The Young Turks - The Epstein Files

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

DOJ Releases Epstein Files To Right-Wing Influencers. Republican Rages At DOJ Over Disappointing Epstein Files Dump. Ingraham And Habba Feud Over Chinese Investments In U.S. Mast Tells GOP Committee Staff To Call West Bank “Judea & Samaria.” Trump Announces Plan To Sell “Gold Card” To Rich Foreigners. 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. All right, welcome to the Young Turks, Jake Huger, Anna Kusperian with you guys. So guys, a couple of things that are happening. out, I hope you're all sitting here and be carefully if you're driving. That Doge might not be a populist takeover over the government. It might be a corporate takeover over the government.

No, is it true? Well, you're gonna see for yourself in one of the stories today. But on the other hand, tons of stories on the in the show today where a Maga Rebellion here, no, no way, no way, no way, okay, hold on, see the receipts, see the actual exchanges back and forth. in a second, including the first story, the Epstein files have been released. Have they? Have they? Oh my gosh.

Lots of drums in the show today. Oh, tons, tons. All right, well, why don't we begin? Why don't we begin with Pam Bondi, the Epstein files, Cash Patel makes an appearance, and Liz Wheeler, a conservative influencer, provides cover for the fact that Bondi failed to deliver the goods. Let's get right to it. You said last week that you have the Epstein files on your desk is when can we see them and what's taking so long to release them? I do. Jesse, there are well over this will make you sick. 200 victims. We have to make sure that their identity is protected.

Other than that, I think tomorrow, Jesse, breaking news right now, you're going to see some Epstein information being released by my office. Well, it's tomorrow and Attorney General Pam Bondi last night promised while speaking to Jesse Waters that she would be releasing the Epstein files, the long awaited Epstein files. But now she's facing some backlash from fellow Republicans for failing to deliver the good shank. Yeah, indeed. So to me the most important and interesting question is why are they not releasing the Epstein files?

I have two very plausible explanations. So one of them is a little dangerous. So we'll get to that in a minute. But first, the great disappointment, including by the right wing, by the way. All right, well, today in the afternoon, there was a group of conservative influencers. Let's take a look at the footage, they're at the White House, they're being given these binders. And the binders say something along the lines of, you know, Epstein Files Part 1. Essentially, these are the files that we've been waiting for.

this is the first batch, the Epstein files phase one, I should say. So the New York Post notes that at least one recipient left underwhelmed by what the documents revealed, or I guess didn't reveal, a source who reviewed the files prior to that whole photo op situation that you all witnessed told the New York Post ahead of the documents release that it was just a hundred pages of Epstein's address book or a list of contacts with without any further context. So I mean, even sleaze bags and terrible people like Jeffrey Epstein might have an address book full of people who aren't implicated at any type of wrongdoing.

You need the context, you need to understand who the clients were, what's the clients list, that was not released. Now this person added the unveiling was likely to be a disappointment to sleuths eager for bombshell news, new evidence about Epstein's connection. to prominent political and business leaders. Now, which political leaders are we talking about here? We've talked about this before, but just to remind you all, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates,

Prince Andrew, and President Trump are among the high-profile people who associated with Epstein, though Trump reportedly banned Epstein from Maralago in 2007 over an incident with a club member's daughter. Yeah. I was curious about that. So I looked into it. The Miami Herald actually did report that Epstein had hit on a club member's teenage daughter.

And at that point, Trump allegedly banned him from Arlago. Okay, so look, my thoughts on that are two directions. Real quick on Trump, actually first, one of our members, Funkin for Funn wrote in Epstein files, Donald J. redacted. Okay, but in this case, in all fairness, not redacted. He's in the phone book, there's no question about it. To be fair, everybody in the phone book, which is a funny thing to be fair. Like Chris Cuomo's wife is randomly in the phone book. Yeah, yeah, a lot of people who are, I'm sure, are in the phone book. Yeah, because he knew a lot of people, right?

Yeah. So, but was Donald Trump friends with him and did he know his situation? You know the quote I'm gonna read if you watch the Young Turks. Trump in 2002, I've known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It's even said that he likes beautiful woman as much as I do. And many of them are on the younger side. Okay, think about it. He made that statement after having banned Epstein.

No, no, no, no, you banned him in 07, this was an 02. Oh, that was in 02? Yeah. Oh, okay, I thought that was a more recent statement. No, no, no, no. So, and so look, did he really ban him, I guess? Was it because that he was hitting on some member's daughter? Maybe.

