Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 3/10/26
3/10/202665 mincomplete
0:00This is Ben on Breaking News.
0:01I'm Ben Micellis, and this is your Breaking News.
0:04Donald Trump's unlawful war against Iran spiraling out of control, this just coming out over
0:09the wire. Now we know that as many as 150 U .S.
0:14troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar with the
0:19matter, far higher than the Pentagon's publicly disclosed figure of just eight seriously wounded troops.
0:26The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been
0:31told. This has been a major cover -up by the Trump regime, and now our
0:36military and Caroline Levitt is also confirming that these numbers are, quote, within the ballpark.
0:43I'll show you some clips of Caroline Levitt's disastrous press conference in just a moment.
0:48We're also learning that Iran has been laying naval mines in the Strait of Hermoz,
0:55the world's most important energy choke point that carries about one -fifth of all crude
0:59oil, according to two people familiar with U .S.
1:03intelligence who spoke to CNN.
1:05Only a few dozen having been laid in recent days, the sources said, but Iran
1:10has the capability to deploy hundreds, if not thousands more, retaining upward of 80 %
1:16to 90 % of its small boats and mine layers operated by the Islamic Revolutionary
1:23Guard Corps. We're also getting data from the United Arab Emirates today about how these
1:31Iranian drones are striking far more frequently UAE targets.
1:37If you evaluate the ability for these drones to strike, you're seeing somewhere in the
1:44range of 20 % to 25 % increases in strike rates right now.
1:48A big oil refinery in the United Arab Emirates was just hit.
1:52In fact, their biggest, the biggest oil refinery in the UAE halted operations after a
1:59drone strike caused a fire in the industrial area in which it's located.
2:04According to people familiar with the matter, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.
2:08was assessing damage at the plant, the people said, asking not to be named because
2:13the matter is not yet public.
2:15This specific refinery can process 922 ,000 barrels of oil.
2:21And then if you take a look at just some of the hit versus intercept
2:26rate for ballistic missiles and drone attacks since February 28th for the UAE through today,
2:33a lot more of these drones are getting through by significant percentages.
2:38And so what that tells us is that the UAE is likely running low on
2:43some of these expensive interceptors, right?
2:45There's the THAAD system, and then there's also the Patriot missile system.
2:51Both are incredibly expensive, and it can cost tens of millions of dollars to strike
2:57down a single Shahid drone, which only costs about $20 ,000 to make.
3:03And so instead of the U .S.
3:06studying what was going on in Ukraine and how the war was being fought there,
3:10whether it was the Iranian Shahid drones being given to Russia, the joint production of
3:16ballistic missiles, but keeping the costs low in their attack on Ukraine, Ukraine's ability to
3:23stop a lot of these drones, but not all of them.
3:25We've always been covering those deadly attacks in Kiev and Kharkiv and Odessa and all
3:30of the areas there, and also Ukraine's ability to use drones against Russia as well.
3:39That should have been studied.
3:40And let me be very clear, our military preparedness is systemic.
3:46I don't want to even act like this is purely a Trump issue, although this
3:50is Trump's fault right now.
3:51But I think in general, our military, even under the Biden administration administration, this is
3:55bipartisan, I think was slow to adopt and be able to address what the modern
4:04warfare was actually looking like, because our military industrial complex was all about buying expensive
4:11weapons, these billion -dollar systems, when in fact things were getting very, very cheap in
4:17order to mass produce these drones.
4:20The situation is that it wasn't Biden who got into this war, right?
4:25And so if you're going to hastily get into a war the way Trump did
4:30because Israel was going to strike Iran first as Rubio and everyone in the Trump
4:35regime settled, the Trump regime's making up lots of other excuses.
4:38If you're going to get into that war and you know you have these vulnerabilities
4:43that you have not yet adapted to, that is a big, big problem.
4:48Biden, in helping Ukraine, was able to contain a lot of this.
4:54So whereas I do place some fault there, as I would any administration, I would
4:59go back 20 years. I would go to Obama.
5:02I'd go to George W.
5:04Bush. There was a lack of foresight into the way modern weapons and modern war
5:11war. would look. Regardless, though, you don't rush into war.
5:15Biden was very smart. Biden helped Ukraine.
5:18Ukraine was on the front lines, basically, and they still are, fighting these proxy battles,
5:24if you will, and fighting Russia, which is critical, which invaded Ukraine.
5:30But also, Iran is part of that access with Russia.
5:35Iran, Russia, and China, who Donald Trump thinks that they're his friends while Russia is
5:41out there, and so is China, providing intel to Iran about where to strike.
5:48By the way, Putin's not even hiding it.
5:51The Kremlin is putting out statements saying that we stand in solidarity with Iran.
5:57They're publicizing those statements about what they're doing.
6:01It's not actually a secret that that intelligence is being used to strike the United
6:07States. But Biden had a sophisticated plan.
6:10And if he was able to build up the anti -drone capabilities, that's probably where
6:17it was heading. Now, Donald Trump in 2025, here's the thing.
6:22By 2025, Zelensky had figured out, with the help of the Americans, but with Ukrainian
6:28ingenuity, this happened in 2025, I want to be clear of the dates, how you
6:33address these drone strikes. It's not foolproof.
6:38A lot of drones still strike Ukraine.
6:40But in 2025, over the summer, Zelensky goes to Donald Trump and says, hey, let
6:46us help you. Let us show you what's happening.
6:49Why'd this happen in the summer?
6:50Because that was the first war that Donald Trump got into against Iran.
6:55And when you started to see, okay, is Iran going to use the same Shahids
6:59that are being used in Russia and being used in Ukraine?
7:07Zelensky's like, let us help you.
7:09Here, pull that graphic back up right there.
7:11And if you take a look at this graphic, you can see that Zelensky, according
7:15to Axios, in August of last year, Ukraine's President Zelensky showed Donald Trump a presentation
7:21detailing the effectiveness of Ukrainian counter drone technology and offered it to the U .S.
7:27in the event of war in the Middle East, warning that the Iranians were improving
7:30the effectiveness of their drones.
7:32U .S. officials did not entertain an offer at that time.
7:36And that was a critical moment because that's when Zelensky truly knew how to counter
7:43it, how the threat had increased.
7:46And yes, there were drones that were being used in 2024, when Biden was in
7:50office, but they really accelerated it in 2025.
