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LIVE: Trump in PANIC after SHOCK DEM WINS

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "LIVE: Trump in PANIC after SHOCK DEM WINS", an episode of MeidasTouch published February 4, 2026 (1 h 2 min, about 11,124 words). It mentions 17 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Texas, Minnesota, Department of Homeland Security.

What this episode is about

A significant 50-point swing among Hispanic voters in a conservative Texas state senate district highlights shifting political dynamics, as Democrat Taylor Ramett defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Lee Wamsgance by 14 points. This election serves as a bellwether for enthusiasm among progressive voters and suggests a potential re-evaluation of how Hispanic voters are categorized and engaged politically.

Key takeaways

  • A 50-point swing among Hispanic voters in Texas? That's not just a shift; it's a tectonic plate movement!
  • Trump's campaign to stop elections is like trying to catch the tide—good luck with that!
  • Hispanic voters—America's most persuadable demographic—remind us that monoliths make terrible foundations.
  • In a climate where every vote counts, the GOP can't afford to ignore a 32-point swing. Yikes!
  • When special elections resemble soap operas, one wonders if politics is now scripted for peak drama.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Tulsi Gabbard, Texas, AJ Warren, Fulton County
  2. – 20:00: Kris Kobach, Elon Musk, Minnesota, Bill Gates
  3. – 30:00: Shopify, Minnesota, Bill Gates, Bolan Branch
  4. – 40:00: Minnesota, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, Bill Gates
  5. – 50:00: Minnesota
  6. – 1:00:00: Squadra, World Liberty Financial

Notable quotes from "LIVE: Trump in PANIC after SHOCK DEM WINS"

  • A 50point swing among Hispanic voters in a conservative Texas state senate district is a big deal and a great sign.
    about Texas · at
  • Race. now this week the Trump FBI took action in Fulton County and seized 2020 ballots. and notably Tulsi Gabbard was on the ground leading that effort and apparently led some…
    about Tulsi Gabbard · at
  • It is about shaping the outcome of future elections and quite honestly dismantling the very guard rails that were put in place to keep them free and fair.
    about Fulton County · at
  • Yeah. And Trump went on the Dan Bonino podcast and called for the nationalization of elections. his press secretary tried to walk that back and then he doubled down on it. and you.
    about Donald Trump · at
  • Secretaries of State conference and that's where I had met him before but that's where I first tangled with a guy named Kris Kobach who people are probably very familiar with…
    about Kris Kobach · at
  • Pointed some things out to me that I think are really important for people to know, which is that what's going on in and has been going on in Minnesota over the last couple…
    about Minnesota · at
  • Republicans have pointed out, they don't even need Democrats really to sign off on the DHS funding. They have so many different mechanisms to keep that funding, whether it's…
    about Department of Homeland Security · at
  • Family, who actually also runs their security apparatus, by the way, signed a deal in secret with the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial, which is the…
    about World Liberty Financial · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary political figure discussed · 2 mentions · first at
    Central subject of the episode’s political analysis: special election implications, alleged election interference, ICE tactics, and alleged corruption/grift tied to crypto and foreign actors.
  • Tulsi Gabbard — Person · Referenced government official · 4 mentions · first at
    Discussed as leading/participating in a controversial FBI action in Fulton County and as the subject of a sensitive whistleblower complaint; framed as part of Trump’s election-related efforts.
  • Taylor Ramett — Person · Referenced political candidate (special election winner) · 1 mention · first at
    Democratic candidate highlighted as winning a Texas special election by a large margin, used as evidence of enthusiasm and a major swing among Hispanic voters.
    Members to join a majority, this is majority 54. Well, great news coming out of Texas, Jason. Democrat Taylor Ramett, a labor union leader and Air Force veteran, defeated…
  • AJ Warren — Person · Referenced U.S. Senator (quoted critic) · 2 mentions · first at
    Quoted condemning the Fulton County ballot seizure/raids as undermining election safeguards; used to frame the episode’s argument about election interference.
    These are not the actions of an administration that's serious about election security.
  • Kris Kobach — Person · Referenced election/immigration policy figure (historical example) · 2 mentions · first at
    Used as an illustrative example of GOP hypocrisy on federal vs local election administration—previously arguing for local control when DOJ oversight was a threat.
  • Lee Wamsgance — Person · Referenced political candidate (special election loser) · 1 mention · first at
    Republican candidate in the Texas special election; his loss (despite Trump endorsement) is used to quantify the swing and discuss voter behavior.
    Force veteran, defeated Republican Lee Wamsgance, who was a conservative activist, who got the complete and total endorsement of Donald Trump just days before the vote. Reette…
  • Bill Gates — Person · Referenced public figure (named in Epstein discussion) · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as one of many elite figures connected to Epstein in the document dump; used to underscore the breadth of elite entanglement.
    Have to be careful about the precedent we draw from what is the correct action here which is to out the people like Bill Gates who were clearly doing something wrong. But that…
  • Elon Musk — Person · Referenced public figure (named in Epstein discussion) · 3 mentions · first at
    Listed among prominent names in Epstein-related materials; used as part of the broader critique of elite social dynamics and access.
    And then he had the British royal family, the Norwegian royal family, Harvard professors, financeers, Bill Gates and Elon Musk and Peter Teal. this guy had everybody eating out…
  • Peter Thiel — Person · Referenced public figure (named in Epstein discussion) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned (as 'Peter Teal') among elite names connected to Epstein materials; supports the episode’s theme about elite networks and moral compromise.
    Mean, this guy had everybody eating out of his hands. And you're left wondering, how did this happen? Right? There's a political part of it, but then there's like a part of it…

Companies & orgs

Products & tech

  • Squadra — Product · Primary owned · 2 mentions · first at
    Promoted as a fitness community by the host
    Well, quick announcement. you've been a part of this at various points, but I have this fitness group called Squadra where we now I don't know seven years running now have been…

