The Young Turks - Israel's Cash Cow - August 4, 2025

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Sorry. Big time. I'm so upset. Oh my God. God! Oh my god! All right, welcome to Young Turks, Cenk Ugarana, conspiring with you guys. So we've got a hell of a show for you today. Charlemagne goes after Trump,

Trump goes after Charlemagne. I go after 20 Democrats and Republicans defending politicians. I love the voters. Defending the establishment. Yeah. So that was on Jubilee over the weekend, we're going to

discuss that, we've got some clips for you guys. And unfortunately, lots of Israel news, we're going to discuss that, we got some clips for you guys. And unfortunately, lots of Israel news, we are occupied. And if you are an Israeli supporters, your feelings will be hurt tonight.

100%. Guaranteed, okay? And let me start by saying, I don't care about your feelings at all. And if you prioritize your feelings over the deaths of tens of thousands of children, there's something

wrong with you. Or the freedom and sovereignty of this country. Right, no, we're occupied. We're going to prove it to you in several different ways. Our officials are going and groveling at the feet of

the Israelis, demanding that no one is allowed to boycott or protest Israel. That America bow down on its knees to Israel. So that's a fact and we're going to prove it to you today.

And if you love Israel's genocide currently, not if you love Israel over, if you love their current genocide, you're a sick person and I'm going to enjoy hurting your feelings tonight. So that's how I feel about it. Let's get started.

All right, well, we're going to begin with something entirely different because there's this huge debacle in regard to the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report revisions to said reports and how Trump has responded to it. jobs report today were rigged. Yeah, I think so. I think you'll see some very interesting information come out. But we got really have to have honest reports. Going forward, why should anyone

trust the numbers? And if you're- You're right. No, you're right. Why should anybody trust numbers? So you know what I did? I fired her. That's right, he fired her because

the latest jobs report coming out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the revisions to previous jobs reports from both May and June of this year has upset President Donald Trump to the point where he has decided to fire the commissioner of the BLS. Her name is Erica Meckentaffer and

apparently he thinks that she's cooking the books, cooking the numbers, but is there any truth behind it? No. Now, let's get into the details of what the July jobs report indicated and what the revisions were for

the previous two months. So jobs numbers came in below expectations for July at 73,000 jobs. Now economists were expecting somewhere between 110,000 to 73,000 jobs. Now economists were expecting somewhere between 110,000 to 140,000 jobs. But now with the revisions that

have been made for the reports that came out in May and June, it's very likely that even that 73,000 number might be revised to be lower. We're going to have to wait and see. Now here's where things start to

get very strange, okay? So look, while tariffs are supposed to spur domestic manufacturing jobs, the sector has actually lost jobs, in fact, 11,000 manufacturing jobs in July alone. Now the revised jobs report also indicates that the amount of jobs

was over calculated in June by a lot, by a whopping 258,000 jobs. Okay, so the original jobs report said that the economy added 147,000 jobs in June, then revised it down to only 14,000 jobs. Now look, I think that Trump is

quick to retaliate against government officials that he disagrees with or he feels or like trying to go after him politically in some way. Put Trump aside for a second, how do you make a revision that big?

How do you go from a whopping 147,000 jobs and revise it down to just 14,000 in June? Then you look at May, the previous BLS report said that the labor market added 144,000 jobs that month. Then the revision revised the

number down to just 19,000 jobs added to the economy in May of this year. That's a pretty huge revision. Yeah, okay, no, it's not that big a deal at all. So the job numbers get changed all the time.

She explains why the numbers are getting less and less reliable. We'll share that with you in a second. Guys, think about the conspiracy theory that Trump has. Okay, she had to adjust the numbers down for the last two months.

Okay, well, what does that mean? That means she had the numbers grossly inflated the last two months. Okay, well, what does that mean? That means she had the numbers grossly inflated the last two months. Right. So why was she doing that in favor of Donald Trump? That helps Donald Trump's a lot in

the last two months. As he gets to say, you thought jobs are going to go down, my tariffs are awesome, my big beautiful bill that's going to give tax cuts to all the rich is awesome. Okay, if there's any conspiracy theory, it's that they made the job numbers look great, so the tax cuts to all the rich is awesome. Okay, if there's any conspiracy

theory, it's that they made the job numbers look great, so the tax cuts would pass. But there isn't, she's just a bureaucrat and a professional bureaucrat. I read on our history, and these numbers fluctuate wildly,

because they're estimates. And then the real numbers are closer to the real numbers come in. They get changed up and down all the time. And I don't know why she would want to help Trump in the last two months if that conspiracy is true, and then decide, you know what? No, I'm against Trump, now I'm going to take the numbers down.

So it makes 0% logical sense. Exactly, look, when it comes to Trump, and I want to be very clear because I don't want people to conflate what I'm trying to say. Trump has no evidence that the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was cooking the numbers to hurt him in any way. Okay, I just made that statement, please put that aside for a second.

