The Young Turks - Israels's Next War - August 20, 2026

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

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I'm so upset. Oh my God. Turks, Janky, Granikasperin with you guys. Chalk full of news today, of course. So we got Joe Kent versus Dan Bongino in a war over the Tyler Robinson case. I think that case is going to, it has the ramifications of potentially changing the country and the planet. Yeah, I'm saying it. And that's a very big thing to say.

But we'll see as we, as time goes on, why I say that. I think that there's of course many other things that are going on all crazy, all chaotic. Israel and Turkey might soon get into a war. I thought that was crazy, but apparently it's very real. We're going to talk about that in a minute. And then Donald Trump and Scott Besson saying, oh, the economy is great as it begins to crater right around them. That is amazing. And then finally, Natalie Hart, it seemed like a silly little story, right?

But as it turns out, no, foreign governments are apparently using her, even though she does not have national security clearance, super dangerous, we'll talk about that later. And then finally, we gotta get to this story later in the program. So the whole thing about, oh my God, there's so much anti-Semitism on campus, utter nonsense. So someone inside the Trump administration explains how they made it up, and that is an amazing story. So Anna, good to see you. Good to see you. Yep, lots to get to. So let's start on the first story here. Absolutely. Well, yeah, okay, sorry, I'll kick it over to you. So Israel just struck

a northern Syrian air base and the Turkish delegation that was there had just left hours ago. If they had hit the delegation, Israel would have triggered a war with NATO, which is insane. And so I thought the Israeli aggression along these lines was just bluffing and posturing for their elections. It turns out that is not the case. Both sides are preparing for a war. We're going to explain that to you throughout the story. I'm going to come back and make some points about how Israel's preparing and Turkey is preparing. And I've also figured out why Israel wants this war.

It turns out there's an economic reason. So this is a startling development. A country that has started so many wars in the Middle East, Israel, attacking nearly all of its neighbors, now attack Syria again and would like to start a war against NATO, which would include America. Anna, please explain to us the details of this story, which are unbelievable. Gladly, but I will say it is not unbelievable. I think we need to get to a place where people are no longer experiencing even a drop of national. when it comes to the genuine intentions and motivations of Israel.

But with that in mind, let me tell you what we know so far. So Israel dropped at least eight bombs, eight bombs on runways and hangars at the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northern Syria specifically. So that's about 45 miles away from the Turkish border. Now luckily, these Israeli strikes that hit this airbase didn't end up killing anyone, but they did did do a lot of damage to like the runways, which had just been rebuilt following a pretty devastating Syrian civil war. Now, at first, Israel completely denied that they had carried out this attack. An Israeli military sensor, in fact, put a gag order on any reporting in Israel that would confirm that the Israeli defense forces had conducted these strikes. And then U.S. ambassador to Turkey and

and Syria, Tom Barrick, then goes on X and confirms what we all suspected that Israel was in fact behind these strikes, these eight bombs at this air base in which a Turkish delegation was just at and had just left hours earlier. So let's get to some of the reporting on this. As Tom Barrick wrote on X, he says that we are deeply concerned that the confirmed Israeli airstrikes on the airbase constitute an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability. Now let me just pause for a second and remind everyone that this is the guy who spoke down to Lebanon, to the Lebanese people on behalf of Israel. He's a major Zionist, hardcore Zionist, always sides with Israel. But in this case, he's speaking out, and he's the one

who really confirmed that these strikes happened in the first place. He says the Alshara government, Alshara is the relatively new leader and former Al Qaeda terrorist of Syria, has neither adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces. It has, in fact, repeatedly indicated its preference for de-escalation with Israel, the United States has in the past and will continue in the future to host discussions to encourage diplomatic, cadence over kinetic frustration for both nations. Okay, so there he is confirming it. Now the real question is why, why?

Why is Israel doing this? Now Israel later did confess that Turkey was their target. I'm not kidding. They say Netanyahu in particular says, well, we needed to do like a preemptive strike because we're concerned about Turkey carrying out a military buildup in Syria. Let's be honest, running a business means constantly putting out fires and trying to grow at the same time. You don't need more meetings, you don't need more red tape, you need capable people without the hiring headache. Upwork is a one-stop platform to find, hire, and pay expert freelancers across web and software development, data and analytics, marketing, business operations, and more. Upwork helps grow your business by giving you fast access to specialized talent across 125 plus categories.

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in a public statement. Now Israel is worried that there is a Turkish military buildup happening in Syria. But the Syrian foreign minister says, no, there is no Turkish military buildup. This was in an interview with Axios. He said the following. There was no intention to establish a Turkish base there, nor to establish a permanent Turkish military presence or deploy Turkish forces at the site. There was no Turkish military buildup at the base in any sense that would justify such an interpretation. The base was in fact largely empty. And again, going back to Netanyahu's statement, he himself admits that.

It's just that he had the suspicion that they were about to, engage in a military buildup, and he needed to do something to prevent that. And by the way, I'm going to go to reporting out of Israel that shows that this is genuinely a strategy the Israelis intend to deploy. So what was the Turkish delegation actually doing there? We should address that. So two Syrian officials who spoke to the Associated Press on Condition of anonymity said that the Turkish delegation had visited the air base in the northeastern province of Idlib to basically review rehabilitation work underway at the facility. As I mentioned earlier, they're, you know, trying to rebuild Syria after a devastating years-long civil war. Turkey accused Netanyahu of making untenable allegations

intended to legitimize Israel's unlawful airstrikes targeting Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Sovereignty and territorial integrity are two things that Israel couldn't care less about. Let me just be clear about that, but let me continue with the rest of this. It alleged that Netanyahu aim to pursue expansionist and the stabilizing policies in the region ahead of the elections in Israel. That is 100% true. There's no question about that. Israel's behavior, certainly when they're trying to annex land from Lebanon, when they're trying to take over all Palestinian territory. I mean, they are putting the clean break memo into action. It's been in action for a long time because they do want to expand their borders and carry out what is known

as the Greater Israel Project. So this air base that was struck, the Abu Duhr air base, lies at a strategic location near the borders between Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama provinces. There is something else that's incredibly important about this, you know, location of where the strikes happen. So Turkey's Communications Directorate also said that Turkey will resolutely continue to cooperate with the Syrian government on a legitimate basis for the establishment of peace, stability, and prosperity in Syria, and will never allow the destabilization of Syria. And look, there is a lot of cooperation between Turkey and Syria. For instance, Turkey is assisting Syria in its efforts to rebuild its armed forces. Syria's armed forces. Israel no like that.

Israel doesn't want any country in the region to be militarized, and they're very open about that, which is disgusting because, like, who are you to tell a sovereign country whether or not they're allowed to have a But let me continue. They train Syrian personnel at Turkish military schools and bases. Turkey also provides Syria with equipment and logistical support. And just last year, Syrian troops took part in military exercises that were held in Turkey. So here in the United States, when Trump was informed about what happened, he didn't really seem to care.

In fact, he had absolutely no criticism for what Israel had carried out. All he said was, I can't talk about it. And Trump has been attacking NATO rather aggressively. Now, you can argue, and I think this is true, Trump attacks NATO for a variety of reasons. He felt that NATO wasn't pulling their own weight, NATO countries, I should say. He felt that NATO abandoned the United States by not helping us in this stupid moronic war against Iran. And I think these NATO allies did the right thing by staying out of it. He disagrees with me on that, of course.

But the real question is, is Trump looking to pull out of NATO? Because remember, Turkey is one of our NATO allies. And now I want to toss to something else that's really important here. So Israel Hymohm is a publication owned by Miriam Adelson. And they put out a tweet today that I think is relevant to the discussion. Let's take a look at Graphic 7. Jerusalem has studied not only how NATO's Article 5 operates, but where it applies. The treaty protects Turkish territory.

Turkish troops do not carry that territory with them onto Syrian or occupied Cypriot soil. The headline of this piece is titled Turkey's Strategic Depth is now part of Israel's military calculus. Now, of course, because of course it is. And so if you read the body of the article, here's what they write. Israel did not wait for Turkish troops, aircraft, radar, or air, defense systems. It destroyed the infrastructure required to receive them before the threat became entrenched. The operational rule is denial before things are entrenched. Before Turkish troops arrive, the target is infrastructure. Once they arrive, striking it also risks

Turkish casualties, retaliation, American intervention, let's pause for laughter, and confrontation with a NATO member. And then finally, there's, you know, the economic reason that Israel is doing this, which I'm going to toss over to you, Jenks, since this is something you teased about. Yeah. So, guys, when I first started reading about how Israel was talking about attacking Turkey and, oh, did you know that northern Cyprus is occupied? I thought this was bluffing and rhetoric.

Like, oh, you're criticizing us for the occupation, but how about us? Cyprus, that's also occupied. Relatively normal propaganda and they view Turkey as against their interest for whatever reason, right? Well, I was a bit naive. It turns out the people running Israel, as we all know in other contexts, are lunatics. They're detached from reality. No, they have made detailed plans to attack Turkey.

And the plans are so detailed as Anna just explained to you, they already have a plan plan for where they can kill Turkish troops and where they can't. So they have a legal defense ready. If we kill Turkish troops on land that isn't Turkish territory, they think legally doesn't trigger Article 5, which means that the rest of NATO has to defend Turkey. So I now also realize in hindsight looking back for the last 10 and even longer years here America, the people who've been driving the anti-NATO propaganda, once again, the Israeli lobby.

Why? Well, we didn't know it at the time, but they needed to destroy NATO so that they could attack Turkey and not have America and the rest of Europe retaliate. And so that's obviously unthinkable for Israel. And I'm sure that Israel thinks it doesn't matter, we have special exemptions. So if we wanted, we could bomb Paris and America would join on our side and not on the French side. And so they have grown so enormously arrogant that they have detailed meticulous plans on where to murder Turkish troops and get away with it. And here's what's not going to happen.

They attack Turkish troops and Turkey does not respond. So they can claim all day long as they do. And the American press being their dogs and servants can pretend that it's true. But the rest of the planet doesn't operate that way. So what do they say? They say, well, Well, if we get hit first, well, it's obviously self-defense and that gives us a right to not only counterattack but do a genocide and do random wars that are not even related. It gives us infinite rights of self-defense. We could take 70% of Gaza, southern Lebanon for no reason, but hey, it's now ours, et cetera. But if we attack first, Israel says, like in Syria, oh, that's okay, it's preemptive attack,

so that's just self-defense. So whether we get attacked or we do the attacking, It's self-defense either way. And the American media comes out like a bunch of puppets and you can kiss my ass with whatever trope your accusations you make, but you are and you sit there and you go, of course it is, it's self-defense. When you murder others and invade others and you attack others like Russia, no, that's not self-defense. When Israel does it, that's self-defense.

