Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 5/26/26 (Feat. Zohran Mamdani)

25:47Ben Meiselas:They're not even trying with their coverups anymore. He had an emergency dental visit at 11 p.m. at night. Trump was at Walter Reed saying he was there for a dental visit and a Walter Reed visit. Then Donald Trump posted, my health has never been better. I've never been better. They said this was the best six-month checkup they ever had. I have no negative conditions. Things couldn't be better for me. And we know that he just had advanced imaging and MRIs done, but then they said, oh, it was a CT scan done. So we know there's a massive cover-up taking place right there. And, you know, let me pull this up as well.

26:28Ben Meiselas:And then you get, you know, post after post of Donald Trump. He's making QAnon posts while at the hospital or on the way to the hospital. He's posting photos like this. Game, no rhinos with himself in a shotgun shooting rhinoceroses. And he's, you know, saying that about, you know, Republicans in name only, which seems to be more of a threat, in my opinion, than 86-47. And then he posts this. Game over, deep state. So for those who are watching, again, corporate news won't cover this at all. Like, why would we cover this? Donald Trump always says crazy things. So why would we even do a story on this?

27:02Ben Meiselas:I don't know. I mean, we shouldn't normalize the fact that the president of the United States made a post of himself inside of a queue for QAnon, a literal death cult. And then if you zoom in or you look at his collar, it says Q plus. Plus, again, another reference to QAnon, a literal psychotic death cult. And that will get very little. I mean, we'll cover it here on the Midas Touch Network. And then I'll share with you this right here, though. But even of all places, Newsmax is calling out some of these Trump spokespeople.

27:48Ben Meiselas:even that. Let me show you right over here what this Newsmax person had to say. This is Tommy Piggott. When you're losing Newsmax a little bit, let me show you what this guy said. Here, play this clip. Tommy, then why do we continue kind of the farce of calling it a ceasefire? Let's just say we've still got this conflict ongoing. I don't think the American people are going to be upset about that. Either you have supported or you don't, but we clearly don't have a ceasefire. Well, I think two things here. First are the objectives laid out by Operation Epic Fury, which was the decimation of their military, their air force, their Navy capacity, the ballistic missile capacity.

28:25We saw those objectives largely be fulfilled. So that's Operation Epic Fury already making the world safer. I think then in the second context is that in this context, when these conversations are happening, is that President Trump holds all of the cards. We see that blockade of Iranian ships and ports. We see economic fury. We see the decisive outcomes from Operation Epic Fury. And that is the context in which this is happening. So fundamentally, President Trump going to see this objective be fulfilled. We're going to take actions necessary to defend U.S. troops, U.S. interests. And then fundamentally, President Trump holds all the cards in this circumstance to make a good deal for the American people and see that objective be fulfilled.

29:00Tommy, to that point. And folks, do you hear that knock on the door? I feel like, you know, I watched Sesame Street with my little baby. He was not a little baby anymore. She's 19 months. You hear that knock on the door? Who do we got at the Midas Touch Network right now? Who's here? Is it Zoran Mamdani, surprise guest? Zoran Mamdani, everybody. I just interviewed Zoran a moment ago. Let's bring in Zoran. And now live from Madison Square Garden, New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. Mayor Mamdani, great to see you. We'll get to our nicks in just a moment. But let's talk about what everyone's talking about in New York City today, which is the housing plan that you announced.

29:56And I think it's important to note that, you know, saying the word affordability, it's not a gimmick. It is actual implementation of plans, policies, doing the work, rolling up your sleeves, you're doing that. Talk to our audience about this housing plan and how it's different and not just more of the same. Absolutely. Well, first of all, it's a real pleasure to be back on. And I think at the core of it is what you said, which is that we've heard politicians come and go, speak about grand promises and plans. What makes this different is the amount of money we're actually putting behind it. We're talking about a housing plan.

30:30We've called it block by block that is going to invest more than$22 billion in affordable housing in the city. That means we're gonna build 200 ,000 affordable homes that are gonna be permanently rent stabilized, preserve 200 ,000 affordable homes across the same period of time, and do all of this while investing more than$5 billion into public housing and investing in the tenants of today so that we make it easier for them to report any violation of housing code across the city and for the city to actually then enforce and hold those bad landlords accountable. That's what it looks like for us to tackle what is a multifaceted housing crisis.

