The Young Turks - Iran Divides MAGA - February 24, 2026

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

The U.S. orders the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and families from its embassy in Beirut as it braces for a possible strike on Iran—raising the specter of a wider regional war. Right-wing media fracture bitterly over whether to back escalation as Cenk goes head to head with Genral Clark on Piers Morgan. Alleged Mar-A-Lago gunman revealed to be vocal Trump supporter upset about the Epstein files. Thanks to Shopify and Zip Recruiter for today's episode: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Grant, experiment with you guys. I want up listening to a little bit of a right-wing show because it's in the rundown today. And- I think the story would be better told on your one-shot.

Oh, sure, yeah. Okay, why not? And you know what I realize they're still kissing Israel's ass and pretending that there's a real reason to go to war. And I don't mean all the right wing shows, but I do mean a lot of them. And I don't know, that's like amazing to me that they haven't caught on to their own audience saying, we don't want this war. And it's incredible what Israel's power, the propaganda out there is amazing.

Anyway, obviously the war is coming. So that's gonna be the first topic. We've got the latest developments on when it might start. State of the unions tonight. So good news, A, we're gonna cover the state of the union, me, Anna and John. So after the Young Turks, we'll have State of the Union. And then even further good news, after that, I'm going to give my state of the union, which of course everybody's on the edge of their seats for.

That'll be fun. All right, anyways, Trump's polling disaster, Tom Massey, has started naming names on the floor of the house, we love it. So a lot to get to Casper. Well, we do begin with some updates on the impending war with Iran. And I wanted to start off with this. Open for this. President Trump has been told, has been really cautioned that if he ordered the U.S.

military to hit Iran, then it would almost 100% not be this kind of one and done decisive blow that he might want. Then that would translate into a series of strikes. And if you want to push it further, that could then turn into a wider, a lot of. longer confrontation with Iran possibly pulling in the Middle East. So basically this kind of domino effect or some kind of spiral into a greater conflict, Michael. Further reporting also says that that advice has come straight from the joint chiefs himself, the top general, General Dan Cain. Well, that's great news for Israel, of course, because the United States has now ordered

the evacuation of all non-emergency personnel and their family members, by the way. at the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon in preparation for an attack on Iran. Now you might be wondering why would attack on Iran translate to the US embassy in Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon being evacuated. Well, that's because of the fact that this could very likely turn into a much larger regional war, and the US wants to be prepared for that. Jenk, were you expecting this? Well, I'm certainly expecting that Iran is going to get attack.

because Israel has ordered it and apparently we don't have a choice. As you're gonna see in this story, almost all the preparations are ready, so we're on the edge. And everybody's debating it and I was on Pierce Morgan yesterday, we've dropped today. We'll show you some of the arguments that I made against this war and really all the people that are in favor of this war are Israel first. No one else in America. So you're gonna see all of that in a minute. So a State Department official told the Hill that the evacuation order was prudent, given the security concerns that a full-blown war will break out in the region, meaning in multiple countries, not just between the United States and Iran. Now, the last time the embassy in Beirut was similarly evacuated with non-emergency personnel was last summer on June 22nd. And this was, of course, when the United States began. bombing the nuclear facilities in Iran and as the 12-day war was underway.

Now, luckily things didn't spin out of control after the US decided to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. There was a lot of concern that things would spin out of control. But you really do have to give Iran credit for showing considerable restraint in an effort to prevent a broader regional war, something that I wish our special ally Israel would have some interest in, but alas, they don't. So Iran attacked The US's air base in Qatar, if you can remember, but it provided notice of its planes to strike, giving the U.S. time to evacuate and prepare to intercept the missiles. Now, they did that to essentially show the Iranian people that the Iranian government had some response,

but they didn't want any Americans to be killed in the process. Now, just to juxtapose that with what the Israelis have done to Americans in the West Bank, how many Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank so far, Jank? Well, overall, 10 in the last three years, but somewhere in Gaza, because Israel murdered some aid workers that were Americans while they were trying to deliver food to the Gaza's. That's right, that's right. But anyway, just going back to this story, over the weekend, the U.S. began removing hundreds of American troops from its bases in Qatar and Bahrain, similar to what was done during the 12-day war last year. But it is worth remembering that Iran is less of a problem when it comes to bombs over Beirut, for instance, because Israel recently escalated its strikes on Lebanon, which it has continued launching in violation of a November 24 ceasefire deal, killing 12 people in attacks

on the eastern Beka Valley on Friday and Saturday. And to be clear, Israel, according to reports coming out of Saudi Arabia, is planning to bomb additional countries very, very soon. So Israeli sources recently told the Saudi outlet Al-Sharak al-Ausat, that Israel could launch massive and unprecedented strikes on Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, if Iran's allies get involved in a potential U.S.-Iran war. So again, I just want to be very clear with our audience, so you know what to expect. This potential war between the United States and Iran is not going to be some easy one and done situation. Israel is already preparing to bomb additional countries during this war, and that has a high likelihood of spinning out of control and turning into a devastating regional

war. Now, we can talk about the U.S.'s preparedness in this upcoming war in just a bit. But before we do, Jank, some thoughts on what I've shared with the audience so far. Yeah, so look, as you all know, there's no reason for America to go into this war. interest in Iran. They have no nuclear capabilities. Their ballistic missiles can't reach us. Their foreign policies, their business, not our business. So I want you to remember all of that when the fighting begins because I think that this war is going to get super messy super quickly. So it's not going to be a slow ramp up the disaster. I think we're going to hit disaster pretty quickly. And when we do, what's going to happen next is the Israel first and go along with all

of mainstream media and almost all of our politicians, we're gonna come back and go, oh my God, I can't believe Iran hit us. Well, that's it. We got to go more and deeper into the war and deeper into the war. And oh my God, they hit Israel. Like two and a half people died. We have to avenge them for the next 20 years, 40 years. The most precious lives in the world have been lost to Israelis, et cetera. I, on the other hand, I'm struggling already ahead of time with, should I have any sympathy for any Israeli killed in this war? And the reason for that is because they are definitively starting the war, definitively. And they've brought a third of our fleet into the Gulf to attack Iran when we have absolutely

no interest in it. So every American loss is on the head of Israel, and every Israeli loss is on the head of Israel and no one else. And we should not go deeper into this war. I hope Trump runs after we run into trouble, because we will almost certainly run into trouble. If he digs in deeper with this big a force, it's going to be an absolute nightmare. By the way, a third of our fleet means sitting ducks everywhere. And now it's not normal warfare, guys. There's drones that could hit these guys in 18 different ways. So I think that this is the first war where we're going to find out that we are no longer

in charge of the whole world. So thank you, Israel. We appreciate it. Way to help destroy our empire. Well, let's talk a little bit about the ongoing military buildup off the COVID. of Iran in the Persian Gulf specifically because just over the last 24 hours there's been even more of a military buildup that to me indicates that this is more than just a bluff from President Trump it does look like he is preparing

for potentially a sustained military campaign so the US has continued this military buildup near Iran and since the second round of talks took place with the Iranians on February 17th where unfortunately the Iranians were under the impression that there had been at least a little bit of positivity, maybe some indication that there could be a deal. Now it turns out that no, the U.S. has continued with its ongoing military buildup in preparation for war. So since the second round of talks, the U.S. military has shifted 150 aircraft based in Europe and the Middle East toward this effort in Iran. The current presence of U.S. military forces in the region is among the largest.

in more than two decades since before the Iraq war in 2003. So that was reported by the Washington Post. Now a third of all active U.S. ships are now in the region. So we're talking about a massive military buildup here. So experts who reviewed the deployment said it was, and this is Graphic Five guys, deployment said it was surpassed, or has surpassed the military buildup that was seen before the U.S. strikes against the Iranian nuclear program in June of last year. They said the assets being assembled are indicative of a multi-day campaign without a ground invasion.

And let me just be clear, if you hear anyone make the argument that the United States is going to succeed in regime change without any boots on the ground, and you believe it. You happen to be one of the most naive people on the planet. That is literally impossible. We are talking about a country of 92 million people. We are talking about what a country, four times the size of Iraq, if I'm not mistaken, with much more sophisticated military, that's for sure, far more military capability. And on top of that, despite all of the buildup that we're seeing right now in the Persian Gulf, the fact of the matter is China has already agreed to a weapons deal with Iran that I was reading about. This was reported by Reuters, which was shocking.

Usually this is the kind of stuff that gets reported by foreign outlets, but it was behind a paywall. Luckily, the Times of India wrote about it. So I want to get to that part because they say the proposed deal involves the Chinese-made CM-302 supersonic anti-ship missiles, which have a reported range of about 290 kilometers and are designed to evade ship-borne defenses by flying low and fast. So two weapons experts that were cited by Reuters said that the missiles would significantly boost Iran's ability to target naval assets in the region. And then you even have former Israeli intel weighing on this and how much of the issue this is going to be. Because former Israeli intel officer Danny Citriowitz says now, he sounds very native to the Middle East. I know.

This is what he says. It's a complete game changer, meaning Iran obtaining these weapons from China. These missiles are very difficult to intercept. And to that point, one of the warnings from General Kane to Donald Trump is that we have already used up 25% of our missile interceptors, which are much more complicated and time consuming to manufacture. Meaning that Iran can build its missiles faster than we can build the interceptors. So like just take all of this into consideration. Anyone who's trying to sell this to you is like, we're America, one and done, super easy, not a big deal, real quick strike.

That's not what this is gonna be. Yeah, 100%. So when we were doing the first around war or the Venezuela strikes, I was not as certain that we were gonna have disaster because I didn't know what the plan was, right? And I didn't know how quick we were gonna get in and out and where we're gonna have ground troops. And it looked like we weren't gonna have ground troops. In this war, there's no plan other than regime change and you cannot have regime change without ground troops.

They've already brought in tons and tons of troop transport planes. I don't know what's in them, but this is not a war that you could win from the air. And this is the, let's see if I'm right, but my guess is that this is the first war where we will have significant pushback from the country that we're hitting. What I mean by that is not guerrilla warfare like we had in Afghanistan and Vietnam and Iraq. No, I mean conventional weapons and drones and new weapons. doing significant damage to our ships and our planes. We haven't had that in decades.

I mean, we haven't had a ship bombed since the Israelis hit the USS Liberty, if I'm not mistaken. And the Israelis had good advanced technology at that point, and they knew it was us. And they, so the Israelis could murder us, yes, that's true, but they're theoretically on our side now. So one of our ships hasn't been hitting forever. And with these weapons, there's a really good chance it can get hit. And then what are we gonna do if an aircraft, carrier sinks. This whole country is going to go nuts. And the Israelis are going to go, yes, a new 9-11 for us to take advantage of. That's it. You have to eliminate all of our enemies and spend

trillions of dollars. And by the way, Turkey's next. And our greed knows no bounds. And the permanent war continues. Yeah. And so, you know, you have to take everything into consideration. I think the most important thing to take into consideration is whether or not this is a war in our interest, whether or not it makes sense for us a country drowning in $40 trillion in debt to carry out another costly war, not on our behalf, but on behalf of a foreign country that has taken far too much from the American people already. All right, I want to move on to something entirely different, Jank, because I saw your appearance on Pierce Morgan and it was a lot, it was a lot.

