Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben 9/17/2026

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3:11Just lie after lie. So here we are. We saw more escalation of Russian strikes on Ukraine, Ukraine responding, which strikes deep inside Russia. You have Donald Trump calling into his personal stenographer at Axios Barak-Rovid, one of Trump's propagandists who just literally post whatever Donald Trump says, and he says Donald Trump is now saying total annihilation of Iran. We're back to that. Donald Trump also says they really want to make a deal. I want to do a deal with him, but he's back to saying total annihilation. I have a big decision coming up. Donald Trump tells Barak-Rovid, do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not? It's a big decision. Anything could happen with me. But keep this posted there for a moment, salty because I want to show people what Barak-Rovid did there as well. Let's just talk about what Donald Trump actually told Barak-Rovid. Trump said, I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not?

4:12But notice what Barak-Rovid put in there. The Iranian regime. Do I want to annihilate them, the Iranian regime? No, no, no. Trump, as he has said before, is talking about annihilating the Iranian civilization. It's not just his words, it's his actions, slaughtering little girls and menops, slaughtering little children in Le Maird, slaughtering people most recently at a wedding in Syrac. And the recent bout of escalation that Donald Trump's engaged in before that slaughtering people in Kesham, and he recently sold what $2.8 billion worth of 5,000 bombs to Netanyahu to continue the genocide. So you don't need to fill in the Trump saying the Iranian regime. I'm talking about the people in any event. Donald Trump is losing this catastrophic war. We're back to annihilate the regime again. Should also be noted. We're seeing the consequences of the war here at home as well in newly shaped global world order is forming. And we'll talk about that. We'll also talk about how this is impacting the cost of living, of course.

5:15It's making it far more difficult for Americans to even survive. Get to that. But we see, for example, even earlier today, Prime Minister Karney speaking in front of in Brussels before the European Union Parliament, talking about establishing a new global dynamic in this new multi-polar world where Canada and Europe are aligned behind their values and principles, whether that's associate membership status or something that is equally as meaningful, Carnie made it clear. You know, we're not really all about nomenclature. We're about doing things kind of another jab at Donald Trump, who just cares about naming things, Carnie's about doing things. And we saw Prime Minister Karney for the first time in history being invited any foreign leader like that being invited to speak in front of the European Union Parliament, delivering a speech following the European Union state of the Union that Ursula von der Leyen delivered in the previous day. And he arrived to a standing ovation.

6:16We'll cover that. We'll talk about that also notable here at home yesterday interest rates increased by 25 basis points to the 3.75 4% range. That's the amount that banks the interest that banks lend each other, which trickles down to you. The consumer and the forms of your mortgages and all the different types of money that you try to seek when consumers get lent money by banks. So that's all going to be going up. It's going to make housing even less affordable than it already is. But I think it's notable too, right that you know, Donald Trump tried to criminally prosecute Jerome Powell, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, who Donald Trump appointed during Trump's first term all Biden. It was re-extend the guy's term, but because Trump called Powell too late, Powell because Powell would not decrease interest rates, not only to Donald Trump, bully him and try to push him out. Donald Trump tried to get the guy criminally prosecuted and Powell had to quash all of these subpoenas and efforts by a grand jury that Donald Trump assembled to try to go after Powell.

7:26Why? Because Powell would not decrease the interest rates arbitrarily. Right. So Trump brings in his guy, Kevin Warsch, as I had been pointing out at the time, I said, the interesting dynamic here is that Powell's an interest rate dove, meaning he has shown a greater inclination to decrease the interest rates to bring interest rates down. And Kevin Warsch historically was someone who did lots of interest rate hikes and believed in kind of stricter controls on this kind of monetary policy and that more fed intervention in terms of increasing interest rates. So that was their reputation. Powell's reputation was a guy more likely to lower. Warsch was always a guy historically who raised that was like the dove hawk dynamic. So Trump brings in Warsch and Warsch had actually been saying things, you know, to indicate he was going to raise interest rates. And he raised the interest rates, not just him, it was the full board of the Federal Reserve, it was a 12 to nothing vote.

8:28So I think two of Trump's other picks are part of that 12 in addition to Warsch. I mean, you can say one of them is Powell, but you had again overwhelming bipartisan Republican administration picks Democratic administration picks 12 to zero. Why? Because inflation is surging. Why? Because Donald Trump's catastrophic war to Ron and Donald Trump's catastrophic trade wars. Everybody could have predicted this when you tariff the world. And you do it in such a way that Donald Trump did, of course, it's going to cause inflation to search when you go involved in getting involved in a catastrophic war. Everybody could have predicted what was going to happen. Or Ron would control the straight of our moves. And now we're seeing the secondary consequences where groups allied with the Ron like the Houthis now control the Bob Mel Mondob straight all of Western Yemen and thus the red sea. And we see the major damages across the east west pipeline and Saudi Arabia as Saudi Arabia has its proxies in Yemen and its proxies have been pushed out by the Houthis.

9:29And now you have MBS kind of on the ropes and that's a big issue for MBS that he's out of interceptors. The way Trump's out of interceptors because MBS and Saudi Arabia they get their weapons from the United States. So he's out there begging the UK and France and others in Egypt. Hey, we need weapons. We're out of weapons over here. And now they're saying, look what the Houthis are doing. The Houthis seem to be shooting drones over Mecca. And so we need to activate the Sunni alliance over here. And then the Houthis like we didn't do that in the videos you're showing are from 2025 in Medina not Mecca tomato tomato. I mean, it's a different place. And also we're not doing it. And it's just fascinating to me that you have the Masad Netanyahu, you have Sencom commander Admiral Brad Cooper and you have MBS. And that's their all meeting in Saudi Arabia, one of the things that comes out of it is they said, look, aha, it looks like the Houthis are going after the Sunnis and look there attacking Mecca everybody in the Houthis like we're not attacking Mecca like we're not we're not doing that.

