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LIVE: Trump SPIRALS in Public as MIDTERM DISASTER LOOMS

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "LIVE: Trump SPIRALS in Public as MIDTERM DISASTER LOOMS", an episode of MeidasTouch published February 11, 2026 (1 h 2 min, about 11,164 words). It mentions 19 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Majority 54, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein Files Transparency Act, Attorney General Pam Bondi.

What this episode is about

The discussion focuses on recent developments involving Trump and the Republican Party, highlighting Pam Bondi's contentious testimony before Congress and alarming job loss statistics that exceed official claims from the Trump administration. Additionally, the conversation touches on Trump's past knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein, the GOP's unusual inquiries into cultural topics, and Trump's strained relations with Canada, all set against the backdrop of an impending midterm electoral challenge for Republicans.

Key takeaways

  • Pam Bondi's testimony: the louder you shout, the less accountable you feel—Trump's seminar on Congressional combat.
  • Epstein's longtime presence was an open secret; Trump's claims of ignorance sound suspiciously selective.
  • Job losses outnumber government claims—like a magician's trick: now you see jobs, now you don’t!
  • Republicans investigating Bad Bunny lyrics reveals: Google Translate is the unsung hero of bipartisan comprehension issues.
  • Trump's Canada feud is like a sibling rivalry—petty disputes overshadowing more pressing national concerns.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Congress, Donald Trump
  2. – 20:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Congress, Kosh Patel
  3. – 30:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Congress, Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump
  4. – 40:00: Shopify, Gordy How Bridge, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Matthew Maroon
  5. – 50:00: Qualia Magnesium Plus, Congress, Bad Bunny
  6. – 1:00:00: Congress

Notable quotes from "LIVE: Trump SPIRALS in Public as MIDTERM DISASTER LOOMS"

  • Trump administration is cop to. Ravi will explain this to me and I guess to you since you're listening. And Trump had no idea Epstein was a bad guy until a few years ago except…
    about Donald Trump · at
  • I love at the end when she's I'm losing. just go to the backup weapons. Trump derangement syndrome failed politician like to a Republican.
    about MAGA · at
  • What point did the FBI and the DOJ decide that Lex Westerner was not a co-conspirator? Because our Epstein Files Transparency Act requires you, please put it back on the…
    about Epstein Files Transparency Act · at
  • What the president has said all along has always remained true. And the release of more than three million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous, disgusting…
    about Jeffrey Epstein · at
  • On May 1st, 2011, 6 years after, Lutnik said he wasn't in contact with Epstein anymore, Le Let was scheduled to have drinks with Epstein and seemed to have his phone, left his phone, behind in Epstein's house. he says,.
    about Howard Lutnick · at
  • So Congress passed a law saying, You got to show us everything. And the Justice Department set up a room where you could walk in there like it's 1996 and you're going to do research on.
    about Congress · at
  • Awardwinning 247 customer support. It's time to turn those whatifs into with Shopify today. Sign up for your $1 per month trial today at shopify.com/majority.
    about Shopify · at
  • Bridge from opening. It's called the Gordy How Bridge that would connect Canada to the United States. Canada footed the entire bill for this bridge, Jason. and Trump had…
    about Gordy How Bridge · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure · 10 mentions · first at
    Central to discussion of DOJ/Congress testimony, Epstein-related allegations, and administration actions (jobs numbers, Canada bridge, racist post).
  • Jeffrey Epstein — Person · Primary referenced subject of investigation/scandal · 26 mentions · first at
    Used as the focal point for arguments about transparency, redactions, accountability, and alleged ties to public figures discussed in the hearing.
  • Attorney General Pam Bondi — Person · Key government witness in episode narrative · 4 mentions · first at
    Discussed as testifying combatively before Congress about Epstein-file redactions and DOJ handling; sparring with both Republicans and Democrats.
    Okay. I don't know what that had to do with that, but it was just really poor political instincts by Bondi. If when you're going to pull out the whole did you ask Garland this. I wouldn't do it with Massie, the guy who we all.
  • Howard Lutnick — Person · Referenced administration official under scrutiny · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed for allegedly inconsistent statements about contact with Epstein; also tied to the Canada bridge story via a meeting with Matthew Moroun.
  • Ravi — Person · Co-host / explainer · 2 mentions · first at
    Introduced as the person who will explain the jobs revision story and participates throughout the political analysis.
    Exactly forthcoming. Separately, we lost a million more jobs last year than the Trump administration is cop to. Ravi will explain this to me and I guess to you since you're…
  • Leslie Wexner — Person · Referenced alleged co-conspirator name in document-redaction dispute · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a name allegedly obscured/redacted in FBI/DOJ documents, becoming a flashpoint in questioning Bondi about accountability and transparency.
    Within 40 minutes, you asked me a question. Within 40 minutes, Wexner's name was added back. been 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed.
  • Congressman Ted Lou — Person · Congressional questioner / critic in hearing clip · 2 mentions · first at
    Appears in a heated exchange with Bondi, pressing on alleged evidence in Epstein files and accusing her of lying under oath.
    This is her. So, that was her with Massie, who's obviously a Republican. this is her with Ted Lou, Democrat, former Prince Andrew. Donald Trump attended various parties with…
  • Kosh Patel — Person · Referenced Trump-aligned official used as example of combative testimony strategy · 2 mentions · first at
    Cited as an example of planning to pick fights during congressional testimony; later grouped with Bondi/Trump in handling Epstein-file explanations.
    The world through a prism of it is a conspiracy. And now these sort of evasive explanations by Bondi and Patel and Trump and everybody else on the Epstein files is just them…
  • Matthew Maroon — Person · Referenced billionaire tied to bridge controversy · 1 mention · first at
    Identified as an owner of a competing bridge who met with Lutnick shortly before Trump posted about blocking the Canada-funded bridge.
    Posted on Truth Social, a billionaire by the name of Matthew Maroon, he's who is an owner of the another bridge connecting Michigan and Canada had met with Howard Lutnik, at the White House. this is essentially a competitor to this bridge.
  • Bad Bunny — Person · Referenced cultural figure in political controversy · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in a segment about Republicans calling for an investigation into lyrics/performance, used to illustrate culture-war politics.
    Have time, we'll get into Republican members of Congress wanting an investigation into Bad Bunny's lyrics during the halftime show because they've apparently never heard of…

Companies & orgs

  • Majority 54 — Company · Host · 1 mention · first at
    The podcast hosting the discussion.
    Translate and this weird fight over a bridge Trump has suddenly decided to pick with Canada. Welcome back to the podcast. For the 54% of Americans who regularly vote for…
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — Company · Referenced expert · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of job report revisions.
    The numbers that happened over the past year. And if you remember the BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revises the numbers every year. And essentially what happens is they…

Concepts & topics

  • Epstein Files Transparency Act — Concept · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as legislation requiring the release of internal decisions about prosecuting individuals related to the Epstein case.
  • MAGA — Concept · Key argument · 2 mentions · first at
    Referenced in the context of political strategy and behavior.