I mean, Trump usually falls out with people if they criticize them or owe him money or he owes them money. But we don't know, we don't know. that what we do know, and if you say, if you're Magna, you say, no way, Clinton and everybody else on the list is definitely guilty. The one guy I know is innocent is the guy who said he was great friends with him 15 years and knew that he liked young girls. Okay, could be, could be. And you got the Mar-a-Lago kickout as your, you know, evidence. Other people will look at it and go, maybe, brother, okay? I mean, Alan Dershowitz now says he's not friends with him and kept the shorts on. Maybe. What do I know?

Alan Dershowitz unintentionally publicly, like makes himself look guilty on a regular basis. Like he implicates himself on a regular basis, let's keep it real. Yeah, I mean, dude wrote an op-ed talking about how maybe the statutory rape laws are a little, you know, harsh. Anyway, let's move on. Okay, so that's, look, he could write anything he likes, he could have his opinion, we have our opinion, obviously. So now, the 200 victims, she says, actually we don't even going through day and night about it. You saw in that clip. Have you?

Because we've had decades to contact those victims. So this is just like news to you guys. So, okay, there's something fishy going on and even the right wing realizes it back to you. Yeah, what she was trying to say is there are a lot of victims. She's not talking about reaching out to the victim. She's talking about, hey, I need to redact the information or the personal private information of these victims. before we release the documents. That's what you're actually trying to be careful and they release the full files.

I said, oh my God, I have credit to them for being careful and for releasing the full files. Well, they didn't release the full files. So that has led to a lot of backlash from Trump supporters, even Republican lawmakers. Let's start with Representative Anna Paulina Luna who says I, nor the task force were given or review the Epstein documents being released today. A New York Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein's phone book. And then in all caps, this is not what we or the American people asked for and a complete disappointment. Get us the information we asked for. Now, let's talk about the influencers who actually got those binders full of addresses and phone numbers. Okay, so one of them was actually

podcaster Liz Wheeler, who later acknowledged that the trove lacked a bombshell. But what I thought was fascinating is how she attempted to pass the buck, not on Bondi, not on the FBI, but on the police in New York, the Sheriff's Department in New York. So let me give you the big conspiracy theory here. Last night, a whistleblower, she writes, this is all on X, contacted Bondi and revealed that the SDNY was hiding potentially thousands of Epstein files, defying Bondi's order to give them all to her. We're talking records, evidence, The juicy stuff, names, these swamp creatures at SDNY deceived Bondi, Cash, and you. The binder is powerful because it's tangible physical evidence of the disgusting stunt the

SDNY tried to pull. Bondi is now demanding all the Epstein evidence from SDNY, plus an investigation into the persons who committed this act of defiance. Now, that's an interesting take, right? Maybe there's some credibility behind it, but let's just Remember what Bondi told Jesse Waters on Fox News, literally last night. Let's take a look. Breaking news right now, you're going to see some Epstein information being released by my office. What kind? Are we going to see who was on the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from what he recorded? Because he had all of his homes wired with recording devices. Yeah, what you're going to see hopefully tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

But it's pretty sick what that man did. Okay, well, we'll look for that. Along with his co-defendant. Absolutely. And he had help, that's for sure. He sure did. So why did she say that last night when today she did not release the goods? She said nothing about the SDNY.

Of course, of course. All right, so they tried this. Now, if you remember during the campaign, we covered this hilarious clip where they asked Donald Trump, are you gonna release the JFK files? Oh yeah, absolutely. Area 51 now, God, absolutely. Epstein files, less so.

Wait, what happened? Why less so? Why less so? So then they try this gimmick of like, we are releasing some of the files, Epstein files, and it's terrible what he did. We all know it's terrible what he did. did. Okay, but who did it with him? You know, what did they do exact? So they try this and even their own influencers, I mean, a nice try cover try by Liz Wheeler, but overall, almost

all Magus mad. And they're, I mean, the representative that we quoted there, massively right wing, right? And not, it's definitely not part of the resistance, okay? So but you see now there's a little bit of a different resistance from other quarters. Yeah. Right. So now, So, San Y, just so you know, is Southern District of New York. Oh, got it. Yeah, yeah. So that's the most powerful prosecutorial office within the Justice Department. It's in Manhattan.

And so they would make sense. Epstein got arrested there. They would have a lot of the evidence. A lot of it happened in New York. And they were going to prosecute them. So it could be that that's true. And by the way, I would want to know a lot about that. And look, just for one second, assume they're telling the truth, I know, hilarious,

but assume it for a second, then they should really go find all the evidence, including what happened to the tape on the night that he was, that he committed suicide, where did that tape go? Did anyone talk to the guards? All the real evidence of what actually happened to him. And if they reveal all that, I will give them so much credit that like everyone on the left will hate me. No, no, don't give them credit. But right now, okay, now back to reality, you never mentioned Southern District of New York. No, not until now. And by the way. And now all of a sudden, oh yeah, yeah, not us, not us, Southern District of New York. Yeah, okay. But hey, guess what? I know you're the boss of everyone because you say it every day.