Well, you're a bunch of liars who are obviously working for Israel to spread their propaganda. By the way, if you don't know, 1967, Israel attacked all of its neighbors and destroyed their air forces on day one. And then they called it self-defense because it was a preemptive attack and all of American media lied to you your whole life. And they framed it as, oh, Israel was defending itself in 1967. The vicious Arab neighbors attacked them. That is not true.

That is a 100% verifiable lie and you could look that up. But to this day, you will get anchors on television in America lying on behalf of Israel. So now that brings us to what the hell are they doing with Turkey? So what are there, why would they wanna go and attack the second largest military in NATO? Even if NATO doesn't respond, it's the second largest military next to the United States and NATO, that is a gigantic military. And they think, no, it's okay, America will back us, no matter what war we start, et cetera. And so why do they want?

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Why? Because they didn't want the new government of Syria to build up any defenses. And they say it. They say, and it's in that our article of Mary Madelsohn's publication, they say, yes, anyone who has a military around us is considered a security threat for Israel. And they say we have the right to eliminate any security threat. So Syria is not, basically, is not allowed to have a military. So if Turkey or Qatar or anybody else is helping them build, rebuild their own military, Israel

finds that an unacceptable security threat, and they have a right to invade, attack, bomb, Syria, and kill anyone they like Syrians or Turks. So this is the ravings of a lunatic mind. So Anna, let me get to the economic point and then I'll come back in and then I want to tell you about Turkey's preparations because they're not like us, they understand wars coming and they are prepared. So I thought, okay, it's a rhetorical trick with Cyprus. It turns out, no, no, they need it for economic reasons.

And again, Israel, Hymierreem, Mary Madelson's publication explains, the waters around Crete and Cyprus are Israel's strategic corridor to yours. Europe, energy cables shipping and military access through Greece and the Republic of Cyprus. So they are planning a route where their gas fields, Leviathan, and the ones they think that they are acquiring by taking southern Lebanon, which is the Lebanese gas fields off their coast. They're going to take that and the Saudi and other Gulf countries oil and gas, pass it through pipelines and then get it to Europe. So that way you don't need the Strait of Hormuz.

So the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is blocked is terrible for the United States and for the rest of the world. But it's excellent news for Israel and Israel's been bragging about it. You're gonna need to use our pipelines. You have to use our route. The problem is that route has to get completed and Cyprus is part of the route. So they need to attack Turkey and get into a war with them so they could take Cyprus for self-defense and set up their economic route to Europe.

So these lunatics think that they are regional hegemon's and they could attack any neighbor for just simple economic reasons, just to get richer. And by the way, the war in Iran is not just to destroy Iran. They wanna destroy Iran and Turkey, have no regional competitors. But on top of that is also so that the Strait of Hormuz gets blocked. That's not the bug for them. That's the feature so that they could do this alternate route. Anna.

I was just gonna go back to, you know, the fact that Israel doesn't want any country in the region to have a military. You know, one of the talking points that you'll hear from Zionists, both Christian Zionists and Jewish Zionists here in the United States in the middle of any debate is that, oh, but the Israelis, they made so many offers to the Palestinians, they made so many offers so they can have a two-state solution. But the reality is that they never, and this is intentional, mention the very obvious caveats. One of those major caveats to allowing Palestinians to have their own land, their own country,

their own state is you're not allowed to have a military. Okay, so for every American watching this right now, whether you support Israel or you don't, just ask yourself this question. If we were to wake up tomorrow and we have no military at all, do we really have a sovereign country. Aren't we then vulnerable to invasion by anyone who's interested in our natural resources? So when you hear that talking point, understand that it wasn't as cut and dry as they're trying to make it out to be. There was never really a good faith effort to allow Palestinians a chance and self-determination. There was always an effort to crush them by having unbearable, untenable

terms like you're not allowed to militarize. And even in cases in which, you know, know, there is a concession from the other side. Well, what do the Israelis do? They always change the terms. I mean, we've seen this happen again and again when it comes to negotiating with Hamas. We've seen this happen again and again when it comes to negotiating with Iran. Iran will make all sorts of concessions that you would never believe Iran would make. Then they call Israel's bluff because Israel is still not happy and they want to change the terms of the negotiation.

This is what Israel does. And to me, Jank, look, maybe I'm too, Jain. Maybe I'm too blackpilled. I don't know. But one thing I know without a shadow of a doubt is that I'm proven right again and again when it comes to Israel. Whether it's you or Mario Nafal or all the other people who still feel this weird urge to give Israelis the benefit of the doubt, please stop. Please stop. It's going to kill us. Okay, because that country will stop at nothing for power, for money, for natural resources. You think it's beyond them to kill Americans?

They've been killing Americans. This is an evil country that will stop at nothing to increase its power on the international stage. So the Americans might be a little bit naive, but apparently, and I didn't know this until today, the Turks are preparing. And I actually learned it from, again, Israel Haim, the Israeli publication. And so they explained that Turks have landed a lot more planes in northern Cyprus. And the paper actually pointed that out as a reason to attack Turkey quicker. They said, well, if they land more planes, then it'll seem more aggressive when we bomb them and try to take Cyprus.

Yeah, I got news for you. That's going to seem aggressive either way. Okay. And so they're not just like the Turks are preparing because they understand that Israel means it and they're coming. And they just did a bombing and they barely missed the Turkish delegation. If they had, we'd be in an international incident now that, again, is pushing us closer and closer to World War III.

So these people are lunatics. So they're saying before the Turks land more planes in northern Cyprus, which is their territory, and you can get into, hey, no, it's occupied, et cetera, that's an interesting, different conversation. But they control it right now, as my point. They're thinking, well, maybe we should attack right away. You're gonna start a war with Turkey right away before they can amass more troops in their own territory that they control?

These are, again, ravings of a lunatic mind, but it's actually happening. So then Turkey, according to Israel Haim, has also made a deal with Somalia and potentially moving material into there to be able to put in ballistic missiles. So, and by the way, they say this, as if Turkey has no right to make any alliances with any other country, have any missiles, any planes, any defense. And Syria was not, this says up and down and Tom Barrow, Our ambassador to Turkey and Syria confirms Turkey is, Turkey was not planning to bring Turkish troops

to occupy northern Syria. They're rebuilding the Syrian military. The Syrian military is saying they're working with us to rebuild our military. And Israel's like, yeah, I know. And we have an infinite right to destroy your military, even though you never attacked us, because we are the kings of this region,

and we can murder anyone we like at any time. And all we do here in America with our disgusting, disgustingly corrupt politicians is enable them, enable their worst instincts. Well, of course, sir, here's more money, sir, for more genocides and more wars. Oh, you'd like us to do the war. Of course, sir, we'll do anything you want, sir. And then a bunch of jackals that we have to debate pretending that Israel didn't take 70% of Gaza, that Israel isn't in southern Lebanon right now, and isn't in southern Syria right now.

And we have to debate them that, hey, if they murder people first, is that self-defense. That's not a debate, it's not self-defense. Everything that Israel is doing right now is surrounded by a wall, just this giant circular wall propaganda brought to you by American media. No, they're allowed to kill anyone they like. They could murder 23,000 children in Gaza, and they're the good guys. And if anyone complains, we're gonna destroy their lives. Well, then you're not an American and you're not a journalist.

You're an Israeli marketing asset inside this country, and that's almost all. All of mainstream media. And you would know all the evil intentions of Israel if you actually knew the real news which we're delivering to you now. So Anna, back to you. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMDM and Game Sense remind you to play responsibly.

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Yeah, I mean, I agree with everything you say. And honestly, my latest frustration isn't even about Israel's behavior because I've grown accustomed to Israel's behavior. I'm not surprised by anything they do. What does surprise me, though, is that we have multiple countries in the region led by so-called strong men who have been sitting around and taking it. And the real question is, is that paradigm going to shift? Because if ever there was a time for that paradigm to shift, it would be right now when the United States doesn't even have the capability to intervene because of how we've depleted our weaponry, our interceptors.

Something needs to be done with Israel. Israel is just a, it is a problem. Let's just put it that way. And I'm going to stop before I get myself into more trouble. So let's take a break. I'll say one last thing, Anna. Look, I don't know anything about the Turkish military or Turkish politics. I cover US and international news. But I do know Turkish nature. And if they think that they're just gonna kill a bunch of Turks, the government officials, or the military or whatever, and go, la-lil-lal-lil-so what?

We murder anyone we like. And you won't be able to fight back. You're weak and we control America. And there's nothing you could do about it. I could tell you right now that as a matter of nature, the Turks will never, ever accept that. Okay, never. And I don't, did no one cares what anyone else is going to say. Oh, what did Jake Tapper say?

Did he blame us? They're not gonna give a damn and they will respond and they will respond with a lot of force. And then Israel would cry and cry, oh, we're the victims, we were in the middle of murdering them and they dared to fight back. Hey, Jake Tapper and everyone on American media, call them anti-Semites, say they're Jew haters, say that they have no right to defend them. Only Israel has a right to defend, to go on offense, to murder anyone. They're like, say it, and they could say it all day long. But the Turks aren't gonna care. They're gonna strike back.

And then God knows what happens after that, because there are lunatics in charge of the Israeli government. If they use nukes, we will enter World War III, and they are dragging down the entire planet with them. Somebody stop the lunatics. They live up to every stereotype. We gotta take a break. We'll be right back.

Let's go to you two members. Press and Drag says, wow, what is Israel going to be labeled a rogue terrorist state? Well, look, brother, they're obviously a rogue terrorist state. They're rogue in that they never listen to anyone, they attack all their neighbors, and they're a terrorist state because they have a worse civilian kill ratio than any terrorist organization. Empirically, they're a rogue terrorist state. There's absolutely no question about it. The only reason why people don't say it is because everyone in American mainstream media knows, if you say that, you will be fired on the spot and your life will be utterly shredded by

Israeli terrorists embedded here in America, in our government, in our media. They'll call you an anti-Semite and make sure that you never, ever get hired in media again. Everybody knows that. They live under that terrorist threat every single day. That is why our media never criticizes Israel and is constantly kissing their ass and doing their propaganda for them. Because of the terrorist thugs inside this country, the radical Zionists that are terrorizing all of America, including our media. They're not terrorizing our government. Our government is willing corrupt participants.

