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Episode Date: April 21, 2023

Episode summary: Right to Life leader in Ohio says 10-year-old rape victims should carry babies to term. Ron DeSantis went to South Carolina to talk about wokeness while his Florida constituents face a fuel shortage. Marjorie Taylor Greene was prohibited from speaking at the hearing after calling the DHS secretary a "liar." HOSTS: Cenk Uygur (@CenkUygur) & Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch: https://shoptyt.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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America, I welcome the. You guys should go to a quick tight shot on Jake so I could fix my hair. Okay, listen guys. So listen, we do have an amazing show for you guys. Of course. Elon Musk blows up, but not in the way that you would expect or at least something of it. Elon Musk blows up, that might help you understand it. We have monstrous Republicans on the show, to which of course everybody screams, of course

you do, and then Ann Coulter takes a twist. I wonder why she did that. Interesting. So without further ado, the Lady Kasperi. Yes, hey, what's up? All right, so you excited about the news today, Jay? I am. All right, I am.

The first story is going to be difficult to get through. It's going to make me incredibly angry. We put it at the top of the show, so the anger will subside as we continue on with the rest of the rundown we have prepared for you guys. But I want to give you proper warning, because if you feel the way I feel about this story, it is disturbing to say the least. Without further ado, let's do it. I know that a 10-year-old might not understand pregnancy. But I also know that a 10-year-old understands life and playing with dolls. I know when my daughter was 10 years old, she cried and begged for a little sister or a baby.

You just heard from a woman who thinks it's a great idea to force, literally force, a 10-year-old girl who has been impregnated by a rapist to bring that pregnancy to term and go through the traumatic experience of labor and childbirth. Who is that woman, you might ask? Her name is Laura Streetman, and she's the executive director of the Cincinnati Right to Life Organization. During this hearing by the Ohio House's Constitutional Resolutions Committee on Tuesday, she again argued that the 10-year-old who was in headlines months ago after she was impregnated by a rapist should have been forced to have that rapist baby. Let's watch more of what she had to say. While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman's body is designed to carry life.

That is a biological fact. It is not designed to have disgusting death instruments, remove her pre-born child from her womb. Both situations would be difficult, but we know for a fact that every single time life wins. And that, again, is a statistical fact. It's a terrible, tragic situation, and I'm sorry the rapist did not, the abortionist did not report the rape, and I'm sorry that the mother permitted this. So not only is she demanding that a horrible thing happened to a 10-year-old girl. She also lies about how the rape was not reported. The rape absolutely was reported. In fact, just to give you guys a little more context in case you missed that story, it had to do with the

10 year old girl who again was impregnated by a rapist, but because of abortion restrictions in the state of Ohio, her family had to take her to Indiana in order to get the abortion. And that story made headlines for obvious reasons. These anti-abortion laws that are passing in red states are incredibly cruel. And there seems to be a consensus on that. Even when it comes to Republican lawmakers, they tried to deflect from the story, they try to run away from the story. But not this woman, Laura Streetman thinks it's totally fine to openly, transparently, candidly urge local governments to force 10 year old girls to give childbirth, to give birth to a baby, which by the way, she's wrong about other things, including the safety of someone

that young delivering a baby. I'll give you more details on that in just a moment. Yeah. So I have a 10 year old daughter. And this woman is a lunatic. But she's not alone. They're not a lot of them. They're tiny, very loud mouth minority of religious zealots and fundamentalists. And they don't believe in democracy. So this is important context. In Ohio, they're trying to move ballot measures for them to pass from 50%, which is a normal democracy, to 60%. Why? Because they know. that they're a tiny minority, that the overwhelming majority of the people of Ohio and the country do not want to force 10 year olds to have their rapist babies. That's a lunatic position. But the right wingers want it, they want it, and the Republicans always cater to their base, so they're like, okay, let's have a legitimate debate. A 10 year old, a 10 year old, you guys, a lot of you have had 10 year old kids. I mean, how do you, first of all, it's going to kill the kid. Are you insane? Second of all, you're going to force a 10 year old to have their rapist baby?

Are you doubly insane? And the answer is definitively, yes. Yes, yes. And just notice the zealotry when it comes to this particular issue. And the argument that they will give is our zealotry is justified because we care about human lives, right? They pretend like they see the zygote as a human life, that they see this rapist fetus as a human life and should force the 10 year old to bring that person. pregnancy to term and go through the process of childbirth. Okay.

Notice that there's no zealotry on the right when it comes to the endless school shootings that actually slaughter children who are living, breathing, and viable outside the womb. No zealotry when it comes to doing something about that. Really weird, right, Jank? No, she, like, guys, for the religious zealots, it never listened. Like, their words are irrelevant. Like, they say, oh, I'm pro life. It's okay, let's get the AR-15s out of society so that we don't have these kids

butchered in our schools. I mean, you care about protecting kids' lives, right? They're like, no, no, no, no, I don't actually care about that. At all, at all, at all. Because my AR-15 and my right to murder you is like way more important than my pro-life position. They're all liars. All they want to do is control people and make them make sure that we follow their weirdo interpretation of religion.

