BTS To Serve Mandatory Service In South Korea Military | Chelsea Manning

Elon Musk is putting Ukraine on his family plan, dun Say Sloan is going full and Reggaeton and herschel Walker joins the paw Patrol. Plus Iraqi war whistleblower Chelsea Manning is our guest tonight. So let's do this people. Let's come straight into today's headlines, all right, everybody. Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. Starting with

some health news. The FDA has announced that there is a nationwide shortage of adderall so if you don't have a genuine need for it, please save it for anyone who has a legitimate prescription. And if you do have a prescription, now is the time to sell that. School kids catching make that money. In international news, the superstar K pop band BTS has announced that its members will

soon begin reporting for mandatory service in the South Korean military. Yeah, which is great news for South Korea because the army is basically unstoppable. Now there's no army in the world. It's gonna take a shot at these guys. Are you kidding me? Who's gonna be stupid enough to take a shot? Everyone's a fan. Enemy soldiers are gonna be like, I just got stand by Jim. This is the last best

day of my life. Oh. In tech news, Kanye West announced today that he is going to buy the right wing social media platform Paula because quote, he wants to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves. And thank god, because I've been waiting to hear Kanye is unfiltered thoughts and things. You just never get to hear that. You you gotta gotta hear of anything else to say, So shy, so shy. All right, let's move on to some of the biggest stories of the day.

Starting as we so often do with Donald Trump. And I know, I know, I know. When Trump is in the news, it's usually because he was caught doing more crimes, but this time it's also because of that. The man loves to crime. What can I say? So let's find out about his latest one in our ongoing segment, America's Most Tremendously Wanted. Do you very remember that? After he left the White House, Trump creates his own social media app called truth Social, which is basically just Twitter up

but for white supremacists. And before you say, wait, aren't the white supremacist already on Twitter? Yes, but on truth Social they're verified now believe it or not. Believe it or not. There might also be a dock side to truth Social. A whistleblower is now accusing former President Trump's social media company of violating federal securities laws. Will Wilkerson is a former executive at Trump Media and Technology Group,

which launched the truth Social platform. He tells The Washington Post the Trump's company tried to raise capital by making fraudulent misrepresentations about its finances. The SEC is now investigating.

The co founder told The Washington Post the former president asked one executive to relinquish his shares in the company to former First Lady Milannia Trump, and had him removed from the board of directors when he refused what Donald true social media platform was reportedly engaged in shady financial gimmicks. How it's called truth Social. I don't know what to

believe anymore, you know. One of the most interesting allegations is that he tried to bully one of his board members into giving his shares to Milannia, which is just so romantic. Yeah, ladies, find you a man who will commit securities vote for you? Are you kidding? You have to admit the shares in truth Social are a weird gift. You know. It almost sounds like Trump didn't remember until the last minute. It was just like, of course, I

remembered your birthday, Millennia, I got you. I got truth Socials. Surprise, surprise, truly love generally and also the time I'm wearing. The funny thing is truth Social is such a failure of a company that she probably didn't even want the shares. You know. It's almost like when your kids give you that that gift, but it's just like a piece of macaroni are for your birthday. You know, she was probably just like, oh so cute. Do you think this is

worth something? Thank you Donald? Now, just to be clear, Just to be clear, though, I am totally on Trump's side in the story. Yeah, yeah. It's if you go into business with Donald Trump and you are surprised that you got scammed, that's on you. What were you thinking? Well, I know the last guy that Trump worked almost got hanged by an angry mob. But I think I'm gonna turn out fine. I don't know what can go wrong. I never walking go wrong. So let's move on from

Donald Trump. So this year's hot new Mini Trump, Herschel Walker, Georgia Senate candidates and closed captionings Worst Nightmare. There are a lot of controversies swirling around Walker, his attack on absentee parents despite being one, his opposition to abortion despite allegedly paying for one, his attempts to become a senator despite not knowing how many states America has, and then his first debates over the weekend. Walker tried to clear

up one controversy with a little prop comedy. At a debate Friday night, Herschel Walker responded to accusations that he has pretended to be a police officer by flashing what appeared to be a fake badge, and you know what's so funny? I am with many. In a new interview, the former football star says the badge is real. He says he got it from the sheriff of Johnson County.

