The Young Turks - Israel's Belligerent Behavior - June 13, 2025

Episode Date: June 14, 2025

Israel attacks Iran's nuclear sites and its top military leaders. Iran retaliates with drones. Marco Rubio’s initial statement claimed US wasn’t involved. Judge Orders Trump to Return California N...ational Guard to Newsom, But An Appeals Court Steps In To Pause That Ruling. Hosts: John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, Maz Jobrani SUBSCRIBE on⁠ YOUTUBE⁠ ☞ ⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks⁠⁠ FOLLOW US ON: ⁠FACEBOOK⁠  ☞  ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks⁠⁠ ⁠TWITTER⁠  ☞      ⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks⁠⁠ ⁠INSTAGRAM⁠  ☞ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks⁠⁠ ⁠TIKTOK⁠  ☞ ⁠         ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks⁠⁠ 👕⁠MERCH⁠  ☞⁠      ⁠https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:18 Jane Hugar, Maz Jabrani, and John Ida will love with you guys. John, of course, the host of damage report, Mazza's on Rebel headquarters. So obviously, guys, grave show today, we have war. And we are gonna talk about that, Mazza's family originally from Iran. Obviously he's gonna have some thoughts on it. And we're gonna give you some of the devastating details and how we're gonna get drawn into this war, how we're already getting drawn into this war. A very important one is how Donald Trump got suckered by Netanyahu into doing this.
Starting point is 00:01:53 P-Brain, we're gonna explain that in a little bit. In the second hour, some of Maga's mad about this. So we'll see if that has an effect or not. But right now, Israel and Iran are in full out war. And the US, of course, is on Israel's side and getting drawn in by the second. And right now, they're conservative hosts like Mark Levin, rooting for US soldiers to get hit. He says, no, no, golly, gee, I hope they better not hit any of them. But if they do, then America's gonna have to fight Israel's war for it, which is of course,
Starting point is 00:02:27 always the plan. So having said that, let's get to the to the top story, which is obviously about the war. Look at all this nay saying from Chank. I'm just happy for once to be living in a world where thanks to Trump, there's peace and stability. Yeah. Which he promised and delivered. Anyway, let's let's talk about the big story. Overnight, Israel carrying out a major attack inside Iran aimed at crippling its nuclear program and preventing Iran from building a nuclear bomb. So it's along. Multiple waves of strikes throughout the night across multiple cities, hitting nuclear enrichment facilities and ballistic missile centers, multiple residential buildings engulfed in flames in Iran's capital. When enemies build weapons of mass death, stop them.
Starting point is 00:03:11 This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat. I am assuming that does not count for America and Israel, which also have weapons of mass death. But just for Iran, in any event, we're all now, whether we like it or not. I think most people watching this probably won't, a whole lot closer to all that war in the Middle East, thanks to Israel launching its massive, preemptive attack on Iran, what we would call if it were any other country the initiation of a war. If it's the United States and Israel, you could just do this sort of thing and it's, it's just a strategy, it's just cool, everybody quiet down about it.
Starting point is 00:03:46 But it is big, objectively, Iran has not been hit like this since the 1980s. There have been more limited strikes inside of Iranian territory earlier. earlier this year from Israel, but this really does stand out, and bear in mind it happened right before what we're supposed to be, hopefully fruitful conversations between the United States and around this weekend to try to establish some sort of nuclear deal between our two countries, that deal being necessary because Donald Trump tore up the previous deal in his first term because he had not negotiated it, thus necessitating a new one and also raising fears about the possibility that they could be developing new.
Starting point is 00:04:26 nuclear weapons. Bear in mind, we didn't have inspectors on the ground because Donald Trump destroyed the previous deal. But this operation, which they're calling Rising Lion, very cool, very no notes, very cool. It involved heavy air strikes against some of Iran's main uranium enrichment sites, strikes inside of the capital as well as in other cities. They were designed to take out the military leadership and they were quite successful in doing that. In total, over a 100 targets were hit, more than 200 jets were used as well as drones and precision weapons that had been smuggled into Iran and had been stored there by the Israeli spy agency, Massad, indicating that they apparently have a quite robust operation inside
Starting point is 00:05:15 of Iranian territory. And it does appear that there's been some success, although not necessarily exactly what might have been hoped from this attack. The command center and centrifuges at one of Iran's main uranium and enrichment sites, that's Natanz, are likely to have been destroyed. They didn't hit the most likely repository of the closest to bomb-grade nuclear fuel that Iran possesses. But in addition to infrastructure, which was destroyed, there were also Iranian leaders. So you have the literal head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, the top military official inside of Iran was killed last night. The chief a staff of Iran's armed forces, a major aid to the Ayatollah, as well as the person who
Starting point is 00:06:00 was in charge of the nuclear negotiations with the United States, will not be participating this weekend because he was killed, and the commander of the IRGC's Air Force as well. In addition to the military and I guess aides that were killed, there were also dozens of civilians, of course, these are widespread airstrikes, hundreds of others were injured, multiple nuclear scientists were killed. You see two right there. A spokesperson for the IDF is claiming that at least nine nuclear scientists were killed. And yeah, so look, there's a lot. It's a developing situation. Iran launched a very limited counterattack that in the immediate aftermath of it, that I don't believe any of the drones they launched actually made it through to Israel. They have launched
Starting point is 00:06:46 missiles more recently prior to us going live. Some of those appear to have struck inside of Tel Aviv, I believe there were reports of injuries. At least as of when we were going live, I had not seen any confirmations of any fatalities as a result of that. But it's a developing situation. Benjamin Netanyahu has said that this is just the beginning. They're going to continue. And as you'll see, Trump is promising more of that as well. But Jake, a lot going on. History being made. Yep. So let me start on media and propaganda. And then I want to get to the most important part, which is how Trump got suckered into this war, because he's an idiot. And I will explain, and you will agree, whether you're left or right, it's super obvious.
Starting point is 00:07:29 So first off on the media, and look, we fall into this sometimes as well. So they attacked their nuclear program. They also attacked in the middle of Tehran, their capital city. So the way that the press is framing it is like, it was a preventative, preemptive attack on their nuclear program. No, they dropped tons of bombs in the middle of Tehran, one of the most crowded cities in the world, right? But you haven't heard anything about their civilian deaths, you haven't heard anything about any of that. Because, of course, they're Iranians, not Israelis, their lives don't matter. So, but the minute, you know, Iran started attacking back, you're like, oh, my God, injuries and Tel Aviv injuries, injuries.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Oh, you have to go in there and help Israel fight this war instead of Israel. That's what the propaganda is driving towards, okay? So John's right about the piece of propaganda of all these weapons of mass death cannot be allowed to happen. They must attack a country, especially in the Middle East, if they're going to develop nuclear weapons. Under that ideology, we would have wiped out Israel. Israel has nukes. And by the way, part of this is not just about, oh, we're so worried Iran's going to hit us. I'm going to tell you why that's ridiculous in a second.
