Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 3/26/26

27:40Ben Meiselas:making a 48 hour ultimatum. Dude, in Iran, they're just doing they're doing mocking memes. Like when Hegsitt said earlier today on Iran, for years, they told the world their missiles could only range two kilometers. Surprise. Yet again, Iran lied. You've got the head of the Iranian parliament, MB Goluboff, doing like images, like mocking images of like children looking at Hegseth like he's stupid. Like that's what they're, they are mocking all of this right now. I mean, you got Donald Lickum, like, you know, I guess this is what it would be like. It may be a screwed up example. And so I haven't thought through this analogy.

28:25So excuse me if it's a really bad one because it just popped into my head. And do I go with the analogy? I'll go with it. We'll see what happens. Imagine if COVID could talk and meme and mock Donald Trump.

28:39Ben Meiselas:So while Donald Trump was out there saying, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Everything is great. Inject yourself with bleach. But COVID was like a nation. And they were posting memes to mock Donald Trump for saying that as the death toll continued to rise, as things were getting worse. Basically, Iran is the nation that I'm creating right now. And Trump has manufactured his own version of COVID in the form of ceding American authority internationally and making America look utterly weak and destroying our economy and frankly, world economies as well. while Iran is out there like mocking the U.S.

29:17Ben Meiselas:every day with memes and photos. And every day Donald Trump posts something else. Okay, 10 days. And by the way, Easter is coming up. I forgot. Remember Trump's whole thing with COVID? The whole thing aligns up crazy. I didn't even just realize that. We're right by Easter. Remember Trump's whole thing with Easter? We're going to bend the curve right by Easter. I think by Easter, there's going to be no, like it lined up perfectly in his own demented mind. with he's doing the Easter thing again. We're in the Easter phase, right? That's what this is. So I actually think it was a good analogy. Is it an analogy or is it a metaphor?

29:54Ben Meiselas:Just a comparison. I don't know. Let me know which one, what is that? So I'll refine and I won't call it an analogy, but I'll call it a metaphor if it's a metaphor or whatever, or just an example. But isn't that what he, isn't that what he's, isn't that what he's doing right now? It's the same thing. you know it's gonna go away by you're gonna go by it seems that what's gonna really happen is Iran's gonna forever control these trade of her moves it's a whole different game there right at some point Donald Trump's gonna what he's gonna declare a victory what was he what what was the demented thing he said today uh he was like can I tell you what the gift was can I tell you the gift that they gave me.

30:35Ben Meiselas:I'll tell, can I tell him Scott? Scott, can I tell him the gift? Okay. The gift was, they, we don't, we don't need the clip. I'm doing the clip. I'm acting it out. Scott, the, I removed the clip from the stack so I can act it out. Eight chips, eight chips moved through the straight of her moves, eight of them. And I saw it on Fox. I saw Fox do it. They played it for me. And meanwhile, there aren't eight ships. What are you talking about? The only ships that went through are Iranian back ships with Iranian escort. That's all it was. It's making things up. Again, it's just deranged. Why are you making this ridiculous stuff up?

31:17Ben Meiselas:That's not happening. Right now, one of the things that I keep checking for is Iran's response to Donald Trump claiming this 10-day thing. But often when Trump does 10 days, five days, he uses any type of period of time in order to then do the invasion. So if you're Iran, why would you agree to any time period with Trump when Trump uses those time periods to do invasion, to escalate? He never operates in good faith. So what do you, you know, so why are we going to also, I saw a report this morning talking about how it's expected a conservative estimate of, not like the conservative part, like a safe estimate, I should say, of where American inflation is going to be by the end of this year, but probably sooner.

32:11I think it's going to be way higher than this, by the way, personally. Like 4.2 % inflation is going to head up in the four. So you're going to have to do interest rate hikes, not decreases. But I think my own prediction, I'll just throw it out there. I think inflation will hit closer to 5%, maybe more by the end, maybe 5%, 5.5%.

