The Young Turks - Political Life Support - July 7, 2026

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

An exclusive report alleging that a woman who previously dated Graham Platner accused him of sexual assault is sending shockwaves through one of the country's most closely watched political races. No one in Washington knows whether or not Mitch McConnell is even alive following a huge medical scare at his home last month, while three tankers were struck in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening hopes for a return to normal shipping traffic. Thanks to today's sponsors: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Get 40% OFF the Ground News Vantage Plan when you sign up at ground.news/tyt Stay informed without the media spin at ground.news/tyt Visit www.sleep.me/tyt to get up to $255 off your Chilipad 2.0 with code TYT Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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God. I'm just Jake Huger Anna Kasparian with you guys on a lovely birthday for Anacusperian. Oh, come on. All right, and we've got a hell of a show for you guys. So is Mitch McConnell brain dead? And does anyone in Washington care? He's been. Yeah, I mean, wouldn't really make any difference.

That's actually a thing we're going to discuss on the show tonight. No, they love brain dead people. We will get to that later. And we'll tell you why they love them. Some shocking facts about the views of Jewish Americans on tonight's show. I can't wait to share that with you guys. Wars back on, you know, it's on again, off again. This is one of those on again moments.

We're bombing Iran as we speak. We'll explain all that. Grand Platner is of course in the news and reactions, some surprising reactions, some non-surprising reactions. And oh yeah, Israel's tour. torturing an innocent doctor to death. But we should send them more money. Okay, so having said that, let's start with Planner.

There's not a police report, correct? Correct me if I'm wrong. And there's not a legal case playing out here for due process to see itself through. So my question to you, given the very high standards, political has, before they write something like this and publish it, what aspects of, this story brought it to the level of publishable. We looked at messages that she had sent to others in the months after this happened through social media. But you were able to see those DMs?

She tried to recover those DMs. We did not, we were not able to review those DMs, but she described them to us. What the world is happening, Mika Brzezinski grilling the political reporter that reported the allegation against Grant Plattner, a shocking source of skepticism from there. She actually did a brilliant job. We'll show you more about that in a second. And she was tougher on the political reporting and the establishment reporting that a lot of progressive activists have been.

100%. So is Grant Platner going to drop out? We've certainly got details for you on that. If he does, who might be the next person online? And was he targeted? So a lot to discuss here. Anna's got the facts. So before we give you the details, I just want to say,

Graham Plattenger's candidacy was treated very differently from the typical centrist slash establishment types in the Democratic Party. As you just saw, Mika Brzeinski seems very skeptical of the latest reporting, which we're gonna get back to in just a second. James Carville, who is, I mean, part and parcel of the Democratic establishment, defended Grand Platiner prior to the latest allegations. So the establishment wasn't just flat out rejecting him. So I want you to keep that in mind as I give you the details of what's going on here.

Now the latest allegations have to do with a 41 year old main resident who used to date Graham Platner on again, off again for about two years. Her name is Jenny Rassikot and she claims that in late 2021, he allegedly entered her home when the door was unlocked. He was deeply intoxicated by her telling and forced himself on her while she told him to stop repeatedly. So her allegation, let's be very clear, is that Graham Platner entered her home when he wasn't invited and forcibly raped her. She says to Politico, quote, I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me. I remember the specific moment where I thought

to myself like, this is no longer my choice. Now, she previously described reckless and unsettling behavior by Platner in a New York Times article, but she didn't go in. into the detail, she refused to elaborate. She said she didn't want to do it, specifically because she didn't want to be known as a rape victim, okay? But she decided to do it a week before an incredibly important electoral deadline in this Senate race in Maine. Now Platner flat out denies the allegations, but it clearly looks like he is going to eventually drop out of this race because every person who endorsed him has now turned on him. Further, this is a statement from Graham Platterner's campaign, they say these allegations are very serious and Graham

vigorously denies them. They are also coached and coordinated by out of state establishment operatives. For a year, opponents of this campaign have thrown everything they can at Graham, calling him a Nazi, a war criminal, and a communist, none of it has been true, and this is no different. It's not, it is not a coincidence, they say, that this story comes a week before the ballot deadline, just as the previous false allegations came a week before the primary. Graham began his campaign to fight for a Maine where everyone is treated with dignity and where Mainers are put first. And no amount of desperate smears will stop this movement from seeing that vision through. Now, I want to just quickly get into what type of evidence

Politico relied on in order to publish this story, because these are serious allegations. So, Eracocat told Politico that she had exchanged text messages with Platner that night, telling him not to come over before he did come over, right? Now, she said that she wasn't in the mood for company. Later that evening, she said that she realized when she heard a sound at the stairs or on the stairs that he had let himself in, she left the door unlocked, which allowed for him to let himself in. Platter came up the stairs, she said, to where she was on a couch. He got on top of her and kept grabbing her, she said, while she repeatedly told him to stop

and that she wasn't interested. She said she smelled alcohol in his breath and believed he was almost blackout drunk because Plattener ignored her protests and continued to grab her after knocking over an antique sewing kit spilling small needles everywhere. Now she was apparently unable to produce the text messages or the direct messages that she allegedly sent to Platner, which Mika Brasinski drilled the Politico reporter on. So let's take a quick look at that. What do you have that actually connects this literally?

Graham Plotner to raping this victim? Yeah, she reached out to him the day after via Instagram and essentially, you know, told him that, you know, she didn't want to hear from again. She told them that morning as well. And, you know, we looked at messages that she had sent to others in the months after this happened through social media. But you were able to see those DMs? She tried to recover those DMs. We were not able to review those DMs, but she described them to us.

We also, long before he was a public, before he was a political candidate, we saw. her essentially explain to others that he was, quote, in her words, consensually careless, end quote. And were you able to see the interactions between Graham Platner and this alleged victim? Did you actually physically see them? Did she produce them for you? She was, she attempted to uncover them. She, but was unable to. Willie?

Okay. So let me give you some more detail into. to the political reporting and then I'll go to you, Jank. So they write that Rassikot had said that she waited several weeks until she got her period to ensure she wasn't pregnant, then sent Plattener a private message on Instagram saying that the encounter was not consensual and she did not want to hear from him ever again. She said she later deleted all texts and social media correspondence with Platner as she tried to move on from the assault and said she has not been able to recover Instagram messages.

she sent him about the incident. Now, what is the evidence then? Well, the strongest evidence that Politico was able to provide to justify their reporting where they're essentially, you know, accusing him of rape is the following. So there was an exchange between Rassikot and an acquaintance on Facebook. And I'm going to read you the relevant portions of their exchange. So the acquaintance says, what's his deal? Should I not fix up my friend assuming he's single?

Rassikot responds with, he can be charming and funny. And he's a decently intelligent person. He's not all bad, but I ended up in a bad situation with him. And I will just very politely call him consensually careless at times. How many of you guys are guilty of doom scrolling late at night on social media, looking at the news and then wondering why you can't fall asleep. Nothing pairs worse with trying to wind down than a bright screen lighting up your face and headlines playing on a loop in your head.

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Acquaintance says, I knew about the PTSD. And then she says he also lies. And then the acquaintance says forces him himself on people. I guess that's what she's trying to say. And then Rassikot later says, one thing that grossed me out after him and I had dated was that I saw his profile on OKCupid. And that site asks a lot of questions. And one of the questions was if your partner told you they had over 100 sexual partners,

what would your response be? And his response was that's not that many. So that super grossed me out thinking he's probably slept with a ton of people. Doesn't listen to you when drunk. Okay, that is the most significant evidence. And personally, as a woman, if someone raped me, I wouldn't call them consensually challenged. But maybe that's just the way she communicates. I don't know.

Further, there was a therapist that she spoke to recently about this alleged rape. from all the way back in 2021. So she didn't tell her therapist about it at the time. She didn't file a police report. She apparently told an ex-boyfriend who she started dating in 2022 about the incident, although she was very vague about it. The man who was granted anonymity out of concern for his personal privacy told Politico that she had told him bits and pieces about a bad experience with Platner before confiding

the full details of what happened in 2023. That's the other piece of evidence that maybe you can point to. But I don't know. Everyone has withdrawn their endorsement of Platner. And I think the allegations are suspicious. I'm just going to say it. I think Platner's tattoo and his explanation of how he handled the tattoo after realizing it was a Nazi tattoo was way more problematic than these claims.

That's my thought. Okay, there are two different issues here. Was he targeted? What does it mean to be targeted? And then did he actually do this specific allegation? So you've got to separate those two things out, and they're both relevant. So first of all, the media never talks about this thing that everyone in politics knows about because it would make them kind of complicit in some of the games that are played. It's called oppo research, opposition research. So there are different groups that do opposition some research and then they hand it over to the media.

So the groups that are doing clearly have an agenda and this is now bipartisan. It's not like Democrats don't do opposition research. Progressives do it but super weak in my opinion. Almost never do they actually put any elf behind it and besides which when establishment figures give up or research to the mainstream media, they love it, the media loves it and immediately prints it and that's relevant to this case. If progressives give it to them, they don't print it. And they look it over a billion times and say it didn't meet their standards.

That's why Mika presents these questions there were really interesting. She's like, this meant your standards? Your evidentiary standards? So let's start with, now when you move over, we'll come back to who might have targeted him. But was he targeted? There's no question. I mean, you'd have to be brain dead. You'd have to be Mitch McConnell not to see that he was targeted.

It was one thing after another, his tattoos, his Reddit post, his every girlfriend is contacted by the New York Times, why? And then one woman comes out who basically does Apple research for the Republicans, and she says he did something for me. And who defended Brett Kavanaugh when Christine Blasey Ford came forward with, I think, far more credible allegations against Kavanaugh, because there were several people she spoke to at the time of the alleged rape attempt by Kavanaugh. So this is the media's like seventh attempt or something to end Graham Platner's campaign.

