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00:00:00continued selling a battlefield narrative increasingly challenged by
00:00:04events. On x Trump's claims from 911 to the war
00:00:07against Iran ignite ridicule anger and growing calls for
00:00:11accountability. The New York Times examines the economy
00:00:15consequences now threatening Trump's
00:00:17a political fortunes, while lamon exposes a Europe
00:00:20increasingly unable to influence the decisions made in
00:00:24Washington. We break down the numbers behind Iran's
00:00:27unprecedented missile operations and the mount. pressure on
00:00:31US military defenses before hearing a striking
00:00:34warning from American commentator Tocker Carlson about
00:00:38war, propaganda
00:00:53of confronting a story Washington could not successfully
00:00:56buried to Fox News, broadcasters framed the... increasingly
00:01:00resistant to America's preferred
00:01:06report exposes Washington's submersible cover
00:01:09up. Fox News declares victory while reality
00:01:12tells another
00:01:14of story.
00:01:21From Washington's increasingly desperate attempts to control the narrative of
00:01:25its war against Iran. To western broadcasters recycling
00:01:28military claims. predicted by events on the ground. Tonight
00:01:32we exposed the propaganda
00:01:42thank you. So a great deal has happened this past week in the familiar world of failed
00:01:45US propaganda surrounding the illegal war against
00:01:48Iran. Perhaps the most astonishing episode was Washington's
00:01:52confusion over this unmanned US submarine captured by Iran at the
00:01:56entrance
00:01:58of of the straight of hormos. Western media initially treated. the claim with considerable
00:02:01skepticism, but then Palmer Lucky, the founder of
00:02:05of Anderill,
00:02:06of directly contradicted Sendcom's attempt to dismiss this vehicle as
00:02:10some, insignificant older model, and he actually
00:02:14confirmed that it was anderal dive LD that had operated in
00:02:17Sencom's area of operation for months and provided what he
00:02:21described as significant value before it's capture by the Iranian
00:02:25forces, so the BBC, unlike
00:02:37Iran claims it seized an
00:02:39a unmanned American submersible in the street of Homus, saying its
00:02:42forces have taken the vehicle as a prize. It's thought they're
00:02:46referring to
00:02:46a craft like the one seen in the picture below from the US
00:02:50department of defense. Iran's revolutionary guard said
00:02:53a in a statement that they captured one
00:02:56of the
00:02:56of most modern, smart, unmanned underwater vehicles below. to
00:03:00the US military at the entrance to the straight
00:03:02in a
00:03:03a complex intelligence and operational action. the US though hasn't yet
00:03:07responded to those
00:03:08me claims. well control
00:03:09of the straight has become a key factor in this war. Iran has blocked
00:03:13access for most shipping since the start
00:03:15of the conflict, whilst Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed America is in
00:03:19control the key waterway. well with me now
00:03:28just today,
00:03:30a revolutionar guard
00:03:31in a statement, they say, as you just said, an operation, they have
00:03:34managed to seiz this us sophisticated
00:03:38of underwater vehicle, un meant vehicle in the
00:03:42entrance of a straight of
00:03:43of hormonepes and underwater cables, and we
00:03:47have heard in the past week that us has been
00:03:51using these kind of vehicles to detect the
00:03:55minds that has been laid by the Iranian to prevent shipping in
00:03:59the straight of hormones. and in some cases the report was saying they have been
00:04:02successful, the
00:04:07of significance here is obvious, mean Washington first attempted to minimize the capture only for the
00:04:11manufacturer itself to undermine that narrative by Washington, so this is actually
00:04:14precisely how official credibility erodes, the public is told one
00:04:18version, then facts emerge and the facts themselves expose these
00:04:22gaps, and the idea is that the more frequently that happens, the more
00:04:26Americans are forced to look beyond their own government. and
00:04:30also media institutions for information specifically they can actually
00:04:34trust and find reliable at
00:04:42US military confirms all Iranian attack attempts failed
00:04:46but one basic reality complicates this triumphant narrative that
00:04:50they're claiming US military operations can no longer rely on Kuwait or the
00:04:54UAE or Bahrain in the same manner that they once did following the damage inflicted by
00:04:57Iran given that these bases reduced to rubble, public
00:05:01congressional hearings involving and secretary of state Marco
00:05:05Rubio have also made it pretty hard to conceal the extent
00:05:08of the casualties and the losses, particularly involving radar.
