The Young Turks - Oh, SNAP! - February 27, 2026

Episode Date: February 28, 2026

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All right. Elliot's going to present a story today. I love it. Looking forward to it. Incredible. Yep. So Elliot's on Rebel headquarters. John's on Damage Report.

We're all in the Young Turks. Okay. So. Elliot's also frequently on the damage report. That's also true. Yeah. So of course damage reports at 1 o'clock Eastern every day on YouTube, check it out, and of course everywhere else we're out.

Okay, so a couple of fun teasers for you guys. One, I had an epiphany about life and I'm gonna share it with the members in the bonus episode. I solved something. Why, like I've interviewed dozens of people who were super rich, famous, successful, et cetera, and nine out of 10 of them aren't satisfied. And I figured out why. So that's for the members, that's all the way at the end, okay?

I bet it's more money. I bet that's what it is. As shocking as it is, it turns out that's not the right answer. Okay. And so every once in a while we're doing power panels at Keith Edwards other day. We're going to have him back on Elliot's on today. Two weeks from now, two special guests. One will be a significant surprise to you.

Oh, Ram's. Oh, no. If it's who I'm thinking of, you better tell me before I come in. That would be a significant surprise. That would be a significant surprise. All right, we are actually, I'm going to ask you guys to help us put on a poll about Israel. It's interesting little controversy. That's also way later in the show.

But right now we're about to go to war with Iran, or maybe not, there's breaking news on that. So we're going to share that with you guys in a second. People are getting kidnapped out of Colombia again, of course. People detained by ICE have died under crazy circumstances. So tons of news in the show today. So John, let's get started. Yes, okay, let's jump into a big one. Vice President J.D. Vance said, as of at least yesterday, Donald Trump had not yet decided

on whether there would be military strikes against Iran. But he insisted that no matter what happens, there is no chance that we're going to be drawn into some quagmire in Iran. A year's long war, no, it's going to be fast. quick, two weeks, just get it done, greet it as liberators, that whole thing. Jake, where have we heard that before? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's very limited.

It'll be super easy. All right, guys, so are we going to war or not as the main question? So there's a breaking news update on the things that John's going to share with you guys. And before I had it near 100% now, maybe not. Okay, but if we do go, we'll also discuss why we went. So, John, tell us. Well, first of all, I wanted to give his full quote. He said the idea that we're gonna be in a Middle Eastern war for years with no end in sight,

there is no chance that that will happen. And what I found interesting about his extended remarks, so I can read the entire thing is he says that we have to learn the lessons of the past. But he also said, I've never heard this before, we shouldn't overlearn the lessons of the past. Which I get like philosophically, that sounds kind of clever. But like, I'm not sure that this is an example of it. This is just you reversing on your prior stance of being against the wars, and now you need to explain why it is that you're theoretically fine with them. So bear in mind that he had at one point, he used to like posture as being like an anti-war guy.

He said in the Senate floor once that he had been lied to about the reasons for the United States involvement there. At that point, he was being lied to times have changed. He's now the one doing the lying, of course. He said Thursday that he still sees himself as a skeptic of foreign military interventions. A description that he believes continues to apply to Trump. I personally believe that it's utterly meaningless for him to say that he's a skeptic or for him to occasionally leak things saying that he's not super in favor of the war.

If we're on the precipice of yet another war in the Middle East and he does nothing to stop, but he doesn't come out against it, him saying he's a skeptic is just him being worried about 2028 and Republicans not choosing him because they think, because he knows that the younger ones don't want intervention, but he also doesn't have the balls to actually staying against Donald Trump. This is fence sitting. This is cowardly nothingness from J.D. Vance. In any way, he's not the one who's going to make the decision. He says, I think we all prefer the diplomatic option, but it really, we all, everyone, but it really depends on what the Iranians do and what they say. They, he prefers diplomacy. Donald Trump just prefers diplomacy.

Obviously, I don't need to tell you that. That's why in the first year of Trump's presidency's already bombed seven countries and killed a bunch of independent fishermen and kidnapped ahead of state and also threatened to invade, let's see, we got Canada, we got Mexico, we got Panama, we got Greenland. I'm probably missing a few right there. Oh, we also said today that we might have a friendly takeover of Cuba, you know, just neighborly stuff there, I guess. And so it still looks like there's a good chance, not a guarantee. U.S. had told their staff in Israel that if you're going to leave, you should leave today. Mike Huckabee said that in all caps. And Trump also I also put out a statement earlier today saying, I'm not happy with the fact that there,

Iran, not willing to give us what we have to have. So I'm not thrilled. He said that he did not want to use the military force against Iran, but said sometimes you have to. So still a mixed bag, we don't know for sure, but they are clearing the region out once again. And I believe yet more U.S. military hardware has arrived in the region. So I have thoughts on advanced, but first, breaking news. We're gonna, add a lot of salt to this one, even though Anna's not here. It's a grain of salt or a boulder of salt. Margaret Brennan from CBS reporting,

Iran has agreed to give up its stockpile of enriched materials, zero accumulation, and allow for full verification by the IAEA of its nuclear program, recording to U.S. Iran talks mediator, Oman's foreign minister, Badr al-Busadi. So is it credible? Well, there's a couple strikes against, one strike four, or one case four. So it's coming from CBS, which is pretty much an Israeli outlet now, so it could be a head fake.

Not that Margaret Brennan is, but the executives of CBS are, and God knows how they're getting any kind of news, right? Strike number two is this is the usual BS that Trump and the team put out right before they're about to bomb. Oh, no, we are not going to bomb, right? But the things that are in favor of that being relatively true, possibly true, is I don't know why the lead negotiator, you know, Oman's foreign minister would go along with it and say it as well, unless of course he was friends with Epstein. I don't know if that happens from time to time, but he's saying it. And so this could be kind of an interesting moment here.

If you remember during the Iraq war or the buildup to it, basically, you know, it. Right before we went and I forget if it was weeks or days, Saddam said, all right, fine, let the nuclear, like, let the inspectors in. You could look for weapons of mass destruction because he knew he didn't have any, right? And we said, yeah, that was the main thing we were asking for. I don't care, we're going to bomb you anyway. So now if this is true, Iran has apparently said, okay, just take it all, okay? And which I'm actually a little bit shocked by because they had said that their nuclear energy program was kind of a red line. and the devil's in the details on any of these news stories.

But if this is true, then apparently they lifted their red line. Now, Israel doesn't really care about that. They've been lying the entire time. And they say regime change every single time. Israel's different than America, barely, but a little, right? And so they say, oh, yeah, but that's not good enough. Ballistic missiles plus proxy groups, plus I don't like what you're eating, plus you have to wear something else, plus I'm going to invent many other things.

because I want to go to, not I want to. I want America to go to war and do regime change and install a puppet that'll serve Israel. Now, America is a little bit different, not much different. So I thought we had a 99% chance of going in because it looked like Trump was getting bullied into it. And also kind of willingly, I mean, he's taking tons of hundreds of billions of dollars from Israeli, lobby into his campaigns, et cetera. But he also gets that this could turn into a quagmire, and then he could be blamed for it. And it could affect his precious beloved stock market.

So there is a little bit of a counter force there. So like I said, I'll save Vance for a second. But it's either a head fake, right, right before we bomb. B, it's a wrong going, all right, fine, I give up right before we bomb. And then we might or might not accept that. So that's the other layer of this. So I want to kick it over to Elliott and then come back about that. Yeah, I mean my money is on head fake personally because I feel like this administration just

it's like if you get real quiet and you listen real intently, you can just hear them being like please just let us have a little bit of war. It doesn't need to be like please just let a tiny morsel even though we've seen this happen a million times and even though military actions tend to spawn more military actions. So hopefully this is all true and nothing bad happens but I just highly doubt it also based on the way literally everything in the world is going right now. Yeah, I'll also just briefly say, let's say that this is actually true. And I agree that I think the US maybe would find a little bit more appealing than Israel actually would,

because I don't think, as you're implying Israel, I don't think just primarily is only concerned about the nuclear program. It would be fascinating if after all of this, all of this, the violence and the back and forth and the huge expense of money, Donald Trump has finally achieved us having nuclear inspectors in Iran, which we had before he canned the Iran deal, which reminds me a lot of how he's He finally got a trade deal with Canada after killing the trade deal with Canada that he had negotiated his first term. He's crushing it.

It's like, I guess it's easy to get accomplishments when you just take it away and then give it back to us at the end. Yeah, so John, of course that's true, right? But nevertheless, since I'm worried that we're on the edge of a potentially massively disastrous war, like if he just reverses himself and brings the fleet back and doesn't go to war, yeah, that's good. Number one, I'll be thrilled with that. Number two, I'll give him a little bit of credit.

Now you're not, you're gonna object to that because he's the one that caused the mess in the first place. You're 100% right about that. But like Israel wanted this war 200%. And what Israel wants, Israel almost always gets, right? So if Trump actually said no to them, that would be shocking, right? So and hence I'd have to give credit for that, right? And just save us from the mess that was gonna happen. If they do go in bomb, and by the way, guys, let's not bury the potential lead here.

Of course, the breaking news is huge. The vice president's opinion is huge. But maybe the biggest piece of evidence we have is Huck could be telling the staff at the embassy in Israel, get out, get out right now. We've got to go. That seems like... Hey, Ontario. Come on down to BetMGM Casino and check out our newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick.

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Oh, golly, gee, I thought it was gonna be easy. Oh, golly, gee, I kinda halfway, quarter way, maybe said, no, not really no, not no, not no, I love Trump, of course, yes, but like slight hesitation, so I'm anti-war. No, no, no, if you're anti-war, this would be the time to prove it. Yeah. But by the way, if, like, even if JD Vance didn't do this, like if someone talks him out of the war, And if it was J.D. Vance himself, which would be remarkable and totally unbelievable, but Vance would get a ton of credit if they don't go to war.

Like right or wrong? You see what I'm saying? He can, even if he's BS and he can come out and go, I'd convince Trump not to go to war. I'm the most anti-war guy out there, which would help his candidacy tremendously in 28. It better be true. Trump would hate that then. Yeah, all right, whatever it might be, right? And but you know what would really help if he was honest, which is hilarious.

Of course he's not honest, right? None of these politicians are. But if he actually talked Trump out of the war, then I would actually give him a ton of credit. But this right now, I give him zero credit. Yeah. Oh yeah, don't worry, guys, it's going to be easy. Plus, we're not going to do it. Plus it has nothing new with Israel.

Plus I talked to Sadd of it. Plus, we're going to do it anyway. No, no, no, no, no. Last thing on this for me is these charts that we wanted to show you guys, because this gives you a sense of why they might not do it, right? And now, although that's kind of funny. American sympathies in the Middle East have completely flipped. So previously, Israel had a 43 point lead over the Palestinians.

