The Young Turks - Bondi's Strike Force - July 24, 2025

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month Shopify trial and start selling today at ⁠shopify.com/tyt The DOJ launches a new "strike force" targeting former Obama officials over the 2016 election. Megh...an McCain wants Kaitlan Collins punished for… asking questions. Meanwhile, Columbia University agrees to pay $200M in a Trump-era settlement. Josh Shapiro joins the Democratic pile-on of Zohran Mamdani, accusing him of failing to denounce antisemitic rhetoric Hosts: Jordan Uhl & Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. So All right, welcome to The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur Jordan here with you guys. Look, every day we come in in a slightly different mood, or at least I do, because partly of what's in the news, right? And today disastrous things's in the news, right? And today disastrous things are in the news. And so I'm so mad about the starvation going on
Starting point is 00:01:10 in Gaza that I can't see straight. I'm going to say some super harsh things on this show, and it is well deserved by Israel, well deserved. It's also well deserved by every liar, propagandists and mainstream media, bigots,
Starting point is 00:01:24 racists, almost all of them. They think Muslim lives don't matter at all, that Israeli feelings are worth 1,000 Palestinian babies. That's our mainstream media, they're sick people, they're very disgusting people. So I got a lot more where that came
Starting point is 00:01:41 from, okay? So yes, we're of course going to talk about domestic politics and Trump and all that. And then at some point in this first hour, Jordan and I once had a debate. Jordan, get ready for this, buckle up, brace for impact. I'm going to admit that you were right, okay? So you have that to look forward to. Okay, which debate was it?
Starting point is 00:02:03 What was it about? Well, you're going to find out later in this hour. All of them, all of them. Okay, all right, so let's get started. Take a look at this. Do you believe that any of this new information implicates former President Obama in criminal behavior? We have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of this. For even former President Obama? Correct, the evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment.
Starting point is 00:02:45 A day after director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made clear that the administration would consider prosecuting Obama and other members of his administration. The Department of Justice has announced the formation of a strike force to potentially follow through. As we've covered on the show already, Gabbard and the Trump administration are trying to accuse Obama of treason, for they claim, manipulating information about Russia's role in the 2016 election. But none of the declassified documents Tulsi has released actually appear to prove wrongdoing. Nonetheless, they're going full steam ahead.
Starting point is 00:03:26 The Justice Department released a statement saying today, the Department of Justice announced the formation of a strike force to assess the evidence publicized by DNI Tulsi Gabbard and investigate potential next legal steps, which might stem from DNI Gabbard's disclosures. This department takes alleged weaponization of the intelligence community with the utmost seriousness. Attorney General Pam Bondi added, the Department of Justice is proud to work with my friend,
Starting point is 00:03:55 Director Gabbard. And we are grateful for her partnership in delivering accountability for the American people. We will investigate these troubling disclosures fully and leave no stone unturned to deliver justice. Now, senators Lindsey Graham and
Starting point is 00:04:13 John Cornyn are calling on Pam Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate Barack Obama and senior members of his administration. But the administration's massive accusations of coups and treason are so absurd that many other conservatives are pouring cold water on them already.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Before we get to that though, Cenk, what do you think of this? Do you think anything will become of this DOJ strike force? Yeah, at first I was almost amused by it because it's such an absurd proposition. And I'm gonna break down for you guys in just a little bit in this video, why there's absolutely no merit to this, a joke. Tulsi Gabbard is the biggest fraud.
Starting point is 00:04:52 She's one of the most dishonest, disgusting people I've seen in American politics, okay? Let me be super clear about it, because she knows with 100% certainty that she's lying about this, I'm no longer amused. These people are sick, okay?
Starting point is 00:05:07 This is of course a distraction, trying to be a distraction from the Epstein files. But the fact that people in our government lie with this kind of ease, these kind of enormous lies should be greatly disturbing to all of us.
Starting point is 00:05:23 But it's, I don't know, maybe I'm too idealistic. But I would love one representative, one, one who is not a giant liar, who doesn't make up things all the time and try to drive us apart. So now they're trying to rile up MAGA, hate Obama, hate Obama,
Starting point is 00:05:40 he's treason, go get him. There's no bigger critic of Obama on the left than me. Obama's done a thousand things wrong and I can tell you exactly what he did wrong. But this ain't one of them. This is super stupid.
Starting point is 00:05:53 And if you're at look, I know, nobody listens, everybody's tribal, I got it, right? And again, I'm exaggerating here because I'm pissed. I think there are people in the middle, I think they do get moved, etc.
Starting point is 00:06:04 But if you're among the tribalists and you're a right wing tribalist on this and say, I don't care about facts, Obama's guilty, okay? You don't know anything, and you don't care. You don't care, you just want my
Starting point is 00:06:18 tribe, my tribe, I hate your tribe, okay? So in a minute, I'm going to break down why I'm so angry. because this is junk, total utter junk. So go ahead, Jordan. Yes, of course. So in response to Tulsi Gabbard's
Starting point is 00:06:35 so called bombshell, the National Review and the Wall Street Journal, both conservative papers, have published editorials rejecting her conclusions. National Review was still pretty generous in their assessment,
Starting point is 00:06:50 agreeing with the administration that Trump was the victim of one of the most insidious dirty tricks in American political history. The Clinton campaign used the bogus steel dossier to manufacture the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Obama administration officials picked up the story and ran with it. But they write Trump
Starting point is 00:07:12 and Gabbard go further, treating the accurate portion of the democratic narrative as though it too were a fiction. Russia did indeed try, however ine ineffectively to interfere in the election. Trump CIA Director John Radcliffe has attested to it. They also agreed with right wing claims that Obama abused his power in an effort to undermine Trump. But conceded that those who would
Starting point is 00:07:40 argue that this abuse of power constitutes a crime should remember that Trump and his team have avidly proclaimed that presidents must have immunity from criminal prosecution for acts within the broad ambit of executive power. They conclude, we have had enough,
Starting point is 00:08:00 more than enough, lawfare. A similar argument to the one made by conservatives at the Wall Street Journal. Some Republicans on cable news are dismissing Trump's treason accusations too, including lawyer and Fox News contributor, Andy McCarthy. Take a look. doubt that Obama was complicit up to his neck in what I think was the worst political dirty trick in American history. The issue narrowly is whether there's any crime that comes out of that under circumstances where even President Trump spent all of 2024 telling people that presidents have to have complete immunity from prosecution and this all happened nine years ago. Look, they were throwing around the word treason the last couple of days, which
