Transcript of Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 4/7/26 New

This is Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben Myselis and this is your breaking news. Let's get to the latest developments in Donald Trump's unlawful and catastrophic war against Iran after Donald Trump threatening more genocide and war crimes earlier this morning by obliterating the whole civilization of Iran, the whole civilization. Will die tonight. Iran then said, why would we talk to you if you're talking about obliterating our whole civilization? Iran's cut off even any exchange of messages that Pakistan was trying to do because the Trump regime is begging Pakistan to try to come up with some deal or framework for negotiations with Iran. And now where we're at is, uh, Donald Trump is trying to negotiate for an extension to his own arbitrary deadline. US and Arab officials say talks now center around getting a deadline extension, no deal. So the question is, with about 4 hours remaining, less than 4 hours remaining, the discussions center around, can I get an extension on yet another arbitrary deadline that I've set and stating that if you don't comply with my deadline, I will obliterate your entire civilization. Now, here is— here are some updates of where things stand.

Sirens and explosions have been heard in the last few minutes over Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. As Iran launches yet another ballistic missile attack targeting the Gulf nations, this being the first attack in roughly a week against Qatar's capital of Doha. Although a Qatari-flagged ship that was recently in Dubai, a liquefied natural gas ship, was struck a few days back by Iran in retaliation for the Trump regime and Netanyahu's attack on Iranian infrastructure. You have Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. He's requesting that Donald Trump extend his Iran deadline by at least 2 weeks while also asking Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz. This according to Reuters. On that news that Donald Trump may be tacoing yet again, that Donald Trump may be extending the deadline after talking about obliterating an entire civilization, the markets which were crashing today were further manipulated and bounced back on that news. This is the cycle that we live in. It is a humiliation ritual, frankly, for these United States of America. You see there, our audio listeners, I'm showing on video the S&P 500 surging on the news. That Pakistan has asked for a 2-week extension of Donald Trump's deadlines after Iran cut off communication with Pakistan because Donald Trump said, I'm going to obliterate your civilization.

And then Trump and Netanyahu launched coordinated attacks on railway, on Karg Island, on other infrastructure in Tehran. And now Iran is retaliating against the Arab nation neighbors where there are American military interests. Also during these— I'm not even sure you call it mediations.

Yeah.

The IDF announced that it attacked 8 bridges in Iran today. It was notable. My eyes actually hurt a little bit. I really didn't get much sleep last night because I was following developments. And I thought at one point there could have been an opportunity for a ceasefire because I saw Iran's ambassador to— I didn't— I knew that Iran said that they would never agree to a ceasefire. So let me start off with that premise. They said they want a permanent security guarantee for themselves, for the Houthis, for Hezbollah, for the Shiite militia groups in Iraq. They want full reparations for the war. They want to control the Strait of Hormuz. They won't give up their ballistic missiles, Shahed drones, and FPV drones. Phones, and they want America off the military bases in the region. And they said that they— and they don't want a ceasefire because the ceasefire means temporary, and they view any ceasefire as something that Donald Trump will manipulate with Netanyahu and attack during a ceasefire or try to increase the munitions that are depleted at this point. So Iran's like, why would we give you basically time to recover just when you're going to attack us again, that you will use the ceasefire in bad faith.

So I never thought Iran would agree to a ceasefire, but hope springs eternal, right? So what is it, 2:00 AM my time, 1:30 AM my time. I saw this Iranian ambassador to Pakistan. He made some positive comment. It was like, I want to thank the great mediators in Pakistan and we'll hopefully have news soon. I was like, oh, maybe there's a breakthrough. I don't know. I mean, here was the post. I mean, this was the post really early in the morning. Pakistan's positive and productive endeavors in goodwill and good office to stop the war is approaching a critical and sensitive stage. Stay tuned for more. I mean, a bit cryptic, but one can view that as perhaps an overture or an opening to do something. And then as soon as I read that, I was trying to dig into any information I could find.

What's going on?

