Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 3/31/26

26:26You're the butcher of the US. You're the butcher of the US, Donald, who has been successfully eliminated. The USA will remember. Why are you even talking like the corniest bad guy from the corniest Batman cartoon? That's not even a helpful strategy. You sound like an idiot. You are an idiot. But who talks like this? You know, his

26:48Ben Meiselas:other post this morning, all of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran. I have a suggestion for you. Number one, buy from the US. We have plenty. And number two, build up some delayed courage. Go to the strait and just take it. You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself. The USA won't be there to help you anymore. Just like you weren't there for us. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done. Get your own oil. You know, anybody my age who's in this chat or who's listening, watch Captain Planet growing up.

27:31Ben Meiselas:I can't name for you any episodes specifically, but they put their rings together in Captain Planet's form. Right. Remember like the bad guys in Captain Planet, though, were so corny. like Donald Trump's the corny bad guy that Captain Planet fought against. Get your own oil next time, Captain Planet. It's like, who talks like this? Or like for people who may be a little bit younger, like the bad guy when they translated like the Dragon Ball Zs, right? And he'd be like, you're going to get your own planet right now because I'm not going to help you anymore. I'm going to build my golden ballroom.

28:08Like the script is so dumb. And the fact that the media talks about it like it's normal. Oh, well, here's a discussion. Abnormal, weird, dangerous. Wake up, people. Let's get the hell out of this mess. I see some of the polling data, though, that was at least brought some good news to our day today. When you look at the voter ID,

28:32Ben Meiselas:since Gallup has been doing their voter ID poll, never has less Americans identified as Republicans. It's dipped below 40%. Now only 39 % of Americans, according to this new Gallup poll, identify that they are Democrats right now. I mean, that's a pretty low number. So when you out a lot, well, like X amount of Republicans are supportive of Trump. Well, the Republican base is dramatically decreased. Let's talk about that. I want to talk a little bit about this ballroom ruling. I'm going to talk about it from the perspective as a law professor. For those people who don't know, I'm a law professor at USC.

29:16Ben Meiselas:When I'm not doing this, I teach law. So I'll break down these statutes for you so you can understand what the law is. We'll talk a little bit more about Kristi Noem and her husband being very sensitive and delicate like I was before. I think that's an important, it's important how we cover it. And then we'll talk about some additional things. How about that? We've got a quick ad break right now. My producers are saying, Ben, we need a quick ad break. So I'm telling them, great. We got a big audience though. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show. We will be right back after this.

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33:27Ben Meiselas:Welcome back. Great ad reads by the bros right there. Appreciate them. Appreciate our sponsors. The discount codes are in the description below. Go check out those sponsors. They help support the growth of this channel. Why don't we talk a little bit about this ballroom order, shall we? Federal judge appointed by George W. Bush, 2002. He's now a senior judge in the D.C. federal courthouse. Blocked the Trump ballroom. What's interesting is if you've been following my ballroom analysis, I predicted this would be the outcome many months ago, but it didn't happen. And in fact, the group that brought the lawsuit, the National Trust lost when it filed for a preliminary injunction originally.

34:25Ben Meiselas:And then I saw some of your comments and you were saying, Professor Mycelis, you were wrong. You were giving us hope that the ballroom was going to be blocked. You cited all of these statutes and you told us all of these things and you were wrong. Like, how do you get it wrong? If you're wrong there, how do we believe you on some of these other things? And you remember what I said? I said, Well, I said, I don't believe that the National Trust was citing the law that I had said in my video, which was this concept of ultra virus. It's really a constitutional claim that Donald Trump was acting outside of congressional authorization and that that wasn't really pled.

35:10Ben Meiselas:that I thought the National Trust, when they filed this lawsuit to block the ballroom originally, they were being a little too cute, a little too cute. They were being very technical with their arguments and they were saying, ah, well, it's this under the Administrative Procedures Act, and this is how we block it. I'm like, it's a much simpler argument. If you remember my hot takes on it. I said, go to the Constitution. The Constitution says this is a core function of Congress. And there's only three statutes that are on point. And these statutes are more persuasive that Trump needed to get congressional approval, not that he could go around Congress.

35:54Ben Meiselas:And so whether it was because the National Trust hired a new law firm or they watched my YouTube videos. I like to believe in my own delusional mind that they watched my YouTube videos and that's what changed their mind. But I'll at least acknowledge that that may not have been what happened. But they amended their complaint. They then filed for a preliminary injunction again. The Trump regime was like, well, they already lost the preliminary injunction, so they can't file it again. And the judge says, no, there's a change of circumstance. They're bringing new law to my attention. Ultravires, E-L-U-T-R-A space V-I-R-E-S.

