The Young Turks - Pleading The Fifth - February 9, 2026

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

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I'm so upset. Oh my God. The host Anna Kasparian, and you are in for a treat. We have a jam-packed rundown full of stories that you have to know about. You want to be in the know. You don't want to be one of those dopey people who has no idea what's going on in the world. I want to know what's going on. You tune in here to the Young Turks. Anyway, we're going to give you the latest updates on the Epstein files,

including what Galane Maxwell said before the House Oversight Committee today. They did hold a hearing. The members of the House, also some members of the House oversight committee, were able to review the unredacted Epstein files. So we'll hear from Jamie Raskin in regard to what he saw as a result of that. I mean, how much can you see in just a few hours? But he does have something he wants to share with us. So we'll get to that at the top of the rundown today.

We'll also talk about Reid Hoffman, a Democrat mega donor, and just how often he's mentioned in the Epstein files. We'll give you an update on potential war with Iran. There were some negotiations over the weekend. I want to give you some updates on that. Lots to get to as always, but I do want to let you know, I'm gonna talk about the bad bunny, Super Bowl performance, obviously lots of manufactured culture wars and nonsense about that. So I'll be talking about my thoughts on the performance and also some of the backlash in regard to the performance in the bonus episode for our members.

Only our members will have access to it. It will be behind a paywall. So if you want to watch, you can just go to t.t.com join to become a member or just hit that join button if you're watching us live on YouTube. All right, let's get to our first story. As expected, Galane Maxwell took the fifth and refused to answer any questions. This obviously is very disappointing. We had many questions to ask about the crime she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co-conspirators. Her attorney said that she would answer questions if she would granted clemency by the president of Trump.

That's right, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime companion. pedophile co-conspirator, Galane Maxwell, has refused to answer questions before the House Oversight Committee and invoked her Fifth Amendment rights. Now, as you just heard from Oversight Committee Chair, James Comer, the only way she will cooperate and talk is if President Donald Trump grants her clemency, which would be insane given the fact that she has committed crimes that are unworthy of such forgiveness. Let's just put it that way. So Galane's lawyer also posted a copy of his statement about this on social media, writing that if this committee and the American public truly want to hear the unfiltered truth about

what happened, there is a straightforward path. Ms. Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump. Now, Trump could immediately rule out clemency for Galane Maxwell, which is what a sane president would do given the fact that she was helping Epstein procure and in some cases even rape underage girls. That's what Galane Maxwell was up to. So the notion of ever granting her a pardon or clemency is absolutely crazy. And if the president was a sane mind, he would come out and say, there's no way in hell I would do something like that. But alas, we don't live in a

world where our president is sane. And unfortunately, he seems to be dangling this weird carrot, And the real question here is why? Why will he continue allowing Galane Maxwell to think that there is any possibility of clemency? Also, I don't think that her testimony is valuable at all. She is known to be a liar and I don't trust her. Why would we think that Galane Maxwell would ever tell us the truth about anything? I think that there are other individuals who we should be hearing from, who would have some testimony that would be valuable to an investigation. And we'll get to who those people are in just a moment.

But I don't think that Galane Maxwell, like if that's the trade-off, if the trade-off is, clemency for Galane Maxwell in return for her very likely lying under oath, I won't take that deal, okay? I'm like survivor insurance from the 1990s. I can't take that ride. Okay, I'm not interested. Now, so her lawyer's statement also indicated that Galane Maxx, could clear both Trump and Clinton of any accusations of wrongdoing, which is already a massive

red flag. So I'm not interested in her. But her lawyer also mentions that. And again, like we should really ask ourselves, do we trust Galane Maxwell to tell us the truth? And why is she saying right off the bat, I can clear them of any wrongdoing? Interesting, why are you bringing that up now under this context? Now, she was, by the way, moved as we've been talking about on the show for some months. She was moved to a minimum security prison following an interview by now deputy attorney general

Todd Blanche, who used to be Trump's personal lawyer. We don't know what that exchange was like, we don't know exactly what they talked about, but what we do know is that there's a possibility some sort of deal was made because that's when Galane Maxwell was moved to a minimum, a security facility, which is kind of like known as the club med of prisons and is now playing with puppies. A child rapist is now, you know, in a minimum security facility playing with puppies. Thanks to Donald Trump. So that's something that you should be aware of. Now, just a reminder, the whole point of pleading the fifth is to avoid self, self-incrimination.

Now she's already convicted, as we know, she's serving time in prison, even though it's a minimum security facility as a result of Donald Trump. And she can't be convicted again for the same crimes or tried again for the same crimes. You know, we don't allow double jeopardy. She's going to be asked about the co-conspirators. So how is this about protecting yourself from self-incrimination when the House wants you to testify specifically about Epstein's co-conspirators? You'd be theoretically incriminating other people, depending on what that testimony ends up being.

Now, Congressman Rokana actually called this out in particular, and I think he makes a good point. Take a quick look. I submitted to Comer a letter with six or seven questions. Things like who were the other co-conspirators? Who were the other men who raped these underage girls? Did she have any conversations about a deal with Donald Trump? She's taken a blanket Fifth Amendment on any question. And my view is that many of my questions don't in any way incriminate her.

So we'll see what she does. But there's seven questions that I have specifically asked. And the assumption is she's pleading the fifth to each one of those. And the American people will see that there's an inconsistency. Why did she not plead the fifth when Blanche asked her questions? And now she's pleading the fifth about things that don't implicate her, but may implicate many of the other powerful people in the Epstein class that committed these crimes. Well, the suspicion with Todd Blanche, of course, is the fact that he very likely met with

Galane Maxwell to make some sort of deal to ensure that nothing dirty comes out about Donald Trump. Todd Blanche wasn't there on behalf of the American people. Todd Blanche was there on behalf of his client, Donald Trump. And once, you know, promises were made, that's likely why she was moved to a minimum security facility as a child rapist. That's what she is. She's is a disgusting serial child rapist. That's Galane Maxwell, who is now with a straight face asking the president of the United States for clemency. And we live in a world where we don't know whether the president will abide by that.

When we should live in a world where it's abundantly clear that the president wouldn't even think about it. But unfortunately, we don't live in that world. So in the meantime, members of the House Oversight Committee, including representatives Thomas and Democratic lawmaker Jamie Raskin reviewed some unredacted Epstein files. And while I'm sure they were unable to go through millions of unredacted files in a short period of time, Congressman Jamie Raskin left the room, spoke to press, and disclosed a little of what he learned. Take a look.

Epstein's lawyers synopsized and quoted Trump is saying that Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of his club at Mar-a-Lago, but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago, and he had never been asked to leave. And that was redacted for some indeterminate, inscrutable reason. I know it seems to be at odds with some things that President Trump has been saying recently about how he had kicks. Jeffrey Epstein out of his club or asking to leave. And this was at least one report that appears to contradict it. Look, I have no reason to believe that Raskin is being deceptive there. Okay, he says that's what he noticed. I believe him. And again, it's just another reason why an actual in-depth investigation needs to be conducted. But that also kind of gives me a red flag, to be quite honest with you. Because here's what I'm not interested in. Okay, I'm not interested in this Epstein scam.

to simply be used for politicizing and attacking one party or the other. Because let's be very clear here, there are both Democrats and Republicans implicated in the Epstein files, full stop. So I am worried about this being derailed by individuals who don't really care about a real investigation. They just want to turn this into more tribal politics BS. And I've got no patience for that. Okay, there are people who should really be looked into here.

Leon Black, for instance, who was one of the head honchos over at Apollo Group. He was forced to step down in 2021 after allegations of raping a 16 year old autistic and Down syndrome girl came up. I would really like him to be looked into. I don't know what his political affiliation is. I don't really care because for me, this is not a political story. For me, this is a story about rich, powerful people engaging in criminality, including the rape of underage girls, and essentially having a cabal of politicians and powerful people providing cover for it for decades.

That's what the story is really about. It's about Epstein working for intelligence organizations, foreign intelligence in particular, in order to gather blackmail on powerful decision makers and policy makers in our country, And use that blackmail as leverage in order to influence U.S. foreign policy. That's the story. That's what I want Raskin to maybe hyper focus on. I get that he hates Trump, I get it, I get it. But expand your horizons a little bit past your hatred for Donald Trump. I'm sure that you might find other things in there that are incriminating in regard to Donald Trump. I don't really care to focus on one person and one person only for political

purposes. I want answers. And I want answers when it comes to all the various bad actors in positions of power in this country. Head should roll. Now, it's worth noting that the latest file dump by the Department of Justice included a document also indicating that on the same day that the FBI opened a child sex trafficking case against Epstein in 2018, that was the same day that that he ordered 55 gallons or 55 gallon containers filled with sulfuric acid to be delivered to his private island. They're not familiar with sulfuric acid and what criminals like to use it for. It's known to dissolve human bodies, including bones.

Hey, but you know what? According to various people in Trump's administration, nothing to see here, nothing to see here. Batya Ungar Sargonne went on CNN with a straight face said, there's no indication of criminality here. This is boring. I'm bored. I'm bored. Right. I'm not bored. I'm furious. And anyone in media or politics telling you, oh, this is nothing. Americans don't care about the. Scott Jennings is another one on CNN. The American people don't care about this. Really? Seems like the American people do care about this, which is why Congress was compelled to pass legislation requiring the DOJ to release the documents.

