The Young Turks - Master Manchin

Episode Date: June 7, 2022

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All right, welcome the Young Turks, Jane Canana with you guys, lots of news in today's show. So let's get right to it. All right, well, the Washington Post decided to serve as personal stenographers on behalf of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat who is so corrupt and so wrapped up in his own financial interests, that it was far more important for him to protect those financial interests than pass a social spending bill that would benefit the lives of Americans and his own constituents. But instead of writing that, which is the literal truth, Jeff Stein and Tyler Pager over at the Washington Post decided to write about this made-up manufactured melodrama involving Mansion being so upset over a statement that was released by the White House that he decided to just destroy and dismantle the possibility of passing a social spending bill at all. Now, before we get to those details, I do want to tell you the most important part of this story, which is about Manchin's corruption. That is the important part. This is everything that was left out of the Washington Post piece on this very issue. For instance, the fact that Joe Manchin is a top recipient from the following industries in 2021 to 2022, number one recipient from coal mining industry, number one recipient from the mining industry, number one recipient from the natural gas, transmission and distribution industry, number one recipient from oil and gas companies.

And the list goes on and on. Those are the most relevant when it comes to the social spending bill, since it included provisions that would tackle climate change, something that would cut into his financial interest, something that would cut into the financial interests of his top donors. Other information that was left out of the piece, and we will get to the details of what the piece entailed in just a moment. Let's take a look at sector totals in terms of how much money Joe Manchin had collected from the very industries that I had listed earlier. For instance, if you look at this graph, it shows that he received $1.6 million from the energy industry, from the fossil fuel industry specifically, and $3.7 million from finance, insurance, and real estate interests.

And also, let me just remind you that he is personally involved in these types of businesses himself, including a company known as EnterSystems, a coal company that he founded, that he is still very much invested in. For decades, as the Intercept reported, Mansion has profited from a series of coal industries that he founded during the 1980s. Between the time he joined the Senate and today, Mansion has personally grossed more than $4.5 million from those firms, according to financial disclosures. He also holds stock options in Enersystems, Inc., the larger of the two firms valued between one and five million dollars. In fact, as we have said multiple times on this show before, last year alone, he collected half a million dollars from inner systems.

Okay, so he again is looking after his own donors, looking after his own financial interests, but the Washington Post didn't print a single word about that in their piece. Instead, they focused on Mansion allegedly being very offended by a milk toast benign statement that was released by the Biden administration. And to make matters worse, the Biden administration seems to buy that narrative themselves. Yeah. Look, this is a really, really important story. And so the reason why it's important is it because it tells you exactly what's wrong with our politics. So the story actually has some interesting facts in it. And that's the good part of the reporting. And I'm going to share one with you because it's really, really important.

And then I'm going to double down on what Anna said as to why it's horrible reporting overall and is meant to deceive you, honestly. So let's get you an actual fact that matters from this story that I hadn't seen before. So we give credit where credit is due. Apparently they had a breakfast, Manchin, Schumer and Biden did on October 24th. And let me pick up the reporting here. With senior staff in attendance, Biden Mansion and Schumer spent roughly three hours developing a framework, estimated to cost roughly $1.75 trillion.

$4.5 trillion that the White House had agreed on with the rest of the party. They didn't say it at the time. Now we know, okay, and later agreed to exclude some top liberal priorities, such as National Paid Leave Program and the Central Climate Program. So back then, Biden is telling progressives in Congress, oh, I got your back. We're going to put the climate plan in there. It's going to be $3.5 trillion. We're not going to decouple it from infrastructure. We're going to have the child tax credit. Meanwhile, he's already made a secret deal with Mansion, or he thought he made a secret deal with Mansion over that October 24th breakfast. By the way, Schumer's also in that meeting.

I have had progressives in Washington swear up and down to me about how progressive Schumer is and how he's on their side. Well, that's even if you believe the mainstream media reporting, that is definitely not true. Schumer and Biden had cut a deal with Mansion a long time ago and had been lying about it publicly. And sometimes, hey, look, you make back room deals. I understand practical if you need to get it to pass. But did he lie to progressives? Unquestionably, that's not even noted. It's like barely just a tiny smidge of like 8% of a sentence I just read to you, right?

That would seem relevant. Okay, did progressives make note of that? No, that's not a big deal in Washington, lying to everybody's normal, right? Okay, speaking of lying, now let's get to the core lie of the story. It's what's not in this story. How can you, to Anna's point, how can you write this giant article about why this deal fell apart and not include the donors at all or their personal stake in this? TYT investigates confirmed or that mansion has made over $5 million in the last 10 years from his coal company. That's not relevant. You don't think $5 million is relevant?

You don't think all of his donors that we just showed you, which are in the exact related industries in this bill. they're not at all, they're not even 1% relevant, they're not 10% so you left it out of the story entirely. You think it's inconceivable that that might be one of the factors. I mean, come on, that's absurd. No, it's even worse than that because I'm not buying for a second that the reason why Manchin, or even part of, even a small percentage of the reason why Manchin decided to just completely destroy the possibility of passing the bill is because he was offended, because he was clutching his pearls over the most benign statement that the White House could release. It is BS, okay?

