The Philip DeFranco Show - Trump Just Surrendered to Iran

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Starting point is 00:01:01 So buckle up, hit that like button and let's just jump into it starting with this. Trump surrendered to Iran. You even have a meaningful chunk of MAGA saying this. And so Donald Trump, he's either lying to himself or lying to you when he says that the U.S. won this war against Iran. Especially because we now know the details of that 14-point plan that was supposed to end the fighting and reopen the straight-ohor moves. And so you have the U.S. getting even less than expected. Iran looking like they're going to get way more than expected. And many of the most important issues, they're getting kicked down the road.

Starting point is 00:01:25 Or with this MOU, the memorandum of understanding, which has been signed electronically by both sides, opening a 60-day negotiating window that can be extended to both sides agree. Also, in the meantime, efforts to reopen the strait are meant to begin immediately. The MOU, saying that the U.S. will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. And as far as Iran, they will, quote, make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days only. And on top of that, it will conduct dialogue with Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz. And then finally with this part, there's language about whatever is decided being in line with applicable international law. but also the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.

Starting point is 00:01:59 So ultimately, it just looks like Trump and co. They abandoned the demand that anything but a return to the pre-war status quo in the straight being acceptable. Right, and that is definitely how Iran's interpreting the text. You've got Iran's top negotiators saying in an interview that the straight-ohrmoos will not return to pre-war conditions and then adding, Iran is the right to sovereignty over the Strait of her moves and of course we will receive a fee for services. And that same guy even argued that the agreement is a record of US failure saying people will

Starting point is 00:02:21 see it and judge. And yeah, it appears to have a point. With among other things, people pointing to, for example, example Trump repeatedly saying that the US will not give any money to Iran. Trump's even frequently slammed Barack Obama for the fact that his administration paid Iran $1.7 billion in 2016. Though that also is technically Iran's own money paid back with interest in order to settle a decades-old dispute over military equipment that had never been delivered, right due to the

Starting point is 00:02:40 1979 revolution. But in any case, Trump is now making that $1.7 billion look like nothing. It's looking like some pocket change that you found in a couch cushion. Because this MOU that Donald Trump just signed says that Iran will be provided with at least $300 billion to repair the damage that's been done to the country over the course of this war. Or just a mind-melting number, but you had the administration trying to kind of soften the blow because you had at least one senior administration official telling the BBC that the MOU doesn't actually commit the US to paying Iran a single cent.

Starting point is 00:03:07 Arguing that it only specifically says that the US quote undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development. And then as far as Trump, besides angrily rejecting the idea that the US would be contributing, he suggested that the payouts would come from the Gulf states. Right now, it is not clear that these countries who have taken really the brunt of Iran's retaliatory strikes. And seemingly haven't had any say in the negotiations are going to be lining up to help Iran rebuild, especially with a price tag of at least $300 billion, and the MOU ultimately doesn't address any of these concerns. Just marking the question of this $300 billion is a matter to be resolved over the course of the 60-day negotiating period.

Starting point is 00:03:42 But then also a huge thing is that even if that never happens, this agreement, it's still setting Iran up to bring in a lot of money very quickly. And it's partly because it includes an extraordinary commitment from Donald Trump to terminate all types of sanctions against Iran. And while it says that this will only be done according to an agreed upon schedule as part of the final deal, it also says that the U.S. Treasury Department will immediately issue sanctions waivers for, quote, the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc. And since those products amount for the vast majority of the country's export revenues,

Starting point is 00:04:14 this is a huge win for Iran. And it doesn't end there. The deal also says that the U.S. undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And again, the number is massive. The estimated total value of frozen Iranian assets, it might exceed $100 billion. So getting access to that, I mean, just a huge boon for Iran's economy. Of course, again, you had Trump trying to push back saying, hey, this doesn't technically count as the US paying Iran, saying we have taken a lot of their money. We're giving it's not our money, it's their money, and we froze it at a certain point in time.

