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GOP Panics over Trump Deal on Capitol Hill

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican leaders in instant panic mode on Capitol Hill as the terms of Trump’s Iran deal leak to the press. Americans United will keep fighting for freedom...

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has made the worst deal imaginable in their minds with Iran. Everything that they've been telling their constituents and that they've been saying, it seems like Trump did the exact opposite for these Magga Republicans who bought into Donald Trump saying, "It's going to be a total surrender, it's going to be a total surrender. I want to show you just what went down on Capital Hill, and the mightest touch network was

there to capture it all.

So here's what we were hearing out of Capital Hill reporting.

So when the Republican senators and Congress members and leadership was asking the Trump regime, what should we tell our constituents about these deal terms with Iran $300 billion to Iran and investment funds?

Iran still controls the straight of "Hormuz," what do we tell them Donald?

"Well, this is what the Trump regime said. People shouldn't read too much into the language of the memorandum of understanding. It's just a political document. What's more important than the actual document and the text is just the understanding that we have with Iran.

We came up with this language that allows Iran to say what they need to say for their domestic politics, so just ignore the language, ignore the language when we release it. Just don't worry. That's not what we're focused on. It's just our understanding with Iran, all right.

So the mightest touch network, we were on Capital Hill, had to have to all of you for helping us build our Washington, D.C. bureau. So we went up to Senator Wicker, Magra Republican Senator, one of the top leaders for Republicans in the Senate. What do you make of this?

I'm withholding comment than Pablo Monriquez from the mightest touch network goes, "You're

always the guy who speaks on these.

You've always been saying, you know what's going on. Now you don't want to tell us what's happening. That's suspicious. Watch for yourself. Let's play it."

What would you say to critics of the Trump's Iran deal that states that the states of the Republicans were already open? Now this clip's gone mega viral. We caught up with Lindsey Graham. That's right.

Thanks to you, our robust mightest touch network, D.C. core respondents group. They got right there. They were asking Lindsey Graham questions and we're like, "Hey Lindsey, what did you achieve? What's going on? So a bunch of other reporters asking him questions as well." And Lindsey Graham goes, "Here's what we've reached.

Here's what we achieved. We opened up the straight of our moves." And yeah, maybe we'll see if we can do a nuclear deal. But we opened up the straight here. Play this clip.

So we'll get our environment-prost and Trump said today, and send it to Congress. We'll see what comes in there.

Here's what we've achieved.

This thing comes to Friday. We've opened up the straights, which will help the economy in the world. The world will be in a permanent ceasefire, hopefully, and we'll try to get a new

third deal with Iran and hopefully that will work out if it doesn't.

Then we still achieve double-dead of the straights and stopping the money. And then Lindsey kind of revealed his hands, a whole Lindsey. And Lindsey goes, "Okay, okay, okay."

Now Saudi Arabia and Israel, I think they owe Donald Trump a lot at this point.

Why don't you become allies Saudi Arabia and Israel? You want to join the Abraham Accords, Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia is like, "We ain't joining the Abraham Accords, what are you talking about? You're watching for yourself, let's play it." "You know, stopping the money.

I would encourage President Trump to follow through with what he said today. Once we can go shave Iran, even if he follows short on a nuclear deal, turn your attention to trying to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords." Now Saudi Arabia is one of our frankly old President Trump a lot. It would be good for the region, for all for these two countries to make peace and do this

as together in the Arab history of the country. Iran isn't a bonus, no matter what you're successful in nuclear deal or not, their ability to generate enough October 7 is non-existent. Their nuclear program is percent of just the military action. So now is the moment, this is the year, to have a pathway to peace and I will say this.

If it's resolved in Iranian conflict with the world with the rise, we're able to open up a pathway to expand the Abraham Accords. It will be one of the most successful military operations in the American history.

And then a report goes and asks, "So, Lindsey, the $300 billion investment fund that's

being discussed, you like it, Lindsey? Watch his response, let's play it." Now, in terms of the $300 billion investment fund that's being discussed, what are your thoughts on that? And then in, sort of, separate from it.

My thoughts are that rebuilding Iran with the people in charge today have been problematic for me to, you know, the Marshall Plan, which was terminated by the Nazis for no longer charge. So we'll see where this goes, I'm open minded to the deal, I haven't seen the details, but at the end of the day, we're suing the end of Washington for ambitions through the

promising mix-ins today, trying to end their desire to be a water-state sponsor of terrorism through the diplomacy mix-ins to make. But the deal assumes they'll chance their behavior, maybe they will, if they do, fine, if they don't. I don't think we lost a lot as long as we don't overly reward them.

So, to get this investment fund, I think they have to find them and we change who they

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involved, Americans united supporting everyone's right to live as they choose. So long as they don't harm others. That's AU.org/mitis. Then we caught up with Maga Republican Senator Morano from Ohio.

Senator Morano, there's $300 billion that's being given to Iran.

You like that? Get doesn't matter. He goes. $300 billion. $500 billion.