00:05:12systems and missile defenses and regional reports have
00:05:16described significant damage, particularly following Iran's latest attack on
00:05:20the al-az place in
00:05:28East, US forces delivering powerful response to the latest act
00:05:31of Iranian aggression, the military taking out five oil tankers in
00:05:35response to attempted attack on US warships. Steve Harrigan is
00:05:39live in Tel Aviv with the latest. Hey Steve.
00:05:43Angeley, Iranian forces continue to try and fail to take
00:05:47out US military ships in the region and they are paying
00:05:51heavy price for doing so. Sentcom just posted, no US
00:05:55Navy warship has been struck. All IRGC attempted attacks
00:05:59failed. Meanwhile, US forces have successfully destroyed 10 Iranian
00:06:03tankers in just the last week. These vessels were part of a
00:06:06multi-billion dollar shadow network that funds the
00:06:09IRGC, and Iran cannot defend them. "Now right
00:06:13after the US destroyed those five Iranian tankers, uh,
00:06:17Iran tried once again to hit US forces inside of Jordan. They
00:06:21launched a ballistic missile attack. Jordan says 18 of those
00:06:24missiles were intercepted, two them fell harmlessly an
00:06:28uninhabited area. So
00:06:31the reporter speaking from Tel Aviv uh sounds almost euphoric,
00:06:35yet nearly every sentence is presented as an unquestionable fact,
00:06:39while the wider battlefield tells a far more complicated. Yeah, and this is the
00:06:43problem with propaganda masquerading um a journalism, it
00:06:46collapses the moment viewers begin uh comparing
00:06:50the broadcast narrative with independently reported
00:06:54events. Yeah, and Fox News has repeatedly done this, demonstrated this
00:06:58willingness to just shape facts around Washington's preferred narrative, so actually
00:07:01the real question here when we're pointing this out is not why do they keep doing this, because
00:07:05that's a useless question, it's more, how much longer is their audience
00:07:09going to continue believing this, exactly, when governments repeatedly. exaggerate
00:07:13victories and conceal the failures uh, they're not simply losing control of
00:07:17news cycle, they're losing the trust the public. they've lost it,
00:07:20yes, and that is perhaps Washington's greatest
00:07:24propaganda failure, every contradiction, denial and exposed
00:07:27falsehood is pushing the public further away from official
00:07:31narratives and closer to the uncomfortable truth. thank you
00:07:35for costly wars could turn the economy into his greatest political
00:07:38liability to lemon's scathing assessment of europe.
00:07:42powerless to influence the very policies whose consequences it
00:07:46most and year, the mainstream media exposing the mounting
00:07:50cost of Washington's relectless
00:07:56Trump's wars become economic liability.
00:07:59Lamond, Europe pays while Washington calls the
00:08:03shots.
