Good evening. It's Thursday, July 24th. 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. Thank you so much to the always lovely Michael Tracy, the always charming Aaron Mote, for so capable guest hosting this show in my absence over the last couple of days.

I'm excited to be back.

And tonight, every Friday night, we devote the show to a Q&A session where we take questions

that have been submitted throughout the week by members of our local's community and answer as many

of those as we can.

And as is typically the case, the questions yet again tonight are wide-ranging and very provocative on a diverse range of news stories.

And yet because we have a scheduled interview tomorrow night with a very special guest, one of the favorite for our viewers, Norman Finkelstein,

we will instead be doing the Q&A session tonight on Thursday in order to make sure to get to that.

Among other things, we'll respond to questions about the newly released documents from Director of National

Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard regarding the Rushgate hoax.

The very cumbersome and severe settlement that Columbia University just agreed to with the Trump

White House that will restore their research funding in exchange for,

among other things, subjecting their Middle East curriculum to government review and imposing

radically expanded hate speech rules to ban opinions about Israel and various Jewish individuals.

And we have many other topics as well.

Before we get to that, a couple of quick programming notes.

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We take questions from our locals' members,

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