EPISODE 477： RUSSIA TAKES BAHKMUT AS U.S. ANNOUNCES NEW WAR ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
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Russia has taken Bakhmut on the eastern front of Ukraine as the U.S. announces new war accounting systems. Next, Speaker McCarthy says the FBI will be releasing documents involving Biden and bribery. And finally, a Pentagon explosion hoax that was heard around the world. All this and more on today s Human Events Daily.
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Russia has taken Bakhmut on the eastern front of Ukraine as the United States is announcing
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Next Speaker McCarthy saying the FBI will be releasing documents involving Biden and bribery.
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And then finally, a Pentagon explosion hoax, an AI-generated photo that was heard around
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Russia claims to have completely taken the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
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As the fighting shows no signs of stopping, President Volodymyr Zelensky met with President
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Biden and other world leaders over the weekend at the G7 summit in Japan, which ended with
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CBS News foreign correspondent Deborah Pata is in Kyiv with the latest.
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President Zelensky has lobbied long and hard for advanced fighter jets.
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Now, after a sudden about turn in U.S. policy, Washington has agreed to let Western allies supply
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Kyiv with American-made F-16 jets and will support a joint effort to train Ukrainian fighter
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Ever the master of powerful symbols, Zelensky used his visit to Hiroshima, which was obliterated
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by a World War II atomic bomb to draw comparisons to the devastated city of Bakhmut.
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So, the devastated city of Bakhmut taken by Russian forces over the weekend.
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We've now got Zelensky in Japan with Joe Biden talking about F-16s, not coming from the U.S.,
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but coming from the U.K., from other U.S. partners, other NATO forces, obviously, with the U.K.
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We heard this story out of the Pentagon, and specifically, Jake Sullivan goes on CNN with
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Jake Tapper, and we're told there's a new accounting system that's been put in place, a new accounting
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Well, under the old accounting, the Biden administration claims, we're being told that that number was
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inflated because that number included the cost of the equipment sent to Ukraine, as well as the cost
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We're now told that that means the amount of money that the United States has sent to Ukraine
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is actually half, because the cost to the United States is half.
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You might say, wow, so we only actually spent half the money.
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It's only been $50 billion instead of $100 billion.
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Does it mean Americans are going to be able to work more?
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Does it mean that inflation is going to go down?
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Does it mean that government spending is going to go down?
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Is this something that you're potentially looking at as one of the negotiating tools
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with McCarthy and the Republicans in the House when it comes to the debt ceiling?
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Turns out that what Sullivan says is that he's going to continue to push for even more spending,
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Under the original accounting method, which we all, as we all know, is called actual accounting,
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the United States was saying that the cost for the equipment sent included the cost of
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That's how every business is required to report expenses.
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If you're sending something out and replacing it, you have to report both.
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If you did this on your taxes, you would go to jail, right?
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But if a business did this knowingly, willfully, deliberately lied to the government about what
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your expenses were, deliberately doubling your expenses or even trying to hide your expenses,
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yeah, you would go to jail because that's called false accounting.
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So when you look at these videos out of Bakhmut, when you look at the videos out of this sound,
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the devastation there, the battle, it's harrowing.
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And when you look at it, fought for nearly a year, over 200 days, the largest battle of the 21st century.
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And of course, in the fog of war, especially given the information environment the way it is,
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it's so hard to even get specific numbers on how many people were killed.
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Of course, Russia is claiming that they killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians,
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and Ukraine is claiming the exact same thing when it comes to Russia.
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Russia is also claiming that they've taken the entire city as well as the outskirts of the city.
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Ukraine is claiming they still have control of some of the outskirts and might be able to
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operationally encircle the city of Bakhmut, surround them.
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But what we're also seeing on the ground here is that results speak for themselves.
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We were told that all of this was happening, that Putin was about to die, that he was about to be deposed.
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It's turned into a massive slugfest, people dying on both sides,
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and more importantly, people dying in the middle.
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When we went to Ukraine, my brother and I yesterday, or last year,
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when we went to Ukraine, we said the people caught in the middle of this,
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the families, the men, the women, the elderly that are caught here, the children,
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Just because the high leaders and the elites and the oligarchs want to go at it,
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people that are caught up in the middle, they just want to live their lives,
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and they deserve to be able to live their lives in peace.
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So why is it that when we go to the G7, you don't hear anything from them about peace talks?
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You don't hear anything about, oh, this is what we're going to do.
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We're going to meet with the Russians, and whether it's going to be Istanbul or Iceland
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or Helsinki, wherever it is, where's it going to be?
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There isn't a single person of all of those world leaders.
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And you got Schultz up there coming out earlier today and saying,
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you know what, Ukraine doesn't meet the requirements for NATO membership.
