The Young Turks - Cartel Chaos - February 23, 2026

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

Steve Witkoff claims in an interview with Lara Trump that Iran could have bomb-making material in the next WEEK, as Lindsey Graham worries that Trump’s advisers are pushing him to make a deal. A U.S. ambassador sparks international backlash after suggesting Israel has a right to much of the Middle East, drawing condemnation across the region. Violence erupts in Mexico following the killing of a cartel boss, raising fears of broader instability. Thanks to Shopify and Zip Recruiter for today's episode: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt Hosts: Ana Kasparian, 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. There are some problems here. Sorry, big time. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Begha! Jake Ugarana Kasparian with you guys. The online news show obviously, and hence we start with breaking news.

We start with the question, actually. My question to you is, if the U.S. isn't being pressured to fight a war against Iran on behalf of Israel. Why is it that anyone who's against said war is referred to as a Jew hater? Or an anti-Semite, as I was a couple of times this morning on Peers Morgan. That is weird, like wait, if we're not fighting a war for Israel, why would anybody being opposed to the war mean that they're an anti-Semite? Not only that, if the war isn't about Israel, which people are telling me that's the case.

It has nothing to do with Israel, it's all about freeing the people of Iran. Okay, I was gonna start on a much lighter note about how Taco Bell is. I'm in a mood. I'm in a mood. How Taco Bell is underrated, but apparently we're stupid. Taco Bell is underrated, number one. But we don't have time for fun today, okay? Okay, we don't have time for fun, that's tomorrow.

All right. Anyway, so real quick, since you started and then we'll get to the stories. On the Pierce morning this morning, I mean, first of all, my heart's broken over General Weston-Clock. He's, I don't know who he's working for, but he's now changed his tune and is pro war. with Iran. It was so heartbreaking to see. Okay, but now everyone admits, even the pro-Israel people, to your point, Anna, they're like, well, of course Israel wants the war, any decent country would. I mean, Norway does, Israel does Taiwan. I'm kidding about Norway and Taiwan. But they're now, it's so obvious that they can't hide it anymore. So now what they're doing is,

well, sure, Israel wants the war, but it's great for America too. How? How is it good? So by the way, if it's so great for Israel and maybe tangentially beneficial to us, why don't you do the war and you pay for the war and you fight the war and we'll chip in around the edges like you're planning. No, how about we don't chip in at all? Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. So anyways, the real topic and what's actually happening in regards to war, which is a lot is coming up in a second.

Then Mike Huckabee, obviously you guys have seen that he says Israel should take over the Middle East. We've got more on that and reaction. and developments. And then as if the world wasn't chaotic enough, the top Mexican cartel leader has been taken out, which is let's a significant violence in Mexico. We'll tell you about that.

And then a little bit later in the program, Epstein infiltrated a lot of American academia. Which colleges did he infiltrate the most? What was he looking for? That story's coming up later in the program as well. All right, Casper, let's get started. Well, we begin with Iran, of course. Are we going to war?

Are we not going to war? we still don't know. Now there were, you know, fears that the U.S. would strike Iran over the weekend. Luckily, that didn't happen. I don't know if the Trump administration is going to avoid a war. We still have no idea. But with that in mind, we should talk about the fact that Steve Whitkoff, who's supposed to be engaging in diplomatic talks, is being very undiplomatic. Take a look. They're probably a week away from having industrial grade bomb-making material. From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.

Why they haven't capitulated? Why under this sort of pressure with the amount of sea power, naval power that we have over there, why they haven't come to us and said, we profess that we don't want a weapon? It could be due to the fact that members of the Trump administration, including Middle East Envoy, Steve Whitkoff, is. lying about Iran and how these negotiations are going. Now Steve Whitkoff had an interview with Laura Trump over at Fox News, which we're gonna show you some highlights from.

But it is kind of amazing, Jenk, to see Steve Whitkoff regurgitate the same lies that we've been hearing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say over and over again for literally decades. Yeah, Trump says something right before we got started on the show that's going to be relevant to everything that Anna's gonna give you here. Because they keep going back and forth between, oh, we could do a peace deal to, we're gonna obliterate them. And of course, the devil's in the details.

And there's a couple of phrases that Trump used. Others have used that give you a real indication in which direction we're going, so we'll get to that. And then people talking about how we should go after the top purveyor of terrorism and aggression in the Middle East. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, I don't know that we should. should attack Israel. So why? So, you know, let's, we're also going to debunk the mythology between who's the aggressor in the Middle East, Iran or Israel. All you need to do is have a pulse

to know what the reality of the situation is. But nonetheless, I just want to remind you all of what we heard from President Donald Trump over the summer following the bombing, the airstrikes that took place against Iran's nuclear facilities. Here's what Trump had to say about that. The devastating U.S. strike on Ford-O destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility totally inoperable. It was devastated. We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities are set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come. So how exactly do you go from? We have obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities, obliterated them, to Steve Whitkoff.

saying that Iran has, is a week away from having enough bomb making materials. Okay, they have enriched uranium up to 60%. You needed to be enriched up to 90%. There's no evidence that they have done that. And even if they did have enriched uranium, which they do not, well, how are they going to build a bomb if their nuclear facilities have been obliterated? Like the thing that, Jenk, I can't get past is how they lie to us to our faces to manufacture consent for a war that we would pay for, that our soldiers would risk their lives for, and would not benefit the United States at all. It would only be fought on behalf of Israel.

Iran does not pose any type of threat to the United States. They have no weaponry, no ballistic missiles that could reach the United States. Yet we are already spending a ton of money by deploying all these military assets to that region in order to be prepared for potential war with Iran that we shouldn't be fighting. Now, Whitkoff is supposed to be engaged in diplomatic talks with Iran. He's allegedly trying to get some sort of nuclear deal, possibly a missile deal, although Iran says, no, we're not going to negotiate about our ballistic missiles. We need to have a way of defending ourselves because, look, the fact of the matter is we live in a region

where you have an unhinged belligerent country like Israel that has bombed every single one of its neighbors. Yet Whitkoff lied about Iran's intentions and nuclear capabilities in an interview with Lara Trump on Fox News. So here's a longer version of the statements he made in regard to their nuclear capability. Well, I think the president has, he gave Jared and I direction before we went over there. There were red lines, zero enrichment. We have to have the material back. You know, they say that it's all about their civil program and yet they've been enriching

well beyond the number that you need for for civil nuclear. It's up to 60%. They're probably a week away from having industrial grade bomb making material. Now, it also appears as though Whitkoff is making a claim that Iran is unwilling to have a conversation about their nuclear capabilities when that's not the case. Tehran's official position is that it doesn't seek nuclear weapons and that the development of such weapons is banned by a fatwa issued by Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hamenei, and Iranian leaders have repeatedly professed that they don't seek a nuclear bomb.

Now people's eyes are going to glaze over when I start talking about the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims, but Iran is represented by Shiite Muslims, okay? They are different from Sunni Muslims, and believe it or not, in Iran, they do have that fatwa against nuclear weapons. I think that that was a mistake to be honest with you, because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would serve as a deterrent against the hostility and aggression that they're experiencing from Israel and the United States. But I know that that's a provocative point to make.

Jenk, what are your thoughts? Yeah, so there are three stated reasons for why we're supposed to go to Iraq, and three stated reasons for what we, I'm sorry, Iran, that was a funny fraudulent slip, or appropriate one and three stated reasons goals of the negotiation so let's go one by one one one at this point everyone acknowledges it is in fact for Israel as a panel this morning with two proponents of the war in fact three proponents of the war when you conclude General Wesley Clark they all admitted yes Israel would gain a lot from this Israel definitely does want this the fact that they're conceding

that is amazing but it's partly because it's in arguable this is in our opinion it's 100% for Israel in their opinion I I guess it's 70 or 80% for Israel. So why are we even having this discussion? Second stated reason is, oh my God, we care so much about the Iranian people and they are crying out for freedom. And we just care so much about Muslim lives and civilians that the Israelis do. God, they love the Muslim civilians so much.

Oh, so much. Yeah, and so does American power brokers, et cetera. And we're doing this, we're gonna bomb the Iranian people on behalf of the Iranian people. Same exact thing we heard in Iraq, we're gonna be greeted as liberties. They literally said that today on the program that we would be greeted as liberators in Iran as well. So they're just recycling these things. So the third one is weapons of mass destruction also recycled.

And they say, well, you know, uranium. But we, we, number one, they weren't close to a nuke to begin with. Number two, we knocked out their facilities, totally gone. Now number three, this is important. What's left is they say we, since everyone's allowed to enrich uranium to energy levels, where you can use it for electricity and all countries are allowed, relatively speaking, are allowed to do that. There's no reason why we should be different. And but we will, the Iranians apparently have offered, but we will cap it at the civilian level and we will

not go above that. And you could bring in inspectors to make sure we're not going above that. And the second part of the deal when it comes to uranium is the ones that have been enriched to 60% we are going to hand over. We'll give them to you. So if you cared about the uranium, This thing is totally over. Iran has conceded and they're according to the reports we're getting back from the negotiations. They will give us what we want. That is why what Steve Whitkoff said to Lara Bush there is so important. Bush, what is what the Freudian slips today? Trump, although again, very appropriate. Okay, what he said was zero enrichment. No, wait a minute, that's not what you were saying before. You were like civilian use It makes sense, if you're asking for zero enrichment, you're saying we'd like to humiliate you on top.

Well, let's do a little shortcut here, Jank. I think shortcuts are important. So you fully understand what the reality is and you don't get sucked into the dog and pony show that Americans tend to get sucked into. This is not about Iran's weapons. This is about Israel wanting regime change in Iran, period. That's all this is about. This started off with claims of, oh, Iran is such a threat because of their nuclear capability,

which they never really had. And then we get the JCPOA, right, that was signed under the Obama administration in 2015 that ensured that there were intrusive checks on Iran's behavior, what they were doing, whether they were enriching uranium. Trump comes in in 2018, rips that up, paving the way for Iran to do what, to enrich uranium, which could be used for a nuclear weapon. Now, they never enriched it up to 90%, which is what's required to build a new, nuclear bomb, what they did is they enriched uranium up to 60% in order to have a latent

deterrent to Israel's aggression. But it doesn't matter. And then Israel comes in and says, no, no, no, the nuclear weapons, that's not enough. We want to make sure that they don't have ballistic missiles. We want to make sure that Iran has no way to defend themselves, which is ridiculous, and no one would agree to that, obviously. But again, it's not even about the missiles. Even if Iran had said, you know what, we concede to the missiles, we're total idiots and

we're gonna open ourselves up to being attacked by Israel in the United States with no means to defend ourselves. I guarantee you, Israel would not be happy because they want regime change. That's what this is about. 100%. That gets to a critical part of the negotiations. Guys, Iran is offering up something that is very reasonable. Take all the uranium we've enriched to 60%, and we will not go beyond the civilian levels, and you can

make sure. If America asked for more than that, what they're saying to Iran is, no, but we're, we don't really mean it about the uranium. Even if you give us everything, it's not going to satisfy us because we work 100% for Israel and we're going to keep going until we get regime change. So Iran is saying, this is our limit. If you go past that limit, we know we're screwed anyway. There is no amount of capitulation that will satisfy you until we hand you all of our heads on a stick so that Israel can put a puppet in here and completely control us and leave us utterly defenseless. And they're not going to agree to that.

