The Young Turks - The Epstein Administration - February 16, 2026

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The Trump administration is reportedly preparing for a sustained conflict with Iran, signaling a potential long-term military posture in the region. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faces backlash from pro-Israel critics after referring to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide. Rep. Thomas Massie calls the Trump government the "Epstein Administration" and Nancy Mace slams the DOJ over its handling of the Epstein files. 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

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Big show ahead. So ISIS was drawing further, which is good news. They're negotiating to see if we can get the masks off some badges. We've got more of that story a little bit later in the program. Israel, of course, is attacking wildly everywhere, Lebanon, West Bank, here inside America. We want more. It's never enough. And obviously they're trying to start a war with Iran because they're Israel.

They do nonstop wars. And of course, they demand that we all pay for it. So a lot more of that, unfortunately. I wish Israel wasn't in the news, but they won't stop starting. wars and they won't stop demanding that we pay for it and bullying us to know it. So we've got more of that for you guys in today's show. So Anna, good to see you. What do we have first? Well, it does appear as though a decision has already been made in regard to US intervention and war in Iran. And I want to show you exactly what I'm referring to. Let's get into it.

Israel's expansionist project requires that neighboring countries be weakened, militarily, technologically, economically and socially, so that the Israeli regime permanently enjoys the upper hand. Under this project, Israel is free to expand its military arsenal without limits, including weapons of mass destruction, that remain outside any inspection regime. That was Iran's foreign minister speaking at the Al Jazeera Forum in regard to Israel's goals against Iran as it continues to go to the United States to invade and engage in military intervention on its behalf. And it's important to know about the greater Israel project because thanks to Israel, the United States is in fact preparing for a sustained war against Iran. You can see that as far as our Navy goes, we have a third of our Navy deployed in the region at this point. And that's going to put our soldiers at risk, again, on behalf of a war that would be fought for Israel.

Now, with that in mind, let's just keep in mind that U.S. soldiers could lose their lives. There's a lot at stake here. And I'm not the only one saying that. In fact, here is warmonger, Senator Lindsey Graham, saying something very similar. Could our soldiers be hit in the region? Absolutely they could. Can Iran respond if we have an all-out attack? Absolutely they can. Now before I get into more details on this, Jank, I'm curious what your two cents are. Yeah. So I want to talk about what Israel's worried about there and what we're worried about and how exposed our troops are a little bit later in this story. And I also want to tell you why Israel's demands and hence our demands, since we don't really run our own government, are impossible for us. Iran to follow through on. So that's why this war seems inevitable. But let's give you all the facts and then come back and talk about those two things. Exactly. So right now, the United States

and Iran are expected to hold the second round of nuclear talks in Geneva. This is supposed to take place on Tuesday this week. Now, at the heart of this battle is Israel, which is demanding that the United States engage in war with Iran on its behalf. Now, why? Now what they really want, what the Israelis really want, regime change in Iran. That is their number one goal. And what they do is use these various, you know, facade issues I like to call it. They like to shroud this potential war in these faux concerns about Iran's nuclear capability. It has none, especially at this moment, after the U.S. helped Israel in bombing Iran's nuclear sites. But what Israel is doing is now it has kind of engaged in more poison pills when it comes to these peace negotiations, because Israel is saying that, you know, no longer enriching uranium, no longer working on a nuclear program, that's not enough.

We want Iran to give up its ballistic missiles and that Trump should not under any circumstance make a deal with Iran unless they do give up their ballistic missiles. In fact, this past weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was speaking at an Israeli event. And he doubled down on that demand of the Trump administration. Take a look. All enriched material has to leave Iran. The second is that there shall be no enrichment capability, not stopping the enrichment process, but dismantle the equipment and the infrastructure

that allows you to enrich in the first place. And the third is to deal also with, the questions of ballistic missiles. Remember Ronald Reagan's dictum vis-a-vis the Soviet Union? Trust but verify. Distrust, distrust, and always verify. So there has to be real inspections, substantive inspections. Now, the group that we should be distrustful toward, of course, are the Israelis, because they have led us into various wars that have not worked out for the United States. In fact, it's been at the detriment of the United States. And certainly a war with Iran would fall under that category.

Now just quickly going back to what Netanyahu said about Iran's ballistic missiles, Iran has been very clear. They are unwilling to do away with their ballistic missiles. Now, why is that? Because it's literally their only line of defense against Israel. Without ballistic missiles, they have no way of defending themselves should Israel or the United States at the behest of Israel carry out strikes or, attack Iran. So they're saying, no, this is not something that we're willing to negotiate.

We are willing to have a conversation about enriching uranium or, you know, a nuclear, a deal that would, you know, allow for more oversight in Iran, but we're not giving away our ballistic missiles. In the meantime, the Trump administration continues to build up military assets in the region in preparation for a sustained war. Because if the U.S. refuses to strike Iran over ballistic missiles, Israel has said and made very clear, well, we're going to go at it alone, which we all know is not really going to be the outcome of the situation. If Israel, much like the 12-day war, attacks Iran, there is no doubt that the United States is going to get dragged into a hot war with Iran. Now, here's what's concerning. And CBS News reported this. I want to note that,

this statement by Trump dates back to December 29th of last year. Little suspicious that CBS is bringing it back up in the context of what's happening with Iran today, but this is what they reported. Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Mar-a-Lago during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in December that the president would support Israeli strikes on Iran's ballistic missile program if a deal between Washington and Tehran could not be reached. Now, you know, the Quincy Institute is arguing that this is really meant to kind of goad the Trump administration into attacking Iran. I don't know how true that happens to be. I know I don't really trust the reporting from CBS with Barry Weiss at the helm. But nonetheless,

even though this is being reported by CBS, Trump says different things at any given moment. So I don't really put a lot of faith or trust behind him in doing the right thing, especially when Israel is involved, because as we know, Trump has carried out pretty much everything Israel has wanted. Now, I also want to talk a little bit, Jank, about Iran's military capability later on. But before we get to that, curious, what you think about Trump's unpredictability and whether you think we're going to enter this sustained war with Iran, whether we like it or not. Yeah, so I think that the problem is that I'm not sure how we can get to peace. So the reason I say that is because, and there's some reporting here that gives a sliver of hope.

But so what Israel's saying now is not, hey, let's get rid of their news, which they didn't have any nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of their nuclear weapons facilities, which now we have bombed and gotten rid of. They're saying they want no uranium capacity at all. Well, okay, I don't really know what that means, but it's like everyone else is a lot of have it for nuclear energy, but Iran's not allowed to have it for anything at all. Okay, all right, so maybe we could work with that, but they've often resisted that. Then they say they have to get rid of all of their ballistic missiles. But that, no one would agree to that.

That's absurd. You only make that demand if you think that you want war and you want to blame them for it. I mean, would we give up all of our missiles? For what? Why would we ever do that? What an insane thing to ask any country to do, right? And of course never helped the Palestinians. Why the Israelis want the entire Middle East to be defenseless, and then they're gonna attack

them over and over again. Later in the program, we'll show you how they've bombed Lebanon a thousand times since this ceasefire. They're in Syria, they're in Lebanon, they're beginning to annex the West Bank. No, they're an imperial empire, and they want the entire country to be, the region to be defenseless. So they've stuffed all these poison pills into this negotiation. so the Iranians can't possibly say yes, right? So the sliver of hope that I read Anna was that, you know, that maybe Trump is backing away

from the demands on ballistic missiles and some of the outrageous demands. Now, what is the difference between our position and the Israeli position? Well, that has everything new with what kind of leverage the Israelis have on Trump. Because the American position is not related to American interests at all. If you take out Israel first, but you put it. in every Republican and every Democrat and every independent, and you poll without Israel first, who wants to go to war with Iran? Who do you think a war with Iran will help your life or not help your life?

I mean, we're going to be at a near zero for a number of Americans who want to go to war with Iran. No one wants it on either side. The only people that wanted are they're Israelis. So this constant back and forth is Trump knows that it's going to make him super unpopular. He ran on anti-war. He's a pro-war president. The Epstein files have totally destroyed his credibility. If he now just starts a massive land war in the Middle East, like he said he wouldn't do,

he's going to go down to the teens in approval. Everyone in the country is going to despise him and maybe his own voters most of all because of the betrayal that he did. On the other hand, apparently the Israelis have, you know, went to the end of the rainbow and got a pot of gold on Trump, black, black, blackmail or bribes or whatever they're using to influence them. Because no Democratic or Republican president would agree to the demands of Israel that we start a war in Iran on their behalf.

Iran has absolutely nothing to do with us. What are they gonna do? Because before Anna, their excuse was, oh, the nukes. What if somehow they eventually built nukes and they somehow got them to America. But now that's over, they can't do that. Their ballistic missiles couldn't possibly reach us. So what's our interest in this? None other than the fact that our government serves Israel. None. In fact, the hostility that exists in this relationship between the United States and Iran is fully the fault of Israel.

In fact, we wouldn't have issues with Iran if it weren't for Israel. You know, one of the bargaining chips that Iran is, you know, trying to use to kind of make a peace deal more enticing for Trump is. Trump is they're like, you know what, we'll open up possible economic opportunities for the United States. We've got a lot of oil and maybe there's some economic deals to be made here as part of a diplomatic effort, as part of a diplomatic peace deal that will lead to a little more stability in the region. The thing is, as long as our country and more importantly, our government seems to be captured or beholden to the Israeli government, then our politicians, including the President of the United States is going to continue carrying out policies that don't serve the American people. It serves Israel, certainly. It doesn't serve us.

It's actually at the detriment of the American people. So I want to kind of pivot over to a second half of this story. I'll reset for it because I want to talk about, I think, the continued underestimation of, you know, war with Iran and what it would mean for the United States and our soldiers. So you know that moment right before you launched something new that pit in your stomach? I remember when I started TYT I thought to myself, what if no one watches? What if we run out of money tomorrow? It was scary. Still thinking about that every once in a while.

