Ben (Benjy/Ben MidasTouch)

We have a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast.

because people's minds sometimes can't comprehend lies of such a magnitude.

You have Hamas saying that it's not going to disarm and never intended to disarm under the deal.

It's what we've seen in fascist regimes throughout history.

Here, play this clip.

Part of the scam also that he does there is,

is he has a person in the room confirm it as part like it's always like, could you believe that now?

And the person goes, yeah.

So then when you watch it psychologically, you're like, wait a minute, he's making it.

But this person seems like a smart person and they're validating it.

And so it's part of the psychological brainwashing and manipulation that takes place.

I just want to cue you in on the tricks of brainwashers because that's what he's doing.

right there.

Then he goes on and says, now I'm getting prescription drug prices down 500, 600, 800%.

Again, these are fake numbers because it would quite literally mean that the pharmaceutical company is paying you massive amounts of money to use their pharmaceutical drugs.

They said that was never part of it.

Here, play this clip.

You had Donald Trump saying earlier this week that he spoke with Hamas and he told them, I'm good with you, Hamas, patrolling like police.

And I was proud.

I don't know what he means, but one eighth of one percent.

What are you talking about?

What Trump promised back in May.

again not too long ago although perhaps it feels like an eternity ago i remember we were in new york brothers for the podcast awards for the webbies that's why i remember getting the notification trump and now there's two announcements one do you remember one announcement was a deal with china everything oh my god

they did the greatest deal with china okay well how's that worked out right now okay talk about that a little bit later in the show not too good our farmers are going through pharmageddon right now and uh as trump even said during the press conference yesterday you know we're in a total trade war with them and then trump announced most favor nations that the american pharmaceuticals would be as cheap as the cheapest pharmaceutical that that company charges in another country so if

Canada was able to get the price down to one buck for drug X. That drug would cost one buck here in the United States.

That hasn't happened.

These are just fake.

These are fake.

mark burnett apprentice style fraudy events that aren't real and this house of cards is falling apart before our very eyes because it's untethered from the reality he didn't solve eight wars we're not bringing in 20 trillion prescription drug prices aren't being reduced by 800 percent we're not bringing in all this money from tariffs we're not winning the trade war against the world americans have are not living in a golden age

Go after the bad gangs, but you have to behave yourself, Hamas.

You know, this is real stuff that we need to be calling out.

We'll break down what happened there in the federal court in Maryland.

And the media just ignores it, Brett and Jordan.

Behave yourself.

And now Trump's like, they may not be behaving like they told me, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

Donald Trump didn't say anything.

that he supports a two-state solution.

I'm not sure with all of those factors how there was ever going to be a sustainable peace, but corporate news was spiking the football and buying into Trump's narrative.

Look, I'm glad that the hostages were returned.

Let's take our first quick break of the show.

We've got a lot to discuss.

When we get back, we'll talk about the ruling from the Federal Appeals Court in Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Then we'll talk about what happened in the Illinois appeals court, where the court of appeals with a Trump appointed judge, a George H.W.

John Bolton has issued a statement in response to being indicted.

Regardless of what your views are about Bolton, I think it's a powerful statement and certainly does not deserve what's happening.

Of course, I'm glad about the prospect of a ceasefire, but the structural issues surrounding this

We'll talk about no kings.

We'll talk about what happened in California.

We'll talk about

uh the deal in the middle east falling apart because it wasn't really a deal to begin with uh that and more we'll take our first quick break of the show reminder become a member of our youtube channel right now if you're already subscribed you can become a member gift as many memberships as you can to people others may not be able to afford memberships help them unlock memberships if you can of course we'll be right back

I think, phony deal were obvious to us here at the Midas Touch Network.

By the way, 24 Palestinians have been killed since the purported ceasefire has been announced.

It's an important point to mention as well.

Midas Touch Network broke the story of the potential for Navy warships over the weekend to launch missiles into Camp Pendleton off the coast in San Diego, launching missiles into the military base there.

So America currently has troops in Israel right now.

Hamas, meanwhile, is refusing to disarm, actually says.

We're never going to disarm from the outset.