31:07And the reason we do so is it's the number one driver of the cost of living crisis in the city. You know, there's big arguments when it comes to housing politics. Some people say build more, some say protect tenants and workers first. This seems like an all of the above approach right here. Talk to us about that, how you can balance these interests. I think it's exactly as you said, we've been told time and again when it comes to housing that we have to make a choice when in reality the choice really is between a city government that debates this and a city government that delivers this and we want to be the one that delivers this and the reason we do is we know that new yorkers they are more than just one thing when a construction worker goes in the morning to help to construct affordable housing oftentimes they go home and then they're a tenant in that same city we want to make this a city where we're building more affordable housing than we've ever done before.

31:55We're doing it with stronger wage protections and labor protections than we've ever seen before. And then we're also encouraging tenants to utilize their rights and actually organize in a manner where they'll have city support when they do so. All of these things together are what help us start to build the kind of housing we used to build until 1961 and a series of choices that were made to make it harder and harder to not just build in the city, but frankly, for New Yorkers to live in the city. You know, I see how excited people are in New York City about this today and how they've been excited about it leading up to it.

32:28But you know what they're going to say on what I call state regime media, which is Fox and Daily Wire. They're already out with their talking points. Mamdani wants to decide who deserves to keep their property. Now it begins. Mayor Mamdani unveils shift property ownership from landlords to, quote, the community, end quote.

32:51Ben Meiselas:And so this is what they're rolling. You know, they're going to They're going to clip you tonight. So what do you say when you have Jesse Waters out there, you know, doing his deranged shtick that he does in Hannity and they say this? What's your message to that audience there? You know, my message to that audience is the same as I would say to anyone. I want them to be able to afford to live in the city as well. And yes, if there is a bad landlord that is violating housing codes, the city will hold them accountable. We have held bad landlords accountable to the tune of$65 million in these past six months.

33:23And that's not something we're embarrassed of because we're proud to actually stand up for our laws that ensure that New Yorkers don't just have a place they call their home, but one that's also habitable enough to be considered a home. And when it comes to this program, we're talking about actually delivering block by block a kind of housing vision that ensures the long-term stewardship of homes across the city. And if there is a bad landlord whose entire business model is harassment, violation and displacement, then yes, we will take every single course of action we can. And that includes at times to ensure that we're changing the ownership of that home to a nonprofit, to a community land trust, sometimes even yes to tenants themselves.

34:02You know, I see the Trump regime now also bragging about kicking people off of SNAP, kicking people off of Medicaid. Their big announcement also, the housing and urban development will be stopping emotional support dogs.

34:16Ben Meiselas:Yeah, no emotional support. That's what they're considering their dubs. That's their wins right there. And so it's using government to harm people, to take away, whereas I think you're showing a model that works in New York City and nationwide. Can you talk to New York City being a model for government working? You know, wherever you live in this country, people come with an anxiety about the first of the month because they don't know if they're going to be able to afford their rent. That is not just a New York City specific problem. It is one that people feel coast to coast and everywhere in between.

34:55And this is a vision for a city where we make it easier for people to actually afford to live here, make it easier for people to afford not only an apartment that they may rent, but even dreaming of becoming a homeowner. And so much of what you're speaking about when it comes to federal policy, it's completely divorced from what any New Yorker is actually worried about. What people are worried about is what we're actually acting on, which is how to make this city affordable and how to actually ensure that housing isn't some imaginary dream or fantasy that people have that they could one day afford, but it's a reality.

35:26And the way we do that is by putting the full financial muscle of the city behind that kind of a vision. We're incredibly excited to be doing that today. Look, and as a longtime New York Knicks fan, I was there at all those Knicks-Bulls games. We got to talk about the Knicks getting into the finals right now. It's important to the city.

35:46Ben Meiselas:I mean, it creates an energy and an electricity in the city. And also, you've attended games, but not kind of front row, not courtside. You've been with the people. And even I see New York Post and Fox hit you on that also for watching games with the people. Just talk to us, though, about what the New York, what this means to the city and what that's going to look like with this finals. I'll never apologize for sitting in the nosebleeds. I will tell you it was it was it was a great time to be there. And frankly, as you said, it's an incredible time to be a New Yorker right now. The energy across the city, it's in line with the fact that we haven't been here since 1999.

36:26And that is something that means so much to so many who have suffered through so many seasons in the hopes of this moment, finally living to actually be able to see it with their own eyes. And it's incredible what this team has done. We cannot wait for the start of the finals. And we're just going to hope that, you know, the Spurs and OKC just battle it out, double OT, you know, take it to a series of game seven because we want to make sure everything's going our way. Before we go, Mayor Momdine, let's just talk about this moment in any kind of final message to our audience. I mean, they see Donald Trump.