Kind of a funny way to describe it, like we're playing, talking about basketball or something. But in favorability, they had a 43 point lead over the power. Now, let's put up graphic 6, it has reversed, and the Palestinians now have a five point lead, 41% of Americans sympathizing with them and only 36 with Israel. That is a giant difference. And that trend is unlikely to reverse itself. So what you're probably gonna see is down the other side of that going forward, where the Palestinian sympathy continues to go up and the Israeli sympathy continues to go down.

You know, look at Democrats here are enormously different. And what's interesting about that, so that's the chart on the left and it shows now, Democrats are at 65% for the Palestinians, 17% for the Israelis. And they had, you know, a lot of sympathy for the Palestinians all along. The Democratic voters did, God bless them, certainly vis-a-vis the rest of the country. But for a second there, the Israelis caught up because of October 7th. It makes sense, right? Where we all had sympathy for Israel.

Boy, they blow that, right? If you're just looking at it from a point of view of like what's bad, better for Israel. These charts are not good for Israel. And they did that. They could have responded, left it alone, and the chart would have gone in the right direction. Instead, they abused and abused and genocide and on and on until the Democratic voters were like, we've had enough of you. 17% is a disastrous number. 75% of Democrats think that we shouldn't send any more money to Israel. Later in the show, we'll show you how Hakeem Jeffries is working behind the scenes to funnel money to Democratic candidates to support Israel.

Right? So like our opinions, whether you're a Republican or Democrat, are nearly irrelevant, because the funders control almost everything. You see the Republicans still there, seem like they're unmoved, but they got moved by a decent number, about 10 points at least, from its lowest point to now. And but that's deceptive because under 55, Republican support for Israel is falling off a cliff. So that chart's going to look very different soon. based on the other polling. Last one's independence because they're always the most important. 41 to 30 now independence against Israel and sympathizing with the Palestinians.

Look, you don't have to be against Israel at large, but within the context of the occupation and the genocide, etc. What, I'm, I'd say I'm stunned that there's any support for Israel left, but most of these numbers of the support for Israel are buttressed by above-fellers. 55. So because on average, people above 55 still watch TV and cable news and consume mainstream media. People under 55 are online. Online you get reality. In mainstream media, you get Israeli propaganda slop. So that's why I don't blame those people. They just they don't know that it's a genocide. They've like barely ever heard of the occupation. They think Israel's been attacked every single time. They just, they don't know any of the realities of what's happened.

So last thoughts guys on this. Yeah, I mean, I was gonna say I think it speaks to how profound these graphs actually are, because yeah, when you consider that the vast majority of people are sitting at home getting a tried and true narrative, or tried and false narrative, I guess, that they've gotten for the past like 70 years, then the fact that it's still like crossing over like that, I mean, I'm sure that that is a modest representation of what's actually going on, because people are slowly actually hearing about what has been going on for decade after decade in this region rather than just the sort of tailored version they've heard their entire lives. Yeah, a couple quick thoughts from me.

First of all, just in case, because I know we only put it up for a little bit, it's important to know it's forcing someone to choose who they have more sympathy for. And so that doesn't mean that somebody who says one way doesn't have any for the other. That's important, but it is still a huge change. This is yet another chart. There's been so many charts of the last year that we break it out in all these groups. If you go to graphic, the final one, the graph for independence looks so much more like Democrats than it does like Republicans.

And I feel like that's a trend that the media is not picking up on. Also the first graph of the Americans' overall sympathy, it's like two decades go by and they just suffer and suffer and suffer and it takes an apocalyptic event to finally get through to people. And that I think is so much on the media and on the politicians, but on the media. It's like this is by far the most suffering they've had, but they've had tons of suffering for decades now. And it didn't break through. And I am finally, I'm a little bit more, when I saw the Republican one, I'm glad that it changed a little bit.

But like, after what we saw in the last few years, the vast, vast majority, like, yeah, I don't care. That tells me there is nothing that could happen. If it fell into the sea, Gaza was just gone. If they nuked it, there's nothing that could be done for like seven out of ten Republicans. And that deeply sickens me. Yeah, I totally agree with the other first two points. I gotta say, I don't agree on the last one. So it went from 80 to 70 in terms of support for Israel.

So you say how that- Tens of thousands of kids. I know, I know, but John, and what I'm saying is I've seen other polling showing that the support among under 55 Republicans, is deteriorating at record pace, right? So, and that's why, now coming back to the main issue here, are we gonna go to war with Iran? We're giving you these numbers to give you a sense of what's giving the White House some pause. The most important polling number is do you want to go to war with Iran? And one poll has that as 70% of Americans saying hell no, and another one has 85% of

Americans saying hell no, right? So, so that's why they know they're going up against about eight out of 10 Americans. They're like, 10 out of 10 of our donors want the war, eight out of 10 Americans don't want the war. And Israel's getting more and more despised as we go. And it's even eating into our Republican base. And then finally, the point that John is making is such a great one. The fact that the independence that used to be with the Republicans before this election, right? And why Trump won and all seven swing states, et cetera, are now looking identical to the Democratic numbers.

should give the Republicans a ton of concern and they don't seem to be getting it. And so maybe in 2026 that come up and will become a lot more real to them. Yeah, I can't wait for that up ands to come. But anyway, we should probably take our first break, lots more news to get to after this. This will be fun. Let's talk about first dates. We've all been there. You're trying to figure someone out, so you ask the important stuff up front. What are you looking for? What are your deal breakers? You get right to the point to see if they're the right, person for you. Well, the same goes if you're hiring. You definitely want to address key questions

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This is such a, you know, I think that this is a, um. like extremely political. Let's go to Super Chat for a second. The independent conversation says, I don't mean this to be a wise butt, but you tell me, should I start praying again for a miracle as in, is this a bluff? We got so many issues and no real leaders to solve them,

tried everything else. Yeah, throw in a prayer, why not? So, like, is that gonna solve it? Probably not. Is it gonna hurt? No. And we can use all the help we can get. Okay.

So I'll change, if you had asked me before the Margaret Brennan breaking story, but I said it was about 99% that we're going to war, especially based on what Huckabee said. Now I've got it all the way down at 85%. Yeah, so throw in a couple of prayers. Maybe we'll get it down to 80%. Let's go to YouTube members. Papa Bear wrote and Hillary pulled a swissureoo on Trumpstein. Trumpenstein.

I can't stand her, but I like the gumption. Yeah, I said good gumption. I second the gumption. We need to bring back the word gumption. Yeah, well, we just did. Papa Bear, you did that. Okay, nice job. We're going to get to Bill Clinton's testimony later in the show.

Michael Rosemiliah says this is exactly like Russia is saying they don't want Ukraine in NATO and then invading anyway. Yeah, there's a lot of those, right? Like Russia, oh, no, no, we don't want them in Ukraine. Oh, you're not going to be in Ukraine. Oh, screw it, we're going in anyway, right? Oh, we want the weapon inspectors into Iraq. Or you're going to let them in that. Screw it, we're going in anyway.

So that might be a little bit of that coming up. But you know, one good news out of that is that, I mean, this is such a tiny silver lining, but if Iran really agreed to give up entire nuclear enrichment program, including energy purposes, and we attack them anyway, then you'll know that everything we said was a lie, everything, right? So, I mean, if you don't already know that, it'll be, and for you guys, look, you all know it already, but it helps us convince the Normies, right? The norm, like, I know Normies, normies are still like, I think Israel's a small part of this and stuff and you know, I don't, if they just give up their enrichment program,

I'm sure that we would, you know, they do. They watch TV. I don't blame them. That's what they hear on TV. Like no one on TV is talking skeptically about the nuclear enrichment program and how it's obvious garbage weapons of mass destruction kind of BS, right? They take it super seriously. They're like, will they give up their nuclear enrichment program? This is a real big danger to the world. So like a guy watching that doesn't know that it's a lie, right? So see, He endorsed dog dad says, and they do, they shift a thing like all the time. Anyway, he says, quote, we will be welcomed as liberators. They say now for Iran and for Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.

Yeah, well, it's amazing that we've heard that a thousand times. And still on TV, they're like, well, no, they say it's going to be easy. I heard Ben Shapiro say it was going to be easy. Cheesyfinger 79, hilarious thing. I'm glad you're going to talk about our story here in Buffalo. That's next. So stay right here for that. Pessimistic Progressive says, ah, Scott Jennings' scum jump scare.

Yeah, we did do that too in the beginning. Collecting Mussolnayne says, jink dropped it. Can't believe how excited I am. So the little things that keep me relatively sane. Benjamin says Anna throwing grains of salt, more like boulders. That's certainly true as well. All right, we'll be right back. Back on TYT, Jank, John and Elliott with you guys.

Also, Todd Weatherholt, who just joined by hitting the join button below. You're awesome, Todd. And CDN North Dogdad, as always, gives it a membership on YouTube because he's also awesome. John. Yes. Okay. Well, this is unfortunately a pretty somber one, but let's jump into it. ICE is having hundreds of thousands, if not millions of interactions with people around the country.

Do I think it's reasonable to assume you're going to have individual interactions where something goes awry, where a detail is missed, where there's something unfortunate or bad that happens? This man is dead. Of course. You didn't need to be dead. Yes, as you saw right there, a man is dead and for Scott Jennings, a detail was missed. Something went awry. Boy, I'm sure you got a nice, like, new kitchen out of this selling his soul on CNN every night. But we are unfortunately talking about a nearly blind refugee who was dropped off by Border Patrol at a coffee shop that wasn't open in the middle of an incredibly devastating and cold Buffalo winter, which is not something that you would do to a person that you considered to be a person. And that is another thing lost on Scott Jennings.

That man died in just a couple of days after that interaction. And so we're gonna talk about exactly what happened, what details might have been missed? But, Cenk, what are your two cents? Yeah, so I, there's two parts of the story that are kind of hidden that I want to talk about. So like even if you're in favor of ice in any way, shape or form, I want to ask you a question about this case and get essentially your response because it's not just what's on the surface here. But John, give us the facts and then we'll discuss it. Yeah, why don't we, why don't we jump into people understand what was happening? So let's go to a photo of the gentleman there,

now tragically deceased. This is 56 year old, Nurul Amin Shah Lam. So he had come from Myanmar looking for opportunity with him and his family in December of 2024. He wanted obviously some sort of economic opportunity, something good for his family, and he unfortunately discovered that you cannot reasonably expect to last two years in America as a refugee and live, unfortunately. He was completely blinded. One eye, had blurry vision and the other eye out to a couple of feet, which is an important detail that you need to understand as we go into his legal troubles that happened before he died. So last year, he was arrested during an incident where police He said that he trespassed in a woman's backyard and bit to responding officers after they fired

tasers at him. Now, if you just hear that, sounds bad. Sounds like it fits into the sort of narrative that you hear about migrants quite a bit. But the actual story is significantly more complicated than that. So he had apparently been out for a walk in his neighborhood and had been using a curtain rod that he had purchased as a walking stick because again, he's nearly fully blind. He also, by the way, doesn't speak English. So at some point he got lost and he ended up on the porch of a woman's home as she was letting her dog out. The woman called the police and when he didn't follow police commands, probably because he didn't understand them, they tasered and beat him, then arrested him.