They take the bribes and they are the very worst people in the country. And I don't mean Trump and the Republicans. I mean all of the corrupt sons of bitches that work for Israel. That's 94% of our Congress. And every president in our lifetime, with it, Gals. Sorry, Obama wants this obeyed them and they're still bitter about it. With it, Galsas, Jencanana, I pray you'll have David Crowley on. I'm very concerned about his plans for Wisconsin.

Well, we'll try, but people, anyway, James Mandelor, the damage report with John and Luke was laugh out loud, funny today. Thanks for pointing that out, damage reports on and 1 o'clock Eastern every day on YouTube, on on t.yt.com. We'll be right back. Back on TYT, Jankanaana with you guys. Also, Mike Glasso. Wow.

Thank you for the 50 memberships. Really appreciate that on YouTube. You're awesome, Mike. Guys, if you think that those same, you know, Israeli first thugs aren't terrorizing us behind the scenes, you're wrong. Of course they are. They attack anyone who dares to criticize Israel, and we dare a lot. So we're one of their top, top targets for the terrorists inside America who like to terrorize anyone who criticizes Israel and our media and our media and our terrorists. government goes along with it, we should get all the terrorists out of our country.

And those are the radical Zionists who love Israel and try to destroy any innocent American who dares to actually represent America, our country, instead of their country. And then they'll cry by, oh, you guys call the Israel evil. What would you call a genocidal monstrous state that murders everyone around them? You would obviously call them evil if evil has any meaning at all. Okay, ground news is one of our partners I wanna tell you about them. Okay, so guys, this is exactly the problem, right? We tell you about it all the time.

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So you're just not happy with the way the party? I'm not happy with the party. party that I know doesn't exist. Yeah. Hopefully it finds its way. If you could say something to President Trump right now, what would you say? Resign. You're destroying the country.

Hallelujah. Now tons and tons of Republican voters are saying, what the hell is going on here? We can get anything we bargained for. Now the debt is over 40 trillion, and wait till you see how much of it, much of it, Donald Trump is personally responsible for. And then today, Scott Besson came out with one of the most outrageous excuses you've ever seen. Anna's got the whole story. Yes, Jenks. So this is a story that we covered yesterday. And it's a continuation of how the bond market is a little out of whack. And it has a lot to do with the national debt and our 6% GDP deficit that we're running year after year. So this morning, Americans,

woke up to stock index is falling, crude oil nearing $90 a barrel, and of course the questionable bond market that I referenced earlier. Now, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's efforts to lower the 30-year bond yield worked, but only temporarily. And so now he's considering printing more money to buy back U.S. Treasuries, and that would of course weaken the dollar. So let's Let me go over all of this with you. So the 30 year yield spiked to as high as 5.267 percent, rising just above the level yields were at when the Treasury Department took action Wednesday, meaning yesterday. So what did Scott Besson do? He took $4 billion to buy back U.S. Treasuries. And he did that to basically try to lower the yield on the 30-year bond. It didn't work.

I mean, it worked temporarily, but in less than a day, the yield went right back up. Now, these high yields on long bonds, on the long bond, haven't really been seen since the global financial crisis in 2007. So what does Besson plan to do now? Well, you're about to see him explain on a CNBC interview. And I should note, after the CNBC interview, markets did not respond favorably. Let's take a look. Talk us through what you were trying to do here. by announcing the increased size of the buybacks.

We routinely do buybacks, and we're going to increase the size of the buyback. And, you know, Sarah, I would note that it could be more than the $4 billion per issue. Yeah, I was going to ask how big this could get. If the signal here is that you're not happy with the direction of yields, you know, they've gone back the other way. We've erased most of the Treasury rally that you got yesterday with that big surprise. A strong signal from the administration on the buybacks, but the fundamentals are ultimately what is going to prevail here in the bond market. And the fundamentals are hard to ignore when it comes to the size of our debt with public

debt increasing to now $40 trillion. Yeah, I mean, look, there's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number. And we can grow our way out of that. No, no, no, no, no. We're not going to grow our way out of $40 trillion. in debt, especially with the type of spending our federal government does on wars that don't even benefit us. On wars on behalf of a foreign country, Israel, of course, right? You're not going to grow your way out of $40 trillion in debt.

Jake, I have to ask you something, because the debt is a huge part of this. Basically, when investors buy U.S. treasuries, they invest in the bond market, it's essentially a loan to the U.S. government to finance our spending. Right? Yeah. How does it make sense for us to take $4 billion and do buybacks of our, of the US bond? Like how does that make any sense at all? Right? And by the way, when I say devalues the dollar, where do you think they're getting that money

from? Are we printing money to buy US treasuries? Yeah, in a sense, yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy, that's crazy. Okay, the fundamentals that the host was referring to there is, our debt and our 6% GDP deficit. We need to deal with that.

But we don't have government leaders who care about it genuinely. They pretend to. They'll pay lip service to that issue, but they never do anything about it. Back to you, Jake. So when we buy our own treasury bonds, it affects supply and demand. And when you affect supply and demand, you affect the price. So you push it in the direction that you want. But that's only short term.

Because as the anchor there is pointing out, I mean, what are you going to just keep a market from imploding or going in one direction or another just by constantly buying your own treasury bonds? And you could hear her skepticism, her voice, because she's right, that's totally unsustainable. It is a very, very short-term play. So it's a sign of desperation, and that means they're very worried about the treasuries, and they have good reason to be. And so you're gonna see in a second he said something even more absurd.

But what they send out Scott Besson when the markets are about to blow up. And Scott Besson is trusted by the markets because the markets are run by a bunch of morons who are all insiders and they play all these games and they're like, oh, Scotty boy, he's what a boss? He wouldn't tell us anything that isn't true. And then Besson comes out and says absurd things like, if you remember a couple of weeks ago, oh, we already had the deal with Iran. And that's, we're gonna announce it's, and he said on Monday, we're gonna announce it the deal

by Tuesday or Wednesday. That was two weeks ago, there was no deal. And yesterday Trump said the deal is totally off, totally dead, there's no peace deal at all. Now did the markets remember, oh right, remember when Scott Besson lied to us two weeks ago? And two weeks before that and two weeks before that? No, apparently they don't. Although today Anna, something different happened. So it seemed like the markets woke up and we're like, oh, he's lying about everything.

And so that had affected oil prices, we'll get back to that in a second. But to finish up this point, so Ray Dahlia, one of the greatest investors of all time, is also an interesting character. He is not on the left, right political spectrum. He doesn't really care much about that. He just lives in the numbers world, as Patrick Bred David would say, he's a numbers guy. So I interviewed him many years ago here on TYT. I talked to him on air and off air, you could watch that interview, and he said, if he

If something else goes wrong in the future, and here we are, we're out of bullets. Like how much can the Federal Reserve, for example, this is a different trick that they do, buy toxic assets from Wall Street when the bankers screw up. He's like, no one even understands what it means for the Federal Reserve to buy assets. Or when they sell them to make a profit, where does the profit go? Nobody owns the federal. It just doesn't make any sense. And if they lose money, where does that money come from? Well, ultimately us, but this is getting

super weird as they're bending the rules of economics trying to keep this thing together with duct tape, Anna. And based on the market reaction today, I sense for the first time since the Iran war began that that duct tape is coming off. And the markets are beginning to wake up and go, wait, are they lying about everything? Yes, yes, yes, they are. They are lying about everything. Now, immediately after that interview, it was reported that the 30-year bond yield moved upward. So his comments did not inspire confidence among investors.

It further spooked investors who questioned whether the United States will make good on its debt obligations in the future. And as CNBC noted, the Dow fell 600 points with stock losses increasing after a Treasury plan to tamp down yields fails. And it did fail. Okay, $4 billion did nothing. So since we're talking about $4 billion, let's talk a little bit about the $40 trillion federal debt that we're dealing with because that does have a lot to do with this situation. The national debt has become so out of control, $40 trillion as of yesterday, Wednesday of this week, that it's now costing us a trillion dollars a year just to service our debt. Now that is us carrying investors. And if they're going to

buy long-term bonds from the United States, right, so a 30-year bond, they're expecting a much higher yield. And that's basically to kind of, I guess, hedge the risk. They see it as a risk to invest in the United States. And so that's become a really big problem. And no one seems interested in doing a damn thing about our deficit, which again is 6%. It hovers around 6% of GDP. And that's extremely high for a developed country during a non-crisis economic period. Like why do we have such a high deficit? Now, Republicans sure love to pass the buck. So I want to go to J.D. Vance next because J.D. Vance, rather than, you know,

maybe taking a little bit of responsibility for how the Trump administration, both in term one and now in term two, have contributed to our national debt, he's decided to blame someone else. Take a look. Even though the debt is too I, even though we inherited this debt bomb for the Biden administration, we actually do have a plan to get the economy growing faster than the debt. And that's the most important thing. So it's always just Biden or it's just the Democrats. And this is why the left-right Democrat versus Republican paradigm is something that we the people, the American people, need to get our heads out of. Because they're lying to you with this false framing. Members of both parties did outrageous spending on wars specifically that have been detrimental to the economic health of our nation. That is the fact of the matter. Biden stopped at nothing to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. He did the same.

I mean, hundreds of billions of dollars. I mean, he spent, what, $21 billion helping Israel carry out genocide in Gaza? So this is not a Democrat thing. This is not a Republican thing. Both parties have totally abandoned the American people. They have sold out our country. And that's the reality of the matter. And now here's what's also really amazing. Obviously, going to war against Iran has been a disaster for the global economy, given the fact that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, given the fact that the Houthis are now striking Saudi ships as they attempt to transit oil through the Red Sea. And so that's going to limit global. oil supply, it has already been disastrous. It's only going to get more disastrous as we run out of our strategic petroleum reserve. I am not an expert. I am not a genius. But somehow I can understand this better than Scott Besant, our Treasury Secretary. So with that in mind, let's go to that video. This is Scott Besant claiming, you know, I don't know what's going on. Take a look. I'm confident that bonds will continue declining.

We've got a spike in oil prices today that I don't really understand. You don't really understand the spike in oil prices? Now, Jank, I think he does understand the spike in oil prices. He's just playing stupid because he's not a stupid person. So he's just lying to us. No, that was very poorly received by everyone. Left wing, right wing markets. They're like, the Treasury Secretary doesn't understand why oil prices are up.

The Strait of Hormuz is closed. What's complicated about that? Because if he's not lying, oh, no, the Treasury Secretary is a third grader. He knows nothing at all. Like, the biggest buffoon on Wall Street, but he used to be on Wall Street, in the field of economics, you don't know why price of oil is higher? No. And so obviously he's lying.

