's notice, tonight, tomorrow morning, we will likely find out that there's another war taking place. And it will likely follow the same cycle. There will be strikes. there'll be an announcement that there was a victory that was achieved, that this was a great victory.

56:01Ben Meiselas:Don't believe your eyes when you see everything else. And day by day, this regime destabilizes the world. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not the day after, although we're in a far less stable place. The global world order right now has been ripped apart. And if you all go back and there was a book about World War I that was written by an author by the name of Barbara Tuchman about, I think it's called The Guns of August, about what led up to World War I. And I remember reading that book in college. and the global world order was so chaotic that finally when there was one final spark, it created this world war situation.

56:55Ben Meiselas:And then post-World War II, structures were created, and they were imperfect, but structures were created with America as the leader of the free world. And we had various world organizations precisely because we saw what happened in World War I and World War II. That's why we had the United Nations. That's why we have certain world trade organizations and why we had world health organizations and lots of other institutions and G7s and NATOs. And all of these things were created as ways to, in a very dark, uncertain, and unstable world throughout mankind or person kind, that's just the reality, was trying to create these checks and balances in a global world order.

57:45Ben Meiselas:And the same way the checks and balances in our constitution in the United States have been gutted, absolutely gutted and destroyed. We're not in a constitutional crisis. We're well beyond it. In the international world order, and it's why I focus on this, because this is deeply important. It impacts us here. when you wonder why is the price of beef up or why is the price of this up or why is this that. It's also often connected to a broader international milieu right now. And that's why I talk about international stuff all of the time because everything is connected. Everything is related. The right-wing authoritarian movements that we see in Russia and Hungary and the alliances with the Al Jelanis of Syria and the Bukele's of El Salvador.

58:34Ben Meiselas:This is all very connected. But right now, the global order and the checks and balances put in place have been disrupted, been destroyed, and everybody's trying to figure out how to rebuild. And America's like the weakest now in this world order. And it's chest thumping and Trump's doing all this stuff. But look at what's forming. I mean, just look, right? You had the European Union Commissioner von der Leyen meeting in India with Prime Minister Modi. You have Keir Starmer in UK meeting with Xi Jinping in China, following Prime Minister Carney meeting with Xi Jinping in China. You have deals between the EU and South America, EU and Canada.

59:20Ben Meiselas:You have deals that are being built generally that, and the United States is out of this. The United States is, and all Trump does is wake up, I'm 100 % tariffs on you, 100 % tariffs on you. I'm going to invade you. I'm sending my armada. I'm sending my armada. In conclusion, don't normalize this stuff. We should calmly, rationally talk about objective facts, the objective reality that exists. I truly don't believe that anything I said on this show constitutes a democratic position, republican position, independent position. I hope I just delivered the facts, backed it up by detail, explained the concerns here.

1:00:12Ben Meiselas:You could form your own opinions if you agree with me on things or if you don't agree with me on things. But we shouldn't disagree with what the facts are before us and authoritarian regimes want to distort the facts. And we'll keep pushing forward every day on this network to do our best to tell the truth and to make these connections and to be helpful in this process and to forge this international pro-democracy community that we're doing with Midas Canada, Midas across the world. And it's an honor that we have such an incredible audience from the US and internationally as well, united in our desire for the truth.

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