The Young Turks - Kamala's First Interview

Episode Date: August 30, 2024

Kamala Harris says she would put a Republican in her cabinet in an interview with CNN. Trump signals he will vote against 6 week abortion ban in Florida referendum. House Dem caught sending wildly contradictory letters on the same day declaring support for Israel in one and condemning it in the other. Trump posts a shockingly crass comment about Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and ""blowjobs.""" HOST: Ana Kasparian (@anakasparian), Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch: https://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jane Hugar, Anna Kasparian with you guys, it's the young Turks. So a lot of news today. Kamala Harris interview, portions of it have come out and she says some interesting things. We'll tell you about that in a minute. And Donald Trump has also said some interesting things about abortion in two different directions. Is he now for Roe v. Wade after he helped overturn it? It's hard to tell in the barrage of idiocy and lies that he spurts out every single day. I can't believe this guy's tied for president of the United States. He already was. It's mental. All right. Here's all the news. Anna. All right. Well, CNN will be airing their

sit-down interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. But prior to airing the entirety of the interview, they're putting out these little snippets. So let's get to it. Will you appoint a Republican to your cabinet? CNN has released a snippet or several snippets of their sit-down interview with Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walls. Now, of course, Dana Bash is the anchor at CNN who is going to conduct this interview. And before it airs, we have some clips to show you. So we're going to get back to how Harris answers that question about whether she would work with a Republican in her administration. But first, one of the questions that Bash asked about centered on Kamala Harris' values.

Take a look. Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you've made, that you've explained some of here, in your policy? Is it because you have more experience now and you've learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? and should they feel comfortable and confident that what you're saying now is going to be your policy moving forward? Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that,

include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. We have set goals for the United States of America and by extension the globe around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as an example. That value has not changed. So she starts off answering that question by focusing on climate policy and she says that her values have not changed. What did you make of that answer, Jane?

Yeah, it's a good savvy answer that's not really true. So look guys, politicians change their policies based on the times. So is Kamala Harris a very standard politician? Yes. Did she say that she was for Medicare for all, whether she believed it or not when she thought it was popular in 2020? Yes. Is she now against it because it's no longer popular in her mind at least?

The polling shows it's still popular, but these knuckleheads in Washington think, oh, no, everybody in Washington doesn't like it. So has she changed it because of that? Yes, definitely. So what's your value? Is it universal health care or not universal health care? Which one is it? So the reality is, you know, if you're going to go with that line of talking points,

then you've got to come back and say why your value is the same about universal health care and then when and how you're going to get it. Not, I'm not in favor of it anymore. So I don't really believe her. By the way, Anna, I think the optics of the double interview with her and Tim Walls is terrible. Yeah, and people are getting on our case for, in my opinion, just stating the obvious. People will argue, well, no, no, no, it's commonplace for every presidential ticket to have a sit-down interview with both individuals involved. That is true.

That is a tradition. In a situation in which the frontrunner, right, the top of the ticket, in this case it would be Kamala Harris, actually gave other sit-down interviews on her own by herself. Yeah, look, guys, just know this going forward for today and for the rest of the election coverage. I'm not interested in blue or red MAGA. I'm not interested in dealing with your emotional needs, okay? So people may do double interviews. Trump and Vance did when I tore it apart, right?

But is that when you're looking for the main interview, the first interview she's going to do after all this hype about how she's not doing interviews, then she uses Tim Walts as a crutch. It doesn't look good for Kamala Harris. Thank you. And by the way, if you're Blue Maga, do you understand that when you say, hey, things could be better if she did it this way, that's not trying to hurt her. That's trying to help her. Like, hey, but if you want to say, hey, do it the dumb way, oh, I bet that'll help. Whichever way is the dumbest way that's going to cost her votes, please do it that way. As long as she said it, oh, rah, rah, The Uraras do not help.

Objective reality and how to win an election helps, okay? If you think that's bad, wait until you get a load of what I'm going to say about Red Manga later in the show. So we do the truth here. Now, when you look at the optics of it, now that you can see it with your own eyes, it was always a bad idea. But now she looks like she's at the kids table. Walls's chair is so much higher. That's an awkward table. Dana Bash is facing Tim Walz.

Kamala Harris should be looking strong and in charge. Instead, she looks like she's at the side of the table, side of the conversation. It makes her look weaker, not stronger. Please just stop cheerleading for whoever's in charge because you think that helps. It doesn't use independent judgment. Speaking of independent, this election, if you are a hardcore partisan, is not about you. I know that's a hard pill to swallow, but you're not the important one in this election. Electorally speaking, you're actually pretty irrelevant.