If you think these are just, oh, well, he's so problematic, they're just organically popping up. That's not true at all. That is definitively not correct. There are groups who try to take out candidates. It is relatively normal, although it's never talked about in the press, because remember, the press doesn't do their own job. These groups do. And then the question is, who does the press choose to target?

Who do they choose to write the stories about? Who do they choose to not write the stories about? But we're gonna come back to the essence of this case in a second. Anna. I just have so many thoughts about this, so bear with me as I go through them all, okay? I loathe horse race politics specifically because of this reason. Because it places us in this unbearable position of having to adjudicate something that should have been adjudicated in a court of law if this actually took place.

If someone entered my home and forcibly raped me, I would not allow the individual who forcibly rape me. That's violent, right? To remain in my home and sleep it off. But that is what she did. She alleges that he was so drunk that she didn't want to tell him to leave because he might harm someone on the road. He's just forcibly raped you, right?

Call the cops, or more importantly, get the hell out of the house. She did neither one of those things. Neither one of those things. Yeah, so look, again, I hate the situation we're in where we have to try to adjudicate this with not enough evidence. Could it be that she's telling the truth? Of course it could be. Now guys, if it's true, if it's true, then it's a huge problem, right?

But we don't know for sure that it's true. But in a situation like this, even if you say you're not sure that it's true, that's it. People come and take your head off because they say once we made an allegation, it's always It's over, you're not allowed to object to the allegation. But wait a minute, the thing that caught my attention here, and again, Mika Brazinski also saying this doesn't look right at all, this is not enough to publish a piece, gives you a sense of we're not making this up guys, and we're not doing it because we're biased.

Look at the fact pattern here. So the thing that caught my eye, Anna, was on the therapist. Yes, the therapist didn't want to talk to the press, by the way. Yeah, the political kept saying, well, she says she says. she talked to the therapist and the therapist does not acknowledge it but says that they do have a relationship. No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's be totally accurate.

Yeah. The therapist acknowledged that she spoke to her recently about what allegedly happened, but did not want to issue a statement to Politico. Yeah, so the therapist is not confirming it. Right. I mean, there's a very easy way to confirm it, say, hey, I don't want to talk about it, but yes, I confirmed that she said that, right? And maybe give some context, give a statement and then get, look, the therapist is in a tough

spot too. It doesn't mean that she thinks is skeptical and we have no idea. But that's the thing. In order to print a story, you're supposed to have two excellent sources, right? So here, the only thing that's a little bit persuasive is those text messages that Anna read to you guys. And so then you guys make up your own mind on whether you think calling someone consensually careless is the same as saying,

he raped me. So, and by the way, in all of these stories, it's barely ever mentioned that they were in a relationship at the time. She spent more time elaborating how disgusted she was that he might have slept with a lot of women than he did, than she did about the alleged rape. When she's talking to an acquaintance who's asking her about grand platinum because she's thinking about fixing a friend up with him. Yeah, so every person that they go to, the current boyfriend, the therapist, the other folks,

People that normally in a story like this go, yes, at the time she told me this, and this is a text message we have, etc. None of that is here other than the two texts that Anna read you. One of them is barely relevant. The other one is the one that has the careless comment, right? So if you think that's definitive, I'm 100% positive, no problem. Because it's your, like we all make a different choice on how we view it. So look, for me, this is not about whether Graham Platner did it or not.

That's a, at this point, that question is almost irrelevant because it's over. It's over for you. Yeah, everybody pulled their endorsement. It's now it's considered toxic. You can't support them, blah, blah, blah. So I'm not trying, we're not trying to fight that battle guys. We're trying to tell you how politics works and what to be on the lookout for. And, you know, how does this process work?

Because were there all these different opposition research groups targeting Susan Collins and calling all of her ex-boyfriend, and looking through her text messages asking about there was none, zero. Is there any about like establishment candidates, Democrat or Republican, almost never. It has to fall right into your lap, right? And again, it's upboard research usually by other Democrats, right? But do they get targeted? No, the establishment never gets targeted, never. But when you have an outsider, Bernie Sanders, Graham Platner, but a lot of right-wing outsiders, too,

They rev up the machine, let's go. Destroy, destroy, destroy. What's interesting about something that Anna mentioned is that in this case, not all the establishment Democrats are united. No, they're not. Sonny Hosen also defended Graham Platner today. Today? Today?

On the view. That's so shocking. Yeah, so, I mean, look, the reason why I bring up the establishment figures who are defending him is because this isn't a typical progressive candidate that has the established I'm digging in to see what kind of opera research they can find to destroy him. I'm sure there are some. But I didn't feel the same treatment toward Platner that I noticed with other progressive candidates in earlier races or even during this election cycle.

So look, I think that after he won the primary, all he did to do was see who was outraged by his win. It wasn't members of the Democratic establishment. It tended to be people who didn't like his stance on foreign policy. Well, just leave it at that. So I don't know who dug up the OPA research. All I know is there's a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to this issue. When we literally have a sitting president who played a massive role in the cover up of

the Epstein files, who has been found civilly liable for sexual abuse in the E.G. Carol's case, who has been credibly accused of all sorts of things, including sexual assault and rape by dozens of women. I mean, it's just, it's a, so are we going to allow this kind of stuff or not? Because it seems like when it comes to certain political figures, it's totally okay. Even if in a court of law civilly they are found liable of sexual abuse, even though they are found liable, okay, of engaging in a cover up of one of the biggest sex trafficking scandals involving minors that we know of in American history.

So I just, I don't know, this whole thing is trash. And look, I hate being put in this position. because I've been skeptical of Platner since the tattoo thing. And you know that because we had it out on the show on that issue. How do you realize you have a Nazi tattoo and wait until you're running for a congressional or for a Senate seat to remove it? I just don't get it. I don't understand that.

So Platner wasn't my favorite. I'm not going out of my way to defend him because he's someone that I desperately want to win. The reason why I'm doing this right now is because I'm looking at the the facts we have in front of us right now, and I'm sorry. I just don't think the evidence rises to the occasion of Politico publishing this as if he's already proven guilty as a rapist. And Jake Tapper was ready with a segment on this as soon as the story broke.

So that means that they had some advance notice that it was gonna break and oh, you go to Jake Tapper and put it out there. Okay, so guys, look, we definitely don't know exactly who did it. So now we have to look at the puzzle and the context, clues, et cetera. So I said right after it happened, what'll happen is now establishable media will find a new target. And they'll start to attack him over and over and over and over again. And it'll probably be someone who's opposed to Israel and corporate PACs and the establishment overall. And guess who's up today?

Actually, there's two people. One is Abdul El-Said. They have now tried a great number of attacks against him. So before, oh, Hassan Piker was on a campaign with him. That's it. He has that disqualified. That didn't work. That actually increases numbers.

Today they're going with, oh, well, this Israel stuff isn't working. Oh, he once was in favor of defund the police. Okay, so that's a new line of attack against Grand Platner. So far, zero lines of attack against Haley Stevens, his opponent. She is an enormous supporter of Israel, has taken an enormous amount of money from the APAC. No investigations, no attacks, no targeting, nothing, right? Never in the news in a negative way. Abdul won after another.

Tonight, another one. Oliver Larkin, a candidate we featured here just last week. He's running against Jared Muscovitz, down in Florida, an establishment Democrat, very pro-Israel, okay? Oliver Larkin is not, he wants to cut funding to Israel. Now, Cason Piker talk to Oliver Larkin, and Oliver Larkin is not a problem, attack, attack, attack. So who do I think it is? Well, normally I would say it's probably someone related to the establishment Democrats

like Schumer, but the establishment Democrats are split. So that leaves the one pack that is what, the largest contributor to members of Congress in the last election cycle, A-PAC, the Israeli lobby. If you think they wanted Graham Platner in, this Senate causing trouble for them, saying that we should pull funding of Israel. And you think that they might spend 18-9%. million against Jamal Bowman and at least $16 million against Tom Massey, but they wouldn't do oppo research.

Never. No, that's a line too far. Everybody does apo research. You think APEC doesn't do it? So my guess is, based on these contexts, but it's just a guess, I don't know. But I do know it was definitely targeting. So is that it was people that are part of the Israeli lobby that marked them for destruction. And that is why mainstream media is like, oh, uncorroborated.

The last New York Times piece, we talked to every single girlfriend didn't get a single thing other than a GOP operative. We'll print it. We don't care about two sources. Our rules go out the window when we're ordered to attack. And now political, oh, our normal rules, as Mika just showed you, out the window. Because we've been ordered to attack. So we have to attack and destroy Graham Platner. And by the way, their last piece of that trick is twofold.

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But to your homework, don't just back someone because progressive figures are saying it's a good candidate. Do your research and back someone who speaks to your values. Yeah, I hear you. These days, Rose has been kind of on fire and he's backing Troy. So we'll see. All right, let's go to the next story. A long time Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has been in the hospital for three weeks now. And some are saying he's brain dead already. But his wife went to China, that was weird. And then Scott Jennings says, oh, I called him, I had a great conversation with him. That was super weird.

So Anna, what in the world's going on here? Well, Jank, you know, part of the holy matrimony is to abandon your husband as he's possibly brain dead in the hospital. But let me actually lay out the details for our audience. And then we have a wonderful guest to, you know, share her reporting on this story with us. So as we all know, Mitch McConnell is 84 years old. He should have maybe ended his political career a little earlier in life, but refused to do so. Now, he was apparently admitted into the hospital on June 14th. At the time, his office told the press that he was admitted to the hospital and was receiving

excellent care with no further details. It was unclear why he was hospitalized in the first place. But two weeks later, independent journalist Desiree Townsend shared an EMS recording from June 14th when he was hospitalized. This is the same day he went to the hospital. Now, the call requested advance life support to be sent to his home because he was found unconscious and then later it turned out that he suffered from cardiac arrest. Now, it's a little bit difficult to make out what you hear in the audio recording, but this is the EMS recording that was later released by the journalist Townsend. Take a listen.