No, okay, God bless. So let me let me get this started. Today, Jank Uger went on Pierce Morgan's show and I am sad to report that General Wesley Clark, whose son used to be a colleague of ours here at TYT, has completely lost his mind. He seems to be somewhat in favor of going to war with Iran. And so let's start off with this first video, Jank, where Pierce asks General Clark about the plan to overthrow governments in the Middle East on behalf of Israel, because there have been quite a few governments that have been overthrown with US intervention, either boots on the ground

or by us literally arming, you know, Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria. But nonetheless, let's see how that conversation went down. There was, of course, this famous Pentagon memo, which you saw shortly after 9-11. You said it described a plan to take out seven countries in five years, beginning with Iraq, ending with Iran. The other countries were Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan. You know, some will look at this and say, well, this is the fruition of the plan, and Iran is the last one standing. Lebanon, of course, a bit more complicated, but the others have all gone through regime change.

What would you say to people that think that? This will be fun. Let's talk about first dates. We've all been there. You're trying to figure someone out, so you ask the important stuff up front. What are you looking for? What are your deal breakers? You get right to the point to see if they're the right person for you. Well, the same goes if you're hiring. You definitely want to address key questions first to see if someone could be right for your role. That's why you need ZipRecruiter. When you post your job, ZipRecruiter suggests screening questions to help you identify top candidates faster. And today you can try it for free at ZipRecruiter.com slash TYT. Their matching technology immediately starts finding qualified people. who actually check all your boxes. No wonder ZipRecruiter is the number one rated hiring site.

Ask key questions and hire faster with ZipRecruiter. Four out of five employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. Tried for free at ZipRecruiter.com slash TYT. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash TYT. Meet your match on ZipRecruiter. Well, I'd say that it's, that was over 20 years ago that memo was written. And the U.S. government doesn't really have plans that extend that far. That was your point?

Like, that was the proof to, okay. So what they're talking about is something known as the Clean Break memo. It was a memo issued to Benjamin Netanyahu by neocon members of our government under the Bush administration. They wrote this memo, basically a blueprint, handed it over to. to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. And it was a point by point plan on which Middle Eastern countries, their leaders would be overthrown specifically on behalf of Israel. The idea was a clean break from the culture of the Oslo Accords,

meaning trying to find an option for peace with Palestinians, trying to move toward a two-state solution. It's like, no, no, no, forget that. Forget the Palestinians, but also forget any idea that we wouldn't pursue the greater Israel project, we are going to pursue the greater Israel project, but first we need to weaken and destabilize these Middle Eastern countries first. So the clean break memo starts with Iraq, ends with Iran. Go ahead, Jank. Yeah, it was heartbreaking to see General Clock like that, because when we appears Hadamon, I didn't know that General Clock credit flipped and is now pro-war.

And so I was expecting him to say, yeah, this is the exact memo. This is exactly what they said we were going to do. And then we did do it, almost word for word. And now we're at the end of it, There's no question about it. And instead he was like, I don't know, that was a long time ago. But now I'm, you know, I don't know if he's working for a defense contractor. Am I impugning your motives? Yes, I am. I want to be super clear about that, okay?

Because that's not the same General Wesley Clark I knew before. General Wesley Clark was against war, okay, and was not for fighting Israel's wars. And he was adamant about it. Now he's flipped. Maybe we should fight Israel's wars. It has no, and I challenge him later, maybe we get to those clips, to name an American interest in this war. could name a single one. Of course there's no American interest in this war at all.

So guys, there's two groups people now. People who have woken up and realized that our government is compromised by Israel and people who are still in the old world and they're like, oh, golly, gee, that sounds anti-Semitic. I think we should, I mean, I don't know why we're going to war with Iran, but if Israel says so, we should definitely go, otherwise I'm an anti-Semite, right? Or whatever, or I'm getting paid or whatever it is, right? But again, in that conversation, they pulled out two different polls.

One is 70% of Americans against this war. The second one by you gov is 85% of Americans against this war. And the old 50% I assume are boomers who watch television with nonstop propaganda of we must go to war. And every piece of that propaganda Anna is identical to Iraq. They're not even trying to change the playbook. And I'm watching right wing shows and mainstream shows getting hooked like, oh yeah, they might have weapons of mass destruction.

I'm worried about a percentage of uranium. Right? Are you kidding me? Yeah, I mean look if you're a normie, you're among my favorite people. Just I it pays me to see normal people get fooled by very obvious propaganda that's easily disproven. So with that in mind, let's see the very beginning of Jenks showdown with General Wesley Clark. I mean, I really respect General Clark. I don't know what's happened to him. That letter was very clear. They did the neocons and Israel first. did execute it. They have knocked out six to seven of those countries just like they said they would. They've gone to Iran at the end, just like they said they would. If we're talking about a country

that is destabilizing the region on the world with endless wars, that country is Israel. I mean, look, this whole thing is topsy-turvy. The whole framing of the discussion is ludicrous. Israel has attacked seven of its neighbors, not Iran. Israel forced us into the Iraq war, And they said it would be easy and it was a disaster. They said they were doing it for the Iranian people. And then we wound up killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. We lost thousands of our own men. The fake weapons of mass destruction evidence came from where?

It came from Israel. They pushed us into the war with Libya. Now there's modern day slavery back in Libya. I just got to say something about the laughing hyenas on screen as Jank is talking about American soldiers getting slaughtered, fighting Israel's wars. That's what they're looking forward to when it comes to Iran. Laughing hyenas, absolutely disgusting, absolutely dismissive of the fact that we would be risking American lives to fight this war on behalf of their, you know, Israeli masters.

Anyway, go ahead. They're like, oh, we're going to get them to fight for Israel. We're laughing at you, America. That's what it felt like there. And so I don't know if they think that that's going to throw me off my name. No, please do more of that. Please do more of that because I want American. I want Americans to know what you really think about them.

I want them to know. Yeah. So look, the only thing I'm going to say for now, we got more clips, is that notice my decibel level, perfectly normal until I start getting interrupted, right? So that Israel first 101 is interrupt. And so when you see me raise my decibel level, it's only because someone's come in and tried to stop what I'm saying because they don't like what I'm saying at all. They thought they could contain it.

And one of the reasons they're most angry at me and Tucker Carlson and Anna is because they're like, you're supposed to shut up when we call you an anti-Semite. You're supposed to say everything that Israel wants you to say on television and all on media. Why are you guys disobeying? Well, we're disobeying on behalf of those 85% of Americans who don't want any piece of this war. Let's take a look at how General Clark responded to what Jenk was saying there. Every war they have pushed us into has cost us trillions. Hold on, General Clark. Hold on. They have cost us trillions of dollars. You know that. And they have cost us blood and treasure.

And it's Israel doing that, General Clark. Be a patriot. Be a patriot. Santa for America, not for Israel. I'm not going to go to another war for Israel. We're not going to spend trillion's war for Israel. We're not going to lose America's children for Israel. Change. And Israelis have bought 94% of Congress. The Israelis have bought Donald Trump. And this is a fact. And you guys keep obfuscating these facts.

Can we have some respect for the general, please? I think it doesn't deserve to be screamed down. No, he's interrupted me. He should have respect for the American people, 85% of whom do not want to go. General Clark, why are you pushing us into this war when 85% of Americans don't want it? And you and yourself know that the neocons have wanted this war for 20 years. are interests, what interest?

Yeah, and you know, at one point, Jank, in the discussion or debate, General Wesley Clark makes the argument that like, what, the neocons were in the Bush administration, and then the Bush administration was gone, Obama came in and the neocons were gone. No, no, this is what is meant by the deep state. We're talking about unelected federal operatives

that we don't even know about, right? We don't elect them, we don't hear about them, we don't know exactly what they do, They work for the intelligence community. They work for various government agencies. They work in the Pentagon. Those people don't change from one administration to another. And those unelected shadowy figures behind the scenes are the ones who make decisions

that we have no say on. So again, the idea of like, oh yeah, you know, Obama came in and everything changed. No, it didn't. No, it didn't. We have continuity from one administration to another when it comes to foreign policy. That's very obvious and clear. Anna, that's when I knew the general Clark was gone. And again, that's just like I was kind of devastated to see.

Because look, I remember Howard Dean and he was a brave fighter and progressive populist, etc back in 2004. Then he became a lobbyist, then he started going on Morning Joe and saying, oh, big farmer's right about everything and corruption is not that big a deal. And it was just humiliating to see. So when General Clark said, oh, you know, those were the aerocons that we left behind in the Bush administration and we've had different. But see, I know General Clark, he's really smart.

So it's not like he doesn't know the Israeli lobby is permanent. The Israeli lobby's been here the entire time. They've given money to 94% of Congress. And as I was saying, their number one donor to Trump and Biden, Mike Johnson, Keem, Jeffries, Chuck Schumer. It's not like General Clark doesn't know that for him to go, oh, golly, the neocons and the Israeli lobby, what are they? I don't know what they are.

Come on, General Clark, what are you doing? No paychecks worth that. All right, we have to take a break. When we come back, I wanted to talk a little bit about the big fight among those on the right about the possibility of going to war with Iran. You don't want to miss it. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT here. So one quick thing, guys, that is super important.

So we want to find out where our audience is in the political spectrum. So we're doing this tiny little thing at t.yt.com slash you. What you do is you kind of put yourself on a slide or a populist establishment left to right and then answer this question of which political figure do you think you feel you're closest to. And some of the answers there are super interesting. So we want to get a sense of who you guys are, who our audiences. So let us know, again, I don't think it'll take longer than 30 seconds. It's just three super simple questions.

TYT.com slash you on that one. All right, let's go to our members. By the way, ring the bell if you can. If you're watching this on YouTube, that makes a big difference for us. All right, Guam will capsize dragon says, I like the idea of giving Marjorie Taylor Green a Dem seat so she can yell at Trump like she did Biden. We'll get to this later, but I think the Dem's boycotting in and not showing up. I don't know what it accomplishes, but all right, it's okay. It's not that big a deal either way, but later in the program, more on that.

Nerd Ferguson says you could always tell how good a mood jenk is in by how many w's he puts into is, welcome to the young Turks. I think that that's really smart. As soon as I read that, I was like, huh, I think he might be right about that. And I never thought about it before. So way to go. AKA Delaware Dragon says, it's a bad time for an Iranian Lebanese or American soldier. Also a bad time to be living being in Iran, Lebanon, or anywhere around there. Yeah, there's no end to Israel's appetite for war.

So God help you if you live in the Middle East. Israel thinks that they're entitled to the entire place and that you have No place at all. You're disposable. The only citizens that matter are Israeli citizens. That is their belief. And they do it every time. They just, they show it every time.

