The Young Turks - Ilhan Omar Attacked By Democrat And Trump's Desperate Immigration Threat

Episode Date: April 13, 2019

Max Rose is a pathetic excuse for a Democrat. Trump using immigrants as props. Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And drop it. All right. All right. So first of good news, you saw a brief picture of Tulsa Gabbard there, okay, about to sneeze live on air as we come on the Friday show, Young Turks, Jank Yugar, J.R. Jackson, Brett Ehrlich. Keeps it real. Sneeze on coming.

Okay. So brace for impact. That is actually going to be the point of what I'm going to say in a sec. But first, the good news, Tulsa Gabbert's going to be on the show today. Whoa, we didn't expect that. That's a twist. So that's going to lead to a couple of different things. The normal two hours as we normally do on Fridays, and then you've got an hour long post-game

as we normally do on Fridays. But we'll put the first half hour free for everybody, so that is not normal. And then after that, at 9 p.m. Eastern, Tulsi Gabbard live in the studio again. So, and available to everyone, TYT.com slash live, don't miss it. Lots to talk about there. Now, put that aside, and otherwise, I am in a nuclear mood. So I sometimes tell you guys about my moves before we get started. Now, usually they don't affect the stories, in this case they might.

And like yesterday, I was in a terrific mood, but the Julian Assange's story was terrible. So that set me off, I think rightfully so. All right, so watch out for anyone in my path, Donald Trump, that means you, corporate Democrats, et cetera. So let me get this party started right by throwing a random curveball that Brent and J.R. don't know about, okay? Sure! Okay, yeah, because I gotta get my fury at some point.

So today, Max Rose, so-called Democrat of New York, went on Fox News to trash Ilhan Omar again. So hey, corporate Democrats, what happened to unity? I thought you guys were all about unity. Why is a Democrat going on Fox News to trash another Democrat? So how does that make any sense? And what was it about? Did she say something I raised? No, it's about that benign comment about 9-11.

She said some people did something on 9-11 in the one out of the thousand times she's referred to 9-11, and apparently Max Rose thought that was so egregious, so egregious that he had to go run to his friends at Fox News. Oh my God, my Democratic colleague sucks. Let's go a basher on Fox News. What happened to Unity? What happened to Unity, Max? Hey, are we doing a resolution against Max Rose?

Nancy Pelosi, where are you? I thought you were obsessed with Unity. Oh, it turns out you guys are full of crap. You never meant anything about unity. You just meant we hate progressives and we'd like you to bow your head in submission. And when those women will not submit, it is driving them crazy. Sorry, no deal. AOC, no deal, Talib, no deal, Omar, no deal, Iana Presley and on.

No deal, we do not submit. So they are unbowed, and they send this Max Rose character out there, be like, Fox News, come on, let's all bash Democrats. No deal, Max. So you're the ones ruining unity. And by the way, when they see this, they'll say, oh my God, can you believe what Jenks said about poor Max Rose who had run to the bosom of Fox News to complain about a progressive, which is his right to do as a corporate Democrat?

We should all crap on progressives. But if anyone dares to fight back, we'll say, unity, check won't do unity, check won't do unity. Can you believe these young Turks? They won't do unity. Why won't they bow their head? I do not bow my head to Max Rose. So he, if you believe that the Democratic Party should be united, clearly the culprit

here is Representative Rose, who chose to betray Ilhan Omar, his colleague. Now they always have a colleague, colleague, my colleagues, my beloved colleagues, right? When you talk about primaries, all of a sudden, his colleague. Colleagues, colleagues, colleagues. But when you're going out there and crapping all over progressives on Fox News, no talk of colleagues. So let's call out your hypocrisy for what it is. Yeah, the official statement was, let's be very clear about this. This is insensitive and it's offensive.

On 9-11, radical terrorists attacked us. New York City lost thousands of people. My district Staten Island and South Brooklyn lost hundreds of cops, firemen first responders, than any other district in America. It is, it's, first of all, what is he doing on Fox News talking about this? You're a representative, I guess from Staten Island, but they, it's almost as though they say, take a, we have a New York person, go do that. Meanwhile, New York person, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said something very relevant,

which was, hey, all these people who are complaining about Ilhan Omar not backing, you know, appearing to be insensitive in the face of this, how about all those people not backing the payment package for people who are first responders and those affected by it. She called them out for that. Where are you in that situation? Yeah, Representative Crenshaw, I'm so upset that you didn't formulate that sentence in exactly the way that pleases me. Oh, did we upset you, Republican damn Crenshaw?

I'll go check to see if I give a damn. Oh, right, I don't. I don't at all. You're a Republican. You're opposed to everything I stand for. I have no interest in unity with you. Okay, I know the rest of the Democrats, I'm like, oh my goddamn Crenshaw sends something Fuck, they said something, everybody go run and hide, okay?

No, Casio-Cortez, let's not play that game. So where were you when you came to funding the victims of 9-11? Remember, now, so that's in this Congress. Remember in earlier Congresses, John Stewart on The Daily Show had to shame the Republicans and to supporting the first responders' health. They said, oh yeah, you responded to 9-11? Sentence, you put a sentence in a way that is benign, but I don't particularly like. That compared to who cares about the first responders who risk their lives to go help people.

