The Young Turks - Bigly Busted

Episode Date: July 12, 2022

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Oh! Jake, you granted to spare with you guys. Look, January 6th year, it's devastating. We're going to tell you all about it in a second. Do we have more devastating news? Yes. Should we get to it? Yes, go, Casper. I think the most important news story of the day is that it is producer Kate Bettino's birthday.

Wow, what a great day for- Right off the top. We're dropping it. Kate, we love you. I love you. You are a pleasure to work with. We are such a great team. I love everyone I work with. But I just wanted to give Kate some love right at the top of the show. Okay, we've got a problem now, because now all of a sudden, July 12th, competing with March 21st for most progressive birthdays. So March 21st is me, Adam Green from P.C., Rosie O'Donnell, and others, okay? July 12th, Kate, my son, pro. Oh, what?

And Joe Sandberg. What? What is this? It's an extravaganza. It is. It's a progressive birthday extravaganza. So the gift that we all received today was the January 6th hearings. Can it really be the end of Trump?

Of course it's too early to say. All right, but let's get started. Let's do it. Today mark the seventh day of hearings for the House Select Committee investigating Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the presidential election in 2020 and the capital riots that ensued on January 6th. Now, the timeline of today's hearing focused on December 14th of 2020 through the morning of January 6th, December 14th was when electors met. And of course, the electors had determined based on the votes that Biden had in fact won the presidential election, something that Donald Trump didn't want to accept.

Now, before I get to the video clips and you don't want to miss them, I just want to note that Liz Cheney made a statement in the very beginning of today. hearing that I thought was amusing to say the least. She talked about how the defense for Trump has kind of shifted a little bit in terms of their messaging, right? So they first went from defending Trump by claiming that he had absolutely no role in any of this to now alleging that Trump was manipulated by the people around him, okay? He was misled, he was deceived, he's a poor, poor victim.

But as Cheney says, in the beginning of today's hearing, President Trump, is a 76 year old man. He is not an impressionable child. Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices. Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility by being willfully blind. Now with that said, let's get to some of the highlights from today's hearing. Now, this is something that we had already heard about, but we have more detail about it now, thanks to this investigation and this hearing, Trump wanted to seize voting machines in states where he lost. And that is very clear in this next clip where his attorney general at the time, William Barr, shot the idea down. Let's watch. The president said something

like, well, we could get to the bottom. Some people say we could get to the bottom of this if If the department sees the machines, there was a typical way of raising a point. And I said, absolutely not. There's no probable cause and I'm not going to seize any machines. And that was that. That's crazy, not going to seize any machines, that's that. Now, William Barr has made all sorts of strong statements in his depositions and publicly in regard to Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election.

We haven't heard too much from White House counsel Pat Cipollone, though. And this was the hearing where we saw videos from his deposition. And he addressed the idea of essentially seizing these voting machines. Here's what he thought about it at the time. The executive order behind me on the screen was drafted on December the 16th, just two days after the electoral college vote by several of the president's outside advisors over a luncheon at the Trump International Hotel. As you can see here, this proposed order directs the Secretary of Defense to seize voting machines,

quote, effective immediately, but it goes even further than that. Under the order, President Trump would appoint a special counsel with the power to seize machines and then charge people with crimes with all resources necessary to carry out her duties. The specific plan was to name Sidney Powell as special counsel. After the attorney general had reached the conclusion that there wasn't sufficient election fraud to change the outcome of the election. When other people kept suggesting that there was, the answer is, what is it? And at some point you have to put up or shut up, that was my view. Why was this on a broader scale a bad idea for the country?

To have the federal government seize voting machines, it's a terrible idea for the country. That's not how we do things in the United States. There's an illegal authority to do that. And there is a way to contest elections, you know, that happens all the time. But the idea that the federal government could come in and seize election machines, now that's, I don't understand why we even have to tell you why that's a bad idea. It's a terrible idea. So there you have it, the evidence of the executive order to seize the voting machines.

And then you have White House counsel, Pat Cibloni, saying, no, this is a terrible idea. You don't even have the authority to do that. So, Jank, thoughts. So first of all, let's note that conservatives say that they are in favor of states' rights. Here they were saying the states have no rights. The federal government will seize their voting machines. And by the way, there's a very important part of that. The plan was to then say that anyone who objected would be charged civilly and criminally.

So they literally had a plan to lock up their political prisoners or anyone who objected to the coup. So the White House counsel, remember, they're all Republicans, they're all deep right-wingers. White House counsel says, you guys are nuts. We know we're not going to seize their machines. Bill Barr says, no, you need probable cause. You don't have probable cause. Why would we go and seize their machines? Are you guys nuts?

Meanwhile, Trump is saying, I don't care, I don't care. I think you guys are weak. What does he mean by week? He means you're not breaking the law for me. I don't care about democracy or the laws. I want power. He genuinely doesn't understand why they're not on his side because he thinks the objective is for him to keep power.