It's endless war, endless murder, endless land acquisition. Art Guy says this potential war is a test of Trump's advisors and supporters screaming at him to not go in versus Israel's blackmail to force his hand. Oh no, no, no, Art Guy, they bought all of his advisors. The only people, and I saw this on right wing shows, that are, Maybe, maybe slightly, slightly anti-war or J.D. Vance and Tulsi-Gabber, but I don't believe that either. I think that's just marketing so that they can keep J.D. Vance's theoretically anti-war when he runs again, because they know how much the country hates war, and they're all in favor. But almost everyone in that White House has been bought by Israel.

Marco Rubio has gotten so much money, at least $6 million at a bare, bare minimum that we know of, right? All of them. Hegsith, has been a huge Israel guy for a long time in his book. He wrote about how the IDF should be in the streets of America. Lunatic, total lunatic. We have more on him later. Jacob Saylor says, if history has anything to tell us about the last 50 years of American iteration, if we go to war with Iran, that in 10 years Iran will still be there and a lot of Americans will be dead. Yeah, that's nearly guaranteed.

And Israel will think, good, we got regime change. Who cares about the dead Americans? Israel's priorities number one. And you think that's hyperbolic, but that is what happened in Iraq. And they loved it. And after 9-11, Netanyahu was super excited. Now America's going to have to kill all of our enemies. And they did.

We've wiped out almost everyone but Iran in the Middle East for Israel. So that's why they're the last ones left. Mongoo's dragon says this might be one of the most fascinating and a twisted, effed-up kind of way. State of the Union speeches ever. I agree. We'll be back. We're back on T. Jank and Anna.

Also, slammers. Thank you for joining through TYT. com slash join. That's the best way to join. We appreciate you, but we'll take it every way you guys can. Melissa Alvarado, thank you for joining through YouTube. You're awesome. CDN, Norse Dog Dad, as usual, gifted a membership. Melody loves music, as usual, gifted five. You guys are the best. Anna. All right, let's get to our next story. Half the people don't want to follow this ridiculous, ideological religious regime, and they're just basic saying, please come help us. Now, Trump, you've said that help is on the way.

So what are you doing, President? We're all worried about who's going to be the next person up. I'm not worried about that. Why not? Because what are the Iranian people are asking? Are they shouting, who's the next person? That will be figured out. We have to be smart in that, Adam, if you take out that head and another guy just like him comes in,

everything that those people have been fighting for. You don't think that if they thought about that? Well, Adam, give our military a little bit of credit. They're not like, what? We're going to get a new leader there? They thought of it. What they did in Venezuela? Well, comparing Iran to what Trump carried out in Venezuela,

it's maybe the worst comparison because of the fact that the whole goal with this war with Iran is regime change. And even in the case of Venezuela, there was no regime change. We just simply kidnap the Venezuelan leader. But the spat between Adam Sosnik and Vinio Shana on the PBD podcast, I think is a really good way of kind of underscern. scoring, a growing division among those on the right in regard to whether or not we go to war with Iran. And honestly, that division is shown in the polling, which we'll get to in just a minute. But first, Jenk, you're two cents.

Yeah, the reason I like this story is it shows you who on the right is totally in the tank for Israel and who are actually have a little bit of, hey, maybe we meant America first and maybe we actually meant anti-war. So two very different camps, interesting to see which host are in which one. And also I want you guys to pay attention to everyone pushing us into this war and telling us that it's going to be easy. It's no problem. We should definitely do it because we went through this in the Iraq war. You should never trust them again because they'll be back. And next time they're like, we've got to go into Turkey.

You have to and they'll do the same exact trick. So remember who lied to you right now. and we're about to show you that. So here's more from the, you know, debate between Asosnik and Oshana. The Diswillow was easy, small, and now, you're talking about Iran, and you're talking about people that want to kill all of us. So yeah, it's a whole different situation. So what's your solution? And my, my solution is, I don't know what their solution is because they obviously had a leader.

They obviously had a leader in mind. He obviously is not the guy. Trump even said about Resol-Palaville. He's not the guy. You're not the guy. What do you want to do with Ayatollah Khomeini? Let's stay there. Okay, ready for this? Adam, let's get him. Let's put him in jail forever. Who's taking his spot?

Like another six months. Adam, who's taking his spot? Since you know so much and we're sitting in the studio in beautiful Florida. Whoever it is, isn't going to be worse than this clown. Says who? How do you know? The people shouting death to Khomeini. How about those?

Okay. About those people? Adam, that it's so. Are you not, hold on, let me just be very clear. Are you not listening to the protesters of what they're asking for? Even if every single demonstrator in Iran was chanting against the, you know, the regime in Iran, it doesn't apply to the conversation we're having about U.S. involvement, what the U.S. should do. Why should the U.S. get involved? That's the question here.

But nonetheless, you know, Adam Sosnik is Israeli himself. And much like the Israeli government, he doesn't really seem to care much about the aftermath of carrying out a coup with no plan after the coup. Right, that's what O'Shaun is trying to get at here. And, you know, Vinnie realizes this could be a huge problem. The current regime could be replaced with something far worse. There's no plan. That's what he's trying to say. And Adam Sosnik is saying, who cares?

Because look, the whole point is do away with the regime, destabilize Iran, make it easier for Israel to carry out the Greater Israel Project. That's what this is. Go ahead, Jake. Yeah, so I want to break down what Adam Weeks-Sosnik is saying. So he says, number one, I atollah's a bad guy. I heard this in Iraq. Saddam's a bad guy.

And then we said, yeah, Saddam's a bad guy, but it doesn't mean we should lose 5,000 men there or get 50,000 injured, lose a couple of trillion dollars. And they're like, oh, that means you're pro Saddam. So here comes to Israel. It's the same exact trick. Oh, are you pro Ayatollah? Ayatollah is a bad guy. That's why we should do a super dumb war that costs you thousands of men and trillions of dollars. But hey, Israel get regime change and the entire Middle East will be defenseless to their expansion.

Okay, so that's what he's saying. So that's point one, which makes no sense at all, the same weak sauce that we heard in Iraq. Point two, the protesters, Adam's heart goes out to the protesters. Remember when the Palestinians were protesting Israel? He was like, kill them all. Deer al Hamas, kill all the Muslim protesters. Now Muslim protesters are, oh my God, I care so much about them. oh, heart to the Muslim protesters in Iran.

Oh, come on, who's stupid enough to think that Adam or any Israeli cares about Muslim protesters in Iran? And then their answer for that is, oh, let's drop a bomb on their head, and that way we'll liberate them from their lives. No, my favorite thing is, without providing a shred of evidence bolstering this argument that, like, 70,000 Iranians have been killed by the regime. They just keep making up that number. Total lie, right.

And you turn around and you ask them, do you accept that Israel has slaughtered over 70,000 people in Gaza? They'll deny it, even though at this point, at this point, the IDF has accepted that number publicly. It's amazing, it's amazing, it's totally amazing, these people are scumbags, go ahead. So real quick on that, so did people die in the protest? No question. Was Massan there agitating for violence?

No question, they said it on social media, we're in the streets with you guys, and we We found a plan that the Israelis wanted to start the violence so they could use it as excuse for the war. Then they made up a number, totally unverified by anyone. I wish we knew what the real number was, there is a real number, people were killed, and I'd love to know it, but we don't know it, they just made it up complete. So when you hear 30,000, it's nothing but a lie. So to Anna's point, we have 71,000 killed in Gaza at a bare bare minimum, and now the IDF

has actually confirmed at a minimum of 71,000. But Huckabee, just the other day with Tucker Carlson was like, Oh, I don't know, there's no numbers. It's Hamas, you can't trust the numbers. And then they're like, 30,000 killed in Iran. It's amazing. Oh, okay, so you're lying. 100% lying.

So, look, one thing we know for sure is that Adam Sosnik does not believe that democracy is even possible in Iran. So like this whole thing about like what comes next. A, he doesn't care. B, he doesn't think the Iranian people who he cares about so deeply are even capable of carrying out a democratic society. Take a look. If they take out Khomeini, if they take out Pesish, if they take out all the people in Iran, how quickly will you have an election to replace it? Election in Iran?

Yes. Can I ask you a question on that? Go forth. Election around seems like an oxymoron because let's look at case examples. Right. So what are the free democratically elected rulers or countries in the Middle East? I got one, Israel. any other Middle Eastern countries that practice democracy?

We've seen what happens when we try to implement our worldview over there. It gets real ugly. So you have three options. Correct me if I'm wrong. You have Supreme Leader vibes, which is this complete theological, theocratic Shiite regime, which they seem to be done with. You have king or ruler, which was the Shah, or you have democracy. In my opinion, you have to go the middle version.

They're done with the Shiite ruler, and there's zero case examples that democracy will work in the Middle East. We could wish for it, we could love it, yes, you're going to be just like America. I don't know if that's possible there. So maybe you need a temporary Shah, whether it's Rezapellevue, whatever it is. But there's no evidence in the last 50 years that a democracy can work in the Middle East. Now, it's not surprising to me at all that Sosnik is promoting Reza Pahlavi, who's a dog of the Israeli government, and I really do mean that with my whole chest. They want an easily manipulated, easily controlled, you know, Israeli puppet in Iran. And that's why he's like, no, they're not capable of a democracy.

And I also know Adam Sosnick is not really a well-read individual, right? It's not really something that interests him. But maybe I can educate him on the fact that Iran actually did elect someone democratically. But democracy is real difficult to carry out when the United States and its allies aren't in favor of the leaders that are chosen through a democratic process. And so why don't we turn to the next video? Can I just say one thing about that? So I just want to remind you guys why Israel doesn't want a democracy in Iran because the Iranian people are against Israel. So if the Iranian people get their wish, they would also probably do the similar things that the Ayatollah did in that specific regard, not in other regards, right?

