Trump Has Disaster Sunday as Iran Won't Let Him Leave!

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a catastrophic Sunday morning. He's in Bedminster right now. And according to the Wall Street Journal, he is telling his closest aides and advisors that he knows the United States lost this catastrophic war to Iran. He wants to try to declare victory by just having Iran open up the Strait of Hormuz. According to the Wall Street Journal article, Donald Trump does not even care about talking about denuclearization anymore. But Iran has remained firm on all of the conditions that it put in the Memorandum of Understanding in order to open the Strait of Hormuz. Israel leaving Lebanon, Iran getting sanctions relief, and Iran keeping its ballistic missiles program, Iran getting a massive amount of aid, you know, and other kind of critical conditions, U.S.

0:53Ben Meiselas:leaving the region. And so Iran saying it's no longer just good enough for you to say we're leaving. You need to give us what we expected under the memorandum of understanding. Now, you see from Donald Trump's schedule right here that it's all closed off to the press today. We've got some photos of Donald Trump kind of roaming around and lurking at the Bedminster golf course in New Jersey. He's been posting again these weird images of James Tolerico, very strange behavior by Donald Trump right there. We also know that Israel is now threatening that if you're not going to escalate Donald and attack Iran, we're going to do it without you and we're going to drag you into it.

1:35Ben Meiselas:Also, Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials are saying they are not agreeing to the so-called Board of Peace plan in Gaza that Donald Trump was talking about two weeks ago or a week and a half ago. Trump's like, we did it again. I'm declaring another deal in Gaza. and Hamas has agreed and Israel has agreed. And Netanyahu said, let me be very clear. We don't agree to any of this. We don't want any deal at all. And Netanyahu said, while I remain the prime minister, there will never be a Palestine that comes at the same time where Brad Cooper, who leads the US CENTCOM, and he's really made a fool of himself over the past several months, this guy.

2:17Ben Meiselas:He was in Israel with Netanyahu when Netanyahu was saying that. We reported earlier this morning, but let me reiterate as well. The Iranian backed Houthis in Yemen have been launching multiple attacks against Saudi interests in Yemen, as well as in Saudi Arabia. Show you the B-roll right here. The Houthis launched ballistic missiles and drones at Yemen's Al Muka port, causing fires and heavy smoke. This comes within less than 24 hours of Saudi Arabia announcing its defense pact with Turkey. In addition to the one it already had with Pakistan, They're calling that the Mecca Pact. And as I've been saying, the Houthis were going to test the Mecca Pact right from the outset, and they weren't afraid of it.

3:00Ben Meiselas:Notably, last night, you also had a Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia that was struck hard as well. And that was the Jabal refinery over there in eastern Saudi Arabia, still on fire right now. The Houthis issued a statement saying they succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in that Juzan, Jabal area, the industrial city area in eastern Saudi Arabia. So with all of this taking place, Donald Trump sends his bootlickers, his MAGA sycophants to do the morning shows, and they just spew lie after lie. For example, you have MAGA Republican Senator Jim Banks this morning saying, I think that Donald Trump is the biggest peacemaker ever.

3:44Ben Meiselas:All of this is exactly what peacemakers do. This is MAGA Republican Jim Banks. Let's play this clip. A new war in the last four decades. Senator, do you still see President Trump now, we're nearly five months into the war with Iran as the greatest peacemaker? I do. His legacy is going to be largely wrapped up in ensuring that Iran never has a nuclear weapon. I do not want my kids to grow up in a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon that will be pointed directly at the United States of America, at our troops abroad, at our allies. And President Trump is the first president in 47 years who's had the guts to stand up to the regime there and tell them that they're not going to get away with it.

4:29There's been lots of good news of what's happened. The greatest military in the world is as an Afghanistan veteran myself, watching what our military has accomplished, wiping out 85 percent of Iran's ballistic missiles, Iran's defense industrial base and making sure that they can never achieve their ultimate goal to have that nuclear weapon.

4:51Ben Meiselas:Then you have Donald Trump propagandist Maria Bartiroma saying that if Democrats say that the economy is not doing well, well, that's just pure propaganda, she says. She goes, it's doing amazing. She says, I talk to CEOs and the U.S. economy has never been better, or she says. And of course, maybe if you talk to CEOs who are celebrating layoffs and who have gotten richer, all the American people suffer. But this is exactly what is wrong with our country right now. And the American people know it. Here play this clip. You know, President Trump is constantly talking about record markets. You mentioned their rising wages and what we are still seeing fewer layoffs.

