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What is this room?
So this is Billy.
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Billy is the newest member of our family
as of about an hour ago.
Our other dog, Georgia, loves him so far.
Except for what I think was just
the protest pee inside 10 minutes ago,
so that was fun.
But yeah, just wanted to share
and also give you a moment where you're like,
"Aw, I don't hate everything."
But we're gonna fix that.
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- 'Sup ya beautiful bastards?
It's Tuesday.
My name's Philip DeFranco.
There's a lot of news to talk about today.
So let's just jump into it.
Y'all first up, in infuriating and disgusting news
that could affect the future of YouTube.
We need to talk about Nick Minor,
a Destiny content creator who goes by Lord Nazo,
Bungie, the massive game studio
that originally made Halo and currently develops Destiny,
and $7.6 million.
Right, so back in December of last year,
Minor's channel was hit with copyright strikes
and eventually taken down by Bungie's
digital rights representatives, CSC Global,
after he just flat out re-uploaded Bungie soundtracks.
And after that happens, it appears that like,
Nick was kind of just the tip of the iceberg.
Tons of creators in the Destiny community
and even Bungie start getting hit
with copyright strikes from CSC Global.
So the community, understandably outraged,
Minor and others grabbin' pitch forks
as Bungie had promised in the past to allow
a lot of its content to be used
so creators can make channels based on Destiny.
But then we see in March of this year,
Bungie actually deny any wrongdoing
and publishing guidelines over
what would actually result in a copyright strike
and saying that clearly
someone was impersonating CSC Global.
But Bungie then saying,
"We're gonna get to the bottom of this."
They contact YouTube
and that proved to be as helpful as any creator
contacting YouTube saying in the recent lawsuit
that YouTube "has no dedicated mechanism
for copyright holders who are being impersonated
to let YouTube know about the DMCA fraud."
and adding that this meant that Bungie
had to work through several layers of YouTube contacts
over a period of several days
before it could adequately communicate
and begin addressing the problem.
However, as we now know thanks to their lawsuit,
Bungie actually had to slap YouTube with a subpoena
to get any information.
Which has also sparked people in the YouTube community
to talk about YouTube's lack of communication,
including MoistCr1TiKaL most recently.
- Bungie got a taste of what it's like
to be a normal YouTuber for a little bit.
You get no answers, you get no response
and you get no solutions
when you go up to like,
the top of the food chain of YouTube.
They would've had better luck
just doing what all the rest of us do
and start whining on Twitter about it
and crying for YouTube's attention
'cause it seems like the only team there
that can actually solve things
is the Team YouTube Twitter account.
- Eventually though, Bungie says they got answers.
They figured out that,
you've probably put the puzzle together,
Nick Minor had made two fake Gmail accounts
that looked like they belonged to CSC Global
and was using those to issue
a total of 96 false DMCA claims.
Meanwhile, just
(exaggerated kissing)
the entire time he was interacting with the community
and acting like he was gonna get to the bottom of things.
And so Minor has now been slapped with
a $7.6 million lawsuit,
but it might not just be $7.6 million
with Bungie claiming that they're also entitled
to other damages over Minor's actions,
alongside attorney's fees.
And the proof against Minor seems to be pretty huge.
Right, first off, Bungie knows
that Minor's IP was used for all the takedowns
and to upload an in-character manifesto
claiming that this was done to highlight
how bad YouTube's verification of credentials was
when it came to copyright strike.
To that Bungie's lawyer said that it reads
like a hackneyed "Look what you made me do" letter
from the serial killer in a bad novel.
Y'know, for a lot of people looking back at this
they say it's clear that Minor did this
for revenge more than anything
because the copyright strikes against him were legitimate.
With it seeming like he came up with an answer afterwards
to try and justify his actions.
And by just looking at the situation, realized
"Oh this case could be important."
Right, if this lawsuit is successful
it could serve as a warning to other
would-be assholes who wanna weaponize the copyright system.
But also, hopefully YouTube can come up with a solution
to more easily vet whether or not
people are who they say they are
when they're issuing takedowns because,
this is fuckin' Bungie.
They're a big, meaningful company who,
prior to this you would've thought,
"Oh, they definitely have direct lines to YouTube."
And even for them, it took months to get to this point.
Right, YouTube, you gotta help because,
making it so that people have to drag their balls
through glass to get to the other side,
that's not the solution.
It's your road and all of us creators,
we're drivin' on it but also, we pay for it
so clean the fuckin' road, please!