He wasn't offended. Let's get to the statement. Let's get to the whole narrative after Jenk makes a point. Go ahead. Okay, to Anna's point there, look, the mainstream media does this all the time. James Clyburns did the same exact trick in the Nina Turner, Chantelle Brown race, where he said, I was offended by something that killer Mike said that Nina seemed to bob her head to, and that's why I went in the race.

And every dumb reporter wrote that as if it's true. But why is he in the race with Jessica Cisteros and Queer? No one insulted him there. But he's in that race anyway to defend conservatives and to attack progressives. And mainly to protect his corporate donors. So this is all theater that the mainstream media presents to you. It's a mirage. But even if a word true, think about it, guys.

That's mentioned saying, I don't give a damn about any of the voters or anything we promised to you guys. My feelings that were heard over the most benign comment are more important than all the voters. Well, then why don't you write a story about what a monster he is? No, they see that as legitimate and that the feelings of the elite had to be protected. And that's why it was Biden's fault and not Manchin's fault that it fell apart. I mean, this article is a joke. But go ahead, Anna. Read the story. And look, Biden's cowering to Mansion is also pretty pathetic. And we'll get to that in a moment. But the buildback better agenda really started to unravel and fall apart in November of 2021, where Mansion started raising his concerns over the child

tax credit. The same child tax credit that lifted 50% of children living in poverty, out of poverty. He had a problem with that. And he claimed that parents were actually misusing the tax savings on drugs. No evidence of that. He just says it. By the way, Washington Post doesn't even bother to fact check him on that. They mentioned something about how the White House analysis indicated that's not true. But yeah, okay, so mention defaming, slandering, saying pathetic, disgusting things about American families just so he can ensure that his precious donors don't have to spend any additional money on their taxes. Let me give you the details. At that point, scores of democratic lawmakers, each with effective veto power over the legislation

because of the party's narrow margins in Congress, kept demanding the inclusion of their priorities in ways incompatible with Manson's demands. Paid leave stripped out of the White House framework was reintroduced in the House. Mansion's allies say he was frustrated by the feeling that a concession in his direction once agreed to could later be rescinded. Who are his allies? I want to know who his allies are because they kept referring to his allies. Are his allies his corporate donors?

And if they are, why didn't the Washington Post print that? They keep talking about his allies. who are his allies? Are they other Democratic senators? And if they are other Democratic senators, shouldn't you reveal who they are? The Democrats who might campaign on helping American families, but then turn around and work against them once they're reelected or elected into these positions of power, they don't bother to tell us who the allies are. Let's continue. In December, Biden and Mansion met in an effort to salvage the bill. This is December of last year. this is where Biden deserves all of the harsh criticism that we throw at him, okay?

Striking a conciliatory tone, the president told Manchin he was doing the right thing and withholding his support if he did not believe the measure was good for West Virginia. By the way, polling indicates the majority of West Virginians liked the social spending provisions in the bill. Now Manchin gave the White House the $1.8 trillion written offer another positive sign. Now, the administration didn't immediately accept Mansions offer, though. Not only was it light on policy details, but it excluded the extended child tax credit and it did include tax hikes that cinema had opposed.

The administration knew that a deal without the child benefit would also enrage a large group of Democratic senators while risking a spike in child poverty. And by the way, since it expired, it absolutely did lead to another spike in child poverty. At a time, by the way, when American families are also struggling with inflation. But let me continue. Now, Biden aides did not just flat out reject Manson's proposal. They saw it as a starting out point. We're negotiating.

We're going back and forth. Now, White House officials and Mansion Aids did agree that the administration would put out a statement saying that the negotiations would continue at a later date. The next day came and went. The White House hadn't put out a statement yet. And allegedly, Mansion started to become suspicious about that. He's like, ooh, they're plotting against me, allegedly. Now, when the White House officials finally sent a draft of the statement to Manson's office,

you know, they got to get approval, it mentioned Mansion personally and cited the prior commitments he had made in the build back better agenda. And Mansion's office asked the White House to take out the reference to his prior commitments, even though his prior commitments were on the record. We all knew what his prior commitments were. He didn't want that to be too front and center in the statement. And so the White House apparently ignored Mansions request either to leave him out of the statement or to add cinema. By then, though, cinema had largely resolved her differences with the White House and Manchin was the key obstacle.

And so what did the statement say, finally? What is the statement that had Manchin so upset that he just blew up the deal entirely? This is the exact wording. I had a productive call with Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer earlier today. I briefed them on the most recent discussions that my staff and I have held with Senator Manchin about build back better. these discussions, Senator Manchin has reiterated his support for build back better funding at the level of the framework plan I announced in September. Apparently, this was the most offensive, terrible thing that Biden has ever said, ever said

about Manchin. Now, if you saw that, you've got to be thinking, no, Anna and Jenk must be leaving out context. That can't be the quote. That's not even negative against Manchin. That just says, by the way, it basically reports the October 24th meeting where they agreed to around $1.75 trillion. I mean, it's, I cannot imagine a statement more benign. That's why it's stunning if they're on the level for the Washington Post reporters to not even consider the idea that maybe Mansion is lying. Right.

