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Speaker 1: but let's get into it here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's start off in San Francisco. Officers from CBS News
Speaker 1: officers shoot at a truck outside of Coast Guard during
Speaker 1: protests again San Francisco Bay Area immigration crackdown. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is about Antifa that like they
Speaker 1: love renting a U haul and trying to use that
Speaker 1: like a battering ram or use it as some They're
Speaker 1: not even like strapping the thing down with weapons or bombs.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's a vbed like a vehicle born id.
Speaker 1: It's not even that they're just they're just using these
Speaker 1: rented U hauls as just weapons in and of themselves.
Speaker 1: And this one did not go well at all. I
Speaker 1: know everybody likes to take shots at the Coast's from
Speaker 1: you know, veteran to veteran, kind of given given and
Speaker 1: taking the piss, so to speak. But uh yeah, this
Speaker 1: one really didn't go well for the Antifa cucks. But
Speaker 1: let's get into it here. Officers open fire Thursday night
Speaker 1: at a vehicle backing into a line of Coast Guard
Speaker 1: and law enforcement personnel outside the US Coast Guard base
Speaker 1: in Ala madid a La meda alamito, excuse me, site
Speaker 1: of a law a day long protests against what was
Speaker 1: originally planned as an immigration enforcement surge into the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Bay Area. A CBS Newsbay Area photographer at the
Speaker 1: scene captured videos showing a U haul truck reversing towards
Speaker 1: the base entrance and law enforcement firing their weapons at
Speaker 1: the vehicle. Yeah, they lit up the back end of
Speaker 1: this thing. Photographer Rick valor v lauu Men valarimn Jesus
Speaker 1: said the ul had been parked outside the base for
Speaker 1: the better part of the day until it inexplicably began
Speaker 1: to reverse quickly toward the officers blocking off the gate.
Speaker 1: He just hit the gas and sped towards them, Valherman said,
Speaker 1: and that's when they opened fire about twenty to thirty rounds.
Speaker 1: In a statement on social media overnight Friday Pacific time,
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard said, at approximately ten pm PDT on Thursday,
Speaker 1: Coast Guard security personnel standing watch on Coastguard Island observed
Speaker 1: a vehicle driving erratically and attempting to back into the
Speaker 1: Coast Guard Base Alameda. Coastguard personnel issued multiple verbal commands
Speaker 1: to stop the vehicle. The driver failed to comply, and
Speaker 1: pursued needed to put the vehicle in reverse. When the
Speaker 1: vehicle's actions posed a direct threat to the safety of
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard and the security personnel. Law enforcement officers
Speaker 1: discharged several rounds of live fire. That statement said no
Speaker 1: Coastguard personnel were injured during the incident, well Shocker. The
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security said Friday morning that the truck
Speaker 1: driver was wounded in the stomach and was being hailed
Speaker 1: for a mental health evaluation. And it makes sense that
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security would speak on this, not
Speaker 1: the DoD because once again, Coast Guard is typically under
Speaker 1: the jurisdiction of Homeland Security only during times of war.
Speaker 1: They actually considered a part of the DoD. The FBI
Speaker 1: San Francisco Field Office said it was the lead investigating
Speaker 1: agency for the incident. At the request of the US
Speaker 1: Coast Guard. The FBI responded to the scene and deployed
Speaker 1: its Evidence Response Team, Crisis Management Team, and special bomb
Speaker 1: technicians to assist the indie investigation. The FBI San Francisco
Speaker 1: Field Office said in a statement to CBS News Bay
Speaker 1: Area two individuals were injured in the incident, both sustaining
Speaker 1: non life threatening injuries. One of the individuals injured has
Speaker 1: been identified as a subject in the investigation. Shocker. That
Speaker 1: subject has been released from the hospital and is currently
Speaker 1: in custody. Well, that's good. In a statement on Friday,
Speaker 1: U Haul told CBS News Bay Area it gave the
Speaker 1: FBI the customer rental contract, the customer's driver's license, and
Speaker 1: a photo of the customer. The driver takes off after shooting,
Speaker 1: then returns. The drivers stopped backing up when the gunfire erupted,
Speaker 1: and then drove away from the police line, stopping briefly
Speaker 1: before driving away and then returning to the scene shortly after.
Speaker 1: Because apparently, after getting your U Haul shot up, you
Speaker 1: realize that, hey, maybe if we went back, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: recognize that this is the same you, aul. That's mind
Speaker 1: blowing to me. But all right, the driver of the
Speaker 1: U Haul came back, parked it down the street here
Speaker 1: and walked out and left. Villaman said that before authorities arrived,
Speaker 1: he inspected the abandoned vehicle and saw multiple bullet holes
Speaker 1: but no blood in the cabin. The protesters who were
Speaker 1: still at the base largely cleared out after the shooting.
Speaker 1: He said, that's all it really takes, you know, That's
Speaker 1: all you really takes to disperse a crowd. Couple of
Speaker 1: pop shots where no one was actually killed, But it's
Speaker 1: enough to let the crowd know, like, oh oh, they're
Speaker 1: like strapped up like that. Though, all right, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: my life isn't worth taking a stance for illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: that I actually don't know and like don't care about.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's good things. The Coast Guard
Speaker 1: base was to be a Border Patrol staging area. The
Speaker 1: base was to have been the staging area for a
Speaker 1: planned immigration enforcement search by Border Patrol agents in the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Bay Area. President Trump later said that he
Speaker 1: planned to the search in San Francisco and had been
Speaker 1: called off, and on Friday, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said
Speaker 1: she confirmed that the operation had been canceled for the
Speaker 1: entire Bay area. Wow, so I guess the protesters did
Speaker 1: get what they were after after all. Home Protesters began
Speaker 1: gathering outside the base entrance early Thursday morning ahead of
Speaker 1: the anticipated immigration enforcement crackdown in San Francisco, with some
Speaker 1: demonstrators attempting to block vehicles going through the gates. The
Speaker 1: gathering turned into a day long standoff between California Highway
Speaker 1: Patrol officers and protesters, who were later joined by one
Speaker 1: hundred to two hundred more demonstrators who marched from a
Speaker 1: rally in Oakland fruit Vale District to the base well
Speaker 1: the jokes right themselves, also known as Coast Guard Island
Speaker 1: and an artificial island in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland
Speaker 1: and Alameda. The shoot hold on. It just jumped on
Speaker 1: me for no reason here. The CHP said in a
Speaker 1: press release that the shooting at the base happened once
Speaker 1: the protest action had calmed down and the officers had
Speaker 1: left the base for the evening. The other CHP officers
Speaker 1: located the abandoned suspected vehicle nearby following the shooting, the
Speaker 1: CHP said. The agency added the CHP Commissioner Sean Durry
Speaker 1: Derry met the Coast Guard leadership on Friday to coordinate
Speaker 1: efforts to ensure the safety of the Coastguard personnel and
Speaker 1: the public exercising their First Amendment right. US officials told
Speaker 1: CBS News on Wednesday that the Trump administration and plan
Speaker 1: to expand its nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration to the
Speaker 1: Bay Area, and that the Border Patrol agents would stage
Speaker 1: at the base, located roughly fifteen miles from San Francisco.
Speaker 1: DHS Department of Homeland Security is targeting the worst of
Speaker 1: the worst criminal illegal aliens, including murders, rapists, gang members, pedophiles,
Speaker 1: and terrorists in cities such as Portland, Chicago, Memphis, and
Speaker 1: San Francisco. That was from the Department of Homeland Security spokesperson,
Speaker 1: And it does every day. DHS law enforcement will enforce
Speaker 1: the laws of our nation. Well, that was kind of retort,
Speaker 1: all right. Anyway, that repetitive mister Trump announced on his
Speaker 1: true social platform that the enforcement action in San Francisco
Speaker 1: was canceled following a conversation with the mayor and calls
Speaker 1: from tech leaders citing the city's progress in addressing crime.
Speaker 1: Despite the announcement, protesters remained outside the entrance of the
Speaker 1: base Thursday afternoon. Additional protests and rallies were held in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. Smoke grenades, flashbank devices deployed.
Speaker 1: The protesters began to arrive at the Coastguard Island around
Speaker 1: six am Thursday, blocking the entrance to the island. Shortly
Speaker 1: after seven am, a CBS Newsbay Area crew spotted a
Speaker 1: Coast Guard vehicle drive past the crowd and then fire
Speaker 1: flash banks and smoke grenades to disperse it. Yeah, flash
Speaker 1: banks are cool. At least two people were seen being
Speaker 1: detained at the site. One demonstrator appeared to have been
Speaker 1: hit by a piece of shrapnel or a projectile. A
Speaker 1: minister who was part of a group of interfaith leaders
Speaker 1: taking part. Okay, why does he keep doing that? The minister,
Speaker 1: identified as Jorge Bautista, spoke to reporters after the incident.
Speaker 1: I obviously was shot with whatever the Border Patrol had,
Speaker 1: said Bautista, who was a pastor at an Oakland church.
Speaker 1: And I came to say we came in peace, and
Speaker 1: he didn't care. There's nothing else to say. He wanted
Speaker 1: to cause harm to me. Okay, mister pastor, man, if
Speaker 1: you're blocking the entrance to a military installation, like, I
Speaker 1: don't even know what to tell you. If you play
Speaker 1: stupid games, you will in fact win stupid prizes. But yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: word up. Please rest on your title as some sort
Speaker 1: of a thing, anyone. It's clear that we're here to
Speaker 1: be on the side of love, Boutista added, because it
Speaker 1: is our responsibility to express love and be on the
Speaker 1: side of peace and to make sure no families are
Speaker 1: being harassed and threatened with their lives. Again, the Coast
Speaker 1: Guard had nothing to do with that. The Coast Guard
Speaker 1: base and the people that are serving there, they're just
Speaker 1: trying to get to work. But all right. They stopped
Speaker 1: at the crowd, then got out and said they were
Speaker 1: going to drive through us if we didn't move. They
Speaker 1: weren't going to stop once they started, and they started
Speaker 1: pushing through, said one Alameda resident who didn't give her name.
Speaker 1: They ran over one gentleman's foot and another person got
Speaker 1: pushed off. Okay, once again to reiterate the point that
Speaker 1: I just said, as per my previous email, if you
Speaker 1: play stupid games, you will win stupid prizes. I don't
Speaker 1: know what else to tell you except hey, if the
Speaker 1: guys with guns and badges get out their cars and
Speaker 1: say if you don't move, you will be ran over,
Speaker 1: and then they like drive forward, don't be shocked when
Speaker 1: they literally told you what was gonna happen and it
Speaker 1: takes place. It's mind blowing to me. Some of these
Speaker 1: some people's kids, they had the right to come out
Speaker 1: here and walk around, and so do I said one
Speaker 1: man wearing a Maga hat who also didn't share his name.
Speaker 1: We're not here to be violent, but we have If
Speaker 1: we are being aggressed, what do you do remarked in
Speaker 1: Oakland resident Kendra Ferguson, Okay, so again, this U haul
Speaker 1: truck decided that they were going to try to back in.
Speaker 1: I don't know what exactly they were thinking, but they
Speaker 1: show enough, tried to play the game, and then got
Speaker 1: lit up in the process. Let's listen to CBS News
Speaker 1: talk about it. Here. President Trump says he's ending, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: this is this something else. Officers shoot at U haul
Speaker 1: truck near protests outside California Coast Guard base.
Speaker 3: There has been criticism and controversy over the tactics federal
Speaker 3: agents are using against people protesting immigration crackdowns. CBS News
Speaker 3: some Land Security correspondent to Cole Skanga, who joins US Now,
Speaker 3: spoke exclusively with the governor of Illinois and a top
Speaker 3: border Patrol official about the Trump administration's efforts to deploy
Speaker 3: the National Guard there and has more for us. Good morning, Nicole,
Speaker 3: What did they tell you?
Speaker 4: Good morning, Errol Will. We sat down with two leaders
Speaker 4: with two very different perspectives on the immigration enforcement mission
Speaker 4: here on the streets of Chicago and the suburbs. Illinois
Speaker 4: Governor J. B. Pritsker and Chief of Patrol Gregory Bavino,
Speaker 4: who told US federal agents have racked up twenty seven
Speaker 4: hundred arrests so far in the larger Chicago area. Bavino
Speaker 4: also told us he was ready to deploy to San Francisco,
Speaker 4: but ultimately stood down. Overnight police opening fire on this
Speaker 4: U haul truck as it backs into them outside this
Speaker 4: Coast Guard base near Oakland. Our CBS San Francisco station
Speaker 4: k pix's camera was rolling as it happened, the driver
Speaker 4: then pulling forward and stopping briefly before slowly taking off.
Speaker 4: According to witnesses, at least two people were struck by
Speaker 4: the truck. As of now, the driver's whereabouts are unknown.
Speaker 4: The base was set to be a staging ground for
Speaker 4: one hundred federal agents deployed by President Trump to San
Speaker 4: Francisco to begin immigration enforcement. Other cities have faced similar actions,
Speaker 4: like Chicago, where Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker unveiled a new
Speaker 4: accountability commission Thursday aimed at documenting what he claims our
Speaker 4: civil rights violations by federal agents, whether.
Speaker 5: It's the courts now or the elected officials later.
Speaker 1: We've got to make sure we have a record to.
Speaker 4: Show demonstrators and law enforcement have repeatedly faced off outside
Speaker 4: this Immigration and Customs enforcement facility in Broadview, where CBP
Speaker 4: Chief of Patrol Gregory Bavino told US agent's use of
Speaker 4: force has been exempl There have been in the Chicago
Speaker 4: area CBP agents who have opened fire. We have also
Speaker 4: seen incidents of pepperballs being deployed above the waste, which
Speaker 4: is in violation of DHS policies. Are there instances that
Speaker 4: you feel as those CBP agents have acted outside of protocol?
Speaker 2: I think they've done a fantastic job in those chaotic
Speaker 2: environments that you see here at Broadview and other locations.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, aiming above the waste is within policy.
Speaker 2: It can be if someone strays into a pepper ball,
Speaker 2: then that's on them. Don't protest and don't trespass.
Speaker 4: Earlier this month, the Trump administration cited those clashes to
Speaker 4: justify deploying hundreds of National Guard troops in Chicago, and
Speaker 4: just this week a federal judge extended a temporary ban
Speaker 4: preventing that deployment, likely until the Supreme Court weighs in.
Speaker 2: If we have the National Guard here, they can take
Speaker 2: over those protection duties of the federal facilities so that
Speaker 2: we can be out on the streets apprehending other bad
Speaker 2: people and bad things.
Speaker 4: I do think Americans might be concerned about the US
Speaker 4: military being in their neighborhoods. But what I'm hearing from
Speaker 4: you is if the National Guard comes to Chicago, they
Speaker 4: won't be in the streets, That's correct. We also asked
Speaker 4: Chief Gregory Bovino if any federal agents had been disciplined
Speaker 4: or put on leave and connection to tactics used in
Speaker 4: the larger Chicago area, including those two incidents where federal
Speaker 4: agents allegedly open fire. He told us, to his knowledge,
Speaker 4: no one has been disciplined erld.
Speaker 1: And nor will they. The U haul truck was backing
Speaker 1: into them rapidly, so they took defensive posture, which is
Speaker 1: their right in this case, their duty. Go ahead, Sam,
Speaker 1: not to be.