And then, we need to talk about
the absolutely horrible news out of San Antonio, Texas
where around four dozen migrants were found dead
inside of an abandoned tractor trailer
with a person working nearby
reportedly hearing a cry for help around 6:00 PM.
And when they went over to investigate,
they found a trailer just packed full of
dead and dying people.
Now this is still a developing situation
but as of right now, it looks like
a total of 51 people are dead with
at least two of them passing away at the hospitals.
Also at least a dozen are alive and hospitalized
for heat-related illnesses.
That number initially 16,
including 12 adults and four children,
all of them feeling hot to the touch and dehydrated,
according to fire chief Charles Hood,
who also said that the trailer had no water
or functional air conditioning.
- We're not supposed to open up a truck
and see stacks of bodies in there.
None of us come to work imagining that.
So we're working through the behavioral health
for our folks right now.
- And notably, this comes as San Antonio is suffering
one of the hottest June months on record
with temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Which obviously played a huge part
in this being the deadliest tragedy
for migrants in the city's history
and probably the worst cross-border
human trafficking incident in decades.
And the responses to this incident
could not be more different.
For example, you have former Congress member
Beto O'Rourke, who's running to be
Texas's governor tweeting,
"This is devastating.
We need urgent action, dismantle human smuggling rings
and replace them with expanded avenues
for legal migration to reflect our values
and meet our country's needs."
And then on the other side of the spectrum
you have incumbent Republican governor,
Greg Abbott who said, "These deaths are on Biden.
They are a result of his deadly open border policies.
They show the deadly consequences
of his refusal to enforce the law."
Now, just to be clear, because I often see
kind of misunderstandings or misconceptions
around this argument of open borders.
Biden does not have an open border policy.
That sounds like people are coming over.
They're just kind of let in, that's not the case.
In fact, migrant apprehensions
at the southern border last year
reached 1.7 million.
But, what people are often referring to is Title 42,
Which as the New York times explains is
"A U.S. public health rule
enacted during the coronavirus pandemic,
where migrants from Mexico,
Guatemala and Honduras are often
quickly expelled back into Mexico
after they're intercepted by the U.S. Border Patrol,
which is why that 1.7 million number is so high
for people stopped at the border.
There is an unusually high rate of adults
trying to cross multiple times now.
And it was actually first invoked
by the Trump administration.
And while the CDC announced that
the policy would end back in May,
a federal judge actually blocked the CDC
from ending the policy.
But that said, as far as San Antonio,
as far as what happens next,
you now have the DHS leading an investigation into this,
which it believes was caused by human smuggling.
With authorities saying
that three people were detained near the site,
though their connection to it is unclear right now.
And we'll wait to see more information come out.
Of course, I'd love to pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts about this whole situation?
Then, you know how yesterday we talked about
how other people, and definitely not Philip DeFranco
were explaining how to get abortion pills mailed to you
even if you were in a red state?
Well, it's now being reported that Facebook and Instagram
are blocking and removing posts and hashtags about that.
And in some cases, even temporarily banning
people who share that content.
And all that makes for massive tech and social news,
because in the days since Roe was overturned,
we've seen tons of people using social media platforms
to share essential resources for people who
all of a sudden do not have access to essential care.
Right, and specifically regarding details or links
about how to gain access to these pills in different states,
you have, you know, everyday Joe and Jane Blow,
definitely not Philip DeFranco,
others like Ariana Grande, AOC.
People even tried to call AOC out on this
and she was like, "Yeah, and?"
But according to Vice's Motherboard,
Facebook has been cracking down on people
who share status updates saying
abortion pills can be mailed.
Right, and specifically regarding Facebook,
you had reporters' at Vice hearing that this was a thing,
they wanted to test it out themselves.
They posted an update with the phrase
"abortion pills can be mailed" on a burner Facebook account
with that post reportedly flagged within seconds
for violating the platform's community standards
on rules against buying, selling or exchanging
medical or non-medical drugs.
They were then given the option to agree
or disagree with the decision.
And when they chose disagree, the post was just removed.
Now, days later that post was reinstated
but, when they posted the exact same phrase once more
and clicked agree after it was flagged again,
their account was banned for 24 hours!
And very notably, while Facebook
instantly flagged those posts,
Motherboard said it was able to post the phrase
"pain killer pills can be mailed" without any problems.
And this whole process appears to be backed up
in nearly identical tests, posted by reporters
at the Associated Press and Engadget.