Like, oh, who cares who's, you know, a Treasury or an IRS? We're in charge. You'll give us all the information. We fire everyone. Okay, so why aren't you firing everyone and getting all the information from Southern District of New York immediately? Immediately. By the way, Anna said records and there are records, but there's it was actually recordings in the quote. And they they have recordings that he did record everything. So where the hell is it? So can you got more because I'm ready for my theories. Okay, look, here's my theory.

No one's ever going to see anything. Okay, like let's just stop pretending. Let me just call, like all the hopers and believers out there, stop hoping and believing. We live in America that is controlled by the elite and the elite that you're hoping will be revealed in these documents that you're never going to see. are never going to allow those documents to be released. That's the reality of the situation. By the way, I know the people who love Donald Trump, I know you like to believe that he's not part of the elite.

He's part of the elite. Okay, Homeboy is part of the elite. He's the most elite person in the entire freaking world right now. They're not going to release the documents. That's my take on it. If I'm proven wrong, I'd be real happy about it. But I suspect I will not be proven wrong. By the way, the SDNY thing, interesting that, you know,

Liz Wheeler put that theory out there. You also have Glenn Beck regurgitating the same talking point. So I'm wondering where the talking point is coming from because today, Attorney General Pam Bondi actually reached out to Cash Patel over at the FBI. And here's what we learned about that. Bondi suggested in a Thursday letter to FBI director Cash Patel that more records were recently discovered. She ordered the FBI to hand over the full and complete Epstein files to her by Friday

morning and directed Patel conduct an immediate investigation into why her order to the FBI to turn over all documents was not followed. Okay, so here's my theories. One is it could have terrible stuff about Trump because remember there's recordings. So if you're in the recordings, you're in the recordings, you're in the recordings. So that's going to be super interesting. That's one possibility, okay? And as you know, like we just read you the quote, whether he kicked him out later for Marlauga or not solidly in 02 said solidly great friends for 15 years and then you add the other five on top for 20 straight years. Okay, so we'll see. And by the way, it's also super embarrassing for the country if they've got Bill Clinton on tape, Bill Gates on tape, on. By the way,

another guy that's on the list. Oh, it'd be so embarrassing for the country. I mean, we have such a clean, squeaky record already. Yeah, but a lot of people, but remember, since people are in their bubbles, the Democrats think that they are really squeaky clean and the Republicans on the list are the bad guys. A Democratic president got a blowy in the Oval Office from an intern, so I'm sorry. I know, but they just, but no, yes, but he did it in a nice way. Do you know what he did with the cigar? Okay, I just, okay. So that's the Democratic side. The Republican bubble is like, no, all the Democratic meanings on that list are the biggest perverts, pedophiles in the world. Every Republican on that list, including Trump, it's squeaky clean.

Angel, right? Okay, so all right. So now the second theory. There is a certain special ally who is rumored to have worked with Jeffrey Epstein. And that special ally has enormous power and influence in this country and has enormous power and influence in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party with Joe Biden and with Donald Trump. So, huh. And who would be powerful enough to have someone commit suicide in the middle of an American prison? And all of a sudden, all the records disappear overnight. But, you know, hey, we have a lot of special allies. That could have been Norway.

Okay, well, I don't know. And by the way, it might not have been any of them. We don't know because the files are super, super duper duper secret. What is the one special ally that has the power to keep super duper duper secrets? It's because we're not really in charge someone else's. Could be Sweden, who knows. But it's okay when he does it. Okay, no, no, no, because there was actually human shields,

and then that's why, and then a collateral damage, and then the more moral pervert, and then the other perverts are bad, but he's the most moral pervert, so it was okay. The underage girls were threats his national security. Yeah, hey, look, he had to do something, collect tapes on all of our politicians. By the way, Bobby Kennedy Jr. also on the list, huge Israeli supporter for no apparent reason.

Okay, look, you want me to say it? No, no, I think you've said enough. I think you've said enough. I'm going to end on this, though, because look, the whole saga with Jeffrey Epstein was absolutely disgusting. You're talking about a man who has powerful connections, a man who had victimized dozens. of underage girls. And, you know, some on the right say that, you know, they take that issue seriously, but apparently not members of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, who decided to post this today on X. It's basically,

they claim they have a link to the Epstein files. Epstein files release, but when you click on it, it's the Rick Astley video never going to give you up. I mean, the guy. government is effing with you so much that they're like, we're going to Rickroll you on the Epstein files. Yeah. And we're going to rub it in your face. You're never going to get those files. Is it because it involves the most powerful people in our government or in another government? Could be Taiwan.