We're not going to fund their health care. That's what the Republican Party did. By the way, Max Rose, if you're so upset about 9-11, and I don't know that I even believe you. I think you're a scummy politician. I think you use this as an opportunity to bash a political opponent. I don't think this has anything new with 9-11. If there's any policy at all here, other than the fact that you hate progressives, it's probably

because you're upset at Ilhan Omar for not backing the right way. government of Israel. But unlike you, she's not a right winger. She's a progressive. So I guess that's a sad day for you, and she will not submit on that either. So now, and I say that because Max Rose was one of the people who was most vigilantly anti-Ilhan Omar in that controversy. So did you, when you went on Fox News, I know you guys are all friends, and you probably hugged it out and kiss one another and shook hands and did whatever else you need to do as friends and colleagues would at Fox News, but Max, while you're on there, did you remind anyone on air or off air that Donald Trump, after 9-11, went on radio and bragged that he now had

the tallest building in New York City? Did you bring that up? Oh, no, that's right, because you don't fight Republicans. That's what progressives do. You befriend Republicans and conservatives to bash Democrats and progressives. That's what Max Rose does. and aided and abetted by Democratic leadership. Nancy Pelosi, is there going to be a resolution against Max Rose?

No, of course not, of course not. Is it going to be a resolution against Donald Trump for what he said about 9-11? No, of course not. Against any other Republicans? No, of course not. It's because they hate progressives. And then they say, oh my God, you guys are starting conflict in the Democratic Party. We didn't start this fight.

They attacked Ilhan Omar over and over again, they started this fight. Sad day for you, we fight back. Maybe the last part of the motivation behind it also is he just came in in 2018 and he took out a Republican incumbent. So a lot of times, you know, when a lot of the new Congress folks come in and then they do things because they were voted in to do it, they're like, oh man, what you're supposed to do with the people who just voted you in, voted you in to do, which a lot Omar has talked about, AOC has talked about.

But there's still always a fear sometimes when they go, man, I just took over a Republican district. There's still the fears of representing the past of what the last people voted in. You just got voted in to represent the people who voted you in now. Not to worry about, oh, this is usually a Republican district. I better keep acting like it's a Republican district. What did you run for? I just don't know why they can't be people about it.

Like, that's what's so frustrating. They have to, he has to be political about it. He has to utterly bypass what her, I mean, what about her point? She's, yes, she could have added the word horrible, a terrible, dastardly horrible thing, and not jeopardize anything about her point. So let's say, I mean, that was, that was what she meant to say. She basically said some, there were specific people who did a horrible thing, and they have taken, and basically there's been a huge apparatus in place to take it out on people

who didn't do anything other than just being Muslims. That's her point, but they can't argue on that point. Well, thank you for bringing that up, Brett, because I'd like to add the charge of bigot to Max Rose, because her whole point in that discussion was Republicans and conservatives then use it as bigotry against Muslim Americans. Rose does not back that point. He ignores that point altogether to attack her a Muslim American congresswoman wearing a hijab for a sentence that he didn't like.

And again, let's be clear, she did not minimize 9-11 at all. She didn't put any positive spin on it. She didn't put a neutral spin on it. All she said was that some things happened, some people did some things on that day. Why did she even phrase it that way? Was it to make it seem like it's more neutral? No, they're all talking about the horror of 9-11. But that they should not be held other innocent, innocent Muslim Americans should not be held

responsible for that horror. Why did she put it that way? Because some people didn't, some people did it. We didn't do it, some people did it, it wasn't us. So that's why she phrased it that way. So, but no, Max Rose doesn't care. He's like, oh, Muslims are being haunted by this and the right wing uses it against propaganda against Muslims.

In fact, Max, someone just threatened. to literally put a bullet in the skull of your colleague, Representative Omar. That just happened two days ago. And then you thought it's a good idea to go on Fox News and say, yeah, yeah, it's Ilhan Omar's fault. Can you believe Ilhan Omar minimizing 9-11? And encourage everybody on Fox News and their insane audience to get further mad at Ilhan Omar and to further that bigotry against Muslims. Well, plain, Max Rose.

Now, talk to me about unity. That's rough. All right, so I want to go to the Sanctuary City story, so we're going to get right into that. Okay, now, you may have seen the report that broke from the Washington Post, where they basically said that Trump had put a plan in place and floated the idea of getting back at his political opponents by taking people who had been rounded up asylum seekers and dumping them in sanctuary cities. Here's the report, it says the White House officials first broached the plan in a November 16th email asking officials at several agencies whether members of the caravan could be arrested at the border and then bust, quote, to small and mid-sized sanctuary cities, places where local authorities have refused to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation. Now, here's what the White House policy coordinator, May Davis said. She said the idea had, and this is in the internal email that was referenced in the previous graphic. The idea had been raised by one to two principles that if we are unable to build sufficient temporary housing, that caravan members be bused to small and midside sanctuary cities.

There is not a White House decision on this. And ever since then, people were kind of backing off and saying, listen, it didn't go into place. There were folks telling the president that this wasn't a good idea, and then it kind of went away until today. So today, Trump decides he's going to double down on it and tweet the following. Let's go to this graphic. we can pull up due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws

we are indeed as reported giving strong considerations to placing illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities only and then he continues only the radical left always seems to have an open borders, open arms policy so this should make them

very happy so people had said this was just a PR move he actually went on today in a statement which we're going to play for you right now. Democrats would agree. But if they don't agree, we might as well do what they always say they want. We'll bring the illegal, really call them the illegals.

I call them the illegals. They came across the border illegally. We'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it, whether it's a state or whatever it might be. California certainly is always saying, oh, we want more people. and they want more people in their sanctuary cities. Well, we'll give them more people. We can give them a lot. We can give them an unlimited supply.

