Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Update with Ben - 7/28/26

28:12And I'm not saying that in a hyperbolic sense. I mean, dude is burning down the world. The world is at war and he's one of the main contributing factors to the global war that's taking place right now. The American people are suffering. They don't want any part of this unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran. And he's out there memeing away and he thinks this is all one big game. These are people's lives. The White House account posting AI slop cartoons of him frolicking around the White House, hop in the best dimension yet while Border Patrol gropes and assaults literal aliens. And it says, hop in, best dimension yet.

29:04And it's the Customs and Border Patrol. When you think about it, it's like, you can't do a deal with that person. You can't negotiate. I mean, it's literally, could you imagine if another world leader ever behaved like that? I mean, one of the closest we came, I thought, growing up, you know, was the stereotypes of Kim Jong-un in North Korea growing up that South Park used to mock, you know, or like Saddam Hussein. Ain't nothing like what's happening in the United States of America. There really is no historical parallel to having a literal psychotic madman in charge of any country like this, at this level of psychotic behavior.

29:53And this is the United States of America. I mean, just think about it this way, too. You had Netanyahu in the Oval Office today. You had Zelensky in the Oval Office today, separately. Separately. no cameras inside the Oval Office at all for these press conferences. Like we all know that Netanyahu was there to get Donald Trump to blow up bridges and power plants. I mean, Israel's defense minister, his name is Israel Katz. His name is Israel Katz. And he was saying that today too. You know, we want to blow up their power plants. We want to blow up their bridges. We're trying to get Donald Trump to do that.

30:40That's, you know, Trump's worry that it may trigger more of a global oil crisis, but that's what we want to do. I mean, they made it very clear what the purpose of this visit for Netanyahu is, but Donald Trump kept this one secret. You know, he brings in, just think about it. He'll bring in the prime minister of Iraq, say how handsome he is. He'll bring in the prime minister of Syria, right brings in the prime and starts spraying cologne on him and sniffing him um you know he'll bring in the president of lebanon and you know again he'll you know say things about the president of lebanon you know to you know show that ayun is a puppet to show Jelani, Syrian president, puppet.

31:35He'll show the Iraqi prime minister al-Zaidi as a puppet, although al-Zaidi has to deal with being pulled in lots of directions because they're very close to Iran. And you saw the Shiite community there in Iraq for Khomeini's funeral. And that was done intentionally by Iran to send a message about the Shiite support for Iran and for the Ayatollah in Iraq. But notably, for Netanyahu, no cameras there, no press conference. Arguably, of all of

32:14Ben Meiselas:the world leader meetings, isn't that the one where we would want questions to be asked by the press? What the hell's happening? Why is Netanyahu here eight, nine times? What's the status of this war? I mean, the two people who got us into this catastrophic and unlawful war are there. That's the one where they go, you know what? We're not going to do that one publicly. We'll do all the other ones so Donald Trump can feel like a tough guy while he behaves in this you know, bizarro, a demeaning way to the other Arab leaders who kind of have to take it. I mean, look, the president of Syria, Jelani, he wants all of the sanctions removed, the designations removed to open up Syria to the world markets.

33:08Ben Meiselas:So he has to, you want to spray me with cologne, you spray me with cologne. You know, I mean, that's, you know, he's there. you've, you know, and, and the U S threats in the region are significant. Um, I un the president of Lebanon, you know, was there, you know, who, who basically admitted that what, or Sergio Gorka, one of those right-wing extremists in the Trump regime. He was saying, uh, that he taught, uh, I un the president of Lebanon studied under him is in shocking. Um, Sebastian Gorka. Yeah. work of um you know zaidi of iraq you think about all of the you know oil deals all of the u.s controls of pipelines there and so zaidi has to do this balancing act but netanyahu shows up that one's not going to be in the press note and and you know how you can kind of see what's really happening here and and when donald trump actually is afraid of people.

34:15Ben Meiselas:He doesn't want it to be done when he feels intimidated. He doesn't want that to be done publicly, right? I mean, you think about it, think about how short the presser was with Putin, right? It was in, in out. Zelensky previously, when Trump thought that he had the card. When Trump thought Trump had the cards, when he didn't, he would have Zelensky there and try to embarrass Zelensky publicly. He would try to put Zelensky through the Oval Office humiliation ritual. You go back to February 2025, perhaps one of the most historic meetings ever held, where Donald Trump was saying, you don't have the cards, you don't have the cards.

