The Young Turks - Hillary Comments, Cambridge Analytica, and Firing Mueller

Episode Date: March 20, 2018

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from March 19, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join. Hour 1:  Segment 1  Hillary Trump voter comments. Hillary Clinton in India–Trump voters vs her voters. Durbin–Hillary is wrong on Trump voters, and we Dems acknowledge that. Durbin–Hillary can still speak, but we have new crop of Dems for 2020. Dems pull back hard line immigration demand. Jim Carrey’s Sanders portrait. Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Cambridge Analytica pt1. Cambridge Analytica pt2. Gov Bevin trashing teachers as well paid, ignorant, & blind. Hannity on Fox&Friends, pushing morning propaganda against investigators. FLASHBACK Hannity suggesting Trump should fire Mueller multiple times. Lindsey Graham–Trump firing Mueller would be beginning of end of Trump. Rep Charlie Dent–Agree w/Graham, it would end Trump Presidency. Napolitano–Firing of McCabe looks pretty bad, wreckless & vindictive. Rick Tyler–Trump will fire Mueller and GOP will do nothing, Ruhle goes crazy. Philly DA Larry Krasner, dismisses 31 from Philly DA’s Office. Kentucky teacher strike. McCabe, Trump tweet storm, Hannity. Kushners’ cadre startup benefited from misleading rent filings. Conservatives complaining about Jim Carrey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Cambridge Analytica, that is a group that Trump used in his campaign, in a world of trouble. Not only have they been exposed for the propaganda they were doing on Facebook, but wait until you find out the rest of the story. It is dramatic and salacious, as is almost everything that involves Donald Trump. Speaking of which is you going to fire Robert Mueller, if he does what is going to be the Republican. reaction. We'll have that a little bit later in the program. And tonight we have an exclusive from Jim Carrey, the comedian and actor. He is in a bit of a tiff with the administration and their supporters. We've got some exclusive content on that in the next segment. So fun for everybody. Now, let's get started. Recently, Hillary Clinton was speaking in India and

she made some comments that conservatives are still crying over. So I wanted to analyze it for you guys and see if it makes sense to have said these things, or are the Democrats right in backpedaling as usual? Well, we've got a poll for you at the end, too. Let's first find out what she said. A little bit earlier in March, she had said, if you look at the map of the United States, there's all that red in the middle where Trump won. I win the coast, I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota, places like that.

But what the map does is show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I'm one of the places that are optimistic, diverse dynamic moving forward. So a couple of different ways that you could take that. One is that I won the rich areas, he won the poor areas, and that you can understand why people would be upset about that, both if you're a conservative who voted for Trump or anyone who voted for Trump and you feel like that's deriding you as not as rich as Hillary Clinton supporters.

On the other hand, you could take it as, well, look, some places are stuck in the old ways, and that's why they'd like to go back to 1955 and, quote, unquote, make America great again. So let's see if there's more important context here. Here's a piece of the tape, the audio of Hillary Clinton speaking about this. Let's listen. I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards. You know, you didn't like black people getting rights.

You don't like women, you know, getting jobs. You don't want to, you know, see that Indian American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it. Okay. So some people say, how dare you insult voters of Trump like this? And others say that that kind of makes sense. That is partly what they said. So I read what I view to be a funny Washington Post article about how, well, I mean, you cannot

say that about Republican voters, that they are looking backward and that they didn't like black people getting rights and women getting jobs. That is unfair. And she's speaking to Indians there and saying Indian Americans succeeding more than you. First, let's break that down real quick. Steve Bannon on a radio show with Donald Trump as guests, by the way, complain about how Indian Americans were getting the CEO jobs in Silicon Valley that he thought white people should have been getting.

And even Trump thought that was a bridge too far. He's like, but they're successful, so what's the problem? And he said they don't share our culture. So that's a fact. What Hillary Clinton said about what Republicans, especially the top advisor of the president and ran his campaign, now of course, no longer with the White House. was the chief strategist of the White House for a long time. That's what Steve Bannon said.

It's a quote. It's literal, okay? And then are we really splitting hairs about whether Republicans don't want blacks to have any rights, or they just would like to have them have less rights? Like, for example, less rights to vote. They're stripping away some of the extra days of voting in specifically only in Atlanta in Georgia. Gee, I wonder why.

I mean, I can go on and on and give you dozens, maybe hundreds of examples. It's the party that ran on the Southern strategy. The whole point was, let's go and appeal to what we perceive to be aggrieved, white racists in the South, and stoke those grievances. That's what the party ran on. Two different heads of the RNC have apologized for the Southern strategy. It is real. They did it.