Is there a breakthrough? Is there a breakthrough? Boom. Then all of a sudden, the next thing that's over the wire, explosions heard in Tehran. And then Trump and Netanyahu just continued to bomb all of Tehran and Karg Island. And then I was following all the bombings taking place. And then 2, 3 hours after that, Donald Trump makes the obliterate your civilization post. And then Iran says, we're not talking. You've done all of this. There's no— we're not having any further negotiations because Donald Trump wrote a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have complete and total regime change where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen. Who knows? We'll find out tonight. One of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world. 40 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end. God bless the great people of Iran. Then in response to that, Iran says, we don't even want to be speaking through any intermediaries at all. Then the markets were crashing. And then in the past, you know, the Wall Street Journal, citing 3 Iranian officials, says Iran has cut off communications with the US.

And then Donald Trump came begging back again through Pakistan. And now the negotiation is over to— it's a negotiation over a negotiation for an extension. Can we even negotiate to negotiate an extension of the deadline Donald Trump set? Now, again, I don't care what political party you're from. Democrat, Republican, independent, party overseas. You don't like politics, whatever. This behavior is utterly deranged, 25th Amendment demented stuff right here, right? Obliterate your civilization if you don't meet my deadline. And then saying, actually, can we negotiate for an extension of time? And the markets are all over the place and The accumulation of this is just weakness. The United States of America. This does not make us look strong. This makes us look so damn weak and pathetic, like a failed Trump bankrupt organization. All of the weird, grotesque stuff about Trump organizations in the past that cause them to go bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. That's the United States of America right now. It is really damn embarrassing. I don't know how anybody— oh, that makes us look tough, really, to go and say you're going to obliterate a civilization. And there's already been the war crimes that have been committed.

They already exist. I mean, let's speak with clarity about what's taking place. Before the communications cut off between the Pakistanis and Iran. What Iran reportedly told Pakistan mediators is that their current stockpiles sit at 15,000 missiles and 45,000 drones, indicating both a willingness to continue the conflict and a capacity for extended exchange of fires between them and the US and Israel. That number is always consistent with what I thought it was. I think they're probably exaggerating by about 20%, 25%, based on my studies of reading all of the literature and studying all— and you know, I do deep dives and really dig in here to figure out, you know, to to study their stockpiles, what it was. Part of my studying is I look to see the weapons that they're giving Russia. I factor in the, you know, 'cause Russia has their own warehouses that make these drones and ballistic missiles. They're sending it back through the Caspian Sea to Iran. I think about how quickly, I mean, they can make 1,000 of these drones a month or more. They can make 500, 600 ballistic missiles a month, perhaps more, you know, in there. And then I think you add Russia's capacity.

We don't know how much weapons China is providing as well. This seems well within the range. Even if you discounted and said they're probably exaggerating by 25 to 30%, they still have a lot of drones, a lot of missiles because they've been preparing for precisely this moment right here. And that's where things stand right now. And obliterate civilization post. And then later, you have a negotiation over a potential extension, and the extension would be 2 weeks. So then we do this entire timeline, this loop all over again. And then April 7th becomes, you know what, April 21st. Then the countdown goes there, and then they bring it into May, and then they bring it into July. Sound familiar? Sound familiar? This is what Trump's done his entire life. That's the thing. He, though— and you have to understand his pathology, and I think Iranians have studied it and they have a plan and they understand it. Donald Trump's plan, whether it's with his corporate fraud, his misconduct, The way he litigates, the way he handles things is just drag it on and on and on and on. Keep lying the fire hose of lies over and over again.

That overwhelms people. Lots of people don't have the stamina to deal with so much lies all of the time because lots of people want to just live their life. It's like, all right, enough. What do you want me to do? Or you bend to it. Because sometimes someone thinks bending to it's easier than just fighting it, and it isn't. You then become consumed by it. And like the way a zombie bites you, you basically become kind of the Trump MAGA miserable zombie when they— once he gets you kind of trapped in that world. But what he wants to do is just drag things out over and over and over again. He could stew in his misery and his malignant narcissism. He doesn't care. He doesn't— he's soulless. He doesn't, he doesn't feel things. He's, you know, he's, he's a, he's a grotesque creature. He doesn't care about any of it. He doesn't have feelings. Most people do. Most people, if you lie or you say things that are incorrect or you do things, you, you feel certain things that compel you to change. Not, not him. So he'll just try to drag it out and drag it out.

