Alarming Iran Conflict Developments & U.S. Munitions Shortages

We have so much to discuss on this episode of the Midas' Touch podcast.

You have Iran and Oman entering into a deal together without the United States for Iran's

control over the Strait of Hormuz, this as despite the corporate news and really much

of the kind of news ecosystem not reporting on what's actually going down.

Iran is still striking tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Houthis have advanced in an area of Yemen controlled by Saudi Arabian back government

there.

You had other strikes taking place in the Red Sea.

Iran is not backing down while the United States runs out of all of its weapons.

We've now seen leaks at the highest level of our military to virtually every major news

network.

Now, they didn't have to leak it for us to know what was really going down because we've

been studying the satellite footage of the various US bases and noting how the Iranian

ballistic missile strikes were hitting all of its targets at the US bases despite Zencom

lying and saying that all of the ballistics were intercepted.

So it was clear to us either our pack three interceptors, our thads, our SM23s and

sixes from the Navy districts, either they're not working at all or we've run out and we

speculated we ran out.

So it's clear we run out of our interceptors and offensive weapons as well, like the

attackums, those high mars and Trump doing to the defense department, what he did to his

casinos, bankrupting it and now going and begging for trillions of dollars more from the

taxpayers that could be going to things.

I don't know like healthcare education, making things more affordable will cover that as

well.

The D.O.J.

was a major victory in court today, federal judge Sullivan ordering Trump's DOJ to appear

in court on August 13th and to answer why they have repeatedly violated the court's order,

including the court's most recent order in Katie Fang's case under the Epstein Transparency

Act for the DOJ to turn over certain categories of documents.

Why are you redacting the names of co-conspirators and claiming they are victims?

Can you explain how these people are victims?

Show us back up, blanchas like, well, we're just going to stand on their redactions and

the court was like, that's not what I asked you.

Why are these co-conspirators being treated as victims, dammit?

Answer it on August 13th.

Then you had the court requesting a timeline when the DOJ would produce a reduction log

or a privilege log for the millions of documents that are being withheld.

Why aren't you producing the FBI notes to those 302 reports regarding the allegations against

Donald Trump from an underage girl?

Why are you not producing those?

Trump denies it, so it would just show us the notes.

Then blanchas like, well, because the notes are substantially similar to the 302 reports,

we're not going to produce the notes.

The judge excoriated blanch in Trump's DOJ.

There's no substantially similar exception in the Epstein Transparency Act.

I want you to answer for that on August 13th.

Big developments there, right?

We'll talk about that.

The David Hurn case officially dismissed, two-time Olympic canoeist who was framed, I'm

just framed, the blind fabricated evidence.

I guess he's framed in that.

It was Trump who did it, right?

It was like the Scooby Doo movie.

It turns out it was Donald Trump the whole time, right?

Fabricated evidence against David Hurn, the Justice Department admitted the Department

of Interior gave him fabricated evidence to push Trump's narrative that the reflecting

pool was damaged by vandals when it was because of Trump and Trump's crew of bad construction

people.

Also numerous other cases dismissed as well.

And then the, a lot of legal updates as well in Virginia, the case where a preliminary

injunction was granted regarding the J6 anti-weaponization fund to block that, well, now we've

got the plaintiffs amending their complaint in order to block Trump's tax immunity in

that Virginia case.

Trump's already lost the preliminary injunction there on the anti-weaponization.

And now the same plaintiffs are saying, look, this judge in the Southern District of

Florida basically said this agreement was created with fraud that it was created collusively

in that it's avoided.

So therefore, this entire thing, including the tax immunity, should be avoided.

We want that to be a part of our preliminary injunction as well.

So there's an amended complaint.

We'll see what the judge does there.

And more on the Midas Touchbot, guess Bretton, Jordy, it's so good to see you.

You know what?

There's been a lot thrown at this community, this country, this world, but I actually

feel right now, as you see Donald Trump wearing what appears to be, what appears to be?

I don't know.

The new weird wig, you got Donald Trump out there looking desperate and tired and humiliated

and damaged and broken as his approval plummet as the American people and people of the world

are standing up.

I actually feel right now, stronger than ever.

I don't know about, I truly do.

I feel right now there's a lot of momentum for those who want to fight back and say enough

is enough.

I couldn't not agree more.

It's good to be here.

Ben, good to be here.

Jordy, good to be here.

Midas, Midi.

What was that thing on Donald Trump's head?

Like can we start there?

Like, what the heck was going on there?

I know a lot of people have been commenting on this, but just so completely bizarre.

You know, something else that we saw, this was submitted to us from a Midas touch viewer,

this image from rural Tennessee, which Ben, I think sums up exactly where we are at this

moment.

We got this picture from rural Tennessee of a Trump superstar and you could see the

sign right behind the Trump superstar going out of business now, going out of business

now.

And doesn't that, isn't that so indicative of first off Donald Trump's entire life, but

also where we're at right now with the Trump presidency, with the Trump regime where it

really feels like right now we're in a moment where a lot of these things are sort of coming

to a head, the court cases, all the scams and griffs, everything is kind of now meeting

that moment where it's all kind of collapsing and it's all really humiliating for Donald

Trump.

And there have been reports that kind of for the first time in a while, Donald Trump

has really been seething in humiliation as everything around him is really just failing

and the humiliation from the reflecting pull case that he went all in on the humiliation

from the Iran war with us losing all of our munitions, using them all up everywhere

you look what Donald Trump's doing has been a complete and utter failure.

And I think it's finally sinking in a little bit with him and he is getting a little bit

of a dose of reality when his handlers allow that dose of reality to set in.

We're going to cover it all, but first we got to go to Jordy, Jordy, what's the latest?

Brothers, minus, Marty, it is wonderful to be here tonight and Brett Ben, I agree with

you guys so much here.

This vibe shift, if you will, really feels apparent at least in this idea of accountability

or what accountability can look like.

I know just for my inner circles out here where I live, like people are getting energized,

look closer and closer we're getting to midterms also about what foreseeable accountability

could be.

Look, don't get me wrong.

I'm not here to advocate for one party or another, but I think the likelihood that the

Dems retake Congress is pretty high.

And so it's going to be pretty interesting to see as these court cases unfolding currently

are failing miserably for Donald Trump, what accountability looks like in the next steps

as investigations get launched, as hearings get launched, because again, the party that controls

they ultimately determine really how and how this stuff plays out.

And in what context it plays out and who they can call into these hearings and it's going

to be very interesting to see nonetheless if the Democrats are able to take back what

that looks like.

And if we will get some real accountability down in these coming months, Benji Brett excited

for the show where we started off today, Big Brother.

And look at Donald Trump's frantic posting earlier today, he writes, for our great Republican

senators, friends of mine all please be advised that the Communist Democrats Senate candidate

from Michigan.