Again, he is a 56 year old nearly blind man and tasering him was not enough for the police there. They beat him as well. Okay, so in body cam footage of the incident, he could be heard speaking in his native language, asking for God's help and trying to explain to the officers that he lives nearby and was going to the store. Despite all of that, he ended up being charged with assault, trespassing, and possession of a weapon. That's the curtain rod, was the weapon that he had. And so he eventually reached a plea deal that allowed him to be released on bail without ICE detention. He posted

Bond on February 19th and was set to be sentenced in March. Okay, so the sheriff's office, they informed Border Patrol that he's about to be released. They said that there's a standard practice in cases where an agency has issued an immigration detainer. They, the Border Patrol then custody of him. They discovered that he wasn't deportable because he was a legal refugee. So what did they do? They offered him what they called a courtesy ride, which he chose to accept to a coffee shop determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address. Okay, so he was willing to be dropped off at a warm safe location rather than be released from the station, which obviously would have been trouble for him considering that he can't see.

He showed no signs of distress, mobility issues or disabilities requiring special assistance according to the Border Patrol. Just let's be clear about that. So let's bring up a little bit of the security camera footage that has been found. So this is from the evening of February 19th. You see a white van arrive after 8 p.m. This is more than an hour after the store closed for the night, which makes it neither a warm nor a safe location to drop a nearly blind man off. They drop him off in orange booties, sometimes worn by prisoners. Around six minutes later, he walks away through a parking lot and then disappears from view. He doesn't go into the coffee shop because he can't because it's closed, of course.

His family said nobody from Border Patrol notified them about where he'd been dropped. So they spent days looking for him and a missing person case was even opened. Then on Tuesday evening, his body was found about five miles away. So if you're giving him the courtesy ride, first of all, one would think maybe you could bring him home. But they decided not to do that. Okay, so he decides to go to the cafe. First of all, that makes it sound as if, and this is good ammunition for Scott Jennings, so he chose to go to the cafe. How exactly was that presented to him?

Was it, will take you home or to the cafe? We'll take you, or was it just, do you have any place? And he's like, well, I know that place. We don't know, we honestly don't know. And then when you get there and it's not open and you're just leaving him in the, winter, why would you do that? And why would you not contact the family? Why do they never contact the family? It's like just a habit, a knee-jerk thing with them now. They'll detain someone and you just could spend weeks not even knowing that they've been transported

across the country or maybe outside of the country. And so there's a lot of little details that might have been missed. Some things went awry. But from the point of view of people like Scott Jennings, I'm sure many others, it's not enough to actually do anything about. There shouldn't be any serious inquiry. There certainly shouldn't be any reforms. Just continue going on about business because this man's life, let's just be very clear, doesn't matter at all to people like Scott Jennings. He is not gonna lose a nanosecond of sleep over this. It literally doesn't matter. And I'm sure he found it quite inconvenient that he had to have some of his time on that CNN panel wasted by considering the fact that this

man needlessly died. So there's something about sanctuary cities that's also in this story. It's kind of hidden in the story. I wanna come back to it because it makes me wonder if I should change my mind on something. Okay, so but first, I wanna go to the substance of the story. So I try to think about it from the other point of view all the time, almost in every story. So I think, all right, so some people don't like us even accepting refugees. Now was this guy a refugee? This was not arguable.

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Yeah, I'll tell you what. I heard recently, Turkish guys pretending to be Kurdish seeking protection from the Turks when they're actually the Turks. Okay, so it's not like that doesn't happen, it does. That's why we have hearings so we can figure out if it's BS or not, right? But this brother survived the Rohingya massacre in Myanmar. So that was a very rare Buddhists massacring Muslims, okay? So, and I love that America takes in people like that.

You know, I thought we should have taken obviously a lot more people from the Holocaust when that happened. Remember the famous ship that pulls up in Florida and we send them back and a couple thousand people on that ship died in World War II in the Holocaust. So taking in guys like this, I think is amazing and wonderful openhearted of America. I know some disagree, go, even in that scenario, I don't want to, I don't want it, okay. So all right, but we, he's going through the legal process and he's here legally. So you could argue to fix the law, change the law, whatever it is, but he's here legally. Okay, so then you say, well, I don't like that he bit the cops and he didn't listen

to orders. Well, he's having trouble with the language and he can't see and he's got, and the cops confused the curtain rods for a weapon. Okay, you can argue all that. I'm putting all that aside, right? But guys, the court looks at it. at it and they say, is a misdemeanor. This is not a, no, no, no, not a felony.

Given the whole context of this situation, this brother was confused, you know, he shouldn't have done X, Y, or Z, but definitely not a felony. So okay, so still does not affect his refugee status because it's a misdemeanor. So then they're gonna let him go, right? But he's gonna come back for the trial so that it's not like it's over. He's evading justice in any way, shape, or form. Whatever justice is, he went to the wrong house, right? My opinion is let him go.

He wasn't trying to do any harm. That's super obvious, right? But okay, you say, let's have the trial, no problem. Okay, so then to me, the real problem here is the gratuitous cruelty. Like they know he's blind, they know he's having trouble communicating, they know they could call his family, they know the shop is closed, and they're like, oh, this is funny, let's leave him out in the cold, and this is, And since he's blind, he'll wander around for hours.

I don't know if they thought maybe he'll freeze to death or if they just thought it would be really funny if he was devastated but not dead. And so when you, if you get to the point where you're celebrating that, number one, what happened, guys? Well, why would you celebrate that, right? Do you understand that that guy's not your enemy? Like, the people are rigging the rules are your enemy, right? So like you're not making enough money, but because a lot of enemies. immigrants came in. No, actually now we now have net minus immigration, believe it or not, okay? People are leaving the country because we're losing hope and opportunity here.

So the real reason you're at low wages, high prices is because the rules that are being rigged by the donor class. Oh, we're gonna charge you so much more on drugs, you can't even negotiate it. Why? We bought all of Congress. Big Pharma is completely corrupted Congress. So those are actually the things that are affecting your life, not this poor guy who survived to massacre only to die here in Buffalo, right? And so when you sign up for the gratuitous cruelty, one, you tell on yourself. And it's not, so I would ask you to think about that. Number two, the majority of the country is not gratuitously cruel.

So even if you wanted tougher immigration laws, you're gonna lose the country when you're like, ha ha, that blind guy, we made him wander around in the cold until he died. It's a terrible look. Most Americans hate it. And that's why you're beginning to see the views on immigration go in the other direction. So this, doing this to this poor guy doesn't help anybody under any circumstances. So like, can we just put aside the cruelty? Like, even if you believed, you've got to be the harshest you can be on this, on immigration.

You could do all of that and still return the guy to his house. While you're processing him to kick him out of the country or to prosecute him or whatever it is. You don't have to add in the cruelty. That doesn't say anything about that guy or the system. It says something about you when you enjoy that cruelty, in my opinion. What do you think? Yeah, just to emphasize what you were saying, I think beyond the gratuitousness, I think there's also just, this is straight up dehumanization.

Like this is completely removing someone's humanity from them and treating them accordingly, not unlike things that are happening all over the country and internationally. But if you consider things from this guy's perspective, like this was all. a misunderstanding. He went into that yard. It was a mistake. He is a blind individual, and then he goes through this horribly traumatic process after that. And then he's dumped out, and any decent human being would be like, okay, let's make sure he's okay for a second before driving away. But then when these Republicans who were always about picking yourself up by the bootstraps, when they start saying things like that, you can also remember there's

folks like this guy who had every, no opportunity to ask for help, and had just seen how asking for help got him into this situation. So he had already learned over and over and over again that there was no way for him to do the right thing. So I do think that they are more responsible for this than they're letting on and it is absolutely disgusting. Yeah, so last thing is, you know, so like all of this is leading to people hating ice and border patrol.

So if you're a fan of ice, again, counterproductive, right? But on sanctuary cities, I thought that there should be one exception to the way that they're they're structured now, which is if somebody's been arrested of a crime and they're not immigrant or undocumented immigrant, you tell the federal authorities. Sanctuary cities don't tell federal authorities normally, and I think they should, and there's some debate as to whether that's the deal that was struck in Minnesota. I like that deal. But this case makes me rethink it, because they did tell the authorities, and then the authorities came in and abused this guy and led to his death, which then makes the local authorities go,

Well, now I don't know if I want to tell ICE or border patrol, because if you're gonna treat people like this, then I'm gonna be, I'm gonna hesitate in turning them over to you, because I feel like I'm turning them over to people who are going to try to hurt them, right? So deeply counterproductive if you want better cooperation within federal and state law enforcement and reasonable immigration laws. Yeah. Well, I think we're getting on the hour, so I think we're gonna take our second break. When we come back, we got a lot more news to discuss.

First, let's start with a fun fact. Today is Carlos Godoy's 10 year anniversary at TYT. So Carlos is one of our great graphic artists. He started back 308, 2016. Wow. Damn. Okay, so Carlos is a seasoned veteran of the graphics team, and creating the visual direction of most of our current programming. If you watch TYT, you've seen his art. The graphics team appreciates what a genuine, an authentic person Carlos is, and I can vouch for that. He never hesitates to volunteer and help out wherever his talent can be of service. He's a life-loat, Long Dodgers fan, as you could tell, and has high hopes they will defend their championship

title in 2026. Okay, so Carlos is a great guy. One of the good things that we worked on together was, and our most successful shirt at shopt.com ever, was the Uncle Sam saying you're fired to Donald Trump back in 2020. So it was an idea, kernel of an idea I had brought it over to Carlos and he did amazing art with it. It's beautiful. It's actually up on the wall in the studio there.

So we were hoping to do a remake of that in 2024, but it didn't work out. But anyways, Carlos, you're awesome. It's been a pleasure having you. So another 10 years. All right. So now, oh, by the way, I'm going to be in Chicago this weekend on Sunday. I'm going to speak at Islamic Relief USA in Chicago. So there's a wonderful organization.

