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Chapter 1: What breaking news updates does Ben Meiselas provide today?
Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is your Breaking News. You have Donald Trump saying that he expects there to be additional negotiations with Iran fairly soon. He says that they'd likely take place in Pakistan. Again, from all reports, we're hearing that the Trump regime is accepting the idea that Iran will get to enrich uranium.
It's just a matter of when they will get to enrich uranium again.
Chapter 2: What are Donald Trump's latest negotiations with Iran?
Apparently, the Trump regime is okay with a 20-year period where Iran can enrich uranium. Iran is saying that they want to be able to enrich uranium in about five years. But notably, I don't even think the Trump regime is talking anymore about any of these other terms. I think they basically accepted Iran's control over its stockpile of ballistic missiles, of the Shahid drones.
of the FPV drones. In some sort or fashion, Iran will now control the Strait of Hormuz. All the Trump regime is saying is that they want to be able to control it on a joint venture basis with Iran as well.
so i think recognizing that this iranian regime will have a lot more power iran is saying that they need 260 billion dollars in reparations right now from the arab neighbor nations and they're expecting that that take place as well there were some ideas being floated around about
negotiations taking place in riyadh saudi arabia or geneva and iran said absolutely not if we do another round it's going to be taking place in pakistan which trump assented to basically uh right away and so i think when we talk about this kind of total capitulation if you will by the Trump regime to the demands of Iran. That seems to be where this is headed.
I think you can contextualize it with how Donald Trump dealt with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. And I just think we shouldn't forget that Kim Jong-un right now of North Korea has nukes Trump allowed him to get nuclear weapons. I'm not sure if he even knew this, but Kim Jong-un has been doing missile tests pretty much every day for the past several months.
And big missile tests took place over the past 24 to 48 hours as he brags about having nukes. We are a nuclear power in North Korea. The world understands that. Kim Jong-un says that. And he's also bringing up his daughter and his family as the next wave of leadership there in North Korea.
I just reflect on former President Obama's presidency, where it was viewed as the ultimate sign of weakness, right, as how the media reported things. Anytime Kim Jong-un would do a missile test, How can Obama let a missile test happen? How dare he let a missile test happen?
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Chapter 3: How is Iran's nuclear enrichment being discussed in the current political climate?
Or you remember under Biden administration, there were weather balloons overhead and it was like, you're letting Chinese weather balloons get near the United States. Then it turned out that these weather balloons frequently took place under the first Trump administration and the Trump regime then just basically ignored it and covered it up and pretended it wasn't happening.
But Biden was transparent and actually took action against it. And so what did Donald Trump do to Kim Jong-un? What would the great deal maker do? Kim Jong-un got nuclear weapons. Kim Jong-un got everything he wanted. And now he just does ballistic missile tests and is stronger than ever. And Donald Trump got love letters from Kim Jong-un and totally played. That was the excursion there.
And now the media doesn't even talk about it, right? When Kim Jong-un does ballistic missile tests, it's not even like really even discussed or talked about. So it seems where Donald Trump is landing this ship, if you will, if you want to call it landing or crashing this plane, if you will, is, you know, Iran now emerges as a world power. Right. Iran stronger than ever right now.
They, in some form or fashion, control the Strait of Hormuz. And all of the neighbors realize that at any point in time, if Iran views their conduct as falling out of line, Iran can just close the Strait of Hormuz. And through proxy groups like the Houthis, Iran also controls the Red Sea and the straight right there over there, but just haven't even decided to use that card yet.
They've been waiting to see what the Trump regime does at this point. China, more powerful than ever. China swoops in, always been allied with Iran as the major player right now in the Middle East, right? That's what's happening. I mean, just look at what's taking place. And again, this is where our media here in the United States is an utter failure, but like
You do realize that right now the crown prince of Abu Dhabi is meeting with Xi Jinping like as we speak. And you also have Pedro Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain, meeting with Xi Jinping right now in Beijing because it is very clear as the United States has lost its hegemony, lost its power as the United States security umbrella in the Middle East has collapsed.
the new main player in that region is Iran, China, and Russia to a large degree as well. And also now what you're seeing is, well, like, what do we do with the U.S. security umbrella, you know, crumbling under the Trump regime? Well, you have France and the U.K.
proposing a coalition that doesn't include the United States, the way they describe it, that doesn't include the warring parties, and they are... forming an alliance to try to deal with bringing stability and security back right now in their own way, in a defensive posture to the Middle East.
You have a lot of these Arab nations that were once allied with the United States, whether it's Saudi Arabia, whether it's Jordan, whether it's Qatar, whether it's Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, whether it's Bahrain, whether it's Iraq, you know, whether it's any of these, you know, Kuwait, they've been forming and making deals with Ukraine.
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Chapter 4: What comparisons are made between Trump and Kim Jong-un?
Great deal making, Donald. You did it again. Fantastic. And it needs to be talked about like this with the truth, with what's really going on so that people understand the stakes here and that this doesn't just get, you know, passed along to the next presidency. And then whoever it is as the Democrat inherits all the mess, then they have to deal with it.