Every move that Donald Trump makes, every move that Kamala Harris makes is meant to attract the swing voters, the independent voters. So you have to think in that regard whenever you're judging whether or not the candidate that you prefer is performing well. It's not about performing well for you as a hardcore partisan. You've already made up your mind. The election comes down to a tiny sliver of independent voters who have not made up their minds yet. Yeah, look guys, to that point, and again, I'm going to keep breaking hearts here,

but it's, so I'll start with Red Maga in this case. They think like, yeah, we sold her and her sex habits and call her a slut. Yeah, yeah, all my friends love it. Good luck with that strategy. Exactly. Right? But that's not going to get you any independent voters, you knuckleheads? Exactly. Okay, so that, okay, now on Blue Maga, it doesn't matter what Kamala Harris does, this was even more true of Joe Biden, right? Oh, yes, queen, yes queen. Oh, she's so great. Everything she does is great. Okay, yeah, if you're a Democratic voter who's like, like, thought Biden was amazing, you'll believe anything. But the election isn't, to Anna's point, going to be decided by you. We already know how you're going to vote. And independents

don't think she's yes queen, right? That's why right now she's losing. It's by a tiny amount, but she is losing in the sweet states. So it's not, you're not helping with all the Yes, queen nonsense. I totally agree with you. Okay, so look, the only thing I'll say about her statement about the Green New Deal, look, it was broad, it was a vague statement and it was intentionally vague. The only thing that was specific was, you know, kind of citing the Inflation Reduction Act and the climate related provisions within that policy.

And I would just say to Kamala Harris, be a little bit careful with piggybacking off of what was accomplished during the Biden presidency, or what Biden has proposed himself. So this year, he put out his own economic proposals, and Kamala Harris just kind of tacitly co-signed onto those policies without considering that, well, maybe those policies, some of them might not be very popular. And we're going to get to that later on in the show. But let's move on to the next clip that we have from this interview with Dana Bash, because she also talked about her views on immigration. Take a look. My value around what we need to do to secure our border. That value has not changed.

I spent two terms as the Attorney General of California prosecuting transnational criminal organizations, violations of American laws regarding the passage, illegal passage of guns, drugs, and human beings across our border. My values have not changed. So she's, you know, putting out a pretty, I wouldn't say conservative message on immigration, but certainly a little more hardcore on stopping undocumented immigrants from entering the country, stopping human smuggling, stopping drug trafficking, all of that. I personally think that that is a good message. But I'm curious what you think, Jank.

And do you think that this is a value that has also shifted? So she's in a super tough spot here because, you know, they blew it on immigration for a long time. And this was an argument because not only the numbers go sky high, we saw the numbers, don't argue with numbers. You sound like maga if you argue with numbers. But now it's come down a little bit, but, you know, one, they got stuck with that. And two, now their response is, oh, we're going to do Trump's policy. It's not a great look anyway, cut it. So she doesn't have a good answer here.

So in that context, the answer she gave is fine. And she's pointing out her previous good work on the border as a prosecutor, et cetera. And she went after some of the worst people who crossed the border. And she's saying, look, I still believe that. A lot of people won't be satisfied with that answer because of what we saw in the last four years and et cetera. But it's as good an answer as she can give. So I don't mind it. Yeah.

And I think that she messaged on immigration a little more successfully during her DNC speech. And because she focused on, look, we need a pathway to citizenship, and I agree with that. I mean, our immigration system is broken, and it's incredibly difficult to enter the country and become a citizen legally. And so focusing on that is important, but also communicating that you're not just going to allow the type of situation we had in the country, you know, last December, for instance, where the border was out of control. Remember, guys, Biden actually did implement an executive order after Donald Trump crushed

the Senate bill that was seeking to reform immigration, right? So Biden's moves, that that executive order is what led to a significant decrease in the number of people trying to enter the country illegally. So if she wants to maybe focus on that, that could also be helpful. But I actually, this is the one area where I believe her. I actually believe that she does want to do something about immigration. So. Yeah, because it would be politically disadvantageous not to do anything. Exactly. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So finally, is Harris, not only willing to work with Republicans, but literally appoint Republicans within her administration. Let's take a look.

You had a lot of Republican speakers at the convention. Will you appoint a Republican to your cabinet? Yes, I would. Anyone in mine? No one in particular in mine. I got 68 days to go with this election, so I'm not putting the cart before the horse. But I would. I think it's really important.

I have spent my career inviting diversity. of opinion. I think it's important to have people at the table and when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my cabinet who was a Republican. So I thought that was a fascinating answer. And my response to that would be, well, it depends on who we're talking about and it depends on the position. So if we're talking about a neo-con, never-Trump Republican as the Secretary of State, that would be a disaster, okay? That would be an utter disaster. But what do you think about this, Jane? Yeah, so it definitely

depends, but overall, I hate the framing. And so I actually want to go to a couple members here made good points, and then I'll explain what I mean. Rainbow Bright said every time there's a Democrat running for any office, CNN constantly asked about working with the Republicans or putting Republicans in their administration. That's exactly right, right? I love how smart and educated our audience is. So you don't get it the other way around. Like you don't get the Republicans being browbeat about, are you going to put a Democrat in your administration? Are you going to put it one into your cabinet? I mean, imagine the Democrats, I mean, Republicans actually putting a strong Democrat or progressive in their cabinet, let's say a secretary of labor to, you know, not to, not,