32:31Ben Meiselas:I don't know how it doesn't because I think that estimate factors in that, what, that things are going to magically get better and Trump will taco and things will become good again? I don't know what we're basing that on, especially when food supply has been crushed, Helium supply has been crushed. Liquefied natural gas supply has been crushed. Obviously, crude supply has been crushed. So even if the war were to, let's just say the war ended tomorrow, what does that even look like? What does it even mean? The Islamic Republic has not been decimated. That's not what's happened. So what happens there?

33:21Do you think the Arab nations are going to be happy now to live with an emboldened Iran? What do you think happens? Right? Especially when the Iranian hardliners want, you know, why would they negotiate? Why would they negotiate right now for any thing other than get out and take your bases out, you know, and give us reparation? I mean, unless there's a security guarantee, what's going to, why would you do it? Just setting aside it's Iran, just if you're thinking logically, and I know Donald Trump and his regime probably think the Iranians are illogical.

33:58Ben Meiselas:Like they're probably have these biases and stereotype that the Iranians are illogical people and they're not things. But if you're Iran, you're probably thinking, well, any type of ceasefire, any type of anything to give the U.S. and Israel more time to build up where Israel's troops and morale and weapons are running very low. So the U.S., what, depleted its stockpile of interceptors for a period of about maybe three to five years, interceptor, three to eight years. I understated it. U.S. interceptor stockpiles depleted by this war could take three to eight years to replenish. Right. So if you're Iran, why would you, you know, why would you agree to?

34:45And that's why it's just I'm trying to study what's actually happening versus what's being said. And that's what we're going to continue to report here. Let me just I'm going to take a look to see if Iran has responded, you know, just to see if there's any. Because I'm waiting. I'm waiting for that. No, they haven't got a response there. I mean, you saw the response from the GB Galibov guy, the head of their parliament there. Let's take a look if there's any responses. I'm just trying to see on the various wires or the Tasman News if they've said anything there so far.

35:22As of eight minutes ago, Associated Press writes, Iran is tightening control over the Strait of Hormuz, forcing ships to share detailed data, reroute into its waters, and sometimes pay passage, creating what analysts are calling a toll booth. That's from the Associated Press. M.B. Goluboff posted that. Iranian President Musad Pazeshkian posted, President Putin's message and the support of the Russian people inspire us in this war. The resistance and courage of the Iranian people promises new bonds that will ensure the security of East Asia by countries of the region. On behalf of the people of Iran, I think the government and people of Russia makes me wonder.

36:14I don't know this for a fact, but just seeing that post happen. I wonder if it was Putin or a Putin proxy that's been speaking to either Donald Trump directly or someone in the Trump regime saying, don't do the electric grid. Because if you think about it, with all of the knowledge going out there that these 13 military bases have been evacuated, U.S. military bases, because Iran's precision FPV, first person view drone strikes on these bases and the Shahid drone strikes, knowing the news that Russia has been giving them all of these supplies. Russia's announcing that they're doing it. Iran's saying that they're doing it.

36:53And we drop sanctions on Belarus and Russia, and Russia's making literally hundreds and billions of dollars to now fund their war efforts and to fund Iran against the United States and to fund its war and invasion against Ukraine. you know, this strategy where Trump is moving everything to really establishes Iranian dominance in the region, which really means China dominance and Russia dominance in the region as well. Look what's happening in the Caspian Sea. I know we don't talk about the Caspian Sea in it, right? Just think about the Middle East. And then you have the, on the one hand, you have the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz.

37:40On the other hand, you have the Red Sea, right? That's on the kind of opposite side to the west. And then you have their own strait there. Then kind of to the, what, to the northeast or so-ish, you have the Caspian Sea. And then that kind of connects Russia with Iran. That Caspian Sea, that's where the weapons are coming into Iran from Russia. That's why you saw some Israeli strikes in the Caspian Sea on certain ships that were believed to be kind of Russian ships, bringing weapons in that area. So the war is kind of spreading in that direction as well. But with Russia supporting Iran, with Iran's President Pazeshkin now making that post, right, within the same timeframe that Trump is saying, this 10-day, we're not going to commit the war crimes of blowing up your facilities.

38:35It makes me wonder.

