Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben: Trump Convention Backfires — 9/10/26

0:00Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myceles. This is your breaking news. I've got an incredible sidekick here for today's Ben on Breaking News. It's Jessica Tarlov, everyone, helping me make sense of all of this madness. We've got Jessica Tarlov. Let's bring in Jessica. She's the author of the new book. I disagree winning arguments without losing friends. Comes out September 15th pre-order it now, but make sure you get it on September 15th. I think a book that is more prescient than perhaps you were even able to predict, especially with everything that's going on before the midterms. I'm going to ask you, Jessica, about how you apply a lot of the learning and the teachings from your book. When you live in a world where you have the Trump regime, not just having a debate about policy and sides, but just making up stuff.

1:00Everything is a barrage. A parade of lies were rolled out at this so-called Republican midterm convention. So Jessica, I want to start there just by getting your overall reaction to everything we've seen up into this point at the Republican midterm convention. Well, first of all, thank you for having me and I'm excited about the book and also for your audience to get the book. I feel like I've been in a parasocial relationship with a lot of these folks for a long time. And I really want it to be helpful for those of you out there that are trying to have some contentious conversations. And I know maybe you want to lose friends. That is totally fine. The book is for those that you would like to keep in your life. Relationships that you might want to repair. Life is longer than Donald Trump. That's what I tell myself every night before I go to sleep. So the book, that's what it's all about. The midterm convention. So I had the lowest of expectations.

2:07And it was even worse. Was that your feeling? We did a montage of various aspects, you know, like Tim Scott speech, obviously a lot of Trump. I was sad they left Ken Paxton out because I think we all know why Ken Paxton doesn't do interviews. Because it's so absolutely terrible. And then Hassan Piker's junk on the jumbo tron. Like what were they thinking that people were going to be scared of him and think that he's a terrorist? Like what do you think went on in the programming room when they said let's get that shot of Hassan? Well, there was a grinder outage that we are aware of in Dallas. So it did seem that there was a lot on the mind of Maga that was heading into Dallas. But you know, I've seen some of these videos of the movie, idioticity.

3:07And I wrote what I observed last night was way worse than idioticity. I'm not sure you can do idioticity or veep or anything like this except the tragic reality, Jessica, is that this stuff is hurting people. Whether you are a Trump supporter or not Trump supporter or whoever, you're paying record high gas prices, diesel prices. We saw today the price of Brent over $107 a barrel WTI over $101 a barrel, treasure yield surging. This stuff is hurting people. This is not some, you know, just debate for the sake of a debate. This is real life. And when Trump says this was a golden age and everything's amazing, it isn't. And so how do you think that plays, you know, when when he's out there saying this is it. This is the golden age. Everybody. It's so great. Well, I think the timing of the convention kicking off and then Tony Fabrizio releasing his poll of the Texas Senate race with James Tallerico up for.

4:16In the case of things are not what Trump would tell you that they are. And I was thinking about, you know, the big takeaway. We can have our fun with Tim Scott's performance and the the jumbo tron. Piker situation, but obviously the problem the bribe the $5,000 if Republicans win was the big takeaway because Donald Trump didn't even really try to make a case to any point. He started off the day with. After the election. The war is going to magically stop and gas will be under $2. So I think, okay, no one's taking that seriously because he's been saying stuff like that since what 48 hours into a war that is now. Seven eight months plus. But then that we have moved just to straight. And then we have to go cash in your hand. And people even being skeptical of that because that stuff used to work.

5:17This idea that you're getting a doge dividend. Or a subsidy check after they got rid of the Obamacare subsidies. And they're worse stimulus checks right in the first term. And yes, Joe Biden should have put his signature on the checks that he gave out. And I feel like Americans even some of the biggest Trump supporters are just tuning the guy out. And we'll see what the ratings were obviously going up against the NFL was a misguided programming choice. But I do think we have hit a kind of new threshold for how seriously people are taking this guy even if they like him. And it's sad because even though it's not a secret to my audience that I not just dislike him. I despise him. You still want America to be treated with respect. And you still want your captain, even if he's not the one you ever wanted.

6:18And frankly, the captain of your nightmares to still be someone who at least carries themselves with a centilla of. I don't amodicom of existing in reality. It's just everything is a lie. It's just every every word sound utterance syllable is a lie. It's a weird lie. And it brings us down a path of losing. Frankly, like this guy had done most of his life with the casinos and the come and you see why. And it's like, now I'm a non consensual extra in this dystopian reality. I don't want to be a part. And I think so many people are saying that heck Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers today put out a statement where he said, I don't know what the hell is going on here. You know, cash Patel covering up the Epstein file. I mean, when you when you lose Aaron Rogers, you've lost the Maga plot.

7:18I actually hadn't even seen that it brings me a little bit of a joy that it has broken through the Iowaska or whatever is going on with Aaron Rogers to penetrate that. This guy isn't delivering. He made a lot of promises and the difference between how he used to craft. He didn't have a platform. Right. That people could sink their proverbial teeth into. And they could say, OK, yes, he's going to give us the Epstein files. We know he was never going to do. But you know, prices will come down on day one. We're not going to be entangled in needless wars. What are we going to do? We're going to deport everybody. Mass deportations now, which I think I've been getting a lot of people out here. Most of them people who I, you know, you are I think that deserve to stay here. And there have been a lot of those self deportations.