Speaker 6: The country bumpkin and all.
Speaker 7: Buts yeah, attacking federal agents and federal troops.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 6: I think we can all acknowledge that.
Speaker 7: So about one hundred and fifty, one hundred six years ago,
Speaker 7: we a bunch of Southern gentlemen did the same thing.
Speaker 7: They were labeled as traders and domestic terrorists. Why but why,
Speaker 7: It's like, why does it seem like they're trying to
Speaker 7: do the exact same thing, but they're being held as
Speaker 7: heroes when in reality.
Speaker 6: They are not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the Antifa group, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's who was driving the truck. I'm sure they have
Speaker 1: some sort of an affiliation, but Antifa is listed as
Speaker 1: a domestic terrorist group the same way the Clan is.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm good with this that being said,
Speaker 1: though they are. And that's the other thing too, Just
Speaker 1: like the man said, when the National Guard troops get
Speaker 1: deployed to a city, they're not going and taking to
Speaker 1: the streets. The exact same thing that took place in Portland,
Speaker 1: where you had a siege that was being hailed by
Speaker 1: the protesters besieging the ICE detention center. You had troops
Speaker 1: come in and disperse the protesters so that the ICE
Speaker 1: agents could go and do their job. Because what happened
Speaker 1: was you'd all these cops that were now being sent
Speaker 1: to the detention center to break up the protests, and
Speaker 1: there was crimes going on around the city that the
Speaker 1: cops were unable to answer because they were handling a riot.
Speaker 1: So the troops come in disperse the protest, the cops
Speaker 1: are able to go do cops shit. Ice agents are
Speaker 1: able to ice shit. Everybody goes on with their lives.
Speaker 7: I could see them using the like organized crimes, using
Speaker 7: being a part of this site kind of say everything
Speaker 7: up so that they could use it to be for
Speaker 7: the part their crimes to go undetected.
Speaker 1: But the are.
Speaker 7: I love our constitition, I love my country out love
Speaker 7: my fellow countrymen. But I feel like if you're swarming
Speaker 7: a federal building trying to harm the occupants and everything
Speaker 7: due to political dissistance, I feel like, if you're going
Speaker 7: to try to kill the federal agents, they have a
Speaker 7: light to open fire.
Speaker 1: Right, and I would agree with that. Listen, you have
Speaker 1: the right to peacefully as symbol you absolutely do. You
Speaker 1: have the right to stand on the sidewalk with signs
Speaker 1: and scream and scream until you can scream no more
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. The instant that you start blocking traffic,
Speaker 1: then like you you don't get shocked whenever you get
Speaker 1: ran over by a car. That I think that there's
Speaker 1: like literally there's a whole joke or that you would
Speaker 1: tell dumb people growing up, like you know, why don't
Speaker 1: you go play in traffic or something like there's a
Speaker 1: reason that that was said, because it's understood that you know,
Speaker 1: again some people's kids. Some people's kids I don't understand,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna get mad. So hitting them with
Speaker 1: a pepper ball above the waist is acceptable? Why not?
Speaker 1: Why not? Have you never played paintball? Yes? Getting shut out? Okay,
Speaker 1: don't shoot them in the face. If you can help it,
Speaker 1: spray them in the face. That's what OC spray is for.
Speaker 1: And like the good things, good things bear repellent works
Speaker 1: really well too. But pepperballs, yeah, those go above the waist.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that was some sort of a uh,
Speaker 1: you know, operational procedure telling them they couldn't do that.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous to me.
Speaker 7: There was a guy who threw a brick at an
Speaker 7: officer and two or three officers lit him up with
Speaker 7: the paintball thing and what no, I lied?
Speaker 6: They shot him with a with a bean bag from
Speaker 6: a shotgun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was a really good direct hit to
Speaker 1: his head. I remember that video that was in a
Speaker 1: a calimni.
Speaker 6: It was not It wasn't this head. They hit him
Speaker 6: below the waist.
Speaker 1: Oh no, the one I'm talking about, he threw it
Speaker 1: from on top of a bridge, and then they fired
Speaker 1: at him with a bean bag and smoked him in
Speaker 1: the like in the temple. It was a really good shot.
Speaker 7: I saw that one too, but I was but the
Speaker 7: the one that they hit the dude in the go
Speaker 7: and I'm like, see that's right now, we're just spawn
Speaker 7: camping at this point.
Speaker 1: But again, you play stupid games, you will in fact
Speaker 1: win super prizes.
Speaker 7: Why don't I for the lesson lethal Why don't we
Speaker 7: just use like frozen paintballs?
Speaker 6: And I say that I asked somebody who has played.
Speaker 7: I've played paintball before, so I know I'm a dumb ass,
Speaker 7: but it you're only gonna get tore about four or
Speaker 7: five times before you want quit.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm not a I'm about using frozen paintballs
Speaker 1: because at that point you're just like humming like stones
Speaker 1: at these people. But actual paintballs, I just speaking on
Speaker 1: behalf of myself. I don't see a problem with it
Speaker 1: that is less than legal. Hell, I wouldn't even be
Speaker 1: mad at them using sim rounds like out of an
Speaker 1: ar platform. Those hurt like a bitch, and they do
Speaker 1: the job, and it's very obvious that these are paint
Speaker 1: whenever they hit you. But again, the weapons and tactics
Speaker 1: that our police officers use and that the ICE agents
Speaker 1: are using in all this, they have their you know,
Speaker 1: operational procedures that they go through. Fine, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get in the way of like their you know, their
Speaker 1: roes and things like that. But yeah, if you're standing
Speaker 1: in the middle of traffic, expect to get hit by
Speaker 1: a car. If you are sieging and blockading a federal building,
Speaker 1: expect to get reprimanded. But again, this is all going
Speaker 1: into it. So this U haul truck decided that they
Speaker 1: wanted to try to like speedily reverse into a line
Speaker 1: of coastguardsmen and that didn't end well. So shout out
Speaker 1: to the Coastguard for taking a correct defensive posture. Moving
Speaker 1: on to the next article, the next talking point here,
Speaker 1: Trump and g are to hold a high stakes meeting
Speaker 1: in South Korea. This drop today. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: this is from CBS again Washington. President Trump and Chinese
Speaker 1: President Jijiping will meet in Busan, South Korea. I hope
Speaker 1: I pronounce that right on Thursday, Wednesday night, US time,
Speaker 1: as the two leaders to look to reach a trade
Speaker 1: deal they can both claim as a victory. The meeting
Speaker 1: is set for eleven am Local time or ten pm
Speaker 1: Eastern time Wednesday. Mister Trump's threat to impose an additional
Speaker 1: one hundred percent tariff on Chinese goods starting November first
Speaker 1: is effectively off the table for now, Treasury Secretary Scott
Speaker 1: the Scent said Sunday on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,
Speaker 1: mister Trump in the additional one hundred percent tariff on
Speaker 1: Chinese imports, which would bring the tariffs to Chinese goods
Speaker 1: to as high as one hundred and fifty five percent,
Speaker 1: in retaliation for China's increase export controls on rare earth
Speaker 1: minerals and magnets. China has the vast majority of the
Speaker 1: world supply of those raw materials critical for manufacturing and
Speaker 1: key technology areas like semiconductors and missiles. The President on
Speaker 1: Wednesday said he hopes to walk away from the meeting
Speaker 1: with the deal we're going to be. I hope making
Speaker 1: a deal, said mister Trump. I think we're going to
Speaker 1: have a deal. I think it will be a good
Speaker 1: deal for both. The world is watching, and I think
Speaker 1: we'll have something that's very exciting for everybody. The public
Speaker 1: White House schedule allotted less than two hours for a
Speaker 1: meeting with GI, although mister Trump said on a hot
Speaker 1: mic during a dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee
Speaker 1: j Myung young, probably butchering that but I don't speak
Speaker 1: the Corean that g meeting would last three or four hours.
Speaker 1: A board Air Force one on Wednesday, Trump said that
Speaker 1: he believes he'll be lowering the tariffs imposed on Chinese
Speaker 1: imports earlier this year due to fentanyl trafficking after his
Speaker 1: meeting with G, noting China would be working with me
Speaker 1: on a compromise. Bascent told faced the Nation that he
Speaker 1: expects that the threat of one hundred percent tariffs has
Speaker 1: gone away and has the threat of immediate imposition of
Speaker 1: the Chinese initiation a war initiating a worldwide export control regime.
Speaker 1: Bascent also said that he expects mister Trump and G
Speaker 1: to sign a deal Thursday placing TikTok under majority US ownership,
Speaker 1: although Chinese owned Byte Dance could still have a minority
Speaker 1: ownership stake for under twenty percent. We shall see. In August,
Speaker 1: Trump signed an executive action delaying the reinstatement of higher
Speaker 1: tariffs on Chinese goods for another ninety days, extending the
Speaker 1: pause until mid November. US and Chinese officials have been
Speaker 1: holding trade talks for months leading up to Thursday's Trump
Speaker 1: G meeting. Mister Trump's first Secretary of State, Mike Pompeos,
Speaker 1: said mister Trump should commit to Taiwan's and dependance, which
Speaker 1: he has over and over again. Jijuping is expected to
Speaker 1: press the President to for clarity about america stance towards
Speaker 1: Taiwan at their meeting this week. Pompeo wrote on social
Speaker 1: media that America should oblige and affirm our unequivocal commitment
Speaker 1: to Taiwan's sovereignty and independence from Beijing. The last time
Speaker 1: Trump and g met in person was on the sidelines
Speaker 1: of the Group of twenty YEAH Group of twenty summit
Speaker 1: in Japan in twenty nineteen, during Trump's first term in office.
Speaker 1: Although the two leaders have spoken by phone, the last
Speaker 1: conversation the White House disclosed between the two was on
Speaker 1: September nineteenth. Busan, known as an educational and cultural leader
Speaker 1: along Korea's southeastern coast, is the second most populous city
Speaker 1: in South Korea, behind its capital Seoul. The G meeting
Speaker 1: is the final agenda item on mister Trump's schedule as
Speaker 1: of his five day Asia tour, concluding a trip primarily
Speaker 1: intended to strengthen economic ties and cement trade deals in
Speaker 1: the South Pacific. That being said, I think it's never
Speaker 1: a bad time to hear from our resident Taiwanese correspondent
Speaker 1: Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: Don't trust China Chinaese ass ho.
Speaker 1: I fucking love that guy, I really do. Anyways, So
Speaker 1: let's get into the situation on the ground talking more
Speaker 1: about the trade deal.
Speaker 8: It is Thursday in South Korea and President Trump is
Speaker 8: meeting there with Chinese President shi Jinping, their first face
Speaker 8: to face encounter of mister Trump's second term, and they
Speaker 8: have a lot to talk about, including the US China
Speaker 8: trade war. Senior White House correspondent Buiju Jang is traveling
Speaker 8: with the President tonight.
Speaker 9: As President Trump touched down in South Korea, a military
Speaker 9: band welcomed him on the red carpet. On the agenda
Speaker 9: the APEX Summit, which brought together twenty one countries throughout
Speaker 9: the Asia Pacific region, and the high stakes encounter with
Speaker 9: Chinese President Shijingping, a critical trade deal hanging in the balance.
Speaker 7: Think it'll be a good deal for both and that's
Speaker 7: really a great result.
Speaker 9: A trade agreement could help China avoid the pending additional
Speaker 9: one hundred percent US tariff on all imports and curb
Speaker 9: the flow of chemicals used to make feentanyl. The US
Speaker 9: wants access to China's rare earth minerals and for Beijing
Speaker 9: to resume purchases of soybeans from American farmers who lost
Speaker 9: billions of dollars after Trump imposed tariffs on China in February.
Speaker 9: The Chinese turned to the South American market instead.
Speaker 5: We're losing money and it's a very desperate time.
Speaker 9: Aaron Lehman is president of the Iowa Farmers Union, and we.
Speaker 5: Thought that we would be having some trade tension, but
Speaker 5: we had no idea it would be this type of
Speaker 5: trade tension in this type of chaos that's happening.
Speaker 9: Just before Trump arrived in South Korea, North Korea announced
Speaker 9: it test launched cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea. The
Speaker 9: President brushed it off.
Speaker 10: He's been launching persons for decades, right, just another mission
Speaker 10: that was launched.
Speaker 9: President Trump says he will come back sometime in the
Speaker 9: future to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong un.
Speaker 9: Trump also acknowledged that he cannot run for a third term,
Speaker 9: saying that if you read the Constitution, it's quote pretty
Speaker 9: clear that he's not allowed to. He previously declined to
Speaker 9: rule it out.
Speaker 8: We do when it comes to a trade deal, or
Speaker 8: you heard President Trump's words there, he sounds pretty optimistic
Speaker 8: about it. What about the Chinese, how they feeling tonight?
Speaker 9: Well, Maurice, the Chinese have also signaled optimism, but they
Speaker 9: have been far more measured about it. They have not
Speaker 9: talked about any details of a potential deal or what
Speaker 9: concessions they might be willing to make, only saying that
Speaker 9: they want to work with the US to achieve positive outcomes.
Speaker 9: It is notable, though, Maurice, that on the fentanyl piece,
Speaker 9: China says it has already taken many steps to curb
Speaker 9: the flow of chemicals into the US and that America
Speaker 9: has to take concrete steps to cooperate.
Speaker 1: Okay, I can just tell you now that China has not,
Speaker 1: in fact started to curb the movement of chemicals for fentanyl. So,
Speaker 1: once again, to hear from our Hong Kong correspondent, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: don't trust China. China is asshole. That man is a man,
Speaker 1: the man that met the legend to be completely honest
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Sam, okay, not to contract because they talked
Speaker 10: about Trump on and for third term, which I know
Speaker 10: that it is illegal now, but does everybody forget that
Speaker 10: FD already ran for twelve years, he was a president
Speaker 10: for four terms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, after him. They changed the constitution to be a
Speaker 1: two term limit because.
Speaker 7: Of him, But yet they didn't make Congress a two
Speaker 7: term system when they have dinosaurs that's been in that
Speaker 7: beach for the last eighty years.
Speaker 1: It's very true. It's very true, and I am about
Speaker 1: term limits on all political positions. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: honest with you.
Speaker 6: If you actually look at it.
Speaker 7: Everybody thinks all the president's the one that has the
Speaker 7: most power.
Speaker 6: It isn't.
Speaker 7: It's Congress. It's not the executive bunch. It's the legislative bunch.
Speaker 7: Very true, which people, it seems. The more the oh
Speaker 7: do I get, the more I wouldize. People did not
Speaker 7: pay attention in a social studies thud grade government.
Speaker 1: No they didn't, nor do they pay attention in high
Speaker 1: school Civics class. It's very sad how many people in
Speaker 1: America don't understand how our government works. But these people
Speaker 1: have a voice to vote on who's running said government.
Speaker 1: It's mind blowing. I'm about barriers to entry. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I am of the belief that
Speaker 1: there should be some sort of a test that you
Speaker 1: have to pass before you're allowed to vote. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't even have to be some sort of a crazy
Speaker 1: hard test like long like algebra or even long division,
Speaker 1: just like a three question test, just the very basics
Speaker 1: of to make sure, like the same thing of like
Speaker 1: I am not a robot that you have to move
Speaker 1: the mouse and click the little thing on the internet.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with it being some sort of a really
Speaker 1: stupid thing like that, to where at least we have
Speaker 1: to know that you have a functioning brain before you vote.
