Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 5/12/26

25:21Ben Meiselas:Harry Sisson did a good job kind of documenting all of these posts that Donald Trump made. I did a whole video on it this morning where I talked about all of the stuff that he's been posting. Obama guilty of treason. Obama and the CIA are spying on me. QAnon post this. QAnon post that. Weird AI images about the war. Bing, bang, bong. We're at a bing, bang, bong, shoot. Just like weird AI images. And Iran's just mocking. It just looks so pathetic. This is one of the posts. Lasers. Bing, bing, bong. Bye-bye, fastboats. Bye-bye, fastboats. Bing, bing, gabong. I mean, really? We're in a really serious war.

26:02You committed war crimes. You slaughtered 168 little girls in Manab. You've engaged in other war crimes. You and Net Not Yahoo are complicit in a genocide. You're right now complicit in another genocide in Lebanon as well. I mean, you're out there engaged in all of this heinous conduct. You're covering up the Epstein files every single day. And it's just post after post after post like this. And the corporate news doesn't even want to deal with it. Yeah. I mean, he's posting this about J.B. Pritzker. Hey, Donald, you're obese. I hate to break it to you. You're an obese man, Donald. You're obese.

26:44You look physically ill. Your hands are rotting. You look disgusting. You think you're like a handsome, you're a disgusting person. You're obese and you're attacking J.B. Pritzker. Lots of people in America, first off, struggle with obesity. You know who makes fun of obese people? Like idiot children whose parents should discipline them. That's who makes fun of obese obese people. Grownups don't make fun of obese people. People struggle with, you struggle with obesity. You're probably more obese than J.B. Pritzker right now. Like, let's be real about it. And you're posting memes of J.B. Pritzker to mock his weight.

27:25That's how you're using the power, the perch of the United States presidency. That's what pisses me off. It's such a dang honor to be the president of the United States. And that used to matter. And now even Iran doesn't want to meet with you. The president of Brazil doesn't want to be seen with you in a press conference because you're so embarrassing. NATO doesn't want to hold meetings where you're invited because you going there just ruins it for everybody. You destroy everything you touch. And it's so bizarre to me that no one calls it out. And I was, I'll drop this interview I did with Governor Bashir in the next day or two.

28:12But before I went live, I did an interview with Governor Bashir and I said, Governor, you and I both know. I said, I like you as a governor. You're a popular governor in a red state. You have a national identity. I said, Governor, if you made one post, just one that looked like any of these, you know, your legislature would impeach you. You know, that you would probably feel I deserve to be impeached. I wouldn't want to interview you. I would tell, I would say Bashir needs to go. If you did one of those. And when Trump does 50 of them a night, we just got, that's Trump, man. That's just how he is.

28:49This is Trump being Trump, man. I mean, just think about what he did today as he was heading off for this disastrous trip in China. He was asked a question by a reporter, what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal? And Trump's response, not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. Done. In any normal time where we once cared about vice presidents spelling the word potato wrong, this should be done. This should be disqualifying. It's done. I don't care about the American financial situation. I don't think about it one bit. But then it's Trump said, you know, Trump says things, Donald Trump.

29:30No, no, stop it. Stop it. Can I shake you all back to reality? Let me shake. The Midas Touch Network should be, that's what we should call this, shake you back to damn reality. The thing is, everybody watching this, the people out there actually are living in reality. Most people are. If that wasn't the case, Midas Touch Network would not be successful. We wouldn't be the most watched digital network that's out there, and we wouldn't be beating Rogan in audio downloads and consistently being the number one YouTube podcast on all of YouTube if people didn't also, by and large, agree with this. And also, when you look at the right-wing podcasts that are doing well right now, whether it's the Candace Owens or the Tuckers or people like that who are on the list with me, who I still beat them by significant amounts.

30:20But they're out there now speaking to their audience also about how deranged Donald Trump is too from slightly different angles than me. But so the people understand what's going on right now, but yet corporate news and everybody tries to act like this is normal. That's why my dogs are angry about it. You're the dogs. Let me just show you what Donald Trump says. Let's just play that video, Jeremy. of the reporter saying, what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you? Fair question, right? Let's play it.

31:01Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about American financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all.

31:18Ben Meiselas:And then here he is attacking the reporter. Let's just show the other one. We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. And we're right now on budget, under budget and ahead of schedule. I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. You are not a smart person. And that's how he talks to female reporters all the time. Calls them piggy, you're a dumb person. That's how he treats female reporters. That's how he treats reporters in general, particularly female reporters. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show.