Places & events

  • Texas — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of a special election and Hispanic voter trends
  • Minnesota — Place · Setting · 11 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of ICE operations and political implications
  • Fulton County — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of election-related actions by the FBI

Sponsors

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Full transcript with timestamps

A 50point swing among Hispanic voters in a conservative Texas state senate district is a big deal and a great sign. We'll go inside the numbers a bit. Like the Grinch hearing carols and trying to stop Christmas from coming. Special elections and terrible polling has Trump back to trying to find a way to keep elections from coming. Also, a partial retreat by ICE in Minnesota. Welcome back to the podcast. For the 54% of Americans who regularly vote for progress in every election and want to convince their friends and family members to join a majority, this is majority 54. Well, great news coming out of Texas, Jason. Uh Democrat Taylor Ramett, a labor union leader and Air Force veteran, defeated Republican Lee Wamsgance, uh who was a conservative activist, uh who got uh the complete and total endorsement of Donald Trump uh just days before the vote. uh Reette won uh by 14 percentage points in a district

that Trump won by 17. So it's a 32 point swing and as you alluded to in the intro, um the uh Hispanic vote seems to have flipped by a massive amount here. Um Jason, how how much should we care about this? Is a midterm I mean a a special election. It was on a Saturday. A was the only thing uh up like are we overreacting to this?

I don't think so. I think it's a measure. I think it depends on how we react to it or at least what we draw from it, right? So there's to me there's there's two things here to draw from this one. Clearly enthusiasm to vote is in our corner, right? I mean, and there's no better way to measure that than, hey, we're going to have a special election on a Saturday where there's literally one race on the ballot. who's excited to come vote. And clearly our side won that overwhelmingly. The other piece to this that I think is really important is the Hispanic voter piece. So I I actually have a theory on this that I want to run by you, Robbie, which is that for a very long time, we have been treating Hispanic voters as this monolith. And it has gotten us into a lot of problems at times. Like in the last election, Hispanic voters basically said, "Hey, you know what? We're as concerned about cost as anybody else." And so, Hispanic

voters voted a lot like other persuadable voters. And now we have this assumption that would be very easy to make, which is that, oh well, because of all of the problems that are being caused by the ice crackdown all over the country, maybe that's why Hispanic voters are coming toward us. And I think that there's probably some truth to that because clearly the Hispanic community is more uh severely and and more frequently affected by this because you're pulled over at a racial profiling or you're at risk of it or you have a relative or a friend or just somebody in your community you know who was a completely law-abiding part of the of of the American life who was deported.

Those are all possible. But I have a different theory to assert about the way Hispanic voters are voting uh and the way they're responding to polls, which is I actually think it's possible that it turns out Hispanic voters in this country are the demographic that is most persuadable and therefore tracks the most like independent voters. I I think that they're not a monolith. Hispanic voters come from all sorts of different backgrounds, all sorts of different countries originally by lineage. And as a result, I actually think that they're behaving in a special election like this one in Texas very similar to how independent voters behave when the president is deeply unpopular. They tend to be the driving force, independent voters, and in this case, you have an election in Texas with a large amount of Hispanic voters behaving a lot like independent voters.

Well, uh, Governor Ronda Santis of Florida had the following to say about this. He said special elections are quirky and not necessarily projectable regarding the general election. That said, a swing of this magnitude is not something that could be dismissed. Republicans should be cleareyed about the political environment heading into the midterms. And uh it seems that the president has taken notice. I mean, he he tried to distance himself from this special. He said, "I'm not involved in that." When asked about the special election, he says that's a local Texas race. Uh now this week uh the Trump FBI uh took action in Fulton County and seized 2020 ballots. Uh and notably Tulsi Gabbard um was on the ground leading that effort and apparently led some kind of conference call with Trump here uh on this. Um Senator Warren uh of Virginia um had this to say about the raids.

These are not the actions of an administration that's serious about election security. These are the actions of an administration clearing away safeguards while simultaneously inserting itself into domestic investigations, seizing election materials as they did in Georgia, and publicly calling for Republicans again to take over and nationalize voting in multiple states. When you put all of this together, it is clear that what happened in Fulton County is not about revisiting the past. It is about shaping the outcome of future elections and quite honestly dismantling the very guard rails that were put in place to keep them free and fair.

Yeah, man. sending the director of national intelligence to uh a conspiracy theory laden raid uh from a thing from six years ago is that is about elections and as Senator Warner points out there trying to lay the groundwork for future involvement by the FBI and by Tulsi Gabbard in elections is the kind of stuff that you regularly see in shows like The Night Agent or Scandal. And when you see it as someone who has any legal training whatsoever or somebody who has any experience in politics, you go typically you say, "Okay, well that's fantasy. That's that's fiction." The idea like that's not what the intelligence community does. But it would always be frustrating when you'd see it because it makes it feeds into this conspiracy that exists out there that you know the CIA or the intelligence community large is messing around in our elections and our votes don't matter. But now when you're actually sending the director of

national intelligence to to be in the shadows and running agents running FBI agents at a totally bogus conspiracy theory raid in Georgia, it starts to feel real and it is really frightening.

Yeah. And Trump went on the Dan Bonino podcast and called for the nationalization of elections. his press secretary tried to walk that back and then he doubled down on it. Um and you know for the moment uh majority leader Thun says he has no interest in this but you know as we know like the Republicans uh in Congress like you know they'll say they'll talk a big game but if Trump calls they'll answer. And it's worth, you know, dwelling on Gabbard for a second here because the Wall Street Journal this week published a report uh about a whistleblower complaint against uh Gabbard um that according to reporting is so sensitive that it is said to be in a locked safe and that the administration has been spending months trying to figure out how to inform Congress. Now, it seems like they're trying not to inform Congress, and the lawyer for the whistleblower um this morning said that they're going to go

straight to Congress if the administration doesn't um inform Congress themselves. Uh and this whistleblower complaint is alleged to also uh implicate another cabinet agency as well, but we don't know what it is.

