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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ROTTEN TO THE CORE MeidasTouch: WHOA! Trump Witnesses CRASH AND BURN at MAJOR HEARING Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmVCVMJI4w
WHOA! Trump Witnesses CRASH AND BURN at MAJOR HEARING MeidasTouch Jun 4, 2025 4.97M subscribers ... 1,168,060 views ... 39K likes MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the disastrous testimony by Trump Cabinet Members Howard Lutnik and Linda McMahon today in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/m... Support the MeidasTouch Network: / meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: / meidastouch How this content was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess Transcript Transcript 0:00 it was a total disaster for these Trump cabinet members during hearings before the United States Senate and the House of Representatives today Watching cabinet members like Howard Lutnik and Linda McMahon crumble was a sight to behold Even when MAGA Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana was asking a pretty softball question to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik about what would you do if Vietnam removed every single trade barrier Would that be a good enough deal for you And Howard Lutnik's like no that wouldn't And even the MAGA Republican senators like so what are you trying to do here What do you mean by reciprocal What's your plan Watch this Um if Vietnam for example came to you tomorrow and said 'Okay Mr Secretary you win Um we're going to remove all tariffs and all trade 1:02 barriers Would the United States please do the same?' Would you accept that deal Absolutely not Absolutely not That would be the silliest thing we could do Why is that Vietnam has a billion exports to us and imports from us $12.5 million And you're thinking Vietnam exports $125 billion I'm I'm aware of the figures but tell me But where do they get it from They buy 90 billion from China then they mark it up and send it to us Just a pathway of China to us You wouldn't accept that deal No it's a terrible deal We're the one with money We're the one with the store Of course they want us to take care What's the purpose of reciprocity then Is reciprocity not one of your goals Are you telling the president that we shouldn't seek reciprocity If that's what you're telling him why are you trying to do these trade deals What do 2:00 we want We want we want to encourage Vietnam to produce products they're great at producing But I want to get back to reciprocity You just you just said you don't believe in you don't accept reciprocity as a goal What are you negotiating in these trade deals Why would we open our bank account and their bank accountating trade deals You're trying to get other countries to lower their trade their tariffs and trade barriers in return for us lowering ours I think that's true for the things that they'll take from us That's called reciprocity Of course So you are you or are you not seeking reciprocity in these trade deals We are thinking we are absolutely seeking reciprocity with respect to things that can be reciprocal But when they're importing from China and sending it said that if a country came to you and offered you the ultimate reciprocity no tariffs no trade barriers in return for us doing the same You would reject that of course because they 3:00 buy from China and send it to us Don't you agree with me Suppose they said we won't buy from China Now we're talking Now we're talking if it was Vietnam 3:09 Would you accept that deal We would 3:11 consider it for what things For products 3:14 you want to change Well there are 3:16 certain products we want to reshore We 3:19 don't want other people making them We 3:21 want to make pharmaceuticals here We 3:24 need to protect our Next up Howard 3:26 Lutnik is asked about whether or not he 3:29 would commit to not 3:32 terminating important weather 3:34 forecasting services and other aspects 3:37 of the 3:38 NOAA the National Oceanic Atmospheric 3:42 Agency which also houses the NWS the 3:45 National Weather Service He refuses to 3:47 answer the question Play this clip Uh 3:50 will you commit to me that the 3:51 forecasting office uh in Marquette 3:54 Michigan will not cease its 3:56 roundthe-clock operation 3:58 Yes or no Would be great Uh you don't 4:01 understand it yet cuz no one's explained it to you These are hard drive computers literally that no one has seen in 25 years with green screens in these 4:11 offices They they should be on a cloud 4:14 Our 2,000 meteorologists should be able 4:17 to watch them round the clock the 4:19 concept that we're talking about a green 4:21 screen and a hard drive So the answer is 4:24 no You're saying no We were going to 4:25 modernize it We are going to staff those 4:27 offices I can commit that we're going to 4:29 staff those offices But I will commit to 4:31 you that the next time you