Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 5/21/2026

28:03Stock trades. Corruption. We have corruption. You want to talk about corruption? Yeah. Let's talk about the previous administration now that's corruption and all these people complaining specifically the far-left nutjob Democrats about the billion dollars for the ballroom or the billion point seven for these individuals that may have been wronged by the previous administration let me tell you something the previous administration weaponized those agencies so you want to talk about J6ers you want to talk I mean we violated the president they violated their rights. But the previous administration is like unhirable.

28:39Everybody knows that they went out in disgrace. Well, Sleepy Joe was asleep at the wheel, obviously.

28:48So let's hear what he said there. He said, Donald Trump's out there trying to cut deals. What do we give participation trophies? What was the deal that he cut? He's out there trying. Would you want me to give him a participation trophy? You want me to give the guy an E for effort? He gets an F for effort, actually, because he's sucking up to authoritarians. He's trying to end wars. He started the wars. And in fact, he is trying to start another war with Cuba right now. There's an aircraft carrier outside of Cuba. He's starving the people of Cuba to death. And he thinks that starving the people is a strategy that's going to get the people to rise up against the current regime in Cuba.

29:35like as if that worked in Iran. So you're going after the people to go after the regime. And now you're creating a pretext that, oh, in Cuba, they've got 300 drones. And so now, you know, as Donald Trump fails in Iran, they ain't giving up the Strait of Hormuz. And let's be very clear. They ain't giving up the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Republic is still in power. That was a major loss, a major loss in Iran. And Iran and Oman have talked about the area that's under their joint control for these tolls. They've just increased the solidifying and formalizing of their toll system. And then they go, and all you're focused on is stock trades.

30:22That's not all we're focused on. It's a big deal. All you're focused on is the stock. We should be focused on fact that from the Oval Office, there's 3 ,700 stock trades going on in one quarter alone. That's not all. We're focused on all of these other things. But the thing is, what the American people are focused on is, hey, I can't afford gas or groceries or my rent. I'm delinquent on my credit card. My house is in foreclosure, if you were lucky enough to own a house. But I'm late on my rent. If you have student loans, maybe you're late there and that's harming your credit, which makes it very difficult to participate in the economy.

31:05We're suffering. You've taken away our healthcare. You've taken away critical resources from us to be able to afford things. And you're out there stock trading, NVIDIA and Palantir and Dell,

31:19Ben Meiselas:while you're posting the stock ticker of these companies, and then they're moving up and you're all getting richer and I'm getting screwed. It's all connected. All of these things that you're mentioning, this catastrophic war is one of the reasons that inflation is surging, 3.8 % CPI, 6 % PPI. And inflation is expected, as I predicted at the beginning when everyone's like, oh, you're being hyperbolic, might is hyperbolic. I said, it's going to be 5%. It's going to be 5 % year over year. That's what it looks like it's heading towards. And it didn't take me to give you a Notre Dame's prediction.

31:59Ben Meiselas:It just seemed like that's where it was going. I mean, you just look up, you look at the tariffs against the world. It was only a certain amount of time before the dam broke on that because companies were trying to, as much as they can not to pass it on, but then they had to pass it on to consumers. We knew that was going going to happen. And now the floodgates open there combined with the fact that, you know, the Strait of Hormuz is closed and it's not just the LNG and it's not just the crude, which impacts the global markets as it's things like the fertilizers as well, which, which requires, you know, all, all this material from the Middle East.

32:37And now Donald Trump is telling Zelensky to convince Europe to buy potash? I mean, seriously, that's where you're going with that? Anyway, so you have that. So then we caught up with Tommy Tuberville in the rotunda. Here's what Tuberville told our reporters. You can watch what Tuberville said. Let's play it. So coach, what do you make? I got to ask Donald Trump, 3 ,700 stock trades in the first quarter of this year. What do you make of that? Donald Trump, 3 ,700 stock trades. Yeah. In the first quarter of this year. It's like nine, every nine minutes and 45 seconds of trade. I know it's not him personally doing that.