to put down labor, but to actually uplift labor. I can't imagine. I literally can't imagine it, right? So, but the Democrats, they get closer and closer to the Republicans all the time. So, and so I hate the framing. I don't want to talk about Republicans. And I would talk about, yeah, name one, name one. Give me a good one. I haven't seen any, right? And I'm running against the Republican Party for a good reason, because the Republican Party is against reproductive rights, against all these things that we care about. So I'm not going to rent, when I win, when the Democrats win the election, I don't have to appease Republicans.

Now look, you're a president for everyone. That's a different thing. That's about the voters and not these politicians. 10-714 wrote in, bet you it's Adam Kisinger. Okay. So guys, I love doing the show with you guys. Hit the join button below, become a member and do it with us. Yeah, it's a good point.

They'll probably put someone in like that. But at the same time, what Anna is saying is super important. you make Adam Kinsinger the, you know, secretary of HUD or whatever, right? Everything's going to be okay. Is it? Yeah, I mean, look, I wouldn't go in that direction at all. I would put a lot of progressives in, but she's not going to do that. Anyway, but if you make Liz Cheney Secretary of Defense, no, no, I'm out.

I mean, don't do that. What are you doing? What are you doing? So it totally depends on which direction you go. Yeah, so the full interview will be airing on CNN tonight. And I'm sure that there will be some in-depth coverage and analysis of the interview tomorrow on TYT's main show. So definitely tune in for that and watch the entire interview on CNN tonight. Let's move on to our next story.

This one was a little surprising. You're going to vote in Florida later this year. I mean, have you made up your mind how you're going to vote in their abortion referendum? Well, I do know, but I do want more than six weeks. I want more than six weeks. I think six weeks is a mistake. And I'll be expressing that soon. But I want more than six weeks.

In Florida, we have a six-week program, and that's what I believe that you're voting on, and I think it should be more than six weeks. During an interview with the Daily Mail, by the way, he said something similar to NBC News as well. Donald Trump signaled that he plans to vote against Florida's six-week abortion ban in an upcoming referendum that would actually loosen these abortion restrictions to the standard that the state was able to enjoy under Roe v. Wade. Now, he called it a terrible mistake when DeSantis first signed the ban, but up to this point, he's been kind of coy in answering questions about the referendum.

Now he's making his intentions pretty clear. And like any politician, he's checking the polls. He's understanding how much the abortion issue not only hurt him, but hurt the Republican party. And so he is kind of going along with what the majority of voters want here. Let's take a look at Florida where the majority of voters want to support this referendum clearly. So when asked about the ballot measure that would make abortion legal up until fetal viability,

again, that was the standard under Roe v. Wade. 57% of registered voters in Florida say they would vote in favor of abortion legality. And 36% say they would vote against it. Just 6% say that they're unsure. Other polls found even greater support. According to the poll from University of North Florida's public opinion research lab, 69% of respondents said they would vote for Amendment 4, which would prohibit laws from restricting or banning abortion until fetal viability.

So constitutional amendments in Florida need 60% of the vote in order to become law. And based on the polling, it seems likely that the referendum will in fact pass, which is good news. But I guess in this case, on a national level, the bigger news is the fact that Donald Trump is in favor of the referendum. Yeah. So I think Trump is inexplicable, right? So he helped to overturn Roe, obviously, by putting three very conservative Supreme Court justice on there that he knew would overturn Roe versus Wade. And then he bragged about it. Like, oh, yeah, I'm going to overturn Roe. I'm the greatest. Okay. So now this ballot measure is Roe.

Roe said it's legal through two trimesters, so about 23, 24 weeks when you have viability. And it's not legal in the third trimester because then the state has a legitimate interest in a maybe that could be an independent life, right? So now Trump is indicating he's going to vote for that. Then why'd you overturn Roe? So you're pro choice. But you're bragging about how pro-life you are. Because in other words, he doesn't care at all. He's just like, oh, pro-lifers vote for me, pro-choice people.

I'll pretend to be on your side. Ah ha ha ha ha ha, here, vote for me. I mean, whose side is he actually on? Who knows and who cares? Like, I mean, this guy, he never paid for an abortion in his life, please. Okay, I have to jump in on this because I think that the Republicans really did underestimate how much this issue would infuriate voters and how much it touches the lives of so many different people, including people who want to have families. So, as some of you might know,

I have family in Florida. And, you know, some of those family members had been hardcore Trump supporters until Roe v. Wade was overturned. Okay, so I have one family member who, you know, she's married, has a son, ready to have a second baby, was overjoyed to find out that she was pregnant. And then far along in the pregnancy, she finds out that she's, basically she's leaking fluids and the fetus is slowly dying as a result of that. It is an unviable pregnancy, non-viable. So she goes to the doctor and the doctor says there's nothing I can do. You're just going to have to wait until you deliver a stillborn because if I do an abortion, I could face prosecution. Yeah, these are radical, radical policies.