And just think about COVID all of his litigations. Right. He just, you know, his bankruptcies never ending. And then he just tries to find who's going to be my scapegoat and who am I going to blame this all on and who can bail me out. And then I just do it again. That's his whole shtick. That's his whole— that's his whole gimmick right here. And so he's hoping somebody will bail him out. I mean, you know, you know, right now Pakistan has a defense agreement Saudi Arabia. Pakistan is self-interested in making a deal for its own view of national prestige to deliver for the Saudis and the United States to try to make a deal with Iran. Iran realizes that Pakistan isn't really a true neutral in this situation based on its defense pacts that it also has with Saudi Arabia and based on Pakistani crypto funds investing in Donald Trump and Whitcoff's World Liberty Financial and, uh, you know, and, and things like that. And so Iran realizes that. And so Trump just wants to drag it out and drag it out and drag it out and drag it out. And that's why I say, you know, mistakes become blunders and blunders become, you know, massive errors, which become catastrophes, which become bankruptcies ultimately, because he keeps on dragging it on and on and on and on and on.

You know, I forget who I was having this— I've been saying this a lot today to people. You know, I was saying what's very fascinating to me is to think about this moment in time and compare it to the Great Recession of, you know, '08, '09, right around '07, '08 when it started, right? The Great Recession, which you had all of these, you know, you know, these, the, these mortgage-backed securities that were bundled together and these subprime mortgages were sold. And once people started having foreclosures, you know, people started looking at the portfolio of who owned these, basically these defaulting bundled subprime mortgages. And then Lehman Brothers had lots of exposure. So there was a run on Lehman Brothers and all of a sudden The Lehman Brothers stock crashed based on a panic that they had a great deal of exposure into the subprime, you know, mortgage-backed security bundling issue. Right. So I think about that and I think about, wow, these subprime mortgages, that's what led to a Great Recession because it started to be internalized or externalized that these things, that these, that these products would default. And then it had this cascading effect.

What's so shocking to me, and you tell me in the chat what you think, that kind of thing, like a subprime mortgage exposure issue causing a panic that leads to this bank going bankrupt and that bank going bankrupt and all of these issues. I'm not even sure that would register as news on Tuesday afternoon at 1:52 PM Pacific time, like that it would trigger some sort of panic and that that would have a run on Lehman and Lehman would go bankrupt. Like we have— I don't think I'm exact— I don't want to be hyperbolic, so push back on me if you think I'm being hyperbolic. So I'll I'll lower my estimate. It seems like every single day since Donald Trump's Liberation Day, the tariffs against the world, that we have some version of data that would give the same types of red flags of the subprime crisis, like 3 to 5 times a day, like before I eat lunch, if I eat lunch during a day, sometimes reporting so much. There's like 3 to 5 instances where something like that happens and it kind of barely registers, you know, and it is a testament to the resiliency of the market, the resiliency of things.

But, you know, I mean, the level of supply shock that's taken place right now when it comes to crude, when it comes to helium, when it comes to liquefied natural gas and petrochemicals and fertilizers, which is a byproduct that, you know, that's, that's created all of these things. Even if the war ended right now at this moment, that supply shock is the biggest supply shock since the '60s. And so the part that I kind of grapple with is the casualness of the language sometimes, that this is all somehow, you know, normal and this is somehow just regular behaviors is wild to me. And what I fear is The movie Don't Look Up. Everybody remember that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio? I think it was on Netflix, right? Don't Look Up. And then they had a— everybody that they knew the meteor was about to hit and there was a whole movement of don't look up, don't look up as the meteor is about to crash. And then as the meteor is crashing, there was like an Elon Musk type character who was thinking, How do I capitalize on the media? Can I mine the media and make money off of it?