33:10Exactly. And I do the same thing. I never look at my stocks. He does the same thing. You give it to somebody knows what you're doing. That's what that's how this country runs. People have jobs. Give them give them your money. If you don't invest in the country and corporations, that's what we all do. I get sick and tired here and Republicans and Democrats say we need to stop all this trading. If you're sure you're inside trading, You need to stop. But I guarantee you, President Trump's not inside trading. I'm not inside trading. And it's ridiculous. Even people bring that up. Most people that bring it up don't have a clue what you're talking about.

33:42Ben Meiselas:Got it. Coach, who's going to win the World Cup? World Cup. You got me on that. I'm an American football fan. Got it. Thanks, Coach. Dude's such a phony also. And speaking of dudes who are such a phony, you had Todd Blanche. I'll just share this one with you right here, was asked by CNN, wouldn't the average taxpayer respond, why do my tax dollars need to go to people who are upset about their involvement in J6? Don't you think the average taxpayer would be upset about that? Here's what he said. But wouldn't the average taxpayer respond and say, okay, but why is that now my problem? Why my tax dollars now need to go to people who are upset about their involvement in investigations?

34:32Well, if you're just upset, you're not getting it done. On the other hand, I think if you said to the American taxpayer that there is a horrible wrong committed by your government, and now you can apply and you can have your lawyers fees back, you can be compensated for what you lost financially, what American would say, oh my gosh, that's terrible? I mean, I very much disagree with the idea that the American taxpayer is indignant about the fact that a victim of weaponization, a victim who suffered, whether it was legal fees, lost a job, had their life turned upside down in a way that was not appropriate.

35:06If it was appropriate, there should be no compensation. And that's why we have five commissioners who will take a look at it. But I do not think the American people have issues with that. To the contrary, I think they do want their tax dollars spent on things like that. You think that right now, while the American people are suffering, you want our tax dollars to go to J6 insurrectionists? And here's the deal.

35:30Ben Meiselas:These people were convicted of felonies, of crimes in criminal courts. Thus, they are not victims. Every single one of them, if they filed a lawsuit in federal court, would have the lawsuit instantly dismissed. It would be Rule 11 sanctions against any lawyer who filed because they've been convicted of crimes or they pled guilty. Do you think I'd be able to represent someone on a civil rights case who was found guilty of a crime? No, I would lose my bar license for someone who was previously a civil rights lawyer. You would be laughed out of court and you would be sanctioned and you would lose your bar license.

36:16Ben Meiselas:So if someone is an actual victim of something, you know what they do? They file a lawsuit. And you can file a lawsuit against the federal government. By the way, the way Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the federal government. And then you put your claims before a judge. And then the judge decides if there is a case to go to a jury. And if the case is legally viable and goes to a jury, then a jury decides the outcome. That's the way our system works. And ultimately, if somebody is wrong, like I would represent people in excessive force cases or families that lost loved ones in excessive force cases.

36:56Ben Meiselas:If the person was a victim, I had to prove that they were a victim, not to Donald Trump's commissioners. That's how you do things in Putin's Russia. That's how you do things in Kim Jong-un's North Korea. In our country, there is a system where people who are actual victims bring claims and cases in courts. And so it's so deeply damaging when you have the acting AG say things like that. And this has even pissed off Republicans. And as I mentioned, you have now the Senate and likely the House shutting down, shutting down until June, not doing any more work because the Senate says we're going home.

37:37Ben Meiselas:The House goes, if the Senate's going home, we're going home. They're all flipping out at the Trump regime that Donald Trump is doing all this ballroom reflecting pool stuff. And, you know, I don't know if the dam is breaking there, but I can tell you that the Senate Republicans are pissed and they seem most pissed, frankly, that Donald Trump targeted John Cornyn in Texas and an exalted Paxton, you know, and that now they're responding to Trump potentially now costing Republicans the Senate in the midterms. that are right around the corner, folks. Let's cover all of that when we come back from a break.

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43:18That's M-E-I-D-A-S. Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Micellis, and this is your breaking news. During the break, we learned that all charges have just been dismissed against the so-called Broadview 6, that's the detention facility in Chicago, the concentration camp, as the defense lawyers uncover. That's the Kat Aboguzela case. Remember Kat running for Congress over there? She came very close but didn't win. And she and five others were arrested right outside. Broadview is one of those Trump regime smash and grab arrests. And then they get indicted and it gets all of the headlines.