And then he says, El Said is touting as pray, isn't full name is perhaps his single most

important point, determination of the filibuster I watched it yesterday.

And he's gone termination crazy if he succeeds, the Democrats will gain four senators, eight

congressmen, many electoral and popular votes, the stack Supreme Court with 23 justices.

And I will be sadly despite the great job we are doing, the last Republican president, Donald

J Trump so much.

That's kind of like an endorsement.

It is an endorsement, but it's also so much whining.

And again, whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it's really sad to have such a

loser, such a loser in the Oval Office.

I mean, you've got Iran mocking him and be gollaboff posting the following, he's the basically

the top civilian position in Iran, he's their parliament leader, he goes massive attack

coming, wait, never mind, they want to negotiate.

That's theater diplomacy on loop using bullying, broken promises, fake news as leverage is

a failed strategy, acknowledge the facts and fulfill your commitments.

We don't need more theater.

Iran, which has essentially now become a global power, not essentially, has become a global

power.

It's basically wagging its finger at a weakened pathetic United States under Donald Trump

and saying, we don't need this drama, we don't need this theater.

We know you're out of weapons.

We know.

So just be quiet, be quiet.

That's how the United States gets talked to now.

It's worse than being laughed at.

Get out of here.

The adults are in the room.

Think about that.

That's what the United States has become.

It's worse than when Donald Trump says the world is laughing at us.

No, we're getting shushed.

Just get out of here.

We got to do this deal with Oman because we have to actually deal with real issues.

It's really you.

If you don't feel humiliated as an American right now, you're not patriotic.

You're not a real patriot because any actual patriotic American would look at this and go,

oh my God.

Oh my God, this is pathetic.

I can't tolerate this level of pathetic being not as a Democrat, not as a Republican, not

as an independent.

What is this?

Doing a great negotiation with them and I'm gonna be worse than World War II every besiege.

We're dealing with Oman, okay?

Okay.

That's where we are as a country.

The Democrats.

The Democrats, the Communists.

Oh, what the Democrats coming up?

Shut up.

Shut up.

I think that's honestly how many people feel about it's like this enough.

We don't need them.

We don't want this.

Just be quiet.

Be quiet there.

Why don't you try on a new wig or whatever you're doing and go away?

Get it, get it, get it.

This is a real photo of him.

We have another photo that's not a real photo, but this is a real photo of him right

there.

That's the one.

That's a mega devil dog.

I think this actually comes from a pro Trump account.

I don't even know if this account was broochered.

Whoever did this is what I think it is.

I think it's a pro.

This is what's crack.

Anyway, go.

Why do they have that?

That's what it really looks like.

It's not actually, it's not actually that far off.

And so you've got Donald Trump right now in the Oval Office before we went live.

This is how he behaves.

He's easy.

One of the things he posted last night is we're not running out of munitions.

Everything's great.

We can get munitions from other places.

Because the US has massive amounts of munitions, especially of certain types.

Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the US as needed.

Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country's

history.

The leakers of these trees and estatesments are being hunted down.

Long-term jail sentences will be sought.

I'm hunting them down.

They're getting hunted, everybody.

Everyone's going to be hunted, hunted, hunted, hunted.

It's fake news, but also we need to get the leakers who leaked this information, but

it's also fake information and completely fiction.

But we also have to get the people who leaked this very sensitive information that no one's

supposed to know to the public.

And they're getting some of the important.

It's a mega logic.

Yeah, perfect.

He's in the Oval Office right over here and he's asked, you posted overnight that the US

has a massive amount of munitions and you denied any shortages.

So why are you demanding $21 billion to restock?

Why is that necessary here?

Let's put this clear.

But on munitions, you posted overnight that the US has a massive amount and you denied

that there are any shortages.

There is a supplemental request for $21 billion to restock.

So why is that request still there?

Well, because we need more all the time.

I mean, we need more.

Look, we gave tremendous amount to Ukraine, the Biden people did, and they were given

free of charge.

No charge.

No charge.

Billions, hundreds of billions of dollars.

And fortunately, I built up so much during my term, I rebuilt the military and also loaded

it up with a lot of stuff.

We have certain types of munitions that are very powerful that we have unlimited, virtual

unlimited supply.

We have others words, a little bit tighter.

Virtually unlimited, you know, the unlimited supply.

But then it's Biden's fault and it's Ukraine's fault.

It's everybody's fault, but his own fault, Brad.

It's every, you think you may be muted.

It's all, it's all gone, but also it's unlimited, but also we ran out of weapons and Biden

did it, but also I built it back up, but we actually have unlimited weapons, but actually

getting a lot of energy and we put on you, you get unlimited ammo, unlimited everything.

Yeah, we all know about the unlimited weapons of course.

All you have to do is go left, left, right, right, right, left, up, up, down, left, right,

right.

And then you get a little bit of back.

We all know that that's how you get unlimited weapons.

The gamer and then comes out, look at that question.

Russia seems to have increased their attacks on civilian targets.

Is that a concern to you that must be concerning that Russia has been escalating its attack

on civilians here, play this clip?

Russia seems to have increased their attacks on civilians.

I know.

I know.

That must be a concern.

Let's look.

We're not involved from the standpoint it's, we're separated by a notion, but I hate to

see 25,000 young people a month get killed and that's what's happening between Russia

and Ukraine.

They're losing on average 25,000, mostly soldiers a month and you know, we're working on it

and I think we're making progress, but it's a violent, very violent war.

There's a lot of hatred in that war, a lot of hatred between the two leaders.

I settled eight wars.

I thought this would be maybe one of the easier ones and it turned out to be the most difficult,

but progress is being made.

Thank you very much.

Well, you promised, you promised on day one after the election before you were even sworn

into office.

You said on day one that you would bring peace.

You had such a great relationship and also the question was a very basic one.

It must be concerning you and let's be clear what's happening.

Some promise Zelensky at first, patriot interceptors that he was going to sell to Europe and that

Europe would then provide it to Zelensky.

Then Trump didn't provide the interceptors to Europe and NATO after promising that.

So then at the NATO summit, Trump promised in public.

It's not ambiguous.

Zelensky was sitting there, Trump was sitting there and Trump said, I'm going to give you

the interceptor licenses so you can make them on your own.

He meant Zelensky met with Trump two weeks ago at the White House.

He met with Lockheed and makes these interceptors to get the license.

And then Trump rung, pulled them and said, I'm not going to give you the license.

I'm just not going to do it.

Sorry, I can't do it.

So you have to wonder what was Donald Trump and Putin, what were they talking about on

July 4th when Trump and Putin spoke for 90 minutes?

Were they talking about potentially?

Well, hey, Donald, why don't you find out what their vulnerabilities are?

Why don't you just drag him along a little bit, buy us about 30 to 45 days so we can increase

our ballistic missile arsenal.

And then they won't have any way to stop it.

