The Young Turks - Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani, Sheldon Adelson, and Fake News Poll

Episode Date: May 10, 2018

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from May 10, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.  Hour 1:The Washington Post has revealed some details on a deal between ATT and Michael Cohen. Rudy Giuliani resigns from his law firm. Sheldon Adelson donated $30Mil to stop democratic house takeover.  Hour 2:Trump threatens to take away credentials from any outlets that criticize him.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Meanwhile, enjoy the free podcast. All right, back on the Young Turks. We've got breaking news for you guys, so let's hit it right away. All right. The Washington Post has learned of the specific details on a deal that AT&T had with Michael Cohen. Of course, that's Trump's fix-it lawyer, who is now under federal investigation. Now, AT&T had paid Cohen $600,000, and they had a specific reason for doing so. The internal documents reveal for the first time that Cohen's $600,000 deal with AT&T

specified that he would provide advice on the $85 billion merger with Time Warner. Now, this is a proposed merger that the Justice Department is fighting against. But, of course, AT&T wanted to get some insight knowledge into what the Trump administration was thinking to see if they could get away with doing this merger. Now, what we also know, based on this Washington Post report, is that a scope of work describing Cohen's contact or contract, I should say, in an internal AT&T document shows that he was hired to, quote, focus on specific long-term planning initiatives, as well as the immediate issue of corporate tax reform and the acquisition of Time Warner. So that's interesting in two ways. So who was Michael Cohen before being a Trump's lawyer who mainly worked to both intimidate people who would constantly threaten lawsuits and yell at them and sometimes go even further in his threats?

Plus he was a fixer who would pay off people that Donald Trump had slept with obviously, right? He was a personal engineer lawyer in New York and he ran a taxicab business. So what possible expertise could he have on a telecommunications merger? He's never worked in that field at all. So now that we find out exactly what AT&T paid him for, now we know, basically, they paid him to make sure that he goes talks to Trump and says approve the merger. Because he has no expertise. That's the only thing Michael Cohen is good for.

Did AT&T need taxi cabs driven in New York? Were they the victim of a personal injury? Okay, no. He was supposed to go and influence the president. but this is fun, an amusing part of the story. Now, Michael Cohen is not an registered lobbyist. So if he was to spend his time lobbying for AT&T, that would be illegal. So the contract said, now, this is not for lobbying anyone.

I don't know if they included the wink in the contract. They described his work as advising the company and not contacting federal officials. If Michael Cohen is not contacting Trump or people in the Trump administration, what good is he? Right, exactly. He's not qualified to do the consulting that he would allegedly do for that $600,000. And it's clear that AT&T had a political objective here. They had a business objective that Cohen could help them with because of his proximity to Trump. And so who knows what's going to come of all of this? But again, he is not a registered lobbyist, meaning he is not allowed to do any lobbying. So if an investigation finds that he did do lobbying, I don't know if he'll face any consequences, to be honest. I've kind of given up hope when it comes to all that stuff. No, no, no, Mueller's got him. So I think that Cohen is in some trouble.

I think this is among the reasons why at some point he'll probably flip. But by the way, somebody at 18T should also be held accountable. They clearly hired him as a lobbyist. It's super obvious that they did. I mean, I love this part of the contract. They directed him to, quote, creatively address political and communications issues. What is that even mean? What's that creatively?

In other words, creatively find a way to lobby Donald Trump while we're pretending you're not a lobbyist and we're giving you $600,000 for that. I mean, really, because of Michael Cohen's telecommunications expertise, not even anyone wearing a MAGA hat believes that. That's absolutely preposterous. By the way, on January 12th of 2017, both Michael Cohen and AT&T's chief executive, Randall Stevenson,

were seen visiting Trump Tower in New York, days before the contract with Michael Cohen's company, essential consultants, was signed. But they said, no, we didn't run into each other. And that was just a coincidence that we go and see Trump on the same day. A couple of days later, we give Michael Cohen a $600,000 contract, but not for lobbying. And we don't know each other. It just kind of, we thought, who was the top telecommunications expert in the country? probably Michael Cohn. I learned that in a taxi cab. So that's why AT&T did this. Look, by the way, AT&T, the people who made that decision, again, there should be consequences, but also incredibly stupid because you can legally bribe people all day long in this country. It's called a campaign donation. It's super PACs, independent expenditures, there's dark money. There's a thousand different ways you could funnel money to Donald Trump. Instead, you found.

one potentially illegal way to give it to his schmuck of an attorney to, and you know what, this is Dinesh D'Souza like incompetence and he went to prison for violating campaign laws. So, I

think this investigation should be broader and should involve the people on the other end of it too. And I'm not saying that it's Randall Stevenson. I think that, you know, Washington Postman has the contract. It's important and interesting. They should figure out who signed that contract for 18. who authorized that contract for AT&T.

