- Why, why did my wife send me this video is the question.
Okay, straw in the hot dog.
Oh, it's a straw, it's a straw now.
It's a hot dog straw,
what are you doing? (dramatic music)
The caption is "Life sentence, no parole".
Exactly, but (laughing)
is it just ridiculous and disgusting
or is this man a secret genius?
There's only one way to find out.
(upbeat music) This is not how I expected
my morning to go.
Yeah, you blur that can, no one's getting free promo.
This is a mistake.
Yeah apparently, this is the only straw
that I have (laughing) in my household.
Even making the hole feels wrong.
(dramatic music) Ah!
Did I make the hole properly?
Ah, Jesus Christ.
I've been doing news 15 years on YouTube,
but the moment I do this, I'm the hot dog straw guy.
Ah, (laughing), ah.
Wait, no, I hate everything.
You know what, this guy made it seem way too easy.
I hate this so much.
(Philip slurping)
I can't get it, can't get it.
Everything's so greasy.
How the fuck did, this man's a genius, how?
I think I need a bigger straw.
I wasn't expecting to do
fucking hot dog surgery this morning.
Like, I'm too far fucking invested to not finish this bit.
Swear to God, if this doesn't fucking work now,
(laughing) I'm gonna be fucking pissed.
(Philip slurping)
This feels wrong, feels like it's a crime.
(Philip laughing)
Ah, I'll be back!
- [Narrator] A few moments later.
(Philip laughing)
- I got it to work but, how does this look worse
censored than not censored?
(Philip slurping)
Oh my God, no, no, no!
That man is not onto something.
That man is a psychopath.
I was like, maybe the meatiness,
it'll have like a michelada type flavor, no.
And I'm scared to even ask what this man went through
in his life where he was like,
"I'm gonna use a hot dog as a straw just to feel something."
It's nine o'clock in the morning,
I want to throw the whole day away now.
Anyway, welcome back to the "Philip DeFranco Show".
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(upbeat music) This is a news show.
(chimp vocalizing)
And then, do y'all remember when Kim Kardashian
got robbed at gunpoint in Paris?
Right, she's in her hotel room
when a bunch of masked men break in.
They duct tape her eyes and mouth shut.
They steal $10 million worth of jewelry.
Kim saying she was pleading for her life,
that she's still traumatized to this day.
And the big news today is that one of the men
that was a part of this robbery was caught,
served time, is now out.
He was interviewed and he apologized to Kim Kardashian.
I'm lying, not only did he not do that,
he came at this interview
with the energy of, "And I'd do it again."
Saying not only did he not feel guilty,
but he actually blamed her.
Saying he had no doubt that Kardashian
would be traumatized by this,
but quote, "They should be a little less showy
toward people who can't afford it.
For some people, it's provocative."
Saying, "I saw one of her shows
where she threw her diamond in the pool."
- My diamond earring came off in the ocean and it's gone.
- [Kourtney] Kim, there's people that are dying.
- "She's got a lot of money.
This lady doesn't care at all."
And adding, "Since she was throwing money away,
I was there to collect it and that was that.
Guilty, no, I don't care, I don't care."
But honestly, one of the most interesting things
about this story has been the public reaction to it.
You have some saying, no, fuck this guy
and the 11 other guys that are trying to blame
the victim here for their actions.
Meanwhile, you got a bunch of people
from the eat the rich crowd that are loving it,
and then you got all these other people
that are kind of like conflicted and torn.
I saw someone leave the comment, "We say eat the rich
and then people get sad when she was robbed,
laughing my ass off."
But now with all of that said,
I do wanna pass the question off to you.
Where do you land on this?
Like, for me personally, especially growing up without money
like I did, like, I understand the anger
at the uber, uber wealthy, especially those who flaunt it.
But, like, cheering on someone being tied up
and held at gunpoint and not knowing, you know,
what's gonna happen to me,
am I gonna live or die or something worse?
That's a bridge too far.
Also how is this dude already outta jail
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And then, let's talk about Donald Trump
now filing a lawsuit seeking to block the FBI
from further reviewing the documents that it seized
during the Mar-a-Lago raid and saying that he wants this
until a so-called special master is appointed
to oversee the process.
Right, that being someone that's appointed to criminal cases
where there's a concern that materials taken
by the authorities shouldn't be seen by investigators
because they contain privileged information.
Now, notably here Trump's own attorneys even said themselves
that a prosecutor informed them that the DOJ
has a special filter team that is reviewing
the documents seized to pull out any privileged materials.
But they're still arguing that that safeguard isn't enough,
pushing the same narrative that they have this entire time,
that this whole raid was politically motivated
with the lawyers writing in the suit,
"This matter has captured the attention
of the American public.
Merely adequate safeguards are not acceptable
when the matter at hand involves
not only the constitutional rights of President Trump,
but also the preservation of executive privilege."
And notably, in addition to asking for the special master,
Trump's suit also requests that a judge order the DOJ
to give him a more detailed report of the inventory
they seized at Mar-a-Lago, as well as asking the department
to return any items they took
that weren't in the scope of the search warrant.