Starting point is 00:08:50 is preposterous because treason is making war on the United States or aiding our wartime enemies, which obviously didn't happen here. But today, Tulsi doubled down, this time hilariously claiming that Obama is guilty of treason for obstructing a peaceful transition of power. Take a look. When we look at our Democratic
Starting point is 00:09:14 Republic, Charlie, our system is built on the foundation of the American people casting their votes for who they want to be in office to be our president and commander in chief. In this system who they want to be in office, to be our president and commander in chief. In this system, there is to be a peaceful transition of power. What we saw play out
Starting point is 00:09:32 here was President Trump was elected by the American people in 2016, shocking most people in the United States and apparently even Russia and Putin didn't think that he would win. Instead of accepting that this is the will of the people, what we saw is President Obama convening his national security team and concocting this contrived false narrative through the production of this intelligence community assessment in January 2017. With the specific intent of subverting the will of the American people and trying to delegitimize President Trump's election. And therefore everything that he had been charged to do by the American people over
Starting point is 00:10:15 the next four years. So yes, this is a treasonous conspiracy that subverts the will of the American people. Cenk, what do you make of this? It seems like there's nothing that Tulsi won't say if it helps her politically, professionally, personally. Okay, three things to start with and then the heart of the case. I'm super proud that Young Turks was the show that first exposed what a fraud Tulsi Gabbard is. That's back when she was pretending to be a progressive, and we told you guys she's not a progressive, she's a giant fraud. A lot of people were angry at the time, they thought, no, why trust Tulsi more than the
Starting point is 00:10:53 young Turks? How'd that turn out? Okay, told you, giant fraud, all she wants is power. She's willing to say anything to get it, and she knows none of this is true. Okay, point number two, as you pointed out Jordan. So Trump said, the president should get to do whatever he wants,
Starting point is 00:11:10 take home national secrets. They even said in the Supreme Court, they asked them, can the president order SEAL Team 6 to murder a political opponent? And they were like, could be, could be. And the Supreme Court's like,
Starting point is 00:11:22 you guys are right, the president should be totally immune, which was outrageous. It's outrageous when Trump is immune, it's outrageous when Obama's immune. There's an actual thing you can go after Obama on, which I'll get to
Starting point is 00:11:33 in a little bit. I don't want immunity, I don't want immunity for any of them. But you asked for immunity, you asked for total blanket immunity. So now are you going to say, no,
Starting point is 00:11:42 only Trump should have immunity, but no other presidents should? And they probably will, because they don't care about principles. They don't care about anything. There's no ideology. This is a naked power grab, right? So okay, now let's go to the heart
Starting point is 00:11:57 of it, by the way, okay, so here I'll say it. So a lot of people wrote in and they're right because we say it on the air all the time. We said when Obama was in charge, we say it now. Liz Smith is a YouTube member said
Starting point is 00:12:07 I think Obama should be in jail too, but for extra judicially killing American citizens. See, now that's a smart point made by a lot of our members also on Twitch, OctoSquiddies, Green New Dealers, Dragon.
Starting point is 00:12:18 They're all making the same point. So if you wanted to go after Obama, the thing that you would focus on is he ordered extrajudicial killings of American citizens. Those are the drone strikes on Anwar Al-Awlaki, and by the way, on a 16-year-old son and
Starting point is 00:12:31 an eight-year-old daughter, in three separate killings, okay? But the CIA tells us it was all a coincidence. Yeah, maybe, maybe, or maybe they're covering up again, right? And Obama, what he did there was outrageous.
Starting point is 00:12:45 So does it look like I'm defending Obama? No, but why won't they go after Obama on the real thing, on the drone strikes? because they do drone strikes. Why don't they go after Obama for going outside of due process?
Starting point is 00:12:56 because they go after due process. Why didn't the Democrats go after Biden for not releasing the FC bus because he's a Democrat? Why didn't the Republican politicians, at least some of them are now because of their base rebelling, but 98% of them are, daddy Trump, daddy Trump. When the Democrats are in charge, I want the Epstein files, we're in charge, no Epstein files, right?
Starting point is 00:13:15 So I'm sick of the liars in our government. So the heart of this case, so everyone agrees that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. If you're gonna get mad, Tulsi. If you're going to get mad, Tulsi, and you're a right winger, Tulsi Gabbard said that in this cycle of news. She's like, yes, of course, Russia did interfere.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Every Republican agrees. Every Republican in the intelligence committee, including acting Chairman Marco Rubio. So Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Okay, second thing everybody agrees on, including all Democrats,
Starting point is 00:13:43 is that Trump and Russia were not colluding. So good, we solved it, we solved it. Russia tried to interfere, but Trump didn't work with them. And that's a big win for Trump and the Republicans,
Starting point is 00:13:53 not good enough. No, so what are we going to do? Her case is, even though we all agree on that, and she doesn't dispute that, she says the reason that Obama should be convicted of treason. And by the way, if you're convicted of treason,
Starting point is 00:14:05 we kill you. So she's saying the former president should be killed by the United States government, why? because of these two super important things. One is that Putin was not pro Trump. He was anti Hillary.
Starting point is 00:14:22 Wow, what a big distinction. Really? That's what you're resting all this junk on? No, no, no, no, no. They said that he was pro Trump, but he wasn't pro Trump. He was just trying to hurt
Starting point is 00:14:37 Hillary in the campaign. That's why he hacked into her emails, left Trump's emails alone, right? And that's why he put all this damaging information about Hillary and he planned to damage her after the election by making it seem
Starting point is 00:14:48 the election was illegitimate. So he was anti Hillary and who's Hillary running against? Yeah, Donald Trump, but he wasn't pro Trump, so treason. I can't even understand that distinction, but that distinction is treason?
Starting point is 00:15:03 What are you talking about? Okay, then the second thing she hangs her hat on is Russia did not hack in to the voting booths and they did not hack the vote. Who said they did? Show me one time Barack Obama or really any elected Democrat ever
Starting point is 00:15:19 said the Russians hacked in to the voting system. Nobody says that. The intelligence report doesn't say to the voting system. Nobody says that, the intelligence report doesn't say that, the Democrats don't say that, speeches made it up. They're like, yeah, Obama, Obama, Obama was saying that the Russians
Starting point is 00:15:35 were hacking into this, he didn't say that, you're a giant liar. So this is just absolutely nothing, nothing, and they're saying, yeah, but we should kill a former president over this. Disgusting, sick people.
Starting point is 00:15:51 So and if you're a mad guy and you're like, I don't understand, why do people not like Trump? These are among the very valid reasons why people don't like Trump, because he makes up crap that doesn't make any sense. He's super extreme.