So if you're saying that Hillary Clinton is exaggerating a little bit at this point about Trump voters, I'd say only a little bit if she is at all. It's not to say that all Trump voters were that way. No. And I think the most accurate thing that Hillary Clinton has ever said is the one she's most criticized for, which is about half of Trump's voters were the deplorables who do believe in those things. They do, they do, they do. And the reason they like Trump, rather than the 16 other Republicans in the race, was because

those other Republicans use dog whistles and Trump used a human whistle. He said, I don't care, I'm just going to tell you. I'm going to say the Muslims are the problem. Latinos are criminals and rapists. and black people are more prone to crime. He stoked all that rage and fear and anger. So now to pretend to be upset at Hillary Clinton for pointing out things that are actually true, at least about half his voters, and she did say half in those famous comments about the deplorables,

I think is a lot of crying over nothing. So Washington Post also says she does seem to suggest that Trump subsisted on voters who were simply, well, less sophisticated or advanced. Now, this I have mixed feelings about. In some ways, it is, again, empirical. People with graduate degrees voted for the Democrat in the race in overwhelming percentages. People with only high school educations or less voted far more for Donald Trump. It's a fact.

That's true. If you don't like that fact, I guess you go cry in a different corner. But it is a fact. Now, the part that I'm a little bothered by there is the Hillary Clinton establishment way of thinking that, well, if you're truly sophisticated, you would understand that the establishment has your best interest in mind. And I don't agree to that. And so the other half of the Trump voters who wanted to throw a brick through the establishment window, I have some degree of sympathy for. I don't think they did it in the right way. I counseled heavily

against it, and especially with this monster Donald Trump. But they have legitimate grievances. Those are not just about blaming minorities or other groups of Americans. Those are about, hey, my wages have been stagnant for 40 years now. The establishment keeps telling me everything's going to be all right. Well, maybe it's all right for them, but not for us. So it depends on which half of the Trump voters you're talking about. Okay, now, they went on a quote and a poll that was done earlier. And I want to give you guys a little bit of context into this too.

So this is Aaron Blake writing in the Washington Post. The Washington Post ABC News poll, after her deplorable's comment, found that more than two-thirds of Americans felt it was unfair to describe a large portion of Trump supporters as prejudice against women and minorities. Even 47% of Democrats said it wasn't fair. Well, I have two things to say about that. One, did they ever run a poll, a Washington Post ABC News poll, about the thousands, millions of insults, the conservatives, both on air and, you know, And politicians have said about liberals. Liberals are this and liberals are that. In fact, I'm going to give you examples in a minute.

So hold for that. But did they ever run a poll on that? Is it terrible to insult liberal Americans? No, they've been doing it for decade after decade. Nobody even bothered to write and ask a poll about it because they think, well, that's normal. Conservatives get to bash liberals' heads in. And if you ever say anything about conservatives, they turn into the most special snowflakes you've ever seen. And they cry and they cry endlessly.

I am offended. How can you say that about conservative voters? You guys are the pricks who ran on the Southern strategy. To this day, you want to do disenfranchisement of African Americans. You send in Ben Carson to destroy the housing and urban development. And then he has the audacity to talk about how there's something wrong with the culture of those people. Come on. And it's not just Ben Carson, it's Donald Trump.

It's almost all of your candidates. To deny that is to deny reality. And the second half of what I'm upset with that poll about is Democrats, come and pick yourself up, man. It's an uneven playing field. You tell a Republican, are you upset that somebody criticizes liberals? And they go, no way, man. Hit them harder, right? You ask Democrats, hey, is it unfair to criticize Trump voters?

They're like, oh, golly, man, I don't. Oh, yeah, that seems a little unfair. I don't know. We shouldn't do that. Maybe we should give them a hug. Maybe, and maybe sometimes you ought to take out a whooping stick. So, I mean, they're criticizing Clinton on perhaps the only thing she's ever done right. Okay, anyway, they say Clinton also jabbed the white women voters saying some caved on, quote,

to ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should. Look, I don't want to take away agency from Republican female voters, and I understand why they would be upset at that. Or is there some percentage of women who voted the way that their husbands did, wanted because they are more conservative and hence believe more in authority figures and the husband should lead and the wife should obey according to biblical principles? You're telling me that phenomenon does not exist in America, that the people who are more conservative follow tradition. And tradition is you listen to what your husband said. You're saying that that is what, more of a liberal thing? No, that's inconceivable. It's more of a conservative thing.

Is it a giant factor? I don't know. But is it fair for someone who lost the election to point that out? That some people voted that way? Yes, it's fair. Is it sour grapes? Yes, it's also sour grapes. It can be both of those things at once.

Okay, so what happens now, of course? Here we go. Democrats can't help themselves, so what are they going to do? They're going to apologize. Hillary Clinton puts out a Facebook post saying, I understand how some of what I said upset people and can be misinterpreted. I meant no disrespect to any individual or group, and I want to look to the future as much as anybody. Okay, just once, Democrats, just once, don't back down.

Try it, see how it feels. So let me show you what conservatives say about liberals. So here's a former baseball so-called star John Rocker. Here's the shirts he's selling. As America demanded apologies, has Washington Post and ABC News run a poll about these shirts that say liberals suck and liberals are pussies? I don't see any poll about it. Do you guys see any poll? When Trump, forget rockers, when Trump bashes liberals day in and day out, when Fox News, his buddies, Sean Hannity, etc., batch liberals day in and day out.