7:53It was taken to a whole new level, escalation of this drone warfare.
7:58And Trump didn't want to hear it.
7:59Instead, what was Donald Trump doing in August of 2025?
8:03Do you remember what Trump was doing?
8:04He was meeting with Putin.
8:06Remember? That's when the Alaska meeting took place.
8:09Trump rolls out the red carpet for Putin.
8:11He makes our soldiers bend down on their knees and basically kiss Vladimir Putin's shoes.
8:17Remember? I mean, there's actually like a photo of our troops on their knees looking
8:22at like Putin's feet as Donald Trump then kind of waddles in the red carpet
8:27and he couldn't walk in a straight line.
8:28And he praised Putin how big this was going to be, this incredible summit.
8:32And when Putin totally played him, well, behind the scenes, Zelensky was trying to help
8:37out, but the United States refused to even listen to Zelensky.
8:43And so right now is the United States listening to Zelensky sort of, but you
8:49have Eric Trump is now a major part of this drone company.
8:54And this drone company in the US wants the Ukrainian anti -drone and drone technology.
9:01So it is a Trump related business deal is essentially what's taking place right now.
9:08And so you have the Middle East on fire.
9:12You have, to show you what Iranians foreign minister is saying publicly, just they're trolling
9:20Donald Trump on social media.
9:22The Iranians are trolling Trump.
9:25So you have the foreign minister, Aragqi, says the claim that Iran was planning on
9:30attacking the US or US forces, whether preventively or preemptively is a sheer and utter
9:36lie. The sole purpose of that lie is to justify Operation Epic Mistake, a misadventure
9:44engineered by Israel and paid for by ordinary Americans.
9:49Then their National Security Council advisor, Ali Larajani, responds to one of Donald Trump's social
9:56media posts. And Donald Trump's social media posts says the following.
10:00This was from late last night when Trump rants and raves like a lunatic.
10:05If Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Hermos,
10:10they will be hit by the United States of America 20 times harder than they
10:14have been hit thus far.
10:15Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make virtually impossible for Iran
10:20to ever be built back as a nation again.
10:23Death, fire and fury will reign upon them.
10:27But I hope and pray that it does not happen.
10:30This is a gift from the United States of America to China and all those
10:34nations that heavily use the Hermos Strait.
10:36Hopefully it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated.
10:39Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J.
10:42Trump. And then our energy secretary posted on social media a lie that the United
10:51States Navy was helping ships go through the Strait of Hermose.
10:56And then the energy secretary had to remove it because it was just entirely false.
11:02U .S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright claimed this morning in a now -deleted post
11:06that the United States Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of
11:11Hermose, with the post being removed only minutes later and officials denying to Fox News
11:17that the Navy had carried out any such operation through the Strait near Iran.
11:22So what else is happening is that the Trump regime is manipulating our markets right
11:27now. And so they saw on Monday that the markets were going to tank, tank
11:33to like a Great Depression level.
11:35Now, systemically, our economy is just being destroyed by Donald Trump.
11:40I can't even imagine what the next inflation reports are going to show, what the
11:45job losses will show. And you just think of the jobs report last month and
11:50what a utter disaster that was, what, 92 ,000 jobs that were lost.
11:54Inflation was surging before all of this.
11:56Now you raise the price of gas, inflation is going to be crushing.
12:00But the markets were absolutely crashing, and the price of oil per barrel was soaring.
12:05So what the Trump regime keeps on doing now, they keep trying to come out
12:10with good news. Remember like with Trump's Liberation Day, which was Liquidation Day, you'd have
12:16the markets crash, and then he would say something, and then they would go up,
12:19then it would crash, then it would go up.
12:21They're doing that over and over again right now.
12:23So they're just making things up, just like complete and utter lies.
12:27And it's, you know, it is deeply, deeply tragic that this regime in the United
12:33States just can't be trusted at all with anything.
12:37And I've said it before on some of my other programs, it's like comic book
12:42stupid propaganda. I think all propaganda is bad usually, but this version of the propaganda
12:50propaganda is like just the dumbest.
12:52It's like stupid and dumb.
12:54And it's like, what are you talking about?
12:56Like, at least in some other regimes fully fueled by propaganda, it's like, I don't
13:02know, a little bit smart.
13:03And there's like a plan.
13:05And the messaging is at least repeated over and by the same people.
13:09But like the Trump regime just makes up different things.
13:11Why'd you go to war?
13:12Well, Israel told us to do it.
13:14Actually, Israel didn't tell us to do that.
13:15We didn't say it. You literally just said that.
13:18So why else did you do it?
13:19They were going to strike us with nuclear missiles in five days.
13:23Really? Where'd you get that from?
13:26We learned that. Well, who told you that?
13:28Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff told us that that's the new one.
13:31The new one is that Kushner and Witkoff told Trump that we were days away
13:36from nuclear annihilation by Iran.
13:39They moved to that one.
13:40Well, what are we in war for?
13:42Regime change. So we're there for regime change.
13:45No, we're not there for regime change.
13:47Well, what are we there for?
13:48To get rid of their ballistic missiles.
13:51Okay. So we're there to get rid of their ballistic missiles.
13:53No. Okay. Well, what are we there for?
13:56We just want to bring someone in from the Islamic Republic who likes Donald Trump.
14:01Okay. So what's going to happen with the people in Iran who want democracy?
14:05Ah, they're, we don't like them.
14:07They're, they're maniacs. They're lunatics.
14:09All Iranians are lunatics. I don't think that that's like John Donald Trump was saying
14:13during the press conference yesterday.
14:15It was like, they're very menacing people.
14:17They're crazy. All Iranians. Not like the regime.
14:21Trump was referring to the Iranian people generally as menacing people.
14:26And then the Trump regime is like the Iranian people out there have turned against
14:30the Islamic Republic and they want, they want Trump.
14:34They want Netanyahu. It's like, no, they don't do.
14:36Do you see what's happening in Tehran square right now?
14:39Do you see what's happening in cities and towns across Iran?
14:42Iran. Even if you believed that you may have had support in Iran, which you
14:47may have had a little bit of support in Iran.
14:49I mean, you blew that during the protests in January where you told the protesters
14:54you were going to help them.
14:55And then you ended up allowing them to be completely massacred by the Iranian regime.
15:02When you said, go out there and protest.
15:05And then you said, I got your back.
