Ben Meiselas reports on what he describes as a wave of resignations in the Trump administration, beginning with Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. He says more departures are expected and cites unnamed sources, and he discusses Republican calls for Suzy Wiles to step down after the midterm losses, Trump's response, the collapse of the Saudi-backed Live golf league, and the conviction of Russell Brand.
The episode also covers the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz tanker attacks, Russia's alleged use of Ukrainian children in its army, and a White House visit by Kirill Dmitriev. Listeners get the host's commentary alongside clips of the figures involved.
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Donald Trump is panicking as the mass resignations from his regime are beginning. This morning we learned that Harmeet Dhillon, Donald Trump's handpicked Department of Justice civil rights chief, has resigned following Democrats' historical midterm sweep. Dhillon's responsible for gutting the civil rights division within the DOJ, she drove out career attorneys, and she pursued some of Donald Trump's most odious legal crusades.
The exodus begins, and what I'm hearing from my sources in the know, they say there is a feeding frenzy in the White House. They said, "Ben, we can't tell you all we know right now, but if you knew what was going on in the White House, all of the other resignations that were planned—" We're talking cabinet officials as well. They said your mind would be blown. They said, "Pay attention over the next 48 to 72 hours, because Harmeet Dhillon's resignation is just the beginning."
Now, the Independent is reporting Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to resign. Again, no one else has really reported on this, but they say that he is desperate to try to distance himself from the regime's catastrophic war in Iran in order to pursue a path to run for president, and he knows attaching himself to this regime would prevent that from taking place. He's seeing what the MAGA Republican governor—I should say no longer MAGA, but very Republican extremist governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is doing, and seeing that DeSantis is basically running against the Trump regime at this point.
Of course, you had Vice President J.D. Vance blame the catastrophic war in Iran as the reason that the Trump regime and MAGA stooges lost so massively during the midterms. And you know that, and I did an interview this morning, Democrats and Republicans are coming for Pete Hegseth right now because of his war crimes, his despicable behavior, his destruction of our military. And as Trump and Hegseth are panicking, they are literally in the kind of bunker mentality right now.
Politico reports that Pete Hegseth is authorizing DC National Guard to begin using boats, several dozen marked police cars, Humvees, and light-medium tactical vehicles in the nation's capital, as they see in the Trump regime the anger continuing to grow at this despicable regime. You know, in normal, healthy functioning governments, when you get a shellacking the way the Trump regime just did and MAGA Republicans did at the midterms, you know what happens?
It functions as a vote of no confidence. In fact, in parliamentary systems, if you're not able to pass a budget with the agreement that's necessary from a working government, whether it's a coalition government or otherwise, the government collapses and new snap elections have to be called. And so here in the United States, the message from the American people is very clear: we want this Trump regime out. And you're seeing, again, a lot of people, a lot of rats fleeing the sinking ship.
You've got MAGA Republican Congressmember Marlon Stutzman saying there needs to be rolling heads in the White House right now. A lot of people are going for Suzy Wiles and others in the Trump cabinet. Watch what this MAGA Republican congressman has to say. Play this clip.
We're in the minority in a big way, and this gives us a chance to start fresh. You know, I'm a business guy, and if in business all of a sudden you lose that much of your work to your competitor, you're going to fire people. In fact, I think there should be some heads rolling from the White House as well right now. And I think we need to start with our own house right now and making sure that we have new leadership, new voices. You know, I appreciate everything they've done and tried to do, but it didn't work. And so I'm going to be supporting Jim Jordan in this race and believe that as we look to the other positions as well, that we need new people stepping up.
That's what Republicans are for. We're for competition and getting the best people out in front to lead our party.
So. You know, and I think what we're going to see next week as Congress returns from this lame duck session, I think you're going to see Republicans who have lost their job working now with Democrats to very aggressively prosecute this Trump regime and to actually set the framework for when Democrats finally take control in the upcoming congressional session, which will be taking place in January. As I mentioned earlier today on Jesse Waters, State Regime Media Fox, they're calling for resignations and for people to be fired within the Trump regime.
