ben smith is a former "new york times" media columnist. thanks for being here. people are shocked for a lot reasons. one of the videos posted on tiktok a new york based fluners writes this about bin laden's letter quote, if you have read it let me know if you are also going through a existential crisis because in the last 20 minutes me entire viewpoint on the entire life i had believed and had lived has changed. is it shocking that 22 years after 9/11 a letter written by osama bin laden has not only showed up but so many americans seemed to be finding it persuasive? >> yeah, you know this letter was post build the guardian years ago and got hundreds of thousands of views from their web site and endeavors of young people this was not just young people. it was a diverse array of morons for whom this was all new and were interested and fascinated by it. it was not an enormous phenomenon. we are living and era when theories are spilling out the way they didn't used to but i think we should be careful about amplifying the attacks. i think the attention to these have

back with me now, ben smith. man, elon musk is embroiled in yet another controversy, endorsing a claim that there is a pushing of hatred against whites by the jewish community. he has been called out for so many of these dispute and controversies. it does not seem like he cares, or there will be consequences for him. >> yeah, you know, in the last segment we were talking about random morons on tiktok saying crazy stuff, this is really different. i think even for mask has been through a series of these where he follows and engages with not seize, i think this one was different, and people i'm asked her to say something is antisemitic, and there are a lot of jewish who are very broad community, but when you run into somebody who starts talking about the jewish, and blaming them for staff, as though there is some unified conspiracy. that is textbook antisemitism. that is what he was doing here. i think this felt to me like even in the span of elon musk outrageous, a real break and step for him in the path of henry f

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>> the newly elected sack county prosecutor, ben smith, was a captain in the iowa national guard andcal of tracey's description of the shooter. >> you are saying that every shot she took was either sitting kneeling, with her eyes closed, or glasses of. >> what is the degree of difficulty here? >> army ranger difficulty. >> a challenging exercise? >> i do not think i would be up for now, according to what she said. if you believe that it was in the dark, it's just been choked to the point of unconsciousness, and two people are grabbing at you, you have all of your faculties together to sit there with the gun safe. at one point in time, she goes under the bed, opens it there. it is choose your own action adventure story. at one point she opens up the gun safe because somebody tugged hard at her feet and she just happen to be holding the door. it is ludicrous. >> but it was something else in the file that really intrigued. a top secret piece of evidence that had baffled investigators for years. >> i had stared at that thing four weeks, just reading it, trying to understand it. >> when p

discuss all of this is business insider correspondent linette lopez and also with us a juror and chief ben smith to me this this like the fight over who gets the dragon egg in game of thrones. this is technology that is inoculating, and whoever owns it kind of owned the future. tell us, in layman's terms, why it matters who runs open a.i. and whether it is sam altman or someone else. >> you have the strange situation, which i think anybody watching a i develop and seeing where the people who run these companies, notably sam altman, open a.i., which developed chatgpt which is genuinely pretty amazing, present themselves as of the real interest with making sure that a i didn't go too fast and in hurt anybody. they had a nonprofit board who said that was their job. then, at some point, the board started to take that a little too seriously while the actual company actually raced to make as much money as they could and built as good company as they could and attempted to fire altman for, essentially, going too fast, it seems like. at which point, the people operating the company and altman and their

joining me is linette lopez, and editor-in-chief ben smith. his is like the fight over who gets the dragon egg game of thrones. this is technology that is like inoculating, and who owns it kind of owns the future. tell us in layman's terms, why it matters who runs openai and whether it is sam altman or someone else? >> you have a strange situation, anyone who has developed it has or run these companies, like sam altman or around openai, which developed chatgpt which is pretty amazing. presented themselves at their real interest was making sure that a i did not go too fast. they had a nonprofit board who said it was their job. at that point, the board seem to take it a little too seriously while the actual company raced to make as much company as they could make as much money as they. could and attempted to fire sam altman, for essential going too fast. i was point the people overrating the company, it is like our actual mission is to build a great company and make money. what is all this stuff about slowing down, and worrying about the robot ap