15:08If a single Iranian gets killed, you said, I got your back.
15:11And you didn't have their back.
15:12And now even some people who were against the Ayatollah, who may have been sympathetic,
15:20when you bomb with a tomahawk missile, a little girl's elementary school, and then kill
15:28150 little girls, 185 people in total.
15:33And then you go and lie and say the Iranians use the tomahawk to do
15:38it when Iran doesn't have tomahawks, nor do they have the tomahawk launchers.
15:43Do you all remember Ukraine wanted tomahawks?
15:46Remember that? And the United States wouldn't give it to Ukraine.
15:50We don't give tomahawks to a lot of people.
15:52I mean, Trump didn't give it to Ukraine because Trump despises Zelensky and loves Vladimir
15:57Putin. But there's only like four nations that have tomahawks from the United States.
16:00You need the tomahawks. You need the launchers.
16:03And at the site of the element.
16:07school, the tomahawks they made in the US.
16:10You can see the crater marks from where the other tomahawks struck facilities nearby.
16:19You're saying that Iran used tomahawks to kill its own people on the first day
16:26of the war, that's the first thing that it did, was do that somewhat near
16:31a military base. That makes zero sense.
16:35It's a lie. The United States is involved in this horrific, horrific conduct.
16:43By the way, this is what Hegseth would brag about.
16:47Hegseth's whole thing is throw out the rules of engagement.
16:52Throw it out. Stupid, woke rules of engagement.
16:57Right? Our military is lethal.
17:02Lethality. Of course, our military is lethal.
17:05Of course, our military is the most powerful in the world in terms of its
17:13size and scale and scope and ability to kill.
17:17But powerful people don't need to run around saying how powerful they are.
17:22That's actually what weak people do, right?
17:25Saying we're going to rain down death from above.
17:28That's pretty sick that that's how the American people, that's how this Trump regime is
17:34speaking. And it has consequences.
17:37It's rallied the Iranian people around the new Ayatollah, Monjaba, who's more extreme than his
17:44dad, the old Ayatollah. And you've got people out there who are out there.
17:51I mean, Jeremy, do we have the clip?
17:52Just I'll show you Tehran Square right now.
17:56Watch for my cue, Jeremy, because I don't need to play the whole thing.
17:59Whenever I show what's going on on Iranian TV, I always want to give you
18:03a disclaimer because Iran is led by terroristic maniacs.
18:10I'm not trying to justify what they're doing.
18:13I'm not showing support for the Iranian regime.
18:16I always want to flag and contextualize why am I showing you these things.
18:21Because in the United States, there is propaganda here that looks like the Russian propaganda
18:29you see about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
18:32That's what our media shows you here.
18:35I do want you to recognize that there's Iranian propaganda as well.
18:39And they're going to put forward things on their state TV to show their version
18:45of events and to propagandize.
18:46But what I do want to show you is that there are a lot of
18:50people out there right now supporting Monjaba, the new Ayatollah.
18:56And when you hear either in the background, it's loud.
19:01There are bangs. You hear explosions.
19:03It's been stated by Iranian media that those explosions are missiles coming in from the
19:09United States. I don't know that to be the case.
19:12So let me flag that.
19:13For all we know, it could be fireworks.
19:15It could all be part of an elaborate setup by Iran as part of their
19:19propaganda to tell the 100 ,000 people in Tehran Square, all right, we're going to
19:24set off the fireworks, everybody.
19:25And then everybody, when we do it, let's show the camera how angry you are.
19:30Do I know one way or another?
19:32Here's what I do know.
19:33I do know that Israel has been bombing the oil rigs in Iran, creating these
19:41mushroom clouds, a black smoke that makes it look like a nuclear winter there.
19:46And I think in the future, we'll find out that hundreds of thousands of people
19:49in Iran will die of cancers, heretofore unknown as a result of the blowing up
19:56of these oil rigs and the chemicals that were released.
19:59We know that they were doing that.
20:00We do know that the United States and Israel has been targeting desalination plants of
20:06Iran for people to get drinking water, purified water.
20:10So we do know that.
20:12We do know that over a thousand civilians, perhaps more, have been killed in addition
20:16to the 150 at the elementary school, have been killed by the United States and
20:21Israel so far. We know that Iran has responded by attacking the United States military,
20:27and they killed seven. An eighth soldier or service member died based on mysterious illness.
20:34And now we know 150 have been injured.
20:36We also know that Iran has been striking the Arab nations where there are American
20:41interests. So when I report this, what I try to do is do that framework,
20:46right? I'm not trying to, I'm just presenting to you what they're saying, what we're
20:52saying, what they're saying, what they're saying, what he's saying, what she's saying, what they're
20:56saying. And then you can form your opinions about this.
21:00But what news should be about is just providing you with the data.
21:04That's what I think my job here is.
21:06So let me just show you what's going on.
21:07Let's just play about 35, 40 seconds.
21:09Watch for my cue, Jeremy.
21:10Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
21:28Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
22:02So that's what's going on there and that's happening in cities across Iran right now.
22:06Now you can say, hey, Ben, that's just the total setup.
22:09That's like a stage that they put forward right there.
22:13Remember, though, the Trump regime made it seem like there were going to be hundreds
22:18of thousands or millions of people in Iran the day the U .S.
22:22launched its unlawful invasion of Iran, right?
22:25They were going to rise up.
22:26There were all these people, we were told, on day one who were going to
22:29do it. Remember Donald Trump said, now take back your country.
22:32And everybody on Fox was like, and the Iranian people are about to rise up.
22:36And they would show images or film of not in Iran, right?
22:42They would show footage of like Beverly Hills or footage of Iranian communities in areas
22:51where diaspora Iranians here in the United States are from.
22:56And they would say, look, you know, look, look, this is what the Iranians want.
23:00This is what's happening here.
23:01And I think those Iranians here did want.
23:04I feel for these Iranians who are here in the United States, who are, who
23:09have been forced out by a brutal ayatollah, the Islamic revolution, and they've had their
23:15assets stolen. And so for them to see, I understand it, you know, to see
23:21the ayatollah killed after what prior ayatollah had done and what this brutal regime has
23:30done to their family. I get it.
23:32And, you know, that's why I wanted to be very sensitive and delicate.
23:37A lot of Iranian friends here in the United States.
23:40Let me be clear about that too.