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But I want to move on and pivot to something a little different, though it's certainly related to this story. And it's some of the other things that we've learned from the Epstein files. So while the House Oversight Committee continues to investigate the Epstein files, I want to give them a little bit of advice. They might want to consider including an investigation into Epstein's death specifically. Because now, thanks to the Epstein files, we're learning some more fascinating information. Let's just put it that way, that makes us maybe question the official narrative surrounding Epstein's death. Now I personally have always been suspicious of the allegation that he took his own life.

I don't believe that he did, okay? I suspect that something else happened, potentially foul play. And the reason why I think that is because there had already been inconsistencies that made me question this. But now we have more. So thanks to the DOJ's release of the Epstein files, we discovered that prosecutors wrote an announcement about Epstein's death a day before he was discovered dead. So let's take a look at the document in question. It says United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And if you look at the date, right there on the top left hand corner, it says Friday, August 9th, 2019. He was discovered

dead on the 10th. Okay, so this document can be found among the dozens of documents in the disclosure labeled as statements from the Southern District of New York's U.S. Attorney's Office. And again, as you can see, dated August 9th, Epstein was discovered dead August 10th. And look, to be fair, accidents happen, mistakes happen, they might have just made a mistake and wrote the wrong date, typed in the wrong date. This doesn't necessarily prove that there's foul play. But you might want to take a step back and think about all the other questionable things that have come up surrounding Epstein's death.

For instance, we also learned something else that raises questions recently. Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death observed an orange colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolation. locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 1039 p.m. on August 9th, 2019. Fascinating. So there's a still from the video that's been circulating online, and I want to show it to you. The spotlight is on the orange figure that CBS News was reporting on. And by the way, kind of shocking that CBS News reported on this in the first place. But nonetheless, they write that the entry in an observation log of the video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center appears to suggest something previously unreported by authorities. Quote, a flash of orange looks to be going up the L-tier stairs could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that tier. But the FBI, interestingly enough, had a different version, had a different interpretation from the inspector general logs.

So the FBI log describes the fuzzy image as possibly an inmate. The inspector general logs it as an officer carrying orange linen or betting, noting it in their final report as an unidentified corrections officer. Now, the final report by the inspector general stated the following. At approximately 10.39 p.m., an unidentified correctional officer, appeared to walk up the L-tier stairway and then appeared within view of the camera at 1041 p.m. Now, officials report or official reports do state that Epstein died by suicide sometime before 6.30 a.m. if you're wondering about the timing. They don't have an exact or specific time when he died.

And his body was discovered by a corrections officer delivering his breakfast. So he was discovered in the morning. Now the official review of Epstein's death does not even mention the figure in orange, which is weird, why not? Bill Barr and others claimed that no one entered Epstein's housing tier the night of his death. Not just that they didn't enter his cell, that they didn't enter his housing tier. That's what they said. Okay, Dan Bongino, who used to be the deputy FBI director before he stepped down,

said on Fox and Friends that there's video clear as day. He's, meaning Epstein's, the only person in there and the only person coming out, you can see it. No mention of the yellow figure. And there's also some interesting in-depth analysis that CBS did. And honestly, I'm not being sarcastic here. Here's what they found. This is so fascinating.

In an in-depth analysis of surveillance video from the jail, CBS News previously reported on the figure on the stairs and consulted independent video analysts who said the movement was more consistent with an inmate or someone wearing an orange prison uniform than a corrections officer, which obviously makes sense. Why would a corrections officer be wearing that bright yellow inmate color? That doesn't make any sense at all. So CBS interviewed prison employees who said that escorting an inmate at that hour would have been highly unusual. Okay, a separate internal presentation included in the document release described a corrections officer believed by investigators to be corrections officer Tova Noel, carrying linen or inmate clothing up to the tier. However, however, get a load of this, the 2023 inspector general report did not identify Noelle as the figure seen in the footage. In her interview, okay, no well told investigators distributing linen was not part of her duties. Quote, I never gave out linen ever, she said, because that's done on the shift prior.

But there's more, there's more. Then there's the fact that a noose was never definitively identified. I'm not making that up. A noose has never been definitively identified. Remember, he hanged himself allegedly. That's how he allegedly committed suicide. Well, investigators say that they interviewed corrections officer Michael Thomas, who said he told them that he discovered Epstein in his cell shortly after 630 in the morning

on August 10th, and that he ripped at, Epstein down from the hanging position. When investigators asked him, okay, well, what happened to the news? He said, I don't recall, this is a direct quote. I don't recall taking the noose off. I really don't. I don't recall taking the thing from around his neck. The other corrections officer, the woman we were talking about earlier, Tova Noel,

said that she never saw a news around Epstein's neck. Now, according to the inspector general's report, a news collected at the scene was later determined not to be the ligature used in Epstein's death. So where's the noose? How did he hang himself? This is insane. And look, maybe these revelations alone are not enough to make you question the claim that Epstein died by suicide.

But again, if you take a step back, there are other things that should raise eyebrows for sure. So for instance, Epstein's former cellmate, Nicholas, Tartaglione claimed in a pardon petition filed last summer and recently obtained by the Daily Beast that Epstein was deliberately left unprotected in federal custody. Why would they do that? Okay, well maybe they made a mistake. But he also says, and he's a former police officer convicted of multiple murders, alleged that prison officials knowingly housed Epstein with an accuse mass murder despite earlier reports that the disgraced financier had raised concerns about

his safety weeks before his death. Why would a guy on the verge of committing suicide be concerned about his safety? Makes you wonder. So as much as the Trump administration tried to redact the hell out of the Epstein files, we're still learning some pretty fascinating things from that file dump and aside from investigating potential co-conspirators and their alleged predatory behavior, I think that there should be a full investigation into how Epstein actually died. Because I'm not buying for a second that he committed suicide. That's my take. That's my speculation.

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Welcome back to the show, our first social break of the day. Ossie Dragon in our member section asks a good question. TYT, I hope you cover the Israeli prime ministers visit to Australia and the police brutality on our peaceful protest in Sydney last night. I was there and witnessed it all disgusting. I have to be honest, that story did not hit my radar at all, not because I was ignoring it, but I just didn't come across my feed. I promise you, I will look into it. We don't have it for today's show, obviously.

But if we have space for it tomorrow, I might consider covering it. But thank you for letting me know about the story. Kevin Shea says, Anna, you look beautiful as usual. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. William King says Anna's always stunning and I'm gay. I don't have a horse in this race. Thank you.

I appreciate it. Lydia Richardson says, all flights from Canada had to stop going to Cuba because they have no gas to come back, very discouraged about the United States, they've never cared about Cuba. Well, I mean, I think there's quite a bit of evidence showing that our government doesn't care about a lot of different countries. But, you know, if you bribe them, they'll literally put their own people on the backburn. Our government will literally put the American people on the back burner to work for you, okay? Like, as Israel knows all too well. All right, let's go to arcane eclectic who says, very best case scenario, Trump knew all about what Epstein was doing

and said nothing about it. That's best case scenario. I agree with you, that is the best case scenario. But he's acting as though there's something much worse that he's trying to cover up. You get what I'm saying? So who knows if we'll ever find out. Bok says, if you want to know who's in the files, ask the survivors, why are we even playing this game? This is becoming a senseless witch hunt. I don't know why the survivors haven't disclosed it yet. They might be, I mean, look, we're talking about some of the most powerful people on the planet with endless resources and they could easily ruin these women's lives, even more than they've already been ruined. Let's just keep it real. So I don't know if that's what's motivating them or

discouraging them from naming names. But honestly, even if they did come out and name names, Like, there are already names we know about that should be investigated that aren't being investigated. I think the fact that the victim's names were disclosed and unredacted in the DOJ file dump, whereas the predators were redacted, their identities were redacted. That kind of shows you how all the power seems to be behind the perpetrators, not the victims. And that's a scary place to be as a woman. So, and honestly, even if they came out and name names, what good is that? You need an investigation to confirm that these individuals who have been accused have actually

done what they've been accused of doing. Hurley 666 says, Anna is on fire out the gates and on a Monday no less. Thank you. I hope you guys enjoy the show today. I'm really excited about it. Just really great stories that we spent a lot of time researching and getting ready for you guys. And welcome to all of our new members, including We Deeder and 81B Sleans. All right, love you guys.

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So in a little over a year. And of course, we all suspect that Netanyahu wants to meet with Trump to discourage Trump from engaging in peace talks with Iran, nuclear negotiations with Iran that would, you know, prevent the U.S. from going to war with Iran, which would be a good thing. But not for Netanyahu. Netanyahu likes to have the United States do, you know, Israel's dirty work for them. And so they don't like Iran. They don't like the fact that Iran has, you know, a modicum of military capability.

And as a result of that, Israel isn't completely unchained, can't do everything it wants to do. There is a little bit of backlash or pushback from Iranian proxies like the Houthis and Hezbollah. And so Israel wants to do away with Iran's military capability entirely. Iran will not co-sign onto that. And so that's where we have these negotiations kind of breaking down. You have the U.S. in the middle, which is Israel's bitch, of course. And then you have Iran, which is like, yo, okay, we're willing to play ball when it comes to nuclear weapons. But not when it comes to missiles, because we as a sovereign country should have the right to defend ourselves.