And so the markets were spooked by that. They're like, oh, okay, now we're at weirdo lies that don't make any sense. So the duct tape is totally off. And, you know, we ran that headline for you. That was down 600 points. We grabbed that a little bit earlier right before the show. I checked. And nope, Dow was down 700 points.

It keeps dropping because none of this makes sense. You know, I mentioned that Ray Dalio and how the government soon will be out of bullets, meaning out of emergency measures to prop up an economy that has a certain natural inclination with these economic forces at play. And we just gave you the perfect example of it. So he buys $4 billion worth of treasury bonds. He says it might be even more, and it has the opposite effect because we're out of bullets. You can't print your way out of this, you can't buy your way out of this.

There's no more tricks left in our arsenal. And now, even the slowest people in America, the people that work out on Wall Street, are like, oh, Donald Trump and his team are lying. Oh my God, none of us considered that. Guys, oh, yeah, oil, it's apparently gonna go up because the war's not over. They said it was gonna be over tomorrow. We've given up on the war being over. Did Trump announce it just within the last 24 hours?

He said, it's over, we're not doing a peace deal, it's gonna last indefinitely, and we're, We think we have the Strait of Hormuz open. That's a joke, obviously we don't, that's why old prices are going up. And we're gonna try to get Iran to have so much economic pain through our blockade that they surrender. Iran is not going to surrender. They're nowhere near that, they're making more and more demands, because the Strait of Hormuz in the real world on this planet is not open.

And shocker of shockers, it turns out, Trump and Bessent are also lying about that. So I don't know what's gonna happen in the markets tomorrow, but this is now finally getting to the tipping point. And Anna, in terms of the economy in the tipping point, you know, that $40 trillion in debt, it's doing a couple of things. One, politically, it's waking up a lot of Republican voters because again, remember, the voters are different than the politicians. The politicians have been lying our whole lives. Oh, we care about balanced budgets. Last Republican to balance the budget, Dwight Eisenhower, okay? They've never told the truth about that.

They don't care about balancing budgets at all. All they care about is tax cuts for the rich and wars for Israel. And I'm about to prove that to you in a second. So now the voters are going, oh, they were lying to us. They've never balanced the budget. And we put him in charge to balance the budget and he did the exact opposite. Then the economic effect is, my God, every year now we're spending over a trillion dollars just on the interest.

So we keep borrowing the money to do wars for other countries like Israel. We keep borrowing the money to give tax cuts to billionaires. We have to borrow money from China to give a tax cut to billionaires. That is insanity. So Anna, let's just give the numbers real quick. So how much is Trump added out of the $40 trillion? $3.7 trillion during his second term so far, $7.8 trillion during his first term, that's a total of $11.6 trillion. And he's just getting warmed up. That doesn't include the cost of the Iran war that's now going to go into the hundreds of billions.

By the way, this is not just Donald Trump. Both parties did the global war on terror. It was not global. It was only in the Middle East and in the surrounding areas. It was actually a global war, global war on Israel's neighbors. And that cost us $8 trillion. And we've given over $320 billion to Israel, so, and to many other countries. So they bankrupted us to give all of this money that we are borrowing from others and paying that in your kids and your grandkids will pay the interest on the money we borrowed to do wars for Israel, donor class, subsidies for oil companies.

donor class, restrict the marketplace for drug companies, donor class, and yes, infinite wars and genocide for Israel. All that paid by you, your kids and your grandkids from here to eternity, and finally, both politically and economically, the American people are waking up from this stupor and going, oh my God, what have we gotten ourselves into? We spent billions of dollars to prop up the Japanese yen recently. And the reason why that happened is because the Trump administration had genuine fears that had we not done that, Japan would sell off U.S. Treasuries. That's the horrible situation we find ourselves in where we're doing bailouts of foreign currency because we're terrified foreign countries that we're indebted to. We're going to sell off their treasuries.

By the way, though, that's not all. Then the 20 billion, potentially 40 billion to Argentina. Why? Yep. Because they're allies with Israel. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on. We have no business in Argentina. Why are we bailing out Argentina? Who's going to bail us out? 40 billion.

We're in 40 trillion dollars worth of debt. These politicians have been lying to your whole life. That $40 trillion is money that they stole from you to give to their donors who bribed them. The getaway driver is national media who tells you, oh, no, no, don't look, it's not bribery. The donors are not in charge. No, they're having debates in Congress. And golly, gee, the billionaires in Israel is winning, and the defense contractors are winning every debate. And those are the liars who they send in to deceive you so that they can rob you more effectively.

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Fun for Funn says if this crap continues you'll be able to be shot in defense on the grounds that you might be anti-Semitic in the future I'm worried about it the oppression is already arrived and only going to get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger The more the Israeli lobby loses the debate, more they're going to try to oppress you and take away your freedom and your rights and make sure these American chattels serve Israel no matter what. Oil prices today that I don't really understand. You moron. All right, back on T.YT. Jank and Anna with you guys. Faye Smith 3511. Thank you for giving your membership on YouTube.

We appreciate it. Sneer 3O says on YouTube member says, maybe it's time for us to nationalize our oil. start selling it on the market to pay off our debt. Well, that kind of conversation is going to happen a lot more soon as Fox News goes, no, socialism, we have to give all of your money to corporations and Israel. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. This country's going to snap, our patience is going to snap. And then I don't know what happens next, but they better hope that it's political and

not something else because they've stolen trillions and trillions and trillions from us, and we're now very sick of it. and totally aware of it. And no amount of mainstream media lies is gonna cover it up. All right, let's go to the next story. You note in your new article that Natalie Hart never takes a day off, not even a Sunday, right? She is committed and she is indefatigable. How much does Trump depend on her? She is a specific channel of information, but she is one that he considers very important and so do other people outside the White House. All right, the Natalie Harp's story has taken a dangerous turn. Before,

I didn't care. They have feelings for each other. Whatever, man, it's not my business. So, and a lot of you might disagree with that. That's okay. But now no one can disagree. It turns out foreign nations are using her to get information to Trump. But wait till you find out how dangerous that is. Anna has the whole story. So it is true that she's basically serving as the middleman between Trump and various foreign leaders. That was information that was relayed to the public by Maggie Haberman in her reporting. So she revealed that Harp acts as a channel for Trump, for foreign leaders, saying that she texts with world leaders on the Trump, on Trump's behalf. Now,

Haberman explained this more in-depth during a recent interview. Let's take a look at what she had to say. She serves a specific purpose. In a White House, in a government, there are other channels, official channels of information. You know, she doesn't provide him with his national security briefing, the presidential daily brief. She is not the White House staff secretary, which is supposed to be the last step for paper flow. She's not the press secretary from whom certain media requests are supposed to come. She is a channel by which, as you said, foreign leaders try to reach him if they can't some other way. She has a channel by which he reaches people he sees on television, who he likes what they are saying, or that he will just send out notes to. She is with him so much of the day during those meetings. And she's is talking to him throughout the evening about social media posts. So she is a specific channel of information, but she is one that he considers very important. And so do other people outside the White House. So for the very first year of Trump's second term, this was genuinely a massive problem. And I say that because she didn't have security clearance. Now, she was

pressured to get it. And after multiple attempts to get her to finally file the paperwork, and undergo the background check to get security clearance, she finally did it. So security concerns about HARP have been raised internally by the Secret Service during Trump's first year back in office for his second term. Some of those centered on her unbridled access to Trump, while others dealt with her failure to obtain a security clearance. So again, she didn't have a security clearance for the first year. She did receive pressure to actually follow through on getting one. decline multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House. And so she did finally file the paperwork.

She passed the background check. She now has security clearance. Okay, fine. I just think there should be some protocol. There should be something in place to ensure the executive assistant of the president isn't able to serve in that role unless they have the security clearance already. And she didn't and she was dragging her feet and actually getting it. And look, I got to be honest with you, Jank. Like I am worried about foreign influence through this woman who doesn't really have much of a background in government affairs or any type of government job.

Some people say who cares that doesn't matter. I don't know what her expertise is in anything, to be honest with you. So I'm worried about a little bit of, you know, foreign manipulation. with her at the center of this. But I also want to be clear that there is no evidence that foreign leaders have used her in a nefarious way to influence the president. And if you are worried about influence in our government,

we've been dealing with that for many, many decades, and that's the undue influence that a tiny, literally relevant country in the Middle East has over our government. We are an occupied nation by Israel. And if you don't care about that, then please spare me your fury about Natalie Harp.

Yeah, well, I hear you, but I don't know if she's working for someone. And look, if I'm at the White House and somebody says, I don't want to take a national security clearance, I don't want to go through that process. You escort them out of the building immediately. That's not a question. Number one, if you don't go through that process, you shouldn't be in the building in the first place, so you have to be removed from the building. But number two, what do you mean you don't want to take it?

And then you ask her again and she doesn't want to take it again and she doesn't want to take it. Why? Why don't you want to take it? And then we find out foreign governments are using you to get messages to the president and bypassing everyone else. No, no, no, no, no, no, that's super weird, okay? So I have no idea which foreign governments. And Maggie Haberman, by the way, why don't you tell us which foreign governments? Mm-hmm. Like, that's a big deal, that's not a small thing. And if it's like, like if it's Russia or China, that's super relevant, we should know if it's Israel or Turkey or Turkey or Saudi Arabia also super relevant, we should know, but apparently Maggie Haberman knows,

but is hiding it? That's weird. And Aaron Burnett and no one else has asked her. I'm asking her, Maggie, which governments super relevant? Okay, Anna, you're right, like the Israelis don't necessarily need Natalie Hart, and they have the rest of the building, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegsiv, Radcliffe, it goes on and on, they're all Israel first, right? Steven Miller.

And so they can get a message to Trump in a thousand ways. They influence Trump in a thousand ways. And again, Maggie Haberman is like, I don't see it. What? What? Larry Ellsing gave $5 million to Marco Rubio and wrote a note to the Israeli ambassador saying that he's been approved for Israel. What?

I don't know that. I'm not a journalist, what? They give to 94% of Congress. They gave over $300 million to Donald Trump. Nanjahu comes and gives him orders and then Trump does exactly as Nanjahou orders him. What? I'm not a journalist. I can't see that, right?

I get that. But also Anna, every, look, see our media is such unbelievable liars that they pretend like, oh, no other governments or our government would do a blackmail operation or a honeypot operation. We have never heard of that. That is a conspiracy theory. No government does that. All the governments are always angels and lovely. They always tell the truth, right?