Places & events

  • Gordy How Bridge — Place · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as a bridge connecting Canada to the United States, with political implications.
  • Congress — Place · Setting · 11 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as the location where Pam Bondi testified.

Sponsors

  • Shopify — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
    Promoted as a commerce platform for starting and managing businesses.
  • Cook Unity — Product · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
    Promoted as a meal delivery service offering chef-crafted meals.
    Cook Unity makes eating well effortless and rewarding. delivering chef crafted meals straight to your door so you save time on planning and cooking while enjoying exceptional quality and value.
  • Qualia Magnesium Plus — Product · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
    Promoted as a magnesium supplement with multiple health benefits.
    Health, bone health, mood, and over 300 other functions in the body. That's why Qualia Magnesium Plus is the only product to combine 10 bioavailable forms of magnesium with…

Full transcript with timestamps

Breaking news on two separate fronts. Pam Bondi just testified in front of Congress. She was combative and not exactly forthcoming. Separately, we lost a million more jobs last year than the Trump administration is cop to. Ravi will explain this to me and I guess to you since you're listening. And Trump had no idea Epstein was a bad guy until a few years ago except for that time a sheriff in Florida was investigating Epstein 20 years ago and Trump told him, "Yeah, everybody knows about that." We'll explain how the Republicans are arguing this thing that they say never happened totally exonerates Trump. If we have time, we'll get into Republican members of Congress wanting an investigation into Bad Bunny's lyrics during the halftime show because they've apparently never heard of Google Translate and this weird fight over a bridge Trump has suddenly decided to pick with Canada. Welcome back to the

podcast. For the 54% of Americans who regularly vote for progress and want to convince friends, their friends and family members to join our majority. This is majority 54. Well, Jason, our attorney general uh is currently testifying in front of Congress and it is uh every bit as combative uh and nasty as you'd imagine. Um she has been sparring with uh you know both some Republicans like Massie and basically every Democrat. Um, let's start with Massie. Uh, and let's play this first clip. Maybe not. Okay. Uh, all right. Well, Bondie and Massie have been, you know, like they are Hold on, Jeremy. From the hearing.

From the hearing. Yes. Jeremy from the hearing. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, those those are the ones that aren't ready. Okay. So, the what this goes back to Ravi while he figures it out is that uh it seems to be the uh emmo like the standard operating procedure of um if you're a Trump cabinet member and you're going in front of uh Congress and you're testifying, you could pretty much like it's hard for you to mess up in Trump's eyes if you get in a screaming fight with a Democratic uh representative or senator. Um, we remember when Cash Patel, I believe it was Cash Patel, went in front of Congress and somebody got that picture of his notepad, what he'd written on his notes to himself prior to the testimony. It was one of them was pick good fight with Swallwell or something like that. Like that was his plan going in. And so, so a lot of what we're seeing and we'll see it here in this Massie clip that we're about to

load, we're about to hear, is like just, you know, if you get in trouble, just be louder, which is kind of the MAGA thing. So here you go.

Who's responsible? Are you able to track who in your organization made this massive failure and released the victim's names? Are you able to track who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document? Do you have that kind of accountability? I believe Wexner's name was listed more than 4,000 times about I had

Yeah, I already told you that. This is where he's listed as a co. Finish my answer. Come on. Let me finish my answer. We corrected that within 40 minutes. He was already You're acting like everybody's trying to cover up Wexner's name.

Reclaiming Reclaiming my time. I'm gonna answer this question. Reclaiming my time. He was Mr. Chairman. This is how this works.

Can I have my time? He was He was Mr. Chairman, the gentle lady can can give her answer. The time belongs to the gentleman from

I'm reclaiming my time. Can I give my answer? So I'm going to put the language of the bill up on the screen.

Chairman on that political joke and I need to give my answer on that. We'll let the we'll let the attorney general respond and then the gentleman can move to question.

Within 40 minutes, you asked me a question. Within 40 minutes, Wexner's name was added back. been 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed.

Red hand. There was one redaction where he's listed as a coke and we invited you in.

We This guy has Trump derangement syndrome. He needs to get You're a failed politician.

Chairman, please restore his time and remind the witness of the rules here. There is no credible information.

I love I love at the end when she's like, I'm losing. just go to the backup weapons. Trump derangement syndrome failed politician like

to a Republican. Yeah. Channeling a truth social uh you know post from the president basically.

Yeah. And the background on these redactions is they uh you know I think it's Roana and Massie have taken the lead on this. They they have been talking about issues with redactions. We'll get to Connor in a bit, but they read on the floor uh of the house a couple names that were um redacted in the initial release that we got. Um including a high level official uh in the UAE, which is relevant to our conversation last week because uh they, you know, this is this said government that um paid a half a billion dollars into Trump's uh company uh just before they got favorable treatment on these chips that they've been trying to get shipped their way. It looks like they might have also gotten favorable treatment um in this Epstein release.

Now, that could just be a coincidence. Um but it certainly raises some questions.

That's that's Massy's point, right? Is she's like, "Hey, look, you pointed out that we, you know, made a totally defensible, negligent error that was not at all on purpose and we within 40 minutes." And he's like, "Let me get this straight. You want me to believe that that this was just an accident that you left out a very highlevel person in a foreign government? Like obviously he's right that they they got caught. And so they're like, "Well, we have nothing we can say."

Well, they kept going at it. Um here's here's more from these two. Did you ask Merritt Garland that the last four years? Did you talk about Epstein?

I am reclaiming my time. I'm glad you're asking about Merrick Garland. You don't get a reclaim because this is bigger than Watergate when I don't answer a question.