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217 C3 Notices in Charlie. EMS2 response for cardiac arrest. 217CC, no TECS in Charlie, Cruz of 2nd Street in China 11, 843. Medicare, Gave, MS too coming. Okay, I think it's critical for you to hear that evidence because of how his office is trying to downplay what's going on here. But for now, McConnell's team is alleging that his health is improving.

On July 2nd, a spokesperson for McConnell said the following. The senator continues to improve and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session. But that's unlikely if you ask me. And if you ask friend of the show Ken Clippenstein, who posted the following on X, only a tiny fraction, fewer than 5% of octogenarians, survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest like the one McConnell suffered. I'll speculate further. Even if he's part of that lucky few, he'll have brain damage as the

vast majority of survivors do. Again, just want to repeat, he's 84 years old. Then reporters came out, or reports I should say came out that McConnell was officially brain dead. It started with Laura Lumer, who's untrustworthy, I wouldn't take her word for it. However, she posted a high-level source close to the White House tells me Mitch McConnell officially brain dead. He's not coming back. What made this credible was the quote tweet by Desiree Townsend, the independent reporter that I've been referring to who said, I have heard the same thing from my sources for days. At this point, I am at the hospital for when they eventually decide to move, cut him off life support and move his body. His capital police detail is still here as of 3.39 p.m.

Eastern time. Now, we want to figure out what's going on here. And luckily, joining us is the independent journalists I've been referring to throughout this story. Desiree Townsend. Desire, thank you so much for joining us. Yes, thank you so much for having me today. So let me just start off by asking you, what do you think is happening here? Do you think that the speculation by Ken Klippenstein is correct? Do you believe that Mitch McConnell is in fact brain dead? I personally believe that that is the case, or he is still on life support. I find the timing of these statements that came out saying, I spoke with Mitch McConnell today, incredibly odd. The reason being is if you listen back to that audio,

they were giving him CPR. And then for literally two weeks, we get nothing from the office until Laura Lumer post that clip. And I basically, so I had heard the same thing from multiple sources. Look, what's happened here is there's a lack of information coming out of his office and coming out of his family. His family's not disclosing much. So we had heard that president,

so these sources had told us that President Trump had sent somebody there to figure out what was going on. And that is, I guess, essentially where we were getting this information from. So the timing today of these two people coming forward, I believe it was Brasso and Jennings came forward and said, I have both 20-minute conversations with Senator McConnell, I find very odd because also we had staffers, some sources that appeared to be within the staff. I got this from another news organization that said that Elaine Chow, his wife, is back as of two days ago.

So she gets back two days ago and now these statements are coming out. I mean, look, it's very possible. He's defied all the odds. And he's defied that less than 5% survival rate. If he's capable of having a phone conversation for 20 minutes, he needs to resign right now before July 13th when the Senate returns so we can conduct in Kentucky a special election and get somebody more capable of serving in that office. So let's dive in a little bit more. So Scott Jennings says he talked to him for 20 minutes. I think Scott Jennings is lying, period.

Maybe he talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes, but Mitch McConnell did not talk back, right? So, but let's game out what happens if McConnell is brain dead or he's not, right? Because first of all, to your point about CPR, once CPR has been done to revive someone after a heart attack, their chances of being brain dead is significantly higher, right? So it feels like under both circumstances, we need clarity for sure, right? Which one is it? And his wife is back, so she should, she has an obligation to tell us, us the citizens, which one it is.

But you're saying that if he is conscious, then he should resign. I view it the other way, if he's not conscious, then we definitely need to go to a special election because Kentucky doesn't have a senator. He's 84 years old, he should resign. Okay, sorry to interrupt and interject, but come on. Yeah, okay, but I mean, there's not just about age. So yes, what's your, tell us about the situation about what would happen under those two scenarios. The problem is, unlike the 25th Amendment for a president who's become incapacitated, there's really no way of doing that for a member of Congress.

They either have to be conscious and then they resign or they die. Those are the two options. And so if he's legitimately conscious right now, he needs to immediately resign before. he loses consciousness again. Otherwise, it's a waiting game to see if he's going to recover enough to make it back to the Senate on July 13th. You have to understand the Senate is only in session from July and then they quickly head into August recess. We have all of fiscal year 2027's appropriation bills to get done in which Senator McConnell sits on the appropriations committee. His vote is needed to get these out of committee and then vote on these bills.

If he's incapable of coming back on July 13th and he needs to resign, otherwise, if he refuses to resign, we have to wait for him to pass. There's nothing to stop him from coming to the Senate. I don't think he's going to show. But this puts us in a really tough bind in July before August recess because we have all these fiscal year appropriations to get done. So with him absent, what happens with his vote? during these appropriations debates, right? Like when Senate is voting on certain bills, with him absent, what happens? Do they just miss out on one Republican vote? It's a not vote. Correct. It's a lost vote. This is unbelievable and unacceptable. And by the way, this is a bipartisan

issue. I mean, as you probably know, Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein died while in office when she shouldn't have run for her last term. And she should have stepped down and allowed for someone who was capable of actually serving the people of California to do that. But it seems like right now Congress is just kabuki theater. Like it's not really there to serve the people at all. And you could literally have someone who's brain dead continue to serve in the Senate. It's out of control.

Yeah, I just want to take that and talk about an important reason why they might not go forward in trying to get McConnell out. In the case of Feinstein, the Democrats had Nancy Pelosi's daughter wheeling her around in a wheelchair. So Pelosi's daughter was effectively the senator from California because at that point, Diane Feinstein was not at all cognizant of what was happening. So in this case, A, who do we think is the senator from Kentucky? Is it Elaine Chow now or is it some staffer? Is it a consultant? Is it a donor?

Okay. And then B, why wouldn't the Republicans want an extra vote? They desperately need an extra vote. Oh, right. If there was a special election, there's another guy from Kentucky that the Republicans really, really don't want to be the next senator, which is Tom Massey. And is that relevant here? I think there's two different issues here.

I think a lot of, there are a lot of Republicans that still, they admire maybe some of what of what Massey has done. I know that President Trump, on the other hand, has a different view of Massey. However, I think at this point, Republicans and Democrats should be really concerned because, again, the kind of joke running joke at Capitol Hill is Elaine Chow is running Senator McConnell's office. And we've seen staffers whispered to him in hearings. and on the Senate floor on what to do on protocol.

And so they could easily just be whispering in his ear to vote yes or no on a certain thing. And that's why. So here's kind of what alerted me to something being amiss here. So McConnell's very fierce Republican conservative, the moment he blocked the Save Act, President Trump's sort of baby, his bill, I knew something was wrong because Mitch, McConnell would the old Mitch McConnell would have never blocked the save act and so that's when I started digging in and noticing that there's a lot of that he has these handlers when when I have seen him at least on June 11th vote on the Senate floor he's not even in the camera you can't see him actually vote meaning they probably rolled him and it's very likely somebody could have whispered in his ear put your thumb up and and that's how things are sort of being conducted that's that's not democracy You can't have someone else running someone's office and continue, even if the vote is helpful to Republicans, we can't, we can't allow this to go on. So there's a second component here because, look, again, with both McConnell and Feinstein, my view and the view of a lot of our viewers is that they're puppets anyway, right, for all their donors.

And so they're irrelevant tools for the donors and servants, et cetera. So who cares? The consultant's going to make the decision or the donor is, it's not the senator anyway, right? But in this case, there's a different component, which is Elaine Chow. So now we've got Benjamin Nanyahu and the head of Mossad going into the situation room and telling Trump what to do before the Iran war. Now we have Elaine Chow going to talk to the Chinese vice president while her husband is either brain dead or apparently, according to Scott Jennings, miraculously recovering from being

brain dead, but she's not there. She's talking to the vice president of China. That is incredibly strange. This is what you need to understand. And I think this is where the voting public gets this piece wrong. You think that whoever the handlers are are just having them vote. one way or the other. What you don't realize is that these members of Congress get access to classified briefings. Senator McConnell was granted access to the classified Iran briefing. The classified

budget on fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Defense Department of War, they're given classified information. Now, if you have handlers voting for them and now handlers who have access to classified information or running off to China with that, that is a big problem. I totally agree. This is outrageous. And, you know, what is your sense, just last question for me, what is your sense of how the Republican base is reacting to this if they're reacting at all? Hey, Ontario. Come on down to bet MGM casino and see what our newest exclusive, the Price's Right Fortune Pick, has to offer. Don't miss out. Play exciting casino games based on the iconic game show only at BetMGM. Check out how we've reimagined three of the show's iconic games,

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The Republican base is reacting and I think they're all furious right now because this is not right. And I think a lot of it's because it's connected to Elaine Chow in China. Now, if it was just probably anyone else and a Diane Feinstein sort of situation, maybe they would have looked the other way. But this is a bigger issue to have somebody who is closely tied to the Chinese government, taking meetings with the vice president just three days after her husband had cardiac arrest. And she didn't bother flying back. So she had this pre-planned trip. She was seen at a university in Shanghai on June 12th. June 14th, she should have jumped on a plane.

She has private jets. She should have jumped on a plane. Come back to D.C. to be by her husband's side. Instead, she took a meeting with the vice president of China. Now that takes me back to this isn't about votes. This is about largely that classified information. So there is one other piece that could disrupt our economy. Again, Mitch McConnell's lack of a vote will shut down the U.S. government in October.