35:00Ben Meiselas:And Zelensky's like, this isn't a game of cards. One day you're going to need me and you're going to be flailing. Y 'all remember that one? But notably, Zelensky's meeting today was not done publicly. And they kept that one privately, which tells me also there really is a power dynamic shift there that Trump didn't do the Zelensky one publicly, right? That's kind of a signal there because I think Trump thinks that if he's there with Zelensky, that the same way he thinks if he's there with Netanyahu, it'll expose how weak Donald Trump is. I'm kind of, you know, look, I am on the one hand, you think, well, it's a positive development that Donald Trump is out there helping Zelensky, you know, or at least showing more positive language towards Zelensky than before.

35:55Ben Meiselas:And could that mean the Patriot interceptors get expedited or the licenses are given to Ukraine? You know, I also have a, you know, I don't want to say it's a contrarian viewpoint, but I think that experience shows that also everything Trump touches dies. And I think a lot of the strength that Zelensky in Ukraine has been able to build has been done without Trump. And so the reality is, is that I think when people like Trump and Loomer and who's the guy who wears the beanie? What's that guy's name? The right wing podcast dork guy who wears the beanie. Tim Pool, right? All of them all of a sudden are like, they went from like Russia to Ukraine.

36:48Ben Meiselas:you know when you're like oh my god uh-oh like that crew's now there you know and also the way the corporate news like right away like ignores everything they've done in the past and then they like glorify these people who were never on the right side because it seems transactionally they're on the they're now saying things that are different because it seems now i don't you know whether that feels more aligned with their views towards Israel or whether, you know, they are now having different resource structures given to them for their position changing, if you know what I mean. I don't know.

37:35Ben Meiselas:But this is not the crew. That's actually not the crew that you want on your side, objectively, right? Like this is the crew that tends to lose all. And so, you know, I just, I throw that out there. But while Donald Trump was closing the Oval Office to the press, you know, it's like, well, what is he posting? What is he doing? It's all closed to the press, closed to the press, closed to the press, closed to the press. I did a video before about that deranged funeral. I can't believe I'm calling a funeral. Like, how could you have a deranged funeral? right the deranged lindsey graham funeral and you go to and you you ask yourself you're like okay deranged funeral but it was like the most deranged thing trump spoke there sean hannity spoke there about obliterating iran at the funeral trump was like giving tic tacs to like he was sleeping and then giving tic tacs to everybody you remember what he's previously said about tic tacs too And so that's what he was doing there.

38:40He spoke there, but then closed the Oval Office to the

38:45Ben Meiselas:Zelensky meeting and the NetYahu meeting. But he was posting things like this. This was a real post from Donald Trump. While those Oval Office meetings are going on, he posts Trump on TikTok. 425 billion all-time views of hashtag Trump TikToks. Number one most followed and watched leader on TikTok, not TikToks. TikToks is what he gave. This is TikTok. And it says 1 billion views, he's bragging. Trump's Iran peace deal, 1 billion views in just 48 hours. I mean, just think about how deranged this is too. You're bragging about getting 1 billion views over a peace deal that doesn't exist right now.

39:31As you've been escalating this catastrophic war and you ran out of munitions

39:37Ben Meiselas:so you had to stop escalating, you're making social media posts bragging about TikTok views and then going to a funeral and passing out Tic Tacs. But he apparently also, these aren't like views from his account. These are like people who are talking about the deal or Iran. It's not like directly even related to his own post because if you look at his post, they don't have those level of views. And like he's doing that. And then you have like Iran's leadership out there saying, we're not negotiating with them. Don't believe them. They're deranged. You want to see how the Americans negotiate? Just look what they did with Saudi Arabia.

40:19Ben Meiselas:One day they announced they're doing a civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. And the next day, Donald Trump says, actually, Saudi Arabia, you've got to be allied with Israel through the Abraham Accords, and they change it up. Iran's like, you see yet another US deal can't even make it 24 hours. Now, look, this idea that Donald Trump is involved in quid pro quos and giving civilian nuclear capabilities to Saudi Arabia was deeply alarming in and of itself and completely incongruent with the position that Saudi Arabia should be able to have civilian nuclear weapons, civilian nuclear power, but Iran can't have civilian nuclear power, especially when Donald Trump does business deals with Saudi Arabia.