Starting point is 00:04:43 I guess we're going to have to give it back. Two sentences, mind you, that would be playing on a loop for 24 hours a day for several months in a row on Fox News if Obama or Biden. But also don't worry, you know, Donald Trump insisted that the funds, they're only going to be released in return for good behavior. And if you're wondering, yes. Donald Trump, he's still trying to play this off as a win, despite it being essentially the same sort of concession that Obama made 11 years ago. And again, he called that Obama deal one of the worst deals in the country's history. But also, we can't fully make in comparison yet because Donald Trump still doesn't have a nuclear deal. He just has now two months to get one. And also if you're wondering that worst deal ever, even though it was way better, it took the Obama administration 20. And as far as what is in the MOU, to start, I'll say you have Iran, real. affirming that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. So honestly, that's barely notable. Right, Iran, they actually ratified the nuclear nonproliferation treaty unlike Israel, and they similarly reaffirmed that commitment under the Obama deal.

Starting point is 00:05:34 Even US intelligence before the war said they weren't doing this. Though also now, like, whatever they're saying in public, you have a lot of experts saying, hey, Iran may actually be more incentivized than ever to get nuclear weapons. Famously, that seems like the only way you can get America or really any other country not to fuck with you. But really, the only substantive issue, even remotely addressed in this MOU, is Iran stockpile of highly enriched uranium now believed to be buried under bomb nuclear sites? But all the country's actually committed to is downblending the material on a site under the supervision of the

Starting point is 00:05:59 IAEA. And it's an open question as far as exactly how and when that'll be done and whether this stuff will stay in the country. So with that, you had a senior U.S. official trying to play this off as a win, calling it a significant concession by Iran. But again, if we're going to be making comparisons because Donald Trump, he just loves bringing up Obama. Under that Obama deal, Iran, they roughly ship 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium or 97% of its stockpile completely out of the country. current roughly 1,000 pound stockpile, which is enriched to a much higher level, nearly weapons grade, only accumulated after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal. And also, like, when it comes to uranium, what is downblended can also be upblended, so to speak. And so if they

Starting point is 00:06:33 still have that material, they can still get it back to near weapons grade. Right. And so then, the other big question is whether Iran will agree to limits on future enrichment. Earlier reporting suggested that Iran, they agreed in principle to a suspension with the only question kind of left unanswered being the length of time. And while Trump, he initially wanted a permanent ban, he then went down to 20 years and he recently even suggested he'd be open to 15. But again, this deal that's just been signed, it only says that the two parties have agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear needs based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final

Starting point is 00:07:02 deal. You actually had Trump yesterday doing a complete 180 by seemingly acknowledging what Iran is described as the right to enrichment. It's a little hard when other people have it, other adjoining states have it, and you're not letting them have it for purposes of electricity and things like that. You have to use a little common sense. MOU also hands Iran other wins, including a commitment from both sides to try to, quote, refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs, which could be seen, and as being seen by many, is Trump agreeing not to push for regime change, which is something that he said, it was an aim of the war early on. You then also have the U.S. saying that it undertakes to remove its forces from the proximity of Iran

Starting point is 00:07:33 within 30 days after the final deal, which is yet another thing that seemed like an impossible last just a few months ago, though, again, there are no details about what this would actually look like. But then also, what's not in the MOU stands out greatly, including any mention of Iran's ballistic missile program, even though a key objective of the war had at one point been the total destruction of that program. And in fact, the idea that Iran's ballistic missile program served as a conventional shield that would one day enable the regime to develop a nuclear weapon, that served as a Trump and co-argument for why Iran had posed an imminent threat that required us to attack immediately.

Starting point is 00:08:02 Then yesterday, similar to his comments on enrichment, you had Trump suggesting, guys, it's not that big of a deal. Well, what am I gonna do? Are we gonna let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can't have them? Yes, sir. It doesn't work that way, you know? It doesn't work that way. And missiles aren't the problem.

Starting point is 00:08:19 Missiles, they hurt a little location, but they don't blow up the planet. The MOU also makes no specific mention of Hezbollah or Iran's other proxy groups in the region, which again, stands out because another early aim of the war had been stopping Iran from funding those groups. So that said, it does say that the US and their allies in the current war declare the immediate

Starting point is 00:08:37 and permanent termination of military operations in all fronts, including in Lebanon. But there also being language there about ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. And that does notably come as Trump's been increasingly critical of Israel's attacks on its northern neighbor. I'm not saying they shouldn't protect themselves.

