Transcript of MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 1/2/26

It may be a new year, but Donald Trump is up to his same old criming, cover-up, scamming, grifting, and we've got a lot to discuss and expose on the first Midas Touch podcast episode of 2026. Now, the Department of Justice is saying, surprise, surprise, there's actually 5. 2 million missing documents from the Epstein files. We predicted that. I predicted it was actually going to be closer to 10 million records when all is said and done, and I still remain confident that that will be the number. Also, a Wall Street Journal exposé really brought to light how Donald Trump was dealing with the spa at Mar-a-Lago and throughout the '90s, sending masseuses and other spa staff to Epstein's home a mile and a half to two miles away in Palm Beach. We'll talk about what this article really means because reading between the lines, I think that some deeper stuff that we need to talk about. We should also remind you that not only did the Midas Touch Network first break the story about the missing documents, but go back, what, four years ago, we've been talking about that spa and what was going down there.

Five years ago, we were talking about that spot. The Wall Street Journal reporting is consistent with what we reported about four years ago. Also, a new Wall Street Journal article about Donald Trump's deteriorating health. Another topic we've been covering on an almost daily basis now for a long time here on the Midas Touch Network. Donald Trump, though, gave an interview with the Wall Street Journal where he says he takes massive amounts of aspirin every day because he wants thin blood. He says he doesn't want that thick blood flowing to his heart. He only wants that thin blood flowing to his heart. That's why he says his hands are discolored, in addition to the fact that he says somebody's whacking him, he says. That's a quote, whatever that means. Someone wax me, and then my hands get He's colored, he says. Also, he's claiming now that he never had an MRI, but it was actually a CT scan, which in many ways may actually be worse, but I still think it was an MRI, and he's just lying. Also concerning if he doesn't know the difference between an MRI and a CT scan, and this is a guy in control of the nuclear weapons.

Also, we learn in this article, his diet, or it's reinforced that his diet, if you want to even call it that, consists of Big Macs, quarter pounders, fish filets, sandwiches, all at once. Also, he says that he doesn't fall asleep during these meetings when we see him sleeping. It's actually him blinking, and the reporters are just taking photos, and the photographers are taking photos of him blinking, and that's what's happening. Special Counsel Jack Smith's video deposition was released by the House of Representatives. They tried to do a video dump on New Years, thinking that nobody would watch it, but I guess they didn't account for independent media. It's been watched by millions of people here on the Midas Touch Network. I'm sure you've seen it. We've put up there the highlights and the eight-hour full-length deposition. I think it was just good to see someone just law and order, going through the facts, answering questions directly like a true public servant. Again, just being honest in answering these questions. Also, I want to show the contrast between Donald Trump's ranting and raving like a lunatic in the past 48 hours. But frankly, this is all Donald Trump does, ranting and raving like a lunatic.

But I want to show that in contrast to the inauguration of the new New York City mayor, Zoran Mamdani. It was just such a great inauguration about hope and about the power of the American people working together for collective causes and focusing on health care and issues that matter to the American people, like affordability. We'll break that down. Also, while the Trump regime hoped you weren't paying attention, they're also seizing the public golf courses in DC to try to turn them into Trump golf courses. They terminated a 50-year lease there. They've vetoed a Clean Water Act for Colorado that would have brought clean water to 50,000 people in Colorado because Trump didn't like that Lauren Boebert was one of the people who signed her name to the Epstein Discharge Petition, and she was also behind the Clean Water Act. Also, Donald Trump has been attacking the governor of Colorado and the attorney general there and others for refusing to release a convicted felon and insurrectionist. Donald Trump says he hopes they rot in hell. That's what Donald Trump put out. That's one of the reasons he vetoed, and he's been vetoed this important bill for Colorado when he's been attacking Colorado over and over again.

He's also attacking the Kennedy family for not attending the Kennedy Center and not showing up. He's attacking them at the same time when Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK's granddaughter, died of an aggressive form of cancer. Our hearts go out to the Kennedy family, but Trump's been doing post after post attacking the Kennedy family. In other words, we have a lot to discuss here in the Midas Touch podcast, Brett and Jordi. Good to see you. A lot there. A lot there. As I said, New Year, but the potpourri of Donald Trump's corruption.

New Year, same old Trump corruption. But I am excited to be spending New Year's Day with you, the Midas Mighty. Thank you to everybody tuning in on YouTube. Thank everybody listening on the Midas Touch audio feed. I want to urge everybody watching right now, make sure that you are subscribed to the Midas Touch podcast on the audio feed. It's completely free. Just go to whatever audio podcast apps you like, you hit the add button, and it's as easy as that. Like I said, good to be here with everybody. Happy New Year to you all. Yeah, obviously, just Trump being just utterly disgusting once again, bringing the New Year with his signature grift and corruption and just Just absolute, just disgustingness. I don't even know what other words to say, but I like the contrast of what we saw out of Trump with the incredibly inspiring, I found, inauguration today of Mayor Zoran Mamdani in New York City. Midas Touch had our correspondent, a legal AF host, Karen Friedman-Agnitholo on site at the inauguration. She was interviewing attorney general LaTisha James there, who was very involved with the inauguration and speaking to some other folks. It's super cool to have that on the ground access for the Midas Touch Network.

We got a whole lot of really, really big things planned for this network as we head into 2026. Just a lot of expansion in the works, a lot more ways that we're going to get content that you will not see anywhere else except here on the Midas Touch Network. And we are so excited for all the announcements that we have for all you guys in the coming days and weeks and months. So buckle up. Jordie, Happy New Year. What's the latest?

Happy New Year, brothers. Happy New Year, Midas, Mighty. Thank you for taking those off. Those were great glasses, Brett, for the audio listeners. I was a little fearful. I thought Brett was going to do this bit the entire show, where he's been wearing these wild 2026 New Year.

Don't encourage me now.

I thought we just weren't going to acknowledge it the whole show. So they're cool glasses. I think you could take them off now, but great. I'm excited to get into today's show. A lot to talk about, folks. Thank you all for being here. New Year's show, special show today. Benji, they're all special. Where are you?

