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Episode Date: December 17, 2024

IDF airstrike on Khan Younis school kills at least 20, including children. Netanyahu announces new settlements in the Golan Heights. Trump gives conspiratorial explanation for the mysterious drones flying over the U.S. Trump states he might pardon NYC Mayor Eric Adams. New York officials are reportedly considering a “CEO hotline” after the assassination of Brian Thompson." HOST: Ana Kasparian (@anakasparian), Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Welcome to our trash revolution. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Bega! Welcome to Young Turks, Jane Cougar, Anna Kusband with you guys, live from the Polymarket Studio here in L.A. All right, hell was show for you guys, a little bit of foreign policy sprinkled in, usually depressing news when you go to the international front.

Although sometimes like progressives win and outsiders win, populace win in other parts of the world. So there is hope in that, but not today, unfortunately. So anyways, and then we've got, of course, more Trump news, ABC news, on and on it goes. Let's have fun and actually do a news show, which apparently is unique online. All right, Casper. Well, I wanted to check in on Gaza and Syria. And so without further ado, let's give you the details first, beginning with what's happening in Gaza. An airstrike on a school in Gaza has killed at least 15 people, including children.

That is according to Gaza's civil defense. It happened near Nasser Hospital in Kanunis. This video showing the chaos with people spilling out from a stairwell as the fire spread on the top floor of the school, which is inside a humanitarian area designated by Israel. Well, the death toll from Israel's airstrike on a U.N. run school in Khan Yunus has reportedly risen to at least 20 people, including children, of course. Now, images and video posted on social media showed Palestinians frantically searching for survivors in the rubble following the attack on Ahmed bin Abdul-Aziz school. According to the UN, a two-year-old girl suffered severe head trauma and lost sight in one eye. Her five-year-old brother also had a serious head injury. One man lost his brother and his children in this strike, and a 17-year-old girl's mother was crushed to death.

Now, as usual, we're hearing the same excuse, the same answers from the IDF and the Israeli government. In fact, the Israeli military said on Monday, it had struck Hamas militants operating from a compound that previously served as a UN-run school. Nottie, yada, yada. We all get it. The same argument over and over and over again, this UN-run school happened to be one of the few places. where Palestinians have been able to find shelter, considering the majority of the buildings, residential buildings, hospitals, universities, schools, you name it, have been utterly destroyed, leveled. Now, those sheltering in the school disagree with what the Israeli military is saying.

Let's watch. There are no fighters here at all. They are all simple people who just want to leave. They bombed the school, which was a shelter for children, and there were no fighters here. They were all children and we were sleeping. So why didn't they tell us to evacuate the school? How can they bomb school? Well, the school isn't the only thing that was bombed. The strike actually came shortly after an estimated 36 people were killed in an attack on

Nusarot refugee camp in central Gaza. Additionally, Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Alu was among the six people killed in a strike on the civil emergency center in the Nusirat market area. Three civil defense workers were also among those killed in that strike. And the attacks continue today as Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 10 people. I'm sure the death toll has probably risen since that reporting came out, but the Gaza The health ministry now estimates that as many as 45,000 people have been killed. And heartbreaking findings indicate that most children in Gaza expect to die soon.

And if they don't expect to die soon, they're hoping that they do because of the trauma that they're suffering. A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through. And by the way, I think it's important to get into an analysis of the casualties, you know, because there's a lot of debate in regard to how many Hamas militants are getting killed in some of these strikes. We're going to get to those details because there's an interesting report out about that with some important data. But before we do, Jenk, thoughts.

Yeah, so I want to read one more graphic here because it goes to the question of whether we should say that these children were killed or that they were murdered. So this is from air wars, one of the, of the minimum of 1,900 children killed, 92% were killed in incidents involving destruction of residential buildings. And to me, this is the most important number. 82% of children killed died in strikes on residential infrastructure where no militant was publicly reported killed. These were strikes in October of 2023 alone, specifically.

Yes. So it gives you a sense of the efficacy of these strikes if you're actually trying to get militants. So if you said to me there's some terrible killers there, but you need to murder 16,000 kids so that 18% of the time you might hit one of those killers. I have to murder how many kids? I have to kill 16,000 kids to potentially maybe get to a killer 18% of the time? No, no, I'm not going to murder those many kids. So like, but here in America, if you say, hey, killing 45,000 people when your bombs almost never hit the militants, kid killing 16,000 kids when they almost never hit the militants

is murder and is done on purpose, obviously, you just kept missing and missing. and missing and missing. Oh, golly, gee, I killed two stadiums full of innocent civilians because I'm just the most incompetent military. You can do all the propaganda you want, but to the rest of us, to the rest of the world, that is murdering children for your political advantage, okay? So, but here in America, me saying that will be perceived as so much more offensive than actually murdering the children.

Isn't that so perverse? Isn't that amazing? So they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, 16,000 butchered kids. 90% of them think, shoot, 96% of them think they're about to get killed any second. The trauma is unreal and will last a lifetime. And half of them wish they were dead. And Israel did that, but Israel is not at fault. Israel and the United States.