Starting point is 00:16:05 And instead of going after things that are real, he's like, my feelings have to be protected. And nobody should talk about the Epstein files, now that everybody knows I'm in them. So that's why all of you go protect
Starting point is 00:16:15 me. So what, I was great pals with a pedophile, and maybe or maybe not I was participated in. But you all go protect me and kill Obama because Putin was anti-Hillary but not pro-Trump. That's why we hate him. Yeah, I wanna touch on a couple things here. I mean, the Tulsi flip-flop, I mean, she has
Starting point is 00:16:41 done this multiple times. But I wanna point out how, yes, TYT in the audience was early. But people in Hawaii very early were pointing out how she was a fraud. Many progressives, advocates, activists on the ground in Hawaii were warning about Tulsi not being a true progressive. And I feel bad for the Bernie campaign that they didn't recognize that. I think there's plenty of things you can criticize every campaign for, but I think talent selection is something that has plagued the Bernie campaigns in both cycles, sadly. And then just this idea that Obama should be under criminal prosecution for
Starting point is 00:17:24 supporting this endeavor. When you say, there are many things I'd like to see Obama face repercussions for, but none of those seem to break from Republican priorities. I mean, this is a guy who ultimately let bankers off the hook
Starting point is 00:17:39 for the financial collapse. Like you're saying, there's extrajudicial killings, violation of due process. They were spying on journalists for years. There are plenty of things to dislike Obama for, but the problem is when you ultimately have a uniparty in this country, they're all doing the same things. And it's also why it's so tough to get any progress or real momentum on getting money out of politics, because both parties benefit from it. When both parties are culpable,
Starting point is 00:18:06 no one's going to be held to account. So it's a very frustrating thing. Yeah, lastly on this is that I'm really glad you said what you said, Jordan, because where did Ana find the material that led her to believe that Tulsi was not at all
Starting point is 00:18:19 on the left and was not at all progressive? She had no ideology, mainly right wing, she was a very progressive left and was not at all progressive. She was basically, she had no ideology, mainly right wing, but was willing to say anything and everything to get to power.
Starting point is 00:18:33 Well, she did research her record and her legislative votes, her comments, etc. But she also researched what she did in Hawaii. The people on the ground in Hawaii, if you thought you didn't make a difference by pointing out all of
Starting point is 00:18:47 Tulsi's hypocrisies, you're wrong, you did, and thank you. Because of not just grassroots in Hawaii, but good reporting in Hawaii, Ana was able to find what Tulsi Gabbard actually believes, what her record actually was. And that's what led her to believe
Starting point is 00:19:03 that she was a fraud. So guys, you make a difference. Sometimes it starts as a ripple, ends up as a wave or even a tsunami, right? So go do good journalism, go be involved in the grassroots. And so that's a lot of how
Starting point is 00:19:17 independent media finds out about what's actually happening. If we relied on mainstream media, we would know a thing. So I'm proud of the work we did there, but I'm even more proud of the wonderful people in Hawaii who were trying to point this out to
Starting point is 00:19:32 everyone and no one was listening to them. So you were right all along and thank God that you pointed that out. Okay, let's take a break here, guys. And when we come back, first,
Starting point is 00:19:45 I'm going to light into Meghan McCain, she's of course a contemptible fool. Then I'm going to light into Columbia, my alma mater, as humiliating as that is now. And I'm going to tell you something that nobody else is telling you
Starting point is 00:20:02 about Columbia, okay? Poor little Columbia, my ass. So, and then the starvation story. All right, we'll be back. This Friday, may I speak freely? I prefer English. The Naked Gun is the most fun you can have in theaters. Yeah, let's go. Without getting arrested.
Starting point is 00:20:32 Is he serious? Is he serious? No. The Naked Gun, only in theaters Friday. All right, back on TYT, Cenk and Jordan with you guys and also Danny Tamar, Danny, thanks for joining by hitting the button below. CDN Norse dog dad, thank you for gifting a membership on YouTube. Jack Callahan, who's a member on
Starting point is 00:20:53 TYT.com says, Anna was killer on Piers Morgan. Thank you, Jack, appreciate it. She was, we'll have that up on TYT.com slash press soon if we don't already have it up. And then we'll have a little bit of a break, and then we'll have a little bit appreciate it. She was, we'll have that up on
Starting point is 00:21:05 tyt.com slash press soon if we don't already have it up. What I love about that is that Israeli supporters are like, do you see how she's really upset about a genocide? Ha ha, she's crazy. Yeah, keep spreading that clip
Starting point is 00:21:18 around. Yep, no, we do see it and we love it, okay? By the way, buckle up, Brace for Impact, soon, Anna on Tucker Carlson show. we see it and we love it, okay? By the way, buckle up brace for impact soon, Anna on Tucker Carlson show. So we don't care who catches
Starting point is 00:21:32 feelings, we're going to do the news here. And we're going to talk to anybody who can stop the slaughter in Israel and we're going to try to make that happen, okay? And if people catch feelings over that, I don't give if people catch feelings over that,
Starting point is 00:21:45 I don't give a goddamn about it. Okay, Jordan, what's next? Take a look at this. Dr. Gabbard, you referenced the past intelligence reports and assessments on this, including that 2017 one that was signed off as noted by every Republican on the Senate Intelligence Community, including the acting chair of the time, now Secretary of State Mark Rubio, who said in his statement that they did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, but they did find, however, is very troubling
Starting point is 00:22:12 and they found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling. One, are you saying that he's wrong in that statement that he made then? And secondly, what would you say to people who believe that you're only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong? CNN's Caitlin Collins is getting pushback from an unlikely foe for
Starting point is 00:22:35 asking those two very challenging questions during a White House press briefing yesterday. Cenk, we're going to listen to DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's response in a second. But what do you make of
Starting point is 00:22:48 those questions? Yeah, so that was as good a questions I've seen at the White House. So thank you, man, journalists have broke out for a minute there. As always with any mainstream media
Starting point is 00:23:01 report, I've had critiques in the past, etc. But what we do on the show is discredit where discredit is owed and that's the norm, that's the rule. But when there's an exception and credit is due, we give credit.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Caitlin Collins, excellent question. So I wish the powerful would be challenged like that more often. So of course, Meghan McCain is going to step in to try to protect the powerful instead, because she's a dumb ass and she's corrupt and she's a terrible human being. So take that away.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Yeah, just hours after this press briefing, Meghan McCain, a former Gabbard critic turned bestie railed against Collins for doing her job as a reporter, posting this on X. Caitlin Collins is an absolute imbecile and pure partisan hack. That Megan is a mirror. Have some respect for the two women standing in front of you who are exposing lies,
Starting point is 00:23:59 deep corruption, and keeping the country safe. The White House should pull her credentials. Now if you remember, Meghan McCain used to be very critical of Gabbard, suggesting she was an apologist for
Starting point is 00:24:13 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on The View back in 2019. But eventually, the two became besties and have pretty much been inseparable. Last year, McCain posted this to X. This woman is actively serving as
Starting point is 00:24:28 a lieutenant colonel in the army and has put her life on the line for all of us. The baseless slander is not only abhorrent, but it's unpatriotic. Shame on all of you trafficking and these lies, America will be safer with her in the cabinet.
Starting point is 00:24:43 And she also gushed about her on Michael Malise's You're Welcome podcast a few months ago. Take a look. One of the things we really bond over is people really love us, but people also really hate us. And we both feel misunderstood,
Starting point is 00:24:57 I think, by the media and have been really targeted for all the wrong reasons. And we really bonded over that. And she's just, I feel very privileged that I get to have this kind of relationship with her because she doesn't let a lot of people close to her. And she's just funny and fun and kind. And I can always rely on her when I need, it doesn't matter. She's been in India and Thailand and traveling right now and I can still text her, I had something happen that I need her advice on, she'll always text me back.