00:08:10From an American economy increase. burdened by Washington's war
00:08:14to a Europe discovering the limits of its own political
00:08:18relevance. The consequences of Trump's foreign policy are now
00:08:21reverberating
00:08:33war of aggression against Iran has not only taken its toe on the American
00:08:36economy or you know domestic politics, but actually the consequences
00:08:40could now increasingly shape. the primary elections as
00:08:44well, so and and while this is happening, Europe finds itself actually
00:08:47paying the price for the decisions right, over which it appears to have
00:08:51virtually no influence whatsoever, because it's tropped by this inability to
00:08:55restrain Washington's increasingly reckless policies in West Asia that it just has to
00:08:59go along with. Okay, so the New York Times begins actually with the domestic
00:09:03consequences in costly conflicts with Canada and Iran loom
00:09:07over Trump's mid-term pitch. Tony ROM argues that Trump has
00:09:11plungged the United States deeper into... costly conflicts, uh,
00:09:14rattling financial markets, threatening higher prices and unnerving
00:09:18republicans ahead the 26 elections. So ROM
00:09:21writes, the president's attacks on Canada and his new
00:09:25bid this week to block some of its exports to the United States all
00:09:28together, risk damage to American states and domestic industries that
00:09:32rely heavily on commerce across the border, and his ongoing war with
00:09:36Iran contributed to another spike in gas prices, with the average cost of a
00:09:40gallon of gas topping $4. in 22 cents nationally,
00:09:44so the article then continues, while the economy once might have served as
00:09:48Mr. Trump's source of political strength, it has recently become his
00:09:52greatest liability, one that may jeopardize Republicans continued
00:09:55hold on the House and the Senate in November. So this is what
00:09:59happens when governing is replaced by personal impulse, and the
00:10:03administration behaves as though policy can be im imposed by royal
00:10:06decree, without calculation, without consequence or
00:10:10accountability or anything like that, and other hand, an ordinary
00:10:14American ultimately pay the price for all these fantasies that CMA
00:10:17is highlighting, through higher prices, economic
00:10:21uncertainty and wars, they never even imagine that they can endorse.
00:10:25Yeah, and the damage is not just confined to the United States, because Trump's
00:10:28aggression and constant sabotage that we see in and out,
00:10:32has also exposed Europe's extraordinary political weakness,
00:10:36and we're seeing
00:10:37that the peak of this now, lemond in Pierre Ramon's war in
00:10:41Iran, every day the world reminds Europeans that they lack the
00:10:45ability to influence decisions made in the US, argues that
00:10:49six months into the US-Israeli entities war against Iran,
00:10:52Europe is being reminded daily that it cannot truth. influence
00:10:56Washington, I mean even through the media, they have to remind them, so the
00:10:59article states, indeed, many European diplomats view themselves as
00:11:03guardians of US rationality and not as independent
00:11:06actors, such a strategy does not seem sufficient to build a foreign
00:11:10policy, especially an era of
00:11:13neoroyalism, an era of neoroyalism, the term
00:11:16used by American political scientist Abraham and Stacy God
00:11:20in the journal International Organization to describe the transcendence the
00:11:24west. failian model, a world where states, first and
00:11:28foremost, the govern by personal clicks rather than
00:11:31administrations, and Europe has voluntarily
00:11:34reduced itself to anxious spectator waiting to manage the
00:11:38consequences of decisions made by one man in Washington, so therefore a
00:11:42continent that once claimed that strategic
00:11:46autonomy has instead become an uncertain pawn, unable to
00:11:49restrain American power, even when its own economies and
00:11:53security are placed some... how at risk, and this may be actually the
00:11:57defining lesson here, and we see it even with west Asian countries, which is that this
00:12:01unquestioning alliance that you may have to Washington does not buy you influence,
00:12:04just like it doesn't security, so it's merely guaranteing that when Washington
00:12:08is acting recklessly, its allies just inherit the consequences because
00:12:12they're forced to play along and yes, therefore from economic pressure
00:12:16at home to political paralysis abroad, Trump's wars are
00:12:20producing consequences that neither America nor Europe appears
00:12:23prepared to confront. The question now is whether those are paying
00:12:27the price will
00:12:39rewriting history and contradicting his own administration
00:12:43to dismissing deadly war as small
00:12:46potatoes. Donald Trump found himself under relentless fire
00:12:50this week as X turned his latest claims into a spectacle of outrage
00:12:54ridicule. and growing demands for
00:13:00go viral from 9/11 fantasy to Iran, war
00:13:04denial, lawless king. Muchary turns into
00:13:08mounting impeachment
00:13:09pressure.
