Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Explosive congressional hearings took place earlier in the day. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was confronted to her face and what can only be described as some brilliant cross examination by Democrats. She folded and then said she had to leave to go to a FEMA review board hearing, which never actually
took place we'll break down what went down there there were other big hearings also where democrats confronted people at the fbi over uh who's antifa where's their headquarters and this fbi guy just like folded on live tv didn't know what to say we'll discuss what happened there donald trump this week held a disastrous event
in a small wedding banquet hall at the mount airy casino in pennsylvania yep donald trump has been reduced to a wedding signer wedding singer cognitively declining before this country and he rolled out all his classic hits he called countries in africa whole countries which he denied during his first term and said why don't we have people from countries like denmark and sweden why are they coming from the whole countries remember when
That was announced during the first term and all the Trumpers like denied it. Donald Trump also said that farmers are getting rich because of the bailout that he just gave them because they're being bankrupted by his tariffs against the world. And of course, Donald Trump gave his classic that everything is affordable right now and people are in a Golden age.
We'll talk about what's actually happening with the economy. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, who, by the way, Trump appointed during his first term, Jerome Powell. He gave a speech where he outlined the truth about the housing market, about inflation and about the job market. And none of it is good. We're in a stagflation period right now that we hadn't really seen since the 1970s.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the explosive congressional hearings with Kristi Noem?
We should also talk about the Indiana State Senate. rejecting Donald Trump's attempt to gerrymander in Indiana. It wasn't even close, a 31 to 19 vote rejecting the gerrymander bill that Trump pushed forward. And this was after Donald Trump, the Heritage Foundation's political action arm and others threatened that we will not fund anything in Indiana.
We'll strip you of all federal funding from roads to disaster relief if you don't go along with Trump's gerrymander plan.
and the indiana state senate said no way we're not doing it donald trump tried yet again to indict new york attorney general leticia james just as he tried last week after it was dismissed the week before that um and that was rejected by a grand jury yet again this time he went to alexandria where he previously went to Norfolk in Virginia, rejected in both grand juries week after week.
They say that you can indict a ham sandwich. Well, not if you're the Trump DOJ. And we should talk about Democratic lawmakers and Epstein survivors coming together to demand an audit.
of the Epstein files about what, if anything, has been deleted, destroyed, removed by the Trump regime in advance of the deadline, which is coming up in just a few days, about seven days, six days, to release the Epstein files based on the Epstein Transparency Act that was signed into law. The survivors have no faith at all that Donald Trump's actually going to release the actual files.
Talk about that and more. This is the Midas Touch Podcast. I'm Ben Maiselis, joined by Brett and Jordy. How are you? Doing well. It's great to be here, brothers. Great to be here, Midas, Mighty. Thank you to everybody for watching this live on YouTube. Thank you to everybody for listening on all the various podcast platforms. Really appreciate it.
What a great day for democracy and a great day for justice. Like, dare I even say that out loud? I don't want to jinx anything. But I think today is one of those days where you could have a lot of optimism about where things are going.
And as we've looked also to the past few days and seen Donald Trump's decline and the way he is struggling to sell his agenda to the American people, as so many Americans and so many people from his own party are clearly turning against him. I think what we're seeing right now is the Trump administration used to be an insurgent force. They used to be the ones who were able to bully,
All of these Republicans across the country and get their way. They were kind of a similar to the tea party in that respect, which came up during the Obama administration. But now I think we're seeing that this Trump administration has become the establishment and they are the establishment that people absolutely despise and the American people.
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Chapter 3: What alarming economic data is Trump trying to hide?
So then after that line of questioning, Kristi Noem's decision was... That was so good, I gotta say. Representative Magaziner, that was the best line. Because we always have people say when we show these clips, why don't they have like the materials there to say, okay, well, you're lying.