So it's Ramadan, so you're breaking the fast at Grand Iftar. That's what it means, breaking the fast and having dinner together. And so I'm gonna give a speech there. They mainly just help out kids who are in need, orphans, people of families who have suffered through genocide. So it's not just Gaza, it's also Syria and Sudan, and they get food, aid, assistance to those kids. It's a wonderful effort, so happy to be there.

So if you're in Chicago, check it out, okay? Awesome. So now let me go to our members here. The Blue Wolf writes in, but Jesus, Jenkin, John, what about Afghanistan and Pakistan war? Why is no one talking about this? Yeah, so that's a good point. There's so many potential wars and current wars out there, we're having trouble keeping up. So that, you know, Trump threatened a war with Cuba that John referenced for about five seconds earlier in the show.

Like if any other president had done that at any other time, that would have been maybe the biggest news event of the year if Obama had said, I'm thinking of invading Cuba. Definitely. Like yeah, I don't mean of the day or the week or the month, I mean the year, right? So whereas Trump's like, yeah, yeah, Cuba, maybe, I'm Venezuela, yeah, Iran, brain long, ah, ah, huh, huh. So by the time Afghanistan and Pakistan are going to war, we're like, wait, wait, what, what? We're trying to catch up.

So but good point. Boomer dragon cat says, if ending Ukraine is one of my biggest stories, if Biden hadn't been so timid from the get, we could have ended it in six months. It's definitely not how it went, though. That is, yeah, I hear you on that. Nostra science says what border is there in Buffalo to patrol? Well, the Canadians are storming in here. We're really got to, you know, be careful with those guys.

Dennis Sack writes in on Twitch. Jank, I really enjoyed watching the state of the union the other night. Not because of what Trump said, but because you, Anna and John were giving us your commentary. I know it may be difficult to have a power panel all the time, but watching you guys and hearing you all's opinion made a horrible speech much more enjoyable. Back on TYT, Jank Elliott, John. Let's protect our legacy is just joined, so boom, legacy protected. Now part of the Young Turks.

Christina Lisa Brown, thank you for giving a membership on YouTube. Callie Millie, YouTube member, says Johnny Pie looking dapper old chap. Oh, thank you. Okay, and I agree with that. Michael Rosamilla, more importantly, says, I think one thing that could heal America is if John went on naked and afraid with Marjorie Taylor Green. Be nice to me. Okay.

I'd bargain you'll read anything in the iPad. I don't like those two things being so close to each other. Okay. That's also what I would say there. Okay, but here's what you should be closer to, Noble Mobile. That's perfect. So seriously guys, this is a phone service like Verizon AT&T and T. In fact, it's on T-Mobile's service.

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No, Elliot, what's next? Oh, well, thank you, Jack. All right, here we go, buckle up, everybody. For my first story that I ever presented on TYT, I was hoping for something slightly lighthearted, But you're going to have to settle for lightly heartbreaking. You might recall about less than a year ago when the Trump administration passed the one big, disgusting, sweaty bill.

And in it, among other things, were cuts to the SNAP program. And a bunch of real smarty pants got together with their calculators and said, hey, if you cut these benefits, the people that actually rely on them are going to suffer. So that's the cause. We're about to meet the effect and check it out. I went and had my annual physical yesterday. I'm I'm 65 years old. I'm legally blind.

I'm on disability. I went to my doc and I lost 28 pounds in the last year. I lost the 28 pounds because I cannot afford feet anymore. Under Biden, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Under Biden, I was a. to put $100 a month away for food, along with my SNAP. And I did okay. I could get fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and meat. It is just me. But now, with grocery prices so high, propane, electricity,

out of this world, I now only allow myself $65 a month for food. Sharon, are you on SNAP benefits? Let me tell you, under Joe Biden, I received $80 a month for SNAP. That was taken away from me under Donald Trump. He took it away. He gave me $24 a month. I did receive that for a couple of months. Then he took it down to $12.20.50 a month. I said, screw you.

Yeah, so that was a clip from C-SPAN of a woman who very well might have about the same amount of food in her house as most of us have in our stomachs right now. But before we get into hearing more from this woman and get into the snapcuts and everything that's going on with them, just based on that clip alone. Jenk, what are your two cents? Yeah, we never do anything for the American people. Like we're about to spend, God knows how much money on a war, we moved to a third of our fleet there.

Meanwhile, there's Americans starving. You're about to hear how little food she has. Is this the kind of cruelty that we signed up for in this country? So I got a lot more thoughts on that, but wait till you hear the rest of the story. Yeah, and for context, the mega bill that was passed by the Trump administration does mark the first time in the 50 year history of the SNAP program that the federal government has just decided, hey, we're not going to guarantee any kind of food assistance for our own citizens. So whether it's kids or the elderly or the disabled or simply low income, and there are 40 million

people who rely on this program. And why is this happening? Drum roll, please. Oh, right. It is so we can give tax cuts to incomes over 500,000. You have 187 billion from SNAP, you have 1.1 trillion from Medicaid and ACA. And if you look at those two bars, they're almost equal. It's almost like they didn't actually have to do this.

So before getting into what is going on to hopefully, some of this nonsense. Let's go ahead and check in back with this woman and her heartbreaking story. For them people out there, all these Republicans that are doing so flippin well right now, I have three potatoes. I have a half a tomato. I have three bananas, one apple, one can of soup, I half a loaf of bread, one egg, and one can of green beans. I do not get paid until the third. I am disability blind. I cannot drive a car. I'm 15. miles out of town, so I am not able to just, oh, trot my butt down to the food shelf. I used to volunteer at the food shelf. I can't even do that anymore. I don't understand.

I'd like somebody to explain to me. Why is it always the poor people that are helping the poor people? I don't understand. But what I want to say, Mimi, is that it's really close to coming like that man said, the end is coming near, and it can't be any more true for me. And this comes right as a federal judge in San Francisco, has temporarily banned the Trump administration from withholding SNAP funds to over 22, excuse me, 22 Democratic-led states. This dispute is due to the USDA, demanding that these states give over information about their citizens that are part of the SNAP program, information like names, addresses, and social security numbers. The 22 states argue that the demand might violate the constitution, but, you know,

don't threaten this administration with a good time, and they are also concerned that this information will be used for immigration enforcement. So this is. going to be an ongoing legal battle, but it seems that right now we are entering into the FO part of F-AFO. And I think it is incredibly powerful when you see what began as these sort of abstract predictions start becoming really tragic and sad realities. But, Jank, what do you think? Yeah, so look, I sometimes drive some in our audience crazy by insisting strongly that I'm a capitalist, okay? And I believe in incentives and disincentives. I I believe in the wisdom of the crowd and a lot more where that came from.

So I think that you can actually provide so much that it creates a disincentive to work. Now is that $80 a month? No, no, that's that was when it was good. That's when she could have enough food to eat. Is somebody gonna go, I'm getting $80 a month and snap? No, I don't need to work, I'm covered. No, that's absurd. No, that's the amount you give so people don't

starve to death, okay, when they're blind and they're 15 miles out of town, etc. The part of her story that for whatever reason got to me was that she was down to one egg. Like she's counting, like I blithely cook eggs every morning, never even thinking, what if I was down to one egg and I had to save that for a couple of days to get it as a treat. She's down to $12 a month from this. This is, again, gratuitously cruel. Why is it gratuitous? Because guys, forget, okay, so there's the war that we're gonna do for no reason.

There's all the money we give to other countries, all the money we give to big pharma, big oil subsidies, it drives me crazy. The waste of the Pentagon is that. But in this case, as Elie just told you, there's no defense of it at all, because all the money we took away from the average American, we gave to people making above $500,000. Are there no patriots in this country? Like, if you're making over $500,000, you should be screaming the loudest, no, no, I don't need it. I don't need it.

For God's sake, give it to that woman. Just come, we've got to be better than this. We've got to be a community. We've got to be a nation. We've got to be united. We've got to be decent and open-hearted. You're going to let her starve there because people make it above $500,000 a year needed an extra tax break. And on average, if I'm not mistaken, they're getting something to the, around the order of 64,000 a year in tax breaks.

The guys who don't need it at all. Come on. No, it's totally unacceptable. And then lastly, Marjorie Taylor Green pointed out to Trump as they were doing these cuts. And yes, it was her saying, you know that most of the people who get snap in my district are Republicans. Like the overwhelming majority with the people who get snap are white Christian Republicans. Of course, it's a deep red district. Who do you think is getting them, right?

But that's why it's not about right or left. It's about the elites say no, I want the money for myself. I wanted in oil subsidies, I want it in higher drug prices, I wanted in war, and I'm gonna crush the average, man. I don't give a damn if they're a Republican or conservative or liberal or Democrat. And that's what's happening in this country, John. Yeah, we actually see a lot of that. There was just a story a couple days ago where they were pulling the, was it Medicaid funding to Minnesota and I'm sure lots of conservatives were like, yeah, get them Somali fraud.

They seem to forget that in the last election, it was like 5149 in that state. It is not some commie bastion or whatever. Like at least half the people being hurt by that are Republicans. And it doesn't seem to bother Republicans nearly enough. when the people they elect utterly screw them over. Yeah, that video was hard to watch. That's one of the toughest to watch videos as a C-SPAN I've ever seen. Her make, like, we were gasping a couple times.

$12 a month is $0 a month. But also $80 a month, that's $0 a month. That's nothing. Like that you said that's hopefully enough to stop you from starving. I don't see how it is. I don't see how that's literally anything, even for a single person. And that's the best that we can do, not only the greatest country ever, the richest country ever, but one in the middle of what we were told is a golden age.

She gets $12 a month. And then she has to turn on the TV and see that Pete Higgs is like, what do I do with the extra $500 billion we're gonna put in the military every single year? I don't know, I literally don't know where I can't hold all this money. But you can't get food stamps, you can't get pipelines built, we can't replace your bridges. There's no money for anything except bombing. people abroad who are as poor as you are domestically, and I don't get it. And my final comment, and it is a wonder to me that there are not more people doing crazy

things when their back has been so pushed against the wall by the people that they've elected. I think the American people are quite reasonable and quite patient with the terrible way that they are treated by their government and their society. Yeah, and I think she asked a great question, which is like, why is it always the poor people that are helping the poor people. And why is it always the poor people who end up screwed over every single time this kind of administration comes into power? Also, it reminds me of a term called social murder, which is basically, I think, what's happening

right now. And you don't think of it as murder because you can't see it. And I think that also plays into a lot of why Republicans are not that interested in this. But it's still murder, it's just done at the hands of the state. So you can't see it. And it happens through policy decisions that people sit on their couches and cheer, completely unaware or uncaring about the fact that other people are potentially literally starving. The last story was a good example of that too.