So that's why Israel has tried really hard to keep dictators in place in different critical countries in the Middle East. So Jordan, UAE, Egypt, etc. And when there was an Arab Spring, Israel despised the Arab Spring and tried to bring generals like El Sisi and Egypt back into power. So that's why they want the puppet, Pahlavi. That's why Adam Weeksau-Sawsnick says, oh, these uncivilized people, I mean, my heart breaks for them, and I think we should kill them to liberate them, but they're not worthy of democracy. No, they need an Israeli puppet to be their leader, and that's why he keeps talking about Pahlavi. So in 1953, the U.S. and the U.K. helped overthrow a democratically elected leader in Iran

because he wanted to actually look out for the Iranian people as opposed to allow foreign governments to rape and pillage their land. So this is what I mean. In 1951, the parliament elects Mossadegh, prime minister with a large majority. He's a wealthy landowner and a monarchist, but introduces sweeping reforms, including more rights for workers, social security, and attacks on landowners. Morsadegh's priority, though, is getting the British out and nationalizing oil. Mossadegh, with the approval of Parliament, announces the nationalization of the company in April 1951. Meanwhile, the British still want to recover their stake in the oil industry and approach the Americans with a plan for a coup in Iran. In November and December

1952, CIA and MI6 agents hold secret talks. The US agrees to the plan despite the objections of some CIA officers, and Operation Ajax is born. The CIA, MI6, the Shah, once he'll be informed, and some anti-Mossadegh Iranians will work together to remove Mossadegh from power. And that's what they did. So the insulting claim that the Iranian people are incapable of democracy, when he probably knows the fact that we joined forces with other allies to overthrow a democratically elected leader is, it's just, it's Sosnik 101. It really is. To be fair to him, he really might not know it. He doesn't know much at all. He didn't know what the Persian Gulf was called. So look, there's a split in the, within the right. And Vinny has the right instincts,

and Tom sitting next to him kind of halfway agrees. But it's like, I'm going to keep it real. It looks like Patrick Bed David wants the war. Yeah, he does. And it looks like he wants whatever Israel tells them to want. And so yeah, I'm saying that, Pat, go ahead, show me wrong. All you do is Israel, Israel, oh, we should go to war for them, right? So he does, he does. Show me wrong, okay? So I watched the whole thing and the whole half hour discussion, 90% of it was Ra Ra War. And Vinny's saying like, are you guys sure? And Tom saying a little bit like, you know what you're doing? But even at the end of the day, because Pat wants it, they're like, oh, okay, okay, I guess we should knock out the Ayatollah, yeah, war's going to be great for us. I mean, come on, man, stand up for America.

Yeah, so when it comes to standing up to America or for America, this is what we're talking about. The vast majority of Americans do not want this war. They just don't. So there are so many polls cited at this point, but the latest one is from the University of Maryland. So I want to give you the results of that. It was released on February 15th. When asked, do you favor or oppose the United States initiating an attack on Iran under the current circumstances, is 21% of respondents favored the attack, just 21%.

By the way, there are polls that show an even lower percentage, but this one says 21% of them did favor it, 49% opposed it, and 30% said they did not know. Now support was highest among Republicans, but only at 40%, only 40% of Republicans favor going to war with Iran, that is a big deal. And guys, always look at the independence. That's the only thing that decides

elections pretty much and 21% of independents want this war. Basically eight out of 10 independents and according to other polling that I cited earlier in the show, ones I think Reuters at 70% and the one you gov at 85% against the war. So put them all together, it's about eight out of 10 Americans are against this war. So and the 20% are either Israel First or boomers who

watch TV and get brainwashed by CNN in New York Times that never talks about the downsides, you know, And it's pretending that this war is going to be easy. No, it's going to be a disaster. And it's going to be Adam Sostnick's fault. It's going to be Mark Levins' fault, Ben Shapiro's fault, Trump's fault, everyone in the administration that signed up, co-signed onto this war. And Anna, give them more names to blame, because I want the American people to know who

did this to them, okay? Because all the right-wingers who are on the side of attacking are basically bowing their heads to Israel. So go ahead. Actually, we gotta take a break, Jenks. Sorry. Okay, can we just read the list? Do we not have a list?

Wait, the list of what? Sorry, yeah. The right wingers who are on the one side and the other side? I don't have that list, no. Okay, all right, well. Sorry, we gotta take a break. I'm sorry, there's some breaking news I gotta look into. We'll be right back.

Let's go to YouTube members. Jeff Lawson writes in, for the longest time, it felt extremely lonely being an ever Trump or conservative. Sadly, it's come to this for my friends and family to wake up. Both the reps and the Dems are Zionists. Yeah, they're being paid. It's not complicated. The only reason why everybody in the country doesn't know that our Congress people are totally, completely corrupt and completely work for the donors,

is because our media lies to you 24 seven. Constant, oh, they're having to pay. So what's going to be the outcome? We don't know. We know, we know what it is. We're gonna tell you later on the program. How about the defense contractors are sitting expecting to rob us of another 500 billion per year? I know who's in charge.

It's the effing donors. It's not complicated at all. There is no democracy in that sense. All there is is a bunch of whores in Congress with a for sale sign going, I'll sell out the American people for money. Money, give me money. I'm a whore. That's what these politicians are. 95% of the politicians in Congress are strictly prostitutes for donors.

Okay, Ronald Fances, happy talk with Tuesday, TYT family. I love that transition. And to you, Jenkin, Anna, thanks for giving me the coverage of the State of the Union address when predicting that Trump will be abnormal and unhinged and crying. Yeah, Trump's even more unstable than usual, so God knows what's going to happen to the state of you. Me, Anna and John are going to cover it. And then I'm going to give my State of the Union for members later. Mark Francis says, I still have sympathy for all lost lives in the wars, but I'm not blind to understand who the aggressors are.

I think that's referring to my point about the Israelis. Look, I want, look, I hate any lives lost. I don't want a single Israeli to die in this war. And there's a great way to prevent that and protect the Israeli citizens. Don't start the war. So all I'm saying is, if the war starts, it looks like Iran might be able to reach Israel and get through Iron Dome. Maybe, okay? And if it does, I guarantee you that the Israel first crowd here will cry like banshees.

They're like, ah, we've got more war. They precious Israeli lives have been lost. You America's lost, they'll say. And they'll say it all over TV, all over TV. America owes us, precious Israeli lives. Iran is monsters, terrorists. But then don't start the war. Don't start the war.

Israel is 100% starting the war. So then later when they cry, I'm going to have a lot less sympathy, okay? It's a great way to not lose people, is to not start a war. After you ignore what we're saying, you start it with great glee when you get hurt, and you expect me to cry for you and send more Americans to die for you? No, no, you go deal with it. LHC pieces and Super Chat, they do have boots on the ground. the KR, the Kurds and M-E-K, that's a terrorist group.

We've been training them for years. They will send them in front of the West and take the oil. It won't be that easy, brother. I see what you're saying, and I know that they're going to use those guys, but it won't be easy. Anti-evil, thank you for the donation. Liberty and Guns We Trust. Saw the Peers episode with Dave, Dave Smith.

Outstanding Exchange, Jenk, as a libertarian, our alliance with progressives on anti-war is ironclad. Thanks for speaking up for America. We don't want this war. Thank you, brother. Back on TYT, Jankan, Anna, with you guys. Ruzak Abdul Nur, thank you for joining. We appreciate your brother, Anna.

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tyt.com slash switch. tyt.com slash switch. It's super easy. All right, Anna. All right, let's get to our next story. Whenever you just casually throw around terms like Nazi, like fascists, like Hitler and racist, what do you think the consequences of that ultimately will be? We are better than this as a country.

And I'll tell you as a family member, I keep wondering how many chances does one man get? He's not going to be lucky enough at some point. Thank God, he wasn't at Mar-a-Lago. And the first lady wasn't there this weekend, but you don't get lucky every single time. Now it would be a great time to remind the American people that members of the Trump administration, including agents with DHS, have referred to literal American citizens as domestic terrorists in justifying the fact that militarized federal agents shot and killed them on our own streets. But anyway, that's not what the story is about.

The story is about something that's actually pretty terrible, and that's political violence that continues in this country. earlier this week, in fact, over the weekend, I should say, an armed man was shot and killed by Secret Service after he entered the secured perimeter of Mar-a-Lago. And while Republicans like Laura Trump want to roll out the same talking points about like, you're calling us Nazis and that's why this is happening. Fact of the matter is the motivation behind this would be assassin had to do with the Epstein files. We have some clarity on that. We'll get to it in just a minute, but Jenk, you're two cents. Yeah, violence is super dumb. The worst thing you could do, and it hurts any movement that it's a part of,

Anna. So according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw, the would-beassassant, they believe that he was attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, was identified as a 21-year-old named Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina. So Trump was not at Mar-Lago when this incident occurred. Now, Martin was confronted inside the north gate of the Mar-a-Lago complex and was carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel canister. Bradshaw said during a news conference on Sunday that the man was told by law enforcement to drop the items.

Unfortunately, that's not what he did. The man put down the canister, but raised the shotgun to a shooting position, prompting the dispatched officers to open fire and kill him, according to the sheriff. Now, the family members of the suspect described him as being, it's always the same thing, quiet, he was actually afraid of guns, but that he did grow up in a Trump-supporting household. According to the Associated Press, Braden Field, who happens to be Martin's cousin, says he wouldn't even hurt an aunt. He doesn't even know how to use a gun. He also said that his cousin didn't discuss politics.

Quote, we are big Trump supporters, all of us, everybody, Field said, but his cousin was real quiet, never really talked about anything. But you know what, that might not be fully true because according to reports, Martin worked as a groundskeeper at a local golf club. for the past three years, and TMZ spoke to those who happened to work alongside him. And they say that he was actually pretty outspoken about his Christian faith and political views, regularly supporting Trump through his comments. But more importantly, telling colleagues as recently as late last year that Trump was a strong leader, but that started to change, okay? Sources who worked with Austin at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in North Carolina tell TMZ

he became fixated on Epstein following the latest release of information tied to the files. Co-workers tell us he was deeply disturbed by what he believed was a government cover-up and often talked about powerful people getting away with it. Something that we hear at TYT have been incredibly frustrated about as well. There have been many revelations from what the DOJ released, as heavily redacted as they are, and we want investigations, possible prosecutions, and it seems like the DOJ is dead set. on not doing anything about any of the revelations we're learning about. But in a text message sent to a coworker on February 15th, Martin wrote the following.

Quote, I don't know if you read up on the Epstein files, but evil is real and unmistakable. The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have. Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it, raise awareness. He was also beginning to grow increasingly frustrated, especially regarding our current economic situation. We're told he often complained that young people need two jobs or roommates to afford moving out. Our sources say he still lived with his parents. Austin also tried to start a union at work to push for higher wages, but no one signed on. Outside of his job, he was

a sketch artist attempting to sell drawings to people locally. Yeah. So, there's, This is indicative of a couple of things, as we've been telling you from day one. Trump's base is gonna turn on him and they have begun to turn on him. And this is taking it way, way, way too far. But it's a small indication of what's happening in the country. But more importantly, it's also an indication of the desperation. So I'm gonna repeat, and we've said this probably more than any show, all other shows combined.

Violence is never the right answer, it's immoral. We here are part of a nonviolent movement and we're for peace. We're for peace in the Middle East and here at home. Okay. So what but more importantly or equally importantly, when you do violence, it shuts down a movement. It gives the government an ability to clamp down, do more of a police state and surveillance state. And so do not ever, ever do violence.

It is deeply counterproductive and deeply immoral. Okay. Now the final part of it, it gets to the desperation. Guys, there's a head on collision coming. And I don't know what's going to happen in that collision. You know, I love predictions and this is the one I can't make because it's so unpredictable. So what do I mean by a head-on collision? This is like the tip of the iceberg.