Are there any calls for apologies? Are there any polls done about it? No, it's assumed that that's what you do. Here's a fun thing that someone who follows me on Twitter tweeted. I'm sorry I forgot the name, but anyway, it's just some dude's truck. But it gives you a sense, I only show you this, not because this truck is important. I don't know whose truck it is, and it's just one person. But have you not all seen those different signs on different cars and different websites and different memes?

I mean, one after another, right? Liberalism is a mental disorder, libtards, cucks, snowflakes, safe spaces on and on and on. on, right? But do the Republicans ever apologize for any of that stuff? Never, never, never. Instead, though, Dick Durbin goes on Fox News. He's the number two Democrat in the Senate. What is Dick Durbin going to do? Does he, look, anybody want to guess ahead of time? You all know, right? Is Dick Durbin going to roar like a lion? He never has his entire crean, never. What Dick Durbin's famous for is for crying and apologizing for other Democrats. So, cue Dick Durbin on Fox News.

Senator, is that helpful to Democrats in 2018 to have Hillary Clinton dismissing the 60 million-plus voters who supported and elected Donald Trump dismissed, some could say even condemned, as racist and misogynists? No, it's not helpful at all. And in fact, my friend Hillary Clinton is wrong. 30% of the people who voted for Donald Trump had voted for President Obama. Why? The same people who look for change with President Obama, thought there wasn't enough as far as their personal lives were concerned, and they supported Donald Trump. That is a reality that Democrats acknowledge. Oh, no, Hillary shouldn't have done that. Democrat fought back against Republicans. We're so sorry.

More from Dick Durbin. High Camp, one of your Senate Democratic colleagues who's running for re-election in the Red State of North Dakota said, Hillary Clinton can't go away soon enough. Is she right? And should Hillary Clinton go away? Well, I can tell you, Hillary Clinton, like every American, has the right to express her point of view. And she obviously gets press coverage. But we are moving on to the next chapter in American history.

We have a new Democratic leadership and more people aspiring to be a candidate in 2020. It'll be a different cast of characters completely. No, it won't. So let me explain. So there's two problems with that. Number one, I don't remember any of you guys saying Hillary Clinton should go away when we had a primary. in 2015 and 2016, I remember all of you bowing in front of Hillary Clinton, go, she is the leader, she must be the leader.

But the minute she loses, it's time for a new face, same ideas, same establishment talking points, but a new face, Hillary, we're done with you, you lost, we're done with you, okay? So are they going to have actual new ideas? Hell no, it's the same old apologies, same old establishment. Heidi Heidcamp just voted to deregulate the banks, the same corporate lackeys like Heidcamp. It's all the same people. They're just going to slap a new face on top of it. Part of the get rid of the old faces meme is not against Hillary Clinton.

It's against Bernie Sanders. We can't have the old faces. I don't remember you telling us we can't have old faces when Hillary Clinton was running for the 88th time last time around. You told us to bow our heads that she was respected and had all this experience and experienced and all of a sudden. Most popular politician in America is Bernie Sanders and he has a ton of experience. We don't need that. We need new faces, new faces. Same ideas, though.

So now, do our Republicans doing likewise? Here's what we went, our crack staff here at the Young Turks. Looked up brightbart.com. They're selling this, barber sticker. Safe spaces are for snowflakes. The chief strategist for President Donald Trump ran Breitbart. Now, he's not at the White House or Breitbart anymore, but this is exactly what Breitbart has been doing all along

when Steve Bannon was running in and when Donald Trump quotes it over and over again and loves it. Is there apologies coming from Bannon? Is there apologies coming from Breitbart or from Donald Trump? Of course not. Here's a recent headline that they had on Breitbart. Sorry, crazy liberals. Here's proof

that surging economies all due to POTUS Trump. Oh my God! They said crazy liberals. How could they insult the over 60 million Americans that voted for Hillary Clinton? I don't know if you know this, more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump. She lost the election. It's not an excuse. The point is, why are you allowed to, you're not allowed to criticize the people who voted for Donald Trump, but the people who voted for Hillary Clinton,

you could just, you know, go to work on them, insult them over and over and over again. Nobody's ever going to hold you accountable. Look, last thing on this is I'm going to ask you guys this poll question, but I mean it, because look, once she says it, I'm defending it, and I I think that it is largely correct for all the reasons that I just stated. It is a fair question whether you should go down this path. So I'm curious what you guys think. So that's what we're going to ask you in a poll. Should we care about the feelings of Trump voters?

I know that sounds like a setup. But here are the two options. A, yes, it's important to reach out to them to get them to change their vote. That's a perfectly legitimate answer. B, no, they constantly insult liberals and I couldn't care less about their feelings. So to vote, t-y-tnetwork.com slash Trump voters. So, look, I'm tend to vote for both election fraud. We won't have it at the young turns.

No, look, in the next campaign, should you reach out to those Trump voters that once voted for Obama that are in half of the Trump voters who are dispirited about the economic conditions in America? Yes, absolutely. Should you be reticent in criticizing the other half and just guard their snowflake feelings? No, not remotely. And I believe you can do both at the same time. Okay.