Starting point is 00:25:28 She's just kind and she makes me feel really safe and seen, which I think is a hard thing in any friendship. And I love her very much and I really regret ever being mean to her. Okay, sure, it's natural to defend your best friend when it's justified. But what exactly did Collins do to piss McCain off so much? Well, let's watch a bit of the press briefing to see what happened. Take a look. The Senate Intelligence Committee has a very different function than the office of the Director of National Intelligence. The evidence and the intelligence that has been declassified and released is irrefutable.
Starting point is 00:26:08 As for your second question, Caitlin, I think who is saying that that she would release this to try to boost her standing with the president? Who has said that? Well, the president has publicly undermined her when it came to
Starting point is 00:26:18 Iran. He said she was wrong. He told me that she didn't know what she was talking about. That was on Air Force One, on camera. The only people who are suggesting that the director of national intelligence would release evidence to try to boost her standing with the
Starting point is 00:26:29 president are the people in this room who constantly try to sow distrust and chaos amongst the president's cabinet and it is not working. I am I will I will just answer your question directly. I am with the president of the United States every day he has the utmost confidence in Director Gabbard. He always has, he continues to, and that is true of his entire cabinet, who is all working as one team to deliver on the promises this President made. To be clear, Caitlin Collins isn't wrong. Trump did undermine Tulsi Gabbard. Take a look. I think within a matter of weeks or certainly within a matter of months, they're going to be able to
Starting point is 00:27:08 have a nuclear weapon. We can't let that happen. What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point. Well, then my intelligence
Starting point is 00:27:18 community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that? You're director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. She's wrong. But somehow, Collins is in the wrong for actually pushing the administration to answer tough
Starting point is 00:27:36 questions, Cenk. Yeah, okay, so a lot to point out here. Let's start with the standard stuff, the White House should pull her credentials. Said the person pretending to be in favor of free speech.
Starting point is 00:27:47 The Democrats are terrible, they won't let us say racist things, the Democrats hate free speech. She said something that's undeniably true about the beloved president and beloved Tulsi Yabberd,
Starting point is 00:28:01 get her out of there, cancel her. Oops, there's cancel culture. There's your, never believed in freedom of speech. They only believed in their speech, not anyone else's speech. Okay, so let's be clear about that. Now let's move on to this particular story.
Starting point is 00:28:34 I mean, speaking of imbeciles and pure partisan hacks, I mean, Megan, that's embarrassing projection. You're talking about yourself and it's only a hack, a partisan hack, which say that, I can't believe that's such a bad question. That is Tulsi Gabbard trying to make up and get into Donald Trump's
Starting point is 00:28:56 good graces by doing the thing that Donald Trump cares most about. Distract people from the Epstein files and obsess about past elections and hating Barack Obama and being better than Barack Obama. That's a gift wrap for Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:29:13 Everybody knows that's what the egomaniac wants, right? And why do you have to do that? because you accidentally told the truth once and said that Iran wasn't close to having the bomb. And he was, I don't like that. Tulsi told the truth.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Boo, I hate Tulsi now. She's like, no, no, I'll make up for it. I'll make up for it. I'll make up outrageous lies and say we should kill Obama for treason based on those preposterous lies, right?
Starting point is 00:29:38 Trump's like, me likey, back to good, back to good. Like, hey, Meghan, we have eyes, we're all seeing it, okay? So who the hell do you think you are? You think we're going to trick everyone?
Starting point is 00:29:50 We saw Trump call out Tulsi, we saw him trying to get past the Epstein files with distractions. And now here comes Tulsi with the largest distraction you've ever seen in your life. Former President Obama committed treason.
Starting point is 00:30:05 And okay, so she said, and that little answer there, Tulsi did, she said, our evidence is irrefutable. Well, part of that is true. It's irrefutable because no one has refuted it. There's no actual disagreement.
Starting point is 00:30:19 She says, well, the Russians didn't hack into our system. Good news, Obama didn't say that. The Democrats didn't say that. the Democrats didn't say that, no one said that. You just made that up. You made it up. Ha ha ha ha.
Starting point is 00:30:32 The evidence says the Russians didn't hack. Who said it? Who said the Russians hacked into the actual vote? Show me one quote of Obama saying that. Go ahead, show me one single quote
Starting point is 00:30:41 of Obama saying that. You can't because you're a giant liar. And of course,'t because you're a giant liar. And of course, since Meghan McCain is a giant liar, she's like, my lying buddy. And by the way, you guys want to know why they kissed and made up?
Starting point is 00:30:54 It has nothing to do with any of this. Because before, Tulsi was met with Bashar al-Assad and was on the side of the Syrians and the Russians, who were opposed to Israel. Now she's on the side of the Syrians and the Russians who were opposed to Israel. Now she's on the side of Israel.
Starting point is 00:31:09 So, Tosi's such a good friend, come here, yes. Israel first is united again. Okay, good, enjoy her. Israel first, enjoy her. That's who Meghan McCain is. So look, all the Israel first guys, what do I mean by Israel
Starting point is 00:31:25 first? The people who think the only issue that matters is Israel. Like protecting Israel a billion times more important than protecting Americans, American citizens, any other issue.
Starting point is 00:31:36 Should we have paid family leave? Should we have higher wages, lower drug? No, Israel, anybody criticizes Israel, they should be fired and canceled. That's why I'm against cancel culture. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, anybody criticizes Israel, they should be fired and canceled. That's why I'm against cancel culture.
Starting point is 00:31:47 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, giant, giant, giant hypocrites. But we should stop talking about Meghan McCain because she's totally useless. She's a former senator's daughter. Who cares? She used to be on the view,
Starting point is 00:32:04 who cares? We don't care on The View, who cares? We don't care about the people on The View now. Why would we care about ex host of The View? Gee, I wonder what Elizabeth Hasselbeck thinks, who cares? We should all stop paying attention
Starting point is 00:32:16 to Meghan McCain. She's an irrelevant loser. Yeah, well, as somebody who had a crush on Elizabeth Hasselbeck when she was on Survivor when I was a teenager, I still care what she has to say. But yeah, I think it's ridiculous where Meghan McCain is now relative to where she was when her dad was alive and when she was an anti-Trump-er. The 180 has been ridiculous. Does she think about what she's saying and doing? How she, as somebody who has
Starting point is 00:32:47 benefited solely from being his daughter, rode the coattails of nepotism into all of these positions, now all of a sudden it's, yeah, you should revoke a reporter's press credentials. Yeah, Obama should go to jail. Yeah, there's no way there's nothing.
Starting point is 00:33:06 Nobody in the administration would ever do something publicly that is a blatant lie to curry favor with Donald Trump. Listen to yourself. Who are you? Not that I ever held much respect for her.