No longer Republican. This is someone that I would engage in debates with, okay? Like hardcore debates with and she's like, I feel so stupid for supporting the party that's doing this to me. Yeah, look, I do calls for people who donate over $100 at t.com slash team. And I talked to someone yesterday who said that they watched the show with their mom. Now she's 71 years old. And now that she has gin every Tuesday and watch the show. I think it's awesome.

And now that she watches us, she's like, I can't believe the media lied to me. I thought I was a conservative for 71 years. It turns out not conservative at all. So it's because of the framing, the framing that they do. But when you actually see it in your own life, like what happened to small government? Here's big government getting between you and your doctor making the single most personal decision you could possibly make on your behalf. I mean, you want to talk about tyrannical government?

messing with your life. So now Trump realizes, oh, oops, my proposal, what I did is enormously unpopular. If I go with the so-called pro-life position, I'm going to get clobbered because America hates it, right? Right. So I'll lie about what the Democratic position is, which we'll get to in a second. And then I'll pretend I'm pro-choice. And that's kind of the scummy politician that he is. Now, after he gave that interview to the Daily Mail, after he spoke.

to an NBC reporter backstage at a rally, he then comes out to speak to the audience and talks about, it's just so frustrating. He talks about how there are six states that have legalized aborting the fetus after it's born. So, I don't know, why can't you just take the win, right? Supporting the referendum, I think, is the right thing to do. Saying that you're going to vote in favor of that Florida referendum is the right thing to do. Then you turn around and you just make up a complete nutter lie about they're not fetuses at that point. It is a viable human being outside of the womb that has been delivered. Killing that living being is murder. We have laws against that. But he says that six states allow for that to happen. Yeah, so this is so frustrating.

So Governor Northam of Virginia, back when he was in, he did one interview where he was talking about a case, where the baby is born, but it has a fatal condition, it's definitely going to die, and it's on ICU, and then the parents and the doctors have to talk through, what are we going to do? And a lot of families have to face this horrible, horrible decision with their parents. When they get older, after accident, in the case of some babies that have fatal conditions, and it's a normal decision you have to make, and it's heart-wrenching, and he's talking about that. The Republicans took that and go, now they're killing them after they're born. It's post birth abortion.

Look, guys, it's just not true. I don't know how to drill it into your heads that it's not true. Go back and listen to the interview. And they're talking about a kid, the baby who was born with a fatal condition that has nothing to do with abortion. They wanted the baby. They desperately wanted the baby. And so from that one BS misinterpretation on purpose of that interview, they've made it now. Six states have made it legal to murder babies.

after they're born. Well, look, guys, if you believe that, you're definitely going to vote for Trump because you'll believe anything. You'll believe that Jesus Christ is going to come back in the form of RFK Jr. And make love to Donald Trump and that's going to create the next whatever, right?

You're going to believe any lunatic conspiracy theory that comes along. For the rest of us that live on planet Earth, of course, six states in America do not allow for the murder of babies after they're born. Jesus Christ, man. This is why you can't vote for Trump.

no matter who the other person is, Trump's a maniac, total maniac, making up outrageous lies. And once you know what the giant problem with this is? Now 30% of the country is going to believe that Democrats murder babies after they're born. They're going to believe it with all their hearts and they're going to believe it for the rest of their lives. And then they're going to be like, what do we do about these baby killing Democrats? Somebody's got to do something. Anybody got a Second Amendment remedy? So that's how he drives this country into division and hatred.

It's through these unbelievable lies. It's exhausting. It's definitely exhausting. I'm so sick of it. So like, again, you said something that and are going to do something that's actually very popular, even among conservative voters, take the win. Why do you have to then do something counterproductive by lying as he didn't? On July 18th, get excited.

This is big! For the summer's biggest adventure. I think I just smurf my pants. That's a little too excited. Sorry. Smurfs. Only on date is July 18th. So let's move on to the other part of the Daily.

interview because that wasn't all he had to say. So Trump's comments on abortion during his daily male interview in which he said that he would vote in favor of a Florida referendum that would change the abortion accessibility in the state to the standards that they had when Roe v. Wade was still the law of the land. He also talked about a post that he wrote last week. So in that post he said, my administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights. Now, first, he talked about IVF and condemned Alabama and the ruling in Alabama, essentially dubbing frozen embryos, human lives, children. He argued he was stronger on protecting IVF than the Democrats.