see me the 4:34 concept of having three people at some 4:36 regional office will be laughable 4:38 because our 2,000 meteorologists and our 4:40 hundreds of hydraologists will be able 4:43 to stay and forecast and protect us in a 4:47 modern way instead of these green 4:49 screens and hard drives And it's 4:52 hardcoded and it's absurd Okay so no 4:55 answer A no answer Uh one of Congress 4:58 was uh Howard Lutnik Donald Trump's 5:00 commerce secretary is next asked about these tariffs that the Trump regime just imposed on steel and aluminum 25 to 50% tariffs And uh the senator asking the 5:12 question says 'You realize that a lot of 5:15 manufacturing in the United States 5:17 relies on importing foreign steel and 5:20 aluminum even if the whole product isn't 5:23 really made of steel It's a component 5:25 part that's needed in our supply chain 5:28 and you are harming American 5:31 corporations and our national security 5:33 by companies not getting aluminum and 5:36 steel Here play this clip Watch Lutnik's 5:38 response I'm just going to tell you what 5:40 this company in New Hampshire has told 5:41 me and that is that their lead times 5:43 have gone from 20 weeks to two and a 5:45 half years And at that rate it's hard 5:49 for me to understand how we can continue 5:51 to support our defense industry when we 5:53 don't have the ability to get the supply 5:56 chain that they need to operate The big 5:59 issue is you can't fight a war without 6:00 steel and aluminum production in America You have to be able to make it If you don't have the ability to make your own steel and aluminum you can't fight a war 6:10 And that is what the president is doing 6:11 He's trying to make sure that we make 6:14 sufficient steel and aluminum to protect 6:16 our defense which I certainly support 6:18 I'm sure all of us support That's why we 6:20 exactly agree But but I don't agree on 6:23 the way it's being done because we're 6:25 not going to have the steel that we need 6:27 immediately to provide the supplies that 6:30 we need immediately So we need to do a 6:33 little better planning before we put in 6:35 place those kinds of tariffs But I I So 6:38 next up Senator Reid goes on and 6:40 continues on this line of questioning 6:42 about the NOAA the National Oceanic 6:45 Atmospheric Agency and he asks Howard 6:47 Lutnik you know you're destroying the 6:50 NOAA And then Howard Lutnik acts like 6:53 this is some sort of like sick joke He's 6:55 like oh what Yeah we cut some programs 6:58 about uh children's books on climate 7:01 anxiety Haha No you cut programs that put weather balloons in the sky I did a report uh that will be uh airing sometime in the next day or two about 7:12 this guy John Morales uh the 7:15 meteorologist in South Florida who says 7:17 he doesn't have the tools to forecast 7:19 hurricanes the way he used to anymore 7:22 And it's hurricane season You have the 7:24 new head of FEMA who's never worked a 7:26 day in life in FEMA or in like emergency 7:28 management before say he didn't even 7:31 know it was hurricane season and says 7:33 that he doesn't know what hurricane 7:34 season is and then he said it's a joke 7:36 like he like does jokes about hurricane 7:38 not knowing hurricane season Here play 7:40 this clip of Lutnik research so that we 7:42 understand changing oceans etc And this 7:46 cut as described by Craig McClean who 7:48 was served as Noah's top scientist 7:50 during the first Trump 7:52 administration has said in his quote the 7:55 proposal to slash no funding by nearly 7:57 30% would take us back to 1950s in terms 8:00 of our scientific footing and the American people Uh and I'm echoing what's said by many other people Uh 8:07 you're going to destroy Noah Well that's 8:09 consistent under no circumstances We 8:11 have 2100 meteorologists and and 120 8:16 retired this year and we're hired them 8:18 back I was able to have them exempted 8:20 from the hiring freeze We care about 8:23 meteorologists We care about 8:24 hydraologists who do the rivers and the 8:27 ponds So we are fully staffed with 8:30 forecasters and scientists Under no 8:33 circumstances am I going to let public 8:36 safety or public forecasting be touched 8:39 be touched But I tell you what we did 8:40 cut We did cut programs writing 8:43 children's books for climate anxiety Yes 8:47 that was in Noah And you agree with me 8:50 that's not part of our mission Our 8:53 mission is to forecast Our mission is to 8:55 protect Our mission is to advise Our 8:57 mission is to research not write 8:59 children's books on climate anxiety How 9:02 much money did you save there We saved tens of millions of dollars Nonsense out of Noah nonsense out of Noah Then you 9:11 have Magga Mike Johnson I'm going to do 9:13 a another video just on Magga Mike 9:15 Johnson today But here he says that Elon 9:18 Musk is now ghosting him and not taking 9:20 his phone calls after Elon Musk says 9:23 that the budget bill is a total