And considering the fact that Israel's in the region, who wouldn't want the capacity to defend themselves, when you have this belligerent country that has attacked literally every single one of its neighbors and has stolen land from its neighbors. So with that in mind, let's talk a little bit about what we're learning. Now Axios had reported that initially Netanyahu was going to meet with Trump on the 18th. But after Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner met with Iranian negotiators just recently this past weekend, Netanyahu was like, can we move that date up, please, can we move that date up? So they moved the data up. Now BB's gonna meet with Trump on Wednesday.

Now the meetings which involved Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff did not reach a conclusion, unfortunately. But the fact that the meeting even happened is a very good sign because prior to the meeting, Iran made it very clear. We are not open to negotiating about our missile program, okay? That's not something we're gonna talk about. You wanna have a discussion about a nuclear deal, a new nuclear deal? Great.

So there was a lot of concern that the- The talks wouldn't even happen, right? That Whitkoff and Kushner would say, oh, no, no, no, we have to carry out what Israel wants. They have demands, we must carry out those demands. And if you're not gonna do away with your missile program, then no, we're not interested. But nope, they actually did meet with the Iranian negotiators. Now, Netanyahu's office has said, any negotiations with Iran, quote, must include limitations on ballistic missiles and a halting of the support for the Iranian axis.

So he's talking about the Iranian proxies who, you know, in the case of Lebanon, defend Lebanese land. In the case of the Houthis seem to want to defend the Palestinian people, which is nice. It's nice to see people on the global stage who actually give a damn about the Palestinians. Now Iran has made clear that its missile program isn't up for discussion, something it reiterated following the Oman talks. The talks this past weekend did take place in Oman. Now, the Iranian foreign minister has also told Al Jazeera that missiles are never negotiable

because they are a defense issue. And I agree with that. Like, why are we having a discussion about missiles? This is stupid. Now, of course, Israel likes to move the goalposts because they don't want peace. They don't want the US to reach a deal with Iran, they want war. And so Israel has stated that missiles are redlined for them and they will attack attack Iran on their own if they need to.

Well, we all know that Israel would be like absolutely destroyed by Iran without the help of the United States. So whether the US is gonna like it or not, they will be dragged into that war. Should Israel, just like the 12 day war, attack Iran first. Israel will attack Iran, Iran will respond in kind and a lot more viciously. And then Israel's gonna need it's, you know, daddy to come and rescue it. meaning the American taxpayers and the US government with the help of the US military. So that's really what's going on.

I want to just kind of lay it out in as frank as frank as I can, right? Just make it very clear what's actually happening here. So another unsettling thing about all of this is that Trump is insanely impressionable, as we know. Usually he just goes along with the last person in the room with him has said. And so after Trump met with Netanyahu this past December, Trump said that he was willing to back in Israeli attack on Iran if the Islamic Republic continues its missile program. So who knows what Trump is willing to do, right? All he needs to do is meet with Netanyahu. Who knows what Netanyahu tells him behind closed doors? And then Trump obeys like Israel's bitch. It's embarrassing. And by the way, Biden did the same thing. Biden was Israel's bitch. too. Doesn't matter, this is not a partisan thing. Okay, the American people are humiliated by our presidents when it comes to the issue of Israel, whether they're Democrats or Republicans.

Let's just be very honest about that. So who knows what's gonna happen? Look, the foreign minister of Iran also said that Iran would not agree to end its nuclear enrichment program, for two reasons. The first reason being that the enriched uranium is used for legitimate energy purposes in Iran. But on top of that, they want to have a latent deterrent. Like we don't have to hide that. We don't have to hide the ball. They don't have to hide the ball. They want a latent deterrent. Israel is a nuclear power. Israel has attacked its neighbors, has continued stealing land, has just carried out a genocide in Gaza. What country wouldn't want to have a latent, at least a latent deterrent when it comes to a country as belligerent,

and deadly and violent as Israel. So latent deterrent means they don't have a nuclear bomb, but they have enough enriched uranium to, you know, make a nuclear bomb if they need it. Now, all of this sounds really scary, right? But here's the thing, if you don't believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, then you should be saying that Israel shouldn't have a nuclear weapon, but they do have nuclear weapons.

And in fact, the whole nuclear program in Israel is a clandestine program. That's not part of the non-proliferation treaty. You know, for all the talk that we hear about the JCPOA and all of the safeguards incorporated in that deal to ensure that Iran wasn't developing nuclear weapons, who's checking in on Israel and what they're up to with their nuclear weapons? No one, because Israel is above the law. Israel gets that double standard, gets a benefit from that double standard. They get to break every international law, they get to have a clandestine nuclear program

that they acquired thanks to Robert Maxwell, Galane Maxwell's father, stealing US nuclear secrets and sending it over to Israel, some of which by the way Israel then sold to the Soviets, who were our enemies at that time, our special ally, right? That's our special ally. So special that we might spend resources we don't have and risk the lives of our soldiers to fight a war in the Middle East on their behalf. Yeah, that's great. Now, here's what I actually think is happening here.

I don't think, I don't believe Trump is interested in a nuclear deal at all. I think what's... Hey, Ontario. Come on down to BetMGM Casino and check out our newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. Don't miss out. Play exciting casino games based on the iconic game show. Only at BetMGM.

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but I do think that when you look at the whole of the Trump, Trump administration's foreign policy, I think it's pretty easy to understand that we're not militarily ready to go to war with Iran. We're not. Now think about it. For years now, we've been shipping weapons over to Ukraine. We've been shipping weapons over to Israel for their genocide, right? So our weapons inventory is depleted to some extent.

We have a massive military buildup in the Caribbean still. So in terms of like preparedness to go to war with a country that has a nuclear, I'm sorry, that has a military capability far more advanced than Iraq ever did, I think there's just buying time. I think that's what's actually happening here. Because Israel gets what it wants. So in my mind, we're already there. We're already at war with Iran.

And it's a disaster for the American people. It really is. We're already $38 trillion in debt. Part of the reason why we are in so much debt is because of the trillions of dollars we've spent on fighting foreign wars, Middle Eastern wars on Israel's behalf, and we're gonna get dragged into doing it again. Plus, we're also learning now that Iran has obtained, this is amazing, it really is, unexploded U.S. bombs from the 12-day war.

Remember when the U.S. bombed Iran's nuclear sites? Well, the foreign minister is now confirming that the ordinances at sites like 4-D4-D4,000, Nantz and Ishfahan struck by U.S. B2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles during the June 2025 12-day war poses risks that could delay IAEA inspections. Now that's why he mentioned it, but in mentioning this, he's basically confirming, yeah, we have unexploded bombs. And so there are people who are concerned that Iran could reverse engineer these weapons and have even more advanced military capability, more advanced weaponry.

But experts are dismissing the idea due to Iran's delivery limitations, meaning the, you know, what's necessary or needed to deliver said bombs or launch said bombs. Who knows what's true when it comes to that? I mean, Iranians are, there's a reason why you have scientists assassinated in Iran by the Israelis over and over again. I'm pretty sure they can figure it out. But there are costs to striking Iran. There are costs to a hot war with Iran. And it doesn't really seem like anyone is sitting down and thinking about that carefully, strategically. Instead, we have a government that is bought off by foreign actors, and these prostitute politicians will carry out what's best for the foreign actors, not what's best

for the American people or our soldiers. That's what we're dealing with. So that's the latest update, I really hope that my speculation is incorrect. I really hope that Trump isn't just trying to buy time and get the military ready for a hot war with Iran. We'll wait and see. But if you listen to Douglas McGregor, who used to be the man giving Trump foreign policy advice in his first term, things are not looking good. Let's just put it that way. So let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk a little bit about how these wars and the debt that comes along with them has persuaded various Trump administration officials to get us to work longer to pay down that debt. We'll be right back.

Selectic Miscellaneous writes in in our t.yt.com member section. Hi all, happy Monday, or if Anna is going to be talking about bad bunny, I guess it's hoppy Monday. Jake's not here, so someone needs to do the dad jokes. No one needs to do that. I get enough of the dad jokes at home with my husband, who's like maybe the top dad joke sayer without being a dad in the world. Winston Smith, the second, the second, says, who does Comer think he's kidding? He knows her invoking the fifth was part of her deal. Yeah, yeah. The idea that she be granted clemency is one of the most insulting things I've heard in a long time. She should be in a maximum security facility for the rest of her life.

She should never see the outside of a jail cell or prison cell ever. Yeah. All right, Nevinik says, I love the artistic element, symbolism and the message. This is about the bad bunny performance. I knew who he was, but wasn't familiar with his music, would have been nice to know the songs. So it's funny because I didn't, I'm not like a huge bad bunny fan, but there are a few of his songs that I do really, really love. And I like practice salsa or cha-cha to them. And he sang all of them yesterday. So it was great.

I personally really enjoyed it, but I'll give you more detailed thoughts in the bonus. episode for our members. All right, Delaware Dragon says, yeah, no clemency deal for Maxwell, why would anyone fall for that? She could clear both Trump and Clinton, but doesn't clear herself? Right. By the way, by saying I could clear Trump and Clinton, I mean, that's already a red flag that she's, she's only gonna protect certain people, you know.

All right, let's go to our super chats. We have D Blong who says, Anna, I'm curious to know who is running the sex trafficking ring since Epstein's death because I'm certain it didn't die with him. I don't know. I don't know about that. I wouldn't be surprised either, but who knows? Here's what I do know. Our government really has no interest in looking into that.