And by the time people were like, okay, that meteor is about to hit, it was too late. And I won't tell you the ending of the movie, but, you know, you could Google it if you want to know the ending. But I fear that there's this kind of— there's this cognitive dissonance, there's this separation from reality. And it almost is like we're living in this simulation where the news is, is this alternate reality, and it's not registering that it is the reality that's happening on a day-to-day basis right now. And it's having massive impacts that are going to be felt generationally for a long time. While all of this is taking place, too, JD Vance is in Hungary right now. Holding campaign rallies for Viktor Orbán, the Putin sycophant, the Putin bootlicker, as part of an effort by the United States to destroy NATO and destroy the European Union. And so both the United States and Russia are working together to campaign for a Putin proxy, for a Kremlin proxy in Hungary while Donald Trump is threatening to obliterate a civilization. The Iranian civilization, not the Islamic Republic, not the regime or the ayatollah, the Iranian civilization.

And for those watching and for those on audio, the Iranian people came out.

They—

people who are critical of the regime are out there, you know, famous Iranian celebrities who were very critical of the ayatollah and the repression, and also just people in Iran in general. They're out there by the bridges. They're out there by the energy facilities and the nuclear energy facilities for civilian use. And the electric grids and all of the places that Trump and Netanyahu say they're going to bomb. You've got the Iranian people out there saying, if you're going to bomb it, you're going to, you're going to kill us also. You know that I heard people are saying, well, isn't that a war crime as well? Being on, you know, putting yourself on the bridge or using human shields, isn't, isn't Iran doing a war crime by having those people there? I mean, this is their civilian infrastructure. You know, you, you know, to me, if you're like, if Trump and Netanyahu were like, we're going to bomb schools and electric power plants and we're going to bomb bridges which are used by civilians and the civilians are like, well, we're going to go there. I don't, I don't know how you say that's a war crime for the civilians to be in the civilian places, you know.

And then, you know, Trump and Netanyahu say, well, These, these, this infrastructure. I mean, I'm just watching right now. There's just, I know I'm going to say it, just I'm watching right now on the screen, little girls. And I think to myself about the little girls in Manab Elementary School where 165 little girls were murdered. By the Trump regime. And I think about the hospitals in Iran that have been blown up and the universities that have been blown up and the civilians who have been killed across Iran. The gym where there were so many young people, you know, who were killed by Trump and Netanyahu. I think about Gaza. I think about Beirut. I think about Lebanon in general. And I just think about basic and core humanity, right? I mean, I just think about these are human beings, you know? And as I looked at those people there, I think about when I'm walking around my neighborhood, these are, these are people. These are, these are human lives. And so when Trump's out there, we're going to obliterate the civilization, we're going to obliterate these people, we're going to obliterate these human beings. These are wives and mothers, grandmothers, children, brothers and sisters, husbands and fathers, aunts and uncles, dentists and doctors, school teachers and lawyers, construction workers and farmers.

Engineers. You know, I know Donald Trump says these are animals. These are— these are animals. They want to be bombed. They love it when I bomb them. I mean, that's what someone of the Epstein class would say. That's what someone who, in my opinion, has been a lifelong predator would say. They want it. They told me they want it. They want to feel the pain. They want to be hurt. Sick. It's sick, sick stuff, and it should sicken you. It should sicken you to the core to see that, you know. And let me share with you the presentation that was made by the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations moments ago before we went live. And again, here's how they present their case to the United Nations. Let's play that clip if we got it, Jeremy.

Thank you, Mr. President. I think that once more this war showed that the US will not bring security and stability for the regional countries. We have no hostilities with our neighbors. The fact is very clear that we are targeting the US bases, US interests, and US assets in reciprocal action. In response to the representative of the United States I only want to refer to some remarks of the US President, which has initiated this war of aggression against Iran. On 21st of March, he threatened to hit and obliterate Iran's power plants. On 30th of March, he escalated this threat, wanting to blow up and completely obliterate critical infrastructure including power plants, oil facilities, Khark Island, and desalination installations. On April 1st, he declared his intention to bring Iran back to the Stone Age, explicitly threatening to strike all electric generating facilities. On April 5th, he again openly threatened to target civilian infrastructure, stating that Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day. There will be nothing like it. And today, he resorted to language that is not only deeply irresponsible but profoundly alarming, declaring that the whole civilization will die tonight. Never to be brought back.