They're never going to agree to that. So when you see Whitkoff talking about red lines, that is an Israeli trick. You get the president to vaguely say something and then go, that's a red line. And if you don't insist that the Iranians or the Iraqis or the Syrians do that, then you're a coward and no one will believe you anymore. You'll be completely discreet. You must go to war. You cry, they cross the red line.

No, you set up these artificial red lines to start the war in the first. first place. I have more, but Anna, give me more. And nonetheless, the level of patience and willingness to negotiate that we are seeing from the Iranian side of this equation is amazing, is absolutely amazing. So for instance, over the weekend, the foreign minister of Iran had an interview with Margaret Brennan over at CBS, and he says in regard to enrichment, to your point, Jank, you know, we enrich uranium to a certain extent for our own energy needs.

Enrichment is our right. We are a member of the non-proliferation treaty, something that Israel is not part of, even though they have nuclear weapons, a clandestine nuclear program. Nonetheless, he continues, and we have every right to enjoy peaceful nuclear energy, including enrichment. This will be fun, let's talk about first states. We've all been there. You're trying to figure someone out, so you ask the important stuff up front.

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And he's right about that. And by the way, for those, this is a tangent and I'm not gonna go on and on about it, but nuclear energy is important if you're serious about climate change. If you're really worried about climate change, I'm sorry, but wind and solar isn't enough to close the gap left behind by no longer drilling or fracking. And so if you want clean energy that isn't gonna continue accelerating the climate emergency that we're in, we're gonna need to unfortunately rely on nuclear energy. So this idea that you're going to ban all nuclear, I'm sorry, uranium enrichment, you're going to ban any nuclear power in Iran is ridiculous to me.

But, and by the way, I mean, yes, it's an oil rich country, but that's how their economy runs. They export their oil and they rely on some level of nuclear energy for their own energy needs. Go ahead, Jake. Yeah. So the other absurd demands are get rid of all your ballistic missiles and be completely defenseless. No country on earth would agree to that. Just a mere fact of saying that out loud shows you work for the Israelis because no objective person would say that that's a fair ask.

So that's a way of saying, no, we're going to go to this war no matter what. Iran gives us everything, everything, and we humiliate every single person in Iran, not good enough until I have their heads on a stake. Then they demand to be in control of Iranian foreign policy. You're not allowed to have proxy groups. You're not allowed to talk to anyone. Hamas, Hezbollah, or otherwise, you're not allowed to spend money in any direction. In other words, just hand the country over to Israel.

Now, I get why Israel's upset about Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran funding them. We're not unaware of that. I get it. A, that's Israel's business, not 1% our business, okay? Second of all, yeah, I'm sure Iran is also upset about how Israel funds terrorism throughout the Middle East. Has attacked seven of their neighbors. If we're talking about who's a bigger aggressor, American media does this amazing trick where they show you one frame and not the whole context. So they go, Israel is a small country.

Well, yeah, I guess that's true. At some point Jews were victims. Oh, that's definitely true, Holocaust, pogroms, etc. And the Bible, special ally, etc. See, Israel is the victim and Iran is the terrible evil Muslim terrorist aggressors. Now wait a minute, wait a minute, When you break it down, look at the whole context, how many countries has Iran attacked and taken land from in the Middle East? Zero. How many countries has Israel attacked? Seven. How many have they taken land from? Well, they've taken 53% of Gaza. They're now trying to annex the West Bank. They're already annexed the Golan Heights. They're in southern Lebanon and western Syria. So who, and who is expanding their territory? Iran has not expanded their territory one inch. Israel has grabbed the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights, and now occupying Lebanon and Syria.

So they continue their imperial fascist expansion in the Middle East. But the entire time, our media is lying to you and saying, oh, the people that Israel is attacking, they're the terrorists. And Israel had to kill them and take their land. You had to take the land of the terrorists? Now, all of this is an illusion, meant to trick you into thinking, Oh, I have to attack Iran. I have to spend all my money and I have to send my son to go die in Iran so Israel can take more land.

The Middle East can be completely defenseless so they can get to greater Israel. And at this point, they're no longer hiding greater Israel. In fact, our ambassador, Mike Hugabe will have more on it later in the program, said yes, Israel should take the entire Middle East. Yeah. Well, so now it's abundantly clear to everyone except our our representatives, our politicians, 45% of them bought by Israel, the Israeli lobby, and are our news reporters who are like, I don't see any territorial expansion.

I see Muslim equals dirty, terrible, should be killed and destroyed. I see Israel, beautiful, precious little victim. You're telling me, you're not gonna go to another disastrous war in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. Anti-Semite. Okay, so now, Anna, right before the show, Trump came out and said something that was really important. Number one, he was talking about General Dan Cain, Raising Cain.

Yeah, can I reset for that part, please? Yeah, definitely. Okay, so I wanted to talk a little bit about, well, Lindsey Graham's claims, and what is likely happening behind the scenes over at the Trump administration when it comes to possible war with Iran. So, Senator Lindsey Graham, who salivates at the mere thought of going to war with Iran, told Barack Ravid, an Israeli insider and reporter over at Axios, that Trump is surrounded by people who are advising him against attacking Iran. Now, I didn't believe it just based on

Trump's actions and behavior, but here's what he says, quote, I understand concerns about major military operations in the Middle East given past entanglements. However, the voices who counsel against getting entangled seem to ignore the consequences of letting evil go unchecked. Now, he's not talking about Israel, he's talking about Iran. He continues, it's increasingly clear to me that voices opposing entanglement and the risk associated with decisive action are getting louder. Time will tell as to how this plays out. Now in an entirely separate report, Barack Ravid also claimed that the Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kane is the one that's advising President Donald Trump against a prolonged conflict in Iran. Now, Trump, Trump,

later denied this claim in a lengthy essay he posted on truth social. Now, Kane, according to this report, has been the only military leader briefing Trump in recent weeks on the issue of Iran. And that same report, again, by Barack Ravid, claims that Marco Rubio has been a bit of a fence sitter on Iran because he's too preoccupied with toppling Cuba. That's the only part of the report that I can fully believe, right? So here's the thing, I don't trust Ravid personally, and highlighting a specific general who might be advising Trump against a prolonged conflict with Iran might be a way of ousting him,

or getting the ball rolling on ousting him. Yeah, so it might be. So let's break it down one by one. Did General Kane say that Iran is not going to be as easy as Venezuela, and then it might take weeks or months. Well, if he didn't, he's an idiot, because literally every general thinks that. That's not even close to a conversation. Because in Venezuela, all we did was kidnap the leader. Now, that's very difficult, and they did a brilliant job tactically. Strategically, I think it's a disaster. Policy-wise, is a disaster. But tactically, they nailed that one. But in this case, we're not

talking about that. We're talking about taking out more of their uranium facilities, although they're destroyed. And not just taking out the Ayatollah, but taking out the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, well, that's a full blown war. And that is, that won't take weeks or months, that'll take years. So if Dean, if General Kane did not make Trump aware of that, he should be fired. Because you have to prepare, whether you're gonna go in or not, you can't get surprised, right? So, so my guess is that he's a, he's a competent enough general that he did say that. So now the question is, is that somebody just doing good?

reporting to Anna's point or someone outing him. Well, now Trump just came out right before we came on air live and said, you know, so these people with their fake news about General Kane, and he said he's brilliant and he's didn't warn about a long war at all, thinks we could do this right away. But he added something that I really wanted to read to you guys because it's really important. Trump said he's not spoken of not doing Iran, referring to Kane, he has not spoken of not doing Iran or even the fake limited strikes that I have been reading about. Okay, so, so you're planning on doing a prolonged military campaign in Iran on behalf of Israel,

essentially going back on all of your, reneging on your campaign promises, which isn't surprising. We live in America, and our politicians usually do renege on their campaign promises. But nonetheless, this will be a deeply unpopular war. It hasn't even started yet, and the majority of Americans are against it. polling indicates that somewhere around 20% of Americans are in support of this war, and they're all Zionists. So have at it, have at it. But Republicans are toast. Okay, you can already kiss the midterms goodbye. But in terms of the next presidential election, this will make the Republican party deeply, deeply unpopular. Because Americans are sick of these entanglements, especially

in the Middle East. And it's just so clear that this isn't about benefiting the U.S. This is about benefiting a foreign country that leeches off of our resources and drags us into prolonged wars on a regular basis. Yeah, so two different polls out actually. One, and this is a little bit back now, the momentum is building even more against this war, but one had it at 70% against the war. The other one had it at 85% of Americans are against this war. Good.

So why are we even having this conversation? Do we live in a democracy or don't we? We don't. So if over 75, you combine the two polls, if over 75, if over 75, you can't, we're going to, 5% of Americans don't want to go to this war, why are we going? Oh, right, because of the donors, because the voters have no effect on policy. Thus, we've shared with you long studies done by Princeton and Northwestern that show the bottom 90% has a 0% effect on policy.

The top 10% has an enormous effect. And of course, the very, very top, the donors basically control the country. So they control it in a lot of different ways. But when it comes to foreign policy, Israel's the king of controlling America. If you don't, like, we can keep, like the only people still debating that are the Israel first guys who are just calling the entire country anti-Semites now. You know, they're saying that anybody who doesn't want to go to this war is an anti-Semite, well, that's 85% of the country who had a bare minimum, it's seven out of ten Americans.

Okay, so now when we look at Trump saying, no, it's fake news, we're not going to do limited strikes, and it's fake news that General Kane is concerned about how long it'll take. He's basically saying, if I go in, we're going in all the way, full-due. war. Well, I mean, that it couldn't be a bigger disaster. So I don't really care like too much about how we got here, like whether they tricked Trump into it. Oh, you'll be so tough. And the American, and it'll be an easy operation just like Venezuela was. And the first strike against Iran was, you'll be a hero, Donald Trump. Or they just gave him another couple

hundred million dollars because the Israeli lobby has given them over 300 million. Or they have blackmail, whatever the reason might be. Trump is perfectly aware that the American people definitely do not want this war. His campaign was anti-war, not pro-war. But now that he's in office, he is listening. It appears 100% to Israel. And if they do actually start this war, then the debate is over. Our government is compromised.

Donald Trump works for Israel, not for America. We already know Congress works for Israel. So then we get to the super hard question of what are we going to do to take our government back? Because if we lose soldiers in Iran, which we almost certainly will, they'll have died for a different country. It's already cost us billions of dollars. Iraq got into the trillions. Iran is four times the size of Iraq. So where do we go to get our money back? Where do we go to get justice from a government that has been captured by a different country? We're 40 trillion dollars in debt and that debt began to blow up as we started fighting Israel's war in Iraq in 2003.