This goes over four administrations. You don't have to go back to Biden. Let's go back to Obama. Let's go back to George Bush. This cover up spans decades and you are responsible for this portion of it.

Now, I want to know at what point at what point did the FBI and the DOJ decide that Lex Westerner was not a co-conspirator? Because our Epstein Files Transparency Act requires you, please put it back on the screen. He's to release the internal decision about whether to prosecute him or not. And it's not in the files and it's not in the files for any of these other men.

I'm of the gentleman has May she answer and he's a hypocrite because he voted against the ban that we were talking about on deep fake AI porn. Only two people voted against it and you were one of them. Hypocrite.

Okay. I don't know what that had to do with that, but uh it was just really poor political instincts by Bondi. If when you're going to pull out the whole did you ask Garland this. I wouldn't do it with Massie, the guy who we all thought was trying to make this Biden's political problem during the Biden administration when it turns out to give the dude credit he actually just cares about this.

Yeah. I I and honestly I don't I don't know what my I I don't remember Massie from the Biden years because he was kind of a standard anti-Biden Republican. So it's, you know, he he's kind of taken a turn,

but he was but he was very much a Epstein guy. Like he was very much not an Epstein, but you know, guy we got to release these files guy,

right? So yeah, it is weird. I mean, it's it's interesting. It's interesting to see her so combative with uh members of her own party. And you got to imagine that if we can narrow the Senate, um obviously we would love to take the Senate, but even if we just narrow it and we win back the House, um there's going to be some interesting dynamics from these people, uh who have voted for her, uh you think about senators, there are a handful of senators who I imagine are not going to appreciate the way that she's talking to them, who are going to have outsized roles, um in uh approving any appointees that she wants, approving US attorneys that she wants, investigating her, approving appropriations. So, I'm not sure this is smart long-term strategy, but uh she has an audience of one. Uh and he's sitting probably watching clips of this on Fox News right now. Uh

this is her. So, that was her with Massie, who's obviously a Republican. Um this is her with Ted Lou, Democrat,

former Prince Andrew. Donald Trump attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein. I want to know were there any underage girls at that party or at any party that Trump attended with Jeffrey Epstein. This is so ridiculous and that they are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that. This has been the most transparent presidency. He's the one that those files reclaim my time. I got your answer. You said there's no evidence as my legislation. This This is like time belongs to the gentleman from California.

Okay. I'm going to put up another document from a witness who called the FBI's National Threat Operation Center because I believe you just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein file.

Don't you ever accuse me of a crime. I believe you just lied under oath and this is all on videotape. You said there's no evidence of a crime. I'm showing you here is

a witness statement who called into the FBI's threat operation center. He drove Donald Trump around in a limo. He overheard Donald Trump said to Jeffrey on his cell phone. He was so angry he was going to stop a limo and hurt Donald Trump. and he met a girl who said she was raped by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. She later had her head blown off and officers at the scene said that could not have been suicide. No one No one at the Department of Justice interviewed this witness. You need to interview this witness immediately.

Epstein should rot in hell. So should the men who patronize this operation. And as we sit here today, there are over 1,000 sex trafficking victims and you have not held a single man accountable. Shame on you. If you had any decency, you would resign right after this hearing concludes.

Gentlemen, has expired. So, everybody's constantly asking when is this Epstein stuff going to result in Trump losing the support of Trump voters? And what I think people need to understand is that it's it's not going to hurt him with it's not going to hurt him with people because they suddenly care so much about this issue, right? The strength of sort of the Trump surge politically was, and we've talked about this before, people who believe in conspiracy theories and people who who their worldview is animated by the idea that the reason that they can't get ahead or the reason that things seem unfair is that there's a conspiracy against them and there are people at the top who are part of that conspiracy. And so the problem for Donald Trump presented by the Epstein files is not even the hideousness of what Epstein did and what Trump was potentially a party to. The problem they have is that their

base at the end of the day understands the world through a prism of it is a conspiracy. And now these these sort of uh evasive explanations by Bondi and Patel and Trump and everybody else on the Epstein files is just them signing up to become part of the world that is screwing them by virtue of conspiracy. And that means that those voters are either going to vote against them or stay home. And that's why Andrew Scholes and that's why Joe Rogan and all these other people are like, "Whoa, this is not cool." Because they were people who understood the world through the prism of they. They are screwing us. They aren't telling us things. And now Trump is part of they.

Well, you know, the as I've said many, many, many times, the prime evidence of this conspiracy is the fact that um Gileain Maxwell was moved to Club Fed. Uh the best possible situation for a federal prisoner and given special treatment and that Trump has refused to rule out pardoning her or granting her clemency. That part of the conspiracy has made has been made all the more baffling this week as uh Maxwell pled the fifth uh under oath uh to Congress and of course that was done privately. Uh I don't know why that's private and the Clintons are going to be public but whatever. Um, so now you have somebody who's obstructing an investigation, uh, refusing to give Congress testimony, but who still continues to enjoy special privileges. Uh, that seems notable. Uh, we also,

it seems conspiratorial is what it seems. Yes. And I think like I think one of the the things that Trump tends to do uh in a lot of these situations like his defenders say this was true of the u the Emirati money is that they'll be like well it's different because he's just being transparent about it which actually he wasn't when it comes to Amiradis because it had to be reported

know now. Yeah. their line as though, oh, he just tells us he's he's he's corrupt and he just he says it and that actually somehow supposed to mean something to us in this situation. Um, you have to push people to be like, okay, are you like, what frame are we using here? Are you saying that uh with Maxwell uh Trump is just being brazenly covering his own ass? Well, then you're acknowledging that he has something really bad to hide. Um, or do you not know? In which case, we're back to the day that you're talking about. this is an amorphous conspiracy.

The whole this is the most transparent administration as a defense to this is a corrupt administration argument is like look I didn't sneak into your house and rob you at night. I burglarized you while you're at work during the day. It's like what difference does it make?