Such rhetoric is unfitting of any political leader, let alone the head of a permanent member of the council entrusted with the maintenance of international peace and security. I thank you.

And while I was showing that clip, things are escalating fast in Iran. Iran's— or Iran's— Iranian aluminum company Aralco in Iraq, A-R-A-K, the country's largest aluminum producer, has been hit in an airstrike that just took place. And folks, things are definitely escalating with that move right there. I don't see I don't see how there's any way that Iran agrees to anything. And here's the thing, and I talked about this in the podcast that I do with my brothers, you know, I teach negotiation at a law school. I teach, it's part of my semester. I teach negotiations at USC Law for law students. And for undergrad. While you're involved in a negotiation and a mediation, the worst things that you can do are set arbitrary and fake deadlines, not understand the adversary in a negotiation at any level at all, not have trusted points of contact so that you're speaking with one voice to your adversary, so they know who you trust or who they can trust, or that one person's not going to undermine the other person. During a mediation, the parties in a good mediation that leads to a resolution, you Both leave a little bit on the table.

Right. Both sides leave a little bit. That's often the sign that there's a good negotiation. The purpose of a negotiation is not obliteration. Obliteration, often in the world that I lived in before Midas Touch. Was litigation, right? If you couldn't resolve a dispute through negotiation, through mediation, you would litigate it. And even during litigations, hostilities in a legal sense, there would be opportunities to mediate. But if during your mediation you took actions that would be escalating during a mediated session, your mediation would be derailed immediately. And so lots of the mediation process is hearing the other side out, listening, adapting, you know, exchanging information. And Donald Trump, not only is he a bad negotiator, he's the worst negotiator because he never negotiates. He's not— and this is how Iran sees it. You can negotiate with them because they view— Trump views negotiation as a zero-sum game. I take your life and then that's not a negotiation. And because Trump had daddy's money and because, you know, Trump would blame others, you know, when he would lose or whatever it is, Trump's use of a mediation or a negotiation was actually a trap. Lure people in under the pretext of discussions and then screw them over in the middle of it while you lure them in and set a trap.

And they did that with Iran the first time and then the second time. So Iran's like, I'm not going to talk to Kushner or Whitcoff. Like, no, no way. And that's one of the reasons why Iran's like, well, maybe we should talk to— maybe we should talk to Congress. Like, is there someone in the United States Congress who could, like, do something? And the answer is no. Yeah. MAGA Mike Johnson, you got John Thune, you got these sycophants who don't view themselves as having any constitutional authority, even though they're a co-equal branch of government. And so what we're seeing yet again right now, right, just think about it. The deadline that Donald Trump set was 8 Eastern, 8 Eastern, okay? If you want to make a deal with Iran, the way to go about it is not to say, I'm going to obliterate your entire civilization. And 3 hours before the deadline, it's not to start blowing up Iran's aluminum company. Look at that. Look at that. There's, there's no negotiation with that. So all you're creating is an escalatory environment, and often in this situation, mutually assured destruction. And so how do you think Iran responds to this?

Well, Iran responds to this by telling Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or whoever, okay, see you later, we're gonna bomb you, we're gonna put— we're gonna bomb you all now. And they say, look what they did to us, so we're retaliating against— we're retaliating against that. So, you know, it's, it's so weird when they're like, you know, Trump's negotiating a deal, deal, deal, deal, deal. I want to do a deal, a deal. Deal is actually code in Trump's world for trap. And when you replace deal with trap, like a Venus flytrap, right, he lures you with this idea of deal, deal, deal, deal, deal. And then he uses the negotiation when you put your guard down to sucker punch you in the face. That's— that's— he's a sucker puncher. Like, like, he's the lowest of the low, right? He's the guy who comes out when you're not looking and punches you in the face. I did it! I did it! Everybody look, I did it! That's who he is, right? Right. I mean, he's— he, he is the worst of the worst qualities. I think Iran recognizes that. They recognize they can't negotiate with that. So how do you get out of this endless loop where you can't negotiate with that and where Trump's language creates a war involving civilizations against each other?