10:29And the video that you're showing from 2025 was a strike on Israel and the drones nearby, but that's Medina. So what are we even talking about here. So I just I want to cue you in on these dynamics that are happening. I spend a lot of time focused on the morning on global issues because to me, it's the most pressing issues that are out there. And it's ultimately impacting what's happening here, you know, in the United States. So I showed, for example, how foreign minister, a rag, G Iran's foreign minister met in Beijing with the foreign minister of China, Wang Yi, look at them over there meeting together cooperating, talking about coordination with each other. It's interesting, right? Because Treasury Secretary, best interest is like anybody who cooperates with Iran, we're coming after we're coming after what are you going to come after them with like grape pupon, what are you going to come after them with a five. We're going to come after you Beijing with a five course meal. We're going to give you the best damn state dinner, Donald Trump, we're going to do a tea party for you. I mean, you got Xi Jinping coming in next week and all you see at the White House is their preparations, you know, it reminds me of what's up.

11:36Yeah, bring him to what's that show on Netflix. We're doing a ball with Xi Jinping at the White House. And that's going to teach you you've been naughty Xi Jinping. What's it called? Brighter 10 bring it to my wife watches the show. We're going to do a ball. And that's going to show you not to do any cooperation with Iran. We're learning more. See, and I did a good report. We didn't need their report to tell us this. That Russian satellites were utilized to help Iran target US bases in the region. But I have access. You have we all have access to a lot of these the the satellite footage that exists. I show you the satellite footage on a daily basis of what's going on there. I mean, this stuff is actually fairly accessible at there. But anyway, CNN did the report that that helped Iran with its its its targeting. And then you had at the United Nations moments ago, you had China and Russia blocking or vetoing United secure you and security council resolution that the US backed extending international sanctions against Iran.

12:41And so MB Galaba for runs parliament leader posted that this is the end of the unipolar order. We're not going back to that. And we're and and then thank China and thank Russia for that veto that happened moments ago. And you know what well, you know, this is complicated stuff. I mean, this is complex stuff, right. And so all of this is going on. You've got Donald Trump like out there. What was he doing last night when he came back from North Carolina. He was in Cotari Air Force one, right. Isn't that just a symbol of all of the corruption is on Cotari Air Force one. And then he's reading something that says like demolish the Kennedy Center. How we're going to see is a look through the window and you see it. It says Kennedy Center demolition right there. And that's what he's fixated on because the federal judge is not letting him change the name to Trump Kennedy Center without Congress. All the judge said is look, you control all branches of government of Congress wants to pass a law resolution honoring you to put your name on the Kennedy Center. That's fine. You can't just do it. Can I engrave it. Can I want to engrave it. I won't change the name, but I need to put my name on it. And the judge is like, no, you can't do that. We're not going to let you do that. No, we're blocking that. And then Donald Trump, okay, well, it's demolished. I'm destroying it. I'm destroying it. Okay. What do you like a little baby? I'm what are you doing? I'm destroying it.

14:03I'm destroying it. A legal observer who was on premises yesterday said that she observed a forklift brought on by the Trump regime just smashing into the pillars. Smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, like a terrorist not like Trump is a terrorist in my opinion. He engages in terrorist attacks. Absolutely 100% in my opinion. Feel free to have your own opinion. You're protected by the first amendment, as it should be. And so that's what Trump is engaged in while you have a very serious global dynamic that's taking place. Right. This is it is complicated stuff. International diplomacy was very complicated, but the US not only was able to deal with it, we led to the post-World War II global architecture that actually benefited the US, whether you like or didn't like the post-World War II global architecture, the rules-based system that existed was kind of a heads-eye wind tails you lose if you're the United States.

15:03It benefited the United States. People had to park their money into the United States. It enriched the United States. It allowed the United States to focus more on a service-based economy and other things, and it allowed the United States to have things that other countries were looking that they wanted to have. And so Trump said that was unfair, though. That system was unfair. So a new rules-based order is forming. And there are some people who debate this with Nigo. It's not rules-based. It was rules-based under the US. And now it's not rules-based. And now it's just the kind of the law of the strong, law of the jungle. A part of that may be true, but it's a rules-based. It just the rules will be rigged in ways that the US rigged the rules before. Now, I think an accomplishment, perhaps, of the US rules-based order, in one of the ways it was designed, what with the mutually assured destruction type doctrine,

16:04was how do we avoid World War? How do we avoid World War III? Not how do we avoid Wars? There have been plenty and devastating and catastrophic ones. Nor do I want to pontificate that the US was this. Oh, he's just this great country that did all these amazing things internationally. And it was always so peaceful, OK? Spare me. We should have an honest discussion about intervention and history and other catastrophic wars. Not just this one in Iran, but there's a series of them that we can spend 20 podcasts going through that history. But there is a new rules-based order. The rules, though, are just not going to favor the US. The US is going to be weaker and far weaker and left out, left out of the club. And Donald Trump can feel like, oh, look, she loves me and Putin loves me. I mean, their actions are making it very clear where their allies are with each other, with Iran,

17:06with North Korea, with Bricks. Trump keeps attacking NATO. And so Prime Minister Karni gets the hint and Prime Minister Karni has like got it, understood it, right? EU. And EU has like got it, Prime Minister Karni. Karni is a very, very, very sophisticated operator. I mean, this is no dummy. I mean, this guy is actually genius. And one of these smartest minds out there, Canada picked right. They picked the smartest guy. The US picked the most malicious and dumbest guy, right? The US picked the bank ruptor. And Canada picked the most impressive central banker in history who also is charismatic to boot, right? I mean, this guy ran Bank of England and Bank of Canada during volatile times. Knows how to coalition built and he's showing how he can do that on an international stage, where you have Donald Trump tearing apart the prior rules-based order. That's what we're seeing. We need to call it what it is. We need to frame it. We need to have honest discussions. And of course, we have an election coming up.