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is Senator Lindsey Graham, and here he is making that point. The Iranian Ayatollah and his murderous regime are at their weakest point since 1979. Their economy is in shambles, their military has been degraded, their people in the streets. Iranian people in the streets demanding an end to oppression. All these forces are coming together. We must meet the moment. Reality, going to war with Iran could potentially spark World War III. And I'm not saying that to be hyperbolic, because there has already been some indication

that both Russia and China would back Iran in a hot war with the United States and Israel. Now, let's talk a little bit about what we've learned in recent days. So apparently China gifted a scale model of their J20 stealth fighter to Iran's Air Force commander, Brigadio General Hamid Vahidi. And it was a symbolic gesture, essentially signaling to the West that China not only would back Iran, they see this potential war as a security threat for them. So there's the China angle. But we should also keep in mind that Russia is very likely going to back Iran.

as well. And so whether we like it or not, we are already living in a multipolar world. And when it comes to Russia and China, we're talking about countries that have impressive military capabilities. And if they are willing to arm Iran, you know, fighting Iran isn't going to be as easy as Lindsay Graham would have you believe. And I want to go to one more video here because you're about to hear from a British diplomat and the director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum. His name is Alistair Crook, and he was on one of my favorite shows regarding foreign policy to kind of discuss the military capabilities that Iran now has as a result of China's help. So take a quick look at this. The Chinese have given already to Iran their long range radar systems. I think it's a YLC-8B

radars and these can detect stealth planes at a distance of 700 kilometers. And as you know, I mean that excludes all F-35s and either by Israel or America. This is rather like what the Pakistanis had and it's called Link 17, which is a complete network from radar to command missile control centers of a data system and the ability to communicate in this way. And it is, so they would be able, if you like, to create for them from Chinese satellite structures, a whole battlescape, which is can be fed directly, directly real time into the future. the missile centers of Iran. On top of that, there's also an issue regarding whether or not some of the Muslim or Arab

majority countries in the region would assist the United States. For instance, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have all publicly said that they would not allow their airspace to be used for any strikes on Iran or Iranian strikes on any other country. So you have to take the full context of this potential war into consistent. I'm not really sure Trump is getting sober advice from the people who surround him, especially when you think of someone like Marco Rubio, for instance, who led Trump into believing that there are negotiations happening with Cuba right now. Cuba actually came out and said,

no, that's not true at all. I don't think that Trump is being advised properly, and it's a scary situation all around. What do you think, Shank? Yeah, of course he's not advised properly. Almost everyone around him works for Israel. Marco Rubio is gotten millions of millions of dollars from the Israeli lobby and so it was almost everybody inside the White House. So our government is compromised. So let's talk about a couple of factors here. So China and Russia that I mentioned, you know what they'd love to do to us? They'd love to turn Iran into our Ukraine. So Biden dragged out the Ukraine war because it was depleting the Russian forces in the

Russian economy and was hurting Russia in 18 different ways to be bogged down in Ukraine and China or Russia are, you know, looking their chops thinking, oh, please go into Iran so we can totally have you get stuck in that quagmire. We'll sell around all the weapons because you guys are in the wrong, you started the war. There's no qualms there at all. You're the aggressive, you know, imperial empire Israel is and America's backing it that is attacking its defenseless, innocent enemies. So of course we'll finance that war for Iran and it'll help destroy the American

economy. They'll be thrilled if we do that. Then you go to Jordan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Now, those are normally puppet governments that Israel controls about 90%. And they'll do almost anything that Israel asks them to do. But even they have drawn the line here. Why? Because they're like, you attack Iran, we're going to have a giant uncontrollable war in the Middle East. Everyone is going to hate Israel even more, which just seems nearly impossible now, but 10 times more, 20 times more, and then the Jordanian people, the Saudi people, et cetera, are going to start to get agitated at their puppet governments that continue to bow their heads to Israel and let them run amok.

So that's going to create a problem for those ruling royalties in the area. That's why they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't start another war, for God's sake. We have oppressed our own people. We've kept them down. We arrest them if they criticize Israel, et cetera. But if you do this, all of our countries are going to explode. So, and now Trump, I mean, he just doesn't care about anything about, where's my bribe, where's the blackmail?

You know, he just, the idea that he would care about the average American is laughable, laughable. And everyone around them is even worse. They're all completely an utterly button. Of course, don't get me wrong, Trump's taking the most amount of money from the Israeli lobby, over $300 million from one family alone. So why are we bringing a second aircraft carrier into the region? for two reasons. One, we're now worried about Iran's capabilities because of the weapons they bought that you just saw about. And the Iranians seem a lot more confident. Before, they said to us

several times, we are not really going to counterattack. We're gonna do a show attack. But even when they did that with Israel, a couple of the missiles got through and hit Tel Aviv, and that has panicked to Israelis. Now, it doesn't mean that they don't want war, they always want war, right? So, but what they're doing, they ask America is bring a second aircraft carrier, because the job of the second aircraft carrier is to provide defense for Israel when Iran starts launching those weapons. Now, our soldiers don't have Iron Dome in the region. Israel does. So our soldiers are sitting ducks, and every news report is talking about, yes, the Americans will probably take heavy casualties if they attack Iran. Again, we have no interest in attacking Iran. As America, none, zero.

If you hear someone telling you that it's an American interest to attack Iran, they work for Israel, and they're probably very literally paid by Israel to lie to you in media and in politics. And I challenge anyone to find an American interest in attacking Iran, especially when they have no nuclear program at all, okay? So I mean to the point where if we were out of this mess and Israel attacked Iran, I don't know who I'm rooting for, they're both dictatorial governments, but Iran is a lot more peaceful than Israel.

Israel attacks almost all of their neighbors. They take land, Iran hasn't taken land in, well, maybe ever, but Israel has taken Golan Heights, 53% of Gaza. They started a plan to annex the West Bank right now. They're in Western Syria, they're occupying southern Lebanon. Even though they ceasefire says they should leave, they won't leave. So, you know, Netanyahu gave a speech where he said about the Iranians, you should distrust, distrust, always verify.

I mean, nothing applies to Israel better than that. They never abide by a ceasefire, they're constant liars, and then they come in here with crocodile tears about how they're the victims, and then they take $350 billion off of us, last count and then they go, oh yeah, you owe us more America, it's your fault and start this war for us. And so now here we are, and we're going to waste enormous American treasure, probably tons of American lives to make the Israelis happy to fight their war for them. This war is, if it starts, which is very likely, is going to be an epic disaster, it is going to be 100% Israel's fault.

Every American soldier lost will be on the hands of the Israelis, and I want you to remember that now because after the war starts, the media will help both American politicians bought by Israel and the Israeli politicians pretend that Israel is the victims and we're the victims. And oh no, the terrible Iranians, I can't believe they defended themselves. They should have surrendered and groveled at the feet of Netanyahu and because they didn't. It is all their fault and we need to go deeper into war and deeper into war and deeper into debt and lose even more American lives all on behalf of Israel.

Here's how much we should help Israel. Zero, nothing at all. Nanjahou, in that same speech said, I want money for 10 more years from America. By the way, he also bragged about how Israel has the third most robust economy in the world. Of course they do. My God. Because we finance it. Yeah, you're right.

You're right. And then he also started, you know, subtly threatening the US by saying, you know, we're getting closer and closer with India. We might not need the United States at all, to which I say, please make that happen. Yes. Please make that happen. Yeah. Anyway. You deal with them.

Seriously. Anyway, we got to take a quick break when we come back. We're going to stay on the topic of foreign policy because the Munich Security Conference happened last year, last week, I should say. And Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said something that really upset Israel defenders. We'll tell you what that was and more when we come back. So let's start with our members at TYT.com. Mongoo dragon says, and then they will further cut our VA benefits, MFers. Of course they will.

We'll have run out of money. We gave it all to Israel. So yeah, you go die for them, but benefits for you afterwards? No, hell no. Are you Israeli? If you're Israeli, maybe. But if you're American, no way. Sudo Dragon says you get to peace by launching a regime change war in Israel. So that's not going to happen, nor would I root for it. But you're not incorrect in saying that there is one regime that's starting all the wars in the Middle East and it's the Israeli regime. So if we want peace in the Middle East, there's an easy answer.

There should be a different regime in Israel that wants to make peace. But they don't. And by the way, they won't, the Israeli people are not on our side. They're also warmongers, and I'm not gonna make excuses with them. They keep re-electing Netanyahu over and over again. The war, what they did to Gaza and the obliteration of Gaza, the terrible genocide is deeply popular in Israel. They want America to go to war against Iran. They're incredibly entitled.

And so, and honestly, we're never gonna get to peace until there's serious damage inside Israel because they don't really view the non-Israeli lives is that important. So, but if they lose Israeli lives, oh my God, that would be the most important thing in the world. And then they might wake up and I hope it never comes to that. But I mean, how many wars are you gonna start before you find out? Spider-Man Dragon says, so when Israel demands land from Saudi Arabia for greater Israel, what will we do? By that time, they'll have neutered Saudi Arabia and on and on. But they'll get us into so much trouble before they get to Saudi Arabia that it's not worth discussing.

But if they want, I mean, if we allow them and they continue with their plan, they will take nearly the entire Middle East. The greater Israel map is gigantic, and they have it in their cabinet, saying this is the amount of land we're going to steal from the Muslims. And so of course, they do anti-Muslim propaganda in America to get everybody to hate Muslims, So they will, so that we will finance them stealing Muslim land all over the Middle East. That's not any way hyperbolic exaggeration. Look up the map of greater Israel.

Look to see if it's really in their cabinet and their Karnasid. Look to see if their cabinet members have said they want greater Israel. They have, including Netanyahu. They plan to steal all of that land because they're a fascist empire in the Middle East. Okay, let's go to super chat. Mail Ports says when I saw a jank on I've had a podcast I say you're the Calvary I felt your emotion but a member for 10 years you're so right never had so many others echoing the message

you've been yelling I hope you're seeing it pay off finally well thank you for saying that I you know I see some of it I don't see others but it's okay whoever's on board guys got to get the money out of politics it isn't just Israel we don't run our own government at all big pharma owns it defense contractors own it, oil companies own it, everyone but the American people. And our politicians are the most corrupt, disgusting scumbags in the whole country. They're the very bottom of the barrel. They'll do anything for money and fame and power.

They disgust me. Jacqueline Ancando writes in on the YouTube member section, wow, sounds like Lindsay really cares about our soldiers. He doesn't care at all. You're right. Haunted Dragon says South Carolina, please vote out. Lindsay Grammy has done nothing for his constituents. Mark Francis says if Iran had a nuclear weapon, none of this would be happening.