And if you look at what's happening in the Middle East, if we open our eyes and you see millions of people protesting in Iraq, Shiite clerics leading millions, if not tens of millions, of the Shiite community in Iraq. And of course, we remember the— kind of go back and study the history, right? The Saddam Hussein Sunni versus Shiite community, how the sectarian strife played out, how in the post-Saddam world, how those sectarian divisions created essentially civil war environments. And you look at other areas in the Middle East as well, and you see the same types of problems. And so you look in Yemen, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people protesting there, Shiite community, showing solidarity with Iran. I mean, you take a look at in Syria, you take a look You take a look, you know, in Turkey, you take a look throughout, you know, the whole region, and you'll see because Trump cast this as Trump-Netanyahu civilization obliterating your civilization. That's the paradigm that they've created. And I fear, based on what I've just seen, in the past 5 minutes with the blowing up of this facility, this aluminum facility. It— things— I don't see how there's a way out of this.

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Welcome back. You know, lots of, uh, members of Congress, Democrats in particular, are saying you got to reconvene Congress immediately. You know, I'll give, uh, Congressmember Moskowitz credit over here for posting the following: Speaker Johnson must immediately reconvene the House to vote on a war powers resolution. It's beyond clear we are at war. The speaker's legacy will be that he made Congress so irrelevant that a president can threaten to wipe out a civilization while Congress is on vacation. Why the hell is Congress on vacation right now? I know lots of people are saying the 25th Amendment should be invoked. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of them. Alex Jones is another. Lots of MAGA Republicans are still saying that that's not the case. But, you know, obviously most of the country at this point, I think, believes that Donald Trump, regardless of your political party, that all the Democrats are saying 25th Amendment. I think Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating in the history of the United States amongst independent voters. Worse, Trump's approval with independent voters is worse than Nixon. As Nixon resigned. Like, think about that step, that his approval with independents— he's more underwater with independents than Nixon was by far, by like 6 points than Nixon was at Nixon's resignation.

Scott McFarland from the Midas Touch Network writes, Democrats are pressing House leadership to return to D.C. And reopen the House amid Trump's war deadlines and threats. The fact that the House is even closed right now and the Senate is closed is beyond, uh, you know, is, is, is beyond wild. Um, you know, you have, uh, just as, as you watch the various kind of updates right now that, that are just kind of coming in You know, this is what Pakistan's Chief of the Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir— he's the guy who went over to the White House, and after Pakistan invested their crypto money in World Liberty Financial, he— this is what they're saying now. This is the— this is what they told CNN. Some kind of deal, some kind of deal between Iran and the United States is expected to be closed by midnight tonight, regional sources tell CNN, with the source stating that some good news is expected from both sides soon and that discussions were steered directly by Pakistan's Chief of the Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir. And that is at the time that the, what, that the aluminum facility is being destroyed.

And while we hear sirens and explosions over Bahrain, Qatar, you know, and the United Arab Emirates, I mean, the situation right now of just the kind of complete and utter, just the disinformation that just gets spewed every damn second, every damn second. you know, to manipulate the markets. Um, you know, and, and if that is the case, just think about it. If that's the case, what, U.S. and Israel wanted to hit one more aluminum plant at the Fjar petrochemical complex in Mashar before, uh, you know, be— before a deal was made? I'm, I'm very skeptical. I'm very skeptical of, of that. I, I want to turn for a second uh, to JD Vance, his trip to Hungary right now. So that's where he is, and he's just spewing Putin talking points right now. And I'll show you what, uh, JD Vance was saying, uh, moments ago. So first, JD Vance says that, uh, Ukrainian intelligence— it's a statement that seems drafted by the Kremlin— JD Vance says that Ukrainian intelligence is rigging elections in both the US and Hungary. Just think about that. He's in Hungary saying that Ukraine is rigging elections in the US and Hungary.

Here, play this clip.

So to answer your question, yes, we're certainly aware that there are elements within the Ukrainian intelligence services that tried to put their thumb on the scale of American elections, on Hungarian elections. This is just what they do. This is, this is part of the, the cost of doing business within some elements their system.

That's where they're at right now. Here, JD Vance is saying, I want to help as much as possible Orbán this election season. The election's a few days away. Here's what he's saying.