Walker clarified it's an honorary badge. The National Sheriff's Association said an honorary badge, quote is for the trophy case. Why make the decision? You know, I don't know what's crazy in the story, the fact that this man lied about being in law enforcements, or the fact that he pulled out a fake badge during a debate, during a debate, all the fact that after the Sheriff's Association said that his badge is just an honorary one, he said, no,

they're wrong, that's only wrong. That's like, it almost makes me wonder how many people have Usial Walker arrested? Huh? Is it someone locked up in his basement right now? Who's just like, is this a real present? There's a foodball table in here. He's like, it's an honorary prison. Does he treat every symbolic object like this? People say I'm an absentee father, But if that were true, why would I have this world's best dad mug huh not okay dad, not a good dad, world's best dad. That's official.

In fact, I have seven of the must to prove it, and some I haven't even received yet. You know, the saddest part of the story is that there are people who are gonna believe that herschel Walker was in law enforcement because he pulled out this match. This is something I've learned in America. People see it, they believe it. It's the same way there were people who believed that Trump actually did step away from his company just because he posed next to a stack of empty folders like

he's lying. People like, why would he be lying? He's standing next to empty folders? What would he standing next to that? Even wasn't true? Are you next to empty folders? No, you're not. But it's honorary like Tata Swift Winstance got an honorary doctorate from n y U this year, but you don't see her in the operating room, like, well, killed another one. Hi, Let's get lunch and try again later. Yes, maybe I'll try brains next time stead of hot ah.

I will say. The one upside of this whole story, though, is there is some good news because this means that Georgia votes don't even need to elect herschel Walker senator than you just give him a certificate that says honorary Senator. You won't know the difference. Let's move on to some criminal justice news. Right now, a right wing militia member named Paul Vella is on trial for hatching a plot back in to kidnap the governor of Michigan, which means every day the jurors have to look at a man

accused of an evil, heinous crime. Just imagine that every day staring into those eyes. Are you turned on? No? Because apparently someone was well. A juror has been dismissed from the trial three men in connection with the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. She was dismissed by the judge on Friday after attorneys accused her of flirting

with one of the defendants. Now, the flirtatious behavior was described as non verbal communication in the form of eye contact and smiles between the juror and defendant Paul Bellar. While the prosecutor originally pointed out the conduct, several others, including Bellar's attorney, stated that they had seen interactions between the two. The judge dismissed the juror out of an abundance of caution. God damn. First of all, congrats to this woman for finding a new way to get out

of jury duty. Truly an inspiration for a soul. But I have to say, I have to say I'm kind of sad that they kicked off the case. Think of think of how great it would have been when they read the verdict. We the jury sentenced the defendant of life with me. I guess the real liston here is that bad boys stay winning. This guy is literally on trial for trying to kidnap the governor. Huh, and he's still getting love. It's always like this, every famous criminal has.

All these groupies are like, is there a Mrs Serial Killer? Oh? There was, but you chopped her into little pieces, so you're single now. But I would like to know how this happened. How did this happen? Because when you report for jewry duty in America, they make you watch a video that expressly tells you what you should and shouldn't do. Lady whoever, while performing the sacred civic duty is important

to avoid doing the following things. Reading about the case in the news, going like this to the defendant, going like this to the defenders, going like this to the defendants, thank you for your service, and please don't try to smash Everyone watches that video. How did that happen? Alright? Finally, that's ah the latest news in Russia's war with Ukraine.

If you've been following the war, you know that almost everybody has been helping Ukraine fights off the world's worst botox customer America sending weapons, the e U s sending financial assistance. England is sending Prince Andrew not to help, they just want to get rid of him. But it may surprise you to know who has been giving Ukraine the internet service and how close it recently came to

going away. Elon Musk reversing course, the billionaire now says his SpaceX company will continue to fund Ukraine's critical satellite service. SpaceX is Starlink internet service has been a vital source of communication for the Ukrainian military during its war with Russia.

