Thursday Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben - 7/23/26
7/23/20261 hr 29 min
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on breaking news from the day.
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First 90 secondsBen Meiselas· Host0:01
Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Meiselas, and this is your breaking news. By all accounts, this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran by Donald Trump and his horrible regime appears like it's about to escalate even more as the United States military suffers disaster after disaster in the Middle East, but pretends that it's winning. It pretends that Iran wants to make a deal. It pretends that everything is amazing. There have been about ten medevac flights to the Mid-East from US medevac planes, taking people either to Walter Reed or to a, uh, air base or a hospital base rather, uh, nearby the air base in Germany. Um, according to the United States military, the, uh, injury amount is somewhere in the range of four hundred and fifty injured, uh, eighteen killed in action. I think, uh, we all, we all believe, at least when it comes to the injuries, that that is being, uh, significantly, uh, understated. Believe that number is probably multiples of that amount. I mean, we can see some of the satellite imagery of these bases in Jordan and Kuwait and Bahrain and, uh, some of the nearby bases. At this point, the US has evacuated a lot of its military bases in the Middle East of