Chapter 4: How is the Federal Reserve's approach impacting the housing market?
bringing out the ipad with the individual on the ipad the veteran who was deported was freaking masterful and then following it up with okay now look behind you here's another veteran who's been affected by this and getting christy gnome on camera to say thank you for your service can you thank this man for his service can you thank him for a service i thought that was so brilliant it reminded me of like you know those talk shows when like
you know there was like adam scott on the actor who's on like uh i forgot what talk show maybe it was like kimmel or fallon or something and he's talking about how much he loves mark hamill and then they go well you're never gonna believe this turn around and mark hamill comes out it was like an inverse of the surprise guest okay well we got the ipad proof boom mic drop that was like just the most brilliant work by the congressman right there
And she couldn't filibuster out of it just the way the questions were crafted, right? And when she tried to, boom, he just moved on right away. Then you had Congresswoman McIver from New Jersey who's under a felony indictment from this Trump regime when she showed up
at one of the detention centers in her congressional district or right by her congressional district based on these kind of fabricated charges by the DOJ. So she was questioning Kristi Noem, and you'll see Kristi Noem just continues to talk over her. Here, watch this.
Thank you, Secretary Noem.
Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?
Excuse me, would you say that again?
You would have heard me if you stopped talking and listened to my questions. Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?
We are not doing that. We are out there enforcing the law, doing our work, and we are allowing oversight.
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Chapter 5: How did the Indiana State Senate respond to Trump's gerrymandering attempts?
I'll show you the questioning by Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman from New York and his congressional district. It's right by the Federal Immigration Court where immigrants have been showing up for their asylum requests.
hearings, and as they show up for their asylum hearings, meaning they're here lawfully, they're going through an asylum process, they're snatched in the courthouse by ICE agents, and then they're thrown into these detention centers, and then they're disappeared. Let's just play this clip of his questioning of Noam.
Secretary Noam, let's talk about the law. Do you agree that asylum is a lawful pathway to immigrate to this country? Yes or no?
There's an asylum program, yes, in place.
All right, so immigrants then with ongoing asylum applications are legally in this country, correct?
Excuse me, I'm sorry, your question was?
Immigrants with ongoing asylum applications are legally in this country. There are individuals in this country that have applications that- And they are legally here because it's a lawful pathway, right?
It's a lawful pathway.
Okay, so if your department then deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law, correct?
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Chapter 6: What bizarre excuse did Karoline Leavitt give for Trump's health issues?
No, I mean, listen, I... But all I do is say play the clip all day rather than ask you questions. I just think... With Kristi Noem, when, like, you pull... Like, if Kristi Noem was a doll... Yeah, if Kristi Noem was like a wind-up doll, all these people in the Trump administration, it's like, but the Biden administration, but the Biden administration with Bennett, play the clip, play the clip.
But you know what, as an introvert, I respect the move a little bit, like you make the other time commitment, you know, at the same time, because you gotta get coffee with this person, but you only wanna keep it to a half hour, you can't go too long. Oh, I could do the half hour, but I have this other thing at three o'clock, so, you know, I'm just messing around.
They have nothing to fall back on here. They just constantly go Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden for everything. And you can make the argument that Biden should have done a lot more for the border, especially early on in his presidency. You could certainly say that. There were a lot of external factors at the time that I think a lot of people,
look over which is the fact that migration was a freaking mess after covet and there were all these external factors happening um and we just came after the trump administration which was so horrific and handling every single situation and then the biden administration did try to take many steps to try to fix this issue in a legal way there was legislation bipartisan legislation as we all know that was worked with with the most conservative members of the republican party in order to fix these issues in order to fix issues of asylum
In order to get more immigration judges in order to really fix this with a long-term plan. What did Donald Trump and the Republicans do? They torpedoed it. They blew it to pieces because they wanted to help Donald Trump's election chances. And guess what? I guess it worked. Congratulations.
You screwed up the United States in order to get Donald Trump elected and screw up the United States even further congrats.
okay but there was actual legislation going on there that would have handled the situation legally but what this administration what this regime has done is they've come in kicked the door down like they're like the kool-aid man or something and they've just thrown everything off the desks they're just causing all of this chaos and they're not doing anything by the law so you know
There's not going to be anything durable and anything that's actually long lasting about anything they're doing here, other than the terror that they have wrought on the United States of America. Because frankly, I don't think they're intelligent enough to actually get legislation passed. I don't think they're patient enough to get legislation passed.
They just try to do everything by executive order and by fiat. And that's just not a way that you run the United States of America. It's a failed strategy.
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Chapter 7: What are the Epstein survivors demanding from the Trump administration?
bozed up there. And props to Dan Goldman, man, for just being like, yo, I'm not talking about Joe Biden. You guys are the ones in charge right now. Let's have the conversation here. And just the reflex, it's for Noam to be like, but Biden, but Biden. I just love that Goldman was like, uh-uh, I'm not talking about him.