Starting point is 00:08:38 No, it's that they don't want to lose leverage. If anyone else has nukes in the Middle East, then Israel is constrained. They don't want to be constrained. They want to attack Syria. They want to attack Lebanon. They want to keep Gaza in the West Bank. They want to attack Iran. And they don't want to be constrained.
Starting point is 00:08:56 If anybody else is anywhere near parity, they might be slightly constrained from setting up greater Israel. So later, they will all pretend that Israel was the victims. Not later, they're doing it today. And they're going to do it from here till eternity. Mainstream media is going to lie to you about how, oh my God, poor, poor, poor, poor Israel. What could they do? Now, in this next slide, they went after, they were about to get a nuclear bomb.
Starting point is 00:09:21 You just heard it in the first clip we played for you guys. No, they weren't. They were at best a couple of weeks away, which sounds really close to enriching uranium for the first time at a level where it could be weaponized. But if you wanted to actually put it on a bomb, that actually would have taken at least another year. How often have you heard that on TV? That they were nowhere near being able to weaponize a bomb, that they're not even close to it, not within a year. On TV, it looks like, oh my God, Iran was about to get a nuke and kill us all.
Starting point is 00:09:57 Oh, thank God, prevented a war and preemptive war from Israel. Oh, what, I want a great thing. Don't worry about the Iranian civil. Iran struck back those goddamn terrorists. Okay, so usual stuff. But part of it is, okay, Israel is the greatest and we have to give all of your money to Israel and you have to fight their wars for them. But most of it is make sure America gets sucked into this war. One last thing about the framing.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Their physicists were killed and their lead negotiator was killed and their top military leaders and politician were killed. Now, if Iran had struck first and it killed Israeli civilian scientists and the top of, top Israeli negotiator for peace and an Israeli politician and there's top three military commanders. What would we call it? Everyone in the press would say murdered, terrorists. No, I'll tell Israeli civilians were murdered by the terrorists. Israel does it. They were just killed. We're just going after they were about to get the bomb. What could poor Israel do? So no, Israel is a massive aggressor. They do not let the American media lie to you. And pretend starting tomorrow because, oh, now Iran counterattacked.
Starting point is 00:11:14 So they'll show you tons of pictures on air about Israel, oh, Israel, Tel Aviv. So look, am I worried about civilians in Israel or Iran? Yes, I don't want any civilians dying in Israel. But don't tell me that you're the victims. Don't tell me that you're doing self-defense and drag America into it. And right now, we're massively dragged into it. So how, number one, we're now doing defense for Israel. Defense.
Starting point is 00:11:36 So that means we pay a ton of money to bring our aircraft carriers, to bring our ships, and now we're knocking down the Iranian missile. So we're already on day one, right in the middle of the war. And we find out today, oh, oops, it turns out that we gave them intelligence on the bombing carrier. So wait a minute, so we're involved in the offense and the defense. We're right in the middle of this war. On day one, it was so easy to get America in the middle of this war with Iran. And they can, and Israel can't wait for an American service member to be killed.
Starting point is 00:12:09 They're going to set fireworks, not in the Israeli civilians and citizens. And they're scumbags who run the terrorists who run their government. Because the minute an American is killed, and by the way, we get a load of this. Israel's super protected because we gave them iron dome. So, and we've got our aircraft carriers, we're shooting down everything. But American troops in the Middle East don't have iron dome. They're sitting ducks. So the minute Iran hits a soft target, which is us, then Netanyahu's going to go,
Starting point is 00:12:40 checkmate America. Now you're my bitch again. Now you fight my wars. And they'll probably even want strong. So America, you do our dirty workforce. Spent a couple of trillion like you did in Iraq. And tens of thousands of Americans get killed or wounded. Who cares?
Starting point is 00:12:57 Israel needs you to do something for us. Hurry up and do it. Okay? And American media will be like, oh, they are the victim. They're the victims. They're doing self-defense now. We have to help them with their defense. What do you mean defense? What? What is defense? No, it's nothing but offense. What? So get the hell out of there. And I've got to get to Ma's. I'll tell you in a minute how they tricked Trump into this. He's such a child. Ma's. Well, you're right on all fronts. And Netanyahu's been wanting to do this for years and years. If you recall before the actual first nuclear deal, he was at the UN with that Wiley Coyote, bomb and saying Iran is just a couple weeks away. We have to bomb Iran. We have to bomb Iran. And to your point, it seems like he played Donald Trump like an orange-haired fiddle to get him to do this because he supposedly had convinced Trump that if he does this now, it will help
Starting point is 00:13:51 bring Iran to the negotiating table, which by the way, Donald Trump, you saw, he said, oh, I told them make a deal in 60 days. This is day 61. This should have made a deal. You better make a deal now. you already had a deal. And this new deal isn't that different from the previous deal. And if we stuck with the previous deal, perhaps we'd have more knowledge about what's going on inside Iran and inside their program. Now, as an Iranian American in the diaspora, I could tell you that a lot of Iranians don't like the government. The government's an oppressive government and it's maybe not even a trustworthy government, but nobody wants to go to war and kill innocent people. So when I see the images and I reached out to some relatives and just asking if
Starting point is 00:14:32 they're okay, one friend of mine said that he had been at the airport and there was a lot of chaos, but he was fine. But we don't know the numbers, to your point. We don't know the numbers. And as an Iranian American, again, it has been exhausting. It's exhausting to be Iranian in this world because the people of Iran are really good people. And the government of Iran is oppressive. But then you get caught up in the middle of this where BB's playing Trump and Trump is going along and we're about to start World War III in that region. And so, you know, what can we do? I don't know. I don't know. And I think a big part of this was also BB had been seeing that the continuing killing of Gazans was definitely in the world was getting more people
Starting point is 00:15:19 were knowing about it. And it was and it was another distraction to go, let me go after these guys. your point. They've got the backing of America. And I don't know. The thing that I always am perplexed by is these world leaders, when they do these types of things, it seems like they never think about what's the day after. Because if you were to go and bomb Iran and bomb Iran and bomb Iran, what's the day after? What's going to happen? Are you going to find a way to cause a regime change and create a democratic Iran by bombing them? Is that what your strategy is? What is your strategy. So I don't see any strategy there except chaos. And it's very worrisome for all the civilians that are going to be harmed in such a war. By the way, really fast. So apparently the
Starting point is 00:16:09 UN ambassador from Iran says 78 were killed, 320 were wounded. In Iran. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, but their civilians don't count. They're Muslim. So it's okay. And so, but the poor Israelis. So, I got to build on two things that Maas said. So number one, look, a lot of governments are terrible in this world, right? Ranging from bad to despotic, right? So are any of us in favor of the Iranian regime? No, no, I, then it's not a democracy. It's a supreme leader, Iatole, fundamentalist, no interest in it.