And then that's how we'll get a deal of Donald because they won't be able to stop the

ballistics and we can just hit any targets that will.

At this point, I don't want to be hyperbolic.

I don't want to create a necessary fear, but it's actually a pretty dire situation for

Ukraine right now if you follow what's happening solely because of the ballistics.

And that's not me in any way criticizing the leadership or the ability of their army

to fight.

I got very nervous when Laura Lumer got involved.

Actually, that was one of the red flags for me about what was going on with Lumer was

involved and all these mega people seemed.

And I was telling the guy that doesn't feel right with me.

And that also kind of coincided with Trump tapping Zolinsky along and making his linsky feel

like he was going to get these interceptor licenses.

But the real big problem is not what's going on in the front of the war where Ukraine is

holding its ground and making progress.

The issue is is that Ukraine has a 0% interception rate of the Russian ballistics.

That means every Russian ballistic hits its target.

That means nearly a million square feet of warehouses have been destroyed by Russia

in a very 500,000 of that has been destroyed like since July.

Any night that Iran wants to rain down on certain areas, it just does salvos of 20,

30 ballistics and everybody, every one of them hits their target.

Zolinsky has a 90% interception rate with drones close to that with cruise missiles,

all less.

Ballistics at 0% because you literally need the interceptors in order to stop the ballistics.

So that's what's going on.

So the next question is, Zolinsky says his country desperately needs long-range missiles.

What do you make of that?

Let's watch Trump's response.

Let's play.

And this president, on Ukraine, President Zolinsky says his country desperately needs long-range

missiles for those Patriot missile batteries.

Is that something they hear?

I mean, we want missiles too.

When Biden gave him so much, Biden gave $300 billion worth of ammunition.

And again, we need missiles too, but you just said literally two minutes before that that

we have all, we have unlimited ammo.

If we have unlimited ammo, then why do we need it?

We don't have it.

And look, one of the reasons that we're not giving it to Zolinsky is because we've run out

and it's embarrassing.

And we can't sell it to Europe because we don't have it for ourselves.

We don't have it for the Arab nations.

We don't have it for Asia.

We ran out.

We're out.

It's done.

Not just like the stockpiles are low.

Like we're out.

But the other reason I believe is that this is how Donald Trump believes that deal is going

to get done, which is what he's always thought, which is let Putin, Pumelsal, and Skane

eventually Zolinsky will tap out.

And I worry that if you look at some of the moves that are happening behind the scenes

in Ukraine, they got rid of their defense secretary, Fedorov.

And then they replaced him with somebody else.

They got rid of their commander in chief because he said, get rid of Fedorov.

You've got a lot going there, going on there that despite, I think, the incredible work

on the front and pushing forward, if they don't get these interceptor licenses or any way

to defend against these ballistics, this is going to be every other day.

We're going to see a massive ballistic salvo and it's deeply concerning.

I'll toss it over to Britain, Jerry.

Well, there's been a lot of conversation.

And rightfully so about the economic effects of the war and other things stemming from

the war in terms of those respects, oil markets, treasury yields, stock market, things

like that, gas prices.

But there are all these other kind of national defense and geopolitical ramifications from

the war that are talked about far less.

And the implications for this war and what's happening in Ukraine is certainly one of them,

our relationship with China is one of them.

Right now, all these countries around the world know exactly what's going on in the United

States.

And frankly, it didn't take the leakers, as Trump wants to describe them as, in order

to sound the alarm about these low munitions stockpiles.

I mean, we've been reporting on these low munitions now for months, the dwindling munitions

are going, it's getting lower, it's getting lower, it's getting lower, the same way we've

been reporting on tank bottom with the oil markets.

And then eventually it comes around and it gets confirmed by these, you know, quote unquote

leakers.

And everyone goes, holy crap, how did this happen?

And we've been following it the whole time.

We've been looking at the numbers.

We've been looking at the data.

We've been seeing what's been happening.

And if we know that here on the Midas touch podcast, I could assure you Russian knows

that.

I could assure you China knows that.

I could assure you country around knows that.

I could assure you countries throughout the world all know exactly what's going on.

And that puts the United States and our allies in a very precarious situation.

And if Donald Trump's strategy right now is we're just going to continue to do the same

thing that we've been doing, you know, that kind of what they say is insanity trying the

same thing with no different results.

If we're just going to keep trying that over and over, we're just going to bomb them into

submission.

Well, eventually the munitions run out.

Eventually the defense, the interceptor is eventually that runs out.

It's not a video game.

You can't pull some crypto scheme to all of a sudden build fake value or fake weapons

for your military.

When you use them, they're done.

And it's not like they take a very fast to rebuild.

It takes a while to rebuild these weapons that were wasting.

And that's the issue when you have these people like a headset, like a Donald Trump, who

go out there and just try to burn it all down and try to act all tough and try to say,

oh, we're just going to bomb them and do this and do that.

There's no thought behind it.

It's why you need actual smart people because you need people who actually are viewing

things based on strategy, not like the video game, not like we have unlimited munitions,

not like we could just keep bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing and show American power or

whatever the hell they want to call it.

It's really showing our weakness and it's shown the stupidity right now of the people in

charge.

So it's no surprise.

There is a major crisis in the Pentagon right now.

I don't know how this gets better.

And I can vouch for Ben that he was saying when Laura Lumer was with Zolensky in Ukraine,

that Ben was going, I don't think this is a good thing.

And you were sounding the alarm right here that Donald Trump's kind of fake offer to

Ukraine weeks and weeks ago at this point was a red herring that we shouldn't trust it,

that we should not believe in that the mainstream media and people in general should not be

putting their faith in Donald Trump.

He is not a deal maker.

He is a fraud and he will dangle things to people and then he'll take it away for his own

benefit and he'll scree over.

And so Zolensky, if he thought that he was going to get a deal from Donald Trump here

from playing nice with Laura Lumer or playing nice with these people, I mean, he ended up

getting fooled at the end of the day.

Hopefully he knows better than that.

But right now it's a shame to see everyone in a precarious situation, including us here,

including the United States.

Yeah, Ben Spidey sense went off in full effect when that Lumer video dropped.

Words have to mean something.

Words and promises.

I feel like they used to mean something.

Maybe I'm sort of romanticizing the past a little bit.

Like when the president said he was going to do something and made promises to other world

leaders, I feel like they followed through on those promises.

I could be mistaken.

I'm happy for anyone to point it out.

Anytime Donald Trump opens his mouth, you can't take what he's saying at base value.

You know, when he said that he'd even end the war on day one, like that was the big campaign

thing, right?

When he was running for this reelection bit over here.

He's now gone back on that a couple of months ago.

I was being sarcastic.

Oh, that was my, you couldn't sense my sarcasm when I said I was going to be a

guy who's going to end the war on day one.

