The Young Turks - Taiwan And Only - February 17, 2026

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

U.S.–Iran talks produce what Tehran calls agreement on “guiding principles” after a “constructive” meeting, hinting at a possible diplomatic thaw even as tensions linger. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez draws criticism for several missteps at the Munich Security Conference & TU Berlin, adding fuel to foreign policy debates back home. Eric Trump faces scrutiny after investing in a drone company marketing “low cost-per-kill” technology. Thanks to Shopify and Zip Recruiter for today's episode: 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 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

You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Well, hello. Turks, Jank, Hugger, Anna Kusperian with you guys. Are we going to have a good show? Of course. So do we have more news on the Epstein front?

Yes, we do. This time about his New Mexico ranch, including the question of, are bodies buried there? Yes, that's a real question. No, there has been no foul play ever involving Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah. In fact, we're being irresponsible even bringing it up. Yeah, I mean, in fact, no one should ever talk about it again. Okay, so that's old, old T.OAT versus new two, TYT kind of. Wonderful track record with former employees. We're totally knocking it out of the park.

We do have some successful ones. Do we? Well, Ryan Grim. Yeah. No, no, we've had some great, great because we're Anyways, Tara Palmieri against Michael Tracy later. Tara's on the show from time to time. These days, Michael obviously used to be. And we've got updates on Iran for you guys that are critical, and we're gonna get to that in a second. And then some domestic politics, AOC.

Kenny Clips. Kenny Clips is a national treasure. Well, that's definitely true. I don't want anyone to think that I'm throwing him into the group of embarrassing former employees. Oh, that's what you're talking about? No, are you kidding me? There's like a million that are super successful. And yeah, there's been a couple of guys that went sideways.

That's like, you know, by the way, just real quick on that, in case you guys want to know, like we opened up the window of opportunity here. And a lot of great people came in and some bad guys or some not so great guys like Dave Rubin came in. And that's what happens when you widen the window. You get good sides and bad sides, but it's, in my opinion, much better to widen it. Then oh, you have to be in this narrow, narrow lane. I love that narrow lane. I jump in it.

No, you don't. You hate that narrow lane. All right, let's give you an update on Iran. Iran is going to be closing parts of the Strait of Ormuz today, a vital shipping lane as it conducts naval exercises. We need to look at what's going on in the region. Just over the last 24 hours, 50 US fighter jets with their tankers have been moving from the US and from Europe to base since the US. to bases in the Middle East, F-35s, F-22s, F-16s, the U.S. military buildup in the region is very significant. And I don't think Donald Trump is moving all those assets to the region just in order

to bluff. Well, the second round of talks between the United States and Iran took place, and we're getting mixed signals, Jake. Okay, I have no idea, because on one hand, you have the Iranian side saying, we've made some progress, actually. This happened to be a productive meeting, a constructive meeting. But then you hear from, you know, Axios reporter and Israeli insider Barack Ravid, and he says, well, he makes it seem as though war is all but certain. So what do you make of all this? What are your two cents? Yeah, so there's two different parts of this, which is, are we going to start the war? And then number two is, why are we starting the war? So for why there's some indisputable facts that I can't wait to share with you guys.

And for are we going to start it? Well, there's two very contradictory tea leaves that you're talking about, Anna. We're gonna share them both, and then I'm gonna weigh in on which one I think is more likely to be true. Now first, a little bit of context. These negotiations took place in Oman, and Oman's foreign minister was essentially the mediator as these talks took place. He did mediate a previous round of talks earlier this month.

Now Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner are involved in these negotiations, which gives me little to no hope. But nonetheless, on Monday, Trump said aboard Air Force One that he would be involved in the talks indirectly and that Iran wanted to make a deal. And just last week, President Trump said in a social media post that he himself allegedly prefers a deal with Iran. But that, you know, if one cannot be brokered, we will just have to see what happens next or what the outcome will be.

So you know, he has been in some cases vague, in other cases specific, and saying that he wants a deal to be made. And then sometimes he issues threats. Now it looks like there was some progress, according to the Iranians, Iranians, there was some progress in the latest round of talks. And that's according to specifically Iran's foreign minister who says that the atmosphere in this round of negotiations was more constructive. Good progress had been made in comparison with the first meeting. But he also cautioned that both sides have positions that will take some

time to get closer to each other. The path to an agreement has been started, but that does not mean that we can reach an agreement quickly. So the next steps include Iran essentially drafting a proposal on how to close the gap of disagreement between the United States and Iran. They are to share that proposal in the next two weeks. But the biggest sticking point, as we've talked about on this show already, is the fact that Israel wants Iran to give up its ballistic missiles. Actually, let me pause for a second. The biggest obstacle to a peace deal or a new nuclear deal is the fact that Israel doesn't want peace. They want regime change in Iran. So it is unsurprising that they keep moving the goalposts and making these negotiations more and more impossible.

So what do I mean by that? Israel wants Iran to give up its ballistic missiles, which is nonsense. You give up your ballistic missiles, then you have no way of defending yourself when Israel inevitably attacks because Israel attacks all of its neighbors, you know, multiple countries in the region. They've bombed seven countries in the last two years. So with that in mind, Ayatollah Khamenei called demands to limit. the range of Iran's ballistic missiles illogical, arguing that such demands interfered with

a nation's right to possess weapons of self-defense. Quote, any country without deterrent weapons will be crushed under the feet of its enemies, he said. Iran instead focused its offer on a plan to dilute its enriched uranium stockpile, and the access that would be provided to the UN Nuclear Inspectorate, the IAEA, to Iran's bombed nuclear sites. They've been blocking the IAEA from, you know, reaching those nuclear sites ever since the 12-day war occurred. But I want to go to one other video here because the Ayatollah seems to have accepted that we're

headed toward war because while you have the foreign minister trying to make peace, Khamene has issued some threats. Let's watch. It seems to them that the US president, keep saying this. The US Army is the strongest army in the world. The strongest army in the world may sometimes get slapped, so hard, that it cannot stand up straight.

They keep saying we've sent an aircraft carrier towards Iran. Very well. An aircraft carrier is certainly a dangerous piece of equipment. But more dangerous than the carrier is the weapon that can send that carrier towards the bottom of the sea. So what do you make of those statements, Jank? Because when I see that, I think to myself, okay, the Ayatollah's expecting a war to happen. And he doesn't seem afraid.

Now he could be bluffing, but I also remember the fact that China's getting more involved in terms of arming the Iranians. Yep. There is some reporting indicating that Russia will also get involved. Are we headed toward World War III? Yeah, I wouldn't go that far quite yet, but let's break it down one by one by So if we care about the terms of this negotiations, then actually things are looking great. Why? Because there's three basic terms that the Americans started with.

You have to get rid of your uranium program entirely. You have to get rid of all of your ballistic missiles, and you have to get rid of everyone in the country. No, I'm kidding. But the third one was also ridiculous. You're not allowed to have any regional allies or proxies, and we now control your foreign policy, right? So Iran said the last two are non-starters. We're not going to let you control our foreign policy, and we're not going to get rid of

our ballistic missiles, then we'll have no defense at all, not just Israel, Saudi Arabia, or any enemy of ours could just simply take us over. So those are non-starters. So where we are in the negotiations are, the Iranians say that it looks like the Americans have gotten past those two non-starters. We're mainly talking about the uranium. And in terms of the uranium, there's an easy deal to be had, it looks like, from what I'm reading, which is Iran says, look, we're not going to end the program entirely.

But with the ones we've brought up to 60% enrichment, we will hand those over. And we will allow the IAEA to come in and inspect our nuclear sites, and we will not enrich beyond nuclear energy levels. And so they have made almost every concession that they can make on that ground. So that's not the question, whether we can get to a deal, we can get to a deal, it sounds like within five minutes. The question is, are these negotiations real? So we know for a fact that Iran wants a deal, they don't want to get killed.

We know for a fact that Israel does not want a deal, and they don't, like they said in the beginning of mass destruction, the same BS they always use, oh my God, they're gonna have nukes any second, they've been saying for 20 years, can we wipe out their nuclear program, they say, oh my God, they now have missiles and rocks and pebbles and cocoa pebbles and we can, we have to remove everything from Iran. Those cocoa pebbles are dangerous. Yeah, let alone the fruity. fruity kind.

So, although I'm not sure that's a lot of Iran. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, all right. Little levy to do a serious story. So, okay, so, so Israel doesn't want it. Then the question is America. Does America want? No. Okay, now, when we get inside America and I'll come back to what's going to happen if the war starts.

This is why I get so frustrated with corporate media, because they're pretending that there's a real debate in this country. There's no debate at all. Like there's not a single actual voter, Republican or Democrat or independent, that isn't Israel first that says, oh my God, my life would be so much better if we attacked Iran. Like I just can't, is there a kitchen table in Kansas or Missouri somewhere talking about like, God, I just wish the government would attack Iran. You know what, if we started a war with Iran, I bet my grocery prices would be lower and

I bet my wages would be higher. I, if I had one thing that I wanted from the US government, it's the start of war in the Middle East that is four times the size of Iraq, because that's what Iran is, and much better equipped. So literally no actual American voter wants this, only the Israel supporters in America, whether they're assets, agents, or just like, rah, raw, I love Israel, and America should work only for Israel. So those are literally, very literally, show me one American, if you're a mainstream media

reporter, show me one American who says this will help my life. That is not Israel first. You won't be able to find one. So literally no one wants this war. And Trump ran on anti-war, Democrats claim they're even more anti-war. So the question is, the very core of this question, and it is critical, do we run our own government, or does Israel run our government? We already know the answer to that though.

But if we know the answer to that, Anna, and you're 100% sure, because I'm not a- I'm 100% sure. I would bet my life on it. No, here's how I view it, right? Does Israel have massive disproportionate influence on the government? Yes. Obviously, obviously, right? So now the only question is, is it 80%, 90%, or-

100%? 100%, why are we even having this discussion? It's a waste of time. Literally, it's a waste of time. No, no, 100%. Or 100%. It is 100%. But Anna, look, the reason we're having this discussion is not because, oh, we're corporate

media and we like to play Aslaff football and, oh, have fake conversations. No, we're having this discussion because you're the eternal optimist and I'm a realist, okay? Israel controls our government, 100%. It doesn't matter if it's a Democrat or a Republican sitting in the Oval Office. They're going to be Netanyahu or whoever the prime minister of Israel is. They're going to be that individual's dog. So I hear you completely, and I think that you're probably right, okay? So, but what I'm laying out as a marker for the audience is, well, you'll know soon.