23:41And, but when you had the Iranians protesting in the street in Iran against the
23:47ayatollah, who was 86 years old and Donald Trump said, get out there.
23:52I've got your back when we didn't even have our ships nearby and no assets
23:57were marshaled to even help them.
23:59And the people believed the U .S.
24:01was going to help them and Trump abandoned them.
24:03And thousands got massacred who went out on the street.
24:07And then Donald Trump bragged that he saved 700 protesters from being hung.
24:11And they're probably dead right now, by the way, as well.
24:14By the way, Trump keeps sending Iranians from the United States who have sought asylum
24:21back to Iran. By the thousands, the Trump regime, we don't hear about it a
24:27lot because often in the brutality of the Trump regime's ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo,
24:34they've gone after a lot of other groups as well that are, that those stories
24:39are told more frequently and a lot of brutal brutality happening there.
24:43But it's hard to keep track of everything this disgusting Trump regime does.
24:47But the Trump regime has sent hundreds, if not thousands of Iranians who sought asylum
24:52here back to Iran, put them on planes, shipped them to Iran when they were
24:58probably killed. And they're probably dead right now.
25:02They just think about it.
25:03They're asylum seekers from Iran.
25:06They get captured by ICE or Border Patrol.
25:08They get put on planes and they get sent to Tehran after being here.
25:12What do you think the Ayatollah did to them?
25:15Probably killed them. But we have no transparency.
25:18The Trump regime didn't even admit that 150 of our soldiers were wounded until it
25:23was reported by Reuters. And then the Trump regime had to confess and admit it.
25:27And by the way, you know, you have Iranian leaders like Foreign Minister Aradji also
25:33posting the following. He says this, U .S.
25:36officials are posting fake news to manipulate markets.
25:39It won't protect them from inflationary tsunami they've imposed on Americans.
25:46Markets are facing the biggest oil shortfall in history, bigger than the Arab oil embargo,
25:51Iran's Islamic revolution, and the Kuwait invasion combined.
25:56Now here's the thing. What he's saying is true right there.
26:00I could both recognize the Iranian regime is brutal, is terroristic, has engaged in horrible
26:08conduct. But I can also acknowledge that what this individual is saying is accurate.
26:13He is speaking with facts publicly while the Trump regime is not.
26:18That is terrible. That is a terrible fact right there.
26:22That Donald Trump is out there spewing that Iran used tomahawks on its own people
26:29when we know that's false.
26:30It didn't happen. And we see the foreign minister of Iran saying things that, in
26:38this instance, it is an accurate thing that he said.
26:41Or how about when he says the following?
26:43Iran does not want to harm ordinary Americans who overwhelmingly voted to end involvement in
26:49costly foreign wars. Blame for surging gas prices, costlier mortgages, and pummeled 401ks lies squarely
27:00with Israel. And it's due.
27:02in Washington. Now, obviously, Foreign Minister Aragji is trying to manipulate us.
27:12I think we have to understand what his objective is behind posting that, but he
27:17is appealing to things that actually resonate with the American people.
27:24What he is saying there, once again, is true.
27:29If you're an American and you're reading what he wrote, you're like, why am I
27:34agreeing in this case with the foreign minister of Iraq?
27:38It's hard. I'm like, why is this guy saying truthful things?
27:42He's being very deliberate in his language and messaging.
27:45He's being surgical with it.
27:48He knows the target audience here in the US are people who are psychologically tortured,
27:53living paycheck to paycheck, people here who don't want foreign wars.
27:58This is the least popular war in American history at this time.
28:03It just started. So he knows those dynamics and he's appealing manipulatively to the sympathies
28:13of the American people, but he's using that.
28:15Then you contrast that to Donald Trump's bloviating speeches where Donald Trump is asked, well,
28:21what's your message to the Iranian people?
28:24Like, are you going to help the Iranian people out?
28:27Are you going to, you know, do anything for them because they are, you know,
28:33worried? What's your objectives regarding, you know, people out there who want to, you know,
28:39who are protesting? Like, are you going to, are you going to try to help
28:42them out at all? You know, and Donald Trump's response is, you know, the Iranian
28:46people are menacing people. They're all very menacing people.
28:50And, you know, I'm very concerned about them.
28:53And it's like, okay, well, if you attack the men and he calls them nasty,
28:56do we have the clip, Jeremy, where Donald Trump says that they're menacing?
29:03I think, I think we have that clip.
29:05It's, uh, where does he say it?
29:07He goes, da, da, da, da, da.
29:09Putin is helpful. Let's play that clip.
29:13President, you promised the Iranian people you would help them, but it sounds like you're
29:16willing to end this fight after your military objectives have wrapped up.
29:20Is that, isn't that a betrayal?
29:21Will I help them? I'd like to, if they can behave, but they've been very
29:26menacing. You know, they're great people.
29:29They have an amazing population.
29:31It's amazing, smart, brilliant, energetic.
29:36They have a great point.
29:37I'd love to help them, but they have to be in a system that allows
29:40them to be helped. Again, he says they're very menacing people.
29:47Just think about that. Very menacing people.
29:49And, and you're trying to appeal to them.
29:52Like the messaging, it's like a worst case scenario in every aspect of this for
29:58how Trump rushed into this war, how unprepared he was.
30:03We now have to remove THAAD missile systems from South Korea.
30:09We just took those systems.
30:11And in South Korea, their, their president, President Lee's like, well, we want our systems
30:16here, but we cannot fully enforce our opinion.
30:20Just think about it. The South Korean president says we oppose the U .S.
30:24withdrawal of some of our air defense weapons, but we cannot fully enforce our opinions.
30:31How, how, so we've screwed over all the allies that we believed we had in
30:36the Middle East. We're screwing over all our, all our allies in Asia.
30:40We previously screwed over all of our NATO allies.
30:45And then Donald Trump keeps getting advice from Putin.
30:48He keeps having, he keeps having Putin call him.
30:50And he keeps on bragging about these conversations with Putin, as Putin provides Iran with
30:56weapons, right? As Putin helps Iran target American assets and brags about it publicly that
31:04he's doing it. Also remember Donald Trump's buddy, the prime minister of Pakistan, the U
31:10.S. tarnished its relationship with India, except where we allow India now to buy oil
31:15from Russia. But Trump destroyed America's relationship with India, pushed India to be more dependent
31:22on Russia. And Trump was siding with Pakistan because the Pakistan crypto fund invested in
31:28world liberty financial, which is Trump's family thing, then Trump.