The answer is hell no. Look, are you telling, look, like I said, I got a 10 year old. If you, this lunatic, I don't care if it's the, any legislator, I don't care what laws they pass. You are not going to get in my way when I'm going to go protect my daughter. And if you say, oh, no, no, we will punish you if you dare protect your daughter. We're going to have massive issues, massive. You think you're the only ones who can get riled up? We can get riled up.

So, no, I'm not having this. No one's having this. Will you, for God's sake, vote the bums out. These Republicans are lunatics. Vote them out. Otherwise they always do this. And the minute they get into office, they're like, okay, change the laws, change the laws so we can't lose.

Don't make it 50%, make it 60%. Don't do we gerrymandered so that we don't have to have the majority. Of course you don't want the majority because you aren't the majority. You're a big, loudmouth, right wing, tiny minority. It's time to shut them up. And by the way, Jake is not wrong when he says that it is a tiny minority, even among conservative voters. of maintaining reproductive rights.

They might not personally like abortion, they might not ever want to take advantage of that reproductive right, but they don't want to take that away from other people. They don't want the government between women and their doctors. They don't want the government making these intimate decisions on behalf of women. And to those Republican voters, I commend you for speaking out. But for the love of God, please reject policymakers who pass these restrictive laws in the these red states that only serve to control women to make their lives much more difficult. And even in cases where women aren't even seeking to get an abortion, but had a failed

pregnancy and need medical attention as a result of that, there have now been so many stories in the headlines about women who weren't able to secure the health care they needed because the doctors are terrified that if they go through with aborting that failed pregnancy, that already failed pregnancy, they might be sued. They might have to deal with litigation. They might have to deal with some serious consequences from the state. Is that really the type of state we want to live in, country we want to live in? But let me give you some more details about how stupid this woman is because she pretends

like, no, no, no, this is what females were made for, right? 10 year old girl, that's what her body is made for. Except she's wrong, it's incredibly dangerous to be a pregnant woman in the United States. as it is because of our broken health care system. But it's even more dangerous when we're talking about literal 10 year old girls. So let's go to the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health. What do they have to say? Well, they published research finding that globally,

adolescents giving birth are at higher risk of severe childbirth complications, including severe bleeding and systemic infections. Of course. And the children delivered from adolescent and teenage births, and teenage birth are more likely to be underweight, which may lead to future illnesses and physical and mental disabilities. But I mean science, who cares about science? I mean, this woman is a weird zealot who wants to control other people's bodies because of what her religious doctrine tells her. Let me give you more, though. Think about the untold mental health

damage that will be done to a 10-year-old girl who is forced to give birth to a rapist baby. Just think about that. She also incorrectly stated that abortion is never necessary, never necessary to save a mother's life, except that's a lie. The abortion, the Ohio abortion ban has been blocked indefinitely since last October while Indiana has banned abortion with limited exception. So if that 10-year-old were pregnant today, she would run into even more problems because Indiana has banned abortion. Now Ohio is considering a constitutional amendment to protect

reproductive rights and anti-choice conservatives like streetmen are fighting it every step of the way. The fall ballot proposal would assure access to abortion until what is called viability. I think that is the right way to go. When the fetus could survive outside the womb, it also would protect caregivers from being punished for performing the procedure or aiding the process. So that is why this woman is so fired up that there is an effort currently underway in Ohio to protect women's reproductive rights. Yeah, so I'm going to go to a couple members here because they said it really well. Make you see the Silver Dragon said, she said that a woman's body's made to carry a baby. When did a 10 year old become a woman? I was saying the same exact thing. That's a little

girl, not even a teenager, neither her body nor her mind are even close to carrying a baby. Look, this is obvious to all sentient human beings. But when you become a religious fundamentalist, You lose touch with all logic and reason, et cetera. Look at a tiny little 10 year old girl and you think, yeah, she should be used to carry babies, even if she's raped. Like, they don't understand that they're monsters. And they go around lecturing us as if they're the moral ones. Oh, we are more moral.

We are pro-life. No, you're 10,000 times less moral. You're evil incarnate. Oh, my God, did I offend your stupid feelings? Oh, you get to call other people evil, but when you are actually evil and we call it out, oh no, you can't do that. I'm a religious fundamentalist. No, get away from our kids.

