Transcript of MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/17/26

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Und E-Rezepte löst du auch super easy ein. Shopapotheke. Riesenauswahl, kleine It's President's Day, and the President of the United States is covering up a child sex trafficking ring, disgracing the country, ripping away people's health care. Let's just get right into We have now learned that Donald Trump may still be concealing an additional 50 terabytes that constitutes the Epstein files. That could literally mean hundreds of millions of documents are still being concealed, not just like an extra 3 million documents, which is what Todd Blanch and Bondi said they were withholding based on their own adjudication of privileged claims that are not valid privileged claims to withhold what are likely the most devastating documents, far more devastating than what's even have been produced. But in addition to those 3 million documents, there's probably somewhere in the range of 50 to 100 million documents. We'll break that down. Also, over the weekend, Donald Trump's Department of Justice also published their own Epstein list. They basically published a fake list to try to muddy the waters. So they have Donald Trump's name and other people from the Trump regime who were actually close with Epstein. Then they put people on the list like Janice Joplin and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Dan Quale and people like Also, if you were investigating Epstein, they put you on the list as well.

So like, Massey's name is on it, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's name is on it. The idea is just to put everybody on it in order to just cast doubt on the list in general. That's just how despicable this regime is. We'll break it down. This past weekend, Donald Trump was haunted by former President Obama, former President Clinton, and potentially future President, Gavin Newsom. All three were going on the offense. Obama here in the United United States, attending the All-Star Game and doing interviews where he called out Donald Trump's clownish behavior. Then in Munich, you had former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and governor of California, Gavin Newsom, going on the offense against Donald Trump on the world stage. We'll cover that. Meanwhile, you had Marco Rubio giving speeches at Munich, declaring that the world order is officially destroyed, like bragging that the United States destroyed the global world order. Rubio then went to Hungary, where he's been in the past 24 hours, standing shoulder to shoulder with Viktor Orbán, trying to hoist up that regime, interfere with the elections in Hungary to keep a Putin bootlicker in power in Hungary as Orbán is trailing. We also saw world leaders throughout the Munich conference speaking out against the Trump regime, acknowledging the world order is effectively destroyed by the United States, but being rebuilt by Europe, Canada, Australia, Asia, and as the United States is isolating itself, apparently US, Orban, Russia, that's the US crew right now when it's so utterly freaking embarrassing.

Then you have Donald Trump posting as usual, his embarrassing President's Day messages saying, Everything's great. Everybody's rich. We're the richest. Everyone's doing amazing. Golden Age. I'm the greatest. As people are suffering here. Let's bring in Brett and Jordi. Good to see you, brothers. In other words, we've got a lot to discuss on this show.

If you thought the holiday would be a slow news day, think again. I'm hearing a lot of people call this President's Day Obama Day. I've noticed that going around on the internet. I think because people know that that pisses off Trump so much. But You got to know that seeing Obama out there at the NBA All-Star Game, getting a standing ovation from the crowd, having all the players go up there and give him high fives, all the photos, all the posts by the various NBA teams with him, you know that's got to kill Donald Trump. You know that's got to just absolutely torture the guy and good, because he is torturing us every single day, and he is covering up for this horrific child sex trafficking ring. What the DOJ did over the weekend. I should never say that they hit rock bottom because there's always a basement to rock bottom with this regime. Such an absolute disgrace with this fake list that they released to Muddy the Waters and everything else that they have done has just been such a slap in the face to the survivors, has just been a slap in the face also to just all the American people who are demanding justice and are demanding the truth.

One of the interesting things is seeing that even many of the diehard MAGA people now are finally starting to wake up as we see the floor fall out from Donald Trump's approval rating. You thought there might have been a floor there. Well, it seems like Donald Trump keeps sinking lower and lower and lower. We're going to get into all of that. But But first, we got to toss it over to Jordi and see how Jordi is doing. Jordi, what's the latest?

What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? I'm excited to get into today's show. One quick housekeeping note, 40,000. 40,000 away from hitting 6 million subscribers on the YouTube. So if you can, please check to see if you're subscribed. Hit that subscribe button. It's totally free. Some people think you're subscribed, but you're actually not. So just do a quick double check. And if you're not subscribed, hit that subscribe button. Again, totally free, I think we might hit it this week. We might hit it this week. We'll see. Benji, where are we starting off today, Big Bro?

I probably have now reviewed the millions of records in the redacted Epstein files that have been produced. How many times do you think? I've read through them like 20 times, and I think I've covered them from every angle. Go back and watch the long form videos I've done. Everything where I speak about the Putin connections within the Epstein files, the new Mexico Ranch, the Zoro Ranch, which there was never any subpoenas or FBI searches. And the Ranch is one of the areas where most of the crimes were taking place. We talk a lot about the island. We talk a lot about the townhouse in New York and what was going on in West Palm Beach. But a lot of the crimes were happening at this Zoro Ranch in New Mexico, where Epstein was able to avoid registering as a sex offender, taking advantage of loopholes under New Mexico law. We covered what goes down there. We talked about, of course, the Trump connections over and over again. It just bears. I can go through any stack and I find documents. Before the show, I was just looking through the documents that I've been going through.

Just think about an email like this. This is April 18th, 2011, and it's from Epstein's private investigator to Epstein saying, Before I call Trump with regard, Virginia, are there any other alternatives? Or an email from June eighth of 2018 between Epstein and an artist named André Serrano. And you have Epstein saying, One Madonna on the way instead of torture photo, maybe portrait of me instead. Presentation of Trump-ville. Here it is. Room should be 75 by 75. And then over the weekend, there was lots of reporting, too, about the text messages between Epstein and Banon. I know we've covered that a lot. I mean, you're like, Oh, yeah, tell me something new. More of a focus on trying to overthrow of Pope Francis, and that there was this massive effort as Epstein and Banon were working with these MAGA files, I guess we should probably call them now MAGA files, these Epstein class people during the first Trump administration to overthrow liberal democracies across the world and hoist up MAGA leaders like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and keep in power people like Orban in Hungary. And by the way, in Hungary, someone like a Viktor Orbán, used allegations of pedophilia against his political enemies, saying that Orbán would be the one to hunt down the pedos.