44:02I remember we were saying, it seems like there's a lot of misconduct and impropriety there. Well, that case was just dismissed. And the United States attorney there in Illinois had to admit that after they were called out by Katz lawyers and the other lawyers, the criminal defendants, that there was massive, massive grand jury misconduct that took place. And there was something taking place called vouching, where you as a prosecutor are not allowed to do this. You can say, hey, I've looked at this. I promise you, I have a lot of experience. This is a bad case. And you should side with me because I've seen a lot of cases like this.

44:46And just trust me on this one. We've got a lot of evidence that we can show you right now. We just need you to do this for us because that's vouching. You can't vouch yourself. You have to let the evidence speak for itself. That's automatic. No, no. I mean, complete prosecutorial misconduct. And here's the thing. If you're like, well, why didn't that get called out earlier? It's what I've always been saying about these grand jury proceedings. They were always based on good faith by prosecutors because in grand juries, historically, this isn't a new thing. There's no federal judge in the room with the grand jurors, and there's no defense lawyers in the room with grand jurors.

45:29The grand jurors, if you've ever been on a grand jury, different than a jury, but you get a jury notice, but you show up and you are in a grand jury, then you hear a... I lost the service there. You hear these cases, and then you're asked to sign a true bill. You're asked to sign an indictment that is presented to you, and the only people who present it to you are the prosecutors. They give it to you and then the foreperson signs it and then a true bill is delivered and handed down and then an indictment is issued from the grand jury.

46:08Ben Meiselas:But the only people in the room with the grand jurors are the prosecutors and they're supposed to follow a prosecutorial manual and they don't. I mean, remember the first James Comey case where you had Lindsay Halligan? that case ultimately got dismissed because she was an unlawful United States attorney and she was the only one in the room with the grand jury and she was not properly appointed. So the whole case got dismissed on that basis since she wasn't even allowed to be in the room with them representing she was something that she was not. But in that room, what we learned happened was all of this misconduct.

46:42Ben Meiselas:She handed the foreperson a different indictment than was originally presented to the grand jury. She went back and gave the foreperson something to sign that wasn't the actual document that the full grand jury was signed, which is just completely crazy. And then they called in an FBI agent and the FBI agent was talking about like attorney-client privileged information. And the FBI agent was doing all of these things that again, you were not allowed to actually talk about in front of a grand jury. And so there has been a lot of these indictments that we know are tainted by impropriety. I mean, we've been raising this issue as it relates to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which the Trump regime was like, well, a grand jury indicted him.

47:25Ben Meiselas:It wasn't like we did it. But what are you telling the grand jury? These are under Rule 6E of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Almost in all cases, the grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret, secret grand jury. And it relies, And you could pierce the secrecy if you can show, and it's a high standard, it's a very high showing of piercing the secrecy of grand jury before indictment happens, if you can show that there were improprieties that were brought. But the issue with the Southern Poverty Law Center, same thing. There hasn't been a ruling on the grand jury misconduct yet. But the issue was the Southern Poverty Law Center is like, we've been working with this prosecutorial office.

48:09Ben Meiselas:with our informant program. We've given you the leads to go after the bad guys. So did you tell the grand jury that we work with you? Like we're partners with you. We're partners with the FBI. So it's not like we hide this. So you're charging us for wire fraud, for concealing this when we work with you. And it's clearly known that this is what we do because this is how we get the bad guys with you and we infiltrate these organizations. Oh yes, you may infiltrate them, but we now have a weaponization fund for the bad guys, says Todd Blanche. And so anyway, that to me was big news that I wanted to share with you about those cases being dismissed.

48:53Ben Meiselas:And it's like, have you all heard a peep about what's going on in the Don Lemon case? Right. I mean, just think about all of these DOJ cases now follow the Trump vexatious litigation track. Right. The headline, Don Lemon arrested. He was arrested. He was arrested during Grammy week and he and all these journalists were arrested. OK. And then the Trump regime's like, can we delay the trial? Can we delay discovery? Can we delay this? Can we delay that? Trump got his headline. Now he wants to try to bleed these people with lawyers' fees and attorneys' fees, but then drag this out, hang criminal cases over people's heads to try to destroy their lives, basically, is what they're doing.