Then you have Israel saying, well, we're going to make sure we blow up all the Hamas tunnels, and Netanyahu and Smutrich don't support a two-state solution.

Smutrich says, we're going to make more Jewish settlements.

In Gaza, 24 Palestinians have been killed during this purported ceasefire.

I guess let me just repeat that again.

24 Palestinians have been killed during this purportance.

Minus touch broke the story.

What kind of ceasefire is that for 24 people?

You know, we know of, you know, have been killed.

And to me, it's just one of these other Trump fugazis, right?

It's just, you know, like it's a good thing that the hostages were returned.

The idea of a ceasefire is good in concept, but it'd be very easy for Biden or Obama or anybody to make deals that aren't real.

Governor Newsom confirmed the story.

Okay, we got a deal.

The Trump regime seems to be backing off of that, but we will talk about what went down there.

You want a deal?

Deal?

Deal?

You got a deal?

I got a deal.

You want a deal?

Deal?

Deal?

Deal?

I mean, Hamas and Israel didn't sign the document.

Isn't that the most basic way a deal is supposed to work?

To me, what I like to do in our coverage of everything is I just like to pull back.

Because I like things discussed very simply, right?

Like when we talk about Trump's trade war against the world and the fact that Trump and his – remember when him and his regime said they would do 90 deals in 90 days?

Well, if you listen to the coverage, people will be like, well, you did eight deals.

But you didn't do 90 deals.

I'm like, he didn't do eight deals.

Like, yes, he did.

No, he didn't.

He didn't do eight deals.

He sent out social media posts.

There's no binding deal.

There's no document between country A and the United States with signatures that are binding, that forces Japan to give $550 billion or South Korea to give $350 billion or the EU to give $700 billion.

It was good reporting by Aaron Parnas on our team.

There's no binding aspect.

It's not a real deal.

These are fake deals.

So to me, I like to ask the basic question, did the parties sign it?

Right?

I mean, how's that question not asked?

So that's how, you know, in the trade deals, Israel and Hamas didn't sign the document.

It's a pretty big freaking situation when they don't, I was going to say a big deal, but it's not a deal when they don't sign the thing to begin with.

Meanwhile, Trump held a weird presser supposedly about IVF.

And then Donald Trump was out there saying, I used to, he said earlier this week, I'm good with Hamas patrolling.

They just got to behave.

I'm good.

What does that even mean?

They've got to behave.

You're speaking to Hamas.

You want them to patrol?

Like, what are we even talking about here?

So then when we'll talk about the shutdown in a little bit, I like to be very basic with that assessment too.

I like to keep it simple.

Are the parties speaking to each other?

Democrats, Republicans?

No.

Why?

Because Maga Mike says he doesn't want to talk to them.

Like, what do you mean he doesn't want to talk to them?

He doesn't want to talk to them.

He thinks that he has no obligation in the American form of government of speaking to the other political parties.

His campaign promise was that IVF would be made free.

AOC had a great line.

She's like, did they watch Schoolhouse Rocks?

Like,

Party's supposed to, that's the way our system works.

So when one party's like, we're not talking to you, na, na, na, na, na, we're not talking.

Donald Trump said, don't talk to you.

It's like, okay, well, you can't do deals with these people.

Like, what are you doing?

Like, how are you supposed to get things done in America?

I guess that's how it works in North Korea, but in America, the parties are supposed to speak.

So to me, I like to break it down simple.

So Trump's asked by a reporter, so did you mean that U.S.

forces would go in and take out Hamas?

He would force insurance companies to cover it for free or the government would pay for all IVF.

Because you have these troops here.

And you made a social media post today where you said Hamas, if Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I mean, what a ridiculous thing to post on social media, too.

But here he was asked this question.

Let's play it.

That's not what he announced today.

so it was just yet another lie by him just a weird executive order and weird press conference and then um he held that weird presser yesterday where he talked about building a triumphant arch kind of the way that hitler wanted one in germania um in washington dc a version of that he talked about the golden ballroom and started talking to his rich friends saying you give me 25 million you give me 25 million

You see it in fake news.

Go ahead.

So ridiculous.

Stephen, watch it.

If they behave.

That's how he's taught Hamas.

If you behave, you must behave good.