October because his vote is so important to move forward fiscal year 2027 appropriations. I had Senator Kennedy on record saying basically that. So what this could do if he refuses to resign is it causes chaos with our appropriations and shuts the government down, leading us to potentially, you know, have laps in the Department of Homeland Security again, Department of Defense, TSA, you name It opens the, it opens up our country for national security threats because we're not paying the people responsible for defending this country. And then it opens us up again to losing, losing in the GDP because we have all of these contractors that are not getting paid and government operations shut down. Wow. I mean, I can't believe she flew to China two days before her husband was admitted into the hospital, had cardiac. arrest and didn't fly back immediately.

But Desiree, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain your reporting with us. And I hope you'll come back when there are updates because this story is important, not just for Republican voters, but for this country. If we're supposed to live in a democracy, we should have senators who are able to represent us. And that's not what's happening right now for the people in Kentucky. Thank you again. And hopefully we'll speak soon.

Thank you. Yes, have a great evening. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. By the way, guys, just remember, two different issues. The one is he's been falling down at the job literally since 2023. He just fall down and get concussion.

He's been freezing, et cetera. So they always, they've been, they've known for three years straight that he's totally incapacitated and they didn't care because it's the same results either way. But now that is very strange to have an in person visit with the Chinese vice president while McConnell is dying. Agreed. That is not normal. All right, we'll be right back.

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Now on to other things, Fat Voltron says, boomer holding on to power after death. Impressive. Okay, it's true, that's how powerful he is. Miss Richie Blackmore, well, looky here. Scott Jennings has been a member of the Republican Party of Kentucky's Executive Committee. He absolutely has an interest in upholding this charade and locking out Massey. Of course he does. Nabiel.

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So Anna's got more details. Yes, in fact, news broke right before we went on air, indicating that the U.S. is now carrying out some pretty heavy strikes against Iran in retaliation for Iran's strikes, alleged strikes on three different vessels that were traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. I'll be it through a path that was not, you know, greenlit by the Iranians who, whether you like it or not, have control of the Strait of Hormuz. Those are the spoils of war, the spoils of the war that we, Americans, and the Israelis lost. I know it's a hard thing to accept, but that's just the fact of the matter.

And there's no military option to change that. So the bombing that's taking place right now is useless. But let me give you the details. I'll start with how we got to the point we're at right now. So Iran allegedly struck three, you know, three vessels that were traveling through an unapproved route through the Strait of Hormuz. Now this morning, U.S. officials confirmed that Iran had fired on three commercial vessels, sailing in Oman's territorial waters near the strait.

So I want to show you this map and kind of give you a sense of what I'm talking about, when I'm discussing the different routes that these vessels are. are transiting through. So if you look at this graph, you'll see what I'm talking about. So one route is established by Iran, which has control of the Strait of Hormuz. And they have said for the 60 days this MOU is in place, these vessels can travel through our approved route without a toll, without any charge. This is the agreement. Now then there were two, then the second one was established by Oman and the UN's international maritime organization.

or IMO, and three, the pre-war route that some vessels have been attempting to travel through despite serious security risks. And those serious security risks are usually carried out by the Iranians who have made clear that they control the Strait of Hormuz. Now, Iran intends to eventually charge, they're not calling it a toll, they might call it an environmental fee or whatever for vessels traveling through the strait. But again, just to repeat myself, after agreeing to the MOU, both the United States and Iran agreed that there would be a 60 day period in which Iran would waive all charges for vessels traveling through the strait. But I also want to be clear about one other thing.

The Oman route that I was talking about earlier was apparently established for the Arab Gulf states and the US, which refused to ever pay any toll for any vessel traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. We'll see how that's gonna play out, but Iran obviously doesn't like that, doesn't accept that. And so on Sunday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that its Navy deployed patrol boats to block the Omani route. But the US is adding to this confusion and to the conflict because the Joint Maritime Information Center, a multinational body overseen by the United States Navy, told shippers on Monday that

the route around Oman has been expanded and remains available for all traffic. It appears that wasn't the case given the attacks that were carried out by Iran. Now according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center, one of the vessels struck caught fire. Iranian state television said that one of the vessels that was hit was a Qatari liquefied gas tanker. And then it also came under attack after ignoring warnings according to Iran and did not take those warnings seriously.

And then following the strike, the Qatari foreign ministry demanded that the IRCC, immediately sees all securities threats in regard to international maritime navigation. Additionally, two other tankers were also hit, including one that was struck by a drone. Both of those ships sustained some damage, but no one was injured. At least one of the vessels continued on their way. And then per CNN, the attack occurred hours before the US president. Donald Trump, of course, showed up to Ankara Turkey for the NATO summit. And NATO leaders are in fact expected to discuss what they're gonna do about this whole Hormu straight situation. Good luck with that. Now, Trump also warned Iran that it would need to make a deal or we're going to finish the job.

Iran responded by saying no more negotiations will take place if these threats continue. And, you know, that's where they were at prior to the U.S. retaliating against Iran for striking these three vessels, allegedly. Iran hasn't taken responsibility for all three. It seems like they have taken responsibility for the Qatari vessel. But nonetheless, the U.S. is under the impression that Iran carried out these strikes. So they're retaliating by carrying out some of the heaviest strikes. We've seen the U.S. carry out since the beginning of the war. They have struck Keshem Island, Bandar Abbas, as well, which has a port.

So we'll see where this all goes, but it's not looking good, Jank. Yeah, so there's a bunch of mysteries here. Iran said some strange things about the bombings like, hey, no one's allowed to go through that route, but we're not sure what happened. Something along those lines. I was like, that's weird. And I don't understand why the Oman route exists. And then Iran bombs them. It ships going through there every once in a while. So I literally don't get that. Do you understand it? I do not get the impression that Iran has greenlit that. Because remember, the Omani path was created specifically to, to help the Gulf states and the United States start a possible fee or toll that might be charged by Iran in the future.

I got you, but Iran, to my knowledge, allowed a lot of ships through that route. Okay. Well, they do. This is what Iran does. So Iran just bears it, right? When it comes to all sorts of different elements of this war, they have said multiple times that any peace negotiation, and more importantly, the terms of the MOU indicates, that Israel needs to stop attacking Lebanon.

But Israel has continued attacking Lebanon, just bombing entire villages, slaughtering a bunch of innocent people. Iran hasn't responded to that. So I feel like it gets to a point where Iran just can't take it anymore, and they want to prove that they mean what they say, and I think that's what happened here. Yeah, it's possible, and plus, you know, in the context of today, you know, Anna gave you that other important data point, which was they're saying, you know, no more negotiation, until this is sorted out, that's not what a side with low leverage says.

That's what a side with high leverage says, right? And they've been doing this funeral procession for the late Grand Ayatollah. It's still taking place today. Yes, and so they're about to go to the most holy sites now in the Shia world. And so, and he was the leader of the Shia religious movement. So they're very hyped up from that funeral. So it's possible that the hardliners in Iran are gaining the upper hand. That's not impossible.

But it does show you one thing that's clear, which is that Iran is not worried about further conflict. So Trump keeps saying they unilaterally surrendered and we won and they're, you know, they have to give us everything we want. But there's a reason why we're talking about lifting sanctions and we put the sanctions back on after this, right? But we had already lifted some of the sanctions. We had to put them back on, right?

So that's part of this deal, giving the $300 billion from the Gulf countries. Basically, Iran is part of that deal. It's an enormous concession from the Gulf countries that they lost the war and Iran won the war. Yeah, let me just decode it for you and make it very simple to understand, because it's actually not that complicated. The United States lied in signing this MOU. They have always intended to renege on the terms of the MOU. How do I know that? Because our vice president said it.

And if you don't believe me, pay very close attention to what he had to say when he was on Michael Noseley's show just days ago. Take a look. So I think what the president has told us to do is use this MOU to sort of refill the world's oil economy. Yeah. To refill some stocks. And then to see where the hand is. Hey, Ontario. Come on down to bet MGM Casino and see what our newest exclusive, the Price's Right Fortune Pick, has to offer.

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Yeah, so I usually look at what the Israelis are saying to figure out what the American government is going to do next. In this case, it's a little bit more muddled than it is usually. So Netanyahu has been asked about it a number of times in interviews here in American television and his answer has basically been like, well, you know, there's a lot of things in the MOU and we'll see if it comes to fruition or not. So he acknowledges some friction between him and Trump, but we don't know if it's fake or not, right? And there's no friction.

And so one potential telling sign is for a minute where it looked like the disagreement was real, that's when Mark Levine and Ben Shapiro and all those guys. guys flipped out and their hair was on fire and they're like wait I'm in go back into the goddamn war right and they really cool down they're barely saying anything about that in fact Mark Levin is onto Turkey and talking about how we need to attack Turkey so that makes me think the Israelis aren't that worried and they definitely want more war so then when I see that J.D. Vance clip which I hadn't seen Anna caught that one and he says well we're just restocking on oil and presumably defensive missiles.

And that might explain why Iran is going, oh, so you guys are just reloading, and this thing is fake. And Israel's not only not out of Lebanon, as the MOU says, Israel's going further into Lebanon. And they continue to bomb Gaza, the West, they kill people in the West Bank bombing Lebanon. And so, okay, so if this peace deal is fake for you guys to reload, then we'll hit some ships. So that's a potential explanation. Yeah, and I do want to show you some footage that's already come in with the U.S. strikes. So take a look at this. I'll explain, keep my mic up and I'll explain what you're looking at.

So this footage shows the moment U.S. missiles struck Shahid-Hagani Port in Bandarabas. This is in southern Iran. And it is worth noting that the funeral procession is still taking place. There's ceremony is still taking place in regard to the Grand Iatollos funeral. And so these are again, some of the strongest strikes the US has carried out against Iran since the beginning of the war, or at least since the MOU was signed. Yeah, look, I continue to say that if we actually do leave, we actually do get a piece still, because at the end of the day, we're gonna have one or we're not gonna have one, right?