It's immensely frustrating as you see Donald Trump go further and further into the conflicts

abroad and also understand the ramifications that it's going to have here on the economy.

That Donald Trump doesn't care about our nation's debt.

And so in his mind, Brett, I think he does think that he'll just keep borrowing money.

And just like that, those munitions, they'll be made because he took the money because

we got the money that there is no strategic foresight here as far as, oh, no, there's

actually like plans and steps that have to go into just getting more munitions for this

war that they just don't appear overnight.

But what Donald Trump has been good at, and I don't say that in a good way, has been

taking people's money with no outcome for the masses to sort of follow.

And that is a similar pattern that I think we're going to be falling into here where sooner

or later, you're just going to ask for more money for the war.

We've already seen it.

It's going to be there.

They're already asking, right?

They're already asking.

They're already asking.

Actually, in five.

I mean, the guy couldn't even build a helipad at the White House.

They spent all these millions of dollars building a helipad.

Then they had to take a tear it all down, redo it, just another renovation project that

they continue to screw up.

I mean, the folks that we have right now in the White House are a total disaster.

And I know I'm not giving any new news to you by saying that.

But I almost wish we could see like the alternate reality where there was a Kamala Harris presidency

or a second Joe Biden term or something.

Because everyone likes to pretend that both sides are the same here.

And I'm not going to pretend that everything was all amazing under Biden.

But I could tell you, it certainly was not the hell that they're trying to describe it

as, and it was significantly better.

And if you just literally followed the policies that were laid out, you'd have a stronger

NATO, you'd have Ukraine being protected.

You wouldn't have this war on Iran.

You'd have a stock market continuing to rise without all this volatility.

You would have the yields at normal levels not spiking to crazy amounts.

You would have stability in the world.

You'd have the United States as a leader on the world stage.

Canada liking us.

You'd have our institutions remaining built.

You'd have a working department of justice actually focused on criminals and not bailing

out criminals and give them billions of your dollars.

You'd have more transparency on Epstein.

I mean, it's literally, you could go with every single issue.

Yeah.

It would be significantly better.

And it's not even a question.

And anybody who denies that to me, you're just not being intellectually honest.

And that's why you need leaders who are going to lead that are actually going to make this

country better for everyone and not just themselves.

I think Donald Trump, it's abundantly clear to me actually that he's grappling with his

own mortality.

That's the golden arch.

That's the reflecting goal.

That's the memorials.

It's renaming the buildings.

That Donald Trump is in here for some sort of perceived legacy play where he wants his

name and his aura to live on post post Trump presidency post Trump, whatever existence.

And where we are right now, that's how he's leading.

There's no again, foresight here as far as how and how we actually get out of this in

a way that sustains the economy.

That's better for the American people.

That's better for the troops.

That's better for just everyone involved.

Donald Trump is only looking at this as how can this benefit me and how can I get out

of this in a way that benefits me the most.

And it's why I worry about the nuclear option here, right?

Like Donald Trump has already said, they're going to see things like they haven't seen

since World War II.

We obviously know what he's referring to there.

And I don't rule that out.

And I'm not saying that for clicks and I'm not saying it, you know, it's like be joky here.

I genuinely think he does not care about the ramifications.

Should he proceed with that matter?

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Someone DM me that whole spiel the other day.

Say, I know what you say.

It's in my head.

Can you mix it up a little bit?

So I'm going to come up with a new one when we come back from break.

And I don't know if that's the end.

Don't fix what I'm broke, you know.

I like it and I know it really well.

But I don't know if I'm annoying people by saying the same thing.

So I'm going to mix it up.

Benji, what do you think and where do you want to go next?

Where do I want to go next?

I think all your ideas are great.

Let's talk about.

I'm in the oval.

He was asked, do you believe Max Miller should withdraw from his race?

Obviously, you've seen the very serious allegations of abuse against Max Miller that he abused his wife or allegations.

His daughter that he's abused to other girlfriends.

His former father-in-law, Senator Moreno of Ohio, said that Max Miller is someone who's sick and needs to resign.

You've heard other Republican senators talk to the Midas Touch Network actually and say that Max Miller needs to resign and be out.

Even Max Miller's behavior and the interviews on Jake Tapper, on Newsmax and others have been really kind of sick and demented.

He's released these images and these photos, which then his ex-wife has said, lawyer basically, you released nude photos of our little girl, which is sexual child sex abuse content.

And then his lawyer said, we inadvertently released the material.

We didn't mean to release the photo that shows that.

And then you see these text messages that his ex-wife released.

And his ex-wife, someone who's really big in the conservative movement too, as the daughter of a senator Moreno.

And they were like holding the little baby girl's bunny hostage.

And then Max Miller would release more of their private tech, like putting all their stuff out there.

And the whole thing is really, you know, it's very disturbing.

This isn't a Democrat or a Republican or an independent thing.

This is just an abhorrent thing.

And one of the things that Max Miller cites, why he stays in, he models his behavior off of Trump.

He goes, I'm just like Trump.

We both had allegations from women.

We both are strong.

This is how we respond to allegations.

Max Miller has said in the interviews, he said Donald called me and said, Maxi, it's going to be tough for you, Maxi.

But I'm with you, Maxi.

And that's how he said.

And we've heard Trump say, I'm, you know, I'm not going to get involved in this.

We've heard mag and Mike Johnson basically support Max Miller.

And by the way, that's that to me, you know, while this situation isn't necessarily a Democrat, Republican or independent thing.

This response to it certainly feels like a Republican thing to me.

When you have mag and Mike Johnson, the speaker of the house being like, yeah, I don't know, you know, that's just between him and his family.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to do anything.

He's got my, I got his back, you know, if he needs it, you know, whatever, whatever he wants to do, I can't, I can't control all my people here.

I mean, you know, they're going to have their own lives like really, really.

And these are the same people who, you know, were so forceful with Grand Platter.

And you know, anytime there's also like any sort of little kind of scandal on the Democratic side.

And typically the Democratic Party takes care of that stuff. Republicans are going all in right now on, on Max Miller.

And it's truly like it's disturbing stuff.

Everything that Max Miller releases, the text that Ben was speaking about, he just keeps stepping in it further also as, as Ben explained to the CSAM material.

But also, you know, just every text that he's trying to put out there to kind of, quote, unquote, clear his name ends up actually showing that a lot of these allegations are going to be.

And a lot of these allegations are actually for real, like you, you see what people are accusing him of in the text messages.

And I think in my opinion, he has this sort of abuser mindset that he kind of permeates throughout all of this stuff that when you see it, like he doesn't even almost like realize what he's saying, but the language that he uses is kind of textbook.

And it's incredibly disturbing.

But here was, here was Donald Trump today in the oval being asked about it.

And I think that's the reason that deadline for Representative Max Miller to withdraw from his race is coming up next week.

Do you believe you should withdraw?

Well, I'm not going to get involved in that. It's a very sad situation.