Where do you want to start? When we show you in a little bit the inauguration of Zora and Mamdani, it was important that he emphasized that whether you voted for him or not, he's the mayor for all New York City. He's going to protect you. He's going to fight for you. He's going to mourn with you. He's going to be by your side, no matter if you voted for him, if you like him, or if you don't like him, he's the mayor of New York City. Now, Wouldn't it be a great thing if you had a United States President who just said things like that and just behaved like that? I think that's so much of what's been missing as well is just this normalcy. We've had corporate news normalizing the not normal and trying to treat that like this is something that we should all have to accept and we should all have to deal with. In many ways, all of that nastiness and the weirdness and the anger and the hate It's also doing a lot of the blocking and the tackling where the billionaires are getting richer and richer just watching people fight with each other as they all party on St.

Bart's Island. They're all there right now celebrating the fact that they've increased their wealth by trillions of dollars while Americans are having their health care quite literally ripped away from them. You want somebody on New Year's who's the leader of the country just to say, Hey, Happy New Year, everybody. We wish you the best. We're going to do great things together. We're in this together. One great nation, indivisible, just stuff like that, however you want to say it. But Donald Trump's message, no New Year's messages, he said that he wants to... Well, he goes, Hard to wish a Happy New Year, he says to Tina Peters because she's locked up, he says. But he says, To the scumbag governor, this is his New Year's message, to the scumbag governor and disgusting rhinoDA, Republican. Then he puts it in quotes, I wish you the worst. Rot in hell. It's from the official President account, Rot in Hell. Then it's messages like this, The Democrats are a bunch of cheaters and thief and never want to do what's good for America. I mean, the guy who's ripping away health care right now from tens of millions of Americans.

Here was another message leading up to New Year's Good news. George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France, which is sadly in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden. I mean, it's just stupid stuff over and over again. He posted an image about windmills over and over. It's like dozens of posts about windmills. Windmills are killing all of our beautiful bald eagles. The Midas Touch did an exposé on this where we're like, first off, it wasn't like that hard of an exposé. I looked at it and I was like, okay, it's not a bald eagle. It looks like a Falcon. I know what bald eagles look like, and I know it looks like a Falcon. Then it took us about five minutes of research, which I'll just call an expose, where it was actually an article from 2017. It is indeed a Falcon, and those turbines are in Israel, and it is not in the United States.

You know the big giveaway there, Ben, as well that I picked up on quite quickly? The fact that the wind turbine has Hebrew writing. That was a bit of a tell, as they call in the biz.

That was a bit of a tell. That's what Donald Trump is doing. What else was he doing? Covering up the Epstein files. Again, you have, just think about this. Trump ripping away health care from 20 million Americans now that it's January first. The Affordable Care Act subsidies have officially expired. People are going to be off their Affordable Care Act plans if they can't afford those subsidies, and millions of people can't afford those subsidies, or they'll go medically bankrupt right now trying to be able to afford them, and then it's going to cause bankruptcy because they're not going to be able to afford other things. So ripping away people's health care and covering up the Epstein files. Remember on December 23rd, as I was going through this small fraction of Epstein files that were actually produced thus far, and based on what the Democrats and the House Oversight Committee just said, the DOJs only released 5%. Just think about that, 5% of the overall Epstein files. And one of the things that was clear to me as I was looking through it, as I saw a document that talked about 1. 2 million records that were being imaged by the DOJ back in 2020.

I was looking at that and I said, Well, 1. 2 million documents are being imaged then, and they're talking about having hundreds of thousands of records. There seems to be 1. 2 million records that the SD&Y had in USAV Epstein on their software back then. But then I said, That was just one hard drive. There's probably other hard drives. That was just USAV Epstein in the Southern district of New York. What about USAV Ghislaine Maxwell? What about USAV Epstein in the Southern district of Florida in 2007? What about all of the civil cases? What about all What about the other co-conspirators? What about all of those proceedings as well? I said there's got to be at least... I think the title of our video was Missing 5 Million Records that we did two weeks ago. Now the DOJ says, Yep, it's actually 5. 2 Million Records that are missing. Again, I think that number is going to go up and up and up and up. While at the same time, now they're admitting that 5. 2 million more records are now missing, which they now need people to review and they need to locate and they need to find.

Now, maybe it'll take until the end of January, maybe February, maybe March. The law required that everything be produced by December 19th. Pam Bondi said back in February that all of the files were on her desk. Really? The millions of files were on your desk. It just shows you that they literally lie about absolutely everything. But she said that she had reviewed everything that was all on her desk back in February. We know in March, through some great reporting by Jason Leopold at Bloomberg, who did Freedom of Information Act request, that there were about a thousand, I think it was 973 FBI and DOJ agents working tens of thousands, if not more, overtime hours back in March, going through the files back then and redacting in March. I mean, millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars paid for overtime of agents, FBI agents, DOJ agents, national security people who were going through it March through July. So what the hell were they doing? Really, no one thought to ask the Southern district of New York the main office that was doing the prosecuting, Hey, where are your files? Wouldn't that be the main place you go to where the prosecution took place?

They knew about these records. By the way, they told Judge Anglemier, a federal judge from the Southern district New York, and Judge Bermond, another federal judge from the Southern district of New York. They told the judges that they had those records. Go back and read those court filings when they asked for the grand jury transcripts to be released with Judge Anglmier, judge Bermon, and a judge in the Southern district of Florida, ultimately released Judge Anglheimer said, What documents do you have and what are you going to turn over by December 19th? Because you're asking, I turn over the grand jury transcript, and they listed those documents. They didn't necessarily say, Oh, the 5. 2 million from the Southern district of New York, but they talked the FBI witness statements and the surveillance footage and the reports and all the stuff that would be in the Southern district of New York folder, in the Southern district of New York file. It's just more criminal violations covering up a sex trafficking ring. But then there was this story from the Wall Street Journal, the incident that prompted Trump to ban Epstein from Mar-a-Lago's spa. Now, by reading that headline, you may think, Oh, so is Wall Street Journal saying Trump did a good job because he ultimately kicked Epstein out of the spa.