It's pathetic that these guys who spend tens of millions of dollars legally bribing our politicians and buying them off through their super PACs, et cetera, on top of that, rubbed it in by doing potentially illegal contributions to Donald Trump's lawyer. And I hope that they all suffer the consequences. Yeah, I'm just amused at Michael Cohen's like side gig, right? While average Americans are dealing with stagnant wages and taking up jobs like Uber on the side to make some extra cash, you have people like Michael Cohen doing a side gig like this where he's taking hundreds of thousands of dollars, actually millions of dollars in total from these massive corporations in order to do this kind of, in my opinion, lobbying. Because again, he is not qualified to do the type of consulting that they hired him for. Overall, I got $2.95 million.

I mean, this is like country bumpkin kind of corruption. And so $3 million is a lot of money. And I get why Michael Cohen wanted to take it. I get that Donald Trump will funnel money to himself and to his allies in every way he can because he's not that rich and he's been a con artist his old life. But if you're a Novartis or AT&T, this is not how you're supposed to run things. Again, you could do it in a thousand legal ways, which are disgusting, but readily available to you. But instead, you go and cut these side deals, it's both embarrassing and, like I said, potentially illegal.

All right, let's have some fun. Rudy Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani has decided to resign from the law firm that he has been working at. And it is a large law firm that he claims, you know, it was a mutual agreement. Hey, you know, I want to really focus on defending the president. It's taking too much of my time. And so I got to step away from the law firm. But the idea of him resigning might have more to do with this. You didn't know about the general arranger that Michael would take care of things like this.

Like I take care of things like this for my clients. This is the kind of thing that I've settled for celebrities and famous. people, every lawyer that does that kind of work has. I never thought 130,000 was a real payment. It's a nuisance payment. When I settle this for when it was real or a real possibility, it's a couple million dollars, not not 130,000. And I can prove that it has been done on numerous times, not necessarily with President Trump, but with many other people that I and other lawyers have represented. I'm, I'm my law firm or I, in this case I, because I'm representing him individually, I lay out the money and then he pays me back. Sometimes,

those expenses go on for a couple of years. So did Michael Cohen make payments to other women for the president? I have no knowledge of that, but I would think if it was necessary, yes, which means he had legal fees, monies laid out, and expenditures, which I have on my bills to my clients. If you're wealthy, you're a target. I mean, we had a case, very famous person, this woman was a professional. You could do a movie about it. She was a professional that would hit on rich guys, older ones, and then shake him

now for a couple million bucks. But it's just, but how could you be so stupid? Like that's what I can't get over. How could you be so stupid? Why would you think it's a good idea to, first of all, get your own law firm? Like, he kept bringing up his law firm as an excuse or an example of, oh, this kind of stuff happens all the time. So his law firm's like, we need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The Republic or UNFTR. As a Young Turks fan, And you already know that the government, the media, and corporations are constantly peddling lies that serve the interests of the rich and powerful.

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And that's true whether you're in Jedi training or you're uprooting and exposing all the propaganda and disinformation you've been fed over the course of your lifetime. So search for UNFDR in your podcast app today, and get ready to get informed, angered, and entertained, all at the same time. No, we don't do that. That's actually not standard operating procedure. The New York Times asked Greenberg Trowrig about these remarks early this week. That's the law firm that he used to work at shortly after Mr. Giuliani's resignation was announced.

And here is a statement from a spokesperson at the law firm. We cannot speak for Mr. Giuliani with respect to what was intended by his remarks. Speaking for ourselves, we would not condone payments of the nature alleged to have been made or otherwise without the knowledge of the, and direction of a client. So, again, they're specifically talking about Michael Cohen's payment to Stormy Daniels and how, again, it is not standard operating procedure. This is not how law firms are supposed to operate. So this law firm is fairly well known, a headquartered in Miami, so they want to protect their reputation.

And yes, one of the major problems here is saying, we'll pay off people without even telling our client. What? You can't do that. That's totally crazy and corrupt and potentially illegal and certainly on ethical for a lawyer. And the list goes on and on. I'm not saying that the firm doesn't do that. You have to understand this firm also had Abramoff as an attorney. And then we found out how incredibly corrupt Jack Abramoff was. And they're like, oh, well, that's just, you know, that was a one-off. They also represent the Trump organization and Jared Kushner's real estate firms. And the list goes on and on.

