Breaking Afternoon Updates with Ben 10/29/2026

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Learn more at trinityhealthofne.org slash heart. Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is your Breaking News. The latest regarding the likely escalation of this catastrophic war in Iran, Wall Street Journal reporting that Top Admiral Brad Cooper has been briefing Donald Trump and the Trump regime on attack options on Iran. There was a meeting taking place today with Admiral Cooper talking about options for an immediate escalation as soon as the midterms are over. You have Carla Babb, a military reporter, also writing, current and former officials say the administration plans to strike Iran following the U.S. elections next week. Aircraft are moving into positions. The mother of all bombs, the Moab use, is expected. One of the things that we are also learning is that the Trump regime is sending more Patriot interceptors to Israel right now from Texas. Israel's already heavily fortified and protected by the Iron Dome and other American military weapons, but more of these interceptors are heading over there. This, as a report just came out earlier today, that the United States Army is starting to practice digging mass battlefield graves. U.S. Army soldiers, who are training to bury fellow troops in temporary graves en masse for the first time in decades, rehearsing how the United States military would respond if it sustained a high number of casualties while fighting a still blazing war. Soldiers with the 3rd Corps Sustainment Command and the 20th Engineer Brigade based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as well as religious support personnel like military chaplains use diggers, snipers, and excavators to see how effectively they could be used to help preserve bodies intact until they could be identified and repatriated to the United States. The U.S. has not needed to do this type of exercise since the Korean War, the U.S. Army said in a statement. Now, this also comes at a time where one of the top U.S. Army officers, who was serving as what's called a J-5, his name is Brett Sylvia, who used to lead the 101st Airborne Division. Then he was appointed to this J-5 position, a joint staff position, giving advice to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He was fired, Brett Sylvia, by Pete Hegseth last night. Last night, we learned that this three-star lieutenant general who was serving as basically the right hand to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Brett Sylvia, you can see his background right here, he was responsible for a lot of the military planning. And it's my view that he was likely giving advice about the lack of U.S. munitions, about the lack of U.S. military bases and logistical capabilities in the region. The Trump regime fired him, claimed that he was leaking information to the press. They referred him for prosecution. To the DOJ. And you take a look at this guy's background, Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, a West Point class of 1994 graduate as an engineer officer. He was a combat command, commanded the 307th Engineer Battalion in Afghanistan. In Iraq, he was the, he led the 101st Airborne's second brigade combat team during Operation Airborne. He led the 101st Airborne Division Command. Then he took over the 101st Airborne Division Command. He was appointed to the J-5 position. That's the Joint Staff Five position, which is responsible for strategy plans and policy with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He took that position when the previous J-5 was pushed out and forced out by Hegseth. And now you have Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who is now a member of the Joint Chiefs. Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who is now a member of the Joint Chiefs. Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia fired late last night. And then the Trump regime officials started leaking to OAN and other media sources that Sylvia was leaking to the press and that he had failed polygraphs. And they really went after this guy's life. I mean, they really defamed the crap out of him and made sure that, you know, his life would be ruined. I mean, they went after him. You know, notably, a statement was released by the Joint Staff and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs team. That's Dan. And they actually put out a very kind of warm, respectful statement about Brett Sylvia. They said, we wish him the best. He's provided, you know, 30 plus years of incredible service to the United States military. And he is, you know, someone who we have a great deal of respect for. While the Defense Department put out these horrific statements about him leaking, being a criminal, he's leaking about Ukraine. Anyway, he's gone. There have been about 27. Six top military, maybe even more, top military generals and admirals who have been either pushed out or fired by the Trump regime since January of 2025, whether it's Admiral Linda Fagan, a four-star, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Charles C.Q. Brown, or C.Q. Brown, four-star, fired because he's black, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, fired because she's a woman, chief of naval operations. You go down through this list. I mean, in April of 2026, the Army chief of staff, the top position in the Army, General Randy George, beloved military leader, he was fired. You have General David Houdini, also beloved Army Transformation and Training Command, focusing on modernization. He was removed or fired. You have General Christopher Donahue, the last man standing in Afghanistan, who led U.S. Army Europe and Africa. He was pushed out and forced into early. early retirement, you know, literally the top, top people. all have been forced out. And you see just the sheer amount of people who were forced out since the catastrophic war with Iran began. Let me just show you Donald Trump's knowledge of Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. When Trump was asked about this on the tarmac when he was heading to South Carolina, where he just gave an incredibly deranged speech, Donald Trump said that because he heard the name Sylvia and he didn't know who Brett Sylvia was, he thought it was a female. And I'll show you what he says here. Play this clip. Lieutenant General Sylvia leaked classified information at the Pentagon. She's got problems. She's going to have big problems. She did. We're very much looking for leakers. And she's going to have big problems, long-term problems. Yeah. He said that she is going to have big problems. Big problems, long-term problems. It's a he, Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who has been fired by the Trump regime during this critical time, as the Wall Street Journal is reporting and other people are reporting. A meeting was just held to really finalize the catastrophic escalation in Iran that the Trump and Netanyahu regime are about to launch, seemingly as soon as the midterms are over. But knowing Trump, wouldn't be surprised if he does it like right before the midterms and tries to create a national security incident right before. We're going to be following what's going on there. And it was Senator Chris Murphy, who gave an interview at the Middle East Institute earlier as well. And he was talking about, he said, I can't go over what we've learned in our classified meetings, he said. But he said, you know, the plan, what I can say is that it's crazy, it's dangerous, and it would lead to horrific, horrific outcomes. Let me show you what Senator Murphy had to say. Let's play it. In one of these briefings, we did get the chance to have a fairly detailed conversation about what the war plan would be if we restarted military operations. You've heard a preview that it would be a short duration plan. I will just, say this, their plan is insane. It won't, it won't, it will lead to devastating escalation and the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law. Can you say more? I mean, there's been open reporting as to, you know, what we may be planning and the civilian infrastructure that we may be talking about. I mean, there's been open reporting as to what we may be targeting. I think the plan, the plan that they have, they've been asked by the president to develop a plan, whether they believe it, it will work or not, I do not know. But the plan that they have developed will lead, in my view, to a prolongment and an escalation of this war that will be devastating for our security interests. Well, look, he points to what is being reported publicly. Now. Now, I believe there are a lot of generals and admirals who may be, they may actually be, you know, leaking to the press. I'm not sure if Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia did, but are letting it be known what this plan is, because it would be absolutely catastrophic, and it would be devastating. And it is based on the false premise that if you bomb Iran more, that they're going to, to use the