Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates With Ben 8/13/2026

25:52And you knew it was going to be a pretty important hearing where the judge said, I want to do this in public so that everybody in this country can know what the hell is actually going on. And we need to bring transparency to the Epstein Transparency Act. I just want to let you know how big of a deal it is that Katie Fang has pursued this lawsuit, has created a forum now where the legal process can play out also in public. That's what the purpose behind the Epstein Transparency Act was supposed to be and what our system is in general. I mean, I just saw during the commercial break that Trump was announcing a new golf resort, this time in Korea.

26:39Trump announces Korean golf course, new golf club. That's not what our government, why? That's not

26:48Ben Meiselas:what our system should be about. It should be about what could government do to help people? that's the purpose of this right and to me it's such a tell that all of these MAGA people the level of attention and focus right now on attacking like Mamdani you just look at what's actually happening in New York right now what's happening Violent crime, homicides at an all-time low. At an all-time low. That's a good thing. Meanwhile, you have the universal pre-K actually making people's lives better. They're working through a real affordability agenda, figuring out, okay, well, we have to raise revenue somewhere.

27:45How do we do it? What's a good way to do it? Ah, the pied -à-terre? tax tax. If people are avoiding paying state income tax in New York and they're living in places like Florida, but they keep a second mansion in New York City, okay, tax the second mansion 1 % if someone's keeping a mansion like that in New York City. Right? Be back in one second. Let's play the clip of Aaron Parnas. I know my dogs are going to bark someone's at the front door. Play the Parnas clip with Pritzker and then I'll open up the front door and I'll be right back. Do you believe based on that that the president is fit to command America's troops right now?

28:28When you say is he fit to command I mean this is a person who clearly is having mental health challenges. I mean you can see it every day when he you know he sits there at that desk with you know 20 people 30 people around him talking to the press because he can't apparently stand at a podium for a long period of time. This is somebody who says inane things. And, you know, you can't figure out why he's doing it from one moment to the next. He's and then he, you know, likes to talk about the dementia tests that he's taken, like, like he passed a dementia test. You know, we should all celebrate he passed a dementia test.

29:08He thinks it's some sort of IQ test. It isn't an IQ test. And all I can say is he's not passing the dementia test that all of us have for a president. He's not speaking rationally or acting rationally. So, I mean, I didn't want him to be president because I never thought that he was capable of being commander in chief. And I think he's proving it. Yeah.

29:29Ben Meiselas:Basic capacity. Are you capable to lead? The guy's not capable to lead. He's not fit. He's not fit mentally for the office. He isn't. And it's because I observe it. It's very basic. It's very common sense. We all see it. And part of this whole problem, and again, we talk about this in WTF America, is that we've somehow been told by corporate media and business leaders and other people who are not leaders at all, that this is normal when it isn't. When it's the job of leaders and the job of institutions to block and stop this psycho and not to enable it by even sometimes having these debates with them on the stupid shit, we're validating the existence of the thing as a real issue.

30:34I mean, when these idiots want to talk about, oh, Sophie Cunningham in the WNBA, and could you believe it? And I know I can't, I don't care. I really don't care. I truly don't give a shit about Sophie Cunningham. I don't care. I don't even know what you're talking about. It isn't a thing I think about. I care about what's happening with so many Americans across this country, not Sophie Cunningham getting fouled or, oh, can you believe it? There are two NBA players that are the guys and they're really tall and they're going to do the WNBA draft. And this is what the liberals want. This is what the liberals want.

31:14What are you even talking about? What do you even mean? What are you even saying? I don't even know what you're talking about right now. Oh, my God. Do you disavow Hassan Piker? Do you disavow? Do you disavow a streamer and then you take his statements and you splice it together in six-second clips where he's reading comments a lot of times? Do you have to disavow every word that some streamer said? Why does that have to do with anything? Oh, can you believe that Mamdani said that? I'm looking at Mamdani's actions right now. Oh, my God, the pied -à-terre tax. It's going to make people flee from the city.

