The Young Turks - Scott Jennings Crashout - May 1, 2026

Episode Date: May 2, 2026

Trump claims the U.S. has “already won” the Iran war while pushing for an even bigger victory, as Washington braces for a looming War Powers deadline that could force Congress to approve or block continued military action. Tensions flared on CNN as Scott Jennings and Adam Mockler clashed over the administration’s goals, while a Trump family–linked drone company reportedly secured a U.S. weapons deal, intensifying concerns over political and military overlap. 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 Go to cookunity.com/tyt or enter code TYT before checkout to get 50% off your first order. Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: John Iadarola, 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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So Trump says the war in Iran is over. To what degree is that a lie? How colossal is that lie? We'll get to that soon. And then speaking of colossal, huge corruption from the Trump brothers. Eric and Don Jr. will tell you about that. Good news, though, polls are bottoming out for Donald Trump. I mean, wow.

Wait till you see his own voters under the age of 35. I mean, so it's cratering. And then more confessions from Israel supporters about, oh, yeah, we definitely do control the media. Thank you for letting us know. I don't know if they're going to yell trope at themselves, but looking forward to finding out. And at 8 o'clock Eastern, after a two-hour amazing show, we're not done yet. Tom Steyer in the studio, one of the leading candidates for governor in California. At this point, I think he is number one.

So he's going to join us right here on the set. All right, John, let's get started. Okay, well, we got a lot to cover. So why don't we jump right into some news on Iran, the war that. might already be done? But looking at the Iran war, haven't you already won? I mean, isn't it? I mean, we've already won, but I want to win by a bigger margin.

But we have, we already, we have destroyed their Navy, destroyed their Air Force, destroyed all of their, if you look at their anti-aircraft equipment, their radar equipment, their leadership, their leadership is destroyed. We've destroyed everything. If we leave right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild if they ever could rebuild. But it's not, it's actually not good enough. I've already won everything. I just want to destroy a little bit more.

Really, come on, which boomer still believes this guy? I mean, well, you'd have to be really out of your damn mind to believe anything he said. So, no, we haven't destroyed all their Navy. That's why they keep planting mines. in the strait of war moves and that's why it's not open. Two-thirds of their air force is still intact, which is shocking and all that leaked by his own vice president. But the main question is, why is Donald Trump at this point, and this is a very important

point, pretending that the war is over when it is nowhere near over? In fact, he just rejected a peace plan by Iran. So, John, tell us all about it. Yeah, I'm sure that'll be followed up by another one soon. After all, the Iranians are so desperate to end this thing. But yeah, there's multiple reasons really why Donald Trump is lying in the way that he is. There's the copium that he's been doing for quite some time. But we've also about to hit a special date.

So according to CNN, the war in Iran, which Donald Trump of course started without getting approval from Congress, without even apparently letting Congress know that he was about to start an incredibly consequential and expensive and stupid war. It's about to hit it's 60th day or did today. I guess we're in the 60th day today. So why is that important? Well, first of all, it's important because they told you on day one that it would take two to three weeks. So never forget that they've been lying to you about the timeline from the very beginning. But it's also important because of the law.

Under the War Powers Act of 1973, the president has 60 days to conduct military action in response to an imminent threat or an attack on the United States if Congress has not voted to authorize a war. Without explicit congressional authorization, the law says that once that deadline has reached, the president, quote, shall terminate any use of the United States to armed forces. To be clear, this 60 day timeframe is based on when Trump unnotified Congress of the hostilities. So a couple little interesting notes about that. First though, the text of the law, the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing the armed forces into hostilities and explain the scope, justification, and likely duration of the effort. In his notification to Congress about Iran, Trump, like other presidents, said he committed

troops under a president's inherent authority in the Constitution to conduct United States foreign relations. A purposeful misreading of the Constitution, which clearly makes the legislature and control of military action. They've just taken that power for themselves. So when should the clock have started? Well, some are saying it should have started on February 28th when the hostilities actually started.

You could say it's two days after that, but either way, we're at the 60 day mark right now. Now sort of interestingly, it says that he was supposed to initially explain the scope, justification, and likely duration. He has not really done that to this point. It's been two months. He keeps changing what the scope and the scope in the the purpose of all of this is. And also bear in mind, the reason for him to be able to briefly use the military without going to Congress is because of an imminent threat or attack in the United

States, which of course never existed in the first place. So I think a case could easily be made that he's been in violation of the War Powers Act from the very beginning, both the intent and the letter of the law, but he also appears to be violating the incredibly lenient 60-day timeline that he's been given. So what's going to be done about it? What's going to be done about it? Well, lawmakers are debating. Some lawmakers say, okay, so if Friday, May 1st was a 60th day, then maybe we should do something. Some Senate Republicans argue that that should mark a, quote, inflection point when Congress must step in. Oh boy, I'm sure they're ready to use all that great power they have in the Senate. They've been so deferential. Remember,

they rejected an opportunity to require Trump to come before them before hostilities against Cuba. So they have a terminal case of not wanting to do just about anything these days. But anyway, let's talk now about the ceasefire that supposedly is going on right now. So they're claiming that that pauses the timeline or resets the timeline or something like that. And there are a few issues with that. So the first is Bruce Fine, a U.S. constitutional and international law expert and former associate deputy attorney general, said the resolution, the War Powers Act never says anywhere. The 60-day deadline to receive congressional approval for military action stops if there's a ceasefire.

He warned that such an interpretation turns the resolution into simply a paper tiger. Ironically, I think it would be just the latest reason that it's just a paper tiger. Like we've literally never used it to stop a conflict. But he is right that it is nowhere in the law says that you can just stop it with a ceasefire. One could also make the case that we barely have a ceasefire. We're still blockading them, which is an act of war. They're still blockading the Strait of Ormoos, which is an act of war. We've seized ships.

They've seized ships. What part of this seems like peace has been achieved in our time? But this seems to be a compelling argument to some of the dumbest people in America, like Donald Trump, but also Pete Hagseth. Take a look. We're right at the 60-day deadline. Is the president intending to either seek congressional authorization for the war in Iran or send us the legally required certification that he needs an additional 30 days to remove U.S. forces from the war? Ultimately, I would defer to the White House and White House counsel on that. However, we are in a ceasefire right now, which our understanding means the 60 day clock

pauses or stops in a ceasefire. So you're not in. It's our understanding, just so you know. Okay, well, I do not believe the statute would support that. I think the 60 days runs maybe tomorrow. We'll be back with the news. But first, I want to tell you about something that's made my day a lot easier. And that's Cook Unity.

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explaining that this was their stance. But to be clear, Mike Johnson already was interviewed earlier today and he said the same thing. The war is over. They're saying hostilities have terminated even though they haven't. Jank, what do you think? Yeah, okay. So let's just skip all the lies. Is he in violation of the War Powers Act, of course, is the war illegal, of course? Is it unconstitutional for the president to go to war without a declaration of war? Of course, is he passed to 60 days now? Of course. Oh, we stopped counting when Roseanne got taken off the air, because we thought that was unfair.

Okay, none of that makes any sense, okay? So that's kind of obvious. To me, the real questions are twofold job. So number one is I'm back to, I don't know what's gonna happen. We have to leave the war, and this is how you do it, you just come home, okay? You just make the simplest deal with the Iranians. Saving face, who cares, right? So I mean, Trump's gonna pretend he cares, but it's an easy way to get past that.

Here, I'll give Trump rare, helpful advice for him. Just make a crappy deal and then lie about it. And just tell all the, you know, the Fox News viewers, the whatever fans you have left, right? Oh yeah, we had won greatly in Iran, we made them open up the straight of Hormuz. Like, they won't know that it wasn't closed before. That Sean Anna never told them. So come home, come home. That's also super clear, and he's got to do it.

But is he going to it? And I don't know. I mean, this is, to me, now this has become one of the big, big mysteries. Like I was convinced last week Anna got me to believe for good logical empirical reasons and the data we had at that point. No, no, we're going back in, right? Now I'm like Trump really seems kind of desperate to avoid it because it is, it will be an economic disaster and it will totally obliterate his administration if it isn't already obliterated. So there's like if you're looking at it strictly from a Trump perspective, let alone an American perspective, you would have to be beyond crazy, beyond emotionally and psychologically disturbed to go back into this war. Because then, because guys, one last thing that's important about this, so you understand the context.

He's kept the market together with duct tape by like every day coming on and going, it's almost over. Do you don't, no, no, no, oil prices go down, go down. They shot down, don't worry, don't worry, oil is totally fine. The war's fine, everything, pieces blooming everywhere. I'm a hippie now. I'm hanging out with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield and we're wearing woodstock. And the markets are like, okay, bro, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we believe you, we believe you.

But if it turns out we go back to bombing, then they're gonna go, oh, okay, and the market's going to crash and all those things are gonna happen and way worse than he even anticipates. So then the question remains that that's left, if that's not a question, Question what is, is he fully and utterly controlled by Israel? Do they have blackmail on him? Because that's the only reason to go back in, period, period, right? So if we don't go back in, hey, maybe they didn't have the blackmail. And maybe he was just an idiot and got talked into it by the Israelis plus the bribes and all that stuff.

But thank God they don't have the blackmail. Let's get the hell out of there, right? If he does go back in, they definitely have the blackmail. And then economic calamity will ensue. So the second part, John, is of course, how it's affecting his own voters. So Democrats were never in question. He never had any of them, never going to get any of them. Independence, bye, bye, right?

Gone. 70% of them are against the war, 61% of the whole country. Not just against the war. Say the war was a mistake, okay? And it's like, at Iraq, at the height of the violence in mid-2006, when the Republicans got shall lack in the midterms and everybody's furious with Iraq war. 59% of America's thought the Iraq war was a mistake. Two months in, we're already at 61% a higher number in Iran.

But now let's dive into his own voters because I hear all over the internet and TV. Oh, he hasn't lost a single MAGA voters. So we're not one Trump voter. They're all in a cult. Okay, let's go to graphic 10. Among younger supporters, just 57% of Trump voters under 35, now approve of his job performance, marking a major drop from the near universal support he enjoyed among his coalition at the beginning of his term. Okay, the drop is a whopping 35 points from 92% approval rating he enjoyed among his youngest voters at the start of 2025.