disaster 9:26 Here's Musk ghosting Magga Mike Play 9:29 this clip Speaker um you mentioned that 9:30 you talked to Elon on Monday He made 9:32 this 180 What do you think changed Why 9:35 do you think he's coming out against 9:37 this now And have you spoken to the 9:39 president and Elon since the infamous 9:42 tweet Well I tell you I called Elon last 9:44 night and he didn't answer but but uh uh 9:46 I hope to talk to him today I mean it's 9:47 not you know but it's very friendly and 9:49 and we can and we've laughed about our 9:51 our differences on policy before Uh 9:54 Congresswoman Lee is questioning uh 9:56 education secretary one of Trump's 9:58 cabinet members billionaire Linda 10:00 McMahon And Linda McMahon says 'I 10:03 don't,' this is what she said Linda 10:04 McMahon goes 'I don't have an issue if 10:07 African studies is taught as long as we 10:11 give both sides of the issue.' To which 10:14 Congress member Lee goes 'What both 10:16 sides of African-American history are 10:19 you talking about?' Play this clip Uh 10:20 Secretary McMahon during your 10:21 confirmation hearing you were asked uh 10:24 by Senator Chris Murphy if an 10:26 African-American history class violated 10:28 the administration's position on 10:29 diversity equity and inclusion You said 10:31 you like to look into it Um you've been 10:33 on the job for a few minutes months now 10:34 Have you been able to look into it I do 10:37 not think that uh uh African studies or 10:39 Middle East studies or Chinese studies 10:42 are part of DEI if they are taught as 10:45 part of the total history package Uh so 10:48 that if you're giving the facts on both 10:49 sides of course they're not DEI I don't 10:52 know what both sides of African-American 10:53 history would be Well if 10:54 African-American history is part of part 10:57 of certainly but what we recognize 10:58 throughout public ed what we recognize 11:00 throughout education is that a course is only one year or one semester it would be impossible to teach African history and say European history at the same 11:07 time Do you not agree that it makes 11:08 sense that there would be separate 11:10 courses for these uh courses of study 11:12 and has happened throughout history 11:13 We're able to do it not just in history 11:16 courses we're able to do it with 11:17 different types of literature courses or 11:19 different types of music courses One 11:20 won't learn one wouldn't learn about 11:22 Baroque music and and necessarily have 11:24 to also learn about African drumming at 11:25 the same time right We can separate 11:26 those courses Yes we can I think just as 11:29 we teach US history as a separate course 11:31 Certainly So you do not agree So you do 11:33 agree that African-American cultures and 11:34 African history should not be eliminated 11:36 from courses particularly AP African 11:38 history Well I think that African 11:40 history can certainly be taught and not 11:41 be considered a DEI course Further 11:43 questioning here of education secretary 11:46 or I should say uneducation secretary 11:48 Linda McMad since her goal is to destroy 11:50 the department of education She's asked 11:53 by Congress uh woman Lee So do you 11:56 believe that social studies standards 11:58 that teach that Biden won the 2020 12:00 election is that DEI to say Biden won in 2020 And then she goes we need to hear all sides is the response by Linda McMahon Play this clip How about social 12:10 studies standards that teach that 12:12 President Biden won the 2020 election 12:15 I think our school our studies should 12:17 all be taught accurately Yes or no I 12:20 think our studies should No No The 12:22 question was do you believe that social 12:23 study standards that teach that 12:24 President Biden won the 2020 election is 12:27 an illegal DEI Yes or no I think I have 12:31 said we should teach accurately We 12:33 should No you have not answered the 12:34 question I don't understand why you're 12:36 incapable of answering I'm not giving 12:37 you the answer you want No I want the 12:39 answer Whatever your answer is I just 12:41 gave you the answer No the answer is yes 12:43 or no No the answer is I The answer is 12:45 yes or no Gentle ladies thank you so 12:46 much I yel back Expired 12:50 Next up Congress member Tano uh asks 'So 12:54 what are the limits of this viewpoint 12:57 diversity that you're trying to enforce 13:00 So will Harvard based on what you want does Harvard need to hire faculty that will teach students that the 2020 election is stolen And it seems that's 13:09 exactly what their goal is to have 13:11 Harvard professors teach that the 13:13 election was stolen Play this clip Now 13:15 Madam Secretary what are the limits of 13:18 this viewpoint diversity that the 13:20 administration is trying to enforce 13:22 under these demands For example would 13:25 the Harvard Government Department be 13:27 compelled to hire faculty that believe 13:30 the 2020 election