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ben smith was commander on that hill. he was captured, struck over the head by colonel mcmillan two or three times. his brain oozing out. he said, i'm a prisoner of war. they didn't care. and he lived until the 1920s. and died in an insane asylum here in nashville, outlived virtually everybody. those are what's interesting about this? what did he do? opposed to war when he was having all of his issues from brain damage? he ran for? what else do you do? he didn't get elected. i mean, every child. beautiful, aren't they? this one, colonel bill shive gave his life on that hill, which still bears his name today. an interesting thing happened about colonel shy. he was buried in franklin and in 1977, the owners of the where he was buried called the sheriff's department and they found the body halfway in showers, the front lawn police sheriff's department came out in determined that it was a murder and they sent brought dr. bill bash down here, the university of tennessee, who was just starting the body farm underneath land stad

ben smith was commander on that hill. he was captured, struck over the head by colonel mcmillan two or three times. his brain oozing out. he said, i'm a prisoner of war. they didn't care. and he lived until the 1920s. and died in an insane asylum here in nashville, outlived virtually everybody. those are what's interesting about this? what did he do? opposed to war when he was having all of his issues from brain damage? he ran for? what else do you do? he didn't get elected. i mean, every child. beautiful, aren't they? this one, colonel bill shive gave his life on that hill, which still bears his name today. an interesting thing happened about colonel shy. he was buried in franklin and in 1977, the owners of the where he was buried called the sheriff's department and they found the body halfway in showers, the front lawn police sheriff's department came out in determined that it was a murder and they sent brought dr. bill bash down here, the university of tennessee, who was just starting the body farm underneath land stad

our friend ben smith covered her campaign in 2010. what he wrote about her i thought was interesting. heard her comments, what she says are attacks on women in the past couple weeks. haley's grass roots gender politics is gretta ger b.i.g. leb.i.g. gerwig astute. you are scum, said in the debate to him. isn't about a slogan for that particular appeal. he writes never seen a politician better than haley turning a smear directed at her turned into a weapon. anyone with a shot against trump will need in their arsenal. what do you think, margaret? >> we've all seen that. studied her closely. uncanny ability to zero in. national security official in the last administration, when she was u.n. ambassador, american ambassador to the u.n. said was like a heat-seeking missile for identifying issues and driving them home effectively. i would never underestimate nikki haley. of all the candidate aside from donald trump she is enormously politically adept in this, a very natural way. i think as we have seen especially in the republican primary, so

ben smith in semafor writing that the republican presidential primary is, against all odds, startingthe exacting donald trump sought to avoid, a winnowing field that could possibly produce just want to get out with the january 15th iowa caucus, a real presidential face-off in new hampshire and a high-profile moment of opportunity for a challenger. joining me now is david philander, a contributor to the magazine covering national politics, and he is the writer of a new piece analyzing nikki haley's strategy to take on donald trump. they've, it it's good to see you. you have this quote from a desantis official, who has told you, vis-À-vis nikki's rise and people, governor elise rise and people. congrats, nikki, one person for the desantis put to me, you won the never trump ceremony, your price is nothing. there is a conservative belief if it does not matter if you do really well, because you're never trump. ultimately, this election will be about trump, trump, trump. >> sure. >> you kind of the book that a bit in this piece. >> the desantis theory of the pace. there may be some people

goal is to define hamas to the american people as a terrorist organization joining us right now is ben smith be a little like the emails you've gotten from friends or relatives to 50 of his contact list, which included 50 of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world, saying, essentially, i think a lot of people are sort of essentially seeing in the media that the pro-israel cause is not as popular in america as it used to be and wanting to change that. he says that he's talked to zaslav and emanuel, and they want to change the narrative, change the media narrative around hamas in particular and tell people that hamas is really a terrorist organization i'm not sure how much that really is in dispute in any case, that's the cause. and i mean, one of the things that struck me about it is david zaslav runs cnn, for instance, so it was interesting to see people who, in fact, do have a lot of concrete power over the narrative really kind of wringing their hands about this state of the u.s.-israel relationship and how people here see israel >> in terms of what this campaign might look like,