So I don't know what the practices are inside the firm. I do know, whatever they are, they do not want them made public. And they don't want an idiot attorney from their own law firm going on national TV going, We do payoffs all the time. Okay. So I don't know if Giuliani's telling the truth, and maybe he is, but whether he's not telling the truth and the firm doesn't do that, well, then what are you doing? Don't say we're doing that if we're not, or we are.

That's even worse. Don't tell people the illegal things we're doing. So of course they had to get rid of him. And you could tell that they did by Giuliani's own quote when he said, it isn't everyone's best interest that I make it a permanent resignation. Now, if you want to step down, you don't talk about other people's interests. That's right. Okay.

Yeah. That's the statement that your firm made you put out so that it is absolutely clear that they made you step down. No, I can't even begin to explain how stupid I think Giuliani is. And just on this one story alone, because A, he goes out and publicly says what he says about his, you know, the way he operates as a lawyer, which of course looks terrible for not only the law firm, but it looks terrible for him. And then to make matters worse, think about the whole basis of, or the whole context in which this is playing out, right? He is walking away from what I

would probably assume is a cushy job at a well-known law firm to do some lawyering for Donald Trump, who is the most unloyal person imaginable. Trump is already, you know, behind closed doors, criticized the way that Giuliani has handled himself and this whole Michael Cohen case, Stormy Daniels case, in the media because they're making statements that contradict one another. And so they're not on the same page. No one's ever on the same page as Trump is because he changes his mind from one day to the next. And so this is career suicide for Giuliani. Why? Why are you doing it? Are you not watching what happens to all of these other people who work for Trump? They all get their heads cut off at some point. He will get

decapitated at some point. It is going to happen. Yeah. And he's earned it because he's an idiot. Plus, he signed on to lie for Donald Trump, which is going to get him in trouble. And then Trump is going to say, I didn't do it. It was Rudy's fault. And he's going to fire you. That's his modus operandi. He's already done it like a dozen times. You're so dumb that you can't see that that you didn't see it on national television happen over and over again. But more stuff to Anna's point. He bragged recently. Governments throughout the world, Julianna did. Governments throughout the world trust me to do their cybersecurity and pay me millions of dollars to do it and he said he was going to continue that business well they used to but now that you've been exposed i mean

which government in their right mind looks at those appearances and goes oh i bet you that guy can protect my cybersecurity that guy that moron are you kidding me you're going to be so exposed if you hire a guy like that that buffoon will probably hurt your cybersecurity more than anything else Something happens when people work closely with Trump. First of all, they lose any and all filter and say all sorts of crazy things publicly, to their own detriment, by the way. And then it's like taking cyanide. It's killing yourself, right?

Like, why? Why do you do it for that man? Like, what do you think he's going to offer you in the end? It's not much, trust me. I think an analyst called Rudy's TV appearance is a political murder suicide. So last thing on it. So Anna, to answer your question, why do they do it? Who would debase themselves enough to work for Donald Trump, knowing what a con man he is,

and knowing how much he humiliates everyone who works for him. Like he would constantly humiliate Michael Cohen. He went to Michael Cohen's son's bar mitzvah and made fun of him in front of everybody and his own son. And he said, oh, he begged me to come here. fine, I'll come, Michael. He's such a terrible person. So who does a guy like that surround himself with? Sicafant, sad, idiots like Rudy Giuliani. And Greenberg charge for representing him and all the corruption that goes along with it. And by the way, they also represent

Deutsche Bank. It's the only company, last bank to give Donald Trump money. I mean, man, that is a can of worms that that firm does not want opened, right? And they took that business when no one else would. Why? Three reasons. One is that some of the folks at the prestigious law firms, their employees didn't want to represent Donald Trump. They think that that's a stain on their career. Okay, fine, but that's the smallest one. They also were worried that all he does is ignore his lawyer's advice. That's right, because he does. That's right. And then you look like a fool, and it ruins your career, and it doesn't help him anyway, because he just ignores your advice. And the third reason why the other law firms won't touch Donald Trump, because he doesn't

ever pay his bills. So they're like, we're going to put in all this work, and he's going stiff us like he does to everyone. You know why? Because he's broke. He's a stupid, stupid man who lost all of his daddy's money. I love that story. All right. One last story before we go to break, Sheldon Adelson, which Jake is fired up about. So get ready. Yes. Adelson, by the Adelson. I looked it up today. I've been doing it wrong 17 times in a row. All right. Republican donor, Sheldon Adelson, has given the Democratic House, I'm sorry, he has given