I mean, what are we even watching here?

I couldn't agree more with you, Jordi.

This is what Trump said about Senator Thune.

Senator Thune says that we need to put sanctions on Russia.

Today was supposed to be one of those other two weeks where Donald Trump says sanctions on Russia and potentially the US giving long range weapons to Ukraine.

But Trump spoke with Putin, then Trump's like, this was the greatest conversation.

It's so productive.

Putin made me all of these promises.

It's just Trump is so thirsty for the theater of a deal that he just wants to announce deal.

We'll talk a little bit more about that.

No matter what the outcome actually is, he just wants to say deal.

Look, I did a deal.

It's weird behavior.

So the reporter says, look, the Senate Republican leader, Thune, said he would like to proceed with the bill to put sanctions on Russia.

Wasn't that what this week is supposed to be about?

We'll talk about the typhoon that hit Alaska as well and the deaths and the injuries that occurred there as the Trump regime removed very critical flood protections that were put in place by former President Biden because the EPA said that flood protection grants are too woke, are too woke.

Let's watch Trump's response.

Let's play it.

Not surprised.

Mike Johnson.

Well, good to know that Mike, Maga, Mike and Thune are doing something.

Apparently, they're not refusing to speak to Democrats and being facetious, of course.

What about the Tomahawks?

Wasn't wasn't this week going to be the big announcement that America was going to provide Tomahawks and other support to Ukraine?

So Trump was asked about the Tomahawks and Trump's like, yeah, but we need those here.

So I'm not really sure what I can do with those.

And that's because he had the call with Putin.

And then this is what always happens.

And then he adopts Putin's framing of the issue.

And then we're in this constant spiral.

Here, play this clip.

Bush judge,

We need them pool.

We need a pool.

We need that.

Dude, he's not even saying actual intelligence.

There's nothing that's coherent about what this guy is even saying.

Just admit it.

You're never going to give Ukraine what's needed.

This is all one again.

It's just one big Ponzi scheme.

over and over again two weeks two weeks two weeks two weeks and then he leaves destroys everything somebody's got to fix it and then they do what they do best blame the person who has to actually clean up the mess that was created by all of these frauds that were injected into the united states of america it's just absolutely

Absolutely ridiculous.

and an Obama judge all agreed that Trump's invasion of Chicago was patently unlawful and that the protests that were taking place in Chicago against the Trump regime did not create a pretext for any type of military invasion.

And I think it would have stopped what went down there in Alaska.

I think the important point is what you just said though.

He's meeting with Zelenskyy tomorrow.

In many ways though, I actually think it's not great timing because it's right after the Putin talk and Trump's still gonna be feasting off the Putin talking points.

So I'll focus on what's gonna happen there.

But if I was betting knowing Trump's psychology, I think it's not gonna be a good meeting.

And I say that because

Trump seems to be emboldened by believing that he actually just brought peace to the Middle East, which he did not do.

And I think he's going to go there and try to intimidate Zelensky in a way that I don't think people are.

We'll see if I'm right or wrong, but I think I'm right about that one.

I think I have a good sense of his pathology.

when we get back i want to talk about john bolton's response to being indicted by the trump regime uh judge theodore chang and obama appointees the judge who's been assigned to the case that was the judge that was selected at random in in the district court in maryland

We'll talk about what happened in Illinois where the appeals court there blocked the troops, affirmed the lower court's ruling, affirmed Judge Perry's ruling.

So if you're keeping track, you had the Trump appointed judge in Portland ruling against Trump.

the and now a trump appointed appeals court judge ruled against trump as well um after affirming what judge perry the lower court judge did we'll take our last quick break of the show we'll talk more about the government shutdown we'll talk about a lot more to discuss hit subscribe let's get to six million and also uh if you can become a member of our youtube channel and gift memberships to the to others who may not be able to afford memberships during these difficult times it's a

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Let's read the statement of...

Former Ambassador John Bolton, after being indicted in the district court in Maryland, he goes, for four decades, I've devoted my life to America's foreign policy and national security.

I would never compromise those goals.

I tried to do that during my tenure in the first Trump administration, but resigned when it became impossible to do so.

