Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben 9/17/2026

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26:57Now, I love spending time with you when I'm with my brothers. This is like, this is in, this is solo. This is me riffing for an hour with the Midas Mighty. So it's great. Although I equally like my time with my brothers and you. Remember to check it out tonight at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. And I always try to cover different things and a little bit of a different focus from what the brother show is, what this show is. And so I think you probably have seen that by now. I want to talk about Prime Minister Carney speaking before the European Union Parliament. First time that's ever happened in the European Union Parliament history.

27:41Comes the day after the state of the European Union by their president of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. It should be noted that the EU's been making a lot of moves as well. They've been working on doing the mother of all deals, as they called it, with India.

27:58Ben Meiselas:as Trump's kind of shunned India and embraced Pakistan over India and kind of picked that side and did it in a way that was also like giving the middle finger to India. I mean, there's a way to thread the needle. Difficult, of course, given the relationship there between India and Pakistan. But the way Trump went about it, pretty stupid, putting it lightly. But Pakistan did invest in a lot of Trump crypto, World Liberty Financial. I believe Don Jr. and Eric's drone company announced in the past 24 to 48 hours that they got a big memorandum of understanding by Field Marshal Munir of Pakistan. So that was very important to the Trump family, very, very important to them.

28:46But look, Trump's made it very clear in public documents that his desire is to destroy the European Union.

28:55Ben Meiselas:That was America's foreign policy plan going into this year, literally said to like destroy the European Union. It's kind of like support groups that want to destroy the European Union. And so that's what they're going about trying to do. So you have, you know, these, this tension of, you know, this, this pretending that the US, you know, some people want to pretend, NATO especially wants to pretend that Article 4, Article 5 will be honored by the United States, which I think we all know, sadly. Article 4 and Article 5 under Trump is a fiction. Do we actually think that Article 4 and Article 5?

29:32Ben Meiselas:Article 4 is consultation. 5 is joint defense. Trump's never going to honor it. I mean, there was another ship, speaking of, as we talked about the headline of this episode, Trump creating World War III, there was a Turkey flagship off the waters by Romania. that were struck, likely by a Russian Shahid. And there have been multiple ships that have been hit off the coast of Romania, a NATO member, like, you know that, right? Like, so, and there have been numerous acts that in normal times would trigger at least Article 4, perhaps Article 5 of NATO. But this is what Putin's been kind of poking and testing, And he's got his answer.

30:18He's got his answer, right? Donald Trump just so happy to see Xi, so happy to talk about Putin. And what's interesting as well, just to give you this dynamic, the House and Senate passed the sanctions bill that would sanction countries and companies that do business with Russia. It's Lindsey Graham's secondary sanctions bill. But it's kind of at the discretion of Trump to faithfully execute the law. China's already come up with a statement, as has Russia, saying nobody should abide by this sanctions decree.

31:00Ben Meiselas:And the issue will be, how will it ultimately be implemented? And I suspect, while in theory, the sanctions, passed in the House and the Senate, will Trump actually implement them? I have my doubts given Trump's relations with Putin, given what we just saw with the top US diplomat or someone who shouldn't be a diplomat, but who has that title in Belarus, speaking with Lukashenko over there, with what Whitkoff and Kushner are doing. So let's be real here about what's really happening. I digress though. I'll go back to Prime Minister Carney. Zigzagged a little bit there. Prime Minister Carney speaking at the European Union Parliament, talking about how Canada, we are not fair weather allies.

31:51We do not pursue zero-sum deals. And obviously, this is a reference to what Trump does. Zero-sum deals and also fair weather allies would actually be a compliment to Trump.

32:05Ben Meiselas:Like if Trump was called fair weather ally, that's really generous. Here, play this clip. We are not fair-weather allies. We do not pursue zero-sum deals. Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication. We hold common values for which we have always fought and in whose defence we must always remain vigilant. We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but a means to a just society. We are committed.