term of Treasury Secretary Biden. Secretary Besant, that they're going to cry uncle, that they're going to cry uncle. And I'm trying to understand, didn't they say that the economic, I mean, first they said that they've obliterated all of the nuclear facilities, right? So first they said all of the Iranian nuclear facilities have been obliterated last year, but then they said we are engaging in this catastrophic war because of Iran's nuclear facilities, which apparently were obliterated. Then they said the war would last four to six weeks, four to six weeks. Then they said, you know, we're going to have to wait until two days. And they would say, two days, we're about to do a deal. We're about to do it. You're about to do a deal. Then Treasury Secretary Besant said that the blockade is working so effectively in April, so effectively. Things are going so great that it would just be two or three days that the pipes of the way Iran, the way they described it, the pipes would get congested and the pipes would just blow up. And Iran would be destroyed because the pipes would get congested. Remember they told you that? Ridiculous. And then what has Besant been saying? They're two weeks away from crying uncle. They're about to give up. They launched Operation Economic Outcast. The blockade is so successful. It's so incredible. Iran's begging for a deal. And they're not. Iran's not begging for a deal. The blockade is a little bit successful in the sense that it's blocking a lot of Iranian ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, but there are other routes. Iran can use trains and the trains that go from Iran can end up in China. China trains can end up in Iran. We're seeing a lot of that happen right now. Iran can use the Caspian Sea. There's a whole smuggling highway route that could be used by Iran. And Iran can do certain ship-to-ship transfers and get stuff out of the Strait of Hormuz as well. I don't want to act like Iran is thriving. That would be hyperbolic. The blockade certainly hurts them, but Iran has plans. They're prepared for this. If you look at Iranian leadership from the foreign minister level to the main advisor to the Ayatollah, Moshen Razai is the main advisor to Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khomeini. If you look at the civilian side, M.B. Goluboff, PhD, you're talking about people who have backgrounds in engineering degrees, you're talking about people who are doctors. Even Iran's president, Pozeskian, is a cardiovascular surgeon. But you're looking at people who are doctors, who have been around for a long time, who have been able to, you know, who have been there for the Iran-Iraq war, who have been there for prior wars and conflicts between the United States and Iran. I mean, you're talking about people who understand the terrain very well. And for the Trump regime to basically, discount all of that and be like, you know, what we didn't do enough is we didn't bomb more infrastructure. That's what's going to do it. No, the moment, the moment the U.S. strikes begin, Iran has already prepared all of the IRGC bases, most of which are hidden underneath mountains, deep underneath mountains where Moabs can't even reach. They will immediately, they already have their targets ready to go. The data centers in the region, the petrochemical facilities in the region, the LNG facilities in the region, the LPG facilities in the region, the refineries in the region, the data centers in the region, the U.S. aircraft carriers. You know, Iran has the capability with its anti-ship capabilities to strike the U.S. aircraft carriers. Iran has not done that because they recognize that that level of escalation would likely, if you hit a U.S. aircraft carrier, you could turn potentially public sentiment in the U.S., depending on how that goes down, in favor of the war if there are casualties aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier. So Iran's not going to play that card until they are attacked first in another wave of invasion. By the Trump and the Netanyahu regime. And so Iran, Iran is ready to go. And what Senator Murphy is describing right there is that this plan is insane. You're going to drop a Moab basically on Pickaxe Mountain. And what are you going to achieve by that? The Moab likely won't even get to where the nuclear facility is, which is way deeper than even a Moab reaches. And then all bets are off. Then all bets are off. I mean, if you think about the regional war taking place right now, as you also have the Houthis on Sarala advancing east into Yemen and striking Saudi Arabia, and you see the strikes that on Sarala and the Houthis have been able to achieve within Riyadh and nearby and Yanbu and all the areas in Saudi Arabia, it's going to be nothing compared to what Iran is going to do. And it's I mean, it is it is so freaking obvious how cataclysmic and catastrophic that would be. And we had it's one of the problems of having a malignant narcissistic lunatic in Donald Trump, who's not qualified to lead right now, who doesn't have the mental capacity, even before the cognitive and physical decline doesn't have the mental capacity to he's not qualified to lead right now, who doesn't have the mental capacity, even before the cognitive decline doesn't have the mental capacity to understand these things at all. And he's His plan or whatever it is, it's going to be short term. You hear what he's saying. I dictate the terms. I decide when it starts. I decide when it ends. No, there's another player in this war as well. And so as you see right now, the escalation of the war in Ukraine, right, which, by the way, you have, in my view, Melania and the Trump regime using this very small ceasefire in Oleshki, a Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia, as they're using this as kind of like a look over here kind of propaganda ploy. You have massive escalation in the war over there. You have the Houthis on Sarala at war with the Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia proxies, the PLC in Yemen. And that will expand. And, you know, the ingredients are there for a world war. And it's, again, not for me to be hyperbolic. I mean, the ingredients are there for a world war. If Donald Trump strikes Iran like that, the strikes that Iran is going to hit in the region will trigger all out war, the likes of which we haven't seen in, you know, since World War II. And it's already heading in that direction. And we move closer and closer into this escalation. Escalation trap every day. And as I said at the outset, the U.S. Army confirmed that it is practicing digging the mass battlefield graves. This comes from the U.S. Army. They're preparing this country for a draft and for mass casualties to take place. The only way, as you all know, I am very much against this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, very much against it. I think that we should never have been involved in. First place, I think Trump is a war criminal. I think Trump is horrible and, you know, and exit are the then the most horrible and horrific things imaginable. If you were to do a war game of what an actual regime change war would look like, though, if you were to war game it out, what it would require, it would require hundreds of thousands, if not. Millions of American troops and international troops working with the United States to affirmatively go boots on the ground in Iran. Iran is the size of Texas, Florida, California, Michigan, throw in one other state combined. Huge 90 million people, you're not going to get Iran to submit by a short round. round of airstrikes on civilian infrastructure. You're just going to trigger a massive response. So if you were going to do, and by the way, Netanyahu's out there saying regime change, regime change. The only acceptable outcome is regime change, is what Netanyahu's saying. While the Trump regime is giving Netanyahu interceptors in addition to the Iron Dome, the remaining interceptor stock is going to Netanyahu right now. And in order for you to do a regime change, if you did a war game and you played out the simulations, you would be looking at probably more deaths of American soldiers per month than Russian deaths in Ukraine. So you would be talking about 35,000 to 50,000 American service members killed every single month in this catastrophic war. That's where it would be. In no time. You would have half a million, 600,000 dead. We wouldn't be able to even ever achieve regime change. And even if you did, it would last for a short period of time because Ayatollah, Muttaba Khomeini, and the IRGC are so deeply entrenched in all of the communities in Iran, you wouldn't even be able to achieve the outcome that you're saying that you wanted. But it would require, that's the level that it would require. And one of the most treasonous and traitorous aspects of this all is the fact that we're not going to be able to achieve the outcome that we're saying that you wanted. And one of the most treasonous and traitorous aspects of this all is the fact