The Young Turks - Strait In Chaos - April 20, 2026

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

Tehran recloses the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. prepares to seize Iranian tankers, escalating a high-stakes standoff with global economic consequences. New polling shows Donald Trump’s approval cratering—just 33% on the Iran war and 32% on the economy—as he clashes with his own energy secretary over gas prices. Thanks to today's sponsors: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/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: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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the number one question is, are we going to stay in this war or are we going to end the war? So that's as big a question as there is on planet Earth and we're going to tackle it today. Lots of information in both directions. According to the president, the answer is yes. Uh-huh. Well, to both. To both. At the same time. Yeah, that's part of the problem. So more heinous Israeli attacks, of course, and they seem to be targeting Christian symbols and statues and churches, et cetera.

I think that they've gotten to maximum arrogance to the point where Nanyahu had to try to reel it back, okay? So that's an interesting story a little bit later. And then Democrats, how are they dealing with the issue of Israel? We have a lot on that as well. and how it's actually literally affecting races as we speak. Which way is it affecting elections? That's a little bit later in the program, and it's super interesting.

Casper. Well, we begin with those updates on Iran, so let's take it away. President Trump announced the seizure on true social, saying the Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room. Right now, US Marines have custody of the vessel. The ship remains in US custody. Lovasatostka, vacate your engine room, vacate your engine room. We're prepared to subject you to the sable and fire.

I spoke with President Trump over the weekend who told me if the deal isn't done, the deal that we made, that I'm going to take out their bridges and their power plants. He went on to say, if they don't sign this thing, the whole country is going to get blown up. Iran appears to be unlikely to sign this thing as Trump is demanding. And that's a big problem because the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran is about to expire in just a few days. And based on the latest developments over the weekend, we're likely to jump right back into war. At least that's my read. Jank, your two cents.

Yeah, so we were not sure about this last week. And Anna and I had slightly different opinions. And I'm in the same place this week. So I'm going to show you the structure of a deal that could be had and that exists right now, and we can get that deal as early as tomorrow if both sides actually want to do it. And then I'm going to tell you what I think is more likely. And again, I'm not entirely sure, which is rare, but because of two super important factors here that are colliding. I can't tell if it's your signature optimism that's making you think that peace is.

is a possibility or if you're just wrong. But I totally disagree with you. I think we're gonna jump right back into war. But let me give you the details and you guys can decide for yourselves, because we might have completely different interpretations of what's going on. So as you just saw from Fox News as Trey Yinks, the United States did seize an Iranian vessel over the weekend. So how the hell did we get here?

Well, it turns out that on Friday, if those of you are paying attention can remember, Iran had announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened for the remainder of the ceasefire for the free flow of oil, natural gas, cargo, you get the picture. But then President Trump announced that he would be maintaining the US blockade on all vessels traveling to and from Iranian ports. Iran saw that as a violation of the ceasefire because it is, it's considered an act of war, which is why immediately after that, Iran decided to close the Strait of Hormuz again. Now, then Iran ended up shooting at two Indian flagged vessels to enforce their closure of the

Strait of Hormuz, even though India had purchased oil from Iran. So they were kind of, you know, they're making a point. But at the same time, they're the ones who sold the oil to India, so it was kind of a mess. Fox News, Trey Yinks also reports that at least two dozen other vessels were turned around by the United States over the weekend, which is why if you pay attention to the oil market, The price of oil spiked yet again. Now Trump also escalated his unhinged threats regarding Iran's civilian infrastructure over the weekend. Here's a little taste of that.

I just spoke with President Trump for about 20 minutes and he told me if Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is getting blown up. He went on to say that bridges and power plants will be targeted if Iran does not sign this agreement. The president telling me that US special on the US special on the government, the president telling me that US special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff are heading to Islamabad Pakistan for meetings on Tuesday, possibly into Wednesday to try and get this agreement across the finish line. The president telling Fox News this is a very simple deal, but this is the last chance for the Iranians.

Now part of the problem is both sides are digging their heels in what they're demanding and they're refusing to move off of it entirely. So when it comes to Iran, they are unwilling to give up their, you know, uranium enrichment. At the same time, Trump is demanding zero uranium enrichment, even including enrichment for energy needs or for medical needs. So with two sides having their heels dug in on what they're demanding, it seems unlikely that a deal is going to be signed anytime soon. However, even though this conflict with Iran seems to have escalated over the weekend, President Trump told told Fox News is Maria Bartaromo that a deal with Iran would be signed in Islamabad today.

Today's almost over, but here's Maria Barteromo sharing her own skepticism. U.S. officials are gearing up for another round of talks in Pakistan tonight. The Iranians, however, still no response on this meeting. The state media is suggesting that Iran might not show up, although AP reported this morning that The meeting is on, and President Trump told me yesterday a deal will be signed tonight. Is this war over? I think it's close to over. I mean, I view it as very close to over. You know what? If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country.

And we're not finished. We'll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal very badly. Now I'm going to tell you about someone that is a partner of ours that our audience loves. If you know me, I'm always out of time. When I need a fresh meal that's delicious and nutritious, my go-to is Cook Unity. Cook Unity is a chef-crafted meals straight to your door. I recently tried jerk chicken rasta pasta in my last order. Why did I pick that one?

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or the fact that these threats have no impact on Iran, right? They remain unmoved in the face of Trump's ridiculous unhinged threats, especially the threats toward its civilians and civilian infrastructure. One more quote from Axios. So apparently an anonymous administration official told the reporters over at Axios. And it's Axios, so take it with a grain of salt. Quote, he's over it, meaning Trump. He wants it done. He doesn't like Iran holding its control of the straight over the Middle East. He doesn't like them holding this over our heads. He doesn't want to fight anymore, but he will if he feels he has to. Now Iran is unwilling to give up control the Strait of Hormuz.

There is no real military option in taking control away from the Iranians. So, Jank, tell me why you think that there's still a possibility for peace. Okay, so first one of our members on t.y.t.com, panic on Funkatron, already fun. Says, I think Anna's correct, we've never seen Trump stand up to Israel. So you haven't even heard what I said yet, hold on. You're wrong, Jake. And no, I don't think that, oh, I'm sure Trump's gonna get a deal done. In fact, earlier today, I was on with Mario Nafal, who's one of the larger shows on X, and

I played the opposite role. He was saying a deal is definitely going to get done, and I was saying, I don't know about that. So now, why do I think a deal can get done? Because the structure of a deal already exists. Iran, according to sources about what's happened in negotiations so far, has said that they are willing to take enrichment out of the country. And there's negotiations over how long?

Is it two years, five years, 15 years? But hey, we're haggling there. As long as they said yes to being able to take it out, that's really the key. Because it's just a matter of optics anyway, so that Trump can say, I got there in Richmond out of the country. So doesn't much matter if it's five or 15 years. So that a deal can be done on the Iranian side. That's great news.

And apparently we have conceded that we might unfree some assets, including $20 billion that they have that we froze. And now that's no skin off of our behind because it's actually their money that we froze. And by the way, if they did that deal, it would be nearly identical to the Obama deal that Trump got us out of in the first term, causing these cascading dominoes in the first place. So that's the core of a deal that can get done. So if Trump is really in a cold sweat panic as the mainstream media is describing it, and he wants to desperately get out of this because he's stuck in this quagmire he doesn't want

to be in, and his ratings have plummeted, his legacies in a lot of trouble. And by the way, if he was a rational actor not tied to Israel, that's exactly what he would do, that's right, right? He would extricate himself, declare victory, even though he's gave Iran, at least half of what they wanted, et cetera, right? So now if he doesn't do that deal, I'll tell you the different excuses that they'll have, but there's only one reason he wouldn't do that deal, and that's, no, he is under the control of Israel.

Israel doesn't want to end the war. So if the war doesn't end, it'll be double quadruple proof that Israel doesn't have influence in America, it completely controls our government, right? When it comes to foreign policy. No, I'm of the mindset that we're already there. And that's clear in now the multiple instances in which Trump tried to wind down this war. I mean, the announcement of the two-week ceasefire was immediately followed by Israel carpet bombing Lebanon in order to jeopardize whether the two-week ceasefire would actually happen. Now, luckily, to some extent, the ceasefire did hold however fragile it might be.

But I do want to talk a little more about the negotiations, right? So it doesn't really seem like Trump knows what he wants or what he's doing during certain moments. So for instance, okay, these talks in Islamabad. First it was announced that Vice President J.D. Vance would be attending those meetings. Then we heard from the administration that Vance would not be going to the meetings. Now we're hearing that Vance is going to Islamabad and he will be leading the meetings. Okay, now I know that the Iranians have absolutely no faith or trust in the two Israeli

assets who have been part of the negotiation so far, and that's of course, Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner. It remains to be seen whether they have a little more trust with JD Vance, especially since the last time there were negotiations, Vance had to call Trump repeatedly throughout the entire 21 hours in order to get approval, and that appeared to be a bit of an obstacle in getting a deal done. Now, again, it is unclear whether the Iranians are actually going to attend these talks in Islamabad. Reuters reported that, Pakistan's army chief, field marshal Assim Munir, has told President Trump by phone that the US blockade on Iranian ports is a major obstacle to resuming talks between the US and Iran

in Islamabad. But there's no indication that Trump is going to lift that blockade. In fact, he jeopardized the opening of the Strait of Hormuz by keeping that blockade in place. Trump told Munir he would consider his advice, but so far there's no sign the US intends to ease the blockade, which dramatically escalated on Sunday as U.S. forces in the Gulf of Oman attacked and seized an Iranian cargo ship, which by the way, like, what are you doing, Trump? Like already, I mean, you're complaining about, well, he's trying to pretend like the price of oil is not that bad, and it's going to come back down soon. But implementing that blockade on Iran is leading to a spike in oil prices, but he's doing

it anyway. Real quick, then you have the Iranian president, Masoud Peseskian, who said that he will not send a delegation to Islamabad until that lockade is lifted. And of course, Trump is singing a different tune, likely to manipulate the oil markets. So real quick, I want to go to this one last video. Let's go to three. Oh, we don't have that. Okay, sorry. Okay. U.S. official. Right before I launched T.Y.T, the doubt was real. What if nobody watches? What if it doesn't work out. I got past those initial hurdles, but when we launched our shop TYT store, the doubts came back. What if people don't like the designs? What if

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which is that they, and I heard it from someone else. So the Israelis did blow up a bridge again today that crosses the Latani River. But everybody kind of knows that Israel never listens to a ceasefire. It's just a question of, are they doing limited bombing or carpet bombing? So in a ceasefire, they usually do limited bombing rather than carpet bombing. They violate the ceasefire every time. Yeah. So, okay, now, guys, if they're going to scuttle the deal, they're going to pretend that the Iranians were unreasonable and wouldn't give us 100% of what we wanted.