ben smith has moved from ramallah routine knowing it in the occupied west by this time the target is a 20 year old man. suspected of being a fighter and a palestinian on his body was taken away by this bulldozer. that'd be happy. yes. was the 100 and 49th palestinian killed in the west bank since october the 7th. a few hours later, the funeral of another young routine dang, this is the rhythm of life here. rate funeral repeat. it looks like they've said old to about it. they're taking out their anger for october 7 on us. the defense of people here. they want us to hate resistance fight, but you know, what does my going to happen? what do i hit now? let me try it one more time. this is not the 1st time they for destruction. if they think they can force us out or we can us, they are mistaken. every time they do this, it makes us more determined to stay in a lot into this increasing the oppressive environment came on to the blinking view . i secretary of state, told my food of best that his administration should play a central role in what comes next in god. this to a president with a l

the occupied westbank is ready for 6 of killed at least 2 palestinians, june rates as close to ben at smiths. now live in ramada for us. that's what more can you tell us about what appears to be going on there? and so we understand that is really special forces went into janine, looking for a suspect. it was under cover special forces unit, but they were sponsored by a standing finances. in janine a gunfight broke out the israelis cold, and backup becomes continued on. it seems that to palestinians know necessarily involved with the fighting, but seeming to be in the wrong place or the wrong time. were shocked by the israelis now rate or effect of life in the occupied westbank. and in janine particularly, they've been almost daily grades really since the beginning of the janine has not been under control of the palestinian authority. security posts is really the last 2 years, especially at night. it's really different. palestinian and groups that are in control of the streets of janine and it's them that these really security forces go in looking full. but in the, as a consequence of box rai

ben riley—smith a great, a great book.e hamas terrorists overcame israel's defences and israel's border defences and slaughtered 1400 civilians in a horrific spree that shocked the world. the ensuing conflict and israel's invasion of gaza has, according to the hamas controlled ministry of health in gaza , claimed the lives of over gaza, claimed the lives of over 9000 people. as is ever the case, when israel goes to war, it must keep an eye on the response of western governments and voters. so it's an opportune time to examine that western response, both cultural and legal. and to do that, i'm joined by political scientist yascha mounk , who's in paris. yascha mounk, who's in paris. and later i'll also be talking to barrister and legal director of lawyers for israel, natasha hausdorf . yascha may i come to hausdorf. yascha may i come to you first? you began an article recently in which you were saying that in 2001 when the world trade centre was hit by those planes where there was that terrorist outrage, the world joined to

let's get the latest with ben s. smith, who's in to come in for us in the occupied westbank. tell us about what's been happening a where you are spanish is that right? is still going on. we had a little crack of a gun fire a few minutes ago and another indication that is still going on, because i'm standing in the middle of the tilt on the main streets. and so come on, what is the middle of a working day? we should be very busy, but everyone has closed up this very, very little traffic because of the safest place to be joining and he's ready, right? he's hiding inside and that is what people are doing. we know that 7 people have been killed in this rate and 5 are critically injured, but not too far away from the hospital where israel with these very forces with take icing the wrong today. are you at $12.00 and $5.00 of those critically injured . it came up the re, this starts at about 10 o'clock last night, was really special. a special forces went up to uh to palestinian fighters. they were looking for special forces as of mountains was spotted. and there was a lodger of 5 f

well, ben and smith is in ramallah for us, and then what more do we know about these latest is ready? right? does it happen to have an item this morning? what's been happening tom, there was a total of 14, right? at least do we know of overnights in the occupied westbank, a little bit lower than the average? we've been averaging about 40 a night since october the 7th when they've been this notable up taking rates here. although they have been effective live for a long for full, for many, many years really here for the most consequential of those rights. was that the result today and the death of 66 year old? it's a to me, me now he, we understand was driving his car near where charge the building was being rated by these very ministry. and he was shot in the had a not now means a 187 palestinians being killed in the occupied west bank since october the 7th. and his more than $202.00 and a half 1000 arrested anatomy and administrative detention, which means they can be held without trial or charge indefinitely on the other res, also in the hebron and janine in ramallah and near jericho