Speaker 7: That's just me, Jacob. You have too much faith in
Speaker 7: the new generations.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I My faith in humanity is dwindling to
Speaker 1: a abysmal status, and it has gone more and more
Speaker 1: downhill as the day is long. Honestly, it's not getting better.
Speaker 7: I we do have the technology to clone, as we
Speaker 7: all know they did Dotty the Sheep. Mmmm. I wish
Speaker 7: that they could go and just they clone the founding
Speaker 7: fathers and just keep them like as a counsel and
Speaker 7: they become the thing because it seems like they actually
Speaker 7: gave a fuck more about the country than any of
Speaker 7: the politicians do today.
Speaker 1: Maybe yes, maybe no. But we also got to keep
Speaker 1: in mind how many of those founding fathers are like
Speaker 1: slave owners and shit, and they they probably also like
Speaker 1: women didn't have the right to vote or like speak.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, It's like perhaps like where
Speaker 1: your head said, I like because I know the direction
Speaker 1: you're going with that, but like maybe that wouldn't be
Speaker 1: like the best course.
Speaker 6: I'm I don't support slavery.
Speaker 1: I guess I just getting shouts out on the cage
Speaker 1: to night too. But anyway, I hear what you're trying
Speaker 1: to say, and I wouldn't be mad at possibly hearing
Speaker 1: from their own mouths what their intent was behind the
Speaker 1: Constitution and especially certain amendments and like, for instance, the
Speaker 1: Second Amendment, I would love to make sure that it
Speaker 1: shuts down the argument of the anti gun lobbyists and
Speaker 1: things like that. But all of that to be said,
Speaker 1: it's majority rule. That's how democracy works. And if the
Speaker 1: majority of people in this country were to vote that
Speaker 1: guns are evil, then like I'm not happy about it,
Speaker 1: but that's how it would go. At that point, I
Speaker 1: would move to another country, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: But is retarded. Yep, we can agree on that one
Speaker 1: as well. Not all, not all. I want to believe,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is just me getting high on hopium here.
Speaker 1: I want to believe that the majority of the citizens
Speaker 1: of this country genuinely want the same things. Right. They
Speaker 1: all want a good education for their children, they want
Speaker 1: affordable healthcare, they want interest rates to be down. They
Speaker 1: want to live in decent houses and drive decent cars,
Speaker 1: and they want to be able to retire at some point.
Speaker 1: They want to be able to worship whatever God they
Speaker 1: want in peace. I think that these are like the
Speaker 1: core foundational beliefs that pretty much all citizens in this
Speaker 1: country by and large pretty much. There are exceptions, but
Speaker 1: by and large, I feel like most people can get
Speaker 1: down with that. However, they get so lost in the
Speaker 1: weeds on the other shit that it gets spun into
Speaker 1: whole other talking points. But speaking of we're going to
Speaker 1: be bringing up that right now as a matter of fact. So,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania joins twenty four states in a lawsuit against the
Speaker 1: USDA over expiring snap benefits. Yes, there are multiple states
Speaker 1: that are actually suing Trump himself for the government shutdown.
Speaker 1: Let's learn about it together.
Speaker 11: The Shapier Administration growing joining a growing list of states
Speaker 11: that are suing the federal government to fund SNAP benefits
Speaker 11: before they expire. On Saturday, Fox forty three Smack clients.
Speaker 11: He's live in Susqueentna Township, Gauphin County. This evening where
Speaker 11: Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis on news conference at the Central
Speaker 11: PA Food Bank.
Speaker 1: Evan.
Speaker 12: Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis joined food bank leaders in urging
Speaker 12: the Trump administration to protect SNAP benefits for roughly two
Speaker 12: million Pennsylvanians. State officials called the impending SNAP cuts a
Speaker 12: man made crisis that would strain recipients and food banks.
Speaker 12: With SNAP benefits set to expire in a few days,
Speaker 12: state officials are calling on the Trump administration to take action.
Speaker 13: Were huge today because of a man made crisis.
Speaker 12: This week, the Shapiro Administration announced it would join twenty
Speaker 12: four other states ensuing the federal government over the suspension
Speaker 12: of SNAP benefits. The lawsuit comes after the USDA decided
Speaker 12: not to spend five billion dollars in emergency funds to
Speaker 12: keep the program going. Through the shutdown. Lieutenant Governor Austin
Speaker 12: Davis says that decision could cause two million Pennsylvanians to
Speaker 12: lose their SNAP benefits by November first. This is one
Speaker 12: of the most disturbing things that I have seen as
Speaker 12: a public public servant and during my time in elected office.
Speaker 9: And you're anxious not just about feeding their own families,
Speaker 9: what about whether our food pantries are going to have
Speaker 9: enough food for everyone.
Speaker 12: In total, the SNAP program pays roughly three hundred and
Speaker 12: sixty six million dollars to Pennsylvania recipients each month. State
Speaker 12: Treasurer Stacy Garrity is proposing using short term investment loans
Speaker 12: to ensure that amount gets paid to families this November.
Speaker 14: Our most vulnerable populations should not feel the impact of
Speaker 14: the lack of a state budget and a federal government shutdown.
Speaker 12: In a statement, Republican Congressman Dan Musser called on Senate
Speaker 12: Democrats to help end the government shutdown, saying, quote, if
Speaker 12: Governor Shapiro truly cared about the one point eight million
Speaker 12: Pennsylvanians who rely on SNAP, he'd be urging Senate Democrats
Speaker 12: to pass the Clean Continuing Resolution to reopen the government
Speaker 12: and restore these critical benefits. As the SNAP deadline approaches,
Speaker 12: state officials are hoping that Congress can get a deal
Speaker 12: done to protect families in need.
Speaker 13: Families can't eat promises, they need substance.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 12: Several state Democrats have also proposed pulling sixty two million
Speaker 12: dollars in interest from the state's Rainy Day fund help
Speaker 12: offset some of the SNAP cuts.
Speaker 1: I'm also gonna make a mention that dude's got a
Speaker 1: weird face, doesn't he That dude has a weird fast,
Speaker 1: Like good God, you are a news anchor, have a
Speaker 1: little bit of stage presence, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But Okay, aside from that, I'm also gonna point out
Speaker 1: something here, And I'm not trying to be that guy.
Speaker 1: I'm really not trying to be. You're telling me that
Speaker 1: these politicians for a photo op were able to donate
Speaker 1: a whopping eight bags of groceries to this food bank
Speaker 1: for the photo op. I'm sorry, what so not too
Speaker 1: self plug here, but I am currently the leader of
Speaker 1: a Christian nonprofit organization based out of New Orleans. All Right,
Speaker 1: we donated food to the Kinner Food Bank not too
Speaker 1: terribly long ago. The Kinner Food Bank has over four
Speaker 1: hundred families that rely on it to support themselves and
Speaker 1: feed their families. Okay, we and by we I mean
Speaker 1: a grand total of ten adults. We're able to collectively
Speaker 1: get together two full palettes worth of food top bottom,
Speaker 1: side to side, fools of food and in a grocery cart.
Speaker 1: And we were able to do that in the course
Speaker 1: of about a week. You're telling me that these politicians
Speaker 1: for the photoop were able to get together eight bags
Speaker 1: of groceries. Look behind them, the shelves of this food
Speaker 1: bank are empty, but for the photo wop. Look at
Speaker 1: them smiling like they've done such a good job. Eight bags.
Speaker 1: That is that is embarrassing. But any you know, again,
Speaker 1: not trying to be that guy. But I'm also I'm
Speaker 1: really not about people that are only willing to do
Speaker 1: good things when there's a camera rolling anyway, Ravenly please
Speaker 1: chime in here.
Speaker 15: So random, but this pertains to it. The Satanic Church
Speaker 15: is actually offering food and like like bags of food
Speaker 15: to anyone that isn't having any and fits and they
Speaker 15: are going to be offering like pleats of foods the
Speaker 15: next however long and like a lot of the people
Speaker 15: in the Satanic Church are like I guess, making like
Speaker 15: homemade stuff and they're like doing all this, all these things.
Speaker 13: I saw it on TikTok.
Speaker 15: So then I went down the rabbit hole and they
Speaker 15: actually called out like some of the big mega Christian churches,
Speaker 15: and like they got a one of them got like
Speaker 15: a generated email back pretty much saying that like at
Speaker 15: this time they're looking into, you know, if they want
Speaker 15: to actually help or not.
Speaker 13: So I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Satanic Church is always doing things for charity
Speaker 1: to try to soften the image of their beliefs. But
Speaker 1: then again, if we're keeping this in mind, the Satanic
Speaker 1: Church that you're speaking of is not actually worshiping Satan.
Speaker 1: They're more or less like an anti religion movement Anton
Speaker 1: Levey style of Satanism, which is not like actually Satanism,
Speaker 1: it's more like, uh, super gnosticism. Yeah, but yeah, they
Speaker 1: are definitely they're always out there trying to do some
Speaker 1: big charity thing to soften the image. Go ahead, Sam,
Speaker 1: I see. Basically they're spicy atheists for lack of a
Speaker 1: better word, which okay, fine, but it does, in fact,
Speaker 1: in this case shine a light on how many of
Speaker 1: these Christian organizations are not willing to lift a finger
Speaker 1: to help people. Meanwhile, this group is that is not
Speaker 1: a good look at all. Same way that I am
Speaker 1: saying that ten adults who are not politicians, that are
Speaker 1: not exactly living high on the hog by any means,
Speaker 1: are able to put together more food stuffs for people.
Speaker 1: This is before the government shutdown or any of that.
Speaker 1: Than these quote unquote political figures are when the cameras
Speaker 1: are rolling. It's it's mind blowing to me. Anyway, let's
Speaker 1: read into this article here states sue Trump amid or
Speaker 1: Trump administration over billions in looming cuts to SNAP food stamps.
Speaker 1: Roughly forward two Americans could see their SNAP benefits run
Speaker 1: dry as earlier as November first under the current usd
Speaker 1: A contingency plans. Let's learn more together. A coalition of
Speaker 1: twenty five Democratic governors and attorney generals on Tuesday sued
Speaker 1: the Trump administration over its refusal to fund the Supplemental
Speaker 1: Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP benefits during the ongoing government shutdown,
Speaker 1: arguing that a suspension of the age threatens to disproportionately
Speaker 1: harm millions of vulnerable and low income Americans. The lawsuit
Speaker 1: filed in Massachusetts asks a federal judge to force the
Speaker 1: US Department of Agriculture to release a portion of the
Speaker 1: nine point two billion dollars in SNAP benefits allocated for
Speaker 1: the month in November. The Trump administration set on Friday
Speaker 1: that it would not use the Agricultural Department's roughly five
Speaker 1: billion dollar contingency fund to cover the food stamp benefits
Speaker 1: provided by SNAP for the month of November. Instead, they said,
Speaker 1: the agency is planned to keep it on hand to
Speaker 1: respond to natural disasters, which is what it's actually supposed
Speaker 1: to be use for. States warned in the lawsuit to
Speaker 1: Day that halting the SNAP payments, even in the near term,
Speaker 1: threatens disproportionate harm to roughly forty two million Americans that
Speaker 1: currently receive SNAP aid beginning on November first, when the
Speaker 1: food assistance is slated to expire. Shutting off SNAP benefits
Speaker 1: will cause deterioration of public health and well being, State
Speaker 1: leaders said in the lawsuit, Ultimately, states will bear costs
Speaker 1: associated with many of these harms. They added, the loss
Speaker 1: of SNAP benefits leads to food insecurity, hunger, and mount nutrition,
Speaker 1: which are associated with numerous negative health outcomes in children,
Speaker 1: such as poor concentration, decreased cognitive function, fatigue, depression, and
Speaker 1: behavioral promise. Yeah, hungry kids don't make good students. That's
Speaker 1: crazy that they would put that in the lawsuit. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure it's a understood fact. The lawsuit was filed
Speaker 1: by a coalition of attorney generals and governors from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, or Reagan, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. In the near term,
Speaker 1: the state asks the states asked the US District Judge
Speaker 1: Adrina Tallwanee probably butchered that one, the Federal Judge of
Speaker 1: Massachusetts assigned to the case, to order the Trump administration
Speaker 1: to release the USDA contingency funds to help ensure there
Speaker 1: is not a lapse in SNAP program benefits. Beginning November First,
Speaker 1: Judge Tallwani will hear from both parties during an emergency
Speaker 1: status here on Wednesday, during which she will weigh the
Speaker 1: state's request for an emergency order to force the USDA
Speaker 1: to release a portion of its emergency funds to SNAP recipients.
Speaker 1: The USCA, for its part, has not yet shared details
Speaker 1: on the policy decision or decision not to funnel the
Speaker 1: contingency funds to SNAP beneficiaries. A note on this website
Speaker 1: sim state simply that the well has run dry. The
Speaker 1: well has run dry. Okay, at this time, there will
Speaker 1: be no benefits issued. November first, the agency said, now,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and hear a little bit. Well, we
Speaker 1: already heard the YouTube video about it. But this whole
Speaker 1: thing kind of ties into what is going on in
Speaker 1: DC right now. The Democrats are turning on Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1: And it's not a one or two or even three
Speaker 1: Democratic leaders that are kind of saying, hey, why are
Speaker 1: we doing this? A lot of Democrats are turning on
Speaker 1: the House Minority leader. And it's not a good look
Speaker 1: for the Democrats. They're basically eating themselves from the inside
Speaker 1: out and Washington DC right now, which in one sense
Speaker 1: makes me happy, in another sense is kind of not
Speaker 1: good because if they're eating each other from the inside out,
Speaker 1: that means that they're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: really vote on anything because they're not going to come
Speaker 1: to work because they still can't agree on if they
Speaker 1: are or not coming in for this vote. But let's
Speaker 1: get into it here. Democrats say the quiet part, out
Speaker 1: loud shut down is leverage nearly one month, then how
Speaker 1: far are they willing to go? Earlier this month, it
Speaker 1: was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's turn in the dunk
Speaker 1: tank when he weighed in on the shutdown with his
Speaker 1: now infamous remark quote every day gets better for us. Yes,
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer said that it's hard to imagine a worse comment.
Speaker 1: But now we don't have to. We have White House
Speaker 1: Minority whip Katherine Clark, who apparently slipped up by saying
Speaker 1: the Democrats quiet strategy out loud. There's a direct quote here.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the page keeps moving on me. I mean,
Speaker 1: shutdowns are terrible, and of course there will be, you know,
Speaker 1: families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility
Speaker 1: very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage
Speaker 1: times we have, she said in a mid October interview
Speaker 1: with Chad Pregram of Fox News. Is Katherine Clark heartless
Speaker 1: or did she just have no idea of the implications
Speaker 1: of what she was saying? What an amazing administration for
Speaker 1: a leader of a party that has always claimed the
Speaker 1: mantle of fighting for the little guy, and none more
Speaker 1: so than the workers who toil in the federal vineyard.
