Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 3/5/26
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and let's get into the breaking news. The war rages on in Iran. The United States unlawful war without congressional authorization. The latest reports right now. are that a U.S.
What are the latest updates on the war in Iran?
fighter jet has been downed over southern Iraq. Drop sites reporting Iraqi police say a U.S. fighter jet crashed in southern Basra province with the pilot ejecting right before impact.
What are the implications of U.S. military actions without congressional authorization?
According to these statements reported by Al Jazeera and also Iranian state media, there were videos circulating as well that appear to show a pilot ejecting after one of our fighter jets crashed. The Basra Police Command told Al Jazeera their officers were dispatched to search for the American pilot who ejected within the province. Authorities say the pilot has not yet been located. And of course, you have both Iraqi forces and Iranian forces right now trying to search down this fighter pilot who apparently ejected. Images circulating show the aircraft going down. We're going to keep you posted every step of the way as we learn more there. We'll also talk about on this episode, of course, some domestic news.
Kristi Noem has been fired by the Trump regime. She's been now put in a position that the Trump regime made up, a position that never really existed before.
What happened to the U.S. fighter jet reported downed in Iraq?
So we'll talk about that in a little bit as well, what went down there. Mark Wayne Mullen will be replacing her. He's the MAGA Republican senator from Oklahoma. And he's the one who wasn't aware that there was an authorization for Iraq and Afghanistan's war. And he was also the person. who said that we were at war with Iran and then said, actually, I didn't mean to say that. I misspoke. So we'll talk about that in a little bit as well. Donald Trump firing Kristi Noem via a social media post that we will get into on this episode as well. As I mentioned at the outset, you have the entire Middle East region right now engulfed literally, figuratively as well in this war right now. Sure, the Iranian ballistic missiles and Shahid drone strikes have decreased from what we saw a few days back, but they are still launching a lot of Shahid drones.
We saw oil interests and other American interests still in Bahrain, which you're watching right there in Saudi Arabia. We've talked about that before in Riyadh, in the United Arab Emirates, in Dubai, in Abu Dhabi, in Jordan, in other surrounding areas still being targeted by Iran. And of course, inside Iran, Tehran is getting hit very hard by the United States and Israel. and other cities throughout Iran are getting hit very, very hard. As we previously reported, I did a whole video on this yesterday. The Kurds don't appear that they want to be dragged into this war. And the Trump regime wants to drag the Kurds into this war. It's so important that we cover international news here on the Midas Touch Network so that when these things develop, you're not left confused of like, well, who are the Kurds?
And why does the Trump regime want to get them involved in here? And why were they unlikely to get involved here first off? And when you talk about the Kurds and the Kurdish group, what they want most is their own kind of sovereign autonomous territory. OK, and the Kurds are spread out in different regions within the Middle East. So to say the Kurds, it is not recognizing already that there are different Kurdish factions that don't always have the same interests living in different countries in the Middle East. But at the heart is to have sovereign territory and different Kurdish groups. have consistently helped the United States in prior wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, against Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
And time after time, the U.S. has betrayed the Kurds, specifically Donald Trump. Donald Trump himself, one of the people who have betrayed the Kurds like the most during Donald Trump's first regime, his first administration, which I still think is a regime, betrayed the Kurds to Turkey and other interests after the Kurds were instrumental in going after ISIS, Al-Qaeda, other terroristic cells and forces in the area.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:18
2
What are the latest updates on the war in Iran?
0:18–0:32
3
What are the implications of U.S. military actions without congressional authorization?
0:32–1:38
4
What happened to the U.S. fighter jet reported downed in Iraq?
1:38–8:55
5
How did Kristi Noem's position change within the Trump regime?
8:55–20:04
6
What role do the Kurds play in the current Middle East conflict?
20:04–28:23
7
What is the current state of U.S.-Iran relations?
28:23–59:22
8
How are rising oil prices affecting the U.S. economy?
59:22–1:14:03