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Well, Jenks, these days nothing triggers Israel firsters more than hearing the truth. And AOC gave them a healthy dose of that at the Munich Security Conference. I think that personally, that the idea of completely unconditional aid, no matter what one does, does not make sense. I think it enabled a genocide in Gaza. And I think that we have thousands of women and children dead that was completely avoidable. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health,

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. That was Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking on a panel at the Munich Security Conference. And since she called a genocide exactly what it is, a genocide. while that drew the ire of individuals who provide cover for Israel's genocide. So before we get to more details on this story, including those who are losing their minds over what AOC had to say there, Jank your two cents. Yeah, I'm only going to say two things. One, that was infinitely better than our answer on Taiwan. Kept back to that in this issue.

And it was apparently involved in a controversy over today. Anna, I don't know if you saw that, but there's some articles about that. And then, but on this issue, as Anna is reading the names of the people who are outraged by AOC's perfectly normal answer, understand that every single one of them works for Israel and is here to lie to you and betray you for another country. So go ahead, Anna. Well, I mean, look, when it comes to Rupert Murdoch, who loves to provide cover for Israel and defend everything that that foreign country wants to do, you can see the Murdoch influence in his publication. So let's start with the New York Post, which shared this headline.

AOC accuses Israel of genocide while in Germany, the home of the Holocaust, shocking ignorance. Okay. I don't know if anyone has caught onto this yet, but Germany is so ashamed of its role in the Holocaust that it enables Israel at every turn. Okay. It's not Nazi Germany. The days of Nazi Germany are long gone. It's over. So who gives a damn if AOC tells the truth about what Israel is engaging in in Gaza,

while at the Munich Security Conference in Germany? Now, that being said, let's go to this Fox News headline. Can I jump in for one second on that? Yeah, I think that you should say it in Germany even more. So we said never again. We said never again after what the Germans did during the Holocaust. I hope every decent human being is horrified by what happened in the Holocaust. And now, if you're going to condemn another genocide, Germany is the perfect place to do it.

Does Israel think they get a free pass on genocides? They do. They definitely do. Okay, absolutely. Another headline, this one's from Fox News. AOC accuses Israel of genocide in Germany, where Holocaust was launched, sparking outrage. Look, the only people who are outraged are those you would expect to be outraged. Again, individuals who are totally fine with the mass slaughter of innocence in Gaza, people who are totally okay with Israel annexing land in the West Bank, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Jordan. These are people who prioritize Israel and its interests over what is best for humanity, number one, and what's best for the American people.

Now, in reality, Israel is and has been carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people. In fact, here is Israeli British historian Avi Shlem explaining why. Under Netanyahu's leadership, Israel has also committed the crime of all crimes, genocide. Genocide is not just a legal concept, but a fundamentally moral issue. It is the denial of the right to exist of a whole group of people. Israel's national identity is inexorbitably linked with the Holocaust. But Israel is no longer the victim if it has ever been. Whereas in the Second World War, the Jews were the defenseless victims of Nazi Germany.

Today it's the Palestinians who are the defenseless victims of the Jewish state. Obviously, it's incredibly powerful to hear that from an Israeli, someone who is worried about human rights for everyone. But on top of that, let's not forget the several human rights, humanitarian, and legal organizations that have also determined what has gone down in Gaza as a genocide. That includes the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Genocide Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, the international. the International Association of Genocide Scholars, various UN special committees and commissions. That's why Israel hates the UN and wants to dismantle it. And of course, the Israeli organization, Betselaam, which also believes that their own country has carried out genocide in Gaza and said as much last summer when they put out a report on it. In fact, despite the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, Israel keeps slaughtering Palestinians.

In fact, they just killed 12 more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday alone. Gaza's civil defense said that one Israeli strike hit a tent, sheltering displaced Palestinians in Jabalya, northern Gaza, killing at least five people. Another person was killed by Israeli army gunfire in Betlehia, and a separate strike hit on Eunice, southern Gaza, killing five. Israel does what it typically does after these deadly strikes take place. They claimed that they were targeting Hamas militants. Yes, I'm sure that there were plenty of Hamas militants in the tent encampment that Palestinian civilians were sheltering in. Of course, Israel failed to provide a shred of evidence to back up their claims

because why would they? They don't even need to. The U.S. is going to defend them no matter what. The Israeli military has also begun launching deadly attacks across Gaza, killing at least 601 Palestinians and wounding 1,607 since the ceasefire deal was signed. And that's according to the latest numbers from Gaza's health ministry, which account for bodies brought to hospitals and morgues. And for anyone who wants to throw cold water on that number, because it's being reported by Gaza's health ministry, let me just remind you that the IDF has confirmed the Palestinian death toll that has been reported by Gaza's health ministry.

Oh yeah, also 8,000 bodies remain trapped under the rubble in Gaza. Jank back to you. Yeah. So first let's talk about our lying media. I'm going to give you a quote from Fox News, which gives you a sense of how much deception there is in our media. They said in the middle of this AOC story, military experts and genocide researchers have debunked the allegation that Israel carried out a genocide against Palestinians during

its self-defense war against Hamas terrorist organization. Now, that's not at all true. Overwhelming majority of genocide scholars say that it is a genocide. In fact, every non-Israeli-related scholar says that it's a genocide, 86% of them overall. But our media, corporate media, usually lies in its framing. So when Hamas kills Israelis, they'll say the murdering terrorist slaughtered the innocent. When Israel does 70 times source, they'll say, oh, collateral damage, they were hiding behind human shells, et cetera. But they don't normally just outright lie. Fox does.

Just that what I just read to is a complete fabrication. It's the opposite of what was true. So that's why sometimes this is an ironic point. I don't blame right wing voters as much because that's the slop they read. And they have no idea that Fox News is lying to them. They think that Israel was it like, they don't, they probably, I don't even know that they know that there has been a 58 year occupation. They think the Palestinians just hate Jews so much.

much for no reason at all. And every once in a while those vicious animals attack poor little victim Israel, because that's what Rupert Murdoch owned publications say to them 24-7, New York Post, Fox News, and all over the world. I don't know why Murdoch is obsessed with helping Israel and starting its wars. Maybe they have blackmail from 50 years ago on him, I don't know. But Murdoch always wants war, always lies, and always support. So now when you turn to what's the reality, by the way, because of actually before you get to today,

one other thing that Anna mentioned I want to build on, the United Nations, every piece of propaganda you have heard against the United Nations in America actually comes from Israel. Why? As soon as the United Nations said, yes, Israel, you exist. They're like, okay, good, we don't need that stupid body anymore. Because then the United Nations said, well, you should be decent to the Palestinians. They're like, no, if you're gonna tell us to be decent and follow international law, then we hate the United Nations, and we wanna make sure that American people hate the United Nations. We don't want the world working together. We wanna destroy worldwide cooperation so that only country that anyone listens to is Israel.

So they have been doing this kind of propaganda in our lifetimes for about 50 years straight. Oh, the Muslims are the worst, United Nations is the worst, international law is bad, you should keep starting wars. They're good for you. A global war on terror, which is a global war on Israel's neighbors. So now, finally, to what they're doing today. So Anna mentioned that they're not abiding by the ceasefire in Gaza at all, on average of at least five people killed per day, per day. What kind of ceasefire is this?

Because the Israelis are giant liars and they don't ever do what they said they would do. And I'm not saying that in some sort of like generic way, no. Over the last two years, every single ceasefire has been violated by Israel over and over and over again, repeatedly every day. Here I'll give you an example from Lebanon. In 2024, they do a peace deal, and since then, that ceasefire, Hezbollah has fired zero rockets into Israel. How many has Israel fired back?

Two, four, that would already be a violation and terrible. Over a thousand rockets into Lebanon, because ceasefire to Israel means you stop fighting and I keep murdering you. And they were supposed to withdraw from southern Lebanon? They're not gonna withdraw from southern Lebanon. They're never going to withdraw. They never withdraw from anywhere, because this has nothing to do with self-defense. More land acquisition, more land acquisition.

And finally, they have begun to annex the West Bank as we speak. Why? Because they were always gonna take the West Bank in Gaza's trip. They've said it a million times, we want greater Israel. That is Judea and Samaria. That is ours, we're going to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, who we've view to be subhuman and we're going to take that land for ourselves. And America, you have to pay for it.

Otherwise, every American will be called an anti-Semite. So that's Israel's plan. And you're gonna see going forward that now that I've decoded it for you, you'll see that that fits into that pattern 100%. All right, before we go to break, you need to tell you about the controversy because I'm too busy like researching and producing the show that I'm not like, I'm not Googling myself. Like what's going on? I'm like super curious about it.

So I love what AOC said about the genocide there. So great credit to her. At the same conference, she was asked about should we defend Taiwan of China attacks? And she gave a terrible answer. And Anna and Brian Tyler Cohn were on Peers Morgan this morning. That has come out. And there's been some articles written about how Anna said that AOC gave a bad answer, which she did. And so Anna, I love that you do honesty no matter what.

And so we can agree with AOC on Gaza and Israel, and we could disagree with her on Taiwan. Please, like, what for me, Anna, what Democratic or left-leaning hosts and politicians have to do is, please stop lying on behalf of Democrats. It doesn't actually help Democrats. It doesn't help you, it doesn't help anyone. Let's get great candidates, as you said on the show, Anna. Right. I mean, look, when you provide cover for the weaknesses of any Democrat, whether it be AOC, a presidential candidate, it doesn't matter.

What you're doing is enabling mediocrity in certain areas where they need to strengthen their arguments and their knowledge, to be quite frank, because I think foreign policy is a weak spot for AOC. And so to not at least have a canned answer in regard to Taiwan as you are attending the Munich Security Conference, I think is a disastrous oversight and she should be more prepared. That's the argument that I was making. And when we provide cover for politicians on our side, for lack of a better word, we only make them weaker. So we need to stop doing that. Okay, that by the way, goes for the right as well, obviously.

And I'll say one last quick thing. Look, I would have an answer for that immediately. Why? Because I already know what I think is the right thing to do and not to do. The reason I think AOC paused there for so long was she was calculating who is going to be mad at me for saying this or this or this. Stop calculating. Give us what you actually think.

And then if we like it, we'll vote for you. And if we don't, we won't. But if you just keep calculating like those corporate robots, then you provide no alternative. And by the way, AOC, like she gets so upset and Bernie gets so upset if you ever criticize that. We're trying to help you. Like it doesn't help you at all to go, let me see, what is mainstream media want? What is the progressive base want?

