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The MeidasTouch Podcast — Trump Loses it as Russia Enters War. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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United States interests in the Middle East as Donald Trump's war against Iran is spiraling out of control multiple reports suggest that Russia is providing critical logistical support to Iran providing the coordinates where American military bases personnel and assets are located for Iran to target with its Shahid drones and ballistic missiles and Russia providing other defense support to Iran in addition we're learning that China is also helping Iran according to multiple reports now Donald Trump and his chief propagandists were confronted about this moments ago Donald Trump was confronted about it by a reporter from state regime media which calls itself Fox you all know him Peter Ducey as Donald Trump about all of the reports that Russia is now helping Iran attack the United States in the region Donald Trump then attacks Peter Ducey for asking the question and says you know I had a lot of respect for you but
what a stupid question you're asking me about Russia why would you ask me that question watch this interaction as Donald Trump held a press conference moments ago and if you're wondering so is the press conference addressing the war well he was asked that question but no the press conference was involved in Donald Trump trying to stop college athletes from getting paid for their name image and likeness watch this interaction here let's play this clip it sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans now that's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here but can I be honest it's just yeah I have a lot of respect for you you've always been very nice to me what a stupid question that is to be asking at this time we're talking about something else can we keep this maybe a little bit go ahead please next I'll share with
you what Peter Ducey said after Donald Trump's press conference was over here's Ducey on Fox saying that I tried to ask the question about whether Russia it whether he's aware and what's his response to the fact that Russia is helping Iran attack the United States and attack Israel is interest and attack other interests in the region what's your response to that Donald watch what Ducey says here play this clip and he took a couple questions I asked him about this report that the Russians are and you'll excuse me I just ran out here I asked him about this report that the Russians are helping the Iranians target Americans and the president who wanted to stay on topic said he thought that was a stupid question right nice job jogging to the camera I know how that goes it was spring no it's on yeah it's right my wrong it was a spring no here's the Washington Post report Russia providing Iran intelligence to target US forces officials say the targeting
information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East Russia's providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces the first indication that another major US adversary is participating even indirectly in the war according to three officials familiar with the intelligence the assistance which has not been previously reported signals the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America's chief nuclear armed competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities since the war began last Saturday Russia has passed around the locations of US military assets including but by the way not limited to warships and aircraft said the three officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity reached by the Washington Post on Friday Dimitri Peskov the Kremlin spokesperson declined to comment this is what the White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said the Iranian regime
is being absolutely crushed their ballistic missile retaliation is decreasing every day their navy is being wiped out their production capacity is being demolished and the proxies are hardly putting up a fight that's Trump regime propaganda right there because we know and we've been reporting on the fact that Iran is still sending its Shahedrones and ballistic missiles to attack neighboring countries neighboring Arab nations where the United States has its interest we still know the straight of her mose has been closed essentially we still know that the price of a barrel of oil is going up inquiry is is going up significantly right now and gas prices have spiked you know in a short period of time significantly we know that this is a rapidly expanding war that spiraling out of control enough of this Trump regime propaganda well Caroline Levitt Donald Trump's chief propagandist was asked about it now this is what she said about the reports
that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to help them target the US she goes whether or not this happened it doesn't really matter and as Republican Congress member Don Bacon says it doesn't matter I in most Americans raise the BS flag on this it doesn't matter if Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to kill Americans and to attack really that doesn't matter to this regime here play this clip having me I wanted to start you off this afternoon because we have confirmed reports from US officials that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to help it target US assets in the region we sure this is something that does not please the president whatsoever has he spoken to Putin about well look I'll leave that to the president to answer himself but what I will tell you John we don't comment on intelligence reports that are leaked to the press whether or not this happened frankly it does not really matter because president Trump and the United States
military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime folks not only does it not matter to this regime but you had Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent yesterday removing Russian sanctions or removing United States sanctions against Russia and United States requirements with India to allow Russia to sell its oil to India which was a massive windfall for Russia especially as the price of oil sky rockets that's going to make Russia huge amounts of money and then Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moments ago said you know what we're thinking about doing not only removing sanctions and allowing India to get Russian oil we're also going to maybe do some more unsanction he goes we're going to unsan we may unsanction other Russian oil as well you may unsanction other Russian oil as well now that we know Russia is it do you work for Russia I mean
seriously does this Trump regime work for the answers yes apparently right that's how they behave at least watch this clip the Indians had been very good actors we had asked them to stop buying sanctioned Russian oil this fall they did they were going to substitute it with US oil but to ease the temporary gap of oil around the world we have given them permission to accept the Russian oil we may unsanction other Russian oil you know the other thing Treasury can do here Larry is there are hundreds of millions of sanctions barrels of sanction crude on the water and in essence by unsanctioning them Treasury can create supply and you know we are looking at that we're going to keep a cadence of announcing measures to bring relief to the market during this conflict and yeah as Fred Wellman writes we had multiple reports that Russia is aiding Iran
and targeting our troops and these idiots are easing sanctions what are we doing here who are our service members risking their lives for and more from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessenthir talking about the way the military campaign is going to look tonight against Iran tonight will be our biggest bombing campaign here play the split you know the Iranians are fighting on two fronts they're fighting a losing military battle where they're being overwhelmed as Secretary Hegg said the general came and the president have all said tonight tonight will be our biggest bombing campaign and we'll do the most damage to to the Iranian missile launchers the factories build the missiles and we are substantially degrading them and our campaign has been overwhelming so by now you know that we've been reporting a whole lot on the Trump administration scrapping the endangerment finding this is something that we can't just let drift out of the new cycle so give