Starting point is 00:08:51 I'm saying when two drones are shot into the desert and drop harmlessly, you don't have to knock down buildings in Beirut. And so you actually had the leader of Hezbollah hailing the agreement in Trump's remarks as a great victory. When I asked you at least one administration official reportedly not confirming whether that meant Israel would be forced to withdraw from the portion of the country

Starting point is 00:09:10 that it's occupied as a buffer zone against Hezbollah. And you're also seeing a lot of Israelis absolutely pissed about this deal. Or with Netanyahu looking like he's under a lot of pressure to reject it and deliver on his promise to deliver a, quote, total victory. And you're seeing conservative voices in the U.S. like Ben Shapiro, sort of echoing the same kind of finish the job perspective. Telling Fox News that Trump's decision to attack Iran, it was one of the greatest acts of political bravery of his lifetime, but then adding, this MOU appears to be

Starting point is 00:09:33 just from the text, a disaster that does not achieve any of the actual signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning. Now a huge thing here is that Shapiro shifted some of, if not all of the blame off of Trump and onto J.D. Vance. In my opinion, the vice president of the United States, chief negotiator on this particular project has not well served the president. Which if I can for just a second, this part, guys, this is just opinion. Ben Shapiro, you're a pussy. I didn't know if I should include this in the video because you kind of just don't fucking matter. Like sometimes you can look at your numbers and think they matter, but then people

Starting point is 00:10:01 that actually do this job know that your numbers oftentimes do not add up. Right, you'll have an episode come out. It has 150,000 views and magically pops up to 400,000, 500,000, but for some reason the number of comments and likes, that doesn't seem to be shifting at that same rate. Put out a full show that has over 400,000 views. It has 30,000. 500 likes. And hey, I don't have all the answers. Maybe there's a genuine reason for this, but it really does look like you're trying to hide the fall off and or. I mean, some could see this as you trying to defraud your sponsors. But anyway, we've also seen criticism coming from right-wing voices that have been against this war with Megan Kelly, for example, saying,

Starting point is 00:10:33 Iran's about to be richer than it's ever been. I mean, we're about to release a lot of money to Iran, and they will emerge from this whole thing in some ways much better off than they were before. They'll possibly be in control of the Strait of Hormuz. They'll definitely have hundreds of billions of dollars that they didn't have before. You then also had Tucker Carlson piling on saying that he thinks that Iran's now going to pursue a nuclear weapon and adding, it is absolutely impossible to say this is in any sense a win for the United States because it's not. This is a pretty humiliating loss for the United States. With this, the United States has shown that it does not have, despite possessing the world's best or biggest or certainly most generously funded military,

Starting point is 00:11:17 does not have the military power to impose its will on the 34th biggest economy in the world. Now, aside of, you know, commentators and influencers, you had people like Republican Senator Bill Cassidy slamming the MOU, writing on Twitter, Reagan is rolling over in his grave. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades. But then Ted Cruz and others also calling it out. But then also, on the flip side, there were Republicans like Rand Paul, who's been a critic of the war supporting the deal. And then you're also seeing some people on the left who welcome measures like the lifting of sanction.

Starting point is 00:11:47 But really, wherever you land or wherever you're coming from, it is clear that Trump has failed to achieve his own objectives, completely crossed his own red lines, and likely achieve fucking nothing that could have been won by just negotiating from the beginning. And it is just really hard to see this, unless your head is so far up Donald Trump's ass that you even pass Benny Johnson on your way up. To not see this is a huge win for Iran. Trump created a problem. Tons of people died, including a bunch of school kids, 13 plus U.S. military members. In the meantime, you and fucking everybody's been paying more for gas and pretty much everything else. Iran proved that they can wade out the United States. Also, it's like they discovered they have a superpower of this choke point regarding oil and just how much pain they can induce. And I'm just left wondering if Sleepy Don realizes he took just such a massive L or maybe he is really that far gone. But then also on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, we then have to look to New York.

Starting point is 00:12:36 Because in New York, you got pretty much everyone feeling like a winner right now. Are you with the Knicks having their championship parade, people out early and in numbers? And is a bit of news, but also maybe a little bit as a palate cleanser. I want to include two minutes of Mamdani's speech where he's praising the Knicks, but he's really talking about a lot more. He's talking about the Knicks in New York and to a greater extent America, about people staring down adversity and doing something about it. Over these past weeks, as the Knicks kept winning, our city has come to. together as one. Neighbors invited neighbors over. Strangers high-fived one another in the street. Subway conductors sang their announcements and bus drivers dance behind the wheel. So often when this