Yeah, let's be clear. If this whistleblower complaint is damaging and if it doesn't ensnare Trump or Miller or Vance or like a couple other people, Tulsi Gabbard is going to be gone. She's just not been a part of the Trump world long enough that they're going to have no problem casting her off. I want to go back for a second and talk about this idea of nationalizing elections because I want people to understand exactly what it is that Trump wants, what he means when he says this, and why he's saying it. And in order to do that, we have to talk about this very common anxiety that understandably exists on the left, which is that there won't actually be elections or that elections under Trump won't be real. The reason that people, well, I don't have to explain why people feel that way. Nobody trusts Trump at all and he's in charge and he seems to have immense power. The reason that as things currently exist and therefore the

reason Trump wants to quote unquote nationalize elections is because elections are administered not just at the local level like at the state level but in the vast majority of states elections are administered at the county level. They're very local. And I don't just mean that from a legal perspective. I don't just mean, although it's true, that your county clerk or recorder or what, however your state refers to the local election official, that they have the legal authority to make decisions about elections in their jurisdiction.

They do, but more importantly, they are physically administered at the local level. Ballots are distributed and collected and counted at the local level. County clerks have the authority to decide, you know, things like how many polling places, where they're going to be, like a lot of authority. Secretaries of state, I'm a former secretary of state, have, if you're a secretary of state, often a frustratingly small amount of power to actually physically administer the election. Okay? Your secretary of state is not counting the votes. Your secretary of state is, for the most part, not deciding where the polling places are going to be. That sort of thing. That's done at the local level.

So why does Trump want to nationalize elections? Because the other thing that happens at the local level is the voter roles are kept at the local level, meaning the county level. So Trump wants particularly in Democratic states for the voter roles to be kept nationally because if the voter roles are kept nationally, then there can be a national body that decides who is kept on those voter roles and who is not. and they can look look at how easily they decide who who uh can be kicked out of the country, right? If that's the case, then that means that they can just decide you're no longer registered to vote. They can't do that directly right now because they don't have control over the voter roles.

Even the Secretary of State in most states doesn't have control over the voter roles, which is why you see them doing things like trying to extort the government of Minnesota to give them the voter roles and to give them to DOJ so that DOJ can start challenging those voting roles. The next step would be for them to actually control the voter roles at the national level. Now, this is getting a little long, but I let me only land this plane by telling you a story. Keep in mind that right now what what Trump and some of these Republicans think is that voting roles should be kept and that elections should be administered at the federal national level because they control that. When I was elected Secretary of State in 2012, I took office in January of 2013. One of the very first things uh that I did was I went to the National Association of Secretaries of State conference and that's where I had met him before but

that's where I first tangled with a guy named Kris Kobach who people are probably very familiar with and we tangled for several days at the National Association of Secretary of State conference because Kobach had a letter he had drafted that he wanted all the secretaries to sign which said that elections are always to be administered at the local level and that the federal government should stay completely out of The reason he was saying that is because the Obama administration had been filing lawsuits through the DOJ against Republican secretaries of state who were purging the voting roles andor putting in new voter ID laws to make it harder to vote. So when they did not control the DOJ or did not control the federal government, they were very much of the belief led by their main voting and immigration guy Kris Kobach that elections should always be physically and legally administered at the local

level. And now that they've that they have the White House and the Supreme Court, they have completely reversed themselves and believe that elections should be done at the national level.

Well, uh Steve Bannon jumped into the fray, Jason. Here's what he had to say. You're damn right. We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November. We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can th you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.

Yeah. Do you Ravi, I'm curious. Do you for one second believe that Steve Bannon actually thinks that the 2020 election was stolen?

No. No. Me either. Yeah. Me either. And you know what? If for some reason he does, which I don't believe he does, I definitely don't believe that he thinks it was stolen by undocumented uh migrants, um which just goes to prove the point that he views ICE as what it is, which is a secret police force that will scare everybody away from the polls. Well, let's stay on Bannon for a second because it's a perfect bridge to our next topic which is Epstein because uh one Steve Bannon, you know, man of the people populist fire brand was all over these files. There was even a video file of him prepping Epstein for a 60 Minutes interview uh that by all accounts was fawning and sickopantic. And so this is this is who these people are. This is what the populist uh Maggarite is. uh is that they're uh you know they talk a big game. You know we get globalist elite from Bannon I think.

Uh and meanwhile you know whenever the uh the globalist elite let them into their club or even let uh him you know like at the doorstep he he turns into a sickopantic um fanboy. And uh there's a whole lot of Bannon in there. Uh there's a whole lot of Trump in those files. Uh there's a whole lot about a lot of people and you know I wrote about this Jason for um my Substack of just about

people should read it. It's a great piece. Oh so yeah people can read it. It's free. You can go to real Robbie Gupta.substack.com. And basically my point was we'll get to the politics of it. before before my initial reaction was this guy uh Epstein who has no discernable skill set or accomplishments like he didn't start a company or invent a new thing or create any wonderful works of art uh or make any scientific breakthroughs um had whether it was you know prominent leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties I know we we emphasize the Republican part of it because there's a particular overlap with the leadership of our country right now who are trying to bury these files. But you know, Larry Summers and Steve Bannon, Kathy Rumler and Letic.

And then he had the British royal family, the Norwegian royal family, Harvard professors, financeers, Bill Gates and Elon Musk and uh Peter Teal. I mean, this guy had everybody eating out of his hands. And you're left wondering, how did this happen? Right? There's a political part of it, but then there's like a part of it that's just like about American and global society. It's really a global story. And my point in the piece was it's about two things. One is this sense of exclusivity. Like whenever you're like somebody has something like a private island that they're going to let you on. Um people do weird things to try to get on that island even if they're otherwise successful accomplished people. Uh and then two is that there's something uniquely rotten about the elite levels of our society.