31:56do you even know what the pied-a-terra, do you even know what, what do you mean they're going to, they've already left the city. That's the issue. The issue is, is that they're secretly living in the city and they're avoiding state income taxes by saying they live in Florida so they can avoid a state income tax. Meanwhile, Florida is actually screwing most Floridians because they got to make up that tax revenue somewhere. And you know where they're making up that tax revenue from? From the massive property taxes, from the massive utilities, from the massive

32:29Ben Meiselas:day-to-day taxes that people have in their very regressive tax policy, where the people who are not the rich are the ones getting screwed. It's why you actually have a lot of real issues with the standard of living there. But the issue with the pied -à-terre is, okay, hey, millionaires, you have a second home here. You're utilizing New York services while you're avoiding the state income tax here. Pay 1%. If you have a$20 million home in Manhattan, pay$200 ,000 a year so we can use that to try to help the New Yorkers who actually live here in the city. Now, you could push back and you can go, Ben, that's too much.

33:11That's too little. Well, that to me is the type of debate that we should have. That's an actual discussion that we can be like, well, maybe we improve it here. Maybe we do this. Maybe do that. Not to say, oh, what we really need to do is have ICE in Border Patrol, have electronic gloves that when they touch you, you get electrocuted. Did you hear that? That's the new thing. ICE is going to be trying out because they're pathetic losers. It's the same people who hide in containers who need electric gloves. You know who doesn't need electric gloves? Police. You know who doesn't need to cover their face?

33:54Police. And I think there are fair criticisms with how some policing goes down. When I was a litigator, I handled civil rights cases. And I met really good officers. I met great sheriffs who I respected. And great sheriffs and good officers don't like the bad ones. There are bad ones. I handled cases in Bakersfield and Kern County where there were people who worked for the sheriff's department and people who worked for the police department who were like dealing drugs. And there were people who were covering it up at a high level. And when I was litigating, We had to get the Department of Justice at that time to issue an injunction to try to reform the systems and to push out some of the bad apples.

34:45Ben Meiselas:But they don't cover their faces. You know, I mean, good cops don't see any need. Good cops, good police, good sheriffs, they want to be involved in the community. They want to be at community events to build trust. We're not talking about masks and electronic gloves. The hell are we even talking about here? You know, you think about the Treasury Department yesterday. They announced that they were deleting the database regarding beneficial ownership. Did you see that for LLCs? And this was a database that was set up by Marco Rubio. and Mike Waltz, both in the Trump regime, right? Waltz is the ambassador to the United Nations.

35:36Rubio is the secretary of state who is angry about keto or whatever he's upset about. You know, Waltz, when he was a Congress member, Rubio at the Senate, this was a bipartisan piece of legislation that was passed in 2020. Its purpose was to prevent drug traffickers, pull that back Its purpose was to prevent drug traffickers and money launderers from Russia and China and elsewhere and other international criminals from setting up shell companies in the United States because you have to declare who's affiliated with these entities and it's kept in a government database. Now, I did an interview earlier today with that congress member here, Melinowski, Democrat from New Jersey, former congress member.

36:23And he was a co-sponsor of this bill. And he said, Ben, look, there were some problems with it. I said, what? He said, there were some small businesses that got pulled into this and they ended up having to pay a fee of a few hundred bucks. And it really wasn't intending to bring them into this. And so there were some businesses frustrated. He goes, I want to be fair. And they were frustrated because they had to pay$100 or$300 to fill out a form. And they didn't think they'd have to fill out the form, but they were brought into this thing, which wasn't the intention. He's like, so we can fix it.

37:01If that was the issue, let's fix it. But why would we delete the database where we've kept records of money laundering, where we've kept records of the kleptocrats, of the financial crimes, of the sex traffickers, of the drug traffickers who launder money through U.S. shell companies? The Treasury Department, through their financial security division, just deleted the database. That's crazy. Why would you delete the database unless you are pro the criminals? Okay, I want to have conversations about, can we make this better? Can we fix this? How do we address this? How do we deal with that? But the Trump regime, they're on the side of the bad guys, right?