Republicans in the House $30 million to defeat Democrats in the midterm election. So Sheldon Adelson, Republican donor, has given $30 million to protect the House majority. Republicans are shaking in their boots. They're realizing that some of the districts that Trump won easily are now flipping. And so Adelson has increased the amount of money that he has given them and he has given them the money much earlier in this election cycle compared to previous election cycles. So let's break down the numbers. The $30 million contribution is three times as much as Adelson gave to CLF. That is the Congressional Leadership Fund in 2016. and the cash comes much earlier in the cycle.

In 2016, he actually gave the CLF $10 million in August as a campaign headed into the home stretch. But we now know that he is given $30 million this week and we're in May. So there's two components of this that are important. One is, as usual, the legalized bribery. And two is why in this particular case he paid this particular. legal bribe. So in terms of the bribery that Adelson does of all these Republican politicians, as you guys know, because of Citizens United, it's legal in this country to

simply pay off politicians. You just give it to their PACs, as he does here in the Congressional Leadership Fund, and you can give unlimited money. So Adelson, back in 2012, spent $150 million to try to defeat President Obama and Democrats. Now, in the case of Obama, he was unsuccessful. But he spent 150 million dollars. He spent $15 million on Newt Gingrich's campaign, then 20 million on Mitt Romney, and then he poured so much more into the

other Republican coffers. And then other than the ones that were stated, then there was the PAC money that Huffington Post showed in a report that they did, et cetera. So then for Donald Trump in 2016, he gave well over $20 million. All this is legal. I mean, When someone gives someone $20 million, what do you think happens? You think they go, ah, yeah, no, that's okay.

I'm not going to do what you asked me. And by the way, I'm going to run for re-election, but, you know, I don't care about the $20 million. And I wouldn't want the $20 million. No, every American knows that you pay the $20 million to get them to do what you want. So all of our politicians are systemically corrupt. So whether it's the Democrats that take that corporate donor money and the billionaire donor money, or in this case the wholesale Republican Party. So why this particular bribe at this particular time?

Well, Donald Trump just ripped up the deal with Iran. Sheldon Adelson is very clear. He supports the right-wing government of Israel. And he wants Trump to do whatever he tells him to do. So after giving him over $20 million, before Donald Trump took office, Adelson met with Donald Trump. At TYT, we frequently talk about all the ways that big tech companies are taking control of our online lives, constantly monitoring us and storing and selling our data. But that doesn't mean we have to let them. It's possible to stay anonymous online and hide your data from the prying eyes of big tech. And one of the best ways is with ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN hides your IP address, making your active ID more difficult to trace and sell the advertisers. ExpressVPN also encrypts 100% of your network data to protect you from eavesdroppers and cyber criminals. And it's also easy to install a single mouse click protects all your devices but listen guys this is important express

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You think he did that for you or to keep a campaign promise to Americans? You care about where the embassies are? Maybe some evangelical Christians care and some right-wing zealots care. But overall, most of the voters don't care about that. But Adelson, who's got the money, cares about that. Adelson wanted Trump to rip up the deal and the Republicans who are up to deal. They rip up to deal with Iran, so make it more likely to go to war. And Adelson goes, good boy.

Good boy, Republicans. Way to do as you're told. Here's another $30 million. This corruption is wide out in the open. They have made America, and it's the Supreme Court and these corrupt political parties, have made America, unfortunately, among the most corrupt countries in the whole world. And the reason for that is we legalized corruption. Yes.

And they brag about it. And what few laws we do have to help mitigate corruption, which, by the way, very few laws, they're incredibly weak. So I'll give you an example. I found this part of the story so fascinating. So Paul Ryan goes to Vegas. and meets with Adelson at the Venetian, okay? Now, of course, Adelson owns the Venetian.

He's this huge casino mogul. And there are other political aides there. For instance, Ryan went there with one of his political aides. And then there was a former senator in the room as well, former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman. Now, as an elected official, Paul Ryan cannot solicit a seven-figure donation, right? And so he left the room. and former Senator Coleman basically made the case for this giant donation.

In a sense, it's worse than that. Paul Ryan comes in and says, yes, we'll do whatever you say, Mr. Adelson. Yes, sir, I'm your water boy. I'm your Aaron boy. Paul Ryan. He's the smart guy for the Republicans that knows policy? No, he's the most corrupt Republican there is in the House. He raised the most amount of money.