Starting point is 00:33:19 But even before that, before Trump, she was writing all of these books with like, bipartisan centrist messaging about how we need to come together. You're on the fringes now. You've totally abandoned not just your family and everything your dad fought for, but who you claimed to be just 10 years ago. She's a laughing stock. Yeah, I agree so much that I'm not going to say anything more about that irrelevant loser. Okay, let's get into-
Starting point is 00:33:50 Let's take the break. Let's take the break when we come back light into Columbia and then their best friend Israel. the way. And I think that's the way people are going to be. And I think that's the way people are going to be. And I think that's the way people are going to be. And I think that's the way people are going to be.
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Starting point is 00:34:27 our website where you get a couple of months off for annual membership and you get all of our content anytime you want, tyt.com slash join. All right, join, join, Jordan. Take a look at this. Worried with this of a precedent
Starting point is 00:34:44 that this sets, that this sets that this proves that the Trump administration strategy of weaponizing research funding works and that this will lead them to do this more often, not less. I can tell you first of all, I am confident in the agreement we
Starting point is 00:35:03 struck. We worked again on every word. So I am confident in the agreement we struck. We worked again on every word. So I am confident it does not cross our lines that were essential to us. Of course, I'm aware of the atmosphere in which we are and we're talking to the federal government and
Starting point is 00:35:19 what other institutions are facing. Another shakedown in the books, this time with Columbia University and we've got the details. Columbia University has agreed to pay 200 million over the next three years to resolve claims it discriminated against Jewish
Starting point is 00:35:39 students. An agreement the university said will restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants. The Trump administration had terminated or paused earlier this year. As part of the agreement, the university won't be required to admit any wrongdoing. But in a statement, it did add, the institution's leaders have recognized repeatedly that Jewish students and faculty have experienced painful, unacceptable incidents and
Starting point is 00:36:07 that reform was and is needed. Now Cenk, there is a lot more to this, but what are your initial thoughts here? Yeah, so in a minute, I'm going to break down all the money that was paid and apparently I'm owed money.
Starting point is 00:36:21 So if you were discriminated at Columbia, apparently you got to get paid. Where's my goddamn money? As a Muslim, discriminated at Columbia, apparently you gotta get paid. Where's my goddamn money? As a Muslim, I was insulted 2,000 times there. Sorry, I thought I was human. No, I realize that's only for
Starting point is 00:36:33 one group of people now. The rest of us are dirt and we could be insulted all day long and nobody's going to get any money for it. But I want people to understand something that's important to this story before we give you
Starting point is 00:36:42 all the details. Columbia is not being made to do this. The people on Colombia's board, a lot of the important wealthy donors to Colombia, and the Colombia administration are all racist against Palestinians, and
Starting point is 00:36:58 they're bigots against Muslims. And they're very happy to do this. They're not like, Donald Trump twisted my arm. No, he didn't. No, they love that they have an happy to do this. They're not like, Donald Trump twisted my arm. No, he didn't. No, they love that they have an excuse to be bigots against Muslims.
Starting point is 00:37:10 That's what Colombia has been trying to do the whole time. Yeah, there is a giant racial and bigotry problem in Colombia. It's against Muslims by the deeply racist Colombia administration. And every member of the Colombia board that didn't resign over this
Starting point is 00:37:26 should hang their head in shame for their deep racism and bigotry. So I'll explain why in a minute. Well, on top of the 200 million in grant repayment, the school will also pay a $21 million settlement as part of a US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Starting point is 00:37:43 investigation. Columbia has agreed to submit to a federal monitor that will assure compliance with admissions and hiring practices and provide certain information about students to immigration authorities. So what will that look like in practice? Columbia must also review its admissions policy for international students and ensure those applicants are asked why they want to study in the United States. Earlier this year, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents
Starting point is 00:38:16 detained some international students who had been outspoken pro-Palestinian advocates at Columbia. And administration officials have said that, quote, pro-Hamas, quote, radical students should be deported. On Fox Business, Secretary of Education, Lynn McMahon, took a victory lap. victory for conservatives who've wanted to do things on these elite camp it is for a long time because we had such far left leaning
Starting point is 00:38:48 professors and with 27% of the students that are coming in, are from outside of the United States. I think that's one of Harvard stats and so Columbia is clearly on board. I'm really pleased with this
Starting point is 00:39:02 victory. If wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump were not president, then I'm really pleased with this victory. It wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump were not president. And I'm really pleased to execute his vision for this that our campuses are now what they should be. They're places for debate,
Starting point is 00:39:17 they're places for education. They're not places for left leaning riots and anti-Semitism. And I'm really pleased with this result. Now under this agreement, the Trump administration was, sorry, until this agreement,
Starting point is 00:39:34 the Trump administration was dangling 400 million in federal funds for research over Columbia's head. That funding will now be reinstated. One of the faculty union leaders on campus expressed his frustration over the agreement in a statement to the Washington Post.
Starting point is 00:39:53 Michael Thaddeus, a professor of mathematics, an acting president of the Columbia chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said in an email Wednesday that students and scholars at American universities must be free to think and
Starting point is 00:40:07 speak their minds. And that the settlement risks imperiling that freedom. Columbia's insistence that it will not allow the government to interfere in appointments, admissions or curriculum is welcome. Yet the creation of a monitor
Starting point is 00:40:23 charged with scrutinizing our admissions data and our Middle Eastern Studies Department opens the door to just such interference. Cenk. Yeah, so I went to Columbia Law and when I went there, there were people from across the world there.
Starting point is 00:40:39 And I guess now they're not going to take people from the Middle East as much. And so, but they're battling going to take people from the Middle East as much. And so, but they're battling bigotry? But wait, you just said you're going to discriminate against
Starting point is 00:40:53 foreign students, period. Do you think they're going to discriminate against Israeli students? Laugh along with me, laugh along with me, okay? So of course they're not going to do that, they're going to target
Starting point is 00:41:06 Muslim students and Arab students. So while fighting bigotry and racism, right? Liars, giant, giant liars. You know that Columbia alumni were the ones that were first like, how dare they protest Israel? Kick them off campus,
Starting point is 00:41:22 don't let them graduate. Okay, they're disgusting, because it's all about protecting Israel. So what happened? What happened to free speech? No, not on a college campus. How dare you do free speech on a college campus?
Starting point is 00:41:34 Bow your head to Israel, okay? Well, you guys just canceled $400 million. That looks like cancel culture, you canceled the money. Bow to Israel, okay? So what is this dumb asses? Again, not dumb, sorry,
Starting point is 00:41:47 take it back, perfectly smart. They're like, we have to give $200 million to the Trump administration. Golly gee, no, and we have to ban anyone from criticizing Israel, and we have to redo our Middle Eastern department so that it doesn't teach history, it teaches Israeli propaganda.
Starting point is 00:42:08 Shucks, don't make us do it, said the bigots on Columbia's board, Columbia administration, who deeply hate Muslims and have nothing but disdain for us, okay? So part of this settlement is randomly Jewish students are going
Starting point is 00:42:26 to get $20 million. What, $20 million? So what, because somebody said something anti-Semitic. First of all, I don't even believe it, but okay, if you have instances where you can show it on tape or whatever, what is it?