00:13:16X was a blaze this past week with Donald Trump facing torrent of
00:13:20ridicule over a string of extraordinary claims from nine.
00:13:2511 to the war against Sidan while calls for impeachment began
00:13:32screens. joining at every corner that it can, from his
00:13:35bizarre 9/11 claims to the contradictions over the war on
00:13:39Iran, users showed him no mercy, they were mocking him relentlessly, and the backlash
00:13:43has now grown into a serious public conversation about beachment. this ridicule can look
00:13:52quite frankly as Trump appeared to place himself at the center. the US's
00:13:55most traumatic national tragedies as they consider it, so Aaron
00:13:59Rupar writes, Trump claims he was basically lifted
00:14:03out the rubble on 9/11, two fireman, big strong
00:14:07guys, they grabbed me under the arms, got to get out of here, and they literally lifted me up
00:14:11and they started running with me, but a community note, which
00:14:15you find these have come to the rescue quite often, points out that Trump was miles
00:14:19away from ground zero at the time, speaking by phone from his office
00:14:28got two fireman, we thought it was coming down top of us and two
00:14:31firemen, big strong guys and I'm not the smallest guy in the
00:14:35world, they grabbed me under the arms, said got to get out of here, and
00:14:39they literally lifted me up, this is not easy to
00:14:42do, I'm big, they lifted me up and they started
00:14:46running with me, I said fellas, I can run myself, but they were
00:14:50amazing, but they thought it was coming down, it didn't come down, US
00:14:53steel.
00:14:57so what's striking is the sheer audacity of attempts to rewrite
00:15:00history or on the event that's been so extensively documented and it's
00:15:04not merely exaggeration, it's claim that social media users can dismantle
00:15:08literally within minutes, yeah and actually i remember all the way back in the
00:15:11day there was a on tv he
00:15:13was on the phone with someone on tv, he definitely was not there
00:15:16and so the contradictions actually don't stop there,
00:15:18his own administration can't seem to agree on you know what it calls the
00:15:21conflict with Iran, this the operation, reporter asks
00:15:25Trump, how can he deny the conflict with Iran is a war
00:15:29when uh US
00:15:35reporter goes, the vice president said yesterday, that he would not describe the conflict with
00:15:39Iran as a war. if this is
00:15:41not a war, what exactly is it? trump goes, i call it a military
00:15:44conflict because it's small potatoes for us, it's not a big thing.
00:15:48reporter goes, 18 people have died, it certainly doesn't feel like small
00:15:52potatoes. 18 service members have died, we're seeing record long
00:15:55deployment. so trump goes, why is it record long? how long are we in vietnam? he loves saying
00:15:59this.
00:16:07uh, the... "vice president said yesterday that he would not describe the conflict with Iran
00:16:10as a war, but the US resumes strikes for the first time in recent
00:16:14weeks. can you explain to the American people? this is not a war, what exactly is
00:16:18it? well, I tell you what, lot of people don't call it a war, I call it a
00:16:22military conflict, because it's it's small potatoes for us, it's not a
00:16:25big thing, we did Venezuela and we did
00:16:29this, and Venezuela, we lost nobody, and this we lost
00:16:3218 people, uh, and Vietnam you lost
00:16:36100,00." people and in other conflicts you lost tens of
00:16:40thousands of people, and 18 people have died in this, certainly doesn't feel like small
00:16:44potatoes, 18 service members have died, we're seeing record long
00:16:47deployments, you initially said this record long, why is it record long? so 80
00:16:51air, how long were we in vietnam? how long were we in vietnam? no, how
00:16:55long were we in vietnam? we're in five months now, we
00:16:59and you
00:16:59know what we did in five months, they're not going to have nuclear weapon, that's what we
00:17:03did, small potato.