I get that the numbers do get revised, it does fluctuate. But Cenk, I mean, look, the big argument that we're hearing from economists and various experts who are being interviewed all throughout the media today is what Trump is doing is going to lead to that we're hearing from economists and various experts who are being interviewed all throughout the media today is what Trump is

doing is going to lead to distrust of this government agency. Fair point, but shouldn't we have been a little bit skeptical about the initial numbers coming out from this government agency anyway, given how much the numbers get revised and the extent to which

they get revised? And I understand what you're saying. It's a perfectly legitimate question. The reason why I would say no overall is with the caveat. The caveat is, as again, we're going to show you in a sec,

that numbers are getting less and less reliable as we go because of phones and being able to reach people, right? But overall, this has happened for timing memorial. This is not an agency that all of a sudden has this yo-yoing up and

down and unreliable numbers. There are a lot of agencies like that and overall, Anna, your point about we shouldn't trust the government in the first place is super well received. I totally agree, right? But this has been both according to

Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, a fairly reliable part of the government that just does numbers. I mean, I'm sure he misspoke, but you heard the tape there Trump saying, why should anyone trust

numbers? I mean, numbers are facts, numbers are as close to facts as you can get, but so that's why I get why you're bothered by it. Because it looked like it was a fact and now you're showing me a completely different number.

But we are now in August, it is August. We just got the new jobs report, which included the revisions to May months ago and June, okay, two months ago. I know, but Cenk, to this extent, I mean, I'm sorry, how do you go

from 147,000 jobs and revise it all the way down to just 14,000 jobs in June? Because, Ana, there's 330 million people in the country. That's why these numbers historically fluctuate. I've never seen any other

president complain about fluctuations, including this size. That's fair, if that's what we're all going to accept, then when the initial jobs report comes out, and there's all these news stories about it, we should just ignore it. We should just ignore it.

Yeah, no, no, but that's part of my point, which is that, so Trump wanted the credit from the last two months when apparently the numbers were inflated. And now that they fixed the numbers, he's like, no,

that's it, I'm going to fire her. And look, more important than any of this, guys, is, do we have a functioning government or is this a banana republic? No, we don't, that's my problem. Is this a banana republic? And so there's two different

issues in this story. One is the one that Anna's pointing at, which is that we're having so much trouble trusting any of our institutions. Exactly. Because no matter where you go in the government,

somebody has an agenda, right? No, you gotta do that for Israel. You gotta do that for the oil companies. Wait, do you work for us or do you work for the goddamn oil companies, right? So there's a failure of all of our

institutions to earn our trust. And then secondly, now Trump has instead of making it better has made it worse. Yes. And so he pours fuel on that fire. It's like that Zulander scene when they start pouring the gas all over themselves. And he's like, okay, I like your numbers the last two months. But this month, I don't like your numbers politically. So I don't like your factual correctness, I'm't like your numbers politically. So I don't like your factual correctness, I'm going to fire you for that. The next person should know I want

political correctness. The politically correct position is the numbers always go up. But by the way, that's also super stupid if you're a Trump fan. And I don't mean the fans are stupid, I'm saying Trump's idea is stupid.

Because if you like Trump, he's insisting that the interest rates go down, and you want the interest rates go down and you want the interest rates to go down. If the job numbers are lower, the interest rates are more likely to go down. Searchlight Pictures presents The Roses, only in theaters August 29th. From the director of Meet the Parents and the writer of Poor Things comes The Roses,

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certainty that the Federal Reserve based on these revisions in the jobs reports will cut interest rates in September, which is something that Trump absolutely loves, but he's faced with a very clear paradox here, right? He wants easy money, okay,

loves that cheap money from the Federal Reserve, which, by the way, does distort our economy and does lead to asset bubbles,, okay, loves that cheap money from the Federal Reserve. Which by the way does distort our economy and does lead to asset bubbles, but okay, people love the cheap money. I get it, we're addicted to it in the United States.

But at the same time, the Federal Reserve isn't going to cut interest rates until they grapple with inflation, which had slowed down a little bit. But more importantly, remember what Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve, has been saying

repeatedly over and over again. One of the best the head of the Federal Reserve has been saying repeatedly over and over again. One of the best indicators of whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates is if unemployment goes up. And these revisions make it clear that unemployment is starting to

tick up a little bit. So for instance, hold on, before I forget, Cenk, so the rate of unemployment did increase just slightly from 4.1% in June to 4.2% in July, go ahead. Yeah, look, guys, if you're a Republican voter,

you still like Donald Trump, you gotta expect better from your leaders. We asked our Democratic leaders to be better, we didn't get it, but we asked for it. You should ask for it too, because Donald Trump says, I want lower

interest rates from the Federal Reserve, and I want higher jobs numbers. But guys, that doesn't make any sense. Higher job numbers means the Fed is less likely to cut rates. So, okay, so we explain that. So then take the next logical step. My God, Trump doesn't even know the basics about economics. He doesn't know that if he wants the Fed to lower the rates, he should be happy that the job

numbers temporarily are down. That's the perfect opportunity for him to say, see, I told you you gotta lower the interest rates. Instead he's like, me no like it, me want higher job numbers. But then the Fed won't reduce

the rate. He doesn't understand that. But the jobs numbers. Jesus Christ, man, if you're a plumber, I get it. But if you're the President of the United States, do one hour of homework, brother.

This is why I say that he's confronted with a bit of a paradox because he wants to look good. He wants to look as though his policies have spurred growth in our economy. But these numbers and the revisions that have now been

put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that our economy has slowed down. Now, yes, that gives the Federal Reserve the perfect reason or excuse to cut interest rates, which Trump wants. But at the same time, yeah,

it's going to look like his economic policies because there is some fact behind it, truth behind it, that some of his economic policies are starting to slow the economy down. I think the way that our economy works is pretty messed up. That in order to get access to

cheap money through cuts in the interest rates, you need to see suffering among the American people in regard to joblessness. So let's get to some more details as we're now learning them as a result of this report. So in 2025, the industries that

have seen the largest numbers of job cuts happen to be technology, 89,251 job cuts in that sector and retail 80,487 job cuts in that sector. So AI apparently has cut more than 20,000 jobs in the tech sector this year alone. And you also can't disavow 80,487 job cuts in that sector. So AI apparently has cut more than 20,000 jobs in the tech sector

this year alone. And you also can't discount the fact that the federal workforce, which is counted into the jobs report, has shrunk by 84,000 jobs since January of this year, with 12,000 job losses in July alone. Now the rate of wage growth has also

been slowing down, but that's been the trend since 2022. Now for those who are wondering, well, who is this commissioner? She is a career federal government employee. So she spent most of her career at the Census Bureau.