The people complaining about it are at fault. The people saying facts are at fault, et cetera. Today, Israel accused the prime minister of Ireland of being racist and anti-Semitic. Why? Because he has the audacity to call a spade a spade. I mean, honestly, how much further does the current Israeli government need to go in slaughtering innocent people for the valid critiques to be viewed as such? Yeah, and so in the case of Ireland, oh, I wonder if it's because they could relate to being occupied by a different power. and being called terrorist for fighting back and winning their liberation, et cetera.

Or they randomly hate Jews for no reason. Like, I mean, only an Israeli supporter could be so blind as to think, yeah, all the Irish are anti-Semitic, not that they can relate to being occupied. So, and now they're going to take more of Syria as Anna's about to explain to you. So look, guys, there is no end to the death and destruction that Israel has sown. here. And so for all of your life, you have been fed propaganda by American media that the Muslims are the violent ones. When in reality, the violence has been done to the Muslims over and over and over again, and massive scale. And you've been lied to. So this is what we're trying

to tell you here. We're trying to break that hypnosis because Anna's right. This isn't just about Israel. That's our money, American money, that slaughtered those kids. And it's our media that covers for that slaughter. And if anyone dares criticize that, they will in unison scream, anti-Semitic. It's just that you randomly hate Jews. Israel has never done anything wrong. So this is disgusting. So before we move on to Syria, I just want to give you some more statistics and analysis

that came out of this review done by air wars because, you know, something else that they found is that out of the 606 incidents of civilian harm in Gaza in October of 2023, in this one month, only 26 out of the 606 had evidence that at least one militant was killed. Only 26 out of the 606, okay, included at least one militant being killed. The rest, all civilians. So do you think that Israel missed 580 times? Because you're just the worst military in the world. They just can't ever hit anything right.

But they never learn a lesson either. They're like, oh, we just murdered more children, more children, no militants, no militants. Oh, golly, gee, let's miss again and again and again. Because this goes to the core whether they're terrorists or not. And unfortunately, this current right wing government of Israel is literal terrorists. They already had terrorists in the camera that were adjudicated as supporting terrorism. Now they have done one of the worst acts of terrorism of my life. And what it hinges on is it is it intentional or not?

And when you only hit 26 militants out of 606 times that you struck and you killed 45,000 civilians or 45,000 people to grow overwhelming majority of whom are, civilians, you get to begin to get the sense that it is intentional. And if you still think it's not intentional, and golly gee, they just can't ever hit the right target. But the next time they do a bombing, they're going to have great intent, because they're Israel. And the Muslims are the violent savages, and we are the holy people. Okay, well, then, you know, you're so out of touch that you're borderline lunatic. And but for the rest of us, this is sickening. And I don't want to spend one more dollar that comes out of all of our paychecks to kill these poor people. Now, while raiding terror in Gaza, the Israeli military is simultaneously encroaching more and more

into Syrian territory, thus making it clearer to anyone with a functioning brain what the actual intent and motive is for the Israeli government. But nonetheless, let's take a look at the reporting. A week after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Israel is expanding its operations and striking dozens of targets across Syria. Rebel leader Ahmad Shahat condemning what he called misguided Israeli aggression, saying he is not interested in a conflict with Israel and instead wants to focus on rebuilding Syria. But there are competing interests in this region. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has no interest in a conflict with Syria, He also says he plans to expand the building of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights to prevent terrorist elements from taking over near our border.

Israel sees the border buffer zone as soon as Assad fell. And relentless airstrikes have decimated Syria's entire defensive capability. Yeah, building the Israeli settlements was the point all along. Okay, I don't think that there is genuine fear of Syrian terrorism. But nonetheless, Israel has no plans to slow down. Again, the whole point is to build more Israeli settlements on land that does not belong to them. Netanyahu said he wanted to double the population of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized during the 1967, six-day war and is considered illegally occupied under international law.

But, you know, international law doesn't apply to Israel, of course. Bibi said in a statement on Sunday night, quote, strengthening the Golan Heights is strengthening the state of Israel, and it is especially important at this time, we will continue to hold onto it, make it flourish, and settle it. Yeah, that's the Israeli propaganda of, oh, when we take land from these loser savages, these natives that are here, and we steal it, I mean take it, we make it flourish, we make the desert bloom. That's why it's better in our hands than these violent savage loser Muslims, you just steal it from them and then you make it flourish because we're such flourishers and we're such beautiful human beings and they're never can be

able to get anything done. Remember what Ben Shapiro's line about all the Arabs knows how to blow things up? Oh, that's inconvenient that Israel's blown up all of Gaza. Oops. And they all know how to live in the sewerage and they're dumb, et cetera, et cetera, right? That was his implication about living in the sewage. Well, here we are, and now they're stealing more Syrian land. And I'll go, oh, I'm so sorry, have I offended you for correctly stating what they're doing? Because under international law, Golan Heights is Syrian territory. And Israel is saying, no, I'm going to steal it and flourish it with my people instead of your stupid people who I already murdered, okay? So now they've taken an extra buffer zone past the Golan Heights in Syria. My guess