And that gets to a little bit of the politics which is you know what we have had over the past 20 years is uh a political back and forth where the Republicans criticize the elite parts of Democratic politics and then we criticize the elite parts of Republican politics. And the truly successful movements have been, you know, Obama to a certain extent, although we became the elites for sure if I'm being honest. Uh, and then Trump in a way criticizing when he first ran criticizing just the elites. And I tend to think that there is both truth and good politics in painting a pretty broad brush on how rotten uh elite society has become. And I think in reading these files, as as many of them as I could read, obviously nobody's read them all, it's just clear to me there's something profoundly wrong at the highest levels of our society.

That's my big takeaway. What I loved about what you wrote is that it was a reminder that it is very alluring to be uh I mean, obviously there's the there's the pedophilia disgusting sex stuff in this which I'm not setting aside in any way. it. It's just that it's awful and terrible and hideous all on its own. It doesn't need any help being I mean like we don't even have to talk about how absurd and awful that is and how anybody who was around that regardless of their political stripes should have understood you need to not be there. Right.

Right. The other piece as you look at the collection of people that Epstein seemed to enjoy putting together, the other alluring piece of this is this idea that when you are with this guy, you seem to be around people who you want to tell people you were around. Right.

Yes. And yeah, and that that I think and what I loved about your piece is that is a life lesson

for everybody whether you are running in an elite circle or not or whether it's simply at your workplace there seems to be an in crowd. What you wrote was a reminder that that quote unquote elite group of people

is not is not actually that likely to be more impressive or sophisticated than your group of people. And you can get seduced, no pun intended, by the idea of being in that room. And and then and because when you look at look, there's there's all the hideousness of what was happening with Diddy. There's all the hideousness of what was happening with Epstein. But what they have in common other than the hideousness is that they were collecting boldfaced name people and they were making it they were making a concerted effort to network and collect those people from around the world so that they could advertise to others that those people would be physically where they were and then they could use that as some sort of validator. And I think your point was which I really liked was think twice before you become that. Yeah.

And whether that's of any value at all and whether you want to risk being around terrible things just to be around people who society has pointed to and said they are they are somehow appealing.

Yeah. And and I think like the Epstein thing is such a like a an extreme example that it feels out of grasp for a lot of people. But I think every town and city and neighborhood has their own version of this. There's always that person who has the nicer boat than everybody or the bigger house and you'll be invited over and you you'll say to yourself, I I wouldn't spend time with this person otherwise but and then the butt is but they have a nice house or they have a nice boat or whatever. And I think like everybody needs to ask themselves at a certain point. It's like these things don't present themselves as like stark moral choices. It's like rarely will it be this person's a registered sex offender with an island.

Like that is like a that is a written like that would be like a a a moral test that would be comically cartoonish if you were to just kind of make it up out of thin air. But these moral cho tests come out of come at you in all kinds of ways. And wherever you are, you know what they are. It's the person andor group of people who make you somewhat uncomfortable but you know dot dot dot they have the cool club. They have the good golf course. They have the big boat. They have the backyard. Everybody likes them. They throw great parties or whatever. And part of what I'm saying is give yourself permission to just say no.

You know, you're not missing out on anything. Like those are not comfortable places to be wherever they are. You'll you'll just be uncomfortable. Um and I profile one particular person which people can read about it who I think particularly win a drift. But back to the politics of it and people could go to real Robbiegupta.substack.com for that. But the politics of it are still here and Trump uh continues to try to deflect here. Obviously, they they released these on a Friday afternoon on purpose. Trump's name was all over it, even with his own Department of Justice, no doubt, pulling whatever BS behind the scenes to Lord knows what shield us from what else is out there. Uh, Trump was asked by Caitlyn Collins about the files and the victims, which we need to keep front and center, who some of whom were their names and photos were released as part of the release. Uh, which is a real mess. Uh, but here's this exchange

between Caitlyn Collins and Trump, maybe. All right. Well, we can describe it in case we don't have it.

Um, which is Okay. Yeah. Um, so Jeremy's trying to find it, I think. Okay. But, uh, it it it was one a lot of people have seen where she asks him about the Epstein files and rather than answer, he does his move where he goes on and on about what a terrible person she is. And his his move that he in particular uses uh with female journalists, which is to say she's a nasty person. And he you he over and over talks about how she never smiles.

Yes. And and you know uh the world in which he has grown up in and the and the circles in which he runs, he is either unaware or more likely just doesn't care that when women see somebody say they never this person never smiles. They know exactly what kind of a person they're dealing with because they're told so often by creepy old men that they should smile. Well, Jason, let's take a break. We'll talk a little bit more Epstein when we come back. Then we'll talk Minnesota. Uh we've got the uh funding uh uh debate and shutdown debate. Um and uh we've got a massive story about Trump Grift, which um you know, I'm sick of saying would be the biggest story in in an entire administration, but you know, fill in the blank. Um let's go to break.

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They release it late and we're all calling on them to release it late and then they release it with all these mistakes in it. And the partisan response would be like, you just need to be better. But that would also just mean more prosecutors and FBI agents on this and not other things like Savannah Guthri's mom, right? I was thinking about that today. I'm like, you need people working on this kind of stuff. So although I support the release of these documents and accountability, we can't pretend like this isn't costless. The victims have been um disgraced again some part because of the the way they were released with the lack of redactions, also because it was there was no coordination with them on Friday.

That's Trump's fault. Obviously, they're being revictimized all over again. And the conversation is largely without them. It's about look at Bill Gates and his STD allegation and Musk wanted to go to the island and all that and it's not you know I don't you know it's not really focused on them and justice for them enough never mind the fact that there are just random names in these documents like clips like Epstein's like assistant would send him news clips daily or whatever so they're just names in there so like they're like headlines and Instagram things like blank person is in there Like Russell Wilson's in there, I think, cuz he he had somebody try to buy an airplane

and it somehow like his response was great. He was just like his response was so different than the people who actually do have something to worry about and apologize for. He was just like, "Never met the dude. Don't know anything about him. Didn't know that's who I was trying to buy an airplane from." No. Like all exclamation points. No. Nope. Not me. No.