And let's see if they're so happy. They say we have open arms. They're always saying they have open arms. Let's see if they have open arms. So on sanctuary cities, as per your question, we are giving very strong consideration to having people after a 20-day period because, again, you're not allowed legally to hold them for more than that. We will move them into sanctuary cities.

So before we get to what's wrong with that proposal, such as the fact that it's an illegal proposal, and that is why it has not been enforced, let's talk about how the thinking behind it, right? The thinking, and apparently concocted by Stephen Miller at the White House, and obviously Donald Trump enthusiastically agrees, is, ha ha, will drop off Latinos in these Democratic towns and see how they like them. Okay, so what? We like him just fine.

See, we're not racist like you. So it's not like he, they think that, like for example, in LA, LA's a sanctuary city, if they dropped off undocumented immigrants who then had to report to court to see if they're legitimately seeing asylum, that people in LA would be like, oh my God, oh my God, there's Latinos in this town and they're illegals. There's Latinos in Los Angeles. Right, and that it would freak us out. You're an idiot, we're not racist like you, who wouldn't flip us out at all? Have you ever been to Los Angeles? Oh yeah, that's right, you were here for a very huge fundraiser where you went to a mansion and all of you and your corrupt friends gave you a ton of money to do stuff like this.

But no, you haven't been in the real Los Angeles where there are plenty of Latinos, and by the way, some of them are undocumented, and nobody's flip it out because we're not racist like you. Okay, so now let's go to what's wrong with the proposal. Well, the ICE officials, Trump's ICE officials. The guys who are going around the country hunting people down, these are not, nobody thinks that they're anywhere near moderate, let alone progressive. They're all deeply right wing.

And they're like, but Congress didn't authorize us to randomly spend money to take them from here, bust them somewhere else, and then drop them off randomly. That's not authorized by Congress, so it would be illegal, what do you want us to do? And Trump is furious, he's like, well, obviously, do what I would do? Break the law. What's the big deal? Yeah, that's a big deal for everyone else. You're not allowed to break the law.

Yeah, here's what Matthew Albance, the acting ice deputy director said in Graphic 10. He said, not sure how paying to transport aliens to another location to release them when they can be released on the spot is a justified expenditure. Not to mention the liability should there be an accident along the way. That's his acting ICE director, deputy director saying. But to me, it's so fascinating the way they have to say it. It's like, first of all, are you kidding? It's like that interaction we played the other day with John Kerry and I think it was Bessie or whatever the representative was, where you just have to take a moment to go, are you serious?

And that's what's so frustrating to me is he's not a serious actor. Because before you can consider any of these policies, you have to say, how does this work? And that's a question Donald Trump doesn't have to consider because he just goes through and bulldozes through life. So the first question that gets asked is, okay, Mr. President, you have a plan of moving migrants, as you call them illegals from one place to another and see how they like it. How? First, easy question.

What format, how are you going to put them in certain positions, how are you going to keep them together, how are you going to send them? And then how much? Where's that coming from? Because, you know, we already don't know how you're going to pay for your monument. So all these things have to come to play that he thinks he doesn't have to consider because who cares? I'm just saying things.

This is a fantasy. It's there. It's red meat for his supporters saying, oh, yeah, that's right. He really does hate those damn illegals. That's the whole point of this. He doesn't have a real answer stuff. He just goes, see how they like it. Oh, and then, Mr. Trump, once they get there, who's to say that since you said they just run

all over the country, really nilly? They're not going to run back to your corner of the country. Oh, my God. What if they slip out of California? Oh, my God. No one's realizing. Another bus, right? If Sanctuary cities are so willy-nilly and let them do whatever hell they want, won't they

escape? No one's holding him here. You can just get on a bus and just head to Idaho, okay? There's no cages in sanctuary cities. All right, and it's, look, it bears repeating every time what a sanctuary city is. It's not like Shangri-a-law for people who are breaking the law. No. What it is is, it says local law enforcement will not strictly check your papers when you are

reporting a crime, for example. Why? Because they want you to report crimes, otherwise then nobody goes to the police and then when We have out of control, chaos, anarchy, and much greater crime and danger to the public. So they're saying, hey, if you report a crime, you cooperate with the police, we're not going to go then check your papers and throw you out of the country. If you've been robbed, you've been raped, et cetera, you can call us and we won't punish you.

And see, I agree with Republicans on that very point. I think the idea as to whether you should be a sanctuary city or really any kind of legislation or policy should be judged on the state and local level. So, it is my Republican idea that we should allow the states to determine how they report those crimes and let the big, keep the big governments, like greasy, disgusting paws off of them. So now, there's another element of this. So there's two versions of the plan.

One was to drop them off in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco, partly because they're big liberal cities, but partly to strike back at Nancy Pelosi, whoa, what if we put them in San Francisco? Okay, but part of the problem was the DHS officials went back, oh, and the second version of the plan was to go drop them off at their political opponents districts. So specific Democrats, hey, so if you're not voting with Donald Trump, he's going to go send a busload of undocumented immigrants and dropped them off in your district. And the DHS official said, look, even if we think it's not illegal, which it is, you would,

Obviously, this would go to the courts, and the courts would ask you, what is your legitimate governmental reason for doing this? Not a political reason, because that would be illegitimate, and so it would be blocked by the courts. What's your, and they said, the White House will not provide a legitimate reason that we could even give to the courts for why we're dropping them off in these areas. Yeah, because his reason is, I think I just really want to stick it to him. And it is, it is a big, dramatic thing that I get it. Like, that is the only thing he can understand is things that might be a scene in a movie.