I don't know. Or another government, we don't know. And probably because of how powerful whoever that is, we'll probably never, ever know. Yeah. Well, when we come back, China. the join button you can too you can also get two months off of annual membership at tyt.com and i'm going to read one fun comment for you guys from a new youtube member a far car rode in nois i'm a youtube member again usually just through the site love your jenk and anna also absolutely loved your book jank can i get a shout out much love keep going t yt strong

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But I do agree with Laura Ingram on this matter. And I also agree with anyone else who thinks it's a crazy idea to allow foreign countries and foreign businesses to buy American real estate, American land. you get the picture. But nonetheless, yesterday Trump said that he would actually welcome those investments. But Ingram, not a big fan of his comments. I see so many things saying that we don't want China in this country. That's not right. We want them to invest in the United States. That's good. There's a lot of money coming in and we'll invest in China. Okay, but China's already bought up American companies, agricultural interests, and huge.

swaths of land and properties, including some that we've documented here on the angle near our military bases. But did MAGA turn out for Trump because they want more of that? Or they want thousands of more foreign workers here to drive down wages and opportunities for Americans? A fine line must be walked. Americans first, always, no matter what the donors want. Damn right. Wow. No, I agree with her. I totally agree with her. In fact, In fact, I got a lot of heat because, and by the way, this isn't just a China thing. I don't think any foreign country should be buying up American land or American real estate, period, okay?

By the way, you want to talk about China? You want to talk about China? Let's go to downtown Los Angeles where there is a massive, abandoned high rise that a Chinese firm started building, they run out of money, they go bankrupt, and that's it, they take off. And that building is, I mean, it's just covered in graffiti. It has become a complete utter disaster. It's right next to the staple center that's been renamed crypto, whatever, but staple center. Yeah.

So look at Laura Ingram calling out the donors, let alone everything else. Yeah, I like it. And what donor is she talking about? Because there is one donor that has a lot of deals with China, and his name rhymes with Tilon. So that was an interesting call out there. And so for everyone on the left who said, no, there'll never be any lack of unity on the right that everyone in right wing media and everyone in Trump voters will never break with him and they'll justify every single thing he does. Hmm, there's Fox News and Laura Ingram.

By the way, this is just one of like three stories today where they're an open rebellion. Well, look, I think I think people, look, I don't know what percentage we haven't run a study or a poll. on it, but I think at least some people who voted for Trump and believed in his message are now starting to wake up to the fact that the MAGA movement has completely been co-opted by tech billionaires and corporate interests. I mean, the proof is in the pudding. It's like you can see it and you can see how much Trump has like flip flopped on some of his core messaging, right? I mean, think about it. I remember Greg Abbott in Texas and Ron DeSantis in Florida got a lot a flock from the left because they banned Chinese investment in residential real estate,

near military bases. They ban China from being able to buy land in their states. And I thought, no, this is, I think this is the right course of action, especially when it comes to residential real estate, which a lot of these foreign business people like to park their money in, but they have no interest in actually living in those homes. It robs the American people of the limited housing inventory that's left out there, it's disgusting. So I like I like what happened in Texas and in Florida. Trump was supposed to be totally in line with that. All of a sudden, no, we want their investments. So we're going to show you a little bit more of Ingram and Habba brawling a little bit. It was super interesting. And there's, but there's one tiny clip that makes all

the difference. And I'm going to, I'm ready to declare it. They're going to get caught. Now, I mean Trump and Elon. So I want to explain why. But first, let's give you the context here. And then I I want to go to that short clip that I think is so telling. So Ingram brought on Haba and they were, you know, getting into a bit of an argument. It's a heated argument about this whole situation. Let's take a look. That's the spin? Yeah, no.

What the president said was very simple. It's the same policy we've had across the board. When you look at reciprocal tariffs, when you look at the strong arm that President Trump has had with China, with Canada, with Mexico, we want America to be safe. We care about American people first. people first. It's like what you just said in your monologue. I couldn't have said it better. America first. Alina, but you can't buy reciprocity would mean Americans can go off and buy lots of Chinese real estate, real estate, you know, near military bases, which I know President Trump

is not in favor of. But the concern obviously is like we want to, you know, the deals are great and so much of them are phenomenal. But you see where Democrats are starting to like warm their way into the populist agenda and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, how is that for the American worker to bring in thousands of more foreign workers? That is what some on the MAGISide are, you know, I'm kind of whispering about, but nevertheless, it's out there. Don't whisper about it because you're right, you're right. Okay, those who are against what what Trump is saying about Chinese investment in the United States are correct. Whether you're on the left or the right, who cares, right? Are you or are you not?

concerned about our country and investments within our country. Okay, so they're fighting, but they're trying to keep it civil. Totally. Right? And so I mean, some of the deals are great and all that. And so she doesn't want to blame right at all to Laura Ingraham. And so that's why she invented this thing with the Democrats are warming their way into populism, really? Just Chuck Schumer doing that?