So our country is a dying country and it's specifically because everything we do seems to be centered on a foreign country that we should not be in any way associated with at this point. But I digress. All right, let's take a break when we come back. We'll talk about Mike Huckabee and Jen, I gotta be honest with you. all of these Arab and Muslim countries that are shocked, shocked upon learning about the Greater Israel Project. Did they not know? Anyway, don't answer that question.

Yeah, I'll answer it in the story. Come right back and get the answer. And to sentiment of them. Remote Dragon writes in, let's go to our members. Pentagon Pocket change slash Israeli funding could fund healthcare for all for the rest of the century. Nope, you don't get healthcare, You don't get paid family leave, you don't get college. By the way, Israel gets every one of those things, plus wars for them, plus extra funding. So don't tell me the government's not compromised. We haven't had any conversations about Trump and his plans for the American people.

The only thing we've had conversations about is Trump's plans for tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the rich, letting all the white-collar criminals out of prison, and doing everything that Israel demands of us. The American people are dead last. That America first thing was the most ironic slogan in history. It's America dead last and every all the donors way above them. Compass night in 1981 says, according to Benyahu, Iran has been a week away from nuclear bombs since the 1980s. Yes, I mean, look, that's why I get so frustrated with the press because it's not like Nanyahu's been hiding it, he's on tape, he's been saying it for 20 years, Iran's a week away,

rounds a week, you have to attack around, America owes us a war, America owes us many wars. You're all anti-seman. And our media's like, I don't see it. What, what, what? What? Even the Israel first guys are beginning to admit that, yeah, obviously Israel wants this war. But mainstream media is like, I can't tell. I'll never criticize Israel. I swear to God, I'll work for Israel for the rest of my life and lie to the American people. Apparently you have to take that oath before you get into mainstream media. A collective miscellaneous says, it's almost like Jen and Anna take turns playing good cop, bad cop, except instead instead they're taking turns playing fun host, angry host.

That's actually very true. That is the most astute observation anyone has ever made about the show. And it's totally organic. It is depending on our mood. The worst is when we're both in an angry mood. Well, it happens. So Bradshaw crew of won with a very important message on Twitch. Remember Bradshaw criticized me for talking to Tucker Carlson, et cetera,

before we had a good exchange over it. He said, Jank, I watched Tucker and Huckabee with an open mind. And I changed my mind on it. Yes! I agree that he can be useful to our cause and thank you for pushing me. Much love, brother. Yes, yes, yes, yes. No, brother, it's not because you're saying we're right, it's because you had an open

mind. Yes, that's 100% right. So thank you for having open mind. And guys, again, that doesn't mean Tucker's an angel or that we need to support him in everything he does and that we shouldn't debate him on the things we totally disagree on, right? But on this issue, come on, he's obviously helpful, obviously, not even close, right? But not only that, he's right, he's dumb and said things that are insanely courageous. I wouldn't travel to Israel if someone put a gun to my head.

Yeah, I have a story about that. I should tell that a bonus episode for the members of another friend who went to Israel and had a harrowing experience. You'd be nuts to go to Israel. Honest, like, yeah, all right, I'll save it for a lady. Galfer 71, right? My question, Jank, is how did some investigative journalists like Laurel Lumer know that Tucker Carlson was told by the White House about their meeting today? we find out from Assad agents in the Trump administration. So these days were skeptical of everything, but no, not that one.

She just saw it from Jake Sherman, who's another reporter. She then immediately launched a conspiracy theory about Jake Sherman and Tucker Carlson worked together, which isn't remotely true, okay? But no, it was not a massad agent. It was just normal reporting that we found out. All right, we'll be back. Tucker Carlson, a terrible friend. Back on T.J. Hanana with you guys.

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Well, we gotta talk about the aftermath of Tucker Carlson's interview with Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel. Take a look. Do you have go ahead three times? that God gave this land to this people. And so it is entirely fair for me with respect to ask, what land are you talking about? Because I just read Genesis 15, as I have many times. And that land, I think it says from the Nile to the Euphrates, which is once again, basically the entire Middle East. So God gave that land to his people, the Jews, or he didn't. You're saying he did,

what does that mean? Does Israel have the right to that land? It would be fine if they took it all. Unsurprisingly, U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, making that statement that it would be fine for Israel to steal all that land in the Middle East has led to some rage among Middle Eastern countries that certainly knew about the Greater Israel Project. But for whatever reason, pretend like they didn't know about it. So before I give you the backlash and how Huckabee has responded to it, Jank, your two sense. Yeah, look guys, this is one of those stories that shows you who's actually in charge of our government.

Because this guy's pretending to be our ambassador. As you're gonna see in the facts that Anna presents to you, two things have happened. Number one, that is not our ambassador, that's the Israeli ambassador. You're gonna see it convincingly in this story. Number two, it is causing tremendous problems for us, Americans, because he's doing their policy instead of our policy. So Anna, give him the facts. So look, before we get to the blowback that Huckabee and the United States is experiencing as a result of Huckabee's statements. I want to show you one more

clip from the exchange that Tucker Carlson had with Huckabee, because right after giving Israel carte blanche to basically take all this land in the Middle East, Huckabee seemed to realize, oh, I said the quiet part out loud and maybe I need to do a little bit of damage control. So he did attempt that immediately after the statements you just heard. So let's take a look at that. Thank you. You think it would be fine if the state of Israel took over They don't want to take it over. They're not asking to take it over. But you're saying that the reason that Israel is legitimate has this inherent right to exist is in part because God gave it to his people. And I am going to the same Bible that you're referring to and noticing that that is a huge piece of land.

So if God gave them that land, then they have a right to take it now by your definition, unless I'm missing something completely. I think you're missing something because they're not asking to go back to take all of that. But they are asking to at least take the land that they now occupy, they now live in, they now own legitimately, and it is a safe haven for them. But may I ask though? It's because you're appealing, you're explaining what Christian Zionism is and your theological beliefs. And I think you just said it would be fine with you if the state of Israel took all of Georgia, all of Lebanon. That's really not exactly what I'm trying to say, Tucker. Is that what she said? I thought that's what you just said. It was somewhat of a hyperbolic statement in that, you know, if that's what you feel like that we're talking about, but it isn't. On two occasions in that clip, you heard Mike Huckabee say, they're not asking to take over that land. No, they're not asking. They're just doing it. They're doing it using our money. They're doing it using our soldiers who fight their wars in these Middle Eastern countries to essentially turn these Middle Eastern countries into failed state so they can take over. That's what's been happening in Syria. I mean, the U.S.

has been arming al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria so Israel can have its way with that country. After the toppling of Bashar al-Assad's regime, of course. And they want to do the same thing with Iran. With our money, with our soldiers, you guys get the point. But anyway, going back to the heart of this matter, Israel taking over the entire Middle East, that is what they're attempting to do. It's called the Greater Israel Project. There's no question about it.

And despite Huckabee's attempt to run cover for Israel, the damage of his comments has been has been done for whatever that means, right? Because you have all these various countries joining forces to put out a statement, a strongly worded letter, which they released on Sunday. And those nations include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, the Palestinian Authority, and several Arab governing bodies. Now, obviously, that's not fully a list of different countries.

the Palestinian Authority is a governing body. But nonetheless, really you guys didn't know what Israel's game has been for decades. You're gonna pretend like you're surprised by this. This has been the whole game. So let's see, Jordan, Jordan, you were helping Israel during the 12-day war. Did you ever think to maybe ask yourselves why Israel wants regime change in Iran? So look, Jake, I get it. I get that all these various Middle Eastern countries, Arab majority countries have turned into cucks for Israel, not the people. I love the people I'm talking about their leadership.

And it's because the US, especially in the case of like Egypt, we bribe the hell out of them to play nice with Israel. So it's not just the money that we give to Israel, it's all the money that we spend to either destroy these Middle Eastern countries on behalf of Israel or bribe these Middle Eastern countries to play nice with Israel. Yeah, so there's two. sets of countries within that group. There's Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, among others that are like greatly controlled by Israel. I don't know what the percentage is, right? And it's not

complete, it's not 100%, but it's nearly complete. The UAE has handed over their cyber security to Israel. So they're pretty much owned by Israel. Good job. So now, why did they put out the statement anyway if there, if some of these countries are totally in Israel's pocket? Because the The number one thing that they're all worried about, the dictators in the Gulf, is their local population rising up. And the more Israel has this, like, basically the metaphor here is Israel is like this 280 pound guy sitting on a 12 year old boy and just pounding him in the face. And everybody's watching like, oh, right?

And so their local population keeps saying, go help them, go help them. But the dictators don't want to help the Palestinians, they're getting money. from the Israelis, they're making trade deals, they're doing this and that, and besides which they're dictators, right? So what the reason that those guys are now upset, the dictators are, is because now their populations are going to become uncontrollable. So now that Israel is going to push America into another war in the Middle East, now they're pulverizing the Palestinians, the Syrians, the Lebanese, and now the Persians, and they're

all Muslims. At some point, the local Muslim population in these countries are going to explode. They're gonna say no, this humiliation, we can't bear it anymore. Well, they're coming for your land. Yeah, and by them. They're openly, they're coming for your land. So whatever leadership you have right now, that's basically sitting by, they're sitting on their asses watching Israel just annihilate the Palestinian people.

And maybe you were under the impression that Israel would stop there. No, they're not stopping there. They're coming for you. Yeah. And guys, it's not an exaggeration. Israel's power is unreal. So Imran Khan arrested in Pakistan because of Israel. So they captured the Pakistani government.

They're working with the Indian government. It is amazing the power they have throughout the world. And give them credit. The Mossad is brilliant. Strategically, they've been amazing, right? But at some point, you're gonna fly too close to the sun. You've pushed everyone into, and just basically you're telling the entire Muslim population, I am superior to you.

And I will take whatever land I need. I will kill whatever family members I need to. And there's nothing you could do about it. And I'm going to humiliate you for the rest of your lives. So these dictators are playing with fire as they try to suppress their local population. And Anna's right. The second part of it is they're now beginning to go, oh, oh, I thought they were just going to do it to the Palestinians.

Oh, that's it. That's all they were gonna do, you know? Well, we'll make a deal with the devil. We'll do trade deals, why not? Until they come for you. They will come for you. You know that Israel used to have diplomatic and trade relations with Iran? Yeah.

They're gonna come for you. Of course they are. And so now, for example, countries like Turkey go, wait, you're telling me that after Iran we're next? Are you out of your mind? So they keep pushing and pushing. I mean, I'll push all the way to Greenland if you let them. It's insanity, right?

So now though, again, these countries are beginning to realize, oh wait, I thought that they were being, that they were just were greedy and they were businessmen and we could make a deal. But that was because Israel was always kind of seemed like they were going for greater Israel, but mainly had secular governments. But now the messianic folks have taken over Israel, right? So they are religiously want greater Israel and they are never, ever going to stop. And now their cabinet members are saying it, their government is saying it. Netanyahu has said it, they're going for greater Israel. So now it's beginning to dawn on the Saudis and the Jordanians and the Egyptians. Oh, they weren't exaggerating.