Exact same playbook. I've covered this before on the network. And then ultimately, the juvenile prison system in Budapest was being used by Orbán's regime to sex traffic underage boys and girls, and they themselves were the pedos. That's a common theme we're seeing amongst these right wing authoritarian regimes. They use the same playbook. They were trying to overthrow Pope Francis. They talk about planting porn on Pope Francis or like, should we know, porn? Let's take him down. We're going to take down the Clintons, Francis, the EU, G, come on, brother. I mean, this is Banon and Epstein. Look, Epstein was like running the Trump administration. It was talking about holding cabinet meetings on the island after Trump was elected. You've got messages between Epstein to multiple people looking for who is going to be the Treasury Secretary. Epstein looked like he was in charge of identifying who the Treasury Secretary was going to be in the first Trump administration. So I think back, when I think about the tools of the authoritarian playbook, I think to how the projection of the Trumps and the MAGA and their conferences and how they weaponize this against their political opponents.

I mean, by the way, Tom Barrack right now, one of Trump's top diplomats. I mean, in August 2011, you have Barrack emailing Epstein and saying, Just saw the Sultan who likes you a lot. This is the Sultan who sent him the torture photos. I told him, You are the best, that you are first class, Jeffrey. You're a first class brain inside a first class human being. I miss you. And then the guy right now who's the CBS host, Atia, because CBS is regime media, you have Barry Weiss in CBS refusing to get rid of Atia. Atia is talking about... I didn't want to say the words. I didn't want to say the words. They're so grotesque. Talking about female genitalia being low carbs. I'll just say that is what this guy Atia was saying to Epstein. And The hardest part about being your best friend is knowing that most people don't even know the things that we do or I can't even share what we all do together. Then you have- It's for a quote.

Ready? 2016, I go into J. E. Withdrawal. I go into Jeffrey Epstein withdrawal when I don't see him. This is the guy they're keeping around at CBS.

There's other ones that are just like what I'm saying, where he's like, The hardest part about being your best friend is most people don't know about all the secrets or something. It's like our secret code. Then he says that women's genitalia is low carb. Just disgusting stuff.

But like, yes. The worst part about being Epstein's friend was that, The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can't tell a soul.

You see, I mean, look, I don't even have the files in front of me. I can pretty much give you an encyclopedic recount of all of the things that are said. But CBS is like, Yeah, we can't give in to the woke mob. We have to keep that guy. Why do you have to keep that guy? What are you talking about? So you have all that. But I'm just thinking about at these mega conferences, remember the line that they would also... I could show you this for hours, but do we have that clip, Brett and Jordi, of Don Jr. At the MAGA conferences when Biden was in office and what they would say about, This was all the left, and this is what Biden's cover up. Here, play this clip of Don Jr.

I am on every list except The Epstein list.

We haven't heard anything about that one in a while.

I'm fine with all the other lists.

As long as I'm not on the Epstein list, we're good, right? Speaking of which, how is it that my father could be convicted of 34 crimes, but no one on Epstein's list has even been brought to light?

I'm trying to figure out how that's possible, right? It's almost like they're trying to protect those pedophiles for some reason.

I can't imagine why.

We're not allowed to say they're groomers, but when they act a lot like groomers, it tells you everything you need to know, right?

Now, what they're doing, too, is did you see these graphics that the MAGA influencers are making, the track Epstein graphics, and they'll have Thomas Massey's face on it and say, On the Epstein list, when he was the person who unmask the Epstein files, with Roe-Kana. This is the playbook right out of authoritarianism. It is to say all these other people are the... All these other people are pedos and cover up the actual pedo ring that's taking place. I mean, the cabal, the sex trafficking cover up that exists is taking place in the White House. And the good news is, though, Brett, when they tried, Jordi, when they tried to publish that fake list over the weekend, right away, Midas Touch was out there. We were there right away. Fake list, bullshit, call it out, say what it is. It was interesting, though, because while you do see these MAGA influencers like Kat Turd and that group, that group is getting smaller and smaller. It's just interesting to see that people who would never agree with us before are favorably saying, They're right. Midas Touch has been right. What you guys have been saying all along, we've been lied to.

I think Don Jr and a lot of these MAGA influencers, when Biden was President, really took advantage of the fact fact that Biden was somebody who actually abided by norms and traditions of the United States and actually believed in a separation between the Department of Justice and the executive branch. Biden, maybe he should have released the files and tried to smear Donald Trump by getting all this information about Trump out there. But that wasn't Biden's MO, and there was active cases and appeals from Ghislaine Maxwell. They said all of those things knowing that they were in the files, knowing that Trump was the main the Epstein files. They should just be called the Trump Epstein files. Even Don Jr. Is mentioned many times in the Epstein files. I was able to find three quick examples right here where Jeffrey Epstein asks somebody, Can we do a coffee with Don Jr. Thursday, Friday, only if easy. This is January 2019. Then they send some dates for the coffee. I don't know if the coffee ended up happening, but they were scheduling a coffee with Don Jr. Epstein was in 2019. There's another where Epstein is speaking with Steve Bannon here.

This is in 2018, where Epstein suggests sending a clip to Don Jr. There's another moment where Jeffrey Epstein references that, Out in Palm Beach, I'm with the Trump boys right now. I don't know who the Trump boys might be. But Epstein said in an email that he was with the Trump boys. So just the gall of somebody to get up there on stage and say those things when you know that you and your family are the most implicated out of anybody. But to Ben's point, that's part of the strategy, as we've seen with Trump from the very beginning. Everything he says is projection. Everything he says is a confession of something that he himself has done. Whenever he calls somebody else a name, whenever he comes up with a conspiracy theory about somebody, it's usually to mask something that he himself is trying to hide from the public. You're really now seeing this delineation, I think, in the MAGA world between the people who you know are just the paid shills. I've seen a lot of people-The Binder crew.

What was that?

The White Binder crew.

Yeah, the White Binder crew. Then you see the folks who have at least a little bit of independence. Maybe the check stopped cashing. I don't know what the situation is. But even when this fake list dropped from the DOJ, I think Midas Touch was the first. I think we were the first organization to get our hands on this list and posted Aaron Parnas, got a great scoop here. We immediately saw the list for what it was because they put people like Elvis Presley on They put people like Marilyn Monroe on it, Janice Joplin, in a mix with names of other people who were actually involved with Epstein, in a mix with... Also not getting a lot of the people on this list who we knew were actually involved with Epstein from reading the files ourselves. The survivors told us that many of the biggest perpetrators of these crimes, of Epstein's associates, were not even on this list. What they did was they just assembled, Oh, if there was a news article that somebody shared about somebody, maybe it said, To this day in 1968, Janis Joplin released her hit single, whatever. That means that Janis Joplin would be on this list.