She is a numbers person. She led a program to produce economic statistics and finer-grain detail on people and places for the census. Then in 2022, she joined Biden's White House Council of Economic Advisors.

Biden then nominated her to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics and she won confirmation early last year in a pretty significant vote 86 to 8. But she's known for her nonpartisan work ethic and also served in Trump's first term. During Trump's first

administration, his daughter Ivanka Trump led a White House initiative to bolster workforce training, which included McIntifer, that's the one that we're talking about here, then at census, McEntifer was an important member of a team working on statistics for

the project which ended when Trump left office. Now to be fair, again, BLS has made revisions historically, this isn't rare. The extent to which the numbers change though, I feel, or fluctuated over the last few months,

I think is a little strange. But for one, data kept getting released early, and this is something that, this is kind of unrelated to the whole TIF with Trump, okay? But I think it's important to know this, and I think this should be

investigated. So the Wall Street Journal uncovered the fact that in August of last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had released numbers to Wall Street Journal uncovered the fact that in August of last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had released numbers to Wall Street 30 minutes before they did so to the general public. That's a problem.

Some Wall Street firms received access to labor market data roughly 30 minutes before the public. They claim that it was an accident. I'm not going to take anyone's word for it. Obviously, if Wall Street is going to have information that the general

public is not privy to, that retail investors are not privy to, they're going to be able to make trades based on that information that the general public isn't privy to, so that should be investigated. And there are other issues as well and policy decisions at the center

of the problem. For instance, the Wall Street Journal reported this year that the agency has increasingly relied issues as well and policy decisions at the center of the problem. For instance, the Wall Street Journal reported this year that the agency has increasingly relied on guesswork to calculate some of its biggest data releases because of staff shortages caused by

a federal hiring freeze. Meanwhile, fewer families and businesses answer the phone when BLS workers call to conduct surveys. In recent months, the response rate for the survey that drives unemployment figures has hovered below 70%, down from nearly 90%

a decade ago. So that goes to the point that you were making, Cenk. There's been some changes in how people respond to these types of surveys, and that has had a negative impact on the accuracy of the initial BLS reports.

Yeah, I want to go back to something you were saying. So that Wall Street getting the news half an hour before the rest of the public is unconscionable. They can make billions off of that. And it's inside of Trading 101. The head of the BLS did not do

that, there's somebody inside the organization. Of all the things that we just covered in this story, that's the most important. Because the rest of it is just fake, like Trump's feelings and stuff, right? So that's real, who the hell leaked it to Wall Street? Because guys, think about it. I mean, billions turn on information like that. If they get a million dollars, 10 million dollars is nothing compared to what the money they can make. Our government's leaking like a sieve.

And let's note for the record that when the Democrats were in charge, the Republicans said, we should do the stock act. They're no more insider trading by members of Congress. And Republicans are like, no, no, no.

Now that they flipped, Republicans are in charge. Now the Republicans are like, no, no, no. And the Democrats are pretending they want to do it, right? So they're just giving information to themselves and

to their donors nonstop. And that goes to Ana's point about losing faith in our institutions. There's only one piece of good news out of any of this, all right? Silver lining is, I was on Piers Morgan this morning, right? And what happened to

Democratic supporters who are still saying, no, Joe Biden is young and dynamic, and they were getting swarmed and overwhelmed by everyone, right? No, you're being ridiculous, especially after the debate, right? Now it's happening to Trump

supporters who are just partisans. So Carrie Lakes on there going, yeah, we should fire anyone who disagrees with Trump. And everybody else is like, yeah, that's ridiculous, that's stupid, and we can't stand it anymore, right?

So the partisans are being to lose in a big, big way. And I love it, I'm here for it. We need accurate data and information, period, right? And firing the commissioner solely based on politics, which is what Trump did, is wrong.

And obviously, I'm a million times against it. At the same time, clearly, there are some issues at BLS and they need to figure out how to improve their methodology in order to get accurate or as close to accurate numbers as possible.

Agreed and final point goes to one of our members on tyt.com be part of the show go to tyt.com slash join and be part of our commentary on our Brett Michael pointed out he does not want to banana republic. He said, give me an Anna Republic. Interesting. Interesting.

Okay. I'm here for it. Thank you. All right, well, we're going to take a break. Because when we come back, we're going to switch gears and talk a little bit about foreign

policy. This next story that we're going to talk about has to do with us as the American people providing revenue to the federal government, specifically so the federal This next story that we're going to talk about has to do with us as the American people providing revenue to the federal government. Specifically, so the federal government protects us

from things like natural disasters, unexpected tragedies, things like that. But now the government is threatening to deprive us of our own resources if we have the audacity to speak out against or boycott a foreign country. That and more coming up, don't miss it.