They really are going to come for us. Yeah, knuckleheads. That's why if we go into Iran, this war might be so much larger than people realize. Ironically, you might bring the Sunnis, the Saudis, the Jordanians, etc., to join forces with the Shia. Normally it'd be against them, that's Iran, some portions of Yemen, etc. But now that they see Israel doesn't care about Sunni or Shia, they're coming for you all. That might unite them. And then we're in the middle of the biggest war you've ever seen, besides which the Russians are saying they're going to help the Iranians if we go to war,

and the Chinese are selling them weapons as we speak. So Israel is making us walk the plank against almost the entire world. That's right. And then when we turn to our government to go, wait a minute, hey, stand up for us. Our ambassador is the one saying Israel deserves all of the Middle East, and he's lighting our relationships in the Middle East on fire on behalf of who he really works for, which is Israel. Yeah, in fact, Basel Smotrich, who's a terrorist, wrote this following

Huckabee's statements. I love Huckabee. Gee, I wonder why. But just quickly going back to the statement that was put out by all of those countries and governing bodies, I want to give you a few excerpts of what they had to say. I mean, very strongly worded here. They called Huckabee's remarks dangerous and inflammatory and said they constitute a flagrant violation of the principles of international law. Let's all laugh at the notion that international law even means anything at this point, but I digress. Let's keep going. And the Charter of the United Nations, which Israel does not respect and would like to dismantle, and pose a grave threat to the security and stability of the region. On top of that joint statement, Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry described

Huckabee's comments as extremist rhetoric and unacceptable and called for the State Department to clarify its position on them. Well, Saudi Arabia has been enabling Israel, even before the general public knew about it. They were doing so behind the scenes. Now it's out in the open. So Saudi Arabia enabling Israel comes with consequences. So congratulations Saudi Arabia. You guys are doing great.

And Egypt's foreign ministry called his comments a blatant violation of international law, adding that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory or other Arab lands. I would appreciate if Egypt stopped taking our money in order to essentially take the bribe to play nice with Israel. And maybe defend your country. And the League of Arab States also said statements of this nature, extremist and lacking any sound basis, serve only to inflame sentiments and stir religious and national emotions. So that's what they had to say about it again. I just, I fail to see how they're shocked or surprised by what Israel's real intentions are here.

And now the US is trying to do a tiny bit of damage control. A spokesperson for the US embassy said on Sunday that Huckabee, These comments were taken out of context. I don't think that's really damage control. That's just insulting our intelligence. I watched the full conversation with Huckabee. It was not taken out of context. Huckabee has very little interest in what's best for the United States.

Has a cult-like belief in his religion and is willing to do anything and everything for Israel, even if it means harming the United States in the meantime. And Huckabee himself wrote on X after that clip went viral. And I had a very twisty and frankly confusing discussion about the meaning of Zionism. He started out the discussion on Zionism by saying he wanted to ask me in my capacity as a former Baptist minister about the theology of Christian Zionism, which is a disgrace, by the way. But he kept dragging it to discussions about other topics, literally other countries, things that have nothing to do with ideology.

You are the US ambassador to Israel. First of all, I don't care about your religion. I don't, I don't care about your religion at all. Your religion should not have any governing power at all, period. But on top of that, yeah, your opinions on what should happen in the Middle East as US ambassador to Israel are incredibly important here. So like playing dumb about this, like, oh, I thought we were gonna have a theological debate. No one gives a damn about your theological debate.

It matters that your theology essentially sucks the life out of our country to build in the empire of a foreign country. But other than that, why the hell is Christian Zionism the law of the land in the United States? Yeah, so here my last set of comments. So earlier in the show we talked about who's a bigger threat to the Middle East, Iran or Israel, that's not close. Obviously Israel, they've attacked seven of their neighbors.

Iran has attacked none of their neighbors. Now you can say, hey, well, through Hamas and Hezbollah, maybe you could say that they attacked Israel in some way, okay, one to seven, still not close. Who's occupying more land, not close. Iran's not occupying any land outside of their own. Israel is occupying land in three, four different countries. Then who's a bigger terrorist? Again, not close. If you say, well, Hamas funded by Iran partially so, you know, October 7 counts, no problem, all of the terrorism of Hamas counts. Okay, no problem. Israel has still killed 70 times the number of civilians at a bare minimum as Hamas and has a worse civilian kill ratio.

So that means, empirically, they are the bigger terrorists. The people that are telling you that the Iranians are the bigger terrorists are lying to you on purpose to get you to go and say yes to this war. If you knew that Israel was 70 times the terrorist that Iran is, you might think, wait, are we invading the wrong country? Now finally, who is a bigger danger to international law and the world working together? That's not remotely close. Obviously Israel, they're saying that we shouldn't follow international law.

They absolutely refuse to follow international law. They haven't signed on to any of the international law agreements. Iran has. Iran actually says we will keep our nuclear program within the bounds of international law. Israel secretly built a nuke outside of international law by stealing our nuclear secrets. So, and then the United Nations, Iran doesn't attack the United Nations. Israel constantly attacks the United Nations.

The world shouldn't work together. You should all be divided, you should only listen to us and no one else, okay? So now guys, at this point, the American people are starting to wake up and go, wait, not only do I not think Iran is some sort of mortal enemy as I've been sold by American media and politicians, I'm beginning to think that Israel might not even be an ally, the amount of trouble that they're getting us into. And now they, I see both Biden and Trump seeming to work for a different country. Now I see our ambassador humiliating us working for.

for a different country. I see 94% of our Congress takes money from the Israeli lobby. And I see Federman and Graham, Democrat and Republican, clearly working for a different country. Wait a minute, are we even sure that Israel's not an enemy? I know where I stand on that issue. Are we sure about that? Because now in the media, if you tell them that, they'll be outraged and then they'll go to racial attacks. Okay, go ahead, I don't care.

Israel is an enemy to the United States. But they won't have any-s- simple. They won't have any substance behind it. They just use catch phrases like special ally, Judea Christian heritage, the only democracy of the news. Show me how, how is Israel a special ally? What is Israel ever done for the United States? And if you come at me and say, oh, well, they share really important intelligence

with the US, it's always inaccurate intelligence meant to go the United States into fighting its wars for them. Israel is not an ally. Israel has only harmed the United States, driven us into massive amounts of business. debt and I want nothing to do with them. And I'll let down on this. So they've taken at least $330 billion from us. None of these other Iran hasn't taken a dime from us, let alone $330 billion.

We're told by our media and our politicians, we owe that to Israel. We don't have a choice. We'll all be called anti-Semites unless you hand over your wallet, right? And then on top of that, we did $8 trillion for the global war on terror, which was just a global war on Israel's enemies. You can check the list. They're all Israel's enemies. They all had nothing to do with us.

Iraq not only didn't attack us on 9-11, they attacked al-Qaeda, our enemy, right? We were lied to in mass to support Israel as if they're our ally when it appears they've been taking advantage of us the entire time. And when the American people find out, like the Arab populations, the Muslim populations across the world we were talking about earlier in the story, now we're going to get restless and we're gonna wonder if our leaders are actually representing. us and we live in a democracy, or if they're representing a different country and we've been compromised. Well, get on my level because it's the latter, and it's about time that the

American people realize that and take our country back, because we don't live in a sovereign country. We live in a country that is currently being controlled by a malicious, genocidal foreign regime, and that regime is Israel. We'll be right back, we've got to take a break. All right, let's start with YouTube members. Snow Wolf-Vo-Oi says Monday. suck, but TYT makes it better. All right, I love that. Boxie Brown says, you two are looking sharp. Okay, well, thank you, appreciate it.

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I love that story. Arcane eclectic says Iran sees how Trump doesn't threaten North Korea anymore and they want to be in that same position. Guys, that's a great example and analogy, right? So you know how I talk about the illusion that mainstream media creates? So they say, it's because we're so concerned about nuclear weapons and weapons of past destruction. So when Trump got in office, North Korea had zero nukes. They built six in his first term.

You know what they're up to now? 60. And we didn't do anything about the North Koreans. We drew no red lines. In fact, Trump started talking about love letters he got from Kim Jong-yo, right? Or Kim Jong-un. Why did we pay no attention while North Korea actually built weapons of mass destruction? Because they're not next to Israel.

So if we paid them no mind at all, because Israel didn't need them toppled. So there was zero conversations about North Korea as they built 60 nukes. Iran doesn't have anything near a nuke and we're like, we have to obliterate it. Because of weapons of mass destruction and you call yourself a reporter, didn't you ever ask yourself, well, why didn't we obliterate North Korea? Okay, no, it's it's stunning to me too, guys. I'm just as surprised as you guys are, but it is stunning the amount of control that Israel has in this country. It's not a little, it's near 100%.

Free Meatballs and Linguini said, Trump deserves the Peace Prize because he's a piece of, okay, got that. All right, let's go to Super Chat. 75 writes in, I'm ready for Jane to go more full Tony Soprano and then has a bunch of fire emojis. Love the show. That's actually Anna today. The only me, I-43 says, says, Jen, great to see our peers, low key. I believe that's also on fire. Timi D. says the, although I don't often get low key on peers, but thank you. Timi D. says the fact that Woodcoff wants them to capitulate is more proof that Trump

regime wants Iranians to be slaves. Yeah, no amount of giving in will satisfy Israel and hence Trump. They have to have you groveling on the ground, completely defenseless, and saying we, we submit to mighty Israel. Otherwise, I'm going to keep killing you and killing you and killing you and taking your land. Josh D. 87 and 87 says, all in caps, I love you guys for calling out both parties in Congress. And they need to grow a pair and call out Trump for being pro-Israel and for its poor release of the Epstein files, protecting benefiles. Speaking of which, the Democrats, do you see them animated go, no, don't go to war. War's a terrible idea.

No, no, no, no, no. The only ones I see on TV are kind of saying halfway, yes, we should go to war. To be fair, AOC did issue a tweet today. A tweet has been issued. No war with Iran. Okay, I didn't know that tweet was issued. Wow, that's a big difference. Make It Make Sense says in case you can't fathom $20 trillion in debt, that is $350,000 owed per taxpayer and growing.

One day we might reduce the debt and inflation. All right, back on T. T.Y.T. Chanana with you guys. Melody loves music, thank you for gifting a membership on YouTube in America's 1776 USA and the raging atheist. Two handles I like a lot. Thank you for joining guys. Great to have you as part of the autooks. We've got some more international news, although this strikes a little closer to home.

Security forces now patrolling the country from the air and on the streets. Plumes of billowing black smoke as gunshots ring out in the distance. The violence reaching in a popular tourist hotspot. like Portoviarda, flames surrounding this Costco, vehicles charred in the parking lot. In Guadalajara, bullets piercing through car doors and shattering storefront windows. The U.S. Embassy urging Americans across the country, even as far east as Cancun, to shelter in place and avoid roads. If you've been around long enough, you know about former President Felipe Calderon's efforts

at fighting drug cartels in Mexico and what that led to, it led to extreme violence. in Mexico and unfortunately that is what we are seeing today following the capture and killing of a drug kingpin before I give you the details on that. Cenk, do you remember under Calderon what happened? Yeah, it was bad. Disaster. Yeah. So in fact, that's the two things I want to talk about after Anna gives you the facts.