So now I have one more story for you guys about the Democrats. And as usual, and it's another story where they're running. Okay, let's go to that. Now, we were told several times over that the Democratic Party would, would get to the dreamers eventually. Now, to be fair, Donald Trump is the one that took away the protection of young kids who were brought here into the country when they were just underage children. They had nothing to do with that decision.

A lot of them don't have any memories of the countries that they came from. Some don't speak the language. They're Americans. They were raised here the whole time. But they are undocumented. Their parents came in undocumented. But a huge percentage of Americans agree that they should be able to see. stay and have a pathway to citizenship. So Democrats said, well, you know, when the Trump took that

away, we're going to fight him. And we were going to put it into the original budget negotiations. Then we decided not to. And then there was a second round of budget negotiations. No, we're not. No, we're not. But the third round in March, that's where we lay down the hammer and we draw a red line. So let's find out if they did. The Hill reports, Democratic leaders are backing off of their demand that Dreamer protections be a part of the 2018 budget negotiations. Say it with me. Of course! Of course they are.

They were never going to do it. They're like, oh, come this way, Latino voters. Just a little further. Just a little further. Give me your vote one more time and then I'll fix things. I know how this game is played. Oh, Republicans, we're going to fight them. Oh, my God. Resistance. Oh, about that budget. Oh, man, my donors all need that omnibus spending bill to get

passed. Oh, the donors versus dreamers. Ooh, that's a tough one. Tough. That's not tough at all. Of course they're going to go with the donors. So while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders had hinged their support for last month's budget caps deal on a commitment, a commitment from Republicans to consider

legislation salvaging the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, they've signaled they won't hold a similar line heading into next week's expected vote on an omnibus, omnibus spending bill. So what happened? I thought the Republicans were going to give you the vote. Oh, they didn't, did they? Just like I said. You said that that wasn't correct, right? Establishment Democrats? Well, you were wrong. I'm expecting an apology. You guys love to apologize to Republicans. Well, they didn't give you a vote. And now what do you do?

Oh, okay, okay. Sorry. Sorry. Okay. No, no, no vote. No vote. We don't need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR. As a Young Turks fan, you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich and powerful. But now there's a podcast dedicated to unraveling those lies, debunking the conventional wisdom. In each episode of Un-F-The-Republic, or UNFTR, the host delves into a different historical episode or topic that's generally misunderstood or purpose.

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And that's true whether you're in Jedi training or you're uprooting and exposing all the propaganda and disinformation you've been fed over the course of your lifetime. So search for UNFDR in your podcast app today and get ready to get informed, angered, and entertained all at the same time. So they mentioned Nancy Pelosi is one of the people caving on this. That's interesting, because I remember her pretending to care about this issue a lot. The last time they had a vote, this is what happened.

The day before the vote, Pelosi commandeered the chamber floor with a marathon eight-hour speech designed to highlight the Republicans' refusal to take up any DACA legislation. The next day, 118 Democrats joined her in opposing a measure that many later hailed as a domestic policy victory. Two important parts of that. First of all, on the fake filibuster she did in the house, I gave her credit. I said, hey, listen, at least she's bringing a spotlight to the issue. She's working hard to do that. And if she sticks with this strategy and does not cave eventually, then I'll give her even more credit.

But as you would expect, and as I've told you for decades, it's not, doesn't take a rocket scientist. All you have to do is read the paper. You know the Democrats are going to buckle. They do it every time they're going to cave because they're paid to lose. It's not an accident. It's not like, oh, golly, gee, there was nothing we could do about it. No, it's part of the Kabuki Theater. So that's why I make the predictions ahead of time.

That's why I'm almost always right, not because I'm smart, because it's obvious. Follow the money. Where's the money? The dreamers don't have money. Donors have money. And that's spending bills loaded up with money. It's got to pass. It's got to pass.

It's got to pass. So all that semantics about the eight hours and stuff, that was just a marketing gimmick. just so that she can get credit from the dreamers and from Latino voters and not actually do anything about it. Now, the second half is as important. 118 Democrats were on her side and fought on that issue at the time. That's good. I'll give them credit for that.

But they didn't win. But they said, well, we'll call it a policy victory. No, victory is when you win. Not when you grab a lot of headlines and get the spotlight for yourself and you still fail. That's not a victory. Only in the democratic world is that a victory. Okay. So Nancy Pelosi now says, wait, wait, wait, now look, quote, it is necessary for us to pass the omnibus to defend our country.

In other words, defense contractors gave me a lot of money and my fellow Democrats a lot of money, which I funneled to them, to invest in our children's future to keep America number one in every respect to do so in a way that creates jobs. That sounds like Donald Trump wrote it. But we're going to keep American number one. We're going to keep it safe. Defest contracts and get billions of dollars. And all my donors get billions of dollars. Dreamers.