that we're not going to be able to achieve the outcome that you're saying that you wanted. And one of the most treasonous aspects of this all, in my view, is this is the type of solemn and serious conversation where we need to have a grown-up conversation. Whatever your view of it is, my view is that this is catastrophic, that Trump and Hanks are war criminals. Regardless, there needs to be an understanding of the American people. And you have to say, we're doing a deal. It ends when I want it to end. I don't care what political party you're from. We should all be against what the hell is happening right now. It's, by the way, why the book is called WTF America. And Donald Trump's out there on the tarmac saying he thinks Hegseth's doing a great job, that Hegseth's doing amazing. Here's what Donald Trump said when he was on the tarmac. Let's play. Just as well. But they're talking about Pete Hegseth. He's doing a great job. He's a great warrior. I think he's the best at his job in many, many years. And a lot of people agree, too, with that. Nobody agrees with that. He's literally the worst. You couldn't be worse at your job than Hegseth is as the defense secretary. It is as bad. It is as bad as you get. But if you look at all of what Trump is doing, what Hegseth is doing, firing the top generals, our military bases are destroyed. The Trump-Putin deals that are happening right now, which are not moving the market at all, but serve as propaganda. propaganda wins for Putin. What you're seeing with Starlink and Starshield cutting off access to the Ukrainian drones, when you see, or throttling it, when you see all of what's happening in Alaska, how the polar LNG facility in Alaska seems to actually be controlled by Russian money. When you see all of that happening in Alaska, how the polar LNG facility in Alaska seems to be controlled by Russian money. When you see all of that taking place with Russia having a foothold in Alaska right now, when you see everything that's taking place right now, you would either say Trump is the most reckless, negligent, careless, biggest loser imaginable, or this is an intentional op to destroy the country. Because if you were to design the way you would do it, you would fire all of your top military generals and admirals who knew what the hell they were doing. You would gut the government. You would gut our critical infrastructure. There was more hacks that took place in the past that we're learning about right now, that because we don't have real cyber security anymore, all the top people were fired. And I think Trump brought in an intern to lead the counterterrorism at the FBI and at the Defense Department. It was the guy, Thomas Fugate III, like a 21-year-old guy who was literally interned. He's the cyber security guy. So we're learning about these hacks taking place of the food storage facilities that are in various military bases. So the food is being destroyed with all of these hacks that are taking place right now. If you were to look across the board, you would say this is kind of an intentional and malicious effort to try to destroy the country. Or you would say it's both. It's intentional and malicious, and it's also reckless and negligent all at once. And here we are. We are days away from the midterm elections, and Donald Trump and the regime want to do everything they can to try to derail these elections. Whether it is the calling for criminal prosecutions in Alaska, whether it's the attack in California, whether it is already saying that the elections are being rigged and the elections are stolen. One of the things we talk about in WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy, is that there is a globalist authoritarian movement. And one of the staples of this globalist, authoritarian movement is they attack elections. They attack the very nature of what an election is. It's rigged. It's unfair. And think about what Netanyahu was saying during the election. It's rigged. They're rigging it against me. And then once there's an outcome, what's Netanyahu saying right now? The Arab nations, there was election interference. Qatar did election interference. And that's why the Arab bloc got 19 seats. 18 seats or 18 seats because election interference. It's like election interference there? What are you talking about? You got Trump literally interfering in the Israeli election. I mean, you've got Trump and Netanyahu quite literally working together. And you have all of that taking place. And then you're saying that it's the Arab nations that they did it. Look at Brazil. Flavio Bolsonaro posting a message that looks like it was actually written from the State Department. And then Google translated into Portuguese because the words in Portuguese made very little on how native Portuguese speakers actually talk. And you've got the Trump regime sheltering Flavio Bolsonaro who says, I'm the real president-elect. I'm the real person who won this election. I'm going to be running a caretaker government from Miami, basically at Mar-a-Lago, to overthrow the duly elected government of Brazil. So you have this international authoritarian network, this Epstein class, these warmongers right now who are out there, and they want World War III. Look at the Epstein files. When you look at the Epstein files, Epstein was gloating about, when he would speak with all of these Epstein class leaders of the different countries, about war, about wars everywhere, and how you would short certain currencies and long other currencies, and how the manipulation of the election, the manipulation of the markets relating to just anarchy and chaos. Is part of the plan. And you have this authoritarian network that is inextricably intertwined and part of the Epstein class, and they want World War III. They're pushing for World War III because they don't like the outcome of World War II. They don't like the post-World War II architecture, where you had America working with its allies, and was it perfect? Are there a lot of criticisms? I don't want to create this view that everything was amazing and everything was grim, and there's real historical issues that we need to look at, that we need to confront, and we need to deal with, of course. But you have Putin, you have Xi, you have other actors seeing a key opportunity right now, as Donald Trump has worked his way into this trap in these strait of Hormuz, as Trump recklessly climbs an escalatory ladder that will lead to a future world war. And that's what you have, Senator Murphy, that's what you have him warning about. That's why the elections right here are so critical, are so important right now, because we are at this existential moment. Again, regardless of what political party, there needs to be checks and balances. There needs to be war powers resolution. There needs to be a political party resolution passed. There needs to be a restraint on the military funding. There needs to be hearings every damn day of Hegseth, and Lutnik, and Besant, and Melania, and Kushner, and Don Jr., and all of these people. And that's what's at stake. We'll talk more about that when we come back from our first break. But I want to thank everybody who purchased WTF America. Thank you for joining us. It was number two on the New York Times bestseller list, number two. But we did beat Newt Gingrich's book, and we did beat Brian Kilmeade's book. And Newt Gingrich, he got a little dagger next to his name because he was doing bulk buys also. And we still beat him based on the power of the Midas Mighty. So thanks, everybody who got their copy of WTF America. We appreciate you. We know that times are difficult here in the economy, here and abroad. But thanks for getting this book. And I hope that you learned a lot from it. And I hope that it guides a way of thinking in terms of systems to understand how we got here, because we're seeing right now this international authoritarian network at play. And if we just think about the election in terms of who's up, who's down, who's winning or losing, you lose sight of that broader picture which is taking place. When we come back, you know what I want to show, Jeremy? Show the photo of that unmanned submersive, please, though. I want to see the photo of the video of the unmanned submersive. That off the coast of Bulgaria, a Liberian flag ship, which was actually an Israeli ship, but it was Liberian flagged. It was in the economic zone of Bulgaria. It was heading to Romania. It was hit by a Russian unmanned submersive. Iran's got a lot of these unmanned submersives as well. Ukraine's been using a lot of these unmanned submersives. I just want to show the video so that people can understand what modern warfare actually visually is. Here, play this clip. So three of those ended up hitting that tanker, destroying the tanker. All of the people aboard managed to survive. But we've seen a number of strikes like that. You have the drones, the Garand 4s and those Garand 5 jet-powered drones that go about 450 kilometers an hour. And Iran has all of that technology as