And we should ask why. That's the bigger issue here. Timmy D's says, Iran can limit its missiles once Israel limits its ability to attack Iran. The entire issue here is that Iran does not bow to Israel. Exactly, that's 100% correct. And honestly, when you look at Israel's behavior, could you really blame any country in that area wanting to have deterrence or wanting to have a ballistic missiles program? Like the idea that every country in the Middle East needs to be demilitarized on behalf

of Israel so they can continue expanding and stealing land is stupid. Everyone should see it for what it is. Belligerent, disgusting country. It is such a stain on this country's reputation that we are aligned with them. Such a stain. Anyway, all right. Let's get back to the show. I need a few seconds.

All right, folks, we're moving and grove in. Now, if you're not already riled up by the news that I've shared with you, buckle up, because this will rile you up. If we could get the average American, because they feel healthy, they're vital, they're strong. They have agency over their future. To start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or work a year later, not retire, or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion. $3 trillion to the U.S. economy.

That would more than remove the debt. Why should average Americans have to pay for problems created by Washington? And you can see that the national debt could also be eliminated by taxing the ultra-rich? Yeah, that could happen. You know, we could just increase the social security tax cap so wealthy people are paying into the system more. But no, that's not what Dr. Oz would like to do. Okay, Mehmet Oz would like us to work longer, would like ordinary working class Americans to retire later, begin working earlier so we can pay down the national debt.

lovely, lovely. So for all of the Israel supporters who are watching the show right now, and you think it is justified to take out debt, that's what the U.S. does, take out debt, and hand it over to Israel so they can commit atrocities, understand that there are consequences to ordinary Americans when we do that. When our national debt continues to rise, when we are spending a trillion dollars a year on simply servicing that debt, simply paying the interest on that debt a year, every year.

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Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close to you, call 1-8665331-2-60 or visit Connexonterio.ca. ...of breaking international laws and has committed a genocide. Consider it. Anyway, for reference, let's take a quick look at the national debt, shall we? Because currently, it is now way past the $38 trillion. And that costs quite a bit of money. Okay, so if we were to pay that down, I mean, that amounts to $112,715 of debt per U.S. citizen.

That is insane, absolutely crazy. So this is according to us, debt clock.org. And so those numbers were the numbers as of 10 a.m. this morning Pacific time. Now that comes out to $350,000 per taxpayer. So per the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the U.S. is spending about $3 billion per day on servicing the national debt. So who's to blame for this mountain of debt? We should understand how we got here in the first place. And the Uniparty is definitely to blame.

This is not a Democrat or Republican thing. There has been outrageous, irresponsible spending on things that we should not be. spending on under both Democratic administrations and Republican administrations. Democratic presidents have added a total of $18 trillion to the national debt since 1913, adjusted for inflation, while Republicans have added $17.3 trillion. Do you guys understand the theater, the kabuki theater of partisan politics in America? Because I really need you to internalize it. I get it, there are differences when it comes to the manufactured culture wars.

I get that. And they certainly have a vested interest in keeping ordinary Americans divided based on BS. But when it comes to stuff like this, they are united. Look at this graph. What a fun graph to look at, right? This graph represents the national debt. And so it shows you the outstanding debt of the U.S. government from 1970 to 2025. And you'll notice that, you'll notice that, that the slope of the graph starts increasing pretty steeply, okay? Right around the year 2000. Wow, what happened then? Well, that was the year George W. Bush took office, of course, and before long the US would launch its war on terror. You know, preemptive war and invasion in Iraq, why did we do that? Could it be that Israel

was goading us to go to war with Iraq under a false pretense of weapons of mass destruction and then failed to send a single IDF soldier, of course, but thousands of our soldiers died. And according to researchers at Brown University, 20 years of post-9-11 wars have cost the United States an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people. So if I were in Dr. Oz's position, rather than telling working-class Americans, they need to begin working earlier in life and retire later in order to pay down this debt. I would hit up the government of Israel and say, yo, maybe it's time for you to pay us. But that's not going to happen because our government is beholden to Israel.

Anyway, keep all of this in mind as you watch Dr. Oz defend his comments. There are many ways of dealing with the debt, but ultimately my agency, CMS, we don't just regulate, we're the payers, and we should be using the money we pay out to save lives and improve the quality of life of the American people by making them healthier. If we do that, we unlock Wolf the greatest asset we have as our people, right? It's not the energy we have under our turf. It's not all these other things we might quibble about. It's the people of America that are our richest asset.

If we make our people healthier, they don't want to participate in life. You shouldn't work longer because you have to. You should work longer because you want to. You should retire, but you won't. Why not? Because you love the job and you're good at it. You shouldn't retire? No, I know, in theory.

I still wake up every morning and look forward to reporting the news. That's what you want. You want to be here because you love it. If people get out of high school and we don't hold them back for being able to get a job and get involved in the work economy, if we don't provide ways for folks to leave the workforce or they're forced to because they don't feel well because we're making them healthier. And if they want to work longer into their lives, I don't want to retire.

I'm 65, right? Why would we retire? We want to do more and we want to live the dreams that we still have. And that's what America should seek. Who's holding high school graduates back from getting a job? job out of high school. What is like what was that point that was does he live in reality? Like I don't think he knows what the lives of ordinary people in this country look like. What was that? Okay, anyway, besides that, you shouldn't work longer because you have to.

He said that while he is advocating for Americans retiring later in life so we can pay down the national national debt. First of all, that is not a solution to whatever issues we might have with funding Social Security. And guess what? Well, I'm sure Wolf Blitzer loves his job and wants to work. I don't even know how old he is. I mean, he might be in his retirement years already. Who knows? Whatever. It doesn't matter. I don't care what Wolf Blitzer wants to do. I don't care what some hedge fund manager wants to do or how long or late into his life he wants to work. Okay, there are a lot of people who do jobs that go beyond sitting at a desk and looking at a computer all day or speaking in front of a camera.

By the way, I have a job that's not physically taxing, right? I wish it was a little more physically taxing. I could use the exercise, but like I don't want to do this past 65. I don't know if I want to do this past 45, okay? People should have the option at 65 to retire and do nothing if they want. Absolutely nothing. People at 65 should have the ability to walk away from their career and pursue something that they're actually passionate about, but they know doesn't make much money, but they're gonna be okay because they're in their retirement years. They built that

nest egg. Okay, having government officials tell the American people that they need to work more, that they need to work longer in order to clean up the mess our government, government put us in is infuriating. And if you happen to be an American watching this right now and you're infuriated by it, let these politicians know. Let them know. Because I promise you, if people don't speak out and if they don't push back aggressively, what you're hearing from Dr. Oz is the AB testing that Jenk talks about when it comes to the Trump administration on the show, right? Just testing the waters.

Let's see what will happen if we suggest raising the retirement age to who knows what they want to raise it to at this point. And I think the overwhelming response from the American people should be suck it. And no, we aren't gonna retire later. We've done enough. And for God's sake, please stop sending our money to Israel. Please, please stop taking out debt to support a genocidal regime. Is that too much to ask for? I guess it is, I guess it is, but we're gonna keep doing it anyway.

Anyway, all right, we've got some time. So I wanna move on to a fascinating discussion that Tucker Carlson had with Ray Dalio. He is a hedge fund manager and he's one of the hedge fund managers who, you know, says things about our current economic situation that I actually value because I think he has some interesting insights here. So without further ado, let's get to it. So where are we now, given the five factors that you outline, where is the United States, or even really the West, will include Europe in this very familiar cycle of rise and fall? The United States is the strongest power, which has been in relative decline. So we are at what I would call stage five in a six-stage cycle. The sixth stage is when there's a breaking down of these orders. We're not the six-stage. there yet, but we are close to their and headed in that type of direction. Goody, really looking forward to that.

Well, President Donald Trump has just nominated a new chair for the Federal Reserve. And in order to understand whether this individual would, you know, foster an economy favorable to working class Americans, I really do think it is worth hearing from Ray Dahlio's recent discussion on monetary policy. because that's what the Fed deals with, monetary policy. Now, Dahlio, who's a billionaire hedge fund manager, explains that the United States is on the brink of a real crisis. Take a look. What does a breakdown look like?

What does stage six look like? Well, from the monetary point of view, it is that the demand for the reserve currency. is not sufficient to meet the supply. You are seeing a movement by central banks and countries to hold gold as an alternative reserve currency, partially because of that supply demand situation, and partially because they worry that there may be a payment. problem. So in other words, other countries perceive a risk in holding dollars because, well, for lots of reasons, but one of them is, like, if the United States government at the time

doesn't like you, they can grab your dollars. That's right. So it's not worth it. Right. And it's a, it's a risk that both the debtor and the creditor have to each other. So in this portion of the discussion, Tucker and Dahlia are talking about two different things that are relevant, right? So on one hand, you know, they, in the very end there, they were discussing the U.S. sanctioning a country that holds U.S. dollars, and when that happens, they lose access to those U.S. dollars. And so other countries on the international stage might be wary of holding U.S. dollars, knowing that the U.S. at any moment can just decide to sanction you and deprive you of those resources. There's another thing happening, though, at the same time.