49:43Ben Meiselas:And it's like, if you have a good case, bring it to the jury. Show your evidence. And the question there is also, what are they telling these grand jurors to procure these indictments. I did a video with Harry Litman that I think will drop tonight. 10, and Politico deserves the credit because they track this. Kyle Chenney over there does a very good job. 10 ,000 cases involving immigrants thrown out by federal judges, over 430 different federal judges from all different political parties, throwing out these unlawful detentions with no evidence because there's no evidence to support unlawful detentions.

50:27People rotting in prisons for what?

50:32Ben Meiselas:For six months, a year or longer. So it was when Cheney, Kyle Cheney did this analysis, 90 % of these immigration cases, 90%, 9-0, get dismissed or the person gets released and the detention is deemed unlawful. So they have a 10 % success rate and a 90 % loss rate at the DOJ, at the DOJ, which used to have a 97 % win rate. They're a bunch of losers. And I go back to what I talked about in the last episode also. And why I show the clip of Fitzpatrick or why I show the clip of Kylie, although I believe, let me be clear, I'm not letting them off the hook. They've been very complicit in MAGA. They've exalted these horrible, they've been complacent and now they're staring down elections and losing their jobs.

51:33Ben Meiselas:So obviously that's a motivating factor for them. But for me, I never approached any of this as like a political guy. I never did that. And or never liked, you know, I never liked that aspect of it at all. When I was a litigator, I represented Republicans and I represented Democrats and I represented independents. I never asked what your political affiliation is. I represented people who were wronged by usually large institutions or police departments. That's what I did. And I represented a lot of people in Bakersfield and Kern County and Fresno and Fresno County, which if you know that area, it's a lot of Republicans.

52:15Ben Meiselas:I didn't ask people what their political affiliation was ever. And so to me, it's just about like behaving like a grownup and an adult and ethically and morally and sticking with the truth and the facts. And it's bad that Trump is trading 3 ,700 times. It'd be bad if he's trading once, yet alone to trade companies that you talk about all the time in the Oval Office. That's horrible conduct. You know, I want there to be honesty. I want there to be transparency. That's all. It's very, very basic asks. Very basic asks. Going back to Todd Blanche, though, now, who's the acting attorney general. Let's go to this one right here.

52:56Ben Meiselas:He's asked by CNN, would you be OK with people who were convicted of hurting police getting taxpayer money? Let's listen to what his response is. Let's play this clip. What count? You're the nation's top law enforcement official right now. Would you be OK with people who were convicted of hurting police getting taxpayer money? Just to be clear, people that hurt police get money all the time. There's a process where if you believe you have your rights violated, you can apply for funds. You can sue. You can file a claim. You can go to court. In some of those cases, the state, the government, the federal government settles those cases.

53:34It's abhorrent to ever, ever touch a law enforcement officer, which is why anytime anybody does that and it's a federal officer, we'll prosecute them. But that's a completely different question with whether an individual is allowed to apply for a claim, whether they'll get a claim. I mean, this guy is an idiot and deeply nefarious. Again, I was a civil rights litigator. There's no such thing as a person who attacks police officers and is convicted who gets paid money.

54:10Ben Meiselas:That doesn't exist. That's not a thing. That would be the craziest thing that it exists. You attack police officers and then you get paid for attacking the police officers. And again, it's also deeply disturbing to me that you have police union heads who will support this stuff. it is outrageous. I support our law enforcement, and I know that there's a lot of law enforcement support for what we're doing here at the Midas Touch Network. I see it when I'm out and about, and I know that that exists. It's deeply disturbing, though, that sometimes at the leadership level, and sheriffs and officers will know what I'm talking about, though.

54:51Ben Meiselas:So what are we talking about there? They're saying that people who attack cops get money for attacking the cops? That guy's supposed to be the acting attorney general? That's not a thing. That never exists. In contrast, let me show you Governor Newsom. He's in Washington, D.C. I did a whole report on Newsom going to D.C. here's what newsom told our reporters pablo monriquez about donald trump slush fund let's play the clip of newsom we're doing what you're doing governor quick question for might is touch yeah uh what do you make of this 1.776 billion dollar fund it's a criminal enterprise it's not just corruption it's not just graft it's a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down it needs to be stopped it's just great and i count on my congressman

55:46And then you had Newsom speaking at an event in DC. Here's what he said.