On the other hand, he's still hanging on to the over 50 voters, but even there's some erosion. There are 87% of Trump voters, ages 50 and older still approve of his performance. So, but on the war, only 79% of the over 50 approved the performance. So on the war, he's even lost 20% of the zombies. They're like, Sean Hannity says it's a great idea, but I'm paying so much more for everything. I don't know, we said no war, but Gutfeld's. says we should do war. I don't know. So like 20% of those guys are against the war, which for Trump and his older base is still a remarkable number. But as Harry Anton would say, you lost 35 points

of on your younger words. Going down. Down, down. Yeah, that is, that's falling off a cliff. So has he lost some of his own voters? Yeah, yeah. The question is, you know, how much does care or does he ever care? I mean, he does wildly unpopular things that even a dullard would know would lose him support. He doesn't seem to be bothered by. And he and the Republicans seem to have made the decision a long time ago that to the extent that they care about the electoral ramifications of any of this, the only thing that they are willing to try to do to offset the damage they're doing is to manipulate the system, rig things, gerrymander, get the SCOTUS to rule on their behalf. They don't really seem to be even trying to sell anything to the people.

So I'm very concerned about that. I don't rule out the potential motivations that you sketched out for why he might go back into Iran. But I also don't think that they're the only potential explanations. I mean, you see all these insider accounts coming from inside the administration by senior administration officials that he is talking about himself like he's homelander, saying I'm the most powerful person who has ever lived. I will craft the future with just my will. I can do and accomplish anything. He's out of his mind, Jank. Like it was it was very stupid to start this war to begin with. It was stupider to continue it. And to go back in would be madness, economic madness. But remember, it was stupid to start the tariffs when he did. They've done

massive damage. Then the Supreme Court swept in and said, you know what, actually, let us save you here. The tariffs are gone. And rather than take that, he put them back in another form. His approval rating on inflation was so bad that I don't know if you saw, it was one of the cable news networks had to create a new graph for it because his approval rating didn't fit on the prior one. So he is willing to double down on wildly unpopular moves for seemingly no reason. But let's talk about this one because hypothetically the Senate could get involved. One would say they have an obligation, a responsibility to get involved. That is their constitutional role. They were reminded of that with the War Powers Act. But the best that we can get at this

point from Republicans is like Tom Tillis saying, I felt like the war powers resolution says in 60 days you have to take some action. We need to start talking with the administration and in cooperation with them to get an authorization for the use of military force so the American people understand the Congress is behind what the president is trying to do. He's one of the critical ones and all he's saying is we'll come to them hat in hand and just help the people to know that we support this stupid unpopular war as much as Donald Trump does. When from my point of view, Shank, like if there was every reason for the war powers, I mean, there's been a lot of stupid conflicts we've gotten involved with. This one was needless, okay, there was no reason to go.

There was no imminent war or anything. He could have gotten authorization from this, from the Republicans in the Senate and the House. He's just choosing not to. It's It's wildly expensive. We've already lost Americans. We've killed tons of civilians. He cannot articulate a good reason for us to be in the war. It's wildly expensive. It was unpopular on day one, less popular every day since then. As you have pointed out, I know. It is now less popular than Vietnam or Iraq, which is mind-boggling. If there is ever a call for the Senate to actually like step in, like wiggle a little bit, you know, exert some sort of energy, some sort of power. They're allowing him to pursue a stupid, costly unpopular war.

And the best they can do is say, well, maybe we can co-sign a letter with him. They should, they should, again, there's a lot that they should do that clearly they're not going to do. And it's very frustrating to see that as always, other than one or two Republicans, Marjorie Green, I guess, every other Republican in elected office is an utter sub to Donald Trump, despite how catastrophically unpopular he is. The spell has broken. He should not have a stranglehold on the party or on the movement. Some would say he doesn't and yet they're still acting as if he doesn't. It's incredibly frustrating. Yeah, so I think, you know, is he crazy? Well, of course, he's always been crazy. And is he an extra level of crazy now? Sure, but like I still sub view that as a relative constant. But the reason why I think that he blackmail is a very significant possibility is because

He clearly doesn't want to continue the war because at every time that he had an opportunity is, you know, he does these fake deadlines. So I will destroy everyone in Iran and Paraguay at the same time tomorrow at noon, right? And then tomorrow comes and it's 1155. He's like, I changed my mind. They've conceded the Paraguayans and the penguins have conceded. So I will now extend the deadline. And he's done that like three times now, right?

Okay, fine, the ceasefire is permanent, but not permanent. I will destroy them, plus I need more time, okay? So he doesn't want to re-engage because the minute you start bombing the oil facilities again, again, economic calamity ensues, and apparently someone's talked him into that, so he's worried, right? So is it that he's crazy or is it that he's controlled? Well, a little bit of both, right? And like on the crazy front, the tariffs, he did it again.

He, he, like, oh, the Europeans, I'm mad at them. Plus, the Israelis told me that I have to get out of Navido so they can attack Turkey. So, oh, tariffs are back up to 25%. Like, but that's why we told you not to elect them. Electing a madman is no matter how frustrated you are, not a great idea. And charge of the largest military the world has ever seen in the entire country, et cetera. But bottom line is for Congress in what you're talking about, John. Look, they're pathetic.

They, they, I need you guys to get this out of your head. There's almost no one in Congress who's like, what's the right thing to do? Okay, what they look at is the polling, the donors, and then they make a calculation. They are cold calculating cowards and they have no morals, they have no principles, they have no guiding philosophy at all, and I swear to you that I'm not exaggerating. So there's about 5% of Congress that does, Bernie Sanders, Thomas Massey, etc. But 95% are like, where's the check? Where's my power?

Where is it? Where's my ego? Right? So the only way to move them, and I literally talked to a senator in Washington recently, and he confirmed this, the only thing they care about is fear, fear of losing their own power. So if you don't throw the bums out, they're never going to do the War Powers Act. They're never going to stop the war.

They're never going to do anything but kiss Trump's ass and Israel's ass. So you have to throw out all the incumbents. If you don't do that, then don't complain about Congress. If you haven't gone to your primary and voted against an incumbent, then you had it coming. Because this government is 95% corrupt and will never represent you. So why on God's green earth would you ever vote for any of these guys? No, if you're not voting in the primaries to get them out, then the war will continue and Israel will control the rule it will continue to rule us.

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to do their job. So only we can do that. And, you know, so when you have people that utterly give up their power to the least qualified man in history, when you have a Senate that's filled with geriatrics, like the answer at the end of the day very often is, why have we allowed this? Now, of course, you know, there's money in politics, there's the corrupt media, there's structural protections against, you know, challenges and stuff, there's all of that. But at the end of the day, we still have to want to change to get a change. So I agree with you there. Well, you were talking earlier about some

Trump motivation for potentially continuing this war. We're going to take a break. But when we come back, Scott Jennings is going to utterly crash out on CNN after some of what Jenk has been talking about gets brought up by Adam Mockler after this. All right, so you got a message for John Idroll? Tell him to be nice to me. So first of all, hey, we got John to be nice, sir. You heard that audio graphic there that we played at Marjorie Taylor Green. And but I do have to do a small correction for John, and bigger corrections for me. So he said Marjorie Taylor Green is pretty much the only one against Trump, but she's

not in Congress anymore. Yeah, yeah, but Massey is. So there is that. Bessie. Yeah, and the corrections for me are Tom Steyer's on remote, not in studio, but he is at 8 o'clock Eastern, and he is not leading in the latest poll. He's one point behind, he's the leading Democrat, and he's one point behind a Republican who's currently leading the governor's race in California.

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Wait, one more time. Not going your way. One political concession. He made one political. Whoa, what the hell was that? Why did he get so upset over that? So when I saw the headline, I'm like, I can't wait to watch this tape and maybe we'll have to Zerpuder film it. The hand goes up and to the left, up and to the left, right?

His hand wasn't even close to Scott Jennings face. So what you're gonna see in this story is why Scott, the real reason Scott Jennings caught feelings over that. And one has to do with what happened in the segment. The other has to do with something that didn't happen on that set at all. It's actually something that was related to a guy we had on the show yesterday. Huh, interesting. Let's find out.

Fascinating, yes. Okay, so that was yesterday's edition of CNN News Night where Scott Jennings was having a difficult time. Jank is probably in this segment going to be pretty critical of Scott Jennings. I'm going to try to balance things out by pointing out that Scott Jennings was forced to sit next to Adam Mochler, who's not only a good debater, but definitely has the vibe of a person who randomly punches people without any notice whatsoever. So Scott Jennings had probably been terrified for some time. He'd already voided his bladder an hour earlier. And at any sense, second, he might get hit by Adam Mockler. So anyway, I don't know if it's something happening at home

that's bothering him, why he's so easily triggered Scott Jennings, but it was a bad day for him. And not just because of the fear of physical violence, he also did a really bad job of making his case, or I should say, making Donald Trump's case, because Scott Jennings is not contractually allowed to have his own opinions. Anyway, let's go back to Adam McClure in the case that he wants to make with rhetoric, not with fista cuffs. Here he is. Donald Trump is very impressive. He's taken his two largest campaign promises, no new wars and lower prices ending inflation, and he's messed both of them up.

He started a new war that spiked inflation, and now this war is actively failing. An interesting statistic is that Americans have spent collectively $23 billion extra dollars on the gas pump, and that's money that could have gone towards daycare, towards childcare. We'll sit here and you'll laugh at Americans spending money, but the reality is we are failing this war. The purpose of a war is to extract political concessions from the enemy. Can you name a single political concession we've gotten from them? Anything at all? Are you talking to any political concession? So you can't name one. So here's what we're doing. No political concessions. When you get up past your bedtime, you get hyper. Here's the deal. What is the idea that Adam Mockler's really

young is supposed to undercut his point? It just makes you look even worse vis-a-vis Adam Mockler that he made a great point. He could have gone even further and he could have thrown in that Donald Trump implied that he was going to bring to justice the worst sexual predator of American history. And instead it was exposed to how compromised he was by that same network of potential blackmail. But he brought up the war. He brought the inflation. Those are both devastating points. And Scott Jennings's entire reason for being is to go up there and just say what I don't know, Carolyn Levitt will say the next day. And he had nothing. He had nothing. Okay, he's going to try, I guess. Why don't why don't we hear a little bit from him? We have a clear issue here.

We have a clear issue here. No nuclear weapons for the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Period. Full stop. The president believes, and he may be right, I spoke to a retired rear admiral today, Mark Montgomery, who's at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. They think the blockade is actually more effective than the military campaign. And a little patience on the blockade here where we cripple the Iranian economy, where we kill their currency, which, is happening as we speak, where we put pressure on China because they need to get their oil flowing again. A little bit of patience right here, not bombs, but patients on a naval blockade could get the outcome you want, which is no nuclear weapons for the largest state sponsor of terror. And you've been saying this for eight weeks, and we are now past the four to six week deadline. Where is the enriched uranium right now?