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And the reason I got cut off from the social break, that's one of the reasons I came back to. But the second reason is I love when you say that you're going to be a part of the data and you're going to be a part of the data, and you're going to be

a part of the data, and you're going to be a part of the data. And I think that's one of the reasons I came back to. But the second reason is, I love when you guys, our members, add to the show by giving us your expertise or your experience, either in a particular city or in a field. So thank you for doing that, we appreciate you. And CDN Norse day, dog day, thank you for giving two memberships on YouTube, we also appreciate that.

All right, Casper, what's next? All right, let's take a look at what's going down with some foreign policy. Five more people have died from malnutrition in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths from lack of food since

the start of the war to 180, including 93 children. Hospital officials say at least another 27 Palestinians were killed to start the war to 180, including 93 children. Hospital officials say at least another 27 Palestinians were killed seeking aid when Israeli troops opened fire at two different locations near aid distribution

points in Gaza on Sunday. And that's because those aid distribution sites are nothing more than death traps for Palestinian civilians. And now Israel has announced its intention to steal the whole of the Gaza Strip while ethnically

cleansing the land of Palestinians. Which anyone with two brain cells to rub together was warning about for well over a year at this point. But we've been gaslit to basically believe that no, no, no, no, no, most moral military, Israel would never do such a thing. Now they've announced it.

According to DropSite News, senior official in Netanyahu's office says, we are moving to occupy the strip, the decision has been made. Hamas will not release more hostages without complete surrender, and we will not surrender. If we do not act now, the hostages will die of starvation, and Gaza will remain under Hamas control. Now, I want to be clear,

Hamas on multiple occasions during ceasefire negotiations has offered to release every single hostage, both living and those who have died. The only sticking point at this point when it came to the ceasefire, by the way, Hamas even gave up on a permanent ceasefire.

They're willing to take a temporary ceasefire as long as humanitarian aid flowed into the Gaza Strip. The only sticking point because Israel kept changing the terms of the deal was that Israel wanted complete demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.

Well, you do that, and what do you think happens? You don't have a country, you don't have a two state solution, nothing, Israel comes and takes over. And now they're just saying, yeah, we're just going to come take over,

anyway, we're going to- Yeah, we don't care about the hostages, we don't care about anything, self-defense. We have a bunch of idiots on American cable news are still saying that for us. I like how they work for us instead

of their own news organizations. Anyways, so this is now declaring we're doing a genocide. Just to back up what Anna's saying about the ceasefire negotiations, Steve Woodcoff, Trump's negotiator, said, look, the fundamentals of a deal is the hostages for peace,

and Israel gets out. And that makes sense, that's very logical, that is supposed to be the essence of a deal is the hostages for peace and Israel gets out. And that makes sense. That's very logical. That is supposed to be the essence of it. And Israel goes, no, I want the hostages back.

And after a small pause, I'm going to go back to annihilating Gaza. That's exactly right. Well, that's not an offer. That's just not an offer. And anyone saying that Israel's not at fault for backing out of those negotiations is lying on

behalf of Israel. So you should ask them, why do you keep lying for a foreign government? What a weird thing to do if you work in American media. Because we're an occupied nation. Let me give you some statements from Israeli government officials

and members of the Israeli media, by the way, just to reinforce what I'm saying here. This isn't just some anonymous government official in Israel saying that they're going to occupy Gaza. So for instance, you have Amit

Siegel of Israel Channel 12. He's basically the equivalent of the host for Meet the Press in Israel. He says- And a right winger, so he has good sources inside the government.

Yes, he says senior official in Netanyahu's office, the decision has been made, we're going to occupy Gaza. Here's another example, Amakai Stein, the diplomatic correspondent for I-24 News, also reported that the Prime Minister's office briefed this evening that a decision has been made by the PM for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip, including operations in areas where hostages are held, and

conveyed a message to the chief of staff, if this does not suit him, you should resign. And by the way, if you take issue with this, as I do, because it's clearly stealing land, engaging in genocide, ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people from Gaza,

and you might want to consider joining the BDS movement. Maybe you're successful in engaging in genocide, ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people from Gaza. And you might want to consider joining the BDS movement. Maybe you're successful in convincing lawmakers in your municipality or state to boycott Israel. Well, guess what?

The federal government is warning you, we will deprive you of the very resources the taxpayers in your city and state have paid into. So the Federal Emergency Management Agency stated in grant notices posted on Friday that states must follow its terms and conditions.

Those conditions require they certified they will not sever commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies to qualify for funding. What funding you might ask? FEMA funding. So if your city or state has

decided to boycott Israel because they take issue with genocide and the slaughter of innocent people. Well, the federal taxes that you pay into you'll be deprived of if you need it as a result of a natural disaster or any type of emergency. Okay, that is some of the most

disgusting America last garbage I've ever heard in my life. There needs to be a revolt because the fact that we are working hard paying our taxes and the federal government is basically telling us, no, we don't like the political cause you're engaging

in so we're going to deprive you of those resources is unacceptable. Yeah, we're all Palestinians now. So this is the beginning of how it feels to be living under an occupation. But Israel has done an amazing job, amazing, of occupying 330 million

people, demanding all of our money, demanding that we support a genocide, demanding that we take money out of our paychecks to go kill over 20,000 innocent children in Gaza and to starve them to death. They're saying you must support our fascist government.