We're not gonna have one. And if we have one, then that means we're not 100% controlled by Israel. We were controlled a lot. We were driven into this war two different times when we had absolutely no national interest in it. But if we go back into the war, then it's over, over, over. We're 100% controlled by Israel. I know no one in media will acknowledge that. I'm losing my mind, literally losing my mind.

I'm losing my mind. Like, why is this still a question for you? Like, why do you need more to happen to prove to you? Like, we are bankrolling the entirety of this war. We've lost 13 of our soldiers in this war. Oh, we're going to wait for like another thing to happen to prove definitive. that Israel has a freaking, they had their talons in the skulls of every U.S. politician. Yeah, no, I get that.

It's funny because I'm kind of- You're so calm about it too. No, no, you've seen me be very uncommon about it. That's true, that's true, I want you to stay calm. So, look, you think Israel controls this 100%. Everyone in media says zero percent, which is hilarious. Come on, guys. You're embarrassing yourselves, right?

I'm at, and there's a lot of good people who are like, well, maybe 30 or 50. They have some influence, a lot of influence. But I can't say control because I've been told that that's a trope and it will make, you know, then I'll be canceled from life if I say that. So here we don't care about any of the conventional wisdom, etc. So to me, I have an open mind. So I base it on the facts. So until we pause the war, it looked to be 100%, and I told you 100%.

Then we pause the war, and it might be that it's a trick, as Anna is saying. So when we pause the war, I said, well, I'll bring it down and get open to the possibility that it's 80 or 90%, but not 100. I'm not saying it's a trick. Our vice president said it's a trick. So like, I don't get it. So do we just not believe them? Do we not believe J.D. Vance when he says openly, overtly, like, yeah, we signed the MOU to get the oil flowing, you know, alleviate some of this pressure on the global economy. Yeah, no, but you know, you could say that and still theoretically mean like, yeah, get the oil flowing and then we'll get to the peace deal, right?

So, but the part that actually drew my attention more was when he's talked about restocking. Yeah. See, because if you're restocking your defensive missiles, that means you're not on the way to peace and you're on the way to more war. You just needed more ammo, right? And that this has been a trick all along. And yes, Israel does control us 100%. And we are gonna go back into the war for them. And by the way, if that happens, that'll be the third time we attacked Iran on behalf of another country.

With not, and in this third time, not only do we not have any national interest like we did in the first two times, like we didn't in the first two times. But on top of that, this time around, we know that our national interests and our economy will be gravely hurt. And we would walk the plank for Israel again, then that makes it completely indisputable. Still, of course, everyone in media and everyone in politics will lie to you. Why? Because they're part of that control. We're about to merge our militaries and we're pretending like they don't have control over us. But anyway, we got to take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about how Trump just wants to sell more weaponry. So that's the one area where he might actually go against the Israelis as they beg and plead to avoid selling F-35s to Turkey.

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him to the right place. They're at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, the capital. And it looks like Trump is gonna sell some F-35s to Turkey and Israel's not happy about it. So there's a lot of drama going on in the NATO meeting. Anna, tell us all about it. I would love to, Jank. So first let me just say, you know, that warm embrace there. Right? That physical touch. Very nice. More than he gets from Melania.

True, true, true. But no, in all seriousness, this is the NATO summit. So it wasn't just a meeting between Donald Trump and the leader of Turkey. However, the news out of their meeting and what Trump has agreed to do for Turkey is what's getting a lot of attention. So while Benjamin Ndhya, who went on a Fox News tour to urge the Trump administration to avoid selling F-35s to Turkey, Trump did have other things in mind. So during President Trump's first term, Turkey was actually thrown out, I talked about this yesterday, Turkey was thrown out of the F-35 program because it actually bought some weaponry from Russia and that really upset the United States, which of course had sanctioned Russia. To be specific, Turkey had bought S-400 anti-aircraft systems from Russia. Now on Tuesday, when asked about those S-400s, Trump said that he had no concerns at all about anything, which was kind of surprising since his administration sanctioned Turkey during his

first term. But okay, he also said this. Take a look. President, are you gonna sell F-35s to Turkey? And what about the legal restrictions? Well, it's a decision we're going to make. we have a very good relationship. I would think that many people, I can tell you,

many people, including the people sitting right here, thinks, you know, why wouldn't we do that? We have a better relationship with Turkey, and Turkey's been in many ways much more loyal than other countries that we think would be loyal. So, yeah, something certainly we would consider. It's a great plane. It's the best, currently the best plane by far.

And it's certainly. something we will consider, yeah. Now, in addition to that, Trump also noted that he does intend to plan, it does intend to plan to do something else for Turkey. And that has to do with sanctions. Take a look at this. I can tell you, we're going to be taking the sanctions off. Okay, we're going to be taking the sanctions off. It's time. We don't want to sanction friends. We don't want to sanction friends, which really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, who was given a platform over at CNN, to speak with Danabash and warn Americans about how terrible this is. Take a look.

He is considering giving the country these planes, F-35s. Well, as I said, it would destroy the power balance in the Middle East because Turkey, I think, has aggressive aspirations. I mean, they openly say that. They want to restore the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire not only included Turkey, it included many other countries, included Syria, and included pieces of Jordan, included all of present-day Israel, included some Gulf countries. So this is not a force for peace and stability. And if you give this kind of radical regime, that admittedly smiles to America when it is necessary, or smiles to the President of the United States when is necessary. When you give us.

that power, you're going to see aggression in its wake. I wouldn't do that. I have no love for the Turkish government. I love the Turkish people, have no ill will against them whatsoever. But I do want to just be very clear about something. There's been no indication that Turkey is looking to, you know, pursue the Ottoman Empire. But there is a lot of indication, including from Benjamin Netanyahu himself, who told I-24 News, that the Greater Israel Project is near and dear to his heart. So all of the territories and countries that he listed there are territories and countries that he would like Israel to expand to. Yeah, I mean, everything he said there was, you know, every Israeli accusation is a confession. You know, sometimes they'll smile in your face, but they're actually a radical regime.

You're exactly describing Israel. And now it comes here. Oh, yeah, we're such great allies. Now, let me give me money and a military to destroy all my neighbors. You're talking about regional peace of security. Brother, Turkey didn't attack Lebanon, you did. Turkey didn't do a genocide in Gaza, you did. Turkey didn't kill a thousand people in the West Bank and rip it to shreds. You did.

Don't forget Syria. Iran. Invade Iran. You did. In Syria, they both did. That's true, that's true, yes. So now, so he says this would destroy the balance of power in the Middle East. No, it would actually bring a balance of power.

a balance of power in the Middle East. Because right now, since Israel has all of the power, they have nukes, they have Iron Dome, they have the US military behind them, they're attacking all of their neighbors. And because there's no balance, there's no one to push back. There's a bunch of rag tag guys in Gaza throwing rocks and they're like, oh my God, we're in danger. Now that's preposterous, right? And there's Hezbollah who, you know, half of them got blown up by Pagers.

These are not giant militaries. So Iran has a real military and Israel just found out about it. Turkey has a real military, so they're concerned about it. And partly because Israeli officials have said they want to attack Turkey next. So they're not worried about a balance of power. They want all of the power in the Middle East so they could attack any country they want, and those countries cannot defend themselves. So now they're like, just because Turkey's been a reliable ally in NATO.

and then the second largest military in NATO and they're actually arguably one of the allies that have stuck up for you more than any other ally in our lifetimes. But they're in our way. We told you we want to attack them. You are to give them nothing to defend themselves. So let me explain what's also happening behind the scenes that you might not know about. And I'm so curious to see how this clash is going to play out, Jank. because our European NATO allies are basically preparing to go to war with Russia.

I know that sounds crazy, but that's literally what they're doing. And they say it out loud. And one of the things that developed over the weekend is that our European NATO allies are viewing Turkey as an important part of that war, of that fight on behalf of NATO. So if you have Israel on one hand that's like, we want to be the dominant ones in the region, which means we want, like, if Israel could have its way, they would literally disarm every country in the region. And in fact, they've succeeded to a large extent with some of these countries. Why do you think the Lebanese military is so flaccid and can't do a damn thing about Hezbollah?

Why do you think? Or Israel. Or Israel. I mean, it's by design. The only line of defense that the Lebanese people have in regard to maintaining their borders, whether they like it or not, happens to be Hezbollah. But okay, putting that aside entirely. So with Israel wanting to weaken Turkey because they must be the dominant ones who control everything in the region.

And with the European allies of the United States saying that Turkey is an important part of their impending war against Russia, what's going to happen? Well, they're worried about an impending war, so we'll see how that goes. They're agitating for it. So no, no, no, this shows how much leverage Turkey has, because since they're situated right in the middle of all of this mess, and they could, you know, they're at a situation where they're part of NATO, right? But they did buy those S-400s from Russia, and part of that is to keep everyone guessing and to build leverage against the different forces at play.

Fun. They used to be against Iran because Turkey is one of the epicenters of Sunni Islam and Iran is the epicenter of Shiite Islam and they're opposed to each other. But now they're closer to each other because of Israel. Israel is uniting a lot of folks. But either way, Turkey's in a pivotal situation there. So normally Israel can just steamroll any other country. They tell us to attack Iran, we attack Iran.

They tell us look the other way, we're gonna butcher Lebanon and take southern Lebanon. We look the other way. But when it comes to Turkey, that's where. America and the Europeans are like, uh, that one's a harder ass guys, because those guys are pivotal in our defense. And if we're in trouble, we need the Turks. So now you want us to sacrifice all of the Middle East and Turkey? And why do you want that?