Then he also bragged about getting Roe overturned while also talking about how he thinks the country is fairly liberal when it comes to the topic of abortion. take a look as far as abortion is concerned for 52 years people have wanted to take roe v wade out of the picture and bring it back to states and we were i was able to do that now i happen to be like ronald regan in favor of exceptions for rape incest and the life of the mother and i think it's a very good thing. I think probably 85% of Republicans are there, probably maybe more Democrats. But I was able to take it out of the federal government. We're now voting in places like Ohio, where I must say the vote has been much more liberal than some people

would have thought. Kansas, where it's conservative, I won both states by a lot. But the vote's been very, very liberal, relatively speaking. Which is why he's now coming out vehemently against a six-week abortion ban in states like Florida. And he's saying that he's going to vote in favor of a referendum that would set the Roe standard in that state. And by the way, in regard to IVF, he says that he would push for the federal government to help assist with the funding and payments associated with IVF treatments, which are incredibly expensive. So pro lifers, what are you going to do? Because he now says he's in favor of Roe. That's the Florida ballot measure is exactly Roe. You're going to vote for him and you know it because you think he's lying and you know that. And you think that if they actually pass it in the Senate and in

the House, the Trump will sign a national ban on abortion because he's on your side. That's what you think, right? So admit it. So either you think he's lying or you should be. livid. This is the greatest betrayal of conservative voters, probably in American history. Not really. It's a sliver of conservative voters. It's those evangelical voters. And they might be single issue voters, right? These are the people who only vote based on who's the most restrictive on abortion. And look, to be fair to that. So all of them should vote against Trump. Well, okay, so they claim they're going to vote against Trump. Who knows how they're actually going to vote? And honestly, I don't care. But the point that I'm trying to make here is they are irrelevant.

Okay, they are a tiny part of the conservative electorate. No, no, no, no, no, two things, Anna, they're not the whole electorate on the Republican side. For sure, that's true. But there's still a giant chunk. Evangelicals are a big chunk of Republican voters. And second of all, if they stay home, they're never going to vote for Colin Harris. But if they stay home or they vote for someone else, that could definitely affect him. Remember, he won in 2016 because over 80% of white evangelical voters showed up to vote,

which is a stunning number, and 85% of them voted for Trump. That made all the difference in the 2016 election. So they're going to have to make a decision. Do they think that Trump is a degenerate liar, and so he's still on their side and they're not worried about it? Or no, he's betrayed them more than any politician has, and he went from overturning Roe to saying, Roe is great and he can't wait to vote for it in Florida. So you guys make your own decision. But I'm just having a hard time like, okay, there's a contradictory thing going on here and maybe I'm missing something and maybe you can help me understand it. How do we go from talking

about the majority of Republican voters wanting to have less restrictions on abortion to now saying, no, no, it's a huge part of the Republican electorate. No, no, that's super easy, Anna. So the country's 70-30 pro-choice, right? That entire 30% is in the Republican Party and they're the evangelicals. No one outside of the evangelicals thinks that the government should get between us and our doctor and make these personal decisions. You have to believe in the voodoo in order to believe that. But among them, I don't think 30% of Republicans would sit out this presidential election.

No, no, it's a matter of how many of those. And it's 30% of the country, it's a much larger chunk of the Republican Party. What's interesting, and you see it here in this number. Look at Republicans in Florida, and the number that we gave you earlier, 34% are in of the Roe standard, which is this ballot measure, and 59% are against. That's 60% of Republican voters who are still anti-choice. And so they got this, this puts them in a difficult spot, but they'll back Trump. Because it isn't, guys, it is, look, in my opinion, it isn't about abortion.

It's about identity politics. And they think he's our identity, she's not our identity. They would never vote for her in a million years because they don't. Look, it's not about the Bible, the Bible's pro abortion. It's not about any of those things. And it's not about kids. They don't care about Palestinian kids getting slaughtered. They don't care about any of these.

They don't care about this. It's just about being able to control women's bodies. The identity they care about is not even, it's not racial guys. The identity they care about is the good old days. And what's the good old days? When men were in charge and women did what they were told. So that's what they're trying to go back to. And now they've got to make a decision on whether they trust Trump or not.

But no matter how you slice any of this, what the anti-choice movement did not want to just bring it back to the states. No, they didn't. They think that it's murderer. And so they want to ban completely. So let's not now pretend all of a sudden. They're like, oh, we don't mind either way. Oh, blue states want to allow it? Oh, that's fine.

They don't think that at all. That's not remotely true. The whole point is to ban abortion nationwide. And so is Trump going to do that? It depends on which way the wind is blowing. But here's what I know. He's the one that appointed the justices that ended row. So that's an undeniable fact.

So I score my zero on pro choice. And I should note that in the same daily mail interview, he would not give a clear answer on whether or not he would veto a federal abortion ban, which, I mean, look, I guess crazier things have happened. I think it's a non-starter in Congress. I could be wrong, but we'll see. Anyway, let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk a little bit about a House Democrat who doesn't really seem to have any real position on the ongoing war in Gaza.