It's under rubble. Where is it right now? In the United States or Iran. Iran still has the enriched uranium. They still have the scientists scattered across their country and they have all the blueprints in the cloud. And obviously we'd all be better off of the JCPOA had never been taken away. And yeah, that was just that was pathetic, that was facile, it was just didn't he's got nothing. Donald Trump did not campaign jank on no nuclear weapons for Iran and I will do or kill anyone I need to to make sure that doesn't happen. I'll go to war if I have to, I'll tank the economy if I have to. That is not what he campaigned on because had he tried to campaign in that way

he would not be president right now. Scott Jennings, of course, on some level, knows that, but his job requires him to pretend to not understand it. What do you think? Yeah, so Scott Jennings is a fascinating caricature on television, right? So he has to both be completely wrong and completely condescending at the same time. It's a tough, you know, act to pull off. So, you know, big ups to Scott. So he's like, everybody knows. This is about nuclear enrichment. Did you know that? They're not allowed to have nukes.

Hey brother, I know, yes, again, sorry older voters and viewers. This is not about you, okay? But people who are watching cable news are like on average about 70 years old. And so for, although I don't know why they haven't caught on. From the time you were 30 to the time you're 70, Israel's been telling us that Iran is about to have a nuke in a couple of weeks. And they still believe it, right? So I guess that's why he's saying it on CNN. But no one else believes that.

That is the most ridiculous. Oh, do you do do, do, do, do, do, do we're about to have nukes. And Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. It's not because they're the top enemy of Israel, not at all. No, did, do you want him have a nuke? Okay, come on, man. There's some Condoleezza Rice throwback nonsense, okay? So it's embarrassing.

So, and then, you know, we're winning. What are we winning? The blockade is working. Working for what? Is our gas prices lower? What does it mean that it's winning and it's working? And what did we gain out of it? So Adam asked exactly the right question.

What concessions have we gotten from the Iranians? And the answer is literally zero. In fact, since the war has begun, Iran has gone from potentially conceding things to asking for more things. They're like now we're gonna charge for you going through the Strait of Hormuz. Thanks a lot for the war, now we can make $2 million a ship. That's our new concession. It's not a concession, it's the exact opposite.

And that's why Trump's flailing around. And he's like, I reject the author, and I'm winning, we almost won. So okay, fine. So Scott has to mimic Trump, but in the annoying, condescending way that he does on it. Okay, but there's a second entity that Scott Jennings works for, not just Trump. In fact, just the night before on Wednesday night, he was on with Ryan Grimm in a different panel and Ryan was on with us last night. And I want you to watch this clip and I didn't know a part of this.

And so this is what might have actually got under Scott Jennings' skin. And so the very next night that he's on, he's itching to launch on someone because he had no answer for what Ryan said here. Watch. This is not personal. But there is so much kind of money pouring in to push us in that direction. Even Salem Media

where you do your show, right? Brad Parscale, who is the chief strategy officer there, is a registered foreign agent for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Like this is an American, I think it's American, right?

Salem, yeah. It's an American media company whose chief strategy officer is a foreign agent registered for the state of Israel. And 30% of this company is owned by Lara Trump and Don Trump Jr. Like what? So before we're talking about like who, you know, what is America? Who should be an American? It's like, or can we as Americans discuss this? Let's get Scott's response.

Yeah, so you seem to have some issue with Israel having a presence in the United States or even on, even on American. I think we should be sanctioning. Even in. Yes. Even on American universities. I think they should be sanctioned. Yes. That was a right wing crowd.

They're speaking at young Americans for freedom. And it rise like, yeah, of course I have a problem with Israel. They should be sanctioned. They're like, ah, it's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, right, everybody bowed in Israel. Why aren't you bowing? Why are you bowing? Salem, have I done well? Dear overlord Mossad agent that I work for, have I done well on television?

I pushed the Americas into war. I don't know why the right wing kids won't go along. You're supposed to die for Israel. That's what I get paid for. And so when he sees another young guy, Adam Mockler, and now embarrassing him on national television, he's like, that's why he's like, get your head away from me, you young weper, stop her. You won't even kneel to Israel. I've been kneeling Israel my whole life.

Why won't you guys do it? Why am I the only one humiliated like this? That's my sense of it, John. The only other thing I want to add is when Ryan Grimm points out, yeah, it is a little bit strange that the chief strategist would be a registered foreign agent for a foreign government's foreign policy. And he's like, but it seems like you don't want Israel to have a presence. Well, first of all, how about they have a presence in their own government? They can have that and we can have a presence in our government. How about that?

any like Israeli media companies that are owned by US foreign agents? Like I have a feeling not. And as you always say, I mean, what if you, what if it was a different country where like this big up and coming media outlet, it turns out has a registered for agent as Turkey or Mauritania or Estonia or what, like the only one that you're supposed to pretend it's not highly suspicious would be is if it's, they're getting paid by Israel. And he has to, again, it's just, he pretends so much, it's got to be so exhausting to be him to never be able to say anything you authentically to believe, to constantly have to remember the long list of things that the person who pays your checks forces you to say and forces you to pretend is reasonable, it's got to be exhausting.

Okay, last thing, it's like John, I'll run with your analogy, right? Like Kazakhstan gives money to 94% of our Congress and Kazakhstan has gotten us to invade Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, right? And they're like, no, no, no, it's a coincidence. And Kazakhstan's gotten $300 billion from us. Then Kazakhstan does a genocide. We go, please, please, both the Democratic president and the Republican president say, please let us pay for the murder of all those Tajik's, right?

It's our pleasure, it's our honor to do it. And then Kazakhstan loyalists have bought off like 80% of our media, have foreign agents running at radio stations, et cetera. And then somebody goes, oh, so you got an issue with people from Kazakhstan? No, brother, I have an issue with Kazakhs. My issue is that in that analogy, they bought our entire government and our media and are driving us to spend trillions of dollars for their maniacal wars. And if you can't understand, Scott Jennings, of course understands that. He's a bot bitch.

That's why he's like, oh, are you an anti-Sama? Did I do well, Daddy? Did I do well, Daddy? Did I get my? Check daddy. Where's Israel's foreign agent? I need to report to him. Yeah, that's what we have a problem with, Scott. 100%. Okay. Yeah, we should probably take our last break of the hour. But as we do, just consider if you found out that like Brett Erlich registered for an agent of, imagine if you found out about TYT. Anyway, okay. Well, with that said, we're going to take a short break. Last board to get after this. versus taco truck salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one.

For Jeff, trying any salsa is like playing Russian roulette with a flamethrower. Luckily, Jeff saved with Amazon and stocked up on antacids, ginger tea, and milk. Habaniero? More like habanier, yes. Save the everyday with Amazon. TYT, let's go to Dr. Gonzo in the t yt.com member section. John has been on fire this week and I'm here for it. Me too, brother, I'm also here for it. Are you sure Jank done it this way, right, sin? Has a date and placement set for the upcoming first annual

TYT damage report golf tournament? I think that $500 fee is fair and as long as it includes a raffle for autographed TYT stuff and lunch with the celebrities. And I also think that that causes one that we can all get behind. the money raise will be used to purchase Jenks dream of a monster truck that he can drive through and over the employee cars in the parking lot at MSNBC CNN and a Fox. Oh my God. That is a spectacular idea.

Yeah, it's smart. There you go, all right, well, you know what, we're gonna, the brain trust over here, including the foreign agent Brett Ehrlich, we'll think that over. And also, by the way, Brett reminded me, no, I, this is correction. Friday, apparently. We are not on X today. We'll go back on there. But you know what? If we are not on X, no one on X was offended because they didn't see it. Okay, anyways, patience says today, but we are on Substack. So check us out on Substack. Patience says, today I drove through a town that is pretty purple in a very red county. At the square on every corner

there were protesters, mostly seniors, uh-huh, jank, holding signs and cheering at all the people honking at them as they drove by. They were protesting the war and calling out the government for bankrolling Israel's genocidal expansion. I'm reading this blind, I love it. And the best part is that there's a barber right down from there who used to put out Trump signs, but now he has out one signs and it says, loyalty to the Constitution, not the president, the revolution will be bipartisan. Mm.

Mm. Love. New show, The Young Turks, Jank you were John Adola with you guys. Hey guys, I read comments during the ad breaks if you're on the TYT member stream. So the way to become a member on TYs, tYT.com slash join. And one of our members just had a super encouraging note from a purple district where they've totally turned against Trump and are protesting him and saying follow the Constitution. So I love that.

Wanted to share with everybody. And if you're a YouTube member, guys, no problem. You already paid for membership. Go connect your account at t.yt.com slash connect. And then you could be in the TYT member stream and get the comments I'm reading as well. All right, John, what's next? Okay, let's jump into yet more Trump regime corruption. The U.S. Air Force just bought an unknown amount of drones from a company called Power Us.

The drones are said to be used to effectively counter enemy drones. And that obviously is relevant with Iran using drones so much in this conflict. And as of right now, we haven't had the capability to easily and cheaply counter those drones. So that's, of course, what the company now selling us, that capability is saying, specifically through Brett Velokovic, the company's co-founder and president. So that all sounds fine and good, I guess. drones have become a big part of modern warfare. We see it in Ukraine. We're seeing it in Iran as well.

Here is the issue and perhaps the catch. That company is backed by President Donald Trump's two perhaps least favorite sons, Eric and Don Jr. Jank, are you surprised? Oh my God. His own sons are making money off the government and the Pentagon gave them the contract instead of a qualified vendor? That is so surprising. You know what Hunter Biden is thinking right now? Why did I think of that?

So what you're going to see in this story is massive corruption. And I want to tell you about not just this project, but several different projects that Trump's kids are doing and how much they're robbing us blind. 100%. I thought the exact same thing. Remember when a president's son being on a board was scary and suspicious, but apparently not so much anymore. So let's talk more about this deal. They apparently did a demonstration in Arizona. I guess it went well. I don't know anything about the technology not necessarily working. It's just suspicious that once again money is going to be going to Donald Trump's family. The deal represents the first sale of this kind of weapon. Basically, it flies up into the air, blows up enemy drones. It's the first time that they've actually done this.

The company declined to detail the terms of the deal or the size of the contract, but the military frequently enters into such deals as it weighs whether to adopt a new weapon system. And why would we need to know the terms of the deal or how much is being spent? Why would we're not Trump's family members? We don't need information or money. We should have been born at Trump if we wanted access to these things. In any event, the war has already cost a lot. We have some inkling of how much, I guess. But here is Pete Higgsyth who's been testifying sort of throughout this week talking about the ongoing and ever-increasing cost of this stupid war. How much it will cost Americans in terms of their increased cost in gas and food over the next year because of the Iran war?