Is the King Jeffrey's doing that? He's the king of warming his way into populism. Really, seriously. Like, I didn't know we and we? And Brocana and Bernie were that powerful because we're about the, we're about the only ones doing left wing populism and insisting on left wing populism and not like, you know, corporate or left, far left or anything like that. Like that's the lane, right? Somehow we, okay, great, I'm super happy to take it. Yes, yes, yes, we're warming on me in.

We're warming on me. Yes, we've been populace for 20 years. But obviously, obviously the criticism that she's hearing and the criticism that she herself agrees with is kind of. coming from right wing Trump voters. For good reason, this goes against, it flies in the face of what Trump promised and what he campaigned on. where HABA gets the last word on this argument with Laura Ingram. Let me clarify that then if there's any confusion. What the president was referring to was us continuing to have business relations.

We do import, export. Of course we do. That is what we're talking about. Yes, we are going to be a strong nation. Yes, we are going to have peace through strength. Yes, we are going to have a stronger economy. And we were going to cut the fat through Doge, through the president's initiatives. and what we have voted, the American people have voted for on November 5th. But that means that yes, we're going to be tough, but we still want to make money, we still want to be producing, we still want to work with other countries. China's just another example. It's a lot like Laura, when the president says something like Putin is bright or Putin, that doesn't mean he's praising him.

That means that he is acknowledging the situation. What is good for America? What is America first? If you say we're not going to have Amazon, we're not going to have anything imported or exported with China. That's not realistic. That's not what he's saying. We want to do business, but it's got to be done the right way. And that is what the president was referring to. But of course, the spin is real, as you know. I thought the mention of Amazon was fascinating in what she said there, because, you know, Jeff Bezos has been on his hands and knees, you know, praising Donald Trump. He just censored his own editorial, you know, writers.

You know, there are a lot to talk about freedom. They're allowed to talk about free market. They're not free to talk about freedom. Exactly, exactly. So, but look, make no mistake, Amazon would collapse if it didn't have access to cheaply made, you know, Chinese goods that of course are manufactured using, you know, exploited labor in China as well. So I think that there are multiple factors behind Donald Trump's decision to essentially renege on his promises to his own voters when it comes to this type of issue. But look, the broader picture is there's the corporate wing and then there's the populist wing. The corporate wing has completely taken over Trump's administration.

Yeah, not the voters, but the administration. 100%. So look, guys, can you make some deals with China? Of course. Should we cut off all trade to China? Of course not. Import export, sure, right? But that doesn't mean that they should get to buy real estate.

And you could have real rules around that. Trump care the most about? And if you don't know if you're on the right, come on guys, I don't know when you're going to catch up. Money. He cares about money to himself, to his friends and allies so that he could have even more power and money. And so if you think, no, no, no, he's got our best interest in mind. Okay, all right, let's see how it turns out. But you're beginning to see how it turns out. And that's why there's the murmurs. So this is my favorite part of that interview. It's a short little part. And it's going to lead to my explanation of why Trump and Elon are gonna get caught. Let's watch. A little murmuring in

Magaland about, you know, the comments about China today. You're a little murmuring in Magaland, okay? Okay, I mean, I don't want to say told you, but there it is. So, and that's just the beginning. I want to hear the howls because I can't begin to tell you how much I agree with them on this issue. Yeah. And so look on our populace plank, t.com. private equity shouldn't be able to buy our houses. Damn right. Because it drives up housing prices and makes it unaffordable for us. Also true of China and Saudi Arabia and other countries that are buying up tons of houses.

Yes. Okay, so now, why do I think they're gonna get caught? One is the media is different than it was before guys. It's not like, oh yeah, but right wing media is lovely now. No, no, no, no, no. But it's diverse now. They all have slightly different interests and they might all be right wing, but they're coming at it from different right wing positions and libertarian positions and some

positions that are like, wait, that's so popular. I'm not even sure that's right wing. That sounds exactly like Bernie, right? And so there in the old days, there was no point in going on right wing shows, why didn't I do it before? Because it's just talking point after talking point. And I could tell you exactly what they were going to say before I went on their shows, because they were all saying the same exact thing Sean Hannity said.

Because they had, Fox News had a monopoly on right wing media, so everyone sounded like they had just watched Sean Hannity, right? Now when I go on their shows, they're disagreeing with each other, they're disagreeing with other right wing hosts. And then I told you, look, that you got the bros who are not even MAGA and who are not even necessarily Republicans at all, like Dave Portnoy. And today, Dave Portnoy scathing comments about Trump administration and what the hell is going on here, and none of the things we were promised is happening.