But when they wrote posts saying "I'm selling cigarettes,"
"cigarettes can be mailed," "antidepressants
can be mailed," "painkiller pills can be mailed,"
and "If you send me your address, I will mail you a gun."
All those posts were totally fine.
And then over on Instagram you have NBC news
reporting that they're limiting searches.
Like if you search the terms, "abortion pills"
and "mifepristone" they said at that time
it returned no new post indicating
that the company is limiting what users can see.
When they searched those hashtags,
Instagram said that they were hidden because
some posts may not follow Instagram's community guidelines
but not saying what guidelines they were violating.
And the reason they said no results returned at that time
is because after NBC published its article yesterday,
Instagram appears to have unblocked those hashtags.
But also beyond that, The Outlay reported that in addition
to the hashtags, two abortion resource organizations
and at least a dozen users claim that Instagram
is removing posts about abortion.
This including the abortion access platform
Abortion Finder, which said that it's Instagram page
was temporarily suspended on Sunday
after receiving a surge of attention from celebrities
and its inclusion on the Biden administration's
official website of resources.
And so ultimately you have this situation where
you have people wondering, you know
is Facebook doing this with intention, is this a stance?
Or are they just fumbling and tripping over themselves?
Because it seems like full on blocking access
to a resource that literally
the President of the United States is linking to,
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And then of course, the final thing
we have to talk about today
is the surprise January 6th committee hearing
with people wondering "What is this recently obtained
evidence that they were talking about?"
With it later coming out that the hearing would
center around surprise testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson
who was an aide to Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows.
And some of the stuff we heard today
is absolutely fucking insane.
But to get to some of those things
we have to touch on other things that led to that.
And because part of both the live and recorded testimony
was Hutchinson outlining all the knowledge that Trump
and his team had about the potential for things
to seriously escalate on January 6th, right?
Starting things off with things like Rudy Giuliani
telling her a few days before January 6th
to get excited, saying something to the effect of
"We're going to the Capitol, it's going to be great."
And saying when she asked Meadows
about Giuliani's remarks he responded,
"Things might get real bad, real bad."
The panel then goes on to outline
warnings of violence from law enforcement
and security agencies ahead of the attack,
with Hutchinson telling the committee that she heard
Oathkeepers and Proud Boys discussed ahead of January 6th,
though she wasn't sure of the context,
but Cassidy also describing conversations she had
with top security officials,
including the Director of National Intelligence
and the National Security Advisor
with both discussing concerns over the potential
for violent escalation on January 6th,
with the panel then moving to the events
that took place on January 6th.
And here we had co-chair Liz Cheney
playing audio of police on the ground
talking about people with AR-15s there.
With Cassidy also detailing a meeting
that Mark had around 10:00 in the morning
about the other weapons in the crowd,
with one of those people even reportedly saying,
- Tony had relayed to me something to the effect of,
"And these effing people are fastening spears
onto the ends of flag poles."
- But reportedly, even though you had tensions high,
all these weapons, you had Cassidy saying
that Donald Trump actually wanted no mags, right?
The metal detectors that are typical
in these kinds of events for Trump's speech at the rally.
With Hutchinson testifying that Trump was furious
because his crowd did not look big enough
and didn't care that his supporters had weapons
because they weren't there to hurt him.
Which is notable because the Trump supporters
that did try to go through the mags,
they had tons of weapons and gear confiscated,
including pepper spray, knives, brass knuckles,
tasers, body armor, gas masks, and batons.
But despite all that Hutchinson said that
Trump asked security to literally take the mags down
so the area could be packed.
- I overheard The President say something
to the effect of, y'now,
"I don't effing care that they have weapons.
They're not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away.
Let my people in, they can March to the Capitol from here.
Let the people in, take the effing mags away."
With Cheney going on to note that after that,
Trump then went on to deliver his speech,
encouraging his supporters, who he knew were armed,
to march to the Capitol.
- President Trump was aware that
a number of the individuals in the crowd
had weapons and were wearing body armor.
And here's what President Trump instructed the crowd to do.
- We're gonna walk down and I'll be there with you.
We're gonna walk down.
(Trump supporters cheering)
We're gonna walk down.
Anyone you want, but I think right here
we're gonna walk down to the Capitol!
- But that's not even where this ends.
And apparently Donald Trump actually
wanted to march onto the Capitol.
This, despite Hutchinson testifying
that White House lawyers were essentially
begging Trump not to do this.