And going on to claim that there was no reason for the FBI
to do all of this because he was cooperating
with the federal authorities who were trying
to retrieve the documents that he was keeping at his home,
an argument that Trump himself echoed
in a statement yesterday, where he also claimed
that the search and seizure was illegal and unconstitutional
and adding, "We are taking all actions necessary
to get the documents back, which we would've given to them
without the necessity of the despicable raid on my home
so that I can give them to the National Archives
until they are required for the future
Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Museum."
Now with all of that, there appear to be
several major flaws with this claim.
First of all, the "We would've given it to you
if you just said, 'please'" argument
doesn't really have legs because we know for a fact,
unless you're closing your eyes and your ears
because you don't wanna know the truth,
the materials he took stayed at Mar-a-Lago for months
even though investigators were seeking their full return.
And secondly, we're talking about materials that he kept
that were highly classified and seized
as part of an investigation into potential violations
of the Espionage Act.
So you're not talking about the kind of documents
that you'd put in your presidential library.
Also if he was intending to give the documents
to the National Archives until they could be
put into his presidential library,
it makes literally no sense
why he would take them in the first place.
Federal law literally mandates once a president's term ends,
all official material remains under government jurisdiction
and has to be provided to the Archives,
so they were literally supposed to have
those materials anyway before he took them.
And in fact, the Archives spent a good chunk of 2021
trying to get those documents back,
with the agency even confirming
that it had retrieved 15 boxes
of White House records at Mar-a-Lago in January.
And very significantly here just yesterday,
multiple people briefed on the matter
told "The New York Times" that those initial 15 boxes
contained more than 150 documents marked as classified.
And it was this sheer number of classified documents
they recovered that prompted concern from the DOJ
and ultimately helped launch the criminal investigation
and raid to collect the remaining boxes.
While currently the nature of those classified materials
is unclear, one source told "The New York Times"
that they included documents from the CIA, NSA and FBI,
with multiple people saying that Trump himself
went through the boxes in late 2021
before turning them over.
And three advisors familiar with Trump's comment said
that when the Archives requested he returned the documents,
he refused and referred to the boxes as "mine".
But even with all that, this isn't where it ends.
Sources also said that the DOJ issued a subpoena
for Trump to return any remaining classified material.
When they went to Mar-a-Lago
to retrieve those materials in June,
Trump's lawyers gave them some more classified documents
and signed a statement asserting
that to the best of their knowledge,
that was the last of it.
But of course, we now know that other classified materials
were discovered when the FBI executed a search warrant
on his estate earlier this month,
with the "Times" noting that the investigation
is still ongoing, suggesting that officials
are not certain whether they have recovered
all the presidential records that Mr. Trump took.
Right, and this is still a developing situation.
I mean, just as I was recording today,
the National Archives released a letter written in May
by the acting archivist that seemingly confirms
at least part of the "Times's" reporting,
specifically that the 15 boxes taken in January
contained over 100 documents with classified markings
comprising more than 700 pages,
with this including documents related
to Special Access Programs,
which are some of the most closely held government secrets.
And notably the letter also underscored
the Archives' efforts to get these documents,
with the archivist writing that the agency
had ongoing communications with Trump's representatives
throughout 2021 about what appeared
to be missing presidential records.
And what's more, it also showed that once
the Archives finally got the 15 boxes,
Trump and his team still tried to block the FBI
from reviewing them,
though that request was ultimately shot down.
So seemingly, there are tons of lies, tons of sketchiness,
and what's fucking wild is that this seems to be working
in Trump's favor, with recent polling showing
that the FBI raid has spiked Trump's favorability
among Republicans and even increasing
the number of downloads of Trump's Truth Social.
So, you know, everything's fucking stupid as per usual.
And then let's talk about the crazy Elon Musk Twitter saga-
(electronic beeping) - I wish I knew
how to quit you. - Then why don't you?
- Now having a whistle blower element.
Right, so the man at the center of the story
is Peter Zatko, better known in hacking
and cybersecurity circles by his nickname, Mudge.
Growing up in the Northeast almost five decades ago,
he dove into the world of computers at an early age,
eventually spending his days at a computer lab
with MIT hackers in college,
then moving on to work for a firm
helping to build the early internet.
But his career really began in 1996
because that is when he joined
an underground hacker collective known as Lopht.
It's often called the first of its kind in the U.S.
But also when I say hackers, it's not like bad.
He actually got a lot of praise for providing early warnings
about security flaws in programs.
So by making flaws public,
they left companies vulnerable to attack.
So Microsoft's like, "Hey, why don't you actually
just give us advanced notice so we can patch issues
before you publish them?"
Which is actually how they originally developed the model
for coordinated disclosure used by most researchers today.
Right, but all of that is to say,
that's why people say Mudge is credible.
He testified to Congress in 1988, he's advised big banks
and software companies, he's even worked for DARPA.
Then going on to join another group that coined the term
"hackctivism", using hacking to promote human rights
by increasing transparency and fighting surveillance.
Right, so we have all of that background
and then we jump to the summer of 2020.
