Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben 11/10/2026

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Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Micellis, and this is your Breaking News. It's been exactly one week since we went live for over nine hours here on the Midas Touch Network. A historic day indeed that was. And as we learn more about the utter shellacking that Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans got in the House, in the Senate, in state legislatures, in local races, in school boards, in judgeships, turns out that this was probably the biggest historical beatdown in mid-term history, folks. And you made history, and now it's time we turn that history-making action into actual action in terms of legislative policy, in terms of getting things done. You know, with all of these democratic trifectas in states that haven't had trifectas, in a very long time, I mean, I interviewed the governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs, the last time they had a trifecta, democratic trifecta. We're talking about, what, 50, 60 years ago over there. And there are so many what we once would call red states are red no more. You look at that map, it was all blue arrows filling up the entire United States map. We're still waiting to call some very important races, although we seem to know what the outcome is going to be. We're just waiting because the MAGA Republicans have not yet conceded there. I mean, Mary Peltola seems like she's clearly going to win that race in Alaska against Dan Sullivan. All of the latest votes that are coming in are heavily skewed towards Peltola, like 60-ish percent to 30-ish percent. And so it's possible that she even gets a chance to win. And so it's possible that she even gets to 50% before any of the ranked choice stuff that would have to happen. So we're waiting to make that call. We recently made the call that Lauren Boebert, bye-bye Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District. She's still refusing to concede, even though she lost. But for all purposes, bye-bye Lauren Boebert. You are gone. She moved to Colorado's 4th Congressional District because it was a more Trumpy district, a more Trumpy district. A more MAGA-friendly district, like a plus-18 MAGA district. And she lost there. Bye-bye Lauren Boebert. And we're waiting to call Mississippi, although it's like a 99% chance that Scott Colombe, the Democrat, is going to beat Cindy Hyde-Smith there. She's the MAGA Republican senator who said, we don't care about affordability. Just eat some different protein. Stop whining about the price of beef. Eat some seafood. Spam and shut the hell up. That didn't play well with voters. But interestingly, notably, MAGA Republicans don't seem to be learning their lesson as their collapse continues. They thought it would be a great idea. Let's make the minority leader for the 120th Congress, Jim Jordan. Yeah. While the voters were livid and furious that the Trump regime and MAGA were covering up a child sex trafficking ring, that is the Epstein-Fox, and engage in rampant corruption, let's bring in the gym coach at a university who covered up rampant sexual assault by a team doctor. Let's bring that guy in who was inextricably intertwined in a rape cover-up. Great. Let's bring in Jim Jordan, by the way, a guy who previously led the Judiciary Committee, who was not a licensed lawyer. Yeah. That's who he is. That's who you want in the judiciary. Someone who didn't pass the bar exam and didn't even take the bar exam. Not sure what's better. Kate Zakaria, who failed it, or Jim Jordan, who didn't take it. And by the way, I'm not judging. Just don't lie and say you did it if you didn't do it. Or in the case of Jim Jordan, I don't know. Maybe you should not be. Just me. Maybe you should not be leading the Judiciary Committee if you're not a licensed lawyer. I don't know. I just think. But Jim Jordan will now be leading the Republicans in the 120th Congress while they're in the minority. This is going to be a generational beatdown for these MAGA Republicans, and I am here for it. But what I'm not here for is the fact that the Trump regime's awful policies continue to cause our economy to be in shambles and under disaster. The latest inflation. The latest inflation report this morning was way worse than expected. So much so that this disgusting, vile, demonic, sicko Trump regime, they're not even printing the year-over-year numbers. They say, we can't print the year-over-year numbers because there was a government shutdown last year. So you can't print the year-over-year numbers? Okay, let me tell you what it is, everybody. It's 4.1% inflation year-over-year. Seems pretty obvious when you just do some. Basic addition right now that it's over 4%. And if it keeps on increasing 4% each month, which seems to be what's going to be happening, we'll be at 5% inflation year-over-year very soon. It ticked up 0.4% month-over-month. That was higher than expected. Obviously, now the Federal Reserve will need to increase interest rates yet again. The big question is how much will they have to increase the interest rates? Are we talking about 25 basis points, 50 basis points, 75 basis points? But they're going to have to increase it. And just to think, when former President Biden handed this economy off to Donald Trump, and literally Donald Trump did nothing. I mean, I say this seriously. My little two-year-old baby ain't that little anymore. She's like two and three months, and she's out there reading and talking. This is a pretty incredible thing, by the way. I digress. I love her so much. She would be a better president than Donald Trump would be. Because really, all you have to do is read Dr. Seuss books, and we could read her two-year-old book about the little pigs and the bunnies that love each other. And this is all you have to do, and you would have had inflation if you just let it go. Inflation would have hit 2% year-over-year. We would have had multiple rate cuts. Mortgage rates were going down. And then Donald Trump could have taken credit for it, but he can't do it because he's a psycho. He's a lunatic. He's a freak. He's a failure. You know, even as Motion Razai said, you've got this failure gambler energy you just want to lose. I mean, that's what the Iranian advisor to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini says. He says, you've got this failure gambling energy. What are you doing? Like, we don't even know who the hell we're talking to in the United States. we're talking to in the United States. And it pains me to say this, but when you look at Admiral Brad Cooper, who leads CENTCOM hosting podcasts or whatever the hell he's doing, it is another shit show here in the United States. The economy in shambles. The never-ending war continues. Iran struck at least two more tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. It seems like they also may have hit a cargo ship today as well. Earlier in the week, they hit American military facilities over in Oman on an Omani