31:32And also Pakistan said that Trump should get a Nobel peace prize.
31:35And India wouldn't say that.
31:37Well, now the prime minister of Pakistan's like, we want to wish the new Ayatollah,
31:42Mojaba, the best. You know, we want to let him know our heart is with
31:47him for the martyrdom of his father, Khamenei.
31:51And, you know, Pakistan stands with you, basically.
31:54You know, like this is Donald Trump's buddy right here.
31:56Not a buddy at all.
31:57It's idiotic. It's idiotic that the United States has abandoned all of its, all of
32:06the clout. I guess if you, all of its post -World War II strength and
32:11alliances, and the system where America was the envy of the world, I guess it,
32:15I guess it says something about how strong, if you want to talk about strength,
32:19I guess it says something that it took a year and what?
32:26January, February, March, 13. months to like break, break.
32:32And then it somehow held, I was like, sure, like, okay, tariffs against the world,
32:37threatening Greenland, threatening, I'm like, this has got to break, right?
32:41But it shows you the strength of the goodwill the US had built World War
32:47II that America was able to hold it together.
32:50But everything this loser in the Oval Office did was break, break, break, break, break,
32:54break, break. Even when the Supreme Court helped him out by ruling against his tariffs
32:57against the world, that wasn't good for him.
32:59He could have just taken a win by losing.
33:01But then he's like, actually, Section 122 against the world, right?
33:05He could have, you know, taken the, you know, taken a fake win based on
33:09the last Iran war and said, hey, we got what we need done, then negotiate,
33:14you pick the foreign minister of Oman to mediate, you know, you enter into a
33:17mediation, the foreign minister of Oman says, Trump, you did a better deal than Obama,
33:22go out there and say, I did a better deal than Obama, right?
33:25Spike the football, he had the opportunity to do that.
33:28But instead, he was told by Netanyahu that Israel was going to invade.
33:33So Trump invaded, but Trump could have actually said he did a good deal.
33:36And we all probably would have been like, well, you know, I would trust but
33:39verify, like, we don't trust it, we'll have to verify, this may be a fake
33:43deal. But if he did a better deal than Obama, what would I say?
33:47Trump panics after making better deal than Obama, like, no, I'd be like, okay, that's
33:51a good deal. But he couldn't take the W.
33:54Instead, he did this, did this.
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37:40So within the past hour or so, Donald Trump's posted the following.
37:44If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no
37:49reports of them doing so, we want them removed immediately.
37:52If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the military
37:57consequence... to Iran will be at a level never seen before.
38:00If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be
38:04a giant step in the right direction.
38:06Additionally, we are using the same technology and missile capabilities deployed against drug traffickers to
38:11permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuzh Strait.
38:16They will be dealt with quickly and violently.
38:18Beware, Donald J. Trump. You see he's trying to find an exit strategy here as
38:24well. It will be a giant step in the right direction.
38:27So just so you are following this, we went from regime change and Donald Trump
38:34must pick the next leader and it'll be a democracy to we'll just pick someone
38:40in the Islamic Republic who will be friendly to Donald Trump to actually Trump will
38:45be okay with the Ayatollah's more extreme son as the new Ayatollah.
38:51But if you remove the mines, that will be viewed as a win for the
38:57United States. Just remove the mines that Donald Trump said doesn't exist and that will
39:05be a huge step in the right direction by removing supposedly non -existent mines.
39:11Do you see like this is also how like he does like when he does
39:15his like fake deals? Like remember when he did like his deal with China and
39:19he was like, we're bringing in X million.
39:22I forget what it is.
39:23You know, tons of soybeans, whatever the number was, 12 million tons or metric tons,
39:2912 million metric tons of soybeans.
39:31We did it. It was like, yeah, last year it was 28 and you only
39:35delivered 3 million metric tons of soybeans.
39:38MAGA! MAGA! That's a less number.
39:42See, the thing about Donald Trump, like everything with MAGA, right?
39:46It's all an op. It's all a psychological operation.
39:49It's a fraud. It's a con game, right?
39:51Donald Trump is probably the best con artist, fraudster in at least recent history, maybe
39:58even world history. I don't know what he's able to tap into kind of people's
40:03reptilian brains. I don't know how after bankrupting so many things and screwing so many
40:09people over, how he's able to do it again.
40:12Like I can't psychologically understand how this zombified MAGA mind virus, you know how they
40:20use that term, how it like infects people because it bears no relationship to truth
40:25and facts. And he fails so frequently and so big that I don't get how
40:29people just don't go, wait, this guy's a loser.
40:31I really struggle with it.
40:33I struggle to understand the psychology.
40:35I study it. I study the pathology, but I try to also think of how
40:41people can see a guy who's lost, isn't like a loser, who's always lost, bankrupt,
40:48bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, and then think, wait a minute, but right now I'm
40:52going to be the one time that this doesn't I don't, I don't, I don't
40:55get how that connection is made, but he taps into people's like reptilian brains.
41:00He defrauds you and then he screws you over and then he takes for himself.
41:04I mean, just even like leaving the last time he was in office, like it's
41:09crazy, right? Like the guy led an insurrection against the country and left the country
41:13with COVID raging, right? And, and he would do the press conferences like a mural,
41:19like a miracle. It's all going to go away.
41:22And people like, let him do it.
41:24Like he became deeply unpopular, but like the guy should be in prison.
41:28Like the guy should be tried for war crimes, like for the things that he
41:32does. I mean, even with COVID, I mean, the guy's misinformation, disinformation, lies probably caused
41:40millions of deaths that could have been prevented if we had a normal competent person
41:44in office who back in 19, that's why it's called COVID -19, saw what was
41:49happening, then did all of the steps that you would have taken before, you know,
41:55something like this happened. I mean, think about there were many really bad, you know,
41:59potential pandemics and situations that prior presidents dealt with, not to suggest that that would
42:04have been, that those were at the scale of COVID -19, but Trump couldn't handle
42:08it worse. And then while those, I remember watching it, that's one of the ways
42:11Midas touch started. I saw that death toll number grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow,
42:15grow, grow, grow, right? And, you know, I looked at it and it would be
42:19like, you know, thousands of people dying each day.
