1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:07,839 Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben Marcellas, joined by Michael Cohen. 2 00:00:08,279 --> 00:00:12,759 We have a lot to discuss, a lot going on internationally, 3 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,600 a lot going on domestically. I guess let's just start 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:22,839 with the latest news of Maria Karina Machado, the Venezuelan 5 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:28,239 opposition leader who was the supporter of Mundo Gonzalez when 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,480 she was banned from the twenty twenty four elections. They 7 00:00:31,559 --> 00:00:34,280 really won the election back in July twenty twenty four. 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,960 I think that Machado has said a number of things 9 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,439 and done a number of things to try to curry 10 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:42,640 favor with Donald Trump that I think has made her 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,079 look weak and has undermined her strength and I think 12 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:49,880 ability to be an effective leader. I guess I understand 13 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,039 why she thought she had to do that, but I 14 00:00:53,119 --> 00:00:55,640 don't respect it. I don't like it, and I think 15 00:00:55,719 --> 00:00:58,960 she's not getting what she wants any way. But she 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,359 was in the White House today. She met with Trump, 17 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:06,079 not at one of these oval office pressers that are covered. 18 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:11,200 It was a very quietly done one. And then afterwards 19 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:15,719 she went to State REGI media Fox and she told 20 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,200 Fox that she sent to Donald Trump with the Nobel 21 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,000 Peace Prize. She says, I presented the President of the 22 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:26,120 United States the medal the Peace, the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, 23 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:30,840 as we all know, the Nobel Peace Prize is non transferable. 24 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:34,400 It is deeply embarrassing that Donald Trump would just want 25 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:37,879 a fake medal. It is deeply embarrassing that that's what 26 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:43,000 our country has become. It's deeply embarrassing for Machado, all 27 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,400 aspects of this kind of reek of weakness. But then 28 00:01:47,799 --> 00:01:52,599 at the same time, you had Caroline Levitt, Trump's chief propagandist. 29 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,400 She was holding a press conference and she was asked 30 00:01:56,439 --> 00:02:00,599 about Machado and the meeting, and is it still the 31 00:02:00,719 --> 00:02:04,400 view of Trump and the White House that Machado does 32 00:02:04,519 --> 00:02:09,280 not have the respect to be the leader of the 33 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,439 people of Venezuela, that she does not have the respect. 34 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,879 Let's watch her answer play this club Ja, Thank Caroline. 35 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: Is it still the president's assessment that it would be. 36 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,319 Speaker 3: Very hard for miss Machado to leave Venezuela because he 37 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,039 says she lacks the respect and support in that country, 38 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:29,199 And will he raise that. 39 00:02:29,199 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: With her today? 40 00:02:30,159 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 4: I think the president's assessment that you just pointed out 41 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,599 was based on realities on the ground. It was a 42 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:40,680 realistic assessment based on what the President was reading and 43 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:43,919 hearing from his advisors and national security team, and at 44 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,039 this moment in time, his opinion on that matter has 45 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:46,599 not changed. 46 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,439 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean talk about nonsensical, Ben. You can go 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,000 have you ever watched that television show Porn Stars, the 48 00:02:57,039 --> 00:03:01,639 one not porn but porn Pawn with Karrison the store 49 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,439 in Nevada where you can actually go in And I 50 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:08,400 don't know how people end up with them, but sometimes 51 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:11,960 you have an athlete that won like a World Series 52 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,080 ring or a Super Bowl Championship ring, and they sell it. 53 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,840 They sell their ring, they because they need money. But 54 00:03:21,439 --> 00:03:25,120 just because you buy the ring doesn't mean that you're 55 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,639 Derek Cheter. It doesn't mean that you are Tom Brady. 56 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:34,319 I mean, yes, you can have Mike Tyson's WBC Championship 57 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,840 Heavyweight belt. That does not make you the heavyweight champion 58 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:42,319 of the world. You know, I actually have, for example, 59 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,319 one of Derek Cheter's black bats that you know they used, 60 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:49,680 uh when he was hitting his two thousandth hit. And 61 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,759 let me be very clear, all right, I am not 62 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,599 I am not Derek Jeter, all right, And just because 63 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,919 you have it doesn't mean, one you earned it, or 64 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,400 two you even should have it. It reminds me so much. 65 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:07,560 And I told you this story off camera when I 66 00:04:07,759 --> 00:04:13,759 was there in Trump's office when he became president elect. 67 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,959 I can't tell you the number of people that actually 68 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:25,199 sent him either their husband's, their child's, or their own 69 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:29,639 purple heart. And he looked at me and he goes, wow, 70 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:32,800 this is something. And I remember saying to him, but 71 00:04:32,879 --> 00:04:34,959 you are going to return it, right, You should return 72 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,399 it with a thank you note, like a beautiful thank 73 00:04:37,439 --> 00:04:39,720 you note. These people. I don't know whether he ever 74 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,240 returned it. In fact, I'm not even sure whether or not. 75 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,000 I'm pretty sure he probably sent a thank you note 76 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:47,360 or had one of the girls send a thank you note. 77 00:04:47,519 --> 00:04:52,720 But that, to me is really stolen valor. And the 78 00:04:52,759 --> 00:04:57,879 fact that Machado had to come hat in hand to 79 00:04:58,079 --> 00:05:01,680 the Oval office and prison sent the President of the 80 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:07,480 United States with a shiny gift to me, it undermines 81 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,959 the seriousness one of the visit and two of the 82 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,720 office of the presidency in both countries. 83 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:21,319 Speaker 1: Right, And as you saw from the clip, what did 84 00:05:21,399 --> 00:05:27,560 Machado get out of this? What is the pro opposition, 85 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:33,759 pro democracy side of this getting Donald Trump doesn't want 86 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:39,639 a democracy in Venezuela. Donald Trump wants his puppet in Venezuela. 