37:03He's now inspecting the pillars at the White House. He wants to replace it with Corinthian pillars.

37:08Ben Meiselas:They're building a UFC stadium right now around the White House. He's talking about reflecting pools, golden ballrooms, triumphal arches, club rose garden, onyx on the floor. and people are like never-ending wars that he like oh there's a deal there's not a deal there's a deal there's not a the anxieties through the roof just what's your overall message right now to our audience of nearly seven million subscribers my message would be that this is not what government has to be this is not what the only vision there is for what it looks like to have a politics in this country that is so divorced from the needs and the wants of everyday people.

37:52And what we are looking to show in New York City is an alternative to what has led so many to become disenchanted with the political process. We want to show that not only can government work, but it must, and that at its core, our responsibility is to working people to ensure that we're doing everything to make their lives easier. That has to be what drives our actions. And for too long, government has felt more like a distraction than actually a fulfillment of the needs of the people who've been left behind by the politics of today. Well, New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, great to have you here.

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41:45Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is your Breaking News. We began this episode by talking about how Donald Trump continues to remain trapped in the Strait of Hormuz with no way to exit or a path to exit. The only path to exit right now would be to make concessions to Iran. Agree about the objective reality, which is something that Donald Trump never likes to do, that the United States lost the war to Iran. subjectively the reality. The U.S. lost the war. It was an unlawful and catastrophic war the U.S. should never have been involved in in the first place. There was a really good and strong deal on the table that Donald Trump could have took that was brokered by Oman back in late February of this year.

42:43Donald Trump rejected that or said he was going to accept it. But then in the evening when there was a deal in principle reached. Donald Trump and Netanyahu invaded Iran, launching Epic Fury, which has been an epic disaster. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. had no plan to deal with that. They could have started the blockade, I suppose, back at the beginning if they wanted to, although I'm not sure that would have really made a material difference, or they certainly didn't include in the calculus when they should have, what was going to happen in the Strait of Hormuz. By the way, Iran has not even pulled out its ultimate trump card yet, which is the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mondib Strait, could be shut down with the Houthis, which the Houthis demonstrated they were able to do many years ago, not that many years ago, five years ago, four years ago.

43:43So they could actually escalate up the ladder, and they haven't. And so now the only option right now is to make a deal with Iran that is weaker than Obama's deal and have some version of the JCPOA. You give Iran sanctions relief, you give Iran money. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz symbolically. I mean, they control it, but they allow the Strait of Hormuz to be open. The ships leave. That would allow oil prices to drop. And the discussion about the nuclear file, Iran's nuclear material, that gets deferred. That gets pushed out to a later period of time. Maybe Iran works with China and China is a guarantor, whether you, as I said, it'll be a weaker deal than the JCPOA.

44:41Like, well, is China going to be honest about it? You know, are they going to be an honest broker? Not the way the JCPOA dealt with the International Atomic Energy Agency and with American allies who are involved with China and Russia as well. So you had American allies on one side, IAEA, and then you had China Russia. So it'll be a weaker deal, but we can move beyond this.

45:04Ben Meiselas:That's what happens when you, that's what happens when you lose the war, a war that you should never have been in in the first place. And so what are we seeing happen now? You have Netanyahu saying, well, we're going to escalate in Lebanon, realizing that if you do that, well, that will clearly make any deal fall apart. Donald Trump's trying to act like, well, I'm not weak. I'm not pathetic. Look what I'm going to do, everybody. So Donald Trump strikes a few sites in the Strait of Hormuz, a missile, a missile launching site he hits. He hits a few boats. Iran then says, actually, we got the MQ-9 Reaper and we locked onto an F-35.

45:47And then Donald Trump's making social media posts and saying, oh, Obama's bad. Biden's bad. Here's a photo of Obama with some cash. Look at that, everybody. And people are just like, all right, man, what are you going to do? You're in charge. no Obama's not in charge Obama kept us out of that war Obama did a deal that you pulled us out of what are you going to do are you going to do a deal you're not going to do a deal or are you just going to be weird and just keep on talking about a deal you know he's like so thirsty for a deal it's just weird deal deal deal deal deal just do it just do it shut up and do it or don't do it man I'm going to do a deal he's the best deal maker I'm a deal maker I'm gonna do deals Dude, I don't know what deal maker constantly says that I'm a good deal maker.