Like he's a politician. So we all think, well, most of us think he's probably lying, just bit by the, fact that he's a politician. But for, but okay, but the facts are most important. I mean, we're not going to call him a liar without evidence. But I mean, you take this incredibly benign statement and you claim your feelings were so monstrously hurt, your heartbroken, and that's why you decided nobody was going to get child tax credit, nobody was going to get paid family leave, you know, nobody was going to get help on any of these fronts and that you were going to kill the entire Democratic agenda based on your hurt feelings over the

and it never occurred to the reporters that he might be lying. That that's a thing. That's a possibility maybe you should mention to your readers. Also possible, scumbag politician takes millions of dollars and lies to you. No, no, then the feelings of the elites and the powerful would be hurt. And mainstream media reporters cannot do that. They have to create an alternate reality where these are the most honorable gentleman you've ever met. How do you think mainstream media lost all credibility? Nobody believes that. Nobody believes that.

But in their insane bubble in Washington here, I'll give you another. sense of the alternate reality that they live in. They think all this is normal in their bubble. So they write near the end of the article, some Democratic lawmakers believe the party tried to do too much at once, rather than narrowing their priorities. Though their proposals are individually popular with the American people, Democrats believe the sheer breadth of the ambitions they tried cramming into one bill hurt the party overall. How does that make any sense? So they, see, what the right wing gets wrong about mainstream media is they don't get in a room and think, oh, what lie should we tell? Okay, hey, Bob, what's your idea on a lie? Susie, what's your idea?

No, the things in this article are true in that they had a breakfast, they did have those agreements, they're accurately reporting on that. But the way they frame it is critical. They just told you, he actually told you the truth in the middle of those sentences. Everything in the bill was super popular. But they framed it as well, if you do too many popular things once then people won't find it popular. Right. Yeah, it's insane. But why? Why? Why? That makes no sense. It doesn't even try to make sense. Manchin might as well have written this piece on their behalf. But they did, but he did. No, that's exactly right. And that's the problem that I have with it. Because the framing was problematic, of course, but they just took everything that Manchin

had to say at face value and printed it. They served as court reporters. Okay, the people who sit there and they type everything up as the court proceedings are taking place. If you want to be a court reporter, go be a court reporter. I mean, look, I went to a freaking state school for journalism, okay? Nothing to write home about, according to all the Ivy Leaguers out there, right? No, it was told to us over and over again. No, no, by default, you should assume that people in positions of power are lying to you, are deceiving you, okay? So you should investigate what they're saying. You should fact check them. But that doesn't happen in corporate media. They just regurgitate.

And to make matters worse, it's one thing for these reporters to just take what a person in position of power is saying at face value and print it, right? And completely ignore the corruption and personal financial interests. Then you have the White House that also takes mansion at face value. Let me give you another excerpt. It is not clear to many in the White House why this statement became such an issue. Really, you guys are that stupid? Yeah, I guess they are. I guess they are.

Mansion himself had spoken publicly for months about his struggles to reach a deal with the administration. The statement did not directly criticize Mansion or blame him for the delay. They were befuddled. How could this happen? Pathetic. I mean, okay, so then finally, after that statement was released, apparently Manchin was so angry that he made his announcement on Fox News that he's no longer supporting the bill. He's a no vote, okay?

The Washington Post then reports that Biden was upset and wanted to, like, talk to, he was gonna have a strongly worded phone call to Mansion, right? But Mansion had turned off his phone. Oh, the melodrama continues, right, Jake? Oh, that's okay, as the world turns, what happened next with Luke and Laura? Because that's the real deal, not the millions of millions, millions of dollars that are funneled to Biden and Mansion. No, never measures a sentence about that.

Instead, oh, then Biden couldn't get through. to Mansion and more feelings were hurt. Yeah. By the way, if any of this is true, like that's really why Manchin made the decision and that's how Biden actually reacted, it's arguably more pathetic. This is like a high school kids going, well, Susie said Bob, he said this, so you know what, now I'm gonna screw over every American and you're not gonna get paid family leave like every other developed nation.

You're not gonna have lower drug prices, which by the way, Manchin's daughter has made millions off of, robbing you. And killing you. That's right, Senator Mentioned. Your daughter is a criminal who robbed the American people. Apparently his feelings are hurt when you just mention his name. And he says, oh my God, my family was being targeted. Well, your family's a bunch of crooks and criminals as you are, the head of that mafia family. And by the way, you're not at all targeted. Your ass is kissed on a daily basis in Washington. And this article is an excellent example of it. Those reporters lied on your behalf. You're a crook who takes all this.

money to screw over the American people. And Biden is a pathetic weakling. Oh, we're not done yet. One more graphic. This is the last one because this is the exact ending that corporate America fought for, exact ending that they will get, the exact ending that Mansion wanted based on his own personal financial interests. So fast forward to today, apparently the White House is trying to revive the negotiations,

okay? White House officials have made clear that they are open to a significantly smaller bill that leaves out most of their initial priorities, recognizing a deal must be made on Manson's terms, on President Manson's terms. More recently, Manchin also asked analysts at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to model an approximately $1 trillion spending package, get a load of this, devoted primarily to spurring domestic energy production and reducing the federal deficit. So in other words, more fossil fuels and possibly more austerity that's going to harm

middle class and working class families in the middle of a period where we're experiencing inflation. Great. It's going to be great. Really looking forward to that. No, guys, do you understand what Anna just said? They took build back better that had a bunch of actually good progressive proposals and proposals that the country loves, polled at 70 to 90%.