So you'll know that we sabotage the deal, if we're talking about, that we insist that, that on zero percent enrichment and gave no ground on it. If we said, oh, Iran has to hand over their foreign policy to Israel, and they're not allowed to even talk to their proxies anymore, Iran would never agree to that. It's been an absurd request from day one. So then if we keep the blockade, well, then we don't have a ceasefire because we kept the blockade. So, and in fact, that blockades, one of the two most important things here. Because Trump announced a ceasefire, hey, both sides are going to not close the straight

anymore. And then he never lifts the blockade. So it looks like he's trying to undermine the thing that we're actually trying to do by not lifting the blockade. So that's clue number one in Anna's direction. That no, he doesn't mean any of this. If you meant it, you would have taken the blockade out, right? So at the end of all this, these are the things that you have to look for.

For example, if we say no compensation to the Iranians at all, they're not allowed to charge a toll, we're not going to unfreeze their assets, we're not going to do the bare minimum. Well, that means that we were unreasonable and we were purposely trying to sabotage the deal, right? If the deal doesn't happen. Now, the most important thing as to whether you're going to get to peace or not is actually not Iran or America, it's Lebanon. So it because the Iranians are insisting that Lebanon be part of the deal that Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon, which they are trying to annex right now.

And Israel might agree to some things regarding Iran, depending on how low they're running on interceptor missiles and Iron Dome, right? But what they are not going to agree to is not annexing southern Lebanon. Okay, then let's keep the war going. Israel's running out of interceptors, so is the United States. So why doesn't Iran just stop wasting its time with these BS negotiations? Okay, you're not going to give us an inch, then we're not going to do anything. We're not going to meet in Islamabad and we're going to keep bombing.

Let's keep the war going until Israel cries uncle. Yeah, so I understand that, and that's exactly what might happen soon. But right now, as things stand today, we're all going to find out together, does Israel have huge influence or are they the only influence on the White House, right? Meaning that they control. Because if they have huge influence but not complete control, Trump's got to get out of with the deal that I described earlier. And he could then pretend, the war was short enough.

It was about six weeks. You know, oil goes back down. The markets will be ecstatic. They'll go back up to 50,000. And even though we lost on the terms and Iran wound up stronger afterwards, he could still pretend that we won. So that is, it's sitting there right there for him. And so if he doesn't take it, that means no, he never had any choice.

that he was always gonna go with what Israel said because they want Lebanon and they want to destroy Iran further. Yeah. Again, I'm already there. I think Israel has complete control over the Trump administration. There's every indication to prove that. I mean, of course, there are statements for Marco Rubio saying that Israel was going to attack, and so we had to take action. But aside from what they're saying overtly, think about what this war has done to the global economy, and more importantly for Trump, what it has done to Trump's popularity or lack of popularity, right? I mean, his approval rating is in the gutter, and this war is deeply unpopular with the American people. Gas prices are high, inflation is gonna get even worse. Oil and gas infrastructure,

oil refineries in the Gulf region, completely destroyed, which means even if the war ends today, prices, oil prices will continue to be incredibly high. I mean, it's just a complete utter disaster. The US gets nothing out of this. We're spending more and more money in order to do it. And when I say spend money going deeper and deeper into debt in order to fight Israel's war for them. So like what would motivate Trump to do this aside from the Israelis either have blackmail on me or there's some other weird corrupt thing going on here that's persuading him to engage in this ridiculous war and not take a peace deal? So I think the answer is we're about to find out whether the Israelis do have blackmail or don't.

Because Anna, you're right. Without blackmail, I can see him getting talked into the war. We already know that he did. They met Nanyahu came into the situation room and convinced them and said, oh, they won't block the Strait of Hormuz. They're incompetent, dirty Muslims. They don't know anything. They're villagers.

Don't worry, they have no capabilities. And Trump's like, oh, okay, yeah, that's been. So like it's possible that Trump is stupid enough plus leans towards Israel enough through a series of campaign contributions, brought potential bribes in the real world, etc. That he's proclivities to go towards whatever Israel wants. Right. And he believed that he was dumb enough to believe them that the strait wouldn't get closed in our Gulf allies wouldn't get attacked. But now that he's seen that they were wrong and he's been misled, if it was just leaning just bribes,

this is gonna destroy his legacy, he would get out of the war, right? The only way he doesn't get out of the war is if he thinks, yes, but if Israel releases that blackmail, my legacy is going to be destroyed even worse than if I stay in this war. You see what I'm saying? I certainly do. I don't believe that Galane Maxwell would have ended up in club fed, okay, and minimum security facility had it not been for Trump feeling a little bit worried that maybe she's going to release something about him.

And I don't want people to mistake what I'm saying. I actually lean towards you. Like I think that it is more likely that we're going to stay in the war. And in fact, that's the challenge I gave in the earlier show I did today. Because he was like, no way, we're definitely getting out of the war. And I'm like, no, I would lean towards staying in. And why, for the same exact reason, it's amazing that you brought that up. It's actually a story we have later on the rundown.

But when asked about galane, pardoning Galane Maxwell, like, look, guys, if it was like, let's say, a Venezuelan gang member or whatever, would Trump say I'll look into it? Right, I wish him luck. Yeah, no, of course he wouldn't be like, why would I pardon? No, no, right? Instead, when they asked him by Galane Maxwell, not only did he say, oh, I'll look into it, and he hasn't decided either way, but he also said, you know, I have the power to do it, I can do it.

So he's obviously thinking about pardoning Maxwell, and if he's thinking about pardoning Maxwell, that means they probably have the black men. Please get the Israeli operatives out of our government. That'd be nice. Anyway, we've got to take a quick break when we come back. We'll talk a little bit about how Trump swears up and down that Israel is not the reason why he went to war with you. Oh, yeah, sure.

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Amazon, t.com. First, Kelly K. There's never been a ceasefire, whether it be Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, or Iran, ongoing barbarments and Israel violating ceasefires minutes into them being announced. That is just factual, yes. Can I ask a question? I want to ask ahead of time. So when inevitably resistance fighters attack Israeli settlers who stole land and settled in southern Lebanon, am I supposed to feel bad for the settlers?

I don't know what we're supposed to feel. Because I'm not gonna feel bad for the settlers. I mean, it's like asking to like, hey, a bunch of Hamas guys on October 7th, do you feel bad for the Hamas guys who died that day? I don't think that's even an appropriate question, right? Same thing for the settlers, the settlers are vicious terrorists, so you're asking me, do I have empathy for vicious terrorists? I just, I don't know, it's a weird question, right?

I don't want anyone shaming me when another October 7th type attack happens, and I'm not here crying for the terrorists who stole land and settled on said stolen land. The settlers are indisputable religious zealots, the worst religious fundamentalists in the world, bar none, including fundamentalist, Christians or Muslims or Buddhists or Hindus, okay? They think that they are superior to the whole planet. They despise every other religion and race. They have no compunctions about murdering and stealing people's lands. There isn't anybody worse than the settlers in the West Bank.

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Shopify.com slash t-y-y-t. Shopify.com slash TYT. It'll really help you with your store online. All right, Anna, what's next? We got to talk about Trump, obviously, in his feelings, about what people have been saying about how easy it is to manipulate him. So let's get to the details. This morning, President Donald Trump insisted that Israel did not goad him into war with Iran. It was his decision and his decision only. But, you know, there's this thing called evidence. plenty of it to counter what Trump is claiming before we get to that, your two cents.

Yeah, so this is like somebody walking into a room and going, I'm not gay, okay, all right, got you. So him's like, I'm not controlled by Israel. All right, if you say so, brother. But as you're about to see in this story, there is ample evidence that he is. Totally. So this morning, Trump wrote the following on truth social, bear with me. Israel never talked me into the war with Iran. The results of October 7th. The results of October 7th. The results of October 7th added to my lifelong opinion that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon did. Okay, he continues, I watch and read the fake news pundits and polls in total disbelief, 90% of what they say are lies and made up stories and the polls are rigged, much as the 2020

presidential election was rigged, just like the results in Venezuela, which the media doesn't like talking about. The results in Iran will be amazing. And if Iran's new leaders, regime change are smart, Iran can have a great and prosperous future. Now look, the timing of these posts, interesting to say the least, because on Saturday, Trump actually acknowledged just how unpopular the war with how unpopular Israel has become, right?

The war is obviously very unpopular. The American people do not support it, but Israel is very unpopular. probably for the first time in America since Israel was established. Okay, so let's give you the details. He attempted to defend Israel in his statement, but he says whether people like Israel or not, I don't, they have proven to be a great ally of the United States of America. How? He doesn't explain, how exactly are they a great ally?

They lied to you and manipulated you into thinking, attacking Iran and succeeding in, you know, installing a puppet regime would be easy to do. And clearly it was not easy to do. And now we're stuck in what appears to be a quagmire. He continues though, let me give you the rest of his statement. There are, they are courageous, bold, loyal, and smart. They have blackmail on him, Jank. They have blackmail on him.

Yeah. And smart. And unlike others that have shown their true colors in a moment of conflict and stress, Israel fights hard and knows how to win. What do you mean by fights hard? The IDF excels in murdering unarmed civilians. They refuse to put boots on the ground in Iran and are urging the United States to do so on their behalf. What do you mean they're bold and they're strong? What?

No, these statements, Anna, went a long way in convincing me he is controlled by Israel. They were perfectly counterproductive. Now, why? All of these have Israeli talking points in them. So, oh, October 7th, always mentioned October 7th, because why we're the victims, we're the victims. Tell us about how Iran can ever have a nuclear weapon. They're on the verge of having a nuclear weapon. When Trump had said months ago that we've completely destroyed their nuclear facilities,

he's back to the Israeli talking points about they're about to have them, right? Has been throughout this war. But it's interesting that the guy who said they were totally destroyed has gone back to, no, they're about to start a bomb, which is perfect, Naniela talking point. He mentions regime change, that's third Israeli talking point. Normally he says, oh, we're not doing regime change, but he's back to the time. that here. And then the last two posts were just like, mm-mm, right?

He's gonna kiss Israel not just on the left cheek or the right cheek, but also in the middle. Okay, like so he's like, oh, they're the greatest loyal spot. I love Israel. Wait, I thought you were trying to make a case that you're not controlled by Israel. And you just gave us nothing but Israeli talking points and how you love them and are on your knees groveling to them. So you couldn't make a better case for the opposite of what he was trying to prove. I know it's great, it really is.

Now, what's going on here? Why did Trump out of nowhere decide to make this statement? I mean, look, one reason could be his plummeting poll numbers, especially as more and more accusations of Israel's control over Trump are being made. I'm gonna give you some additional evidence in just a minute, but first, take a look at this. Donald Trump's standing with the public here. Now in approval rating in our poll here of just 37%. The last time this poll reported out a couple months ago, it was 39%.

The big change from then to now, of course, is the launch of the war in Iran and everything that's continued to happen there. So down to 37% approval for Trump and mention Iran. And look at this. A big driver of that clearly is how that war is going. Only a third of adults approve of Trump's handling of the war in Iran. Only, there's a quarter, I should say, one quarter of Republicans say they disapprove. Those who call themselves Republicans.