46:33It's like strong people don't go, I'm strong. Healthy people don't go, I'm healthy. I'm healthy. I mean, imagine if I was just doing this show and I was just like, hey, everybody, I just want to let you know, I did another cognitive exam yesterday. Hey, everybody. And it was great. Did a great cognitive exam. They asked me to identify certain things. And I said, you know, horse, snake, elephant. And it was really, you know, I aced it. I aced it. Imagine if I did that every day, you'd be like, all right, man, that's getting, if I did it once, you'd probably be like, I don't think he's all right.

47:09Why was the president of the United States constantly talking about cognitive exams

47:16Ben Meiselas:previously when he was asked about that last visit to the doctor, when he was, when he had advanced imaging done and he said it was an MRI. They said, what part of your body was the MRI done? What part was it done? I don't know. You don't know what part. Everybody, I've got an MRI. If you've gotten an MRI before, you know what an MRI is, okay? I don't know if you reacted the way I reacted to an MRI. The first time I got an MRI, they put me into the MRI machine and my heart just started like uncontrollably racing. and I remember the experience very vividly. And they gave me a thing to hold in case.

48:02Ben Meiselas:And I was like, why are you giving me this thing to hold? Why would I panic? You're just putting me through a tunnel. They put you through this thing and then it starts to beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And you're in this tunnel and you're looking up and claustrophobia sets in if you're me. And I think lots of people, that's why they give you a panic. You know why they're doing an MRI of your body, okay? I was having very bad back issues where I couldn't walk after I was on an airplane and I had a disc that was displayed. You very specifically know the purpose. And there was a CT, there was an MRI, there was a, I'm aware of what was going down.

48:45Ben Meiselas:So when the president of the United States says, I don't know the body part. Or then they say, why were you getting an MRI? As a preventative measure. Any doctor says there's no preventative MRIs. Then when you keep on disappearing for dental visits, dental visit, dental visit, dental visit, then you start raising a lot of red flags. Why are you constantly going to this dental visit? So in January when he was in Florida, dental visit. In May, when he was back in Florida, dental visit. There's dental operatories in the White House. And then this Walter Reed visit, they said dental visit and annual checkup.

49:28Ben Meiselas:I don't know if dental visit is code word for advanced imaging or because at the dentist office, they have certain advanced imaging machines. That's their pretext. But then our state regime media, Fox. They then post, you know, Donald Trump, pull that back up, Jeremy. And they say, everything's great. Everything checked out perfectly. This is Justin. Trump shares results from his six-month physical at Walter Reed. Just finished my six-month physical at Walter Reed. Everything checked out perfectly. Thank you to the great doctors and staff heading back to the White House. Come on. I mean, everything checked out, everything checked out perfectly.

50:10We literally can see you. We see you. We see you, your hands. We saw you at Memorial Day where you couldn't stand and you were going back and forth. We see you falling asleep during most of your appearances throughout the day.

50:29Ben Meiselas:You can't stay awake. And then you have your, it's, you know, the same way I said, healthy people don't go around saying I'm healthy, I'm healthy, I'm healthy. Real deal makers don't go around. I'm a dealmaker deal. Look, I'm a deal. I make great deals. You know, I'm the greatest dealmaker. I'm the, I'm the greatest dealmaker. You know, people who stay awake, don't go around bragging that they stay. It's not something that you need to say. No, I don't sleep. I don't sleep. I'm always awake. I don't. Okay. I wasn't really asking that. I, he gets no sleep at all. Did you know that he gets no sleep.

51:07That's not a brag. He should get sleep. I want a president of the United States, shocking perhaps, who gets sleep.

51:17Ben Meiselas:I'd like to see him get the necessary rest. I'd like to see him engage in physical activity. I'd like to see him go bike riding and be healthy and have hobbies and be well-rounded and read books and be intelligent. I'd like to, I don't know about you, but I personally would like to see that. So Trump Hospital Day means that we hear from Dr. Reiner. Dr. Reiner is a cardiologist at George Washington University Medical Center. He was someone who treated Dick Cheney during all of Dick Cheney's issues. This guy is a renowned doctor. And what he said that he was interested to see is he said, you know, the president has severe daytime somnolence.

52:07He falls asleep very often. And it's

52:09Ben Meiselas:just, it's not normal that he keeps on falling asleep. Here's what Dr. Reiner had to say. Let's play. I do want to see this during this examination, a credible explanation for his visible health concerns, his bruising, which initially was described as due to handshaking, which is not credible. His severe edema in his ankles, which was described as, you know, chronic venous insufficiency, when just three months before, one year ago, he was, his examination disclosed that he had no edema, which would then make it acute chronic, acute venous insufficiency, which is an entirely different thing. And finally, the president has severe daytime somnolons.