That's why he's the Speaker of the House. How does he raise money? He goes to billionaires like Adelson and says, how would you like me to hijack the American government and make sure that it serves you instead of the 300 million Americans? And then he goes now technically, I can't take the money. So I'm going to step outside for a second. And then Coleman says, okay, make the checkout to the congressional leadership fund for $30 million.

Adelson goes, oh, Paul Ryan is out of the room. Okay, here is the check. This is the corruption we have in America. It's sick. I actually interviewed Bernie Sanders earlier today about this. got interviews up on YouTube.com slash t-y-t and we'll put the link down below in the description box for you guys and I asked him about this issue and he said it's totally unacceptable

and that Adelson's purposes are quote nefarious and they are and they're brazen about it and the last piece for you guys Adelson has several different interests in the in the case of the deal with Iran that they just ripped up he is a right winger both in the U.S. and in Israel supports Netanyahu and their drive for war. There are great groups in America like J Street who represent left-wing Israeli politics, and they are not for war. But Adelson is not in that.

He's in the right-wing group. So that's the thing that got him to give the $30 million check now. But he's given, as I told you, hundreds of millions of dollars before. Because his other interests are bus unions who work for him so that you can make sure that he pays his workers as little as possible. He's the 14th richest man in America in the world, I think. He has over $20 billion. But don't you dare try to make a nickel above minimum wage if you work for Sheldon Adelson.

He will crush you, right? And then one other thing, what does he want? Tax cuts. So he just got giant tax cuts. Yep. You know how much his company recorded in income tax windfall from these tax cuts in the last quarter, $670 million. I'm going to repeat, that was just in the first quarter of the year.

That means Adelsus's company is going to make $2.5 billion more because of Trump and Paul Ryan's tax cuts. So the $30 million that they give back to the Republicans is nothing in comparison. He can give that over and over and over again. They just robbed you of $2.5 billion. for Adelson's company alone for just one company. So for them to be able to bribe the politicians back with $30 million, it's a wonderful investment.

And the cherry on top is war in the Middle East. Our country is run by oligarchs. You must get an amendment to get money out of politics. We've lost our democracy. Grotesque people like Sheldon Adelson run it now. Wolf-Pack.com, if you don't get the money out, they don't service at all. Don't be surprised when we're,

go to more wars, more tax cuts for the rich, that's all we'll ever have because these guys are on the place. We've got to take a break. We'll be right back. You're right in the middle of this podcast. We've got another great segment coming up for you. If you'd like the full show, which is actually five segments, go to t-y-tnetwork.com slash join. You become a member, you support the show, you support independent media, and you get the whole two-hour show ad-free every day.

Let's go do it now. All right, back on the Young Turks. AP or A. Panker writes in on YouTube super chat. Trurig means sad in German. That's awesome. Wait, what does? Trurig. Greenberg, Trurig, Rudy's former law firm.

Sad. Sad. Baby. Greenberg in German means baby. It doesn't. Okay. Politically illiterate says new conspiracy theory on Giuliani. It's an undercover sting operation, and he's wearing a wire for the FBI, but probably not.

No, FBI is not allowed to pretend that they're informing as your lawyer. That's not a thing that's legal. But it's a fun one. And Jess says Cohen is going to sing louder than a canary for Mueller, and probably so. And finally, Ms. Kat Holmes one more time says, wow, I never thought I'd see someone dumber than Donald Trump, but looks like Rudy really wants that award. Songbird Giuliani? Well, Songbird Cohen, that is very, very likely.

So can't wait. All right, what's next, Anna? All right. Turning Point USA is an organization that attempts to mobilize young conservatives. But it does have a track record of hiring people or affiliating itself with people who have said some pretty disastrous thing. The most recent example involves Juan Pablo Andrade, who is a self-professed conservative, who has a pretty impressive, you know, resume. He has worked at a lot of different places, including the Hill, where he is an opinion writer.

