MeidasTouch Makes Major Announcement!

We are excited to make a major announcement here live with everybody as the "Mightest Touch" network continues to expand, continues to grow, continues to support the development of lots of people who are moving into this space of YouTube, new media. The way news is consumed in 2026. It is with a great honor to introduce the newest addition to the "Mightest Touch" network, and also someone who the "Mightest Touch" network will be working with

and partnering with to build a media network, YouTube channel, sub-stack, and everything that comes along with it. Everybody welcome Scott McFarlane. You all know him, a legendary reporter. Now, the "Mightest Touch" network's chief Washington correspondent, and in addition to being the "Mightest Touch" network's chief Washington correspondent, Scott McFarlane will also be launching his platform. Scott McFarlane reports. You can subscribe to Scott McFarlane reports on

his YouTube channel at Scott McFarlane news, and then also a sub-stack where you can search for Scott McFarlane and subscribe to his sub-stack as well. Let's bring on Scott McFarlane to talk

about this incredible announcement, and to also talk about the types of things we'll be doing together,

and then let's talk about building Scott's platform. And then let's get into some of the news with this war in Iran, Donald Trump here on the homeland attacking Robert Mueller post-genmously. Then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant saying, "Look, it was Mueller who rated Moralago," and then also just that reckless, reckless, malicious appearance by Scott Besant. The disinformation flooding the zone with this Trump regime, and frankly,

why growing platforms like this, why you joining the Midas Touch Network, and why you launching

“your own platform as well is so important. So Scott, let me hand it over to you to just to talk”

about this announcement. Hey, Ben, it's never been more important to be a reporter than it is now.

Let's just reflect on the significance of this moment. You have this distinctive, if not historic moment of political toxicity, political violent threats, a challenge to the separation of powers, challenges to democracy. It's never been more important to be an enterprise investigating reporter, and it's exciting to have this platform. People who watch and who listen who I know care about these things, it's in their DNA, it's in their bones, they care about the

future of this country and the future of democracy, and we have now this limitless platform, and this limitless opportunity, Ben, for unfiltered, unadulterated reporting, independent reporting, where everybody has some skin in the game. So talk to us about this kind of dual role,

“and this is the kind of way, I think the Midas Touch Network is going to expand, because on the one hand,”

you're going to be the chief DC correspondent for the Midas Touch Network, which I think is going to play vital role to our nearly seven million subscribers on YouTube, where one of the biggest substacks out there, you have incredible sources in Washington, DC, and throughout the country, and so bringing that information to our substack, to our YouTube, to our platform is going to be massive, but when we use the word hour, it also includes a platform

that you're going to be building, and this is where Midas Touch wants to be the fuel to engines like yours, to build your own media platform, to build your own YouTube, to build your own media company as well, so that you can do this reporting as well,

and also build something generationally as well that I know you always wanted to build.

“So talk to us about that as well, Scott. I think the values are pretty clear,”

and I hope they come across as consistent. I've been championing this for quite some time. Not going to platform conspiracy theories, not going to platform lies, and not going to allow the whitewashing of history, and that's the ethos, at which I'm tackling reporting, have been for some time now, and I think when we launch the program, the daily program, it's going to be an informational newsy program, but going with that value statement,

if we don't platform lies and things that are corrosive to our country and corrosive to democracy.

but I am focused on being an enterprise reporter who gets after truth and does not abide by the whitewashing of history and the erasing of what people have said, and that truly, truly should command attention right now, because we're not just battling to find news and battling for truth, we're battling a force that is trying to contaminate and be tasked to size across all

“media. I think that's where we have a similar approach in what's more. One of the things that's”

always appealed to me about mightest touch and the network is that it's no waste of time,

there's no empty calories of you, non-sensical or useless production quirks or bells and whistles or sound effects or post-production that minimizes the time you can spend otherwise just declaratively sharing news. Conversational, efficient, straight to the point. And I think when you have that values and principle, foundation, you don't have to even really worry about the voice and the lens through which you report. It's factual, it goes where the evidence is, it's in favor

and support of democracy and the types of institutions that we once always valued as Americans, that are under attack and one of those institutions that you've covered your entire career.

And I think you've been covering this daily beat better than just about everyone. I know,

because I rely on your reporting to help and form my reporting is the Department of Justice. And what's been going on in the Washington D.C. Federal Court and the D.C. circuit where we see a lot of the biggest cases, just because of its proximity to being in Washington D.C. But to see in the Justice Department building draped with a gigantic banner of Donald Trump's face like we're this authoritarian nation. And then to see both the authoritarian tactics kind of budding and coming

into conflict with our judicial processes, the federal judges, the circuit courts. But then also the kind of sloppiness that we see that's intrinsic in this Trump regime as well, where sometimes, or lots of times, they miss the basic deadlines. They don't have the lawyers show up. The judge says submitted declaration. They don't submit the declaration. The affidavit that signed by an ice officer turns out the ice officer got a phone call the night

before and said, hey, we need you to sign this. They show up and they don't know what they're even testifying to. And it's that kind of daily stuff. Scott, that with the war in Iran, with people suffering here on a day-to-day basis on affordability, it's hard to keep track and know where to

focus the lens. But it is critical that we focus what's happening kind of in the nexus of all of

this in DC to talk to us about that Scott. Well, it's it's easy to look back at history and see Democrats criticize a Republican attorney general or Republicans criticize a Democrat attorney

“general. And that's not terribly interesting. But this is objectively different. I think you can”

stand back no matter where you are in the political spectrum. See the differences. I mean, the Democrats are right when they criticize the administration for hanging that banner because the administration is taking scrutiny and taking grief for their handling of the FSD in case files, for what they haven't released, for what they've redacted. And part of that is fueled by the fact that the president's face is on the building. They've made this problem for themselves.