Donald Trump's retribution against me began then.

continued when he tried unsuccessfully to block the publication of my book, The Room Where It Happened, before the 2020 election and became one of his rallying cries in his reelection campaign.

Now I have become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts.

My book was reviewed and approved by the appropriate experienced career clearance officials.

When my email was hacked in 2021, the FBI was made fully aware.

In four years of the prior administration after these reviews, no charges were ever filed.

Then came Trump, too, who embodies what Joseph Stalin's head of secret police once said.

You show me the man, I'll show you the crime.

These charges are not just about his focus on me or my diaries, but his intensive effort to intimidate his opponents, to ensure that he alone determines what is said about his conduct.

Dissent and disagreement are foundational to America's constitutional system.

and vitally important to our freedom i look forward to the fight to defend my lawful conduct and to expose his abuse of power and then as i noted uh the judge who was assigned the cases judge theodore chang and obama appointee who earlier this year issued one of the most sweeping rulings against doge i think that's an important fact to point out there we'll keep you posted with more

Also important to note that the military commander overseeing the Pentagon's escalating attacks against the boats in the Caribbean Sea, Donald Trump shooting these fishing boats, tiny fishing boats, war crimes.

Let's call them what it is.

that the trump regime is saying smuggling drugs that commander stepping down three of three u.s officials said on thursday the officer admiral alvin holsey is leaving his job as head of the u.s southern command which oversees all operations in central and south america

The reporting goes on to say that it's unclear why Admiral Halsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure, and in the midst of the biggest operation in his 37-year career.

May I offer a guess that he likely believes that they're committing war crimes, and he doesn't want, in the future, to be charged with war crimes.

I'm going to go out on a stretch and make that guess right there.

A leap guess.

A wild leap, if you will.

But perhaps you can say that I'm rage baiting by suggesting that blowing up tiny fishing boats of Colombian and Venezuelan origin

without any evidence is a war crime.

U.S.

B-52s and helicopters fly near Venezuela also in show of threats.

The Trump administration is increasing U.S.

military pressure on the Maduro regime as well.

Another potential war can break out there as well.

One of the things that we just learned today, moments before we went live, Phil Stewart, national security correspondent, one of the many who were not signing the pact that was required by the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, that he would have to approve all of these reports.

Phil Stewart's a...

longtime national security correspondent um but he got a scoop I think we'll see more leaks than ever as a result of the behavior and I'm not sure there's a coincidence between this and other resignations but who knows another U.S military strike in the Caribbean just took place and this time there are survivors the strike happened today Phil Stewart says he is getting uh details

This is one of those stories that's so obviously a war crime.

The people who are involved in these war crimes I think one day will be tried for murder.

I think we will look back at this and it will be obvious that Trump's been just killing innocent people.

Like I don't think that's – I don't think it's a far stretch to come to that conclusion.

Fentanyl is not getting into the United States via these means in any grand scale.

It's coming in basically through Mexico and then Mexico at certain ports of entry through tunnels and other means.

Trump's worldview is like 1980s on things.

And so I guess in his mind, he's got the Tony Montana fishing boats coming in.

They don't even have the fuel capacity to get to the United States, these things.

How do you know there aren't innocent people aboard?

If you're able to shoot it down, you can interdict.

But, you know, I think we'll find out soon that these are innocent people just being slaughtered every day by the Trump regime.

It's horrible stuff.

They came.

By the way, did you see when the reporter knew what he was doing with that question?

The way he asked the question was already accepting that Donald Trump did it to get Trump to embrace it versus saying, did you?

So why did you do it as though it was a foregone conclusion?

And then if you go back and you can rewind it for those watching on video, the reporter recognized that Trump acknowledged and he did a little nod with his head like, yeah, you just confirmed, that's why I set up the question that way.

And it was the right question, but the right answer is supposed to be, look, we don't comment on any covert operations.

We can't comment on that at this time.

Next question.

How difficult is that to do that?

And think about though now, if that's taking place,

Is he now putting our CIA agents at risk?

Is it now an open invitation for Venezuela to then say, all right, well, let's have KGB agents in and let's, you know, like who knows the ramifications of how reckless he is, as reckless as he works.