Now, when we talk about the U.S. being in debt, what does that mean? Well, you have other countries or investors, for instance, buying U.S. debt through treasury bonds. That's what treasury bonds are. So when you're buying U.S. bonds, you're providing liquidity to the federal government, which you could then use for whatever reason. But the U.S. is supposed to pay you back with interest. Okay? So if you guys have been paying attention to some of the credit rating related news when it comes to the U.S. economy, you'll notice that, you know, we've been dinged in the Moody's

credit rating, for instance, and it's because of the volume of debt the United States has accumulated, you know, over $38 trillion at this point. So that makes investors a little bit, A little bit scared to buy U.S. bonds because they're worried that maybe we're getting to a point where the U.S. can't be trusted to pay back. Okay, so there's that fear as well. So you are seeing this trend now where various countries, various investors, instead of investing in the U.S. dollar, they're investing in gold or silver. Okay, that's been a big story. So when we talk about the Federal Reserve printing money, Dahlio is about to outline exactly what we mean by that. So take a look. The United States can feel vulnerable if they can't sell enough of those bonds to others, if the demand isn't, because then interest rates would have to rise because of the supply demand, too much supply relative to the main. To make it more appealing to buyers.

Yes. And also to cut the demand for credit. In other words, if the price rise, then people will borrow less and so on. And that then has the effect of mechanically slowing down the economy that produces that result. Then what happens is then the central bank comes in and it prints money and it buys the debt, which depreciates the currency. So if foreign countries don't want to buy your debt, And your central bank decides we're going to print more money and buy our own debt with it, which is what we're doing.

Wouldn't the people doing that stop and say, wait a second, this sounds like an electric windmill. Like, what are we doing here? This sounds crazy. They're stuck. They're stuck. They're stuck. So the monetary policy that they're talking about is specifically referred to as quantitative easing. And quantitative easing is a Federal Reserve policy that was implemented on state.

steroids following the 2008 economic crisis. So the balance sheet for the Federal Reserve really exploded during that time. And it distorted the market. So there are consequences when the Fed prints money. Okay, obviously it devalues the dollar. And Dahlio is about to explain that and more in this next clip. So just take a quick listen and understand how royally effed we are. And then the central bank buys that.

And then the central bank, now it owns all these treasuries. And then the central bank starts losing money because they own the treasuries. And then they're going up. So they have to produce the money and credit to keep that rate down. And they lose more and more money. And that dynamic then doesn't stop the change in the capital. That's why you and then traditionally in all of these cases you see a move to the hard money to move to gold, okay, as we're seeing. You see that dynamic in terms of that move to gold and then it starts to run its course.

So it's very much like think about what happened from 71 through the 70s produces more stagflation. And then at some point the inflation problem or the devaluation of money problem becomes such that the central bank then tightens money and so on. The Volker years. The Volker years, 1979, 80, 81, 82, right? So the pendulum swings. So the pendulum swings, these cycles seem to be happening more frequently.

And you have stackflation, the devaluation of the dollar, and then the tightening of credit. That's what we have to look forward to, especially if you're a working class American, this is not the type of cycle that you benefit from, I think needless to say. So this discussion is relevant, super relevant to our current economic cycle, but it's also very relevant at this moment because of Trump's nomination of a new federal reserve chair. Okay, so Kevin Warsh is his name. His last name is fun to say Warsh, not Walsh, Warsh.

And he was on the Fed board before. In fact, he was on the Fed board during the 2008 crisis. He served on the board from 2006 to 2011. Now, he supported the unprecedented money printing as the Fed's response to the credit crisis that resorted from the 2008 economic crash. Okay, and that doubled the Federal Reserve's balance sheet. So in this next video, you are about to hear Warsh explain his rationale for flooding the system with liquidity by printing money. You were on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors during the financial crisis of 2008, which led to the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression and unemployment in this country of 10%.

Let me give you some sense of the magnitude of the Fed's action between the first and second quarter of 2008. the Fed's balance sheet, measure of the supply of reserves in the banking system, the balance sheet doubled in the space of a quarter from a trillion to two trillion. But first tell me why you supported that dramatic infusion of money into the markets in 2008. The job of the central bank is to show up with all sorts of money. There's that dirty word again and get those markets to function, not to set prices, but to make sure that buyers, and sellers could clear, and the central bank was there to provide liquidity when no one else would. It was an emergency. Right. So you're prepared to cross more lines than you would in benign times.

It was an emergency. Now, the interviewer there mentioned how the Federal Reserve's balance sheet increased from $1 trillion to $2 trillion. Two trillion. Oh, Edwin is here on stage right now. And it's just It's like, oh my God, it's a lot of money. You want to know what the balance sheet for the Federal Reserve is today? $6.5 trillion. Yeah. So what is Warsh planning to do should he be confirmed as the next chair of the Federal Reserve? Well, interestingly enough, he is on the record saying that he's concerned about the Fed's

balance sheet. He is worried about that $6.5 trillion. So he wants to do quantitative tightening. Right, quantitative easing is the policy that we've been discussing. Tightening means, you know, you start decreasing your balance sheet from the 6.5 trillion. Okay, but here's the thing that's really interesting about him. He knows that that is going to spark a crisis. And his whole reasoning here is let the crisis happen.

And when the crisis happens, that's when we come back in and do massive quantitative easing. That's what happened after 2008. And that happened to the detriment of ordinary Americans. Now, if you look at charts, you'll see that wealth inequality, that gap really widened, thanks to that policy. Because the halves, they've got the money to buy up assets on the cheap during that crisis. The rest of the American people suffer.

And the Federal Reserve printing more money only devalues the dollar. further. So I just, this is a disaster of epic proportions. I don't know how to fix it. This is definitely not my expertise and it's above my pay grade. But I'm smart enough to understand how disastrous this is and how Warsh, based on what he claims he would do, should he be confirmed as Fed share, is going to make the situation worse because he's just going to repeat exactly what the Fed did after 2008. So that's how the game is played here. And make no mistake about it, the wealthy never miss an opportunity to take advantage of a financial crisis.

So that does it for our first hour. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back for the second hour, we'll talk about the various calls to fire Howard Ludnik, our commerce secretary. Why? We're not to come back and I'll tell you. And if you're not angry about that, Michael, and any of you out there, then you're damn wrong, because you should be angry. Young Turks.

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If President Obama's doing the wrong thing, I'm not going to tell you that he's doing the right thing so I can quote support him. He says to me, you won't believe the meeting that I just have. The head of MSNBC talked to me. They want him off the air. Jake took an incredible risk. We're supposed to challenge the government. That's the role of the media. the media. The Democrats and the Republicans are here to screw you. And who on the air is saying it?

I wouldn't have done what he did. That if I'm going to be a talk show host, I should be the biggest talk show host in the country. I don't think anyone else does it better. I don't think anyone's even close. Before you know it, I'll be back on your TV doing a national show. I guarantee it. Magic is showtime and say 45 minutes. I'm hosting today. Now I know what you're thinking, Jay, your face is already perfect, but you know what? I still need to apply some makeup. I went through this process, right? A few years ago,

when I realized that I was going to have to put makeup on the show. I had to go through, like, finding out what my undertones were. You guys know what those are? I got my mad cousins. It says Mbb, SPF-15 foundation, broad spectrum. But apparently what I have is red undertones, and I think pores are not supposed to be seen. I need all these things to be confirmed with me.

These bunch of things don't work for me. You got to use your hands. this idea. That's how the magic really happened. So we're going to go through a tutorial. How to make the magic happen from beautiful to beautiful earth. Let's go. I'm already been moisturized. That's the first thing. The moistureization already happened. We go raw, all hands. We go a couple streaks. This is the guy we're putting on makeup. We got dots. There's some shining points that generally happen. First of all, here we go. You dust here. I'm putting way too much, for you dust.

Oh, get the excess off. You don't want chunky powder. There's like a T zone, I think, right? Mine is a double T zone. Because I want middle and another cross. Make sure your nose isn't all shiny. People get on you for it. You don't say, it's not a good point you made on there, JR.

Your nose is shiny. You guys are picky like that sometimes. I think that's about it, fellas. And ladies, see you guys next time. Bincey's. There was a point where I did want to throw hands, but I'm bigger than you. I know you are, but what am I? Back to the show.

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That was top of the show. But I do want to revisit the topic because, well, there are growing calls for a specific Trump administration official to either resign or be fired. And that person is Howard Lutnik. Let's get to why. Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said that he and his wife decided around 2005 to cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein. But the latest release shows that there was some correspondence.

After that, even after Epstein pleaded guilty to sex crimes in 2008, what questions do you have about Lutnik's ties to Epstein and should he come before Congress and testify? No, he should just resign. Lutnik is a liar. I mean, he's a U.S. politician, so would anyone really be surprised by that? But look, in this case, it turns out our Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik lied about something pretty big, and it's associated with the Epstein scandal. So over the weekend, Congressman Thomas Massey, a Republican, stated that Howard Ludnik should step down.

And I fully agree. But I think it should go further than that. I think Howard Ludnik should be investigated because he lied to the American people about his relationship or the nature of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And also lied about when he cut off communication with Epstein. Why did he lie? Now, we'll give you all the details in a moment. But first, here's more of what Massey had to say. I mean, there are three people in Great Britain that have resigned in politics.