They think their objective is for him to keep power within a democracy. And I think what these hearings are making clear to everyone that didn't watch the Young Turks, Trump has never cared about democracy. And that becomes screaming through all of his, even as, and by the way, I'll say that there was one thing that I did not get right, okay? I thought almost all of his advisors were as nuts as he is. It turns out that's not true. They were deeply right wing, but a lot of them, including Mark Meadows. Cipollone explained Mark Meadows also didn't believe there was any evidence, okay?

And Bill Barr, the worst of the worst, all these guys were like, no, we're not going to illegally end democracy for you. And so that's a silver lining right there. But that leads you to understand the most important part. Trump is patient zero. Right. He is the one that is the craziest. He is the one that brought in the lunatics like Rudy and Sidney Powell.

And he even, as you saw there, he even wanted to make Sidney Powell special counsel so she could seize the machines instead of Bill Barr. And Cipollone, knowing what an idiot Trump is, was like, yes, sir, you have the ability to do that, sir, walked out of the room, and then didn't do it. He's like, you know why? He's like, you need paperwork to do that. There's other steps. You need documents.

And he knew that Trump was too stupid to do the paperwork or ask for the paperwork. So basically they ignored him on that and thank God they did. Yeah, and I agree with you. I felt that by the time Trump reached the end of his term, he had surrounded himself with so many yes men, lapdogs and lackeys, that they would just carry out whatever action he demanded of them. But behind the scenes, you hear from all of these people who pump the brakes. It's like an episode of Ozark, right?

Like they're doing all sorts of criminal things. But when it comes to stealing elections, that's where they draw the line. Yeah, that's a funny reference. But it's true. Like, Hirschman's a lifelong Republican, but he seems like a hero in all this. And apparently they never thought, this is interesting too, they never realized that Trump didn't care about democracy. And that to me is amazing.

How could you not know? We could tell from the outside. It was super clear. But for them, they really believed in the illusion. that they were like, no, we're normal, we're just being Republicans, and yeah, we're going to gain power in the normal, tricky ways that we do, but ending America, no, they hadn't signed up for that, but Trump definitely had. And to tell you who's right and who's wrong, I mean, if you haven't figured it out by now, you're probably a Republican, but anyway.

Sidney Powell says in her court documents, no reasonable person would have thought that what I was saying was a statement of fact. But Trump did think it was a statement of fact. He is actually crazy. I'm not using that as a hyperbole, and I'm not using it as a political attack. He's actually mentally unstable. I'm positive of it. I think, I want to challenge you on that a little bit, right?

Because I think that you weaken the argument by just saying that he's mental. Like, he definitely has mental health issues, right? I don't know exactly what, not a mental health professional. But the point that I'm trying to make is, I think throughout this process, throughout these hearings, it's abundantly clear that Trump knew he lost the election, but refused to accept that and wanted to steamroll ahead anyway. No, so Anna, it's a great conversation. So let me just say quickly.

First of all, Trump, it's really hard to tell if he, in his mind, really believes there was 2,000 mules and a crack in and the dumps and all those things, right? I believe there's a really good chance he actually believes it. But then he's such a pathological liar. I don't think he knows where the lies end and where they begin. Right. Like, for instance, does he think Hugo Chavez is the one who was manipulating? I think there's some chance he does. I'm serious. I'm totally serious. Now, the reason

why I say it the way that I do, because it doesn't really matter if he's crazy. The only thing that matters is the results, right, and his actions. But the reason I say it is because all of the rest of the media in Washington projected their sanity onto him. So they kept assuming, and by the way, so did Republicans and so did Democrats. They kept assuming, no, no, no, but he's not going to end democracy. No, no, but he's not actually crazy. No, but he's not actually going to do that. And here we are screaming, no, he is. He is. And it turns out, we were right. Now you see the internal documents and internal fights. And even his top advisors are like, holy cow, he actually does want to do a coup. So let's elaborate on that just a little

bit more. Because our friend, I'm kidding when I say friend, but Eric Hirschman, who is White House counsel or was White House counsel at the time, makes another appearance in today's hearing. And it's in the context of this January 18th coup planning meeting that took place in the White House. And Sidney Powell, I'm sorry, yes, December 18th, 2020. That's when this coup planning meeting takes place in the White House. And there's a big fight. It's so loud, there's so much shouting that people outside the room can hear it. Sidney Powell, who Trump wants to name special counsel to seize these voting machines is there.

Eric Hirschman, White House Counsel is there, and they basically get into a verbal argument. And so here is a portion of what happened during that meeting that I thought was amusing to say the least. Both challenged what she was saying. And she says, well, the judges are corrupt. And I was like, everyone, every single case that you've done in the country you guys lost, every one of them is corrupt, even the ones we appointed. And I'm being nice. That was much more harsh to her. So one of the other things that's been reported that was said during this meeting was that President Trump told White House lawyers, Mr. Hirschman and Mr. Cipollone that they weren't offering him any solutions, but Ms. Powell and others were.