Right. Well, you know, more evidence here on the Trump side of things. Uh we now have learned that um a Palm Beach a former Palm Beach police chief uh you know he allegedly got a call from Trump in 2006 where Trump uh said he uh he um was aware of Epstein's uh you know relations with young women. Uh and he said thank goodness you're stopping him. Everyone has known he's been doing this. Uh, and this was 200 uh 2006. Uh, and Jason, I think like this is doesn't line up with anything we've been told from Trump about uh what he's known about Epstein when he's cut off that relationship. Um, it is an interesting fact because it could be it could be out of context could be used by the Trump people to try to exonerate him. So, I do think this is going to be a fact people are going to be hearing about a lot. So, in 2019, while Epstein was in a Manhattan jail cell, reporters asked Trump if he'd ever had any

suspicions that his friend was molesting young women. He said, "No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven't spoken to him in many, many years." And now we find out that there's this police chief who says, "No, in 2006, he was like, yeah, everybody knows about this." And this was a guy who was investigating it and was actively trying to get the US attorney to bring charges about it and was frustrated that nothing seemed to be happening. So, I don't know. Look, I think if you're a MAGA person, you take this thing that Trump is denying ever happened and you say, as you pointed out, uh, look, he was trying to turn him into law enforcement from the beginning.

And if you're you or me or anybody who's ever observed any of Donald Trump's behavior, you look at this and say, "Yeah, he was like, I don't want to get in trouble. I'm gonna immediately act like I'm on the good side and I'm going to rat this dude out for the stuff that they may have been doing together." So that's certainly what it looks like to me, especially given the fact that he then spent 13 years pretending he had never heard about any of this.

Well, and and let's just say let's just be clear here. This just tells us he knew about it in 2006. It doesn't tell us he he first knew about it in 2006,

right? We have other evidence, you know, Trump on tape talking about to your point in 2006 what he allegedly said is everybody knows about this and it's been going on a long time.

Well, and we have other things from Trump, the birthday note, we have him on tape saying he likes them young. So, Lord knows what else is in the files they haven't shared with us. So, so we have that information. Now, the Trump administration faced with a bit of a dilemma here. They can just own the call and try to use it to their advantage or they can discredit the call. Um, it seems like they're trying to do both. Uh, let's go to the uh clip of the press secretary.

My two questions are did that conversation with the Palm Police Palm Beach Police Chief happen? [clears throat] What I will say is that the president has always remained consistent and that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mara Lago because frankly Jeffrey Epste was a creep. And unlike many other people who are named in these files, uh, President Trump cut off his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein uh, and was honest and transparent about that for years and years. And so I think what the president has said all along has always remained true. And the release of more than three million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous, disgusting crimes just shows the level of transparency that this president and administration has committed to uh in in bringing u these files to light.

But did he call the chief in Caroline? Did he call the chief? Look, it was a phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006. I don't know the answer to that question. What I'm telling you is that what President Trump has always said is that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mara Lago club because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep. Uh, and that remains true. And this call, if it did happen, corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning. And I'm sure many of you when you read that that alleged FBI report probably thought to yourself, "Wow, this really cracks our narrative that we've been trying to push about this president for many years." So, uh, we're [clears throat] moving on from that.

Okay, so for those keeping score at home, uh here's here's what she's saying. In 2003, Trump kicked Epstein out of Mara Lago for being a creep and being engaged in this kind of creepy behavior. In 2006, he may or may not have known about Epstein's behavior and told a sheriff. And in 2019, when Epste was sitting in jail and Trump was asked, "Did you know about any of this?" His answer was, "No, I had no idea." But the fact that he kicked him out in 2003 for doing this kind of stuff proves that he didn't do this kind of stuff.

I mean, all those obviously a lot of contradictions there. FBI is saying they can't corroborate the call. Um, so you also have the fact that there's a there's a lot of reporting that that that Trump's relationship with Epstein ended in 2007. So a year after this call um over a dispute over land, right? So if that's the version of events that um turns out to be true, then we have a year even after this call, right? And again, I don't even believe that this is when he learned. Again, like he he knew well before this phone call how much of a creep Epste was. Like that much we could be pretty certain about.

All I know is that Trump's version of events doesn't make any sense unless it ends with and I used my time traveling Delorean to do it.

Yeah. Well, you know, somebody else's whose version of events is breaking down is Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, um, who has distanced himself from his one-time neighbor, uh, an acquaintance or friend, uh, Jeffrey Epstein. Um in a podcast interview last year uh he had told the story that um when Lutnik uh and his wife were given a tour of Epstein's home uh Epstein made a lewd joke about owning a massage table and that uh Lutnik said he and his wife quickly left the house uh and decided that they would never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.

Okay, keep that date in mind. 2005. Um so that's what he said. Uh, and then he later said, uh, I was never in the room with him socially for business or even philanthropy. If that guy was there, I wasn't going because he's gross. Right. 2005. Well, now you have the New York Times analysis revealed that Lutnik's name appeared in more than 250 documents in the latest Epstein file release. According to the Times, documents show that uh the two men uh reached out to each other via email and also appear on each other's schedules. And there's a lot of suggestions of inperson meetings.

On May 1st, uh, 2011, 6 years after, uh, Lutnik said he wasn't in contact with Epstein anymore, Le Let was scheduled to have drinks with Epstein and seemed to have his phone, uh, left his phone, um, behind in Epstein's house. Um, he says, and then you have, uh, 2012, uh, it seems like Lutnik went to Epstein's private island. So that's seven years after that. Uh there also even a couple years after that there was uh some kind of nimi thing where they wanted Lutnik wanted to block a museum because god forbid there are people waiting to get into the museum on their sidewalk at Palm Beach. So he was enlisting Epstein's help to join his NIMI campaign. Uh so there's these I don't think Glutton is telling the truth, Jason.

Well, [clears throat] here's what I think is going to happen. If I think Letic's going to call a press conference where he comes out and says, "I did tell the truth. I was never alone with Epstein in a room again. And there was always at least one underage traffic trafficked girl there. [snorts] Uh it's the only way that he's his story holds up. Uh

so Massie has come after him. Uh here's a video of Massie. I know there's a lot of Massie today, but he's doing a lot of work here for the rest of his caucus that doesn't want to engage on this kind of stuff. Um but this is Massie talking about Lutnik.