The ambassador from Great Britain to the United States. The prince lost his title for for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnik lie about. Look, Howard Lutnik clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein. And this was many years after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted, you know, lightly sentenced, but was convicted for sexual crimes. So he's got a lot to answer for, but really he should make life easier on the president, frankly, and just resign. If this were Great Britain, he'd already be gone. Unfortunately, this isn't Great Britain. I never thought I would say that. But in all honesty, we've seen a lot more movement with our friends over in the UK, as opposed to what we're

seeing here in the U.S. There have been investigations or calls for investigations into Prince Andrew. There have been calls for investigations when it comes to various U.S. politicians who have been named in the Epstein files, various Silicon Valley executives who have been named in the Epstein files. But nonetheless, Lutnik did lie to us. Lutnik and Epstein were neighbors for many years. That's not indicative of any type of criminality. So that alone doesn't, you know, incriminate Lutnik. However, last year, Lutnik stated that in 2005, 2005, so that is three years before Epstein pleaded guilty to trafficking a minor for sex. In 2005, Lutnik says that Epstein invited himself and his wife to visit his house. So Lutnik and his wife are going to visit Epstein for the first time in his home, their neighbors. Here's what Lutnik claims happened.

He invites us in. We have coffee in this. And he says, do you want a tour? We said, great. Interesting. He's got a really big house. Every room you went into? He's got, he's got, well, I'll tell you.

So his house is like super big, really wide. And so he gives me a tour in the living room, big living room. And then across from it is double doors. I assume it's the dining room. Yeah. And he opens the doors. And there's a massage table in the middle of the room. Oh.

And candles all. all around and stuff. So I ask very insightful cutting questions. I say to him, massage table in the middle of your house. How often you have a massage? And he says, every day. And then he like gets like weirdly close to me. And he says, and the right kind of massage. Now my wife is standing here. So she looks at me and I look at her and we say, I'm sorry, we have to go. And we left. And then they left. Okay.

Now, what's super relevant is what Lutnik claims happened after that. Watch. And in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again. So I was never in the room with him socially for business or even philanthropy. If that guy was there, I wasn't going because he's gross. He's gross. Does anyone, I mean, like, even if we didn't have the Epstein files, I would be suspicious.

because he sounds like he's lying, right? But you wouldn't have the confirmation. The files now give us confirmation that he's a liar. So by the way, last week, Lutnik stated once more that he spent zero time with Epstein after that, zero, zero. He wouldn't even do philanthropic work with him, never. He would go into business with him, though. We'll get to that in just a minute.

Now, the files do suggest otherwise, because in late 2009, Lutnik asked Epstein's assistant for Epstein's phone number. Remember, Epstein pleaded guilty as part of that sweetheart plea deal in 2008 to trafficking a minor for sex. So he's asking for Epstein's number in 2009. Fascinating, okay. It's unknown though if the two men spoke on the phone afterward. So we got to be fair and tell you what we know, what we don't know. Then in the spring of 2011, Epstein scheduled an appointment for drinks with Lutnik. I thought, I thought Lutnik thought Epstein was gross. What happened?

The record suggests the meetings were at Epstein's home and that Lutnik left something behind there. In December of 2012, there's more, oh, there's more. So September of 2012, Lutnik told Epstein that he and his family would be in the Caribbean. What happened? I thought it was gross. I thought you thought he was gross. Lutnik asked if they could visit Epstein during their stay. The two men scheduled a date and time for lunch. A day later, an assistant to Epstein forwarded Lutnik a message from Epstein, quote, nice seeing you, it said, which is evidence that they actually did in fact meet in person. Great.

There's more though, then you have the fall of 2015. Lutnik who was raising money that year for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, invited Epstein to attend a very intimate fundraising event for her at Cantor Fitzgerald's offices. Are we done though? Is that it? No, we're not done yet, there's more, there's more. So in 2017, Epstein donated to a charity event in Lutton. Lutnik's honor. What happened to no philanthropic work, not even that, not even that.

He's gross. Can we, can we cue up that video again, the gross one? Just because I love how effortlessly these goons lie to the American people. Finally in 2018, Epstein and Lutnik corresponded through Epstein's assistant about how to thwart a construction project in their neighborhood, not in my backyard. Lutnik wrote to Epstein, are you aware as to them building to block our park views? I do declare, what should we do about it? Time is of the essence. You know, when it comes to stopping a construction project, Howard Lutnik doesn't find Epstein so gross, does he?

But when it comes to what he wants the American people to believe, this is what he wants you to believe. And in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again. So I was never in the room with him socially for business or even philanthropy. If that guy was there, I wasn't going because he's gross. Except we now know that they met in person as recently as 2012 and continued corresponding as 2018. 2018 of course was when Epstein was arrested and the investigation into child sex trafficking

begun. And then in August of 2019, Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, allegedly because he committed suicide, something that I personally don't believe because there are too many inconsistencies around that narrative. So this whole Epstein scandal just keeps getting weirder and I would like for our Commerce Secretary to yes, resign or get fired. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. He should be investigated. What were you up to at the Caribbean island or was it the Caribbean that he said? No, sorry, yeah, they did go to the Caribbean. What were you up to at the Caribbean with Jeffrey Epstein? Curious. Anyway,

These people have no morals. They are not driven by principles. They are driven by self-interest and greed. And they are literally willing to do business with a well-known serial child rapist. And also lie to the American people about it. That's what's going on with Howard Ludnik. So yeah, I agree with Thomas Massey. In the very least, he should either be fired or resign, but I want him to be investigated.

If we actually believe in justice, all of these people who are willing to play patty cakes with a child rapist should be looked at the very least. Anyway, let's take a break. When we come back, we'll tell you about a Democratic mega donor whose name is littered all over the Epstein files. We'll tell you who it is when we return. So our social break, let's go to Gargoyle Dragon who says, MF, we don't want to work for you till we die. This is in response to the Dr. Oz, you should work later in life comments. You want to pay down the debt, then hold a raffle for a, oh, Simpa cabinet official, guarantee one million easy. S14P, I don't know, I don't know if that's a typo, but I understand your sentiment, and I

largely agree. Gargol dragon also says, a question, could President radical liberal socialist fire Trump's Fed chair and replace him? I don't think so. Remember, Trump really wanted to fire Jerome Powell, but the Federal Reserve is supposed to be somewhat independent from the executive branch. So he didn't end up doing it. So if, let's say a Democratic president comes in and decides to fire the Fed chair that Trump chose,

I'm sure it'll lead to like some sort of backlash or crisis, who knows? But I don't like the Federal Reserve, period. I think the Federal Reserve is an unelected body that does a lot of damage to the American people. Anyway, let's go to Knight of Mirage Odyssey, who says, I wonder if Ben Satan Yahoo is maybe secretly hiding in the rest of those Epstein files too. Well, remember, there are a lot of redacted names in the Epstein files. So there's a possibility that the files that we already have include Netanyahu, but we wouldn't know because names of powerful people, many of whom took part in the predatory garbage that Epstein was up to, their names are redacted. So I don't know. And we're not going to get any more files based on what

the DOJ has told us. So like some surprise elite at sex trafficking party sitting right next to his genocide trophy, you never know. Also from Night of Mirage Odyssey, screw Dr. Oz telling people to work forever until they drop dead from a hard. from heart disease, then our taxes supposedly come back to help us through ice brutality and sent to the genocidal regime, Israel, the biggest, the biggest Zionist scam. Yeah, I mean, people are furious. So I don't think it's going to work out so well for this administration if they really do push to increase the retirement age, especially after that so-called one big beautiful bill, which significantly slashed taxes for the rich. Yes, working class people.

got a break here and there. But comparatively speaking, that bill was a huge tax break for the wealthy. So you're going to talk to us about how ordinary Americans need to work longer in life, delay retirement to pay down the national debt when Trump and the Republicans in Congress, by the way, just significantly added to it through that tax bill. Come on, come on. Yeah, so that would lead to a lot of fury. And I don't blame people for being outraged by that. But make your voices known. Otherwise, this government will do whatever they think they can get away with. Let's get back to the show. To the show everyone, I want to read a comment that I actually just read during the social break,

but I read it incorrectly, and I want to make sure to read the appropriate message the way it was intended. So Gargill Dragon wrote it and said, we don't want to work for you till we die. This is in response to the Dr. Oz story that we covered. You want to pay down the debt, then hold a raffle for a slap, a cabinet official, guarantee $1 million easy. I agree, you'd probably be able to raise a lot of money by doing that. But one million isn't even, it does no damage to our national debt, like barely. So, but slapping a cabinet official, I do not condone violence.

I'll just put it that way, but if that were allowed, I would allow it. I would probably like put my name in the hat. All right, anyway, let's get to our next story. because we've got more that's been revealed in the Epstein files that's worthy of learning about. So let's get to it. One of the men mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein files is billionaire Democratic megadoner, Reid Hoffman. If you can remember, he donated quite a bit of money to Kamala Harris's campaign in the last

presidential election. Now, if you're unfamiliar with Hoffman, he was a member of the so-called PayPal Mafia. That's the group of highly influential tech barons who got their start at PayPal in the early 2000s. Now, Peter Thiel, who would later create Palantir is part of the PayPal Mafia. So is Elon Musk and Hoffman created LinkedIn. Now, I'm sure I'll shock you all when I say that all three of these men are mentioned in the Epstein files quite a bit. But today we're gonna focus specifically on Reid Hoffman, who has spent or has been at war specifically with Elon Musk over who was friendlier with Jeffrey Epstein. And let me just say, if you're already involved in that debate, you've already lost. You've already lost.

