The MeidasTouch Podcast

Thursday Afternoon News Updates with Ben 8/6/2026

August 6, 2026·1h 11m·5-min readconversationalnews
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Ben Meiselas hosts a fiery episode of Ben on Breaking News, spotlighting a major legal victory by journalist Katie Fang in the Epstein files case, where a federal judge ordered the Trump-era DOJ to justify its repeated violations of court orders. Meiselas frames this as a triumph of ind

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Ben MeiselasKatie FangAllison GillDonald TrumpE. Jean CarrollDavid HearnAbrego GarciaJudge Emmett SullivanTodd Blanche

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WTF Americaby Ben Meiselas

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Breaking NewsCriminal JusticeDemocracyForeign PolicyInvestigative JournalismLong Form JournalismPolitical NewsUs Politics

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