is look there's two things here because we're always fair and you think oh well you use it language that are supposed to be reserved for Muslims but yet you use it for Israel that doesn't seem fair no it is exactly fair the New York Times and CNN constantly call Muslims who do violence terrorists savages murderers right but when it comes to Israel the government the much more powerful government of Israel oh the killings accidental took the land but didn't steal it etc now my guess is here in being fair, that they're going to pretend to compromise and give back some of the extra land

past the Golan Heights that they've taken recently and go, well, obviously, we're keeping the Golan Heights. That's why we're doubling the settlements. But who's going to stop them, Jank? Who's going to stop them? As long as the United States warrants anything that the Israeli government wants to do. And we now have a so-called two-party system where both parties will sanction anything that Israel wants to do. They're going to do it. Yeah, of course they are. So, and then just to finish the thought, they're now going to try to take half of Gaza. That's the indication that they've shown in their statements and in their trainings, et cetera.

That's cute that people think it's only going to be half of Gaza. Yeah, well, for now, they're certainly going to take northern Gaza. They've already said we're going to take central Gaza, and we're going to take the border crossing in southern Gaza, which leaves almost nothing in Gaza. And now they're having conversations about annexing the West Bank. So basically they're thinking, okay, we got these sucker Americans to give us $30 billion to kill these people, drive them from their land, and take their land. And then we'll call, and then we'll get their media to say that the victims are the aggressors. The victims are the ones that are threatening Israel. Israel's occupying them.

But we'll pretend that the Palestinians are more powerful and oppressing the poor Israelis. Israel might not exist because of the Palestinians. Israel might not exist okay if you I know that there was like in when Israel first started that was a super legitimate thought right these days if you're still saying that super old talking point when Israel is one of the most powerful militaries in the world and backed by America you're being ridiculous totally and utterly blind okay so unfortunately Anna's right nothing will be done about this Israel has overwhelming military financial and media power And so they will have the Dana Bashes of the world, Dana Bashes of the world come out and

accuse everyone who criticizes Israel of being anti-Semitic. It has nothing to do with Jews or Muslims from our perspective. And we say that every time, this isn't about Jewish culture is beautiful. And they've unfortunately, the government of Israel has perverted it, et cetera. We've talked about it endlessly. But they'll say it anyway, because they're liars. And they will pretend that Israel is the victim when they are the giant aggressors. They have killed all these innocent people and they have taken their land.

the reality, we do a news show and that is what happened in the news. Well, much like the situation in Gaza, the Biden administration continues to humiliate itself in regard to the weird, suspicious drones that have been flying around our airspace in the East Coast. So when we come back from the break, I'll give you the details and updates on that story and more. All right back on TYWIT, Mark Sewell, thank you for gifting 20 memberships, we appreciate it. He also wrote in, that is terrifying.

I have kids, I would want some justice. Oh, no, no, no, don't say that. They'll call you an anti-Semitic terrorist, okay? Palestinians are not allowed justice, justice is reserved only for the powerful. That's Israel and America and everybody else can go pound rocks. And last one, Marco Antonio also YouTube member, said the IDF even killed their own civilians by accident. More like they don't care who they're targeting. Yes, because the objective isn't to save the hostages or to kill terrorists. The objective is absolutely destroy Gaza and push the civilians

out so they can say, well, what could we do? I guess this empty land. And a people without a land to a land without a people now that we murdered them. Okay. Let's talk about drones. Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey reports? It seems like the American people have a big district. The government knows what is happening. Well, there you have President-elect Donald Trump,

assuming that the Biden administration knows full well what these mysterious drones flying in our airspace in the East. coast are really about, obviously we don't know for sure, but we still don't have any real answers from the Biden administration about these drones. So with that in mind, let's hear more of what Trump had to say. Our military knows where they took off from. If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went.

And for some reason, they don't want to comment, and I think they'd be better off saying what it is our military knows and our our president knows and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. I can't imagine it's the enemy because it was the enemy they'd blast it out, even if they were late, they'd blast it. Something strange is going on for some reason they don't want to tell the people and they should because the people are really, I mean they happen to be over Bedminster. We should know they're very close to Bedminster. I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in Bedminster. Just for context, Donald Trump does own a golf course in Bedminster and a private residence.

Now, unfortunately, we still know very little about these drones. Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was asked by George Stephanopolis to clear up any confusion, and here's how Mayorkas responded to that. There's no question that people are seeing drones, and I want to assure the American public that we, in the federal government, have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the New Jersey state police in addressing the drone sightings. Some of those drone sightings are, in fact, drones, some are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones, and we do see duplicative reporting.

But there's no question that drones are being cited. Let me set the record straight here, George. there are thousands of drones flown every day in the United States. Recreational drones, commercial drones. That is the reality. And in September of 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, changed the rules so that drones could fly at night. And that may be one of the reasons why now people are seeing more drones than they did before.