What does the SAA want? No, just give us what you got. And you know what? Trust yourself. Maybe we'll like it. Yeah, I totally agree with you on that. Anyway, we do have to take a break. When we come back, we've got the latest on the Epstein files and more.

Don't miss it. So let's go to YouTube members. Seamus P writes in, by the way, are we seriously not getting the rest of the Epstein files? Yep. Natnyahu came to town. All of a sudden, we're not getting the rest of the files. We have more on that a little bit later in the story in the show, I should say. D. Mitchell says, so basically only Israel wants to go to war.

But because Cheetos, we may have a mutiny. I mean, I hope the American people do a mutiny on both of these parties, vote out almost all the incumbents. Unless you know your incumbent is not taking Israeli money or giving money to Israel, you should vote them all out because they're raising their hands. I'm not working for you. By the way, if they're selling out to Israel, you think they're not going to sell out the big pharma?

You think they're not going to sell out to the defense contractors? No, if they're selling out to Israel, they'll sell out to anyone and everyone. broken wing dragon says on Twitch, hey Jencan Anna, happy Monday. I met Richard Ojeda running in North Carolina 9 Saturday night at Dropkick Murphy's concert Saturday night and rally. I told him I've seen him so many times on TYT. We took a picture together, all thanks to the great work you all do at TYT.

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because you already paid for Amazon Prime. So that's t.yt.com slash prime to figure out how to do that. TYT.com slash Prime. All right, now we go to members on tYT.com. Spider-Man Dragon says, oh no, I already covered that one. Tube Sock Dragon says, my mom's an old church lady and she's on all these evangelical mailing lists. She's not been well, she's okay, but I've been handling her mail. Today I took incredible pleasure in calling the international fellowship of Christians and Jews and removing her name from the mailing list.

She hasn't given them money in years, thanks to me, but the fact that they still send her propaganda bothers me. Yeah, look, a lot of the evangelical leaders in America are sellouts and they literally get paid by Israel to lie to their congregations and tell them, oh, the Bible says you have to support Netanyahu. Really? Nanjahou's in the Bible? They have to, you have to support Israel. The current government of Israel, that's in the Bible? Yeah, it is. It is. Shut up and give all your money to Israel and all your votes.

Salt to the Union says, look at AOC. Actually saying something about the genocide. She took a while to get there, but good, good, good. Whenever anybody says the right thing and it took courage to say it in Germany, I love that. So credit where credit is, do. Little Mac McChie says, I hear you, Jank, and have some sympathy. But at this point, I think most Fox viewers deep down do know Fox News's lies in propaganda, but it's lies of propaganda they want to hear and so they intentionally don't seek other sources.

Brother, I hear you on that, but at the same time, a lot of my establishment friends, and I'm sorry I keep throwing them onto the bus, but listen to, mainstream media because they want to hear that everything's okay, you don't need big change, and then after Trump, it'll all go back to normal. So am I gonna yell at them and said they're evil? No, they're getting misled by corporate media, and that's why a lot of them think, oh, Israel's our special ally. I mean, it's even the most educated people in the country can be brainwashed. All right, back on T. Jankana with you guys. I keep forgetting this on Friday and today. Happy anniversary. Today is kind of our 24th anniversary. It was actually on Saturday. So we started on Sirius Satellite Radio back on February 14th of 2002.

We're their original talk show there. And now we're 32 billion lifetime views on all platforms and 29 million total subscribers. And we appreciate every one of you that made that possible because if we didn't have our members, we never would have made it out. We wouldn't have made it out in year six, I think we would have been over. So we love you guys. Anna, what's next? Well, we got to give you the latest on the Epstein file release debacle. Here it is. Donald Trump told us that even though, you know, he had dinner with these kinds of people in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent, but he's not.

He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration, and they're attacking me for trying to get these files released. Congressman Thomas Massey continued to go hard against the Trump administration over the weekend in this whole Epstein debacle. Before I give you more, Jank, your two cents. Yeah, I want to talk about why they're doing this right now, as opposed to them saying, oh, we're going to release the second set of files earlier. They changed their mind. Why did they change their mind? I think we have an excellent answer for that.

We also are going to show you conservatives who are no longer being silent when Trump, does whatever Israel wants, not just Massey, but others as well. Anna, give us those facts. Well, when it comes to Massey, he was specifically responding to a question about President Donald Trump's pretty vicious campaign against him over the fact that Massey has been one of the more vociferous members of Congress in pressuring the Trump administration to release the Epstein files. Now, in response to that, Trump has supported Massey's primary opponent. He has repeatedly attacked the fact that Thomas Massey got remarried. Like, does Trump not remember the fact that he, like, cheated on his wives,

cheated on Melania while she was pregnant with an adult film actress? Like, what are we talking about here? But anyway, Massey has definitely drawn the ire of Trump because he wants transparency for the American people when it comes to a pedophile ring that was able to operate with impunity for the most part. Meanwhile, Trump's Department of Justice has announced that they will not release any more Epstein files. Okay, so in a poor effort to explain why these files are either heavily redacted or why the Trump administration is withholding files from the public, Trump's Department of Justice cited work product privilege, which means that opposing counsel can't look at each other's legal materials. Sounds like a bunch of BS to me.

Attorney-Cliant privilege, which shields an attorney and client communications from discovery and also deliberate product privilege, which allows the government to withhold information about how its executive agencies reach decisions. So they're throwing everything they can at the wall. Now let's watch Massey explain why he thinks all of this. All of these excuses from the Trump administration happen to be bogus. They're citing deliberative process privilege in order not to release some of the documents. The problem with that is the bill that Rokana and I wrote says that they must release internal memos and notes and emails about their decisions on whether to prosecute or not prosecute, whether to investigate or not investigate. It's important they follow that because then we could find why they didn't prosecute Leslie

Wexner, what was the decision tree there? And also why in 2008 they gave Jeffrey Epstein such a light sentence. And finally, I know the DOJ wants to say they're done with this document production. The problem is they've taken down documents before we were able to go over to the DOJ and look at the unredacted versions. They took down some of the most significant documents, two of them involving very Virginia Drey's case and other things, the picture of Epstein in a room where it's got CIA written on the boxes, that's been taken down. We want to be able to look at all these files.

They can't keep those documents down after they've already produced them. Now Massey and anyone who wants transparency in regard to the Epstein files happened to be very upset because, you know, we were led to believe that we at least received half of the millions of files that the DOJ has on Epstein. But it turns out that an investigation that was carried out by Channel 4 indicates the opposite has happened. We haven't even gotten half of the files or documents that are available in regard to Epstein. So let's take a quick look at how, you know, Chattel 4 in the UK conducted an investigation and what they found in regard to the percentage of files that have been released to the American public. From the earliest stages, investigators were talking about Epstein's data totaling many, many times what has so far been released.

In June 2020, one wrote, we expect the data to be somewhere around 20 to 40 terabytes, noting that the total capacity of the devices was up to 50 terabytes. Then as recently as last year, long after the investigations into Epstein and his associates had ended, the figures quoted remained massive. We're looking at a total of approximately 14.6 terabytes of archive data, said another email. To put that in context, it is almost 15,000 gigabytes. But now, a year on from that, the total data released, claimed to be some 300 gigabytes, accounts for just 2% of the total Epstein data that officials were discussing just last year. Thus, the cover-up by the Trump administration continues.

And in regard to the DOJ's excuses for not releasing the remainder of the files, Congressman Nancy Mace, another Republican, not buying what the DOJ is selling. Here's what she wrote on X. I want to be abundantly clear that the DOJ memo released tonight, citing work product privilege, will not save the DOJ. DOJ from releasing all the Epstein files. I'm not an attorney and even I know this won't hold up in a court of law. Regarding deliberative process privilege, it would not cover factual information, which is missing from the files. If they can give the names, then they can give them in unredacted files. The list is an admission that they can remove those redactions.

And where are all the videos? If he had as many cameras as has been reported, there would be far more than 2,000 videos. Trust me on this, I know, because I've worked with an extensive number of victims in voyeurism cases. And she says, to be honest, it's hard to find a legitimate reason not to expose every word in the Epstein files except for and unless you are prosecuting someone. That isn't happening. DOJ will lose in court if it comes to that. Now Marjorie Taylor Green had her own views on this as well before we get to that. Jenk, I want to give you an opportunity to comment. Yeah, so there's two things that are inescapable in this case.

As Nancy May said, there are no videos. So we know that there were video cameras in all the rooms. So the government is going to tell us that there was video cameras, but out of the goodness of his heart, Jeffrey Epstein didn't tape anyone? No, that's the most preposterous thing that anybody's ever heard. So that means without a shadow of a doubt, the US government is still lying, still protecting the predators, and you have every right to ask why? Why on God's green earth would the US government say, oh yeah, go ahead and rape American

children, and don't wait, I'll back you for decades. And by the way, I know you're gonna rape someone else next year and many other people the year after, and I'm gonna let you keep doing that. The second thing that's inescapable is there's been no prosecutions. So Epstein got a slap on the wrist on purpose. Alex Acosta saying that the intelligence agencies made him do it at the time in Florida. Galane Maxwell is in the least security prison in the country and she pretty much runs that prison.

But none of the other clients, Les Wexner, who's labeled a co-conspirator by the FBI, Leon Black that is accused of a vicious rape. None of them have been prosecuted. It doesn't look like there's ever going to be any prosecution. Why wouldn't we prosecute people, why wouldn't we at least investigate to see if we should prosecute people that we have excellent evidence have done terrible things? No, that means the US government is compromised. They're in on it, there's no question about it.

There's only a handful of politicians now that are willing to say it or fight back. And if you don't see a politician fighting back against this, that means they're also compromised. So that sounds like heavy language, but it's indisputable. Who says, oh yeah, you want to rape American girls? No big deal, no big deal. Or we'll protect you. Not only will we not prosecute you, we'll hide the fact that you're doing it and will protect you.