What is what are going to be the consequences of this? How badly will it devolve? Will it affect us? And number two, why was Scheimbaum pushed into doing this now as opposed to another time, especially with the Olympics about to go to Mexico in about four months? So we'll talk about all that, Anna, give them the facts. So let me just start off by saying cartels are a huge problem in Mexico, and it doesn't just impact Mexico. Obviously, the drug trafficking carried out by these cartels impacts the United States,

where there is this unending appetite for various drugs that are killing our. our people. So I absolutely understand wanting to do something about the cartels. But unfortunately, there are no great options because the second you take out a cartel leader, you get this massive amount of violence because the cartels are well organized and they have tactics to essentially hinder any of the actions taken by local law enforcement or the military in Mexico. So let me fill in the blanks here because early on Sunday, a team of elite Mexican Army and National

Guard special operation soldiers descended on the community of Tapalpa in western Mexico, where El Mentiono, as he's called. He's the head of the Halisco New Generation Cartel, remained hold up after his girlfriend left. So basically the US was part of this operation. We didn't have boots on the ground, but the US had gathered intelligence that it shared with Mexican authorities so they could essentially trail El Mencho. okay, this cartel leader. And when they found him, he basically was in like a more remote play, part of Mexico.

They followed his girlfriend who went to go visit him there. And then at that point, the operation was carried out. Okay, so El Mentiona was a significant player, a top dog, if you will, when it came to drug trafficking. The United States, which had a $15 million bounty on him, had shared intelligence with Mexico in order to make this happen. Mexico was facing a lot of pressure from the Trump administration to do something about the cartel violence. And U.S. officials said that the newly created U.S. joint interagency task force counter cartel helped with this mission.

But again, no boots on the ground. That's what the president of Mexico, Scheinbaum, wanted to avoid. Now, the task force was specifically created to dismantle drug cartel networks. The president of Mexico made it clear that not only are there no boots on the ground, Mexico does not want the United States to send soldiers. And she also says that all operations from their planning onwards are the responsibility of the Mexican federal forces. Now authorities, again, were tracking his girlfriends in order to find him, and they chased

him and his bodyguards into the woods after they had located him. A battle had ensued. And from what we're learning from these reports, the bodyguards had two rockers. launchers and they fired them onto the Mexican troops. In the end, eight people were killed in the fighting, including El Mentiono and two of his bodyguards. But dozens of people have been killed since that whole operation took place.

More and more people have been killed. The cartel responded violently in 20 out of 32 Mexican states. More than 50 people died in the aftermath of the raid during the gang's counteroffensive. The dead included. 25 Mexican soldiers and security officers and 30 alleged gunmen. There were also civilians caught in the crossfire, including a pregnant woman. A top financial operator for El Mencho, his last name is Oseguera, was also killed in a gunfight at a nearby town as he attempted to flee in a car Sunday.

The cartel operative was offering awards of 20,000 pesos, around $1,200 for the death of any Mexican soldier involved in the operation. Now, a common tactic that the cartel members use in order to kind of stop or hinder any type of operation being carried out by the military or law enforcement is they'll like set cars, trucks, various things on fire in the middle of the roads to essentially make it difficult for movement for the military. And so you will see a lot of videos of various fires on roads all across Mexico. Now, I do want to talk a little bit about, about the fact that under the former Mexican president, Oberdor, he at one point had captured El Chapo's son, but then let him go because violence similar to what we're seeing in Mexico

right now had broken out. And in previous efforts to dismantle these cartels under Calderon, for instance, the violence was so bad that I think it's kind of informed politicians in Mexico to not try to fight the cartels. But I don't think that's that's. a good option either. So I don't really know what the solution is, Jenk, because the cartels are a problem. And they do victimize local populations in Mexico. They extort them, they extort their businesses. It's an absolute disaster. So I'm gonna give you all my analysis, then I'm gonna say something startling. Okay, so that'll be fun. Okay, so first of all, you're right overall, we're damned if we do, damned if we don't. The cartels are out of control.

You gotta do something about it. But the minute you start to do something about, you get even more violence. First, let's be fair. Hey, look, the CIA did something. something and kind of an America's interest that hasn't happened in like maybe ever. So I'm kind of shocked that the CIA was competent enough, awake enough. And they did something not related to Israel. All of that is shocking. So I am giving credit where credit is due there. Secondly, Elmancho was a lot more relevant to dealing drugs in this country and specifically

fentanyl than Venezuela in its entirety. So at least there's more logic in going after this cartel as opposed to the government of Venezuela, which is more about oil and shockingly, weirdly somewhat about Israel than it is about this. But this has nothing new with any of that other parts of the world. This is just about the cartels. And so there's, so I get it, it's more pertinent to us. And there's some upsides to taking this guy out for sure.

So then why is there, why is this even a question? Because there's three different sets of violence that happens once you take out one of these cartel leaders, okay? Number one, they retaliate because they don't want there to be a perception that they've lost their hold on power. A lot of the ways that they do extortion is everyone gives them money because they think they're in charge and the government cannot protect me. If the people will start to believe the government can protect them, then the cartels

will lose a tremendous amount of power. So they want to strike back so forcefully that it provides a distance center for the government to act so they could hold onto their power. Number two, leaders within the cartel after the leaders toppled, then fight amongst themselves. Exactly, yeah. And that creates an enormous amount of violence. Number three, the other cartels sensing that they could grab territory attack the weakened

cartel. And then that leads to even more violence. So you've got this triple damages here when you attack a leader of a cartel, so the violence is almost unavoidable. But if you use that logic forever, then you'll never do anything about the cartels. So here comes this startling statement. I don't know what to do here. Well, okay, so here's the thing.

The reason why the cartels are as powerful as they are is because there is demand for what they want to supply, which is the drugs. Unless you deal with why there is a hunger in the United States for these drugs, we're I'm gonna continue having this problem because make no mistake about it. Mexico has taken out, and the US has taken out other cartel leaders in the past, and cartels continue to be a huge problem. The idea that you just take out a leader and then problem solved is like one of the most ridiculous claims in the world.

So just real quick, I want to give you the details about what I mentioned in regard to, you know, Manuel Lopez Obrador of what happened under his watch, that was the previous Mexican president, because I mentioned that they had captured El Chapo's son, and then he decided to let the sun go. Security forces briefly captured Ovidio Guzman, only to let him go hours later as the security forces were overwhelmed by cartel forces. Quote, so as not to put the population at risk, I ordered that this operation be stopped and that this alleged criminal be released.

That's what the president said, that was in 2020. Now, going back to the other leaders, as I mentioned earlier, Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon in 2006, as soon as he was in office, decided to launch a war against the cartels. And you wanna know something, he was actually successful in taking out several of the cartel leaders. Within two months, around 20,000 troops were involved in operations across the country, which initially attracted widespread support from communities, tired of like gun battles and

cartel violence. But between 2006 and 2016, 20,000 people were killed in Mexico. murdered as a result of this cartel violence tied to the drug war. And you had, you know, another instance in 2014 where 43 trainee teachers disappeared and are presumed to be killed after they were attacked by corrupt police officers and handed over to drug cartel members. So the problem within Mexico is the corruption when it comes to the law enforcement and when it comes to the military. Mexico does need to get a handle on that. And here in the United States, what we need to get a handle on is the misery that Americans

find themselves in because we don't have a government that represents us. And that's not a knock on Republicans only. That is a knock on all politicians that have abandoned the American people, use the office of either their congressional offices or the office of the presidency for their own enrichment, not because they want to be public servants. Americans are struggling. People don't turn to fentanyl because they're like, ooh, I'm bored. I'm gonna take a drug that's that they're going to take a drug that they're

it's killing a ton of people in my country. They do it because they are absolutely miserable. Because in this country right now, I don't know what there is to look forward to. There's no hope, people don't feel like they have anything to look forward to. You need to deal with that. Killing cartel leaders might feel good, it might feel justified. But at the end of the day, it doesn't actually solve the underlying issue here. Yeah, look, I'm not gonna trust any politician just in a blanket way.

But Claudia Scheimbaum is pretty smart and to the best of our ability to tell it is relatively honest for a world leader. You know, we do Turk and Jerker the year at the end of the year every year. A couple of years ago, I gave it to Scheinbaum. And so I'm gonna trust her judgment a little bit here that this was the right move. So why did she do it now? Because Trump's been putting tremendous pressure on them to do something about the cartels. Shinebound was hesitant to do it because it upsets the status quo and the Olympics are and the World Cup are around the corner, mainly the World Cup in this case.

And so, and there, the World Cup's going to actually be in Mexico. And so she was worried about like four months from the World Cup, we're going to start this madness, right? But she got pushed into it. But to be fair again, you should do something about the cartels. I don't know if this was the right time. I'm gonna trust Scheinbaum's judgment a little bit on this. And so this is among the less offensive things that Trump has done because those are real issues in Mexico. Trump was threatening boots on the ground in Mexico.

Shine bomb does not want boots on the ground in Mexico. So she did this to prevent US boots on the ground in Mexico. And let me just note that 25 of the 37 drug traffickers on Calderon's list were killed. Or jailed. Cartels are still a huge problem in Mexico. And even bigger problem. So it is a very intractable problem. Last thing is, there's one thing we could do.

So over the last couple of years, the Mexican authorities have confiscated 23,000 weapons from the drug cartels of Mexico. 80% of them come from the United States. Yeah. We keep complaining about them exporting drugs here, fair, but we're exporting guns over there, and it's literally killing us. literally killing them. But of course we don't block it because the gun manufacturers or corporations that give money to politicians. So while you're not looking, they say, oh, second amendment, and yet that's true for us,

but they're also exporting a lot of those weapons to create chaos on our southern border. We could get that under control, but we don't have the political will because of the legalized bribery in this country. All right, when we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about Trump, into C-SPAN pretending to be someone else, we are governed by a child. We'll be right back. And if you're not angry about that, Michael, and any of you out there, then you're damn wrong, because you should be angry.

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He knew that the MSNBC opportunity was an experiment. And Phil and host beat CNN in the headline news combined. At some point, they want to give me a show. Every single year, that comes out of our paycheck. We put it in, and you're saying we were suckers. When you, as a host, tells someone you're interviewing to shut up, that's going to raise a red flag. That guy needed a ball glass of shut up, truth. If President Obama's doing the wrong thing, I'm not going to tell you that he's doing the right thing so I can, quote, support him.

He says to me, you won't believe the meaning that I just have. of MSNBC talk to me. And they won him off the air. Jake took an incredible risk. When we're supposed to challenge the government, that's the role of the media. The Democrats and the Republicans are here to screw you. And who on the air is saying it? I wouldn't have done what he did.

That if I'm going to be a talk show host, it'd be the biggest talk show host in the country. I don't think anyone else does it better. I don't think anyone's even close. Before you know it, I'll be back on your TV doing a national show. I guarantee it. Magic, it's showtime, and say 45 minutes. I'm hosting today.