ben. it's smith was a novice for us, so bring us up to speed with these. these really rates across the occupied, west, west sponsor, and what's been happening fully as well as those rates in it to boss that have been raised in jeanine, ramallah to count them and elsewhere across the west bank bower. effects of life will palestinians who live here since well before october, the 7th, but since then they've been a lot more of them pops an average of around 40 a day now. and those rates that happened saturday night early in the early hours of sunday one palestinian was killed. that means that $186.00 pilots demeans have been killed since october the 7th and around 2 and a half 1000. i've been arrested and most of those in administrative detention, which means i can the hell be held without charge or trial indefinitely. i just was reminding people as well that since october, the 7th, the west bank has been essentially sealed off by israel. and that means the some 185000 palestinians who worked in israel have not been able to go to work now for nearly 5 weeks. 2

draft of that history has been published by the daily telegraph's chief political correspondent, ben riley—smithrule. it's four weeks and a day since hamas terrorists poured into israel and slaughtered 1400 civilians. the ensuing conflict and the israeli ground invasion of gaza have dominated the headlines . as dominated the headlines. as a month on, i want to look at what a shape the western interpretation of events

and a smith is in ramallah for us, ben, and bring us up to date. i mean, uh, rates uh uh, a fact of life full and a group buddy living in the occupied westbank. yeah. around. and janine has been particularly so good by see, i think real uptick and rage in the last really since the beginning of the year. so this one over night was believed to be targeting members senior members of 5 to in janine have to miss all strikes were also brought it and not is unusual. we don't know what the targets of those were yet, but in those rates 2 people were killed. and in another right elsewhere in the westbank, amman believed to be mentally handicapped, was also kills to 3 people killed in. those raids over not bringing to a total of a $128.00 palestinians in the west bank cables since the start of israel war and gaza on october. the 2nd thank you for that update. the us actually have stay on sneed. blinking is to visit israel on friday. it will be his, the trip to the country since some were brought accounts on october. the 7th. the us state departments has been

ben kesling. jordy heckman. orion donovan smith. are helpings serve veterans for a better than we ever could on our own. and as i lean -- and as eileen just mentioned, just yesterday, investigative reporting from david phillips in the "new york times" uncovered the unseen t.b.i. risks faced by soldiers and marines who operated heavy artillery weapons in the fight against isil. in syria. if you haven't read it york must. because of his reporting, v.a. will be reaching out to those vets who served in the field artillery units to ensure they're receiving the care they need, importantly, the care they have earned. those vets served in syria and iraq. making them eligible for that care around the pact act. several of the vets profiled in the piece are characterized as having received less than honorable discharges. we all them o.t.h.'s, other than honorables. v.a. cannot change a vet's character of discharge, vets are not automatically disqualified from v.a. services because of discharge status. are not. in fact, over the last 10 year, v

well, bennett smith is in ramallah for us now ben and so just took us through how desperate the situation is for goals as health care services at the moment the us folks mindful the policy and helpful forward using gaza. ashcroft, our country has painted a very bleak picture of what's going on in a couple of the main hospitals in gaza at the moment. he says, particularly indonesia in the hospital is really in serious trouble. he says he's operating on a secondary generate. so that means that the ventilation of that conditioning systems in the hospital stopped working east as the oxygen system. the medical extreme system isn't working that we're using by trees. there's no man's electricity and soul. and he says the bridges and the more not working. and it also says that she for hospital, which is causes main health center and hospitalization garza city also that he says they've obtained some fuel from local organizations. he says the should keep them working for the next few hours, but not much longer. after that, all the hospitals in gaza are overwhelmed with patients that are already not

of thousands lives ended long before that time pull. race out, is there a boat at smith is in ramallah for us now, ben, to describe it to us just how desperate the situation is at gauze is bailey functioning. health facilities at the moment. what we've heard this evening from the spokesman for the policy and helpful party in gaza and chef out quadra as this painted an extremely bleak picture of the car and conditions that the shape of a hospital the main medical center in gauze or is in gaza. city and he says, but now they are working on the secondary generate to the hospitals, ventilation. an ac system is stopped working. the oxygen production system stopped working by using by trees has no main electricity. the fridge is in the mold and not working. he says they have fuel from local organizations that could last for a few hours, but they'll be a disaster if there's no fuel in the next few days. there's a hospital, the is riley military size, it should be evacuated. they alleged that. how much is working? has tunnel as has networks of tunnels underneath the hospital. and it's also why israel has so f