Now, why did they say that they were going to release another three million files, but now they say they're not? Not complicated. Benjamin Nanyahu came to town, he had a private conversation with Donald Trump. He was here from February 10th to 13th. And on the night of the 13th, they put out a statement, Pam Bondi did go. Yeah, we're all good, yep, all the files have been released, we're done with it. Now if you remember, what got him in trouble before was Pam Bondi putting and the Department

of Justice putting out a statement on July 8th saying there are no files, there are no other clients, nothing bad ever happened, right? Guess who was in town at the time? Oh, Benjamin Nanyahu, and who had a private conversation with? with Donald Trump the night before on July 7, Benjamin Netanyahu. So every time Netanyahu comes to town, he leaves and the American government goes, Israel didn't do anything wrong, they absolutely didn't do anything wrong. There's nothing, there's no clients, forget that they're all connected to Israel, forget

that Israel got cyber weapons because of a deal that Epstein made and Epstein gave money to the IDF and Epstein gives money to all these Zionist groups inside America on and on and on and He has spies, Israeli spies, stay over. Every deal he's made is made on behalf of Israel. But no, don't, don't talk about that. That's it, there are no more files. Yeah, we know what happened, it's Israel. And our entire media is covering up, and almost our entire government is covering it up.

Well, while I'm sure the conversation didn't really hinge on the Israel angle to Epstein, Jillian Michaels recently interviewed former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green about why Trump seems to be engaged in a cover up. And here's what Marjorie Taylor Green had to say about it. One day, I get a phone call from the president since September, and he is so mad at me. And he's yelling at me and he's angry at me. And the fact that he's like, you're supporting Rand Paul Jr. And he's chewing me out for signing my name on Thomas Massey's discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

And I'm trying to tell him, Mr. President, they say you did nothing wrong. This needs to come out. And so we're having this argument. And he tells me on this phone call, he's like, Marjorie, my friends will get hurt. That's it. That's it. I mean, that is it. Obviously, that's it.

Because they're all in here. Imagine the phone calls. It's everyone. It's every single person is on this freaking list. They're all there. Every billionaire, heads of state, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel, they're all in there. They're all in there. There seems to be a thread, though. And Chilien doesn't like to follow that threat. But nonetheless, I think what Marjorie Taylor Green had to say there was pretty interesting and important to know about.

You know, whether or not you think that Trump is implicated in the Epstein files. And honestly, I think that he's acting as though he's got something to hide for his own self-interest. In the very least, based on what he told Marjorie Taylor Green, he's worried about his friends getting hurt. I wouldn't care about my friends getting hurt if I knew my friends were engaging in activities with a well-known serial pedophile. But nonetheless, Shank, final thoughts on this. Yeah, so if you think it's a coincidence that every time Netanyahu comes, we come out and go, there are no Epstein files. Okay, maybe.

And then by the way, here's another coincidence. After Trump released these Epstein files, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro were livid. And all of a sudden, they're, oh, the first Jewish president, we loved Donald Trump. They're like, how dare it's something wrong with Trump? And you don't want the tariffs, and there's a lot of problems with Trump, right? Now, I'm sorry, Netanyahu, well, maybe same. Anyway, Nanjahu comes, and then Trump's team goes, oh, yeah, there are no more files. We didn't mean three more files, three million more files.

We meant nothing, right? Now they're back to, atta boy, Donald Trump, way to go. Okay, you see that? Now, make sure you're a good boy and attack Iran. Okay, so look, we don't know why they have such a lock on Trump. Yeah, he got 337 million from the Edelson's already, but Trump's the guy who loves to screw over his debtors. I think that's why Anna Nanyahu has to keep coming back and reminding you.

Now remember, it's not just the bribes we, our lobby gave you, we also have this stuff over you. And whatever they have over them, given what we already know about Trump, oh my God, it must be thermonuclear. And by the way, guys, if you think, oh, well, that sounds all conspiratorial, no, no, you could look up everything we're saying, and the Israelis knew that Bill Clinton had been with Monica Lewinsky before any of us here in America did. And they basically blackmailed Clinton with Lewinsky too.

And they said, you better support what we're doing. Otherwise people might find out about Monica Lewinsky. So this was during the Oslo Accords. Yes, this was during the Oslo Accords. They had, I'm, Mossad had been tapping Bill Clinton's phone. And so again, you're right. They knew the dirt on Monica Lewinsky and their lascivious relationship before anyone in the US did.

Yeah, because Israel is not our ally. Israel is a country that bribes our politicians and black mails them until they send over not the politicians money, but our money. And they've spent over $300 billion and they say it's not enough. And we owe Israel more. And we owe Israel no investigations of what Epstein and his friends did. Gee, I wonder why. Well, when we come back from the break for hour two, we'll move off of forward policy

and geopolitical issues and talk a little bit about what's happening here in the United States domestically because there is a partial government shutdown taking place as we speak. We'll tell you what it's all about when we come back. They knew and they let it happen. And if you're not angry about that, Michael, and any of you out there, then you're damn wrong because you should be angry. Young Turks. It was genuine. He was bad. Jake Yulger, known online as one of the young Turks, isn't afraid to throw some punches. Three, two, one. Jank the Turk, you feel.

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The head of MSNBC talked to me. They want him off the air. Check took an incredible risk. We're supposed to challenge the government. That's the role of the media. The Democrats and the Republicans are here to screw you. And who on the air is saying it? I wouldn't have done what he did.

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I'm gonna read one comment from a super chat that was just sent in by Box. I can't imagine the government would compile all this evidence and not prosecute all the cases. They came out of it already. It makes no sense. Well, here's how it makes sense. Local law enforcement sends in a tip. FBI investigates it, it goes into the files. FBI goes to prosecute. CIA goes, no, leave them alone. That's Mossad. We let them do whatever they want inside America. And again, if you think that's an exaggeration, We arrested dozens of Israeli spies after 9-11 and then we let them go.

They're allowed to spy on us. It's insane. All right, Anna. Well, I wanted to give you an update on immigration and deportation efforts by the Trump administration. So without further ado, let's get to the details. President Trump told reporters that he's talking with Democrats and that, quote, I know what they want, I know what they can live with, unquote. Are you willing to accept anything less than the White House agreeing? to all 10 of your demands to rain in ice and fire Secretary Nome, or is it all or nothing? Jake, these are common sense proposals.

They're supported by the American people. Why won't Republicans go for them? They don't give any good answers. Well, it's something that every police department does across the country, but ICE is rogue out of control. Well, a partial government shutdown began Saturday after Democrats and Donald Trump failed to reach a deal to. fund the Department of Homeland Security through September. Now, Democrats are demanding a slew of,

I believe, very reasonable changes to immigration enforcement, but Republicans refuse to budge. And as a result, a funding bill for DHS has yet to pass in Congress. And we'll hear what borders are Tom Homan has to say about all of this shortly. But before we do, Jank, your two cents. Yeah, after you give us the facts, I want to show folks what the underlying problem is, because it's important that you know it. And then I want to talk about what should the Democrats do in this situation. But tell us what's going on, Anna. Well, as you guys can all imagine, right now, Democrats in general don't have much leverage during this second Trump term, where Republicans still have a slim majority of both the House and the Senate.

But nonetheless, these government funding bills really show you the very narrow area, in which Democrats do have some leverage. And in the Senate, you still need 60 votes in order to pass legislation, including government funding bills. And so Democrats are trying to use what little power they have to get concessions about immigration enforcement in the wake of the Renee Good and Alex Prattie fatal shootings. Now, they've laid out some pretty specific demands that they want the Trump team to maybe consider. And honestly, I just, I don't really understand. understand why this is so difficult. So for instance, they want to require immigration agents, both Border Patrol and ICE, to obtain judicial warrants to make arrests inside people's homes.

Right now, they're relying on something known as administrative warrants, and those are warrants that they can write to themselves. A judge does not grant administrative warrants. You'd have to provide some indication that there's probable cause for a judge to sign off on a warrant. And when it comes to entering people's private homes, it is shocking to me that there isn't more outrage among those on the right who are worried about government tyranny. When it comes to your home, that's sacred, okay? Government officials, government agents entering your home without the appropriate warrant should be alarming to everyone.

Democrats also want to mandate that, you know, these federal agents show visible identification, that they are prohibited from wearing masks while they're carrying out immigration enforcement. And they're also pushing for stricter use of force policy and want an end to roving patrols of ICE agents. Now, Republicans have largely objected to these demands, and their offers up until this point have been dismissed by Chuck Schumer. So Democrats rejected the White House's latest offer, which was made on Thursday, with Schumer labeling it not serious. plain and simple. And during an interview on Face the Nation, Tom Homan actually conceded that, you know, he doesn't like immigration agents wearing masks, but argued it was necessary for their safety as heavily armed federal agents. Take a look. As far as a mask, look, you know, I don't like

the masks either. But because threats against ICE officers, you know, are up over 1,500 percent, actual assaults. And threats are up over 8,000 percent. These men, one who had to have to protect themselves. As far as identifying themselves, they all have placards, identifying themselves as ICE, ERO, H-S-I, DEA, FBI. So they all have placards on them. So I'll let the White House and members of Congress, you know, fight that out. But I think some of the asks are just, I think they're unreasonable because there is no racial profiling. There is identifying marks. But masks, you know, while they talk about maybe passing legislation, they make it illegal to dox agents or something like that.

But the mask right now are for officer safety reasons. Now, we wanted to fact check the claim by DHS that threats against ICE officers are up by 8,000 percent, unclear where he got that statistic from because we couldn't find it anywhere. But nonetheless, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, a Republican lawmaker, of course, said that he could potentially get on board with requiring immigration agents or immigration officers, I should say, to wear body cameras and go through better training. But much like Borders are, Tom Homan, he dismissed their demands or the demands that federal officers remove their masks. I don't want to go to that video, but he did say that on camera.

And then you have Democratic leader Chuck Schumer saying the excuses from Homan and Mark Wayne Mullen are complete nutter BS. One more video, this one featuring Chuck Schumer, and then we'll open it up for discussion. Just look at every police department across the country. They don't walk around in masks. They don't walk around unidentified. Every police department is identified. In New York City, you see the name right on the breastplate, and the police are fine with that. So that makes no sense what they're saying.

And all we're asking is that they follow what police departments do across the country. ICE is rogue. Now, since there is a partial government shutdown, I should note that the shutdown impacts DHS in particular. However, due to the massive cash infusion that Congress has granted to ICE, ICE is able to continue operating, even amid this partial government shutdown. The agencies that are impacted by this include the TSA Transportation Security Administration, FEMA, U.S. Coast Guard, the Secret Service, immigration and customs enforcement and customs and border protection. But in reality, again, ICE and CBP will largely be unaffected because they were granted $75 billion as part of the so-called big, beautiful bill.