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I got my mad cousins. It says Mbbbb, SPF-15, Foundation, Broad Spectrum. But apparently what I have is red undertones. What I have is red undertones and I think pores are not supposed to be seen. I need all these things to be confirmed for me. These sponge things don't work for me. You gotta use your hands. This idea.

That's how the magic really happens. So we're gonna go through a tutorial. How to make the magic happen from beautiful to beautiful earth. Let's go! I've already been moisturized, that's the first thing. The most of theation already happened. We go raw, all hands. There go.

Couple streaks. This is the guy that's making. makeup. We got dots. There's some shiny points that generally happen. First of all, here we go. You dust here. I'm putting way too much, but you dust. Oh, get the excess off. You don't want chunky powder. There's like a T zone, I think, right? Mine is a double T zone because I want middle and another cross. Make sure your nose isn't all at all shiny. People get on you for it. You don't say it's not a good point you made on there, J.R. Your nose is shiny. You guys are picky like that sometimes.

I think that's about it, fellas, and ladies. See you guys next time. Vitzis. On TYT, Jank and Anna with you guys. Also, Thomas Merlo, thanks for joining. We appreciate you. I could go for some of that right now. Yeah.

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That's also on YouTube. You can share the videos, like the videos, all of that helps. And we appreciate all of you doing that. Now I get to do my favorite thing, which is read some of your comments. Alexander Ng, who is a member on YouTube, says, I want to know when Israel is going to pay back all the money received from the United States. That's what I want to know. And then I want to know why they have free health care and we don't.

Alexander, our media will literally call you an anti-Semite for asking those questions. When they're the most reasonable questions in the world, they say, oh my God, we helped you so much by taking $330 billion from you. Great. Then now we can help you when you give us the $330 billion back, right? Because if giving you money is so good for us, then you giving us money is going to be fantastic for you. The other day Benjamin Nanyahu gave a speech bragging about how their top three best growing economy in the world, their GDP average salaries gone from 17,000 to 63,000, how they're living so large and they've got universal health care and paid family leave and free college.

We don't have any of those things. And they, but they say if we don't continue, forget getting the money back. If we don't continue to give money to them, we don't continue to do their wars, we're all bigots and racists and anti-Semites. Okay, that's fine, I'll take it. Yeah, and then we should, I'll take it, okay? If you want to call me names, I'll tell freaking take it. Anyway, keep going.

Faye Scott Smith says, isn't it so strange that so much is going on now and we are over 40 trillion in debt? What is really the plan? Why so much? Are we in an active Siyahap? Faye, the whole thing's a Siyah. I mean, look, the global war on Israel's enemies cost $8 trillion. That's eight out of the 38, just on that alone.

And if you were a tiny little country like Israel, And you could get the biggest military in the world, the best economy in the world, to give you $8 trillion worth of not just defense but offense. So you could take more land and get richer. Well, wouldn't you? Of course you would, right? I think, see, like people think that, you're saying that Israel would do this stuff is like who's saying that Israel is uniquely evil.

No, I think if they had the capacity, almost any other foreign nation would do this, right? But they don't have the capacity, Israel has the capacity, so they've done it. and they've taken all this money from us and our blood and treasure. Okay, but there's a limit and we've reached the limit and that's enough. I mean, guys. I don't see other foreigners visiting Patagonia and lighting it on fire, Jank. That's a whole other thing. So listen, guys, last thing on that.

Look, we not only have to pay that $8 trillion. Israel never has to pay it. We have to pay it. But we're paying interest on that every single year. And the interest is gigantic. And we're being forced to pay that interest in perpetuity forever and ever and ever. And then on top of all that, Israel first in this country still says not enough. We demand more, and if you don't give more, you're all anti-Semites.

And so they don't realize that they're creating a massive, massive problem for themselves. Nobody else is doing it, they're doing it with their incredible abuse of this country. Yes, I'd love to see our money back. And Joseph Stewart speaks for all of us when he says, the angry 18 year old me who protested the Iraq invasion on the streets of Sydney is starting to come back. I feel you. I feel you. That's when I became politicized, so I feel you.

That rage is back, that's for sure. Honestly, back then, I didn't know that we were doing that for Israel. Neither did I. So now that we wasted $8 trillion and lost all those guys, and they asked us to do it again with a country four times the size of Iraq, our answer should be. a unified, hell no, good news it is. That's what the polling indicates, bad news, our government is compromised and doesn't care what we think at all.

They will serve the foreign government, it looks like, until we do something about our own government. We need to get it back and we can get it back politically. Vote out all the incumbents. So unless you're incumbent is Tom Massey or Rocano or you're absolutely positive, they're honest. Vote them all out in the primaries. You don't have to cross party lines.

That's why mainstream media never talks about primaries. Primaries are the most important thing. Vote out all the bombs. If you cleared out 10% of Congress, that would be an earthquake. And we can do that together. So if you want to sign the pledge at Operationconsequences.com or just do it on your own. Make sure you vote in the primaries against all the corrupt incumbents that serve Israel instead of us. We'll be right back.

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But my favorite is the new logo, TYT, like the Rebel Alliance gladiator type logo. And number two is all the Operation Hope, Team Hope, Team Joy t-shirts on there. So make sure you check that out. All right, let's go to a super chat because there's a lot of folks who wrote in. Cornelius point dexter said, the same Democrats saying, I told you so about Trump are the same ones that called you a secret Trump supporter if you criticize Biden for being too old or for Kamala being a bad speaker. Oh my God, Cornelius, I couldn't agree with you more. Okay, this story didn't make it in the rundown today, but I do want to mention it. So you know how the Democrats did a after election autopsy for like why they're such massive losers?

Well, it turns out that their stance on Gaza, Kamala Harris' stance on Gaza, namely the fact that she kept rejecting and kicking out pro-peace protesters from her events, really, really hurt her. I remember writing about that during the election and getting a lot of hate from Democratic voters. So, like, I just, listen, it is not my job, it is not Jenks' job, it's not the media's job to put a nice shiny bow on your preferred candidate and, like, force feed people BS about how great this person is. She was a terrible candidate and we're three, three years out from the next election. So how about we get it right this time and we not make excuses for crappy Democratic candidates? How about we work really, really hard and have really, really high standards so we end up with a good candidate that would actually represent us? Yeah, so Israel first says, oh, you guys make everything about Israel, right?

Yeah, yeah, everything is about Israel. Well, so like here's a great example of it, right? We didn't make this about Israel. We had no idea that the autopsy had anything to do with Israel or Gaza. And we originally blamed the DNC for being, you know, stuck in its ways and not wanting to offend the politicians and Biden and Kamala Harris and said, turns out no, it had nothing to do with that. The autopsy showed that supporting Israel caused Democratic Party, so it got buried.

Israel first buried the report. Yes. To make sure that you don't know how toxic. Israel is to the Democratic Party. The people inside the Democratic Party that are Israel first are not for Democratic Party. They're for Israel. They would destroy, and they have destroyed the Democratic Party on behalf of Israel. Yes, yeah. So it turns out it is always Israel, more than we realized. Okay, I've got to read last couple ones here. Tom Terrific three writes in, one key point in that interview is he said Israel could take the rest of it if it's in self-defense. And that's

It's exactly right Tom, because they paint every aggressive action they have as self-defense. None of the articles I read today mentioned, they started talking about how Israel is taking more and more land. And I was like, oh, there we go. A little bit of breakthrough with the Associated Press is beginning to tell the truth, right? But of course they don't tell you, Israel started almost all those wars. They started the 1967 war and they took tremendous territory. It was a war of aggression, it was an offensive war, having nothing to with self-defense.

The whole self-defense claim is 100% lie. They invented the idea of preemptive strikes so they could take land while pretending to be the victims and doing self-defense. So, and then they arrogantly always say, learn your history because they learn propaganda. That isn't close to true. We'll be back. I'm a very stable genius. All right, back on TYT, Jen and Anna with you guys. More news.

Let's get to our next story. John in Virginia, Republican. Republican. Let's hear from you. Well, this is John Barron. And you have, look, this is the worst decision you've ever had in your life practically. That was the president of the United States pretending to be someone else using a well-known pseudonym that Trump is known to have used in the past. Now, C-SPAN claims that it wasn't President Donald Trump because they think were morons. But I don't know, Jank, what do you think? No, no, this one's actually in dispute. But I'm with you. C-SPAN truther.

How is this in dispute? So we'll get to it. So you want to get into it now? Here, let's do it. No, no, let's pause. Okay. Because you're wrong. But nonetheless, after six Supreme Court justices struck down Trump's global tariffs on

Friday, he's been spiraling. I mean, if you've paid any attention to what Trump's been up to, he's been complaining. He says that these Supreme Court justices should be ashamed, that their family members are probably ashamed of them. I mean, it's just total childish brain rot, totally taking control, even though the tariffs have been disastrous for the U.S. economy. He should use this as honestly a blessing to back away from a tariff policy that has been bad for his presidency and bad for the American people, but he's not seeing it that way. So he also took some time to rail on democratic leadership like Hakeem Jeffries, who led the charge to get the tariffs. repealed, especially the tariffs on Canada.

So let's take a quick look at that. Several of Republicans in Congress have supported this decision by the Supreme Court. And Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader, has called him a Warnaby King. Why wouldn't- He doesn't even know, and I watched him the other day interview, the guy doesn't even know what a tariff is. But there's been bipartisan criticism. No, not bipartisan. Excuse me. There's several Republicans have said that.

Yeah, a few people- You just work with Congress to come up with a plan. I don't have to push tariffs. I have the right to do tariffs. And I've always had the right to do tariffs. And it's all been approved by Congress. So there's no reason to do it. Yeah, Supreme Court ruled against you.

Supreme Court ruled against you. The Supreme Court, by the way, three of the justices, who you nominated. Okay, one of them didn't rule against him, right? Brett Kavanaugh is like worried about the refund scenario. Who cares about the refund? Is it constitutional or not? But anyway, whatever, I digress. Most of them ruled against Donald Trump, but he doesn't want to accept it.

So I think Trump did call into C-SPAN to complain like a whiny little child. So let's take a listen and then we'll have this debate. Well, this is John Barron and you have, look, this is the worst decision you've ever have in your life practically. And Jack's gonna agree with me, right? But this is a terrible decision. And you have Hakeem Jeffries, who he's a dope, and you have Chuck Schumer who can't cook a cheeseburger. Of course, these people are happy.

Of course these people are happy. But true Americans will not be happy. And you have the woman earlier. I assume she's a woman. She's a Democrat. But she said she's disgraced. She's devastated. Now C-SPAN denies the fact that this was President Donald Trump writing on X that because so many of you are talking about Fridays,

C-SPAN caller who identified himself as John Barron, we want to put this to rest. It was not the president. The call came from central Virginia, from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered in-person White House meeting with the governors. Okay, tune in to C-SPAN, blah, blah, blah, you get the point. I don't, I don't believe them. That's amazing that you don't believe them. Okay, so hold on. First, let's ask you guys, because we have a poll on this on TYT.com.