8:20But that's how he used to campaign. And now he just is like, I'll pay you to like me. That has been the transformation. And I don't know if that's a function of just how dire it's gotten. It really multicultural the kind of identityases that you sava times, but when you're trying to acknowledge that they could be か on that, just like that, it becameFORETA heal? Other than that. It says, It wasn't a section from Massummer. If you are aware of it. And you communicate with a guy. He meets Cajun. He meets Cajun and he leaves everyone out there, I'm sure that I guess I'll say 200 million are illegals or something like that and they don't deserve the money. But... So in your book, I disagree, winning arguments without losing friends.

9:22You talk about, all right, you're out the Thanksgiving table and here's what's going on. What do you do though in a situation like this? Look, somebody I definitely disagree with, it's not a surprise, it's someone like a lowering room. But even she, today, she's releasing an interview she did with Trump. She asked if she goes, okay, if you have this $5,000 that you're promising and you believe the American people are suffering and need the $5,000 but you also say there's a golden age. Why not just give the money now? If you have it, just do it. Just do it right now because people are hurting right now. And I want you to listen to what Trump's response was to lowering room. So I'm going to disagree with a lot, but she at least asked a question that needed to be asked. Your play this clip. My name's just give the money now. If you have the money, why don't you give it now? Because they can't, I'll tell you what, because the Democrats can't do it because with them, it's negative growth with us, it's so positive. So we're taking in $21 trillion. Nobody, no country's ever taken anywhere near that. It's four or five times higher than the next.

10:26All because of that beautiful word that you and I love more than most others tariffs. Do you like to? You know, it's like having a discussion with a Furby. Remember the Furbies when we grew up and they would have discussions with other Furbies. There are words, but they're not forming sentences. And what he said there is not a, we can talk about non-sequitors, he just said five different words and just placed some things in between it. What do you mean? The Democrats will stop it. You control all branches of government, right now. What are you talking about? What does it even mean? So start with that piece of it. And then we can talk about this $21 trillion fake number that he made, which makes no sense if the debt is over $40 trillion and our deficit is expanding. So that makes no sense. And then he just says, you and I love this word, tariffs. Okay, what does that have to do with anything? And it's been a disaster. So talk about it. Yeah, all the same thoughts racing through my head. I mean, happy that he's going to be pushed

11:29about it. And I think he is going to end up probably wanting to talk less as a result. Because this is one of the kind of gobsmacked ones, right? He says a lot of things, which you can kind of laugh at or giggle at and move on. But this one is sending shivers up the spine, certainly of all of the elected Republicans who are about to get asked about this from their constituents and in the press. But really highlights the downfall of Trump swagger. Is that the right way to say it? Like, you know how people who liked him would always say, oh, but his zgging and his zagging, or you just don't understand. Now literally no one understands. Right, you don't have to be a Trump whisperer for this one. Like we were all on the same page now where you're raising an eyebrow to it's a Democrats fault. And he used all the trigger words, Democrats, tariffs, if he

12:33had thrown in a socialist or communist, I guess that would have been the full repertoire. But he's not with us anymore. It feels like he's fully moved to some other planet. I guess that he's having these conversations or thinking that the country is on this kind of glide path. And I tweeted this about his comments there that, you know, we all have accepted. And for those of us who probably pushed the idea that Joe Biden was up for a second term too long. And I take responsibility for that. Though I certainly think that the policy outcomes would have been better. And I didn't think that the country was in danger as a result of having Joe Biden as president. But this is a level of incoherence that certainly wouldn't have been accepted from Biden. And this is how he's sounding now on a pretty regular basis. And I don't know what we do about that.

13:38I mean, you have an election and you all turn out to vote and it has to be too big to rig. I know that we've heard that they're not going to send ice to polling stations. Who knows what's going to go on between the USPS stuff, sending people out there intimidation. It's like a five alarm fire for the next seven weeks. But he's still going to be in office for another two years after that. And I don't know, it just doesn't seem like he's operating on the same plane that you and I are. Yeah. And the whole world sees it. Most Americans see it now. Yet he goes out there. And every day he humiliates us more and more here and abroad. I mean, you know, you take a look at this trade war. He started against Canada. Canada, obviously, standing up for its sovereignty. But even when they watch him with the memes and the threats and this and that, they're just like

14:38but you're weird. You guys are like a weird loser country like this is sad for like no one's even laughing. It's like it's sad for us to see. I mean, you have these Iranian leaders, whether it's MB Galabov, their parliament leader or a rag cheat or foreign minister who's out there mocking us and mocking us where I see what they're saying. And I'm like that is Trump's pattern. He does do that. I saw like MB Galabov post. All right, here's what Trump's going to do. He's going to say we're about to do a deal and then he's going to do this and he's going to do that. And it's like and then the market or rally and then we'll say this and then and and it is just a humiliation. Ritual that the whole world looks at the United States this way. And so how do we graph? How do we grapple with that? I mean, it's truly uncharted territory in this country. And I don't think we can normalize this as just yeah, you know, this is what the Republicans feel like. And this is what the Democrats think. So let's let's do how do you deal with that and say I see a deep,

15:39you know, duke it out every day on the five. You mean, go this is a normal guys. This isn't normal. How do you deal with it? Well, part of it is definitely highlighting the reality of what's going on. And it's always I think useful to be using the language of Republicans themselves because people if you're talking across partisan lines, you know, like helpful to say don't take it from me. Right. And then rattle off the list of people who are concerned or skeptical and the war in Iran is a perfect example because there has been so much criticism from people who are traditionally very much in lockstep with the president. But I do think and I write about this in I disagree that there is a generosity and a humanity with which I think we need to be having these political conversations when you do get out there and talk to people who feel differently