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So the thing that started all of this, the NATO push into Ukraine,
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Because you can't put a country that's at war with one of the largest nuclear powers in the world
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into your alliance, because that would create an automatic trigger for Article 5.
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An automatic trigger for Article 5, meaning direct war with Russia.
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You are not going to be able, and no NATO country,
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and so they're going to send Schultz out there to say that, you know,
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he's going to do the dirty work because they're going to put it on him.
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You're never going to allow a country that's currently at war with Russia into NATO,
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So once again, it's the people that are caught in the middle of the killing.
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You had a call with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday.
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You know that James Comer has a subpoena out for the document that he wants to see.
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What went on with your call with the director of the FBI?
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Well, I want to be very clear with the FBI director that Congress has a right,
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and we have the jurisdiction to oversee the FBI.
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This is one piece of paper that a chairman of a committee has requested to see.
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He hasn't even acknowledged whether he has this document, but he hasn't even provided it.
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I explained to the director that we will do everything in our power,
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and we have the jurisdiction over the FBI that we have the right to see this document.
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I believe after this call, we will get this document.
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Look, I got to say, I appreciate what Speaker McCarthy is doing here because we need to
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understand which group of people has power in this country.
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Is it the deep state or is it the elected representatives of the people?
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In our Constitution, it provides a simple answer.
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The people of the United States, through their representatives, have power.
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The unelected, unselected, in many cases unknown, operates in the shadows.
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Deep state does not have authority over Congress.
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And for so many years, the reason that they were allowed to grow unchecked and act unchecked
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was because Congress didn't do its job and actually stepped forward and put them in their
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Look, when Congress sends you a subpoena, you don't have a choice.
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You can't say, oh, we don't want to send that over.
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And last time I checked, right now, that's Speaker McCarthy and the House GOP.
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So you notice that all of this is being done right at the same time that they're in the
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And so McCarthy understands that he's got a lot of leverage right now.
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That when he starts making phone calls, look, when the Speaker of the House calls your
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office and says, hey, boss, so over at FBI, Chris Ray's secretary, his assistant is sitting
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there, executive, what do they say, executive assistant now?
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You can't say secretary anymore because it's not like Mad Men anymore.
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Boss, Mr. Director, we've got a hot one for you.
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It's the Speaker of the House, and he's not very happy because it turns out we decided
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to stonewall on that subpoena, which is a legal demand that, guess what?
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Congress, the Oversight Committee and the Weaponization Committee have a right to see.
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This is the document that we are told comes from a CHS, Confidential Human Source, aka a
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spy, who said, this is all the way back during the Obama administration, who said that they
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have information that Vice President Biden, because he was Vice President at the time, accepted
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money through his son in exchange for a favorable policy outcome.
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Such crimes are obviously under the remit of the FBI and national security.
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When the FBI goes after conservatives and Catholics, when they go after President Trump, you read
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some of the things that they go after, and you are just shocked to even try to understand.
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Like, oh, you sent too many text messages to somebody on January 6th.
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You, or this obvious, you know, we know the DOJ, by the way, is going to be going after
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Because are you going to say, all right, so President Trump called up his buddies in
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He said, okay, I found a couple of units that are ready to go.
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These units are, are the ones that are going to drive the tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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They're going to blockade the White House so that no one is allowed to get in.
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Find me the actual evidence of President Trump saying or doing that or anything like that.
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Or did he call the results of an election into question, exercising his legal right under
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And it's certainly not sedition that's calling for election integrity.
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And we're allowed to do that in the United States because of something called the first
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amendment and something called the constitution that's legal.
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But what Biden did, according to this document, which we have yet to see because the FBI won't
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release it, is that we have evidence through this.
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Now, a spy CHS, that means this CHS found that evidence, presumably from another source, because
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I ain't trying to go steal dossier with this thing.
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We're going to follow the facts and we're going to follow the evidence.
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Would that policy decision have not been made if not for this money going through?
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We're going to do all that because we want it to be a serious investigation into serious crimes and serious allegations here.
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We're not going to go and just spuriously show dossiers and subsources and no, no, no, no.
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Because when we nail the Biden family to the wall for their corruption, it's going to stand
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When it comes to any of these questions or any of these situations, can anybody within the
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sound of my voice, left, right, middle, whatever, can anyone explain to me why all the oligarchs
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of Ukraine, why all the oligarchs of China, while the oligarchs of Russia, Serbia, Kazakhstan,
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Romania were paying millions of dollars to a crackhead for, we are told, consulting work.
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That crackhead who happened to be the son of Vice President Biden.
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The art dealer, oh, excuse me, the artist, artist, why were they paying millions of dollars
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I think everybody with common sense knows what that answer is.