87 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,879 And he believes that right now, that's Rodriguez, and Trump 88 00:05:44,879 --> 00:05:48,399 has he prays on her and then she's he prays 89 00:05:48,439 --> 00:05:52,120 on him yesterday and today he said she's a deeply 90 00:05:52,199 --> 00:05:56,439 respected woman, she's a great person, that she'll be fighting 91 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,519 for the interests of America. She's someone who rose through 92 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,279 the ranks of Venezuelan intelligence and I think her father 93 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,360 and family members were deeply entrenched in that as well, 94 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,439 which is really linked to the KGB and two Chinese 95 00:06:14,519 --> 00:06:20,319 intelligence services, Russian intelligence services. And she, many people describe, 96 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:27,839 was really like Maduro's Steven Miller, that she and Diadados 97 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:33,839 Cabeo were the real people behind the scenes, and Maduro 98 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,759 was the dancer, right, And so you just think about 99 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:45,639 and by the way, Delsi used Putin's tactic, which is, Okay, 100 00:06:45,879 --> 00:06:50,199 Machado's coming in the next day, I'm going to give 101 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:54,480 Trump the call right before. That's what Putin does every time, right, 102 00:06:55,519 --> 00:06:59,600 Zelenski does a meeting. Right before that meeting, Putin gives 103 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,639 a call before and a call after. So I wouldn't 104 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:06,800 be surprised, although we haven't learned about it yet, that 105 00:07:06,879 --> 00:07:09,879 there's also going to be a call with Delsi next. 106 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,000 Because now what Delsi and Trump agreed to is where 107 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,639 do you think the oil money is going? Let me 108 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,480 give our audience a multiple choice, and A and and B. 109 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:26,519 Do you think that oil money goes to A A 110 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,720 bank account in the United States of America where there's transparency. 111 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:31,560 I'll do three. 112 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:35,759 Speaker 5: B B Hold on, Hold on, did you say A A? No? 113 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:46,639 Speaker 1: Next B the Treasury Department, where congressional oversight can determine C. 114 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,199 A shady bank account in Qatar, bing bing bing bing bing. 115 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,160 That's where the money's going to. Some shady bank account 116 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:59,240 in Qatar. Semaphore was the first to report on it. 117 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:04,439 And so that money doesn't go to the United States Treasury. 118 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,240 That money then is not going to the US taxpayers. 119 00:08:08,959 --> 00:08:13,160 That money is going to a Qatar bank account. The 120 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:16,879 people who bought Donald Trump the seven forty seven jet, 121 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,279 the people who do business with Donald Trump and Jared 122 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:25,120 Kushner who are a major part of Kushner's fund. Who 123 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,160 manages that money? Is Kushner going to be a money 124 00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:31,199 manager of the fund. Will it go into a sovereign 125 00:08:31,279 --> 00:08:34,919 wealth fund that then you earn a commission on the 126 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,639 two to twenty deal or a more lucrative deal. I mean, 127 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,720 you pull back from this Cohen and we haven't even 128 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:46,240 gotten into all the other stuff that's going on. But 129 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,159 just this Venezuela situation, it will not I mean, hat 130 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,759 tip to Semaphore for breaking that story. Great, but in 131 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:03,200 a Trump news cycle man, he's doing it that didn't 132 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,320 always used to be. Not here on the bas Touch network, 133 00:09:06,879 --> 00:09:12,080 we bring it up, explain to you the ramifications. But 134 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:15,919 how anybody is okay with that? If you're a Democrat, 135 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,200 Republican or independent. 136 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 5: It's not just this oil money that is somehow finding 137 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:30,240 its way to these overseas bank accounts. Whether it's a 138 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:37,559 Katari account, whether it is a a Gersey or a 139 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:45,720 Jersey account right in Europe. Nobody actually knows. But here's 140 00:09:45,759 --> 00:09:50,120 the funny thing, because Trump, for whatever the reason may be, 141 00:09:51,039 --> 00:09:56,240 he actually advertises how much money ben how much money 142 00:09:56,279 --> 00:10:00,679 did he claim is sitting right now on a tariff 143 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:07,159 shelfs as a direct result of his incredible, incredible decisions 144 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,759 on tariffing the entire world? How much money did he 145 00:10:10,919 --> 00:10:13,440 say is sitting on that tarer of shelf. 146 00:10:13,799 --> 00:10:17,639 Speaker 1: Right, Now, it depends what day it is. On a Monday, 147 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,879 it's eighteen trillion. On a Tuesday, it's twenty one trillion. 148 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,120 On a Wednesday, it's twenty seven to twenty eight trillion. 149 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,120 It's one of those. Then some days you get well, 150 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:31,519 those are commitments. Some days you hear the hundreds of billions. 151 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,360 But generally the number is twenty one to twenty four trillion. 152 00:10:34,639 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 5: Okay, let's say it's even one trillion dollars. The question 153 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,000 that I would love to be asking, because I've looked 154 00:10:44,039 --> 00:10:47,879 and I cannot find it. Where is that being recorded? 155 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,919 How Come the Treasury does not have posted on its 156 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:00,000 site a bank account that actually demonstrates that there's one trillion, 157 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,799 seventeen trillion, eighteen trillion, twenty one trillion, whatever the number is. 158 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,879 I don't see a bank account that is labeled tiff shelf. 159 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,240 But that's just one, that's just one pocket of money. 160 00:11:14,519 --> 00:11:18,799 What about the trillions of dollars ben that Trump has 161 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:23,919 claimed investment money that's coming into the United States from 162 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:29,960 countries like cutter, countries like Saudi Arabia or the Emirdes, 163 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,519 or any of the other countries that have claimed to 164 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,879 be investing in the United States. Where is all of 165 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:44,679 that money? What bank account? How Come Congress, who is 166 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:49,120 in charge and has the power of the purse, how 167 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,679 come they're all sitting back. Where are our Democrats to 168 00:11:53,799 --> 00:11:58,480 turn around and to say, Okay, you know what, We're 169 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,960 gonna need a little transparent cofellas, and we'd really like 170 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:06,480 to know where that money is. If it's only one 171 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,399 hundred million dollars, fine, it's only one hundred but at 172 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,440 least it's where it's supposed to be, in the coffers 173 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,240 of the US Treasury, not in some overseas bank account 174 00:12:17,639 --> 00:12:21,759 or used as some slush fund for whatever the hell 175 00:12:21,799 --> 00:12:23,919 that these guys are up to. Where. 