In fact, the throat go dragging rights in another member. If you force your 10 year old to give birth, you should have child protective services called on you. 100%, 200%. And by the way, look at that liar. She said, oh, the mother permitted this about how they didn't report the, the, the, the rape. What an unbelievably terrible lie about the mom. What a disgusting human being this person is. You don't hide behind religion to do your evil. Just because you use the religion card doesn't mean your moral, especially with the right wing in this country. And by the way,

in a lot of other countries, including Muslim countries and other countries, the people who use the religion card are almost always the most immoral people in the country. I mean, that woman's face looks evil, the way that she's like scowling. You know, lawmakers as she's giving this disgusting speech. So what I mentioned earlier, the effort to protect reproductive rights in Ohio, that is a potential fall ballot proposal. The goal is to have that proposed amendment on ballots this November for voters to weigh in on. And considering what happened in some other red states when it came to reproductive rights,

you can understand why Streetman is very concerned here because the majority of Americans want to protect reproductive rights. Again, they do not want the government to get in between them and their doctors, them and their health care needs. Now, her speech, though, Streetman's speech was part of her submitted testimony in favor of House Joint Resolution 1, which would actually make it much harder to pass the reproductive rights amendment because of pro-abortion groups advocating for a constitutional amendment to protect the reproductive rights of women in Ohio.

The resolutions committee is hearing testimony on the, on H.J.R. 1, to increase the percentage of votes required to pass such amendments from 50% to 60%. So basically increase the threshold to make it even more difficult for that to go through. Because they know that people don't agree with them. They know it for a fact. If you thought the majority was on your side, would you move the ballot measures to 60%? Of course you wouldn't. But Republicans in Ohio know for an absolute fact that they are the minority, that the majority of citizens of Ohio, including other Republicans, do not agree with them. They do not agree with them. But as usual, the Republicans these days, well, we hate democracy. So if it gets in the way of our religious fundamentalism, well, I would much rather have a theocratic state like Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan than actually have a democracy. So Republicans in Ohio, just be honest about it. You hate our country, you hate our rights, and you just want to oppress us with your insane lunatic interpretation of your religion.

Speaking of which, she said, oh, you know what? They didn't even report the rape. She lied about that. But I know she lied about it, but guys, think about it. Why did the right wingers want them to report rape in order to be able to get their abortion in these laws? Because they don't believe them. They think that they're making it up. Do you think the 10 year old was making it up?

Do you think she consented? You would have, again, you just, they're forcing us to call them monsters and lunatics. A 10 year old girl was gonna consent and you're not, and you're skeptical about it? And you think that her body can carry a baby to term and risk, risk killing that 10 year old girl. What kind of monsters are you? I was like 85 pounds when I was 10 years old. I'm not even exaggerating. Now, I know, I know, I have a 10 year old.

These are the biggest monsters, the most evil people in the country. And by the way, we're not right winger. So when I say shut them up, I don't mean like the way the right winger say, oh, ban them, don't do. Don't let them speak. Don't let them speak, don't let them speak, okay, cut off their mics, et cetera. No, no, no, you speak.

I like when you tell us how evil you are. So when I say shut them up, I mean through your votes. Yes. Otherwise, these monsters are going to pass laws that are going to affect all of us, including your kids. All right, I'm going to take a break. Let's do that. When we come back, we have some updates on Andrew Lester, the man who shot a 16-year-old who happened

to end up in his address mistakenly. Stick around, we've got that story and more. All right on CYT, Chink, Anna, Daphne and JV, they just joined by hitting a join button below the video on YouTube. We appreciate it, guys. Everybody can do it at t.com slash join. Help us bring out the truth and do real news and passionate news instead of, oh, oh. 10 year old was raped and people would like to give her, have her deliver. Let's debate it. Yeah, how do you cover that story calmly? I just don't understand people who can robotically recite the details of that story. We're talking about actual human lives, okay?

And in this case, the 10 year old was fortunate in being able to get an abortion in Indiana. But considering that abortion is now banned in Indiana, think about all the other girls and women who are going to be terrorized by these disgusting anti-reproductive rights bills and laws that are passing all over the place. Real quick, though, I wanted to kind of share just to give you a sense of what kind of people we're talking about here, okay? So the president of the Susan B. Anthony pro-life America group, right? This is a group of anti-abortion lunatics. Their president has lost her mind over Donald Trump and his statement about how he is against pursuing legislation that would ban abortion nationally. It's never enough for them, okay?

They claimed that they wanted to, I mean, this is the guy who did their bidding, who succeeded in appointing and confirming three insanely conservative Supreme Court justices who reversed Roe v. Wade, effectively allowing for these red states to reverse any, reproductive rights they might have had in those states, but it's not, it's not good enough. It's not good enough until, what's her name, Marjorie Danen Felser has say over what happens in California or New York or any other state that isn't passing policies to her liking. Shut up and sit down. I mean, it's amazing to me that in her mind, Trump isn't extreme enough for her.