was stolen 13:34 I believe that 13:36 um there are rights to freedom of speech 13:40 there uh and the on campuses and 13:44 universities of colleges and 13:46 universities across the country freedom 13:48 of speech should be allowed There should 13:50 be open debate There should be different 13:52 views I'm not asking a question about 13:54 speech here Madam Secretary I'm asking you about the the the limits of viewpoint diversity cited in this letter 14:02 You demand that Harvard should would be compelled to hire faculty I mean uh well you're you're saying that there has to be viewpoint diversity I'm just asking 14:11 you would Harvard uh would the 14:13 government department be compelled to 14:14 hire faculty that believe the 2020 14:16 election was stolen 14:19 as an example if you point diversity 14:21 However one of the things that Harvard 14:23 Crimson and by its by its own Okay I 14:25 think you're you don't really have an 14:27 answer So I'm going to move on to other 14:28 questions Maybe we can clarify by other 14:30 questions Would view point diversity 14:32 mean that for example madam secret 14:34 reclaiming my time reclaiming my time 14:36 reclaiming my time madam secretary 14:38 secretary would the Harvard medical 14:40 school who is looking to hire an 14:42 immunologist would that person need to 14:45 adhere to HH HHS secretary Kennedy's 14:48 view on the efficacy of vaccines 14:52 listen we all know that we should have 14:56 our universities look at what all the 14:58 programs are really thought through view 15:00 points viewoint diversity issue that 15:03 you're trying to put forth is a false 15:04 narrative and the funding is a privilege 15:07 Madam 15:08 circa my time Next up you have Congress 15:11 member Courtney questioning Linda 15:13 McMahon on her uh removing all funding 15:16 for magnet schools And Lyndon McMahon 15:19 goes I think magnet schools are great 15:21 And then Congress member Courtney's like 15:22 yeah but you defunded it all Watch this 15:24 clip But what your budget does is it 15:27 undercuts parental choice because magnet 15:30 schools are 15:31 choicedriven programs I can say that 15:34 personally because my daughter uh 15:36 attended a magnet school um and you know 15:39 it was an excellent uh education 15:41 experience You zeroed out that account 15:44 which is completely undercuts and 15:46 contradicts the hype in your in your 15:49 opening statement about uh supporting 15:51 parental choice I mean how why why 15:54 wouldn't you support magnet schools 15:57 I do support magnet schools And uh as we 15:59 both know in Connecticut I'll speak to 16:01 magnet schools but also in Connecticut 16:03 there has been the lowest growth in 16:05 charter schools I think we're like fifth 16:08 from the bottom in the country for 16:10 allowing more charter school growth So 16:11 why zero out magnets Magnet schools are 16:14 also as are charter schools they are 16:17 public schools So in the public schools 16:19 funding uh then I think that uh as the 16:22 states have more control over their 16:24 state budgets they can allocate those 16:26 dollars to magnet schools I think magnet 16:28 schools are great and I know that a lot 16:30 of them do focus on particular kinds of 16:32 Thank you Just reclaiming my talk is 16:34 chief budgets are what count and and 16:36 this budget does not say that magnet 16:38 schools are great I have another 16:39 question I want to just move a skinny 16:41 budget and that was an operating plan We 16:42 now have the full budget So we might 16:44 take another look at that It says zero 16:46 You may still be you may still Anyway 16:48 just I want to move on to I want to move 16:50 on to the Perkins another I think great 16:53 line of questioning for Congress member 16:55 Takano By the way he also chairs the 16:58 veteran affairs uh committee and he asks 17:00 'Do you believe that the federal 17:02 government is legally permitted to 17:04 punish a private entity for having a 17:08 different viewpoint than the 17:09 administration?' And Linda McMahon 17:11 filibusters and refuses to answer the 17:13 question Play this clip Madam Secretary 17:15 good to see you again Uh let's get right 17:17 to it Um Madam Secretary do you believe 17:19 that the federal government is legally 17:21 or constitutionally permitted to punish 17:24 a private entity for having a different 17:26 viewpoint than the administration What 17:29 do you mean by that 17:31 Well do you have does the government 17:34 have the power or legally or is it legal 17:36 or constitutional for you the secretary 17:39 to punish a private entity for having a 17:42 different viewpoint than the 17:43 administration I don't know what you 17:45 mean by punish Can you be more specific 17:48 Well let's move on Apparently we're I 17:51 don't want to get into this um back and 17:53 forth on this Like we all realize that 17:55 this is just straight up 17:56 authoritarianism and fascism the 