Ben Meiselas (host)

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1,511 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 2 Jun

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · GOP Leaders Implode on Sunday Shows as Trump Tanks Party · 8 Dec 2025 podcast

I mean, Tom Cotton's basically just, this guy's a weird guy.

I mean, there's more to this guy's background

than I think people know publicly, but I'll just leave it at that, okay?

I'll leave it at that.

But Tom, and he tries to compensate for that with this bloodlust and acting like he's got all this testosterone and, ah, here's what we're gonna do.

So he's asked about a few things.

So first he's asked, well, how are you protecting Arkansas right now from drugs if Donald Trump is pardoning the biggest drug trafficker

Juan Orlando Hernandez, who brought in 500 tons of cocaine and was instrumental in helping the Sinaloa cartel.

So does that make sense to you?

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You are talking about the president protecting Americans, Arkansans from drugs.

Senator, how does that make America safer?

Well, I haven't spoken to the president about that pardon.

There may be strategic reasons to pardon a former president of Honduras because of our relationship with Honduras and trying to move them in a more pro-American direction.

I'll leave that open as a possibility.

But, Kristen, I think you know my general approach to crime is that we should convict them and then we should lock them up.

And once they're locked up, we should keep them locked up.

so given that do you oppose the pardon given that you're saying you want to protect arkansas i'd have to i'd have to know more about the circumstances sometimes pardons of foreign nationals who have been leaders of other countries do have underlying strategic reasons but my my approach as you know kristen to crime is to lock him up throw away the key and don't let him out the war power oh i guess he doesn't know about that but what he does know is that when the survivors of the first boat strike on september 2nd were waving

their shirts and they were surrendering and they were stranded in the water that actually they were signaling that they wanted to pick up more drugs let me just say this as well the ship was headed to Suriname the ship was heading the fishing boat not even a ship the little tiny fishing boat that couldn't even make it to the U.S.

without seven refuels if it was going in the direction it was going from Venezuela east east outside the direction of the U.S.

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