The numbers are much higher for Republican voters under the age of 30. A majority of them are actually very much against this war in Iran. And I just want to remind you all of what Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State, had to say about our decision to go to war with Iran in the very, very beginning. Let's take a look. It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States. had been delegated down to the field commanders, it was automatic, and in fact it dared to be true. If we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties. And so the president made the very wise decision.

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed. In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $24.50 an hour. Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields, like software development and information technology. Learn more at aboutamazon.ca.

Yeah, you know, the appropriate thing to do with a threat like that from Israel, instead of allowing them to dictate U.S. foreign policy is I would respond to them by saying, we are cutting off all weapons and military support, all aid to Israel right now. That's what we're going to do, since you're making these threats. Real quick, Jank, I just want to remind you all of the reporting in the New York Times recently, which we covered at length. But I'm going to give you the relevant excerpts from this piece. Let's go to Graphics 7 and then 9. In the situation room, yeah, the situation room, Benjamin Netanyahu, a foreign leader, made a hard sell to the Trump administration, suggesting that Iran was ripe for regime change

and expressing the belief that a joint U.S. Israeli mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic. This is what he was telling Trump. Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing to near certain victory. Iran's ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks, in a few weeks. The regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the strait of Hormuz, oops, and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against U.S. interests in neighboring countries was assessed as minimal. Every single U.S. base in the Gulf has been either severely damaged or destroyed. So is this the great benefit of having an ally like Israel?

They give us crappy intel to drag us into ridiculous wars on their behalf. Is that why? Okay, please. Yeah, I asked APEC on X over the weekend because they're like, oh, no, this is such a mutually beneficial relationship. When America gives us money, that actually helps America more than Israel. I was like, oh, that's fantastic, I like your logic. So why don't you give us the $320 billion back?

That way Israel will be tremendously helped. That's your logic, right? Curiously, they didn't respond back because it's obvious propaganda and doesn't stand up to like one inch of critique. So now to Anna's point about how the right wing is flipping, for Republicans over the age of 65, they're still totally on board for Trump and the war and anything Trump says. So not totally, actually to be fair, he's lost nearly 20 points there. So meaning that he's only got 8 out to 8 out 10 is still a big number.

But Trump had never come close to losing 20% of his older voters, right? The ones that are watching Fox News and have the thing in the back of their neck, like, oh, Sean Hannity says I must love Israel and love war, okay, I will now, right? So those guys. Greatest ally. Greatest ally ever, give all my money to Israel because Trump and Hannity told me, right? So those are now like sometimes referred to as zombies. And now, but not just by us, but by right wingers who are younger.

So in fact, under the age of 30, they're on our side saying that no, Israel, negative view of them, negative view of the war. And the difference between under 30 year old Republicans and above 65 year old Republicans is a shocking 35 points. Mm-mm, mm-mm. Within the same party, a 35 point difference. That is enormous. Yommy in my tummy.

Yeah, and the reason for that is I've explained you guys many, many times is the media that they're consuming. So the older viewers that are right wing are still watching Fox News, so they're getting nothing but Israeli propaganda. That's what Fox News does. On the other hand, the younger folks are online. And today when I put out a post, for example, saying, you know, Iran, Obama's Iran deal was actually really good. A lot of Democrats, independents were like, yeah, you're actually right.

It's a republicans are like, no way, man, because they heard their whole life that. That it was bad. Yeah, it was a bad deal, et cetera. But when I switched over it and I said Fox News is, you know, brainwashing to older Republicans, that's the only reason why they're still supporting this war in Israel. Tons of right wingers were like, oh yeah, that's totally true, F Fox News. So they've caught on to the younger right wing has caught on to Fox News being just straight up propaganda.

And that's a beautiful thing to see in this country. It sure is. So these things move slowly. Given how slowly these ships usually move in politics, this is lightning speed, 35 point difference. This quickly is amazing. So one more thing here, and this is really, really important. Do they have control or just influence Israel over the President Trump, right?

So that's what we've been discussing all show and including in this story. Well, one piece of evidence is no president threatens to do the obvious, which is what Anna said earlier. Hey, if you don't listen to us, we are going to take away your funding. I mean, we give you so much money, $4 billion a year that used to be considered a lot. But now we're just shoveling money over them. Biden gave them $21 billion. Trump gave them an extra $13 billion. Congress just sent them more 1,000-pound bombs and armed bulldozers because they're, you're

totally owned by Israel, it's disgusting. Anyway, so neither Biden nor Trump would ever, and by the way, in my lifetime, no US president, including Obama, has ever threatened to take away their funding. Why wouldn't you use that threat when it's the most obvious threat to get them to do what we want since we're funding them? Yeah, you would think that we have no cards, but we're playing with a full deck. And for whatever reason, you know, we haven't had a single leader who's willing, well, I shouldn't say that.

In the day, I mean, Reagan dangled military aid to Israel when Israel wasn't complying. Even George H.W. Bush did that. George W. Bush did that, although not as aggressively. So as the years went on, Jank, and I think as corruption became more and more baked in our system, and foreign lobbying became mainstay of our political system, you see less likelihood that our leaders would be willing to push back against Israel and their demands. Well, I'll back that up even more by saying Eisenhower was pretty strict with them, that they're not to get nuclear weapons, et cetera. And then so was Kennedy until, of course, he was assassinated.

And then Lyndon Johnson immediately was like, yeah, you can get nukes. So like getting soft on Israel started exactly at JFK's assassination. I'm not making any insinuation. I'm just telling you literally what happened in history. We can speculate. But whatever it might be, our presidents in my lifetime have been totally neutered. And like, oh, golly chi, I don't know what leverage we have on Israel. I mean, Barack Obama, you're an incredibly bright guy who was ahead of Harvard Law Review.

You couldn't figure out what leverage you had over the Israelis? No, this is how a country acts when it's occupied and controlled by a different country. There are some political, I don't want to say leaders, because he's not quite a political leader yet. But there are some members of Congress who are starting to feel comfortable threatening USA to Israel. Congressman Roecona happens to be one of them. Take a look. All Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That's his entire foreign policy. You know what? I resent the fact that Israel is going to tell the United States what to do. The American

president should call the shots in this country. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Look, somebody on X today was like, am I the only one who thinks Roe Kana is obviously presidential material? Why is no one talking about that at scale, right? He's winning me over. I will say that. Like the fact that he goes into, I don't want to say enemy territory, that's too strong. The fact that he's willing to go to Fox News and make his case like that, especially against someone like Maria Bartaromo, love to see it. Keep doing that. The fact that he's open to going on any show, regardless of how big or small the audience happens to be, I really respect that. I mean, how difficult has it been to get so many progressive

members of Congress to come on independent shows and make their case for anything. Roe Con will go on any show, and I love that about him. No, it's even more than that, Anna, because, okay, I mean, sure, they should definitely go on any page. You're 100% right about all that. But for the moment being, forget that, just go on the Sunday talk shows, right? Go on television and oppose the war. Why is that hard for Democrats to do now, let alone progressives?

Why isn't there 12 progressives on each show making the case against the war? So like the fact that Rokana appears to be the only guy fighting for us is at this point becoming glaring. And by the way, so it was Bill Madden who said, and he wrote an article ago, I don't get it. It should obviously be Rokana, right? The reason why he doesn't get it is and why the establishment doesn't even include him in half the presidential polls is because the establishment doesn't want Rokana. No, they don't. So that's why they, it's day interview him. To be fair, they do.

He goes on those shows and probably because he's the only Democrat who shows up. They're like, okay, since you're the only guy, all right, come on on. So they've been fair to him in that sense. But leaving him out of the polls, leaving him out of the conversation, MS now, choose your fighter for the 2028 potential candidates. They had 24 people on there, didn't put Ro on. Why? Because MS now is a corporate channel and they only want corporate and Israel-loving Democrats.

So this is the fight that's going to happen going forward. 100%. Okay, let me just say, MS now, it kind of gives you a hint into the kind of bipartisanship they like to celebrate versus the actual bipartisanship that yields results that they do not celebrate. Roe Kana is one of the only Democratic members of Congress who doesn't give a damn about signaling his, you know, ideological purity. If he thinks reaching across the aisle and working with Republican lawmakers is going to yield results that benefit the American people.

Like I don't know, getting the release of the Epstein files, he's gonna do it. And I personally really, really respect that. Look, super last thing on that. And it's not BS, sorry, interrupt, it isn't the kind of BS bipartisanship that happens to screw Americans over on behalf of corporate or moneyed interest. That's the kind of bipartisanship MS now likes to celebrate. Yeah, so the last thing I was gonna see, look, it's kind of obvious to us if Tom Massey on the Republican side is going to help us release the Epstein files, which puts, well, first of all, on its own, forget the political implications, right? I actually care about the victims we do deeply on this show, and they should get justice.

I care deeply about justice. That's why he named it just Democrats, justice is coming. I'm obsessed with it, right? And then on top of that, politically, it's a giant win for the Democrats and the anti-Trump forces. So this brother comes across the aisle to help us on that because why he's an honest guy. You might disagree with him on other stuff, but thank God he did that. Marjorie Taylor Green did that, et cetera. So then I was wondering before, and I figured it out, like, why didn't other Democrats just on the politics of it jump onto the Epstein files until Roe and Massey had created unstoppable momentum?

And they were like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, us too, us too, right? So why didn't they join the press conferences and the initial fight? Then I realized, oh, that takes courage in Washington to work with any Republican. Because the conventional wisdom is if a Democrat works with any Republican, even if the Republican is helping us 100% on that particular issue, no, that's it, you're canceled and et cetera. And while everyone's hiding going, no, no, no, I don't want to help Massey release the Epstein files, I'll get yelled at.

Roe was like, wait, we're releasing Epstein files? I'm in, right? And you know what that is? That's courage. That's the courage to lead. And it's it's forging the types of alliances and relationships necessary to get the job done. And that's what we need to see more of in Congress. Anyway, we got to take a quick break.

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SUVW, German engineered for all. Which first, SDJ wants as U.S. Navy literally committed a war crime there on camera. Yeah, beyond that, brother, I was worried that they're showing how the helicopters are repelling our Marines onto the ship. Like, don't show that. Because next time they'll be ready with RPGs. Like we keep showing important intelligence on TV just so we can brag, oh, we're so good at this military stuff, right? So anyway, green new dealer dragon says, USA is the best pirate fleet on earth.

That is kind of what we're doing. Canadian skull, to be fair, the Iranians are also doing the same thing. Canadian skull dragon says, maybe they should smoke some more weed instead of blowing stuff up. You're here to that. No world would be a much better place. YTP renews says, leave it to a disgusting chicken hawk like Trump to think, Iranians are dirty enough cowards to meet the threats of genocide with appeasement or to think that's a good thing.