So why not try what Ms. Powell and others were proposing? Do you remember anything along those lines being said by President Trump? They do. That sounds right. I think that it got to the point where the screaming was completely, completely out there. I mean, if people walk in, it was late at night. It had been a long day. And what they were proposing, I thought it was nuts. So that's why you have this big battle, this big fight within the White House as they're debating what to do to move ahead on, you know, what's taking place.

place, what Trump wants them to do. Have Sidney Powell be special counsel, seize these voting machines, essentially steal the election after millions of Americans, tens of millions of Americans voted for Biden instead of, you know, Trump in that election. Go ahead. Yeah, so that December 18th meeting is absolutely critical because on December 14th, the election was totally over because the electric college had come in. All the states said, this is our official vote. From then on, everything else was ceremonial. So, So everything had ended. So on December 18th, four days later, the lunatics come in without letting anyone in the White House know.

They get into the Trump over office. Trump's happy to see them because he's a fellow lunatic. And so, and then the actual White House counsel and other sane people walk into the room. The shouting match ensues, everyone involved describes that meeting as unhinged. Yeah, in fact, so does Cassidy Hutchinson, who sent a tweet to the head of the Secret Service at the time. Tony Ornado and all she writes is, the West Wing is unhinged. That's graphic. Yeah, there is.

Yeah, so they're saying contemporaneously. They're not saying it now, they said it as it was happening, right? And they're all nuts, unhinged. What is going on here? Everybody's lost their minds. Mark Meadows has to walk Rudy Giuliani completely off the grounds because he's worried that Rudy's gonna sneak back in. Okay, this is total madness.

Okay, so at the end of it, the official staff, make it clear to Trump, if you do any of this, it is wildly illegal, and you will be in massive trouble, okay? So at the end of it, he's super frustrated, and now we're into December 19, because it's really late at night, and he sends a tweet about January 6th, and he says, it's going to be wild. Now, later we'll show you what he means by wild, and how the right wing interpreted that to mean violence and very specifically violence, okay? But that is where he breaks. All of the previous attempts to find evidence, to do court cases, which they lost 60 in a row,

you seize the machines, all of that is gone now. So the only thing left is the Eastman strategy, that is get Mike Pence to just say Trump is president. And if Pence doesn't do it, then bring in your wild protesters on January 6th, and make them do it through violence. So that meeting is super important because that's when he turns towards the potential of violence. Yes, in fact, the night before his January 6th rally speech, the speech writers, his White House counsel urged Trump to take any mention, any aggressive, combative mention of his

vice president, Mike Pence, out of the speech entirely. They were concerned about, you know, inciting violence toward the vice president. And Biden had apparently, I'm sorry, Trump had apparently agreed. But then he got word that Pence would not carry out what Trump wanted him to carry out, which is to essentially unilaterally decide that the election was won by Trump by implementing this, you know, sham slate of electors. And so he ended up doing the speech and mentioning Mike Pence, obviously in a very negative way, eight different times, okay?

And so there was a little bit of frustration by White House counsel as a result of that. And of course, it did incite the rioters to head over to the Capitol with Trump claiming that he was going to march along with them. Now, this is important because everyone on the staff told Trump do not bring Pence into it. Because why? Because now they didn't get into this, but the point, number one, he is a ceremonial role. What you're saying is crazy and makes no sense at all. and is not legal, but number two, it endangers Pence.

So can you please not mention him? He goes off script eight times to say it's Pence, it's Pence. Right. But he also went off script four times to say, go to the Capitol, go to the Capitol, go to the Capitol, four times he mentioned it not in the script. And the reason that's relevant is because he's patient zero. He's the one trying to do the coup, he's the one driving towards violence, he's the one that wants Pence's life in danger, and as you saw previously,

In earlier hearings, when he finds out that they are looking to actually murder Pence, he's happy about it. Yeah, Mark Meadows, the chief of staff, passes on to the others that he thinks they're doing the right thing and that Pence, quote, deserves it. So let's take a break. When we come back, we'll get to the second half of today's hearing, which is even juicier, to be honest. It includes how Trump directly persuaded, encouraged, and incited the rioters to storm the Capitol and do what they did on January 6th.

So stick around. We've got more coming right up. All right, back on TYT, Jankana, with you guys, more news. All right, on the seventh day of hearings for the January 6th Capitol riots, we learned that Donald Trump did exactly what we thought he did. He directed and incited violence toward the nation's capital, toward lawmakers, toward his own vice president, and the hearing provided a lot of evidence to make that point. Now, there was a big meeting that took place between Trump administration officials, including his White House counsel, and some of the, believe it or not, more unsavory people in his orbit.