Starting point is 00:16:46 They oppress their own people, et cetera. We shared on the protests that tried to overthrow it just a couple of years ago. Oh, absolutely. We love that if it's organic coming from the Iranian. people, right? So does that mean we should go to war with them? I mean, this is the same thing that they used in Iraq. Oh, Saddam Hussein's a bad guy. But Saddam Hussein was not a threat to America. Where do we get the intelligence that they had weapons of mass destruction? I hope you're sitting. We got it from Israel. And when they say, oh, no, no, Israel's a really big ally.
Starting point is 00:17:15 And I always ask how. All they ever do is get us into wars. They get us into trouble, get us killed, get the whole Muslim world to hate us. How are they an ally? They say, oh, they give us intelligence. Yeah, fake intelligence so that we could fight their wars for them. So with allies like this, you don't need enemies. Israel will create endless enemies for us and they're doing again here. So for example, I don't like the current leader of Turkey and the government right now. I think that he's taking away democracy. I think it's terrible.
Starting point is 00:17:45 And a lot of Turks agree with me. Do you think the Turks would then be happy if Turkey was bombed by Israel? What kind of a lunatic would say something that stupid? No, all the Turks would be super mad. They would all rally around Erdogan, which would make him much, much stronger, not weaker. And the idea that Turks or Persians or anyone would be like, oh, you've bombed us now. Now we love you so much. Thank you for killing us.
Starting point is 00:18:17 This is the stupid neocon philosophy. That is so childish, so obviously wrong. It's not, they're not even trying hard in all the American media, oh, yeah, could be, could be. And then now we turn to Trump. And so Maz is right. Look, I'll do graphic six from the next story. We're gonna talk more about how US is getting sucked into this.
Starting point is 00:18:37 Watch the show live six to eight o'clock every day. So, but in his long screen, Trump, when he's pretending, and the next story will tell you about why he's pretending that he was in on it all along, he says, as long as I think there's an agreement, I don't want them going in referring to Israel okay because I think that would blow it might help it actually but also could blow it now that was before the strike so he's told and this is now verified in 18 different ways Walser Journal saying he told Israel not to bomb them right and then but the Israelis got in his ear and they're like oh no no you know what I know you want peace don and we we all want peace but like
Starting point is 00:19:23 You know what though, if we bomb them first, that might bring them to the table better. Now, any child would know that that's preposterous. You bomb a country, they're not going to likely to come to the table. More, in fact, they can't come to the table. You murder their lead negotiator, right? And you bombed their capital, you killed all those civilians, you injured all those people that John just told you about, and you killed their top military officials and their politicians. Are they more or less likely to come to the, of course they're less likely to come to the table
Starting point is 00:19:52 right after you bombed their capital, imagine if they bomb Iran bombed Washington, D.C. Do you think that would make us more likely to negotiate with them and give them what they want? Nobody thinks that other than morons like Donald Trump. We're like, okay, you might be right then, Yahoo. And then you're going to get a walk right in the middle of the war and he did. He's such an idiot. I think, look, racism ruins everything. That is an insane thing to believe that they would come to negotiate when you bomb them.
Starting point is 00:20:24 Unless you think, well, I'm a good white person. We're logical, reasonable. We use common sense. They're crazy. God only knows what they'll do. Like if you don't think that the vast majority of the people on earth are fully conscious, sentient creatures, then you can think whatever the hell you want of them. And you can convince your base to think whatever you want of them.
Starting point is 00:20:45 But on the topic of the negotiations, we should talk more about that. because Iran has perhaps not surprisingly canceled this weekend's negotiations on the nuclear deal. And, you know, their lead negotiators dead. So that was probably obvious. And a lot of people are wondering, well, like the goal of these attacks were to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, which we're assured they were on the precipice of getting. But, you know, if they thought they needed a nuclear weapon as a deterrent, this kind of seems like confirmation of that. Like maybe they need it even more? And so there's concern that this could drive them to do anything they need to to get the weapon.
Starting point is 00:21:26 And we have a little bit on that rough topic from the BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner. There's no guarantee that this is going to be the silver bullet that Israel is hoping for. And there is a fear now that not only is Iran going to continue its retaliation, and who knows where that's going to end? Is it just going to be against Israel or are they going to extend it to Gansk? Arab countries, where will this end? But most importantly, the hawks within Iran's establishment are now going to be saying, we told you so, we were right, they were going to attack us. The best deterrent to stop further attacks like this from Israel is go for the bomb. I mean, just think about over the course of like the last year, the helicopter, the drone
Starting point is 00:22:13 attacks from Israel. Now the bombing, semi-regularly Israel attacks Iran. And from their perspective, it's totally justified, but from the Iranian point of view, they desperately need a deterrent. And clearly, whatever conventional weapons they have, their military, their ballistic missiles, their drones, all of that, that clearly does not deter an attack. So if that doesn't do it, what would? Weapons of mass destruction is the answer that a lot of people will provide to that question. And obviously I don't want them to have that, but I think it's going to be a lot easier to make that case when you're constantly being attacked. Yeah. So what more thing about this absurdity about if we bomb them and we start
Starting point is 00:22:53 murdering their leaders, they'll be more likely to negotiate. Under that logic, wouldn't that say that, well, Hamas was right to do October 7th because that would make Israel more likely to negotiate? You see how dumb that logic is? You would never apply it to Israel, right? Oh, Well, it's a good thing Israel was attacked because then they're more likely to get to a peace deal. No person in America would dare say that sentence. But they say it about the Iranians. They said it about the Iraqis. Oh, yeah, they like being murdered.