Who gives a goddamn about the dreamers? I already got my spotlight. Nancy Pelosi, you wonder why we don't trust you. This is why we don't trust you. It's not that complicated. Corporate establishment Democrats. You wonder why we don't trust you because you lie over and over. You give it to the Republicans and you lose to the Republicans on purpose.

How else do I call it ahead of time? I'm not Monday morning quarterbacking it. I told you that they never vote on. on this? They're not voting on it. I told you they never insist on it in any budget. They're not insisting out in any budget. I'm right, they're wrong, because I know what their motivation is. It's the money, Labowski. It's not that complicated. All right. Now we go to Representative Sennie Hoyer, the number two person in the House for the Democrats. All these guys should be wiped out. Number one through goddamn, however many deep it goes.

One, two, three, four, knock them all out. Why are they in these positions? Pelosi and Hoyer and guys like Crowley are in their positions because they raise the most amount of money. They brag about it. When they ask Nancy Pelosi, why should you be the leader of the Democrats in the House? She's like, what do you mean? I bring the most amount of money. You know what that means for the rest of us? I'm the most corrupt. I tell all the donors, I'll give you whatever you want. I'll do other things pretending I stand for progressives, but I'll stand for you guys. So here's Steny Hoyer or henchman about going forward without any vote for the on the dreamers. Quote, I think that's probably the best policy for us to do. It's also politically the

most feasible way to get an omnibus passed. Well, you're right. Caving into the Republicans and giving them everything they want is the most, is the easiest way for an omnibus spending bill to be passed. By the way, what happened to the goddamn resistance? I thought you were fighting the Trump guys all the way, but it's their budget. You got some crumbs in that budget. I've talked to the audience before about the crumbs you got. A little bit of this. And they took away chip and then they gave us back chip in a couple of months. Wow, okay. That's an enormously popular program, but I didn't, like, I barely fought on it. And then when I got it back, I declared victory. Okay, they gave me the crumbs off your table. You should be fighting that budget,

not looking a way to make it the easiest way that it could pass to help Trump and the Republicans. Hoyer suggested the Democrats' most effective tool in moving the Republicans to act on DACA is not withholding omnibus votes, but rousing pressure from the public, which polls shows overwhelmingly opposed to deporting the dreamers, young undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors. Yeah, but we got that coverage, Steny. We don't, the country doesn't want that to happen. And you even know that.

But what are you going to do about it? We could all be mad, but we're not in Congress. You're in Congress. You have to actually propose this thing called legislation. Now, I know you're very familiar with it when it helps your donors. You pass those right along. Hey, we've got to pass the spending bill. We've got to pass the Republican.

spending bill. My donors say don't upset the markets. Don't upset the markets. My donors would be very mad. They have all their money in the markets. But when it comes to DACA and the dreamers or any progressive priorities, legislation, what name so? How do we do that? What do you want? You want the numbers to be high? Even steady Hoyer knows it. Look at what he said. Our best leverage is 90% of the American people, 87% think this ought to be done. Hey, I was going to say idiot, but he's not an idiot. He does this on purpose. If you've got 87% of the American people behind you already, that is when you introduce legislation or actually hold up to omnibus bill, because you have what is called in political circles.

I know you guys don't understand politics at all, so let me explain it to you slowly. That is when you use your leverage, your political leverage, because they need your votes for that bill. But you know that. You've been in Congress a long, long time. You purposely give away your leverage. What are you going to get it from 87% to 92%? What difference does it make? What more can the American people do to help the dreamers?

87% of us say, God damn it, help the dreamers. And you go, well, that is very good leverage. I choose not to use. But if you guys keep doing protests or something, maybe it'll magically happen. I got a better idea. How about we kick all of your asses out in primaries? We put in real progressives that we won't need magic. Then we'll actually have votes in Congress to get progressive priorities done.

Any group that opposes these establishment corporate Democrats you should support, whether it's Justice Democrats or anyone else, get in there, man, for whatever you do, vote in primaries. Voting primaries, in a lot of cases, these corporate Democrats are a much bigger enemy to you than the Republicans. The Republicans you see coming right straight in front of you. When they go to stab you, it's from the front. These guys, oh, we got your back. We're going to protect. Oh, only 87% of Americans agree with us.

We're going to have to wait. There's nothing we can do. There's nothing we can do about it. We need 98%. There's nothing we can do. Those guys are losing on purpose. They're the worst of the worst. go into every primary in every state in every district and vote out the Democratic incumbents.

So, yes, there are some progressives that are good. Look into it, whether it's Bernie, Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, some members of the Progressive Caucus Road, Cona, Roja, et cetera, fine, but do your homework. And 98 out of 100 times, if you vote out a Democratic incumbent, you'll have done the nation a great, great favorite in the primaries. Then we go kick Republican ass because these guys are never going to do it. Young Turks. Thanks for listening to this podcast. You're only halfway through. So hold.