33:05We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it's shared. These values. This is a sharing of choice, not coincidence. I mean, let's contrast that. Salty, you pick any clip. I don't even care which one it is. Why don't we just do a random clip of Donald Trump from last night? Let's do it this way.

33:37Ben Meiselas:I really don't even want to know, Salty. Don't even tell me the clip of Trump we're going to play. I don't want to even know what it is. Seriously, I'm telling the end. Don't show me because they're all going to be this. I'm the greatest. It's all unfair. We shouldn't do this. We shouldn't do that. I mean, you had Prime Minister Carney here. Now just pick any of the clips of Trump from last. At random. And I've delivered on every single promise I made and far more than the promise. I made promises. Aye, aye, aye. Me, me, me. Okay, now let's show any clip of Prime Minister Carney from his speech in Parliament.

34:13Let's play him. An alliance that builds resilience for what it allows us to do for our citizens and our citizens to do for themselves. An alliance strong enough so that no one can dictate our choices. an alliance open enough that others can join, an alliance principled enough that our strength reinforces international law rather than seeks to replace it.

34:45All right, now pick any Trump clip from last night at random. I have to say, you have a little higher, you have a higher gain. It's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that it's a little more. It's even if it was, frankly, even if it was a lot more, but that's going to come tumbling down. That's going to be like a rocket ship in reverse. One more clip of Carney, and then we'll end this game. Here, play this clip. It's these motivations, these fundamental motivations, combined with our latent hard power, mean that we can help to create the next just, stable, and prosperous world order.

35:35A Canada-EU alliance would create a beacon for other democracies. An alliance not defined by what we oppose, but about what we are for. freedom, solidarity, prosperity, sustainability.

35:56And now pick any of the Trump ones. Pocket ship in reverse. And don't forget, they never want to talk the fake news about Venezuela. We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes.

36:14And now we have all our big oil companies going there. and we're working along with the government of Venezuela very well. The relationship is extraordinary. We're taking out millions and millions of barrels of oil. And I can't get the press to talk about it because they don't want to talk about it because they've never seen anything like it before. When they say to the victor belong the spoils, that's one of the greatest cases anyone's ever seen in history. We paid back the cost of our war many times over. And you watch what's going to happen to Iran. It's going to be a really good conclusion.

36:46And it's going to happen. I say it's going to be a little bit after the election, but maybe not. Maybe it's before the election. And just play another one of Trump, anyone. And if we stop trading with every country that we have a deficit with, which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do, would make at least$1.5 trillion a year. We do that because it's almost like a reflex. You get the point? You get the point. I mean, who would you want to deal with, right? I mean, just think about that behavior right there. And I don't even view this as a political thing at all. I view this as, first we should establish the floor of leadership as grown-up behavior, decency, integrity, and intention of, let's just say grown-up behavior.

37:46behavior as the floor. Then from there, I hope that we can rise and ultimately have people who are amongst the most qualified become public servants and give back. You know, I saw this the other day. Professor Jeffrey Sachs was on a podcast, notable professor. He was describing describing the difference between U.S. Trump cabinet and the rest of the world. And notice it's very similar to how I describe things. And so rather than me just aping what he says, let me just show you what he says specifically. Let's play it. I think we should understand we have a cabinet of 35 people. Not one of them is trained in technical skills, not one.

38:45There's one bachelor's degree, one bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, no other training at all on technical issues, and not one single research PhD degree in the cabinet, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet basically is science and technology and research PhDs. In other words, we're led by grifters and fools, sorry, straight out. And they're incompetent and they're arrogant and they don't even know how to ask a question. To me, sometimes it's as basic as that. It's as basic as that. I mean, look, when you've lost MAGA grifter propagandist Benny Johnson. When you've lost Benny Johnson.

39:45This is what he said earlier today. Let's play it. Everybody, like, you just can't, I mean, just, it's just the biggest political swing and miss in my lifetime has been not keeping the$2 gas that we had in December and January. And that's exactly where we, that's where we were. That's where the market was headed was to most people paying less than$2 a gallon for gas. It was the nationwide average was$2 exactly. I just checked it this morning. On December 31st, 2025, that was the nationwide average for a gallon of gasoline.