Starting point is 00:23:28 So that's more likely to bring them to the negotiation table, said morons who repeat obvious Israeli propaganda. And last thing for me on this is they always frame it as they're about to get a nuke. Jack Callahan, one of our members wrote in. And so yeah, they're about to get a nuke for the last 41 years, right? That's if you listen to that and yah, oh, Ron's gonna get a nuke. You better attack Iran. I don't like Iran. They're a slight challenge to me.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Maybe they could be a problem. So just murder them, killed them, killed them, kill them, kill them, attack them, attack them. So what happened? 41 straight years. You were lying for the entire goddamn time. They were lying now, as I told you, they were at least a year away. But that's not the main point.
Starting point is 00:24:07 The main point isn't, oh, should we attack them and start a giant war in the Middle East or Iran gets nukes? No, or you do a peace treaty where you take their uranium out of the country and they can't develop military grade uranium and you get a peace deal. That is the correct answer. That was the answer that Obama gave. That was the answer Trump was going towards. And by the way, we almost had it and Trump, there was reports that Trump had made a deal, but then Israel came in and said, oh, you're letting him enrich a tiny amount of uranium.
Starting point is 00:24:42 doesn't get anywhere near like such a giant difference guys I know it sounds like well uranium is uranium it's not tons of countries enriched uranium to a point where they could use it for energy and it cannot be then militarized right and the peace deal would have made sure that it technically and could not be militarized right so we could we had that deal and Israel came in and said I blocked that deal Donald Trump you're not allowed to make that deal they're not allowed to have any uranium because they knew that Iran would not accept that why are they the only ones that are not allowed to have nuclear energy.
Starting point is 00:25:14 So since Iran, Israel news that Iran wouldn't accept it, like good, so then we'll get to attack them and then we'll make America pay for it. And don't get any mistakes here. We will foot almost the entire bill for this war. And when you goes to Congress, all the bought corrupt politicians will say, oh, do we have to help our beloved special ally Israel defend itself. Here's all that America say, hey, you work your ass off, you work two jobs? Okay, half of one of those jobs is going to go to Israel to kill more Iranians, to kill more Palestinians, to invade more countries.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Don't you dare try to put food on the table for your family here in America? No, give me that money, give me that money. It's going to Israel. It's going to their wars. That's a fact. You can catch feelings over it in either direction, but as a stone cold fact, how many more hundreds of billions of dollars is Israel going to take from us to start more aggressive wars in the Middle East? Right, Maas, last word on this. You know, it's they literally blew up the nuclear deal.
Starting point is 00:26:19 They literally blew it up. They killed the negotiator. They killed other people that were involved. And going back to Netanyahu, Netanyahu was trying to convince Trump to not do the nuclear deal. So you've got to imagine Netanyahu or somebody within his inner circle was saying, hey, you know what? Since we can play Trump like a pawn, let's convince him that doing this bombing is going to
Starting point is 00:26:39 help that negotiation. Because famously, Trump keeps saying that he's a peaceful, he doesn't want war, he doesn't want war, he doesn't want war. And here we are. We're in war now. We are in the war. And it is just, it's, it's so amazing how small-brained Trump is to fall for this. Because a strong, a strong Trump, if you were strong, he would have told BB, no, do not attack. I'm about to make this deal. and that will make the world a safer place, and we will have an ability to go in and observe their nuclear program. And as you said, bring the weaponization out, and they can have a nuclear energy, but they won't have a weaponized nuclear program. And so that's what a strong leader would have done. But on the other hand, we've got Trump in office, and he just, you know, went along,
Starting point is 00:27:28 here we go. And perhaps he'll do what, like, if you recall, with Russia and Ukraine, he said, I'll have it solved on day one. And here we are several months later. And he's kind of put his hands in the air and been like, let him just figure it out. And so similarly in this situation, Jen, as you were saying, we're just going to keep funding Israel. And Trump's going to say, oh, let them just do whatever they got to do. And we'll see where this leads.
Starting point is 00:27:53 And where this, unfortunately, if you look at history, where this will lead is to hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranians dying, probably several thousand Israelis, several thousand, possibly several thousand American soldiers. And it's it's going to be a repeat of Iraq or Afghanistan. I mean, that's what it feels like right now. And so once again, Donald Trump was played by BB Netanyahu. Yeah, super weak on his part. And even a lot of MAGA is saying that today. We'll have that later in the show. And when we come back, how they're going to pull America into the war and make us pay for it. We'll be right. All right back on T.O.T. Cenk, John and Maz, with you guys. And Alan Wade,
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Starting point is 00:29:25 I appreciate all of you guys. We love our audience. All right, John's got the rest. Yes, and don't worry, we are gonna talk about the National Guard. the war here at home, but first a little bit more on the war that we're about to be dragged into, starting with this. The president speaking with our John Carl said of the attacks that he thinks it's been excellent. He said we gave them a chance and they didn't take it. They got hit very,
Starting point is 00:29:47 they got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you're going to get hit. And there's more to come, a lot more. And when asked if the U.S. participated in the attack in any way, the president interestingly said, I don't want to comment on that. We are getting, and we were likely to get in the near future, very mixed messages about exactly what was going on in terms of coordination between the government of the United States and Israel in advance of those strikes. And so now, regardless, Donald Trump would have you believe that he was totally on board, that maybe this was even his idea, and it's awesome, and it will help us achieve all of our
Starting point is 00:30:24 goals, which he had been failing on in terms of getting that deal, I guess, since we needed to move to these attacks, but don't consider it a failure. on board with the war and there's going to be a whole lot of it to come. That's what he's saying now. Interestingly, coming right out of the attacks, that's not what the administration was saying. So Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, he put out this statement saying tonight Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priorities protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense. Let me be clear, Iran should not target
Starting point is 00:31:01 U.S. interests or personnel. So that is what Marco Rubio is saying, implying that we should not get involved in this, which it being Marco Rubio and considering his backers, I'm sure Jenk is going to have a lot to say about that. But if you hear it from Donald Trump, we were way more involved in it. He said, it is on true social, I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them in the strongest words to just do it. But no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn't get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know anticipated. Or we're told that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world by far.