I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb. I'm going to give you that. I would simply ask you what the, you're playing got your questions about domestic things. I'm not, you're asking, you're saying it's a gotcha question to ask what it's going to be in terms of the increase. Why won't you answer what it costs to do? Do you stand by that statement you made on March 13th? We have untied the hands of our war fighters. We fight to win and we follow the law.

Okay, so you're not clarifying. So you stand by that statement. The question I would ask to you and to others is, what is the cost of a nuclear armed Iran? What is the cost to the American people if the world's most dangerous regime has a nuclear weapon? You are disparaging me that I don't care about the passing of our troops. Nope, I ask you your thought they're live. That's disparaging and smearing in every way. Nobody cares more about the fate of our troops. Nobody cares about the health of our troops.

Mr. Secretary, nobody wants to bring them all hope more than I- Mr. Secretary, I understand, but he controls the time, he controls the time. So look, with allowances for the fact that he's probably on cocaine during that hearing, I just want to remind everyone that this is not generally how Secretaries of Defense comport themselves in these sorts of hearings. These hearings, by the way are routine and mandatory. Every year they come forward and they sort of explain, usually around the time that the military defense budget is put forward.

Sort of the situation, why they need the money. Bear in mind, we are in amazing times, not only that we're in a dumb war that nobody supports, but also that they're requesting a 50% increase in the military budget. And that is the petulant, whiny way that this guy who apparently is even less qualified to be Secretary of Defense that he was to ride the couch on Fox mornings, comports himself when asked gotcha questions like how much is this costing people? So if you're Maga, if you're a conservative out there and you've perhaps started to get a little bit uncomfortable, itch a little bit over how much this is costing you, just understand that anyone who would extend empathy to you for that

situation is playing gotcha politics. They're being unfair because they apparently don't understand how valuable it is for Iran to not have a nuclear weapon, which is interesting because that's not how Fox approached it back when the JCPOA was being passed. They were so angry that we unfroze some Iranian funds. I didn't hear Sean Hannity saying, well sure, we have to give them this money, but what does it cost to stop them from having a war? That sort of argument has never been been given for single-payer health care. What does it cost for people to go through their day without the assurance that they'll have care when they need it? Is there an argument that I've ever heard of Republican except for dealing with the climate crisis?

But in this particular case, shut the hell up about the cost of the war, whether in treasure or in lives or civilians being killed or our national prestige being perhaps irreparably harmed, our soft power fading away like Thanos just snapped his fingers. Shut up about all of that because Donald Trump is terrified of Iran having a nuclear weapon. And Jank, I'll throw to you, you already know that that $25 billion figure, that's farcical. We blew through that in like the first week, restocking all of our missiles, which by the way, we're finding out more. Apparently it's an even worse situation than we thought. We are going to be spending 100, 200, 300 billion, dollars on this. They're just lying to our faces. But what do you think? Yeah, so what

Rokana asked him was how much extra is the war costing the average American through gas prices going up, inflation, et cetera. Have you calculated that? He's not saying that it's not worth it. Now, of course, he thinks it's not worth it. I think it's not worth it. But that's not what he's asking here. He's just saying, even if you think it's worth it, how much is it? Did the Pentagon calculate how much you need to spend on the war itself and then the economic costs for the average American and then go, oh, okay, I did the cost benefit analysis and it's cost this much, but I'm okay with it because of X, Y, Z, because the benefit we're going to get from the war. And the answer you got back was, oh, yeah, what if Iran nukes your ass? No, brother,

that wasn't a question. Okay, and in the whole, oh, they're going to nuke us. It's juvenile, And it's such obvious propaganda. It's super embarrassing. The Connoisse, right, said the same thing about Iraq. They're back to the same weapons of mass destruction, fake evidence. And he says at the same time, oh, you know, Scott Jennings said, confessed earlier, in a story we covered earlier in the show about how, oh yeah, the enriched uranium is buried underneath the nuclear facilities that we destroyed.

And they're about to have a nuke tomorrow? How? And besides which, they've never weaponized it, they don't have the missiles to reach us. None of that makes any sense at all, it's just garbage propaganda, right? And so for now that a bare minimum, the cost of the war itself is $25 billion, but that doesn't include the weapons and the planes and the radar systems and all that we lost, doesn't include the men we lost, and it doesn't include at least $25 billion in extra cost. that average Americans have to pay.

In fact, that's what Adam Mochler told Scott Jennings. That kind of made Jennings blow up. And so at this point, John, 40% of Americans report driving less to save money from the high gas prices. 30% of Americans report canceling vacations because of the price of the war, etc. And basically what Heggzeth and Jennings are telling you is pound sand. We don't care. Oh, and by the way, we're also going to give away some of your money to Trump's family. Whether they earned it or not, who cares? I remember he said he's going to fill the swamp and give us endless wars. Wait, I thought he said the opposite.

Exactly. Yeah, we're going to have just a little bit more corruption, but first. So you've now twice brought up that they're talking like their Condoleezza Rice. I noticed, did you see Rick Scott got interviewed about the gas prices or whatever? And he said when he was asked about the prices, he says, and is there a cost right now? It's terrible that we have higher gas prices. But the tradeoff is we're going to live in freedom and democracy. What year is it? Did you get your narrative mixed?

That's not what we're fighting. Your cover story is security. Our Constitution doesn't write on whether Tehran gets this weapon or whatever. They're not even trying to update the rhetoric and it's so frustrating. In any event. I'll jump in for one quick second on that. Like the Israelis are so cocky now, they're like, we got them by the, right? Like, so we don't have to do anything.

Hey, just give me the same talking points from Iraq. We just, it doesn't matter, there are dogs, there are servants. Scott Jennings will say it, Pete Heggseth, they'll say it, Donald Trump will say it. Yeah, it's the same warmed over BS that American people absolutely despised. But who cares about the American people? They're not at all relevant, we already bought their entire government and their entire, entire national media. Give them the same stupid talking points.

It's irrelevant. And it turns out, you know, in terms of actually getting what they want, this disastrous war, the Israelis are right. The talking points being, you know, ridiculous and retread is irrelevant because they own the powerful people in this country. The moment you've been waiting for is here. GMC's truck month is on. For a limited time, get zero percent financing for 72 months on the 2020.

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Yeah, no, you know what, though, John, that's a good point. because I know that the nuclear weapons are in the area south of Tehran, north of Tehran, east of Tehran, and west of Tehran, okay? Somewhere around there. Anyway, okay, well, why don't we fit in one more story before we close out this first hour? Lebanon has been devastated, of course, by the Israeli invasion and occupation, the conquering effectively of southern Lebanon. And although there is technically a ceasefire, it's a cessfire.

ceasefire with Israel, so it's only worth so much. The war is very much not over. And while the recent destruction in Lebanon has led to some frustration among the Lebanese with Hezbollah, which helped to spark this conflict, the New York Times went in. They spoke to a bunch of people on the ground, and what they found is a feeling of desperation that makes it kind of impossible for them to fully set Hezbollah aside. They may not like some of their moves, but they also don't like being conquered by Israel. And so it kind of puts them in a bind. And we have more, but, Jenk, what are or two cents. Yeah, so does Lebanon have a right to defend itself?

Why are we calling Hezbollah the terrorist when Israel is attacking Lebanon, not the other way around. I don't see Hezbollah in Tel Aviv, but I do see the IDF in southern Lebanon. So I have a pretty good sense of who the terrorists are, and it is Israel, and I have a lot more to say about that. But also, is it surprising that the Lebanese would then rally around? the only group defending their homes, but the morons and liars in American media are like, no, Israel is heavenly and beautiful as they had to destroy all their homes and villages.

And by the way, rob and loot all their homes and tape it. They had to do it. The disgusting terrorist has belonged, daring to defend their own homes. Don't they know those are Israeli's possessions? Yeah, as you can tell, kiss my ass American media, you liars. There's a giant terrorist called Israel. John, tell them what they're doing. And then how the Lebanese people are logically going, duh, Hezbollah is the only ones defending us.

Yeah, yeah, no, 100%. Well, let's jump into this. So when initially, Hezboa fired on Israel in March, we're to start the conflict right there. Okay, that helps the narrative. They're not doing it in response to being attacked over years by Israel. They started it right then. But anyway, okay, so that was the beginning of one round, I guess. So many among its support base questioned whether the latest outbreak of war was worth the cost.

And in the south, those costs came into plain view. A lot of people have died. A lot of buildings have been destroyed. Most of those people who have died are civilians. A lot of the buildings that have been destroyed were, there was never a suspicion that it was Hezbollah. They're just destroying residential built. They're clearing it out like they cleared out Gaza. But anyway, this was Hezbollah's second major war with Israel in just two years. And among Lebanese that eventually returned south during the ceasefire,

there was some disenchantment with the group's leadership. A consensus appeared to be emerging among the Shiite Muslims who make up Hezbollah support base that they need a new political vanguard in Lebanon. But here is the issue. They're not ready to fully set aside Hezbollah. And the way that Israel is just like entrenching into southern Lebanon makes it even less likely to happen. With Israel declaring plans to occupy the South and Lebanese government forces making no move to counter Israeli troops, people saw Hezbollah fighters as their only hope of keeping their homes and land because that's what's going on. That's the truth. There's nobody else helping them. Certainly the United States isn't helping them. So signs of the group apparently are very common

billboards of slain fighters lie in the roads, with the men's uniform portraits placed in the center of bright yellow Hezbollah flags. After the troops went into effect, hundreds gathered every day in villages to mourn Hezbollah fighters that have been killed in battle, which is hardly a sign that the population is ready to move on from this group. One woman, Rahab Tamara, said they were heroes, they were protecting us. She was at one of these funerals that had hundreds of other residents there. And so as I said right now there's like technically a ceasefire, at least enough that some Lebanese have been able to go back to their homes. But Israel has of course continued to launch strikes and what it describes as Hezbollah targets, citing the terms of the truce that allow Israel

to act in self-defense, which is always a loaded term here, Hasbullah has responded in turn, sporadically launching rockets towards Israel and it Israeli forces on Lebanese territory, while reiterating that it will not lay down its weapons. And in fact, in the run-up to this show, Israel struck southern Lebanon killing 10 people as a Hezbollah drone wounded to Israeli soldiers, which is the sort of math that we've gotten very used to in wars in this region. Jank, what do you think? Yeah, so New York Times getting a little bit better, at least like gave some context to Hezbollah in this story, so I guess I'll take it. But that first line that John read you is a constant theme in this story in every New York Times

story when Hezbollah fired on Israel in March. Now that's that's purposeful, right? So the real context of that is that they did a ceasefire, you know, after the Pager explosion, etc. And after the ceasefire came into effect and before the Iran war, Hezboa fired, how many rockets into Israel? I mean, these are the dirty terrorists, right? So they probably murder, so slaughtered and it's zero, zero bombs. They completely abided by the ceasefire. How many bombs did Israel drop in Lebanon during the ceasefire? Well, they're the good guys, they're the angels and they're just defending themselves. So of course during the ceasefire, when the other side hasn't fired at all, Israel's going to drop zero bombs, right?

over a thousand, over a thousand bombs. Okay, so there is a very clear terrorist group here, and it is obviously Israel, and they never listened to a ceasefire, they're constantly attacking their neighbors, and if it was self-defense, you go, okay, I defended myself and I go back within my borders. But look at that, hey, they just took another six miles into Lebanon, and they are planning to take all of southern Lebanon to the Latani River, and it's not me saying it's their government officials, including their defense minister saying it. So they're saying to the American press, hey, this is not self-defense.