Starting point is 00:42:39 Are people going to come and go, yeah, I was kind of offended, dude. Yeah, I love Israel, man. So what, we're starving to kids to death, give me money. And Columbia is like, come and go, yeah, I was kind of offended, dude. Yeah, I love Israel, man. So what, we're starving the kids to death, give me money. And Columbia is like, here you go, sir, you're pro genocide, check, pro genocide, check,
Starting point is 00:42:52 ethnic cleansing. You like starving babies, check, okay? Well, where's my check? I went to Columbia, I was against the occupation from day one. I said, why should the Palestinians
Starting point is 00:43:01 be the only people considered so violent and outrageously terrorists that they can't ever be a sovereign nation. They can't be, everyone else can have an independent nation, but the Palestinians can't. And they say shut up, you're not allowed to have
Starting point is 00:43:14 that opinion. You're a Muslim, terrorist, savage, etc. Where's my goddamn money? Where's all the kids, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish, who fought for peace, who fought for peace,
Starting point is 00:43:23 who fought against genocide. You don't get any money. But if you love genocide, Colombia is going to go write you a check. They're going to write you a check for that. I'm so disgusted, I wish I never
Starting point is 00:43:35 went to that place. I should have picked some other law school, but I didn't know. I didn't know that the school was secretly the entire agenda was to help the Israeli government. What a sick disgusting place. So in Colombia's official position
Starting point is 00:43:52 now is pro genocide, disgusting. Okay, if you say no, no, no, no, Cenk, Cenk, I saw them take over a building, like in the Vietnam war protest, they never did that, right? But that was just about complaining about America. You can complain about America all day long in Colombia, anywhere else, you're did that, right? But that was just about complaining about America.
Starting point is 00:44:05 You can complain about America all day long in Colombia, anywhere else. You're not going to get a paycheck for that. You complain about Israel. You're going to get fired, deported, and the guy who said that
Starting point is 00:44:13 you said something bad about Israel is going to get a big, fat check. They're incentivizing people to be bigots against Muslims. Go find a dirty Muslim who says something that you don't like, and we'll give you money for it.
Starting point is 00:44:27 Disgusting, disgusting. That will be a stain on everyone on Colombia's board for the rest of their lives. If you have on your resume that you are a member of the Columbia Board of Trustees now, that's a scarlet letter.
Starting point is 00:44:46 Those are the people who hated Muslims and loved the genocide. And they bowed to Trump and said, yes, Donald Trump, here's $200 million, okay? To change our Middle Eastern Department, only Israeli propaganda, only Israeli propaganda.
Starting point is 00:45:02 No truth allowed at Columbia. What a waste, can I just get my money back for the tuition? I didn't know I was going to an Israeli propaganda school. I thought I was going to a college in America, an esteemed college in America.
Starting point is 00:45:16 No, so guys think about how stupid this is. So they're going to pay the, we got to get the 400 million back in medical research. So we're going to give the Trump administration $200 million. Guys, after Trump is gone, they're gonna get the money anyway, and Harvard's probably gonna win the lawsuit.
Starting point is 00:45:37 Columbia knows Harvard's gonna win the lawsuit. My dad was right. He's like, you work little harder, you go to Harvard. I should have, my dad was right. He's like, you work little harder, you go to Harvard. I should have gone to Harvard. I shouldn't have settled for Columbia, but I didn't know they were bigots.
Starting point is 00:45:52 So yeah, they've shamed us all. And so this is not an American university. This is not a place where you go for higher education and you get unbiased history, foreign policy, politics, philosophy, you learn about things.
Starting point is 00:46:13 This is just a protection racket for a foreign government, and I'm beyond disgusted by it. Cenk, I want to point out, while they wrap this in equal opportunity language and fighting discrimination as you rightfully point out, this only goes one way. These protections would end this government intervention would never be afforded to Muslim students and we
Starting point is 00:46:38 have proof. Chris Hedges has a new book out and he details some of the treatment that Muslim students at Columbia have some of the treatment and discrimination they have encountered and lived with at Columbia over the past couple years. For instance, on April 25th of this year, during Columbia's senior boat
Starting point is 00:46:59 cruise, Muslim students who were identified as participating or participants in the campus encampment were harassed, yelled at and had drinks poured on them. No intervention by the Trump administration or Columbia University.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Where's their $20 million? Where's their $20 million? They were literally assaulted. But they're Muslim, so it doesn't matter. You could assault them. Just go ahead and assault them. As long as they're criticizing
Starting point is 00:47:23 Israel, beat the living crap out of them like they did at UCLA. I know you have more, I have one too. I want to see if you have the one I have, go ahead and assault them. As long as they're criticizing Israel, beat the living crap out of them like they did at UCLA. I know you have more, I have one too, I want to see if you have the one I have, go ahead. January 2024, former Israeli soldiers studying at Columbia used skunk spray to assault students on
Starting point is 00:47:39 the steps of Low Library. The university initially said that they banned those students who use the skunk spray and they were later allowed back onto campus. Students who are participating in the encampments who were Jewish, not even Muslim this time,
Starting point is 00:47:55 they were Jewish and they wanted to use the kosher kitchens were harassed by other students in there. Just so we're simply participating in these protests. So yes, of course, you can treat Muslim students however you want if you're on Columbia's campus.
Starting point is 00:48:09 Also, if you don't align with Columbia's apparent pro-genocide stance, you also can be harassed and discriminated against. It's absolutely disgusting. I'm sure there are many more, maybe you have some. Yeah, there was a guy that ran over
Starting point is 00:48:24 peace protesters, including a little old lady, maybe you have some. Yeah, there was a guy that ran over peace protesters, including a little old lady right outside of Columbia. Now he was arrested, thank God. I mean, I guess that's still illegal, but I mean, again, they did massive assault on UCLA's campus, the Israeli supporters did.
Starting point is 00:48:40 And the police stood by, they were literally on the scene for three hours and they let them beat the crap out of the peace protesters. And the police stood by, they were literally on the scene for three hours and they let them beat the crap out of the peace protesters. And there's no congressional investigations, nobody's getting money,
Starting point is 00:48:52 there's no crackdown. Okay, in Colombia, so at least that guy got arrested for trying to murder people. Did you guys ever hear that? You didn't hear it, right? Because no, that's he's pro-Israel. So it's okay.
Starting point is 00:49:08 If you're pro-Israel, you try to murder people, there's no congressional investigations. There's no Muslims getting paid. In that case, it's not even Muslims. Again, there's always,
Starting point is 00:49:16 in the peace protest, guys, there's Muslims, Christians, Jews, atheists, everyone, okay? And I love them. I love every one of them. Everyone who makes it about religion, and who's making it about religion, Trump and Colombia.
Starting point is 00:49:31 No, the Muslims shouldn't be protected, Christians shouldn't be protected. Only supporters of Israel should be protected. How about the guys who got run over by a car, how about them? No, no protection, no protection.