Starting point is 00:31:41 And that Israel has a lot of it with much more to come and they know how to use it. Much more. $50 billion worth of more, $100 billion worth of more, $1 to $2 trillion worth of more. I don't know, I've lived through these wars before. those numbers can go sky high very fast. He continues, there has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal come to an end. Iran must make a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known
Starting point is 00:32:15 as the Iranian Empire. God, he's so weird. No more death, no more destruction, just do it before it's too late. And that's, he rolled it out in True Social, he's been working on it. Here he is with a similar sort of message to Dana Bash. He responded by saying, quote, we of course support Israel, obviously, and supported it like nobody has ever supported it. And then he went on to say this. Iran should have listened to me when I said, you know, I gave them, I don't know if you know this, but I gave them a 60-day warning. And today is day 61. And then he said, they, meaning Iran, should now come to the table to make a deal before it's too late. And then he said something really noteworthy. He said the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliner, to which I just wanted
Starting point is 00:33:07 to underscore. So what you're saying is Israel has now killed the people who you were dealing with. And he said very sarcastically, they didn't die of the flu, they didn't die of COVID. The weirdest possible response to that question. By the way, I could have missed it, I've never heard of that 60 day thing before. I'm assuming he's lying about that in the same way that he supposedly called Gavin Newsom and berated him. And there's no evidence that that was true too. Donald Trump is being made to look a fool in situations around the globe. He couldn't solve Ukraine in one day. He couldn't
Starting point is 00:33:44 resolve the situation in Gaza. He couldn't stop Israel from attacking Iran. He couldn't make China bow down to us economically or Europe for that matter. He has is looking weak and foolish and old and tired. And so more and more lies need to be rolled out on a daily basis to puff him up and pretend that he's strong and clever and sharp and tough and everybody's very intimidated by him. And so some of that comes in the form of these lies, which I know we'll talk about. But I just want everyone to be prepared. Since he apparently has no capacity to make himself feel like a big tough guy abroad,
Starting point is 00:34:19 it's possible he'll want to do that here in America. It's possible that it's not a coincidence that he's using the military so early in his second term against protesters and promising, oh, if you come to my military parade, I'm going to do the same thing. This is a guy who needs to believe that he's tough and he's not. And when that's shown, when he's flailing, and when he's being criticized by the right, by the way, he needs to make himself feel better somehow. So I would watch yourself if you're out on the streets this weekend. Yeah. So first of all, they're more likely to come to the table. What table? Israel just blew up the table. Iran literally has to find a new peace negotiator because their earlier peace negotiator was murdered by Israel. Gee, I wonder if you want peace
Starting point is 00:35:06 or war when you murder the other side's peace negotiator. Okay, so let's, don't ever let anyone lie to you. Israel 100% started this war, okay? And no, Iran was not close to having a nuclear bomb that would have taken well over a year. Even if they got to weaponized uranium, they still had no way of delivery it. Okay, that's a building a bomb is a completely different enterprise than enriching uranium. And it's amazing how everything gets memory holds. So that's immediately forgotten by all the press. The fact that they bombed in the middle of their capital and killed civilians, barely reported. But my God, the injuries, the injuries in Israel. And now they're instantly the victims, right?
Starting point is 00:35:53 So look, we're doing a poll, speaking of that, on our website, t.com. Now that Israel has started a war with Iran, how much should we support Israel from now on? Well, number one, A, more financial aid to help them defend themselves. B, less financial aid because this war is against our interests. Or C, our aid to Israel should be zero. So now, let's talk about how they're going to drag us in. Real quick on Rubio, by the way, John, you mentioned that. Now, yes, Rubio's taking over a million dollars from APEC throughout his career,
Starting point is 00:36:42 but so have a lot of senators and congressmen, they're all owned by APEC. I debated someone earlier today on a different show where they said, no, no, no, Apex is just giving them money because they happen to agree. They're not buying them. And they're not, and Apex's not working on behalf of Israel. It's working on behalf of America. I mean, who says stuff like this with a straight face? Okay, so, but you go ahead, Israel and Israeli supporters.
Starting point is 00:37:09 Do your stupid, obvious propaganda. Now, you're getting caught by left, right, middle, everyone. No one believes a word you say anymore. By the way, Israel also bragging about how they lied to the, the Iranians in a hundred different ways. I get it, if you're gonna do a surprise attack, you're gonna lie, et cetera. But they also lied to the whole press and stuff. Again, I get it, but remember the next time that Israel puts out a statement, it's incredibly likely that it's a lie. And later, they will laugh at the press for helping them pull off a surprise attack
Starting point is 00:37:41 and attack a sovereign country and start a giant war in the Middle East. The idiot American press, they'll just report anything we say, as if we aren't giant liars and didn't lie every single time. And sometimes like this, we lie, we brag about how we lied to you and how you're our stenographers. And he just told everyone the Israeli point of view and skewed everything in our behalf. Yeah, I know, that's American media. Okay, so how are we going to get dragged into this? We got an aircraft carrier there. We got a bunch of Navy ships. We got Jets in the air and we got bases in the Middle East. They do not have Iron Dome.
Starting point is 00:38:20 None of them are protected like Israel. We're all sitting ducks there. We got these giant ships just sitting in the middle of the sea waiting for a drone strike. We got bases that are not at all. I mean they're protected in terms of having troops there, in terms of having air cover. But can they get hit because they're not protected by aerial cover like Iron Dome? Yes. So basically Netanyahu told this moron Donald Trump, hey, you know what?
Starting point is 00:38:44 If I blow up the negotiation table, they're more likely to return to it. If I murder everyone in their government, they're more likely to want to do a peace deal. And Trump's like, okay, okay, yeah, but how much are you bribing me? Oh, you're bribing me a lot? Oh, okay, I already took Qatar's money. Now I'll take more of your money. Okay, sure, I'll do whatever war you want. Who cares about the American people?
Starting point is 00:39:05 Oh, I said I was anti-war during the campaign. And they didn't know I'm a giant liar. And Mago, what happened? He's a liar, right? Or he's an idiot. Pick one. Because he said anti-war, and this ain't anti-war. And he brings, just like Israel wants, he brings our troops in our military to sit there like sitting ducks, inviting Iran to attack them so that we'll get sucked into another multi-trillion dollar war like Iraq. Oh, except Iran is four times the size of Iraq.
Starting point is 00:39:39 So if you thought the Iraq war costs us a lot in blood and treasure, wait until you see how much we'd lose in Iran because we always have to do Israel's dirty work for them. And are we already knee deep in this war? Oh no, golly gee, we didn't do it. That brings me back to the Rubio statement. Rubio's statement is so important because despite the fact that he's bribed by APEC, he went out and said, we didn't do this. This was a unilateral strike by Israel, which I thought was really surprising because
Starting point is 00:40:06 Rubio mainly, you know, is his job is to filate Israel. And so here he was going, we got nothing to do with this. So that was made it clear. America did not authorize the attack. Trump afterwards realized he looks weak. Netanyahu, as he was holding Netanyahu's chair for him, Nanjahou was like, you think you're the boss of me? You told me not to attack. Wall Street Journal reported that.
