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Ben Meiselas reports on a week of fast-moving news, starting with Flávio Bolsonaro's reported flight to Miami amid a Brazilian criminal investigation. He then covers Iran rejecting a proposed ceasefire tied to nuclear concessions, Iran's oil export routes and ballistic missile tests, and Houthi strikes in Saudi Arabia.

The episode also examines rising diesel and gasoline prices, Putin's praise for Elon Musk and European concerns about Starlink, and a D.C. Circuit ruling in the Epstein files case.

Listeners get the host's critical commentary, which he presents as his own analysis rather than established fact.

In this episode Ben Meiselas

The transcript of this episode on Iran, Bolsonaro and the Epstein files was made with the technology behind HappyScribe's AI tool that takes meeting notes.

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Donald Trump is getting the karma he deserves on Wednesday morning as he is now exposed harboring an actual illegal criminal immigrant. Flavio Bolsonaro has officially fled to Miami as we expected he would. He used an Italian passport to sneak out of Brazil into Argentina with his family. You can see them then getting off a private jet. that was chartered with the help of the Trump State Department into the United States. Let me show you the moment that Donald Trump was using ICE and Border Patrol agents to hold umbrellas to try to shield the Bolsonaro family as they arrived in the United States. And these criminal illegal immigrants right here were then dodging the cameras like the cowards that they are. As the Brazilian Supreme Court has launched a criminal investigation into Flávio Bolsonaro, as well as the MAGA network that manipulated the algorithms, that had all of that election interference in Brazil. This is all tied to J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel and that whole crew, allegedly. Let's take a look at Bolsonaro hiding like the coward that he is. Here, play this clip.

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Will you be seeing Donald Trump today?

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Will you be seeing Donald Trump today? Back, back, back, back. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to get more karma that he deserves this morning. Iran is purportedly rejecting yet another attempt by Donald Trump to try and do a fake deal. Donald Trump had a Qatari mediator, apparently, according to Reuters, approach Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi and say, well, Iran, if you'll agree to nuclear concessions, then maybe we can have like a 7-day ceasefire. And Iran said, absolutely not. We do not discuss the nuclear file until you agree to all of our conditions that are in the Memorandum of Understanding that we previously stated, and that Iran alleges that the United States breached— that the United States needs to stop its blockade in the Arabian Sea, that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, that Iran's $13 billion in a Qatari account gets unfrozen, that there be reconstruction funds given to Iran, that Israel leaves southern Lebanon, and that there be a Palestinian state. And until those conditions are met, Iran says, we have no interest in having any discussion with you about the nuclear file. Oh, and by the way, didn't you say that nuclear weapons were totally obliterated and that There is no nuclear capabilities at all in Iran.

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Isn't that what you were saying? And so Reuters is reporting that Iran said, no, we're not even having a discussion. They basically laughed away the negotiator. And then meanwhile, you have one of Iran's presidential officials, someone by the name of Abbas Pazuki, who's in the presidential office there. He actually works in the vice presidential office. And he said, look, In Iran, we've been able to diversify transit routes outside of the Strait of Hormuz and Arabian Sea. So we're getting out our oil and our gas. We're getting out our resources, certainly not as efficient if the Strait of Hormuz was open, but we're able to get out what we need to get out right now. By the way, if you've been watching the Midas Touch Network, you know that's what I've been reporting on. I said, look, I think they are getting things through the Caspian Sea. I said there are a lot of land routes that they could be taking, both to move oil and other gas and other things to China and also to Russia. I suspected that some of the Russian diesel that may be sent to the United States may actually be Iranian diesel.

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And the individual I just mentioned, Abbas Pozouki, who's in the presidential office, may be confirming that. Now, you also know that Iran was a major participant yesterday in the Gas Exporting Countries Conference, which took place in Moscow. Now, if you look at this photo right here of the multilateral meeting that took place, what you'll notice is that President Puzharsky of Iran is standing right next to Putin in the center because, as I've been repeatedly discussing, Iran is being viewed as basically like the conquering hero, as the honorary guest at a lot of these multilateral meetings. That are hosted by Russia and China, whether we're talking about the BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the recent old Soviet Union conference that took place in Turkmenistan, the gas exporting conference. Iran plays a prominent role. And you had President Pozharsky having a bilateral one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of this conference with Vladimir Putin as well. Iran also continues to test its ballistic missile capabilities. So as the Trump regime The Trump regime says Iran is out of ballistics, they don't have any weapons, their military is destroyed. No. Last week, Iran tested over 100 ballistic missiles, and they're continuing to do tests today.

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As it was reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, the Trump regime alerted Arab nations, get ready for an all-out war. The Trump regime says, don't worry, we'll make it short, and we're going to make Iran suffer in such a quick period of time, they'll beg for a deal. And all these Arab nations are like, dude, what are you talking about? Did you see what happened the last time where Iran destroyed all of these military bases? It's one of the main reasons why earlier this week you had the meeting in Tehran between Saudi Arabia's leadership, Turkey's leadership, Pakistan's leadership, and Iran's leadership that I've been covering. So what else is going on right now? Ansar Allah, the Houthis, continue to strike in Saudi Arabia. Ansar Allah's ballistic missiles have taken out parts of the Aramco refinery at Saudi Arabia's Meanwhile, reports are also emerging about Ansar Allah striking the Aden airbase in Yemen twice in one day after Yemen's armed forces warned that Saudi military aircraft had landed at the Aden International Airport. So I want to give you that background as like, here's what's happening in the world right now as Donald Trump shows complete and utter weakness and capitulation.