See, again, every accusation is a confession from the Israelis. Netanyahu's like, they're trying to reconstitute the Ottoman Empire. And by the way, you noticed some Republican puppets in this country regurgitating that in their town halls, those guys don't even know what the Ottoman Empire is. So those talking points written for them by the Israeli government, I mean, those are assets. They should be investigated legally for where they're getting their talking points from. Because there's no way some of those guys have any idea what the Ottoman Empire is. Anyways, so Ottoman Empire is not being reconstituted. That's fantasy and totally made up by the Israelis. On the other hand, as Anna pointed out,

Greater Israel is the empire trying to take over the Middle East right now. We can see it with our own eyes. They're in all of those countries. Based on what Netanyahu himself has said, I-24 News, look it up. So for people who are like, oh, that's anti-Semitic. Is it anti-Semitic to just repeat what Israeli politicians say on the record, what their actual agenda is? I know we're supposed to just regurgitate US media, which lies to us about what Israel's up to.

I would prefer to listen to the Israelis when they tell us straight up what they intend to do. Yeah, so, and then Trump's the funny guy, is always accidentally. So they're more loyal than people you would expect to be loyal. I don't know who he means by that. I do. He means Europe and NATO. He means Europe and NATO. He's super salty that our European allies weren't moronic enough to enter a stupid war against Iran on behalf of Israel.

Only the US was stupid enough to do that. And when I say the US was stupid enough, I'm obviously talking about our government, which uses our service members as cannon fodder on behalf of their precious ally. So that's the reality of the situation. I would be surprised if Trump and Erdogan don't have some deal that we don't know about. Like a financial deal? 100% I thought the same thing. We don't know for sure, we're speculating.

But Trump will throw anyone under the bus for his own. enrichment. So what stood out to me was how bold he was in kind of ignoring like just basically like to Netanyahu when it comes to this. And the only thing that would convince him to do it is if there's like something to sweeten the pot for himself. Let me just put it this way. I don't, I've never seen Trump like look at American interests and go, oh wow, this is really important American interest. Okay, that's why I'm supporting them. No, I've seen him go, Jared, did you make a deal with them? A couple of billion dollars, good.

Hey, you guys, you got the deal from Kazakhstan, Don Jr. and Eric, and you guys got the deal. Oh, and Qatar's giving me a jet. Hey, Ontario. Come on down to BetMGM Casino and see what our newest exclusive, the Price's Right Fortune Pick, has to offer. Don't miss out. Play exciting casino games based on the iconic game show only at BetMGM. Check out how we've reimagined three of the show's iconic games, like Plinko, Cliffhanger, and The Big Wheel. into fun casino game features.

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between them and China. Because he's literally part owner of those companies now that he's bought so many shares in them. Yeah. Okay, so that's Donald Trump. And Erdogan has not been known for being so moral that he wouldn't make a secret deal. Right. Right, to say the least.

So but he has played this foreign policy brilliantly. Whether you like it or you don't like it, he had, I mean, he is the only country that I have ever seen stand up to Israel and for the moment being, win strategically with the Western powers. Because he has the military for it. Lebanon doesn't. And the geography and the population and the fighting spirit. So I mean, and last thing is, it shows you how mental the Israeli is of.

You're gonna go pick a fight with a NATO ally and a military that loves to fight as, you know, 80 to 90 million people in it now and can't wait to get in the fight and has all of Europe and America behind it. Yeah. You would have to be insane to talk about taking them on next. Not if you can get your cattle to fight the war. They're out of control, they're totally out of control. But hey, look, in this case, Trump siding with the Turks.

All right, we gotta take a break when we come back. We'll give you some updates on section 219. That's the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that would merge the genocidal IDF with our own military. Come right back. All right, let's go to our members on t.t.com. George says the most unique, George is the most unique of the jungle dragon. It says Anna, congratulations on your annual survival day. Thank you.

That's one way we're putting it. Wang John says, apparently having self-awareness is also anti-Semitic. Everything is anti-Semitic. Just bake that in. Like if you find something that isn't anti-Semitic, be like, whoa, maybe write in about that. Asimov's prophet says so about Planner, it's she said, he said, back we go to conviction without a trial, because it is a challenger to Israel first. Doodle Dragon Imron has a different opinion.

I guess all the red flags caught up with him referring to Platner. I love you all, TYT. This is the obvious dark side to populism and movements that don't scrutinize their candidates. First, I gotta say it's it's not fair to say that no one scrutinize them. In fact, I think he's been scrutinized more than any other candidate. But okay, I hear you. He says, guess what? A guy that works as a contractor for war, has a Nazi tattoo, and every woman he's previously been with says he's trashed.

That's actually not true. A lot of them said that they really liked him. Did Maine run out of dudes to run for office? Is he the last guy that can run in Maine? Again, I hate this, but this is the wheel is far too squeaky. Drop him, dropped the motion he's getting. As it was all a media flurry, we can all hate Susan Collins, but keep your head on a swivel when someone asks you to look away. I've got to say one quick thing about that.

Did we run out of people to run for office? Do you know how hard it is to find someone who's honest and runs in politics and has a chance of winning? It's nearly impossible. Almost everyone who runs is an establishment candidate that loves its take pack and A-PAC money. Anna, did you want to say something? No, I just want to say, like, the tattoo thing did bother me. And I said so on this show. And I wish that, you know, on the actors, Jank and Anna, with you guys. All right, we got a lot more story. So let's do it. Let's go to the next one. Israel can't fight seven wars or whatever, how many fronts they have

at any given time without the United States paying for most of it, which we do. And so we can withdraw the support and thereby control, at least theoretically, control it at Israel's behavior. We never have. We could. This would, if it becomes law, integrate the militaries to such an extent that the United States would actually be at the mercy of Israel. So Israel withdraws technology in the United States. Military is hamstrung. So it would actually put Israel in the driver's seat. That's right. 100% correct. And as such, it's adverse to the national security interests of the United States of America. So that's former eight term congressman Dennis Kucinich. If you remember him from some of the presidential runs, you'll remember that mainstream media was like, Dennis Kucinich, he's crazy, he's against us funding Israel. Apparently not crazy.

So what they're talking about is section 219, which takes away American sovereignty and merges the technology of our military with Israel's military. So we're gonna tell you a lot more about that, but also gonna come back to, yes, but But what do Jewish Americans think of what's happening in this regard? And some of those numbers might shock you. So we'll come back to that. But Anna, tell us about Section 219 and what happened here. Well, it does look as though pressure from voters, which tends to still work, has slightly

moved Democratic Congressman Adam Smith's decision or position on supporting Section 219. Now let me just pause and say the fact that this democratic lawmaker ever supported the idea of merging a foreign military with our own is disgusting and treasonous. And in fact, he was, he's one of the leaders in the Armed Services Committee who blocked Representative Rokaneh's amendment to strip Section 219 from the National Defense Authorization Act. So he's part of the problem. But he apparently got so much pushback from his constituents and he's like, yeah, maybe I'm cheap. I'm changing my mind a little bit. I really want to save my political career. So anyway, this is relevant again because he's the head of the House Armed Services Committee,

and it is also important to note that he blocked Rokane's amendment. But now here's what he's saying. According to the Wall Street Journal, he said, quote, it's my position that the provision should be stripped out. Fascinating. Now he explains that he was driven by the talks he's been having with his constituents. Thank you to those constituents. I love you and appreciate you. He cited the case of a Turkish-American activist who was slaughtered by Israeli settlers in the

West Bank as part of his reasoning behind it. Smith described himself as a strong, a strong supporter of Israel's right to exist, but very critical of the Netanyahu government, especially its West Bank policies. He also says you have to put pressure on Israel somewhere. And I want to be clear that the problem with Israel isn't. simply the fact that it's led by a genocidal freak like Benjamin Netanyahu. If you look at polling, the vast majority of Israelis absolutely love the slaughter of innocence and love the idea of expanding their borders, but I digress.

Now it seems the same ridiculous argument in favor of deregulating or keeping AI deregulated is the same argument that goons like Representative Smith are using to defend a possible military merger at the same time. So Bradley Bowman, by the way, he's from the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, said this to the Wall Street Journal, quote, we need to compete with China, he says. That requires learning from beleaguered democracies like Ukraine, Taiwan, and also Israel, which is the best in the world in some areas of defense tech. Okay, and then the Wall Street Journal editorial board says This, Israel excels at going from concept to fully funded combat capability, a U.S. weakness. Why the F have we been providing close to a trillion dollars a year to the Pentagon if you're

going to tell me that our military ain't crap? Seriously, please explain it to me. Why are American taxpayers shelling out more and more money every single year to our Pentagon, which hasn't passed a single audit, not one. And then on top of that, we're getting here from the Wall Street Journal editorial board about how like all the Americans, they need the Israelis. We absolutely must merge our militaries because our military, dog crap. They can't get it done. Their combat capabilities?

Trash, we need the Israelis. First of all, I'm not buying it. Second of all, it's amazing to me how many goons and ghouls in this country, both in politics and our media, will literally trash our own country. and our own military in order to defend Israel's treachery and greed, because that's what this is about. Israel doesn't like the fact that the American people are against them. They don't want to deal with the criticism. So wouldn't it be easier to kind of skirt the whole MOU thing where we send them billions of dollars every year?

And instead, just have them in our military, taking advantage of the $1.5 trillion that Trump is asking for for the next National Defense Authorization Act. So when he went to explain why Israel's so important, that is a super weak excuse that we need to be better at fully funded combat capability. Are we not fully funded? I mean, wait, how could Israel be more fully funded than us? If he's talking about quick response in combat, apparently the Iranians are the best in the business at it. The Ukrainians are pretty good.

