Tuesday Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben 7/21/2026

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🗓️ 21 July 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myceles, and this is your breaking news right now as we're
0:06.3	live. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsseth, is on Capitol Hill speaking before the United States
0:13.5	Senate. He's saying the $1.5 trillion package that the Trump regime is demanding to further this catastrophic and
0:22.8	unlawful war is not only necessary, but Hegsyth is saying, if we do not get that money
0:29.3	immediately, it will be, quote, the greatest threat our nation has ever faced. The greatest threat our nation has ever faced. Let me just
0:41.8	show you what he said moments ago. Let's play it. You know what that means, that that means
0:47.3	$1.5 trillion, given the world that we live in and the disaster of what the Biden administration
0:52.4	budgets gave us, not funding this department
0:54.8	at $1.5 trillion, I believe, is the greatest threat that our nation faces. Either we invest
1:00.9	in our warriors at this moment of step change on the battlefield and growing threats, or this is all
1:07.9	just talk. Okay, so you all just talk. Okay.
1:11.4	So you all bankrupted our defense department.
1:16.7	You've run out of munitions.
1:19.3	Our strategic petroleum reserves have been depleted.
1:24.2	You've bankrupted it all when you had $1.1 trillion last year. And now you want
1:32.5	$1.5 trillion. You want more money right now, essentially on an emergency basis. And because you've
1:41.7	bankrupted our military, you got us involved with Netanyahu in this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, where Iran is blowing up U.S. bases each and every day while you all pretend they have no capabilities.
1:59.2	That's what you're saying is the greatest threat to our nation.
2:02.3	While the Trump regime covers up what's actually happening at our bases in the Middle
2:07.9	East, we actually have our troops are sending photos and videos to their family members.
2:16.5	Why?
2:23.5	Because they are targets for Iran right now. While the U.S. is moving the military equipment, while the U.S. is evacuating the bases, not of the people, not of the warriors, but the equipment, the equipment, which is
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