Yeah, I got back on what you guys are saying as quickly as I can. To Elliot's point, we don't have universal healthcare, so what that means is that if you don't have insurance and you get cancer, you die. We let you die. And so 70,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance. That's a quiet, I mean, that's more deaths in America than almost any policy and no one ever talks about it, right? So, and that's how the powerful rigged the system to crush the rest of us. And it's not talked about it. My experience, I ran for Congress.

I went knocked down doors. Poor people and lower middle class were by far the most generous in terms of going to help the homeless, wanting to help others as volunteering in their statements, etc. Unfortunately, the wealthy were the least sympathetic. And it was kind of heartbreaking to see because they have the most opportunity to help, of It's not true of all rich people, of course, right? But on average, that was my experience. And finally, John's write from an earlier story in the show, all the independent charts

now, they're charting their political opinions now look identical to the Democrats, which means that the Republicans have lost their independence. And how do they lose them through actions like this? Through being needlessly cruel to women like that and funneling the money over to instead to the Pentagon. I mean, even the republics, even MAGA voters said cut the Pentagon when it was at 800 billion. They're trying to get it to 1.5 trillion, and they literally don't know how to spend it. Why are they doing that?

Because they care about people? No, because they wanna stuff as much pork into the defense contractors as they possibly can before this budget blows up. So it's sick what's happening. You wanna move on to last story? Yeah, okay, it's an important one I should start to fit in him. Paramount and Netflix have been dueling over control and ownership of Warner Brothers for literally months down. I know that we've reported on the show multiple times about that. Yesterday it seems to have been clarified quite a bit with Netflix announcing that they were walking away from the bidding war.

Now that makes Paramount the winner, at least as of right now, although it does not mean that they necessarily will take control over Warner Brothers. But it definitely seems more likely than it did earlier this week. Jank, what are your two cents? Yeah, so look, of course this has a lot to do with it. If you haven't been following the news, you'll see why in a minute. So there goes CNN to do propaganda. But I also want to do tell you that I think that this is a mistake on their part, and that the Ellison's and even Israel versus cetera will regret this decision.

So let's see if I'm right, but first hear out the facts. Yeah, well, what are they gonna get if they do take control of it? Bear in mind that Paramount wants to buy the entire thing. The Netflix deal was to buy certain portions of it, not all of it. And certainly there were concerns about Netflix owning Warner Brothers as well. But for right now, that would mean that Paramount would take control of CNN, HBO, TNT, the Friends franchise, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, tons of other HBO and big Warner Brothers IPs. And that would be added to what the Ellison's already control, including CBS, Nickelodeon,

Oracle, SkyDance, Star Trek, TikTok, an entire massive social media company, right, there and that seems like a lot. I don't know what else you could possibly need, certainly not money if you have 40, 50, 60 billion dollars to throw around as a family to purchase this, but I don't know, I've never been a billionaire. They seem to be driven by different things than regular people. And it's important that you understand that the Ellison's have become much cozier with the Trump administration during this second term, and that matters for this story, for two reasons. One, what they'll do if they gain control of it, to whether they'll gain control of Warner Brothers because theoretically the government

could say this is too much consolidation. Obviously Trump's administration is not the sort to do that but in the past you might have had an administration that says no we don't think we should get rid of basically all competition in TV and movies. We think competition is an inherent part of America and that's why our economy became as strong as it was but that's not how Donald Trump and his administration acts and in particular not after the promises that appear to have been made to them because Because Trump has apparently privately said that Larry Ellison assured him that he would turn CBS News, which the Ellison took over when they bought Paramount into a more conservative outlet.

And certainly that seems to be the case. Not by the way, a more profitable outfit, they're losing viewers, they're doing terribly, they're a laughing stock. But they're no longer really bothering Trump very much. And so maybe that's all that they need to do. And now they're not just gonna have CBS. They're gonna have CNN as well. And apparently during a visit to Washington last year, Dan

David Ellison offered assurances to Trump that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN to potentially make it more conservative. I don't know, maybe DeCoppel will take over the situation room or something, I don't know. And again, that's almost certainly gonna be terrible for business, but in the sort of petty, corrupt authoritarian state we live in, these are the sorts of assurances that you make to the regime, because the regime doesn't care about free business, businesses doing what they want or whatever. And the Ellison's own so much that they could light CNN on fire and not care about it

if it meant that the Trump administration gave them what they wanted vis-a-vis their other businesses. And we've seen this sort of thing before, not only with CBS, but bear in mind, Jeff Bezos is making decisions at the Washington Post that seem ill-advised if you care about that outlet in terms of its future success as a business, as success as a news outlet. But if you didn't really care about it and you cared more about your other businesses, But you had to sacrifice the Washington Post so that Trump would deregulate your other businesses. Again, these are the sorts of terrible business decisions that are made in a corrupt system like we have right now.

And I fear that this one could become just the latest. Yeah, so there's a business perspective here and a political perspective. So on the business side, I think they're making a mistake. They're overpaying. I think Netflix is right. So when Netflix was paying a lower price, their stock price was going down because, that markets thought you're overpaying, even for Netflix. And now that they've got backed out of the deal, their stock price went back up.

And plus, by the way, because Warner Brothers changed their mind, there was a penalty in the contract. So Netflix is getting a free $2.8 billion. Damn. Okay, God, where is that in my contract? So Paramount, on the other hand, is paying a gargantuan price here. Now, it's not purely for political reasons because there is a real business reason for Paramount. It was too small and it really needed to pair up with a larger outlet like Warner Brothers

to be able to compete with the giants like Netflix, Disney and Amazon. So and Paramount, to be fair, their stock price went up today, even though I think that they're massively overpaying because people thought they're just going to be too small to compete without making a deal like this. So that's the business end of it, okay? And there's some justification. Okay, now to the political end of it, Netanyahu has said publicly that, hey, you know, we need to win the marketing wars, the information wars, the propaganda wars. He said to a bunch of American influencers that he'd gathered.

And he said, that's why we're buying TikTok. That's kind of a funny thing to say for the prime minister of Israel. We're buying it. Okay, interesting. And so then, but is Larry Ellison and David Ellison really that tight with Netanyahu and Israel? Well, I've got a couple of quotes for you guys. So this isn't just about Trump. This is about Israel as well.

Graphic 6. Larry Ellison was once a stalwart Clinton era Democrat. Interesting. But he has gravitated towards Mr. Trump in large part because of the president's support for Israel. Several people who have spoken to him said. Both Ellisons, including his son, David, who's running this operation, are close to Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, whom one associate described as like an uncle figure. to David Ellison.

So Netanyahu's nephew, basically, is taking over CNN, and they already took over CBS and TikTok. Okay? So, okay, so sometimes people will say they can go, oh, no, no, but that's a trope. You're not allowed to even mention that. You should, you should constitutionally be mandated to shut up about it, right? So before, guys, I had this huge debate with David Duke about 10 years ago,

And he'd name like Jewish owners of media and I named non-Jewish owners. And back then there wasn't really like this kind of obvious and blatant things in, in where they come out and say, yeah, we're doing this for Israel, right? But now the brother's doing the trope, right? So this is not about anyone else who's Jewish has nothing to do with that. But this guy in particular is buying up the media on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel. And if you say, okay, well, all right, maybe he's tight with Netanyahu. But really, you can see that in bed with Israel. He's an American, come on.

Okay, another trope, right? Graphic 11. Ellison said at a 2014 fundraiser, attended by other pro-Israel billionaires, quote, there is no greater honor than supporting the Israeli military. In 2017, Elson gave friends of the IDF a gift of $16.6 million in 2017,

what was the largest ever donation to the organization? So it's and then I have quotes of Elson we don't have time for where he basically pays off Marco Rubio five million dollars after he tells the Israeli ambassador to the UN he's approved he will be a friend of Israel and gives to a super pack. So this is very very brazen but to me guys the reason why I don't mind is one I think it's just going to hasten their demise. It's kind I'm kind of like that congressional run in New Jersey where A-PAC spent a whole bunch of money against someone who was actually in favor of Israel but thought there should be two states. And so they're like, how dare you?

You're treating the Palestinians as humans. And they spent a ton of money against them and someone who was even more anti-Israel won the primary. Oops. So in this case, they're gonna spend tons of money on CBS and CNN and go, remember, these are pro-Israel propaganda. they already kind of were, right? So now you're just advertising that they are, which will hasten their demise, which will help us.

Okay, so soon the Young Turks and TYT will be the largest news network, and then they'll cry and cry and cry about it. So let them waste their money, buyer beware, going forward, you know, once the Ellis is officially take over, CNN will go from unofficial propaganda for the powerful and for Israel in particular to official propaganda. for that. Elliot. Yeah, I mean, I just have one quick note because the entire time John was talking, I just kept

thinking about all those goobers that are on Twitter.com who have like Marcus Aurelius as their avatar and all they do is opine about how like the decline of Western civilization is imminent and everything. This is like, at least in terms of the media, this is like the American culture, whatever that means, at least to a large extent. Filmmaking is kind of our thing. So the irony that we're just sort of wrapping up all, of the things that we can be proud of is like an artistic nation and giving it to three people

who can do what they will with it if it doesn't align with their politics instead of if it doesn't just align with their business is kind of ironic. Like maybe people should be a little more concerned about losing just their entertainment, let alone all the other ramifications. Yeah. Yeah, I gotta add one last quick thing there. Guys, remember the news was supposed to be about news, things that are true and that we're telling you what it is and what happened, right?

And here they are, and we're having a conversation. about, are they mainly going to warp the news to be pro-Trump or pro-Israel or both? Then why would I watch that crap? When their owners are telling you how they're going to warp the news so that it isn't the truth, it fits their agenda. So CNN and CBS, I guess it was nice knowing you, but from now on, nobody would trust them. Yeah, all right. All right, great hour guys, when we come back, we have a lot of updates on Epstein.

You know, the mainstream media seems like they're not sure. The government says they're not sure were their video cameras in Epstein's place? We're going to show you overwhelming evidence. It's amazing. All right. Thank you guys. Check out Elliott on Rebel Headquarters. Check out John on Damage Report.

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It's called Originally Young Turk. It's a book on shopty.com. Part of the story is how I became progressive. Now he doesn't write about that per se, but in his life story, you see, oh my God, when a community helps one another, when the government also chips in and gives you free education, anything is possible. He went from an incredibly poor olive farmer to living the American dream. On TYT, Jank Hugar, Yasmin Ali Akon with you guys.

Yasmin is also the host of Modern Context podcast and also can be seen on Rebel Hsu, just like Elliot. So good reason to check that out on YouTube. Yes, how you doing? I'm good. Yeah, there's so much to cover today, though. I can't tell. Sorry. Yes, why do you just jump into it?