18:07That's a big deal. We'll talk in this episode too about how Donald Trump's approval is plummeting. We'll talk about election. What we have to, I mean, it's coming up. But my broader point that I talk about frequently on this channel is is that if we just focus on the gamification of politics and election like it's sport, which team do you support, which team don't do you support, we fail to understand that we should be focused on America and our role also as citizens of the world and what that means to try to create a more prosperous country, more prosperous world, to try to build bridges, not blow them up or threaten to annihilate for the sake of stealing oil and stealing resources as Donald Trump posts and brag about. And so we need to have, I think, a broader sense of what we're doing here. What's the role of governance? Why do we have a politic to begin with? What's the point of all of this, right? It should not be so that we become non-consensual extras

19:07in a dystopian reality show where we wake up and are psychologically tortured by a regime every day. That's not what politics should be, period full stop. And I think the American people are recognizing it, but we got to get out of this hell by diagnosing what the generational traumas inflicted have been and how we got here in the first place. So let's just take a look, though. What's going on across the world right now and I'll show you, we'll zoom in right now in Odessa. I want to share with you over the here. So there's horrific strikes on a residential complex in Odessa overnight. You'll see what it looks like as people in Odessa and Ukraine were sleeping. Here's the scene. Let's take a look at what it looked like. Let's play it. That's every night. That's every night in Odessa. That's every night in Kiev. I'll show you Kiev. This is the Russian missiles that kept raining down on Kiev one after another. Show you this one. Let's play it.

20:22Now I'll take you to Rostov in Russia where Solinsky striking refineries there, striking infrastructure there, striking airfields there. Let me show you what it looked like overnight in Rostov in Russia. Let's play it. Yeah, bye to you. Now I'll show you what the air defenses look like over Rostov as well. This is Rostov number two. Let's play the other Rostov clip. Also a busy night in the Yarsavall area where oil refineries were attacked. That's in Russia as well. Solinsky continuing to strike refineries there. Here is one in Yarsavall last night.

21:22Let's play it. Now I remember growing up when there were wars, it would be what news focused on it. They would show you the footage, right? Do you remember that? I mean, and now in this increasingly propagandized media environment, you don't see that. I want to give a shout out to all the open source intelligence community that makes this available online. And it's accessible to me, to the Midas Touch Network. Yes, we have boots on the ground, and we hope that we contribute to the corpus of information that's out there.

22:22Right? I mean, we did a documentary with Ken Harba, Drone Hunters, where he was actually on the front lines of the war. A Midas Touch correspondent was on the front lines of the war shooting down Russian Shahi drones with Ukrainian soldiers. Have you seen the Drone Hunters? You should watch it. So we're there. We can't be everywhere. Then we can't be there all the time. It's also incredibly dangerous to have people that are all the time or frequently. But a lot of the stuff's out there. We need to see it. This is what's going on in the world right now. And this is what Trump promised on day one that he was going to solve, that he would end the war on day one. And now he wants to blame Ukraine for the surge in diesel when it's mostly caused by his catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. But in any event, Trump was the guy who said that he would resolve the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

23:22So here he is in September saying, it's because of the war I didn't resolve in 24 hours that I promised that diesels. People aren't buying this anymore. Trump supporters aren't buying this anymore. Maggie has done with this. Independence are beyond done with it. Democrats have never been with it. But that's really where we are. And then it just seems every day you get a suspicious event like this. And I'm not here to try to throw a conspiracy theory. So I try to be very careful with my reporting. But it just seems there's a lot of F-15s and F-16s and Apache helicopters and black hawks that are like crashing all over the place, right? This morning, a US F-16 fighter jet went down in Blair Township, Northern Michigan, near County Road, 633 in Blair Town Hall Road right there. The initial reports were that the pilot remained conscious. But yet another here in F-16, by the way, F-15 was shot down

24:22over Yemen, the Houthis posed in front of one of those. We've talked about a number of black hawks and Apache's that have been going down to here and abroad. And go back to May of 2025. Remember when the US was striking the Houthis in May of 2025? Remember the signal gate, the signal chat? That was all about the US strike on the Houthis in Yemen back in 2025. Remember that? Remember all the aircraft that was falling off the ships? Remember that? Another helicopter fell off the ship. A plane fell off the ship. And now I think we can reflect on it and go, oh, got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What happened? What really happened there? This regime lies about everything. So why wouldn't they lie about that? I guess for some time, we thought, well, it's sent comments this. So they're not going to lie about that. No, they're going to lie about that. They're going to lie about the casual tick accounts. They're going to lie about the damage to the bases. They're going to lie about actually every damn thing. Right.