So you think you're gonna contain the bros, they don't even have any alliance. They don't have any loyalty, right? Like they're, yeah, exactly. So those are the unwheely, like, it's kind of actually exciting to hear like real pushback against what Trump is doing because again, look, any other politician, especially like when you compare what happened in Trump's first term, right? It felt like no one was ever willing to admit that he had reneged on his promises when he would renege on his promises. This time around it is different. It's definitely different. Yeah, and I like that.

God, I was so right. Okay, so hold on, hold on, I got to get to the second part. So look, so you got the different kinds of media and you're not going to be able to continue. Roken was endorsed Bernie Sanders back in 2016. He has no alliance to, you know, all the other apparatus of the Republican Party and the corruption, etc. So now in the old days, Fox News would drive the message and then Mago would receive the message or Republicans would receive the message and they would regurgitate it. Now, because the media is so diversified and split up into different parts, now MAGA is driving the message and Fox News is repeating it.

It's totally flipped on its head. That's why Laura Ingram, who loved the Pentagon and thought we should do infinite defense spending a couple of months ago did a segment about what are we're going to cut defense. In fact, she did another one today, I mean last night, about what the hell, why don't we're going to cut defense, right? So you think Fox News wanted to cut the fence? No, now they're all talking about, oh, the Iraq war is terrible. That's the same Fox News that was like,

the Iraq war is the greatest thing in the world. And anyone who disagrees is a commie pig, right? Now they're like telling you the Iraq war was a disaster and Dick Cheney was a disaster. So now they're challenging him on China on this and that other thing. It's because MAGA is murmuring and now they're driving the agenda. And it doesn't mean that MAGA's angels, some of the agenda for us on the left will hate, Especially on some social issues, but on some of the economic issues and some of the corruption issues, here we are where they're going, wait, I thought we were against China buying us. Yeah. And look, for people who are against it, they're correct. For those who are not against it, they are incorrect.

And the reason why they're incorrect is because real estate should be purchased by American citizens, especially housing related real estate. And if you want to know what the numbers are, let's go to the first graphic here. Chinese companies have spent well over a hundred billion dollars acquiring U.S. companies since 2010, many of which will have owned real estate holdings. The National Association of Realtors, for example, reported that during 2020, Chinese buyers were the top foreign buyers of U.S. commercial real estate. And by the way, that wasn't just the case in 2020. Chinese buyers have led foreign investments in U.S. homes for the past.

seven years. Why are they buying homes in the United States? In 2019 through 2020 they bought US home properties worth 11.5 billion dollars or little more than a sixth of the total that they bought a sixth of the total in home sales in that year. That is unbelievable. That's unacceptable. That's freaking unacceptable, okay? It's unacceptable and I love it when people come at me like oh you're being big in it. I don't care. about whether it's China, I don't care if it's Armenia. If Armenia was some rich country and was able to spend that kind of money buying up homes

in the United States that they have no intention in living in, but are robbing the American people the opportunity of having to buy, I wouldn't be okay with that. I would not be okay with that. This has nothing to do with bigotry. It has to do with the fact that Americans continue to get fleeced by our own government, inviting foreign investments into our own country and essentially screwing over American citizens. That's not okay.

Yeah, my kids are Chinese, my wife is Chinese. It's not hateful to say, hey, the Chinese government or Chinese citizens, my kids and my wife are American citizens, obviously, shouldn't be able to buy property. You can debate that issue, but it's not about China. Same thing would apply to Saudi Arabia and Russia and whoever else. Even Italy. Even the lovely Italians. I love the Italians, man.

I love them a lot, okay? I want to one day live with them, among them. However, I don't want them buying up American homes, sorry. Okay, so again, you could debate that issue, but it has nothing to do with race. And allowing them to do this for favors, et cetera, for whoever the donors are that Laura Ingram is referring to is not populism at all, it's the exact opposite. Look, when Trump did it was in last time, Fox News still had the monopoly. So what did he do? He came in past giant corporate tax cuts and did almost nothing else.

Okay, so this time he thought he's going to do the same playbook. Last time he stuffed his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys. This time he's brought in tons of billionaires. So I'm from Goldman Sachs to Elon Sack. So, but either way, he's doing the same exact playbook and what is the first thing? Guys, everything else is distractions other than the budget. The budget is real. That's where the money is.