Starting point is 00:13:20 city comes together, it is because we are forced to by a moment of tragedy or adversity. What a gift it is to be brought together by pure, unfiltered joy. For as long as we live, we will remember this feeling of a city together. A city alive. A city overcome by happiness. But let's not pretend that this was inevitable. If you will allow me, I want to travel back in time eight days. Game four. Nine minutes and 33 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

Starting point is 00:13:55 The Knicks are down 20. The analytics guys, the sports betting companies, the pundits who watch from far away, they do what they do. They run the numbers. They calculate the odds. They write the Knicks off. They give the Spurs a 99.6% chance of winning the game. A 99.6% chance of tying up the series 2-2,

Starting point is 00:14:21 of reclaiming the momentum with the next game in San Antonio, a 99.6% chance of silencing the garden, of another year of watching and waiting. But there is one thing that the pundits just don't get about this team, that they just don't get about this city. It is in that point four percent that we go to work. It is in that 0.4% that Jalen Brunson, the same guy that so many said was too small. That not only is he good enough, he is the new standard for greatness.

Starting point is 00:14:57 It's in that 0.4% that the Knicks do what New Yorkers have always done when we are told something is impossible. We find a way. We win. Standing here before what feels like the entire city, there is a Jalen Brunson quote, I can't stop thinking of. about. You are allowed to think about the worst possible scenario, but you got to go out there and do something about it. Raina cut around a little there. He gives a lot of people, a lot of

Starting point is 00:15:28 flowers, but I wanted to just get his message out. Because it really did feel like one that just transcends sports. And I think it's an important mindset in the face of constant horror and corruption and just losing left and right. You, me, we're allowed to feel what we feel, but then we have to do something about it. Starting with whatever we can, ourselves, what's around us, and then build from And funny enough, I actually hit on this on the secret that's not a secret channel of mine. Might even link to it at the end of the video today. But man, I think the more the people see of Mahdani, the more Republicans are lucky that he cannot run for president. But right now, they're probably definitely not loving the fact they're having to deal with just fallout after fallout

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Starting point is 00:17:23 in American history. And people thought that he would finally disclose whatever secrets about aliens that the U.S. government's been hiding since the 1940s. And in February, it actually looked like he was really going to deliver. Trump ordered the release of all the UFO files in the government's possession. Which for me, I'll say, this is my opinion. At the time, I was like, well, obviously he's going to do this. He wants a distraction. The economy sucks. We're at war. He's stonewalling people on the Epstein files. Give people some red meat. Maybe they'll chew on that rather than all the stuff I don't want them talking. And while all of that, it came to a climax last month when the White House unveiled

Starting point is 00:17:49 Aliens.gov, a website that revealed what it called the truth. And it's a huge text at the top are the words they walk among us with the X-Files music playing as soon as you enter the site. But then the smaller text reading, for 60 years, the US government has kept a closely guarded secret. Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives. They've shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children and lived seemingly normal human existences.

Starting point is 00:18:13 With one exception, they do not belong here. And if you haven't guessed who they are because you forgot that this administration is one of the cringiest and dehumanizing administrations in history, they're referring to undocumented immigrants. Whereas they put it, millions of aliens, whom the White House says, came under cover of darkness and embedded themselves in our society while the government covered up and accelerated the invasion. What followed was a database of immigration arrest or as the site calls them alien abductions, as well as an invitation to report your undocumented neighbors. And while you had a ton of people who went to this page being disgusted by the craven dehumanization of millions of ordinary people, as far as the UFO community, they were offended for a different reason. With, for example, one member telling the Washington Post,

Starting point is 00:18:49 I think it's gross on so many levels. The administration is choosing to make a mockery out of whistleblowers and victims of government corruption and harassment for clicks. Because from their perspective, Trump teased them this huge disclosure and then kind of made them the butt of a joke about deporting people. But also, many were willing to let that disappointment fly if the actual UFO files ended up giving them what they wanted. And so with that, the Pentagon then released its first batch in May

Starting point is 00:19:09 and the second shortly afterward, but then the third last week. And it's pretty much more of what we've already seen. as round objects or lights moving around in the sky, though they're presented with little or no context. And then where videos aren't available, we get artistic interpretations of reported sightings instead, as well as reports detailing eyewitness accounts of sightings. And then also for some reason, you had people really fixating on this one report that describes a potato-shaped object over Colorado Springs that looks somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer. Though even intelligence assessment guessing that it could just be sunlight reflecting off of the snow