Speaker 1: She seems completely comfortable with the fact that the Democrats
Speaker 1: self defined leverage strategy means people will have to feel
Speaker 1: some pain. Yes, they say, but it's all for the
Speaker 1: greater good, or at least for the upping the chances
Speaker 1: that Democrat priorities will prevail. Taking Schumer and Clark at
Speaker 1: their word, it's fair to ask just how much suffering
Speaker 1: is acceptable to Democrats in order to maintain their all
Speaker 1: important leverage while turning the appropriations process and regular order
Speaker 1: on its head. Would forty two million people losing their
Speaker 1: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits be a fair price to
Speaker 1: pay for Democrats leverage? Adamantly, this is a program with
Speaker 1: fraud and abuse that needs to be addressed, But there
Speaker 1: are also people, particularly the elderly and disabled and low
Speaker 1: income families and children, who depend on STAT to put
Speaker 1: food on the table. Senate Republicans have introduced a stop
Speaker 1: gap bill that Keep Snap Funded Act to ensure that
Speaker 1: the federal food aid program keeps operating. Now that's a
Speaker 1: weird turn of events. The Republicans are the ones that
Speaker 1: are trying to make sure that snap benefits continue to
Speaker 1: go out, but the Democrats are refusing to let that
Speaker 1: go because they're using it for political leverage. And again,
Speaker 1: we all knew that already, but it's very interesting to
Speaker 1: hear that the Democrats are saying that out loud on Mike.
Speaker 1: But let's go here. It says, or what about military
Speaker 1: and federal law enforcement families ask to make yet one
Speaker 1: more sacrifice while their loved ones are out there putting
Speaker 1: their lives at risk without pay to protect the homeland?
Speaker 1: Is this the suffering Clark is talking about? And keep
Speaker 1: in mind, those are the same employees federal and police
Speaker 1: and all these things that are being attacked with U
Speaker 1: haul trucks and bricks and being sieged at their offices
Speaker 1: and everything by Democrats supported groups. But all right here again.
Speaker 1: Republicans in the Senate brought a standalone bill to the
Speaker 1: floor to fund paychecks for the military and essential federal
Speaker 1: workers like air traffic controllers, but three Democrats blocked the
Speaker 1: bill despite a coalition of pilots unions calling for an
Speaker 1: end to the shutdown. They even got the unions saying
Speaker 1: stop this shutdown, and the Democrats are still just like
Speaker 1: keeping their feet firmly planted all but three I said
Speaker 1: that one. Already the traveling public is, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this thing keeps moving. The traveling public is likely to
Speaker 1: face flight delays because already overworked air traffic controllers getting
Speaker 1: no paychecks are stretched too thin. And small businesses too,
Speaker 1: is on the receiving end of Democrats leverage strategy. How
Speaker 1: about the estimated three hundred and twenty small businessmen and
Speaker 1: women who are waiting for what the snap benefits or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry The Small Business Administration says are one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy million dollars in SBA back commercial loans, normally
Speaker 1: accessed every business day. SBA says that translates to two
Speaker 1: point two five billion dollars, which has been blocked from
Speaker 1: forty eight hundred small businesses so far over the course
Speaker 1: of the shutdown. SBA administrator Kelly Loefler Laffler don't know
Speaker 1: wrote in a statement last week. With the SBA loans
Speaker 1: program shuttered, thousands of small businesses are now unable to
Speaker 1: access the vital funding they need to survive, let alone thrive.
Speaker 1: And we'll soon begin cutting hours and benefits, laying off workers,
Speaker 1: and contemplating closing up shop for good. If this leverage
Speaker 1: strategy is working. It's hard to see where or how
Speaker 1: to paraphrase my column from last week, which was featured
Speaker 1: John Stewart calling Schumer a human flat tire. I like that.
Speaker 1: I may not like everything that John Stewart's ever said,
Speaker 1: but man, I gotta say when he's on some shit,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. As a Democrat. When you lose the American
Speaker 1: Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union representing more
Speaker 1: than eight hundred thousand workers, you're in trouble, maybe big trouble.
Speaker 1: On Monday, afg's national president, Everett Kelly's drop the hammer
Speaker 1: on the leverage strategy. Both political parties have made their point,
Speaker 1: and still there is no end in sight. Today I'm
Speaker 1: making mine. It's time to pass a clean continuing resolution
Speaker 1: and in this shutdown today. He went on further to
Speaker 1: define what Congress should do reopen the government immediately under
Speaker 1: a clean continuing resolution that allows continued debate on larger issues.
Speaker 1: He wrote, none of these steps favor one political side
Speaker 1: or over another. They favored the American people. Who expect
Speaker 1: stability from their government and responsibility from their leaders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just speak on behalf of myself. I don't
Speaker 1: actually expect that from our political leaders. Responsibility, Like we're
Speaker 1: talking about our elected officials actually taking responsibility for the
Speaker 1: things that take place at their place of business. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen that in my lifetime. I
Speaker 1: don't expect that, actually, But I you know, Okay, at
Speaker 1: least he's keeping up the facade that that's what's needed.
Speaker 1: He continued, as strong America requires a funk government, one
Speaker 1: that pays its bills, honors its commitments, and treats its
Speaker 1: workforce with respect by paying them on time. I mean,
Speaker 1: like halfwrit ain't bad. But despite losing the support of
Speaker 1: one of the most powerful unions in the country, the
Speaker 1: Democratic leadership seems to be sticking with their leverage strategy,
Speaker 1: voting Tuesday against the clean cr for the thirteenth time.
Speaker 1: In response to the AFGE statement, Democratic Senate Whip Dick Durbin. God,
Speaker 1: what an unfortunate name. Whip Dick Durbin. I'm dude's a
Speaker 1: Durbin said, I'm not seeing any change in position at
Speaker 1: this time. Losing labor units. Particularly this one is a
Speaker 1: significant shift that Democrats ignore at their peril. But obviously,
Speaker 1: at this point, Democrats believe that their leverage strategy will
Speaker 1: produce a partisan win and that the problems of suffering
Speaker 1: families can be overcome with democratic messaging. Poles aren't showing
Speaker 1: the strategy as working for them. Yeah, I'm sorry, Uh,
Speaker 1: you saying a lot of things on the mic that
Speaker 1: you think are important is not going to put food
Speaker 1: on the tables of your constituents. I know that's a
Speaker 1: crazy concept for the politicians, but man, yeah, the Democrat
Speaker 1: leverage strategy is not going to play well in their favor.
Speaker 1: And I'm also keeping that in mind. I keep seeing
Speaker 1: these things, these clips, these interviews where Gavin Newsome and
Speaker 1: we all know that he's gonna make a run for
Speaker 1: president eventually, he is convinced to the point of arrogance
Speaker 1: that he is like a shoe in to win the
Speaker 1: next presidential election, never mind the fact that his state
Speaker 1: is the laughing stock of the country because of name
Speaker 1: the reason. Honestly, you can bring up the fires, you
Speaker 1: could bring up the ice things. You can look at
Speaker 1: the civil unrest, the riots, the deficit, all of the
Speaker 1: things he is, like not even concerned about this election cycle.
Speaker 1: He just knows that he's gonna be the next president.
Speaker 1: And it's like, and you and your people are the
Speaker 1: ones that are using this leverage strategy to screw over
Speaker 1: the people that put you in the position you're in.
Speaker 1: But all right, that's it's both strategy, Cotton. Let's see
Speaker 1: if it works out for him. So where do things
Speaker 1: go from here? The country is just days away from
Speaker 1: disaster as November one is likely to see the crisis worsen,
Speaker 1: with more people losing paychecks and crucial support while health
Speaker 1: and safety programs go unfunded. Republicans want a clean CR
Speaker 1: pass to open the government and propose to then work
Speaker 1: through spending issues through regular order. Democrats want their priorities
Speaker 1: tied to the CR in a my way or the
Speaker 1: highway gambit. A risky strategy, to say the least. Once again,
Speaker 1: see if it works out for him, Gotdon. Is the
Speaker 1: Democrats leverage strategy smart politics or is it a callous
Speaker 1: nod to their progressive wing calling for a fight after
Speaker 1: losing last year's elections. Voters are going to answer that question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to say I agree with this, with this
Speaker 1: article wholeheartedly. This is rolecall dot com by the way,
Speaker 1: all right, moving on to the next order of business,
Speaker 1: We're going to take a step away from American politics
Speaker 1: and start looking at the global commversation. This is from
Speaker 1: CNN World. Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, and they have pictures
Speaker 1: to describe the damage. Here. Hurricane Melissa left a trail
Speaker 1: of destruction as it moved across Jamaica, seen for the
Speaker 1: first time from space in new satellite images obtained from
Speaker 1: Van Torp. The storm made landfall on Jamaica on Tuesday
Speaker 1: as a monstrous Category five hurricane, before moving on to
Speaker 1: Cuba on Wednesday and later the Bahamas. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: then they might cover it on this article. By the
Speaker 1: time it hit Cuba, it was like a Category two,
Speaker 1: which is still that's a bad storm, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but not one hundred and seventy mile per hour winds
Speaker 1: or at least exceeding that. That is that's that's a
Speaker 1: bit of a that's a doozy. Let's move on here.
Speaker 1: It says the aerial images show widespread flooding and extensive
Speaker 1: damage in towns along jamaica southwest coast. In the parish
Speaker 1: of Saint Elizabeth and on the opposite side of the
Speaker 1: islet in Montego Bay, the capital of Saint James Perish.
Speaker 1: The storm first made landfall on jamaica southwest coast, near
Speaker 1: the town a Black River scene in part here, So
Speaker 1: this would be before the storm hit on the left,
Speaker 1: and this is after on the right. I mean, it
Speaker 1: looks like a tornado just tore this place apart, but
Speaker 1: I mean it's even worse. Damages to homes, businesses, and
Speaker 1: community centers in Black River is extensive, even seen in
Speaker 1: this limited scope. The satellite photo taken after the storm
Speaker 1: shows the roof of one of the largest markets in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood ripped cleanly off its foundation. Coastal communities were
Speaker 1: hit the hardest by the storm devastating winds, with some
Speaker 1: remote fishing villages nearly flattened by the hurricane. In the
Speaker 1: town of White House, less than ten miles northwest of
Speaker 1: Black River, small boats were washed ashore in a town
Speaker 1: where the economy is reliant on its closeness to the
Speaker 1: Caribbean Sea. As the storm progressed north, it drenched rural
Speaker 1: farm lands across South Elizabeth Parish and a southwestern region
Speaker 1: that has become Jamaica's bread basket. Footage captured on the
Speaker 1: ground showed just how quickly the low lying farms were
Speaker 1: submerged by rainwater. WHOA, yeah, that's insane. An image captured
Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours after the floodwaters rushed in
Speaker 1: shows inundated farmlands and vegetation stripped from large swaths of
Speaker 1: agricultural lamb. On the opposite coast, Hurricane Melyssa swept through
Speaker 1: Montego Bay and Jamaica's north This satellite image, captured in
Speaker 1: its aftermass, shows extensive flooding through the city and large
Speaker 1: pools of water around storage facilities in the city's main port. Again,
Speaker 1: this is the before and this is the after. It
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's a complete loss. This place looks
Speaker 1: like a war zone. Like it looks like Gaza right now.
Speaker 1: That is insane. As the storm moved out to see
Speaker 1: it pulled debris and muddy water through the barnett and
Speaker 1: pie rivers seen at the center of the frame. The
Speaker 1: debris appears as large as as large clouds of dirty
Speaker 1: water seen beyond the shoals of Montego Bay. So thoughts
Speaker 1: and prayers go out to everybody in Jamaica. I know
Speaker 1: there's not many people in Jamaica listening to this podcast,
Speaker 1: and I mean, you know all the things, you know,
Speaker 1: as this has happened. If you do find a charitable
Speaker 1: organization that you can tell that the money is going
Speaker 1: to the affected area, that's going to help Jamaica, I
Speaker 1: highly recommend you do, so, you know, give generously as
Speaker 1: you can, especially as we are getting into the holiday season.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, just want to bring up the
Speaker 1: hurricane to hit Jamaica. It was insanity. Now as we
Speaker 1: are sticking towards the Caribbean Sea, let's go a little
Speaker 1: further south to Venezuela. Oh sweet dear Venezuela. Merduro is
Speaker 1: making some wild claims. So we talked about this. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if it was last week or the week before.
Speaker 1: Morduro had claimed that he foiled a false flag attempt
Speaker 1: to attack the US embassy in Venezuela. And you're welcome, America.
Speaker 1: I stopped the bad guys from attacking your embassy. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm here to help you. I don't know why you're
Speaker 1: coming at me in such ways. And that was a
Speaker 1: narrative that was ran and if you look at the
Speaker 1: store and the narrative that he tried to push in
Speaker 1: that regard it was that's just simply not the case.
Speaker 1: There was never a false flag attack that was staged.
Speaker 1: It was all ploy So now Venezuela claims that it
Speaker 1: has captured a CIA group and accuses the United States
Speaker 1: of plotting a false flag attack. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not even gonna jump to the conclusion yet.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from old Maduro and then you be the
Speaker 1: one to judge if you think that this is accurate
Speaker 1: or if this is a complete fabrication and a lie.
Speaker 1: Nicholas Mudureau regime said Sunday Venezuela has captured a group
Speaker 1: of alleged mercenaries with ties to the US Central Intelligence
Speaker 1: Agency and accused Washington and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating
Speaker 1: military exercises intended to provoke an armed confrontation in the Caribbean.
Speaker 1: In a statement released by Vice President Delsi Rodriguez, the
Speaker 1: Socialist government said the arrest revealed what it described as
Speaker 1: a false flag operation planned from waters bordering Trinidad and
Speaker 1: Tobago or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory to generate a
Speaker 1: full scale military confrontation against Venezuela. The regime's announcement comes
Speaker 1: amid the fast growing build up of US forces in
Speaker 1: the Caribbean launched by President Trump to combat drug cartels.
Speaker 1: The administration has signaled that it might soon authorize ground
Speaker 1: incursions into Venezuela to target the so called Cartel de
Speaker 1: Lo Souls, a narco trafficking organization the US claims is
Speaker 1: led by Maduau himself. We talked about this before. Trinde
Speaker 1: Arahwa also claims that they're working for Maduro, the Cartel
Speaker 1: of the Sun, which is what that is, de la Souls.
Speaker 1: They also claim that Maduro is the absolute point, like
Speaker 1: the head of their organization. The cartel answers to him.
Speaker 1: They don't make a move unless he says so. That's
Speaker 1: understood by the interrogation. Once these people have been arrested
Speaker 1: on soil. So again, the two biggest cartels that are
Speaker 1: coming out of Venezuela all identify Maduro as their top dog.
Speaker 1: Take that with a grain of salt. Let that marinate
Speaker 1: as long as you need. Let me know what you
Speaker 1: think about it. But anyway, moving on, the Venezuelan government
Speaker 1: did not release any evidence or details about the alleged arrest,
Speaker 1: such as the number of suspects, their nationalities, or when
Speaker 1: and where they were detained. Caracas also linked the alleged
Speaker 1: plot to military drills that claimed are being carried out
Speaker 1: this week by Trinidad and Tobago under the coordination, financing
Speaker 1: and control of US Southern Command, calling them a hostile
Speaker 1: provocation and a grave threat to the peace of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1: So now we've got the accusations against Trinidad and Tobago.