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35:58Ben Meiselas:Welcome back. Great ad reads. Thank you to our sponsors. They keep this show going. Support our sponsors. The discount codes are in the description below. So what do you think MAGA, Republican senators, Congress members, what do you think they're saying after Donald Trump very clearly said, I don't care about the financial situation of America, not one bit. I don't care. I don't care. Well, this is one of the things we've been building up at the Midas Touch Network, our DC Bureau, because we want to make sure that in an age where corporate news has failed us, we rapidly go to the members, go to the senators, and ask them these questions for you.

36:44Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just said this, what's your response? What's your response? Not wait, not delay, not play cover up for Donald Trump. So it's exactly what we did. We have Pablo Monriquez and Scott McFarlane. They're there on the DC Bureau. We'll also soon be announcing additional hires to our Washington DC Bureau. We continue to expand your memberships, by the way, help that. I think you've seen the expansion of Midas Touch. If you're also wondering like, but what else do I get from my membership? Well, I mean, I think the exclusive features is pretty good. I think the emojis are pretty good. I think the special podcasts are pretty good.

37:21Ben Meiselas:But also it's helped grow this network and it's put us in a position where we have a thriving DC Bureau and we can do things like this. So we asked right away, Senator Susan Collins, hey, Senator Collins, any comment on Trump saying he doesn't care about the financial condition of Americans? Let's see what she says. Let's play it. I think of Donald Trump saying that he doesn't think about American, the American people's financial situation. He just said it in the presser about an hour and a half ago. Well, I didn't see that. You haven't seen it yet? Okay. Senator, are you comfortable with the reports in the New York Times regarding?

37:56Ben Meiselas:Then Senator Marshall. What about you, MAGA Senator Marshall? What do you think? Let's play it. On what Trump just said in his presser. I don't know what he just said. He said he doesn't think much about the finances of the American people. I would have to find out the context of it. I'm sorry. Got it. What about Senator Loomis? Senator Loomis, what do you think about it? I saw you speaking with the TMZ cameras recently, and they were asking you some interesting questions. But what about this? Pretty big deal. What do you think? Here, play it. Senator it. Senator, real quick, what do you make of Donald Trump saying that?

38:33He doesn't think about the finances or the financial situation of the American people. Did he say that? Yeah. I don't have a comment about that, mostly because I think he actually does care.

38:47Don't. I think he does. Don't listen to what he says or does. Just listen to the fantasy version that we've created for you. Oh, we know that he doesn't say these things. He doesn't care about the gold. he's focused every night. We all know that about him. No, that's wild and crazy and dangerous, what we're just observing there. What do you mean? I think he did. What would lead you to believe he does when literally every action he does hurt? I mean, and I know, look, when I show you this stuff, it certainly has the ability to turn off people to politics in general, right?

39:34Ben Meiselas:Like, who wants to watch this sometimes? I mean, I say this to someone who does this for a living because sometimes you're like, what? Come on. All right. Let me just do something else today. I don't want it. But no, but we have to because we have to watch this. We have to see it because this stuff is impacting us. And what's more important than focusing on the things that are out there that are harming us? We know that these actions have consequences. And I would love to, instead of being in a Trump two-week death spiral cycle, waking up to the drama, waking up to the chaos, waking up to the weirdness and the WTF, I would so much rather go to a world where there's just normalcy and stability and things were calmer and more boring, it would be great.

40:39Ben Meiselas:It would be great. You know, there'd still be an opportunity to report on the news. You know, we would certainly be able to talk about this policy versus that policy and show you congressional hearings and show you what's at stake. But I truly want to get out of this loop. But the importance, I think, of the Midas Touch Network is when I see corporate news, just ignoring all of this stuff. Donald Trump is off to a trip in China where Donald Trump believes that he is in a very strong position to negotiate regarding future relationships between the two major powers in the world. Donald Trump said that he feels very good about his friendship with Xi Jinping.

41:25do the clip of Donald Trump. Yeah, Xi Jinping and I are really good friends. It should be a good meeting. Well, that's what Donald Trump said. And let's take a look at what our, what's Mike Johnson saying? Yeah, we've never been more stronger. We're in the golden age and we look forward to a positive outcome. Well, there you have it, everybody. Donald Trump is heading to China. We will keep you more posted. In other news, a squirrel has been, you know, it's like,

41:51Ben Meiselas:you watch the corporate. It's like, which regime media is there? Fox state regime media, CBS state regime media. By the way, you saw CBS state regime media after Donald Trump went after 60 minutes for making a cosmetic edit for Kamala Harris that just basically edited out some ums or Oz and didn't change the context of what she said at all. Trump sued CBS. Remember, that's one of the things that started all of this. Trump was too afraid to do a 60 minutes interview. And Kamala did the 60 minutes interview, but then Trump sued CBS and then had them do a ridiculous settlement. And then Trump took over the network essentially.