The reversal coming after exclusive CNN reporting that SpaceX sent a letter to the Pentagon warning that it may stop funding the service unless the U. S. Military kicks in tens of millions of dollars each month, must tweeting this weekend? The hell with it? Even though Starlink is still losing money and other company these are getting billions of taxpayer money. We'll just keep funding the Ukraine government for free. You know, Elon Musk is the only person who can do a

good thing, but in the bitchiest way possible. You know, it's just like, guess I'll just keep helping Ukraine for free. Like I'm not gonna even try to tell Elon Musk how to use his money, but I will tell you this, Elon, this is not how you get remembered as an inspiring figure in history. All Right, you're doing a good thing,

but then you're saying it like that. Can you imagine if Martin Luther King Junior had this attitude when he was trying to do his good I have a dream, I guess because I don't see nobody else on in a dream, so I guess that's on me. I gotta sleep twenty hours a day because these bitch asses don't want to come up with dreams of their own. People be like Martin, you want to go to the club, but I can't. I gotta go home to sleep because

I gotta have a dream. That's some bullshit, but I guess I gotta do it anyway, it wouldn't be the same. Can I tell you what I think happened here? What I think happened here is Elon Musk saw an opportunity to be the good guy and make a lot of money, give the Ukrainians internets. But then over time have the American government step in and pick up the tab. Yeah, but because they said no, now he's stuck. He is keep losing money or be the asshole who cut off

Ukraine's Internet. And I know some people think Elon is evil, but he's not cable company evil. Come on, And I actually get Elon's frustration because think about it. Think about it. Weapons manufacturers on donating missiles to Ukraine. The US government is paying them, so Elon is going, well, why shouldn't I get paid? And also, like everyone else, I'm sure Elon didn't expect the war to go on for this long.

You know. It's sort of like when you hold the door open for someone, right, but then other people keep walking through the door, so you're holding the door for twenty minutes and finally you let go and then it slams some old lady in the face. You're like, are you broke by No? And then your buss runs off. He's like you're fired, and you're like, I don't even walk here. He's like, not with that attitude, you don't. Now you're an asshole and you're unemployed just because you

were trying to be nice. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go to a quick break, let's check it on the stock market without finance expert Michael cost to everybody, but to see you my fake Monday markets. What is happening in the market today. I'm crushing it. I mean I am crushing it like a nineteen year old me used to crush adderall pills getting ready for the big party I wasn't invited to. But

all right, so also got a hot tip for you. Okay. Now, the big financial news today is that Albertson's has been acquired by Kroger and if this deal goes through, it will become the second biggest grocery chain in America, right after Walmart. Okay, but before we get to that, I want to talk to you about that that flirting juror you know in Michigan. Yeah, everyone says she's flirt I mean, that's that's not flirting. You know, she's just being nice people.

People in New York thinks someone's flirting just because they have even pushed you down the stairs. Okay, she's just being Midwest nice. I'm from Michigan. Okay, I know about I thinking, all right, what's she doing this? You know, what do you do? What do you do? You see how good I am at? I thinking? Okay, Costa gets the girl's eyes wet all right, which which technically is crying, but it's a very it's a moist eye. Look, Kroger, let's get to Roger. Kroger bought Albertson's for two point

six billion, all right. Now that's before you factor in any coupons they may have had. But look this big jumper right here. This is not when Kroger actually acquired Albertson's, in my expert opinion, this is when Albertson's implemented self check out. Okay, Now, this saved them a lot of labor costs, and that's why the value shot up. But what all grocery stores don't realizes that self checkout. It's really just inviting us to steal, isn't it. You know?

And it takes people some time to figure that out, but when they do, it hurts profits. And that's what you start to see right here, I mean self check out. What I gotta know what type of mushroom this is? Now? I don't know. How about I just steal it, okay, Trevor. I had a bushel of carrots, okay, and it's not coming up, and I'm not coming up, and then it's like, what's the protuce number. I don't know the protus number.