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29:28And so I think you probably have seen that by now. I want to talk about Prime Minister Karney speaking before the European Union Parliament, first time that's ever happened in the European Union Parliament history, comes the day after the state of the European Union by their president of the European Union Commission, Ursula Vonderlyne. It should be noted that the EU's been making a lot of moves as well. They've been working on doing the mother of all deals as they called it with India, right? As Trump's kind of shunned India and embraced Pakistan over India and kind of picked that side and did it in a way that was also like giving the middle finger to India. I mean, there's a way to thread the needle, difficult, of course, given the relationship there between India and Pakistan. But the way Trump went about it, pretty stupid, putting it lightly. But Pakistan did invest in a lot of Trump crypto, world liberty financial.

30:29I believe Don Jr. and Eric's drone company announced in the past 24 to 48 hours that they got a big memorandum of understanding by field marshal Munir of Pakistan. So that was very important to the Trump family, very, very important to them. But look, Trump's made it very clear in public documents that his desire is to destroy the European Union. That was America's foreign policy plan going into this year literally said to like destroy the European Union. It's kind of like support groups that want to destroy the European Union. And so that's what they're going about trying to do. So you have, you know, these this tension of, you know, this pretending that the US, you know, there are some people want to pretend NATO, especially wants to pretend that Article 4, Article 5 will be honored by the United States, which I think we all know sadly, Article 4 and Article 5 under Trump is a fiction.

31:31Like do we actually think that Article 4 and Article 5, Article 4's consultation five is joint defense. Trump's never gonna honor it. I mean, there was another ship speaking of, you know, as we talked about the headline of this episode, you know, Trump creating World War III, there was a Turkey flag ship off the waters by Romania that were struck likely by a Russian Shaheed. And there have been multiple ships that have been hit off the coast of Romania, NATO member, like you know that, right? Like so, and there have been numerous acts that in normal times would trigger, at least Article 4, perhaps Article 5 of NATO, but this is what Putin's been kind of poking and testing and he has got his answer. He's got his answer, right? Donald Trump just so, so happy to see she, so happy to talk about Putin. And what's interesting as well, just to give you this dynamic,

32:31the House and Senate passed the sanctions bill, that would sanction countries and companies that do business with Russia. It's a second, it's Lindsey Graham's secondary sanctions bill. But it's kind of at the discretion of Trump to faithfully execute the law, China's already come up with a statement as has Russia saying nobody should abide by this sanctions decree. And the issue will be, how will it ultimately be implemented? And my, I suspect while in theory, the sanctions, you know, passed in the House and the Senate will Trump actually implement them. I have my doubts given Trump's relations with Putin, given what we just saw with the top US diplomat or someone who shouldn't be a diplomat, but who has that title in Belarus, speaking with Lukashenko over there with what would Kofin Kushner are doing, so like let's,

33:33let's be real here about what's really happening. I digress though, I'll go back to Prime Minister Karney. It's exact a little bit there. Prime Minister Karney, speaking at the European Union Parliament, talking about how Canada, we are not fair weather allies. We do not pursue zero sum deals. And obviously this is a reference to what Trump does, zero sum deals and also fair weather allies would actually be a compliment to Trump. Like if Trump was called fair weather ally, that's really generous here, play this clip. We are not fair weather allies. We do not pursue zero sum deals. Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom and democracy share the same deep roots,

34:33the same unwavering dedication. We hold common values for which we have always fought and in whose defense we must always remain vigilant. We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but a means to adjust society. We are committed. We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it's shared these values. This is a sharing of choice, not coincidence. I mean, let's contrast that. Salty, are you using that? I'm not using that. I'm using that. Salty, you pick any clip. I don't even care which one it is. Just why don't we just do random clip

35:34of Donald Trump from last night? Let's do it this way. I really don't even wanna know Salty. Don't even tell me the clip of Trump we're going to play. I don't want to even know what it is. Seriously, I'm telling the end. Don't show me because they're all gonna be this, I'm the greatest, I'm so unfair. We shouldn't do this, we shouldn't do that. Well, well, well, I mean, you had Prime Minister Karney here, now just pick any of the clips of Trump from last night. You'd ever handle. And I've delivered on every single promise I made and far more than the promise. I made promise. Where I, I, I mean, me, me. Okay, now let's show any clip of Prime Minister Karney from his speech in Parliament. Let's play him. An alliance that builds resilience for what it allows us to do for our citizens and our citizens to do for themselves. An alliance strong enough so that no one can dictate our choices. An alliance open enough that others can join. An alliance principled enough that our strength

36:37reinforces international law rather than seeks to replace it. Applause. All right, now pick any Trump clip from last night at random. Pick anyone. I have to say you have a little higher. You have a higher, it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that it's a little more. It's even if it was, frankly, even if it was a lot more. But that's going to come tumbling down. That's going to be like a rocket ship in reverse. One more clip of Karney and then we'll, we'll, we'll end this game here. Play this clip. It's these motivations. These fundamental motivations combined with our latent hard power mean that we can help to create the next just stable and prosperous world order. Applause.

37:37A Canada EU alliance would create a beacon for other democracies. An alliance not defined by what we oppose, but about what we are for. Freedom, solidarity, prosperity, sustainability. Applause. And now pick any of the Trump ones. Ackert ship in reverse and don't forget they never want to talk. The fake news about Venezuela. We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes. And. Applause. And now we have all our big oil companies going there and we're working along with the government of Venezuela very well. The relationship is extraordinary. We're taking out millions and millions of barrels of oil. And I can't get the press to talk about it. Because I don't want to talk about it because I've never seen anything like it before. When they say to the victor belong the spoils, that's one of the greatest cases anyone's ever seen in history.