That's a great point. The reason is Trump always does projection. So he thinks, well, I'd be a coward and I would give up immediately. So he assumed that Iranians would be cowards like him and give up immediately. In fact, another story today, I was reminded of how he, because he was bragging about how he landed in Iraq in his first term to eat the meal with the troops, but they landed with no lights on and how scared to death he was and he kept asking over, are we going to be okay? Are we going to be okay? Are we going to be okay?

Like, he's such a coward. And that's why he assumes others are, and that's a miscalculation. Peachy Sherry says he's so flippant with his answers. He doesn't know squat. He doesn't care. He's truly the worst agreed on every count there. And then I am out of time. Okay, more next time. We'll be right back. Okay, back on TYT. Jiganana with you guys. Oh, fun announcement today. We have member Mondays today. So what is that, we're starting it today?

What does that mean? After the show, I'm gonna do a revolution episode, but include you guys in it. Everybody watches, but members get to call in. Now, normally I tell you how easy things are, honestly on this one, you gotta take a minute with it. So if you wanna call in today, go to t.t.com slash call and figure out how to do it, because you gotta do it through Discord. Don't get intimidated, but it'll take you a minute. TYT.com slash call.

So everyone can watch, but only members get to call in. I want to interact with you guys and figure out how to lead this political revolution together. And by the way, we're now on Amazon Prime, so that's awesome. And so you can check out our 24-hour channel on Amazon Prime as well. All right, Casper. Let's check in with the economy. When do you think it's realistic for Americans to expect the gas will go back to under $3 a gallon? I don't know, that could happen later this year.

That might not happen until next year. Well, President Donald Trump has now publicly rebuked that statement from U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, calling it totally wrong. Now, Jank, I don't think Chris Wright is wrong. In fact, I think he should have gone even further in warning the American people about how disastrous this war with Iran has been when it comes to energy needs and the price of oil and gas. But before we get to all those details, your two cents. Yeah, I want to talk about the economic calamity that will ensue if we restart the war. because that is right now, Anna's going to tell you about how bad it is.

I think it can get way worse. And then I want to point out one thing about Wright, I think that Trump might have flipped out about what he said, Anna, because maybe Wright knows something we don't know that the war is going to last longer. And that's why Trump was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't ruin the element of surprise, okay? Gas prices could go down any minute. Well, we'll see.

So let's give you some more context, especially when it comes to this interesting. interview on CNN with Jake Tapper. So during the conversation, Wright stated that the Trump administration has handled energy prices fantastically. Let's take a look at what he has to say. The president said today, the U.S. loses nothing with the street is closed, but gas prices have searched more than a dollar gallon for regular unleaded just since the war began. So it's not true, right? I mean, the U.S. does lose something. Putting this 47-year conflict to an end, and preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, of course, has come with short-term disruption. I think we've managed it fantastically, though. Here we are in the middle of the largest

interruption in flow of energy ever, and gasoline prices peaked a week ago, about a dollar below the peak during the Biden administration. And that was just a Biden administration attack on the oil and gas industry. I got to say, I really can't stand these crusty-ass liars, Okay, and I'm gonna give you the details on how deep the lie is in just a minute, but later Wright admitted that gas prices could stay high for an entire year. And spoiler alert, he's actually downplaying how bad this is. Take a look. When you are on the show March 8th, I asked you when gases, gas prices would go under $3 a gallon for regular unleaded.

You said, quote, in the worst case, this is a week's, this is not a month's thing. That was six weeks ago, so we're still within the weeks round, but we're two weeks away from The month's thing. When do you think it's realistic for Americans to expect that gas will go back to under $3 a gallon? I don't know. That could happen later this year. That might not happen until next year. But prices have likely peaked and they'll start going down.

Certainly with a resolution of this conflict, you'll see prices go down. Prices across the board on energy prices will go down. But it might not be under $3 a gallon until 2027. Under $3 a gallon is pretty tremendous in an inflation adjustment. terms. We had that in the in the Trump administration, but we hadn't seen that in inflation adjusted term for quite a long time. We'll get, we'll get back there for sure. No. Okay. So look, apparently the pretty little story that Wright told while on CNN didn't go far enough for Trump, who knows that this is a huge political liability for him and the Republicans.

So in a phone interview with the Hill, Trump stated, no, I think writes wrong on that, totally wrong. When asked by the Hill, when he believes gas prices will drop, Trump said, as soon as this ends, referring to the Iran war, by the way, tensions escalated over the weekend. And there's really no indication that a deal will be signed with Iran anytime soon. And for context, the graph you're looking at just shows you how much the price of gas per gallon has gone up. So it illustrates the average price of gas per gallon in the US from April 2025 through the end of March of this year. And as you can see, there's a pretty significant spike there. Prices reached their highest point so far this year at $4.16 per gallon earlier this month.

And now are at $4.5 per AAA data. In California, obviously, with all the extra taxes. it's much higher than that. We're now paying like six, seven dollars a gallon, which is pretty disastrous. So thanks Trump. But, Jank, I want to get your thoughts. And before, and then after, I'm going to tell you why, even if the war ended today, these high gas prices are here to stay, at least for a long time. Yeah, so guys, there's one thing that Wright said that's relatively true. He said, we've managed this pretty well. And why do I say that's relatively true? because Trump has done all these misdirections and tacos and all this stuff. So, and it's managed to quiet the markets down, right?

In the beginning, what happened was oil shot up and the markets crashed. But then eventually Trump convinced the markets that, oh, the victory is around the corner and peace is right around the corner. So the markets are totally back up thinking, yeah, oil is bad, but it's temporary because Trump says this, is almost over and we all believe him. So they've actually not felt the pain as much since the beginning of the war, right? So what's going to happen if the war continues though is that the markets are going to realize, oh, we got played again, right? And so by the way, there's a person that is making a tremendous amount of money betting

on the markets right before Trump's announcements. Guys, there is serious insider trade. Brazen insider trading happening right now and market manipulation happening right now. It's sick. Like it's sick that this is going on and nothing is being done about it. Yeah, so now they could be doing the market manipulation to keep things going, instead about its end to make money off of it. But it's having an ironic counterproductive element to it, which is that Trump's looking

at the markets and going, that's not that bad, right? So that might lead him to go, oh yeah, yeah, let's keep going. And if we keep going, then the market's gonna realize they're wrong and the bottom's gonna fall out. Why is the bottom gonna fall out? Because if this war is going longer, if we start bombing their civilian infrastructure or we put in ground troops, that means the price of oil is not going to be abated anymore. Because then peace is definitely not around the corner and it'll skyrocket not just above $100, but above $120, right?

And when that happens, what you're not seeing so far guys is, and we're really really, we're reading about it because it's our job. There's a little bit of a panic going on in South Korea because they're running low on energy. And in fact, that's what's making them furious about Israel. And they're putting out statements against Israel, Israel's catching feelings. In India, they're having significant shortages. So the whole world is waiting on baited breath here. Is this war going to be over and then we're going to begin to slowly recover all those going

to have issues like Anna is going to tell you? Or oh my God, are we quadrupling down and destroying the global economy? So that's what's gonna get determined in a couple of days here. So you're watching this at a pivotal moment in time. I just wanna know how much Germany regrets decommissioning their nuclear power plants. But we'll check in with that later. For now though, I wanna explain why, even if the war were to end today, oil gas prices are not gonna come down.

What you're paying at the pump is not gonna come down anytime soon. And that's because this war has led to significant damage to oil refineries, oil, oil fields, you know, you have gas that, you know, gas infrastructure that's being completely destroyed. So I'll give you just a little taste, okay? Literally dozens and dozens of oil and gas facilities, infrastructure totally damaged or destroyed. So for instance, let's give you specific examples. In the UAE, one of the biggest refineries in the world suffered multiple fires caused by falling debris from air defense interception. Abu Dhabi's government said on April 5th, Saudi Arabia, this is just refineries, by the way.

A drone fell on a refinery that's half owned by ExxonMobil. This happened on March 19th. Also in Saudi Arabia, units halted at the Satorp refinery after incidents on April 7th through the 8th. It used to refine nearly 460,000 barrels a day. It is currently refining none, nothing, because of the extensive damage. At the Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co in Bahrain, for instance, some operational units caught fire after drone attacks on April 5th. Like this is damaged infrastructure that's going to take a long time to fix, right?

There's more. There's the Kuwait National Petroleum Company and Petrochemical Industries facilities, which suffered significant damages as emergency and fire response teams work to contain fires at several sites, KPC said on April 5th. Fifth, those attacks followed hits on KPC's headquarters. Those were just refineries. Then you have gas facilities. Qatar Energy said LNG facilities were hit by the Iranian missiles, triggering fires that

caused extensive damage. Like guys, this damage is going to cause higher prices at the pump for a long time. So regardless of the cute little stories you're hearing from various members of the Trump administration, understand that they're lying to you. And while we might end up paying higher prices here in the United States, you're right, Jank, other countries that were more reliant on energy from the Gulf region are really suffering. And they're now rationing energy, rationing gas and oil. Like it's just a complete, not a disaster.

And I think that you'll probably be very unsurprised by the fact that when it comes to Trump's polling numbers and how Americans are feeling about this, they're pissed. Take a look. More recently, the cost of gasoline, you know, what they're paying at the pump here, add these two numbers together very somewhat. Two thirds, 65% say that the cost of gasoline is a serious in some way problem for them and for their families right now. The market is an international market, okay?

There is no, oh, we're oil and gas independent here in the United States. It's all about supply and demand on the global stage, and there is less, supply, so it's going to continue being a problem regardless of what anyone in the administration has to tell you. Yeah, so let me add three more problems economically. Number one, wherever they have depots, they've filled them up in the Gulf and in Iran and other places in the Middle East, and then they've stopped drilling. So the problem is when you stop drilling, it takes a while to restart the drilling.

So that's why gas prices, even if we stop now, are gonna continue to be higher for quite some time. The full depots ironically hurt because it prevents, because you can't drill because you have nowhere to put the oil, the depots are filled. So that's a part of the problem, smallest part of the problem. And then you go to the second layer of it. So when India, South Korea, Europe, et cetera, have these huge energy problems, it also hurts the rest of their economy, which then ricochets around the world because it's a global economy, and hurts our economy.

So it depresses all of the products at the same time, right? And then finally, the biggest problem if we continue the war is, if we hit Iran's oil and gas facilities, well, again, those are gonna take five years to rebuild. You're doing permanent damage to the price of gas, or at least for as far as I can see. And Iran doesn't have a ton of money to rebuild those facilities, so it might take even longer, depending on what kind of deal we come up with, if we ever get to the end of this war. But Iran will also counter by hitting,

and they've said this very, very clearly, there's no question they're gonna do it. Oil and gas facilities in the Gulf, in which case, oh my God, then we're going to, price of oil going past $150, because now where the Middle East says, not only do we have a temporary

but significant problem in the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, so the oil can't get out, now they can't even make the oil because their oil facilities are destroyed and are going to take years and years to rebuild. Continuing this war will be such an epic debacle that it should be unthinkable. The only reason why it's in doubt now is to whether we're going to continue is because there's one country demanding that we continue, and that's apparently the most powerful country in the world. That's Israel.