37:51You all get that, right? Like in every act, like line it up. Line it up. they are the criminal cartel. They are the bad guys. And I think we just have to recognize that. And we don't have to, this isn't a debate of, oh, well, this is where the Republicans, the conservatives, these people aren't conservative. They're not fiscal hawks. They're not China hawks. They're not Russia hawks, stupid hawk. They're not hawks. These These are people who cover up child sex trafficking, who aid and abet money laundering, who steal

38:25Ben Meiselas:and pilfer from the American people, who hate our troops, who run up crazy deficits, who increase our debts about to hit$40 trillion, who are starving our sailors and Marines who are courageously serving right now in the Persian Gulf. And many of them don't want to be being involved in these war crimes that the Trump regime is involved, which is adding to the psychological torture that they are facing. And they see the so-called commander in chief, this weak, pathetic thing, this weak, pathetic gremlin hiring, I mean, hiding and cowering in catering containers. Sick. It's sick. Even Caroline Levitt's resigning.

39:14Do we have the clip of Caroline Levitt where she was saying regarding the Epstein files, eh, we're done. We're done with this. We're not going to talk about this anymore. Says who? Says who? What do you mean we're not going to talk about this anymore? I guess we are. We're going to talk about it every day. Here, play this clip. And that remains true. And this call, if it did happen, corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning. And I'm sure many of you, when you read that alleged FBI report, probably thought to yourself, wow, this really cracks our narrative that we've been trying to push about this president for many years.

39:50So we're moving on from that. OK, well, we're not moving on from it. Katie Feng isn't moving on for it. The Midas Touch Network isn't being moved on for it. This independent media ecosystem isn't being moved on to it. But I want you all to understand the very deliberate creation of an independent media ecosystem. And it's what we talk about a lot in WTF America, because it's very deliberate. It's very intentional. And it was a recognition by all of us that as corporate news had bent the knee, we need to control the narratives with the truth. What Fox does very good, and I mean this in a bad way, but what they do good is they control narratives.

40:32They set the framework. They've got Fox. They've got New York Post. They've got an entire ecosystem that then kind of pushes it and launders the narrative.

40:42Ben Meiselas:And then like fish in a barrel, you know, they set the bait and then people buy the bait and they start living in a narrative, a bent reality that is created by Fox and the oligarchs to distract us. For us to live in the Overton window that they've created, to move the Overton window and normalize behavior of authoritarianism, it's not okay. and to divide us. And so what's important that we build and what Midas Touch was created to do, and this is what I want the legacy of the network to be, even beyond this great YouTube channel and the great network, is to create an ecosystem that puts out the truth and then has experts and awe.

41:36Everybody kind of fill in the gaps and then set the narrative, not react. It's not a reaction to. It is, here are the most important issues. The cover-up of child sex trafficking rings, the distraction from that which led to the catastrophic war in Iran, the terrible treatment of our sailors and our Marines, Donald Trump's cognitive and physical decline, how weak and pathetic he is, all of the grift, all of the horrific inside trading, inside dealing, just make it clear that that's what we care about. That's what the people are. Let them be like, oh my God, the democratic socialist, this podcaster, what do you do, disavow this person?

42:26WNBA, what do you think about Sophie Cunningham? What do you think about that? what do you think about? Is this movie a little bit woke? Movie a little bit woke for you? Oh my God, can you believe that they like this movie? Let's hear what Fetterman has to say. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. But know the tactic. Understand it. Don't underestimate the strength of the tactic. Okay? You know, and sometimes I hear people say, are you guys doing more than just talking? And I say this sometimes. I go, well, Fox just does talking. And no one will go, man, they're so weak. All they do is talk. All they do is like do media and they cover stories.

43:11That's not what happens. People go out. It's a very powerful force for bad. But I want to let you know that it's an honor to have people like Katie Fang and Alison Gill and Aaron Parnas and the Legal AF folks. A lot of the Legal AF folks are litigating these cases right now. And it's an honored to watch them fight in court and to do what I don't see a lot of politicians are doing. And I ain't stealing their valor at all. I'm just honored to be associated with these heroes. And I'm honored to do whatever I can to be helpful, whatever that is. WTF America is the book. Pre-order it now. We'll be right back after.