But before I give you more details, very curious what you think about all of this jank, because of course, the Republicans are going to use the partial government shutdown to apply pressure to Democrats because their argument is, well, what about FEMA? You don't want to fund FEMA. You guys are bad guys for doing this. But at the same time, I do think it's important. to rein in federal agents as they're roving our streets and causing chaos. What do you think? Yeah. So I think I have a good plan that can get us out of this. So I get to in a sec. But so why do we even have this issue?

What's the underlying problem here? Well, so because the Republicans have the Senate. They have the House. They have the White House. So what do they need the Democrats for? Well, it's because we have the filibuster rule. So you need 60 senators to get this passed. Okay, now I don't like that.

I think a majority should be able to rule and I'm principled on that, whether it's Republicans or Democrats. But hey, they didn't change it. So in this case, they need the Democratic vote. So it is what it is today and obviously we follow the rules of today. So the Republicans are constantly talking about like, it's an outrage that Democrats want anything. Why?

Why should they vote for your bills without getting anything in return? turn if you need their votes. What an absurd entitlement complex? I demand that you do everything we tell you and that you vote for us. No, I'm in the other party and I hate your proposals, especially about ICE. Why would I vote for you? I demand it. Okay, demanded all you like, but that's not how things work, okay?

So now, in terms of what's the deal that can get done, well, first of all, the jury's in on this, the American people hate it. And it's not like the Republicans don't know it. It's not like Tom Holman is leading a retreat out of Minneapolis because he wants to. No, they're retreating because they've seen the polling on it. And independents hate it. And you can't win the elections without independence, let alone the Democrats, let alone 25% of Republicans who don't like it. So they're in a world of trouble here.

So yes, obviously no mass, bring badges back, make badges great again. And of course you need real warrants in America, that's not negotiable. And all the things that analyzed it, can you give anything back to the Republicans? Yeah, I think that in the sanctuary cities, there's a good reason for a lot of their rules in the sanctuary cities. It's so you protect crime victims, et cetera. But if there is an undocumented immigrant who's committed a crime, they should work with federal law enforcement in handing them over.

And if they make that deal, well, that's actually. super popular, both sides of that dealer are super popular with the American people. I know it's crazy, but maybe we do what the voters want. I could not agree with you more. And in fact, you know, one of the things that look, there are conflicting reports and I have no doubt that there are still instances of federal agents, rough housing Americans as they demonstrate and protest in Minneapolis and Minnesota. However, I think that, you know, the Tom Holman effect has been to try to find a way to get state and local government to work with the federal government in, you know, abiding by these so-called retainers or detainers to detain individuals who are here illegally. They've been convicted of other crimes. And the Trump administration would like to deport them as soon as they serve their sentence.

It seems like deals have been reached in that context. And that's really, really good. That is a good sign. And that led to Homan announcing that there is a drawdown of federal agents in the state of Minnesota. So look, the only way we're going to reach a place of stability and maybe some calm is if you have two sides who are willing to negotiate in good faith. But right now, in terms of what we're seeing in the federal government, it doesn't really seem like Republican lawmakers are willing to budget at all. And the unwillingness to work out a deal, work out compromise is exactly the problem with our government right now, where we never have any solutions, where we become more and more polarized. It is your job as a lawmaker, regardless of which side of the political aisle you fall on to make deals.

And that means, yes, you have to make concessions here and there. I don't even think these asks from the Democrats are unreasonable. These are reasonable asks that are meant to protect the rights of Americans. Okay, so I don't want people, federal agents entering people's homes without the appropriate warrants. And everyone should be in agreement on that. Anyway, we got to take a break. When we come back, I want to give you an update on the economy. And Trump's polling, not looking so good.

We'll be right back. So let's go to super chat. Make it make sense. I love you guys. Have you watched the recent 16 minute episode? sort of addressing AI in humanoid robotics. This is an underreported story in companies like Boston Dynamics and Anderil are going to change our lives within five years.

So I haven't seen that particular report, brother, but I am super duper worried about AI. I think we are massively underestimating AI and I think it's going to create a catastrophe inside the US, let alone the world. So buckle up and brace for impact. I mean, anyways, but hey, yeah, yeah, let's waste all of our time and energy and money on Israel when there's this iceberg. We're about the head, and we're going to need every resource to make sure we could be all right. Bogstrizzan, thank you, Anna, for not running cover for AOC on Pierce today. You're absolutely right about the mediocrity.

This is the time to bring these issues to light, not sweep it under the rug or ignore it. CDN, Norse Dog died, says happy anniversary, T.YT. been watching since Bernie and convinced my niece to watch the show too. I gift her an annual membership since 2019. You're amazing, brother. And thank you so much for all of the membership gifts and all the other things that you do. I love this audience. Michael Cota Valley writes, and some good news, Brooklyn Navy Yard boots, Israeli drone supplier.

The board of the Navy Yard is a public asset that serves at the pleasure of the mayor of New York City. I love that, Michael. Thanks for letting us know that. I didn't know that. So there's lots of acts of resistance throughout the world. The Italians started shutting down their ports for Israeli companies. They were like, now, we're sick of you guys killing all these Palestinians. We're not going to do it anymore.

And so there was like a little bit of a protest there. All these things keep popping up. And our press doesn't get much into it, of course, because they might not be able to present Israel's most precious victims in the world. Night of Mirage Odyssey writes in, I'm reading this mainly blind. Israel led by apartheid demon has officially influenced U.S. foreign policy with an anti-Islam focus. It's clear Trump aligns closely with this approach from a regime linked to high civilian casualties, over 71,000 acknowledged by their army. Iran is now positioned as a target for warmongers like Trump and Lindsey Graham, who oppose Muslim interests to initiate conflict. Meanwhile, Israel pursues expansion in what's left to Palestine and into Lebanon.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, economically stronger than Israel, may regret watching passively until potentially. potential invasion threats arise hopefully not too late. Well yeah, the, you know, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE's policies basically like, when they came for the Palestinians, I did nothing because I wasn't a Palestinian. When they came for the Lebanese, I did nothing. When they came for the Syrians, I did nothing. When they came for the Persians, I did nothing. Oh my God, I can't believe they showed up in the UAE.

Yeah, they're gonna show up there. They're already there. They have all the cyber intelligence for the morons of the UAE. let Israel run their cypress security, which means Israel owns the UAE. They have every piece of data, every intelligence, probably on everyone inside the UAE. So go ahead, yeah. Dana Albrecht writes in on the YouTube member section, Epstein had a painting of George W. Bush sitting on the floor of the Oval Office,

flying a paper airplane into two tall Jenga towers and grinning like an idiot. It's disturbing. I have seen that. That is literally true. Epstein used to be over the time. He'd have a map of Israel in his house. He had like tortured girls, this art. And that's Israel going, yeah. I mean, that's Epstein going, yeah, what are you going to do about it? We'll be back.

Back on TYT, Jankan, Anna, with you guys. Anna's got more news. Well, we got to talk about the state of the Trump administration, his approval ratings, and more importantly, the state of the economy. Let's get into it. Look at this. I got four numbers across. for you on this screen here. They are all second term lows for the given poster.

What are we talking about? AP Nork, 26 points below water. NBC, 22 points below water. Yahoo, UGov, 20 points below order. Knipeak, 19 points below water. So we're ranging from negative 19 points all the way to negative 26 points. You know, Kate, there's this question that folks keep asking, you know, where is the floor for Donald Trump? And I'm not sure there is a floor, because if there is one, Donald Trump,

Donald Trump, at least in term number two, has just fallen through it to another low level. Well, President Donald Trump is once again setting new records for how low he can go when it comes to his own approval rating. Before I give you the details on that polling and what could be leading to it, Jank, your two cents? Yeah, so he's doing terrible on the economy, on tariffs, now bad on immigration. But there's a hidden issue that is the reason why those numbers are so disastrous. We're going to talk about that a little bit later after Annie gives you the facts about this. And as she does, look for how they're lying about the jobs numbers because it's about to get much worse. Anna, tell us all about it.

Now look, some of you might be thinking, well, look, Trump's approval rating was really bad in his first term. How could it potentially or possibly be worse in his second term? Is that really true? And the answer is yes, his approval rating, believe it or not, is actually worse this time around. and you're about to find out in this next clip. 22 points below order on average when you average all the pulses from the last light. That is actually lower. That is lower than he was at this point in term number two, term number one when it was 17 points below order.

So he's doing five points worse, five points worse. And he's doing way worse than Joe Biden was doing at this point in his term number one when he was 13 points below order. So the bottom line is this. Donald Trump is setting new records for himself in term number two, setting new records for himself compared to where he was at this point in term number one. And he's doing worse than Joe Biden, which is, of course, the comparison that Donald Trump does not want to be because we all know what happened to Joe Biden. His party lost the house in term number one, that midterm elections.

And of course, Joe Biden was not reelected to another term. Now, if you're wondering, well, what's the cause of all this? Is it just the Epstein cover up? I'm sure that plays a role in it. But if you ask Americans in the polling, they're actually pretty clear. They consistently rank the economy as their top issue. And so we just got a very troubling insight into how our economy is doing. And if you're wondering what I'm talking about here, it turns out the official count of payroll jobs at the end of 2025 was revised downward by more than one million last Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

By the way, I wanted to double check and make sure that was the case. I went to the actual BLS report, and it is true. Previously, the agency estimated that payroll jobs totaled 159,526,000 in December. Now it says that number is 158,000, I'm sorry, 158 million, 497,000. So they revised the jobs numbers by roughly 1 million last year. So there's more. The federal government had previously claimed that the United States added over 400,000 jobs in the year 2025, meaning the net number of jobs that have been added to the economy. But last week, the government slashed that estimate. Now, the government is claiming that the U.S. added just shy of 200,000 jobs last year.

In other words, they revised their estimate downward by over 50%. And what's even more concerning here, Jank, is that the U.S. is only consistently adding jobs in one sector. And that's the health care sector. That's due to the fact that our population is aging, as you, age, obviously, you need more health care. And so there is high demand for health care related jobs right now. And hiring has all but frozen throughout the rest of the economy. So that's what the real concern here is. Let's take a quick look at this graph that was put together by Indeed Hiring Lab. So the graph represents the number of jobs added to the U.S. economy per month.