55:57Jeremy, we have the event. No, I don't have that one. Okay.

56:03Let me then pull up Donald Trump so we could have the contrast between Newsom and Trump. here's Donald Trump being asked about affordability here's what Donald Trump says about affordability we got that one Jeremy

56:19let's play it then

56:25you want to play it or no we don't want to play it okay from day one they said affordability affordability is a word because they're good at that They're good at words, but I'm good at words too. But they hit me with affordability. I'd just gotten there. They hit me with eggs. We had a news conference on my third day and they said, egg prices are through the roof. I said, I just got here. Tell me about eggs. And we got the prices down, way down, actually lower than it was four years before. Okay. There's a lot of other things that I'm seeing in that photo that are in that video that I'm not going to comment on there.

57:05But are you attending your son's wedding? Pretty basic question, right? One of those things that usually a parent would say, yes, I'm attending my son's wedding. Right? Ultra controversial on this one. Are you attending your son's wedding, Donald? Let's play it.

57:28Ben Meiselas:Are you attending your son's wedding this weekend, by the way? He'd like me to go. but it's going to be just a small little private affair and i'm going to try and make it i'm i'm in the midst i said you know this is not good timing for me i have a thing called iran and other things uh that's one i can't win on if i do attend i get killed if i don't attend i get killed by the fake news of course i'm talking about now but he's uh got a very uh person who i've known for a long time and hopefully they're gonna have a great marriage mr president actually to add to the art i just actually passed by it we just just at a basic level it's like the guy doesn't have a dog at the white house or a cat nope there's like so many so many red flags about this guy and you're not going to attend your son's wedding because you say it's a small affair okay well usually if it's like a small affair usually parent is one of the people in the inner circle who who attends the wedding of your of your son um and you said you can't attend because you're dealing with a little something called iran okay but then he says the following about the Strait of Hormuz.

58:53Let's play this clip. They've had a relationship with them before, and we'll see. We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz, as you know, with our blockade. The blockade's been 100 % effective. Nobody's been able to get through. It's like a steel wall. Okay, so we have 100 % control over the Strait of Hormuz, but now you have to deal with, what do you have to deal with if we control it? Shouldn't all the ships be leaving? Shouldn't everything be great. So I'm just, I'm confused what it is that you have to deal with and didn't.

59:26Ben Meiselas:When was it? April 29th when he went on Fox and he said back then that Iran had three days left to live because the pipes were so congested that everything was going to blow up and that Iran wouldn't be able to deal with the pressure. There was just so much pressure in the pipes. isn't that what isn't that what you play that play that clip if we've got it when you have you know lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system if for any reason that line is closed because you you can't continue to put it into containers or ship which has happened to them they have no ship because of the blockade what happens is that line explodes from within both mechanically and in the earth, if something happens where it just explodes.

1:00:17They say they only have about three days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was. In other words, it will always be, if you rebuild it, it's hard to rebuild it all, but it would only be about 50 % of what it is right now. So it's a very powerful thing that takes place. It's sort of having to do with nature, But when that gets clogged at the end, in other words, when you have to turn it off because you have no place to store this oil, either put it on ships or storage tanks, which they are just about finished with, a very bad thing is going to happen.

1:00:55Ben Meiselas:A very bad thing is going to happen. I promise you. It's going to be very, very bad. They've got three days left. Let me explain to you the way it works. And remember, the Midas Dutch Network was saying, okay, it's not going to happen. That's not the way science works. That's not the way pressurization and oil pipelines work. Like, that's just not, it's not a real thing. It's not going to happen. And I mean, here you are now, almost a month later, and that didn't happen. And isn't it just like COVID? Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. By Easter, we're going to bend the curve. By summer, it's going to be so hot, and it's going to go away.

1:01:32Ukraine, I'm going to get it done in one day. I'll get a peace deal done in the first week. I need two more weeks.