38:39We paid back the cost of our war many times over and you watch what's going to happen around. It's going to be a really good conclusion. It's going to and it's going to happen. It's going to I say it's going to be a little bit after the election, but maybe not. Maybe it's before the election. And just and I play another one of Trump anyone. And if we stop trading with every country that we have a deficit with, which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do, would make at least $1.5 trillion a year. We do that because it's almost like a reflex. You get the point. You get the point. I mean, who would you want to deal with? Right. I mean, just think about that behavior right there. And I don't even view this as a political thing at all. I view this as as I first we should establish the floor of leadership as grown up behavior,

39:41decency, integrity and intention of, let's just say grown up behavior as the floor. Then from there, I hope that we can rise and ultimately have people who are amongst the most qualified become public servants and give back. I saw this the other day. Professor Jeffrey Sachs was on a podcast notable professor. He was describing the difference between US Trump cabinet and the rest of the world. And notice, it's very similar to how I describe things. And so rather than me just aping what he says, let me just show you what he says specifically, let's play it. I think we should understand. We have a cabinet of 35 people. Not one of them is trained in technical skills.

40:45Not one. There's one bachelor's degree, one bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, no other training at all on technical issues. And not one single research PhD degree in the cabinet, as opposed to China where it's half the cabinet basically is science and technology and research PhDs. In other words, we're led by drifters and fools. Sorry, straight out. And they're incompetent and they're arrogant. And they don't even know how to ask a question. It's to me sometimes it says basic as that. It says basic as that. I mean, look, when you've lost Maga Grifter propaganda, Benny Johnson, when you've lost Benny Johnson,

41:46this is what he said earlier today. Let's play it. Everybody, you just can't. I mean, just the biggest political swing in my lifetime has been not keeping the $2 gas that we had in December and January. And that's exactly where we, that's where we were. That's where the market, where the market was headed was to most people paying less than $2 a gallon for gas. It was the nationwide average was $2 exactly. I just checked it this morning on December 31, 2025. That was the nationwide average for a gallon of gasoline. Yep. What happened? I wonder what happened. But then he'll be like, I think maybe Trump's getting bad advice. Oh, it says Trump is whole life. This is Trump is whole life. His whole life has been bankruptcy after bankruptcy, losing after losing, being a sexual predator, being a predator.

42:47Right? I mean, this is a guy who is a felon. Right? In the business records, a felon. This is a person who's a fraud. I heard people say, Ben, don't call him a con artist because it has the word artist in it. He may like the word artist. I don't know. You know, he's a con. He's a fraud. The whole thing is that, right? And I guess as we look towards the midterms, the world sees it now, the country sees it now. But for me and I'm sure for you, you're like, but how didn't you see it before? He was always the snake. How'd you let the snake in the first time? How'd you let the snake back in? And that's what the world is really saying right now, which is US, we gave you a past the first time you let the snake in. You let him in again. And here's what he said, we're building a new order.

43:50We're building a new multi-polar structure to build resiliency. That's a word that we always hear at these big international. Resiliency, meaning resiliency against us. Resiliency against the great betrayal of the country that built the post war to architecture that enriched that country, putting into office a grifter who claimed the rigged system, which was helping the architect, the US, of the structure was unfair to them. It's ridiculous. Let's take our last quick break of the show, a reminder. WTF America is the book that I wrote with my brothers. It comes out October 20th. I keep on talking about it because I poured my life's work in the journey into this book. And if anything were to happen to me or anything like this is one, this is one of the things I want to be out there

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47:55but other fees such as transactional fees for wires, instant transfers, and ATM apply. Read Found fees schedule. Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I've been my cellist. This is your breaking news. It's our breaking news. Mitch McConnell, he all saw his, I don't know, we can have Bernie's situation going on there. I just them trying to think like if you're watching our system and you're in another country and you're like, oh my God, you Trump, what are you guys doing? And then you're like, after Lindsey Graham dies, it's like his sister who's like, I don't know where Taiwan is. We don't care about that. Taiwan, what is that? A ta-foon? You're talking about ta-foons? Ta-foon fall? People are like, you know, the sister becomes the senator? Like what, explain to me your system? And then you have people who are like kind of,

48:56I wanna say it, I wanna be, I don't wanna be grim. People who don't look fully there, like you Mitch McConnell and then, because he doesn't know how to vote, because he can't speak and he doesn't know where he is, then they tell him what to vote for and he's just, I don't wanna do the impression. Just don't do the impression. No, this is not where you do impressions. Do not do a mission. Do not do it. Do not do it. Okay, I'm not gonna do it. No one, people tell me, don't do the impressions. Be serious newscaster. I'm not gonna do a mission. Don't do it. Okay, let me show you, let me show you, don't do it. Let me show you the clip of Mitch McConnell, let's play it. The question is on reporting the agriculture act of 2026 as amended as an original bill, the clerk will call it wrong. Senator Clovichard. No. Senator Bennett. No. Senator Smith. No. Senator Durban. Senator Booker.

49:56No. Senator Luhan. No. Senator Warnock. May I come back? Come back. Senator Welch. No. Can you sign it? Senator Federman. No. Senator Schiff. No by proxy. Senator Slotkin. No by proxy. Senator McConnell. No. Okay. Okay. Senator McConnell. All right. Senator Hovin. All right. Senator. That's our system for you right there. Okay, but what about the speaker of the house, Magamite Johnson, right? What about him? recess, Congress, so everybody needs to go home. Nothing, nothing all that important to do apparently right now. Right after a war, powers resolution passed in the house.