And I know Max very well.

But it's very, very sad that a situation like that takes place.

Yeah.

Do you think the DOJ should...

Back to something I talk about a lot, leadership.

You're in a position of leadership.

It's not a Democrat or Republican thing.

You are a leader.

And he doesn't behave like that. He never takes accountability for anything.

And whenever there's something difficult, and it doesn't immediately go his way, he backs out and he runs away from it.

And you take a look at BBC and what's going on over there, right?

And Trump scared a BBC.

Clearly, they...

But he got bailed out by a judge that he appointed when he was 36 years old.

This judge.

And so you know, you all know the story there.

Trump sues BBC for some documentary that never aired in the United States.

And Trump said this documentary by the BBC, which like nobody saw, didn't air in the US panorama.

Got like no people saw people saw in the UK.

It's a big show in the UK.

Not in the United States.

Not in the United States.

You're saying the UK, how many did it get any views in the United States?

Or wasn't even in the US?

No, I wasn't broadcast in the United States.

Panorama.

I lived in London.

Panorama.

Let me just tell my BBC story.

You know, you know everything about panorama.

Okay.

And the United States probably very geographically specific.

Okay.

As I'm trying to deal with the facts here, but I got deal with the BBC Trump facts.

Okay.

Then Trump sues them.

They respond by saying, let's get discovery.

Okay.

You know, you said $10 billion in damages.

All right.

Show me where you're damaged.

$10 billion.

Okay.

I mean, you filed the lawsuit.

What is Trump doing?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to show you.

And they get an order from a magistrate judge who handles discovery.

And then Donald, and then the judge says, turn it over.

And then rather than turn it over, Trump files an emergency.

And an emergency says there's an emergency.

What's the emergency?

We're going to file a new complaint.

Well, the deadline to file a complaint was March.

So you missed the deadline.

But it's an emergency now.

I can't turn these documents on.

You suit no one forced you to sue BBC for $10 billion and claim that your corporations were damaged.

So now you're going to have to turn over your corporation document.

$10 billion, say $1,000.

So he's like, no, no, I want to amend my complaint and say it was just a $10 billion.

I'm just saying, I want to amend my complaint and say it was just reputation harm.

Your reputation was harmed and you're saying $10 billion.

I'm damaged.

And then I want to amend that I want to change.

I want to do over.

Well, the magistrate judge ruled against Donald Trump.

But he Trump showed that he was scared of BBC there.

And then he goes to the Trump appoint judge, who's the judge in Southern District of Florida,

who Trump appointed in 2019.

And the guy goes, you raise good arguments there.

OK, I'll give you a participation trophy.

What will probably allow you to amend your complaint so you can now just say it was your reputation that was harmed, Donald.

And by the way, Trump ain't winning the judge ain't winning the United States is losing.

Nobody's winning from this behavior to see a cowardly human being sue for $10 billion because he's so soft.

That his reputation is harmed.

He's so soft that that's why he goes after BBC and then BBC scares him.

And then he's like, oh, no, I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do.

And the issues get bigger than this because think about it.

If you're, you don't think Iran studies this behavior that are allies and enemies and everyone's.

They have a pathological profile on the malignant narcissist that ultimately shows when he really come down to it.

He's a weak loser. That's what they all have decided.

They've all got this guy's a loser. He's a reject.

He's a pathetic weasel. He's just the winer. He's just the complainer.

He's a failure. He's a failure of a human.

So you push back, push back, push back, and then he gives up.

That's what everyone sees. He push me. Don't get me wrong.

He's now co-opted hijacked the United States of America.

So he's guys not like he can't inflict damage.

He's inflicted real damage in Iran. I'm not trying to paint some rosy picture that like, you know, it's nothing.

No, he's caused harm here.

He's kicking off people from food stamps who needed 100,000 people recently kicked off in Arizona.

450,000 people total. That's what they're bringing to state after they saying the little children who are on food stamps are committing fraud.

Now this guy's a wrecking ball.

He can cause a lot of damage with what his behavior and he has caused a lot of damage.

He's made all these affordability issues, even worse. He's screwed up everything here.

But ultimately what it comes down to is the guys a loser.

And he runs from BBC. He runs away from Iran.

He runs away from a difficult thing that you may have to do, which is if you called out back Smiller, who by the way is now trailing significantly in the polls in that house district in Ohio.

Good.

That'll be that gets him out of the race by the way, not all this.

Yeah, screwed up.

But you know what? You may have to figure out a plan. Maybe replace them.

I don't know. Come up with something else. You know, but that's to me, some of these things come down to all of these things often come down to be an adult.

Be a grownup, be a leader, behave with dignity.

Like at that level, just just just that, just that.

I mean, you know, he's asked in the Oval Office.

Has a deal been reached to reopen the straight of Hormuz?

Has a deal been reached the very nature of this question.

Trump's not involved even in the kind the Trump regime has been sidelined.

They're not involved in this at all right now.

They're not what how do we know that? Are they in Qatar?

Are they in Pakistan?

No, they're not involved in any of this. Nothing.

It is purely Iran and Oman.

That is it right now.

And Trump wants to take credit for that deal that will give Iran control over the straight.

I'm going to say, I look at a deal. I did one.

I took a look at what I did everybody.

Look at what Trump says when he's asked has a deal been reached on display.

As a deal been reached to reopen the straight of Hormuz.

Well, I don't want to say it has been sort of open right now.

We have a thing called the blockade headed up by the US Navy.

And we control it.

And now we control it.

But they can always shoot something.

They always have something or drop a mind.

And of you.

We don't control it. It's a stupid thing to say.

Remember how this week began, by the way.

The week began with all the headlines across all the papers saying,

Scott Besent says a deal on the straight of Hormuz is coming tomorrow.

Like, I don't know why.

Like, people just forget this stuff.

Like, it just move on.

He said that that was like the leave Monday.

And so the markets open and they go crazy.

Like all the stock, the US stock market goes nuts off of this fake comment

that Scott Besent made.

And it's not like it's the first time they've done this.

They keep doing this all the time.

They say, yeah, deals around the corner of deals going tomorrow.

It's going to be a deal tomorrow.

And the stuff they still react to their comment.

Like, how do you take anything these people say seriously?

And as Ben said, the entire premise of the question is incorrect.

Because the United States isn't even involved right now in these negotiations.

It's between Iran and Oman.

And the Iranian news sources right now are also saying that they're trying to figure out,

you know, they're way of opening the straight, which is going to formalize.

Iranian and Omani control of the straights have some sort of tolling system perhaps.

Some sort of other authorities that they did not have prior to this war,

making sure that they have complete and full control over it.

And that the United States does not and that everybody has to go through them.

I mean, that's worse.

That's like horrific.

That's that's the worst case scenario.

Yet Trump just gets these questions like he's going to have a deal tomorrow.