Notice the language, though, of the headline that had prompted Trump to ban Epstein from the Mar-a-Lago spa. It doesn't say ban Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. It says the Mar-a-Lago spa. Then when you read the article, what you learn is that Epstein actually did not go to the spa. The spa went to Epstein. Throughout the '90s, Donald Trump would send spa staff and and manicurists and other spa service individuals, whatever that means, to Epstein's home, which was a mile and a half, two miles away in West Palm Beach, and they would go to Epstein. They would do calls at Epstein's home, and Epstein would sexually assault them. The way they described it in the Wall Street Journal piece was that he would engage in sexually suggestive conduct and exposing himself. He sexually assaulted them. He would take all, he would get naked, and he would grab them, and he would sexually assault them. Then he developed a reputation among Mar-a-Lago employees for doing that. Ultimately, there was an incident in 2003 where that took place. An 18-year-old girl went over to Epstein's place. Epstein sexually assaulted her. Her dad flipped out, rightfully so, against Donald Trump and was threatening Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago to expose them and bring them down.

Basically, reading between the lines of this article, what it seems, in my opinion, is Trump basically... You know how Trump does fake deals? He did a fake ban of Epstein just from the spa, not from Mar-a-Lago, and they actually stayed friends, but he was never going to the spa in the first place. So it's a a fake ban. Now, this ties into a 2007 New York Post report, also a Murdoch property. Murdoch owns New York Post, Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal. We've talked about this York Post report for a long time. For many years, we've talked about it because it's pretty freaking damning. Pull up the article one more time and let me read it for some of our listeners and viewers. It says, This is October 15, 2007. The headline, Sex Case Victims Lining up. And I think that date is so important also, right, Ben?

Because this is before Trump was ever anywhere near politics. This has been a very specific era right here where this was written. So you can't accuse it of being a specific agenda to to get at him for the presidency or whatever it may be. This is just them reporting on this sex case of victims lining up related to Mar-a-Lago.

And that this was when the Sweetheart deal was entered.

This is the Sweetheart deal. This is the Sweetheart deal.

What did you say, Jordy?

I was saying the date for the audio listeners here on this piece is October 15th, 2007.

This is right around when the Sweetheart deal is being entered into by Epstein and Alex Acosta, the Southern district of Florida, a United States attorney who goes on to become Donald Trump's Labor Secretary, and he becomes a Trump cabinet member. The guy who covered up in 2007 as the main prosecutor gets one of the top jobs in Trump's first administration. Here's what the article says, October 15, 2007. Lawyers for Manhattan billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein, who's agreed to plea guilty to soliciting underage hookers, are bracing for a slew of lawsuits from as many as 40 young women who came to his Palm Beach mansion for Massage Sessions, Page 6 has learned. Notice what they say right there, came to his Palm Beach mansion for Massage Sessions. During the probe that led to- Also, I just want to pause Ben and say, they say underage hookers, and then they call them 40 young women right after.

I just want to clarify, that's the language that the New York Post is using. I would call them girls. If I were talking about the children, is what I would call them.

Children, yes. During the probe that led to Epstein's plea deal, which we'll put him in behind, put it behind bars for 18 months, Underage girls told cops that they claimed to be 18 or over and gave the financier massages for hundreds of dollars per session. One girl, described in court documents as just 14, said Epstein used a Purple vibrated or vibrator on her while she partially stripped. Cops say Epstein's assistant, Sarah Kelen, helped arrange the massages. Meanwhile, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last night confirmed a website report that Epstein has been banned there. He would use the spa to to procure girls, but one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things, a source told us. Just pause there for a second. About 18 years old. What does that mean? About? That sounds like 17 to me. I just read that Again, that's a weird way to refer to someone as 18. About 18? Sounds like you're talking about a 16 or 17-year-old girl. Otherwise, we would say an 18-year-old girl, right? Her father found out about it and went absolutely apeshit. Epstein's not allowed back.

Epstein denies he's banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event there. So Epstein is telling the New York Post, Page 6, one of the most widely read gossip pages that Trump reads all the time. I mean, Page 6, before there was a TMZ, and then before there was all the social media blogs and websites and TikToks and all of that. Page 6 was the main that everybody read. Epstein says, No, that's not true. Publikely, that's how confident he is. And there's no rebuttal from Donald Trump there. So that's where we are in the Epstein cover up. Sorry if that was wordy and it took a long time for me to go through it, but I had to break it down so that people can make these links. Brett Jordy.

I'm happy that this is getting more mainstream attention, if you will, at this point. It's something that we've been focused on because, like we've said, it appears that One of the central hubs of Epstein's sex trafficking operation was Mar-a-Lago. I think that that's a very big deal. And the more we uncover here and the more it's reported on, the more we dig back to the archives about what was going on at the time, to me, and this is my personal opinion, it almost appears that Donald Trump was not necessarily a client of Jeffrey Epstein, but in many ways was a partner of Jeffrey Epstein. They worked hand in hand here. I mean, what What else could you possibly call sending 40... This is just the ones that are known about the ones who are going to file complaints against Mar-a-Lago and Epstein. What else can you call sending girls from the Mar-a-Lago spa, dozens and dozens and dozens, to Jeffrey Epstein's mansion a couple of miles away in order for him to procure sexual favors from them, for him to sexually assault them. That is the definition of trafficking. That's what it is. Mar-a-lago was clearly the hub of this entire operation, at least this part of it.

I think that's a freaking big deal that the guy who runs this private club that was the center of Jeffrey Epstein's operation is now the President of the United States. When you look at the documents and you look at the constant efforts by people like attorney general Pam Bondi and others in the Department of Justice to delay and obstruct and prevent the release of so many of these documents, I think it starts making a lot more sense when you have this context about how central Mar-a-Lago was to this entire scheme. There's a reason that we have only seen fewer than 5% of all the documents that have to do with the Epstein case at this point. That is not by accident. As Ben said, there was a law. These documents were supposed to be released weeks ago on the date that the law required. They did not do that. Now they continue to come up with all these excuses about, Oh, we're suddenly finding documents, and it's going to take us weeks, and we need to make these redactions, and it's going to take all this time, and we don't know when we're going to get to it.

Bs. You should have been working on this since the beginning of the term. You should remember when they gave those binders out to those MAGA influencers and said, Here are all the Epstein files, and then they re-release things that were already made public during the Biden administration, but with additional redactions? You should have had all the documents back then when you said it was on your desk, Pam Bondi. The scheme, to me, is very clear. The more that is revealed about Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the central role that it appears that Donald Trump played in it, in my opinion, the worse and worse that this all looks. I think it's just very revealing and really explains a lot. There are some things that you go like, I just don't understand why are they obstructing? It doesn't seem to make any sense. There are certain things in life that once you hear the information, things snap into focus. I think everything heard about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship and makes what's going on here very clear.