Speaker 1: In the statement, accused Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamala
Speaker 1: Persad based Bessessor Jesus I don't speak the language of
Speaker 1: having renounced the sovereignty of her country to act as
Speaker 1: a military colony subordinate to the United States dates hegemony
Speaker 1: interests or hegemonic interests. By aligning herself with the Washington's
Speaker 1: militaristic agenda, Persad Bessiser Possessor not only seeks to attack
Speaker 1: Venezuela and break our historical bonds of brotherhood, but also
Speaker 1: violates the United Nations Charter, the Seleak Declaration of Latin America,
Speaker 1: and the Caribbean as a zone of peace and the
Speaker 1: principles of Caracom, and the statement read the Manduro government
Speaker 1: said the alleged military maneuvers are part of an effort
Speaker 1: to turn the Caribbean into a space for lethal violence
Speaker 1: and US imperial domination. The Miami Herald could not independently
Speaker 1: confirm the arrest of any of the groups or the
Speaker 1: existence of coordinated operations involved in the CIA or the
Speaker 1: Dooral based US Southern Command, which oversees military operations in
Speaker 1: Latin America. It is in its statement. The Caracas regime
Speaker 1: compared the supposed plan to historical events such as the
Speaker 1: USS main explosion in Cuba in eighteen ninety eight, one
Speaker 1: of the causes for the Spanish American War, and the
Speaker 1: Gulf of Tonkin incident near Vietnam in nineteen sixty four,
Speaker 1: both of which preceded major US military interventions. The government
Speaker 1: said the alleged provocation follows the same pattern and accused
Speaker 1: Washington of seeking a pretext for war in the region. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, let's go ahead and have that talk
Speaker 1: very quick. I'm not saying the false flag events have
Speaker 1: not taken place, and that the US has used those
Speaker 1: to spin a narrative that gets the American people on
Speaker 1: board for war. This absolutely has happened. For sure, No
Speaker 1: one wants to go to war with Venezuela. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they have oil, no doubt, and the people are living
Speaker 1: under a socialist regime and like they need some freedom
Speaker 1: for sure. But you could look at a lot of
Speaker 1: posts that are coming out of Venezuela. The people do
Speaker 1: not like Maduro. I don't care what the polls say.
Speaker 1: They can say that he has a ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: thumbs up rating by his people. That's simply not true.
Speaker 1: Most of the people that are living in Venezuela do
Speaker 1: not like starving, which is pretty endemic of every socialist
Speaker 1: nation ever period. Ever. But that being said, the CIA
Speaker 1: did just get permission to go into Venezuela a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago by Trump for what purpose. Who knows.
Speaker 1: The man has a fifty million dollar price on his head,
Speaker 1: so who knows. Maybe they're going to go in there
Speaker 1: and assassinate him, do a little regime change, throw a
Speaker 1: coup something like that. That's fine. None of that has
Speaker 1: anything to do with a false flag event. And the
Speaker 1: other issue that I'm having with this is that they
Speaker 1: have not provided a single shred of evidence to suggest
Speaker 1: that they are telling the truth on this. If they
Speaker 1: would have captured CIA agents, we would have videos, we
Speaker 1: would have people dragging bodies through the streets. There would
Speaker 1: be an international incident going on right now that would
Speaker 1: be making world news with pictures and videos of these
Speaker 1: dudes detained or being interrogated or anything like this. They
Speaker 1: have provided nothing. Their evidence is trust me, Bro's that's
Speaker 1: what's happening right now. So again, you make your own assumptions,
Speaker 1: but let's go on here, it says. The statement also
Speaker 1: accused Trandad and Tobago's government of human rights violations, alleging
Speaker 1: that innocent fishermen had been victims of extra judicial executions
Speaker 1: in the Caribbean Sea. That coming from a cartel narco state,
Speaker 1: that's fascinating. Maduro warned that Venezuela does not accept threats
Speaker 1: and said its armed forces would remain alert and mobilized
Speaker 1: in perfect civil military police unity. In response, SHO, okay,
Speaker 1: our republic air of Bolivar and Chavez. That's I don't
Speaker 1: know why you would say that out loud. Why would
Speaker 1: you be proud to be the heir of Bolivar and Chavez,
Speaker 1: all right, will always defend its sovereignty, its territorial integrity,
Speaker 1: and its right to live in peace against four weren't
Speaker 1: enemies and their vassals, statement concluded, their vassals and your
Speaker 1: boys looking back into the Middle Ages over here you're
Speaker 1: talking about calling calling the old bannerman to the cause, bro,
Speaker 1: look at them damn uh. Anyway, before I read this
Speaker 1: next section, Sam, your hands raised, good.
Speaker 16: Yes, talking about the false flags golf of talking was
Speaker 16: one about ships that got this got bombed, coutt or
Speaker 16: allegedly allegedly Okay, you know what else was.
Speaker 6: A quote unquote false flag but it actually happened.
Speaker 7: Well they say it was a false flag of whatever
Speaker 7: HB technicality. Uh the Louit Titania for one, because we actually,
Speaker 7: uh gentleman said any ship was abouted target the uh
Speaker 7: U boats, underwater boats, the subs uh they which they
Speaker 7: said they was, well, yes, it was American serviceman on
Speaker 7: luet Titania.
Speaker 17: It was it was a civilian uh ship, but it
Speaker 17: was it was carrying UH rounds and artillery rounds, sam
Speaker 17: munition and rifles and everything under it and that and
Speaker 17: when uh the the U boat hit it with the
Speaker 17: torpedo and everything.
Speaker 7: That's why it's exploded because it hit the damo and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 7: of course they just found out.
Speaker 6: But wasn't there also something about the USS Liberty.
Speaker 1: The main, the main if I'm not mistaken, the liberty.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that that was for the Barbary pirates?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I was getting them mixed up, I was. But wasn't
Speaker 7: that one like over in the Middle East or somewhere
Speaker 7: around there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the USS Celeberty ran aground as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, and when the servicemen you know, were looking
Speaker 1: for aid, they were actually beheaded by the Mamelukes. And
Speaker 1: the UH.
Speaker 6: Got the name Luke.
Speaker 1: So that is why the Marine Corps officers carry the
Speaker 1: man Luke sword.
Speaker 7: That's correct, but it's not the living And this was
Speaker 7: like after World War two is the one I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: I just can't think about the net.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 7: I don't remember the ship's name. But it's after World
Speaker 7: War two?
Speaker 1: Or am I thinking of the Constitution? I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's been there's been some false flags that have taken place,
Speaker 1: and there's been some provocation for military movements to take place,
Speaker 1: like absolutely with that. This is not one of them.
Speaker 1: Even if the CIA was in Venezuela right now, which
Speaker 1: they very well, maybe Trump gave him a green light.
Speaker 1: I don't know to what level and to what extent
Speaker 1: that they are operating in Venezuela right now, But to
Speaker 1: say that Maduro caught them in the midst of trying
Speaker 1: to start a false flag event, to start a large
Speaker 1: scale invasion of Venezuela, I don't think so. I really
Speaker 1: don't think so. So there is a I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember how it's worded. It's a Rule ten movement and
Speaker 1: a Rule fifty movement. Okay, so here's what the difference is.
Speaker 1: A Rule ten order from the President means like the
Speaker 1: main force of the United States Military is mobilized against
Speaker 1: a force, a target, a whatever the case would be.
Speaker 1: A Rule fifty movement is only specifically Tier one units,
Speaker 1: Delta Green Berets Navy seals any of the SOCOM groups,
Speaker 1: and they would be in co unison, for lack of
Speaker 1: better words, with certain three letter agencies for these types
Speaker 1: of operations. This is a Rule fifty movement that is
Speaker 1: taking place in Venezuela right now. Nothing at all has
Speaker 1: been said or done to make the moves towards a
Speaker 1: Rule ten situation, So I think that we're all good
Speaker 1: on that front. But again, Marduro is trying to do
Speaker 1: everything he can to play the victim on this and say, see,
Speaker 1: America is going out of their way to try to
Speaker 1: mess with us, and we have the right to our sovereignty. Remember,
Speaker 1: it's simply him just beating his chest to make noise
Speaker 1: for the sake of making noise. Go ahead.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sorry, I was corrected. It was the USS celebrity
Speaker 7: and it was in nineteen sixty seven on the Six
Speaker 7: Day War.
Speaker 6: I looked it up real quick, but.
Speaker 7: Done the attack it was. They say it was a
Speaker 7: a thing of miss identity, mistaken identity, but it Yeah,
Speaker 7: it killed thirty four crew members and wounded at one
Speaker 7: hundred and seventy one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, in America did nothing in retaliation.
Speaker 7: Israel I apologize and said it was a mistaken identity.
Speaker 7: And but you gotta understand blue on blue happens a lot, agreed, especially.
Speaker 1: But also that might be the only time in history
Speaker 1: that another nation has touched one of America's boats and
Speaker 1: not faced the wrath of God. That is, that is
Speaker 1: something that should be at least acknowledged.
Speaker 7: Yes, but they have faced the wrath of God quite
Speaker 7: enough times.
Speaker 1: Oh no, No, they were in the middle of a
Speaker 1: six day war where they were getting attacked on all
Speaker 1: sides at the exact same time. Like, I'm not denying that.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is that they did, in fact break
Speaker 1: one of the eleven commandments and they actually did not
Speaker 1: get any kind of retaliation against them, which is very interesting.
Speaker 7: Could that have been the Gog and Magog War, because
Speaker 7: since they were attacked on all seven sides.
Speaker 1: So some believe this, some believe this. I am not
Speaker 1: one of them, specifically, because the tribes that are listed
Speaker 1: that were supposed to attack Israel for the Gog and
Speaker 1: Magog War, some of them were not present. For instance,
Speaker 1: Ethiopia did not attack them, nor did Russia, nor did Turkey.
Speaker 1: So right, there's there's a list of tribes that will
Speaker 1: attack them all at the same time, and a few
Speaker 1: of these key players as far as the prophecy is concerned,
Speaker 1: were not present in that conflict. So they there are
Speaker 1: those that will argue against that and say that, yes,
Speaker 1: that absolutely was the Goga Magog War, But that also
Speaker 1: would mean that a third of the advancing army was
Speaker 1: all like killed at the exact same time. That didn't happen.
Speaker 1: They weren't buried in the valley that would be renamed
Speaker 1: the Valley of Magog And there's a whole lot of
Speaker 1: these things that would have to come through to fruition
Speaker 1: for that to be accurate. Some scholars argue, yes, I
Speaker 1: am of the opinion no.
Speaker 7: The reason why I asked is because that they were
Speaker 7: attacked on all sides. But I also feel like, yeah,
Speaker 7: we couldn't give them the old, the old Japanese treatment,
Speaker 7: because that's looked found that that's found upon.
Speaker 6: Nowadays, you can't take you can't use flame throwers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, And that's I'm not saying that we you know.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is that it's very interesting that they
Speaker 1: are the only country in American history to touch one
Speaker 1: of our boats and not catch some sort of a
Speaker 1: backhand for it. And I'm not saying they do what it.
Speaker 7: Has been known since day one. Don't fuck with America ships.
Speaker 1: It's like the only it's one of the only rules
Speaker 1: that we actually care about. But anyway, moving on here
Speaker 1: back to Venezuela, says regional tensions and US build up
Speaker 1: the accusations come at a time of strained relations between
Speaker 1: Venezuela and the United States following the Trump administration's decision
Speaker 1: to amass the largest US military presence in the Caribbean
Speaker 1: has seen in decades to combat drug cartels. Drug cartel
Speaker 1: operations in the region. The task force has launched deadly
Speaker 1: strikes against boats in the US. The US says we're
Speaker 1: transporting drugs to Caribbean islands and into the United States,
Speaker 1: most of them originating in Venezuela, leaving at least forty
Speaker 1: three people dead. Yeah, it'd be like that. The build
Speaker 1: up you US forces in the region continues. Over the
Speaker 1: past two months, the Pentagon has deployed close to ten
Speaker 1: thousand troops, most of them based in Puerto Rico, along
Speaker 1: with a contingent of marines aboard amphibious assault ships. The
Speaker 1: US Navy has positioned at least ten wars and a
Speaker 1: submarine in the Caribbean as part of the expanding presence,
Speaker 1: and last week, Trump directed the world's largest aircraft carrier,
Speaker 1: the USS gerald Are, forward into the region. In addition,
Speaker 1: Trump is indicated that the US is now considering ground operations.
Speaker 1: While his administration has quietly granted the CIA new powers
Speaker 1: to conduct covert activities in the South American country. There
Speaker 1: is a direct quote here. It says, we are certainly
Speaker 1: looking at land now because we've got the sea very
Speaker 1: well under control. Trump tot reporters in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: We've almost totally stopped it by sea. Now we'll stop
Speaker 1: it by land. And again, I think the CIA is
Speaker 1: more than capable of doing the job as far as
Speaker 1: the land based operations are concerned. But you know it's
Speaker 1: worth mentioning. So there it is has been brought up.
Speaker 1: Now NBC News this article is talking about Putin and
Speaker 1: his brand new rocket, and he is man. He is
Speaker 1: so excited about the Russian tech right now. Trump calls
Speaker 1: Russia's missile test inappropriate, But is Putin's nuclear powered weapon
Speaker 1: actually a threat? The main reason that no one else
Speaker 1: has tried to build something like this is that it
Speaker 1: doesn't really have any use. One expert told NBC News
Speaker 1: that's not a true statement. It's not a true statement. Okay,
Speaker 1: to get the over under on this one. Russia is
Speaker 1: super stoked that they have actually developed a nuclear powered missile.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna say that one again. Not a nuclear bomb,
Speaker 1: not a cruise missile, not an ICBM. Depending on the
Speaker 1: type they're saying that. It could be a torpedo, it
Speaker 1: could be a rocket. Beside the point, instead of using
Speaker 1: a fuel source like rocket fuel or something along these lines,
Speaker 1: they have developed a small nuclear reactor inside of this
Speaker 1: projectile to be used as its propulsion. And they are
Speaker 1: like over the moon that they have finally like cracked
Speaker 1: this code and they have this tech. Right, here's the
Speaker 1: deal America had that nineteen sixty one. Congratulations Russia, you're
Speaker 1: finally up to snow with what America was dealing with
Speaker 1: in the Vietnam War. But all right, orb, I should
Speaker 1: say right before, but beside the point, and we shut
Speaker 1: the program down three years after it started, reason being A,
Speaker 1: it's really dumb like we had it and it's just
Speaker 1: not a good look, and B the likelihood of that
Speaker 1: having actual nuclear fallout is pretty pretty high. Let me
Speaker 1: explain this a little further. Whenever you have a nuclear warhead,
Speaker 1: like an actual nuclear bomb, and it gets shot out
Speaker 1: of the sky by some sort of interceptor missile, cool
Speaker 1: you'll have some nuclear debris, some radiation that will hit
Speaker 1: the ground, and it's not gonna be a nuclear bomb.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like debris from the uranium that is inside
Speaker 1: of the bomb, right, it'll be very small, very man.
Speaker 1: The likelihood of you having like a real nuclear fallout
Speaker 1: event after a nuclear warhead got intercepted on a large
Speaker 1: scale anyway, is like one in a hundred shot, because
Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb is a series of reactions all happening
Speaker 1: at the exact same time, and there's a series of
Speaker 1: triggers that have to fall in a certain order to
Speaker 1: make that happen when it's supposed to happen. Okay, for
Speaker 1: a nuclear powered missile, if that gets shot out of
Speaker 1: the sky, we're talking about a nuclear reactor that is
Speaker 1: now cracked open and exposed to the air. The likelihood
Speaker 1: of that having a nuclear fallout type situation from it
Speaker 1: is one hundred out of one hundred. There's no way.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying it would be a full on
Speaker 1: Chernobyl or a full on Fukushima. I guess it depends
Speaker 1: on where that uh, where the materials were to hit
Speaker 1: the ground, what kind of water sources it in near,
Speaker 1: how populated it is, the area to which it fell.