50:59Right after Thomas Massey, introduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. Let's talk about what Magamite had to say. Here's what Magamite said. Let's play it. The house is done its job here. We're on a 48 hour notice to return as necessary. So we're very hopeful that our colleagues in the Senate can send us bills of substance over here so that we can continue to move that along through the process and get bills to the president's desk. We're awaiting that action. So House Republicans are going now back to our districts. We're going to make the case of the American people on what we have delivered on their behalf. The media certainly doesn't do this for us. So we've got to go tell them the truth. And that truth is, has huge impact when it's, the people are reminded of what we've done. Irony is that the media is their biggest friend right now. The media couldn't be helping them more, but the people have been so harmed by what this regime has done that the media controlled now by right wing money

52:02can't overpower the people power. That's the reality of what the situation is. The media is not doing it just. No, no, no, it's that you ripped away people's health care. You put Gestapo on the street. You created an SS with ice and border patrol and you put them on the street to hunt down people and throw them into cages and you built concentration camps. And then you got into trade wars against the world, including with our closest ally, Canada, but all of our close allies, you lost the trade war against the world. You then started catastrophic wars around the world, like the catastrophic war in Iran. You slaughter little children. You keep on giving more money to the Netanyahu regime to slaughter little children, slaughter little girls. You cover up the sex trafficking of little girls with the Epstein files. You rip away rural health care hospitals. I mean, what do you, you want data centers and everybody's backyard?

53:02You told us that AI regulation, what did the guy, you heard what the guy said today? The head of which one was it? Palantir? The Palantir guy? He's like, regulation of AI, like don't tell me to wear a condom. What if we don't want to wear a condom? Am I going to look at what he's talking about? You're like, AI should be unregulated. And AI and data centers everywhere if you want to be rich. I mean, like we look at what you all have done. I mean, on every issue you've taken your ranchers, you destroyed the lives of the, you went group by group, like how do we destroy the lives of ranchers? Got it. Let's bring in mystery meat. Let's undercut our ranchers by 25%. But let's tell them we love them. And let's see if that will convince them. What about our, what about our farmers? Let's make all the input costs so much higher.

54:03Let's get rid of their export markets. And let's get involved in a catastrophic war, which further increases their inputs costs. Let's, let's, let's do that. Let's do that. We'll tell them we love them. Manufacturing, let's just lie and say we brought in $20 trillion. There are all these plants being built, but let's not actually build the plants. But let's just tell them that they're getting richer and then let's crush everybody with inflation. Let's just pick on nurses for the sake of it and just tell them that they're not professionals. What else should we do? Let's spread measles. Let's spread them measles everywhere. That's what Americans are really looking for. Let's keep talking about ballrooms and demolishing the Kennedy Center. Let's take a fork lift and just keep on ramming the pillars of the Kennedy Center. Let's, like, let's keep on doing that. Let's tell people repeatedly that they're rich and living a golden age. Well, Donald Trump flies around in a cattari jet that's for the reason is an Air Force one. Let's, you're always a good, let's keep on. Let's keep this, we, this is what, no people know, man, they're like, what do you do?

55:06The hell was, let's get, well, you know, we should get rid of what? Weather, let's get whatever, what do you mean? Let's get rid of weather services. You don't want that really? You know, we should fire, who? FEMA. Really? Yeah, how much, how many people? Like half of them? Half of FEMA? You want to fire half of FEMA? Yeah. Why? Why do you want to fire half of FEMA? Ungrateful, ungrateful, excuse me. Yeah, tell you, what are you talking about? Yeah, we're gonna go after colleges too. We're gonna go after colleges. Why? Well, like which ones? Like all of them? We'll start with Harvard and yeah, we'll go after one by one, really? McCarrie? What else are you gonna do there? What else are you gonna do? Crazy, it's like everything, you know, is done to inflict, it's like, point by point to cause harm to the American. What about greenhouse gas emissions? Man, spread it.

56:08What do you mean spread it? Spread it. Not real. What do you mean it's not real? Yeah. So what? Beautiful coal. Big, big, big, beautiful coal. What do you mean? Coal? You know, there's a lot of green, new energy. Most countries are seeing that's the future of create jobs. No. No. Can the American people see this? It's crazy. You can y'all are like lunatics. That's why I always get asked. It's like, ah, Ben, how do you do the political messaging? And I repeatedly told you, I'm like, don't ask me that. I'm not a political messaging guy, okay? If you really enjoyed this experience than I year psychotic in my view, like if you've actually true, or you're a small group of people who got very wealthy under Trump, which is, is right when all the guard billionaire buddies. But otherwise, like if you truly like this then like you just like, you like being, there's nothing I can convince you. You enjoy being treated like shit. There's nothing I can do. But I suppose the good news is that a lot of Americans don't like this. Harry Anton unpacks.