Now, aside from his work for the pro-Trump America First Group, he worked on Trump's National Hispanic Advisory Council, Trump's National Diversity Coalition, and the Trump campaign as a surrogate. He writes for the Hill as an opinion contributor and has shared his political opinions on Newsmax, CNN Latino, and Univision. So he sounds like the type of person who might have some interesting things to say. Maybe he has some constructive things to add to the political discourse in the country. No, turns out that during the Turning Point USA conference, his white nationalist friend, who is not white, he's actually of Puerto Rican descent, filmed him for his Snapchat story. And in that Snapchat story, you will see that Andrade said the following about

Nazis. So he said, for those of you might have had a little bit of trying. The only thing the Nazis didn't do right is that they didn't keep going. Didn't keep effing going. Yeah. So there's a couple of these Latinos in these right-wing organizations. Andrade as family originally from Venezuela, there's one guy who's Mexican-American, and he's about white power. And I think he's slightly confused. But they want to fit in so much and they want to hate other people so much. Like, where do I go to hate people? Oh, I know the right wing. Yes, they're my home.

So, and this happens over and over again. And every time, oh, golly, gee, we didn't know. They named him 30 under 30 for all these right wing publications. These are their intellectuals. And then, of course, the mainstream media will just call it even. I mean, on the one side, we have people who think Hitler didn't go enough, far enough. And on the other side, we have the left wing fighting for radical positions like Medicare for all and college education for your kids. Well, I guess I'm going to call it even, right?

And they'll probably call them an intellectual later. And golly gee, it's another fascist in the right wing. Who could have guessed it? Here, me, I could guess it. Guess what? I will predict for you that there'll be a half a dozen other fascist people who like Nazis, et cetera. that'll be uncovered in these groups. And they say it over and over again.

And but, hey, right wing, left wing, who can tell? So the person who posted that rant on Snapchat, really smart idea, is Caesar suburbie. And he is an alt-right activist who participated in the Charlottesville White Supremicist March and has been filmed with Richard Spencer. Now, let's learn a little bit about him. Apparently, he tweets all sorts of terrible, violent things. In fact, one of the more recent things that he had tweeted was the following. Let's go to Graphic 39. My favorite part about getting on a conversation, about getting on a conversation about

politics with strangers, is watching their reaction of disgusted surprise when they realize I basically just advocated for the genocide of all the demographic groups they support instead of agreeing with their garbage. So the garbage that he doesn't want to agree with is that we should treat all people the same and not be in favor of genocide or Holocaust. It's like garbage. Who's not in favor of genocide? And these are the same guys who will then pretend that they care about genocide, right?

So they then turn around and go, ha ha, I got him, man. I showed him because I hate all these groups and I'd like to murder all of them. Right wing, left wing, I can't have to tell the difference. I mean, golly, gee, if I work for the mainstream media, they're about 50-50. And by the way, one of the people who liked that tweet was Caitlin Marie Bennett, who apparently was Turning Point USA's former campus leader at Kent State University. So, again, I mean, you look at the long list of people that this organization has associated itself with. And it's pretty devastating and disgusting. And look, Jake, I don't think that these, look, this is my speculation, so let me be absolutely

clear about this, okay? I don't think that they're doing this to fit in, okay? I think they're doing this because they're paid to say what they're saying. I do not believe for a second that a Mexican-American is going to join or be part of any type of hateful organization that spews hatred toward Mexicans for free because he wants to fit in. I just don't believe it. Again, that is my speculation, but that's just.

No, no, there's a lot of sick people in the world. And I don't really care about their motivation. I care about what the reality is. So this Severi guy, he also said only so many times I could write about how much I hate. By the way, my printout cut off in one version at that point. And I was like, fill in the blank, what difference does it make? Hate what? Blacks, Mexicans.

In his case, he's Latino. maybe not Latinos, but maybe depends. Are you paying him? How much does he hate himself, et cetera? Jews, Muslims, but I says it was probably Muslims because they hate those guys the most. And in turns out, it was. Only so many times he wrote, I could write about how much I hate Muslims or why America needs a dictator.

Okay, more from, by the way, Mike Pence has spoken to this group. It's led by Charlie Kirk, who debated our Hassan Piker. He must be so proud. And he says, no, it's just a grassroots organization, really? No, it's not. They were paying for the hotel that all these alt-right fanatics were staying in. Where'd you get all the money? In fact, they tried to ban this, the swerby guy, and then they were like, oh, not enough

people are going to show up. They know what he's about. They know he's a fascist. And they're like, well, if we deny fascist interests, well, who's going to show up? So they decided to un-blacklist them and let all the fascists who are in favor of Holocaust at 10 because they're like, that's who we are. That's who we are. So here's someone else. Carl Higby, he was a Trump appointee, but had to basically go away and remove himself from there because it was found out that he said, black people are lazier than whites, and that he admitted

that he was racist against Muslims. Okay, so his appointment didn't work out. Guess who swooped in and hired him as a director of advocacy, the same group. Okay, but what us? How could you call us racist? We're just intellectuals who are doing a lot of free thought. Free thought, kill the Muslims, blacks are lazy, who else do I need to kill and murder and, oh, the Nazis didn't go far enough, free thought. I'm just doing free thought, I'm an intellectual.