well. The U.S. has, of course, its version of that, although a lot of our taxpayer dollars have been going to buying big. They're spending the money on these Trump, these nuclear powered or these nuclear Trump battleships that are like $14 billion or $25 billion each. And then Donald Trump wants to rearrange the massive aircraft carriers. So you removed part of the electromagnetic propulsion systems because Trump doesn't like the propulsion systems. He thinks they look ugly. And we've seen a lot of these unmanned submersives. So we've seen a lot of these unmanned submersives that go about 450 kilometers an hour. And then we've seen a lot of these unmanned submersives that go about 450 kilometers an hour. And we've seen a lot of these unmanned submersives that go about 250 kilometers an hour. And we've seen a lot of these unmanned submersives And when you have modern warfare looking like what I'm showing you over there, and you've got these big clunky aircraft carriers, Iran knows how to fight a modern war. It is doing it alongside Russia now in this catastrophic war in Ukraine. And Iran has been working with its so-called access of resistance throughout the Middle East. And we see the ability of a group like the Houthis on Sarala to utilize a combination of precision-guided ballistics and cruise missiles and drones to hit all of these targets in Saudi Arabia and how they've been able to shut down Saudi Arabia. Where literally you have Air France and you have all these major airlines saying, we're not going to land in Riyadh anymore. We have global traffic. We have travel halted. You have learning from home in Saudi Arabia right now with schools largely being shuttered at this point. And if this escalation happens, if this escalation truly happens, which it seems that we're heading towards, which would be the most disastrous thing, I think we all know what the outcome is. And with corporate news, I mean, did you guys know there were three tankers in the last 24 hours that were hit? In the Strait of Hormuz? Did you know that? Did you know that another MQ-1 drone was destroyed, bringing the total to 14 MQ-9 drones? About 54 MQ-9 Reapers in this catastrophic war have been destroyed. Do we have the footage of Iran locking in on the radar of the MQ-1, Jeremy, that was destroyed? I just want to show people what that looked like. Let me show everybody what that looked like. Let's play. You know, and so if Trump wants to say they don't have radar and they don't have any, you know, anti-aircraft or anti-drone technology, I mean, it's there. 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Here, I'll show you what went down. Are you worried about Democratic rhetoric about trying to impeach Pete Hegseth if they win? I think it's terrible. All they do is they talk about impeaching everybody. I mean, honestly, if we wanted to play that game, we could play it just as well. What game are you referring to? I mean, your regime slaughtered little children in Manab, 168 children, in Le Merde at a volleyball practice. You had children slaughtered over there. And you have Hegseth lying about everything, the cost of the war, the death count in the war, the casualty count in the war. You have Hegseth firing all of our top, military generals and admirals. We showed you that list. I mean, just take a snapshot of that list and you'll see all of the top military leaders since January, 2025. I mean, these are our top four star and three star and two star generals. And not only that, but they have prevented the top talent from even becoming one star generals. Basically, if you're a minority, if you're black, if you're a woman, if you're Latino, you get passed over for a promotion right away. He just wants to promote white men and talk about injecting testosterone and all of the testosterone that he takes and just a bunch of insane things while not taking care of veterans, stranding our military, our active duty military and their families and our contractors in the Middle East when the catastrophic war began. I mean, Aaron Parnas and Ken Harbaugh at the Midas Touch Network did a report that when the war in Iran began in late February, end of February, it started, the military in the region didn't know it was going to even start. They found out about Operation Epic Fury on the news. So they learned that there was, that they were now at war and they were on bases that were very vulnerable to Iranian strikes. And Iran struck those bases. It was so obvious, so predictable. And don't forget that back in 2025, this is the reckless Trump regime and the malicious Trump regime that was on the signal chat where they invited the reporter accidentally from the Atlantic, where they were talking about classified war plans in a war back in 2025 that we lost to the Houthis. The Trump regime surrendered to the Houthis in 2025. Do you remember that period? March, April, May of 2025, when there would be like all of these planes and helicopters that would be mysteriously falling off the aircraft carriers in the region. Remember that? And it was like, ah, another ship, another helicopter just mysteriously fell into the ocean and an airplane just fell into the ocean. And that's, and it was like now, and I don't think people even then, despite how horrible the Trump regime was even then, could fathom, okay, CENTCOM is going to lie. In such brazen ways. And the military would just go out there and tell the Trump level lies, but they were doing it. They were doing it then as well. So Hegseth gets impeached. It's for all of the crimes that he has committed to date. And he's a war criminal, all of the war crimes that he's committed. Also on the tarmac, Donald Trump was asked, so who in your mind is the legitimate winner of the Brazilian election? Watch what he says. Who in your mind is the legitimate winner of the Brazilian election? I don't want to comment it right now, but I thought the election was a very great embarrassment to the people of Brazil. I watched the election. I didn't take sides. I let it be. I was asked not to take sides by the president, the current president. I didn't take sides, but when I watched what went down in Brazil, it was a disgrace. Well, the market says it. What went down? What was the disgrace? Lula won by millions and millions of votes. And then Flavio Bolsonaro fled the country with the help of the Trump regime and the Trump regime State Department, hid in Argentina, then went to Miami, and then issued a statement declaring that he was the true president-elect, even though his own political party conceded defeat. And he said to spend his time in Florida. Now, this is an actual illegal immigrant criminal being harbored under a protected status that the Trump regime has ripped away from people who are actually on a path to legitimate asylum. And the real election interference that took place in Brazil was the Trump regime and the Trump oligarchs interfering in the Brazilian election, manipulating the algorithms, meta, not allowing Lula ads to be seen or be placed, amplifying the Bolsonaro ads, favoring Bolsonaro with the algorithms. You had Trump's guy in the region, this guy, Fernando Seremedo. He's now in a Bolivian prison, although the Trump regime is working to get him out. But he's the MAGA guy in Latin America, who tried to kill his partner, tried to kill a partner who was pregnant with their child together, femicide. And we now believe that she's being targeted by the Bolivian president to go after her. And then they're going to try to free Fernando Seremedo. But you have Trump having a guy in Latin America. This guy was an Argentinian consultant. And now, fortunately, he's been in prison. So he wasn't able to do the dirty work that he's been able to do in some of the other elections right there. But he was Trump's guy in the region. And Trump and MAGA and this authoritarian network, they're out there every damn day trying to interfere with the elections in Brazil and elsewhere. And the fact that Trump didn't call Lula, the president of Brazil, congratulate him and instead- we harbor basically the fugitive. We harbor Bolsonaro here in the United States. It just goes to show you that the United States is this rogue, dangerous, unserious criminal regime where criminals are harbored like Bolsonaro. And this is what the Trump regime does every day. It's sad and sickening that this is what the United States has become. You got Donald Trump claiming that he would have won in California. If there was an honest vote, he says he would have actually won in California, which is just more pathetic lies. But again, this is, look at what Netanyahu has been saying in Israel. Look at what Bolsonaro was saying in Brazil. Look at what these authoritarians do globally when it comes to elections. It's this exact stuff. It's a global network of this. My opinion, millions. It's a corrupt state and very, very corrupt elections. It's a corrupt state. If that, if California were honest, if they had honest vote count, I would have won it by a lot. Just says things like that. If it had an honest vote count, I'd win a lot. No, you lost massively in California. And look, we're going to see the Trump regime on a state-by-state basis do everything they can to destroy, to interfere with, to try to block elections, certifications. We know it's coming. It's happening right now. And it is important that we all get out the word, that everybody's out there making sure that they voted, that they will vote, that their vote is being counted. And it is important that the rebuke of Trump be so massive and be so major that it sends a message that. This catastrophic war is illegitimate, that the Epstein files need to be released, that we have to send a message to the world that this regime does not represent what America is. To me, that's not even a political message. It is an unserious, rogue, criminal regime that needs to be held accountable and checked. I'll show you what went down this morning on State Regime Media Fox, where you had somebody who was. Showing up at this Trump event, and Fox asked, why are you here this morning? And the Trump rally attendee's answer was just perfect. Here, let me show you what he said. Let's play this clip. Tom, why are you here this morning? Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to get involved and go to South America for the Jonestown massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. Wait, the Jonestown massacre? That's right. See, it's nothing like being a cult right up front, man. All right. Maybe this is not a Trump supporter right now. It's okay. We'll find over it. I appreciate that. We've also been seeing a number of people protest Trump at these small events. He's in very tiny rooms. And even in these tiny rooms, we have seen protesters saying, release the Epstein files, Virginia Giuffre, pedo protector, and really call out Trump, really call out J.D. Vance. I'll show you over here this Texas Trump voter. Who said, I can't stand Ken Paxton. I don't like anything he stands for. Do we have that one? Let's play that one. With Tallarico and Paxton, it's more of a vote against Paxton because I cannot stand Ken Paxton. Okay. And let me share with you the latest polling that came out from CNN today as this catastrophic war escalates. And as you can see, we have a lot of people who are against it. We have a lot of people who are against it. It escalates and escalates as gas prices, diesel prices continue to surge as the American people. Every day, this is what I said, right? Every day, it's going to get worse and worse and worse for the American people because Donald Trump is just lying about everything. We don't have $22 trillion. We don't control the straight of Hormuz. The tariffs against the world are not working. In fact, they're causing a massive amount of harm and they're causing inflation to skyrocket. Everything is getting worse and he can go around and claim we're in a golden age and we control the straight and we don't. We don't. He's lying. So every day, the fraud, I mean, you can lie if you like he does, you know, I mean, and get, you know, and wing it for a month or two months or three months, four months. Eventually, I mean, it catches up with you. You shouldn't be doing that at all. But it's every day is worse than the prior day because all it is. And whereas before, you know, whereas in past economic catastrophes and crises, even when we had leadership that I thought was pretty freaking bad, like George W. Bush, you would still bring together. You would still say we're in a housing crisis, right? Like they would still acknowledge like we're in a housing crisis. What's going on with Lehman Brothers? And the packaging of these mortgage-backed securities is bad. What's happening is awful. You know, this is a, you know, you acknowledge the reality and then you put smart people in the room and, you know, and it's not great to acknowledge reality when it's really bad, but that's what serious adults do, right? You know, you don't go to a doctor to tell you you're healthy when you're sick, but you bring adults in the room and then they solve the problem. Do you know how many Lehman Brothers probably exist right now? And because we don't have a securities exchange commission, we don't have a commodities future trade commission, we don't have a labor board functioning anymore, that the Enrons, the Lehman Brothers, you know, all of these entities, they just continue to dig deeper and deeper in the rabbit hole. They start making deals with each other to as part of this circular Ponzi scheme while trying to. Take on massive amounts of debt to keep this thing rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling with zero oversight over what's happening right there. And things just get worse every day because all they're doing is ripping us off and stealing, defrauding us and lying to us. And so at this point, we know the price of oil and diesel is going to continue to rise because it costs a million five or two million dollars a day to get out a very large. Crude carrier out of the Strait of Hormuz. We know that there is an issue with refining capacity right now. You know, we know the prices of our electricity keep going up and all Trump's got is talking about men's asses or whatever the hell he's talking about. Take a look at the CNN new polling from today. Let's play. At the breaking news, seeing blue brand new CNN polls and races that could decide who controls the Senate with results Democrats will like across the board. In Texas, Democrat James Tallarico leaves Republican Ken Paxson by six points. This would be a major flip. No Democrat has won a statewide race in Texas in three decades. In Michigan, Democrat Abdul Al-Sayed leads Republican Mike Rogers by seven points. This is a significant shift back around Labor Day. There was no clear leader here for Democrats holding on to Michigan is essential in their Senate math. In deep red Kansas, Democrat Adam Hamilton is at 40. 49% to 45% for Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. This is within the margin of error, but still a blaring warning sign for Republicans in a state that should be safe territory and not where they want to be spending time, effort and money. And in Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson is at 49%. The incumbent Republican Susan Collins is at 45%. This, too, is within the margin of error. Collins has been able to hang on in the past when there have been years favorable to Democrats. Can she do it one more time? But again, across the boards in these numbers that we've seen from these four states, Democrats will see a path to the majority. Moments ago, New York Times reporting the Trump regime has opened a criminal investigation in its intensifying campaign to prove thousands of noncitizens are on California's voter rolls, issuing federal grand jury subpoenas to local election officials, according to people with knowledge of the matter. And copies of subpoenas obtained by the New York Times. You're going to do that in every state. As we head from now into the midterms, we're going to see a level of desperation that is unmatched. And we're going to be here with you. We're going to be here with each other every step of the way. WTF America is our book, The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. We've got a lot to discuss when we come back. A reminder, hit subscribe. Let me know if you got a copy of the hardcover. It's number two on the New York Times bestseller list right now. It beat the Newt Gingrich book and it beat the Brian Kilmeade book. It's number one political book out there right now. 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One last time, that's C-A-S-P-E-R.com and get a king mattress for the price of a queen or a queen mattress for the price of a full. Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and this is your Breaking News. We reported before the break that the Trump regime is launching a criminal probe in order to interfere with the California elections. The New York Times reporting that subpoenas, criminal subpoenas, have been flying and that there's a criminal investigation opened up as part of the Trump regime's trying to attack the voting in California ahead of the election. In California, we're seeing the Trump regime working with the governor of Alaska and working with the AG of Alaska, who are both ultra-MAGA, to basically try to shut, you know, to say that no matter what happens in Alaska, right now, the results are, should be thrown out and that, you know, by the way, even though the Alaska Supreme Court has already, you know, the Alaska Supreme Court is made up of Republicans and independents, like no Democrat on it. And the Alaska Supreme Court said, look, you put Dan Sullivan, put incumbent, that erases any issue of confusion with the other Dan Sullivan. You know, it's really not a, you know, it's really not a big deal. The people of Alaska will not. They all know who the Dan Sullivan is. What are we talking about? There's 737,000 people in Alaska. They can read the word incumbent. This is not, you know, something that is ultra-confusing to people. Peltola previously got 49% of the vote, where you had Dan Sullivan got 41 or 42% of the vote. Even if you added both Sullivans together, it still would be significantly less than Mary Peltola's vote count as well. But anyway, you have the Trump regime. I'm already saying no matter what happens, we believe that this is criminal. And, you know, the elections board, the superior court, and the Supreme Court of Alaska have all said already, there is no good faith standard or bad faith standard. Even if all of the allegations that you claim against Peltola are actually true, even if you say that she, you know, that her and the campaign, you know, worked to recruit a Dan Sullivan, even if you accepted that, there's nothing in the state of Alaska. The voters are able to decide and can see, okay, who's the incumbent and who's not, and that they're able to address it and deal with it. And it's like, you know, I understand that there are a lot of people throwing a huge outrage over that. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's like, do you see what's happening in every state with Trump and Elon Musk and what's going on across the country right now? And to me, it just plays into this double standard, you know, that really exists where this is being compared to all of the stuff that's been happening with basically elections. It's being bought and paid for by Trump and Musk and these MAGA oligarchs that this is the thing that you're, you know, focused on. But, you know, I'll let you all, I'll let you all decide. Moments ago, Donald Trump was also on the tarmac as he was leaving that disastrous South Carolina speech. And a reporter was asking him, you know, look, you just canceled your trip to Kansas. He was supposed to speak in Kansas as part of one of the. Closing speeches and now he's no longer speaking there and he's pretty much going to spend the rest of the time really before the midterms, I think, in Florida. And so a reporter asked him, so, you know, is this because you're sick of traveling? Are you getting tired? Is anything to do with your health? I'll show it to you in a moment. We're loading this clip right now because it just happened moments ago. But Donald Trump yells at the reporter and he tells the reporter, you're a sick guy. Look at this guy. You're way out of shape. You're disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell. You're a disgusting person. Yeah, let's play that clip. Not going to Kansas has nothing to do with you being sick of traveling. Oh, you're sick to ask that question. You are sick. Who are you with? I'm with Reuters, sir. You are a sick guy. Reuters is terrible. But can you imagine, look at this guy, he's way out of shape. Look at how badly, he comes to me, sir, you're not going to go to Kansas. I'm not going to Kansas because he's doing very well. I'm going to do a tell around him. Tomorrow, I'm doing Florida. He said, what's the reason after doing what? Twenty eight. He says, what's the reason for this, sir, that you're not going to Kansas? You know, the reason is, I don't feel I have to go to Kansas. I'm going to Florida tomorrow and I'll do if something else comes up. But he said, you're not going to Kansas, sir. Are you feeling well? You've been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect. You are disgusting. You look like hell. Thank you. I mean, just look at that behavior right there. That's the person who has the nuclear codes. That's the person who just consulted with, I mean, to watch him crack like that as the pressure is mounted. The question was a fair question. It wasn't. The question was, well, from a Reuters reporter, right? Which pretty much shoots down the minimum is Reuters reporter who said, what's the reason? I mean, you're not going to Kansas, sir. Are you tired? You are. You are disgusting. Look at you. Get yourself in shape. Look at, look at you. You are. I mean, look, Trump is, I'm just making an observation. I mean, he's, he happens to be morbidly obese. Donald Trump is. He can't complete sentences. He brags about cognitive exams. His hands are turning purple or different colors and sometimes his face has all of these patches. He can't put all this makeup on to, to, to cover that up. He's talking about men's asses as his concluding message to the American people. This person's ass, this person's handsome, this person's attractive. This person's that, this person's that, and that's his attack on the reporter. He doesn't have the mental, emotional intelligence or capability to lead again, don't care what political party you're from. You should look at that and go, what the F, what the hell is this? Here was Donald Trump. He was asked to what, one of the arguments that the Trump regime, this is a real argument that they're making to a federal judge about why Donald Trump should seize control of the East Potomac golf course. This is what he's obsessed with doing. He's already destroyed the maples and the mature Oaks and the cherry blossoms against a court order. Now he just wants to fully seize the golf course. To turn it into a Trump course basically. And one of the things he's claiming is it's dangerous. He goes, everybody, he posted this in a message. Everybody keeps getting hit with balls. And then he claims that people from his staff keep getting hit with balls at the driving range. And thus it is a national security issue because there are so many balls hitting people at the East Potomac golf course, golf course as the American people are. They're literally suffering right now, psychologically tortured by what this Trump regime is doing. This is what he's, this is what he's saying. So the reporter said, who was hit at the golf course? Who from your team? What, what, what is this story you're telling? Listen to what he says here playing this clip. He's doing, he's doing very well actually. And who was hit at the golf course? Who was what? Who was hit at the golf course? Oh, many people. You mean, are you talking about the one over here? Yeah. Many people. It's very dangerous because the holes are too close. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. You know what I'm saying? It's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's very obsolete course. And we're doing very well. We're going to have something great for the country. Mr. President, we'll have top tournaments here. Top tournaments here. It's going to be great for the country. Many people were hit. Who were the people? Give the facts. What's the, just, and even if you gave the facts, this is what you're talking about right now? I just, I don't know. Granted, he's speaking in front of very small crowds. I mean, the The crowd he spoke in front of today in Rock Hill, South Carolina, I don't know, was it 1,300 people maybe, spoke at a really small crowd in Ohio. Did you see that? It was like a high school gym, whereas Obama and Ossoff are speaking at like stadiums. James Tallarico is filling rooms of thousands and thousands of people in Lubbock and elsewhere. But the fact that you still even have people around Trump, I mean, you're nodding your head. Right now, you're happy that he's ripping down trees at a golf course and talking about golden ballrooms. This is what excites you. This is what interests you right now. This is what's on your mind. Seriously. Seriously. Let me show you the difference, though. I think this is a great supercut that Brett made, my younger brother Brett, showing Obama's speech in Georgia with Ossoff. Contrasted to Trump's speech in Ohio with Senator Houston. Here, let's play this clip. Hello, Atlanta! We named a lovely lake named like Lake Ontario. Jumping on the Jeffrey F. Steele. The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments. He took great umbrage. He said, I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House. It's all crazy. But this was the really crazy part. They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. Will you two guys stand up, please? Everyone thinks they're my best friends. I don't. I don't know. Black such a. There's only two tonight. What's going on? These are not serious people. They don't have solutions to actual problems. So they'd rather have the media and you talking about the Cheesecake Factory. That's the game they've been playing for the last two years. Just keep throwing distractions out there. Attacks, fabrications, phony outrage. And hope that you won't notice that your bills are higher and your life is tougher. I passed three cognitive tests. What about Darlene Graham, the MAGA Republican Senator of South Carolina? Made her name Graham again, even though that's not what she was calling herself for most of her adult life because of the fact that she's Lindsey Graham's sister. Let's take a look at what her closing message was to voters in South Carolina. So while Dr. Annie Andrews is talking about health care, affordability, gas prices, making sure the Epstein files get released, being a check against Trump's catastrophic