Starting point is 00:49:42 Only pro-Israel people are protected at Columbia. So, okay, you work for a foreign government. You're not in higher education, all of them humiliated for the rest of their lives. Sick people, you're going to be
Starting point is 00:49:55 known forever. If you're part of that administration now, or you're on the board, you're going to be known forever as genocide supporters. You're going to go in a museum, they're going to have your name.
Starting point is 00:50:05 These were the people who paid money to folks who were in favor of genocide because they felt offended by the people who said that Israel was doing a genocide. Can you imagine? I mean, you could take any genocide or Holocaust you like, okay?
Starting point is 00:50:20 The Armenian genocide, the Holocaust against Jews by the Nazis. Imagine they're like, the German students at Columbia were offended that people were calling out the concentration camps, etc. in Germany.
Starting point is 00:50:35 Well, the Germans were offended. Pay $200 million to the government for offending the Germans. Pay 20 million to the German students who are offended about what you said about the Nazis or any other one. You criticize Pope Paul, okay,
Starting point is 00:50:51 they give me money, give them money. You criticize the Ottoman Empire for slaughtering Armenians, you owe the Turks money. You don't owe the Armenians money, you owe the Turks money, because we were offended.
Starting point is 00:51:03 I mean, if the Turks made that case we'd be laughed out of the building and we should be. Money because we're offended, because we committed a genocide. How does that make any sense? But if you applied for the Israelis, they're like,
Starting point is 00:51:16 of course, of course, how dare you? How dare you offend the most important people of all, the great and almighty Israeli citizens. If you offend them, you owe everybody money, even if they commit to slaughter.
Starting point is 00:51:29 I'm sick of it, sick of it. I can't wait for us for actual Independence Day. We are occupied by Israel. Colombia is occupied, Washington is occupied. We just had a vote, 422 to 6, in Congress to give Israel another $500
Starting point is 00:51:45 million in the middle of a genocide. Imagine if the Ottoman Empire was like, hey, I'm busy murdering Armenians, send me $500 million, I haven't murdered enough of them. And America was like, yes, sir, of course, sir. The most important thing is
Starting point is 00:51:59 Turks, sir. Well, how can we assist you in your slaughter of the Armenians, sir? And that's what we're doing now. But if you say it, I'm offended, sir. Well, how can we assist you in your slaughter of the Armenians, sir? And that's what we're doing now. But if you say it, I'm offended. I'm offended. I don't give a goddamn that you're
Starting point is 00:52:12 offended. I'm offended by the 20,000 babies and children that Israel slaughtered. And that's not anti-Semitism. It is a literal fact. They drop bombs, the children were lit on fire. And right now,
Starting point is 00:52:27 111 people have already died of starvation, 10 of them in the last 24 hours. A six week old baby just died because Israel will not send any food inside Gaza. Their disgusting government is filled with terrorists and
Starting point is 00:52:44 Colombians kissing their ass. You're all going in a museum of the people who are the most deeply hateful people in American history. The people who loved, supported, cheered and applauded at genocide. That's Columbia's board. That's Columbia's administration.
Starting point is 00:53:01 I hope that's clear enough. All right, I know we're short on time, but let's do the mom, Donnie, sir, because I want to light into someone there as well. And that's where you're going. All right, I know we're short on time, but let's do the Mamdani story because I want to light into someone there as well. And that's where you're going to be right, Jordan. Go ahead. Okay. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has been the latest establishment Democrat to criticize Zoran Mamdani for refusing to condemn the phrase globalize the intifada. We'll tell you what Shapiro said in a moment, but Cenk, I don't know if
Starting point is 00:53:29 your temper has settled down a little bit. What are your initial reactions to some of Shapiro's comments? My initial reaction is you were right, Jordan. Jordan and I had a debate. I backed Josh Shapiro for
Starting point is 00:53:43 VP before Kamala Harris made her selection. Jordan backed Tim Walz. And look, as I told Jordan at the time, I didn't think there was any chance she was going to pick Tim Walz, but she did and I gave her credit for that.
Starting point is 00:53:57 But I shouldn't have backed Josh Shapiro, so Josh Shapiro turns out is Israel first. So, Mamdani never said globalize the Antifada. Now he's telling people they shouldn't said globalize the Intifada. Now he's telling people they shouldn't say globalize the Intifada, but it's never enough.
Starting point is 00:54:08 It's never enough because it's not about that. Josh Shapiro doesn't care about that. He doesn't care about Jewish Americans. He cares about protecting Israel. So let's listen to what the liar Josh Shapiro has to say about
Starting point is 00:54:17 Mamdani. In an interview with Jewish insider Shapiro stated the following, Mamdani seemed to run a campaign that excited New Yorkers. It's true, then he goes on. He also seemed to run a campaign where he left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly anti-Semitic things. You have to speak and act with moral clarity and when supporters of yours say things that are blatantly anti-Semitic, you can't
Starting point is 00:54:51 leave room for that to just sit there. You've got to condemn that. Here are the other establishment Democrats who have criticized criticized Mom Donnie's comments. Take a look. I don't really agree with virtually any of it politically. So that's just where I'm at as a Democrat. When you have socialists, when you have socialists in the Democratic Party, I don't know
Starting point is 00:55:14 how anybody could argue that that would be beneficial for the party or for the country. Globalizing the Antifata by way of example is not an acceptable phrase and he's going to have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward. When you'll notice throughout all of this smearing of Mamdani, nobody can point to anything he specifically himself has said. It's always something someone else has said that Mamdani is supposed to answer for and
Starting point is 00:55:45 respond to as a candidate for mayor of New York City. Cenk, for the sake of time here, I want to bring you in. What do you think of Shapiro's comments and these ongoing attacks against Mamdani? All these guys, with the exception
Starting point is 00:55:58 of D Phillips who criticize them on the economy, are giant liars. They keep saying it like he said, globalizing the end of fight, he never said that. What a weird thing to ask somebody, isn't that a super weird thing? Will you condemn words you've
Starting point is 00:56:12 never said? Why am I getting asked this? What is this? What the hell is this? And they say, okay, end of fight could mean two different things. I don't use that word because it
Starting point is 00:56:21 can be misinterpreted. But does it also mean an uprising that is political? Yes, it does also mean that. No, that one doesn't count. Well, why doesn't it count? No, because I want to call you an anti-Semite.
Starting point is 00:56:35 But why do you want to call me an anti-Semite? because you're criticizing Israel. Yeah, that's why, that's why. He didn't even say it, you liars. He didn't even say it, okay? So. He didn't even say it, okay? So okay, now let's make up something about Josh Shapiro and
Starting point is 00:56:49 pretend he said it and go, will you condemn it? Will you condemn it? Well, he's going to say, what the hell, I didn't even say that, right? So okay, Josh Shapiro said we should murder Palestinian babies.
Starting point is 00:56:58 Well, he goes, wait a minute, Josh Shapiro didn't say that. Well, mum, dad, he didn't say globalize the defada. So what are you up his ass for? Because you don't like that he criticized Israel.