Are we gonna merge our military? Okay, Iran's an enemy. They don't need to be, they are because Israel made them our enemy. But okay, let's go to Ukraine. Are we gonna merge our military with Ukraine? Because they've very quickly adjusted to what the Russians did and fought back. No, of course not. We would never consider that.

Over something as simple as we need to adjust a little bit quicker in the battlefield, well, why don't we get our military to learn how to adjust quicker? Do we not have eyes? Do we not have satellite? Do we not have Starlink? Do we not have any intelligence? We don't know what the Ukrainians did, we don't know what the Iranians did. Do you see how lame and weak this excuses?

No, no, Jake. And one more, Anna. And apparently it requires a full merger of our military technology so they can have it all in order to do this tiny little thing that we could do on our own. How many hours did it take the IDF to respond to October 7th? How many hours? How many effing hours did it take the IDF to respond to Hamas on October 7th? I believe it was six hours.

Six freaking hours. Yeah. And they have the audacity, the Wall Street Journal editorial board has the audacity to tell us that our military is garbage and we need the Israelis. The Israelis are so much more superior than the Americans are, right? Their capabilities are incredible. It only took them six hours to respond on October 7th. These people are so ghoulish and disgusting.

I can't stand it anymore. And to the constituents who apparently applied enough pressure to get this gross, congressman to maybe reconsider his position. Thank you. Keep your boot on his head, okay? Ensure that this provision is stripped out of the final bill. Because once this is done, there's no going back. It's over. It's over. Yeah. So as usual, what is the amendment that is proposed to strip out this provision? It's the Kana Massey amendment. There they are again. Only people doing anything in Congress. So let's go to Tom Massey explaining why.

He said my amendment to strip section 219 from the NDAA was rejected last week by the Rules Committee without even a debate. But their rule for the NDA didn't pass the House. When we reconvene, I will offer my amendment again to strip the merger of our military supply chain with Israel's. So there's no need for that merger. As Massey on the right explains, Rokana on the left explains. But on top of that, maybe even allow a vote.

So that's how much Israel controls us where they go, you're not even allowed to have your paid, your representatives who work for us anyway have a vote on this. No, you are to merge our militaries based on the weakest excuse we've ever had in creation. And you have no voice at all, and you're to all shut up and do as Israel orders you to do, but they don't control us at all. And that's an anti-Semitic position. No, to be fair, we merged our military with Honduras a couple of weeks ago, and there was no vote on that either. Oh, right, no, that hasn't happened with any other country, would never happen, including with huge allies that have enormous militaries like the UK, France, Canada.

There's no talk of merging our militaries, there's none of that, only Israel, and no votes allowed, okay? Now there's one other aspect of this Anna that I want to talk about. So this is all painted as but if you object you're an anti-Semite. Huh, that's interesting because there's new polling out from the Associated Press and it confirms all the other polls that I've seen, but that you never see unless you're watching the Young Turks honestly. So you've heard me say this that many times and the Associated Press confirms the other poll that I got, by the way, from the Jewish American press, which is that the earlier poll says

63% of Jewish Americans are opposed to the current Israeli government. Associated Press confirms over 60% of Jewish Americans currently opposed to the Israeli government, right? That doesn't mean they hate Israel or they're opposed to the Israeli nation or Israeli people, but they're against Netanyahu's government. Only a third of Jewish Americans support Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Now part of the reason I tell you that, I've got more, but part of the reason I tell you that is because if you turn on a television set or you read a mainstream media outlet, you'd never think that Jewish Americans were opposed to the Israeli government. You would think, if you oppose an Israeli government, you're a vicious anti-Semite.

I mean, that's what they say 24-7. In fact, Alyssa Farah Griffin said it to Marjorie Taylor Green today. When Marjorie Taylor Green was talking about Apex influence on elections on the view, she's like, that is an anti-Semitic thing to say. Well, are 63% or over 60% of Jewish Americans anti-Semites? But wait, four out of 10 say that Israel went way too far in Gaza and their actions were unjustified. Did you get a sense that 40% of Jewish Americans were livid about what happened in Gaza? Do you know that 30% of Jewish Americans call what happened in Gaza a genocide?

Okay, so you never hear from those folks because it's not convenient for Israel. What is convenient for Israel is to pretend that they represent all Jews and all Jewish Americans. And that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic and hence must be shut down by definition, never allowed in media. So under their absurd ideology, which almost everyone in media agrees to, including what just happened today on television, right? And according to all of our politicians, that means that about two-thirds of Jewish Americans are anti-Semitic, because they also have morals and say, no, what's going on in Israel

in Gaza is not right, right? So only a third support the lunatic Netanyahu government. And yet if you turn on television, you'd think it was 200% of Jewish Americans, which by the way is also anti-Semitic, actually anti-Semitic. To put, to say that Jews are in favor of a genocide when they're not, to say that they're in favor of this barbaric Netanyahu government when they are not. Okay? So, and then you see, this isn't about religion. This isn't about Jews or Muslims or Christians. No, this is about one nation that has brilliantly figured out how to get a hold of our government.

And the way you do it is you buy up the media and you are the number one contributor to members of Congress. It's that simple and then you have the country until online media came along. And that's why now they're furious because this type of stuff would have passed with no one noticing. Because to this day, mainstream media has barely written about this. They don't. I mean, honestly, almost nothing.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board wrote about it. And only because Adam Smith had flipped on them. That's exactly right. And they're like, this is gonna pass for Israel. By the way, we're not controlled by Israel. Our military is trash. We need Israel. We spent a trillion dollars a year in our military, but they just can't do it.

Sorry, we need Israel. They're so advanced with their technology. Their intel, their intel is so great. Their intel is so great that they couldn't even figure out that Hamas was plotting October 7th, even though the intelligence was literally in their own hands. See, Rupert Murdoch's a great example. Rupert Murdoch owns Walser Journal, Fox News, New York Post, those are the most Zionist outlets in America by a lot.

Rupert Murdoch is a crazed lunatic Zionist, not Jewish. But he loves and supports every war and every genocide and every people, a torture that Israel does, Murdoch loves it, I don't know, maybe because he's Darth Vader, and he's like, oh, they look almost as evil as I am, right? So, but, so that is why when you say owned by Zionists, it doesn't necessarily mean Jewish people at all, okay? So that entire operation owned by Murdoch, not at all Jewish, but as radical as Zionists as you will find on planet Earth.

And so all those guys are purposely not covering Section 219. except Murdoch goes, you attack Adam Smith. He has defied Israel, right? And that editorial board completely reports into Rupert Murdoch, 100% controlled by them, by him. Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israeli settlers in the West Bank today while talking to Dan Abash on CNN. Just understand what our media is,

and do yourself a huge favor. check out what's being said and reported with Israeli media because they tell the truth. They assume that no Americans ever going to read what they're saying and writing about and reporting on. So they actually report the truth. You should read those publications. And guys, that is the same reason why Nanjahou and some of the Israelis are so frustrated now that America won't bend as quickly and easily as they normally. Our government does. Our government does, but not the people.

And that's why they're not allowing votes because they're worried. It's not like they'd lose the vote. All those servants of Israel would vote to merge our militaries anyway. They're all in favor of it. That's why it's sailing through Congress without a vote. But they have to deal with a reckoning. But if they were to put their name on the vote, they know they've lost their American people. And then they would have to account for why the hell did you merge our militaries

and cost us all of our intelligence and trillions of dollars that we spent on our technology, intelligence and data. And so they don't want those consequences, but they're all panicked in this scenario because in the old days, they 100% controlled mainstream media. And so they would just lie to you 24-7, so they're the victims and all this stuff, and they're only doing self-defense, and all the Muslims are savages and terrorists who need to be killed, right? But now, and oh, we have to merge our militaries because Israel helps us so much.

They have all of these talking points that have never been challenged. The minute online media challenged them, boom, house of cards, right? Oh, us merging our militaries today in that Wall Street editorial board conversation, they were like, oh, that helps America more than it helps Israel. Giving Israel $320 billion helped us more than it helped. And you know what I say to that. Great, then we'll help Israel. You give us all of your technology without getting anything back from us. And you give us $320 billion because apparently it's gonna help you so much.

You're welcome. And they go, no way, no way. Israel doesn't owe you or anything. You owe Israel everything, right? Including your entire military. Merge them right away. No votes allowed. But Israel doesn't control.

My asset doesn't control. This shows you definitively that Israel controls our Congress. Note it. Note it. No, but Anna, what would you? Like the debate we have is whether it's 80, 90, or 100% controlled. So if they merge this without a vote, then yeah, okay, you could say Trump's not 100% because he sold F-35s to Turkey, but Congress, Congress has always been Israel's bitch.

To the American people, keep your boot on their necks. Okay, super last thing. Look guys, under Obama, Obama does a deal that Israel doesn't like with Iran. Okay, it's exceptions to the rule. You know, Trump's selling there, 35s is Obama doing the Iran deal. I don't know if there's a third example of a US president defying Israel. I know Kennedy did. Anyway, so now, when it comes to Congress though, as Obama was saying no to Israel,

the Democrats and Republicans were giving standing ovations to Netanyahu in Congress. They were bowing to them. Like, oh, your great leader has arrived. Who cares about stupid President Obama? And now the Republicans are like, who cares about stupid President Trump? Daniel, Israel, we bow, we bow, right? You tell me Congress isn't controlled. 94% of Congress got checks from the Israeli lobby.

It's obvious, overwhelming control. Yeah. All right, we gotta take our final break. When we come back, we'll talk about the Palestinian pediatricians. who's currently being tortured by the Israelis. Don't miss it. All right. Let's go to Super Chat.

Jonathan Boros Johnny says, happy birthday, Anna, impress your working. You're one of the clearest and sanest millennial voices in media, and I'm glad you're here. Hope you have a great year. Much love from the chat. Thank you.