Yeah, yep, I'm not surprised by it, though. There's nothing that's ever extreme enough for the extremes. All right. Let's move on to something completely different, but equally as infuriating. It's an update on the shooting that we talked about earlier this week in Missouri. What was your reaction when you heard that your grandfather shot Ralph Yarrow for ringing his doorbell? I was disgusted. I thought it was terrible. Myself and my family stand with Ralph Yarrow and seeking justice. It's a horrible tragedy never should have happened.

The man who is speaking to Don Lemon in that video is Clint Ludwig, who is the grandson of Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old man who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in the head last week. Now luckily, Ralph Yarl survived the shooting, miraculously survived the shooting. And the shooter that you see in the video there, he was finally. charged for the shooting. Initially, he was not charged, but after some backlash, prosecutors decided to charge him. Now, when the prosecutors gave a press briefing on the matter, they just very vaguely mentioned that there is a racial component. Yarl is a 16-year-old black boy, the 84-year-old shooter here, Andrew Lester is a white man. And so in this interview, Lester's grandson makes an argument about what kind of behavior he's noticed about his grandfather.

Before we get to that, let's actually go to the next video. Let's watch. Well, the prosecutor in this case has suggested that there was a racial component to it. Do you believe your grandfather is racist? I believe he holds racist tendencies. He believes. Why do you say that? He's just the stock American Christian male. It's the older, you know, that's how they are.

It's the conspiracies and weird random racist things. They say, yeah, and it doesn't make sense, but they're just scared. So clearly the grandson there is saying that his grandfather is racist. He's scared. He believes in conspiracy theories. I'm going to go to one more video and then we'll discuss. Listen, you're generalizing a lot here about, you said, older Christian white males, but what do you mean by that? What do you mean they're scared? Talk to me more, please.

Yeah, just I feel like a lot of people of that generation are caught up in this 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia perpetuated by some other news stations. And he was fully into that, sitting watch Fox News all day, every day, blaring in his living. living room. And I think that stuff really kind of reinforces this negative view of minority groups and leads people to be a little. This doesn't necessarily lead people to be racist, but it reinforces and galvanizes racist people and their beliefs. So it's worth noting that his brother, Daniel Ludwig, disagrees with that take. We're going to get to his statements in just a moment. But I wanted to open it up for discussion now. What do you think about what his grandson is saying? Look, I think these things are obvious except for the gaslighting, right?

So almost all of us have at least one family friend that this has happened to, brain rot from Fox News. And they're good people. I mean, our family friends, just the most wonderful people you've ever seen, help my dad as a young Muslim immigrant that came to this country. Like, I can't begin to describe what a wonderful person he is. Watched Fox News for a couple of years and then now against immigrants. It's the power of propaganda.

I mean, propaganda is incredibly powerful. It just is. And I've seen it happen to various people in my life as well, whether they're watching Fox News or they're relying on social media and all sorts of questionable websites that aren't exactly credible for their news. And I don't know what the immediate solution is, but I do think it's really important to, as part of curriculum, teach media literacy in high school. Yeah, just, but look guys, this doesn't just affect the right wing.

I've seen it affect a lot of people. It does, it does affect a lot of people. Like, not everybody, and remember everybody's different, right? But a certain percentage of the population, when they see something on air or they read it in print, they just assume it's true. That's true, yeah. 100%, they don't even question it. But once their mind is set, like someone has captured their mind, then if they see other things that print or on air, they just totally ignore it. It's just, it's an amazing sociological phenomenon.

And so, and does Fox News, I love the words that he used. And we're gonna get to what we said about this earlier and how we could see this coming, because it's relevant to the story, but I love the words that that grandson used. It doesn't necessarily create racism, but it reinforces and galvanizes people who had leanings in that direction, right? And if you watch Fox News, that is not a debatable proposition. They're constantly talking about the black culture and the cities are burning and they're coming for us. Remember the 2020 campaign Trump? Oh, Biden's America, everything's gonna burn down and the minorities and the caravans of immigrants, they're coming for you.

And remember white replacement theory, yeah, all of that stuff. So guys, the only reason you debate that is if you're having a gaslighting conversation, it's all over Fox News, there's no question they're doing it. So for them to go, oh, golly gee, did we call immigrants dirty and dangerous? And the same thing about black people. Golly gee, right? No, that's exactly what's happening. And unfortunately, it's literally brainwashing tons of people.