40:24What happened? I wonder what happened. But then he'll be like, I think maybe Trump's getting bad advice. He said, no, this has Trump his whole life. This has Trump his whole life. His whole life has been bankruptcy after bankruptcy, losing after losing, being a sexual predator, being a predator, right? I mean, this is a guy who is a felon, right? He was found in the business record. He's a felon. This is a person who's a fraud. I heard people say, Ben, don't call him a con artist because it has the word artist in it. And he may like the word artist. I don't know. You know, he's a con. He's a fraud.

41:06The whole thing is that, right? And I guess as we look towards the midterms, the world sees it now. The country sees it now. But for me, and I'm sure for you, you're like, but how didn't you see it before? He was always the snake. How would you let the snake in the first time? How would you let the snake back in? And that's what the world is really saying right now, which is, U.S., we gave you a pass the first time you let the snake in. You let him in again, and here's what he's going to say. We're building a new order. We're building a new multipolar structure to build resiliency. That's a word that we always here at these big international.

41:58Resiliency, meaning resiliency against us, resiliency against the great betrayal of the country that built the post-war two architecture that enriched that country, putting into office a grifter who claimed the rigged system, which was helping the architect, the US of the structure was unfair to them. It's ridiculous. Let's take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, WTF America is the book that I wrote with my brothers. It comes out October 20th. I keep on talking about it because I poured my life's work and the journey into this book. And if anything were to happen to me or anything like this, this is one of the things I want to be out there to think about generational change, to think about global dynamics, to think about how we got in this mess.

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45:59Read Found Fees Schedule. Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Micellis. This is your breaking news. It's our breaking news. Mitch McConnell, he all saw his, I don't know Weekend at Bernie's situation going on there I'm just trying to think If you're watching our system And you're in another country And you're like Oh my god, Trump What are you guys doing? And then you're like After Lindsey Graham dies It's like his sister Who's like I don't know where Taiwan is We don't care about that Taiwan What is that, a typhoon? You're talking about typhoons? taffoon fall people are like you know the sister becomes the senator like what explain to me your system and then you have people who are like kind of i don't want to say it i want to be i don't want to be grim people who don't look fully there like when you mitch mcconnell and then because he doesn't know how to vote because he can't speak and he doesn't know where he is then they tell him what to vote for and he's just, I don't want to do the impression.

47:13Just don't do the impression. No, this is not where you do impressions. Do not do a Mitch. Do not do it. Do not do it. Okay, I'm not going to do it. No, people tell me, don't do the impressions. Be a serious newscaster. I'm not going to do a Mitch. Don't do it. Okay, let me show you. Let me show you that. Don't do it. Let me show you the clip of Mitch McConnell. Let's play it. The question is on reporting the Agriculture Act of 2026 as amended as an original bill, the clerk will call the roll. Senator Klobuchar? No. Senator Bennett? No. Senator Smith? No. Senator Durbin? No. Senator Booker? No.

47:57Senator Lujan? No. Senator Warnock? No by proxy. Come back. Senator Welch? No. Senator Fetterman. No. Senator Schiff. No by proxy. Senator Slotkin. No by proxy. Senator McConnell. No. Aye. Senator McConnell. Aye. Senator Hoven. Aye. That's our system for you right there. Okay, but what about the Speaker of the House, Magamite Johnson, right? What about him? Recess Congress, says everybody needs to go home. Nothing all that important to do apparently right now. Right after a War Powers resolution passed in the House, right after Thomas Massey introduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth.

49:04Let's talk about what Mag and Mike had to say. Here's what Mag and Mike said. Let's play it.

49:09Ben Meiselas:The House has done its job here. We're on a 48-hour notice to return as necessary. So we're very hopeful that our colleagues in the Senate can send us bills of substance over here so that we can continue to move that along through the process and get bills to the president's desk. we're awaiting that action. So House Republicans are going now back to our districts. We're going to make the case to the American people on what we have delivered on their behalf. The media certainly doesn't do this for us. So we've got to go tell them the truth. And that truth is, is, has a huge impact when it's, the people are reminded of what we've done.