38:37Ben Meiselas:I just have to think logically, right? Who benefits the most from all of this? And to me, every glaring signal is Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin is the one benefiting this the most, right? And Iran, frankly, is benefiting. And China, that's how I see it. Yeah, some people are saying Ukraine has also hit in the Caspian. Yeah, Ukraine has had successful strikes because Ukraine realizes, and this is what's so ridiculous, Ukraine's basically protecting the United States while Trump is mocking Zelensky, right? Ukraine's been striking in the Caspian, and Ukraine's been trying to knock out Russian oil facilities as well and energy facilities, which is a help to the U.S.

39:21Ben Meiselas:Well, all Donald Trump does is attack Zelensky. The latest news that just came out also, and Trump admitted to it during that deranged cabinet meeting, is that America is shifting its promised weapons from Ukraine to now go into the Middle East. So there's that other data point as well. Weapons promised to Zelensky are now being moved to the Middle East. We took weapons away from South Korea. We moved them into the Middle East. And then they're being targeted by Russia because they're open targets there and Russia has the coordinates for them. Anyway, I've been talking a lot. We have to take our first and only quick break of the show.

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44:27Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. Big shout out to all of our sponsors that make this show possible. I know sometimes those ad reads can be a little long, but you get to listen to Brett and Jordy deliver them. We all love Brett and Jordy. And Jordy works out great discounts with our advertisers. And I think they're great products. We only put on stuff that we like and that we use ourselves.

44:55Ben Meiselas:And so I think you'd like the stuff. So you get to watch it. You get to see Brett and Jordy, right? And then you get some discount code. So I think it works out in the long run as well. Just going back to that cabinet meeting from earlier as well, I want to show you some other data points as well. I thought it was fascinating. You've got this clip right here of a reporter asking Trump, so are you looking to take control of Iran's oil? And Donald Trump's like, before that's like, I beat the shit out of him. I beat the shit. We can beat the shit out of him. Wait, I got to play this clip and then let's talk about it.

45:33The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just beat to shit. Are you thinking of taking control of Iran's oil? It's an option. I mean, I wouldn't talk about it, but it's an option. Is that something you thought about? Well, in Venezuela, we've done very well working with Venezuela, certainly. We've taken in billions and billions of dollars. And by the way, Venezuela is doing better right now than they've ever done in the history of their country. Venezuela just appointed the chief torturer to be their defense minister. So basically the number two alongside Delce Rodriguez was the chief torture individual.

46:15But I'm just trying to, I'm trying to just be logical here. And that's, you know, I want to be clear.

46:24Ben Meiselas:Iran has its propaganda machine, right? So anything they say, we have to still recognize. It's propaganda. It's war, war propaganda. propaganda. Trump regime, propaganda. I think like really juvenile and weird propaganda about like blowing things up, blow it up. Like the memes that they do with like video games and trying to gamify the war. But we have to try to sift through it and understand like strategy and what's happening here. And so when you're using language like that, okay, you know, We beat the shit out of them and they're destroyed and we're going to take their oil. When you say those things, even if your intention is to do those things, which we could have that conversation about, because in the past you had a lot of American administrations getting us into never-ending wars and pretending that it wasn't about beating the shit in oil.

47:34Israel, pretending it was about other things as propaganda, but getting us into never-ending wars because it was actually about those things. I guess if there's something to say, well, at least he's saying it out loud, okay? He's saying it out loud. But also, if you're saying those things out loud, if you're on the Iranian side of the equation, number one, don't you just clip what he's saying and then show your people and say, hey, look what they're saying about us in order to kind of rally support of people around the Ayatollah and around the regime?

48:13Ben Meiselas:And then also, how do you negotiate with people who talk about beating the shit out of you? Like if you and I were in a negotiation, although I don't know what setting it would be where there would be tension between them, But if we were in a negotiation, I've been, you know, when I was a lawyer, I did lots of deals, lots of negotiations. When I was a litigator, these glasses get so foggy. So I clean the glasses too, just so you know, it's not like I show up with dirty, because like I wake up and I recognize that my glasses are dirty, by the way. So I don't want you to think like, you know, it has been just do lives with dirty glasses.