Absolutely. This is one of those things. This should not be political. Trying to hold, holding child sex traffickers accountable should not be a political thing. It doesn't make me a lib that I want to see child sex traffickers held accountable, that I want every stone unturned. There should not be any information that is concealed nailed so long as it doesn't harm the victims that the American people should not have visibility onto. Because at the end of the day, what is happening right now is truly pathetic. I mean, it is pathetic to see what the Trump regime is doing with the Epstein files, whether it's Pam Bondi trying to nail the football on this, saying that Brett, I've reviewed all the documents. Okay, well, 5. 2 million now. Were you referring to those? Those were on your desk? Okay, I don't think so. The The entire Trump regime, Mike Johnson, tried to delay the votes on releasing the Epstein files. It's like, what are you all doing? This isn't a political thing. Not in anybody's right mind is this a political thing, other than folks just want the damn truth. So stop gaslighting people, handing out white binders to your MAGA influencers so they could take these weirdos selfie-ups.

I mean, those folks, they're such puts as themselves. I mean, all of those people that were in that influencer shot holding those binders, they don't actually want accountability. That's all that's telling me. They want to just move as if. They want to move as if they know everything and move as if the only people that were part of the Epstein cabal was Bill Clinton and all these Democrats. Look, it's not a political thing. If there are Democrats associated with child sex traffickers, get them. Go and get them, because I don't want to protect anyone like that, okay? But what we're seeing here is a constant cover up of the Epstein files and the documents. They are not being transparent with the American people.

Look, one of the most potent tools that prosecutors use in sex trafficking cases is charging the broader conspiracy as a rico criminal enterprise, right? Because there are all different people at different levels involved in the sex trafficking scheme, not just the underlying people who are procuring the underage sexual service, the rape itself, but everybody who's in that funnel, the money launderers, the people who help cover it up, the assistance. Oftentimes, all those people get charged. What is horrifying is the idea that the Department of Justice could be charged, in my opinion, with a RICO criminal case that at all different levels, starting at the attorney general to the deputy attorney who, by the way, conspired with the convicted sex trafficker, Geenley Maxwell in Tallahassee, and transferred her to the minimum security facility in Bryant, Texas, where she gets VIP services in order to stop her from telling the truth about everything that she knows. We know that she lied through her teeth during that interview that was given. But everybody who's involved at some level, if you are aiding and abetting this at the DOJ, you're now complicit in a RICO criminal enterprise cover up of Epstein and Ghislaine sex trafficking.

I just don't know how else to describe what it is. And the violations of the Epstein transparent. I think almost everybody at the DOJ can be charged. I think people who are there, just think about the person in a criminal enterprise who knows it's happening and doesn't speak up or doesn't say anything in a sex trafficking ring. They can be charged. They can't go, Oh, I was focused on my work, and I didn't know. No. To me, even if you're a United States attorney in another district or a Deputy United States attorney or an AUSA somewhere, you're part of this criminal enterprise now that is the DOJ. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. I just think that's what the DOJ DOJ is. It is a criminal enterprise, not an enterprise that goes after the criminal enterprises. When we come back, I want to show you, though, what it used to be like when you had career prosecutors like Special Counsel Jack Smith actually do the work, what a prosecutor is supposed to look like because it's very different from what you see Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche do on state regime Media Fox versus what Jack Smith did at a deposition where, by the way, Republicans conspiring with the DOJ blocked a lot of what Jack Smith could say because they were afraid of what he could say.

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The Republicans in the House of Representatives knew they were going to have to release this Jack Smith video deposition at some point. At some point, it's a public record. So they had to figure out how can they try to bury it. Because they really wanted... And by the way, hat tip to Jamie Raskin, hat tip to Democratic Congress member, Robert Garcia and others who have really been pushing for the utmost transparency and pushing to get these things released. To have aggressive, transparent-oriented Democrats as ranking members of the House Oversight and the House Judiciary. So key right now. We're seeing a big difference in a short period of time about what that leadership looks like. So Republicans thought as, let's just dump it during New Year's, and maybe people won't pay attention to it. I don't think they accounted for independent media, independent news, because we were able to get it on YouTube right away, then get the clips to Asin right away, who's our clipper, or he leads our clipping Department at Midas. And then we were able to get these clips out there and deploy them immediately as though there was like a a live hearing taking place on New Year's.

We were able to make it backfire in the Republicans' face, which is a testament to new media. By the way, make sure you're subscribed to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. You may search us and get us on your algorithm a lot. Just make sure you're subscribed and turn your notifications on as well to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. But I think this shows a big difference of what independent media was able to accomplish because we're able to make the eight hours of it. It was an eight-hour deposition. We made the whole thing available to the public, and lots of people wanted to watch the full eight hours. Then two hours after, I did a highlight. I did a best of reel of all of the top moments. I'm not going to show you all of them again because you may have seen them already. You may have watched the full eight hours. But I think it's a good contrast to all of the crap I've just showed you with Pam Bondi and Trump. And just think about it. The White House right now controls the DOJ social media accounts.

So the DOJ's communications is being run out of the White House. Donald Trump makes social media posts, ordering Pam Bondi to go after his political opponents. And then she tries to get indictments by putting in people who have never been prosecutors in their life, didn't even intern for a prosecutor's office. People like Lindsay Halligan, a beauty pageant contestant who finished like fourth, turned insurance lawyer. They make her a top because she was one of Trump's personal lawyers. They make her the top prosecutor of the Eastern district of Virginia, which is one of the main prosecutorial offices that prosecute counterterrorism and espionage and public integrity. It's just a big middle finger in the face to our justice system. All these federal judges across the country, other than Judge Canon, are livid at the DOJ. I'm sure you've seen a lot of these exposés. We cover it here frequently on the takes I do with Harry Lippman. So many cases are just getting dismissed because the government's not turning over the discovery the right way, and they're covering up things, and they don't have competent lawyers showing up who even know what the law is. It's a field day for criminal defense lawyers right now who are getting all these dismissals for their clients against a under-resourced and under-qualified DOJ, incompetent and corrupt.