16:39about Donald Trump than you do. And rubbing it in people's faces and gloating, especially when that can be read as being anti-American to some extent because if you say, you know, gas prices at record highs, that has real implications for people, right? That's not just some political football. That's literally your ability to get where you're going with diesel, you know, at $6 or wherever it is, depending on your state, but up enormously, you know, that's truckers not being able to do their jobs. And so I think having that keeping that generosity and that humanity present in the way that you communicate is something that is and which I definitely try to do when I'm talking to my conservative co-hosts, I call it the soft start where you find some way to create connective tissue and olive branch where we see things similarly or that we all want the same things out of

17:46a policy, out of a presidency, out of our leadership. And then you can more easily go into the information that runs counter to the way that they see the world. And a lot of times, especially when it gets this dire, people are jonesing, right, to be able to have these conversations without having to recant their beliefs wholesale, right, to be able to say, oh, this, you know, I'm not that into this thing. And that's why I, and I talk about this a lot in the book, you know, I don't see my job or people in the space necessarily as trying to change minds, but to open them up to the possibility that there is an alternative point of view worth considering. And that's why I do, you know, so much research and so much preparation to be able to talk about these very difficult political issues because I know how resistant we are naturally and there's social science behind this. This is in the book too about our threat reflexes going up when we hear information that runs counter to our

18:47beliefs, even your pain reflex. Like, you know, that looks sometimes when you're telling someone something that flies in the face of how they see the world or what they've been told, and they look like they're in pain, like they actually are. And the same thing works in reverse too. It is very hard to break through with liberals, right? If you're saying, well, I don't know, like, look at this. I mean, this was the ongoing fight about immigration in the first three years of the Biden administration. So, you know, the generosity in that humanity, the soft start creating a connective tissue, being super well prepared, and being prepared, honestly, to make your point, but that almost you could make the alternative point, and we could have hours of conversations about where our algorithms take us and all those deep, dark places. Makes for these conversations to be possible, and that maybe you can open someone's mind up to the idea that you're not that

19:48shit crazy. Like, you film in New York, and so you think about it even like this way, there's, you know, the New York Mets, and then the New York Yankees. How difficult would it be to make a MET fan into a Yankee fan? And that's baseball. That's baseball. So then when you put people into tribes, a political allegiance, which has defined not just a team you root for, but has defined what you perceived to be a value set. And then have somebody say, you know what, your team, you're just the evil and the worst people, you got to switch to my team. And oftentimes that process really speeds up 60 days before an election, and you're not going to be an authentic messenger to be able to persuade anybody if you waited 60 days to have, I think, this conversation. You know what, you got to be on this team right now, and people wait a minute, I thought I was on this team. I think in what you bring up in this book is when you say, you know what, we're not even

20:52playing a game of baseball here. Politics is not this gamified thing. Step back for a moment. This is just about us all being on one team. This is us being about Americans, and this is about us trying to do something with our lives for the short period of time that we're all here together. And what do we care about? Don't we care about family and compassion and building things and leaving the world a better place? And we shouldn't be afraid to talk about that. And there's going to be a lot of loud voices. You know about that. There're going to be a lot of loud voices that are going to try to, you know, distract us from that. But I, one of the things we talk about here on this network all the time is just trying to say, you know what, let's, we're going to talk about breaking news, because that's what we have to do. We're going to respond to, here's what Trump did, and here's what this person, because that's what we do. But we have to take a step back and say, why are we doing this? What is, like, what is the point of all of this? And it's not to pay higher gas prices,

21:55live shitty lives and die, you know, be angry at each other all the time. And hey, it's, it's to build connections and leave the world a better place. And before we go, that's what I got out of your book. And so if others want to get that out of you know, that that's what I take from you. But, but before we go talk to our audience, you know, you know, it's just about the book and anything else you want to tell them before we go. Yeah, well, I love that that's what you took from the book. And I would just add to it that none of that or efforting towards that goal means that you need to be a polyanna or mushy about your politics. And this isn't licensed for elected's to not be cutthroat. And I, you know, I have a podcast called Raging Moderates. Yes, we have the Rage in there, but, you know, I've traditionally been towards the more, you know, the center of the party. It's on our left for sure. Though us figuring out how this big tent works has, I think,

22:56pulled me a little bit to the left and in more ways than I expected or at least understanding it better, which has been a very healthy exercise for me. But I disagree and it ends on a path forward for our politics complete with a platform that I think we can run on and win on. There's nothing man be pamby about it. So yes, while we share that these goals and this vision for what our time on earth is all about, which is, you know, so short in the grand scheme of things. It is also about maximizing good outcomes while we are here. And democratic electeds, and there's a democratic administration, we have better outcomes. Economy performs better. We see this over and over again, and they try to tell us, no, trickle down economics. This is the best. It's the best. And it's like, no, actually, you know when it was better because you all loved the Clinton years. And that was not

23:58trickle down economics. So I just want to be clear. It's not like a kiss your neighbor. We're all going to be best friends and think exactly the same thing. It is a roadmap for building bravery to be better in these conversations and to be able to maximize the potential to get something out of them to represent yourself better and to also understand the person on the other side better. We have a listening problem in this country. We have a big listening deficit. And we all want to be heard and we all want to be taken seriously. And I believe that there is a way to communicate to one another that is just a lot higher quality than where we are now. And that you can make an impression on the person that you are talking to, the group you're talking to, if you're someone who goes on podcasts or goes on TV, there is ample opportunity to disseminate a better message