So we have a whole bunch of super angry young guys. Their wages are super low. Now some of them can't get jobs soon because of the AI catastrophe. A lot of them won't be able to get jobs. And they can't afford houses. The American Dream is going away. The prices are too high. The government doesn't ever, ever seem to help them.

Whenever they turn, the government's doing something evil, starting a war, getting people killed, doing the Epstein files, and it seems like no matter who you elect Republican or Democrat, you get the same unit party. So that desperation is building and building and building. And by the way, a component of that, not related to this story, is the entire establishment is saying God loves Israel and Israel is the most beloved country on earth and you all need to to bow down to them and do whatever they say. And now both the right, left and middle have caught on to the fact that that is not at all true.

And our government is lying to us and our national media is lying to us. So, and the establishment is not giving an inch. They're like, no. I mean, this war with Iran that's about to start is the most mental extreme thing I have ever seen. They're not even bothering to justify it. They're not even bothering to claim any American interests at all, totally mask up. saying we work for Israel and we're gonna force you to pay for this war and do this war for them. That is, and then on the Epstein files, we're not gonna give you the Epstein files.

And whatever we give you, we're gonna retract some, redact some, et cetera, and we're never going to prosecute the predators. Our government is on the side of the child rapists. So what do they think is going to happen with the people? They're gonna get more and more frustrated. So that train is picking up steam. I think what they're gonna try to do, because I'm already seeing this, you know, being tested online is they are blaming what happened to all the people who have been covering the Epstein files and applying pressure to the Trump administration to release them, to release the remaining files, which they are refusing to do, and to investigate what very clearly looks like abusive behavior, fishy behavior, look into it,

show that the government actually has an interest in protecting the American people and carrying out justice for survivors. But they're not doing that. Instead, what they're going to do is point to this instance and say, if you are applying pressure in regard to the Epstein files, you're gonna get the president killed. You're a domestic terrorist. You're a domestic terrorist, right? Guys, look, first of all, that's right. Another reason why violence is never the right answer. It's so wrong and so counterproductive. Okay, but as you were talking, something dawned on me, which I'm now for the first time pretty worried about. It's one thing when the war hasn't started. But once the war starts, they've already started

to talk about domestic terrorists. Yep. Christi Nome, et cetera, in regards to the ICE protest. And then DeSantis in Florida and Abbott in Texas saying that we could just get secret panels to declare you domestic terrorists, which they've already done the Muslim civil rights groups that have totally clean. Couldn't be cleaner, right? And so, so I think that once the war starts, already it was deeply unpopular. When the Iraq war started, seven out of ten Americans thought that Saddam Hussein had attacked us on 9-11. The media lied to them in mass. So it was actually popular in the beginning. Seven out of ten said, yes, go to war because we thought we were getting revenge. In this case, it's the exact opposite.

Seven or eight out of ten Americans, depending on the poll, say that they're against the war. So when the war goes south, there will be a lot more upheaval. And when that happens, since they're already deeply unpopular, my guess is the Trump administration is going to start to arrest critics. And not like in the cutesy Don Lemon way, where you get some publicity out of it and they let you go and both sides get a win. Because here, here's red meat for both sides, hate each other, right? No, as in no, we're gonna start rounding people up, right?

You're opposing this war, that's it. We're using that as an excuse. on the Ayatollah side. So that's gonna, so God knows what happens to us and Dave Smith and Tucker Carlson and and anyone who's opposed to this war. Nonetheless, we persist. So we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we'll talk a little bit about the latest with the Epstein Files and

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Me, Anna, and John are going to cover State of the Union live. So make sure you're checking it out here. And then afterwards, I will give my state of the union. All right. Ann. Well, Congressman Thomas Massey continues to be very sassy on the House floor on a topic that's actually really important to the American people. So without further ado, let's get into it. But we don't see any charges, arrests or investigations in the United States.

What do we see? We see our FBI director celebrating in the locker room at the Olympics overseas. It's fine to be proud of this country. But we should be proud of this country because we have a system of justice that works. Who are the men that should be investigated? I'll name them right here. Congressman Thomas Massey engaged in a fiery rebuke of the Justice Department over their failure to investigate, you know, some of the revelations we've learned over the release

in the Epstein files. Now, he's about to reveal the three men that he would like the DOJ to investigate. But before we get to that, Jank, your two cents. Yeah, classic Thomas Massey, with a great speech there, finally naming names. Two of them you might be familiar. One, you might not, but what is this going to lead to? What is the next step from this? We'll find out after I want to give us to the facts in the speech. Well, Massey calls him out in this next clip. Take a look. Who are the men that should be investigated? I'll name them right here. Leon Black. You don't even have to see past the redactions to see that this man needs to be investigated. Jess Staley, accused of terrible things. It's right there in the files.

Why is he not being investigated? And Leslie Wexner, why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own documents in a child sex trafficking case and then tell him, according to him that they had no questions for him? Now look, one of the journalists that's done incredible investigative reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, in fact, she published a book about Jeffrey Epstein. Her name is Whitney Webb. She has just done her very first interview since the release of the Epstein Files, and she was interviewed by a show called Redacted, and she talks about why she believes Les Wexner will never be prosecuted. She talks about his wealth, his connections. So please check in on that, because I highly recommend that interview. But before we get to what we know about the individuals named by Massey, Jank, any initial thoughts? Yeah, so he's not asking for them to be arrested. He's asking for the bare minimum. Why didn't we investigate them if the FBI thinks that Wexner is a co-conspirator?

What would it take to investigate someone? I mean, he co-conspirated in the largest pedophile ring that we know of in American history with the most powerful men. Why wouldn't that merit an investigation? Right. Leon Black, we covered earlier on the program. Some of the emails indicate the most vicious rapes of underage girls. you'll ever see.

And that didn't merit an investigation. Let's actually get to the details, Jane, because I think it's important for you guys to know. Look, several weeks ago, Congressman Rokana named some of the co-conspirator names, or at least individuals that investigators believed were co-conspirators. And there's no evidence, like with some of them, you know nothing about them. And there's no evidence that they've done anything wrong. But in this case, the three individuals that were laid out by Massey certainly do have some serious allegation.

against them. So let's start with Leon Black, who's the former CEO of Apollo Group Management. So he met Epstein back in 1994, and then in the 2010s, Black hired Epstein as a financial advisor. The CEO of Apollo Global Management hires Epstein as a financial advisor. Right, right. So Black retired from his investment firm Apollo in July of 2021, after a review found he paid Epstein. $158 million for financial advice between 2012 and 2017 after the pedophiles criminal conviction, which, you know, took place in 2008. Now, that advice spanned allegedly all sorts of topics, including taxes, art investments, and payments to Black's former mistress. There appears to have been a far more sinister dimension, though, to Black's relationship with Epstein. So, for instance,

Black has been repeatedly accused of rape and assault, and Epstein is connected to those alleged cases of abuse. So Epstein arranged for Black to meet Sherry Pearson, whom Epstein had paid for massages, according to a lawsuit Pearson filed years later and eventually withdrew. She met Black at Epstein's townhouse, where Black allegedly raped her in the massage room. This lawsuit said Black denied the claim and said he had never met Pearson. But Pearson wasn't the only person who made allegations against him. By the way, lawyers working for the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General interviewed at least two women who claimed that they had been sexually abused by Black after Epstein introduced

them. There was the horrific diary that we covered on this show in detail. It was written by a 16-year-old who is autistic and has a form of Down syndrome. And she details the Leon Black rape in her diary. over it entirely. So anyway, go ahead, Jake. Yeah, and he bitter genitals. It's disgusting. So you don't have to believe it. You have to investigate it, right? And there's credible and not credible sources. The non-credible sources, Randall writes in or calls the FBI and says a story. That's not that interesting and not that credible. Could be true, but less likely.

Then there are more credible sources like people we know who were victims and survivors. And that was their account at the time. Okay, so that makes it two layers of credibility to that. Now again, it doesn't mean for sure that it's true. That's why we have trials. And that's where we present evidence and we do investigations. But what's curious in this case is no, the government says even though there is overwhelming evidence here, we won't even do an investigation.

And to give you a sense of the finances guys, like top level finance guys can take two and What that means is 2% of your overall wealth that they are investing for you if they're handling your money and 20% of the profits that they get you that year. So that's already a giant number. But no way does it get to $158 million in a lump sum. Here you go for some general advice. For a guy- Not a thing in finance, not a thing. So if you know anything about finance, you'd be like, ding, ding, ding, that's what I'm

investigating. Yeah, remember, Leon Black was the CEO of Apollo, right? What is Apollo again? Apollo is one of the largest funds there is in the whole world. Leon Black is an enormously savvy investor. He doesn't need Epstein or anyone else's advice. Those are some of the best investors in the world. It's amazing. There's more. So we also know that Black had been paying millions of to eight women, three of whom were connected to Epstein? Why? What was he paying them off for? So, you know, there was the lawsuit that was dropped. Why was the lawsuit dropped? Was it because the claims were made up? Or is it because, you know, there was a financial agreement behind the scenes? We don't know because the DOJ is not interested in investigating this.

Now, when it comes to Jess Staley, back in 1999, Jess Staley was the chief executive for J.P. Morgan's private bank. He was also part of a team that managed money and investments for Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he quickly developed a fairly close personal relationship with. Now, Epstein was one of J.P. Morgan's biggest clients. Some officials at the organization were a little suspicious of Epstein to say the least, and those suspicions only ended up growing throughout the years. But thanks to Jess Staley, as well as others at the bank, J.P. Morgan kept doing business with Epstein. So for example, in 2006, Epstein was arrested and indicted for soliciting prostitution with a teenage girl. Staley insists that he discussed the situation with J.P. Morgan chases current CEO Jamie Diamond,

though Diamond has completely denied that. J.P. Morgan decided to keep loaning money to Epstein, with the caveat of not proactively soliciting new investment business from him. By 2008, Epstein was facing lawsuits from numerous victims. And in June, he pleaded guilty, or June of, you know, that year, he pleaded guilty soliciting sex with, with an underage person. Now, even the rank and file staff at J.P. Morgan's private bank division wanted Epstein gone. But even at that point, just Staley's like, no, he made sure that Epstein remained a client. Why? At one point, Epstein appears to have helped Staley arrange a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In March of 2011, for instance, one J.P. Morgan employee wrote to Staley and another high level executive, against all odds, we have been granted a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Staley forwarded the message to Epstein and wrote, thanks to which the convicted sex offender replied, surprise, surprise. I mean, there's more connecting Staley to Epstein that we can get into, but any thoughts on that, yeah. So he says against all, odds we wound up having a meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel that Epstein arranged. It seems like Epstein can get a meeting arranged for anyone in the Israeli government. Gee, I wonder why, he probably works for the Russians. And so I was rereading one of the

drop site news articles. At one point Epstein arranges a meeting between the French president at the time Nicholas Sarkozy, the head of the Rothschild Bank, the former Prime Minister of Israel and himself. This guy could arrange a meeting with almost anyone in the world. We got a meeting with Putin and Ahud Barak once. He's arranging all sorts of international political deals. Yet our government says no connection to intelligence. No, he's just a random citizen. Random citizens are always arranging dinners with the president of France

and the prime minister of Israel. And every time it's for the benefit of Israel, but it's just super random. And our CIA can't tell, and we're not allowed to ask if he's Muslim. Okay, I actually want to skip ahead a little bit to Les Wexner. Les Wexner, by the way, just recently testified. I love it because he testified in a deposition that was pushed for by the House Oversight Committee, I believe, and he didn't even travel to the individuals questioning him. They had to travel to Les Wexner.