We're gonna go murder them and take their lands in their home. And then the IDF soldiers are literally taping themselves robbing every home and bringing it back. And they're like, we're robbing them, we're the criminals. And American press is like, I don't see it. So when Hezbollah attacked in March, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? And here's another thing that the New York Times and mainstream media never ever explained to their audience on purpose, because they want to protect it. Israel. Why is all this happening in the first place? Because, oh, they hate Jews. Those

anti-Semitic terrorists, they're so irrational, those Muslim savages. Also the Christian savages, by the way, in Lebanon. But we try not to talk about that because then it'll make America angry and then Israel might have harder time robbing us. Okay, so why are they doing all this? The occupation. Israel has occupied five and a half million Palestinians for 58 brutal years. And yet the New York Times was like, what name so? Occupation never heard of it. No, they're just iraqi Palestinian terrorists. They're all irrational anti-Semites, Hezbollah for no reason.

What do you mean no reason? You know that when Israel first invaded Lebanon in 1982 because they keep invading Lebanon, at that point Lebanon hadn't done anything. And you know what, Hezbollah didn't even exist. Hezbollah came, was formed to defend Lebanon against Israel's constant invasion. And they have, they beat back Israel several times. And as they're fighting in their own territory, right now, and you know how many civilians, Hezbo is killing Israeli civilians in southern Lebanon?

Zero, because there are no Israeli civilians. They're only IDF soldiers. And in a war, you're supposed to fight the soldiers. And that's what Hezbo is doing. But our media comes in and goes, dirty savages, terrorists. But wait a minute, they're doing literally, they're defending their homes. So Israel has a right to genocide in self-defense, has a right to steal their neighbors' land in self-defense.

But the Lebanese literally, according to our press and our politicians, have no right to defend themselves. There's now Armenian Christian militias fighting Israel. Terrorist, what do you mean terrorist? Dick, what do you mean terrorist? He's like, he's taking my home, he's taking my crap, he's taking my car, he's taking my car, He's taking everything I've got and he's videotaping it and he's bragging about it. I'm not allowed to fight him.

Should I just show up and have him murder me? And our press is like, of course, you're dirty Christian and Muslim terrorist. Don't you know that you have to serve Israel and get slaughtered by them? Otherwise, we're going to call you terrorists and blame you for it. No, Israel is an 83% civilian kill ratio, the worst of any terrorist organization in the world. And much worse than Hamas or Hezbollah. If we actually care about the definition of terrorism, we would obviously use it against Israel and about Israel. But our press is a bunch of giant liars who come out and go, oh, let's smear the Muslims.

They're all bigots. And they're like, oh, let's make everybody hate the Muslims. That way Israel can take more of their land. Yes, New York Times reporters. Yes, CNN anchors, that's exactly what you look like. Because you're a bunch of hypocrite liars. So what did we say here on the young Turks? Let's see if we predicted, because in American media, John, what happens is they go, well, you know, if we bomb Iraq, we will be greeted as liberators.

If we bomb Iran, it will be to save the people. I mean, we have to murder them first, but then we save them. And then they'll love us for it. And same thing in Lebanon, oh, when Israel goes to murder everyone, steal their homes, steal all their belongings, kill their kids. They'll be greeted as liberators. We had a different conclusion. Let's see what we said. The U.S.S. press tells you how Hezbo and Hamas are the most disgusting terrorists of all time.

Well, they never tell you is why they exist. If they ever talk about it, they say, oh, that's because they hate Jews for no reason at all. They were just like, Kuduah, they're just I hate, hate it. No, it's because Israel's occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip, let alone go a lot on heist, let alone now southern Lebanon, right? So those are people who are fighting back. You can say they're fighting back in wrong ways and by targeting some civilians, not as much as Israel, but targeting some civilians that they're doing it the wrong way. But are they resisting an occupation?

Of course they are. I mean, it's outrageous to say anything otherwise, which then leads to the question of, do the Lebanese have a right to defend themselves? Does Hezbollah have a right to defend themselves? Or do they have to sit and go, okay, Israel, go ahead, murder me. I do and take my land and to kill my kids and take my home because I wouldn't want to be an anti-Semite. So bottom line is the Lebanese did the most logical thing in the world. Oh, who's defending me?

Hezbollah, then I like Hezbollah. And by the way, the Lebanese government are the biggest cowards you can see in the world. And so they're like, let Israel take it. Don't fight back. I'm worried they're gonna kill me. I mean, they kill the other Lebanese people, who cares? Right? Take their land, who cares?

But not me, Israel, not me. So when your leadership is a coward who's wetting his pants and the other guy steps up and dies defending your home, who are you gonna root for? Look, we're not as stupid as the people in American media on cable news, etc. We're not as stupid as American politicians. We can see obvious and logical things, which is obviously, people are going to rally around the flag. They're going to rally around the people defending them. We told you that ahead of time, and now that's exactly what's happening. So this war has made

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It's been great to have you. It's great to be with you, Chang. Your show is a great thing. You're informing people. A lot of the shows that I live on. You know, my CNN and my MSNBC and even Fox and any of the other shows, NPR. They are. are so quick to decide that they know what this building means today. The one thing that I hate that politicians do, you know, they talk about the people they should be talking to. Do they have any idea that they're their establishment and that they're hated or do they not realize that at all?

People are so deeply in their little universe. I think it's very easy to not really question what you're doing. Voters have a right to ask questions of any nominee, whether they're independent, Republican, or Democrat. The system is monopoly that suppresses competition. How is it the year 2024? And we're still like, maybe they'll talk about pain medical. How is that like at one level, it's like, good, what we're talking about.

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Good for you. Congratulations. Yeah, until today. On TYT, Jake Ugar, Yasman Ali Khan. Yaz is, of course, on Rebel Headquarters. Make sure you're checking that out. We've got an amazing second hour for you guys. Yas, what do we got? We have a lot of stories and we're going to get started with Ben Shapiro.

Let's roll it. There's certainly a lot of truth the idea that left-wing teachers are indoctrinating kids into a viewpoint on the world that does cross paths into what causes the symptom that is Jew hatred. I think that's for sure true. Honestly, I think that the bigger danger when I look at young people right now is social media. Okay, I love this story because we're gonna show you the longer clip and you're gonna see every accusation is a confession. So we look forward to that. And then he accidentally admits how much Israel tries to control the media and does control the media. So yes, tell us about it. All right. So before we go any further, here's some more of Ben Shapiro's comments. And I want you

to pay really close attention to his specific talking points. Let's watch. I mean, if you spent any time on X at all over the course of the last couple of years, it is unusable, truly unusable. I mean, just a vile stream of trash. And I think that that was true of TikTok as well. I mean, what do we do? I mean, I think that you only do what you can, meaning that I don't control the algorithms. Hopefully somebody who's more responsible now

will help control the algorithms. I'm glad that TikTok was taken away from China. I'm not sure how much algorithmic control was given to the new owners. That's sort of the big question. I think that Elon should obviously boot the bots from his algorithm. Because I think a lot of this is foreign by driven, frankly.

And I think the algorithm creates extraordinary virality. Yes, there's money being used 100%. The extraordinary virality is being driven for unknown accounts. You can see it in your recommendations. I remember at one point I actually reached out to Elon's people directly about this. So yes, I agree with you that young people are being faced with a plethora of bad information. All right. So this week, Breaking Points interviewed a former TikTok executive, who now happens to be running for Congress.

So he joined the company shortly after October 7th, 2023, and he explained exactly how the Israel First lobby ran a pressure campaign on TikTok in case you had any doubts as to who is in control. Let's watch that. And my job at TikTok, we're getting all these inquiries from different elected officials, pro-Israeli or lobbying organizations, you know, I think the ADL and all of those. The pressure was unbelievable. Words cannot describe the amount of pressure that existed.

And it became the number one headwin for the company that could result in the lack of its existence in the largest consumer market in the entire world. We were getting inbound inquiries. And this is public information. You could see a lot of these letters online. I mean, every few days, every other day from probably a lot of organizations. from pro-Israel perspective, legislators, and the company was just being inundated. All right. So who is in charge here? This is the United States of America. Are we in charge of our own media? We have someone like who we just saw who is confirming what a lot of us has suspected,

and that is that Israel, not the Jews, I want to be clear, but Israel is controlling or at least attempting to control a lot of our media that we see and consume here in the United States. And we see We see it everywhere. We see these pro-Israeli talking points that are being boosted in everyone's algorithms. We find it very difficult to see anything pro-Palestinian. And certainly we don't really see a whole lot of that in from mainstream media sources. We do see it from other smaller places. You see it from us, definitely.

But you know, CNN is not running anything pro-Palestinian or the New York Times or anything like that. Jank, I was confused as to how Ben Shapiro has a direct line to Elon Musk to tell him what to do with his algorithm because I didn't think he was that influential. What do you think? Yeah, so that is curious, isn't it? So let's go to all the confessions there. So he says, well, first of all, to X and TikTok are trash, right?

Why? Because TikTok shows the actual videos from Gaza. And once you see two of those videos, you'll hate the Israelis forever. And you should for what they've done. It is horrific. Not forever if they turn around and they get to peace. Sure, God bless, welcome back to the League of Nations, right? But for now, they're a disgusting fascist government that is slaughtering children in Gaza, Lebanon, and now Iran.

So he's like, don't watch, whatever you do, don't watch, we've got to control the algorithms. Thank you for confession, number one. He said, we need help in controlling the algorithms. Then confession number two, well, TikTok, we're okay now. Well, if, if we can fully control the algorithm, you know, you're just confessing on air that of the thing that you call a trope. Okay, so look, before, and it's been amazing how they've begun to confess completely. Before the Ellison's bought it, Ellison, by the way, Larry Ellison is the biggest donor.