Starting point is 00:19:37 on a mountain and illuminated the underside of low-altitude clowns. Right and then, there are also more documentums coming with the DOD, promising one every few weeks in the foreseeable future, since there are tens of millions of records going back decades. And with that, you had Pete Hagseth proclaiming these files hidden behind classifications have long fueled, justified speculation, and it's time the American people see it for themselves. But so far, we really haven't gotten anything new or groundbreaking from these files. So UFO enthusiasts, they're kind of getting restless. Which also, to a certain degree, may or may not be connected to Stephen Spielberg's new film,

Starting point is 00:20:04 Disclosure Day. It just came out and it's kind of thrown a bright spotlight on the whole UFO question. Without giving things away, it's about characters kind of rushing to expose the truth about aliens, while a joint corporate government conspiracy tries to stop them. it's kind of seen as throwing really a lot of bones at the UFO community. There's lore galore in there from the Roswell incident to Project Blue Book to real congressional testimony, which also makes sense because Spielberg, like, he's had an interest in this space for a long time, like ever since he was a kid.

Starting point is 00:20:27 And even if he never saw an interview from him, I mean, you could tell from his other films like E.T. and close encounters of the third kind. And so actually during the marketing campaign for this film, he was also kind of like, this isn't just a movie, it's about some real shit. Do you think that there are aliens here? And do you think they might still be here? Based on the circumstantial evidence of everything that I've gathered throughout my whole life and all the testimonies in Congress that I've heard, I absolutely think that they have been here and they are here. And who knows, maybe they've always been here.

Starting point is 00:21:02 And you've seen this film so far kind of eliciting a bunch of different reactions from the UFO community. Some just kind of appreciate that it's boosting their cause, saying that the core message that people deserve transparency from their government, that's a crucial point. Also had others saying they resonated with Spielberg's portrayal of experiencers, which is their term for people who have encountered the paranormal, including UFOs and aliens. And then also on, I'll say, the further fringes, you've got some people thinking the U.S. government and Stephen Spielberg actually collaborated on the film. Or at the very least, thinking that this is not kind of just merely a work of fiction. Some people still think it's a coincidence. I don't. Because no Hollywood film discloses reality in such an overt way.

Starting point is 00:21:33 They always layer it. They always put it in. They mix it with truth and with fiction. So they're giving you the truth, but they're mixing it with fiction so that you don't know which is which. But also, like, if there is one person in mainstream pop culture who rivals Spielberg in terms of the impact they've had on popularizing UFO and alien conspiracy theories, it's got to be Joe Rogo. And he's had virtually every big name in the UFO community on his podcast over the years. From Lou Elizando to Bob Lazar. And I mean, he's hosted many of them in just the past several months.

Starting point is 00:21:58 These, whatever these beings are, if they are real. Like, are they us? Are they us from the future that is coming back to make sure that we don't get up and to sort of hold our hand through this experiment? I'm a fan of Hal Putoff's ultra-terrestrial idea, that these are not from the future, they're from the past. They just happen to be way more advanced than we thought. First of all, we're dealing with alien or another civilization technology, whether it's from another dimension, another time, another planet. I mean, who really knows? Actually, now is to the point where a handful of Congress members are on board with the disclosure train.

Starting point is 00:22:35 In fact, there's even a UAP caucus with UAP being short for unidentified, Anonymous Phenomenon. Although you can also just call them UFOs. It includes lawmakers from both parties like Jared Moskowitz, Anna Polina Luna, Nancy Mace, and most notably Republican Tim Burchett, who just last month went on Joe Rogan. President Trump's always been great to me. He's never lied to me, but I don't know

Starting point is 00:22:53 that he knows the right questions to ask and the right people to talk to because, I mean, this thing's been covered up at least since 1947, and I just don't think they're gonna, they don't give up that easy. The war pimps at the Pentagon and everybody else, they just don't give up that easy. In response to the criticism from disclosure advocate is disappointed by the recent UFO file dumps,

Starting point is 00:23:14 you had the White House sending the same statement to reporters calling Trump the most transparent president in American history, and then adding, he is focused on providing maximum disclosure to the public who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files. Right, but then next up from that, let's talk about a much different kind of fallout around a much different kind of situation, and that is Chud the Builder. You really get everything on this show. But Cut the Builder, he's back in the news because his bond was revoked, and that's also coming his reports noted that he's been able to turn out a massive profit of his wildly offensive content.