So it kind of gives you a sense of who has the power in this whole situation. But anyway, Wexner is a billionaire who ran businesses like Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works and Abercombe and Fitch. I remember when Abercombeian Fitch was embroiled in a sex trafficking case. Weird how that kind of stuff kept happening. Anyway, Epstein served as Wexner's financial manager for 20 years. Wexner handed over power of attorney to Jeffrey Epstein, which is not something that happens, okay, in usual situations. And we still don't know exactly why Wexner gave Epstein so much control over his life and finances. In a recent deposition, Wexner claimed that he was conned by Epstein.

We don't need to watch it. I don't need to hear this grotesque man's lies. But through the release of the Epstein files, we learned that Wexner continued having a relationship with Epstein for far longer than he admitted to in previous testimony. Yeah, nobody hands over their entire fortune. What they do do is they have what they call family offices. And do they have people working for them that help invest their money? Absolutely. Do they give them the power to do whatever they want with the money?

Almost never, unless they have Alzheimer's or they've lost their faculties for some reason. Here, Wexner, here we go again. Oh, here's a billion dollars, Jeffrey. I've seen, do whatever you like with it. Our government looks at and goes, oh, that's normal. But wait a minute, the FBI actually didn't say it was. The FBI actually didn't say it was normal. He said they said he was a co-conspirator.

And somehow, no investigation, no. Guys, look, to me, it's super obvious. And what's heartbreaking about it is that apparently there isn't one patriot inside the US government who's willing to blow the whistle on these guys. Because somebody must have seen the tapes, even if they destroyed the tapes, somebody must have seen him. They were in all the rooms in all the houses, right? Can I just go to the very last graphic here? I need everyone to understand that this issue runs much deeper and as horrific as a child pedophile ring is, that alone is horrific enough.

This issue goes even deeper than that, okay? Because get a load of this, Les Wexner's relationship with Epstein, and Epstein's involvement in geopolitics is worth talking about here. Because according to a report published by Dropsite News, Jeffrey Epstein helped Leslie Wexner repurposed the CIA's Iran-Contra planes from arms smuggling to ship to shipping lingerie. So this is the one I'm obsessed with Anna. I keep talking about this all the time.

Accidental tourists don't wind up in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. Our CIA has known about Jeffrey Epstein since the 1980s because he laundered the planes for them. So there's no question, zero, zero, zero. question, the American government knew about Epstein for decades. And not only didn't do anything, but protected him and the other predators he was working with. So God bless Tom Massey and Rokana for exposing these guys. And I know no one in our government and no one in our national media is on the

side of the American people. And so it feels like it's hopeless. But look guys, Kana and Massey got at least some of the files released. And we found out so many things, all the things we just told you about came from the files. So they did incredible work to do that. And so now of course, Israel panicked. Netanyahu came over, talked to Trump again. Right after he talked to Trump, Trump Bondi came out and said, no more files. No, you have the files that we said we're gonna give you, they don't exist anymore, right? So yeah, they're gonna try to cover it up, but we gotta keep pushing and pushing and pushing. And if we're united, the American people are stronger than even the powerful that are running

this country and clearly don't care about us at all. I mean, look, they've got money, but we have people, so keep that in mind. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk a little bit about the state of the union before Trump addresses the state of the union. They knew and they let it happen. All right, let's have some fun, let's go to Super Chats. Little Max Corner says, of course, can't do it all the time,

but always do what I can. Even in the super rare occasion, I got nothing to say. And let's be clear, really a super rare occasion, L.O.L. So Little Max Corner gave 50 bucks last night and I wanted to thank you for that. That's wonderful. It's 20 today. Those things guys, you think like big show, what difference does that make? No, no, no, it makes a huge difference. So without you guys, we, you know, honestly, we wouldn't be sustainable. And some of the folks in the investment worlds that we've just covered are aware of that. So keep it going, we need it, and we appreciate it. CDN North Dogdad says this, 670s hippies, I assume he meant the 60s and 70s.

Hippies put it best with simple words, make love, not war. Remember, Freya teaches that love is the most powerful word in the universe. Yeah, I want to give a shout out to all those hippies from back in the day. You guys were right all along, all along. So I've got more on that in a different comment in a second, but I love the original anti-war guys. Gargoyle-Dran says, I know we're against doing anything bad, but I'm gonna watch a documentary about the reign of terror. I need to see the appearance of justice right now.

Look, vented in positive ways and take positive action. Go for a run. If you're angry guys, but you didn't use that anger to go and vote against all the incumbents in the primaries, what did you do? That's your best shot at change. Let's go wipe out 10 to 20% of Congress. Let's show these guys who are the boss, right? And I know it's super hard because you need almost all the shows to say it in unison for it to get large enough, right?

But you know what, go ask the other shows, the left wing shows, right wing shows independent shows. Are you for voting out all the incumbents? Okay, unless your incumbent's name is Connor or Massey or you're positive, your incumbents are good guy. Vote them out, vote them out, vote them out. They're the bad guys, they're the ones who are corrupt. All right, Chubble 678 says on Twitch, I'm a boomer and I don't listen to media news, I watch this. I have friends in their into their 90s who think like I do and as you do. No, I know that. So unfortunately, 55 to like 75 or so is television and it gets higher than that as well.

But that's just generalization. There are tons of folks who are older who are part of that anti-war generation and you guys have been the best of us and you've been right all along. So I love that. And I was just shouting out Ben Cohen from Ben and Jerry's. Go find it on please. It's not that far down on my ex account. Go help Ben and Jerry's get their company back because Magnum is a corporation that's oppressing them. And why? Because Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are saying Israel's gone too far. We need to help the Palestinians. We need to stop funding the Israelis and Magnum Corporation, which bought them? Or he's like, no, how dare you try to be good guys? You're not a lot to speak against Israel. Okay, so those guys are the original, like, anti-war guys up in Vermont,

Bernie Sanders, and all of you. I love it. Scruff Mehta says, Jenk of the Union, that's that's coming tonight. After Trump's State of the Union, I'll do a State of the Union, it'll be much shorter, don't worry. No grass says, Israel's been Italian in Beirut for a long while now. They bombed another refugee camp there like two days ago. Now they're going to pretend like this is a new thing happening in Lebanon. Totally, Israel's bombing the crap out of Lebanon. They don't believe in ceasefires. They're giant liars. They're always for war, never for peace. We'll be back. Back on TYAT, the online news network. Jen and Anna with you guys. Also the great Mandini. Thank you for giving five memberships on YouTube. Awesome, Casper.

All right, let's talk about the state of our union and more importantly, the state of Trump's popularity. Negative 27 points. My goodness gracious, the snow is up to the knees here in New York City, and Trump seems to be well underneath it at this point. Compare that to where he was in 2020, 2020, 2019 and 2018, and term one going into those state unions. Minus 10, way lower now.

Minus 15, way lower now. Minus 15, way lower now. The bottom line is this. Donald Trump has never been weaker going into a state of the union address of core to CNN polling than he is right now. Well, that sounds like a big bummer for Trump as he is set to give the state of the union address tonight. Is this going to be the first state of the union he gives in the second term, Jank? Well, he had one where that was technically not a state of the union.

Right, that weird, rambly speech about how great the economy is. Yeah, yeah. I remember that. That's right. Anyway, so when CNN's Harry Enten looked at Trump's polling, there was one statistic in particular that seemed to stun him. So if you didn't catch it, this is what I'm talking about. What is driving this drop? I said record was the name of the game when it came to this segment, right?

Talking about the lowest Trump has ever been going into the state of the union, the lowest that any president has been this century going into a state of the union at this point in their presidency. It is also the weakest that Donald Trump has ever been with independence. Look at this drop. We've been talking about it the past few months. At this point, a year ago, Donald Trump was at minus 13 points. Look at this. Minus 47 points among independents, the lowest Donald Trump has ever been in either of

his two terms as president with independence. Independence are incredibly important. They are the ones who tend to decide elections, especially in swing states, as we all know. And maybe knowing how unpopular he is with independence is the reason why Trump basically previewed his speech tonight by warning us all that it's going to be very long, which I'm really looking forward to. What about you? Oh, independents love long, boring, rambling speeches. Yeah, totally.

So guys, this is kind of what we thought might happen here at TYT. We thought that he would lose a lot of his independent voters, and it looks like he's lost almost all of them. And so when I started to panic about Biden, about a year and a half before the election, was when he started getting into the 30s and then the 20s with independence. And I was like, this brother's toast. It doesn't matter what you think of him. And if he's FDR 2.0 or not, he's not gonna win, period, right?

So now Trump is even worse situation than Biden was. So at the time, Democrats ignored it at their peril. Now Republicans are partly ignoring it at their peril. And I say partly because some Republicans are starting to slide away from Trump a little bit. And so those are the politicians. And then in the media, they're a little bit more split earlier in the show we talked about, even on the war, Benny Johnson, Tim Poole, Vinny Oshana, and others are on the side of, I'm not sure about this war, right?

And obviously Dave Smith, Tucker Carlson, totally against it. Andrew Schultz totally against it. He's gonna announce the war tonight. I think that's what's gonna happen. So Senator Chuck Schumer just came out of a closed door briefing on war with Iran, and he says, This is serious. Trump needs to explain, you know, make his case to the American people. By the way, I mean, that's, I'm super frustrated with the Democrats, as usual, because. No, why? Why are you frustrated with the Democrats? They're doing such a great job pushing back on war with Iran, right?

Yeah, that's my point. They should be all over television right now and all over the online media shows. I mean, do you see them on any of the shows other than Rokana? They should be on Sean Ryan's show, Tim Dillon's show, et cetera. And they should be out there having a real human conversation and talking about why this war, is going to be a disaster, they should be on ABC, CNN. They're nowhere to be found. It's amazing. Where are you guys? Whenever we need them to stand out, I mean, it doesn't get worse than a disastrous war with Iran.

Here's a great. And they're totally absent. Here's a great example of what I would like to see happen, okay? Because I forgot you're not allowed to ever say anything constructively critical about Democrats, especially AOC when she steps in it on the international stages. makes an attempt to discuss foreign policy. Rather than going to Munich and stepping in it, which the people providing cover for her are like, no, she went over there and she was sharing her working class message. How about you stay here and tie the working class message to this

disastrous impending war with Iran? Because if you are worried about the working class, you would take a look at how much debt we're in, number one, how much more debt we're going to be in, number two, and how the working class of this country is going to have to have. to deal with that debt number three. She should be, she put out a tweet yesterday, a tweet. No more with Iran, wow, congratulations, great leadership, great leadership. I know she's supposed to excite me, but she doesn't because she doesn't even do the bare minimum. So anyway, whatever.