He thinks the IDF is a charity. He's given them $16 million. It's like, add-a-boy, way to murder more Palestinian children. Okay, that's who bought TikTok is now going to help control the algorithms. But Mitt Romney, I'm gonna go to clip five here. Mitt Romney started admitting this while they were pressuring TikTok, you better sell, you better sell. So that TikTok executive you just saw, that's what he's talking about.

And the company's thinking, well, this is gonna affect literally billions of dollars, even if we have to sell, if we're forced to sell it'll shave off at least. Scott Galloway did a great segment on this. Shave off a quarter of our valuation at a minimum, that's potentially tens of billions of dollars, right, that they're going to steal from us. And Romney back in the day was like, oh, yeah, yeah, because of the Israelis watch.

There was such overwhelming support for us to shut down, potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it's overwhelmingly so. TikTok broadcast. So I'd know that's of real interest and the president will get the chance to to make action in that regard. Typically the Israelis are good at PR. What's happened here? How have they how have they and we been so ineffective at

communicating the the realities there and our point of view? That was back when they were pretending that the problem was oh did China we're worried that China owns it. But here, Ben Shapiro even admitted we'll try to get the algorithm away from China and give it to Israel. Wait, wait, you say, well, now Mitt Romney said it. Ben Shapiro obviously 100% in favor of Israel, and that's what he's talking about here. But it's not like the prime minister of Israel said it too. Oh, wait, that's, I believe, video seven. But we have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields within which we engaged.

And the most important ones are social media. And the most important purchase that is going on right now is class. Follars. Tick dollar. Tick top. Number one. Number one. And I hope it goes through because it can be consequential.

And the other one, what's the other one? That's most important. X. X. You know, to this day, if you say Israel's controlling our media, literally almost everyone in mainstream media goes anti-Semite, Semi, that's a trope. Dude, the prime ministers say, we just bought TikTok.

What do you mean we? Like, we're buying TikTok and we got to control X and Ben Shapiro comes on. They're watching the truth. We don't want the truth to get out. We got to control the algorithms and TikTok. But what control? What me? Golly gee.

Okay, so we already got two confessions. Here's a third confession. You know, there's a lot of foreign bots on X, he says, you bet you. Why does he, look guys, what projection means is, if you don't know it, is like whatever you're thinking, you project onto the other person, right? So Israel has wall-to-wall bots on X.

You can't throw a tweet on X without hitting an Israeli bot or a hundred of them, right? So he's assuming like, well, if we're doing it, I bet Kazakhstan's doing it too and Pakistan too, come on brother, okay? And then the fourth confession is there's a lot of foreign money influencing. Oh, come on, foreign money. not everyone is as evil and duplicitous as the Israelis. But he assumes that everybody must be. So he's like, I mean, aren't you all trying to buy America like we are,

the American media and control their algorithms? But we have no control, no control, no control, right? And isn't everybody using foreign bots and money? No, but thank you for the confession, Ben. Okay, that's for number five. I reached out to Elon and talked to, told him to change his algorithm. Oh, you did. See, that's weird because that goes he has his question.

So there's a lot of really powerful shows in the top 50 shows on YouTube and an online video. Are we among them? Sure. So when, so we're in the top 30, okay? And it's a big crowded field, et cetera. But when I did a tweet and Elon responded to it, it became like an accurate. story like wow okay look at Elon responding to someone on the left etc right this brother is not in the top 200 of online videos I've never seen him in a

ranking maybe his podcast is okay I don't know if he's got any viewers left at all there or listeners but in video daily wires a ghost it's like a shade above Mark Levine so like Levine has like 12 viewers I think and and I don't know if Shapiro has 14 or 50 I don't I don't know, I've never seen him in any ranking, right? And but he can call Elon any, hey, Elon, shut up. I'm here to control your algorithm. Why is Elon taking this pipsqueaks call?

Because Ben Shapiro isn't representing Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is representing Israel. So when Israel calls, you take the call, confession number five. So we appreciate it, Ben, keep talking. Let us know exactly how you're planning to control our media here in America. Yeah, and you know, these are the people who are positioning themselves as thought leaders to Americans, just because they have the money to do it because they're being bankrolled by Israel, which is like sort of also by us because it's our tax dollars that's running that entire country. Netanyahu just said in that clip you show, Jank, that X and TikTok were the most important purchases, right?

They understand how important it is to control people's minds. And I know that sounds dramatic, but it really is you have to win this thought war that it. is happening in order to win whatever other war you're trying to fight. And again, this is all coming from a foreign government. As much as the Israeli government is still considered foreign, even though, again, they're running off of our tax dollars. But what I do like about this story, I just want to go to break on a positive note is that they are doing the absolute most to control the narrative, to get it in their favor, but it's not working. It is completely getting away from them. The Americans for the first time and a long time, if ever, support the Palestinians more than they support the Israelis.

And that is incredible. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that despite all their efforts, all their bots, all of their blocking, whatever they're doing, shadow banning over on TikTok and Instagram and on X, people can see what's happening over there, right? There are enough resources out there. There are not enough journalists out there who are willing to tell the real story. And once those real stories do get out, it's very hard to deny the reality of the situation. So, and it's one of those things, too, that once the wool is pulled from people's eyes, then they're like, it's very, very hard. It's going to be very hard for Israel to win back some of the support that it's lost, if any of it is possible.

Yeah, last thing is an Easter, I get that was in there. Their consultants must have told them, when you call people anti-Semites, it doesn't poll well. every time you say anti-Semite, you create 10 new anti-Semite, right? So there's trying so hard not to say anti-Semite. And in the middle of that, and he's like, and Jew haters, that's not any better, man. That's way worse. Yeah.

No, no, the problem isn't that Israel has done a vicious genocide and killed 23,000 children and invading Lebanon and Iran and getting us dragged into wars. That's not the problem at all. The problem is all Americans are you haters. Keep going, Ben. Keep going. I appreciate the confessions. I appreciate you alienating 80% of Americans. Good luck with that. All right. Oh, yeah, I think get a break. Yeah, let's go to break. And when we come back, the surveillance state. I am a dangerous human being. I am a dangerous human being.

Love this comment on t.D.com. Surreiting the analysis, more people, watch Jenks' imitation of Mark Levin, then Levin has viewers. I think that's actually literally true. All right. Rebel Dragon says, you young whippersnapper, oh, jank, that made me laugh out loud. Thank you for making my day. Well, thank you for making my day saying that. Arnkeye said, forget Clark Kent. Ryan Grimm is the mild-mannered reporter doing great work.

You're here. Ecclectic writes, said, if New York Times is reporting on the story of David and Goliath, They would describe David as a terrorist to attack Goliath. Why didn't David just let Goliath and the Philistines continue to pillage, plunder, and murder everyone in their path? It's obviously David's fault for fighting back. He also wrote him, people on TikTok were showing what was really happening in Gaza, which is why the establishment on both sides of the aisle moved as fast as they could to take over TikTok

and stop the truth from coming out. And another good point thereby collected, because a lot of the people who were saying, TikTok has to sell, were Democrats. And it had nothing to do with China. They knew they were lying the whole time. They're like, because they're Israeli babysitters, as Massey calls them, told them, hey, come here, you little stupid Democrat, make you TikTok sell to the Israelis. Okay, or people pretending to be Americans, they're representing Israel like Larry Ellison.

No Math Dragon says the war is usually over on Mondays. Fridays are when he starts something bad. Good point. It's just Vegas, Scott Jennings is a cry baby. I love seeing this last night, L.O.L. That was on Twitch on YouTube member section. And Mosul 101 says Israel developed iron dome with U.S. taxpayer money and gets $100 million dollars every year simply for the iron dome, but does not share the technology with the U.S.

No, no, no, we developed the technology and just gave it to them. All right, back on TYT, Jane. Can you as with you guys? What's next, yes? We got a lot more story. We got some more stuff. Let's do it. I want to shift focus a little bit to actually kind of old school as well.

I know the soft and sci-op right now. There's been 3,000 positions cut, mostly on sciops and civil affairs. How is, you know, I've been wondering, there's no, we have air superiority in Iran. And it seems like there's no internet connectivity in Iran. Are we doing any leaflet drops over there? Okay, I love that because wait until you see what leaflet he thinks we could drop. Okay, and then secondly, he thinks, well, if we just drop the right leaflets along with the bomb, on their heads, they'll be like, and their last words will be like, I love America and Israel,

less likely. All right, yes, this great plan is. Yeah, the visual makes no sense, right? Just think about it for two seconds. So that was Republican Representative Abe Hamaday discussing leaflet drops in Iran with Defense Secretary Pete Heggsett. That's who was on the other side of the microphone. Let's find out exactly what kind of American propaganda he wants to drop on the heads of the Iranian people. Are we doing any leaflet drops over there? We've explored a variety of different actions, many of which are classified, but that could restore additional communications capability to the Iranian people.

I would love for President Trump's truth social post to be leafleted all over Iran, to be honest with you. I think that would encourage them to actually take to the streets. Yes, yeah, truth social posts from our rabid, president who post things at four o'clock in the morning every night. That's what is going to inspire the Iranian people to rise up, take to the streets against their own government, I guess, pro-America, I don't know. So that was one of the more ridiculous moments from that meeting. It was like a six-hour-long committee.

I didn't watch the whole thing because it was six hours long, but it was also one of the nicer moments for Pete Hegsef. His interaction with Democratic representatives were far more contentious than that one was. And he also had to deal with protesters and hecklers who are standing outside, calling him a war criminal as he arrived at the Capitol. So just a really quick update, we're still technically in the middle of a ceasefire with Iran. However, some people seem to think that the ceasefire needs to come to an end. So here is retired general Jack Keene on Fox News responding to the possibility that the U.S. work with Iran to get the straight open while still leaving nuclear on the table. Three weeks into this ceasefire, we went to the cease fire.

Remember, they shut down the streets of a move. The president took a look at it, thought maybe there's a possibility of getting some negotiations here, set a deadline. We're a week past the deadline. The Iranians have made numbers of proposals to us. None of them have been acceptable to the president all for very good reasons because they're not meeting our objectives. And I don't think that's the Iranians' objective. I think their objective is really just to stall and drag out these negotiations so that there's more pressure on the president in terms of the economic situation and the political situation. They believe time is on their side and they would eventually get maybe two things.