Yeah, his policy is stick it to them. And so other people who are touting and celebrating this on his Twitter feed, it's all it matters. If your policy is make the liberals cry, which I'm not sure how you complete that policy, then while he sits behind your back and we report on every day, screws you over his supporters, screws you over while you cheer for him, giving you the red meat, you're only stabbing yourself, not in the back, you stab himself right in the chest and have no idea what you're doing. So Jared, good point because we just covered Trump's fundraiser here in LA last week, and one

of the women that we interviewed said, you know, I want Donald Trump to know that he's got great supporters here in Los Angeles, we're not all liberals. Now if you dropped off undocumented immigrants in LA, the progressors would say, yeah, so what, right? Trump supporters would be like, oh, no, so actually the only people he'd be hurting is the Trump supporters. And I want to be clear. Longbendy Twizzlers candy keeps the fun going. Keep the fun going.

has a criminal record, they are not allowed to release them. So they couldn't release them in that area, they couldn't release them in sanctuary cities. If they violated that law, okay, then Trump is saying, no, I'm not going to keep anybody safe. And I don't care, I'm just going to dump off criminals. But in this case, to be fair to the Trump administration, they did not propose that. They're just talking about undocumented immigrants that have no criminal record at all, to which then goes back to, so what? And we know that an overwhelming majority of those people actually do show up in court

as they are told to do when they are seeking asylum. Now that would be harder and you would ironically have a lot more undocumented immigrants in the country if your court hearings in Arizona and you just got dropped off in New York. How are they gonna make it to court? But that, to me, he hasn't thought that far ahead. But that also plays into his plan. I know you don't agree with this, but it's just like, he's fine if it doesn't work itself out, then it's a problem he can run on.

What's interesting to me is all the numbers have gone up since he started bringing attention to this, and everything he's done has made the problem that wasn't so big a problem, way worse. And I think, as long as the Democrats focus on things like health care in the election, hopefully he will lose, and things will go back to somewhat normal. All right. Jay, are you watched that the rest of that thing we showed? from C-SPAN.

There was one more video, video four. What did you think about? Should we play it, right? The basis for the entire fear-mongering is, no matter what the logic, we went through extensively just now, details, he comes with more BS on a story to scare you and to say what's really happening. So in clip four here, he taught, this is another story he's getting from the ranchers to give you reason to be afraid of these scary immigrants.

It's real fast. Just got back from Texas, and some of the ranchers told me, you look at Brooklyn. County, you look at other places. Some of the ranchers told me your bodies lying all over the land of people where the coyotes give them a can of soda. And they give them a sandwich. And they say, Houston's 300 miles in that direction. And the people don't know what that means. That means they can't make it. That means they have no chance. And they die. It's something I never heard. I never heard it to this extent. Many people die. And they'll say, just head in that direction. And we are doing a lot about it. If we had the wall, we wouldn't have that.

If we had the wall, people wouldn't be coming up. All that for the wall propaganda. The land is littered with dead bodies. Well, you shouldn't really care. You don't care about the lives of these folks anyway, right? But the ranchers told me, they're giving a can of soda. You know, the coyotes, what, okay, so the coyotes who are, I guess the same drug cartel are or people that want to put drugs and bodies and migrate them. If that's their point, why do they need to do this? Why are they wasting cans of soda and sandwiches on people that are going to die and leave them in the desert? It doesn't make any sense because he never told these stories by the ranchers.

In all of this, he's using these human beings who are trying to get a better life in America according to what is on the Statue of Liberty, essentially. and he's using them as props. And what's ironic to me is that he's using them as props in the same appearance where the people behind him in that C-SPAN video would be using as being used as props. It's that, hey, member of the union, could you please come down and appear behind the president?

It's, could you come down and wear your hard hat so we can have you look like some kind of stock photo prop in the background. And that's what's so frustrating to me. That's how he works, and it is incumbent upon us to message effectively against it, and to put a stop to it. Well, I was so hoping one of the guys in the back would start going, right, or at a minimum breakout in YMCA.

That's what I thought too. I almost said village people. Yeah. So, anyways, all right, guys, we've got to take a break. Later in the program, unfortunately, Chicago police viciously attack a young student. We have video of that, and I want to talk about what we can do about it. We 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.

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Aspiration.com slash TYT. All right, what's next, Brett? All right, so Donald Trump's approval rating is through the roof if you follow his Twitter handle. He did tweet this image, which, as it would happen, is a graphic from a Fox News show who would think that he's watching Fox News all day. And if you'll see, on the economy, his approval rating according to Georgetown politics is 58%. And his overall soaring approval, as it says, is 55%. So Trump tweets, great news, hashtag MAGA. That happened.

And then Lou Dobbs, it was brought to his attention and others that this was not as accurate. as he might have hoped. So Mo Elyothy, who conducted the original survey, tweeted this. He said, I'm the director of GU politics, and this graphic is incorrect. The Battleground Postal is a

58% approval on the economy, sure. But it shows only 43% overall approval, and 52% disapproval. The 55% number is President's unfavorable rating. So he was bragging about how he had this favorable

rating, it turned out it was unfavorable, amazing. So first of all, it's funny because he's an idiot, ha ha. But now, let's get to some of the ramifications of how unintelligent the president is. So first of all, the tweet is still up. So that means there is no staffer in the White House who has the nerve to go talk to this insecure president and tell the man child, hey, that's a little embarrassing that when we got that one wrong, let's pull the tweet down because people are going to keep talking about. talking about it if you still leave it up.