00:17:07for his president, perhaps, but certainly not for the families
00:17:11of those killed, as you're highlighting, sima or soldiers and
00:17:15during prolonged deployments, for unnecessary war of
00:17:19aggression, as some actually perceive it, the contempt in that
00:17:22language is kind of astonishing, yeah, trump is astonishing, and
00:17:26you now the next post highlights actually the absurdity, even more clearly, this absurdity that
00:17:30we've been talking about, the vice president says trump won the
00:17:34Iran
00:17:39JD Vance and Trump just gave two very different
00:17:41descriptions the Iran conflict. JD Vans
00:17:45goes, "nobody has want to warn the last 42 years of American history.
00:17:48President Trump did that by winning the Iran war and then
00:17:52Trump goes, "We will not give payouts for US soldiers who died in the
00:17:55war against Iran because it isn't a war," side by side. So
00:17:59according to Vans, Trump won the war, and according to Trump, it
00:18:03wasn't a war. Same administration, two completely different.
00:18:07descriptions side by side shameless, shameless, so it's an absolute clown
00:18:11show, even towards their soldiers, yep,
00:18:15yeah, it's definitely clown show, and it's political double speak at its
00:18:19most blatant, they want the glory of winning a war while avoiding the
00:18:23legal political and financial consequences of admitting that one exists, yeah, and
00:18:27as ridicule, it has intensified online, impeachment has increasingly entered, the
00:18:30conversation has you mentioned, and it's gone beyond x, mr. producer
00:18:34rich sementa wrote, rep jamie raskin, permits:
00:18:38everybody on our side understands that impeachment is critical tool in the toolbox for
00:18:42constitutional self-defense against the president acting like a king, an
00:18:46imperious, lawless, arrogant king, we won't hesitate to use
00:18:49it if we need to use it, not no, not yes if we need
00:18:53to, after he
00:18:59trump, do you support that? would you want to move to impeach president
00:19:03Trump? should democrats retake the house? look, everybody on our side understands that
00:19:07impeach. is critical tool in the toolbox for
00:19:10constitutional self-defense against a president acting like
00:19:14a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant
00:19:17king. on the other hand, Donald Trump already has 50%
00:19:21the impeachments of a president American history, and we saw what
00:19:25happened last time, he incited mob to storm the
00:19:29capital, to attack his own vice president and congress, we impeach him in the
00:19:33house, and we could get only seven republican senators to join us, we
00:19:37were... and short again because of Mitch McConnell, so you don't, you don't support
00:19:40impeachment, you think it would be waste of time? no, impeachment is not a taboo with
00:19:44us, it's
00:19:45not a fetish with us, we understand it's
00:19:47not a panasia, it is a tool in the tool b, we will not hesitate to use it
00:19:51if we need to use it, but we also understand the framers gave it to Congress rather than the
00:19:55Supreme Court, because they wanted us to contextualize impeachment
00:19:58in the whole sphere of things we got to deal with, like getting healthcare back to
00:20:02our people because they've thrown millions of people off their healthcare with the medicaid
00:20:06cuts and the destruction. the aca tax
00:20:08credits,
00:20:12well, what began as mockery online is now intersecting
00:20:16with an unmistakably serious political question, how
00:20:20many contradictions, abuses and extraordinary claims can accumulate
00:20:24before
00:20:35a massive Iranian ballistic barrage and strain. patriot defenses to
00:20:38threaten pergian golf shipping lanes and increasingly militarized
00:20:42skies. The numbers are exposing the mounting pressure on American
00:20:46forces and the widening vulnerabilities of Washington's regional war.
00:20:50Here are the headlines: 30, 40 missiles, 12 launch
00:20:54sides. Iran overwhelms the American defense
00:20:57narrative. Patriot under pressure, US
00:21:01defenses struggle as the battlefield
00:21:03expands.