176 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what leads me to believe as well, 177 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:34,279 that there are broader discussions here taking place with Putin 178 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:41,559 and Jijingping and others about profit share of spheres of influence, 179 00:12:42,039 --> 00:12:45,279 giving you my opinion, of course, and that there were 180 00:12:45,399 --> 00:12:52,840 broader deals were made out about the others, about US 181 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:58,559 as well, Russia, Ukraine. Notice, with all the chaos taking 182 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:04,440 place right now, people aren't talking about Ukraine, and people. 183 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 5: Aren't talking about Israel. They're not talking about a whole 184 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,799 bunch of things. Either, they're not talking about affordability anymore. 185 00:13:10,879 --> 00:13:13,639 They're not talking about the removal of snaps benefits. 186 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: They're not talking people getting killed in Gaza. People don't 187 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,559 talk about every day yeah day. 188 00:13:18,639 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 5: I mean, they're just not they're not talking about you're right, Ukraine. 189 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,720 They're not talking about this ongoing, continuous blitz creek on 190 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:29,960 on Ukraine by Russia. 191 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:35,759 Speaker 1: And everybody was everybody. It was a big issue that 192 00:13:35,799 --> 00:13:39,840 people were talking about as we headed into twenty twenty six. 193 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:43,559 They were all the meetings. Zelenski showed up, and then 194 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,399 there were the meetings with Wikoff and Kushner and the 195 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,360 Russians that took place in Miami. But notice when was 196 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,879 it that the Greenland threats really escalated? Like we know 197 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,120 that from time to time Donald Trump would bring up 198 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,600 threatening Greenland since the start of this term, But when 199 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:09,639 did it really escalate and become very tangible. Do you 200 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:15,039 remember when was Jeff Landry the governor of Louisiana. When 201 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,360 did he become a special envoy to Greenland and announced 202 00:14:19,399 --> 00:14:22,639 that he wants to be the governor and take it over. 203 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,159 It was exactly when Witkoff and Kushner met with the 204 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:32,039 Russian special envoys in Miami. They met there and a 205 00:14:32,039 --> 00:14:37,039 Miami hotel right there on the beach together, and the 206 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:44,000 next day Landry says, I'm the special envoy to Greenland. Now, 207 00:14:44,039 --> 00:14:48,600 going back to Trump term one in late twenty nineteen, 208 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:54,679 I just interviewed Democratic congress Member Alkinklaus about this. One 209 00:14:54,759 --> 00:14:59,559 of the tactics that Russia was trying to make NATO 210 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:05,600 be afraid about was actually Greenland, and it was intercepted 211 00:15:05,639 --> 00:15:12,639 that part of russia intelligence planning was to encourage through 212 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:18,000 bots and other disinfo that the US wanted Greenland, and 213 00:15:18,039 --> 00:15:20,200 that was it was. It wasn't a huge story at 214 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,440 the time, but it was something that NATO uncovered that 215 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,679 plan that that was part of it. And so you 216 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:30,399 put this kind of all together. I mean, it makes 217 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:34,360 zero sense for Trump to say we need to take 218 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:41,320 over Greenland because others Russia or China will. The very 219 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:45,360 purpose of NATO is that if Russia or China takes 220 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:50,200 action against Greenland, all NATO Article five comes to the 221 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:51,279 defense of Greenland. 222 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,039 Speaker 5: And they have already been un sending you know, troops 223 00:15:55,639 --> 00:15:58,600 and ships, you know, to Greenland, or do we can 224 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,080 really escalate a war? We all know what it's about. 225 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,919 It has nothing to do with Russia or China or 226 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,600 their submarines that he says, you know, travels through the 227 00:16:09,679 --> 00:16:13,960 port just off of Greenland, all these massive icebreakers. I 228 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,679 have no idea why an icebreaker is even you know, 229 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:20,080 relevant in this in this case. But putting all that aside, 230 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:26,960 there are rare earth materials and the special envoice company 231 00:16:27,639 --> 00:16:31,759 rest Assured is very interested in them because these rare 232 00:16:31,759 --> 00:16:35,480 earth minerals are needed for AI. That's what this is 233 00:16:35,519 --> 00:16:39,960 all about. And when you have what fifty seven thousand 234 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,320 people living in Greenland? How hard how hard is it 235 00:16:44,799 --> 00:16:49,120 for somebody like Trump to turn around and to say, well, 236 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,200 we're just going to invade you, and we're going to 237 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:55,240 take We're going to take. Now, you could either sell 238 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,960 us the country or we just take it by four. 239 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:06,079 Well that's great. Either our NATO ally seventy five years, 240 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,960 some of the oldest ones seventy five years are already 241 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,759 turning around and saying that would be a violation, and 242 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,839 we will not sit back and allow it to happen. 243 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:21,480 But you know, ben, one more thing, another issue that 244 00:17:21,519 --> 00:17:26,279 we are not talking about nearly enough. Then Ukraine and 245 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,720 the other matters that Israel and the other issues like 246 00:17:29,839 --> 00:17:34,880 Iran and the false claim that we obliterated their entire 247 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:42,920 nuclear you know, fission apparatus. We're not talking about Epstein. 248 00:17:43,599 --> 00:17:46,559 We're not talking about the release of the files. We're 249 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:50,559 not talking about the fact that one percent or less 250 00:17:50,599 --> 00:17:54,480 than one percent of the documents so far have been released. 251 00:17:55,039 --> 00:17:59,839 We're not talking about that. This was weeks ago the 252 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,559 only thing everybody was really talking about. What's happened to that? Well, 253 00:18:05,799 --> 00:18:09,799 when you open up the fire hose of chaos and 254 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:14,000 you flood the zone with everything else, including the possibility, 255 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,240 as from the own mouth of our president, that maybe 256 00:18:18,279 --> 00:18:23,079 we don't even need elections anymore, Well, this is what 257 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:24,119 you get. 258 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: And where do you think just going back to Greenland, 259 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,440 then we'll talk about Iran, then we'll talk about Epstein. 