And the mainstream media looks at it and goes, 50, 50, 50, right. Yeah, I mean, look, I think. that their message, and not just turning point USA, I'm talking about, you know, extremists, right-wing extremists in the country. Their message has been, in a way, given a platform in the mainstream media. Because, and look, this was an off-the-record conversation, so I'm not going to identify who it was with. But I confronted someone who works in the mainstream press about their non-stop coverage that includes the voices of these alt-right individuals, these white supremacists, these neo-Nazis, and this person admitted to me, well, you know, yeah, it's a little sensationalist,

but it gets the readers, it gets the viewers, it gets the views. And it's disgusting to know that they're being placed on an equal footing to those on the left who have legitimate concerns that actually want to do good for the country. And by the way, that's actually not even true. It's not an equal footing. How many Bernie Sanders supporters do you see on cable news? That's a great point. Almost none.

Like I've said, I think Van Jones and Nina Turner sometimes goes on as a guest on some of these CNN shows. So one and a half. Meanwhile, you turn on cable news. You'll see all right figures all day long. You'll see massive right wingers. And they'll be described as intellectuals. And they'll be in these groups that harbor Nazis and fascists and actively hire racists. Oh, you're so racist.

you couldn't work for Trump's government. Well, you're going to be our director of advocacy. Oh, well, intellectuals. Let's put them all over cable news. Bernie Sanders supporters, you guys actually want to help Americans? You want to increase their wages? Radicals! Radicals, bring the neonesea on.

It's crazy. All right, well, that kind of media coverage has its consequences. And we're seeing it throughout the country right now. In fact, I have an example for you. A graduate student at Yale University was harassed by police officials, in fact, as many as four cops, after a white student saw her sleeping in the common area of a dorm building and thought that this person was some sort of threat and called the cops. Now, the graduate student here is Lola de Sienbola. And she is an incredibly accomplished woman. Again, she's a graduate. student at Yale, where it costs as much as $63,000 a year just to get an education there in its graduate schools. She took a nap in the common area. And then this white student comes in,

tells her she's not authorized to be there, calls the cops. And unfortunately, the situation escalates from there. She had to deal with the cops for as long as 15 minutes. And we have a few examples of the video that she posted on social media. So let's take a look at the first one. I have absolute right to document you don't have my picture I'm not taking your picture this is this is Facebook live is what we're going to do that's fine I need to go back to the 12th floor to finish writing my paper what's uh you got your idea on you yeah I do all right can we see that why we got a police call for you okay let me open my apartment for you so that you can see that I belong here I don't think there's a need for you to be here I think you probably need to commit her to an

institution. That's the only, like, use you have for being here. If you're a resident here, then we'll be on our way. Okay, great. I need to get back to the 12th floor. I got to write my paper. Do we just have your ID, ma'am? Why? I just said that if you prove that I live here, you would leave. Okay, I just opened, I just opened the door to my apartment.

That's fine. I can see that. Okay. Thank you for watching that. Why? So we can verify who you are and we'll get out of your hair. How's that? man that is frustrating yeah so you know the right wing says oh bootstraps okay she is a graduate student at Yale so she did everything she could do she did bootstraps she did whatever she had to do she's at Yale and you know why she was sleeping there because she was working all night on the paper she had to write as a graduate student and it's her dorm it's her dorm it's her dorm This all occurred around 1.30 in the morning.

First of all, I don't even understand what goes through the mind of someone, a student who walks into the common area of a dorm and sees someone sleeping in that common area or taking a nap in that common area. Like, why did it cross her mind that this woman posed any type of threat? And so there were other black students at Yale who spoke to the press and said that they also had similar run-ins with this student, which, by the way, you could hear Lolade mention in the video that we just showed you. And so who is Lalade? She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in Spanish from the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she was a George Brooks scholar. She later moved to New York, where she worked in the tech industry.

She's now getting a graduate degree at Yale in African American Studies. I mean, her resume is super impressive. I'm only giving you a tiny piece of it. So you're right, Jenks. She's done everything right, everything right. She's at Yale, and it doesn't matter. She still gets harassed by a student for simply taking a nap in the common area of this dorm. Yeah, so this is a new one, sleeping while black.