One, the president to stop the war entirely and just accept the status quo or two, make concessions to a deal that they are not prepared to make right now. All right, so he doesn't like the proposed terms, but here is what he thinks that Trump should do as his next step. To me, the obvious pathway forward is finish what we started. The negotiations have not worked. So go back to the combat operations, finish up the last two weeks that we were not able to complete about 25% of what is left, go back to the original objective, take away all of the offensive capability so that they will no longer be a predator. in the region, let's accomplish that mission. Let's also open the straits of a moose. All of that makes them sense. And at the same time, if we're not already doing it, I think the Assad and the CIA should be doing everything that they can inside of Iran to undermine this regime. Because there is no doubt the regime is getting weaker by the day as the economic issues begin to really take its toll.

Yeah, so the negotiations didn't work because we sent JD vans to negotiate. Why would we send JD vans to negotiate if we didn't want to lose the negotiations, right? And I also like how Keene actually was able to delineate a more concise strategy and objective than Donald Trump ever has. Keene, by the way, though, some important context. He sits on the board for two defense contractors. So he actually has a personal financial stake in this war. So now the question is, where exactly does Trump stand on this? Well, according to Axios, U.S. Central Command has prepared bombing plans for Trump, which would likely include infrastructure

targets, acts that experts could say constitute a war crime, though Trump had yet to order any kinetic action as of Tuesday night. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump understands that simply maintaining the blockade is less riskier than his two other options, which is either resuming bombing or just walking away from everything. So I am disappointed that walking away from everything is a less risky option. But that is the reality of where we are today. After he has done everything that he has done. And this jank is kind of like what we were talking about yesterday. You can do a lot of damage in a small amount of time. And it's much more difficult to undo that damage than if you just had never done it at all. What do you think?

Yeah, so Jack Keynes a twofer. Not only is he on two defense contractor boards, but he's got the motivation for defense contractors. And if you notice, he had an Israeli flag on his lapel. Oh, I missed that. Yeah, so it's a joint American and Israeli flag, and all the Israel first sellouts wear them. I was in a debate with Ben Ferguson on Pierce Morgan a couple of weeks back. And he's, And he poised to it and he goes, you go see this flag, it's an American flag. I'm like, wait, no, it's actually an American and Israeli flag. So they wear that on TV.

It's amazing. They're like, now remember, I'm not actually working for you. I'm working for a foreign government. Well, thank you for the reminder. I appreciate it. Imagine if they came on with like American and a Saudi flag. People would be like, what are you doing, bro? Okay.

Or an American and a Turkish flag. American and a German flight, they'd be like, what is that? Why do you have that on, right? But with the Israeli fact, they're like, of course, of course, we should all work for Israel. And that's what this is about, and about the defense contractors. So, and then the usual lies, of course, the regime is getting weaker by the day. They have, every time they send us less concessions and more new demands, why? Because they're gaining leverage every day.

So this idea that they had this idea that, oh my God, their wells are going to explode because now their tankers are filled and because of our blockade, they can't get them out. And if because of that, then they're gonna be in a lot of trouble and they can't restart the wells. Turns out that didn't happen. Oops. So Ron's like, we are waiting for you and we are still waiting. No, we're not gonna give you your absurd demands. Look, last thing on this, to give you a sense of why this war is not yet over when the whole world wants it to be over, of course, minus Israel and the defense contractors. So it's because since Israel doesn't want it to be over, they tell Trump, okay, ask for us

to be able to control Iran's foreign policy. They're not allowed to have proxies, they're not allowed to have any allies, they're not allowed to do any spending abroad, they're not allowed to do anything. Israel now controls their foreign policy. And Iran's like, we are waiting for you. No, of course we're not going to give you that. What are you nuts? Okay, and we want all their enriched uranium out and we want them to do.

this and this and then we want them to regime change themselves. And yeah, we're not gonna get a deal as long as Trump keeps asking for Israel's absurd demands. Those demands aren't real. There's only one thing they care about, either regime change or a civil war so that Iran is neutered and cannot help the Palestinians and the Lebanese as Israel steals more of their land. So that they could be the only regional superpower.

They know that Iran has no chance of developing nuclear. weapons, even they admit that it's buried under their nuclear facilities which we bombed to smithereens. So that's totally fake, all their justifications are fake. Yeah, they'd like them to stop, you know, helping Hamas and Hezbollah, but that's not their goddamn business, man. Or, or Israel, if you say, no, no, no, no, no, it is my business, they're my enemies, and I need to go to war against them.

Okay, have at it, Haas, not our enemies, has nothing. to do with us. Do you remember the last time Hamas bombed America? Oh, right, never. Same with Hezbollah. Those are Israel's local competitors. And they're like, no, it is your responsibility as Americans to destroy your economy, spend endless money to help me with my foreign policy. The arrogant pricks, the entitlement complex of America owes us, go to war for us, give us all this money. And if you don't, we'll smear you and we'll try to ruin your life. We'll send Canary Mission and a bunch of the American media to attack you. We'll go after your families.

What is this? This is not an ally. This is the mob. There's a bunch of gangsters who were trying to pressure us through intimidation, bribes, and force from time to time to do as they command us. You'd be nuts to listen to the Israelis. But good news, no one in America believes that anymore other than 89 year olds watching Fox News and everyone in Washington. Yeah, that is very reassuring. I just wish that we would get more of those people who aren't buying all this stuff from Israel in our actual Congress.

It seems as though with the midterms, we might get a few more people in there who are actually interested in divesting the United States from Israel. But, you know, like all of this is so dumb. And like, like I said, Jack Keene delineated more. of what's going on in Iran better and in a more concise way than Trump ever, ever has. And that is a real part of the problem here. The fact that Trump has never had a plan, that he has never told us what his plan is if he had one, and that he seems to be making all of this up on the fly, that he hasn't even given the American people a reason why they should support this, right? And so they don't support it.

And the result is going to be seen hopefully in November of this year when we go, when we all go down to the polls in the midterm elections. And all of this nuclear stuff, it makes me crazy, Jank, because like, this was in the original Iran nuclear deal. Everything that they say they want now is the exact same stuff that was in the original Iran nuclear deal. But Trump pulled out of it because Israel wanted him to, because Obama did it, all these reasons, whatever reason, none of it was a good reason. And we don't have it now. And, you know, also they're saying that they want regime change now, even though they said they didn't want regime change. And then they killed the Ayatollah anyway. And it still didn't result in regime change, not really.

So that's where we are. And the American people are confused. And now we're angry because he keep taking our money and sending it overseas. He keep taking all of our weapons. You're just blowing everything that we have. All of our stockpiles are going over to this thing that nobody voted for, right? Literally people voted for Trump because they said he would not start any new wars. He got his FIFA Peace Prize. And then what, a few weeks or months later, he decides, to invade Iran. And here we are today. And the people who voted for him specifically did not want this. They said America first, and that means our money stays here. We stop dealing with all these foreign conflicts that don't actually involve us. And we stopped giving all of our money over there.

But he did the exact opposite thing. And when money is concerned, that is when the American people really perk up and start to pay attention. When they see that they're losing money, when they see that all of their money is getting sent out of the country, when they have to pay tax. taxes and they ask what is it all for, where is my money going? That is what actually wakes up the American people. And I hope that they can just like remember who is taking all their money and where it's going by November. I hope that's still fresh.

Yeah, well, I know who's taking all their money, Israel. Super last thing on this, he has made a terrific point there. And every cable news anchor knows that Obama's nuclear deal with Iran ended their nuclear weapons program completely. that didn't really exist but had no chance of existing. It's exactly what we're trying to get out of them now that they don't enrich any uranium inside the country, that it goes outside the country and comes back. So after a war, the best case scenario is that Trump is gonna go back into the Obama

deal that he ripped up in the first place after massive damage to everyone involved, most importantly us, right? But every anchor knows that, but they never correct any Republican who says, oh, we're But the real war, the reason we're in the war is because we're concerned about their nuclear program. No, we got out of a great deal that ended their nuclear program precisely because Israel wanted the war. But of course, you can't say that on television because Israel runs television, so you'd be fired immediately. And that's why everyone on TV lies to you 24-7. Okay, we've got to take a break when we come back.

Oh, great. The American government has bigger capabilities than spying in on our lives now. Joy. Yep. So we're back. Are you sure Jenk done it this way, writes in, whenever we achieve independence from Israel, TYT will be remembered as original and brave leaders of the movement

to reclaim American independence. Well, thank you for saying that, brother. So here's another fun watching this story. So when I was there, darn no guy, and he's a good guy. Same guy I mentioned earlier, definitely not establishment, but since he's lived in Washington all this time, he's surrounded by the Washington bubble. So he's the guy who asked me like, I mean, but when we run a candidate for president,

they have to support Israel, right? Otherwise we'll lose. I'm like, no, the exact opposite actually. And they've seen the polls, they just can't believe it, right? So, but he did say, hey, Chink, I think you might have done it again. Like you, when you started saying this stuff that about Israel, you know, everybody thought like, that's crazy, right? You can't say that stuff. And it turns out, holy cow, you were right.

Yeah, it does, it's not rocket science at all. It's just you're, you're not even allowed to think it in Washington. It's considered like a betrayal of our overlords. How dare you even have that illegal thought that we wouldn't follow every command of Israel? By the way, they don't give no commands, but you have to follow them. Okay, so now on Super Chat, Chess Viking 90 says, Tom, he's at, oh, no, that's for Tom later. Eclecting miscellaneous says a very happy 73rd birthday and a big shout out to TYT member and Operation Hope volunteer, Jack Callahan. Indeed, Jack, happy birthday, brother, love having you on Operation Hope.

And No 1775 Jim says, I love when John transforms into Yaz's so fast and flawless. We're good at that. We'll be back. Back on TYT, Jake and Yaz with you guys. Yeah, it's got more news. Yeah, and it's not good. It's not good news, but it'll be interesting to learn about. So the U.S. government is now gaining access to newly and highly advanced technology that has the capability, Jank, to gain access to Americans' most sensitive data and information.

And the Trump administration has no problem with this. Do you have any problems with this, Jank? Because I feel like I do. I have enormous problems with it. And I think that you will, if you're watching at home, when you find out how they're going to surveil all of us. And as always, they say, no, no, no, this is for your own good. Now give me all your private information.