42:21And he'd be like, it's great.
42:23By Easter, by Easter, it's better.
42:25By Easter. And it's like, what do you just make, you're making updates, you're making
42:29things up, you know, and then leads an insurrection.
42:32He's doing the same thing again with this disastrous war in Iran.
42:35And so within 51 minutes after posting, Iran has put out, if Iran has put
42:42out any mines and we have no reports of them doing so, right, he wrote
42:46that at 1 .07 PM.
42:47Then like 45 minutes later, he goes, I am pleased to report that within the
42:52last few hours, we have hit and completely destroyed 10 inactive mine laying boats and
42:59or ships with more to follow, Donald J.
43:02Trump. Like, I don't need you live tweeting this war.
43:05I don't need you saying these don't exist than live tweeting.
43:08It does exist. I really don't need that.
43:10I just, just be normal.
43:13You shouldn't have gotten us into this war in the first place.
43:16Conduct yourself like a grownup and just, just like at a bare minimum, like just,
43:22just act like an adult.
43:24Like that's where we're at right now.
43:25Just act like an adult.
43:27And that's just what he's posting right now.
43:30It just sucks. It's like it sucks to have a leader in this country who's
43:34not a leader, who's just a pathetic thing.
43:37And again, I don't know how anybody watches this and gets it.
43:41I'll give you positive data points, though.
43:43You know, you have these right wing podcasters like Owen Schroyer used to be MAGA,
43:48you know, Jimmy Dore. I'll show you what they were saying on their show yesterday.
43:53I mean, these are these were MAGA people.
43:55These were right wing people.
43:57Here's what they're saying about Trump, at least here.
43:59Play this clip. You got some of the biggest names on the right or in
44:04the MAGA universe completely going against and calling out Donald Trump.
44:08What what is there? Anything left to MAGA?
44:11And what does this mean for the midterms?
44:13Right. I guess the only thing left of MAGA is what we call cuck servatives
44:19and neocons is is I would say what's left in it.
44:23And it really has become a cult.
44:25It really goes back to what I said.
44:26They used to have to print lies about Trump.
44:28Now they just print the truth.
44:29It has become a cult.
44:31And the names that you just mentioned, you know, we might have different approaches to
44:36politics and different policies. But I think the one thing that remains is consistency.
44:40You know, we remain consistent on the things that we think the things that we
44:43say. And that's why we're so upset with the direction of where this Trump administration
44:48is going. You've got like these right wing streamers, like these Gen Z right wing
44:54streamers, you know, who, by the way, say like some real offensive stuff, you know,
44:58that I really despise. But this was part of Trump's kind of MAGA coalition.
45:04These like young men. Remember, it was like the young men.
45:07Ben, you got to be like Joe Rogan.
45:09And I'm like, no, stop.
45:10That's not the case. We need to set positive examples and we could lead and
45:14show strength by actually defending marginalized communities and by uplifting people and treating women with
45:22respect and all people with respect.
45:24That's to me what it actually means to be a man and to show those
45:29qualities. I never bought into like, go down this rabbit hole.
45:32Remember after the election, I was like, you got to be more like that.
45:35It's like, no, shut up.
45:35That's not the case. Just be yourself.
45:37Be authentic, you know, and support people, help people, uplift.
45:41Don't bully. Bullying's not cool.
45:43Like, what are we talking about?
45:44Anyway, I just want to, again, contextualize clips before I showed stuff like this on
45:48the channel. So there's this guy, Sneeko.
45:51And again, he's like a right wing streamer guy.
45:54And here's what he has to say.
45:55Let's play this clip. The troops that just came back and they become wrapped in
46:01the American flag. Trump doesn't even take his hat off.
46:04This is a signal to all U .S.
46:06troops. Wait, I'm dying for Israel and you can't even show me respect and take
46:10off my hat when I'm in the coffin.
46:14Right. Or Candace Owens, who used to be a big kind of MAGA person.
46:18And she's like, you know, Trump's a coward.
46:21He's a traitor. I mean, this is what the right wing podcasters are just outright
46:25saying now that Trump's a traitor.
46:26Here, play this clip. I'll reiterate my perspective that Trump allowing this to happen, allowing
46:32this to go forward. It makes him a traitor and it also makes him a
46:36coward. And you would do well to accept that fact.
46:40OK, stop playing left or right.
46:42Stop saying it would have been different if Democrat was in office.
46:44Stop playing Republican or Democrat.
46:47Wake up. These people occupy both sides.
46:51And I believe very much that world wars are in effect global resets.
46:56That's why they always want them.
46:57They use propaganda to convince people to sign up for their own slaughter.
47:02But meanwhile, you have MAGA Mike Johnson, Trump's sycophant.
47:06He's out there in Doral, Florida, where they're at Trump's resort for the Republican retreat.
47:14And here's what MAGA Mike says.
47:16Here, let's play this clip.
47:17He is the most active president, the most energized president, the most successful president, I
47:24believe, in my lifetime. And he's proven it over and over and over.
47:28And part of it is because he doesn't sleep, thankfully.
47:31He's got so much to do.
47:32And I know that because I get calls from him at 2 a .m.
47:35and 7 a .m., sometimes in the same day.
47:37He doesn't require a lot of sleep, thankfully.
47:40And he is the man for the moment.
47:42I mean, what the hell is that even?
47:44Like, that's like that's weird.
47:45Like, that's weird behavior. Like, are you sexually attracted to him, MAGA Mike?
47:52Does he arouse you? I don't even understand the behavior of that to another human
47:59like that. What are you doing?
48:02You're supposed to be the Speaker of the House.
48:05You have your own branch of government, you idiot.
48:08You're Article 1. Do you want to date the guy?
48:12Like, is that what this is about?
48:14Like, what do you want?
48:15You want to sleep with him?
48:16And I'm not trying to be facetious at all.
48:18Like, I'm really not. Like, I think a lot of the stuff that's going on
48:22in MAGA is unreconciled feelings that I think they have.
48:28I'm giving you my opinion.
48:29But like, I think when it comes to Lindsey Graham, this is where I switch
48:32from facts to giving you my opinion.
48:34You know, I mean, I think that he gets actually, I think he gets aroused
48:39talking about blowing things up.
48:41I think he's been unable to grapple with himself.
48:45And I think that he gets, I think that he gets aroused by it.