Stick around. All right, back on TYT, Jank Anna and Granite State Dragon, who made a contribution through tYT.com slash team. And so did hubris NX69, not a contribution, but became a member through that. Becoming a member through tYT.com slash team is definitely a little bit better. I don't want to, like, you hit the join button, God bless you. Any way you do it is awesome. But if you do it through there, that's great too. Eddie Corrales and Girtkam Usulmar just did that.

They hit the join button below the video on YouTube, became members and American heroes. We appreciate you guys. You make this show possible and allow us to tell the truth as we are, as you see every single day. Anna. I want to tell you a story about what a standard politician in America is like. And to do that, we're going to focus on one House Democrat in particular. House Democrat, Susan Wilde, sent two contradictory letters about her views on the ongoing war in Gaza to constituents who actually called on her to back Israel.

Now, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which provided the two letters to readers, this is what happened. So one of those letters demanded or declared support for Israel and its right to defend itself. The other called for international pressure on the Jewish state and an immediate ceasefire. So wild inadvertently sent one version, to a mother and another version to the daughter. The mother-daughter team sent a letter urging her to support Israel, and Representative Wilde essentially sent two contradictory letters to both individuals. Now, in the pro-Israel letter, the Congresswoman said she was outraged and devastated and

heartbroken over the vicious Hamas attack. She expressed support for the Israeli people and all fellow Jews and reiterated Israel's right to defend itself. She also pledged to do everything I can as your representative to ensure Israel has the ability and capacity to restore and maintain its security and safety of all its citizens. And what about the second letter? What was the messaging in that? Well, something entirely different. The focus was more on the suffering of the Palestinian people. In the contradictory letter sent to the daughter, the congresswoman also said she was outraged, devastated, and heartbroken. But this time, she was devastated about the unspeakable tragedy continuing to

unfold in Gaza, adding that the Israeli military has inflicted devastation on staggering numbers of innocent Palestinian children, families, and civilians in Gaza. She called for an immediate ceasefire and pledged to always listen and fully consider the perspective of Israel's enemies. That's amazing. Oops. Yep. To me, that's this. This is the perfect story about American politics. Yep. Look, mainstream media treats politicians like they belong on a pedestal. They're honorable people having legitimate debates and they're worthy of a lot of respect.

Okay. That they're people with values. That's the thing that, that's the big lie here, right? That these are individuals who have deeply held values that inform the way that they lead the country or lead their district. Yeah, in reality, I don't think. the politicians are the best of us. I think they're the worst of us. Agreed. And so this is a great example. I mean, look at how disingenuous this is. And after this story, the mainstream media will

go back to covering her as if she's a real person with real opinions. She doesn't have any opinions. Almost none of these politicians do. So they have two, like in this case, she has two different sets of letters for different sets of constituencies. What's her actual position? No one knows. I'm not sure she knows, right? But oftentimes, they have two sets of letters, one for the donors and one for the voters. And the voters ones are like, oh my God, we care so much. And we're the middle class and we care, oh, we got to make it easier for your family and take care of your costs and stuff. And to the donors, they go, we promise we'll never cut your, we'll never increase your taxes. We funnel all the money to you. Your subsidies are great. We'll deregulate.

Don't worry. Nothing will fundamentally change. So I'm sick of these. politicians, you should, like, mainstream media assumes that if a politician says something, that it's true, it can be disproven. And then they're like, whoa, look at this. Oh my God, George Santos is lying. Oh, oh, look at those lies by Donald Trump. No, the normal assumption should be if a politician is speaking, they're lying. And if they somehow, it turns out they're honest.

You're like, whoa, look at that. Bernie Sanders is honest there. That's, to me, that's shocking. That's why we like Bernie. right? That's why I respect Thomas Massey who's completely on the other end of the political spectrum because at least he's honest, right? That's the exception. It's not the rule. The rule is Congresswoman Wilde with her two sets of letters saying the exact opposite things. I mean, there's something sociopathic about really not having any view on this or just relying

on stock letters that you send to your constituents depending on where they're coming from in the way they correspond with you. And look, she is in a little bit of a tough spot because she wants to win re-election and she happens to be in a swing district where there's a pretty substantial Arab population in addition to a engaged Jewish community. And so that's why she has the two stock letters. That's the reason why she doesn't really have any values on this issue. She's going to tell she wants to be everything to everyone in order to win reelection, right?

And so it was a pretty bad mistake for her. Redistricting, by the way, has kind of hurt her and made the race in that district a lot more competitive. So it added the pro-Trump Carbon County to her swing district. She's a lawmaker in Pennsylvania. So she has made matters worse for herself, by the way, because she has had some choice words for people in that district. She was quoted as follows. Earlier this year, Wilde was caught on a Zoom call deriding the county's residents as bigots who drank the Trump Kool-Aid in 2022.