But we know, yeah, it's literally the number one thing. intelligence agencies do is a honeypot operation. Now that puts a different spin on Natalie Harp and Donald Trump's relationship. It's one thing Trump falls in love with a young blonde girl, whatever, and he is attracted to his power, that's none of my business. I don't care about that at all, right? But if it turns out that it's a honeypot operation, which by the way, Donald Trump is enormously susceptible to, then I care about it a lot. Which countries, Maggie, And by the way, if we didn't see it out, because it happened right before the show, Melania Trump came out and all of a sudden talked to the press and said, I heard you missed me.

What? I don't get it. Because she's coming out and going, remember, I'm still married to Donald Trump, okay? Are you? Yeah, well, yeah, again, are you? But any time that her role is challenged, God knows what thinks she's involved in, right? I don't know if that infects her. Yeah, and if that affects her revenue, right? Her flow of income to her. So she's like, no, I'm the one that's in charge of Donald Trump. Not Natalie Harper or someone else. Okay, whatever. Okay. You know, it's a nest of vipers over there. Well, I mean, look, I've definitely thought this through. She did pass the extensive background checks that are required in order to get security clearance. So she has security clearance. But, Jake, and this is not a good place to be. I admit that. And I wish I.

I didn't have the kind of mindset I do these days. But who signs off on the security clearance? What if something did come up in her background? But it's something that the deep state doesn't think is a big problem and gave her security clearance anyway. I don't know. I just know that I don't trust our government. There's either incompetence or nefarious intentions in our government.

That's the problem. Anna, that's why I'm asking Maggie Haber in which countries. Because if it was Russia or China, there's no way in the world it would have been approved. And so the only countries that can get approved, even if they're, you know, they're, put someone into the White House and that's influencing the president, they shouldn't pass a security clearance than they do. Well, certainly Israel's at the very top of that list, maybe Saudi Arabia too, right? But those are the only two that would have any prayer of going security clearance, shut

up and put her in and have her right next to Donald Trump. Yeah, well, we'll see how the story develops, but I totally agree with you. Maggie Haberman needs to do some more in-depth reporting on this. It seems like she's holding something close to her heart. And I hope she's not doing it for her next book. We got to take a break when we come back. Joe Kent versus Dan Bongino. What does this fight about?

We'll show you when we return. Oh, what about the children? Give me a fucking break. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Rich and powerful men abusing, assaulting, and abandoning young women. These rich and powerful men donate to the politicians in Washington, D.C., play golf with the elites, in Washington, D.C. They are foreign leaders who we don't want to offend. They interact with our intelligence agencies that we don't want to disobey. There is something rotten in Washington.

And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? All those congressmen you just saw there are on the record as protecting the child rapists who were clients of Epstein. They have not prosecuted a single person outside of Epstein and Maxwell. Yep. Not one. Is Trump engaging in this cover up because he's in the Epstein files? I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. So as the government keeps telling us, yeah, there's other people. Yeah, they rape those girls.

So what? We're going to cover up for them. Why are you guys so mad? A nation that chooses impunity for the rich and the powerful at the expense of our children is a nation that has lost its moral purpose. Are you on the side of the people? Are you on the side of America's children? Or are you on the side of the rich and powerful who've had their thumb on the scales and shafted Americans for decades?

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Podcaster Dan Bongino thinks he's a tough guy and he's going to pick a fight with Joe Ken. So he resigned from his role as the deputy director of the FBI. Bongino did. And now he's going around and saying, oh, I'll believe the government. There is no deep state. The government is so honest and wonderful. And don't look into Charlie Kirk's assassination. Well, him and Joe Kent went back and forth a couple times online.

It was a good brawl, Anna's here to tell us all about it. Yes. So what really stands out to me about this story is how Dan Bongino, who resigned from his post as deputy director of the FBI because he was getting a lot of backlash for his part in engaging in the Epstein cover up. He's been crashing out over Joe Kent merely talking about his experience, serving as the Trump administration's counterterrorism chief, he said that he was looking into possible foreign ties into Charlie Kirk's assassination, and that was shut down, which is what led to

Dan Bongino spiraling. So for context sake, I'm going to go back and show you what Kent said, how Bongino attacked him in March, and then I'll show you the latest attacks. Let's start with the first video. This is Joe Kent. What do you mean when you say we're not allowed to ask any questions about that? We've been told that this individual, Robinson, is a lone gunman, and maybe he is. But the investigation that I was a part of, the National Counterterrorism Center was a part of, we were stopped from continuing to investigate. And the FBI will say that they stopped that because they wanted to turn everything over to the Utah state authorities,

everything's going to trial, it's very, very sensitive. but there was still a lot for us to look into that I can't really get into, but there was still linkage for us to investigate that we needed to run down. I'm not making any conclusions. I'm not saying, because of this, this happened. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying there's unanswered questions.

We know the pressure because of the text messages that have been made public, that Charlie was under a lot of pressure from a lot of pro-Israel donors. And again, we know Charlie was advocating to President Trump against this war with And we knew at the end of the 12-day war at the end of Midnight Hammer that the Israelis were to come back and ask us to go back to war again. So that was the claim that Joe Kent made. That was a mix of claims and also fact because Charlie Kirk absolutely was against the war in Iran.

And ahead of the 12-day war, he did visit Donald Trump and basically dissuaded him from engaging in a long-drawn-out regime-change war against Iran. And honestly, it worked. I mean, the 12-day war, you could argue, he still went in and did a little bit of bombing. However, we didn't get sucked into a long war until, of course, after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And then months and months later in February of this year, Trump is convinced by the Israelis that attacking Iran and carrying out regime change is going to be a cakewalk. Trump does it. And here we are. How many months has it been? I mean, months and months later, we are still at war with Iran, the Strait of Pormuz is closed,

the global economy is tanking, you guys get the picture. Now, immediately after Kent said that on Tucker Carlson's show, Dan Bongino was already on the attack in order to defend the FBI, defend the Trump administration, and attempt to pour cold water on Kent's claims. Take a look. Charlie Kirk has killed publicly in a very horrific way, and we're not really even allowed to look into that at all. Okay, okay, listen, folks, this part I have to just leave here.

This is some of the most disgusting, unethical, and immoral stuff I have ever seen. Leveraging the death of my good friend, his brutal murder, his assassination that the whole world watched in all of its horrifying gore. For your podcast appearance, you're disgusting. Thank you for your service to the country. You're also disgusting. Charlie Kirk was one of President Trump's closest advisors, and he also advocated heavily against a war with Iran. He was in the office. He did? That's fascinating, because I've had conversations with Charlie, too. I don't talk about them because the man's dead, and I don't like to invoke his name for podcast clicks, okay, only to remember him. And I'm not going to do it now.

You sure that's how Charlie felt? Okay, so right off the bat, Dan Bongino has no credibility whatsoever. And why do I say that? In regard to Kent's claims that he was shut down from investigating potential foreign ties in the Charlie Kirk assassination, all Dan Bongino did was appeal to emotion. He made no argument. He just called Joe Kent disgusting, and that was it. And then he immediately follows that up with one of the most brazen lies about Charlie Kirk I have ever seen. Because whatever you might think about Charlie Kirk, especially if you're on the left.

One thing that is undeniable because he was on the record repeatedly, he was against regime change war in Iran. He was vehemently against that. And I want to just show you the receipts. Let's take a look. Let's do some updates about Israel and Iran and potentially the United States. On one side is the Lindsay Graham, John Bolton types, where they are actively calling for regime change.

Here is Lindsay Graham. This is just lunacy. This kind of analysis is not helpful. This kind of approach, this kind of argument. It has nothing new with nuclear weapons at this point. This is now that we want to go all in and take out the regime. It's time for us to close the chapter on the Iranian Ayatollah and his henchmen and start a new chapter in the Middle East. And that sounds good, doesn't it?

But what have we learned when it comes to wars and especially wars in the Middle East? What you draw up on a whiteboard rarely happens. What you think theoretically is going to occur, there might be unintended and unforeseen consequences. Going to take out the Ayatollah. Oh, really? What comes next? What comes after regime change? Might be, oh, well, we need a small number of.

US troops that support the new regime. We have seen this play before. regime change, you have no idea how this is going to work out. You have no idea. And, Jank, those were just two examples of Charlie Kirk going on the record in various broadcasts and saying, I'm against the idea of going to war with Iran. I'm against a regime change war with Iran. He has said it repeatedly.

And Dan Bongino flat out lied to his audience. Now before I show the newest attack by Bongino carried out against Kent and Kent's response to it, I want to hear your thoughts. Yeah, so if you're trying to decide at home, well, okay, one guy's saying one thing, the other guy saying another thing. How do we know who's telling the truth? Well, you know that Dan Bongino just lied to you and said that Charlie Kirk was for their Ron Moore. And you saw with your own eyes, that's not true. But there's overwhelming other evidence as well, by the way. Texts from Charlie Kirk to Brett Weinstein that have been released where they talk about how they're desperately trying to stop the war, but the neocons want it really bad. If you don't know, some of those same neocons funded Talking Point USA to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. And they didn't fund it for Charlie to say that he was against the war.

They funded it so that Charlie would say that he was for the war. Now, he wasn't following those orders. Now, there's one of the thing that Joe Kent said there that Anna, that I thought to be very interesting, which was at some point he talks about how, you know, there were other people who said that talked about the Charlie Kirk assassination the day before he was shot and killed. And Joe Kent is saying those leads were not followed up. Well, I mean, if you don't follow those leads, then my lead is that it might be you, right?

And so if the government isn't following up on what either people who said that he was going to get killed the day before and is not following up on possible international connections, which Joe Kent has also talked about, then obviously I question the government itself. And what is the government? Who is the government? Who's making these decisions? So before I used to, I have to confess, and this is my apologies, guys, that I was dismissive of the idea of a deep state. But no, no, there's definitely a deep state. And they're making these, apparently these unilateral decisions. And I'd love to know who's in it, who's responsible for that.

And of course, since Dan Bongino was in the chain of command that made those decisions, he's got every incentive to lie to you and say, oh, there's nothing wrong. here at all? And by the way, it's not lost on me that when it comes to really investigating the Charlie Kirk assassination and wanting answers about some of the inconsistencies that have come up, it's always the exact same group of people who defended the Trump administration in the Epstein cover up. It's always the same group of people who are favorable toward Zionists taking over our foreign policy. It's always the same people. And honestly, that alone makes people suspicious about what's going on here. You know what I'm saying? No, I do. I mean, look, I'll name names.