Yeah, let's talk though about the government shutdown right now.

I think it's important that we hit on it.

MAGA Mike Johnson was asked, where's this heading?

You're not speaking to Democrats.

You're not having conversations with the Democrats.

A government shutdown, there's no end in sight.

How does this end, MAGA Mike?

And watch what his response is.

Let's play this clip.

I mean, what a horrible thing to say, and...

How do you not, in the American form of government, speak to the other side when you need their votes and you need their support?

Your Democrats are fighting for people's healthcare because people's ACA premiums are about to skyrocket.

People are about to get kicked off Medicaid, about to get kicked off healthcare.

The Republicans, they've been directed by Donald Trump in the House, do not have any conversations with Democrats, let alone negotiate.

You're not allowed to speak to them.

So if that's your behavior, then fundamentally the American experiment is over, right?

The game is over of how we interact in a democracy because it requires compromise.

How did Biden keep the government open?

He brought in McCarthy to his office and he said, what do you need?

Okay, let me help this state.

Let me help that state.

That's how the sausage is made.

you want this we want this everybody happy everybody a little disappointed that's an actual deal great but this behavior by donald trump and the mega republicans just saying we're not talking to the other side i mean that's that's just that behavior is not american it's not what we're used to having normally in a shutdown the parties would be rolling up their sleeves talking to each other do we have the clip right where

maga mike was asked on fox will you agree to debate i think we have this clip will you agree to debate hakeem jeffries because you had indicated and c-span published that you were willing to go on c-span and maga mike and hakeem jeffries were going to talk to each other

in public.

In the past 85 days, another way to frame it, the Republicans have only worked 12 days.

out of 85 days, just think about in your life, just working 12 days of 85 during the most crucial moments, like as well.

Like imagine that's when like, I need my vacation, like an accountant during tax season, right?

Like that's when they're like, you know what?

I'm gonna take my vacation right now.

The three months leading up to tax season to tax season, that's when I'm taking my break.

It's like, that's when you're taking your break.

I mean, how irresponsible, what malpractice is that?

What disdain for this country does it show?

And I think that the way AOC is talking about this is how every Democrat should be talking about this, how we've been talking about it as well, like, which is they're not even, these Republicans aren't even showing up to work.

Like, how are you supposed to talk to people who refuse to talk to you in a system that's based on talking with each other and coming up with deals?

Watch as AOC says it.

Pick up the damn phone.

Exactly.

To me, that's speak to each other.

When I was speaking to Leader Jeffries, to me, that was the biggest point that I wanted to get out of this interview, which is because our whole system is based on that's the way democracy works in parliamentary systems.

I like to cover what goes on in Canada a lot, right?

You'll have the Prime Minister debate the main opposition leader.

They go back and forth.

It's not like, oh, theatrics.

Then they'll have the foreign minister speak to the shadow foreign minister.

Why would that be theatrics to get the facts out and to talk about it?

It literally makes no sense.

And I just hope the American people see what's happening just in terms of the most basic level.

Who's the one who shut down Congress?

The Republicans, they control it.

They're not working.

They're not even there to discuss.

And then ultimately why?

Because Trump wants it shut down.

Trump's been bragging, oh, I got rid of the Schumer programs, the Democrat program, which ones?

$20 billion that was needed to help Manhattan?

You really own the Dems on that one by hurting America's wealthiest city.

Great.

The World Trade Center of the world in Manhattan, you've showed the Dems, oh, you're going to cut healthcare, measles, mumps, rubella investigation.

You have John Bolton being indicted at the behest of the Trump regime in Maryland, an 18 count felony indictment.

You had Donald Trump speaking with Vladimir Putin on a day where

Way to show the Dems you've got rid of energy.

They act like energy is the Democrat issue.

Yes, you've got rid of solar projects.

We saw Governor Shapiro filed the lawsuit on behalf of Pennsylvania because Trump thinks it's a Democrat issue to want energy that helps grids where we see all of these

AI data centers and crypto data centers that are causing everybody's energy costs to skyrocket.

And Trump's like, we got to go back to coal.

Like we had a solution.

We had a bridge to deal with it.

But idiot doesn't like windmills and doesn't like solar.