And they turned it into subsidies for oil companies, the exact opposite. And austerity, the exact opposite of what Build Back Better was. And they're going to call it Build Back Better. Corporations and the donors are going to be thrilled. The Washington Post will write another horse crap article saying, oh, the Democrats accomplished it. Congratulations to Joe Biden and Joe Manchin. They finally got to buy partners in agreement. The oil companies should get everything.

And of course, the coal companies, but we're not going to mention the donors at all. Look, you guys are part of the criminal enterprise. It's disgusting how you frame these issues and leave out the truth completely. Look, and well, you guys say, hey, that's Monday morning quarterbacking. As we've told you 100 times, it isn't. If you watch the Young Turks, we told you ahead of time that the minute they decoupled infrastructure and build back better, Joe Manchin would pull out. That's exactly what happened. And how did we know that before his feelings were hurt?

because we follow the money like any decent journalists would do. To call all these reporters journalists, it's just an absolute affront to the industry, to the idea of journalism. Okay, they're the exact opposite. How did we know that Cinema and Mansion were playing a show game where Manchin would say, I agree to the extra taxes? And cinema would say, I don't agree to the extra taxes. And Manchin would agree on one thing and cinema would agree on another,

which is exactly what they detail. We told you ahead of time they were going to do that trick. Where they're going to say, well, I mean, I would have loved to have done this, but Mansion and Cinema don't exactly agree. So they both veto, right? That's exactly what happened. We were right. Every stupid reporter who wrote, oh, yo, they have a real deal.

Oh, yeah, they're going to do this. Oh, Biden's the next FDR. Biden's the next FDR. He's so progressive. He's so progressive. Well, by the way, it's not just reporters. Everybody in Washington thought that, can you all admit you were all wrong? And we were right.

They'll never do it. They'll never admit it because everybody in Washington is obvious, preposterous liars. And then they'll say they'll nitpick us. And they're like, oh, well, technically Manson's daughter is, was not convicted. They'll pull a Kyle Rittenhouse, technically not convicted. I mean, she raised Epipen by 550% and she gouged poor Americans and it might have caused some of them not to take critical life saving medicine for her goddamn profits. But meanwhile, what did a weakling, pathetic, pathetic weakling Joe Biden do? He chased that reason and Joe, please take my call.

And now he's going to do a bill that both his donors and mansions donors are going to love. And the media will lie, lie, lie, lie on their behalf and tells you, tell you that it's the original billed back batter. Nonsense. You're about to get royally screwed and not by the Republicans. By the Democrats. That's right. So don't come to me about, oh, yeah, no, Democrats, Jake. Oh, yeah, Democrats are good, good.

There's so much better than Republicans. Just cheer louder. So much better than Republicans. No. Don't worry, guys, because look, what's more important than you being able to put a roof over the head for your family or being able to feed your children is ensuring that the White House is doing constant wellness checks on Joe Manchin and his emotional, you know, state. So that's where we're at in the country. That is the Democratic Party in a nutshell. No. Anyway, we got to take a break. When we come back, we'll give you an update on the gun violence that took place in this country over the weekend.

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And bring back journalism. All right, come on. All right, a lot of gun violence over the weekend. Let's get into it. This morning, newly released video. captures the moment gunshots rang out in Philadelphia. The massive crowd seemed fleeing a popular nightlife area Saturday night as gunfire kills three people and leaves 11 others wounded.

Horrendous and unthinkable acts happened. Just hours later in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Police say 12 more people were injured and two others killed by gunfire at a nightclub. There's going to be multiple shooters. We cannot confirm how many, but there's definitely more than one. The back-to-back deadly shootings capping a weekend of gun violence across the nation. Now, that was just some of the tragic gun violence that took place this past weekend. And it was the first weekend of June that marked a new record in America. It had a greater number of mass shooting deaths in the United States than the previous three-day weekend.

So, in other words, every weekend the gun violence tends to get worse. And just to give you some more details about or more, I guess, comprehensive look at some of those shootings this past weekend. The tally for the first weekend of June through Sunday night was at least 12 killed and at least 38 injured in mass shootings, defined by gun violence archive as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter. During the holiday weekend, nine were killed and more than 60 were injured in attacks fitting that death. Okay, so we had Memorial Day weekend where nine people were killed and then you have the weekend after that. This just this past weekend where 12 people are killed. The most notable violence this weekend took place in Philadelphia where three were killed and 12 were injured.

And in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which saw its second weekend in a row of mass shooter violence, this time with two dead and 12 others injured from gunfire. A third person died after being struck by a car. And there was a shooting in South Carolina as well. A late Saturday graduation party. Great. A graduation party outside a residence was interrupted by a drive-up shooting that may have involved two vehicles. The sheriff's office said a 32-year-old woman was struck by gunfire and died Sunday morning. Seven others, including children ages 12 to 17 and a 36-year-old were injured. And there was also a shooting in Saginaw, Michigan, early Sunday. Sunday, a shooting that killed three people, including two men at the scene and a woman in the hospital in Mesa, Arizona. There was yet another shooting over the weekend. This was early Sunday where two people were killed and two others were injured in the shooting at a nightclub.

