Glenn Takes Your Questions on the Trump Admin's War with Harvard, Fallout from Wednesday's DC Killing, and More; Plus: Lee Fang on Epstein's Dark Legacy in the USVI
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Glenn takes your questions on the Trump administration's war with Harvard, fallout from the murders of two Israeli Embassy staffers, libertarianism, why he doesn't like the term "gaslighting," and more. Plus: Lee Fang on the major unanswered questions from the Epstein files.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Friday, May 23rd. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:26.6 | Tonight, there was a lot of major news this week, and we always try to devote our Friday night show to covering as much of that as possible, both through our week and review segment, as well as the Q&A session, we do a try tonight where we take questions from our local members and get to as many of them as we can. |
| 0:42.4 | As always, we have a wide range of very probing questions from our local members tonight. |
| 0:47.1 | I'd expect nothing less from my viewers. |
| 0:49.3 | And we'll try to answer as many of those as we can. |
| 0:51.8 | And before we do that, we will talk to the friend of the show and the intrepid independent |
| 0:56.1 | journalist Lee Fong about numerous issues this week, including a new article he published |
| 1:00.1 | on his substack, which investigates how officials in the Virgin Islands, where Jeffrey |
| 1:04.4 | Epstein's notoriously bought that island, have been fraudulently profiting from victim funds |
| 1:10.4 | and other residue from his presence. |
| 1:12.6 | Before we get to that, a couple of programming notes. First of all, as independent media, we do rely on the support of our members and viewers in order to do the independent journalism that we do here every night. |
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| 1:36.2 | We take the only your questions every Friday night on our Q&A session. |
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| 1:50.5 | As one more program note, I will be traveling in the United States all of next week, including in places like Scottsdale, Arizona, and New York, in Portland, Maine, and Seattle. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm actually doing a debate in Seattle. |
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