People like Sidney Powell, who he wanted to name a special counsel to seize voting machines in states that Trump had lost. And hours after that meeting took place, again, that was on December 18th, 2020, he sent out a tweet. And this is what the tweet said. Peter Navarro releases 36 page report alleging election fraud more than sufficient to swing victory to Trump. A great report by Peter, statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election, big protest in D.C. on January 6th be there, will be wild. And that was determined to be by Trump supporters, by the way, a call to action. And nothing makes that clear than the clip that you're about to watch. Here is a collection of goofballs and crazy people reacting to that specific tweet by Donald Trump.

Let's watch. President Trump in the early morning hours today tweeted that he wants the American people to march on Washington, D.C. on January 6th, 2021. And now Donald Trump is calling on his supporters to descend. on Washington, D.C., January 6th. He is now calling on we, the people, to take action and to show our numbers. We're going to only be saved by millions of Americans moving to Washington, occupying the entire area, if necessary, storming right into the Capitol.

You know, there, we know the rules of engagement. if you have enough people, you can push down any kind of a fence or a wall. This could be Trump's last stand. And it's a time when he has specifically called on his supporters to arrive in D.C. Now, this is a little bit of a side note, but you can probably notice Tim Poole's included in that montage that, or compilation video, that the select committee put together for this hearing. And it's kind of hard to continue on with your grift of post. as a left winger who somehow constantly spouts right wing talking points when you're included

in a compilation video of unhinged right wingers, you know, supporting Trump's call to action there. Anyway, just a point I wanted to make. Yeah, I think the most important one there is actually not from Alex Jones or Tim Poole. It's from that guy Matt Bracken, who's got an InfoWords shirt on. I don't know if he's part of Info Wars, but he said we're gonna, this is well before January 6th. This is after that infamous December 19th tweet about how it's going to be wild, he says, we're going to storm into the Capitol, we can knock down the barricades. I mean, you just heard it yourself. They planned to do what you saw on January 6th all the way back then.

It was not, oh, impromptu, oh, we got carried away. Oh, my God, we got excited and we did this. No, they planned to do it. And for, and this is really important, guys, both for all of us in understanding it, but eventually for prosecutors proving their case. When Trump says wild, wild could mean a lot of different things in different contexts. So it might be perfectly in. It's, oh, we're going to a wild party or whatever.

When he says wild, look at the reaction it got from the right-wing commentators and the right-wing militia. They immediately understood what it meant. It meant violence. And when you see their speeches, they have all these code words. One code word is 1776. When they say that, that means violent revolution. That means violent coup, okay?

So to us, 1776 is a year of independence, that's a good thing, et cetera, but when they say they mean attack violently. And Steve Bannon is going to come into this in a second, and he's very clear the day before January 6th. Exactly. So there was some evidence implicating Steve Bannon. There has been evidence implicating Steve Bannon. But I would argue that today's video made that even more clear. So here is Steve Bannon's reaction to Trump, specifically mentioning that there's going to be a big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild. Here's how Bannon reacted. The committee has learned from the White House phone logs that the president spoke to Steve Bannon, his close advisor, at least twice on January 5th. The first conversation they had lasted for 11 minutes. Listen to what Mr. Bannon said that day after the first call he had with the president. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.

It's all converging and now we're on as they say the point of attack, right, the point of attack tomorrow. I'll tell you this, it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen, okay? It's going to be quite extraordinarily different. And all I can say is strap in. I wonder what they were talking about during that phone conversation. Steve Bannon is now saying that he is willing to take. is willing to testify before the select committee investigating January 6th. We'll see if that actually happens. The backstory is that Trump is angered, that there hasn't been anyone supportive

of him to testify during these hearings. We'll see what happens. We'll see if Bannon, you know, has the guts to show up and answer questions about this. But yeah, it is interesting that after the first phone call with Trump, that was Bannon's commentary on his show. So that commentary is very important because their main defense is, hey, look, it just kind of happened. Trump didn't say to do it. He just used kind of loose words and people got carried away. But when you find out, no, right after his tweet, all the militia planned to do violence. They took his call to come on January 6th as a call to violence.

And then you see Steve Bannon right after talking to Trump before January 6, knowing what was coming where he says point of attack several times. He says all hell is going to break loose. He says it's not going to go down the way you think it is. So that means Trump told him, oh, yeah, we didn't tell the public that we're going to attack the capital, but we're going to attack the capital. And so that's why all hell is breaking loose and it's a point of attack, et cetera. So that is damning.

Bannon says, oh, if I come to the hearings, I'll go medieval on them. Okay, sure, sure, sure. So that's his way, but you know, you never know, Democrats get scared easy, so they might not bring him in. And Trump, if you're a tough guy, why don't you come and testify? You can defend yourself for hours and hours. But as always, Trump says, you go to the Capitol and then he goes back home to his bunker and watches it from TV. He tells somebody defend me, but he goes into his bunker because he's a coward. Now, final video that I want to show you, and then we'll go over a few other highlights.