42:41Ben Meiselas:But you saw that CBS, I mean, Whenever Trump was on 60 Minutes, it was heavily edited. Material points at critical moments edited out. And then Netanyahu was on critical moments edited out. And then apparently Barry Weiss didn't allow Leslie Stahl to do the interview of Netanyahu and gave it to Major Garrett. And Leslie Stahl was absolutely livid because she's the one who does good, tough interviews. Remember, Donald Trump was afraid of Leslie Stahl and walked out of that interview back in 2020 and then tried to show Leslie Stahl a binder of his health plan. And it was all blank pages. And then she asked for a copy of it from Kayleigh McEnany.

43:22Ben Meiselas:Remember that? And it was all blank pages. I mean, just think about who does that. Could you imagine if Biden gave them a fake binder that didn't have anything on? We'd all be like, dude, impeach this guy immediately. I mean, it's just wild to me, the double standards or the double standards is putting it lightly. So a few other things happened today. You had Hegseth and General Cain, chairman of the Joint Chiefs and others, testifying on Capitol Hill. Here's a notable moment where Lindsey Graham was cross-examining Dan Cain, chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Hegseth about the reports about Iranian airplanes and drones and other equipment being kept in Pakistan so that they would avoid being blown up in the war.

44:11Ben Meiselas:And this was like, let's see, like, how is our chairman of the Joint Chiefs and how is Hegseth answering this here? Let's play this clip. Pakistan. Are you aware of reports that Pakistan are allowing their bases to be used to park Iranian aircraft, General King? sir i've uh i've seen one report on that was it accurate um sir i think uh based on the variety of classification classification matters let me just say do you agree if it is accurate that is sort of inconsistent with it being a peace mediator sir i wouldn't want to comment on that based on the ongoing negotiations and past secretary secretary if if the mediator is allowing reconnaissance aircraft of Iran to be parked in Pakistani airbases, do you think that's consistent with being a fair mediator?

45:08Again, I wouldn't want to get in the middle of these negotiations. I want maximum efficacy for our people. Well, I do. I want to get in the middle of these negotiations. I don't trust Pakistan as far as I can throw them. If they actually do have Iranian aircraft parked in Pakistan bases to protect Iranian military assets, that tells me we should be looking maybe for somebody else to mediate. No wonder this damn thing is going nowhere.

45:38Ben Meiselas:Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow. Let me show you Senator Reid's questioning, which demonstrated that when the Trump regime is saying they've only spent$29 billion on the war so far, it's a made-up number. Like, they're not counting probably 90 % of the expenses. nor are they even counting the consequential and incidental expenses like the fact that interest rates are not going to be reduced, the fact that our debt will continue to increase, the fact that this will now cause, as a result of these failures, we have to increase our military budget by now it's got to be$1.5 trillion. So the cost of this, in my view, is probably in the trillions.

46:24Ben Meiselas:I mean, look at the bond market right now, right? The cost of borrowing by the Treasury Department is significantly higher. And so the interest that we have to pay off is higher. And that's because this is a catastrophic war. The bond markets would stabilize. Interest rates could eventually go down as they were supposed to go down. If we didn't do trade wars against the world and disastrous, catastrophic wars. Anyway, let's play this clip right here. Mr. Secretary, we have been trying to track down the expenditures in the Operation Epic Fury and Operation Freedom now. And we've sent letters and we've got very few responses.

47:08We've been sending the letters since March 10th. We did understand that it was released that in the first six days,$11.3 billion was spent. And then recently, we were told$25 billion was spent. Today, I think the number is$29 billion.

47:30Can you provide some details as to what consists of that$29 billion? Have we counted everything?

47:39Yes, Senator Reid. So I testified this morning to Hack D that between the joint staff and the comptroller staff, our operational cost estimate is now$29 billion. A lot of that increase comes from having a refined estimate on repair or replacement costs for equipment. Our munitions costs are fairly fixed. We think they're very accurate. And there's some O &M costs there as well. We're not making an estimate for MilCon at this time. We don't know what our future posture is going to be. We don't know how those bases would be reconstructed. reconstructed and we don't know what percentage our allies and partners will pay for that reconstruction.