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And you could get somebody from one of those countries to sit down and actually tell you,
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I guarantee you, the oligarchs of China are not sending millions of dollars for fun.
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The same way they're using debt trap diplomacy all over South America, all over Africa.
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Now, but what we can see is that there are reports of an explosion.
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And there's a picture, of course, suggesting the same right now.
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And all right, we are being joined by our expert, international affairs, Madhav Nalapat, on the phone line.
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Mr. Nalapat, of course, we do not have any official information about the cause of the blast.
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But right now, the reports coming in from RT especially, there's an explosion near Pentagon.
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Well, one will have to check the type of explosion and the location.
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Because, unfortunately, the United States is a country washed in explosives.
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It's a relatively easy matter to procure explosive material from department stores.
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So that explosion at the Pentagon this morning, all right?
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So when we're doing the, as I said last week, when we do the show prep here for Human Events Daily,
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we wake up, we're checking out what's going on online, we see what's going on.
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I'm checking with sources on and off the phone, you know, fielding text messages, signal chats, that type of thing.
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And then all of a sudden, I see this video that's purportedly an explosion at the Pentagon.
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Nobody over at the Pentagon texted me about this.
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What is this deal about the explosion at the Pentagon?
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Then a couple of minutes later, we realize, okay, we've only seemed to have been able to find one angle of this thing.
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If there actually was an explosion at the Pentagon, and thank God there wasn't, we'd have multiple angles of this thing.
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You'd have people chatter all over Twitter when it comes to something like that.
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And I'm glad I didn't tweet it out because, folks, it's one thing to be first, but it's another thing to be right.
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And so when you actually look at what happened, this was an AI photo.
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So when we were running our pre-creations, by the way, we need to do some more of those because I feel like people just still aren't getting it yet.
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We were training you and conditioning you to be ready for something like this.
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And for those of you that have been paying attention, you didn't fall for it.
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Because apparently, and I'm hearing some people say that a Bloomberg terminal even put this out because people were saying there were initial reports of an explosion at the Pentagon.
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Some Russian accounts were even sharing it because, of course, they would love to share something like that.
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And so markets briefly went down because they thought the United States, our military headquarters, the Pentagon, had been attacked.
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And we know that as crazy as things have been lately, something like that certainly could happen.
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This is going to continue throughout this year.
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It's going to happen all throughout the South China Sea.
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Don't think for a second that deep fakes and AI-created images, videos, and audio will not play a role in the 2024 election.
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Remember the Access Hollywood video of President Trump and Billy Bush, 2016, October.
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Did you know that when President Trump and he makes that famous, infamous comment, shall we say, you can't actually see him on video.
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You can't actually see Trump when those words are being spoken.
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So if all you can do is hear his voice, who's to say that you couldn't create a similar video of him doing it again?
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The director's cut of the Access Hollywood video comes out.
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And the voice you're hearing, even though it sounds exactly like him, has the exact same audio qualities of the original tape, that it's actually completely fake.
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What if it's him admitting taking money from Russia, admitting to doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin, admitting to hating Ukraine and wanting Ukraine to fall?
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Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, do you really think for a second that these things aren't all going to be coming?
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Because mark my words, they are already happening.
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And that's why here on Human Events Daily, what we did with President Biden, with the A.L. and Bragg, with so many others, AOC, we are making a preemptive strike.
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Because we'd rather be ready and prepared for when this thing actually happens.
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Rather than caught flat-footed, like all the people on the street today.
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Because we've learned at this point to say, hold up, is that real or not?
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It's kind of like there was a fake Truth Social post going around this weekend from President Trump, never posted it.
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I went to Truth Social and I scanned his feed to see if it was there or not.
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Another way you can tell a Photoshop tweet, go and check the screenshots of the tweet when people are sharing it.
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If all of the numbers on the tweet are the same for every single screenshot, then it's more than likely fake.
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The amount of likes, the amount of retweets, the amount of impressions, if you can see that, the amount of bookmarks now, the amount of quote tweets.
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Because an organic tweet, those numbers will change.
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They'll change second to second, minute to minute.
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But a Photoshop tweet is never going to change unless these guys get smart.
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You also want to see just the edges of the whole thing.
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But mostly, though, mostly, what we are trying to do and what you must do going forward now, if you see something, check something.
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Because you don't know if the first thing you're seeing, and I say this, by the way, with viral videos, too.
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Because whenever you see a viral video, like the thing with the bike and the nurse up in New York City last weekend, even when I said the original George Floyd video, when you saw this video of Daniel Penny on the New York subway.
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If you react to something, and if you allow your emotions, because that is the target, to provoke your emotions, to elicit an emotional response from you.
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If you allow that to take over, then you've already lost.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay it short.