1:01:37Ben Meiselas:We got a meeting with Putin. Things are going very well. Actually, we made a big breakthrough. Here's what's going to happen over here. I'm going to huff and I'm going to puff and I'm going to blow your house down. Nobody's buying any of this anymore. Nobody's buying any of this anymore. And by the way, that should be absolutely disqualifying. The president of the United States making a statement like that in normal times, that'd be it. You're done. You're impeached. His approval should be 0 % after that. He addressed the people. I mean, trust me, he's done that three weeks before that, three weeks before that, three weeks before that.

1:02:12Ben Meiselas:But you make a declarative statement like that, and it doesn't happen. You're done. You have zero credibility. And here we are. We're moving very close to it. We're moving very close. And people just treat this guy like he's a baby. Again, E for effort. He's trying hard. He's trying. You're the president of the United States. You should be SEAL Team 6 of SEAL Team 6 of SEAL Team 6. You should be the most elite of elite of elite person. Every word you say should be methodical and careful and accurate. You should be multidimensional chess and not this crap. And again, this isn't Democrat, Republicans.

1:02:49Ben Meiselas:This is This is just, can we just be normal? That didn't happen. What else do you need to, you know, I'll try to find this clip. I won't show it here, but I showed it on other videos of Congress Member Smith. And he's cross-examining some of Donald Trump's top military people. And Congress Member Smith is like, so what's the strategy here about lying about the deals all the time? Like, you think this is three-dimensional chess because it just makes us look pretty stupid that you lie and you lie and you lie again and it's not happening. Who's the audience? Who's the audience for all of this? Right?

1:03:33Ben Meiselas:And, you know, with all of this mounting, it's just fascinating to me that now the Senate shut down, the House will be shut down soon, and they're all going home. I think that's probably what they'll try to do for the end of this term. I think they're just going to try to not show up anymore because showing up means having to deal with all of this. It's like what NATO's doing. NATO's not doing meetings at the prime minister and president level. Why even deal with this? Just try to get through these next two years and just ignore it. Just pretend that it's not happening and just wait it out, I guess.

1:04:09Ben Meiselas:The problem is, while that's happening, our adversaries are strengthening. The BRICS block is strengthening as a credible alternative to NATO. The dollar is becoming used far less. You just look at Turkey, just a country like Turkey. Quietly, they've reduced their bond holdings by 95 % as they've dropped their US Treasury holdings. China's slowly dropping their treasury holdings. Our bond market's a complete mess right now. And all we have is the Trump regime, you know, their hope, wake up, manipulate the market, wake up, manipulate the market, wake up, manipulate them in our market, and then talk about the ballroom.

1:04:52Ben Meiselas:So I'll leave you this. This is what Donald Trump's now saying about the ballroom, which by the way, Republicans are not funding right now to the tune of a billion dollars. They pulled that out with Democrats. And look, Democrats deserve the credit for showing leadership and standing up to this, not Republicans for finally doing the right thing. I'll be clear about that. But here's what Trump says about his ballroom. I'll leave you at this. Let's play. The ballroom is being a tremendous amount of what's being done with respect to the ballroom is for national security, including, as an example, a drone port on top of which was top secret until litigation made it less than top secret.

1:05:29But we have a drone port. We have also, we have the glass that's four inches thick, bulletproof glass. We have bulletproof walls. We have things. You need a place like this. But this is being made as a gift from me and other people that are great patriots that spend a lot of money. We're building what will be the finest ballroom anywhere in the world. If they want to spend money on securing the White House, I think it would be very, very much a good expenditure. But the ballroom is being built. I'm also just being, I'm a little distracted by the guy in the background. I just got a guy in the background seat.

1:06:05I'm just attracting a little bit on the right.

1:06:08Ben Meiselas:It's a drone empire ballroom and the litigation exposed my plan in secret hospitals. And it's a shield for ballistic missiles. And yeah, yeah, yeah. So there you have it. There you have it, folks. Make sure you watch The Brother Show tonight, 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. Great late birthday gift. If you can gift memberships to people who can't afford memberships by joining, if you can afford them, that would be great. Also, will you do me a favor too? As soon as this episode ends, I did a whole video on Greenland and the protests there. There's 12 ,000 people watching live.

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