5:33But yet this week already, we're going to be hearing from Democrats about how horrible the economy is. So that's just that's just propaganda. I mean, look, things are going well. And I think we all feel it. Right, Griff? I mean, look at where we are right now. You've got job creation. You've got economic growth. You've got 18 trillion dollars of new investment. The president's main priority has been to put America first and get the supply chains back to America so that we're not reliant on, you know, Asia for semiconductor chips, which we need for defense or, you know, China for pharmaceutical components.

6:07And so that in and of itself is such a positive for the economy and for growth. So really, everyone's going to say what they want to say in a campaign season. And I expect the campaign season is, you know, ramping up right now. But when you actually look at what's going on, things feel pretty good. I've spoken with a number of CEOs who tell me that business is up strongly. And it has to do partly with the big, beautiful bill.

6:32Ben Meiselas:Now, going back to that MAGA Republican Senator Jim Banks for a moment, he then echoes what Maria Bartiroma says. And he says, yeah, I give the economy an A plus right now. Play this clip. Let me ask you now about the biggest issue for voters, the economy. One of the most defining issues of the midterm, certainly. President Trump said this week, quote, I think we should be given an A plus on the economy. Friday's jobs report, as you know, says the U.S. lost 23 ,000 jobs in July. Do you think President Trump deserves an A-plus on the economy, Senator? I do, and here's why. Every single jobs report, except for this one, has exceeded expectations.

7:17And there's still good news, even in this July jobs report, about the resurgence of manufacturing jobs and construction jobs that are being created in America. Don't never forget that the last two years that Joe Biden was in the White House, we lost a quarter of a million manufacturing jobs. And we've seen a significant resurgence because of President Trump's trade policies and bringing back those good paying factory jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs. We're seeing it nowhere more than in states like Indiana. That's the return of the made in America economy. Those are long-term sustainable jobs.

7:54And we're gonna keep seeing that in this Trump economy.

7:57Ben Meiselas:So then Trump sends his national economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, this guy lies about everything. He did the various morning shows. I'll just show you this one clip where he says, we actually have no inflation right now. He says, he goes, there's zero inflation and we're experiencing a massive boom. He says here, play this clip. So it does seem as though the president's policies have led to this economic situation where the job growth is slower than in the last 18 months of Biden's administration. Right. Well, let's unpack these things. First of all, if you look at the latest inflation numbers, right, the consumer price index was negative for the month of June.

8:38Core was zero. That's the thing that the Fed cares about. The PCE index, which is the Fed's number one index, was negative both for core and top line. And so all of the price data have been decelerating. Now, there was a big inflation in the previous administration, but there's been rapid deceleration of inflation under President Trump. And so if you're going to tell a story that tariffs are causing some kind of positive shock to inflation, then you've got to come up with some counterfactual that explains why it is that right now inflation is running at about zero.

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9:47Ben Meiselas:And the reason for that, I believe, is because I think left wing and center media know knew that already and that right wing media is now like, what? We're just learning about the six months he wants out. I actually think it's a good sign. But, you know, this research tool is very helpful for me. It's a game changer because I just think as active, responsible citizens, as someone who runs this large media network, we need to make sure we get our news from reliable sources. And I want to give you the most reliable sources. And so I use Ground News. It's a subscriber-funded app and news site. Every day they pull in thousands of articles or more from around the world.

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11:03Ben Meiselas:Thanks, Ground News. Let's get back into some of the reporting for today. Also, we know an MQ-9 Reaper was shot down over or crashed, either shot down or crashed over Djibouti. So yet another piece of American military equipment destroyed. I don't know if you saw this. The Trump regime also gave all defense companies a 21-day ultimatum. You need to come up with a plan to build more weapons in the next 21 days or else, or else what? The government's going to take over the companies. You're going to take over more of the modes of production or invoke the Defense Production Act and shut companies down.

11:39Ben Meiselas:The mismanagement of this war lies with the liars. It lies with Trump and Hegseth and these completely unqualified people who are being checkmated at every point by Iran. And it is just frankly an embarrassing humiliation ritual that the Americans are put through every day. I talked about what Netanyahu has been saying. You have Israeli's energy minister saying, I think from our perspective, it would be better if there's no agreement. We can continue putting pressure on Iran. And I tell you, another two or three years with God's help, the regime in Iran will fall. Remember where this started. We made sure to sow all those seeds that will lead to the fall of the regime, just admitting that they brought us into this catastrophic and unlawful war the Netanyahu regime did.