It is also objective criticism, no matter where you are in the political spectrum, by the purge inside the Department of Justice. They have lost a lot of talented people who have paced out of there saying, this is not for me. This new politicized Department of Justice is not for me. I'm going to quit more than there are the many who have been fired because they were part of the Trump cases or part of the January six prosecutions and they were let go. And you can

objectively watchpen as there are typos, mispellings, and issues in the court filings by perhaps an overstretched and under a resourced office here and there, we know for example in DC and in many apolis, they had lost so many people. There were some staffing complaints or staffing issues. That is an objective problem for the Department no matter how you look at it. Then you also mentioned the January six cases, people who were convicted of seditious conspiracy

you were in the courtroom for all of those Proud Boy and Oathkeeper cases in January six cases.

“And I remember you reported because as I said, I was I didn't have somebody in the courtrooms.”

Now we do it. The minus touch network gives you and it's a great thing that we have you because

saying. And look, while there were some Trump appointed judges on some nuanced legal issues

“that may have made decisions that perhaps upset the DOJ and prosecutors and others who said,”

I disagree with that interpretation. Overall, whether you were a Trump appointed judge, based on my memory of all of these cases, Biden appointed judge, you know, Obama, Bush, or whoever, these judges took these cases very seriously thousands of them came before them that the judges oversaw. Lots of these cases went to juries. I mean, there was an occasional bench trial or on a specific issue, maybe a defendant, you know, want to specifically,

but overwhelmingly, these cases brought in front of judges in jury conviction after conviction, then the proud boy oathkeeper seditious conspiracy cases where you had these judges on a bipartisan basis, calling out the horrific conduct that they observed during these trials. So then to see

“Donald Trump's mass partings of everybody and frankly, the pardon with such a broad brush.”

And I saw your reporting on this, it even covered potentially conduct that wasn't even on January 6th itself based on the language. And then this weekend, Scott, we see proud boy leader in Riketario hanging out at Mara Lago, partying it up in Mara Lago after his pardon, as well. They're the photos of him this weekend. So you covered this so extensively,

I just wonder your take right now because that right there has secondary and third and fourth-level

implications about law and order generally when people can get off for doing what they did. Common misconception about January 6th is that it is a piece of history. It was, but it's also a current kinetic evolving story. It is still relevant because that only did you have this mass issue of clemency, all these parties, and all these people released from prison, including those who beat main police officers, but you have this undercurrent of people who are

unapologetic, if not celebratory, of the violence that occurred that day. And this, this white washing of history is an absolute cancer on American democracy. So this is a current threat without accountability. The victim still feel victimized. A lot of victims were retraumatized by the partis. And I tell you from being in the courtroom every day, Ben, you could see the unapologetic people even there at sentencing when it was worth their self-interest to try to express some

remorse and still wouldn't. How about the seditious conspiracy defended who raised a fist and yelled Trump won as he was walking out of the courtroom after sentencing? This new pattern of January 6th, pardoned rioters and defendants being out there, being celebrities, being politically active,

“trying to get close to Trump, none of that surprising. And that's why I'm so grateful for anybody”

who takes a moment to subscribe to my pages and my platforms because I'm going to be in the

courtroom's moving forward for all these critical legal challenges about the threat to democracy.

People who are suing to try to counteract some of these executive orders in policies, being in the courtroom tells you a lot then because as you know, better than anybody, there are no cameras in these courts. There's no audio feeds in most of these courts. The only way to get the actual nuggets of news as they happen is from the reporters who are in there. And we are now positioned to be in all the courtrooms as often as we need to be or in my case

also banging around Capitol Hill looking for news that otherwise can't serve us. I director also decorated veteran somebody who selflessly made the biggest sacrifices for our country. And Donald Trump's post is Robert Mueller just died good. I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people. President Donald J. Trump and then throughout the day where Donald Trump was giving 48 hours ultimatums that we would commit, let's just call it what

it is a war crime civilian infrastructure being a target in a war. My view constitutes a worker. He's just posting saying that we're going to do that. And then he goes out and posts photos of himself from like, I don't know if these are from the 80s or 90s when he was close friends with

Scott who say Trump makes crazy posts and if you chase the crazy posts all the time you won't be