260 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:34,759 Where do you think the money would go if Trump 261 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,920 invaded Greenland or acquired it. Where do you think that 262 00:18:39,039 --> 00:18:42,319 if the natural resources were to be sold, do you 263 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:47,039 think that money goes to the Treasury or to American 264 00:18:47,079 --> 00:18:50,400 banks or do you think it goes to c the 265 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,240 Katari Bank as well? And do you think that Trump 266 00:18:54,319 --> 00:18:58,960 creates his own sovereign wealth fund basically using the Katari 267 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:03,559 Bank as the repository of all of this money that 268 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:08,000 will now get diverted away from the American people, away 269 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,640 from the American taxpayers, to a Qatar bank account. I 270 00:19:12,039 --> 00:19:17,119 just I fundamentally, not as a Democrat, not as a 271 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,440 liberal or progressive, like, just as a human. Like when 272 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,960 I cover these issues, I try to see them and 273 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:29,880 try to understand perspectives, Like I try to put myself 274 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,640 in Maria Karina Machado's position and say, if I was 275 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:38,519 this opposition leader and all of this was happening, can 276 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:42,519 I at least understand why she's being so des Try. 277 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:50,000 I try. But when I think about this idea of like, okay, 278 00:19:50,039 --> 00:19:54,000 the money goes to Qatar, goes in a Katari bank account. 279 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:54,039 Speaker 3: She's not. 280 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,559 Speaker 5: I don't. I don't blame Machado, by the way, for 281 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,319 coming and giving up her Nobel prize. She's list did 282 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,960 as a Nobel winner. Whether she gives that trophy to Trump, 283 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:09,000 whether she takes it and flings it into the fucking ocean, 284 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,759 it doesn't make a difference. Her name is on the books, 285 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:16,559 not his, not whoever holds. You know, the trophy doesn't 286 00:20:16,559 --> 00:20:20,240 automatically get the COVID. You know from it, so I 287 00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:25,680 understand Washt in exchange for a shiny little object. Her 288 00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:29,160 hope was that Trump would back her and endorse her 289 00:20:29,599 --> 00:20:33,400 to become president of Venezuela. So think about it. Would 290 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,119 you not give up a shiny object to be the 291 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,559 president of the country? Right that without his help, there's 292 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:45,400 probably a very small chance that she would make it. 293 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:48,599 But with his help, maybe it's a fifty to fifty. 294 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,319 So I get what she's doing. She's playing the odds. Ben. 295 00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: I guess the question is, though, like, whether you were Magan, 296 00:20:56,799 --> 00:21:01,599 Mike Johnson well please right, or whether you or McCarthy 297 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:06,000 or one of these people, why would you want to 298 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:11,319 be in a position of power if you actually don't 299 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,160 have any power at all? Here, Jeremy put the camera 300 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,640 on me. It's weird, but I'm looking at Michael on 301 00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:23,079 talking as much as I enjoy looking at Michael. I 302 00:21:23,079 --> 00:21:29,720 think the audience said so at some point. And I 303 00:21:29,799 --> 00:21:32,359 have no interest in becoming a billionaire like that just 304 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,519 never appealed the idea of having billions of dollars, Like 305 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,279 it's not something I ever dream about being like a billionaire. 306 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,319 It just doesn't whatever. But let's just assume you have 307 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,599 what people refer to as I excuse my cursings. I 308 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,160 don't like the curse fuck you money. That's how people. 309 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,720 I'm a billionaire, I've got fuck you money. 310 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 3: Why would you want to have to then beg someone 311 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,920 like Donald Trump every single day to do anything? What's 312 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,000 the point of because you need to have just the 313 00:22:05,079 --> 00:22:07,799 more billions. And so when I go to someone like. 314 00:22:07,759 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: A Machado and I'm going to show a clip of 315 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,079 her from moments ago, so Jeremy, we can get ready 316 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:19,480 for that one. By doing what she did, she has 317 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,519 made it so she actually likely won't ever be the 318 00:22:23,599 --> 00:22:27,119 leader of Venezuela in an effective way at this point 319 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:32,720 because to me, the degree of weakness that she's showing 320 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:40,039 is something that is irreparable. And you know, in the 321 00:22:40,079 --> 00:22:45,440 span of history, there will be other administrations, there will 322 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,519 be other times. And I just think, even if you're 323 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:51,960 being selfish, even if all you care about is just you, 324 00:22:53,519 --> 00:22:57,200 I just don't see how in a Trump world you 325 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,920 can do anything other than push back, can fight back, 326 00:23:01,039 --> 00:23:02,599 because you're next. 327 00:23:02,799 --> 00:23:05,319 Speaker 3: It's what they first. They came for this, then they 328 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,119 came for this, then they came for that. They're coming 329 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,359 for you They're coming. 330 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: For you, whether it's today, tomorrow or next or five 331 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,039 years for five years. 332 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, things are really things are really in a weird 333 00:23:21,319 --> 00:23:25,640 place right now when you have a scenario that you 334 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:33,240 have someone who allegedly won the election who is not 335 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:41,119 inaugurated for that position, and she knows that there's a 336 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:45,000 very small chance that she is going to be able 337 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:51,119 to take that position, because Venezuela is a dictatorship all 338 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:57,359 right and plain and simple. So her her strategy here 339 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,960 is anybody that can actually help help me to get 340 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,039 over that finish line. I'm willing to speak with. I'm 341 00:24:05,079 --> 00:24:08,960 willing to lower myself I'm willing to bend the knee 342 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,160 for and if bending the knee requires to sit there 343 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,960 and to present to the king a right a nobel 344 00:24:18,079 --> 00:24:24,039 peace prize that she won, well, okay, she's willing to 345 00:24:24,079 --> 00:24:27,119 take that. But I'm with you, Ben, History will not 346 00:24:27,319 --> 00:24:31,319 look kindly on it. And I believe that you're right 347 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,839 that when this administration is over and with all of 348 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,240 our help, with all of us being unified as one 349 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,079 voice with one mission, one mission is although we have 350 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:46,039 all of this stuff, these are just reasons in order 351 00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:48,440 to be on this mission, to be part of this 352 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,920 Midas Touched Network family. The mission is to ensure a 353 00:24:54,039 --> 00:24:58,440 blue tsunami to wipe the red right off the map 354 00:24:58,759 --> 00:25:02,880 in the twenty twenty six midterms. Just imagine how much 355 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,799 things change. Just imagine the fact that Congress will no 356 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,279 longer roll over for their bellies to be rubbed and 357 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,960 allow this administration to get away with the ship that 358 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 they are that they are getting away with. Imagine if 359 00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:22,640 you now have instead of a Republican Maga Mike Johnson 360 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,920 as speaker, you now have somebody you know else and 361 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,400 I'm not going to say a king or like a 362 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,160 Jamie Redskin or a or just somebody else who's willing 363 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,559 to take control. And then you have a majority to 364 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,640 go ahead and to pass or to put onto the 365 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:47,200 floor legislation instead of shutting Congress down. Just imagine how 366 00:25:47,319 --> 00:25:50,559 different things will be. And imagine if we can really 367 00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:55,440 as a unified group as the as a Midas Network family. 