If they said, I love Elvis. Elvis is one of my favorite artists of all time. That means Elvis now gets on this list. He is viewed the same by the Department of Justice as somebody like a Donald Trump, as somebody like a former Prince Andrew, as a Ghislaine Maxwell. There was a lot of uproar about this, and you actually saw these MAGA influencers online copying copying and pasting the same tweets to each other, including people like Alex Jones. Like, Dude, this was your big issue. And now you got all the… not all the information, but you got a lot of information. And now you're going to try to spin it to protect Donald Trump? Really? What a freaking fraud. But all these people posting things like, This vindicates Trump. Oh, Thomas Massey's on the list. Oh, shut up. Stop with the theatrics. All you're doing is making yourself seem that much guiltier every time you cover it up. And as one of these influencers, these mega propagandists who are online, all you are showing everybody is how big a fraud you truly are. Copying and pasting tweets, defending this crap. This crap is indefensible. This is some of the most heinest things that we have ever seen, and it should not be defended ever.

Absolutely. Look, you don't want to go down in history as a petto protector. And so what you're seeing these right wing influencers do with their platform, they're just exposing themselves. I mentioned that whole white binder crew, right? What I mean by that is there was a crew that had visited the White House early on in this latest Trump regime, where they held up the white binders that said the Epstein files, and they were all touting, Hey, look, we got the Epstein, but we know the truth. The cover up, again, the cover up in this instance is not worse than the crime. The crime is the most heinest thing in the world. But what we're seeing with the cover up right now, peto protectors left and right, and the ones who constantly defend this stuff, defend how the Trump regime is releasing the files, defend Donald Trump, Tooth and Nail. It's just weird. It's just weird, like flat out. It's just a bizarre thing to do. And you talk about being the main character, Brett. Donald Trump is literally the main character of The Epstein Files, to your point. I mean, his name comes up more times in The Epstein Files than Harry Potter was mentioned in the entire Potter series.

What else do you need to know about that? It's truly despicable. And why I've seen some of these, maybe maybe non-Maga, right wing bros come around to the quote unquote, Midas position, which is really just the truth, the true position is what we're looking for here is that people like to box us in right here at this network. Oh, look at the Midas touch network. Oh, those bunch of those lefty libs, or however they want to frame us in their minds. At the root of it, every single day, every single thing that we've ever done was just to find the truth, to actually care about what is going on in this country, and to continue to report on that day in and day out. And so I'm hopeful that more people do not want to be defined forever as petroprotectors and want to uncover the truth. And we'll have them along for this ride because it's too damn important. It is too damn important, Ben.

Well, you ask, what else would you want to know? What else is in the 98% of documents that have not been released? I knew there was a lot missing just based on my civil litigation background in complex civil cases, where if you go back in episodes, I would tell you what it was like me as an associate and a former partner at law firms as a former litigator, I would look through terabytes and terabytes of documents, and I would be responsible for going through 10, 20 million documents. And I was always saying, there's no way that the Epstein documents are this small. It just doesn't make any sense. And then one of the things that I knew was missing is, where's all the financial records? And I'm talking about the dailies, the weeklies, the monthlies, the annual accounts, because what I would do as a young associate, and as a partner, too, is I would go through line by line transactions, and I would try to flag if there were suspicious transactions. When I was practicing, I didn't have access to all this AI software like Claude and OpenAI and all this stuff that's out there, where you can go through a lot of these financials pretty quickly.

But you would flag, wait a minute, $9,999 transaction. That seems suspicious, right? That was one of the ways that Elliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, was flagged when he was caught engaging with the prostitute in New York, was that the transactions were trying to avoid the limits of $10,000. So you would see these withdrawals that were suspicious, and then that raised other red flags. So one of the things that we would see if we had the bank accounts is, imagine what we've been able to crowd source already with all this data. Imagine if we had access to bank records and we could see who was paying who, we could see financial transactions. What were their payments going to and from Mar-a-Lago? Things like that should be accessible and just transactions in general through the global network. There was billions of dollars exchanging hands through this child sex trafficking. Where are all those? Where are the FBI witness reports? Where are the interviews? Where are all these things? There's still so much that's missing. Here's how it was being reported, and of course, it's a UK paper that's reporting it, where they talked about how there was likely only 2% of the documents that have been released so far.

A new investigation examining emails sent between federal investigators and prosecutors are raising fresh doubts over the Department of Justice's claim that it has released the full cache of Epstein files, suggesting that the material made public thus far is just 2% of the data gathered by federal agents. Uk-based broadcaster channel 4 News reported that internal emails seen by its journalists show federal investigators expected to process between 20 and 40 terabytes of data seized from Epstein's properties, including as Florida mansion, New York, townhouse, and private island. The broadcaster added that the emails between investigators discussed the data totaling up to 50 terabytes from the earliest stages in June 2020. It's a lot of terabytes. I mean, that's, again, hundreds of millions of We've only seen three million. And we've known that what they're withholding is the most devastating. But what about all this other stuff, too, that we now are learning about as well, where there could be 100 million documents being withheld? And as I've said, one of the grounds that they're using to withhold a lot of these other documents is they're claiming what's called a legal privilege, which is usually ruled on by a judge, whether you can assert a legal privilege or not, deliberative process privilege, attorney-client privilege, executive privilege.

Just think about it this way. Trump is adjudicating his own privilege claims for withholding records. Think about, so you think they're going to turn over? Put it this way, would they turned over thus far is likely what they consider to be the most tame, the least incriminating stuff. They're holding back on privileged grounds all the internal memos and emails and lots of the witness interviews and a ton of other stuff, which is far worse. Just think about that as we go to our first break. But no one was buying their fake list. People are livid, people are pissed. It's not only that Trump has lost the culture, which we saw when you have Obama getting standing ovations. Trump has lost most of his base. As Brett, as you said, the floor that people thought for Trump was at that 30% range, and now that floor may be in the 20% range as he continues to just... It's not just the Epstein cover up. I mean, on President's Day, this is so perfectly symbolic of everything. I mean, posting that everybody's doing great. How tone deaf can you be? Happy President's Day. Prices and inflation are way down.