Tell us the first story. Now I catch it with you. Okay, first story, let me see what we got. We got President Clinton, he's on trial. That's what we got. Let's roll the tape. President Clinton just released his prepared remarks that he is delivering behind closed doors.

There are two things that he is going to emphasize. One, he is going to deny any wrongdoing on his part, and second, he will deny that he knew anything about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. He also previewed in his opening remarks that he was often going to answer questions with the words I don't recall. That's right. Former President Bill Clinton, he sat down before the House Oversight Committee today as part of the committee's probe into Jeffrey Epstein.

And as you just heard, he is prepared to deny that he saw anything or did anything illegal whenever it came to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Jank, I have so much to cover with this story. We did cover Hillary's deposition yesterday on the show. But what are your thoughts about Bill's deposition heading into this? I thought there was a couple words that he used that I thought were lawyerly, and it made me go, hmm. So, and then how close was he with Epstein? When did he know? Those are the really important details. So I'll let you present the facts, and then I'll come back and focus on those issues.

Okay, yeah. So just to start off, I just want to clarify that neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton have been accused. of any wrongdoing and no Epstein victim nor any other associate has ever come forward and made any public allegations of any kind of wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior by either Bill or Hillary. But Bill Clinton, he did have a longstanding relationship and friendship with Epstein and Gleine Maxwell. We know that. There's pictures. It's proven in the files. And also, the latest files include frequent communications between Maxwell and Clinton staffers between 2001 and 2004. It was during this period that Bill Clinton traveled with his staffers on Epstein's

private plane 16 times, according to a CNN analysis. Also there are at least 11 images of Bill Clinton socializing with Epstein and Goulaine Maxwell and other photos, excuse me, other photos that show Clinton with his arm around what appear to be young women whose faces haven't been hidden. So there is that. Today's deposition is happening behind closed doors and according to sources who are familiar with the matter, video will be released of this within a matter of days. So we have that to look forward to.

However, he did post some things on X in his opening statement. He had this to say. He said, I'm here today for two reasons. The person that I love my country and America is built upon the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents. The second reason I'm here is that the girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice but healing. They've been waiting too long for both.

He goes on to say I had no idea of the crimes. Epstein was committing no matter how many photos you show me. I have two things at the end of the day that matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos. I know what I saw and more importantly, I know what I didn't see. I know what I did and more importantly what I didn't do. And then he goes on, he says, I didn't see anything that gave me pause. by the time it all came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had a long, I had long stopped associating with Jeffrey Epstein. And then he made it very clear that he was not happy. Lawmakers

were questioning his wife the day before. He said, I have to get personal. You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, nothing. She has no memory of even meeting him. She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties. Whether you subpoenaed 10 people or 10,000, including her, was simply not right. And he did end with a warning, which he did hear earlier in that clip that we showed. Getting information out of him is not going to be easy. He wrote that you'll often hear me say that I don't recall. That might be unsatisfying.

But I'm not going to say something I'm not sure of. This was all a long time ago and I am bound by my oath not to speculate or to guess this is not merely for my benefit, but because it doesn't help you for me to play detective 24 years later. So surprisingly, he has been cooperating as much as he knows how to, and he has answered some very tough questions from both parties, according to Representative Robert Garcia. He said, I think everybody would agree that he's been very cooperative and he's actually answering the questions fairly to the best of his ability. He has not taken a pass on pleading the fit for any questions. He's been very thorough. In fact, I don't think he's given any sense

that he's uncomfortable to be there. In fact, I think he's been pretty interested in answering, I think, all of the questions of both the Republicans and the Democrats. Also, Representative Melanie Stansbury stated in regards to their questioning, she said, you will see that we asked all of the hard questions, centering the survivors, making sure that we get to the bottom of where there are discrepancies in the record, and understanding how, not not only the crimes that Jeffrey Epstein committed could go on, but why there was a culture that surrounded him wherein the rich and powerful turned the blind eye on. So also according to sources, there have been several questions surrounding Clinton's name appearing in Epstein's

flight log and Epstein's name appearing also in the White House visitor log. So that's a little reverse uno that we didn't know that we should be looking out for. So it's unknown the exact questions and answers that were given right now. But Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna, she did give some insight into other things the panel is looking into with Clinton, including trying to learn if Epstein was part of an intelligence gathering operation that targeted presidents and those in power. She said it's important to note that Jeffrey Epstein does have all of the tell-tell signs of an intelligence gathering operation. I think we all know that. I do believe that because of the people in power and influence specifically presidents, etc, that he was targeting, that there

is an aspect of foreign governments, some of us against each other using this topic. All right, Jank, that was a lot of information. We have a little bit more, but what are your thoughts on everything that has transpired so far? Do you think that Bill Clinton can be trusted to give as much as he knows to give? Or do you think he might be still withholding some information? Well, I think our members on t.com made terrific points about whether you can be trusted on this issue. So T.R.T. Stalwart, eclecting miscellaneous wrote in, I did nothing wrong, says the guy famous for saying,

I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Oops. Excellent point. And then nerd Ferguson wrote in, well, that's a done deal then. He doesn't seem like the type that would lie about a sexual relation. So yes, you'll have to take what Bill Clinton says with an enormous grain of salt. Now, I don't know if I'm nitpicking here, but I want to tell you two quotes that I saw that had my radar perk up. So he said at one point in his statement, though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and though I never witnessed during our limited interactions, any indication of what was truly going on. Okay, now it might be nothing and it just might be a turn of phrase, right? But that word truly as a lawyer and knowing Bill Clinton, who's also a lawyer and has, you know, danced around these issues before, I thought, huh, that's giving him some wiggle room so that he could say later.

I mean, I knew what was some of the things that were going on, but I didn't know what was truly going on. Now, I might be way over interpreting, but that's this sense I got. But then I saw this quote about Hillary Clinton, that Yazra to you guys, she has no memory of even meeting him. She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties. And I thought, wait, if Hillary Clinton is sure she never met him, which is what she said, all of a sudden, Bill Clinton is saying she has no memory of even meeting him. Little wiggle room in case they find a picture, right?

And then he says very specifically that she didn't go to his properties or travel with him. That's the type of lawyerly thing you would say if you met him somewhere else. So you're putting in needless details there. I might be way over reading it, but that was my sense of like, hmm, those are Clinton-asked statements that make you wonder if there's something he's hiding within those lines. Okay, so that's, well, if anybody says it's over analyzing, I grant it, okay? But the main point is, to me, not whether Bill Clinton did something with the girls. If he did, of course, that's terrible, it's criminal, and he should suffer every consequence for it, right? To me, what's interesting is that how powerful Epstein is and how Clinton and Epstein, both Clintons and Epstein, ran in similar circles, right?

That doesn't mean they're guilty, but it does mean that there are people that run this place, right? So yesterday we were showing some video in the background when I noticed, oh wait, that's Bill Clinton as president. And guess who's standing right behind him while he's giving a speech? Miriam Edelson. So Edelson was a Democrat when the Democrats were in charge. She's now a Republican, when the Republicans are in charge. Just earlier in the show, I read you Larry Ellison being a Democrat when the Democrats were in charge. Now a Republican when the Republicans are in charge.

Epstein very similar. And Epstein and Maxwell and all these guys running in the same exact power circles. And you have heard me say many times, Estein could get meetings with the, you know, Vladimir Putin for the former prime minister of Israel, He would Barack, he could get meetings with the French president, the, you know, the Norwegian prime minister. And the list goes on and on and on. So I care more, you as about what were those powerful people up to that they don't want us to know about, even more important than the specific crimes that they committed?

Like, because it gets to the point of why did they commit those crimes? What's their goal that none of us, none of them are telling us. Yeah, and what's been so interesting about this whole saga from the moment that, you know, he was arrested and the world kind of learned so much about Jeffrey Epstein and we started to understand how big his network was and how involved he was in so many of the things that are influencing not just our American system, politics, media, et cetera, but also he's doing all these things on a global level. I think the more we keep unraveling all these things, we're starting to understand more of what was the goal, why were all these people doing these

things, who's running the, again, not just the country, but the planet, who's running the world? And what, if anything, can be done about it going forward? At the very least, can we protect these innocent women and girls who have been victimized as a kind of, it seems like, like, just a side note to everything else that's been going on. The girls and the women were just like a nice to have add-on to sweeten some deals whenever they're like really doing some, international geopolitical scheming, which is really sad. And I don't say that to be glib about it, but it's like that's how they were treating these women and these girls.

And they would go on to have their lives transformed in a really negative, the most negative way after that as a result. But one good thing, Jenk, that is coming from all of this is, you know, with all of the focus on Bill Clinton and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and also Hillary, whatever that might be, today's deposition has also raised Democrats' desire to maybe call in another president for questioning, and that is the president who has been mentioned in the files over a million times, and that is none other than our current president, Donald Trump. And according to James Comer, Quentin stated, Trump has never said anything to me to make me

think he was involved with Epstein. But keep in mind, the full transcript has not been released yet and Representative Robert Garcia made note of that when asked about Comer's note. Take a look. Look, we're not going to disclose what was said because it's not in the rules. Republicans keep breaking the rules. But I think to what Mr. Frost said earlier, there was, I think that the president, President Clinton did bring up some additional information about some discussions with President Trump.

I think that the way Chairman Comer described it, I don't think is a complete accurate description of what actually was said. So let's release the full transcript. Then you can get all get a full record of what actually was said, which brings up some very important new questions about comments that President Trump has actually said. So according to three sources familiar with the testimony, Clinton told lawmakers that Trump and Epstein had a falling out, very sad in the early 2000s over a land deal. Trump, of course, believes he has been fully exonerated. He keeps saying that and he He keeps saying that he doesn't know anything about the Epstein files. At least that is what he told the press just this morning.

Keep in mind though, a New York Times analysis found a total of 5,300 documents mentioning Trump and the DOJ withheld at least 50 pages in its most recent file. It released that involved allegations directly against Trump. So we clearly, as the American people are not getting the full picture, and we keep hearing these stories about the things that were not released, the files that were not included, the things that had been redacted. For example, we know that there was a picture of Howard Lutnik with Jeffrey Epstein. It's unclear exactly where they were, but, you know, that was not included. That was redacted from the file release because it didn't fit the narrative that Howard

Ludnik himself had told us that he didn't mess with, he didn't hang out with Epstein, he barely knew the guy, he met him once, hated it, and he hated the whole experience. Also, with Hillary Clinton, it's a very interesting move for them to try and call her up to the stand because I'm not really sure what they're hoping to get from it, especially considering she's not really in the files and she hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing or anything like that. But as some have pointed out, Gillian Maxwell was at Hillary Chelsea Clinton's wedding, not Jeffrey Epstein, but Goulain was there as a plus one to another guest. Also, it was mentioned that Jeffrey Epstein had been to the Clinton White House, what, 16, 17 times.