Each of the blue vertical lines represents one month. So the colored horizontal lines portray the year, yearly average of jobs added per month. And as you can see, job growth has been slowing for quite some time now. It's not like this started with Trump, but it seems to have accelerated under Trump. So job growth has been slowing since 2022. But even up until 2024, the U.S. was adding over 100,000 jobs per month. However, in 2025, the U.S. added just 15,000 jobs per month on average. So unsurprisingly, a lot of Americans are feeling the economic burn right now, not only when it

comes to the job market, but also in regard to the cost of things. Costs have not gone down. Inflation is still a problem. And that's a big issue when you consider the fact that wages have not kept up with inflation and people are finding it harder to find gainful employment. So curious what you think about all of this, Jake. Yeah, you know, I have to confess that I forgot that Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and that I should have not trusted any of the numbers since then.

Yep. Because a couple months in a row, I was puzzled by surprisingly strong jobs numbers. And I was like, that doesn't make any sense. All the headlines are about all the people being fired and that the AI layoffs have begun. And I'm like, what these numbers seem so much higher than I expected. Well, it turns out it's because they were basically lying. So now it when they adjust the numbers in the case of unemployment, it's not always a lie. It's all oftentimes in the past was okay, this is our initial estimate and now we've looked

at the actual numbers and it's actually off. And it's usually off by a decent number, right? But a million is a giant number. And since Trump said, okay, anybody who tells the truth about the job numbers is going to get fired, unsurprisingly, they're off by a million jobs. So that makes a lot more sense. And so now, economy's number one issue is Anatolia. That makes it, economy is almost always the number one issue.

So what's the hidden issue that I was talking about? The reason why his numbers are that low and not, and they were not as low in his first them, they were bad as you saw it, right? But not quite this low. I mean, underwater between 19 points minus 19 and minus 27. I mean, just horrific numbers, right? It's because of the Epstein files issue. And why?

Because that broke trust with his voters. Before when his voters trusted him and he said, don't believe you're lying eyes, eggs are cheaper, not more expensive. Milk is cheaper, not more expensive. They'd be like, well, I feel like I'm paying 57 cents more, but if Trump says so, I guess I must be paying less, right? And so, and that's the hardest one to think, but even that would sometimes happen. And he would just lie to them and they would believe every lie.

But once the trust was broken, then they started to wake up. Not all of them, but a lot of them, certainly the independents who voted for Trump. And they're going, no, wait a minute, a lot of my friends are getting fired. The economy's not great. The prices have gone up. The tariffs didn't work. And they're beginning to see more and more of what's true. And the more they get off the crack, and that's cable news.

And they get online. There's still plenty of bad shows online. But there's also shows that are independent and even some that are right wing that are beginning to tell at least half the truth, right? And sometimes for the independence, all the truth. And so when they start seeing that, they're like, oh, this guy sucks. And Anna, you know what the number one thing is. The American people are dying for someone to actually represent them and they care about them and to actually address their needs. And what is Trump doing?

He's isn't the same thing Biden did. Oh, yeah, I'm going to go start a war. To be fair, Biden didn't start anywhere near as many wars. But I'm going to go start a war in Venezuela and Iran and maybe Greenland and maybe Cuba and all these things. And all I care about is doing whatever. Oh, and I'm going to pass all these laws that say that if you criticize Israel, you're an anti-Semite, we're going to take away your rights. Yeah, but brother, I got you. The Israelis have bribed you in blackmail you, whatever.

I got it. But are you ever ever going to do anything for us? And the answer is almost always, hell no, no way. The donors get everything and we get bubkus. If the Democrats get back in charge, Anna, and then they just go back to the same exact thing, and they go, oh, yeah, we were going to do it, but we can't do it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then everyone will despise them too. No, I mean, at that point, it's over.

I think that the country is on the precipice of something really scary unless we get real leadership. And I'm genuinely concerned that some of the gains that Democrats see right now as a result of the Trump administration reneging on its promises for Trump's base. I'm worried that they're going to squander it. And we're going to have the pendulum swing right back to J.D. Vance, who I think everyone should be concerned about. not because he has political views or policy prescriptions that I don't like, which I don't like, to be clear. It's because of the fact that he has referred to himself as a post-liberal Republican. What does that mean? That means he doesn't believe in democracy.

He doesn't think democracy has worked out so well for the American people. And right now, remember, he's this manufactured product of Peter Thiel's. And Peter Thiel, along with the rest of the Silicon Valley, you know, tech barons, are obsessed with beating China when it comes to AI. Now, what would that require? They were pretty upfront and open about it during the World Economic Forum. They feel that China has an upper hand on AI specifically because of the fact that they don't have privacy rights. So little by little, you're going to start seeing these efforts to chip away at our privacy rights in the, this quest to beat China when it comes to AI. So I know it's a little bit of a tangent,

but it gives you a sense of what's to come if, you know, if political leaders don't take this moment seriously and respond to it appropriately. But I want to reset real quick and kind of give you another element to the story that I think is really important because as more and more Americans are losing jobs, experiencing layoffs, and the labor market continues absolutely crushing them. It turns out that bank CEOs, oh yeah, they're doing real well. Now, how well? Turns out that the CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo each earned $40 million or more last year, a collective increase of more than 21% from the year before 2024. Because, you know, the bankers weren't wealthy enough.

Okay, so on average, ordinary Americans made just shy of 4% more last year than the previous year. Combined, those six banks made almost $160 billion in profits, not revenue, profits last year. Now, let's remember the argument that we heard from the banks when it came to capping credit card rates. You know, Jamie Diamond, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, made this argument that, oh, if you cap interest rates for credit cards, Oh, it'll crush the poor credit card companies and ordinary people will no longer have access to credit cards. Then you take a good hard look at their profits. Really? Really? Like our credit card interest rates need to be like 25, 30% in order for the companies to turn a profit, not buying it at all. Now, per the Wall Street Journal, these banks were successful due to increased trading. a high number of mergers, something that the FTC under Biden was doing its best to prevent.

Unfortunately, we don't have that under the Trump administration. And also mega corporations who need to borrow huge sums of money so they can build out artificial intelligence infrastructure. But at least one bank CEO is seeing troubled waters ahead. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Tuesday, he would expect a. speed bump or recalibration or slowdown at some point this year and flagged the U.S. midterm elections and populist uncertainty potentially introducing new risks. Jank, I'm not surprised that a bank CEO is worried about populist energy bringing new risks. What do you think?

Yeah, it was actually the best thing I read in a long time. When I saw populist uncertainty, I'm like, you got that right, mother effort. So what these bankers and the elites and the donor class is beginning to see is the walls have been breached. Our propaganda is not working anymore. Before we had establishment media, corporate media, telling everybody the stock market's up. Everybody go stop complaining. Shut up. There's nothing wrong.

Everything is great. Keep giving money to Israel and the defense contractors and big pharma and oil, et cetera. Now our liars in legacy media are not working as well because there's all this online media. And now there's a populist fervor to look out for the average American. Boo! Who's going to look out for the average billionaire banker? Okay. So I love that they're nervous about it.

But unfortunately, there is no scenario where they crash and we don't. And so the amount of power they have is grotesque. And I'll never not be mad at Obama for bailing them out and paying their bonuses. So of course, otherline problem is money in politics. Guys, listen to what Anna told you. Six banks made $160 billion in profits. I can't believe that. If six banks or six companies had made $16 billion in profits,

that would be a spectacular result. Saying that that's not enough would be absurd, not enough for what? What do you mean it's not enough? But they didn't make 16 billion. They made 160 billion. They go, no, it's not enough. We want more, more, more, because that's the stock market,

infinite greed. It's literally built on infinite greed. You must get 15% return or higher every single quarter. You must maximize profit. And if you only got 159 billion and not 160, billion and not 160, you did it wrong, you're fired, abused people more, take, guys, where did the 160 billion, again, this is not revenue's profit, where did it come from? It came from you. They took all that money from you. They still have

to take money to run their business. We're not against them running their business. We're not even against a massive profit, but the rest of it is corruption. It's that they bought off our government so that there's no regulation of the banks. They could rob you blind. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was actually doing a great job and had gotten tens of billions of dollars back for the average American who was literally being cheated by the banks. Trump shut it down. And the Republicans are like, no way. One thing inside the government is actually helping the average American shut it down immediately. Those poor bankers, next year they got to make 260 billion in profits. So they've been robbing

us from the very start. The minute we got money in politics, every single industry, bought off all the politicians. Our politicians are the very worst people in the country. They're the ones with the least amount of morals. They will do anything for money, fame, and power. So in this case, they're like, oh, the bankers, you need to deregulate it. And last thing, Anna, their excuse is so comical. Because every industry does the same thing.

So why do you need hundreds of billions in profits for innovation? And the drug companies go, well, if we don't have hundreds of billions of profits, will be lazy and sit on the couch and not innovate and not come up with any drugs. Oh, come on. Oh, only tens of billions of profits is not enough motivation, right? But for the bankers, it's an extra level of comedy. Innovate what? And then when you ask them, what do you mean innovation?

They're like, well, how else would we come out with complex derivatives and collateralized debt obligations? I'm like, wait, those are the things that crashed the economy in 2008. I don't want you to come up with those innovations. Those innovations are different, innovative ways of robbing all of us, gambling with our money, and leveraging it to the health so they can make the maximum amount of money. And if it crashes, they dump all the losses onto us and go, politicians, let's go waiters, let's go bailouts, bonuses, taking from the American people. I'm sick of it.

All Americans are sick of it. Yeah, I think the only innovation happening right now is among the American people, in fantasizing of the different ways they're going to innovate using pitchforks in the near future. So bankers better wisen up in regard to their own greed because things are not looking good. Anyway, we got to take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about the controlled opposition that it appears Alex Jones has turned into, especially when it comes to battling the deep state. We'll be right back. This is a robbery. All right, let's go to YouTube members.

Colobabe says, I miss someone standing up for our rights that we proudly stand for and making clear what those are, especially the rights we seem to have sacrificed since 9-11. Well, couldn't agree with you more. And other than two congressmen, no one else seems to care at all. To be fair, from time to time, Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders, and amazingly now Nancy Mace. Okay, but that's why I'd, oh, look at that. A hatchet job article against Nancy Mace. What a coincidence.

Okay, but our media does news. Sure they do. Joe S.N.Y says, I missed an entire hour because a friend called me and I felt bad interrupting him, L.O.L. Doesn't he know it's TYT time? Yeah, look, you know what, Joe? I'm right there with you, man. Friends don't let friends interrupt TYT. It's okay to talk to friends everyone's at all.