57:09We'll do the first and first. How Trump is breaking records? Talk about Trump, record breaker. Harry Anton does a good job explaining it. Let's play it. I wanna congratulate Donald Trump, the president of the United States because he is breaking records. He is literally breaking records. Yesterday the Marquette University Law School Paul came out and take a look here. Trump's worst net-approval rating on inflation, minus 61 points, 61 points underwater. That is the worst that Donald Trump has ever pulled on inflation. And not only is it the worst that Donald Trump has ever pulled on inflation, it is the worst that any president ever has pulled on inflation. This is literally the worst net-approval rating on inflation for any president. It is truly record-breaking. Congratulations, president Trump. You're breaking records. But perhaps not in the way that you wished it. Worse than Carter. Worse than Jimmy Carter. Worse than Reagan. Worse than Reagan. Worse than Biden. Worse than Biden. He is worse than all three of those. And he is worse than any poll he has ever had himself

58:09with this minus 61 points, literally the worst of all. But literally how isn't it minus 99? I mean, who goes around and goes, I think the inflation is good right now. I'm just curious, but by the way, Trump's own guy, Kevin Warsh, who was picked to lower interest rates, he said inflation is bad. That's Trump's literal inflation guy. He was like, yeah, this is really bad. This is really bad. It's so bad we are unanimously raising interest rates by 25 basis points to 375 to 4.0 to 4%. That's true. So I just want, who's the, who's the, who's that other core group of the remaining 39? He's like, you know what? This is a golden age. This is it. I mean, I see some of them at these events, like they're cheering for, you know, Shamu, you know, in SeaWorld, you know, as he, you know, does the jerk off YMCA dance. And they're like,

59:10look at him doing the jerk off dance. Look at him doing. It's crazy to him. It's crazy, it's crazy stuff that there's, you know, still a group of people who will be with them through the last pump. It's really just a little bit of a vile. But fortunately, most, most Americans are like, yeah, that's like actually a psychotic human. That's like a lunatic. That's a sexual predator. Like that's a real deviant right there. That's just, that's just, what about Hegset? What do people think about Hegset? Let's play this clip. Where is, where is Hegset's popularity right now? You know, we start off the title slide, asking who hates Hegset? And basically everyone, if you're in the American public, no wonder, no wonder the speaker sent everybody home because just take a look here. Okay, Hegset's not approval. You know, back before the Iran war started back in January of 2026, right? It was minus nine points. You think that's the look at this. He's more than twice as unpopular, nearly three times as unpopular now and as net approval rating, minus 25 points. How about among independence? You think that minus nine is the,

1:00:11how about minus 20 before the war started? You think that minus 20? So how about minus 43 points among independence now? No wonder, no wonder, no wonder, speaker Johnson did not want his Republicans representatives to actually have to vote on this because if they voted with the president, they'd be voting against the American public because the bottom line is Hegset is hated by basically. Yeah, just think about it. Our Congress is not working because they're working with Trump to cover up child sex trafficking and to block the impeachment of the Secretary of Defense who's a war criminal who shouldn't be tried in the hagg. Undisputed, I mean, the guy is a war criminal. He is up there with every major war criminal period full stop. The blood is on his hands. And I believe in my opinion that it is disqualifying

1:01:12if you're going to run for president in 2028. If your position is not, I'm going to tear down every building with Trump's name on it and I'm gonna put it on live TV on day one. My view, if that's not part of your position, you should not be allowed to run for the office of the presidency in 2028 and win in my view. The other one is, I think you have to commit to a lot of accountability, but number one on that list or right up there is to hand over Hegset to the hagg for war crimes prosecution. And all of the other generals, whether that's Brad Cooper, whoever it is, who's ever determined to have engaged in these war crimes in the chain of command, who slaughtered the little children. They need to be held accountable for it. They need to be, there needs to be a reckoning with the war crimes. We have to, if the United States wants to begin

1:02:17a process of trying to will never be the same, but to begin the process, there has to be real accountability. It's interesting, right? The way Orban was a template for Trump's fascism to some extent, Magyars response, at least as it relates to Orban and Orban's regime, perhaps is a little bit of a template, but the US has to do that on a grander scale. Remorse. We have to think, we have to think deeper about these issues because this is not normal politics, Democrats, Republicans, this behavior that has existed by Trump and those around him are heinous. Absolutely heinous.

1:03:18That's just my opinion. Feel free to disagree. Everybody should be asked that. And by the way, the Midas Touch Network, do we have the stats salty of where the Midas Touch Network is on the podcast charts right now, just so people can see? And this is thanks to you right here. Number one, beating every major podcast out there. And I don't say there's just the boast, I'll look where number one, we're number one. This to me is a reflection of a lot of the broader trends we're seeing right now out there of Donald Trump's decline and people looking for the truth. So I think that's a good sign, but I say this because we want to host the presidential, at least one presidential debate, at least a primary on the Democrats. We're working towards that. And I think we will be able to do that. But I'll tell you one of the first questions that are gonna be asked is that, you know, there gonna be a lot of questions like that.

1:04:21And the candidates are gonna have to answer those questions not wishy washy, right? Is there a genocide in Gaza, yes or no? Will you tear down the buildings on day one, yes or no? Will you ensure that war criminals are prosecuted? Yes or no, yes or no? Yes or no? Data centers and people's backyards, yes or no? There are just some, there are certain questions that just need to be asked, that we need to know and that I'd like to see all the candidates on stage and I'd like to see what they respond. I don't want to see, eh, well, you know, it's been, it's been, it's been, actually, it's this, it's a data system. We're being like, we're in a, it's like, we're in a different, and by the way, we're in a time period also where a lot of these things are not, this is a democratic issue, this is a Republican, we don't want these wishy washy, polite, eh, you know, this, I don't wanna be spun,

1:05:25I have no, I have no interest for that. I have no interest for that. So I think that's what the debate will look like and then there'll be lots of other questions, tough questions, but I look forward to hosting presidential debates in the future at the minus touch now, so we'll see. Let's take a look at what Maga Republicans are doing cutting ads right here against Donald Trump. You have Maga Republican Congresswoman Salazar from South Florida. She promised her constituents that Donald Trump was not gonna target immigrants unless they were the bad oom brace, she said, unless they were, unless they were actually violent criminals, she promised, in fact, she said that she spoke to Donald Trump about pathways to citizenship for people in our community, she told them vote Trump. So she told her he's got your back immigrants, listen to her ad right here, let's play her ad. That's a president, some of your immigration enforcement