So Jack Smith testifies before the House under oath. Let me just share with you some of the key moments. This is Jack Smith talking about how in his opening statement that for nearly three decades, he was a career prosecutor. He served under Democrats. He served under Republicans. Let's listen to what he said.

For nearly three decades, I've been a career prosecutor. I've I've served during both Republican and Democratic administrations, and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held. I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022. The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine. But the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power. Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities. I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff, simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases.

These dedicated public servants are the best of us, and they have been wrongly vilified and improperly dismissed from their jobs. I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. We took our actions based on the The facts and the law, the very lessons I learned early in my career as a prosecutor. We follow Justice Department policies and observed legal requirements. The timing and speed of our work reflects the strength of the evidence and our confidence that we would have secured convictions at trial.

Powerful stuff right there, Brett and Jordie. I want to show more, but I want to get your reaction to that.

Yeah, it's powerful. I think it says a lot that... First of all, it's just nice to have a person who's steady, who is answering questions honestly, who's not trying to Stonewall, who's not deflecting, who's not attacking the people in the room, who's not filibustering. You have somebody there who's just being a professional, and that's what you want out of somebody who is a prosecutor, somebody who's in the Department of Justice. We just see the complete opposite of that right now. He is just obviously telling the truth about everything. He clearly approached the case as an honest broker of the law. The fact that he's even in there is a testament to how Republicans want to attack the people who are actually trying to prosecute crime rather than actually go after the criminals. Remember, this was a closed-door hearing. Jack Smith and his attorneys asked for it to be open to the public. The Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, like Jim Jordan, would not allow that to happen. They did not want the American people to see this. That's one of the reasons why when they had to release the video, they released it right before the ball dropped on New Year's because they did not want the American people to see this.

But guess what? The American people are seeing this right now. They're seeing a man of integrity. They're seeing a man who actually just followed the facts of the case. When you watch the full eight hours, and by the way, if you want to watch the full eight hours, please go for it. It's on our YouTube channel, and you could also watch the highlights, and we'll show us some additional clips right here. But you see, first off, when they're behind closed doors, these Republicans behave a whole lot differently than when they're on camera in those hearings. They're not yelling, they're not performing. You see a very different presentation, I will say, from the Republicans in the room. But what these Republicans kept trying to do was take it back to the idea of these tolling records, these records that Jack Smith came across when he was in his investigation because he discovered that Donald Trump was making all of these phone calls to all these Republican lawmakers to try to get them to object to the certification of the 2020 election. That's a big deal, obviously. They almost want to try to punish Jack Smith for him just doing his investigation of an attempted coup on our government because they got caught being co-conspirators in that attempted coup of the United States government.

It's just very telling the things that they go after. But does Jack Smith go there and start yelling at the Republicans when they make these accusations that he was targeting these people? No, he answers everything calmly. He's cool, he's collected. He tells them exactly why he received these records. He says, wow, a lot of these Republicans were lying about that their records were taken when they weren't being taken. The Republicans who were saying that they were being spied on, that their phones were tapped, that was complete BS. Not true at all. There were just records of the phone calls that had time stamps and things like that, not the actual content of the conversations. He was able to rebut all of these lies in this form, and that's why he wanted it to be open to the But that's also why I'm happy that we were able to get that full eight plus hours out to the public so that people could actually be the judge of what was going on here. I know it sucks that we have to look back on it, but I think when we look back on this all, history will not judge this Republican Party kindly.

And it's very obvious that they were such a huge part of this criminal cover-up and criminal conspiracy to try to subvert the United States of America and our democracy.

Exactly. And we'll dive into some I imagine, Benji, here as well. But I just wanted to add to this is the Law and Order Party is anything but, right? The MAGA Party, the Republican Party who claims to be law and order, right? They claim that they love law and order. No, they don't. No, they don't. They don't. They don't love transparency. They don't love law and order. In fact, in many areas, they seem to be complicit in the crimes. Jack Smith, when you hear him speak, when you see that footage, Brett, you said it perfectly. It's a person who is doing his job. He is not guided by politics or party or political leaning. He is just strictly following where the evidence is taking him. And I think it's incredibly telling that there are tons of members in the Republican Party at this time that don't want Jack Smith to be able to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. They want to subvert what Jack Smith found. And so I am so happy that we do have all of this. All of this footage is on our YouTube channel. It's an eight-hour.

It's eight hours. Go check it out and just watch for yourself. And we're going to be playing more clips here as well. But I'm excited and happy that we have this footage and that we're able to show it to the audience tonight.

They were also trying to set Jack Smith up because before he testifies, they tell him, You can't testify about anything that's not already part of the public record. Jack Smith's like, Well, you're subpoenaing me to testify. You're going to be asking me questions. Jack Smith says, Do you want to send a DO... Jack Smith through his counsel, Do you want to send a DOJ lawyer who can be here, though, and also help monitor it? Because if you think that I'm saying things that you determine are not public record, and you think that I'm asked a question I'm doing my best to respond, you could have a DOJ lawyer say, Hey, we're not comfortable with him answering that question. The DOJ just ignored him. The DOJ decided not to send any lawyer at all. They're happy to send a lawyer to Ghislaine Maxwell to get her to provide a lies about everything to help cover up a child sex trafficking ring. But then they order Jack Smith that he can testify about things that that Judge Eileen Canon has refused to make public. So I want you to see how this conspiracy is working. You have Judge Eileen Canon is refusing to make public volume 2 of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report.

Volume 2 is all of the evidence and grand jury statements and testimony and everything that existed regarding the Mar-a-Lago case where Donald Trump took these classified records, including potentially nuclear secrets, and he brought them to Mar-a-Lago. Eileen Canon is refusing to make that public. She's set another extension date to February because she was ordered by the 11th Circuit because she was just sitting on volume 2 doing nothing for over a year. So the 11th Circuit said, You have to do something. So her doing something, she said, I'm going to set a deadline in February. So then the DOJ says, Because Judge Canon has not released Reast volume 2, you can't testify about it. Jack Smith is like, You subpoenaed me here. You all are asking me questions. So do you want to be here to moderate that, to make sure that you're not going to then criminally charge me for answering questions pursuant to a subpoena by the House of Republicans? No. Good luck. We wish you the best. When you go and you watch the eight-hour deposition, the first seven minutes, 10 minutes, it's Jack Smith's lawyer setting out the complete timeline of what took place there and being very careful and making a very clear record of what's taking place, because this was also clearly a setup to try to prosecute Jack Smith for talking about things that Canon's refusing to make public, which should clearly be public in any other special counsel situation.