The stock market, your 401ks are way up. Our military is strong and powerful. Law enforcement is great. The border is secure. Murders, year 1900 and crime at record lows. Our country is bigger and stronger and better than ever before. Work hard. Enjoy your day. Dj T from the man who covers up child sex trafficking rings and builds himself golden ballrooms and golden arches and takes money from the Saudis and the Emiratis and the Qataris to his personal businesses. Then he gives our classified information to them while he talks about fake $12 trillion deals with Russia, while our allies are all turning away from us. And so when we get back, I want to talk more about what we saw over the weekend with former President Obama, Clinton, Newsom, the Munich Security Conference, what we saw there, and much more. But I want to take our first quick break of the show. As Jordie said, look how close we are to 6 million subscribers. We're about to hit 6 million. Help us get there this week. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. Double check. Help us hit 6 million. We're so grateful if you would do that.

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You have the video of the standing ovation that former President Obama got at the NBA All-Star Game over the weekend. Just show 10 seconds from it if we've got it, Brett. After Donald Trump posted images of former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama with their faces on apes, and then Donald Trump was asked if he was sorry for doing so, and he said, no, it sent a very powerful message about election fraud. That's what our demented person in the Oval office who's covering up for child sex trafficking, had to say, former President Obama was asked about that by our friend Brian Tyler Cohen. And now, more than ever, it's so important also for independent news to stick together and uplift each other. So shout out to It's a great interview that Brian Tyler Cohen did a former President Obama. But again, you saw someone in Obama here in this interview with dignity and class, someone who's quite literally the exact opposite of Donald Trump. And so here is what former President Obama said in response to when he was asked about Trump's racist posts and Trump's behavior, let's play. First of all, I think it's important to recognize that the The majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling.

It is true that it gets attention. It's true that it's a distraction. But as I'm traveling around the country, as you're traveling around the country, you meet people, they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness. There's this clown show that's happening in social media and on television. What is true is that there doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office. So that's been lost. But But the reason I point out that I don't think the majority of the American people approve of this is because ultimately, the answer is going to come from the American people. We just saw this in Minnesota, in Minneapolis. Just take a look at the post, too, from former First Lady Michelle Obama. My favorite teammates on and off the court. It's her with her family. You have former President Barack Obama on Valentine's Day posting, Celebrated Valentine's with my Forever Dance partner. Love you, Michi, Michelle. Again, that's who we are as Americans.

I find there's such a lightness when former President Obama is out there and speaking to the public and is doing the rounds. You're like, Oh, yeah, that's what normal is like. That's what an actual good human being is like. I've always just found this... I think it was maybe one of the first senses I've got that we were living in a completely different world from other people and that other people are just in a completely bizarro mindset about things when they would be like, Oh, Barack Obama, the most divisive president ever. I'm like, In what world Are you even saying? If you try to drill down on the mag of people who say this while they defend Donald Trump, they never have a good answer. They'll usually end up with like, Oh, what he said about Trayvon Martin. What did he say about Trayvon Martin? That was You're upset that he identified with somebody who was killed? I can't even fathom these people's brains. I think it was the first time I'm like, Oh, a lot of the brains in this country are just completely broken out there. But it's great to see former President Obama back there.

And kudos to our friend Brian Tyler Cohen for getting that interview and knocking it out of the park.

Heck, yeah. And look, it's going to be one of the things that America at large is just going to have to grapple with as we go forward here. It's like, Okay, look, you have folks like Obama Hum, humility, dignity, just someone who when you actually hear and see speak and just leader, like leadership, the first word that comes to my mind. And then you have someone like Donald Trump who you just scratch your heads. It's like, how did he get there? And so as we go forward here as a society, I think it's going to be crucial that we just take a step back. I think the Midas-Midi already know this, but us as a country, take a step back and just see who we want to fill that position, the highest position in government, one of the most prestigious positions in government in the world. And seeing what it's become right now is just such a shame. And so it's been cool to see other leaders stand up and start to show what that humility and dignity looks like again.

There's a close connection, though, here with what we're seeing in the Epstein files, because there's an answer to your question, Jordie, how did we get here with Trump? And it's not a chicken or the egg, the Epstein class, or Trump, or the Epstein class. I mean, it's pretty clear that Trump is a vessel of the Epstein class. And one of the reasons that Trump didn't want these documents coming out, among many others, is that he's a prop, a disgusting, demented prop. But he is a proxy for the Epstein class. Internationally, Epstein was a middleman. You know how they would always like, the deep state, the this or the that. Epstein was a middleman and talking about so much destruction that was going on behind the scenes, deep state style, while you had former President Obama representing the ideals and values that defined America and alliances that defined liberal democracies post-World War II, you had that normalcy. But underneath the surface, as we look at what these emails are showing, these Epstein emails, is that you had this group of oligarchs, of Epstein class individuals who were doing these things to cause massive destruction, disruption, and in the panic and the frenzy that would ensue with things like Brexit, annexation of Crimea, Trump's election.

All of these things are connected. They feast and they steal, and they take, and they sex traffic, and they hoard the money and they go and they go crazy. Then crypto develops around this time period where all these insiders were also in on the value. You have Epstein talking about pitching crypto and all these things to Putin. So it's actually behind the scenes. They, the Epstein class, are also creating things like QAnon, which is actually the type of stuff that they were involved in doing to sow the Discord internationally. And Trump was their vessel in the US. Orbán is their vessel in Hungary. Javier Mallet is their vessel in Argentina. La Pen is their in France. Nigel Farage is their vessel in the UK in the reform party. Pierre Polyev is their vessel in Canada, who was Maple Magan, was expected to win before Canada saw exactly what was going down in the US after the Trump election and reverse course. They had Timo Trump in Australia from their liberal party, which is actually their conservative party, to make it confusing for us over there, who was expected to win and then actually lost his own writing as well.

You have this all across the world, and we have to understand that that's what's actually... It's a naive view for us to view Trump as purely a symptom of domestic politics. That's a big mistake. The Epstein files demonstrates what was really taking place behind the scenes.

I would add on to that, too. I would say the one area where I disagree with what former President Obama was saying in in that interview with Brian, is that, yes, there are things that get attention when Donald Trump posts things like those horrific racist images about him or when he posts videos of him dropping feces on Americans or whatever. But to me, it's actually all a part of the same thread that you're talking about right now. It's also just getting people to accept this behavior and accept really any behavior. If you could get people to defend the indefensible when it comes to these silly posts, then start to get people to defend all these things that you're speaking about, uplifting autocrats across the world. You start tearing down that wall of where people would normally have shame, and all of a sudden, you get people like Marco Rubio going to Victor Orbán and going, We're going to support you no matter what. We got your back. We're going to make sure you have all the resources you need, Victor Orbán. This was a guy who a few years ago, Marco Rubio, was very anti-Victor Orbán and actually spoke out against Trump in regards to Viktor Orbán, said that he was anti-democracy, said that he posed a threat to the region.