Speaker 1: These kinds of things come into effect. But the point
Speaker 1: is we realize that in sixty one and we shut
Speaker 1: down our program. And if anybody wants to look up
Speaker 1: the program itself, it's called Operation Pluto. And when you
Speaker 1: look this up, there's two different Operation Plutos, so make
Speaker 1: sure you look up the one. As far as a
Speaker 1: projectile goes, Project Pluto was a US Cold War era
Speaker 1: program to develop a nuclear powered Ramjet cruise missile capable
Speaker 1: of mock three speeds and effectively infinite range. The missile
Speaker 1: would have used a nuclear reactor to heat air, which
Speaker 1: would then be expelled through a Ramjet engine to provide thrust.
Speaker 1: Although engine tests were successful, the project was canceled in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties due to extreme dangers potential for radioactive
Speaker 1: fallout in the increasing viability of intercontinental ballistic missiles. So again,
Speaker 1: Russia has finally caught up to where America was in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty one. Good job putin. Good job anyway, before
Speaker 1: I read this article, go ahead there, Sam.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And that children is what we call a dirty bomb.
Speaker 1: This is exactly right. Yes, you basically, as soon as
Speaker 1: that thing gets intercepted, you have accidentally and inadvertently created
Speaker 1: a dirty bomb that you can't undo. It's very different
Speaker 1: than hitting a nuclear warhead out of the sky. This
Speaker 1: is this is the same as cracking open a nuclear
Speaker 1: reactor in the air and just letting the chips fall
Speaker 1: where they may.
Speaker 7: So if they did use this, wouldn't they wouldn't that
Speaker 7: be both climbs again into humanity and war crimes?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, if they were to use it successfully and like
Speaker 1: bomb Ukraine with this reactor powered missile, it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a nuclear explosion. It's a different thing between what makes
Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb make a mushroom cloud and what makes
Speaker 1: a nuclear reactor produce power. It's it's similar, it's similar mechanics,
Speaker 1: but to a different purpose. Okay, I'll put it to
Speaker 1: another example. Think about if you were to pour gasoline
Speaker 1: on a bonfire as opposed to spraying gasoline in a
Speaker 1: piston with a spark plug. One creates a woosh, one
Speaker 1: creates an explosion. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I can visually see it in my head, so I
Speaker 7: understand that. But like, like, keep in mind, America has
Speaker 7: technically We've knew to ourselves multiple times, both Big T
Speaker 7: TV and literally help. If you really want to be
Speaker 7: technically technical, you could argue that we did it three
Speaker 7: times to Japan because we accidentally launched one horizontally. It
Speaker 7: wasn't votical, but it went across the landscape of Japan. Help.
Speaker 7: I can literally go to the coast right now, like
Speaker 7: one hundred miles for me, give or take, and I
Speaker 7: can legitimly go and see. I can go to that.
Speaker 7: I can go to Jacko Island and it's either Jacke
Speaker 7: Island or Sat Simon's Island. But right off the coast
Speaker 7: of it, there was a nuclear warhead that is just
Speaker 7: sitting at the bottom right off the coast, and they
Speaker 7: cannot find it that they'll never be able to find it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gone, it's there, but it's it's never gonna be.
Speaker 7: Recovered under so much seal and everything. Even if they
Speaker 7: did find it, they wouldn't be able to take it.
Speaker 7: They wouldn't be able to bring it up because at
Speaker 7: that point all the metal husband rusted, it has oxydized.
Speaker 7: Our waters is gonna be uh contaminated. Our earth water
Speaker 7: is already radioactive. Look at Fukushima, which keep in mind,
Speaker 7: that could have been a whole lot worse than what
Speaker 7: it was, and it was already it was only forty
Speaker 7: years way past the past. It should have been operating,
Speaker 7: and like it got hit by what like a seven
Speaker 7: point something earthquake in a tidal wave. Mother Nature's just
Speaker 7: she had she had one on her she was only
Speaker 7: and she rocked Japan.
Speaker 1: So again, this would become a dirty bomb if it
Speaker 1: was intercepted, if it was to deliver its payload to
Speaker 1: its appointed target, it wouldn't be a nuclear bomb. But
Speaker 1: even still, it's like, it's just dumb. There is so
Speaker 1: many better ways to deliver a payload from point A
Speaker 1: to point B without using nuclear power. And this is
Speaker 1: coming from somebody who believes that we should be relying
Speaker 1: more heavily on nuclear power and leave fossil fuels and
Speaker 1: coal and all this by the wayside, I believe that
Speaker 1: we should be looking more into nuclear power, but not
Speaker 1: in the sense of ordinance. I know, call me old
Speaker 1: fashioned on that one, but it's it's already been tried,
Speaker 1: it's already been proven and tested that it can work,
Speaker 1: but there are so many possibility for things to go
Speaker 1: wrong that it's not worth it. But of course Russia
Speaker 1: doesn't believe this.
Speaker 7: How are they a superpower?
Speaker 17: Like?
Speaker 7: It's like they are how the like I don't try
Speaker 7: I don't mean to offend anybody or whatever. No, what
Speaker 7: how do they go like? How are they considered a
Speaker 7: WOLDS player when they don't really care about their own
Speaker 7: population if they're gonna use these type of bombs on
Speaker 7: like somebody like twenty miles down the road from them.
Speaker 1: So Russia by definition can't be a superpower. By definition,
Speaker 1: America is the only superpower on Earth now. If we're
Speaker 1: talking about like a trade superpower, we could have a
Speaker 1: different kind of conversation. But as far as like a
Speaker 1: military superpower goes, by definition, you have to be able
Speaker 1: to have two full scale front lines of two different
Speaker 1: wars going on at the exact same time and be
Speaker 1: able to man those. We are the only nation that
Speaker 1: can make such a claim, and we've done it before,
Speaker 1: and that was not even to the technological advancements that
Speaker 1: we have. Now. America could actually probably launch a three
Speaker 1: pronged full frontal assault if needed, on three different warfronts.
Speaker 1: We don't need to, so we're not gonna, but we
Speaker 1: have that capability. The only only country that could possibly
Speaker 1: argue that claim that they could do it too would
Speaker 1: be China, But honestly, they actually couldn't make that claim.
Speaker 1: They have the man power to man multiple front lines,
Speaker 1: they don't have the equipment that would function on multiple
Speaker 1: front lines. Russia quote unquote being a superpower, the special
Speaker 1: military conflict in Ukraine has proven that they cannot even
Speaker 1: handle one warfront where they outman the population of the country.
Speaker 1: They're trying to take over by a way five to one,
Speaker 1: ten to one scale or something crazy like that, and
Speaker 1: they can't even make that happen. So, yeah, Russia is
Speaker 1: not a superpower. That's that's insanity. Good.
Speaker 7: Oh, I was just gonna say, I just with a
Speaker 7: Russia thing like it took them what six months to
Speaker 7: just get out of at then Stalingrad in World War Two,
Speaker 7: and then like Russia, Yeah they have the heart or whatever.
Speaker 7: They'll just keep throwing their men into the to the
Speaker 7: meat grinder like for just and say it's a win
Speaker 7: if they just get one yard of gains. That is
Speaker 7: Russia and you and no offense like Russia that this
Speaker 7: is where the culture where ballet came from, which was
Speaker 7: supposed to be a martial art type deal. But I
Speaker 7: still don't understand why how Russia they try to say
Speaker 7: they beat their chests and everything, but they are still
Speaker 7: stuck in like nineteen seventeen in society. Half of their
Speaker 7: homes don't even have toilets. They go out to an
Speaker 7: out house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually I'm not sure if it's half. For
Speaker 1: like one in ten Russian homes don't have indoor plumbing.
Speaker 1: But either way, I'm sorry. You're not gonna have the
Speaker 1: conversation like you're a superpower if you can't even give
Speaker 1: your people clean drinking water.
Speaker 6: Keep in mind, the ancient Romans had indoor plumbing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, Russia, they're so great, they're so powerful.
Speaker 1: Not anyway, let's move on, and says Russia has successfully
Speaker 1: tested in an experimental weapon that sounds like something out
Speaker 1: of a sci fi movie, a nuclear power cruise missile
Speaker 1: with unlimited range, who's low flying, terrain hugging and loitering
Speaker 1: capabilities could evade America's missile defenses and drop atomic bombs
Speaker 1: anywhere on Earth. A. That's not a true statement, and
Speaker 1: B they're not going to be using a nuclear reactor
Speaker 1: to send a nuclear bombs. That's a double entendre. But okay.
Speaker 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the Burrow Berevi
Speaker 1: Berevist snick okay, meaning storm petrol type of seabird was
Speaker 1: indeed a unique weapon that no other country possesses. Once again,
Speaker 1: to reiterate Project Pluto America had this decades decades ago.
Speaker 1: But all right. The development has drawn concern internationally, with
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump saying Monday that it was inappropriate to
Speaker 1: be conducting such tests when Russia should be focusing on
Speaker 1: peace talks with Ukraine. Yeah, I mean that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But many Western experts have questioned the value of the missile,
Speaker 1: which is code named Skyfall by NATO. Some say it
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything Russia can't do already. Yes, very accurate,
Speaker 1: with others ridicule, it has a waste of money. Again
Speaker 1: it is. There's also safety concerns about the mini reactor
Speaker 1: that powers the missile, could spark a radiation catastrophe, because
Speaker 1: again there's not like an unprecedented thing on this. It's
Speaker 1: been tested in the sixties. The main reason that no other,
Speaker 1: no one else has tried to build something like this
Speaker 1: is that it doesn't really have any use. Pavel Podvig,
Speaker 1: a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research,
Speaker 1: toward NBC News the weapon is instead largely political. According
Speaker 1: to the guy who is based in Geneva and runs
Speaker 1: the Russian Nuclear Force project, it was important for the Kremlin.
Speaker 1: I think that this is unique and something no one
Speaker 1: else has done before. Okay, once again, it's inaccurate. We
Speaker 1: have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right
Speaker 1: off their shores, he told reporters of Border first one.
Speaker 1: So a missile doesn't have to go eight thousand miles.
Speaker 1: He added, all right, let me go ahead and cut
Speaker 1: too if it talks about its range and capabilities here,
Speaker 1: because I looked it up earlier and it's actually embarrassing,
Speaker 1: like it take away the nuclear reactor side of it. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't say it, Okay, Basically it's saying that it
Speaker 1: could go like fifteen thousand miles in like fifteen hundred hours.
Speaker 1: They were trying to say how impressive it is for
Speaker 1: a loitering time kind of thing. But it's like this
Speaker 1: thing is like prop driven essentially, or I forget what
Speaker 1: the actual numbers were on this thing, but like it's
Speaker 1: got a cruising speed of like a couple one hundred
Speaker 1: miles per hour, but the fact that it's a nuclear
Speaker 1: reactor driven missile made Russia just feel like they were
Speaker 1: doing great things here, and it's like, like, you have
Speaker 1: missiles that are more capable than this one already in
Speaker 1: your arsenal bro. It's like this like your boy who
Speaker 1: has a like a really really nice twelve gage, but
Speaker 1: then he's gonna go over and like beat his chest
Speaker 1: about some new like four to ten that he got
Speaker 1: that only shoots slugs, and it's like, uh, all right,
Speaker 1: weird flex but cool, good for you anyway. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: want to bring it up. Russia is losing their mind
Speaker 1: and they've got like the hardest of hart ons for
Speaker 1: their new nuclear reactor powered missile. And again, I just
Speaker 1: want to bring it up because if any of the
Speaker 1: good contingent, if the retinue of the Knights ever hear
Speaker 1: somebody on the news talking about how this has never
Speaker 1: been done before. Yeah, once again it has been. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the cancelation of Project Pluto in the
Speaker 1: United States. The extreme radioactive nature of the missiles exhaust
Speaker 1: made testing and deployment a major safety concern, as the
Speaker 1: exhaust itself was highly radioactive. Strategic shifts the development of
Speaker 1: ICBMs offered a more viable and less dangerous strategic option
Speaker 1: for delivering nuclear weapons over long distances, as they didn't
Speaker 1: pose the same continuous risk of radioactive fallout. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: anybody wants to look into it again, Project Pluto. Like,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, it's a cool concept, like as
Speaker 1: a as a sci fi project. It's cool that you
Speaker 1: could harness nuclear reactor technology to launch a missile. That's cool.
Speaker 1: It's just not it's not like a viable solution. We
Speaker 1: have better technology already invented and at our fingertips and
Speaker 1: in our arsenal. So anyway, all right, moving on, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Israel. Israeli strikes Gaza again after overnight bombardment
Speaker 1: that kills at least one hundred and four people. Attacks
Speaker 1: shatter Palestinians short lived relief since the start of the
Speaker 1: ceasefire that now looks increasingly fragile. Israel carried out another
Speaker 1: strike on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing at least
Speaker 1: two people. After bombarding the territory overnight and killing at
Speaker 1: least one hundred and four Palestinians, including children, in the
Speaker 1: gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US broker ceasefire.
Speaker 1: The Israeli military said it had struck military infrastructure where
Speaker 1: weapons were being stored for an imminent attack in bait Lahia,
Speaker 1: northern Gaza. Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said it
Speaker 1: had received two bodies from the strike. After the Tuesday
Speaker 1: night bombardment, Israel said that it was now adhering to
Speaker 1: the ceasefire again, and statements from the US officials seemed
Speaker 1: to indicate that they did not consider the ceasefire to
Speaker 1: have been broken. So you there's a ceasefire in effect,
Speaker 1: and they fired more missiles into Gaza and killed one
Speaker 1: hundred and four people, and now they're saying, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're back on the seasfire. We'd be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we really broke the seasfire, you know. Wow,
Speaker 1: let's get into it here. After the Tuesday night bombardment,
Speaker 1: Israel said that it was I said that one already,
Speaker 1: But Wednesdays strike cast doubt on Israel's willingness to comply
Speaker 1: with the truce, which obliges both parties to stop their attacks.
Speaker 1: The strikes, some of the bloodiest attacks in the two
Speaker 1: year war, killed at least forty six children and twenty women,
Speaker 1: and injured two hundred people. According to Gaza's Civil Defense agency.
Speaker 1: They took place hours after Trump said nothing would jeopardize
Speaker 1: the ceasefire agreement. Wow. Right, here we have a graph
Speaker 1: of the attacks by a day by day standpoint. September
Speaker 1: first of this year, just under one hundred people. September third,
Speaker 1: there was you know again, just just a little over
Speaker 1: one hundred people, one hundred and twenty ish, and everything
Speaker 1: has been under one hundred. There's been some spikes, there's
Speaker 1: been some valleys as far as the graph is concerned,
Speaker 1: but ever since October sixth, there's been a real lull
Speaker 1: in the fighting. There was a spike on October eleventh,
Speaker 1: there was a spike on October twentieth, and the seasfire deal.