Starting point is 00:23:43 We talked about this guy last month. He seems to just be a racist influencer and live streamer, though they love to call themselves uh, freedom of speech advocates. That's the only reason he goes around harassing people calling them the N-word. He's fighting for freedom of speech. He's a hero and his name is Dalton etherly. And you may have seen him because he's gone viral for walking around on the streets, saying the N-word and other racial slurs and just kind of horrifically offensive things to black people. And he's been dealing with a lot of legal trouble. I mean earlier this year before everything got really crazy. He racked up a nearly $400 bill at a restaurant in Nashville. With him live

Starting point is 00:24:17 shipping while eating dinner and when the staff asked him to stop recording, he refused and had a tantrum and left without paying. With him bitched the builder ending in jail for that, though he posted bond and got out relatively quick. But alas, it wasn't meant to be because just a week after that he ended up facing attempted murder charges. Because he got into this altercation with a black man that ended up with him opening fire. And it actually went down outside of a courthouse in Montgomery County, Tennessee. I mean, eitherly, he was there for a whole other case. He claimed that a man outside started pointing and laughing at him saying that he tried to walk away but then the man followed him and attacked him and so he drew his weapon claiming he said you start saying all that

Starting point is 00:24:48 chimp out to me i'm gonna hit you he hit me started wailing on me even after i had to defend myself by shooting him he's still wailing on me and trump the builder apparently also got injured in this as well and while the latest news it's stemming from a hearing about the national dine and dash it still deals heavily with the attempted murder charge because you've got authorities focusing on social media posts that he made before the shooting calling them racist and violent and even saying they sound premeditative like he's going to kill somebody. And according to the Tennessean, the district attorney also played a video where Chud said, it's only proper escalation, it's inevitable. Just imagine the headline, Chud, the builder, kills a black man. It's almost like it's going to happen.

Starting point is 00:25:21 And so not only to post like that result in the judge revoking his bond, but you then also at News Channel 5 in Nashville doing a piece about how inflammatory rhetoric like that has been so profitable for Chud. Noting things like before his arrest, he was making money from a meme coin that he held 3% in and would promote while posting clips of his streams. Or the idea being the more attention he gets, the more eyeballs are on him and the more likely people are to invest in that coin. But with that, it peaked in May and it's also dropped massively. We then also appear to make money from his arrest from crowdfunding donations on give and go, which is that platform that's similar to GoFundMe, but it's Christian and has less

Starting point is 00:25:50 moderation rules. So it really often caters to the far right. And a fundraiser called Help the Chud and his family, it's raised over $300,000. And even though the description says that it's meant to cover legal fees as well as expenses for his family, for people charged with crimes as serious as attempted murder, give send go, it only allows funds to cover a person's legal defense, so they issued an update on his page, clarifying what money received they. there could be used for. But then also on top of that, courts have said that Chud will not be allowed to use crowdsource money

Starting point is 00:26:15 to post bond, which is then very notable because even though his bond in the restaurant case was revoked, he's facing a $1 million bond in the attempted murder case. And so for now, this is largely where we are. He has a lot of court appearances ahead of him. In this most recent hearing, his lawyers tried to defend him by noting that he's been basing serious threats online.

Starting point is 00:26:29 He's made several complaints, including people threatening to chop his infant son's head off. His attorneys also filed a motion to dismiss the charges from the Nashville incident, so we're gonna have to see what comes That. Right. And then actually from that, for our final block today, we've got some more news you need to know quickly. Starting with the fact that the Gilgo Beach serial killer was just sentenced to three life sentences and then some after pleading guilty to seven murders and admitting to one more that was left out of his plea deal. Right? And the sentencing hearing, it was explosive. You're a disgusting and despicable small man if you're a man at all. And you're a coward. And if you're unfamiliar with just this whole terrible story, Rex Hewerman, he was arrested back in 2023 in connection with heinous murders that went unsolved for decades. You either remains of two victims. being found in 1993 and 1996, but most of the victims were actually killed between 2000 and 2010.