Pattern recognition is not allowed, okay? You're not allowed to notice patterns that are that are emerging again and again and again. But here's what I want to know to all the right wingers who have fallen into the talons of the neocons. Don't pretend like you cared about Charlie Kirk. Because if you cared about Charlie Kirk, if you wanted to get to the bottom of the truth and know exactly what happened, you know, you would want a robust investigation. Instead, you're engaging in this effort to shut down any questions, any attention being paid to those inconsistencies. And it's just very suspicious to me, incredibly suspicious. And Dan Bongino built his reputation, his name, his fame on doing broadcasts about the Epstein Five. doing broadcast, wanting answers about these things.

Then he becomes the deputy FBI director, engages in that cover up because once you're in, that's it, you have to acquiesce to the corruption. He got embarrassed and it's like, oh, I miss being a podcaster and thought that he would be able to quit and then restart his podcast with the same audience, but no one trusts you anymore at all, because you're phony or fake.

Yeah, look, we're telling you what reality is. We're not telling you that we have some secret evidence, or can prove who did it. No. Right? So but is it the same Ben Shapiro and Israel first guys who told us, Epstein files are not important. They're just, we gotta move on.

You gotta move on from the Epstein files. And now they're saying, you gotta move on from the Tyler Robinson case. It was definitely a left winger. It's just one guy, just one guy, just one guy, please move on. Okay, yeah, we are noticing that. That's weird. Like, why are those things even connected? Why would why do you all in unison have the same point about the Tyler Robinson case and the need to move on from the Epstein files?

So it's strange. That doesn't prove that any particular person or entity did it. But I'll tell you right now, there's already a million question marks. And these are not like, oh, maybe kind of, well, you know, can a plane fly at that trajectory? can steal, melt it, that, no, no, there's a million gigantic, enormous questions here, right? For anyone paying attention. And so this Tyler Robinson case could be, you know, country changing, planet changing.

That Tyler Robinson case is not going to go smoothly. No. Yeah, there's going to, yeah, the whole thing can unravel from there. I just think, I mean, we've now seen multiple examples of evidence tampering, including, you know, the SD card being taken out of the camera directly behind Charlie Kirk, Terrell Farnsworth, who runs audio and visual for Turning Point USA, took the camera down, took the SD card out. Initially, he claimed that he did so because he was worried someone would steal the cameras, but not only did he leave the camera there, taking the SD card and putting it in his pocket,

He didn't even tamper with the other cameras at all. He didn't take the SD cards out of the other cameras. He left the other cameras on the set. Very strange behavior. But if you want more details on that, check out my interview with Candidone's because, you know, we walk through all of that with our audience. Now with that in mind, I want to go to the latest attack. I do not know why Dan Bongino wanted to revisit this, but he did recently.

And he decided to attack Joe Kent's claims by making, by positing. That's positing that his role as the counterterrorism chief did not give him authority to investigate what he wanted to investigate. Take a look. One more. Here's a quick one for you. Chat GPT is like in case you're stupid, it doesn't say the bill. Like here in shorthand, FBI is the investigative agency with compulsory legal authorities. NCTC is there for intelligence fusion and interagency counterterrorism coordination. I was blocked from conducting an investigation. I had no authority to conduct whatsoever at all. I guarantee you this, flags all over in the chat, guaranteed. If Joe Kent were to come out tomorrow and say like, I love the Jews and I don't hate Israeli. I guarantee you every single person telling you, they trust him and is telling you the truth, despite the fact that he's obviously lying, every single person would turn on him and go, that guy's full of crap.

He had no authority that said, look at it, it's right there. And any AI system can tell you that. NCTC doesn't investigate anything. Can someone just ask Joe that? What exactly was your investigative authority? Oh, I asked chat GPT to tell me whether or not the counterterrorism chief has the authority to investigate potential foreign ties in carrying out an assassination of an American citizen on U.S. soil. I'm going to ask Chad GPT. Like this guy thinks we're morons.

And by the way, the other thing that I'll just note is, why are you bringing Jews up? Like, no one's having a conversation about Jews. Like, we're not having a conversation about that at all. But he decided to do that because that is the trick that gets played in an effort, it usually fails these days, luckily, in an effort to discredit the person who is raising, in my belief, a legitimate concern. Now, Joe Kent responded to him. Let's take a look at what he had to say.

NCTC analysts are a part of every joint terrorism task force throughout the entire country. The JTTFs are typically led by the FBI. NCTC's role within the JTTF is to determine if there is any foreign nexus. So that would be a foreign country, a foreign government, a foreign individual, a foreign company, if there's any foreign connection or nexus to an act of domestic terrorism like the assassination of Charlie Kirk. So that's what NCTC analysts were doing as part of the JTTF, assist the investigation of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. So NCTC analysts were operating at the request of the FBI to determine if there was any kind of foreign connection or foreign nexus

to the assassination of Charlie Kirk's. NCTC was formed after 9-11 because of the failures of the CIA and FBI and their inability to communicate prior to 9-11. So NCTC has that unique role. That's why we're part of the JTTF. So at the request of the FBI, we were looking to see if there was any kind of foreign nexus or connection to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In very short order, we were told that our services were no longer required, that we no longer had access to the repository the FBI had where all the information on the investigation was being kept. And then the FBI said shortly thereafter, they were going to hand over the investigation to the Utah law enforcement.

And Jake, I went back to read some of the reporting on this, because if you listened carefully, He said that at first, they were tapped by the FBI to look into possible, like a possible foreign connection. And then in short order, it was shut down. And I remembered that in the New York Times, there was reporting about how Cash Patel, the FBI director is the one who shut it down. I learned some other interesting details about what happened afterwards, including the fact that there was a White House meeting that included Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, who's the person

that he reported to when she was. the director of national intelligence, Susie Wiles, J.D. Vance. So they're all there. And it was apparently so tense that very little got accomplished. The Counterterrorism Center gathered material from intelligence agencies about potential foreign ties to Robinson and has also looked at foreign funding of people who identify with the far left movement known as Antifa. And what's really interesting here is think about what the narrative was immediately after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. There was, in my opinion, based on the statements made by Trump administration officials, there was an effort to not only use his assassination to create division and rage between left wing voters and right wing voters. It was going to be used as or exploited as an excuse to strip what they deem as left wingers, strip their rights by saying, well, they're dangerous. They might carry out another assassination, that kind of thing. Right. But it's just really interesting because,

when it comes to investigating Antifa and possible foreign ties to Antifa, Trump administration's all about it. When it comes to looking into whether there were any foreign ties in the Charlie Kirk assassination, well, that could shut down real quick. Yeah. So here's another interesting thing. Joe Kent never said a single word about Israel, right? And the Israel first guys immediately come in and start bashing him. But he didn't say anything about Israel. By the way, when he said, They didn't let me investigate in a potential international connection. I mean, the press is constantly talking about how Iran is planning to kill Trump. So wouldn't your first instinct be like, oh, was it Iran?

Oh, was it one of our adversaries? Was it Russia? Was it China? Was it Al-Qaeda? Who was it? No, their first instinct was, Joe gets a liar! Oh, wait, that's super weird. Super weird.

And now what does Dan Bongino do? He comes in and he's like, oh, you don't remember Borant with the throw of the Jew down the well? This thing that he did and making fun of anti-Semitic tendencies, et cetera. Now it's hide behind the Jew, right? So they're like to put up Jewish people as defense, but it's not working because most Jewish Americans aren't on their side. And by the way, now finally, a lot of Jewish Americans are getting sick of being used as like

these props and decoys. And they're like, why do you keep saying that we're in favor of a genocide? We didn't sign on to this. We're not Israelis. We're Jewish Americans. And why do you keep saying like, oh, when someone says, hey, maybe Tyler Robinson, we should do a bigger investigation. And you say, hey, they're anti-Semites. What the hell are you talking about?

We didn't kill Tyler Robinson. What are you insinuating? What are you nuts, right? Because this isn't about a religion. This isn't about Jewish Americans. This is about Joe Kent saying a foreign government might be involved. And he didn't specify which government. But now, you know, when all the radical Zionists in the country shout, you know, go on a witch hunt against Joe Kent at the same time.

And then Dan Bongino starts using the old trick, I'm not gonna debate any of the points. And I can't prove my point at all, but you're all anti-Semites. Well, we've all seen that movie before. That movie comes from the radical Zionists whenever they're trying to hide anything Israel's done. So am I saying we should look into Israel now? Yes, I am saying it. By the way, we should look into every foreign country that might have been involved. And what's funny about Israel first is always, they're like, no, we want special exemptions.

Like if we found out there was evidence that Iran might be involved, would they say, no, you shouldn't look into that? Well, no one in the right mind would say, no, don't look into that. or whether it was Canada or, or again, Cuba or whatever, we would all say, of course you should look into it. But they're saying, but if it's the allegations are about Israel, that's the one country you should not be allowed to investigate. Yeah, and that's super convenient for Israel, which is a country known to assassinate people in sovereign countries and get away with it on a regular basis. They're kind of famous for it. I mean, if you say that they can't, they don't. So just take the reputation.

Take the reputation. You act that way. You earned the reputation. So where does a badge of honor and revel in it instead of pretending like you guys are so innocent and sweet? Oh, we're always the poor victims. You're not. You guys are assassins. Yeah.

And we all know it. That's why people are suspicious. And it's also super suspicious that Netanyahu was all over US media on the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated, talking about how Charlie Kirk was the greatest friend to Israel, please. We got to go, Jake. We got to take a break. We'll be right back. He killed himself.

I mean, come on, guys. Come on, please. All right, let's read a couple of ex comments because we're on there as well these days. I'm speaking. This is amazing coverage. Keep up the good work, T.Y.T. Thank you. Brett Hips says, Israeli tourists have been caught causing chaos all over America and Europe.

They must be arrested and charged. Also in Argentina. I don't know what they're doing. I the country's lost its mind anyways we go to super chat and history speaks to YT says pro-Palestine students and student orgs are being sued for creating unsafe campus environments the plaintiffs are also trying to get federal civil rights laws to recognize Zionists as a protected group madness pathetic pathetic it's a political ideology of Jewish supremacy that is so pathetic it is not an

immutable characteristic or trait it's just so it's so it's so it's so pathetic, you people are so pathetic. You like to slaughter innocent people and then play victim. Disgusting. Anyway, back to you, Jank. Yeah. Can't stand these people. It's a form of nationalism. And nationalism. Supremacy. Supremacy. Say the words supremacy. Yeah. So either way, that is not something you're born into. It's something you make an active decision to adopt as an ideology. And you could be radical Muslim, and that's an ideology that you develop, or you could be a radical Zionist and decide that Israel is, and Israeli lives are the only thing that matters in the world. And Israel should be allowed to murder everyone. Everyone around them, and they should be allowed to occupy people and oppress them and humiliate them and enslave them and never, ever let them be free.