Starting point is 00:57:08 Why don't you be honest, Josh? Governor Shapiro, why don't you be honest about how you want to protect your beloved Israel? Now I believe in Josh Shapiro, that's why I'm angry at myself. I thought they'd done a couple of positive things and maybe he could
Starting point is 00:57:23 hold Israel accountable because he cared about the situation and cared about Israel and right now Israel's on a disastrous path. But no, no, no, no. Okay, now let's talk about what Josh Shapiro actually did say, because we won't do the same dirty
Starting point is 00:57:36 tricks that he's doing against Mom Donnie. Okay, so you say that Mom Donnie does not have enough moral clarity. Well, Governor Shapiro, do you have moral clarity? Have you condemned the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of
Starting point is 00:57:51 the Palestinians? Have you condemned Israel for killing over 20,000 Palestinian children? Have you strongly condemned Israel for starving Palestinian children to death as we speak? Because those are your actual positions, they're
Starting point is 00:58:05 not made up positions. So tell us how you feel about that. Give us moral clarity, Governor Shapiro. You have no moral clarity on that because you have no morality on that. You're in favor of a disgusting genocide. But you couch that in terms of, I'm upset at Mom Dani for offending me, guess what Governor Shapiro, I'm offended. I'm offended that you don't care about 20,000 dead Palestinian
Starting point is 00:58:36 children. No, Cenk, your offense doesn't matter. You're a Muslim, no one cares about you. Who cares if you're offended? Who cares if we slaughtered your children?
Starting point is 00:58:46 Who cares? You're just stupid Muslims, and you're not at all important. Well, they're killing Christians too, and who cares? None of them are important, only Israel is important. Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead,
Starting point is 00:58:59 go ahead, call me anti-Semite. Yeah, go ahead. I back you for VP, but it doesn't matter. It, go ahead. I back you for VP. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because if you slightly criticize Israel, anti-Semite, right? Well, okay, Josh Shapiro,
Starting point is 00:59:14 you're a bigot against Muslims. You don't care about dead Palestinian children. You only care about, I'm offended, my feelings. How about the feelings of the dead kids, Josh Shapiro? Are you offended by that? Are you offended that Israel has
Starting point is 00:59:32 taken our money and slaughtered 59,000 people at a minimum now? No, no, maybe 11,000 of them are Hamas, okay, made up numbers, but okay, out of gratitude. So you're okay with them slaughtering 48,000 civilians? Hamas, they're the dirtiest
Starting point is 00:59:49 terrorists. They killed 1,200 people. I agree with you, Josh Shapiro. Terrible, terrorists, 1,200 people, terrible. A little over 800 of them are civilians, 36 of them were children, terrible.
Starting point is 01:00:00 48,000 dead civilians, 20,000 dead civilians, 20,000 dead children. And Josh Shapiro says, don't care, not at all offended by what Israel's doing. Not at all offended by what Israel is doing to Muslim kids,
Starting point is 01:00:18 to Christians, to Palestinians. But Mamdani didn't condemn a phrase he didn't say. So Josh Shapiro find himself deeply offended. Look, we already knew that Fetterman was a giant sellout. We, Richie Torres, all those guys,
Starting point is 01:00:35 they work for Israel. We got it, we got it. But I thought Josh Shapiro actually was a real person, a real American who cared about this country. But the minute the chips are, we got a dirty, that Muslim Democrat,
Starting point is 01:00:49 how dare he oppose Israel? Brother, man, you're making it super obvious. If you'd like to be governor of Tel Aviv, move to goddamn Tel Aviv. They should vote against Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania. No, Cenk, don't say that.
Starting point is 01:01:04 He's a beloved Democrat. What have Democrats done for us? What have Democrats done to stop this genocide? The minute there's a Democrat who condemns the genocide, all of a sudden all the Democrats unite to smear him.
Starting point is 01:01:17 They're not just opposing his policies, they're doing character assassination. They're putting words in his mouth, fake words he didn't say, then condemning him for it. Because beloved Israel, assassination. They're putting words in his mouth, fake words he didn't say, then condemning him for it, because beloved Israel,
Starting point is 01:01:28 how dare he oppose ethnic cleansing? I mean, they're just Muslims. Come on, who complains about, your people were ethnically cleansed, who cares? Your people aren't important. My people are important, Josh Shapiro says.
Starting point is 01:01:43 F you, Josh Shapiro, okay? Are you offended by that? Good, good, I'm glad you're offended. Why don't you try caring about children despite what their religion or nationality or ethnicity is?
Starting point is 01:01:56 Just try that for a minute. I know I'm asking for a big, big ass there. Big ass to care about Muslims, when we should all be focused only on kissing Israel's ass, screw Josh Shapiro. Yeah, I just for the sake of time, want people to think about how
Starting point is 01:02:16 warped of a world we live in, where the candidate for New York's mayor, who is running on issues. His entire campaign was centered on issues that help the working class. And the political and media elite are all trying to force a narrative
Starting point is 01:02:36 on him apologizing or denouncing things he has never said. Think about that. Why don't they want this person, aside from deference and support and love of Israel, why do they not want this person to succeed if it helps the wider population of New
Starting point is 01:02:54 York? So there's a two pronged issue here and of course, it's their deference and love and support to Israel, but also they don't care about you. They would rather manufacture and focus on a false controversy than spotlight someone's policies that would make New York residents living conditions better, plain and simple.
Starting point is 01:03:20 And I need everyone to think about that because it happens in election after election after election. In Bernie in 2020, they weren't talking about his policies in many cases during campaign roundups, they would completely omit him. What was the narrative? His supporters are toxic and he has to denounce them because they don't wanna talk about how popular these policies are. No, ignore him. All these people who are excited that their life and their material conditions might change, they're toxic. Ignore them.
Starting point is 01:03:48 Focus on this guy. Focus on this establishment Democrat who's going to cut taxes for corporations, us. Make help us in the media elite, make more money, help us, the wealthy donors, make more money. They do this over and over and
Starting point is 01:04:01 over again, and it's on all of us to identify it every time it happens and call it out. Last two things, if you're not denouncing the genocide in Israel, you have no more like to stand on, and I don't want to hear a word from you, okay?
Starting point is 01:04:16 We all denounce Hamas. Israel has killed 50 times the civilians that Hamas has. If you're not denouncing what Israel's doing now, you get the tallest glass of shut up juice there is for the rest of your life. You have no morality.
Starting point is 01:04:31 You only have tribalism. Okay, and the last thing is, Josh, we all know you're trying to sound like Obama, and you look ridiculous when you do it, okay? So stew on that. All right, we gotta go. Jordan, thank you do it, okay? So stew on that. All right, we got to go. Jordan, thank you, brother, and
Starting point is 01:04:48 thank you for being right about Tim Walls. And look guys, and look guys, we lead by example. There's nothing wrong with saying you were wrong, so what? What happens then? Does your ego get hurt a little
Starting point is 01:05:00 bit, right? So Jordan, great job in that discussion, okay? All right, when we come back, we haven't even hit the starvation stories yet. Wait till you see me on that, we'll be right back. Bye!

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