war. What's the message from Darlene Graham right now? We gonna let her do that? I don't know about you, but I. I will not allow the liberals and socialists to turn South Carolina blue. You know what? They can just kiss my ass. Kiss my ass? What's up with the ass? Why is everything ass? Trump and Houston's ass. Houston, I'm gonna work out so my ass looks good for Donald Trump. They can kiss my ass. Kiss my ass. Just. Why is this. Why is this. Why is this utopian reality show meets WWE because of Trump? And it goes to what Obama was saying, is that because politics has been viewed through this gamified lens, the way it's been covered is who can ever suck the most attention is viewed as authoritative versus what it should be is calling out who's qualified. Calling out the facts, calling out what's happening. And so you even see someone like Darlene Graham now argument, kiss my ass, kiss my ass. And that's how all these Trump and magnet people speak. Take a look at what Tim Scott has to say. Candidates to make sure that the last two years of president's Trump's agenda is a legacy. We'll never forget. The first. The first two years have been amazing. The last two years can be even better. Four more, he says over here. 28 to 32. I hear what you're saying over there. They've been amazing. For those who are joining now, I want to show this clip I showed at the outset, which is Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. He explains that he is aware of what the Trump escalation. Invasion plan of Iran looks like right after the midterms and how disastrous it would be. I want you to listen to the sober and solemn words of Chris Murphy because this is what's at stake right now. Let's play this clip of Senator Chris Murphy in one of these briefings. We did get the chance to have a fairly detailed conversation about what the war plan would be if we restarted military operations. You've heard a preview that it would be a short duration. Yeah. Yeah. um plan i will just say this their plan is insane um it won't it won't it it it will lead to devastating escalation and the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law can you say more i mean there's been open reporting as to you know what we may be planning and the civilian infrastructure that we may be targeting um i i i think the plan the plan that they have they have certainly been asked by the president to develop a plan whether they believe it it will work or not i do not know but the plan that they have developed will lead in my view to a prolongment and an escalation of this war that will be devastating for our security interests so while we have a united states senator chris murphy describing that you had donald trump speaking in south carolina attacking the country that should be the united states top ally in canada let me show you what trump said moments ago let's play is there ever going to leave unless you have a stupid president if you have a stupid president and we had a lot of them to be honest because we got killed on trade canada is learning their lesson they took advantage of us for many many years we lost 90 billion dollars last year with canada 90 billion in the good old times and we're not gonna we don't mind helping them out but we're not going to subsidize canada to do 90 billion dollars and now we put tariffs on them and they're treating us extremely nicely lately mexico also i mean they're not happy that i changed the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america do we have the clip jeremy of jd vance but he was saying on the campaign trail today where he was saying well if anybody divides us by the color of our skin we need to call these people out who are dividing us according to race and skin color here play this clip and perhaps most importantly we ended the practice of dei in the united states of america because anybody whether it's an employer or a judge or a university administrator anybody who would divide us and against us our fellow citizens by the color of their skin anybody who would say that you're more or less american because you're black or white that person is a scumbag and we tore it out of american law there's just no shame just zero shame right they'll just say anything and the projection is so crazy i mean while he was saying that donald trump was in south carolina saying if you're black or if you're jewish you're crazy you're crazy anyway but you're definitely crazy if you vote for dr abdul el sayed but you're crazy anyway if you're a black person or a jewish person here play this clip if you're black or if you're jewish and if you vote for abdul you're crazy okay you're crazy you're crazy anyway but if you're black by the way i'm reminded of when dr abdul el sayed was doing the impression of donald trump and he was like abdul abdul and i look i i think this is i i know people are joining at all different times um this live stream so i do think this is a deeply serious story that deserves a lot more attention as well um again that the u.s army is starting to practice digging mass battlefield graves right now, that our soldiers, it's the first time this has happened since the Korean War, are training to bury fellow troops in temporary graves en masse. And those preparations are underway right now. At the same time, we know that Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM, who's out there posting that we control the Strait of Hormuz and everything is great and we're winning the war, he's a MAGA bootlicker. And he and Hegseth have their plan ready to go. You heard Senator Murphy reference what it was. We know that it's, you know, we know basically what it was because a lot of it's leaked publicly, where they think that in a short period of time, they're going to drop all of these mother of all bombs, these MOABs on civilian infrastructure in Iran, that that's going to make Iran subversive. And they're going to drop all of these MOABs on civilian infrastructure in Iran, basically it'll be a, they're not going to use nuclear weapons on Iran, but they're going to use all of these MOABs on Iran to basically create the type of devastation and destruction of a Hiroshima or Nagasaki using MOABs, but not going nuclear, launching it all over Iran, and then trying to force the country into submission based, on that type of strike, using all of the MOABs, which Iran is then prepared to unleash hell in the region. While you have Donald Trump bragging about cognitive exams, while you have Trump doing this, here, play this clip. Let him take cognitive tests. I'm the only, I took three of them, aced every single one of them, by the way. I aced them. But, but I think they should have got, we can't have another four years like this was. So that's the person making the decisions right now. This is serious. This ain't a game. This isn't funny. You know, I, yeah, I get that he talks about men's asses all of the time and we could sometimes, you know, he's talking about men's asses and he's talking about cognitive exams. And, you know, he's got Natalie Harp who runs around with him. And, you know, and, you know, he's, he's wearing some sort of exoskeleton thing on his body and, you know, and look, look, you know, look at all of the, you know, insane things that he's doing and the behavior. Folks, this is, this is war and peace. This is life and death. And if they escalate the way they're saying they're going to escalate, you know, you're going to have a type of catastrophic outcome that we frankly have never before in at least modern history. And it's so freaking predictable. It's so predictable. I mean, you know, thinking about what's going on behind the scenes, you know, apparently you had JD Vance send a letter to Motion Razai, who is the top advisor to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini. And JD Vance was basically asking you, sure, can we do a deal? Can we do a deal? And it fundamentally didn't go the way that he wanted it to go. You know, it's so, it's, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, a deal was reached by independent mediators. You know, we're talking about the foreign minister of Oman, for example. That's when Trump and Netanyahu struck. So Iran's position has been a pretty consistent one where it says, if you fulfill seven conditions that we've laid out, which by the way, you agreed to in the memorandum of understanding, we'll open up the Strait of Hormuz. Otherwise, we're not going to open up the Strait. We'll keep shooting tankers. We'll keep knocking out tankers one by one. We're, and Iran's position is also, we're not talking about the nuclear file. We're not talking about that anymore. You've already claimed you obliterated our nuclear weapons. So it shouldn't even be a conversation anyway. And we're not going to engage in any conversations about nuclear topics unless and until you do all seven of those things, then you can build trust. And then we're open to a conversation within a multilateral framework, but we, but we have no in tying nuclear capability into this at all. In