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46:29Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. There's apparently a blue screen right here, and there it goes. There I go. I bet you when you watch other, do you even watch other news? But I bet you when you do, you don't have like the dogs barking at the front. I got to get my dogs. I should get an office or a bigger studio. But I like being here. I like hearing my daughter in the background. I like seeing the dogs. I like being close to my wife. And the niece is here also, who also works at Midas. So what did you all think about the interview I did with Professor Mirandi? Did you all watch that? If not, it was one of the videos I did this morning about Iran checkmating Trump, getting a lot of good feedback from it.

47:13And I thought it was an important, you may have seen Professor Morandi elsewhere. And, you know, I think it's, I think it's important. Part of the big problem, existential problem to what's happening in the United States is a willful ignorance, disinformation, recklessness, an unwillful ignorance, just stereotypes, sometimes rooted in racism, sometimes rooted in tropes, sometimes rooted in what you read. And so I think that there are, and especially when it's being peddled by the guy who hides in container trucks in Turkey, you know, who's the main purveyor of lots of disinformation. And, you know, he would, the way he talks about Iran, he's like, oh, you know, they're like cavemen.

48:11They're like hiding in their caves and the military is all destroyed and people are being, you know, everybody, no one, there's such disarray, they're falling apart. And if we just do nothing, they're going to, the pipes are going to explode. They're going to be horrible and they're for them and they're suffering. You know, so for me, I wanted to hear from, you know, what a prominent university professor in Tehran is saying about the day-to-day life in Tehran, in Iran, the sentiment of the people, and also to kind of better inform us, is there a possibility for a deal? I mean, obviously Trump is incapable of doing a deal, but what would that look like?

49:02What are the Iranian people, what do his students think about the American people? What do they think about everything that's going on right now? I mean, their leader was killed. Their leader, the Ayatollah was, you know, say what you want. I mean, Trump was hiding in food containers, catering containers in Turkey when he had Air Force One. I mean, when Trump and Netanyahu killed the Ayatollah, the guy was in his house. He was in his house with his daughter, his granddaughter, his son-in-law, and their extended family. That's where they were. They weren't in a bunker. They were just having dinner in the house.

49:47And the granddaughter was killed. The daughter was killed. The entire family was killed. And so, you know, you wonder also, how do the young Iranians feel about what's happening? And he was very, you know, he was very forthcoming in a way. Well, he's just going to say what is helpful to Iran. Sure. but what he did say was he said and he's like you know there was a lot of young people in iran he

50:16Ben Meiselas:said who were very sympathetic to the west there was a growing feeling amongst young people before the war he said even after the 12-day war last year is what he said especially amongst young people that they identified even closer with the u.s and were looking for reforms within the iranian system. And he said, now, since Trump and Netanyahu slaughtered the girls in Manab and engage in many other war crimes, which don't get as much attention, but it's horrific war crimes, and have, you know, when there were deals actually happening, that's when Trump invaded in February. That's what the Oman foreign minister said.

51:04There's a deal. And then Trump invaded that night. And then last year in June. There was a deal, June 2025. And then that's when Trump invaded and there was the 12-day war. And so he said, well, now the young people have a completely different perspective. And amongst Iranians that he talks to, he said, there's a greater desire now to develop a nuclear weapon is what he told me, because they see it as the only way to long-term protection. And they said they don't even like listen they said you know trump's words at this point are because what trump posts everyone realizes it's market manipulation and it's just a bunch of nonsense is how they think about his you know they think about trump's words there and it was it was a very interesting perspective for me we spoke for about 30 minutes and i i think we you know i think we have to at least listen, especially if there's a desire to make a deal.