Speaker 1: There's been practically no deaths and now one hundred and
Speaker 1: four new casualties, but the ceasefire wasn't broken by their accounts.
Speaker 1: The Israeli military release and infographics showing twenty five quote
Speaker 1: unquote terrorists it had killed in Gaza over the past
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, but did not explain the identity of
Speaker 1: the other seventy nine people it had killed. The strike
Speaker 1: shouted the short lived relief Palestinians had felt since the
Speaker 1: start of the ceasefire. Funerals were held for the victims
Speaker 1: of the latest attacks at hospitals across Gaza on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Some have been carried into medical facilities in the arms
Speaker 1: of loved ones. These are massacres, said Hannen Mattier, who
Speaker 1: lost her sister and nephews and was attending a funeral
Speaker 1: outside Nasa Hospital in southern Gaza. They burned children while
Speaker 1: they were asleep, she told the Associated Press. The Israeli
Speaker 1: military said in a statement that it would continue to
Speaker 1: uphold the ceasefire agreement, but would respond firmly to any
Speaker 1: violation after they just all right. The Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Speaker 1: or in Marl Morston mar Meerstein Jesus blamed Hamas for
Speaker 1: the strikes and attributed the high death toll to the
Speaker 1: group using civilians as human shields. Ugh, yeah, there's okay,
Speaker 1: whatever you say, Homie. Hamas said the strikes revealed Israel's
Speaker 1: intention to undermine the ceasefire and impose new realities by force.
Speaker 1: It said it would continue to adhere to the agreement.
Speaker 1: In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Director of Humanitarian
Speaker 1: Support and International Cooperation at Gaza's Civil Defense Agency doctor
Speaker 1: Mohammad al Muger said among these attacks was the targeting
Speaker 1: of a cancer patient camp, the Ensan camp. Mohammad, who
Speaker 1: was a reporter for the Palestinian News paper, was among
Speaker 1: the dead, bringing the number of journalists killed by Israel
Speaker 1: in Gaza to two hundred and fifty six. The territory's
Speaker 1: media office set The death toll was confirmed by the
Speaker 1: Agency France Press the AFP Talia reports from medical officials
Speaker 1: at five Gaza hospitals that received the dead and wounded.
Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyah, who ordered the strikes on Tuesday evening after
Speaker 1: a firefight between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops and amid
Speaker 1: growing anger over Hamas turning over body parts of a
Speaker 1: hostage whose remains Israeli troops had recovered two years before.
Speaker 1: So essentially the Hamas and this is all according to Netanyahu.
Speaker 1: Here they said that they were giving back the remains
Speaker 1: of a hostage. Come to find out it was the
Speaker 1: remains of a hostage or somebody that was returned years ago.
Speaker 1: The Hamas people had gotten the bones back and were
Speaker 1: trying to regift them as a new person. I don't
Speaker 1: know the dredibility on either side of that claim to
Speaker 1: be completely honest with you. But whatever had taken place
Speaker 1: as far as the giving back of hostages and remains
Speaker 1: and things led to a firefight, to which net and
Speaker 1: Yahu responded by sending some bombs over and killing majority
Speaker 1: civilian people. So you know here we are. The bobarment
Speaker 1: prompted Hamas, who denied responsibility for the gun attack, to
Speaker 1: delay a planned handover of another hostages remains, which had
Speaker 1: been scheduled for Tuesday night. Trump, speaking two reporters on
Speaker 1: Air Force One on Wednesday, said nothing would jeopardize the ceasefire,
Speaker 1: but that Israel should hit back if its soldiers were killed.
Speaker 1: They killed an Israeli soldiers, so the Israelis hit back,
Speaker 1: and they should hit back, he said. Vice President J. D.
Speaker 1: Vance said earlier that the ceasefire was holding despite skirmishes. However,
Speaker 1: Tuesday night's attack exposed all the fertilities or the frailities
Speaker 1: I should say of a ceasefire that from the outset
Speaker 1: has been marred by violence before the latest overnight strikes.
Speaker 1: Gaza Media Office accused Israel of having committed eighty violations
Speaker 1: since the ceasefire began, killing ninety seven Palestinians and injuring
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty, I mean yeah sure. Qatar's Prime
Speaker 1: Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheik Muhammad bin al Duraman al Thani,
Speaker 1: said intensive diplomatic efforts were being made to ensure the
Speaker 1: ceasefire did not collapse. He said the challenges were being
Speaker 1: were to be expected, and both sides acknowledged the agreement
Speaker 1: must hold. The Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mohammed Bassel described
Speaker 1: the situation in Gaza as a catastrophic and terrifying, calling
Speaker 1: the strikes a clear and flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Speaker 1: He told AFP the Israeli strikes targeted tents for displaced people, homes,
Speaker 1: and the vicinity of a hospital in the Strip. A
Speaker 1: spokesperson for the IDF, when asked that the strikes were
Speaker 1: a resumption of full scale invasion, said on Tuesday that
Speaker 1: the military can't elaborate on the scale yet. On Wednesday,
Speaker 1: the IDF said it had reinstated the Gaza ceasefire. The
Speaker 1: Israeli military published footage of what they said were members
Speaker 1: of AMAS reburying a body in order to quote stage
Speaker 1: a false discovery for the International Committee of the Red
Speaker 1: Cross ice RC, which it said was Hamas attempting to
Speaker 1: create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies.
Speaker 1: Hamas has yet to comment on the claims. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I have a video that we're gonna
Speaker 1: pull up at this time to show exactly what this
Speaker 1: is talking about. And you could see they have bodily
Speaker 1: remains that some people. I don't know if these are
Speaker 1: a mass fighters or not. It looks like it from
Speaker 1: the video, but I am not an expert in calling that.
Speaker 1: As I see it, they were reburying them for the
Speaker 1: intention of saying, hey, look what we found. Here's another hostage.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and watch this now. This is from
Speaker 1: Fox nine Well.
Speaker 5: New this morning.
Speaker 9: Israel's military says the ceasefire is now back on in
Speaker 9: Gaza after carrying out airstrikes across the Palestinian territory.
Speaker 1: Let's get to our Leabinos.
Speaker 11: She has details for in our life center and the
Speaker 11: actions being taken from overnight.
Speaker 18: Lea good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 19: According to hospitals in the area, these air strikes killed
Speaker 19: at least one hundred and four people, and that includes
Speaker 19: women and children. The strikes are the dead list since
Speaker 19: the ceasefire started back on October tenth, and they also
Speaker 19: mark the most serious challenge to the truth thus far.
Speaker 19: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Etnyahu said he ordered the military
Speaker 19: to conduct powerful strikes over Gaza after accusing Hamas of
Speaker 19: violating the ceasefire. Hamas said in response it would delay
Speaker 19: handing over the body of another hostage. President Trump but
Speaker 19: defended the strikes, saying Israel was justified and carrying them
Speaker 19: out after what he said was an incident in which
Speaker 19: Hamas killed an Israeli soldier during an exchange of gunfire.
Speaker 19: Hamas had denied any involvement in that deadly shooting and
Speaker 19: accused Israel of violating the ceasefire. So things are delicate.
Speaker 19: Multiple hospitals in the region are trying to keep up
Speaker 19: with a number of casualties that have happened already. Will
Speaker 19: of course continue to monitor this situation and bring you
Speaker 19: the latest developments throughout the morning.
Speaker 1: Back all right, so as you could see they were
Speaker 1: finding this tunnel where there was bodies that were buried.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the video that I actually thought I had
Speaker 1: pulled up, to be honest with you. You could see like
Speaker 1: a white tarp and within it was bodily remains, and
Speaker 1: you saw three Hamas fighters that are alleged Hamas fighters
Speaker 1: that were like kind of lazily covering it with dirt
Speaker 1: with shovels, and it was suspected that they were going
Speaker 1: to quote unquote find these remains to give to Israel.
Speaker 1: Later on, come to find out it was already the
Speaker 1: remains of somebody from two years prior. Anyway, moving on
Speaker 1: to the next international situation, a true genocide. This is
Speaker 1: from Al Jazeera. RSF kills at least fifteen hundred people
Speaker 1: in Sudan's Al Fasher region. Regional countries express alarm as
Speaker 1: more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in
Speaker 1: l Fashier. Let's learn about this together. Scores of people
Speaker 1: have been killed in the attacks by the Rapid Support
Speaker 1: Forces which is the RSF, during their recent capture of
Speaker 1: the city of l Fasher in Sudan's western Darfur region.
Speaker 1: According to a medical group and researchers, the RSF, which
Speaker 1: has been fighting in Sudan's military for control of the country,
Speaker 1: killed at least fifteen hundred people over the last three
Speaker 1: days as civilians tried to flee the besieged city, the
Speaker 1: Sudan Doctors Network set on Wednesday, The group, which tracks
Speaker 1: the country civil war, described the situation as a true
Speaker 1: genocide and this should also go on record. A lot
Speaker 1: of these RSF fighters just a couple of years back
Speaker 1: were the Janjaweed that you may have heard of as
Speaker 1: doing the genocide in Darfur, same fighter's new name. Essentially
Speaker 1: moving on. The massacres the world is witnessing today are
Speaker 1: an extension of what occurred in l Fasher more than
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago, when over fourteen thousand
Speaker 1: civilians were killed through bombing, starvation, and extra judicial executions,
Speaker 1: the group said. It said the attacks are being carried
Speaker 1: out as part of a deliberate and systematic campaign of
Speaker 1: killing and extermination. The statement comes as new evidence of
Speaker 1: mass killings in the strategic area has emerged from Yale's
Speaker 1: Humanitarian Research Lab, which reported that satellite imagery of l
Speaker 1: Fasher taken after the RSF moved in, shows clusters of
Speaker 1: objects consistent with human sized bodies, as well as large
Speaker 1: areas of red discolouration on the ground. The RSF has
Speaker 1: been locked in a bloody civil war with Sudan's army
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty three, in a conflict that has killed
Speaker 1: tens of thousands and displaced more than twelve million people.
Speaker 1: The paramilitary force overran Al Fasher, the army's last strongholding
Speaker 1: Dar Iour, on Sunday after a seventeen month long siege.
Speaker 1: The Sudanese government said on Wednesday that at least two
Speaker 1: thousand people have been killed in the city since then,
Speaker 1: while aid agencies say they have received credible reports of atrocities,
Speaker 1: including summary executions, attacks on civilians along escape routes, and
Speaker 1: house to house raids. Sexual violence, particularly against women and girls,
Speaker 1: was also reported in the city. They said, yeah, that
Speaker 1: also seems to be a thing that happens in African
Speaker 1: countries whenever there's some sort of a civil war that
Speaker 1: goes down, they just have rape gangs that get together
Speaker 1: and do that as a way to terrorize the local population.
Speaker 1: It's absolute animal behavior. L Fasher's falls puts the RSF
Speaker 1: in full control of the vast region of dar Form
Speaker 1: and has raised concerns of another split of Sudan more
Speaker 1: than a decade after South Sudan's creation, which that's very true.
Speaker 1: South Sudan is its own independent nation. They split off
Speaker 1: from Sudan because of all this fighting. Now they're looking
Speaker 1: at having possibly another split in Sudan proper. Sudan's army
Speaker 1: aligned government also accused the RSF on Wednesday of attacking
Speaker 1: civilians in mosques during their recent takeover of the city,
Speaker 1: which is interesting because the RSF is a Muslim group,
Speaker 1: so for them to be attacking civilians in mosques that
Speaker 1: even showed further that they have no respect or decorum
Speaker 1: to even their own religious ideologies. More than two thousand
Speaker 1: civilians were killed during the malicious invasion of El Fasher,
Speaker 1: targeting volunteers in mosques and the Red Crescent. Mona Noor
Speaker 1: al Dim, a humanitarian aid officer for the Sudanese government, said,
Speaker 1: Al Jazeer's reporter reporting from Khartoum, said videos on social
Speaker 1: media taken by the RSF shows fighters shooting at civilians
Speaker 1: attempting to flee. The latest and most disturbing video to
Speaker 1: surface was of the fighters roaming through what had been
Speaker 1: identified as the Saudi hospital in the city of El Fasher,
Speaker 1: executing patients. Survivors who fled the city said at least
Speaker 1: five hundred people had been seeking refuge in the hospital.
Speaker 1: Among those killed were health workers. Tidro. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to try to pronounce that name. The Director of the
Speaker 1: General of the World Health Organization said that more than
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty people were killed in the Saudi
Speaker 1: maternity hospital, the maternity ward. They went in and killed
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty people, he said the who was
Speaker 1: appalled and deeply shocked by the reports the Sudan doctors'
Speaker 1: networks at RSF fighters on Tuesday, Cole bloodedly killed everyone
Speaker 1: they found inside the Saudi hospital, including patients, their companions
Speaker 1: and anyone else present in the wards. The regional Alarm
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Jordan have condemned the
Speaker 1: abuses committed by the RSF in Sudan. Saudi Arabia expressed
Speaker 1: a deconcern, Turkey demanded an endto the hostilities. Egypt, Turkey,
Speaker 1: and Katar reaffirmed their support for Sudan's unity and sovereignty.
Speaker 1: Jordan likewise condemned the violence and called for restraint and
Speaker 1: an urgencies fire to protect civilians. Of course they did,
Speaker 1: but I don't really see that it is going to
Speaker 1: take place here. The parent military force grew out of
Speaker 1: the notorious government linked militia known as the Janjaweed, which
Speaker 1: carried out genocide during the Darfar conflict in the two thousands.
Speaker 1: The United States has also declared that the RSEF and
Speaker 1: its allies have committed genocide in the current war. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the the unprecedented violence separately.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Yale's HRL published a report relying on satellite
Speaker 1: imagery that said the RSF forces were conducting alleged mass
Speaker 1: killings after seizing l Fasher. He described the violence or
Speaker 1: the director of HRIL described the violence of l Fasher
Speaker 1: as unprecedented. This is a direct quote here. He told
Speaker 1: Al Jazeera. The scale is immense from the earth and
Speaker 1: burm the wall that now surrounds l Fasher to specific
Speaker 1: neighborhoods such as Dara Jua Walla. I don't speak the
Speaker 1: language of my apologies to hospitals and humanitarian facilities. We
Speaker 1: are seeing objects that measure between one point five to
Speaker 1: two meters, which is the standard length of a human
Speaker 1: body lying horizontal, as seen in satellite imagery at high resolution.
Speaker 1: Those objects were not there thirty six to forty eight
Speaker 1: hours ago. They now litter the city. The researcher warned
Speaker 1: that the killings were a preview of what could happen
Speaker 1: in other areas of Darfour and the Northern Cordifon Province
Speaker 1: as RSF forces moved to the east of the country
Speaker 1: with the fall of l Fasher. Ahmad Ibram, a former
Speaker 1: staffer of the transitional government under Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdak,
Speaker 1: said the RSF was meant to be integrated into the
Speaker 1: national Army, but due to geopolitical reasons and in internal politics,
Speaker 1: this did not happen. Many bets were on the RSF
Speaker 1: militia to take over the resources of the country and
Speaker 1: replace the national Army and take over the whole country.