So if we don't attack Iran, it doesn't mean that Israel doesn't have any influence, we still give them $330 billion. We've helped them start all the other wars. We still shovel all sorts of money towards them, right? But it would mean that they don't have 100% control over the US government because they definitely want this war. And if we don't go to war, that means they don't have 100% control. Okay, if we do go to war, this conversation is.

is over. Israel not only controls the government 100% like our government is compromised. I want that to sink in for you. The US government, if that happens, is totally compromised. It is actually not the US government. It's the Israeli government. And that is an unbelievable thing to discuss right now. And that is where we are. This will be fun. Let's talk about first states. We've all been there. You're trying to figure someone out. So you ask the important stuff up front. What are you looking for? What are your deal breakers? You get right to the point to see if they're the right person for you. Well, the same goes if you're hiring. You definitely wanna address key questions first to see if someone could be right for your role.

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That's ZipRecruiter.com slash TYT. Meet your match on ZipRecruiter. We deployed our military to fight Israel's war in Iraq. It was all based on a false premise of weapons of mass destruction, but at the end of the day, Israel wanted us to invade Iraq, and we did, okay? They sent zero IDF soldiers, whereas we lost thousands of American troops, okay? That's point number one. Point number two, we are in a massive amount of debt, massive amount of debt, and we continue

as a country to take out more debt to handle that money or hand that money over to Israel. They don't pay for their own weapons. We pay for their weapons, even though we are drowning in debt. Our little American empire is declining like you wouldn't believe, but hey, Israel's more important. So like to say, oh, is it 80%, 90%, it's 100%. It's been 100% for some time now. And it's about time for people to take the blinders off and realize the pretty dire situation we're in as Americans. Because right now we're literally having a debate and a conversation about going to war, invading a foreign country, not for us, not because it's going to benefit us,

but on behalf of Israel. And it's never been more overt and obvious, you know, previous wars that we fought on Israel's behalf, you know, literally arming al-Qaeda in Syria on behalf of Israel, all of that garbage that we got engaged in. Okay, I'm sorry. Like the debate is over. In my world, in my view, the debate is over. So I hear you.

And to that point, today I was thinking, look, there was a confluence of events that led us to go into Iraq. One of them was not 9-11 because Saddam was against al-Qaeda. So if anybody's telling you that, they're a verified liar, right? So weapons of mass instruction, you could say that some people weren't sure about that, etc. But we all know that it was the oil companies, the banks who were speculating, the defense contractors. and now Israel, right? But then I thought this today, Anna, yes, but the oil companies, defense countries, et cetera, they would have won no matter which country we attacked.

That's right. Why did we pick Iraq of all countries? At the time, the Israeli prime minister said that was their number one enemy. Now they say Iran is their number one enemy. So look, I don't think any of this is that complicated. I tend to agree with Anna. Thank you. The reason that I'm saying what I'm saying now is because I like to lay out Mark

ahead of time so you guys can all see it with your own eyes, right? So that's why for example we said if the camera in the hallway is not working when Epstein was killed that means he somebody killed them. If it is working it means he committed suicide. You lay down a marker before you find out so that you see who's right and who's wrong. Now today mainstream media can say oh no, we just disagree we think the people in Kansas and Hawaii in Rhode Island can't wait to attack But after the war starts, if when like literally no American wanted it, they can't say that Israel doesn't control our government. It's that's absurd. It's patently absurd.

But you know what? I think it's going to actually work out really well for Israel's PR campaign. Maybe if they just buy more bots on X, they can convince Americans to not hate Israel after they dragged us into a war that we shouldn't be involved in at all. On its behalf, by the way. On its behalf. fully on its behalf. By the way, I just want to go to a few videos featuring Barack Ravid because he was interviewed by CNN today. And I thought he had some interesting things to say.

So I started feeling maybe a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of optimism after hearing what the Iranian side of these negotiations had to say, it seemed like there had been a little bit of positive progress. But remember, Barack Ravid is an Israeli, he's an Israeli insider. And so he would probably have a better sense of what's going on. than we would, obviously. And here's what he had to say about the alleged breakthrough that took place during the negotiations. As far as I know, I don't think any breakthrough happened in those talks.

What I heard from U.S. officials after the talks was they say that the talks went as expected. That's the quote as expected. It's not really as positive of a readout as the Iranians gave after the talks. And I think I'm not sure, I'm not sure that at the moment, there's really any agreement between the U.S. and Iran, even when it comes to guiding principles. You know, he says that he also said, by the way, in the context of that interview, that there's no daylight between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, that might be literally the first time Barack Ravid is on record saying that there's no daylight between them, because every other report has made it appear as though Trump is, you know, like wagging his finger or Biden was wagging his finger at the Israelis.

No such thing, that did not happen. But look, I also happen to agree with what you're about to hear Ravid say, because he makes a really good point about the military buildup in the region. Take a look. We need to look at what's going on in the region, just over the last 24 hours. 50 US fighter jets with their tankers have been moving from the US and from Europe to bases in the Middle East, F-35s, F-22s, F-16s. The US military buildup in the region is very significant.

And I don't think Donald Trump is moving all those assets to the region just in order to bluff. And if there's not going to be any real tangible concession from the Iranians, all of those assets will be used pretty soon. At the moment, we have no evidence to show that the Iranians have put something tangible on the table. And this is what the U.S. wanted. I heard it from at least three different U.S. officials. When the weather cools down, Golden Nugget Online Casino turns up the heat.

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But that's not what's happening here. A third of our Navy assets are already deployed to the region. That's not a good sign. Yeah, so that was the counterpoint I was gonna get to. So the good news is that if the negotiations are real and we care about the terms, this deal is gonna be pretty easy to make, right? The bad news is, if you made me bet, I would say that the negotiations are not at all real. They're just buying time for our aircraft carriers.

And by the way, our ground troops to arrive, right? So, and that's exactly what's been happening. And Donald Trump on several occasions has bragged about, I was pretending to do a peace deal. And then I was just waiting for a surprise attack them. Well, knucklehead, when you say that, next time you're pretending to do a peace deal like this, everybody's prepared, right? And of course, as you guys know,

the Israelis regularly murder peace negotiators, so they never want peace. And they tried to murder these particular negotiators in Iran as well. So okay, but the bad news is in terms of whether it's a real negotiation or not is how many assets we've moved into the area. So when we, I used to think that moving those kind of assets in, like for example, off the coast of Venezuela was Trump's way of saber rattling, right? And coercion. And he loves to bluff.

And that's a great way to bluff. So rationally I thought maybe he's setting up a bluff. And by the way, if I was in charge, I might do things like that, right? I'm not, I would not wanna go to war at all, but the threat of war can get you some extractions and negotiations, et cetera, right? But this is way too many troops. And why are the transport planes going? 150 transport planes?

If you want to bluff, maybe you send in 10, 2050, 150? So bringing in ground troops, not one aircraft carrier. Two aircraft carriers? I mean, we're bringing half a freaking fleet there. No, very, very likely we're going to attack. And so they're not, and remember guys, even bringing the fleet there costs a tremendous amount of money. Yeah, it does, it does, you're exactly right about that.

And now back to the Ayatollah's comment, guys, so this, our job is to analyze the news in kind of almost a microscopic fashion. So what we do is we look to see how they react in different situations. the war was being threatened the first time around, the Iranians were far more reserved. And one, they didn't want the war. And so they were like, hey, listen, let's make a deal, we'll figure this thing out, et cetera. Number two, I'm not sure that they were equipped well enough back then. Now they've made a deal with the Chinese. They definitely have new weapons.

They definitely feel better equipped, right? Yeah, they do. So the Aettoa is almost taunting us now. So all that means is he's more confident. And guys, you have to think about how China is likely going to act based on its own interests, because what we just didn't Venezuela hurt China, because China was getting its oil from Venezuela. China also gets its oil from Iran. So China's involvement isn't simply because they're like, we're besties with Iran,

no, they want to protect their own interests. And they have a second interest. China would love this war. They would. They want to watch us bleed out. Exactly. So China's like, oh, you're gonna go waste your entire fortune. By the way, money you're borrowing from me that you're gonna pay interest on for the rest of your lives. And you're gonna spend it all on fighting Israel's war. And you're gonna get bogged down in Iran with all those mountains and four times the size of Iraq. And we just gave them weapons that could sink your aircraft carriers. Oh, I mean, you couldn't gift wrap it for China better than this. Also, this is going to add to our conversation, but I'm going to read something to you. It's framing that really got under my skin.

I want to get your thoughts on it. This is from the New York Times, quote, countries in the region worry that a potential American strike and Iranian retaliation that could draw in Israel, could destabilize the Middle East and endanger U.S. allies in the Arab world that host American soldiers. Oh no, could it potentially draw in Israel? Wouldn't it be nice if Israel fought its own wars and didn't drag us into fighting its wars for them? So the New York Times couldn't find a single connection between Epstein and Israel. When Epstein is making like dozens of deals on Israel's behalf, including buying them cyber weapons.

But now the New York Times is like, can you imagine if beloved Israel was hurt for the war they wanted? I mean, my God, we should fight all of their wars and have all of our guys done. and spend trillions on the global war on terror. Global war on Israel's enemies, we already wasted $8 trillion fighting these wars. How much is Israel going to bleed us dry? As much as they can. Yeah, and the media will go, no, everyone's an anti-Semite, and you all better shut up. And if you don't agree to your own robbery, then you hate a random ethnic group.

We had nothing to do with that. All right, last thing guys, look, Israel knows that if we have our guys get hurt in the middle of that attack, that Trump and all of our media who are all, apparently, and this is also new to me, like I knew that our media was biased in favor of Israel, that's not complicated. I didn't know that it was just a monopoly. Like, when they refused to acknowledge a single connection that I've seen has to Israel, I was like, wow. So the whole corporate media works for Israel as well.

Yeah. So what they will do the minute we lose the soldiers, they won't say, God damn, and Israel drag this into this war for no reason. They'll say, we have to go larger. Oh, America's been hurt. We need a surge. It's Iran. Iran's a boogeyman.