And everybody reacts like it's like the greatest thing ever.

I feel like I'm like, I feel like I'm going nuts sometimes.

I want to stop.

I also just comment quickly on the fact that like, do you all find it strange that every time he answers a question

during one of these formats that he's constantly just covering his hand?

Like he can't answer questions without covering that hand.

He is deeply insecure about what's happening.

And I just think it needs to be a big rage like I think people need to be like, what are you doing?

It's it's it's objectively an odd way for someone to answer a hundred questions like while they're sitting down is to just, yes, exactly.

It's the cup one of their hands behind another for the duration of the Q&A process.

I couldn't agree more with you, Jordy.

So let's take a look more of what he's doing.

Before going what he's doing in the obel office, I'm not sure you want more on this is what he says on a four.

The big issue everybody's confronting the cost of living is impossible in the United States.

People can't afford homes.

He ran on affordability.

Now he claims it's a made up word.

He promised electricity prices would be cut in half.

Gas would be under two dollars.

Everybody would be having homes.

Things would be amazing.

And then he's asked what's your message on affordability pretty basic question right here.

Let's play this.

And Mr. President, Republicans are arguing a lot right now about affordability.

What is your message on affordability going into the middle?

Well, that's a good question, but it's sort of simple to answer.

I inherited the highest prices ever.

I inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country.

And we have done an amazing job.

And.

Okay, and again, it's like you haven't done an amazing job.

Stop whining about what you inherited.

Inflation was going down.

Inflation was heading towards 2%.

We know the reality of it.

And it's just like you're in it two years now.

You were the one.

Can I share some other midterm messaging with the with with everybody here with you and Jordan minus mighty.

So let's let's go.

I just want to go quickly from Donald Trump's mid to fantastic midterm messaging about affordability there.

And highlight a comment that I actually haven't seen got all that much attention today.

And this is from Dan Crenshaw just to show you like what people on the right are saying in general.

Dan Crenshaw was responding to there was a right wing influencer right wing influencers have been.

And they're saying things like they got a like Trump really needs to focus on this affordability thing like things are so expensive.

And there was one influencer like yesterday who said something like I just bought a burrito and it cost me like 25 bucks.

And so this was Dan Crenshaw's response.

This is the GOP message on affordability.

He said just hearing about this dumb $20 burrito debate.

So just thought I'd make the losers on social media angry before going to bed.

Stop whining get a job eat ramen like the rest of us did in college on a budget with four roommates.

The market doesn't care what you think something should cost only communist care.

Are you a communist or you an American adult male capable of handling his own shit.

Wow inspiring inspiring midterm messaging.

That's their message on affordability get a job get it.

You're not working hard enough.

You don't have you don't have enough jobs.

You don't you're not working more jobs.

You need more ramen more jobs more ramen more ramen more roommates.

That's there that's their affordability message.

Anything else anything else is communism.

Here's a guy who said on day one.

Here's what I was going to do.

Here's the promise.

I mean, it's very clear what he said was going on day one.

No war.

I'm going to know Zalinsky.

I don't think it was clear.

It's sarcasm corporate media study.

Easy easy.

Yeah electricity prices this would be down and half.

You know, it's it's why when I spoke to senator Sanders Bernie Sanders.

You know, he and I were both saying, you know, Donald Trump when he says he'd make the greatest communist like Lenin or Stalin Trump Trump does.

I mean, he made all these promises.

He didn't deliver.

He's taken what now at least 30 companies that we know of the United States has significant equity stakes in.

You know, whereas former president Biden used the chips act in order to bring the semiconductor industry here by doing incentives.

Where if companies hit benchmarks on certain funds could be unlocked to incentivize them.

Instead what Donald Trump did is said, ah, this money for incentives.

I'm going to use it like they do in communism.

We're not going to give you the funds.

We're going to take control over your company, you know, for for that.

And we're going to take equity stakes in your company and we will be the owner.

And I will have control over how the companies do certain things.

And, you know, Trump's turned our entire, you know, economy into what you normally see in what are referred to disparaging leas third world nations or banana republics.

Where Trump apparently is on the phone on a nightly basis with a wash the chairman of the federal reserve kind of planning and coordinating, which is not what's supposed to happen at all.

Donald Trump's manipulating the markets.

He's literally selling an insider trading feature on his social media platform.

He's personally doing $21,000, $21,000 trades to the tune of billions and billions of dollars in money that he's making.

Then he's giving himself tax immunity, which fortunately was just challenged in a Virginia court.

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Yeah that's right.

I do want to mention some things I said at the outset which is there have been major attacks in the straight of or moves in the past 48 hours and in the red sea there have been Saudi tankers hit in the red sea and right kind of right outside the red sea area by the hoothies the hoothies launched a major attack in northern Yemen as well in an area that's still controlled by the Saudi back government.

The hoothies control most of Yemen western Yemen the area by the red sea a lot of the most kind of valuable territory Yemen but this northern area there's a smaller strong hole controlled by the international recognize by the government that's recognized elsewhere not by the western certain place in Saudi Arabia which is really the Saudi back Yemen government.

And the hoothies launched a major attack there the hoothies are part of the access of resistance of Iran that also involves has Bola the hoothies these Iraqi militia groups some Somali groups and others they realize the US is out of weapons and if the US is out of weapons that means Saudis out of weapons right and that means Jordan's out of weapons that means the whole regions out of weapons.

And that's why these nations these Arab nations that thought that they were getting the Arab security umbrella the Arab dome the way Israel has the iron dome they are left saying what the hell we did all these quid pro quo deals with you Donald the near one and right before then because you promised you were going to protect us and you didn't protect us that's been Iran strategy.

So some people like well why wasn't Iran attacking Israel because Iran actually had a strategy their strategy why would we attack them if we attack them and they they have a working iron dome we're going to waste a lot of our munitions and our ballistics on them versus really putting the pressure on the United States.

So while Trump had a strategy of wasting the interceptors Iran was like we're not going to waste the ballistics on Israel's iron dome we want to expose the Arab dome doesn't work because then if we can corral support there then we can start putting pressure on Trump and Israel but we don't even have to fire a shot at us that's their strategy.

And if we just studied Iran strikes on television 2024 which again no one really covered that was under Biden and there's a lot of learning we should all do about that people weren't covering that we probably all thought it was propaganda when Iran hit hard and tell them that they didn't really do that that's AI or there maybe it wasn't AI back then the way it is today but like that didn't really happen right the same way now there's all these all of the missiles were intercepted no we're not going to do that.

Iran really hit hard in Israel in 2024 and showed their capabilities and had that been studied versus written off or covered up people could have seen what was going on so red sea lots of tankers hit by the hooties straight of or moves tankers hit in fact before we went live right by Kesham we learn that there were that the Iranians announced that they had hit this is let me just read you the part of the story.