There's just something obscene about the witch hunt aspect of this. Uh, and and again, I support the release of it, but I I think we need to we really need to dig deep and and kind of maintain the glee about all this cuz it's just ugly. I think it's it's ugly and it's it's a sad sad chapter in our history. And it sets a precedent that I'm not sure we we have all grappled with where prosecutors all over the country and forever more. We'll now have the Epstein precedent where these things are going to be open file uh in more cases than is probably warranted where people are going to be releasing information that's un substantiated and not connected to an actual indictment. And that is a really bad future for people no matter where they are. Let me because there's going to be people listening to what you're saying and they're going to they're going to unfairly accuse you of being like an apologist for the perpetrators here. And

so let me let me add some nuance to what you're saying because I think I think what you're trying to say is that while in this case it is appropriate to out people who were dealing with this guy and you like I don't think you're saying that it's not. You're not.

Yeah, I support the release to be clear. Exactly. But it's not costless. It's not

And so and so it's it's it's worth thinking about the precedent that it sets in the sense that uh that old, you know, legal saying, bad facts make bad law. that if you take a case with with unique facts, truly original, unlikely to be repeated facts

and you make precedent based on that, then there is going to be a cost to that. So what we have to keep in mind is that while anybody who was enabling Epstein uh in any of these ways absolutely should suffer a consequence for that we shouldn't take that to then be in the future and in your standard you know random criminal case that somebody who knew somebody who was engaged in criminality should therefore when they have no when they have no responsibility or no account they shouldn't be held accountable. So we have to be careful about the precedent we draw from what is the correct action here which is to out the people like Bill Gates who were clearly doing something wrong. But that doesn't mean that in some white collar criminal prosecution you know in Milwaukee that anybody who knew the guy who it turns out was embezzling money from some company that they should be their name should be in the paper because they

bought a car from that person for or something you know. Yeah. I mean, it's a delicate thing.

A lot of sins got us to this point to to to say it lightly, you know, but we did get to a point where on a Friday afternoon, there's a dump of a gazillion documents that included photos of underage women and unredacted names.

Uh, that's where we got to, right? And the number one most culpable person is Jeffrey Epstein. And not far down that list is Donald Trump. So, I want to be clear about that. But we are in this very ugly situation and I'm not sure anybody could tell you where we're going to go from here. You know,

I was uh reflecting on all last night Diana and I were talking a lot about the Epstein file releases and like just sort of the moral lessons to come from it because it's one of those few stories, political stories that for instance like you know my 12-year-old son knows what the Epstein files are, right? and and and has questions about it and that kind of thing. And it got me thinking about something I I sort of wandered on to recently that I was not that familiar with and maybe a lot of other people are. I'm sure you are given your family's uh history and involvement with with Gandhi, but that is uh Gandhi's seven social sense. And I I came onto this and it made me think about what you were talking about earlier in terms of like knowing when you're in a situation and it sneaking up on you and and how to avoid that kind of thing. And so his seven social sins as a review for people is wealth without work, pleasure without

conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion without sacrifice, and politics without principle. And I don't know, I I read that and I thought a

good list. Yeah. I thought like there's so much there that explains so much of where we've gone wrong in all sorts of different sectors of our country from politics to commerce to everything else. Um that I just I just found it really relevant to the moment. [snorts]

Well, amen to that. That's a good place to end there. And yeah, I I totally like I think it's clear by this point of the I support the release. I'm just pointing out some very unfortunate aspects of where we are today. Um, Minnesota. So, uh, this morning, Department of Homeland Security announced that they're going to reduce their presence in Minneapolis by 700 agents. Uh, but this means 2,000 will remain in Minnesota. Um, and, uh, that's well above the 150 originally assigned to the state. Uh, I continue to think that these are not major victories. Uh, I think we're so conditioned to be grateful for a deescalation that we forget common sense. Sometimes we don't have a real investigation into this murder uh or the good murder or all kinds of other horrible acts that are taking place in Minnesota and elsewhere including people dying in detention facilities where we don't have video um and where there are

suspicious uh circumstances all over the place including some detainees who've suffered head head injuries where the um the uh the uh medical professionals won't sign off on a clean autopsy because they suspect foul play. Like there's all kinds of crazy stuff happening all over this country. So, I think we need to keep our standards high. Obviously, it's good that they're taking some of these people out, but I'm I'm still rather alarmed by the lack of any culpability over what's happened in Minnesota and elsewhere.

Yeah. Um, something I want to say, I mean, I totally agree. Um, something I want to say about it that I I hope gives people a little bit of a feeling of hope because I agree with you. We can't just look at a slight deescalation and say, "Oh, you know, they're they're hitting us less frequently in the face, so we're winning." Um, but I do I do want people to know when rule of law is actually holding because I think the public perception right now is that judges are issuing orders and all of those orders are being fully ignored by ICE. And that's not entirely true. And you know, I I I talked to a friend yesterday who, you know, is close to all this and pointed some things out to me that I think are really important for people to know, which is that um what's going on in in and has been going on in Minnesota over the last uh couple months is that there are so many of these, you know, so many folks are being swept up, um

undocumented folks are being swept up, uh that in order to stop people from being deported before a judge has had any opportunity to look at something and stop it from happening when it shouldn't be happening. There are night and I'm getting to the hopeful part. There are literally every night flights from Minneapolis to El Paso to put people in a detention center and then move them on as quickly as possible out of the country. And so what federal judges in in Minnesota realized early on was that we need more judges in order to issue orders to stop these things from happening before people leave Minnesota.