So I just have one other quick thing. So guys, if you're thinking like, but yeah, but they put out a tweet like the other day at Chris- I don't give a damn about your tweets. Tweeting is not governing. Tweeting is not leading. Tweeting means nothing. It's the laziest form of getting a message out.

So what I was gonna say is, I criticize Greg Gassar, I don't know what happened to him. He's the head of the Progressive Caucus, sound like a good guy, and then disappeared, right? And then somebody sent me a tweet, okay, fine, he tweeted, okay? But guys, so you know that it's not BS and an unfair criticism, why don't they do the bare minimum, which is what we do? Go on shows like Pears Morgan and say, forcefully no, on behalf of Democrats, we do not this war, 94% of Democrats don't want this war. We want everybody to know and be on the record that the Republicans sent us into this war and then Democrats were completely opposed to it.

So when the war is deeply unpopular, which is nearly guaranteed, because it's already deeply unpopular and hasn't even started, then you would get the credit for it. Even as a matter of political strategy, even if you didn't mean it, that's the bare minimum we can ask of our representatives, but they're, but they are, you can't find them on Pierce Morgan, you can't I can't find him on any show. And I mentioned peers because it's not like peers wouldn't have them on. But Jane, it's not even, it's not okay, look, it's not even about that, right? You don't want to go on Pierce's mortgage show, who cares?

Just look at the Rokana Thomas Massey model. The reason why we got a release of the Epstein files is because they work together and they applied pressure. What if I, like, have you seen anything? I've seen anything. I've seen nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Are you gonna do anything?

And guys, look, forget strategy in your. your stupid consultants. And if you're a progressive in Congress and you're listening to the world's dumbest consultants who previously worked for corporate Democrats, you're, okay, I was gonna get really harsh, but you're not doing it right, to say the least, okay? So put all of that aside, do you have any real feelings? Do you have any emotions? Do you care about policy?

Do you care about war? Why did you go to Congress? Because I can't contain myself. And you guys see it on all the shows. You see it on this show, you see it on the other shows. I get worked up because I don't want to go to war for Israel. Get a load of this. Turkey to consider invading Iranian territory in the event of a power vacuum to stop refugees from crossing into Turkey.

This is a mess. It's a mess. It's a mess. It's insanity. And we can't get it, other than Rokana, we can't get a single Democrat out there screaming from the rooftops. We're against this. America is against this war. You know, and okay guys, you want me to solve the mystery as to why the Democrats are sitting in

their, sitting on their hands and not say anything? Because 95% of the Democratic Party takes money from the Israeli lobby. And defense contractors. And defense contractors and on and on. So that's why they're not out here to help you because they're not on your side. They're betraying you as we speak. So that doesn't apply to AOC and the progressives who are, don't take corporate pack money. and don't take foreign government money, largely speaking.

The Schumers of the world, the Hakeem Jeffries, they're ecstatic to be completely silent now because their beloved Israel is about to get the war that they want, and then Hakeem and and Chuck are going to go later. Oh, we were secretly against it. I mean, we didn't say anything at the time, but we were super double secretly against it. My ass you were. And AOC not taking the money is important, right? But you can't discount the ambition she has for higher office and the fact that she has chosen.

She's made the calculation. I think it's pretty obvious that she would rather go along to get along to make that path to whatever office she's going to seek in the future a little smoother. But anyway, the final thing that I'll say, Jay, because we've got to move on. I want to get back to, you know, the American people and how they feel about this administration. Reuters just came out with a poll, Reuters Ipsos poll. And some of these results are really damning for Trump specifically. So 61% of respondents said that they would describe Trump as having become erratic with age.

Some 89% of Democrats, 30% of Republicans, and 64% of independence described him this way as well. Only 45% of the respondents to this poll said they would describe Trump as mentally sharp and able to deal with challenges. And that's down from 54% in the Reuters Ipsos poll conducted in September of 2023. So here's my last thing. So we're going to cover the State of the Union live, me, Anna and John Idera from Damage Report. And then I'm going to give a State of the Union myself. So check it out here right here on the Young Turks YouTube channel. But what I wanted to point out there is that 61% of the country says that he's now become more erratic with age.

That means they're worried that he's slipping into dementia like Joe Biden was. Right, including 30% of Republicans. That's a giant number. We're past the independence, we're eating into his base. So he's in, he's so hurt and he's gonna come out and ramble and be a clown tonight, as he always is. And the Democrats are nowhere to be found to pick up the ball. That's minus 47 with independents. Go pick them up, make them your voters, but you have to actually be honest and genuine and passionate and authentic.

And go get them. And the way you do that is not by tricking them, but by representing them. What are they against? They're against this war. What do they want? They want the Epstein files released. These are things that all Democrats agree on. Why not aggressively go get those voters and say, we'll represent you?

It's amazing how much the Israeli lobby has neutered the Democratic Party. They seem very happy to be neutered, though. Let's take a break when we come back. We'll talk a little bit about the latest in the hiring decisions over at CBS. It turns out that one person that Barry Weiss stood up for has decided to leave. Who is it and why? We'll be right back. All right, let's go to our members.

Don Donna Draggen says, I'm excited to watch Johnny Pie live react to the lies told tonight. I like that you're excited about that. Me too, brother. Mariana Van Buren said, I've been a Republican, a Democrat, and an independent. After hearing on TYT how important primaries are, I registered with a party, so I have some say on who runs for office. Oh my God, Mary Ellen, I love that you did that. Again, there's so many things that I view to be obvious, maybe they're not obvious, that other shows don't say and it drives me crazy. Primaries, primaries. By the time you get to the general election, it's corporate shill A versus corporate shall B.

Israeli puppet A versus Israeli puppet B. In the primaries, even if you vote for a rando, there'll be 200 times better than the corrupting comment that you have today. And when mainstream media emphasizes, oh, but these politicians have such experience, and you shouldn't vote for anyone without experience. What they're saying is we like that they're a proven commodity and how corrupt they are,

and we want to make sure that you don't vote against them with a new person who might not be as corrupt. Vote all the bums out. Antonius Pepperonius, wrote in. Like Anna, I'm feeling the exact same rage I felt when we were lied to in invading Iraq. Yes. I was in my early 20s.

Bart wrote in, Bart, I liked that you did that during the break. Way back in the day, General Clark was at the TYT enough protest against the Iraq war. He was chilling in the background, keeping a low profile and looking like he got off the golf course. I had a nice conversation with him that day. Not only was he against the Iraq war, he was just a super cool dude. Bart's been with us forever and that was a long time ago that we did those protests with both Wesley Clark Jr. And, and General Wesley Clark. And Bart continues, breaks my heart, he's leaning towards bombing Iran, looking back at the moment,

that that moment has given me an important life lesson. Do not place your heroes on high pedestals. They have flaws in their humanity like everyone else. That is certainly true, Bart, yep. Someone wrote in saying, I love Anna's jacket, but I'm very much against covering those incredible shoulders. And the person who wrote that in was John Barron. That's their handle. I've gained weight and the buttons were popping off the outfit I was wearing earlier.

And I'm very depressed now, so let's move on. Wait, John Barron's calling back in. It's okay if the buttons are popping off. I'm not the president, but I'm just saying the buttons can pop, it's okay. I remember my friend Jeffrey once telling me, okay, you get it. All right, IDK anymore says, Jay, trying to make a hand. Handheart made my day. Total dad moment the way he tried. I'm sure his kids face-pombed and will love him for it when they're older and I relate. Okay, I hope they love for it now, but anyway, my kids always make fun of me. It's fun. Nerd Ferguson says after the DOJ redactions, Trump's State of the Union tonight should clock in it just under four minutes. Wouldn't that be amazing? Speech is redacted, redacted, redacted, and it takes four minutes. Wedge says been heads down working the nine to five with these meltdowns in the background. Got to tell you all, It's a challenge to stay sane as the world continues disintegrate.

You're telling me. You rock TYT. Well, thank you, Wedge. We appreciate it. We rock together, aka Delaware Dragon says, we need to wake the hell up, forgive each other, and get on with a business of learning to collaborate. We need to come to our own rescue, build a new American dream, and embrace the rest of humanity. People need to remember, we have real shared power. 100%.

I love Americans. We're gonna fight together. I'm not gonna hate anyone because we have disagreements here and there. If you want to make this country better, I'm gonna work with you. It's that simple. This is such a, you know, I think that this is a, like extremely political. All right, back on the Young Turks, Jane and Anna with you guys. More news. Well, we have some updates on CBS's staffing kerfuffle, and I want to get to the details.

So the celebrity longevity doctor known as Peter Atia has decided that he will be leaving CBS. I don't know how much time he even spent at CBS since it was announced not too long ago that he would be hired as a paid contributor, but due to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, he has decided maybe this isn't good for the network. What do you think, Jake? So Barry Weiss tried really hard to keep him. Why? We'll explain in a minute. So Atia was one of 19 contributors that CBS hired under Barry Weiss's leadership. Now, for those who are unfamiliar with him, as I was until this whole story kind of blew up,

he became famous for being like a celebrity doctor, an influencer who specializes in longevity medicine. So he's pretty popular with the manosphere and aligns himself with Make America Healthy again. someone should check in on him and see how he feels about maha these days, especially since some of the pesticides and things that RFK Jr. wanted to ban, we've now lifted all restrictions on them, so congratulations. But anyway, that's a different story entirely. He's been on Joe Rogan's podcast, CNN International 60 Minutes. He's put his name out there. Now, we found out about his ties to Epstein in the latest tranche of files that were released by the Department of Justice. So his name appears more than 1,800 times, not good.