Speaker 1: The timeline of this integration and the rsf's new leadership
Speaker 1: were the main points of contention that led to this war,
Speaker 1: he said. According to Ibram, the war has been taking
Speaker 1: place in Sudan's rare earth minerals and along the Red
Speaker 1: Sea Line were being utilized to export livestock and other
Speaker 1: resources to East African countries as an attempt to strip
Speaker 1: Sudan of its natural resources. It's just a power struggle
Speaker 1: between two generals, he said. This is part of I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: It's not just a power struggle between two generals. This
Speaker 1: is part of a geopolitical attempt to restructure the region.
Speaker 1: I have a video pulled up as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: is going to give us a little bit more insight
Speaker 1: into it. This is from the New York Post. Let's
Speaker 1: check it out.
Speaker 13: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces say they've captured the final
Speaker 13: holdout of the Sudanese Army in Darfur. That's raising fears
Speaker 13: of a split in the country, which is torn between
Speaker 13: rival military groups. The capture of the city of Alphashir
Speaker 13: ends a brutal eighteen month siege by the RSF. On Sunday,
Speaker 13: the group said it had taken over the local headquarters
Speaker 13: of Sudan's army. Since then, sources have said RSF fighters
Speaker 13: had detained fleeing civilians in nearby towns and villages, and
Speaker 13: on Monday, sources told Reuters the RSF had surrounded thousands
Speaker 13: of soldiers from the army. In the televised statement, Sudan's
Speaker 13: army chief said his forces quote assessed a need to Retreatshi.
Speaker 18: Everyone has followed what happened in Alphashir. Certainly the leadership there,
Speaker 18: including security, made assessment and said they have to leave
Speaker 18: the city due to the systematic destruction and killing of civilians.
Speaker 18: We agreed with them to leave the city and go
Speaker 18: to a safe place so as to spare the rest
Speaker 18: of the citizens and the rest of the city from destruction.
Speaker 13: The RSF has been locked in a civil war with
Speaker 13: Sudan's army for more than two and a half years.
Speaker 13: The two sides fell out over plans to integrate their
Speaker 13: forces during a transition towards democracy. And let's say the
Speaker 13: rsf's taking of Alvashir may help them regain other territory
Speaker 13: around the country and grant them a diplomatic edge. Alan
Speaker 13: Boswell's with the International Crisis Group in Nairobi.
Speaker 14: It improves their military position in Sudan, which also improves
Speaker 14: their negotiating position in any peace talks. But I think
Speaker 14: the focus on Al Fasher was for a number of
Speaker 14: strategic reasons, including the political leverage it would give them.
Speaker 14: So yes, because they now would can control more of Sudan,
Speaker 14: it will probably increase their confidence at the negotiating table
Speaker 14: and harden their demands of the negotiating table.
Speaker 13: Some activists have long worn that an RSF takeover of
Speaker 13: the city would lead to ethnic revenge attacks of the
Speaker 13: quarter million people remaining there. That was seen after the
Speaker 13: capture of the Zamzam camp for displaced people to the south.
Speaker 13: A UN mandated mission said last month the RSF had
Speaker 13: committed multiple crimes against humanity in the Al Fashir siege.
Speaker 13: The army has also been accused of war crimes. Unless
Speaker 13: US backed peace talks make progress, it could all worsen
Speaker 13: a conflict that's already displaced millions, plunged half of Sudan
Speaker 13: into hunger, and spread disease throughout the country.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, like I said, it's an absolute horrible situation
Speaker 1: that's going on there. We can hope for a peaceful
Speaker 1: resolution to make its way, but Sudan's not known for
Speaker 1: that at all. I'm just hoping that the Sudanese Army
Speaker 1: can reclaim the territory and put a stop to the RSF.
Speaker 1: The civil war has been going on for too long.
Speaker 1: We just we talked about this a while back. There
Speaker 1: was a oil spill that took place in Sudan. Basically,
Speaker 1: the RSF blew a pipeline which flooded the desert with
Speaker 1: a sea of crude oil, and yeah, that was all
Speaker 1: done for their own political reasons. I was hoping when
Speaker 1: that took place that possibly the Sudanese Army would you know,
Speaker 1: do something about it and put a stop to that,
Speaker 1: because now you're getting in the way of big business
Speaker 1: for the country, Like that's not good. But again, we're
Speaker 1: talking about fighters that used to fight with the Janjaweed.
Speaker 1: They they're just brutal. They are absolute animals and they
Speaker 1: need to be, in my opinion, exterminated for what they
Speaker 1: are doing now and what they did in the genocide
Speaker 1: a couple of years back. Anyway, let's move on to
Speaker 1: Rio Dejennaro. Yes, we are going to Brazil. At least
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two have been killed in the
Speaker 1: Rio police raids. Official say Rio de Gennaro has decides
Speaker 1: that they are tired of organized crime in their city
Speaker 1: and they have decided to go on the offensive in
Speaker 1: the largest gang bust ever recorded. Let's get into it here.
Speaker 1: The number of people known to have been killed in
Speaker 1: a deadly police raid in the Brazilian city of Rigo
Speaker 1: de Gennaro on Tuesday has risen to one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty two. Officials say this is more than double the
Speaker 1: figure sighted after the police operation in the favelas, the
Speaker 1: poor neighborhoods of a Mayo and Pinha in the north
Speaker 1: of Rio Dejennio on Tuesday, the Public Defender's Office, which
Speaker 1: provides legal assistance to the poor, made the new death
Speaker 1: toll public after grieving residents lay dozens of bodies in
Speaker 1: a square early on Wednesday. The police raid was the
Speaker 1: deadliest in the city, where authorities have for decades tried
Speaker 1: to contain the gangs which control many of its poorer neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: And that's not a joke, by the way. If you
Speaker 1: ever met somebody from Brazil, especially from not like the
Speaker 1: rural areas, but from somebody from Rio, it's understood to like,
Speaker 1: don't walk around with a cell phone in your hand.
Speaker 1: You will have a gun put in your face and
Speaker 1: you'll have your phone taken, your watch, taking your wallet taken.
Speaker 1: That's just seen as normal. Dressed like you're poor. Don't
Speaker 1: walk around with your phone in your pocket. It's like
Speaker 1: understood that you're gonna have your car broken into probably
Speaker 1: six times a year. You're gonna have to get new
Speaker 1: cell phones on a regular basis. If you're just living
Speaker 1: in this city that's seen as normal. They're not even
Speaker 1: like bothered by this, and that's a problem, right, And
Speaker 1: so the police have decided they are done with this
Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to start handling the problem. Asked
Speaker 1: about the figure given by the Public Defender's office, Rio
Speaker 1: state Governor Claudio Castro said the forensic work was still
Speaker 1: underway and that until it had concluded, the official figure
Speaker 1: would which he had been given was fifty eight dead,
Speaker 1: although it was certain to change. Among those expressing shock
Speaker 1: about the death toll was Brazil's President Louise and Cassio
Speaker 1: Lula da Silva. According to Brazil's Justice manager, Lula was
Speaker 1: astonished and also expressed his surprise that the federal government
Speaker 1: had not been informed beforehand, even before the number of
Speaker 1: dead had more than double. The United Nations Human Rights
Speaker 1: Office said it was horrified by the police operation. Early
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, residents took the bodies of those killed into
Speaker 1: a square in Panhaw, where they were placed where they
Speaker 1: placed them next to each other along a long line
Speaker 1: to show the deadly nature of the raid. According to
Speaker 1: Brazilian media, esimus vary between fifty and more than seventy bodies.
Speaker 1: Many of the bodies had reportedly been retrieved from a
Speaker 1: nearby hillside where police said most of the deadly clashes
Speaker 1: had unfolded. Challenged by journalists about earlier remarks he had
Speaker 1: made describing those killed as criminals, Governor cast replied, to
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, the conflict wasn't in a
Speaker 1: built up area. It was all in the woods. So
Speaker 1: I don't believe anyone was just strolling in the woods
Speaker 1: that day of the conflict, and that's why we can
Speaker 1: easily classify them. I mean, there's something to be said
Speaker 1: for that. It's not like there was a bunch of
Speaker 1: women and children that were collateral damage on this. It
Speaker 1: was gunfights that were taking place in the woods, which
Speaker 1: you know, hey, there it is. Residents describe the scenes
Speaker 1: unfolding on Tuesday as warlike, with shootouts between officers and
Speaker 1: armed men, with buses set on fire to create barricades. Again,
Speaker 1: the police are getting in gunfights with armed men. That
Speaker 1: you know. Again, I'm not really seeing much of a
Speaker 1: downside of the government handling their gang problem. The people
Speaker 1: can be pissed all they want, but that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: According to the police, gang members also use drones to
Speaker 1: drop explosives on the officers as they fanned out through
Speaker 1: the neighborhoods, which are strongholds of the Red Command. This
Speaker 1: is how the real police are treated by criminals with
Speaker 1: bombs dropped by drones. This is the scale of the
Speaker 1: challenge we face. This is not ordinary crime, but narco terrorism,
Speaker 1: Governor Castro said. He also said that the raid had
Speaker 1: been two months in the plan and was based on
Speaker 1: a thorough investigation. Among those arrested is a man accused
Speaker 1: of being a leading drug dealer for the Red Command.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the biggest gang in the area. The
Speaker 1: governor also posted photos on social media of the four
Speaker 1: police officers who were killed in the operation. He praised
Speaker 1: the officers killed on what he called a historic day
Speaker 1: in which he said they confronted organized crime. Rafael So
Speaker 1: Sores Rather, a brilliant journalist covering crime in Rio, told
Speaker 1: BBC News Brazil that the Red Command had been on
Speaker 1: the offensive and Rio in recent years, reclaiming territory that
Speaker 1: it had lost to its rivals, the First Capital Command,
Speaker 1: the PCC. Sores added that the police operation was part
Speaker 1: of Governor Castro's efforts to leave his mark and deal
Speaker 1: a decisive bload of crime in the city ahead of
Speaker 1: the election year. The police raid also comes just days
Speaker 1: before the city is due to host the c forty
Speaker 1: World Mayor's Summit, a meeting of nearly one hundred mayors
Speaker 1: from the world's leading cities, and the earth Shot Prize,
Speaker 1: the environmental award, which will be handed out by Prince
Speaker 1: William on the fifth of November. Huge police raids are
Speaker 1: not unusual in Rio, but the number of fatalities and
Speaker 1: Tuesday's operation is According to Sorez, police operations in which
Speaker 1: more than twenty people are killed are very rare across Brazil,
Speaker 1: and those that do occur have mainly happened in Rio.
Speaker 1: Rio de Jennario's Minister for Public Security, Victor Santos, said
Speaker 1: that two hundred and eighty thousand people live in the
Speaker 1: area where these raids took place. Police footage showed heavily
Speaker 1: armored or heavily armed officers patrolling the narrow, steep lanes
Speaker 1: of the densely populated hillside favalas in this is a
Speaker 1: war we are seeing in Rio de Jennio decades of
Speaker 1: inaction by all institutions, municipal state and federal have allowed
Speaker 1: crime to expand in our territory, Santos said, So now
Speaker 1: we're going to go to a video to give a
Speaker 1: little more clarification into what is going on in Rio.
Speaker 1: And again I'm not too terribly torn up about it,
Speaker 1: but you know what, y'all draw all his own conclusion.
Speaker 1: This is also from the New York Post Let's learn
Speaker 1: together again. Warning there's graphic content on this one.
Speaker 20: A police operation in the suburbs of Rio de jan
Speaker 20: Nio has left at least one hundred and thirty two
Speaker 20: people dead in what has become the largest and deadliest
Speaker 20: gang raid in Rio's history. The grisly operation saw explosions
Speaker 20: and gunfire ring out in the Brazilian state and left
Speaker 20: neighborhood streets lined with bodies just days before Brazil is
Speaker 20: set to host a major upcoming world event. So what
Speaker 20: prompted the brutal blood bath? Here's everything you need to know.
Speaker 20: In the dark of Tuesday morning, October twenty eighth, twenty
Speaker 20: five hundred Brazilian civil and military police entered the Alimal
Speaker 20: and Penya complexes of Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by helicopters,
Speaker 20: armored vehicles and drones. The state of Rio de jan
Speaker 20: Nio launched the raid, which it labeled Operation Containment, aiming
Speaker 20: to combat the territorial expansion of the Commando Vermelio or
Speaker 20: Red Command, which is one of the country's largest and
Speaker 20: oldest criminal groups. Acording to think Tank Insite Crime, the
Speaker 20: Red Command is notoriously involved in the drug trade in
Speaker 20: Brazil and South America and has a strong foothold in
Speaker 20: the poorer neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro known as favelas.
Speaker 20: The group has faced repeated targeted clashes with government troops
Speaker 20: and local militias in the past, who have aimed to
Speaker 20: take the favellas under their control. According to the government
Speaker 20: of Rio, the latest raids in Alamao and Pena have
Speaker 20: been in the works for over a year. Police used
Speaker 20: armored vehicles to topple barricades set by the Red Command,
Speaker 20: while also setting blockades of their own to close off
Speaker 20: strategic avenues and highways in the area. Shootouts and gunfire
Speaker 20: soon broke out and have since left at least one
Speaker 20: hundred and thirty two dead, four of whom are confirmed
Speaker 20: to be police, as well as dozens injured, including civilians.
Speaker 20: According to a video posted by the state Red Command
Speaker 20: could be seen responding to the raid by using drones,
Speaker 20: which reportedly dropped explosives on police Vreas. Video shows the
Speaker 20: complexes looking like a war zone as explosions and rising
Speaker 20: black smoke scattered across the city skyline. In the aftermath,
Speaker 20: over forty bodies could be seen lining the streets of
Speaker 20: the Pena Favella. On Wednesday, a witness told Reuters, I'm just.
Speaker 1: Going to point out you noticed that the bodies might
Speaker 1: be blurred out there, but the people are clapping. The
Speaker 1: local people are clapping that these criminals and gang members
Speaker 1: are no longer a threat, but let's continue.
Speaker 20: The UN Human Rights Watch chimed in on the deadly assault,
Speaker 20: saying we are horrified by the ongoing police operation in
Speaker 20: Favelas in Rio de Janeiro. We remind authorities of their
Speaker 20: obligations under international human rights law and urge prompt and
Speaker 20: effective investigations. The harrowing ordeal comes as the state of
Speaker 20: Rio prepares to host a major climate conference to kick
Speaker 20: off this COP thirty World Leader Summit in Brazil next week.
Speaker 20: The government has been known to conduct similar operations ahead
Speaker 20: of hosting major world events in April of twenty fourteen,
Speaker 20: over two thousand troops entered the favelas of Rio to
Speaker 20: conduct a series of quote pacification efforts ahead of the
Speaker 20: country's hosting of the FIFA World Cup. The State of
Speaker 20: Rio announced that following its raid on October twenty eighth,
Speaker 20: over eighty criminals have been apprehended, along with over four
Speaker 20: hundred pounds of drugs and dozens of firearms.
Speaker 1: Okay, once again, sounds like it was a successful raid. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that's gonna do as far as
Speaker 1: the conflict is concerned. Hopefully that will start to put
Speaker 1: things more into a peaceful situation in the city of Rio,
Speaker 1: but I guess time will tell. It seems like a
Speaker 1: lot of countries are cracking down on their organized crime elements,
Speaker 1: and I'm here for it to be completely honest with
Speaker 1: you anyway, all right, before we wrap up, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and check the chat to see if anybody
Speaker 1: dropped any links to anything. It doesn't look like it. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a fun episode. Sorry again for the technical issues.
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