But now you have Marco Rubio, a guy who goes in and he's just all about Viktor Orbán now. To me, all these pieces are connected. It goes back to that Voltaire quote that I've said on this show before, which is Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. I think that applies here to Donald Trump's ridiculous post. They're more than meets the eye there. They are like a test. In a way, they are like a humiliation ritual for his supporters. You're not going to follow this? Oh, no, you're going to follow this. You're going to support this. You're actually going to say good things about this. And then you're going to say good things about when I try to take over Greenland, you're going to support that as well. And it just escalates and snowballs and snowballs.

And it's also bred to that end, it's a trillion dollar operation right now that's just melting the minds of Americans at large. It's melting the world's minds, but just sticking here in America. It's really scary when you think about the algorithms and the social media platform platforms and who controls those algorithms and platforms. It's one of the fights that we're actively, we, the collective us, are all actively fighting now and will continue to fight. I think it will be a defining moment in this country's history, and it will be interesting. Interesting is not really the right word. It will be dire to see ultimately how this fight against the algorithms unfolds over the next 10, 15, and 25 years, specifically here, because There's some scary stuff, man. You get a whole entire class of MAGA folk out there believing in QAnon, like we saw back in 2020 and how that came to be. And it's defined our politics now for quite some time. And it's hard to get people out of the algorithms once they're so deeply embedded. I mean, it's beamed into your phone. It's beamed right into your eyes. There's no taking any breaks from it.

And seeing who controls those algorithms on a day in and day out basis, it should terrify everybody.

Here's the thing, right? Every conspiracy has a kernel in truth. The thing about QAnon is that it It was real. It was just the Epstein class that was doing it. They were projecting it on their enemies, like the pizza stuff. They were the ones doing it. The playbook is in the Epstein files of what they were doing to cover up their own sex trafficking which was their currency also for world domination and world destruction. I'm not saying that in a conspiratorial way. I mean, there were all the messages basically saying, Hey, Putin's about to go after Crimea. Massive opportunities there for us to make money. Hey, they were meticulously, How do we take down Pope Francis? How do we hoist up Jair Bolsonaro? These were the leaders of countries, King, Queens, Presidents, heads of State, National Security, all speaking with Epstein, and he was helping coordinate this in the emails. You could actually see it. Just to show you, even right now, though, the question is, there are lots of Jeffrey Epsteins among us right now. Just think about that. Right now, there are people like that who are doing that job. When a cartel leader gets killed, a new person fills the role.

Like El Chapo gets removed, and they got El Mancho, and this guy, and that guy. There are other people who are doing that role right now who are being covered for by the fact that Trump's gutded as DOJ. We don't have law enforcement. You have Tulsi Gabbard is the Director of National Intelligence. So this network right now as we speak is stronger than ever because all these people are being connected. It's going on right now. And that's part of what Rubio's trip is when When he's in Hungary right now after being in Munich, first he was in Munich for the Munich conference, now he's in Hungary, and he's there telling Orban, I got your back. But I want people to know it's also more than just Orban's back. It's part of this Epstein class world order that's taking place. I know I sound like world order. That's what's actually happening. There's no other way to look at it, but that's truthfully what is going to happen.

They're basically even saying it out loud. It's a new world order. These are all the things that all these MAGA people warned about. This is what they said. They were like, Oh, there's going to be these leaders at the World Economic Forum. They want a new world order. That's exactly what they decided that they were going to do the second they took power.

I'll show you the receipts here. First, Rubio in Hungary. Let's play that clip. It is the thing that I think, for example, I can say to you with confidence that President Trump is deeply committed to your success because your success is our success. Because this relationship we have here in Central Europe through you is so essential essential and vital for our national interests in the years to come. Just think about if he was saying that to Canada, that would make sense. If he was saying that he's saying that to Orban who's trying to undermine the European Union as a Putin bootlegger, Brett.

I just want to show you this also. I dug up this letter from Rubio in 2019. And surprise, surprise. It says a very different attitude towards Orban in Hungary in this 2019 letter that Marco Rubia wrote as a senator to Donald Trump. I'll just read you the beginning of it. Dear Mr. President, this is to Trump. We are writing in advance of your scheduled meeting Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, to express concern about Hungary's downward democratic trajectory and the implications for US interests in Central Europe. We urge you to raise these issues in your meeting with the Prime Minister. In recent years, democracy in Hungary has significantly eroded, and then it goes on and on and on about Hungary's steady corrosion of freedom, the rule of law, quality of governance, and it continues. But it just shows you, and this is part of what I was saying before, how these people are now all in. People who were even against Trump on these things. 2019 wasn't that long ago. Now they completely flipped their positions because Trump has conditioned them to completely put aside any shame and just to be complete and total lackies to this autocratic movement, not just in the United States, but across the entire world.

Here's Rubio at the Muta conference talking about how naive it was to view that the old world order could exist and that there could be multilateralism. The US was the leader, you freaking moron of that. That's what made the US the most powerful nation in the world. But go on, Rubio. Here's what Rubio said. But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion that we had entered, quote, the end of history, that every nation would now be a liberal democracy, that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood, that the rules-based global order, an overused term, would now replace the national interest. And that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world. This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history. The lessons of 5,000 years of recorded human history is what almost brought the world to total annihilation in World War II, you freaking idiot with nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction. So yes, indeed, we did try to build structures to avoid that because you go back 5,000 years where it was often the law of the strong, and you had authoritarians killing people, massacring people.

We wanted to try to aspire, aspirationally, for something better, yes, with rules, with a rules-based order, so we could try to figure out and have predictability and not be in a perpetual state of war, you freaking idiot. Now with the Trump regime in this Orwellian war is peace, peace is war, ignorance is strength, here you are again, now creating more nuclear arms races. You've now weakened the United States irreparably, as we saw what went down in that Munich conference. You've hoisted up people like Vladimir Putin, whose entire nation has a $2 trillion GDP, which is nowhere near even Canada. It's like the same GDP as Italy. When you hoisted this guy up and you said, Okay, the new structures are the world is governed by these powers inevitably just going to war with each other and the United States being subservient to Putin, it's the most ridiculous thing imaginable. Anyway, but you hear how they're talking about things. Again, don't divorce that from the Epstein stuff. It's all related because embedded in the Epstein stuff was the exact vision you heard from Rubio just there, which was not Rubio's vision in 2019. Rubio is giving you Epstein talking points right there.