We need from Congress additional authorities to address. the drone situation. Our authorities currently are limited and they are set to expire. We need them extended and expanded. What exactly do you need? We want state and local authorities to also have the ability to counter drone activity. Dude, I'm sorry, but the Biden administration is a joke. How are you going to sit there and tell us, Oh, we don't know anything about these drones. Like we're trying to get answers too, but we know that it's not a threat. And we know, he also said, by the way, that there are no signs of foreign involvement.

How would you know? You're purporting to not know anything about what these drones are, where they came from. So how are we supposed to buy that there's no threat here? Yeah. So this is ridiculous. Like this whole thing is crazy. Okay, the jury's in on one part of it. it. This is enormous incompetence by the Biden administration. Yes. Enormous. Because they know

what they are. Trump is right in the beginning of that statement. There's no question about it. So if these, these have been up for three weeks at least now. I'm bordering on four weeks. If they were from a foreign government, we would not be calm. And the Pentagon wouldn't be like, oh yeah, Iran, why don't you spy in on our military facilities in New Jersey, let alone if they're in Maryland, et cetera, right? Oh, yeah, it's just Russia or whoever. No, it's not foreign. It's definitely ours. Okay, I mean, even they're not that incompetent. So since they know it, and it's very, very, very likely to be the Pentagon's drones, how do you think it helps to sit here and deny it all this time while speculation builds and builds? And then you have

governors coming out and saying, what the hell is this? And then you have congressmen coming out and saying what is this? And these morons in the Biden administration, think what, that it's all going to blow over and you're not going to have to say what the drones were. You're going to have to say it anyway, you morons. So you might as well say it now instead of waiting until it becomes a giant fervor. And then when you admit it, you're going to look even dumber. I mean, we're already there. First of all, please do not do this in case there's anyone watching who has considered shooting down the drones, right?

Because, look, don't do that. That's a terrible, terrible idea. And you're right, I mean, look, the fervor is here already, okay? People are scared, they're asking questions, conspiracy theories are floating around. And we're not getting answers at all from the Biden administration. And it's just, you're right, it shows the consistent incompetence that we've experienced with the Biden administration. And it's incredibly frustrating. Just tell the people the truth if, in fact, this is just the Pentagon testing, you know, new drone capabilities.

But with that in mind, the government is taking the position that these drones are, you know, some of them are being mistaken for ordinary drones that are manned by civilians or other aircraft that are being mistaken for drones. But many, including New Jersey Representative Josh Gottheimer, are calling the federal government's messaging wholly inadequate here. And I agree with him on that. Let's take a look. I've been hearing from literally hundreds and hundreds of my constituents who are

are completely frustrated by the lack of information from the FBI and from Homeland Security on what all these drones are. I mean, I've had briefings, as I've said, that makes me feel confident based on those briefings, that there's not an imminent threat to public safety. But it doesn't answer the question, where all these drones coming from the people are seeing and why aren't we doing a better job of tracking them and understanding that? And most importantly, why isn't the FBI coming clean with the public instead of, as you know, first telling them that they're seeing things, which I think is insulting and ridiculous. And I was glad that the head of Homeland Security came out today.

The secretary and said that people are seeing drones because I'm hearing from law enforcement, from folks that they're seeing these drones. So the question is, are these new drones? Are they people putting up the recreational drones? Given the size that I'm hearing about of the size of these drones, you know, I think these things are beyond recreational. If it's true what people are saying to me about what they're seeing with their own eyes. You also have Congressman Jim Himes, who is in the House Intelligence Committee. He said on Sunday, there's a lot of us who are pretty frustrated right now. We don't know is not a good enough answer.

And by the way, there have been people arrested over the weekend for their involvement in flying drones near sensitive areas. For instance, this weekend, an Air Force base near Dayton, Ohio was closed for nearly four hours due to drones flying in its restricted airspace. Also, a Chinese citizen living in California was arrested for flying a drone over the Vandenberg Space Force base and also taking pictures there. charged with failing to register an aircraft and violating national defense airspace, Zao was detained at San Francisco International Airport while attempting to board a flight to China. However, asked by CNN whether the allegations against him have any connection to drone sightings in the northeast, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor's office said, we don't allege that in our complaint. Also local authorities in Boston arrested two men who were

accused of operating a drone dangerously close to the Logan Airport on Sunday night. A third man remains on the loose. He actually fled police and remains at large. And so in the absence of official information from the federal government, theories and eyewitness reports are running rampant, to your point, Jank. Americans are even trying to figure out what these drones are capable of, who is flying them and why. And Matthew Morello, who is the mayor of Washington in Township, New Jersey, stated that authorities could not explain why some drones are being flown without emitting radio frequencies or using transponders, both of which are required by law when a drone is used at night.

So it has to be a military experiment, right? Because if we have laws barring these types of drones flying in our airspace, well, wouldn't our military shoot them down? This is not close. In fact, what Anna just told you is definitive proof that when the government thinks it's not them, they immediately go to arrest anyone flying a rinky dink drone. Exactly. By an airport, by a military complex, by a bridge, it doesn't matter.