And so we're all terrorized by these shootings that are happening more often. They're happening all over the place, incredibly brazen, incredibly tragic, and so it's gotten so bad that even conservatives over at Fox News can't ignore it. And so John Roberts has an interview with Steve Scalise, a Republican representative, and asks him, hey, things look kind of bad. Why is it that it's so much worse in the United States compared to all these other countries? Let's take a look. In terms of the developed world, the United States far and away leads every other nation in the developed world in terms of gun violence. Take a look at this graph. The U.S. way out

in front with four deaths per 100,000 people. The next closest nation is Cyprus, way behind at just below 0.7 deaths per 100 people. What do you think is responsible for that discrepancy? Well, in a lot of those countries, first of all, I mean, you look at America, in the last couple of years, you've seen this crazy defund the police movement, but you've also seen a movement that's been going on

for a few years in big cities where the DAs aren't even prosecuting criminals until It is a shooting. So Steve Scalise pretending like this country wasn't dealing with mass shootings on the regular before the defund the police movement began. There was a tiny kernel of truth there in that some DAs, including George Gasconn in LA, refused to charge criminals, violent criminals with so-called gun enhancements if they are caught committing a crime with an illegal gun, and that is a problem.

I will give him that point. However, to pretend as though mass shootings are like this new thing that are happening in America is a complete, and utter lie. We all know that, Cenk. Yeah, so let me give you important context here. So is there mass shootings everywhere in the world? And that's just the fact of life. Hey, there's car accidents everywhere.

It happens, right? No, there are many, many developed nations with absolutely zero mass shootings, none. In fact, out of all the developed nations in the world, what percentage of the mass shootings are happening in America? Now, if it's monstrous, it would be like 25% of the mass shootings happening in America, even though we're just one country out of all the developed nations in the world. It's not 25%. It's 73%. All the other countries combined is just 27% of the mass shootings. We have lost our minds. We give everyone a weapon and then go, oh, it's the other countries combined. mental health issues. They got mental health issues in Japan, zero shootings. They have mental

health shootings in the UK, zero mass shootings. Why? Because they have different laws. Oh, laws can't prevent it. Really? Then how come it did prevent it in New Zealand, Australia, UK, Japan, all the rest of the world. It totally and utterly prevents it. We don't prevent it here because we don't want to prevent it. So that's why you're going to have mass shootings next weekend. And one of them will be in your area. And then the next weekend, and it'll be in somebody else's watching area. But it won't be one now.

Now there's just one mass shooting. There's another word for mass shootings, by the way. It's called massacres. That's what we used to call. There used to be one massacre a day in America. Now it's developed into about three or four massacres a day. I've lost track of how many massacres we have per day. As Republicans go, yeah, but on the other hand, I still got my check from the gun lobby.

That's right. It's all that matters. Yeah, so they kill, they don't mind your, so they say, well, I didn't pull the trigger. I didn't technically kill your kids. But do you mind the kids being killed? No, I don't mind it at all. I know how to prevent it. We all know how to prevent it.

Gun regulation. That's what every other nation did. They don't live on a different planet. They live on the same planet, okay? But they choose not to prevent it. and they choose to have your kids and other people die all the time in America. Why? Because they got to get paid. That's the kind of greedy scumbags these Republicans are.

Now, Democrats are normally just as guilty, but in this case, actually, they stop taking money from the NRA and from the gun lobby generally. There's still a couple of pro-gun guys like Henry Quayar, who Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn and the others kiss their ass of and help and support and endorse. But overall, Democratic Party doesn't take the money anymore. But the problem is the Democratic Party are such cowards. Totally. They can't fight back at all.

They're total imbeciles. He's like, I don't know, we have a federal background checks, pull at 97%. How would we ever win on that issue? Well, if you can't win on an issue where you have 97% of the American people behind you, you're obviously an imbecile and you're obviously totally and utterly incompetent. So every Democratic incumbent should resign tomorrow and let real people that are fighters go fight the goddamn Republicans and win on these issues that are super. super easy, super easy to win on if you had just this much courage.

Super easy to win on, especially because the majority of Americans want common sense gun legislation. Now before we get to the next video though, featuring Steve Scalese yet again, I just want to give you a little bit of context. Remember, Steve Scalise himself was the victim of gun violence. In 2017, during a congressional baseball game, a man shows up and decides to open fire. Scalise gets shot in the hip. And, uh, The individual who opened fire had a long history of issues that were reported to the police. So something like, let's say, red flag laws could have actually prevented him from having legal weapons.

But Steve Scalise, in this next clip, lies about what red flag laws would entail. So let's take a quick look at that. Do you support or oppose requiring background checks for all gun buyers? 89% of Americans say they support it, 8% oppose it. Do you support or oppose red flag laws? 74% 21 oppose. You and other Republicans have views about background checks and red flag laws that would seem to run counter to what public sentiment is. So are the views that you and your colleagues hold out of step with where the nation is?