49:44Ben Meiselas:Irony is that the media is their biggest friend right now. Like the media couldn't be helping them more, but the people have been so harmed by what this regime has done that the media controlled now by right-wing money can't overpower the people power. That's the reality of what the situation is. The media is not doing it. No, no, no. It's that you ripped away people's healthcare. You put Gestapo on the street. You created an SS with ICE and Border Patrol, and you put them on the street to hunt down people and throw them into cages and you built concentration camps. And then you got into trade wars against the world, including with our closest ally, Canada, but all of our close allies.

50:31You lost the trade war against the world. You then started catastrophic wars around the world, like the catastrophic war in Iran. You slaughtered little children. You keep on giving more money to the Netanyahu regime to slaughter little children, slaughter little girls. You cover up the sex trafficking of little girls with the Epstein files. You rip away rural healthcare hospitals. I mean, what do you, you, you, you want data centers in everybody's backyard. You told us that AI regulation, what, what, what did the guy, you heard what the guy said today? The head of, which, which one, which one was it?

51:13Palantir? The Palantir guy, he's like, regulation of AI, like, don't tell me to wear a condom. What if we don't want to wear a condom? Like, what are you talking about? You're like, AI should be unregulated. And AI and data centers everywhere if you want to be rich. I mean, look at what y 'all have done. I mean, on every issue, you've taken our ranchers, right? You destroyed the lives of, like, you went group by group. How do we destroy the lives of ranchers? Got it. Let's bring in mystery meat. Let's undercut our ranchers by 25%, but let's tell them we love them and let's see if that will convince them.

51:57What about our farmers? Let's make all the input costs so much higher. Let's get rid of their export markets and let's get involved in a catastrophic war, which further increases their inputs, costs. Let's do that. Let's do that. But we'll tell them we love them. Manufacturing, let's just lie and say we brought in$20 trillion and there are all these plants being built, but let's not actually build the plants. But let's just tell them that they're getting richer and then let's crush everybody with inflation. Let's just pick on nurses for the sake of it and just tell them that they're not professionals.

52:32What else should we do? Let's spread measles. Let's spread them measles everywhere. That's what Americans are really looking for. Let's keep talking about ballrooms and demolishing the Kennedy Center. Let's take a forklift and just keep on ramming the pillars of the Kennedy Center. Let's keep on doing that. Let's tell people repeatedly that they're rich and living a golden age while Donald Trump flies around in a Qatari jet that's for some reason is an Air Force One. Let's keep on. People know, oh man, they're like, what did you do? The hell was, let's get, you know what we should get rid of? What?

53:09Weather. Let's get rid of, what do you mean? Let's get rid of weather services. You don't want that? Really? You know who should fire? Who? FEMA. Really? Yeah. How much? How many people? Like half of them. Half of FEMA? You want to fire half of FEMA? Yeah. Why? Why do you want to fire half of FEMA? Ungrateful. Excuse me? Yeah. What the hell are you talking about? Yeah, we're going to go after colleges too. We're going to go after colleges? Why? Woke. Like which ones? Like all of them. We'll start with Harvard and we'll go after one by one. Really? Okay. What else are you going to do there? It's like everything, you know, is done to inflict, it's like point by point to cause harm to the American.

54:02What about greenhouse gas emissions? Spread it. What do you mean spread it? Spread it. Not real. What do you mean it's not real? Meh. So what? Beautiful coal. Big, big, big, beautiful coal. What do you mean? Coal? There's a lot of green new energy. Most countries are seeing that's the future. It creates jobs. Nah. Nah. Can the American people see this? It's crazy. Y 'all are like lunatics. That's why I always get asked. It's like, ah, Ben, how do you do the political messaging? And I've repeatedly told you, I'm like, don't ask me that. I'm not a political messaging guy, okay? If you really enjoyed this experience, then you're psychotic in my view.