Iran's terrible. We need a bigger war. And you'll see pundits all over cable news. Bigger war, bigger war. And then they'll never talk about Israel again. Because they'll be like, oh, this is America versus Iran. Iran killed our soldiers. We have to murder all of them on behalf of Israel.

Come on, it's so obvious. That's why it's so frustrating. And guys, I'm super worried about it because I've been telling you this for a long time. Regular viewers will remember me saying this on many, many clips. At some point, we're going to lose an aircraft carrier. They're sitting ducks. No, our soldiers are going to die. And when they die, I want you all to remember, they did it for Israel.

real, okay? I'm sure everyone will feel better about that. We gotta take a break. We'll be right back. All right. Let's go to Super Chat. Titan of Olympus O3 says, Jake, where are you been? I'm with Anna here. It's already 100% confirmed without doubt. We are owned and ruled from Tel Aviv. San Furnatic 1 says Iran has hypersonics from China. Carriers have no defense. If they have anything on Trump, they'll use it as they see fit. Is there last and best chance to get us to attack? Is it in Assad located underground? in Tel Aviv or something? Who is?

I don't remember if it was Mossad or some other military wing of the Israeli government. Oh, I'm not sure about that, but Mossad actually has its headquarters in the middle of Tel Aviv. Yeah, that's what I meant, yes, that's what I'm referring to. Because of course they hide behind human shields. I just don't want to hear any crying from Israel when the inevitable happens because Iran is not a threat to us. So like when this war gets poppin, okay, I'm not worried about their ballistic missiles hitting the United States. Israel should worry though. Yeah, no, no, they're gonna want us to cry for them. I'm not gonna cry. No, I'm not gonna cry. Are you kidding me? No, you don't get to start a war

and kill tons of innocent Iranians and then go, oh, remember Israelis are worth a billion other lives. Yeah, we would prefer not to go to this war. Yeah. Then not to get engaged in. If eight Israelis die, that is worse than the entire world dying, right? That's their attitude. And don't pretend it isn't. You're being absurd if you pretend it isn't. They just slaughtered about 100,000 Palestinians without blinking an eye. They don't think that the rest of us are human. So whatever, whatever, prove otherwise. Show Israel having an awesome compassion for anyone that isn't Israeli.

Never. Oh my God, their neighbors, they'd rather slaughter them than say hi in the morning. Okay, make it make sense. This, Jenk, how did we miss this on January? 22 of Kansas legislature passed Article 5 convention of the state's resolution for term limits, the balanced budget and limiting federal authority, making Kansas state number 20. So I am 100% in favor of a constitutional convention or a convention of the states is what it's actually called or an Article 5 convention is the most accurate statement.

And so there are different ways to get there. This is not the Wolfpack way, but a different way, but I'm okay with it. The right wing loves it. The establishment despises it. They're like, not a convention. That would be real change and we can't block it. So vote for a convention in every state in every way. That's the only way we can get our constitution back from these six sons of bitches who sold out our country.

Rose Turner 13 on YouTube member section says, Jenk, love you brother, but Anna is right. We need to stop wasting time trying to devil's advocate this situation and come up with solutions. Raid Rock for now says, wait, I thought their nuclear sites were obliterated. Always a new excuse. We have to do what Israel wants. Otherwise, we're all anti-Semites. Dee Mitchell says, honestly, take whatever the U.S. says with a grain of salt.

Unfortunately, we have a track record of saying one thing and doing another. Conservative Whambulist writes in on Twitch. Holy 58 months, Batman. It's actually been much longer time that I've been listening. Thanks, TYT. I love when Jen gets so mad. He starts getting all shiny from sweat. No.

He's my spirit animal. No. She was saying yes when you were agreeing with her. Okay, happy Warrior Dragon. Thank you for gifting a sub. You guys are amazing. We'll see you in a second. Back on CYT, Jank, and a drunken monkey, which I love.

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Well, yesterday we talked a little bit about AOC at the Munich Security Conference. And she had one answer that she was getting a lot of heat for because she acknowledged that what's going down in Gaza is in fact a genocide. And we gave her a lot of credit for that because that was the accurate answer. Then there was the rest of her appearance at the Munich Security Conference, and I thought it was worth discussing it a little bit. So let's get into it. We look at what happened in Venezuela, for example.

It is not a, it is, it is not a remark on who Maduro was as a leader. He canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic leader. That doesn't mean that we can kidnap ahead of state and, and, you know, he was a leader. engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator. Well, Venezuela is actually north of the equator. And look, everyone saw that moment and made a huge deal about it. And to be quite frank, I don't think that's that big of a deal, okay? I mean, it was a mistake. Worse things have happened. Unfortunately, worse things did happen

in the context of the Munich Security Conference, which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Congresswoman of course attended and it was kind of like her big debut on, you know, the international stage and the whole point of the Munich Security Conference is to discuss foreign policy matters, security matters, and Jenk, before we get to some more of these highlights or low lights, depending on how you want to view it, your two cents. Yeah, I thought she says some good things and some bad things, we'll give you both. But at the end, I want to give you a line that no one's talking about that I think is actually more important than the rest. So let's tell you how she did. So I want to be as accurate as possible

because she did attend the Munich Security Conference. And then immediately after that, she attended a different event in Berlin. And so the video that you're about to watch is from that second event that she went to. It's known as T.U. Berlin. So here's the second half of what she had to say about Venezuela, which I think is way more problematic than her equator gaff. So let's take a look. left Maduro's regime intact. And so even whatever moralizing they have about it, they're just as much a culprit in ignoring the election results as anybody else. I don't think that we should support regime change wars on the left.

You know what I'm saying? So like, I get that she wants to take jabs at the Trump administration. I would very much prefer not to have a longer campaign in Venezuela where the end goal is regime change. I don't think it's any of our business. I think it's up to the Venezuelan people to pursue regime change should they want it. But the idea that no, no, no, the reason why the Trump administration messed up is all they did was kidnap Maduro.

But the regime remains in place. Yeah. I don't care whether the regime is in place or not. It's none of our business. You know what I'm saying? I do. Look, I was slightly different taking on that, but some criticism anyway. So first, on the Ecuador, I mean the equator line, I couldn't agree more with you.

Who cares? Or like, is that important? That's not important, right? There's no strategic issue. It's just a minor slip up. So on this, I actually think that she was saying, look, even if they want a regime change, they didn't even do regime change. So they didn't even get their stated goal.

So I'm gonna be a little bit easier on her than you are on that. Now, having said that, my problem with her in that line is she's constantly trying to please someone in Washington, right? So she's, because in Washington, they talk about like Republicans versus Democrats and you attack the Republicans because they didn't do the regime change that they promised, and you have to say how bad Maduro is, and that's okay, Maduro is bad, right? But like as I'm watching her, I can see her like checking off things that establishment media cares about, right?

Say Maduro's bad, otherwise you're not tough enough on foreign policy, talk about regime change, just like she's framing it exactly how a Democrat is supposed to frame it in Washington. Yeah, I think the best thing anyone in government or media can do is drown out all the noise. And when I say all the noise, I mean literally everyone. the left, the right, the middle, who cares? Sit down, study the issues, study the various foreign conflicts that are currently taking place, and ask yourself, what are your values? What would you want to pursue as a leader? Because look, she's going to deny it, and she was in a panic after these appearances, so she hit up the New York Times, and we're

going to get to that in just a minute because she wanted to defend herself. But to me, it's very obvious that this was her debut as someone who like understands foreign policy because she's positioning herself to run for president. She denies it, but I don't buy it. So we'll get to her denials. I don't buy it at all. It's not to say that she's definitely going to run, but she's testing herself on whether she should run or not through going through this type of process.

And her rush to call the New York Times shows you her mindset, right? But the reason I wanted to come back to this issue for one second is guys, like, All the answers are so rehearsed, that's part of the problem. They did not seem rehearsed to me. No, no, no, no, no. And I don't mean like she had the Taiwan answer ready, because she most certainly didn't. I mean they're studied and they're robotic and they're, I can feel the consultants in her ear. Because here's how a person who's passionate about it would answer it.

Here, I'll give you an example. So what do you think went wrong in Venezuela? My answer is, why the hell were we in Venezuela? What interest do we have in Venezuela? Why are we wasting our money? And then now what are we going to do? We're going to rule Venezuela from abroad, from an aircraft carrier? Meanwhile, we've got two aircraft carriers in Iran.

And what happened to not starting wars? Utter disaster, we have no business in Venezuela. And we do not have the right to kidnap foreign leaders. So if you're a foreign leader here in Berlin, if our side is in charge, don't worry. We're not going to weirdly kidnap you against international law. Donald Trump is a danger to the world because he doesn't listen to international law. So those are clear answers and those are from the heart. Instead of, I have studied this and my consultantist told me to frame it just this way.

And part of what she was doing with the Taiwan answer was trying to remember how she's supposed to frame it. I don't know if I agree with you. We're going to get to Taiwan in just a minute. But one final thing about this Venezuela portion of her appearance. Look, I do think that she seems to think that regime change would be good. Because think about how she framed it. I mean, she framed it as, oh, Maduro canceled elections, all we did was kidnap Maduro. The regime remains in place.

So Trump and Rubio are just as complicit in, you know, supporting the anti-democratic moves that are being made in Venezuela. Like that was the point, the framing that she was trying to use. And by the way, her argument is the whole reason why I went to these. events in Europe is because I wanted to raise awareness about the very real problem of, you know, anti-democratic parties popping up in European countries, anti-democracy movements in the United States, like that's her argument. So I think she was probably trying to frame this in this context of rising undemocratic, you know, moves or actions by certain people.

Yeah, in fact, she kept calling it right-wing populism, which was, which is not, is actually She's counterproductive if you ask me, because populism here in America is our ally. But she's framing it as left wing, right wing, because she's going to run against Republicans. Yes, yes. So they're the bad guys, I don't want their ally ship, even if they agree with us on anti-war, some of them do. We're not talking about Republican politicians, we're talking about populists, right? And they don't want to be controlled by Israel's center, but she's like, I don't want

your help because I'm going to run against you and me, me, me, me, me. Why is she constantly mentioning Marco Rubio? because she might run against Marco Rubio. And she's about to try to take some jabs at Marco Rubio in the next clip. This one, this one was bad. And I'll tell you why after we watch it. Take a look. Marco Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to Western culture.