48:51No, it just, it just, it fogs up. I don't know

48:58Ben Meiselas:You have, I've had cases where they're litigation, right? We're in a trial. Then we do a mediation on the eve of trial, right? An informal discussion to try to resolve a dispute, right? If I were to go into a mediation, not a litigation, a mediation, and start saying, I'm going to beat the shit out of you, da-da-da-da-da, you can never accomplish any deal because the purpose of it is to reach an outcome that may be both sides leave something on the table, but that there's a path forward. That's why it's a settlement. If you want to do regime change and destruction and obliteration, you tried that.

49:43Ben Meiselas:That obviously didn't work. You're pretending it worked, but it didn't. So why do you care about negotiations if you've obliterated them in the first place? If they're obliterated, there should be no need for negotiations at all. You won. And if you won, we should have the Strait of Ramos and it's done and the war's over and everybody's happy and Arab nation should be happy and everybody's like, okay, we did it. Look at all that. Oil's down. But that's not what's happening. So you need to speak with them, obviously, because we didn't totally obliterate them and we're in negotiation. So I just, from a practical standpoint, this is just deranged behavior that won't result in an outcome.

50:20Ben Meiselas:And if you're anyone, and look, I understand that in Iran that the regime are extremist kind of religious zealots who behave a certain way, but so is the Trump regime, our religious zealots who are out there saying horrific things and we're going to loiter over and kill you and we negotiate with bombs. One of the disheartening things, as I've observed, is to watch an American administration speak and behave the way they've claimed the enemy has behaved. And when I watch the behavior of both, at least their public appearances and what they're saying publicly to see America behave that way and to talk about loitering over and killing you, you know, and again, blowing up elementary schools and killing 165 little girls and Trump talking about war crimes and blowing up desalination.

51:22Ben Meiselas:It's disheartening. And I don't know other than to describe it. It's painful physically, I think, to watch and observe that, but it's counterproductive to the deal. How are we going to get a deal done if that's how you talk? And then throughout this cabinet thing, I don't even know what we call it a cabinet meeting, a cabinet. It's a version of the apprentice, right? He's just, do you realize that he's just doing the apprentice shtick? Like that's what this, that's what these cabinets are. Other than the firing part, he's doing the apprentice shtick and it's deranged. And here he is talking about like the 25th amendment.

52:02Ben Meiselas:Do we have the clip of the 25th amendment? Let's play it. Embarrassed. I don't want to embarrass you because I think you're, I think she's a friendly reporter, so I'm sorry, but you know, I can't say what we're going to do because if I did, I wouldn't be sitting here for long. They probably, what is it called? The 25th Amendment? That institute the 25th Amendment, which they didn't do with Biden, which is shocking. And by the way, there you have Howard Lutnick, Mr. Epstein Island over there. And again, that's being used as propaganda by Iran as well. Iran saying, look at this, Look at this crew of people.

52:43Ben Meiselas:They're like all friends with Epstein. And that's what they're telling their people. They go, oh, you want Epstein's friends to be the leaders here? You want them to pick the leadership? You want Epstein's team to be able to take our oil? That's what they're saying also over there. Then Donald Trump continues down this path where he starts saying, I don't want a person with a mental disability to be my president. Okay, Mr. Projection. Here, play it. I said, I have no problem with it, but I don't want a person with mental disability to be my president. I mean, you don't want to have a person with mental disability being a president.

53:26Okay, what are we even talking about there? Then Donald Trump goes on to say how he read a story about, I'm desperate to make, I'm not desperate. I'm not desperate to make.

53:37Ben Meiselas:I read a story about it. Here, play this clip. It would be nice if, like the fake news, New York Times, which is so fake. And the Wall Street Journal is terrible, terrible. I mean, I read a story today that I'm desperate to make a deal. I don't. If I was desperate, he'd be the first to know me. Let's get the hell out of there. I'm the opposite of desperate. I don't care. I want to know in fact we have other targets we want to hit before we leave hitting them on a daily basis I don't talk about you I can't talk about specifics a lot of people say that wouldn't matter maybe it doesn't matter, who knows but I wouldn't talk, it's like the question this young lady asked, sorry about it I don't want to embarrass you I think she's a friendly reporter so I'm sorry but I can't say what we're going to do because if I did I wouldn't be sitting here for long They probably, what is it called?