You don't have a choice. And by the way, if you boycott it and a hurricane wiped your house out or a tornado did, shut up and serve Israel. If your state dared to criticize or boycott Israel, you American, shut up and serve Israel. If your state dared to criticize or boycott Israel, you American,

you're not going to get your taxpayer dollars. We'll take it from you and I don't give a goddamn what happened to your house or to your family. You're just a lowly American. We're going to give it to

the almighty Israelis instead, because they haven't murdered enough Palestinians yet. Now, if you're an Israeli and you're catching feelings, A, I don't give an F, you can go stuff those feelings in a DP poll, okay? So, okay, so I don't, so any-

If your priority is Israel, then I have no interest in even having a conversation with you. My interests, okay, are taking care of the American people with the resources that we provide to the federal government, to federal coffers. The idea that criticism of

a foreign country should lead to the deprivation of government services for the American people is so infuriating. And I'd like to ask Israel supporters, okay? What exactly do you think this does in your quest to fight

anti-Semitism? Seriously. You idiots, you're driving anti-Semitism through the roof. You effing morons, you're going to get people hurt. We're trying to stop you not because we hate you, but because we think

it's not if you're a friend, you don't go, hey, yeah, let's go into a bar fight with 13 guys that have AK-47s and we'll have nothing. No, pull them out of the bar fight. What are you, nuts? So Israel's genius plan is to starve

Palestinian children in front of the whole world. Yeah. And then be surprised when they get hated. Come on. To shoot them in the face, to shoot them in the head and the chest and

to just sit by and accept it. We have to fund the slaughter, we have to fund the face, to shoot them in the head and the chest, and to just sit eye to eye and accept it. We have to fund the slaughter, we have to fund the genocide, we have to fund what's happening to those poor kids in Gaza right now. And then on top of it, we have to just shut up.

Shut up, you're just a pay pig for Israel, nothing more. The requirement applies to at least $1.9 billion that states rely on to cover search and rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries, and backup power systems among other expenses, according to 11 agency grant notices reviewed by

Reuters. And by the way, if you think that's bad, it's about to get worse. So get a load of this. Under one of the grant notices posted on Friday, female will require major cities to agree to the Israel policy to

receive a cut of $553.5 million set aside to prevent terrorism in dense areas. How unbelievable, how much are they going to rob us? $311 billion at a bare minimum in inflation adjusted dollars has gone from American citizens working

their ass off to barely get by to Israel. When are we going to get the money back? Now they're using our money to slaughter children and saying, if you complain, anti-Semite, ruin him, destroy him.

I don't control America. The politicians, I bribe 400 and out of 435 members of Congress, but don't say anything. If you say anything, you should be fired. You should be arrested. You should be, don't you know Israel controls America? No, no, no, we don't control America. We don't control America. But if you dare criticize us, all of your money should be taken away, you should be

fired. And if you're on a college campus, arrested, denaturalized, deported. But we don't control America. We are the number one donors to Joe Biden throughout his career. We're the number one donors to Donald Trump throughout his career. We're the number one donors to 100%

of Republican leadership in Congress. The number one donors to 75% of Democratic leadership in Congress. The number one donors in this election cycle to members of Congress. But we will get every lying moron

in cable news to tell you, you can't say Israel controls America. That is very, very offensive. Murder those children right in front of our eyes, not offensive. Not offensive. Give me your goddamn money.

Israel hasn't murdered enough children yet. Give me your goddamn money, okay? But I'm offended. I'm offended that you're using my money to murder children with a sick genocidal government. Now, by the way, it's over, guys. They just said they're going to

occupy all of Gaza. We shared that with you in the beginning. So that is them saying, yes, we had genocidal intent all along. When Netanyahu brought the greater Israel map to the UN and said, this is what I'm going to do.

And he's doing it now. From the river to the sea, then Yahoo also said that. He's like, if anyone says from the river to the sea to the Israelis, they should be murdered, they are terrorists. And then he turned around

the next speech, he's like, Israel should do from the river to the sea. And then he's doing it, he's doing it right in front of our eyes and with our goddamn money. Well, Israel's the only country. And you're offended,

F your offense, F your offense. I don't care if you're a sick enough person to be more offended at criticism of your goddamn beloved Israel. But you're not offended at all those starving children. There's something depraved inside

your soul. I'm an American, why would I care about Israel? Why would I as an American citizen give a damn about Israel? Why? Why? Why is that required? Why is that mandatory in the United States? Could it be because we are an

occupied nation? We're not a sovereign country. Every other issue we talk about on this show, Cenk, doesn't even matter. You want to talk about tax policy? You want to talk about tax policy with me right now?

Okay, I'm at a point where I don't want to pay a single dollar to the federal government. I don't trust the federal government, the fact that they're holding federal money hostage and depriving our fellow American citizens of the resources they're

entitled to is infuriating. Okay, so on tyt.com, we asked this question. What was Israel's plan in Gaza? A, self-defense all along. Did anybody answer that? Good, 0%, obviously, you'd havedefense all along. Did anybody answer that? Good, 0%, obviously.

You'd have to be a moron to answer that, especially after they told you, yeah, well, you did it to steal Gaza. They just said it, all right. Number B, that's funny. Self-defense in the beginning, but

ethnic cleansing now, 20% say that. Ethnic cleansing to take over Gaza all along, look at that 80%. But look, it just got started in the voting, so that doesn't really matter. You can go vote now and

I'm curious how you guys are going to vote going forward. That's just the initial couple of votes. All right, look guys, the reason we ask that question is, are we still having this conversation?

Is there anyone still pretending that this is about self defense? We're literally two years from October 7th, 2023. They have 20 hostages. They kill 20, 40, 100 people a day. They did it again in the last 48 hours killed over 100 people,

great number of them children. So what we're supposed to care about the 20 Israelis more than 20,000 Palestinian children, 61,000 Palestinians overall at a bare minimum. But they say that with a straight face, we are the superior people.