As soon as the cases go away, the special counsel goes in an open session before the House and the Senate and testifies to the findings. Remember the special counsel with Biden, who went very publicly and said, Oh, Biden said this, Biden? Yeah, that's what's supposed to happen. But the Republicans want to keep this secret. I'll I'm going to show you this portion right here where Jack Smith's lawyer says, This morning, just over an hour ago, we get an email from the DOJ saying, You can't talk about anything that's not public as a relates to the Mar-a-Lago case. Here, play this clip.

According to the Justice Department, discussion of volume 2 of the special counsel's report and any information or conclusions in volume 2 or in draft thereof is specifically prohibited by Judge Canon's January 21st, 2025 order. This morning, just over an hour ago, the Department of Justice sent us an email affirming its view that Judge Canon's order applies to Mr. Smith and that it precludes him from disclosing any non-public information that may be contained in volume 2, including, but not limited to, interview transcripts, search warrant materials, business records, toll records, video footage, records obtained by grand jury subpoenas, attorney-client communications, and potential Rule 404(b) evidence.

This restriction significantly limits Mr..

Smith's ability to discuss the classified documents case.

Nevertheless, Mr. Smith is committed to doing his best to answering questions consistent with the department's guidance.

And I asked that that email from the Department of Justice that was sent earlier this morning to be made part of the record.

Isn't that crazy? Isn't that an insane trap that they're trying to set for him? You all see it. The Republicans make him testify. He wants to do it publicly. They demand it happens in secret. Then they want to ask him questions, but then they tell him through the DOJ that he can't talk about volume 2 because Judge Canon, Trump's buddy, is not allowing discussions to happen about that. He gets an email an hour before he's set to testify about it. Then you'll see, if you to watch the full video deposition, the Jack Smith's lawyer says, So we invited the DOJ to show up if they want to object or if they've got any issues. So there's no concern. They refuse to send somebody. That just tells you everything with this regime is a cover-up. They cover up a child sex trafficking ring. They cover up Donald Trump's theft of classified records. They cover up Donald Trump's health. They cover up the video footage of war crimes being committed by the United States and some of the most heinous forms of war crimes imaginable, although all war crimes are heinest. It's one cover up after another over and over and over again.

Now you get leaks. When Donald Trump says, Putin called me and said that his home was under attack by Zelenskyy, there was a report today that says US intelligence confirms that that never happened. It is all alive. But we all knew we didn't need US intelligence here. We knew Putin was lying. It was obvious that Putin's lying. Trump is the purveyor of lies, disinformation. He is engaged in tons of crimes in plain view, and then they engage in these cover-ups. It's very obvious what's happening, and I wanted to break down the nuance, if you will, of what's going on there. We have a lot to discuss. I want to talk about Trump covering up his deteriorating health. I want to talk about Donald Trump vetoing a clean water bill for Colorado as part of his cover up of the Epstein files in support of a convicted felon. I want to talk about Donald Trump trying to and seizing the public golf courses in DC to make him into Trump golf courses. He also announced that in a month from now, they're building the Arch, the Triumphal Arch that they're going to be building. That's going to be a major priority of this regime.

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Let's talk about Donald Trump's deteriorating health, his cover-up of his deteriorating health. We've been focused on this a very long time at the Midas Touch Network. This is a Wall Street Journal article from earlier in the day. They actually interviewed Donald Trump about this. It's an exclusive. Here's the headline, As signs of aging emerge, Trump responds with defiance. In an interview, the President said he has askewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging. I think one of the tricks that Wall Street Journal is doing, which is funny now, I guess, is they're giving headlines that seem favorable to Donald Trump. But then when you read the articles, they're actually pretty fierce against him. I guess they figure he only reads the headlines because they did the same thing with the Epstein article, right? Trump kicks him out of this Mar-a-Lago spa. But then when you read it, it was like, well, Donald Trump was sending all these girls, and it seemed to be underage or very young to Epstein's house. But the headline was, kicked out of the spa in 2003. Yeah, but not Mar-a-Lago. Then also, it seems like Epstein and Trump were still pretty close.

This was the headline, Trump responds with defiance. As you go through this article, here's what it talks about. Trump admits to taking more aspirin than his doctors recommend. He says it's a superstitious thing that he has. He says, They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense? That's what he says. He goes, Does that make sense? No, it doesn't make sense. Regarding his hands and why his hands are discolored, Donald Trump is asked about that, and he says, He says he applies makeup to his hands after he gets whacked again by someone. He adds, I have makeup that's easy to put on, takes about 10 seconds, and he puts it on after he gets whacked. I get whacked and I put it on. What does that mean? Does that even What does that mean? You get whacked in your hand and you put on makeup? What the hell are you talking about? Okay, he gets whacked in his head.

The story keeps shifting, too. It was too much handshaking, now he gets whacked. I mean, I just can't keep up.

I imagine someone said that. What does that sentence even mean? He gets whacked and he puts on makeup and it takes him 10. Don't worry. I don't think we were worried. The broader issue was not whether it took 5, 10, 15 or 20 seconds. It only takes 10 seconds. Yeah, okay, you apply makeup, it takes you 10 seconds on your end.

The makeup job we see, it doesn't look like a lot of time was spent on that job that we see. I'm going to say our concern was not how long is the makeup taken to lather up. There was also something in the Wall Street Journal piece that said Pam Bond. Maybe this is part of the whacking. It sounds so weird when you say it like that. Pam Bondi brushed up against Trump's hand with her hand and a piece of her jewelry brushed up against Trump's hand, and Trump's started profusely bleeding. The people around Trump got very nervous, and they were worried that he would freak out on Bondi because she made him just start gushing blood out of his hands. This is biblical shit.

What do you think? He thinks the concern of the public with the makeup was, Hey, guys, is he wearing makeup all over his hands because they look discolored and there are IVs? Is he thinking people are like, Yo, 30 seconds or 35 seconds? No, no, no. Ten How long it takes to put the makeup on? What are you talking about?

What are you talking about? That's what you're talking about.