Twitter gets humiliated by a 17 year old American kid
who hacks the accounts of numerous celebrities,
including Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Elon Musk,
Bill Gates, and Barack Obama.
So the company CEO at the time, Jack Dorsey,
understandably wants to tighten up security,
with him eventually finding Mudge,
with a source telling "The Washington Post",
"Jack loves hackers and Mudge is a hacker legend."
And so Mudge comes on board as the new head of security,
and according to him, conducts a thorough review of Twitter,
hiring top engineers and pushing for more transparency
and accountability, with him remaining in that role
until January of this year when he was fired.
But then last month, he filed a complaint with the SEC
and multiple law enforcement agencies
alleging wrongdoing at Twitter
and now that filing has been published,
with it accusing the company
of having extreme egregious deficiencies
in its spam and hacking defenses
dating all the way back to 2011.
So let's go through what's been alleged
and how explosive all of this actually is.
First up, Mudge says that Twitter had extremely lax
security practices, giving thousands of employees,
amounting to roughly half the company's workforce,
access to some of its critical controls.
- There's an analogy of an airplane.
So you get on an airplane and every passenger
and the attendant crew all have access
to the cockpit, to the controls.
You know, that's entirely unnecessary.
It might be easy, but it's too easy
to accidentally or intentionally turn an engine off.
- And one of the reasons this worried him so much
was that after January 6th as Twitter executives
were debating whether to censor Donald Trump,
he feared that employees who sympathize
with the insurrectionists might try
to tamper with the platform.
So he investigates how vulnerable it is,
saying he discovered no logging
of who went into the production environment,
basically the place where engineers
can make changes to the software.
And adding the Twitter "also lacked the ability
to hold workers accountable for information security lapses
because it has little control or visibility
into employees' individual work computers".
Also citing "internal cybersecurity reports
estimating that 4 in 10 devices
do not meet basic security standards".
Then among the other allegations, Mudge says that Twitter
has "an anonymously high rate of security incidents,
approximately one per week serious enough
to require disclosure to government agencies".
Yet, despite this, he claims that the company
hasn't been complying with a more than decade long agreement
with the FTC to clean up its security problems.
Which I mean, that alone is especially huge
because if Twitter is found to have violated
its legal obligations,
it could potentially face billions of dollars in fines.
Then in a bombshell revelation, Mudge claims
that right before his firing, the U.S. government
provided Twitter with specific evidence
that at least one of its employees was working
for another government's intelligence service.
Or to translate, there may be a foreign spy inside Twitter.
And this comes just a couple weeks
after a former company manager
was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia.
And then finally, for what we're talking about,
Mudge's disclosure includes several claims
that Twitter lied to its shareholders,
to regulators, and to Elon Musk.
First, with the shareholders.
After Jack Dorsey stepped down last year,
Parag Agrawal took over as CEO,
allegedly being far less transparent than his predecessor.
Allegedly discouraging Mudge
from giving a full accounting of Twitter's security problems
to the board of directors,
with executives allegedly ordering Mudge
to give an oral report of his findings to the board
rather than a detailed written account,
telling him to knowingly present cherry-picked
and misrepresented data to create a false perception
of progress on urgent cybersecurity issues
and going behind his back to have a third party
consulting firm's report scrubbed
to hide the true extent of the company's problem.
Secondly here, Mudge alleges that Twitter executives
put user growth before reducing spam,
claiming that they "stood to win individual bonuses
of as much as $10 million tied to increases in daily users".
And third, Mudge alleges that Twitter has lied
about the extent of bots and spam
on its platform to Elon Musk, and saying there
that the company has no incentive to accurately count
the number of such accounts, and if anything,
is incentivized to under count them,
though he did not provide hard evidence
that this was happening and Twitter denies it.
Which is why, as we've talked about,
Musk and Twitter are going to court in October
over the billionaire's attempt to back out of his purchase
of the company due to precisely this issue.
So these new allegations could significantly hurt
Twitter's defense in this case.
It's just gonna depend on how much real evidence is provided
and what can be demonstrated.
And so now unsurprisingly, you have lawyers for Musk
issuing subpoenas for both Mudge and Jack Dorsey
to appear at the trial.
There's also this business between Mudge and Twitter
over his termination, which he believes was in retaliation
for him trying to bring awareness to the security issues.
And as far as Twitter's response to all of this,
you have a spokesperson claiming that Mudge was fired
for ineffective leadership and poor performance
and adding, "What we've seen so far is a false narrative
about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices
that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies
and lacks important context."
As well as responding to some of the more specific claims
saying that it has a range of security measures
to prevent employees from accessing sensitive data
and that Mudge doesn't understand FTC compliance.
Yeah, as of recording, that is where we are
with this absolute mess of a story.
And I mean, that's without covering everything,
which I'll link down below to reports.
But ultimately, that is where that story
and today's show ends.
As always, thank you for watching,
being subscribed to these daily dives into the news.
Also, if you want more news,
I got you covered right here or in those links down below.
But of course, as always, my name's Philip DeFranco,
you've just been filled in.
I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.