That's right. All right, let's take a break. When we come back for the second hour, a lot more to get into. We'll talk a little bit about the religious backlash to the multiple wars that Israel is involved in, including in southern Lebanon. If you're Christian, in fact, I will fight for you to have your religious liberty and practice your Christianity. I believe in that. I don't believe in Christianity, which means that you do not get to dictate the way I live my life based on your religion. I don't care what the Bible says. You have every right in the world.

All those women who identify with your religion have every right in the world to not get an abortion, to not take birth control. But they do not have the right to dictate my life and what I decide to do with my body. I don't care about your goddamn religion. I'm so tired of having non-stop conversations about what the Bible says. You live your life in the way that you interpret the Bible. Again, I don't care, but you don't get to take it. take the Bible and tell me, well, the Bible says this, in this chapter and this verse,

I don't care. I don't care. I don't believe in it. And I have the right, based on our Constitution, to not believe in it. Has been left on Skate. Ain't a whole lot left. I don't know why they need any more bomb. Let us be clear. The United States provided $18 billion in military aid to Israel. Netanyahu indiscriminate bombardment have killed more than 50,000. civilians, 60% of whom are women, children, paramedics, and journalists, all of this is against basic human decency. You don't starve children with absolutely no humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. It is a war crime.

It is illegal for the United States government to provide Israel with more offensive weapons. Street will not will give us. We've been on our phones too much. I feel like we just need to touch grass or something. I told you. I mean, you know what? Let's actually do it. Let's touch the grass. Andrew Yang?

It's not racist, right? It's him. Yes, it is I. Andrew Yang out here giving money away, as usual. Wait, but literally? Do you use a phone? Noble Mobile will cut your wireless bill in half every month and you get paid even more if you log off, look up and touch grass.

Oh, I actually have some grass. I don't think that's a kind of grass. Not that kind of grass, unfortunately. Whoa. Wait, what the... Whoa. I guess that kind of grass works, too. All grass works.

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Let's do more news. I don't know how fun this is, but we're gonna do more news. Let's get to it. I mean, this is hugely embarrassing for the IDF. Prime Minister Nesson Yahoo came out with a very strong statement this morning saying he was shocked by that image in which you see a soldier appearing to use something like an axe or a pickaxe to smash into the face of the statue of Jesus in a Christian village in the same. The Israelis have gone out of their way to say, look, this doesn't represent the IDF. It's a multi-faith country and it's something that they condemn and that they're investigating. The Israelis and the IDF in particular are facing some pretty harsh criticism, rightfully so,

after an IDF soldier decided it would be a great idea to post an image of an IDF soldier, destroying a statue of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon. Now, Jank, before we jump into the details, I thought the Israelis just hated Muslims. Looks like they also hate Christians, weird. Interesting. Weird. So in this story, we're gonna show you all their attacks against Christians, and there's a lot.

But also, I wanna talk about how Israel's backtracking, as they're doing here, very unusual, is directly related to how much attention that issue is getting. Because you'll see later stories that you've never heard of since they didn't get any attention, even though they're much worse than this one, Israel held no one accountable, did absolutely nothing and never apologized. And you'll see how, I mean, killing priests and things along those lines. In double tap strikes. Yeah, in the most vicious way.

So we'll explain that as we go. So here's another look at the image of the IDF soldier destroying the Jesus statue, which which went viral over the weekend. And to your point, Jank, that's why Israel probably felt the need to respond to the backlash. Now according to the Jerusalem Post, the incident allegedly occurred in the village of Debel in southern Lebanon. The vandalism took place in a Mary Knight Christian village, which is strange. You would think that a Hezbollah stronghold wouldn't allow for a Christian village, considering

how vicious and terroristic they are. But apparently this Christian village existed, didn't have any problems until the Israelis came along. Now it's one of the few villages where residents have remained even despite Israeli occupation. And as you can imagine, the image sparked a massive outrage online, followed with, you know, fake calls for investigation by the Israelis. And the reason why I say it's fake is because we've heard this before, this isn't our first rodeo.

Israel does something wrong, everyone is outraged. And they claim they're gonna do an investigation, everyone forgets about it, and then we move on. And by the way, we have some statistics on their investigations in just a moment. But here's the statement from the IDF. They write, following the completion of an initial examination regarding a photograph published earlier today of an IDF soldier harming a Christian symbol, it was determined that the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating in southern Lebanon. So they're confirming that this is in fact a real image. The IDF views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier's conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values

expected of its troops. Oh, I've seen what's expected of the troops, and this is hardly inconsistent. The incident is being investigated by the Northern Command and is currently being addressed through the chain of command. Appropriate measures will be taken against those involved in accordance with these findings. Now Netanyahu acted shocked and chagrined. He said He was outraged as well. Let's go to Graphic 5 here. He says yesterday, like the overwhelming majority of Israelis, I was stunned and saddened to learn that an IDF soldier damaged a Catholic religious icon in southern Lebanon. I condemn the act in the strongest terms. Military authorities are conducting a criminal probe of the matter and will take appropriately harsh

disciplinary action against the offender. You know, what's really interesting, Jenk, is I saw some IDF videos over the weekend as well, including a video out of the West Bank that featured IDF soldiers sexually assaulting a little boy who couldn't have been older than five or six years old. IDF soldier unzips his pants and then drags the boy's head to his crotch. That didn't spark enough outrage for the Israelis to call for an investigation, I guess. But anyway, back to you. Yeah, so Christians are a huge problem for Israel. Why? because they've done overwhelming propaganda in America, mainly through mainstream media,

declaring all Muslims evil terrorists. And so since there aren't a lot of Muslims in America, that was relatively easy to pull off. Oh my God. And they got everybody all excited like, oh my gosh, Sharia law is going to take over Tulsa, Oklahoma. Like, absurd over-the-top propaganda, but ubiquitous, not just on Fox who's almost everywhere, so that it worked. Now, but you can't convince Christians, and this country's at least 70% Christian, that They themselves are terrorists, that's much harder.

And they need America because we're their piggy bank. And we fight all their wars for them, we give them hundreds of billions of dollars, so they can't make Christians upset. Now the problem is, there are also Christians that live in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. In fact, there's a lot in Lebanon. So they want to take the Christian land as much as they want to take the Muslim land. They don't really care if you're Muslim, Buddhist, or Christian, they're in the expansion of their country.

That's what they're doing. project and that's why they're in southern Lebanon destroying statues of Jesus. So the only time that they ever come close to acknowledging and apologizing is when it's already an international scandal. But if you didn't see it, then they don't care at all. So I'm going to fast forward to one particular fact here and then Anna will give you the rest is the attacks on Christians. Father Pierre L. Rye, it was a priest in southern Lebanon in El Kalaya.

where there's a strong Christian community. And Israel, of course, started bombing them because they're in southern Lebanon and Israel wants that land. So they don't care who lives there, they're gonna murder everyone there or scare them enough to drive them out as they did in 1948, 67, and over and over again. Kill enough people so that you can ethnically cleanse them off the land and drive them out. So there's a bombing, Father Pierre being a good guy, he's a priest. rushes over to the house, fellow Christians that were hit there.

Red Cross also shows up. So Israel waits, waits, waits. And once the priest and the emergency workers and the medical helpers show up, boom, double tap, and they kill Father Pierre L. Rye. And so of course, somebody's been arrested over that. No, I'm kidding, no one's ever arrested. There's never any accountability. Since America and Christians across the world didn't make that much of a big deal out of it,

oh, who cares is just a priest? I care. I think a lot of Christians care. But our media's like, shut up. You're all anti-Semites for caring about a priest being murdered by Israel. They just won't cover it. They bury the story. They pretend like, you know, the real problem are those dangerous Muslims.

I mean, how many segments has Jillian Michael done about like, oh, there's Sharia law in Texas? I'm sure there is, Joe. Yeah, of course. and Tapper and Bash and all of them, all of them. The real problems are Muslims. So when Israel keeps murdering priests, which I think is way worse than the statute, that's a real human being in a double tap strike, right? Core evil.

But our press, which makes the second half of Netanyahu's statement so enraging because he wants to deflect from the wrongdoing of the IDF soldiers and instead continue fearmongering about those skills. scary Muslims, he says, while Christians are being slaughtered in Syria and Lebanon by Muslims, wait, wait, wait, let's pause for a second. Oh, you mean the new regime in Syria that you guys wanted? Remember when you got the United States to arm al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda offshoots in Syria in order to topple Bashar al-Assad because Bashar al-Assad was friendly with Iran?

I remember that. You guys did that with our help. Congratulations, but let me continue. The Christian population and Israel thrives, unlike elsewhere in the Middle East, not true at all. They get spit on literally. No, even worse than that, okay? There's the Armenian quarter, Armenians are overwhelmingly Christian.

They deal with physical attacks and assaults from unhinged Israelis on a regular basis. I wanna give you some more examples actually. So let's go to this post by Steve Sweeney where he says in November of 2024, Israeli soldiers from the Golani brigade desecrated the Saint Mema church in the Christian village of Der Mimas, southern Lebanon. Soldiers staged a mock wedding ceremony, danced and simulated sex acts inside the church. The Israeli military said the conduct was contrary to its values. And if you think there's no way that happened, this is totally made up. He has receipts, he posted video. Let's take a look.

So there's an example for you right there. And there's more. So Sweeney, we'll take a look at this next video. We'll keep my mic up so I can explain to the audience what's happening. So this is additional footage from Steve Sweeney, a reporter who's done extensive reporting in Lebanon and was by the way targeted by an IDF strike recently and luckily was not hit. But this is footage of a church that was destroyed by Israel in Lebanon in October of 24, at least eight people were killed in these attacks. And let's go to one more example. Another

video, take a look. We're in the small southern Lebanese border village of Sadda, and I want to show you how badly this church has been absolutely desecrated by the Israeli forces. You can see here that there's a bunch of graffiti on the wall, but I think actually that's probably the least offensive thing that we have seen in this church. And it's not just in Lebanon. Why don't we actually take a look inside Israel. The Religious Freedom Data Center documented at least 201 incidents of violence against Christians, primarily committed by Orthodox Jews, targeting international clergy or individuals displaying Christian symbols between January of 2024 and September of 2025. So in a year And a half, 201 incidents involving violence against Christians.

Huh, that's weird. It's all the things they warned us the Muslims were gonna do to Christians. It looks like Israelis are doing the Christians. Strange. Huh, it's almost like every Israeli accusation is a confession. So Netanyahu, what does he do in that response that Anna read you? Okay, maybe we're desecrating a bunch of Christian places and murdering Christians, but it's the Muslims, Muslims do it worse.