48:11So you do not consider installations that have been damaged in the conflict, correct? We just don't have a good estimate at this time. So it's not in the$29 billion. That's correct. Expended weapons, are they totally included within the estimate? Yes. To the best of my knowledge, we have a full count of the expended weapons. And weapons transferred to other countries in the region? Are they counted in? I would want to double check to make sure we have that accurately. Please. I mean, you're coming up and asking for another significant supplemental, et cetera. And before we can, I think, reasonably appropriate additional money, we have to find out how the existing appropriated dollars have been spent.

48:55So that's

48:55Ben Meiselas:Well, what about our munitions? Right. We've seen reports that America expended around 70 % of our munitions and that very little of Iran's munitions have been destroyed. America's lost 70 % of our overall munitions, like in the world, on this war. And Iran apparently still has most of its drones, missile capabilities, launchers. So basic question, right? Basic question. General Cain and Secretary Hegseth both declined to comment on reports that only 30 % of Iran's missile capacity has been destroyed. Let's play it. Drone program. The president said just a week ago that Iran maybe had 18 to 19 percent of their missile capacity left.

49:50But there is public reporting suggesting that our intelligence agencies say that Iran still has 70 percent of their missile and drone capability, which would be a failure of our objectives if that were to be true. What can you tell us about the number of missiles and drones that they have left? And do you dispute that intelligence estimate? Sure, I'm not going to comment with deep respect for the question. I'm not going to comment in this forum on what may or may not have been opined on by the IC, which would suggest a leak or a confirmation of any intel. So while I appreciate the question, I hope you'll also appreciate my not answering it.

50:35Well, then just give me what the president said that 80 percent of. Yeah, I'm not going to comment on BDA on either way, sir. Well, then how do we how do we or the American public assess the success of the mission when you've stated publicly the purpose of the mission is to destroy their missile and drone capability? How do we.

50:57Ben Meiselas:Exactly. And here's the thing. Trump is out there saying lies. That's the point. The question is, Donald Trump says that we destroyed what Senator Murphy said is 80%. But actually, I know Trump said that once, but mostly Trump says we obliterated it all. None of it exists. So here's the thing. Trump has a forum for propaganda and lies without any accountability because our sycophantic media refuses to do its damn job. So then when you have the ability to ask under oath the people who should be providing answers, what about what Donald Trump said? Is that accurate? I can't answer that question, but why not?

51:49Ben Meiselas:He's saying it publicly. There's no classified thing. Trump said it publicly. Is what he said publicly true? I can't speak on that. That's authoritarianism right there. That's fascism right there. That right there, you should be held in contempt. I don't care if you're the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, you should be thrown in contempt. You're not answering any question. You're in Congress. And it's so pathetic to me, so pathetic, that MAGA Republicans in Congress are totally okay with Congress becoming the Russian Duma, a rubber stamp for a real sicko. For Donald Trump, a real sick and vile human.

52:27You just rubber stamp what he's doing.

52:29Ben Meiselas:The whole point of Congress is to be a check and balance on the executive branch. So when you're a member of Congress, you're not supposed to be the cheerleader. You're supposed to be someone who holds them accountable. That doesn't mean you should not support the legislation. You know, and if it's someone in your party and you agree with the legislation, certainly pushing through an agenda that you agree with, but they're giving you the, the executive branch is giving you the middle finger in an unprecedented way that they don't have to answer your questions. Now, the Democrats don't control the committee.

53:12Ben Meiselas:Democrats don't control the Senate. Democrats don't control the House. Republicans control the House and the Senate. And under our rules, Republicans are the ones who have subpoena power. They are the ones who lead what type of legislation gets out of Congress for the president's signature. They are the one who controls the legislative agenda. And this is just what they do. I mean, I'm not sure if you saw my earlier coverage, but you got Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan says, look, could you imagine how bad things would be if Kamala was in office? No, I can't imagine that because she's not in office. What a stupid argument.

53:50Ben Meiselas:What a stupid person you are, Jim Jordan. What a stupid person you are. What a stupid thing to say. Why would I imagine what it would be like with Kamala? She's not in office. You don't need to create... The Republicans, they want to create a fake Donald Trump avatar who doesn't say the things he says he does. then they want to create a fake alternative universe that we get angry at a universe that doesn't exist. Can you get, look, if Kamala was doing this stuff, yeah, I'd call for her impeachment. Absolutely. I don't care if she's a Democrat. If she was doing this stuff and talking about ballroom, this, and you know who would probably impeach her?

