And we expect to have you know, its a recordsetting crowd. Weve never had an empty seat and we certainly wont in oklahoma. That was a lie. There are usually empty seats at his events and there were lots of them in tulsa. Trump set out to produce a television show. He fell short. Partly because folks are rightly concerned to be in a room with thousands of others during the coronavirus pandemic. And it seems that one of the other reasons why there were so many empty seats is a noshow protest. A noshow protest. This all started with a video on tiktok created by Mary Jo Laupp who is effectively a tiktok grandma. She made a video more than a week ago urging viewers to go to trumps site, sign up to attend the rally but not show up at the rally. Her video was showed thousands of times, and younger tiktok videos showing different videos, kpop fans were trying to sabotage trumps rally. Look, it seemed to work to some degree. We dont know exactly how well but Trumps Campaign manager was out ther
about the situation in the region with jasmine el gamal, a political analyst and former middle east adviser at the us department of defence. so the iranian response was basically to play down the attack. there was a clear signal from iran after the attack that they did not want to escalate further. you will remember that before the israeli strike, the iranians were warning that if there was an israeli strike that was significant enough that the iranians would not hesitate to counterattack once again. and so the fact that they are downplaying this strike, there was a lot of messaging, there was a lot of messaging on social media from iran linked accounts that were almost kind of making fun of the types of weapons that had made their way onto these sites. so that is a clear signal, as we can understand from the iranians, that they are going to let this go, they are not interested in escalating any further. they have made the point that they wanted to make by striking israel and, for now,
and intense fire at the kalso military base, south of the capital baghdad. this footage from the scene shows the aftermath of the explosion, which iraqi security sources have described as a bombing which hit weapons and vehicles. the base is used by the popular mobilisation forces an umbrella organisation linking several pro iran militias who ve recently attacked us personnel in iraq. the pentagon says it has not carried out any new strike in iraq. let s speak to jasmine el gamal, a political analyst and former middle east adviser at the us department of defence. good to have you on the programme. lots to discuss. let s start with iran s response and reaction to that attack, which we think was by israel. what do you make of their response, really trying to downplay it? 50 response, really trying to downplay
near the city of isfahan, which protects the natanz nuclear facility. it follows weeks of tensions between the rivals, during which israel attacked an iranian compound in syria, and iran launched an unprecedented assault against israel. i have been speaking about the situation in the region with jasmine el gamal, a political analyst and former middle east adviser at the us department of defence. so the iranian response was basically to play down the attack. there was a clear signal from iran after the attack that they did not want to escalate further. you will remember that before the israeli strike, the iranians were warning that if there was an israeli strike that was significant enough that the iranians would not hesitate to counterattack once again. and so the fact that they are downplaying this strike, there are a lot of messaging, there was a lot of messaging on social media from iran linked accounts that were almost kind of making fun of the types of weapons that had made their
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