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Okay. Now, let's go to the next story. So Jim Carrey has been busy doing sketches. He enjoys that, and he's done a lot of political ones. But now people are very upset at him. Let's find out if this is justified or not justified. And then we have an exclusive quote from Jim Carrey for you guys on this story. So he drew a picture recently that appears to look,

like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Let's show you. Now, they're not confirming that it's Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Sure looks like her. Okay. And Jim Carrey wrote in that tweet next to the picture, this is the portrait of a so-called Christian whose only purpose in life is to lie for the wicked, monstrous. Pretty sure that that's Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Okay. So now this is when conservatives get their feelings hurt. And then they cry. So let's go to an anonymous commentary who said, and this is one more reason that I'm done with Hollywood. It's okay to be mean and hurtful as long as it's to someone you disagree with, right.

Okay, we're going to get back to that in a second. Hold that thought because Turning Point USA, which is a conservative group, went on Fox News, went to Fox and Friends, and Candace Owens doubled down on that. They are very aggrieved. They were very upset about this. There's absolutely no tolerance from liberals for conservatism. They say they're completely hypocritical in every single regard. We see this time and time again.

Went on to say, if it is not Christian-like whatsoever, I think it is a moment for us as conservatives to just look better, take the upper hand and to say, you know what? You can keep leaving these attacks against us, but we're not responding to it with the exact same ugliness because we have more to offer, more education, better comments. We can argue with logic. We don't need to argue with ad hominem attacks all the time. Okay. Now, let me be amused by the idea that Republicans and conservatives don't do ad hominant attacks. Let's show you a couple pictures. We showed you in another story related to how people's feelings were heard about what Hillary Clinton said.

Now, those are again, just happened to be on a random truck, but you've seen them all over the place. Cartoon character urinating on liberals, suck on it snowflake, and it goes on and on. Here's John Rocker selling t-shirts declaring that liberals suck and that they are female genitalium. So conservatives would never do ad hominem attacks. When we go low, they go high. They do it all the time, right? How many times have conservative commentators and conservative politicians mocked liberals, insulted liberals, derided liberals over and over and over again?

And any time this, somebody has a sketch of someone, they're like, and all of a sudden they're crying, cry and cry and cry. I guess they need a safe space. That's what it looks like. So, well, let's go to Governor Mike Huckabee, of course, the father of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and see what he's going to say about it. He says, pathetic bully, sexist, hater, bigot. Is he talking about Trump?

And Christophobe. Oh, Jim Carrey. He's talking about Jim Carrey. Attacks press secretary for her faith. What would be hypocritical, Hollywood reaction if he calls someone a so-called Muslim or a so-called Jew, hashtag classless carry? No, but wait a minute, he wasn't attacking her based on picking on Christians. He was saying that she's not living up to her profess Christian beliefs. So if somebody were to attack someone for not living up to Muslim beliefs, that would be a different scenario than attacking them for being Muslim.

But with conservatives, you have to speak slowly and explain it to them. Do you see the difference, Governor Huckabee? Look, in this case, he's defending his daughter, so I get it. But it is hilarious to call someone a bully in capital letters because they drew a sketch when you support Donald Trump, the bully in chief. And to call someone a bigot and a hater and a sexist when you support Donald Trump, come on. This is a joke.

I don't know why the mainstream media takes these guys seriously. at all. You should just look at that and laugh and laugh and laugh. So Jim Carrey gave the young Turks a statement tonight. And I want to read it to you guys. This reaction to this so-called controversy. He said, I am so gratified by the reaction to my little drawings. It is a job of a political cartoon to vex those who abuse power or enable those abuses. This administration has been lying to the American people from day one while plundering the country and debasing our values. And those who cover for this shameful mobster of a president are putting makeup. on a melanoma and telling the cancer patient that everything's fine.

Monstrous, you bet. To which I say here, here. By the way, I don't know why all of a sudden they decided to get upset about the Sarah Huckabee Sanders drawing. If you don't know, Jim Carrey does a lot of sketches, and I'd rather enjoy them. Let's take a look at some more here. That's Steve Bannon. Everybody didn't get bent out of shape over that. And he put a fool over his name, and that's, of course, Roy Moore.

put danger over him. That's General John Kelly, and I just want to read that tweet for you because it's fun. All who enter his crooked carnival with integrity are doomed to leave without it. General Kelly has been trampled by his own compromise. Who dares to be next to ride the carousal of fools? Okay, before we go to the next ones, do you understand why they pretend to be outraged about the Sarah Huckabee Sanders one, but not about the male drawings? it's because when given an opportunity, they love to hide behind the idea of sexism.

Now, Republicans will tell you that, no, sexism, it doesn't exist. No, the liberals are making a big deal out of nothing, and sexism is no big deal. But the minute that a conservative woman is criticized or even drawn, they're like, sexism. It's a trick. That's all it is. So don't legitimizing it by pretending that they're actually upset. This is all propaganda.