island in that southern area by the Strait of Hormuz. On Serala, the Houthis have been striking hard in Saudi Arabia as well. They hit the Saudi Aramco Tower and city center in Riyadh. If on Serala, the Houthis can do that, what do you think what would happen if the Trump regime engaged in a catastrophic escalation of the war in Iran? I wonder how Iran would respond to that. And then you have maniac lunatic Donald Trump calling into C-SPAN last night. There appeared to be a woman with him. Many people are saying it sounds like Natalie Harp, like laughing. He calls C-SPAN and he's like, hey, I love your show. I love your show and you hear a girl or a lady giggling in the background, it's like, what the hell is going on here? He brought Dana White into a press conference yesterday. He's like, I was just joking. Dana White really isn't going to be the press secretary. LOL, JK. Look, there's a time and a place and manner for humor. I'm not anti-humor. But when we have our country suffering the way it is, when you have the American people that want this despicable, vile, demonic regime removed. They want him out. I don't want to hear the, isn't it so funny? Dana White is the press secretary. no, they're doing that to distract. And the American people, we ain't distracted. We are freaking pissed and furious. In a healthy governing body politic, when you got a shellacking the way the Trump regime did, the executive branch would be removed from power. You would have a snap election right away, and there would be a new executive branch. That's what the American people want. And you would say, well, wouldn't Donald Trump just get the message that was sent by the American people? No, he's psycho. He's a freaking lunatic. He's a sex predator. He's a felon. You can't expect this guy. All he's done his whole life is bankrupt things. Bankrupt this casino, bankrupt that casino, bankrupt this casino, bankrupt that casino. Never seen someone bankrupt something more than this guy before he ever got involved in politics. This company, that company, this thing, Trump this, Trump that, Trump this, Trump that, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. That's just what he does. And he does have this failure, gambling, energy, and all he knows how to do is just lie. Oh, we're doing great in the Strait of Pramoose. All the Middle East countries, all they told me was that we're doing great. They want the status quo. They don't want the status quo. Look what the Middle East countries are doing. Look what they're having in terms of meetings. They're meeting with Wang Yi over in China, China's foreign minister. They're meeting with Sergei Lavrov and Putin in Moscow. We're seeing major meetings take place, major deals. With Iran, new gas pipelines into Iran, new nuclear deals with Iran and Moscow, new helicopter deals between Iran and Moscow, broader economic cooperation, new railway lines. The Trump regime begging Xi Jinping, Xi, Xi, can you help us with Iran? And Xi's like, I'll help you, Donald. You're so hot. You're doing so hot there, Donald, as China just completely, completely and utterly outmaneuvers the United States. I mean, look at that. You're doing so hot there, Donald, as China And look, Motion Razai, the top advisor to Ayatollah Motabakome, says, look, we are creating a new West Asian world order. He says it. He put it in a message. It's what I've been talking about. I see the meetings taking place where they're announcing the new security architecture. Not only was this war catastrophic in and of itself as a catastrophic war, it's destroyed the entire U.S. security architecture post-World War II. You don't get much worse than what's occurred in this war that we should never have been involved in in the first place. So, of course, Pete Hegseth should get impeached. This Thomas Massey says, frankly, that's doing the guy a favor, right? I mean, this guy's a war criminal. He deserves to be behind bars. He deserves to be tried in the Hague. So does Donald Trump. So does Rubio. So does J.D. Vance. So, in my opinion, are anybody who engaged in these unlawful orders that slaughtered little children in Manab and Lamarck, and slaughtered people in fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela? I mean, these people are war criminals, and they should be tried as such. Impeachment? Of course Hegseth should go. He's the worst ever. There's never been worse. We learned a story today. I mean, every day you hear something new that in the NSA, the National Security Agency, which is in, embedded in the DOD, there were 11 suicides this year in the cybersecurity. In the cybersecurity division of the NSA, just the cybersecurity division, 11 suicides. So Hegseth wants to talk about morale, 11 suicides in cybersecurity. What else happened to cybersecurity? Oh, yeah. Tim Howe, the former four-star general who ran cybersecurity. Oh, yeah. He was one of the people that Hegseth forced out with all these other four-star and three-stars, the head of cybersecurity. So now we see these hacks happening everywhere. Hacks in water supply, hacks in food supply, hacks in military bases, hacks internationally. Yeah, you fired the top guy, the four-star who ran it, who ran cybersecurity at the NSA. And then we hear 11 suicides. What did those people know? My heart goes out to their family. What do they know about what was really going on? I mean, the level of PTSD and stress that they must be under. Yeah. The secrets that they know that we'll learn about soon, about what's actually happening. 11 suicides we learned about, 11. And meanwhile, we also learn about all of these whistleblowers who are reaching out to Democratic leaders who will be taking over the committees like the House Oversight Committee, like the House Judiciary Committee. All of these House committees, corporate counsel have been urging. They're climbing. clients and corporations, if you were involved in a Trump crime, if you were involved in a Trump scheme, the best thing you can do right now, the best thing you go speak with the Democrats and cooperate now is the short window. You can cut a deal possibly if you give them real information. Otherwise, you're done. They're going to find out. The top lawyers in the country are quitting their jobs to work for the Democratic committees to bring this sick, disgusting, demonic Trump regime to justice. The top lawyers at the big law firms, the former top lawyers at the DOJ, all of this top talent that has been purged by the Trump regime, they've been waiting for this moment. They've been waiting to work. With a committee that investigates these disgusting, demonic creatures who have hurt our country, they are ready. And these people are methodical. These people know what they're doing. This ain't Donald Trump who can't do a reflecting pool. This ain't Donald Trump who can't speak in sentences, who can't implement the most basic of plans. No, these are some smart, top lawyers. People who are going to find, identify, bring to justice all of these disgusting people who aided and abetted this filthy, dirty, demonic, disgusting Trump regime that covers up child sex trafficking. These freaking sickos are going down. That's what is happening over there. We're learning more. We're also about Jensen Wang, you know, the head of NVIDIA, who had the affair. Seems like the Chinese spy, Alice Wang, created these companies in Singapore and Malaysia. Speed Max, Mega Speed, which was just basically a front to funnel NVIDIA chips, it seems, to China. Obviously, the salacious issue is the affair, but dig deeper about what was going on. Here, how much of NVIDIA's business was actually unlawful exports to China routed through Singapore and Malaysia? How about the whole damn semiconductor industry? How much of their business was just basically funneling their chips through Singapore and Malaysia to China at this point? Is that how they were making some of these record profits and disguising it by saying, no, it was just Malaysia and Singapore? No, those seem to be cutouts. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. And there's broader security implications. That's why you may think bureaucracy under Biden is boring. Boring bureaucracy. Oh, national security checks. How boring. Let's just have everybody make so much money. Why would you try to stop them, Biden? There's national security implications. That's why there were freaking export controls on some of this stuff. Where we now see these semiconductors, guess where they're ending up? They're ending up in weapons used by Russia to kill Ukrainians. They're ending up in weapons used by Iran to attack American bases. You wonder how the Iranian military has advanced so much so quickly, how Russia has increased its drone and missile and cruise, ballistic missile and cruise missile technology. So quickly, how they went from the Shahid drones, which Ukraine was able to strike with a 91% target rate, to the Garin-4, Garin-5, where the interception rate by Ukraine with those new drones, the jet-fueled ones that go 450 kilometers an hour, it's like 50%, 30%. Ukraine can shoot down the Iskander ballistics or other Russian ballistics. They needed the Patriot missiles. They needed the THAAD interceptors. They didn't get any of those. But you wonder how did they develop these weapons so quick? You open up the weapons, dissect the weapons. You know what you find in these weapons? American semiconductors, American GPUs. As Donald Trump was like, nah, I'm not going to do security protocols. Let's just have everybody, while Trump was trading in all of these stocks personally, making all this money for him. Right? As he's making all this money for himself, let's just ignore national security. We're going to find out, in my opinion, that what we're learning with NVIDIA is just the tip of the iceberg and that this entire industry has made all of this money, a lot of it, transferring money. critical U.S. made components, classified components to China. You want to know why China has bought zero donut hole H200 chips once it was finally approved by the Trump regime in 2026? Because they did it. They got it already in 2025. And the more advanced chips are the Blackwell, the Vera. There's so much better chips out there. And China was able to develop its own chips. Thank you very much. We got what we needed. And once they had that base, they were able to develop from there. What do you think was that? That's why this story is a bigger and broader story about the profits that all of these chip companies were actually making at the expense of U.S. national security and what the consequence was for our national security. Important. Pay attention to that. With all of this going on, you have China. Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's loser son-in-law, and Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's scumbag business partner. They've got World Liberty Financial together. Their kid's getting their disgusting hands on all of this Middle East money, these grotesque creature kids of theirs, sickos, bunch of sickos over there. And you have Witkoff, Trump's scumbag buddy. They are in Abu Dhabi, which we know has all of this. He's also served as a front for Russian money to basically take over Alaska LNG, right? The big LNG, the polar LNG in Alaska. It was a U.S. company that thought they had Abu Dhabi investors. Turns out that the Abu Dhabi investors seem to be just fronts for the Russian money. That's why all of these executives at Polar Energy quit when they were like, oh, crap, I guess we're basically owned by the Russians. And this was their way to get around. Sanctions in Siberia by coming into Alaska. Hell yeah, that's what they were doing. Wake up, open your eyes, see the bigger picture of what the hell is actually going on here. Trump's selling off our land to freaking Russia. That's what's actually happening right now in front of our eyes. So I wonder why they chose Abu Dhabi to hold meetings on a purported peace deal, negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, the U.S. Trilateral, everybody, trilateral. Okay. It's a big, it's a big freaking joke in terms of actually resulting in a peace deal. Russia's basically mocking the whole process. Ukraine believes there's zero chance of success here. Russia only wants to talk about a broader security architecture of Europe, where Eastern Europe isn't even a thing. Russia doesn't recognize Eastern Europe. That's part of the Soviet Union. Forget just Ukraine. Russia doesn't recognize Ukraine as a country. Russia doesn't recognize Ukraine as a country, but it doesn't stop there. It's all of Eastern Europe. Russia says, that's ours. You don't get Eastern Europe. What are you doing? So that's Russia's view. They say, we don't want to do a ceasefire. A ceasefire just allows Zelensky to rearm and get more weapons and interceptors. That's what Russia's view is. Zelensky's view is, we just want to freeze the borders where they are. We want a ceasefire at the current border, and we want security guarantees that if we do that, that the U.S. And Europe will protect us if we are invaded again. And Kushner and Wyckoff are like, you know what would be a good idea? Let's do the security architecture. And Europe's like, no, not the security architecture. Do the Ukraine deal that Trump promised he would do in 2024. You don't make it a bigger deal. If you can't handle the smaller deal, you don't go, oh, we're going to make a bigger deal involving all of Europe. Europe's like, get the hell out of here, you freaking losers. What are you talking about? You're not going to do that. You're not going to talk about it. You're not talking about our security architecture. What the hell is going on here? So that's where we're at today. First 20 minutes of the show, I wanted to frame this is where we are in the world. You can't just do videos on one piece. Yeah, it's a story. Jim Jordan became the leader for the MAGA Republicans when they were in the minority. Sure. You know, yes, we could talk about Hegseth impeachment today, what that means, what the ramifications are. Of