So now we can't have the right energy.

So everybody's energy prices are spiking.

Before we go, though, let's just talk very briefly about the Midas Touch exclusive.

We reported here before any other news network did that the Trump regime was planning this military event, this vanity parade where they would be potentially assassinated.

shooting missiles off the coast of San Diego Pacific Ocean into the Camp Pendleton region, that it would possibly then lead to the shutdown of the I-5 on Saturday, which is also the same time as the No Kings protest taking place.

Since we reported it, numerous other networks reported it as well.

By the way, the Trump regime says, yes, they are using live munitions, but they claim this was regularly scheduled and that they're going to do the live munitions in contained zones, whatever the hell that contains zones regularly scheduled.

And it's.

By the way, Governor Newsom confirmed our reporting.

You know, and I just find it wild, you know, and Brett, I'll pass it to you to chime in.

You know, we reported the data.

The data was accurate.

Live munitions are being fired.

Now, Trump says it's going to be in contained zones and that it's regularly scheduled.

It's not regularly scheduled.

They're claiming it's the 250th anniversary of the Marines.

It's not.

The 250th anniversary is November 10th.

It's not October 18th.

The first reference to this event taking place was last Friday where they mentioned it very briefly, but actual information started to trickle out, potentially like leaking yesterday for the very first time.

And Midas Touch Network broke the story.

Then Trump and the Marines said, no, no, this is regularly scheduled.

And then like the fact checkers come in and they go, the Marines said it was regularly scheduled.

The Trump said it was regularly scheduled.

Oh, it's like, why do you keep buying with Trump?

And you know that he lies about everything.

So why are you saying, oh, Trump says this, the Marines say this.

Why didn't they put out that?

Why wouldn't they put out that press release months ago?

if it was regularly scheduled?

Why did it come out after we broke the story?

Why didn't they do events like this before?

Why didn't the governor of California know about this if this was some regularly scheduled event?

I mean, just ask yourself the most basic freaking question.

And you think it's a coincidence that they all of a sudden decided to do this on Friday as they're rolling out their talking points?

that no kings means no paychecks and no kings is pro Hamas and pro terrorists and all the other stupid defamatory lies they keep on.

Like you think that they did not do it the same day as a show of force because Trump said, you know, then it's like, oh, well, might as touch you doing the rage bait.

We're just reporting what the hell it was.

And there actually isn't all that much that the Marines, when you break it down, said that's much different than our reporting other than them saying, no, this is a regularly scheduled thing.

It's in contained zones, whatever the hell that means.

And the governor doesn't know what the governor's worried about, too, is if this is by roads and there are weapons being shot by roads, even I should know as the governor so that we can keep people safe also because we don't know what this is.

So, Brett, I'll let you take it from there.

But, you know, that's that's a report.

where Trump was supposed to announce, yet again, that there could be sanctions against Russia and perhaps Tomahawk missiles being transferred to Ukraine.

Midas sent me signs are always welcome.

Midas sent me.

Look, I wish it were just rage bait when we warned that the United States military would be sent by Donald Trump to invade states and cities, blue states.

I wish it was rage bait.

I wish it was rage bait only when we said what Trump's mass deportations meant is they were going to have masked ICE agents

go and kidnap people on the street and disappear them and throw them into concentration camps like alligator alcatraz i wish it were rage bait when we would make videos and say oh this right-wing trump supreme court's absolutely going to overturn roe v wade now they're never going to do it it's super precedent now they're going to take away women's reproductive rights and then they're coming for the rights of gay people next and then they're going to come for

the rights of even, you don't even know what the interracial marriage down the line, and then they're going to come for the Voting Rights Act over and over.

No, they're not going to do that.

They are.

I wish it were just rage bait because I don't want these things to absolutely, I wish it was rage bait when we said Project 2025 is real.

Donald Trump said that his call with Putin went great, and then now they're going to have more talks.

The Trump regime is going to dismantle the government.

They want to destroy things like

FEMA and the National Oceanic Administration and the State Department and USAID.

And then they're not going to get rid of the weather forecasting services.

They're not going to gut the CDC and the NIH.

That's impossible.

Stop fearmongering.

They've done all of that.