54:47Ben Meiselas:Or you're a small group of people who got very wealthy under Trump, which is his right-wing oligarch billionaire buddies. But otherwise, if you truly like this, then you just like being... There's nothing I can convince you. You enjoy being treated like shit. There's nothing I can do. But I suppose the good news is that a lot of Americans don't like this. Harry Enten unpacks. We'll do the first one first. How Trump is breaking records. Let's talk about Trump record breaker. Harry Enten does a good job explaining it. Let's play it. I want to congratulate Donald Trump, the president of the United States, because he is breaking records.

55:22He is literally breaking records. Yesterday, the Marquette University Law School poll came out. And take a look here. Trump's worst net approval rating on inflation, minus 61 points, 61 points underwater. That is the worst that Donald Trump has ever polled on inflation. And not only is it the worst that Donald Trump has ever polled on inflation, it is the worst that any president ever has polled on inflation. This is literally the worst net approval rating on inflation for any president. It is truly record-breaking. Congratulations, President Trump. You're breaking records, but perhaps not in the way that you wish to.

55:57Worse than Carter? Worse than Jimmy Carter. Worse than Reagan. Worse than Reagan. Worse than Biden. Worse than Biden. He is worse than all three of those, and he is worse than any poll he has ever had himself with this minus 61 points. Literally the worst of all. But literally, how isn't it minus 99? I mean, who goes around and goes, I think the inflation is

56:19Ben Meiselas:good right now. I'm just curious. By the way, Trump's own guy, Kevin Warsh, who was picked to lower interest rates, he said inflation is bad. That's Trump's literal inflation guy. I was like, yeah, this is really bad. It's so bad, we are unanimously raising interest rates by 25 basis points to 375 to 4.0 to 4%. Who's that other core group of the remaining 39? It's like, you know what? This is the golden age. This is it. I mean, I see some of them at these events, you know, it's like they're cheering for, you know, Shamu, you know, in SeaWorld, you know, as he, you know, does the jerk off YMCA dance.

57:08And they're like, look what are you doing, the jerk off dance. Look what are you doing. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy stuff. But there's, you know, still a group of people who will be with them through the last pump. It's really just been through a vial. But fortunately, most most Americans are like, yeah, that's like actually a psychotic human. That's like a lunatic. That's a sexual predator. That's a real deviant right there. That's just that just what about Hegseth? What do people think about Hegseth? Let's play this clip. Where is his where is Hegseth's popularity right now? You know, we start off the title slide asking who hates Hegseth.

57:45And basically everyone, if you're in the American public. No wonder, no wonder the speaker sent everybody home, because just take a look here. Okay, Hegg says net approval, you know, back before the Iran war started, back in January of 2026, right? It was minus nine points. You think that's slow? Look at this. He's more than twice as unpopular, nearly three times as unpopular now in his net approval rating. Minus 25 points. How about among independents? You think that minus nine is slow? How about minus 20 before the war started? You think that minus 20 is slow? How about minus 43 points among independents now?

58:18No wonder, no wonder, no wonder Speaker Johnson did not want his Republicans' representatives to actually have to vote on this because if they voted with the president, they'd be voting against the American public because the bottom line is, Pete Hegseth is hated by basically... Yeah, just think about it. Our Congress is not working because they're working with Trump to cover up child sex trafficking and to block the impeachment of the Secretary of Defense, who's a war criminal who should be tried in The Hague. Undisputed. I mean, the guy is a war criminal. He is up there with every major war criminal, period, full stop.

59:02The blood is on his hands. And I believe, in my opinion, that it is disqualifying if you're going to run for president in 2028. If your position is not, I'm going to tear down every building with Trump's name on it, and I'm going to put it on live TV on day one. My view, if that's not part of your position, you should not be allowed to run for the office of the presidency in 2028 and win, in my view. The other one is, I think you have to commit to a lot of accountability, but number one on that list or right up there is to hand over Hegseth to The Hague for war crimes prosecution. And all of the other generals, whether that's Brad Cooper, whoever it is, who's ever determined to have engaged in these war crimes in the chain of command who slaughtered the little children, they need to be held accountable for it.