That's what you're talking about. That's what you're talking about. That's what you're talking about. Donald Trump says that he doesn't fall asleep in the meetings where we see him falling asleep. He goes, It's just relaxing to me. Sometimes They'll just take a picture of me blinking. They'll catch me with the blink. The blink, he says, that that's what it is. It's the blink.

The blink. Believe, the blink.

It's just the blink. Then RNC Chair Joe Gruters says that he witnesses Donald Trump eat French fries, a McDonald's quarter pounder hamburger, a Big Mac, and a filet of fish in one sitting. Also, Donald Trump now is saying through the same doctor who said that he had an MRI, and we know that Caroline Levit said that Trump had an MRI, and Trump says he had an MRI. Now, Trump says it was a CT scan, not an MRI, he tells the Wall Street Journal, that it's a CT scan. It's X-rays, not magnets, and he wants you to know all of that, although CT scans are also used to test Alzheimer's. One of the ways CT scans can be used is by ruling out other forms of shrinkage and other issues. But regardless, he said it was an MRI. I mean, what are we even talking about here? Here's Donald Trump on November 14th, 2025. Just listen to what he says here. Play this clip.

Because it's part of my physical, getting an MRI is very standard way. You think I shouldn't have it. Other people got it. I had an MRI.

Here's what the story is.

I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor. That's it. But I had an MRI as part of my standard yearly I think they do it every two years, but I have the physical every year, and the result was outstanding.

Was it your brain? I have no idea what they analyze, but whatever they analyze, they analyze it well.

They said that I had as good a result as they've ever seen.

Caroline Levit, here's what she had to say around that time.

Let's play. Can I pull up on the MRI?

Because President Trump yesterday said that he would release the result of his MRI. Is that happening right now?

It is happening right now. This is a summary from the President's physician, and we will release it right now. I think my team has it teed up for all of you. I'll read it for you, and then you'll get it physically as well.

As part of President comprehensive executive physical, advanced imaging was performed because men in his age group benefit from a thorough evaluation of cardiovascular and abdominal health.

Okay. At best, the President of the United States does not know the difference between an MRI and a CT scan, which would still be alarming that he's making up that he's had a CT scan just of the abdominal region. Who goes in and gets a preventative CT scan of the abdomen only? Like, You know what? Here we are. It's your annual physical. We're going to have to CT scan that abdomen. Why? Just what we do to everybody. Any other body parts? No, no, no, no, no, your abdomen. That's basically it. You sure people do this doc? Yeah, we just put people through X-rays all the time without any complaints about anything. Just part of the executive physical. Okay, this is the most ridiculous lies imaginable. And in many ways, in my view, it just makes it worse, not just in terms of physical, because in many ways, having a CT scan raises even deeper questions. But it's constantly lie after lie after lie and the stupidest lies and just treating people like they're so freaking dumb, and we're not dumb. I just want to have smart and sophisticated leadership, which brings me to Zoran Mamdani, a breath of fresh air in a toxic political climate with this maga mutation, whatever you want to call it.

Don't you wish that the President of the United States talked like this? This is Zoran Mamdani saying that Whether you voted for him or not, here is his promise. This is from the inauguration of New York City Mayor Zora and Mamdani, which we stream live on the Midas Touch Network. Here, play this clip.

We will encourage you to demand more of yourselves as well. The movement we began over a year ago did not end with our election. It will not end this afternoon. It lives on with every battle we will fight together. Every blizzard and flood we withstand together. Every moment of fiscal challenge we overcome with ambition, not austerity, together. Every way we pursue change in working people's interests rather than at their expense, together. No longer will we treat victory as an invitation to turn off the news. From today onwards, we will understand victory very simply. Something with the power to transform lives and something that demands effort from each of us every single day. What we achieve together will reach across the five boroughs and it will resonate far beyond. There are many who will be watching. They want to know if the left can govern. They want to know if the struggles that afflict them can be solved. They want to know if it is right to hope again. Standing together with the wind of purpose at our backs, we will do something that New Yorkers do better than anyone else. We will set an example for the world.

If what Sinatra what Petra said is true, let us prove that anyone can make it in New York and anywhere else, too. Let us prove that when a city belongs to the people, there is no need too small to be met. No person too sick to be made healthy. No one too alone to feel like New York is their home. The work continues. The work endures. The work, my friends, has only just begun. Thank you.

Here's what he had to say about childcare, about healthcare, about just affordability in general. Let's play it.

The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few. Those in rent-stabilized homes will no longer dread the latest rent hike because we will freeze the rent. Getting on a bus without worrying about a fair hike or whether you'll be able to get to your destination on time will no longer be deemed a small miracle because we will make those busses fast and free.

Let me show you here. Bernie Sanders spoke, and he talked about how Zoron's opponents have called the agenda that he campaigned on radical. But he goes, In the richest country in the world, the fact that most people can't afford things and fighting for affordability, that's not radical. That's what we should all be fighting for. Here, play this quote.

Need your help to govern. Grassroots democracy and people participating in the day-to-day struggles of this city will lead to good governance. Please remain involved. You know, all of us have heard as Iran's opponents have called the agenda that he campaigned on radical, communistic, and absolutely unachievable. Really? That's not what we believe. In the richest country in the history of the world, making sure that people can live in affordable housing is not radical. It is the right and decent thing to do. In the midst of a massive housing in crisis, it is exactly what the people of this city and this country want and need. Providing free and high-quality childcare is not radical. Countries all over the world have done it for years. It is what our kids require if they're going to be well-prepared for school and what working parents desperately need.

Now, contrast that with the messaging on state regime media, Trump's propaganda platform, Fox, where you have Caroline Sunshine, who's, I guess, auditioning for the job of Caroline Levet, saying the following about Trump is Daddy. Here, play this clip. Oh, you and I both, Jason. I'm also born and raised in this state. Let me try to put this in terms that Gavin Newsom will understand.

Donald Trump is Daddy, and Daddy cut you off, and Daddy said you can't use his credit card anymore.