So now I'm spelling it out on the keypack carrots k A R r ot and it's still not coming up. It's just easier if I steal it, okay. I used to work at a grocery store. I did. I was in charge of stalking the orange juice, but I got fired. I couldn't concentrate. Actually, thank you, but actually actually I threw a candle up at an old lady. I thought she was stealing. So look, look, look everybody, look this supermarket merger. It's great news. Everyone's worried about the price

of groceries. But now there's gonna be less competition, and a giant corporation will have more power than ever to decide the price of food. And I'm sure they're going to do the right thing. Speaking of doing the right thing, musk with the internet in Ukraine. I love that he's helping you, crage. This is so cool. Everyone's helping out. The US is sending weapons, Europe is sending money, Trevor, I assume Africa sending some of your child soldiers or oh,

stop stop, I can make that joke. I'm an honorary African bad all right. Yeah, the cops out here, that's probably gonna what the African badger looks like. Okay, I got a hot tip. I got a hot tip. If here's my hot tip. If you work at a grocery store and you throw a cantaloupe at an old lady, you have to be a hundred percent shirting that she was stealing. All right, now back to you, Trevor, my fellow African. But it's not an official badge. Use that

in the street. Start when we come back, don't said slow. I got to the club, so don't go away. Welco about two day to show. You know. Every now and then do we ask dul Say Sloan to report on the latest news, but dul Say just talks about what she wants to talk about. In another episode of dul Saying Hello, brand Hispetic Heritage months just wrapped up. But

before we go, I want to talk about reggaeton. And if you don't know what it is, you've probably heard the unmistakable beat of reggaeton before, especially if you have upstairs neighbors. Can you keep it down up there? I will not like this song. The rest of the New to go back as far as the seventies and as far as south as Panama. It could have started further south, but the beast are so big they don't fit to

the canal. It was here in the nineteen eighties when music artists started playing Spanish lyrics over Jamaican dance hall songs, creating a new sound of reggae. And that's Spaniards. And honestly, I'm glad I wasn't there because watching Spanish words and dance hall music timing together for the first time, not even two sexty to handle, there's no way you didn't leave that dance floor too pregnant. It's like being the Jelly and the Diego Lunar and Bad Bunny Sandwich, Oh Delicious.

Two of reggae tones earliest pioneers were Leonardo and had Got the Funk. Franco would later be known as El Hannad and even looked like if the Fresh Prince got

sent to military school instead of Bellair. These two and other artists grew their new sounds like giving taps to bus drivers who would bump their music, especially the way rappers in Atlanta give their singles the strip club DJ's, except in this case, you hope people jam out to your music while running late for work in La Who to New York City, where he began spreading early reggaeton

in the club. It almostn't happen, though, because while he was in New York, El Henad I also pursued a degree in business administration in an effort to get a real job. You have to wonder what if that path had worked out. He beat an office going er instant. Y'all, Atlanta, I was speaking, how might I direct your call? Thankfully he was stuck back into music, hosting parties and performing in He put out the song through Boom Boom, a tribute to the power of the Past, and El Hanado's

cover Blew Up. It was a hit in Mainland America in Puerto Rico and spread to Central and South America. The music was spreading so fast it would have made Covid Joe. Not too far from Brooklyn on Long Island, the defining beat a reggaeton the Damn Bot rhythm, popularized by Panamanian rapper Nandel Boom. The sound was originally created by Jamaica dance hall musician Chap Range, who looks like

a blade, became a DJ instead of fighting vampires. From there, the sound moved to different Long Island where and here's where all the Panamanian and New York ingredients finally mixed together to make something special like Sofrito for your ears. It took over at the club called The Noise, founded by the Quincy Jones and reggaeton DJ Negro. He had been selling hot dogs on the street to get by

and then had an idea to start a club. It was there that the genre became known as l underground and created a whole new generation of artists like Evy Queen. They also popularized reggaetones on famous dance that Ale. I know this dance, this is just me and two thous five. This is the dance you do when you don't want to pay for drinks. At one point, Puerto Rico's government crackdown on ill underground and tried to regulate the lyrics em Betty Oo dance moves, but all that did was