With Hutchinson saying the White House Counsel
even told her "We're going to get charged
with every crime imaginable."
And warned that if Trump went to the Capitol,
it could look like he was literally inciting a riot.
With the panel then playing a montage
of former Trump officials saying
this was Donald Trump's plan, to go.
With Hutchinson going on to say,
"There were discussions about him having another speech
outside the Capitol before going in.
I know that there was a conversation
about him going into the House Chamber at one point."
With Hutchinson then recounting how another top aide
had told her about the specific moment
that Trump was told by Secret Service agents
that it was unsafe to go to the Capitol
and that he would not be taken there.
- So once The President had gotten
into the vehicle with Bobby,
he thought that they were going up to the Capitol.
And when Bobby had relayed to him,
"We're not, we don't have the assets to do it.
It's not secure.
We're going back to the West Wing."
The President had very strong,
a very angry response to that.
Tony described him as being irate.
The President said something to the effect of,
"I'm the effing President.
Take me up to the Capitol now."
To which Bobby responded,
"Sir we have to go back to the West Wing."
The President reached up towards the front of the vehicle
to grab at the steering wheel.
Mr. Engel grabbed his arm,
said, "Sir you need to take your hand
off the steering wheel.
We're going back to the West Wing.
We're not going to the Capitol."
Mr. Trump then used his free hand
to lunge towards Bobby Engel.
And Mr., when Mr. Renato had recounted this story to me
he had motioned towards his clavicles.
- And was Mr. Engel in the room
as Mr. Renato told you this story?
- He was.
- Did Mr. Engel correct or disagree with any part
of this story from Mr. Renato?
- Mr. Engel did not correct or disagree with any part
of this story.
- Although there, I do wanna note,
this is still a developing situation, right?
Just a few hours after this testimony,
while it has not been publicly confirmed yet,
Peter Alexander, the Chief White House Correspondent
for NBC news, he tweeted,
"A source close to the secret service
tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent,
and the presidential limousine/SUV driver
are prepared to testify under oath
that neither man was assaulted
and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.
And so we have to wait to see if that's true,
if it comes to fruition.
You also had Hutchinson later testifying
that as the insurrection was happening,
you had Trump supporters infiltrating the Capitol,
that this conversation went down
between Meadows and White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone.
- I remember Pat saying something to the effect of,
"Mark, we need to do something more.
They're literally calling for the Vice President
to be effing hung."
And Mark had responded something to the effect of,
"You heard him, Pat, he thinks Mike deserves it.
He doesn't think they're doing anything wrong."
To which Pat said something,
"This is effing crazy.
We need to be doing something more."
Briefly stepped into Mark's office.
- Which would also explain why it took Donald Trump
so long to ask the violent mob to leave the Capitol.
And instead before that, choosing to further incite this mob
against his own Vice President in tweets.
With him only finally sending out that video
after Hutchinson describes so many people encouraging
and just outright begging Trump to call the rioters off.
Hutchinson also saying that Giuliani and Meadows
asked for pardons from Trump.
But the final bomb shell from this already fucking
insane hearing came from Liz Cheney,
who revealed that Trump and his allies
have been intimidating some of the panel's witnesses.
With her reading these absolutely wild recordings,
which, it just sounds like it's from a bad mob boss movie.
One witness saying they said,
"[A person] let me know you have your deposition tomorrow.
He wants me to let you know that he's thinking about you.
He knows you're loyal and you're gonna do the right thing
when you go in for your deposition."
As well as, "What they said to me is,
as long as I continue to be a team player,
they know that I'm on the team, I'm doing the right thing.
I'm protecting who I need to protect,
you know, I'll continue to stay in good graces
in Trump world.
And they have reminded me a couple of times
that Trump does read transcripts,
and just to keep that in mind,
as I proceeded through my depositions
and interviews with the committee."
So, I think for most people with eyes and ears,
what appears to be witness tampering, clearly.
But that is where I'm gonna leave it
because I wanna try and get this out to you
as fast as possible today.
And of course, whether you watched it live
or you're just getting it from me,
I'd love to know your thoughts on all these revelations.
But ultimately, that is where that story
and today's show ends.
Guys, thank you for being a part
of that conversation down below,
being a part of these daily dives in the news.
If you want some more news,
I got you covered right here and here.
But my name's Philip DeFranco.
You've just been filled in.
I love yo' faces and I'll see you tomorrow.