the 7th open and smith is in, remodeling joins us now. live, ben, and what more do we know about these lights? just as rarely rides the, including the one that killed the 66 year old man. a tom there's at least 14 raids overnight in the occupied westbank and the most consequential, most serious of those results in the death of 66 year old is a to me he apparently was driving a vehicle near to why the office of a child who was being rated and he was shot in the head of a raids was that was near had brought him to another raising janine, a novelist and new jericho as well in one right. mine the was live to his view is on tick tock and that was cool. it's not right, it was cool live and he was beat not live in front of his take some views. there's averaging about 40 rates a night in the occupied westbank since october the 7th. so actually the numbers were slightly low, low, but not then they have been in recent weeks. but now yes, a $187.00 palestinians have been killed since october. the 7th. i'm more than 2 and a half 1000 under arrest of most of th

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roads to try to stop is really vehicles from entry that's go live to onto the respondents smith, who's in nablus. so ben is more incursions and more rates across the occupied westbank bring us up to speed with the latest. and who is these really military targeting? and why slowly those raids into boss a so as well in janine ramallah until come on elsewhere in the occupied westbank grades are of facts of life and they have is as well before october the 7th, but they've really been increasing since then we average about now 40 rates a day in the occupied westbank targets are always according to the palestinians. what they call secure to right. is that looking for what like a terrace and there are 2 and a half 1000 palestinians have been arrested in those rage. and most of them in detention, administrative detention, that means that can be held without charge or without trial indefinitely. and also one policy that has died as a result of those rates overnight. that means now, 186 palestinians have been killed. hey, since october, the 7, previously a reminder here we're going to get 100 laser tie files. we

recall, arthur, you were there as my assistant, tom jefferson and ben franklin and i were talking about their hero and mine, adam smith, who wrote "the wealth of nations" in 17 is 76, and they communicated back and forth with smith if before he published that book. that's one of the reasons they believed in economic freedom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. my point is this -- >> that is true, by the way. that is true. larry: i know. this crowd just has, this is all central planning. if you want to call it socialism or whatever, a bunch of central planners, a bunch of regulators. they're waging war against businesses. it's not just fossil fuels, it's all business. they don't believe in business. >> yeah, it's everything. larry: and the results show. >> it's a mental state, larry. these people are pessimists, they believe everything is fixed in stone and that clouds are there, the global warming, we don't have any ability to do anything about it and woe is me. easter island, america, we're going to all kill each oh and build statues, and the everett is going to be barren -- the earth is going to be bare, it'

i should have found it smith, the width of the latest on that ongoing rate will have much more for you here on out to 0 finale. thank you very much, ben has missed that in ramallah. well, there's also been a serious escalation on the border between israel and southern 11 on the cast number games. that's how i'm off as my the tree wing, and has the law say, they've funded several rockets from lebanon towards the northern, his way of the town of curiosity. mona, i have some has worn out from the cora in southern lebanon as well. now with this rather announcing the complete seizure of the guys and the situation here, escalating that gradually. it seems that the scene is set for and use steps. maybe the 2nd level of escalation on the needs is really board that we saw today from us. come a claiming responsibility for attacking could actually now with a dozen or for our kids and we so it could be a impact. the also has lots announcing that they hit our 19 is ready ministry positions. similar thing is they also hit thing and the command and control center is a dean with a couple of a suicide drones. this is a new element entering the whole s

ben cleveland, you are welcome. the guys say on a white pants week it's a seven-step process to get them clean. roquan smith firefighters side by side with the players at sofi stadium. wrestling the players' gear on and shagging practice balls moments before kickoff and the morning after a game, they're right back at the fire house. by the way, that man who was helping me with the laundry, jawan yancy, he's chief of his fire house what's your favorite part about getting to be a part of the ravens organization? >> not to sound sassy but easy these guys it is like a deep breath for us where you get to hang out with your friends and your favorite team. >> reporter: and chief yancy is one of the only staff members entrusted with this job. breaking in the footballs for one of the most accurate in history, justin tucker >> you take the end of the brush. you want to get all the nubs off the football. >> reporter: smooth it out >> yep you want a smooth kicking surface. >> reporter: lucky for you, he doesn't miss. >> i probably wouldn't have a job. >> reporter: you played a big role in that throughout his career. >>