course. We'll cover the Hegseth impeachment. You know, we'll talk about inflation surging, what that means, the bond market, the treasury yields all over 5%, the 10, the 20, the 30, really, really bad right now. Mortgage rates skyrocket, really bad stuff. But you have to understand the connections here because these forces are global, national, and very local. And we have to understand where is all this coming from? What's the bigger picture here as this globalist authoritarian network want to screw you over? That's what the American people started recognizing in this election that wait a minute, these oligarchs, these Trumpers, they hate this country. They hate us. This is the Epstein class against everybody else. That's what, and they're trying to divide us against each other by bullying marginalized groups and launching, and they're trying to divide us against each other. They're launching culture war over this, over that, although I'll be clear. It's not a culture war when you attack a marginalized community. That's the people. It's a group of people who deserve to have their dignity protected. You understand? But they then launch other culture wars, this or that. It's just to divide us against each other. So these transnational, pan-national oligarchs who don't like countries, they don't care. They just want to use countries to take out all the resources for them to get rich. And then they'll go and they'll take their islands in Albania, the Cezanne, and they'll take this island and that island for them and just feast on everybody else. That's what they're trying to do. All right. First break of the show, a reminder, WTF America is our book. Get your copy two weeks in a row. New York Times bestseller. Get the hardcover. Get the ebook. Get the audio book. Check it out. Store.MidasTouch.com. We got some great blue wave gears there. We'll be right back. We've got a lot to talk about when we come back. Thanks, everybody. 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So moments ago, Maga Mike Johnson, the lamest of lame duck losers, who, by the way, I don't think he's even going to be a Congress member in the 120th session. He says he wants to start a lawnmower business, which is great, except he'll probably be awful at it. He'll probably tell people that the grass is cut when it's actually overgrown and then call up Donald Trump and say, Donald, but do you like it? And Donald Trump will be like, no, I don't like it, and Maga Mike will be like, okay, then my Maga Mike, I'm going to cover up child sex trafficking for you, Donald, as a lawnmower. Not really sure where I was going with that one, but landed it, I guess. Here's Maga Mike at the press conference before where he says, Jim Jordan is a very honest broker. Yeah, Jim Jordan, who before going to Congress covered up sex abuse, rampant sex abuse by a doctor. An honest broker. Jim Jordan, Mr. Honest Broker. Okay, Maga Mike, you freaking loser. Here, play this clip. What does the election of Jim Jordan say about the lessons you all learned from last week's election? I think the election of Jim Jordan is a sign of the members' confidence in him. I mean, both of these candidates got big, big, big packs of support. But Jim is a known entity, a trusted voice, a trusted. He's an honest broker. He's a good man. He's a fighter. And I think that that's the signal that is being sent here, that they're ready. We are ready to dig in for the fight. And I think Jim's going to do a great job with that. Jim Jordan is an honest broker the way Epstein was an honest broker, I suppose. What am I talking about? He's the most dishonest individual. But I mean, look, folks, you know, it's probably a good thing that Jim Jordan, it's going to be leading the minority. I mean, the guy's an idiot. The guy is a loser. People hate him. I mean, it's actually like in terms of who would be the worst person remaining that MAGA Republicans can now have as their leader after these elections, you'd be like, I don't know, Lauren Boebert. Well, she's out. She lost her race. Annapolina Luna. Yeah, but no one really knows her. I mean, some people. We report on her, but you know, whatever. Jim Jordan. Yeah, that guy, the worst. Jim Jordan, a home run for a generationally growing Democratic coalition. So we shouldn't even complain. Let him be the minority leader. More Jim Jordan. Let's see him every day. Let's see Jim Jordan, you know, on TV. Fantastic. That's, you know, he's literally a vomit-inducing creature. So great. Let's, let's have him. So then, you know, as Donald Trump continues down this lunatic psychotic spiral of his, he calls in, it's the first day basically of Stephen Miller as chief of staff. It's like, it's like Looney Tunes in the White House right now. I mean, for real. I mean, this collapses a sight to behold. So Donald Trump calls into C-SPAN like a, like a middle schooler. And I say like a middle schooler because I don't know if I, I called into C-SPAN as a middle schooler, but I would call into the public broadcast network that they would do all, they would do all locally on Long Island. There was a channel. I don't know if it was channel one or 12. I forget which it was, but they would have this show where this guy would bring on all of these pets and it was really poorly produced. And he'd just have all these pets. It wasn't like even, she just was like a guy with pets and he would take these calls and I would love to call him. And I would find it so funny. And I would call him and I would giggle. And then when I would have like my, in middle school, when I would have like, you know, the girlfriend, like, ooh, let's call, let's call the guy. Ooh, let's call him. Let's call him. I'm like, okay, what's the name of your parrot? What is your parrot really? You know what I mean? That's what, yeah, that's what you did as a middle schooler. Maybe in your middle school, you didn't call into the public broadcast network and joke around. I didn't do it a lot. I wasn't just, but maybe I'm oversharing, but Donald Trump, the commander in chief, as we have our economy absolutely in shambles, there's a catastrophic war that we're in right now. Everything is going wrong and he calls into C-SPAN and you hear a lady that sounds like Natalie Harp giggling. You're like, what the hell is going on here? What the hell is happening here? And it looks like we've got a call from the White House. Mr. President, welcome to Washington Journal Primetime. Thank you, Mamie, and good luck with the show. I've watched you numerous times and you do a great job, but good luck with the show. All right. She ended up conducting, though, one of the worst interviews. I'm not even going to play any more of it. She was like, so what do you like about C-SPAN? And then she just let him like ramble. It was literally the worst interview imaginable. Although I guess it highlighted further how psychotic he is. And by the way, do you remember in February, somebody who said they were John Barron called in and it sounded like Trump? Maybe it was someone just doing the