1:00:06There needs to be a reckoning with the war crimes. If the United States wants to begin a process of trying to, we'll never be the same, but to begin the process, there has to be real accountability. You know, it's interesting, right? The way Orban was a template for Trump's fascism, to some extent, Magyar's response, at least as it relates to Orban and Orban's regime, perhaps is a little bit of a template, but the US has to do that on a grander scale. You know, that's, you know, it's, it's, remember, we have to think, we have to think deeper about these issues because this is not normal politics, Democrats, Republicans.

1:01:05This is, this behavior that has existed by Trump and those around him are heinous, are absolutely heinous. that's just my opinion free feel free to disagree they everybody should be asked that and by the way the Midas Touch Network do we have the the stats salty of where the Midas Touch Network is on the podcast charts right now just so people can see and this is thanks to you right here number one beating every major podcast out there and I don't say this is the boast oh look we're number one, we're number one. This to me is a reflection of a lot of the broader trends we're seeing right now out there of Donald Trump's decline and people looking for the truth.

1:01:57So I think that's a good sign. But I say this because we want to host the presidential, at least one presidential debate, at least a primary on the Democrats. And we're working towards that. And I think we'll, I think we will be able to do that. But I'll tell you one of the first questions that are going to be asked is that, you know, there are going to be a lot of questions like that. And the candidates are going to have to answer those questions, not wishy-washy, right? Is there a genocide in Gaza? Yes or no. Will you tear down the buildings on day one? Yes or no. Will you ensure that war criminals are prosecuted?

1:02:38Yes or no? Yes or no? yes or no data centers in people's backyards yes or no there are just some there are there are certain questions that just need to be asked that we need to know and that i'd like to see all the candidates on stage and i'd like to see what they respond i don't i don't want to see uh well you know it's it's a bit it's a bit it's actually it's this it's that it's not we're beyond like we're in a it's like we're in a different and by the way we're in a time period also where a lot of these things are not this is a democratic issue this is a republican we're we're we don't want these wishy-washy politics you know i don't want to be spun i have no i have no i have no interest for that i have no interest for that so i think that's what the debate will look like And then there'll be lots of other questions, tough questions.

1:03:33But I look forward to hosting presidential debates in the future at the Midas Touch Network. So we'll see. Let's take a look at what MAGA Republicans are doing, cutting ads right here against Donald Trump. You have MAGA Republican Congresswoman Salazar from South Florida. She promised her constituents that Donald Trump was not going to target immigrants unless they were the bad hombres, she said, unless they were actually violent criminals, she promised. In fact, she said that she spoke to Donald Trump about pathways to citizenship for people in our community. She told him, vote Trump. So she told her, he's got your back, immigrants.

1:04:19Listen to her ad right here. Let's play her ad. Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far. In July, 50 % of the 50 ,000 people that were detained had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisors are telling you about immigration policy. The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today. You can be for immigration when Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I'm not talking about giving them amnesty. I'm talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land. I am Maria Elvira Salazar and I approve this message.

1:04:53You know, it's interesting. I saw some people in the chat actually say, you know, Mark Kelly. I've interviewed him a few times. You know, I think we're in real serious times. You know, I think whoever it's going to be, and I don't, you know, this is not my area. I think it's going to require just real serious people who are going to come with serious proposals. And they're going to say, here's very specifically what's going to happen. and there's going to be ruthless accountability. That's who I think, whether it's him or they, I see a lot of names out there, a lot of names, but a lot of people in the chat just put that out.