me a minute to highlight some important info so I want to flag a new analysis from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on why this all matters so much the endangerment finding was the legal and scientific basis that allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act back in 2009 the government determined that gases like carbon dioxide and methane threatened public health and future generations that decision gave the EPA both the authority and the responsibility to limit pollution from vehicles and power plants according to Harvard's climate and health experts removing that foundation could mean more fine particulate pollution from burning fossil fuels that's linked to higher risks of asthma and children chronic heart and lung disease and premature death especially in communities near highways power plants and industrial sites and long term the health impacts grow hotter days are tied to more hospitalizations and preterm births warmer conditions worse in ozone pollution wildfire smoke increases respiratory illness and mortality and climate-driven storms can disrupt access to medical care so yeah this is a massive massive deal Harvard researchers warned that this rolling back puts real health
protections at risk cleaner air has been tied to longer life expectancy and fewer asthma attacks and kids so for all those make America healthy again people this totally flies in the face of that promise this is why it's so important that we keep making noise about this and push for future administrations to restore the finding so I want to hear from you leave a comment tell us what you think about this decision by the Trump administration I want to hear your thoughts on these reports that we're doing on climate issues how Trump's destruction of climate policy has affected your health your electricity bills jobs in your communities I want to hear all of it so again make your voice heard in the comments now then back to you as I'm recording this you see the footage of extensive U.S. Israeli air strikes hitting a Mara bad international airport in Iran's capital of Tehran I mean take a look right here at what that looks like I'm Caroline Levitt was asked at that press conference also is Donald Trump satisfied with the pace of the United States investigation
into whether the U.S. military hit the Iranian school the elementary school so we know right now this happened say fact the U.S. attacked a little girls elementary school in Minab Iran and killed over 150 little girls and boys and like 175 people in the elementary school so what's the latest on it Caroline we're still investigating that here play this clip again as I said at the briefing two days ago I don't have any updates with respect to the investigation I would expect those to come from the Pentagon sure Haley now as I mentioned earlier in this video the press conference that Donald Trump had earlier today technically had nothing to do with the war the disastrous war he still hasn't addressed the American people formally yet to explain what the hell is going on
but what the press conference was on was again not paying college athletes for their name image and likeness and Donald Trump starts talking about how he wants to sign an executive order himself he's going to come up with an executive order so that college athletes don't get paid money right now here play this clip all right so I think he qualifies right but I'd like to sit down with some of the very talented people in this room and we'll pick them out if you'd like to volunteer volunteer and I'd like to sign an executive order that I'll write myself based on common sense and it'll be something that people will be sort of happy about some will be sort of happy others will be sort of happy and maybe that's a good thing there'll be a few people that won't like anything but I'd like to write an executive order based on some of the very great talent in this room so a reporter says okay well if you're not answering questions about the war against Iran
will you answer a question about I don't know what was ultimately behind your decision to replace Kristino with Mark Wayne Mullin you want to talk about that because Americans actually have questions for you about things other than your desire to make sure college athletes don't get paid here play this clip now you're into a brand new system yes ma'am hi mr president thank you could you tell us what went into your decision decision to replace secretary known with Senator Mark Wayne Mullin uh is it possible to stay on this subject just for once you know just for once boy oh boy so then a report is like okay if all you're going to do here is now talk about not paying college athletes why did he not invite a single college athlete here why would you not have one college athlete representative to be here did you think about that here play this clip the judge maybe we'll get a wise judge hero wise judges too we got some very brilliant wise judges maybe we'll get lucky why aren't there any student athletes in the room do you want to answer that
question ready we've made it clear and I thought I said before that we have agents here there are a lot of student athlete groups there's a limited room here and after this meeting we intend to talk to all of the interested student athlete groups to get their input because this can't be done without them now going back to Caroline Levitt right here she's asked an important question so earlier today Donald Trump said uh Iran must do an unconditional surrender and the man's Iran's unconditional surrender so what does that mean Caroline and then she goes it means when Donald Trump says they surrender when Donald Trump decides they've surrendered we say they surrender regardless of what they actually do so as our editor-in-chief Ron Villapkowski writes so even if they don't surrender Trump will call it an unconditional surrender and declare a victory and I
think as gas prices continue to go up up up up up up Donald Trump's getting closer to doing that here play this clip what's the president mean when he calls for unconditional surrender is he saying that the regime has to fully relinquish control what the president means is that when he as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has been fully realized uh then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender whether they say it themselves or not uh frankly they don't have a lot of people to say that for them because the United States and and uh this state of Israel have completely wiped out uh near more than 50 liters of the former terrorist regime including the Supreme Leader himself now as we've learned about Russia's involvement uh in the war as the Iranian parliament speaker Muhammad Bogar Ghalabaf says the following Americans will come to understand that the fate of DRI ran which is more precious
than life will be determined solely by the proud Iranian nation not by the Epstein gang Donald Trump is now seriously considering ground troops in Iran NBC reports Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying a limited number of U.S. ground troops inside Iran for specific strategic missions though no decision or orders have been made according to multiple U.S. officials so folks things are getting absolutely absolutely uh spiraling out of control right now in the region tell me what you think hit subscribe let's get to seven million subscribers want to stay plugged in become a subscriber for our sub stack at Midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Phil Kowski add three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at Midasplus.com Rinse knows that greatness takes time but soda's laundry so rinse will take your laundry and
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