My favorite part was when he said that American Cowboys came from Spain. I thought it came to, but I believe the men. Mexicans and descendants of African enslaved peoples would like to have a word on that. Okay, look, as much as it pains me to say it, Rubio was right, okay? So, bakero is a Spanish word, and horses and cattle were introduced to Mexico by the Spaniards, by the Spanish settlers. Look, I get the worldview of white people bad, but you've got to get out of that and you have, like, please, you can't take the context of, like, race issues from the United States and

somehow apply it to, like, foreign policy. And I just don't know why she did this. No, I just got to see. That was super cringe. Like, as your dad would say about who's right between Rubio and AOC on this, the most irrelevant thing I've ever heard about where cowboys and towards this game? The Cowboys gone. Or where have they come from?

As your dad would say, who's cares? Who's cares? I know, I know. Because she's trying to get her squeeze in her identity politics points. Yes, yes, that's what I'm trying to say. I know, and she's trying to squeeze in an anti-Rubio point. Yes. Just, what do you actually think?

Can you, no, we lost her. Like, this is not how humans react. And guys, I have every incentive to say she's amazing. Our audience raised $2.5 million so that her and the other Justice Democrats could win. We should all be super proud, et cetera, but this is not a populist. This is a person who studied these things and is trying to massage these talking points. Yeah, and look, you're more obsessed with labels than I've ever been. Okay, but right now I'm especially allergic to labels. So I don't care if she's a populist or not. What I care about is, what are your foreign policy

prescriptions? Are you someone who is imagining a world where the United States stops intervening and engaging in all these nonsense wars. And I'm sure that if I asked her that question, she would say yes. But it doesn't really seem like these are issues that she's thought about deeply. And that's a problem. And the reason why we're talking about this guys is because inevitably when she runs for president, as we get closer to election day, or as the primaries are taking place, people are going to jump down my throat if I do any legitimate, constructive criticism of what she's up to,

we've got three years. So don't come at me. All right, now is the time to be critical. And if she's really going to run for president, you got to get your act together. All right, with that in mind, let's move on to the moment that stood out to me the most. And it had to do with Taiwan. So this was at the Munich Security Conference. She was part of a panel.

And here's what happened. Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move? You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, you know, I think that this is a, this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States. And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point. And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise. So the U.S. strategy when it comes to Taiwan is strategic ambiguity. I don't know if that's what she was reaching for there, but mission not accomplished.

Yeah. So when people said that she stumbled for 20 seconds. She did. And before I watched it, I was like, it's probably an exaggeration. And then I timed it as I watched it. No, it was 20 seconds of, ooh, okay, like Jesus Christ, what do you believe? Stop trying to remember things and just tell us what you believe. Look, I, Sager and Jenny and Crystal Ball in breaking points had a good conversation when they played these same clips as we're playing.

And then they were like, why aren't we talking about AOC for president? Why aren't we talking about Rokana? Dude, I saw that conversation. First of all, major props to breaking points, especially Crystal, because she's the lefty, of course, for keeping it real, right? Because you should keep it real, you should have high standards for your side, okay? You shouldn't have low standards, that's how you find yourself in a situation where your candidate loses. No, but Sagar said the same thing, credit to both of them.

Yeah. Because like, and Sagar said, but the brother's actually leading. We have eyes and ears, right? We can see them leading and we can see everyone else not leading. And that's, do you know that they leave Rokana out of most of the presidential polls? Like the establishment media is unbearable. All right, go, keep going. Okay, so now we're being very critical, of course, because we're being honest about how we think

she did. Now clearly, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez did not think she did well because she apparently called a reporter at the New York Times to try to explain herself. So Kellyn Browning is the name of the reporter and he posts on X. AOC came to Munich to warn about the far right. Coverage focused on 2028 and verbal missteps. She gave me a call. Okay, let's stop.

You got a New York Times reporter on Speed Dial? What's going on here, girl? What's going on here, girl? Okay. Anyway. No, no, that's normal. Is it? No, it is.

No, a person of her stature in Congress. Okay, trust me, they got ever report. I'll be fair to her. I mean, it's in her interest to do this, right? Positive PR, that's what you'd want to do. But this is not a good look for the New York Times. So you get a call from your masters and then immediately you start doing your stenography work? No, what's interesting is that, yeah, no, no, no.

To me, the most interesting part of it is that if the New York Times is on your side, that means you ain't going to do nothing, okay? The New York Times loves the status quo. That's why they're like, well, I don't know, maybe we'll leave them out of the polls or whatever, right? And they're like, AOC, oh, we're sure she's going to do nothing. So that's what I'm worried about. Guys, I got burned on this a long time ago back in 2008, supporter Barack Obama 100% against Hillary Clinton in the primaries. And I was the whole time, like, why is the press being friendly to Obama? He seems like he's an outsider, he's a progressive, he's fighting for change.

And like against the establishment Hillary Clinton, but they're being fair to him. And it was bewildering to me. And I would question it on air like, huh, and it turns out the press knew something I didn't know. Yeah, Barack Obama was just as established from this, Hillary Clinton. So when they, when she rushes to the New York Times and then the New York Times rushes to her defense, that's bad news. That is bad news. So Brownie writes that to Accio Cortez, the discourse about her visit had missed the more important point about the risks of authoritarianism. Quote, everyone's got this story wrong that this is about me running for president.

I could give whatever about that, to be honest. No one believes you. No, no one believes you, sorry. I mean, seriously, if I was in her position, would I think about running for president? Of course I would. You're one of the most prominent Democrats in the country. Would it cross your mind? Of course it would cross your mind.

So like, it's kind of fraudulent to be like, oh, president? Oh, I'd never even thought about it. Oh, I guess, oh, you're the first to suggest it to me. I know, come on, come on. But to be fair, you'd wake up on a Tuesday and decide I'm gonna run for president. That's probably true. And I don't want to do projection too much. And look, almost all of them think the same way.

So that's no slight on AOC. There's good guys who also think about running for president. Yes. There's nothing wrong with thinking about running for president. I just hate this like stupid dog and pony show where it's like, no. Like they were they pretend that they're not. Like, come on, we're not stupid. Okay.

But I want you to do that again. Okay, here's more from her statement. the times, the story is less about the opponents being some hypothetical primary. To me, my opponents are the network that links Orban, Trump, Malay, Bolsonaro, and all these folks. And then as far as the criticism she's received, Acacio Cortez argued that efforts to make clips of any five to ten second thing from her remarks go viral online, especially in the conservative ecosystem had been done to distract from the substance of what I am saying. I want to be very clear. No holds barred moving forward. The country is in a lot of trouble. And like this, I'm sorry,

but this culture that we find ourselves in where the left protects the left, the right protects the right, and we just find ourselves in this endless cycle of mediocrity, it needs to end, I reject it. So no, this isn't about the conservative ecosystem. We're not conservative. And I'm telling you straight up, you need to study up on foreign policy if you're serious about running for president. And I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to say. And I'm sure should get very hurt by that.

But this is for your own good, okay? Like seriously. No, no, last two things. Guys, we have to pick the best candidate. Stop like with the, like, and I think the great majority of Democratic voters finally have stopped with this attitude that we had to battle for 20 straight years. No, no, don't pick the best candidate. Pick the one that's anointed because Democratic leadership knows so well.

And CNN and New York Times knows so well. Right. No, they're full of crap and the good news is overwhelming majority of Democratic voters now know that they're full of crap. So let's vet our own candidates so we can pick the best one. Finally, the quote I promised you, the very end of the New York Times story, they say, I think she says, says, I think a lot about all the heartburn that the Democratic Party has sometimes had in these internal conversations. And the New York Times says, Mr. Cascio-Cortez said, in both countries, she added if the center left and those further on the left are unable to put their differences

aside, then the whole thing goes out the window. Now, that might seem so inoffensive. Why do I care about that comment more than anything else we've covered? Because it misunderstands American politics. It's the center left as she's calling it, which is the corporate Democrats, the establishment Democrats, are not part of the same group that we are. They're part of the Uniparty. They are the guys who take money from big pharma and defense contractors, et cetera, and serve those guys. If you're trying to unite with them, you'll never get anything done. And so, well, we have to put our differences aside. Well, AOC, how are we going to do that? Like every time we go, okay, let's put differences aside, universal health care, the great majority of Democratic voters wanted, an 80, 90% want it.

They go, no, let's put our differences aside and not do universal health care or Medicare for all or paid family leave or minimum wage or any of the things you want. How are we going to put them aside? No, she's misunderstanding politics. If you don't defeat money in politics, you won't get a single thing passed. And you're not going to be able to defeat money in politics by working with the guys who guys, got there through money in politics and love money in politics. Misunderstands all of politics. So it's very frustrating.

And so I thought this entire performance at the end of the day, although she had some good things and I'm glad she's speaking out against authoritarianism. And I'm glad she went to go do that. But overall, not a good showing. All right, we got to take a break when we come back. Israel and Eric Trump have made a deal and it has to do with drones. Goody. AOC really wanted, was still on our side. She would have kept shortcut Chalka Barton, Corbyn, Trent. Those were the two guys that were the most pivotal in just Democrats, most pivotal

in getting her elected, her campaign manager, her communications director, she bought them to Congress, and then fired them within six months because they were offending her colleagues. Well, if you're not offending the colleagues, what the F did you go there for, right? So that's when she gave up and became kind of more establishment and decided, oh, we're gonna play identity politics, and we'll find a lane in an angle, et cetera. So it is what it is. Oh, the plug is for a shortcut. He's running in California 15, that's Nancy Pelosi's seat, and he already drove her out of the race.

And now he's running against the most pro-Israel Democrat in the whole state. state. So make sure you check out shortcut. So that's S-A-I-K-A-T, okay? And support them. All right. Boomer's dragon cat says the funniest thing happened today. My husband still has a notable Cuban accent. Hot. Sorry, my husband's Cuban too. Yeah, she's not coming after you again. No, no. Don't worry. And some English words still come out funny. He was trying to tell me about Senator Greasy ham. And I'm like, what? And he kept repeating greasy ham.

He meant Lindsey Graham. Oh my God, that cat, that's awesome. From now on, Lindsey Graham's nickname is obviously greasy ham. And that's perfect. Okay, so I love it. Winston Smith says, you'd better start campaigning for your Nobel Peace Prize, Donnie, before the war starts. How many peace deals now?