Let's have the conversation, you and I, considering you are the one in charge right now.
do you remember when the republicans brought hillary clinton in for the benghazi hearings remember that remember she sat there no breaks 12 hours answered every question never said i gotta go i've got another commitment sat there for 12 hours and made every one of the republicans asking her questions look like utter fools now ask yourself this
Similarly, Special Counsel Jack Smith has said over and over again, I want to testify publicly about all of the lies that you were telling about me. You have unlimited time. MAGA, you all want to go on your state regime media, which calls itself Fox, and you want to say that I was doing illegal things when Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort was searched with a valid search warrant.
I can discuss what we found. I can discuss the case. I can talk about the January 6th prosecutions against Donald Trump before they were all dismissed because of the election or Judge Cannon in Florida dismissing the Mar-a-Lago case because she was a Trump bootlicker and didn't follow the law and never got to its final stage on the appeals process because of the 2024 election. He's saying –
You want to attack me? Unlimited time. I'll testify publicly before the world." And what do they say in the House and the Senate? All those tough MAGA people, and I'm saying that sarcastically, no, no, no, no, no, we cannot do that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, we cannot do that, right?
What happens when in the civil case against Donald Trump relating to January 6th, documents are subpoenaed from the FBI about Trump's involvement in the January 6th insurrection? What does Trump do? executive privilege, executive privilege. I'm not going to produce any documents at all. Isn't it something that the Republicans keep?
Oh, and by the way, Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vogt, he's refused to appear before the Budget Committee. The Office of Management and Budget, the guy who authored Project 2025, This has never happened before ever that the head of the budget from the executive office doesn't show up before the budget committee. And MAG is like, yeah, why would we have the budget guy show up before us?
Because he's the budget guy. That's why he's supposed to show up. So just ask yourself over and over again. And this is in a non, I'm speaking in a nonpartisan way. The Republicans are constantly hiding and manipulating and people like Jack Smith and Hillary Clinton, you may disagree with them. You may like them. But they're certainly doing it publicly, right? Oh, and do you remember Hunter?
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Chapter 8: What does the latest news say about Trump's legal battles and indictments?
Who's going to staff those security inspections when we fired the competent people in the government, number one? Is it going to be people like Lindsey Halligan, who can't even figure out how to walk through the hallways of a courtroom, but a version of that in national security? Who's it going to be? Is it going to be Pete Hegseth's crew? Okay.
Did you realize that her statement literally was just a bunch of gibberish? We're gonna give it to them for their national security. For our national security, we're giving it to them for national security. What are you even talking? Just a bunch of gibberish. Brett, Jordy, you saw all of those clips. Who gave a worse performance? Kristi Noem, that FBI agent, or Caroline Leavitt right there?
I think this one's a wash, Ben. I think they all take the top title or maybe the bottom title. I don't know how you consider it here, but like, it's just like, I hate to say it, but these are just fundamentally broken, evil people who are pushing things to support a fundamentally broken and evil regime. And they're also often just incredibly stupid.
Like we're seeing Trump in this China situation particularly, in real time, in public, on social media, on television, like negotiating against himself.
Like I thought the whole concept behind the tariffs was this was going to give the United States strength and we were gonna be able to bully these countries into submission and they were gonna do exactly what we wanted because they are so threatened by Donald Trump's tariffs. The opposite is happening.
We're panicking, the United States is panicking, our farmers are panicking, our government is panicking, because they're seeing the livelihoods of people like our farmers go down in the toilet because of these tariffs, and now they are rushing to try to patch up the holes that they've caused. So they're going, oh, we need soybeans.
Soybeans, what are we going to do about the soybeans problem that we caused? China, do you want our chips that we need for our nationals? Do you want our most advanced AI chips that we have that you are desperate for, that the only reason you are behind in this AI race is because you don't have these?
Please take them and please give us a fraction of the soybeans that you were giving us before any of this even happened. Like the stupidity is just crazy to me. And it's really a danger to America's national security in the process.
And like I said, it's damaging the livelihoods of so many Americans all to support this failed tariff strategy that we are seeing just putting tariffs on everything without any sort of thought behind it. I mean, the whole thing.
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