So our people are worth their weight in gold, they're worth 10,000 of your people. So we're slaughtering, slaughtering, slaughtering because we care about the lives of the 20. Well, why don't you care about

the lives of the 61,000 or the 2.2 million that you've now absolutely devastated their lives? Have you not heard the way they talk about them, Cenk? They don't even see them as human. Yeah. They don't see Palestinians as

human. There are so many videos of powerful people in Israel just openly saying, yeah, those children should starve to death. I'm not even kidding, rabbis, government officials. I mean, it goes on and on.

It's just hilarious to me, right? Because they say it out loud, they say it with their whole chest. And then here in the context of the United States, they send their little mouthpiece propagandists like Shabos Kestenbaum to go on Piers Morgan and

just lie straight to our faces about what's happening on the ground in Gaza. As if we're idiots and we don't see it, we don't hear it. It's all in front of us every single day. So we just had a vote just two

weeks ago, $500 million more to Israel, give me your money, give me your money. This is a stick up, okay? And so they say, no, it's for defense, it's for Iron Dome. Then you look into it,

60 million is for Iron Dome, 440 million is for other missiles. I mean, everything Israel says is a lie, and everything our lying politicians say is done on behalf of Israel, okay? So they took money out of our paychecks, again, just like 10 days

ago, to send another half a billion dollars to murder more Palestinians. As the Israeli government proudly announces now, we're going to occupy all of Gaza. We were going to take the land all along, you idiots, you schmucks, send me more money,

all your politicians are mine. Wait, wait, wait, that's not fair. It was probably a close vote, I mean in the middle of a genocide. Can you imagine if we sent the Nazis money in the middle of the Holocaust?

Half a billion dollars and we said no, no, it's okay. We're just giving it to the Nazis defensive purposes to protect the German people. We're not giving it to them for the Holocaust that they're doing. We're giving it for

defense of Germany. I mean, I hope to God that you would be morally outraged by that. If we gave the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the Armenian genocide half a billion dollars to kill more Armenians, we said, no, no, it's for Turkish defense.

Everybody would have found it absolutely absurd. But as Israel does, they're like, no, not absurd. So what was the vote close? 422 to 6. Disgusting. To send more money to kill more

Palestinians. So all the Republicans accept two, all the Democrats accept four. You're telling me we're not occupied? You're telling me we're not occupied. You're telling me that AIPAC and Israeli lobby does not control Congress. If you're saying me we're not occupied? You're telling me we're not occupied. You're telling me that AIPAC and

Israeli lobby does not control Congress. If you're saying that you're not a journalist, you're a liar. And you have to look into yourself as to why you're choosing to lie on behalf of a foreign government. Well, people will take offense.

Well, people take offense at all the slaughter of the innocent children in Gaza. People take offense at the starvation of an entire population, but you don't care about that. All you care about is whether someone offends Israel.

So are you a journalist? Is there a single journalist at the New York Times or Washington Post or Cable News at all? No, all dogs of Israel going, no, no, you can't say they control our Congress.

It was only 422 to 6. And okay, what are the six? Tom Massey, you know what's happening? $2 million already against them a year and a half before the election, a year and a half. 1 million from Paul Singer,

massively pro-Israel, $750,000 from Mary Madelson, $250,000 from John Paulson. So pro-Israel supporters in America saying, how dare you defy Israel? Tom Massie will be canceled. Well, I don't control Congress.

I just buy every seat and if anyone dares to criticize my real country Israel, yeah, I said it. I mean, imagine if a bunch of traitors come in here and go, all right, everybody now works for Turkey, okay?

Shut up and work for Turkey. Here, here's money that I give you just to represent that foreign government. And then you go, all right, everybody now works for Turkey. Okay, shut up and work for Turkey. Here, here's money that I give you just to represent that foreign government. And then you go, shh, you're not allowed to say you would offend the Turks. No one would believe any of this

crap propaganda if it doesn't come with the magical word Israel in it. So yes, we're totally utterly caught occupied. Israel runs this government, not America. And by the way, so the Republicans are corrupt.

Wow, color me surprised. Those dog Democrats running around, I'm a little worried about Gaza. And then, here, take your goddamned money, give it to Israel, give it to Israel. It's for defense. Shut up.

Okay, so last thing is knuckle dragging one of our members on tyt.com said, midterm should be about stopping Israel and Trump from causing any more suffering. If a genocide is not good enough reason to vote,

I don't know what is. But vote for what? Vote for what? No, no, no, so great question and why I brought it up, Ana. All pathetic cowards who spend all their time filleting a terrorist regime in a foreign country.

That's what we have in terms of candidates. Okay, you want to know why they hate Zoran Mamdani so much? Because he had the gall to say out loud that he wants to represent the people in New York City as opposed to a foreign government.

How dare you? You must visit Israel first. They call him a jihadist because he actually wants to represent Americans instead of Israelis. Man, I have to say, this has been the most illuminating two years of my entire career.

Because everything we've been talking about, everything that gets debated policy wise in this country does not matter. how much you pay in taxes doesn't matter. How are you going to pay taxes to a federal government who's going to deprive you of

resources when you desperately need it because you don't agree with a genocide in a foreign country? Soon our children will be starving because we sent all our money to Israel. When are we getting the 311 billion back?