Well, I can assure you that the American public wasn't asked in that poll about components of the bills. Democrats are moving through Congress to do those things. So under the guys of red flag, they take away due process where they literally can come into your house and take away your gun without you even knowing that there was some kind of proceeding where somebody said, oh, I think that guy might be a threat. So now somebody can go and take away your constitutional right. Yeah, that's just a flat out lie. That is not how red flag laws would work. You would have an actual mental health professional do an evaluation before determining whether or not that individual. has mental health concerns that should prevent him or her from obtaining a weapon. He knows that. He knows that. And in fact, red flag laws would have prevented the very person

who shot him from having legal weapons, okay? And I'm talking about James Hodgkinson, who opened fire. And apparently, St. Clair County Sheriff said that deputies had been called to his house about half a dozen times in the past 20 years. Okay. Also in 2016, the shooter was accused of beating his foster daughter in charge with domestic battery, but the case was dismissed when the alleged victim decided not to testify. Had Hodgkinson been convicted, he would have been unable to legally purchase firearms. And the list goes on and on. The guy had issues. He could have been evaluated. And if he was deemed a risk by an actual mental health professional, then he wouldn't have the access to the guns that he had, which he then used to shoot at members

of Congress, including Steve Scalise. So, but that's why they used Steve Scalise. And that's why Steve Scalise might be the only man in America more pathetic than Ted Cruz. So Ted Cruz, lick the boots of Donald Trump after Trump called his wife ugly and his dad a murderer. But Steve Scalese himself got shot. And now, because he takes money from the gun lobby, he's used as their mascot. They're like, dance for us, boy. Put on your little mascot outfit. Go on TV and lie on our behalf.

Unless, you know, I mean, I don't know. He just has no moral core at all, man. No moral core. There's just every one of these guys is disgusting. Let me go to Graphic 4 to give you a sense of how lost the Republican Party is overall. Some 44% of Republicans say mass shootings are, quote, something we have to accept as a part of free society according to a CBS, you gov poll that just came out. So it's not just their politicians.

44% of Republicans say, massacre our kids, we don't care. Massacre us, we don't care. Kill my neighbors, I don't care. Kill my mom, my dad. I don't care. as long as I get to keep my gun. Oh, I love firing this thing. Makes me feel like a man.

Maybe I'll go kill some libs, yeah. I mean, you all celebrate Kyle Rittenhouse, right? So these are the maniacs. We have to live within this country. And so don't tell me that there's nothing we can do. We know there's something we can do. And don't tell me that everybody is grieving. You're not grieving at all.

If you're not 44% of Republicans, you say, my hobby is more important than your kid's life. So I got no interest in you, man. And these Republicans are barbarians. I'm going to give the last word to one of our members. Mary Animal on Twitch said, we really need to work on door control. And that's obviously a joke because you saw all those videos of people in the streets getting massacred, having to run. What's the door solution to that one, Ted Cruz?

You want one door in a school? You want one door in every building? You want one door on the outside? that when the biggest mass shooting was in Vegas, the guy shot from the hotel into an open field. Why are you going to get one door on an open field? It ain't the goddamn doors. It's the guns. And until we can get the money out of politics and for Republican politicians to stop being so evil and greedy,

and the Republican voters for being so callous and disgusting, we're never going to get any change. And this country needs just a flat out political revolution to just get rid of these Republican monsters. And also the pathetic Democrats who never, ever, ever take action. And the lying goddamn journalists that cover for both of them. When we come back from the break, an Arizona Senate candidate decides to blame gun violence to race. It's just black people. We'll tell you who he is and how wrong he is when we come back. Back on T.I.T. Jank and Anna with you guys. And Joe Anderson, Joe just signed up. Thank you guys. Anna, go ahead.

All right, well, Arizona Senate candidate, Blake Masters, boiled gun violence in America down to just a simple racial issue. And of course, as you can imagine, a Republican like Masters would just blame it all on black people. And he did so during a recent, well, while he was appearing on a podcast called The Jeff Orvatus Show. Let's watch. We do have a gun violence problem in this country. gang violence, right? It's gangs, it's people in Chicago and St. Louis shooting each other.

Very often, you know, black people, frankly. And the Democrats don't want to do anything about that. Look at San Francisco and L.A. They've legalized crime, property crime. You can't even get arrested if you go and smash someone's window and take a purse or an iPhone. You know, they're light on crime. What they mean by gun control is disarming you and me.

So if, listen, first off, as we know, this is not a race issue. We can get into demographics when it comes to shootings if you'd like. But at the end of the day, it's meant to be a massive distraction from what the real issue is, which is easily accessible guns, which are then used by mass shooters and criminals to carry out death, murder, destruction. We see it every weekend, every day. It's a common occurrence in this country, something we talk about on the show regularly. So even if we just took what he said at face value, didn't even question the racial component to it,

which by the way, obviously I do question, obviously he's wrong. Again, we'll get to the details in a second. Okay, so who cares what the race is? Shouldn't we do something to prevent the deaths? Shouldn't we do something to prevent people, criminals or individuals with severe mental health issues from accessing these guns so readily and easily? No, you don't want to do anything about it? Okay.

I mean, it's amazing to me how he decides to point to race as an excuse to do nothing about gun control, nothing about the murders and the mass shootings that we're experiencing in this country on a regular basis. Anyway, I'll get to those details regarding demographics in a minute. But like, honestly, it doesn't even matter. It doesn't even matter. It is, it's a distraction. It doesn't matter what the race is.