That's where the action is. And what did they just propose this week? $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for rich in corporations, just like he did in his first term. and increase defense spending by $100 billion. So back to the same exact corporate playbook, and they think they're not going to get caught, but they are. And they're going to get caught by their own voters,

let alone the rest of us. And this time it's going to be super interesting to see what happens when they do get caught. By the way, I misspoke. I just want to clarify. So when I mentioned a sixth of the housing was purchased in that year, It wasn't just by China. It was foreign investors overall. So let's ban all of them. We got to go. Let's take a break when we come back. Let's get into, let's see,

what are we going to get into? Oh, a bunch of Israel stories. All right, we'll be right back. and a small iced coffee for five bucks plus tax. Available until 11 a.m at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery. And anybody who joins at the high levels, thank you guys so much, because that allows us to keep prices low for everybody. Make sure everybody's getting all of our programming. If you can't check out, if you're a new member, make sure you're checking out the old Operation Joyce too. We had a great one on Tuesday.

None of that goes up on YouTube at all. So, so that's just for members. Check that out once you get into membership. All right. Anna. All right. Well, a Republican congressman feels very strong feelings toward, is. and some of the propaganda that the Israeli government has been spewing.

In fact, he wants to implement that propaganda here in the United States. Let's watch. You know what, if there's an American help or somebody else being helped, there's you have every expectation that Americans come and kill them as well. I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as is frequently said. I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term. innocent Nazi civilians. You haven't seen the pictures of all the babies being through?

These are not innocent Palestinian civilians across the world. What about the half a million people starving to death? Are people that should go out there and put a government in place that doesn't go out there and attack Israel on it. Well, that was Republican Congressman Brian Mast, who you just watched in that compilation. and he has now issued a pretty disturbing memo to staffers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which he chairs. The memo states that Republican staffers must refer to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria, aka the Hebrew name for the territory. Now, of course, it is the

internationally recognized territory of the Palestinians that they're currently being driven out of by Israeli settlers and the IDF. But here are some experts. from the memo that mass sent to staffers. He says, in recognition of our unbreakable bond with Israel and the inherent right of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will, from here forward, referred to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria in formal correspondence, communication and documentation. He also wrote the Jewish roots in this region span centuries, and as representatives of the

American people, we must do our part to stem this reprehensible tide of anti-Semitism and recognize Israel's rightful claim to the cradle of Jewish civilization. It is worth noting that Mast once volunteered with the Israeli defense forces. And in 2023, he also showed up to Congress wearing the IDF's military garb or uniform. And based on open secrets and FEC filings, his mast has taken a ton of money from APAC. Of course. $679,370. The only reason it's not in the millions is because they didn't need to buy him that much.

I mean, this fool went and chose to sign up for the IDF when he's not even an Israeli citizen. He's not anything. And so trenchant question we're asking in the live chat on YouTube is, is Brian Mask a genocidal maniac? Yes. And yeah, I vote a very, very strong yes. I mean, you saw those clips, Palestinian babies aren't babies, they're Nazi civilians. What is that? What is that? He's, he loves murdering Palestinians. He loves funding

the murder of Palestinians. He loves justifying it. And calling a Judean Samaria. Look, I know religious lunatics call it that. And the reason they call it that is because they want Israel to slaughter all the Palestinians and steal that land. And that's called from the river to the sea. And I know when a Palestinianist says from the river to the sea, they should be banned, arrested, canceled, they should never be allowed to say anything ever again. But when Netanyahu said it and Brian Maas says it, now they're trying to make it official government policy. So now this committee, the morons on this committee, I guess they're going to follow orders from the IDF soldier, literally. Brian Mass, a literal IDF soldier.

And so much so that he's wearing it to Congress, the uniform to Congress, understand, make Israel great again. I mean, America, right? Israel first, and he's saying now, you must use the language of our occupiers. I mean, of the Palestinian occupiers, I mean Palestinian liberators, we liberated them from their lives. And so now you all have to say Judea and Samaria, I don't know if they also have to chant from the river to the sea. Israel shall take all of your goddamn land and murder you all and your babies. By the way, 800 babies killed so far at a bad. bare, bare minimum, that is between the ages of zero and one, bare minimum, 800 babies. Were they also terrorists?

According to you, if you listen to a genocidal maniac like Brian Mass, yeah, they are, right? So this is what's happening. Pro life, pro life, where are you? Let me see you. Okay. And by the way, some of the right wing are beginning to say, and this is brand new. Before they'd say, look, some that were disgruntled would say, why are we spending all this money on Israel? Like, why don't we bring that money back home, we canceled every piece of foreign aid except to Israel and their ally Egypt. So why don't we bring that home? Now for the first time, I'm starting to see Maga going, plus why are we killing all those people? And that's like a new thought that has occurred to folks. And they're bringing the thing like, wait, is it the moral thing?