41:06Ben Meiselas:Also, it's clear Donald Trump doesn't understand the way enrichment works, that even for civilian nuclear plants, you have to, other than some that are in Canada, but by and large, you have to have enriched nuclear material. It's just not weapons grade, but Trump's like, it's not enriched, no enrichment. Okay. Well, that's how do you think most civilian nuclear plants work? There's some level of enrichment. It's just not a weapons grade amount, but if you can down blend, you can up blend. Okay. And so that's one of the, it was one of the issues and concerns about giving Saudi Arabia this program or having a view that Saudi Arabia can get this, UAE can get this.

41:47Ben Meiselas:But then Donald Trump changed up the terms the next day. He's like, actually, you've got to join the Abraham Accords. And we know Saudi Arabia is not going to join the Abraham Accords. And it's like, you've got Trump out there posting weird AI slot memes of himself as cartoon characters and bragging about TikTok views and then making posts head for an eye, Like I head for an eye. Rubio says Iran begging U.S. to make a deal. As Trump's policy is head for an eye, not eye for an eye. It's head for an eye. Who are these warmonger, crazy people saying these things? I mean, like literally the United States sounds like Nazi Germany.

42:32Ben Meiselas:Head for an eye. We're going to blow up your bridges and obliterate you and destroy every aspect of it. and all 90 million people. I mean, it's really tough to be an American who cares about humanity and to live in the country where you have this authoritarian regime bragging about war crimes all of the time, every single day. And then the level of bragging about war crimes, and then we got a deal and making up fake deal conversations. It's like loser behavior. Open up the gates of hell. And these idiots run out of munitions. Open up the gates of hell, but then run out of munitions. And then Trump goes, I've got more munitions than anybody, more munitions than ever, except it was Biden's fault that we ran out of munitions, giving it to Ukraine.

43:18Ben Meiselas:We should never have given it to Ukraine. But now I'm meeting with Zelensky right here. But I think Putin is a great guy. It's just psychotic behavior. And while we all know that Trump doesn't control the straight of Hormuz. He's out there. This is what he was doing this morning before this funeral. And Trump was like, Iran doesn't control the straight. I control the straight. I, we control the, we don't control the straight of Hormuz when you say things like this. Not that we have any credibility left at all, but whatever's left is not just shattered. It's like, do you all feel that pit in your stomach when he says things like this?

43:57Ben Meiselas:Despite we all know we despise him. It's Just like, stop, man. Just behave normal, please. Can you behave normal just for a day? He can't. He's incapable of it. Here, let's play this clip. Through, get through. Iran doesn't control the strait. We control the strait. Now, they can drop a couple of mines in there and screw things up, but we control the strait. We don't. We don't control the strait. They can do more than drop a couple of mines in there, okay? They have fast boats. They have ballistic missiles. They have drones. Their allies, the Houthis, have ballistic missiles and drones. And they were able to destroy right away three Saudi Arabian refineries after Saudi Arabia struck Sanaa, the airport over there.

44:40Ben Meiselas:Why are we pretending that Iran are a bunch of cavemen and cavewomen who dwell in their caves and just scream Allah Akbar all day? This is a sophisticated society that also is a religious society, is a sophisticated society that has the best engineering in the world. they've prepared every step of the way for all of these um moves that were lack thereof that Donald Trump is making right now they're never going to allow these straight of Hormuz to not be under their sovereignty and their control they they will they will fight to the end for that proposition while Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and the worst possible human beings are running the United States into the ground.

45:34Ben Meiselas:I got more I want to share with you, including a deranged funeral. A deranged funeral. Let's take, and I want to give a legal update as well, because there have been some major updates in the David Hearn reflecting pool case regarding the grand jury there. The Comey motion to dismiss on First Amendment grounds there. And Katie Fang, big updates there with her fight under the Epstein Transparency Act. Let's take our last quick break. Oh, did everybody get WTF America pre-order? WTF America, by the way. If you pre-order WTF America now, it's very helpful. It comes out in October, but if you pre-order it now, we want to see where we should be doing book tours.

46:20Ben Meiselas:And it helps us for the actual day of, when it gets released in October, that we have the pre-sales now. So if you are able to pre-order, please scan the QR code, wherever the QR code is, put in the comment section right now, put in the chat, WTF, if you've pre-ordered or if you plan on pre-ordering today, put WTF. All right, let's take our last quick break of the show.