voice. Maybe it was actually him calling in as John Barron. Just remember, in the 80s and the 90s, Donald Trump had a alternate personality called John Barron, who was his publicist, but it was him. And he would call around town to all the gossip places as John Barron. And he would say, yeah, I'm John Barron. Donald Trump's doing this. Donald Trump's doing that. Donald Trump. This guy's always been a lunatic his whole life. His whole life, he's been a bankruptor, a lunatic, a sex predator. He's disgusting. He's disgusting. He's disgusting. Here he is over here doing this press conference yesterday. And the reporter asks him, look, so are you going to bring up the case of Jensen Wang? Of Jensen Wang when you are with Xi Jinping? He's going to this APIC, A-P-E-C, APIC, it's Asian Pacific Conference, in a few days. Are you going to bring up Jensen Wang with Xi Jinping? Are you going to bring up the case of Jensen Wang with President Xi when you visit with him next week? No, I don't think so. I mean, maybe, I'm sure President Xi will ask me about it. I just know Jensen very well. I just think he's a very honorable man. I mean, it's easy. Why would I bring it up? I don't know. Why would you? But why would you bring up if they may be spying on the company that at least was, I'm not sure if they will remain, the most valuable U.S. company by market cap that has hoisted up the entire semiconductor industry? industry here in the United States. I also want you to remember what Biden did though with the CHIPS Act to actually help companies like NVIDIA and Dell and this whole tapestry of semiconductor companies that as soon as Trump took office just went completely unrestrained and Trump turned a blind eye and then he took stakes in these companies, the intels of the world. They were given money under the CHIPS Act if they met very specific criteria, if they met very specific goals and objectives. That's what the purpose of the CHIPS Act was. It's a bipartisan bill and it actually was working and it would have resulted in actually a lot of growth from the semiconductor industry. But what Trump did is say, you know what, the money that was tied to you meeting certain objectives, goals, national security obligations, Trump was just like, you know what, we're just going to take, because he's a communist, Trump's a communist, an authoritarian communist, like we're just going to take stakes in your companies. With NVIDIA, Trump was like, you can sell the H200 chips to China, but we get 20% of the sale. You can sell. Your chips to the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, you can sell it there. By the way, the Blackwell chip, the most highly classified chip goes to the UAE. And then right around the same time, the UAE puts their money where? In the Witkoff Trump World Liberty Financial. And you can say, well, what a coincident. What a coincidence. We gave them access to the most highly classified chip, the one beyond the H200, the Blackwell. And then Donald Trump and Witkoff's company, they then get all of this money from Abu Dhabi. And where's Jared Kushner and Witkoff today? Abu Dhabi? Oh, they're the ones who also brokered the deal as the straw man, as the intermediary, the secret deal that had Russia take over the liquefied natural gas of Alaska using Abu Dhabi. Oh, interesting, interesting. That's where this meeting's taken. That's why I say, folks, this is, you know, this is. what we need. These are the biggest stories out there that aren't getting covered in the press. You know, the press wants to do a story about still the gamification of politics. And I understand there's an allure to that. It's not unimportant, you know, who's up or who's down in a given day. But we need to build something generational here. So we need to understand what these connections are, that the Epstein class, these transnational, pan-national oligarchs, this is what they do. This is how they interact with each other and screw us all over. That's why things are more expensive. That's why there's a housing crisis. That's why there's all of these catastrophic wars. That's why all of this is, that's why the whole world is in such disorder right now. The Epstein class was plotting it, planning it. In addition to the child sex trafficking that's in the Epstein files, you can see all of these connections. That exists today. The royal families in the Middle East, some of these leaders of this organization and that organization. And why do you think Trump's name appears over and over and over and over again? Trump's name is in those Epstein files that we know about. And there's far more that we don't know about because they're covering up millions of documents still. His name appears more in the Epstein files than the name Harry in all of the Harry Potter books combined. More than. More than Jesus or God in the Bible. That's how much his name is in the Epstein files. That's sick. That's sick. A reporter from MS Now asked Donald Trump, it seems like Putin keeps ignoring you, ma'am. So what do you think? He keeps ignoring your demands. So when are you going to acknowledge that? Watch Donald Trump's response. Let's play it. Given Vladimir Putin multiple deadlines over the last 22 months to enter into a ceasefire, but also to meet directly with Vladimir Zelensky. He has repeatedly ignored your demands, yet you. Well, you know, you're saying he's ignored. Has he been fighting us in the war? Yeah, yeah. Let me ask you this question. Who are you with? Who are you with? With MS Now. At what point? MS Now, it's a fake. MS Now gets the worst ratings in their history. It used to be MSDNC. It's one of the worst. You're a fake network. Go ahead. Yeah, that's why that guy needs to go. Donald, Donald Trump is not qualified. He's unfit. That behavior, we condemn it. The American people repudiate it and rebuke it. It's disgusting. It's disgusting. Just answer the question, you loser, you sicko, you sex predator, you felon. Answer the question or get the hell out of there, you freaking loser. You embarrass us. You shame us. You shamed American history. You disgusting traitor. You're disgusting. You make us all want to puke. You are sick. Answer the freaking question. Oh, fake news, fake news, fake news. You're fake news. No, you're a loser. You're a bankruptor. That's how the American people feel about you. The entire MAGA movement right now is a group of you and Jim Jordan and MAGA Mike, a bunch of freaking losers. We're done with it. The American people are not silent about it anymore. The American people are standing strong. That's what the election showed. That's how we feel today. We'll see what your approval starts to look like next week. I suspect it'll be in the 20s. I suspect you pick Stephen Miller and Jim Jordan. Inflation continues to go up. People continue to get screwed right now. Yeah. I suspect your approval will be dipping into the 20s very soon because you are an absolute disgusting, abhorrent creature that the American people hate. Here's what Donald Trump says about Iran during that press