12:23Ben Meiselas:Oh, so then Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Advisor, also showed you the clip before on CNN. Jake Tapper asked him, so you said this is the strongest job market ever in American history? By what metric? And then he goes, yeah, we're booming. Things are great. I mean, this is the lies that they tell over and over again. Here, let's play this clip right here. And the bottom line is that if you look at the overall economy, then things are really, really booming. As an example, there are 83 ,000 construction workers building factories right now. That's a number that we've never seen before. Initial claims for unemployment insurance are the lowest they've been since World War II.

13:01There are more job openings than there are unemployed workers. So there are all these things that suggested the number should have been really strong. And when it didn't come out strong, we sort of dug in and we saw that the two things that made it negative. One of them was a reduction in government workers, and it was mostly teachers at states, you know, taking July off. And the other thing was that the FIFA ended, and so that we had a whole bunch of hospitality workers, you know, file for unemployment in July. And so anyway, so you take those two out and you get back to what the consensus number was, about 100 ,000 job creation.

13:34And the point is, if that were in isolation, I wouldn't be caring about caring about like throwing this or that on the side because it's a special story but the fact is everything else is so strong but i think that it makes sense that the consensus was about right

13:46Ben Meiselas:um tim scott was asked by manu raju on cnn why don't you just call abdul el-sayed abdul like that's how he refers to himself as like are you just trying to let i think i think people know he's muslim but is this like a way to do like a like a islamophobic dog whistle like what are you doing? And Tim's like, everyone calls me Timothy Eugene. Dude, what are you talking about? Play this clip. Your early attack ads against him. You're using his full name in these attack ads, which has gotten some attention. Abdul Rahman Mohammed El Saeed. He goes by Abdul El Saeed. Are you trying to say hint, hint to voters he's Muslim?

14:22Not at all. What we're saying, what we're only saying to voters is a simple thing. He says he's the most, he says he's the the most dangerous candidate you can find. He's right. We should trust his words, not ours. But why not just use his name, Abdul El-Sayed, which he goes by. Well, listen, I go by Timothy Jean, and so I get called that all the time. Here's what I know about that question. It's about what he stands for, and we're gonna focus and bring attention to the fact that not only is he sympathetic for Hamas, not only does he run around with Hassan Pike or someone who said that Americans deserve 9-11, he should be held account for exactly where he stands and what he's for.

15:03Ben Meiselas:Then on Face the Nation, you had Senator Cassidy of Louisiana who ended up voting for Todd Blanche. He wanted a participation trophy. He wanted credit for almost voting no on Blanche. Here, let me show you this clip. Let's play it. This is not a black or white decision. That is wrong and no American should be targeted by the law, but no American should be above the law. And that, frankly, almost weighed to vote no. And you're just hoping you had to accept it. So utterly bizarre. And then I'll show you Abdul El-Sayed. He was on CNN this morning, and he was asked about the hateful imagery or the post that Donald Trump was making all last night where Donald Trump would post him and Melania.

15:51Ben Meiselas:And then he posted Abdul and Abdul's wife, Abdul and his wife met at university of Michigan. They fell in love. They've had a committed marriage, raising two kids. Remember I talked about that this morning, go and watch the morning video, by the way, to go check out that 4am video. Um, if, if you can go back and watch that, I think it was comprehensive. Um, and, uh, and Trump posts him and Melania. He was like, there's two types of Americas. I don't know. You cheated on Melania with adult film actress when, you know, and said that she reminded you of her daughter, according to the adult film actress.

16:25Ben Meiselas:And then you brag about sexually assaulting women. And then you were introduced by a guy who brags about being on the Epstein list, Paulo Zampoli, and you met at a Kit Kat club. And, you know, I mean, yeah, I guess there are to America. There's a sick Epstein class America. And then there's America of hope and love and family. And Abdul Al-Sayed hits that point. Let's play it. I want them to live in an America where they can breathe clean air and drink clean water. And actually, Saar and I like each other. I don't know about the first lady and the president, but from what I've heard, it's a bit of a rocky road.

17:01Breaking this morning is the new.

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