And I was told that they had a lot of people who were exposed about what they said went down that they hit some targets there as well.

They said Iranian state media the sound of two explosions heard in Kesham was due to confronting hostile enemy targets near the entrance of the straight of or moves the achievements of this operation by our brave force will be announced to the public in the coming hours now you may go well, Ben it's Iran or online sure they're going to do propaganda I'm not naive and go well,

I'm not going to say that's a good thing to say.

But I'll tell you as between Senkom and Tasnim you know it's the fact that you even have to go who's telling me the truth here well I guess I have to observe who controls the straight of or moves I have to look at this satellite footage to see what's going on.

And I don't judgements about what's really happening here and that's a sad place to be in where Senkom and Trump and the United States or Trump has caused Senkom and it's just lose all credibility it's like okay, everything's not just the live like a dumb lie that's easily that's easily disprovable so we've had a lot of there was a Kuwaiti base that was struck this past week.

No one wanted a report on in Dubai there appear to be a houthi strike which in Dubai and UAE they said I was just a random explosion that that's not really you know that's not really what happened and so that's what's actually taking place right now there so.

So if you're Saudi Arabia your MBS you're looking around and you're saying WTF what the hell is this what do you think we gave all this money to what do you think we give them money to go what what what the hell are you even doing here and that's why Donald's like well let me try to dangle you want civilian nuclear technology right because you got to figure this out so you know MBS is like you know you you screwed us badly.

We're in a lot of trouble we need civilian nuclear and if you don't think that MBS knows that if you can down blend you can up blend.

What do you think they what what do you what do you think the route that what do you think that the promise was really civilian nuclear or do you think it was once you have the enrichment you can just enrich it even more and get weapons grade because don't you think of your Saudi Arabia you're now thinking the only thing that's going to protect us.

Now is a nuclear weapon because Iran's going to get a nuclear weapon now Trump can stop us there so we need one we need a new what do you think is going on in the United Arab Emirates right now.

Donald you didn't help us what so what do you want what do you want you a well you a it's it's like a it's like a it's like Oprah it's like the Oprah you get nukes you get semi conductors you get this what is you a get.

They got our classified black well semi conductors the most highly classified and we gave China our second most highly classified not the black well but the tier right under it so you a got the top top of the line China got the one right below it.

You don't think you a he's is going to go to China and give them top of the line to why do you think China didn't even want to place many orders on the number two because they know how to do it themselves now of course they know how to do it themselves but this is also because our security umbrella doesn't work so Donald Trump in the Ponzi schemes now giving them this and giving them that that's what's going on in the region it is it is opera on Christmas you get this you get that you get this I mean it's much worse than that.

But that's what's actually going on at an international level and we need to recognize that that's what's taking place in meanwhile Donald Trump is out there.

You know with the $1.5 trillion military budget like 300 to 1.5 trillion 300 billion he wants to build frickin Trump Trump class battleships because he liked the way battleships looked in World War one he liked to think about the idiotic he likes battleships.

And he doesn't like stealth so he said build me Trump nuclear battleships really in the age of drones and unmanned submersives you idiot you want Trump battleships and you watch these idiotic members of Congress said oh good Donald that's what you want we'll give it to you Donald it is pathetic WTF this you know these deeper concepts we talk about in the book by the way and it's watching this I'm like what are you doing Trump it takes two years to get this.

It takes two drones one drone one unmanned submersive say goodbye to your $20 billion Trump battleship and meanwhile behind the scenes we're like firing all of these nuclear sub commanders right did you see that as well I did a whole report on it you know you had Ohio class nuclear sub commander is just fired we had the destroyer commander of the USS Mason get fired you had the secretary of Navy get fired.

You have all of our top generals getting fired while he's a runs out of munitions is the worst he couldn't run a nonprofit for veterans you expect him to run.

Freaking the United States military the guy was forced out from his conduct running nonprofits for mismanagement.

But let's end with hope let's end with hope David her in case officially dismissed yes we know Janine Piro filed the notice to dismiss fabricated evidence against David her judge officially dismissed it that's good news.

Senator Morkowski of Alaska was asked tough questions by the might as touch DC bureau thanks to you we built that DC bureau problem on reekas asked her some questions got her on the record.

So this is why independent news this wouldn't have existed be without your help by the way in building this network and doing what they're doing in DC and by the way they also inspire the mightest people in DC all those people in DC now doing that stick doing the mightest thing whether it's TMZ DC asking having a unique perspective you know whether it's all these other entities they saw what we were doing back you know earlier in the day.

And they're like holy shit we can do this that's great we want to inspire others let's let's hold politicians accountable they work for us they work for us dammit let me play for you the audio of when Monrique spoke to Morkowski in the halls of Capitol Hill.

What are you hearing from your constituents about your vote on plans?

We are a lot. Is it mostly that they want you to go for against most of the most of the constituent male or calls that we're receiving are opposed to the nomination.

Much of what you have to do with that student based on based on my week readouts.

And what would you consider supporting?

I'm now supposed to go to I haven't been commenting on my position on him in terms of what's going to go on with the vote.

So do you feel any closer to any type of decision? Yes.

What's what's moved you closer? You know what? I think you are all taking advantage of the fact that I dared to answer a few old questions.

I'm going to answer a few open-ended questions here about Epstein and you're now getting closer to just what are you going to do?

I'm going to have an opportunity to issue a statement and rather than do it in little dribs and drabs here and there.

You all will see it.

Also the way she frames herself as the victim in the narrative because she was answering the questions and she's like you're taking advantage.

You're your United States senator.

We're asking you questions, but I got to say shout out to Pablo. That's a big scoop right there.

And we've seen the Shurey before, right? We've seen and you know it's all coordinated behind the scenes at the end of the day.

And with this Blanche vote, the math is because McConnell's ad McConnell was supposedly discharged from his wherever he was, his rehab center, whatever's going on there.

And he's not going back to work for a long time. And so they're down McConnell. Republicans could afford to lose two votes.

And Susan Collins has already said that she is not voting for Blanche. And so that means you would need theoretically Morkowski and one other to block Blanche.

That would traditionally, you know, people lean on someone like Morkowski who Pablo spoke with and then there's Bill Cassidy.

And they always tend to find a way to have the just the right amount of votes just look right through.

And so Morkowski was saying most of her constituents oppose Blanche. Perhaps she votes no, but then there's a likely chance that Cassidy votes yes.

And he gets through. Remember Cassidy was the guy who was responsible for voting yes on RFK junior Cassidy himself, a medical doctor.

And then of course everyone warned him exactly what was going to happen when he made that vote. He ignored it.

He feigned concern. And then he then he acted all surprised after RFK started dismantling all these agencies and all these disease outbreaks. Wait a second. How could this happen?

Because of you because of you because you have power and you failed to use it. There was another moment that that interview actually the full clip of that interview on mightisnews.com.