36:33It's Latin, basically, outside the scope of authority. And then the judge, the judge did it. He blocked the ballroom right there. Judge Leon, again, George W. Bush appointee, Republican appointed judge. Let me just give you the highlights and you'll tell me if this sounds familiar to you. Hint, hint, my past hot takes. The president of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of first families.

37:02Ben Meiselas:He is not, however, the owner. Trump claims that Congress has given him authority in existing statutes to construct his East Wing ballroom project and to do it with private funds. the plaintiff, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, claims the president has no such authority under existing statutes and that a preliminary injunction is necessary to avoid irreparable harm. I have concluded the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the president the authority he claims to have. As such, I must therefore grant the National Trust's motion for a preliminary injunction and the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.

37:43Ben Meiselas:Then the court gives the statutory background and says there are three main statutes under consideration. Might as touch viewers and listeners, does this sound familiar? 3USC Section 105D, titled Assistance and Services for the Presidents, provides for the employment staff members to assist the president and authorizes appropriations for expenses related to the White House administration, but more relevant to this case, Section 105D provides there are authorized to be appropriated each fiscal year to the president, such sums as may be necessary for the care, maintenance, repair, alteration, refurnishing, improvement, air conditioning, heating, and lighting, including electric power and fixtures of the executive residents at the White House.

38:28So if you want to go above what's been appropriated, guess what you got to do. You got to go back to Congress.

38:34Ben Meiselas:And you can't go around it by saying there's going to be private donors who fund the thing. Because if that was the case, then what's the point of Congress? Why don't you just create a Congress of billionaires who you can go around Congress and Congress no longer has the power of the purse, which is at the heart of Article 1. Also, it's the authorized wars, which they don't follow. But if you can just go around the Congress's main power, then what's the point of Article 1 at all? It's basically what the judge said. The judge then pointed out two other statutes, which I've talked about before, 40 U.S.C.

39:07Section 8016 and 54 U.S.C. Section 1101. And then finally, what the court concludes is, so where does this all leave us? Unfortunately for defendants, Trump, unless and until Congress blesses this project through statutory authorization, construction has to stop. But here's the good news, Donald. It's not too late for Congress to authorize the continued construction of the ballroom project.

39:33Ben Meiselas:The president may at any time go to Congress to obtain express authority to construct a ballroom and to do so with private funds. Indeed, Congress may even choose to appropriate funds for the ballroom or at least decide that some other funding scheme is acceptable. Either way, Congress will thereby retain its authority over the nation's property and its oversight over the government spending. The national trust interest in a constitutional and lawful process will be vindicated and the American people will benefit from the branches of government exercising their constitutionally prescribed roles.

40:10Not a bad outcome, that exclamation point. Right? Then Donald Trump just flipped out. Donald Trump's like, Oh, could you believe this? Radical extremist groups. What's his other post? Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergman and I are working on fixing the absolutely filthy reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. This work was supposed to be done by the Biden administration, but Sleepy Joe doesn't know what clean or proper maintenance is. The president and secretary do? I mean, Donald Trump's country clubs, cult clubs, whatever the hell you want to call them, you know how frequently they've like, like the Trump properties, like they're frequently cited for health code violations all of the times they're dirty, they're outdated.

40:58Despite Donald Trump taking in, you know, millions of dollars from each member, you know, he serves them what always looks like the crap. So it always looks like when he serves them food, it's like, it's like a little tiny piece of steak that's like not even cooked. And it's like, well, this is what your million dollar membership gets you. I mean, I guess it's about access to him and I guess it's about the grift right there. And by the way, I can connect that grift and access though to some major issues that are happening in this catastrophic and unlawful war. In Iran, one of the things that's being reported right now is that you've got nations like Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and others in the region who are basically telling Donald, you better not leave us

41:46Ben Meiselas:here with Iran still controlling the Strait of Hormuz. You realize we gave you a lot of stuff. Qatar gave him the jet. Saudi Arabia, all of the Trump properties here, there, investing in Kushner, UAE giving hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, to World Liberty Financial, Donald Trump's like crypto thing. You know, quid pro quo, pay for play. We pay. You're supposed to play. But what they found out today, what they should have known though, yesterday and a long time ago is look what Donald Trump's done his whole life. He's a lifelong loser. He's bankrupted this casino, that casino, this casino.

