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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Witness Quickly Collapses under Cross-Exam by Dems

The MeidasTouch Podcast

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News, Politics

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin folding under cross-examination by Democrats. 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A top Trump official was stunned into silence during a congressional hearing earlier.

0:06.0

Democratic Congresswoman AOC was cross-examining EPA head Lee Zeldin,

0:12.0

and she exposed that he was having private meetings with Bear and other companies

0:18.0

in order to promote glyphosate. And he walked right into the trap that

0:23.8

AOC set. Watch as she exposed how his EPA, how Trump's EPA, was engaged in this collusive

0:31.2

relationship with big corporations in order to promote glyphosate. Let's play this clip.

0:38.0

Administrator Zeldin, have you ever participated in a meeting with Bayer where you

0:43.6

discuss the legal or litigation issues that the company was facing?

0:48.6

No, I never did. Okay. I have some... My meeting with them was very brief and that topic did not come up.

0:55.1

All right. I do... Are you aware of any outreach that they would have in your agency about this?

1:00.5

I could say that I directly had a brief meeting.

1:04.5

Okay.

1:04.9

But it was a brief meet and greet and that topic did not come up.

1:08.6

Thank you. Mr. Chair, I'd like to submit EPA visitor logs from July 7, 2025, to the committee.

1:19.4

Without objection, so ordered.

1:21.1

And you're certain they didn't bring up anything regarding your work?

1:26.0

I'm telling you you 100%. Absolutely.

1:29.9

Maybe there was some brainstorming that was done beforehand of potential topics.

1:33.7

Are you aware of anything brought up to any members of your staff or your team?

1:41.2

I'm not aware of that now.

1:43.4

Okay.

1:53.0

I would like to submit to the record some internal emails from the EPA that I have acquired via Freedom of Information Act as submission.

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