This one features a text exchange between Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale and Katrina Pearson. And apparently Parscale felt some remorse over the fact that he had assisted in getting Trump elected in the first place. This is after the Capitol riots had already taken place. This is after Ashley Babbitt was shot and killed as she was attempting to get through a window in a door to get to members of Congress to do who knows what. So here's the exchange. Here's what he said. Mr. Parskow said, quote, this is about Trump pushing for uncertainty in our country, a sitting president asking for civil war. And then when he said, this week I feel guilty for helping him win, Katrina Pearson responded, you did what you felt right at the time and therefore

it was right. Mr. Parskow added, yeah, but a woman is dead. And yeah, if I was Trump and I knew my rhetoric killed someone? When Ms. Pearson replied, it wasn't the rhetoric. Mr. Pascal said, Katrina, yes, it was. So he is not in any way on the left. He is a rabid right winger. He was Trump's campaign manager. And there he is showing remorse for getting the man elected in the first place because of the rhetoric that he used that led to the riots, of course, but also, yeah, a woman by the name of Ashley Babbit getting shot and killed because she was misled by Donald Trump into thinking that the election was stolen from Trump when, in fact, it had not been stolen from Trump.

Yeah, that was stunning to me because I didn't realize Parscale was human. Same. Yeah, I thought he was just like all these dirtbacks had no emotion, no empathy, didn't care about anybody else loved that they trampled on people as they got into power. It turns out he actually cares if someone died. He cares that Trump was, quote, trying to start a civil war. That's his campaign manager. That's not some deep state guy.

That's the guy who was probably the most critical guy into getting him into office in the first place, right? And Katrina Pearson in other parts said that Trump, quote, likes the crazies. and he likes his supporters to be, quote, very, very vicious. So those are his top allies saying Trump wants civil war. He likes vicious supporters who are crazy. So if you're a right winger and you think Katrina Pearson's lying, Brad Pascal and Bill Barr and all of his White House counsel and everyone that you told us was great before is all lying.

And Trump's, Trump and Lunatic Rudy are the only one. telling the truth, there's nothing we can do to help you because no amount of facts will convince you. And finally, today's hearing closed with the disclosure of Donald Trump engaging in witness tampering, trying to personally hit up the witnesses to do what? I mean, we know what happened with Cassidy Hutchinson, a day before she was supposed to give her fourth day of depositions. She was contacted by a Trump lackey and essentially told, we know you're loyal. We know you're going to do the right thing, Cassidy. Who knows what Trump was trying to say to the witness?

I'm sure we're going to learn more about that in an upcoming hearing next week. In fact, they're planning on scheduling it during prime time, which to me signals they have something huge, bigger than anything we've seen so far in the hearing. So we'll see what happens. And I don't know if that's going to be next week or in a future hearing. But the fact that Trump engaged in witness tampering, that in and of itself is a crime. And so the ball's in Merrick Garland's court. Okay, the attorney general gets to decide whether or not there are any criminal charges filed against Donald Trump.

So far, we haven't heard a word about that from the attorney general. But I don't know how much more evidence you need, really. Yeah, no, if Merrick Garland doesn't file any charges, it will be. historic cowardice. Historic. All right, let's switch gears entirely and talk about another story that broke today involving the Evaldi mass shooting. So. The Austin American statesman has obtained video footage that allegedly the Uvaldi County District Attorney did not want us to see. It is surveillance footage, body cam footage of the Rob Elementary School as the mass shooting was taking place on campus. And it shows what the police response was.

Okay, so it's a 77 minute long recording. We're going to show you a few clips from it. You're not going to see anything graphic in it, although you will hear some gunshots. I just wanted to give you that warning. And it just sheds more light on the incompetence and cowardice of the police who were there on the scene. I want to start off by saying that the gunman actually started firing his weapon when he was outside of the school. And even though there were cops on the scene who could have stopped him at the time, No one fired their weapon at him.

No one stopped him as he was entering the campus. Now with that said, in the next video, you're going to hear the teacher call 911. As she sees the gunmen entering the school, she's also urging the students to get to their classrooms for safety. Let's watch. My kids are running. Get in your room. Get in your room. So as you watch that, I want you to remember there were already police officers on the scene.

And based on what we've already learned through previous reports, they decided not to shoot at him, they decided to just stand by as he shot his weapon and ran into the school. Yeah. So this story, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, got way worse. Because I remember we covered, I think it was last week, the story that there was a police sniper that had a shot at the gunman before he went into the. high school and he was looking for an order to shoot, right? And he didn't receive one, so

he didn't shoot. But I thought at the time, to be fair to that guy, I mean, do you know for sure that the guy's a gunman? Do you know for sure that he's going to go in and do something or he hasn't shot anybody yet, right? So it makes sense to wait for a commanding officer to tell you to take him out. I get it. It sucks and it turned out to be a disaster, but I get No, it turns out the guy had started shooting into the school before he went in. And they had the shot and they didn't take it. They didn't take it. I mean, my God, how many times have we shown you cops killing, let's be honest, mainly black guys, unarmed.