368 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,119 Imagine if we're so big that we can actually help 369 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:04,680 to ensure that the Senate turns as well. Just imagine 370 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:10,359 how much things change. Imagine the damage that we can 371 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,480 stop this administration from getting away with during the last 372 00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:18,759 two years, and that my friends, is the reason why 373 00:26:18,799 --> 00:26:22,400 we are all here. All of the other stuff, all 374 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,839 of the other investigations, all of the other you know, 375 00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:31,759 visits by presidents and prime ministers to the country, and 376 00:26:31,839 --> 00:26:35,599 the things that like Tim Cook handing Trump a five 377 00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:39,359 pound gold bar right in front of our eyes on television. 378 00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:44,240 It's all side noise. Our mission is the House and 379 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:47,400 the Senate. Our mission is for God's sakes, to make 380 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,759 sure that we end up not just winning the midterms, 381 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,160 but that we crush it. 382 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I look, I say it differently than you 383 00:26:56,079 --> 00:27:00,920 from a network perspective, which is the reality is I 384 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,119 want to win back the hearts and minds and win 385 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:09,920 back a basic And this is where I get a 386 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,559 little bit. All right, Ben, stop being all philosophical in theater, 387 00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:12,920 but like. 388 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, stop being a philosophical. 389 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: I don't really. Of course, I prefer the party that wins, 390 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,519 that supports democracy, no matter where that would be. But 391 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,240 I think one of the things that we've we've done 392 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,920 is a society. And Trump's done this to the society, 393 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:37,960 and corporate news has done it to society. Is now 394 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:44,359 we say, like button, that's a special but they've smashed 395 00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:48,839 the moral compass and everything, And I think at an 396 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,559 information age is so rapid and so fast and so 397 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:57,359 ah like, we don't we don't discuss morality and being 398 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,680 good people and trying to be good people and good 399 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:05,839 versus evil and doing our best to uplift people like 400 00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:08,960 and you and I did this on the last episode, 401 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,319 and so I'll just I won't do the same speech 402 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,920 I gave last time. But you know, when I see 403 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:20,680 our government terrorizing communities like Minneapolis and Saint Paul, or 404 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,640 what we're seeing in Los Angeles and Chicago and across 405 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,279 the country, and I just think about this idea that 406 00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:31,559 there can be a hard working person on a roof 407 00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:37,119 oftentimes in some of these wealthy neighborhoods, earning a living, 408 00:28:38,079 --> 00:28:41,839 who's been here for a while, putting the roof together, 409 00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:47,480 and to have these ice agents show up. Sometimes in 410 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:51,160 Red States they commandeer the fire department because they work together. 411 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,839 In a lot of Red States, show up, pull people 412 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,920 who are putting the roofing on, throw them into cars 413 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:05,480 and then put him into cages. In the United States, or. 414 00:29:05,319 --> 00:29:10,599 Speaker 5: A minor or, a minor literally on the street, a minor. 415 00:29:11,519 --> 00:29:16,559 Speaker 1: I know. The the Nobel Prize Committee just came out 416 00:29:16,559 --> 00:29:20,240 with a statement rebuking Donald Trump for basically stealing the 417 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,759 metal I want to talk about that. Let's take our 418 00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:25,799 first quick break of the show or reminder. Subscribe to 419 00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:29,359 the Maya Kulpa audio podcast. 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And after you purchase, they're going to ask 481 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,640 you what you heard about them, So please support the 482 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,519 show and tell them that we sent you. 483 00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:31,559 Speaker 1: Welcome back, great dread. Let's talk about what the Nobel 484 00:33:31,559 --> 00:33:34,880 Peace Center just wrote. They said the Nobel Peace Prize 485 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,599 medal and measure six point six centats in diameter, weighs 486 00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:41,160 one hundred and ninety six grams and his truck and 487 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,279 gold on its face a portrait of Alfred Nobel and 488 00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:47,240 on its reverse three naked men holding around each other's 489 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,759 shoulders as a sign of brotherhood. A design and changed 490 00:33:50,799 --> 00:33:52,839 for one hundred and twenty years. Did you know that 491 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,400 some Nobel Peace Prize medals have been passed on after 492 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,599 the award was given. A well known case is Dimitri 493 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,960 muir Tov's medal, which was auctioned off for over one 494 00:34:03,079 --> 00:34:06,960 hundred million dollars US dollars to support refugees from the 495 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,039 war in Ukraine, and the medal displayed at the Nobel 496 00:34:10,039 --> 00:34:13,639 Peace Center is actually on loan and originally belonged to 497 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:18,159 Christian lou Lang, Norway's first Peace Prize Laureate. But one 498 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,800 truth remains, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee states, once the 499 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,480 Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared or 500 00:34:26,519 --> 00:34:30,199 transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for 501 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,800 all time. A medal can change owners, but the title 502 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,400 of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate cannot. With that said, 503 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,280 let me show you the clip of Maria Karina Machado 504 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,440 when she was asked by the press if you gave 505 00:34:43,519 --> 00:34:46,840 your Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump? Here play this clip? 506 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 5: Did you offer to President Trump. 