Apparently, there's not a single person in the White House who can even talk any sense or give a single fact to the President of the United States. That's a dangerous situation. Okay, number two, he was too incompetent to even realize how extraordinary that number would be. Now, if I saw that number, if Brett or Jerry or anybody said, hey, Jake, Trump said 55% approval rating, I'd go, no, he's not, really? No, we're gonna need to double check that and triple check that.

Why? Because I don't like Trump? No, because I know, since I follow the news, that Donald Trump has never broken 50% in approval rating. So it would be extraordinary if you all of a sudden jumped up to 55%. So given that context, because I actually know facts and I know the news, I'd be like, wow, that's super interesting, that's very newsworthy. If he really is at 55%, we should cover it on the show, right?

And we should try to figure out why, because that's so surprising. Now, Trump doesn't think that at all. He sees, I've got a 55% approval rating, and it doesn't occur to him that he's actually been sitting in the 40s and sometimes the 30s, his whole presidency, and that it would be super weird for him to jump up to 55. It never even occurs to him, so that he doesn't even bother double checking before he announces it to the whole world. And think of how that translates to everyone who watches Fox News.

I mean, on this show, I don't know if it was this show The Damage Report where they showed that people who watch, like Republicans who watch Fox News have a wildly different view of reality than Republicans who don't watch Fox News. So for Trump, he contributes to Fox News, creates that reality, people who watch that, take that reality. Trump himself takes that reality is true. And that happened right here. He didn't question it for a second. And neither do a vast majority proven of people who watch Fox News. It's also a possibility that he's never going to take that down. No one's going to talk to me.

If someone did go and speak to him, he could possibly say, well, it doesn't matter because there's still enough people that will believe it. I can leave it up because there's still a significant number of my crazed fans that will go, well, that's true. I don't care what anyone else says. That Trump still has it up, so he's right. It's when you build this coalition of, I'm the only one you need to listen to. I alone, don't forget those two words.

I alone, he said, from the beginning of his presidency, can protect you, whatever he said. But I alone is the operative word here. So don't believe anyone else. Not even Lou Dobbs, who did it incorrectly, which also I think begs the question, do these producers know what they were doing? Or they also so deep in the mud that they have no idea that they're completely flipping the numbers? Because now that's the manipulation of your viewers on purpose.

You found the, go ahead. No, I was going to say, no, I don't think they knew. I think that your theory is right, that they're so in the mud, as you said, they think, well, of course, 55%. But think about that, too. Lou Dobbs, all of his producers, they don't know the news at all either. Like, that should have surprised them. Someone in the building should have double-checked that number, given how much it stands out

from every number we have on Trump's approval ratings. But apparently none of them know the news. And also, like, who calls it out? Who was the one who called it out? It's people like us who sadly have to follow Donald Trump's Twitter. Because it's not his fans. None of his fans are like, actually, you better check that out. It's people like us who probably to the detriment of our health are following Trump and

multiple times a day get these notifications and they're just like, wait, that's not right. Maybe I'll ask a question about it. J.R. found the correction that Lou Dobbs made, which itself, you have to see for yourself. Take a look. We have new poll numbers tonight on a growing issue, at least amongst the radical dims that we'd like to share with you tonight. But before we get to those numbers, I'd like to repair something I got wrong last night. Incorrectly reporting that a Georgetown poll showed the president had an overall approval rating of 55%. The number, in fact, is 43%. That same poll found that President

Trump has a 58% approval rating for the handling of the economy. Now to those numbers on reparations, and I assure you, at least most of these numbers are correct. Just kidding. Just kidding. First of all, we just talked about Ilhan Omar and belittling like something, just them saying, oh, how insensitive are you to say something about 9-11? This guy's belittling stats about reparations. No, yeah, yeah. Slavery, the great American embarrassment, that is what he's belittling. So where is everyone's outrage on that point?

I think Max Rose went on Foxx. Oh, no, he did. He did. He went on Max Rose to batch fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar. All right, I want to add one other question to this, because JR really hit on something there about his followers. So MAGA guys, a quick question for you guys, you can leave comments down below. So do you now think that Trump has a 55% approval rating?

Even though the polls are saying, no, no, they just read the poll wrong, he doesn't. That was his disapproval, and even Lou Dobbs corrected it, and there's no one more loyal to Donald Trump than Lou Dobbs, do you think, well, Trump still got it up, so I don't care about reality. I'm gonna say he has a 55% approval rating. I wonder, like, are you really, like, have you lost touch with sanity and reality that much? And the answer is probably yes for some of them.

My guess is, and maybe I'm being naive to this day that they have any sanity left, that They'll have to make an excuse for him. They're like, well, I mean, it's definitely not true, so I don't know what to do about that. Even Lou Dobbs says it's not true. So my guess is they'll say, oh yeah, he's owning the libs. I love that one. I love it so much because he's owning the libs by being an idiot. How does that own us?

I'm pretty sure that owns you. And he's like, and by lying and by not understanding anything about the news or politics or his current situation and never fixing an obvious error, he's owning you. No, I'm pretty sure he's owning you. I hate to, okay, so even, I don't hate to do it this way. That's why I'm taking it back. Even in breaking down the way Lou Dobbs issued that correction, a correction usually time is quick and to the point.

Last night, we made a mistake on the show. The poll actually said this, we apologize for the misunderstanding, whatever. Instead, he started with, we have a poll on Radical Dems. So the ears perk up like, wait, we're going to listen to Radical Dems. The viewers, like, oh, Radical Dems poll, this is disgusting. Then he goes on to say we had a mistake, and I'm not lying to you, there's a way that you go through a sentence where you blow through. He goes, it was actually not 55%. But there's 58% on the economy.