But the radical Zionists say, yeah, we have special privileges. We're the chosen ones. Back on TYT, Jankana with you guys. At 8 o'clock Eastern on the Revolution, I'm going to interview three American doctors, a Jewish doctor, a Muslim doctor, and I believe one with no faith, but we'll ask them. They all went to Gaza, and what they saw horrified them to their core. There's a movie about it now, and we're going to talk to those doctors at 8 o'clock. Now let's go to our next story. Effective immediately, I am removing all data center projects from the fast track permitting program.

Senator Josh Shapiro isn't the only Democrat pushing back on the data center, boom. Far left members of their party make their battle against them a central part of the populist platform. Watch. We are announcing legislation to impose a moratorium on the construction of new AI data centers until strong national safeguards are in place. They are racing to construct thousands of giant AI data centers and jacking up the utility costs of everyday America. to pay for it. I stand with local and state elected officials saying that we cannot approve any more

of these until we have federal level guardrails. But could turning AI data centers into the left's boogeyman be putting America's race for AI dominance at risk? Oh, I love it. Yeah, Fox News now saying, oh, yay, rah, ra, data centers are terrific. And if you're against data centers, you're a full. far left populist. Please give us more voters. Anna, tell us the whole story.

No, no. Most American voters, left and right, actually totally love the data centers. They love seeing a giant spike in their energy bills. They love to see water wasted. I mean, they love to see these big, ugly, boxy buildings that take up many, many acres of land in their states. They love it. They totally love it. Okay. So here's what's really fascinating about the segment that you just watched. It aired only hours after the Senate Republican campaign arm sent out a dire warning to AI companies. And their warning was, yo, you guys have a PR issue. People don't like you. So you need to do something about it.

Okay? They write the National Republican Senatorial Committee says Democrats have made data centers a centerpiece of their campaign to defeat Senator John Hustead. I don't even know this guy existed and that it's working. Let's just pause for a second. I'm sure many of Republican voters also didn't know that this guy existed, which means that he's doing nothing for you. So like, this effort to save members of your of your party in Congress is just so hilarious to me. Like, put in the work. You got to do whatever it takes to protect your party, even though they screw you over and do nothing for you.

But anyway, the memo continues to say, if he loses and data centers get their blame, politicians across the country will take notice and they will not. not go near the next one. This has become a sleeper issue for the entire election. Republicans say in the memo, which was headlined, Ohio data center risk, that it's up to AI companies to improve perceptions of data centers by explaining who benefits. Oh, we know. We know who benefits. Who benefits, who pays? And why a community should want one, until that happens, the issue will continue to dominate this race. Now, let's watch a little more of that Fox segment now that we know it aired on the same day that this memo was put out. Take a look. I think this is a grave mistake. This is a national security issue that's turning into a local

zoning issue. And I don't know anyone, if you've ever been to a homeowners meeting that's run well, they never are. And now we're putting politicians in charge of a technology that very few of them ever understand. And it's moving too fast. And I would tell you, we've been here before, right? Remember 5G and cell towers? Nobody wanted them in their backyard, but they wanted five bars. of coverage, same thing here playing out with data centers. People are afraid of what's going to happen. They talk about the cost, but here's the funny thing. When it talks about water usage, your local olive garden uses as much water as an average data center. So I don't hear anyone opposing olive garden on their water usage and bill going up. They should because it's not real Italian food.

Jen, I just think this story is so amazing. So the discussion ended with more fretting about whether or not China will beat America in the quote unquote AI race. And this is what they're doing to basically sell it to the American people, right? The boogeymen, those are the, that's China. We need to be afraid of China when it comes to AI development. So please give up everything in order to make AI happen, including your quality of life, your energy bills, all of that stuff. Let's take a look at the next part of the segment. So we're to race with China. Absolutely. And you can look at the numbers, right? AI inventions, China, 38,000 compared to over 6,000 for the U.S. patents, 38,000 to 6,000 to 6.

You see what we're seeing here. By the way, robots installed 276,034. China isn't dealing with any of this. But I wonder if ultimately, forget the scarcity of chips, forget China trying to go without being held back in any way, if the rising opposition to data centers in this country is one of the biggest threats to our development in achieving dominance. Yeah, as you see here, I mean, China's building out capacity while the far left's building. out opposition, the saving grace is federalism here, right? Different states have different laws and rules. So while New York and other states may pass moratoriums, which will ultimately damn them and

drive up electricity costs and keep them out of the data center race, I think this administration, the president, is very rightly focused on making sure there are plenty of data centers built here. There's over 4,000 planned right now on top of the 4,000 that already exist. Who benefits from AI and the data centers? Is it the American workers who are poised to lose their livelihoods over the development of AI, which will replace humans with robots. Is it, I don't know, the American people who still enjoy a little bit in terms of privacy rights? Now, I mentioned that, Jank, because China does have an advantage over the United States in the development of artificial intelligence. And that advantage was actually something that came up during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum.

I think this discussion is a foreshadowing of what's to come. Let's go to E4. Now if you ask the big Gs in digitalization and the big spenders in artificial intelligence, and just for memory, to develop a frontier model today requires about $1 billion. dollars. If you ask them what they need, they will say access to data as large as possible. They will say scale in order to really amortize the investment cost of the development of models. Now that would be significantly jeopardized if we have limited access to data because of different privacy laws around the world. And I would contend that this can only be remedied by a degree of

cooperation, that is going to be a factor of willingness of people to accept and tolerate different paradigms, different cultural preferences, and different views of the world. I think for the Western economies, if we don't cooperate, we don't scale, China wins. There's enough population there. Privacy laws are obviously quite different there, and so the data that they can accumulate. which is giving them a dramatic advantage. And I think that's going to be one of the big overwhelming things. When people ask me, are we an AI bubble?

I said, I think there are going to be some big failures, but I don't think we're in a bubble. But that being said, I would much rather say that we need to spend more money to make sure that we're competing properly against China. So in case you missed it, let me decode that conversation for you. They want to make sure that U.S. and Western AI companies have unlimited access to our data. So they can have the same advantage that China has when it comes to developing their AI models. So your privacy rights, goodbye. They're going to find a way to dismantle whatever's left of it. Okay. And by the way, I can't emphasize enough that what the Republican Party is attempting to do here with the memo that they put out and with Fox News following through is to, turn the AI issue into a culture war battle.

This is not a partisan issue. And if you look at the data, if you look at polling data and how Americans feel about these AI centers or these data centers, you'll see that there's actually some agreement across the board politically. Let's take a look at this chart. This is from Gallup. So this March poll from Gallup shows that a majority of Democrats, Republicans, and independent, somewhat or strongly oppose data center construction. The dark red sections indicate strong opposition.

The orange sections indicate those who somewhat oppose. And then the light green indicates those who are somewhat in favor. So the dark green part only shows those who are strongly in favor, which includes only 9% of Republicans. 9% of Republicans strongly favor AI data centers. So I give you that information, Schenk, because it's very clear that. at this moment, this is not a culture war issue. This is not a partisan issue among the American people. But the powers that be want to turn it into a partisan issue. They want to get Republican

voters to turn on, you know, left-wing voters when it comes to something that right now we all agree on. Yeah. And so look, I'll add up those numbers for you. Democrats, 75% opposed to data center is independent. 74% nearly identical. That's three quarters of independence. So, That issue is already over in terms of the electoral effect of it. And they're trying to, as Anna pointed out, bringing back with propaganda. But the most devastating one of all is the Republicans, 63% already opposed. So you can go, look, if this keeps going, and China doesn't work, they'll bring in the Russians. If the Russians don't work, they'll bring in the Muslims.

No, the Muslims hate the data centers. If we don't want the terrorists to win, you have to pay more for your electric bill and pay the cost of the data centers, even though you're getting none of the profits. Wait, what does that just have to do with any of that stuff, right? So guys, but what to me is the most interesting part of this story is you're getting to see how the sausage is made here, the axis of evil. So the guys in the fancy suits that you saw in that last video talking in high fluent language, it looks so professional, right?

Like, oh, well, you know, it's all the Chinese fault. We have to build more data centers, and that's an absolute necessity. And, oh, yeah, of course, we all agree data centers, data centers. They're the ones who are going to profit from the data centers. So then what do they do? They communicate with the politicians. And I think that that memo from the Republican Party is just a perfect piece of evidence for it. The Republicans are going and telling their donors, which are their bosses, hey guys, I'm so

sorry, Mr. Smithers, but we have a problem here. Please don't attack me, please, please keep bribing me. But you're super unpopular and we've tried every kind of lie and it's not working. Even our own voters don't agree with us. All of us loyal servants to you will lose and then you won't have your servants anymore. Can you please, pretty please do something about it? And the corporate donors, the AI donors are like, no, shut up. Idiot politician, all right, Fox News, get them on the phone.

Okay, Fox News, now go out there and do propaganda. that the Chinese are gonna win unless Bob and Susie in Missouri pay my bills for me. Hey, data center companies, I have like a super simple idea. Before we even get into all the thousand other problems, why don't you pay your own goddamn bills? You go into a community and you're gonna make the average citizen pay your bills for you? What kind of ludic-see, Anna, what happened was they've been robbing us for the last 40-50 years, And so that's why we have $40 trillion in debt now.

All of that went to the donors. It went to the defense contractors, the subsidies to oil companies, to Israel, to endless wars, right? And they've been robbing us to pay their donors the whole time. But this time with the data centers, the robbery just got a little too obvious. They're like, oh, we'll go in your community, and instead of us paying our costs, you'll pay our costs for us. Now they do that with climate change in reality, those hurricanes and severe.

your storms hit and the next time mobile was like, I ain't got none to do with it. I keep the profits. Now American people, you all pay for the cost. And now, but when you do it this obviously, and your electric bill goes from 50 bucks to 200 bucks and you go, what the hell happened? Why am I paying an extra $150 every month? And they go because they just center moved in and now you have to pay for their costs. Oh, am I getting some of their profit?

They're their trillions and profits? No, shut up and pay their costs. A Republican, and by the way, Democrats have been good on this one, but they're The corporate Democrats would have loved to have participated in this, but the hand was caught in the cookie jar real quick on this one. And Fox News is telling you one thing that's true. The populist left has been against the data centers from day one, okay? So now you saw their last stand there.