They're on it instantly, and you're under arrest. But we've got apparently sightings of many drones, the size of SUVs in the sky in New Jersey. And they're like, don't worry about it. Leave it up there for three or four weeks. It's so obviously the Pentagon. Can I make a confession? Look, I just, I feel that Biden is asleep at the wheel and I get that it's not just about the president. I get that there are people in the administration who aren't as old as he is and aren't experiencing the cognitive decline that he is.

But nonetheless, Biden has proven himself to be so incompetent that I don't feel safe with him at the helm. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, of course I do. So because look, think about it, guys, that's why I started with enormous incompetence, because even if it's the Pentagon and there's nothing to worry about, which is we're very likely, why doesn't someone from the White House say that? Right. Why are you getting everyone all riled up when you're gonna have to say that at the end anyway?

What are you just gonna let it go forever, right? Do you think people would be like, oh, don't worry about it, just let the drone tanks fly above our heads and everything will be fine, right? Do you think that Trump won't say what it was when he gets into office a month from now? Like, what is the end game here? And my guess is there is no end game because the president has dementia. And so, I mean, it's not unclear that he has dementia. He definitely has it.

And so he can't finish a sentence. So obviously, he's not in charge. So I get maybe Jill Biden caught feelings after the election and has decided not to govern anymore. So if you're bothered by that, okay, then tell me who? who the hell is in charge of the government, right? Let the people panic, they deserve it. Okay, and tell me how if Joe Biden's still dynamic and young behind the scenes and is on top of this, why won't you say what the after drones are?

Because you obviously know, come on, stop insulting our intelligence. It doesn't make us look stupid, it makes you look stupid, okay? I know in the old days you control mainstream media and you say gaslight people, oh no, no, no, it's your fault for thinking there are drones. But guys, we have eyes and ears and you've lost track of that. All right, so theories, last things here, one of our members wrote in, Brett Vitel, YouTube member, hit the join button below, become a part of the show. Brett wrote, and I think the government is just scaring us to make us think drones are scary

and they need to be more heavily police so they can get funding and new tech and laws pass to stop private drones. So others wrote in that are members saying they just want more Pentagon funding, et cetera. I wouldn't be surprised. And if you notice, Mayorkas said, we need additional authorities. Exactly. I mean, we're talking about the executive branch that can act unilaterally when it comes to an issue like this. The fact that Mayorkas specifically focused on Congress and the necessity for resources, I think gives the game away a little bit.

What additional authorities did you need to arrest the guys that Anna just talked about who were flying the rinky dink drones? Exactly. You didn't need any extra authority for that. But there's giant drones in the sky and all of a sudden you need extra authority. Imagine that these morons didn't even check who they are, and it actually is a Russian drone, right, or whatever, the Chinese drone, right? And they're like, no, we shouldn't check because we need additional authority. I mean, I hope to God that's not what they think, right? There's no way in the world that's what they think. So if this is some amateur hack thing to get

more money for the Pentagon or to get more additional authority for the government to abuse the rest of us, also very poorly played and will have the exact opposite effect where a lot of people on the right and left go, yeah, take your additional authority and shove it where you can't find it, which is apparently everywhere. All right, and the last thing is, look, this is more of a cultural problem, and this is why a lot of folks I know in the establishment were crestfallen on election night, and we weren't like we know like I fought against Trump I told you 2000 terrible things about Trump etc but I knew that he might win whereas they didn't think that that was

possible now why did they think it was impossible for Trump to win and how's it connected to this drone story it's because people that I know that grew up with the establishment mindset that they got from watching television their whole lives is that the people in power are really smart and they're really competent and they make these decisions that are so amazing you can't even understand them right But if you knew, if you knew what they know, man, you would know they're playing four-dimensional chess and we should, we should really obey them. We should comply with their directives because they really know something we don't know.

And on election night, they found out, oh, they don't know anything we don't know. They never had a good plan to beat Trump, and they just lost to Trump again. I thought for sure they knew. I thought for sure they knew. And it turns out they don't. They don't know anything. And now when you see the drones, you're like, you don't know to not that you should respond before this turns into a national and international frenzy.

You don't know something as basic as don't let it fester for four weeks as everyone on earth speculates as to what the hell those drones are. You can't even do simple PR like that? No, these guys that are in the establishment that are in power, they're not smarter. They're not even smart. They're not even competent. They're a bunch of middling bureaucrats. And the way that they got there was the donor class doesn't want brilliant people.

They don't want out of the box thinkers. The donor class wants simple people who are subservient and know how to take orders. Compliant. So we wound up with a government filled with simpletons who take orders for a living and don't know how to govern. And that's why we're in the mess we're in. When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about whether Donald Trump is considering pardoning New York City Mayor Eric Adams. An incredible story, don't miss it.

We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Jenkine with you, Anna, with you. All right, let's do our next story. When you consider pardoning Eric Adams. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who's facing corruption charges, has been cooperating with the incoming Trump administration on its deportation plans. Will Donald Trump reward him for it by offering up a pardon? I don't know, let's watch. Yeah, I would.