Okay, but I like that they're having this debate. They're doing it publicly, just totally oblivious to the fact that they both look real bad. Real bad. Okay. So now a 2014 email from the Epstein files connects both of these billionaires, Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman, to Epstein. So that year, Epstein wrote the following message to Elon Musk. Spoke to Reed Hoffman yesterday and are you planning to do St. Bart again for X-Miss or Christmas? Man. Visiting islands with Jeffrey Epstein during Christmas, this time, not a good look, but the whole point of that graphic was to show you that, you know, here you have Epstein speaking with Elon Musk and letting Elon Musk know, I just spoke with Reid Hoffman. Musk did respond with a simple don't know, all right? And that's not the only

time both billionaires come up in the files. So Epstein wrote the following to another billionaire, Tom Pritzker, in 2015. I had dinner with with Zuckerberg, Musk, Teal, Hoffman, Wild. And there was some visual evidence that said meeting took place, namely this, right? So in this image you see Mark Zuckerberg right there on the left hand side. You also see in the background Elon Musk.

So 2015, interesting. Now remember Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to trafficking a minor for sex. in 2008. So it's not like it was a big secret that Epstein was a disgusting pedophile. But nonetheless, you have all of these Silicon Valley goons meeting with him in 2015. Great. Okay.

So in the image, again, you can clearly see Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. It's amazing. So on several occasions, Epstein spoke directly with Reed Hoffman. So on Christmas Eve in 2014, for instance, Hoffman wrote an email saying he, he was he had sent Epstein to gifts, ice cream for him or for the girls, and something that may strike your funny bone for the island. Now we can only speculate what he meant when he referenced ice cream, but I find it hard to believe that a billionaire would need another billionaire to buy ice cream for him and the

girls. So was he talking in code there? I don't know. Was this appropriately investigated? Doubt it. But it should be investigated. Anyway, there's more. So weeks later in January of 2015, Epstein asked Hoffman whether the tech entrepreneur had sent him a metal sculpture. My gift to you, Hoffman wrote back, thought it might strike your sense of humor and have an appropriate nature to the island. What? So the Wall Street Journal did not name the journalist who made the sculpture, but they did report that the artist who made it creates depictions of little monsters from recycled metal. Let's go back to Graphics 6 now that we know the nature of the sculptures that are made by this particular artist. Weeks later in January 2015, Epstein asked Hoffman

whether the tech entrepreneur had sent him a metal sculpture. Might give him, to you, Hoffman wrote back, thought it might strike your sense of humor and have an appropriate nature to the island. And remember, the metal sculpture is made by an artist who likes to make sculptures of little monsters out of recycled metal. Now, in the same January 2015 exchange, Hoffman also told Epstein, been giving a bit of thought to how I can help with recent press FU. Mostly looking for help on the online front. Hmm, okay, so you're looking to help him. One year later in 2016, Epstein informed Hoffman's assistant that he had found Hoffman's misplaced passport.

Seems like they were much closer than Hoffman would have us believe, but anyway, found in the gift bag they had given me, Epstein wrote to Hoffman's assistant. And there's more, there's more, there's always more, of course. So Hoffman wished Epstein well in May 2018 and said looking forward to being in the same area of the world at some point with a happy face emoji. He suggested a Skype call to discuss Epstein investing in a fund to which Epstein replied, Always can make time for read Skype. Can you understand why there was such a intense cover up around the Epstein? files or the release of the Epstein files. So Hoffman even arranged to visit Epstein's Island and his New Mexico ranch.

And then final bit of evidence I'll share with you is this photo. So this photo is of Hoffman with Epstein on Epstein's Island. That's where they're at. Hoffman has insisted that his relationship with Epstein was strictly limited to fundraising for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Really, you visited the island for that purpose after Epstein had pleaded guilty to trafficking minors? Super suspicious.

So these are the power brokers and the elite in the United States. These are the people who buy our politicians. These are the people who secure tax breaks from Congress. These are the worst people among us. These are the people who look at a child sex predator and think, he's got an island. I like visiting it. Let me send him a metal sculpture of a monster because he'll find it real funny that

it's indicative of what transpires on the island I like to visit. It's disgusting. And if we lived in a country that cared about justice, cared about the difference between right and wrong, there would be an investigation. But we've already heard from Trump's DOJ that no such investigation will ever take place. No prosecution, nothing. Because this isn't a country for the people by the people.

This is a country that is run by the greediest, most predatory people imaginable. Partisanship doesn't matter. Left, right, doesn't matter. There had been a multi-decade cover up into this Epstein scandal. And you have a Democratic mega donor. hanging out with Epstein and lying to the American people about the nature of their relationship. Disgusting. Anyway, let's take a break when we come up, come back, I should say. We'll talk a little more about a different type of Fed cover up.

I'm sorry, we have to go. Thank you to KSHD Jack, who has suggested that we interview Michael Lester. Michael Lester, let me make a note so I don't forget that. All right, let's move on to some other comments in our members section. We've got hunted dragon who says, I love Anna Solo. Thank you. By the way, Jank is out of town for business-related matters. He will be back on Thursday, but I will be hosting the show solo Monday through Wednesday this week. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors.

Neo Saturn 69 says, I bet they will start pushing for a six-day work week. Saturn, I don't know, I don't know where you've been at, but a lot of Americans already work six day work weeks. I'm one of them. P.B. Net Enger says, Anna, that is also the time frame when China was granted membership to the World Trade Organization and companies moved their manufacturing to China, closing U.S. factories, and laying off labor workers. Yeah, no, I mean, that is definitely true. We moved to financialize our economy, and I don't think it really did, bode well for ordinary people. Anyway, Disrupt Daily says Iran's foreign minister described the Gaza crisis as genocide in a keynote speech at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, calling for comprehensive sanctions.

I did see that and obviously I agree with those statements. CDN Norse Dogdad, thank you for gifting a TYT membership. Let's move over to our Twitch subs where Octo Squitty says Oprah needs to be indicted for releasing Oz and Dr. Phil. and all the trickle down decimation of America from their actions. She did popular popularize those two. There's no question about that. Third shift zombie says the federal in federal reserve is meant to fool us into thinking that it's a government agency, but it is not a government agency. It's an unelected body of people who cause real harm to Americans based on the decisions they make. So yeah,

I've got issues with the Federal Reserve, there's no question. Pichi Shari says, he says gross like a 13 year old. I know, he says gross like a liar. Like honestly, sounds like a valley girl who's lying to you. Because he's gross. It's gross. I've now heard that like audio a billion times and it's amusing every time I hear it because it's so obvious he's lying.

Okay, let's go to old dancer dragon who says there's a YouTuber called Lauren the mortician who discusses odd happenings in the mortuary business. She's funny and really enjoyable to watch. One of her vids describes the unusual look of the most common pick of early Epstein's head on the gurney and how it does not really look like he's dead. So there is a theory that Epstein isn't dead. I know it sounds crazy, but I'm at a point now where, I mean, the conspiracy theories, Theorists have been proven right so many times.

Like I, who the hell am I to say there's no way? I, so I'm not gonna pour cold water on it. Possible, total possibility, honestly. There are other files that I need to corroborate and confirm, but it also kind of reinforces the notion he's still alive. Anyway, let's get back to the show. He's gross. Back to TYT, it's our last segment before we head on over to the member's only bonus

episode. So if you're a member, you can look forward to that. I will be talking about the Super Bowl and more importantly, Bad Bunny's performance and the reactions to it. I'm really looking forward to talking about that. So t.yt.com slash join to become a member if you aren't one already. All right, without further ado, let's get to our next story because I want to talk about a federal cover up of a different sort. So we're moving off the Epstein topic to talk about something entirely different, although cover up is involved. So in an explosive report, the New York Times reveals that the Trump administration intervened to stop prosecutors from investigating the fatal ice shooting of Renee Nicole Good in

Minnesota. Now we had already suspected that that's what was going on. Now we have confirmation thanks to this report. It indicates that hours after Renee Good was shot senior federal prosecutor, Joseph Thompson sought a warrant to search your SUV. Now, that is the most normal, usual thing imaginable, okay? So the request is standard protocol in a civil rights investigation, which typically happens after, you know, law enforcement fatally shoots and kills an American citizen. And so the whole point is to see if Jonathan Ross's use of force was justified. Jonathan Ross being the ice agent who opened fire and killed Renee Good.

This is a common procedure after shootings involving law enforcement. Again, it bears repeating. Now, some believe that a civil rights investigation could establish that the ice agent had a reasonable fear for his life when he opened fire as Good's car began lurching toward him. The sort of police shooting investigators consider awful but lawful. So I want to be clear, like the civil rights. investigation, like the whole point is to find out what happened.

And by doing so, there's a possibility it would clear the ICE agent's name, right? There's also a possibility that it wouldn't. We don't know because the investigation hasn't happened because it turns out it wasn't allowed to happen. Okay, so others suggested that such an investigation might find otherwise or even that the failure of agents to provide medical aid too good after the shooting might be deemed a civil rights violation. The only purpose of the federal government, and I think everyone regardless of political affiliation or identity agrees with this, the only real purpose for the government is to protect its citizens. When you have a situation in which the government carries out the killing of American citizens,

and then proceeds to engage in a cover up or prevent an investigation into said killings. That's when you know your government's not working for you. That's a problem. At least it should be looked upon as a problem. But we are divided based on the way our media frames every political issue in this country. So we're now at a point where Americans are stupidly rooting for the death of others, of other fellow Americans depending on what their political identity is. And I would like to get us out of that culture yesterday.