1:06:26efforts have gone too far. In July 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisors are telling you about immigration policy, the same Hispanics who help you get to the White House in 2024, feel be tragic today. You can be for immigration, what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I'm not talking about giving them amnesty, I'm talking about giving them a dignified light in this promised land. I am Marie-Ile virus Salazar and I approve this message. You know what's interesting, I saw some people in the chat actually say, you know, Mark Kelly. I've interviewed him a few times. You know, I think we're in real serious times. You know, I think whoever it's gonna be, and I don't, you know, this is not my area. I think it's gonna require just real serious people who are gonna come with serious proposals and they're gonna say, here's very specifically what's gonna happen and there's gonna be ruthless accountability.

1:07:26That's who I think, whether it's him or I see a lot of names out there, a lot of names, a lot of people in the chat just put that out. So it's fascinating to, but also the very fact even that you know, you'll hear names whether it's the Asafs or the Kamala or the Buda Gidges or the Kellys or the Newsom's or the Shapiro's or, you know, AOC and you know, you have a whole list like keep going down, Pritzkers and keep going down. But the very fact that this conversation starts to feel a little bit more serious now, starts to tell me as someone put in the comment, I'm just sick thinking about the destruction of our country, but we are starting to get to the point where we can think about rebuild and we get starting to now feel got it.

1:08:29The days are ticking where there's gonna be a midterm. The Supreme Court made the right ruling on the mail-in ballots, which was good. Shout out to all the AG's, states brought those cases, right? It was important, it was important stuff. But it's starting to starting to feel like what we've all worked for, which is really accountability more than anything. Like it's starting to feel let's keep on going. But you know, just like, you know, and all these things at the end, that's when these forces on the right, these mag, they're gonna push extra hard towards the end. They're gonna get extra desperate. So we've got to hold the line. I'll leave you with this though. I want to show you what Salazar said after Trump won the election, sadly. In November, I think it was November 11th of 2024,

1:09:32is this clip. So shortly after, this is what she was saying to her constituents. And she's Cuban, her family left, her whole thing to her through the Cuban population, to the Venezuelan population there was and to immigrant populations, is that Donald Trump's looking after you. And he's gonna bring democracy to Venezuela. He's gonna bring democracy to Cuba. He's democracy. That's gonna bring freedom. Let's take a look at what she actually said though in real time in 2024. Let's play it. So, when if I may, I know our time here is limited. I'm asking about the potential deportation of hundreds of thousands of people in the community. Well, okay, the deportation is going to be among those criminals who are the gang members, the gutterways, the trendier agua. I am sure. Not all 200,000 undocumented in your community, is that what you're saying? I am sure that we're not,

1:10:32that the Trump administration is not gonna be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years that have American kids, that don't have criminal records, that have been working in the economy and paying taxes. I am sure that they're gonna hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago, because I wrote the Dignity Act, and I am the first one who understands that you have to give some type of dignity to those who have been here for more than five years. People who have roots in the country, not people who are coming. You saw, I mean, it's deeper than just betrayal. You killed people. Congresswoman Salazar, you have blood on your hands. You truly do. You lot, because when Trump has engaged in these nasty portations, not of the bad oombrays as you and he were saying, which by the way, deserve due process, and still we still have processes and procedures, and which under Trump went by the wayside.

1:11:34But one of the things that we're gonna have to have a reckoning with is how many people were killed by USAID being destroyed and food being burned that didn't get in the hands of starving people, how many people and little children contracted HIV and got AIDS and died because we took away their medicine. The Trump regime took away their medicine. How many people who were asylum seekers got murdered when they returned to their countries or other countries where they were sent by the Trump regime, sometimes to just random places. We're gonna have to have a reckoning with what that actually was, and we're gonna find out that the number is gonna be staggering. It's gonna be staggering. So we'll leave you at that. Get your copy of WTF America. If you can pre-order it, don't wait until October 20th because as our publisher says, it's really important for us to figure out

1:12:35where are we gonna travel to, where do we give it to? We can see all of that based on the data. So if you can pre-order WTF America now, we'll put a link in the description. We have the QR code that you can scan. You can also Google WTF America. It's by Heshet is the publisher and grand central over here. People were asking, I did do the audio. All three brothers did the audio. And so we take turns in the different chapters, but if the audio is us, and it was actually a very long experience to the audio. We went into the studio with all the work that we're doing, went into the studio, and we did it. We don't, each brother took sections of the book. And so I think you'll like the audio. It's read by us. It was important that it be read by us. And despite how busy we were running around, doing all these breaking news hits, I wanted to make sure we did the audio ourselves. So it wasn't somebody else's voice. So you'll hear that. Oh, I just released a video.

1:13:37And at the video is on, what just took place at the United Nations, where China and Russia vetoed the US sanctions on Iran. So give that a watch. As soon as this video ends, give that a watch. And then, I can't wait to see you when I do the show with my brothers tonight at eight Eastern five Pacific. So we covered a lot of ground. Watch the other video. It's loaded. I'll see you tonight at eight Eastern five Pacific. Shout out, minus mighty. Again, the book's called WTF America, seriously. WTF, but we'll get through it. As the book says, we'll get out of this hell and back to democracy, back to sanity. See you later.