John Barron called in a C-SPAN that is often Trump's student. And what really happened? A, that was the real John Barron. He exists. B, that was Trump, our president is a child. C, it was an impersonator who nailed Trump's voice and style. Okay, so you guys tell us what you think about it. So Anna, I was positive it was Trump.

And part of the reason that I was positive that it was Trump is because the way he tried to change his voice. Like, eh, I'll tell you what. He said, dope. Okay, like, but his voice still comes through as he's trying to suppress the voice. It sounds exactly like. It sounds exactly like it. But more importantly than even sounding like him, because impersonators can get really close. Thank you.

The audience gets it, Jank. The audience gets it. They can't be fooled. How dare you try to trick them? Okay, I'm not trying to trick anyway. And then, but his style is so Donald Trump, right? like the referencing the earlier caller and everybody's a dope, etc. So but when C-SPAN put out this, I mean, I'd love to be a C-SPAN's truther and be like,

no, C-SPAN is lying on behalf of Donald Trump, but why would they lie on behalf of Donald Trump? Because it's embarrassing to get fooled by Donald Trump. By the way, the host should be mortified. Look, I'm not trying to blame her or whatever, but that was so obviously at least a Trump impersonator at the very least that she, instead of getting rid of the call, she should Like wait, caller, you sound like Donald Trump. So who actually are you?

Yeah. Like that would have been an amazing moment on television where we might have been able to find out. The only thing working against me in my theory that that was in fact Donald Trump is the fact that the caller called into C-SPAN. And I just have a hard time believing that Trump has ever watched C-SPAN, even once in his life. No, he watches TV so religiously, an old school TV that I wouldn't- Okay, but look, the bottom line on this is we all believe that it's possible. Even if you're MAGA, you know you believe that it was possible, right? And so whereas like no one would believe that Obama is gonna call a ceaseband and go,

you know you're really being unfair to Barack Obama and make up a pseudonym, et cetera. Man, that sounded like Trump. And it is very believable because he is that childish. And by the way, it's not hard to believe that it would be Trump because this was something that he would do, almost on a regular basis back in the day. So in the 1980s, when reporters called the Trump organization to request an interview with the boss, they were sometimes referred to a spokesman instead. The spokesman, John Barron, was actually Trump hiding behind a fake name.

But C-SPAN did get involved and say it wasn't actually Trump. Trump was busy in a business meeting with, I don't know. In northern Virginia, not central Virginia. And by the way, this whole thing about like- I'm kidding about Northern Virginia, I don't know where Trump was. The caller, the caller used a phone number based in Virginia. Oh, okay, it's not like you can, you know, use a service that changes your phone number. Like, it's just so ridiculous, come on.

Yeah, you could easily dupe your number. That's, anybody can do that. Exactly. But like with the fact that they said Virginia did make me doubt it a little bit. Like if it was like Rhode Island or Missouri, maybe, right? But they're like, it's in a different part of Virginia. But overall, that's, look, I don't think whether it was him or not is overly relevant. But what is relevant is that we have a president so childish that we think he might do this.

And then that guy's in charge of deciding whether we start an disastrous war in the Middle East, whether we go to war with Venezuela and Cuba and Iran. And these wild tariffs, 15% tariffs that he's imposing, despite the Supreme Court, saying that he can't, like his actions leads you to believe that he would make a call like that. Yeah, absolutely. And that is super dangerous to have that kind of instability in the White House. Now, the Supreme Court's decision on Trump's tariffs does open up a huge problem, right? A complicated one, because since the Supreme Court has decided that his tariffs were unconstitutional,

the importers of foreign produced goods are expecting a refund of some sort. And I want to talk a little bit about the businesses, which might get some sort of refund. I have no idea. But you know who's not going to get any money back? American consumers. And I want to talk a little bit about how much it cost us as American consumers to deal with Trump's tariffs, which did not lead to an uptick in manufacturing jobs in our country, which did not benefit our economy.

in any way, shape or form. Trump has used tariffs as a cudgel to get what he wants from these various countries, to get certain business deals that he and his family wants. It's not about the American people. That's what's been clear to me. And I say this as someone who was actually very supportive of the notion that we should use tariffs in order to convince businesses to bring jobs back here to the United States where products could be produced.

And you don't have to worry about paying, you know, exorbitant tariffs. But nonetheless, the way he did it was ham-handed. It wasn't really about bringing jobs back to the United States. Now, this all cost us money, meaning us individuals as consumers, and a report released this month by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee in Congress found American Families paid an average of $1,745 in tariff costs between February of 2025 and January of 2026, less than a year. That's how much the average U.S. consumer spent on tariffs. because guess what?

Tariffs are taxes that are typically absorbed by the importers, meaning the businesses importing products from other countries. And they tend to pass off some of those costs at least to the consumers. So congratulations America. Yeah, so they asked Donald Trump, okay, well, you know, the Supreme Court says you kind have to pay the tariffs back. They remanded to lower course to figure out how you're gonna pay them back. I'm super worried that it's gonna go to corporations and I will fight that with every fiber of my being.

And then we'll probably lose, but we'll keep fighting. But Trump said that he would give $2,000 to every American based on how much money we were making from the tariffs. So a reporter asked them, they said, okay, then are you going to, you know, this kind of gets to about not really quite 2,000 but almost for every American. So is that the plan? And he's like, when did I say that? I don't remember saying that. Oh my God, dude, it was a major proposal that you unveiled. I mean, if Biden said that, we'd all be talking about his mental decline and dementia, right?

When he's like, oh yeah, yeah, 1776, that's what we're gonna give to the soldiers. No, that's a different promise you made called the warrior dividend. You're totally losing track of all the nonsense. And then I read his story that outline all the different things that he promised to give away to the average American, including $5,000 per American for all the savings that Doge was gonna give us. Okay, so it's so ironic because you remember what Republicans said throughout our whole lives. Oh, the Democrats, they're just trying to get votes by giving away money, free money to everyone. That's exactly what Donald Trump is promising, but never delivering.

Yeah. Well, to be fair, Doge didn't really save much money, so. Yeah. Anyway, let's take a break. When we come back, another person in the UK has been arrested due to the release of the Epstein files here in the United States, of course, no consequences for anyone, really, because we don't live in a country that's governed by a government that actually cares about the people. So when we come back, we'll tell you about what's happening in the

UK and more, don't miss it. We go to Savage Lou on Twitch saying Huckabee's Greater Israel backing has basically rallied the entire Middle East to back Iran against Israel and the US to protect their own sovereignty. Yeah, of course, Israel is almost united the entire planet against us. our so-called ally. Microgram says, so Iran is a week away from a nuclear bomb, but their nuclear program was completely destroyed and Trump's big, beautiful bombing. Make it make sense.

Of course it doesn't make sense. It's Israel driving it, and our press is not allowed to ask questions. They must submit to the will of Israel. Danger of Miles 17 says 56 months rocking with Jenk, Anna, Johnny Pie, J.R. Jordan, and my T.Y.T. family. I love you all and appreciate that we can all keep each other sane while our country burns. Here, hear on that. And now we go to Super Chat, Night of Mirage Odyssey writes in, I'm gonna read this blind. Ramadan Mubarak, Mubarak back to you. It's not fascinating coming from colonizer Mike Huckabee's staggering hypocrisy on Tugger Carlson. He claims to care about Christians,

yet gleefully advocates for mass slaughter and illegal settlements. To cheerlead, the remake of the Holocaust of Gaza and the West Bank, the very land where Jesus was born and preached is sickening. Politicians pushing this brainwashed Zionism belong at the Hague. That part I agree with. They desecrate the holy text. They claim to revere. Jesus who walked that land commanded peace.

All who draw the sword will die by the sword. Matthew 2652. The Holy Corral. also utterly condemns the slaughter of innocence we witnessed. Quote, whoever takes a life, it will be as if they killed all of humanity. Using the birthplace of Christ and biblical claims to justify the mass extermination, expansion, and displacement of native Palestinians is ultimate blasphemy. I think it's time now for ICC to revise its list.

I will say this, the people who constantly are talking about, well, the Palestinians aren't real people, people, meaning like as a state, as a government, Palestine never existed. Palestinian is a made up word. The Palestinians are irrelevant. The Palestinians should never get a state. The Palestinians are terrorists, et cetera. Those are not, those are fascists who would have said the same exact thing about Jews.

Oh, the Jews have no rights, they shouldn't exist. They're not really people, they're cockroaches, they're this, they're that, et cetera. So they have become what they most feared and despised. There's no question about it. They are absolutely brutal to the Palestinians. They've enslaved them for 58 years and they say they are never going to give them their freedom. I don't know anything more disgusting and fascist than a government saying we're occupying

five and a half million other people and we will never give them their freedom. Well that's a country that is not an ally of a democracy, obviously an enemy. Cole 39 says Irish living in Qatar, love that the US base has been evacuated and we're left here to deal with the U.S. actions consequences. Hope Trump's comes to his census. He's being sarcastic about loving that. It's a disaster. He will very unlikely to come into his senses. He'll come into money and destroy us so he can make more from his Israeli benefactors. Just south of history says, as a recently awakened and red-pilled Republican, I'm struggling to be optimistic. Is there any hope can we ever get out from underneath Israel's control? Yeah, you can start

voting out everyone who takes a single dollar from Israel or who gives a single dollar day. Israel, be ruthless about it because it's just politics. It's not physical or it's not violent. Vote out all of them who give a single dollar more to Israel, not another dollar. Dot Jing and Anna with you guys. Alexander NG gifted a membership. Thank you brother and Lady A.F gifted 10. We appreciate you so much and she also wrote and Anna was brave enough to raise the alarm

from the lighthouse before the sailors were willing to listen. I think that's a great description. Thank you so much ADAF. We appreciate you. Wow, thank you. You might be the first person that's actually recognized that. But thank you, I really appreciate it. I don't think she's the first, but I appreciate it.

Well, you might be the first. No, no, no, no, I mean a lot of people in the audience. I've read comments like that before. You guys are amazing. Well, you gotta, you gotta like send them over. Okay, okay, yes. Anyway, let's get to our next story. Today, Peter Mendelssohn, the former UK ambassador to the United States,

was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. And thanks to the Epstein files, we have a pretty good idea of what exactly Mendelsohn did to earn that honor. Jank, your two cents? As I see foreign countries holding their leaders and people in power accountable, I keep wondering, is there a single person we're ever going to prosecute here? So after we talk about how Britain is actually going after the guilty, I want to talk about why we're choosing not to go after any of the guilty in this country.

Well, Republican Congressman Nancy Mace was on Pierce Morgan's show today and she just said it flatly, like honestly. No, I don't think there's going to be a single prosecution from the revelations that we're learning from the Epstein files. And that's not because she likes this reality. She's calling it out. So I do want to give her credit for that. Now moving on, let's go back to the UK where Mendelssohn was in fact arrested.