And by the way, here's, if they wanted to get upset, Jim Carrey gave him reasons. Here's another one of Trump. This one is broken. But you want to get upset? Look at this one. Okay. He writes, they bailed him out, set him up, and made him their stooge. With Trump in the White House, Putin may win the Third World War without firing a shot.

hashtag puckerapotus. See, if you don't get upset over that and you get upset over a Sarah Huckabee, Sanders drawing, you have a political motivation. You don't want to focus on an issue that you think you're weak on, which is that Donald Trump does kiss Putin's ass. You want to focus on pretending that the only sexism is against Republican women, which is hilarious. I want to show you one last one because I really enjoyed this one. I carry with a Wicked Witch of the West drawing of sketch of Donald Trump.

He said, if you like my last cartoon, you may also enjoy the Wicked Witch of the West wing and Putin's flying monkeys. Well, you're right, I did enjoy it. Cue the special snowflakes on the right while they now pretend to get upset and demand safe spaces. Go forward. Okay. Now, I believe we were clear on that. we're moving forward. Cambridge Analytica. Okay. Cambridge Analytica was a firm that Donald Trump used during the 2016 election. They bragged about how they could do psychographic information on people

in social media, especially on Facebook, and how they could use it to turn out voters. And there's a good reason to believe that they did do that, and that it was at least somewhat successful, and obviously Donald Trump won. And he spent a fraction of the money that Hillary Clinton did on media, but he spent it largely on Facebook and digital media, which turned out to be a far more savvy move. Now, it turns out there is a significant problem with that. It looks like Cambridge Analytica did not acquire that information legally. Oh boy.

So New York Times was a huge story on this. First, they explained the background. The firm had secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and Woodhouse, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior. Now, at the time they did that, they actually didn't have those tools. So they had to get them in a hurry, and they wound up securing them. But again, not in a way that apparently is legal.

So let's give you more background. The firm harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, according to former Cambridge employees, associates, and documents, making it one of the largest data leaks in the social network's history. Debreach allowed the company to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of American electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on President Trump's campaign in 2016. So, it's one thing if you've got legal access to Facebook and you use that in the campaigns.

That's perfectly acceptable. In fact, I think that it's pretty smart. But when you illegally get the information of 50 million users, then we've got a massive problem. Their CEO is a guy named Nix. Well, let's talk about that background. Mr. Nix and his colleagues quartered Mr. Mercer, who believed a sophisticated data company, could make him a kingmaker in Republican politics, and his daughter Rebecca, who shared his conservative views. Mr. Bannon, who was intrigued by the possibility of using personality profiling to shift America's culture.

and rewire its politics recalled Mr. Wiley and other former employees. Now Wiley is the guy who is now giving information about this. He left in early 2015, but he said they were already talking to people like Corey Lewandowski and about running a campaign for the

Trump team even before he announced this candidacy and they were looking to shift the culture through this propaganda campaign as early as that. And he was one of the founders, Wiley was. And he had worked on Obama's campaign and eventually grew disgusted with how Cambridge Analytica was using the information, and later, of course, they acquired it in illegal ways.

That's a different problem and a huge problem for them presently. I want to show you Robert and Rebecca Mercer. They are the ones that gave $13 million to the Ted Cruz's campaign. Initially, this information was supposed to help Ted Cruz, but it turned out nothing could helped Ted Cruz. And then they switched over and gave a tremendous amount of money to Donald Trump. Later, when Breitbart got in trouble for asking neo-Nazis what the alt-right agenda should be and then publishing it, Robert Mercer pretended to step away from Breitbart and Steve Bannon. And he said, no, no, no, no, my hands are clean now. Who did you give your interest

to then? I mean, because you had a big interest in Breitbart too. Well, I gave it to Rebecca Mercer. Well, that's funny. So she now owns that interest in Breitbart. they still own Cambridge Analytica. It's a little bit more complicated because they set up shell corporations because of another illegality, which I'm going to tell you about in a second. And let me show you another picture. This is Trump's inauguration. There's that same Rebecca Mercer with Steve Bannon and Kelly Ann Conway.

And it was the Mercer's who introduced Bannon and Conway to Donald Trump. So they are the guys behind the curtain. Okay, Christopher Wiley explains. For the guys running Cambridge Analytica and their conservative colleagues, he said rules don't matter for them. For them, this is a war, and it's all fair. Now, you're going to see some shocking video of those owners of Cambridge Analytica now, and the CEO, I should say, that Channel 4 in the UK has uncovered. In just a little bit, I'm going to show that to you. And you'll see that, boy, does he mean it when he says all is fair when they are going to do their dirty tricks.

while he also says they want to fight a cultural war in America. Cambridge Analytica was supposed to be the arsenal of weapons to fight that cultural war, and it is clear from Banda's intentions that that is exactly what they were trying to do, and what they have done in a lot of ways. So New York Times explains interviews with half a dozen former employees and contractors, and a review of the firm's emails and documents have revealed that Cambridge not only relied on private Facebook data, but still possesses most or all of the trove. they say oh no no no we got rid of that a long time ago

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Not remotely true, according to the insiders and the documents that were obtained. While Mr. Nix has told lawmakers that his company does not have the Facebook data, a former employee said that he had recently seen hundreds of gigabytes on Cambridge servers and that the files were not even encrypted. Okay, so Cambridge Analytica, lying. while they would never. Cambridge paid to acquire the personal information through an outside researcher who Facebook says

claimed to be collecting it for academic purposes. But of course it was not for academic purposes and they wound up accessing the private information of 50 million users. Facebook Vice President Paul Graval put out a statement after New York Times continually asked about this issue. He said that they have concluded this was a scam and a fraud.