Starting point is 00:40:30 Many people reported that. So I ignored you because you're useless. You're the American president. I ordered the American president around all the time. Democrat Republican doesn't matter. We're the boss of you. So that's super embarrassing to Trump. So he's like, oh, hey, I mean, I knew, I knew.
Starting point is 00:40:48 It was an excellent attack. Yeah, no, why did you have Rubio say it was unilateral and not has nothing new with us earlier? That shows you 100% that he did not authorize the attack. Netanyahu bitch slapped him across the face. So what are going to sit there, bleed all day? Now go do my propaganda for you for me, boy, boy, go out there and tell him how excellent I am. Then get your troops killed and fight my war for me, just like you did in Iraq. And Trump said, okay, okay, sir, okay, sir.
Starting point is 00:41:18 Is the money still coming? A-Pak and AIDO says, is the money still coming? Anti-war, my ass, I told you it wasn't anti-war. Look, I'm encouraging the, yes, by the way, the left, Tucker Carlson, we're going to talk about it later in the program. Tucker Carlson and other people, we massively disagree with saying, yeah, Trump got tricked. He's complicit in this. So yes, you should get their base angry, they should be angry. They voted anti-war, they didn't get anti-war.
Starting point is 00:41:47 And Mago, we're gonna find out who you are. And finally, if you think, oh, well, it was just defense. I mean, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Israel had to be defended against those monstrous Muslims who were counter-attacking. Okay, it turns out today we find out we also provided intelligence for the attack. Now we didn't know necessarily that we they were going to use that intelligence to do their attack, but we did provide intelligence. Oops. So that means we were a part of the offense and the defense.
Starting point is 00:42:17 That means we're in the middle of the war right now. How easy was it for Netanyahu to trick or bribe the simple-minded Donald Trump into being massively pro-war and dragging us into another giant war in the Middle East, which is the exact opposite of what he promised. Maas? You know, Donald Trump is at once an unintelligent child and a madman combined. He said that it was the Iranian Empire. It was the Persian Empire. He also famously didn't seem to care about Iran when he was going to visit the Gulf countries. And he had said that he was going to claim that the name of the Persian Gulf is an Arabian Gulf
Starting point is 00:42:59 because he wanted to play into the hands of the Gulf countries. So I don't know if he really cares about the Iranian people. I actually doubt it simply because if you remember in 2020, John Bolton backed them into possibly going to war with Iran when they killed General Soleimani. And at that time, as the tensions were escalating between Iran and America, Trump came out and was warning the Iranian government that he would bomb Iran and bomb their historical sites, which have nothing to do with this regime, this Islamic Republic of Iran. it's what iranians are proud of and he said i will bomb those sites of yours so i don't know how much he cares for the iranian people he certainly is again unintelligent in the fact that he's saying well they killed my negotiators they killed the hardliners there weren't only five hardliners there's the whole islamic republic regime are hardliners and so it's not like once you kill
Starting point is 00:43:59 these guys then everything's solved then proof of that is when we killed solemani in 20 2020, this guy Salami, who just called Salami, who just was killed now with these strikes, he just took over. Another hardliner comes in and takes over. And then to your point of, did he know, did he not know, did we know, did we not know? You know, there's only two options. Either he didn't know and he got played or he did know and he played along and we pretended that we were going to go negotiate, in which case, we are duplicitous and we are saying that we can't trust the Iranians, well, can the Iranians trust us? Because from now on, anything we say and do is totally unbelievable because, you know, is it real? Is it not real? Are we really coming to
Starting point is 00:44:48 it? How do they know if they come to actually, if they sat down on a negotiation table that snipers wouldn't come in and take out their negotiators again? Because America go to them into it. I mean, this is constantly, again, what's going on and in terms of the, The attacks without a second idea about what are we going to do next. And Netanyahu has been jonesing for this for years. He's been jonesing for this for years. Let's not forget Netanyahu's got his own problems, criminal prosecutions in Israel. He's got those hardliners he's in bed with.
Starting point is 00:45:22 And, you know, again, killing tens of thousands of innocent Gazans. So he needs to keep this going, keep this level of emergency going. this is a vital thing. We need to keep going. They have all the arms they need. And Trump just told you they're going to give them more arms. And so it really is from the outside. I honestly, I'm perplexed that there's not somebody inside the administration who taps him and goes, hey, dude, you're falling for a trap. Don't fall for a trap. But again, he's very easily convinced to do many things. We looked at the fact that he, you know, brought those Afrikaners in. Somebody was in his ear saying, hey, bring these Afrikaners that are being persecuted in South Africa,
Starting point is 00:46:07 bring them, let them come in and be refugees. And so similarly, someone's in his ear, Netanyahu's in his ear saying, hey, don't worry, we'll bomb them and it'll help the negotiations. And here we are. It's not even, it's just not even, it hasn't even been 24 hours. And it's just escalating and getting worse and worse. So I'm going to make a tiny point here. Just as you watch the coverage, I want you to look out to see if this happens. If Iran had struck first, and they had hit in Jerusalem and killed 78 people, mostly civilians, and over 200 injured. What would they have called that strike? They were going to call it a terrorist strike, right? Because if it happens inside Israel and civilians are killed, and you're bombing a major
Starting point is 00:46:50 city, it's a terrorist strike. When Israel does it, let's find out, is American media, is anyone outside the young Turks going to call it what it is? Israeli terrorism. where they murdered civilians, scientists, but also just people that had nothing new with the program at all, okay? No, of course, when Israel does terrorism, it's preventative war, okay? There is no such thing. When you start a war, you didn't prevent one, you created one. So later in the program, we're going to talk about Maga's reaction. When we come back during the break, I will read your comments, and there's a lot of interesting ones.
Starting point is 00:47:27 So stay here during the break. Back on TOTJ, Jenk, John and Maz, we are going to get back to Magu Reaction to the war a little bit later in the program, but we got to talk about here at home and the National Guard. So John. Yeah. Rough week for Jank. have not been here on the show in LA. I know, I was trying to do as many videos as I could from the streets of New York. I know, check out the shorts. Okay, well let's jump into this. Federal Appeals Court, federal appeals court late last night paused a ruling, a very brief one,
Starting point is 00:48:15 that required President Donald Trump to return control of the California National Guard to the state after he seized it to deploy against protesters in Los Angeles. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer had ruled that Trump unlawfully federalized, of members of California's National Guard and would have to return control by, well, right around now actually, if it hadn't been paused. And it has been, but we will still want to give you some of the ruling because this process is not done and that original ruling has some pretty good points in it. He said his Trump's actions were illegal, both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the 10th Amendment to the
Starting point is 00:48:52 United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the governor of the state of California forthwith, which is a word we should bring back, I think. Regardless of whether defendants gave Governor Newsom an opportunity to consult with them or consent to the federalization of California's National Guard, they did not issue their orders through him and thus failed to comply with federal law. They didn't do any of that. He just took it. Not only did he not work with Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom, California, the mayor of L.A., the LAPD, we're all saying we don't need this, but they had different goals. in mind than Donald Trump perhaps.