“you'll be missing things and that's what he wants you to do. Now my view is you can walk and”

chew gum at the same time. Every post doesn't require you to be like, oh my god, Donald Trump made a post about himself in front of Mara Lago or Donald Trump posted a video of himself dumping feces on protesters. You know, I get like what like he did during one of the no kings protest, but I think that there's a connective tissue here while there are deeply serious issues confronting the American people while people are suffering and struggling and can't afford things and now they

can't afford gas and they're wondering am I going to be able to pay rent the next month? I don't know what the hell is happening. Family members who have members of their family and the military not clear what's this mission, what's even going on, what are we doing there, the American people wondering the same covering up of the empty files. This type of behavior to me, it's why I kind of got involved in this not from a political level, but from a we need to

grow up. We need to act like adults and restore decency and compassion and empathy and that ain't it. So before we go, Scott, I just want you to address that and perhaps even the style with what you're going to bring to kind of your reporting as people subscribe to your platform and see you here. I'm so glad you asked that I think this gets to the fundamental nature of what we're about to do here Ben. First of all, before I explain, can you go back to the picture? Because I'm going to give you a

one opinion, the picture of Donald Trump in the 80s, is that not Donald Johnson's code for Miami Vice? I think I just caught that because we need to celebrate that code, making a new appearance since the 1980s drama days. But that aside,

“here's the thing, you come to my platform, subscribe and follow me, here's what you're going to get when”

moments like that happen. If there's a billion opinions out there, I'm going to get you some reporting on it.

Here's what I can tell you over the past 24 hours. This is a political problem for Republicans and you're

going to have a case where senators, Republicans who are on Capitol Hill this week are going to be asked about the truth social posts and they're going to have to try to answer for it. That's not the message they want to be on. It happens Sunday where the Senate Republican leader was asked about it and didn't give a very declarative unequivocal answer. We've talked about Ben, maybe bringing a hard copy of the truth social post around to ask Republican House members and senators that they've seen this or to look at it

and respond to it. That gets them off message. They're trying to drive this sayback message this week. They're trying to talk about transgender sports this week, even though it's not necessarily timely. So objectively, as a reporter, I can tell you over the past 24 hours, it's been a political liability. Ten on meet the press on Sunday. The Treasury Secretary was asked about that post. Not what he wanted to be talking about and his answer was quite something and caught the attention of a

“lot of people in Washington. The Treasury Secretary Ben said that you have to put yourself in Donald”

Trump's mind. He experienced some bad things watching Mara Logo get rated. It was very impactful on him without acknowledging that it wasn't Robert Mueller's team that rated Mara Logo. It was Jack Smith's and even so he was asked, does that even matter? And he went back to the initial answer. So you're off message at this seminal moment when the DHS is still shut down with the TSA lines are too long with the gas prices are too high. When people are too fed up and elections are getting too

close for some, they're off message. So you follow. You subscribe. You're going to get the latest reporting in the hallways around Washington about what these things mean, what are the facts on the ground and then you could launch into your own probably unambiguous opinions? Well, very big news here today on the Midas Touch Network. It is an honor to have Scott McFarlane join the Midas Touch Network as our chief Washington correspondent and at the Midas Touch Network, we're going to do

everything we can do as well to help you grow your own platform independent but intertwined with the great work that we're doing here and the great work that you're doing over there at McFarlane reports. I want to thank you and everybody for being here for watching this reminder, Scott McFarlane,

YouTube channel. Make sure you all subscribe now. Wouldn't that be incredible if we can get that

YouTube channel 100,000 subscribers in the very first day right here. It's already at 20,000 subscribers and Scott will be doing a regular cadence there as well. So when you check in, you'll get your daily Scott McFarlane videos on YouTube also make sure you subscribe to his sub stack by searching Scott McFarlane

about but that's why keep checking back on the Midas Touch YouTube channel and keep checking back

“on the Scott McFarlane's YouTube channel. Though I have to say Scott, the person who's probably”

the most happy about us bringing you on is my wife and my family because not only are they big

fans of yours, but they're thinking maybe Scott can you know, fill in for a Ben video here

or there in the morning and maybe get this guy to sleep before 10 p.m. So we'll see about that.

“I'm throwing out that challenge. Scott, but most importantly, we've always admired your work.”

We're grateful for you and what an honor to build this out with you. I can't think of anybody else.

We'd love to do that with right now and to have join the already incredible team. We have

shout out to all of our other great hosts. We have so many incredible people here. Whether it's the legal I have YouTube channel, whether it's Katie Fang who was absolute. When I told Katie that you were joining Scott Katie, it's face lit up and she's then she's excited to do videos with you. The whole team, the editorial team's excited and so everybody here's grateful Scott. So anything else you want to say before we go? This is an honor and let me say there's a non-zero

possibility that when I do fill in for you. I'm wearing the Don Johnson coat and nobody. Nobody's going to be able to stop that. So just embrace that reality. It's better than my button down shirt. Well, we'll test it out. We'll pull it. Scott McFarlane everybody. The new My Dis Touch Network Chief Washington correspondent. Thanks everybody for

“watching this live. We'll see you next time. Remember right now, subscribe to Scott McFarlane News.”

At Scott McFarlane News on YouTube, we will see you next time on The My Dis Touch Network. Shoutout to The My Dis Mighty. And I can tell you. I can tell you. I want to tell you. I want to tell you. I want to tell you.