15? Are you kidding me? He'll probably get the Nobel Peace Prize after he starts the war. I know. By the way, now we find out the Norwegians are like totally corrupted, worked with Epstein nonstop. The Norwegians? Yes, the Norwegians.

In fact, I think the guy who's on the Nobel, you have to double check this. I don't want to know. On the Nobel committee was linked with Epstein. So that's why the Israeli-backed Venezuelan lady won the Nobel Peace Prize as she's in the middle of trying to start a war. Epstein can't get a meeting with Putin. He goes to the Norwegians.

Hey, do you have any contacts? So he had one or two guys that were clearly blackmailed to no end, and he was working with those guys. All right. Norway. Nerfurgis says, that's why the Unip Party is so afraid of progressives. Every corporate pack refusing progressive that gets into government is one more small slice that Israel doesn't and can't control. Oh, that's huge, that's totally true. You don't take corporate pack money, that means you don't take foreign government money, et cetera.

And oh my God, the Democratic Party hates that. Republicans hated. All of Washington hates it. So, and that's how you know that. Did Fetterman take corporate pack money? I can't remember. I believe he did. He was not a Justice Democrat, yeah.

And he famously avoided talking about Israel. He did, he did. You're right. During the campaign. Furole happy warriors said AOC's cowboy joke landed like a Pokemon go to the polls. All right, we'll be back. Everyone's like, oh my God, in and out, in and out. And I'm like, my controversial, non-political opinion is that it's overrated.

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All right, let's briefly discuss the latest financial winnings for the Trump family. So according to the Wall Street Journal, President Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, has invested in an Israeli drone company known as Extend, and he did so before the company goes public. Now the company is about to get literally millions of dollars from our government, which seems like there might be a conflict of interest here, Jank, but I could be wrong, what are your two cents? It's definitely a conflict of interest. So look, one of the questions is, are these guys gonna get prosecutor for all this corruption after the Trump administration is over? So you'll see some of it here.

But if you notice, they're constantly making deals in the Middle East. And what does Trump spend all of his time on? Not the Midwest, but the Middle East. Gee, I wonder why. So Anna, give us the details. So extend is a private company based in Israel, and as I mentioned earlier, it is about to go public. Now it creates all sorts of different kinds of drones. However, they also have some drones that they creepily advertise as low cost per kill.

Fun, those happen to be the drones that Israel is using to carry out its genocide in Gaza, by the way. Now in September of 2023, the company's chief executive, Aviv Shapira told the Wall Street Journal that his, what his drones can do. So Shapiro's products helped Israel's or Israeli forces map out terrain, explore inside buildings, and take out booby traps around Hamas's underground tunnel network. I remember watching a video of a doctor who was immediately killed in a drone strike as he was in the halls of the hospital he worked at. But I digress.

Then you look at a video that extend posted in July of last year, and you kind of get a better idea of how their drones operate, especially when it comes to their offensive capabilities. Take a look. June 13th, 2025, Israeli intelligence executed the impossible, a stealth precision drone blitz that gutted Iran's air defense grid. War has changed forever. Extend answers this new reality with two tactically deployed hives, one strike and one shield.

A mobile remote-controlled swarm, air, ground, even maritime. Extend has developed an AI-powered autonomous swarm that can be deployed anywhere and be controlled from anywhere. Our systems are calm, resilient as we can launch dozens of platforms in seconds. From autonomous fleet management to patrol an area management and also air-powered-powering. catalog. We created the ultimate GPS denied bombing swarm strikes available with interchangeable payloads creating the ultimate strike force. Well, terrorists sure do love their toys. Now, in November of last year, Extend revealed that they had won a contract with the Pentagon. So Extend said it's one-way drone kits would be specifically built for small tactical teams in irregular

warfare operations. And this month, the Pentagon stated that, will be part of its drone dominance program. That's an initiative with a budget of over $1 billion. So we should also note that Eric Trump isn't the only Trump who's getting in on this deal with extend. So unusual machines is a drone company that's part of the deal to take extend public. And who might be an investor and advisor at unusual machines? Oh, Don Jr. Nice.

Yeah. Yeah. So Big Brothers here, I mean, that video was haunting. And so they could track you anywhere and kill you anywhere. And they brag about it. And if, you know, and this is an Israeli company. So if you dare criticize Israel at all, you know what they think you are, an anti-Semite, a Jew aider.

And so don't worry, they got just the right drone for it though. And so Big Brothers here and our president's kids, are investing into Big Brother Incorporated. That is super scary and dangerous and terrible, right? And corrupt. Yeah, and these guys pretend to be populous. Oh my God. So, all right, now they said that these drones don't worry, they're reliable,

because they're battle tested in Gaza. First of all, battle tested for what? No, that means we have murdered so many civilians with this thing. That's right. In an asymmetrical war where you have a military on the Israeli side that's backed by a military superpower, the United States. And like, what do the Palestinians have? Yeah, Hamas carried out atrocities on October 7th.

They invaded with paragliders. Yeah, I mean, they arrested one American kid because he saw someone else throw a stone, which is like prehistoric. That's what Gaza is at this point. Prehistoric rubble and they're like so proud. They're like this is what we murdered the defenseless Palestinians with. And don't worry, your president's kids are gonna get rich off of it, okay? And then we'll get send them to more places like we're trying to annex the West Bank now.

And so we'll murder out more people with it and the president and his family will make more money from it. And that way, by the way, they'll be incentivized to keep helping Israel with their wars Because every time Israel starts a war or continues the occupation, they have to use more drones and the Trumps make more money. Bingo. Okay, and these drones are very dangerous. I hear that they fire bullets that get stuck in next to. Wait, what?

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She was on the religious liberty commission until she insisted on her religious liberty and then they kicked her off. Literally. Literally. Literally. Literally. Yeah, very literally what happened. They're like, no, no, this is against religious liberty. You all have to bow to Israel.

It's amazing. So we're gonna interview her in a little bit. Anna, what's next? Yes. All right, look, I don't even want to give too much away. Okay, no tease for you. We're just gonna jump into it. Must be being paid by someone in power who does not like these accusations that have been made

against them. And I think, I think it's fair to ask, are you being paid by any of the men who've been accused by Jeffrey Epstein? Wow. Today's installment of the Pierce Morgan Show, Pierce Morgan uncensored, if you will, did go off the rails as Michael Tracy got into a bit of a spat with Tara Paul Mary about the reality of the Epstein files, or at least what the Epstein files have revealed to the public. Now, for whatever reason, Michael Tracy does not believe that the revelations that we've all learned about and all read for ourselves exist. And so that's kind of at the heart of this spat that I'm going to show you the highlights of in just a minute. But before I do, Jenk.

I mean, we got former TYT versus kind of current TYT. That's kind of interesting. Do you stand by your former hiring decisions? Well, so Michael's an interesting cat. As you're gonna see here, I have a different theory as to why Michael is saying absurd things. So first we'll show you the absurd things and I'll tell you why I think he's saying them. And then of course we'll get into who's right. Now look, I do think that there's been a little bit of extrapolation or moral panic. So for instance, when you look at the Epstein files, some of those documents are FBI files where they're taking in

calls where people are making accusations. And I see that a lot of people take those accusations as gospel and you shouldn't do that, right? Because some people did call in and make insane allegations and there's no evidence of those more outlandish allegations. So I want to just be clear about that because I do see people making that mistake. So just be careful with what you're reading and don't, you know, assume that all of the allegations are 100% true. Yeah, 100%. In fact, in a little bit, I'll give you order of credibility for what you're reading and how to determine it. And I'll say, look, Michael had this interesting moment here where he had trouble with his earpiece at a very inopportune time. But I actually believe him. So let's give you the video. Okay, well, at the beginning of this episode,

Morgan interviewed David Boyce. And if you're unfamiliar with who that is, he's the person, the lawyer who represented Virginia Joufrey. And her case was against Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Used to be referred to as Prince Andrew, but he's been very bad. So he's had his title stripped from him. Now, Tracy has repeatedly accused Virginia Jufre of fabricating her story. And more broadly, he doesn't think that Epstein was doing any sex trafficking at all. Now, if you think that's crazy, there's no way he believes that. Here he is, you should hear it from the horse's mouth.

the horse's mouth. You know what the file show us? That the government investigators who are on a war path at this point against Epstein and then Maxwell discovered no credible evidence of any pedophilic sex trafficking or any sex trafficking at all to any third party individuals, which was the crux of the mythology that Virginia Roberts Goufrey incubated that Tara Palmeri amplified so lamentably credulously. I'm going to let you take that one, Jake. Yeah, that's absurd. There's a mountain of evidence.

So look, some people are wondering, hey, is Michael Tracy running cover for Israel? That's not my experience with him. He's just a natural born contrarian. If you tell him the sky is blue and the grass is green, he will argue till the end of time that they are not, right? So like this is the most obvious case in the world. There's video cameras in every room. They're in the tissue boxes.

Gee, I wonder why they put video cameras. There's 1,200 victims. There's descriptions, there's emails of people going, I'll take a 9 year old, a 10 year old, an 11 year old. No, no, no trafficking, no pedophilia. I mean, and Leon, there's, you know, Leon Black, according to the allegations, doing vicious rapes. Les Wexner called a coca spurted by the FBI. There is a mountain of evidence. But no matter how much evidence you give, Michael, that makes him want to oppose it even more.

It's crazy. I get the journalist's urge to maybe view things from a contrarian lens and be skeptical. Be skeptical of an official narrative of conventional wisdom. That is a good thing. But once you read the documents for yourself, how do you still reach the conclusion that there was no human trafficking happening? And he's so over the top sometimes. Like he said they were going on a warpath against Epstein. What warpath?

When they caught him in 2008, they let, they gave him such a light sentence. The sentence was, well, if you don't mind, come and use the jail as a hotel. You're free to go during the day because we know you have important work like raping our children. No, but, Jenk, have you considered, have you considered that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't happy with the sweetheart deal? He thought that Dershowitz could have done better. Have you considered that? Oh, wait a minute. Okay, so a tiny amount of time, but only at night.