And then the Republicans are like, oh my God, can you believe what they're doing? It's like Donald Trump left them the biggest mess imaginable. And we have to be able to document that right now so that we end this freaking cycle of Donald Trump destroys and then MAGA blames and the arsonists pretend that they're the firefighters when they're not.
okay we have to just hold the county but this should be a bipartisan issue this should be bipartisan and speaking of bipartisan again i want to go back to international in a moment but i want to talk about Domestic as well, because Congress, after a long vacation while this war was taking place, must be nice to vacation as long as they've been vacationing. They are back right now.
And one of the first things they do is they help Pam Bondi not show up for her deposition where she's been lawfully subpoenaed before the House Oversight Committee. I want to bring in right now the man who made this post right here.
For those on audio, we're showing a Scott McFarland post where he got a scoop from Democratic Congress member and ranking member of House Oversight, Robert Garcia, that Pam Bondi was a no-show for her deposition today. Pam Bondi is evading a lawful congressional subpoena by failing to appear before the Oversight Committee. for a deposition about the Epstein files in the White House cover-up.
This subpoena applies to her regardless of her title. She must appear before the committee, and if she continues to ignore the law, oversight Democrats will move forward with contempt proceedings immediately. We will fight until there is true accountability and justice.
Let's bring in the Midas Touch Network's chief Washington, D.C., correspondent and host as well of Scott McFarlane Reports on his YouTube channel. Everybody subscribe to Scott's YouTube channel. Scott is live right now on Capitol Hill. Scott, it's great to see you reporting live from D.C., from Capitol Hill.
Talk to us first, if you will, about what's going on with Bondi's deposition, the response by Democrats and also the response by Republicans.
My freshman year high school English teacher is so proud there were no freaking typos in that long quote that I did verbatim from Robert Garcia. I got the punctuation right, Ben. Nailed all the spelling. Look at that. That is playing with an A game right there, Ben. So Robert Garcia gives this big statement, and it's been echoed by other members of the House Oversight Committee.
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Chapter 5: How is the U.S. media responding to international events?
And with gas and grocery prices where they are, a change in the tax code doesn't feel like it really lands. Not now.
Well, you know, his PR stunt yesterday involved a DoorDash grandma who claimed she was making $22,000 a year and that the tips made up half of her income at $11,000. and that the savings that she made on no tax on tips allowed her to provide some treatment for her husband who had stage three cancer because there was no health care for her husband.
Although when you break down the fact that she was making $22,000 a year by her own admission, The tax bracket that she falls in is such that no tax on tips would probably have a de minimis, if any, impact upon her. And I think one of the big takeaways is, wait a minute, a grandma has to work in DoorDash in order to hope that her husband can live because we don't have a health care system.
I think that was one of the takeaways. And Donald Trump handing her a $100 bill as though, be grateful for this. I'm going to give you breadcrumbs. And this is what you deserve. Good luck with your husband's cancer was also a lasting takeaway. Any reflections on that, Scott, before we go?
Boy, that was a photo op that seemed to backfire. What good came of that thing? Even in the news silos where they tend to consume Trump news without any counterpunching, without any context. I don't know how that thing fell anything but flat and It's going to take more than that to change the narrative on the economy.
And tax on tips is almost the least of people's concerns when the gas is like a tax in and of itself.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the recent political changes in Canada and Hungary?
Prime Minister Maloney of Italy, weak, weak, pathetic, pathetic. She's pathetic. Just, you know, it's baby. It's baby behavior. It's whiny baby behavior. I'll show you this clip here of Prime Minister Carney at the Liberal Party convention that took place recently. And Prime Minister Carney.
Let's play the clip where he talked about the international order is crumbling and suggested Canada's ties with the US are no longer reliable. Let's play that one.
The world's changing, not gradually, but suddenly. Yes, some are still in denial. Rather than starting on this journey, they're waiting for the past to return. But hope is not a plan and nostalgia is not a strategy. And if we stand still during this rupture, we will surrender our future to others. My friends, technological change is accelerating.
We can either shape our future with AI or let it control our destiny. The foundations of the international order, the order which Canada helped build and from which we have benefited for so long, that order is crumbling.
The Canadian people agree, right? They've handed him a majority government right now, securing his tenure as prime minister through at least 2029. Of course, one of the reasons we follow international updates here on the Midas Touch Network is because, as I've said before, Donald Trump is a vessel of a broader fascist agenda that is embodied in the Trumps.
and the Orbans, the Le Pens of the France, the Nigel Farages and the reform parties in the UK, the Duttons in Australia, right? Orban in Hungary. And with the big victory of Peter Magyar as well from TISA, beating Fidesz and getting the super majority to be able to change the constitution, to be able to move Hungary in a more pro-EU direction.
Seeing the rise of Prime Minister Sanchez in Spain, this is truly a struggle internationally between democracy and fascism if we just focused on domestic politics and gamifying a domestic policy this party that party this person that person this person that person if we try to exalt politicians with cult of personalities as though they're heroes uh they're not okay we need to situate our movement
our network in the people. We need to be better listeners than we are talkers. We need to hear the struggles of people, what you are going through on a day-to-day basis. And we need to be responsive to that. And we need to call out the forces Because that's what it is.
The forces of evil who are making your lives worse, who are taking and taking, who are being predators against you, who are stealing and cheating and rigging the system so that you... are the ones who get screwed and they get richer and more powerful at your expense. That's what we need to be focused on.
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