I mean, you had Jesse Waters saying that, you know, one of his guests, but he's promoting this because this is the message they're pushing right now, is that Suzy Wiles needs to resign and others in the White House need to resign. Jesse Waters posted this last night. Fox has run a number of segments like this. I did a whole video on it this morning. Play this clip.
Well, look, there's a few things that have to happen. I'm going to say publicly what a lot of people are saying privately. Suzy Wiles needs to resign. She needs to offer her resignation to the president before he has to ask for it. Her campaign skills have not translated into governing. Suzy was behind the historic win in 2024, and she deserved credit for it and got the top job for it. But now she's behind the historic loss, where we lost Mississippi and have lost potentially the Senate for six years. And so that cuts both ways.
I think if she loves and respects the president and his legacy, she'll do the right thing and step aside. Because on the current trajectory, we can't win in 2028 if we keep going down this current lane. And a lot of this was staff failure. A lot of this was strategy and messaging failure. It's the chief of staff's job to manage the staff. James Blair, the president's top political advisor, should not have been over in a pro-Russian state a month before a wipeout election. He should have been in Michigan. Why wasn't the staff out messaging? You know, Abdul Al-Sayed came on this network three times.
The president's staff was not out there on CNN and MSNow and podcasts.
Now, what's Donald Trump doing in response? Donald Trump is posting these weird, bizarre, hard-to-even-see images of the reflecting pool with, like, a foggy lens on it. He thinks that this is a good picture. Very bizarre right over there. Then Donald Trump is posting Joel Pollock that says, "Trump was elected to do politically difficult but necessary things. Securing the border is ugly. Fighting Iran is costly. Taking on special interests upset donors.
Backing AI scares people. Tonight, Republicans paid the cost. The benefits will be with us for many generations." And he's reposting that. You know, when you actually look at the things that are mentioned also, though, over here, I mean, securing the border, what, unleashing ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo to invade cities? Yeah, that wasn't helpful. Fighting Iran, losing the war to Iran that we should never have been in? Yeah, that's a bad thing. Taking special interests, taking on special interests. You took special interest. I've never seen a more corrupt regime than this regime.
Backing AI scares people. You're actually going to crash AI by not putting the appropriate guardrails on it. Promoting its unregulated proliferation has caused mass devastation, and your data centers all across the country were utterly rebuked in all 41 moratoria that were up in referendums. The people, by overwhelming majority, said no to data centers. So Donald Trump has, like, no allies going on TV to defend him other than his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
How utterly freaking pathetic is this? So she's like, look, look, look, the real issue is Biden. Takes a long time to rebuild from the Biden years. Do you see how pathetic these losers are? You're still going with this? Watch what Lara says over here. Let's play it.
The way this president has set things up will not take effect immediately. It takes a long time to rebuild from the Biden years, from the destruction the Democrats themselves caused to this country. And so the long-term play of all of these things is very tough in a society where you have a clickbait culture, where people need instant gratification. Nonetheless, I appreciate what the president has done, and I think Americans down the road will as well.
I do. I do too. But. And then she says, "Look, I think that you really need to just give Donald Trump a lot more credit because he knew that this was a political loser for him, but he still ran on the political loser issues." What are you talking about? He's a loser. He's destroyed our country, and he lost the election. That's what's actually going on. Here, play this clip.
But he's also said, "Brian, I would do it again." And I think you have to give President Trump a lot of credit. He knew that this would be politically disadvantageous for him, that this was a political loser for him, and he did it anyway because he thought it was in the best interest of the safety and the security of the American people.