48:47I mean, you look at J .D.
48:49Vance and his background. You know, he said that he was gay for most of
48:53his life. life and then he said that he was anti -gay but he in
48:57high school he said he was gay and then he was said that jd vance
49:00is the anti -gay guy then he was the you know the guy from appalachia
49:04who hates trump then he likes trump and so i i don't know like by
49:07the way i want you all to you know i want everybody to i want
49:13to empower and i want people to live thriving lives i really do but when
49:18you're bringing whatever you're going through and then you're screwing up everybody else's life because
49:24you have these these unreconciled uh you know inner inner situations like just go about
49:32your life mega mike if if you are what oh good mega mike we should
49:36all respect that jd vance you know what i think you probably would have been
49:40happier if you took you know a path that you had in high school and
49:44and and then we would all be less uh we would all be more safe
49:48you know as as as a as a result you know of of this behavior
49:53and again this this behavior right here is is is just utterly strange and baffling
50:00to see the leader of article one mega mike go there and also like when
50:05people are like oh he doesn't sleep that's that's not a good i want him
50:10to sleep i think it's actually a good quality that people can get sleep so
50:16they can be well rested and prepared we see donald trump fall asleep at press
50:21conferences during the day so he's sleeping on the job and if he's awake tweeting
50:28or posting or whatever he's doing that's that's really problematic as that's more problematic we
50:34see him sleep in front of us and he's tired and he should probably go
50:38to sleep at a regular hour though then you can boast and brag that look
50:42he goes to sleep at 10 he wakes up at six maybe he goes for
50:46a walk and exercises has some breakfast that would be actually strength you know and
50:53and that's a good example to set i don't i don't need to i don't
50:56need to hear that the guy doesn't sleep and that's not a brag you know
51:00that we have a non -well -rested in my opinion dementia -ridden individual just my
51:06opinion you know a person up there like just spewing nonsense right now who's who
51:12controls the nuclear codes who basically got us into a world war we may not
51:17call this world war three but the world is at war right now every country
51:22is essentially somehow involved in a war you could define that however you want to
51:26define it without any end in sight and donald trump before the markets close manipulates
51:33the market you know people lose money people you know it's it's crazy what's going
51:37on out there let's talk about caroline levitt which she's been saying um she was
51:42asked by a reporter at this press conference you know reuters reported 150 u .s
51:47service members injured right that's why are we getting it from reuters first like this
51:53is something normally an administration would talk about caroline let's talk about it questions for
52:00you today alex thank you uh reuters has reported that about 150 u .s service
52:07members have been injured so far can you confirm that number and elaborate on that
52:11um i can't confirm this the exact number i know it's within that ballpark but
52:16i would defer you to the pentagon um for a specific number of of wounded
52:20or injured thus far okay what about boots on the ground talk to us about
52:27that caroline let's play it as for boots on the ground the president has uh
52:31talked about this repeatedly uh wisely he does not rule options out as commander in
52:36chief so again i would uh hesitate to confirm anything that a democrat on capitol
52:40hill says right now about the president's thinking you just said it yourself you just
52:46said you don't rule out boots on the ground we don't want that no one
52:50wants this war what are you doing okay well what about the united states striking
52:55the iranian elementary school with an american -made tomahawk killing 150 little girls right to
53:04distract from the epstein files involving epstein class abusing and being predators to little girls
53:12the epstein class and the trump regime went to war with iran and then killed
53:18little girls there's kind of a a a theme here right in who they target
53:25okay well what what about that what why did donald trump say the same way
53:30he said i've never been on epstein's jet right when we know he was barely
53:34knew the guy when he says he's a great guy who likes women on the
53:37younger side you know or we know the stuff that trump said so but why
53:42why would he say that america that iran used an american tomahawk on itself what
53:48the hell are you talking about caroline here play this clip why did president trump
53:56say yesterday that iran may have he have tomahawk missiles when there are only three
54:00other u .s allies plus the u .s that have those missiles and therefore look
54:04again president said yesterday he will accept the conclusion of this investigation by the department
54:09of war i know there's been a lot of speculation in the media about who
54:14may be responsible for this we're not going to get ahead of the department of
54:17war and the conclusion of that investigation the president has a right uh you words
54:20two words to share his opinions with the American public, but he has said he'll
54:24accept the conclusion of that investigation.
54:26And frankly, we're not going to be harassed by the New York Times, who's been
54:30putting out a lot of articles on this, making claims that have just not been
54:34verified by the Department of War to quickly wrap up this investigation because the New
54:38York Times is calling on us to do so.
54:41He has the right to share his own opinions.
54:46He has the right to share his own opinions.
54:48What are you talking about?
54:51Then the reporter said the president said he had the right to strike Iran because
54:57he believes that Iran was going to strike the U .S., but no one else
55:00is saying that. Literally nobody.
55:03Nobody thinks that was going to happen.
55:05Nobody. None of our allies, our intelligence, our military doesn't, not a single person believes
55:12that Iran was about to strike the United States on that Friday during the mediation.
55:17No one believes that. Where are you getting this from, Caroline?
55:20Here, play this clue. When I get back to the Oval Office after this.
55:24Sure. Thanks, Caroline. The president said yesterday for the first time that he had to
55:28strike Iran because he believes that Iran was going to strike U .S.
55:32targets within seven days. And then he then bumped that down later to three days.
55:37Where is he getting that?
55:38Well, that's not the first time the president has said that he chose to launch
55:42Operation Epic Fury because he felt as though Iran was going to strike the United
55:46States and our assets in the region first.
55:48Again, I addressed this in the last briefing.
55:51This was a feeling the president had based on facts, facts provided to him by
55:55his top negotiators who had been engaged with the Iranian regime in a good faith
55:59effort. The Iranian regime was lying, deceiving the United States of America, clearly trying to
56:05continue their nuclear program to create a bomb that would, of course, threaten the United
56:10States of America. Okay. And then finally, what about, Caroline, the fact that the Kremlin,
56:19that Putin is putting out statements saying Iran's helping, Iran is being helped out by
56:25Russia. Let's play it. Thanks, Caroline.
56:29The president said yesterday that President Putin told him he wanted to be helpful in
56:32the Middle East. The Kremlin put out a statement where Putin said, quote, I would
56:36like to reaffirm our unwavering support for Tehran and our solidarity with Iranian friends.