So you hear that point, that stuck, Radical Dems poll coming, 58% economy, then went on the joke about those, most of them are going to be okay anyway. So there's three deflection points to make sure you didn't really observe that he's saying, I messed up. The whole point is to say, I messed up last night. That was lost in three different things he was actually portraying to you. And I don't know, maybe I'm over-analizing. That's why I said I don't want to do it. But it's a way to still deflect from the fact he's supposed to deliver.

I was wrong last night. I apologize for the mistake. Yeah, well, you know what? I'm glad you did do it because I just realized one of the reasons why he did that. It's because Trump is watching. Yeah, he doesn't want to upset Trump, so he doesn't want to say, oh, by the way, Mr. President, sorry, your approval rating actually sucks. So he's like, radical Dems, Trump, squirrel over there, right? And the reparations, squirrel over there, right?

That we were wrong. Okay, Trump didn't catch that, right? No way he caught it. Way too dumb to catch that. Let's move on. And also the idea that 58% of the people think you're doing fine with the economy, yet 55% of the people hate you. Wow, right? That's a great point, Brett.

So like, imagine how much they hate you on other stuff. Okay, and by the way, today I did what the president should have done before he tweeted it. I checked his average of the polls. I went to real clear politics, checked the average of all the different polls on him. And right now he stands at an approval rating of, not 55, but 41.2%. And technically, yeah, this wasn't even like job approval. This is like, what do you think about Donald Trump? And they were like unfavorable 55%, just like, yeah, 41.2% is terrible for a president.

Terrible. And so there's this mythology that is aided and abetted by cable news that the country's 50-50. They're not 50-50 on Donald Trump. I think they're wrong on his handling of the economy, but even if at 58% saying he's handling the economy well, still he's deeply disliked in the country, 41% does not win your elections. The only asterisks to that is unless you're running against an establishment Democrat like Hillary Clinton. Okay. Yeah, we gotta take a break.

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So we're doing a review special, so that's the first panel up there, and I'm amused by John's picture there. That's the hardest either of us has ever looked. Oh, you're right. Bretton, did you guys take special pictures to try to look? That's an old, I've been looking for that shirt, that's my smash shirt. This is their Game of Thrones face, except for Brooke, who's like, no, I'm always going to be pleasant. And so- John Smyzing.

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Spoilers, bro. Anyway, I'm gonna watch it. Okay, but when that happened, we were all like, and there's gifts about it, et cetera. And then, but most importantly, right afterwards, t.t.com, okay? Come, we're doing an, usually about an hour-long review. You can watch as much or as little bit as you want, and a little extra for the members as well.

So always tyt.com slash joining it. of our programming, including this fun game of throwing stuff we're doing for you guys. All right, Brett, what's next? All right. A couple of days ago, we reported on basically a law that had support from Democrats and Republicans that said that essentially it solidified the relationship between people like Equifax, all those tax service companies, and the IRS saying that the IRS was not allowed to create a free filing online service.

So, you got upset, and it made its way to Elizabeth Warren and a whole bunch of others who have now introduced legislation to combat that very thing, and it didn't take very long. Okay, so what is in this Warren IRS bill? It will make the IRS offer free online tax prep and filing service. It will bar agreements between people like the IRS and, say, Equifax and all those quick-in-type folks from restricting that service. It will provide a return-free option for simple tax situations, basically saying I don't have to go through a lot if I just have a W-2, and I'm taking the standard deduction, I'll just

go ahead and do it. And it will require identity verification before you can access your tax data, which seems like a no-brainer, but apparently they had to add it. And here is what she said about it. This is what Elizabeth Warren said. She said, taxpayers waste too many hours and hundreds of dollars on tax preparation each year. which disproportionately burdens low income and minority taxpayers. This bill will require the IRS to offer easy, free online tax filing for all taxpayers.

That's Elizabeth Warren, as reported in the hell. So that makes sense, like Brett said, a bit of a no-brainer. So why is this even an issue? Well, that's the interesting part of the story. So it's an issue because I don't know who, but some corporate Democrat, snuck a bill into the House version, not the Senate version, so it was a Democrat, that said that the IRS would basically codify their partnership with tax preparation software companies like H&R Block and Intuit, which makes turbotax.

Now I do know it's turbo tax that had been pushing for this for a long, long time. So apparently they slipped into a friendly Democrat who was like, oh, nobody looking, nobody looking, okay, I don't have to pretend to be a progressive, boom, put in the turbo tax part. Sorry. So why are we subsidizing turbo tax nation R. Blanc? Why don't we just make it free to the taxpayers without handing all the profits to those private companies? So that's so obvious, now that they got their hand caught on the cookie jar, not only are progressives

backing it, for example, Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker are also backing Elizabeth Warren's bill in the Senate. But, and Acacio-Cortez and Katie Hill in the House, but even Tim Ryan and Brad Sherman and all my rowdy friends from the whole range of Democrats. Brad Sherman, who I would say is one, he's a foreign, I think he was former appropriations or if he's not still, one of the most like, hello everybody, I'm Brad Sherman, just like a kind of a boring guy, but he's in on it. Yeah, he's like, wait, we gave away the money to TurboTex?

No, okay, so bless their hearts on that. Tim Ryan's running for president, great job in supporting this bill, to give you a sense of how obvious it is and how clearly somebody snuck it in hoping it wouldn't get caught. It's the way that it's happened now. It's kind of sad. Doing something so simple is revolutionary. It's, oh my gosh, she gave everyone the opportunity to agree not to screw over taxpayers while they prep their taxes.