25:02to the people out there about your values, your morals, your politics, and the way you see the world that won't feel threatening or that you're just constantly trying to undercut the other person. So that's what I disagree with. Everybody, make sure you pre-order it right now. No matter what make sure you go and get your copy of the book, I disagree when it comes out Tuesday, September 15. My friend, Jessica Tarlav, the books called I Disagree, winning arguments without losing friends. We appreciate all the work you do, Jessica. And as you said, this was an interview long time in the making. I already always wanted to have you on. And there are so many other questions that I could ask, like I want to ask you about the South Carolina race and that's becoming very close. And there are others, there are others. But why don't we save that for our next appearance when we have you back maybe next week or the week as well. That would be fantastic. Jessica Tarlav,

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30:16important safety information. Sedentful is the generic version of viagra. Viagra is a registered trademark by VHRUS specialty LLC. HIMS is not affiliated with or endorsed by VHRUS. Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. What a great interview with Jessica Tarlov excited to have her back on the Midas Touch Network and getting her perspective, as someone who doaks it out every day, when she's the lone liberal voice at that table and she does such an amazing job. And I've always been in awe of her great work and just how she handles the debates and the discussions and represents these issues very, very well. You know, I've been spending a lot of time here on the Midas Touch Network really since this Trump regime came back into power on international developments. I mean, we started Midas Canada, gave the handoff to Charlie Angus to run with it. He's got full editorial control and handles the operations there. But we knew that we had to do outreach across

31:20the world because we saw that the forces of authoritarianism were international in scope. And we had to build a pro-democracy media network that was international in scope as well, forming and forging alliances all throughout the world. And you know, we've been really in the weeds, which is where you need to be in our coverage of the various Trump wars. And there has been quite a lot of them that have taken place far from a peace president, far from someone who has not engaged in never-ending wars. He's been bringing the United States into all of these conflicts and making the world a far less safe and far less stable place, spending a lot of his time attacking our allies, destroying NATO, destroying America's soft and hard power, right? Destroying things like USAID, soft power diplomacy, gutting the state department. And then our hard power, we're out of weapons, we're out of munitions. The United States military has never been

32:21weaker. Our top generals and admirals have been purged. We have Hegsith of all people running the defense department who spends more time mocking Canadian high school cadets and talking about, I don't know, injecting yourself with testosterone than being involved in the minutia of war strategy. And like, again, we should not be involved in these catastrophic wars, but also we need to reflect on if you're going to do it. I mean, are you going to do any planning or, or no, you just want to talk about injecting yourself with testosterone. And we've been talking about how there's been a rapidly changing global world order that the US security umbrella in the Middle East, Deneysia, and Europe and elsewhere has pretty much all been destroyed and fast forward Donald Trump managed to achieve that. You want to talk about achieving something. He's destroyed. The US created post-World War II architecture pretty damn quickly in its place. We're seeing a multi-polar world with China being the global hegemon right now, Putin feeling the ability to be more aggressive

33:29in his invasion of Ukraine and in some of the other more seraptitious operations that are taking place across the world. And the Trump regime is out there. Donald Trump wakes up and he posts a meme of Venezuela. And that's his plan. 65 billion barrels. He claims go into the US strategic petroleum reserve, which we know is just completely false. This is what he does. I think he mocks in this relatively racist xenophobic post, his Saudi friends in Opaq. He mocks Canada over there. He claims that 65 billion barrels are going to find their way into our salt caverns, even though Venezuela and oil doesn't even mix into our salt caverns. And the reality here in abroad is very bad. Very, very bad for the United States. And I mean, even today, don't believe me, listen to Hong Kong. Hong Kong, the acting secretary of Navy. What does he said? He said, yeah, he admitted in an interview this morning that was just released. Yes, indeed, Iran did blow up the US military

34:36base in Bahrain. And of course, we knew that because Bahrain is the main logistical center that feeds our aircraft carriers and our ships in the region. It's where the ships used to dock. It's where our ships would get their supplies from. And early on in the war, Bahrain was not protected the way it needed to be. Iran knew you strike Bahrain. You can cut off a main logistical supply route to the US Navy. They did that. And it was covered up by the Trump regime throughout the war. Iran was able to successfully strike US military bases in the region, pretty much destroying all the US military bases, right? From Bahrain to Jordan to the UAE, to Kuwait to Air BL Iraq to Al-Udid in Qatar. You know, these bases, multiple US bases, one by one Iran was picking off. And they were destroying our aircrafts, our equipment, our helicopters were being destroyed. I mean, we're talking billions and billions and billions.

35:40The true extent is still being covered up just like the true extent of the casualty count is still being covered up. Stars and stripes reporting this past week that 60 new casualties were added to the Pentagon public list. No statement from Hegsit or Trump. But 60 new additions to people who were injured in this catastrophic war, although the Trump regime puts those 60 people on a different list, not the list of epic fury because Trump says we want epic fury. This is miscellaneous conflict. And if you were injured and killed in miscellaneous conflict, you don't get benefits because Trump treats our veterans like absolute crap. You did say that they are suckers and losers. And so throughout the world, you have Donald Trump degrading US military capabilities. And when we zoom in to see what else is taking place with Iran's access of resistance, we've been very much focused on the Houthi advances in Yemen now, just to give

36:43you positioning themselves all the, I'm not sure what that was. But just to give you a little zoom out on Yemen right there, you have the Houthis, which is part of the access of resistance, Iran's access of resistance, Houthis, Hasbola, Hamas, some groups in Somalia, some groups and militia groups in Iraq that are actually part of the Iraqi military. Yemen is controlled by kind of two main factions at this point. There is the kind of Iranian-backed Houthis. Sana is their capital. And they control much of Western Yemen, although they did not control Al-Mokha until today. And then you have the Saudi-backed government, which also gets some supplies from UAE and this kind of interesting coalition alliance that was existing in Yemen. They have their main base over in Aden.