By the way, folks, if you take a look, for example, at the New Hampshire state legislature right now, it previously had a Republican majority. Now it has a Democratic supermajority. Think about all of these state legislatures that turned blue as well. All of these governors' seats that turned blue as well. And I'm focused right now, and I hope to do a video soon on the Mississippi Senate race with Scott Calome, because Scott Calome is about to be senator-elect. Scott Calome, I remember when we had him on this show back in 2025.
Do you remember? We had him kind of mid-2025, and I was telling you, "Don't sleep on Scott Calome." So I'm looking forward to making that call in a little while. I can't make the call yet, but I think I'll be able to in a little bit. Also, it's official. The Trump-backed, Saudi-backed golf tournament Live is now officially dead. In New Jersey bankruptcy court, Live lawyers confirm the company is officially bankrupt and winding down. Remember what Donald Trump would always say about Live when it launched? "I know these people.
I know the Saudis. They love me. This is going to be so good for golf. People are going to get so damn rich." Everything Trump touches dies. Here, play this clip.
I've known these people for a long time in Saudi Arabia, and they've been friends of mine for a long time. They've invested in many American companies. They own big percentages of many, many American companies. And frankly, what they're doing for golf is so great. What they're doing for the players is so great. The salaries are going to go way up. The PGA was not loved by a lot of the players, as you know, for a long time.
And also, Donald Trump surrounds himself with sex predators all of the time. And Donald Trump is a sex predator. He was found civilly liable for sexual assault, and he's covering up child sex trafficking rings before our very eyes. A Trump MAGA ally, big kind of MAGA influencer, Russell Brand, was just found guilty of rape in a trial that just concluded. He faced seven charges, including rape and sexual assault from six women. Guilty, guilty, guilty.
And remember just last month, Russell Brand spoke with Trump cabinet officials. He was there with J.D. Vance, the vice president, RFK Jr., and Dr. Oz, and he started the conversation by making jokes about consent when he's now convicted of rape. And this is who the Donald Trump cabinet had speak with them and host their event. These people make me want to puke. Here, play this clip.
Russell Brand was backstage hugging the secretary of agriculture. But here he is.
Yes.
Took MAHA to a whole new level.
She initiated that contact. I should make clear, Doctor. Actually, you initiated it. Thank you for joining us. Should I be the host?
Meanwhile, in Iran, Iran's IRGC says two additional oil tankers caught fire in the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz. This is the fifth tanker that was struck today. And in addition, there was a tugboat that was hit by the IRGC that we can confirm. Also, the commander of the IRGC ground forces visited three different Iranian islands, demonstrating to the Iranian people today on Iranian TV that IRGC forces still maintain freedom of navigation in their own waters.
Very interesting day on Iranian TV today. They had the IRGC commander of the ground forces traveling around the Strait of Hormuz broadcast live. And then you had Iranian state television broadcasting a staged hanging of Donald Trump in Tehran University. Demonstrators also burned images of the U.S. and Israeli leaders, and billboards went up with threats to kill Donald Trump and Netanyahu and others in the Trump regime. Meanwhile, with respect to Iran, Russia has agreed to supply Iran with 90 more helicopter-mounted launchers for its LMUR-guided missiles, widely used by its forces in Ukraine, The Financial Times report, bolstering Iran's helicopter capabilities.
Russia has said very publicly they are helping Iran militarily with intelligence to strike the United States' assets in the region, to defend Iran from the United States' attacks. They are providing weapons. They're doing it in plain view. It's not a secret. Iran is allied with Russia. Iran is allied with China. I mean, we see they talk about their deals together for military deals and regional deals and economic deals. So great work there, Treasury Secretary Bessent, with Operation Economic Outcast.
Also, Axios reporting how Iran is still seen as one of the major emerging space powers, according to a U.S. intelligence report. So not only is Operation Economic Outcast not working against Iran, Iran not only still has significant military capabilities in Earth, it's focusing on outer space, and it's one of the biggest powers that have outer space capabilities. And speaking about Russia there for a moment, Ukraine President Zelensky explained also this morning the intelligence that they have there and how their front battlefield intelligence shows that a lot of the children that Russia kidnapped in this catastrophic war are now being sent to fight the war against Ukraine.