End of the day, people are dying because guns are so easily accessible. That's it. That's all that matters. So the question is, are you going to do something about it? And of course, his answer is no. Of course his answer is no. Yeah, so look, hoods are off. I mean, even the clan was kind of embarrassed.

They had to put on a hood. But here's Masterson saying, yeah, it's black people. That's the problem. There's no dog whistle. there's no subtlety, just flat out racist. You know why? Masterson and his master, and his master is Peter Thiel. Masterson, ironically, is just a servant. He's a boy, just like J.D. Vance. I think his name is just Masters, right? Or whatever the hell his name is. Honestly, it doesn't matter

at all. Yeah. It doesn't. They're because their actual name is Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel puts up the money for these guys. Peter Thiel's the racist who unleashed these in the world. And they go, okay, yes, sir. Yes, master, what would you like me to do, Peter Till? Blame black people, yes, I'll do it, master. That's who this son of a bitch is. You're going to blame black people for it? Here, I'll blame you. I think it's you, Republicans.

And by the way, I'm right and you're wrong. You're just racist. It's Republicans who say don't pass any laws because I like the mass shootings. I don't give them damn about the mass shootings. Massacres, I love them. That's what this son of a bitch says. That's what Peter Thiel says, right? You're going to fund these sons of bitches?

Go ahead, do it. I'm going to out you. He's the funder. He's the one that puts up the cash for this bitch to go out there and go, it's black people, it's black people, obvious, over the top, racist. That's who Peter Thiel is. That's how, who this guy is, Blake Masters, that's who JD Vance is, a bunch of fascists that are now just buying the elections while mainstream media is like, money, I don't know what money

has anything to do with it. I guess people like J.D. Vance's ideas more than they like the other people's ideas. Yeah, this is, this is, by the way, again, I mean, you could flip it around on them and just be like, oh, this Republican candidate wants all sorts of people, regardless of race, but he thinks only black people. He thinks it's okay for black criminals to access guns readily and easily to potentially murder you, to terrorize you. Now again, as we know, especially when it comes to mass shootings, the predominant perpetrators are not typically black. In fact, let's take a look at this study that was done by Statista and they looked at mass shootings in the United States. They have a higher threshold for what they consider mass shootings. We've been reporting on analysis that considers a mass shooting with four people or more being shot and killed.

With Statista, they're focusing on some of the more predominant mass shootings that have higher numbers of casualties. So they looked at the numbers of mass shootings in the U.S. between 1982 and June of 2022 by the shooter's race or ethnicity. And if you take a look at mass shootings, the white perpetrators are dominating that situation. Okay, so they're at 68, whereas black perpetrators are at 21, Latinos at 11, Asians at 8, and then other at 5. You guys get the picture, you can read the graph yourselves. Also, as the Washington Post reported, James Allen Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University,

maintains a database in collaboration with USA Today and the Associated Press that covers all mass shootings in the United States since 2006. When asked to analyze the data around incidents such as the Boulder Massacre, he confirmed that about 55% of perpetrators in such incidents had been reported as white. In some cases, race was unreported, using a different data. set that ran from 1976 to 2019, with more inclusive criteria for inferring race, Fox actually found that some 64% of shooters were white. Now when you look at non-mash shootings, if you look at homicides specifically, they are overrepresented by black perpetrators.

Gun homicides are concentrated in cities. Half of all gun homicides took place in just 127 cities, which represented nearly a quarter of the US population. Within these cities, gun homicides are most prevalent in racially segregated neighborhoods with high rates of poverty. Black Americans actually represent the majority of gun homicide victims. In fact, black Americans are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide. And by the way, where you see the most gun-related deaths is actually through suicides. So let's take a look at this.

This is data from every town research and policy. and the majority, 59% of gun deaths in this country are caused by suicide using a gun. So, by the way, does the race matter? Does the reason for the deaths matter? Shouldn't we want to do something about it and prevent people from dying, especially from individuals who are either part of a party or are running to be part of a party that claim that they care about human lives? They want to regulate my body because they care about human lives, please. No, no, republicans don't care about life at all.

At all. They're anti-life party. They don't mind all these massacres at all. So look, obviously poverty, a socioeconomic status is a giant factor in shootings. But we're not having a rational conversation. We're having conversation about culture wars. Now, and it's a totally lopsided one. If I said on this show, the real problem with shootings in America is white people.

White people are the problem. People would be outraged, their heads would explode, and we'd probably get banned. That's a Senate candidate that is a very good chance of winning in Arizona, who says it's black people's fault with no factual basis at all, and no one cares. Outwardly racist, no one cares. No, right wing is allowed to say anything they want. The left wing's not allowed to say even things that are true, okay? And then finally, so wait, how much money did Peter Thiel put in to Blake Masters?

Was it like, oh, a couple hundred thousand dollars, ooh, that could swing an election. No, he's put in $13.5 million to the pack that is supporting Blake Masters in Arizona. He put in 10 initially. Now he put in another three and a half million last month. They're just buying these politicians. And Blake Masters used to be his actual servant. He used to work for Peter Thiel at his foundation, where they came up with a really interesting ideas about how everything is black people's faults. Okay, so he's just bought by Peter Thiel.