52:53He falls asleep very awful. He's fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the cabinet room. And was concerned yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day conservances. And chronic insomnia is a severe illness. It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive effects in older people. It's equivalent to about increasing your age by about three and a half years. It increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure. And it can produce a decline in your sort of mental functions, like it could increase depression, anxiety.

53:41So it's a real problem. And the president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day. And I'd like to hear what the White House has done to evaluate why the president has this increased daytime somnolence and what they're doing to improve that. For those who are listening on audio, to the right-hand side of Dr. Reiner was a visual of the White House. And it looks like they're almost building like a roller coaster behind it because they're setting up the UFC stage. And I can't help but reflect on just the utter derangement right here. I remember when Obama gave that speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and he showed as a joke to kind of mock what a Trump White House could look like.

54:29He said, this is what it'll turn the White House into. It was like golden pillars and like, you know, like pink writing the White House. It's frankly not that far off from what Trump's actually doing to the White House. And you're supposed to be but a temporary steward of the White House, a public servant. Yet Donald Trump is turning this White House into a grotesque thing. And I also note that one of the things he wants to build underneath the East Wing in this bunker is this hospital. He wants to build a full-fledged hospital facility. And my read is, number one, he's not planning on leaving.

55:11And number two, as he's preparing this bunker, what do you think he's digging in for?

55:18Ben Meiselas:And I've seen some people say, is he turning it into his own Neverland ranch? What is he building out there? So his bunker, his hospital, his data centers, this is supposed to be a humble abode, the people's house. And it's a complete and utter outrage. And I also note that we should get more than a social media post of, they told me my health is great, everything's amazing. Then we have our state regime media say, look, everything's great, everything's good. By the way, it's exactly what Netanyahu does. Netanyahu says it's dental, Netanyahu has his own state media who then kind of regurgitate what's going on.

56:08Ben Meiselas:There's some critical media in Israel, but there's a lot of state and kind of regime media, you know, as well. And he goes, it's a dental visit at 11 p.m. And they kind of, it's the same playbook. Like, and I could just imagine, you know, Netanyahu and Trump like talking, you know, and, you know, and Netanyahu like, all you do is you tell them that it is dental work. You just tell them people are stupid. You just say dental work and then you just end it. And Donald Trump goes to like just tell him it's dental work. What do you mean? Just say I'm going to the dentist. That's what that's what that's what BB does.

56:43BB just says he's going to the dentist. Tell him it's a dentist. I mean, you know, no one's buying no one's buying any of this right now.

56:50Ben Meiselas:And when we see the cover ups, when we see that the focus is anything but we, the people, when we see what is going on here, we see the suffering. That's just, again, going back to Memorial Day, just speaking with so many people. I went to the local park and hearing from people about the price of everything, everything, and the struggles that people are experiencing right now in this Trump economy, while the rich seem to be getting richer and everybody else just seems to be being absolutely crushed right now by this Trump economy. I want to address one more thing while while we're all together.

57:39This event, this shooting that was alleged to have occurred at the White House, I mean, we heard the sounds of it. A lot of those rounds were coming from the Secret Service shooting and killing the schizophrenic guy. And it was a 21-year-old guy who suffered from schizophrenia and serious mental health issues, who was released by the

58:09Ben Meiselas:Trump regime back in July of 2025. He was someone who was arrested for threatening the White House back then. He had a failure to appear on his record, meaning he didn't show up to his court appearance. So there was a warrant out for his arrest. And as soon as this incident happened, he never arrested. He was in the area, easy to find. They never re-arrest the guy. And so they allow somebody to kind of roam around the White House knowing the schizophrenic delusions. The guy called himself Jesus Christ and God told him to get into the White House. they knew he was a threat and they just kind of leave this guy around the White House.

58:58Ben Meiselas:And then when he has an episode, they shoot and kill him. And they say, well, he shot at us. So we shot and killed him. And I'm not, I'm not suggesting there wasn't a shot. You know, I, we need, I don't know all the facts, but at, at least this was a massive security breach, wasn't it? That they would let this guy be around. It reminds me of the report we did this morning about what's happening in Delaney Hall, which is owned by GEO, the private prison company, right, that makes billions of dollars right now off of taxpayer money. And I think about all of the immigrants who have been put in these detention centers, whose due process rights have been violated, these people suffering in these concentration camp-like environments.

