Semafor Editor Ben Smith on Epstein Saga; How do MAGA Supporters Really Feel About Trump's Foreign Policy? Eddington Movie Review: Reflections on 2020
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Semafor's Ben Smith discusses the latest Epstein saga developments. Plus: Michael Tracey reviews Ari Aster's latest film 'Eddington' and what it reveals about Covid, BLM, and social media in 2020. Finally: System Update producer Meagan O'Rourke also joins to discuss interviews with MAGA supporters from a Fourth of July parade on Staten Island.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everybody. |
| 0:20.0 | It is Tuesday, July 22nd. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to yet another new episode of System Update, which as you all undoubtedly know, is our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:36.6 | Exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Michael Tracy and Glenn is somewhere. So this is where I triumphantly storm in and anger parts |
| 0:50.3 | of the audience who would prefer not to have to see my face, which I have to say on some |
| 0:54.3 | level I sympathize with. Tonight, interesting show. We'll be joined by Ben Smith, who is the |
| 1:03.6 | editor-in-chief of Semaphore and a longtime political observer, journalist, editor editor and we will probably I think |
| 1:14.1 | provide you with a slightly counterintuitive or different perspective anyway on |
| 1:20.5 | the meaning of the whole Epstein saga that continues to engulf American |
| 1:25.8 | politics and media seemingly. |
| 1:29.3 | We'll also bring in somebody who works on this very show and who you often don't see on camera. |
| 1:36.3 | She stays behind the cameras, but today we're going to pry her out because Megan O'Rourke, who I often do interviews with, and she's a producer on the show, I'm sure should be a fan favor anyway. |
| 1:50.6 | We're going to do actually a review of a new movie. |
| 1:54.6 | This is a little out of left field based on typical system update content. |
| 1:59.4 | But there's a new movie that I happen to see last night |
| 2:01.7 | partly at the adamant urging of Megan called Eddington and I think it's an |
| 2:09.2 | incredible movie and an incredible window into a lot that's going on politically |
| 2:13.4 | and culturally so we're going to do a movie review tonight. |
| 2:24.5 | And we are also going to show some footage that she and I collected, |
| 2:27.0 | actually back on the 4th of July earlier this month, |
| 2:32.2 | that has been available on locals for youth subscribers for several weeks. But what we wanted to do was go to like an area that is sort of ground |
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