Why do we owe them? This oil is11 billion back? Why do we owe them? This oil is for defense. But why do we owe them for their defense? Because we likely have a bunch of pedophiles running the government. Do we owe defense to Malaysia? Do we owe defense to Canada?

Why do we owe Israel, who is a nuclear armed country and has the only country that has iron to them? There is no country better protected than Israel. You owe them Americans. If you don't take your money and

give it to Israel, you're a hateful person. You hate Jews. Are you insane? I don't hate Jews. What does that have to do with me giving my money to a genocidal maniacal government?

No, no, no. So it's all a trick. And if anyone defending Israel right now, to use the word anti-Semite, what that means is they despise Muslims and Palestinians and Arabs. They're deeply racist bigots who

think that Palestinian lives don't matter at all. The only lives that matter are the Supreme People, the ubermash, the Israelis. They're garbage people. They are providing cover for the slaughter of innocent people,

including innocent, defenseless children. You can call me whatever you want, okay? I couldn't think less of you. We gotta take a break. No, I gotta tell you one last thing.

So you asked what's the point of voting? Guys, this is super important. You gotta vote in the primaries. And if you vote, because by the time you get to the general election, it's a pack clown robot number one versus APAC clown robot number two.

Go into the primaries and if anyone takes a dime from APAC, vote against them, period. It's blood money for genocide. So politicians are so sick and disgusting in America that they're like, you'd like to murder an entire population and starve them to death.

Well, do you have money for me? You have money, okay, I will take the money and I will serve Israel. Anyone who takes a pack money or Israeli lobby is not serving America, they are clearly, clearly serving another country.

So if you vote for them, you ought to have your head examined. Anyone who votes for money, votes for someone who takes money from the Israeli lobby is saying, we should serve Israel, not America, period and obvious.

All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, Hamas has released some hostage videos. Turns out when you starve an entire population of people in Gaza, the hostages also suffer. We've got that and more coming up. All right, back on TYT, Jane Kanana with you guys and also Jeanette Hekavaria,

Piferu and Kamal El-Watar. They all just joined by hitting the join button below on YouTube and became part of the show. You guys power us, without you, we go out of business and it's over. We're not a pro Israeli show, so

different economics apply to us. And I'm not kidding, we're going to show that to you later in the show. If you're a pro Israel media outlet, you're going to show that to you later in the show. If you're pro-Israel media outlet, you're going to get a free couple of hundred million dollars. It's unbelievable. So the only thing we have is you

guys. So thank you for joining, we appreciate it, Ana. All right, let's get to our next story. Watching helplessly as my younger brother, Evyatar David, and his fellow hostage,

Guy Gilboa Dalal, sleep away. They are on the absolute brink of death. and his fellow hostage, Guy Gilboa Dalal, slip away. They are on the absolute brink of death. He knows about the situation of Rom and the other hostages. And yet he is crying again and again not to save him. You just heard from the family members of two Israeli hostages, one of which had a video released

of him by Hamas. Now the two hostages are 24 year old Evyatar David and 21 year old Rom Braslawski. released of him by Hamas. Now the two hostages are 24 year old Evyatar David and 21 year old Rome Ruslowski. Now they remain in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip and everything that is being implemented

against the Palestinian people. They also suffer including the three month humanitarian aid blockade that Israel had implemented. And the Gaza humanitarian aid foundation hubs that have just become kill traps for the Palestinian people.

That's obviously making it difficult to get food for everyone in the Gaza Strip, including the hostages. Now Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad released haunting videos of both men, which we're going to show you

parts of in a moment, but I just want to warn you all, it's obviously difficult to watch, disturbing to see. And with that in mind, take a look. I'm a Muslim Christian. I've been here for two years now. I'm afraid that I won't look good. I'm tired. I can't stand it. Why did you kill me when I couldn't stand it?

I'm tired. I'm tired. If I had a little bit of food, I would have been fine. What I'm going to do now is dig the grave. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am.

I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am.

I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. 18 other hostages are believed to still be alive in Gaza.

The remains of the hostages who have died are still in Gaza as well. Meanwhile, starvation still plagues Gaza, which I'll give you some details about nearly 170 people in Gaza, more than 90 of them. Children have died from

malnutrition since the war began, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the enclave. And CNN reported over the weekend that health officials say that 13 people have died from malnutrition in the past 48 hours, including one child.

So as you can see from the graph, and we've shared this with you all before, this graph which was put together by the Wall Street Journal demonstrates just how much humanitarian aid was put together by the Wall Street Journal demonstrates just how much humanitarian aid was cut off from the Gaza Strip as a result of

UNRWA being banned from operating in the Gaza Strip. And the humanitarian aid foundation essentially, allegedly replacing operations, but they didn't really replace operations. As you can see, aid deliveries

under the uncoordinated system reached their height at 295,120 tons, but then no aid entered Gaza for about two months, it was actually closer to three months. And when the Gaza Humanitarian Aid Foundation replaced UNRWA, the number of aid deliveries peaked

at just 38,252 tons, Cenk. Okay, so and you'll hear liars like Benjamin Netanyahu today in a video saying, we overfed them. Overfed them, and I debated one such monster on Piers Morgan recently. The IDF has been too good to

the Gazans. And Netanyahu said today, he said, although he at the same time announced that they will be occupying all of Gaza and stealing all of that land. He said, that Palestinians are asking them,

can you please save us from Hamas? We would like Israel to take over Gaza and kick us all out. Yeah, and he probably said that. If you're a reporter in America, you'll probably report that like a goddamn moron as if it has 1% chance of being true.