54:30The 25th? And we just, I've been waiting for this moment just to, you know, to share with, I was like, okay, when's Iran going to respond that what Trump's saying isn't real and it's just market manipulation? Well, now senior Iranian officials are telling DropSite News that Donald Trump was not being truthful in his post earlier on Truth Social, announcing an additional five-day pause on his threat to bomb Iranian energy infrastructure at the request of Iran, with the officials stating, Trump is not being truthful. We have not submitted any requests regarding potential U.S. attacks. It's just embarrassing.

55:14Ben Meiselas:It is truly a humiliation ritual, a humiliation ritual as an American to observe this behavior, to observe this behavior. And again, you can say, well, Ben, why would you trust what Iran's, maybe Trump is telling the truth. First off, Trump never tells the truth about anything. We know that he's never told, like literally, if there's a superpower, and I don't mean this in a complimentary way about superpower, I just mean his ability that every word out of his mouth is a lie, and it's an imaginary world that's not the real world. And every syllable, every sound is embedded with a lie. Even when he does that noise, right?

56:04Ben Meiselas:It's a lie. Everything's a lie. I don't know how you do that without having some feeling like, it's so not every word. It's a made up. It's like a chat GPT dystopian script that just comes out of his mouth. That's just a made up fantasy world that results in Putin always benefiting in America, always getting screwed and weaker. That's kind of, in my opinion, what we see. But also, if Iran was saying these things, we would seem to have indications whether it was the Strait of Hormuz being opened, whether it was Iran stopping its strikes, whether it was Iranian leadership, not engaging in certain behavior that would demonstrate escalation, or an understanding that they're not in any way backing down at all.

57:02Ben Meiselas:If anything, things are getting more severe. So I can just evaluate, wait a minute, okay, are we in a ceasefire? No, the missiles are still being shot against each other. US and Israel continue to bomb. Iran continues to strike back. Okay, we see all of that happening. Is there any change in the Strait of Hormuz? No, nothing there. The Houthis are saying they're ready to join the war in the Red Sea. So, okay, that's an escalation point. U.S. is basically abandoning all its bases in the Middle East. Okay, that seems to be a sign of things that are not going well. The Iraqi Shiite militias just got the green light go-ahead from the Iraqi government to target Arab nations nearby, as well as where there's U.S.

57:49military presence and the U.S. military base. And we're seeing Camp Victory and Erbil in other areas, in Anbar and other areas, these FPV drones from these Iranian Shiite-backed militias in Iraq, doing these drone swarms, flying around with impunity, striking Black Hawk helicopters and radar systems. I mean, we're seeing that. I can see the letters from Islam, from Arab nations, right? You have KSA, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, and Bahrain. They posted a letter to Iraq and to Iraqi militias saying, can you please stop attacking us? Please. I mean, there it is right there, joint statement from these nations calling for Iraqi government to stop the militias from attacking.

58:38So I see these data points happening. They're not lining up with

58:43Ben Meiselas:anything that Trump is saying. If I'm seeing it, Iran is seeing it, right? It's like I said before, I was like, Donald Trump was saying, well, nobody expected Iran would strike its neighbors. Nobody, nobody, not the, no experts predicted that. I was like, I've been saying that. I've been personally saying it. So, and I've been saying it for five, like four months. Right. And I'm like, no offense to me and my dirty glasses, but if I've been saying it for five months, no one's telling Donald Trump this, right. Then we learned yesterday that they're doing a hype reel every day. Trump's not getting like real briefings.

59:29Ben Meiselas:They put together like a music video of the US and Israel blowing things up in Iran. And that's a daily montage that Donald Trump gets. And that's how he's getting news about the war. And that just tells you, it's like a group of little kids, no offense to little kids, who are like playing with fireworks for the first time, right? They're playing with fireworks outside of pop, pop, pop, whoa. And they're playing with bigger fireworks. Whoa. And it's like, that was loud. Yeah. It's a firework. It's loud. What are you, what you're surprised that it's loud? Oh, that's dangerous. Yeah. It's dangerous.