I think that he was treated pretty unfairly. Now, I haven't seen the gravity of it all, but it seems, you know, like being upgraded in an airplane many years ago. I know probably everybody here has been upgraded. They see you're all stars and they say, I want to upgrade that person from NBC. I'm going to upgrade him. And that would mean you'll spend the rest of your life in prison. I don't know. Somehow, I would get, I mean, I'd have to see it because I don't know the fact.

What Donald Trump is referencing there is the federal corruption charges that Eric Adams is facing in regard to, you know, Turkish interests paying for airline upgrades as he was traveling to and from various parts of the country. Now, I'll give you more details on the charges against Eric Adams in just a minute, but there you have it. Donald Trump is in fact considering a pardon for Eric Adams, although he didn't entirely commit to it. Now, what did Eric Adams allegedly do? Well, he was indicted on these federal corruption charges in September over his acceptance of thousands of dollars worth of travel benefits from Turkish officials. He's supposed to stand trial for this beginning in April. Now, Adams feels that he's being unfairly targeted by federal prosecutors, which is actually pretty Trumpian. That's something that Donald Trump has alleged as well, claiming that a lawfare has been used against him. But Adams has

also been complimentary to Trump's incoming administration, making some wonder if the compliments are more about getting Trump to pardon Eric Adams. Adams has praised parts of Trump's agenda and said that he hopes to work with him on cracking down on undocumented immigrants who are accused of crimes. In fact, well before Donald Trump won the election, let's be fair here, because Adams was, in fact, vocal and very critical of the Biden administration's handling of the southern border and the migrant crisis. 200,000 migrants arrived in New York City, and it overwhelmed, you know, the city and the

city and the resources that they have there. And Adams was frustrated with the Biden administration over that fact. and he was criticizing Biden, as he was doing that, Trump actually suspected that Biden would retaliate against Eric Adams with lawfare. But there is evidence to show that Adams did break anti-corruption laws. So he's not some innocent guy who's being targeted for no reason. Nonetheless, Trump expressed empathy for the mayor during a charity event that they both attended back in October, saying, quote, I know what it's like to be persecuted by the Justice Department for speaking out against open borders, Trump said, referring to the Justice Department.

We were prosecuted, Eric, I was persecuted, and so are you, Eric. And so now the question, is Adams essentially willing to play ball with the Trump administration, incoming Trump administration, and their efforts to do mass deportations in order to secure this pardon. Among the things that Adams is looking to do is reopen an ice office on Rikers Island. And Adams has signaled that he might even go back to being a registered Republican and his staff is currently trying to get him a ticket to Trump's inauguration. Now Adams was asked point blank. Are you working with the incoming Trump administration because you want to pardon? Let's see how that conversation went down.

Mayor, let's talk about what seems to be your sort of warming relationship with the president-elect. And I just wonder, is there a connection between your federal indictment on campaign finance fraud charges and your apparent shift towards him? Not at all. Listen, I did nothing wrong. I said that over and over again. I should not have been targeted in the first place. I asked the former, the current president, President Biden, to come to New York City to help me in 2022 to deal with gun violence.

He arrived in the city, sat down with the police department. I met with his team several times or several initiatives. That's the same way I feel with the incoming president. I am not going to be warring with this president. I'm going to be working with this president. And are you seeking a pardon from President-elect Trump or, trying to. I am not communicating with the president about a pardon. I'm communicating with bringing resources to the city. So look, I think both things can be true. I think on one hand,

Eric Adams wants something to be done about the migrant crisis. And it's also convenient that by working with the incoming Trump administration, he could potentially secure a pardon. So again, both things could be true. I'll give you some evidence for why I think that. But, Jank, what are your thoughts? First of all, this is potential corruption from the Turkish government. So you're all anti-Turkish, and we should stop talking about this. And especially if you protest this on a college campus, you should be arrested. This is very, very anti-Turkish.

I'm deeply offended. And so that should end this conversation. But okay, in case it doesn't, let's keep going. So look, it goes in both directions, but one more adamant than the other. On Trump, he's hilarious because he hasn't seen any of the details. It wasn't a simple upgrade, nobody's going to get rested over an upgrade on a plane. The Turkish government guys tell Eric Adams people in the correspondence that we know now because of the filings, okay, we got him this incredible, you know, first class ticket and

this giant package when he gets into Turkey and the plane ticket, we'll say is $50. Yeah, I mean- And then the Eric Adams person writes back, that's too obvious. So let's make it like a thousand so people don't wonder when it's actually like 30,000. So this, I'm doing it for memory, right? So the numbers might be a little off. But in that ballpoint. No, it was a measly amount, right? Like something that was too obvious.

Like what's going on with you, Turks? Come on. Yeah, this is because they're probably like used to it with Ardoin and stuff. Like, who cares if it's obvious? We're going to get away with it anyway, right? I mean, we do have Lucy Goosey regulations as it pertains to, you know, corruption, but when it comes to foreign corruption, the laws tend to be a little stricter. So, uh, so Trump has this natural affinity for people who are corrupt.