Let's play this clip in support of Prime Minister Orbán, because together the president of the United States and the prime minister of Hungary have been able to do amazing things. And we're here because we want to celebrate those amazing things. We want to build a on those amazing things. And of course, I want to help as much as I possibly can the prime minister as he faces this, this election season, which I believe is happening in just about a week, the election to elect the next prime minister of Hungary.

I want to help Putin's proxy in Hungary, the guy who's trying to undermine the European Union. And if it wasn't clear to you by that, that the goal for the Trump regime is to rip to shreds the European Union. Here is what JD Vance says on Hungary, that they are victim— as he's trying to influence the election to help Orbán, as the United States and Russia are working so hard to get Orbán elected. Here you have JD Vance saying the Here, let's play this clip.

What has happened in this country, what has happened in the midst of this election campaign is one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I've ever seen or ever even read about. The bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary. They have tried to make Hungary less energy independent. They have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers. And they've done it all because they hate this guy. But I think that what the people of Hungary— what I would encourage them to do is ask themselves the question, not who's pro or anti-Europe, not who's pro or anti-the United States of America, but who is pro-you? Who is pro-the people of Hungary?

Attacking the European Union while he's there. Now I want to switch gears for a second. Let me show you this. He did a campaign rally today with Orbán. Uh, here he is. Um, here he is. Yeah, this is where he calls Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Orbán. Like, you know, like the MAGA-style campaign rallies. You have the Trump regime doing that in Hungary right now. And then he calls Donald Trump to put Trump on speakerphone. Watch this.

So before I started my remarks, I actually had a special guest that asked that I give him a phone call and we'll see. Let's hope he actually answers. So this is going to be very embarrassing.

All right. I'm sorry, the person you were trying to reach has a voicemail box that has not been set up yet.

Okay, try one more time. I get a good signal here. It's ringing. It's progress. Hello, Mr. President, how are you?

Is that one of the oddest things you've ever seen? Let me show you the other clip from that rally too that we got. Let's play the other clip.

Jeremy, will you stand against the bureaucrats in Brussels? Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy? Will you stand for Western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, for truth, and for the God of our fathers? Then, my friends, go to the polls in the weekend. Again, stand with Viktor Orbán because he stands for you and he stands for all these things. God bless Hungary and God bless the United States of America. Thank you.

I mean, that's like literally traitorous stuff right there. Seriously, let me just show you also like what are they saying on right-wing media. You know, you probably saw, uh, I'm not going to show all the clips again, but Donald Trump talking about obliterating the civilization of Iran while the Easter Bunny was standing next to Donald Trump for the Easter egg hunt, the annual Easter egg hunt at the White House. So here's how Jesse Watters on state regime media, which calls itself Fox, was talking about it. Let's play this clip. So imagine you're Iran and you're in a bunker and you're looking at Trump. He's telling you, you're going to bomb me back to the Stone Age next to a bunny. Yes, that's nuts. Biden Let me show you a clip right now of Megyn Kelly and what she had to say here. Play this clip. I mean, honestly, Trump could drop a nuke and I'd still vote Republican over those people because they want to have a new voter. In some ways, I really am. But honestly, they— what they want to do is nuke our own country. You know, it's like all one big game to them, right?

It's all one big joke. That's what I meant earlier. I mean, like, what world are you living in? He could nuke them. What are you talking about? I mean, going back to what I said earlier about the basic humanity in all of this, these are human beings. There's an expression out of the Holocaust, the banality of evil. Sometimes the evilness just becomes so ingratiated and commonplace that it's effectuated with such regularity that it's almost boring and commonplace. It just seeps through the zeitgeist, and you have comments like that. And speaking about the banality of evil, I would be remiss if I didn't talk about what's going on with the Epstein files, because This whole catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran began with a cover-up of the Epstein files, the child sex trafficking ring, the Epstein files. So Pam Bondi's out, Todd Blanch is in. So one of the questions right now is, will Pam Bondi still be required to show up for her deposition, or will the Department of Justice try to block it? Her deposition is scheduled with the House Oversight Committee On April 14th, the House Oversight Committee brought in Hillary Clinton. I think we clearly need to bring in Pam Bondi and ask her questions.