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50:28They support this show, support our sponsors. Good audience here today. Great to see the crowd. I was looking through the chat. It's really great to see familiar names, new names all here. When we left off, I showed you Donald Trump saying that we control the Strait of Hormuz, everything's amazing, full control, Iran doesn't control it. Let's talk about what else has been going down. You had on state regime media, you had Brian Kilmeade saying, okay, Donald, you claim you're having these negotiations with Iran. You claim you're in discussions with them. So who are you talking to? Who are the people in Iran that you are speaking with?

51:14And by the way, you all know we do a very detailed job here on the Midas Touch Network talking about who the players are in Iran, right? I mean, we can say the Iranian speaker, parliament leader, Mbigal Abaf, used to be in the Iranian military. He's a PhD. Are you speaking with him? President Pazeskian, the president of Iran, are you speaking with him? Foreign Minister Aragchi, you speaking with him? Deputy Foreign Minister Gargabadi, are you speaking with him? Are you speaking with, obviously we know he's not speaking with the Ayatollah, but are you speaking with Ayatollah Komené? Mojaba?

51:56Ben Meiselas:The way you were speaking with Lindsey Graham was the old Ayatollah. Speaking to you, who's the ghost of Komené? Who are you talking to? And do you even know who these people are in Iran? Because Trump and Fox, they'll say, oh, Iran, you know, they don't even speak to each other. We don't, they don't even know who's in charge right now. And it's like, yeah, we do. We actually really do know who's in charge. We know at the civilian level, you know, it's MB Galabaf, who's probably the most powerful civilian person. There's president, Pazeskian, cardiovascular surgeon, renowned cardiovascular surgeon before becoming president.

52:41Ben Meiselas:You know, Aragchi, we know who they are. Aragici speaking with Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, and Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia. Are you speaking with those people? I know when they all speak to each other, there are readouts. When other world leaders, even like Russia to China, there are readouts. We can see that they're a converse, that that's the way this has always worked before. Are you speaking with the IRGC? Are you speaking with the army? The IRGC and the army actually technically different groups in Iran? Are you speaking with their Supreme Judicial Council all the way up to the Ayatollah?

53:17Ben Meiselas:And now who are you talking to? So Trump has asked, let's watch what he says. Let's play it. Here's on Iran, but Iran has come out publicly and say, we're not talking to the U.S. We're going to pause as long as they're talking. We are talking a little while ago because. So could you tell me who you're talking to, Mr. President? For some reason, for some reason, we can be in the midst of a beautiful discussion and they'll come out and say, we're not talking or we didn't discuss nuclear. Well, that's all we discussed because they'll never have a nuclear weapon. They understand that. And we have had some very good talks and very interesting with Lindsey.

53:52He was very much a hawk, as you would say, on Iran. And over the last few weeks, I would say that he became like, if you could make a deal, it's better making a deal in this case. I'm sure Lindsey Graham said it's better to make a deal. But like, now that we've run out of munitions, just think about what a sicko this guy. And by the way, Lindsey Graham was an absolute sicko as well. I mean, like Lindsey Graham was a horrible person. I mean, I just being objective, you know, I, you know, he lived his life to kill people. And then he died all alone, dead.

54:28Ben Meiselas:But he invoked Lindsey Graham's name to talk about a peace deal because the United States ran out of munitions. And then he lies and he's like, well, actually, Iran just came out with a statement and said they were talking. I mean, it's just the most ridiculous propaganda. It's just dumb propaganda from the United States. The Iranian press conference this morning was we are not talking with them. We do not want to talk with them. If Trump says we're talking, we are not talking with them. Do you see how humiliating that makes us look and we actually are when that's what the United States has become?

55:11Ben Meiselas:And one of the points I emphasize in the videos that we are doing is that the security umbrella in the Middle East has completely shifted. The United States security umbrella is done. China is moving in. And this is China's security umbrella right now. And the Middle East countries are welcoming China's involvement right now because far more predictability and stability and normalness than the way Trump's behaved. That's where we are historically right now is that one security umbrella is out, a new security umbrella is moving in. That's what Donald Trump has done. So you go to Lindsey Graham's funeral and Donald Trump saying about Lindsey Graham's funeral, I think I know where he is.