conference that just in case we've got another aircraft carrier in the room, just in case here, play this clip. Munitions than at any time in the history of our country. We just had just in case we had another aircraft carrier. We have many sailing over and just arriving in the Middle East. So we have three and they're all locked and loaded in. And hopefully we don't have to use them. We have so many family members of active duty service members are not able to share everything that's going on because their children are unable to share it or their husband or their wives or who's ever overseas is not able to share it. But they know that that lunatic, that that traitor, that that sex predator, that that felon, should not be responsible for the lives of their loved ones. And that's the biggest understatement. They are terrified. Oh, I guess we're going to use their aircraft carrier. We're going to we're going to make them pay. We're going to make them pay. Trump has made a lot of service members complicit in his war crimes, slaughtering little children in Manab and Lemaire, slaughtering people at a wedding in Zurich and other areas. And that's why you have also massive, massive mental health issues and massive PTSD. There's a lot of reasons why, though, amongst active duty service members about people who are returning, people who are involved in whatever the hell this is. And Trump's like, deal, deal, deal. We're so close to a deal, deal, deal, deal, deal, deal. No, we're not. And the way you so cavalierly talk about aircraft carriers, you're using the United States military right now in the Middle East as basically providing what air coverage for tankers and some cargo ships to leave the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before this catastrophic war. You've turned the entire U.S. Navy, our proud U.S. Navy, our aircraft carriers, which are war fighters, which should only be used in the most extreme of circumstances, not this catastrophic war of choice that you and Netanyahu got into in order to cover up the Epstein files. But you've turned our armed forces and our proud Navy into like a, what, at best, a shuttle service for VLCCs, very large crew carriers, to leave the Strait of Hormuz that now bring out 10 million barrels a day, when before the war it was 20 million barrels a day. And then every day we hear, about at least one tanker, usually multiple, getting struck in the Strait of Hormuz. That's the role of the Navy. When people signed up to protect our country, they're providing guidance for oil tankers in a Strait that was open before this war. And then Trump's like, well, the Middle East countries like the status quo. They don't like the status quo. They're all losing so much money right now. You have Ansaral, the Houthi, striking Saudi State. You've got Dubai and Abu Dhabi having a massive tourism plunge. You've got the whole area right now, struggling, suffering right now, as is the whole world. But what they're working on behind the scenes is that new security architecture with China and Russia to replace the United States as Treasury Secretary Besson begs Beijing for help with the Strait of Hormuz. But this is what Donald Trump's done his whole life. It's why when I talk about his past, when I talk about his bankruptcies, this is what he does. He doesn't know what he's doing. And he surrounds himself with idiots and other traitors and war criminals and equally vile, unqualified people. And then they just go, oh, we're doing it. We're doing it. We're winning. We won. We won. I mean, that was Hegseth's press conference this morning, where he only called on far right-wing media outlets. Why? Why would I get impeached for victory? Anyway, let's take our last quick break of the show. We'll be right back. Still got a lot to discuss. Get your copy of WTF America the way out of this hell and back to democracy. We'll see you after this quick break. 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Well, there's no doubt that you guys are right, that it's a disappointing report. We had this period in the summer, you and I talked about it back then, where core got all the way down over a three-month average to about one and a half annual rate. But then things have accelerated over the last three months and, you know, my friend E.J., that you just quoted I think characterized it pretty well, what we're seeing in the data, which is really energy prices of the CPI are up 20% year over year and gasoline prices are up 37% year over year. And we had so much good news throughout the year, like lower drug prices and everything, that it kept things from, you know, heading in the wrong direction on the wrong trajectory. But right now, the trickle down from the higher energy prices is so bad. So, you know, the energy prices is definitely very palpable in the data. And a little disappointing for you. Got that. Now, I'm going to change the subject. I want to talk about… I'm going to change the subject right now. I finally got Kevin Hassett to say that things are going bad, but perfect time to change the topic. Let's talk about unicorns and rainbows right now. Let's talk about how dangerous socialism is going to be right now. Let's completely change… What do you mean change the topic? Dude just said. Maybe, just think about it, you're doing this interview, maybe you say, hey, Kevin, what may have happened over the summer that led to inflation going down? What happened in those months? Oh, wait a minute. There was a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran where the Strait of Hormuz was opened and oil was getting out. And that resulted in inflation going down during a temporary deal. That was reached. But then what happened? Oh, wait. The United States then sent Marco Rubio to the Middle East to then cut a deal with Netanyahu and Lebanon that allowed Israel to stay in southern Lebanon. And then Rubio told the Middle East countries that despite what the MOU said, don't unfreeze the funds that were promised to Iran in the MOU. Don't do it. Oh, what else? There wasn't a ceasefire in the region because Netanyahu continued to occupy southern Lebanon and then started striking other areas right away in order to provoke the end of the MOU. Oh, then what else happened? Oh, the U.S. then set up a southern route by Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, which they weren't able to achieve during the war, but used the MOU period to do that. And then Iran started striking tankers. Oh, what else? Rubio said we're never going to give. We're going to give redevelopment funds to Iran that will never happen ever. Oh, wait. Those things happened. And then the MOU ended. And then what happened? Oh, but you guys said there was oil glut. All of this oil was getting out of the Strait of Hormuz. I guess it wasn't. I guess it wasn't. I guess when Iran was striking the tankers that had the oil on it, the oil couldn't leave when they were being struck, being on the freaking tankers. Then the car. The cost of a VLCC, a very large crude carrier, went from $30,000 