56:41How does the president think that Russia could be helpful if not helping Iran?
56:47And did the president push Putin on Russia sharing intelligence with Iran in this war?
56:52The president and his special envoy, Witkoff, have both said that, of course, they've sent
56:56a message to Russia that if that was taking place, it's not something they would
57:01be happy with. And they hope that it is not taking place.
57:03As for further details about the discussions between these two leaders, I'll leave it to
57:07the president to divulge any more of that conversation.
57:09But he did confirm it yesterday and provided you with a little bit of the
57:13background in his view and his perspective, as he always does.
57:17As he always does. Iran and Russia.
57:27Like, I mean, who are these people?
57:30Like, seriously, who are these humans?
57:33These are just the worst of the worst humans.
57:39And I often get told, well, you just don't like Trump.
57:42This is the anti -Trump channel.
57:43I don't care. Okay? If Donald Trump was some shitty billionaire who was shitty to
57:50people, at a macro level, I'd be upset about it, right?
57:55I would maybe express my views.
57:58But the issue is not Trump.
58:00It's that this individual with his deeply destructive pathology.
58:07Who, like a magnet, brings together others with the same destructive pathologies at different levels.
58:15These deeply, deeply sick human beings.
58:19And they come together. And they are predators.
58:23And they inflict real pain, suffering, and trauma on we the people, on you.
58:30And they make people's lives miserable.
58:32Because they're miserable. And all they know, rather than contribute, build, help, love, support, is
58:45destroy, kill, pillage, assault. That's their, they're wired.
58:52They're wired into those horrible qualities.
58:58And we have to, we have to recognize that.
59:01And we have to talk about principles and values and qualities of being adults and
59:08grownups. That's not talked about a lot.
59:10You know, Donald Trump will do a press conference, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
59:13blah, blah, blah. And it'll be like, okay, Donald Trump, crazy press conference.
59:16Sure, yeah. Caroline Levitt, you know, disastrous press conference.
59:19Yeah, I'm going to cover the breaking news.
59:20But when I have an opportunity to speak to you, I think that these shows
59:25are kind of like the nuts and bolts that hold the whole network together.
59:30Because this is where we can reflect on these breaking news pieces and just have
59:34a conversation about humanity, right?
59:37And how human beings should be conduct themselves and themselves and coexisting in a world.
59:43And I never thought that I'd have to speak to these issues, you know, in
59:48in the United States of America, but we have not just a lack of leadership,
59:53but we have really deeply troubled and sick human beings in these positions of power
59:59who are the worst people for this specific position.
1:00:03Whereas my baby daughter would be better as a president of the United States than
1:00:09Donald Trump because she wouldn't be engaged.
1:00:12All she would want to do is listen to Frozen all day.
1:00:15And if she just listened to Frozen all day, her markets can function and the
1:00:20government could run and she would love Elsa and Anna and she'd be very happy
1:00:24and everybody would be very happy.
1:00:25And we could all go on with our lives and other leaders can do their
1:00:29things and everyone could, and things can function.
1:00:31That's why I truly believe that my 18 month old baby would be a better
1:00:35president than Donald Trump, 100%.
1:00:37You know, just the things, if you just, if you just left a lot of
1:00:41this on auto drive, things would be, things would be much better.
1:00:45But Donald Trump is, is, is destructive.
1:00:46You know, same thing at all these other positions.
1:00:49It's like the worst of the worst people.
1:00:50You pick the person for the department of health who wants to kill people.
1:00:54In my opinion, you pick the person for the department of defense, you know, who
1:00:58couldn't run a nonprofit military organization and was embroiled in so much scandals there.
1:01:04And, you know, has all these horrific, horrific personal qualities that we learned about that
1:01:10he's not the person who could be running that.
1:01:11And you see it in action where he's out there, lethality, death, death.
1:01:15That's not what your job's supposed to be.
1:01:17You're not a serious human being, right?
1:01:19We have, you know, go through it, go through every position.
1:01:24Although, you know, my, my brother Geordi said, but, you know, Christy Noem in killing
1:01:29her dogs and killing the animals the way she did, at least, you know, demonstrated
1:01:34that that was at least consistent with what she did at ICE.
1:01:38You know, I was like, yeah, well, I mean, you know, but, but we, but
1:01:41we need people who are responsible adults.
1:01:44And what we should be talking with our children and grandchildren about is actually leadership
1:01:49qualities and empathy. And we should be deeply critical of just these, of these deeply
1:01:55troubled humans who, who, who don't behave appropriately.
1:01:59You know, once upon a time, uh, society would, would see this behavior and we
1:02:06would condemn it. You know, I don't know if it was, you know, when a
1:02:09reality TV show culture grew, and then you combine that with social media, and then
1:02:14there's kind of the shock and outrage and the inputs of all of the, um,
1:02:19you know, of all this information, you know, that the human mind wasn't able to
1:02:23fully ingest all of it.
1:02:26Then social media takes off, then AI.
1:02:29And so you have access to all this information, but when the information becomes perverted
1:02:34and diseased and, uh, and destroyed and infected in many ways and counterintuitively, there's less
1:02:43information when there's more access to information, allowing the right -wing oligarchs and oligarchs and,
1:02:49and, and, and the, you know, the authoritarians of the past to establish feudal dynamics,
1:02:55right? Of Lord versus peasant dynamics.
1:02:58Because if you go back to feudalism, a lot of the situation was disparity of
1:03:03education, um, and disparity, disparity of resources.
1:03:07So when you have all of this, um, uh, disparity of resources that exist, and
1:03:14you try to impose upon people to accept breadcrumbs and to keep people uneducated by
1:03:20giving it, by poisoning their information.
1:03:22Well, by poisoning their information source, you create that feudal dynamic.
1:03:27And I think in my opinion, that's what the Elon Musk's and the Peter Thiel's
1:03:31of people like that, you know, you know, know about this, this, this great power,
1:03:35but that's why we gotta, we gotta educate people here.
1:03:38That's what our job is here on this network to see what they're doing and
1:03:43to kind of reverse engineer it or engineer it for good and for democracy and
1:03:47to compete, whether it's on YouTube or wherever.
1:03:50So that's what we're going to do every day here.
1:03:51That's what I'm going to do.
1:03:52That's my job. Um, so we're grateful for all of you.
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