make l underground more popular. This was like when your parents tell you how to date somebody, but then that person gets asked. I'm sorry, mama, you make some good points, but I can watch clothes off his stomach. Later, the genre exploded all over a stream with the release of the hit Big Godslina by Daddy Yankee in two thousand four, and Daddy Yankee was everywhere MTV, Time, Magazine, even the campaign trail. I just want to say thank you, Daddy

yank kid. That's right. You know a genre is big When the old white Republicans started calling for a little while, reggaeton was huge, but then record companies moved on and it disappeared in much of America, which basically means most American side. It didn't exist anymore. It was like a baby who falls Topeka Boo but was Latin ye. But even as America forgot about it, reggaton went through a reverse in Meda and Colombia, the city who recognized from Narcos.

Colombian artists like Jay Balvin, Reykhan and Carol g gave reggaeton a new, more mainstream sound with lyrics that focus less on violence and more on sex and romance, like if neo became neo. It grew and grew in popularity until America caught on again with Seed That's right? Who is fun Seeing Daddy? Yankee took over the globe with Death. It was number one for sixteen weeks. This song was so popular even the racist we're learning to Spanish, come mo,

say d s, go back to your own country. And since Death by reggae tone has kept its hold in America, which is great because this is a genre that is still evolving and becoming more inclusive. You know, it grew out of a rich Hispanic heritage of oh seriously that neighbor again? Hey, sorry about before, but can you actually turn it up? Everyone downstairs started dancing and I just want to keep the party going. Okay, I don't know

how you got in here, but sure you tigning up? Please, thank you, no, thank you, You can get out now. Everybody all right, straight true because when we come back, chose to Mauting will be joining me right on the truck. You don't talk about to day. My guest as an American chins fancy activist and former U. S. Army intelligence analyst who disclosed unauthorized government documents during her service. She was convicted of twenty charges and sentenced to thirty five

years in prison, which President Obama commuted in seventeen. She's here to tell her side of the story and talk about her new memoir Read Me Dot Text, which comes up tomorrow. Please welcome Chelsea Manning, charl Manning, Welcome to

The Daily Show. They is going well, and you know, your book is one of those books that's, strangely enough, I felt like I had read because of how much you had been in the news, because of how how big your story has been in not just American media, but in you know, the telling of America's military operation. Let's let's start with I guess the inception of the idea to write a book after pulling off one of

the largest intelligence leaks in American history. You were vilified, you served time, you were labeled as a traitor, and it felt like the story taped off over time. And now you've come back and you've reignited many of the conversations with this book. My question to you is why why? UM? I think that it's the fact that my own version of the story, my first draft of history, if you will, UM,

hasn't been you know, talked about as much. I feel like there's been all the discussion of things that have happened around me and involving the milits terry, involving other personalities, like like President Obama, who commuted my sentence. But I feel like my like my story, my coming of age story, really UM, you know, for just trying to tell the story of how I became who I am today, UM has been kind of left out of the picture, and

so I wanted to tell that story. And in many ways, you became a lightning rod and an idea because what you did shook the world. You know, you came out as a whistle blow up and you just I mean to name a few of the leaks and you'll add

to them. I mean, it leaks about murders that the American military had committed and not told anybody about you know, you had told the world about collateral damage and how you know this wasn't what we thought it was and there were way more deaths than than had been previously reported. As I put it, the true face, the true reality of asymmetric century warfare, which is basically like how an occupation, how holding territory with a large occupying playing army during

an insurgency actually plays out. It's it's not surgical, It's very very messy. What did you hope to achieve by by leaking the information? I wanted another person like me to feel as as informed as I did finally about the true reality. I mean, that's why I call it remade dot text, because that is the document. I mean, that's what I said. And did you hope it would change what the U. S. Militry was doing in the Middle East? Or did you did you think it would