before the war started each day to $1.5 million a day because of insurance costs and other risk premiums that were placed on people who were captaining, who were captains of these very large crude carriers. And so even though we know that there's only 10 million barrels getting out today, as I've been telling you all along, I think I've been radically consistent. I think I've been radically consistent on everything I've said about what's going on. And I think it's proven to be accurate, which people go, oh, you're rooting for Iran. I'm not rooting for Iran. I'm just telling you what the facts are. I'm rooting for peace. I'm rooting for us not to get involved in catastrophic wars. The best way for me to root for my country in the United States is to call out when we have somebody in the Oval Office behaving like a traitor and harming this country. When we have an admiral of CENTCOM becoming a podcaster and acting like a podcast bro and doing shows like, oh, man. Man, it's Cooper here. It's Coop. You know, man, like, I love French fries. You like French fries? Yeah, man, I like the French fries. You like to dip your French fries with ketchup? Yeah, at CENTCOM, we like to dip French fries. Should we touch French fries? Yeah, let's do it. Oh, bro. I'm watching. Why is Admiral Brad Cooper doing a weird podcast about eating French fries? So, Coop, what would you do if you weren't the commander? Commander of CENTCOM. Oh, man, I'll tell you what I would. I would just, I would just chug some beers, man. I kid you not. This is what the guy said. I would do a, I don't want to work. I would just be at a beach drinking beers each day. Oh, yeah, man. That's what you would do. But what would you do? You like basketball. Yeah, I like basketball. But, like, I'm not sure I could do that year round because it's seasonal. But I could be at the beach when I'm not. I'm like, well, you're CENTCOM commander. What are you doing? What are you doing? When you're not doing the podcast, you're posting what? That the Strait of Hormuz is open and everything's doing good? No. Kevin Hassett, the reason that things were better for a short period of time in the summer, which actually probably wouldn't have or would have resulted in Donald Trump and these MAGA Republicans not doing as bad in the midterms, they would have been rewarded. Just think about this. They would have been rewarded for getting involved in a catastrophic war and then doing the MOU. If these idiots, if these traders could just stick to the MOU. But they couldn't even do that. They would have got rewarded. Like, oh, man, they did the MOU. What a deal. They're the arsonists. And then they tried to do a little Band-Aid on it, which, by the way, that Band-Aid, I told you at the time, of course, it was a U.S. surrender. But that's what you have to do. We lost the war. You don't pretend to win when you lose the war. We lost the war. That's what happens. Our bases were destroyed. The logistical depot. And Bahrain was destroyed. All of our equipment. We ran out of weapons. We lost the war. OK, you have two aircraft carriers that are in the Arabian Sea. That's not winning a war. You know, OK, you're shooting your pirates. Our proud Navy is pirates. We just shoot. We shoot ships that leave, that are trying to bring medicine and food into Iran. By the way, you don't think that they can figure out ways to do this outside of the Strait of Hormuz? I mean, the Strait of Hormuz is the most. It's convenient, but look at the border of Iran, right? You have these idiots in the Trump regime, like you saw their new one, Operation Ironclad. OK, Operation Ironclad, what's this one? Midnight Hammer, Epic Fury, American Freedom, Ironclad. OK, well, what's what is Ironclad? We're going to we're going to have 20 people in Tampa. Why Tampa? Oh, because Bahrain's destroyed. OK, we're going to have 20 people, 20 in Tampa. We're going to run this special group that's going to try to stop Iran from shipping using the land borders. OK, well, first off, it's November. You just figured this one out that there's land borders and there's something called the Caspian Sea. Well done just for figuring that out. But do you know the countries that even border Iran? OK, you're going to tell the Taliban in Afghanistan, guys, Admiral Brad Cooper here with a new podcast. And I'm telling you, we're going to have 20 people in Tampa. I'm telling you, we really want you to not allow Iran to use your. You understand Taliban? You know, we're going to tell Pakistan that, you know, how big the Shiite population in Pakistan is. Good luck with that. You want to know why they have a field marshal in Pakistan right now? Because it's a very tenuous dictatorship of it. Who else are you going to tell? Turkey? You're going to tell Turkey? We're going to tell Turkmenistan, a neutral country. Explain to me the plan. You're going to tell Iraq? Iraq announced its borders are open yesterday. You saw the amount of people who showed up. up in Iraq for Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral. Millions of people. There's a massive Shiite population in Iraq. Your plan is to cause another sectarian civil war in Iraq, which is close to happening right now. That's the game plan over there. No. When you see the Mecca pact of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, I believe Syria is going to be joining it as well, probably Egypt as well. When they meet with Tehran, then there's meetings with Wang Yi in China, and there's meetings with Sergei Lavrov and Putin in Moscow. Then Moshe Razai, the top advisor to Ayatollah Moshe Khomeini, talks about new security architecture in Iran. They're talking about the new West Asian security architecture, which China and Moscow lead against you, Trump, against you, idiot. They're not helping. They're announcing how they're helping, and they're helping on nuclear. They're helping on the thing. They're helping on nuclear. They're helping on nuclear facilities, not just Bushir nuclear plant, which is a JV between Iran and Russia. They're helping on other nuclear plants that they're building. They're saying it publicly. I show everybody the press conferences and the videos where they talk about all of this. That's actually what's going on right now. I don't know. If we wanted to solve inflation, how would we do it, folks? How would we figure it out? I don't know. I don't know. It's so hard. It escapes me. What could we do? What could we do? What happened in the summer? Maybe we just do that. Maybe you already signed the thing, like Rubio today. I showed the clips earlier. Rubio's like, why would we do bad deal terms? You did it already. They're in the MOU. Why would you sign that if you don't like it? What's your game plan? Maybe think about this before getting involved in a catastrophic war. It's very easy to resolve this situation. It may be like, well, Ben, how is it that easy? It's very easy. The US, take the two aircraft carriers, get the hell out of the region. The military bases have already been destroyed. We've got to get out of