Now we don't know what the exact charges are here, but we do know that he was arrested. And it's likely due to the fact that in his capacity, as a public figure in the UK, he had access to certain information that he was passing off to Jeffrey Epstein, which allowed for him to engage in insider trading. So Mendelssohn who was the UK's business secretary in 2009 during the global financial crisis repeatedly sent Epstein confidential information regarding British policy. Now the information did enable Epstein to engage in insider trading and my suspicion is that's what ended up getting Mendelssohn arrested. Now, Mendelssohn, for instance, had obtained an email

that was written by an aid and sent to the UK Prime Minister at the time. The email said this. The email advised the government to draw down debt by selling some 20 billion pounds in assets equivalent to about $27 billion if converted today. Now, Mendelssohn decided to forward that email to Jeffrey Epstein. And Epstein did respond to it. He replied, what saleable assets to which Mendelssohn said land property, I guess? A similar exchange took place a year later in 2010. Mendelssohn appeared to confirm to Epstein during the height of the Eurozone crisis that a $500 billion pound bailout package was about to be unveiled. Should be announced tonight, he wrote in response to Epstein's email saying the bailout package was almost complete.

Now, the bailout was in fact announced the following day. Now, it's worth noting that in 2003 and 2004, when Mendelssohn was a lawmaker with the Labor Party, Epstein wired him some money about $75,000. The reason for that transaction is unknown. In fact, when it comes to Epstein, there were lots of massive transactions. involving other big name people like Leslie Wexner is a good example. Leslie Wexner gave him power of attorney. Like he handed everything over to Epstein.

Why? Why did you do that? We still don't know. Now Mendelsohn was arrested under the same offense as Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, of course, another associate of Epstein. So it doesn't have to do with, you know, sexual misconduct per se, but certainly alleged financial crimes, insider trading, that kind of stuff. Yeah. So guys, part of the process here, and there's a lot that's missing in terms of the parts of the puzzle, but there's parts that we know is Epstein would ask for favors back

after he did something for these folks, right? Either gave them a favor like the girls, etc. or after they had the girls use blackmail on them. But it's clear throughout all the Epstein files that every once in a while he would ask for something in return, right? And in this case it was private information, secret information from the government. That could of course make him and his allies much richer if they know it before others do. So now there's why did Les Wexner give over his entire fortune? We thought it was blackmail, It turns out it's not blackmail and the FBI thought he was his co-conspirator. Now why are they running that whole operation?

Maybe it's just to enrich themselves, but there are video cameras all across the all the apartments and honeypot operations are intelligence 101. It's what almost every intelligence unit does in every country, CIA, Mossad, MI6, you name it. They almost all of them do honeypot operations. This is a classic honeypot operation. So they wind up having control over a lot of the powerful people. Powerful people that are in our governments, whether it's the UK government in that case or

the US government. And what's happening is the Norwegians are charging their former prime minister with corruption. Good. In the UK, Prince Andrew has been arrested, the former Prince Andrew. You saw Mendelssohn arrested today. And even one of the sultans in the UAE has been, has lost his job as running the ports. You might think that's a small thing. But for a Sultan, that is a grave offense.

But anyways, all these different countries are beginning to take action against the guilty. There's only one country that says there are no other clients, we will never prosecute anyone else, we can't find the videos, there are no, originally they said there were no files at all, now come to find out there's a massive amount of files, and that country is us. So now we have to question not only why did we cover it up for two decades, because there's no question that our government had these files, knew all about it, covered it up the entire time, full well knowing that they would rape new girls every single year. And now after we find out, in the beginning, they say, oh, there's no such thing.

And now we find out the not only was there, but there's been some horrific things that already came out of the Epstein files. And still after we find out those horrific crimes. Our government says, no, we'll never prosecute anyone. Well, that means that the UK government is partially free. The Norwegian government is partially free at a minimum. But we are not at all free. Dude, the king's brother got arrested.

The king's brother. Yeah. Which is great. That's what you should do in a fair and just society. I'm not saying the UK is perfect, but the fact that the king's brother got arrested is a pretty big deal, especially when you juxtapose what's happening in the UK with what's not not happening at all here in the United States. And I wanna be clear, like Mendelsohn and Epstein were real close, at least based on what

you see in the exchanges they have in the Epstein files. I didn't know this, I learned it today, but Mendelssohn is gay and I don't see a lot here in regard to unsavory comments about women and all that stuff, but I do see this. So in one email exchange after Jeffrey Epstein was released in 2009 from his prison sentence and I say that because he was allowed to literally leave prison all day long to work and then come back at night. But after he was done with his sentence, he has this email exchange with Mendelsso Mendelsohn. So Mendelsohn writes on July 22nd 2009, how is freedom feeling? And Epstein responds the way you

would expect him to respond in a disgusting way. She feels fresh, firm, and creamy. And they continued to have a relationship full well, knowing almost all the emails joke around about how Epstein likes young girls. They're not unaware of it. There is a second hypothesis, which is that, no, they didn't need to be blackmailed. And Wexner doesn't appear to have ever been blackmailed. They did it for the motherland, Israel. And so when Israel asked Wexner to give over a billion dollars to Jeffrey Epstein to manage,

he said yes. That when they ask for information to help Israel, they say yes. Now why does that theory exist? Because it the drop site news emails, which are different than the Epstein file emails, Epstein is trying to help Israel in almost every correspondence when it's come to a foreign country. So trying to arrange a deal between Israel and Russia, Israel and Mongolia, Israel and African countries, getting cyber weapons for Israel. And Israel has the video surveillance in his apartment, Israeli spies stay there, Israeli Prime Minister,

stays there. And that overwhelming mountain of evidence that this was to help Israel, our media ignores and goes, I can't see it. Which then goes, okay, that means the government and the media are compromised. This is absurd. That's why, and guys, how can you tell who's the conspiracy theorist and who's telling the truth? Well, there's a very easy way. We all know, and the government now, everyone acknowledges media, government, they all acknowledge, yeah, there were 1,200 victims. And have any of the people that did that been prosecuted? In the US, no. In the US, other than Epstein and Maxwell, and Epstein was killed in prison. He had three broken parts in his neck, which does not happen in a suicide.

They never recovered a news. One of the top pathologists said it was very likely murder and not suicide. And then by the way, the Jean-Luc Bernal also killed in a prison in France after he was caught a co-conspirator. Maxwell has a very, very light sentence now, and no one else has been prosecuted. So now you know for certain that the government is not telling the truth, and then the media is covering it up, because otherwise we would have all the prosecutions you're seeing in the UK and across the world. Even that, that's not that many, but at least they're doing something, whereas America is saying we definitely will protect the predators till the end of time.

We knew they were raping the girls, we were okay with it, and now our job is to protect. the predators and not American children. So our government is deeply compromised. All right, let's try to do at least a little of the next story because you mentioned Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israel. Well, we've got more. So there was an interesting and damning exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and someone in the state of Israel that really bolsters the argument that Jeffrey Epstein was working on

behalf of Israel. Now before I give you the details, Jank, are you shocked? No, not one person. Every single email shows them trying to help Israel, the ones that relate to foreign countries. So this is the least surprising news. The only reason why you're gonna be surprised is because mainstream media never covers it, but you're gonna get the facts here. So when it comes to this particular exchange, it has to do with a young student who Epstein wanted to connect to Israel.

So this is in 2011, Epstein reached out to someone by the name of Anat Barak. the daughter of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. He wanted to connect Anat with a Barnyard College freshman by the name of Tali, who expressed interest in joining a terrorist organization known as the IDF. So here's what he wrote. She's 18 years old and has been accepted to Barnard College at Columbia University. Tali would like to serve in one of the elite units in the IDF. She would be a great asset to any unit.

Upon her return to the United States for college, she would be a fantastic ambassador for Israel on one of the more important college campuses in the country, Colombia. So that very same day, Anna actually emailed Talia and C-C'd Epstein in the email. This is what Annaut wrote. Jeffrey Epstein told me about you and about your plans to join the IDF this summer. This is absolutely wonderful. I would love to speak with you. Can you call me when you have time? My cell is redacted.

If there's anything you might need while you're in Israel, please don't hesitate to call me. So Epstein did have some close connections to Barnard College, then simply knowing Tali, a student who was going there. We can get time later, but Jake, your thoughts. So Columbia seems to be deeply entrenched with Israel. So tons of the donors are part of this Epstein crew. including the top donor to Barnard, who gave $100 million. And here they are talking about how can we funnel Columbia and Barnard students into the IDF.

But mainstream media still can't figure it out. Which country was obscene linked to? I can't tell them, maybe it was Bolivia. But not only that, so go to Israel, fight with the IDF, and when I say fight, I mean obviously slaughter innocent Palestinians, that's what the IDF does, and then come back to the United States, as an ambassador for Israel. And then remember, the founder of Free Press, Barry Weiss started as a student at Columbia. And her main thing and how she got famous was canceling any professor that taught actual

history. She demanded that Israeli propaganda be taught instead. And she rose up out of that cancel, as the leader of that cancel culture. So how many Israelis are embedded in both the administration? and the student body of Columbia trying to push Columbia into teaching Israel's version of history rather than actual history and trying to fire anyone who defies Israel. No, but honestly, Jank, this sheds a lot more clarity and light on the whole freak out that took place as these pro peace protests broke out in various Ivy League schools.

Like it led to those giant hearings, right, where at least Stefanik is like losing her mind and claiming that these protesters are all evil anti-Semites when in reality, they just want to stop seeing their resources used to slaughter, you know, innocent people, including children. But now I kind of understand. Like it seems like some of these ivies were kind of used as like these incubators for Israeli propaganda. And the message was kind of being taken away from the pro-Israeli. Israel crowd and they wanted to do something about it.

So we've talked before, Gellane Maxwell's dad is Robert Maxwell. He stole our nuclear seekers. Then he bought McMillan books and the other- McGraw-Hill. Sorry, McGraw-Hill. The textbooks that go into our kids' schools. Now here's Friends of Israel trying to influence the top

colleges in America to teach a certain kind of history, right? So if you were going to do propaganda, you need people to think that you're the victim instead of the aggressor. So for example, you would tell them that 1967 was all about self-defense, when in reality, Israel attacked all of its neighbors, destroyed their air forces, and then grabbed the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. It was a super aggressive imperial war of going on the offense, but we're all taught, no, Israel

was doing self-defense. It's a total lie, 100% lie. And so, but that is being spoon fed. And now we find out, oh, Epstein was organizing some of the people who were manipulating our top schools in the country into obedience and compliance for Israel. But yet the media can't figure out who Epstein might have worked with. Last thing is Graphic 7. These are the colleges that they had infiltrated, Bard, Barnard College, Columbia University,

Fashion Institute of Technology, I don't know why that one, Harvard and my couple of family members are there, anyway, Harvard, Ohio State, UCLA, Yale University at a minimum, okay? And hey, where were the protests shut down? Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, all shut down any protests that criticized Israel, pretending it was about anti-Semitism. And who's on their boards? Well, as we found out through this story, Epstein's friends. were on their boards.

Yes. And that's why they demanded that any protests of Israel be shut down completely. All right, we're out of time. We've got a great candidate coming out for you guys. And in the revolution, I'm gonna ask you guys to troll Mike Huckabee a little bit. So a little bit serious, a little bit fun, okay? Done, I'm good. Okay, so Anna's gonna participate too.

We'll show you how to do it when we return.