It solidified my decision. Look, the problem isn't that he went to Epstein Island. That that's not a crime. It's not appropriate, I would say, to take your family to an island where people knew that bad things were happening. Would the the problem is how do you have confidence in the Secretary of Commerce who lied about it just recently? Like that podcast wasn't that long ago. He lied about it recently and then he was forced only when he was sworn in to give a truthful answer. And I think it's a matter of confidence in the people who are leading this country and I don't have confidence in somebody who will lie like that.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, you know, Congressman Massie has said a lot of stuff that I really disagree with. He said stuff about abortion that I have a huge problem with. He said stuff about u you know at one point I think he said stuff about Afghan refugees that I really have a problem with. But from the jacket that he wears to the way he wears his beard to the way he conducts himself politically. We could use more people who don't give a [ __ ] in sorry for I know there are listeners who try and listen to the show with their kids in the car and I apologize but I don't know another way to explain this sort of uh approach to serving in Congress and I got to say I we could use more of it on both sides of the aisle.

people who are just calling balls and strikes and when they disagree with you, you have a confidence that it comes from a genuine ideological disagreement. when I was in the state legislature and I was dealing with people on the other side of the aisle when they were, you know, people who genuinely came from like super conservative religious backgrounds and really disagreed with me about certain issues because of that. I could work with those people on things like campaign reform and economic issues because we knew like we just don't agree on that thing and it and there wasn't this other thing in the room of their political future that they had to you know square a circle to figure out how to do and they were just they were good to work with and Massiey's that type where like you know where you and he are never going to agree so you engage in a good faith effort to find the areas where you can agree and make things

better which is how you know the entire system of government that we live under was actually built to work and it just needs more people like that.

Yeah. Yeah, and Representative Comr was asked about uh what he's going to do about Letic it, but he's like, "We got more important hearings that take precedence right now." And he's talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton, you know, who have not served in government for some time. Uh but we're going to somehow let the, you know, the current commerce secretary off here. Um,

yes. We have to get to the bottom of whether these former public officials told the truth about their relationship with

Hillary who's not even in the files by the way. Right. And that's why we don't have time to find out whether the current secretary whether the current member of the cabinet was he treasury whether the current secretary of treasury lied about his relationship with Epstein.

Right. Makes sense, right? Well, uh, one more thing on this front. Representative Ro Kana and Massie, they both have made the same point, but I was going to give Massie a break for the rest of this pod. Um Kana um has called into question uh whether Congress, who has access to more stuff than we do, um they've been using uh I think four computers that the Department of Justice has given them access to um you know because of the law that they passed, the Transparency Act. Uh he and Massie are both saying that they're receiving redacted copies still even though uh requires them to receive unredacted copies. Let's go to this clip.

There are two different redactions that were going on. There's the original FBI redaction in March where Donald Trump's ordered the FBI to say get get this stuff cleaned up. And they were supposed to unscrub that based on our law. We knew that when we were drafting the law. We said we want those FBI files. you can't be hiding those files. They didn't do that and they just did a second round of redactions at the Justice Department. And what they're showing members now is the unredacted version of the Justice Department's redactions, not the original redactions. And so they're in blatant violation of the law.

So Congress passed a law saying, "You got to show us everything." And the Justice Department set up a room where you could walk in there like it's 1996 and you're going to do research on microfish and just like scrolling through old newspaper articles. I mean, it sounds like that's basically how they're allowing members of Congress to see it.

Yeah. And and they're obviously not going out of their way to um give them uh too much time to go through a gazillion documents. Like they're they're making it as difficult as they possibly can. They're they're examining the Epstein files in the exact same way that I put together a debate case during my fifth hour debate class as a freshman in high school in the '9s. Like they're under a time limit and they have access to physical files that are not searchable for a certain period of time in a certain room.

Well, we're going to take a break. Uh when we come back, we're going to talk about some shenanigans when uh with the jobs numbers. uh a bridge to Canada that might be blocked. Um and then uh bunch of stories involving culture like our Super Bowl uh and some unfortunate memes that the president shared about uh another former president when we get back. Cook Unity makes eating well effortless and rewarding. delivering chef crafted meals straight to your door so you save time on planning and cooking while enjoying exceptional quality and value in every bite. Explore Cook Unity's February menus and discover how chefs are redefining seasonal eating through food that nourishes, fuels, and inspires. My personal favorite has been the truffled fetachccini Alfredo with grilled chicken and parmesan cheese by Chef Mina Shrenivas. Uh, and you could seriously taste the freshness of those ingredients and I was left in awe. You

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file that actually say who did they actually employ? Uh so they verify what the surveys were saying and so that's why they revised the numbers. If you remember, that's why Trump fired the last Bureau of Labor Statistics person. He didn't like the idea of revisions. So, uh, but needless to say, the revisions tell us a lot more than the initial numbers. And, uh, tucked into this report was news that the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised away 911,000 jobs from the 12-month period ending in March 2025. Uh, so what was reported as about 200,000 jobs a month was actually 120,000 jobs a month. Uh and so the full year uh 2025 job uh growth was revised from 584,000 down to 185,000. Uh and so essentially um the market is in a much more precarious place than we even thought before. Um which is why the market then started going down when that new information came out. It's now been going down and up. So who knows by the

time people are listening to this what it's done. Um, and this is just, you know, I think things can cut in a number of different directions, but I think this puts added pressure on the numbers we get tomorrow. Um, we're going to get the CPI inflation numbers. Um, and it's uh it's a complicated economic picture, no doubt. So close to a million jobs that the Trump administration has been claiming existed all year or all the past year uh over you know progressively over time weren't really there which was the heart of their argument for why things aren't as bad as they seem and you know stop talking about affordability and so

yeah people yeah and I want to I don't want to I want to be careful because this is a this is an agency that probably has some semblance of it's being run by civil servants who like

because remember Trump may Trump was he was alleging that this revision process is nefarious. So I don't want to go and say okay now this the same thing that the the actual revisions are bad like play into their narrative.

I think the the the fact of revisions is natural until we have any reason to think that there's politics being played with the revisions. So, um, I'll I'll stipulate to that, but like you said, the reality of what we have learned, no matter the intent behind it, is that what was already a tough economy for Trump, where the polling numbers and how everybody else was feeling about it and the topline numbers were not good to begin with is about a million jobs less good than the even bad news that we got before. Well, what this says to me is that all of the people who have been expressing the idea in polls and other surveys that they think the economy is going poorly and the Trump administration has been saying, "No, look at these numbers." It turns out the people experiencing the economy had the right read.