So they bring the guy on to Fox News. They're all puppets, the politicians are puppets, the media's puppets, and so that guy comes in and goes, oh no, it's okay, we still have the red states. Oh, federalism is the answer here. We just move all the data centers to the red states. Now why do they want to move them to the red states? Because in the red states, there are no protections. There's no protection for workers.

There's no protection for your wages. There's no unions to protect you. There's no government to protect, watch out for the local community. No one, through the deregulation, they've taken away all the laws that would protect the average citizen. So basically the guy right there is saying on Fox News, let's go rob the people in the red states. They're suckers that are still voting for Republicans, so they'll let us rob them blind.

And you know what, Shank? He might think that they'll be able to do that with absolutely no pushback. But there will be pushback. And look, one thing that I will say about conservative voters is when something is happening that they do not like COVID shutdowns is a perfect example, they will take to the streets, and they won't let up. And that's actually a good quality when it comes to things that really matter, including ensuring that the American people are actually taken into consideration before these corporations are.

And just to read a statement from Sagar and Jetty, he's a host of breaking points. He is conservative. Here's what he had to say about how conservatives feel about data centers. Data centers are the physical manifestation of all that makes us miserable. It is a monument to our existing misery and a gateway to a future where we're told we're not needed. I don't know how the Republican Party is going to rehab the reputation of AI data centers, considering the fact that we're now on this like multi-year tear of hearing them tell us how excited they are to see human workers replaced. So corporations can maximize their profits even more. but they've got a huge Hercules task ahead of them.

So good luck. Yeah, everybody's waking up at the same time, man. So they're not going to be able to contain us. And they think they can. They're not going to change at all in it. And they think they're so freaking clever. They're like, I'll just go to Alabama, Mississippi and rob them. They're poor already.

They have no power. Well, look, you keep robbing right wingers. See how it turns out for you. I mean, look, I saw this haunting, I don't know if you'll think it's haunting Anna, comment on social media the other day, talking about how, you know, the whole donor class keeps robbing us blind, foreign governments and all these guys that we just mentioned, right? The defense contractors, the AI guys, et cetera.

And they said, they think that they could keep robbing the most heavily armed nation on earth and that they're just going to be able to dupe us and get away with it. And that particular person said they don't think that it's going to work out for them the way that they do. And to me, that was a scary comment because people are now so frustrated and no matter who they vote for, they always get the same donor class in charge. And we better resolve this politically before things get ugly. And people decide including and maybe especially the right wing that they're going to resolve it in a different way. So I don't think that the establishment understands the rage that's building in this country.

And you can't just divide us anymore on right left BS and think that we'll just fight each other and you'll get to get away with all your crimes. No, people have seen your crimes. If they don't turn around and we don't vote our way out of this, there's going to be much, much bigger trouble ahead. Yeah, I totally agree. I've been raising alarm over that. But you're right, they're not going to change. So just giddy up because I do think tough times are ahead. Let's move on to our final story.

I really want to cover what a former Justice Department attorney, career Justice Department attorney, has blown the whistle on. Take it away, Jank. Yeah. So remember all those investigations in the college campus is anti-senitism? We got to shut down all free speech. This is, and you know what? We're going to freeze funding for Harvard, Columbia, and Brown,

because they have systematic and systemic anti-Semitism. Well, someone working the Trump administration is now telling us that was all lies. What was the real reason they were doing it? Well, Anna, tell us the story. Well, Jank, this is based on a whistleblower complaint that was filed Tuesday by a, you know, a career Justice Department attorney. Her name is Haley Van Aram, an American hero. She's the former career attorney at the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

Okay. So she maintains that Trump's task force, which is tasked with investigating systemic anti-Semitism on Ivy League campuses, basically pressured universities to agree to all sorts of punitive settlements and measures when there was absolutely no evidence at all of abuse or anti-Semitism. Okay. I'm not surprised by this. I'm not shocked by this. This is the disgusting behavior that we've seen carried out against Ivy Leagues. And I want to just say one thing. All of these pathetic, mealy-mouthed Ivy League administrators who caved to Trump knowing that their university campus had no problem with systemic anti-Semitism should resign. They should resign all of them. They're pathetic, absolutely pathetic. Lawyers accuse administration officials of using campus, anti- anti-Semitism as a pretext to cut federal grants to pressure Brown, pathetic, Columbia, pathetic, and Harvard. Trump officials had a predetermined outcome-driven approach to enforcement

rather than a fact-based investigative process, it said. Well, investigators said they did not have the evidence to conclude the schools had broken the law. I want to note the reason why I didn't call Harvard pathetic is because they actually decided to fight the Trump administration, as opposed to immediately cave to them. So for example, at Brown, investigators, including Van Aram, that's the whistleblower, were told in April 2025 of a plan to systematically interview Middle East Studies professors, particularly Muslim faculty, to see if they would say anything that could be labeled anti-Semitic, the document states. So in other words, while there wasn't a systemic anti-Semitism problem on these campuses, clearly there's a systemic anti-Muslim bias in our governmental

institutions, namely in the Trump administration. So think about that. Think about like the feds coming into your university and demanding to interview your Muslim professors to see if they say anything that might hurt Israel's feelings. And again, they couldn't prove anything. They did do this. They carried this out. They did these interviews of Muslim professors. They didn't find anything. Van Aram and other DOJ assignees repeatedly warned that funding suspensions lacked legal basis and that evidence did not support findings of violations at Brown. In the cases of Columbia and Harvard, no complete investigation was even conducted. Now, Jamie Raskin wrote a strongly worded letter to Harmeet Dillon about this, I'm just referencing it to say that your letters mean absolutely nothing.

I know you guys write your letters hoping that you'll get some positive recognition for it, but your letters lead to no change and you don't deserve positive recognition for it. Actually do something. Other than that, we need to move on. Now, look, Trump on January 29th of 2025 issued a directive to target anti-Semitism on these college campuses. He later increased it from five university campuses to 60 university campuses and federal agencies began withholding billions of dollars in contracts and grants to pressure these schools into doing what Israel wants. That's what this is really about. That's what this is really about. Yeah. So elite universities soon began reaching settlements, starting with the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University in July. As I mentioned earlier, Harvard

University was an exception. They actually decided to challenge the administration's actions in court. In September, a federal judge ruled in Harvard's favor that the government illegally froze more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts. A decision the government is appealing. Some universities paid the government millions of dollars. Others paid nothing but agreed to policy or personnel changes that satisfied Israel because we're an occupied country. But back to you, Jank. Yeah. So I want to go through the differing universities because there's so many interesting things.

in there that I discovered through this piece, and then come back to the issue of Israel and their assets inside our government. So first on Brown, Van Aram says, we investigated and there was no evidence that they'd done anything wrong. She tells her boss, and our boss says, no, the administration doesn't want to hear that. So since we have no evidence, go pretend that we do so you could force them into a settlement. And Brown falls for it and gives them a $50 million settlement. They didn't know that there was no evidence at all.

It was totally fabricated. But by the way, Brown should know that there was no evidence because it's their campus, but they got scared, we think. But there's another factor here, which is gonna lead us to Columbia in a second. But first on Harvard, I found out why they didn't give in. I gave Harvard a ton of credit because I thought, wow, look at that, they're standing up to these fake charges of anti-semitism. I'm a little surprised by that, given how they cracked down on the protesters as well, right?

But it turns out there was a reason why. Because the administration wanted a lot of things from them, a financial settlement, to be able to manipulate their Middle Eastern history, to make it more pro-Israel. In other words, for them to literally lie, but they requested that in every instance. But I was like that, I don't think that alone is going to do it. And it turns out, no, there was one other thing they asked of Harvard. To put their endowment, which is gigantic, in a place where it could be seen, by the government.

And Harvard's like, no, we're not letting you seize our, I don't know if it's up to $40 billion now or $70 billion. There's some monstrous endowment that they have. So they were so scared that would get seized, that's why they didn't agree to the deal. I mean, I'll take it, but that was their actual motivation. Okay, now back to Columbia, they say, okay, we're gonna cut 400 million in funding. So why don't you, with no evidence, nothing, your chance of winning in court is like 99.9% And in return for us not cutting the 400 million, we want you to give us $200 million settlement.

Well, who the hell would do that deal? You have an excellent chance of winning in court and you're gonna give them 50% of the money you would have gotten anyway? That doesn't make any sense. But Columbia is like, go right away, sir. Please come in and totally change our curriculum and they gave the money. Why? Because the New York Times hilariously omits from its story the Israeli lobby.

Israeli lobby drove almost all of this, and yes, Colombia's board members who are radical Zionists. So they wanted to change their curriculum to make it more pro-Israel and lie to their students. They wanted to shut down all protests against Israel. So Columbia is like, oh golly, gee, they're twisting our arm. Give them the money, yeah, yeah, yeah, and bring in their thought police, absolutely, no one protest Israel on Columbia campus. That's because the board is in on it.

And prove me wrong, board, prove me wrong. No, they're not gonna prove me wrong because we're absolutely right. And then they go on a fishing expedition to try to smear Muslim professors. What I wanna know, Anna, is who are the Israeli assets inside our government that gave the order to try to entrap Muslim professors on behalf of Israel? And we're not gonna get those answers because the entire government is infiltrated by Israeli assets, including at the very top. Donald Trump has gotten over $300 million from an Israeli family.

And we're all pretending that that doesn't affect them. Our reporters are so comically in the tank for a different country that they're like, I didn't notice that the Israeli lobby was the number one lifetime donor to Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Mike Johnson and Akeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. And almost all of our leaders, I can't see anything. I'm a reporter. Oh my god, some of these universities actually love the idea of doing crackdowns on their American and non-American students on behalf of Israel.

I can't see it at all. I can't hear it and I definitely can't say it. So that's what our comical press is, our government that is infiltrated by Israel at every level. And now you see it with your own eyes. And by the way, the courts, when they finally went to court in the Harvard cases, Anna explained to you, the judges laughed them out of the courtroom. Thank God, there aren't Israeli assets.

As far as we know, inside the court system yet, I hate to give them ideas. But for now the courts are holding and the courts are saying there was no evidence of systemic anti-Semitism at all. You made this up completely. So then who made it up? Who made it up? And the reality is there is a deep state and it works for a different country and is constantly targeting Americans to take away their freedom of speech, to arrest people as they did on

those campuses who dare to protest Israel and to take away your rights so that you bow and surrender to a foreign nation. We should find every one of those assets and remove them from our government. Agreed. All right, when we come back, thank you, Anna. When we come back, we've got two doctors who were in Gaza, a Jewish American doctor and a Muslim American doctor, and their stories are haunting. It's part of a new movie out that everyone's talking about.

We'll interview with those doctors when we return.