So it is true Cambridge Analytica did run a scam on Facebook. He added that the company was suspending Cambridge Analytica, Mr. Wiley, even though he's now giving information about Cambridge Analytica, and the researcher Alexander Kogan, a Russian-American academic from Facebook. He's the one that originally designed the app that gave them access to this information they shouldn't have. Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica and other officials had repeatedly denied obtaining or using Facebook data, most recently during a parliamentary hearing just last month. But in a statement to the Times, the company acknowledged that it had acquired the data,

though it blamed Mr. Kogan for violating Facebook's rules and said it had deleted the information as soon as it learned of the problem two years ago. But as I just explained to you, according to insiders of the company and the documents that they have, that is not the case. They did not delete the information. That is now added on top of the, of all the other lies that Cambridge Analytica has been caught in. So now back to the issue of other illegal actions taken. In the United States, Mr. Mercer's daughter, Rebecca, a board member, Mr. Bannon and Mr. Nix, received warnings from their lawyer that it was illegal to employ foreigners and political campaigns

according to the company documents and former employees. And apparently those warnings were not heated. They used Alexander Nix, who was British on these campaigns. Later, they would claim, oh, no, even though he's been bragging all across media for over a year now about how they won Trump to election, oh, he had nothing to do with the campaign. And there are other employees from the UK, from the European Union, from Canada, they claim, no, no, no, no, it was our American employees exclusively that worked on those and not those. Look, I'm less concerned about that illegality, but it is an illegality, and so it is one that they're going to have to grapple with. I'm much more concerned about invading our privacy and using that information illegally, but both are matters that are important. And I want to be clear, the guy who designed the app was a Russian-American, that he is not at issue here.

It is the citizens of other countries that are at issue for that particular violation. So now, let me go to the Channel 4 exclusive on this because it is a Whopper. So this comes from the UK and they have CEO Alexander Nixon. We've been telling you about explaining to undercover reporter all the dirty tricks they do in other campaigns across the world. Watch. Have a wealthy developer come in. Somebody posing as a wealthy developer. I'm a master of disguise.

Yes. They will offer a large amount of money to be a candidate to finance's campaign in exchange for land, for instance. We'll have the whole thing recorded on cameras, the black account the face of our guide, and we have a post on internet. So it'll look on the Facebook or YouTube or something like this is going to do. Then some girls around to the candidate's house. We have lots of history of things.

For example, you're saying when you're using the girls to introduce to the local fellow and you're using the girls for this like seduction, they're not local girls, not Sri Lankan girls. I wouldn't have thought so, that was just an idea, I would say,

who brings some Ukrainians in on holiday with us. Right, right, right. They're very beautiful, Ukrainian girls. They are very beautiful. Yes. I find that works very well. Find that that works very well.

So, not only are they talking about bribes, blackmail, extortion, but they also talk about bringing in Ukrainian prostitutes to get their political wishes. But these guys, I'm sure they wouldn't do anything that wasn't above board, right? Well, I'm going to go back to Wiley here because he appeared on the Today Show and he said, Wiley went on to explain how Cambridge Analytica used an idea called informational dominance to bombard users, quote, with a web of disinformation. He also said, this is a company that really took fake news to the next level

by pairing it with algorithms. And so that leads to the final clip from Channel 4 here in there multi-party investigation of Cambridge Analytica. Let's watch. It has to happen without anyone thinking that's propaganda.

Because the moment you think that's propaganda, the next question is who's put that out? Yes. So we have to be very subtle. So he says We have to do the propaganda, but we have to be subtle about it so they don't realize this propaganda, and they don't realize where it came from. Well, the people who put the money up, it's 15 million bucks from the mergers, that's where it came from.

The guy who helped to hire this firm, Steve Bannon, that's where it came from. Now we know. So final quote from Cambridge Analytica here in denying the undeniable, those tapes. They say we entirely refute any allegation at Cambridge Analytica or any of its affiliates use entrapment. Bribes are so-called honey traps for any purpose whatsoever. All the things you just saw them say to an undercover reporter using prostitutes to try to entrap politicians is called a honey trap. And they say we routinely undertake conversations with prospective clients to try to tease out any unethical or illegal intentions. That's hilarious.

No, no, no, no, no, we were saying all those illegal things to try to see if we can capture them having any illegal intentions. Well, did you turn them in? No. Then when were you going to spring that trap on them? Or perhaps, just like we can say with our own eyes, it was you who had illegal intentions and clearly stated it on that camera that you didn't know was there. But you did think it was a client, and you told that client you were willing to do all of those illegal things. That's who Trump's team was. All right, I've run out of time here. We've got to take a quick break here. We're going to come back with Bernie Sanders Town Hall in just one minute.

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