42:34He has a loser pathology. And he is also like the gambler who doesn't leave the table until everything is lost. And then he would have daddy to bail him out. He would sue everybody and sue the banks and sue people. And he wouldn't give a crap if he destroyed his lenders or harm construction workers or other contractors. As long as he made off fine, he would move to the next grift like a virus jumping from one vessel to the next, infecting, infecting, infecting. That's his whole life was a loser. You realize that, right? He never actually won things or did things good. He He bankrupted that casino and that casino.

43:20And he was like, daddy, I need your help, daddy. And then he would still bankrupt it anyway, right? If there was a Guinness book of world records on being a loser, he'd actually be pretty much at the top. You know, I understand what things happen. You bankrupt something once. I get it. Stuff happens. Maybe you bankrupt something twice. Okay. He's a little bit of stick to it. But everything that he's broken over and over and over again, and you see why, I mean, you see the pathology, right? Like it's sick and I don't want to make excuses by getting into like, you know, for this purposes of here being like, ah, he's actually ill.

43:54ill. But there is a malignant narcissistic sickness that he's only satisfied until everything is destroyed and ripped apart. And year one of his presidency, tariffs against the world, betraying our allies, ripping apart the State Department, ripping apart critical infrastructure here, firing all of the key generals and staffers and the big competent leaders either forced to resign or fire, right? All of that. And then he does this catastrophic invasion of Iran. And by all accounts, let's just say it ended today. Let's just say right now it ended. Do we realize that with the supply shock that's taken place on liquefied natural gas, Qatar energy, which produces 20 % of LNG globally, 20 % of that has been taken out for the next three to five years.

45:00Helium production, fertilizers, not to mention crude. Not, you know, it's not like you can turn back on these factories right away and be like, hey, we're turning it back on. You know, helium's used for MRIs, right? Fertilizers needed for our farmers, right? Liquefied natural gas is critical and essential, right, for functions throughout the entire world. You know, of course, you know, the price of crude.

45:29Ben Meiselas:We all feel the pain, price of gas right now, over$4 a gallon, the sharpest increase that there is. And we haven't gotten the February inflation numbers, the March inflation numbers. You already had catastrophic economic indicators. Before this disastrous war in Iran, inflation was already on the rise. What do you think it's going to be in the future? And I always appreciate when people are like, Ben, you predicted this or you predicted that or Midas Touch, you predicted this or that. Or in the case of the ballroom, you were wrong, you were wrong, but I was right. We got it right in the end. We predicted what was going to happen.

46:12It's like we just need to follow the facts, right? We need to just open up our eyes and see what's happening. When Donald Trump says, I decimated Iran, it is utterly obliterated. Okay, well, that's the statement. Let's challenge the statement by looking at the facts. That doesn't mean I'm not patriotic by looking at what's happening in Iran and saying, actually, the parliament's functioning. The foreign minister, their press secretary gave a speech yesterday saying no negotiations. There are millions of people out throughout Iran right now protesting what they're referring to

46:43Ben Meiselas:as the Epstein class. We have all of these statements from Iran saying what their non-negotiables are. Again, I see that the Strait of Hormuz is still controlled by Iran. I don't see anything that's actually materially changed. Donald Trump keeps on lying. I mean, what, there was an Iranian account, social media account that was like, Donald Trump has declared victory 17 times. He said we won 18 times. He's danced 11 times and nothing has changed. And that's actually accurate. There is no, if anything's changed, things have gotten worse. And that's not me being doom and gloom. It's opening up my eyes and saying, here's what's actually happening.

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51:17Ben Meiselas:Welcome back. Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben. This is Breaking News. Breaking some news. Talking about a lot of stuff. Shout out to my brothers for those great ad reads. And I know sometimes it may be like, Ben, lots of ads. They're good ads though, right? I mean, they're good products and they're good discount codes. And you get to see my brothers and they help support the show. So that's like a trifecta. That's like a trifecta. A reminder as well, scheduling note for everybody, a good one. We got the Katie Fang show coming up right after. so after this show ends we'll bring you right into see Katie Fang wasn't her last week's show incredible every Tuesday Katie Fang goes live now on her YouTube channel between Scott McFarlane Katie Fang Legal AF Aaron Parnas Adam Mockler Tennessee Brando so many great channels here on the Midas Touch Network.