That's Epstein class talking points 101 when you read the files. That's what that is right there. We're going to take our last quick break of the show and we come back, though. I want to show you what else went down at that Munich conference. I want to show you what real leadership looks like. John Ossoff giving an incredible speech as well. Newsom giving an incredible speech in Munich. Talk more about that. A reminder, look how close we are to 6 million subscribers, everybody. We're almost there. Let's get to 6 million subscribers this week. Can we hit it this week? Let's do our best. Hit subscribe. Let's try to get there. One of the things you could do when the show is over, you could do it now quickly, send this YouTube to five people you know or seven people you know, and tell them to subscribe if they're not already subscribed. That's one of the ways you could help the show a lot. Just text, email, group, Start a group chat. You can call it the Midas Mighty Group Chat and say, Hey, everybody, you subscribe? They're trying to get to 6 million. And watch the episode today.

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Absolutely. Good point. Benji, where to next?

I was with the family at Disneyland this week, and I ran into so many Midas Mighty out there. So I told everybody I'd give them a shout out. So shout out to all the people in Disneyland. It was great seeing you all. And for everybody who's wondering why I have this cut on my nose, I had put away the Christmas tree in the garage. Lots of comments about the nose. In the garage. Lots of comments about the nose. I put it in the garage, and then I tried to put it up myself today in the attic because mom's going to visit, and then I cut myself myself while I was doing it.

Wait, you're putting the Christmas tree away right now?

No, it was already in the garage, but I wanted to move it from the garage all the way up to the attic.

I was going to like Christmas tree, putting away, shame you.

No, it's already been away, and it's in the corner of the garage. But I want to create room in the garage, so I moved it to the attic and then got it.

So you got in a fight with the Christmas tree, and it seems like the Christmas tree won.

Exactly. All right. Let's talk about John Ossoff running a pitch perfect campaign for that Senate seating Georgia. He's up for re-election. Really, every aspect of this race has just screamed presidential, presidential. He's running for re-election of the Senate, so it's hard to think forward to 2028 versus other people who we think of that. Also, that's a seat that I think needs to be kept democratic. He's one of the only people who could probably keep that seat, and he's been such a good senator there. But when I watched his speech today on President's Day, also talk about how these magas debased themselves into levels of humiliation, and then they're basically captured in the cult once they do that. Brett, it was exactly what you were talking about before. When a Rubio is broken to say the election was stolen, you can't then basically be like, I was wrong. When you've lied and you've debased yourself, you've already put yourself in such an area of debacement that you can't escape the cult. You've trapped yourself, and this is who you are. It defines you. But again, just watch this speech. I was to myself, Man, this guy looks like the President of the United States.

Here, play this clip.

First, I will affirm what you can all clearly see. You can see it, right? Our nation is conflicted and in crisis. Americans losing insurance in the middle of chemo, hospitals closing down services to fund tax cuts for the very wealthiest people, masked federal agents profiling, brutalizing, and killing American citizens. Maybe amidst all the cruelty and the chaos, you start to feel a little doubt, and you start to wonder whether our Republic can survive it. A government transformed into a tool of one man's vengeance and enrichment. A spiritually broken President. Amen.

Yes, he is.

Who digs the moral pit deeper and deeper. Amen. But Pastor Proverbs says, Whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit, will fall into it. And The scripture is full of kings brought low by their own arrogance.

That's right. That's right.

Ahab surrounded himself with 400 yes men, false prophets paid to affirm the king's delusions, and those delusions led him to his defeat. And among today's false prophets are the election deniers, who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Now, hear me when I say this, They tell a lie so absurd and therefore so debasing to tell that the The act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission.

Powerful words right there. Now, let me show you another likely presidential candidate, Governor Newsom in Munich. Let's play this clip of Newsom. Temporary It's temporary. It's temporary. Maga will not survive past Donald Trump. He's a cult of personality. I said invasive species. Some of you may not know what the hell I'm talking about. But he took over this Republican Party. You made the point. That old Republican Party, some of them are here. I mean, none of us recognize them. They don't recognize themselves. They don't recognize themselves. I mean, Rubio doesn't recognize himself. He was one of the most effective critics of Donald Trump in the United States of America. He should rewatch his old videos. He was right. Lindsay Graham was right. This is temporary. Then you have Hillary Clinton at the Munich conference. Of course, she ran against Donald Trump in 2016. And here's a clip where she talks about how Trump has betrayed the West. It's a betrayal of human values. And at this conference, they put some right wing guy on there who I'll show you in a moment because I think it connects to what I was saying. It's the Kevin Schroff clip, Brett.

The Kevin Schroff clip of Hillary Clinton spanks obnoxious far-right troll at international conference and calls up Trump's betrayal of values, if we've got that clip that we can call.

Let me pull it.

All right. You can pull it up in a little bit. In the meantime, I'm going to show us what some of the other people were saying at this conference. Let's talk about what Khaja Kalas, who's the Foreign Policy Chief. She used to be the Prime Minister of Estonia, and she's the number two right now in the European Union. She was standing up to the Trump regime, and she said, We don't need to be lectured by the United States right now. Coming from a country that is number two us, we don't need to hear criticism regarding press freedom from you. Let's play that quick.

Coming from a country that is number two in the press freedom index, hearing criticism regarding press freedom coming from a country that is 58 on this list.

It's interesting. What about Greenland's Prime Minister, Jeans-Fredéric Nielsen? Here's what Greenland's Prime Minister had to say. I think we got that clip. If not, let's play the clip of Denmark.

Talking about defense. How likely is it that you're going to have to defend Greenland?

So nice to be on stage with you. Thank you. And nice to be with my allies and my friends and my partners. Well, let me put it this way. I mean, if one NATO country attacks another NATO country, then NATO ends. It's game over. Yeah, then it's game over. I hope I answer your question by then. Yeah, and that's what we were seeing throughout the conference as well. I think we have the other clip, though, of Hillary Clinton talking about the Epstein files. Here, let's play this clip.