The two did meet around 2014, and in the files you can see, or the email exchanges between the two, they made plans to meet up and things like that. Now in emails that cover scheduling visits, phone calls, back pain, and an unspecified little situation. We don't know what that little situation is, but little situation that Atia brought or sought advice about, Throughout the emails, he appears in awe of Epstein, attempting to make plans to chat or visit. In fact, in a 2016 email to Epstein's assistant, he wrote the following. See you next time. Hopefully, Jeffrey Epstein is in town. When I'm back in two weeks, I go into Epstein withdraw when I don't see him. In another 2016 email that he wrote directly to Epstein, okay, I can't say this word on the show,

but it's a word that has been used by our president. It has to do with a female body part. So that private body part is indeed low carbs, still awaiting results on gluten content though. They're talking about women's jetatalia there. He also seemed to be aware of at least some of the criminal activity that Epstein was involved in. So for instance, in one email thread from 2015,

with the subject line got a fresh shipment. Epstein replies, me too with the attack photo redacted. So there was a photo included. We don't know what that photo is. We haven't seen it. It is redacted. But the exchange continues with Atia saying, please tell you found that picture online. Yeah, bastard. I can see that word. Okay. And Epstein says, afraid not. And then he responds, you to biggest problem with becoming friends with you. The life you lead is so outrageous. and yet I can't tell a soul. Chank, this isn't the most important point to make,

but are you surprised at how dumb these guys sound in email exchanges? Yeah, you know, you see Epstein's on tape sometimes, and it doesn't exactly sound like a genius, right? So then people started to ask a question like, wait, who's the mastermind behind this operation? because the mainstream media points it like Epstein just did this by himself. He's like, oh, look, Galane Maxwell, daughter of legendary spy Robert Maxwell for Israel, is wandering by, hey, why don't you and I just start a random operation when we're not that bright,

but we'll stumble into a billion dollars from Les Wexner, 158 from Leon Black, and I'll have connections to all of the world leaders. Gee, I wonder how he got all of those connections, because he's intelligence. It's not that complicated, right? And so that if you're connected to a government, that opens up a thousand doors. And so, and as they're talking here in the emails to Anna's point, you're like, these are the masters of the universe. These are like, now not Atea, he's, you know, he's successful, but not one of the big finance

guys, et cetera. But the big finance guys don't sound that bright either. And it's amazing, they all are like, oh, we know what a perfect you are with a young person. girls, but I can't tell anybody. Oh man, if I could just, so in that particular email, you can't tell if he's saying about underage girls or not, but in some of the others and the other folks that are talking to them, they're clearly talking about underage girls. No one seems to have any compunction.

And Anna, the other thing that I found interesting is they seem so positive they're never going to get caught. Yeah, no, it's true and they might be right. I mean, it seems like they get caught and it's okay because of our DOJ doesn't want to do a damn thing about it. But nonetheless, just kind of going back to Atia, like, there's no evidence of him doing anything criminal. So I want to be clear about that.

Just the fact that he was willing to be so close with a guy who had already been convicted for soliciting sex from a minor is a little problematic, which is why he got fired from a bunch of places. So companies stopped doing business with him, including the supplement company AG1, which fired him as an advisor. Verda Health also fired him as an advisor, despite the fact that he's been working with them since 2016. Addis also stepped down. Oh, he also, by the way, stepped down as an advisor of some sort. No, the chief science officer from something called David Protein.

CBS was really the only place that seemed to be willing to employ him. Barry Weiss was sticking up for him, but he decided to kind of step away from that. So CBS put out a statement saying basically he stepped back to ensure his involvement didn't become a distraction from the important work being done at CBS, a spokesperson for him said on Monday, noting that his work as a contributor had not yet meaningfully begun. So. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how much of the money he got to keep from the contract. I mean, so Barry Weiss is Israel first, and so she fought to keep Attae, I'm curious, why would she fight to keep this guy? My guess is that a lot of Israel first sees the files and it's filled to the room with people

who love Israel. And so they wanna say, it's no big deal. Have a connection to everybody can have a connection. Like you should ignore everybody in the files. Don't do do, no, look at why they all agree on one thing, right? So it's kind of a mask off moment as she protects this guy. Yeah, so before we move on to the next story, I want to just quickly talk about another mask off moment.

Nas, if you're watching live right now, because you felt the need to comment on my social media about what I had to say, when we were showing clips of Pierce Morgan's show today, and you saw two pro-war hyenas laughing as Jank Yugar was talking about American soldiers getting slaughtered fighting Israel's war, yeah, I made fun of them, I called them hyenas. And I don't regret that. I'll do it again. Okay? That's not a comment about all Iranians.

Disgusting to try to make it seem as though I made a blanket statement about all Iranians when I talked about two specific hyenas on that panel. And I'll say it again, they're disgusting. And if they want to go to war, they should put the fatigues on and do it themselves. Otherwise, they need to shut the F up and you can do the same. We've got to take a break real quick. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Jeng and Anna with you guys.

Kyla Barton, thanks for signing up through YouTube. And these American heroes sign up through t.com slash join. This can't be real and or so major. You guys are awesome. Casper. All right, let's do our final story. Let's talk about what the future holds for the Republican Party because people still think that Trump will be the individual who anoints the next Republican president.

I don't know if that's necessarily going to be true, but nonetheless, it does seem like he is starting to, you know, develop a favorite, if you will. So let's talk about it. it. According to sources who spoke with Axios, President Donald Trump is trying to determine whether Vice President J.D. Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be the future Republican presidential candidate that he will endorse, which one will run in 2028. And while Vance seems to be the favorite, at least that's been the conventional wisdom so far, it does seem that Trump is starting to lean more and more toward Marco Rubio. You're two cents.

Yeah, so it's important for you guys to know that Marco Rubio is 100% Israel first, and there's a debate as to which side J.D. Vance is on. So that's going to be very relevant to this conversation. So let Anna tell you the facts on who's winning that war and what they're pretending is the case. Then we'll break down what's actually the case. So Axios spoke to five anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation, so make of that what you will.

They claim that Trump is asking all of his advisors and confidants, do people favor the vice president or secretary of state to sit atop the GOP ticket to succeed him in 2028? Now, to be clear, Trump wants Vance and Rubio to run against each other during a Republican primary. It's not like he is trying to discourage one or the other from doing so. And to be clear, he loves that kind of conflict. But one anonymous Trump advisor stated that Vance Rubio is the president's dream ticket. I would rather slip my wrist. And to be clear, that's Vance on top. But would Trump be happy with a Rubio Vance ticket?

Absolutely. Rubio is a product of neoconservative brain rot. And Vance has literally described himself as a post liberal Republican, meaning he does not believe in liberal democracy. But even more important is the fact that he is manufactured by Peter Thiel, who is very much interested in doing away with not only our democracy, but doing away with our privacy rights so we can be competitive on AI against China. So you got that to look forward to, if you elect these people, of course. But what do you think, Jank?

Yeah, so in the drop site news emails that were uncovered, some were from Larry Allison. And Larry Ellison, for some of you might remember this from previous shows, talked to the Israeli ambassador and said I'm gonna vet Marco Rubio. The reason I'm telling you this story is because it's a perfect insight into who Marco Rubio is. Then he comes back and emails the ambassador and says, I approved Marco Rubio, he will basically he'll work for Israel and I sent him $5 million into a super pack. Okay, now that's not even in the A-Pact tracker for Marco Rubio, the A-Pact tracker only has a million.

So that's six right there, but we just happen to have that one intercepted email. God knows how much money they've put into Marco Rubio. So when you see Marco Rubio talking about how protecting Israel is the most important thing, and Iran is the worst, most demonic state actor, and we must invade them, and the Palestinians are worthless, and we should give Israel everything they want, he literally got paid to say that. And so that's why I know I say it too often, but it's so frustrating that the national media doesn't level with you guys and doesn't tell you why they act the way they do.

They're pretending that Marco Rubio genuinely has those opinions. When in reality, we already know for a fact that he was paid to have those opinions. So Rubio is utterly hopeless. He will not represent America at all. He'll only represent Israel. So now, J.D. Vance was created in a petri ditch by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel, Palantir, and the other guys are massively for a surveillance state and a police state in this country.

Yep. And also work with Israel. And they're trying to perfect the surveillance state over there. Which is why it's so frustrating when well-meaning people on the right, who are against our close relationship with Israel, get hoodwinked into regurgitating this line about how, no, no, J.D. Vance is different. J.D. Vance is an anti-interventionist. No, he's not.

What indication do you have that he's anti-interventionist? Has he tried to pump the brakes on anything that's transpired with Trump's foreign policy? I haven't seen it. So today I heard on the right wing show, they're like, oh, Vance and Tulsi Gabbard are secretly against the war. Right, right. Well, brother, I'm not interested in your secret BS, okay? We're about to go to war. If you're against it, this is when you would speak up.

No, no, Jake. And if you don't speak up, then you have a very tall glass of shut up juice waiting for you in 2028. No, Jake, you don't get it. They're working around the clock. Oh, they're working around the clock trying to stop Trump. Oh, please Donald Trump. Don't go to war for my benefactors. Okay, so it doesn't matter if it's Rubio Vance or Vance Rubio.

Same same. It's going to be Israel, Israel. That's exactly right. Now look, Vance and Rubio publicly seem to be engaging in a bromance. And if you're gullible, you might be under the impression that they're like besties. Rubio has stated that he would enthusiastically support a Vance presidential run. But privately, Rubio might not be as excited as. as he's letting on.

So part of the problem for Rubio, according to reporting in Axios, and according to those who know his thinking about 2028, is that it would be hard to go from his two high impact jobs to vice president, but Marco Rubio might have a secret weapon, and that's television? So Vance has a major disadvantage compared to Rubio

when it comes to Trump's style of thinking. Their jobs, which place Rubio in the news far more than Vance, And Trump consumes news ravenously. He consumes television ravenously, two different things. But anyway, Jank. Yeah. So look, I don't think that TV is the difference maker in this case because Vance is pugilistic on TV even more so than Rubio. And Trump likes that.

And he's the vice president. He's sitting right next to him. So it's not like he's J.D. Vance is going to, you know, jump out of his mind, right? Like he's definitely top of mind. I don't think jump out of your mind is a thing. Okay, anyways, so look, if Vance is somehow secretly on America's side, he's gonna have to show it at some point. And so far we haven't seen any of that, right?

And has he supported all the madness of Donald Trump from all the way from eating cats and dogs, all the way to, oh, yes, sir, we should of course start Israel's war for it, sir. Yes. So Rubio's hopeless and Vance is about 90. percent hopeless. So guys, you want to know if you're a Republican who you should pick. You should pick someone that isn't a current politician that hasn't taken money from either the defense industry, the intelligence industry, intelligence as in gathering intelligence,

the palanteers, et cetera, right? Who hasn't taken money from the tech billionaires, the tech billionaires, A-PAC, et cetera. So when media tells you, and the same exact thing, by the way, applies to the Democrats. Earlier in the show, we talked about how Schumer and Jeffries obviously sell out to Israel. Israel's their number one donors throughout their lifetimes. Biden, Kamala Harris, the same exact thing. So pick someone who isn't sold out to A-PAC in the Israeli lobby.

It's not that complicated. So right now there are two clear choices. Roe-Conna on the Democratic side, Tom Massey on the Republican side. I agree. And by the way, mainstream media, and everybody keeps going, well, obviously they can't run for president. Why is that obvious? Why do we have to accept your corrupt slop that you were trying to put on us?

We don't have to accept it at all. Massey can run, Kana can run. And wouldn't Kana versus Massey be a dream where they actually are both in favor of America? And then they have a debate about economics and how to best help the American people. That would be amazing. That would be way better than the slop we've been dealing with in past elections. That's for sure. All right. Operation Joy is coming up next. is for everybody, you're gonna love this.

If you've never been part of it, stick around. I guarantee you enjoy it. We'll be right back. Do you view Vice President J.D. Vance as your success? No.