As they're running away. As they're running away with no weapons. I mean, a million scenarios where they put, I mean, recently they just put 60 bullets in one guy. Turns out he didn't even have a weapon. There's a guy shooting into a school with kids. And they don't take the shot. And then they sit around inside the school. We got more on that.

I have to say, I have to say the video is so infuriating because you see them, there's a moment where one of them literally, like they're in the hallway. The gunman is, he's in the classroom, active shooter situation, in the classroom. You see one of the cops, like, put hand sanitizer in his hand and, like, just casual. Like, they're so casual, you're going to see more of it. So why don't we actually get to the first graphic here? Because I want you to see, this is just a still frame from the surveillance footage that the Austin American statesman obtained, you see how heavily armed they are, right?

Like that visual is everything. Like they're there, they're on the scene. They have their weapons pointed to the classroom, but they're not doing anything. They're scrambling for keys to open the classroom. They didn't even attempt to open the door, it was unlocked as we've now learned. It's just, it's mind blowing. But with that said, I want to go to the. next clip because here you're going to see it's terrifying.

The gunman has already entered the school, he's firing his weapon, and then a student who had been in the bathroom turns the corner and sees him. So let's keep our mics up, let's take a look at this video. So there's the gunman, he's walking toward the classroom. And then you can see on the left hand side, there's a young student who comes around the corner as the gunman walks down the hall. Gunman starts firing his weapon, student runs away. At this point, the gunman fires his AR-15 inside two classrooms for two and a half minutes.

Authorities say more than 100 rounds were fired. So again, it's not like there were no cops on the scene, there were cops on the scene. I don't know what the fate of that little boy was. I think he's okay, but imagine how terrifying that is to be a student dealing with that. Yeah, this goes to knock down another excuse, which was they thought it was a barricade situation, kind of like a hostage situation. That's where you're supposed to take your time and talk the guy out of it because you don't want him to shoot the hostages. But as it turns out, he's actively firing in the school and the cops are in the school.

So if he's actively firing, you have to go in immediately. Because the point of a hostage situation is you don't want him to start firing. If you barrel in, he might start firing. But if he's already firing, you've got nothing left to lose except, of course, your own safety. And that's what the heart of the problem is. And so, look, guys, everybody will beat up the Uvaldi cops and they deserve to be beat up rhetorically, right? But let's be honest, as we always tell you, it's in the police training. They tell them, and in this case, they might say, oh, look, no, wait, Zhang, there's different training for hostage situations and their active shooter situations.

But the most important part of the training that they never talk about in the press is take care of your own safety before anyone else's safety. And that's why they didn't go in. There's no excuses left. Yeah, and look, that training conflicts with what the active shooter training indicates they're supposed to do, right? That's right. And they didn't do it. Right, exactly. So you have the head of the Texas Public Safety Department saying, no, this is an active shooter situation. They should have went in immediately. But you're right in that, and we see this messaging and this training play out in real time

when we cover every police brutality story, which is, what's the saying, Jank? Better to be judged by 12 and carried out by 6. Exactly. See, to cops nationwide, that's the prime directive. That's why even in an active shooter with kids, and they hear and see him firing at the kids, they still don't go in because the prime director,

is you're more important than any citizen. Right. Do not endanger yourself under any circumstances. And that is exactly what the should be the opposite of what cops are trained to do. But instead, all across the country. And by the way, guys, this is not just Yuvaldi cops. Almost every department in Texas was involved by the end. Because remember, it took like an hour and 15 minutes. And so the Texas Rangers were there. The state cops were there. everybody was there and they all chose not to go in why prime directive cops lives are more important

than citizens lives do not ever take a risk of your safety to save a citizen and that's disgusting so i want to go to one more clip you're about to watch a video where the cops i guess attempted to enter a classroom where the shooter was and here's how that went down I got it. I got it. I got it. You got a lot. You got a lot.

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You're going to go off. We're going to reach. We're right. I'm going to get right here. Go back. Still opening fire and killing students. And you have, again, not one, not two, but several dozens of cops on the scene. They're in the hallway, they hear the gunmen opening fire and they're not doing anything.

In fact, the first time they try, they hear the gunshots and they run away from the classroom. So a few other details we learned based on the surveillance footage. So at 1221, which is 45 minutes after police first arrived on the scene, four shots are heard from at least a, are heard, and at least a dozen officers move toward the classroom. That's the video that you just saw. An officer can be heard saying they're making entry, yet they do not. They did not enter the classroom.