Starting point is 00:27:14 With the case also blowing up in 2010 when investigators started to find human remains while looking into the disappearance of Shannon Gilbert. But the case eventually went cold until 2022 when detectives linked Hewerman to a truck that a witness reported seeing when one of the victims disappeared. We then detectives from there able to get his DNA from some pizza crust that he threw out, which matched the DNA they found with one of the victims. And then after also tracking his cell phone data, realizing he'd arranged to meet with some of the victims shortly before they disappeared, they got it.

Starting point is 00:27:36 And actually after his arrest, they even found sort of a blueprint for his case. killings on his computer where he had planned out some of his murders. And while he's been rotten away in jail ever since, yesterday he had to hear from the victims' loved ones. Twisted heartless, there aren't enough words for these murders. Beneath the truth is who you are, a man without empathy, without a soul, someone who hunted, tortured, and murdered women. Because that's truly what you are.

Starting point is 00:28:01 A large man with unpleasant traits, a violent man, a repulsive monster, a demon, inside and out. I know everyone spoke on heaven. Heaven, do me a favor, sitting in a spot in help, then I'll see you there. Are you an emotion running so high that even the judge was brought to tears hearing the victim's loved ones speak? People telling, Huraman, what you have done to our family is beyond what words can express. The sister of one of the victims saying that her loved one was the victim of a predator and a serial killer so evil, it's been unbearable. But then after all that, Heurman, really not having much to say. There are no words I can say.

Starting point is 00:28:31 I'm responsible for what was said in this room today. The words I would say have no meaning. gonna be there at this time. Or even had the judge blowing up on him after that. Are you a little bit sorry for what you did to these poor innocent women? Eight women that you strangled to death? At least eight that we know of.

Starting point is 00:28:55 Are you at least a little bit sorry for that? You then also have news we have to talk about with a Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Cameron Stanley. Right, and that, because Stanley just said in a sworn statement that the US used rock to launch 2,000 missiles at Iran. This actually came out in a lawsuit that's against Elon Musk where you had the NAACP claiming that Musk's

Starting point is 00:29:11 XAI violated the Clean Air Act by polluting the air in black neighborhoods, running gas-burning turbines without the proper permits. But you've got the Trump administration asking a federal judge in Mississippi to toss that lawsuit out. With Stanley saying in a statement that GROC is a matter of paramount national security, saying the Pentagon relies on XAI's GROC-Gov model and would be severely impacted by a court ruling to block them from using it. And actually adding that GROC is one of four AI models currently capable of supporting national security applications and one of only three products able to support top-secret operations. And then with all this, you had Stanley claiming that data center is used by the federal government are long-term strategic tools vital to maintaining our technological advantage against adversaries.

Starting point is 00:29:45 But also, the timing here is notable because it comes after AI, you know, it's definitely been under scrutiny as US attacks have killed hundreds of civilians. Most notably, or maybe at least the most in the public eye, you had that strike on the Iranian girl's school that killed at least 175 people. And there, some analysts speculating that the Pentagon's use of AI targeting could have played a role. However, the Defense Department still hasn't agreed to investigate that bombing or any other school or hospital bombings that could have potentially been avoided with stricter AI rules. So with that, you've had some Congress members putting forth legislation themselves to limit the use of AI in the military. Right? So you had one bill from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that would make sure humans control, quote, life and death decisions, and ban the use of AI altogether when it comes to nuclear weapons, domestic surveillance, and autonomous weapons systems. And that adding, we must act now not to stifle technological progress, but to establish clear rules of the road that keep humans in charge and keep AI's use in warfare smart and safe.

Starting point is 00:30:31 But that, my friend, you beautiful bastard is the end of your Thursday, Philip DeFranco Show dive into the news. But I also got two quick things for you. One, a friendly reminder, I guess really an announcement that tomorrow I'm going to be doing a special episode. I'm going to go live. A lot of people want me to do a watch party, break down, talk about stuff that's been cut out, even more about the big win. That's, of course, going to allow me to give away a million dollars to 40 of you beautiful bastards. We're going to split it up into 25K chunks. The details are getting figured out. It's not happening yet. So that live episode, that's going to be a great time. And then also, today, if you want something that's kind of,

Starting point is 00:30:59 let's think of it as a pallet cleanser. I put out, I think it's like about a four minute video on the secret, not secret channel that I sometimes mention every nine months. And this time, I'll link to it on screen and in the description. But hey, no matter what you do, let me just say, thank you for watching. I love yo faces, and I'll see you right back here tomorrow.

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