Starting point is 00:49:28 And in addition to that, the judge outright rejected the idea that what's happening in downtown LA is an insurrection, saying violence is necessary for a rebellion, but it is not sufficient. Even accepting the questionable premise that people armed with fireworks, rocks, mangoes, concrete, chairs, or bottles of liquid are armed in a 1903 sense. The court is aware of no evidence in the record of actual firearms. There is little evidence of whether the violent protesters' actions were open or avowed. Nor is there evidence that any of the violent protesters were attempting to overthrow the government as a whole. The evidence is overwhelming that protesters gathered to protest a single issue the immigration raids. And he concludes saying the court is troubled by the implication inherent in defendant's argument that protest against the federal government, a core civil liberty protected by the First Amendment can justify a finding of rebellion.
Starting point is 00:50:20 The idea that protesters can so quickly cross the line between protected conduct and rebellion against the authority of the government to the United States is untenable and dangerous. And I would really love for judges, not just him, but at higher levels, the Supreme Court, to make very clear that simply because you disagree with Donald Trump and you're out in public, that that's a rebellion. If that's allowed to stand and I worry that the Supreme Court will allow it to, well then kiss the Constitution, goodbye. The First Amendment isn't worth the paper that it was originally written on at that point.
Starting point is 00:50:52 And Donald Trump is doing it against this protest, against the protests involving ICE, But he'll do the same thing against the No King's protest. If you protest against his parade, if you protest for women's right to control what happens to our body, he does not tolerate people disagreeing with him. Very few people on the right do these days. And so at least temporarily we had a judge on our side. Now, it was appealed and the three judges of the Ninth Circuit, they did temporarily block it. So he does have control throughout this weekend, so that's concerning.
Starting point is 00:51:23 They're gonna be holding a hearing on Tuesday though. In advance of that, Donald Trump thanked them for the ruling saying that if he hadn't sent the military to L.A., the city would have burned down by now, which maybe he's right about that. I'm not sure. 50-50 chance that L.A. would have been entirely burned to the ground if he hadn't instigated further violence. Yeah, so, okay, let's start with free speech. Earlier, last I checked in on the right wing, before the election, they were massively in favor of free speech. Right after the election, oh, you're doing protest of ICE or Trump bringing the Marines? Well, if you bring in the Marines, you could cancel some people.
Starting point is 00:52:06 So that's certainly for sure. Okay, now guys, I'm not talking about the guys who did property damage and et cetera. I'll get back to them in a second, okay? I'm aware that they exist, okay? Who started it? I started it. They fired flashbang grenades into the crowd. The crowd wasn't doing anything.
Starting point is 00:52:23 they had actually just they actually ice had stopped traffic and and then people started recording and when they started recording ice got mad and they started this whole mess and when you get head hit in the head with a tear gas canister you tend to want to throw something back okay so that's the genesis of how it started okay then later there were different things that devolved right now why am i against it overall um because we're not a developing country or a banana republic And I don't like to see the military patrolling the streets of the US. Also, we have laws against the military patrolling inside the US. Also, don't tread on me.
Starting point is 00:53:05 I was told that we should be really careful about tyrannical government bringing in the military to oppress us. And here's Trump doing it. And the right wing's like, yes, finally, to radical government to rule us all with a heavy hand in all of our city. No, no. And then why is Trump constantly looking for abusing the Constitution, abusing our laws, overreaching his authority, constantly looking to be more in favor of an authoritarian government. So real quick, yeah, can I just jump in with just a bit of breaking news? So this is obviously against the law and all of that. But the Marines apparently as of 30 minutes ago was reported have done at least the first
Starting point is 00:53:51 detention of a civilian in LA. So the Marines are exercising arrest authority in an American city. Not just the National Guard, which he can't call in without a government's permission, which is actually what Trump said earlier, and many people in his administration, and even Cash Patel said he can't do it, right? Except he is doing it, he's clearly violating the law, because he loves violating the law. He loves, he wants to be a dictator so badly. And guys, Look, if you're a mad guy, you're like, oh, no way, man, you guys have TDS and all that stuff. Look, Trump's a simple guy. So what does he want?
Starting point is 00:54:27 He wants money. So that's why when he says, they ask him once, hey, the Saudis, it looks like they might be money laundering through Trump Tower and stuff. And Trump said, they give me $30, $40 million in apartment. What am I going to do? Say no. No, I'm going to take it. Simple guy, you give me money. I do what you want.
Starting point is 00:54:45 Okay? And then what is the other thing he wants? Power. So he thinks, why wouldn't I take more power? I'm the president, I should be able to do whatever I want. No, that's not how the presidency works. You're thinking about a king. He's like, yeah, that sounds good.
Starting point is 00:54:58 Me want more money, me want more power. Me have military in the streets, run tyrannical government, perfect. That way I could tread on you, but you can't tread on me. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, more, more power. Okay, look, it's not to say that people did new wrong things. So I'm going to address that real quick and then I'm going to kick it over to Mos. Guys, if you're in these protests, I know the cops, not just the military, but the cops are, we've shown it on TYT, go on to our live vertical and watch for hours, we cover
Starting point is 00:55:30 the protests and you see horses trampling on protesters, et cetera, right? So that has happened. But did some people commit violence and property damage? Yes, they did. Are they, should they be considered part of our allies and protesters and our side? No, no, turn them in, okay, don't listen to radical idiots telling you, oh, they're just, you know, they're just protesting, they're not protesting. The civil rights movement would never tolerate violence because it destroyed the movement.
Starting point is 00:56:03 It would allow back then racist people to go, you see, like people are all violent. That is why they police themselves and made sure there was no violence, so there would There'd be no excuse for the authorities to commit much bigger violence on them. So if you see anyone in a protest doing violence, burning a waymo, burning things down, doing property damage on innocent people's homes, business, et cetera, turn them in. They're not on your side. They're the ones who are actually making you look terrible. And hurting the immigrants, hurting our communities.