507 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 1: Over his strife? 508 00:35:01,639 --> 00:35:04,119 Speaker 3: And I told him this. 509 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 6: Listening to listen. 510 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 3: Two hundreds of years ago. 511 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 6: General las again, okay, nobody medal we George believer since. 512 00:35:21,599 --> 00:35:26,639 Speaker 2: Then kept that metal for the rest of his life. Actually, 513 00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:29,719 when you see his portraits you can see the medal 514 00:35:30,119 --> 00:35:31,639 clean and it. 515 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 6: Was given by General Lafayette as a. 516 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,039 Speaker 2: Sign of the brothers. 517 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 5: Then United States. 518 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,559 Speaker 1: People of the United States and. 519 00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 3: The people have been austral last. 520 00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 2: Of the podcast. We don't have a year anything kept 521 00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:48,000 and two hundred years not in history. 522 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 6: Okay, the people of believer, I. 523 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,039 Speaker 2: Give him that. 524 00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:57,079 Speaker 6: The Washington Meadow. 525 00:35:57,519 --> 00:35:59,760 Speaker 1: This goes to the metal of another. 526 00:36:09,639 --> 00:36:14,039 Speaker 5: You know, the way I see it, Donald Trump having 527 00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:19,920 that Nobel Prize is about as valuable as the FIFA 528 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:25,480 Peace Award that was handed to him. I mean, I 529 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,320 don't know if you get a chance, and a lot 530 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:31,840 of people scroll on social media. I don't know, Ben, 531 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,519 if you've ever seen any of them, but people started 532 00:36:34,519 --> 00:36:37,639 putting out some of the funniest freakin' memes I have 533 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,320 ever seen about different awards that they were going to 534 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,440 give to him. You know, it's interesting because, as I 535 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,199 said before, just because you have, for example, a World 536 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,519 Series ring doesn't make you Derek Jeter, right. I mean, 537 00:36:54,800 --> 00:37:00,760 you know, it basically makes you the holder of a 538 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:07,880 ring right to me. To me, While I certainly I 539 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,199 covet you know, those rings, the World Series and Super 540 00:37:12,199 --> 00:37:15,559 Bowl rings and so on, what's the value of that 541 00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:20,440 ring if you're not the one who actually earned it, right, 542 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,880 It's like going assuming that you're you know, into martial 543 00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:28,440 arts and you walk into a store, a martial arts store, 544 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,119 and you buy a black belt, does that make you 545 00:37:33,159 --> 00:37:36,639 a black belt? You could wrap it around your gee, 546 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,400 you could turn around and you could walk the streets 547 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,199 with it, right, trying to be badass and all. But 548 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,239 the first person that turns around and ends up engaging 549 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,440 you in an altercation, you're basically clueless on how to 550 00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:54,000 defend yourself. It's the same thing here, So good for 551 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,280 good for the Nobel Committee for putting that out, to 552 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,800 make it perfectly, we are still clear that having that prize, 553 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,599 that Nobel prize, does not make you a Nobel Prize winner. 554 00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:10,239 Good for that. You know. 555 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:18,280 Speaker 1: It's again when I go back to what I said before, Democrat, Republican, Independent, 556 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:25,719 this is deeply range behavior by Trump, by the Bado, 557 00:38:27,079 --> 00:38:31,519 by all of these people. And they I've described it 558 00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:33,480 before as like a zombie movie. You know, you get 559 00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:37,000 bit by the zombie, you become a zombie. And there 560 00:38:37,039 --> 00:38:39,920 have been so many people in our country, you know, 561 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,800 that have been bit by this zombie, you know, maga zombie, 562 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,239 whatever whatever you want to call it. And I'm you know, 563 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,599 of course, being you know a little funny with the 564 00:38:48,639 --> 00:38:51,639 words here about zombie I don't really mean real zombies, okay, 565 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:58,559 but but to become this, I don't know what this is. 566 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,559 I don't know how to describe. It's just it's not 567 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:07,519 normal behavior about how adults and leaders interact. You want 568 00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:11,960 a fake Nobel Peace Prize that you didn't earn, and 569 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,840 then the opposition leader in exile is giving you her 570 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,920 fake mail. Why is she giving her fake mail while 571 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:26,320 you're praising the authoritarian that's currently in Venezuela right now 572 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:31,360 and running the country and cementing her leadership Delsey Rodriguez, 573 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,320 you know, and then you look at like, you see 574 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,039 what we reported on what was going on in mar 575 00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:40,320 A Lago. You sell the furry party taking place. They've 576 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,199 got this furry party, and this is why they minus 577 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,199 touched out. You know, we report on it all. You know, 578 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,719 we report on what's going on in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. 579 00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:50,000 We've got a DC bureau, We've got people monitoring what's 580 00:39:50,199 --> 00:39:52,039 you know, what's taking place. I mean they did, they 581 00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:55,320 did like this furry party, you know, where they're out 582 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,199 there dancing in their in their dog outfits, and this 583 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:04,079 is real, is an AI And I just think to myself, 584 00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:09,559 Cohen about the American people right now who are suffering, 585 00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:13,119 and the American people right now, and we saw Donald 586 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:17,440 Trump's latest polling is just an absolute disaster on everything, 587 00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:21,079 especially as handling of immigration, since they killed Renae Nicole 588 00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:24,880 Good and then tried to cover that up, covering up 589 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,760 the Epstein files. It is horrible. The guys. The guy's 590 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,400 approval is in the freaking toilet bowl right now and 591 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,440 their best issue is one of their worst issues now immigration. 