37:45And there was this, you know, Yemen was kind of divided into these two main areas. And the Houthis did not really get involved that much in the war that Netanyahu and Trump launched on Iran, like overtly, until really July, what happened in July. Saudi Arabia struck an air base in Sana, it's the capital of the Houthis control area of Yemen. And then at that point, for the Houthis, they were like, all right, game on. We're in a full-fledged war now. Saudi Arabia did that because Iran was potentially giving supplies to the Houthis over there. Saudi Arabia thought that the US had its back, so it said, look, we're going to project our power and strength because we're allied with the US. Look, MBS gave Donald Trump and Jared Kushner all of this money. They're going to have our back, right? So the Saudi-backed group in Yemen

38:47gets all of their forces from Saudi Arabia. They struck this airport in Sana that really led to the acceleration of the Houthis basically doing a blockade in the Red Sea, right in Western Yemen. You have the Red Sea, the Bab El Mondeb straight is that area between looks like kind of Somalia over there and Yemen. And then you have the Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf, Gulf of El Monde area over there. And so the Houthis in Yemen said, we're not going to let Saudi tankers get out of the Red Sea and we saw all of those strikes taking place. And then the Houthis started to go on the offense and I think they realized, wait a minute, wait a minute, the once mighty US military lost to Iran. And if the US military is losing to Iran and Saudi Arabia is getting its weapons from the US military, wait a minute, we can surely take

39:53on Saudi Arabia if the Saudi Arabian government is backing the government here in Yemen. So the Houthis felt emboldened by all of this and not only that, but I know I'm getting in the weeds but I think this is why you come to the Midas touch network for us getting in the weeds. The Houthis like Iran Shi'i but there are a lot of tribes in Yemen that are Sunni. Obviously we know the clashes that have taken place between the Shi'a and the Sunni. But one of the things that we've seen now, you know, whereas the Sunni tribes may look and have natural allegiance to more Sunni-run countries like a Saudi Arabia say, they're seeing weakness now and they're seeing, whoa, it looks like the Trump regime in the United States are losing to Iran. And so they're now saying this could be a way to remove Western powers from having

40:56control and dominance over Yemen or over other areas in the Middle East. That's increasingly becoming part of the calculus in the area. And so a lot of the different Yemeni tribes are actually now welcoming the Houthis also and when we saw the Houthis offensive that they were launching in a very short period of time, I mean we're talking in the past 24 hours. They were able to move from Al-Koca to Al-Mokha and now they're heading to Dubab. They're also able to take over the Hanish islands, this three or four island group in the Red Sea as well. And as they move closer to Dubab right there, right now the Houthis are about 60 kilometers from the Babel Mandab straight and they are moving quick. They're doing military parades in the area and they're being greeted and welcomed into Al-Mokha by the local people there. And so far despite all of the military supplies

42:00that have been given by the United States to Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia to the Yemeni back government that Saudi Arabia that's fighting against the Houthis, that's been no match for what the Houthis have been able to accomplish. Now CNN did a report before we went live where US intelligence officials said that they believe there are hundreds of IRGC military officers currently in Yemen working with the Houthis who have been helping them with this offensive. Also there appears to be more than 100 US military advisors on the ground in Saudi Arabia, providing Saudi Arabia with intel and targeting support for the Saudi Arabian back proxy group there. And what we see happening right now in Yemen is the Iranian-aligned Houthis are winning and they're winning big. What we also saw in the past 24 hours is the Saudi-backed group claiming that

43:00it was having these major victories, saying it was going to take Sana, which is the Houthis capital and it was all bullshit. It was all lies. And they were saying that to try to project strength and the Houthis called their bluff, maneuver the troops in a way that was able to basically flank the Saudi-backed group who then retreated and they're in full retreat right now. And so what this could mean is with the Houthis now potentially fully controlling all of Western Yemen, that gives them even more control over the Babel Mandab straight and the Red Sea. And this places Saudi Arabia, the monarchy, engraved danger as well exposing their weakness, that their ability to subsist is dependent on the United States. That's, and if you think about the dynamic here, what Iran has always said is that we don't want to exist where we would have to be dependent on

44:04the United States or on Western powers. We have to build our own access. That's one of the main things, not just in the Trump regime, but just going back decades and decades and decades, was clashing with the US foreign policy, which was controlling the region. That was always a major issue. But now what you're seeing actually be exposed is with the United States military so utterly degraded. It's like the dominoes are falling all throughout the Middle East. And so yes, the big story today, the Houthis controlling much of Western Yemen, controlling Mocha, now on the march to Dubab taking over the Hanush Islands, taking over all of these areas nearby, 1500 kilometers controlled in the past 12 hours of additional territory. The main question is, do they now march on Aiden? Do they even need to march on Aiden? Is that even a strategic imperative to now move east towards Aiden when they control the areas that are in demand anyway? So that's,

45:09I think, a question that will be answered shortly as well, which is the Saudi-backed governments kind of main area. But also, I think we're seeing a weakened Saudi monarchy. We're seeing a weakened Jordanian monarchy. One of the things that I know and I showed this video were the Jordanian people who were on the rooftops having dinner. And they were celebrating at the Iranian strikes on US military bases in the region. They were partying and celebrating and cheering on the Iranians destroying US military bases. And then what does Donald Trump say? Ah, that never happened. None of our military bases were actually in Jordan. None of it's all I. What did the Jordanian government say? Iran only shot 18 ballistics and we intercepted all of them. And then there were two that we didn't intercept, but they landed outside of the military bases, no issues. And then what do we learn about? Even CBS, which is its own form of regime media, what a CBS report. It was 8 F-15s or damage.