So, Todd Blanch, you're now the acting attorney general. So tell us, will Pam Bondi sit for a deposition or will you try to block it?

Tell us.

Let's play this clip.

Now, former Attorney General Bondi was facing subpoena from the House Oversight Committee. Do you expect she will comply with that, or will this administration, will the Justice Department invoke some sort of privilege to block her from testifying?

So, look, as everybody knows, the attorney general and I went to the House Oversight a few weeks ago. We answered every single question asked for a couple hours. What happens now that she's the former attorney general and there's the subpoena out there is, I think, I'll leave to Chairman Comer and others to figure out. I don't, I don't have answer to that.

You won't be invoking a privilege or anything?

Excuse me?

You won't invoke any kind of privilege to block?

No, I didn't. I definitely did not say that. I said I will leave it to Chairman Comer to work out with others. I just don't have an answer for you, but I'm not— I didn't— I'm not committing to anything. I'm just saying I don't— I don't know. Good.

Good answer, man. Great, great, uh, great. And I mean, isn't this the most— like, from all aspects, from all sides, isn't this the most pathetic thing you've ever seen? By the way, as we're recording, dated Brent crude has hit $144.46 a barrel. That's a new all-time high right now, and you're all feeling it at the gas pump right now. Let me go back to that Todd Blanch press conference that took place moments ago. Here he talks about how, well, we have thousands of ongoing investigations. It's true. That they involve men, women, and entities that the president should believe are investigated. Let's play this clip. Thank you, Mr. Acting Attorney General. President Trump has made no secret of the fact that he wants to see his perceived political enemies prosecuted. So now that you're in this position, how are you going to balance that relentless pressure with this administration's promise to end the weaponization organization of this department?

Well, look, first of all, um, we have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now. And it is true that some of them involve men, women, and entities that the president in the past has had issues with and that believe should be investigated. That is his right, and indeed it is his duty to do that, meaning to lead this country And so I do not view this as pressure. I do not view this as something that is, is, is going to keep me up at night except to make sure that we are investigating every case that we, that we have to the fullest extent of the law and using all the resources we can.

And finally, a reporter asked him, usually there's been a firewall so that the DOJ is not coordinating with the president who the president wants to be prosecuted. Like, do you acknowledge that normally there's a firewall there? Here, let's play this clip.

As the referrals go, I mean, even if you're not having an official, you know, it's not, you're not reporting to the White House, but what if the White House or somebody in the White House says we want you to investigate this state or this program? And how do you handle that? Because historically, as you know, since Watergate, there's been a kind of a firewall, if you will, on criminal investigations between the White House and the Justice Department.

I mean, that is the most false statement I've ever I've ever heard in my life. There is always communication between a president and his priorities and what the Department of Justice should be focused on and not focused on. That is not a new thing in this administration, although I know it sounds fun to say that it is. So as far as whether we would take a referral from the White House or take a referral from, um, from you even, yes. I mean, yes, if somebody knows about fraud, please tell us. And so if, if the president of our United States I have heard that there is ongoing fraud in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Um, like any president before him, I hope that the Attorney General would, would absolutely say yes, we'll investigate that. All right, I appreciate that, guys. So, um, thank you.

There, it's just a revolving door of madness and chaos. And so look, we're going to be covering, uh, this catastrophic war every step of the way. You know, I told you the last kind of disinformation that came out is Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, made that statement. I'm going to look if I see, you know, this is a deal is expected to be closed tonight per CNN. A regional source, whatever that means, has informed CNN that some good news could be expected tonight, as they say. And now it says oil prices are following on the news and U.S. stock market futures are now green. Shocker. Shocker again. That's, that's the latest that, uh, that they're going with. All right, uh, Katie Fang shows right now. We're gonna send you over to Katie Fang Show. Um, I know you love Katie Fang Show. It's such an honor to have Katie Fang here on the Midas Touch Network. Uh, let me bring you over to Katie Fang right now for more continuing coverage. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's— you don't have to move at all. We'll, we'll move you over to Katie Fang Show, and if you don't get moved over automatically, just search it.

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