I heard three in particular to the last question. It's horrifying, and we're hoping that there will be continued release every day that passes. That doesn't mean, as our news commentators say, every day in the United States, it's because someone's name is there, they committed a crime. But I think there's a lot of very troubling and really horrific information coming out. Today, came out that Steve Bannon was trying to get Jeffrey Epstein to help him overthrow Pope Francis. I guess that was part of the civilisational-Conservative. True conservatism. True conservatism. It is something that needs to be totally transparent. I've called for many, many years for everything to be put out there so people not only see what is in them, but also, if appropriate, hold people accountable. We'll see what happens.

That's what was going on in Munich. The other clip was the Prime Minister of Denmark, not the Prime Minister of Berlin, but we also have the Prime Minister of Greenland speaking as well. But Brett and Jordie just wanted to reflect on what was going down there in Munich as you saw world leaders step up, as you saw Newsom, again, continuing this role as the shadow What do you make of it all?

Well, I think you're seeing more and more now, and we saw this in Davos a few weeks back, that world leaders aren't... I don't think they ever bought what Trump was selling here. I'm just speaking about leaders in the free world, the democratic world. But they weren't quite sure how to deal with Donald Trump for a long time. A lot of them were placating him and just letting him do what he wants. But I think now you're seeing a difference. You're seeing them not only stand up to Trump, but in so many of these situations, openly mock Trump and laugh at Trump and his entire ideology. I think that is a powerful statement that we're now seeing on the global stage. I think in this vacuum of leadership, the United States not having a leader of the free world anymore, it is giving an opportunity for other people to go there and just to use their voices and to define what American values actually are. I think that's what we saw Governor Newsom do over We saw AOC in Munich speaking. I think it gave her an opportunity to do that. I think we're starting to see now with John Ossoff and others, a new crop of leaders emerge of folks who actually want to defend liberal democracy, small L liberal democracy, around the world and are actually putting forth what actual values of freedom and liberty mean.

Absolutely. And that's exactly what I was alluding to earlier when I was talking about leaders are starting to make themselves known. If they hadn't already. And that's in their humility and their dignity and really just the maturation of who should actually be in that position, ultimately, the President of the United States. When you hear AOC, when you hear Assa, when you hear Newsom, when you hear someone that is willing to just present themselves like these things need to be presented. I know that might sound simple, but at a time when you see a total madman, Donald Trump, raising rage posting and just truly making the office of the President of the United States so lowly regarded by the way he acts on a day to day basis, you need adults in the room. And so I myself am just looking around personally, I'm going to be like, who are those adults? Who are those folks that are going to step up and actually try and regain some prestige around an office that needs it so desperately, Ben?

Here is the clip we we were able to pull it up of former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. I want to show her clip, and then if we're able to pull it, I want to show this far right wing minister of Czechoslovakia who's out there using the playbook that I talked about before of division and dividing. So watch, because this is the battle that's taking place at a macro level. Okay, here's what Hillary Clinton said. Let's play it.

He has betrayed the West. He's betrayed human values. He's betrayed made the NATO charter, the Atlantic charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A lot of what has been done before to try to make sense of how difficult it is to restrain people who want unaccountable power. None of us in this room, including all of us on this panel, would choose to live under a regime that was so unaccountable that it could act with impunity the way that Putin does, except that's who Trump is modeling himself.

I Well, first, I think you really don't like him.

That is absolutely true. But I really, not only do I not like him, I don't like him because of what he's doing to the United States and the world. I think you should take a hard look at it if you think that there is something good that will come out of it.

Well, let's listen to what the debate is here, because this is the macro issue that we need to be focused on, right? The Epstein class division playbook What do you think he's going to talk about? The same, the two genders and woke, right? And what she's talking about is actually your freedoms and your liberty and your ability to exist in peace. This is what's taking place at a macro level. Watch the far right wing Deputy Prime Minister Petro Mákinica of Czech, what he said here. Play this clip. We saw the cancel culture. We saw the woke revolution. We I don't agree with the gender revolution, the climate alarmism.

Which gender? Women having their rights?

No, let Peter go on.

I think there are two genders, but some of us think that there is more than one or more than two, sorry, more than two genders. Okay, but did you see what the moderator did there, which I thought is deeply problematic? Let Peter speak. Let him speak. Okay, he's spewing nonsense, though. I mean, so they're given her views, and then he's just spewing. The way he did it, too, was like the greatest hits of MAGA right wing division, which is a broader right wing authoritarian sweep to divide people. I believe there are two genders, and I believe woke, and cancel culture, and all these cancel culture. You want to know what cancel culture is? Vladimir Putin killing his political enemies. That's cancel culture, or how that manifestsends in the United States, Donald Trump going universities, creating a list which says, if you're in the military, this was just last week, we won't fund you if you go to these types of schools. It's like MIT, and it's like all the top schools. If you want to talk about cancel culture, it's Donald Trump using the government to go after and attack senators and congress members who give restatements of the law and attacking his political enemies.

It's all nonsense, but it's the same playbook that we see in right-wing regimes across the country. What you saw on stage there was that. One point I'll make, then I'm going to throw it over to you, Brett, before I have to go, but then I want to throw it over to you, which is Canada has been in the center, though, of brokering what is a stable world order in contrast to this. And literally, Canada's position in the middle of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Partnership. It's like a bridge. Do you remember as a kid, I play with my little daughter, connect the dots? The dots are being connected with the US US being isolated and Canada serving as a bridge between a Trans-Pacific Partnership of Asian countries and the European Union. That's what's taking place right now. With that said, let me toss it over to you, Brett and Jordie.

Yeah, and I also want to talk about this idea of what that guy was saying there, where he talks about cancel culture this and using all these terms. Once again, going back to the strategies of this Epstein class, they are always trying to use the arguments that are actually things that they are doing. Ben gave some examples before, but there are even some more in your face examples that we've learned about within the last 24 hours or so. One of these is that the Department of Homeland Security issued these administrative warrants about ICE, and they issued them to all these big tech social media companies. So Google, Meta, Reddit, Discord. They said, What we want you to do is let us know on your platforms if they are speaking badly about ICE, if they're criticizing ICE, if they're tracking ICE's movements. We want to know exactly who those people are. We want to know their phone numbers. We want to know their addresses, their IP logs. Give us all of their data. We're learning that these organizations, some of them, complied to at least a certain extent, Reddit, Google, Meta, Discord, giving this information over.