52:23Ben Meiselas:We keep on building. We keep on growing it. Shout out Katie Fang. And her show begins right when this show ends. We'll send you. It goes. We'll send you right into Katie Fang. Over the break, we heard from Iran's foreign minister, Aragji. And he said the following regarding potential peace talks with the U.S. Quote, we do not have any faith that negotiations with the U.S. will yield any results. The trust level is at zero. That's the latest public statement from Iran's foreign minister. And I believe that there are messages being exchanged. The U.S. wants out. The U.S.

53:11Ben Meiselas:realizes that in a war of attrition, Iran can see this thing through and cause a lot of economic pain. You know, there was a Wall Street Journal report last night I talked about that Donald Trump said, yeah, I'm willing to conclude operations. By the way, they still call it operations. It's a war. It's an unlawful war. I'm willing to conclude, even if the Strait of Hormuz is still controlled by Iran, we'll deal with that later. But we're willing to leave right now. You know, Ron's point though is like, we can't agree to a ceasefire with you. We don't trust you. So the moment we stop striking the Arab nations without security guarantees, we pause.

54:02Ben Meiselas:You're just going to do that to build up your munitions. One of the problems where you stereotype people and you don't actually observe their behavior, you make very big mistakes just based on judging cultures by not actually recognizing that regardless of the fact that the Islamic Republic and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, they are repressive regimes. They've done terrible things in the past, so stipulated. Tehran University, the university system there, the Iranian people are very proud people of their thousands of years of culture of Iran, the country, even if there are disagreements or even though there's repression from the regime, the people feel cultural pride.

55:03Ben Meiselas:It's a very sophisticated, tech-savvy population. It's why when Russia needed equipment, because it was getting decimated by Ukraine, Russia went to Iran and built out that alliance as well. And the technical engineering, the hacking capabilities, cyber hacking by Iran. And when our media or Trump or whoever or MAGAs want to portray the Islamic, Iran generally, as like, they're a bunch of lunatics and maniacs. And you almost get this very racist portrayal that in Iran, they're in caves and screaming Allah Akbar all day. And it's like, that's the image that they try to give. And that's not what's actually happening.

55:59It's a sophisticated society.

56:01Ben Meiselas:They have this mosaic style leadership structure that's very complex. Each leadership position has five to seven successors who are already in line. It's very systematized what they're doing. While Donald Trump is out there, and frankly, while Pete Hegseth was out there this morning saying, in the name of Jesus Christ, I mean, that talk about religious extremism. It's what I saw during that ridiculous Hegseth press conference this morning. And even the Pope, Pope Leo XIV has said, stop talking about Jesus or God when you launch wars like this. Your invocation of God and Jesus is hereby denied, is basically what Pope Leo XIV said.

56:49Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump's like winging it, right? We've pushed out lots of our top generals and admirals and military infrastructure. The people who are there, who are smart, are being overruled by Hegseth and Trump, although they're trying. We still have some really top-notch military leadership. The guy who runs set and comms is a real serious guy, But it's hard to operate when you're at the whim of Donald Trump, when he rewards Russia by removing sanctions when Russia's providing the weapons and logistics to Iran to strike the American military bases. How do you think our AWACS, the Century, those big reconnaissance airplanes, and the KC-135s were destroyed with precision?

57:33Who do you think is giving Iran this help? Russia, possibly China, likely, definitely Russia. Russia and Iran are saying it. And then we have the Russian Duma members chilling at the Capitol building, partying it up with MAGA Republican Congress members in our State Department, right? I mean, you've got the Trump regime trying to cozy up to the far right wing AFD party in Germany, the Putin puppet party over there, while they're like, we want America out of Germany. like the the unless the goal here is how do we prop up China and Russia and weaken the U.S. forever then you could go okay got it there's a clear plan here right because that's the only thing that makes sense but otherwise everything that's being done by by Trump is like winging it I'm gonna tweet this I'm gonna post this I'm gonna tweet this I'm gonna post that we could have lots of very valid criticisms, critiques, hatreds for the Islamic Republic, you name it, all true, all fine.

58:36But let's not act like the Trump patrol. These are just a bunch of lunatic, crazy people who want to die right away. There's universities, there are gyms, there are children, there's people, there are dentists, there are doctors, there are lawyers, there are parliament, there are engineers. It's a 90 million person society that actually has, you know, sophisticated institutions and they are planning things out and they are playing chess with it at a high level. And whereas we should be, if you're getting involved in this, We shouldn't be involved in this at all. Let me be clear. But like, even our propaganda is horrible.