And so it's unlikely, as Jank, you know, you were saying, it was very lawyerly talk. You know, she never went on his plane. He never, she never went to his island, but she might have met him elsewhere. Perhaps she did meet him in the Clinton White House during those eight years there. All right, Jake, what are your thoughts? Yeah, that might be a pretty relevant place to meet him. All right, guys, there's one giant thing that the press keeps ignoring too. So first, you know, to the point that Yasme, this, look, we, we already see devastating stuff about Trump in what has already been released about the Epstein files.

Some are not that credible. Some are very credible. So there's a range, right? But there's 53 missing pages. How much worse are they than the already horrible stuff that they released that they kept those hidden? And then between Clinton and Trump, Could either one of them be with young girls? No way, said literally no one in the country.

Like of course, that's totally possible with both of them, right? Now it doesn't mean they did it, but we're worried about it. Why are we worried about it? Not just because they'd be committing a terrible crime, but because we can't have our president open to blackmail, which leads me to the elephant in the room that again, no one in the press talks about, at least in American press. If you look at Times of Israel, you'll find out that during a

In 1998 negotiations that Clinton was hosting between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu came to Clinton, pulled him aside, and told him, look, I want your help with this. I want your help in releasing Jonathan Pollard, the traitor, who stole our secrets and gave him to Israel. Clint's like why. And Netanyahu said, we have the tapes of you talking to Monica Lewinsky. the tapes where they were talking about sex and their relationship.

He said, oh, don't worry, we destroyed them. Wink, right? But we know what was on him, and we would hate for that to get out. That was before anyone knew about Monica Lewinsky. So the Israelis and Benjamin Netanyahu in particular already have a track record of blackmailing our presidents about sex. And now both those presidents are connecting to Epstein. So the elephant in the room is yes, someone, and we know who, the Israelis that Epstein is connected to nonstop in all the emails and all the files are collecting evidence to users blackmail against our presidents.

That's the iceberg. Everything else is the tip of the iceberg. That's all. Yeah, and it turns out to be one hell of an iceberg. And if that's just the tip of it, like we don't even know how big this thing is. We don't know how far it's going to go. We don't know how deep these networks run. We don't know how many people are involved.

And it seems every day there are more and more people involved. And these files, like the revelations that we've already gotten from them are so mind blowing that, you know, first of all, I think people are starting not to become numb to it, but it's just like, okay, like what else? You know, like it's so crazy the things that are in these files. So many things that people thought were once made. conspiratorial have been proven to be like maybe that is what's happening here. But then also, it's created something where between the left and the right, we're all kind of watching these

files, taking what we want out of them. There still seems to be a pretty right-left divide in the way that people are interpreting the contents of the files. And I won't get into all of that. But it is interesting to see that some people who really were with the MAGA movement because they were afraid of the kinds of people who are in this country, the kinds of people who are running this country, they, some of them have been like, no, I want to see all these people testify. There has been a contingency of people who have also been leaving the MAGA movement. And so they see what's there. They can see the way the country is going. And they say, you know what, I'm not that anymore. Maybe they're not Democrats. Maybe they're not progressives. But they're, you know, at least

they're independence. And that I think is something that we can celebrate and we can look forward to hopefully happening more of as we continue to unravel more of these files. Yep. So the bottom line on that is it's a good day when more and more Americans stop believing the politicians. They don't seem to be on our side. All right, we've got to take a break here. When we come back, the administration kidnaps another Columbia student. Why did they do this one? And what happened to her? We'll explain. CB1 writes in on tyt.com member section when the criminal holds the evidence there ain't gonna be no justice. Purple Rain Dragon says does this fool really believe that he only has

to claim being exonerated? He doesn't realize that he actually has to prove it. This isn't Beetlejuice that's referring to Trump. But you know Trump, he just he thinks if you repeat a lie enough times that people will believe it and to be fair to him that has happened many, many times for him. So if you say it loudly enough and enough times, but of course, as we've been telling you throughout the last year, especially the last year, people are starting to catch on to that, even his own voters, certainly the rest of the country has. IDK anymore says Bill Clinton also tried to weed, tried weed, but didn't inhale. Do we label this the didn't inhale method of defense? I met him, but I didn't, yeah, sure. Maybe, by the way, though, really maybe. Over

9,000 says, I don't like the Clintons, but I try to see every angle. They were in powerful circles for a long time. They very likely were at an event in some country at some time that Epstein attended. Well, yes, that's also true. But as he has told you, he was also at the White House 16 times. So they didn't need to accidentally bump into each other in Switzerland. To me, the interesting part of that story is not how much it implicates Clinton. and she just shows you how powerful Epstein has been for decade after decade.

LCPR 666 says, I don't know, the Clinton sex scandal seems downright tame compared to the Epstein stuff. Well, that's certainly true. But it does, you know, now that you said it, right as like as I was reading in it, I occurred to me. On the other hand, Monica Lewiskey was a young intern, right? So like I'm not saying that that was like the end of the world. At the time, I didn't think it was that much of a deal, a big deal. And I think that since then I've learned some things like how they smeared her when they knew she was telling the truth that made me kind of revolted by the Clintons. But if that was his proclivity, I mean the one person he had the affair with at the White House was a young intern for whatever it's worth.

And I don't know what it's worth. Boomer's Ryan Katz said, Bill Clinton is the old school Gavin Newsom. That's funny and I would appreciate that. Visionary says, so when is Trump going to testify? Of course, never. So that's the unfair part of the Clinton's testifying, but Trump not. Katie says it's been so frustrating for the rest of the media and officials to catch up with the knowing it involves both intelligence agencies and Israel.

They're so obvious or paid at this point. Yeah, look back to the Epstein story we covered there. Well actually, I'll save it for the one we're gonna do in a minute about the video. cameras but great point filthy Canadian immigrants says I love it when I form an opinion on something and then here Jenk present the exact same viewpoint Susan I heard about the likelihood of CNN magification I thought the benefits of TYT because so many all right back on TYT Jenky he has with you guys I was reading a comment from one of our members on t yt.com during the break and just

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All right, yes. What's next? All right, we have another story about a student at Columbia University. Let's roll it. We also discussed the immigration cases I know are front of mind for so many New Yorkers. I shared my concern with the president about ICE's detention of Columbia student Elmina Agayevah yesterday morning, as well as the detention of four additional New Yorkers in relation. to the university, Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, Yunse O'Chung, and Nkak Cordia.

I ask that their cases be dropped. I'm grateful that shortly after our meeting, the president called me to inform me that Elmina would be imminently released, and indeed she was. All right. Elmina Al-Gayev, a student at Columbia University from Azerbaijan, was detained Thursday morning by ICE agents, and as you just heard, she has since been returned. But the way she was taken is a huge problem. According to reporting, the five ICE agents who detained her gained access into the university's residential building by lying and saying that they were looking for a missing child. They even showed a picture of a supposedly missing child. And when the agents approached Agayewa, a public safety officer showed up asking for a warrant. They, of course,

did not have one. And then he asked if he could have some time to call his boss and he was not allowed to do so. Jank, what are your thoughts on this? She, again, she has been returned, but the way that they forced entry by lying is appalling. Yeah, and I'm gonna explain a little bit later why it's gonna make law enforcement's job actually much harder, not easier, because they did this. And then I have a secret theory as to why she in particular was taken, which we'll discuss in a second. But first, let's find out the facts. Okay, so Columbia's acting president, Claire Shipman, has released

a statement yesterday condemning the entire incident. Take a look. This was a frightening and fast moving situation and utterly unacceptable for our students and staff. Let me be clear. Misrepresenting identity and other facts to gain access to a residential building is a breach of protocol. All law enforcement agencies are obligated to follow established legal ethical standards. Let me also add no way. Nobody in our administration has ever provided any assistance to DHS or ICE as regards arresting or taking any of our students. Quite the opposite, we have labored often intensively behind the scenes to see them supported. We understand the fear and anger this situation is caused.

We've shared additional guidance and resources with students, faculty, and staff, and will continue to do so. Well, DHS and ICE justify their actions by alleging that Agayev's student visa had been terminated in 2016 because she had failed to attend classes. The incident has elicited responses from Mayor Mamdani, as he just saw, who spoke to the president and negotiated her return, but also from New York Governor Hockel and from Senator Chuck Schumer. Also, Agaieva's lawyer has since filed a habeas corpus petition in the Southern District of New York, stating that she, She did enter the country in 2016 lawfully on a visa. And the students have also responded with roughly a hundred of them protesting the detention

outside of the university gates. Meanwhile, acting president shipments sent a letter to students advising them not to allow entry of individuals with just an administrative warrant that is not sufficient. They must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoenas to access non-public areas of the school. She said she would also be increasing security and staff to the residential buildings. However, NBC News has reported that an internal ICE memo in May said agents are allowed to forcibly enter a home using an administrative warrant if a judge has issued a final order of removal. That is a departure from previous norms in which a warrant signed by a judge or a magistrate was necessary for agents to forcibly enter homes. And according to reporting, the allegation that Agayeva's visa had been revoked is false.

Agayava is currently a senior at Columbia University. She's studying neuroscience and political science. And yes, the question on everyone's mind, no, she has not been publicly linked by authorities or the university to the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that royal Columbia is university last year. Friends and faculty members say she is best known on campus and online as a content creator. sharing videos about student life and navigating college as an immigrant. And she does have a significant social media following. She's got about over 100,000 followers on both TikTok and Instagram. And as it said, you know, it focuses usually on life as an international student here in the United States.

And I guess she has a whole lot of content to talk about life as an international student here in the United States now. It's unfortunate she has posted to her socials that she's okay, but she's a little, shaken up, which is more than understandable, considering we're not even sure exactly what happened during the time that she was detained. And Jenk, I just want to make a shout out real quick. Also, Governor Hokel, she did release a statement in support of Agayevah, but she also referred to Neerl Amin Shah Alam, who was the nearly blind refugee who was found dead in Buffalo, New York. It's all very unfortunate to see the things that are happening in cities and in states and even on campuses, university campuses for a private school and all this is happening without any of the

authorities in these places able to do anything about it. It seems the only one who can get anything done apparently is Zoran Mumdani. Were your thoughts, Jank. Yeah, no, great job by Mumdani. We gave me a shout out yesterday for this and again here. So getting the job done. So a terrific job. So now, why does it make law enforcement job harder? Because so law enforcement actually can lie to to you. It depends on the context. So for example, if you're getting integrated by the police, they can lie to you till the cows come home. And that's often how they get confessions. And that's not illegal. You could argue about the ethics of it, but they can do it. But in entering a home, it might be a different situation, and I'm actually, or a building private areas. I'm actually

very curious how the courts are going to rule on that from a legal perspective. But the main practical point for now is Colombia is now told their security and their students do not let outside law enforcement into any private areas. Because now law enforcement we know on the record is lying to and pretending that they need assistance. So now no one at Columbia and in that general area trust law enforcement anymore. Deeply counterproductive. Okay. So now, That gets the question of wait, why is this so important that you're gonna ruin like any kind of trust that law enforcement has with this entire area, et cetera, over this. Well, we gotta go grab her, you do? And why?