October 7th of which year? It was now like several years ago and they're still slaughtering the children. And which part of this is conservative or family values or America first? All right. Well, if Trump gets his way, we're going to kill a lot more people in Gaza, specifically. So let's talk about what he posted on Truth Social recently. We're going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card. This is a gold card. We're going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million, and that's going to give you green card privileges plus. It's going to be a route to citizenship,

and wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card. They'll be wealthy, and they'll be successful, and they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it's going to be extremely successful. It's a path to citizenship, a very strong path to citizenship, but we're not doing the citizenship. For that, I'd have to get Congress.

Well, the Trump administration is planning a major reform to the EB-5 immigrant investor visa. It's a program that basically fast-tracked wealthier individuals who wanted to come to the United States and have legal status to be in the United States. Now, according to Trump, this gold card program that would replace the EB-5 immigrant investment, visa program, which was created in 1990, by the way, would basically have a higher monetary threshold associated with it in order for an individual to qualify for the program. So just a little more information about EB-5, which will be replaced with the gold card. So EB-5 was primarily used by residents in Hong Kong and China, who had business in the United

States or wanted to have their children study in the United States. Its purpose was to basically stimulate the US economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. Now Trump wants to replace that with something that again has a much higher monetary threshold. But prior to that, the EB-5 would make the necessary, someone applying for it would have to make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the US or plan to create or prepare 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified US workers. And under the EB-5 visa residency is granted if at least $1.05 million is invested in new

businesses that create jobs in the US. So the idea, again, is to stimulate the economy. Now, Commerce Secretary. Yeah, that was the original idea, I hear you. This new gold card is theoretically take care of the deficit. That's why I want to explain to you guys the real trick they're going to do in a sec. Okay, so let's just do that now. Okay, so he says, well look, I've got five million, if we're going to get five million

dollars per this gold card. And if we just had a million people buy it, we'd get five trillion. He says, we get 10 million people to buy it. We get 50 trillion, we solve the whole debt. We're done with it, okay? And so his idea is get his own side like thinking, oh, that's it, it's all solved. The gold card, that's going to do it. Now, 10 million people buying, at $5 million. Do you know that there's only 9 million people in the world that have more than $5 million? So it's gonna be a little bit hard to get to $10 million

because they don't even have it. That number doesn't even exist, let alone all 9 million buying. It doesn't make any sense either. Look, my guess is about 17 people are gonna buy this. And almost all Russian oligarch, Susanna is about to explain to you. But the idea is, oh, we cut so much and we raised so much, Don't worry about that four and a half trillion dollars in tax cuts for corporations.

Don't worry about it. The gold card, gold card. Plus we cut malaria treatment. We're good. We're good. No. It's enormous hole in deficit incoming. So let's got a graphic too because Trump did get some questions about Russian oligarchs.

And Trump added it is possible Russian oligarchs could qualify for the new gold cards when asked by a journalist if those people would be eligible. Yeah, possibly, hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people, he said. Sure you do. There's five people on both sides. Yep, sure you do. Okay. Now, John Hu, the founder of the John Hu migration consulting firm in Hong Kong, states that the total number of applicants, if the golden visa is going to replace the EB-5,

will drop significantly. So to your point, Jank, there aren't really a lot of people that would, you know, have the funds to buy, basically buy their immigration status in America. He said, who is going to buy this? Right, that's exactly right. I just, I don't care. Okay, yeah, but by the way, that is actually the, in my opinion, the correct reaction. Because like, if you care about it, don't, like if you're on the left, don't sweat it.

Like 17 oligarchs, they were going to find a way in any way Trump was going to find it. They're very nice to find people, right? So they don't work like it is what it is. Once Trump got elected, they were going to get something, right? So and if you're on the right, brother, just don't delude yourself into thinking this is going to cover the four and a half trillion. Like this is not going to cover anything. You can quote me on it, you could write it down in stone. Okay, come back and see if a million people spent five million dollars to get a green, a gold card.

Absolute fantasy land and and it's just to distract you. So Anna's right, like I don't really care one way or another. Sure, do the gold card. but it's not going to amount to a hill of beats. Yeah, it's just taking a visa program that we have and upping the monetary threshold necessary to qualify for the visa program. Okay. Yeah, and look, so there's out of 500,000 athletes in the NCAAs, only 10 are trans.

So we all like obsessed with like 10 people out of 330 million people, right? And then in this case, oh my God, 10 people are going to get the gold card, ah, obsessed. These are squirrels. Like I'm not saying don't care about issues. I'm not saying don't care about rights. I'm just saying focus, right? What is the actual thing that they want to do? Giant tax cuts and subsidies and contracts to the donor class.

Focus. All right, let's take a break and when we come back for the second hour, I will get to that story that I promised about what Trump posted about Gaza on truth social. And then later we will talk. We will talk about other things that are happening in the news that you do not want to miss. Come right back.