These weren't even legitimate warrants. These weren't warrants signed off by an actual judge or These are internal administrative warrants which are signed off by the Department of Homeland Security. They give themselves whatever the hell authority they want. I think back now, remember the Twitter files, Jordy? Remember when these right-wing journalists and Barry Weiss was a big part of it. They were like, We're going to expose how Twitter was working with the Biden administration to suppress right-wing voices. It was all bullshit. Remember all that Zuckerberg world tour where he went on Rogan and he was all broed out and he was talking about the need, Oh, we got to need masculinity at the office. That's what we need, right? We need masculinity. He was like, My biggest regret was when the Biden administration would ask us if there was disinformation about COVID, and I would tell them, yes. I wish we never actually told them that there was this information on our platforms and that people could say whatever they want. They didn't even take any real actions there. But that was the biggest scandal of the right. That was the biggest thing, and that's why Zuckerberg did that whole apology tour.

All these people now are freaking silent. Zuckerberg, meanwhile, is now a guy at Metta who is giving over this actually intrusive information to the Trump regime so that the Trump regime can track people. I'm not sure if you guys also saw this story about Anthropic, which is one of these big AI companies. Anthropicic basically said, We don't want our artificial intelligence to be used to spy on the American people. That was their request. We don't want it to be used. What is the Pentagon doing, the Trump regime doing? They are threatening Anthropic, and they are now designating or they're threatening to designate the AI company as a supply chain risk, which would mean anyone who wants to do business with the US military has to cut ties with Anthropic. They can't be working with Anthropic because they're saying they're a threat because they won't let their technology be used to spy on the American people. Once again, this is all the stuff that they accused the other side of, but then they're engaging in it in such a brazen, illegal, horrific way that truly intrudes on the rights of the American people and all those people who pretended to the theories were their issues that they cared about and are just silent now.

And not only silent, but they're active participants in doing the thing that they previously said, Oh, I shouldn't have done that, or whatever it is. It's like, Screw you. This is happening in plain sight.

Exactly. And it goes back to the point that I was making earlier here, too, is with all these social media platforms, just look at the bros. So silly. But look at them. Look who controls these platforms. I mean, it will be a defining moment in this country's history as far as how we, as a country, deal with this. Are we going to let further and further generations fall privy and susceptible, just like a misinformation, nonstop, just beamed into people's people's eyes? Or is there going to be some antidote to that? Are people going to push back and demand accountability? It's truly petrifying. I think back to when Zuckerberg was at that lunch with Trump, and he was just shaking sitting next to him after he gave some answer. And then he looked at Trump and he tried to whisper under his breath, did I say the right number for you, sir? Was that what you wanted me to say? And that, to me, just tells it all. That's the entire game right there is, are we going to be a country that's defined by the Zuckerbergs of this world who are just petrified of the Donald Trumps or whatnot and lead us down a country in a pathway in a future here where true information, unvarnished truth, isn't getting to the American people because of how these billionaires like to control the algorithms.

It's scary on so many levels of not just our generation, but the folks older than us, but our Younger generations, our children. Our children should... I don't know necessarily the solve, and I hate that, that I could say that here as an answer, but I do know this. It starts with each and every one of us here in this community continuing to demand the truth, and and demand accountability. And so I just wanted to use these last bits of the podcast here to say thank you. Thank to the viewers and listeners of this show who are constantly demanding information, demanding receipts, and demanding that the truth gets out there using whatever platforms you have. They're using your families to have those conversations in your circles wherever you are. It truly means the world because it feels like we are up against the biggest disinformation algorithm that this country has ever faced.

Jordie, to your point, and then think about the people that I just mentioned before that were active participants and complicit in turning over this information of American citizens to the United States government. Now, I want to bring it full circle now to what we're speaking about with this Epstein and the way that Epstein acted as an intermediary between all of these dark forces and the billionaires and those trying to overthrow governments and all these pieces. I want to remind everybody of this image that Jeffrey Epstein apparently took. This is in his inbox, and this an image of Jeffrey Epstein with a lot of these tech moguls. This is from August 2015 dinner. You could see in this photo, in the back there is Elon Musk, to the left is Zuckerberg and his wife. In the very back there is also Elon Musk the head of Google. You see right now all of these people sitting in this dark room. I mean, this picture, Jordi, couldn't look any more ominous, right? It looks like... Probably speaking about how they're going to carve up the world and how they're going to use their platforms to manipulate people.

You got to assume that they're speaking about high-level things like that in this room. Epstein was a key coordinator and a key part of all of this with all of these folks. So you wonder, these people, what's going on here? I think You look at that photo and you're like, Oh, I see what's happening. There's one more thing before we go. I do want to just show Vladimir Zelensky, President of Ukraine. Zelensky, at Munich, he was speaking about the fact that Russia keeps making all these demands of concessions of Ukraine to end the invasion, and the United States keeps going along with whatever the hell Russia says. Ukraine needs to give away land. Ukraine needs to hold elections, the middle of this invasion, yada, yada, yada. So Zelensky's like, Europe isn't even at the table. You're not even letting... You're just taking Russia's side, and you're not even letting Europe be involved in European issues. Watch what Zelensky had to say.

The Americans often return to the topic of concessions, and too often those concessions are discussed in the context only of Ukraine, not Russia. You Europe is practically not present at the table. It's a big mistake to my mind. I think we, Ukrainians, who are trying to bring Europe fully into the process so that Europe's interests and voice are taken into account.

Then I want to show you what Zelensky had to say about this idea that they should have elections. It's a big Russian talking point that Ukraine should drop everything right now and have elections because they want to try to oust Zelensky. Here's what Zelensky had to say.

Secretary General, even- But we can also give ceasefire for Russians if they will do elections in Russia.

We'll give you a ceasefire, Putin, if you do elections in your own country, too. I think that really sums up the duality of the world right now and a lot of the things that Ben was saying, that there is this path forward of liberal democracy and the free world and that world order that, while imperfect, was responsible for a great deal of peace in the world and the strength of human rights and democratic values. Then we have on the other side this bizarre, weird, deranged, and dangerous authoritarian strain led by people like Trump and Victor Orban and all of these other folks. I think You see both sides of it right here. We're going to continue to call this out. I think it's important always that we speak about this, not just in a United States-centric fashion, but show you how this is a worldwide phenomenon and how all of these people are intertwined. The Epstein story is actually a way to bind it all together and tell the story because he was such a middleman between all of these dark forces. That's it for today's show. I want to thank everybody for watching. I want to thank everybody for listening anywhere you get audio podcasts.

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