1:00:11Ben Meiselas:It's like kids playing with these toys. Again, no offense to kids playing with toys. So I don't want to drag kids into this. Um, but you get the point and, and, and they're so impressed with the strength of our military. I'll call power and power. We know that we know we were the strongest military. We know that's not a shocker. It's not because you rebuilt it. It's because post-World War II, America was previously the leader of the free world. And lots of countries bought weapons from America. America was the economy that was the envy of the world, right? It was where countries put their money and parked it in our treasuries as safe investment and put their real estate here and invested in our companies here.

1:00:55Ben Meiselas:And in response, we had these these weapons where we were providing security umbrellas and we didn't have to brag about how strong we were. We just had to have a readiness model where we would be able to help out in the event that other nations were under attack, working with our allies together. Biden didn't have to say, oh, we're so strong. I'm so strong. I'm so he could have, but it's a deranged way to behave because strong people don't behave that way. Right. Well, who's strong people do you know run around. Oh, I'm so strong. The only people who do that are really weak people pretending to be strong, right?

1:01:31Ben Meiselas:And that's been Donald Trump's whole life pretending to be. What he is, is he got his daddy's money. If he didn't even put his money where he put it, he would be a very rich person because of his daddy's money. He's failed over and over. His daddy had to bail him out a ton of times. Trump's bankrupted casinos over and over and over again. He's destroyed companies over and over and over again because he's a loser and he surrounds himself with losers. He's a lifelong loser. And all of these entities, whether it's the DOJ, it behaves the way his loser lawyers always behaved, whether it's the way his treasury secretary and commerce secretary function, it's the way Trump always functioned with his own personal accountants and the losers he surrounded himself with.

1:02:19Ben Meiselas:And Trump, whereas leaders sometimes recognize a problem, admit a fault, admit a mistake, try to solve it. Trump continues to turn bad into worse, worse into catastrophic, catastrophic into bankruptcy. And then he tries to then blame and deflect and then do it again and find new marks in who he can con. And as I mentioned, I think the only difference here than COVID is that this is the other side, unlike COVID, wasn't memeing. Wasn't out there saying, no, Donald, we're not going to go away by Easter. We're COVID. We're still here. While Iran's out there saying, we ain't going away. What are you talking about?

1:03:08Ben Meiselas:Come closer. Come closer, right? This would be like COVID talking, which obviously is a ridiculous example. And again, which I don't even know if it's the right one to be using right now. But in any event, I think the point is made. We're heading into Easter like a miracle. By Easter, it's going to go away. By May, by June, whatever. This has no end in sight. Trump has made up all of this stuff. And what he's able to do with his lies is he layers on other lie, like he creates the fictional universe and then he has characters doing things in his fictional universe that aren't happening. And then they react to stimuli that isn't real.

1:03:52Ben Meiselas:And there's this whole fantasy world that's contradictory. It makes no sense. But there's this other world that's invented that people are like, oh, well, that happened, that happened, The whole thing is freaking made up. None of this has happened. Trump goes, as per Iranian government requests, please let this statement serve to represent that I'm pausing the period of energy plant destruction by 10 days to Monday, April 6th. What do you think this is? Some freaking movie, some Hollywood thing? It would be the worst movie ever. And Iran's like, no. Iran goes, no, we're not doing any of this. What are you talking about?

1:04:27Ben Meiselas:You're not being truthful. We've not submitted requests. We're not talking to you about these things. Cut it out. And how could you try to broker discussions if this is the behavior? Anyway, watch The Brother Show tonight, 5 Pacific, 8 Eastern. Subscribe to Scott McFarland's YouTube channel. I'm looking at the chat right now. Was my COVID, is the COVID, is that an analogy? Is it a metaphor or is it something else, just so I can say it the right way if I use that again. And does that make sense, what I've said? Is that analogy or metaphor or whatever it is good? I'll watch the comments to educate me.

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