And unfortunately, they're targeting the most vulnerable. People who are older. And at 84, I don't know what his mental health situation was. But by the way, no excuses for that guy. That guy should definitely spend the rest of his life in jail. She shot a teenager through a glass door that was locked. come on he could have called the cops instead he waited for minutes it clearly see it's a teenager the teenager clearly not trying to break in because he rang the doorbells sat there for two to three

minutes and then the guy comes and murders him because he's been no no he didn't murder him I'm sorry yeah I know I made that mistake he tried to murder him he tried to murder yeah again thank God he's luckily he's been discharged from the hospital he is recovering again it's like one of the most miraculous parts of the story, considering he was literally shot twice, once in the head, okay? A 16 year old, a teenager who ended up in the wrong address as he's trying to pick up his siblings, get shot in the head. Welcome to America. Okay, so we've got more details for you. One more clip featuring the grandson Clint Ludwig, and then we're going to get to Ludwig's brother Daniel, who has a different perspective.

you said that your grandfather would say or do things apparently that you did not subscribe to that caused you to distance yourself from him say and do things like what that's right a lot of it was the kind of Q and on level conspiracies about election denying and then they got really weird with some Fauci dogs. I really didn't know what that meant. But I would push back on some of this stuff and he couldn't handle being pushed back on. And at a certain point, we kind of lost touch and I think it was more of his choice than mine. I think a lot of people can relate to that as well, right?

Just the inability to have a relationship with family members who have different perspectives and might push back on some of the conspiracy theories that family members have bought into, thanks to the propaganda that is just repeated over and over again in certain types of media. Okay, I just got to jump one thing. So these conspiracy theories are always the touchiest people on earth. They'll say like, oh, I think that the Democrats and Tom Hanks go and murder children and eat their brains. And you go, I think that's probably not true. And they go, how dare you insult me?

Dude, you just said people are eating babies. I mean, that's not insulting. but me saying, I don't think you're right at all about things you're saying that are clearly insane is like, oh, dare you. Of course they eat the baby's brains. Like what do? I know. You can't get offended if you say crazy crap like that. I know, but you know what also doesn't help? And everyone just calm down, okay, because I'm not trying to make excuses for Q and on or anything like that. But what doesn't help is the way media handles certain theories or certain claims, Like for instance, the COVID lab leak theory, right?

They immediately brush that off and claim that it's not true. Definitely not true. Look away, look away. And look, I'm saying that because when it comes to trying to have a conversation with people who believe some of these conspiracy theories that are so outlandish, how do you debunk what they believe if the sources you need to rely on happen to be legacy media outlets who have lied, who have covered up stories? So, but Anna, that actually I would argue is part of this same.

phenomenon. So let me explain. So yes, Fox News brainwashes people into like, oh, the others are dirty and dangerous and they're coming for you and you should probably shoot them on your porch. But CNN and New York Times brainwashes you into corporate rule is fantastic. We shouldn't change anything. The status goes great. If a politician takes millions of dollars in bribes, it's not really a bribe. Look away, look away. So when they, so they have their own set of lies. And by the way, if you talk to someone who watches CNN and reads New York Times and you tell them they're watching propaganda, they'll be just as outrage as the other conspiracy theorists. And so when they say, oh, a lab leak that would involve government officials doing, they're making mistakes.

Of course not. The powerful are always right. Well, you sound like a lunatic. And then the other side then latches on to that and go, well, I know that's a lie. And then they tell me the politicians are honest, even though they're taking millions, in fact, billions of dollars from drug companies? See, that's a giant lie. That makes them go, oh, the whole thing's a fraud. I mean, everybody knows that Pfizer's not going to give you like tens of millions of dollars to all these greasy corrupt politicians for their health. They're doing it to bribe them, right? And mainstream media goes, no, they're not. They're all very honest and wonderful people. So there's propaganda everywhere. And it is literally driving the country crazy.

It is. It is 100%. All right. So I want to now move on to what Clint Ludwig's brother is saying, because his brother Daniel disagrees. He has a different perspective. Daniel Ludwig doesn't think his grandfather would have opened fire had Ralph not gone for the door, the older sibling told the Kansas City Star. So he doesn't think that it has anything to do with racism. He genuinely thinks that his 84 year old grandfather was so scared that he felt the need to fire a gun through a glass door that was locked to shoot a 16 year old in the head. Okay, let's give you more. Daniel told the New York Times in a text that it was not accurate to describe his grandfather as espousing extreme right wing views and conspiracy theories, but he declined to comment in detail.

These people are not close to him like I am, he said of other family members, adding that his grandfather was literally too nice and had spoiled other relatives. Oh, come on, dude. Well, let's- He shot a 16 year old in the head. It's not exactly what I'd call too nice. So look, Daniel sounds like he largely agrees with the grandfather. But I'm not, Daniel didn't try to kill anyone. Okay, he's defending his grandfather. I don't care.

But I'm glad we're giving the context. Some family members think the guy was a racist who watched Fox News and was headed in this direction. And others don't. We gave you the context. His ex-wife also spoke to the press, to the New York Times to be specific. and she said, she said that he had serious anger issues. Of course he did. Of course he did. But he's very nice. He's very nice, very nice.