Because you heard that she did not attend classes in 2016? In 2016. Where the hell did you get that information? So look guys, now they say that she did not attend that many or any, as far as they know, no, pro-Palestian protests, and that might be true. She's Azerbaijan that I don't know if she's Muslim, but most Azerbaijanis are Muslim. And there are groups, and very specifically at Columbia, originally started by Barry Weiss, who now runs CBS News, that makes a list of students and professors that they'd like

to remove from campus for being pro-Palestinian. So did she make it onto one of these lists that these thugs keep? And this is very real at Columbia. So that's where this started, the cancel culture started with Barry Weiss, and they've been doing it for decades, not just in the recent protests. So does somebody make a note? Oh, she's a Muslim person who's an influencer, let's dig in, oh, here I got a theory about how she didn't attend classes a decade ago.

Because she wound up on a list somehow. But to me, probably the most important factor in her winding up as a target is that she was an influencer of some sort. So maybe the administration thought we'll make an example out of her since she's got 100,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok, that'll spread the word better about how we're so cruel and terrible and we'll kidnap you for no reason, et cetera. So that might be the real reason or part of the reason. But all of this is insanity.

We should not be kidnapping college students based on their attendance record from a decade ago. That's an obvious excuse. And if it's true that she, that part of it was that she was had criticized Israel or like didn't hate Muslims like herself. And then that's why she got put on a list by either a pro-Israel thug or some sort of Border Patrol ice thug. Well then what will happen, and this is a prediction.

is Columbia board and alumni will get together and go, no, we withdraw any complaints about this. We're glad the administration has arrested her, and she should serve a million years in prison for offending Israel. Because Columbia's board has done that on several occasions. And then we recently found out that some of Epstein's best friends were donating literally one family $100 million

to Columbia and its sister college Barnard. So when you donate hundreds of millions of dollars, they listen to you a little bit more when people put together a list of people who are your enemies and need to be, you know, taking off of campus. So we don't know for sure if that's why she made it onto the list, but there's no question she was on the list because they went and bothered to break the law to go kidnapper. So this is the state of affairs today in America where sometimes the federal government will come and seize you illegally and you don't know which powerful force ask them to do that. This is not the America I know and love.

We got to get back to the real America where we have freedom, including freedom of speech. All right, we got to take a break here. We'll be right back. All right, guys. So first of all, I'm going to do a revolution soon where I'm going to show you the trip that I took to Minnesota and to the memorials of Alex Freddie and Renee Good. Stick around for that. I'm also going to ask for your help on a poll we're going to do on Israel, which is really interesting.

And then in the bonus episode for the members, and I'm going to tell you about an epiphany I had about why rich and famous people are dissatisfied with their lives. Kind of an interesting thing, and I wanted to share it with you. I forgot to tell you about a poll about J.D. Vance earlier in the show, so I want to do it now on t.com. If J.D. Vance were a kitchen appliance, he would be A, a toaster, because he would be a, a, because he was. He'll be toast if he runs for president. B, an air fryer that claims to make food that tastes like it's fried. C, a slow cooker, he's got games.

Slowly we're starting to see it. I don't suspect a lot of you vote that, but hey, we put it out there just in case. D, a blender just making a mess out of everything. So fun little poll for you. So there it is, who's winning? The blender. Okay, all right, now let's go to Super Chat.

Cheesy fingers, Lady AF, Jeffrey Smith, all $28, all Spartacus, all inspired by Constantine. You guys are too good to us. We love you. I'm Sparicus. Uh-huh, isn't it? Alans Hegog writes, there's no way that's how it's pronounced. My condolences the family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56-year-old nearly blind Rohingya, refugee from Myanmar, was found dead in Buffalo, New York. We covered that story earlier. Lady Fook-and-T said, Jake, I want to switch to Noble, but I have questions about add-ons.

How do I reach a rep? And I got an answer for you. So you go to t-y-t.com slash switch, and you click on somebody talk me through it. Somebody talk me through it. It's already on t-y-t.com slash switch and click on that. It's perfectly normal to have questions.

The questions get answered very easily. So it does save you a lot of money. So if you're paying over $50, I think if you're paying over $35, definitely switch to Noble mobile mobile. Nothing on your phone changes, as you know, t.wit.com slash switch, okay? So now let me go to YouTube members.

Joe S. New York says, well, he always said New York, NY says, I remember when I was a Normie, Jen, thanks to TYT, I know not to vote for anyone that's taking money from APEC. It's an absolute deal breaker for me now. I've shared this knowledge with friends too.

I love that way to spread the word, Joe. Shan Shan, Channel 11 says, this is happening everywhere in the U.S. People in Minnesota were driving around recovering these individuals saving them from starlight tours. Those are the ones where ice or border patrol just dumps them somewhere in the middle of the night and they have no way of getting home and folks are helping them. Original prompts says what has happened to our humanity, the cruelty and inability for people

to walk in someone else's shoes is troubling and I couldn't agree more with them. All right guys, we'll be right back. Back on TYT, Asga, one more story for you. The Epstein files contain new evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was installing camera, on his property. Before we get into the details, Jenk, this is creepy. Super creepy.

So there's definitive evidence now that he was taping. We're about to show it to. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So in 2014, Epstein wrote the following on Larry Wasaki, his aide and pilot. It said, let's get three motion-detected hidden cameras that record, thanks.

And Vesawski responded. He said, Jeffrey, I already purchased the motion sensor camera from the spy store in Fort Lauderdale yesterday. I charged them last night and figuring out how to work them as we speak. It's amazing how small they are, the size of a thumbnail drive, a thumbnail drive, 64 hour recording motion sensors.

I'm installing them into Kleenex boxes now. I'll bring them by later today. I think it's really funny that they just like go to the spy store and pick up their secret cameras. So we've already covered similar pieces of evidence So you can take a look here. In August of last year, the New York Times published these images of Epstein's Manhattan townhouse. Very cute.

And this picture here, you can see the surveillance camera is circled right there in the top right corner of Epstein's bedroom. And we have another picture. There's another camera in a nearby room again in that top right hand corner. And there's even more evidence of where that came from. So in a 2012 email, Epstein asked an acquaintance to please suggest some web-enable security surveillance cameras. And in 2005, detective search Epstein's home. A police official later wrote in an incident report that he located two covert hidden

cameras. Both were stashed inside clocks, one in Epstein's garage and the other beside his desk. And there is more on those hidden cameras. Let's watch. Jeffrey Epstein's victims have long said they believe they were being filmed by the sex offender. And this footage from a spy cam style camera inside Epstein's Palm Beach House appears to show just that.

The footage has been obtained for the first time by Channel 4 News. Because the quality is so grainy, during our investigation, we analyzed it frame by frame. And we've slowed it down here so that you can see what's happening. A man, likely Epstein himself, at one point looks towards the hidden device. Images of what seems to be his accomplice, Gilaimaxwell, as well as what appears to be several women or girls. All right, so we still don't know the exact purpose of those cameras. We can only imagine and anything that we're imagining is not good for anyone involved.

But they did exist. Jank, what is, what are your speculations as to what was going on here? Yeah, so this actually gets rid of the speculation, right? So there are some clowns out there going, oh, I had no video cameras, I don't know what you're talking about. Well, we could literally see them. We can see the video from them, you just saw it, we can see the pictures of them. New York Times is a picture of a room in his Manhattan apartment that says 24 hour video surveillance.

Where's the question? Where's the question? Then we have the emails of him saying, okay, I'm gonna get this kind of spy camera, I'm gonna put it in the Kleenex things, it's in the clocks, etc. So does, but yet, yet, and good piece by the New York Times, appreciate always credit where credit is too, yet we're still having a nonsense conversation about whether he was taking, he was Of course he was taping. Of course he was taping.

Is the argument that he got all these video cameras, installed them, we even see some of the video, but out of the goodness of his heart, he decided not to tape anything bad. That's why he put him with a Kleenex tissues, right? So, okay, so he obviously taped him, and why do you tape elicit sex of powerful men? You don't have to be a rocket scientist, it's obviously for blackmail. And then our government says, I don't know what you're talking about. The FBI in one of the reports said that it was not clear that he had video, even though they all have this information.

They already had this information. They're like video, what name so? No, we don't have any videos. You don't have any videos? Did you look for the videos? By the way, he had a storage locker. They opened up the storage locker filled with videos. But yet there are no videos that we could find, no videos that are given to us.

And they tell us, no, it's not a black male operation. And finally, as you've heard me say many times, in the 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein was in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. He laundered the planes that were used, the CIA was using to bring drugs into the country and turn them into Victoria's secret planes for Les Wexner. So he's in the middle of an intelligence operation. So there's absolutely no question that the CIA knew about Jeffrey Epstein for decades. There's absolutely no question he was taping the illicit activities.

And our government has been covering it up for all this time. So it is exceedingly obvious that our government is compromised. So the only question that remains is, who is Epstein working for? So you can make an argument for the CIA, although there's some good evidence against that, but certainly the CIA knew, right? You could make an excellent case for Mossad. He's trying to help Israel in every instance, in every deal. You could make an argument for, you know what, it isn't Israel or the CIA.

It's a group of extraordinarily powerful men that are doing this together. Either way, the CIA and our government isn't working for us. It's working for them, and it's covering up their country. crimes. There's just no, absolutely no way around that conclusion. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

And I think what it has come from this, I think that was a really great way of summing up that it's not just about like, oh, he put secret cameras in his own apartment because of course he did. But what's interesting is how he was very strategic in getting every angle, it seems like, of his apartment because he wanted everything documented. And even the cameras aside and the storage locker aside, he also had all these emails documenting like, getting all this surveillance equipment going to the spy store, putting it in the Kleenex boxes. The paper trails with these files is unbelievable.

And the fact that there's still people denying the significance of these emails and all the evidence, including these videos, is unbelievable. Yep. All right, everybody check out your eyes on Rebel HQ. I'm gonna come back, I'm gonna do the revolution for you guys. Pull on Israel, I need your help with. I'm gonna tell you about Minnesota and we've got other fun things for you guys. So come right back.

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