46:15They said lightly damaged. How could you lightly damage in F-15? Okay, I think that someone clearly leaked this to CBS in order to put out some damage assessment so that there's some credible explanation, but they wanted to understate it. We've seen these videos of damage black hawks leaving the region. And I've been showing today in my various videos more satellite image, showing Muhafik al-Salti base in Jordan, King Faisal base that were very significantly injured. And then we get the new casualty report of 60 more casualties that are added to the public database since August 31st. I mean, this Trump regime keeps covering stuff up. There are, remember Donald Trump's civil trial before this regime took power? Remember what the issue was? He lies about everything. He lies about numbers. He makes up numbers. Tragically, that's what our sent-com has become. And all of these lies, as I've said before, like with the reflecting pool, you know, you can paint it blue and you can

47:16blame this person or that person, but the algae always comes back. With the reflecting pool, it's just algae. And it's, you know, devastatingly the Trump regime went after people like David Hurn and others and tried to like prosecute people. And they're still trying to prosecute people, right? But we're talking about a reflecting pool. You do those lies in geopolitical affairs. And you weaken irreparably the United States. You put our service members' lives at risk with these heinous lies. That leads to our troops not being able to eat. It leads to the conditions we saw aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. It leads to logistics being broken down like we saw after Bahrain was destroyed, okay? The algae always comes back. And when it comes with the United States military, that's deadly. And that causes irreparable harm. And all of this, one, we want to make sure our service members are protected. So that's important in and of itself. But then also, we want to make sure we all know that this is connected to the horrific economy here at home. Why do you think it is that the price of oil

48:22is going up the way it is to $107 a barrel, $110 a barrel, exactly where we predicted that the salt cavern is in danger of imploding. Right? Remember when the Trump regime said that the Iranian oil infrastructure back in April was about to just explode and be destroyed and it was all a lie? Our salt caverns are actually close because they're actually caves. And we don't have the right amount anymore of petroleum and water mixture in there. It could actually collapse and destroy forever our petroleum reserves. That's the situation there. It wouldn't shock me if that actually happens. And the inflation report, PPI inflation, what was it? 5.4% today. It came in hotter than expected. Tomorrow's CPI will certainly come in hotter than expected. Not hotter than expected. We all know what we're paying right now. And all Donald Trump's going to do his lie and say, I'll give you $5,000. I'll give you $500. It's all under lies. So thank you for allowing me to give

49:26that detailed overview of what's going on right now in Yemen with the Houthis, with the Saudi back government, Al-Mokha, the islands that are nearby. I know that's a lot to take in, but I want to give you a full picture of what's happening right there. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We come back. We've got a lot more to discuss. Let's take our last break of the show. Are you tired of having a drink after a long day? I'll need a wake up hungover and bloated. That's why I've been loving Willie's THC infused the social tonic. Willie's is a premium THC infused the social tonic crafted by the legendary Willie Nelson. And let's face it. If there's anyone I trust to have the best cannabis, it's Willie. It's an alcohol alternative that actually works. In about 15 minutes, you can feel a relaxing uplifting euphoric buzz without the hangover. It's perfect for taking the edge off after work, winding down on a weeknight or socializing without alcohol. Each bottle has only 15 calories and 3 grams of sugar and comes into 5 milligram or 10 milligram doses with passion for lemon and lime. Plus, every bottle is third-party lab tested for accurate

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52:32new book. I disagree winning arguments without losing friends. I'd love to have Jessica back on the show next week. I like having a sidekick, Ben on breaking news. And I think Jessica is really one of the best out there. It's set the honor to have her on the show. All right, let's talk about just the constant barrage of lies that Trump keeps on spewing. So yesterday as he was heading to Texas for that, anyway, Republican midterm convention. It was looked right out of idiotic. Donald Trump said, oil prices are going to come down, but let me tell you when. Right after the election, that's when I promise you this time. I know I promised you that they were going to come down in March and then April and then May and then June and July and then August. But after the election, that's when he promises here. Play this clip. But right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. Tumbling downward, how convenient. What about the war? The war. Remember the war that you claim we

53:37won in March? When is that going to come to an end? When are you going to? When will the war be over, Donald? Because you've been saying that there's been deal, deal, deal, deal, deal, deal. We've done a deal over here. So is the war going to be over soon? He goes, I think the war will end immediately after the election got it after the like, ah, God, it's not even a good fraud. Not even a good, it just, it just, it just dumb. It just really dumb at this point at all points. But here play this clip. I think the war is going to end immediately after the election. I think the war will end immediately after the election. Because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election. Only are they not desperate. They have improved the quality of their ballistics. They have also improved the quantity. They sufficiently, unlike the United States under the

54:39Trump regime, stored enough ballistics to last a very long time. And they're using these new casem ballistic missiles and these new kai bar shaken castlebreakers that change direction in the air. They continue to strike tankers in the straight of four moves. Everything that Trump's saying is is a lie. We all know it. And he looks like a crazy person, man. But when we all watch him there, right, even the press is like, because why? Why is it going to be over, Donald? Because, because it will, because they're running out of time. That's why I ain't because. Because I wouldn't mean this. You told us in April, they were going to surrender and may they were going to sort. They're not going to surrender. They feel and they would be right. Stronger than they were before this Trump and Netanyahu invasion took place.