So he's constantly deflecting. Remember everyone, hate the Muslims. But we're so worried about anti-Semitism and bigotry. No, you're not worried about bigotry at all. You just want supremacy. And so you think that we should all serve you. And now I say that and that's how a lot of people who catch feelings over it. So let me explain.

The majority of Jews, especially in America, don't believe that they're the chosen people. And they just think that that's some sort of like, hey, we're chosen to carry a burden or whatever, things along those lines. At least every Jewish person I know, and I know a lot, right? So, but we know mainly liberal Jewish folks in America. Now, a lot of them don't know any Israelis either, right? And what they don't realize is that the culture in Israel has slipped. It's not like Jewish people across the world and in this country.

So a lot of them are secular and liberal like us, right? But more of them these days are religious fundamentalists, and yes, supremacists. So for example, the settlers do believe they're the chosen people. And they don't think it's symbolic. They think, no, we were chosen by God and we are superior to you. So you're like cattle to us, whether you're Muslims or Christians, you're just on our land and we're here to murder you as God directed us because they're deeply fundamentalist and deeply supremacist. Now are those people, some of those people also inside the idea?

Absolutely, obviously, right? And are they part of Israeli leadership? Of course, Ben Gavir Smotrich are two of the biggest fundamentalists there is, let alone They're cats, who's their defense minister. So they've taken over a giant chunk of Israeli society, government, and military. That's why you're seeing what you're seeing here. It's not enough to destroy the churches. You have to desecrate the churches.

And what you might not have seen is in Gaza, they purposely dug up the graves of all of the other religions. There's Jews buried in Gaza, they left those graves alone. But under the pretense of looking for hostages, they desecrated Muslim and Christian grave sites just to rub it in on how superior they are than the rest of us. Now don't, again, don't hold that against random Jews that don't believe that, right? But giant portions of the IDF and the Israeli government does believe that, and that's why you're seeing the atrocities that you're seeing against Christians as well as Muslims.

So let's talk a little bit about Israel's internal review process, shall we? they claim that they're gonna do an investigation, that someone will be held accountable, but is that true? I mean, think about how emboldened IDF soldiers feel, because they're the ones who are posting these videos of themselves. It's not like anyone hacked into their email or their phones and found this footage. No, no, no, they themselves are posting it on social media, right? Okay, well, that's because they know that it's unlikely that they're gonna face punishment, and the numbers certainly bear that out. So between 20, 2016 and 2024, according to figures from the military advocate general, which oversees

the process of investigating wrongdoing. A total of 2,427 complaints were filed by Palestinian residents of the West Bank against IDF soldiers. Those complaints resulted in just 552 investigations being launched, resulting or representing 21.6% of cases. Indictments were served in just 23 cases, 0.9% of the total number of complaints over nine years. They can't even hit a 1%. They can't even hit a 1%.

Okay. Of the 696 complaints filed to MAG in which a Palestinian was killed as a result of IDF action, 195 investigations were opened, but just two of those investigations resulted in indictments. just 1% of such cases. So you can take your internal review process and shove it. Now, the only reason why they'll say that they're launching an investigation is because they know that this is really bad PR. Let's take a look at the last video here. This does not look good at all for the Israelis and it's going to be circulating online in the US as well. We know who will take advantage of this. IRGC accounts already talk about this posted everywhere.

definitely Hezbollah affiliated accounts. And this is again another incident that is going to make a lot of, a lot of bad portraying of the IDF, especially in terms of when it comes to the Christians that Israel wants to be, you know, beside them after all, Judeo-Christian values, all of that. Definitely the Israeli relationship with the U.S. and with the Christians in the U.S. So this is again part of the issue here. I love going to Israeli press because they're so much more honest. So brother is just saying there, yeah, I mean, we need the sucker Christians in America to fund Israel.

And who cares that they're smashing Jesus to pieces? We don't even believe in that guy at all. To be fair, he didn't say that, but he did say this is bad PR. No, no, yeah, I'm implying, you guys saw the video, you know what I'm saying. I'm implying that he thinks he doesn't, what he didn't say, let's be super, clear is, oh my God, this is desecration and really wrong and immoral. He said it's bad PR for Israel. Exactly.

Okay, so I'm Christians, whatever, right? But remember, those are the suckers we're robbing in America. We've already robbed them of $320 billion we put in our pockets. We've robbed them of $8 trillion to fight all of our enemies. And they're cool, we call it a global war on terror. It's only our neighbors they attacked with their money and their military, right? So hey, cool it on hating the Christians or let them. letting them realize we hate the Christians, right?

So I want to mention one other spectacular case, because I forgot about it, but one of you figured it out of. Micah Dave wrote in, thank you brother. He wrote in Shereenabak, it wasn't just a Palestinian American journalist. People forget she was a Christian Palestinian American journalist. And it was Biden who didn't give a crap and jenniflucting to Israel crossed his party lines. Every part of that is correct. And so Biden never held the Israelis accountable.

And Trump has never held him accountable. On top of all this guys, this is not about Christians or Muslims, but 10 Americans have been killed in the last three years in the West Bank. And we have asked for zero accountability. We have not demanded that anyone be arrested, including for the murder of Sherea Nubuakle, it was an American and Christian. Why did Biden or Trump not ask for the murderer to come to justice? We know and have admitted that it was an assassination.

And Biden isn't even named in any of the Epstein files we have access to. He just did it for the love of the game. Yeah, and now he did it for the love of the money because APEC was his number one donor throughout his career. That's why every once in a while for no reason, Biden would come out and go, I'm a Zionist. I love Zionism. It wasn't just Israel and a special ally, no. Of all politicians in my lifetime, he was the most adamant about how much he loved being

a Zionist. He would get a check after every time he said it, right? But hey, our media never told you that either, right? Did you remember seeing on cable news how they're the number one donor to Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Mike Johnson, number one donor to all of these leaders. But our media says, shh, don't tell anyone. Otherwise, how we're gonna rob the sucker Christian Americans and be able to kill them and desecrate and destroy their churches and totally get away with it and have them send us more money?

So that's exactly what's happening there. Well, when we come back from the break, there are other Democrats that we're gonna weigh in on, especially as it pertains to policy and support toward Israel. You don't wanna miss it, there is booing involved. We'll be right back. Okay, let's go to YouTube members, RC7801 says, my brain hurts at how extremely corrupt and blatantly stupid this second go of Trump has been. You and everybody else's brain brother, totally.

Mary Allen Van Buren with an awesome name said, I totally hate when Trump administration used the phrase we've been at war with Iran for 47 years. Mary Ellen, do you know why they do that? Because we have no reason to be in Iran. So Israel came up with a talking point. Oh, oh, Iran did something bad to you. 47 years ago, right? So that's why Trump and all the Republicans are like, oh, 47 years, 47 years.

Because we have no business in Iran. They had to invent this 47-year BS to drag us in there. Cairns World says, so crickets for the dead innocence. But a statement for a busted statue sounds about right. Yep, yep, that's usually the reaction. And I'm not, like people say, get on me for saying Israel totally controls our government when it comes to foreign policy. But they're murdering Americans.

We're not even asking them to arrest the murderers. It doesn't get any more control than that. And you'd have to be a liar to say otherwise. Mike or Dave also wrote in, Dear America, I know we've had some good times. Remember Korea and that beach in Normandy, but it's time we, When are separate ways, it's not me, it's you, totally you, Canada. Signed Canada. P.S. Stop calling. Okay, I like your participation in old school too, brother.

Thomas Daniels says these days my desire to stay informed as a direct conflict with my desire to stay sane. Well, Thomas, we try to keep you sane here as we tell you the news and appreciate that you're with us. Elliot ZP said it will be an absolute mistake for the Arachi Gallup to fly to negotiations this time. They will be targeted on their way back if a deal is not reached. I don't think they should go. Yeah, they're gonna go, but I'm worried about it. Israel could murder them, yes, we'll be back. All right, back on TYT, Jaganana with you guys.

Also thank you Box for gifting a membership on YouTube and Lady A.F. For Gifting Five, you guys are amazing, we appreciate it. And ring the bell if you can. It doesn't cost you anything and it helps the show. We appreciate it. Casper. All right, well, let's focus a little bit on the Democratic Party because things are changing for the better. You said Israeli government is evil. Do you think they're just as evil as Hamas?

Yes, killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil. It's not how evil is this one versus that one, Hamas evil. Israeli government evil. We could say both. Is Netanyahu in your view, he's a war criminal? Absolutely. Do you not think he is? When you conduct a genocide, you're a war criminal. What do you make up the fact that Haley Stevens is backed by APEC? I find that disastrous for our politics. It's becoming increasingly clear that Democratic voters have had it with Israel, and they're specifically looking for Democratic candidates who are willing to sever ties and financial aid

to Israel. Now while some Democratic candidates are giving constituents what they want though, there are others who want to continue supporting Israel while telling us lies about how it's our greatest ally. We're gonna get to all of that more after Jank gives us his two cents. Yeah, I think this Michigan race is so telling. That's why I want you guys to make sure you listen to the way that the race has gone throughout this campaign, because what used to be a liability, and that's why you hear Manu Raju saying

it like, are you saying Netanyahu is problematic? Are you saying Israel? Could be the same as I was. So that used to kill candidates. Now it's helped Abdul al-Said who just saw there go to number one in that race. So it's a whole new world in American politics now. Wait till you hear all the facts. Well, not number one quite yet, but he is rising in this particular race.

So this is the Michigan Senate race. There is an open seat and the Democratic primary super spicy. So here are the three Democratic candidates seeking the party's nomination for the Senate seat. You have state senator Mallory McMorrow. You have Congresswoman, Haley Stevens, an avid Israel supporter who has literally taken millions of dollars from the Israel lobby. We'll get to that in just a minute.

And then the gentleman you heard from, Abdul al-Said, who's been gaining some traction in the polls lately after heavily condemning Israel and campaigning with your nephew, Hassan Piker. Yeah, just real quick on that, guys. You see him there going from 23 to 39, since March 17th in that particular poll. That's exactly the time period when the mainstream media started attacking him. Oh, you're campaigning with Hassan Piker. Oh, you're against Israel, and all it did was skyrocket him in the polls. So oops, and that is the poll that has him in the weakest position.

I'm now, the reason I said he's in the lead is because I've seen him in the lead in one poll, and in the other polls he's nearly tied. So the numbers are even better since the poll that CNN showed. Go ahead, yeah. So turns out that no one's really a fan of Stevens because she's extremely pro-Israel. Let's take a look at how much money she's taken from the Israel lobby. From track A-PAC reports that she's taken over $9 million, quite a bit of money. And the crowd did express some displeasure toward her during the Michigan Democratic Party convention on Sunday.