1:05:34So it's fascinating to, but also the very fact, even that, you know, you'll hear names, whether it's the Ossoffs or the Kamala or the Buttigiegs or the Kellys or the Newsoms or the Shapiros or, you know, AOC. and you have a whole list I could keep going down. Britskers and keep going down. But the very fact that this conversation starts to feel a little bit more serious now

1:06:09starts to tell me, as someone put in the comment, I'm just sick thinking about the destruction of our country. But we are starting to get to the point where we can think about a rebuild. And we get starting to now feel, got it. The days are ticking where there's going to be a midterm. The Supreme Court made the right ruling on the mail-in ballots, which was good. Shout out to all the AGs. States brought those cases, right? It was important. It was important stuff. But it's starting to feel like what we've all worked for, which is really accountability more than anything. Like it's starting to feel, let's keep on going.

1:07:01But just like all these things, at the end, that's when these forces on the right, they're going to push extra hard towards the end. They're going to get extra desperate. So we've got to hold the line. I'll leave you with this. I want to show you what Salazar said after Trump won the election, sadly, in November, what was it? November of, I think it was November 11th of 2024 is this clip. So shortly after, this is what she was saying to her constituents. And she's Cuban. Her family left. Her whole thing to the Cuban population, to the Venezuelan population there was, and to immigrant populations, is that Donald Trump's looking after you.

1:07:53And he's going to bring democracy to Venezuela. He's going to bring democracy to Cuba. He's going to bring freedom. him. Let's take a look at what she actually said, though, in real time in 2024. Let's play it. If I may, I know our time here is limited. I'm asking about the potential deportation of hundreds of thousands of people in your community. The deportation is going to be among those criminals who are the gang members, the gutaways, the trendy Aragua. I am sure. Not all 200 ,000 undocumented in your community. Is that what you're saying? I am sure that we're not, that the Trump administration is not going to be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years that have American kids, that don't have criminal records, that have been working in the economy and paying taxes.

1:08:42I am sure that they're going to hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago. Because I wrote the Dignity Act, and I am the first one who understands that you have to give some type of dignity to those who have been here for more than five years, people who have roots in the country, not people who are coming. You saw, I mean, it's deeper than just betrayal. You killed people, Congresswoman Salazar. You have blood on your hands. You truly do. You lot. Because when Trump has engaged in these mass deportations, not of the bad hombres as you and he were saying, which, by the way, deserve due process, And still, we still have processes and procedures, which under Trump went by the wayside.

1:09:32But, you know, one of the things that we're going to have to have a reckoning with is how many people were killed by USAID being destroyed and food being burned that didn't get in the hands of starving people. How many people and little children contracted HIV and got AIDS and died because we took away their medicine? The Trump regime took away their medicine. How many people who were asylum seekers got murdered when they returned to their countries or other countries where they were sent by the Trump regime, sometimes to just random places. We're going to have to have a reckoning with what that actually was.

1:10:12And we're going to find out that the number is going to be staggering. It's going to be staggering. So we'll leave you at that. Get your copy of WTF America. if you can pre-order it don't wait until october 20th because as our publisher says it's really important for us to figure out where are we going to travel to where do we give we can see all of that based on the data so if you can pre-order wtf america now we'll put a link in the description we have the qr code that you can scan you can also google wtf america it's by hachette is the publisher in Grand Central over here. People were asking, I did do the audio.

1:10:56All three brothers did the audio. And so we take turns in the different chapters, but the audio is us. And it was actually a very long experience doing the audio. We went into the studio with all the work that we're doing, went into the studio and we did it. Each brother took sections of the book. And so I think you'll like the audio. It's read by us. It was important that it be read by us. Despite how busy we were running around doing all these breaking news hits, I wanted to make sure we did the audio ourselves. So it wasn't somebody else's voice. So you'll hear that. Oh, I just released a video.

1:11:35And the video is on what just took place at the United Nations, where China and Russia vetoed the US sanctions on Iran. So give that a watch. As soon as this video ends, give that a watch. And then I can't wait to see you when I do the show with my brothers tonight at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. So we covered a lot of ground. Watch the other video. It's loaded. I'll see you tonight at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. Shout out Midas Mighty. Again, the book's called WTF America. Seriously, WTF. But we'll get through it. As the book says, we'll get out of this hell and back to democracy, back to sanity. See you later.