fact, if we've been, you know, that's why, you know, this reporting is important. If we've been following what's taken place, Iran's president, Pozesky, and was just in Moscow two days ago, meeting with Putin at, it was the, it was the gas energy, it was the gas exporting country conference that was taking place. And it was in Moscow where Iran played a major role as a gas exporting country. And there was a meeting on the sidelines there between Iran's president, foreign minister, Russia's president, Putin, foreign minister Lavrov, where they also agreed to expand their cooperation on nuclear plants in Iran. More facilities at the Bushir nuclear plant, which is already a JV for nuclear energy between Russia and Iran. And then build out more nuclear plants as well. And they announced that in a joint statement. They announced more joint economic, strategic, regional cooperation as well. The reporting we discussed earlier today as well, that Iran has opened up these export routes using train and freight and getting it out to China and getting its products out to Russia. The first container train carrying exports from Iran's coal marines. And so, you know, we're open to that. departed for China. Simultaneously, 460 tons of sodium hypochlorite from Iran's Semden were transported to Turkey by train, further expanding Iran's railway export routes as well with increased maritime restrictions. Rail freight transport from China to Iran has increased tenfold in recent weeks. It's increased tenfold. And so we have to understand what's actually going on here. Iran is definitely getting hurt by the U.S. blockade, but they're not going to submit anytime soon. They've increased their ballistic missile arsenal. They've increased their cruise missile arsenal. Their technology has gotten better. They've increased their drone arsenal. They've been working with Russia in terms of the upgraded drones. Just in the past, since the catastrophic war in Iran began, drone technology has increased massively because we went from Shahid-style drones to drone-style drones. We went from drone-style drones to drone-style drones to Garen-4, Garen-5, 450, 500 kilometer per hour drones that even Ukraine's anti-drone interceptors can't stop. And so the U.S. is very low on our military interceptors, our Patriot, our Thads, and those are supposed to stop the ballistic missiles and the cruise missiles from Iran. But now you're going to have to continue to stop the ballistic missiles from Iran. which is what Ukraine has to deal with, which is these Garen-4, Garen-5 upgraded drones, which are increasingly difficult to intercept. Ukraine's drone interception rate went from 91, 92% to 51%. And I even think it's lower than that when it comes to the Garen-5 drones right now. And so Iran's ready to go. And if Trump actually thinks in his delusional mind that their military has been destroyed, he's going to have to do something about it. He's going to have to do something and they don't have these weapons and you're going to do a short bombing spree. And then Iran's going to give up. It's hard for me to fathom the devastation that will befall the region. And by the way, that's why you had earlier this week as well, you had Saudi Arabia, you had Turkey, you had Pakistan's leadership. They're part of something called the Mecca Pact. They were there in Iran meeting with Iran's leadership and they're doing, you know, everything they can, I think, at this point to try to figure out what the hell they're all going to do if and when Donald Trump escalates and Iran's message is, look, you are housing the U.S. on military bases. And as long as that's happening, anything U.S. related, we're going to target. We're going to cut the cables, the internet cables that are underneath the Strait of Hormuz. We're going to cut, you know, these, there's like seven major cables that are underneath the Strait of Hormuz cables that connect all of the internet in the Middle East. It's right there in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran can cut it. They'd actually probably put a sea mine and then blow it up. But they're capable of doing that. There are data centers there that can easily be destroyed and hit. And by the way, can we just pull back for us? What are we trying to accomplish? Like, can we ask that question other than Trump covering up the Epstein files? What's the end goal? What's the objective? What are we trying to do? Netanyahu has said regime change. He's made it very clear. Regime change, regime change, regime change. As I said in the first segment, if you really wanted to do regime change, again, I think this whole war is catastrophic. We should not be involved in at all. If you really want regime change, and that's the goal, which you won't achieve, you need hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the ground. You'll have 30,000 to 50,000 deaths a month. If you actually wanted to try to initiate controlling the different cities and towns and provinces within Iran, 50,000, 60,000 deaths a month. That's what that means. You're not going to bomb them and they're going to go, okay, now we're going to surrender. And they'll fight to the death. They made that very clear. They will fight to the death. They are prepared to fight to the death in Iran. And the American people deserve to hear what that means and understand what that means and the devastation and catastrophe that would take place in the entire region and the world. And we legitimately are slow walking or fast walking now. They are not going to surrender. They are not going to surrender to World War III in front of our eyes. They are not going to surrender by dropping bombs on them, even Moabs. They will not surrender. If they can escalate from a level of one to 10, right now they've escalated just thus far to about a two of what they're capable of doing. They're capable of what we've seen at a scale significantly. Larger. And that's why listen to what Senator Murphy's saying. Read what's happening behind the scenes as the three-star Lieutenant General responsible for military planning gets fired around midnight and then gets defamed by the Trump regime. This guy led the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles. Okay. You don't think this guy was saying this would be catastrophic and then Hegseth? And Trump tried to, you know, had to purge this guy? You know, this guy, this guy, you don't get much more prestigious than being the commander of the 101st to all the people, to all the army vets out there. You know what I'm talking? Look at that guy's resume. That's the guy they just purged. There was a comment, Ben, only 10% of Iranian people support the IRGC. Grow a set, Ben. Heart emojis. Let's assume your fact is true. What does grow a set mean? Grow a set means you want to invade? You want Americans to die? With your heart emojis, tell me what you want to see happen. You want the U.S. 10% of 90 million? You want to do the math of what that number is? What's 10% of 90 million? And so then tell me, where that is dispersed throughout Iran, what your game plan is? Tell me what the game plan is. You think you're going to do regime change in Iran? Are you going to send your family member? You send your family member over there. How about that? How about heart emoji, heart emoji? I'll give you heart emojis. Send your family members to that war. Send your son, your daughter, your cousin. If you believe, grow a set. If that's your perspective, that that's how we handle things, you tell me. That's what we got today. I got the show with the brothers that I got to prepare for. Get WTF America, The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. Check it out right now. Thanks for making it a New York, Times bestseller. Appreciate you. Let me know what you thought about the book. We're grateful for you. All right. I'll see you on the brother show tonight. Oh, we're doing a major election coverage that I want to remind everybody about. We're doing election coverage at the Midas Touch Network. It's going to be hosted by Scott McFarland and Katie Fang. So check it out. And I'll be on it as well. Also, Luke Radel will be co-hosting as well, led by Scott, led by Katie. I'll kind of throw it to them throughout the night. I definitely want to see you all. What we'll do is when this show ends right now, just so you can see where that video is, where that live resides, we'll send you there. Don't worry when you get sent there. This way you can know, okay, this is where I got to go when the election starts. So we're going to have coverage the whole night. We're going to have guests. We have a studio in Washington, DC. We're making it a really big deal because it is a big deal. And I hope you will trust us with the coverage and spend time with us that evening. Appreciate you. And thanks everybody. We appreciate you so much. Have a good one. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad-free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com. 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