Take a look at this. God, it just that really almost made me cry out of happiness. Okay, so the reaction to Stevens, I want to be clear, is a major 180 from how voters felt about her when she defeated former representative Andy Levin back in 2022. So APAC funded her campaign heavily, and by the way, he's not anti-Israel at all, it's just that he called for a two-state solution, and that offended the sensitivities of the Israel lobby, because God forbid the Palestinian people get a chance of self-determination. Levin, who was backed by J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby, is vocally critical of Israel

and authored a two-state solution act. This session that would restrict how Israel could use US aid has been in Apex Crosshairs. Apex former director, David Victor, a Detroit resident, called him arguably the most corrosive member of Congress to the US-Israel relationship. So Stevens beat him as a result of that. So I want to explain that a little bit more. So let's put up her picture in the APAC tracker. So she's taking over $9 million from APAC.

That is a stunning number. That's more than Schumer. It's almost in Biden territory, more than Kamala Harris. So by the way, she even looks like the Undertaker, the bride of the Undertaker, and she acts like it. So APAC came in, N-11 is Jewish American, comes from a storied Jewish family in Michigan. He's had relatives in the Senate as well. Loves the state of Israel. It says he's a Zionist, right?

But he was in favor of a two-state solution because he also wants the Palestinians to be free. How dare he? Which, by the way, is the official government position. And he did not agree to completely unconditional aid to Israel. Why? Because he's an American. Okay? And APEC said, how dare you? How dare you say that the aid, the money that were giving to Israel,

shouldn't be unconditional no matter what Israel does because APEC probably knew they were going to commit several more genocides because they know that they were going to try to take more of Gaza and Lebanon, et cetera. So no, the aid has to be unconditional. And think about how absurd that is overall, guys, for our entire lives up until this moment, every politician had to promise that we would give billions of your money to them and then it would be totally unconditional. They could do any crime, any disgusting thing, including against us, but their aid will always

flow to them. So since Andy Levin said no to that, they gave millions of millions to the Undertaker's bride and she helped defeat him. But that is another really interesting thing there. So there's two lessons out of that. Number one, this has nothing to do with Jews. They hide behind Jewish people and use them as human shields, but they took out a Jewish American and put in Haley Stevens, who is not Jewish.

It's about your obedience and your subservience to the government of Israel. That's what it's about. And number two is when they were politically assassinating Andy Levin, mainstream media was 100% on the side of Haley Stevens and APEC. So they never made a big deal out of it. They weren't like, wait, this is an incumbent. You know, normally they love incumbents? They were never like, this is scandalous to attack a democratic incumbent for no reason at all.

spend like four million dollars to defeat him. They were like, no, that's normal, that's normal. He's not supporting A-PAC and out, get rid of him. Anti-Semite, wait, wait, what? That doesn't mean any sense. So now the power of mainstream media is greatly reduced. So now we all know, and hence she's getting booed by almost all the Democrats in Michigan, and now she has no chance of winning, so it's a beautiful day in America.

Now some might argue, well, you know, Michigan does have a sizable Muslim population, Maybe this isn't really a good symbol or sign of a broader movement among the Democratic base. But if you think that you'd be mistaken because it turns out Democratic voters have in fact turned their back on Israel for good reason. Let's go to E3 here. You see Al-Said going up and there's all this discussion. Oh, there's this divide on Israel within the Democratic Party. I'd make the argument there was a divide four years ago. I'm not quite sure there's a divide anymore because just take a little.

look here. Okay, Democrats' net favorability of Israel, not liberal, those who are moderate conservative versus those who are liberal. You go back to 2022, those who are not liberal, slightly more likely to hold a net favorable view of Israel than not. Liberals were against Israel by that point, minus 26 points. Come over to this side of the screen.

That divide is simply put gone. There is no divide within the Democratic Party when it comes to views towards Israel. The net favorable rating amongst those who are moderate, conservative, not liberal. Look at this. Minus 55 points. That's a shift of 58 points in just four years time. Those who are liberal, it's nearly a 50 point shift, minus 74 points.

But now moderates and conservatives as well as liberals, those within the Democratic electorate are united on their views towards Israel. It is unfavorable at this point. Yommy in my tummy. And look, some people are in denial about this, Jank. Some would argue that this isn't really about displeasure with Israel overall, it's really about one thing or one person only. And that's what you're about to hear from a former Biden advisor, Amos Huxstein. Let's go to E5. Do you think Democrats are going to come to regret this break in the

alliance? So I hope that it's not a break in the alliance. I think this, what it really demonstrates is for the last several years, Prime Minister Nanyahu has sacrificed Israel's interest in the United States. The most important asset, the Israel, has is not its military or its intelligence. It's the relationship, it's the special relationship with the United States that has been bipartisan for so many decades. He has destroyed that because he has decided to become not just part of the Republican Party, but he's decided to become just an appendage of Donald Trump. And so every Democrat now sees if you want to be Trump, great. If we're anti-Trump, then by de facto, we are against you. I think this is a lot

to do with Bibi Netanyahu and his extremist right wing government and not to do with Israel. Look, you have half of Israel is voting against Bibi. Yeah. So I think this Democrat should be aligning with Israel, not with Bibi. A lot of cope there, a lot of cope. I know that Israelis and their supporters want to reach for anything other than the obvious answer here, it's because Israel keeps killing innocent people and stealing land. It's that simple, okay?

Unlike the cultural paradigm that currently exists in Israel here in the United States, killing innocent people still frowned upon, still frowned upon. Okay, so let me address a trend in that Harry entered, mentioned about, which is now a title wait. So first off, on that brother there, the latest Israeli tactic here in America is, no, no, Israel is not the problem at all. Israel's great and golden as always. It's just that Netanyahu is being too right wing.

So we have with the next Israeli prime minister who agrees with Netanyahu on literally everything because all of the candidates in Israel do. They believe in slaughtering the Palestinians and never giving them a state and keeping Gaza and keeping southern Lebanon. All of the candidates too. But their new propaganda tactic was going to be as is Netanyahu. And so now we can move. And you see it in the Democratic Party too.

Josh Shapiro obviously going to run for president. and he's been doing a tour, first thing he comes out and goes, Israel's the right to exist. That's a real issue. That is very poorly received because they're like, nobody's talking about Israel's right to exist. That's not the issue, they're genocides of the issue. So he then switches it up to, you know, I've always been against the NAN Yahoo government. And you know what? Once Nanyahu leaves, everything's going to be fine. No. Okay, okay, so that's Josh Shapiro because he loves Israel trying to do run cover for them. It's not going to work. But others have wisened up. Even Rahm Emanuel is talking about cutting funding

to Israel. Don't trust him. Okay, of course not. He's never going to do that. He's literally an IDF soldier, right? But he's smart enough to go, oh, I can read polls. Negative 76 is a bad number. 80% of Democratic voters now have a negative view of Israel. So Ram's going to try to trick you by saying, oh, even though I'm an IDF soldier, I will cut funding. But at least he gets, that's where everybody's going. McMorro, the person that's leading in that. poll that we just showed you against Abdul al-Saeed. So she, just a couple of years ago, not a long time ago, wrote a glowing policy paper about how great Israel is for a pro-Israel group.

Then she actually taking $100,000 from the Israeli lobby, but now she's got her hand in the cookie jar. She says, oh no, no, no, I'm not taking A-PAC money. Other Israeli lobby, but I'm not taking A-PAC money. And then she even tried to go and say, okay, it is a genocide. And then she got slapped on the wrist and she came back and said, sorry, sorry, not a genocide, not a genocide. Oh yeah, McMorra, you'll be a lot better, you'll be the moderate, you know, because she's

trying to position herself as like, I get it, you're not going to vote for Haley Stevens. Oh yeah, she takes A-PAC money. But Abdul, like a little crazy Muslim radical, right? I'm the safe option, I don't take A-PAC money. My ass, you were kissing Israel's ass a minute ago, okay? But again, shows you the trend, they're starting to panic and do new lines of proper. So here's a warning or I don't even want to say warning, but just something to look out for for those who really deeply care about this issue.

The behavior of McMorrow reminds me of the behavior of establishment Democrats, corporate Democrats as the progressive wave was really building in response to Bernie Sanders running in 2026. Of course he got shafted by the Democratic establishment, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, you're gonna get Democratic candidates who can read the tea leaves, they see what's happening with the base, and they're gonna lie to you about who they are and what they actually represent. They're gonna pretend like they're gonna fight against, you know, Israel. But in reality, just like Rahm Emanuel, they're probably

gonna do Israel's bidding, as we've always done. And we need actual fighters. There's no reason to believe that Abdul al-Saeed is lying to us because he's strong in his statements. What he said to Manu Raju was not only bold, it was accurate, and he's unapologetic. about it, that's what we need. Yeah, you know, there's this great ironic advantage for Muslim American candidates these days because everybody knows, well, at least they're not gonna sell out to Israel. True. So that's part of why Mamdani won, that's why Abdul al-Saeed is rising in the polls.

Last thing on a national scale, guys. So there's only one guy that I see that's genuine about this. It's Rokana talking about not another dollar, no, no more money to Israel, no more of their prime minister coming into our situation room, we should stand up for America. the rest of the party is still full of BS, right? Why, we just had a vote on the War Powers Act. Oh, go lady, just got enough votes in the House to pass by one vote. Oh, golly gee, keep Israel's war going in Iran.

And in the Senate, they sent 1,000 pound bombs to Israel and armed bulldozers to destroy innocent people's homes. And not only did every Republican vote for it, but seven snakes in the Senate cross party lines and said, oh, no, no, no, Chris Coons, Fetterman, Schumer, Blumethall, et cetera. No, Gillibrand, we loyally serve Israel, give them all the destruction, you know, weapons of mass destruction, and whatever else you have to do, make sure they murder more of their neighbors. So when it comes to the actual votes on what matters, the Democratic Party, in reality, hasn't moved an inch, their leadership still completely represents Israel and not us.

When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about an explosive report in the Atlantic about Cash Patel's alleged alcoholism and incompetence and how he's responding to it. We'll be right back. All right, let's go to Super Chats. Jeremy 23 says, thank you, TYT, love Jenkinana. So happy many of my family members have finally woken up about Trump. They can see this war was all about Israel wanting control over the Middle East. Love to hear that brother.

I love to hear people waking up. Adele Maurice Pollard, thank you for the super chat. Miyaga Katsuki writes in, when September 11th occurred, Iran reached out to us to offer aid and to condemn the attack. In 2002, Bush said Iran was part of the access of evil. Yeah, we've been screwing Iran not for the last 47 years, but for much longer than that, okay? And yes, Iran hates al-Qaeda, because al-Qaeda is Sunni terrorists who are also trying to topple the Iranian regime, okay? Eagles, L-I-X says, funny thing is he glazes Israel with comments that are with his, that are what his shallowness would think was going to help his stance with BB, and BB doesn't respond to that kind of glazing. It's referring to Trump.