It's literally 1984, writes in, why does America need Israel's concentration camp technology? That's good question. Why do we need to merge with a military that literally slaughters their own people? people with the Hannibal directive. Oh, they're so sophisticated.

The US is, you know, nothing. We're peanuts compared to the Israeli military so strong and powerful that they kill their own people. Ew, disgusting. Yeah. Absolutely disgusting. It's like saying like, no, no, no, the Nazis make the trains run on time. So we need to merge our militaries to figure out how to run the trains.

No, we could run the trains fine without merging with Nazis. Constantine Kavira says, my grandfather fought against Ottoman Empire in the first Balkan War. He was from Chios, a few generations removed from the massacre of Chios at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. So I think I speak with some weight when I say FU Netanyahu. Again, I didn't see that coming. So nice, Constantine. Make it make sense. As Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein, same, same, but different, but still same.

Uniparty, 100%. Can we get term limits slash age limits any time now? And obviously we can't because the same corrupt Congress people go, I'm not voting myself out of power. I still have checks to cash and I still have foreign governments and corporations to serve. Momo Quant says, happy birthday, Anna. You're one of the toughest and best. Thank you. Overthinker final boss says about planner. Do you think he'll find a defamation lawsuit? It's in YouTube super chat. Women AF says third degree chess.

Okay, screw that one up. We'll be back. All right. Back on TYT. Jane can Anna with you guys? Anna, you got a tweet there? I sure do. This was sent to me by our producer Jeptha. And I love it. So this is a post on X by Representative Thomas Massey. I thought it was hilarious, I wanted to share it with you all. He says, I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning. And then he says, he said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel,

stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he's really sorry about how my primary turned out. Well, if we're making up conversations about our, you know, what Mitch McConnell said, why not? Oh, like no one believes Scott Jennings. No, no one. Everyone is positive. He's a giant liar because he has a track record of being a giant liar. 100%. Yeah.

All right, let's go to the next story. Israel has held a Palestinian pediatrician and tortured him for 550 days with no charges. No charges at all. Okay, and so wait until you see how badly he's been tortured. His crime, he insisted on staying with his patients who were kids who needed help during the genocide in Gaza. And Israel never forgave him for that and has been torturing him ever since. Anna's got the facts. Right, rather than abandoning his patients during mandatory evacuation orders, he insisted on staying behind at the hospital in order to provide care to his patients.

And for that, the Israelis detained him and have been torturing him ever since. In fact, we have some images to share with you that'll prove that. Now, this doctor is Dr. Husam Abu Safia. He's the head of the Kamal-Adwan Hospital in Betlahiya, Gaza. And unsure of what the condition of that hospital is at this moment, Israel is still refusing to allow international journalists into the Gaza Strip because they probably don't want reporters to report on the annihilation of the Palestinian people and the complete destruction of the Gaza strip, which of course the Israelis plan to settle soon. Now, he is a pediatrician that was on the

day of his detainment taking care of tens of critically ill children, most of whom were visibly malnourished and in urgent need of medication. Now, on October 27th, 2024, the Israeli army stormed the hospital, removed patients and staff and left the hospital burning. That's what they do. The raid put Kamal Adwan, the last remaining major hospital in the area out of service. Now, why was he arrested? What are the Israelis saying? What's the reality?

Well, Abu Shafia had been held without charge, has been held without charge by Israel. And they are, I guess, accusing him of being a member of Hamas with no evidence. With no charges, by the way. No charges. This is what they do. And there's no evidence that he's ever been associated with Hamas or to justify his detention. On June 16th of this year, Israel Supreme Court upheld the latest detention order against him, which would keep him in detention for up until October at least, but they keep renewing it, right?

So they keep renewing his detention, he keeps remaining there longer and longer. Since June 3rd, Dr. Sophia had been held in solitary confinement while continuing to be detained, or denied, I should say, access to adequate health care. And according to the Nelson, I'm sorry, the Nelson Mandela rules that limit holding someone in solitary confinement to 15 days, that's been totally ignored. That's obviously, they're holding him in solitary confinement for longer periods of time. So I want to show you what his current condition is. You're going to see the before image of him and then the after image of him.

And by the way, there are also videos of him looking malnourished and clearly in poor condition. So after being transferred, he was able to speak to his lawyer and the doctor told the lawyer, quote, this is the last time you will see me. They brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end. Now his sons also reported seeing their father in an unrecognizable condition. Let me read you what Elias Abu Safia had to say.

My father was unable to breathe. My father was unable to speak. His face was disfigured from the marks of torture and pain, especially after the last court session held in Jerusalem at the Supreme Court. We still call out, plead, appeal, and beg to all the free people of the world and to everyone with an atom of humanity in their heart to save my father's life before it's too late. The big crime is that he wouldn't evacuate a hospital and abandon his patients who were literally children.

For that crime, the Israelis detained him. And physicians for human rights, Israel documented what's been going on. So according to Dr. Abu Safia, after a hearing in his appeal at the Israeli Supreme Court, four to five officers entered his cell and beat him across his body with a hammer and batons. He said that similar violence has since become a daily occurrence, causing him to lose consciousness several times over the previous week. His attorney reported that the doctor arrived at their most recent meeting with both his hands and feet cuffed and accompanied by masked guards.

He observed fresh bruising across the doctor's body, including on his head and around his eyes, ears, and neck injuries so severe that he could barely recognize him. Let me just read one more during the meeting. The doctor had difficulty breathing and speaking, appeared extremely weak and struggled to remain seated without falling. On several occasions, he leaned backward, raising fears that he was about to lose consciousness. He's not alone, by the way. There are many others held.

82 other healthcare workers are still languishing in Israeli prisons. Yep. So when you arrest someone without charges and you keep him for nearly two years and never charge him, that means there are no charges and he's just a hostage. He's not a prisoner, he's not a detainee, he's a hostage. And as Anna pointed out, 82 other healthcare professionals who are hostages of Israel. But you probably don't know this, not your fault because national media here are disgusting propagandas for Israel.

They're kind of the gobles that covers up all of Israel's crimes. So they never told you, do you know that Israel takes thousands of hostages? So when the Israelis were taking hostage on October 7th, it was the most important thing in the history of the world and those hostages had to be brought back. Palestinians are taking hostage and our media goes, who cares? They're not even human. They're not precious Israelis. They're irrelevant.

Wait, it's not just Palestinians. Do you know that they kidnapped a 16 year old American kid? And Muhammad Ibrahim and they put him in one of these dungeon chambers. He developed a disease. He was malnourished. People were worried that he was going to die. And luckily in that case, Senator Van Hollen and some other angels here in America made such a big deal out of it. We tried in our own ways, we try to help as well through Operation Hope that we do here at TYT.

But I think Senator Van Hollen had by far the biggest impact. And he was able to get that teenage, innocent American kid out of one of these gulags, one of these concentration camps that Israel runs. But they were, and we've reported in the past in human rights groups, including Israeli human rights groups, have reported tons of rape in these facilities, women being raped by the guards, men being raped by the guards. Gang raped in fact. Gang raped.

dogs doing raping of the detainees and hostages, etc. It is a sick, vicious, fascist government. We're being forced to fund it. And look, even if Dr. Abu Safia somehow miraculously survives, and that would be amazing, and we should all do our best to try to make that happen, he will have been tortured for two years straight by these fascists. And we funded his torture. We fund those torture chambers where they keep.

all those innocent Palestinian hostages. And our media is so disgustingly racist and bigoted that they think, who cares? Just stupid Americans and stupid Palestinians and Arabs, their lives have no value at all. Only precious Israelis count. I can't be disgusted enough with our media. And I just have to say the international doctors who literally risk their lives to provide care to Palestinians in Gaza, these are the real heroes. Knowing what's happening to healthcare workers, knowing what's happening to journalists,

knowing what's happening to literal children, toddlers in some cases, who have gunshot wounds to the head and chest, these doctors still show up. They still risk their lives, they still provide care. Those are the people who keep me going. Because honestly, dealing with this level of evil day in and day out with the job that we do, It makes you want to give up on humanity, but there are, honestly, most humans are good. Unfortunately right now, not a lot of them are in the Israeli government or the IDF. Yeah, those doctors, both the Palestinians and the Americans that go into Gaza to save

those kids and save those people, absolute angels. I mean, you can't find better or bigger angels than that. And at the very opposite end of that spectrum is every cable news anchor in America who are all disgusting terrorist lovers who bury all this news for you guys never ever reported so that you'll be diluted and tricked and manipulated, deceived into supporting Israel, the terrorist state, as they torture people with our money. We're looking at you, Danabash. We're looking at you, not even challenging a literal war criminal wanted by the international

criminal court on your airwaves just today. We're looking at you. And in fact, Danabash, Netanyahu starts attacking Haley, Stevens because she's not been sufficiently slavish enough to Israel, even though she's funded by APEC, et cetera. And Dana Bash steps in and goes, no, no, no, no, you're better off with her winning. Wait, why are you advocating for the Israelis when you're supposed to be a reporter challenging the prime minister of Israel?

We know. No, we know. There's so, no, and has Danabash talked about the genocide? She would never call it a genocide because she's not an objective reporter. She's a propagandist for Israel. Has she talked about the 23,000 dead children than her beloved Israel slaughtered? Has she talked about all the torture that's going on in the Israeli prison system? Has she talked about the Palestinian hostages?

Has she talked about the brutal, oppressive 58-year occupation of the Palestinians? No, because she doesn't care about them. She thinks they're inferior to her, and they're not at all important. They're barely even human. The only people that matter to Dana, and to be fair to Dana, almost every case, news anchor in America is the Israelis and only the Israelis. So that's a fact, they never covered this, they covered up because they're monsters. 100%.

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