52:08There's a whole chapter called No Deal Donald in WTF America. When I was a professor, or I am a professor, but when I teach, one of the topics I teach is negotiations. And at the very most basic level, you have to appreciate the existence of the other side. In a negotiation, both sides are going to have to give and you're going to have to reach compromises. That's part of a negotiation. And Donald Trump used the negotiation as a tool to extract that which he couldn't during the war. And by the way, if you look at Donald Trump's past dealings, I think you'll see also that that's how he's always dealt with the negotiations for his shortcomings, for his inadequacy, for his business failures, for his loser behavior.

53:08He viewed negotiations as like a trick. And again, this is a major part of WTF America, his toolkit. One of the toolkits is negotiation as subterfuge. Negotiation for Trump is a way to deceive because people let down their guard. And then he sucker punches you in the back of your head while you're not paying attention. And he tries to extract that he just relentlessly uses the negotiation to kind of trick you and to pressure you and to have pit you against other people and to compromise you by sucking you in and drawing you into an ego. That's one of his tactics. The other tactic is the litigation stuff where he always loses his lawsuits.

53:52He's a litigation loser, right? I mean, if you look at what he's doing with BBC, right? Trump's scared. We all know Trump very scared of BBC. BBC terrifies Trump, right? We all know that by now. He thought he'd be able to deal with BBC but in the end, BBC got him. And so where Donald Trump is right now, he's had to beg a Trump-appointed judge in the Southern District of Florida, six to seven months after a deadline passed in the BBC case. Can I amend my, I want to change my complaint. I want to change my complaint. And I want to say that I'm no longer injured$10 billion because of my businesses.

54:39I'm injured because my reputation has been harmed$10 billion. And also, we believe that there are 13 instances of people playing the BBC Panorama documentary in Florida, 13 clicks. So therefore, judge, there should be jurisdiction because those 13 people who saw it now think less of me regarding the January 6th insurrection. So I want to amend my entire lawsuit, even though the deadline is passed. And I need to amend my complaint. If you look at Trump's dealing with BBC, it's very similar to Hormuz. The parallels are... know. So this is how he litigates. Splashy announcement,$10 billion, Epic Fury.

55:30It's his playbook. $10 billion, BBC, Hormuz, Epic Fury, Midnight Hammer. Okay.

55:42Ben Meiselas:There are some people who litigate like Venezuela, right? And say, ah, just enough. What do you want to do? You want to be corrupt together, we'll be corrupt together. All right. Got it. Got it. Got it. Right? Some of the law firms that bent the knee, the ABC settlement with Stephanopoulos can give you a lot of examples like that. Right? But then there are some people who fight back like Iran, BBC. And they show that when you stand up to him, that's comparing BBC to Iran. I'm just saying when you resist or you fight back aggressively, he loses. But he makes it very painful while he loses because for him, he's got billions of dollars.

56:28He had his daddy's money. He's got, you know, for him, this is all part of the game. For most human beings and in war as well and in litigation, most humans take it seriously. He doesn't. And it's all he's divorced from emotion and reality and connection and things, which most humans mourn. All he cares about is himself. Most humans care about others. Most humans care about being in the litigation. For him, it's just like whatever, whatever. Unless his life is on the line, then he hides in food containers in Turkey. But otherwise, he doesn't. He just plays the game. So he'll amend it and make it very messy and just kind of screw with your life and ruin your life and make it difficult.

57:18Think about Iran. It's not like it's easy for Iran, right? As Professor Mirandi tells me, shop owners are suffering. There is inflation. It's not easy. There is economic harm. There's been a lot of deaths. It ain't easy. but they've taken on en masse resistance as their mantle. And Trump doesn't know what to do with that. But he'll try everything, right? We're semi-negotiating. We are low-keying it. I'm going to bomb your bridges. The new Ayatollahs, I like them. They're responsible. Oh, they want to make a deal with everything. He'll throw everything. And any human who feels a scintilla of shame would be ashamed to behave this way.