59:47Ben Meiselas:there's illnesses. They're not eating. They're not getting food. They're being treated so despicably. Heck, Democratic Senator Andy Kim was there. He got pepper sprayed. If they're pepper spraying a United States Senator in the face, think about how they're treating these migrants. But they hunt these migrants down. As I say, they hunt your abuelo and your abuela and your abuelita. I mean, they're hunting down your family members who are here for decades, paying taxes, working hard, people who are picking up their kids. They're getting hunted down by the Trump regime. But the guy who threatens the White House isn't getting arrested, and they let the guy roam.

1:00:27Ben Meiselas:And then when he does something that's pretty predictable, what he's going to do, they shoot and kill him. And then they go, all right, golden ballroom time. And then Trump files, and it looks like he's the one who files himself. Looks like he wrote the motion again. This is the second assassination attempt in 30 days. So therefore, golden ballroom time, everybody. I need my golden ballroom. And it's just the people are just like, really? This is what you're doing. You're going here. Go back to the interview I did with Mayor Mom Donnie. After this episode ends, go and rewind. Watch the interview I did with the mayor.

1:01:06that's what politics should be about laser focused on helping the people he does that and as i mentioned to him all the right-wing media is like oh my god he's transferring the property to the community and he's not letting landlords be like that's not what he said that's not what he said whether you're right left center non-politically affiliated doesn't matter we need we need a fix to our housing crisis. And he's coming up with solutions for the housing crisis and taking big, bold initiatives. That's what we need to see politicians doing. Not talking about, we've removed emotional support dogs from people.

1:01:48Who wakes up and go, just think the Trump presumes, look what we did. We've made the nursing profession not a professional degree anymore. we've removed emotional support dogs as being allowed to be with people who suffer PTSD and who suffer life trauma and can't live without their emotional support. Look what we've done. We've taken away SNAP. We've taken away Medicaid. Yeah. That's not what it's supposed to be. Now, what it should be about is what Zoran Mamdani was offering. Whether it's Mamdani or any politician, we should be looking to see what are you doing to focus on we the people? How are you fighting for us?

1:02:40What are you doing to improve the lives and the quality of lives of people? We don't want to hear, oh, I've reduced healthcare prices by 800%. No, you didn't. We don't want to hear, I've done a most favored nation. No, you didn't. We don't want to hear, it's coming in two weeks. Just give me two more weeks. No, it isn't. We don't want to hear, oh, the reason why things are more expensive right now is because of refrigerant and all these wacky liberal rules on refrigerators. It's the refrigerators, everybody. No, I mean, go back and watch the interview. I did two big interviews today, you know, I thought.

1:03:22One with Mamdani, and you may have seen the interview that just dropped before I went live, was an interview I did with James Tolerico, Democratic candidate for Senate.

1:03:39Ben Meiselas:candidate for the Senate seat in Texas. And there's the big primary taking place.

1:03:50Ben Meiselas:So he's one of these individuals whose interests are aligning with the people. And I just saw some breaking news. Donald Trump posting, based on the possible bad weather conditions tomorrow, We will be having our cabinet meeting in the White House and we'll be postponing the cabinet trip to Camp David. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. Okay. So not going to Camp David. No red flags to see here, folks, after that doctor visit. The Camp David trip was supposed to happen. You can't travel to Camp David because of bad weather? Okay. That's what you want us to believe? Okay.

1:04:35Okay. Sure, big guy. Just like you weigh 217 pounds. Okay. You're 6 '3", 217 for sure. Makes it the perfect physical specimen. We've never seen a man so strong with such vigor. Stupid, stupid, stupid stuff. But folks, there's a lot of momentum on the side of truth. A lot of momentum on the side of democracy.

1:05:01Ben Meiselas:a lot of momentum on the side of creating solutions. Why it was great to share with you the interview I just did with New York City Mayor Momdani, the interview I just did with Tallarico. We showed you over the weekend some of the incredible speeches by Ossoff. I thought a really great speech as well by a number of these new generation of Democratic leaders who are out there in the forefront. And again, to me, it's not just, okay, they're a Democrat. I just want people who are fighting, when people are coming with solutions, big, bold initiatives. That's what we're trying to be here on the Midas Touch Network, big and bold initiatives.

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1:06:50Great audience today. Great interview with Mom Donnie.

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