All right. So look, guys, the reason we show you predictions that we got right is because I want you to know that we're not Monday morning quarterbacking it. All of this stuff is super obvious and it's so frustrating to us that the rest of the media goes like, I can't see it. I don't know what you're talking. Anyway, so in this case, here's yet another prediction we got right. Sharon Reddy writes in that old man is the victim of the fear mongering right too. What an effing mess. Look, he ain't victim of anything.

So I don't shed a single tier for that guy. He looks as mean and stupid as he apparently is. Having said that yes, they take all of these guys are older guys. Again, is my speculation. I guarantee that they watch right wing media. Guarantee it. Guarantee it. it, write it down in goddamn stone.

They religiously watched right wing media, but I'm speculating. Well, again, of course, because it's obvious, guys, but they'll gaslight you and go, oh, you can't, you don't know that he's watching Fox News, and it turns out, of course he was watching Fox News all day. Now, just to give you an update on the shooter here, he is out on Bond. So yesterday, he pleaded guilty to the charges of assault in the first degree. and armed criminal action. He is out on $200,000 bond and is due back in court on June 1st.

No, no, this is outrageous. He shouldn't get bond. And I know the people say, oh, hey, we should get rid of bail. No, no, we shouldn't. He's dangerous. But look at this guy's. He could have murdered a 16-year-old. I'm sorry, no, he needs to be in custody.

What if a lawyer goes to his door? What if a mailman goes to his door? He's the most obvious danger to people's lives I've ever seen. And he's out on bond? No, he's like, he tried to murder that poor kid. Of course he should be in jail. All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we're gonna watch Marjorie Green make a fool out of herself.

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Breaking news? Yes, the Associated Press is reporting that Biden's re-election announcement will come as soon as next week. So he is, in fact, planning to run for re-election. Great. Why do I say great? Because that means all of the establishment Democrats will not be in the race. So they believe in bowing their heads to power, no matter how ridiculous and absurd. No matter how bad the polling is, no matter what the chance of losing the Republicans,

are people like Gavin Newsom are weaklings. And so they will say, okay, right. Yes, sir, absolutely, sir. So there'll be no establishment Democrats in the race other than Joe Biden. So that leaves a lane for progressives to come in there and kick his ass. So obviously, Marianne Williamson's already in the race. By the way, she's already up to 10. Dude, she's actually kind of killing it right now. She is. Like, she keeps increasing support in the polls. But on top of that, when it comes to young voters, they're actually pretty fired up about her. And Marianne Williamson's TikTok page is really blowing up. 100%. I told you this like a week or two ago. So they're calling her mom on TikTok. They are. And mom says it's okay to cut the defense budget. Okay. And by the

way, you have to give Marianne Williamson tremendous credit. I do. Yeah. Because she had the courage to actually step in there. And she knew what was going to happen. And I know that for a fact. She knew the media was going to say, oh, not credible and go after her for being spiritual, et cetera, lie about her as they did last time around. And she's like, come for me. Mom says Biden's not good enough. Okay, so we need someone to actually beat Republicans. You know what Biden's going to do?

He's going to fall asleep on the campaign trail. And they can't look, the people in Washington care so much more about power and greed than they do about reality. So that's why when they see a poll showing Biden being deeply unpopular, they're like, no, no, he's the only one who can beat Trump. Why? There's tons of people who could beat Trump. Trump's an imbecile. I guarantee you we're going to hear the same arguments over and over again. A thousand times. By the way, Joe Biden nearly lost the Trump, 43,000 votes in three swing states. You know, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 76,000 votes in three swing states, right? So these are razor thin margins, you know why?

Because they take a deeply unpopular politician like Donald Trump, and they run a deeply unpopular politician against them. Did you know that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were two out of the top three most unpopular presidential candidates in American history? And we were like, run Bernie. Do Bernie's really popular? I can see the polls. Why can't you read numbers?

Bernie's killing Trump. They're like, no, it can't be. No one in power likes Bernie. Everyone in Washington thinks that he would end corruption and we don't like that. No, people love Hillary Clinton. No, the polling shows, the people really hate her. No, she's the only one who could beat Trump. And this time around, you will see it.

I'll tell you ahead of time, turn on to any cable news station. New York Times, NPR, turned to any of them. And they will all robotically say, Joe Biden is the only one who could beat Donald Trump, even though he almost lost. But by the way, they'll never tell you that. They'll never even tell you that. he barely won by 43,000 votes. And he's way more unpopular now than when he was running last time.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, the thing is Trump doesn't have the stink of coronavirus response on him anymore. Yeah. And it's going to give him an advantage for sure. Biden's got the stink of coronavirus response on him. He's got a lot of things on it. So yes, so we'll see how it plays out. I do give Marianne Williamson a lot of credit for, you know,

putting her hat, her name in the hat, especially given the treatment that she has already dealt with from, you know, establishment Democrats, from Biden's team with Corrine Jean-Pierre during a White House press briefing mocking her and making fun of her. So it takes a tremendous amount of strength to do what Marianne Williamson is doing. And I think it's important for Biden to be challenged, especially by someone that, is to the left of him. So as I mentioned, the Associated Press is reporting this. They spoke to three individuals who are privy to the conversations.