Okay, so when I watch the hostage video, of course it's heartbreaking, right? That's a normal human reaction. Then I wonder, okay, strategically, is it right or wrong for Hamas to release that video? Okay, morally, you should never

take the hostages first place. So that's obvious, we don't need to get into that, right? So, okay you should never take the hostages first place. So that's obvious, we don't need to get into that, right? So, okay, they should release the hostages, yes, and Israel should stop murdering everyone in Gaza. So that's the peace deal, that's the peace deal we want.

Hostages return, Israel stops murdering everyone, okay? But Israel says, no, I reserve the right to murder everyone I want, but you gotta give the hostage. Okay, so then as I looked at it,

I thought, no, it makes sense that they released it, okay? Because the Israelis, the citizens, they don't really care about the Palestinians. The polling is clear. Right. Okay, so they think, now we're

starving them to death? No problem. And if you say, are there Israelis that object? Definitely, there's wonderful people inside Israel, Gideon Levy and a million others, okay, who object, right? And a lot of the people that you saw Israelis that object, definitely. There's wonderful people inside Israel, Gideon Levy and a million others, okay, who object, right?

And a lot of the people that you saw in that protest, right? But the minute you put out Israelis that are suffering, that are starving, they're like, wait, now the majority of the Israelis, the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews right now,

go, wait, I didn't know there were human suffering. I mean, the superior race, the ones that we care about. I mean, you're all of your children were starving to death. Who cares?

You guys are inferior to us. You're our cattle just to be moved to and fro until we take your land, right? My God, an Israeli is suffering. My God, Israelis are the greatest human beings ever. All of you are beneath us. But now that I, an Israeli is suffering. My God, the Israelis are the greatest human beings ever. All of you are beneath us.

But now that I know an Israeli is suffering, now I'm really upset. One of the things- Okay, wow. Hold on, one of the things the IDF did during this genocide, which I was so disturbed by, and it barely garnered any attention

in the media. They dug up individual graves at cemeteries across the Gaza Strip, removed corpses of Palestinian individuals, and then just threw them in mass graves. The death. Desecrating their bodies, it's just- And not in this war. But no one cared, no one cared, no one cares. The various doctors who have come

forward, American doctors who have risked their lives and volunteered their time in the Gaza Strip to provide aid to people. Best people on Earth. Best people on Earth, courageous, real humanitarians. They come back to the United States

to testify about all the Palestinian children, toddlers, showing up to the hospital rooms with gunshots to their heads and their chests. No one cares in America. I mean, some do, we do, that's why we've stayed on this topic and

we won't let it go. It's unconscionable. And so yes, I see the suffering of those Israeli hostages and it absolutely breaks my heart. What I fail to understand though is the lack of humanity, the lack of concern for what's

happening to the Palestinian people. Because for me, this isn't about identity, this is about human life. So what do we do when there's an entire government that's a terrorist government? And they have nukes,

a terrorist government has nukes. And they're saying no, we're going to kill as many people as we need to in Gaza until they all leave because we're going to conquer that land. They said it today, they announced it, we're going to fully occupy

Gaza. So then, what are the Israeli expectations in regards to the hostages? They're like, how dare Hamas not feed them? But wait, the Palestinian children are starving to death.

Every day, more children starve to death, okay? Nearly 200 have already starved to death, overall, 90 of them are kids. So the Israeli expectation is you should take food out of your own children's mouths and give it to Israeli soldiers who are captured.

Because the Israelis are so much more valuable than your own children's mouths and give it to Israeli soldiers who were captured. Because the Israelis are so much more valuable than your own children, how dare you not realize that we'll go back to murdering more of you. This is the disgusting, sick, terrorist government we're supposed to fund and bow our heads to.

No, thank you. I'm disgusted by every corrupt politician who supports this monstrous government and that is nearly 100% of American politicians. The last vote was 422 to 6. They own us. And it's so, look,

it's a mask off moment. It is. And it's not just about Israel. This shows you, our politicians are the worst people in the country. They have no morals at all. All they care about who's my donor, oil companies, yes to them,

etc. It's a foreign government, no problem. You're in the middle of a genocide, no problem. Thank you, sir. May I please have the check, sir? So those, yeah, you get it.

104 people were slaughtered waiting for humanitarian aid on Sunday alone, 1,300 people were injured. They just fire at, they shoot, they kill desperate people waiting for humanitarian aid. That's what they do. They're literal death traps,

intentionally placed in active combat zones. And Palestinians risk their lives anyway, because without that bag of flour, they know their kids are going to die. Israel's government is definitely worse than Hamas.

Let's just be clear about that. They have killed 50 times the number of civilians. If you say those civilians don't count or that you don't care, then you're a terrorist sympathizer. You say my people are important, they're the ubermensch.

Your people should be slaughtered. And if my government is doing 50 times the terrorism of Hamas, that's a good thing. Okay, well then you're a terrorist sympathizer of a deeply terrorist government that has killed so many more civilians than Hamas,

Hezbollah, and almost all the terrorists in the world combined. Israel is a monstrous terrorist government with so much weapons and power and the entire American the world combined. Israel is a monstrous terrorist government with so much weapons and power and the entire American government behind it. It is a rogue nation that is a danger to all of us.

So this is somehow protecting Israel, monsters and fools. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back for the second hour, we'll talk a little bit about fun little field trip that House Speaker Mike Johnson went on recently. And then we'll get into Trump getting roasted

by Charlemagne, not really liking it, not enjoying it. We'll tell you what the TIF is all about when we come back.