55:42It's the reality. Look at what's happening in Yemen. It's why I spent all that time talking about Yemen. They are part of Iran's alliance. Look at what's happening there. Look at what's happening in the region. It ain't the US winning. That's for sure. But it's going to happen after the election, folks, after the election. Okay. Then we heard from Maga Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. By the way, have you been following that other Senate race in South Carolina between darling Graham and any any Andrews, the Democratic candidate right there? Yeah. Dr. Any Andrews. This is a neck and neck race. And folks based on democratic overperformance, I would not be shocked if in these midterms, you see a seat like South Carolina go Democrat. I would not be shocked because we've been seeing stuff like that happen in special elections all of the time. And I just think Americans buy in large,

56:45look at somebody like a Tim Scott or that Trump speech. And they just go, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't do. Remember the example I gave with Jessica when I said, you know, look, just think about it. If you were a met fan your whole life. And then the met started saying horrible things about you. Would you become a Yankee fan right away? Right. Is it to be a little bit difficult to even do that, even if the met's were saying we hate you, we hate you, we hate you, we hate you. But eventually, it may break and you may go, God, I guess, I guess I get the point. Now imagine political allegiance and political ideology that in theory becomes every part of your fiber and being. And now you're trying to get out of that. It's not easy. It's why when people look at American politics like how is this even possible? Because America has been divided for so many decades that people are entrenched and politics have been, have been gamified and you see all of the money

57:48that's poured into our politics to manipulate and distort before elections. That's why that's why you get these outcomes. But I just think that we're in a new era right now where people are like enough enough. I mean, look, they see Tim Scott. What the hell was this? Magger Republican Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina. Listen to what he had to say, play this clip. Standing with our president, Donald J Trump, stand for the president, Donald J Trump. This is a battle for those heart of our nation. I said the heart of our nation. By the way, as I was recording another vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz moments ago. We're sure I'll do a report on that later. Another tanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz. You know, this is the, this is what happens when you have like a loser in office. This is a political thing. You know, he just, he's been a lifelong loser. He's been a lifelong liar. And we're seeing

58:48what that looks like when you have a loser and a liar as the commander in chief. That's why before the 2024 election, I was speaking so much about moral character and backgrounds of these people. I'm like, look, this guy's a sexual predator. I'm not saying that to like debate you. It's like undisputed. Like he's been found civilly liable for sexual assault. Undisputed fact, he was found liable for fraud separately in a criminal case. He's a convicted felon. He's a bad guy. He's the bad person and he loses. And now we all have to be losers because of this loser. I think Americans are like, no, what are we doing here? And I don't see how it gets better anytime soon. You know, back in 2020, Biden won the election. And Biden had to do difficult things to turn the ship around. And Biden got blamed for all of the stuff that Trump was, that Trump screwed up. And the whole media machine, the whole magazine, they all went right after Biden. And Biden was all about bringing people together. Kumbaya, let's get beyond this. And that just crushed him.

59:50But he had to clean the mess and it took him four years, three and a half really to clean it up. And then everything started trending in the right direction because he made the right moves. He listened to experts, not on everything. Speak clear, not on everything. There was some major foreign policy problems. It's putting an understatement. But on the economy, inflation was heading to 2%. Manufacturing jobs were increasing. We addressed the issue of semi-conductor supply change with the chip sacked. You had a lot of major legislation. And he would have gotten comprehensive immigration reform passed. Except Trump killed it. When Trump was in an office, he had all the Maga Republicans block comprehensive immigration reform, which would have dealt with strong borders, which I do think most Americans want strong borders. Me included, but we also want to have asylum seekers be treated with dignity. We want people who have been here for a long time and paying taxes and who have families and who contribute.

1:00:54We want them to be treated with dignity and to have a pathway to citizenship. There's a way that businesses can benefit. People can be human beings, can be treated with dignity. And we can enhance border control in the right way. And it's done in a way with dignity. Biden had a deal, but Trump destroyed the deal because that's what Trump does his whole time. He's a deal breaker. He's a deal destroyer. That would have actually been good. Anytime we try to solve problems, either Trump destroys it or his right wing Supreme Court destroys it. Although for the very first time, the Supreme Court made a decent ruling, that good ruling today, upholding the right wing Missouri Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the pre-Jerrymandered maps before the Magga Republican AG and Magga Republican Secretary of State screwed with the Missouri maps and made it a seven to one when it was previously a six-re-public in two Democratic

1:01:55seat congressional seat state. And what the Missouri Supreme Court said is you can change the maps, but you got to do a referendum and we'll do a referendum in November. And if the voters want a new map, let them vote on it, the way they voted on it in California. Let's do a new map. That's what the Missouri Supreme Court said. And the Magga controlled Missouri legislature and AG and Secretary of State said, no, we're going to just push forward HB1, our own piece of ledges. We're going to push forward our own legislation and just do it. And then we're going to say, now you can't rule against us because we've already gone through a primary, nothing you can do now. And the Missouri Supreme Court said not only that, right wing Supreme Court, five right wing justices. They said, nope. And we're going to hold the Secretary of State in contempt. And so they held the Secretary of State in contempt today until the Secretary of State finally said and back

