the now, this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud.st yes just yesterday, wete learned tht nearly four hundred department of homeland security employees took pandemiarly 400c unemploymt even though they were working. but my friends, this is justinyc a teeny tiny fraction of the massive in brazen coviden theft that has occurred since d the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who s in chargeh of overseeing the distribution of the relieributionf has calleh the biggest fraud inbigges a generation. t frau it was the theft of asc as 80 billion dollars, or about 10% of the eight hundred billion dollars that was handed out in that paycheck protection program. now,in tha remember, that s on l the 90 billion to four hundredio billion believed to have been stolen from the nine hundred billion covid unemploy payment relief program. that s a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the tidal wave of inflatiotle n tha
sustained attack on shipping vessels by iran-backed houthi rebels in yemen. more worrisome right now is whether the u.s. destroyer itself was a target. the defense department says it does not believe so, but it is not ruling it out. former cia director john brennan is here to walk us through what the u.s. can do and what iran is trying to do. the region could be just a few missteps away from a catastrophe. since october 7th, the u.s. has brought down missiles and drones believed to be headed toward israel and american troops have been seriously injured in syria and iraq from repeated rocket and drone attacks. 76 attacks on american forces and installations in just seven weeks. a major uptick in hostilities. and now that the cease fire has ended and the idf moves into southern gaza, the question is do those provocations get even worse? here s courtney kube with the reporting from the pentagon. reporter: houthi rebels made good on their threat to attack commercial ships launc
now, the goal is simple, a leveling of the old americar o in order to create somethingtheo new , a new order that gives them all the money and all the power. since most people won tar voluntarily, of course, chooseil a lower standardy of living, th and less freedom. the lefe t knows that thilesg radical change must be forced on the people and this is being done through fake emergencieshos and phony self generated crises. el so they cite climate changn to justify the rapid phase out of gas powered cars and of course, the banning of gas appliances and the cancelation of permit leases for oil drilling, drilling. they cite systemic racism toto justify their new twisted school curricula and their i dictated corporate hiring practices. and they point to amorphous domestic threats to justifytify partnering with social media giants to moderate online onlin content, which, of course, juset opans banning opposing political views. today posing pols democrats wil