Yep. Uh okay. Well, let's talk about this Canadian bridge. So, um I this is baffling in a lot of ways, but so is a lot that Trump does. But so he he posts uh to Truth Social a couple days ago uh that he uh was going to block this bridge from opening. It's called the Gordy How Bridge um that would connect Canada to the United States. Canada footed the entire bill for this bridge, Jason. Um and Trump had previously taken credit for it in his last administration because it's been going on for a while. And then he made this puzzling about face. Um, and it turns out, uh, this is from reporting for the New York Times, uh, that, uh, one reason, Jason, why we might have gotten this about face is that on Monday, hours before Trump, uh, posted on Truth Social, uh, a billionaire by the name of Matthew Maroon, uh, he's who is an owner of the another bridge connecting Michigan and Canada had met with Howard Lutnik, uh,

at the White House. Um, this is essentially a competitor to this bridge. Um, and uh, I suspect there might be some campaign donations or other investments going on here uh, andor just a very impressionable Trump um, that could be at work here uh, to undo a decade plus of work to get this bridge going. Now, who knows whether Trump follows through, but

Robbie, it's okay because any gra any grift here and graft and corruption that's going on with this bridge is being done in a very transparent way and and so it's the most transparently corrupt administration in history and so everything is fine. Also, uh I love that we're introducing some new characters here. We've had Howard Lutnik and now we got to bring in this aptly named evil billionaire Maroon.

It reminds me of RK Maroon. You remember RK Maroon from Jessica Rabbit from the the Who Frame Roger Rabbit? It tells you a lot about my psyche that I call it Jessica Rabbit. It's how that's the impression she made on me [clears throat] as a kid.

I think of her as the star. You got to be pretty uh you got to be some kind of weird evil billionaire to even own a bridge, first of all. I mean, but on top of that, uh, we also have this new character who could we come up with a like, I don't know, a less obvious name for a Canadian paid bridge than the Gordy How Bridge, but whatever. Um, yeah, I mean, Canada paid for the bridge, unlike Mexico and the wall. And Trump suddenly woke up uh talking about a bridge that I promise you he didn't really wasn't thinking about the day before.

As absurd as this is, it is is more evidence that nobody can trust anything that this country does anymore. And it's a it's it's absolutely it's going to be so destructive long term because the damage will live well beyond Trump even if we get sound governance after this if we're lucky enough to get the most responsible government after this. They will be sitting across from Carney. they'll be sitting across from Starmer or whoever else is is across the pond and the you know Carney or whoever is going to sincerely look and be like you know you know govern you know President AOC President Nuome President Mayor Pete whatever um I hear you I think you're very sincere uh but I don't know what's going to come in three years when another lunatic is going to come rip this this project up because the last time I paid for the entire thing and you still uh cut my legs out from under me.

Meanwhile, cut to Howard Lutnik talking about how he's never been alone with that bridge.

Yeah. Ever. He's a busy guy. It's funny. There's just like a couple of people that are really busy this week. Massie Lutnik, you know. Um well, let's let's take one more break, Jason. When we come back, we're gonna talk about the Super Bowl. We're gonna talk about Trump's um even, you know, racist even by Trump's standards uh post. uh and then we'll talk about uh some dynamics heading into this next election cycle when we come back. Look, magnesium is something most of us lack. And if you're taking the drugstore variant, you're still not getting the full picture. And industrial farming, chronic stress, and everyday aging makes it all worse. Almost every supplement uses one form of magnesium, but magnesium comes in many forms, and each form helps your health in a different way. That's exactly why you need to try Qualia Magnesium Plus. Uh most people know that magnesium is critical for sleep, but some forms help muscle uh

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like a like like if if somebody with 17 consonants and numbers in their handle on Twitter put this in a reply to you, you would not even bother to take the time to block them because you'd be like, "That's not a real person." Yeah. And and this gets to, you know, we were told before this election that, you know, it's it's Trump derangement syndrome to call him a fascist, to call him a racist or whatever. And we just get evidence one piece after another that he is all of those things. Like he is all the things that uh the most leftest of the leftists accused him of being. And every day he finds unique ways to remind us of just whatever is there is left out there, he's leaning right into it. the the the the posting of the racist uh video had everything that a Trump scandal is supposed to have, right? It had the it had the it had Trump being super duper racist. It had the possibility that because this

was at the end of the video that Trump actually didn't see it but can't admit that and so posted it not realizing what was at the end of the video. That's possible. I mean, it wouldn't make him not racist, but it would mean in this case he might not have actually seen it, but doesn't want to admit that he doesn't look at that he didn't, you know, read that far into it. And also that he has no attention span. And then on top of that, it had the traditional Trump evasive I'm never responsible for anything thing where he won't apologize.

He will blame it on a staffer, but he will not tell you that there's a staffer being fired because there is no staffer. And if there was, that sort of racism is actually totally acceptable in the Trump administration. So, it had everything.

Well, he he he apparently complained also about the Bad Bunny performance at the Super Bowl. Uh certainly there were right-wing people complaining non-stop about it. Um we have uh you know, Congressman Randy Fine, who tweeted, uh I just sent a letter to Brendan Carr, FCC, so the chairman of the FCC calling for a full and immediate investigation into the Bad Bunny halftime show. In America, our laws are not suggestions, and no matter what foreign language you speak, you must comply. What law is he talking about that would be violated here?

I'm pretty sure that the point of uh what Randy Fine is doing here is for us to learn about the existence of a member of Congress named Randy Fine. And and fine work, Randy. Uh you did it.

I didn't see the per I've seen clips of the performance. You know, I as a Bills fan, it's like Jews on Christmas. Like when when the Super Bowl happens, we we have our own ritual around um kicking ourselves out of the conversation.

You go to a Chinese restaurant and talk about family. Yeah. My dad was in town in in uh New Orleans and he was in town all day. Uh I picked the exact time of the Super Bowl to meet him. Uh but I had one eye on the score because you and I are united in this. I imagine the most important thing was the outcome that we had, which was that the New England Patriots lost.

Absolutely. I think all but one section of the country can agree with me on that. Uh

you, me, and Bill Bich apparently all agree. Yes. Well, okay. I don't want to tread on some controversial topics. You and I have on a different sports pod uh talked about the rather puzzling uh relationship that he's in. One thing I do appreciate from uh said young lady is this t-shirt she wore. uh somewhere in public uh at some event uh this week.

I think it was at the Super Bowl, dude. Was it really? I I think it might have been. I don't know.