So I don't get how we're here.

October 16th, 2025 as the record date on this episode, just say mid to late October in general.

And people are still saying that's just rage bait.

You should be enraged, not at the people writing the stories about what's happening and accurately describing what it is.

And, of course, yet again, Putin got what he wanted.

You should be enraged at what our country has become.

That's where you should direct your anger and you should show up at the No Kings protest and peacefully protest this weekend with us and with millions of others and what will be the biggest mass mobilization in the entire country.

I mean, look, let's just pull back.

Take a look at what happened just in the past two hours.

We'll talk, of course, about the news that John Bolton was indicted on 18 counts of allegedly retaining and transmitting national defense information.

No sanctions on Russia, no Tomahawk weapons to Ukraine.

There's some reporting that suggests that the way the prosecutors came into this information was a hack into Bolton's messages that potentially took place from Iran and by foreign hostile nations.

It'll be interesting to see what happens there and discover if the information was turned over by Iranian hackers and other things like that.

We will watch as that develops.

But Trump has ordered that his DOJ, we saw the messages, go after this person, this person, that person, this person, that person, go after my enemies.

Putin knows how to play Donald Trump like a frickin' dog.

In the past, you would have a president, no matter whether they were Democrat or Republican, and they would say to their DOJ, you don't serve me.

You serve the American people.

You are independent of me.

And there wouldn't be conversations happening.

It would be the biggest scandal impeachable and convictable of a former president.

If you even had the head of the DOJ, like in the oval office, just talking about the case at all, at any level, that would be unheard of.

Meanwhile, the deal between Israel and Hamas seems to be falling apart.

Everybody would be outraged.

But now, what, talking about the issue is rage bait?

Or should we focus on the fact that there's an authoritarian takeover of our country and a ripping to shreds of our constitution?

That's Bolton.

Talk about what happened at the press conference in the Oval Office that just wrapped up, where Trump was talking about his IVF plans.

And then the White House, and I saw all of these reporting, Trump keeps campaign pledge on IVF.

No, he didn't.

What are you talking about?

His campaign pledge on IVF was it would be free.

That it would be free.

on day one and that the government would pay for it or that insurance companies would pay for it like y'all reporters you realize that trump is kicking people off their insurance right now and that premiums are about to skyrocket because the aca subsidies are not being extended and so like you realize you're being played by this entire press conference where he's saying i've signed an executive order where i'm directing this one pharmaceutical company

It's easy to predict when Israel and Hamas did not actually sign the deal.

which I'm sure has some relationship also behind the scenes with Trump or whatever.

I'm directing them, Trump wants to overhaul drug sales.

A company tied to his son stands to benefit.

I'm directing them lower the costs of- You see how I had that ready to go for you too?

They were not signatories.

All these other countries signed it, but not the two parties that were the subject of the deal.

You have Benjamin Netanyahu not agreeing to a two-state solution.

Let's just show, you said you're going to show the clip.

So let's show the clip of what Trump's campaign promise was, where he said the government will pay for it or I'll force insurance companies to cover IVF for free, just so we have no doubt what the promise was.

You have his finance minister, a guy named Smutrich, a far-right guy, talks about building more establishments in Gaza, building more settlements in Gaza.

And we know that that's not what's happening today.

Here, play this clip.

Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely.

What does that even mean?

I'm announcing in a major statement.

say to say the word i mean just everything about the guy is a con artist so then today in the oval office speaking of which he goes so we are now i have a great announcement another major announcement a major statement announcement we're now bringing in 20 trillion dollars from investments we've already brought in 17 trillion

And you may be saying, didn't he say 18 trillion two days ago?

Yeah, he did.

So now he's going 20 trillion.

Yeah, he's just making up more numbers.

Now he says $20 trillion.

Now the entire American GDP is about $30 trillion.

We're not bringing in an additional $20 trillion at all.

And if we were, how cruel, how unusual

that you would allow americans not to be able to afford their health care or not to be able to afford education the life of 99 of americans is much worse right now but apparently you have now 20 trillion dollars that's brought in we know he didn't bring in the money it's a ridiculous lie but this is part of the fascist playbook just make up the most outrageous lies so untethered from reality