59:24Like, even the way they're doing it. And again, I think that these crimes against humanity are horrible. So I'm not trying to make light on it. But it's like, when you're out there, Trump saying this, that, and the other, all you're doing is projecting weakness. Number one, not strength. Because Iran knows what's being said or not being said. sometimes Trump is giving away actual classified information, in my opinion, when he's spewing things out that he shouldn't be spewing out. And he's also handing over propaganda moments to Iran. So the Islamic Republic could go to its people and go, see, this is what we told you about the Americans.

1:00:01This is how they behave. They say they're loitering over the skies to kill you. They're saying they want to decimate Iran, not the regime, all of Iran. They're coming to kill you. Look at Donald Trump's post. He says he's going after electrical grids, desalination facilities. Look what he's doing. He's saying he's doing it, everybody. He's saying he's doing it. And he is saying he's doing it, right? I mean, you have, you know, you have Donald Trump social media posting war crimes and then social media posting whining that he's going to leave the Strait of Hormuz and leave it up to other countries to fix.

1:00:39And he goes, we don't need that oil. Yes, you do, because you're an idiot. And the way oil markets work is that oil markets and shock to oil supply impacts American oil, American made oil. Do you think that I want to know the difference between WTI oil and Brent crude? Did you think I ever had to think about that in the past? No, I never had to think about a lot of these things. Do you think that in the past, I really dug deep to learn about the importance of two-year treasury note yields compared to 10-year treasury note yields and the 20-year and the 30-year? And why, if it goes above 4 % and 5%, the level, I mean, I'm sure I could have, I'm sure maybe in college, I learned about it.

1:01:24Maybe in a law school class here or there, I learned a little bit about it. But it wasn't that I was naive in the past. It was that we had functioning people who did the jobs that they were supposed to do. And I could spend more of my time wondering how Duke lost before getting into the final four and how UConn pulled that off. I could spend more of my bandwidth focusing on going out and watching movies with my family and thinking about other things, right? Because there were competent people doing their jobs and I didn't have to think, whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe I need to actually learn to be a pilot because this plane is being flown into the ground.

1:02:03And that's what I think a lot of us feel. And I think there's some positive

1:02:08Ben Meiselas:aspects of it, whether it's with no Kings protests, whether it's with the polling data as Trump, what the latest Amherst, UMass, YouGov poll has them at 33%, you know, as there seems to be karmic justice, right? I mean, you have Kristi Noem who tortured so many people, who otherized so many people, who mocked so many people, who destroyed people's private lives, right? We learned that her husband is into bimboification and loves wearing triple E breasts and cross dressing and dressing that way. And I'm not saying this to mock him at all. If you watched my earlier segment, the reason that I brought this up was actually to say, what you do in private, if you're into bimbification and behind the scenes, you're not hurting people.

1:02:52If you're safe, what you do is consensual. I will not judge your kink. I will not shame it. Do you privately, do it consensually, do it safely? What you do in your privacy, that ain't my business, and it sure as hell ain't the government's business. And let's be clear about that. So anybody reporting on this, I think from the perspective of shaming the idea of being like this, I want to be very clear. I'm not supportive of that in any way. But what I am supportive over is pointing out the hypocrisy of people like Kristi Noem, who judge, who wag fingers, who attack the gay community, who attack transgender people, who bully and demean.

1:03:32and behind closed doors, this is what they do. This is their behavior. And they're the ones who want to attack us. Not okay with that at all. None of us should be okay with it. You don't have to be a, oh, I'm a libertarian. I'm a this, just government stay the hell off. Remember, you know, those don't tread on me flags, right? These MAGA Republicans turned out to be the biggest, I don't know if this is an appropriate word or not, cucks, right? And it's like, tread on me, tread all over me. I want to be treaded on. Tread, tread, tread. And it's like, what the hell are you doing? You want them to mask that?

1:04:06You want these people to tread on you? What the hell are you talking about? What are you doing? What are you doing? I mean, it's the ultimate tread, right? And so there's so much going on. It's such an honor to be able to keep this, to do this show. Jeremy, do we have the automatic transfer into Katie Fang's show? I just want to make sure that people here don't have to do anything. Do we have the transfer set up so people go here? Yeah, I want them to ask. So you could just go to Katie Fang's show, but I know there's like a feature where we send you, we transport you to Katie Fang's show. They're going to double check that.

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