shift public perception? The public discourse? I feel like is what I really wanted to impact. I feel like, at least if the public is informed, then at least, you know, like like being a do like being a doct like having a conversation with your doctor you have informed consent. I I just always assumed that you went straight too WEEKI leaks, I didn't know how hard you tried to get American media outlets to look at the information And why do you think they said no? And why do

you think nobody got back to you? It was very difficult. So it's the technical different cultis um. You know, we didn't have the tools, like signal encryption wasn't widely adopted by traditional media outlets, um, and you know, trying to and I didn't trust the telephone system, right, it didn't trust email. And I had my reasons for that. UM. So I you know, trying to avoid that, but also trying to do a physical thing while I only have a limited amount of time and there was a blizzard.

It was just very logistically difficult. And if any one thing as a you know, somebody asked me earlier today, like if any one thing had changed, like yeah, this would have never happened. Interesting, So you were trying to maintain I mean there was a point in the book where I talked about how um, I you know, or I was sitting at Starbucks and uploading the stuff and it wasn't working, and because of Starbucks Internet. It almost

didn't happen. I will say that there are parts of the book that are almost comical unintentionally because you talk about copying what is seven fifty government files onto CDs and then you just labeled them. You just wrote band names, right,

Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga. So I wanted to know when I was reading this, like did you write those artists because you assumed that military personnel would be like, oh, that's that's there's no harm pretty much, okay, So you think there were some answers where would have been like, I want to listen to what's on that CD? Is that way okay? Because it's really interesting. You have these CDs, you go to the Starbucks, you start uploading all of this.

Was there ever a part of you that was afraid that you would compromise the US more than you would help it. I don't think so. And I say that because I knew this information. I worked with it every day. I mean, and you know, and I think about, like, you know, senior public officials, whenever they have access to this information, they don't understand it. I mean, it's our job to tell them, but you know, it's it's a question as to whether they love not the list or not.

So you're basically explaining it to them, and then they're working off what you've told them. Maybe Wow, it depends on how they interpret it. I couldn't help reading through the book and wondering how much of your life has informed the latter part of your journey. You know, you weren't just famous for being one of the biggest whistle

blows in American history. You also then became famous as somebody who transitioned at a time when the conversation was was really really you even speak about it in the book. Was there not a part of you that thought, I'm I'm dealing with my gender. I'm I'm dealing with a world that doesn't accept me the way I am. Why get involved in leaking military secrets? Maybe deal with one thing at a time. I didn't think of it like that. I thought, uh, you know this, this despite my background,

despite everything else. It was just it was just so clear to me, Like it was just it was crystal clear that something had to be done. And um, and I just I you know, I, I mean, I was very young and I didn't And I think it's also important to remember that the consequences for this weren't clear, right, I thought I was gonna lose my job, which was a big deal. You can think you'd be sentenced to three decades, right, Uh, nobody had ever gone to prison

before me. Do you think the American military is more honest now in its operations? Do you think you've shifted the paradigm even slightly? I think that obviously, you know,

the context has changed. I mean, I look at the war in Ukraine, and I've always found it fascinating that as the Russians invaded Ukraine, I knew more about what's happened, what was happening in the uh, you know, from my laptop at home, than I would have known about what was going on in Iraq while I was actually deployed there. And that's interesting. Intelligence center like this is just the sheer fire hose of information that we received from every

single different angle. And I actually think that it's shifted from not having access to information to having access to so much information that you can't filter out accurate from inaccurate, misinformation from disinformation and uh, and that this is going to be the main struggle that we have moving forward. And now I was I was really just like joy poured out of me for you when I found out that you now DJing as well. Yes, it's like a quin journey to be on. Yeah, I'm DJ my own

I'm DJ and my own relief party. What do you play? What do I play? Elect trying dance music? Hyper? Oh? I love that? Okay, So it's not tay this with God God like none? Do you? That's my old Okay, you don't? Do you listen Blakey Tora? Okay, I like that. Well, congratulations on your journey. Thank you so much for journey on the show. And it's a really thanking book. Thank you for being there. Read me God Text comes out tomorrow, Chelsea Matting everybody, we want to take a quick break

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