Good evening, everybody. It is Glenn Greenwald. I am very happy to be back on what I guess is kind of a sequel to or manifestation

of our system update program. We definitely intend to do more video along with the writing

that we've been doing, but we're building a new studio. The studio that we were in for the last

three years is one that requires a big team of people

in order to operate multiple cameras and the like.

So this is sort of a toned down reduced version.

We have one studio build.

I've been using that a little bit, but we want to have a separate one.

I hate to board with you all the logistics, but that's the reason.

Also, I've been traveling a lot.

I think I mentioned in the post that I did

earlier today announcing tonight's Q&A that I traveled twice to the United States in the last,

like, say, two and a half weeks, including to do a debate, a two-hour debate about pretty much

every topic there is to debate that should be out on a very large internet platform. I can't say which either this weekend or I believe actually it'll be next weekend. So look for that.

I'll certainly let you know. But anyway, here we are. And for those of you who aren't familiar

with what we do on Friday night, we basically have a Q&A session where we collect questions

and comments and critiques and thoughts and suggestions and topics from our subscribers throughout

the week. We try and get to them as many of them as we can. Obviously, we try and align some of them

with the biggest of the items in the news. It would be strange if I didn't talk about the war in Iran,

for example, or last night's FISA vote. But often we get topics that I can address

that we don't necessarily choose on our own. It's an important way that I stay accountable and

responsive and interactive, which I always consider to be a crucial part of my journalism in

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