Because once once someone has left Minnesota, it becomes much much more difficult to actually force Department of Homeland Security to follow a judge's order because they're like, "Hey, you know what? They're gone now." So what has been happening is that federal judges appointed by various presidents of both political parties, Democratic and Republican federal judges, have been stepping up from all over the country. And in reference to what you were saying earlier about, for instance, the FBI and the DOJ having to pause a lot of other parts of their docket in order to be available to the judges in Minnesota to issue orders stopping deportations. and they they're having to do it immediately. And so what's been happening is judges, for instance, instead of giving the typical 30 days for the government to res respond to a petition for habius, they're giving the government 3 days.

They're getting these cases immediately and they're saying no. And what was explained to me is that the reason that this is having to happen is because uh ICE knows that the people that they're for instance somebody who is like you know heading to their asylum hearing and is about to be granted asylum and then they pick them up just in time. That person is legally permitted to be in the country and ICE knows it. So what I is trying to do is to get them out of the country so that then later they can be like hey you know what yeah you can rule that they shouldn't have been um deported but you know it's too late and they know that that's going to happen and so there's this huge pressure as we know from the Trump administration on you know push down to ICE to hit quotas and then what that's resulting in is that at the local level ICE supervisors are trying to hit quotas for uh people being detained knowing that

some of those people are they're going to be blocked by a judicial order from actually deporting those people, but they don't care because they've got their quota which is above the other quota. And so just a shout out to federal judges across the country, Republican and Democratic, who are stepping up and saying, "No, no, no. You're not allowed to get this person out." And they're having to do it really, really quickly. And in many cases, they are keeping people from being sent out. For instance, in the case of uh you know, the 5-year-old boy Liam and his father who you know, the judge in Texas was able to get them sent back uh to Minnesota. And I would encourage people to go and read that opinion by Judge Barry um because it's it's really clear that he wrote it himself. It's really clear that he's pissed. He actually at the bottom of the order put a picture of Liam to drive his point home. He referred to it as the

ill-conceived and incompetently implemented governmental or government pursuit of daily deportation quotas apparently even if it requires traumatizing children. He quoted from the Declaration of Independence uh and was you know appropriately condescending toward ICE. Um but I just want people to know that there are federal judges around the country of both political parties who are stepping up and making sure rule of law is followed to some extent. And uh and that makes me feel good about our capacity for having elements of the government that will still try and slow or stop this stuff uh until we have different people in charge.

Well, Trump continues to alienate previous supporters. Uh here is Andrew Schultz uh talking to Charlemagne uh on their podcast.

And look, I know I had Trump on the podcast, you know, and I'm aware explaining that. No, no, but let me let me just clarify cuz I think it is important to say like I know how I had him on the podcast and um like so I when I when I'm talking out about this I'm not doing it to like you know get people to be like oh he's a good guy or whatever like that or trying to get anybody on my side. I understand that this is a horrific event that happened. I objectively want to talk about it. I'm not trying to like win anybody over in this.

You understand? You know the difference between right and wrong. There's a difference right and wrong. There's a difference between like respecting and honoring the Constitution, the backbone of our country, and then completely shredding it. And this is completely shredding it. And now they're realizing that people have noticed it. And now they're trying to backtrack it. But

by the way, he's been wiping his ass with the Constitution. Sure. I I I've been on record a million times saying like whenever when he said we should terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election, like that got to be disqualifying if you run for president.

So here's a example. So like I know that there are people sounding the alarms about this. I when I saw these last few weeks in Minnesota, I didn't think was possible to happen in the United States of America.

I'm being 100% serious. To white people? No. To anybody. But you've seen it happen to black people. Exactly.

Yes. Yes. To white people. It's okay to No, it is. But no, I don't I don't I mean, I didn't know that this was possible to happen in the United States of America. What I'm specifically talking about with with this situation here and like not only this one, but also what we've seen ICE doing, like entering homes without warrants, like arresting people. It it is unconstitutional and they've done this weird thing where like they have like a federally administrative warrant which is some It doesn't even allow you to actually have access into a home.

Yeah. They're trying to find ways around the system. And what that says to me when you're willing to read the Constitution to preserve your it's not only your power but your ideas of what should happen is incredibly unamerican. I I hope when people see this clip, they pay close attention to Charlemagne's uh comments and his general demeanor toward Schultz because what he is doing there is he is making his point. He is making sure to underline certain parts. He is holding Schultz accountable. But what he is not doing is saying I told you so. He is not uh being uh explicitly judgmental. He is not trying to punish or rub it in Schultz's face. He is trying to welcome him while also, you know, still making clear he has understood this all along and a lot of people have understood it, but he's not he's not doing it in such a way that would alienate Schultz. there. You know, before the right was successful in

making the term woke a toxic, unusable term, there was a very useful phrase that people would sometimes use, which is that the woke need to make room for the still waking. And and I think this is a good example of those of us who have understood for a long time how dangerous uh and and horrific Trump's approach is. and and the Trump administration is need to be open and welcoming to the people who are just now realizing it simply because it's math and if we're going to win, we're going to need those people. Well, uh, one last piece on immigration. KO, which is a libertarian leading think tank, uh, issued a report on the economic impact on immigration since 1994. And this is jarring. Um they said immigrants legal and illegal reduced US deficits by $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023. Without immigrants the deficit over that period would have been 48 trillion with them.

It's been about a third less. Immigrants have generated a fiscal surplus every single year since tracking began in 1994. People might wonder why uh immigrants are so positive fiscally. Well, one, they pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits primarily because they work at higher rates than the general uh population. Two is um despite lower hourly wages. Higher employment rates mean higher per capita income and tax contributions. Three, immigrants accounted for 14% of tax revenue but only 7% of government spending during this period. The savings come from a number of factors. One is immigrants use less social security and Medicare because they usually arrive too late to run the clock on those. uh they arrive uh on average uh at age 25. So they don't um take up educational resources as much as native born Americans and despite higher poverty rates they use roughly average amounts of needs-based assistance uh because

they are ineligible in most states for programs or in many states for programs and they also found that low-skilled immigrants reduce the deficit by 2.8 trillion undocument undocumented immigrants 1.7 trillion without immigrant contribution. Jason, the US public debt would already exceed 200% of GDP.