So he's like, I don't care what the reality is. Eric Adams, oh, he's being charged with corruption, not guilty. He didn't say, okay, let's be fair, because he didn't say that and also to be fair, he obviously read some of the details because he knows about the flight upgrades. Yeah, so look, if Eric Adams didn't agree with him on immigration, we'd be having a very different conversation about Eric Adams, okay? But again, it's a foreign government's involved, corruptions involved, Trump doesn't want to hear any of that.

He doesn't want to hear it, okay? Because if he says yes to that, then it opens him up to charges about him. So, but that's the mild one. For Eric Adams, he has all the incentive in the world to go towards Trump. You know, if I was a crook like him, I'd go towards Trump too. Because he's thinking, I mean, Biden would never pardon me, Biden's justice. department is the one that pursued me, right? Even though I'm a Democrat and he's a Democrat, but Trump,

Trump would pardon anyone who kisses his ass, right? If you're corrupt and you're anti-immigrant and you kiss his ass, it's a guarantee. So he's locking in a pardon because, you know why? Because he needs one. Because very, very, very likely he did it. I mean, this is a convenient situation for Eric Adams, right? Number one, he had been complaining about the migrant crisis for a long time, well before Donald Trump, or it was clear that Donald Trump was going to win the election.

So I want to provide some evidence of that. So let's take a look at this article that was published by CNN on September 1st. Obviously September 1st, months before the election, it was unclear whether Donald Trump would win. But it's titled, finger pointing and frustration over migrant crisis leads to a total breakdown between White House and New York City mayor. And in that piece, they write that the relationship between President Joe Biden's White House and Eric Adams began breaking down in private months earlier than previously known. And long before the New York mayor started publicly blasting the president over the migrant

crisis in his city. There's no leadership here. Adams told a group of Biden aides last October, meaning October of 2023, in the chief of staff's office demanding the president do more to help his city handle a massive influx of migrants. So look, I'm gonna be honest, I think that whether Eric Adams was, you know, facing this federal case in regard to corruption allegations or not, he was going to want to work with the Trump administration on this issue anyway because it's something that has overwhelmed New York City and he's frustrated with how Democrats have handled it. And by the way, he might also

be considering where the voters in New York are on this issue. A new Sienna College poll found some interesting results. A recent Sienna College, New York state poll found that 54% of respondents say the state should support any Trump administration efforts to deport migrants living illegally in the state compared to just 35% of respondents who oppose the plans. And by the way, that includes 51% of residents in New York City who are in favor of mass deportation plans by the Trump administration, which is pretty depressing. I think mass deportation is a really bad idea, and I think that it would lead to all sorts of unintended consequences.

But Eric Adams has been clear in making a distinction between migrants overall, which he does not want to do mass deportations of, and migrants who have committed crimes. He wants to work with the Trump administration to deport migrants who have been found committing crimes in New York City. Yeah, so, you know, I said that they're both anti-immigrants, and that's not actually fair, so let me bring that back. They're looking to crack down on the immigrant situation in specific in New York, at least Eric Adams is particularly the crime and some of the other issues that are happening.

But the overall point is that Eric Adams and Trump had been heading toward the same direction on immigration for over a year now. So that part is true. It's not just, oh, Eric Adams turned around on a dime when he thought he can get pardoned by Trump. No, he continued in the same direction. So now, what I would say to Trump, though, is just because you guys agree on immigration as it comes to New York doesn't mean you have to pardon the guy from corruption charges that have nothing to do with immigration. Like you could take the win on, as you perceive it on immigration, without having to, you know, bolster his, you know, in my opinion, and apparently the opinion of the Justice Department, the lawbreaking that he's done. Okay, now, finally, I'm really worried about that number that Anna gave at the end.

Huge percentage of people who live in New York City, one of the most, you know, democratic, liberal, progressive, whatever term you want to use, cities in the country. are saying deport them all, mass deportations. No, no, no, no, no, no. And this is exactly what's wrong, in my opinion, with when you neglect something, when you neglect something. Well, that's, yeah, hold on, though. So that's a huge part of it, right? But also when you take extreme positions.

So when you take extreme positions, as some on the left have, it makes even good Democrats go, oh, forget it. Okay, let's just mass deport. No, no, no, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. There is a reasonable way to do this. So some folks are going to, when they go to deport felons, they're going to fight back. And that's going to be a disaster because it's going to drive more Americans, including more Democrats, to do more deportations, not less. Please take a reasonable position so we can defend that position so we don't have mass deportations. Let's go now to the latest in the fallout from the murder investigation of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson, the office of New York Governor Kathy Hochel is convening a safety summit tomorrow between nervous business leaders and law enforcement.