And then Galane Maxwell is in the minimum security prison, having the time of our life. But they're on a war path against poor Epstein and Maxwell. I mean, it's classic Michael Tracy, like absurd contrarian nonsense. So after that, Pierce Morgan asked Paul Mary for comment. And remember, she's one of the top reporters that's been following this story, reporting on it, meticulously if you ask me. But look, Tracy wasn't having it. So here's the clip. I don't know, Michael. Have you ever actually listened to any of the tapes at the Palm Beach, you know, the police in Palm Beach, the detective? Have you listened to any of the girls

that they interviewed that were as young 14? Yeah, and you think that they're not credible. I've listened to it all, Tara. You don't think that entire pyramid scheme and in a high school. Do you think Virginia Robespraeufre is credible? She had nothing to do with that initial Palm investigation. We're talking about your former journalist, the collaborator, who had to recant allegations against Dershowitz, had to recant her allegations against a Harvard professor, Stephen Costland, recanted against John Luke Brunel. So you defend the credibility of your journalistic collaborator. Go ahead. Do you work? Do you work? Who do you work for, Michael? Oh my God. Okay, I had listened to this episode. I hadn't watched the video of it.

I gotta say the look on everyone's face as he's talking is just like John Kirakku is the guy in the middle. He's a former CIA agent. Yeah. Okay, Mike Benz is the other guy. And he just has this blank look on his face because the exchange is absurd. It's totally absurd. John can't believe it. What is that?

Who cares if she? All right, anyways, keep going. All right. So when Tracy refers to Paul Mary as Virginia-Jufre's, journalistic collaborator. He's alluding to the fact that they once hosted a podcast together. But I- Yeah, no, but Tara reported, she's one of the top reporters on the Epstein files.

So what does she do? She interviewed the victims. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. I don't do that. Journalism 101, what did you want her to do? Not interview the victims? In this case, maybe the answer is yes.

So how did Michael Tracy respond to Tara-Paul-Merry's question, right? Like, are you getting paid by any like of Epstein's co-conspirators? Like, what's going on here? We should watch that moment because it was awkward and Jank is going to potentially defend Michael Tracy. So take a look. Are you being paid by any of the men who've been accused by Jeffrey Epstein? I'm having trouble hearing right now. I wish I could respond to whatever nonsense she just blurted out.

I'm asking you if you have ever been paid by any of the men who have been accused. but maybe somebody can An astonishing an astonishing coincidence that you suddenly lost your hearing when you were asked a very difficult question. Tara asked if you're being paid by anybody to smear the victims of the Epstein scandal.

Rather than defend the merits of her journalistic output, which she can't because it's indefensible, what does she do? She tries to impugn me personally, tries to imply or... What's the answer to the question? Of course I'm not being paid by anyone. I'm paid by my readers on substack, you idiot.

You just can't engage on the merits, Tara. You are disgrace. I mean, I'm happy to be remembered as somebody who is integral in fomenting this moral panic and mass hysteria that's led to mass defamation like you just tried against me. Okay. There are rich and powerful men who have taken advantage of, and in some cases, preyed upon underaged girls, some of whom, actually, actually most of whom came from disadvantaged backgrounds. And they were preyed upon specifically because they came from poor families or broken homes. And it would be harder for them to fight back.

Throughout many decades, our government provided cover for those bad actors. That is a huge scandal. And the fact that look, I think it's bad enough that we're living in a country right now that's just moving about the day, business as usual, nothing to see here. That's bad enough. But to have a so-called reporter add to it and then on top of that deny reality is beyond infuriating because aside from the victims not getting the justice that they deserve, this whole story says a lot about the society we live in, okay? About our leadership, about the power players in this country and across the globe.

And I would prefer to not live in a world where disgusts, Pedophilic Garbage gets to make decisions about the lives of all of us live. Yeah. So Michael's acting like someone who's on the wrong side of this, and I don't mean like as an opinion, but as in like Alan Dershowitz and all the other people who cooperated with Epstein. But I don't think he is. So man, maybe I'm wrong, but is he acting that way?

Oh, clearly. I mean, I had battled with him on Twitter the other day and he was like, name names, name names. That's like what Dershowitz does. And then he just said mass defamation, just like Dershowitz does. Like he wants you to name a name so you can get sued or something. And I'm like, Michael, why are you being dense? Here's a name. Jeffrey Epstein, they didn't investigate him for decades.

They gave him the lightest sentence possible. They let him go back. They knew he was committing all these crimes and abusing all these girls. And they didn't re-arrest them until there was another story out over a decade later, etc. Galane Maxwell, there's another name. And again, for decades, they left her alone. Even when they went after Epstein, they didn't go after Maxwell. He even attacks Julie K. Brown, by the way.

He attacks Julie K. Brown, that's the reporter. Yeah, so that's the reporter who broke the story. Who broke the story and led to Epstein getting arrested the second time. So, I mean, if you fancy yourself a great reporter as I think Michael does, then you should be celebrating Julie K. Brown, that was an amazing piece of journalism that led to the arrest of Epstein that the whole government didn't want to arrest. arrest in the first place and with again overwhelming evidence. And you want more names, FBI, names less Westerners, Coccuspirator.

We've been through all of these, right? But Michael's the kind of guy that you can say 1,200 victims, you can name like all these different guys and he'll say, so there's no evidence. I just listed the evidence. What is wrong with you? And I think part of the issue is he's like, he's too thirsty to stand out from the crowd. Pick a different story, pick a different story. Pick a different story, okay?

The same is. No, no, but here's why this story is perfect for that. Because who would be crazy enough to defend Epstein? And Michael Tracy's like, I'll be your Huckleberry. Okay, so I don't think he's being paid. And the earpiece, no, he was playing around with it before. He was having trouble with it before. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on the earpiece thing.

And he did say, of course I'm not paid. And he's not- I don't think he's paid. No, no, I don't think he's paid. I think he's wrong on this issue and he looks even more clout. when he starts throwing out insults against journalists who have been following this story meticulously for many years. And look, the problem with citing, in that moment, in that spontaneous moment, the problem with citing specific examples or evidence is that there's so much.

So what do you remember? What do you remember to cite in that context? You get what I'm saying? But I mean, we've been covering specific emails. We've been covering the 16 year old girl's diary, you know, the 16 year old girl who had autism and Down syndrome and claimed that Leon Blackhead rape. That one? So how do you explain the government not investigating that allegation?

That allegation is horrific. So apparently there was an investigation to Leon Black. Charges were dropped though. Yeah, and just so tell me why they were dropped. I mean, maybe there's a good reason why they were dropped, but no one stated that reason. So since no one was either investigated or all charges were always dropped in this case, if you think that doesn't raise suspicion, you're not being honest. So this is Michael Tracy just doing the look at me, Daddy, look at me, dad.

strategy here. So okay, Michael, you win. We all looked at you, but I'm not sure that it was a win you thought you were getting. Yeah, definitely gave you the side eye. Anyway, we got to take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about something that Michael Tracy probably argues doesn't exist. Epstein's Zorro Ranch. All right, so let's go to members on t.wit.com. Spider-Man Dragon goes, oh, come on, Jake. Played with it. Are you for real? Yeah, he had a sounding show on that one question. So that's the kind of thing I normally say. But all of the context clues, he was having trouble with his earpiece before.

He after he hears it, he goes, hell no, I'm not getting paid. Why wouldn't he just say that from the beginning? He talks over Tara in not a normal way that you talk over someone where you raise your voice. He had an even voice. And I know Michael, like, and that's not to exonerate him based on my character, you know, support of him. No, I, he's the, like, he's the, like, he's, like, I don't need- If someone tried to pay Michael Tracy, he would love to turn them in. That's my guess, okay?

I don't need to believe that he was lying about the earpiece thing to think that he came across poorly in that whole exchange. Oh, no question about that. Yeah, he came across poorly. Cabby says, so no way you read three million pages and know what's in the Epstein files. And Michael's insatiable, like, no matter, you can list 12 victims and 28 guys who did it, he'd be like, oh, yeah, but name some names. Okay, all right, so now we're playing games, right? So eclectic rights and refusing to see the truth in the face of overwhelming evidence. Maybe Michael Tracy is trying desperately to land a gig at the mainstream media outlet.

Again, I'd be surprised by that. He just, he loves being the odd guy out. Well, mission accomplished, you're the odd guy out. Don Donna dragon, an interesting point. Never forget the drones over Jersey that they labeled as FAA testing has said nothing else about. Good point. I had forgotten about that. And that was a weird, weird mystery that they never explained. So, no, great. By the way, we don't know what they were testing, right? No, of course, of course. But, you know, I'm sure it was totally innocent.

Yeah. Coefi said, Michael Tracy, never trust anyone with two first names. Okay. Agreed. That's definitive. There you go. Like Mark Wayne Mullen? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark Wayne, really? Come on. No offense of the Mark Wayne's out there. But Wayne-y. By the way, Michael would watch this and go,

there's nothing wrong with the first two names. No, Michael, it's a joke. All right, anyway, little Maca McG writes in, I watched this earlier, this dude was one creepy as a pito supporter who was way out of line in tagging Tara and took far, far too long answering Tara's question. So long it makes me think he was lying after he realized not answering the questions, was admitting he was being paid,

weight WTF, the pito protector used to work at TYT. Look brother, we've had a lot of folks who work here that don't agree with us now. And by the way, don't you think you know what Michael thinks? No, whatever you think he thinks he thinks the opposite, right? So he'll actually agree with us on, I don't know, 70% of stuff because we are usually against conventional wisdom. And he has to be against conventional wisdom. So, all right, let's keep going.

It's just Vegas writes in on Twitch, RIP Robert Duval and Jesse Jackson. Rosie Turner also said RIP to Jesse Jackson, by the way, and condolses to his family as a YouTube member. And I just wanna double down on that. Jesse Jackson and I had a bunch of interactions. He was always terrific to me. And then he busted me on an interview that was hilarious. Ben and I were interviewing him and we asked him some question about how he's trying to grab

too much attention. And he's like, didn't you guys ask me for this? interview? And I was like, that's a really good point. Jesse. President is on the $100 bill. Sorry, the question is moot. The last four years of the Reagan administration, very few people got to see a hundred dollar bill. All right, back on TYT, Jankana, with you guys, more news. We've got to talk about Zorro Ranch. He built his New Mexico ranch. He said to be this Manhattan project for basically kind of hacking the genome. So he wanted to do. He wanted to do, he

to connect NSA hackers. Yes. To biology. That's why I said in the last segment that this biotech research thing actually tracks. Like this is the kind of thing that he was into. Well, that was Ryan Grimm, friend of the show discussing Epstein's Zorro Ranch. In fact, it was one of Jeffrey Epstein's properties. And this one happened to be located in the state of New Mexico. And while the federal government seems to have absolutely no interest in investigating some of the revelations we've learned from the newly released Epstein files. Thankfully lawmakers in New Mexico do want to launch an investigation into Zoro Ranch in particular and I'll explain why in just a second. But before

I do, Jake, your two cents. You know that old saying about they know where the bodies are bird? In this case, it might be literal of some haunting emails coming out for you guys. And how could this This story lead to unraveling of the whole case. So we'll tell you about that here. So Epstein owned this 8,000 acre ranch, known as Zoro Ranch, from 1993 until the day he died. And there are some pretty disturbing accounts of the goings on at this ranch, although they're allegations and they should be investigated.