54:26The Democrats would lead the impeachment against her. I can guarantee, I can guarantee you that. I mean, you had, You have Democrats who have thrown out Democrats from the Senate for things that wouldn't even be a afterthought of an afterthought of an afterthought for Republican behavior. OK, so so so don't don't give me the both sides or whatever. Republicans play by for those Republicans play by a different set of rules. For those who are my age, you may remember Game Genie. I remember Game Genie.

54:58Ben Meiselas:For those who remember who played Nintendo, you would put Game Genie on your cartridge. Then you could get immunity and you wouldn't have to play by the rules of the game. And you could beat all of the boards. Game Genie, it was called. Yeah, Republicans operate by Game Genie rules. Democrats have to be on expert level all of the time. Republicans get Game Genie. That's stupid. That's stupid. It shouldn't be that way. It should be we all play by the same rules. We're all judged by the same standards. There's a report card. Whether you're A, B, C, D, E, F, pass, fail, however you want to do it.

55:34Ben Meiselas:And we assess credibly what's going on in our country. That's it. That's what we should do. So here he is. You got MAGA Republican Jim Jordan saying, could you imagine what Kamala would be like? Why? Here, play this clip. President Trump makes decisions that are in the best interest of our country. He's going to do things that benefit the United States of America, and that is his focus. And thank goodness we have him on the world stage. Thank goodness he's our president doing these negotiations. And frankly, not Kamala Harris, because, you know, Lord knows what she'd be up to if she was there.

56:10So I feel confident he's going to talk about all these issues and, you know, make progress for things that, again, benefit the citizens of our great country. You know, I say it a lot, but like, I don't know how else to. These are sick humans. These are sick people. Like these are really bad, sick humans. Like their behavior, it's not normal. They don't behave like – this is not normal human being behavior that you see from these people, right? I mean, I'm watching that and I go, what are you, Takama? What are you even talking about? What weird world do you live in? And by the way, how dark must it be, their whole worldview, their whole life, being a pathetic bootlicker all day?

56:58Donald, Donald, Donald, Donald, Donald, what can I do for you, Donald?

57:03Ben Meiselas:I just can't even imagine that existence every damn day. So odd. All these people, all of them. I mean, here, you see Kash Patel today. Watch, watch. These are just freaking dangerous, strange, weird human beings. Like watch Kash with his shirt button. I mean, dude looks like he just walked out of a, well, anyway, here. As do the men and women of the interagency and state and local law enforcement in the White House. And so there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you. Is that right? Nope, it's a total farce. I don't even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn't make it credible because you say so.

57:42I'm not saying it, Director Patel. It's been written and documented. You are literally saying it. No, I'm saying that these are reports, Director Patel. Unlike your baseless reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gangbanging rapist was you. The only person that ran up a$7 ,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C. at the lobby bar was you. The only individual in this room that has been drinking on taxpayer dime during the day is you. Director Patel, come on. These are serious allegations that were made against you. They're in a lawsuit that you filed.

58:20You drinking margaritas with a gangbusters. Actually, it just goes to show you don't. You running a$7 ,000 bar tab at the lobby bar has been filed by your own office. goes to show during the day that's you this is the ultimate example of hypocrisy chairman i will not be tarnished by baseless allegations let me ask the statements from the media the fact that you mentioned that indicates you don't know what you are talking about now here direct only thing i know is you're the one drinking margaritas with felon actually that's a false statement and i'm asking you about your statements i've answered that and i'm asking you about a particular report and it's not a report.

59:00So let me ask you this. Are you willing to take the test that it's called the audit test that members of our active duty military and others take to determine whether they have a drinking problem? I'll take any test you're willing to take. I will take it, Director Patel. I'll take it. You ready to take it? Let's go. Yes or no? Let's go. Side by side. I'll take it. All right. I think that...

59:29Ben Meiselas:And I'll tell you what. They think that... MAGA thinks that looks strong. Do you know how weak that looks? Do you know how embarrassing that makes the FBI look? The FBI agents know how embarrassing. Law enforcement knows how embarrassing that makes them look to see that. The hell. What the hell is that? Right? I mean, what is that? And again, lying about a senator with AI margarita photos? What are you talking about, man? You know, the guy sells cash merch, K-A dollar sign H. Deranged behavior, all of them. That's what we have today, folks. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Become a member of our YouTube channel.

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