Starting point is 00:56:43 So counterproductive, it makes me wonder if they're a false flag operation, right? Because if you were a right winger and you wanted to turn all sympathy against LA, against the cities, against our communities, against immigrants, you would go in, burn a bunch of things down, burn the American flag, and act like the idiots who broke the law did. You've got to get rid of those people, you've got to keep it peaceful so that we're on the moral high ground and we win. I know radicals will say no, violence is the answer because they're stupid. attack the Capitol on January 6th, one of the defenses that people that were supporters of MAGA were saying, they were saying, well, what about the protests in Portland? What about the protests there? What about the rioters in these protests? And it's always amazing that people that are open-minded to anything will say, yeah, they should be arrested as well. If you broke, if you broke the law, you should be arrested. Therefore, the people who stormed the Capitol should be arrested and not pardoned the way.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Trump pardon them, actual criminals doing crimes, actually going after cops, actually killing people in those protests, wanting to hang Mike Pence. So it's just very rich that those people will excuse and say, oh, the insurrectionists were tourists. And here we are at a protest that's mostly peaceful with some people who are rioters. And you go, okay, arrest the rioters. Yes, arrest the rioters. But what's happened also is I think by bringing in the authorities and all these other, the National Guard and now the Marines, you're escalating the tension. You're elevating the tension. And what's crazy, first of all, is I live in Australia, and we live in Los Angeles. And we know that what was happening was in a pretty small area.
Starting point is 00:58:59 But people outside of Los Angeles, when they see the footage, the press, the way the press is covered it, it looked like the city was burning down. And so I had several people reaching out to me. I just did a show on Hermosa Beach, which, as you guys know, is about 45 minutes away from downtown L.A., its own community. And I had somebody call me from San Diego saying, oh, I bought tickets to come to your show. But then I saw the riots and the curfews, so I'm not going to come. And I was like, it's in Hermosa Beach. There's nothing going on. So the press has not done a good job of indicating that the protests aren't as violent as these images show.
Starting point is 00:59:35 And also, you know, Trump has even come to admit that he was wrong with his policy. We saw that he came out and said, oh, the raids of farm workers and some of these other people that are working is not a good thing because it's hurting the farms, it's hurting these businesses. And it all goes back to, you know, when they originally said that we are going to deport undocumented violent criminals. And they've come to realize there just aren't that many of them. So now there's just going after undocumented people. So really the bigger threat to Los Angeles are not the protesters, but ICE. And they're going to car washes, they're going to schools, they're going to places where people that are here that are trying to become legal are showing up in courthouses for hearings and they're being arrested and deported. So that needs to be shown more and more in the news.
Starting point is 01:00:26 That needs to be shown more and more to the MAGA world for them to realize that this is all a big, big, big. play to distract from some of his policies that have been failures from his tariffs from the big beautiful bill that's going to take away a bunch of people's insurance and so this is their way this is stephen miller's way of going in stephen miller called for a quota when you call for a quota of deportations nothing good comes from that because when you call for a quota we know that now those people that are authorities are going to try and fill those quotas so they're standing there in schools and just taking parents away from children, parents that haven't committed any crimes, they've been here for many, many years, leading a good life, trying to be
Starting point is 01:01:10 good citizens, committing fewer, causing fewer problems than American citizens do. So once again, I will say that this is all something that has been, you know, drummed up by the Trump administration to distract from a lot of his failures. And a lot of his base is buying into it. But even he has realize it's bad policy as he realizes that this is going to hurt our economy the workers that were picking the strawberries the workers that were cooking and doing construction and all of that stuff are just being deported so it's it's it's just it's it's so plain to see yeah so last things for me you know some of magos saying oh my god you see la such a mess he had to call in the national guard he had to call in the Marines remind me if there was anything
Starting point is 01:02:00 going on in L.A. before ICE came in. No, nothing of it. Perfectly peaceful. There's nothing going on. Ice comes in, does the raid, and then attacks the people who they stopped in traffic, and then Emile breaks out because they started attacking them. In the beginning, it wasn't even protesters, bystanders who were looking like, wait, what's going on? And they were filming it. They're like, how dare you film it? That's it, ICE attacks. Ice brought this problem. There's no, so as a matter of fact, there's no question. You can say, hey, ice needs. to bring that problem to each city. They need to do these raids, and then they need to bring in the Marines, and they need to take over all of the cities.
Starting point is 01:02:37 That's a, again, very curious stance from guys who warned me about the tyranny of government and how we shouldn't let, you know, these troops. And they had practiced fighting them in the woods when they came. But they're not in the woods, they're in LA, right? And then lastly, look, both sides, please be consistent. So the MAGA guys go, those January 6 guys, you make it seem like it was just a big giant riot, but most of the people who were at the speech were perfectly peaceful. So it was mainly peaceful. You know you sound just like the left, right?
Starting point is 01:03:11 The protests were largely peaceful. And there's a couple of idiots who did something wrong, and then they should be arrested. You know why you sound like the left, because that is true. Most of these protests on the left and Donald Trump's speech, the majority of people were peaceful. But should we arrest the people who committed violence? Well, of course we should. They can bust into the capital talking about murdering Mike Pence. What are you gonna do?
Starting point is 01:03:36 And then they beat the cops with sticks. We're not gonna arrest them? Of course you have to arrest them. And then if you're on the left, if you say, of course you have to arrest those guys, don't you obviously also have to arrest the guy who burned the Waymo and who threw a break through a window? Of course you do.
Starting point is 01:03:51 Of course you do. Arrest the people doing violence with local law. local law enforcement, okay, and let the protests go on otherwise. And do not bring the military into any of our cities. If, you know, Donald Trump's crowning achievement might be, oh, congratulations America. I didn't make America great again. I made America a banana republic for the first time. I don't want it.
Starting point is 01:04:16 Nobody wants it. But unfortunately, we're stuck with it. Okay, we got to go. Everybody check out John on damage report Monday through Friday. 1 o'clock Eastern, that starts off the Young Turks. You catch our whole schedule on t.com. We run it as a 24 hour channel. And Maas, you could check out where he's going
Starting point is 01:04:37 at Mazjabrani.com, okay? He's gonna be ice touring, including in Hermosa Beach apparently. But don't risk it, don't risk it. Oh yeah, it's very risky down. Yeah, the only thing you'll risk in Hermosa Beach is sunburn. Okay, all right, love you guys. We'll be right back with a second hour, including MAGA reaction to Trump starting a war.

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