Those are super compelling and also common sense facts, right? I mean, like people come here to work. Nobody is trudging through uh you know, a South American desert or or through Mexico or across a border to sit around. That's not what they're doing. They're putting their life on the line in order to earn income. Uh, and that's what they do when they get here.

Well, in other news, Jason Scott Galloway has called for an economic boycott of sorts. Uh, really an unsubscribe movement. Um, here's a clip of him talking about this.

So, Scott, can you just explain what this resist and unsubscribe movement is? It's an effort to sort of hit the president and the administration with a message that's not only right but effective. And that is I think our secret weapon hiding in plain sight is that the president doesn't necessarily listen to the courts to citizenry. What he listens to is the markets. And if you look at when he's pulled back from ideas around annex in Greenland or when he's pulled back from tariffs, it's been when the bond market collapses or the S&P goes down. And if you look at the place, the soft tissue of the market, it's around big tech and specifically subscription programs that are fueling big tech. And I'm trying to or I think Anderson, I've come up with the soft tissue where we can have the greatest impact with the least amount of consumer interference. And that is maybe going from two or three subscription LLMs to

one, from five or six streaming platforms to one, two ride hailing programs to one. But I think that the the president and the people he surrounds himself with, specifically big tech leaders that now account for 40% of the market that the best way to send a message is through the markets and specifically through big tech subscriptions by cancelling or pausing. Have you heard from any of the CEOs of companies that you're focusing on?

So, I think this is super smart and he's he's pushing for this to be a February focus and I went through you can go to resistantunsubscribe.com and it could kind of walk you through how to go about this process. And I think he's right. I think like the one thing we know for sure that Trump and all of these people in his circles take seriously is their financial well-being and the markets and and after going through this process and unsubscribing to a bunch of stuff it actually is a cathartic and helpful experience anyway like you go through these and you could say you're committing to cancel them for a month

and what will happen I am sure of it is you will find out you don't need these things so You actually get a personal benefit from this as well.

Yeah, I was super skeptical of this at first. It felt to me like a sort of very privileged uh you know sort of protest, but the more I learn about it, the more I realize like well that's okay if there are enough of us who are privileged to make an impact uh then then I'm fine with and what's the worst to your point what's the worst that happens? Probably you save a little money and time. Yeah, you find out like I I I'm going through this thing. I'm like, "Oh, when was the last time I used YouTube TV, which I'm paying $89 per month, and when I'm in Europe, they block it." I'm like, "Gone." You know? Um, you know, I won't name the streaming services, but I had a bunch of streaming services. And I went through them all, and I'm like, is this really making my life any better? And how many of these could I just crib off of somebody else when I needed?

And so, I went through it. I'm like, whoa, not only did I like participate in this mass movement, but I saved a ton of money, you know? So, I'm like I I think it's worth it for everybody to get involved. Like I I think it's you you'll find it both personally useful, but also I think the theory of action is sound. Uh I think it really makes sense to me.

Maybe maybe we we should start like a an auxiliary movement that's like figure out a way to to work around the protections and use your friend's stuff.

get back to get back to uh you know using your friends Netflix if you possibly can or they've made it harder but

not impossible I've learned uh okay the house passes passed a measure to end the partial shutdown so they voted 217 to 214 to fund a large portion of the government they've stripped away a portion of DHS funding um so the the main funding is funded now through September uh and they have until February 13th to decide on DHS funding. Um, I understand that there are tough trade-offs here, but I I just I just think that the the the Trump administration's complete disrespect of Congress and the rule of law, uh, I think necessitate drastic action from Congress. And I think they handed away most of their leverage. And as as ample Republicans have pointed out, um, they don't even need Democrats really to sign off on the DHS funding. They have so many different mechanisms to keep that funding, whether it's continuing resolutions or the already authorized money to expand ICE um and CBP. I'm just dumbfounded by our inability to stand up

for ourselves. You know what it drove home for me though is how enormously important the midterms are going to be

because right now it's like very hard to figure out what leverage we actually have in Congress

and and we all have you know this this show is for the most part it is about convincing people in our lives who are have either voted for Trump in the past are are willing to vote for Republicans but go both ways, you know, or or might be getable to come to our side. But the other thing that we have to do is convince those who already agree with us to stay engaged. And and right now, that's not hard to do in terms of keeping people, as we saw in the Texas election, keeping people enthused and upset. Certainly, it's not hard to keep people mad. What it is difficult to do right now is to keep people believing that things can change because the shest way for the folks who agree with us to fail to come through in the election is if they believe that nothing matters and that winning is impossible.

That's what that's what Trump and and Steven Miller and everybody else want us to believe. They want us to give up because we don't believe anything can happen. And this this whole what leverage do we have and what difference can we make that comes up every time there's an opportunity to either fund or not fund the government is a reminder that if we control the house particularly if we control the house and the senate we can drastically change or at least limit the bad behavior of Trump too during the second half of this administration. Well, speaking of that behavior, four days before the inauguration, this is courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. Again, by the way, great just all around great news reporting operation over there. Um, four days before the Trump inauguration, lieutenants to Abu Dhabi's uh royal uh a key member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, who actually also runs their security apparatus, by the way, um

signed a deal in secret with the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial, which is the Trump company. um for $500 million uh the buyer paid half upfront uh and steered 187 million to Trump family entities and 31 million to Wickoff. Um and what's interesting is uh there was no product uh at the time from this company. So that's a interesting investment for a company with no product. And actually, from what I understand, the sort of one thing that was closest to a viable product was actually stripped off and protected so that any revenue from that wouldn't go to the Abu Dhabi um investors, which I mean

they paid for nothing. Well, they paid for something because shortly after that, they got this uh massive uh 180. Uh the US had been blocking pretty much everybody, including the Amiradis, from getting these high-powered Nvidia chips. And then they uh lifted that shortly after this. And uh you know the the Emiratis are close with the Chinese so this is a backdoor way to get the Chinese chips that Trump was already softening on anyway. So he essentially looks like he sold out our national security for personal enrichment. Bottom line.