1:02:56down and said, okay, we're going to put in the original maps that were supposed to be used for this election. But that was after the Supreme Court said that the Missouri State Supreme Court did the right thing in a 7 to 0 decision. But you had a Trump appointed district court judge and the eighth circuit before this went up to the Supreme Court. The district court judge tried to overrule the Missouri State Supreme Court and based it on some bizarre interpretation of the Constitution, which says that elections are a time place and manner is a state's rights issue. But this Trump appointed judge is like, well, because the primaries already took place, then we're just going to say the Constitution says you got to go forward with it just because because primaries are important. I'm like, well, what are you base? You're just making up fake law. They were. The Trump appointed judge made up a fake law. The eighth circuit claimed we

1:03:58don't have jurisdiction. And actually the United States Supreme Court made the right call and overruled the Trump appointed judge, overruled the eighth circuit court of appeal, and agreed with the state, the state Supreme Court and said, it's the old map. Do your referendum. That's it. So actually a good development. And then let me just leave everybody with this as well. Donald Trump during his speech yesterday, he says that this has been the most successful two years economically in the history of the United States, one of his closing messages from last night, that this has been the most successful two years we've ever experienced. Let's enjoy the rest of the day. You four years of disaster, bedlam, and death under sleepy Joe Biden. And I'm asking you to let us finish the job we began with the greatest two years in the history of the presidency. This has been the most successful two years financially and

1:05:00every other way in the history of the president. I mean, it couldn't be more false. And we all know it's more false. And here's the thing. When you looked at the crowd there, there were a lot of empty seats. The way they set up the stage, it really only utilized half of the stadium where the Dallas Mavericks play. So maybe there was 7,500 people, 7,000 people, you know, who were there, which, you know, people who are able to track 7,000 people, you know, it's, it is what it is. But I'll say this. I mean, the fact that there's still a group of people, I was watching the people behind him. I was watching it was mostly ladies behind him. And I think they set it up that way on purpose as well, especially as Trump is having more and more difficult issues with women voters, but she always had before. But he's having issues with all voters. But as I watch that and I'm thinking to myself, I just, I know what the world is thinking

1:06:04about us, but how shameful for our country that this literal psycho, like you can't get much worse than this objectively. And not, not, I'm not saying this because I don't like the guy, which I don't, I'm not saying this because, you know, I think MAGA is a dangerous movement, which I do think, of course, it's a dangerous movement. I'm just saying objectively, as I'm recording this September 10th, we're in a deser, objectively, we're in a disaster. There's no other way around it. It's not a talking point. It's not political messaging that I'm doing. It's just the re, we're in a disaster gas prices, diesel prices, the price of crude WTI and Brent, losing this catastrophic war with seemingly no way out. More tankers being hit in the straight of her moves every damn day. The Houthis now controlling mostly all of Yemen, China asserting itself more than ever before. The war rages on with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The strikes are only escalating there. It's

1:07:08going to be a very, very deadly autumn and winter there. That's for sure. You look around the world. There's chaos everywhere. The world is literally at war. Whether future historians will call this moment World War III, I leave that to them, but objectively, the world is in a war. Every country is somehow involved in some war right now, right across the entire world, which is exactly what Trump and MAGA were trying to warn about with Biden, which never actually happened. And health care has been ripped away from American people. More people's Medicaid will be lost after the midterms because the trigger for a lot of the Medicaid cuts happens after November and the Republican set it up that way so they could try to claim, oh, there wasn't all that bad. No, it was that bad and it's only going to get worse there. People can pay their rent. We're in a die. I mean, objectively, we're in a dire situation and he's out there saying it's amazing and you still have

1:08:13people behind him like they're watching Shamu catch a sardine in his mouth and it's a very bizarre thing. It's a very bizarre thing to observe and a very strange phenomenon to observe that people can be treated like absolute horseshit and then smear it on their face and then cheer for and then cheer for the the infected horse. It's a very strange thing to observe, but the rest of the world, they don't see this, you know, is governor Newsom who once said Donald Trump is weakness masquerading at strength. To me, it's weakness masquerading as weirdness and weakness and the world season and they're like, God it, they don't know what they're doing anymore. They got rid of their top people, they're losers. They're a loser, that's how the world sees us now as a loser country because all we do is lose and all Trump does is post weird memes and make threats and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that. I'm going to go after you Canada. I'm going to go after you, UK,

1:09:16Falkland Island more, you know, it's just and it's a nightmare. It is and look, I think as we approach the midterms, I think more and more Americans see it for what it is. I think, I think Republicans are going to have a rude awakening in the midterms. I think what's going to be way more of a wipeout than anybody expects. That just judging by these special elections and if you look at the trajectory of where things are going, it's just going to get worse sadly for this country, right? From here until then and what the plan is, we're going to give you $5,000 and it's going to lie about giving you money and more bribes, more lying about bribing the American people. Sick stuff. We'll keep on reporting it every day. We'll keep delivering this breaking news. Keep checking back on our YouTube channel every 90 minutes for more breaking news. We appreciate you. We're grateful for you. Make sure you watch The Brother Show. Check out Jessica Tarlaub's new book. We love Jessica.

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