Because why should California and Gavin Newsom be getting federal funds when they don't even follow federal law? Nobody is obstructing federal immigration law more than the state of California and Gavin Newsom. You don't get a penny if you're not going to enforce federal law. By the way, California is the fourth largest GDP in the world. If it were to be a country, it literally subsidizes the existence of all of the failed red states. It gives $85 billion more than it takes, in contrast to Texas, which takes $75 billion more than it gives. And I could go on that ran for a while. But the state that is basically funding the entire country is the one that MAGA chooses to go after. And then they call Trump Daddy. And here, Tommy Lahren. This is, again, the messaging from state regime media, Trump's propaganda outlet their version of the ASS test that's in Russia or their version of Sputnik Media or their version of RT. Here's what Tommy Lahren says about, Look, we need to be focused on where's Joe Biden right now? Here, play this. And you'll never believe where Joe Biden was spotted.

Spoiler alert, he's on vacation.

Yeah, a guy who's retired and who has cancer is probably on a vacation during vacation periods of time. Brett and Jordie, I wanted to show the contrast there, though, between what governance should look like, not radical. To me, Zora talking about childcare, education, healthcare, rent stabilization, making housing affordable. Isn't that what governance is? What I believe is radical is to have these individuals who are mega radicals. The real radicals are people, Donald Trump is daddy. He's daddy, everybody. And We're not going to give you money. We're going to invade your state because he's daddy and daddy's man. Okay, that right there is radical and crazy and demented, and it needs to be called out for what it is. One of the things that we do here on independent news, and that I think the Democrats are doing a better job at, and California Governor Newsom is doing an excellent job at, is just calling this out and being strong with the terms and being clear who the who the real radicals are, who are the real enemies against the United States, who are the real people who are causing harm, and what's their ultimate agenda, these MAGA's, who hate America, who hate our country, who hate our freedoms.

What we saw there in Zora's speech, the least radical. That's what America should be about, helping the American people, helping the people in this country with empathy, with compassion, with intelligence. Brett, you're the alternative.

Real quick, let me just jump ahead of you this time. Just while it's fresh in my head, when you look at the Caroline Sunshine on Fox and we look at Tommy Lauren, why are they so weird? Why? Where do they find these absolute creatures? On Fox News, in the Republican Party. What are you all doing. You are deeply unserious people that during a time that needs to be met with seriousness and adults in the room, just continue to clown yourselves time and time again. Trump is daddy. And by the way, she's not the first person to use that lingo to describe Donald Trump. It's weird. It's creepy. It's just beneath you as an individual. It's so weird, Ben and Brett.

It's so bizarre. And when you think about what's radical, I mean, I think radical is freeing the January sixth convicts, the people who attacked the Capitol. I think radical is kicking tens of millions of people off their health care plans. I think radical is refusing to even put a vote on the floor to extend the affordable Care Act subsidies, which are now causing premiums for millions of Americans to rise to a point where there are going to be millions and millions of Americans going bankrupt or being forced to choose between going bankrupt and having health care and being able to afford the other basic necessities in their life. What they do when you see a network like Fox, I think Radical is also covering up a child sex trafficking ring, because the leader of the country happens to be involved with the world's most notorious sex trafficker who everyone wants to know more about right now. What Fox is good at is they understand the potency of hate, and they have weaponized hate in order to get people to vote against their own interests. I mean, Bernie Sanders is 100% right. That when you list through those other things, all the things that Zoran Mamdani was calling for in his speech and the things that Bernie's fighting for, and AOC is fighting for, and that you see a lot of these politicians fighting for on the democratic side, they're things that are just standard fair in other countries.

They're not controversial things. They're not viewed as, Oh, that's impossible. That's so lefty. That's commy. That's communism, whatever. That's not even a consideration in so many of these other countries. It's just like, Yes, of course, we need to provide these basic necessities for people so that they could live, so that they could... Not that we're going to give them all this money and we're going to make them do everything for them as the government, but we're going to make sure that they don't slip through the cracks. We're going to make sure that people aren't suffering due to things that the government is able to help with. I think that's a potent message in and of itself. It's a message that I think if you polled people on the individual issues, and this polling has been done, most of these issues are 70% plus Americans agreeing with all of these issues. Fox has to figure out a way to villainize it. The way they villainize it is by otherizing it, by stoking this hate, by saying the weird things like Daddy, trying to make this this weird political game when at the end of the day, they are the ones that are just trying to support the status quo that helps the billionaires in this country while they screw over the working people.

Fox represents the billionaire class. Fox represents the Epstein class. That's who they are fighting for. They pretend they cloaked themselves in the flag, they cloaked themselves in religion, and they do everything they can to try to make working people vote against their own interests. They're really damn good at that. I I might add. But I think even as we see, I've seen some interesting things as of late with national polling related to Zoran Mamdani. It's actually quite striking when you look at it, when you see that Mamdani now, before people knew him, when they only heard the caricatured version of him that was out there on Fox and these other right-wing networks, people had a slightly negative view of him, like a year ago, before everything was in full swing. Now, when you look at not just the New York City, but when you look statewide in New York, incredible, super high favorable. Zoran Mamdani now is one of the most popular politicians, if not the most popular politician in the state. If you look at the country, you widen it out. The entire country of the United States of America that we see through the media, that we see through our interactions online as being so incredibly divided.

Who is right now the single most popular national candidate? The most popular national figures are people like Zoran Mamdani. They're people like Bernie Sanders, people like AOC. That propaganda can be vanquished with the truth. That's why Mamdani, speaking and just being himself and touting his policies and using his creativity and getting his message out there and resonating with the people and building these movements, that's the biggest threat to Fox and the Epstein class and the billionaire class. I think in 2026, as we begin this year, We need to continue to fight against the potency of hate. With this network, I want to combat that, and I want to be uplifting people, and I want to make sure that our work is always focused on people who need uplifting and people who need help in this country. And so whether that's the Epstein survivors, when it comes to our Epstein coverage, I want to make sure that we're focusing our coverage on the survivors. That, to me, is the most important thing. When we're speaking about the economy, I don't want to highlight things that are great for billionaires. I want to talk about what are the things that are affecting the working people, and how could we get this country to move in a direction that actually helps the working people and doesn't screw them over and leave them without health coverage and leave them broken penniless because they had to go to the hospital.

And so I think that's the thread that connects this network right now. And as we dive in headfirst into 2026, I think that could be all of our mission. I'm looking forward to it. And I think we could use this network for a lot of good. And I consider everyone watching, of course, part of this network, this community, and we're all in this together.

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