We have to get out of that culture. It's a dangerous place to be. And I'm terrified of what the future holds when we were already at a point when Americans are cheering for the deaths of other Americans based on their political views. And by the way, it does not escape me that some of that did happen with Randos' online after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, assassinated. Don't celebrate that stuff, okay? You're celebrating the destruction of this country.

And I mean, there's that, right? So there's like a selfish component to it. Like how about we want to live in a good country. We don't want to root for government agents or assassins to kill our fellow Americans for whatever reason. But more importantly, put the greedy reason, the selfish reason, aside, it's immoral. It's just wrong and you don't look good when you do it. Anyway, let me continue. As we know, this investigation never happened, right? As soon as FBI agents obtained the warrant to search goods car, they said orders came from senior officials,

including Cash Patel, to stop, okay? The officials, according to the Times, were worried that the investigation would contradict Trump's narrative that good, and I'm quote, voting Trump here, violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer. I got news for you. The video that we've all seen already contradicts what Trump said about good running over the officer. No such thing happened. Over the next few days, DOJ officials attempted to suggest alternative approaches to an

investigation. First, they suggested prosecutors ask a judge to Sign a new search warrant for the vehicle predicated on a criminal investigation into whether the U.S. immigration and customs enforcement agent who shot Ms. Good, Jonathan Ross, had been assaulted by her. So that's the jumping off point. That's the starting off point for the investigation. Start the investigation by looking into whether she assaulted him.

Later they urged the prosecutors to instead investigate Good's partner. who had been with Ms. Good on the morning of the shooting, confronting immigration agents in the Minneapolis neighborhood. So don't investigate the ICE agent who opened fire and killed an American citizen. Investigate her partner instead. Now look, I'm open-minded, and I'd be willing to maybe consider an investigation into Good's wife. She was on the scene. She was being provocative on purpose, I don't think she's the biggest issue here though. And if we lived in a world where there was a real civil rights investigation taking place that would include looking into Jonathan Ross's conduct, okay, you want to take a gander

at what Good's partner was up to? You can make an argument justifying that. But you can't make an argument justifying that when the very person who opened fire and killed an American citizen, is not being investigated at all and was cleared of any wrongdoing on the day that he opened fire and killed good. So Chris Medell, who is a prominent Minnesota defense attorney who provided legal advice to Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent after the shooting occurred, actually supports conducting a civil rights investigation because it's the right thing to do.

It is the right thing to do. What is the Trump administration afraid of? I mean, if they stand by the notion that Jonathan Ross didn't do anything wrong, then the civil rights investigation would bear that out, right? Are they worried that it wouldn't bear that out? Is that why they squashed an investigation into this? But anyway, going back to the lawyer I was referring to earlier who gave Jonathan Ross advice, legal advice after the shooting took place, he says,

In the absence of an independent use of force investigation, you lead the public to believe that there must be something to hide. Bingo. Nailed it. So for all the people who are losing their minds over Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl because he's been critical of ISIS conduct, are we not allowed to be critical of ISIS conduct? Being critical of ISIS conduct doesn't mean you hate America. It means you see flaws and you want to make the country better. Federalized or militarized federal agents roaming our streets and killing American citizens is not what I think most Americans were looking forward to with the Trump administration, especially when it came to his promises of deporting dangerous criminals. I don't think most people signed up for Americans to be shot and killed in their own neighborhoods on the streets. That's what we've got.

Anyway, final story for you, this is a positive one because the Israel lobby is struggling a bit, and we have our first real indication of that. Let's talk about it. The pro-Israel lobby may have just scored one of the biggest own goals. I love saying that. Own goals in political history, we are so here for it. So thanks to APEC and their allies, a progressive who has publicly accused, the Israeli government of carrying out genocide in Gaza, maybe on her way to a congressional

seat. So moderate Democrats are real upset about this. They're angry with the lobby for doing this. So let's give you the detail. So the race we're talking about here is New Jersey's 11th district, which held a special election primary or special primary election for a seat that was vacated by Governor Mikey Sherrill. So the top candidates were Tom Malinowski. We've talked about him a little bit on the show before. He is a hardcore Zionist and Israel supporter. He just made the grave mistake of saying, maybe we should condition our aid to Israel.

You know, he didn't even say that they're committing a genocide, nothing like that. I mean, they are committing a genocide. But he's like, maybe it's not a good idea to just like give a country. weapons without asking any questions or having any concern about what they do with the weapons. Now, Tahisa, Tahisha Way was also a top candidate, a former lieutenant governor who was endorsed by the Democratic majority for Israel, so not interested. And then you have Anna Lillia Mejia, who's the progressive in the race. So she worked on Bernie's 2020 presidential campaign and had the backing of AOC.

and Elizabeth Warren. Now, during a candidate forum just last month, Mejia, the progressive, was the only person in the race who raised her hand when asked if she agreed with human rights groups that Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza. So in other words, she had the correct answer to that question. Good for her. But instead of going after Mejia, interestingly enough, the APAC funded United Democracy project spent $2 million on ads attacking.

Malinowski despite his longstanding support for Israel and the fact that he has a pro-Israel record. So why did they do that? It's because he had that audacity to say, maybe we should consider conditioning military aid to Israel. And what the Israel lobby did was essentially send a message, you're either with us 100%, okay, there can be no daylight between you and the the Israel lobby and what Israel wants. And if there's any indication that you're moving away, you know, like Charlie Kirk was doing in the last few months of his life, there will be consequences, right? So it's amazing.

So but it was a Brit, look, Malinowski told a group of supporters in January the following. Let me give you his exact statement. I committed one sin in their minds, I was not willing to tell them that I would unconditionally, blindly support any request for assistance that Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel might make. That point puts me in the mainstream, not just of all Americans, but of the Jewish and pro-Israel community in this country. They're not willing to say, I'll do anything without thinking. Now for that grave sin, A PAC funded ads against him. That had nothing to do with Israel, by the way, because if they attacked him for wanting to condition aid to Israel, that would actually help him.

Okay, that would actually help him. So they attacked him for a 2019 vote that he took in part, providing funding to immigration and customs enforcement. And now it looks like APAC's efforts have majorly backfired, which is great. So instead of boosting their own preferred candidate, they ended up sinking Malinowski enough for Mejia to take the lead. So let's take a look at this graphic, the race still hasn't been called, but as it stands right now with 29.1%, Mejia is 868 votes ahead of Malinowski, and Tahisha,

yeah, Tahitia Way is in a distant third at 17.3% of the vote. Okay, so it's a comfortably blue district, so the winner of the primary is widely seen to be the winner of the general election. So that's, that means it's very likely that Mejia is going to win that congressional seat. Okay, so a long time New Jersey Democratic strategist said of the race, I love this, as good a race as Mahia ran, as good a candidate as she is, let me be clear, APAC created this race for themselves in a way only they can. They spent millions of dollars beating back a moderate Democrat to get themselves a progressive that is totally outside the frame that they would like. And now other moderate corporate Democrats are furious and they're calling out A-PAC.

It's so fun. Let them fight. The girls are fighting. So Matt Bennett, the co-founder of Democratic of the Democratic think tank third way, which is awful, called this one of the great own goals in the history of American politics, unbelievably dumb. It's pissing people off, said Steve Shale, a long time Democratic strategist and former Obama campaign advisor who described it as maddening. I'm really taking my time with this story because I love it. So even steadfast allies of AAC are upset because this was a dumb move. Okay, so you have Brad Schneider of Illinois, a longtime AAC supporter. He says that the actions in New Jersey, in the New Jersey primary raised eyebrows,

which isn't a strong statement, but let me give you more. He says, there's a chance that it's not going to. going to be a new dem that's in that seat, he said. Referring to the new Democrat coalition, the useless centrist caucus, he leads in the house. Quote, as we do the analysis, a lot of factors play into that, but certainly any group spending against a candidate that would have been a new dem and instead electing a far right candidate, come on, guys, this is not what we're hoping for here. And guys, I want to be clear about something.

I know nothing about Mejia's platform. And I really don't care. The reason why I don't care is because right now, for me, one issue matters. And that issue is, do you support the genocidal state of Israel? Mejia doesn't, winner. If we don't decouple from Israel, this country has no future. And I mean that, I really mean that. So we'll see what happens in the general, but it is looking good for Mejia.

But UDP defended their actions. They're saying in a statement, the outcome of the New Jersey District 11 race was an anticipated possibility. And our focus remains on who will serve the next full term in Congress. UDP will be closely monitoring dozens of primary races. Well, we'll be closely monitoring you guys, including the June New Jersey 11 primary to help ensure pro-Israel candidates are elected to Congress. Well guys, we have to fight tooth and nail and work real hard to prevent those types of candidates from winning. Because they don't govern our country to benefit the American people. They do it at the detriment of the American people.

They're corrupt, easily bought. They don't give a damn about us. And it's time to boot them out of Congress. We don't need them. Anyway, bonus episode is next. We'll be talking about the halftime show at the Super Bowl, the reactions to it and more. Don't miss it. We'll see you there. TYT.com slash join.