And Trump, it's like, I'm not controlled by BB, and then he glazes the hell out of him. I'm like, oh, he's the greatest, which is counterproductive, obviously, to his goal. Bright lights in a dark room says, I'm a member of a church with mixed political perspectives. And let me tell you, the more conservative members of our congregation are pretty furious about Trump and Israel lately. That is beautiful news to hear. Thank you for reporting that, brother. Arcane eclectic says, what about in 1953 when the U.S. overthrew the government of Iran and put the Shah in power? That's exactly what I was referring to, brother.

and he's a YouTube member and drenched the wildfire on Twitch says corn pop was Epstein. That's funny. Corpop was a bad dude. He was indeed, we'll be back. Back on TYT, Jank Anna, Jeremy 23 and Hal Nike. Thanks for joining guys, we appreciate it.

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There is this scathing article about you in the Atlantic magazine. The Atlantic Magazine director is alleging that you have a drinking problem, that it is getting in the way of your work running the FBI. What is your response this morning to this article? FBI director Cash Patel's response to that article is a lawsuit for a quarter million dollars against the Atlantic, allegedly for defamation. He's decided to sue them because he is probably embarrassed by the explosive report that does in fact paint him as someone with alcohol issues and clearly he's incompetent.

Like we didn't need the Atlantic to tell us about that. But before I give you the details, Jake, your two cents. Yeah, so there's two interesting parts of this story, which is can government officials not just sue the press, willy-nilly every time they're criticized? Because if that holds, then you won't have any real press in this country, not that you have much to begin with. So we'll come back to that issue. And I didn't know about if he had a drinking problem, that's news to me, so we're gonna

find out about all that in a little bit. But I'm also curious as to why this is coming out now. So I always ask that question, maybe just because he's out of control, but we'll talk about that too. All right. So the Atlantic piece was written by Sarah Fishpatrick, and it's definitely a bad look for Patel. I highly recommend you read the piece. It's enlightening. Let's just put it that way. It's titled, the FBI director is MIA. Cash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. Now look, to be fair, the story relies on multiple anonymous sources within the administration. Usually when sources within an administration start leaking things like this to the press, it's because they're, you know, they've got a

different agenda in mind, so just keep that in mind as we give you the details. However, when you consider Patel's public behavior, this doesn't seem farfetched to me at least. So it begins with a pretty embarrassing moment that took place on April 10th when Patel apparently had some trouble logging into the internal computer system at the FBI. He thought that he had been locked out of the system because he had been fired. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out. And he panicked frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a freak out. But he actually hadn't been fired at all. But since he was going

around telling people that he thinks he had been fired, there were members of Congress hitting up the White House to ask, like, okay, well, who's in charge of the FBI since Patel is out? Now, he's apparently deeply concerned that his job is on the line, partly due to his alleged excessive drinking. At least that's what's reported in this piece. Several officials said that He is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication. In many cases at the private club Neds in Washington, D.C., God, this sounds like such a bad time. While in the presence of White House and other administration staff, he is also known to drink to excess at the poodle room in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of, parts of his weekends.

Is that named by the Israelis for all the politicians who serve them? That's hilarious. Hey, go to the Pluto room. Speaking of the Israelis, if you've got substance abuse issues or alcohol issues, you're easy to blackmail. So maybe we shouldn't have someone who has those issues as the FBI director, assuming these allegations are true. Two quick points about that, then I'll let you get back.

So first, just a quick correction, we said quarter of a million dollars he's suing for, suing for a quarter of a billion dollars, $250 million. Okay, come on. I mean, the absurdity, right? That's insane. Yes, of course it's insane, right. So the Atlantic, by the way, is like, no, we're fighting back. And they should because, you know, there have been other instances of Trump suing the media

and they cave immediately and that's a terrible precedent. Now they did it for other agendas. But anyway, let me get back to this. So this has apparently had a huge impact on his job performance. You know, the fact that he frequents the poodle room in Vegas frequently and all that stuff. Early in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights. Six current and former officials and others familiar with Patel's schedule told me. I can't think of anything I want to do less than get drunk among politicians in Washington, D.C.

Like that sounds both a bad idea, a bad time, and knowing our politicians, dangerous. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. So look, I'm curious what's going to happen to catch Patel once Donald Trump dumps him for real, right? And there are some rumblings about that in the real world. And because then I can't imagine that his girlfriend is going to be that far behind because then he won't be of any use anymore. And so he's gonna be such a lost little puppy.

No, his girlfriend loves him for who he is, Jake. Oh, well yeah, yeah, it looks like it. Yeah, totally. So I don't know anything about the relationship. So look, apparently Trump has taken some notice of, you know, his behavior and the fact that he seems to take a lot of time away from, you know, his official duties. So apparently, multiple people told the Atlantic that there was once a request for something known as, breaching equipment, which is normally used by SWAT to and hostage rescue teams to quickly enter buildings because Patel was unreachable behind locked doors.

So we don't know what happened there, but apparently Trump took notice of that. And while on official travel to Italy in February, he was filmed chugging beer with the US men's Olympic hockey team following their gold medal victory. The incident prompted the president who does not drink and whose brother died following a long struggle with alcoholism to call the FBI director to convey his unhappiness. Patel is described as erratic, suspicious of others and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has the necessary evidence. I think we have all seen that, we've witnessed that, especially when it came to the Brown

University shooting, when it came to the investigation into Charlie Kirk's assassination. And he preemptively announced that there was a suspect in custody. I mean, he was giving us false information, didn't really seem like he knew what he was doing. FBI officials who spoke to the Atlantic also said that they're all just waiting for the word on his firing. Seems like he's not really well liked within the administration. One former FBI official told reporter Jonathan Lemire that Patel was rightly paranoid that he's gonna get fired soon.

And senior Trump officials are already thinking about who they want to replace him with. So it does seem like his days are numbered. Another insane decision by Patel, by the way, was to fire members of a counterintelligence squad that was devoted to Iran, right before the war with Iran. He recently expressed frustration with the look of FBI merchandise, complaining that it isn't intimidating enough. Part of me is glad he's wasting his time on BS because it's It's less dangerous for rule of law for the American public, one official told me, but it also means we don't have a real functioning FBI director. Well, we don't really have a real functioning government either.

Jank, back to you. So yeah, if there were rumors of me having a drinking problem, here's what I wouldn't go and do. Go to the US hockey team and start chugging beers with them, like, ah, like, hey, easy, take it easy. So he just has no common sense at all. Why does he even have the job? His main qualification is ass kissing, right? Mainly of Trump, he mainly did the book about the kid's book about Trump and how Trump is a victim and everybody else out to get him and all that stuff.

He's also very friendly with Israel, which makes me wonder those Iranian experts why they were fired. Maybe they were gonna give accurate information about Israel. That's a really good point, Chang. Okay, yeah. And so, and that might be what's protecting him despite his clownish behavior and his obvious lack of qualification. So I don't know those dynamics well enough to be able to comment on it. It is interesting, whenever there's a leak of this size coming from inside the government, I always question what the agenda of the leakers are.

In this case, though, it seems like you never know, but it seems like it's just exasperation. Like other people at the FBI are like, for God's sake, are we going to solve any cases? Are we going to act like grownups here? Or are we going to have to try to bust into this guy's door every time he passes out and we can't reach him? So let's get to the last story since we have a little bit of time left. Let's talk about the Petal elites. Just Elaine Maxwell is in prison and so a lot of people want to know if she's going to turn in powerful people.

And I know you've talked in the past about Prince Andrew and you've criticized Bill Clinton's behavior. I'm wondering, do you feel that she's going to turn in powerful men? How do you see that working out? I don't know, I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach, but I wish her well, whatever it is. I don't know the situation with Prince Andrew, just don't know, not aware of it.

That was President Donald Trump, the President of the United States in 2020, wishing Galane Maxwell, a serial pedophile groomer and rapist. Well, and now it turns out, Jenk, that her lawyer believes that she's got a pretty good chance It's a pardon. Yeah, one of the reasons she does is because of the quotes we're gonna give you from Trump himself. That's just the tip of the iceberg what you saw there. I think there's an excellent chance he's gonna partner or you'll see why.

So recently her attorney, David Oscar Marcus, had an interview with Politico and he tried to, you know, clear her name, downplay her wrongdoing, saying I think she's a scapegoat. She would never have been prosecuted had Jeffrey Epstein not committed suicide or whatever, however he died. She was the one who recruited underage girls to be raped and she also participated in some of the rape. What are you talking about? But okay, he's the lawyer. So I guess the lawyer's supposed to do what lawyers do. They lie on behalf of their clients. And that there's a good chance and for good reason that she would get a pardon. Now why? Why would she get a pardon? Good reason is an interesting choice of words there. So as an acolyte of Epstein's colleague Alan Dershowitz,

Marcus maintains that the DOJ cast too wide a net when it came to prosecution. Listen, what Jeff Epstein did was terrible. And you know, he should go to jail and the rest of it. No question about it, he said. This is, you know, Maxwell's attorney previous statement, okay? The net has been cast way too wide and there's a lot of innocent people, people being like Allen, being caught up in it. I don't know if that's true.

I don't know if Alan Dershowitz is actually innocent. He hasn't been convicted of anything, but the Epstein files that we have access to seem pretty damning for Dershowitz. Now, Trump said that he has not thought about it or ruled it out, meaning like giving her a pardon. The fact that he's been so vague about it makes you think he's considering it. And while Marcus is optimistic about a pardon, he says that right now might not be the best time to pursue it aggressively, since people are still kind of focused on the Epstein files.

Let that focus die down a little bit and then Maxwell will have a better chance at a pardon. Maxwell obviously wants clemency. There's no secret about that. I don't think now is the best time to do it with everything going on. We're not on a full court press right now. Jank. Yeah. So the net was way too wide.

We literally prosecuted no one. Yeah. Other than Epstein was going to get prosecuted, but then somebody murdered him in jail so he didn't even get prosecuted. Galane Maxwell is literally the only person who's been arrested otherwise and convicted. And now you're saying we shouldn't even do Galane Maxwell. So how could it be any narrower? It literally is impossible for it to be narrower than that. But yet it's never enough for the Epstein class.

No, you have to let every guilty person go and the real problem is the victims. Okay, so now why did I say that I think Trump's going to partner? So let me give you some of the quotes he said about her. You saw the one on the video. Now here's others. He asked about whether he was going to partner, he said, I'm allowed to do it, but it's something I have not thought about. Right.

Wait, if you didn't think about it, why are you telling us that you can do it? I mean, as I said earlier in the show, if they asked him about a Venezuelan gang member, he wouldn't say, I can do it. You said, why? No, of course, I'm not going to, you know, give a pardon to that person. But here he's obviously thinking about it, more quotes. When asked again about the pardon, he said in October that he'd have to quote, take a look at her case. What do you have to take a look at? Like, she's one of the worst child molesters

and groomers in American history. What do you have to look at? So he's obviously considering there's no question. Last one, he says that after the death, that was rejected by the Supreme Court, he said, well, I wouldn't consider the, regarding the pardon, I wouldn't consider it or not consider it. Weird. He's definitely gonna pardon her. And if he's gonna pardon her, You know why, because they have blackmail on them. It's not complicated. All right, guys. I've got member Mondays coming up right now.

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