And again, white privilege, what does it mean? It doesn't mean that every white person in the country has a mansion and a yacht. It doesn't mean that. It means that you get to take a nap in your dorm room and people don't call the cops on you. So you never notice it. You never got the cops called on you. So you don't, that's why you're like, I don't get it. White privilege.

I don't have any privilege. What you don't notice is what happens to other people. They do everything right, and they get the cops called on them anyway. Look, and this particular student and others probably will disagree with me. I don't think, like, once the cops are called, the cops are in, I think, in that situation, in a tough spot. Now, they went on too long. They asked her to open the door. She opened the door.

They asked for the ID. I think asking for the ID is okay. And she gets them the ID. There's a slight misspelling in her name and the records. That's when you got to let it go, okay? Like, it's obviously her, and she has a unique name. The fact that it is slightly misspelled, what do you think? Get this, someone else broke into the dorm room, somehow got her key and her ID, but maliciously misspelled her name.

No, this is crazy. This is crazy. First of all, student IDs have photos on it. So if there was a misspelling in the name, you're right, Jank, let it go. But it shouldn't even get to that point. They checked her ID up against the university's record. Like, think about the investigative work that went into that. Really, is that really a good use of a police officer's time?

But mainly, I get that in the beginning, the cops are in a little bit of a tough spot because somebody called them and they got to respond, right? But that person who called the cops, and then she has the audacity, say, don't you dare take a picture of me? You called a cops on me. I'm a fellow student, and I'm the one who's wrong for videotaping it and like, you're the victim now? Yeah, you're in a public place.

by the way. So she could have easily taken her picture or put her in the video, but she didn't. I mean, that shows some significant restraint. By the way, we have a second portion of the video that I want to share with you all. So let's take a look at that. I was sleeping in the common room and she comes in and turns the lights on. And she's like, why are you sleeping here? You're not supposed to be sleeping there. I'm going to call the police on you. But she called the police on my friend about three months ago. The university knows that she's unstable and she's still here. is. So you've dealt with her before? Well, this is my first time actually meeting her in

person, but I know that she's the one who called the police on my friend. What she called the police on your friend? Because he was in a stairwell and he was black. What happened in the last time? She did the same thing because my friend was in the stairwell and he was black. That doesn't sound right. Well, it doesn't sound right that I'm sitting here with you and I should be writing my paper either. So I don't understand why I'm still here. So her friend did speak to the press and she said he said that she said that she had, He had asked that woman for directions somewhere in the university and that... Because that's what robbers do.

They come in and ask for directions. I just... Right. I can't anymore. So, look, I'm sure that if you ask that woman, if she's racist, she'd be like, no, no. Of course not. I don't actively think that all black people are criminals. I just having to think that most of the people I run into it yell who are black are

criminals, right? I mean, why else would they be doing? a paper at Yale in the middle of the night. Why else would they be asking for directions for how to go to wherever they were going to go a dorm maybe a class at Yale? It never occurred to you that maybe they were asking for

directions because they're a student there. And so I think the person who called the cops is way worse than the cops. And lastly, why don't I ask for her ID? I mean, apparently anybody can call the cops on anybody and then they've got to spend

45 minutes in the middle of the night, justifying who they are. How do I know you're a Yale student? Maybe you're the criminal and you're distracting the cops and robbing my place. So I want your ID and I want to see who you are, okay? And yes, I'll take a picture of you and yes, I'll take a video of you. I mean, you get to question my identity, but you're the victim. No, hell no, hell no.

Everybody earned their way there. Although I don't know about the woman who called the cops. She might be a legacy. You know, those people are actually, they didn't earn it. their daddy or mommy went to Yale and they got in, okay, and then they questioned other people who got in. So I don't know, but a huge percentage of the classes at these top schools are legacy, so just keep it real on that.

Yeah, but again, I just want to really emphasize that it costs as much as $63,000 a year to go to Yale. And to get that kind of treatment is pretty horrendous. And also keep in mind that Yale has decided to support the actions of the cops. They said that the cops went through the proper procedures. So they're defending the cops in this case. But one of the deans did speak out and say that, hey, you know what? We do need to do better in being more inclusive of minorities at this university.

So, all right, moving on to some other news. Actually, I'm sorry, we should take a break. When we come back, a story you don't want to miss, white guy tries to hire a hitman to kill his black neighbor. How did it all play out? I'll give you the details when we come back. Thanks for watching. We're listening to this free version of the Young Turks podcast.

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