Yeah. Yep. I don't even know what to say about it. That's it. Uh and I I'll I'll end us uh on Medi Hassan who had a uh I thought a helpful tweet. He says, "As critical as I am of the media and the Democrats in terms of they're not standing up to Trump enough, I will also concede that it's not an easy job. In the past 48 hours, we've seen one, Trump in the Epstein files with some crazy accusations. Two, a massive corruption story involving Trump, crypto, and the Amiradis. Three, Trump saying he'll use the government he controls to pay himself a $10 billion settlement. We didn't even get to that." Um, so by Monday, they'll be forgotten and there'll be another three scandals, maybe five. Any of the stories I listed above would destroy a previous presidency. Those three together won't even dent Trump. And that's not including the Georgia election rate. I mean, you can go on. So, this is what

we're dealing with now. We just got to we got to keep moving and keep our eyes fixed on this midterm election because that is uh the most important leverage point we have. And if we win those elections, we get investigatory power and that will be a critical step in holding these people accountable.

Yeah. Okay. We did it in 55 minutes today. I did not think we were going to get there either. We were racing through that.

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It's joinsquadra.com. Uh, and you could sign up. It's on a rolling basis. We're accepting new members and the season will kick off in March. Uh, and we like to time it now because it's right when your New Year's resolutions are getting challenged. Um, uh, to put it lightly. So, uh, check it out. joinsquer.com. Uh, and uh, you'll get to the front of line if you sign up now.

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Yes, sir. Yeah. How's it How's it going? What do you uh, it was cold for New Orleans for a while here. Uh, but not cold for like New York. I mean, it was like 32 degrees like which is very cold for New Orleans. But, you know, it's like every day is a parade. Like I'm I'm in I'm in a neighborhood that is like very much in the middle of things and it's my second year in a row doing Marty GR here because I was here doing reporting last year [snorts] and uh I love this city. I mean it's people love to talk. Uh everybody we talks here all the time. They want to know everything. It is one of the most distinct cultural cities in America.

probably the most like the amount of ritual, routine, traditions, pride. Uh everything is so thick here. I love this city. I think it's just going to always be a central part of my life. I wouldn't be surprised if I moved here one day. Um

because you're you're not there for work right now. You just I'm doing a bit of work.

Yeah, I'm doing a bit. I'm I'm doing some revisiting of the reporting I did last year, but I have way more time than I did last year. Last year I was interviewing like a hundred people over the course of two months. So I was pretty packed. Whereas now

I have way more time to experience the city. I wanted to come back cuz I had a really good feeling about say I've been here so many times but I had such a good experience last year but I felt like I didn't really get to dig in deep and now I'm digging deep and I'm it's on my short list of places other than New York I could see myself living in in the United States. Um, I love this place and I know people in New Orleans don't feel this way, but if you're coming from other cities, it is quite affordable. Um, which is rare for a city of this kind of cultural significance. So,

how are you guys doing out there? Did you guys cancel school? Uh, school was canceled for a day last week, I think, and now it's it's warming up again here. It's going to be like in the 50s tomorrow and then a little bit actually even in the 60s this weekend. Um Diana and I got away this past weekend to um uh Mexico for

Oh, you were somewhere tropical. I was wondering if that was just rehashed uh Hawaii. Uh you guys are just living it up now.

I tell you what, man. I mean, I'm about to, you know, usually you're the one who says things on here that are like not at all relatable. Um so I'll I'll take my my turn at it. um which is that uh you know I don't know how much of the audience is really familiar with Diana although her following is in on some platforms much larger than mine now so I guess maybe increasingly so um but you know as you know my wife is a author and profession and now professional speaker she does a lot of she travels and does a lot of gigs even internationally now and I have been telling her lately like this is a glitch in the game that she has discover she's worked really hard and is incredible and at this and she's like in the top 1% you know internationally of like paid professional speakers. She speaks on business innovation. Um, and lately like this how it's affected me in addition to the fact that obviously it's

great for our uh family and our household uh in terms of she she earns well out of it is that um sometimes these are in really incredible places and like in this last example they wanted her to come out and and give a speech and she

what part of Mexico was it? It's this resort that's like an hour like 45 minutes west of the Port of Aarda airport. So basically Porta and

and so they wanted to come out and give a speech and she was like okay I'll do it uh and instead of my full fee how about you just give us my husband comes with me and and we instead of me just coming in for the night and then giving a speech in the morning like can you can we have a room at at the hotel that you're booking and we get like three nights and we're just there to vacation for a couple days beforehand and you know we have kids that are 12 and five we don't we don't get a lot of vac. We don't get a lot of time. It's just the two of us. [snorts] And uh it was just amazing. Like I I'm a pretty busy person and so is she. And so just we sat on a beach or worked out or hung out or watched movies or read books for two straight days.

It was surreal watching your your YouTube. I felt like I was on the other side of what

watching it. I was like, "Wait a minute." I was like, "What's going on here?" And it's amazing. And and it's like it's just feels like I'm so grateful.

Yeah. I just I I was really we both were really over it was like an opportunity to stop and take stock uh of just how not just because she has this great career she's developed that allows us to do things like that. But also just like you know we talked about how great our kids are and how great you know everything is going for both of us and you know we're 44 years old. You know there's going to be challenges in the future and that kind of thing. It was just like a really nice weekend with this person who, you know, has been my best friend since I was 17 to, you know, stop and be like, man, how incredibly blessed are. It was just a really great couple of days. So,

well, that's awesome. It was a good place to end after this parade of horrors that has been this episode today.

Absolutely. Um, absolutely. Well, uh, thank you uh to everybody for listening. You can find Ravi everywhere at Ravi Gupta. You can find me everywhere at Jason Cander. Please leave a five-star review. Thank you to the Midas Mighty. And remember, we all have a platform. Make sure to use yours today.

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