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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Former State Dept and CIA Official Ned Price on Trump and Ukraine

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on former top CIA leaders making an urgent warning about how compromised Donald Trump is and how easily he has been manipulated and Meiselas interviews former CIA and State Department Official Ned Price. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's talk about the intelligence community's perspective on Donald Trump's disastrous meeting with Vladimir Putin and also Donald Trump's.

0:07.5

I believe disastrous meeting with our European allies as well. I mean, former CIA analyst, former CIA director, John Brennan, former CIA analysts are looking at this and saying, wow, Putin was able to manipulate Donald Trump,

0:22.6

hook, line, and sinker. Putin was a former top KGB member. He knows how to develop sources,

0:29.4

how to develop people, how to manipulate people. And some of the manipulation tactics just

0:34.7

seemed so obvious. Maybe others were a little less subtle. I don't know. They all seem pretty obvious. And Trump bought into all of them. I mean, Trump came back parroting Putin's talking points. Trump was saying no ceasefire. Donald Trump was saying, we need to redo all of our elections in the United States because Putin told me that the 2020 election was rigged. Putin told me we're hot as a pistol.

0:55.6

Putin said the country's as hot as a pistol. Vladimir Putin said it. Putin runs Russia. Russia's

0:59.8

like the strongest country in the world, Donald Trump was saying. Putin turned Donald Trump

1:04.5

into literally Putin's PR guy and Trump came back. He's like Peskov and he's been just saying

1:10.1

Peskov's Poudin's PR guy and he's been just saying, Peskov's Putin's

1:11.1

PR guy and Trump's been just saying all the Putin talking points. It reminds me of this article

1:15.6

from foreign policy that I read back in July. I've shared it with you all before. When the threat

1:21.0

is inside the White House, what CIA insiders make of the Maga Moles and ToOTES now in charge of U.S. national security?

1:29.9

You go and you read it. It's like with Ratcliffe in charge, John Ratcliffe, who's a Trump lackey,

1:34.8

at the CIA, the Maga warrior Cash Patel running the FBI, the conspiracy theorist Palsy

1:40.8

Gabbard overseeing national intelligence and the Christian nationalist Pete

1:44.8

Higsef at the Pentagon, Trump has created the makings of a national security nightmare.

1:50.4

Quote, totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their

1:58.2

sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence

2:03.2

and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

2:08.1

Hannah Arendt observed decades ago.

2:10.2

I mean, that's so on point.

2:11.9

Let me take a look at what John Brennan, former CIA director turned MSNBC analyst.

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