592 00:40:34,559 --> 00:40:36,599 But while all of this is going on, while they've 593 00:40:36,679 --> 00:40:40,039 ripped away healthcare from tens of millions of Americans who 594 00:40:40,079 --> 00:40:43,239 just can't afford it anymore, they're out there doing these 595 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,760 you dog face parties, you know, masks and mar A 596 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:54,119 Lago and they are telling the people we hate you 597 00:40:54,199 --> 00:40:54,440 like that. 598 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 5: And let me just say to you that it's not 599 00:40:58,639 --> 00:41:03,400 a furry party that they had. It's a mar A 600 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,480 Lago face surgery gone bad. And this is this is 601 00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:09,920 the new look that they're all going for with their 602 00:41:10,159 --> 00:41:12,800 plastic surgeons. They're going for there you go. 603 00:41:14,679 --> 00:41:17,360 Speaker 1: They're going for the Maltese look. They used to be. 604 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,119 They used to want to they used to. 605 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,320 Speaker 5: Go to the waxings. Now they're adding hair. 606 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,039 Speaker 1: They used to want the well, they used to want 607 00:41:26,079 --> 00:41:31,119 the the mar A Lago Kardashian luck that then evolved 608 00:41:31,119 --> 00:41:34,480 into looking like a cat. But now they're going more Maltese. 609 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,440 Speaker 5: Exact amen to that. You know, this is what happens 610 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,000 when you get Mara a Lago face. All Right, you 611 00:41:41,159 --> 00:41:43,840 end up, you know, looking as. 612 00:41:43,679 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 1: You said, Canine, I'll show you what's going on on 613 00:41:47,039 --> 00:41:49,679 state regime media right now. Three things I want to 614 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,719 show you. Just like so if you're watching on Fox, 615 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,480 like what what what information are you getting right now? Well, 616 00:41:56,519 --> 00:41:59,239 they have Riley Gaines, who's now like one of their 617 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,119 main hosts in the White House today and she's reported. 618 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,840 Speaker 7: Doctor Oz, you know that Donald Trump has the best 619 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,639 testosterone of anyone over the age of seventy. 620 00:42:10,679 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 1: Here play this, we got it, Charity. 621 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,519 Speaker 8: I saw this morning. Actually it was doctor Oz who 622 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,039 said that President Trump has the highest testosterone level of 623 00:42:19,079 --> 00:42:22,599 any man over seventy that he's ever seen. So you 624 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,760 compare know that he actually failing to say, like President 625 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:27,920 Trump's going to be really thrilled. 626 00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:29,280 Speaker 5: I that I said that. 627 00:42:30,119 --> 00:42:33,239 Speaker 8: But you compare President Trump to someone, I mean, any 628 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,400 of the Democratic male leaders, someone like Tim Walls, if 629 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,960 you will. You know, mister jazz hands. You ask any 630 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,880 twenty year old boy, especially on a college campus, who 631 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,320 they would rather spend a day golfing with President Trump 632 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,400 or Tim Waltz, you have to imagine that majority of 633 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,519 them are going to say, President Trump, talk to me 634 00:42:54,559 --> 00:42:59,320 about the million John I saw to be funny. 635 00:43:00,679 --> 00:43:05,360 Speaker 5: You know, he's a serious politician. So yeah, you could 636 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,119 want to play around of golf. You would want to 637 00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:11,400 have a beer for I'd rather have I've never had 638 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,519 a beer in my life, but if I was going 639 00:43:13,559 --> 00:43:16,239 to drink, I'd rather have a drink with Gavin News. 640 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,639 You never had to beer in my life. 641 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,320 Speaker 1: The implication there just for let's be clear, they're calling 642 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,719 Walls gay, right. Let mean, that's what they're saying. Ye, 643 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,119 I mean when they say he's got his jazz hands, 644 00:43:26,119 --> 00:43:29,760 that's what they're trying to say. Okay, let's be clear. 645 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:34,679 Donald Trump's VP JD. Vans, for his early life, said 646 00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:37,920 that he was a gay man. Like throughout middle school 647 00:43:38,159 --> 00:43:42,079 and high school. JD. Van said he was gay, and 648 00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:44,599 then JD. Vance when he changed his name and he 649 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,480 changed his personality. By the way, it's great if you're gay, you. 650 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,519 Speaker 3: Know, don't persecute other people for being gay from the 651 00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:58,440 community being okay, let's live together in ubility. 652 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,880 Speaker 5: But too crazy thing. 653 00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:05,559 Speaker 3: With a different identity said that he was gay throout 654 00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:07,480 high school. Then he said that he had conversion therapy. 655 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:08,199 Speaker 1: Yeah. 656 00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,800 Speaker 5: Well, the conversion therapy is where they beat the living 657 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,679 piss out of him, which is wonderful. I mean, you know, 658 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,920 just think about that as as an ideology. Think about 659 00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:22,400 that for somebody. The damage that's done to someone's psyche. Right, 660 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,440 and now the guy is the Vice president of the 661 00:44:24,519 --> 00:44:27,920 United States of America. This whole thing is absolutely nuts. 662 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,639 But just because you want to play golf with somebody, 663 00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,119 what the hell does that mean? Right? I mean, I'd 664 00:44:33,199 --> 00:44:37,119 rather play golf, for example, with I don't know, Robert 665 00:44:37,159 --> 00:44:41,519 de Niro than I would Donald Trump. Right, I would 666 00:44:41,639 --> 00:44:44,239 rather play you know, I'd rather hang out with Leo 667 00:44:44,679 --> 00:44:48,440 right DiCaprio than I would with, you know, with Donald 668 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:53,079 Trump too, Right. I mean, I don't understand what the 669 00:44:53,199 --> 00:44:57,239 comparison is all about. Right. First of all, Tim Walls 670 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,000 isn't known for being a golfer and so on. He's 671 00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:05,920 a serious politician. I'd rather, you know, I'd rather have 672 00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:09,400 them compartmentalize what they're really trying to get out there, 673 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,239 and then you nailed it right on the head. They 674 00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,119 were trying to turn around and to make the allegation 675 00:45:15,519 --> 00:45:17,239 that Tim Walls is gay. 676 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:22,840 Speaker 7: Yeah, that, you know, and it's and it's you know, 677 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:30,400 I mean leave it at that, but honestly, event then 678 00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,239 on State Regime, here's what they talk about Riley Gaines 679 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:35,559 saying about. 680 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 1: Trump being They call Trump misogynistic. Here, let's let's play 681 00:45:40,039 --> 00:45:41,320 this clip right away. 682 00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:46,400 Speaker 9: He respects women. He's hired a lot of tremendously talented 683 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,599 then and we've absolutely we've met them. And my dad, 684 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,079 former military, as you know, used to say that the 685 00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:55,199 test of a man is how he treats the women 686 00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,519 in his life. Can he be that alpha and be 687 00:45:58,599 --> 00:46:01,119 loving in general us and all those things? 