And the people who, of course, spoke on condition of anonymity, tell the Associated Press that they're not aware that a final decision, about a final decision on timing. Like, they know that it's probably going to come out next week. They don't know the exact date. But they do believe that the upcoming announcement will be released in the form of a video, released to supporters. That's going to be so exciting.

And Biden has repeatedly said that he intends to run for a second term, but advisors say he felt little need to jump into campaigning right away, probably because he's got certain advantages like the entire Democratic establishment rallying for him. He says, which he's not really going to campaign. I mean, he's going to do super standard stump speeches that are going to be so boring and nobody's going to pay attention to him. Like if I was Biden, I would take one of my few advantages, which is that we have record low unemployment. And every day I'd be out there going record low unemployment, record low unemployment, best president ever, record low unemployment. What is he going to do on the campaign truck? And everybody in Washington is going to be like, oh, so brave and great, what a fighter.

Like guys, stop gaslighting us. We all have eyes. And in the old days, you could just lie on an industrial scale and people believed you. Now the internet exists. We can see Joe Biden. We can see his poll numbers. They're disastrous. And by the way, the reason why people in power aren't even worried about Donald Trump

is because they think Donald Trump can't win. I don't know anyone in the club who likes him. No, you schmucks, he has one giant advantage that you guys are completely blind to. He hates the establishment. And the country hates the establishment. So yes, he's got a thousand other problems and he's a monster and a liar and all those things. But when he goes, F you to the establishment, everybody goes, oh, in Washington, they're like, oh, everybody hates that, right?

They love the establishment, right? No, they hate the establishment. That's why he still has an excellent chance of winning. So don't just run this feeble dude, but they will unless we beat him. And yes, we should definitely beat them a number, beat Biden in a primary. Yes, a primary is a fantastic thing. Whoever has stronger primaries has a much better chance of winning the general election. You will hear 100% lies from the mainstream media telling you the opposite.

They're like, did you know that in 1972 it really didn't. help. And in 1980, it also did not help President Carter. Yeah, how about the last two elections where the Democrats had a giant primary in 2020 and they won. They fought each other and they won. And then 2016, the Republicans had a giant primary. They fought each other like nuts. They were talking about penis length and they won. They were talking about penis length. They won. Like strong, contentious primaries helped the candidate win. But mark my words, Every single news actor and pundit on TV will lie to you 24-7 about that and say primaries heard. Why?

Because they don't want the powerful challenge. Absolutely. All right, let's move on because Marjorie Green continues to be an embarrassment. And this is definitely no exception. You can't lie about the fact, Secretary, Secretary Mayorkas, while you live in denial and sit over there with this attitude that you're doing everything right, you are killing Americans with your policies. That actually ended up being the moment that got Congresswoman Marjorie Green. and her ridiculous statements silenced during a GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee hearing. Now, let's watch the entirety of her statements with some more context.

She's speaking to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, and here's how that went. China is poisoning America's children, poisoning our teenagers, poisoning our young people. longer are you going to let this go on? Congresswoman, let me assure you that we're not letting it go on. We are fighting this. No, I reclaim my time. You're a liar.

You are letting this go on. And the numbers prove it. You can't lie about the facts, Secretary, Secretary Mayorkas. While you live in denial and sit over there with this attitude that you're doing everything right, you are killing Americans with your policies. And that is a fact. Your policies are killing people over 300. Americans a day, over 300, and it's outrageous.

So that led to calls by Democratic lawmakers to essentially take down her remarks, which is different from striking her remarks from the record. And I'll tell you how in just a moment. So the Democrat who moved to take down her remarks was Congressman Benny Thompson. And Green's comments did, in fact, violate House rules. Look, I'm not one of these people who's like obsessed with decorum and like, oh, you must be, you know, all buttoned up and decorum is so important. But she was out of line during that hearing, not just in her interaction with Mayurcas, but also in her interaction with Democratic lawmaker Eric Swalwell. We'll get to that later in the show.

But here's what Republican, I'm sorry. So the House chair for this committee is Republican Mark Green. I'm sorry, the House chair is a Republican who agreed with Democrat Mark Green from Tennessee. So this is what Mark Green said. No, I'm sorry, Mark Green is a Republican from Tennessee, my bad. So Mark Green said this, it's pretty clear that the rule state that you can't impugn someone's character. Identifying or calling someone a liar is unacceptable in this committee. And I make the ruling that we strike those words.