Oh my God, you win so easily with a simple bill like this because of so much corruption is getting put in our normal daily life. So they can destroy it and have a corrupt bill go for a particular few companies. And then all you have to do is say, you know what, we're not going to do that. So that the question becomes, hey, the rest of you guys, do you agree to do it? I guess not. That's how easy it is to be right now. It's gotten that far to the left, or to the right.

Yeah. That it's so, it's, your winning capabilities are just are handed to you, but there's still not enough people taking it. So, J.I., that's, you're 100% right, and that's why they're so upset with the new progressives. So whether it's the Cascio-Cortez, Omar, Talib, Presley, et cetera, in the House, or it's Warren and Sanders in the Senate, they're like, damn it, we were going to get away with it. If it wasn't for those rascally dastardly progressives, right? And those, why won't they get off our lawn?

Because in the old days, you think that this is like an accident? No, they slips stuff like this into bills all the time because they get paid to, because Because they're corrupt and leadership knows it and they are perfectly happy to do it. But the minute a progressive points it out, they're like, damn it, now yes, it's impossible to defend in public, yeah, okay, I'm against it, right? Because they got caught, they got caught and if there were no progressives, they would have never gotten caught. Why is there not a free way to do it online through the IRS?

There was a time, a long time ago I did a video about, it was called .gov where we went through the IRS's guidance for people who are trying to get essentially their money after Katrina, how to file your losses if you were affected by Hurricane Katrina. And I have never seen something so complicated to the point where it felt like it was intentionally complicated. They don't want you to get that money. They don't want you to find out how to do your taxes yourself. They changed the system. And we did a report a while ago about how people looked at folks who didn't know why they didn't get the refund they wanted, and the response was, oh, you just didn't withhold as much as you should have. How am I supposed to know that?

How am I supposed to know any of this? No one takes you aside and says, here's how to do your taxes. And the only intuitive thing to do, it's funny that it says intuit is one of these companies. There's nothing intuitive about it. Everything you, the intuitive thing to do is go to IRS.gov and say, can I pay you now? If I have an AT&T bill, I go to ATT.com. And I love it. And I pay the bill. But there is no intuitive way to do it. And then in itself, they mandate that if you want to be sure that you get the right kind of tax refund you want, that you have to go through these companies.

That's the way it's kind of set up. Even though they have a free version, the free version, it's just like when you download a game and it's like, if you really want to have fun, you got to upgrade, you got to buy this stuff. It's so frustrating because you have to pay. But what's frustrating to me is that, like, if you're charging me to do my, taxes, that's a tax in itself. You're taxing me more in order to pay my taxes, so I don't have to pay as much in taxes.

I'm mad at you. That's a great point about having to pay money to do your taxes. All right, so last thing on this, I don't want anybody to get this wrong. Currently, this bill that's obvious has not passed, and it just got proposed, to be fair, right? So it's not like things got straightened out. There's still a long road before it gets straightened out. The thing that did get past is the bad version that needlessly hands that gift over to corporations. So it's possible the Senate picks it up and goes, oh, helping corporations for no reason and

robbing the American taxpayer, done, right? So we'll see what happens there, but right now, forever wrong on the throne. So still on the throne. Yeah, we're gonna move on to a different story. This is the one that we've been promising you throughout the show, so we're gonna get to it. It's about the Chicago school beating. Denigma Howard is a student at Marshall High School on the west side of Chicago, and on January 29th, she was beaten up by cops.

And at the time, there was video which will play, but there is new surveillance video that showed what happened before the incident took place. And throughout the incident, it was from a stairwell, and there's no audio, so we're just going to go ahead and start playing it right now. This is Denigma at the top. She's the one just standing there. And as she walks away, out of nowhere, the cop just grabs her. Oh, my God.

Yeah. And wait until you hear the story of what the cops claimed happened. And down a set of stairs, of course, they go. Yeah. And so the cops originally claimed, and at this late juncture, I'm still naive. Like, before I saw the video, I was reading the cop's version of it. And I was like, it still is not the right thing to do. But I, for it, until I saw the video, I believe them.

They said that she had did not want to leave voluntarily so she was resisting and it had started a scuffle and I was going to say she's 16 years old. You shouldn't fall down a flight of stairs with her and you shouldn't do the stun gun and you shouldn't do all these things. You should find a different way. It turns out, no, they were lying. No, she didn't start it at all. And they just threw her down a flight of stairs, let alone all the other horrific things that

they did to her. Look, I just, I'm done trusting the cops. And so, look, in the old days, because of American lore and mythology, and you'd see it in the movies too, like, if a cop takes a stand, it was like, oh, well, this is going to be true. This is a lot of credibility here. I don't know about that random witness and the other witness who's only a nurse, I don't trust her, but the cop, I really trust, right? No, now it's reversed.

It doesn't mean you can't rebut the presumption, you can present evidence and facts, and I'll believe you. But if a cop's on the stand, I'm a lot less likely to trust them. And if it's a cop on the stand against a black defendant, I'm doubly not going to trust them. You can rebut that presumption, but my presumption is based on the overwhelming evidence that we have covered on the show, they're usually lying. Yeah. The video continues at the bottom of the stairs and you'll see if we start playing it right now.