688 00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:03,880 Speaker 8: Yeah, I call him a massogynist, but really he's like 689 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:13,679 the worst massageist ever. Yes, Suse Wiles, Tulca Gabbard, Caroline Levitt, 690 00:46:13,679 --> 00:46:15,159 all wonderful women a part of his team. 691 00:46:17,039 --> 00:46:21,159 Speaker 5: What's the point that they're making there? Well, seriously, what's 692 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,760 the point? Look, Ben, we can sit here and we 693 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:31,400 could try to understand Donald Trump. I actually understand him 694 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:37,960 better unfortunately than most people or anybody should understand another person. 695 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,280 First of all, does Donald Trump hire a lot of women? 696 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:43,039 Speaker 4: No? 697 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:47,280 Speaker 5: Take a look, for example, is his first administration, they 698 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,360 did not including it the Trump organization. The number of 699 00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:56,559 people who are executives, and I could probably name them all. 700 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,920 There was only one. Actually that's not true. There were 701 00:47:00,039 --> 00:47:04,519 two who were executives that were female, with one of 702 00:47:04,559 --> 00:47:09,679 whom being Ivanka. So look, I'm not saying he's misogynist. 703 00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,480 I'm not saying he's sexist and so on. That I 704 00:47:12,639 --> 00:47:15,559 leave for everybody else to take a look at the 705 00:47:15,679 --> 00:47:20,239 numbers themselves and make their own determination. But I'm still 706 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,840 unsure what the hell the point is that there's a 707 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:29,079 It's almost like Fox has to fill up airtime with stupidity, 708 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,719 and the stupidity is merely blowing smoke up Trump's ass. 709 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:40,599 It's fawning over him over everything. First, it's his testosterone levels, right, 710 00:47:40,639 --> 00:47:42,880 I'll tell you what. Why don't we just why don't 711 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,280 we get a copy of the of the report on 712 00:47:47,519 --> 00:47:52,800 his testosterone level? Why not? I mean, if your testosteron level, 713 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,400 why would you not put it out? And by the way, 714 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,079 I wouldn't take it from them let's just turn around, 715 00:47:57,199 --> 00:48:00,119 send them over, you know, for a blood test, and 716 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,280 let's run it with an independent lab and so on. 717 00:48:03,559 --> 00:48:06,840 If it is good for him, if it's not at 718 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,159 the age of eighty. So what I mean, I'm just 719 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,239 trying to understand other than to turn and say he's superhuman. 720 00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,239 He's superhuman. He could impregnate a wall, right, I mean, 721 00:48:18,639 --> 00:48:21,079 this is what they're trying to say, is that not 722 00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:24,719 only is he the healthiest president ever, right, doesn't make 723 00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,000 a difference that he's turning eighty. He is the highest 724 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,360 testosteron level. He is the best memory. You know, he's 725 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,559 passed every cognitive exam with flying colors. He got to 726 00:48:33,639 --> 00:48:36,920 complete a plus and so on. It's they're trying to 727 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,840 make him into superman. And why they need to do it, 728 00:48:41,039 --> 00:48:43,519 I don't know. It's not going to make him president 729 00:48:43,559 --> 00:48:46,000 for life. It's not going to make him president of 730 00:48:46,039 --> 00:48:50,239 the United States for all eternity. We're all here based 731 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:51,360 on God's will. 732 00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,880 Speaker 1: Right, Michael Cohen, who's that two finger salute to? 733 00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:02,599 Speaker 5: You know? I have to say, huh, there's so many 734 00:49:02,639 --> 00:49:05,760 people who deserve it, But once again I have to 735 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:11,079 give the two fingers salute to Christino the fact that 736 00:49:12,119 --> 00:49:16,480 she can't even come out and that Jake Tapper interview. 737 00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,480 It really got to me, the fact that she can't 738 00:49:20,519 --> 00:49:25,400 come out and say something as simple as we're going 739 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,880 to do an investigation into the death of Renee Nicole 740 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,320 Good and we must every single day say her name. 741 00:49:33,519 --> 00:49:37,480 We cannot allow her to become yesterday's news like so 742 00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:42,559 many other issues have become yesterday's news, because tomorrow it 743 00:49:42,599 --> 00:49:46,119 will be somebody else like the Venezuelan guide today who 744 00:49:46,199 --> 00:49:49,360 was shot in the leg. Enough is enough. We need 745 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,880 to take our cities back. We need to make sure 746 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,480 that this militarization of our cities, the occupation of our cities, 747 00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,039 has to come to an end. And so with that, 748 00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,239 I turn around and then I say to Christinolm, fucking 749 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:06,320 wake up, idiot, and fuck you everybody. 750 00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,639 Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe to the Maya Kulpa audio podcast. 751 00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:15,440 Subscribe to Michael Cohen's YouTube channel at The Michael Cohen Show. 752 00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:19,840 Subscribe to Michael Cohen's Substack research Michael Cohen on Substack. 753 00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:25,119 Subscribe to our YouTube channel as well, and apologize if 754 00:50:25,199 --> 00:50:26,800 the Internet was bad. I don't know what was up 755 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:28,840 again with that, but is it bad? Right now, Cohen, 756 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:29,800 as I'm speaking. 757 00:50:29,519 --> 00:50:32,400 Speaker 5: Oh, it's finally good because we're calling it quits. 758 00:50:32,679 --> 00:50:33,519 Speaker 1: We're going on show. 759 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,760 Speaker 5: For whatever the reason is. It was glitchy, it was bad, 760 00:50:37,079 --> 00:50:39,320 then what do you expect at Spectrum? I had the 761 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,960 same shit going on here in New York. And by 762 00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,119 the way, to those that are asking about the ring, 763 00:50:44,519 --> 00:50:48,800 yes that is a Yankees championship ring, but I do 764 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,039 have to say it was earned. Now, no, I'm not 765 00:50:52,079 --> 00:50:54,440 a baseball player. To those of you who've read my 766 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,599 first book, Disloyal, you will know that my son played baseball. 767 00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:02,199 He played high school baseball for the New York Yankees, 768 00:51:02,199 --> 00:51:04,920 for the high school travel team for the New York Yankees. 769 00:51:05,079 --> 00:51:07,960 It was called Hanks Yanks and they end up winning. 770 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,840 It is a duplicate of the ring, and so so 771 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,199 I wanted just to show you I didn't earn it. 772 00:51:14,199 --> 00:51:17,239 It is not mine, it is my son. Just because 773 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,960 I'm wearing it doesn't make me a starting pitcher. 774 00:51:21,079 --> 00:51:24,599 Speaker 1: Well, you're a starting pitcher in my mind. Michael Ah, 775 00:51:24,639 --> 00:51:25,199 You're the best. 776 00:51:25,199 --> 00:51:26,199 Speaker 5: Ben Appreciate you. 777 00:51:27,039 --> 00:51:31,480 Speaker 1: Everybody hit subscribe here. Thank you for watching. A reminder. 778 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:36,039 The Brother Show starts at AID Eastern five Pacific and 779 00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:38,960 we'll have continuing coverage on all the breaking news throughout 780 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,760 the day. Shout out Midas Mighty and shout out beat 781 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:42,599 Down Brigaders