Wherever it was, she wore a a shirt. This is really taking us out of this, but I just appreciate it. is she wore a shirt of the spa in quotes that the owner of the Patriots attended when he was busted in a prostitution ring, which is, you know,

that is that that people can have their opinions about that relationship, but good for her for calling out Robert Craft, who also seemed to be behind sinking Bellich Hall of Fame.

I looked it up. It was at the UNCC Duke basketball game. There you go. But great. Good for her.

I mean, it was it was pretty expert trolling. I mean, while you're standing next to Bill Bich. So,

yeah, I was reminded this year that in the end, I hate the Patriots more than any other sports team uh in America. And I hate them so much that I now defend a former Patriots who are at odds with the Patriots. So,

uh I I love But enemy of your enemy is your friend. So, now I I like Bellich because he doesn't like uh the owner of the Patriots. It's convoluted, but this is where I am right now.

Um, is the he's he's the what's the mustache guy? What's his name? Who got indicted? Uh, the national security adviser.

Oh, Bolton. He's our Bolton. Bellich is the is the Bolton of football for us. [clears throat]

He's our John Bolton. Well uh not so good news, Jason. Democrats um have about a hundred million dollar cash disadvantage uh in the committees. Um there was this reporting from Teddy Schlifer uh looking at the RNC. So that's just the hundred million DNC versus RNC. And then if you look at the DRIP and the DSC, you can add more to that. Um essentially the Republicans have done two things. One is they have intimidated uh business leaders away from de uh donating to Democrats because you know they've been leveraging uh every facet of the government to punish anybody who doesn't align with their politics. And two is um they've been sucking up to tech companies, AI, crypto, and shoveling in tons of cash into their coffers uh because of those relationships. And so that's not a good picture as we head towards the midterm elections. Um, on the plus side, some of our candidates are doing really well in

their individual campaigns, but this is not good. I mean, there's no way to spend it. It's not a good dynamic.

It's not good. It's also not unexpected. [clears throat] There's basically three kinds of donors. You know this, the listeners may not. There's uh, you know, friends and family type donors, people who have a personal connection to something that doesn't apply quite as much when you talk about these committees, but there are two others that definitely do. Those are ideological donors and access donors. And when you are the party out of power, you simply get less support from access donors. Those are the donors who give money because they want to be able to pick up the phone and call whoever they want to, you know, they need to call. Uh and when you're when you don't have any branch of government, you're going to get less of those dollars. However, as we get closer to the election and uh it looks more and more like Democrats are going to take at least the House and possibly be in a real position in the

Senate, if not, you know, maybe take it. Uh you're going to see more of those access donors. This is cynical and sad, but this is how it works. Are going to hedge their bets and start to give to both sides. Uh and then I think you're going to see an uptick in the ideological donors as well as we get closer. So, I don't know if it'll totally close, but I all I know is I'd rather be us than them with regard to the election right now.

Yeah. And we I was in the past few weeks, I don't think it was in this past week, it might have been the week before, um litigation in New York might have unlocked my home district in Staten Island. Um because of uh a case challenging the racial makeup of that district. Now, there's all kinds of things that could happen, but uh there's at least a possibility that Malle Takus' district, the one that Max Rose used to hold, could uh tip back into a swing district or even a lean blue. Uh so that [clears throat] would be great. Uh and that goes that's outside of the process in New York, which had to take two cycles because of the constitution in New York. It would it would require a redist. So, we'll see what happens there. Um couple other quick things here. Um, the feds failed to get an indictment from a grand jury against Senator Kelly, Slack, etc. because of this case that the Justice Department

was bringing um against or heth was at the the the forefront of but the Justice Department bring uh because uh the Democratic lawmakers uh told people within the national security apparatus that they don't have to follow an illegal order. Uh they failed to get an indictment. I thought there was this helpful tweet from Aaron Blake. said that um in fiscal year uh 2013, federal grand juries rejected indictments in just five times out of 165,000 cases. Are you saying like just in a typical year? That's the kind of how rare it is. Five out of 165,000.

Leave this leave this up, Jeremy, because So to read the rest of it, grand juries have now rejected Trump administration indictments for one of the three Comey charges. the sandwich guy, if people remember that. Several other protesters, Leticia James, Leticia James again, and six congressional Democrats.

Yeah. So, not everybody, I think, knows what a grand jury is. So, let's I think it's important for folks to understand this is not a jury that is deciding guilt or innocence. This is a group of people who are impanled usually for a period for as long as 18 months. They're just called in occasionally. And the prosecutor walks in and the defense attorneys are not there. And the prosecutor walks in, there's no rules of evidence. There's no judge. There's nobody sitting there saying, "Hey, you got to lay foundation for this before you do this testimony."

They just sit in a room and they bring in somebody and they're like, "Hey, tell them everything you told me." And they can do hearsay. They can speculate. And at the end of that, the grand jury's like, "Yeah, the prosecutor, from what the prosecutor told us, from the prosecutor's point of view, it sounds like there's a chance that there was a crime here, so we're going to go ahead and say, "Yeah, it's an indictment." And they just come in and they do this over and over and over again.

It's a rubber stamp. It's a rubber stamp. And and most people who serve on a grand jury, it is rare you will find someone who served on a grand jury who had the experience of of all the cases that came before them of them saying, "No, you cannot charge. we will not indict. So that's the first thing is that that is the situation in which they are failing to get a grand jury to indict in all of these cases. That's a big deal. Second thing about this is that we have to revisit this video uh that Kelly and the others made because it has been portrayed as them saying that they want members of the military to disobey orders. And even for those who are not portraying it that way, it's being portrayed as them saying to like everybody in the military that if you're given an illegal order, you need to disobey it. And the truth is that Mark Kelly and Alyssa Slotkin and everybody else and Jason Crowe, they're

not talking to the corporal on the corner in, you know, Minneapolis or in, you know, Venezuela or, God forbid, uh, you know, Iran if we go that direction. That's not who they're talking to because by the time an legal order has gotten to them, it has nothing to do probably with this president if it is a direct order for them. They're talking to the couple hundred people who at the beginning of this administration were brought into a room with Heg, Seth, and Trump and told that nobody's going to be allowed to wear beards anymore because th that's the audience. That's the first line of defense. And those are the the generals and in maybe in some cases some colonels and high-ranking billets who are going to be given the order that is illegal and who we really truly expect to disobey that illegal order because they've had the most extensive professional training to know when that order is legal and when that order is

illegal. And the reason that that video is so important is because that is members of Congress saying that when that moment comes, if it comes for you, and you know that if you do this, you are going to be hung out to dry by everybody in the Trump administration, that you're going to be potentially put on trial and that in a minimum your career is going to be over and your professional life and reputation may be ruined. It's important for them to know that there are also powerful people in Congress who will go to bat for them and go crazy and haul people before Congress and say that this is wrong to try to defend them because if they don't know that, it is frankly a lot harder to have the moral courage to do the thing that you know is right. And that's why that video was so important.