It continues as they drag her all the way down the flight of stairs and more. on her ankle. There's two cops now. One is on top of her as they slid down the stairs, kicking, grabbing. Apparently she had trouble breathing. Her father showed up in that scene to pick her up. Let's also get this part straight. This whole thing started. The reason why she was standing next to the cops at the top of the stairs was she refused to put, it was finals week, I believe, or something. She refused to put her cell phone away in class. So they kicked her out of class and said, hey, you could either go to detention or do whatever their consequence procedures are. She's standing there waiting for her father to come pick her up because they called

her dad and said, hey, come pick up your kids. She's being unruly today. He comes by to find his daughter being assaulted by two cops. And he said there's nothing he could do. I heard him get interviewed today. He was like, what I told them, that's my daughter. And they kept. She has asthma issues at the time. I mean, maybe you think it's funny about it because this is now repetitive. She said, I can't breathe. Yeah. I'm not sure when you hear those words. Then you start thinking, I think I'm that cop. And maybe decide to calm down. A 16-year-old high school girl, two cops can't handle enough.

If she's, now, at the beginning of that video, if we played the beginning of that first one again, this was the agreedist nature. By the way, as you said, the cop story was that she went to assault them. And most people would believe that. Denigma was initially charged with two, we should, let's play the video as I described what happened. Denigua was initially charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery against the officers. That's the original video that came out. This is down once they have at the bottom. But yeah, two felony counts of aggravated battery against the officers, the charges were dropped less than a week later.

Quote, in the interest of justice, I hate the way they phrase that. In the interest of justice, well, no, it's in the interest of covering your butt because this video came out, disproving everything you said. As J.R. points out, at the beginning, she's, she's not fighting the police. Maybe she kicks back once she's been, as she's been tased, as she's attached to the other police officer. She said something to him and took a step to the left. I'm not sure which direction detention is or which direction, whatever she's supposed to choose to go is. But she took a step apparently the wrong direction and said something to the cop, and that was enough. Because that's threatening.

No, no, and I want to be clearer about the outrageous lies of the Chicago Police Department in this case. They said that she kicked, and we're going to watch the video again, okay, the first video. She kicked, bit, and spit on the officers, causing them to tumble down the stairs together. That was their original story. Now, let's see if she drags them down the stairs or they drag her down the stairs. Did she kick? No. Did she bite them?

No. You see it clear as day. Did she say something to them? probably because what did I just tell you on the show yesterday? Biggest crime in America is disrespecting a police officer. It's not in any law book, but it'll get you thrown down a flight of stairs if you're a 16 year old girl. And did you see how many witnesses are there, classmates, other folks in the school who said, what are you doing? Stop it. What are you doing? Now, when those first charges came up with her assaulting police officers, did they ask the other 75 people

that were right in the middle of it? Hey, did you see what happened? No, it doesn't matter because all you guys must be liars. You look like little liars. You're probably going to Let's say something against what I'm telling you is the truth, so let's not even ask anyone. Let's just say what our story was is the truth. So people, I'm sure are going to get outraged by me saying I don't believe the cops anymore. Do you believe them? I mean, how many tapes of cops outrageously lying and show you the exact opposite of what they said?

Do you have to see before you go, maybe cops are human and maybe just maybe they're trained wrong? So, and now this gets to the usual issue of the training. So apparently they're not training the officers any differently in the schools as they are in the streets. So first of all, the training in the streets sucks. The Chicago Police Department has committed endless amounts of abuse. They even had a place where they would do almost extraordinary renditions within the city

of Chicago, did kidnap people, bring him to a black site where they would all. they would oftentimes torture them. The Justice Department had to step in because of how atrocious the Chicago Police Department was. And if you say, hey, hey, Jane, did you know the Democrats around Chicago? I'd say, yeah, I know. It was Rahm Emanuel, a corporate Democrat who hates progressives and who did a terrible job because he's like, oh, what do the police need?

I'm a conservative Democrat, I'll give the police whatever they want. You want to torture people? Who cares? Who cares? Do it with impunity. Now you're gonna put those people train that way into schools. And so that you could kick the crap out of students, right? So now, the other part of this story is, stop putting cops in the schools.

I know that's apparently a controversial statement. When we were growing up, we didn't have cops in the schools, and we never needed the cops in the schools. And so it's not to say that nobody ever pulled a knife or there wasn't a dangerous situation. Well, when you had a weapon or a dangerous situation, once a student had hated teacher in my school, I remember, then they called the cops. But they didn't have cops constantly patrolling looking for, who's disrespecting me? Who's disrespecting me?

Who's not following a suspension or a detention? I'm gonna grab him by the hair and drag him down the stairs. You know that they, you can see it partly there and J.R. has stepped on her ankle, but they also stepped on her chest. They used a stun gun on her several times, and while one of them was holding her down by stepping on her chest, the other one was punching her in the face. So look at this, okay? That's police working.

They said she dragged them down the stairs. You just saw the video. So they have body cameras potentially, according to the reports, and congratulations to the Chicago Sun Times for finding that, for getting their hands on that surveillance video so that it can really shine a lot on it. And hopefully, if they do have body cameras, we end up seeing those two. And if you're saying, hey, well, look, there's no race here. You mentioned African American before, but look at the video. Yeah, I've got eyes. I can see the video, right?

No, it doesn't matter if the cops are white or black or Latino or Asian. They're trained the same way. You prove yourself by beating up on the citizens, then you're one of us, okay? That's what that training's about. And I can't stand that training. So we got a new mayor elect, Laurie Lightfoot in Chicago. They said she was a progressive, I hope to God that she acts like one, and actually gets the cops to, I know this is shocking and Fox News will be really upset, but they actually

serve the citizens. And instead of beating them up, maybe actually try protecting them. All right, we got to take a break. I got more anger in the second hour. We'll be back. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks. Support our work, listen ad-free, access members, only bonus content, and more by subscribing to Apple Podcasts at apple.combe. I'm your host, Shank Huger, and I'll see you soon.