At 1230, an officer wearing a helmet and a ballistic vest pauses to squirt hand sanitizer from a wall-mounted dispenser and rubs his hands together. Look, it could be a nervous tick, but it doesn't look good, especially in the full context of this situation where you have all these heavily armed cops there doing nothing, the imagery of one of them putting hand sanitizer casually in his hands and rubbing them together is infuriating to say the least. At 1250, a cadre of officers crouches outside the classroom. A burst of gunfire is heard and the video ends. Authorities have said a border patrol agent is the one who ended up killing the gunmen. And I want to go to this final graphic that shows what the scene was like,

77 minutes later. Officers finally breached the unlocked classroom and kill the gunmen. 77 minutes later. Okay, guys, you saw in the video shots fired at kids inside the school and the cops don't go in. They're inside the school and they don't go in. That's unacceptable. under any definition, you'd have to be a monster to think that was acceptable. Now let me tell you who they are, those monsters who did think it was acceptable. The Yuvaldi Police Department, the Yuvali County Sheriff's Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, these are all the cops that were on the scene. Texas Rangers, U.S. Border Patrol, and U.S. Marshal Services.

I'll let the Border Patrol off because they're the guys who actually went in at the end and got them. Okay, everyone else, they all stood there, all of their commanding officers told them, Prime directive, who gives a damn about the kids, save yourself, don't harm your, don't, you know, take any risk with your health or safety or your clean hands. To be fair, they were willing to do something, which was handcuffed parents who were demanding that they do something about the active shooter. And if you're wondering, wait, why don't we already have an exact account of what happened? There's all those cops there. They all know what happened, right? The reason we don't have a good account of it, and it's leaking out little by little and not from the authorities, is because they all want to cover their ass. And that's almost all the cops in Texas.

Including the DA who didn't want that video to be released. Of course. So all the cops are saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We don't want you to know, find out what actually happened. And they're centering on a scapegoat, and it looks like it's the police chief in Yuvaldi. It's not to say that he didn't do something wrong. But I'll tell you ahead of time, what's going to happen is everybody's going to say, it was him. It was him. Not us, not us, not us.

Because in situations like this, they need a scapegoat. Otherwise, people find out what the reality is, which is that cops are trained to be cowards and to protect themselves and not you. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we have an update on Joe Biden nominating an anti-abortion right-wing zealot for a lifetime judgeship. Is he actually going to go through with it? We'll tell you when we come back from the break. All right, back on CYT, Jank and Anna with you guys, but also David Balderaso and Timothy Coy.

David and Timothy, you guys are awesome. Thank you for joining by hitting that join button below the video on YouTube. T.yt.com slash join. Come help us bring the truth to the American people. God knows you need somebody in media doing it. All right, Anna. All right, let's get to our next story. Despite backlash, Joe Biden apparently is not backing off his plans to nominate an anti-abortion right-wing religious zealot attorney to a lifetime federal judge.

in Kentucky. Now, a source briefed on the White House plans, spoke to Huffington Post or Huff Post, and here's what we know so far, that Biden is ineffective, infuriating, and should not run for a second term. But we also learned that White House officials have refused to talk about Chad Meredith ever since the Louisville Courier Journal reported that he is the president's pick for a soon-to-be vacant U.S. district court seat in eastern Kentucky. Let me just pause for a second. I know I've said this a million times before. I'm going to say it again because it's for some reason,

those who want to provide cover for Biden's disastrous decision to do this, don't understand this is a federal judgeship, a lifetime appointment. Okay, this is someone who will weigh in on issues impacting our lives for a very long time. And the fact that Biden is willing to do this, after Roe was reversed, meaning women's reproductive rights have been stripped away from them, tells you everything you need to know about Joe Biden and what the corporate Democratic Party is really about, okay? Not about representing you.

They don't actually see Republicans as a threat to this country because they aid and abet them. Let me continue. The newspaper even provided copies of June 23rd emails from the White House to Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir confirming Biden's plan to nominate Meredith, a member of the conservative federalist society who has fought abortion rights. In fact, the conservative justices that we have in our Supreme Court right now were handpicked

by the Federalist Society. This is the culmination of decades of organizing, fundraising, doing what they can, lobbying to ensure that they get these religious zealots and theocrats into our Supreme Court. And it's amazing that Joe Biden has decided to aid and abet that effort in federal appointments. Let me give you more. So a source that spoke to Huffington Post about this says they're defending it, meaning the Biden administration's decision to do this, they're defending it. A source briefed last week on the White House's plans told Huff Post after requesting anonymity.

The source also believes that Meredith would likely be announced as part of a large package of judicial nominees that, that would include many picks that Democrats do like. Let me also remind you that Democrats control Congress, Democrats control the Senate with a simple majority. Why are we having these discussions with Republicans in the Senate? Why are we striking deals with Mitch McConnell? Why would Biden agree to nominate this insane person at a time when women's reproductive rights have been stripped away from them by?

Supreme Court justices who were handpicked by the Federalist Society. Okay, so I'm going to have conclusive points here. So first off, before I get to that, I want to add to something Anna said, you know, once Biden nominates him, he immediately gets on a track for the Supreme Court. Why? Because then the Republicans later will say, you guys are calling him extreme right-wing, or what are you talking about? Biden nominated him.

that immediately vitiates all arguments against them, why? Now, for you and I, I wouldn't care. Oh, Biden nominated him. Who cares, right? I don't care at all. I'm going to just tell you what his record is. But for Democrats, they'll instantly cave. Because they'll say, oh, no, no, no, we don't want to criticize Biden.