56:08Ben Meiselas:I think he's up there. Let's just play this. Constant opponent. Our nation needs more men and women like that great person sitting, laying wherever he may be. I think I know where he is and I think he's up there. I think he's watching us i'm pretty sure of it sitting laying like dude can't be normal i mean he can't even deliver the most basic eulogy for somebody in his warmonger crew he can't just till he can't do it. He's incapable of doing it. Then he says about Lindsey Graham, he was hawkish, never saw a war he didn't like. Always loved war, loved killing people. That's what Trump says at the Eulogy Let's Play.

57:04He was extremely hawkish. I will tell you, he never saw a war that he didn't like. Only his true friends would understand that, but he wanted it for the good of our country.

57:15Ben Meiselas:then you had hannity speak and hannity described lindsey graham's heaven as being mar-a-lago which may be hell so there may be some truth to that but he describes it as lindsey this is like what i mean just think about this this cult shit right like this is some crazy because it's like some crazy stuff you know you got hannity's like lindsey is probably in his heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. Like if you told me that this was a Jim Jones thing or I'd be like no I don't buy it that's too crazy but watch for yourself here let's play it. There ye may be also. Lindsay Mr. President I'll argue in my mind probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago.

58:11It may even be a little bigger. He may have a little more gold in the Oval Office in his mansion in heaven. And I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big, beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property, because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life, you, Mr. President. straight up the most psychotic stuff all of these people but by the way you now know why the title of the book is called wtf america because i mean i just think you know i know we have so many international viewers and listeners and they watch this stuff and they're like dude what the hell has happened to your country wtf yeah these are all like psychotic human beings

59:01Ben Meiselas:These are like just the least normal people imaginable. Oh, and then he uses the funeral to call for the annihilation of Iran. And you have Netanyahu is there. And so you have Hannity with Netanyahu over there saying, and what Lindsey Graham would have wanted is for Iran to be fully annihilated. Thank you. Here, watch. My perspective was Lindsay had moral clarity. He understood right from wrong, good from evil. And he knew, as President Trump knows, as Israel knows, as I know, there can be no path to peace until evil is defeated. Evil, in this case, embodied in a death cult, an ideology, the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

1:00:00thanks to the partnership of the president, the prime minister, and many other allies. I pray their days are numbers, and I pray that Lindsey's dream of a lasting peace becomes realized soon. I see President Zelensky is here. His, by the way, J.D. Vance is like 6 '2". He looks like a head taller than Donald Trump right there in that photo. And also J.D. Vance keeping his distance from Netanyahu there seems pretty intentional. Lindsey Graham's dream of a lasting peace through the annihilation of the Iranians. We shall hope that, I mean, what are you doing?

1:00:42Ben Meiselas:What in the world are we even doing here, folks? Israel. Israel, what are we doing? The United States and Israel. That's what Lindsey Graham would have wanted. Demolishing the Iranian civilization. I see Mr. Netanyahu right here. Let's do it. More war crimes. The American people are like, we just want healthcare. We really just want healthcare. And we want to be able to pay our rent and afford our homes and stop sticking SpaceX into our 401ks. Like we don't want SpaceX stock. We don't want Trump accounts where you throw the oligarch companies into mutual funds for our kids. If you want to do an account, you don't need to call it Trump accounts for our kids because everything Trump touches goes bankrupt.

1:01:41Ben Meiselas:There's a way to do that account the right way also. So they took something that, by the way, the concept of the Trump account, setting aside its name, where$1 ,000 or so is put into an account for kids when they're born, and then it's invested in a certain way. I mean, there could be a way to run a program like that, you know, that may make sense. There could be. But what it's actually being done for is what we saw yesterday. I talked about it this morning. So you had like the CEO of SpaceX as that stock is crashing, donating the SpaceX stock into the Trump kid accounts. And then Trump posts SpaceX, SpaceX, SpaceX, great work SpaceX.

1:02:30Ben Meiselas:And so in my opinion, the way it's being used under the Trump regime is basically for Trump trying to pump up the stocks of people who bend the knee to him. and that that's, oh, it's a way to take a tax deduction for a company that wants to get government subsidies for bending the knee to Trump in the first place, and then taking a fraction of the money that they get in the government subsidies, like in the case of Micron and others, and donating that in a way that I believe is probably tax deductible to the accounts that then invest back in your company to try to pump up your stock. Isn't it pretty obvious in my opinion?

