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Mike Johnson Goes Missing as Congress Descends into Chaos

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson going missing as critical hearings are being canceled on Capitol Hill by Trump. Get 20% off your first purchase at htt...

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by this 2015 law that I just read to you. But Mac and Mike knew that.

That's why Mac and Mike has shut down Congress.

And why he's MIA. Want us to... Oh no, let's talk about Donald Trump's fifth assassination attempt. This one involving drones. And now we need to build his golden ballroom all of a sudden. Yeah, Mac and Republican senators on Capitol Hill who are pissed and senator

Republicans enter like Bill Cassidy.

Here's what he writes about the Iran deal.

Reagan is rolling over and is grave. Iran's nuclear ambitions were not curb. And they have learned that threatening the straight of her moves works. And we'll undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now Iran gets to build brand new infrastructure under this deal.

Before the war, the straight was open. Iran was being crushed by sanctions. And 13 service members were still alive. Now 13 Americans are dead. Families have paid billions at the pump.

Sanctions will be lifted. And the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy. Blunder in decades. So what else was Donald Trump doing in the past 24 hours?

Well, Donald Trump picked a guy by the name of Jay Clayton, who's the United States attorney for the southern district of New York to become the director of national intelligence, the DNI.

Remember Donald Trump picked Bill Polty that hack,

who's running the mortgage agency. He was also running Fanny and Freddie with no national intelligence experience whatsoever. Remember Donald Trump picked him to be the acting DNI, the acting director of national intelligence and Democrats and Republicans and uh-um. We're not going to have Bill Polty in this position.

The law, remember laws. They require that the DNI, the director of national intelligence, actually have national intelligence experience. And Bill Polty doesn't even have a security clearance yet alone. Actual experience in national intelligence.

Also, he's proven just to be a Trump hack. And he goes to people's mortgage documents. And he's the guy who works with Donald Trump to like leap private information of people who Trump despises and have the DOJ go after them. That's who Bill Polty is, right?

So Democrats and Republicans, then, and are like, we're not going to reauthorize FISA, which is foreign intelligence service act. Unless an until Bill Polty is gone and you move in Jay Clayton and Democrats and Republicans on the center, like we'll fast track Jay Clayton.

And Democrats like we don't like Jay Clayton, but he's better than Bill Polty. We at least trust Jay Clayton with this type of information.

We don't trust Bill Polty.

So 24 hours ago yesterday,

there was supposed to be a hearing involving Jay Clayton,

who's already in approve Southern District of New York prosecutor. And then Donald Trump said, "Nope, I'm canceling that. I want Bill Polty to be in that position." So then Democrats and Republicans are like,

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which involves warrant lists, wiretaps that scoop up information on Americans if they're in communications with individuals outside of the country, who the government potentially believes could have connections with terrorism. And that's such a Lucy Goosey.

That's a technical term definition. That a lot of people say, "Well, you use that

to basically wiretap and eavesdrop on Americans

without warrants and that there needs to be a warrant requirement." And I tend to believe that there should be a warrant requirement personally, but the broader Pfizer reauthorization, 60 to 70% of the president's daily briefing comes from Pfizer. It comes from foreign intelligence in the president's brief.

So Donald Trump is basically saying, and this just shows you he doesn't read his daily briefs. I don't care about my daily brief. I don't want, why would he? He doesn't read the daily intelligence anyway.

He doesn't care about American and national intelligence. Just think about how careless and reckless he is. And he's saying, "Nope, then don't have Jay Clayton. I'm going to have Bill Polty be the acting DNI. And you don't have to reauthorize Pfizer.

I really don't care." And go ahead, I don't need to see the national, the president and saying, "I don't need to see the national intelligence, whatever who cares. And I'm willing to put this guy to significantly harm America's national intelligence."

Because let's also be clear. Foreign countries, allies, if we really have any more I doubt it. They're not going to give us intelligence knowing that Bill Polty is going to get it. So this harms cripples the United States and makes us very, very vulnerable. But Donald Trump doesn't give a crap about whether we're vulnerable.

This guy is, you know, we know how much he hates America and hates Americans. That's very clear. So Donald Trump posts the Republicans agreed with Democrats to remove the very fair and talented William Polty. And Trump goes, "So now I am going to cancel the hearing

for the great Jay Clayton." And then Donald Trump says, "Therefore, I'm going to add a slight bit of intrigue into this." And I will only approve Pfizer if you add the same America act into it. And that's when Donald Trump uses that like attack transgender people

and to have ice and border patrol basically go into elections and to, you know, suppress the, you know, suppress voting.

And so that'll, so Pfizer will never get passed right now.

And so you had in the Republican cloak room, all hell was breaking loose. GOP senators were attacking mega Republican senators Mike Lee from Utah during a closed or lunch meeting, saying, "Why are you telling Donald Trump that the Save America act

can be added to Pfizer? Stop doing that idiot." Senate are cornered and Kennedy challenged Lee about his strategy and complained that Trump is being led to believe it's possible

To pass this in the Senate when it's not going to pass in the Senate.

So you had all of a sudden this hearing of Jay Clayton

to be the DNI gets canceled. Tom Cotton,

Magga Republican senators says, "It's regrettable that the president had directed Jay Clayton not to appear at his confirmation today. We would have approved Jay Clayton." And so you have all these Magga Republican senators saying,

"What the hell is even going on right now?" You have Magga Republican senators Susan Collins saying, "I'm concerned. I'm so deeply concerned here play this clip." I was surprised, I was looking forward to the hearing. I'm concerned that this slows down the approval of Pfizer,

which is vital to our national security. Then you have Magga Republican Senator Kennedy with the pitchfork. Let's play it. "I don't know what's going on." "No sudden movements with that."

And then the Midas Touch Network Scott McFarlane,

our DC bureau chief caught up with Democratic Senator Warner about what Trump just did

and here's what Senator Warner told us, let's play it.

But in last matter of public and friends or willing to kind of say, "You know what, Mr. President?" No political doesn't have the national security expertise. And also the law says, "If a DNI leaves, the acting becomes the number two."

And there is a Trump appointed number two who is a career in college and professional. I didn't vote for him. It wouldn't be my choice. But at least he'd be somebody who could be trusted with the nation's secrets.

And I think that the president is just decided to blow that off,

ignore that. And the trouble will be we won't know in the short term the damage. What we will know is that national security leaders that are Trump appointed are nervous about polity coming in. We do know that America's allies who already were concerned

that they might have weeks if they shared with this administration. I fear more of them will start the whole back. And intelligence. And that makes America weaker. So you have magamike disappearing, going missing, shutting down Congress.

You have hell breaking loose on the Senate side. You have absolute and total dysfunction right now.

America has never been weaker.

But folks, this is the golden age we're told. This is the go, do you feet dar? Which do you feel? The golden age, trillions and buggillions of bazillions of all. No, it's Donald Trump.

And his regime manipulating the damn markets every damn day, screwing over the American people who just want healthcare, who just want a good education, who want to be able to buy a home. That's what's going on right now.

While magamike. Weasel. Little weasel. All these mega weasels. Let me know what you think.

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