Now, one of the Epstein survivors, Annie Farmer, has alleged that Gilane Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein both assaulted her at this ranch when she was only 16 years old. Virginia Joufrey, along with another anonymous victim, reported similar stories. And then there's more. So the New Mexico Department of Justice wrote to the DOJ last week seeking unredacted access to an anonymous 2019 email that alleged two foreign girls were buried at Zoro Ranch. I read that email, and it was creepy as hell and I wondered, are we just going to pretend like this doesn't exist? Is the federal government going to maybe at least pretend like they're going to do an investigation? Nothing from the federal government, of course. But luckily on a state

level, things are a little different here. So anonymous sources who spoke to the New York Times stated that Epstein repeatedly mentioned plans to insominate women in mass at this ranch in order to spread his DNA. That could be totally made up. I I have no idea, but right now the New Mexico House of Representatives unanimously voted in favor of investigating this, okay? They wanna dig deeper into what's happening over at Zoro Ranch. Go ahead, Jake. There's another possibility for why he wanted that, not to necessarily disseminate his DNA.

And this is crazy guys, but look, we're in an absolutely crazy story. You know, we told you about the 16 year old whose baby was taken from her, according to the allegations. If they're interested in babies, this is how you would make babies. So, I mean, all of this is deeply disturbing. And before this story broke, we wouldn't have believed any of this stuff. But it's in the emails. So again, there has been so much smoke when it comes to Zorro Ranch that the, you know, house in New Mexico voted unanimously. to investigate this and the legislation that they passed would create a special subcommittee

to investigate allegations of criminal activity and public corruption. And it was by the way sponsored by two Democrats and two Republicans. So this is very much a bipartisan effort and I love to see that. This is where there shouldn't be any daylight between one party or the other or between these two parties because this is something we should all be interested in getting to the bottom of and if there is any evidence of wrongdoing, you know, at least we have a little more clarity about what happened at this ranch. Now the property once known as Zorro Ranch is currently owned by Texas State Senator.

His name is Don Huffins and he has promised that he will cooperate with law enforcement as they investigate the property. So that's good news. I'm gonna skip his post, but you can read about it on X where he said, I will cooperate. operate essentially. Now, all right, that's pretty much it about Zoro Ranch. So let's, what I want to know is does Michael Tracy know about that email exchange about how two foreign girls or two foreign bodies are buried at Zoro Ranch? I mean, it could be total BS. But how do you read that and think there's nothing there?

So in a lot of times the government sees those emails and insanely does not investigate. And then Michael will then turn around and say, well, see, you didn't prove it. Yeah, but brother, That's because there's all this evidence and the government refuses to follow up on the evidence. That's part of the story. That's part of the problem here. Okay, so look, first of all, a lot of haunting stuff. It's 7,200 acres, so it's isolated in the kind of in the middle of the desert. Island isolated, you isolate the girls so A, no one can help them, no one can hear them.

What girls? And oh, I know. And then, and also if something happens, it's easier to dispose of folks, right? So it's every part of this story's haunting. The unraveling, how could that come? Well, so look, our government's compromised, obviously, our intelligence agencies knew about Epstein for decades, and instead of turning him into the FBI, and that's another Michael Tracy thing.

That's how my fight with him started online on X, where he's like, what did you want to the CIA to do, there's nothing they could do about it. How about they disband since they're useless pricks and we don't need them? How about that? If you don't think the CIA could have done a damn thing when it comes to this case, then let's just get rid of them. What's the point of having the CIA? So in that case, like it's again, it's sophistry, right?

No, what the CIA does, if there was a Russian, like, pedophile ring in America, would they be like, I guess there's nothing we can do about it? Or let him collect blackmail on American politicians and rape American girls, there's nothing we can do about it? No, you turn them into the FBI, and the FBI then arrest them. But the CIA in this case seemed to be doing the opposite. The FBI finds these guys, and the CIA says, do not investigate them, right? And so that's according to Alex Acosta, who then became Labor Secretary for Trump, who gave the light sentence, and there's a lot of other evidence. But they could, so as much as our government, federal government is compromised,

I don't think they bothered to buy the entire New Mexican legislature or the Rhode Island or Hawaiian legislature, it's too much, right? So there's no reason why the New Mexican legislators would be compromised. So they're going and go, oh yeah, oh, well, there's houses in New Mexico, let's go investigate that. And they're going, la, la, la, la, la, la. And if they go in there and they find a whole bunch of things that are incriminating, it's going to be a huge problem.

In fact, that leads me to a prediction. I believe that if this keeps going down the road, which it looks like it's going to, at some point the federal government will step in and go, no, no, you know what, good Good point, good point about the Zoro Range. We're not taking over the investigation because we're gonna do it more thoroughly. Trust us, don't let them in, don't let the locals in, okay? I mean, because our government is totally compromised. But we also have to keep it real because if this is eight that nearly 8,000 acres, that's a lot.

What they're gonna dig up the whole property? No, no, you could easily do this. Look, I don't know how they do that detection, but there's definitely ways to do it. All right, I mean, look, I'm happy that they want to do this investigation. I'm not trying to pour cold water on. Yeah, no, no, and they could find things inside the house. I mean, look at how sloppy they've been. Because I think that inside the government, there was an assumption that these guys are above

the law. So they barely even bothered to try to hide things. I mean, all these emails are all over the files. Give me a 10 year old, an 11 year old, the missing baby, and all these different things. And they're just sitting there in the files, they didn't burn them, they didn't delete them. I think they thought we're above the law, who's gonna make us? Be accountable, no one. So who knows, maybe they left some of the tapes in New Mexico.

See, that would be amazing. In fact, I'm afraid I shouldn't have said it out loud. Because if anyone's watching, the FBI and CIA are going to be like, rush to New Mexico, make sure we clean that place up. Why did you protect them? Why are you still protecting them today? For any of the contrarians, and if you guys don't know, Michael Tracy is a contrarian saying, oh, no, there's nothing to see here, then guys, show me a single prosecution.

Why hasn't the government prosecuted any of these monsters? Obviously, our government is in on it. That's why they protected them. Yeah, all right. Well, I want to just pivot to some other Epstein-related news, this having to do with Thomas Pritzker. So another one of Jeffrey Epstein's associates has now stepped down in disgrace. Thomas Pritzker is his name. He's the executive chairman, or at least used to be, of Hyatt Hotels, and he announced yesterday

that he will in fact leave his post. He's the cousin of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Doesn't mean J.B. Pritzker is guilty of doing anything wrong, but unfortunately this creep is part of his family. Now, Thomas Pritzker was friends with Epstein and Galane Maxwell, at least as early as 2003, if not before. Pritzker often stayed at Epstein's townhouse. And in one exchange that took place in 2010, two years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex,

Jeffrey Epstein had written, the girl from Romania that you met at my house is currently living in London. Can we see if there is a starting position in any of hotels, meaning any of the hotels, Hyatt hotels, maybe she could work out? Tom Pritzker responded with, have her send me a resume. I can have her interviewed, no idea if they are hiring. I don't think there's anything wrong with that exchange doesn't indicate that there was any criminality taking place, so I want to be clear about that. Obviously, remaining friends with a guy after 2008, after he had pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex, I wouldn't find myself in a situation like that. Tom Pritzker did, so make of that what you will. Now also, at an unknown date, Galane Maxwell sent Pritzker this disturbing piece of writing.

Let's take a look at this. It is the year 2032 and a father and son walk the streets of lower Manhattan, approaching the site where the World Trade Center used to be in the end of the 20th century, the father sighs and comments to think that right here used to be the twin towers. The son, not understanding, asks his father, what are the twin towers? The father smiles and looks at the sun and explains, the twin towers were two huge buildings that used to be here until 2001, when the Arabs destroyed them, the son looks up to his father and asks, and what are the Arabs? Seems like Galane Maxwell really reveled in the idea of a world

without Arabs and seemed to focus her attention on 9-11 to fantasize about that. Yeah, that was apparently one month after 9-11. Yeah. So if you don't know, one of the theories is is that Israel did 9-11 to get us to attack their Arab neighbors and the people that they thought were their enemies. And Netanyahu has bragged about it's easy to manipulate America and get them to do what we want. And so I'm not saying that that theory is true, but for the folks who believe that theory, they look at this email and go, oh, so here's Galane Maxwell.

Daughter of legendary super spy Robert Maxwell for the Israelis, talking about, hey, look at that. The buildings went down, and now you're going to have to attack our enemies and kill them all. So I'm not commenting on that theory, but I am commenting on Robert Maxwell because I've been reading about him a lot more because I'm just curious about the guy. And it wasn't just that he was working for Mossad. He actually played a very pivotal role in the establishment of Israel as a state. Yep. So just something to keep in mind.

Yeah, I mean, look, the fact that legacy media, to my knowledge, has never even mentioned that Galane Maxwell's dad is Robert Maxwell and that he was a super spy for Israel. I mean, come on, that's, if his, if her dad was a super spy for the KGB, do you think they would have never mentioned that? Or do you think they would have mentioned that about two million times already? So like these things are so weird. So I'm at a point where I don't know what to believe. But okay, put aside the theory about Israel or whatever, right?

But look at what she's doing. There's this a month after 9-11, they are saying, Tom Pritzker and Galane Maxwell. By the way, this email was sent to several different people, all allies of Israel. and they're all laughing about ha ha ha, now America's going to kill all the Arabs. Yeah, exactly. So that's indisputable. That is indisputable. It's in the emails.