here. We barely even need to do anything there since we don't really have any troops there to begin with. Leave over there. Then what you do is when Iran is out there and if they still have the Strait of Hormuz shut down after you leave, then build an international coalition and say, you see, we left. They still are closing the Strait of Hormuz. Now rally an international coalition and then try to build popular support, which I doubt exists, but you lost the war. There's nothing else you can do. Lean on your- There's nothing else you can do. Lean on your- So if you actually want to engage in what you think will be regime change, which will still fail at, expect to take 30,000 to 50,000 casualties a month. No one wants that. So then if you're not going to do that, which we shouldn't do, the solution is pretty obvious. Just get out. That's your only option. But what Trump's going to do, because he's a bankruptor, he's going to do the fraud. Who am I going to blame? Is it Zelensky's fault? Is it the Democrats' fault? It's their fault. It's this- Whose fault? It's never my fault. Hey, Natalie, come here. Sit on my lap. You want to call C-SPAN? C-SPAN, I love your show. I love your show. And it's like, dude, you're an idiot. You're a bankruptor. You're a loser. You're covering up child sex trafficking. You're all over the Epstein files. You're a sex predator. You're disgusting. Just stop it. Just get the hell out of the region. Make the decision. Just, you want to say you won, say you won, but then get the hell out of there. It'll cause inflation to go down. We can try to get back to normal. We'll have to rebuild and figure out what the hell the future security is going to be. We're going to have to rebuild and figure out what the future security architecture looks like, but you lost. So what are they going to do? They're going to just keep this awful status quo of we're still in a war right now for what, the next two years? And then a Democratic president or whoever comes in next has to deal with this mess. And then all the Trump and Biden, oh, your fault. Then they become deficit hawks and debt hawks. And again, and China hawks again. And all of a sudden they're hawks, hawks, hawks, hawks. They're just hawks all of a sudden again, right? These losers, that's why we can't forget this moment. That's why independent media is so damn important now. Yeah, we need to impeach Hegseth. Yeah, elections are important. Yeah, we need to impeach RFK. Yeah, but we also need to understand this moment and what's actually happening. And we need to, you know, we have sometimes as a country with all of the stimuli, with social media, with algorithms, with all of these things that are used by the oligarchs to try to distort our brain and our thinking. And they put trillions of dollars. They want to create this goldfish brain where we just forget. We forget. We forget that Trump is the guy who screwed up COVID, right? And that Biden was the guy who was trying to fix it. It's like, oh, wait, no, no, no. It's Biden who's doing it. Why? Because the algorithms were pushing that. There was a whole corporate news that was pushing. It's Biden, Biden's fault, Biden's fault, Biden's fault. What we can forget is this moment. Who are the arsonists? It's Trump. It's all of these Trumpy people. It's the MAGA Republicans. But then it's a deeper global authoritarian network, pan-national, transnational, right? It's the Bolsonaros. It's the Javier Malaise. It's all of these people who are out there, the Putins, who are out there wanting to sow chaos and then destroy our stability and then pickpocket us and then loot from us and then keep us oppressed. That's what their goal is. All right. I'll leave you with that. We'll make sure we cover the Hegseth impeachment. We'll cover all this other stuff. WTF America is our book. We appreciate you. Get the hardcover. Get the e-book. Get all of it right now. We're thankful for you. We're grateful for you. Oh, let me talk about this as well. It's a good point. I always like to, on these episodes, talk about issues regarding climate. And I think it's important because it's oftentimes understated what's going on right here. Thank you, Jeremy, reminding me that I said I wanted to speak about it this episode. I absolutely do. Pull this up, Jeremy, for a second. So the Democrats who just won their congressional seats, the Democratic leadership and the 100, they're going to attend the COP 31 climate talks, boosted by the midterms and eager to make up for the Trump era. Climate doesn't get enough attention. It needs to get more attention, right? So the Trump regime will be absent from the key UN climate talks that start Monday, which shows Donald Trump's scornful dismissal of the climate crisis and Trump's attacks on multilateral organizations that the U.S. used to lead. But Democrats' crushing win in the U.S. midterm elections has delivered a timely shot of optimism for the country's now looking beyond the Trump era of climate obstruction. For a second year in a row, there will be no official U.S. government presence at the annual climate summit, this year known as the COP 31 and held in Turkey. While almost every other country in the world sends delegations to the talks, Trump has derided the climate crisis as a hoax and bullshit, and triggered the withdrawal of the U.S. from the entire international climate framework. This summit rejects reality by failing to acknowledge the extremist climate crisis. And that's what we're going to talk about today. policies are destroying countries around the world. These sicko disgusting child sex trafficking covering up Trump regime says the snub is so severe that about 20 members of the U.S. Congress heading to the summit have been denied usual State Department assistance, requiring them to turn to philanthropic funding for the trip. I'm glad we found a way to get there, but it's insane, said Sean Kasten, a Democratic congressman who's attending the COP 31. We have a lot of rebuilding to do. It hinges on Congress to make sure that we're doing the right thing. And I think that's what we need to do. We need to continue to maintain diplomatic continuation at COP and minimize the damage until adults are back in the White House. Adults back in the White House. As I said, we need seriousness. We need adults. We need grownups. And I'm glad that we were able to figure that out. I think I'll rush right over there. There you have it. There's been a big shift since the midterms. I'm certainly more optimistic. The former environment minister of Canada had to say negotiations at COP or CEO, but it's more important what happens at home. And Trump has been incredibly disruptive. So we'll be covering that as well. You know, we always cover international news. And that's a big climate story. And I always think it's important that we cover it. Thanks, everybody. Get WTF America. We appreciate you. And we'll see you next time on Ben on Breaking News. Appreciate you all so much. See you next time. 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