1:03:17Ben Meiselas:That's how they're using these Trump accounts. Seems pretty clear what the scheme is. I think we need to call it out more. Let me just talk very briefly about some of these cases. I'm going to do a bunch of hot takes with Harry Lippman where I'll go over a lot of these. James Comey filed a motion to dismiss regarding the 86 seashell case, arguing that dictionaries, context, precedent, and common sense all make it clear that 86 simply means get rid of or reject. It has no violent connotation under the First Amendment, dismiss the complaint. You have in the reflecting pool case right over here, David Hearn pointing out that in their investigation, the only witness who went before the grand jury had no evidence at all of any damage that David Hearn actually did to the reflecting pool.

1:04:19Ben Meiselas:Attorneys for the reflecting pool, defendant David Hearn sent in a filing yesterday, the only witness to testify about damages to his grand jury, could not identify any additional cost caused by David Hearn's alleged conduct. And one of the things that you have to prove that the grand jury would have had to have found probable cause was that Hearn caused damage of more than$1 ,000. Not that he put his hand in? He put his hand in. He didn't rip anything off. You have to show$1 ,000 in damages or more. So the question is, if the witness has no evidence of what the actual damage caused was, what was the instruction given to the grand jury?

1:05:08Ben Meiselas:Or is this yet another example where the grand jury was given false instructions by the Trump's DOJ in order to indict? And we've seen all throughout the country, false grand jury instructions being given. Is that what we're seeing over here? On the Midas Touch Network, I don't need to play this clip, but we've been breaking the stories here on the Sunday show with Jack Cucherella. Shout out to Jack. Everybody watch his Sunday show. It's great. He had Congresswoman Ansari on Saturday. I had Ansari on. He had, that's called on Sunday. It's not on Saturday. I had Ansari on on Saturday. He had her on on Sunday and she talked about subpoenaing Barron Trump.

1:05:53Ben Meiselas:And where's Barron? Friends with the Tate brothers involved in some of this crypto stuff, world liberty financial. We all want to see Barron have his deposition taken. So we'll be following the developments there. If and when Democrats take control of the House. Barron, Barron, Barron, Barron, Barron. Also Eric Don Jr., Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Josh Kushner, Jared's brother, the Kushner family, apparently working with FIFA right now. Infantino, Gianni Infantino to sell the World Cup to private equity. Yeah, the Trump, Infantino, Kushners, they want to take the world. Albanian Islands, now they want to take the World Cup from us.

1:06:38Ben Meiselas:They want to take, what do you think all this plan was? It was a money grip. So now what Infantino wants to do, working with the Kushners apparently, is to create a holdco, a holding company that will essentially acquire the FIFA World Cup and then sell off pieces to private equity. That's what they're scheming right now. But by the way, if you've been following the Midas Touch Network, we've been talking about how private equity has been buying up children's sports programs, kids' sports programs, and they've been just making it inaccessible and unaffordable to parents and people who just want to play like soccer or tennis or baseball or softball or whatever, you name it.

1:07:30Ben Meiselas:Private equity, hockey, private equity buys up these leagues and then raises the price so that people can participate in children's sports. By the way, they're doing that with FIFA right now. And I just told you with Gianni Infantino, pay attention there. The Kushners, everything they do, they just want to screw up everything for all of us, these Epstein class people. That's all they want to do. And then you've got Katie Fang, heroic Katie Fang. Everybody subscribe to Katie Fang's YouTube channel. Everybody download the Katie Fang audio podcast. What an honor to have Katie Fang on our channel, huh?

1:08:07Ben Meiselas:Katie Fang, Midas Touch host, makes me so proud. I'm so honored. I'm so lucky to have Katie Fang be a part of this network, huh? And everybody else. I'm not, you know, I could go down the list of the Scott McFarlane's and the Popox and the Aaron Parnas's and the Tennessee brand. Everybody, everybody's great. Katie Fang right now though is particularly heroic in leading the charge to get the Epstein files released. And as she said on her channel, well, let me just let Katie say it for herself in her fight against Todd Blanche. Let's bring her in. So not only has Judge Sullivan found as a matter of fact, any matter of law that Blanche has violated the Epstein File Transparency Act, his ability to order Todd Blanche to show up to chambers with the unredacted documents and with proof supporting his claims that these are victims that are having their identification redacted.

1:09:06The order itself also says that the court has, quote,

1:09:27I have faith in Judge Sullivan's ability to be able to weed through the bullshit that Tom Blanche will likely try to shovel. And it's okay if I'm not there. I knew. I mean, was hoping I could be there. love it so grateful so grateful hey everybody thanks everybody for watching we had that nice

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