She was also caught on tape saying she needed to school Carbon County residents for their support of Trump. Well, look, I don't mind that as long as you defend it, right? And you go and you go, look, this is why I'm pissed at you guys. And look, the way I would say it is, guys, I want to get you guys higher wages and health care. Trump's in my way. Why are you supporting him? Why did you drink the Trump Kool-Kool-Aid?

But then I would respect her because she at least has some sort of you know principle and fights for it but that's not what she's going to do. She says that stuff behind the scenes and then in front of the scenes. Oh, are you Trump? I got two different letters for you. Okay, I got a letter to probably kissing Trump's ass somewhere in that file. By the way, what's wild's Kool-Aid? I want to know.

Like, who's going to drink your Kool-Aid? What do you stand for? Nothing that her Kool-Aid is. Where's the money? Okay, so look, last thing, how do they decide which letter? dissent. Think about it because they have two different letters, but they don't know the policy positions of the constituent running, writing in. If the constituent writes in with a certain one, okay, that's easy, right? Right. But if not, are they looking to see if there's Jewish names

or Middle Eastern sounding names or Muslim sounding names? That's terrible. And notice the older person got the pro is Israel letter true the younger person got the you know pro Palestine pro both sides whatever however you pro peace letter right yeah so this is so dumb but very normal in politics you will hear the story and everyone else in media will laugh and go oh what a crazy congressperson and make it seem like it's the exception no this is the rule all right we're We're going to take a break when we come back. Donald Trump did something that he usually doesn't do. He deleted a post that was getting a lot of backlash. We'll tell you what that post was and more when we come back. Back on TYT, Jank and Anna with you guys and Jacks Payne.

Thank you for giving a membership on YouTube. We appreciate it. Anna? All right, let's do the next story. Why was Donald Trump over the last 36 hours on his social media reposting slogans from Q&on and reposting misogynist's sexist content about Vice President Harris? Well, look, I don't think your viewers at home are concerned about social media posts. I think they are concerned with the news of the day. And the news of the day is that a Venezuelan, a legal immigrant crime gang, has taken over a hotel in rural Colorado because of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's open border policies.

The news of the day is that, again, gasoline prices are 50% higher today than they were under Donald Trump. That was Caroline Leave It and her deflection and unwillingness to answer a simple question is something I'm not in favor. of I don't want to take it. I want to leave it. But let's talk about what sparked the question in the first place. Look, since Kamala Harris announced that she was running for the Oval office, Donald Trump and his supporters have made some pretty terrible, misogynistic remarks about her. Okay? And recently, Trump decided to post something or repost something on truth social that he later deleted, probably because of the backlash that he was getting. So it had to do with sexist remarks alleging that Harris got her start in politics by dating a long-time

California politician, Willie Brown. And Trump echoed these allegations by sharing on truth social a screenshot of a tweet from X showing Harris and Clinton standing together in a picture with the caption, funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently. And if you're wondering what that looked like. This was the deleted, now deleted post on truth social. Okay. So, of course, his spokesperson's asked about it, and she's having some difficulty answering that question, because it's a difficult question to answer. I mean, what he's putting out there is not popular with the voters that he needs to attract the most, independent voters. And so I'm going to get to the rest of that interview in just a moment. But, Jank, any thoughts?

Yeah, he can't help himself. So, I mean, what kind of lunatic? re-post that when they're in the middle of a presidential campaign, and by the way, you're the one who killed Roe, and Roe was 70% popular. So now, just to insult women more, you make jokes about how the only way they can get ahead in the world is if they sleep their way to the top. I'm not sure I know anything that would anger women more, other than taking away their reproductive rights, which you also did. Right? So it's the world's dumbest strategy, but he can't help himself because that's who he is. He thinks women are for sex. They're not for anything else. And so he's like, oh yeah, blow a child. And he's also a child. He never got more emotionally mature than when he was in fifth grade. He just never matured past that. So he's like, oh women, yeah, that's the only way they get ahead.

And then when it blows up on him, he's like, oh, wow. And that was so bad, he deleted. But they're all over television defending it. So you have Kamala Harris now running against him, and she's been pretty successful in latching on to an economic populist message, which isn't only good because it's a popular way of campaigning among the electorate. It's successful because it kind of snatches something away from Donald Trump, right? It robs Donald Trump of his faux populist messaging. And so then what does he have left to campaign on?

He ends up campaigning on misogynistic messaging that turns off a lot of voters, obviously female voters, who overwhelmingly support the Democratic candidate anyway. But again, it comes down to independent voters. And if all you are offering the electorate is negativity and you're just leaning into that misogyny and nothing more, well, it's going to hurt your campaigning. And I think that's the reason why he ended up deleting that truth social post, right? Yeah, definitely. He doesn't usually do that.