And then it goes on for like six minutes. That was the end of it. But Morkowski also says that she received a note while she was on a plane. She's from Alaska.

Morkowski's in Alaska and a woman came over to her and left to note to Morkowski on the plane that said, I am from Alaska and I'm an Epstein survivor.

I hope that we can talk with you. And so Morkowski was speaking about these personal kind of firsthand interactions that she's had with Epstein survivors, including from her own state.

So we'll see if that is any effect on her vote to me. If the majority of constituents are calling you and writing notes telling you not to vote for a person. You work for your constituents.

You don't work for Donald Trump. So you should listen to your constituents. That's my maybe my naive opinion here.

I just feel like we've been there with Morkowski before. And if that's where we're putting our put our eggs in that basket. I think we know how this is going to end. They always seem to sort of find a way, if you will.

Yeah, and the reality is, Blanche could be acting AG for Trump's old term. If he's not a piece of that.

You know, on that front, it was good to see that in the federal court in Virginia, you have the amended complaint being filed regarding Trump's tax immunity that these other Republican senators were okay.

You're just okay with giving the guy tax immunity that he can't be investigated for tax crimes. I mean, it's the why why why why should anybody be given immunity that you can be investigated for tax crimes.

What is that of anything to do with anything if he filed the frivolous $10 billion lawsuit. So then he gets tax immunity.

That's the credit and his son's get it to. That's the craziest thing ever. So in the same case where a preliminary injunction has already been granted blocking the anti weaponization fund, which again, the Trump regime refused to put it in writing in that case. It was one of the big red flags that the fund doesn't exist.

Right. Instead they did that whatever order. Now the same plaintiff said, well, we saw what a federal judge did in Florida said that the settlement was executed via collusion and fraud and in an impropriety.

So if the settlement agreements avoid you can't have an adept into the settlement agreement. So they want the preliminary injunction now to also include blocking Donald Trump and his family's tax immunity.

And so that's now been added to that lawsuit and they said, well, now it's clear for the first time that that's actually what Trump wants tax immunity.

So we want to include that in our lawsuit. So we'll have to wait to see what the federal judge does there, but the federal judge has already ruled against Trump and the DOJ on the anti weaponization fund. So let's pay attention there.

Let's take a look at what's happening in Katie Fang's lawsuit just to remind you she sued under the Epstein Transparency Act. It was the first of its kind lawsuit alleging that she as a reporter was deprived access to files critical to her reporting under the Epstein Transparency Act by the DOJ's cover up.

She then filed a preliminary injunction to release a certain group of documents. There were three categories, one, the redaction privilege to the notes of the FBI in connection with specific allegations by an underage girl regarding Donald Trump Trump denies those allegations.

There was an FBI 302 report, but the notes have been hidden. And so produce the notes. And then the other category of damages or the other category of documents that were being sought were what was the other category, Brett, I'm trying to think of category one, I'm just trying to blank on it right now. I can't read that.

I'll get to an end moment when I take a look at what that other category was. But then there was the other category of damages as well. So three categories of damages that were being sought there. And then she sought the preliminary injunction.

She was granted the preliminary injunction and then Todd Blanche did not turn over the documents. Let me pull up category one.

Oh, the redactions. The red Todd Blanche redacted the names of co conspirators, but claim that they were victims. And he said, well, the lawyers contacted me and said they were victims. So therefore I treated them as victims.

And Katie Feng was like, what makes you believe they're victims? They seem to be clearly co conspirators. So it seems what was happening. It's really sick.

It seems that one of the ways that the co conspirators tried to keep their name secret was just by having like these wealthy men, these powerful men, these Epstein class men would have their lawyers call up Blanche and say that they're the victims.

Victim information was leaked. The co conspirators had their names redacted because their powerful lawyers called the DOJ under Trump to say they were the real victims. Real sick stuff. And that's why Katie Feng focused on these categories.

And so the judge ordered Blanche turnover these three categories. I want to review them in camera, meaning I'll review them confidentially.

Katie Feng won't be in the room. The public won't see it yet. I'm going to look at it just the judge. So I can see are these actually victims or are they co co conspirators prove to me they are victims. If you're claiming them as victims Todd Blanche turned over nothing.

Turn over the notes. Why aren't you turning over the notes. Now we're withholding them on the basis of their substantially similar to the 302 reports says Blanche to which the judge says that's not an exception. There's no such thing as substantially similar and the judge had held off on issuing any order about the privilege or redaction log.

That's all of the documents that have been withheld. But then now that you've lied to me and you have not given me justification for redactions and you have not given me information regarding the other category of damages.

I want to know where the privilege where the privilege log is and I want I want you to release the privilege log and show me every one of these documents that you've withheld.

And I want to know and I want to know that because you're still withholding are you making these objections as well that the FBI 302 notes don't count.

If you've withheld 5 million documents, I want every one of those documents log. So the judge judge Sullivan has ordered the FBI has ordered Todd Blanche and the DOJ to show up August 13th and give answers.

So I want to give a hat tip to Katie Fang because this is really a big roll. The judge has now drilled down into these categories right fake redactions which is a big issue with holding notes privilege log.

And now the judge is saying show up explain to me why and that now can open up everything and it was a brilliant strategy by Katie Fang and her lawyers.

It's an honor to be working with Katie Fang will of course be covering that hearing on August 13th Katie Fang will be in the courtroom.

And Katie Fang's also been working with another might as host who has a show on might as Alison Gill who's been doing for your requests also and Alison Gill discovered that there was a training video to FBI agents how to flag and cover up Trump related documents.

So she's pursuing that so you've got Alison you've got Katie you've got Scott McFarlane from the courthouse you've got Michael Pope, working with the top legal groups on legal AF and we're bringing them all together to share knowledge and to get out all the knowledge to the public.

That's how we've always wanted us to operate what we talk about though the thesis in WTF America it's how you build something like this that now all of a sudden it works together each one of these independent networks working as a unified force pushing the message forward for it.

That's why everyone pre order WTF America.

We got our WTF America QR code on the screen and link in the description and let us know in the comments if you pre ordered it and I also want to give a shout out I've been following Katie's updates on the case which is always great like hearing it straight from her on her podcast sidebar with Katie Fang that's like you know wherever you go to podcasts it's really good like Katie her analysis is just so good.

She speaks from first and experience obviously on the this Epstein case that and all the kind of trials and tribulations of it and also all the other various cases that are out there she's given her incredible analysis and you know she does not hold back I truly think Katie Fang is just fearless and incredible.

Absolutely I mean though it's like living through history as it's happening as Katie is doing the fight is fighting the good fight she's absolutely crushing it again that's sidebar with Katie Fang wherever you get your audio podcasts it is phenomenal to listen to when she just explains in a question way that makes it you know for us to understand is is incredible.

Benji Brett this has been an incredible episode.

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