I bet they won't do anything wrong with it. Tell us about it, yes. Okay, so this week, there were two articles that were published highlighting a growing concern of this sort of technology, which is understandable, and what the government says it is being used for. Note what it says it's being used for. So according to a piece from the Wall Street Journal, in the battle against illegal immigration, the U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal

agents easy access to the home and workplace addresses of American citizens, their social media accounts, vehicle information, flight history, law enforcement records, and other personal information, as well as data to track their daily comings and goings. The Department of Homeland Security has put these surveillance tools, including facial recognition software, location tracking and social media scrapers once aimed largely at suspected terrorists and drug traffickers in the hands of federal immigration agents who can identify research and track virtually anyone by entering a name license plate or by simply taking a person's photo. And this newly expanded domestic surveillance system, a high-tech drag net built to locate, track and deport people

residing illegally in the U.S. allows thousands of federal agents nationwide to peruse a trove of data belonging to more than 300 million people, including citizens. So what do you know? It was never about the drug traffickers. It was never about the violent criminals. It was never about the illegal aliens or immigrants who were coming into our country. It was never about any of that, right? All they wanted was our data. That's what is for sale these days. We are the product. We are the ones that are for So the Wall Street Journal spoke to multiple U.S. citizens in Maine who were targeted using this technology simply because they were trying to keep tabs on ice agents so that they could warn people. And if you remember a few months ago, like that kind of technology was everywhere

before they started cracking down on it. So one morning in January, a woman named Liz McLellan witnessed and took photos of an ice agent making an arrest. And when she followed them to see where they were heading next. What happened was McClellan was surprised when the agent led her to her own house and blocked her driveway. Other federal officers quickly arrived boxing in her car with their own vehicles. This is a warning, an agent told her according to court records and a video recording. We know you live right here.

And if you think the Trump administration cares about this, you would be wrong because they're the ones who are pushing for all of this oversight. So with the backing of Congress and President Trump, DHS spent a record $425 million on surveillance tech in the past year, a 17% increase from the prior year. Federal spending is on pace to set another record in 2026, according to an analysis of federal contract data by the journal. So of course, thankfully, civil rights groups have filed multiple lawsuits against DHS, alleging that their use of surveillance tools to revoke visas and arrest immigrants without warrants or to even threaten bystanders observing federal agents.

All of this is a giant violation of the Constitution. But again, DHS just brushes it off because they have all of the money behind them. They have the backing of all the tech bros. They have the backing of the entire government right now. And by the way, that's not even half of what the Trump administration is doing in terms of surveillance. There's way more. Because just earlier today, the Pentagon announced agreements with seven AI companies, including SpaceX, Open AI, Google, and Video, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services.

And the U.S. Department of Defense is budgeting tens of billions of dollars for numerous technology firms, cutting edge programs related to intelligence, drone warfare, classified and unclassified information networks, and more. and it has requested $54 billion for the development of autonomous weapons alone. Where's the money coming from? That's what I'm sure we would all like to know. So how each individual company's technology would be deployed was not specified, but the companies had agreed to the U.S. military's deployment of their technology for, quote, any lawful use, according to the Pentagon.

The startup anthrophic, which makes the popular Claude Chatbot had rejected, including the lawful use standard in its contract with the Defense Department and a high profile feud with the Bureau last month. However, there are again concerns regarding what this technology even means for domestic surveillance. So currently in Iran, the Pentagon is reportedly using AI to generate hundreds of recommendations for targets in Iran, pinpoint their location, prioritize their importance, and even evaluate whether the targeting is legal. And one of the AI systems it is using the Maven smart system, the culmination of a decade of collaboration between the Defense Department and the tech industry to enhance intelligence analysis, surveillance, and targeting. The system enables the military to comb through massive amounts of information from satellites, data brokers, the military's own drones and sensors, and social media to pick out people and objects of interest. So while they say this technology is going to be used lawfully, who even knows what that means?

And make no mistake, this gives the military the absolute ability to access location information, social media posts, and the ability to recreate your movements and your habits, you sitting at home doing nothing that is actually a danger to this country or to your countrymen. And all of this is not only a threat to privacy, but it could make you a potential military target. So the inferences the technology makes can be misleading and riddled with bias, such as when it flags satire or humor as genuine security threats or associates, I'm sorry, associates protected characteristics like black and Muslim identities with violence and other negative sentiments. And we know that AI is not perfect. We know that it makes all kinds of mistakes

whenever it's analyzing things. We know that it doesn't perceive human emotion the way it should. We know that it has biases that are implicit within it, that it learns these biases from the the post and all the information that it's pulling from. And this is incredibly dangerous. John, wasn't there a movie about this before? You know, where they try to like target people before they've even done anything? I don't know, maybe Tom Cruise movie. Yeah, no, I was just funny because I was just gonna start with Skynet is nearly complete. Also that. Yeah, that's from Terminator. So yeah, look guys, there's a couple of dangers here.

First of all, Palantir talked about how they were testing and using their systems in Gaza. Oh, great, soon we might be using it here in the way that they use it in Gaza. And then there's reports, we don't know this yet for sure that it might have been one of these AI programs that got the location wrong and hit the girl school in Iran and killed over 160 young girls. So, oh, you know, sky net's going great. And don't worry though, when they turn it against you, I'm sure it'll work much better. After they work out the kinks murdering people in different countries, when they bring

it here, I'm sure that their system of oppression will be perfectly worked out by that. So, well, are they gonna bring in here? First of all, that's the whole story here. They're saying, oh, hell yeah, we're gonna bring in here. And then the only question is what level of oppression do we get? Do they just invade our privacy and start censoring us and arresting us or denying us things for opposing, well, either our government, but more likely the Israeli government? Or do they get into physical force, right? And so, well, one guy who connects a lot of those stories is Larry Ellison, and he's a founder of Oracle, and he's one of the biggest donors to the IDF, and he's the guy who bought.

TikTok, CBS, and CNN. And Larry Ellison said on tape, yeah, through this newfound technology, we're going to be able to track every citizen in everything they do. Oh, well, thank you, Israeli big brother. That sounds like it's going to be great for America. And finally, that's what we get to. So what have they already begun to do? Well, I reported earlier in the week about how DHS is now denying people green cards.

If they have posted on social media criticism of Trump, no, America, no. Bolivia, no, you got it, right? Israel, of course. If you dare oppose Israel and social media, these AI programs will find you. Now already they have a bunch of brown shirts in this kind. The Israelis do like Canary Mission and their job is to attack the families and the livelihood of anyone who opposes Israel and try to ruin their lives. This will help them find people more quickly and destroy them easier.

And we've already seen that the administration has actually literally asked groups like that, hey, who should we target? Who should we arrest on behalf of Israel? students should we kick out, what does Israel want us to do with this technology to oppress our own citizens and anyone else that lives here? So you have that to look forward to. God, this looks so amazing. And the entire time they'll tell you, oh, it's for your security. And meanwhile though, they never catch anyone, right? They never stop any of the shooters before the shooting happens, they never stopped acts of

terrorism, you never actually get that security. They don't mean your security. They They mean the security for the rich and powerful, and most especially for the beloved and most precious Israelis. Yeah, I think the movie that I was thinking about was Minority Report. And what's funny about that is that I've never seen that movie. I've never watched the movie, but it's about Tom Cruise is the cop and he is from the future. And he like arrest people before they actually commit the crimes that they're going to commit. And I know that I've talked to John about this, but I don't like future stuff, right? I don't watch it. I think I only just recently watched Terminator like a few years ago,

but I just, I hate it, right? I don't want that future. And these movies are always depicting a dystopian future. It's never a good, fun future that they're showing us. And these are the kinds of movies that we have been fed since like the 70s, 80s, 90s, and they wonder why now they're having such a hard time selling the people on AI. They wonder why we're not more excited to adopt this technology. We all know about Skynet. Even if you've never seen Terminator, you know about SkyNet, you know what it can do, you know what it can become, and you saw the kind of earth that it like that it left us with. That's not why we're like we're not buying it. We don't want it. And all of this stuff like we knew that putting things on social media that

they were calling it somehow because it was free to use, right? So I think that was like fairly understood information that, you know, why is it free to use? Because they want us to use it. They want our information, they're going to sell that information. And at the time, you know, maybe a few years ago before AI was so ubiquitous, the most sinister thing about it was that they want to take to sell your information so they can also like buy ads, right? Like all of it was about advertising. But now it's more about surveillance and they want to monitor the things that you're saying and doing sometimes before you even say and do them. They want you to be afraid. They want you to be afraid to speak out. They want you to be afraid to

leave your house. They want you to know that you are absolutely being watched. And so you need to watch everything that you say and do, not just when you're out in the world, but even in your own home. We all have these phones that we carry with us everywhere that track everything we do, that follow us around. Half of us have like Amazon, what's her name, Alexa is in our houses. And we know that that thing listens to you. All of these things have just like culminated to this point where we now have Palantir that can like aggregate all this information and it to whoever wants it, this is the point that we're at. And we know that Palantir has no moral compass whatsoever.

They completely, they really just don't care if we literally die. I think the CEO has even said that much. And so as long as they're making money, they don't care what happens to the American people. The fact that they were even like trial running this technology and Gaza should tell you everything. They treat those people like guinea pigs because they don't care if they die. We know that, we see what's happening over there. And if it goes well, you know, maybe why not just do it right here on the American people? Because the American people, we can get a little uppity sometimes.

And that is not good for an authoritarian government. They don't like uppity, and that is what we can be sometimes. And especially now that the American people are turning on Israel, that is not good for them. And for their agenda, for whatever it is that they're trying to achieve in the Middle East, and with the oil crisis, all these things, the American people, if there's a possibility that we can upset that for them, then they want to control us and make sure that we can't do that. And it's very sad that we are at this point, but I do want to say, because I got to say it, we told you so, right? Like we said that this is where things are going to be headed.

And if we don't do something to stop it, it's just going to get worse and worse and worse. And this is where we're at now. Okay, first, I got to say, oh my God, bring back the ads. Like if you just use the AI for ads, deal. We'll just stop right there. it's what you gotta do. Make more money, I don't mind, okay? It will probably also make money, so good, God bless, right? But don't use it for weapons, don't use it for weapons. Okay, so as if all this wasn't bad enough, I got one more depressing fact for you. So there's another guy

investing into this and the Pentagon just gave him a $24 million contract and I'm sure it was fair, because the guy who got that deal was a company that Eric Trump is invested in. Oh, great. So earlier in the show, we gave you a story about a different company that Eric and Don Jr. are invested in, also got a giant Pentagon contract. But this one is a second one that only Eric Trump is invested in. And what are they making? Battlefield robots. Oh, great.

Beavis is making battlefield robots and we're paying for it. So an epic disaster. And finally, guys, we've got to get money out of politics before SkyNet takes over. because these corrupt politicians are just going to let them run wild with this stuff. And then it's going to be too late. Get the money out, okay? All right, we're out of time. Yazra, you're awesome.

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