So the Russians have taken thousands of Ukrainian children, kidnapped them at the start of the war several years back. They've now grown up into men or young men, and they're now being sent to fight against Ukraine where they were kidnapped from. Watch what Zelensky said this morning. Play this clip.
And the Russians have taken thousands of Ukrainian children from our land, and now we see something even worse. Russia has already started sending some of these children. Children they stole from us who have grown up during this war, grown up over these years into the Russian army. And this is horrible, and it must stop.
Now, at the same time, Zelensky was saying that at that conference, the Trump regime invited the Russians, and they also invited a Ukrainian representative as well. But the main feature was the Russians in the White House. Russia's head of their sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev, who's, like, the right hand of Putin. He's a very senior guy. He's also got the title Envoy to the United States. He's the guy who Witkoff and Kushner always meet with him when they talk about all the deals they want to do together with the Russian Lukoil foreign assets and the LNG and the potash and the diesel and the uranium and the data centers.
It's this guy, Kirill Dmitriev. So Dmitriev was in the White House. Yes, Putin's, like, top guy was in the White House thanking Melania Trump for her distinguished humanitarian role in resolving the Oleshky situation, which I told you from day one would clearly be used as Russian propaganda to have people look the other way while the catastrophic war in Ukraine continues to escalate and the things that Zelensky is talking about are happening, are happening.
Watch over here what Kirill Dmitriev, one of the top Russian leaders in the White House, said with Melania. Play this clip.
Simplest act of humanity. On behalf of President Putin, on behalf of people of the Russian Federation, we would like to thank First Lady Melania Trump for her distinguished humanitarian role in resolving Oleshky situation and resolving this humanitarian issue. She played a crucial leadership role in coordinating humanitarian operation in Oleshky and reunifying Russian and Ukrainian families.
And then he then Putin's envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, then gave Melania a gift. And again, this happening in the White House is a massive, massive public relations victory for Russia that Melania and Trump are handing Putin directly. Here, play this clip.
Generations. Dear Melania, you saved and touched so many lives. As a token of appreciation, we'd like to give you a small gift, which is a painting by 11-year-old girl Lidia from Oleshky, who chose to be living with her family in Russia in Tuapse. And this beautiful drawing says just three words: "I love Melania." And this message from children, frankly, overshadows any diplomatic statement anybody can make.
So thank you so much, First Lady. Thank you for your incredible humanitarian work.
Thank you so much.
You see, she's there.
Yes.
And you enjoyed the full dress.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And here's what Melania had to say. I'll show you this right now. Let's play it.
Mission and professionalism. My deepest appreciation to Ms. Anna Lantratova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. Your dedication brings hope and dignity to those devastated by war. Thank you.
There was also some false information that was being leaked to The New York Times this morning about Iran reviewing concrete proposals on nuclear program. Officials say, "I don't get why." Look, The New York Times does good reporting on certain things. Why are you continuing to quote official sources? These people lie about the Iran war all of the time. Everything is a lie, and they're doing it right here. Iran is reviewing concrete proposals on nuclear program, officials say. Iran's willingness to re-engage on the issue suggests that Qatar-led diplomatic efforts to avert full-blown war between the U.S.
and Iran have had some success. No, they haven't. It's no change, no difference. Motion Razai, who let's pay attention to what's actually being said. Stop quoting U.S. officials or Qatari officials, okay? Motion Razai, the top advisor to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini, said, "Tehran, Iran will not open the Strait of Hormuz before its seven conditions are met and that it will not hold any negotiations regarding the nuclear issues, the nuclear file, until its seven conditions are met."
They made this crystal clear. Stop citing official sources. Stop citing them. They lie about everything. And the American people freaking know it. That was one of the messages that we sent during this election, that this regime lies about everything. There you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Appreciate you all.
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