CNN has learned the safety concerns among executives. are so widespread, New York State may create a special hotline just for CEOs to call in threats. Was there a safety summit connecting the residents of New York with the local police departments in New York State? Especially when crime spikes were happening? No, there weren't because who cares about the safety of average individuals living in New York City or New York State? Now, according to that CNN report from this morning, the state of New York, not might be, they are setting up a special CEO safety hotline, okay? And they're doing this whole safety summit. And of course, this is in response to United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson getting assassinated by Luigi Mangione. Now, that and other

measures will be discussed at the safety summit that you just heard about in the video. The summit will convene 175 corporate representatives, state police, homeland security officials, and counterterrorism officials as well. Kathy Wilde, who is the CEO and president of the Partnership for New York City, which is an organization that builds partnerships between business and government, is one of the people who is kind of like the point person for this summit. And so she states of the summit, it's a demonstration that New York really has the most prepared and informed counterterrorism capacity in the country. There's nowhere safer to be. She also spoke more generally about the assassination of Brian Thompson saying that demonization of corporate executives is not new.

It was part of the rhetoric in the financial crisis of 2008, 2009. The real estate industry has obviously been. been subject to it, it's not new. Translating people's anger from rhetoric into shooting someone is new. And Axios reports that even before the assassination, large companies had been spending more and more of their resources on security. S&P 500 companies, for instance, spent a median of $98,069 on executive security benefits in 23, which was up from 47,640. $43 in 2021, and that's according to compensation tracker Equalor, which, you know, shared the data with Axios.

So look, I don't know, this story irritates me beyond words, especially because of how ordinary people are treated when they're concerned about their safety versus how executives are treated. When executives feel that their safety is under threat, oh, politicians like jump on it. It's the most important thing, we gotta call a summit to deal with it. Yeah. Democrats, Democrats who've been gaslighting us about crime are now all of a sudden, we need to have a summit, let's have a summit for the executives. No, I just, I can't, I can't, I can't.

Go ahead, Jake. I another hand, I'm in favor of this because technically I'm a CEO here. So I should have special privileges, okay. So I never, that's true, you are an executive technically, but technically. Okay, now let's get to my real opinion. A special hotline in case you're in danger. Good news, it already exists. It's called 911.

No, no, no. They need a special one, Jank. They're special. They're special. By the time they figure out what the special, special hotlines number is, they'll already be in mortal danger. Just call 911. Okay, that's the easiest thing we all know it.

And so you don't need an extra special batmobile or a bat line or bat message. I finally got to it. To call it the cops in Gotham, okay? So guys, the reason why this is so irritating for those, well, all you all know it, but I guess I'm addressing the people in power here who don't get it, right, is it seems like you're doing a two-tiered system, one for people that are important like CEOs. And for the second one, for the unimportant people, the rest of the citizens and civilians. I mean, the fact that it's, like, it's so obvious that it's amazing that you can't see it.

So look, if there was a special situation, and in fact, there is one, like sometimes celebrities have, there's a portion of the police department that takes care of celebrities in L.A., New York, and other places where there's a higher concentration. Why? Because sometimes they have different problems. They're stalkers that a normal civilian wouldn't have. They might be special grudges that a civilian wouldn't have. They might be targeted more than a normal civilian.

Okay, so that, then you could say there's some logic there, right? But there's been one shooting of a CEO, and there's like, to our knowledge, this is not some sort of epidemic. It's not different in nature than other killings, except to set up these giant infrastructure and hotlines and this and that and committees. They're having a summit, Jay. And a summit. They're having a summit about this. Look, I want to be clear, I'm not trying to minimize, okay, people feeling unsafe, including executives in this case.

And I'm not in any way saying that they shouldn't get any protection at all. What I'm trying to say is that double standard, right? The two-tiered, in this case, security system in New York that's now being implemented, is infuriating, especially after we've now had how many years of stories like, Man has been arrested dozens of times for violent offenses, but was free on the streets to sucker punch an elderly woman so she was unconscious. A couple found with dismembered body parts in their apartment but were let loose with no cash bail. Like what are we doing?

Like what is happening here? Yeah, so I mean Anna makes a great point. This is the same Democratic Party that said that crime was imaginary and that you shouldn't worry about it and it's no big deal. And, you know, we've had people that are working class people attack the subways, buses on the streets, et cetera, et cetera. And they said, no, imaginary, no big deal, et cetera, et cetera. And now they turn around, now that one member of the establishment has been killed. And we're the guys who said crime was a real problem. So if you want to take precaution against crime, we were here for it years ago, right? So we couldn't be more principled on

this. And so should you protect CEOs? Of course you should. What are you nuts? Let alone the fact that I'm in that category. Of course, they're normal, they're human beings. Of course, they should be protected like everyone else. But when you say, no, the regular working class guy shouldn't be protected and who gives a damn about their safety and no, don't, I'm going to make, you know, I'm going to release people from prison. I'm going to make felonies, misdemeanors. I'm going to do all these things. So they are not protected. But the minute one member of the establishment is killed. I'm going to do committees and groups and hotlines and now that somebody important has been harmed. Now we're on top of it feels super gross. All right, that does it for the

first hour. When we come back, an incredible investigative report done by ProPublica in regard to United Health Care's treatment of autistic children. It is an incredible story. Don't miss it. We've got that and more coming up. We'll be right back. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't know. Buhn't know. B.

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