It doesn't matter what money we give them as long as it's not being directly paid by the United States taxpayer, he goes, I just don't care. That's where they went from regime change, total surrender, only capitulation to, yeah.

If we could route that U.

We good. You can watch for yourself. Let's play it.

There's a $300 billion investment fund that's being reported.

So what are your thoughts on that, who is involved, should that exist, and how is that not effectively giving Iran a lot of money where we even have freezing assets? Yeah, look at the other day, what's crystal clear is that the United States taxpayer, the United States government will participate exactly zero money to Iran. It will be not one cent of taxpayer dollar given to the Iranian government.

So however else they get money, I just don't care, as long as it's not coming from the US taxpayer. Again, these are reports that are out there. Well, I'll be a lot smarter on Friday, in terms of what the member of them is exactly what's laid out.

I've been talking to the White House, I have a pretty good idea, but ultimately, what matters

more than the MOU is going to be the final deal. I think probably the final deal will be easier because most of the stuff has already been kind of a pretty clear issue. Oh, and Lindsey Graham continues more of his humiliation ritual. I think we've showed you enough of Lindsey Graham.

Let me show you Democrat, Democratic Senator Alson Brooks, here's what she has to say.

Let's play it. Well, then we've seen the language in the MOU yet. I mean, the fact of the matter is we have not seen any of the details of this so that we can assess for ourselves how much of a, was it worth a sacrifice? We have escalating costs that continue Americans continue to really suffer with increased

gas prices, utility costs. They're opening the straight-up for MOUs, which was, by the way, open before this conflict started. So I have to billions of dollars that we have spent. I don't know that we are any safer as a matter of fact we're not.

I think we have almost inadvertently strengthened Iran through all of these maneuvers

in this war that was illegal from the start. So is this a win for Americans? I think they can tell.

Ask them at their kitchen takings, whether they're lives are easier today than when

we went to war. And I think the answer will be absolutely not real worse off. So this whole effort harmed Americans here at home and harmed us in our reputation across the world. And nothing that the president does at this point can erase the damage that he has done

with this poorly thought out. There was no, no strategy going in and apparently no strategy coming out, but the thing is it's a lie from the pit of hell, if he says that we want anything in this war because we did not. And it's a normal response out of people feel now contrast that to Maggie public incident

or Tommy Tuberville. We asked him, so what do you say to critics of the Iran deal and Tommy Tuberville, this guy is as shameless as you get. And Tuberville's law, he's running for governor of Alabama and he goes, you know, I don't listen to that nonsense.

We won the war and they did a deal. We won the war and they did a deal. OK, that really what happened here, play this clip. What do you make a critics who are saying that the strain of war moves was open before we attacked Iran and now it's open again, so it's not really a victory, a lot of people

are saying that. I don't listen to that nonsense, I mean, it was a conflict, we won, they agreed that no nuclear weapons and that's no one's saying we need it. The Iranians are saying they won. Sure, they go say that, but hey, we all know the truth.

Close watch is a scoreboard, yeah, that's right, yeah, thank you very much. And then they threw JD Vance on state regime media Fox, the show and the five. And Jessica Tarlav was asking them a lot of good questions and JD Vance is like, just look, look, look, look, look, look, look. If Donald Trump were elected as the Iotola of Iran, the Democrats would still say the United

States lost this, you're playing this clip. Is him from the Republican side of this as well? It is a bipartisan concern.

Well, I think, look, some of the criticism comes from the fact that if Donald Trump were

elected the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Democrats would still say that the United States had lost this. There is a fundamental refusal to acknowledge how much has changed in the Middle East over the last few months. And again, that assumes that nothing else happens.

But if this deal actually comes to fruition, meaning if the Iranians actually comply with that we have transformed the Middle East in a way that has amazingly beneficial for both the American people, but also the people of the Gulf. So you want him to become the Iotola of Iran? If any American president became the Iotola, we would probably say, you lost the plot.

You lost the plot when you think that that is a win, but okay, then Senator Kennedy ran away from us. Magra Republican Senator from Louisiana, you can watch for yourself. Okay. What do you make in the fight night at the White House?

Who are you?

Probably because you talked before.

What did you make in the fight night?

I don't know. I didn't go. Okay.

I guess there'd be questions that everybody's asking is, what about this guy?

I'm sure I've got for you night. Okay.

And then we ask Senator Thune about the ballroom, $600 million, half being paid by the tax

payers, watch what Senator Thune had to say. Let's play it. There are important security requirements to go with any building project in the White House. We want to make sure that any additions made down there are completed in a way that ensures

that the president and others in his administration are safe and secure, and I think that

that is something that I feel like we have a responsibility to do, and so the secret service and other agencies and protect the president are obviously going to be paying a lot of attention to how this thing is structured, how it's built, and I do believe that there is certainly some expectation that there would be dollars allocated for that purpose that would go above

and beyond the private money that's been raised.

I haven't seen any of the details on that reporting and haven't seen a White House response to it, so that's my general view overall about this, but we'll get you more when we have the most specifics. There you have the folks. Let me know what you think.

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