Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 6/2/26
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and this is your Breaking News. We start at the top of the show on Breaking News that no one else seems to be covering. The fact that a United States soldier and a UK soldier were both killed in northern Iraq. This follows an Iranian strike on northern Iraq after the United States violated the ceasefire by targeting areas in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran previously targeted an American Kuwaiti base injuring five United States soldiers, service members and contractors. That is being covered up by the United States government. They claim that these service members were injured as a result of, quote, falling debris that just so happened at the same airport.
where Iran targeted after the US targeted Iran first. Then, of course, we go to northern Iraq, where we're now being told it was a training mission that injured a United States soldier and a UK soldier.
What breaking news is covered regarding U.S. and UK soldiers in Iraq?
The American people are not buying it the same way we're not buying when Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives testimony today before the United States Senate and says, The United States is not in a war at all. We move past Epic Fury. We are in the post-war stage of peace and prosperity, everybody. Don't you feel it? I'll show you more in a little bit about what Marco Rubio said during his disastrous Senate appearance today.
How does the Iranian strike relate to U.S. military actions?
where he said it was part of the strategy of the Trump regime that when negotiations were taking place in Pakistan between the United States and Iran, that our chief negotiator, the person who's supposed to be representing the United States, Rubio, was at a UFC fight and he was taking a bunch of selfies with Donald Trump. That was all part of the plan, Rubio said. Perfectly normal Secretary of State behavior not to be representing the United States during very critical negotiations. but instead to be at UFC fights while Donald Trump was admiring how strong and handsome the men were who were fighting in the UFC arena. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the fact that the Americans are buying the fact that Donald Trump has been in hiding for six days and we're supposed to believe that that's somehow normal.
Look, Donald Trump got some... purported physical exam at Walter Reed. That's the last time we saw the guy publicly, right? That was the, what, last Tuesday. And then since then, the guy's been basically MIA. There was a photo of him, I think I saw in the Beast, right? which is the presidential limousine where he looked like awful. But no one's seen him, no press appearances, no oval awful appearances. And we're supposed to just be like, okay, perfectly normal behavior here. And this is actually a critical moment where we'd want to hear from a normal commander in chief about what the hell is going on. The economy right now is suffering for most Americans, not Donald Trump's billionaire AI oligarchs.
They're doing all right. The American people are suffering and struggling and can't pay their bills. And inflation is surging. And they are not just being left behind by this regime. They're being thrown under the bus, as with future generations. And no Donald Trump to be found. Apparently, Iran stopped negotiating with the United States after Israel continued to invade deeper into Lebanon. You know, the definition of a ceasefire, which included Lebanon, is usually you stop fighting. You cease. You cease the fire. Not for Netanyahu. He continues to invade. And Netanyahu says, look, we're doing it because of Hezbollah. But, you know, okay, you're doing it because of Hezbollah. Well, you're leveling. Leveling cities.
like in southern Beirut and towns. You've leveled, Ty, or you're targeting medics and hospitals and women and children. And don't gaslight me that that's not going down. I know it's going down. We see it. Stop with the gaslighting. There's a genocide in Gaza taking place, and they are annihilating right now and doing the same thing in Lebanon. And so Donald Trump then leaked to Barack Ravid from Axios who's been basically Trump's chief stenographer, who since early March told us we're on the precipice of a deal.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:00
2
What breaking news is covered regarding U.S. and UK soldiers in Iraq?
1:00–1:27
3
How does the Iranian strike relate to U.S. military actions?
1:27–4:38
4
What was Marco Rubio's controversial testimony about U.S. military involvement?
4:38–9:55
5
Why is Donald Trump's absence from the public concerning?
9:55–12:41
6
What are the implications of the U.S. economy under the current administration?
12:41–18:01
7
How does the podcast discuss the situation in Gaza and Lebanon?
18:01–23:30
8
What are the criticisms of Trump's foreign policy towards Iran?
23:30–1:02:52