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Absolutely. Because look, you could say low bar. How many Democrats have crossed that bar? bravely calling out Israel's abuses, but a handful. Okay, so show me courage, show me strength. I don't have to agree with everything. Partisan hypocrites everywhere says Kana Masi or Masi Kana 2028. With a gal says happy anniversary.

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It's okay, he's looking beat. We don't need him. Oh, is that right? Yeah, he's, I think he's 50 now, but glass house. All right, Jessica Ray, thank you for gifting a sub on Twitch. Happy Warrior Dragon, thank you for gifting. Oh wow, eight subs on Twitch. You guys are awesome. Awesome. A.K. Delaware Dragon writes in on t.y.t.com. Jank, you mispronounce the name.

It's banksters, not bankers. Good point. Little MacChee says, number one, there's zero reason for ice to be armed as heavily as they are, totally right. Number two, no other agency wears mass, including law enforcement that deals directly with gangs in the neighborhoods they live in. That's another great point. Number three, those stats he pulled out of his ass or BS.

Name one ice agent that has been stalked. or attacked off duty. So great points all around. Pessimistic Progressive says, you should cover the bipartisan effort to repeal Section 230. The text shows I listen to talk about it all the time, but not enough political issues, shows do because maybe they think it's too nerdy. It attacks free speech on the internet and could destroy small communities like TYT.

You're 100% right, section 230 is critical. And notice he said it's a bipartisan attack, because 95% of Democrats are so full of crap. While you're not looking, they tried to do net neutrality before and that didn't work and we beat that back. They're like, oh, we can do a backdoor version of it through section 230. We'll work with the Republicans to destroy the internet so there's no more truth finding. Yeah, that's what I thought. All right, I'm back on TYT, Jen and Anna with you guys, box. Thank you for gifting five memberships.

You're awesome. We appreciate you. Fish cleaner wrote in on t.com. I've been listening to Jenk for 24 years. The show is taking off of XM for the Bill Press show. I quit XM over that decision. Oh my God, I love how awesome and loyal you are. And by the way, Bill Press, because he did that, he's a right winger, he's a grifter, he's a fashion.

I'm just kidding, he's totally fine, it wasn't his fault. You know what I just realized more than a quarter of your life has been spent? Oh my God, I guess me too, like doing this. Doesn't that blow your mind? A quarter of your life? No, no, for me it's a lot more than that. It's, yeah, it's nearly half my life. No, I mean like overall life, too, too, like that you, you know, live like a full life.

Oh, my God. From your mouth of God's ears, I hope it's quartered my life. Okay. Yeah. Anyway. All right, let's do it. Man, life flies by. Make sure you savor it.

Okay, let's get to our next story. You don't have to savor this, but it is what it is. We got to talk about it. Let's get it to it. It is Saturday night, February 14th. 2026 and I got a Valentine's present for all of America in the world that wants truth. And to bring down the globalist death cult tonight, Pam Bondi released the other three million total Epstein files. Man, people got excited. And it is major on redactions. It is a big move,

but it's not the total complete one the way they wrote it in the press release. And they continue to pull that crap. They have to release this. What is going on with Alex Jones right now? You know, the man who built his entire career on fighting back against the deep state globalists. Now all of a sudden, it seems like he's muddying the water and putting out false information in an effort to provide cover for the Trump administration as they engage in a cover-up on behalf of the deep state. Now, before I give you the goods, show you the receipts, Jank, your two cents. I only have one cent here. I think Alex Jones is a false flag operation, And I'm not joking. So when after Anthony gives you the facts, I'll explain who he's in operation for and why it's a false flag, all the things that he's done in the past. Really interesting. So go ahead, Anna.

The words controlled opposition, that's what I'm kind of leaning toward. But let me make the case. And you all can judge for yourself. So just last week, we had shared some, you know, some of Alex Jones's claims on the people. podcast and he was basically in my interpretation of it, running cover for the Trump administration and how they've bungled the release of the Epstein files. And that included a short, like a sort of defending of Attorney General Pam Bondi and how she performed during that disastrous House Judiciary Hearing, House Judiciary Committee hearing. And so if you don't know what I'm talking about, This is what I'm referring to. Trump has been convinced that it will crash the economy of all these bankers and people, if this stuff comes out.

And he thinks it unjustifies the means, it's too dangerous. I'm not defending this. I'm telling you what Trump's been told. And that's why I said he's told it will crash the stock market. Bondi yesterday. It'll crash the stock market. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000.

And the NASDAQ smashing records. Americans 401Ks and retirement savings are booming. That's what we should be talking about. They know it's a giant mess of BS and crap. And then the women that are the victims and the survivors, almost all of them were, you know, got into it. And that's how it worked. And we're actually madams, you know, out running these operations. So to me, it appeared that he was defending Pam Bondi, especially in that disastrous moment during the hearing.

But on top of that, he tried to blame the victims for what happened to them. So again, just the antithesis of what he had built his career on. And then over the weekend, Jank, he posts this on X. Kaboom, Justin, AG Pam Bondi just unleashed the full Epstein files under the transparency. All 3.5 million pages dropped, redactions justified only for victims and high profile names exposed with zero coverups for embarrassment or politics. Okay, so that's the relevant part of his post that you should know about. And the other relevant part about all of this is that it was a complete and utter lie.

And I'm curious why he would put that statement out there when there were no receipts indicating that this happened and the DOJ has continued its cover up. In fact, it has now been reported by the DOJ that they do not intend to release another file. They don't, they're not going to release anything else when it comes to the Epstein files. An investigation by Channel 4 news in the UK found that they've only released 2% of the Epstein files, by the way. And here's a little bit more from his breaking news video, which he posted alongside the, you know, the ex post that I just shared with you. Take a look. This is a gigantic victory. He thought the first half was devastating. My sources in Congress in the White House say it is even far worse exponentially when you're

about to see total Satanism, devil worship, genetic engineering. You saw Bondi on Thursday say, listen, this will bring down the stock market if we bring this out. I'm not defending or saying that. I said a year ago, the sources said Trump was told if you release this, it will literally bring down everything. But now they try to attach to him. He's doing the right thing. He ordered everything released. Massive pressure's been put on the president. I've put a lot of pressure on the White House and a lot of you have as well. And Trump has never been involved. But by extension, he became part of the cover-up. And a lot of his top supporters, like myself, come out and said, you've got to stop. You've got to reverse this now. He is, I'm told, royally pissed and is getting ready to axe a whole bunch of people in

the administration that lied to him about this, not that are really involved in any meaningful way. I'm not defending the Republicans. We've always known 99% of those were Democrats. I get to ask you why then he is Trump. He'll be covering it up. He's doing a self-flict of wound. Following that, he continued providing cover for Trump in particular by lying and saying that Trump is super pissed. This is massive news for team humanity. Under Trump's orders, all Epstein files have been released. million more files that according to sources are many times more shocking just hit the net. Now, his posts were hit with a community note. And I want to give you a little taste of the corrections here because one community note said this is a complete lie. The DOJ simply released a statement

with a list of names associated with Epstein and the files. There hasn't been a single new file release since the batch in late January 2026, which still includes heavy redactions. So the real question here, Jank, is why is Alex Jones line? What was the point of doing this? Yeah, and I've got an awesome theory on that. But first, two random points. Drake Wayne was asked why through an interception in the Super Bowl. And he said, yeah, but the Dow's over 50,000. Okay. And I had 9-11. posts that went a little viral the other day and then they got a community note on it. And then after a while, people were like, no, actually, Jenk is more right than the community note and they took it off.

I don't know that any community notes ever been taken off before. Okay, so now, on to Alex Jones. Yeah, Anna, it's super curious how brazen the line was because, you know, in that tweet we just showed you, they've unleashed the full Epstein files. They most certainly did not. I mean, the minute it hit hit the news, I saw it. And I was like, oh, so we got screwed again. They're not gonna release the files.

So Alex Jones knows that this is that what they tried to do was, well, let's just lie to them and then tell them and they'll believe anything. I say ha ha ha, ha, him and Trump, right? But it turns out, not anymore, brother, okay? So now when you look at this next level propaganda, the, if I'm right about this, I mean, this is brilliant. Now, if you were running a bunch of conspiracies inside a country, what would you do? What would be a really smart thing to do is get a clown to do a conspiracy show and take

real conspiracies and fake conspiracies, ludicrous conspiracies, and mix them all up. And then have the media go, it's binary. Either you believe conspiracy theories, all of them, or none of them. And if you believe any of the conspiracy theories, then you believe that people are lizard people like Alex Jones says, and you're a lunatic. Or you believe everything the government says 100%. Oh, that's the trick. And I got to say, I fell for it too.

Because once they wrapped up all the conspiracies into one giant nonsensical mess with Alex Jones, it was easy to dismiss all of them. But you go, wait a minute, they're no lizard people. But why did they redact the hell out of the 9-11 commission? Why did they not release the Epstein files? No, there's a lot of things going on here where we need to ask a lot more questions. And if you notice with Alex Jones, he always makes it partisan. So we don't want the country to unite.

We want you to think the problem is for the guy on your left or the guy on your right. But whatever you do, don't look up. Don't look up at the donors. Don't look up at Israel. Don't look up at anything. So just fight amongst each other. And finally, I never understood how Alex Jones got hundreds of millions of dollars. because we're in the same business.

Like, you can't make that kind of money from ads. You can't make that kind of money from almost anything. And like, I know how Charlie Kirk got it. He got $540 million in contributions. And then all of a sudden he didn't say the things that people wanted. And we know the rest of the story, right? So where did Alex get those hundreds of millions of dollars? So he's giving away the game here by, and my guess is that if any of this,

is right, and if he complains about this being a conspiracy theory, that'll be perfect, Chef's Gis, right? But if I'm right, his handlers came to him and said, no, Alex, we're, no, this is when we need you. Go and lie to them and tell, and by the way, none of your conspiracies should, everyone's want to throw in Israel, et cetera, in the old days, now, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no talk of Israel. None of that, okay?

Distract them and make it partisan again. And tell them all the files have been released. Okay, you're going to pay all my bills and I got a lot of bills. Okay, I got, I'm going to do it. Well, what happened, Alex? What happened? Sell out, bitch. All right, the revolution is next.

Are you interviewing someone interesting, Jank? Yeah, person running guest, Richie Torres that confronted him. So Richie Torres, of course, is owned by Israel. So ought to be interesting. We'll be right back with that.