00:21:10This week, the numbers tells the story, Washington may struggle to spin an
00:21:14unprecedented Iranian missile operation, strained American
00:21:18air defenses and rapidly militarizing region
00:21:22stretching
00:21:31The most significant development was a one's
00:21:34largest reported ballistic operation
00:21:38against you as positions in
00:21:43the aggressor, between 30 and 40 missiles were reportedly
00:21:46launched simultaneously from 12 bases across central. and western
00:21:50Iran, primarily targeting Azrak airbase.
00:21:54now reports indicate Iran used Koramshah missiles equipped with
00:21:58cluster or submunition warheads designed to spread explosives
00:22:02across wide areas and the apparent objective was not
00:22:06only to, not only a single point of impact, but
00:22:10rather air fields, maintenance facilities and aircraft
00:22:13shelters. yeah,
00:22:15you know, this distinction actually matters enormously because the defense system may intercept
00:22:19individual missiles. but actually repeated waves combined with dispersed
00:22:22submunitions can rapidly overwhelm and
00:22:29sources, sema, patriot pack 3 batteries
00:22:33are reportedly fired around 100 interceptors against the first
00:22:37wave, yet were then unable to respond effectively to
00:22:40subsequent waves, and the explanation is still contested here, because
00:22:44interceptor stocks may have been either depleted or elements
00:22:48the system may have been damaged. Either way, it exposes
00:22:52serious vulnerability here, hibba, defense system costing
00:22:55enormous sums, um, is only as effective as its
00:22:59ability to stain
00:23:04the escalation is equally dangerous for after us strikes
00:23:08reportedly destroyed Iranian tankers, Iran
00:23:12warned oil crews in Emirati, Kuwaiti and Bahraini
00:23:16ports to leave, signaling that commercial infrastructure linked to.
00:23:20as military operations could increasingly be drawn into the
00:23:24confrontation, which means
00:23:26that the war is slowly but surely expanding geographically, even
00:23:30countries attempting to remain on the margins, we see now
00:23:33confronting direct economic
00:23:39reflect the same escalation, according to source sources,
00:23:43if one issued critical aviation warning covering parts
00:23:46the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian. see
00:23:50up to um FL100 citing military
00:23:53activity, electronic warfare and possible GPS
00:23:57intervention interference. Okay, Saudi Arabia has also
00:24:00activated extensive restricted and danger zones,
00:24:04while US aerial surveyance, refueling and fighter
00:24:08deployments have intensified across the region as well. In other words, the
00:24:11battlefield is no longer confined to a single front. It now
00:24:15extends undergrounds, extends across the sea and
00:24:22Farah reflect you know that Washington is confronting
00:24:25precisely what it sought to avoid, yes, a prolonged regional
00:24:29war in which every new military response creates
00:24:32additional fronts and vulnerabilities. Okay, so
00:24:36therefore, from dozens of ballistic missiles and
00:24:39exhausted defenses to threatened shipping, lanes
00:24:43and militarized skies. The numbers reveal a conflict growing
00:24:47costlier, more complex and increasingly. difficult for Washington to
00:24:51control. Thank you. Thank
00:24:52you.
00:25:00The US war of aggression against Iran is also producing increasingly
00:25:03uncomfortable voices from inside the United States itself. Tucker
00:25:07Carlson, a prominent American political commentator and former Fox
00:25:11News host, argues that Washington's media establishment
00:25:15has abandoned its responsibility to inform the public
00:25:18instead. helping sustain what he describes as a war
00:25:22driven by interests far beyond those of ordinary
00:25:35the only reason we're having this war is
00:25:38because Israel wants it. This is their last chance they
00:25:41believe. This presidency is the last presidency
00:25:45where they're going to have unequivocal bipartisan
00:25:48support.
00:26:32'Hey, wake up! The world could be changing and it's going to affect you and your
00:26:36family. That's their job, and instead, they've been lowing
00:26:40you to sleep with the same variety of transparent
00:26:44lies and