And so Representative Dan Goldman, who's a Democrat from New York, then noted that Benny Thompson's motion to take down Green's remarks, not strike them. Taking them down would essentially end Green's ability to question Mayurka's further. The committee did just that. Green was not kicked out of the hearing, but she was prohibited from speaking further. So look, asking tough questions of a secretary of a major department like the Department of Homeland Security, No problem with that, but throwing out accusations, calling him a liar, placing the blame on Mayorkas for the fentanyl crisis that we're dealing with in the country right now is not only inaccurate, it does break the house rules.

And the reason why I say it's inaccurate is because, no, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't have an open border policy where they're like, everybody bring in the fentanyl. We love watching Americans die on our streets. That is not what's happening, and that is what Marjorie Green is making it seem. like. Yeah, no, I disagree a little bit. So I think she's unhinged, of course I agree with that. You're definitely right about the border.

The guy's about to say his policy, right? He's like, no, shut up, you're a liar. Let me tell you what your policy is. It's to let fentanyl from China in. We don't have a border with China. Anyway, long story, bottom line is, no, we don't have an Oprah Borgant policy. Ironically, she's the one lying about it, okay? Now having said that, I think the house rules are BS.

You can't call someone a liar. Why? Because they're all liars. And so they don't want to be called liars. So they set a rule saying, well, we're going to ban you from calling us liars. They're politicians. Almost all of them are liars, including Marjorie Taylor Green. Right. So I just don't believe in that decorum. If I was there, I'd be calling them liars 24-7. I think my issue isn't necessarily with her calling him a liar, right? Like I care way less about that. What I do care about is seeing lawmakers, whether it's a Democrat or Republican, I don't care, using these hearings specifically for their little performances and spreading disinformation through their little performances,

right? Because it is, look, they all know what they're doing. These hearings are never meant to actually accomplish anything. I think you guys know that at this point. How many hearings have we talked about? Even hearings that have been called upon by Democratic lawmakers, even progressives. And it's always their moment for a soundbite that might go viral on social media. And then it'll give you the illusion that they're actually doing something to fight for you. In reality, they're doing nothing. So they use these hearings to make a name for themselves, to go viral, whatever. And in this case, Marjorie Green is spreading lies through her little performative actions.

Yeah, but instead of complaining about it, if I was a Democrat on the other side, I'd be like, well, the gentlewoman from Georgia is a giant liar. And let me explain why there is no open border policy. And she has lied about it hundreds of times. So she's 10,000 times the liar than anybody else is. But so but that's fighting fire with fire and Democrats would never do that. Look guys, on the performative stuff, I have a, I have a slightly different take on it. So because, so Anna's right, there's no question that they're using it for PR to get their names bigger.

Republicans do it, Democrats do it. Everyone does it. Right, and then and then they raise, by the way, the corporate guys don't do it much because they don't need the funds. They just get bribes from corporations. It's actually honestly progressives and the extreme right that do it more. Okay, I'm being real with you guys. And by the way, one of the reasons they do that is because it raises a lot of money, okay? So when you're seen as fighting the other side, you get grassroots money.

And to be fair to guy like Matt Gates, he doesn't take corporate pack money. So he needs to do that more to get grassroots funding, okay? So that is set up a perverse incentive to put on the biggest clown show, okay? But the part that I want to draw your attention to on how it could be different is you can use those performances to put a spotlight on an issue and be incredibly effective. But what's so frustrating is that no one does that. So the right way to do it, for example, if you're a progressive in Congress, is to make a giant big stink and use some bad words, yell at a Republican, yell at a fellow Democrat, and then say about, for example, paid family leave. and then say scream to everyone, 84% of the country wants it. Why won't these crooks pass it?

Because they work for corporate donors and they're liars, right? That'll get a lot of attention. And then people will go, huh, paid family leave pulls at 84%. Three quarters of Republican voters agree with it. Why aren't they passing it? That would be an effective way to use quote unquote performance, right? But no one does that. They only do it to build up their own reputations and to raise more money.

And that's why we're all sick of politics. Now, before she had that interaction with Majorcas, she had a pretty bad interaction with Eric Swalwell. There were calls for her statements to be taken down. But the chairman of this committee was unwilling to do so after the reaction with Eric Swalwell. So we're going to get to that story after we take a brief break. So we'll start the second hour with that.

And then we will also discuss, well, what are all those corporate donors to attorneys general that helped perpetuate Donald Trump's big lie? Like, they promised to stop donating money to those attorneys general. Did they keep the promise? We'll fill you in on that in the next hour. Come right back. Read the polls, Jack. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work, listen to ad-free, access members-only bonus content, and more

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