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So What is Senator Ustin doing, right? MAGA Republican senator from Ohio. Donald Trump's traveling to Ohio for another deranged event today. Senator Ustin says, don't worry, Donald, I'm working out for you so that my ass looks good when you're here so you could see my ass. I kid you not. Senator Ustin just said, I'm gonna hit the gym for you, Donald. So when you look at my ass, cuz Donald Trump at all of these, events that he speaks at, whatever you want to call them, says how much he admires Senator Usted's ass. So Senator Usted said, I'm preparing that ass for you, Donald. Here, play this clip.

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Okay. By the way, I, I appreciate the nice comments. The president's coming in tomorrow again to Ohio, 3rd time in less than 30 days. He'll be in Chillicothe. Don't worry, I was in the weight room this morning working out. I don't let him down. But, but we've been We got work to do.

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That's what the MAGA Republicans' closing message is. And let's be clear, they are also doing this as a way to distract from how bad things are in the economy right now, how diesel and gas prices are surging, how price prices across the board are up, how the American people are getting screwed over by AI and data centers. So this is just part of like, let's just be really weird and just do a bunch of weird crap, and maybe that will distract people from what's actually happening in this country. So what's the State Department doing, right? Well, we know they're smuggling in, uh, an illegal criminal immigrant in, uh, Flávio Bolsonaro. That's the plan the whole time, right? What else are they doing? They're releasing a video that says it is so incumbent upon us to spread the Christian tradition in crusades. Here, play this clip.

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Our faith calls us outwards into the limitless darkness of the unknown. It tells us to go forth and preach the gospel to the world as a witness unto all nations, unto the ends of the earth. From that command, Came America. Our nation, more than any other in history, was shaped by this Christian idea. This is who—

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by the way, I just decided I was going to check in on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. Checking in on Fox News this morning. Play this clip.

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That— what's specifically going on in your state? I'll just tell you. Congressman? I don't think he can hear me. Yeah, we lost his audio.

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Okay. Checking in on Fox Business this morning. Play this clip.

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Rogers, what do you plan to do for the next 6 days before the midterms?

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I'm sorry, I don't know whether we got the hearings right there.

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Congressman Rogers, I'm asking you, what's your plan for the next 6 days? How are you going to get to the midterms? I'm not sure I'll call it. Okay. Senator Cruz, can you hear me? Okay. Stuart, I can. Okay, excellent.

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And then you've got the Trump MAGA bootlickers out and about when Fox was actually not having technical difficulties, like MAGA Republican Congressmember Scott Perry. And he just completely absolves Donald Trump of any blame for the price of diesel and the price of gas. Ah, it's Ukraine's fault for Ukraine striking Russia. That's what did it. It has nothing to do with anything else that we all know it had to do with. Again, you have to remember, these people are sociopaths. There is nothing that they would be unwilling to say for Donald Trump. It's sick. Here, play this clip.

00:12:13

For voters, the only cost I would say that they care about other than lives is the cost At the dinner table, in their pocketbook, and when they fill up. And that's diesel, which is $6.35 a gallon right now, and gasoline nationwide is $4.29, significantly higher for everybody in this country, Congressman. Yeah, you're right about that, Dagen. And let's, let's call that— let's level set here. The diesel prices have to do with the Ukraine-Russia war and the refining capacity taken out by Ukrainians. and, and the global market there. But the, uh, the gasoline market, so to speak, is being affected by the Strait of Hormuz. And I would just say this, look, none of us like it, not me included. I don't like any of it, and, and neither does the president. But if Iran can extort the entire global economy without nuclear weapons, imagine what it could do with nuclear weapons.

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Show you this surfacing this morning. Take a look at this epic footage also of a Ukrainian F-16 Shooting down a Russian drone with an air-to-air missile over here. Um, and you'll hear Ukrainian civilians cheering from the ground. Play this clip. While that was going on, and after President Peskovsky and Avramov left Moscow, Putin held a press conference where he praised Elon Musk. Elon Musk is an industrial genius. He has more than 5,000 spacecraft in orbit. We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk. And this is language that we're hearing increasingly used by Russia, our American partners. And it's very intentional language that there is a partnership now. There is an alliance between the Trump regime and Putin. They want to continue to do more deals together. They're talking about uranium deals and data center deals and gas deals and having Russia's Lukoil foreign assets be sold to Trump MAGA billionaires. And so this is how they view it as a Trump-Putin partnership right now. And, you know, Europe's responding by saying, we can't be dependent on Starlink, Starlink Starshield, basically is a— has a kill switch. If Elon Musk wants to shut us off, we can't sacrifice our sovereignty to Elon Musk.

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So we're seeing Europe develop alternatives as well. Lots of fast-moving developments happening right now. And we'll cover this one in more detail as well. But this is just in this morning. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Department of Justice emergency stay request in Midas Touch Network host Katie Phang's lawsuit in the Epstein Transparency Act for the Department of Justice to release, um, certain categories of documents in the Epstein files, including the foreign language documents that the Trump regime is continuing to hide. The Trump regime said, emergency, we can't even review them. It's— it'll be causing us irreparable harm to have to review these. Uh, foreign language Epstein documents. And the panel in the D.C. Circuit said, review them. It's not irreparable harm. What are you talking about? So great work, Katie Fang at the Midas Touch Network. She continues to push forward on behalf of survivors. She's incredible. Thanks for watching, everybody. We appreciate you. Hit subscribe to get to 7 million. Thanks, everybody.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Trump’s disastrous Wednesday as the Flávio Bolsonaro controversy grows, Iran touts stronger-than-expected exports while preparing for a potential U.S. invasion, and Trump heads to Ohio.

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