17:59 government telling private entities that 18:02 they need to teach that the 2020 18:04 election was rigged Are you kidding me 18:07 That's what this is all about Next up 18:10 you have Congresswoman Lee once again 18:13 saying 'Okay let's let's flesh out your 18:15 ideas here Your your both sides to 18:18 African-American history concept Okay Is 18:21 it illegal DEI for a lesson plan on the 18:25 Tulsa race massacre?' And Linda Mc Linda 18:28 McMahon goes 'I don't know I don't 18:30 know.' Play this clip Was that I would 18:31 like to your thoughts on simple yes or 18:33 no 18:35 Um if this is a de a legal DEI an 18:38 example Would you say that it would be 18:40 an illegal DEI for a lesson plan on the 18:42 Tulsa race massacre I'd have to get back 18:45 to you on that Do you know what the 18:47 Tulsa race massacre is I'd like to look 18:48 into it more and get back to you on it 18:50 Okay So uh I look forward to that How 18:52 about um the book Through My Eyes by 18:54 Ruby Bridges for instance I haven't read 18:56 that 18:59 Have you learned about Ruby Bridges 19:01 If you have specific examples you'd like a specific example I'll be very happy It was an incredibly specific example named questions and I will look into it and get back to you on the How about a school having a voluntary celebration for Pride Month Well I think that um voluntary Well let's make sure that in our schools or we're looking No it's not Okay Uh next up you have Congress member McBath on this I think powerful line of questioning saying 'You realize that on February 10th Linda McMahon you canled a program that served 1,600 disabled students without warning You threw disabled students under the bus.' Play this clip over the cancellation of grants and contracts at the Department of Education On February 10th you cancelled the Charting My Path for Student Success program that served over 1,600 disabled students and their families across 62 schools in 11 states 20:00 including Pauling County which is in my home state of Georgia This yearround program provided support services and frequent small groupoup sessions to ensure that physically disabled students or students with dyslexia autism and other disabilities as well as their families can meet their goals of transitioning to and succeeding in adulthood which is really what every parent wishes for their child All too often it's unfortunately um a sink or swim situation for disabled students after high school And program programs like this can be the difference between a lifetime on disability insurance versus a good job that they can raise a family on On this poster right here you can see the exact email that was sent out to parents in Georgia because of your decision which I would like to submit digitally for the record It says 'The federal funding provided by the Department of Education for this 21:00 initiative has been discontinued immediately and that your child will no longer receive transition supports I would like to also submit for the record an article from NPR about a young man named Logan and his mother Jesse who were really benefiting from this program before it was abruptly cancelled Secretary this is just simply a yes or no answer Do you stand by your decision to cancel this program in the middle of the school year without any warning to the hundreds of students teachers and families that were participating Well I would like to uh explore that more This is a yes or no answer Yes or no Yes it is And the American people deserve I'm not going to give you a yes or no answer because answer from you yes or no I'm not going to let you circumvent I'm not going to let you ignore it Yes or no It's a simple question I'll have to stand by this decision of the different programs and I 22:00 can't speak to individual grant programs without looking into them Exactly There were there are a lot of grant programs out there So I'd like to get back to you Note for the record that the secretary is unwilling to answer my question So that's what went down today at the congressional hearings before the Senate and in the House of Representatives That first clip I shared with you of Howard Lutnik basically saying that he would not do a deal even if a country removed all of their tariffs and that if there was a a deficit then they would the United States would still have to retaliate against a country like Vietnam That's one of the most telling clips I think out there and why you can't do a deal with these people because they're operating in a bad faith world a delusional world and a dangerous world It's absolutely outrageous Tell me what you think in the comments I want to hear from you Hit subscribe Let's get to 5 million subscribers Can't get enough 23:00 Midas Check out the Midas Plus Substack for ad free articles reports podcasts daily recaps from Ron Philipski and more Sign up for free now at midasplus.com [Music]

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