58:09He doesn't. He doesn't feel those things. He only fears his own death and losing his own money. And that's really the only thing. And his own embarrassment, which is why when you go personally, he backs down. He hides in food trucks. If you notice his deposition, he will run away from that deposition like the plagues that are spreading here and abroad because of his cuts to the various health departments. Right? Because he's terrified of that. He doesn't like to testify at the cases. The same way you go to war and then all of a sudden he gets scared because war is war. It ain't a game. You can label it Epic Fury.

58:51You can brand it. This ain't a marketing gimmick. This is real. This is freaking real. And then he's like, oh, I'm just going to, we'll just wait. We'll just wait. Two weeks, two weeks, two weeks. Then it becomes like his healthcare plan. Then there's a two-week loop. I talk about that in WTF America. And there's a loop. All right, two weeks, four weeks, two weeks, four weeks. And where this all ends is blame. He then blames whoever it is because in catastrophe, in times where people are fearful, it really becomes a sick person who uses the fear to divide. But that's his go-to. So to him, when there is panic, when there is fear, he can then blame, oh, they did it, they did it, they did it.

59:43Biden was the perfect foil for him because Biden was older and trying to bring people together and couldn't really adapt to this environment where everything would be weaponized and they come up with fake shit. Like Gavin Newsom had a discover in California, right? Wait a minute. You're blaming the wildfires on smelt fish and you're saying I care about the smelt and I didn't turn on a faucet hose. in Canada and that that's why the fire spread. And we laugh and we go, oh, Trump's crazy. He's crazy. No one believes that. But he repeats it over and over again. And these six psychos he surrounds himself with, they start repeating it.

1:00:25And then before you know it, that becomes a view that then on CNN or one of these shows, they'd get an idiot like Scott Jennings.

1:00:36And then you have to debate this idiot. No, that's not happening. Oh yeah, it is happening. what is happening and then they start to like scream and it's like okay and then the viewer leaves the viewer leaves like ah i can't this is just i don't like politics i don't want to hear any of this i don't even know you're all you know you're all just kind of crazy and and oh one guy saying that he's going to cut my electricity by 50 and i'm going to be rich i'll just go with that guy. I just want you to know the game, the dynamic, and how we get out of this hell is you have to recognize that that is a framing that we've been trapped in.

1:01:19By the way, not merely through Trump, but generationally. We've been trapped in this really since, I mean, going back a very long time, But really for this last 60, 70 years, it's kind of been trapped in this cycle that inevitably brings you a fascist, a vessel of authoritarianism here. And that vessel exists internationally. This is all connected, right? Right now, the one part about it is, is that as I said at the outset, and as the one person who texted me said, you know, thought my commentary was funny. It's like, damn, like Arthur, Arthur Tarion's like some like real, real fricking looser, man, like hiding in the truck.

1:02:06Like he couldn't even be like, ah, I gotcha. You know, I've seen the memes of, you know, fight, fight, fight. It was like, okay, you want us to believe that the fight, fight fight guy is the guy who's hiding in the food containers or the catering containers. It's truly like a humiliation ritual for our country. And I just want you to think about what's happening internationally. You have Taiwan preparing for a potential invasion of China. You have Putin right now in an island that Japan says it's part of its territorial areas, which Putin is showing an aggressiveness towards Japan. You have war escalating, of course,

1:02:49Ben Meiselas:between Ukraine and Russia. Russia able to strike into Ukraine much more frequently now because Ukraine is out of ballistics. Ukraine striking into Russia at logistics centers and other areas, although it could be a very difficult winter for Ukraine right now if they don't have the interceptors, which Trump ran out of the interceptors. You have in the Middle East, the Mecca pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey. You've got in Israel, I've been seeing a lot coming out from the Netanyahu regime saying that Syria is the next Gaza. I've seen a lot of statements coming out there. And then you've got our guy here hiding in catering containers.

1:03:32Crazy. Crazy. Weak. Pathetic. Pre-order WTF America. Comes out October. You can Google WTF America. Get your copy now. And make sure you hit subscribe here. We covered a lot. We talked about a lot. We covered a lot of bases. Thanks for watching. I'm going to do a video now on Katie Fang's court hearing. Thanks for watching, everybody. We appreciate you. in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, add free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.