We don't want to criticize Biden. Okay, yeah, of course, confirm, confirm, confirm. So that guy is on a track to the Supreme Court the minute Biden nominates him. It's a disaster, okay? So now they say, of course, a Biden. Biden White House supported by every ass kisser in Washington. Compromise. We had to do a compromise.

Now, wait, hold on now. Because McConnell is blocking the fast-tracking these judges through. But wait a minute, do you remember when Trump had to do a compromise and put a really progressive judge on the federal court? There was some compromising. To be fair, there was compromising taking place under Trump. But the compromising mostly took place after the midterm election. elections under Trump, where Chuck Schumer basically agreed to work along with Mitch McConnell

to confirm a bunch of Trump's nominees. Yeah, but did the compromise involve putting anyone who's really left wing or left wing at all? Never, never, never on the federal system. Never. Never. Because the Republicans would never agree to that. We're going to put a liberal on, we're going to put a progressive on. We're going to, what do you know, there's no way they would And they didn't agree to that. The minute the Democrats come in, and remember, this is not the, the back two years, this is the first two years.

And remember, they don't have to agree with the Republicans because they theoretically control the Senate and the House. Now normally they say, oh, well, but Mansion and Cinema's main claim to fame as to why they are still Democrats is, well, they might disagree with everything, but you need them for the judges. Right, exactly. Wait a minute. Thank you.

Thank you. Yes. So are Mansion and Cinema on board for fast-tracking these people, not fast-tracking, regular tracking these people, or are they joining with McConnell, in which case they are 100% Republicans? Not 90%, not 99%, 100% Republicans. Then why are we still negotiating with Mentiona Cinema? So if Mention and Sinema are doing it, they should be called out and they should be fought, and honestly, they should literally be kicked out of the party because they're agreeing with the Republicans 100%. If they're not doing it, then why are you compromising? Why are you compromising?

Now, here's- And what is the compromise, right? By the way, I don't think that there's any deal that you can make with Mitch McConnell. Like, I'm not even entertaining that, okay? First of all, the fact that the White House has not released a statement about this to at least detail what the negotiation entails, right, to cover their own asses. Yeah. Tells you everything you need to know. There is no good deal.

There is no good deal. There just isn't. And the first report that came out about this from the Courier-Journal indicated that Biden got McConnell's word. Okay, so but that gets to the real answer. So Anna's 100% right. They're taking a lot of heat now because of the road decision on this, even by some conservative Democrats like Tim Kane.

So normally, this is when they would cover their ass with, oh, but we had to because McConnell was going to walk my dog. And then all the Democrats would be like, oh, that's okay, that's okay. There was nothing we can do. There was nothing we did. He was going to walk the dog. He's going to walk the dog. Yeah.

Yeah, but they're not even doing that. No, they're not. So now, why is Biden still considering this one? This is just, when you've lost Tim Cain, you've lost everyone, okay? Because he made McConnell a promise. But think about that. He also made you a promise. He made you a lot of promises.

Did he do any of them? Minimum wage, child tax care, paid family leave, student debt, marijuana. I mean, you name it, a thousand things. No, there's only two promises he's ever kept. To the donors, nothing will fundamentally change, and to his beloved Mitch McConnell. Don't worry, I'll put a conservative on the federal court system for you, my dear, dear friend. And finally, even Dick Durbin is a little put off by this. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin.

The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he spoke with the White House about the reported deal involving Meredith last week. Quote, I said, what's in it for us? They haven't given a specific answer. No, no, guys, you have no idea of the import of that comment. Dick Durbin is standard establishment Democrat. Number two Democrat in the Senate, there isn't anything he wouldn't cave into. If you told him that there was even the slightest deal, he'd be like, yes, sir, absolutely, sir. It's so important that we do Biden's deal with McConnell.

Durbin's given a thousand things to McConnell. If Durbin is telling the press publicly, oh my God, I don't even know what the hell Biden's getting out of this. on what Democrats are getting at this. That means Biden's giving McConnell a freebie. Jesus Christ! And every ass kisser in Washington. No, no, no, don't criticize Biden. You're hurting the Democratic Party.

No, the guy's had 33% approval. He's giving Republicans everything they want, and he's definitely going to lose in 2024. Definitely. By kissing his ass, you are not helping the Democratic Party. You have to fight him so that we have pressure for him to do. one thing that's Democratic, instead of constantly delivering for his goddamn donors and his goddamn Republican friends.

Biden is a disaster. Anyone who tells you otherwise is purposely lying to you to suck up to the powerful and they're disgusting. All right, that does it for our first hour. We're going to take a brief break when we come back. We're not done with our criticisms toward cops because an Arizona investigation into sex trafficking discovered that cops like to take advantage of sex trafficking. That story and more coming right up. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work,

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