Well, um, and it's it's actually a scandal that they even tried to get a Oh, yeah.

This is absolute scandal. So huge intimidation. Well, we don't have time to talk at this at length and actually we'll know a lot more Friday, but we have the deadline coming up Friday over this DHS funding that was spun out of the um the funding fight that we've been talking about over the past few weeks. So we will know more after Friday whether we've crossed the line where um the Department of Homeland Security is operating um without funding. uh and uh unfortunately it seems like ICE and CBP and some of these places are not uh going to be that much impacted because of the one big beautiful bill um and that funding. Uh so it will be things like TSA and FEMA and things like that that will be impacted. And so we'll talk more about this next week if if we uh cross that threshold and what the politics of blame will be in that situation. Um but let's do one for us. Jason, um, you said you had, uh, you had something you wanted to

play for us. Yes. So, people will enjoy this, particularly if you're watching, but if you're listening, you you can still get it because it's still going to be pretty funny. So, uh, my friend Jake Zimmerman uh, from St. Louis County. Uh, so Jake and I served long ago in the state legislature together. He has for the past several years been the elected St. Louis County assessor and he is currently running for county executive in St. Louis County. And I just think people will enjoy this ad. It's a good example of like it's a TV ad that uh is self-deprecating and is very natural and is funny. And to paint the picture for those who are going to listen, there's several pictures of Jake in here when he's talking about himself where you see that Jake is a is not a cool guy. Like he he's a great guy. He's a great guy, but but Jake is um you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't describe Jake as like the most naturally athletic person or

anything like that. He's got uh big glasses and bright red hair and and he's a you know a a a Jewish kid who grew up in St. Louis probably not playing sports but almost certainly doing Model UN and he knows exactly who he is and and that's what I love about this ad. So please enjoy this.

Look, this video won't be fancy. It won't be slick, but it is going to tell the truth. St. Louis County politics turned into a clown car. Steve Stanganger ran on cleaning up government but played video games in his actual executive office. Then was hauled off by the FBI. Game over, Steve. Then came Sam Page, the picture of political dysfunction. Six out of seven council members refused to work with him. While they're all busy fighting, what gets done for you? Nothing. Zippo. Zilch. What the hell, St. Louis County? We're the home of John Goodman, Nelly, and Mary Angelbrite. We used to be a beacon for a thousand miles in every direction.

And now, incompetence and dysfunction at every level. You deserve better. And yeah, that's where I come in. I'm Jake Zimmerman. I'm running for county executive. I'm not flashy. I'm not cool. I don't have much aura. I don't even know what that is. But I am reliable and I do know this. You can count on me to get things done and make every penny of your money count. As your St. Louis County assessor, I stopped casinos from getting massive tax breaks that would have gutted school funding. I busted wealthy developers dodging taxes with fake loopholes. Because when the powerful don't pay their fair share, you get stuck with the bill. And my office, it's been called a model of respectful competence. Now, wouldn't that be refreshing? So, let's get back to basics. Safer communities, quality services, and a government that makes life more affordable. You deserve a county executive focused on you, who

will fight to make your life better. No drama, no headlines, just results. I'm Jake Zimmerman. reassuringly nerdy. That's who I am. And that's why I'm rubbing.

I I love that ad so much, mostly for the way it ends. Reassuringly nerdy. And I wonder if that's not I don't know if we need to go that far, but I wonder if that's not a little bit of how Democrats should end up running in 2018. That's why, you know, that's why I like my boy Jared Polus, you know,

right? That's what I like about Polus. It's like, hey, hey, it's like, hey, uh, you actually remember you want the nerds to do some things and this is the thing you want us to do. I mean, I just love reassuringly nerdy.

He reminds me of Carl Dean who ran for uh for mayor of he was me two time two-term mayor of Nashville. He wasn't like nerdy nerdy, but he was an introvert. Uh, and it was part of his appeal. Like I think people like the fact that he wasn't all in your face.

Um well awesome. Um I don't have much to report new other than uh for folks I mentioned last time that I'm rebooting this fitness community that I've been running. We do it every year. We do a season throughout the year where we form teams and then we compete against each other uh in tracking healthy habits. You've done it, your wife's done it, a lot of our listeners have done it. Um it's called Squadra. Uh and you compete by doing pretty manageable healthy things. lifting weights, doing cardio, walking, um eating right. Uh and we're about to launch our new season, so folks can join now. Um we're accepting people on a rolling basis. So you can go to join squadra.com. join squadra.com. It's for people of all ability levels. So we've had people in their 70s and then we've had people in their prime athletic years in their um early 20s. And so we've even had JD Schultton, uh you know, former

professional athlete. And then we've had, you know, um, grandmothers from Grand Rapids. So, uh, you can join, join squadron.com. Um, we'll accept people on a rolling basis. And, uh, yeah, you can check that out. Um, so that's all I got today.

Fully endorsed. Totally agree. All right. Uh, thanks everybody. You can find Ravi at Ravi Mgupta everywhere. You can find me, Jason Cander everywhere. Please leave a five-star review. Thank you to the Midas Mighty. Remember, we all have a platform. Make sure to use yours today.

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The discussion focuses on recent developments involving Trump and the Republican Party, highlighting Pam Bondi's contentious testimony before Congress and alarming job loss statistics that exceed official claims from the Trump administration. Additionally, the conversation touches on Trump's past knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein, the GOP's unusual inquiries into cultural topics, and Trump's strained…

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19 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Majority 54, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein Files Transparency Act, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Gordy How Bridge. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "LIVE: Trump SPIRALS in Public as MIDTERM DISASTER LOOMS"?

The episode runs 1 h 2 min; the transcript is about 11,164 words in 130 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated February 12, 2026.