You can read it for yourselves. Anyway, I don't want to get caught up in that conversation because I will probably get assassinated. So let's just move on. So then there was this dinner where Galane Maxwell claimed that five models would be working as the servers. And Tom Pritzker responded, actually can't we have Mendelssohn, Blaine, Black, et cetera, as the servers and the five models as the guests, that would be far more fun. Anyway, all right, in 2011, Pritzker wrote to Epstein, I am in a remote valley of Afghanistan, it's my birthday wish, with boys with toys, spent time with Petraeus yesterday, and he loaned me

a chopper, actually two with one as backup. Can't call till tomorrow. I don't know what boys with toys means. Maybe he's referring to the choppers. I have no idea. It could be the weapons or it could be literal boys we don't know. But given the chopper reference, probably more military. Yeah, sounds like it. In 2011, Epstein told Pritzker, thanks, I really enjoyed last night. No, not the girl, our conversation. I have read more articles on you. and your travails and fully understand your perceptions. And then finally in 2013, and these are the emails we know about. I'm sure there might be more.

In 2013 Pritzker told Epstein, meant to compliment you on the performance art. As we left, I noted one of the girls perched and reading a red book on the couch under the stairs. Really excellent touch. Yeah, okay, so not complicated, you know, about the the girls. So they, so, but never investigated, everybody's free to go. And by the way, Galane Maxwell not investigated. All right, now back to that. I mean, she's a, I mean, no, no, for two decades. I hear what you're saying, yes. For two decades, they have all of these emails. This is a month after 9-11, the one we read. And they're like, oh, yeah, oh, you guys all

think that 9-11 was funny. And now America will do what you guys want. Oh, but no, no, Don't investigate. So, but guys, think about if the shoe was on the other foot. Imagine that the government had emails of all these powerful people saying, oh great, now America's going to kill all the Jews. Do you think that that would have been no big deal? No one would have investigated. No one would have looked into it, the media wouldn't care.

But here they are going, now America's going to kill all the Arabs. Everybody's like, what's the big deal? Like I don't know that a single corporate media outlet has covered that email. I think it's a big deal that the most powerful people on earth were joking around about 9-11 and how it would lead to all the Arabs like literally holocausting, not genocide, holocausting the Arabs and that they were so excited about that. If you had said that about Jewish people, everyone in that emails would have been what? I mean, right now there would be the biggest investigation you have ever seen in your life.

And if you're pretending that's not the case, you could pretend all day long. No one cares. Yeah, we all know the truth. All right, now one last thing. When people say you're not allowed to talk about theories and stuff, I'm not saying I agree with these theories, but we are allowed to talk about them. So there's this guys that it drives me crazy that they're calling the dancing Israelis. I don't care what they're called, I don't care if they dance, I don't care about any of that, okay?

There's one thing, so those are the guys who went to look at the towers collapse and people, and they got caught, and it turns out they were Israeli spies. So, and then they go back to Israel, they get interviewed, I'm gonna come back to why they went back to Israel in a second one, and that's the main reason I'm telling the story. Just a side note is they go back to Israel, they get interviewed on TV and they said, why were you there? They said we were there to document the event. The host did not ask, how did you know there was going to be an event?

Okay, now that's the side story. You take do without what you like. The main story is, not only did we arrest those five Israeli spies, we arrested dozens of Israeli spies after 9-11. And just like we got the bin Laden's, the bin Laden family was here in America, a lot of them, was the first thing we did. Go get the bin Laden, go get the Israeli spies,

and then make sure that they go back to Saudi Arabia and Israel, and they're safe. Who arrests spies and then lets them go? Isn't that incredibly strange? If we had caught Russian spies, dozens of Russian spies after 9-11 here, dozens of Chinese spies, who thinks we'd let them go? There is no circumstance.

under which we would let them go. We also let Robert Maxwell go. They said, oh, it would cause an international incident and embarrass the Israelis. He stole our nuclear secrets and then shared them with the Soviet Union later to get more goodies for Israel. And that, oh, but it would embarrass our beloved Israel. No, guys, there's something deeply wrong in our government. Deeply, deeply wrong. This is, this government looks compromised in every way imaginable.

And I don't really understand, look, I don't understand the rage and anger toward anyone who's like maybe rethinking their worldview after the release of these files. And you really do get a sense of how much our government lies to us. I mean, I knew our government lied to us, okay? I already was in a place of I don't trust our government. However, it turns out that the distrust should have run a lot deeper. Yeah, no, I'll say one last thing because I hear you say that. So about 9-11, so I used to believe in the official story until about like literally a couple

of days ago. And now I'm saying, I don't know. I don't claim to know a theory and I'm positive and I know that, you know, how steel melts at what temperature. I'm not into any of that, right? Although World Trade Center is seven, I've now seen it. Control demolition, unquestionable. I've seen a thousand controlled demolitions, it's a controlled demolition.

Okay, so that one I'm clear on, nothing else I know. All I know is I don't trust the government anymore. I think the government is entirely full of crap and all the redactions in the 9-11 commission. And in these emails, Galane Maxwell is asked to join a shadow 9-11 commission. Yeah. And people say, oh no, that's no big deal. That happens all the time. No, does it?

That's a big deal. That is a big, freaking deal. Okay. No one's gonna convince me that's not a big deal. The woman fantasizing about a Holocaust of Arabs is included in the Shadow 9-11 Commission. Get the F out of here, please. Okay, so then a whole bunch of like mainstream media reporters and other people where like started tutting me online.

Like, look at these conspiracy theories. All the sophisticated people know that the government tells the truth all the time. Like you're a reporter, you're a reporter and you're like, well, the government said it, it must be true. You're embarrassing. So I'm gonna go further here. If you believe the government wouldn't lie to you about 9-11, you're an idiot. You have no ability to gather evidence and keep an open mind and reevaluate.

Okay, so I thought the government was not lying. Now after we see the Epstein files and the government's been lying about that for decades, if you're still a moron who thinks, oh, no, the U.S. government would never lie. everyone who says that they're lying are conspiracy theorists and they should be canceled forever and never should they be allowed to talk against the beloved government and the powerful. You're not a reporter. You're a marketing executive for the powerful. You just don't know it.

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So Stephen Colbert was supposed to air an interview with a politician. In fact, a Democratic candidate by the name of James Talarico, I'm pretty sure a lot of you have heard of him. He wasn't able to air that interview on his television show. He had to do so on YouTube instead. He explained, you know who is not one of my guests tonight? That's Texas State Representative James Talariko. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no other.

uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this, let's talk about this. I love that he did that. Okay, so he's on CBS. We all know what has happened to CBS in recent months under the leadership of Barry Weiss, of course. But honestly, I think this issue has more to do with the FCC weaponizing a new guidance from Trump against their political opponents. So what do I mean by that? Well, the CBS lawyers were reportedly concerned about the new guidance from Brendan Carr, who is the chair of the FCC under the Trump administration.

So he says that late night shows may have to abide by what's known as the equal time rule. Now, long time ago, we had something known as the Fairness Doctrine. And the Fairness Doctrine stipulated that in order to get broadcast licenses, you have to agree to give both sides or all sides equal time on your broadcast. Now, I thought that was a good rule. Trump brought it back to some extent, although he brought back this Frankenstein version of it, so he can, so he can use it and weaponize it against political opponents. And that appears to be the case here. So the rule says that radio and television broadcast stations that interview a candidate

in an election year also have to allow for that candidate's opponent to have equal time. Again, overall, I'm okay with that rule. It just needs to be applied equally. And that doesn't seem to be the case here. So there are exceptions to the rule and news programs and talk shows like Colbert's have traditionally been considered exempt from it. Brendan Carr is pushing to change that. In January, he, you know, wrote a letter where he suggested the exemption should no longer

apply to programs he characterized as being motivated by partisan purposes. Which is an interesting thing to say because he did exempt a certain type of broadcasting from this rule, and that certain type of broadcasting happens to be talk radio, which also happens to be pretty conservative. Not pretty conservative, unilaterally concerned. Very conservative, yeah. Almost no left wingers on conservative. But I'm sure it was a coincidence. So Colbert called Brendan Carr a smug bowling pin and said to him directly, FCCU, because I think you are motivated bipartisan purposes yourself. Now again, that guidance I'd have no problem with if it were applied equally and it wasn't weaponized for political purposes.

But it does appear that that's what happened here. Yeah. So yeah, there are two different issues there. The fairness doctrine, I actually don't agree with Anna. I always hated it. And the reason for that is because it actually prevents you from bringing almost anyone on. Because they're like, oh, that race has, technically it has 13 people in it. So you have to interview all 13 people, otherwise you're not allowed to interview anyone.

So, and I can go on and on. I get that a lot of the left likes that, but that law has a thousand unintended consequences, okay. But we're not talking about that here because here he's like, this is the unfairness doctrine. So conservatives get to talk, but if we think you're on the left, we're all of a sudden gonna bring back this zombie law and only apply it to you guys. Besides which, isn't the Colbert show a com- like, he's a comedian. Isn't it supposed to be?

I know that he talks about politics, but through the lens of a comedian. Yeah, I mean, he says talk shows, but then you could interpret that as political talk shows like us, right? Or news talk shows like us, or you could interpret it more broadly, and they're interpreting it more broadly, why? Because they hate Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, and they want him to shut up. And so they're pretending that they want to give a voice to others, which is deeply ironic, because they're trying to actually just get them to stop talking.

Now luckily the interview is available on, you know, the YouTube version of his show. So you can check that out on YouTube, which further bolsters the argument that there are huge benefits to digital media. It's not regulated by the FCC the way broadcast television is. So there you have it. Yeah, the person who got screwed most by this is Jasmine Crockett. And why is that? Because Tala Rico is running against Crockett in the primary, which is starting now in Texas.

And this is the greatest political out of all time for Tala Rico. 100%. Because the entire country's talking about it. If they've just done a normal interview, I gotta be honest, probably no one would have noticed. Okay, but because of this, this is a spectacular political ad for him. So, and Crock has gotta be thinking, why wasn't it me? That got banned, why wasn't it me? Kind of like how all, everybody on the left was seeing that when Don Lemon got arrested.

Keeping it real here. This is 2002. All right, guys, we're going to take a break here. When we come back, the show continues today, actually. So we've got an amazing guest for you guys, Carrie Prejean Boler. She was on the Religious Liberty Commission until they kicked her off for having religious liberty. You can't make this stuff up. So that interview when we return.