Whenever you see he's advance or masters, understand they're just puppets. They're puppets for for Teal. But everybody's scared of Teal because he has billions of dollars. So everybody in Silicon Valley, by the way, super powerful people on the regular kiss his ass. They're like, oh, you're a fascist wannabe. You're the guy funding the new right who would like a king instead of a democracy. Oh, you're funding blatantly racist politicians. Oh, yes, but do you have money for me?

Do you have money for me, Peter? So this is the sickness in America. Well, we got a little bit of good news to end the first hour. So let's get to that. So the January 6th investigations continue, and we are learning about some new charges against former member of the Prout Boys. Enrique Tario, a long time chairman of the right wing gang known as the proud boys has been indicted on a new federal charge of seditious conspiracy along with four of his top lieutenants. Even though he wasn't there during the January 6th riots in the Capitol, he was allegedly guiding the group's activities from nearby Maryland.

So this is what we know so far about the new charge. A new 10 count superseding indictment returned Monday morning, returned Monday morning charges Tario and then Dominique Pazola and three other existing co-defendants with coordinating travel to Washington and the movements of the group around the Capitol that day. The group is also accused of plotting to foment a riot and storm Congress action that eventually, of course, forced the evacuation of lawmakers meeting to confirm the 2020 election results. Now, Pazola of Rochester, New York broke through the first window of the building at 2.13 p.m. with a stolen police riot shield, authorities said. So the charges are far more serious against Tario.

They were already bad, but now he is dealing with seditious conspiracy because he is accused, again, of guiding the group through the riot. And so we'll see how that all plays out. But I should note that several members of the oathkeepers were also charged with sedition, and they've already pleaded guilty. So three of them, Joshua James of Alabama, Brian Ehrlich of Georgia, and also William Todd Wilson of North Carolina have all pleaded guilty to sedition and are cooperating with the authorities. Yeah. So look, good news, it's fine. He's a semi-leader, but he's not a link. Mayor Garland, the jury's very, very much out on him recently announced that they're not going to go after Mark Meadows, the chief of staff for

Donald Trump or Dan Scavino, one of his top aides. God forbid, God forbid, you should actually challenge the elites that actually organized the coup. Oh, okay, this guy was at the street level. Easy to charge the street level, guys. Let me see you actually charge the guys in charge. But then Merrick Garland thinks, oh, but that might affect other elites like me and my Democratic friends, I don't know.

Well, hey, listen, you never know. He's, you know, they went for contempt on Navarro and some people speculated he's building a case against Trump, I would be shocked. I mean, generally Democrats are cowards. So easy to go after Tario, super easy. He has no friends in the elites at all. So you pounded him making yourself look like a tough guy. Good, you should. He did the wrong thing. I mean, it's allegations. You prove it in court, et cetera. But 98 out of 100 times, the Democrats let their actual criminals at the very top go. They won't touch power because they're concerned that that maybe if they do something wrong or have done something wrong in the past,

then all of a sudden the mirror will be held up to them and they're gonna have to deal with criminal prosecution themselves. So they don't touch anyone in a position of power. And think about what the consequences of that will be. Because the Republican Party is just transparently, candidly telling us on a daily basis how they intend on stealing elections in the future. So they tried this method out, didn't work out for them. that they need to be a little more organized. And so now they're focusing on implementing, you know, election strategies that we've talked about on this show that essentially give the Republicans a huge advantage over Democrats.

But who care? I mean, Democrats couldn't even get a simple voting rights bill passed when they're in power, when they have a majority in Congress. And Biden, a Democrat, sitting in the White House. No, I mean, that's why you need consequences for the people in. positions of power that are trying to dismantle our democracy, but they'll never, they'll never do it. My favorite thing, Jank, was when the January 6th, you know, commission decided, we're not going to recommend criminal charges for Donald Trump, even though a federal judge said that there's evidence

and we found evidence of criminal behavior? Because Merrick Garland just knows. He just knows. He knows. He's going to do the right thing. He sees what's happening. He heard what the federal judge said about Trump. He's going to just do it on his own. They know that's not true. They know that's not true. And no one who actually served as like ring leaders for this are going to face any real consequences. Manhattan DA had Trump dead to rights, top two prosecutors said we definitely have him. Well, in his co-conspirator already went to jail on one of those charges. That was his fixer, Michael Cohen. There's no question he did it in regards to the campaign finance violations, the tax issues, et cetera. And the Manhattan DA said, nope, I'm not going to do it.

Democrats are paid to be cowards by their donors. Let the Republicans run roughshod. They'll give tax cuts to the rich. They'll give every advantage to multinational corporations. If you're a strong Democrat, you will not receive donor money. If you're a coward Democrat, you'll receive tons and tons of donor money. And that's how the system is skewed in favor of the corrupt powerful. We're the only ones who've got the balls to actually tell you that.

Everybody else in mainstream media works for those corrupt, powerful people. Well, that does it for our first hour. We're going to take a brief break. And when we come back, we'll give you guys an update on Milo Unopoulos's latest job. Apparently, he's back in an influential position, and we'll tell you what that is. And later in the show, we'll talk about the percentage of Republican voters who totally buy the white replacement theory. See you in the second hour. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks.

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