He usually refuses to apologize, refuses to admit he's ever wrong about anything. Now, to be sure, he hasn't apologized for it, but he did delete it. Yeah, that's unprecedented. That means, man, I'm positive. That's going to hurt me in the polls, even though that's my real opinion. All right, I'll withdraw it because that would hurt the thing that he loves most, which is himself. So now let's go back to the CNN interview featuring a Trump spokesperson. This is Caroline Leave it.

Let's hear what she had to say. Today, Caroline, than they were under Donald Trump, the news of the day as a new mother. Do you know why he posted that? Do you know why he reposted that content? I haven't been able to talk to President Trump yet this morning because he is calling into media interviews, unlike Kamala Harris, who has been avoiding the press for more than 40 days. And we're excited that CNN finally has the opportunity to question Kamala Harris tonight about her disastrous record. But I do want to ask you again, the social media content reposted. by the Republican nominee in the last 36 hours, how do you explain it? How do you explain why he is reposting content from Q&N and this misogynistic content?

Again, I will say, I have not spoken to President Trump about that content this morning, and I don't think Americans are concerned with social media posts. But you said misogynistic, I assume you're also going to say that the posts were demeaning to women. I think what's demeaning to women is what has been allowed to happen over the last four years. I think what's demeaning to women is the fact that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are allowing an evasion of illegal criminals into our country, many of whom have proven to be rapists and murderers. I think what's demeaning to women like Lake and Riley and Jocelyn Nungre and Rachel Moran is the fact that they are no longer with us because of the policies of this administration.

And that is what voters and your viewers care about, John. If you look at the demographics supporting Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump, all of the fear mongering that she engaged in apparently has not convinced the majority of eligible female voters to support Trump over Kamala Harris. But look, I mean, she's in a tough spot. She has to defend the indefensible, right? And so good luck with your role as a spokesperson for Donald Trump as he continues to double down in this pretty gross messaging. Yeah, so look, I haven't been able to talk to him as a standard defense for, oh, I don't know why he did that. So, and I think Jason Miller used it as well, but at least she's trying to deflect. There's Jesse Waters and all those other guys out there doubling down, tripling down. Like, yeah, what are women good for, man?

Just sex, sex, sex, oh yeah, right, like you could run the country. She's afraid, she's weak, she's a woman, et cetera. So go ahead, give away millions of votes, you schmucks. Like, I don't want to get in your way. So you could tell because Trump took it down. Now, but I don't wanna gloss over the other thing, which is several Q&N posts that he reposted, including one of Trump holding a Q plus sign, okay? So I don't know if the picture is real or Photoshop, but he reposted it like, yay.

K&N is still around, huh? Yeah, apparently it's around and Trump is still in favor of it. If you don't know, Q&N thinks that the Democratic Party is run by devil-worshipping, child molesting child killers who then drink their blood and put their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their face on their face as a mask. Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, if you're in Q&on, you're a lunatic, get mental health counseling. Okay, by the way, 15% of the country at its height. And Trump is like, oh yeah, that's good idea.

Yeah, ha ha ha ha, yeah, oh yeah, where's the babies? Oh, yeah, where's the baby's. Oh, they're killing all the babies and drinking their blood. Guys are goddamn lunatic, man. I, it's so depressing for the country. that we're in it, we're having a debate about whether we should elect a literal lunatic. What's depressing is that currently, and obviously this could change, the election is a tie. It's tied. It's tied where we can't. But part of the reason is, or a giant part of the reason, is media, right? And but hold for what I mean. So yes, right wing media has convinced 30% of the country

that everything Trump says is true. Oh yeah, of course they're just. Oh, the children, they make such great mass, whatever. They're just, so they just ate and abet this and those people live in that bubble and they, I know it sounds impossible to the rest of you, right? But they genuinely believe these things, right? And you cannot move them off of it. So now, but mainstream media is also massively guilty. Why? Because they lied in the opposite direction for so long that a huge portion of the country said, I'm not listening to them at all anymore. And I don't think anything's objective. And I don't know what truth is anymore. And they became untethered from reality. Because mainstream media would tell you, oh yeah, politicians are honest. The donors have no effect

on policy. Oh yeah, we need to spend 10 times more than anyone else on defense. Oh, no, we can't afford universal health care or paid family leave that every other country has. So all these giant lies lie on top of lie until people were like, I don't know. These guys on mainstream media They're total liars. So I guess the opposite is true, but the opposite isn't true. The truth is actually not in either one of those areas. Both sides are doing propaganda. Mainstream media does it for corporations, right wing media does it in an ironic way

to create culture wars to also help corporations. Because they all agree the corporations should have lower taxes and deregulation. Meanwhile, we're stuck with a guy who's a lunatic that half the country believes and then nobody's calling out corporate Democrats or Republicans on how they're robbing the middle class to pay off their rich donors. All right, let's take a break. When we come back for the second hour of the show, the hilarious and desperate ways in which conservative media is going after Tim Walls, don't miss it.